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March 21st

1946: Timothy Peter Dalton is born--Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, Wales. [Or maybe 1944.]

1963: The Sydney Morning Herald publishes an interview with Sean Connery.

"I had to start from scratch": Sean Connery on
creating the original James Bond

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/i-had-to-start-from-scratch-sean-connery-on-creating-the-original-cinematic-bond-20151105-gkrwtj.html
By Special Correspondent | Updated November 5, 2015 — 7.15pmfirst published at 5.52pm

With the release of the new James Bond film, Spectre, we revisit a 1963 interview with the original 007.

First published in The Sydney Morning Herald on March 21, 1963

Leaning over our London luncheon table, Sean Connery said in his soft Scottish accent, "I'll be honest with you. There's not much of James Bond in me."

"Nobody knew anything about him." Sean Connery and Ursula Andress in a scene from Doctor No (1963). Credit: Publicity

In Dr No Connery has brought to the screen for the first time the British secret agent created by novelist Ian Fleming.

He was selected for the role not only because he is 6ft 2in tall, and rugged, but because he has made rapid strides as an actor in the past year.

"He's a man who makes his own rules..." Sean Connery as Bond Credit:United Artists Corporation

"The only real difficulty I found in playing Bond was that I had to start from scratch," Connery told me.

"Nobody knew anything about him, after all. Not even Fleming. Does he have parents? Where does he come from? Nobody knows. But we played it for laughs, and people seem to feel it comes off quite well."

Connery is of particular interest to Australians because he is expected here later this year to co-star with his wife, Diane Cilento, in the D'Arcy Niland story, Call Me When the Cross Turns Over.

At our lunch, however, the actor's concern was James Bond – drawn by Mr Fleming as a pleasure-loving, woman-loving, death-dealing iconoclast.

Sean Connery and his Australian-born wife, actress Diane Cilento. Credit: William Mottram

"I don't suppose I'd really like Bond if I met him. He's a man who makes his own rules. That's fine so long as you're not plagued with doubts. But if you are – and most of us are – you're sunk," said Mr Connery

"That's why Bond appeals so much to women. By their nature, they are indecisive and a man who is absolutely sure of everything comes as a godsend."

"I suppose, too, the Walter Mitty in every man makes him admire Bond a little. That's where writer Ian Fleming is so clever.

"Fleming told me that he studied psychology in Munich before the war," Connery added.

"I don't suppose I'd really like Bond if I met him. He's a man who makes his own rules. That's fine so long as you're not plagued with doubts. But if you are – and most of us are – you're sunk."
Sean Connery

By profession the foreign manager of the London Sunday Times, Fleming spends two months of every winter in Jamaica where he has a seaside home, and does his novel-writing there.

Connery and the rest of the unit made Dr No (today's Regent film), in colour, on location in Jamaica, with the author and Noel Coward as spectators.

"I'm grateful to the film for giving my career a lift like this, but I must be careful not to get too typed.

"I hope to make a completely different type of film." Connery concluded, and his Australian role should take care of that.

But Bond, who drinks champagne where Connery has a whiskey, is not giving the actor much rest.

His second Bond adventure, From Russia With Love goes before the United Artist cameras in London next week.

The company moves on to Istanbul in April and later scenes will be filmed in Venice.

First published in The Sydney Morning Herald on March 21, 1963

1995: GoldeneEye films OO7 in peril by the thighs of Xenia.

2001: The Guardian (quoting The Sun) says Whitney Houston could be the next Bond Girl for Pierce Brosnan.

Whitney Houston tipped as Brosnan's Bond girl

https://www.theguardian.com/film/News_Story/Exclusive/0,4029,460598,00.html
Wednesday 21 March 2001 | guardian.co.uk

Singer Whitney Houston could be in line to play Pierce Brosnan's love interest in the new James Bond production due to start filming later this year. The Grammy winner is rumoured to be keen on taking the role, though the final decision is down to Dana Broccoli, widow of longtime Bond producer Albert Broccoli.

Today's Sun newspaper quotes an unnamed studio source as saying that: "The movie bosses think Whitney would make a fantastic Bond girl and are desperately working out a deal which will be acceptable."

Houston, 37, scored a major box-office hit nine years ago with her role opposite Kevin Costner in The Bodyguard, and later starred in Waiting to Exhale and The Preacher's Wife. But in recent years the diva has been dogged by bad publicity, including reports of a drug bust, rumours of marital strife and backstage gossip that suggested she was thrown off the set during last year's Oscar night rehearsals.

Another possible concern for the Bond backers is that 007 does not have an illustrious track record when it comes to mixed race liaisons. Back in 1973, Roger Moore received death threats after Bond hopped into bed with a black temptress played by Gloria Hendry in Live and Let Die. Brosnan will no doubt be hoping that times have changed since then.

Entertainer Whitney Houston and her husband, singer Bobby Brown (R),
converse with Roger Moore (L) and Lauren Bacall, as they arrive October 11 for the
4th annual International Achievement in Arts Awards in Beverly Hills.
REUTERS/Fred Prouser

2014: The London Film Museum welcomes Bond In Motion.

Bond on Bikes: Star-studded London Film Museum
welcomes 007's bikes

http://www.motorbiketimes.com/feature/people/celebrity/bond-on-bikes-star-studded-london-film-museum-welcomes-007-s-bikes-$21383585.htm

The exhibit includes the BMW R1200C from Tomorrow Never Dies (centre)

Thursday, 20, Mar 2014 10:44 | by Damien Sharkov

There were action men before James Bond and there have been many since.

Some may bruise more bones, others may be better lovers, but half a century on and 007 has succeeded them all. His timeless class is preserved in the most exotic rivieras thanks to the snazziest of vehicles.

The faithful reader should not be surprised by the fact that there are quite a few motorbikes in an exhibition that includes Goldfinger's Rolls Royce, Roger Moore's submarine Esprit and the legendary Aston Martin DB5.

On Friday (21 March) the London Film Museum welcomes the largest collection of original James Bond vehicles to the capital for Bond In Motion.

We at MotorbikeTimes dusted off our sharpest tuxedos and made our way to the silver railed bowels of Covent Garden for a sneak preview of the collection.

As guests including several Bond Girls, producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, special effects gurus and stunt riders extraordinaires, began to flood in, we grabbed an aperitif with Bond's resident motorbike specialists.

Brosnan's BMW

On display is the BMW R1200C from Tomorrow Never Dies, which stunt rider Jean-Pierre Goy, standing in for Pierce Brosnan, took for a 44 foot leap with a passenger on board.

"We were lucky we had one of the best riders I've ever met," says Vic Armstrong, the stunt specialist for 13 Bond films, including TND.

"The day the bike arrived Jean-Pierre took it for a bit of a ride and within 30 minutes he was doing wheelies with it," laughs Vic.

One look at the heavy cruiser and we are already swallowing hard. The BMW R1200C weighs in at a whopping 256kg.

"They had to take out a bunch of the electronics, ABS and all," says Wendy Leech who accompanied Jean-Pierre on his death defying challenge, standing in for Michelle Yeoh.

"It's all about trust," she explains as we ponder the logistics of getting 564lbs of motorcycle in the air, with two riders sharing steering duties.

"He needed to know I wouldn't suddenly flinch or slam the breaks," Wendy adds. "The first few times I sensed him testing it all a little bit, seeing how far he could go."

"We tried to have the actors on the bike as much as possible," says Vic. "For a lot of the shooting it's either Jean-Pierre with Michelle or Wendy with Pierce."

More Bond bikes to come?

Although James Bond is famous for his cars, recent films have really increased his time on two wheels. Skyfall's Honda CRF250R and Quantum of Solace's Montesa Cota 4RT are also on show.

"You are just so much more vulnerable on a bike," says Vic, who has coordinated several of the modern Bond bike scenes.

We try to compare notes on riding. "I used to motocross a bit, but it's mad business," laughs Vic.

We hope, with the upcoming Bond film to begin shooting in a few months time, some local bike dealerships will be getting a call from Pinewood Studios. Everyone here is tight lipped for a response, of course.

For now we are lucky to enjoy Bond's rich past to tide us over until the arrival of 007's next installment.

Bond In Motion opens on 21 March at the London Film Museum, with tickets priced at £14.50, £9.50 and a family ticket for four at £38. For more information about the exhibition click here and for pictures look below.

Tomorrow Never Die's BMW R1200C

Skyfall's Honda CRF250R

Quantum of Solace's Montesa Cota 4RT

2015: BOND 24 films OO7 on the balcony and across rooftops in Mexico City.
2018: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond: The Body #3 (Part Three: The Gut).
Rapha Lobosco, illustrator. Ales Kot, writer. Luca Casalanguida, cover illustrator.

JAMES BOND: THE BODY #3

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026419003011
Cover A: Luca Casalanguida
Writer: Ales Kot
Art: Rapha Lobosco
Genre: Action
Publication Date: March 2018
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
UPC: 725130264190 03011
ON SALE DATE: 3/21

PART THREE - THE GUT
One sauna. Twenty Neo-Nazis. One Bond. James Bond.
This weapons deal won't go according to plan.

RichardTheBruce

March 22nd

1945: Ian Fleming returns to England from Jamaica and finds Ann Charteris in better health.

Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker, 2014.

In 1945, Chris (Blackwell, son of Fleming's mistress Blanche)
had been taken to England and put into Catholic
school, where he spent most of his time in the sanatorium. After that,
he attended Harrow School, but left before completing his A levels.

He always considered himself Jamaican, and that his future was to
be in Jamaica. Before he left England, he had secured himself a job as
an ADC to Sir High Foot. So he was now living at King's House,
which he loved. He adored Sir Hugh, and enjoyed the excitement of
the time when 'Bustamante and Manley and all the top politicians and
people, who were going to take over Jamaica, were coming to King's
House all the time. he was very good with them. They all really loved
Hugh Foot.' Chris remembers all the excitement of visiting
Goldeneye and hearing Fleming and Coward in mid verbal joust.
Fleming had made a good impression on him. 'In those days children were
seen and not heard,' he says, 'but Fleming always talked to me as an
adult. There was a coldness to him, but he would open up and talk to
me.'

After a short trip with Ivar Bryce to Inagua in the Bahamas, Fleming
returned to England on 22 March to find Ann in much better health. At
Enton Hall she had lost nearly five pounds and was now 'free from
pain'. Fleming, however, was suffering from sciatica and a heavy cold,
and checked himself in to the same sanatorium. Though it would
provide useful material for the scenes at 'Shrublands' in Thunderball,
it was of little use for his health, partly because he would not stick to
the regime. He went to see Dr Beal soon afterwards, who noted that
'He complains of greater exhaustion than is natural in a man of his
age.' Beal suggested a better diet and advised against any cigarettes or
alcohol. Fleming cut down to fifty Morlands a day, and switched to
bourbon, but his stepson Raymond remembers noticing that he was
'still drinking a great deal'. There then followed a return of his
agonizing kidney stones, which necessitated a stay in the London
Clink and large quantities of morphine.

1948: Noel Coward arrives at the Fleming Goldeneye estate and remarks: "It is quite perfect."

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.

When Coward arrived on 22 March, his reaction was anything but
Jaundiced. "It is quite perfect," he wrote of Goldeneye in his diary; "a
large sitting-room sparsely furnished, comfortable beds and showers, an
agreeable staff, a small private coral beach with lint-white sand and warm
clear water. The beach is unbelievable." And his comment in Fleming's
visitors' book was equally positive. "The two happiest months I have ever
spent," he wrote unambiguously. When Ian was back the following year,
Coward had composed a song, which epitomized the friendly ribbing and
banter between these two unlikely friends:

Alas! I cannot adequately praise
The dignity, the virtue and the grace
Of this most virile and imposing place
Wherein I passed so many airless days.

Alas! Were I to write 'till the crack of doom
No typewriter, no pencil, nib, nor quill
Could ever recapitulate the chill
And arid vastness of the living-room.

Alas! I cannot accurately find
Words to express the hardness of the seat
Which, when I cheerfully sat down to ear,
Seared with such cunning into my behind.

Alas! However much I raved and roared
No rhetoric, no witty diatribe
Could ever, even partially, describe
The impact of the spare-room bed - and board.

1959: Maurice Richardson reviews Ian Fleming's latest Bond novel Goldfinger.

Maurice Richardson on the daft yet extremely readable seventh
novel in Fleming’s Bond series

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/24/goldfinger-ian-fleming-review-archive-back-pages
March 1959 | Maurice Richardson

Ian Fleming: ‘continues to get away with much more than murder’.
Photograph: Ray Warhurst/Daily Mail /Rex

Maurice Richardson worked as a journalist for both the Observer and the
Guardian, and was also a writer of fiction and nonfiction. Goldfinger was the
seventh James Bond novel in Ian Fleming’s series.

Billionaire bullion-smuggler and communist agent Auric Goldfinger is the most preposterous specimen yet displayed in Mr Fleming’s museum of superfiends. He cheats: at open-air canasta by shortwave messages from his secretary – near-naked, of course – behind binoculars in his Florida hotel bedroom; and at golf by kicking his ball, rattling his clubs and bribing his caddy. He paints chorus girls all over with gold until they suffocate, keeps a Korean killer named Oddjob who is expert at karate, the Japanese form of unarmed combat recently seen on television.

Bond outsmarts him easily enough in the opening rounds – still the best part of a Fleming – but is hijacked into taking part in his grand coup: a raid on the United States treasury bullion deposit at Fort Knox. This is carried out by a task force of top gangsters, including a mob of women acrobats who disguise themselves as Red Cross nurses.

They are bossed by a lesbian from Harlem named Miss Pussy Galore. After enticing away his secretary, she succumbs on the last page to Bond’s overwhelmingly normal charm. (It will be interesting to see whether the family newspaper the Daily Express, which is serialising Goldfinger, makes many changes in the text.)

Mr Fleming seems to be leaving realism further and further behind and developing only in the direction of an atomic, sophisticated Sapper. But even with his forked tongue sticking right through his cheek, he remains maniacally readable for some of the time and continues to get away with much more than murder.

Between the wildest pubertal prep-school fantasies there are still excellent pieces of descriptive writing. An occasional sentence – “He had never liked doing it and when he had to kill he did it as well as he knew how and forgot about it” – suggests he may be anxious to forestall charges of sadism that have been levelled at his clubman-cad secret service ace.

I doubt, though, whether he will get many letters from readers complaining of a sudden rise in his ethical standards. The real trouble with Bond, from a literary point of view, is that he is becoming more and more synthetic and zombie-ish. Perhaps it is just as well.

1962: Dr. No films OO7 receiving a Geiger counter from London.
1963: Illustrator Robb's work for the Daily Express serialization of On Her Majesty's Secret Service reportedly using Roger Moore as a photo reference.

The changing face of James Bond
http://007magazine.co.uk/factfiles/factfiles_paperbacks1.htm

1965: The Daily Express serializes The Man with the Golden Gun starting this date, with an illustration by Robb.

“Never before has there been a fiction character with the fascination
of James Bond. Wherever intelligent people meet they talk of him.
These coming days – by reading The Express – AND ONLY BY READING
THE EXPRESS – you can leap ahead in 'Bondery'. ”

1971: Will Yun Lee is born--Arlington, Virginia.

2013: Trumpeter Derek Roy Watkins dies--Surrey, England. (Born 2 March 1945--Reading, England.)

Derek Watkins: Trumpeter who played on every Bond soundtrack

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

Derek Watkins (II) (1945–2013)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1313432/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Music department (20 credits)

2010 Made in Dagenham (musician: solo trumpet)

2009 Nine (musician: first trumpet)
2006 Casino Royale (musician: trumpet)
2005 The Great Raid (musician: trumpet)
2005 Where the Truth Lies (musician: flugelhorn and trumpet)
2004 De-Lovely (musician: trumpet)
2004 Troy (musician)
2003 Midsomer Murders (TV Series) (composer - 1 episode)
- A Talent for Life (2003) ... (composer: additional music - as Sheen, Watkins & Talbot)
2002 Chicago (musician: trumpet)
2001 Bridget Jones's Diary (musician: trumpet)
2000 Mission: Impossible II (musician: trumpet)
2000 Gladiator (musician: trumpet)

1999 The Mummy (musician: trumpet)
1996 D3: The Mighty Ducks (musician: trumpet)
1996 Aladdin and the King of Thieves (Video) (musician: trumpet)
1994 Aladdin and the Return of Jafar (Video) (musician: trumpet)
1992 Aladdin (musician: trumpet)

1975 The Black and White Minstrel Show (TV Series) (orchestra leader - 2 episodes)
- Episode #17.2 (1975) ... (orchestra leader)
- Episode #17.1 (1975) ... (orchestra leader)
1970 Soldier Blue (musician: trumpet)

1967 The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever (Video short) (musician: trumpet)

Soundtrack [/b](6 credits)

2017 Black Mirror (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Hang the DJ (2017) ... (performer: "Moonlight Bossa" - uncredited)

2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (performer: "Hot Lips", "The Japanese Sandman", "Say It with Music")
2008 Definitely, Maybe (arranger: "All Hail to the Chief") / (performer: "All Hail to the Chief")
2006 The Last Kiss (writer: "Beguine")
2002 A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Murder Is Corny (2002) ... (writer: "Cue the Glitz" - uncredited)

1996 KaBlam! (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
- Why June Refuses to Turn Page? (1996) ... (music: "Palladium (a)" - uncredited)

Self (6 credits)

2013 Skyfall: Shooting Bond (Video documentary) - Himself - Trumpet Player
2012 Skyfall: The Music Making Of (Video documentary short) - Himself - Trumpet Player
2012 Skyfall Videoblog: Music (Video documentary short) - Himself - Trumpet Player

2006 James Bond's Greatest Hits (TV Movie documentary) - Himself

1996 Oasis... There and Then (Video) - Himself - Trumpet

1969-1970 Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (TV Series) - Himself - Trumpet
- Thelonious Monk, Sarah Vaughan, Clarke Boland (1970) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Thelonious Monk, Stéphane Grappelli, Clark Boland (1970) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Guitar Workshop, Mary Lou Williams, Robert Patterson, Clarke Boland (1970) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Gary Burton, Mary Lou Williams, Clarke Boland (1970) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Gary Burton, Buddy Tate, Clarke Boland (1970) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Clarke-Boland, Teddy Wilson, Newport All-Stars, Oscar Peterson (1970) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Johnny Dankworth Orchestra (Encore) (1969) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Johnny Dankworth Orchestra (1969) ... Himself - Trumpet
- Boxing Day Special (1969) ... Himself - Trumpet

2019: Scott Walker dies at age 76--London, England.
(Born 9 January 1943--Hamilton, Ohio.)

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

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


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

By Richard Sandomir | March 26, 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reviewing a recording on which Mr. Walker collaborated with the metal band Sunn O))) in 2014, Ben Ratliff of The New York Times described his music as “intricate puzzles of shock, indiscretion, non-resolution, theatrical uses of text and extended technique, often with a 40-piece orchestra.” He added that Mr. Walker was always looking for a “whoops factor”— “a moment of incomprehension from the listener.”
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In a message on Twitter, Thom Yorke, the lead singer and main songwriter of Radiohead, wrote that Mr. Walker had shown him “how I could use my voice and words.”

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scott Walker (II) (1943–2019)

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Filmography

Soundtrack (23 credits)

2019 The End of the F***ing World (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2019) (writer - 1 episode, 2019)
- Episode #2.1 (2019) ... (performer: "The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated To the Neo-Stalinist Regime)") / (writer: "The Old Man's Back Again (Dedicated To the Neo-Stalinist Regime)") - 7 episodes
2019 On Becoming a God in Central Florida (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Manifest Destinee (2019) ... (writer: "The Electrician")
Blinded by the Lights (TV Series) (performer - 7 episodes, 2018) (writer - 7 episodes, 2018)
2018 The Old Man & the Gun (performer: "30 Century Man") / (writer: "30 Century Man" - as Scott Engel)
2017 Popular Voices at the BBC (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Crooners at the BBC (2017) ... (performer: "When Joanna Loved Me")
Patriot (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2017) (writer - 1 episode, 2017)
- Dead Serious Rick (2017) ... (performer: "Duchess" - uncredited) / (writer: "Duchess" - uncredited)
2017 Ash vs Evil Dead (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2016) (writer - 1 episode, 2016)
- Home (2016) ... (performer: "The Old Man's Back Again") / (writer: "The Old Man's Back Again")
2014 The Blacklist (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2014) (writer - 1 episode, 2014)
- The Front (No. 74) (2014) ... (performer: "The Seventh Seal" - uncredited) / (writer: "The Seventh Seal" - uncredited)
2014 Fiston (performer: "That's How I Got to Memphis")
2011 The Wrong Ferarri (performer: "Darkness")

2009/I The Box (performer: "When Joanna Loved Me")
2008 Bronson (writer: "The Electrician" - as Engel)
2008 Flashbacks of a Fool (performer: "Fils de...")
2007 Futurama: Bender's Big Score (Video) (writer: "30 Century Man")
2007 Degrassi: The Next Generation (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Love Is a Battlefield (2007) ... (writer: "Showstopper")
2004 The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (performer: "30 Century Man") / (writer: "30 Century Man" - as Scott Engel)

1999 Final Rinse (performer: "The World's Strongest Man", "The Big Hurt")
1999 Pola X (performer: "The Cockfighter") / (writer: "Light", "Isabel", "Pola X", "The Cockfighter")
1998 Meeting People Is Easy (Documentary) (performer: "On Your Own Again") / (writer: "On Your Own Again")
1993/I David Bowie: Black Tie White Noise (Video documentary) (writer: "Nite Flights")

1969 Cemetery Without Crosses (performer: "The Rope and The Colt")
1967 Deadlier Than the Male (as Scott Engel, "Deadlier Than the Male")
1965 Beach Ball (writer: "Doin' the Jerk" - as Scott Engel)

Composer (7 credits)

2018 Vox Lux
2015 The Childhood of a Leader
2011 Threads (Short) (music by)

2006 Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (Documentary)

1999 Pola X
1993 David Bowie: Nite Flights (Video short)
1979 Am Wegerand (Short)

Music department (3 credits)

2006 Day for Night: Whitney Biennial 2006 (TV Movie documentary) (composer: song "30th Century Man")

1996 To Have & to Hold (composer: song "I Threw It All Away")
1969 Cemetery Without Crosses (singer: theme song)

Actor (2 credits)

1964 Surf Party - Member of the Routers (uncredited)

1959 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) Guest Singer
- Freddie's Beat Shack (1959) ... Guest Singer (as Scott Engel)

Scott Walker, "The Experience of Love", GoldenEye[/c] Soundtrack version


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Scott Walker cover, "The Look of Love"

RichardTheBruce

March 23rd

1911: Charles Joseph Russhon is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 26 June 1982 at age 71--Manhattan, New York City, New York.)

Through Airmen's Eyes: The
Airman and James Bond

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By Rachel Arroyo, Air Force Special Operations Command Public Affairs / Published January 19, 2013


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Mr. Fix-It"

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

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

"He was larger than life," Christian said.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I called him Uncle Sean," he said.

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

Some real spy work

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Filmography

Miscellaneous Crew (5 credits)

1973 Live and Let Die (police liaison: New York - uncredited)

1967 You Only Live Twice (military liaison: Japan - uncredited) / (technical advisor - uncredited)
1965 Thunderball (technical advisor - uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger (government liaison: USA - uncredited) / (military liaison: Kentucky - uncredited) / (technical adviser)
1963 From Russia with Love (military liaison: Turkey - uncredited) / (technical advisor - uncredited)

Actor (1 credit)

1965 Thunderball - U.S. Air Force General (uncredited)

Location management (1 credit)

1967 You Only Live Twice (location scout: Japan - uncredited)

1950: Corinne Piccolo (Corinne Cléry) is born--Paris, France.
1954: US publisher Macmillan releases 4,000 copies of Casino Royale to poor sales.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 9 - Escaping the 'gab-fests'

On 23 March Casino Royale was published by Macmillan in the United
States. Ian’s old ally Elsa Maxwell did her best to puff it by referring to his
(and Ann’s) passage through New York ten days earlier and describing his
forthcoming novel as “one of the most breathtaking books I have ever
read”. But the reaction from reviewers was underwhelming. Anthony
Boucher, the man who counted in the New York Times Book Review, com-
plained that Ian had “[padded] the book out to novel length, leading to
an ending which surprises no one but Bond himself”. The Cleveland
Plain Dealer found it all “rather passé” and the Houston Chronicle simply
“disappointing”.

Ian’s “apparatus” reacted more favourably. Bennett Cerf, at Random
House, called Naomi Burton to see if Ian was under option to Macmillan
for his next book. He told Ian he had been disappointed to be given a
positive response. “But in the unlikely event that you and Macmillan
sever publishing relations in this country, we would consider it a great
privilege to be allowed to negotiate with you.” However, Cert’s interest
was not sustained, nor did Korda return with any film offer. Despite Ian’s
efforts, the lucrative markets of both the United States and the movies
were proving extraordinarily hard to penetrate.

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

GOLDFINGER

Goldfinger, the man who loved gold, said,
‘Mr. Bond, it was a most evil day for
when you first crossed my path. If you had
then found an oracle to consult, the oracle
would have said to you “Mr. Bond, keep
away from Mr Auric Goldfinger. He is a
most powerful man. If Mr Goldfinger
wished to crush you, he would only have to
turn over in his sleep to do so”.’

With the lazy precision of Fate, this, Ian
Fleming’s longest narrative of secret service
adventure, brings James Bond to grips with
the most powerful criminal the world has
ever known--Goldfinger, the man who had
planned the ‘Crime de la Crime’.

Le Chiffre, Mr Big, Sir Hugo Drax, Jack
Spang, Rosa Klebb, Dr No--and now, the
seventh adversary, a Goliath of crime--
GOLDFINGER!

1964: Peter Lorre dies at age 59--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 26 June 1904--Ružomberok, Slovakia.)

Peter Lorre Dies in Hollywood; Symbol of Film Horror Was 59; Actor Who Made Debut in ‘M’ Also Portrayed ‘Mr. Moto’ —Movie Favorite 30 Years

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MARCH 24, 1964
March 24, 1964, Page 35 The New York Times Archives

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peter Lorre (I) (1904–1964)

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Filmography

Actor (111 credits)

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

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

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

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

Soundtrack (5 credits)

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

Writer (1 credit)

1951 Der Verlorene (novel) / (screenplay)

Director (1 credit)

1951 Der Verlorene

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

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

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

1964: Goldfinger films Bond seducing Jill Masterson.

2020: Guns from a collection connected to Ian Fleming and James Bond are stolen.

James Bond guns 'worth £100k' stolen in
Enfield burglary

27 March 2020
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-52061291

The Magnum is the only gun in the world entirely finished in chrome

Five deactivated guns used in several James Bond films and worth more than £100,000 have been stolen in a burglary.

Thieves broke into the back of the property in north London on Monday evening and fled before police arrived.

A Walther PPK handgun used by Roger Moore in A View to a Kill was among those taken from the private collection.

Owner John Reynolds said it felt like a "flame has gone out of my life".

The Walther PPK was used by Roger Moore in A View to a Kill \

Also stolen were a Beretta Cheetah pistol, a Beretta Tomcat pistol, a Llama .22 calibre handgun from Die Another Day, and a Revolver Smith and Wesson .44 Magnum featured in Live and Let Die.

They formed part of a large collection which includes posters, items of clothing and about 60 other guns that engineer Mr Reynolds started 50 years ago.

The 56-year-old described it as "probably the finest collection of its type under one roof".

Neighbours described the suspects as white males with eastern European accents who left the scene in Enfield in a silver vehicle.

Det Insp Paul Ridley, from the Met, said: "The firearms stolen are very distinctive and bespoke to particular James Bond movies.

"They will almost certainly be recognised by the public and to anyone offered them for sale. Many of these items are irreplaceable."

The Beretta Tomcat pistol was used in Die Another Day

He added: "The Magnum is the only one in the world ever made in which the whole gun is finished in chrome. It has a six-and-a-half inch barrel and wood grips.

"The Walther PPK was the last gun used by Roger Moore in A View to a Kill. The owner is very upset that his address has been violated and he truly hopes to be reunited with these highly collectable items."

RichardTheBruce

March 24th

1952: Ian Lancaster Fleming and Anne Geraldine Charteris are married--Port Smith, Jamaica.

Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker, 2014.

When not partying, Ann and Ian were 'asleep by 10:30 and bathing
at sunrise, writing, painting, shooting, eating and snoozing for the rest
of the day', as Ann wrote to her brother Hugo 'from the Lotus
Islands'. 'It is frighteningly agreeable.' Ian described it as 'a
marvelous honeymoon among the hummingbirds and barracudas'.

Ann's divorce became absolute on Monday 24 March. She and Ian
married the same day at Port Maria town hall. There were only two
witnesses: Noel Coward, and his secretary Cole Lesley. Coward had
warned Violet, 'I shall wear long elbow gloves and give the bride
away. I may even cry a little at the sheer beauty of it all.' In fact,
according to Lesley, 'We took our duties very seriously; wore ties
(unheard of for Noel in Jamaica) with formal white suits, our pockets
full of rice, and to to the Town Hall early. We attracted a crowd of
six and a smiling though toothless black crone who entertained us with
some extremely improper calypsos, including one called "Belly
Lick".' (Lyrics include the line: 'Drop your pants and lie down',
Fleming refers to the song in his Jamaica novel, The Man with the
Golden Gun.)

Coward, who saw himself as the matchmaker, having assisted
during Ann's previous adulterous trips to Jamaica, remembered Ann
and Ian at their wedding as 'surprisingly timorous'. Fleming wore his
usual nautical belted blue linen shirt with blue trousers. Ann, four
months pregnant and beginning to show, was in a silk dress copied
from a Dior design by a local Port Maria seamstress. Coward noticed
that she was shaking so much the dress fluttered. 'It was an entirely
hysterical affair,' he later wrote.

Inside the parochial office, the first thing they all saw was 'an
enormous oleograph of Churchill scowling down on us with bulldog
hatred', Once married by the registrar, Mr L. A. Robinson, they
headed for Blue Harbor for strong martinis, then back to Goldeneye
for a special wedding supper prepared by Violet. Coward remembered
it as particularly bad: the black crab, which 'can be wonderful to eat if
you have a good cook, but Ian didn't have a good cook', 'tasted just
like eating cigarette ash'. To make things worse, Violet then brought
out 'a slimy green wedding cake, and dusky head peered round the
door to make sure we ate it. Ian had to because he was directly in line
of sight, but later we took the cake outside and buried it so as not to
hurt anyone's feelings.' The evening ended with a punch of Fleming's
own create - white rum poured on citrus peel then ignited.

1961: In a court hearing, Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham pursue action to halt publication of Thunderball due to Ian Fleming's use of screenplay material they contributed to.

The James Bond Bedside Companion, Raymond Benson, 2012 edition.

That same month [March 1961], Kevin McClory read an advance copy of
THUNDERBALL. He found that Fleming had made no
acknowledgement to him or Jack Whittingham for what was essentially a
work of joint authorship. THUNDERBALL contained the plot that was
created over the last two years. McClory and Whittingham immediately
petitioned the high court for an injunction to hold up publication of the
book, which was set for April. At the hearing on March 25, evidence was
given that 32,000 copies of THUNDERBALL had already been shipped
to booksellers, and a hefty amount of money had already been spent on
advance publicity. The judge ruled that the book could be published, but
that in no way affected or slanted in either Fleming's or McClory's and
Whittingham's favor the result of the trial. Unfortunately, it was two
years before the case was resolved.

2008: Quantum of Solace films at the European Southern Observatory 'Residencia', Atacama Desert, Chile.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso0205/

2013: The Jameson Empire awards honor Skyfall Director Sam Mendes for Best Director, Best Film, plus the Empire Inspiration award. (Danny Boyle is recognized for Outstanding Contribution.)

ITV Report 24 March 2013 at 8:46pm
James Bond director scoops three gongs at Empire Awards
https://www.itv.com/news/2013-03-24/james-bond-director-scoops-three-gongs-at-empire-awards/


Sam Mendes won Best Film and Best Director for Skyfall and the Empire Inspiration award in London.
Photo: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Skyfall director Sam Mendes finally had his moment of glory tonight scooping three gongs at the Jameson Empire Awards 2013.

The latest James Bond film, though a box office hit, was overlooked at the Oscars and the Baftas in the best film and best director categories.

But tonight at the star-studded ceremony at London's Grosvenor House Hotel, Mendes took home the best director and best film awards for his 007 effort Skyfall, along with the Empire Inspiration award.

Dame Helen Mirren was queen of the night, receiving the Empire Legend award.

Skyfall wins Best Film at the Empire Film Awards, picked up by Michael Wilson, Rob Wade, Barbara Broccoli, Sam Mendes and Neal Purvis. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

The 67-year-old actress was hailed for her screen career spanning five decades, including notable performances in The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover, Gosford Park, The Queen and this year's Hitchcock.

Danny Boyle - who along with Mendes has already ruled himself out of directing the next Bond film - was also celebrated for his film career, presented with the Empire Outstanding Contribution award.

The British director has enjoyed a varied career of critically acclaimed films, including his dark debut Shallow Grave, the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire, cult hit Trainspotting and his latest effort, thriller Trance.

Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe was named this year's Empire Hero, while his film The Woman In Black won the award for Best Horror.


Danny Boyle won an Outstanding Contribution award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey notched up two wins - Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film and the Best Actor award for star Martin Freeman.

Jennifer Lawrence was named Best Actress for her performance in The Hunger Games. The win is the cherry on the cake for the star, who has won a string of accolades this awards season for her role in indie comedy Silver Linings Playbook, including an Oscar and a Golden Globe.

The Jameson Empire Film Awards Special will be transmitted on Saturday March 30 on Sky Movies at 8.30pm.


Daniel Radcliffe picked up the Empire Hero gong. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

The Jameson Empire Awards 2013 Winners in full:

Best Male Newcomer presented by Entertainment Tonight: Tom Holland for The Impossible
Best Female Newcomer: Samantha Barks for Les Miserables
Best Comedy presented by Magic 105.4: Ted
Best Science-Fiction/Fantasy: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Best Thriller presented by Vue Entertainment: Headhunters
Best Horror presented by Cafe de Paris: The Woman In Black
The Art Of 3D presented by RealD: Dredd 3D
Best British Film presented by Tresor Paris: Sightseers
Best Director presented by Monitor Audio: Sam Mendes for Skyfall
Jameson Best Actor: Martin Freeman for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Best Actress presented by Citroen: Jennifer Lawrence for The Hunger Games
Best Film presented by Sky Movies: Skyfall
Empire Inspiration Award presented by Jameson Irish Whiskey: Sam Mendes
Empire Legend: Helen Mirren
Empire Hero: Daniel Radcliffe
Empire Outstanding Contribution: Danny Boyle

Here's some of the winners with their awards:

Samantha Barks with her award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Martin Freeman who won the Best Actor award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Jane Goldman won Best Horror Movie award, for Women in Black. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Sir Ian Mckellen with the Best Science Fiction Fantasy award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Nira Park, Steve Oram and Ben Wheatley who won the Best British Film award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Tom Holland with his award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Presenter Jonny Vegas with Ted. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

Dame Helen Mirren wins the Empire Legend award. Credit: Ian West/PA Wire/Press Association Images

RichardTheBruce

March 25th

1956: Raymond Chandler reviews the fourth Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever in The Sunday Times.

Originally shared on another forum by @Revelator.

BONDED GOODS

(March 25 1956) The Sunday Times
By RAYMOND CHANDLER

Some three years ago Mr. Ian Fleming produced a thriller which was about as tough an item as ever came out of England in the way of thriller-writing, on any respectable literary level. “Casino Royale” contained a superb gambling scene, a torture scene which still haunts me, and of course a beautiful girl. His second “Live and Let Die,” was memorable in that he entered the American scene with perfect poise, did a brutal sketch of Harlem, and another of St. Petersburg, Florida. His third, “Moonraker,” was, by comparison with the first two explosions, merely a spasm. We now have his fourth book, “Diamonds are Forever,” which has the preliminary distinction of a sweet title, and of being about the nicest piece of book-making in this type of literature which I have seen for a long time.

“Diamonds are Forever” concerns, nominally, the smashing of an international diamond smuggling ring. But actually, apart from the charms and faults I am going to mention, it is just another American gangster story, and not a very original one at that. In Chapter I Mr. Fleming very nearly becomes atmospheric, and with Mr. James Bond as your protagonist, a character about as atmospheric as a dinosaur, it just doesn’t pay off. In Chapter II we learn quite a few facts about diamonds, and we then get a fairly detailed description of Saratoga and its sins, and a gang execution which is as nasty as any I have read.

Later there is a more detailed, more fantastic, more appalling description of Las Vegas and its daily life. To a Californian, Las Vegas is a cliché. You don’t make fantastic, because it was designed that way, and it is funny rather than terrifying. From then on there is some very fast and dangerous action; and of course Mr. Bond finally has his way with the beautiful girl. Sadly enough his beautiful girls have no future, because it is the curse of the “series character” that he always has to go back to where he began.

Mr. Fleming writes a journalistic style, neat, clean, spare and never pretentious. He writes of brutal things, and as though he liked them. The trouble with brutality in writing is that it has to grow out of something. The best hardboiled writers never try to be tough, they allow toughness to happen when it seems inevitable for its time, place and conditions.

I don’t think “Diamonds are Forever” measures up to either “Casino Royale” or “Live and Let Die.” Frankly, I think there is a certain amount of padding in it, and there are pages in which James Bond thinks. I don’t like James Bond thinking. His thoughts are superfluous. I like him when he is in the dangerous card game; I like him when he is exposing himself unarmed to half a dozen thin-lipped processional killers, and neatly dumping them into a heap of fractured bones; I like him when he finally takes the beautiful girl in his arms, and teaches her about one-tenth of the facts of life she knew already.

I have left the remarkable thing about this book to the last. And that is that it is written by an Englishman, The scene is almost entirely American, and it rings true to an American. I am unaware of any other writer who has accomplished this. But let me plead with Mr. Fleming not to allow himself to become a stunt writer, or he will end up no better than the rest of us.

1964: Reuters circulates a feature on the upcoming Bond film Goldfinger.

Sean Connery & Honor Blackman Making of Goldfinger

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5xqygg
BridgetDeborah38706722
Goldfinger 1964. Guy Hamilton film.

REUTERS (25 March 1964) - Honor Blackman meets Sean Connery: She is to be the leading lady in the new James Bond Film Goldfinger.

Honor Blackman (Pussy Galore) meets Sean Connery (James Bond) during a press conference
at Pinewood Studios for the third Bond film, Goldfinger - UK - 25 March 1964[/img]

1967: BBC 1 airs a feature called Bond Wants a Woman They Said... But Three Would Be Better!

James Bond | The changing world of 007

Whicker's World | Bond Wants a
Woman They Said... But Three Would
Be Better!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/whickers-world--bond-wants-a-woman-they-said-but-three-would-be-better/z6d9scw
From Pinewood to Japan on the trail of 'You Only Live Twice'.

CHANNEL | BBC 1
FIRST BROADCAST | 25 March 1967
DURATION | 53 minutes 23 seconds

Synopsis

Alan Whicker bounces around the set of You Only Live Twice (1967) in this edition of 'Whicker's World', which takes him not only to Pinewood Studios but also to the film's exotic Japanese locations. Whicker interviews producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, chats to screenwriter Roald Dahl, learns the secrets of a successful Bond girl and experiences at first hand the sometimes bruising 'Bondomania' that attends the star, Sean Connery, wherever he happens to be.

Did you know?

You Only Live Twice, which took $111m at the box office in worldwide sales, was the fifth film in the Bond franchise and the last to star Sean Connery before he announced his retirement from the role, although he later returned in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and 'unofficial' Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983).

Contributors
Alan Whicker - Presenter
Ken Adam - Contributor
Cubby Broccoli - Contributor
Diane Cilento - Contributor
Sean Connery - Contributor
Roald Dahl - Contributor
Lewis Gilbert - Contributor
Harry Saltzman - Contributor
Fred Burnley - Producer

2002: BOND 20 films Gustav Graves chasing Bond with the wrath of Icarus.
2008: An auction of typist Jean Frampton's letters and notes draws comparisons to the fictional Miss Moneypenny.

Revealed: The letters that
show how Ian Fleming called
on his REAL Miss
Moneypenny to bring James
Bond up to scratch

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-544888/Revealed-The-letters-Ian-Fleming-called-REAL-Miss-Moneypenny-bring-James-Bond-scratch.html
by LUKE SALKELD | 25 March 2008

In the Bond movies, Miss Moneypenny's role was mainly confined to witty and flirtatious exchanges with 007.

But for the secret agent's creator Ian Fleming, the input of his secretary was significantly more important.

Jean Frampton

Letters sent by the writer to the woman charged with typing up the manuscripts of his James Bond novels reveal that he was not averse to taking her advice.

Indeed, typist Jean Frampton's notes and suggestions concerning the storylines were encouraged by the author who urged her to use her "quick eye and mind" on his text.

In one letter to Mrs Frampton, written on paper headed with his London address on March 31, 1960, Fleming wrote: "I have written a full-length James Bond story, provisionally called Thunderball.

It continues: "I am afraid this is not a good typescript and I would be deeply obliged if you would apply your usual keen mind to any points - absolutely any - that might help the book get into shape."

He adds: "I only ask you to undertake it because your occasional comments on the work you have done for me have been so helpful.

"Anything that your quick eye and mind falls upon, however critical and in whatever aspect of the writing, would be endlessly welcome.

"I am sorry to have to pass on to you a rather half-baked job."

The letter forms part of a collection due to go under the hammer at an auction next month.

In another, Mrs Frampton wrote of her concerns over the ending of the book Fleming had mentioned.

She tells a colleague: "I still regret the end of Thunderball, as my naive and literal mind would like to know what exactly happened to the Disco [a boat] and the rest of her crew and the bombs, how Domino escaped, and of course, what about Blofeld (or does he live to fight another day?)"

Also included in the sale is Mrs Frampton's bill for typing and subediting the Thunderball novel. It comes to a total of £8.12.6d.

Other letters from Mrs Frampton, who lived in Christchurch, Dorset, and is believed to never have met the famous author, who spent much of his time in Jamaica, refer to the other books including The Man With The Golden Gun, You Only Live Twice and A View to a Kill [incorrect statement].

The sale at Duke's auction house in Dorchester, Dorset, takes places on April 10, and the lot has an estimate of between £2,000 and £3,000.

Amy Brenan, from Duke's, said: "We have definitely chosen the right time to sell the collection as it corresponds with the release of the new James Bond book by Sebastian Faulks and it is 100 years since Fleming's birth.

"Already we've had a lot of interest in the correspondence.

"You can look on Mrs Frampton as Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny because he really does seem to rely on her.

"She was the first person to read the books and the collection is interesting because it details how the James Bond books were put together in the early 1960s.

"James Bond is known around the world and these documents relate to a time when he was just being created."

From the 1960s to the 1980s Lois Maxwell played the role of Miss Moneypenny, M's secretary.

Her quips to Bond included: "Flattery will get you nowhere, but don't stop trying."

Caroline Bliss and Samantha Bond have also taken on the role.

2012: Skyfall filming at Surrey, England (as "Scotland"), comes to an explosive end.

2019: No Time To Die second unit films in Nittedal, Norway.

RichardTheBruce

March 26th

1956: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian's Fleming's fourth Bond novel Diamonds Are Forever.
Pat Marriott, cover design.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 10 - Jamaican attraction

[Arthur] Gore had been alerted by Lord Lambton to a passage in
Diamonds Are Forever which ran, “Kidd’s a pretty boy. His friends call him
‘Boofy’. Probably shacks up with Wint. Some of these homos make the
worst killers. Kidd’s got white hair though he’s only thirty. That’s why he
works in a hood.” Ian had done his usual trick of assigning the names of
friends and acquaintances to his characters. But Kidd was a particularly
unpleasant character. Gore railed against Ann: Ian was his best friend,
how could she have allowed him to do this? Ann replied that she was
only married to Ian: she had neither written nor even read the book in
question. Still fuming, Gore contacted Ann’s sister, Laura, who telephoned
Ann, by then out at church for Easter Sunday matins. Fionn fielded her
aunt’s abuse: “Your mother may like pansies but other people don’t. Don’t’
forget Boofy has a million friends and Ian has none.”

The book was received favourably when it was published on 26 March
The Beaverbrook connection continued to work in his favour: “The
author has proved his staying power,” enthused George Malcom Thomson
In the Evening Standard. (Thomson was the reviewer whom Ian had told
Beaverbrook he would like to have at the Sunday Times.) In The Tablet,
Anthony Lejeune heralded an “adult and entertaining thriller”. But the
Notice which meant most to Ian appeared in his own newspaper and was
written by Raymond Chandler. Leonard Russell, the Sunday Times literary
editor, had seized the opportunity to ask Chandler to write apparently his
first-ever book review. Russell cut out a couple sarcastic opening sen-
tences in which Chandler, still smarting from the previous year’s luncheon
party, poked fun at Ian’s pampered existence at Victoria Square. The Tone of
the rest of the review was quizzical and ambivalent. Adopting one of
Ian’s own lines, Chandler criticized the author for trying to make his
descriptions of Las Vegas more fantastic than the real thing. He questioned
if there was any point in presenting Bond as a thinking person. As far as
Chandler was concerned, any cerebral activity from Bond was superfluous.
He preferred 007 when he was “exposing himself unarmed to half a dozen
thin-lipped killers, and neatly dumping them into a heap of fractured
bones.”

Whether this was quite what Ian wanted to hear, he was flattered at the
literary attentions of the great man. He thanked Chandler profusely for
the review and again asked him to lunch. The invitation was declined,
but a lively correspondence ensued. Chandler’s message was blunt: Ian
needed to make up his mind what kind of writer he was; he had great
potential, but on the evidence so far it was only clear that he was a bit of
a sadist. These criticisms touched a raw nerve in Ian.

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

James Bond surveyed the glittering
diamonds that lay scattered across the red
leather surface of M’s desk and wondered
what it was all about.

The quiet grey eyes watched him
thoughtfully.

Then M took the pipe out of his mouth
and dryly gave Bond details of the assign-
ment of which even M was afraid. And
Bond walked out of the Headquarters of
the Secret Service and into his greatest
adventure.

Greater than Casino Royale? More
terrible than Live and Let Die? More
hazardous than Moonraker?

Yes

Ian Fleming is in his forties. He was educated at Eton, where
he was Victor Ludorum two years in succession, a distinction
only once equalled. He went on to Sandhurst and then entered
Reuters and served in London, Berlin and Moscow. He was a
special correspondent of The Times in Moscow in the spring of
1939, joined the Naval Intelligence Division in June and served
throughout the war as Personal Assistant to the D.N.I. with the
rank of Commander in the Special Branch of the R.N.V.R.
Since the war he has organized the foreign service of the Sunday
Times and Kemsley Newspapers, of which he is Foreign Manager.
He is married and has one son.

1959: Raymond Thornton Chandler dies at age 70--La Jolla, California.
(Born 23 July 1888--Chicago, Illinois.)

The Only Surviving Recording of
Raymond Chandler’s Voice, in a BBC
Conversation with Ian Fleming

“You starve to death for ten years before your publisher knows you’re any good.”

By Maria Popova

Raymond Chandler (July 23, 1888–March 26, 1959) endures as one of the most celebrated novelists and screenwriters in literary history, an oracle of insight on the written word, a lovable grump dispensing delightfully curmudgeonly advice on editorial manners, and a hopeless cat-lover. In July of 1958, to mark the publication of Chandler’s last book, Playback, BBC brought Chandler and Ian Fleming together on the air. Fleming and the BBC broadcaster producing the program picked up Chandler at 11 A.M. on the day of the interview and even though they “found his voice slurred with whisky,” the broadcast went quite well. Seven months later, Chandler died. This discussion, which covers heroes and villains — Fleming’s James Bond and Chandler’s Philip Marlowe — and the relationship between author and character, is believed to be the only surviving recording of the author’s voice. Transcribed highlights below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj6cc0T1z7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxJJo79e00o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sS2DBBrOY8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9i00flBWuQ

Chandler on the doggedness literary success (or any creative success) requires:

"How long did it take me [to become a successful writer]?
You starve to death for ten years before your publisher
knows you’re any good."

Fleming on villains:

"I find it … extremely difficult to write about villains, villains
I find extremely difficult people to put my finger on. … The
really good, solid villain is a very difficult person to build
up, I think."

Fleming and Chandler on heroes:

"Your hero, Philip Marlowe, is a real hero — he behaves in a
heroic fashion. My leading character, James Bond, I never
intended to be a hero — I intended him to be a sort of
blank instrument wielded by a government department,
who would get into bizarre, fantastic situations and more
or less shoot his way out of them, get out of them one way
or another."

Chandler on James Bond and how he differs from Marlowe:

"A man with his job can’t afford to feel tender emotions —
he feels them but he has to quell them."

Fleming, responding to Chandler’s amazement at how he can write so many James Bond books in addition to his intense editorial commitments, offers a glimpse of his creative routine and a testament to the value of discipline:

"I have two months off in Jamaica every year, in my contract
with the Sunday Times, and I sit down and a write a book
every year during those two months."

Chandler on the difference between the British and the American thriller:

"The American thriller is much faster paced."

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

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Filmography

Writer (39 credits)

Marlowe (character) (announced)
Trouble Is My Business (book) (abandoned)
2014 The Long Goodbye (TV Mini-Series) (based on the novel by - 5 episodes)
- Episode #1.5 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
- Episode #1.4 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
- Episode #1.3 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
- Episode #1.2 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
- Episode #1.1 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
2007 Marlowe (TV Movie) (characters)
2003 Smart Philip (character)

1998 Poodle Springs (TV Movie) (book)
1996 Once You Meet a Stranger (TV Movie) (screenplay "Stranger on a Train") / (teleplay)
Fallen Angels (TV Series) (based on a story by - 1 episode, 1995) (based on a short story by - 1 episode, 1993)
- Red Wind (1995) ... (based on a story by)
- I'll Be Waiting (1993) ... (based on a short story by)

1987 Morning Patrol (excerpt)
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) (novels - 10 episodes, 1983 - 1986) (story - 1 episode, 1986)
- Red Wind (1986) ... (novels)
- Trouble Is My Business (1986) ... (novels)
- Guns at Cyrano's (1986) ... (novels)
- Pickup on Noon Street (1986) ... (novels)
- Spanish Blood (1986) ... (novels)
- Blackmailers Don't Shoot (1986) ... (story)
- Smart Aleck Kill (1983) ... (novels)
- Nevada Gas (1983) ... (novels)
- Finger Man (1983) ... (novels)
- The King in Yellow (1983) ... (novels)
- The Pencil (1983) ... (novels)
1982 Ich werde warten (TV Movie) (novel)

1978 Aspetterò (TV Movie) (based on a short story by)
1978 The Big Sleep (novel)
1975 Farewell, My Lovely (novel)
1973 Double Indemnity (TV Movie) (1944 screenplay)
1973 The Long Goodbye (novel "The Long Goodbye")

1969 Marlowe (novel "The Little Sister")
1961 Storyboard (TV Series) (short story - 1 episode)
- I'll Be Waiting (1961) ... (short story)
Philip Marlowe (TV Series) (character - 24 episodes, 1959 - 1960) (creator - 2 episodes, 1959 - 1960)
- You Kill Me (1960) ... (character)
- Last Call for Murder (1960) ... (character)
- Murder Is Dead Wrong (1960) ... (character)
- Murder Is a Grave Affair (1960) ... (creator)
- Murder by the Book (1960) ... (character)
- Murder in the Stars (1960) ... (character)
- Time to Kill (1960) ... (character)
- Gem of a Murder (1960) ... (character)
- One Ring for Murder (1960) ... (character)
- Death Takes a Lover (1960) ... (character)
- Poor Lilli, Sweet Lilli (1960) ... (character)
- A Standard for Murder (1960) ... (character)
- The Scarlet A (1960) ... (character)
- Ricochet (1959) ... (character)
- The Hunger (1959) ... (character)
- Mother Dear (1959) ... (character)
- Hit and Run (1959) ... (character)
- The Mogul (1959) ... (character)
- Temple of Love (1959) ... (character)
- Bum Wrap (1959) ... (character)
- Child of Virtue (1959) ... (character)
- Mama's Boy (1959) ... (character)
- Death in the Family (1959) ... (character)
- Buddy Boy (1959) ... (character)
- Prescription for Murder (1959) ... (character)
- The Ugly Duckling (1959) ... (creator)

1958 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) (screenplay "Strangers on a Train" - 1 episode)
- One False Step (1958) ... (screenplay "Strangers on a Train")
1957 TV de Vanguarda (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Pacto Sinistro (1957)
1957 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Tower Room 14-A (1957) ... (story)
Climax! (TV Series) (story - 1 episode, 1954) (novel - 1 episode, 1954)
- The White Carnation (1954) ... (story)
- The Long Goodbye (1954) ... (novel)
1954 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) (previous screenplay - 1 episode)
- Double Indemnity (1954) ... (previous screenplay)
1951-1953 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) (story - 2 episodes)
- The King in Yellow (1953) ... (story)
- The King in Yellow (1951) ... (story)
1951 Strangers on a Train (screen play)
1951 Nash Airflyte Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Pearls Are a Nuisance (1951) ... (story)
1950 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) (novel - 1 episode)
- The Big Sleep (1950) ... (novel)

1949 The Philco Television Playhouse (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Little Sister (1949) ... (story)
1947 The Brasher Doubloon (novel "The High Window")
1946 Lady in the Lake (novel)
1946 The Big Sleep (short story "Killer in the Rain")
1946 The Blue Dahlia (written by)
1945 The Unseen (screen play)
1944 Murder, My Sweet (novel)
1944 And Now Tomorrow (screen play)
1944 Double Indemnity (screenplay)
1942 Time to Kill (novel "The High Window")
1942 The Falcon Takes Over (novel "Farewell, My Lovely")

Actor (1 credit)

1944 Double Indemnity - Man Reading Magazine Outside Keyes' Office (uncredited)

1962: Dr. No films OO7 and Honey with Dr. No in the reactor room.
1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's eleventh Bond novel You Only Live Twice.
The last published in his life. 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 Secret Service, the Koan-Chosa-
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.

1973: Sir Noël Peirce Coward dies at age 73--Blue Harbour, Jamaica.
(Born 16 December 1899--Middlesex, England.)

Noel Coward

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Sir Noel Coward

Birth name: Noël Peirce Coward
Date of birth: 16 December 1899
Birth location: Flag of United Kingdom Middlesex, England
Date of death: 26 March 1973 (aged 73)
Death location: Flag of Jamaica Blue Harbour, Jamaica
Academy Awards: Academy Honorary Award, 1943 In Which We Serve

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (December 16, 1899 – March 26, 1973) was an Academy Award winning English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. As well as more than 50 published plays and many albums of original songs, Coward wrote comic revues, poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance (1960) and three volumes of autobiography. Books of his song lyrics, diaries, and letters have also been published.

Contents

1 Biography
1.1 Early Life
1.2 Success
1.3 World War II
1.4 Later works
2 Legacy
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links
6 Credits

Biography
During World War II he entertained the troops but also engaged in intelligence work for the British government, for which he almost received a knighthood. In 1970—three years before his death, he finally did. His work, though often comical, has a serious streak running beneath the surface as he explores such themes as friendship, patriotism, duty and a rapidly changing world that dashed people's hopes one moment, then held out unexpected possibilities the next. His works were in tune with the aspirations especially of the generation that lived through two world wars, and feared a third.

Noel Coward in 1914

Early Life
Coward was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England to Arthur Sabin Coward, a clerk, and his wife Violet Agnes, daughter of Henry Gordon Veitch, captain and surveyor in the Royal Navy. He was the second of their three sons, the eldest of whom had died in 1898 at the age of six years old. He began performing in the West End at an young age. He was a childhood friend of Hermione Gingold, whose mother warned her against Coward.

A student at the Italia Conti Academy stage school, Coward’s first professional engagement was in the children’s play The Goldfish on January 27, 1911. After this appearance, he was sought after for children’s roles by several other professional theaters.

When he was 14 years old, he met Philip Streatfeild, a society painter who took him in and introduced him to high society through Mrs. Astley Cooper. She gathered a salon of artists and invited him to live on her property at Hambleton, Rutland, but on the farm rather than in the Hall, due to his lower social class.[1] Streatfeild died from tuberculosis in 1915.

He played in several productions with the actor Sir Charles Hawtrey, a Victorian comedian, whom he idolized and to whom Coward virtually apprenticed himself until he was 20 years old. It was from Hawtrey that Coward learned comic acting technique and playwriting. He was drafted briefly into the British Army during World War I but was discharged due to ill health. Coward appeared in the D. W. Griffith film Hearts of the World (1918) in an uncredited role. He found his voice and began writing plays that he and his friends could star in while at the same time writing revues.

Success
He starred in one of his first full-length plays, the inheritance comedy I'll Leave It To You, in 1920. The following year he completed a one-act satire, The Better Half, about a man's relationship with two women, and it enjoyed a short run at the Little Theatre in London in 1922. The play was thought to be lost until a typescript was rediscovered in 2007 in the archive of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, which at that time licensed all plays for performance in the United Kingdom, and imposed cuts or complete bans.[2]

After he enjoyed some moderate success with the George Bernard Shaw-esque play The Young Idea in 1923. The controversy surrounding his play The Vortex (1924), which contains many veiled references to drug abuse and homosexuality, made him an overnight sensation on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Coward followed this with three more major hits, Hay Fever, Fallen Angels (both 1925) and Easy Virtue (1926).

Much of Coward's best work came in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Enormous productions, such as the full-length operetta Bitter Sweet (1929) and Cavalcade (1931), a huge extravaganza requiring a very large cast, gargantuan sets and an exceedingly complex hydraulic stage, were interspersed with finely-wrought comedies such as Private Lives (1930), in which Coward himself starred alongside his most famous stage partner, Gertrude Lawrence; and the black comedy Design for Living (1932), written for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Coward again partnered Lawrence in Tonight at 8:30 (1936), an ambitious cycle of ten short plays that were randomly "shuffled" to make up a different playbill of three plays each night. One of these plays, Still Life, was expanded into the 1945 David Lean film Brief Encounter. He was also a prolific writer of popular songs, and a lucrative recording contract with HMV allowed him to release a number of recordings, many now reissued on Compact Disc.

World War II
When England came into World War II in 1939 Coward was working harder than he had before. When the war started he had recently left Paris. He took some time off from writing to perform for the troops, but after a stint at this, coward was eager to return. Alongside his highly-publicized tours entertaining Allied troops, he was also engaged by the British Secret Service MI5 in intelligence work. He was often frustrated by the criticism he faced for his ostensibly glamorous lifestyle, apparently living the high life while his countrymen suffered – especially his trips to America to sway opinion formers there.[3] He was unable, however, to defend himself by revealing his association with the Secret Service.

King George VI, a personal friend, encouraged the government to award Coward a knighthood for his efforts in 1942. This was blocked by Winston Churchill, who disapproved of Coward's flamboyant lifestyle.[4] Churchill advised giving the official reason as being Coward's fine of 200 British pounds for currency offenses (he had spent 11,000 pounds on a trip to America).

Had the Germans invaded Britain, Coward would have been arrested and liquidated as his name was in the The Black Book, along with other public figures such as H. G. Wells, targeted for his socialist views. Some have argued that this attention may have been due to homosexual preferences, but recent documents have surfaced showing Coward to have been a covert operative in the Secret Service.

Coward was active in the war effort as a lyricist for some extraordinarily popular songs during the war, the most famous of which are London Pride and Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans. He complained to Churchill, his frequent painting companion, that he felt he was not doing enough to support the war effort. Reportedly, Churchill suggested he make a movie based on the career of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten. The result was a naval film drama, In Which We Serve, which Coward wrote, starred in, composed the music for and co-directed, with David Lean. The film was immensely popular on both sides of the Atlantic and Coward was awarded an honorary Oscar by the American film industry.

In the 1940s, Coward wrote some of his best plays. The social commentary of This Happy Breed and the intricate semi-autobiographical comedy-drama Present Laughter (both 1939) were later combined with the hugely successful black comedy Blithe Spirit (1941) to form a West End triple-bill, which starred Coward in all three simultaneous productions. Blithe Spirit went on to make box-office records for a West End comedy that were not beaten until the 1970s, and was made into a film directed by David Lean.

Later works
Coward's popularity as a playwright declined sharply in the 1950s, with plays such as Quadrille, Relative Values, Nude with Violin and South Sea Bubble all failing to find much favor with critics or audiences. Despite this decline, he maintained a high public profile, continuing to write (and occasionally star in) moderately successful West End plays and musicals, performing an acclaimed solo cabaret act in Las Vegas, Nevada, and starring in films such as Bunny Lake is Missing, Around the World in 80 Days, Our Man in Havana, Boom!, and The Italian Job.

After starring in a number of American television specials in the late 1950s alongside Mary Martin, Coward left the UK for tax reasons. He first settled in Bermuda but later moved to Jamaica, where he remained for the rest of his life. His play Waiting in the Wings (1960), set in a rest home for retired actors, marked a turning-point in his popularity, gaining plaudits from critics, who likened it to the work of Anton Chekhov. Following that success, his earlier work realized a revival in the late 1960s, with several new productions of his 1920s plays and a number of revues celebrating his music. Coward dubbed this comeback "Dad's Renaissance."

Coward's final stage work was Suite in Three Keys (1966), a trilogy set in a hotel penthouse suite, with him taking the lead roles in all three. The trilogy gained excellent reviews and did good box office business in the Great Britain. Coward intended to star in Suite in Three Keys on Broadway but was unable to travel due to age and illness. Only two of the plays were performed in New York, with the title changed to Noel Coward in Two Keys and the lead taken by Hume Cronyn.

By now suffering from advanced arthritis and bouts of memory loss, which affected his work on The Italian Job, Coward retired from the theater. He was finally knighted in 1970, and died in Jamaica in March, 1973 of heart failure at 73 years old. He was buried three days later on the brow of Firefly Hill, Jamaica, overlooking the north coast of the island. On March 28, 1984 a memorial stone was unveiled by the Queen Mother in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey.

Legacy
Noel Coward never married, but he maintained close personal friendships with many women. These included actress and author Esmé Wynne-Tyson, his first collaborator and constant correspondent; the designer and lifelong friend Gladys Calthrop; secretary and close confidante Lorn Loraine; his muse, the gifted musical actress Gertrude Lawrence; actress Joyce Carey; compatriot of his middle period, the light comedy actress Judy Campbell; and (in the words of Cole Lesley) 'his loyal and lifelong amitié amoureuse, film star Marlene Dietrich.

He was also a valued friend of Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. He was a close friend of Ivor Novello and Winston Churchill.

He was the president of The Actors' Orphanage, supported by the theatrical industry. In that capacity he met the young Peter Collinson, who was in the care of the orphanage, becoming Collinson's godfather and helping him get started in show business. When Collinson was named as director of the The Italian Job he invited Coward to play a role in the film.

Coward was a neighbor of James Bond's creator Ian Fleming and his wife Anne in Jamaica, the former Lady Rothermere. Though he was very fond of both of them, the Flemings' marriage was not a happy one, and coward reportedly tired of their constant bickering, as recorded in his diaries. When the first film adaptation of a James Bond novel, Dr. No was being produced, Coward was approached for the role of the villain. He is said to have responded, "Doctor No? No. No. No."

The Papers of Noel Coward are held in the University of Birmingham Special Collections.

Notes

↑ The Noel Coward Story Culturevulture.net. Retrieved December 20, 2007.
↑ "Coward's long-lost satire was almost too 'daring' about women", Guardian News and Media Limited, 2008. Retrieved December 7, 2007.
↑ Winston Churchill vetoed Coward knighthood, Telegraph Media Group Limited, 2008. Retrieved December 7, 2007.
↑ Winston Churchill vetoed Coward knighthood, Telegraph Media Group Limited, 2008. Retrieved December 7, 2007.

References

Coward, Noel. Present Indicative. London: Heinemann, 1974. ISBN 9780434147236
Coward, Noel. Future Indefinite. New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 1980. ISBN 9780306801266
Coward, Noel. Middle East Diary. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran & Co, 1944. OCLC 387771
Coward, Noel, Graham Payn, and Sheridan Morley. The Noël Coward Diaries. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982. ISBN 9780316695503
Lesley, Cole. Remembered Laughter The Life of Noel Coward. New York: Knopf, 1976. ISBN 9780394498164
Morley, Sheridan. A Talent to Amuse A Biography of Noël Coward. Boston: Little, Brown, 1985. ISBN 9780316583718

Noël Coward (1899–1973)

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Filmography

Writer (139 credits)

2020 Blithe Spirit (based on the play by) (post-production)

2019 Present Laughter
2017 Present Laughter
2013 Noël Coward's Private Lives (by)
2013 Burton and Taylor (TV Movie) (extracts from the play "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward)
2011 In Love With... (TV Series)
2011 Brief Encounter (Short) (as Noel Coward)

2008 Easy Virtue (play - as Noel Coward)
2003 Privatni zivoti (TV Movie) (novel "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward)
2000 Relative Values (play - as Noel Coward)

1991 Angeli caduti (TV Movie) (play)
1991 Tonight at 8.30 (TV Series) (writer - 8 episodes)

1988 Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series) (excerpts from 'TONIGHT AT 8.30' and 'We Were Dancing' by - 1 episode)
- Rumpole and Portia (1988) ... (excerpts from 'TONIGHT AT 8.30' and 'We Were Dancing' by - as Noel Coward)
1987 Sidste akt (play - as Noel Coward)
1986 Földi kacaj (TV Movie) (play "Present Laughter" - as Noel Coward)
1986 Quadrille (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1985 Star Quality: Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 Star Quality: Bon Voyage (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 Me and the Girls (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 What Mad Pursuit? (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 Mrs. Capper's Birthday (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 Star Quality (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1984 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1984 Hayfever (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever")
1983 La comedia (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Fácil virtud (1983) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
Estudio 1 (TV Series) (play "Fallen Angels" - 1 episode, 1982) (play - 1 episode, 1980) (play "Blithe Spirit" - 1 episode, 1970) (play "Hay Fever" - 1 episode, 1968)
- Ángeles caídos (1982) ... (play "Fallen Angels" - as Noel Coward)
- Desnudo con violín (1980) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Un espíritu burlón (1970) ... (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
- La encantadora familia Bliss (1968) ... (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) (play - 2 episodes, 1981 - 1982) (writer - 1 episode, 1982)
- A Song at Twilight (1982) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
- Come Into the Garden, Maud (1982) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe (1981) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1981 Present Laughter (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1980 The Marquise (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1980 Intimitäten (TV Movie)
BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) (play - 2 episodes, 1969 - 1979) (writer - 1 episode, 1968)
- Design for Living (1979) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- The Marquise (1969) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Hay Fever (1968) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)

1978 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play)
1977 Die Marquise (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1976 Private Lives (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
Au théâtre ce soir (TV Series) (play - 3 episodes, 1973 - 1975) (play "Hay Fever" - 1 episode, 1976)
- Week-end (1976) ... (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
- Le nu au tambour (1975) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Jeux d'esprit (1974) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Félicity (1973) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1976 Camera Three (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
- Mad About The Boy: Noel Coward: A Celebration (1976) ... (written by)
1974 Brief Encounter (TV Movie) (play "Still Life" - as Noel Coward)
1974 Fallen Angels (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1973 Play for Today (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Song at Twilight (1973) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
Alta comedia (TV Series) (1 episode, 1970) (play "Blithe Spirit" - 1 episode, 1972)
- Espíritu travieso (1972) ... (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
- El cumpleaños de la señora Capper (1970) ... (as Noel Coward)
1972 Joyeux chagrins (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1972 Amouren (TV Movie) (play "Present Laughter" - as Noel Coward)
1971 Teatro 13 (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Vidas privadas (1971) ... (as Noel Coward)
1971 Temni hrast (TV Movie) (novel - as Noel Coward)

1969 This Happy Breed (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1969 Red Peppers (TV Movie) (short play - as Noel Coward)
1969 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) (by - 1 episode)
- The Vortex (1969) ... (as Noel Coward) / (by - as Noel Coward)
1969 Duett im Zwielicht (TV Movie) (play "A Song at Twilight" - as Noel Coward)
1968 Kratak susret (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
ITV Playhouse (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes, 1968) (story - 1 episode, 1968)
- The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe (1968) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
- Bon Voyage (1968) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
- Star Quality (1968) ... (story - as Noel Coward)
1968 Interlude (play "Still Life" - as Noel Coward)
1968 The Jazz Age (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Post Mortem (1968) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
1968 Weekend (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1968 Vaimoni kummittelee (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
Armchair Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode, 1968) (writer - 1 episode, 1966)
- Mrs Capper's Birthday (1968) ... (story - as Noel Coward)
- Pretty Polly (1966) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
1967 Before the Fringe (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Episode #2.6 (1967) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... (as Noel Coward)
1967 A Matter of Innocence (story "Pretty Polly Barlow" - as Noel Coward)
1967 Brian Rix Presents ... (TV Series) (play "Look After Lulu!" - 1 episode)
- Look After Lulu (1967) ... (play "Look After Lulu!")
1967 Acting in the Sixties (TV Series documentary) (play "Hay Fever" - 1 episode)
- Maggie Smith (1967) ... (play "Hay Fever")
ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (1 episode, 1964) (play - 4 episodes, 1959 - 1964) (writer - 2 episodes, 1960 - 1964) (author - 1 episode, 1967)
- Present Laughter (1967) ... (author - as Noel Coward)
- A Choice of Coward #4: Design for Living (1964) ... (as Noel Coward) / (play - as Noel Coward)
- A Choice of Coward #3: The Vortex (1964) ... (as Noel Coward) / (play - as Noel Coward)
- A Choice of Coward #2: Blithe Spirit (1964) ... (as Noel Coward) / (play - as Noel Coward) / (writer - as Noel Coward)
- A Choice of Coward #1: Present Laughter (1964) ... (as Noel Coward)
1966 Hooikoorts (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
1966 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1966 Wechselkurs der Liebe (TV Movie) (play "Relative Values" - as Noel Coward)
1966 Oh, diese Geister (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
1966 Quadrille (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1966 Geisterkomödie (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1966 Falne engler (TV Movie) (based on play - as Noel Coward)
1965 Südsee-Affaire (TV Movie) (play "The South Sea Bubble" - as Noel Coward)
1965 Present Laughter (TV Movie) (play)
1965 Høyfeber (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
1965 Geisterkomödie - Eine unwahrscheinliche Komödie (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
1964 Nude with Violin (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1964 Teatterituokio (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Viisas tohvelisankari (1964) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
1964 Amouren (TV Movie) (play "Present Laughter" - as Noel Coward)
1964 Markisinnan (TV Movie) (play "The Marquise" - as Noel Coward)
1963 Möblemang i ek (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1963 Festival (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Fallen Angels (1963) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1960-1962 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) (play - 2 episodes)
- This Happy Breed (1962) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Twentieth Century Theatre: The Vortex (1960) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1962 Geisterkomödie (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
1961 Quadrille (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1961 Zwischen den Zügen (TV Movie) (play "Brief Encounter" - as Noel Coward)
1961 Das Maß ist voll (TV Short) (play - as Noel Coward)
1961 Minkä minulle voitte (TV Movie) (play "Present Laughter" - as Noel Coward)
1961 Hooikoorts (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
1961 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Brief Encounter (1961) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1961 Spirito allegro (TV Movie) (play)
1960 TV de comédia (TV Series) (play "Blithe Spirit" - 1 episode)
- A Mulher do Outro Mundo (1960) ... (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
1960 Art Carney Special (TV Series) (play Red Peppers - 1 episode)
- Three in One (1960) ... (play Red Peppers - as Noel Coward)

1959 Akt mit Geige (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1959 Kurze Begegnung (TV Movie) (play "Brief Encounter" - as Noel Coward)
1959 Intimitäten (TV Movie) (play "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward)
1959 Fim de Semana no Campo (TV Series) (play - as Noel Coward)
1959 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Private Lives (1959) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1958 Red Peppers (TV Short) (as Noel Coward)
1958 Yoka (TV Short) (texts - as Noel Coward)
1958 Akt mit Geige (TV Movie) (play)
1957 Weekend (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
Grande Teatro Tupi (TV Series) (2 episodes, 1956 - 1957) (play - 1 episode, 1953) (story - 1 episode, 1952)
- Pancada de Amor (1957) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Breve Encontro (1956) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Espírito Travesso (1953) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Uma Mulher do Outro Mundo (1952) ... (story - as Noel Coward)
1956 Nude with Violin (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1956 South Sea Bubble (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) (written by - 2 episodes, 1955 - 1956) (adaptation - 1 episode, 1956) (play - 1 episode, 1956)
- This Happy Breed (1956) ... (adaptation - as Noel Coward) / (play - as Noel Coward)
- Blithe Spirit (1956) ... (written by)
- Together with Music (1955) ... (written by - as Noel Coward)
1956 Omnibus (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- The Better Half (1956) ... (play - segment "The Better Half")
1956 Det er så yndigt (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1956 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1955 The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Cavalcade (1955) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1955 ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall (TV Movie) (play "Private Lives")
1955 TV de Vanguarda (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Desencanto (1955) ... (as Noel Coward)
1955 Zwischen den Zügen (TV Movie) (play "Brief Encounter" - as Noel Coward)
1954 Producers' Showcase (TV Series) (play "Tonight at 8: 30: Red Peppers, Still Life and Shadow Play" - 1 episode)
- Tonight at 8:30 (1954) ... (play "Tonight at 8: 30: Red Peppers, Still Life and Shadow Play" - as Noel Coward)
1952 This Happy Breed (TV Movie) (play)
1952 Tonight at 8:30 (based on three plays from: "Tonight At 8.30")
1951 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Still Life (1951) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1950 The Astonished Heart (by - as Noel Coward) / (play - uncredited) / (screenplay - as Noel Coward)

1948 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1948 Red Peppers (TV Short) (as Noel Coward)
1946 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1946 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1945 Brief Encounter (play "Still Life" - uncredited)
1945 Blithe Spirit (play - uncredited) / (screenplay - uncredited)
1944 This Happy Breed (play - uncredited)
1942 In Which We Serve (by - as Noel Coward)
1942 We Were Dancing (play "Tonight at 8: 30" - as Noel Coward)
1940 Bitter Sweet (original play - as Noel Coward)

1939 Private Lives (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1939 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1939 The Young Idea (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1938 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1938 Red Peppers (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1938 Hands Across the Sea (TV Short) (play - as Noel Coward)
1937 Red Peppers (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1936 The Terrible Lovers (play "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward)
1933 Design for Living (play - as Noel Coward)
1933 Bitter Sweet (play and dialogue - as Noel Coward)
1933 Tonight Is Ours (play "The Queen Was In the Parlour" - as Noel Coward)
1933 Cavalcade (play - uncredited)
1931 Private Lives (from the play by - as Noel Coward)
1928 The Vortex (play - as Noel Coward)
1928 Easy Virtue (adapted from the play by - as Noel Coward)
1927 Forbidden Love (play - as Noel Coward)

Soundtrack (66 credits)

Actor (19 credits)

Composer (9 credits)

1991 Tonight at 8.30 (TV Series) (8 episodes)

1980 Song by Song (TV Series) (1 episode)
- By Noël Coward (1980) ... (as Noel Coward)

1973 The Black and White Minstrel Show (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Episode #15.4 (1973) ... (as Noel Coward)

1969 Marvelous Party! (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1968 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Star Quality (1968) ... (as Noel Coward)

1955 Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Together with Music (1955) ... (as Noel Coward, original music by)
1950 The Astonished Heart (as Noel Coward)

1942 In Which We Serve (as Noel Coward, musical score)

1933 The Little Damozel (as Noel Coward)

Music department (10 credits)

1998 Shola Ama: Someday I'll Find You (Video short)
1998 Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward (Video documentary) (music and lyrics by)

1980 Song by Song (TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- By Noël Coward (1980) ... (lyrics - as Noel Coward)

1978 The Songwriters (TV Series documentary) (music and lyrics by - 1 episode)
- Noël Coward (1978) ... (music and lyrics by)
1973 Lily (TV Special) (composer: 20th Century Blues - as Noel Coward)

1969 The Coward Revue (TV Movie) (lyrics) / (music)
1966 Music for You (TV Series) (music and lyrics by - 1 episode)
- Episode #9.1 (1966) ... (music and lyrics by)
1960 The Grass Is Greener (composer: original theme - uncredited)

1940 Bitter Sweet (music and lyrics by - as Noel Coward)
1933 Bitter Sweet (lyrics and music - as Noel Coward)

Director (4 credits)

1956 Nude with Violin (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1955-1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) (3 episodes)
- This Happy Breed (1956) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Blithe Spirit (1956) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Together with Music (1955) ... (as Noel Coward)
1956 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1942 In Which We Serve (as Noel Coward)

Producer (5 credits)

1963 The Guest (associate producer - uncredited)

1945 Brief Encounter (producer - as Noel Coward)
1945 Blithe Spirit (producer - as Noel Coward)
1944 This Happy Breed (producer - as Noel Coward)
1942 In Which We Serve (producer - as Noel Coward)

Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)

1957 Witness for the Prosecution (dialogue director - uncredited)
1950 Golden Salamander (industry consultant - uncredited)

Self (18 credits)

Archive footage (22 credits)

Statue of Noel Coward on the grounds of Firefly, his former home, Jamaica
Arnie Weissmann, photographer

RichardTheBruce

2015: BOND 24 films helicopter action in Mexico City, Mexico.

2020: Photographer Terry O'Neill's display Bond: Photographed would have run from today through 30 March. Cancelled due to the gale of the world.

Bond in pictures: Terry
O'Neill celebrates 007

https://news.sky.com/story/james-bond-rare-terry-oneill-photographs-celebrate-007-11939689

Rarely seen images from the James Bond franchise are going on public display as part of a new 007 exhibition.

The collection of images were shot by the late Terry O’Neill, who snapped more James Bond images than any other photographer.

The shots have been dug out of O’Neill’s archive, offering a rare chance to catch a glimpse of long-hidden away shots.

O’Neill worked with a whole host of Bonds including Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.

Pictures include candid snaps of the actors both on and off-set, as well as body-doubles and stunt performers preparing for scenes.
--
One shows Connery in a white dinner jacket sat at a table, as a topless woman floats through a pool playing the harp in Diamonds Are Forever in 1971.

Another shows Australian actor George Lazenby and British [incorrect] actress Jill St John on the Bond set On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.

And in a shot from the film set of Live And Let Die Roger Moore and Madeline Smith can be seen cavorting on a bed in 1973.

A contact sheet of behind-the-scenes shots from Goldfinger is dedicated to Honour Blackman – who famously played Pussy Galore in the 1964 film.

Images show her heading into the sea with a little trepidation, before emerging with a big smile.
--

Looking back on his career working with the world most famous fictional MI6 agent, O’Neill has said: “I photographed the first Bond film, but I’ve lost all the pictures.

“When we started, we all thought it was going to be a one or two film thing. We never dared to think it was going to turn into this huge franchise.

“What’s great about it, and I think it’s the real secret to why it’s been so successful for so many years, is that with each decade, each James Bond, they have really kept up with the times.

“Sean Connery in the 1960s was cool and classic; he really fits that decade. Roger Moore in the 1970s added more humour; very Cary Grant.

“In the 1990s, Pierce Brosnan came aboard and added a real style. Then Daniel Craig —he’s the perfect modern Bond.”

O’Neill worked on movies including Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Live And Let Die and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
--
The exhibition will include portraits and on-set photography and one-of-a-kind original press prints, signed by the photographer.

There are also two unique images each signed by Roger Moore – who played Bond between 1973 to 1985 - and Honor Blackman.

The exhibit will coincide with the latest 007 film which will also be Daniel Craig’s last outing as the secret agent.

No Time To Die is out on 3 April.

Bond: Photographed by Terry O’Neill opens on 26 March and runs until 30 April at the Iconic Images Gallery in Chelsea, London.

2021: Reading Cinemas in Australia screen Spectre Friday, Saturday, and Sunday starting today.

https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/2021/03/01/james-bond-screenings-at-reading-cinemas/

2021: A rare Goldfinger poster sells at Sotheby's.

https://rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/lf07/automobiles-of-london/lots/r504-james-bond-goldfinger-poster/202923

RichardTheBruce

March 27th

1935: Julian Glover is born--London, England.

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

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

Monday 27 March, 1944
I. came to dinner, first time since Muriel Wright’s cruel death. We
didn’t talk about her at all. I left it to him if he wanted to but he said
nothing. But he talked about his health and that his fingers trembled.
He’s going to Scotland for a week.

1961: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's eighth Bond novel Thunderball. Richard Chopping cover.

THUNDERBALL presents the blue-
print for a monstrous crime that could
be just around the corner in history.

James Bond is in disgrace. His
monthly medical report is critical of the
high living that is ruining his health, and
M packs him off for a fortnight to a
nature-cure clinic to be tuned-up to his
former pitch of exceptional fitness.
Furiously, Bond undergoes the shame
of the carrot juice and nut-cutlet
regime--and thereby minutely upsets
the plans of SPECTRE, a new adversary,
more deadly, more ruthless even than
SMERSH.

Who is SPECTRE ? What are its plans ?
Alas, the organization is all to realist-
ically described, its plans all to contem-
porary for comfort. Of all James Bond's
adversaries, the Chief of SPECTRE casts
the darkest shadow.

1967: Talisa Soto is born--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.

2002: Billy Wilder dies at age 95--Beverly Hills, California. (Born 22 June 1906--Sucha Beskidzka, Poland.)

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

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Hollywood-mourns-loss-of-icon-from-golden-era-2859144.php
By Edward Guthmann Published 4:00 am PST, Friday, March 29, 2002

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When Crowe asked Wilder whether he had advice for future filmmakers, he laughed and said, "I am not anchored there at some observatory, you know. I think that we're living in very, very important and interesting times. . . . But we're not even close to having an assured peace in this world.

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

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

BILLY WILDER FILMOGRAPHY
. -- AS WRITER

-- "People on Sunday," 1929
-- "Emil and the Detectives," 1931
-- "Adorable," 1933
-- "One Exciting Adventure," 1934
-- "Music in the Air," 1934
-- "Lottery Lover," 1935
-- "Champagne Waltz," 1937
-- "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife," 1938
-- "Midnight," 1939
-- "What a Life," 1939
-- "Ninotchka," 1939
-- "Rhythm of the River," 1940
-- "Arise My Love," 1940
-- "Hold Back the Dawn," 1941
-- "Ball of Fire," 1942
-- "A Song Is Born," 1948
-- "Casino Royale," 1967.

-- AS WRITER-DIRECTOR

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

Source: Associated Press

2002: Die Another Day films Miranda Frost revealed as a double.

2011: Judi Dench confirms her return as M and filming to start in November.
2015: Spectre teaser trailer is released.

2020: Original date for the Decca Records release of the No Time to Die score by Hans Zimmer.

RichardTheBruce

March 28th

1959: Bond comic strip Live and Let Die ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 15 December 1958.) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

http://www.artofdiving.co.uk/2017/08/live-and-let-dive.html



Swedish Semic Comic 1971 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3

Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die)

Swedish Semic Comic 1986 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die)

Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-3-eng/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 3: “Live and Let Die” (1965)

1968: Jonathan Cape publishes Colonel Sun by Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis).
Tom Adams cover. Sells well.

Colonel Sun
A JAMES BOND ADVENTURE
by
Robert Markham
(Kingsley Amis)

Sooner or later, as James Bond's fol-
lowers have known, certain effects of
his lifework would begin to show. The
reflexes would be just as fast; the au-
dacity as unflagging; but in a man of
Bond's intelligence and perception a
certain speculative turn of mind was
bound to develop. Inevitably, he would
begin to question not the clear neces-
sity of his work but its cost in human
lives and human values. Thus, within
the old Bond, a new Bond was des-

tined to emerge . . . within the man of
action, a man of feeling.

It's happened. Bond is pitted against
a world-menacing conspiracy engi-
neered by the malign Colonel Sun
Liang-tan of the People's Liberation
Army of China. The stakes have never
been higher, nor the dangers more
complex and terrible. His allies--the
fine-boned, tawny-haired agent of a
rival secret service and the Greek
patriot with a score to settle--are all
too quickly neutralized. Alone, un-
armed, Bond faces the maniacal de-
vices of Colonel Sun . . . an ordeal that
pushes him to the verge of his physi-
cal and moral endurance.

Robert Markham is a nom de plume
for Kingsley Amis, author of The Anti-
Death League, Lucky Jim and The
James Bond Dossier. Incredibly, he
has added to the Bond saga not only
his supple prose and marvelous sense
of place but his own imaginative im-
petus, which intensifies and deepens
the excitement, pace and glitter of a
vintage Fleming novel.

1978: At the Academy Awards Marvin Hamlisch with Sammy Davis Jr. performs a new song "Come Light the Candles". (Aretha Franklin sings "Nobody Does It Better".)

2008: Quantum of Solace films the climax in the desert hotel.

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

Whatever happened to him
actually outshines anything I've
had my James Bond do.
--Ian Fleming

James Bond: author, ornithologist, marksman,
and . . . identify-theft victim? When James
Bond published his landmark book, Birds of
the West Indies, he had no idea it would set
in motion events that would link him to the
most iconic spy in the Western world and turn
his life upside down.

Born into a wealthy family but cut off in
his early twenties, James Bond took off to the
West Indies in search of adventure. Armed
with arsenic and a shotgun, he too months-
long excursions to the Caribbean to collect
material for his iconic book, Birds of the West
Indies, navigating snake-infested swamps,
sleeping in hammocks, and island-hopping
on tramp steamers and primitive boats.

Packed with archival photos, many never
before published, and interviews with Bond's
family and colleagues, here is the real story
of the pipe-smoking, ruthless ornithologist
who introduced the world to the exotic birds
of the West Indies.

Jim Wright is an author, blogger, and longtime
birding columnist for The [Bergen] Record in
northern New Jersey. A prize-winning writer, his
books include The Nature of the Meadowlands,
Jungle of the Maya, and Hawk Mountain. Born
in Philadelphia, he is a lifelong Phillies and
Eagles fan. Wright is a marsh warden at the
Celery Farm Natural Area in Allendale, New
Jersey, where he lives with his wife Patty. In his
spare time, he spies on birds. Follow his
adventures on Twitter @1realjamesbond, and
read his blog at realjamesbond.net.

"BOND. JAMES BOND. HERE IS THE INTRIGUING BACKSTORY OF THREE HEROES.
ONE WAS A CHARMING MUSEUM ORNITHOLOGIST. ONE A FLAMBOYANT
EX-NAVAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER TURNED BESTSELLING AUTHOR.
AND THE THIRD, OF COURSE, OUR SUAVE MI6 AGENT WHO
SAVE THE WORLD OVER AND OVER AGAIN. BUT THIS
GOOD READ IS NEITHER FICTION NOR FANTASY.
RATHER, JIM WRIGHT HAS PENNED A FINE
BIOGRAPHY THAT MESHES THREE
FORTUITOUSLY INTERTWINED
WORLDS."
--Frank Gill, author

RichardTheBruce

March 29th

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

Dana Broccoli

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1455828/Dana-Broccoli.html

12:03AM GMT 03 Mar 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dana Broccoli(1922–2004)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0110484/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (5 credits)

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

1965 Thunderball - Cafe Martinique Dancer (uncredited)

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

Thanks (26 credits)

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

Self (19 credits)

2002 Premiere Bond: Die Another Day (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Herself
2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'The Living Daylights' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Herself

1989 Licence to Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1987 James Bond: Licence to Thrill (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
1985 A View to a Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself

1979 The Paul Ryan Show (TV Series) - Herself
- Albert R. Broccoli and Dana Broccoli (1979) ... Herself
- Episode #1.63 ... Herself
1979 My Name Is Bond... James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
1967 You Only Live Twice: The Royal Premiere (Documentary short) - Herself
1967 Whicker's World (TV Series documentary) - Herself
- The World of James Bond (1967) ... Herself

Archive footage (4 credits)

2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Herself

2008 James Bond in the Bahamas (Video documentary short) - Herself
2006 Premiere Bond: Opening Nights (Video documentary short) - Herself
2006 The Exotic Locations of 'Thunderball' (Video documentary short) - Cafe Martinique Dancer

1928: Philip Locke is born--St. Marylebone, London, England. (Dies 19 April 2004.)

Philip Locke, actor

https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/philip-locke-actor-1-523590
Born: 29 March, 1928, in London
Died: 24 April, 2004, in London, aged 76

WITH his gaunt and invariably haggard looks, Philip Locke was ideal casting for nervy, rather saturnine villains, corrupt Mafia bosses or somewhat refined bullies. He brought an evil streak to his characters that brought them alive. However, this tall and imposing man also had a fine line in comedy.

His major cinema credit was as Vargas, the silent assassin who fell foul of James Bond’s spear-gun in Thunderball. His list of television credits was substantial and varied (The Avengers seemed to employ him as their resident baddie for a while) and he was often seen to great advantage in the theatre - especially London’s Royal Court in the Sixties.

Philip Locke trained at RADA in the Fifties and he was soon being cast in minor roles at the Royal Court, then soon to enter its golden decade. In 1959, he was in the premire of John Osborne’s The World of Paul Slickey, a musical satire about gossip columnists and critics. It was given a real pasting by the critics - indeed, Noel Coward and John Gielgud were said to have led the booing on the first night - but many still recall the satanic dance Locke performed in the second act.

From the Royal Court, he went on to play at the National Theatre and at the Royal Shakespeare Company (he was Quince in Brook’s famous Midsummer Night’s Dream). His career was to burgeon and Locke was seldom out of work: he played Horatio in Peter Hall’s production of Hamlet which opened the National Theatre in 1975 and four years later he was again directed by Hall in the premire of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus. In the latter, he played Salieri’s valet and spent much of the time feeding Mozart cream buns.

Locke’s TV appearances never let up. He was much in demand for the fondly remembered Armchair Theatre plays and was often seen on the wrong side of the small screen’s best-known detectives, including Inspector Morse, Bergerac and Poirot. He also turned up in Minder, played a newspaper editor alongside Michael Caine in Jekyll and Hyde (LWT, 1990) and was a rather camp uncle in Jeeves and Wooster (Granada, 1993).

His most striking film appearance was undoubtedly in Thunderball (1965), in which he made a particularly sinister appearance in dark glasses and black polo-neck jumper. However, a few years later, he showed his lighter side in the movie version of Porridge. In a favourite scene, Ronnie Barker’s Fletcher asks how Locke can face the prison grub, and Locke laconically replies: "I was at a top English public school and the food was very similar."

Strangely, Locke was at only one Edinburgh Festival, in 1954, with the Old Vic Company in a star-studded production of Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Scottish National Orchestra was in the pit and Moira Shearer and Robert Helpmann were to dance within the play. It was a bold plan to fuse music, drama and dance.

Locke played Puck and although Shearer, in an article in The Scotsman in 1976, recalled that Festival with "particular surprised pleasure" she did refer to the production as "rambling". However, it filled the Empire (now the Festival Theatre) to capacity.

Locke was always a support actor, never a major star, but he had the ability to bring a certain touch of wicked style or a chilling frisson to a role. The fact that he appeared in so many high-profile and prestigious productions in a career spanning 50 years is a sure reflection of the standing he enjoyed in his profession.

Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/philip-locke-actor-1-523590

Philip Locke (1928–2004)

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Filmography

Actor (100 credits)

1990-1998 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) - Magnus Mandeville / Kenneth Ames
- Going Wrong: Part 3 (1998) ... Magnus Mandeville
- Going Wrong: Part 2 (1998) ... Magnus Mandeville
- Going Wrong: Part 1 (1998) ... Magnus Mandeville
- Put on by Cunning (1990) ... Kenneth Ames
1997 Wilde - Judge
1995 Othello - 1st Senator
1994 Jacob (TV Movie) - Diviner
1994 Tom & Viv - Charles Haigh-Wood
1993 Jeeves and Wooster (TV Series) - Glossop
- Honoria Glossop Turns Up (or, Bridegroom Wanted!) (1993) ... Glossop
1993 Minder (TV Series) - Fingers Rossetti
- The Roof of All Evil (1993) ... Fingers Rossetti
1991 Turbulence - Vic
1991 Inspector Morse (TV Series) - Freddie Mortimer
- Who Killed Harry Field? (1991) ... Freddie Mortimer
1991 Van der Valk (TV Series) - Conrad Molenaar
- Doctor Hoffmann's Children (1991) ... Conrad Molenaar
1990 Jekyll & Hyde (TV Movie) - Editor

1989 Saracen (TV Series) - Richard Stellman
- Next Year in Jerusalem (1989) ... Richard Stellman
1989 Bergerac (TV Series) - Roger Lemaire
- When Did You Last See Your Father? (1989) ... Roger Lemaire
1989 Screen Two (TV Series) - Wilfred Stiff
- Virtuoso (1989) ... Wilfred Stiff
1989 Poirot (TV Series) - Cutter
- Four and Twenty Blackbirds (1989) ... Cutter
1988 Stealing Heaven - Poussin
1988 The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) - Sir Larry
- Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door (1988) ... Sir Larry
1987 The Secret Garden (TV Movie) - Pitcher
1987 The Inquiry
1985 Theatre Night (TV Series) - Mr. Telfer
- Trelawny of the Wells (1985) ... Mr. Telfer
1985 Connie (TV Series) - Borridge - 6 episodes
1984 The Box of Delights (TV Series) - Arnold of Todi
- Beware of Yesterday (1984) ... Arnold of Todi
1969-1984 Horizon (TV Series documentary) - Sir Francis Galton / Dr. Klaus Fuchs
- The Intelligence Man (1984) ... Sir Francis Galton
- For the Safety of Mankind (1969) ... Dr. Klaus Fuchs
1983 And the Ship Sails On - Il Primo Ministro
1983 Ascendancy - Dr. Strickland
1982 Jackanory Playhouse (TV Series) - Old man
- Hawkwing (1982) ... Old man
1982 The Disappearance of Harry (TV Movie) - Guthfrithson
1982 The Plague Dogs - Civil Servant #1 (voice)
1982/I Oliver Twist (TV Movie) - Mr. Sowerberry
1982 Ivanhoe (TV Movie) - Grand Master
1982 Doctor Who (TV Series)
Bigon / Control
- Four to Doomsday: Part Four (1982) ... Bigon
- Four to Doomsday: Part Three (1982) ... Bigon
- Four to Doomsday: Part Two (1982) ... Bigon
- Four to Doomsday: Part One (1982) ... Bigon / Control
1981 Codename Icarus (TV Series) - John Doll - 5 episodes
1980 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Lord Harrington
- The Hanging (1980) ... Lord Harrington
1980 Armchair Thriller (TV Series) - Commander Lloyd - 4 episodes

1979 An Honourable Retirement (TV Movie) - Charles Tranter
1979 Doing Time - Banyard
1979 The Omega Factor (TV Series) - Vashrevsky
- Double Vision (1979) ... Vashrevsky
1979 Escape to Athena - Vogel
1979 The Mill on the Floss (TV Mini-Series) - Lawyer Wakem
- Episode Seven (1979) ... Lawyer Wakem
- Episode Six (1979) ... Lawyer Wakem
- Episode Four (1979) ... Lawyer Wakem
1978 Play for Today (TV Series) - O'Neil - - Butterflies Don't Count (1978) ... O'Neil
1978 Pennies from Heaven (TV Mini-Series) - Farmer
- Says My Heart (1978) ... Farmer
1977-1978 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) - Acorn / The church superintendent
- She Fell Among Thieves (1978) ... Acorn
- True Patriot (1977) ... The church superintendent
1974 Antony and Cleopatra (TV Movie) - Agrippa
1974 2nd House (TV Series) - Belok
- An Artist's Story (1974) ... Belok
1973 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Vark
- The Mystery of the Amber Beads (1973) ... Vark
1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - Hanske
1972 A Day Out (TV Movie) - Wilkins

1969 Department S (TV Series) - Topek
- The Perfect Operation (1969) ... Topek
1965-1969 Z Cars (TV Series) - Ibbs / Thorpe
- Quiet Day: Part 2 (1969) ... Ibbs
- Quiet Day: Part 1 (1969) ... Ibbs
- A Morning's Sport (1965) ... Thorpe
1968 The Saint (TV Series) - Frug
- The Fiction Makers: Part 2 (1968) ... Frug
- The Fiction Makers: Part 1 (1968) ... Frug
1968 The Fiction-Makers - Frug
1968 The Champions (TV Series) - Yeats
- The Body Snatchers (1968) ... Yeats
1967 The Pilgrim's Progress (TV Series) -Hate-Good / Appollyon / Worldly Wiseman / ...
- Episode #1.3 (1967) ... Hate-Good / Appollyon / Giant Despair / ...
- Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Hate-Good / Appollyon / Official
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Interrogator / Worldly Wiseman
1967 The Informer (TV Series) - Croxley
- Here's Where Who Takes Over? (1967) ... Croxley
1960-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Mr Bateman / Sid / Private Smith / ...
- The Girl (1967) ... Mr Bateman
- Always Something Hot (1962) ... Sid
- Roll on Blooming Death (1961) ... Private Smith
- The Cupboard (1960) ... Bert
- A Night Out (1960) ... Kedge
1967 Honey Lane (TV Series) - Ron
- One and Nine for Two Bob (1967) ... Ron
1967 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Johnny Three
- Boa Constrictor (1967) ... Johnny Three
1967 The Baron (TV Series) - Compton
- Countdown (1967) ... Compton
1956-1967 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Vedoni / Edward / Lenny Roberts
- The Crossfire (1967) ... Vedoni
- Goodnight to Heroes (1964) ... Edward
- The Poisoned Earth (1961)
- Come Read Me a Riddle (1956) ... Lenny Roberts
1961-1967 The Avengers (TV Series) - Primble / Roy Hopkins / Moxon
- From Venus with Love (1967) ... Primble
- Mandrake (1964) ... Roy Hopkins
- The Frighteners (1961) ... Moxon
1966 Out of Town Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - The Man
- A Pretty Row of Pretty Ribbons (1966) ... The Man
1966 Four People (TV Mini-Series) - Interrogator
- Judas (1966) ... Interrogator
1966 Redcap (TV Series) - Huntly
- The Pride of the Regiment (1966) ... Huntly
1966 The Man in the Mirror (TV Series) - Stern - 6 episodes
1965 Thunderball - Vargas
1965 Jury Room (TV Series) - Boothby - Juror
- The Friendless Lady (1965) ... Boothby - Juror
1965 Front Page Story (TV Series) - Saunders
- The Public Interest (1965) ... Saunders
1965 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Pentelow
- Dan, Dan, the Charity Man (1965) ... Pentelow
1964 Face of a Stranger - John Bell
1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Peter Quilpe
- The Cocktail Party (1964) ... Peter Quilpe
1964 The Hidden Truth (TV Series) - Michael Watt
- The Final Analysis (1964) ... Michael Watt
1963-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - John Bell / Dave Hughes / Foster
- Face of a Stranger (1964) ... John Bell
- On the Run (1963) ... Dave Hughes
- Incident at Midnight (1963) ... Foster
1964 Hamlet at Elsinore (TV Movie) - Osric
1963-1964 Drama 61-67 (TV Series) - Oliver Willowes / Frame
- Studio '64: The Happy Moorings (1964) ... Oliver Willowes
- Drama '63: Rasputin Was a Nice Old Man (1963) ... Frame
1964 Father Came Too! - Stan
1963 Incident at Midnight - Foster
1963 On the Run - Dave Hughes
1963 Bud (TV Series) - Frank Mer
- Episode #1.3 (1963) ... Frank Mer
1963 Maupassant (TV Series) - Limousin
- Wives and Lovers (1963) ... Limousin
1962-1963 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Bert Dogg, driver / Ian / Paul Dyson
- Just You Wait (1963) ... Bert Dogg, driver
- For Tea on Sunday (1963) ... Ian
- The Square Peg (1962) ... Paul Dyson
1958-1963 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Derek Baynes / Al
- Ben Again (1963) ... Derek Baynes
- Strictly for the Sparrows (1958) ... Al
1963 The King's Breakfast (Short) - 2nd Footman
1962 The Girl on the Boat - Bream Mortimer
1962 Saki (TV Mini-Series) - Roger
- Episode #1.1 (1962) ... Roger
1962 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Brand
- A Job for Johnny (1962) ... Brand
1961 Follow That Man - Vicar
1961 Hurricane (TV Series) - Bob Wilson
- Part 6 (1961) ... Bob Wilson
- Part 2 (1961) ... Bob Wilson
- Part 1 (1961) ... Bob Wilson
1961 If the Crown Fits (TV Series) - Lucky
- Gambling (1961) ... Lucky
1960-1961 The Charlie Drake Show (TV Series) - Scrooge
- Jester Minute (1961)
- A Christmas Carol (1960) ... Scrooge
1961 Seven Keys - Norman's Thug (uncredited)
1960 The Bulldog Breed - Teddy Boy in Cinema Fight (uncredited)
1960 Kipps (TV Mini-Series) - Chester Coote - 7 episodes

1959 Knight Errant Limited (TV Series) - Vincent Gough
- He Fell Among Thieves (1959) ... Vincent Gough
1958 Heart of a Child - 1st Soldier
1957 Aladdin (TV Movie) - The Slave of the Ring
1956 Operation Conspiracy - 1st Soldier
1955 The Wise Cat (TV Movie) - Pierre
1955 Benbow and the Angels (TV Series) - Garage proprietor
- St. Michael and All Angels (1955) ... Garage proprietor
1954 Earthquake in Macedonia (TV Movie) - Silas
1952 Jan at the Blue Fox (TV Series)
2nd Sailor
- The Day of the Wreck (1952) ... 2nd Sailor

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1978 Pennies from Heaven (TV Mini-Series) (1 episode)
- Says My Heart (1978) ... ("March Winds and April Showers", uncredited)

Self (1 credit)

1975 The 29th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) - Self - Nominee

Archive footage (6 credits)

2015 James Bond's Spectre with Jonathan Ross (TV Movie documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)
2013 Bond's Greatest Moments (TV Movie documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)
2008 The South Bank Show (TV Series documentary) - Bond (2008)
2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)

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

1989 MTV Movie Special: Licence to Kill (TV Special documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)

1965: Thunderball films OO7 and Domino on the beach and the end of Vargas.

1982: Albert "Cubby" Broccoli receives the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, presented by Roger Moore. (That Oscar night, title song "For Your Eyes Only" was nominated for Best Original Song.)

1983: The choice of Rita Coolidge (a favorite of assistant director Barbara Broccoli) to sing the latest title song is confirmed. Father Cubby Broccoli hoped for popular singer Laura Branigan, with support from composer John Barry and lyricist Tim Rice.

1999: A court ruling confirms sole rights of the Bond franchise to MGM (and EON) over Sony (and McClory, who sought to produce rogue missions due to the original Thunderball complications).

Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films, Matthew Field, Ajay Chowdhury, 2015.

...An eleventh-hour settlement was made on 29 March when Sony declared themselves out of the Bond business, compensating MGM with $5 million to settle outside of court. Additionally, MGM obtained the rights to CASINO ROYALE, owned by Sony's subsidiary Columbia pictures. This news left Kevin McClory out in the cold. He vowed to persue [sic] his claim that he was owed profits for creating the cinematic James Bond independently. Unwilling to accept defeat, McClory took out an advertisement in Variety a week later proclaiming his next production: Warhead 2001 was schedule to be produced in Australia. However, nothing came to fruition.

RichardTheBruce

2007: BBC News reports a Colt revolver once owned by Ian Fleming fetches £12,000 at auction.

Bond author's gun fetches £12,000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6505711.stm

Although a powerful weapon, Bond never used the Colt Magnum

A revolver owned by James Bond author Ian Fleming has been sold at auction in London for £12,000.

The engraved Colt Python .357 Magnum was specially made for the author and presented to him by the Colt Company.

It was accompanied by a letter from the firearms company and a copy of the 1959 Bond novel Goldfinger.

A Colt was used by villain Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun, but 007 shunned the Colt in favour a gun which could be hidden under a dinner jacket.

The auctioned gun, which is still in working condition, is engraved with the words:

"Presented To Ian Fleming By Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co".

Fleming was a journalist and banker, before working in Naval Intelligence during World War II, where he rose to the rank of Commander and was right-hand man to spymaster Admiral John Godfrey.

After the war, he went to Jamaica for a naval conference and fell in love with the island, where he wrote the Bond novels at his home, Goldeneye.

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/14881/lot/61/

2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond comic Hammerhead #6.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #6 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272206011
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 3/29

It all comes down to this. With the Royal Navy facing off against the Hammerhead super-weapon, and Britain's nuclear arsenal in the hands of a war-mongering megalomaniac, 007 alone must infiltrate Kraken's fortified retreat. He has a license to kill, and he aims to use it...

2019: Shane Rimmer dies at age 89. (Born 28 May 1929--Toronto, Canada.)

Shane Rimmer, voice of Thunderbirds'
Scott Tracy, dies aged 89

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/29/shane-rimmer-voice-of-thunderbirds-scott-tracy-dies-aged-89

The Canadian actor had forged a lengthy career in cult TV shows
and films, appearing in three James Bond movies

Martin Belam | Fri 29 Mar 2019 10.49 EDT | Last modified on Fri 29 Mar 2019 14.15 EDT


Shane Rimmer, who has died aged 89, pictured here during a stint in ITV’s Coronation Street during the 1980s.
Photograph: ITV/REX/Shutterstock

Actor Shane Rimmer, who voiced the character of pilot Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds, has died. The official Gerry Anderson website carried the news, saying that the death of the 89 year old had been confirmed by his widow Sheila Rimmer. Rimmer died at home in the early hours of 29 March. No cause of death has been given.

Rimmer, who was born in Toronto in 1929 and moved to the UK in the 1950s, played the leader of the Thunderbirds crew in 32 episodes produced between 1964 and 1966. The actor also contributed his voice to other Gerry Anderson projects including Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, and appeared in person in the Anderson’s live action project UFO. Behind the scenes, Rimmer also wrote episodes of Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, The Secret Service and The Protectors.


Scott, Lady Penelope and Virgil in Thunderbirds
Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

As well as his work with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson he appeared in over 100 films including Dr Strangelove, Gandhi and Out of Africa. He played three different roles in three different James Bond movies, appearing in Diamonds Are Forever, You Only Live Twice, and The Spy Who Loved Me.


Shane Rimmer with James Bond actor Roger Moore on the set of 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me.
Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

Rimmer was also regularly cast in science fiction and fantasy projects, having appeared in William Hartnell era Doctor Who story The Gunfighters, as well as in Space: 1999, and having minor roles in Star Wars and Superman movies. He also played two different characters in British soap opera Coronation Street – in 1988 as shopkeeper Malcolm Reid, and between 1967 and 1970 as Joe Donnelli, an American GI who had murdered an army colleague and eventually shot himself.

Rimmer had continued to work in his later years, and as recently as 2017 was supplying a voiceover in cult kids’ TV show The Amazing World of Gumball.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/29/shane-rimmer-voice-of-thunderbirds-scott-tracy-dies-aged-89

He told the Washington Times in 2017 that it was his Bond work he was most proud of. “That was crazy. I have no idea how it happened. I did Diamonds Are Forever first. It wasn’t much. I just came on and got into a bit of a slanging match with Sean Connery, who slangs very well. Then I did You Only Live Twice. They got rid of me up in space in that one. The third, The Spy Who Loved Me was a good one all around. It was Roger Moore’s favourite of all the ones he did. You just get a kind of intuitive thing about a movie. It worked very well.”

Shane Rimmer (1929–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0727300/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (165 credits)

Firestorm (TV Movie) (post-production) - Tbc
1987-2017 Dick Spanner, P.I. (TV Series) - Dick Spanner - 24 episodes
2014-2017 The Amazing World of Gumball (TV Series) - Louie - 4 episodes
2016 Darkwave: Edge of the Storm (Short) - Anderson
2015 Thunderbirds (TV Series) - Scott Tracy
2012 Dark Shadows - Board Member 1
2010/II Half Moon (Short) - Maj Thomas Brennan
2010 Lovelorn - The Barman

2006 Alien Autopsy - Colonel
2005 Hiroshima (TV Movie documentary) - James F. Byrnes
2005 Mee-Shee: The Water Giant - Bob Anderson
2005 Batman Begins - Older Gotham Water Board Technician
2004 Caught in the Act (TV Movie) - Father
2003 Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (TV Series) - William Kingsley
- The Brooklyn Bridge (2003) ... William Kingsley
2003 The War of the Starfighters - Tantive Base Operative (voice)
2001 Spy Game - Estate Agent
2000 One of the Hollywood Ten - Parnell Thomas

1999 Dockers (TV Movie) - US Longshoreman
1998 I.K. - Ivar Kreuger (TV Mini-Series) - President Hoover
- Episode #1.3 (1998) ... President Hoover
1998 Only Love (TV Movie) - Warren Oliver
1996 Space Truckers - E. J. Saggs
1995 A Kid in King Arthur's Court - Coach
1994 The Saint: The Software Murders (TV Movie) - Bob Harrison
1993 Piccolo grande amore - Mr. Hughes
1993 Lipstick on Your Collar (TV Mini-Series) - Lt. Colonel Trekker / Lt. Col. Trekker
- Episode #1.6 (1993) ... Lt. Col. Trekker
- Episode #1.4 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
- Episode #1.3 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
- Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
- Episode #1.1 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
1992 Double Vision (TV Movie) - Caroline & Lisa's Father
1992 Casualty (TV Series) - Ed Rhinehart
- Cry Wolf (1992) ... Ed Rhinehart
1992 Land of Hope and Gloria (TV Series) - Bob
- The Authentic Taste of England (1992) ... Bob
1992 Year of the Comet - T.T. Kelleher
1991 Stanley and the Women (TV Mini-Series) - Morton Fendig
- Episode #1.1 (1991) ... Morton Fendig
1991 Company Business - Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics
1991 A Kiss Before Dying - Commissioner Malley
1991 Van der Valk (TV Series) - Lovell J Wallace
- A Sudden Silence (1991) ... Lovell J Wallace
1990 Enemy's Enemy (TV Mini-Series) - Skip Harrier
- Del 4 (1990) ... Skip Harrier

1989 The Nightmare Years (TV Mini-Series) - Ambassador Dodd
- Episode #1.4 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
- Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
- Part 2 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
- Part 1 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
1989 Red King, White Knight (TV Movie) - General
1989 Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (TV Movie) - Adm. Riley
1989 The Bretts (TV Series) - Ben Silverstein
- Home and Away: Part One (1989) ... Ben Silverstein
1989 Street Legal (TV Series) - Det. Barnes
- Basketball Story (1989) ... Det. Barnes
1988 The Dirty Dozen (TV Series) - Biddle
- Don Danko (1988) ... Biddle
1988 The Fortunate Pilgrim (TV Mini-Series) - Reilly
- Episode #1.3 (1988) ... Reilly
- The Fortunate Pilgrim (1988) ... Reilly
- The Fortunate Pilgrim (1988) ... Reilly
1967-1988 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Joe Donnelli / Joe Donelli / Malcolm Reid - 25 episodes
1988 A Very British Coup (TV Mini-Series) - The Americans - Secretary of State
- Episode #1.3 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
1988 Crusoe - Mr. Mather
1988 The Bourne Identity (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. Conklin
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... Gen. Conklin
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... Gen. Conklin
1987 Roman Holiday (TV Movie) - Hogan
1987 Breakthrough at Reykjavik (TV Movie) - George Schultz
1987 Riviera (TV Movie) - Doc
1987 The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (TV Mini-Series) - Doorman
- Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Doorman
- Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Doorman
1987 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Movie) - Stark
1986 Space Police (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Chuck Brogan
1986 Whoops Apocalypse - Marvin Gelber (US Secretary of State)
1986 Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (TV Mini-Series) - Harvey Coward
- Part II (1986) ... Harvey Coward
- Part I (1986) ... Harvey Coward
1986 Of Pure Blood (TV Movie) - The Colonel
1986 The Last Days of Patton (TV Movie) - Dr. Col. Lawrence Ball
1985 Out of Africa - Belknap
1985 White Nights - Ambassador Smith
1985 Star Quality: Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (TV Movie) - Brod Sarnton
1985 Dreamchild - Mr. Marl
1985 The Holcroft Covenant - Lt. Miles
1985 Reunion at Fairborough (TV Movie) - Joe Szyluk
1985 Space (TV Mini-Series) - Gen Quigley / U.S. General Quigley
- Part III (1985) ... Gen Quigley
- Part I (1985) ... U.S. General Quigley
1985 Morons from Outer Space - Redneck (Melvin)
1985 Gulag (TV Movie) - Jay
1984 Ellis Island (TV Mini-Series) - Detective Duffy
- Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Detective Duffy
1984 Nairobi Affair (TV Movie) - Mr. Gardner
1984 Mistral's Daughter (TV Mini-Series) - Harry Klein
- Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Harry Klein
- Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Harry Klein
- Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Harry Klein
1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Dr. Hersh
- Last Video and Testament (1984) ... Dr. Hersh
1984 Alas Smith & Jones (TV Series)
- Episode #1.5 (1984)
- Episode #1.4 (1984)
- Episode #1.1 (1984)
1984 Lace (TV Mini-Series) - Press Agent
- Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Press Agent
- Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Press Agent
1984 Master of the Game (TV Mini-Series) - Carroll
1984 Partners in Crime (TV Mini-Series) - Hank Ryder
- The Crackler (1984) ... Hank Ryder
1983 The Lonely Lady - Adolph Fannon
1983 Superman III - State Policeman
1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) - Detective Murphy
- Smart Aleck Kill (1983) ... Detective Murphy
1983 The Hunger - Arthur Jelinek
1982 Gandhi - Commentator
1980-1982 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - John Smith / Arthur Beauchamp
- A Man with a Fortune (1982) ... John Smith
- My Lady Love, My Dove (1980) ... Arthur Beauchamp
1982 Nanny (TV Series) - Dick Leonard
- Fathers (1982) ... Dick Leonard
1981 Reds - MacAlpine
1981 Priest of Love - Chief Immigration Officer
1981 The Rose Medallion (TV Series) - Sgt. Ed Kusborski
- Episode #1.3 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
- Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
- Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
1981 Bognor (TV Series) - Horace Higgins
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 6 - Feeding Time (1981) ... Horace Higgins
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 5 - Dummy Run (1981) ... Horace Higgins
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 4 - I Am Yellow: Memoirs of a Danish Dog Lover (1981) ... Horace Higgins
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 3 - Meet the Mole (1981) ... Horace Higgins
1980 The Dogs of War - Dr. Oaks
1980 Superman II - Controller #2
1980 Oppenheimer (TV Mini-Series) - Ed Condon
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Ed Condon
1980 Very Like a Whale (TV Movie) - Commuter

1979 A Man Called Intrepid (TV Mini-Series) - Willoughby
- Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Willoughby
- Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Willoughby
- Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Willoughby
1979 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Ambassador Bingham
- Speed King (1979) ... Ambassador Bingham
1979 Secret Army (TV Series) - Canadian Commandant
- The Execution (1979) ... Canadian Commandant
1979 A Deadly Game (TV Movie) - Braley
1979 Arabian Adventure - Abu
1979 Hanover Street - Col. Ronald Bart
1979 Return of the Saint (TV Series) - Falco
- Dragonseed (1979) ... Falco
1978 Superman - Naval Transport Commander (uncredited)
1978 The One and Only Phyllis Dixey (TV Movie) - US Colonel
1978 The Famous Five (TV Series) - Mr. Henning
- Five on Finniston Farm (1978) ... Mr. Henning
1978 The Billion Dollar Bubble (TV Movie) - Fred Levin
1978 The Standard (TV Series) - Jack Putnam
- Two Birds, One Stone (1978) ... Jack Putnam
1978 Warlords of the Deep - Captain Daniels
1977 Julia - Customs Officer (uncredited)
1977 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) - Stone
- Professional Foul (1977) ... Stone
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Cmdr. Carter
1977 The People That Time Forgot - Hogan
1977 Alternative 3 (TV Movie) - Bob Grodin
1977 Silver Bears - American Banker
1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope - InCom Engineer (uncredited)
1977 Nasty Habits - Officer I / C
1977 The Velvet Glove (TV Series) - Senator William Chandler
- Mother (1977) ... Senator William Chandler
1977 Twilight's Last Gleaming - Col. Alexander B. Franklin
1976 Alien Attack (TV Movie) - Eagle Pilot (voice, uncredited)
1975-1976 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Eagle Pilot - 6 epsiodes
1976 Horizon (TV Series documentary) - Fred Levin
- Billion Dollar Bubble (1976) ... Fred Levin
1976 Second Verdict (TV Series) - Harold Giles Hoffman
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping (1976) ... Harold Giles Hoffman
1976 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Pollack
- Divorce (1976) ... Pollack
1975 Quiller (TV Series) - Harry Brent
- Thundersky (1975) ... Harry Brent
1975 The 'Human' Factor - CIA Man
1975 Rollerball - Rusty, Team Executive
1975 You're on Your Own (TV Series) - Peter Kovacs
- Value for Money (1975) ... Peter Kovacs
1974 Late Night Drama (TV Series) - Ronald Ziegler
- I Know What I Meant (1974) ... Ronald Ziegler
1974 S*P*Y*S - Hessler
1974 QB VII (TV Mini-Series) - Reporter Outside Court
- Part Three (1974) ... Reporter Outside Court (uncredited)
- Part One & Two (1974) ... Reporter Outside Court (uncredited)
1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - Zeke / Vickers
- Zeke's Blues (1973) ... Zeke
- Vocal (1973) ... Vickers
1973 Take Me High (uncredited)
1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - Police Sergeant Warren
- In the Confessional (1973) ... Police Sergeant Warren
1973 Live and Let Die - Hamilton (voice, uncredited)
1973 The Investigator (Video) - John (voice)
1973 Scorpio - Cop in Hotel (uncredited)
1972 Baffled! (TV Movie) - Track Announcer
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Lomax
- Element of Risk (1971) ... Lomax
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Tom (uncredited)
1970 UFO (TV Series) - Lt. Bill Johnson / Alien / CIA Agent / ...
- Computer Affair (1970) ... Lt. Bill Johnson / Alien (uncredited)
- Confetti Check A-O.K. (1970) ... CIA Agent
- Identified (1970) ... Seagull X-Ray Co-Pilot
1970 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Goldman
- The Pueblo Affair (1970) ... Goldman

1968-1969 Joe 90 (TV Series) - Radio Control / Colonel Henderson / Taxi Driver / ...
- Double Agent (1969) ... Radio Control (voice, uncredited)
- Business Holiday (1968) ... Colonel Henderson / Taxi Driver (voice, uncredited)
- Big Fish (1968) ... Gardner (voice, uncredited)
- International Concerto (1968) ... Kelly / Clerk / Technician (voice, uncredited)
- Most Special Astronaut (1968) ... Kent (voice, uncredited)
1968 Thunderbird 6 - Scott Tracy (voice)
1967-1968 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) - Sergeant / Pilot / Confused Partygoer / ...
- Flight to Atlantica (1968) ... Sergeant (voice, uncredited)
- Inferno (1968) ... Pilot (voice, uncredited)
- Model Spy (1967) ... Confused Partygoer (voice, uncredited)
- Special Assignment (1967) ... Mason (voice, uncredited)
1967 You Only Live Twice - Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)
1966 Thunderbirds Are GO - Scott Tracy (voice)
1965-1966 Thunderbirds (TV Series) - Scott Tracy (voice) - 32 episodes
1966 Orlando (TV Series) - Kahn - 6 episodes
1966 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Seth Harper
- Don't Shoot the Pianist (1966) ... Seth Harper
- A Holiday for the Doctor (1966) ... Seth Harper
1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Marine Sergeant
- Lee Oswald: Assassin (1966) ... Marine Sergeant
1965-1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Ramsey / Morgan
- All Roads Lead to Callaghan (1966) ... Ramsey
- No Wreath for an Angel (1965) ... Morgan
1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Bud Burdine
- The Flipside (1966) ... Bud Burdine
1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Buchanan
- The Mercenaries (1965) ... Buchanan
1965 The Bedford Incident - Seaman 1st Class - C.I.C.
1964 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Corporal Girtin
- Parade's End #3: A Man Could Stand Up (1964) ... Corporal Girtin
1964 The Saint (TV Series) - Major Smith
- The Hi-Jackers (1964) ... Major Smith
1963-1964 Compact (TV Series) - Russell Corrigan - 30 episodes
1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Doctor
- Seven Sisters of Wong (1964) ... Doctor
1964 Dr. Strangelove - Capt. 'Ace' Owens
1960 Chasing the Dragon (TV Movie) - Corporal Keegan
1960 R.C.M.P. (TV Series) - Tom Hopwood
- Day of Reckoning (1960) ... Tom Hopwood
1959-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - First generator operator / Campbell / Paul
- Come in Razor Red (1960) ... First generator operator
- Roast Goose and Walnut Stuffing (1959) ... Campbell
- Star in the Summer Night (1959) ... Paul

1959 After Hours (TV Series)
- Episode #2.13 (1959)
- Episode #2.12 (1959)
- Episode #2.10 (1959)
- Episode #2.6 (1959)
1958 Cannonball (TV Series) - Tex
- Sights on Safety (1958) ... Tex
1958 The Day the Sky Exploded - John McLaren (English version, voice, uncredited)
1958 Flaming Frontier - Running Bear
1958 Come Fly with Me (TV Series) - Host
1957-1958 Encounter (TV Series) - Sharkey / Bill
- The Riggin' Slinger (1958)
- Baptism of Fire (1958) ... Sharkey
- One of Our Men Is Guilty (1957)
- 99 Times Around the Block (1957) ... Bill
1957 On Camera (TV Series) - Stanley
- The Egghead Approach (1957) ... Stanley
1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (TV Series) - Farber
- The Prisoner (1957) ... Farber
1957 A Dangerous Age - Nancy's Father
1957 Dorchester Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - Rodney Lauder
- Two Sides to a Tortoise (1957) ... Rodney Lauder
1957 Folio (TV Series) - Byron Moon
- Ring Around the Square (1957) ... Byron Moon

Writer (5 credits)

1973-1974 The Protectors (TV Series) (written by - 2 episodes)
- Blockbuster (1974) ... (written by)
- Zeke's Blues (1973) ... (written by)
1973 The Investigator (Video) (story by)

1969 The Secret Service (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
- Hole in One (1969) ... (written by)
1968-1969 Joe 90 (TV Series) (teleplay by - 6 episodes)
- Breakout (1969) ... (teleplay by)
- Relative Danger (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- Big Fish (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- Splashdown (1968) ... (teleplay by - uncredited)
- King for a Day (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- The Fortress (1968) ... (teleplay by)
1967-1968 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) (teleplay by - 3 episodes)
- Inferno (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- Expo 2068 (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- Avalanche (1967) ... (teleplay by)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

2016-2018 The Amazing World of Gumball (TV Series) (performer - 3 episodes)
- The Ghouls (2018) ... (performer: "All Hail All Hallow's Eve!" - uncredited)
- The Father (2018) ... (performer: "The Vermin Man" - uncredited)
- The Compilation (2016) ... (performer: "Weird Like You And Me" - uncredited)

Self (15 credits)

Archive footage (3 credits)

2021: BBC Radio 4 airs The Food Programme with a focus on James Bond.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7k/2021/03/29

Available Now
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tm9f

RichardTheBruce

March 30th

1924: Frank McCarthy is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 17 November 2002 at age 78--Sedona, Arizona.)

Frank C. McCarthy

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/azcentral/obituary.aspx?n=frank-c-mccarthy&pid=640960

Frank C. McCarthy, the world of Western Art has lost a great talent and leader. Internationally known artist, Frank C. McCarthy passed away from lung cancer, Sunday, November 17, 2002 at his home of 30 years in the beautiful red rocks of Sedona, Arizona. Frank McCarthy was born in New York City in 1924. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City during the summers starting at the age of 14. He was a graduate of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Frank McCarthy began his art career as a commercial illustrator. He painted illustrations for most of the paperback book publishers, magazines, movie companies, and advertisements. He created works that became posters for such movies as the James Bond series.

Frank McCarthy's talents were highly sought after by art directors enabling him to work as a free lance illustrator for many years. His art career spanned over 50 years, beginning with a request for a western cover for a magazine by an art director. He left the world of commercial art in 1968, and began his fine art career after moving to Sedona, Arizona. Frank McCarthy's dynamic paintings frequently featured the people of the west with a special emphasis on the Plains Indian, mountain men, and cavalry that made up the lore and lure of the old west. Appropriately entitled "the Dean of Western Action Painters", Frank McCarthy"s art was unsurpassed for its motion, drama, and absolute attention to accuracy and detail. Highly collected, and frequently imitated, Frank McCarthy's works were treasured throughout the world as classic examples of contemporary Western Art. Retrospective showings of Frank McCarthy's paintings have been held at the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas; the R.W. Norton Museum in Shreveport, La.; the Thomas Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Ok.; and in 1992, at the Cowboy Artist of America Museum in Kerrville, Texas. Frank McCarthy was invited to join the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America organizaton in 1975 and was an active member in the CAA group for 23 years.

He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1997. Five books of his paintings have been published-1 hardbound, 3 softbound, and 1 leather limited edition book. Over 100 limited edition art prints of his paintings have been published since 1974 by Greenwich Workshop, Shelton, Ct. Survivors include: children by his late wife Mary Farendorf - daughter Mary Jean McCarthy Tyll of Dallas, Texas and son Kevin C. McCarthy of Durango, Colorado; six grandchildren; brother Henry and sister Gertude Shevlin both of Florida; and wife Cynthia Bennett of Sedona, Arizona. Cremation has taken place and private services were held. Memorial donations may be made to the Frank and Cynthia McCarthy Scholarship fund at Little Big Horn College, P.O. Box 370, Crow Agency, Mt. 59022. For further information, please contact Big Horn Galleries, 1167 Sheridan Ave. Cody, Wy 82414 (307) 527-7587.

Published in The Arizona Republic on Dec. 8, 2002

Note: on some projects Frank McCarthy worked with Robert McGinnis.

Thunderball





You Only Live Twice




On Her Majesty's Secret Service


Colonel Sun paperback


Casino Royale


Dr. No



From Russia With Love


Goldfinger


Around the World Under the Sea


Where Eagles Dare


The Great Escape


The Dirty Dozen

1950: Robbie Coltrane is born--Rutherglen, Scotland.
1958: Raymond Chandler reviews Dr. No in The Sunday Times.

Originally posted on another forum by @Revelator.

THE TERRIBLE DR. NO

(March 30 1958) By RAYMOND CHANDLER

Ian Fleming first attracted me for three qualities which I thought—perhaps wrongly—almost unique in English writers. The first was escape from mandarin English, the forced pretentiousness, the preoccupation with the precise and beautiful phrase, which to me is seldom precise or beautiful, since our language contains an interior magic which belongs only to those who in a sense, care nothing about themselves.

The second was daring. He was not afraid to attempt any locale anywhere. He wrote expertly of
New York’s Harlem and Florida’s St. Petersburg, in both of which he didn’t miss a trick. He wrote of Las Vegas and did miss one small trick. He forgot the glass of ice water which is always the first thing a waitress or bus boy would place on your table.

What has happened to him in Dr. No is what happens to every real writer. He has found that a novel, a thriller, or what you choose to call it, is a world, that it has its own depth and subtleties, and that these can be expressed in an offhand way, without calling attention to themselves, and be very much alive.

The first chapter of Dr. No is masterly. The atmosphere and background of the elegant Richmond Road in Kingston, Jamaica, are established with clarity and charm. They had to be, or the ruthless violence which takes place there would be in a vacuum.

The third thing that attracted me in Ian Fleming’s writing was an acute sense at pace. How far to go, when to stop, when to destroy a mood and when to regain it, when to write a scene on a postcard and when to write richly and with leisure. Some of the most honoured novels lack this completely. You have to work at them. You don’t have to work at Fleming. He does the work for you.

The story concerns itself with a strange disappearance of two British agents in Jamaica, and why they disappeared, when no possible reason seemed clear. All was peace, so why suddenly in the night are they gone? James Bond is sent to find out—a trivial matter, a vacation in the sun. Yeah?

I have a few complaints. The beautiful girl does not appear until page 91, but in return for this she is allowed to live, and the last love scene is more gentle and compassionate than Ian Fleming usually permits. My second complaint is that the long sensational business which is the heart of the book not only borders on fantasy, it plunges into it with both feet. Ian Fleming’s impetuous imagination has no rules. I could wish he would write a book with all but one of his other qualities, yet with a plot which, at least to my world, seems part of what I know to be actual. The sequence is beautifully written, there are many very good things in it, especially detailed descriptions of the locale, the birds, the fishes—Fleming seems to be in love with rare fishes, and other dwellers in the water—some interiors, and a long torture scene which I thought a bit too sadistic, as though, he liked to write this sort of thing for its own sake.

The terrible Dr. No is a strange creature, but his motives become clear and his end very original. The beautiful girl this time is no sophisticated doll from the night clubs. The ending of the book is, as I said, written with an unusual tenderness—for Ian Fleming. I’m glad of that.

1959: Bond comic strip Moonraker begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Finishes 8 August 1959. 226-339) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

http://www.frederickmulder.com/john-mclusky



Swedish Semic Comic 1979 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3

Moonraker (Moonraker)

Danish 1966 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-7-1966/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 7: “Moonraker” (1966)

Danish 1975 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no31-1975/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 31: “Moonraker” (1975)

1962: Ian Fleming collaborates with a TV producer leading to television's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1962: The Dr. No production completes 58 days of principal filming.
1966: Thunderball released in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

1979: Moonraker films Drax ejected into space.

1985: British Hovercraft Corporation/Vickers Supermarine's Princess Margaret SR.N4 Mk (as used in Diamonds Are Forever) is blown onto a Dover breakwater killing four.

impdb.org/index.php?title=Category:British_Hovercraft_Corporation_SR.N4

1999: The Kevin McClory Warhead 2000 AD project is terminated when MGM buys the Casino Royale film rights from Sony for $10 million as a court settlement.

2019: Tania Mallet dies at age 77--England.
(Born 19 May 1941--Blackpool, Lancashire, England.)

Tania Mallet, ‘Goldfinger’ Bond

Girl, Dies at 77
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/tania-mallet-dead-dies-goldfinger-james-bond-1203177293/
By Dave McNary


CREDIT: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

British actress and model Tania Mallet, who played Tilly Masterson in the 1964 James Bond classic Goldfinger, has died. She was 77.

The official James Bond Twitter account announced her death on Sunday. “We are very sorry to hear that Tania Mallet who played Tilly Masterson in Goldfinger has passed away,” the tweet reads. “Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.”

Mallet was a first cousin to actress Helen Mirren. She was born in Blackpool, England, to British father Henry Mallet and Russian mother Olga Mironoff, a sibling of Mirren’s father.

Mallet was working as a model when she was cast as Masterson by producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli. She had previously auditioned for the role of Tatiana Romanova in 1963’s From Russia With Love, but lost the part to Daniela Bianchi.

In Goldfinger, Mallet’s character portrayed the sister of Shirley Eaton’s Jill Masterson, who betrays the villain Auric Goldfinger and is killed by him through “skin suffocation” after being completely painted in gold paint. Masterson, bent on avenging her sister’s death, is subsequently killed in the movie by Goldfinger’s servant, Oddjob (played by Harold Sakata), who throws a steel-rimmed hat at her.

Mallet told the James Bond fan site MI6 in 2003 that she had always been “more comfortable” in a small studio with “just a photographer and his assistant.”

“The restrictions placed on me for the duration of the filming grated, were dreadful, and I could not anticipate living my life like that,” she added.

Mirren said in her 2007 memoir, In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures, that Mallet was a “loyal and generous person” who helped pay for for her brothers’ education with her income as a model.

Tania Mallet (1941–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0539965/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (2 credits)

1976 The New Avengers (TV Series) - Sara
- The Midas Touch (1976) ... Sara (uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger - Tilly Masterson

Self (10 credits)

2013 The Playboy Morning Show (TV Series) - Self
- Episode #2.99 (2013) ... Self
2013 Bond's Greatest Moments (TV Movie documentary) - Self / Tilly Masterson
2012 This Morning (TV Series) - Self
- Episode dated 5 October 2012 (2012) ... Self
2012 007 Days of Bond: The Blu-Relay (Video documentary short) - Self - Actress

1972 What's It All About? (TV Series) - Self
- Episode #1.0 (1972) ... Self
1971 Glamour... (TV Series) - Self - Judge
- Episode #9.13 (1971) ... Self - Judge

1967 Call My Bluff (TV Series) - Self
- Episode #3.10 (1967) ... Self
1966 Late Show London (TV Series) - Self
- Episode #1.7 (1966) ... Self
1965 Thunderball: The London Pavillion Premiere (Documentary short) - Self
1961 Girls Girls Girls! (Documentary short) - Self

Archive footage (3 credits)

2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Tilly Masterson (uncredited)

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Self
1995 A Day in the Life of GoldenEye (TV Special documentary short) - Tilly Masterson (uncredited)

RichardTheBruce

March 31st

1922: Bob Simmons is born--Fullham, London, England. (He dies 21 October 1987 at age 65.)

Bob Simmons (stunt man)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simmons_(stunt_man)

Bob Simmons as James Bond 007 in the gun
barrel sequence featured in the movies Dr. No,
From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger

Bob Simmons (Fulham, London, England, 31 March 1922 – 21 October 1987) was an English actor and stunt man, best known for his work in many British made films, most notably the James Bond series.

Biography
Simmons was a former Army Physical Training Instructor at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst who had initially planned to be an actor, but thought a career in performing stunts would be more lucrative and interesting. Simmons first worked for Albert R. Broccoli and Irving Allen's Warwick Films on the film The Red Beret, that included future Bond film regulars director Terence Young, screenwriter Richard Maibaum and cameraman, later director of photography Ted Moore. Simmons later worked in many other Warwick Films, and worked for Allen in his The Long Ships and Genghis Khan, where he had his eye injured when kicked by a horse.

When Albert R. Broccoli began to produce the James Bond films, Simmons tested as an actor for the Bond role, but until his death in 1987, he became the stunt coordinator for every Bond film except From Russia with Love, which he joined later in the production, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Man with the Golden Gun. He appeared in the gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger. Simmons is the only person to officially perform the scene, while not starring in the main role as James Bond. Simmons also had a role as SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar in the pre-title sequence of the fourth film, Thunderball.

Simmons developed a stunt technique involving trampolines, first used in You Only Live Twice, whereby stuntmen would bounce off a trampoline in concert with a triggered explosion so as to simulate being blown into the air. This was used in many other films, including by Simmons again in The Wild Geese, where Simmons also doubled for Richard Burton.

Upon retirement, Simmons wrote an autobiography entitled Nobody Does It Better titled after the theme song for the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.

Filmography

Ivanhoe (1952)
The Great Van Robbery (1957) - Peters
The Guns of Navarone (1961) - German Officer (uncredited)
Dr. No (1962) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
From Russia with Love (1963) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
The Long Ships (1964)
Goldfinger (1964) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
Thunderball (1965) - Colonel Jacque Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Shalako (1968)
The Adventurers (1969)
When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Live and Let Die (1973)
The Next Man (1976) - London Assassin
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) - Ivan, KGB Thug (uncredited)
The Wild Geese (1978) - Pilot (uncredited)
For Your Eyes Only (1981) - Henchman Lotus Explosion Victim (uncredited)
A View to a Kill (1985)

Nobody Does It Better, Bob Simmons, 1987.

"When you double for James Bond you do it
for real. Stunts and all. You are plunged into
fantasy where life is lived in the fast lane."

Bob Simmons (I) (1922–1987)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799689/

Filmography

Stunts (49 credits)

1987 Going Bananas (stunt coordinator - as Robert Simmons)
1985 A View to a Kill (stunt team supervisor)
1983 Octopussy (action sequences arranger)
1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
1982 The Wall (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (action sequences arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1980 The Sea Wolves (stunts - uncredited)

1979 All Quiet on the Western Front (TV Movie) (action arranger)
1979 Moonraker (action sequence arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1979 Zulu Dawn (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1978 The Wild Geese (stunt double: Richard Burton - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Mister Deathman (stunt coordinator)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (action arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1975 De dwaze lotgevallen van Sherlock Jones (fight instructor)
1975 The Man Who Would Be King (stunts - uncredited)
1975 Happy Days Are Here Again (stunt coordinator)
1975 Paper Tiger (action arranger)
1975 The Wilby Conspiracy (stunts)
1974 Caravan to Vaccares (stunts: fight sequence)
1973 Live and Let Die (stunts co-ordinator)
1973 A Touch of Class (stunt and fight arranger)
1973 The Offence (stunts - uncredited)
1972 Lady Caroline Lamb (fight arranger)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunt arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Anthony Hopkins - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1971 Murphy's War (stunt arranger)
1970 The Adventurers (stunts - uncredited)

1968 Shalako (action sequences arranger)
1967 You Only Live Twice (action sequences) / (stunt double - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Thunderball (stunt double: Guy Doleman - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Genghis Khan (action sequences)
1964 Goldfinger (action sequences by) / (stunt double: Harold Sakata - uncredited) / (stunt double: Michael Mellinger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love (stunt double - uncredited) / (train fight double: Sean Connery - uncredited)
1962 Dr. No (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunt double - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Night Creatures (fight sequence staged by)
1961 The Hellions (stunt double: Lionel Jeffries - uncredited)
1961 The Secret Ways (stunt supervisor)
1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Gregory Peck - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)
1960 Scent of Mystery (stunt double: Denholm Elliott - uncredited)

1958 Tom Thumb (stunt double: Peter Sellers - uncredited)
1957 Action of the Tiger (stunts - uncredited)
1957 Fire Down Below (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Zarak (stunts)
1954 The Black Knight (stunt double: Alan Ladd - uncredited)
1953 Paratrooper (stunts - uncredited)
1952 Ivanhoe (stunts - uncredited)
1939 Jamaica Inn (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (25 credits)

1981 For Your Eyes Only - Henchman Lotus Explosion Victim (uncredited)

1978 The Wild Geese - Pilot (uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - KGB Thug #2 (uncredited)
1976 The Next Man - London Assassin
1976 Montana Trap
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Jeep Driver / Card Player
- Chain of Events (1971) ... Jeep Driver (uncredited)
- To the Death, Baby (1971) ... Card Player (uncredited)
1971 Murphy's War - member of German sub crew (uncredited)

1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Fake Limo Driver
- The Queen's Ransom (1966) ... Fake Limo Driver (uncredited)
1965 Thunderball - Colonel Jacques Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love- James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1963 Sparrows Can't Sing
Pub Patron (uncredited)
1962 Dr. No - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1962 The Road to Hong Kong - Astronaut (uncredited)
1961 The Guns of Navarone - German Soldier on Navarone (uncredited)
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Carlos, a pirate
1960 Exodus - Man of arms (uncredited)
1960 And the Same to You - Perce's Opponent

1959 Great Van Robbery - Peters
1958 The Vise (TV Series) - Brading
- The Man Who Was Twice (1958) ... Brading
1958 Tank Force (aka No Time To Die) - Mustapha
1955 Tangier Assignment - Peter Valentine (as Robert Simmons)
1953 The Sword and the Rose - French Champion
1953 Bad Blonde - Booth Man (uncredited)

1939 Reform School - Johnny

Miscellaneous Crew (16 credits)

1982 The Final Option (action arranger)
1980 The Sea Wolves (action arranger)

1978 The Wild Geese (action arranger)
1975 The Man Who Would Be King (master of horse)
1973 The Man Called Noon (action supervisor)
1971 Catlow (action sequence coordinator)
1970 The Adventurers (action sequences arranger: second unit)

1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade (action arrangements)
1967 You Only Live Twice (action sequences by)
1965 Thunderball (action sequences by)
1964 Goldfinger (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1964 The Long Ships (action sequences)
1963 From Russia with Love (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1962 Dr. No (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1962 The Pirates of Blood River (horse master) / (master at arms)
1961 The Naked Edge (fight arranger)

Camera and Electrical Department (2 credits)

George & Mildred (TV Series) (lighting director - 3 episodes, 1977 - 1978) (lighting - 2 episodes, 1979)
- The Twenty Six Year Itch (1979) ... (lighting)
- A Military Pickle (1979) ... (lighting)
- I Believe in Yesterday (1978) ... (lighting director)
- The Right Way to Travel (1977) ... (lighting director)
- All Around the Clock (1977) ... (lighting director)
1977 The Upchat Line (TV Series) (lighting director - 1 episode)
- Accommodation Address (1977) ... (lighting director)

Art department (1 credit)

1987 Promised Land (storyboard artist)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)

1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (second unit director)

Producer (1 credit)

1973 The Man Called Noon (associate producer)

1935: Herb Alpert is born--Los Angeles, California.

1943: Christopher Walken is born--Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York.

1958: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's sixth Bond novel Dr. No.

DR. NO

M hasn't forgiven Bond for the
negligence on his last assignment that
nearly cost Bond his life. Brusquely,
almost contemptuously, he tosses Bond
a time-wasting, shabby little case in the
Caribbean. It will really be a holiday
on an island in the sun -- convalescence.
Angrily, Bond accepts his orders. He
flies off to Jamaica. The sun shines,
the palm trees wave, the calypsos throb.
But on the horizon a cloud forms. It is
no bigger than a man's hand -- an arti-
culated steel hand -- the hand of Dr. No!

1960: In a letter to typist Jean Frampton, Ian Fleming credits her keen mind.

Fleming's 'Moneypenny' revealed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7314336.stm

May 2008 marks the centenary of
Ian Fleming's birth

Letters written by James Bond creator Ian Fleming, due to be sold at auction next month, reveal a close relationship with his typist Jean Frampton.

In one letter, dated 31 March, 1960, he asks her to use her "keen mind" to help get his novel Thunderball "into shape".

"Anything your quick eye falls upon... would be endlessly welcome," he adds.

"You can look on Mrs Frampton as Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny," said Amy Brenan of Duke's auctioneers in Dorset, which is offering the letters for sale.

The auction will take place on 10 April to mark the centenary year of the writer's birth.

The entire collection, which includes four signed letters by Fleming, is expected to fetch between £2,000 and £3,000.

'Helpful'
Also included are letters written by Mrs Frampton and Fleming's secretaries, Una Trueblood and Beryl Griffie-Williams.

Hired to type the manuscripts of Fleming's books, Frampton found herself called upon to offer pointers on plot and literary style.

The collection is expected to fetch up to £3,000

"Your occasional comments on the work you have done for me have been so helpful," the author writes.

Frampton, who lived in the Dorset town of Christchurch, is believed never to have actually met Fleming.

Their correspondence, however, reveals a close relationship that extended to such Bond novels as You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun.

"The collection is interesting because it details how the James Bond books were put together in the early 1960s," said Ms Brenan.

1964: Agent 007 ... ser rött (Agent 007 ... Sees Red) released in Sweden.

Sean Connery in a new one...

1964: Goldfinger films OO7 and villain and the laser interrogation.

2016: Douglas Wilmer dies at age 96--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
(Born 8 January 1920--Brentford, London, England.)

Douglas Wilmer obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/05/douglas-wilmer-obituary-sherlock-holmes

Actor who portrayed Sherlock Holmes as a steely antihero in the
1960s BBC TV adaptation of Conan Doyle’s stories

Douglas Wilmer, left, as Holmes, with Nigel Stock as Watson, in The Man with the Twisted Lip,
a 1965 episode of the BBC series Sherlock Holmes.
Photograph: BBC

Toby Hadoke | Tue 5 Apr 2016

Douglas Wilmer, who has died at the age of 96, was a wily, sardonic actor best known for playing Sherlock Holmes on television. He was cast alongside Nigel Stock’s doughty Watson in a 1964 BBC adaptation of The Speckled Band, and then returned for a 12-episode series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories the following year. Wilmer gave his Holmes an arrogance that he found missing from his screen predecessors, and he felt that his steely antihero was closer to Conan Doyle’s intentions for the character.

He was frustrated by the process of making the series, frequently rewriting scripts, clashing with directors and ruing the short rehearsal time typical in television of that period. He did not return for the second series, where Stock was instead joined by Peter Cushing. Wilmer did revisit the role, though – on the big screen in the Gene Wilder film The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975).

Douglas Wilmer as Holmes in the 1975 Gene Wilder film
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother.
Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock

Son of Kate (nee Tavener) and Harry, Wilmer was born in London, but spent his childhood in Shanghai, where his father worked as an accountant. Douglas returned to the UK for education at King’s school, Canterbury, and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After a year there, he was called up for second world war service in the army and served as a troop commander in Nigeria and the Gambia, before being invalided out with tuberculosis.

After the war he secured leading roles in weekly repertory theatre in Rugby thanks to a recommendation from a fellow student from his Rada days, Elizabeth Melville, who was to become his first wife. He made his West End debut in Antony and Cleopatra at the Piccadilly theatre (1946), spent a season at the Shakespeare Memorial theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon (1948) and joined the Old Vic company in 1951. Among his roles for them was the French king, Charles VI, in Henry V, for which he was singled out for praise by Kenneth Tynan.

Subsequent theatre roles for which he received strong notices included Warwick in St Joan opposite Siobhán McKenna (1954, Arts theatre, then St Martin’s theatre), Claudius to the Hamlet of Alan Bates (Nottingham Playhouse, then Cambridge theatre, 1970) and Patrick Delafield in David Hare’s Knuckle (Comedy theatre, 1974)

His television roles included Father Charles in It Is Midnight, Dr Schweitzer (1953, the earliest complete surviving TV play), the young hero in The Black Tulip (1956), Sir Mulberry Hawk in Nicholas Nickleby (1957), King Charles II in The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1958), and parts in a number of ITV Plays of the Week, before he was cast as Holmes. After hanging up his deerstalker he largely took guest roles in popular series such as The Avengers (1966) and The Main Chance (1970), before adding an addendum to his connection with 221b Baker Street by playing Van Dusen in The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971).

His film debut came as Dorset in Olivier’s Richard III (1955) and his other films included El Cid (1961), Cleopatra (1963, with Elizabeth Taylor), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966) and The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967), as Nayland Smith, the dogged nemesis of Christopher Lee’s eponymous master villain, Patton (1970, with George C Scott), Antony and Cleopatra (1972, with his good friend Charlton Heston), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), The Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) and Octopussy (1983).

Growing disillusioned with the profession, he withdrew from acting to open a wine bar – inevitably called Sherlock’s – in Woodbridge, Suffolk. He was a self-taught painter, his work inspired by frequent visits to Malta, who exhibited his watercolours and was a member of the Ipswich Art Society. But there was no escaping his most famous role and he came to embrace the praise bestowed upon his performance by admirers such as the Sherlock Homes Society of London, which appointed him an honorary member.

Douglas Wilmer, right, with Charlton Heston in El Cid, 1961.
Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock

He read a number of the Conan Doyle stories for Penguin audiobooks, took a cameo role as an irate customer at the Diogenes Club in an episode of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s TV series Sherlock (2012) and in 2014 contributed, with typical caustic humour, self-effacing wit and blunt candour, to the BFI’s DVD release of his Sherlock Holmes episodes. He published an autobiography, Stage Whispers, in 2009.

Wilmer’s first two marriages ended in divorce. He is survived by his third wife, Anne, and her daughter, Katherine.

• Douglas Wilmer, actor, born 8 January 1920; died 31 March 2016

Douglas Wilmer (1920–2016)

Actor
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2018: BBC's Radio 4 broadcasts its seventh Bond radio drama Moonraker.
2019: Bond exhibition in Bochum, Germany, finishes this date.

Bond exhibition in Bochum, Germany (1 February – 31 March 2019)
https://www.007travelers.com/events/bond-exhibition-in-bochum-germany-1-february-31-march-2019/

What: “In geheimer Mission – Der Spion, der aus Wattenscheid kam” – Bond exhibition
Where: Kortumstrasse 49, Bochum, Germany
When: 1 February – 31 March 2019

James Bond exhibition in Bochum, Germany. According to Bond author John Pearson, 007 was born in Wattenscheid, Germany on 11th of November 1920. The book where this is mentioned is “James Bond, the Authorized Biography of 007” (1973).

Wattenscheid is now part of city of Bochum and here is the new 007 exhibition between 1st of February and 31st of March 2019.

Exhibition includes Sunbeam Alpine S II from “Dr. No” (1962), the one-man helicopter Little Nellie from “You Only Live Twice” (1967), the white Lotus Esprit from” The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977) and the black Yahama XJ 650 Turbo from” Never Say Never Again” (1983) and the Jet Pack from “Thunderball” (1965). In addition to the Bond mobiles, 500 square meters of costumes, screenplays and much more can be admired.

The exhibition is open daily from 1 February to 31 March, from 15:00 to 19:00 Monday to Friday and from 11:00 to 18:00 on weekends.

Admission: 8 euros, children under 14 pay 5 euros.

2020: Original date for the No Time To Die World Premiere at Royal Albert Hall, London. Delayed to November and then some.

Thunderfinger

@RichardTheBruce , sees red is a better translation, wouldn t you say?

RichardTheBruce

April 1st

1931: George Baker is born--Varna, Bulgaria.
(He dies 7 October 2011 at age 80--West Lavington, Wiltshire, England.)

George Baker: Actor whose career
climaxed in his portrayal of the
Shakespeare-quoting DCI Wexford

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/george-baker-actor-whose-career-climaxed-in-his-portrayal-of-the-shakespeare-quoting-dci-wexford-2368541.html
Anthony Hayward | Tuesday 11 October 2011 00:00


George Baker: Actor whose career climaxed in his portrayal of the Shakespeare-quoting DCI Wexford

In 1987, two detectives from contemporary literature were transferred to television and their screen lives ran in parallel for 14 years.

While John Thaw stepped into the opera-loving shoes of Colin Dexter's Oxford sleuth Inspector Morse, George Baker had his first outing as Ruth Rendell's Shakespeare-quoting Detective Chief Inspector Wexford in "Wolf to the Slaughter".

The 6ft 4in Baker traded his crisp vowels for a regional burr in the roleof the affable, fatherly figure investigating crimes in the fictional south of England market town Kingsmarkham. With his dour sidekick, Detective Inspector Mike Burden (Christopher Ravenscroft), he plodded thoughtfully through an alarmingly high number of murder cases.

Reg Wexford was also a dependable husband and doting father, and Rendell revealed that the character traits were taken from her own father. She was so enamoured with Baker's portrayal that she admitted to writing The Veiled One, the first new Wexford novel published after the television adaptations began, with him in mind.

Following the stand-alone first mini-series, the programmes – featuring 23 stories in all and running until 2000 – were screened as The Ruth Rendell Mysteries and, occasionally, The Ruth Rendell Mystery Movie. Location filming was done in and around the Hampshire town of Romsey, not far from Baker's own home in Wiltshire.

In 1992, his second wife, the actress Sally Home, died after a three-year fight against cancer. The following year, he married Louie Ramsay – who played his screen wife, Dora, in the Wexford dramas and was a long-time friend of the couple – calling her his "soulmate" and adding: "Sally was the love of my life. With Louie, the love is quite different, but it's almost as strong." Ramsay died last March.

Baker was born at the British Embassy in Varna, Bulgaria, where his father, Frank – originally from Wetherby, West Yorkshire – was the honorary British vice-consul. A literate, cultured individual who was a writer and expert wine-taster, Baker was at pains to point out that, according to diplomatic etiquette, he was born on British soil.

When the Second World War broke out, he, his Irish mother Eva and four brothers and sisters moved to Yorkshire. Baker attended Lancing College, West Sussex, before joining Deal repertory company, in Kent, when he was just 15. During national service in Hong Kong he served with the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment. As a horse rider he was made regimental equitation officer but returned to Britain after contracting the intestinal disease sprue, and finished his Army service on a training range in Pembrokeshire.

Baker then acted in repertory theatre across Britain before making his London début as Arthur Wells in a revival of the Frederick Lonsdale drawing-room comedy Aren't We All? (Haymarket Theatre, 1953). Many roles followed in the West End, and with the Old Vic company (1959-60) and the RSC (1975). He also directed some plays himself, including The Sleeping Prince (St Martin's Theatre, 1968) and The Lady's Not for Burning (Old Vic Theatre, 1978). As artistic director, Baker launched his own provincial touring company, Candida Plays (named after his eldest daughter), in 1966.

Film casting directors spotted his matinee-idol looks early on. His first screen appearance, alongside Jack Hawkins, was in The Intruder (1953) and he followed it with a role in theSecond World War drama The Dam Busters (1955). Then came star billing in another war film, A Hill in Korea (1956), and the Civil War adventure The Moonraker (1958).

Baker's six-week affair with Brigitte Bardot while he was at Pinewood Studios filming The Woman for Joe (1955) and she was making Doctor at Sea put a strain on his marriage to the costume designer Julia Squire, which also suffered from the constant pressure of being in debt. He lived with Sally Home for 10 years before she became his second wife. His confidence was knocked by the film director Tony Richardson's description of him as the worst actor in England and another disappointment was the James Bond author Ian Fleming's assertion that Baker would make the perfect 007, before the part went to Sean Connery.

However, Baker appeared in three Bond films: as a Nasa engineer in You Only Live Twice (1967), Captain Benson in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), in which he also dubbed the voice of George Lazenby – in that actor's one screen appearance as the secret agent – for a scene in which 007 impersonates his character.

Television began to play a bigger part in Baker's career, with dramatic roles such as the second Number Two in The Prisoner (1967), Tiberius in I, Claudius (1976) and Detective Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn in four feature-length adaptations of Ngaio Marsh's novels, made in New Zealand in 1977.

He also had some success in sitcoms. After playing Peter Craven's boss in The Fenn Street Gang (1972), Baker was spun off into his own series, Bowler (1973), in which he was seen as a spiv and petty villain trying to exude class but failing abysmally. Later, alongside Penelope Keith in the first two series of No Job for a Lady (1990-91), he played the Conservative MP Godfrey Eagan, sparring with the newly elected Labour MP Jean Price.

As a writer, Baker adapted four of the Ruth Rendell stories himself and scripted many radio dramas and the television play The Fatal Spring (1980), about the First World War poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, which won the United Nations Media Prize Award of Merit.

In 1999, Baker underwent surgery to remove his prostate gland after being diagnosed with cancer. His autobiography, The Way to Wexford, was published three years later. He also collected together recipes from his own culinary exploits in A Cook for All Seasons (1989). In 2007, Baker was made an MBE for youth club fund-raising activities in his then home village of West Lavington, Wiltshire.

George Morris Baker, actor, writer and director: born Varna, Bulgaria 1 April 1931; MBE 2007; married 1950 Julia Squire (divorced 1974, died 1989; four daughters), 1974 Sally Home (died 1992; one daughter), 1993 Louie Ramsay (died 2011); died 7 October 2011.

George Baker (I) (1931–2011)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048468/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (145 credits)

2007 New Tricks (TV Series) - Steve Palmer
- Ducking and Diving (2007) ... Steve Palmer
2007 Heartbeat (TV Series) - Maurice Dodson
- Vendetta (2007) ... Maurice Dodson
2005 Spooks (TV Series) - Hugo Ross
- The Russian (2005) ... Hugo Ross
2005 Midsomer Murders (TV Series)
Charlie / Jack Magwood
- The House in the Woods (2005) ... Charlie / Jack Magwood
2003 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Cecil Newton - 6 episodes
2001 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (TV Series) - Berry Pomeroy
- O Happy Isle (2001) ... Berry Pomeroy
1987-2000 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) - Det. Chief Insp. Wexford - 50 episodes
2000 Back to the Secret Garden - Will Weatherstaff

1995 Johnny and the Dead (TV Mini-Series) - Alderman
- Part 4 (1995) ... Alderman
- Part 3 (1995) ... Alderman
- Part 2 (1995) ... Alderman
- Part 1 (1995) ... Alderman
1995 Little Lord Fauntleroy (TV Mini-Series) - The Earl of Dorincourt - 6 episodes
1992 ITV Telethon (TV Series) - Chief Inspector Wexford
- Telethon '92 (1992) ... Chief Inspector Wexford
1990-1991 No Job for a Lady (TV Series) - Godfrey Eagan - 12 episodes
1990 Hudson & Halls (TV Series) - Guest
1980-1989 Minder (TV Series) - Cooper / Altman
- Days of Fines and Closures (1989) ... Cooper
- You Gotta Have Friends (1980) ... Altman
1988 Journey's End (TV Movie) - The Colonel
1988 For Queen & Country - Kilcoyne
1988 Bergerac (TV Series) - Higgins
- A Man of Sorrows (1988) ... Higgins
1987 Out of Order - Chief Inspector
1987 The Charmer (TV Mini-Series) - Harold Bennett
- Gorse in the Middle (1987) ... Harold Bennett
- Gorse, the Deceiver (1987) ... Harold Bennett
1987 Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (TV Movie) - Chief Inspector Fred Davy
1986-1987 Screen Two (TV Series) - Greaves / Valentine Swift
- Coast to Coast (1987) ... Greaves
- Time After Time (1986) ... Valentine Swift
1986 Lenny Henry Tonite (TV Series) - - Gronk Zillman (1986)
1986 The Canterville Ghost (TV Movie) - Uncle Hesketh
1986 Room at the Bottom (TV Series) - Director General
- Winter Schedule (1986) ... Director General
- The Siege (1986) ... Director General
1984-1986 Robin Hood (TV Series) - Sir Richard of Leaford
- The Power of Albion (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
- Herne's Son: Part 2 (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
- Herne's Son: Part 1 (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
- The Prophecy (1984) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
1986 If Tomorrow Comes (TV Mini-Series) - Maximillian Pierpont
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Maximillian Pierpont
1986 Dead Head (TV Mini-Series) - Eldridge
- The Patriot (1986) ... Eldridge
- Anything for England (1986) ... Eldridge
- Why Me? (1986) ... Eldridge
1985 We'll Support You Evermore (TV Movie) - Colonel
1985 Marjorie and Men (TV Series) - Norton Phillips
- Be Your Age (1985) ... Norton Phillips
1985 Bird Fancier (TV Movie) - Albert Seers
1985 A Woman of Substance (TV Mini-Series) - Bruce McGill
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Bruce McGill
- Episode #1.2 (1985) ... Bruce McGill (credit only)
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Bruce McGill
1984 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - George Damos
- Death Dig (1984) ... George Damos
1984 Goodbye Mr. Chips (TV Mini-Series) - Meldrum
- Episode #1.4 (1984) ... Meldrum
- Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Meldrum
- Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Meldrum
- Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Meldrum
1983 Spyship (TV Mini-Series) - Irving
- Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Irving
1983 The Secret Adversary (TV Movie) - Whittington
1982-1983 Triangle (TV Series) - David West - 52 episodes
1982 The Chinese Detective (TV Series) - Jack Balfe
- Chorale (1982) ... Jack Balfe
1982 Q.E.D. (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Harold Metcalfe
- The Great Motor Race (1982) ... Sir Harold Metcalfe
1982 Little Miss Perkins (TV Movie) - Mr. Macauley
1981 The Gentle Touch (TV Series) - Gerald Harvey
- The Hit (1981) ... Gerald Harvey
1981 The Member for Chelsea (TV Series) - Mr. Chamberlain
- Episode #1.3 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
- Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
- Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
1981 Goodbye Darling (TV Series) - Jonathan Cowper
- Maude (1981) ... Jonathan Cowper
- Anne (1981) ... Jonathan Cowper
1981 Crown Court (TV Series) - - The Merry Widow: Part 1 (1981)
1981 Jackanory Playhouse (TV Series) - Janaka
- The Mouse, the Merchant and the Elephant (1981) ... Janaka
1980 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Login
- Full Circle: Part Four (1980) ... Login
- Full Circle: Part Three (1980) ... Login
- Full Circle: Part Two (1980) ... Login
- Full Circle: Part One (1980) ... Login
1980 Hopscotch - Parker Westlake
1980 Ladykillers (TV Series) - Sir Terence O'Connor, Q.C.
- Don't Let Them Kill Me on Wednesday (1980) ... Sir Terence O'Connor, Q.C.
1980 Square Mile of Murder (TV Series) - Mr. Smith
- A Kiss, a Fond Embrace - Part 2 (1980) ... Mr. Smith
- A Kiss, a Fond Embrace - Part 1 (1980) ... Mr. Smith
1980 ffolkes - Fletcher

1979 Empire Road (TV Series) - Mr. Butterworth
- Godfadder at Bay (1979) ... Mr. Butterworth
1968-1979 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Robert Ballard / George King
- Print Out (1979) ... Robert Ballard
- The Bonegrinder (1968) ... George King
1978 Died in the Wool (TV Movie) - Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn
1978 The Thirty Nine Steps - Sir Walter Bullivant
1977 Colour Scheme (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 Vintage Murder (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 Opening Night (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Capt. Benson
1977 Three Piece Suite (TV Series) - Frank - This Situation / Brad Hunter (segment "Celluloid Dreams")
- Come in, No.1/This Situation/All in the Mind (1977) ... Frank - This Situation
- Miss/Celluloid Dreams/Mea Culpa (1977) ... Brad Hunter (segment "Celluloid Dreams")
1976 I, Claudius (TV Mini-Series) - Tiberius - 10 episodes
1976 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Frank Chandler
- Baked Beans (1976) ... Frank Chandler
1976 Intimate Games - Professor Gottlieb
1976 Get Some In! (TV Series) - Wing-Commander Birch
- Flight (1976) ... Wing-Commander Birch
1976 The Twelve Tasks of Asterix - Prefect / Various (English version, voice)
1970-1976 Z Cars (TV Series) - Gerald / Calvin Flood / Gordon Glossop
- A Preacher in Passing (1976) ... Calvin Flood
- Friends (1974) ... Gordon Glossop
- A Big Shadow: Part 2 (1970) ... Gerald
- A Big Shadow: Part 1 (1970) ... Gerald
1975 Sea Area Forties (Short) - Commentator (voice)
1975 The Firefighters - Station Officer Harrison
1975 Three for All - Eddie Boyes
1975 Spy Trap (TV Series) - Colonel Jacoby
- April Sixty-Seven (1975) ... Colonel Jacoby
1975 Survivors (TV Series) - Arthur Wormley
- Genesis (1975) ... Arthur Wormley
1974 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Det. Inspector Martin
- The Final Chapter (1974) ... Det. Inspector Martin
1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Martin Willis
- Murder on Demand (1974) ... Martin Willis
1974 Zodiac (TV Series) - Mark Braun
- The Cool Aquarian (1974) ... Mark Braun
1973 The Laughing Girl Murder (Short) - Chief Sopt Keegan
1973 Bowler (TV Series) - Stanley Bowler - 13 episodes
1973 Between the Wars (TV Series) - Walter Jeffries
- Voyage in the Dark (1973) ... Walter Jeffries
1973 A Warm December - Dr. Henry Barlow
1973 Because of the Cats - Boersma
1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - George Dixon
- Your Witness (1973) ... George Dixon
1973 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV Series) - Mr. Lewis
- The Salesman's Job (1973) ... Mr. Lewis
1972 The Fenn Street Gang (TV Series) - Mr. Bowler
- Low Noon (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- The Left Hand Path (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- Smart Lad Wanted (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- The Great Frock Robbers (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
1972 New Scotland Yard (TV Series) - John Randall
- Two Into One Will Go (1972) ... John Randall
1972 The Man Outside (TV Series) - Philip Lockley
- Mandala (1972) ... Philip Lockley
1972 The Main Chance (TV Series - Major Donovan
- Love's Old Sweet Song (1972) ... Major Donovan
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Britten
- Chain of Events (1971) ... Britten
1971 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Morell
- Candida (1971) ... Morell
1970 Fraud Squad (TV Series) - Bill Garland
- Golden Island (1970) ... Bill Garland
1970 The Goodies (TV Series) - Chief Beefeater
- Tower of London (1970) ... Chief Beefeater
1970 Up Pompeii! (TV Series) - Jamus Bondus
- Secret Agents Jamus Bondus (1970) ... Jamus Bondus
1970 The Executioner - Philip Crawford
1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - John Mitchell
- Train and De-Train (1970) ... John Mitchell
1970 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Mark
- Games People Play (1970) ... Mark
1970 Kate (TV Series) - Tom Prentice
- One Good Turn (1970) ... Tom Prentice
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1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Sir Hilary Bray
1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Lord Sutterwick
1969 Justine - British Ambassador David Mountolive
1968 The Sex Game (TV Series)
- Women Can Be Monsters (1968)
1968 Harry Worth (TV Series) - Wing Commander Stebbs
- Private Pimpernel (1968) ... Wing Commander Stebbs
1968 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Commander Benbow (Naval Attaché)
- Stiff Upper Lip (1968) ... Commander Benbow (Naval Attaché)
1957-1968 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Kenny Baker / Theodore Quill / Mike / ...
- Mrs Capper's Birthday (1968) ... Kenny Baker
- Love Life (1967) ... Theodore Quill
- The Paraffin Season (1965) ... Mike
- The Pillars of Midnight (1958) ... Dr. Stephen Monks
- The Constant Stranger (1957)
1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Ernest Whipple
- Happiness Is E Shaped (1968) ... Ernest Whipple
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - The New Number Two
- Arrival (1967) ... The New Number Two
1967 You Only Live Twice - NASA Engineer (uncredited)
1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Tim Johnson
- Myself, I have Nothing Against South Ken (1967) ... Tim Johnson
1967 Seven Deadly Virtues (TV Series) - Martin
- Surface of Innocence (1967) ... Martin
1967 Mister Ten Per Cent - Lord Edward
1965-1967 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Jacques / Louie Summers / Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodson / ...
- Days in the Trees (1967) ... Jacques
- The Big Man Coughed and Died (1966) ... Louie Summers
- Alice (1965) ... Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodson
- The Navigators (1965) ... Vera
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Frank Ashton
- So Dark the Night (1966) ... Frank Ashton
1966 ITV Sunday Night Drama (TV Series) - Patrick
- Four Triumphant: St Patrick (1966) ... Patrick
1966 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Matthew Hobhouse / Edward Jackson
- Up and Down (1966) ... Matthew Hobhouse
- The Queen and Jackson (1966) ... Edward Jackson
1966 The Master (TV Series short) - Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Death by Misadventure (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- World of Disbelief (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- The Squadron Leader (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Behind the Antlers (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Totty McTurk (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
1965 Londoners (TV Series) - Bruce
- Common Ground (1965) ... Bruce
1965 Undermind (TV Series) - Thallon
- End Signal (1965) ... Thallon
1965 Drama 61-67 (TV Series) - Peter Evett
- Drama '65: A Question of Disposal (1965) ... Peter Evett
1965 The Sullavan Brothers (TV Series) - Edward Drayton
- Insufficient Evidence (1965) ... Edward Drayton
1965 Curse of the Fly - Martin Delambre
1965 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Bailey
- The Great Plane Robbery (1965) ... Bailey
1964 Curtain of Fear (TV Series) - Stewart Caxton - 6 episodes
1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Geoffrey Harrison
- Any Other Business (1964) ... Geoffrey Harrison
1964 Rupert of Hentzau (TV Series) - Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V - 6 episodes
1964 The Finest Hours (Documentary) - Lord Randolph (voice)
1964 The Full Man (TV Series documentary) - MacBeth
- Tragedy (1964) ... MacBeth
1963 Sword of Lancelot - Sir Gawaine
1963 It Happened Like This (TV Series) - Miles Standish
- The Hidden Witness (1963) ... Miles Standish
1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Cargan
- Glidepath (1962) ... Cargan
1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Dominic Père
- The Simple Case (1961) ... Dominic Père
1957-1961 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)
Giorgio / Docker Starkie / Biff Loman / ...
- Faraway Music (1961) ... Giorgio
- The Square Ring (1959) ... Docker Starkie
- Death of a Salesman (1957) ... Biff Loman
- The Guinea Pig (1957) ... Nigel Lorraine
1961 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Louis Cornudet
- Boule de Suif (1961) ... Louis Cornudet
1961 The Dickie Henderson Show (TV Series) - The Exchange Visit (1961)
1961 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Bill Walker
- Episode #2.31 (1961) ... Bill Walker
- Episode #2.30 (1961) ... Bill Walker
1959 Nick of the River (TV Series) - Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon - 9 episodes
1958 Tread Softly Stranger - Johnny Mansell
1958 The Moonraker - The Moonraker
1958 The Truth About Melandrinos (TV Series) - David Westbrook
1958 Doomsday for Dyson (TV Movie) - Goltsev
1957 No Time for Tears - Dr. Nigel Barnes
1957 Dangerous Youth - Padre
1957 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Percy French
- The Last Troubadour (1957) ... Percy French
1956 Hell in Korea - The National Servicemen: Lt. Butler / Lt Butler
1956 Adventure Theater (TV Series)
- The Wilful Widow (1956)
1956 The Extra Day - Steven Marlow
1956 The Gentle Touch - Jim
1955 The Woman for Joe - Joe Harrop
1955 The Dam Busters - Flight Lieutenant D. J. H. Maltby, D.S.O., D.F.C.
1955 PT Raiders - Bill Randall
1953 The Intruder - Adjutant

Writer (3 credits)

1991-1998 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) (adaptation - 5 episodes)
- Road Rage: Part Two (1998) ... (adaptation)
- Road Rage: Part One (1998) ... (adaptation)
- The Strawberry Tree: Part 1 (1995) ... (adaptation)
- The Mouse in the Corner: Part One (1992) ... (adaptation)
- From Doon with Death: Part One (1991) ... (adaptation)

1982 Imaginary Friends (TV Movie) (adaptation)
1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) (screenplay - 1 episode)
- Fatal Spring (1980) ... (screenplay)

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1992 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) (production associate - 3 episodes)
- Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)
- The Mouse in the Corner: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)
- The Speaker of Mandarin: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1987 Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (TV Movie) (performer: "Three Little Maids from School Are We" (1885), "A Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One" (1887) - uncredited)

Self (25 credits)

Archive footage (4 credits)

Up Pompei! Jamus Bondus

1944: Aliza Gur is born--Ramat Gan, Israel.

1957: From Russia With Love is serialized in The Daily Express.

1961: Goldfinger ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 3 October 1960. 698-849.)
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

https://www.michaelmay.online/2014/08/goldfinger-comic-strip.html




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

Goldfinger (Goldfinger - Part 1) | Goldfinger (Goldfinger - Part 2)


Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk2-goldfinger-1965/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 2: “Contra Goldfinger” (Interpresse 1965)

1963: This month the London Magazine published the James Bond spoof story "Bond Strikes Camp" by Cyril Connolly.

https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/connolly-cyril-bond-strikes-camp-london-the-5906696-details.aspx

1963: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's tenth Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

ON HER MAJESTY'S
SECRET SERVICE

'It was one of those Septembers when
it seemed that the summer would never
end . . . '

But it did end and winter came in a
lethal welter of mystery. Bloodshed
and multiple death amid the snow.

This the eleventh chapter in the
biography of James Bond, is one of the
longest. It is also the most enthralling.

Really the most? Really the most.

1963: Principal filming of From Russia With Love begins.
1963: Agent 007 released in Norway.

1965: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's twelfth and final Bond novel The Man With the Golden Gun.

1965: 007 ゴールドフィンガー (007 Gōrudofingā) released in Japan.

1969: Gazino Royal 007 released in Turkey.

1981: Richard Marek publishes John Gardner's Licence Renewed in the US as License Renewed.

1990: Armchair Detective Library publishes John Gardner's Licence to Kill.

1997: The Kanakee, Illinois, Daily Journal falsely proposes local filming for the next James Bond film "The Anastasia Answer" and invites auditions.

2012: Cinema Retro exposes an April Fool's joke involving James Bond and the Queen.

JAMES BOND TEAMS WITH THE QUEEN : APRIL FOOL'S
JOKE

See the complete article here:

https://cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/6645-JAMES-BOND-TEAMS-WITH-THE-QUEEN-APRIL-FOOLS-JOKE.html

Cinema Retro
JAMES BOND TEAMS WITH THE QUEEN : APRIL FOOL'S JOKE

Here's an ambitious April Fool's joke.

The web sites for the London tabloids the Daily Express and The Sun report that Her Majesty The Queen will be teaming with Daniel Craig for a special James Bond promotional stunt for the opening of the London summer Olympics. According to the Sun, Her Majesty has granted access to Buckingham Palace to film a mini-movie that will air on opening night of the games, which will be followed by Daniel Craig parachuting into the Olympics opening ceremony. The Sun reports that Oscar winning director Danny Boyle will oversee directing the events. Before everyone gets excited, we do caution readers to remember this story has appeared on April Fool's Day. The Daily Express reports that Craig actually did film scenes at the palace in February, but they were for the new Bond film Skyfall and featured a look-a-like of Her Majesty. This is a story that contrasts substantially with the Sun's account.

If all this is still being reported as fact tomorrow, maybe we'll be convinced there might be a tiny grain of truth to the notion that perhaps something was filmed inside the Palace, but for now it appears to be an elaborate April Fool's joke, as there is NO WAY Daniel Craig is parachuting into the Olympics!

For the Daily Express report, click here.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/311833/On-Her-Majesty-s-Secret-Service

For The Sun's report click here.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/4232299/James-Bond-news-Daniel-Craig-has-been-invited-by-The-Queen-to-open-the-2012-Olympic-games.html

UPDATE: Well. it's April 2 and the mainstream British press are still reporting this story as though it is true. Until Craig confirms it, we don't believe it. If this does turn out to be an April Fool's joke, there will be a lot of discredited newspapers. Let's see what develops...

Posted by Cinema Retro in James Bond 007 News on Sunday, April 1. 2012

2015: Skyfall filming in Mexico comes to a close.

2021: Shaken Not Stirred: the Music of James Bond may or may not perform 7:45 pm at Waterfront Hall, Belfast.

Shaken Not Stirred: the Music of James Bond

https://visitbelfast.com/event/shaken-not-stirred-the-music-of-james-bond-2-2/

Fri, 11 Jun 2021 7:45 - 10:00pm
Waterfront Hall

Please note, with a lockdown in place until 1 April 2021 this event may be cancelled or postponed; or its venue may be temporarily closed to the public. Check with the event organiser or venue for most up-to-date information.

Pour yourself a martini, don your best attire and leave the Aston Martin at home. Come along and enjoy all the greatest hits of James Bond.

To mark the release of the next enthralling installment of the James Bond series in April, the Ulster Orchestra is inviting you to join them for this spectacular tribute to the iconic 007 film franchise and some of the greatest theme tunes ever written.

Featuring West End star Louise Dearman and Strictly Come Dancing singer Lance Ellington, this spine-tingling show features hit after hit including Diamonds Are Forever, Skyfall, Goldfinger, Live And Let Die, Licence To Kill and more.

For more information, please visit waterfront.co.uk

This event has been rescheduled from September 2020 and March 2021.

Tickets & Pricing

Tickets £20 - £30

2004: A James Bond-related website repeats unfounded rumors regarding Orson Welles and an attempt to film Moonraker in 1956.

https://spywhothrills.com/moonrakerfleming

2016: The Daily Mail prints an exclusive--Broadchurch actress Olivia Coleman cast as first female James Bond.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3518227/Now-S-real-Bond-girl-O-O-Olivia-Coleman-lined-play-007-Broadchurch-star-set-make-history-taking-Daniel-Craig-movie.html"

2018: A remake of Moonraker is announced.

https://theworldofjamesbond.blog/2017/04/01/bond-25-the-remake-of-moonraker/
https://www.deviantart.com/armalarm/art/Moonraker-Reboot-333482459

2019: MGM and Bond producers announce Season 2 for James Bond Jr.

Commander James Bond - CJB

EON annonce une saison 2 à la série James Bond Jr. !

http://www.commander007.net/2019/04/eon-annonce-saison-2-a-serie-james-bond-jr/
By Clément Feutry | - 21 heures ago | - in Actualités, Les Films 0



Original English version below.

Pinewood Studios (31 mars 2019) – MGM, Michael G. Wilson et Barbara Broccoli, producteurs des films de James Bond, annoncent aujourd’hui une seconde saison à la série d’animation JAMES BOND JR. originellement diffusée en 1991. Dans celle-ci, le neveu de l’espion international James Bond, James Bond Jr., était déterminé à suivre les traces de son oncle. James Bond Jr. et ses amis I.Q. (le petit-fils de Q) et Gordo Leiter (fils de l’agent de la CIA, Felix) s’inscrivaient à Warfield, une école préparatoire au Royaume-Uni située sur le terrain d’une ancienne base de formation au contre-espionnage. Ensemble, les camarades de classe se battaient contre S.C.U.M. (Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem), un cartel international de terroristes et de scientifiques fous. Michael G. Wilson :

Quand on a créé James Bond Jr., on voulait raconter une histoire sous un angle nouveau qui parlerait aux enfants des deux cotés de l’Atlantique, tout en rendant hommage au personnage de James Bond avec lequel les plus « grands enfants » ont grandit et ont appris à aimé. Cela fait un moment déjà que nous cherchions à relancer la série mais avions peur de rester trop similaire à l’originale. Le monde ayant bien changé depuis les années ’90, notamment grâce aux nouvelles technologies informatiques, et avec le reboot de la saga avec CASINO ROYALE, nous pensions qu’il était temps de faire revenir la série en l’actualisant à notre époque.

Collaborant avec MGM et EON, l’équipe créative de Titmouse, Inc. (The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past, Ballmastrz: 9009) sera en charge de l’animation et de la coécriture. Le Chief creative officer de Titmouse, Inc., Tim Kalina :

C’est un honneur de faire partie de la franchise Bond et de travailler avec les équipes prestigieuses de la MGM. Nous avons été impliqués dans le projet parce que nous avons toujours été fans de Bond, qu’étant une entreprise américaine nous pouvions plus facilement écrire pour le public américain, et surtout parce que nous avions la même idée pour relancer la série : la situer aujourd’hui. Notre série n’est pas la suite de l’originale [qui se finissait avec Bond Jr. récupérant le marteau de Thor] mais plutôt une remise à zéro, une sorte de reboot comme ils ont plus faire il y a quelques années avec les films. Les fans de la série originale ne serreront toutefois pas déçus dans la mesure où nous avons gardé le meilleur de celle-ci et la même structure. Nous avons cependant vraiment voulu nous servir de ce que Daniel Craig a apporté à la franchise en ancrant notre série dans son « ère » afin de la mettre au goût du jour.

Des changements ont ainsi été opérés pour que le jeune public puisse davantage s’identifier aux derniers films :

Notre James Bond Jr. sera blond et nous avons également penser à changer la couleur de peau de Gordo Leiter pour refléter la participation de Jeffrey Wright aux derniers films. Ce dernier personnage est très important pour nous car il s’agit de la connexion principale avec la culture et la mode américaine qui peut contraster avec celle britannique, donnant un peu de comique à l’ensemble. Dans la série originale Gordo est fan de surf mais ce sport faisant moins rêver les jeunes qu’il y a trente ans, nous avons décidé de lui donner un look « gansta » avec notamment une casquette rouge « make rap great again » afin de l’actualiser pour 2019. De même, Ben Whishaw faisant trop jeune pour être grand-père, nous avons fait de I.Q. le petit frère de Q au lieu de son petit-fils. Nous avons également supprimé le personnage de Tracy Milbanks au profit d’un nouveau : Madeleine Milbanks. Il était très important pour eux et pour nous que la série reflète les films, dit Tim Kalina.

L’une des grandes nouveautés de la série sera la présence de scènes d’action dans un univers de réalité virtuelle :

Les casques de réalité virtuelle ont envahi le marché ces dernières années et vu que notre I.Q. est une sorte de « geek » fan de jeux vidéo on s’est dit que ce serait amusant que Bond Jr. doive affronter S.C.U.M. dans des mondes virtuels crées par I.Q. et son alter ego « génie-informaticien » du camp des méchants, Boris (comme dans la série orignal nous faisons revenir des méchants emblématiques des films comme Boris ou encore Elvis). Ce qui est génial c’est que dans un monde en réalité virtuelle on peut tout faire : changer l’époque, introduire des éléments fantastiques et même abroger les lois de la physique lorsque l’on en a envie ; je pense que ça créer de superbes décors et des combats originaux jamais vus auparavant dans la saga.

Pour le producteur associé Gregg Wilson « la série s’annonce déjà encore meilleure que la précédente, j’ai récemment pu assister à une projection test avec des enfants d’un premier jet d’un épisode où le S.C.U.M. vole la Statue de la Liberté et la tour Eiffel pour demander une rançon ; les retours étaient merveilleux. Ils ne peuvent attendre que la série sorte et je pense que leurs parents aussi, qui n’auront d’ailleurs pas à s’inquiéter car la violence est très réduite et aucun personnage ne meurt à l’écran. On est partie sur un peu moins d’épisodes que la première saison, seulement une quarantaine [contre 65]. D’autant plus que cette fois il y aura un fil conducteur, cela concerne le père de Bond Jr. (le frère de James Bond), je ne peux rien dire de plus mais si vous avez vu SPECTRE, vous avez déjà une idée sur quoi vous attendre… ».


« Et puisque nous avons estimé que deux James Bond Jr. girls ne sont pas suffisantes, nous pouvons d’ores et déjà annoncer un partenariat avec Zodiak Media qui permettra à Bond Jr. de faire équipe avec les agentes secrètes des TOTALLY SPIES! au complet le temps d’un épisode. C’est l’une des nombreuses surprises qui attendent les fans de la nouvelle série ».

La saison 2 de James Bond Jr., produite par MGM et EON Production, réalisée par Titmouse, Inc., et distribuée par MGM sera diffusée début 2020 au Royaume-Uni sur BBC One et suivra peu après aux États-Unis sur NBC. Une gamme de jouets et de comics sera plus tard dévoilée dans le courant de l’année.

Source : 007.com.

Pour « fêter » ça, on se re-regardera bien le premier épisode de la série originale…



Et si l’anglais n’est pas votre tasse de thé, en VF ça donne :



La série originale avait également été adaptée en comics à l’époque…



English version :

Pinewood Studios (March 31, 2019) – MGM, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond films, announced today a second season for the animated series JAMES BOND JR. originally released in 1991. In the original, the international spy James Bond’s nephew, James Bond Jr., was determined to follow in his uncle’s footsteps. James Bond Jr. and his friends I.Q. (Q’s grandson) and Gordo Leiter (son of CIA agent Felix) enrolled in Warfield, a preparatory school located on the grounds of an old counter intelligence training base in the UK. Together, the schoolmates fought against S.C.U.M. (Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem), an international cartel of terrorists and mad scientists. Michael G. Wilson on the new series:

« When we created James Bond Jr., we wanted to tell a story from a new angle that would speak to children on both sides of the Atlantic, while paying tribute to the character of James Bond who the « older children » grew up with and have learned to love. It’s been a while since we thought about restarting the series but were afraid it’d too similar to the original. The world has changed a lot since the 90s, thanks to the computer technologies, and with the reboot of the film series, we thought it was time to bring back the series by updating it to our time.

Collaborating with MGM and EON Productions, the creative team of TITMOUSE, INC. (The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past, Ballmastrz: 9009) will be in charge of animation and co-writing. Chief Creative Officer of Titmouse, Inc., Tim Kalina:

« It’s an honor to be part of the Bond franchise and to work with the prestigious MGM team. We were involved in the project because we were always fans of Bond, and being an American company we could write more easily for the American public, and especially because we had the same idea to relaunch the series: to update it for audiences of today. Our series is not a continuation of the original [which ended with Bond Jr. recovering Thor’s hammer] but rather a reboot, similar to the kind of reboot they did a few years ago for the movies. Fans of the original series will not be disappointed since we took the best of the original series and kept the same structure. However, we really want to use what Daniel Craig has brought to the franchise by anchoring our series in the current ‘era’ to bring it up to date ».

Changes have been made so that young audiences can identify more with the latest films:

« Our James Bond Jr. will be blond and we changed the skin color of Gordo Leiter to reflect Jeffrey Wright’s participation in the movies. This last character is very important to us because he is the main connection with America’s culture and fashion, which can contrast with the British one, giving a little comedic style to the whole series. In the original series Gordo is a fan of surfing, but this sport is less appealing for young people than it was thirty years ago, so we decided to give him a ‘gansta’ style, especially with a red cap with the inscription « Make Rap Great Again » in order to update him for 2019. Similarly, since Ben Whishaw is too young to be a grandfather, we changed I.Q. to Q’s little brother instead of his grandson. We also changed Tracy Milbanks to Madeleine Milbanks. It is very important for MGM, EON and for us that the series reflects the current movies », says Tim Kalina.

One of the big novelties of the series will be the presence of action scenes in a world of virtual reality:

« Virtual reality headsets have invaded the market in recent years and as our I.Q. is a kind of ‘geek’ video game fan we thought it would be fun for Bond Jr. to face S.C.U.M. in virtual worlds created by I.Q. and his alter-ego ‘genius-computer scientist’ baddie, Boris (as in the original series we’re bringing back emblematic villains of the films like Boris and Elvis). The great thing is that in a world of virtual reality you can do anything: change the era, introduce fantastic elements and even do away with the laws of physics when you want to; I think that it creates beautiful scenery and original fights like never seen before in the saga ».

For Associate Producer Gregg Wilson: « The show is already looking better than the previous one, I was recently able to see a test screening with kids of an episode where S.C.U.M. steals the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower and demand a ransom; the returns were wonderful. They can’t wait for the show to come out and I think their parents won’t either. They won’t worry because the violence is very light and no characters die on the screen. We went with fewer episodes than the first season, only forty. Especially since this time there will be a common thread, it concerns the father of Bond Jr. (the brother of James Bond), I can’t say anything more but if you saw SPECTRE, you already have an idea about what to expect… »

« Since we felt that two James Bond Jr. girls are not enough, we can already announce a partnership with ZODIAK MEDIA that will allow Bond Jr. to team up with the full team secret agents of the TOTALLY SPIES! for one episode. This is one of the many surprises that awaiting fans of the new series ».

Season 2 of James Bond Jr., produced by MGM and EON Productions, directed by Titmouse, Inc. and distributed by MGM will be broadcast in early 2020 in the UK on BBC One and will follow shortly after in the USA on NBC. A range of toys and comics will be unveiled later this year.

Source : 007.com.

RichardTheBruce

April 2nd

1925: George MacDonald Fraser is born--Carlisle, Cumberland, England.
(He dies 2 January 2008 at age 82--Strang, Isle of Man, United Kingdom.)

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/arts/03fraser.html
By MARGALIT FOXJAN. 3, 2008

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

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

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

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

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

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

George MacDonald Fraser
Credit HarperCollins, about 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first Flashman novel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292129/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Writer (10 credits)

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

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

Self (1 credit)

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

Archive footage (1 credit)

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

1962: Producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Salztman complete a deal with United Artists to finance Dr. No.
1965: Kingsley Amis reviews The Man With the Golden Gun in The New Statesman.

Shared by @Revelator on the MI6 Community Novel Bondathon discussion.
https://mi6community.com/discussion/comment/847292
***

M for Murder

We left James Bond in Japan, an amnesia victim after a head wound sustained while escaping by balloon from the castle he had destroyed by blocking-up the mud geyser on which it was built. He was under the impression that he was a local fisherman, and Kissy Suzuki, at that time what the newspapers call his friend, did nothing to put him right, at least not mentally. At the end of You Only Live Twice he was taking off for Vladivostok, because it was part of a country that, he sensed, he had had a lot to do with in the past. This was a promising situation. One could hardly wait for the follow-up: inevitable capture by the KGB, questionings and torturings and brainwashings, break out (aided probably by some beautiful firm-breasted female major of the Foreign Intelligence Directorate), the slaying of Colonel-General Grubozaboyschikov of SMERSH, and perhaps of Lieutenant-General Vozdvishensky of RUMID for good measure, in revenge for what happened on the Orient Express in 1957, and final escape over the Wall.

Nothing of this order takes place in Bond’s latest and last exploit. He’s back in England right at the start, telephoning the Ministry of Defence and apparently set on getting his old job back. It soon emerges that he has indeed been brainwashed, and that the commission allotted him by his Russian controllers is nothing less than the assassination of M. Despite the forebodings pf Miss Moneypenny in the outer office Bond is admitted to the presence, chats briefly about the necessity of working for peace and then whips out a cyanide pistol. But M presses a button which lowers a sheet of armour-plate glass from the ceiling, and the jet of viscous brown fluid splashes harmlessly into its centre.

I lament this outcome of the attentat very much, and not only because it helps to make everything that follows seem rather small-scale. M has always seemed to me about as sinister as Captain Nash (the moon-maniac who tried to shoot Bond with a specially designed copy of War and Peace) and considerably less amiable than Dr No. The depth of Bond’s devotion to M’s keen, lined sailor’s face and clear blue sailor’s eyes remains something of a mystery. Perhaps the pitch of the old monster’s depravity is reached in the title story of For Your Eyes Only. Here he manoeuvres Bond into volunteering to murder an ex-Nazi in Vermont as a personal favour, and says absolutely nothing when Bond departs to carry out this arduous, dangerous, difficult assignment. Even Mr. Deighton’s pair of boors, Colonel Ross and Major Dalby, might in such circumstances have gone as far as to wish Bond luck or thank him. A faceful of cyanide would have done M a world of good.

He survives, however, and goes off to luncheon at Blades, just a grilled sole and a spoonful of Stilton. He used to be much greedier than this, cheerfully doing himself harm by guzzling a marrow-bone after his caviar and devilled kidneys and fresh strawberries. In the old days, too, he would go for 20-year-old clarets; he washes down his grilled sole with a bottle of Algerian red too bad to be allowed on the wine-list. We know now why Bond stepped down from broiled lobsters with melted butter in 1953 to cold roast beef and potato salad in 1963. As always, he was following M’s lead.

After luncheon, M decides to send Bond off to the West Indies to kill a certain Scaramanga, the golden-gun-toter of the title and a free-lance assassin often used by the KGB or Castro. He may well perish in the attempt, for Scaramanga is the best shot in the Caribbean, but that’s all right—to fall on the battlefield would be better than doing 20 years for having tried to kill the head of the Secret Service. Having had a bit of shock treatment at the hands of Sir James Molony, the famous neurologist, and some intensive gun practice at the Maidstone police range. Bond is judged fit for the assignment and in due course noses out Scaramanga in Jamaica. What follows is soon told. Scaramanga hires Bond as his security and trigger-man and takes him off to a half-built hotel on the coast where a ‘business conference’ is to be held. Ostensibly its subject is tourist development. Bond’s identity becomes known and Scaramanga arranges to knock him off during a small-gauge-railway excursion as a piece of light entertainment for the conferrers. But…We last see Bond refusing a knighthood: to accept one would be to aspire inadmissibly to M’s level.

It’s a sadly empty tale, empty of the interests and effects that for better or worse, Ian Fleming had made his own. Violence is at a minimum. Sex too: an old chum of Bond’s called Mary Goodnight appears two or three times, and on her first appearance puts an arm smelling of Chanel No 5 round his neck, but he gets no more out of her later than an invitation to convalesce at her bungalow. And there’s no gambling, no gadgets or machinery to speak of, no undersea stuff, none of those lavish and complicated eats and drinks, hardly even a brand-name apart from Bond’s Hofffitz safety razor arid the odd bottle of Walker’s de luxe Bourbon. The main plot, in the sense of the scheme proposed by the villain’s, is likewise thin. Smuggling marijuana and getting protection-money out of oil companies disappoint expectation aroused by what some of these people’s predecessors planned: a nuclear attack on Miami, the dissemination throughout Britain of crop and livestock pests, the burgling of Fort Knox. The rank-and-file villains, too, have been reduced in scale.

In most of the Bond books it was the central villain on whom interest in character was fixed. Moonraker, for instance, is filled with the physical presence of Huger Drax with his red hair and scarred face, bustling about, puffing cigars, playing the genial host when he isn’t working on his scheme to obliterate London. Scaramanga is just a dandy with a special (and ineffective) gun, a stock of outdated American slang and a third nipple on his left breast. We hear a lot about him early on in the 10-page dossier M consults, including mentions of homosexuality and pistol-fetishism, but these aren’t followed up anywhere. Why not?

It may be relevant to consider at this point an outstandingly clumsy turn in the narrative. Bond has always, been good at ingratiating, himself with his enemies, notably with Goldfinger, who took him on as his personal assistant for the Fort Knox project. Goldfinger, however, had fairly good reason to believe Bond to be a clever and experienced operator on the wrong side of the law. Scaramanga hires him after a few minutes’ conversation in the bar of a brothel. (At this stage he has no idea that there’s a British agent within a hundred miles, so he can’t be hiring him to keep him under his eye.) Bond wonders what Scaramanga wants with him: “it was odd, to say the least of it…the strong smell of a trap.” This hefty hint of a concealed motive on Scaramanga’s part is never taken up. Why not?

I strongly suspect—on deduction alone, let it be said—that these unanswered questions represent traces of an earlier draft, perhaps never committed to paper, wherein Scaramanga hires Bond because he’s sexually interested in him. A supposition of this kind would also take care of other difficulties or deficiencies in the book as it stands, the insubstantiality of the character of Scaramanga, just referred to, and the feeling of suppressed emotion, or at any rate the build-up to and the space for some kind of climax of emotion, in the final confrontation of the two men. But of course Ian Fleming wouldn’t have dared complete the story along those lines. Imagine what the critics would have said!

To read some of their extant efforts, one would think that Bond’s creator was a sort of psychological Ernst Stavro Blofeld, bent on poisoning British morality. An article in this journal in 1958 helped to initiate a whole series of attacks on the supposed “sex, snobbery and sadism” of the books, as if sex were bad per se, and as if snobbery resided in a few glossy-magazine descriptions of Blades and references to Aston Martin cars and Pinaud shampoos and what-not, and as if sadism could be attributed to a character who never wantonly inflicts pain. (Contrast Bulldog Drummond and Spillane’s Mike Hammer.)

These are matters that can’t be argued through in this review. But it seems clear that Ian Fleming took such charges seriously. Violent and bloody action, the infliction of pain in general, was very much scaled down in what he wrote after 1958. Many will regard this as a negative gain, though others may feel that a secret-agent story without violence would be like, say, a naval story without battles. As regards ‘sex’ and ‘snobbery’ and the memorable meals and the high-level gambling, these, however unedifying, were part of the unique Fleming world, and the denaturing of that world in the present novel and parts of its immediate forerunners is a loss. Nobody can write at his best with part of his attention on puritanical readers over his shoulder.

Ian Fleming was a good writer, occasionally a brilliant one, as the gypsy-encampment scene in From Russia, With Love (however sadistic) and the bridge-game in Moonraker (however snobbish) will suggest. His gifts for sustaining and varying action, and for holding down the wildest fantasies with cleverly synthesized pseudo-facts, give him a place beside long defunct entertainer-virtuosos like Jules Verne and Conan Doyle, though he was more fully master of his material than either of these. When shall we see another?

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films Elliott Carver's first scenes.

2020: Before diverting to November, original release date for No Time to Die in the UK and Greece, James Bond 007: Keine Zeit zu sterben in Germany, Sin tiempo para morir in Spain.

RichardTheBruce

April 3rd

1926: Director of photography Jean Tournier is born--Toulon, Var, France.
(He dies 5 December 2004 at age 78--Paris, France.)

Jean Tournier (1926–2004)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0869673/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Born April 3, 1926 in Toulon, Var, France
Died December 5, 2004 in Paris, France (cancer)

Mini Bio
Jean Tournier was born on April 3, 1926 in Toulon, Var, France. He is known for his work on Moonraker (1979), The Day of the Jackal (1973) and Target (1985). He died on December 5, 2004 in Paris, France.

Filmography

Cinematographer (55 credits)

1994 Cache Cash
1992 Le secret du petit milliard (TV Movie)
1991 La neige et le feu
1990 Les 1001 nuits
1989 Les mannequins d'osier
1988 Bonjour l'angoisse
1987 Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
- Part III (1987)
- Part II (1987)
- Part I (1987)
1986 Monte Carlo (TV Mini-Series) (director of photography - 2 episodes)
- Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (director of photography)
- Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (director of photography)
1986 Sins (TV Mini-Series) (director of photography - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... (director of photography - 1986)
- Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (director of photography - 1986)
- Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (director of photography - 1986)
1985 Target
1984 Camille (TV Movie)
1984 Mistral's Daughter (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
- Episode #1.3 (1984)
- Episode #1.2 (1984)
- Episode #1.1 (1984)
1984 Femmes de personne
1983 Par ordre du Roy (TV Movie)
1983 Le battant
1981 Pour la peau d'un flic
1980 3 hommes à abattre
1980 The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

1979 Moonraker (director of photography)
1978 Les Miserables (TV Movie)
1976 Destinée de Monsieur de Rochambeau (TV Movie)
1975 Le cantique des créatures: Georges Braque ou Le temps différent (Documentary)
1974 Black Thursday
1974 The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
1973 The Day of the Jackal (photographed by)
1972 3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972 The Annuity
1971 On the Lam
1971 Countdown
1970 Start the Revolution Without Me (director of photography)
1970 The Comeuppance

1968 The Little Bather (director of photography)
1968 The Man in the Buick
1967 Le grand bidule
1967 Shock Troops
1966 Divertissement pour amoureux... et concierges (Short)
1966 Father's Trip
1966 Trap for the Assassin
1966 Your Money or Your Life
1965 Compartiment tueurs
1965 The Two Orphans
1965 Fire at Will (director of photography)
1964 The Counterfeit Constable
1964 The Train (photographed by)
1962 Les mystères de Paris
1961 C'est l'heure (Short)
1961 C'est pour demain (Short)
1961 Les bras de la nuit
1961 Amelie or The Time to Love
1960 Les deux entêtés (Short)
1960 Ladies Man
1960 One Does Not Bury Sunday
1960 Quai du Point-du-Jour

1958 Auditorium (Short)
1956 L'album de famille de Jean Renoir (Documentary short)

Camera and Electrical Department (5 credits)

1986 Liberty (TV Movie) (cinematographer: France)
1983 Man, Woman and Child (director of photography: France)
1968 The Troops get Married (director of photography: second unit)
1966 Is Paris Burning? (director of photography: second unit)
1961 Goodbye Again (camera operator)

Actor (1 credit)

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

1942: Wayne Newton is born--Roanoke, Virginia.

1961: The Daily Express comic run of Risico begins. (Ending 24 June 1961, serials 850-921.)
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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






Swedish Semic Comic 1975 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3

Risicologan! (Risico)

Danish 1967 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tag/risico-en/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 10: “Risico” (1967)




Danish 1976 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no37-1976/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 37: “Risico” (1976)

1964: From Russia With Love released in Austria.

1995: GoldenEye main unit filming at the Nene Valley railway, Cambridgeshire, England.
1997: Hodder & Stoughton publishes Raymond Benson's first Bond novel Zero Minus Ten.

2021: Still another targeted release date delayed to Fall this year.

RichardTheBruce

2015: Robert Rietti dies at age 92: London, England.
(Born 8 February 1923--London, England.)

Robert Rietti obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/24/robert-rietti
Actor best known for his voice, who dubbed in a number of James
Bond films
Michael Freedland | Fri 24 Apr 2015 12.05 EDT

Robert Rietti unusually facing the camera, in Time to Remember with Yvonne Monlaur (1962).
Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

As a film and television actor, Robert Rietti, who has died aged 92, was best known for his voice. Although he made occasional on-screen appearances, as in John Schlesinger’s Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and the ITV series The Avengers, his regular work came from dubbing the dialogue of actors whose command of English was limited or who could not make the final stages of recording a soundtrack.

After the actor Robert Shaw died in 1978, Rietti was called to dub his voice in parts of three movies for which Shaw had not completed the recording. After a diagnosis of cancer compelled the removal of Jack Hawkins’s larynx in 1966, Rietti provided the spoken words for some of his films. In Treasure Island (1972), he revoiced every word spoken by Orson Welles as Long John Silver.

Rietti had a significant involvement in the James Bond series, providing the voice of the secret agent John Strangways in the first, Dr No (1962), and Adolfo Celi’s voice as Emilio Largo in Thunderball (1965). He even dubbed the Japanese actor Tetsuro Tamba as Tiger Tanaka in You Only Live Twice (1967) and John Hollis as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in For Your Eyes Only (1981). In On Her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1969, he also appeared before the camera as one of the staff in a casino.

For much of his career his name was spelt differently, or did not appear at all. He was billed as Robert Rietty on radio cast lists and for some of the many films on which he worked, but when employed to dub his name was often absent. This was a source of some annoyance. “I don’t really understand why,” he said, “because if they want singing in a film and they have an actress or an actor who doesn’t sing well, they’ll revoice them with a famous voice and there’ll be a credit afterwards. But if they revoice a voice for speaking, nobody must know.”

Experts in his business could recognise a Rietti dubbing, but few others could, as he was highly skilled in mastering both voices and accents. In one sequence in the film Waterloo (1970), for instance, he was heard talking to himself four times in the course of providing no fewer than 98 voices, one of them for Hawkins as Sir Thomas Picton.

He was often called upon to supply Italian voices, and also spoke fluent German, French and Russian.

Born Lucio Rietti, in Paddington, west London, son of Victor, a well-known character actor, and Rachel (nee Rosenay), he came from Italian-Jewish stock. His family, originally from Ferrara, had lived in England for 200 years and one of his ancestors was Rebecca Rietti, Benjamin Disraeli’s grandmother.

Rietti made more than 6,000 radio broadcasts, frequently reading his own short stories or tales from the Bible. For more than 20 years he would end my own BBC Radio London, and then LBC, programme You Don’t Have to Be Jewish, with a reading from either the Old Testament or the Talmud. For a number of years, he also broadcast to the US for the BBC in what was billed as an answer to Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America.

He had his own company, which was responsible for the complete rerecording of films – such as when a movie with Scottish actors speaking with thick accents had to be made available to the American market. He was nominated for a Golden Reel award in Hollywood for dubbing much of Sergio Leone’s gangster movie Once Upon a Time in America. In 2000, he was nominated for the Bafta special award for outstanding work.

He was also active as a writer. He translated the entire works of Pirandello into English and published a number of anthologies, including the collection A Rose For Reuben: Stories of Hope from the Holocaust (2006). He edited the drama quarterly Gambit.

His Iraqi-born wife, Tina (nee Semah), died in 2008. He is survived by two daughters, Anya and Liana, and two sons, Jonathan and Benjamin.

• Robert (Lucio Herbert) Rietti, actor, born 8 February 1923; died 3 April 2015

Robert Rietty (1923–2015)

Actor | Additional Crew | Sound Department
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726403/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (280 credits)

2008 Beehive (TV Series) - Opera Fan
- Episode #1.1 (2008) ... Opera Fan
2006 Little Britain (TV Series)
- Little Britain Abroad: Part 2 (2006) ... (as Robert Rietti)
- Little Britain Abroad: Part 1 (2006)
2002 Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time (TV Mini-Series) - Bedloe
- No Child of Earth (2002) ... Bedloe (voice, as Robert Rietti)
- The Child (2002) ... Bedloe (voice, as Robert Rietti)
2001 Hannibal - Sogliato (as Robert Rietti)

1998 Hilary and Jackie - Italian Flunky
1998 The Sea Change - Luigi
1997 Déjà Vu - Unconfirmed Part (uncredited)
1996 Beck (TV Series) - Massimo Anconi
- Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Massimo Anconi
1994 Faith (TV Mini-Series) - Suit 3
- Episode #1.2 (1994) ... Suit 3
1991 Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (TV Movie) - Franz Hoffman
1991 30 Door Key (as Robert Rietti)
1990 The March - Leo Borelli

1988 Madame Sousatzka - Leo Milev
1987 The Fourth Protocol - Colonel Kay (uncredited)
1986 Love with a Perfect Stranger (TV Movie) - Bruno
1986 Call Me Mister (TV Series) - Bernard Santori
- Frozen Assets (1986) ... Bernard Santori
1985 Christopher Columbus (TV Mini-Series) - Of various roles - 4 episodes
1984 Ellis Island (TV Mini-Series) - Bruno Santorelli
- Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Bruno Santorelli
1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Marcello
- Last Video and Testament (1984) ... Marcello
1983 Never Say Never Again - Italian Minister
1983 Curse of the Pink Panther - Various roles (voice)
1982 Trail of the Pink Panther - Various roles (voice)
1982 I Remember Nelson (TV Series) - Messenger
- Passion (1982) ... Messenger
1982 The Brack Report (TV Series) - Sr Navaroni
- Chapter 3 (1982) ... Sr Navaroni
1982 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TV Movie) - Dubbing (voice)
1982 The Story of the Treasure Seekers (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Rosenbaum
- Episode #1.3 (1982) ... Mr. Rosenbaum
1981 The Borgias (TV Mini-Series) - Mantuan Ambassador
- Part 1 (1981) ... Mantuan Ambassador
1981 The Flame Trees of Thika (TV Mini-Series) - Italian Priest
- Friends in High Places (1981) ... Italian Priest
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Ernst Stavro Blofeld (voice, uncredited)
1980 Hawk the Slayer - Narrator (uncredited)
1978-1980 The Professionals (TV Series) - Ambassador / Gino
- Hijack (1980) ... Ambassador
- Man Without a Past (1978) ... Gino
1980 Time of My Life (TV Series) - Giovanni
- Episode #1.4 (1980) ... Giovanni

1979 Avalanche Express - Gen. Marenkov (voice, uncredited)
1979 Ashanti - Slave Trader in Market (voice, uncredited)
1978 The Thief of Baghdad (TV Movie) - Captain of the Guard (voice, uncredited)
1978 Force 10 from Navarone - Drazak (voice, uncredited)
1978 Jackanory Playhouse (TV Series) - Monsieur Legrand
- Big Pete, Little Pete (1978) ... Monsieur Legrand
1977 The New Avengers (TV Series) - Dom Carlos
- Trap (1977) ... Dom Carlos
1977 Gulliver's Travels - Reldresal / King of Blefuscu (voice)
1977 Jesus of Nazareth (TV Mini-Series) - Various small roles
- Part 2 (1977) ... Various small roles (voice)
- Part 1 (1977) ... Various small roles (voice)
1977 Cross of Iron - German Officer (voice, uncredited)
1975-1976 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Sphere / Luke Ferro / Voice of Mateo / ...
- The AB Chrysalis (1976) ... Sphere (voice)
- The Testament of Arkadia (1976) ... Luke Ferro (voice, uncredited)
- The Troubled Spirit (1976) ... Voice of Mateo (uncredited)
- Dragon's Domain (1975) ... Voice of Cellini (uncredited)
1976 No Longer Alone - Joan's father
1976 The Devil's Men - Sgt. Vendris (voice)
1976 The Message of Major and minor roles (voice)
1976 The Omen - Monk
1976 Spanish Fly - Antonio (voice, uncredited)
1975 The Hiding Place - Willem ten Boom
1975 Paper Tiger - Harok (voice)
1975 Deadly Strangers

Various voices (uncredited)

1974 The Early Life of Stephen Hind (TV Series) - Tim Cadnam-Plessy
- Episode #1.2 (1974) ... Tim Cadnam-Plessy
1974 Murder on the Orient Express - Loudspeaker (uncredited)
1974 From Beyond the Grave - Dubbed Marcel Steiner / Dallas Adams (segment 1 "The Gate Crasher") (voice, uncredited)
1973 The Golden Voyage of Sinbad - Haroun / Omar / Koura's Ship Captain (voice, uncredited)
1973 Wessex Tales (TV Mini-Series) - Sculptor
- Barbara of the House of Grebe (1973) ... Sculptor
1973 Gawain and the Green Knight - Green Knight - some lines (voice, uncredited)
1973/II A Doll's House - Small part actor (voice, uncredited)
1973 The Crocodile (TV Series) - Monsieur Duclair
- Stranger from the Sea (1973) ... Monsieur Duclair
1972 The Adventurer (TV Series) - Bank Director
- Deadlock (1972) ... Bank Director
1972 The Ruling Class - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
1972 Frenzy - Doctor (voice, uncredited)
1972 Tales from the Crypt - Radio Newcaster (segment "And All Through the House") (voice, uncredited)
1972 Brother Sun, Sister Moon - Consul and others (voice)
1971 Jason King (TV Series) - Angelo
- All That Glisters...: Part 2 (1971) ... Angelo (voice, uncredited)
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra - Count Fredericks (voice, uncredited)
1971 Captain Apache - Dubbing (voice)
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Torino
- Five Miles to Midnight (1971) ... Torino
1971 The Last Run - Miguel (voice, uncredited)
1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday - Daniel's Brother
1971 A Town Called Hell - Paco (voice)
1971 From a Bird's Eye View (TV Series) - Porter / Casino Manager / Hotel Clerk
- All in a Day's Work (1971) ... Porter
- Hurricane Millie (1971) ... Casino Manager
- Wife Trouble (1971) ... Hotel Clerk
1971 Flight of the Doves - Irish Airport TV Reporter (voice, uncredited)
1970 Within and Without (as Roberto Rietti)
1970 UFO (TV Series) - Keith Ford
- The Square Triangle (1970) ... Keith Ford (voice, uncredited)
1970 Song of Norway - Winding (uncredited)
1970 The McKenzie Break

Various voices (uncredited)

1970 Deep End - of Four Characters (voice, uncredited)
1965-1970 Mogul (TV Series) - Inspector / Giuseppe
- They Shall Not Pass (1970) ... Inspector
- Out of Range (1965) ... Giuseppe
1970 You Can't Win 'Em All - Col. Enci (voice, uncredited)
1970 Hell Boats - Salvatore (voice)
1970 Land Raiders - Harper - Wagon Master (voice)

1969 A Talent for Loving - Of two roles (voice)
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Casino Baccarat Official (uncredited)
1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Jenkins (voice, uncredited)
1969 A Walk with Love and Death - Various roles (voice)
1969 The Royal Hunt of the Sun - Atahuallpa (voice, uncredited)
1969 The Valley of Gwangi - Carlos (voice, uncredited)
1969 The Italian Job - Police Chief
1969 Sax Rohmer's The Castle of Fu Manchu - Curt and others (voice, uncredited)
1969 Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies - Count Levinovich (voice, uncredited)
1969 Mackenna's Gold - Hachita (voice)
1969 Hannibal Brooks - Kellerman (voice)
1969 The Assassination Bureau - Police Officer with Eleanora (uncredited)
1969 Department S (TV Series) - Pilot
- Six Days (1969) ... Pilot
1969 The Desperados - Deputy (voice)
1969 The Saint (TV Series) - Lafitre
- The Ex-King of Diamonds (1969) ... Lafitre (voice, uncredited)
1968 The Ugliest Girl in Town (TV Series) - Hotel Manager
- The Paris Incident (1968) ... Hotel Manager
1968 The Blood of Fu Manchu - of Jansen and Lopez and others (voice)
1968 Star! - French Ambassador (uncredited)
1968 The Girl on a Motorcycle - Of two roles (voice)
1968 Assignment K - Minor Role (voice, uncredited)
1967 Hell Is Empty - Robert Grant
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Insurance Executive
- Find the Lady (1967) ... Insurance Executive
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - Number Two
- Many Happy Returns (1967) ... Number Two (voice, uncredited)
- The General (1967) ... (voice, uncredited)
1967 Reflections in a Golden Eye - Anacleto (voice, uncredited)
1967 Vendetta (TV Series) - Umberto di Benco
- The Scandal Man (1967) ... Umberto di Benco
1967 You Only Live Twice - Tiger Tanaka (voice, uncredited)
1967 Five Golden Dragons - Gert (voice, uncredited)
1967 Casino Royale - Dubbing (voice, uncredited)
1967 The Night of the Generals - Driver (voice, uncredited)
1967 Uncle Charles (TV Series) - Signor Guidi
- Patience (1967) ... Signor Guidi
1966 Triple Cross - B.B.C. Reporter (voice, uncredited)
1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... - Abraham's Steward
1959-1966 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Pollyannis / Mario Comminetti / Roberto Rossi
- The Killing (1966) ... Pollyannis
- The Missing Suit (1961) ... Mario Comminetti
- The Sharp Knife (1959) ... Roberto Rossi
1966 Khartoum - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
1966 Lost Command - Verte (voice, uncredited)
1966 The Great Metropolis (TV Movie documentary) - Italian (with monkey)
1966 Where the Spies Are - Operator (voice, uncredited)
1965 Blood Beast from Outer Space - Medra (voice)
1965 Doctor Zhivago - Kostoyed (voice, uncredited)
1965 Battle of the Bulge - Announcer (uncredited)
1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Translator / Receptionist
- To Our Best Friend (1965) ... Translator
- You're Not in Any Trouble, Are You? (1965) ... Receptionist
1965 Thunderball - Emilio Largo (voice, uncredited)
1965 Return from the Ashes - Paul (voice, uncredited)
1964-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Barelli / Young Fabri
- The Rules of the Game (1965) ... Barelli
- The Lovers of Florence (1964) ... Young Fabri
1965 The Crooked Road - Police Chief
1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce - Hotel Manager (uncredited)
1964 The Castle of the Living Dead - Bruno (voice, uncredited)
1964 The Fall of the Roman Empire - Opening Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1964 Becket - Alexander III (voice, uncredited)
1964 Agent 8 3/4 - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
1963 The Sentimental Agent (TV Series) - Torta / Bank Manager
- A Box of Tricks (1963) ... Torta
- The Beneficiary (1963) ... Bank Manager
1963 The Ceremony - Sanchez / Chief Warden / Gendarme (voice, uncredited)
1963 The Crimson Blade - King Charles I (uncredited)
1963 Harry's Girls (TV Series) - Antonio
- Pilot ... Antonio
1963 Siege of the Saxons - Saxon Prince (voice, uncredited)
1963 Doctor in Distress - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
1963 Man of the World (TV Series) - Lieutenant Chivaro
- The Bandit (1963) ... Lieutenant Chivaro
1963 55 Days at Peking - Spanish Minister (voice, uncredited)
1963 I Could Go on Singing - Palladium Stage Manager
1963 The Avengers (TV Series) - Carlo
- Conspiracy of Silence (1963) ... Carlo
1963 Best of Friends (TV Series)
- Foreign Policy (1963)
1963 Harpers West One (TV Series) - Carlo
- Life in the Big Store (1963) ... Carlo
1962 Time to Remember - Victor
1962 On the Beat - Italian Lawyer
1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Majid (voice, uncredited)
1962 Richard the Lionheart (TV Series) - Father Ignatius
- Queen in Danger (1962) ... Father Ignatius
- When Champions Meet (1962) ... Father Ignatius
1962 Dr. No - John Strangways / Superintendent Duff (voice, uncredited)
1962 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Decker
- The Princess (1962) ... Decker
1962 Two and Two Make Six - Ship captain (voice, uncredited)
1962 The Cheaters (TV Series) - Felix Adrian
- The Hands of Adrian (1962) ... Felix Adrian
1962 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Victor
- Time to Remember (1962) ... Victor
1962 Sir Francis Drake (TV Series) - Captain Riccardo
- Beggars of the Sea (1962) ... Captain Riccardo
1962 Playbox (TV Series) - Alan Saville
- Episode #7.10 (1962) ... Alan Saville
1962 Light in the Piazza - The Priest (uncredited)
1961 The Middle Course - Jacques
1961 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone - Bit Part (uncredited)
1961 Top Secret (TV Series) - Pinerollo
- Stranger in Cantabria (1961) ... Pinerollo
1961 Two Wives at One Wedding
1961 The Story of Joseph and His Brethren - Pharaoh
1961 Hurricane (TV Series) - Quico - 6 episodes
1961 The Naked Edge - Dubbing (uncredited)
1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Bertollini
- The Villa (1961) ... Bertollini
1961 The Guns of Navarone - Mallory - German Voice (voice, uncredited)
1960 The Boy Who Stole a Million - Detective
1960 Man from Interpol (TV Series) - Giovani / Rafaelo
- A Man Alone (1960) ... Giovani
- The Key Witness (1960) ... Rafaelo
1959-1960 The Four Just Men (TV Series) - Francesco
- The Man in the Royal Suite (1960) ... Francesco
- The Rietti Group (1960) ... Francesco
- The Night of the Precious Stones (1959) ... Francesco (uncredited)
1960 Bluebeards Ten Honeymoons - Bank Clerk (uncredited)
1960 The Savage Innocents - Missionary (voice, uncredited)
1960 Conspiracy of Hearts - Emilio Casella
1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Captain Lindemann (voice, uncredited)

1959 Dial 999 (TV Series) - George Williams / Mario Renzo
- Night Mail (1959) ... George Williams
- Living Loot (1959)
- Robbery with Violence (1959) ... Mario Renzo
1959 Glencannon (TV Series) - - Gabriel's Trumpet (1959)
1959 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Pinelli
- Diamond S.O.S. (1959) ... Pinelli
1959 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Victor
- Man in Disguise (1959) ... Victor
1951-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Don Ferdinand / Father Landolina / Major- 6 episodes
1959 Alfred Marks Time (TV Series)
- Episode #4.5 (1959)
- Episode #4.4 (1959)
- Episode #4.3 (1959)
1959 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Lt. Colbert
- While the Sun Shines (1959) ... Lt. Colbert
1958 The Secret Man - John Manning (voice, uncredited)
1958 Women in Love (TV Movie) - Ramon in 'A Candle for the Madonna'
1958 The Snorkel - Station Sergeant (uncredited)
1958/I The Verdict Is Yours (TV Series) - Lawyer (1958)
1958 The Key - Dubbing (voice, uncredited)
1958 Shadow Squad (TV Series) - Ionesco
- Illegal Entry: Part 2 (1958) ... Ionesco
- Illegal Entry: Part 1 (1958) ... Ionesco
1958 Tank Force - Alberto
1958 Hotel Imperial (TV Series)
- The Prima Donna in 472 (1958)
1958 The Silent Enemy - Rosati (voice, uncredited)
1958 A Tale of Two Cities - Foreman of Jury (uncredited)
1957 Flight of the Dove (TV Movie) - Pilot
1957 The New Adventures of Martin Kane (TV Series) - Chagal / Pascal
- The Violin Story (1957) ... Chagal
- The Night Ferry Story (1957) ... Pascal
1957 Blue Murder at St. Trinian's - Policeman (uncredited)
1956-1957 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Bibi de Passanet / Mr. Kosak / Oscar / ...
- Love Her to Death (1957) ... Bibi de Passanet
- My Heart's in the Highlands (1957) ... Mr. Kosak
- Ashes in the Wind (1956) ... Oscar
- The Burning Glass (1956) ... Gerry Hardslip
1957 Just My Luck - Italian (uncredited)
1957 The Truth About Women - Sultan
1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Joe Heinz
- Operation Flint Axe (1957) ... Joe Heinz
1957 The Beasts of Marseilles - Salvatore (voice, uncredited)
1956-1957 Sailor of Fortune (TV Series) - Ginalopulous
- The Million Dollar Rose Tree (1957)
- The Desert Hostages (1956) ... Ginalopulous
1957 Don Kikhot - Carrasco (English version, voice, uncredited)
1957 Let's Be Happy - Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
1957 The Jack Benny Program (TV Series) - Waiter
- Jack Falls Into Canal in Venice (1957) ... Waiter
1957 A Novel Affair - Carlo / Mario (voice, uncredited)
1956 Checkpoint - Frontier Guard
1956 The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Pierre Gringoire (voice, uncredited)
1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Dubbing (voice, uncredited)
1956 The Buccaneers (TV Series) - Capt. Philip Catalan
- Dan Tempest's War with Spain (1956) ... Capt. Philip Catalan
1956 Aggie (TV Series) - Antoine
- Top Secret (1956) ... Antoine
1956 New Ramps for Old (TV Series) - Benjie
- On Hot Ice (1956) ... Benjie
1956 Nom-de-Plume (TV Series) - Hazlitt
- The Counting-House Clerk (1956) ... Hazlitt
1956 Moby Dick - Revoicing (uncredited)
1956 Alexander the Great - Cleitus / Philotas (voice, uncredited)
1956 Jesus of Nazareth (TV Mini-Series) - A Scribe
- Episode #1.6 (1956) ... A Scribe
- Episode #1.4 (1956) ... A Scribe
1955 Born for Trouble - Antoine
1955 Stock Car - Roberto
1955 Brother Ass and Brother Lion (TV Movie) - Brother Damon
1953-1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series)
Jacques Bargeton / French Lieutenant
- Success Train (1955) ... Jacques Bargeton
- The Heel (1953) ... French Lieutenant
1955 As I Was Saying (TV Series) - Bartlett
- For Art's Sake (1955) ... Bartlett
1955 Potasch and Perlmutter (TV Movie) - Boris Andrieff
1955 Miss Patterson (TV Movie) - Cesar
1955 Confidential Report - Airport Control Tower Operator (uncredited)
1955 That Lady - Escovedo (voice, uncredited)
1955 Two Pigeons Flying High (TV Movie) - Chang / Narrator
1954 The Black Rider - Mario
1954 Attila - Aetius (voice, uncredited)
1954 Away in a Manger (TV Movie) - Seth
1954 If It's a Rose (TV Movie) - Mario
1954 Special Providence (TV Movie) - Leon Bonnet
1954 Day for Happiness (TV Movie) - Vito Panuri
1954 They Who Dare - Italian Officer (uncredited)
1953 A Loan from Lorenzo (TV Movie) - Mariotti
1953 Always a Bride - Inspector (uncredited)
1953 Melba - Italian Policeman (uncredited)
1953 The Captain's Paradise - Tea Vendor at Market (uncredited)
1953 Terror on a Train - Mr. Hancock (uncredited)
1953 The Prodigal Son (TV Movie) - Abner
1952 A Time to Be Born (TV Movie) - Kaspar
1952 The Golden Coach - Ramon (voice, uncredited)
1952 Sister Gold (TV Movie) - Juniper
1952 The Little World of Don Camillo - Don Camillo (voice)
1952 Two Dozen Red Roses (TV Movie) - Bernardo
1951 Never Take No for an Answer - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
1951 Othello - Lodovico (voice, uncredited)
1951 To Live in Peace (TV Movie) - Maso
1950 Operation X - Prince (voice, uncredited)
1950 Prelude to Fame - Giuseppe

1949 The Coventry Nativity Play (TV Movie) - Herod's herald
1949 Give Us This Day - Pietro (uncredited)
1949 The Queen's Maries (TV Movie) - David Rizzio
1949 A Man's House (TV Movie)- Jacob
1949 The Glass Mountain - Gino (voice, uncredited)
1949 Down Our Street (TV Movie) - Pietro
1948 Reunion (TV Movie) - An Italian partisan
1948 Sleeping Car to Trieste - Vincente (voice, uncredited)
1948 Call of the Blood - Gaspare
1947 The Coventry Nativity Play (TV Movie) - Herod's herald
1947 Hamlet Part 2/II (TV Movie) - Rosencrantz
1947 Hamlet Part 2 (TV Movie) - Rosencrantz
1947 Hamlet Part 1/II (TV Movie) - Rosencrantz
1947 Hamlet Part 1 (TV Movie) - Rosencrantz
1947 Edward II (TV Movie) - Herald
1947 Tobias and the Angel (TV Movie) - A bandit
1947 One Fine Day (TV Movie) - Mercury
1946 A Matter of Life and Death - Man on Stairway (uncredited)

1939 The Little Father of the Wilderness (TV Movie) - Native
1938 Runaway Ladies - Boy
1938 The Challenge - Boy (uncredited)
1935 Children of the Fog - Erbert (uncredited)
1935 Emil and the Detectives - Professor (as Bobby Rietti)
1935 In Town Tonight - Boy
1934 The Scarlet Pimpernel - Boy (uncredited)
1934 The Doctor's Secret - Horace
1934 Power - Boy (uncredited)
1934 Wishes (Short) - Boy (uncredited)
1934 My Song Goes Round the World
1934 Girls Will Be Boys - Boy (uncredited)
1934 The Private Life of Don Juan - Boy (uncredited)
1934 I Spy - Boy
1933 Facing the Music - Page Boy (uncredited)
1933 Spy 77 - Little Boy (uncredited)
1933 Happy - Bellhop (scenes deleted)
1933 The Charming Deceiver - Fattorino the Page Boy (uncredited)

Miscellaneous Crew (28 credits)

1990-1992 Coup de foudre (TV Series) (dialogue director - 3 episodes)
- Rendez-vous à Lisbonne (1992) ... (dialogue director)
- Retour (1991) ... (dialogue director)
- Adolphe et les menteuses (1990) ... (dialogue director)
1991 Inspiration (Short) (dialogue director)
1990 A Ilha (Short) (dialogue director)
1990 Carnaval (Short) (dialogue director)
1990 Pas de deux (Short) (dialogue director)
1990 Puerto Verde (Short) (dialogue director)
1990 Ransom (Short) (dialogue director)
1990 Sleeping Beauty (dialogue director: English version)

1989 Cinderella (TV Movie) (dialogue director: English version - uncredited in German version, uncredited)
1988 Quicker Than the Eye (dialogue director)
1987 The Inquiry (dialogue director)
1982 I Remember Nelson (TV Series) (italian advisor - 1 episode)
- Passion (1982) ... (italian advisor)

1979 Beyond the Reef (dialogue director)
1979 Meetings with Remarkable Men (dialogue supervisor)
1976 The Tenant (dialogue director)
1976 The Blue Bird (dialogue coach)
1974 Ten Little Indians (voice dubbing - uncredited)
1974 The Night Porter (voice dubbing - english version, uncredited)
1973 Fury (dialogue director)
1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days (voice dubbing - English version, uncredited)
1970/I Waterloo (adr director - uncredited)
1970 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (dialogue director: English version)

1969 The Red Tent (voice dubbing - English version, uncredited)
1968 Barbarella (voice dubbing: Marcel Marceau - English version, uncredited)
1968 Danger: Diabolik (voice dubbing - English version, uncredited)
1967 Bonditis (dialogue director)

1956 War and Peace (voice dubbing: Jerry Riggio - English version, uncredited)
1955 Land of the Pharaohs (voice dubbing: Alexis Minotis - uncredited)

Sound department (18 credits)

2001 Shaka Zulu: The Citadel (TV Movie) (adr supervisor - as Robert Rietti)
2001 The Knights of the Quest (dubbing director: English version - as Robert Rietti)

1998 The Sands of Time (TV Movie) (re-recording director - as Roberto Rietti)
1997 The Wax Mask (director of dialogue recording)
1994 Royal Deceit (adr coach)

1989 Eversmile, New Jersey (additional dialogue recording director)
1989 Torrents of Spring (recording director - as Robert Rietti)
1988 The Spider Labyrinth (adr & dialogue director)
1987 Opera (adr director)
1987 Farewell Moscow (english dialogue director)
1985 The Berlin Affair (looping supervisor - as Robert Rietti)
1985 Macaroni (adr supervisor)
1985 Christopher Columbus (TV Mini-Series) (dialogue editor - 4 episodes)
1984 Once Upon a Time in America (dubbing editor)

1979 Tess (post-synchronization - as Robert Rietti)
1976 The Memory of Justice (Documentary) (synch sound - as Robert Rietti)
1976 The Devil's Men (post synchronization)
1974 The Night Porter (post synchronisation director)

Writer (11 credits)

1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- The Rules of the Game (1965) ... (adaptation)
1962 Drama 61-67 (TV Series) (translation - 1 episode)
- Drama '62: The Pinedus Affair (1962) ... (translation)
1962 Playdate (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- The Pinedus Affair (1962) ... (adaptation)
1958-1961 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) (adaptation - 3 episodes)
- Duel for Love (1961) ... (adaptation)
- Strange Meeting (1959) ... (adaptation)
- A Gust of Wind (1958) ... (adaptation)
1960 The Poet (TV Short) (english version)
1960 Limes from Sicily (TV Short) (translated by)

1958 Women in Love (TV Movie) (script)
1957 Encounter (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- The Sacred Scales (1957) ... (adaptation)
1957 Romantic Chapter (TV Movie) (english version)
1956 Folio (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- Dawn, Day, and Night (1956) ... (adaptation)
1954 If It's a Rose (TV Movie) (translated by)

Self (7 credits)

Archive footage (2 credits)

RichardTheBruce

April 4th

1921: Peter Burton is born--Bromley, Kent, England.
(He dies 27 November 1989--Chelsea, London, England.)

Peter Burton

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

Peter Ray Burton (4 April 1921 – 21 November 1989) was an English film and television actor.

Early life
Peter Ray Burton, was born in Bromley, Kent, to Frederick Ray Burton and Gladys Maude (née Frazer).

Career

He is perhaps best known for playing Major Boothroyd in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). Burton made two uncredited reappearances in Bond films, first as an RAF officer in Thunderball (1965) and later as a secret agent in the satirical Casino Royale.

In The Scarlet and the Black, the 1983 made-for-television docudrama concerning British, Irish, and U.S. counterintelligence agents working to rescue c. 4,000 Allied prisoners-of-war from Nazi deportation, Burton played the role of English aristocrat and British diplomat D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, the 12th (and last) Duke of Leeds.

Burton guest starred in a number of television shows, including The Avengers, The Saint, Return of the Saint and UFO.

Peter Burton (I) (1921–1989)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078252/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (68 credits)
1990 Number One Gun - Merlin
1990 Press Gang (TV Series) - Mr. Campbell
- At Last a Dragon (1990) ... Mr. Campbell

1987 One by One (TV Series) - Golf Club Secretary
- Remember the Humble Guinea-Pig (1987) ... Golf Club Secretary
1986 C.A.T.S. Eyes (TV Series) - Doctor
- Passage Hawk (1986) ... Doctor
1985 The Doctor and the Devils - Customer
1983 The Jigsaw Man - Douglas Ransom
1983 The Nation's Health (TV Series) - David Marvill
- Collapse (1983) ... David Marvill
1983 The Scarlet and the Black (TV Movie) - Sir D'Arcy Osborne
1981 Inchon - Adm. Sherman
1980 Richard's Things - Colonel
1980 The Professionals (TV Series) - Conroy
- Involvement (1980) ... Conroy

1979 The Bitch - Hotel Night Manager
1978 Return of the Saint (TV Series) - Dr. Evans
- The Arrangement (1978) ... Dr. Evans
1978 Out (TV Series) - Card Player
- Not Just Pennies (1978) ... Card Player
1978 Leopard in the Snow - Mr. Framley
1972 Lovebox - Charles Lambert (Charles and Margery) (as Peter Burdon)
1971 A Clockwork Orange - Junior Minister - Minister Frederick's Aid
1971 Carry On at Your Convenience - Hotel Manager
1970-1971 UFO (TV Series) - Dr. Murray / Perry
- Computer Affair (1971) ... Dr. Murray
- Ordeal (1971) ... Perry
- Close Up (1970) ... Dr. Murray (uncredited)
1971 All the Right Noises - Stage Manager
1971 Brett (TV Series) - Boone
- Investment - Long Term (1971) ... Boone
1970 Hell Boats - Admiral's Aide

1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun - Medical Technician (uncredited)
1968 Amsterdam Affair - Herman Ketelboer
1967 Berserk - Gustavo
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Anderson
- The Sitting Pigeon (1967) ... Anderson
1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Claude Molliere
- The Gadget Lovers (1967) ... Claude Molliere
1966 Judith - Conklin
1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - Fleming
- Small Game for Big Hunters (1966) ... Fleming
1965 Thunderball - RAF Officer in Car (uncredited)
1963 That Kind of Girl - Elliot Collier
1963 The Swingin' Maiden - Thompson's Salesman
1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Sheik in Arab Council (uncredited)
1962 Dr. No - Major Boothroyd
1962 The Six Proud Walkers (TV Series) - Det. Supt. Arrowsmith
- All in the Family (1962) ... Det. Supt. Arrowsmith
1961 The Pursuers (TV Series) - Paul De Bois
- Breakout (1961) ... Paul De Bois
1961 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Sir Ben Cheviot
- Flight 447 Delayed (1961) ... Sir Ben Cheviot
1961 Roommates - 1st Viola
1961 Knight Errant Limited (TV Series) - John Barry
- Tall, Dark Stranger (1961) ... John Barry
1960 On Trial (TV Series) - Henry Matthews QC
- W.T. Stead (1960) ... Henry Matthews QC
1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - The Commodore
- The Patchwork Quilt (1960) ... The Commodore
1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Art Expert
- The Girl with Grey Hair (1960) ... Art Expert (uncredited)
1960 Sink the Bismarck ! - Captain - HMS Solent - First Destroyer

1959 Make Mine a Double - 2nd Pilot
1958 White Hunter (TV Series) - Chauvet
- The Girl Hunt (1958) ... Chauvet
1958 A Night to Remember - 1st Class Steward (uncredited)
1958 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Spanish Major
- Operation Eel (1958) ... Spanish Major
1957 The Betrayal - Tony Adams
1957 Five on a Treasure Island - Quentin Kirrin
1957 Hour of Mystery (TV Series) - Walter Hartright
- The Woman in White (1957) ... Walter Hartright
1956 Child in the House - Howard Forbes (uncredited)
1956 Reach for the Sky - Peter / Coltishall Officer (uncredited)
1956 The Third Key - Creasey
1956 Spin a Dark Web - Inspector Collis
1956 Johnny You're Wanted
1955 Value for Money - Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
1955 Three Cases of Murder - Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs (segment "Lord Mountdrago") (uncredited)
1954 The Green Scarf - Purser
1954 The Gentle Falcon (TV Series) - 2nd Messenger / 1st Courtier
- Home at Last (1954)
- The Cry of the Falcon (1954)
- Farewell Richard (1954) ... 2nd Messenger
- A Strange Tournament (1954) ... 1st Courtier
1954 They Who Dare - Marine Barrett
1953 The Heart of the Matter - Perrot (uncredited)
1953 Paratrooper - Minor Role (uncredited)
1952 The Stolen Plans - Dr. Foster
1952 The Frightened Bride - Graham Moore
1950 The Wooden Horse - Nigel
1950 What the Butler Saw - Bill Fenton
1950 They Were Not Divided - Minor Role (uncredited)
1950 Family Affairs (TV Series) - Captain Heddle
- Ah! The Peace of It All (1950) ... Captain Heddle

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1979 The Bitch (dialogue coach)

1928: Monty Noserovitch (Monty Norman) is born--London, England.
(He dies 11 July 2022 at age 94--United Kingdom.)

Monty Norman

See the complete article here:

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

Monty Norman
Birth name - Monty Noserovitch
Born 4 April 1928
London, England
Died 11 July 2022 (aged 94)
Genres Film scores
Occupation(s) - Composer; Conductor; Music producer
Instruments - Keyboards, Guitar
Years active 1958–2022

Monty Norman (born Monty Noserovitch; 4 April 1928 – 11 July 2022) was an English film composer and singer best known for composing the "James Bond Theme".

Biography
Norman was born Monty Noserovitch in Stepney in the East End of London, the only child of Jewish parents, Annie (née Berlin) and Abraham Noserovitch, on the second night of Passover in 1928. When Norman's father was young, he travelled from Latvia to England with his mother (Norman's grandmother).

As a child during World War II, Norman was evacuated from London but later returned during the Blitz. As a young man he did national service in the RAF, where he became interested in pursuing a career in singing.

In the 1950s and early 1960s, Norman was a singer for big bands such as those of Cyril Stapleton, Stanley Black, Ted Heath, and Nat Temple. He also sang in various variety shows, sharing top billing with other singers and comedy stars such as Benny Hill, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, Harry Worth, Tommy Cooper, Jimmy James, Tony Hancock, Jimmy Edwards, and Max Miller. One of his songs, "False Hearted Lover", was successful internationally.

From the late 1950s, he moved from singing to composing, including songs for performers such as Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele, Count Basie, and Bob Hope, and lyrics for musicals and (subsequently) films. In 1957 and 1958, he wrote lyrics for the musicals Make Me an Offer, the English-language version of Irma la Douce (based on a 1956 French musical written by Alexandre Breffort and Marguerite Monnot; the English version was nominated for a Broadway Tony Award), and Expresso Bongo (which Time Out called the first rock and roll musical). Expresso Bongo, written by Wolf Mankowitz was a West End hit and was later made into a 1960 film starring a young Cliff Richard). Norman's later musicals include Songbook (aka The Moony Shapiro Songbook in New York), which was also nominated for a Broadway Tony and won an Ivor Novello Award; and Poppy (1982), which was also nominated for the Ivor Novello Award, and won the SWET award (renamed "the Laurence Olivier Awards" in 1984) for "Best Musical". Norman's further film work included music for the Hammer movie The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), the Bob Hope Eon Productions movie Call Me Bwana (1963), and the TV miniseries Dickens of London (1976).

As of 2004, Norman was working on an autobiography, to be entitled A Walking Stick Full of Bagels, and musical versions of the 1954 Kingsley Amis novel Lucky Jim and his 1970s musical, Quick Quick Slow. [clarification needed]

Norman was the first husband of actress Diana Coupland. He died on 11 July 2022, at the age of 94.

James Bond Theme
Norman is best known for writing the "James Bond Theme", the signature theme of the James Bond franchise, and the score to the first James Bond film, Dr. No. Norman received royalties for the theme from 1962 on. However, as the producers were dissatisfied with Norman's arrangement, John Barry re-arranged the theme. Barry later claimed that it was actually he who wrote the theme, but Norman won two[citation needed] libel actions against publishers for claiming that Barry was the composer, the last against The Sunday Times in 2001. In the made-for-DVD documentary Inside Dr. No, Norman performs a music piece which he wrote for an unproduced stage musical based on A House for Mr. Biswas several years earlier, entitled "Bad Sign, Good Sign", that he claimed resembles the melody of the "James Bond Theme" in several places. Also of note, the "James Bond Theme" introduction is very similar to a portion of Celia Cruz's Plegaria a La Roye as recorded in Cuba with La Sonora Matancera in 1954.

Norman collected around £485,000 in royalties between 1976 and 1999 for the use of the theme since Dr. No.

Musicals
Make Me an Offer (1958)
Expresso Bongo (1958)
Irma La Douce (1958)
The Art of Living (revue, 1960)
Belle or the Ballad of Dr. Crippen (1961)
The Perils of Scobie Prilt (1963)
Pinkus (1967)
Quick, Quick, Slow (1969)
Stand and Deliver (1972)
So Who Needs Marriage? (1975)
Songbook (1979)
Poppy (1982)
Pinocchio (1988)

References
Green, Alex (11 July 2022). "Bond theme composer Monty Norman dies aged 94". Belfast Telegraph. Press Association. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
"Bond theme composer Monty Norman dies at 94". BBC News. 11 July 2022. Retrieved 11 July 2022.
"The John Barry Resource Monty Norman's "James Bond Theme" Lawsuit". Retrieved 7 May 2008.
Monty Norman v. The Sunday Times (The "James Bond Theme" Lawsuit)

Monty Norman (1928–2022)

Music Department | Composer | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0635578/

Good Sign, Bad Sign - Monty Norman (5:53)

1958: The Spectator prints an article by Ian Fleming called "Automobilia" about his Ford Thunderbird, friend Noël Coward, and driving around Jamaica.

Automobilia

By IAN FLEMING
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/4th-april-1958/8/automobilia

DIG that T-bird!' I had cut it a bit fine round Queen Victoria's skirts and my wing mirror had almost dashed the Leica from the GI's hand. If the tourists don't snap the Queen, at about 10 a.m. on most mornings they can at least get a picture of me and my Ford Thunderbird with Buckingham Palace in the background.

I suspect that all motorists are vain about their cars. I certainly am, and have been ever since the khaki Standard with the enamelled Union Jack on its nose which founded my &uric in the Twenties. Today the chorus of `Smashing!; 'Cor !' and 'Rraauu !' which greets my passage is the perfume of Araby.

One man who is even more childishly vain than myself is Noel Coward. Last year, in Jamaica, he took delivery of a sky-blue Chevrolet Belair Convertible which he immediately drove round to show off to me. We went for a long ride to Outer la bourgeoisie. Our passage along the coast road was as triumphal as, a year before, Princess Margaret's had been. As , we swept through a tiny village, a Negro lounger, galvanised by the glorious vision, threw his hands up to heaven and cried, `Cheesus-Kerist!'

'How did he know?' said Coward.

Our pride was to have a fall. We stopped for petrol.

'Fill her up,' said Coward.

There was a prolonged pause, followed by some quiet tinkering and jabbering from behind the car. 'What's going on, Coley?'

`They can't find the hole,' said Leslie Cole from the rear seat.

Coley got out. There was more and louder argumentation. A crowd gathered. I got out and, while Coward stared loftily, patiently at the sky, went over the car front and back with a tooth- comb. There was no hole. I told Coward so.

`Don't be silly, dear boy. The Americans are very clever at making motor-cars. They wouldn't forget a thing like that. In fact, they probably started with the hole and then built the car round it.'

`Come and look for yourself.'

`I wouldn't think of demeaning myself before the natives.'

'Well, have you got an instruction book?'

'How should I know? Don't ask silly questions.' The crowd gazed earnestly at us, trying to fathom whether we were ignorant or playing some white man's game. I found the trick catch of the glove compartment and took out the instruction book. The secret was on the last page. You had to unscrew the stop-light. The filler cap was behind it.

`Anyone could have told you that,' commented Coward airily.

I looked at him coldly. 'It's interesting,' I said. `When you sweat with embarrassment the sweat runs down your face and drops off your first chin on to your second.'

'Don't be childish.'

I am not only vain about my Thunderbird, but proud of it. It is by far the best car I have ever possessed, although, on looking back through my motley stud book, I admit that there is no string of Bentleys and Jaguars and Aston Martins with which to compare it.

After the khaki Standard, I went to a khaki Morris Oxford which was demolished between Munich and Kufstein. I had passed a notice saying 'Achtung Rollbahn!' and was keeping my eyes peeled for a steamroller when, just before I crossed a small bridge over a stream, I heard a yell in my ear and had time to see a terrified peasant leap off a gravity-propelled trolley laden with cement blocks when it hit broadside and hurled the car, with me in it, upside down into the stream.

I changed to the worst car I have ever had, a 16/80 open Lagonda. I fell in love with the whine of its gears and its outside brake. But it would barely do seventy, which made me ashamed of its sporty appearance.

I transferred to a supercharged Graham Paige Convertible Coupe, an excellent car which I stupidly gave to the ambulance service when war broke out.

Half-way through the war I had, for a time, a battered but handy little Opel. One night at the height of the blitz I was dining with Sefton Delmer in his, top-floor flat in Lincoln's Inn. A direct hit blew out the lower three floors and left us swilling champagne and waiting for the top floor to fall into the chasm. The fireman who finally hauled us out and down his ladder was so indignant at our tipsy insouciance that I made him a present of the crumpled remains of the Opel.

After the war I had an umpteenth-hand beetle-shaped Renault and a pre-war Hillman Minx before buying my first expensive car—a 21-litre Riley, which ran well for a year before developing really expensive troubles for which I only obtained some compensation through a personal appeal to Lord Nuffield.

I transferred to one of the first of the Sapphires, a fast, comfortable car, but one which made me feel too elderly when it was going slowly and too nervous when it was going fast. I decided to revert to an open car and, on the advice of a friend, bought a Daimler Convertible. Very soon I couldn't stand the ugliness of its rump and, when the winter came and I found the engine ran so coolly that the heater wouldn't heat, I got fed up with post-war English cars.

* It was then that a fairly handsome ship came home and I decided to buy myself a luxurious present. I first toyed with the idea of a Lancia Gran Turismo, a really beautiful piece of machinery, but it was small and rather' too busy—like driving an angry washing machine—and it cost over £3,000, which seemed ridiculous. I happened to see a Thunderbird in the street and fell head over heels in love. I rang up Lincoln's. Apparently there was no difficulty in buying any make of American car out of the small import quota which we accept in part exchange for our big motor-car exports to the States. The salesman brought along a fire-engine-red model with white upholstery which I drove nervously round Battersea Park.

I dickered and wavered. Why not a Mercedes? But they are still more expensive and selfish and the highly desirable SL has only room beside the driver for a diminutive blonde with a sponge bag. Moreover, when you open those bat-like doors in the rain, the rain pours straight into the car.

I paid £3,000 for a Thunderbird. Black, with conventional gear change plus overdrive, and as 'few power assists as possible. In due course it appeared. My wife was indignant. The car was hideous. There was no room for taking people to the station (a point I found greatly in its favour) and, anyway, why hadn't I bought her a mink coat? To this day she hasn't relented. She has invented a new disease called 'Thunderbird neck' which she complains she gets in the passenger seat. The truth is that she has a prejudice against all American artefacts and, indeed, against artefacts of any kind. She herself drives like Evelyn Waugh's Lady Metroland, using the pavement as if it were part of the road. Like many women, she prides herself on her 'quick reactions' and is constantly twitting Me with my sluggish consideration for others in traffic. She is unmoved when I remind her that in her previous car, a grey and heavily scarred Sunbeam Talbot whose interior always looked as it it had just been used as dustcart for the circus at Olympia, she had been guilty of misdemeanours which would have landed any man in jail. She once hit an old man in a motorised bathchair so hard in the rear that he was propelled right across Oxford Street against the traffic lights. Turning into Dover Street, she had cut a milk cart so fine that she had left her onside door-handle embedded in the rump of the horse. Unfortunately, she is unmoved by these Memories, having that most valuable of all feminine attributes—the ability to see her vices as virtues.

I have now had my Thunderbird for over two Years. It has done 27,000 miles without a single Mechanical failure, without developing a squeak or a rattle. Its paintwork is immaculate and there Is not a spot of discoloration anywhere on its rather over-lavish chrome, despite the fact that it Is never garaged at night and gets a wash only twice a week. I have it serviced every quarter, but this is only a matter of the usual oil-changing, etc. The only time it ever stopped in traffic was carefully planned to give me a short, sharp reminder that, like other fine pieces of machinery, it has a temperament.

The occasion was, for the car's purposes, well chosen—exactly half-way under the Thames in the Blackwall Tunnel, with lorries howling by nose to tail a few inches away in the gloom, and with a giant petrol tanker snoring impatiently down my neck. The din was so terrific that I hadn't even noticed that the engine had stopped when the traffic in front moved on after a halt. It was only then that I noticed the rev. counter at zero. I ground feverishly at the starter with- out result. The perspiration poured down my face at the thought of the ghastly walk I would have to take through the tunnel to get the breakdown Van and pay the £5 fine. Then, having reminded Me never again to take its services for granted, the engine stuttered and fired and we got going.

The reason why I particularly like the Thunderbird, apart from the beauty of its line and the drama of its snarling mouth and the giant, flaring nostril of its air-intake, is that everything works. Absolutely nothing goes wrong. True, it isn't a precision instrument like English sports cars, but that I count a virtue. The mechanical Margin of error in its construction is wider. Everything has a solid feel. The engine—a huge adapted low-revving Mercury V-8 of 5-litre capacity—never gives the impression of stress or strain. When, on occasion, you can do a hundred Without danger of going over the edge of this small island, you have not only the knowledge that you have an extra twenty. m.p.h. in reserve, but the feel of it. As for acceleration, when the two extra barrels of the four-barrel carburetter come in, at around 3,000 revs., it is a real thump in the back. The brakes are good enough for fast driving, but would have to be better if you wanted to drive dangerously. The same applies to the suspension, where rigidity has been sacrificed slightly to give a comfortable ride. Petrol consumption, using overdrive for long runs, averages 17 m.p.g. Water and oil, practically nil.

There is a hard top for the winter which you take off and store during the summer when the soft top is resurrected from its completely disappeared position behind the seat. The soft top can be put up or down without effort and both tops have remained absolutely weatherproof, which, after two years, is miraculous.

One outstanding virtue is that all accessories seem to be infallible, though the speedometer, as with most American cars, is a maddening 10 per cent optimistic. The heater really heats; the wipers, though unfortunately suction-operated, really wipe; and not a fuse has blown nor a lamp bulb died. The engine never overheats and has never failed to start immediately from cold, even after all night outside in a frost. The solidity of the manufacture is, of course, the result of designing cars for a seller's market and for a country with great extremes of heat and cold.

Cyril Connolly once said to me that, if men were honest, they would admit that their motor-cars came next after their women and children in their list of loves. I won't go all the way with him on that, but I do enjoy well-designed and attractively wrapped bits of machinery that really work—and that's what the Thunderbird is, a first-class express carriage.

https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20160109

2006: Casino Royale films the stairwell fight.

2015: A message from Daniel Craig recognizes the 10th evolution of Mine Action Day by the United Nations.

2018: Soon-tek Oh dies at age 85--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 29 June 1933--Mokpo, Republic of Korea.)

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

Short obit from a Korean source.

Pioneering actor Oh Soon-tek is dead at 85
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3046619
Apr 07,2018
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Actor Oh Soon-tek, one of the first Korean actors to be noticed in Hollywood, passed away due to a chronic disease at the age of 85 in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

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

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

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

By Sung Ji-eun

Soon-Tek Oh (1932–2018)

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

Filmography

Actor (116 credits)

2006 Les formidables - Jong-chae
2005 Last Mountain - Karus
2004 Mulan II (Video) - Fa Zhou (voice)
2002 Special Weapons and Tactics (Short) - Sayonara
2002 The Visit (Short) - Sujong's Father
2001 True Blue - Tiger
2001 Forgotten Valor - Colonel
2001 Roads and Bridges - Voice Of Father
1997-2001 Touched by an Angel (TV Series) - Mr. Aramaki / Kim Chyung Kyung
- The Face of God (2001) ... Mr. Aramaki
- Amazing Grace: Part 1 (1997) ... Kim Chyung Kyung
2001 The District (TV Series) - Colonel Nguyen Duc Chin
- New World (2001) ... Colonel Nguyen Duc Chin
2000 The President's Man (TV Movie) - General Vinh Tran
2000 King of the Hill (TV Series) - Monk
- Won't You Pimai Neighbor? (2000) ... Monk (voice)

1999 T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger (Video Game) - Si Fu (Mantis Master) (voice, as Soon Teck Oh)
1998 Seven Days (TV Series) - Dr. Huan Chow Lee
- Sleepers (1998) ... Dr. Huan Chow Lee
1998 Mulan - Fa Zhou (voice)
1997 Stargate SG-1 (TV Series) - Moughal
- Emancipation (1997) ... Moughal
1997 Two (TV Series) - Victor Boun
- Forget Me Not (1997) ... Victor Boun
1997 Yellow - Woon Lee
1997 Promised Land (TV Series) - Kim Chyung Kyung
- Amazing Grace: Part 2 (1997) ... Kim Chyung Kyung
1997 Life with Louie (TV Series short) - Buddhist Monk
- The Thank You Note (1997) ... Buddhist Monk (voice, as Soon Tek-Oh)
1997 Malcolm & Eddie (TV Series) - Man Li
- Hai Karate (1997) ... Man Li
1997 Beverly Hills Ninja - Sensei
1996 The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (TV Series) - General Yala
- Nemesis (1996) ... General Yala (voice, as Soon Teck-Oh)
1996 Street Corner Justice - Kwong Chuck Lee (as Soon Teck Oh)
1996 One West Waikiki (TV Series) - Mr. Kimura
- Battle of the Titans (1996) ... Mr. Kimura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1996 Baywatch Nights (TV Series) - Matsuo Sumaro
- Code of Silence (1996) ... Matsuo Sumaro
1995 Cagney & Lacey: Together Again (TV Movie) - Sunny Kim Play
1994-1995 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV Series) - Bon Bon Hai
- Rite of Passage (1995) ... Bon Bon Hai
- Enter the Tiger (1994) ... Bon Bon Hai
- Sing Wah (1994) ... Bon Bon Hai
1994 S.F.W. - Milt Morris (as Soon Teck Oh)
1994 Red Sun Rising - Yamata
1994 Babylon 5 (TV Series) - The Muta-Do
- TKO (1994) ... The Muta-Do (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1994 Time Trax (TV Series) - Akiri
- Return of the Yakuza (1994) ... Akiri
1993 A Home of Our Own - Mr. Munimura
1993 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Kai Kuan
- A Death in Hong Kong (1993) ... Kai Kuan (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1993 The Legend of Prince Valiant (TV Series) - Sing Lu
- The Ghost (1993) ... Sing Lu (voice)
1992 Highlander (TV Series) - Kiem Sun
- The Road Not Taken (1992) ... Kiem Sun (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1992 Zorro (TV Series) - Hiroshi
- Test of Faith (1992) ... Hiroshi
1991 The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (TV Series) - Xay Tao
- Family Business (1991) ... Xay Tao
1991 Deadly Game (TV Movie) - Saito (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1990 Last Flight Out (TV Movie) - Air Force Major (as Soon-Teck Oh)

1989 Hunter (TV Series) - Nyuen Tran
- Yesterday's Child (1989) ... Nyuen Tran (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1989 Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker (TV Movie) - Dr. Chow (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1989 Tour of Duty (TV Series) - Gen. Lam Thoc
- Doc Hock (1989) ... Gen. Lam Thoc (as Soon-Teck OH)
1989 Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (TV Movie) - Capt. Park (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1989 Collision Course - Kitao
1988 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Mitsuo Nagumo
- Zen and the Art of the Split-Finger Fastball (1988) ... Mitsuo Nagumo (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1988 Soursweet - Red Cudgel
1988 MacGyver (TV Series) - Raymond Ling
- Murderers' Sky (1988) ... Raymond Ling
1988 The Red Spider (TV Movie) - Sonny Wu
1987 Death Wish 4: The Crackdown - Det. Phil Nozaki (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1987 Legend of the White Horse - Tai-Ching
1987 Sky Commanders (TV Series) - Kodiak
- Back in the Fold (1987) ... Kodiak (voice, as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Assault on Raider Stronghold (1987) ... Kodiak (voice, as Soon-Teck Oh)
1987 Steele Justice - Gen. Bon Soong Kwan (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1987 Airwolf (TV Series) - Hayashi
- Ground Zero (1987) ... Hayashi (as Soon Teck Oh)
1986 The A-Team (TV Series) - Byron Chin
- Point of No Return (1986) ... Byron Chin (as Soon Tech-Oh)
1981-1986 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - North Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Hue / Dr. Bill Su / Dr. Ling / ...
- Little Girl Who (1986) ... North Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Hue (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Kiss of the Sabre (1984) ... Dr. Bill Su / Dr. Ling
- Two Birds of a Feather (1983) ... Sato (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Memories Are Forever (1981) ... General Nguyen Hue (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1986 Jonny Quest (TV Series) - Additional Voices (voice)
1985-1986 T.J. Hooker (TV Series) - Ginsu Nabutsu / Nguyen Chi
- Blood Sport (1986) ... Ginsu Nabutsu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Outcall (1985) ... Nguyen Chi (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1986 Dynasty (TV Series) - Kai Liu
- The Rescue (1986) ... Kai Liu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- The Warning (1986) ... Kai Liu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1985 Cagney & Lacey (TV Series) - Doo Koo Kang
- Mothers & Sons (1985) ... Doo Koo Kang (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1985 Hill Street Blues (TV Series) - Pak
- In the Belly of the Bus (1985) ... Pak
- Hacked to Pieces (1985) ... Pak
1985 Missing in Action 2: The Beginning - Colonel Yin (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1984-1985 Airwolf (TV Series) - Minh / Tommy Liu
- The American Dream (1985) ... Minh (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Once a Hero (1984) ... Tommy Liu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1984 Matt Houston (TV Series) - The Warlord
- Escape from Nam: Part 2 (1984) ... The Warlord (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Return to Nam: Part 1 (1984) ... The Warlord
1984 Challenge of the GoBots (TV Series) - Additional Voices (voice)
1984 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Kwon Lu
- Always Say Always (1984) ... Kwon Lu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1984 The Master (TV Series) - Mr. Lika
- Out-of-Time-Step (1984) ... Mr. Lika (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1984 Airwolf (TV Movie) - Vietnamese farmer
1983 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Lang Chen Cheng
- Year of the Dog (1983) ... Lang Chen Cheng (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1983 Girls of the White Orchid (TV Movie) - Hatanaka
1983 The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) - Ernie Shikinami
- Thirty Seconds Over Little Tokyo (1983) ... Ernie Shikinami (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1983 Marco Polo (TV Mini-Series) - Wang Zhu
- Episode #1.7 (1983) ... Wang Zhu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Episode #1.6 (1983) ... Wang Zhu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1982 CBS Children's Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - James Wong
- The Zertigo Diamond Caper (1982) ... James Wong
1982 Romance Theatre (TV Series)
- A Fragile Affair: Part 5 (1982)
- A Fragile Affair: Part 4 (1982)
- A Fragile Affair: Part 3 (1982)
- A Fragile Affair: Part 2 (1982)
- A Fragile Affair: Part 1 (1982)
1982 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Capt. Bob Nishimura
- Sword of Honor, Blade of Death (1982) ... Capt. Bob Nishimura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1982 Tales of the Gold Monkey (TV Series) - Kenji Miura
- Honor Thy Brother (1982) ... Kenji Miura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1975-1982 M*A*S*H (TV Series) - Joon-Sung / Ralph / Dr. Syn Paik / ...
- Foreign Affairs (1982) ... Joon-Sung (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- The Yalu Brick Road (1979) ... Ralph (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- The Korean Surgeon (1976) ... Dr. Syn Paik (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- The Bus (1975) ... Korean Soldier (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Love and Marriage (1975) ... Mr. Kwang (as Soon-Taik Oh)
1982 Bring 'Em Back Alive (TV Series) - Yataki
- The Warlord (1982) ... Yataki
1982 Cassie & Co. (TV Series) - Chiang Chang
- There Went the Bride (1982) ... Chiang Chang
1982 The Letter (TV Movie) - Ong
1981 Trapper John, M.D. (TV Series) - Dr. Wang Wu-Shen
- The Albatross (1981) ... Dr. Wang Wu-Shen
1981 East of Eden (TV Mini-Series) - Lee
- Part Three (1981) ... Lee (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Part Two (1981) ... Lee (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Part One (1981) ... Lee (as Soon-Teck Oh, credit only)
1980-1981 Charlie's Angels (TV Series) - Lt. Torres
- Hula Angels (1981) ... Lt. Torres
- Waikiki Angels (1981) ... Lt. Torres
- Island Angels (1980) ... Lt. Torres
- Angels of the Deep (1980) ... Lt. Torres
1980 The Final Countdown - Simura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1980 Diff'rent Strokes (TV Series) - Mr. Kim
- Return of the Gooch (1980) ... Mr. Kim (as Soon-Teck Oh)

1968-1979 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Robert Kwon / David Chung / Chaing / ...
- Image of Fear (1979) ... Robert Kwon
- The Silk Trap (1978) ... David Chung (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- The Defector (1975) ... Chaing (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- The Jinn Who Clears the Way (1972) ... Tom Wong (as Soon Taik Oh)
- Wednesday, Ladies Free (1971) ... Vic Tanaka (as Soon Taik Oh)
- Sweet Terror (1969) ... Lao (as Soon Taik Oh)
- Face of the Dragon (1969) ... Lewis Shen (as Soon Taik Oh)
- Cocoon (1968) ... Wo Fat's Lab Technician (as Soon Taik Oh)
1979 The Fantastic Seven (TV Movie) - Kenny Uto
1979 How the West Was Won (TV Series) - Kee
- China Girl (1979) ... Kee (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1978 Good Guys Wear Black - Mjr. Mhin Van Thieu - The Black Tigers (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1977 Black Sheep Squadron (TV Series) - Lieutenant Miragochi / Col. Tokura
- Divine Wind (1977) ... Lieutenant Miragochi (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Poor Little Lambs (1977) ... Col. Tokura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1977 Logan's Run (TV Series) - Dexter Kim
- Crypt (1977) ... Dexter Kim (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1977 Enigma (TV Movie) - Mei San Gow
1976 Pacific Overtures (TV Movie) - Tamate / Samurai / Storyteller / ...
1974 Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (TV Movie) - Kang I-Te
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Hip (as Soon-Taik Oh)
1973-1974 Kung Fu (TV Series) - Yi Lien / Chen Yi / Kwan Chen
- The Devil's Champion (1974) ... Yi Lien (as Soon-Taik Oh)
- The Passion of Chen Yi (1974) ... Chen Yi (as Soon Taik Oh)
- Sun and Cloud Shadow (1973) ... Kwan Chen (as Soon-Taik Oh)
1974 Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love (TV Movie) - Mr. Kim (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Sheng
- The Illusion of the Lost Dragon (1974) ... Sheng (as Soon Taik-Oh)
1973 The Return of Charlie Chan (TV Movie) - Stephen Chan (as Soon-Taik Oh)
1973 Search (TV Series) - Interrogator
- Moment of Madness (1973) ... Interrogator (as Soon-Taik Oh)
1971 Earth II (TV Movie) - Chinese diplomat (uncredited)
1971 The Reluctant Heroes (TV Movie) - Korean Officer
1971 Ironside (TV Series) - Kwangsoo Yung
- Joss Sticks and Wedding Bells (1971) ... Kwangsoo Yung (as Soon-Taik Oh)
1971 Night Gallery (TV Series) - Chang
- Death in the Family/The Merciful/Class of '99/Witches' Feast (1971) ... Chang (uncredited)
1971 One More Train to Rob - Yung (as Soon-Taik Oh)
1970 Dan August (TV Series) - Au Chau
- When the Shouting Dies (1970) ... Au Chau (as Soon Taik Oh)
1970 Death Valley Days (TV Series) - Matsunosuke Sakurai
- The Dragon of Gold Hill (1970) ... Matsunosuke Sakurai (as Soon-Taik Oh)
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1969 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Javanese / Servant
- Payoff in the Piazza (1969) ... Javanese (as Soon-Taik Oh)
- Mad in Japan (1969) ... Servant (as Soon Taik Oh)
1967 The President's Analyst - Chinese Agent (uncredited)
1967 The Wild Wild West (TV Series) - Chinese Houseboy
- The Night of the Deadly Blossom (1967) ... Chinese Houseboy (as Soon Taik Oh)
1967 CBS Playhouse (TV Series) - Vietcong Officer
- The Final War of Olly Winter (1967) ... Vietcong Officer
1967 The Invaders (TV Series) - Houseboy
- The Experiment (1967) ... Houseboy (as Soon Taik Oh)
1966 Murderers' Row - Tempura - Japanese Secret Agent (uncredited)
1966 The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV Series) - Takaoshi
- My Island (1966) ... Takaoshi (as Soon Taik Oh)
1966 Mister Roberts (TV Series) - Harry / 1st Japanese - Harry
- Undercover Cook (1966) ... Harry (as Soon Taik Oh)
- Damn the Torpedoes (1966) ... 1st Japanese - Harry
1965 I Spy (TV Series) - Kabuki / Announcer
- Tigers of Heaven (1965) ... Kabuki (as Soon Taik Oh)
- No Exchange on Damaged Merchandise (1965) ... Announcer (as Soon Taik Oh)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1976 Pacific Overtures (TV Movie) (performer: "There Is No Other Way", "Chrysanthemum Tea")

Self (4 credits)

2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Self
2000 Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short) - Self / Hip (as Soon-Taik Oh)

1997 Kung Pao Chicken (Short documentary) - Narrator (voice)

1986 Miss Universe Pageant (TV Special documentary) - Self - Judge

RichardTheBruce

April 5th

1909: Albert Romolo "Cubby" Broccoli is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 27 June 1996--Beverly Hills, California.)

Albert "Cubby" Broccoli

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

Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, the film producer, who has died in Beverly Hills aged 87, was the driving force behind the phenomenally successful James Bond films, 17 of which he either produced or co-produced.

1954: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's second Bond novel Live and Let Die.

LIVE AND LET DIE

In the higher ranges of Secret Service
work the actual acts in many cases were in
every respect equal to the most fantastic
inventions of romance and melodrama.
Tangle within tangle, plot and counter-plot,
ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross,
true agent, false agent, double agent, gold
and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the
firing party, were interwoven in many a
texture so intricate as to be incredible and
yet true. The Chief and the High Officers
of the Secret Service revelled in these subter-
ranean labyrinths, and pursued their task with
cold and silent passion. SIR WINSTON
CHURCHILL in Thoughts and Adventures.

It is in these higher rangers of Secret
Service work that James Bond operates on
the very outside edge of danger, and, in
this story, among hazards no reader will
easily forget.

Ian Fleming's first book, Casino Royale,
an account of the gambling assignment
that nearly cost Bond his life, was described
as 'the best thriller since the war'.

Live and Let Die, a breath-taking hunt
for secret treasure that takes Bond to
Harlem, Florida and Jamaica, is still better.

1955: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's third Bond novel Moonraker.

MOONRAKER
by the author of Casino Royale,
Live and Let Die

It was Monday and a routine day for
James Bond in the quiet office at the
headquarters of the Secret Service.
Idly he ticked off his number--007--on the
charge sheets of the Top Secret files that
had come in over the weekend. He was
bored. Mondays were hell.

Then, suddenly, the red telephone
screamed in the quiet room. 'M. wants
you.' And Bond walked out of his office
and into the assignment that was to put
even his adventures in France (Casino
Royale) and Harlem and Jamaica (Live
and Let Die) in the shade.

And yet what was to happen to him was
to happen out of the clear blue skies of
early summer, here, in England. As it
might have been yesterday. Or, as it
might be, some dreadful tomorrow.

1955: Anthony Horowitz is born--Stanmore, London, England.
1958: Regarding Dr. No, Paul Johnson writes about "Sex, snobbery, and sadism" in the New Statesman.

Sex, snobbery and sadism

https://www.newstatesman.com/society/2007/02/1958-bond-fleming-girl-sex
By Paul Johnson | 5 April 1958

I have just finished what is without a doubt the nastiest book I have ever read. It is a new novel entitled Dr. No and the author is Mr. Ian Fleming. Echoes of Mr Fleming’s fame had reached me before, and I had been repeatedly urged to read his books by literary friends whose judgement I normally respect. When his new novel appeared, therefore, I obtained a copy and started to read. By the time I was a third of the way through, I had to suppress a strong impulse to throw the thing away, and only continued reading because I realised that here was a social phenomenon of some importance.
...

1958: Ian Fleming semi-defends the Bond character in a letter to the Manchester Guardian.

Ian Fleming defends James Bond - from
the archive

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2012/oct/01/ian-fleming-james-bond-1958-archive
The James Bond author writes to the Manchester Guardian in defence of his hero
Lauren Niland | Mon 1 Oct 2012 05.30 EDT

Ian Fleming smoking a cigarette. James Bond had his cigarettes custom made by Morland's,
a habit Fleming claimed was 'less expensive than countless other heroes'
Photograph: Express Newspapers/Getty Images

Fifty years of the James Bond film franchise - the first in the series, Dr No, was released in October 1962 - has meant 50 years of Bond habits ingrained in the public imagination, from how Bond dresses to what he drinks (although his new tipple of Heineken lager in Skyfall, the 23rd installment of the series which is released this year, has caused comment in some corners).

Yet critics of Bond's lifestyle - not least those who see it as an advertising agency's world - have existed for far longer than the life of the films. In 1958 - the year Dr No was published as a novel - Bernard Bergonzi, writing in The Twentieth Century magazine, attacked Ian Fleming's novels for what the Observer called "a diet of unrestricted sadism and satyriasis."

Guardian Bond leader 1958
Published in the Manchester Guardian on 31 March 1958.

The Manchester Guardian published a defence - of sorts - of Fleming's Bond, but their conclusion that "what is more sinister is the cult of luxury for its own sake...these works are symptomatic of a decline in taste" led to the author himself writing to the paper to set the record straight on where Bond's tastes derive from.

In the letter to the Manchester Guardian, (below) published on 5 April 1958, Fleming admits that "to create an illusion of depth I had to fit Bond out with some theatrical props...with distinctive cigarettes...I proceeded to invent a cocktail for Bond (which I sampled some months later and found unpalatable)."

Ian Fleming writes to the Manchester Guardian in defence of Bond.

However, he also argues that the exotic and ostentatious parts of Bond's lifestyle - "the cult of luxury" - proved so popular with his readers, still used to war-time rationing, that he included them for their sake. His own favourite food is scrambled eggs and he claims to smoke "your own, Mancunian, brand of Virginia tobacco." (He has no argument, however, against the case that "sex plays an important part in James Bond's life.")

1963: Agent 007 - mission: drab (Agent 007 - Mission: Killing) released in Denmark.

1965: Norman Wanstall receives the Best Sound Effects Oscar for Goldfinger, presented by Angie Dickenson.

Norman Wanstall

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911232/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Sound department (18 credits)

1985 Romance on the Orient Express (TV Movie) (sound editor)
1983 Never Say Never Again (dubbing editor)

1972 Chelovek s drugoy storony (sound effects)

1967 You Only Live Twice[/b] (dubbing editor)
1966 Fahrenheit 451 (sound)
1966 Road to Saint Tropez (Short) (sound)
1965 Thunderball (dubbing editor)
1965 Coast of Skeletons (dubbing editor)
1965 The Ipcress File (sound editor)
1964 Goldfinger (dubbing editor)
1963 From Russia with Love (dubbing editor)
1963 Call Me Bwana (dubbing editor)
1962 Dr. No (dubbing editor)
1961 Operation Snafu (dubbing editor)

1959 Solomon and Sheba (assistant sound editor - uncredited)
1959 John Paul Jones (assistant sound editor - uncredited)
1958 A Night to Remember (assistant sound editor - uncredited)
1958 Carve Her Name with Pride (assistant sound editor - uncredited)

Editor (10 credits)

1978 The Rise and Fall of Ivor Dickie (Documentary)
1977 Eclipse
1975 Knots (Documentary)
1974 Who?
1972 The Exorcism of Hugh
1972 The Jerusalem File
1970 The Only Way
1970 London Affair

1968 Les bicyclettes de Belsize (Short)
1968 Joanna

Editorial department (7 credits)

1962 Damn the Defiant! (assistant editor - uncredited)
1961 Loss of Innocence (first assistant editor - uncredited)
1960 There Was a Crooked Man (assembly editor)
1960 Sink the Bismarck! (assistant editor - uncredited)

1957 Miracle in Soho (assistant editor - uncredited)
1957 Night Ambush (second assistant editor - uncredited)
1956 Jumping for Joy (second assistant editor - uncredited)

Director (1 credit)

1978 The Rise and Fall of Ivor Dickie (Documentary) (additional sequences)

1983: The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (The Fifteen Years Later Affair) includes George Lazenby as "J.B."

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983 TV Movie)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086191/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
Directed by Ray Austin
Writing Credits
Sam Rolfe ... (developer: original series)
Michael Sloan

Cast

Robert Vaughn ... Napoleon Solo
David McCallum ... Illya Kuryakin
Patrick Macnee ... Sir John Raleigh
Tom Mason ... Benjamin Kowalski
Gayle Hunnicutt ... Andrea Markovitch
Geoffrey Lewis ... Janus
Anthony Zerbe ... Justin Sepheran
Keenan Wynn ... Piers Castillian
Simon Williams ... Nigel Pennington-Smythe
John Harkins ... Alexi Kemp
Jan Tríska ... Vaselievich
Susan Woollen ... Janice Friday
Carolyn Seymour ... Actress
George Lazenby ... J.B.
Judith Chapman ... Z-65
Dick Durock ... Guiedo
Lois De Banzie ... Delquist
Randi Brooks ... The Model
Jack Somack ... The Tailor
Eddie Baker ... Salesman

Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Roger Rinehart ... Card Player in Casino (uncredited)

2017: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond: Black Box #2 (of 6).
Rapha Lobosco, artist. Benjamin Percy, writer.

JAMES BOND #2

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025652202011
Cover A: Dominic Reardon
Cover B: Jason Masters
Cover C: Giovanni Valletta
Writer: Benjamin Percy
Art: Rapha Lobosco
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: April 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 4/5

Black Box Part Two - The Deadly Game
As part of Operation Black Box, James Bond infiltrates the Tokyo underworld and makes a deadly gamble at a Yakuza-controlled casino. All this time 007 is being tailed by a beautiful, mysterious assassin whose mission might be dangerously complicated with his own.

2020: Honor Blackman dies at age 94--Lewes, Sussex, England.
(Born 22 August 1925--Plaistow, London, England.)

Honor Blackman, James Bond’s Pussy
Galore, Dead at 94

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/honor-blackman-bond-girl-dead-979014/

Goldfinger star also appeared in The Avengers and The Upper Hand
By Claire Shaffer

Honor Blackman, the British actress best known for portraying
the James Bond villain Pussy Galore, has died at age 94.
Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/Shutterstock

Honor Blackman, the British actress best known for portraying the James Bond girl Pussy Galore in 1964’s Goldfinger, has died. She was 94.

“It’s with great sadness that we have to announce the death of Honor Blackman, aged 94,” Blackman’s family wrote in a statement to the Guardian. “She died peacefully of natural causes at her home in Lewes, Sussex, surrounded by her family.

“As well as being a much-adored mother and grandmother, Honor was an actor of hugely prolific creative talent,” they added. “With an extraordinary combination of beauty, brains and physical prowess, along with her unique voice and a dedicated work ethic, she achieved an unparalleled iconic status in the world of film and entertainment and with absolute commitment to her craft and total professionalism in all her endeavours she contributed to some of the great films and theatre productions of our times.”

For Goldfinger, in which Blackman’s Pussy Galore helps Auric Goldfinger attempt to rob Fort Knox, Blackman learned judo for the role. The experience helped spur her to co-write the 1966 book Honor Blackman’s Book of Self-Defence, a book that, as NBC News notes, was “among the first books about martial arts aimed at young women.” Goldfinger would go on to become a massive hit, though it would be the only Bond film she would appear in.

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Honor Blackman (1925–2020)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000303/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2021: Simon Paul Adams (Paul Ritter) dies at age 54.
(Born 20 December 1966--Kent, England.)

English actor Paul Ritter dies aged 54

See the complete article here:

https://www.bolnews.com/entertainment/2021/04/english-actor-paul-ritter-dies-aged-54/

Komal Fatima, Web Editor | 07th Apr, 2021

English actor Paul Ritter, who played Eldred Worple in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, has passed away at the age of 54.

Paul Ritter was famous for his role dad Martin Goodman in Channel 4 comedy Friday Night Dinner. His roles in Sky drama Chernobyl and James Bond film Quantum of Solace were also prominent.

Paul Ritter died due to a brain tumor. Friday Night Dinner creator Robert Popper expressed condolences, saying he was “a deeply clever, funny, intelligent, kind man”.

“But he also had that rare thing, he had the common touch, so people could just relate to him,” Popper told an international media source.

Popper talked more about Ritter said: “He was so quiet and focused before he went on, and then as soon as he went on, all that energy just popped out of him. It was amazing.

“I don’t think he ever did anything wrong… he was very professional and he was a lovely guy.”

Ritter’s agent said he was “an exceptionally talented actor playing an enormous variety of roles on stage and screen with extraordinary skill”, describing him as “fiercely intelligent, kind and very funny”.

Big Talk, the producers of Friday Night Dinner, said in a statement, “He was a brilliant, kind and talented man much loved by everyone lucky enough to know and work with him, and Paul will forever be part of both the Big Talk and Friday Night Dinner families.

“Our thoughts are with his own family at this time and following their wishes we will be making a donation to the Old Vic Impact Fund.”

Paul Ritter (I) (1966–2021)

Actor | Soundtrack
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RichardTheBruce

April 6th

1940: Pedro Armendáriz Jr. is born--Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
(He dies 26 December 2011 at age 71--New York City, New York.)

Pedro Armendariz Jr. dies at 71

https://variety.com/2011/film/news/pedro-armendariz-jr-dies-at-71-1118047888/
Character actor, son of Mexican star, appeared in 'Zorro'
By James Young

...

He, like his father, landed a role in a James Bond film — he played the arch President Hector Lopez in “License to Kill” [sic]; his father had played Bond ally Kerim Bey in “From Russia With Love.” They both played revolutionary General Pancho Villa onscreen.

...

Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (1940–2011)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001917/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

Filmography [includes]

1989 Licence to Kill - President Hector Lopez (as Pedro Armendariz)

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

1967: Operación Trueno (Operation Thunder) released in Mexico.

1973: Live and Let Die finishes insert shots and all filming.
1977: Live and Let Die released in Iceland.

2011: Sam Mendes and Barbara Broccoli scout South African locations for Bond 23.
2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #6 VARGR (of 6).
Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

JAMES BOND #6

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181806011
Cover A: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: April 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: April 6

The secret of VARGR is revealed, and it means that Bond has to descend into a nightmare scenario - alone. Just his gun and his skills versus a murderous conspiracy to turn Britain into a testing zone for death drugs. Dynamite Entertainment proudly concludes the debut storyline to the first ongoing James Bond comic book in over 20 years! "Ian Fleming's James Bond is an icon, and it's a delight to tell visual narratives with the original, brutal, damaged Bond of the books." - Warren Ellis

RichardTheBruce

April 7th

1966: Doktor No released in Turkey.

1966: Thunderball released in the Netherlands.

2006: Casino Royale films Bond ordering the Vesper martini.
2007: Barry Nelson (Haakon Robert Nielsen) dies at age 89--Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
(Born 16 April 1917--San Francisco, California.)

Barry Nelson, Broadway and Film Actor, Dies at 86

By STUART LAVIETES | APRIL 14, 2007

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/obituaries/14nelson.html

Barry Nelson, an actor who had a long career in film and television, starred in some of the more durable Broadway comedies of the 1950s and ’60s, and achieved a permanent place in the minds of trivia buffs as the first actor to portray James Bond, died last Saturday, his wife said yesterday. He was 86.

The cause was not immediately known. His wife, Nansi Nelson, said he died while traveling in Bucks County, Pa., The Associated Press reported.
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Barry Nelson (I) (1917–2007)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0625167/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2009: A plaque unveiling renames the Cloisters building as the Broccoli Cloisters, Wokingham.

Benovolent Bond

By Linda Serck

http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2009/04/07/albert_broccoli_cloisters_wing_feature.shtml

Some of the most important people from the James Bond film franchise were in Wokingham on Monday 7 April 2009 to unveil a special plaque. We chat to late Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli's family to find out more.

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2010: Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson with David Pope engage in an international phone conversation to discuss whether the next Bond film production can go forward considering the state of MGM.

2012: Tonia Sotiropoulou reveals she auditioned for the role of Sévérine, and was cast in a supporting role in Skyfall.

THR Cover: How the Bond Franchise Almost Died

After MGM's collapse
threatened to derail 007 for
good, "Skyfall's" $17 million
star Daniel Craig lined up
director Sam Mendes and
villain Javier Bardem -- over
drinks — and delivered the
biggest Bond yet.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bond-franchise-daniel-craigs-skyfall-387238

2017: Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith dies at age 70--Northampton, England.
(Born 13 May 1946--Rugby, Warwickshire, England.)

Tim Pigott-Smith obituary

Stage and screen actor best known for his role in the TV series The Jewel in the Crown
Michael Coveney | Sun 9 Apr 2017 13.34 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/apr/09/tim-pigott-smith-obituary

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Television roles after The Jewel in the Crown included the titular chief constable, John Stafford, in The Chief (1990-93) and the much sleazier chief inspector Frank Vickers in The Vice (2001-03). On film, he showed up in The Remains of the Day (1993); Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday (2002), a harrowing documentary reconstruction of the protest and massacre in Derry in 1972; as Pegasus, head of MI7, in Rowan Atkinson’s Johnny English (2003) and the foreign secretary in the Bond movie Quantum of Solace (2008).

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Tim Pigott-Smith (1946–2017)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0683116/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

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2018: Heritage Auctions' April 7-8 Movie Poster Auction in Dallas, Texas, includes one of Bond's rarest: the Thunderball advance British quad. Plus many other Bond pieces.

https://movieposters.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=54+793+794+791+792+2088&Ntk=SI_Titles&Nty=1&Ntt=bond&ic4=KeywordSearch-A-K-071316

LOT #86419 |
Thunderball (United Artists, 1965).
British Quad (30" X 40") Advance Quad Crown Style, Frank McCarthy and Robert McGinnis
https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/james-bond/thunderball-united-artists-1965-british-quad-30-x-40-advance-quad-crown-style-frank-mccarthy-and-robert-mcginnis-ar/a/7178-86419.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

2020: One-time scheduled date for the No Time To Die World Premiere at Monoco.
2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Agent of SPECTRE #2.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Christos Gage, writer.

JAMES BOND: AGENT OF SPECTRE #2

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513030383702011
Cover A: Sean Phillips
UPC: 725130303837 02011
Writer: Christos Gage
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: April 2021
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 4/7/2021

James Bond is in the USA...but NOT as part of Her Majesty's Secret Service. Shockingly, he's there as an Agent of SPECTRE, sent to eliminate an upstart rival SPECTRE boss at the bidding of Ernest Blofeld himself! The leverage Blofeld has against Bond is a threat to the life of one of the few people in the world Bond can trust... but that friend may have the interests of Bond's target as the higher priority!

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/FEB210719?Prevue=1

RichardTheBruce

April 8th

1931: John Gavin (Juan Vincent Apablasa) is born--Los Angeles, California.
(He dies 9 February 2018 at age 86--Beverly Hills, California.)

John Gavin, Actor in ‘Psycho’
and ‘Spartacus,’ Dies at 86

See the full article here:

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-gavin-dead-dies-psycho-spartacus-1202694312/

By Carmel Dagan | Staff Writer


CREDIT: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock

John Gavin, who reached the pinnacle of his acting career with roles in Douglas Sirk’s “Imitation of Life,” Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” and the epic “Spartacus,” later serving as president of the Screen Actors Guild in the early ’70s and as U.S. ambassador to Mexico under Ronald Reagan, died Friday morning in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 86.

The actor was signed to a contract and almost played James Bond in the film Diamonds Are Forever.

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In the late ’60s he returned to film work, starring in Carlos Velo’s Spanish-language art film “Pedro Paramo,” based on the novel that Susan Sontag called “one of the masterpieces of 20th-century world literature.” Also in 1967 he had a supporting role in the Julie Andrews musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” The following year he starred in Italian-French spy thriller “OSS 117 — Double Agent,” and Gavin had a supporting role in “The Madwoman of Chaillot” (1969), starring Katharine Hepburn.

After the departure of George Lazenby, Gavin was signed to play James Bond in the 1971 film Diamonds Are Forever, but United Artists ultimately decided to make an offer that Sean Connery couldn’t refuse, and he returned to play 007. Gavin’s contract was nevertheless honored in full.

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John Gavin (I) (1931–2018)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001260/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1957: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming’s fifth Bond novel From Russia With Love.

FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE

SMERSH is the Soviet organ of vengeance
-- of interrogation, torture and death --
and James Bond is dedicated to the
destruction of its agents wherever he finds
them.

But, in its turn, the cold eye of SMERSH
focuses on James Bond and far away in
Moscow a trap is laid for him -- a death-
trap with an enticing lure.

Ian Fleming takes us into the head-
quarters of SMERSH. We watch Bond's
assassination being minutely devised. We
meet the executioner. We sit in at the
planning. We inspect the lure.

Then the lever is pulled in Moscow
and in London, Istanbul and Paris the
wheels begin to turn. . . .

Ian Fleming's other Secret Service
thrillers -- Casino Royale, Live and Let Die,
Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever -- may
have made your pulse race.

Be careful of From Russia With Love. Weak nerves
will be shredded by it.

Jacket devised by the author and executed
by Richard Chopping.

The revolver is a Smith & Wesson
Military and Police Model in .38 S. & W.
calibre. Barrel cut to 2-3/4 in., stock modified
and front trigger guard removed to
facilitate use as a close-combat holster
weapon. Also fitted with a 'quick draw'
ramp foresight and adjustable rear sight for
aimed fire. Modified by, and the property
of, Geoffrey Boothroyd.

1964: From Russia With Love has its US premiere in New York City. (That's after the London premiere 10 October 1963/UK release 11 October 1963, and prior to the US general release 27 May 1964.)

1965: Thunderball starts underwater filming of battles at Potter’s Wharf, Nassau.

2017: Ian Fleming Publications releases a 60th anniversary image recognizing From Russia With Love.

2019: Nadja Regin (Nadja Poderegin) dies at age 87--London, England.
(Born 2 December 1931--Niš, Serbia.)

Nadja Regin, Bond Girl in
‘From Russia With Love’ and
‘Goldfinger,’ Dies at 87

By Dave McNary | April 8, 2019 10:14AM PT

See the full article here:

https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/obituary-nadja-regin-james-bond-movies-1203183106/

Sean Connery, Nadja Regin
CREDIT: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

Serbian actress Nadja Regin, who appeared in two early James Bond movies, has died at the age of 87.

The news was announced on the official 007 Twitter account, which said: “We are very sorry to learn that Nadja Regin has passed away at the age of 87. Nadja appeared in two Bond films, From Russia with Love and Goldfinger. Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.”

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Nadja Regin (1931–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716605/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

http://www.007magazine.co.uk/nadja_regin_interview2.htm

2020: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond Vol. 3 #5, includes limited edition hardcover.
Eric Gapstur, artist. Vita Ayala & Danny Lore, writers.

JAMES BOND VOL. 3 #5

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513028697005051
Cover A: Afua Richardson "Virgin" Cover
Writer: Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
Art: Eric Gapstur
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: April 2020
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 4/8/2020

Fakes are everywhere. 007 has no clue who to trust. His training and intuition are all that stand between the shadows and the light.

By VITA AYALA (Morbius, Gamora), DANNY LORE (Queen Of Bad Dreams) and ERICA D'URSO (Captain Marvel).

RichardTheBruce

April 9th

1933: Jean-Paul Belmondo is born--Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

1963: From Russia With Love films Rosa Klebb battling Bond and Tatiana.

1974: The Man With the Golden Gun films in Thailand. Includes: the Cessna 206/Seabee; opening sequence with Scaramanga, Andrea, Nick Nack, and Rodney.

1991: Maurice Binder dies at age 72--London, England. (Born 4 December 1918--New York City, New York.)

Maurice Binder, 73, 007 Film-Title Artist

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/15/obituaries/maurice-binder-73-007-film-title-artist.html
APRIL 15, 1991

Maurice Binder, a graphic arts designer known chiefly for his dazzling title sequences in the James Bond films, died on Tuesday at the University College Hospital in London. He was 73 years old and lived in London.

He died of lung cancer, his brother, Mitchell, said.

Mr. Binder was one of the rare film-title artists to receive rave reviews for his work, which critics said was an essential part of the James Bond success story.

In a review of the 1981 film, "For Your Eyes Only," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times: "And Maurice Binder's opening titles, always one of the fancier features of the Bond movies, are still terrific."

Mr. Binder's unusual witty designs introduced other films including "Indiscreet" in 1958; "The Mouse That Roared," 1959; "The Grass is Greener," 1960; "Repulsion," 1964, and "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," 1971.

He also produced several musicals, and in association with John Quested and Lester Goldsmith, produced the 1979 film "The Passage," starring Anthony Quinn.

Born in New York City, Mr. Binder began his career as assistant art director in Macy's art department.

A resident of London for 27 years, he was honored last year by the National Film Club.

Besides his brother, who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., he is survived by two nieces.

Maurice Binder (1925–1991)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082800/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2013: An article in NewStatesman relates Anthony Burgess' obsession with James Bond.

Anthony Burgess’s 007 obsession

Unbreakable Bond.
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/03/anthony-burgesss-007-obsession
FILM - 9 April 2013
By Andrew Biswell

Ian Fleming and Anthony Burgess might seem an unlikely double act at first glance. It’s hard to imagine Fleming, the suave Old Etonian and veteran of British naval intelligence, having much time for Burgess’s defiantly northern, Catholic, working-class values. Had they met, Fleming may well have agreed with Burgess’s aristocratic pupils at the Malay College in Kuala Kangsar, the “Eton of the east” (where he taught in the 1950s), one of whom later said that Burgess was “not quite a gentleman”. Although Burgess and Fleming shared an agent – the amiable Peter Janson-Smith – there is no evidence to suggest that Fleming ever took the trouble to read A Clockwork Orange or any of Burgess’s other early novels.

Yet Burgess was fascinated by Fleming and in particular by the James Bond novels, which he read with close attention after Terence Young’s film version of Dr No was released in 1962. Burgess’s book collection, now at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, includes a complete run of the Bond novels and short stories, John Pearson’s The Life of Ian Fleming, Christopher Wood’s novelisations of the films and two copies of The James Bond Bedside Companion. Like his friend Kingsley Amis (who wrote the first post-Fleming Bond novel, Colonel Sun, under the pseudonym Robert Markham), Burgess was excited by the potential of the cold war espionage novel to reach a larger readership than his upmarket literary fictions were ever likely to attract.

Writing on the occasion of Bond’s 35th anniversary in 1988, Burgess celebrated the enduring figure of the international agent known for drinking vodka Martinis and “cold lovemaking with other men’s wives”. In his general introduction to the Coronet series of James Bond reprints, Burgess identified Bond as a hero figure who seemed to defy the austerity of post-1945 Britain.

There is an element of self-identification with Fleming on Burgess’s part, since both of them had come to the writing of popular novels in their middle years. Yet Burgess was aware of the growing distance between Fleming’s novels and the series of films that threatened to displace them in the popular imagination. “Bond,” he wrote, “is often compared facially to Hoagy Carmichael, the composer of ‘Stardust’, a song hit of the 1920s, but for very young readers the name ought to be glossed in a footnote. Bond belongs to history and these are historical novels.”

Burgess’s first attempt at a spy thriller came in 1966, with the publication of Tremor of Intent, a kind of parody of the James Bond novels, featuring a British spy whose enormous appetites for food and athletic sexual intercourse cancel each other out. Having spent time with his first wife in Leningrad and having used elements of Russian vocabulary to construct an invented slang for Alex and his “droogs” in A Clockwork Orange, Burgess was well placed to write about what he had seen in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years.

It is clear from Tremor of Intent that Burgess did not share Fleming’s fathomless hatred of Soviet Russia. In From Russia, with Love, for example, Fleming presents his Soviet characters as deformed villains or sinister masturbators. Burgess’s Russians tend to be either inefficiently buffoonish or harmlessly drunk. This was a reflection of his own experience of visiting Russia for the first time in July 1961. He had expected to find an Orwellian dictatorship full of secret police. When a large fight broke out in the street outside the Metropol restaurant at 3am, no police arrived to break it up. “It is my honest opinion that there are no police in Lenin - grad,” Burgess noted shortly afterwards. When he wrote as much in the pages of the Listener, there was a complaint from the Soviet ambassador and he was officially denounced on Radio Moscow.

Tremor of Intent is also a critique of the excessive appetites to be found in Fleming’s books. One of the set pieces in Burgess’s parodic Bond novel is an eating competition between the British spy Hillier and Theodorescu, a sybaritic villain with a suspiciously perfect English accent. Burgess describes the endless courses with relish:

They got through their sweets sourly. Peach mousse with sirop framboise. Cream dessert ring Chantilly with zabaglione sauce. Poires Hélène with cold chocolate sauce. Cold Grand Marnier pudding, strawberry Marlow. Marrons panaché vicomte. “Look,” gasped Hillier, “this sort of thing isn’t my line at all . . . I think I shall be sick.”

Many critics did not notice that Burgess had written an allegory of the seven deadly sins. William Pritchard, who understood the point of Tremor of Intent, wrote in the Partisan Review: “It might be thought odd that a book whose subjects include gluttony satyriasis, covetousness, smacking self-regard and nagging self-disgust turns out to be not just human but humane.”

Determined to appeal to at least some of Fleming’s readers, Burgess told his editor at William Heinemann that he wanted a dust jacket suitable for the espionage genre. The art department duly produced an image of a spy in a white shirt and black tie, holding a gun and apparently being fellated by a naked woman. This provoked the outrage of the state censors in Malta, as Burgess discovered when he moved there and tried to import a copy.

In 1975, Burgess revived some of the characters from Tremor of Intent when he was commissioned by Albert R Broccoli to write a screenplay for The Spy Who Loved Me. Fleming’s original novel was considered unsuitable for adaptation but the title was retained with the aim of building a new story around it. Burgess’s script, which is now at the University of Texas at Austin, is an outrageous medley of sadism, hypnotism, acupuncture and international terrorism.

The plot concerns a private clinic in Switzerland, where small nuclear devices are secretly inserted into the bodies of wealthy patients while they are under anaesthetic, turning them into human bombs. An organisation called Chaos (Consortium for Hastening the Annihilation of Organised Society) plans to detonate one of these devices at the Sydney Opera House while the Queen is in the audience. Bond uses his newly acquired acupuncture skills to perform an emergency operation and defuse the bomb.

Having read Burgess’s script, Broccoli and his associates decided not to put it into production. They probably suspected (quite rightly) that Burgess was not taking the assignment entirely seriously. The only element from Burgess’s script that survived into the 1977 Roger Moore film was the villain’s underwater base. The script credit went to Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum.

That may not be the end of the story, however. When Burgess was in the early stages of negotiating with Broccoli, they agreed that the book rights would remain with Burgess and that he would be free to publish a novelisation of his script. The opportunity is still there for another novelist, with the blessing of the Burgess estate, to write an espionage novel based on the materials that Burgess left behind. Perhaps Sebastian Faulks or William Boyd, who have both written Bond novels of their own, could be persuaded to take up the gauntlet?

Tremor of Intent is published in paperback by Serpent’s Tail (£8.99). Andrew Biswell is the director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Anthony Burgess (I) (1917–1993)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121256/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

2015: In a GQ Magazine feature article Christoph Waltz categorically denies he is playing Blofeld in Spectre.

Christoph Waltz Categorically
Denies He's Playing Blofeld in
SPECTRE

See the complete article here:

https://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04/08/christoph-waltz-categorigally-denies-hes-playing-blofeld-in-spectre

Waltz says no, world says yes.
By Chris Tilly | Posted: 8 Apr 2015 6:22 am
Might Christoph Waltz be toying with us? Like a super-villain’s cat, toying with a mouse? When the cast for new Bond film SPECTRE was announced, he was listed as playing Franz Oberhauser, but there's a school of thought that the character is really Bond’s arch-nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

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RichardTheBruce

April 10th

1929: Max von Sydow is born--Lund, Skåne län, Sweden.
(He dies 8 March 2020: Provence, France.)

Max von Sydow obituary

See the full 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.

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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.

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Max von Sydow (I) (1929–2020)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001884/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

1962: Danjaq signs the agreement giving United Artists Corporation distribution rights to Dr. No.
1964: Time reviews From Russia With Love in "Cinema: Once More Unto the Breach".

Cinema: Once More Unto the Breach

See the complete article here:

http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,875772,00.html

Friday, Apr. 10, 1964 | Follow @TIME

From Russia with Love. Ian Fleming is the late late late show of literature.

Perused at the witching hour, the violent adventures and immoderate amours of James Bond, Agent 007 of the British Secret Service, seem as normal as Ovaltine—and rather more narcotic.

Shown on screen, they are apt to seem absurd. Doctor No [sic], the first of Fleming's novels to be filmed, was shot as a straight thriller, but most spectators took it as a travesty and had a belly laugh. The reaction was not lost on Director Terence Young. From Russia, his second treatment of a Fleming fiction, is an intentional heehaw at whodunits, an uproarious parody that may become a classic of caricature.

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends," the hero (Sean Connery) announces as the story begins. He means, somebody hastens to explain, a breach of Soviet security; a libidinous Russian cipher clerk (Daniela Bianchi), who has somehow heard of Bond's charms, informs the British Secret Service that for one night with him she'll do anything—like turn over the latest Soviet cipher machine. Obviously a trap, but Hero Bond steps into it as casually as he steps into his rep silk undershorts.

The lovers meet in Istanbul. He wears a hand towel, and she is covered by his automatic. "You're beautiful," he mutters. "Some people think my mouth is too big," she pants in reply. "No," he assures her, "it's the right size—for me." Bang! A bomb explodes in the Russian consulate, and in the ensuing confusion Bond and his musky Russki escape with a cipher machine. But the end is not yet. In the next hour or so, 007 is slugged by a phony British agent, bombed by a passing helicopter, pursued by an avalanche of rats, and drop-kicked by a homicidal charlady (Lotte Lenya) with a poisoned dagger planted in the toe of her terribly sensible shoes.

All this is marvelously exciting. Director Young is a master of the form he ridicules, and in almost every episode he hands the audience shocks as well as yocks. But the yocks are more memorable. They result from slight but sly infractions of the thriller formula. A Russian agent, for instance, does not simply escape through a window; no, he escapes through a window in a brick wall painted with a colossal poster portrait of Anita Ekberg, and as he crawls out of the window, he seems to be crawling out of Anita's mouth. Or again, Bond does not simply train a telescope on the Russian consulate and hope he can read somebody's lips; no, he makes his way laboriously into a gallery beneath the joint, runs a submarine periscope up through the walls, and there, at close range, inspects two important Soviet secrets: the heroine's legs.

Sophisticated? Well, not really. But fast, smart, shrewdly directed and capably performed. And though the film will scarcely eradicate the sex and violence that encumber contemporary movies, it may at least persuade producers that sick subjects may be profitably proffered with a healthy laugh.

1975: David Harbour is born--New York City, New York.

1992: Cec Linder dies at age 71--Toronto, Canada.
(Born 10 March 1921--Galicia, Poland.)

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.

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Cec Linder (1921–1992)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511695/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

2012: Michael O'Mara Books publishes Bond On Bond by Roger Moore.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Origin #8.
Ibrahim Moustafa, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

JAMES BOND ORIGIN #8

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244708011
Cover A: Dan Panosian
Cover B: Katie O'Meara
Cover C: Will Sliney
Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover E: Bob Q
Writer: Jeff Parker
Art: Ibrahim Moustafa
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: April 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 4/10/2019

Captured by the Russians, Lieutenant Bond meets the beautiful Oksana, who may be his ticket to safety, or lead to his doom. But it's quite difficult to know ally from foe, when you've been drugged.

The epic World War 2 tale continues from JEFF PARKER (Aquaman, Fantastic Four) and superstar artist IBRAHIM MOUSTAFA (Mother Panic, The Flash)!

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2021: James Bond Lifestyle offers a chance to win a Licence to Kill Quad poster.

https://twitter.com/bond_lifestyle?lang=en

Bond Lifestyle | @Bond_Lifestyle | Apr 5
Bond Lifestyle is giving away a near mint Licence to Kill UK Quad poster,
offered by @propstore_com
- answer the trivia question on the Bond
Lifestyle website before midnight on 10 April 2021 to enter: https://jamesbondlifestyle.com/forms/65-bond-

2021: Philip Hawkins and sound editor Norman Wanstall host and support a live watchalong of You Only Live Twice on Zoom 7PM BST. Request by email.

https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/20288/you-only-live-twice-watch-along-party#latest

You Only Live Twice Watch Along Party!

LivesinthePictures
April 5

Join myself and special guest Norman Wanstall (Oscar Winning Sound Editor) for a live watch along of You Only Live Twice via Zoom on Saturday 10th April at 7:00pm (BST)). To register, simply email: [email protected], along with your full name. Norman will answer your questions throughout the film. Please submit your questions upon registration or any time prior to the event, and as many questions as possible will be put to Norman during the event. You will need to have your own copy of the film to participate in the event, after a brief introduction at 7:00pm everyone will press play on the film simultaneously and the event will begin. We hope you can join us.

Philip Hawkins
Event Coordinator
Lives In The Pictures

You Only Live Twice Commentary Exclusive - Norman Wanstall

RichardTheBruce

April 11th

1960: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's short story collection For Your Eyes Only.

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

The destruction of a Russian hideout at
SHAPE headquarters near Paris; the
planned assassination of a Cuban thug in
America; the tracking of a heroin ring
from Rome to Venice and beyond; sudden
and ghastly death in the Seychelles islands;
and, in between, a story of love and hate
in Bermuda.

These are five episodes in a short span of
tough life--the life of James Bond, agent
number 007 in the Secret Service.

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/007-a-collection-of-books-and-manuscripts-the-property-of-a-gentleman/fleming-chopping-howard-archive-relating-to-the

1981: Alessandra Ambrosio is born--Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
1988: Sean Connery receives the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Untouchables. Earlier in the show he introduces himself with "My name is Connery--Sean Connery."

1994: From the set of Scarlett, Timothy Dalton announces his departure from Bond.

2002: BOND 20 films Jinx emerging from the sea.
2005: John Raymond Brosnan dies at age 57--South Harrow, Harrow, London, England.
(Born 7 October 1947--Perth, Australia.)

John Brosnan
Science-fiction writer and film critic

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-brosnan-489441.html
Saturday 16 April 2005 00:00

John Raymond Brosnan, writer and film critic: born Perth, Western Australia 7 October 1947; died London c11 April 2005.

The writer and film critic John Brosnan was a man of deep friendships, some of which had lasted half a century - the Australian writer John Baxter, with whom Brosnan collaborated on a novel, knew him that long - and he enjoyed a wide range of acquaintances throughout the science-fiction and film subcultures of London.

He wrote seven books on film. The first of these was James Bond in the Cinema (1972). His interest in filmed science fiction culminated in Future Tense: the cinema of science fiction (1978). He wrote most of the film entries for The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1979), edited by Peter Nicholls and John Clute.

As a writer of science fiction and often comically exaggerated horror, Brosnan published at least 23 novels. His collaborations with Leroy Kettle were pseudonymous; the best known of these horror tales is probably Bedlam (1992), the film version of which (Beyond Bedlam) gave Liz Hurley her first main role. More ambitious science-fiction novels, under his own name, included the Sky Lords novels from 1988, and his last published novel, Mothership (2004). He had already completed a draft of the sequel at the time of his death.

Brosnan was born in 1947 in Perth, Western Australia, and became active as an SF fan in the mid 1960s. By 1970 he had moved to London, where he settled for good. Though he was convivial from the start - my own 25-year-old memories of post-launch drinks with him at the Troy Club off the Tottenham Court Road remain warm - the story of his life is essentially one of hard work.

His death was reported on 11 April. Friends had become alarmed at his absence over Easter, and gained access to his flat in South Harrow, where he was found. He had died in his sleep, possibly several days earlier. An autopsy determined that the cause of death was acute pancreatitis. This finding has scotched rumours that he had met with foul play.

It was perhaps to be expected that Brosnan died alone, as he had lived alone for many years. But he was a continual and welcome presence in many lives, a friend to some and companion to many. He was a funny and surprisingly tough-minded writer.

John Clute

2011: Angela Scoular dies at age 65--Maide Vale, London, England. (Born 8 November 1945--London, England.)

Angela Scoular obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/apr/14/angela-scoular-obituary

Wuthering Heights star, Bond girl and Leslie Phillips’s wife
Anthony Hayward | Thu 14 Apr 2011 13.12 EDT
First published on Thu 14 Apr 2011 13.12 EDT

Angela Scoular takes a bath with David Niven’s version of 007
in Casino Royale, 1966 [sic, 1967], the first of her two Bond films.
Photograph: Snap/Rex Features

Angela Scoular, who has died aged 65 after reportedly taking her own life, was known as the wife of the actor Leslie Phillips, but she also had several acting roles of her own that brought her public attention.

She twice played a "Bond girl". First, she took the part of Buttercup, sharing a bath with David Niven as James Bond, in the spoof, "unofficial" release Casino Royale (1966) [sic, 1967]. Then she was the flirtatious farmer's daughter Ruby, bedded by once-only-007 George Lazenby, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), which also featured the former Avenger Diana Rigg and the future New Avenger Joanna Lumley.

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Angela Scoular (1945–2011)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0780029/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases the hardcover James Bond Kill Chain.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN HARDCOVER

Cover: Greg Smallwood
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: April 2018
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 160 pages
ON SALE DATE: 4/11/2018

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

Revelator

I applaud Sean for referring to Bond at the Oscars, but 007 wouldn't be caught dead in a wing-tip collar!

RichardTheBruce

April 12th

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

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

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

Wednesday 12 April, 1944

I. dined. Still we don’t mention Muriel. He’s just back from Scotland and looks better. I am seeing about his rations. Found Muriel used to. He was in a state and I saw he wouldn’t feel like bothering about any mortal thing connected with himself. So I said nothing but took round marmalade, sugar, butter etc. of my own and said I would look after him till he wanted someone else to.

1956: Fleming's fourth novel Diamonds Are Forever is serialized in The Daily Express. Illustrations by Robb.

https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2014/10/diamonds-are-forever-artwork-from-daily.html

1961: A few days after appearing in court over whether Thunderball can be published, Ian Fleming has a heart attack.
1963: From Russia With Love pretitle sequence filmed at Pinewood's own main administration block. [Some refilming and a mustache is required due to the Bond imposter looking a bit too much like Connery.]

1984: Never Say Never Again released in Colombia.
1984: Nunca digas nunca jamás (Never Say Never Again) released in Argentina, Mexico, and Peru.

2006: Casino Royale films Bond losing at cards.

2012: Late by previous standards, Skyfall on-set photos come available.

2013: Michael France dies at age 51--St. Pete Beach, Florida. (Born 4 January 1962-St. Petersburg, Florida.)

Michael France, screenwriter and
Beach Theatre owner, dies

Full article at this lin:

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

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



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

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

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

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

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Michael France (I) (1962–2013)

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

Trivia

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

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

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

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

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

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

Goldeneye James Bond first draft Michael France 007 Pierce
Brosnan

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/goldeneye-james-bond-first-draft-505742184

2018: James Bond in A Convenient Lie (an opera!) begins its 12-14 April run--Centrepoint Theater, Ottawa, Canada.

James Bond in A Convenient Lie

http://www.ottawaseniors.com/events/event/james-bond-in-a-convenient-lie/
A New Opera in English

Presented by Savoy Society of Ottawa in collaboration with Malfi Productions
Centrepointe Studio Theatre
8 p.m. April 12 – April 14, 2018

Lyrics by Kyle McDonald, Music by various composers

Bond, James Bond. An Opera Unlike Any Other
A new opera in pasticcio featuring the “hits of opera”, combined with an original storyline, James Bond: A Convenient Lie offers a never before seen kind of operatic spectacle blending the beautiful and demanding classical style of singing with the fast paced and exciting story of a contemporary film!

Fast, Funny, and full of Fights
Bond, with the help of Audrey, a French actress, and her tech genius brother, Pierre, must confront a bee-keeping eco-terrorist – who calls himself The Naturalist – and his henchmen, Salvatore the Sword, Tiny, and the sultry Miss Bliss, and stop his evil plan to make humanity suffer for its heedless consumption.

RichardTheBruce

April 13th

1937: Edward Fox is born--Chelsea, London, England.

1942: Bill Conti is born--Providence, Rhode Island.

1953: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's first Bond novel Casino Royale.

CASINO ROYALE

The dry riffle of the cards and the soft
whirr of the roulette wheel, the sharp call
of the croupiers and the feverish mutter of
a crowded casino hide the thick voice at
Bond's ear which says, 'I will count up
to ten.'

Anyone who has ever gambled will find
this tense and sometimes horrifying story
of espionage and high gambling irresistible.
So will readers who have never entered a
casino. Connoisseurs of realistic fiction
will particularly note the careful documen-
tation of the Secret Service background,
the chilling portrait of Le Chiffre, the
authentic menace of SMERSH, and the
sensual appeal of the girl in 'soie sauvage'.

Jacket devised by the author.

1962: The New Yorker publishes Ian Fleming's description of his weekend in New York City.

The Talk of the Town

James Bond Comes to New York

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/04/21/bonds-creator
The author Ian Fleming spent a weekend in the city to see his publishers and
"assorted crooks" en route from his Jamaica hideaway to his London home.
By Geoffrey T. Hellman | April 13, 1962

Photograph by Horst Tappe / Hulton Archive / Getty

Ian Fleming, whose nine Secret Service thrillers (Casino Royale, Doctor No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia with Love, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, and Thunderball) have had phenomenal sales in this country and abroad (more than eleven hundred thousand hardcover copies and three and a half million paperbacks), was here for a weekend recently en route from his Jamaica hideaway to his London home, and we caught him on Sunday morning at his hotel, the Pierre, where he amiably stood us a lunch. He ordered a prefatory medium-dry Martini of American vermouth and Beefeater gin, with lemon peel, and so did we.

“I’m here to see my publishers and assorted crooks,” he said. “Not other assorted crooks, mind you. By ‘crooks,’ I don’t mean crooks at all; I mean former Secret Service men. There are one or two of them here, you know.”

“Who?” we asked.

“Oh, men like the boss of James Bond, the operative who’s the chief character in all my books,” said our host. “When I wrote the first one, in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be the blunt instrument. One of the bibles of my youth was Birds of the West Indies, by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, My God, that’s the dullest name I’ve ever heard, so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one. Mrs. Bond once wrote me a letter thanking me for using it.”

Mr. Fleming, a sunburned, tall, curly-haired, blue-eyed man of fifty-three in a dark-blue suit, blue shirt, and blue-dotted bow tie, ordered another Martini, and so did we. “I’ve spent the morning in Central Park,” he said. “I went there to see if I’d get murdered, but I didn’t. The only person who accosted me was a man who asked me how to get out. I love the Park; it was so wonderful to see the brown turning to green. I went to the Wollman skating rink and saw all those enchanting girls skating around, and then I thought, This is the place to meet a spy. What a wonderful place to meet a spy! A spy with a child. A child is the most wonderful cover for a spy, like a dog for a tart. Do tarts here have dogs? I was interested to see that in the bird reservation in the Park there was not a single bird. There are no people there—It’s fenced in, you know, with a sign—but no birds, either. Birds can’t read.”

Mr. Fleming lit a Senior Service cigarette and, in answer to some questions from us, said that he was a Scot, that he had been brought up in a hunting-and-fishing world where you shot or caught your lunch, and that he was a graduate of Eton and Sandhurst. “I shot against West Point,” he said. “When I got my commission, they were mechanizing the Army, and a lot of us decided we didn’t want to be garage hands running those bloody tanks. My poor mamma, in despair, suggested that I try for the diplomatic. My father was killed in the ‘14-‘18 war. Well, I went to the Universities of Geneva and Munich and learned extremely good French and German, but I got fed up with the exams, so in 1929 I joined Reuters as a foreign correspondent and had a hell of a time. Wonderful! I went to Moscow for Reuters. My God, it was fun! It was like a tremendous ball game.”

He ordered a dozen cherrystones and a Miller High Life, and we followed suit. “I like the name ‘High Life,’ ” he said. “That’s why I order it. And American vermouth is the best in the world.”

He added that he had been with Reuters for four years, and we asked what happened next.

“I decided I ought to make some money, and went into the banking and stock-brokerage business—first with Cull & Company and then with Rowe & Pitman,” he said. “Six years altogether, until the war came along. Those financial firms are tremendous clubs, and great fun, but I never could figure out what a sixty-fourth of a point was. We used to spend our whole time throwing telephones at each other. I’m afraid we ragged far too much.”

We inquired about the war, from which, according to the British Who’s Who, Mr. Fleming emerged a naval commander, and he said, “I was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, so I went everywhere.”

We asked what he’d done after the war.

“I joined the editorial board of the London Times,” he said. “I still write articles for it, and I’m a stockholder. And in 1952, when I was in Jamaica, Cyril Connolly asked me to write an article about Jamaica for his magazine, Horizon. It was rather a euphoric piece, about Jamaica as an island for you and me to go to.”

We promised to go, and he said, “How about some domestic Camembert? It’s better here than the French.”

During this and the coffee, he reverted to the non-ornithological James Bond. “I think the reason for his success is that people are lacking in heroes in real life today,” he said. “Heroes are always getting knocked—Philip and Mountbatten are examples of this—and I think people absolutely long for heroes. The thing that’s wrong with the new anticolonialism is that no one has yet found a Negro hero. They’re scratching around with Tshombe, but ... Well, I don’t regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way, and in the end, after giant despair, he wins the girl or the jackpot or whatever it may be. My books have no social significance, except a deleterious one; they’re considered to have too much violence and too much sex. But all history has that. I finished the last one, my tenth James Bond story, in Jamaica the other day; it’s long and tremendously dull. It’s called The Spy Who Loved Me, and it’s written, supposedly, by a girl. I think it’s an absolute miracle that an elderly person like me can go on turning out these books with such zest. It’s really a terrible indictment of my own character—they’re so adolescent. But they’re fun. I think people like them because they’re fun. A couple of years ago, when I was in Washington, and was driving to lunch with a friend of mine, Margaret Leiter, she spotted a young couple coming out of church, and she stopped our cab. ‘You must meet them,’ she said. ‘They’re great fans of yours.’ And she introduced me to Jack and Jackie Kennedy. ‘Not the Ian Fleming!’ they said. What could be more gratifying than that? They asked me to dinner that night, with Joe Alsop and some other characters. I think the President likes my books because he enjoys the combination of physical violence, effort, and winning in the end—like his PT-boat experiences. I think James Bond may be good for him after the dry pack of the day.”

Mr. Fleming is married to a former wife of Lord Rothermere and has a nine-year-old son, Caspar, who is away at boarding school. “He doesn’t read me, but he sells my autographs for seven shillings a time,” his father said. ♦

This article appears in the print edition of the April 21, 1962, issue, with the headline “Bond's Creator.”

1967: Charles K. Feldman's Casino Royale has its world premiere at London's Odeon Leicester Square, two months ahead of Eon's You Only Live Twice. It breaks many opening records.

1973: Live and Let Die films its title sequence on D Stage, Pinewood Studios.

1988: Movieland Wax Museum unveils James Bond in Buena Park, California.

2008: Guy Hamilton receives a Cinema Retro Award at Pinewood Studios' Goldfinger reunion.

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For James Bond fans, Sunday's Goldfinger reunion had the Midas Touch in every regard. Organized by Cinema Retro colmunist Gareth Owen and his partner Andy Boyle of www.bondstars.com, the event gave 120 lucky attendees from around the world the opportunity to celebrate the classic James Bond film in the ultimate fashion. With the exception of Sean Connery, John Barry and Shirley Bassey, virtually every living actor and technician from the film were reunited at London's Pinewood Studios where principal photography had taken place in 1964. Among the attendees: director Guy Hamilton, cast members Shirley Eaton, Tania Mallett, Burt Kwouk, Martin Benson, Margaret Nolan, Caron Gardner, production designer Sir Ken Adam, art director Peter Murton, Peter Lamont (who served as draughtsman on the film), Leslie Bricusse, who co-wrote the lyrics to the smash hit title song, and sound man Norman Wanstall, who won an Oscar for the film. This was literally an all-day event, as the stars arrived at 10:30 AM for autograph sessions that were followed by a tour of the studio led by Cinema Retro co-publisher Dave Worrall. A highlight was the surprise appearance of one of the original Aston Martin DB5's which was on loan for the event from The Louwman Collection in The Netherlands. In the afternoon, everyone gathered at Pinewood's Theatre 7 for a screening of the film in digital format. It was to be an historic occasion: the largest gathering of cast and crew to view the movie since its original premiere. The digital print was simply stunning and it's safe to say that no matter how many times you've seen the film, you haven't truly seen it until you've experienced the flawless digital presentation. At the conclusion of the film, Cinema Retro editor-in-chief Lee Pfeiffer conducted Q&A sessions with Shirley Eaton, Tania Mallett, Burt Kwouk, Leslie Bricusse, Margaret Nolan and Guy Hamilton. At the conclusion of the session, Honor Blackman, who made a surprise appearance at the screening, joined Pfeiffer and Dave Worrall on stage to present Guy Hamilton with the Cinema Retro Lifetime Achievement award in recognition of his remarkable body of work that includes serving as assistant director to Sir Carol Reed on The Third Man and John Huston on The African Queen and his own hit films as director that include Live and Let Die, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man With the Golden Gun, Funeral in Berlin, The Colditz Story and Battle of Britain. A clearly moved Guy Hamilton gave a gracious acceptance speech and relished reliving his memories of Goldfinger with Honor Blackman.

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(L to R) Shirley Eaton, Honor Blackman, Tania Mallett and Margaret Nolan with event
organizers Andy Boyle and Gareth Owen.

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Cinema Retro's Dave Worrall and Lee Pfeiffer (r) with Honor Blackman and Guy Hamilton

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Finally, there was a memorable photo session as Cinema Retro photographer Mark Mawston posed many of the cast and crew members around the Aston Martin DB5. The event finally ended at 7:00 PM, with weary but enthusiastic attendees recognizing they had been part of a day they will not soon forget.

(Tickets for this event sold out in 24 hours. For those who were not able to attend, but who would like a souvenir of the day, there are a limited number of the illustrated collector's programs available for sale.)

2011: Sony announces its partnership with MGM continues--they will co-release BOND 23 (later Skyfall).