On This Day

RichardTheBruce

October 17th

1959: Ivar Bryce is impressed by Fleming's second screen treatment for Thunderball, though he shares criticisms.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

Bryce was likewise impressed, though in a letter dated 17 October made
these criticisms to Fleming: "Be careful not to take Domino off the scene for
too long. Also, is it necessary to bump off poor Felix? You will need him again
you know -- a problem you have already had once. I should like to do Live and
Let Die one day." Bryce also mentioned Ernest Cuneo's positive reaction.
"Although he is worried by all Italian names of Mafia villains, and fears
resentment in Italian minority here, but I cannot go along with that." Nor did
Fleming pay much credence in Cuneo's suggestion that using the Mafia would
infuriate America's Italian population. "Don't agree with Ernie about the Italian
names," Fleming wrote back. "The Mafia is a villainous organisation and if the
Italians don't like it, they ought to suppress it."

In his letter Bryce also referred to a recent news incident of an American
bomber that collided with a tanker plane and crashed. It was carrying two A-
bombs, which did not explode. "Of interest for your script?" Is Bryce
suggesting that this would be a more realistic way of bring the aircraft down,
of getting the villains to orchestrate a mid-air collision that would look to the
authorities like an accident? If it was, it was never followed up in any of the
subsequent scripts.

1962: A review of Dr. No in Variety says "As a screen hero James Bond is clearly here to stay. He will win no Oscars but a heck of a lot of enthusiastic followers."

Original 31 December 1961 review.

Dr. No

https://variety.com/1961/film/reviews/dr-no-1200420202/
December 31, 1961

First screen adventure of Ian Fleming's hardhitting, fearless, imperturbable, girl-loving Secret Service Agent 007, James Bond, is an entertaining piece of tongue-in-cheek action hokum. Sean Connery excellently puts over a cool, fearless, on-the-ball, fictional Secret Service guy. Terence Young directs with a pace which only occasionally lags.

With: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee, Zena Marshall

First screen adventure of Ian Fleming’s hardhitting, fearless, imperturbable, girl-loving Secret Service Agent 007, James Bond, is an entertaining piece of tongue-in-cheek action hokum. Sean Connery excellently puts over a cool, fearless, on-the-ball, fictional Secret Service guy. Terence Young directs with a pace which only occasionally lags.

The hero is exposed to pretty (and sometimes treacherous) gals, a poison tarantula spider, a sinister crook, flame throwers, gunshot, bloodhounds, beating up, near drowning and plenty of other mayhem and malarkey, and comes through it all with good humour, resourcefulness and what have you.

Connery is sent to Jamaica to investigate the murder of a British confidential agent and his secretary. Since both murders happen within three or four minutes of the credit titles the pic gets away to an exhilarating start. He becomes involved with the activities of Dr. No, a sinister Chinese scientist (Joseph Wiseman) who from an island called Crab Key is using a nuclear laboratory to divert off course the rockets being propelled from Cape Canaveral.

Among the dames with whom Connery becomes involved are easy-on-the-eye Ursula Andress, who shares his perilous adventures on Crab Key, and spends most of her time in a bikini; Zena Marshall, as an Oriental charmer who nearly decoys him to doom via her boudoir; and Eunice Gayson, whom he picks up in a gambling club in London and who promises to be the biggest menace of the lot.

Dr. No
UK
Production: Eon/United Artists. Director Terence Young; Producer Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli; Screenplay Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkely Mather; Camera Ted Moore; Editor Peter Hunt; Music Monty Norman; Art Director Ken Adam

Crew: (Color) Available on VHS, DVD. Extract of a review from 1962. Running time: 110 MIN.

With: Sean Connery Ursula Andress Joseph Wiseman Jack Lord Bernard Lee Zena Marshall

1966: You Only Live Twice films OO7 flying Little Nellie.

1983: People Magazine features Sean Connery promoting Never Say Never Again.

After a 12-Year Leave, Sean Connery Is
Back as 007 but Willing to Say Never Again

See the complete article here:

https://people.com/archive/after-a-12-year-leave-sean-connery-is-back-as-007-but-willing-to-say-never-again-vol-20-no-16/

Jesse Birnbaum
October 17, 1983 12:00 PM

His name is Bond. James Bond. And he has a problem: lower back pain and a slight paunch. It’s mid-life crisis for 007. And now—of all times—his superiors want to pluck him form semiretirement for the toupee-raising assignment of saving the world from nuclear holocaust. Dispatched ingloriously to a health clinic, he must work out, lift weights and sweat himself into top spy form. Is he getting older, or better?

This clever, thoroughly ingratiating setup for Never Say Never Again is pointedly ironic: The real high-stakes issue is whether the star, after 12 years in retirement from the high-tech spy biz, can carry the film. His name is Connery. Sean Connery. And he has a problem. At 53, Connery is no longer the slim young Scot who began it all with Dr. No in 1962 and five more through Diamonds Are Forever in 1971. Still, he is back as Bond for one last hurrah.

“I may be 20 years older,” admits Connery, who once aspired to the Mr. Universe title. But, he adds confidently, “The age factor is no crisis.”

Not now, anyway. Onscreen he rides horseback, fights live sharks in scuba gear and mauls all manner of assailants in hand-to-hand combat. In bed (with girlie magazine co-stars Kim Basinger and Barbara Carrera), he proves that if he’s gained a pound or two across his brawny torso, he hasn’t lost a step on his bygone Bonds.

The thing is—it didn’t come easy. Connery trained hard, keeping barbells in his location trailers through the grueling eight-month shoot in England, France and the Bahamas. He did many stunts and most fight scenes himself, he says. Somehow, his short-cropped toupee never budged. “He was fabulous underwater,” says a very impressed Basinger, who also did her own swimming stunts. “You couldn’t tell Sean from the stunt divers.” She says Connery helped production on land as well. “He took things lightly, instead of panicking. He would tell jokes all day.”

Some stunts were no joke. “I dived 50 feet underwater into a sunken wreck,” says Sean. “I hated that; it’s claustrophobic.”

So why do it at all? That Connery has long expressed his boredom with the character he created and helped make into the longest-running major series in movie history is the joke behind the film’s title. Connery will only say that his wife encouraged him to do it. Other reasons might be the lack of success of his last films (Wrong Is Right, Five Days One Summer).

But pride is also at stake. Connery’s disenchantment with the series began when his character began to give way to gimmickry and gags. But Roger Moore’s six flashy Bonds have been huge hits anyway, eclipsing the memory of Connery in some quarters. Never’s producer Jack Schwartzman thinks audiences might want to see a 007 who is “not a cardboard figure.”

Connery won’t compare himself to Moore, 55, a longtime pal. But some criticism does slip in. “I think the trap with Roger’s way is that one is a bit overwhelmed with the hardware,” says Connery. “You get the feeling they dream up the stunt first, then write the story around it. I try for a more realistic, credible film, within the realm of possibility.”

To keep his life the same way, Connery and his second wife, Micheline Roquebrune, 48, a French artist he married in 1975, shuttle in tax exile between a villa in Marbella, on Spain’s southern coast, and a home in the Bahamas, where he golfs (eight handicap) and plays tennis. British tax laws make it impossible to spend more than 90 days a year in his homeland without going broke. His proudest investment may well be son Jason, 20, by his first wife, actress Diane (Tom Jones) Cilento. The lad made his film debut in Lords of Discipline this year. Though Connery’s own truckdriver father is deceased and his mother bedridden, Sean is atypically emotional about home and hearth. His suntanned arms are emblazoned with two tattoos: One says, “Scotland Forever,” the other, “Mum and Dad.”

Still, coming home to Bond is another matter. For Connery, Never Say Never Again is a movie title, not a promise. “Why do it again,” he says. “I’m too old.”

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 24 of 65 - "The Sword of Power."

James Bond Jr - The Sword of Power

Season 1 - Episode 24
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807125/

James Bond Jr - Episode 24 - The Sword of Power

2004: Julius Harris dies at age 81--Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
(Born 17 August 1923--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)

Julius Harris, 81; Broke Stereotypes of Movie Roles for Black Actors

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-oct-22-me-harris22-story.html

By Dennis McLellan, Times Staff Writer
Oct. 22, 2004

Julius Harris, the deep-voiced stage and screen actor who played the villainous Tee Hee in the James Bond film Live and Let Die and Ugandan President Idi Amin in the TV movie “Victory at Entebbe,” has died. He was 81.

Harris, a former member of the Negro Ensemble Company in New York City, died of heart failure Sunday at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills.

In an acting career that spanned four decades, Harris appeared in more than 70 film and television productions.

He played such diverse roles as a preacher who headed a slave group in the 1982 Civil War miniseries “The Blue and the Gray” and a gangster in the 1972 blaxploitation film classic “Superfly.”

“Even today, if I am walking in a black neighborhood, people call me by my ‘Superfly’ name -- Scatter,” Harris told The Times last October before being honored with a tribute by the Next Generation Council of the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Legacy Film Series at the Directors Guild of America Theatre.

“His work helped African Americans break out of stereotypical movie roles and be seen as dynamic heroes and fully realized human beings,” actress Halle Berry said in a taped introduction to Harris’ film work.

A Philadelphia native whose mother was a Cotton Club dancer and whose father was a musician, Harris served as an Army medic during World War II. After leaving the service in 1950, he found work as an orderly and eventually became a nurse before moving to New York City.

As a regular at a Greenwich Village bar, he became friends with James Earl Jones, Yaphet Kotto, Al Freeman, Louis Gossett Jr. and other actors, whom he teased for being out of work.

“I would say to them, ‘You bums. You are always broke. What kind of actors are you? ... I can do your job with my arms tied behind my back,’ ” he recalled in The Times interview.

To back up his claim, he landed the small role of Ivan Dixon’s drunk, defeated father in “Nothing but a Man,” a critically acclaimed 1964 film about black life in the South starring Dixon and Abbey Lincoln.

“Not knowing the business, feeling I had to be in character, I got me a pint of bourbon, some of the worst rotgut stuff I could get,” Harris said.

When he arrived on the set, the producer and director took one look at him and said, “We can’t do anything with you today, Julius, but if you are the man we think you are, you’ll come back tomorrow.”

Harris said: “I was so embarrassed. So I went back home, sobered up and came back the next day and did the master [shot] in [one] take and close-ups in two [takes] and went home.”

In his review of the film, The Times’s Kevin Thomas deemed Harris’ performance superb.

He is survived by his children, Kimberly and Gideon.

A private memorial service will be held.

Julius Harris (1923–2004)

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2008: David Arnold's Quantum of Solace soundtrack album released by J.

2018: Dynamite releases James Bond: The Body Vol. 1, including Parts One through Four (The Body, The Gut, The Brain, The Heart).

James Bond: The Body (2018) Vol. 1

https://www.comixology.co.uk/James-Bond-The-Body-2018-Vol-1/digital-comic/704425?ref=Y29taWMvdmlldy9kZXNrdG9wL3NsaWRlckxpc3Qvc2VyaWVz

"As Bond undergoes a post-mission medical examination, he relays the story of his previous mission to the examiner. Each cut, bruise, and broken bone connected to a specific event of the mission. A connection is made between two people with different purposes: one to save lives, the other to take them. PART TWO - THE BRAIN James Bond leads the interrogation of a scientist who allowed a lethal virus to be stolen. But when the investigation takes a surprising turn, Bond begins to question whether he is enough. PART THREE - THE GUT One sauna. Twenty Neo-Nazis. One Bond. James Bond. This weapons deal won't go according to plan. PART FOUR - THE HEART On the run from a lethal antagonist, weaponless and wounded deep in the Highlands, Bond finds solace with a woman who exchanged her job as a doctor and a life in the city for a cottage and solitary life of a writer. Can Bond find a quiet peace unlike he has known before or will his life choices catch up with him? AND MORE…"

2019: Gloria Hendry sings jazz versions of Bond title songs and other standards on Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood.

https://www.007travelers.com/events/007-event-songs-of-bond-feat-gloria-hendry-and-the-jimmy-mcconnell-18-piece-orchestra-17-october-2019/


http://jamesbondradio.com/event-report-gloria-hendrys-jazz-tribute-to-the-songs-of-james-bond-by-matthew-chernov/

2021: Noise11 reports Coldplay pursued a Bond theme five times across twenty years.

Coldplay Have Five Unreleased James Bond Themes

See the complete article here:

http://www.noise11.com/news/coldplay-have-five-unreleased-james-bond-themes-20211017

by Music-News.com on October 17, 2021

Coldplay spent 20 years trying to write a decent Bond theme.

Chris Martin has revealed he and his bandmates spent two decades attempting to pen a theme tune for a 007 flick, but he admitted the five songs they ended up with weren’t “very good”.

Martin doesn’t think the titular fictional suave spy – last portrayed by Daniel Craig, who has just completed his tenure in the blockbuster action-thriller franchise with his final film ‘No Time To Die’ – would be impressed with their efforts.

He told NME: “We kept trying to write one for 20 years, but never submitted them.

“We have Bond themes for about five movies, but they’re not very good, to be honest.

“I don’t know if we’re spiritually on the same trip as James. As much as I like the films, I don’t know if us singing would do it for him.

“He’d be like, ‘That’s not what I’m into at all, fellas. I like guns and shit. All this hippie stuff just isn’t going to work.'”

Coldplay have just released their ninth studio album, ‘Music of the Spheres’, and previously revealed another famous film franchise inspired the record.

The music came to life after Martin sat down to watch the ‘Star Wars’ movies and was left wondering what music on other planets sounds like.

He said: “One time I was watching ‘Star Wars’ and they had the scene with the Cantina band right? And I was like: ‘I wonder what musicians are like across the universe?’ and that led to this whole thing and now here we are.”

And the whole album is set on a fictional planet.

He added: “It led us to imagining this whole other place called ‘the spheres’, which is like a group of planets, like a solar system with lots of different places and creatures and stuff.

“And what I found is when you’ve imagined a place like that, you can sort of become any artist within that.

“It’s a very freeing thing to take yourself out of Coldplay and just think: ‘OK, I’m not even human, what does music sound like?'”

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RichardTheBruce

October 18th

1898: Lotte Lenya (Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blaumauer) is born--Vienna-Penzing, Austria Hungary.
(She dies 27 November 1981 at age 83--New York City, New York.)

Lotte Lenya

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Award-winning Austrian actress and singer Lotte Lenya (b. Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary, October 18, 1898; d. New York City, November 27, 1981), transplanted to the United States for the latter part of her career, is best remembered by music-lovers for her interpretations of songs by her husband Kurt Weill (1900–1950), and by moviegoers for her performances in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) and From Russia With Love (1963). She was nominated for an Academy Award® for the former film; from her Broadway performances, which spanned over three decades, she had one Tony Award® (The Threepenny Opera 1957) and was nominated for another (Cabaret 1967).

Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer was born into a working class family in an outlying district of Vienna. At the age of sixteen she moved to Zurich in Switzerland, where she studied classical ballet, singing, and acting, and made a stage debut under the name of Lotte Lenja. In 1921, against the cosmopolitan but precarious backdrop of the Weimar Republic, she moved to Berlin and began rounds of theatrical auditions. In 1924, through playwright Georg Kaiser, she met composer Kurt Weill – actually he had played the piano for her at an audition two years earlier but she had taken no notice of him – and they married early in 1926.

In collaboration with Bertholt Brecht, Weill wrote the leading part of Jenny in Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) as a vehicle specifically for Lenya, and the first performance in 1928 was a big breakthrough for both of them. Soon she was very busy in the theatre, especially in works created by the Weill-Brecht team: Happy End (1929), Der Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny 1930), and Die sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins 1933), produced in exile in Paris.

In 1933, with the rise of Nazism and the banning of Weill’s works in Germany, both Lenya and Weill fled to France – although they were now estranged and going through a divorce (Weill was a workaholic and not especially communicative). Weill began work on an unprecedentedly ambitious spectacle-opera with text by Franz Werfel entitled Der Weg der Verheißung (The Promised Road), in the midst of which, in 1935, Lenya and Weill came to be reconciled. They emigrated together to the United States and were married again in 1937.

Lenya sang the roles of Miriam and the Witch of Endor in Weill’s new opus, now called The Eternal Road, for 153 performances at the Manhattan Opera House in early 1937. The cast included 245 actors and singers, wearing a total of 1,772 costumes, and the show – a frightening depiction of Jews hiding from a pogrom in a synagogue that included several generous slices of Biblical history – lasted over six hours. It has not been staged since.

Two successful musicals, Knickerbocker Holiday (1938), with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and introducing the immortal “September Song,” and Lady in the Dark (with Ira Gershwin, 1941) established Kurt Weill’s reputation on Broadway, and the couple was able to move upstate to New City in Rockland County. Their marriage would last until Weill’s death in 1950.

Lenya meanwhile appeared in Anderson’s Candle in the Wind (1941). Her next role was in a Weill “operetta,” The Firebrand of Florence (1945), that was such a box-office disaster that Lenya decided to quit the stage. But in 1951, a little more than a year after her husband’s death, she returned as Xantippe in Maxwell Anderson’s short-lived Barefoot in Athens.She starred again as Jenny in the English-language revival of The Threepenny Opera (1954, 1955), winning the 1956 Tony® for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

Lotte Lenya’s American film career began when she was sixty-three, with The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961), and hit a high point in 1963 when she played Rosa Klebb, the Spectre agent with poisoned blades in the toes of her boots, in From Russia with Love. She played the title role in Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder on German television in 1965, and the Gypsy in Tennessee Williams’s sleeper Ten Blocks on the Camino Real on National Education Television in 1966. The same year on Broadway she originated the role of Fräulein Schneider in Kander and Ebb’s musical Cabaret.

Lenya was married three more times in the thirty-one years between Weill’s death and her own. She established the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, which is still active in the promotion of Weill music and theatre, in 1962. Cancer was the cause of her death in 1981; she is entombed alongside Weill in a mausoleum in Mount Repose Cemetery in Haverstraw, New York. A musical play, Lovemusik, a meditation on the relationship of these two musical and theatrical greats, was produced on Broadway in 2007.

– LEC

Lotte Lenya (1898–1981)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502322/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actress (10 credits)
1980 Mahagonny (voice)

1977 Semi-Tough - Clara Pelf
1974 CBS Daytime 90 (TV Series) - Rosa Harcourt
- Trio for Lovers (1974) ... Rosa Harcourt
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1969 The Appointment - Emma Valadier
1966 Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (TV Movie) - The Gypsy
1965 Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder - Eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg (TV Movie) - Mutter Courage
1964 Bertolt Brecht: Übungstücke für Schauspieler (Short)
1963 From Russia with Love - Rosa Klebb
1961 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone - Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales

1931 The 3 Penny Opera - Jenny (as Lotte Lenja)

Soundtrack (6 credits)

2017 Popular Voices at the BBC (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Truth Tellers at the BBC (2017) ... (performer: "Alabama Song")
2016 Uncle Howard (Documentary) (performer: "September Song")
2007 The Savages (performer: "Salomon-Song")
2001 Guileless Guile (Short) (performer: "Denn wie Man sich bettet")

1997 Seven Years in Tibet (performer: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer/The Ballad of Mack the Knife")

1952 Because of My Hot Youth (performer: "Die Seeräuber-Jenny. Ur Die Dreigroschenoper")

1916: Anthony Dawson is born--Edinburgh, Scotland. (He dies 8 January 1992 at age 75--Sussex, England.)

Anthony Dawson

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He had two other memorable roles on his return to Britain, including the evil Marques Siniestro in Hammer's The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) and henchman Professor Dent in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962).[7]

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

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

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

Anthony Dawson (I) (1916–1992)

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

Filmography

Actor (81 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writer (2 credits)

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

1939: Earl Jolly Brown is born--Houston, Texas.
(He dies 26 August 2006 at age 66--Las Vegas, Nevada.)
(Born 18 October 1939--Houston, Texas.)

Earl Jolly Brown

See the complete article here:

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

Earl Jolly Brown
Born Edwin Earl Brown - October 18, 1939 - Houston, Texas
Died August 26, 2006 (aged 66) - Clark County, Las Vegas, Nevada
Occupation Actor
Years active 1973-1990

Edwin Earl "Jolly" Brown (October 18, 1939 – August 26, 2006) was an American actor.

Brown's best known role was as Whisper, a henchman in the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die. Other film appearances include Black Belt Jones (1974), Truck Turner (1974) and Linda Lovelace for President (1975). He was also active on television, with credits including Perry Mason, The Odd Couple, and Laverne and Shirley.

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1973 Live and Let Die - Whisper
1974 Black Belt Jones - Jelly
1974 Truck Turner - Overweight Bar Patron Uncredited
1975 Linda Lovelace for President - Polmes
1984 Beverly Hills Cop - Bar Patron Uncredited

Earl Jolly Brown (1939–2006)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113484/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t12

1979: Moonraker released in Belgium.

1985: Od nišana do smrti (Serbian, Croatian) and Od tarče do smrti (Slovenian) released in Yugoslavia.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 25 of 65 - "It's All in the Timing."

James Bond Jr - It's All in the Timing

Season 1 - Episode 25
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807104/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

Dr. Derange's plot threatens to stop the rotation of the Earth. It's up to James Bond, IQ and a Swiss police officer to stop him. Elsewhere, Trevor Noseworthy cheats in the bicycle race in Bern by using IQ's bicycle motor on his bike.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Skullcap (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 25 - It's All in the Timing

2008: The "Quantum of Solace" single charts at #15 on the Canadian Hot 100, mostly on downloads.

2017: Dynamite Comics publishes James Bond Kill Chain #4 (of 6).
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #4
(OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017804011

Cover A: Greg Smallwood
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: October 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 10/18

As 007 closes in on rogue agent Rika Van De Havik, a deadly drone attack strikes at the heart of Europe. Russia's covert ops agency SMERSH is plotting to split NATO - by pitting Britain's MI6 against the CIA!

2021: Anthony Lane in The New Yorker writes about One For the The Road and "James Bond's Heavy Heart in No Time To Die". (Spoilers)

James Bond’s Heavy
Heart in “No Time to
Die”

Cary Joji Fukunaga’s relentlessly self-referential film, with
Daniel Craig making his last bow as Bond, is often exciting,
but there’s something inward and agonized about the thrills.

See the complete article here:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/james-bonds-heavy-heart-in-no-time-to-die

Cary Joji Fukunaga’s film stars Daniel Craig, in his final appearance as James Bond, and Léa Seydoux. Illustration by Clément Soulmagnon
By Anthony Lane | October 8, 2021

A big welcome back to 007. The news is that nothing much has changed, and all the fixtures and fittings are in place. The license to kill, and the supple deployment of weaponry. The occasional whip of a wisecrack. The prime spot in the cockpit of an aircraft. The Aston Martin. The dress sense. The knockout shades. No question about it: she’s the right woman for the job.

As we are reminded by the latest chapter in the franchise, “No Time to Die,” 007 is not a person so much as a designated slot. Once vacated, it fills up like a parking space. Thus, when James Bond (Daniel Craig)—male, pale, and staled by years of trouncing megalomaniacs—goes off the grid, his prized 00 number is taken by Nomi (Lashana Lynch), who is proud, Black, younger than springtime, and much amused by the autumnal state of her predecessor. “You get in my way, I will put a bullet in your knee,” she says to him, adding, “The one that works.” Harsh.

They meet in Jamaica, whither Bond has retired. (Lord knows what he does all day. Maybe he sets off with a pair of binoculars, a packed lunch, and a copy of Birds of the West Indies by James Bond, the American ornithologist from whom Ian Fleming, another Jamaica resident, pinched the name.) Nomi is on the trail of villainy, and Bond has been asked to follow the same scent—not by the British government but by the C.I.A., in the person of Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright). Who’d have guessed that the cream of Her Majesty’s spies would end up being milked by Uncle Sam? Is that why the opening credits show the symbolic figure of Britannia, with her trusty shield, falling into a giant hourglass and slipping away into the sands of time?

The film, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, runs almost two and three-quarter hours. That’s a lot of movie, longer than some recordings of the St. Matthew Passion, but Fukunaga has a lot of ground to cover. He begins, if you please, with a flashback to the childhood of a secondary character—not, alas, the infant Q, solemnly building particle accelerators out of Lego bricks, but a young French girl who will grow up to be Dr. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), the heroine of the previous Bond adventure, “Spectre” (2015).

We now learn that Madeleine, as befits her doubly Proustian name, was marked for life by a potent early experience: the slaying of her mother by Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek), who has a scratchy voice and an unfortunate skin condition. Later, fulfilling the standard brief of a Bond baddie, Safin will occupy an island lair and hatch plans to dominate the planet. Needless to say, if only our leading nations had clubbed together to buy him a pot of moisturizer, the whole crisis could have been avoided.

At the conclusion of “Spectre,” Bond beetled off toward Big Ben in his Aston Martin DB5, with the adult Madeleine at his side. The new film finds him in the same car, with the same passenger, in a slightly trickier environment: a hilltop town in Italy, with his enemies circling and his bulletproof windows starred but not yet broken by incoming fire. It’s the perfect moment not just for Bond to ask Madeleine, whom he suspects of betraying him, what the hell’s going on but also for Craig, in his last bow as Bond, to demonstrate what he has brought to the role. Relaxed under pressure, and pressurized by the need to relax, he has the action man’s dread of inactivity. Suits and tuxedos don’t really become him, even if they fit him, until they are bloodied and torn. Craig has been the right Bond for our times, grudging with his charm—barely a virtue nowadays—and nourished by a steady supply of traumas. He has a sense of humor, yet one-liners embarrass him, for the world is too laughably treacherous to be fobbed off with a joke. Even love seems to toughen him up.

To whom or what, then, can Bond be true? To his country? Returning to M.I.6, he is obliged to give his name at security and is handed a plastic nametag. On the way out, in the office of Moneypenny (Naomie Harris), he tosses the tag into the trash: a bitter coda to the memory of Sean Connery, deftly lobbing his hat onto the hat stand. Worse still, Bond learns that M (Ralph Fiennes), usually the solid soul of wisdom, has overseen a secret project called Heracles, which will allow Britain’s foes (unspecified, but possibly the European Union, in a war over sausage exports) to be targeted with nasty nanobots. Safin, naturally, gets hold of Heracles, and prepares to unleash it everywhere. It’s up to Bond—with a little help from Q (Ben Whishaw), the Royal Navy, the loyal Nomi, and, yes, a submersible glider—to save the day. Plus, if possible, himself.

There are many surprises in “No Time to Die.” The major ones I would scorn to reveal, even if you trained a laser on my undercarriage or suspended me over a tank of unfed sharks. Less important, but equally unexpected, are the glitches in continuity: Bond driving directly from labyrinthine Italian streets to a railroad station, on the flat, in what looks like another town entirely, or emerging from a foggy Norwegian forest into a nice bright day. A happier shock is the disclosure that Q has a cat, of the hairless variety. (“You know, they come with fur these days,” Bond remarks.) Maybe Q had cats all along—pussies galore!—and kept us in the dark.

The plot, too, is crawling with twists, yet we soon grasp, all too clearly, where it’s heading: du côté de chez Swann. It turns out that Madeleine has a daughter, named Mathilde (Lisa-Dorah Sonnet). “She’s not yours,” Madeleine says to Bond, reassuringly, yet the kid does have blue eyes, like his, and he is so drawn to her that, in the heat of the finale, he—the sort of fellow who used to blow up a volcano before breakfast—pauses to retrieve her knitted toy, Dou Dou, and tucks it into his suspenders. Lucky for Dou Dou, of course, but what does this herald for the brand of Bond? Everyone agrees that the age of the ladykiller is dead, unmourned, but are we ready for Bond the babysitter?

Fans will fret, and, as if to assuage them, Fukunaga piles on the retro treats: a guest appearance from Blofeld (Christoph Waltz), for one thing, and multiple morsels of Bonds past. As in “Skyfall” (2012), someone is trapped under a frozen lake, and the bunker where Safin breeds his toxins resembles the mega-garage where the madman in “The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977) parked his stolen submarines. In a tribute to “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1969), we get an Aston Martin DBS, a reprise of Louis Armstrong in the end credits, and, during a conversation between Bond and M beside the Thames, a gentle echo of John Barry’s electronic score. (How I miss Barry. Would the myth of Bond even have survived without him?) As a valediction to Craig, though, “No Time to Die” leans so relentlessly on his earlier Bond films that anyone who never saw them, or failed to take copious notes, will be stranded. You mean you’ve forgotten that Madeleine’s father was Mr. White, introduced in “Casino Royale” (2006)? Shame on you!

The problem with “No Time to Die” is that it’s all about itself, and the tug of its own origins. Such is the current mode: we live under the spell of long-form television, and of the Marvel universe, both of which woo us with recurring characters and reward us for the stamina of our emotional investment. You could argue that no form has been longer than Bond’s, but the changes of cast—the actors playing 007, M, Q, Moneypenny, and Blofeld—have refreshed the fun, and each movie, by and large, has stood alone. Not so the new film, which throbs with old wounds. It’s often exciting, but there’s something inward and agonized about the thrills, and the insouciance of Connery’s epoch, for better or worse, seems like ancient history. “No Time to Die” has a heavy heart, and right now, more than ever, we could use a light one. As we trickle back to cinemas, is it merely frivolous to hope that a James Bond flick should leave us feeling cheered up?

Still, let us give thanks for what we have. Listen to M, for a start, as he issues a command: “Q, hack into Blofeld’s bionic eye”—a strong candidate for the most Bond-tastic line ever spoken. (Top marks to Fiennes for saying it with a straight face.) Best and blithest of all is Bond’s trip to Cuba, where he teams up with a novice agent named Paloma. She is played by Ana de Armas, who is Havana-born, and who consorted so nimbly with Craig in “Knives Out” (2019). Now, in evening dress, and in extreme peril, Paloma and Bond have to shoot their way out of trouble, though not before pausing for a brace of vodka Martinis. Paloma drains most of hers in a single glug. Mid-mayhem, they pause again to refuel, with a quick tot of something at the bar, before getting back to work. What bliss: in the depths of a wry and disconsolate film, it’s like watching Fred and Ginger. “You were excellent,” Bond tells Paloma as they part. She smiles and replies, “You, too.” And so say all of us. ♦

Published in the print edition of the October 18, 2021, issue, with the headline “One for the Road.”
Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since 1993. He is the author of Nobody’s Perfect.

RichardTheBruce

October 19th

1931: Ian Fleming begins his association with Reuters.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.

...On 7 October Ian travelled along
the Thames to the Reuters office on the Embankent at the end of
Carmelite Street, close to Blackfriars Bridge. There, on the first floor, he
was interviewed again, and then by Cecil Fleetwood May, a wireless technician
who, following the introduction of the City ticker-tape three years earlier,
was beginning to develop the business information side of the service.
Both were impressed by the young man's qualities. Rickatson-Hiatt, a
former Coldstream Guards officer, with a clipped moustache and a
monacle, had worked with Associated Press in the United States and was
keen to introduce AP's speed and efficiency to European news-gathering
operations. He reported to Jones that Ian was "quite the right type and
seemed most intelligent". He added, "After leaving Eton, he went to
Sandhurst. He will therefore know the value and importance of discipline."
Rickatson-Hiatt suggested that Ian should be hired initially on a trial basis
for one month without pay.

The aspiring young journalist started work at Reuters on Monday, 19
October 1931. In the circumstances, Ian was particularly anxious to do
well and within a couple of days Rickatson-Hiatt was commending the
new recruit to Sir Roderick. His only negative comment was that Ian
suffered from a slight Foreign Office "bum". He promised, however, that
"you can depend on us to put some pep into him before many days have
gone by." The Reuters chef also had Ian's praises heaped on him from
another source. Ever mindful of her maternal duties, Eve Fleming wrote
to thank him for taking her son on, gushing, "He has great character and
is supposed to be very intelligent, though I ought not to say so!" She
dissembled slightly when she said she was disappointed that Ian was
not trying again for the Forein Office since he had never been expected
to get in first time round.

After his month's trial, Ian was judged a success and offered a permanent
post at a salary of £150 a year. ...

1931: Spy novelist John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell) is born--Poole, Dorset, England.

1964: Comic strip for Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang begins it run in The Daily Express. (Ends 23 October.)
1966: You Only Live Twice films Bond getting married.

1988: Licence to Kill films villain Sanchez explaining his caper.

2005: IGN interviews Martin Campbell on Casino Royale.

Interview: Campbell on Casino
Royale
The director talks Bond!

https://uk.ign.com/articles/2005/10/19/interview-campbell-on-casino-royale
By Jeff Otto | 19 Oct 2005 2:48 pm

The James Bond news machine is heating up with the recent announcement (finally!) of the lead actor to portray Bond in Casino Royale, Daniel Craig. The film is to begin shooting soon and the release date is now set for November 17, 2006.

This weekend IGN FilmForce had the chance to question Royale helmer Martin Campbell at the press day for his latest film, the upcoming Sony sequel Legend of Zorro, which releases on the 28th of this month.

Though Campbell and everyone else involved is still remaining tight-lipped about the specifics of James Bonds' 21st big screen adventure (not counting the original Casino Royale or Never Say Never Again), Campbell answered as many questions as he could this weekend and shed at least a bit of light on the upcoming spy flick.

Q: Did you have any input in the selection of Mr. Craig?

MARTIN CAMPBELL: Oh, yeah.
[img]https://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/658/658547/craig-bond1_1129321022-001.jpg?fit=bounds&width=640&height=480[.img] Craig as Bond[/img]Q. Is there going to be anything of the novel in the movie?

CAMPBELL: A lot of it, yeah.

Q: How are you going to handle the genital flogging scene from the book?

CAMPBELL: Very interesting. You're the second person who's asked that. I think I'll do it in close up. (Laughs) There are a lot of women who will love that. I've got to get PG-13, so it's a very interesting dilemma.

Q: Every time they have gone from a popular Bond and replaced him, the films have not been as successful. How do you avoid that?

CAMPBELL: I dunno. You just do the best movie you can make. It's as simple as that.

Q: Why do you think Craig will make a great Bond?

CAMPBELL: Because, first of all, he's a great actor. And I think it's in Casino Royale, where Fleming said he looked like Hoagie Carmichael, which is a very interesting comparison. And he's a very interesting looking guy and I think he has all the attributes to make a grittier and tougher bond. A much more interesting – just different and more interesting in my view.

Q[/b]: It seems every time they say that the story is overwhelmed by all those gadgets.

CAMPBELL: Well, first of all there are no gadgets in the first one. So, how about that?

Q: So is it mostly the title being used and the basic plot rather than specifics from the book?

CAMPBELL: The only thing you can't use from the book – I don't know how many of you have read it – it was written in 1953 [and] was set against the Cold War. In fact, it was the first one that involves Smersh, and we've obviously had to change that. But, essentially the book remains pretty much in tact. The whole game takes place. La Chiffre is the bad guy, who was the bad guy there. Your genital whacking scene, whomever came up with that, that all remains. So, it's pretty much the last 2/3rds of the movie will be like the book. And Bond will fall in love with Vesper Lynd, as he does in the book. He's just got his 007 stripes when he gets into the story so he's got some rough edges on him to begin with and hopefully, by the end of it, he'll become the 007 we all know and love.

Martin Campbell on the set of
the first Zorro with Anthony Hopkins
and Antonio Banderas

Q: Does it restart the franchise?

CAMPBELL: Yeah, I guess so.

Q: Does this mean you start remaking the other movies?

CAMPBELL: That's exactly the same question I asked them. When's the point you start re-making Dr. No? Who knows? No, this is the last book they are filming. Because, all the rest have been done.

Q: Do you think the re-start of Batman Begins had to do with this?

CAMPBELL: No, I think they always wanted to get the book and they never have been able to till just recently. Now they have the book. I think Cubby, Barbara, said Cubby always wanted to make the book. They made one. Not a good movie. A spoof with five bonds, which Ursula Andress was one, by the way.

Q: Have you cast any of the new Bond girls?

CAMPBELL: Not yet. We were more worried about casting Bond…

Q: Is there a chance Judi Dench will return as M?

CAMPBELL: Yeah, we're discussing that at the moment. Yeah, maybe.

Q: Did you talk to Pierce about coming back?

CAMPBELL: No, that wasn't my choice. That was over before I came into those discussions as they were.

Q: When is it going to start?

CAMPBELL: End of January. I hope!

Q: Do they have a release date?

CAMPBELL: Yes, November.

2008: BBC airs the documentary Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began.

2009: Joseph Wiseman dies at age 91--Manhattan, New York City, New York.
(Born 15 May 1918--Montreal, Quebec, Canada.)

Joseph Wiseman obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/20/joseph-wiseman-obituary

Versatile character actor best remembered on screen as James
Bond's adversary Dr No
Ronald Bergan | Tue 20 Oct 2009 13.33 EDT

‘I thought it might be just another grade-B Charlie Chan mystery,’ said Wiseman of his role in Dr No.

Despite the fact that Joseph Wiseman, who has died aged 91, appeared in dozens of movies and countless TV series and had only 20 minutes of screen time in Dr No (1962), it is for his performance in that film, as the eponymous adversary to James Bond in the first movie of the series, based on the books by Ian Fleming, that he will best be remembered.

Dressed in a white Nehru jacket with a pair of shiny black, prosthetic hands, the result of a "misfortune", Wiseman was cool and calculating as the half-German, half-Chinese arch enemy of 007, played by Sean Connery, and one of the most effective of Bond villains. Dr Julius No is a member of Spectre – the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion. "The four great cornerstones of power headed by the greatest brains in the world," he explains. "Correction. Criminal brains," says Bond. "A successful criminal brain is always superior. It has to be," retorts Dr No.

Wiseman was fortunate that Noël Coward, a friend and neighbour of Fleming's in Jamaica, where the film was set, turned the role down, saying, "Doctor No? No. No. No." Of his most famous role, Wiseman said: "I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I had no idea it would achieve the success it did. I know nothing about mysteries. I don't take to them. As far as I was concerned, I thought it might be just another grade-B Charlie Chan mystery."

Wiseman was born in Montreal, Canada, and his family subsequently moved to the US. He started his acting career on stage in his late teens, making his Broadway debut as part of the ensemble in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938), with Raymond Massey in the title role. There followed parts in three plays by Maxwell Anderson: Journey to Jerusalem (1940), Candle in the Wind (1941) and Joan of Lorraine (1946), and he was the eunuch Mardian in Antony and Cleopatra (1947), directed by and starring Kathleen Cornell.

But it was his role on stage in Sidney Kingsley's Detective Story (1949) that launched his film career, during which he typically played slightly crazy off-beat characters. Wiseman, in a loud striped suit, was both sleazy and comic as the lowlife burglar, becoming hysterical when interrogated by overzealous policeman Ralph Bellamy. He repeated the role in William Wyler's 1951 film version, starring Kirk Douglas, without toning down his manic stage performance.

This coiled-up energy proved to be highly effective in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! (1952), in which he played the opportunistic journalist and agent provocateur who finally betrays Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando). He continued to steal scenes in two rather risible biblical epics, as an imposing priest in The Silver Chalice (1954), Paul Newman's debut picture, and as a wily beggar in The Prodigal (1955). Around the same time, Wiseman was able to reveal more of his talent on stage. He played Edmund to Louis Calhern's King Lear; the gangster Eddie Fuselli in a revival of Clifford Odets's Golden Boy (1952), and The Inquisitor in Jean Anouih's The Lark (1955), with Julie Harris as Joan of Arc.

In 1960, returning to movies, Wiseman had a typically flashy role as a one-eyed, deranged itinerant evangelist armed with the "Sword of God" in John Huston's western The Unforgiven. Then, in 1962, came The Happy Thieves, in which, third-billed after Rita Hayworth and Rex Harrison, he seemed to have some fun as a master forger, and the infamous Dr No. It was six years before Wiseman made another movie.

Making up for lost time, he appeared in seven films within a few years. Apart from playing ruthless Italian gangsters in Stiletto (1969) and The Valachi Papers (1972), Wiseman created a niche for himself portraying a variety of Jewish characters. In The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), Wiseman is the bemused Jewish owner of the notorious burlesque theatre, who disapproves of his son's introducing striptease.

Bye Bye Braverman (1968) saw him as a pedantic lecturer on his way to a friend's funeral. Of his performance, Time magazine wrote that Wiseman "wears an expression of perpetual disgust, as if he were forever smelling fried ham … What picture there is for stealing is burgled by Wiseman with his portrayal of a stereotypical littérateur … As lofty as Edmund Wilson, he pronounces Jehovah-like judgments on literature and humanity."

Back in Canada for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), Wiseman played a Trotskyite owner of a blouse factory, who calls his nephew (Richard Dreyfuss) "a pushy Jewish boy".

On Broadway, Wiseman originated the role of LeDuc, a Jewish psychotherapist, in Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy (1964), who asserts that "the Jew is only the name we give to that stranger within everyone". Also on Broadway was his Drama Desk award-winning performance in the title role of In the Matter of J Robert Oppenheimer (1969).

Wiseman continued to be active on television throughout his career, notably in Crime Story (1986-88) as the menacing gang boss Manny Weisbord. In his later years, Wiseman would often give readings of Yiddish writers, and his last stage performance was in 2002 at a gala concert called Yiddish in America at the New York town hall. His last Broadway appearance had been the previous year, as a prosecution witness in Abby Mann's stage adaptation of his film drama Judgment at Nuremberg.

Wiseman's first marriage, to Nell Kennard, ended in divorce, and he is survived by his daughter, Martha, by that marriage, and his sister Ruth. His second wife, the dancer, teacher and choreographer Pearl Lang, died last February.

•Joseph Wiseman, actor, born 15 May 1918; died 19 October 2009

Joseph Wiseman (1918–2009)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936476/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (95 credits)

1996 Law & Order (TV Series) - Seymour Bergreen
- Family Business (1996) ... Seymour Bergreen
1994 A Passover Seder (Video short) - Grandfather
1994 L.A. Law (TV Series) - Isidore Schoen
- Finish Line (1994) ... Isidore Schoen
1992 Civil Wars (TV Series) - Julius Schiff
- For Better or Perverse (1992) ... Julius Schiff

1989 MacGyver (TV Series) - Joe Catano
- The Battle of Tommy Giordano (1989) ... Joe Catano
1988 Lady Mobster (TV Movie) - Victor Castle
1986-1988 Crime Story (TV Series) - Manny Weisbord
- The Hearings (1988) ... Manny Weisbord
- Last Rites (1988) ... Manny Weisbord
- Little Girl Lost (1987) ... Manny Weisbord
- Shockwaves (1987) ... Manny Weisbord
- Atomic Fallout (1987) ... Manny Weisbord
... 18 episodes
1986 Seize the Day - Dr. Adler
1985 The Equalizer (TV Series) - Eddie Vanessi
- The Confirmation Day (1985) ... Eddie Vanessi
1984 The A-Team (TV Series) - Zeke Westerland
- The Bells of St. Mary's (1984) ... Zeke Westerland
1984 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Judge Leopold Wapter
- The Ghost Writer (1984) ... Judge Leopold Wapter
1983 Rage of Angels (TV Movie) - Antonio Granelli
1983 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - Dr. Albert Tessa
- Birdman of Budapest (1983) ... Dr. Albert Tessa
1981 The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) - James J. Beck
- Don't Mess Around with Jim (1981) ... James J. Beck
1981 Masada (TV Mini-Series) - Jerahmeel, Head Essene
- Part IV (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
- Part III (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
- Part II (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
- Part I (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
1980 Freebie and the Bean (TV Series) - Dr. Dorf
- Health Nuts (1980) ... Dr. Dorf

1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series) - Carl Morphus
- Vegas in Space (1979) ... Carl Morphus
1979 Jaguar Lives! - Ben Ashir
1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - King Draco
1978 The Betsy - Jake / Angelo's uncle
1977 Murder at the World Series (TV Movie) - Sam Druckman
1976 The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) - Barbado
- The Thrill Killers: Part 2 (1976) ... Barbado
- The Thrill Killers: Part 1 (1976) ... Barbado
1975 Journey Into Fear - Colonel Haki
1975 Zalmen: or, The Madness of God (TV Movie) - Rabbi
1974 QB VII (TV Mini-Series) - Morris Cady
- Part One & Two (1974) ... Morris Cady
1974 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Uncle Benjy
1974 The Suicide Club (TV Movie)
1974 Men of the Dragon (TV Movie) - Balashev
1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Hon Chi Kai
- The Illusion of the Lost Dragon (1974) ... Hon Chi Kai
1973 If I Had a Million (TV Movie)
1971-1973 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Gilford / Big Julio
- The Pay-Off (1973) ... Gilford
- Bitter Harbor (1971) ... Big Julio
1973 Nightside (TV Movie) - Grudin
1973 The Wide World of Mystery (TV Series) - Mr. Silverado
- Suicide Club (1973) ... Mr. Silverado
1972 Pursuit (TV Movie) - Dr. Nordman
1972 McCloud (TV Series) - Paul Rudell / Stephen Rudensky
- Fifth Man in a String Quartet (1972) ... Paul Rudell / Stephen Rudensky
1972 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (TV Series) - Armand Pringle
- Operation: White Fire (1972) ... Armand Pringle
1972 The Valachi Papers - Salvatore Maranzano
1971 Lawman - Lucas
1970 Night Gallery (TV Series) - Jacob Bauman (segment "Room with a View")
- Room with a View/The Little Black Bag/The Nature of the Enemy (1970) ... Jacob Bauman (segment "Room with a View")
1970 NET Playhouse (TV Series) - Lev
- They Have Taken Over (1970) ... Lev
1970 The Mask of Sheba (TV Movie) - Fandil Bondalok

1969 Stiletto - Emilio Matteo
1968 The Night They Raided Minsky's - Louis Minsky
1968 The Counterfeit Killer - Rajeski
1968 Bye Bye Braverman - Felix Ottensteen
1967 The Outsider (TV Movie) - Ernest Grimes
1967 Coronet Blue (TV Series) - Rudi Nateseh
- The Presence of Evil (1967) ... Rudi Nateseh
1966 T.H.E. Cat (TV Series) - Prince Nicky Cavalcante
- The System (1966) ... Prince Nicky Cavalcante
1966 Preview Tonight (TV Series) - Pharaoh
- Great Bible Adventures: Seven Rich Years and Seven Lean (1966) ... Pharaoh
1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Rajeski
- The Faceless Man (1966) ... Rajeski
1966 The Legend of Jesse James (TV Series) - Captain Hammel
- The Last Stand of Captain Hammel (1966) ... Captain Hammel
1964 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Jim Case
- The Santiago Quesada Story (1964) ... Jim Case
1963-1964 Quest (TV Series) - Eli Peck
- Eli, the Fanatic (1964) ... Eli Peck
- Eulogy (1963)
1962 Dr. No - Dr. No
1962 The New Breed (TV Series) - Clayton Grimes
- Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo? (1962) ... Clayton Grimes
1962 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Paul Radin
- One More Pallbearer (1962) ... Paul Radin
1961 The Happy Thieves - Jean Marie Calbert
1961 Festival (TV Series) - Prisoner / Messenger
- The Police (1961) ... Prisoner
- The Dybbuk (1961) ... Messenger
1960-1961 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Russell Shield / Albert Maris
- The Antidote (1961) ... Russell Shield
- The Tommy Karpeles Story (1960) ... Albert Maris
1961 General Electric Theater (TV Series) - Manson
- A Possibility of Oil (1961) ... Manson
1960 The Westerner (TV Series) - 'Serafin'
- Ghost of a Chance (1960) ... 'Serafin'
1958-1960 Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV Series) - Lurgan / Sorcerer
- Kim (1960) ... Lurgan
- The Wild Swans (1958) ... Sorcerer
1960 The Unforgiven - Abe Kelsey
1960 CBS Repertoire Workshop (TV Series) - Anton
- Tessie Malfitano and Anton Waldek (1960) ... Anton

1959 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV Series) - Lepke Buchalter
- Lepke (1959) ... Lepke Buchalter
1959 Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) - Torok
- The Derelict (1959) ... Torok
1956-1959 The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series) - Max Gebler / Antonio
- False Alarm (1959) ... Max Gebler
- Twice in Peril (1956) ... Antonio
1959 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Dr. Newland
- Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 2 (1959) ... Dr. Newland
- Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 1 (1959) ... Dr. Newland
1958 Rendezvous (TV Series) - - Alone (1958)
1958 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) - Max Gebler
- False Alarm (1958) ... Max Gebler
1958 Matinee Theatre (TV Series) - Hosea
- The Prophet Hosea (1958) ... Hosea
1957 Suspicion (TV Series)
- The Deadly Game (1957)
1957 The Garment Jungle - George Kovan
1957 Studio 57 (TV Series)
- You Take Ballistics (1957)
1956 Three Brave Men - Jim Barron
1956 Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (TV Series) - Will Prentiss
- The Marked Bullet (1956) ... Will Prentiss
1955 Producers' Showcase (TV Series)
- Darkness at Noon (1955)
1954-1955 Ponds Theater (TV Series) - Death
- Billy Budd (1955)
- Death Takes a Holiday (1954) ... Death
- Arrowsmith (1954)
1955 The Prodigal - Carmish
1954 The Silver Chalice - Mijamin
1954 Justice (TV Series) - Vincent Wilbec
- Terror on the Tracks (1954) ... Vincent Wilbec
1954 Inner Sanctum (TV Series) - Insurance Inspector
- Ghost Mail (1954) ... Insurance Inspector
1954 Medallion Theatre (TV Series)
- Contact with the West (1954)
1950-1954 Suspense (TV Series)
- The Fourth Degree (1954)
- Criminals Mark (1950)
1953 The Motorola Television Hour (TV Series) - Baroff
- Brandenburg Gate (1953) ... Baroff
1953 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series)
- Tour of Duty (1953)
1953 Champ for a Day - Dominic Guido
1953 Danger (TV Series)
- Circus Story (1953)
1953 Tales of Tomorrow (TV Series)
- Lazarus Walks (1953)
- The Squeeze Play (1953)
1952 Frontiers of Faith (TV Series)
- As a Wind That Blows (1952)
1952 Les Miserables - Genflou
1951-1952 Lights Out (TV Series) - The Croupier
- Man in the Dark (1952)
- The Deal (1951) ... The Croupier
1952 Viva Zapata! - Fernando Aguirre
1951 Detective Story - Charley Gennini
1950 With These Hands - Mike Deleo

2010: Clement Graham Crowden dies at age 87--Edinburgh, Scotland.
(Born 30 November 1922--Edinburgh, Scotland.)

Graham Crowden (1922–2010)

Actor | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189561/

2010: During pre-production, writer Peter Morgan exits the BOND 23 project leaving an unfinished film treatment.

2016: Dynamite Comics releases James Bond #11 Eidolon Chapter 5.
Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

JAMES BOND #11

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181811011
Cover: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: October 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: 10/19

EIDOLON, CHAPTER 5: Eidolon have M and Moneypenny, in a remote safehouse, with no hope of backup, no aid on the way, and no sign of James Bond. Fear and paranoia and the collapse of governmental structure are in sight. Britain is going back to the Dark Ages and SPECTRE, finally, have won.

2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond - Big Things in hardcover, collects James Bond 1 - 6 (2019).
Eric Gapstur, Erica D'Urso, Brent Peeples, Marco Renna, artists. Vita Ayala, Danny Lore, writers.

Enjoy Our Colossal Twenty-Two Page Preview For
Dynamite Comics’ ‘James Bond: Big Things’ HC

https://www.comicon.com/2021/10/03/enjoy-our-colossal-twenty-two-page-preview-for-dynamite-comics-james-bond-big-things-hc/
by Olly MacNamee

Cover by Jim Cheung
Written by Vita Ayala, Danny Lore
Art by Eric Gapstur

“When a priceless piece of art is found to be fake, investigations lead down a rabbit hole of international crime and corruption. But what the hell does James Bond know about the world of art forgery?

Agent 007 is a loner, by nature. But finally, he accepts that he needs help. But will trusting someone else help his mission…or lead to the deaths of innocents?

Collects issues #1-#6 of James Bond (2019).”

https://www.comicon.com/2021/10/03/enjoy-our-colossal-twenty-two-page-preview-for-dynamite-comics

2021: Leslie Bricusse dies at age 90.
(Born 29 January 1931--Pinner, Greater London, England.)

Leslie Bricusse, OBE

See the complete article here:

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

Leslie Bricusse, OBE (29 January 1931 – 19 October 2021) was a British composer, lyricist, and playwright who worked on theater musicals and wrote theme music for films. He was best known for writing the music and lyrics for the films Doctor Dolittle, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Scrooge, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, the songs "Goldfinger", "You Only Live Twice", "Can You Read My Mind (Love Theme)" (with John Williams) from Superman, and "Le Jazz Hot!" with Henry Mancini from Victor/Victoria.

Early life and education
Born in Pinner, Middlesex (now a northwest London suburb), Bricusse was educated at University College School in London and then at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he was Secretary of Footlights between 1952 and 1953 and Footlights President during the following year.

Career
In the 1960s and 1970s, Bricusse enjoyed a fruitful partnership with Anthony Newley. They wrote the musical Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (1961), which was the basis for 1966 film version. Also in collaboration with Newley, Bricusse wrote the show The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (1965) and music for the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), based on the children's book by Roald Dahl. For the latter, they received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song Score. When he collaborated with Newley, the two men referred to themselves as the team of "Brickman and Newburg", with "Newburg" concentrating mainly on the music and "Brickman" on the lyrics. Ian Fraser often did their arrangements.

Working solely as a lyricist, he collaborated with composer Cyril Ornadel on Pickwick (1963), based on Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, a successful vehicle for Harry Secombe. His later collaborators included with Henry Mancini (Victor/Victoria in 1982 and Tom and Jerry: The Movie in 1992) and John Williams (Hook in 1991). As composer and lyricist he scored the film, Doctor Dolittle (1967), which flopped at the box-office, receiving an Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Talk to the Animals"), and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969).

Sammy Davis Jr. had hits with two songs by Bricusse, "What Kind of Fool Am I?" (from Stop the World - I Want to Get Off) and "The Candy Man" (from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) which became a No. 1 hit. Other recording artists who recorded successful versions of his songs include Nina Simone ("Feeling Good"), Matt Monro and Frank Sinatra ("My Kind of Girl"), Shirley Bassey ("Goldfinger"), Harry Secombe ("If I Ruled the World"), Nancy Sinatra ("You Only Live Twice"), The Turtles ("A Guide for the Married Man"), Maureen McGovern ("Can You Read My Mind"), and Diana Krall ("When I Look in Your Eyes"). Bricusse partnered with George Tipton to write the opening theme of the U.S. television sitcom It's a Living.

Pure Imagination: The World of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, devised and directed by Bruce Kimmel, opened at the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, on 7 December 2013. In 2015, it went to the St James Theatre, London.

On 29 October 2001, Bricusse received an OBE for services to the film industry and the theatre from Queen Elizabeth II at a Buckingham Palace investiture ceremony.
Personal life

Bricusse resided in California and was married to actress Yvonne Romain[8] and had a son, Adam.

Bricusse died on 19 October 2021 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France at the age of 90.[9][10]

Works
Musicals
Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (with Anthony Newley) (1961) – includes "Once in a Lifetime" and "What Kind of Fool Am I?"
Pickwick – with Cyril Ornadel (1963)
The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (with Newley) (1965) – includes "Who Can I Turn to (When Nobody Needs Me)?" and "Feeling Good"
Doctor Dolittle (1967) – includes "Talk to the Animals"
Sweet November (with Newley)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)

Scrooge (with Ian Fraser; Herbert W. Spencer, 1970) – includes "Thank You Very Much"
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (with Newley, 1971)
Beyond the Rainbow (lyrics only, 1978)[14]
The Good Old Bad Old Days (with Newley, 1974)
Peter Pan (television, with Newley, 1976)

Victor Victoria (film with Henry Mancini, 1982)
Babes in Toyland (1986 film) (with Newley, 1986)
Sherlock Holmes: The Musical – book, music, and lyrics by Bricusse (1989)

Hook (with John Williams) (1991) – includes "When You're Alone"
Jekyll & Hyde (lyrics only, 1990/1994/1997)
Scrooge (1992 stage musical)
Victor/Victoria (1995 Broadway musical)
Doctor Dolittle (1998 stage musical)

Cyrano (2009, Tokyo, with Frank Wildhorn)
Sammy (2009) – Old Globe Theatre

Songs
Source:
"Out of Town" with Robin Beaumont (1956)

"My Kind of Girl" (1961)
"What Kind of Fool Am I?" with Anthony Newley (1963)
"Who Can I Turn To" with Anthony Newley (1964)
"Feeling Good" with Anthony Newley (1964)
"Goldfinger" (with John Barry and Anthony Newley) from Goldfinger (1964)
"A Guide for the Married Man" (with John Williams) from the film A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
"You Only Live Twice" (with Barry) from You Only Live Twice (1967)
"Two for the Road" (with Henry Mancini) from Two for the Road (1967)
"Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle (1967)
"Your Zowie Face" for film In Like Flint, music by Jerry Goldsmith (1967)
"Fill The World With Love" from Goodbye Mr. Chips (1968) originally sung by Petula Clark and also popularised by Richard Harris
"You and I" from Goodbye Mr. Chips (1968) sung by Petula Clark, Barbara Cook, and Michael Feinstein

"Thank You Very Much" from Scrooge (1970)
"Candy Man" and "Pure Imagination" (with Newley) from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
"Can You Read My Mind (Love Theme)" (with John Williams) from Superman (1978)
"Move Em Out" (with Henry Mancini) from Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)

"Le Jazz Hot!" with Henry Mancini from Victor/Victoria (1982)
"Making Toys", "Every Christmas Eve/Santa's Theme (Giving)", "It's Christmas Again", "Patch! Natch!" and "Thank You, Santa!" (with Henry Mancini) from Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
"Life in a Looking Glass" (with Henry Mancini) from That's Life! (1986)

"Somewhere in My Memory" from Home Alone (with John Williams) (1990)
"When You're Alone", "We Don't Wanna Grow Up" from Hook (with John Williams) (1991)
"Christmas at Hogwarts" (with John Williams) in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
"The Perfect Song" (with Andrew Lloyd Webber) for Michael Ball.

Awards
Academy Award
Best Original Song, 1968 – "Talk to the Animals"
Best Adaptation and Original Song Score, 1982 - Victor/Victoria
Grammy Award
Song of the Year, 1963 – "What Kind of Fool Am I"
Songwriters Hall of Fame[18]

Nominations
Tony Award
Best Musical, 1963 – Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
Tony Award for Best Score, 1963 – "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, 1963 – "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"
Tony Award for Best Score of a Musical, 1965 – "The Roar of Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd"
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, 1997 – "Jekyll & Hyde"
Academy Awards
Original Music Score, 1967 – Doctor Dolittle
Original Music Score, 1969 – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Original Song Score, 1970 – Scrooge
Best Original Song, 1970 – "Thank You Very Much"
Best Adaptation and Original Song Score, 1971 – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Best Original Song, 1986 – "Life in a Looking Glass"
Best Original Song, 1990 – "Somewhere in My Memory"
Best Original Song, 1991 – "When You're Alone"
Golden Raspberry Award
Worst 'Original' Song, 1986 – "Life in a Looking Glass" (lyrics)

Sammy Davis Jr Medley of Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley songs .1968 .HQ

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October 20th

1955: Thomas Newman is born--Los Angeles, California.
1956: Danny Boyle is born--Radcliffe, Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
1959: Ian Fleming writes to fan Eunice Jenkins in Hong Kong.

Sale 2543 - Lot 188

See the complete article here:

https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/FLEMING-IAN-Typed-Letter-Signed-to-Bond-fan-Eunice-Jenkins-o?saleno=2543&lotNo=188&refNo=769390]

1957: The Sunday Times ends its six week serialization of Ian Fleming's The Diamond Smugglers, started 15 September.

1997: Ronald Lawrence Morisco-Tarr (Ron Tarr) dies at age 60--Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England
(Born 14 November 1936--Municipal Borough of Willesden, Middlesex, England.)

Ron Tarr (1936–1997)

Actor | Miscellaneous Crew
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0850611/

A View to a Kill

1999: Garbage introduces "The World Is Not Enough" during a University of Denver concert. The same day MTV screens its documentary Making the Video, then premieres it.

Garbage, Making the World Is Not Enough, 1999

The World Is Not Enough - Official Video, 1999 (4:03)

2001: Geoffrey Boothroyd dies--UK.
(Born 1925--Blackpool, England.)

Geoffrey Boothroyd

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

Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) was a British firearms expert and author of several standard reference works on the subject. He gave weapons advice to James Bond author Ian Fleming, who named the character Major Boothroyd after him as a result. He was born in Blackpool. Beginning with A Guide to Gun Collecting and Guns Through the Ages (both 1961) to The British Over and Under Shotgun co-authored with Susan Boothroyd (2004), Boothroyd was a prolific author on the subject of firearms.

Whilst employed with Imperial Chemical Industries, an ammunition manufacturer, Boothroyd wrote a letter to Fleming professing admiration for the character of James Bond, but not his choice of weapons, particularly the .25 calibre Beretta. Fleming responded to Boothroyd, and their correspondence about weaponry has been reprinted in various places. As a result of the correspondence Fleming gave Bond a 7.65mm Walther PPK pistol in Dr. No and created a character named "Major Boothroyd" in the novel (the real Boothroyd held no such rank). Prior to the correspondence Fleming is reported to have thought the subject of guns to be rather dull and uninteresting. Boothroyd advised Fleming on the use of silencers and suggested various firearms for use by Bond and other characters.

Boothroyd provided illustrator Richard Chopping with his own .38 Smith & Wesson snubnosed revolver, modified with one third of the trigger guard removed, to meet Fleming's wish for a design incorporating a pistol and a rose for the first edition cover of From Russia, with Love. Boothroyd had to assist the police with their enquiries when a similar weapon was used in a triple murder in Glasgow explaining that his weapon had been posted to Ian Fleming for a book cover. Peter Manuel was later arrested, convicted and executed for the murder.

In the first Bond film, Dr. No, Major Boothroyd, portrayed by Peter Burton, recreates the scene from the novel. Geoffrey Boothroyd appeared as himself in a short film The Guns of James Bond available on the Dr. No Ultimate Edition DVD.

Geoffrey Boothroyd

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2508719/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Self (1 credit)

1964 The Guns of James Bond (Documentary short) - Himself

Archive footage (2 credits)

2015 Timeshift (TV Series documentary) - Himself - Armourer 'Q'
- Looking for Mr Bond: 007 at the BBC (2015) ... Himself - Armourer 'Q'
2008 Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began (TV Movie documentary) - Himself

1964 Time Out - The Guns of James Bond (5:08 clip)

2008: "Another Way to Die" single released in Europe.

2012: The "Skyfall" single enters the Billboard Hot 100 at #8.

2021: Last day for James Bond vehicles at the Petersen Automotive Museum,

Design | Tim Lappen
Petersen Automotive Museum
Showcasing James Bond Vehicles

See the complete article here:

https://beverlyhillscourier.com/2021/10/17/petersen-automotive-museum-showcasing-james-bond-vehicles/

I was lucky enough to have a pre-opening private preview of the newest exhibit at the
Petersen Automotive Museum, an incredible display of over 20 screen-used vehicles
from many James Bond 007 films over the past six decades.
BY Tim Lappen October 17, 2021

2008 Aston Martin DBS destroyed in "Quantum of Solace"

The Courier’s Fine Autos Contributor, Tim Lappen, is the Fine Autos Editor for Haute Living, Haute Time, Haute Residence and Haute Auto and a partner in a Century City law firm, where he chairs his firm’s Family Office Group and the Luxury Home Group. He can be reached at [email protected] and his website is www.LifeInTheFastLane.org.

I was lucky enough to have a pre-opening private preview of the newest exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum, an incredible display of over 20 screen-used vehicles from many James Bond 007 films over the past six decades. I have to say that, especially after viewing the seriously thrashed Aston Martin DBS from “Quantum of Solace” and then taking in the beauty of the Aston Martin DB10 (a model only made for the Bond film “Spectre”), the experience left me both shaken and stirred. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)

First, an admission – I love the James Bond stories and started reading them not that long after Ian Fleming started creating them in the early 1950s. Bond was like Superman to me but, of course, the cars were far better. The stories were fantastical, for sure, but the special effects of the films – well, the opening credits alone were worth the price of admission.

2008 Aston Martin DBS destroyed in “Quantum of Solace”

But even with today’s computer-generated images (“CGI”), some of the best effects come from at least some of the scenes being generated IRL (in real life). And the newest Petersen exhibit shows us some pretty amazing vehicles, which mostly were created solely so that they could be used in (and often destroyed by) the making of the movie.

2015 Aston Martin DB10, made only for “Spectre” (DB10s were not sold to the public)

The Museum’s exhibit, which is being billed as “The Largest Official Bond Car Display!” is entitled “Bond In Motion.” It is the official collection of original James Bond vehicles and is produced in collaboration with EON Production and the Ian Fleming Foundation. It is scheduled to run through October 20, 2022. Museum visitors can experience the exhibit without any extra charge over and above their entrance ticket.

1985 Aston Martin V8 Vantage (with skis!) from “The Living Daylights”

And what a terrific assemblage of special vehicles it is (no surprise there). Most of the cars are Aston Martins (again, not a shocker) with a smattering of others, like a few BMW cars and bikes, plus a Jaguar which was driven by the bad guy (“Zao”) in “Die Another Day,” in the incredible chase scene across a frozen lake. Luckily (especially for the audience), both Bond’s Aston and Zao’s cars had special weaponry, like rockets, a Gatling gun and more. There was one very special trick —Bond’s Aston featured a disappearing technique that allowed the car to become invisible as long as the option was enabled. Who wouldn’t want that on occasion?

A big part of what makes this exhibit so special is that each vehicle (there are also some motorcycles, boats, submersibles and those flying machines that enabled 007 to engage in all of those chases and escapes) is accompanied by a repeating loop of film in which the vehicle was seen. These terrific visual components help even those of us who were and are big fans remember how the vehicle was used in the movie. It’s a great feature and makes the exhibit really interesting.

1964 Aston Martin DB5 like the one modified for “Goldfinger”

Of course, no article about the Bond cars would be complete without a big mention of the 1964 Aston Martin DB5, which made its debut in the movie “Goldfinger.” The unprecedented gadgetry includes gun barrels which could be used after flipping down the front turn-signal indicators, a three-way revolving license place, a smokescreen generator, an oil slick creation device and a bullet shield behind the rear window. The main attraction in this car—and the feature which ushered in major trickery and cleverness in the Bond franchise —was the ejection seat which, when one flipped open the gearshift knob and hit the button, launched the passenger into the wild blue yonder.

Want to see the latest and greatest Bond vehicles? The 25th film in the James Bond franchise, “No Time To Die,” is now showing.

2002 Jaguar XKR driven by the villain in “Die Another Day”

The Petersen Museum is right on the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax Boulevards, literally across the street from the just-opened Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.

Here are some of the many vehicles featured in this special exhibit but the show is so grand that only a part of the exhibit could be showcased here.

All photos by ted7

RichardTheBruce

October 21st

1945: Everett McGill is born--Miami Beach, Florida.

1954: The CBS anthology series Climax! airs the live television production of Casino Royale featuring American CIA Agent Jimmy Bond, British Agent Clarence Leiter, and Bond Girl Valerie Mathis.

Casino Royale

William H. Brown... Director
Ian Fleming ... source novel
Antony Ellis, Charles Bennett... writers for television

Cast
Barry Nelson ... James Bond
Peter Lorre ... Le Chiffre
Linda Christian ... Valerie Mathis
Michael Pate ... Clarence Leiter
William Lundigan ... Himself - Host
Music by Jerry Goldsmith

1959: Ivar Bryce gives feedback to Fleming on his not being present for future filming.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 10 - Money Problems

Bryce's response to Fleming's revelations that he might not be on hand for
the shooting arrived on 21 October. "The time you are essential is obviously
during preparation of the script. Even if Whittingham writes every word, you
really must be within reach for overall decisions. I think once that is over, you
needn't be there at all, expect for fun. I personally think the Nassau shooting
should be from mid-April to June, when the weather is much the most reliable,
and when Nassau costs of living are quart of 'season' costs."

Whittingham, too was expecting to work closely with Fleming and was
more than surprised when he instead grabbed a portable typewriter, visas and a
round-the-world suit with concealed money pockets and hopped on a BOAC
Comet bound for Hong Kong to begin a five-week tour round the world. The
Sunday Times wanted Fleming to write series entitled "The Six Wicked
Cities - observations on places like Las Vegas, Tokyo and Las Angeles.
Fleming confessed to being the world's worst sightseer and that he had "often
advocated the provision of roller-skates at the doors of museums and art
galleries." But his editor argued that such a trip would be a perfect opportunity
to pick up material for future Bond stories. Indeed Fleming's Tokyo visit, his
first, led to an enthusiasm, for Japan and his decision to later use it as the
location for You Only Live Twice.

1965: Original premiere date planned for Thunderball at the Odeon. Leicester Square.
(Postponed due to delays in post-production.)
1968: Principal photography begins at Piz Gloria, Canton of Bern, Switzerland. With the restaurant still in development, the production paid for electricity, airlifts, and the construction of the helipad.

1972: James Bond comic strip Isle of Condors finishes its run. (Started 12 June 1972. 1952–2065)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.popoptiq.com/isle-of-condors/



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


Swedish Semic Comic
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1974.php3?s=comics&id=01800

Kondorernas ö
(Isle of Condors)

Swedish Semic Comic
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1981.php3

Kondorernas ö
(Isle of Condors)

Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-28-1974/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 28:
“Isle of Condors” (1974)
"Kondorernes ø"

1976: Andrew Scott is born--Dublin, Ireland.

1984: Marc Zinga is born in Likasi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

1987: Bob Simmons dies at age 65--Fullham, London, England. (Born 31 March 1922.)

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.

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)

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 26 of 65 - "Dance of the Toreadors."

James Bond Jr - Dance of the Toreadors

Season 1 - Episode 26
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807283/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

When IQ falls in love with flamenco dancer Dulce Nada and follows her to Pamplona, he has no idea that she's unwittingly embroiled in Baron von Skarin's plot to cause a nuclear meltdown in Britain.

James Bond Jr Episode 26 - Dance of the Toreadors

James Bond Jr Issue 5 Dance of the Toreadors
http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-005/

2019: Liam Gallagher "jokes" he's available for the next Bond theme song.

Liam Gallagher: 007 bosses can give me a call
for Bond tune

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21 October 2019, 11:40

Liam Gallagher. Picture: Press

The former Oasis rocker has teased he wouldn't say no to being approached for the upcoming No Time To Die film.

Liam Gallagher has expressed an interest in singing the next Bond theme tune.

The former Oasis frontman has revealed he'd be happy to record the soundtrack for Daniel Craig's last outing as the famous spy.

Speaking of the forthcoming film, which is entitled No Time To Die, Gallagher joked: "The new James Bond one, it's all about dying innit.

"Die not next week, can't be arsed dying today, might die f***ing next month, there's a lot of death going on. "But you know they can give us a call, why not."

Speaking to Ireland's Today FM, the Manchester legend also said he thought that his Gone track would work for a Quentin Tarantino film.

"Tarantino, he's pretty good, isn't he? There's a lot of him in Gone," mused the rocker.

"But we don't write music to go, 'Right let's put it in a film,' but if people pick up on it then they're welcome to it.

So far, a few artists have been rumoured for the new Bond soundtrack, including Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa, as well as Sam Smith and Adele - who have both previously performed on Bond themes and won Academy Awards for 2015's Writing's On The Wall and 2012's Skyfall respectively.

No Time To Die is set for release in April 2020.

2019: Naomie Harris says Moneypenny spinoff film in discussion.

Naomie Harris Says 'Conversation Has Started' for
'James Bond' Spin-Off film as Miss Moneypenny!

See the complete article here:

http://www.justjared.com/2019/10/21/naomie-harris-says-conversation-has-started-for-james-bond-spin-off-film-as-miss-moneypenny/

Mon, 21 October 2019 at 12:10 pm

Naomie Harris is ready for her very own stand-alone James Bond film!

While making an appearance on Good Morning America on Monday (October 21) in New York City, the 43-year-old actress opened up about her Moonlight director Barry Jenkins wanting to do a spin-off film for her Bond character, Miss Moneypenny.

“He’s wanted to do a bad ass, kick-ass kind of action thing with Moneypenny which I’m all for actually,” Naomie revealed. “I got together with Barbara Broccoli, our producer, and I was like let’s make this happen but she wasn’t so down with it – but maybe one day it should. Who knows.”

“The conversation has started at least and we’re continuing it here so who knows,” Naomie concluded.

Naomie Harris also talked about her role as a police officer in the new action film Black and Blue, which will be released on October 25 – Watch the trailer here!

RichardTheBruce

October 22nd

1918: James Duncan (Jim) Lawrence is born--Detroit, Michigan.
(He dies 19 March 1994 at age 75--Summit, New Jersey.)

Lawrence, Jim

See the complete article here:

http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lawrence_jim

April 03, 2020

Working name of US teacher and author James Duncan Lawrence (1918-1994), active from 1941 until the 1980s; he was one of the main authors in the Second Series of Tom Swift books (see Children's SF), comprising the Tom Swift Jr sequence as by Victor Appleton II (see Victor Appleton); Lawrence's contributions begin with #5: Tom Swift and his Atomic Earth Blaster (1954) and end with #30: Tom Swift and his G-Force Inverter (1968), all as by Victor Appleton II (for list of titles by other authors see Tom Swift). Lawrence also revised various Hardy Boys titles as by Franklin W Dixon for 1960s reissue: see John Button for an example of mild genre interest. His remaining sf output consists of the unremarkable, mildly erotic Man from Planet X sequence – The Man from Planet X #1: The She-Beast (1975), The Man from Planet X #2: Tiger by the Tail (1975) and The Man from Planet X: The Devil to Pay (1975), all as by Hunter Adams – and two novels tied to Shared-World franchises: ESP McGee and the Haunted Mansion (1983 chap) for the ESP McGee series, and The Cutlass Clue (1986) for the A.I. Gang series. [JC]
James Duncan Lawrence

born Detroit, Michigan: 22 October 1918
died Summit, New Jersey: 19 March 1994

https://www.markcarlson-ghost.com/index.php/2019/09/12/friday-foster/

1959: Ivar Bryce by letter lectures Kevin McClory on spending.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 11 - The Search for James Bond

What rankled the most with Bryce was McClory's passion for touring The
Boy and the Bridge around the European film festival circuit, all at great cost (in
Venice, McClory chartered a luxury yacht to live on), but with little effect on
the box office. "I'm afraid the very thought of festivals infuriates me," he wrote
McClory on 22 October. "We simply cannot go on spending money faster than
it is coming in. Unless we stop spending, and start collecting some of the
proceeds, it is obvious not only shall I never get back my $400,000, but
neither of us will ever have any profits to divide."

1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car, the first of three volumes, illustrated by John Burningham. Ian Fleming writes this for son Caspar.

1964: Desde Rusia con amor released in Uruguay.

1981: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Για τα μάτια σου μόνο (James Bond, Agent 007: For Your Eyes Only) released in Greece.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 27 of 65 - "Fountain of Terror."

James Bond Jr - Fountain of Terror

Season 1 - Episode 27
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807285/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

James, IQ and Phoebe go to Tibet to find IQ's cousin, who was kidnapped by Dr. Derange, Jaws, Ms. Fortune and Snuffer, who use him to show him the way to a secret village where he hides a fountain that gives people eternal life.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (story)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / Snuffer / Tour guide (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut / Miss Fortune (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 27 - Fountain of Terror

1995: Sir Kingsley Amis CBE dies at age 73--London, England.
(Born 16 April 1922--Clapham, London, England.)

Obituary: Sir Kingsley Amis

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David Lodge | Monday 23 October 1995 01:02

Kingsley Amis was the most gifted of the British novelists who began publishing in the 1950s and were grouped together - by the media rather than by their own volition - as "Angry Young Men". He also proved himself to be the one with the most stamina and capacity for development.

Amis was a key figure in the history of British post-war fiction, but his originality was not always fully appreciated because it did not manifest itself in any obvious novelty of form. Indeed the literary new wave of the Fifties, in which Amis played a leading role (its poetic wing, to which he also contributed, was known as "The Movement"), was an aesthetically conservative force, consciously setting itself against modernist experimentation. A passage in a review Amis contributed to the Spectator in 1958 is representative in both its sentiments and the down-to-earth blokeishness of its manner:

The idea about experiment being the life-blood of the English novel is one that dies hard. "Experiment" in this context boils down pretty regularly to "obtruded oddity", whether in construction - multiple viewpoints and such - or in style. It is not felt that adventurousness in subject matter or attitude or tone really count.

This is a thinly disguised manifesto for Amis's own early fiction, but it is as obscuring as it is revealing. It is true that Lucky Jim (1954) and its successors dealt with what was then new or neglected social territory (for example, the provincial university) from unhackneyed perspectives (for example, the upwardly mobile young professional who is unimpressed by the values and lifestyle of the bourgeoisie). This is presumably what Amis meant by adventurousness of subject matter, attitude and tone. And it is also true that these novels were very traditional in form - the specific tradition to which they belonged being that of the English comic novel, in which satirical comedy of manners and robust farce are combined in an entertaining and easily assimilable story. Fielding, Dickens, Wodehouse and Waugh are some of Amis's obvious precursors. But it is also true that Amis's novels are triumphs of "style" - a way of using language that, if not obtrusively "odd", is highly original, and wonderfully expressive.

Dixon had read, or begun to read, dozens [of scholarly articles] like it, but his own seemed worse than most in its air of being convinced of its own usefulness and significance. "In considering this strangely neglected topic," it began. This what neglected topic? This strangely what topic? This strangely neglected what?

Lucky Jim (1954)
Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap, I got indoors, vigorously rubbing lipstick off my mouth with my handkerchief.

That Uncertain Feeling (1955)
All that type of stuff, dying and so on, was a long way off, not such a long way off as it had once been, admitted, and no doubt the time when it wouldn't be such a long way off as all that wasn't such a long way off as all that, but still. Still what?

Take a Girl Like You (1960)
There is nothing quite like this in English fiction before Amis (though a good deal afterwards, for other writers were quick to learn his tricks). It is a kind of English equivalent to the prose of Samuel Beckett (though Amis would have spluttered derisively at the comparison). In each case, language, denied the luxury of metaphysical affirmation and romantic afflatus, coils back upon itself, mocking its own pretensions as well as the follies and foibles of human behaviour. Both writers use repetition and bathos to marvellous effect, eschewing "elegant variation" and "fine writing" except for purposes of parody. The effort is always to be scrupulously exact, honest and undeceived. It was of course carried to a bleaker, more challenging and subversive extreme by Beckett.

Amis's fundamental scepticism is actually quite dark and disturbing, but it is cushioned or concealed by the conventions of the well-made novel. Some critics have seen this as an evasion or betrayal of artistic integrity, a kind of refusal to be "serious". Amis himself would have taken his stand on the writer's responsibility to entertain as well as instruct. The career of Kingsley Amis crystalises, without resolving, a perennial debate about the contemporary English novel: whether, by remaining faithful to the native realistic tradition and refusing the legacy of modernism, it ensures its own authenticity or fails to be significant in a Hegelian "world-historical sense".

Kingsley Amis was born, ironically enough, in 1922, the year in which the great masterpiece of modernist fiction, James Joyce's Ulysses, was published. He was brought up in a dull outer suburb of south London called Norbury, the only child of respectable lower- middle-class parents, and won a scholarship to the City of London School, to which he commuted daily like his father, a clerk in a commercial office. From this school, of which he always spoke highly, Amis went up to Oxford in 1941, as an Exhibitioner of St John's College, to read English. Here he met Philip Larkin, and formed the basis of a lifelong friendship. The two young men had similar backgrounds, tastes, and sensibilities, and fertilised each other's imaginative development. In this chance conjunction lay the seeds of the literary revolution of the 1950s.

After only a year at Oxford, Amis was called up for military service and served in the Royal Signals in Normandy, Belgium and Germany from 1944 to 1945, an experience which left surprisingly little overt trace in his work apart from a few early short stories. After the Second World War he returned to Oxford, graduating with a First Class degree in 1947, and began research towards a BLitt which he never completed. In this period he kept in touch with Larkin, now a librarian at University College, Leicester, and met another young undergraduate who shared his admiration for Larkin's verse, John Wain. The nucleus of the Movement was beginning to form.

In 1947 Amis published his first "slim volume" of verse, Bright November, and later, along with Larkin and Wain, was one of the contributors to Robert Conquest's anthology New Lines (1956), which marked the arrival of the Movement on the English poetic scene, and its displacement of the late modernist mode epitomised by Dylan Thomas (memorably parodied in That Uncertain Feeling). Amis continued to write poetry, not very prolifically, throughout his life. In this department he was always somewhat overshadowed by Larkin, to whom he paid the homage of imitation, but he was an excellent exponent of light verse, especially of a satirical and ribald kind.

Amis married Hilary Bardwell in 1948, and the following year took up a post as lecturer in English Literature at the University College of Wales, Swansea. He settled down in that pleasant but deeply provincial seaside town to teach, write, and raise a family of three children, one of whom was called Martin. From this congenial but humdrum and materially somewhat pinched existence, Amis was catapulted to fame by the publication of Lucky Jim (dedicated to Larkin) in January 1954. It became a bestseller and a cult book - not surprisingly, for it was a sublimely funny novel which also put its finger very accurately on certain changes which had taken place in post-war British culture and society. Although Amis himself belonged to a small elite of pre-war scholarship boys, he articulated through his hero, Jim Dixon, the feelings of a much larger number of people in the next generation (my own) who were products of the 1944 Education Act and the Welfare State. Through the comedy of Jim's private fantasies and accidental breaches of social decorum, Amis gave us, as it were, permission not to be overawed by the social and cultural codes of the class to which we had been elevated by education. It was enormously liberating.

Measured on a simple laugh-out-loud scale, Lucky Jim was probably the funniest novel Amis wrote, and for some readers his career was therefore downhill all the way. But in spite of his talent for comedy, Amis was, in the words of Larkin's poem, always surprising in himself a hunger to be more serious, and in the novels that followed he combined amusing social satire with a thoughtful and sometimes uncomfortable investigation of the moral life, especially in the sexual sphere. Take A Girl Like You (1960) was a particularly interesting response to the first intimations of the Permissive Society.

Because of the antiestablishment stance of the early novels, Amis was identified with the Left, and in 1957 he declared his allegiance to the Labour Party in a Fabian pamphlet. Ten years later, however, he announced his conversion to Conservatism, in an essay entitled "Why Lucky Jim Turned Right". Henceforward he adopted a combatively right-wing stance on the political issues of the day - Vietnam, nuclear arms, the expansion of higher education and women's liberation.

There was always an element of deliberate provocation and self-parody in this stance, as in the case of Evelyn Waugh (whom Amis came to resemble more and more, in all kinds of ways, as he got older), but there is no reason to doubt the fundamental sincerity of his views. The young Amis's identification with the party of the Welfare State was always emotional rather than ideological, and Lucky Jim was a rebel rather than a revolutionary. As soon as left-wing attitudes became trendy, as they did in the late 1960s, Amis's innate scepticism was turned upon them and their proponents.

One does have the impression, however, that in an increasingly unsympathetic cultural climate Amis became less certain of his constituency, and of his own literary identity, than he had been in the heyday of the Movement. This may have been connected with change and upheaval in his private life. In 1961 he had moved from Swansea to Cambridge, to teach English as a Fellow of Peterhouse, but the notoriously factious English Faculty was not very welcoming. Dr Leavis was reported to have described his new colleague as "a pornographer", a failure in close reading if nothing else, for Amis's novels, though much concerned with sex, are notable for their reticence about the sexual act. He resigned his fellowship after three years to become a full-time writer. At about the same time his marriage broke up, and he married the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard.

In the late Sixties and Seventies he experimented a good deal with "genre" fiction: science fiction (The Anti-Death League, 1966, and The Alteration, 1976), the James Bond thriller (Colonel Sun, 1968), the classic detective story (The Riverside Villas Murder, l973) and the ghost story (The Green Man, 1969). These forms perhaps attracted him as ways of escaping the constraints of the realistic novel and the expectations of an audience who kept hoping he would repeat Lucky Jim. In some of them he addressed himself to weighty philosophic and religious themes, such as the nature of evil.

In spite of having had an essentially secular upbringing, Amis always took a lively, though pugnaciously sceptical, interest in Christian doctrine. An essay boldly entitled "On Christ's Nature" reveals an impressive familiarity with the New Testament, and a characteristic refusal to be awed. (A representative passage raises "the question why, if God wanted human beings to have religion, he did not simply give it to them, instead of arranging the world in one way and then sending someone along to explain that really the whole set-up was quite different").

Amis's best novel after Take A Girl Like You was arguably Ending Up (1974), a black comic tale of a group of retired people failing to cope with the afflictions of old age. "I suppose", says one of their young relatives to another in the course of a particularly joyless Christmas, "I suppose with luck we might get a couple of weeks between the last of them going and us being in their situation." The brilliantly titled Jake's Thing (1978) brought the same mordant scrutiny to bear on male impotence and sex therapy, often to wonderfully comic effect, though without the elegant economy of its predecessor. Both these novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

There followed something of a lull in Amis's creativity. But in the late Eighties he enjoyed a kind of second spring, producing in quick succession Stanley and the Women (1984), The Old Devils (1986), Difficulties with Girls (1988) and The Folks that Live on the Hill (1990). The first of these achieved some notoriety as a misogynist tract, and it was rumoured that a feminist cabal in the New York publishing world significantly delayed its publication in America. Amis's distrust of the female psyche was evident, for those who had eyes to see, as early as Lucky Jim, in the characterisation of the hysterical and devious Margaret. Stanley and the Women caused particular offence perhaps because it is cunningly constructed to catch the unwary liberal reader in its narrative trap. In Difficulties with Girls, however, Amis made some amends with a sympathetic portrait of Jenny Bunn, the heroine of Take a Girl Like You, coping with marriage to the compulsively unfaithful Patrick Standish.

These late novels are notable for their intricate if uneventful narrative structures and frequent shifts of point of view, which require considerable powers of concentration and inference from the reader. The best of them was The Old Devils, for which Amis was deservedly awarded the Booker Prize in 1986. This is another fictional study of old age. The setting in Amis's old haunts in south Wales lends the book an affectionate, nostalgic glow which is deceptive; an appalling abyss of pain, despair and anxiety gradually opens up beneath the novel's comic surface. But Amis is in total command of his material and his unique narrative style. The reader knows he is in for a treat from the first few pages describing Malcolm's cautious negotiation of breakfast:

He had not bitten anything with his front teeth since losing a top middle crown on a slice of liver-sausage six years earlier, and the right-hand side of his mouth was a no-go area, what with the hole in the lower lot where stuff was always apt to stick and a funny piece of gum that seemed to have got detached from something and waved about whenever it got the chance.

Kingsley Amis's second marriage broke up in 1983 and in later life he happily shared a house in Hampstead with his first wife, Hillie, and her second husband, Lord Kilmarnock - a twist in his biography that might have come from one of his own late novels. He took pride in the literary success of his son Martin, who occupies much the same key position among the British novelists who came of age in the 1970s as Kingsley did among those of the 1950s - a dynastic succession unprecedented in the annals of English literature. In spite of the differences of tone and ideology that divide them, it is a fascinating critical exercise to track the stylistic gene that unites these two novelists.

It would be an understatement to say that Kingsley Amis enjoyed a drink. He was an opinionated connoisseur of wine, and an unsurpassed observer of bar-room speech and behaviour. In later life he was a habitue of the Garrick Club, in London. He was appointed CBE in 1981, was granted the freedom of the City of London in 1989, and knighted in 1990. In many ways he became a pillar of the Establishment that he had once tilted at. He did not care for foreign travel, and apart from a spell in Portugal to spend the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1955 (which he was awarded for Lucky Jim), and a couple of visiting professorships in America a few years later, "Abroad" made little impact on his life or work. The title of the book inspired by the visit to Portugal was I Like It Here, and "here" meant England. He exploited the English prejudice that foreigners speak funny to marvellous comic effect - witness the overseas students solemnly interrogating the hero of I Like It Here about Grim Gin, Ifflen Voff, Zumzit Mum, Shem Shoice, and that popular classic Sickies of Sickingdom by Edge-Crown.

In 1991 Amis published his Memoirs, consisting mainly of amusing, scandalous and sometimes cruel anecdotes about his literary contemporaries, many of whom were now dead, including Philip Larkin. The two men kept a wary distance from each other in later years, communicating mainly by letter, as if conscious they could never recover the easy intimacy of youthful friendship. "He was my best friend and I never saw enough of him or knew him as well as I wanted to," Amis wrote, rather sadly, in the Memoirs.

This year, Eric Jacobs published a biography, with Amis's collaboration. It revealed (as literary biographies tend to do) a closer correspondence between the life and the fiction than one might have supposed, especially as regards difficulties with women. It also revealed a surprisingly vulnerable person behind the bluff, blimpish public mask, and the poised, sardonic prose stylist: a rather timid man, fearful of flying, unable to drive a car or perform the simplest domestic tasks, needing a regular and repetitive daily routine to keep the black dog of depression at bay: work, club, pub, telly. Work was the most important of these resources. In spite of increasing physical debility, Amis kept writing up till the end of his life. You Can't Do Both (1994) was generally well received and is perhaps the most openly autobiographical of his novels. If The Biographer's Moustache, published earlier this year, was not the biographee's revenge that many reviewers had hoped for, it still had more than a touch of past mastery.

In That Uncertain Feeling the hero is accosted one evening in the street of a small Welsh town by two lascars, one of whom seems to ask him:

"Where is pain and bitter laugh?" This was just the question for me, but before I could smite my breast and cry, "In here, friend", the other little man had said: "My cousin say, we are new in these town and we wish to know where is piano and bit of life, please?"

That is one of my favourite quotations from Amis because it seems to epitomise his art. He did not dodge the pain of existence and his laughter was sometimes bitter, but he always retained the liberating, life- enhancing gift of comic surprise.

Kingsley Amis, writer: born London 16 April 1922; CBE 1981; Kt 1990; books include A Frame of Mind 1953, Lucky Jim 1954, That Uncertain Feeling 1955, A Case of Samples 1956, I Like it Here 1958, Take a Girl Like You 1960, New Maps of Hell 1960, My Enemy's Enemy 1962, One Fat Englishman 1963, The Egyptologists 1965, (with Robert Conquest) The James Bond Dossier 1965, The Anti-Death League 1966, The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 1966, A Look Round the Estate 1967, Colonel Sun 1968, I Want it Now 1968, The Green Man 1969, What Became of Jane Austen? 1970, Girl, 20 1971, On Drink 1972, The Riverside Villas Murder 1973, Ending Up 1974, Rudyard Kipling and His World 1975, The Alteration 1976, Jake's Thing 1978, Collected Poems 1944-79 1979, Russian Hide-and-Seek 1980, Collected Short Stories 1980, Every Day Drinking 1983, How's Your Glass? 1984, Stanley and the Women 1984, The Old Devils 1986, (with J. Cochrane) Great British Songbook 1986, The Crime of the Century 1987, Difficulties with Girls 1988, The Folks that Live on the Hill 1990, We are All Guilty 1991, Memoirs 1991[/i], The Russian Girl 1992, Mr Barrett's Secret and Other Stories 1993, You Can't Do Both 1994, The Biographer's Moustache 1995; married 1948 Hilary Bardwell (two sons, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1965), 1965 Elizabeth Jane Howard (marriage dissolved 1983); died London 22 October 1995.

Kingsley Amis
(Kingsley William Amis)

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/a/kingsley-amis/
(1922 - 1995) Father of Martin Amis, husband of Elizabeth Jane Howard

aka Robert Markham, William Tanner

Sir Kingsley Amis, who died in October 1995, was born in London in 1922. In 1954 his first novel, 'Lucky Jim', burst onto the literary scene with extraordinary force, gaining him instant fame and notoriety as one of the most prominent of the so-called 'angry young men'. He went on to write over twenty novels (winning the Booker Prize in 1986 for 'The Old Devils'), and many volumes of poetry and non-fiction. He was knighted in 1991. His last novel, 'The Biographer's Moustache', was published in September 1995.

Genres: Literary Fiction, Thriller

Series
Jim Dixon
Lucky Jim (1954)
That Uncertain Feeling (1955)
I Like it Here (1958)
Lucky Jim's Politics (1968)

Jenny Bunn
1. Take a Girl Like You (1960)
2. Difficulties with Girls (1988)

Novels
My Enemy's Enemy (1962)
One Fat Englishman (1963)
The Egyptologists (1965) (with Robert Conquest)
The Anti-Death League (1966)
I Want It Now (1968)
The Green Man (1969)
Girl, 20 (1971)
Dear Illusion (1972)
The Riverside Villas Murder (1973)
Ending Up (1974)
The Crime of the Century (1975)
The Alteration (1976)
The Darkwater Hall Mystery (1978)
Jake's Thing (1978)
Russian Hide-and-Seek (1980)
Stanley and the Women (1984)
The Old Devils (1986)
The Folks That Live On the Hill (1990)
We Are All Guilty (1991)
The Russian Girl (1992)
The Biographer's Moustache (1995)

Omnibus
A Kingsley Amis Omnibus (1980)

Collections
Bright November (poems) (1947)
A Frame of Mind (poems) (1953)
Poems: Fantasy Portraits (poems) (1954)
A Case of Samples (poems) (1956)
Poems (poems) (1962)
A Look Round the Estate (poems) (1967)
Collected Poems 1944-1979 (poems) (1979)
Collected Short Stories (1980)
Mr Barrett's Secret (1993)
Complete Stories (2011)

Series contributed to
James Bond Non Fiction
The Book of Bond (1965) (as by William Tanner)
The James Bond Dossier (1965)

James Bond Fiction
James Bond (as by Robert Markham)
Colonel Sun (1968)

Anthologies edited
Spectrum (1962) (with Robert Conquest)
Spectrum 2 (1962) (with Robert Conquest)
Spectrum 3 (1963) (with Robert Conquest)
Spectrum 4 (1965) (with Robert Conquest)
Spectrum 5 (1966) (with Robert Conquest)
The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse (1978)
The Faber Popular Reciter (1978)
The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981)
The Amis Anthology (1988)
The Pleasure of Poetry (1990)
The Amis Story Anthology (1992)

Non fiction
New Maps of Hell (1960)
What Became of Jane Austen? (1970)
Tennyson (1972)
On Drink (1972)
Rudyard Kipling and his World (1975)
Harold's Years (1977)
An Arts Policy? (1979)
Every Day Drinking (1983)
How's Your Glass? (1984)
The Great British Songbook (1986) (with James Cochrane)
The Amis Collection (1990)
Memoirs (1991)
Kingsley Amis in Life and Letters (1991)
You Can't Do Both (1994)
The King's English (1997)
The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2000)
Conversations with Kingsley Amis (2010)
Raising A Smile (2019)

Anthologies containing stories by Kingsley Amis
The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1967)
Best SF: 1974 (1975)
aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 8
The Road to Science Fiction 5 (1998)

Short stories
My Enemy's Enemy [short story] (1955)
Court of Inquiry (1956)
The 2003 Claret (1958)
Moral Fibre (1958)
Hemingway in Space (1960)
Something Strange (1960)
All the Blood Within Me (1962)
I Spy Strangers (1962)
The Friends of Plonk (1964)
Dear Illusion [short story] (1972)
Mason's Life (1972)
Too Much Trouble (1972)
Who or What Was It? (1972)
The Darkwater Hall Mystery [short story] (1978)
The House on the Headland (1979)
To See the Sun (1980)

Awards
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1974) : Ending Up
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1977) : The Alteration
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1978) : Jake's Thing
The Man Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1986) : The Old Devils

Books about Kingsley Amis
The Anti-Egotist (1996) by Paul Fussell
Lucky Him (2001) by Richard Bradford

Kingsley Amis recommends
The Bell (1958). Iris Murdoch.
"A distinguished novelist of a rare kind."
The Other Side of the Sky (1958), Arthur C Clarke.
"Science fiction of the finest quality: original, imaginative, disturbing."
Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (1959), Brian Aldiss.
"...Takes us far from the here-and-now into regions of sharply-flavoured eeriness."
The Drowned World (1962), J G Ballard.
"Ballard is one of the brightest new stars in post-war fiction. This tale of strange and terrible adventure in a world of steaming jungles has an oppressive power reminiscent of Conrad."
Day Million (1970), Frederik Pohl.
"The most consistently able writer science fiction, in the modern sense, has yet produced."
The Xanadu Talisman (1981). (Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin, book 9) Peter O'Donnell.
"One of the great partnerships in fiction, bearing comparison with that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson."
The Alternative Detective (1993) (Hob Draconian, book 1), Robert Sheckley.
"Always he crackles with ideas."

2002: Warner Bros. and Maverick Records release the "Die Another Day" single (delayed from 10 October due to a radio station leak). The video premieres worldwide on MTV the same day--a first for the music channel.

2008: Jessica Fellowes' piece "Necklace with a starring role" appear on The Telegraph online.

Necklace with a starring role

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG3365680/Necklace-with-a-starring-role.html
BY Jessica Fellowes | 22 October 2008

In Quantum of Solace, it's not a gizmo or Q invention that holds the key to the plot, but a piece of jewellery.

Having designed two sets of earrings and a loveknot necklace for Eva Green's Vesper Lynd (above) to wear in the casino scene for Casino Royale, jeweller Sophie Harley was called upon once again. In Quantum of Solace, the beginning of which is set an hour after the climax of Casino Royale, the necklace makes another appearance.

"Obviously, the producers were very strict about revealing the plot," says Sophie, "But they told me that the necklace is the only thing that Bond has left of Vesper Lynd's. In the trailer there is a shot of the necklace on a table just as Camille (Olga) asks Bond: "Do you love someone?". "I do," he replies.

Is this the end of Bond as we knew him? Has he at last found "enduring love" or will he stay true to form and give the necklace to another girl?

"The producers did indicate that the necklace would be worn again in Quantum," says Sophie.

The original loveknot necklace can be bought for £1,939, as can the original garnet drop earrings (£323 and £384) but there are also cheaper designs based on the same shape, from £135. www.sophieharley.com ; 020 7430 2070.

2012: The Italian Cultural Institute at St. George’s Square, Valletta opposite The Palace (Malta’s Parliament house, next door to the Attorney General’s Office) hosts The Science of James Bond. Free.

The Science of James Bond (22 Oct.)

See the complete article here:

https://www.um.edu.mt/newsoncampus/eventscommunity/archive/the_science_of_james_bond_22_oc/center]

To celebrate James Bond's fiftieth anniversary and in anticipation of the forthcoming SkyFall in local cinemas, Euro Media Forum, Science is Culture in conjunction with Eden Cinemas are organising The Science of James Bond event taking place on Monday 22 October at 1900hrs at the Italian Cultural Institute, St George’s Square, Valletta opposite The Palace (Malta’s Parliament house) and next door to the Attorney General’s Office. Entrance is free.

Are 007’s gadgets science fact or fiction? From Bond’s first gadget – the stylish briefcase that featured hidden ammunition, gold coins and an AR7 folding sniper’s rifle with infrared telescopic sight, a teargas cartridge disguised as a tin of talcum powder. The lethal luggage was only the prelude to the world’s most famous car - the sleek Aston Martin DB5 that shoots bullets, has revolving number plates, a rear bullet proof screen and had Connery’s Bond in awe with its ejector seat that’s handy at disposing of passengers at the push of a button. The science and technology of Q’s gadgets played by the late Desmond Llewellyn, the legendary gadget master of MI6 has thrilled movie audiences and kept gadget enthusiasts guessing for five decades as to whether these gadgets are indeed truly possible.

The Science of James Bond will take the audience on a fascinating journey through the science that underlies Bond’s most fantastic missions. Bond Gadget enthusiast, scientist David Pace and film researcher Justin Camilleri will provide a highly entertaining, informative look at the real-world science behind Bond’s gadgets, such as the Omega Seamaster laser watch that cuts through steel, the White Lotus Esprit car that turns into a submarine, the ever popular rocket firing cigarette and last but not least the Aston Martin Vanquish that turns invisible. Bond villains’ gadgets will also be examined such as how the first watch gadget in From Russia With Love was not issued to Bond but Robert Shaw’s villain Red Grant. Whether Jaws’ (Richard Kiel) steel teeth qualify as a gadget and how Rosa Klebb’s dagger shoe was so influential that it would be used by Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight. The late Q’s ingenious inventions which have accompanied Bond through his astonishing battles beneath the earth, sea, skies and outer space, will be analysed ,as well as the new Q for the Facebook generation played by Ben Whishaw who supplies Daniel Craig’s Bond with his first ever fingerprint recognition Walter PPK in the upcoming SkyFall.

The audience is invited to participate and put forward to the panel their questions regarding their favourite James Bond or villain gadget. The speakers promise an interesting debate and fantastic entertainment, seeking to answer the questions about the limits of science and technology in James Bond movies, the laws of nature, and the future of gadget spy technology.

To spice up the evening there will also be James Bond memorabilia exhibition on display and a 007 quiz, where the first winner will win an all inclusive package – two cinema tickets, a bowling game for two persons and free parking. The second winner will win two cinema tickets and free parking. The third winner will win two cinema tickets. So quiz participants keep your eyes open on the clues behind the science, gadgets, exploits, and enemies of the world's greatest spy!

2012: University of Leeds Political and International Studies (POLIS) hosts a workshop discussion of The Politics of James Bond.

For Staff
Research and innovation news archive - October 2012
https://www.leeds.ac.uk/forstaff/news?mmyyyy=102012&categoryID=30389&page=2
The politics of James Bond
22 October 2012

James Bond matters! As the films enter their 50th year, POLIS is hosting a half-day workshop to discuss the Politics of James Bond (in the broadest sense of the word).

Posted in: Research and innovation

2012: Sky launches a James Bond HD channel in Belgrade, Serbia.
2012: David Arnold and Thomas Newman are interviewed at Classic FM Studios, London.

James Bond: The Music of 007
22 October 2012, 12:35

Listen to James Bond's music and get to know the challenges of writing a 007 soundtrack in our exclusive interview with Bond score composers Thomas Newman and David Arnold.

It's not every evening we see two Hollywood legends spend the evening at the Classic FM studios. Thomas Newman, composer of the soundtrack to the new Bond film, Skyfall, was joined by David Arnold, who wrote the scores for the last five Bond films, for a live interview with movie music expert Tommy Pearson. This special programme was recorded in front of a live studio audience a little earlier this month – and you can listen to it again below.

With such a massive film franchise, there's a lot of pressure on soundtrack composers to deliver, but Arnold revealed it's an honour to be able to use the iconic Bond theme: "It's a moment of great joy. Whenever we did the Bond theme at a recording session that was the one where everyone wanted to attend, the one where we had the most people and everyone sat on the edge of their seats a little bit more."

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3:25 excerpt

2015: The Sydney Morning Herald reports unanimous raves in the UK for Spectre.

EntertainmentMovies

Spectre movie reviews: James Bond's latest gets unanimous raves in the UK

See the complete article here:

https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/spectre-movie-reviews-james-bonds-latest-gets-unanimous-raves-in-the-uk-20151022-gkfmkk.html

By Karl Quinn - 22 October 2015 — 9:01pm, first published at 1:06pm

The first reviews of Spectre have landed from the UK, and they are uniformly raves.

The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian have all lavished the 24th James Bond film with five-star ratings, while The Sun and the London Evening Standard raved without rating the film, dubbing their assessments "first impressions".

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Monica Bellucci with Daniel Craig in Spectre.

At any rate, the unanimous praise almost guarantees a monster opening in the UK for the fourth film starring Daniel Craig as 007 this weekend.

In Spectre, Bond comes face to face with a ghost from his past in the form of Christoph Waltz's Franz Oberhauser, head of the secretive and up-to-no-good organisation SPECTRE (the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion).

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Cool as cucumber, sharp as ice: Daniel Craig in the 24th Bond film Spectre.

In The Telegraph, Robbie Collin wrote that "ghosts of Bond films past come gliding through the film, trailing shivers of pleasure in their wake". He praised the film's director Sam Mendes, who also made 2012's Skyfall, the most successful film in the long-running franchise with global box office of more than $US1.1 billion ($A1.38 billion), for what he described as "a swaggering show of confidence".

Kate Muir of The Times said the fourth outing for Daniel Craig as James Bond "is achingly cool, as sleek and powerful as the silver Aston Martin DB10 that races through the movie".

She added that Mendes and Craig now seemed so comfortable with the terrain "that a relaxed wit percolates almost every scene. Their recipe, like the car, now seems to be bulletproof".

For The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw described the film as "pure action mayhem with a real sense of style" and called it "a terrifically exciting, spectacular, almost operatically delirious 007 adventure".

Could the latest Bond film shatter the record set by the last, 2012's Skyfall?

The Evening Standard's Ben Travis said "director Sam Mendes has, against all the odds, delivered a film that at least matches, and perhaps even betters, Skyfall", while The Sun's showbiz reporter Ed Dyson effused that "all the classic elements fans expect from Bond await in Spectre – and then some", adding that "we were expecting you to deliver Mr Bond... and you certainly didn't disappoint".

What does disappoint, though, is the fact that Australia will have to wait until November 12 for its chance to similarly froth in collective excitement.

Hurry up, Mr Bond. We've been expecting you.

2015: BBC News reports on 5-star reviews of Spectre.

Spectre: Five-star reviews greet new Bond movie

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34600980

22 October 2015
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Daniel Craig in Spectre image copyright MGM/Columbia/Eon
Daniel Craig makes his fourth big-screen appearance as Bond in the eagerly awaited film

Critics have given the new James Bond film an enthusiastic welcome, with one saluting it as "pure action mayhem".

Spectre, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw continued in his five-star review, is "terrifically exciting, spectacular [and] uproariously entertaining".

The Times said Sam Mendes' film was "achingly cool", while The Independent said it was "every bit the equal of its predecessor", 2012 release Skyfall.

Critics were shown Spectre on Wednesday ahead of its release next week.

The film sees Daniel Craig return as British spy James Bond, aka 007, in a globe-trotting blockbuster named after a sinister criminal syndicate.

Two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, French actress Lea Seydoux and Italy's Monica Bellucci also appear in the 24th official entry in the long-running series.

'Jaw-dropping'

According to the Daily Mirror, Spectre is "an adventure right up there with the superspy's best" featuring "moments of jaw-dropping stuntwork".

The Sun's reviewer concurred, saying the film contains "all the classic elements fans expect", including a "jaw-dropping opening sequence".

Variety also singled out this "expensively ludicrous opening sequence, set in Mexico City on the Day of the Dead," saying it "ranks among the great 007 intros".

Other industry papers were less effusive, though, with the Hollywood Reporter saying it "ultimately feels like a lesser film than Skyfall, falling back on cliche and convention."

Screen International, meanwhile, said the film "falls back on the formula to deliver a slightly flat, old-fashioned 007 by the numbers".

RichardTheBruce

October 23rd

1959: Ian Fleming writes an enthusiastic letter to Ivan Bryce on the Bond film project.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 11 - The Search for James Bond

While the growing rift widened between Xanadu's principal players,
Fleming remained as positive as ever about the Bond picture. "I'm personally
of the opinion that we have a financial winner in this film," he wrote excitedly
to Bryce on 23 October. "Whether done in colour or monochrome, so long as
we have a couple good stars, though Jean de la Bruyere should remember
that Bond must be an Englishman." This of course refers to Bruyere's earlier
suggestion that an American actor be chosen. This flies in the face of Fleming's
previous suggestions of a Welsh-born Burton and his acceptance of James
Stewart donning a tuxedo. Nor was Fleming much interested in going into
partnership with Columbia, or indeed anyone else, but keeping the Bond film
solely as a Xanadu production, keeping it, as he says, "in the family." So
confident was he that they had the right team "with Kevin as producer, X as
director. Whittingham as script writer and you as general organizer, assisted as
much as possible by me, I don't see why the vehicle shouldn't roll."

1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films the Angels of Death at Piz Gloria.

1986: From Russia With Love re-released in Norway.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 28 of 65 - "The Emerald Key."

James Bond Jr - The Emerald Key

Season 1 - Episode 28
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807124/?ref_=ttep_ep28

James and IQ's friendship is under threat when IQ has taken a fancy on a pretty girl who uncle has been abducted by Derange to get his hand on a golden statue which is a key to a fortune of gold in a temple in Mexico.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Skullcap (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 28 - The Emerald Key

2012: The Atlantic leveraging The Wire report on Bond's declining returns.

The Declining Return on Investing
in James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2012/10/declining-return-investment-james-bond/322215/

The new James Bond film Skyfall premiered in London today for the franchise's 50th anniversary, but 007 does not give as much bang for buck as he used to, according to this chart from business intelligence company BIME.
By Serena Dai
October 23, 2012

The new James Bond film Skyfall premiered in London today for the franchise's 50th anniversary, but 007 does not give as much bang for buck as he used to, according to this chart from business intelligence company BIME. Using data from The Numbers, BIME compared James Bond film budgets with each film's return on investment, or the gross earnings divided by the budget. The yellow bars represent budgets, which have increased steadily, and the line graph represents ROI. As you can see, since 1963's Dr. No, James Bond movies have gotten more expensive and less profitable.

While production companies invest more money in the films, they're making far less than they did in the '60s. Of course, this may speak more to the movie industry as a whole rather then the value of Bond. Movie production costs are higher now, and often franchises earn money from peripheral products like video games and merchandise—not just ticket sales. From the looks of the solid reviews, Skyfall, which premieres in the U.S. on November 9, will probably keep the franchise strong, even if huge numbers of people don't go to see it.

This article is from the archive of our partner The Wire.

2012: Skyfall premieres at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

2015: The Telegraph explains the meaning of 13 Bond film titles.

13 James Bond film titles explained

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/james-bond-spectre/titles-explained-goldfinger-quantum-goldeneye/

Sean Connery in Goldfinger, the title of which was named after
Ian Fleming's golf partner's cousin, who sued him
Credit: Everett/REX

Patrick Smith 23 October 2015 • 11:17am

Which Bond film owes its title to a typo? Who was Goldfinger? And what's a quantum? Ahead of the SPECTRE release, we reveal the meanings of previous 007 titles

1. Goldfinger (1964)
The first James Bond film to win an Oscar took its title from a man 007 creator Ian Fleming used to know called Ernő Goldfinger. He was the cousin (by marriage) of Fleming’s golf partner, John Blackwell, and threatened to sue over the use of his name. The matter was settled out of court.

2. You Only Live Twice (1967)
Fleming was inspired by the 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, who wrote these words more than 300 years before they were used as the title for the 12th Bond novel.

Sean Connery and Donald Pleasance in 1967's You Only Live Twice,
the title of which came from Japanese poetry
Credit: MGM/Everett/REX

3. Diamonds are Forever (1971)
In 1947, copywriter Frances Gerety coined the phrase "A Diamond Is Forever" in an advertising campaign for De Beers. It seems inconceivable that Fleming wouldn’t have been directly influenced by this.

4. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Unlike the film, The Spy Who Loved Me novel is told in the first person by a young Canadian woman, Vivienne Michel, and Bond doesn’t appear until two thirds of the way through. The title makes a lot more sense when you think about it that way.

5. Octopussy (1983)
The 1983 movie takes its name from a coracle Ian Fleming received from his neighbour – and lover – in Jamaica, Blanche Blackwell (the small boat was called Octopussy].

Peter Lamont's concept for Octopussy's barge. The film, incidentally,
shared its name with one of Ian Fleming's boats
Credit: 1984 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Studios inc, and Danjaq LLC.

6. A View To A Kill (1985)
This grammatically suspect title comes from an unrelated Fleming short story called "From A View To a Kill". The film attempts to make some sort of sense of it with the following lines of dialogue from villain Zorian (Christopher Walken) and his henchwoman May Day (Grace Jones): Her: "What a view." Him: "To a kill!"

7. Licence to Kill (1989)
Timothy Dalton’s second Bond outing was originally titled Licence Revoked, which makes perfect sense given that in the film M suspends 007 after he refuses to give up the hunt for the person who fed his friend Felix Leiter to a shark. However, because polled American audiences said the phrase reminded them of confiscated driving licences, it was changed to Licence to Kill – absurd, really, when you consider it’s the only film he’s not legally allowed to shoot people.

8. GoldenEye (1995)
Pierce Brosnan made his Bond debut in this 1995 film, named after Ian Fleming’s estate in Jamaica. The novelist claimed a number of origins for the name of the estate, including Carson McCullers’s Reflections in a Golden Eye and Operation Goldeneye, a plan he developed during the Second World War for maintaining communication between Britain and Gibraltar. Goldeneye is also a type of duck …

GoldenEye, which was named after Fleming's Jamaican estate, is also a type of duck
Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

9. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
The film was originally supposed to be called Tomorrow Never Lies – a reference to the (fictional) newspaper, Tomorrow, run by the villainous Elliot Carver (played by Jonathan Pryce). Word has it, however, that when the title was faxed to MGM, there was a typo, and the marketing department preferred the incorrect version. The title for Tomorrow Never Lies, meanwhile, came to scriptwriter Bruce Feirstein while he was listening to The Beatles’ trippy song, "Tomorrow Never Knows".

10. The World Is Not Enough (1999)
This phrase, believed to originate from Alexander the Great’s epitaph, appeared in the 1963 Bond novel On Her Majesty’s Secret Service as the family motto of Sir Thomas Bond, whose Coat of Arms 007 is shown while on assignment.

Syd Cain's designs for Blofeld's coat of arms in On Her Majesty's Secret Service,
the film in which Bond learns his own family motto
Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Studios inc, and Danjaq. LLC.

11. Die Another Day (2002)
There’s a 1896 poem by AE Housman called A Shropshire Lad, which features the line “But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day”. That’s the only explanation for this terrible title for an equally terrible film.

12. Quantum of Solace (2008)
After this title was announced in 2008, many struggled to understand its meaning – including the film's screenwriter, Paul Haggis. "I have no idea," he admitted when asked. "It's not my title." Indeed, it's the title of a Fleming short story about Bond meeting a cuckolded husband, and more inquiring minds were quick to point out that "quantum" is the smallest possible amount of a physical property. For Daniel Craig, it was about relationships: "When they go wrong, when there's nothing left, when the spark has gone, when the fire's gone out, there's no quantum of solace," he clarified. But perhaps comedian Adam Buxton explained it best in his alternative Quantum of Solace theme song: “I want a quantum of solace, but just a quantum / I know they do big bags of solace, but I don’t want ‘em.”

13. SPECTRE (2015)
SPECTRE is a fictional terrorist organisation that featured in both the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming and the films adapted from them. Fleming originally pitted Bond against SMERSH, the arm of the KGB set up by Stalin as an equivalent of the Gestapo. Believing the Cold War to be coming to an end, and fearing a recurring Soviet enemy would make his novels look dated, the author told Playboy in 1964 that he created this network of spies and assassins to replace the Soviets as natural enemies for the British Secret Service.

Franz Oberhauser: SPECTRE's number one in the new film

The organisation's name is an acronym for SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. It made its first appearance in Fleming's 1961 novel Thunderball, and on screen in the first Bond film, Dr No (1962). It is headed by the franchise's ultimate villain, the cat-stroking Ernst Stavro Blofeld, whose name was inspired by a boy Fleming knew at Eton, Thomas Blofeld – father of the cricket commentator Henry "Blowers" Blofeld.

2015: Capital releases "Writing's on the Wall" as a CD single.

2015: Universal Music Classics releases the Spectre soundtrack by Thomas Newman in the UK.

RichardTheBruce

October 24th

1943: Martin Campbell is born--Hastings, New Zealand.

1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Stacey showering. Plus the robot.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 9 of 65 - "Ship of Terror."

James Bond Jr - Ship of Terror

Season 1 - Episode 29

A theft by a S.C.U.M. agent of a pendant belonging to James's friend Prince Malmo leads the gang on a deadly cruise, stalked by Walker D. Plank and a metallic henchman.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Ed Gilbert ... Captain Walker D.Plank (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut / Pirate Parrot (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 29 - Ship of Terror

2005: The Design Museum showcases iconic Robert Brownjohn contributions.

Robert Brownjohn at the Design Museum

See the complete article here:

http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/1804

Many of the most memorable images of the Sixties are on show as part of
the Design Museum's Robert Brownjohn restrospective.

From the top floor windows of the museum on the exhibition's opening day it was possible to watch Daniel Craig arrive by speed boat on the far bank where he was revealed as the latest actor to play James Bond.

In the exhibition we learn that it was Brownjohn's work which helped to make the James Bond legend so enduring. His opening title sequences for the 1963 Bond film From Russia With Love and the 1964 Bond film Goldfinger, which required exacting attention to detail in a pre-digital age, can be enjoyed on a screen. Almost as important is the poster depicting Sean Connery and Honor Blackman which had such impact.

Also playing are his Midland Bank cinema commercials which received standing ovations at the Cannes Film Festival.

Brownjohn's arresting Fifties' graphic art includes a Harper's cover drawing featuring red skull caps surrounding a single white one. This was to illustrate the article on the new Pope John XXIII who was the first pontiff to make a global impact.

Other early work, before the artist's move from New York to Britain in 1960, is a pleasing use of letterpress for festival posters. In America he had come under the influence of Andy Warhol as his collection of slides confirms.

Two years before his death in London he designed the artwork for the Rolling Stones' album Let It Bleed.

The exhibition is curated by Emily King who to coincide with the Design Museum show has written a book Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography (Laurence King Publishing £25). This is closely related to the exhibition making it both a worthwhile souvenir as well as a fascinating overview of Robert Brownjohn's work and influence.

In a foreword Alan Fletcher of Pentagram writes: "Bj was the right man, in the right job, in the right place."

Robert Brownjohn is at the Design Museum, Shad Thames, daily 10am-5.45pm until Sunday 26 February; admission £7 (conc £4; child under 12 free)

2005: John Murray publishes James Bond: The Man And His World by Henry Chancellor.

http://commanderbond.net/2831/james-bond-the-man-and-his-world.html

2012: Digital Spy reports on Daniel Craig crying.

Daniel Craig: 'I cried when I first heard
Adele's Skyfall'

See the complete article here:

https://www.digitalspy.com/music/a433007/daniel-craig-i-cried-when-i-first-heard-adeles-skyfall/

The James Bond actor says that the song was what he wanted from the beginning.
BY MAYER NISSIM
24/10/2012
Daniel Craig has admitted that he cried when he first heard Adele's 'Skyfall'.

The James Bond actor said that the theme for the 23rd 007 movie perfectly fitted the on-screen action.

"I cried," Craig told Yahoo! Movies

"From the opening bars I knew immediately, then the voice kicked in and it was exactly what I'd wanted from the beginning.

"It just got better and better because it fitted the movie. In fact the more of the movie we made, the more it fitted it."

https://www.digitalspy.com/8a534606-8a2b-4c53-9c5f-80e7e687d851
Adele - 'Skyfall' preview video
by Digital Spy GB

Skyfall director Sam Mendes added of Adele: "She came in very early before we started shooting and her main concern was, 'I write songs about myself, how can I make a 'Bond' song?'

"My answer was, 'Just write a personal song!' Carly Simon's 'Nobody Does it Better' was a love song."

Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson have maintained that Adele was always their first choice to record the theme for the movie.

'Skyfall' has been covered by Jedward and Willow Smith since its release.

Skyfall will open in UK cinemas on October 26 and November 9 in the US.

Watch the Adele 'Skyfall' lyric video below:


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RichardTheBruce

October 25th

1936: Terrance Mountain is born--Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.

1965: Mathieu Amalric is born--Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.

1972: James Bond comic The League of Vampires begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 28 February 1973. 2066–2172) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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





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



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

Vampyrligan
(The League of Vampires)

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

James Bond Agent 007 no. 32:
“The League of Vampires”
"Vampyrligaen"

1977: Eileen Alderton reviews the Christopher Wood novelization James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me in The Australian Women's Weekly..

Books
reviewed by Eileen Alderton

JAMES BOND LOVES ON

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51275146

ENTIRELY different from the late
Ian Fleming's original story The
Spy Who Loved Me is Christopher
Wood's JAMES BOND, THE
SPY WHO LOVED ME.

Published by Jonathan Cape ($9.95) it is
a gutsy, punchy novel written under licence
(from the owners of Ian Fleming's
copyrights) from the script Christopher
Wood and Richard Maibaum produced for
the latest Bond film.

Ian Fleming made his indestructible
Bond immortal - and here he is again, a
woman chaser, charming, ironic, decadent,
ruthless, with a constitution that stands up
to any amount of bashing and bruising.
In this thriller British and Russians get
together because a nuclear-powered
submarine is missing. There is, of course, a
beautiful girl called Anya with the rank of a
major in the Russian army, deadly villains
and as much action as anyone could take.

1982: Octopussy films Magda seducing OO7 for the egg.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 30 of 65 - "Deadly Recall."

James Bond Jr - Deadly Recall

Season 1 - Episode 30
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807098/?ref_=ttep_ep30

James and the gang's trip to Monte Carlo with Trevor turns into another adventure when Dr. Derange uses his hypnotic roulette wheel to hypnotise and rob wealthy people blind before transforming them into S.C.U.M agents. And Trevor becomes their next candidate.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Damona (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 30 - Deadly Recall

1995: David Healy dies at age 66--London, England.
(Born 15 May 1929--New York City, New York.)

David Healy (actor)

See the complete article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Healy_(actor)

David Healy
Born May 15, 1929
New York City, U.S.
Died October 25, 1995 (aged 66)
London, England
Occupation Actor
Years active 1963–1995
Spouse(s) Peggy Walsh
Children 2

David Healy (May 15, 1929 – October 25, 1995) was an American actor who appeared in British and American television shows.

Healy was born in New York City. His television credits include voices for the Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90 and The Secret Service, as well as parts in UFO, The Troubleshooters, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Strange Report, Dickens of London, Space Police (a TV pilot), Space Precinct and Dallas. He also starred as Dr. Watson opposite Ian Richardson's Sherlock Holmes in the 1983 TV film of The Sign of Four.

His big screen credits include The Double Man (1967), Only When I Larf (1968), Assignment K (1968), Isadora (1968), Patton (1970), Lust for a Vampire (1971), Madame Sin (1972), Embassy (1972), Endless Night (1972), Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977), Winterspelt (1979), Supergirl (1984), and Haunted Honeymoon (1986).[7][8] He also gave uncredited performances in the James Bond films You Only Live Twice (1967) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

In 1983, Healy received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Guys and Dolls during the 1982 theatre season. His performance of "Nicely Nicely Johnson" was praised as "show-stopping" as he sang "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat". He performed a mid-show encore each night. In late 1980s he played the character of Buddy Plummer in the original London run of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

Healy died following a heart operation on October 25, 1995 in London, England.
Contents

Personal life
David married Peggy Walsh and had two sons, William and Tim. He was a devoted amateur polo player and his wife was the manager of Ham Polo Club in London. Both of his sons remain polo players and the David Healy Trophy is still played for in his memory.

Filmography
Be My Guest (1965) - Milton Bass
The Double Man (1967) - Halstead
You Only Live Twice (1967) - Houston Radar Operator (uncredited)
Assignment K (1968) - David
Inspector Clouseau (1968) - Villain in TV Western (uncredited)
Only When I Larf (1968) - Jones
Isadora (1968) - Chicago Theatre Manager
Patton (1970) - Clergyman
Lust for a Vampire (1971) - Raymond Pelley

Diamonds Are Forever (1971) - Vandenburg Launch Director (uncredited)
Madame Sin (1972) - Braden
Embassy (1972) - Phelan
Endless Night (1972) - Jason
Ooh... You Are Awful (1972) - Tourist
A Touch of Class (1973) - American (uncredited)
Phase IV (1974) - Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited)
Stardust (1974)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) - Maj. Winters
La Ballade des Dalton (1978) - Joe Dalton (English version, voice)
Winterspelt (1979) - Pfc Foster

The Ninth Configuration (1980) - 1st General
Supergirl (1984) - Mr. Danvers
Labyrinth (1986) - Right Door Knocker (voice)
Haunted Honeymoon (1986) - P.R. Man
Turnaround (1987) - Sheriff Huddleston

Puerto Rican Mambo (Not a Musical) (1992) - Businessman, 'biff'
All Men Are Mortal (1995) - Movie Producer (final film role)

David Healy (I) (1929–1995)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372242/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

You Only Live Twice

Diamonds Are Forever

2012: The Scotsman reviews the new James Bond film Skyfall.

Film review: The new James Bond film ‘Skyfall’

https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/film-review-the-new-james-bond-film-skyfall-1-2597521/amp

Skyfall starring Daniel Craig as James Bond

Published: 02:35 Thursday 25 October 2012

In Skyfall, Sam Mendes has given us a James Bond for the 21st century and also made a film with genuine heart. Alistair Harkness is bowled over

WITH the traditional hype and hoopla surrounding the release of the latest Bond film Skyfall reaching fever pitch over the past month or so, it’s been impossible to ignore the fact that the world’s longest running film franchise is also celebrating its 50th anniversary. That’s partly down to Skyfall itself making a virtue of celebrating its heritage. Directed by Sam Mendes and once again starring Daniel Craig as cinema’s most conspicuous secret agent, Craig’s third outing is both a playful tribute to the entire history of Bond on the big screen and a worthy modern-day action movie that finally advances 007 into the 21st century with the panache one might expect from a character whose chief appeal has always been his penchant for sophistication, insouciance and ruthless violence.

Skyfall starring Daniel Craig as James Bond

Those traits were, of course, present almost from the first moment a tuxedoed Sean Connery, cigarette hanging loosely from his mouth, uttered the immortal words “Bond, James Bond” in Dr No. That film’s release on 5 October 1962, the same day as The Beatles’ first single "Love Me Do" – and a mere ten days before the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of disaster – has elevated Bond’s cinematic origins to near mythical status, so much so that it’s hard to deny that this weird confluence of seismic cultural and political events has played an important role in shaping and defining an entire era.

As such, the release of a new Bond film can never simply be dismissed as just another movie. Twenty-two “official” films on from Dr No (and with rogue entries into the canon in the form of the star-stuffed 1967 Casino Royale spoof and Sean Connery’s contentious rival outing Never Say Never Again), the very existence of Skyfall is testament to the resilience of Ian Fleming’s original creation. Sure, there have been some lean years (Timothy Dalton’s brief tenure in the role), some creaky years (Roger Moore’s later efforts), and some increasingly silly years (Pierce Brosnan’s invisible car; Madonna’s cameo as a fencing instructor), but the character’s remarkable gift for reinvention and resurrection has enabled him to survive the ravages of time surprisingly well with each new iteration.

As it happens, it is precisely those ravages that form the primary thematic concerns of Bond 23. Even though it barely feels like yesterday that Craig’s blond, bloodied, brutal and, let’s face it, ludicrously buff take on the character radically reinvented him for an age in which Jason Bourne already seemed to have shown him the door, the otherwise soporific Casino Royale is now six years old and its frenetic follow-up Quantum of Solace is already four. For those paying close attention to Craig’s more rooted-in-reality approach, that means his Bond is already starting to feel the punishing effects of being a double-0 agent, effects Roger Moore would likely have dismissed with an arched eyebrow jutting into his wrinkly forehead, but which Mendes and his team of writers (regulars Neal Purvis and Robert Wade; Scorsese collaborator John Logan) smartly weave into the main body of the story.

That story kicks off in typically spectacular style with Bond being accidentally shot and left for dead by MI6 (a sequence that ends with him floating away into a hauntingly illustrated title sequence to the strain’s of Adele’s instant classic Bond theme). When he re-emerges from the shadows – after M (Judi Dench) has written his obituary – his physical prowess has largely deserted him, but his ailments are symptomatic of a wider concern percolating down through the security services: namely that Bond’s cold-blooded methodology – and the practices of MI6’s entire double-O branch – is outdated and irrelevant, especially in an age of cyber-terrorism where, as Ben Wishaw’s new Q surmises, more damage can be done with a laptop while drinking a cup of Earl Grey than by Bond with an entire arsenal of gadgets.

Skyfall starring Daniel Craig as James Bond

Though Bond films have periodically commented on their imminent obsolescence – in GoldenEye, M famously scolded Pierce Brosnan’s 007 for being “a sexist misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the Cold War”), Skyfall feels as if Mendes is genuinely trying to engage with who the character is and what his function should be, especially at a time when audiences want the old-school excitement of a Bond film but with an ever greater degree of verisimilitude.

Mendes negotiates that tricky path by effectively turning Skyfall into a comment on its own creation. The 50th anniversary, for instance, gives him licence to spoon-feed fans a number of treats in the form of overt references to past films, but he’s careful not to abuse that privilege and works some more subtle ones in, too. In fact, the biggest influence is probably On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, which may feature the least-loved 007 (George Lazenby, making his sole outing in the role) but, thanks to its dazzling technical achievements and jaw-dropping emotional beats, now seems like the most accomplished of all the Bond films.

Mendes has certainly absorbed a lot from it, using its acknowledgment of the Scottish parentage Fleming subsequently furnished the character with in tribute to Connery’s definitive performance for a fantastic third act sojourn to the Highlands, where the titular significance of Skyfall comes into play. But he also uses its influence to land some moments of real poignancy, giving the film the emotional kick Bond’s doomed romance with Vesper Lynd in the much-praised Casino Royale sorely lacked.

What’s particularly thrilling about Skyfall is that Mendes has reconfigured the tropes of the series so that Bond is once again out in front, setting the template anew for what a Bond film can really do. That’s something that’s made clear early on courtesy of a rooftop fight sequence in which Mendes (working with genius cinematographer Roger Deakins) frames Bond in silhouette against Shanghai’s neon-lit night sky as he battles an assassin. As action sequences go it’s as gorgeous as it is gutsy, and works as a real statement of intent for the film.

The other big piece of the Bond pie that Mendes gets right – aside from finally using the Monty Norman theme properly (there’s both a reassuring two-second blast of it at the start of the film and reprise later on to accompany a typically iconic moment) – is Javier Bardem’s deliciously outré villain, Raoul Silva. A former agent with a personal vendetta against M, Silva is certainly a memorable throwback to Bond villains of old: he’s both an irrational megalomaniac and as camp as Diamonds are Forever’s Mr Kidd and Mr Wint. The difference is he’s progressive and transgressive with it. In their most intimate exchange, Silva taps into the hitherto unexplored homoerotic side of Bond, something the movie thoroughly embraces by giving Bond his funniest comeback in the film. It’s a further sign of how far the Bond films have come and also works as a belated acknowledgment of one of the more subversive aspects of Craig’s Bond: his willingness to be objectified.

As a result, it makes sense that Bond girls in the classic sense barely feature, with only Naomi Harris’s Eve sticking in the memory beyond the end credits. That’s perhaps also because over three films it has become clear that the only woman Craig’s Bond really has space for in his life is M, and it’s their relationship that provides Skyfall with something that Bond films have consistently lacked: genuine heart. If that sounds sappy then so be it: Skyfall is the kind of film that makes it easy to love Bond the way you probably did as a kid. When “James Bond will return” flashes up ahead of the end credits, it’s hard not to hold out hope for his next 50 years.

• Skyfall is on general release from tomorrow.

2019: The original planned release date for BOND 25, delayed since Danny Boyle's departure August this year.

Bond 25 'will miss 2019 release date' after Danny Boyle exit

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45294809
24 August 2018

Boyle was originally confirmed as the director of Bond 25 in May

The release date of the next James Bond film is widely expected to be put back following Danny Boyle's abrupt decision to exit the currently untitled project.

"Bond 25" is scheduled to arrive in UK cinemas on 25 October 2019 and open in US cinemas two weeks later.

But the film may not now be released "until late 2020", according to the Hollywood Reporter's unnamed sources.

The Oscar-winning director's shock departure earlier this week was attributed to "creative differences".

According to The Telegraph, those may have included Boyle's purported wish to cast Polish actor Tomasz Kot as the film's main Russian villain.

Kot, 41, can currently be seen in Pawel Pawlikowski's film Cold War, which had its premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival.

The Telegraph also claimed the film's producers had concerns over the script's focus on current political tensions with Russia.

A spokeswoman for Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge, author of the script in question, confirmed this week that he was also no longer involved.

MGM and Eon, who produce the Bond films, declined to comment.

Boyle reportedly wanted Tomasz Kot to play the film's villain

Filming had been due to start in December at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, with Daniel Craig reprising his role as Ian Fleming's iconic spy.

David Mackenzie, Yann Demange and Joe Wright are among the film-makers who have been tipped to take over the director's chair.

With the exact reasons for Boyle's departure still unclear, people previously involved in the Bond films are being asked for their thoughts on the situation.

These include actor Jonathan Pryce, who is quoted in the Daily Mail as saying that the producers parted company with Boyle because "they obviously couldn't take a socialist Bond".

"There are the Dannys of this world and then there are people who do the blockbusters," continued Pryce, who played the villainous Elliot Carver in 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies.

Boyle has never concealed his left-leaning sympathies, though he declined to identify himself as a socialist in a 2013 interview.

His opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics featured a Bond-based short and a set-piece tribute to the National Health Service.

2019: No Time To Die principle photography wraps at Pinewood Studios.

RichardTheBruce

October 26th

1959: Ian Fleming to Ivan Bryce counters Jean de la Bruyere's suggestion for the title of the first Bond film.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 12 - The First James Bond Screenplay

Since its inception, the 007 project had simply been known as "James Bond."
No suitable title had yet been found. Jean de la Bruyere's suggestion it be
called "The Right to Kill" (which Bryce liked) caused Fleming to hurriedly
think of an alternative and he wrote to Bryce on 26 October. "Regarding
name for the film. I suggest 'James Bond of the Secret Service.' He is well
enough known now to bring the customers in and the titles like 'The Right to
Kill"' are all too common."

1967: Men leeft slechts tweemaal (Flemish - One Only Lives Twice; also in French -On ne vit que deux fois, We Only Live Twice) released in Brussels, Belgium.

1972: Live and Let Die films the jazzy death of Agent Hamilton in New Orleans.

2012: Skyfall released in the UK, United Arab Emirates, Belgium, Bulgaria, Bahrain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, UK, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Iraq, Iceland, Jordan, South Korea, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malta, Norway, Oman, Poland, Palestine, Qatar, Sweden, and Slovakia.
2012: 007 - Operação Skyfall released in Brazil.

2012: 007 Skyfall released in France and Portugal. Bérénice Marlohe promotes the premiere in France.

2012: 007: Coordonata Skyfall (007: Skyfall Coordinate) released in Romania.

2012: 007: Координаты Скайфолл released in Russia.

2015: Spectre London premiere at Royal Albert Hall.

2015: Spectre general release for the UK and Ireland.

2015: BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime airs the first installment of Trigger Mortis, read by Rupert Penry-Jones.
2015: Sam Smith expresses (then denies) regret for writing the theme to Spectre.

Sam Smith: ‘I Have to Grab My Balls’ to
Sing ‘James Bond’ Theme

See the complete article here:

https://www.spin.com/2015/10/sam-smith-james-bond-spectre-grab-my-balls/

The singer says he "almost regrets" the very high track
James Grebey | October 26, 2015 - 10:40 am

Sam Smith’s renown for his angelic voice, but sometimes even he needs, um, a little bit extra to hit those really high notes. Such is the case for “Writing’s on the Wall,” his theme song to the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre. Speaking to Graham Norton ahead of his first live performance of the tune on the host’s show this past weekend, Smith explained that it’s a bitch to sing. “I’ve only actually sang the song once really. I did the demo in the studio, and they used it,” he said. “It’s horrible to sing. Horrible. I almost regret — no, I don’t regret… It’s just so high.” Then he went a step further: “I have to grab my balls, it’s awful.”

So when you’re sitting in a movie theater, enjoying the opening credits to Spectre, remember — Sam Smith’s balls took one for the team. (h/t NME)

RichardTheBruce

October 27th

1915: Harry Saltzman is born--Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
(He dies 28 September 1994 at age 78-- Paris, France.)

Obituaries
Harry Saltzman, 78, Bond-Film Producer

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/29/obituaries/harry-saltzman-78-bond-film-producer.html

SEPT. 29, 1994

Harry Saltzman, who with Albert R. Broccoli produced early James Bond films like "Dr. No" and "Goldfinger," died yesterday at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a Paris suburb. He was 78 and lived in a village near Versailles.

The cause was a heart attack, said his wife, Adriana.

He was born on Oct. 27, 1915, in New Brunswick, Canada, and was brought to the United States as an infant. He entered the film business in the mid-1940's and made his name in Britain with hard-hitting social dramas, including "Look Back in Anger" in 1958 and "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" in 1960.

Mr. Saltzman and Mr. Broccoli rounded up the screen rights to practically all of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and began the film series in the early 1960's. The two struck it rich with the highly profitable movies, most of which starred Sean Connery as Agent 007. Their Bond films included "From Russia With Love," "Thunderball," "Diamonds Are Forever" and "The Man With the Golden Gun." The partnership ended in the mid-1970's.

Among Mr. Saltzman's other productions were "The Entertainer," "The Ipcress File," "Funeral in Berlin" and "The Battle of Britain."

In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son, Steven, of Paris; two daughters, Hilary, of Pacific Palisades, Calif., and Merry, of Marina del Rey, Calif., and a sister, Mina Reizes of Reseda, Calif.

September 29, 1994, Page 00012 The New York Times Archives

Harry Saltzman (1915–1994)

Filmography

Producer (28 credits)

1988 Time of the Gypsies (co-producer)
1980 Nijinsky (executive producer)

1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (producer)
1973 Live and Let Die (producer)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (producer)
1970 Nijinsky: Unfinished Project (producer)
1970 Toomorrow (producer)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (producer)
1969 Battle of Britain (producer)
1969 Play Dirty (producer)
1967 Billion Dollar Brain (producer)
1967 You Only Live Twice (producer)
1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) (executive producer)
1967 Shock Troops (presents)
1966 Funeral in Berlin (executive producer)
1965 Chimes at Midnight (producer)
1965 Thunderball (executive producer - uncredited)
1965 A Man Named John (producer)
1965 The Ipcress File (producer)
1964 Goldfinger (producer)
1963 From Russia with Love (producer)
1963 Call Me Bwana (executive producer)
1962 Dr. No (producer)
1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (executive producer)
1960 The Entertainer (producer)
1959 Look Back in Anger (producer)
1956 The Iron Petticoat (produced in association with)
1955 Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion (TV Series) (producer)

Production manager (1 credit)

1950 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) (production supervisor - 9 episodes)
- The Citadel (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- The Champion (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- Rebecca (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- Pitfall (1950) ... (production supervisor)
- The Phantom Lady (1950) ... (production supervisor)

Writer (1 credit)

1956 The Iron Petticoat (story - uncredited)

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/photos/2012/09/harry-saltzman-bond-secret-spy-life

1939: John Cleese is born--Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England.

1967: Men leeft slechts twee maal (Flemish title) released in Gent, Belgium. Also On ne vit que deux fois (French title).

1977: La espía que me amó released in Argentina.

1977: De spion die me liefhad released in Belgium.

1983: Octopussy released in Colombia.
1983: Octopussy released in Portugal.
1983: 007 - Operação Tentáculo (Tentacle Operation) released in Portugal.

Later video covers.

2008: Roy Stewart dies at age 83--London, England.
(Born 27 October 1925--Jamaica.)

Roy Stewart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Stewart
Born 15 May 1925, Jamaica
Died 27 October 2008 (aged 83).
London, England
Occupation actor
Years active 1959–1981

Roy Stewart (15 May 1925 – 27 October 2008) was a Jamaican-born British actor. He began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television.

In 1954 he founded Roy Stewart's Gym in Powis Square, North Kensington, and ran the Caribbean club and restaurant The Globe, in Talbot Road until his death. Stewart played Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973). Other film appearances include Carry On Up the Jungle (1970), Leo the Last (1970), Games That Lovers Play (1971), Twins of Evil (1971), Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977) and Arabian Adventure (1979). He was also active on television, with credits including: Out of the Unknown, Adam Adamant Lives!, Doctor Who (in the serials The Tomb of the Cybermen and Terror of the Autons), Doomwatch, Up Pompeii!, The Troubleshooters, Space: 1999 and I, Claudius.

Background
One of seven brothers, Roy Stewart was born in Jamaica, and came to Britain in 1948 with aspirations of being a doctor. But either theatre or a television commercial changed that.

Having suffered for some time from heart disease, Stewart died on 28 October 2008, aged 83.

Film and television career
In a role, possibly his earliest, Stewart appeared in a television advert for Fry's Turkish Delight, playing a snake charmer. Later, he was an extra in films and did stunt work. He would become one of the top black actors and stuntmen in Britain.

Film

Possibly his earliest role was an uncredited one, playing a slave in the 1959 film, The Mummy. In 1973, he played the part of Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film Live and Let Die starring Roger Moore. Having not returned to Jamaica where the film was being shot for many years, Stewart suffered in the heat and couldn't believe the changes that had taken place over the years.

One of his last roles in film was as Pomeroy in Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective, a 1981 made-for-television movie.

Television
He appeared in Dr. Who at least twice. He played Toberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen and Tony in Terror of the Autons.

Television commercials
Fry's Turkish Delight[10]
Surf washing powder[11]

Business interests
Stewart ran a basement gymnasium at 32A Powis Square, Kensington, west London which was opened in 1954. It had the policy of allowing all races to train there. Some actors trained there too, one of them, David Prowse, a Commonwealth Games weightlifter in 1962, went on to play Darth Vader in the film Star Wars. The Gymnasium had a dual purpose. It was also an unofficial after-hours drinking club. By 1964, Stewart had been convicted four times for selling liquor without a license. He also ran a nightclub in Bayswater. Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison and Bob Marley were some of the patrons.

The Globe
In the 1960s he opened a Caribbean restaurant and bar called The Globe. The Globe, formerly Bajy's, was located at 103 Talbot Road. Jimi Hendrix was reportedly seen there the night before his death in September 1970. Stewart ran The Globe until he died in October 2008. The Globe functions to this day and is one of longest-running nightclubs in London. It also has a Caribbean restaurant upstairs.

Roy Stewart (II) (1925–2008)

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Filmography

Actor (42 credits)

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

1979 Rentaghost (TV Series) - Djinn
- Rentasanta (1979) ... Djinn
1979 Arabian Adventure - The Nubian
1978 Sykes (TV Series) - Porter
- Football Match (1978) ... Porter
1977 Follow Me (TV Mini-Series) - General
- Episode #1.7 (1977) ... General
- Episode #1.6 (1977) ... General
1977 Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers - American sailor
1976 I, Claudius (TV Mini-Series) - Sentor
- Waiting in the Wings (1976) ... Sentor
1976 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Tall Alien in Cave
- The Metamorph (1976) ... Tall Alien in Cave (uncredited)
1976 Caesar and Cleopatra (TV Movie) - Nubian Slave
1975 Quiller (TV Series) - John Cornelius
- Objective Caribbean (1975) ... John Cornelius
1973 Live and Let Die - Quarrel
1972 Call Me by My Rightful Name - Doug's Agent
1972 Lady Caroline Lamb - Black Pug
1971 Twins of Evil - Joachim
1971 Lady Chatterly Versus Fanny Hill - Mr. Howanda
1965-1971 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Toberman / Strong Man / Saracen warrior
- Terror of the Autons: Episode Two (1971) ... Strong Man
- The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 4 (1967) ... Toberman
- The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 3 (1967) ... Toberman
- The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 2 (1967) ... Toberman
- The Tomb of the Cybermen: Episode 1 (1967) ... Toberman
... 6 episodes
1970 Up Pompeii! (TV Series) - Jeremy
- Guess Who's Coming to Sin'Er Nymphia (1970) ... Jeremy
1970 Mogul (TV Series) - Security Man / Carlos
- Let's See the Colour of Your Money (1970) ... Security Man
- Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (1970) ... Carlos
1970 Julius Caesar - Slave
1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Negro
- Spectre at the Feast (1970) ... Negro
1970 Leo the Last - Jasper's Bodyguard
1970 Carry On Up the Jungle - Nosha (uncredited)

1965-1969 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Boxer / Major Buba
- Son of Man (1969) ... Boxer
- For the West (1965) ... Major Buba
1968 Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Mulatto
- Wisteria Lodge (1968) ... Mulatto
1968 Detective (TV Series) - Pompey
- The High Adventure (1968) ... Pompey
1968 The Avengers (TV Series) - Giles
- Have Guns - Will Haggle (1968) ... Giles
1968 Virgin of the Secret Service (TV Series) - 3rd Guard / Guard
- The Great Ring of Akba (1968) ... 3rd Guard
- Dark Deeds on the Northwest Frontier (1968) ... Guard
1967 The Pilgrim's Progress (TV Series) - Muscle Man / Mad Cripple
- Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Muscle Man / Mad Cripple
1966-1967 Adam Adamant Lives! (TV Series) - Guard / Negro Bodyguard / Weightlifter
- The Basardi Affair (1967) ... Guard
- A Slight Case of Reincarnation (1966) ... Negro Bodyguard (uncredited)
- Beauty Is an Ugly Word (1966) ... Weightlifter
1967 Prehistoric Women - Warrior (uncredited)
1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Wrestler
- The Man Who Liked Lions (1966) ... Wrestler (uncredited)
1966 On the Margin (TV Series)
- Episode #1.2 (1966)
1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - A Dervish
- Gordon of Khartoum (1966) ... A Dervish
1965 Out of the Unknown (TV Series) - Security guard
- No Place Like Earth (1965) ... Security guard
1965 The Mind of the Enemy (TV Mini-Series) - Chief Nwambe
- The New Member (1965) ... Chief Nwambe
1965/I She - Black Guard (uncredited)
1964 The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Series) - Ali
- An End to Revenge (1964) ... Ali
- Dishonour (1964) ... Ali
- Evidence of a Crime (1964) ... Ali
- Unlimited Credit (1964) ... Ali
- A Garden in Auteuil (1964) ... Ali
1964 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb - Bearer in Museum (uncredited)
1963 First Night (TV Series) - Broccoli
- The Strain (1963) ... Broccoli
1961 Operation Snafu - Trinidad (uncredited)
1960 Sands of the Desert - Gong Banger at Sheik's Tent (uncredited)

1959 The Mummy - Flashback Slave (uncredited)

2008: "Another Way to Die" enters the UK Singles Chart at twenty-six, later peaking at number nine.

2012: Skyfall released in Switzerland.
2012: Promotional materials for the documentary Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007 become available, anticipating its 5 October premiere on EPIX.

2018: BBC News reports on a famous gun owned by a familiar figure about to go to auction.

'First' James Bond 007 gun to
go under the hammer

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-46360414

27 November 2018

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The original Walther PPK pistol given to James Bond at the beginning of Dr No (1962)

A handgun handed to Sean Connery in the opening scenes of Dr No in 1962 is to be auctioned.

The Walther PPK pistol was owned at the time by M actor Bernard Lee, who brought it on set when a prop was not available.

A letter signed by Lee confirms the then fully-active gun was the "first ever to appear in a James Bond film".

Auctioneer Jonathan Humbert described the piece as a "superlative piece of British film history".

Bernard Lee was the longest-serving M actor, playing the role in the first 11 Eon-produced Bond films, from Dr No in 1962 to Moonraker, in 1979.

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Humbert Ellis
The pistol appears in the opening scenes of Dr No, starring Sean Connery

Mr Lee brought the live gun along for the filming of the early Dr No scene after a prop gun ordered by Eon Productions did not arrive on time.

According to provenance notes, a different Walther pistol was used for the rest of the film because Mr Lee's gun was deemed "inappropriate".

The actor later gave the weapon to the parents of the vendor in 1974, with a signed letter in which he says: "This pistol is the first ever to appear in a James Bond film."

The letter adds: "It was fully functional at the time. I have since removed the firing pin."

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Actor Bernard Lee, who died in 1981, played M in the first 11 James Bond films

The firearm is expected to fetch as much as £80,000 in the auction.

A pistol held by Sean Connery in a poster to promote the 1963 film From Russia With Love sold at auction for £277,250 in 2010.

2021: James Bond No Time To Die screening at Drive-In Cinema, Windsor Racecourse.

James Bond No Time To Die - Drive-In
Cinema - 27 Oct

See the complete article here:

https://www.windsor-racecourse.co.uk/whats-on/james-bond-no-time-to-die-drive-in-cinema-27-oct

Wednesday 27th October 2021

State-of-the-art drive-in cinema group, Strawberry Moon, is reopening its doors and bringing the ultimate drive-in cinematic experience to Royal Windsor Racecourse from Friday, 22nd October

Strawberry Moon have put together a host of fantastic films to watch in the comfort of your own car kicking off from Friday 22nd October with the new James Bond film ‘No Time To Die’ .

Boasting the UK’s biggest screen and one of only two drive-in cinemas in the country allowed to show ‘No Time To Die’, film fans are in for an unforgettable night under the stars, watching the latest and greatest movies matched with the finest handpicked street foods. Other brand new releases will include ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and ‘Spiderman: No Way Home.

Strawberry Moon will continue to offer 50% off ticket prices for NHS workers and blue-light cardholders.

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https://www.strawberrymooncinemas.com/

2021: Shaken Not Stirred - The Improvised Bond Film uses sketch comedy, stand-up and improvisation hosted by Edinburgh Fringe, Shaken Not Stirred.

SHAKEN NOT STIRRED: THE IMPROVISED JAMES
BOND FILM

Wed Oct 27 2021 at 07:30 pm to 10:00 pm UTC+00:00
Rosemary Branch Theatre | London

See the complete article here:

https://stayhappening.com/e/shaken-not-stirred-the-improvised-james-bond-film-E4N7KMC64

A brilliant night of sketch, stand-up and improv, hosted by Edinburgh Fringe sensation, Shaken Not Stirred.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rosemary Branch Theatre, 2 Shepperton Road, London, United Kingdom

2021: The Music of James Bond & More - All The Songs - All The Hits Live! at Meininger Hof, Saalfeld, Germany.

The Music of James Bond & More - All The Songs - All The Hits Live!

Meininger Hof, Saalfeld, Germany
https://www.viagogo.co.uk/Concert-Tickets/Other-Concerts/The-Music-of-James-Bond+More-Tickets/E-4726614

Wednesday, October 27 2021 7:30 PM

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October 28th

1971: Dedos de oro (Fingers of Gold) re-released in Argentina.

1976: The Spy Who Loves Me films OO7 in Cairo's Karnak ruins, pursuing and pursued by Jaws.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 31 of 65 - "Hunt For Red Star One."

James Bond Jr - Hunt For Red Star One

Season 1 - Episode 31
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807289/

The Russian treasury reserve is in danger when Doctor Derange and the Chameleon seize control of a satellite laser system.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Boris Grigorovitch (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Alan Oppenheimer ... The Chameleon (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Commander Ulanov / General Glasov (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut / Max / Jo (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Additional voices (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 31 - Hunt For Red Star One

1994: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills screens Goldfinger on its 30th anniversary.

2012: Premier Christianity asks Does The World Still Need James Bond?

Skyfall: Does The World Still Need
James Bond?

See the complete article here:

https://www.premierchristianity.com/home/skyfall-does-the-world-still-need-james-bond/3975.article

By Martin Saunders28 October 2012

50 years ago, Sean Connery's 007 burst into cinemas with an explosion of fast cars, politically-incorrect one-liners and an endless supply of beautiful women. In the years since, Bond has become the world's most popular and enduring movie franchise, and his high-adrenaline appeal remains to this day: latest instalment Skyfall has just enjoyed the second-biggest opening in UK box office history. Yet despite the universal appeal of star Daniel Craig, does the series really have much life left in it? Can a gun-toting, emotionally-stunted, sexist dinosaur still be a national hero in these liberated times?

Skyfall doesn't just answer that question - it poses it.

The first Bond movie to be set in and around London since the very first (Dr No), Skyfall isn't afraid to call the future of the series - and its central character - into question. The central theme of the film, which also gives an enlarged role to Judi Dench's 'M', asks whether old things (like these aging characters and their dated ways of doing things) are still relevant in the modern world. Chief Examiner in this is Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem), one of the best Bond villains ever, and also one of the most unlikely – marrying a thirst for violence and revenge with sexual liberation and computer hacking expertise. In one memorable scene, he doesn't just show off his technical prowess to Bond, he flirts with him; forcing 007 to realise that villainy has come a long way since 1962. Indeed, even Bond is forced to realise that without the aid of fresh-faced right-hand man 'Q' - a technical whiz-kid - he'd be left chasing shadows in an age of digital terrorism.

The film hardly presents us with a new, modern-man Bond however. He's still driving those cars (Director Sam Mendes has included a treat for the fans in this regard): he's still bedding a different woman every night. Yet Craig's 007 is very different to previous incarnations - more ruthless, more believable as a real MI6 spy, and crucially, more physically vulnerable. Whereas Roger Moore barely received a scratch from his various enemies, Craig is frequently subjected to torturous pain (most men I know can't even watch a certain scene in Casino Royale without wincing) to the point that you often wonder if he's actually going to survive.

While the series is becoming more realistic however, it isn't exactly being rehabilitated. The myth of redemptive violence still looms large, and for a 12A we see an awful lot of people machine-gunned to death; female characters are still either sex objects (some of whom have a brain, which just makes them sexier) or hard-bitten old matriarchs. So we return to that question: is James Bond really a hero for the modern generation?

It's not just our flawed hero whom the film calls into question; it's the whole intelligence service, institutions, everything that represents the 'old ways' of doing things. In that respect, it asks a question even of the Church. Have we moved on and remained relevant to the fast-moving modern world? And are there some things from our past which are still worth fighting for and holding on to?

An old friend of 007's tells him that 'sometimes the old ways are the best.' It's a poignant line which sums up the case for the defence. Yet if Bond knows that part of him needs to evolve, that if he simply stands still he'll become irrelevant, and this film seems to acknowledge that. Skyfall is fantastic; one of the most thrilling and intelligent action films of recent years. Perhaps it is by asking such hard-hitting questions of itself that it achieves the apparent aim of Daniel Craig and his producers, and reboots the franchise for a new generation. At one point, Bond states that his hobby is 'Resurrection'. On Skyfall's evidence, the tomb is empty: 007 is alive and kicking.

2015: Daniel Craig and other cast attend the Berlin premiere of Spectre.

2015: BBC's Timeshift airs its documentary Looking for Mr Bond 007 at the BBC.

Timeshift (2002– )

Looking for Mr Bond: 007
at the BBC

7.1/10
1h | Documentary | Episode aired 28 October 2015
Season 15 | Episode 5

Directed by

Matthew Thomas

Cast (in credits order)
Tamsin Greig ... Herself - Narrator (voice)
Sean Connery ... Himself (archive footage)
Geoffrey Boothroyd ... Himself - Armourer 'Q' (archive footage)
Ian Fleming ... Himself (archive footage)
Noël Coward ... Himself - Speaking in 1969 (archive footage) (as Noel Coward)
Lois Maxwell ... Herself - Speaking in 1969 (archive footage)
John le Carré ... Himself - Former MI6 Agent and Novellist (archive footage)
Albert R. Broccoli ... Himself - James Bond Producer - speaking in 1967 (archive footage) (as Cubby Broccoli)
Harry Saltzman ... Himself - James Bond Producer - speaking in 1967 (archive footage)
Shirley Bassey ... Herself (archive footage)
David Frost ... Himself (archive footage)
Millicent Martin ... Herself - Presenter 'Mainly Millicent' (archive footage)
Roger Moore ... Himself (archive footage)
Joan Bakewell ... Herself - Interviewer (voice) (archive footage)
Christopher Trace ... Himself - Presenter, 'Blue Peter' (archive footage)
Patrick Campbell ... Himself - Presenter, 'Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life' (archive footage)
S.J. Perelman ... Himself (archive footage)
Alan Whicker ... Himself - Presenter, 'Whicker's World' (archive footage)
Roald Dahl ... Himself - Novellist and Writer of 'You Only Live Twice' (archive footage)
Lewis Gilbert ... Himself - Director, 'You Only Live Twice' - 'The Spy Who Loved Me' and 'Moonraker' (archive footage)
George Lazenby ... Himself - Speaking in 1997 (archive footage)
Diana Rigg ... Herself - Speaking in 1969 (archive footage)
Barry Norman ... Himself - Film 73 Presenter (archive footage)
Britt Ekland ... Herself (archive footage)
Ken Adam ... Himself - Set Designer (archive footage)
Timothy Dalton ... Himself (archive footage)
Pierce Brosnan ... Himself (archive footage)
Martin Campbell ... Himself - Director, 'Goldeneye' (archive footage)Stella Rimington ... Herself - Director General of MI5 - Speaking in 2006 (archive footage)
Michael G. Wilson ... Himself - Producer, 'Casino Royale' (archive footage)
Daniel Craig ... Himself (archive footage)
Jonathan Ross ... Himself - Interviewer (archive footage)
Eva Green ... Herself (archive footage)

2020: Sotheby's begins a week focused on Fleming and Bond items.

James Bond: A Collection of
Books and Manuscripts, The
Property of a Gentleman

See the complete article here:

https://www.sothebys.com/en/digital-catalogues/james-bond-a-collection-of-books-and-manuscripts-the-property-of-a-gentleman

Online Auction: 28 October–11 November 2020 • 3:00 PM GMT • London

Overview
It has been said (by an auctioneer, I believe) that modern authors are collected less for the quality of their writing than the colour of their lives. A brutal reflection, perhaps, on the status of literature; but one that Ian Fleming would have appreciated. Nobody understood better than him the value of sensation. It infused his novels and marked every aspect of his career. While Foreign Manager at The Sunday Times he promised to hold the presses if a correspondent was delivering ‘dynamite.’ (Lot 2) He pestered his publishers, Jonathan Cape, with advice on how to improve sales. He sought constantly to make his dust jackets more striking and never hesitated to suggest improvements. Sometimes he designed them himself. But he was also a man who knew the importance of luck. In terms of collectability he has been very lucky indeed: not only did he write well but he lived well; and much of his life – wartime Intelligence officer, bon vivant, romantic - made its way into his books. He also had the unhappy fortune to have died before his time at the age of fifty-six, leaving not a diminishing trail of lesser works but the eternal cliffhanger: what might have happened next? It is this confluence of fact and fiction, life and death that sets him apart from other authors.

LOT 9, FLEMING | CASINO ROYALE, 1954, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, THE COPY THAT FIRST PUT JAMES BOND ON SCREEN. ESTIMATE £2,000-3,000.

The books presented here are remarkable not just for their rarity but for their biographical narrative. Here is Fleming’s life as told by a bibliophile: from his 1918 copy of Boy’s Own Journal to a book he owned at Sandhurst and his 1948 manual of journalism for Kemsley Newspapers; from Bond novels inscribed to friends and colleagues - also to his wife Ann, Bobby Kennedy and his hero Winston Churchill – to copies used by film and TV companies (Lot 9); from a corrected typescript of Diamonds Are Forever to a notebook used while researching one of his last novels, You Only Live Twice (Lot 110). There are nice touches, such as Raymond Chandler’s annotated copy of Moonraker (‘all padding’ he fumes on p.18) (Lot 16). There is a nod, too, to Fleming’s oft-unadvertised role as a bibliophile. During the 1930s he amassed a library of first editions charting milestones in human progress - ‘books that had started something’ - which was considered so important that it had to be evacuated from London during the Blitz. And in 1952 he set aside the manuscript of Casino Royale to launch The Book Collector, one of the most authoritative journals of its kind, which flourishes to this day. Its editor was the redoubtable John Hayward, to whom several of these volumes are dedicated.

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LEFT TO RIGHT: LOT 16, FLEMING | MOONRAKER, 1955, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO RAYMOND CHANDLER . ESTIMATE £70,000-100,00; AND LOT 110, FLEMING | MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK, HONG KONG, MACAO, AND JAPAN, 1959 . ESTIMATE £25,000-35,000.

Fleming would have relished the irony of a collector becoming himself collectable. He would also have enjoyed the idea of his story being told through a collection of his own books. To him, stories were paramount whether on paper, in life or, in this case, posterity. Famously, he boiled down his recipe for a successful thriller to a few short words: you simply have to turn over the page. I think you’ll find this catalogue fits the bill.

Fergus Fleming
Timeline of Bond

1953
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966


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Lot 5
FLEMING | Casino Royale, 1953, first edition
Estimate £25,000-35,000

Lot 13
FLEMING | Live and Let Die, 1954, first edition
Estimate £4,000-6,000

Lot 18
FLEMING | Moonraker, 1955, first edition
Estimate £2,000-3,000


Lot 21
FLEMING | Diamonds are Forever, 1956, first edition
Estimate £2,000-3,000

Lot 26
FLEMING | From Russia, With Love, 1957, first edition
Estimate £2,000-3,000

Lot 31
FLEMING | Dr No, 1958, first edition
Estimate £800-1,200

Lot 38
FLEMING | Goldfinger, 1959, first edition
Estimate £700-1,000

Lot 42
FLEMING | For Your Eyes Only, 1960, first edition
Estimate £300-500

Lot 45
FLEMING | Thunderball, 1961, first edition
Estimate £400-600

Lot 53
FLEMING | The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962, first edition
Estimate £300-500

Lot 60
FLEMING | On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963, first edition, the rare "B" binding
Estimate £150-200

Lot 64
FLEMING | You Only Live Twice, 1964, first edition, first state
Estimate £200-400

Lot 69
FLEMING | The Man with the Golden Gun, 1965, first edition, first state with gilt gun design
Estimate £3,000-5,000

Lot 80
FLEMING | Octopussy and The Living Daylights, 1966, first edition
Estimate £200-300

FLEMING | Diamonds are Forever. Estimate £80,000-120,000.
A highlight of the sale is Ian Fleming’s final typescript of the fourth Bond novel, Diamonds Are Forever (1956). Replete with last-minute revisions made by the author as he honed his work for publication, this working text provides a fascinating insight into Fleming’s creative process.


Inscriptions

The sale includes inscribed first editions of every James Bond book including inscriptions to personal friends and literary inspirations.

Ian Fleming
fleming | live and let die, 1954, first edition, presentation copy inscribed…
Estimate: 50,000 – 70,000 GBP

Ian Fleming
fleming | goldfinger, 1959, first edition, presentation copy inscribed…
Estimate: 40,000 – 60,000 GBP

Ian Fleming
fleming | the spy who loved me, 1962, first edition, presentation copy to r…
Estimate: 35,000 – 50,000 GBP

Ian Fleming
fleming | from russia, with love, 1957, presentation copy inscribed to the …
Estimate: 24,000 – 35,000 GBP

From the Library of Ian Fleming

Beyond Bond, a remarkable selection of books from Fleming’s own library also feature, including a copy of The Boy’s Own Annual, given to a ten-year old Fleming at Christmas and a fine presentation copy of close friend Raymond Chandler’s Playback.

2021: James Bond in Concert - 25 titelsongs at Groningen, Netherlands.

James Bond in Concert - 25 titelsongs

See the complete article here:

https://allevents.in/groningen/james-bond-in-concert-25-titelsongs/200021583964541

De vijfentwintigste James Bond-film No time to die gaat dit najaar eindelijk in première. Parallel aan de film speelt het Noordpool Orkest de productie James Bond in concert – 25 titelsongs. Vanaf zaterdag elf september toert het orkest twee maanden langs theaters in het land. En met twee fantastische solisten: Elske DeWall en Jim van der Zee brengen de iconische songs in een superspannende orkestversie live!

Al sinds 1962 zijn de James Bond films en hun 25 titelsongs een wereldwijd begrip. Wereldsterren staan in de rij om een Bond nummer te mogen componeren en voor diverse artiesten betekende de vertolking van de titelsong de start van hun carrière. Zanger Jim van der Zee (winnaar van The Voice of Holland 2018) en 3FM Serious Talent Elske DeWall (o.a. bekend van The Passion 2017 en titelsong Moordvrouw) zullen deze iconische titelsongs ten gehore brengen. Begeleid door het 42-koppig Noordpool orkest onder leiding van dirigent Reinout Douma hoor je ‘Skyfall’, ‘Live And Let Die’, ‘Diamonds Are Forever’, ‘Goldfinger’ en alle andere Bondhits ‘for your ears only’ in een superspannende orkestversie!

Date & Time
Thu Oct 28 2021 at 2:00 pm
(Eastern Daylight Time)

Location
MartiniPlaza Groningen, Leonard Springerlaan 11a, Groningen, Netherlands

2021: WHINO and Shaolin Jazz present Goldfinger, Arlington, Virginia.

CAN I KICK IT! James Bond Film Series At
WHINO VA

See the complete article here:

https://www.thelistareyouonit.com/event/can-i-kick-itjames-bond-film-series-at-whino-va

When: October 28,2021 – October 28,2021 all-day Repeats
Where: WHINO 4238 Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, VA (second floor of the new Ballston Quarter)

Beginning this fall, WHINO combined with a retail art gallery with designer collectibles, is toasting James Bond. WHINO is teaming up with SHAOLIN JAZZ to host a special six-month, CAN I KICK IT! Thursday night series highlighting the most iconic spy movie series ever made, kicking off the season with the iconic James Bond film, Goldfinger. Each month will feature a classic James Bond movie starring some of the different leading men who have carried the franchise since 1962. The films will be viewed in the dining room with TV screens throughout the space. You will enjoy cocktails based around the themes from each of the movies. DJ 2-Tone will score live, scene-by-scene, the film and use an array of DJ techniques and sound bites to accentuate different moments in the film. So, for fans of the legendary Bond films, this is an experience not to be missed. Tickets are priced at $30 per person which includes three signature cocktails, based on the featured film and the full menu will be available to order dinner for the show until 11:00 p.m. with late-night also available until 2:00 a.m. The evening begins with cocktails at 8:30 p.m., seating for the movie at 9:00 p.m. with the show starting at 9:30 p.m.

RichardTheBruce

October 29th

1943: Margaret Nolan is born--Hampstead, London, England.
(She dies 5 October 2020 at age 76-- London Borough of Camden, London, England.)

Margaret Nolan dead: Iconic Goldfinger Bond girl has died aged 76

See the complete article here:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-margaret-nolan-dead-iconic-22829278

Film director Edgar Wright has tweeted his sadness at the passing of Margaret Nolan, who starred in Goldfinger as well as Beatles movies and Carry On films
By James Brinsford Overnight Showbiz/TV Reporter | 12 OCT 2020

James Bond girl Margaret Nolan has died aged 76.

She starred in 1964 film Goldfinger and was in the iconic credits of the movie and helped publicise the film, dancing in a gold bikini while painted head to toe in gold.

Though she will always be associated with this image, Margaret did not play the role on screen as Shirley Eaton played the gold-painted Bond girl in the film.

Film director Edgar Wright shared the news of her passing on Twitter in a lengthy tribute to the actress, who also starred in the Beatles' Hard Day's Night movie and a series of Carry On films.

The 46-year-old filmmaker tweeted: "It's my sad duty to report that actress and artist, the magnificent Margaret Nolan has passed away.

"She was the middle of Venn diagram of everything cool in the 60's; having appeared with the Beatles, been beyond iconic in Bond and been part of the Carry On cast too."

Margaret Nolan will always be remembered for her part in Goldfinger

Edgar continued: "She was the gold painted model in the iconic Goldfinger title sequence and poster (she also played Dink in the movie), she appeared in the classic A Hard Day's Night, Carry On Girls, No Sex Please We're British & many others, frequently sending up her own glamourpuss image."

The film director continued to list some of the famous projects that Margaret was involved in.

He added: "She also appeared in five Spike Milligan Q series, Steptoe & Son, The Likely Lads, Morecambe & Wise and The Sweeney.

"She became deeply involved in political theatre and more recently created visual art; deconstructed her own glamour modelling in a series of photomontages."

Margaret Nolan pictured with Bernard Bresslaw on set of Carry On at Your Convenience in 1971

Edgar concluded his tribute with a personal note about working with Margaret last year.

He wrote: "I worked with her last year as she plays a small role in Last Night In Soho.

"She was so funny, sharp and, as you might imagine, full of the most amazing stories.

"I’m so glad I got to know her. My heart goes out to her family and all that loved her. She will be much missed."

Margaret's son, Oscar Deeks, confirmed that she passed away on October 5.

She was born on October 29, 1943 in Somerset but grew up in London.

Margaret began her career as a glamour model, going by the name Vicky Kennedy in the early ’60s, but switched back to her birth name once she began acting.

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1974: Cecilie Thomsen is born--Bogø, Denmark.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 32 of 65 - "Scottish Mist."

James Bond Jr - Scottish Mist

Season 1 - Episode 32
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807118/?ref_=ttep_ep32

James and Gordo help their science teacher Prof. What to find his former colleague who is abducted by Spoiler so that Baron Von Skarin can learn the formula to his secret catalyst for clearer fuel.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Michael Gough ... Spoiler (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Baron Von Skarin (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Professor Angus McLellan (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond jr Episode 32 - Scottish Mist

1995: Fox television airs The World of 007 with host Elizabeth Hurley.

Opening excerpt

1996: The Propellerheads and composer David Arnold record "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" for Tomorrow Never Dies. A remix is released in 1997, becoming the only top ten hit for the Propellerheads.

2008: Quantum of Solace UK premieres at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square, London.

2008: The Scotsman prints "A Quantum Leap" regarding the latest Bond film.

A Quantum leap

https://www.scotsman.com/news/a-quantum-leap-1-1144678
Published: 18:38 Updated: 19:07 Wednesday 29 October 2008

DANIEL CRAIG bounds into the room, his arm in a sling. "Damn, I was hoping you wouldn't notice," he says. Wound up like a coil from talking all day, he's eager to cut the crap when it comes to his interpretation of Bond. "I guenuinely just nicked a lot of stuff from Ian Fleming," he says. "His Bond is very psychological: he thinks, he's morally ambiguous, he's an assassin, he kills people for a living; at the same time he always gets his man and goes after the bad guys. But there's no deep and meaningful thing here. I don't approach it like some big dramatic piece."

He's reluctant to claim any ownership over the character, though. "I think I'm only borrowing it, don't you? This is all great, but I think someone else is going to come along and hopefully do a better job than I've done. It's not mine. It's Ian Fleming's, it's the Broccolis' – I could say I'm the caretaker, but that's a really naff thing to say."

Director Marc Forster also understands his relationship with Bond could be temporary. "If this film doesn't become a commercial success, I'm going to be on a very long vacation," laughs the German-born, Swiss-raised filmmaker.

Craig and Forster probably don't have much to worry about, but such is the pressure of following up Casino Royale, the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed (albeit bafflingly so) Bond film to date, that even though they're holed up in five-star luxury at London's Dorchester Hotel before the world premiere of Quantum of Solace, they'd rather crack self-deprecating gags than pat themselves on the back.

That's unsurprising, though. Before Bond, Forster was an art-house filmmaker in the enviable position of being able to make modestly budgeted pictures such as The Kite Runner, Monster's Ball and Finding Neverland with complete artistic freedom. It's little wonder, then, that he considers his move into the blockbuster arena something of a risk. According to producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli (the step-son and daughter of the late Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli), he took a lot of persuading, not least because when they approached him 18 months ago there was no script, no title, just Daniel Craig and a release date.

"Yeah, that's true," says Forster. "It was only when I met Daniel that I was inspired enough to take it. I thought he was incredible. Then I got on a plane to Italy and I thought, what am I doing? Am I crazy? I started thinking maybe I should talk to Barbara and Michael and pull out because I was frightened. There was no script and suddenly I was scouting the world for Bond locations, going, OK, we could shoot here, here, here and here, and all I had was a release date in my head. It was intense."

Nevertheless, he was soon buoyed by the realisation that doing action was not as difficult as "doing intense psychological scenes with actors". Which may be why, despite a CV that suggests he was brought on board to deliver a talkier, more character-driven Bond film, Forster has actually made the most action-packed installment to date. Kicking off just moments after the end of Casino Royale it barely stops for breath as 007 traverses the globe to find those responsible for the death of his lover Vesper Lynd. Indeed it's a film that cuts so ruthlessly to the chase it has already received flack for being a little too pared down, with rumours circulating that some of the performances – particularly Gemma Arterton's Bond girl, Agent Fields – are lying on a cutting-room floor somewhere.

Not so, says Forster. Aside from a 45-second sequence involving Craig, everything that was scripted ended up in the movie. "I just wanted this to be a much shorter film. Casino Royale was way too long for my taste; that poker game was really slow, so I wanted to make this a really tight and fast film. It should be like a bullet."

Still, even though Quantum of Solace is not the touchy-feely Bond film that was threatened, its makers make it sound as if they've shot a three-hankey-weepie. Ask Forster about Bond's relationship with M (played once again by Judi Dench) and he refers to 007 as an emotionally dysfunctional orphan in search of a parental figure. Get Broccoli on the subject of the film's relationship to Casino Royale and she expounds at length about how Lynd's betrayal of Bond in the previous film has left him broken-hearted and wondering if she ever really loved him. Blimey.

It's a relief, then, when Craig finally bounds into the room, and a reminder that it is his bruising, brutal and brooding take on 007 that has really made Bond relevant again, especially in a cinematic landscape dominated by Jason Bourne. Bring up this comparison (which is even more pronounced this time out) to Forster, Wilson or Broccoli and you'll be treated to a weary, resigned acknowledgement that, yes, stylistically there is some overlap, especially in the use of handheld cameras to make the action more realistic and emotionally intense. But, says Wilson: "If you look at the character and the storylines they're really different. Bond has a kind of sophistication and a different approach."

"Just having the Bond girls and the villains makes it different. There are certain things that are said in a Bond film that are iconic and you want to keep them in there," Forster says.

A faster, more intense Bond is certainly preferable to another jump-the-shark moment such as the invisible car in Die Another Day. "That idea was based on real technology," protests Broccoli sheepishly.

"Unfortunately it just looked a bit too science fiction-like when we executed it," Wilson chips in. "But that happens a lot in Bond films. Moonraker was another point where we went a bit too far and had to bring things back down to Earth with For Your Eyes Only. It's a constant cycle and if the Brosnan films got a little fanciful, these ones have given us the chance to strip them back again."

Finally acquiring the rights to Casino Royale was actually the real motivation for the current reboot, says Wilson, though Craig reckons there was another good reason for starting again from scratch. "It's hard to believe, but there is a generation of people who don't know the Bond movies. They haven't watched them the way I watched them growing up, so just saying the lines and introducing the characters and expecting them to understand who these people are would have been the wrong thing to do. But I do think that means we can do anything in the next Bond movie. We can introduce Moneypenny and Q back into it, I think we've just got to get the best actors we can find, and ask them to do the best job."

So, he'll definitely return as James Bond? "I don't know. I'd love to do another one. Maybe I'm just superstitious – or stupidly pessimistic. I just want to see how it goes and if I get the chance, I'll do it." • Quantum of Solace is in cinemas tomorrow. Read Alistair Harkness's full review of the film in tomorrow's Scotsman Review

Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/a-quantum-leap-1-1144678

2009: Puffin Books publishes Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier by Charlie Higson, with the short story "A Hard Man to Kill".

2012: Skyfall breaks existing UK box office records for a 007 opening weekend.
2012: Sony Classical releases the Skyfall soundtrack in the UK, recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London. Thomas Newman's score is nominated for an Oscar and wins a BAFTA.

2015: Spectre released in The Netherlands.
2015: Screen Daily reports on an abandoned SPECTRE mission from 1984.

James Bond's abandoned 'SPECTRE' mission from
1984

See the complete article here:

https://www.screendaily.com/james-bonds-abandoned-spectre-mission-from-1984/5096117.article

By Violet Acevedo29 October 2015

Screen International ad from 1984 offers glimpse of what could have been a precursor to the latest Bond film.

As Screen prepares to celebrate its 40th birthday, we have been busy trawling through the magazine’s archives in search of landmark moments from our history.

This full-page ad from 1984, purchased by film producer Kevin McClory of Paradise Film Productions, reveals the company’s intentions to create a series of James Bond films - beginning with SPECTRE - stating that an important announcement is forthcoming.

Evidently, the film never came to fruition, and the project is now consigned to Bond history.

In 1965, Kevin McClory had helped develop the story for the third entry in the Bond franchise, Thunderball, which introduced arch villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld as the figurehead of evil organization SPECTRE.

Following the film, a dispute arose over who owned the rights to those elements of the story, with a court eventually ruling after years of litigation that McClory was allowed to produce his own James Bond films.

Following that decision, he created the ‘unofficial’ entry in the series Never Say Never Again (1983), featuring the one-time return of Sean Connery as 007.

As shown by this advert in Screen, he clearly intended to follow up that film with multiple projects, of which SPECTRE would have been the first, but never managed to get them off the ground.

In 2013, seven years after Kevin McClory passed away, the dispute was finally resolved, with MGM reaching a settlement with the late producer’s estate to take back the rights to Blofeld and SPECTRE.

Now, the 2015 incarnation of SPECTRE, featuring the return of the titular organisation, is breaking records at the UK box office.

However, if Kevin McClory had managed to garner more support for his future Bond projects, things could have been very different.

2016: Inspired by Spectre, the Mexican government channels promotion of pre-Hispanic culture into a "Día de los Muertos" parade through Paseo de la Reforma and Centro Historico. 250,000 in attendance.

Mexico City's James Bond-inspired Day
of the Dead parade gets mixed reviews

Thousands attend spectacle, but others bemoan changing face of
festival traditionally marked by more intimately
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/29/day-of-the-dead-parade-james-bond-mexico-city
David Agren in Mexico City @el_reportero
Sun 30 Oct 2016 10.15 EDT

Mexico City celebrates its first ever Day of the Dead parade

Mexico City has held its first Day of the Dead parade, complete with floats, giant skeleton marionettes and more than 1,000 actors, dancers and acrobats in costumes.

A tradition that normally takes place in private homes or at candle-lit cemetery sites was transformed this year by the silver screen – specifically the James Bond film Spectre.

“Day of the Dead is always something in Mexico City that is celebrated, though in a more serious way,” Enrique de la Madrid, the country’s tourism secretary, told the Guardian. “It’s a deeply rooted tradition in Mexico, but what we decided to do is a festival.”

The city government and Mexican tourism officials were inspired by parts of last year’s Bond film, which were filmed in Mexico City and featured 007 chasing a villain through a Day of the Dead celebration in the historical centre.

The official parade on Saturday attracted thousands of people with its full spectacle of skulls and skeletons, oceans of marigolds and catrinas (stylised skeleton costumes depicting high-society figures).

“It’s great that we can celebrate and remember our deceased loved ones,” said Jesús Arreola, 21, a brewery worker who was strolling along the parade route.

Day of the Dead dates back to the Aztec period and celebrants believe the spirits of their deceased loved ones return for a visit. Families build altars adored with photographs, votive candles and items the deceased enjoyed such as food and drink – even tequila or mezcal.

Day of the Dead has remained popular despite predictions the US import of Halloween would wipe it out.

Women wear skeleton masks during a procession organized by sex workers to remember their
deceased colleagues ahead of the Day of the Dead parade.
Photograph: Ginnette Riquelme/Reuters

But Saturday’s parade did not go down well with everyone. Some on social media pointed to it as another populist pitch from a local government famous for opening the world’s biggest ice rink, building urban beaches and having a fetish for setting world records such as taking the biggest ever selfie.

“This is a cheap stunt,” tweeted Esteban Illades, editor of the magazine Nexos. “They film James Bond here and now we have the ‘traditional Day of the Dead parade’. Let’s see what happens when (the mayor) finishes reading The Da Vinci Code.”

The parade came as Mexico approaches the 11th the year of its crackdown on drug cartels and organised crime, a conflict that has cost an estimated 150,000 lives.

“More than 100,000 dead: decapitated, disappeared, buried in clandestine graves, thrown in garbage dumps, reduced to ashes, drowned in sewage canals, dead by hanging in the public plaza … Why do with minimising what should give us all chills?” wrote Alma Delia Murillo in the online publication Sin Embargo.

Some see a big parade – even one inspired by 007 – as part of an evolution already under way in Mexico.

Shawn Haley, a Canadian who lives in southern Oaxaca state, and studies Day of the Dead, said the tradition had been evolving since 2000, when he started seeing parades and processions. He predicted it would continue its transformation into a less spiritual occasion, especially in urban areas.

“We are seeing the transition from a private family celebration with folks who truly believed the dead family members returned home to a much more community oriented event [which] has removed much of the sincere belief,” Haley said.

“In the smaller villages, the private family celebration of the Day of the Dead goes on … and family is what keeps the Day of the Dead going.”

2021: The Bird Museum's October Conservation Seminar Series hosts “Meet The Real James Bond” online 6pm PDT (9pm EDT) US.

The Bird Museum's October Conservation Seminar Series Fri Oct 29, 2021

See the complete article here:

https://allevents.in/online/the-bird-museums-october-conservation-seminar-series/10000176663724957

The Bird Museum's October Conservation Seminar Series
“Meet The Real James Bond” - 6:00pm - October 29th, 2021

About this Event
In 1952, Ian Fleming stole the name of a famous ornithologist and explorer named James Bond (1900-1989), the author of the trail-blazing Birds of the West Indies. This colorfully illustrated talk will focus on Bond, the Fleming connection, and some of the birds, bird eggs (including Harpy Eagle eggs from the WFVZ) and other species that Bond collected. There’ll be some 007 moments as well, in keeping with the new James Bond movie, No Time to Die.

Please join us for an evening of history and intrigue with Jim Wright, the author of The Real James Bond, the acclaimed biography about the birdman who fell prey to the world’s most famous case of identity theft.

The Wall Street Journal called it “slim and elegant -- like Bond himself."

*Meeting information will be a Zoom Link on your Eventbrite digital ticket under: View Links, and will also appear at the bottom of your email ticket under: Additional Information

Register with Zoom link for this event

A long-time prize-winning journalist and former movie critic, Wright has written lavishly illustrated nature books about Central America’s largest rainforest, Pennsylvania’s legendary Hawk Mountain, and the New Jersey Meadowlands. He writes "The Bird Watcher" column for The Record and other USA Today newspapers in New Jersey.

You can read Jim's Real James Bond blog here.

You can order a signed copy of The Real James Bond, or order an unsigned copy, the ebook or audiobook from Amazon and other online sellers.

2021: 007：无暇赴死 (007: Wúxiá fù sǐ ) released in Mainland China.

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October 30th

1943: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

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

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

Saturday 30 October, 1943

Day in bed with cold in spite of four anti-catarrhal injections. Got up
to have dinner with I. Talked about every kind of thing as usual:
Admiralty, personalities, happenings, the funeral, love, death,
marriage, houses, Tahiti – or any escape island – and the formidable
future till after 12.

1963: The Desert Sun prints a short article "Hero or Creator--James Bond? Nope, Only Ian Fleming."

HERO OR CREATOR--
James Bond? Nope,
Only lan Fleming

Desert Sun, Volume 37, Number 75, 30 October 1963 —
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19631030.2.34&e

LONDON (UPI - As he stood there, bemused in Fleet Street, the tall man m the dark blue suit with cuffs on its sleeves did not look like secret agent James Bond, holder of; the rare double-cipher number 007, which entitles its bearer to kill in the performance of duty.

His suit fitted well, too well in fact for even an extra-flat Beretta automatic in a chamois skin holster hidden under the armpit. His shoes were certainly hand-made but on close examination too soft in the toes to be steel-tipped (for kicking out in emergencies, naturally).

His bow tie? Now that might have been whipped off and used for a garrote in the event of a sudden confrontation with an assassin from SMERSH A Soviet agency set up to eliminate counterspies or "double” agents. And the hard grey-blue eyes in the battered handsome face would probably not flinch from such a routine encounter (or, for that matter, a duel with cyanide guns, throwing knives or poisoned brass knuckles.)

But this was definitely not James Bond for the good reason that it was lan Fleming, the British journalist who created a fictional secret agent and gained a world wide audience that includes President Kennedy.

All Things Possible
In the world Fleming has created with the skill of his pen all things are possible, all characters are believable at least for the moment no matter how bizarre. This is a tribute to the sure instinct of his writing and to a trick of weaving the improbable within a solid framework of solid, practical information.

Some interpreters of the Fleming cult allege that Bond is the way he sees his mirror-image. He was a commander in the Royal Navy. So is Bond. He was engaged in a highly secret work during the war. Bond is an agent of the British Secret Service. They dress alike, insist on the same drinks, smoke the same cigarettes, buy their clothes in the same stores and frequent the same restaurants.

With three homes, a wife who is one of London’s leading hostesses, one of the fastest private automobiles in Europe and all the luxuries that royalties can provide, Fleming is willing to let the public think what it wants as long as it continue* to buy his books and patronize the series of films now being made from them.

Millions Sold
The James Bond novels have sold more than 14 million copies and the first film. "Dr. No,” was a box office smash.

The second, “From Russia With Love" has now opened to equally enthusiastic notices. Fleming approved the star who portrays Bond, Sean Connery. But they do not resemble each other in any way. Fleming’s nose looks as though he had started his career with a left hook in his face instead of a silver spoon in his mouth. It is not, to be tactful, film-star photogenic, although at 55, Fleming has rugged good looks of his own.

Fleming was born to a member of parliament and a mother who was regarded as the reigning beauty of England. He had a typically upper-class education at Eton, which he disliked, and later Sandhurst Military Academy the West Point of Britain. From there he went to the universities of Munich and Geneva where he learned fluent German and French.

Later in his career, as manager of the Moscow bureau of Reuters, he added fluent Russian.

But along came the war and someone remembered that he was a linguist, widely traveled, a man of many interests from golf to gambling. This added up to an invitation to join naval intelligence.

Much of his war work is still secret although he had a staff under him assigned to moving in with the advance troops to seize codes and special equipment. He insists that he has never had to draw from his personal experience for his plots but the contracts he made then must be invaluable when it comes to checking accuracy or possibilities.

1973: Thomas Wright in The Gleaner calls Live and Let Die “the poorest of the lot so far, though there were some great moments during the speed-boat chase”. He dismisses the idea the film was “insulting to black people."

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 33 of 65 - "The Art of Evil."

James Bond Jr - The Art of Evil

Season 1 - Episode 33
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807300/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

Young Bond has to clear his name when the Chameleon uses his ability to frame him for the second museum robbery in Paris. At the same time, he has stop the Chameleon and his partner Lex Illusion from robbing the Mona Lisa and other priceless painting from the Louvre.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Alan Oppenheimer ... The Chameleon / Lex Illusion (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Hocus / Pocus (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Mimi Chaussée (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 33 - The Art of Evil

2008: Penguin Modern Classics publishes Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories.

2008: The Guardian prints "For Your Ears Only", a rundown of Bond title song near-misses.

For your ears only

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/oct/31/james-bond-songs
Jude Rogers | Thu 30 Oct 2008 20.01 EDT

Amy Winehouse was lined up to sing the theme for Quantum
of Solace, but it never happened. Jude Rogers looks down her
gun-barrel at other tunes that nearly made the 007 title
sequence

The Bond girl that almost was: Amy Winehouse.
Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty

Goldfinger
Anthony Newley (1964)
Shirley Bassey's gutsy performance nearly never was. Goldfinger's lyrics were co-written by Leslie Bricusse and singer Anthony Newley, and it was Newley - the Cockney pop impresario - who made the original recording. A light jazz version in which he delivers the lyrics in a sinister whisper was included on 1992's 30th-anniversary album, The Best of Bond, but Bassey's version, enhanced by composer John Barry's brassy arrangement, became the quintessential James Bond theme.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/6b33qc

Thunderball
Johnny Cash (1965)
Submitted on spec by Johnny Cash, this majestic country track paints Bond as a furious avenger, his arrival heralded by trumpets, female harmonies and urgent drums. The lyrics also refer to the nuclear bombs for which Bond was hunting in the film ("There's a rumble in the sky and all the world can hear it call/ They shudder at the fury of the mighty Thunderball"). Also rejected was Barry and Bricusse's Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, made as a demo by Bassey but recorded by Dionne Warwick. That was turned down at the last minute after producers decided the theme tune should share the film's title. Don Black, the lyricist who still works on Bond film soundtracks, was recruited, and Tom Jones's theme was written in a few days.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/5qxatn

You Only Live Twice
Lorraine Chandler (1967)
Discovered in the RCA vaults in the 1990s, Lorraine Chandler's northern soul floor-filler began life as a demo that the Detroit-born singer-songwriter submitted herself. It refers to the film's narrative, incorporating both Japanese scales, to reflect the film's location, and the bassline of Monty Norman's famous 007 theme. It was rejected in favour of Barry's song of the same name for Nancy Sinatra, and Chandler went on to write songs for the O'Jays and Eddie Parker.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/5pmcr2

The Man With the Golden Gun
Alice Cooper (1974)
Alice Cooper decided that he was Bond's next main man after Paul McCartney and Wings had international success with 1973's Live and Let Die. Cooper's track is four minutes of dirty glam-metal, and revels in the phallic imagery of the film title ("The man with the golden gun in his pocket/ The man with the golden gun in his case/ The man with the golden gun in your face"). Rejected out of hand by the studio, it appeared on Cooper's album Muscle of Love.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/3vgdfb

For Your Eyes Only
Blondie (1981)
Debbie Harry agreed to sing this film's theme tune, but pulled out after being told that the track would be written by Bill Conti, the composer of the Rocky soundtrack, rather than Blondie. Sheena Easton filled Harry's high heels, but Blondie wrote their own theme tune regardless, a strange, dramatic song that they included on their final album, The Hunter.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/6nhtb7

Never Say Never Again
Phyllis Hyman (1983)
Although Never Say Never Again was not an official Bond film, its original theme tune was also shelved late in the day. Stephen Forsyth wrote a smooth, sultry song, performed by American soul singer Phyllis Hyman. He claims it was dropped after the film's soundtrack composer, Michael Legrand, demanded that he also be allowed to write the title track. Forsyth finally released the track for free on the internet earlier this year, 13 years after Hyman committed suicide. Brazilian singer Lani Hall, the wife of Herb Alpert, sang the song that replaced it.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/5r8bvb

The Living Daylights
The Pet Shop Boys (1987)
After industry rumours that they were in the running to perform the next Bond theme, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe made a demo with a Bond-style guitar motif. But after Duran Duran's success with A View to a Kill, another pretty boy pop group, A-ha, were chosen to collaborate with Barry - an unpleasant process for both parties, which Barry later likened to "playing ping-pong with four balls". Tennant and Lowe later returned to their Bond demo, turning it into This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave on their 1990 album, Behaviour.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/5lx9k6

License to Kill [sic]
Vic Flick and Eric Clapton (1989)
Vic Flick played lead guitar on Norman's original 007 theme, and had been contributing to Barry's Bond film soundtracks since the early 1960s. In 1989, Clapton had just released Journeyman, his successful album of guitar-and-vocal collaborations. Flick and Bond's two-man take on the theme was meant to reflect the grit of Timothy Dalton's Bond, but the producers thought differently. Elements of Flick's guitar work remain in the score, but Gladys Knight's Goldfinger homage took the opening credits.

Hear it: Sorry, you can't.

The Goldeneye
Ace of Base (1995)
Fresh from having international hits with All That She Wants and The Sign, Ace of Base were recruited to write and perform the theme for Pierce Brosnan's first Bond film. Their record company Arista pulled them from the project after the track was complete, because of fears the film would flop. The opposite happened: not only was it a critical and commercial success, but it rebooted the career of Tina Turner. Seven years later, the band reworked the song, renamed it The Juvenile, and released it on their 2002 album Da Capo.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/66ms2t

Tomorrow Never Dies
Saint Etienne (1997)
Swept up by the easy listening boom, Saint Etienne were one of many bands asked to compete for this Bond theme. Their exotica-flavoured song made much of Sarah Cracknell's breathy vocals, but it was rejected, as were entries by the Cardigans, Pulp and Marc Almond. Saint Etienne put theirs on their 1999 fanclub compilation, Built on Sand, and wrote in the liner notes that Pierce Brosnan had kept the master tape of their song, deeming it "seven times better than Sheryl Crow".

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/6ga5db

The World Is Not Enough
Straw (1999)
Straw, a Bristol band formed by Mattie Bennett and Roger Power of the Blue Aeroplanes, were the bright hope for record label WEA in 1999. Their Bond theme nodded towards Radiohead's romantic ballads, but it was rejected in favour of David Arnold and Black's theme for Garbage. A specially recorded Scott Walker song for the closing credits was also dropped, though it did feature on the soundtrack album for the movie.

Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/27vngo

Quantum of Solace
Amy Winehouse (2008)
The theme tunes for Die Another Day and Casino Royale were agreed and recorded quickly, but the hunt for the latest Bond theme tune was protracted. Black and Arnold wrote a song for Quantum of Solace earlier this year, and Black says Amy Winehouse was approached to sing it, amid rumours she and Mark Ronson were also working on a track. Neither worked out.

But Bond themes have changed now, as Black explains. "They're not about being seductive or provocative, with that whiff of the boudoir about them. They're also not as lyrically led." Black quite likes the new song by Jack White and Alicia Keys, but, like many other Bond fans, he's still a sucker for history. "I'm all for the music that makes you think of menace and drama, of spiders running across the pillow," he says. "And personally, I'd get Shirley Bassey to sing them all."

Hear it: Sorry, you can't.

2012: Skyfall premieres in Berlin, Germany.

2015: In The Telegraph Tom reveals what it's like to be Blofeld.

What it's like to live with the
surname Blofeld

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/james-bond-spectre/real-blofeld-surname/

Trying to take over the world since 1961: SPECTRE's leaders Franz Oberhauser and Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Credit: EON/ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Tom Blofeld 30 October 2015 • 7:00am

Sharing a surname with a supervillain hasn’t been easy for Tom Blofeld. Here, he reveals the genesis of 007’s arch-foe

2015: Spectre released in Denmark and Sweden.
2015: 007 Spectre released in Finland.
2015: James Bond: Spectre released in Norway.

2018: British auction house Fellows puts the last Rolex screen-worn by Bond up for sale.

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/watches/rolex-submariner-may-or-may-not-grant-you-a-licence-kill

https://www.fellows.co.uk/james_bond_watch

A Licence To Kill

A Rolex Submariner worn by 007 could fetch a whopping £90,000 at auction. The magnificent timepiece - worn by Timothy Dalton’s stunt double during the British spy thriller, Licence to Kill, in 1989 – is estimated at £60,000 - £90,000 in the upcoming Watch Sale on Tuesday 30th October.

The Rolex featured in a memorable scene - a car chase where 007 is driving a tanker truck in Mexico. Shot almost entirely in Mexico and the US, Licence to Kill pits Britain’s favourite spy against a fierce drug lord.

The watch comes with photos of the cast and crew on set in Mexico, as well as paperwork from Rolex. There is also a book detailing the making of the movie, a soundtrack album, and a certificate of authenticity from EON Productions (the film company).

Licence to Kill was Timothy Dalton’s final appearance as 007 in the franchise, before Pierce Brosnan took over the role as the famous British spy.

Additional information on provenance

• Filming of this scene in Licence to Kill took place at two locations in Mexico. Timothy Dalton was in one location wearing the Submariner 16610 which can be seen in the film.
• Rodney Pincott (Stand-by propman 2nd unit) was in the second location with the stunt doubles.
• Because the stunt double needed to wear a watch during the scene, Pincott’s own watch was used. Pincott’s watch was very similar to the 16610 worn by Timothy Dalton in the film - apart from the date which is not displayed. It is Pincott’s Rolex Submariner 5513 that is being offered for sale.
• The watch was badly damaged during the filming of the tanker scene and was sent to Rolex for a full service. We have the service paperwork, showing the correct serial reference, to prove this. We also have all of the original parts that Rolex replaced. Rolex performed the service free of charge.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #12.
Robert Carey, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

JAMES BOND 007 #12

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532512011
Cover A: Dave Johnson UPC: 725130275325 12011
Cover B: Khoi Pham UPC: 725130275325 12021
Cover C: Ben Caldwell UPC: 725130275325 12031
Cover D: Robert Carey UPC: 725130275325 12041
Writer: Greg Pak, Art: Robert Carey
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 10/30/2019

"Goldfinger" concludes. From GREG PAK (Agents Of Atlas, Star Wars) and ROBERT CAREY (Aliens: Resistance).

https://icv2.com/gallery/44368/1

2021: Royal Scottish National Orchestra presents The Music of Bond, James Bond at Glasgow, Scotland.

Royal Scottish National Orchestra: The
Music of Bond, James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/royal-scottish-national-orchestra-the-music-of-bond-james-bond

RSNO
Book tickets
http://tickets.glasgowconcerthalls.com/single/SelectSeating.aspx?p=25345
£19.00 to £45.00
Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.
Book here
Dates and times
Saturday 30 October 2021
7:30PM - 10:30PM

Nicholas Dodd CONDUCTOR
Emma Lindars VOCALIST
Lance Ellington VOCALIST
The RSNO puts on black tie and tux and pours itself a Vesper Martini with some of the sassiest signature tunes in cinematic history: six decades of girls, gadgets, supervillains and knockout songs, performed tonight by Emma Lindars and Strictly Come Dancing vocalist Lance Ellington. Well, you know what they say: Diamonds are Forever. These tunes are every bit as enduring – and as brilliant. Nobody does it better: guaranteed to leave you shaken… and stirred!

Sponsored by Capital Document Solutions

https://www.rsno.org.uk/liveevent/the-music-of-bond-james-bond/

RichardTheBruce

October 31st

1948: Michael Kitchen is born--Leicester, Leicestershire, England.

1966: You Only Live Twice films the rocket launch near film's end.
1968: 007: Sólo se vive dos veces released in Mexico.

1974: David Dencik is born--Stockholm, Sweden.
1976: US television premiere of Live and Let Die on ABC.

An awesome Sunday.

1977: 007: O Espião que me Amava released in Brazil.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 34 of 65 - "The Heartbreak Caper."

James Bond Jr - The Heartbreak Caper

Season 1 - Episode 34
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807301/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

Ms. Fortune uses the power of love on Mr. Milbanks so that she can get her hands on a new discovered painting of Da Shinci. But Bond and Tracy aren't fooled by her disguise.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
Marc Scott Zicree ... (written by)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Snuffer (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut / Miss Fortune (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Bella Spumone (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 34 - The Heartbreak Caper

2006: MTV video premiere of "You Know My Name". Director Michael Haussman contrasts "the lives of a professional spy and a rock star".

MTV's Making the Video 2006 - You Know My Name by Chris Cornell

2008: Quantum of Solace released in the UK, Ireland, France, Sweden.

2008: EU release of the video game Quantum of Solace.

Trailer


"When No One Loves You", Kerli


Soundtrack

2008: Science Daily proposes "Once Improbable James Bond Villains Now Close To Real Thing."

Once Improbable James Bond Villains Now Close To Real
Thing, Spy Researcher Says

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030075649.htm

Date: October 31, 2008
Source: University of Warwick
Summary: Researchers say that the once improbable seeming villains in the Bond movies have become close to the real threats face faced by modern security services. One researcher said, "Remarkably, the Bond villains - including Dr No, Goldfinger and Blofeld - have always been post-Cold War figures. Bond's enemies are in fact very close the real enemies of the last two decades - part master criminal - part arms smuggler - part terrorist - part warlord."

FULL STORY
Professor Richard J. Aldrich, Professor of International Security at University of Warwick, who has just been awarded a £447,000 grant from UK's Art and Humanities Research Council to examine 'Landscapes of Secrecy' says that the once improbable seeming villains in the Bond movies have become close to the real threats face faced by modern security services.

He says:

"Throughout the Cold War, Bond's villains looked improbable, but now life imitates art. Indeed, in the early 1990s as the Cold War came to a sudden end, real MI6 officers worried about redundancy. Their boss, the real "M", Sir Colin McColl reassured them that the end of the Cold War would be followed by a Hot Peace. He was quite right. Within a few years they had joined with special forces to battle drug barons in South America and to track down war criminals in the former Yugoslavia."

"Remarkably, the Bond villains - including Dr No, Goldfinger and Blofeld - have always been post-Cold War figures. Bond's enemies are in fact very close the real enemies of the last two decades - part master criminal - part arms smuggler - part terrorist - part warlord. They are always the miscreants of globalization, they endanger not only the security of single country, but the safety of the whole world. Like our modern enemies, they thrive on the gaps between sovereign states and thrive on secrecy."

The full text of his comments now follows:

"Spying is often thought of a Cold War phenomena. Ten years ago, in the film "Goldeneye", the stern figure of "M" told 007 that he was nothing more than a historical relic. Yet even before Ian Fleming's extraordinary hero first appeared on the screen, the world of James Bond was in fact looking forward to the twenty-first century - and not backwards."

"Remarkably, the Bond villains - including Dr No, Goldfinger and Blofeld - have always been post-Cold War figures. Bond's enemies are in fact very close the real enemies of the last two decades - part master criminal - part arms smuggler - part terrorist - part warlord. They are always the miscreants of globalization, they endanger not only the security of single country, but the safety of the whole world. Like our modern enemies, they thrive on the gaps between sovereign states and thrive on secrecy."

"Throughout the Cold War, Bond's villains looked improbable, but now life imitates art. Indeed, in the early 1990s as the Cold War came to a sudden end, real MI6 officers worried about redundancy. Their boss, the real "M", Sir Colin McColl reassured them that the end of the Cold War would be followed by a Hot Peace. He was quite right. Within a few years they had joined with special forces to battle drug barons in South America and to track down war criminals in the former Yugoslavia."

"In "The Quantum of Solace" [sic] this forward-looking theme is continued. Counter-terrorism is already yesterday's business and instead Bond looks forward to the next decade when the enemies will be climate change, environmental hazard and global uncertainty. Here the villain - Dominic Greene - played by Mathieu Amalric - together with the mysterious Le Chiffre and Mr White - hide behind an organisation appropriately titled "Greene Planet". This looks like a foundation for global preservation and eco-friendly fundraising. In fact Greene Planet is a front for a secret criminal conspiracy and kleptocratic generals. 007 and the villain first come face to face at a lavish eco fund-raising cocktail party."

"The role of film and fiction in shaping the public understanding of espionage is serious stuff. Curiously, although government secret services hide in shadows, the public somehow feels it knows more about them than the more mundane work-a-day civil service. This is because "007", together with television series such as "Spooks", "24" and the "X-Files" have allowed the viewer to spend literally hours inside their highly-secure buildings."

"Programme-makers often go to obsessive lengths to get things right, albeit in reality "M"s office on the south bank of the Thames is a little less glitzy than the one portrayed in "Quantum of Solace". Secret services have come to recognise that film and fiction play an important part in the public understanding of intelligence work and the CIA has gone so far as to appoint a Hollywood liaison officer to assist film-makers whose wish to portray the agency. "

"Many films, like "The Good Shepherd", are retrospective and are praised for their historical accuracy, and some, like "The Bourne Conspiracy", seek to capture the present. But few capture the wave of the future with the wonderful insight of Ian Fleming. His villains, drawn half a century ago, are truly the miscreants of globalisation. Far fetched in the 1960s, they are now the stuff of reality. We need James Bond more than ever."

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Cite This Page:
University of Warwick. "Once Improbable James Bond Villains Now Close To Real Thing, Spy Researcher Says." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 31 October 2008. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030075649.htm>.

2012: Skyfall released in Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, and The Philippines.
2012: Skajfol released in Serbia.

2020: Sir Thomas Sean Connery dies at age 90--The Bahamas.
(Born 25 August 1930--Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland.)

Sean Connery, Oscar Winner and James Bond
Star, Dies at 90

See the complete article here:

https://variety.com/2020/film/actors/sean-connery-dies-oscar-winner-and-james-bond-star-dead-at-90-1234820498/

By Richard Natale, Manori Ravindran

Sean Connery Dr No James Bond
Courtesy Everett Collection

Sean Connery, the Scottish-born actor who rocketed to fame as James Bond and became one of the franchise’s most popular and enduring international stars, has died. He was 90.

Connery, long regarded as one of the best actors to have portrayed the iconic spy, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000 and marked his 90th birthday in August. His death was confirmed by his family, according to the BBC, which notes that the actor died in his sleep while in the Bahamas. It’s believed he had been unwell for some time. His last acting role had been in Stephen Norrington’s “The League of Extraordinary Gentleman” (2003).

Connery was an audience favorite for more than 40 years and one of the screen’s most reliable and distinctive leading men. The actor was recently voted the best James Bond actor in an August Radio Times poll in the U.K. More than 14,000 voted and Connery claimed 56% of the vote. Global tributes poured in for Connery on Saturday following news of his death.

In a statement, Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said Connery “was and shall always be remembered as the original James Bond whose indelible entrance into cinema history began when he announced those unforgettable words, ‘The name’s Bond… James Bond.’

“He revolutionized the world with his gritty and witty portrayal of the sexy and charismatic secret agent. He is undoubtedly largely responsible for the success of the film series and we shall be forever grateful to him,” said the producers.

However, Connery — who made his debut in the first Bond film, “Dr. No” (1962) — also transcended Ian Fleming’s sexy Agent 007, and went on to distinguish himself with a long and mature career in such films as “The Wind and the Lion” (1975), “The Man Who Would Be King” (1975) and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989).

His turn as a tough Irish cop in Depression-era Chicago in Brian De Palma’s “The Untouchables” (1987) brought him a supporting actor Oscar.

Even as he entered his seventh decade, Connery’s star power remained so strong that he was constantly in demand and handsomely remunerated. In 1999 he was selected People magazine’s Sexiest Man of the Century, and from his 007 days to “Entrapment” (1999), opposite the much-younger Catherine Zeta-Jones, his screen roles more than justified the choice. Age seemed only to intensify his sex appeal and virility.

In his early career, his physique was his main asset as he modeled and picked up acting jobs where he could. In 1956, he landed the role of a battered prizefighter in the BBC production of “Requiem for a Heavyweight.” Good notices brought him to the attention of the entertainment community, and his first film was “No Road Back,” a B crime movie in 1956. He seemed doomed to play the hunk to ageing leading ladies, as he did opposite Lana Turner in “Another Time, Another Place,” or roles that stressed his looks such as “Tarzan’s Great Adventure” in 1959.

It was easy to dismiss him in films like “Darby O’Gill and the Little People,” but his Count Vronsky to Claire Bloom’s Anna Karenina on the BBC brought him some respect and the kind of attention needed to raise him to the top of the Daily Express’ poll of readers asked to suggest the ideal James Bond.

After an interview with producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, he landed the role without a screen test, according to Saltzman. It was a controversial choice at the time, as Connery was an unknown outside Britain. But 1962’s “Dr. No,” the first of the Bond films, made him an international star.

His stature grew with the ever more popular sequels “From Russia With Love,” “Goldfinger” and “Thunderball,” which arrived over the next four years. Bond gave Connery a license to earn; he was paid only $30,000 for “Dr. No” but $400,000 for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Marnie” and was soon getting $750,000 a film.

His initial efforts to break out of the Bond mold, however, proved fruitless. Films like “A Fine Madness,” “Shalako” and “The Molly Maguires” were well-intentioned attempts that did nothing to shake Connery as Bond from the public consciousness. After 1967’s “You Only Live Twice,” he left the Bond franchise, but he was coaxed back for 1971’s “Diamonds Are Forever.” He looked old for the role, and the series seemed tired, so with that, he left Bond behind — though money would tempt him back once last time in 1983 for “Never Say Never Again.”

He took a major misstep with sci-fi film “Zardoz,” and his career seemed to be foundering.

Sean Connery and Luciana Paoluzzi filming “Thunderball” at Pinewood Studios in the U.K. (AP)

But he bounced back in 1974 with a supporting role in “Murder on the Orient Express” and the following year with “The Wind and the Lion” and “The Man Who Would Be King,” two bold adventures featuring a mature, salt-and-pepper-bearded Connery. “Robin and Marian” (1976) opposite Audrey Hepburn was not a popular success, but critics embraced it, and the film cemented Connery’s reputation as a versatile, serious screen actor.

In the late 1970s, there were more missteps such as “Meteor,” “A Bridge Too Far” and “Cuba.” But he scored in Terry Gilliam’s “Time Bandits.” It wasn’t until after his last Bond film that his standing as a box office star caught up to his critical reputation, thanks mostly to two huge worldwide hits: “Highlander,” which was not a big hit in the U.S., and “The Name of the Rose,” which was also much more popular abroad.

BAFTA gave him a best actor award for “Name of the Rose,” and he received his Oscar for “The Untouchables.” After that, he was an instant greenlight any time he agreed to take a role even if some of them, such as “The Presidio,” and “Family Business,” were not so hot.

Pairing Connery and Harrison Ford as father and son in the third “Indiana Jones” film was an inspired move, and the film grossed almost half a billion dollars worldwide.

Meanwhile, “The Hunt for Red October,” in which Connery played a defecting Soviet sub captain, was also a major hit in 1990.

By the 1990s, he was so popular that his uncredited cameo as King Richard in “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” became one of the film’s highlights.

He was still a force to contend with in the foreign market, as “Highlander 2,” “Medicine Man,” “Rising Sun,” “Just Cause” and “First Knight” proved over the next several years. His salary was regularly $5 million and above.

One setback was a bout with throat cancer in the early 1990s, but Connery rebounded with a burst of activity. He starred with Nicolas Cage in 1996 actioner “The Rock,” playing a character that drew more than a little on his history as James Bond. In 2000, he essayed a very different role and received positive reviews for “Finding Forrester,” playing a reclusive writer who bonds with a young black basketball player who’s an aspiring scribe himself.

Nevertheless, he continued with action roles well after his 70th birthday, playing the legendary adventurer Allan Quatermain in 2003’s “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.” He announced his retirement in 2005. He voiced a James Bond videogame the same year, and he subsequently did some other voice acting, playing the title character in the animated short “Sir Billi the Vet” and reprising the role in 2010 for “Sir Billi,” which he also exec produced.

Thomas Sean Connery was born of Irish ancestry in the slums of Edinburgh on Aug. 25, 1930. Poverty robbed him of an education, and by his teens he’d left school and was working as an unskilled laborer.

At 17, he was drafted into the Royal Navy, but he was discharged three years later due to a serious case of ulcers.

He returned to Edinburgh and worked a variety of jobs, including as a lifeguard. He took up bodybuilding and placed third in the 1950 Mr. Universe competition.

After moving to London, he learned of an opening in the chorus of “South Pacific.” He took a crash dancing and singing course and, surprisingly, landed the role, in which he stayed for 18 months. He was “hooked,” he said, but spent several years paying his dues in small repertory companies in and around London before anyone else became hooked on him.

Connery was devoted to his native Scotland and used his stature to press for the re-establishment of a Scottish parliament. When the body reconvened in 1999, 296 years after its last meeting, Connery was invited to address the first session, where he was greeted with a thunderous ovation. The next year, when he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II — an honor he called “one of the proudest days of my life” — he asked that the investiture be performed in Edinburgh.

Connery published his autobiography, Being a Scot, co-written with Murray Grigor, in 2008. Besides his knighthood and his Academy Award, he received many kudos over his long career, including the Kennedy Center Honors in 1999 and the American Film Institute’s lifetime achievement award in 2006.

Connery was married to actress Diane Cilento from 1962-73. The couple divorced in 1973 and Cilento died in 2011. Connery is survived by his second wife, painter Micheline Roquebrune, whom he married in 1975; his son by Cilento, actor Jason Connery; and a grandson from Jason’s marriage to actress Mia Sara.

2021: The Day of the Dead parade commences in Mexico City, the fourth since Spectre.
2021: The James Bond Concert Spectacular by Q The Music Show at Lincoln, New Theatre Royal, Clasketgate, England. Guest compere Caroline Bliss.

The James Bond Concert Spectacular

See the complete article here:

https://datescloud.com/the-james-bond-concert-spectacular-new-theatre-royal-lincoln-201163-306459153.html

Sunday, 31 October 2021
19:30 - 22:00
New Theatre Royal
New Theatre Royal, Clasketgate, Lincoln, United Kingdom

The James Bond Concert Spectacular by Q The Music Show with guest compere and former Bond girl, Caroline Bliss, comes to Lincoln! The James Bond Concert Spectacular is widely regarded across the world as the best tribute to the music of James Bond!

Formed in 2004 as the world’s first dedicated tribute to the music of 007, they have gone on to establish themselves amongst every Bond fan club as the finest performers of the songs since the originals.

Their stirring emotional and adrenaline-fueled performances, mixed in with superb musicianship and flair, have been met by critical acclaim wherever they have gone.

The show has become the go-to provider for all the top events in the world when it comes to James Bond. In 2017 they were asked to perform at Sir Roger Moore’s official memorial event at Pinewood Studios in front of the who’s who of the British film and TV industry including Sir Michael Caine, Dame Joan Collins and David Walliams. In 2019 they performed at an event with George Lazenby: the 50th anniversary event for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, held at Piz Gloria in the Swiss Alps.

The show features all the Bond songs such as Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die and Nobody Does It Better, performed with the most authentic and dedicated arrangements to the originals ever heard, but with such passion, enthusiasm and flair: you can’t help but be wowed.

The musicians in the show are taken from the UK’s leading orchestras, sessions and shows, combined with a former Bond girl compering. Caroline Bliss, who played Moneypenny in The Living Daylights and Licence To Kill, will guide you through the concert sharing the odd anecdote about her time working in this legendary series.

With stunning singing, exquisite musicianship, an informative compere, and a show full of iconic tunes, it really is a night guaranteed of the highest quality. Don’t miss it.

RichardTheBruce

November 1st

1945: Lani Hall is born--Chicago, Illinois.

1964: The Sunday Gleaner reports Kingston cinemas still showing Dr. No as they anticipate Goldfinger.

1982: Octopussy films OO7 playing dead at Kamal Khan’s fortress.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 35 of 65 - "Mindfield."

James Bond Jr - Mindfield

Season 1 - Episode 35
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807109/?ref_=ttep_ep35

Ms. Fortune kidnaps a female Warfield student who has telepathic ability for her latest plot.

James Bond Jr Episode 35 - Mindfield

1992: This month Marvel Comics releases James Bond Jr #11 "Indian Summer".

Featuring Baron von Skarin.

James Bond Jr Issue 11 Indian Summer
http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-011/

1995: Esquire magazine prints Will Self's James Bond Story "License to Hug".

LICENSE TO HUG
In a smoke-free world of nonviolent solutions, 007
must fight to the death just to stay unevolved

November 1 1995 WILL SELF

See the complete article here:

https://classic.esquire.com/article/1995/11/1/license-to-hug

As Bond watched the secretaries, he thought not of unbridled, unfettered carnality but of melanoma.

Bond looked up, straight into the most captivating pair of eyes he had beheld for... at least two weeks.

"I see, so Mister Secret Agent has become Mister Flop-on Merchant, has he?” exclaimed Blanche.

License to Hug

Fiction In a smoke-free world of nonviolent solutions, 007 must fight to the death just to stay unevolved

WILL SELF

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1995: This month Topps Comics releases James Bond 007 Goldeneye #0 as a limited edition preview at the James Bond Convention.

James Bond 007 Goldeneye #0

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/james-bond-007-goldeneye-0-special-james-bond-conv/4000-246134/

James Bond 007 Goldeneye #0 - Special James Bond Convention Limited Preview Edition released by Topps Comics on November 1995.

This preview issue had a limited edition run and was only given away at the James Bond Convention.

Creators: Don McGregor, writer. Rick Magyar, artist.
Characters: James Bond
Locations: England, London, Monte Carlo, Russia

KILLED IN ACTION — UNRELEASED BOND
COMICS

https://www.comicsroyale.com/

Topps Comics’ GOLDENEYE AND OTHER CANCELLED
ADVENTURES

Originally released by American publisher Topps Comics as an adaptation of the 1995 EON Productions film of the same name, only one issue of a planned three-issue series made it to publication, along with a black-and-white teaser issue #00 for the convention circuit. Despite this, issues #2 and #3 were written, illustrated, inked, and lettered, and they are now here for your enjoyment! Adapted by writer Don McGregor, with art by Claude St. Aubin, inks by Rick Magyar, and covers painted by Brian Stelfreeze.

Support your local comic shop and seek out back issues of GoldenEye #00 and #1 to complete the story, and for more James Bond action by Don McGregor, check out the Dark Horse/Acme Comics limited series James Bond 007: The Quasimodo Gambit!

Also included in this gallery, unpublished art and issue synopses for Dark Horse’s James Bond 007: A Silent Armageddon, another story sadly cut short just when things started to get interesting.

GoldenEye #2

https://www.comicsroyale.com/goldeneyetopps-comics#/weite/
Originally Published: Never released, intended to be published by Topps Comics as GoldenEye #2
Writer: Don McGregor
Artist: Claude St. Aubin
Inks: Rick Magyar
Cover Artist: Brian Stelfreeze

Notes: Reportedly, the plan was to continue this series after the three-issue film adaptation as an ongoing James Bond 007 series. It’s a shame this never came to pass, but if you’d like to read more Bond work by Don McGregor then check out his three-issue limited series James Bond 007: The Quasimodo Gambit, published by Dark Horse/Acme Press.

Pages Here

GoldenEye #3

https://www.comicsroyale.com/goldeneyetopps-comics#/schwane/
Originally Published: Never released, intended to be published by Topps Comics as GoldenEye #3
Writer: Don McGregor
Artist: Claude St. Aubin
Inks: Rick Magyar
Cover Artist: Brian Stelfreeze

Notes: Reportedly, the plan was to continue this series after the three-issue film adaptation as an ongoing James Bond 007 series. It’s a shame this never came to pass, but if you’d like to read more Bond work by Don McGregor then check out his three-issue limited series James Bond 007: The Quasimodo Gambit, published by Dark Horse/Acme Press.

Pages Here

1995: This month Berkley publishes the GoldenEye novelisation by John Gardner (from the screenplay by Michael France and Jeffrey Caine) in paperback.

https://bookfrom.net/john-gardner/41223-bond_-_29_-_goldeneye.html

1997: This month Hodder & Stoughton publishes the Tomorrow Never Dies novelisation by Raymond Benson (from the screenplay by Bruce Feirstein) in hardcover.

TOMORROW NEVER DIES

Pierce Brosnan stars again as
James Bond in 007's most exciting
screen adventure. The cars -- and
motorcycles -- are fast, the women
are fascinatingly seductive and
Bond's enemy is the most deadly he
has ever encountered.

From the snowy Khyber Pass to the
sultry South China Sea, TOMORROW
NEVER DIES is a breathtaking all-
action story that pits Bond -- and
Britain -- against a power-mad global
media mogul who is determined to
destroy the world's peace.

Partnered with a Chinese secret
agent who also happens to be a
stunningly beautiful woman, 007
uncovers the secrets of a high-tech
modern TV studio and the
underwater wreck of a sabotaged
warship. His objective: to prevent
the outbreak of World War III. If he
can stay alive for long enough . . .

This is the story all Bond's fans
have been waiting for, with all the
action, the excitement and the
glamour of the screen's bravest
and most enthralling secret agent.

Raymond Benson is the author of THE
JAMES BOND BEDSIDE COMPANION, which
was shortlisted for an Edgar Allan Poe
Award for best biographical/critical
word and is considered by 007 fans to
be the definitive book on the world of
James Bond. His is a director of the
Ian Fleming Foundation and served as
vice-president of the American James
Bond 007 Fan Club for several years.
Mr Benson is also the designer and
writer of several award-winning
interactive software products and
spend over a decade in New York
directing stage productions and
composing music. He has taught film
theory classes at the New School
for Social Research in New York
and interactive screenwriting at
Columbia College in Chicago. Mr
Benson is married, has one son and
lives in the Chicago area. ZERO MINUS
TEN, his first novel, is published by
Hodder & Stoughton.

1999: Garbage performs "The World Is Not Enough" on the Late Show with David Letterman.

2002: 007 Ice Racer video game developed published by Vodafone, using the Die Another Day ice chase.

007 Ice Racer

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/007_Ice_Racer

007 Ice Racer
Game information:

Developer(s): In-Fusio
Publisher(s): Vodafone UK
Designer(s): Marc Pestka
Released: 1st November 2002
Genre: Action-adventure, racing video game
Mode(s): Single-player
Platform(s): ExEn

Preceded by: 007 Racing
Followed by: Agent Under Fire

2012: Skyfall released in Austria, Bolivia, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Croatia, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Slovenia, El Salvador, Thailand.
2012: Skaifoli released in Georgia.
2012: Operacija Skyfall released in Lithuania.

2012: 007: Operación Skyfall released in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay.

2012: 007: Координати Скайфолл released in Ukraine.

2021: Author Jim Wright speaks to his book The Real James Bond at Hillsdale Library, New Jersey.

Nov
1
The Real James Bond - Hillsdale Library

See the complete article here:

https://patch.com/new-jersey/westwood-hillsdale/calendar/event/20211101/1497442/the-real-james-bond-hillsdale-library

Event Details

• Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 7:00 PM
• Hillsdale Library, 509 Hillsdale Avenue, Hillsdale, NJ, 07642
• Event listing from Hillsdale Library: Monday, November 1 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

From the author Jim Wright:

"Whatever happened to him actually outshines
anything I’ve had my James Bond do."
—Ian Fleming

James Bond: author, ornithologist, marksman, and . . . identity-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 took 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 colleagues, here is the real story of the pipe-smoking, ruthless ornithologist who introduced the world to the exotic birds of the West Indies.

https://www.realjamesbond.net/

Revelator

I have to admit that after reading Will Self's utterly hateful Bond story back in 1995 I stayed away from everything else he had written.

RichardTheBruce

November 2nd

1961: Kathryn Dawn (K.D.) Lang is born--Consort, Alberta, Canada.

1975: ABC-TV network premiere of You Only Live Twice.
1976: The Spy Who Loved Me begins filming at Pinewood Studios and the Atlantis boardroom.

2006: John Murray publishes Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries by Kate Westbrook (Samantha Weinberg).

2010: Activision releases GoldenEye 007 in North America.

GoldenEye 007 (2010)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1679586/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

Directed by Kate Saxon
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Bruce Feirstein
Ian Fleming ... (characters) (uncredited)
Ian Fleming ... (concept)
Adam Foshko ... (dialogue)
Bobby Johnson

Cast (in credits order)
Daniel Craig ... James Bond (voice)
Judi Dench ... M (voice)
Rory Kinnear ... Bill Tanner (voice)
Elliot Cowan ... Alec Trevelyan (voice)
Kirsty Mitchell ... Natalya Simonova (voice)
Kate Magowan ... Xenia Onatopp (voice)
Laurentiu Possa ... General Ourumov (voice)
Ed Stoppard ... Dimitri Mishkin (voice)
Sónia Balacó ... Sgt. Garcia (voice)
Alec Newman ... Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky (voice)
Nathan Osgood ... Sky Briggs (voice)
Adrian Schiller ... Additional Voices (voice)
Al Nedjari ... Additional Voices (voice)
Aleksandar Mikic ... Additional Voices (voice)
Beatriz Romilly ... Additional Voices (voice)
Daniel Curshen ... Additional Voices (voice)
Slav Shumov ... Additional Voices (voice)
Dhafer L'Abidine ... Additional Voices (voice) (as Dhaffer L'Abidine)
Fintan McKeown ... Janus Soldier (voice)
Jimmy Akingbola ... Additional Voices (voice)
Jonathan Aris ... Additional Voices (voice)
Louiza Patikas ... Club Patron (voice)
Mark Monero ... Additional Voices (voice)
Nicholas Boulton ... Additional Voices (voice)
Nick Nevern ... Additional Voices (voice)
Steffan Boje ... Additional Voices (voice)
Stephane Cornicard ... Additional Voices (voice)
Timothy Watson ... Janus Soldier (voice)
Trevor White ... Additional Voices (voice)
Velibor Topic ... Additional Voices (voice)
Vincent Carmichael ... Additional Voices (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Georgina White ... Natalya

Produced by Graham Hagmaier ... associate producer
Mike Ward ... executive producer
Music by David Arnold, Kevin Kiner
Production Design by Robert Cowper
Art Department Iain Harrison ... Senior Artist
Visual Effects by Danny Duke ... Artist
Rich Holleworth ... MoCap Animator
Gareth Richards ... visual effects artist
Stunts Ben Cooke ... stunt coordinator

GoldenEye 007 - James Bond | intro sequence Nintendo

2012: Skyfall released in Colombia. Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Panama, and Turkey.
2012: 007: Skyfall released in Estonia.
2012: 007: Operación Skyfall released in Mexico. And Venezuela.

2012: 007：空降危機 (007: Kōngjiàng wéijī; 007: Airborne Crisis) released in Taiwan.

2012: Tử Địa Skyfall (Death Location Skyfall) released in Vietnam.

2015: BBC News reports Spectre breaking box office records in the UK.

Bond's Spectre breaks box
office records

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34697604

Published 2 November 2015

Spectre is Daniel Craig's fourth stint as 007

Spectre, the 24th James Bond adventure, has broken all-time box office records in nearly every market in which it has been released so far.

2015: 007: Spectre premieres in Mexico.

2021: French Institute Allince Française CinéSalon presents eight career-defining films as Léa Seydoux: More Than a Bond Girl.

CinéSalon Series
Léa Seydoux: More Than a Bond Girl

See the complete article here:

https://fiaf.org/event_tag/2021-11-cs-lea-seydoux/

November 2–December 20, 2021
FIAF Florence Gould Hall & Online

One of France’s most exciting young actresses, Léa Seydoux stars in two of this fall’s biggest US releases, the new James Bond film, No Time to Die, and Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch.

In November & December, FIAF CinéSalon presents eight of her career-defining films in Léa Seydoux: More Than a Bond Girl.

Léa Seydoux first came to prominence in Christophe Honoré’s 2008 The Beautiful Person, but she reached international stardom for her stunning performance in 2013’s Blue is the Warmest Color. For the first time ever in the history of the Cannes Film Festival, Léa Seydoux, with co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos and director Abdellatif Kechiche, received the Palme d’Or, a prize traditionally reserved for filmmakers. Since then, the rising star’s career has taken off with roles varying from Hollywood blockbusters, to lead parts in French and international independent cinema.

As the Los Angeles Times writes, “With her singular combination of flintiness and fleshliness, Léa Seydoux is among the contemporary screen’s most compelling performers. She can bring whole lives into focus or wrap them in mystery with a glance or gesture”.

The series includes an exclusive sneak preview of France, Bruno Dumont’s unexpected, unsettling new film about contemporary news media.

2021: The Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico.

Day of the Dead –
November 2, 2021
Mexico

See the complete article here:

https://nationaltoday.com/day-of-the-dead/

Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, is a traditional Mexican holiday celebrated November 2. On this day, it is believed that the souls of the dead return to visit their living family members. Many people celebrate this day by visiting the graves of deceased loved ones and setting up altars with their favorite foods, drink, and photos.
When is Day of the Dead 2021?

The Day of the Dead is observed on November 2 each year. It follows on from All Hallows Eve on October 31 and The Day of the Children and All Saints Day on November 1.

History of Day of the Dead
The ancient indigenous people of Mexico have practiced rituals celebrating the lives of past ancestors for around 3,000 years. The celebration that is now known as Day of the Dead originally landed on the ninth month of the Aztec calendar and was observed for the entire month. In the 20th century, the month long festivities were condensed to 3 days called The Days of the Dead: Halloween on October 31, Day of the Innocents on November 1, and Day of the Dead on November 2.

La Catrina is one of the most recognizable figures of Day of the Dead, a towering female skeleton with vibrant make up and a flamboyant feathery hat. The Lady of Death worshipped by the Aztecs protected their departed loved ones, guiding them through their final stages of the life and death cycles. La Catrina that we know today came to be in the early 1900s by controversial and political cartoonist José Guadalupe Posada. Artist and husband of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, included José’s La Catrina in one of his murals which depicted 400 years of Mexican history. His mural, “Dreams of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park”, includes himself and a young child holding hands with La Catrina, who is dressed in sophisticated garb and a fancy feathered hat.

Plans for Day of the Dead are made throughout the year. Toys are offered to dead children and bottles of alcohol or jars of alote get offered to dead adults. Most families decorate their loved ones’ graves with ofrendas, which often includes marigolds. It’s said that these specific flowers attract the souls of the dead to the offerings, and the bright petals and strong scent guides the souls from the cemetery to their family’s home.

Day of the Dead timeline

October 29, 2016
Bond Parade
The 2015 James Bond movie- Spectre, featured a Day of the Dead
parade in Mexico City, piquing public interest.

October 31 annually
Día de las Brujas
Halloween in Mexico - Día de las Brujas, is the beginning of
the Days of the Dead festivities.

November 1 annually
Día de los Inocentes
The Day of the Little Angels, is specifically dedicated
to people who died as children.

November 2 annually
Día de los Muertos
The Day of the Dead is the final and most popular day
of the three day long celebration.

Traditions
The main tradition for Day of the Dead sees families gather to honor and remember their loved ones who are no longer with us. Celebrated as a sacred and joyous occasion, there is plenty of food, lots of flowers, visits with family members and nostalgic stories about those who have died.

RichardTheBruce

November 3

1933: John Barry Prendergast is born--York, North Yorkshire England.
(He dies 30 January 2011 at age 77--Oyster Bay, New York.)

John Barry obituary
Composer most closely associated with the golden age of James Bond but whose scores ranged from Midnight Cowboy to Dances With Wolves

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jan/31/john-barry-obituary
Adam Sweeting - Mon 31 Jan 2011 13.31 EST

John Barry in the recording studio, 1965. Photograph: Dezo Hoffmann / Rex Features

John Barry, who has died aged 77 following a heart attack, will always be associated with the golden age of James Bond, but though much of his most famous music was written to accompany the outlandish adventures of 007, his work covered a huge variety of moods and styles. Barry wrote epic, sweeping film scores for Zulu (1964), Born Free (1966) and Out of Africa (1985), introduced blues and jazz themes into The Chase (1966) and The Cotton Club (1984), and conceived the shivery, sinister music for The Ipcress File (1965). He even became something of a pop star in his own right.

He was born John Barry Prendergast in York, where his father ran a chain of cinemas. His mother was a talented musician, but had abandoned the attempt to establish herself as a concert pianist. "My father had seven or eight cinemas, so I was brought up in the cinema," he recalled. "I remember my dad carrying me through the foyer of the Rialto in York and pushing the swing doors open at a matinee. I was looking at this big black-and-white mouse on the screen, and he'd taken me to see a Mickey Mouse cartoon."

Barry cherished an early ambition to join the family business and become a projectionist, but the combination of film and music made a deep impression on him. He began taking piano lessons with Francis Jackson, master of the music at York Minster, and studied with the jazz arranger Bill Russo, who had worked with Stan Kenton's orchestra. His father was a jazz fan, and would present concerts by such stars as Kenton and Count Basie.

After national service with the army, Barry formed his own jazz combo, the John Barry Seven, and scored a string of pop hits during the late 50s and early 60s, including Hit and Miss (the theme from TV's Juke Box Jury), Walk Don't Run and Black Stockings.

Barry thrived on the feverish wave of creativity that made London the world's most fascinating city at the time. He socialised with Michael Caine and Terence Stamp, collaborated with the pop stars Adam Faith and Nina & Frederik, and guaranteed himself the attention of gossip columnists by marrying the actress Jane Birkin. In 1960 he was asked to write music for the Peter Sellers/Richard Todd vehicle Never Let Go and then for the Faith comedy Beat Girl.

In 1962, he was signed up to work on the first Bond film, Dr No, although only as back-up to the composer Monty Norman, for a fee of £250. The official story is that Barry merely arranged Norman's famous James Bond Theme, and when Barry claimed in a Sunday Times interview many years later that he had written it himself, Norman successfully sued for libel and was awarded £30,000 in damages.

Subsequently there was no such ambiguity, as Barry's scores for From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965) became popular the world over. Such was the potency of the Bond mystique that Barry's soundtrack album for Goldfinger knocked the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night off the top of the American charts in 1964, and earned the composer his first gold disc. He scored 10 consecutive Bond films and decided he had had enough after The Living Daylights (1987) because "all the good books had been done". 

In 1969, he scored John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy, one of the first movies to use a selection of pop songs on the soundtrack. It was a technique that would be copied by countless imitators. "That movie is still shown at the cinema school at UCLA as the epitome of how songs should be used in the movies," Barry said in 1997. "We only bought in a couple of songs, Everybody's Talkin', sung by Harry Nilsson, and a John Lennon song, and for the rest we got young songwriters to score the scenes with songs. The songs work because they were written for the movie."

However, Barry always gave credit to the great classically influenced Hollywood film composers, such as Bernard Herrmann or Max Steiner, and echoes of their work would frequently bubble up in his own. Barry's music was used on the soundtracks of many other films – The Knack (1965), The Quiller Memorandum (1966), The Lion in Winter (1968), Murphy's War (1971), The Day of the Locust (1975), Raise the Titanic (1980), Body Heat (1981), Jagged Edge (1985), Chaplin (1992), Dances With Wolves (1990) and Indecent Proposal (1993) – and he was a natural choice to write the theme for the Roger Moore/Tony Curtis TV series, The Persuaders!

He won five Oscars, including two for Born Free and one each for The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa and Dances With Wolves. He also won Bafta's Anthony Asquith award for The Lion in Winter, and a Grammy for Dances With Wolves. In 1998 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Barry had never needed a career boost, but during the 1990s he found himself being feted by a younger generation of artists, including David Arnold, who had stepped into the role of James Bond's personal composer for Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Arnold masterminded the Shaken and Stirred album in homage to Barry's Bond music, and commented that "for me the success of the Bond series was 50% Sean Connery and 50% John Barry". Barry was delighted by Arnold's enthusiasm. "I think Shaken and Stirred is terrific. David Arnold has kept all the essence of the originals, and he's cast it beautifully with all the different performers. It has a real freshness and rhythmic impetus, which sounds very now."

A throat cancer scare in 1989 slowed Barry's work rate, but his ambition remained undimmed. In 1998 he released The Beyondness of Things, a "tone poem" unconnected to any film and which he presented as a concert piece. "It's amazing to work without film or without a director or producer," commented Barry, who was appointed OBE in 1999. "I love doing films, but it's been refreshing to work with such total freedom."

It was rumoured that Beyondness … had been derived from his rejected score for The Horse Whisperer, and a certain sameness of mood could be discerned creeping into his compositions. Perhaps recognising the need for fresh stimulus, he signed up to collaborate with the lyricist Don Black and director Michael Attenborough on a stage musical version of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, which had a short run in London in 2004. "I don't mind people going on about my past as long as I've still got a future," said Barry, "and I've got plenty of things coming up."

In 2006, Barry was executive producer on the album Here's to the Heroes by the Australian group the Ten Tenors. It featured several songs he had written with Black. The duo also wrote a new song, Our Time Is Now, for Shirley Bassey's 2009 album The Performance, their first for her since Diamonds Are Forever.

Barry, who had lived in Oyster Bay, New York state, since 1980, is survived by his fourth wife Laurie, their son Jonpatrick, and three daughters, Susie, Sian and Kate.

Eddi Fiegel writes:

I wrote to John Barry in 1997 telling him I had been commissioned to write his biography. I heard nothing for months but then, just at the point when I had almost given up hope of a reply, I got a message on my answerphone saying, "This is John Barry. I'm in London working at Abbey Road studios. Why don't you come in and we can meet?"

He immediately put me at ease with a dry, self-deprecating humour and extraordinary personal charm. A few days later we had the first of many epic lunches at his favourite London restaurant, Rules, in Covent Garden.

He had an excellent memory and was a superb raconteur – a gift for a biographer. Like many artists he could also veer between insecurity and supreme confidence. When he arranged to play his first British concert in decades at the Albert Hall, he asked me: "Do you think people will come?"

Another day, however, I mentioned to him that an electronic dance act had recently recorded what they described as a tribute to his television theme to The Persuaders! I played it to him, curious to know what he would make of it. He listened in silence. Then after a pause, he said: "It's not as good as The Persuaders!, is it?"

• John Barry (John Barry Prendergast), composer and songwriter, born 3 November 1933; died 30 January 2011
• The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday 10 February 2011. In this article, we said that John Barry scored 10 consecutive Bond films; in fact he scored six consecutively, 11 in all. We quoted Barry as saying that the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack included a John Lennon song. It contained two songs by Elephants Memory, who worked with Lennon, but none written by him. Barry had a ruptured oesophagus in the late 80s, rather than a throat cancer scare. The film Beat Girl is not a comedy, although Halliwell's film guide describes it as risible melodrama.

• This obituary was further amended on 24 February 2015. Earlier versions said that Barry was born Jonathan, rather than John, Barry Prendergast.

John Barry (I) (1933–2011)
Music Department | Soundtrack | Composer

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000290/?ref_=nv_sr_4?ref_=nv_sr_4

Filmography

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000290/?ref_=nv_sr_4?ref_=nv_sr_4

1936: Takao Saito (斎藤 隆夫; Saitō Takao) is born--Wakayama Province, Japan.

1948: Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie (Lulu) is born--Glasgow, Scotland.

1957: Dolph Lundgren is born--Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.

1961: The Daily Cinema announce Sean Connery in the James Bond role.

2002: "Die Another Day" charts in the UK at #3.

2008: Casino Royale re-released in The Netherlands.

2010: MGM files for bankruptcy.
2011: EON Productions announces the start to filming for Skyfall at the Corinthia Hotel, London. Locations confirmed: London, Shanghai, Istanbul, Scotland. Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Ben Wishaw, Naomie Harris, Javier Bardem.

2012: Heineken Global Duty Free (GDF) partners with Virgin Atlantic to introduce its 33cl James Bond edition bottle.

Heineken Global Duty Free launches James Bond special
range

See the complete article here:

https://www.moodiedavittreport.com/heineken-global-duty-free-launches-james-bond-special-range/

by Dermot Davitt | [email protected] Source: ©The Moodie Report 29 October 2012

How KLM is advertising the new campaign in its inflight brochure

Heineken Global Duty Free (GDF) has launched a special 33cl James Bond edition to coincide with the launch of Skyfall, the latest film in the James Bond series.

2020: Royal Mail issues a No Time To Die collectors sheet.

Royal Mail

James Bond No Time To Die Collector's Sheet

https://shop.royalmail.com/james-bond-no-time-to-die-collectors-sheet
Catalogue code AT122

Ten First Class James Bond stamps alongside labels featuring images and key characters from the film.

Description
A dramatic image of James Bond’s iconic Aston Martin DB5, as featured in No Time To Die, is the backdrop to an action-packed souvenir.

Ten First Class self-adhesive James Bond stamps from the original Q Branch Miniature Sheet, originally issued in March 2020, alongside labels featuring images and key characters from No Time To Die – including James Bond, Safin, Nomi and Paloma.

2021: James Bond Trivia Night at the Brass Tap, Collin County, Texas.

James Bond Trivia Night
Wed Nov 03 2021
The Brass Tap - Allen | Allen

See the complete article here:

https://stayhappening.com/e/james-bond-trivia-night-E2ISU1JRTE1

at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-05:00

The Brass Tap - Allen
Publisher/Host The Brass Tap - Allen

James Bond Trivia Night

Join us for James Bond Trivia !

RichardTheBruce

November 4th

1964: Ian Fleming's will is proved.

1972: Live and Let Die films OO7's boat crashing a wedding in the Louisiana bayou.
1976: James Bond comic strip Nightbird ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 2 June 1976. 3179-3312) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://comicsgrinder.com/tag/yaroslav-horak/


Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3

Nattfågeln Dödligt Uppdrag För Bond!
(Nightbird) Issue: #50 (1967+ series)



Danish 1979 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no49-1979/

James Bond 007 no. 49:
“Nightbird/
When the Wizard Awakes” (1979)
"Natfuglen"

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 36 of 65 - "Leonardo da Vinci's Vault."

James Bond Jr - Leonardo da Vinci's Vault

Season 1 - Episode 36
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807108/?ref_=ttep_ep36

James Bond Jr. and his friends head to Venice when they find out that the museum that IQ went to visit got robbed by a mastermind named Maximillian Cortex who stole a newly discovered painting of Leonardo da Vinci, which has a map showing the location of his secret weapon hidden in secret vault under Venice.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Maximillion Cortex (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 36 - Leonardo da Vinci's Vault

2012: The British GQ James Bond Special Edition features 6 covers.

2015: Spectre released in Belgium and Luxembourg.
2015: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond #1 beginning the VARGR story arc.

JAMES BOND #1

See the complete article here:

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181801011

Cover A: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: November 2015
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: November 4

Beginning "VARGR", the first story in the ongoing James Bond comic series by best-selling writer Warren Ellis! James Bond returns to London after a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, to take up the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. But something evil is moving through the back streets of the city, and sinister plans are being laid for Bond in Berlin...

In Stores November 4th in advance of the block buster movie on November 6th!
Dynamite Entertainment is proud to launch the first James Bond comic book series in 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

VARGR - 4 November 2015 - Jason Ellis
VARGR was Dynamite Comics' first story arc in its series of James Bond comics, written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Jason Masters. Published in six issues from 2015 to 2016, the first issue was released on 4th November 2015, coinciding with the arrival of the twenty-fourth James Bond film, Spectre. A hardcover collection of the first six issues of VARGR was later published on 21st June 2016.

James Bond #1 - VARGR released by Dynamite Entertainment on November 2015.

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/james-bond-1-vargr/4000-504958/
Beginning “VARGR”, the first story in the ongoing James Bond comic series by best-selling writer Warren Ellis! James Bond returns to London after a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, to take up the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. But something evil is moving through the back streets of the city, and sinister plans are being laid for Bond in Berlin...

List of covers and their creators:
Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location

A/Reg Regular Cover Dom Reardon 1
B/Auth Blank Authentix Cover None 2
C/RI 1:10 Retailer Incentive Cover Francesco Francavilla 3
D/RI 1:20 Retailer Incentive Cover Stephen Mooney 4
E/RI 1:30 Retailer Incentive Cover Dan Panosian 5
F/RI 1:40 Retailer Incentive Cover Gabriel Hardman 6
G/RI 1:50 Retailer Incentive Cover Glenn Fabry 7
H/RI 1:60 Retailer Incentive Cover Jock 8
I/LE Rare "Virgin Art" Edition Cover Glenn Fabry 9
J/RE Retailer Shared Exclusive Variant Cover Jason Masters 10
K/RE Black Cat Exclusive Variant Cover ? 21
L/RE BAM!/2nd & Charles Exclusive Variant Cover Francesco Francavilla 19
M/RE Heroes & Fantasies Exclusive Variant Cover Timothy Lim 18
N/RE Madness Games & Comics Exclusive Variant Cover Aaron Campbell 17
O/RE Maximum Comics Exclusive Variant Cover Dennis Calero 16
P/RE Midtown Comics Exclusive Variant Cover Robert Hack 11
Q/RE Midtown Comics Shared Variant Cover Jason Masters 12
R/RE MyGeekBox.com Exclusive Variant Cover Ben Oliver 15
S/RE Previews UK Exclusive Variant Cover ? 20
T/RE Ssalefish Exclusive Variant Cover Dennis Calero 14
U/RE Tate's Comics + Toys + More Exclusive Variant Cover Dennis Calero 13

2015: The Peninsula Hong Kong hosts photographer Terry O'Neill's exhibition "All About Bond at The Peninsula".

All About Bond at The Peninsula: MI6 agent as seen
through the lens of Terry O’Neill

See the complete article here:

https://www.2luxury2.com/all-about-bond-at-the-peninsula-mi6-agent-as-seen-through-the-lens-of-terry-oneill-photographer-to-the-stars/

Editorial Team on September 21, 2015

Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig, and the most famous Bond Girls in the James Bond exhibition @ The Peninsula Hong Kong.

The Peninsula Hong Kong pays tribute to James Bond with a unique photographic exhibition by iconic british photographer Terry O'Neill

The whole world seems to be obliged to pay tribute to the world’s favourite spy. To whet appetites for the new Spectre film, which sees Daniel Craig return to play 007 for the fourth time, The Peninsula Hong Kong is the latest to announce top secret events and a unique photographic exhibition dedicated to James Bond.

The Peninsula is hosting a spectacular VIP dinner and a high-profile exhibition by the renowned British photographer Terry O’Neill, who has the distinction of having shot five Bonds, from Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, more than 20 iconic “Bond Girls”, as well as Frank Sinatra, Elton John, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Audrey Hepburn and Faye Dunaway, to name a few of Hollywood’s elite. O’Neill will be the guest of honour at the VIP dinner, in addition to hosting an artist talk that day, charting his career as one of the leading celebrity photographers of the 20th century. The Peninsula is even giving guests the opportunity to emulate the iconic British spy’s opulent lifestyle with “A Bond-worthy Stay”.

Guests will have the chance to trace the cinematic history of the dapper secret agent by visiting a curated exhibition of Terry O’Neill’s Bond photographs, which features unique images of Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig in the role, as well as a selection of the films’ most famous Bond Girls.

The Peninsula Hong Kong - Terry O'Neill All About Bond at The Peninsula - MI6 agent as seen through the lens of Terry O’Neill, photographer to the stars

A must-see for fans of 007, the exhibition will be on display at Gaddi’s and the hotel’s first-floor corridor exhibition space from 4 November to 10 December 2015, in tandem with a pop-up exhibition from 2 to 8 November 2015 at leading Hong Kong contemporary art gallery, The Cat Street Gallery, featuring signed editions of O’Neill’s iconic photographs. Jetting in to host a VIP “In Conversation with the Artist” talk in Felix on 4 November, O’Neill will offer insights into his impressive body of work and reveal the stories behind these arresting images.

2021: The Plowright Theatre promises The Sounds of James Bond, Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England.

THE SOUNDS OF JAMES BOND

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https://www.scunthorpetheatres.co.uk/whats-on/the-sounds-of-james-bond/

THE SOUNDS OF JAMES BOND IS A MUSICAL TREAT FOR ALL BOND FANS.

We celebrate Bond at its best - as the 25th Bond film is released, we wanted to showcase the fantastic songs from this popular film series including epic hits of the past from Shirley Bassey, Louis Armstrong, Paul McCartney and Tom Jones to the more recent hits from Sam Smith, Adele & Billie Eilish to name but a few. This musical extravaganza will be performed by four outstanding vocalists.

Not only will we perform all the amazing theme songs for you, but we also have a special featured appearance from our own stunt team, who will reenact some of the action we see in the Bond films.

With all of this linked together with our fantastic dancers and using brilliant video footage on our giant screen, we can guarantee this show will take you on an unforgettable musical journey through the memories, drama and the epic-ness that is Bond.

TO PUT IT SIMPLY, THE SOUNDS OF JAMES BOND WILL MOST DEFINITELY LEAVE YOU SHAKEN & STIRRED!

Thursday, 4 November 2021

2021: Strawberry Moon brings its ultimate drive-in cinematic experience to Royal Windsor Racecourse screening No Time To Die tonight and since 22 October at Berkshire, England.

WIN 2021 Strawberry Moon Drive-In
Cinema - 4 Nov

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https://www.windsor-racecourse.co.uk/whats-on/win-2021-strawberry-moon-drive-in-cinema-4-nov

Thursday 4th November 2021

State-of-the-art drive-in cinema group, Strawberry Moon, is reopening its doors and bringing the ultimate drive-in cinematic experience to Royal Windsor Racecourse from Friday, 22nd October

Strawberry Moon have put together a host of fantastic films to watch in the comfort of your own car kicking off from Friday 22nd October with the new James Bond film ‘No Time To Die’ .

Boasting the UK’s biggest screen and one of only two drive-in cinemas in the country allowed to show ‘No Time To Die’, film fans are in for an unforgettable night under the stars, watching the latest and greatest movies matched with the finest handpicked street foods. Other brand new releases will include ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and ‘Spiderman: No Way Home.

Strawberry Moon will continue to offer 50% off ticket prices for NHS workers and blue-light cardholders.

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2021: The Brunswick Pub hosts Shaken Stirred - A James Bond House Breakbeat Mashup Mix at Lewes, Brunswick, England. Free.

Shaken Stirred - A James Bond / House /
Breakbeat Mashup Mix - Downstairs at the
Brunswick Nov 4th

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Schedule
Thu Nov 04 2021 at 08:00 pm
UTC+00:00
Location
Brunswick Pub | Lewes, EN
Shaken Stirred - A James Bond \/ House \/ Breakbeat Mashup Mix - Downstairs at the Brunswick Nov 4th

FREE ENTRY

• Delighted to announce the launch party for Shaken Stirred.
• This will take place at the Cellar Bar downstairs at the Brunswick Pub in Hove on Thursday 4th November between 8pm and 10pm.
• The new mix will be played at 9pm.
• To warm up proceedings there will be a full play of Twisted Spaghetti - A Western House mix and the mashup films Nothing Is Real and The Bride Of Dr Funkenstein.
• Come along, have a listen and a boogie.
• See you there :))

Where is it happening?
Brunswick Pub, Lewes, United Kingdom

THE FLYING WHITE DOTS - THE BRIDE OF DR FUNKENSTEIN

2021: square mile shares Anthony Horowitz's apt assessment for "Why you should read James Bond."

Why you should read James
Bond

You've seen the films – but have you read the books? Anthony Horowitz –
himself the author of two James Bond novels –
takes us inside the world of Ian Fleming...

See the complete article here:

https://squaremile.com/features/james-bond-books-anthony-horowitz/

2021: Harper Collins and Ian Fleming Publishing promise a brand new Double O series written by Kim Sherwood.

BRAND NEW DOUBLE O SERIES BY KIM SHERWOOD

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https://www.ianfleming.com/harpercollins-publishers-acquire-licence-to-thrill-with-a-fully-authorised-new-james-bond-trilogy-from-kim-sherwood/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=harpercollins-publishers-acquire-licence-to-thrill-with-a-fully-authorised-new-james-bond-trilogy-from-kim-sherwood

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November 5th

1912: Paul Dehn is born--Manchester, England.
(He dies 30 September 1976 at age 63.)

Tinker Tailor Soldier Schreiber
The Unsung Achievement of Screenwriter Paul Dehn
By David Kipen

ISSUE: Winter 2013

There are too many clues …
—Hercule Poirot, Murder on the Orient Express, screenplay by Paul Dehn

Born a hundred years ago this past November 5, the late poet and critic Paul Dehn won an Oscar, served as a spy in World War II and, notwithstanding his long and loving cohabitation with another man, helped create the epitome of twentieth-century hetero-sexual virility—yet today, even Google all but asks, “Paul who?”

How could this be? What tastemakers did he offend? Did he throw a drink in Edmund Wilson’s face? Make a pass at Susan Sontag? Hardly. His only crime was to excel at the art that dare not speak its name: Paul Dehn was a screenwriter.

In addition to the definitive James Bond picture (Goldfinger), Dehn adapted the works of John le Carré (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Deadly Affair), Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express), and Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew). He had a hand in the scripts of all four initial Planet of the Apes sequels and won the Oscar for his very first screenplay, the widely influential Cold War suspense film Seven Days to Noon.

Dehn (pronounced “Dane”) resurrected or reinvented at least three genres given up for dead at the time: the British mystery, the Shakespeare adaptation, and the spy film. He understood a thing or two about espionage, having taught and then practiced it with distinction during World War II. Yet the hundredth anniversary of Dehn’s birth has passed without the merest hiccup of notice.

I mean to lay out some of the reasons that make Paul Dehn worth remembering not just on his centenary by film critics, but by anybody fascinated with who’s responsible for their favorite movies. Dehn’s scripts suggest an intelligent, witty, morally engaged, cohesive sensibility. Even in his adaptations, he gravitated toward thematically idiosyncratic material. For example, his pictures often begin with the arrival of a threatening letter and fear of exposure (Seven Days to Noon, Murder on the Orient Express, The Deadly Affair)—surely fraught territory for a man acquainted with both deep-cover operations and the menace of British anti-sodomy laws.

Dehn wasn’t the best screenwriter who ever lived. He wrote too few originals, and too often in collaboration, to claim anything of the kind. Nor was he the best author ever to approach film as an art form. That would be Graham Greene, or perhaps Harold Pinter, the only screenwriter ever to win the Nobel Prize. (Pinter wrote as many film and television scripts as he did stage plays.) No, Dehn was merely a very good screenwriter. His work carried a creative signature that withstood even the most overbearing director’s attempts to flatten it.

Our Man in Hollywood

Only one peacetime photograph of Paul Dehn survives. It shows him reclining in a dark leather chair with a book open on his lap. Behind him, level with his balding head, a rank of mostly hardcover books stands mustered for inspection. A writer works here. Close to Dehn’s left hand, atop the desk back of him, sits his only visible concession to modernity: a small British portable tv circa 1970, maybe six inches across, its screen convex with latent entertainment. Legs casually crossed and bent, Dehn looks up from his book and over at us. We’ve surprised him with our camera, but not unpleasantly so. He looks to be in his fifties, his eyeglasses seemingly borrowed from David Hockney, with round lenses and dark frames. His ears must have been prominent even before the hair started to go.

What gets you is the smile. It’s not broad. Every third or fourth glance at him, it’s not there at all. Even when you see it, the smile has more curves than it should, like a sine wave. Dehn essentially resembles a taller, leaner Charlie Brown—already middle-aged and made good, but still a bit nervous.

Military historian Raleigh Trevelyan’s brief but warm evocation of Dehn for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography helps capture something of the spirit of the man: “He delighted everyone with his entertaining manner and piano playing, and could put on a ‘good nightclub act’. He is also recorded as having been a ‘serious thinker’, with a warm and romantic nature, not to mention an outstanding instructor. In America it was said that listening to him was more exciting than reading a spy novel.”

Harold Pinter once described his own screenplay for a half-decent spy film, The Quiller Memorandum, as “between two stools: One, the Bond films and the other, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.” In the photograph, Dehn inclines decidedly toward the Smiley end of the spectrum, yet the scripts written at this desk put both George Smiley and James Bond on the screen.

The excellence of Dehn’s spy films derives partly from his wartime experiences as both a desk jockey, like George Smiley, and a field agent, like Bond. Or not like Bond—since how often does Bond do any actual spying?—but at least in the same line. Dehn spent the majority of his war service at the improbable Camp X, a disused estate in Canada commandeered for the training of British spies in what was then called “black warfare,” now “black ops.”

Many walks of life are known for the exhaustiveness of their archival documentation: statesmen, for example, or Nazis. But Englishmen and screenwriters, especially at midcentury, each tended toward self-effacement. Spies and homosexuals were, by definition, outlaws, and likely even less inclined to careless diary-keeping. So the trail for Dehn—and a generation of other gifted screenwriters—is cold and getting colder.

Researching the lives and careers of directors is much easier. Directors get interviewed vastly more often than screenwriters do. They also appear to live considerably longer. It’s uncanny just how many of Dehn’s variously talented directors are still alive, forty or fifty years after their work together. The men who shot Goldfinger (1964), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Fragment of Fear (1970),and The Taming of the Shrew (1967)—Guy Hamilton, Ted Post, Richard Sarafian, and Franco Zeffirelli—may well live to attend their own centennial retrospectives.

Dehn, meanwhile, and all the writers ever credited alongside him, are dead. An actuary and a screenwriter’s analyst might have an interesting conversation about that.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Screenwriter

Goldfinger: I prefer to call it an atomic device. It’s small, but particularly dirty.
—Goldfinger, screenplay by Paul Dehn and Richard Maibaum

Death and radioactivity are abstractions. Corpses and running sores are not.
—Paul Dehn, film review

How did Paul Dehn become the preeminent screenwriter of the Cold War? Like most information about screenwriters, the answer might as well be top secret. There exists no biographical dictionary of screenwriters. The number of good biographies of screenwriters can probably be counted on the fingers of one hand. The late Bruce Cook’s dramatic three-act life of Dalton Trumbo, written with his subject’s dying cooperation, stands apart for its quality. A couple of volumes of different scriptwriters’ letters have survived into print as well, with Trumbo’s Additional Dialogue among the best correspondence ever written by an American.

Screenwriter memoirs are just as scarce. Dehn’s fellow Bond scripter Tom Mankiewicz’s recent, addictive My Life as a Mankiewicz (2012) is an object lesson in the thoroughly untapped potential of the genre. After all, successful screenwriters can actually write. They also tend to meet interesting people, and travel in circles that many readers actively wonder about. Their careers split the difference between Horatio Alger and Dr. Faustus. What film buff wouldn’t want to read about that?

If there were a biographical dictionary of screenwriters, Paul Dehn’s entry might begin like this:

1912–1939: Born Manchester, of German Jewish descent, Nov. 5, 1912. Educated at Oxford. Fond of men. Contemporary of notorious Russian moles Philby, Burgess, Maclean. Upon graduation, down to London. Encouraged by godfather, drama critic James Agate, contributes numerous humorous film reviews to newspapers up one side of Fleet Street and down the other. Also writes poetry, lyrics, and libretti.

So far, unspectacular. Dehn’s reviews amuse, but his proficient, highly formal poetry canters confidently toward critical oblivion. Had he kept on in this vein, he might have become a kind of road-show Ivor Novello, forever marooned in the 1930s as the world grew past him.

Then came the war. Redacted for national security—and by the strictest of all censors, an ungrateful posterity—his sketchy wartime biographical listing might continue as follows:

1939–1945: Joins Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) early in the war. Stationed in Canada alongside Ian Fleming and Christopher Lee. Learns tradecraft, drills spies in same. Cowrites S.O.E. spy training manual. Dispatched on missions in continental Europe and Scandinavia. In 1944 meets composer James Bernard, begins lifelong domestic and creative partnership.

Without at least a research trip to the Imperial War Museum in London, we’ll have to content ourselves with Dehn’s slender, self-deprecating version of his wartime experiences: “I was an instructor to a band of thugs called the S.O.E.,” he recalled to Chris Knight and Peter Nicholson in what may be his only surviving interview, “and I instructed them in various things on darkened estates, so I got a pretty good view of what counterespionage was like.” Dehn then nudges the conversation on to the next question. As with World War I, not the least of its sequel’s aftereffects was a reticence bordering on aphasia.

But, as we learn from an interview with John le Carré that accompanies the 2008 DVD reissue of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, there is more to be said on the subject of Dehn’s wartime service. “Paul actually had been in our Special Operations Executive during the war, and he had been, among other things, a professional assassin,” le Carré remembers. “It was a gruesome fact. Paul was a very gentle guy, lovely to work with.” He adds, “Great credit to Paul Dehn, the screenwriter, who, as I mentioned, had had pretty startling experience of the spook world.” This information speaks to the discernible—even preeminent—signature of the screenwriter. Quite literally, you can read him like a book.

1946–1950: Demobbed, returns to London, resumes versatile writing career, begins moonlighting as screenwriter.

Like Truffaut or Goddard in their magazine days, exalting the role of the director shortly before assuming it, Dehn’s film reviews from this era display a rare sensitivity to the contributions of the screenwriter. “One has waited with impatience for a script-writer of discernment,” he characteristically wrote, “to adapt James Thurber’s piteously funny parable about the fantasies of Walter Mitty.” For Dehn as well, the piteously funny was something of a critical stock in trade. Of Esther Williams, he cracked, “Only on dry land is she truly out of her depth.”

Dehn had written amateur theatricals as a student and film reviews ever since, but never a movie. If his prior interview is to be believed, he got into screenwriting for a reason as unusual as it is laudable: Dehn hoped it might make him a better critic. “I started writing manuscripts,” he told his interlocutors in 1972, “because I found it so hard to allocate praise and blame justly in a composite work of art like a film.” Imagine the decades of damage undone, in other arts as well as film, if defections like Dehn’s over the firewall between critics and practitioners were not so rare, and usually so irreversible.

So here begins one of the great runs in the annals of Anglo-American popular filmmaking. Dehn’s first script was not a spy story, but only a spy could have done it justice. No manuscript survives of Dehn and his partner Bernard’s screen treatment for Seven Days to Noon, the placidly terrifying Cold War thriller that won the 1952 Academy Award for best story. Absent any records, we can only speculate that more of the work fell to Dehn, who made his living at his typewriter, than to Bernard, who never received another writing credit—though the latter did go on to score almost all the Hammer horror films. The barest outline of Seven Days to Noon itself would read as follows:

Principled government scientist Willingdon absconds from secret facility carrying suitcase-sized nuclear explosive. Writes to Prime Minister threatening to detonate bomb in London unless nuclear weapons research suspended. Londoners evacuated to countryside. Sappers sweep deserted city for Willingdon, confront him in ruined church as bomb timer ticks down to final seconds.

What this précis leaves out are Dehn’s grace notes: a lapdog nosing around a satchel containing enough potential blast force to obliterate London, the paranoia of a fugitive whose face suddenly stares back at him from every hoarding and newsagent he sees. Already present in embryo are the signature Dehn themes: the plot set in motion by a letter, the overhanging shadow of nuclear annihilation, and the moral complexity of even the noblest motives.

Dehn had trained men to lie and kill and, if necessary, die for queen and country. Impatient with teaching, he went on missions himself, took lives according to le Carré, and risked his own. Finally, with England all but free, he’d seen her allies slaughter one-fifth of a million people over four days in August of 1945. Is it any wonder that Seven Days to Noon and several of Dehn’s later films end with a lone man crouched over an atom bomb and time running out? Alone or with colleagues, from source material or from scratch, Dehn would write several of the most sophisticated, intelligent entertainments about the Cold War and its arsenal ever made. Perhaps 1952 struck some as a touch on the early side to be writing antinuclear films, but his style and polish conspired to help the strong medicine go down.

If Seven Days to Noon and later Goldfinger hardly resulted in immediate nuclear disarmament, they nevertheless gave a shape to our nightmares. Dehn did not have it in him to do more than that. He was no diplomat. He’d seen enough of that breed at university, and too many would soon betray either their ideals or their country. Instead, Dehn did what he could with what he had. He did his bit.

1951–1958: Fresh off his Oscar for Seven Days to Noon, newly sensitized to the screenwriter’s role, Dehn takes up reviewing again. Also writes well-received short films, including one about the Glyndebourne Opera. Returns to features in 1958 with script for Orders to Kill, French Resistance-set suspense film about American pilot recruited by British to kill possible Parisian double agent. Target appears kindly, gentle, harmless. Friendship develops between oblivious victim and his conflicted assassin.

If a little centenary attention to Paul Dehn accomplishes nothing else, may it at least rescue Orders to Kill—which deservingly won the 1958 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for best screenplay—from the memory hole that’s swallowed altogether too many fine midcentury British genre pictures. Sending filmgoers back to familiar movies with fresh eyes is a mitzvah, of course. Even more satisfying is to spotlight rarities like this that no one has looked at carefully in years. So it is with this slow-starting, screw-turning, ultimately quite moving thriller, directed by Anthony Asquith, the man to whom Dehn’s 1956 oddments collection For Love and Money is dedicated.

Aside from the sheer excellence of its craftsmanship, Orders to Kill rehearses themes that haunted Dehn his entire career. In Seven Days to Noon, he’s already introduced one idea that will preoccupy him from first film to last: the slaughter of innocents. In that film, Willingdon threatens to incinerate all of London, young and old, the blameless with the guilty. By the end, the potential toll of the suitcase bomb has shrunk to a few military men—and Willingdon himself. For Willingdon is the last innocent—a meek, mild man constitutionally unable to hear out the violent bluster of a stranger in a pub, yet prepared to destroy an entire city to save the world from science gone mad. His ambivalence becomes our own: We want London saved, but do we want him dead? We sympathize with his mission even as we deplore his methods. When the bomb is ultimately defused, we share his disappointment as much as his pursuers’ relief. A moment later, Willingdon’s death outside the church comes as a martyrdom.

Similarly, the suspected double agent in Orders to Kill earns our sympathy long before his innocence is finally proven. Like Willingdon, he’s a milquetoast, an easy mark for stray kittens and lost souls—even the one who will ultimately kill him. His cat, and the floozy’s dog in Seven Days to Noon who sniffs at Willingdon’s mysterious parcel, echo and reinforce their masters’ guilelessness. War kills the complicit and the pure alike, as Dehn must have learned in his war work. To judge by his later scripts, no amount of writing about it would ever put this guilt fully to bed.

1959–1964: Maintains steady work as film critic. Writes Quake, Quake, Quake in 1961, a miscellany of familiar comic verse, all rewritten to incorporate Sputnik-era subject matter and antinuclear politics. Sample stanza: “Hey diddle diddle, / The physicists fiddle, / The Bleep jumped over the moon. / The little dog laughed to see such fun / And died the following June.” Gives up reviewing in 1963 to become full-time screenwriter. Adapts Ian Fleming’s James Bond novel Goldfinger in 1964. Story concerns master criminal’s plot to irradiate America’s gold supply and increase value of own holdings. Goldfinger thwarted when Bond penetrates Fort Knox depository and helps defuse warhead with seconds remaining.

Goldfinger is the most famous script Dehn ever worked on, and success never wants for paternity claims. His cowriter Richard Maibaum, who later became for James Bond what Dehn would become for the Apes films—the go-to writer and sheepish keeper of the franchise flame—claimed authorship of Goldfinger’s first and last drafts, with Dehn coming on in between. Film is “a composite work of art,” as Dehn the critic knew long before he ever set his tab stops at screenplay width. If we risk praising Dehn for any of Maibaum’s work, it’s no greater risk than too many film critics court every day by crediting a director with just about everything.

The scene in Goldfinger we can most confidently ascribe to Dehn is, of course, the climax he pioneered a decade earlier in Seven Days to Noon. Even if Maibaum had written it, consciously or not he pinched the idea from Dehn. It may be hard nowadays to conceive of the climactic bomb-defusal countdown as one man’s invention, rather than part of our archetypal collective unconscious. But Dehn got there first in Seven Days to Noon, when the Cold War was young, and in Goldfinger he may just have done it best.

At least two moments distinguish the Goldfinger countdown from all the rest. First, it may be the first scene in the Bond series in which 007 is overmatched. He’s arm-deep in the bomb’s guts—and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Whether contemporary audiences realized it or not, the subtext here is most assuredly the fear of firepower that even 007 can’t save us from. As Connery plays it, Bond is on the verge of yanking a wire at random and hoping for the best—when a trusty nuclear scientist mercifully intervenes and neutralizes the bomb in seconds. “What kept you?” Bond asks. Even today, after half a century of hollow promises and unsecured plutonium, what’s keeping our deliverer now?

1965–1969: Dehn adapts The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Deadly Affair (AKA Call for the Dead), from novels by John le Carré. Also two agreeably overproduced international coproductions, The Taming of the Shrew and The Night of the Generals.

After Goldfinger, it took Dehn’s two le Carré adaptations to make the screen safe for espionage without lasers or martinis. As Dehn admits, “I am one of those writers who like darting about from one type of film to another. And when I’d collaborated on Goldfinger, I wanted to do a truthful spy story instead of a fantastic one, which is why I did The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Deadly Affair.”

Le Carré himself deserves the laurels for Richard Burton’s great self-loathing monologues against idealism—Marxist and otherwise—in The Spy Who Came in from The Cold. But Dehn’s deft streamlining and word-pictures, filtered through Oswald Morris’s cinematography and Martin Ritt’s direction, help make those speeches play.

There’s more to a script than dialogue, or Dehn’s later script for The Taming of the Shrew wouldn’t have required even a bad writer’s screenwriting services, let alone a great one’s. As Dehn himself said, “It isn’t just a question, as so many people think it is, of writing the dialogue. Some writers, myself included, go into great detail, and they have a strange physical sense, and they see that film on the wall and write down what they see.”

Dehn also warrants credit for a mental image that sticks with a viewer, long after those soliloquies have left behind no residue but a willingness to hear Burton speak them again and again. I’m referring to all those small mounted animal heads in the courtroom at the final East German show trial, peering down at defense and prosecution alike. The long tribunal twists to its surprising end, unforgettably, under the specter of this profligate sacrifice of life.

Animals meant the world to Dehn. He kept cats and watched birds, and composed the rhyming text for Cat’s Whiskers, an entire book of feline photography. As he once wrote, “My hobby is birdwatching: partly because sunlight and fresh air are more than normally vital to a film-critic who spends three weeks of the year’s daylight in the almost total darkness of a cinema.”

If only film retrospectives would recapitulate a writer’s career every so often, recurrent Dehn subthemes—like this identification of animals with vulnerability—would unfailingly shine out. One can’t look back over Dehn’s career without noting a virtual arkful of innocuous fauna. The inquisitive dog in Seven Days to Noon, the contraband cat in Orders to Kill, Goldfinger’s stud horse—“Certainly better bred than the owner,” Bond muses—all testify to his benign preference for animal company over the human kind. Dehn later breathed fresh life into the Planet of the Apes films by focusing not on the humans, but on the chimpanzees.

1970–1973: Writes or cowrites four Apes sequels in as many years. A true rarity: the non-horror studio film series in which every picture’s ending is bleak.

The Apes sequels differ from their precursors in Dehn’s filmography chiefly by not being very good. Centenary or no centenary, nobody gets away with a speech like “You’re the beast in us that we have to whip into submission. You’re the savage that we need to shackle in chains.” That’s from his script for Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. If screenwriters are the true authors of their films (a case I tried to make in The Schreiber Theory [2006]), then they write the bad ones along with the good.

Yet even a good screenwriter’s creatively unsuccessful films are interesting in the context of a career, and Dehn’s Apes scripts are nothing if not interesting. Beneath the Planet of the Apes may be a meddled-with, muddled, mediocre movie, but it’s saved by one great visual idea—a realistic portrait of New York as a sunless, corroded, post-apocalyptic hell, overrun by mutants—and a wryly remorseless ending. For the classic Dehn threat of wholesale slaughter, it’s hard to top Beneath the Planet of the Apes, in which a “cobalt bomb” carries off the entire world. The final title card breaks the news to us with sadistic understatement, especially for any viewers unlucky enough to be impressionable children at the time: “In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead.”

Dehn originally fought this finale, which Charlton Heston pumped for in order to kill off the series for good, but ultimately Dehn submitted to it in high style. He was rightly anticipating the quandary he would face if Twentieth Century Fox commissioned another sequel after all—a dilemma he wound up solving, in Escape from the Planet of the Apes, through a characteristically ingenious time-travel kludge.

1974: Adapts Agatha’s Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, to great acclaim. Story finds detective Hercule Poirot aboard snowbound train, with sleeping car full of likely suspects in murder of industrialist implicated in Lindbergh-like kidnapping. Christie pronounces it best film from her work to date.

Dehn began his career with the Oscar for Seven Days to Noon, and rounded it off with a nomination for Murder on the Orient Express. (Already ill with cancer, he lost to The Godfather, Part II.) Murder stands among his best work, not least for its use of humor and dramatic tension to distract from the original’s simultaneous predictability and outlandishness. How Dehn keeps viewers guessing as to which of the twelve other passengers has given the murder victim twelve stab wounds—why, whatever could that mean?—is itself a mystery.

Save The Taming of the Shrew, Dehn never wrote a script that did not begin or end in death. His own came at sixty-three, likely the result of a lifelong cigarette habit. In the work of a writer as war-scarred as Dehn, death is rarely solitary. In Seven Days to Noon, he imperiled an entire city; in Goldfinger, half of Kentucky. In The Night of the Generals, Peter O’Toole orders the massacre of the surviving population of the Warsaw Ghetto. The “holy fallout” in Beneath the Planet of the Apes takes the whole planet with it. Meanwhile, Dehn’s own death, in 1976, met with scarcely more commemoration than his centenary this year.

So who really misses Paul Dehn after a hundred years? Besides John le Carré, that is, and Dehn’s niece, the poet Jehane Markham, who remembers him “as a dear friend as well as top notch uncle”? Perhaps no one.

There’s just one hitch. By end of next year, the same centennial odometer will turn over on the screenwriters of High Noon, Midnight Cowboy, The Defiant Ones, Salt of the Earth, and On the Waterfront—four blacklistees and one informer, all heroically gifted, each tragically either silenced, compromised, or redeemed. Will their fascinating careers share the Dehn curse of asterisked obscurity?

It’s up to us. Think of a dead screenwriter’s reputation like an early silver nitrate print of a classic movie. It degrades, over time, into dust. But once touched with sunlight, it might yet flare into incandescence—and send all our prized assumptions about film authorship up in smoke. 

Paul Dehn (I) (1912–1976)
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Filmography

Writer (20 credits)

1974 Murder on the Orient Express (screenplay by)
1973 Battle for the Planet of the Apes (story)
1972 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (written by)
1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes (written by)
1970 Fragment of Fear (screenplay)
1970 Beneath the Planet of the Apes (screenplay) / (story)
1970 Music on 2 (TV Series) (libretto - 1 episode)
- The Bear (1970) ... (libretto)

1968 Beryl Reid Says Good Evening (TV Series) (additional material - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.3 (1968) ... (additional material)
1967 Before the Fringe (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Episode #2.1 (1967)
1967 The Taming of the Shrew (screen play by)
1967 The Night of the Generals (adapted for the screen by) / (additional dialogue)
1967 The Deadly Affair (screenplay)
1965 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (screenplay)
1964 Goldfinger (screenplay)
1960 A Place for Gold (Documentary short) (commentary writer)
1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- A Woman of No Importance (1960) ... (adaptation)

1958 Orders to Kill (screenplay)
1956 On Such a Night (Short) (screenplay)
1951 Waters of Time (Documentary short)
1950 Seven Days to Noon (original story)

Music department (2 credits)

1955 I Am a Camera (English lyric by)
1952 Moulin Rouge (lyrics adaptd by)

Producer (1 credit)

1970 Fragment of Fear (associate producer)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1961 The Innocents ("O Willow Waly")

1935: Christopher Hovelle Wood is born--Lambeth, London, England.
(He dies 9 May 2015 at age 79--France.)

Christopher Wood, writer - obituary

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11951112/Christopher-Wood-writer-obituary.html

Author of the risqué Confessions novels who armed James Bond with wit and
humour in Moonraker
5:47PM BST 23 Oct 2015

Christopher Wood

Christopher Wood, who has died aged 79, was an advertising executive turned writer whose oeuvre included literary fiction, historical novels and the screenplays for the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

“One of the keys of writing a Bond movie,” he said, “is to do the same thing, just differently.” It was, however, his Confessions series of humorous erotic novels, written during the 1970s under the name “Timothy Lea” and presented as Lea’s real experiences, which proved his richest seam. “Timothy” recalls his amorous encounters while on a variety of jobs, and his improbable success rate as window cleaner, driving instructor or plumber made the books a publishing phenomenon.

Wood took as his inspiration the tall tales he heard in his youth while working as a mason’s mate and part-time postman. “These stories were prolific,” he said. “Even one of the – to my eyes – singularly uncharismatic workers had apparently been invited to indulge in carnal capers after a glass of lemonade one hot summer afternoon near Guildford.” Most of the men’s claims, Wood recalled, involved a mature but seductive “posh bird”.

Film poster for Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)

The first in the series, Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1971), set the tone. “She has dyed hair, too much lipstick and a diabolical eyebrow pencil beauty spot that dates her a bit,” Timothy notes while eyeing up a potential conquest. “If she is going down hill I can think of a few blokes who wouldn’t mind waiting for her at the bottom.”

Henry Hitchings, author of Sorry! The English and their Manners, suggested that the first book proved “that we are not just bad at anything to do with the erotic life but also window cleaning”. The combination of soft pornography and bawdy comedy proved a hit, prompting 18 more titles – each one dashed off in five weeks – and four film adaptations, scripted by Wood, with Robin Askwith as the irrepressible Lea and Tony Booth (father of Cherie Blair) as Timothy’s oily brother-in-law.

Film poster for Confessions of a Driving Instructor
Photo: Rex Features

Elegant and erudite, Wood was an unlikely author of erotica. One interviewer was taken aback by his tweed jacket and received pronunciation. Yet, when the series was republished in 2013, Wood remained unapologetic about the books’ racy content. “They were funny then, and they are funny now,” he insisted. “They are full of clever alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphors and similes.” In later life he observed that Fifty Shades of Grey made his Confessions books “seem like Aristotle”.

Christopher Hovelle Wood was born on November 5 1935 in Lambeth, south London. During the Blitz his parents sent him away to Norwich where he became a pupil at the Edward VI Grammar School. He later returned to London to attend King’s College Junior School.

He read Economics and Law at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and after graduating in 1960 had a spell working in Cameroon, where he took part in the administration of the UN plebiscite of 1961. He did his National Service in Cyprus during the Eoka crisis.

By the end of the 1960s Wood was back in London managing brands for the advertising agency Masius Wynne-Williams. He used his daily journey from Royston in Hertfordshire to write fiction. His first two novels, both in the comical-realist vein of Evelyn Waugh, drew on his experience in Cameroon (Make it Happen to Me, 1969) and Cyprus ('Terrible Hard’, Says Alice, 1970). Although well reviewed, neither sold well. He then pitched the idea of a sex journal written in the hand of a Cockney chancer, and he “could almost see the pound signs in my publisher’s eyes”.

In 1976 he wrote the comedy film Seven Nights in Japan (1976, starring Michael York) for the director Lewis Gilbert, with whom he shared an agent. Gilbert’s next project was The Spy Who Loved Me, and he brought Wood on board. “I just wanted to do a good job for everybody,” Wood said, describing their producer, Cubby Broccoli, as a generous employer: “Everybody on the movie lived in style.” His approach to the script, writing with Richard Maibaum, fitted the Roger Moore era in which Bond was more of a lover than a killer.

Wood, centre, looking up at Richard Kiel as he greets Prince Philip
at the premiere of Moonraker in 1979
Photo: Rex Features

Wood returned to the franchise two years later as the sole writer on Moonraker. “It seemed to me that we were copying Star Wars,” he recalled. “I also found the idea of space slow in filmic terms. It is difficult to rush around in an astronaut’s suit. Did I tell Cubby that his idea sucked? No.”

As Ian Fleming had sold only the titles to his books, not the content, Wood was commissioned to “novelise” his screenplays for tie-in paperbacks. “Mr Wood has bravely tackled his formidable task,” Kingsley Amis wrote in the New Statesman, “that of turning a typical late Bond film, which must be basically facetious, into a novel after Ian Fleming, which must be basically serious.”

Film poster for Moonraker (1979)
Photo: Rex

In the early 1980s Wood published A Dove Against Death (1983), a Boy’s Own tale set in Africa during the First World War. In all his writing there was a sense of fun and a keen intelligence. William Boyd, who wrote the Bond sequel Solo, described Wood as “one of the most quick-witted, wittiest men I have ever met – up there with Gore Vidal”.

Wood’s other projects include two novels involving the adventurer John Adam (“deadlier than Kung Fu, lustier than Flashman”), the Rosie Dixon series of novels, sex comedies this time from a female perspective , and the screenplay for Remo Williams: Unarmed and Dangerous (1985), an action film directed by another Bond veteran, Guy Hamilton.

Latterly he lived in France, where he was occasionally asked to comment on Timothy Lea and James Bond. “I miss the lightness of touch of the old Bonds,” he told one reporter. In 2013 Harper Collins republished the Confessions books.

Christopher Wood married Jane Patrick in 1962; the marriage was dissolved. He is survived by their son and daughter; another son predeceased him.

Although he died in May, his death only became widely known earlier this month when Sir Roger Moore published the news on Twitter, saying: “He wrote two of my best.”

Christopher Wood, born November 5 1935, died May 9 2015

Christopher Wood (I) (1935–2015)

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Filmography

Writer (16 credits)

2000 Dangerous Curves

1999 Stray Bullet (writer)
1997 Eruption
1996 The Unspeakable (TV Movie)
1991 James Bond Jr. (TV Series) (character Jaws - uncredited)

1988 Steal the Sky (TV Movie) (written by)
1985 Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (written by)

1979 Lovely Couple (TV Series) (writer - 13 episodes)
- Wedding Bells (1979) ... (writer)
- Just the Job (1979) ... (writer)
- Jealousy (1979) ... (writer)
- Dirty Weekend (1979) ... (writer)
- Australia Calling (1979) ... (writer)
- Hospital Corners (1979) ... (writer)
- The Cup and the Lip (1979) ... (writer)
- Home Sweet Home (1979) ... (writer)
- Future Prospects (1979) ... (writer)
- Cuckoo in the Nest (1979) ... (writer)
- Change Partners (1979) ... (writer)
- The Engagement Party (1979) ... (writer)
- Come Fly with Me (1979) ... (writer)
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1979 Moonraker (screenplay)
1978 Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (novel - as Rosie Dixon) / (screenplay)
1977 Confessions of a Summer Camp Councillor (novel - as Timothy Lea) / (screenplay)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (screenplay)
1976 Seven Nights in Japan (screenplay)
1976 Confessions of a Driving Instructor (novel - as Timothy Lea) / (screenplay)
1975 Confessions of a Pop Performer (novel "Confessions from the Pop Scene" - as Timothy Lea) / (screenplay)
1974 Confessions of a Window Cleaner (novel - as Timothy Lea) / (screenplay)

1964: Famke Janssen is born--Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

1977: James Bond comic strip Ape of Diamonds begins its run in The Daily Express.
(November 5, 1976 - January 22, 1977. 3313-3437) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1019


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




Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3

Dödligt Kommando
("Fatal Command" -
Ape Of Diamonds)

Danish 1979 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-no48-1979/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 48:
“Ape of Diamonds” (1979)
"Dødelig kommando"
[=Deadly Command]
[Note: The front page states the title as "Dødbringende magt", meaning "Deadly force"]

1987 A View to a Kill US premier on ABC-TV's Thursday Night Movie.

1:31

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 37 of 65 - "Far Out West."

James Bond Jr - Far Out West

Season 1 - Episode 37
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807101/?ref_=ttep_ep37

James Bond Jr. helps Mr. Mitchell find his missing brother when they arrive at his ranch in South Dakota.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
David Wise ... (written by)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Dr.Julius No (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 37 - Way Out West

RichardTheBruce

2007: A writer's strike begins today and lasts until 12 February 2008. (Paul Haggis turns in his Quantum of Solace script two hours before its start.)
2008: Quantum of Solace released in Belgium, Switzerlan
d, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
2008: 콴텀 오브 솔라스 released in the Republic of Korea.

2010: Refinanced and under the control of Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, MGM announces Peter Jackson's production of "The Hobbit" and the November 2012 release of BOND 23.
2010: Activision releases James Bond: Blood Stone in Europe.

James Bond 007: Blood Stone

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Connected to: Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 Nintendo DS
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Developer(s) Bizarre Creations
n-Space (Nintendo DS)
Publisher(s) Activision
Writer(s) Bruce Feirstein
Composer(s) Richard Jacques
Series James Bond video games
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows | Nintendo DS | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360
Release

• NA: 2 November 2010
• AU: 3 November 2010
• EU: 5 November 2010

Genre(s) Third-person shooter
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

James Bond 007: Blood Stone is a third-person shooter video game, developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Activision for the Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms. It is the 24th game in the James Bond series and is the first game since James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing to have an original story. The game was confirmed by Activision on 16 July 2010. The game was released on 2 November 2010 in North America and released on 5 November 2010 in Europe. Activision's remake of GoldenEye 007 for the Wii and DS was released on the same day respectively in each region. Blood Stone features the voices and likenesses of Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, and Joss Stone. Blood Stone was the final game developed by Bizarre Creations before it closed on 18 February 2011.

A sequel, developed by Raven Software, was reportedly planned but was ultimately scrapped due to Blood Stone's poor sales upon release.

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James Bond 007 Blood Stone | title sequence (2010) Joss Stone & Dave Stewart ( Eurythmics )

2012: Film Music Magazine prints Daniel Schweiger's interview with Thomas Newman.

Interview with Thomas Newman

http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=10217
By Daniel Schweiger • November 5, 2012

As James Bond gun-barrels hell-bent into the 21st century with his 23rd film “Skyfall,” 007’s owners have continued to re-shape their iconic 50 year-old bread-and-Broccoli character into a spy who’s far more a part of a believable “Bourne” universe, as opposed the stylish wisecracker who duked it out with evil industrialists aboard super tankers and space stations. While that gallows humor is still very much part of Bond’s DNA, the character has achieved a real-world level of brute force and inner turmoil unheard of in his past incarnations. But even before the real world makeover that’s best been personified by Daniel Craig, 007’s music has strived to stay in tune with modern musical tastes. The soundtrack variations have included the positively relaxed jazz-action approach of John Barry, George Martin’s Afro-funk, the disco-style heroics of Marvin Hamlisch and Bill Conti, the appalling Euro beat of Eric Serra and most recently David Arnold’s electrifying mash up Barry’s now old-school orchestrations and his biggest fan’s rock-pop pulse.

Now James Bond’s music has taken on board perhaps its most interesting agent provocateur by giving Thomas Newman a license to score. A composer who’s somehow managed to walk the Hollywood line between indie experimentalism and studio conformity, Newman has never lost the alt. edge that’s made him the most musically progressive member of his family’s film scoring dynasty, especially with such breakout scores as “Desperately Seeking Susan,” “The Lost Boys” and “The Rapture.” Yet his father Alfred’s robustly melodic symphonic spirit has very much flowed through Thomas’ bloodline in scores to “Little Women,” “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Good German.” But if there was one genre that Newman barely hit through the years, it’s been action, with recent scores for “The Adjustment Bureau” and “The Debt” showing off the rhythmic possibilities he might give a balls-out car chase, a fight atop a train or a gun battle inside a government building.

Thanks to “Skyfall,” Thomas Newman gets to engage in all three, and many more action sequences, all with a particular debt to filmmaker Sam Mendes, whom the composer has worked before with scores like “American Beauty,” “The Road To Perdition” and “Jarhead.” The result of the confidence of a director who brings equally eccentric energy to his work has allowed Newman to engage in a crazy-quilt of his greatest hits for “Skyfall,” among them from the rock rhythms of “Erin Brockovich” the eerie orchestrations of “The Green Mile” and the lush romance of “Meet Joe Black,” with even “Finding Nemo’s” perky comedy thrown in for good measure. It’s a thoroughly engaging Newman mix tape, as uniquely heard for a Bond mission that starts big and ends relatively small. Even cooler yet, his “Skyfall” more than acknowledges the many of the composing styles that have come before, incorporating the famed theme, lush jazz swagger and Vic Flick guitar stylings in a way that will please both purists and Discman-wearing newcomers to the franchise. For a Bond that holds more surprises than most, Thomas Newman’s score is one of “Skyfall’s” most impressive, and wackiest weapons in a musical cannon that’s never been afraid to go for the shot.

In your wildest dreams did you ever imagine you’d be scoring a big action movie, let alone a James Bond picture?
I guess the answer to that would be ‘No.’ I don’t think I ever thought about it. Action scores speak with a muscularity and strength that had to be heard next to tire screeches and gunshots and things of that nature. So even though I enjoy action movies, it’s not like scoring an action movie was ever a thought of mine, especially because one’s personal voice was less likely to come out because of those kinds of requirements. I’d never really thought about doing a Bond movie until I heard that Sam Mendes was directing one. So I thought I’d be brave and give him a holler to say that I’d love to work on it with him if he would have me. But I also didn’t want to be pushy about it. And it turned out that Sam had already been thinking about calling me to see if we could make “Skyfall” happen together.

Did Sam have to fight to get you the gig, especially as you didn’t have a lot of action movies on your resume?
I don’t know. You’d have to ask him that. Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson loved working with David Arnold on the last several Bond scores, and wanted to make sure I was the right guy in their mind, and that they could get along with me. So they made sure to come to see me in Los Angeles before hiring me. I enjoyed meeting them, and that was about it.

The Broccoli family has a legendary level of control over the franchise. How much of that did you feel during the scoring process, or did Sam keep you separate from it?

Sam sheltered me up to the point of the recording sessions, which the Broccolis were present for. They were not shy to speak up. But in fairness to them and Sam, the communication was always through Sam in the recording environment.

Did it always go smoothly with the Broccolis?
I think it did go smoothly. They’re kind and good people. Obviously, they’re not going to stop until they get what they want, but they were never ferocious about it. They were always very respectful of me, even if they weren’t going to be shy about making sure I understood any issues they may have had.

What has James Bond meant to you, and what do you think the responsibilities are of scoring such an iconic franchise?
While I wasn’t a rabid fan of James Bond movies when growing up, I really loved watching them. Now there’s obviously a huge amount of expectation in terms of what a “James Bond score” is. Everybody has an opinion on Bond, and his music. But I really didn’t feel an obligation to meet up to these expectations. Or if I was going to defy them, I wanted to defy them in a way that was pleasing and compelling as opposed to making people feel that I was doing something different for it’s own sake.

As one of Hollywood’s more experimental composers, how “far out” did you think you could go with “Skyfall’s” score?
You have ideas, and you see if they fly. In the case of the action, there was so much going on sonically that I wondered how much space was left to hear the intricacy, and detail in the manner that I’ve scored films with before. So at the very least, I knew that sounds really needed to hit the subwoofers to really hit the audience physically. So I think I recognized that I’d have to be more extroverted with “Skyfall’s” score then maybe I’m used to being.

While the musical voice is most definitely your own in “Skyfall,” you can still hear the styles that such past composers as John Barry and David Arnold brought to Bond. Did you want to make a point of capturing those past styles?

It’s not like I set out to study the past Bond scores. I watched some of the movies, and had general notes and impressions about how the music was operating. But after that, I didn’t want to be too studious about it all. I thought that would be intimidating, and suppressing any ability I might have to be creative in my own right. But maybe butting up against those past scores kind of rubbed off on me a bit.

Yet the main theme in the film is essentially the classic James Bond melody.
I guess that’s appropriate, right? It’s a great, iconic and satisfying theme to so many people, especially the fans. I definitely wanted to use it. The issue was when and where, and Sam and I, with the help of Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, talked about where we should evoke the Bond theme.

The Adele theme song is only reflected in the cue “Komodo Dragon.” Did you want to incorporate it anywhere else in the score?

Michael Wilson had asked where I was going to use the Adele song so that it didn’t appear as a kind of “one off” at the top of the movie. And the scene where he enters the Macau casino with his new, shaved appearance and tuxedo was a real moment of “Bond” swagger. The Adele tune has that quality to it too, so that seemed like a good place to reprieve the song.

Did you have any interaction with Adele or the writers of the song?
While I did not get to meet with Adele, I did with Paul Epworth, who was the co-writer and producer of the song, He really wanted to evoke the early Shirley Bassey arrangements with “Skyfall,” and talked to me about arranging the strings and brass to that effect But my task was already so huge and daunting that my orchestrator J.A.C. Redford, who’s a great composer in his own right, ended up doing the arrangements.

The film you scored before “Skyfall” was “The Iron Lady,” which dealt with Margaret Thatcher’s imperious rule of England’s government. Do you think there are any similarities between her and M?
That’s interesting. I guess there’s a certain stoic nature to English behavior, a kind of stiff upper lip. That was obvious in the case of Margaret Thatcher, and also in the case of M. Their music couldn’t be overly sentimental or emotional. And if they were being emotional, then the score had to allow for that without directly “speaking” for their feelings. I think that kind of character gives strength to the way I musically depicted them.

Javier Bardem’s Silva is my favorite character in the film, especially because he’s just might be the craziest Bond villain the series has had. Do you think your naturally offbeat music is particularly well suited to him?
You know, I never thought of it that way. There was so much quirkiness in Silva’s personal choice of music that it occurred to me that my sense of his character would be more wrapped up in his unfolding story.

You’ve got a lush approach for the femme fatale character of Severine.
That’s because I probably wanted to evoke as much of a John Barry’ish type of melody for her as I could find, which meant using a major-minor theme, something that had sexuality and danger as mixed with a certain level of satin loveliness.

I think you’re one of the few composers to write a comedy cue for James Bond with “Close Shave.”
That was a tough scene for Sam because we’re still figuring out what the Bond and his fellow agent Eve is. The scene’s dangerous, sexy and had a level of humor. I ended up doing many different versions of it because the cue kind of came late in late during our process. I’d spent some time on the podium refining a take on “Close Shave” that Sam was very high on. Or at least I thought he was until he rejected it a few minutes later!

What didn’t work about your first “Close Shave?”
I think my first approach, was a kind of classical in its sexiness, and Sam was wondering if the music was saying the wrong thing, or it was saying too much and tipped this kind of balance in what Bond and Eve’s relationship was.

Was the rest of the score relatively easy? Or were there a lot of changes like that?
There were tough moments and areas that needed to be re-examined, and in some cases re-written. But that’s no different then any other movie where something is accepted on a Monday and rejected on a Thursday.

What do Sam’s sensibilities as a director bring to “Skyfall?”
Sam’s great with character, obviously, and had a fundamental understanding of Bond. So I think it was a perfect storm of him really wanting to respect the character and the franchise while wanting to make the story more compelling, and more evolving.

How do you think that “English” quality rubs off on the score?
“Skyfall” is very much an English movie. I felt the same way when doing “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” in a way, which is for me to think, “What’s a yank doing on a movie like this?” I was over in London for three and a half months on “Skyfall,” did nearly all of the writing over there. It was a really different experience for me in many ways to have an office at Abbey Road studios, composing morning, noon and night, and then to have the score performed there. The musicians are so fantastic as well in England. There’s a real sense of ensemble on the way the orchestra plays. It’s a great town musically.

Were you ready for “Skyfall’s” rave reviews, some of which say that it’s the best Bond movie since “Goldfinger?”
I always thought it was a good movie. I really enjoyed it when I first saw it. In terms of reviews and people liking it it’s really a wonderful thing to happen at the end of this arduous process.

What kind of doors do you think that “Skyfall” is going to open up for you in terms of people who may have thought Thomas Newman couldn’t score an action film?
I don’t know. I try not to think on that level. What’s fun is to think I can take action films on and handle them, that I can be chameleonic in a way. It’s always a great thing to defy expectations. It’s been such a high point in my career to work with Sam on this film. He tends to bring good work out of me. But then, he kind of expects it and won’t stop until he gets it. So it hurts, but it always rewards, especially with “Skyfall.”

Do you think of “Skyfall” as your biggest score yet?

I never thought of it that way. What’s funny is how much visibility scoring a Bond film has. The Pixar movies I score like “Finding Nemo” and “Wall-E” become known when they’re completed, but typically not before they are completed. Me scoring “Skyfall” has become a much bigger deal then I would have thought.

Interview transcribed by Peter Hackman

2012: Skyfall released in Armenia.

2015: Spectre released in Albania, Bahrain, Switzerland, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Israel, Italy, Kuwait, Lebanon, Republic of Macedonia, Peru, Singapore, and Thailand.
2015: 007: Spectre released in Argentina and Mexico.
2015: 007 Contra Spectre (007 Against Spectre) released in Brazil.

2015: James Bond 007: Spectre released in Germany.
2015: 007 Spectre: A Fantom visszatér (007 Spectre: The Phantom Returns) released in Hungary.

2015: 007 Spectre released in Portugal.
2015: James Bond: Spectre released in Slovakia.
2015: 007：惡魔四伏 (Èmó sìfú, 007: Devil) released in Taiwan.

2015: Спектра (Spektra, Spectra) released in Serbia.
2015: 007: Спектр (007: Spectrum) released in Ukraine.

2020: Sotheby's auctions James Bond Film Posters.

James Bond Film Posters

See the complete article here:

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/james-bond-film-posters

Bidding Opens • 5 November 2020 • 14:00 GMT • London

199 results sorted by Lot number (low to high)

2020: Geoffrey Dyson Palmer OBE dies at age 03--Lee Common, Buckinghamshire, England.
(Born 4 June 1927--London, England.)

Dame Judi Dench recalls how the late
Geoffrey Palmer told her they wanted
another actress for As Time Goes By
during their first lunch meeting

See the complete article here:

By Georgia Simcox For Mailonline | Published: 04:17 EDT, 17 November 2020

They were inseparable friends for almost 30 years.

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And Dame Judi Dench has revealed her collaboration with the late Geoffrey Palmer nearly didn't happen.

In an emotional interview with this week's Radio Times just days after the comedian died aged 93, the actress, 85, recalled meeting her co-star for lunch to discuss As Time Goes By.

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'He got us off to a good start': Dame Judi Dench, 85, has revealed her collaboration with the late Geoffrey Palmer nearly didn't happen

She said: 'He got us off to a good start when he informed me that they'd wanted Jean Simmons for the part, but she'd declined!'

Judi and Geoffrey starred in As Time Goes by from 1992 onwards, with Geoffrey playing Lionel Hardcastle.

She paid tribute to her late friend, who died earlier this month, saying she couldn't have done the show with anyone else.

Judi said: 'When you acted with him, you'd just feel very safe.

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Inseparable: Judi became lifelong friends with co-star Geoffrey, staying inseparable friends for almost 30 years

'Geoffers was so sure on comedy that you could be pretty secure in knowing he would get you through it and make it funny.
Emotional: The actress was speaking to the Radio Times in an emotional interview just days after Geoffrey's death

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Emotional: The actress was speaking to the Radio Times in an emotional interview just days after Geoffrey's death

'I certainly couldn't have done As Time Goes By with anyone else.'

Judi presented Palmer with an Oldie award in 2018, joking that he was 'the naughtiest man I ever had the pleasure to work with' and that the trophy should be for 'most promising newcomer'.

The pair also starred in 1997's Mrs Brown and Tomorrow Never Dies, the James Bond blockbuster.

Recalling how Geoffrey was a private man who gave few interviews, she said: 'He took acting very seriously, but he would sometimes say he would rather be fishing on a riverside in Scotland.'

She continued: 'Geoffers was a terrific man and most remarkable friend and actor. I wouldn’t have missed a moment of our time together for the world.'

Geoffrey's agent said on November 6: 'We regret to sadly announce that the actor Geoffrey Palmer died peacefully at home yesterday aged 93.'

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As Time Goes By: Judi and Geoffrey starred in As Time Goes by from 1992 onwards, with Geoffrey playing Lionel Hardcastle

The veteran star, known for his hangdog features and distinctive voice, had parts in some of the nation's best-loved TV series and was once a staple on screens watched by millions.

Younger viewers will remember his turn in the 2014 Paddington film where he played Head Geographer.

Those longer in the tooth will remember him from the The Avengers and The Saint in the 1960s, and alongside Leonard Rossiter in The Rise And Fall of Reginald Perrin in the 1970s.

He also starred in multiple episodes of Doctor Who, including the 1970 episode Doctor Who And The Silurians and 2007's Voyage Of The Damned.

Geoffrey Palmer (I) (1927–2020)

Actor | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0658244/

2021: BBC BIG Band: The Music of James Bond...And Beyond at Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts, Poole, Dorset, England.

BBC BIG Band: The Music of James Bond...And Beyond

See the complete article here:

https://allevents.in/poole/bbc-big-band-the-music-of-james-bondand-beyond/200021699364759

Fri Nov 5, 2021

BBC BIG Band: The Music of James Bond...And Beyond.
The internationally acclaimed BBC Big Band are joined by special guest vocalists, Emer McParland and Iain Mackenzie, to celebrate the music of the world's most iconic movie franchise, James Bond.

The concert features classic numbers including 'Diamonds are Forever', 'Thunderball', 'We Have All The Time In The World', 'View to a K*ll', 'Goldfinger' and (of course!) John Barry's iconic 'James Bond theme' ; alongside a selection more contemporary numbers from the James Bond library ... all performed in the BBC Big Band’s own inimitable style. Also included are a sprinkling of numbers inspired by the film genre, as well as a few surprises along the way!

Don’t miss this unique concert, celebrating the very best of James Bond (and beyond) - performed by one of the world’s finest jazz orchestra.

Date & Time
Fri Nov 5 2021 at 3:30 pm
(Eastern Daylight Time)

Location
Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts, Poole, United Kingdom

Tickets for BBC BIG Band: The Music of James Bond...And Beyond can be booked here.

About The Host:
Lighthouse is a nationally important regional venue offering an extraordinary mix of events that cannot be experienced elsewhere in the region in a unique multi-space venue.
Website Link: www.lighthousepoole.co.uk

RichardTheBruce

November 6th

1964: LIFE Magazine cover features a golden Shirley Eaton.

1966: The New York Times says Toshiro Mifune declined the Tiger Tanaka role in You Only Live Twice, deferred to Tetsuro Tamba.

1973: The Man With the Golden Gun films at the RMS Queen Elizabeth, Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 38 of 65 - "Avalanche Run."

James Bond Jr - Avalanche Run

Season 1 - Episode 38
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807093/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

Under instructions from S.C.U.M Lord, Jaws and Nick Nack hijack a train with James Bond Jr's friends on board and send it on a collision course for a nuclear power plant in S.C.U.M Lord's latest scheme to rob the evacuated cities of Switzerland.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack / Scumlord (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / Mr.Slope (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 38 - Avalanche Run

2008: Quantum of Solace released in Bahrain, Bolivia, Chile, Czech Republic, Greece, Hong Kong, Croatia, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Republic of Macedonia (Skopje), Malaysia, Netherlands, Oman, Qatar, Slovakia, Syria, Switzerland, and United Arab Emirates.
2008: 007 Quantum of Solace released in Argentina and Portugal
2008: James Bond Quantum of Solace released in Slovakia.
2008: James Bond 007 - Ein Quantum Trost (James Bond 007: A Quantum of Comfort) released in Germany.

2008: Kvantum sočutja (Quantum of Compassion) released in Slovenia.

2008: Quantum shel nehama (Quantum of Comfort) released in Israel.
2008: Zrno utehe (Grain of Consolation) released in Serbia.

2008: Квант милосердия (Quantum Mercy) released in Russia.

2008: 007: Квант милосердя (007: Quantum of Mercy) released in Ukraine.

2008: BBC Audiobooks releases Ian Fleming's 'Quantum of Solace' on CD, collecting all the Bond short stories.

2012: Thomas Newman's Skyfall soundtrack, recorded the London Abbey Road Studios, released in the US. It wins the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, and is nominated for an Oscar.

2014: Random House publishes Steven Cole's Young Bond novel Shoot to Kill.

2015: Thomas Newman's Spectre soundtrack, recorded the London Abbey Road Studios, released in the US.

2015: Spectre released in Austria, Belarus, Canada, Spain, Hong Kong, Croatia, Indonesia, Iraq, Iceland, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Philippines, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Venezuela, USA, and Vietnam.
2015: 007: Spectre released in Estonia.
2015: Спектър (Spectrum) released in Bulgaria.

2015: Speqtri released in Georgia.
2015: Spektras (Spectrum) released in Lithuania.
2015: 007: Spektrs (007: Spectrum) released in Latvia.

Latvia premiere 5 November for a 6 November general release.

2015: 007: Спектр (007 : Spectrum) released in Russia.

2017: Kätherose Derr (Karin Dor) dies at age 79--Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
(Born 22 February 1938--Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.)

Karin Dor obituary
Actor best known as a Bond girl in You Only Live Twice

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/15/karin-dor-obituary
Ronald Bergan | Wed 15 Nov 2017 06.43 EST

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Karin Dor (1938–2017)

Filmography

Actress (74 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2021: Casino Royale James Bond 007 Party at the Verne Goodwin Mira Mesa Senior Center, San Diego, California. Free. Donation suggested.

Casino Royale James Bond 007 Party
by Parents for Quality Education

See the complete article here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/casino-royale-james-bond-007-party-tickets-168653441985

Join our fundraising party to support Parents for Quality Education.

About this event
Dress up as your favorite James Bond character, or with your fancy evening attire and get ready for a night of Fun, Food and Entertainment. Help Parents For Quality Education Stand Up for Parent and Students Rights and to keep ALL of us Informed on critical issues that Affect Education throughout San Diego County.

Suggested donation $50; $100; $250; $500.

No host bar.
Donate here or copy paste this link -> https://parentsforqualityeducation.org/donate/

*Parents for Quality Education (PQE), a 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization, was founded by civic minded parents in 2009 to improve public education through increased involvement of parents and the community in the educational process.

Date and time
Sat, November 6, 2021
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT

Location
Verne Goodwin Mira Mesa Senior Center
8460 Mira Mesa Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92126

2021: Brevard's Top Bond 007 Gala at Rockledge, Florida.

Brevard's Top Bond 007 Gala

See the complete article here:

https://www.everythingbrevard.com/event/brevards-top-bond-007-gala/203253

Time: 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Date: Saturday November 6, 2021

Address: 1100 Rockledge Blvd. Suite 200
Price: TBD
Category: Arts / Exhibits

Fifth Annual James Bond 007 themed Gala charitable event. Hosted by the Friends of the Children's Advocacy Center of Brevard to benefit the Children's Advocacy Center of Brevard, CACB, a separate non profit organization serving abused children in our community.

This is the Signature event of the Friends of the CACB.

2021: Morden Bonfire and Fireworks play Bond music at South West London.

Top five bonfire night events to attend in South West
London

See the complete article here:

https://www.swlondoner.co.uk/entertainment/01112021-top-five-bonfire-night-events-to-attend-in-south-west-london/

1 November 2021 Ruby Smith Follow @SW_Londoner

“Remember, remember the fifth of November…” with the best Bonfire Night events in South West London this year.

Bonfires, fireworks, sparklers and warming winter treats will be on offer this weekend as South West London celebrates Guy Fawkes’ night. Here’s a round-up of the top five events this year.

1. Wimbledon and Morden Bonfire and Fireworks
Merton is hosting two extravagant firework displays this year.

Wimbledon Park will host an amazing firework display on Friday 5th November and Morden Park will hold another amazing event the following day.

Both shows have two sets. The first starts earlier for children and the second starts later for adults – though why not enjoy both?

The gates open at 5:15pm on both days.

The first bonfire will be lit at 6:30pm followed by a 15-minute child-friendly firework display with a fun Disney soundtrack.

The second bonfire will be lit at 8:30pm followed by a louder display featuring iconic James Bond theme tunes.

There will also be a small funfair, food stalls and a bar to keep you entertained until the fun ends at 10pm.

Tickets must be bought in advance with adult tickets at £9.63, tickets for children aged 5-16 at £7.49 and under-fives go free.

Families can grab a £32.10 ticket in advance (two adults and two children) here.

There will be a limited number of tickets available on the night for Morden park only.

Time: 5:15pm
Location: 5 November – Wimbledon Park | 6 November – Morden Park

RichardTheBruce

November 7th

1924: Wolf Mankowitz is born--Bethnal Green, London, England.
(He dies 20 May 1998 at age 73--County Cork, Ireland.)

Screenwriting Lessons from One of Britain’s Best: A Rare Interview with Wolf Mankowitz

https://cinephiliabeyond.org/screenwriting-lessons-one-britains-best-rare-interview-wolf-mankowitz/

One of the most interesting cultural personas of the British fifties and sixties, the versatile writer Wolf Mankowitz made a name for himself in the spheres of literature, film industry and theater. As a child of two Russian Jewish immigrants, he lived in poverty but unexpectedly got the opportunity to turn the tables around when he received a scholarship for Cambridge, where he went to study English and soon dedicate himself to writing. In 1952 he published his first novel ‘Make Me an Offer,’ which was soon turned into a film and a successful West End musical. The very next year his biggest literary success came out: ‘A Kid for Two Farthings’ was translated into many languages and ultimately ended up as a Carol Reed film. In 1960 he wrote the script for Anthony Asquith’s The Millionairess, an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play with Sofia Loren and Peter Sellers in leading roles, and his musical Expresso Bongo, a fine satire of the music industry, blossomed as a successful movie with Cliff Richard and Laurence Harvey. Interestingly enough, one of Mankowitz’s biggest contributions to the world of cinema came surprisingly from a project he didn’t even want his name on. Mankowitz introduced his friend Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli to Harry Saltzman, the man who held the film rights to James Bond. This partnership instigated one of the biggest franchises in the history of film business starting with Dr. No, but Mankowitz, fearing the movie would be a huge flop that could potentially seriously damage his reputation, asked that his name be removed from the credits, even though he worked on the script. Mankowitz would later, however, write the screenplay for the 1967 Bond movie Casino Royale.

Mankowitz continued to write all the way until 1991, when he anounced he suffered from cancer and stepped away from the spotlight. Some MI5 files released in 2010 revealed that the famous screenwriter and playwright had been seen as a security risk by the secret service for roughly a decade after the Second World War due to his Russian roots, connections and the fact that his wife was once a member of the Communist Party, a suspicion that caused Mankowitz to unsuccessfully apply for several BBC positions during the fifties. He was ultimately allowed to join BBC on a three-week contract to translate and dub Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Bear’ for television, but not before BBC consulted the secret service first, concluding that translating Chekhov, despite Mankowitz’s obviously controversial background, failed to present any serious security risks for the country.

Today we bring you a precious interview with Mr. Mankowitz published in the February, 1974 edition of the great Filmmakers Newsletter. The esteemed novelist and screenwriter talks about the differences between writing for the stage, film and literary audiences, about his greatest professional successes, the problems he faced throughout his career, the role of the writer both as someone who tries to illuminate and to entertain, and much more. It’s a wonderful and educational read we wholeheartedly recommend, especially if you want to learn more about the craft from the mouth of one of Britain’s best. You can download the PDF version here.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lgulsfs008i1cuk/A Rare Interview with Wolf Mankowitz.pdf?raw=1

“The task of adapting the 1958 novel ‘Dr No’ for the screen initially fell to Richard Maibaum and Wolf Mankowitz, with Johanna Harwood and Berkely Mather brought in to polish later drafts. At this time, Mankowitz—a friend of ‘Cubby’ Broccoli’s—was best-known for the Peter Sellers-Sophia Loren vehicle The Millionairess (1960) and the apocalyptic sci-fi The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). He would later ask for his name to be removed from the Dr No credits after seeing the rushes and fearing a major flop. Maibaum, on the other hand, who had spent the 1950s writing war films like The Red Beret (1953) and The Cockleshell Heroes (1954), as well as Nicholas Ray’s Bigger than Life (1956), would go on to make a career out of Fleming’s secret agent, penning a further 12 Bond films before bowing out with Licence to Kill in 1989. To celebrate Mr Bond’s cinematic anniversary, we present an extract from the fifth draft script. It’s the classic moment part-way into Dr No in which the suave superspy (played in the film by Sean Connery) is first introduced to the world. The scene is a London gambling room called Le Cercle, where at the top stakes table, surrounded by onlookers, a chic woman in a red dress and a tuxedoed man with his back to the camera issue their commands to the croupier…” —British Film Institute

Wolf Mankowitz (1924–1998)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0542554/?ref_=nv_sr_3?ref_=nv_sr_3

Filmography

Writer (39 credits)

1984 Almonds and Raisins (Documentary) (treatment)
1984 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) (dramatisation - 1 episode)
- Have a Nice Death (1984) ... (dramatisation)

1976 Dickens of London (TV Mini-Series) (written by - 13 episodes)
- Memories (1976) ... (written by)
- Angel (1976) ... (written by)
- Nightmare (1976) ... (written by)
- Magic (1976) ... (written by)
- Dreams (1976) ... (written by)
- Possession (1976) ... (written by)
- Money (1976) ... (written by)
- Fame (1976) ... (written by)
- Love (1976) ... (written by)
- Success (1976) ... (written by)
- Blacking (1976) ... (written by)
- The Deed (1976) ... (written by)
- Mask (1976) ... (written by)
1973 The Battle of Sutjeska (writer)
1973 The Hireling (screenplay)
1972 Treasure Island (adapted for the screen by)
1971 Black Beauty (screenplay)
1970 The Hero (screenplay)

1969 Pickwick (TV Movie) (book of musical play)
1969 The Assassination Bureau (additional dialogue)
1968 Die Pickwickier (TV Movie) (play)
1967 Doctor Faustus (co-writer - uncredited)
1967 Casino Royale (screenplay)
1967 The 25th Hour
1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Make Me an Offer (1966) ... (writer)
Armchair Theatre (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode, 1966) (adaptation - 1 episode, 1959)
- The Battersea Miracle (1966) ... (writer)
- The Model Marriage (1959) ... (adaptation)
1966 Where the Spies Are (screenplay)
1965 Love Story (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- A Cure for Tin Ear (1965) ... (writer)
1965 Bongo Boy (TV Movie) (play)
1962 Dr. No (treatment - uncredited)
1962 Waltz of the Toreadors
1961 The Day the Earth Caught Fire (written for the screen by)
1961 Jungle Fighters (screenplay)
1960 The Millionairess (screenplay)
1960 The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (screenplay)

1959 Expresso Bongo (based on "Expresso Bongo" by) / (written by)
Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (TV Series) (based on an idea by - 24 episodes, 1958 - 1959) (book "The ABC of Show Business" - 24 episodes, 1956 - 1957)
1959 Wednesday Magazine (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 11 March 1959 (1959) ... (story)
Theatre Night (TV Series) (original story - 1 episode, 1958) (play - 1 episode, 1958)
- Expresso Bongo (1958) ... (original story) / (play)
1958 The Killing Stones (TV Series) (script - 6 episodes)
- The Bankrupting of Hammerman (1958) ... (script)
- The Retirement of De Haan (1958) ... (script)
- The Homecoming of Coetze (1958) ... (script)
- The Fearfulness of Desai (1958) ... (script)
- The Holiness of Ant Eater (1958) ... (script)
- The Carefulness of Kleiber (1958) ... (script)
1958 East End, West End (TV Series) (writer - 6 episodes)
1956 Trapeze (uncredited)
1955 The Bespoke Overcoat (Short) (by) / (screenplay)
1955 It Should Happen to a Dog (TV Movie)
1955 The Girl (TV Movie)
1955 Make me an Offer! (additional dialogue) / (novel)
1955 A Kid for Two Farthings (based on the book by) / (screenplay)
1954 Playbill (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- The Bespoke Overcoat (1954) ... (adaptation)
1954 The Bespoke Overcoat (TV Short) (adaptation)

Producer (2 credits)

1970 The Hero (producer)

1955 Orson Welles' Sketch Book (TV Series) (executive producer - 6 episodes)
- Bullfighting (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The War of the Worlds (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Houdini/John Barrymore/Voodoo Story/The People I Missed (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Police (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
- Critics (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
- The Early Days (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
-
Actor (1 credit)

1959 Expresso Bongo - Sandwich Man (uncredited)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1959 Expresso Bongo (lyrics: "Nausea", "The Shrine on the Second Floor", "I've Never Had It So Good", "Nothing Is For Nothing" - uncredited)

1932: Yuri Borienko is born--Russia.
(He dies 10 February 1999 at age 66--Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.)

Yuri Borienko

See the complete article here:

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

Yuri Borienko
Born - Jan Boleslaw Kadlubowski - 7 November 1932 - Russia
Died - 10 February 1999 (aged 66) - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Nationality Russian
Years active 1966–1987

Yuri Borienko (7 November 1932 – 10 February 1999) was a Russian wrestler and actor, known for his performance as Blofeld's henchman Grunther in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Biography
Borienko came to England shortly after the Second World War and began wrestling in 1951 under the name Red Staranoff. Post-1953, he moved to the United States but returned to Britain in 1960, where the following year, he began to wrestle for independents and was signed up by Joint Promotions in 1962. (Borienko and fellow wrestler Mike Marino were matched against American heavyweight Luther Lindsay.)

Working as an actor, Borienko guested in episodes of British TV series including Adam Adamant Lives!, Z-Cars, The Troubleshooters, Department S, The Persuaders!, Jason King, The Protectors, Raffles, The Professionals and Strangers as well as a number of films (see below).

After retiring from acting, Borienko and his family moved to Canada where he died in 1999 from leukaemia. His children include businessman Stefan Kadlubowski (1963–2016) and makeup artist Nina Westbury.

James Bond
During his audition for the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, George Lazenby was required to 'fight' Borienko as part of his screen test. During this, Lazenby punched the wrestler, giving him a broken and bloodied nose. This impressed the director Peter R. Hunt and producer Harry Saltzman, winning Lazenby the role of Bond. Borienko was given the role of Grunther as compensation.

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1966 The Trygon Factor - Nailet
1967 Smashing Time
1968 Great Catherine - Henchman Uncredited
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Grunther

1970 Doctor in Trouble - Sick Russian
1972 Innocent Bystanders - Guard #1
1974 Callan - Porter
1974 S*P*Y*S - Yuri

1983 The Jigsaw Man - Russian trainer
1987 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace - Russian General - Red Square (final film role)

1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and May Day and the Eiffel Tower.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 39 of 65 - "Queen's Ransom."

James Bond Jr - Queen's Ransom

Season 1 - Episode 39
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807116/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

In Hong Kong, young Bond helps a young woman named Jade, who escapes from Walker D. Plank, who took her father and stole a shipment of silkworm missiles.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Jim Carlson ... (written by)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Terrence McDonnell ... (written by)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Ed Gilbert ... Captain Walker D.Plank
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut / Pirate Parrot (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 39 - Queen's Ransom

1995: Parlaphone and Virgin release the "GoldenEye" single.

2002: Coronet Books publishes Raymond Benson's Die Another Day novelization.

2008: "Another Way to Die" released as a download for Guitar Hero World Tour.

2008: Quantum of Solace released in Austria, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Iceland, Latvia, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, El Salvador, Switzerland, Turkey, and Taiwan. (Original planned released date for UK and US.)

2008: 007 - Quantum of Solace released in Brazil, Italy, and Poland.
2008: Спектър на утехата (Spectrum of Consolation) released in Bulgaria.

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2008: 007: Veidi lohutust (A Little Consolation) released in Estonia.

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2008: Paguodos kvantas (The Quantum of Consolation) released in Lithuania.

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2008: 007: Partea lui de consolare (His Side of Consolation) released in Romania

2011: Principal photography for BOND 23 begins in London.
2012: Skyfall released in Jamaica.

2018: Dynamite releases James Bond 007 #1.
Marc Laming, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

JAMES BOND 007 #1

https://dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532501011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
Cover B: John Cassaday
Cover C: Rafael Albuquerque
Cover D: Marc Laming
Writer: Greg Pak, Art: Marc Laming
Page Count: 36 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 11/7/2018

The ODD JOB epic begins in a new ongoing James Bond comic series by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Mech Cadet Yu) and MARC LAMING (Star Wars, Wonder Woman)! Agent 007 tracks a smuggler into Singapore to secure a dangerous case, contents unknown. But a Korean mystery man wants the case as well, for very different reasons. And if Bond and this new rival don't kill each other, the ruthless terrorist organization known as ORU will be more than happy to finish the job.

2021: Shaken Not Stirred James Bond Themed Romantic Formal Dance with DJ Martyn at Los Angeles, California.

SHAKEN NOT STIRRED
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Location
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RichardTheBruce

November 8th

1945: Angela Scoular is born--London, England.
(She dies 11 April 2011 at age 65--Maida Vale, London, England.)

Angela Scoular

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/8448951/Angela-Scoular.html

Angela Scoular, the actress who died on Tuesday aged 65, played Agent
Buttercup in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967) and was Ruby
Bartlett in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); she was also the second
wife of the Carry On star Leslie Phillips.
13 Apr 2011

Angela Scoular Photo: ITV/ REX FEATURES

Her qualifications as a Bond girl are obvious in OHMSS when she becomes Bond's (George Lazenby) first conquest, after writing her room number in lipstick on his inner thigh. "I used to hate chicken," she tells 007. "Used to make me break out. It was all over. You'd be surprised where."

She met Leslie Phillips in 1970 on the set of Doctor in Trouble (in which his character chases her character aboard an ocean liner). They met again in 1976 when they were both in the same play. She was pregnant at the time with a son by another actor, while Leslie Phillips's first marriage to Penny Bartley had foundered in the 1960s following his affair with the actress Caroline Mortimer. They began living together, but at first there was no question of marriage. When Penny was crippled by a stroke, Leslie Phillips was "pulled back into the frame" by his children and he and Angela helped to care for her until her death in a house fire in 1981. They married in 1982.

Despite Phillips's on-screen reputation as a lothario, theirs was a happy marriage. Angela Scoular went on to appear in several more films, stage productions and television series, notably as the sex-mad Lady Agatha Shawcross in the television series You Rang, M'Lord? (1988-93). But during her early years as an actress she had struggled with anorexia and later on she suffered from severe clinical depression which, according to her husband, meant that she lost her ability to face an audience. It was "difficult to be a character actress when you were a sex symbol", he observed.

Angela Scoular was born in London on November 8 1945 and encouraged in her ambitions to be an actress by her aunt, the actress Margaret Johnston.

She began her screen career in the mid-1960s, appearing in the long-running police drama No Hiding Place and taking a bit part in Ian McKellen's adaptation of David Copperfield, before going on to appear in her first feature films, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967, with Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren), Casino Royale and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968).

On television she appeared in series such as The Avengers, Penmarric, Coronation Street and As Time Goes By, and was Cathy in a 1967 television adaptation of Wuthering Heights. On stage she starred in Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular, at the Criterion Theatre (1974); appeared in a production of Hamlet at the Cambridge Theatre (1971); in Joseph Caruso's Little Lies at the Wyndham (1983); and in Peter Shaffer's White Liars and Black Comedy at the Lyric Theatre (1968).

She is survived by her husband and son.

Angela Scoular (1945–2011)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0780029/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actress (35 credits)

1996 As Time Goes By (TV Series) - Glenys
- Avoiding the Country Set (1996) ... Glenys
- The Country Set (1996) ... Glenys
1988-1993 You Rang, M'Lord? (TV Series) - Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Well, There You Are Then...! (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Fall of the House of Meldrum (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Truth Revealed (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Come to the Ball (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Requiem for a Parrot (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- A Day in the Country (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Night of Reckoning (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Gretna Green or Bust (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Current Affairs (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Please Help the Orphans (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Royal Flush (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Wounds of War (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Meldrum Vases (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Trouble at Mill (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Love and Money (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- The Phantom Sign Writer (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
- Pilot (1988) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross

1981 The House on the Hill (TV Series) - Aileen Douglas
- Man of Straw (1981) ... Aileen Douglas
1971-1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Joanna Trout / The Girl
- Dear Brutus (1981) ... Joanna Trout
- Evelyn (1971) ... The Girl
1979 Penmarric (TV Series) - Maud Castallack / Maud Penmar
- Episode #1.6 (1979) ... Maud Penmar
- Episode #1.5 (1979) ... Maud Castallack
- Episode #1.4 (1979) ... Maud Castallack
- Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Maud Castallack
1977 Adventures of a Private Eye - Jane Hogg
1976 Adventures of a Taxi Driver - Marion
1975 Rooms (TV Series) - Madeline Parsons
- Midgely: Part 2 (1975) ... Madeline Parsons
- Midgely: Part 1 (1975) ... Madeline Parsons
1973-1974 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Thomasine / Patty
- Only the Other Day (1974) ... Thomasine
- Hopcraft Into Europe (1973) ... Patty
1974 Beryl's Lot (TV Series) - Jill Savage
- Backs to the Wall (1974) ... Jill Savage
- A Bit of Culture (1974) ... Jill Savage
- It's a Rum World (1974) ... Jill Savage
1973 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - Charlotte
- The Runaway (1973) ... Charlotte
1973 Second City Firsts (TV Series) - Astral Philips
- Mrs Pool's Preserves (1973) ... Astral Philips
1973 Harriet's Back in Town (TV Series) - Frankie Prentiss
- Episode #1.62 (1973) ... Frankie Prentiss
- Episode #1.61 (1973) ... Frankie Prentiss
1973 Crown Court (TV Series) - Serena Cutforth
- The Gilded Cage: Part 2 (1973) ... Serena Cutforth
- The Gilded Cage: Part 1 (1973) ... Serena Cutforth
1972 For Loving (TV Movie) - Girl
1972 The Adventurer (TV Series) - Dorinda
- Nearly the End of the Picture (1972) ... Dorinda
1972 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1193 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1192 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1191 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1190 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1189 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
- Episode #1.1188 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
1972 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Francesca Stokes
- Knightsbridge (1972) ... Francesca Stokes
1971 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Pauline
- Equal Partners (1971) ... Pauline
1970 Doctor in Trouble - Ophelia O'Brien
1970 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Charlotte
- Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It (1970) ... Charlotte
1970 The Adventurers - Denisonde

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Ruby
1969 Doctor in the House (TV Series) - Fiona
- Rallying Round... (1969) ... Fiona
1968 Great Catherine - Claire
1968 The Avengers (TV Series) - Myra
- Super Secret Cypher Snatch (1968) ... Myra
1968 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush - Caroline Beauchamp
1967 Wuthering Heights (TV Series) - Catherine Earnshaw / Cathy Earnshaw
- The Last Revenge (1967) ... Catherine Earnshaw
- The Abduction (1967) ... Catherine Earnshaw
- The First Revenge (1967) ... Cathy Earnshaw
- An End to Childhood (1967) ... Cathy Earnshaw
1967 Love Story (TV Series) - Joy
- Her Freudian Slip (1967) ... Joy
1967 Casino Royale - Buttercup
1967 Girl in a Black Bikini (TV Series) - Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.6 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.5 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.4 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.3 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
1967 A Countess from Hong Kong - The Society Girl
1966 David Copperfield (TV Series) - Emily
- Toll of the Sea (1966) ... Emily
- Old Acquaintances (1966) ... Emily
1965 Romeo and Juliet (TV Movie) - Juliet
1963-1964 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Chantal Smith / Gillian Kendrick
- Why Baker Died (1964) ... Chantal Smith
- Pillar to Post (1963) ... Gillian Kendrick

Agent Buttercup in Casino Royale 1967


Ruby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969

1969: Insan Iki Kere Yasar (Human Lies Twice) released in Turkey.

The poster below lifts art from spy movie Deadlier Than The Male.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 40 of 65 - "Barbella's Big Attraction."

James Bond Jr - Barbella's Big Attraction

Season 1 - Episode 40
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807094/?ref_=ttep_ep40

Barbella's high blood pressure leads her to mutiny when S.C.U.M lord insulted her. So Barbella uses the incoming asteroid that S.C.U.M. Lord wants to go on a collision course with London and send it to destroy Rio de Janeiro where the S.C.U.M conference is taking place.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack / Scumlord (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Barbella (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 40 - Barbella's Big Attraction


Barbella's Revenge (based on Barbella's Big Attraction), Caryn Jenner, Buzz Books 1991.

1999: The World Is Not Enough premiere at the Fox Bruin Theater, Los Angeles.

2012: Skyfall IMAX premiere in the US prior to a 9 November general release.

2015: Geneva auction of a Rolex wristwatch with ties to Live and Let Die and Roger Moore closes this date.

290
Rolex
Ref. 5513

See the complete article here:

https://www.phillips.com/detail/ROLEX/CH080515/290

A unique and historically significant stainless steel wristwatch-prop with bracelet, specially adapted for James Bond's "Live and Let Die", caseback signed "Roger Moore 007"

1972
39.5mm. Diameter
Case, dial and bracelet signed
Estimate CHF150,000 - 250,000
Sold for CHF365,000

Manufacturer: Rolex
Year: 1972
Reference No: 5513
Case No: 2'683'776
Model Name: Submariner
Material: Stainless steel
Calibre: Movement removed
Bracelet/Strap: Stainless steel Rolex Oyster
Clasp/Buckle: Déployant clasp stamped 7-72
Dimensions: 39.5mm. Diameter
Signed: Case, dial and bracelet signed
Accessories: The present example is accompanied with James Bond memorabilia, 3 corresponding black and white framed stills, the "Live and Let Die" movie tape and the Christie's South Kensington catalogue of the "James Bond" auction in 14.02.2001.
Provenance: The present example was formerly offered at auction at Christie's South Kensington, on 14.02.2001, "James Bond", lot 145. Later offered at Christie's Geneva, 14.11.2011, "Important Watches", lot 182.

Provenance
The present example was formerly offered at auction at Christie's South Kensington, on 14.02.2001, "James Bond", lot 145. Later offered at Christie's Geneva, 14.11.2011, "Important Watches", lot 182.

Catalogue Essay
The most recognizable watch in history with 1 billion people having watched the film “Live and Let Die”, the wristwatch worn on the wrist of Sir Roger Moore as James Bond is in fact a Rolex Submariner reference 5513 made in 1972, and was later modified for the movie.

Art director and British production designer Syd Cain worked on over 30 movie projects, and received international fame for playing a key role as gadget designer in the James Bond movies. The acclaimed Rolex Submariner worn was memorable for its buzzsaw bezel that spun and could cut through rope to escape dangerous situations, and its hyper intensified magnetic field with the ability to deflect bullets. Used for both humor and heightened dramatic events, the magnetic power could unzip Miss Caruso’s dress, and catch a spoon off of a coffee saucer.

The present Rolex reference 5513 “Q” is the most unforgettable watch prop used in a movie and is even signed inside the caseback “Roger Moore 007”. As a highlight in the most iconic scenes of “Live and Let Die”, this watch is sure to interest both watch collectors and true fans of cinematography alike.

SYD CAIN: An accomplished movie production designer, "Syd" Cain is best known for his creative work on four films of the famous James Bond 007 series. His work on the series followed his successful efforts supporting Producer Albert R. Broccoli on two films in 1954 and 1956. Broccoli chose Cain for "Dr. No" in 1962, and went on to assume the role of art director for 1963's "From Russia With Love". That film introduced Q, the legendary character responsible for issuing gadgets to James Bond. It was Cain who was designing these gadgets in actuality, including villains gadgets, such as the poisoned-tipped blade of Rosa Klebb's shoes, and of course this Rolex Submariner 5513 worn in 1973's "Live and Let Die".

Cain (1918-2011) was himself a survivor, having managed to walk away from a plane crash during World War II, and later, surviving a lightning strike. Notably, he also served as assistant art director for Standley Kubrick, and production designer for Alford Hitchcock and Jack Gold. Survived by five sons and three daughters, he was a popular personality with James Bond fans, and wrote an autobiography documenting his experiences with the 007 films: Not Forgetting James Bond: The Autobiography of James Bond Production Designer Syd Cain.

Maker Biography

Rolex
Swiss • 1905
Founded in 1905 England by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis as Wilsdorf & Davis, it soon became known as the Rolex Watch Company in 1915, moving its headquarters to Geneva in 1919. Like no other company, the success of the wristwatch can be attributed to many of Rolex's innovations that made them one of the most respected and well-known of all luxury brands. These innovations include their famous "Oyster" case — the world's first water resistant and dustproof watch case, invented in 1926 — and their "Perpetual" — the first reliable self-winding movement for wristwatches launched in 1933. They would form the foundation for Rolex's Datejust and Day-Date, respectively introduced in 1945 and 1956, but also importantly for their sports watches, such as the Explorer, Submariner and GMT-Master launched in the mid-1950s.

One of its most famous models is the Cosmograph Daytona. Launched in 1963, these chronographs are without any doubt amongst the most iconic and coveted of all collectible wristwatches. Other key collectible models include their most complicated vintage watches, including references 8171 and 6062 with triple calendar and moon phase, "Jean Claude Killy" triple date chronograph models and the Submariner, including early "big-crown" models and military-issued variants.

2019: Planned BOND 25 release date (confirmed by an official announcement 24 July 2017).

RichardTheBruce

November 9th

1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films OO7 arriving at Piz Gloria.

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in Colombia.

1983: Octopussy - Operazione piovra (Octopussy - Operation Octopus) released in Italy.

James Bond higher and higher!

1989: East Germany opens its Berlin Wall.

1992: Charles Fraser-Smith dies at age 88--Bratton Fleming, Devon, England.
(Born 26 January 1904--Deal, Kent, England.)

Charles Fraser-Smith

See the complete article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fraser-Smith

Charles Fraser-Smith (26 January 1904 – 9 November 1992) was an author and one-time missionary who is widely credited as being the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond quartermaster Q. During World War II, Fraser-Smith worked for the Ministry of Supply, fabricating equipment nicknamed "Q-devices" (after Q-ships) for SOE agents operating in occupied Europe. Prior to the war, Fraser-Smith had worked as a missionary in North Africa. After the war he purchased a dairy farm in Burrington, Devon, where he died in 1992.

Early life
Charles Fraser-Smith was the son of a solicitor who owned a wholesale grocery business; he was orphaned at age seven. He was then brought up by a Christian missionary family in Croxley Green in Hertfordshire. He went to school at Brighton College, where he was described as "scholastically useless except for woodwork and science and making things."

On leaving school he veered from one occupation after another, working as a prep school teacher in Portsmouth, a motorcycle messenger rider, and an aircraft factory worker. Eventually, inspired by his foster family, he went to Morocco as a Christian missionary. Returning to England in 1939, he gave a Sunday sermon at the Open Brethren Evangelical Church in Leeds. In the sermon, Fraser-Smith described his practice of bricolage, and the necessity of procuring supplies from just about any source. In the congregation were two officials of Britain's Ministry of Supply, who were impressed by his adventures. As a result, the Director of the Ministry of Supply offered him what he later described as "a funny job in London".

Wartime experiences
Officially, Fraser-Smith was a temporary civil servant for the Ministry of Supply's Clothing and Textile Department (Dept. CT6). In reality, he developed and supplied gadgets and other equipment for section XV of Britain's World War II intelligence organisation, the Special Operations Executive. Travelling by train from his home in Hertfordshire to a small office in the clothing department of the Ministry of Supply, near St. James's Park in London, Fraser-Smith was actually working at the direction of MI6 in the nearby Minimax House. Performing a job so secret that neither his secretary nor his boss knew what he was doing, Fraser-Smith invented numerous ingenious gadgets intended to help prisoners of war to escape and to aid SOE agents gathering information on Nazi activities in occupied Europe.

His first order was to counterfeit Spanish Army uniforms for a proposed SOE plan to infiltrate agents into neutral Spain to prevent it from entering the war on the side of Germany. He dealt directly with the textile suppliers, ultimately using more than 300 firms in and around London: many of them had no idea what they were making or why, to make equipment for secret operations.

Initially Fraser-Smith supplied clothing and standard props (from second-hand sources) for SOE agents working behind enemy lines, but SOE directives and his taste for gadgetry led him to develop a wide range of spy and escape devices, including miniature cameras inside cigarette lighters, shaving brushes containing film, hairbrushes containing a map and saw, pens containing hidden compasses, steel shoelaces that doubled as garrottes or gigli saws, an asbestos-lined pipe for carrying secret documents, and much more.

Directed to make copies of a new type of Luftwaffe life jacket, he made discoveries that were subsequently incorporated as standard in RAF "Mae Wests", including the use of a compressed air cylinder for inflating the jacket and a pouch filled with a powerful fluorescent dye for spotting of a downed airman at sea.

In an example of lateral thinking, Fraser-Smith used a special left-hand thread for the disguised screw-off top of a hidden-document container; he suggested this would prevent discovery by the "unswerving logic of the German mind", as no German would ever think of trying to unscrew something the wrong way.

At one point his expenses were challenged by a senior Treasury official over the extravagant costs of an order for packets of 12 razor blades. Fraser-Smith asked for a treasury costing clerk to accompany him on a visit to the company to determine whether or not they were profiteering. After checking that the clerk had signed the Official Secrets Act, the clerk reviewed the costs, which were in fact for a top-secret kit designed to aid SOE agents with escape and evasion. The clerk discovered that the company was in fact undercharging as they had not claimed the regulation profit. As a result, the supplier was directed to submit a new invoice with every item fully justified that, including the proper profit, was therefore greater than the original. Fraser-Smith never had a bill queried after that.

Fraser-Smith later estimated that 50% of the orders he received were exact specifications, 40% were approximate specifications and 10% were his own idea. He called his inventions "Q gadgets", after the Q ships, warships disguised as freighters, which were deployed in the First World War. This may have been the basis of Ian Fleming's use of "Q" to refer to the suppliers of James Bond's gadgetry.

Fraser-Smith was not the only gadget-master working for British intelligence during World War II. The SOE had various secret research and development laboratories including Station IX at the Natural History Museum and Station XII at the Frythe Hotel. Christopher Clayton Hutton of MI9, a clandestine unit within A-Force which specialised in escape and evasion, was also an inventor and deception-theorist. Major Jasper Maskelyne, a stage magician, also developed secret sabotage and subterfuge devices for MI-9.

Operation Mincemeat
Fraser was also involved in the intelligence operation codenamed Operation Mincemeat, which was designed to drop a body, carrying false papers to mislead the Nazis, off the Spanish coast. He was tasked with designing a trunk, 6' 2" long and 3' wide, to carry a "deadweight" of 200 lb that would be preserved in dry ice. When the dry ice evaporated, it filled the canister with carbon dioxide and drove out any oxygen, thus preserving the body without refrigeration. The plot was the basis of the book (and later film) The Man Who Never Was.

Later life
After the war, Fraser-Smith bought a rundown dairy farm in Bratton Fleming, in southwest England. It became a profitable business. In the late 1970s, his family persuaded him to seek permission to write a book about his wartime exploits. With clearance under the Official Secrets Act he wrote several, donating the royalties to charity.

He had kept examples of most of his gadgets, and an exhibit of his wartime works was presented at the Exmoor Steam Railway, a tourist attraction in Bratton Fleming. Once a year, Fraser-Smith would spend a week explaining their workings to visitors.

Charles Fraser-Smith died at his home of undisclosed causes in 1992, survived by his wife, Selina, and two children, Brian and Christine, by a previous marriage to Blanche Ellis. Live and Let's Spy: An exhibition of spy, escape and survival gadgetry, an exhibition of his work, created at Dover Castle by English Heritage, ran for two years in the late 1990s.

1999: Radioactive/MCA label releases the soundtrack for The World Is Not Enough in the US.

2012: Skyfall released in Albania, Canada, Pakistan, and the US.
2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Hammerhead #2.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #2 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272202011
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Publication Date: November 2016
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 11/9

Assigned to hunt down and eliminate a terrorist threatening Britain's nuclear deterrent, 007 shadows the nation's leading defense contractor at the Dubai Arms Fair. As a lethal trap is sprung around him, Bond finds an unexpected ally in glamorous arms company executive Victoria Hunt.

2021: No Time To Die comes available to rent for streaming.

RichardTheBruce

November 10th

1944: Timothy Miles Bindon Rice is born--Shardeloes, England.
1945: Ian Fleming finishes his work with Naval Intelligence.
1948: James Bond is born--so says his prop passport for The Living Daylights.

1953: James Bond is born--so says his Die Another Day passport.

1959: Jack Whittingham's outline for a first film is called "James Bond of the Secret Service".

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24669/lot/24/#/!

1968: Daphne Deckers is born--Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands.

1974: The US network premiere of Dr. No on ABC-TV.

Dr No - James Bond - ABC Movie Special Star Tunnel intro

1988: Licence to Kill films Sanchez interrogating OO7.

2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Himeros #2.
Antonio Fuso, artist. Rodney Barnes, writer.

JAMES BOND: HIMEROS #2

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513031230302011
Cover A: Francesco Francavilla
UPC: 725130312303 02011
Cover B: Jackson Guice
UPC: 725130312303 02021
Writer: Rodney Barnes
Artist: Antonio Fuso
Genre: Spy/Fiction, Action/Adventure
Publication Date: November 2021
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32
ON SALE DATE: 11/10/2021

Issue #2 continues the comic book adventures of the world's most famous spy - James Bond! While the setting exudes the allure of sun, sand and fun, this deadly island is no playtime retreat! Its sun, sand and misery for all those who visit, and up to Bond to put an end to the deadly circle once and for all!

Featuring two amazing Covers: Francesco Francavilla and the legendary Jackson Guice!

Cover A: Francesco Francavilla


Cover B: Jackson Guice




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RichardTheBruce

November 11th

1920: James Bond's birthday according to John Pearson's James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007.

1920: James Bond's birth date as used by Charlie Higson in his Young Bond novels.
1921: James Bond's birth date according to Bond scholar John Griswold.

1948: Vincent Andrew Schiavelli is born--Brooklyn, New York

1963: El satánico Dr. No released in Uruguay.

1966: Donald Pleasence takes over the Blofeld role from Czech actor Jan Werich. A decision by director Gilbert and producer Broccoli--however, publicly the change is blamed on illness.

1966: Alison Doody is born--Dublin, Ireland.

1972: James Bond's birth date as on a passport displayed at a French military museum.

https://steemit.com/funny/@ageo/james-bond-passport

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 41 of 65 - "There But for Ms. Fortune."

James Bond Jr - There But for Ms. Fortune

Season 1 - Episode 41
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807127/?ref_=ttep_ep41

Ms. Fortune attempts to kidnap IQ and him for ransom for Q's ice formula so that she use it to freeze Colorado river to shut down most of the United States' power supply. But her plan goes awfully wrong when she mistakes Trevor for IQ and kidnap him instead.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Mary Crawford ... (writer)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Alan Templeton ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
Cast (in credits order)
Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Snuffer (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut / Miss Fortune (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 41 - There But for Ms. Fortune

1999: "The World Is Not Enough" music video airs before the MTV Europe Music Awards, part of heavy promotion for the film including a BMW Z8 giveaway.

1999: TV Guide publishes Raymond Benson's Bond short story "Live at Five".

2003: Robert Brown dies at age 82--Swanage, Dorset, England.
(Born 23 July 1921--Swanage, Dorset, England.)

Robert Brown (British actor)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brown_(British_actor)

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

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

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

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

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

Robert Brown (I) (1921–2003)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0114533/?ref_=nv_sr_4?ref_=nv_sr_4

Filmography

Actor (138 credits)
1991 Merlin of the Crystal Cave (TV Series) - Gorlois
- Reckoning (1991) ... Gorlois
- The Return (1991) ... Gorlois

1989 Licence to Kill - M
1989 Slow Burn (Video) - Grandfather in Church
1988 Hannay (TV Series) - Roberton
- Act of Riot (1988) ... Roberton
1987 The Living Daylights - M
1985 A View to a Kill - M
1984 The Life and Death of King John (TV Movie) - Earl of Pembroke
1984 Fantasy Island (TV Series)
- Lady of the House/Mrs. Brandell's Favorites (1984)
1983 Octopussy - M
1983 The Winds of War (TV Mini-Series) - English Merchantman Captain
- The Changing of the Guard (1983) ... English Merchantman Captain
1983 The Forgotten Story (TV Series) - Captain Stevens
- Episode #1.5 (1983) ... Captain Stevens
1982 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Luke
- Pilgrim, Farewell (1982) ... Luke
1980 Lion of the Desert - Al Fadeel
1980 Angels (TV Series) - Mr. Carlisle
- Episode #6.21 (1980) ... Mr. Carlisle
1980 Time of My Life (TV Series) - Mr. Richards
- Episode #1.1 (1980) ... Mr. Richards

1979 Henry IV Part I (TV Movie) - Sir Walter Blunt
1979 Danger UXB (TV Series) - Civil Defence Officer
- Butterfly Winter (1979) ... Civil Defence Officer
1979 The Passage - Major
1978 All Creatures Great and Small (TV Series) - Mr. Hewison
- Merry Gentlemen (1978) ... Mr. Hewison
1978 Warlords of the Deep - Briggs
1978 Play for Today (TV Series) - Rector
- Red Shift (1978) ... Rector
1977 The Cost of Loving (TV Series) - Adam Greenaway
- Madge (1977) ... Adam Greenaway
1977 Mr. Big (TV Series) - Sheik Ibrahim
- The Sheiks (1977) ... Sheik Ibrahim
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Adm. Hargreaves
1977 Jesus of Nazareth (TV Mini-Series) - A Pharasee
- Part 2 (1977) ... A Pharasee
1976 The Message - Otba
1974 Fall of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Uncle Serge
- Dearest Nicky (1974) ... Uncle Serge
- The Last Tsar (1974) ... Uncle Serge
1972 Demons of the Mind - Fischinger
1972 Wreck Raisers - Cox'n
1972 The Protectors (TV Series) - Governor
- Brother Hood (1972) ... Governor
1971 1,000 Convicts and a Woman - Ralph
1971 Private Road - Mr. Halpern
1971 The Doctors (TV Series) - Robert Thurlow, 28 episodes
1970 Big Brother (TV Mini-Series) - Edward Cheeseman
- The Wife Factor (1970) ... Edward Cheeseman

1969 Tintin and the Temple of the Sun - Tarragon (English version, voice, uncredited)
1967-1969 The Newcomers (TV Series) - Bert Harker, 218 episodes
1969 Un hombre solo
1966 One Million Years B.C. - Akhoba
1966 King of the River (TV Series) - Ben King, 10 episodes
1966 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Insp. Wilkins
- The Move After Checkmate (1966) ... Insp. Wilkins
1966 Softly Softly (TV Series) - Bramley
- Tickle on Wheels (1966) ... Bramley
1965 Against the Tide (Short)
1965 The Avengers (TV Series) - Saul
- The Town of No Return (1965) ... Saul
1965 Jury Room (TV Series) - Mr. Duckworth - Juror
- The Chess Player (1965) ... Mr. Duckworth - Juror
1965 Operation Crossbow - Air Commodore
1965 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Sam Sixty
- Photo Finish (1965) ... Sam Sixty
1964 All in Good Time (Short) - George Fitch
1964 The Yellowbird (TV Movie)
1964 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Bill Campbell
- The Big Fix (1964) ... Bill Campbell
1963-1964 The Saint (TV Series) - Atkins / Howard Jackman
- The Miracle Tea Party (1964) ... Atkins
- The Saint Plays with Fire (1963) ... Howard Jackman
1964 Escape by Night - Mawsley
1964 Smuggler's Bay (TV Series) - Sam Tewkesbury
- On the Beach (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
- A Reward of Fifty Pounds (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
- The Auction (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
- In the Vault (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
- A Death and a Discovery (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
1964 The Masque of the Red Death - Guard
1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Kaufmann
- Death of a Cop (1964) ... Kaufmann
1964 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Mr. Waterman
- Episode #1.686 (1964) ... Mr. Waterman
- Episode #1.685 (1964) ... Mr. Waterman
- Episode #1.681 (1964) ... Mr. Waterman
1963 The Double - Richard Harrison
1963 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Sam / Douin / Sam Farley
- The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh: Part 3 (1963) ... Sam
- The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh: Part 2 (1963) ... Sam
- The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh: Part 1 (1963) ... Sam Farley
- The Horse Without a Head: The Key to the Cache (1963) ... Douin
- The Horse Without a Head: The 100,000,000 Franc Train Robbery (1963) ... Douin
1963 Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow - Sam Farley
1963 Boyd Q.C. (TV Series) - Adrian Marshall
- Thread of Evidence (1963) ... Adrian Marshall
1961-1963 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Berry / Lew Evatt
- An Eye on the Kings (1963) ... Berry
- Man in the Dark (1961) ... Lew Evatt
1963 Sierra Nine (TV Series) - Galliver
- The Q-Radiation: Part One (1963) ... Galliver
1963 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Richard Harrison
- The Double (1963) ... Richard Harrison
1962 Mystery Submarine - Coxswain Drage
1962 Live Now - Pay Later (unconfirmed)
1962 Billy Budd - Arnold Talbot - Maintopman
1962 The 300 Spartans - Pentheus
1960-1961 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Mr. Lee / Dick Hastings
- The Bent Twig (1961) ... Mr. Lee
- The Guilty Party (1960) ... Dick Hastings
1961 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Harry Barnett
- Episode #2.37 (1961) ... Harry Barnett
1961 The Arthur Askey Show (TV Series)
- Pilbeam, the Journalist (1961) ... (as Bob Brown)
1960 A Story of David: The Hunted - Jashobeam
1960/III Macbeth (TV Movie) - Bloody Sergeant
1960 Sands of the Desert - 1st Tourist
1960 Armchair Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - George Hibberd
- Flight from Treason (1960) ... George Hibberd
1960 Kraft Mystery Theater (TV Series) - George Hibberd
- Flight from Treason (1960) ... George Hibberd
1960 Inside Story (TV Series) - Jack Brooks, 13 episodes
1960 It Takes a Thief - Bob Crowther
1959-1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Sergeant at Car Impound / Attendant
- A Foreign Body (1960) ... Sergeant at Car Impound
- Dead on Arrival (1959) ... Attendant
1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Gunnery Officer on 'King George V' (uncredited)
1956-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Bert Turner / Singer / Kenneth Dowey / ...
- Where I Live (1960) ... Bert Turner
- Dangerous World (1958) ... Singer
- The Old Lady Shows Her Medals (1956) ... Kenneth Dowey
- The Handshake/Bid for Fame (1956) ... Joe Mawson in

1959 The Flying Doctor (TV Series) - Sam Marlow
- The Riddle (1959) ... Sam Marlow
1959 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Prof. Howard
- The Rocket (1959) ... Prof. Howard
1959 Ben-Hur - Chief of Rowers (uncredited)
1959 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Richard Pengelly
- Haul for the Shore (1959) ... Richard Pengelly
1959 Shake Hands with the Devil - First Sergeant 'Black & Tans'
1959 The Offshore Island (TV Movie) - Martin
1958-1959 Ivanhoe (TV Series) - Gurth, 39 episodes
1958 The Veil (TV Mini-Series) - Constable
- Jack the Ripper (1958) ... Constable
1958 Room 43 - Mike
1957 Campbell's Kingdom - Ben Creasy
1957 The Abominable Snowman - Ed. Shelley
1957 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series)
- Desert Patrol (1957)
1957 Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! (TV Series) - Erik Richter
- My Favourite Kidnapper (1957) ... Erik Richter
1957 Kill Me Tomorrow - Steve Ryan
1957 The Steel Bayonet - Sgt. Maj. Gill
1956 Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series) - Sergeant Boucher
- The Sword of Truth (1956) ... Sergeant Boucher
1956 Hell in Korea - The Regular Soldiers: Pte. O'Brien / Pte O'Brien
1956 The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Series) - Baron Buray / Valpezzo
- The Barefoot Empress (1956) ... Baron Buray
- The Island (1956) ... Valpezzo
1950-1956 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Richard Pengelly / Mick Egan / Oliver North / ... 20 episodes
1956 Kraft Theatre (TV Series) - Crewman / Officer
- A Night to Remember (1956) ... Crewman / Officer
1956 The Man Who Never Was - French (uncredited)
1956 Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series) - Hastings
- Error at Daybreak (1956) ... Hastings
1956 Tears for Simon - Farmer with Shotgun (uncredited)
1956 Helen of Troy - Polydorus
1956 The Alien Sky (TV Movie) - John Steele
1955-1956 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Zanos / Surgeon Lt. Donald Reynell, RCNVR
- Dimitrios (1956) ... Zanos
- Heritage (1955) ... Surgeon Lt. Donald Reynell, RCNVR
1955 Theatre Royal (TV Series) - Swain
- The Orderly (1955) ... Swain
1955 Passage Home - Shane
1955 The Warriors - First French Knight
1954 Barbara's Wedding (TV Short) - Dering
1954 Campbell Summer Soundstage (TV Series)
- Reville for Two Angels (1954)
1953 The Long Rope - Mick Jordan
1953 The Will (TV Short) - Philip Ross
1953 Wednesday Theatre (TV Series) - Dick Pascoe
- For Want of a Nail.... (1953) ... Dick Pascoe
1953 Noose for a Lady - Jonas Rigg
1953 Shadow of the Vine (TV Movie) - Arthur Heath
1953 The Pickwick Papers (TV Series) - Mr. Bob Sawyer
- The Sixth Paper (1953) ... Mr. Bob Sawyer
- The Fifth Paper (1953) ... Mr. Bob Sawyer
1952 Gambler and the Lady - John - Waiter at Max's Dive (uncredited)
1952 The Infinite Shoeblack (TV Movie) - Andrew Berwick
1952 The Mask (TV Short) - James Glasson
1952 Time, Gentlemen, Please! - Bill Jordan
1952 Ivanhoe - Castle Guard Yelling 'Horseman Approaching from the South!' (uncredited)
1952 Derby Day - Foster - Berkeley's Butler (uncredited)
1952 Leading Question (TV Short) - Peace-be-with-us Smith
1952 The Marvellous History of St. Bernard (TV Movie) - Bonaventure
1952 Death of an Angel - Jim Pollard (uncredited)
1951 Out of True (Short) - Dr. Dale
1951 Milestones (TV Movie) - Arthur Preece
1951 A Tomb with a View (TV Movie) - Alec Lanch
1951 The Fifty Mark (TV Movie) - Roy Clarke
1951 The Empty Street (TV Short) - Robins
1951 Cloudburst - Carter
1951 Rush Job (TV Movie) - Cliff Whatley
1951 The Dark Man - Policeman at Hospital (uncredited)
1950 Marion (TV Movie) - George Saunders

1949 The Coventry Nativity Play (TV Movie) - First soldier
1949 The Big Story (TV Series) - Danny
- Make Believe Bandit ... Danny
1949 The Third Man - British Military Policeman in Sewer Chase (uncredited)
1948 Good Friday (TV Movie) - Herod (1950 version)

2015: Spectre released in Switzerland and France.
2015: 스백터 (Seu-paek-duh) released in the Republic of Korea.

2021: The Music Of James Bond & More - All The Songs at Nürtingen, Germany.

The Music Of James Bond & More - All The Songs

See the complete article here:

https://eventseeker.com/stuttgart/nov-11-2021/400301890-the-music-of-james-bond-more-all-the-songs

Thursday, 11 Nov 2021 @ 19:30
Photo: Alan Cleaver

K3N die neue Stadthalle Nürtingen

2021: No Time To Die released in Australia.

2021: Open Night for No Time To Die at the Windsor Cinema, Midland, Australia.

Open Night for James Bond 'No Time To Die'

See the complete article here:

https://happeningnext.com/event/open-night-for-james-bond-no-time-to-die-eid3a08bdeljo

Schedule
Thu Nov 11 2021 at 05:30 pm
UTC+08:00

Location
Windsor Cinema | Midland, WA

RichardTheBruce

November 12th

1929: Peter Curtis Lamont is born--London, England.
(He dies 18 December 2020 at age 91.)

Peter Lamont, Legendary
Production Designer on Bond
Films and 'Titanic,' Dies at 91

See the complete article here:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peter-lamont-legendary-production-designer-on-bond-films-and-titanic-dies-at-91

11:10 AM PST 12/18/2020 by Mike Barnes

GOLDFINGER, from left: Sean Connery, Harold Sakata, 1964
Courtesy Everett Collection

Sean Connery (left) and Harold Sakata do battle on the Fort Knox set of 'Goldfinger.'

An Oscar winner and four-
time nominee, he also
worked on 'The Seven-Per-
Cent Solution,' 'Fiddler on
the Roof' and 'Aliens.'

Peter Lamont, the top-notch British art director, set decorator and production designer who worked on 18 James Bond films and received an Academy Award for Titanic, has died. He was 91.

Lamont's death was reported by the official 007 account on Twitter. No details of his passing were immediately available.

"Peter Lamont was a much beloved member of the Bond family and a giant in the industry," producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said in a statement. He was "inextricably linked with the design and aesthetic of James Bond since Goldfinger."

Indeed, the four-time Oscar nominee helped create the monumental scenarios for every 007 movie from Goldfinger (1964) through Casino Royale (2006) except for one — Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). He had a good reason for missing that, however; he was serving as production designer on James Cameron's best picture winner Titanic.

Lamont, who collaborated often with two-time Oscar winner Ken Adam, landed his other Academy Award noms for Norman Jewison's Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Lewis Gilbert's The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Cameron's Aliens (1986).

Lamont also contributed to such notable films as This Sporting Life (1963), The Ipcress File (1965), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), The Boys From Brazil (1978) and his final partnership with Cameron, True Lies (1994).

Peter Curtis Lamont was born in London on Nov. 12, 1929. He worked as print boy runner at Pinewood Studios, and after serving for two years in the Royal Air Force, he returned to the studio as a draughtsman on features including Captain Boycott (1950), The Browning Version (1951) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952).

For art director Peter Murton on Goldfinger, the third Bond movie, he and Adam designed Pinewood's iconic Fort Knox set, which was one of the most expensive ever built at that time.

"I drew it all up and made a model," Lamont recalled in a 2006 interview. "And I remember [director] Guy Hamilton and [producers] Cubby [Broccoli] and Harry [Saltzman] came up and they looked at it and said, 'Well, let's get an estimate of how much it's going to cost.' And I almost fell through the roof because the estimate was for £56,000 … I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to get fired for this.' But nobody turned a hair."

In today's dollars, that set would have cost some $6.3 million.

Lamont graduated to set decorator on Thunderball (1965), to art director on Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth (1972), to visual effects art director on Moonraker (1979) and to production designer on For Your Eyes Only (1981).

After working with Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, he ended his career on [/b]Casino Royale[/b] (2006), the first Bond film to star Daniel Craig.

His autobiography, The Man With the Golden Eye: Designing the James Bond Films, was published in 2016.

Survivors include his son, Neil Lamont, an art director on Harry Potter films and Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, and his daughter, Madeline.

Peter Lamont (I) (1929–2020)

Art Department | Production Designer | Art Director
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0483682/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

https://twitter.com/007/status/1339972928864174080

1943: Julie Ege is born--Sandnes, Norway.
(She dies 29 April 2008 at age 64--Oslo, Norway.)

Julie Ege: 'Sex Symbol of the 1970s'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/julie-ege-sex-symbol-of-the-1970s-820386.html
Saturday 3 May 2008 00:00

REX

In the late Sixties and early Seventies, British cinema-goers, and British men in general, had a weakness for Scandinavian women. For a time, the Norwegian actress and model Julie Ege was as ubiquitous as Sweden's Britt Ekland.

In 1969, Ege's stunning looks caught the eye of the film producer Albert Broccoli, who cast her in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the only James Bond film to feature George Lazenby as the lead. In 1971, Ege was Voluptua to Frankie Howerd's Lurcio in the first Up Pompeii film, based on the titter-heavy sitcom of the same name. Having starred in Creatures the World Forgot, another Hammer "cave girl" film in the vein of the Raquel Welch vehicle One Million Years BC, Ege was touted as the "Sex Symbol of the 1970s" by Sir James Carreras, head of Hammer Film Productions, and his son Michael.

Despite further appearances in sci-fi and horror hokum like The Final Programme (1973), Craze, Dr of Evil (aka The Mutations) and The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (all in 1974), she was typecast as a glamour girl, in comedies such as The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971) and Not Now Darling (1973), both with Leslie Phillips, as well as Percy's Progress (1974) and The Amorous Milkman (1975).

Born in Sandnes, on the south-west coast of Norway, in 1943, she was a bit of a tomboy but blossomed into a teenager obsessed with Hollywood stars. Spotted by local photographers, Ege appeared in advertisements for "anything from dresses to sardines", she later recalled. Following a short-lived marriage to a major in the Norwegian army, she moved to Oslo, won a beauty contest and took part in the Miss Universe pageant in Florida in 1962. She then remarried and undertook various modelling assignments, including an appearance in Penthouse magazine.

In 1967, she made her acting début playing a German masseuse in Stompa til Sjøs ("The Sky and the Ocean"), a low-budget Norwegian film, and also had an uncredited part in Robbery, a British gangster picture about the Great Train Robbery. She settled in London, registered with various model agencies, and sent her picture to Broccoli. The Bond producer signed Ege to play the Scandinavian Girl, one of the 10 women of different nationalities being brainwashed by Blofeld, the villain portrayed by Telly Savalas in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (the English Girl was played by Joanna Lumley). Ege spent nearly three months on location at Piz Gloria, the revolving restaurant on top of the Schilthorn in Switzerland, but was disappointed to see that, in the finished film, she only appeared on screen for a few moments.

In 1970, Ned Sherrin gave her a role opposite Marty Feldman in the comedy Every Home Should Have One. "It was my first real part with dialogue. They wanted me to look and sound like a Scandinavian nanny so I gave them just that. It was really difficult," Ege joked. She had spent time as an au pair in London in the early Sixties. "Once the film opened, all the newspapers carried a photo of me with the caption 'Every Home Should Have One'. I was famous overnight and was not prepared for all the decision-making so crucial at that moment," she admitted.

Ege's subsequent career moves bore out this claim. She turned down the chance to appear with Peter Sellers in the saucy comedy There's a Girl in My Soup and signed up with Hammer to do Creatures the World Forgot. The shooting on location in Africa turned out to be something of an ordeal for Ege who had recently given birth to her first daughter. "They made me wear this awful wig and my bikini was a far cry from the one Raquel Welch wore," she recalled. "I had dirt smeared all over me. My newborn child was back in England and after a few days I got homesick."

Ege then undertook a gruelling publicity schedule which included appearances on the Johnny Carson and David Frost chat-shows and a special edition of The Money Programme documenting the amount of money Hammer was investing in her. However, Creatures the World Forgot was slated by the critics and her career lost momentum after she passed on Hammer's Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde in 1972. "I was by then very reluctant about doing nudity," she said. "Many people think I did so much nudity in my films. I did a short scene in Every Home Should Have One, and two bathtub scenes in Not Now Darling and Mutations."

Ege was happier doing comedies, including playing "the sexy wife of a mad scientist" (Donald Sinden) in Rentadick (1972), even if the project went so awry that Graham Chapman and John Cleese, the film's original writers with John Fortune and John Wells, asked for their names to be removed from the credits. In 1972, she also had cameos in The Alf Garnett Saga and in Go For a Take with Reg Varney of On the Buses fame. "They needed a pretty girl with a good attitude to play these parts," she said. "It was all a laugh and I have never seen these films since."

In the Seventies, Ege lived for several years with the Beatles associate Tony Bramwell and recorded a version of "Love", a John Lennon composition originally featured on the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album in 1970. She subsequently went back to Norway and took up photography before training as a nurse in the Eighties. She was delighted when one of her patients presented her with a video copy of The Amorous Milkman.

Over the last decade, Ege was amazed by the renewed interest in her films. "There I was on the front cover of so many newspapers as the forgotten diva of British horror and comedy films," she said in 2004, two years after publishing her autobiography, Naken ("Naked"), in Norway. In 1999, she visited Britain and took part in a reunion of Hammer alumni. In 2005, she featured in the BBC documentary Crumpet! A Very British Sex Symbol, presented by the former Daily Sport editor Tony Livesey. "To be honest, I was never really that proud of my performance in films," she said, "but I gave it my best and enjoyed the work very much."

Pierre Perrone

Julie Ege, model, actress and nurse: born Sandnes, Norway 13 November 1943; twice married (two daughters); died Oslo 29 April 2008.

Julie Ege (1943–2008)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0250774/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actress (24 credits)

1998 Blodsbånd (TV Mini-Series)
- Episode #1.2 (1998)
- Episode #1.3 (1998)
- Episode #1.1 (1998)

1988 Fengslende dager for Christina Berg - Krags hustru

1976 Farlig yrke (TV Mini-Series) - Wenche Berg
- Det tredje offeret (1976) ... Wenche Berg
- Helmer (1976) ... Wenche Berg
- Etterlyste ble sist sett... (1976) ... Wenche Berg
1975 De dwaze lotgevallen van Sherlock Jones - Sondag's secretaresse
1975 The Amorous Milkman - Diana
1974 Bortreist på ubestemt tid - Christina
1974 The Mutations - Hedi
1974 Den siste Fleksnes - Julie Ege
1974 It's Not the Size That Counts - Miss Hanson
1974 The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires - Vanessa Buren
1974 Craze - Helena
1973 The Final Programme - Miss Dazzle
1973 Kanarifuglen - Kari, flyvertinne
1973 Not Now Darling - Janie McMichael
1972 Double Take - April
1972 The Alf Garnett Saga - Julie Ege
1972 Rentadick - Utta Armitage
1971 The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins - Ingrid (segment "Gluttony")
1971 Creatures the World Forgot - Nala - The Girl
1971 Up Pompeii - Voluptua
1970 Every Home Should Have One - Inga

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - The Scandinavian Girl
1967 Stompa til Sjøs!
1967 Robbery - Hostess (uncredited)

1943: Valerie Leon is born--Islington, London, England.

1966: James Bond comic strip The Living Daylights completes its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 12 September 1966. 210-263) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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





Swedish Semic Comics 1985 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1985.php3

Spionen Från Öst
(The Living Daylights)

Danish 1968 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no14-1968/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 14:
“The Living Daylights” (1968)
Spionen fra øst
[The Spy from the East]

2020

1981: William Holden dies at age 63--Santa Monica, California.
(Born 17 April 1918--O'Fallon, Illinois.)

William Holden

Holden in a publicity photo, 1954

William Franklin Beedle Jr.
Born April 17, 1918 | O'Fallon, Illinois, U.S.
Died November 12, 1981 (aged 63) | Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Cause of death Exsanguination
Resting place Ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean
Nationality American
Alma mater South Pasadena High School
Occupation Actor, wildlife conservationist
Years active 1938–1981
Home town South Pasadena, California, U.S.
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Brenda Marshall
(m. 1941; div. 1971)
Partner(s) Stefanie Powers (1972–1981) (his death)
Children 3

Awards

Academy Award for Best Actor (1953)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor (1974)

Military career

Allegiance United States of America
Service/branch US Army Air Corps, United States Army Air Forces
Years of service 1942–45
Rank US-O2 insignia.svg First lieutenant[2]
Unit First Motion Picture Unit (USAAF)
Battles/wars World War II

William Holden (born William Franklin Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor who was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s and 1960s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953), and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for the television film The Blue Knight (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard, Sabrina, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch, Picnic and Network. He was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961), and appeared as 25th on the American Film Institute's list of 25 greatest male stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

With Lee J. Cobb (right) in Holden's first starring role in a film, Golden Boy (1939)

Early life and education
Holden was born William Franklin Beedle Jr. on April 17, 1918, in O'Fallon, Illinois, son of William Franklin Beedle (1891–1967), an industrial chemist, and his wife Mary Blanche Beedle (née Ball, 1898–1990), a schoolteacher. He had two younger brothers, Robert Westfield Beedle (1921–1944) and Richard P. Beedle (1924–1964). One of his father's grandmothers, Rebecca Westfield, was born in England in 1817, while some of his mother's ancestors settled in Virginia's Lancaster County after emigrating from England in the 17th century.[3] His younger brother, Robert W. "Bobbie" Beedle, became a U.S. Navy fighter pilot and was killed in action in World War II, over New Ireland, a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific, on January 5, 1944.

His family moved to South Pasadena when he was three. After graduating from South Pasadena High School, Holden attended Pasadena Junior College, where he became involved in local radio plays.

Career
Paramount
Holden appeared uncredited in Prison Farm (1939) and Million Dollar Legs (1939) at Paramount.

A version of how he obtained his stage name "Holden" is based on a statement by George Ross of Billboard: "William Holden, the lad just signed for the coveted lead in Golden Boy, used to be Bill Beadle. [sic] And here is how he obtained his new movie tag. On the Columbia lot is an assistant director and scout named Harold Winston. Not long ago he was divorced from the actress, Gloria Holden, but carried the torch after the marital rift. Winston was one of those who discovered the Golden Boy newcomer and who renamed him—in honor of his former spouse!"

Golden Boy
Holden's first starring role was in Golden Boy (1939), costarring Barbara Stanwyck, in which he played a violinist-turned-boxer. The film was made for Columbia who negotiated a sharing agreement with Paramount for Holden's services.

Holden was still an unknown actor when he made Golden Boy, while Stanwyck was already a film star. She liked Holden and went out of her way to help him succeed, devoting her personal time to coaching and encouraging him, which made them into lifelong friends. When she received her Honorary Oscar at the 1982 Academy Award ceremony, Holden had died in an accident just a few months prior. At the end of her acceptance speech, she paid him a personal tribute: "I loved him very much, and I miss him. He always wished that I would get an Oscar. And so tonight, my golden boy, you got your wish".

Next he starred with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart in the Warner Bros. gangster epic Invisible Stripes (1939).

Back at Paramount he starred with Bonita Granville in Those Were the Days! (1940) followed by the role of George Gibbs in the film adaptation of Our Town (1940), done for Sol Lesser at United Artists.

Columbia put Holden in a Western with Jean Arthur, Arizona (1940), then at Paramount he was in a hugely popular war film, I Wanted Wings (1941) with Ray Milland and Veronica Lake.

He did another Western at Columbia, Texas (1941) with Glenn Ford, and a musical comedy at Paramount, The Fleet's In (1942) with Eddie Bracken, Dorothy Lamour and Betty Hutton.

He stayed at Paramount for The Remarkable Andrew (1942) with Brian Donlevy then made Meet the Stewarts (1943) at Columbia. Paramount reunited him and Bracken in Young and Willing (1943).

World War Two
Holden served as a second and then a first lieutenant in the United States Army Air Force during World War II, where he acted in training films for the First Motion Picture Unit, including Reconnaissance Pilot (1943).

Post War
Holden's first film back from the services was Blaze of Noon (1947), an aviator picture at Paramount directed by John Farrow.

He followed it with a romantic comedy, Dear Ruth (1947) and he was one of many cameos in Variety Girl (1947).

RKO borrowed him for Rachel and the Stranger (1948) with Robert Mitchum and Loretta Young, then he went over to 20th Century Fox for Apartment for Peggy (1948).

At Columbia he did a film noir, The Dark Past (1948) and a Western with Ford, The Man from Colorado (1949). At Paramount he did another Western, Streets of Laredo (1949).

Columbia teamed him with Lucille Ball for Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) then he did a sequel to Dear Ruth, Dear Wife (1949). He did a comedy at Columbia Father Is a Bachelor (1950).

With Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

His career took off in 1950 when Billy Wilder tapped him to play a role in Sunset Boulevard, in which he played a down-at-heel screenwriter taken in by a faded silent-screen star, played by Gloria Swanson. Holden earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination with the part.

Getting the part was a lucky break for Holden, as the role was initially cast with Montgomery Clift, who backed out of his contract. Swanson later said, "Bill Holden was a man I could have fallen in love with. He was perfection on- and off-screen." And Wilder commented "Bill was a complex guy, a totally honorable friend. He was a genuine star. Every woman was in love with him."

Paramount reunited him with Nancy Olson, one of his Sunset Boulevard costars, in Union Station (1950).

Holden had another good break when cast as Judy Holliday's love interest in the big screen adaptation of Born Yesterday (1950). He made two more films with Olson: Force of Arms (1951) at Warners and Submarine Command (1951) at Paramount.

Holden did a sports film at Columbia, Boots Malone (1952) then returned to Paramount for The Turning Point (1952).

Stalag 17 and Peak Era of Stardom
Holden was reunited with Wilder in Stalag 17 (1953), for which Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor. This ushered in the peak years of Holden's stardom.

He made a sex comedy with David Niven for Otto Preminger, The Moon Is Blue (1953), which was a huge hit, in part due to controversy over its content. At Paramount he was in a comedy with Ginger Rogers that was not particularly popular, Forever Female (1953). A Western at MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (1953) did much better, and the all star Executive Suite (1954) was a notable success.

With Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina (1954)

Holden made a third film with Wilder, Sabrina (1954), billed beneath Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. Holden and Hepburn became romantically involved during the filming, unbeknown to Wilder: "People on the set told me later that Bill and Audrey were having an affair, and everybody knew. Well, not everybody! I didn't know." The interactions between Bogart, Hepburn, and Holden made shooting less than pleasant, as Bogart had wanted his wife, Lauren Bacall, to play Sabrina. Bogart was not especially friendly toward Hepburn, who had little Hollywood experience, while Holden's reaction was the opposite, wrote biographer Michelangelo Capua.

Holden recalls their romance:

Before I even met her, I had a crush on her, and after I met her, just a day later, I felt as if we were old friends, and I was rather fiercely protective of her, though not in a possessive way.

Their relationship did not last much beyond the completion of the film. Holden, who was at this point dependent on alcohol, said, "I really was in love with Audrey, but she wouldn't marry me."[19] Rumors at the time had it that Hepburn wanted a family, but when Holden told her that he'd had a vasectomy and having children was impossible, she moved on. A few months later, Hepburn met Mel Ferrer, whom she would later marry.

He took third billing for The Country Girl (1954) with Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly, directed by George Seaton from a play by Clifford Odets.

It was a big hit, as was The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), a Korean War drama with Kelly.

In 1954, Holden was featured on the cover of Life. On February 7, 1955, Holden appeared as a guest star on I Love Lucy as himself.

The golden run at the box office continued with Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), from a best-selling novel, with Jennifer Jones, and Picnic (1955), as a drifter, in an adaptation of the William Inge play with Kim Novak. Picnic was his last film under the contract with Columbia.

A second film with Seaton did not do as well, The Proud and Profane (1956), where Holden played the role with a moustache.

Neither did Toward the Unknown (1957), the one film Holden produced himself.

The Bridge on the River Kwai
Holden had his most widely recognized role as an ill-fated prisoner in David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) with Alec Guinness,[26] a huge commercial success.

He made another war film for a British director, The Key (1958) with Trevor Howard and Sophia Loren for director Carol Reed.[27] He played an American Civil War military surgeon in John Ford's The Horse Soldiers (1959) opposite John Wayne, which was a box office disappointment.[28] Columbia would not meet Holden's asking price of $750,000 and 10% of the gross for The Guns of Navarone (1961); the amount of money Holden asked exceeding the combined salaries of the stars Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn.

Holden had another big hit with The World of Suzie Wong (1960) with Nancy Kwan that was shot in Hong Kong.

Less popular was Satan Never Sleeps (1961), the last film of Clifton Webb and Leo McCarey; The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), this third film with Seaton; or The Lion (1962), with Trevor Howard and Capucine. The latter was shot in Africa and sparked a fascination with the continent that was to last until the end of Holden's life.

Holden's films continued to struggle at the box office however: Paris When It Sizzles (1964) with Hepburn that was shot in 1962 but given a much delayed release; The 7th Dawn (1964) with Capucine and Susannah York, a romantic adventure set during the Malayan Emergency produced by Charles K. Feldman; Alvarez Kelly (1966), a Western; and The Devil's Brigade (1968). He was also one of many names in Feldman's Casino Royale (1967).

Holden in The Revengers (1972)

In 1969, Holden made a comeback when he starred in director Sam Peckinpah's graphically violent Western The Wild Bunch, winning much acclaim.

Also in 1969, Holden starred in director Terence Young's family film L'Arbre de Noël, co-starring Italian actress Virna Lisi and French actor Bourvil, based on the novel of the same name by Michel Bataille. This film was originally released in the United States as The Christmas Tree and on home video as When Wolves Cry.

Holden made a Western with Ryan O'Neal and Blake Edwards, Wild Rovers (1971). It was not particularly successful. Neither was The Revengers (1972), another Western.

For television roles in 1974, Holden won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his portrayal of a cynical, tough veteran LAPD street cop in the television film The Blue Knight, based upon the best-selling Joseph Wambaugh novel of the same name.

In 1973, Holden starred with Kay Lenz in a movie directed by Clint Eastwood called Breezy, which was considered a box-office flop.

Also in 1974, Holden starred with Paul Newman and Steve McQueen in the critically acclaimed disaster film The Towering Inferno, which became a box-office smash and one of the highest-grossing films of Holden's career.

Two years later, he was praised for his Oscar-nominated leading performance in Sidney Lumet's classic Network (1976), an examination of the media written by Paddy Chayefsky, playing an older version of the character type for which he had become iconic in the 1950s, only now more jaded and aware of his own mortality.

Around this time he also appeared in 21 Hours at Munich (1976).

Final Films
Holden made a fourth and final film for Wilder with Fedora (1978). He followed it with Damien: Omen II (1978) and had a cameo in Escape to Athena (1978).

Holden had a supporting role in Ashanti (1979) and was third-billed in another disaster movie with Paul Newman for Irwin Allen, When Time Ran Out... (1980), which was a flop.

In 1980, Holden appeared in The Earthling with popular child actor Ricky Schroder, playing a loner dying of cancer who goes to the Australian outback to end his days, meets a young boy whose parents have been killed in an accident, and teaches him how to survive.

After making S.O.B. (1981) for Blake Edwards, Holden refused to star in Jason Miller's film That Championship Season.

Matron of honor Brenda Marshall (left) and best man William Holden,
sole guests at Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan's wedding in 1952

Personal life
Holden was best man at the wedding of his friend Ronald Reagan to Nancy Davis in 1952; however, he never involved himself in politics.

While in Italy in 1966, Holden killed another driver in a drunk-driving incident. He received an eight-month suspended sentence for vehicular manslaughter.

Holden maintained a home in Switzerland and also spent much of his time working for wildlife conservation as a managing partner in an animal preserve in Africa. His Mount Kenya Safari Club in Nanyuki (founded 1959) became a mecca for the international jet set. On a trip to Africa, he fell in love with the wildlife and became increasingly concerned with the animal species that were beginning to decrease in population. With the help of his partners, he created the Mount Kenya Game Ranch and inspired the creation of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation. The Mount Kenya Game Ranch works to assist in Kenya with the wildlife education of its youth. Within the Mount Kenya Game Ranch is the Mount Kenya Conservancy, which runs an animal orphanage as well as the Bongo Rehabilitation Program in collaboration with the Kenya Wildlife Service. The orphanage provides shelter and care for orphans, injured and neglected animals found in the wild, with the aim of releasing these animals back into the wild whenever possible. The conservancy is home to the critically endangered East African mountain bongo, and aims to prevent its extinction by breeding.
Marriage and relationships

Holden was married to actress Ardis Ankerson (stage name Brenda Marshall) from 1941 until their divorce 30 years later, in 1971. They had two sons, Peter Westfield "West" Holden (1943–2014) and Scott Porter Holden (1946–2005). He adopted his wife's daughter, Virginia, from her first marriage with actor Richard Gaines. During the filming of the film Sabrina (1954), costar Audrey Hepburn and he had a brief but passionate affair. Holden met French actress Capucine in the early 1960s. The two starred in the films The Lion (1962) and The 7th Dawn (1964). They reportedly began a two-year affair, which is alleged to have ended due to Holden's alcoholism. Capucine and Holden remained friends until his death in 1981.

In 1972, Holden began a nine-year relationship with actress Stefanie Powers, and sparked her interest in animal welfare. After his death, Powers set up the William Holden Wildlife Foundation at Holden's Mount Kenya Game Ranch.

Death
According to the Los Angeles County Coroner's autopsy report, Holden was alone and intoxicated in his apartment in Santa Monica, California, on November 12, 1981, when he slipped on a rug, severely lacerating his forehead on a teak bedside table, and bled to death. Evidence suggests he was conscious for at least half an hour after the fall. He likely may not have realized the severity of the injury and did not summon aid, or was unable to call for help. His body was found four days later. The causes of death were given as "exsanguination" and "blunt laceration of scalp." Rumors existed that he was suffering from lung cancer, which Holden himself had denied at a 1980 press conference. His death certificate made no mention of any cancer. He had dictated in his will that the Neptune Society cremate him and scatter his ashes in the Pacific Ocean. In accordance with his wishes, no funeral or memorial service was held.

Ronald Reagan released a statement, saying, "I have a great feeling of grief. We were close friends for many years. What do you say about a longtime friend – a sense of personal loss, a fine man. Our friendship never waned." For his contribution to the film industry, Holden has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1651 Vine Street. He also has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. His death was noted by singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, whose 1987 song "Tom's Diner" (about a sequence of events one morning in 1981) included a mention of reading a newspaper article about "an actor who had died while he was drinking". Vega subsequently confirmed that this was a reference to Holden.

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Filmography

Actor (75 credits)

1981 S.O.B. - Tim Culley
1980 The Earthling - Patrick Foley
1980 When Time Ran Out.. - Shelby Gilmore

1979 Ashanti - Jim Sandell
1979 Escape to Athena - Prisoner smoking a cigar in prison camp (uncredited)
1978 Omen II: Damien - Richard Thorn
1978 Fedora - Barry Detweiler
1976 Network - Max Schumacher
1976 21 Hours at Munich (TV Movie) - Chief of Police Manfred Schreiber
1974 The Towering Inferno - Jim Duncan
1974 Open Season - Hal Wolkowski
1973 Breezy - Frank Harmon
1973 The Blue Knight (TV Movie) - Bumper Morgan
1972 The Revengers - John Benedict
1971 Wild Rovers - Ross Bodine

1969 The Christmas Tree - Laurent Ségur
1969 The Wild Bunch - Pike
1968 The Devil's Brigade - Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick
1967 Casino Royale - Ransome
1966 Alvarez Kelly - Alvarez Kelly
1964 The 7th Dawn - Major Ferris
1964 Paris When It Sizzles - Richard Benson / Rick
1962 The Lion - Robert Hayward
1962 The Counterfeit Traitor - Eric Erickson
1962 Satan Never Sleeps - Father O'Banion
1961 Frances Farmer Presents (TV Series) - Colin McDonald
- Blaze of Noon (1961) ... Colin McDonald
1960 The World of Suzie Wong - Robert Lomax

1959 The Horse Soldiers - Maj. Henry Kendall
1958 The Key - Captain David Ross
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai - Shears
1956 Toward the Unknown - Maj. Lincoln Bond
1956 The Proud and Profane - Lt. Col. Colin Black
1956 Picnic - Hal Carter
1955 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Mark Elliott
1954 The Bridges at Toko-Ri - Lt. Harry Brubaker
1954 The Country Girl - Bernie Dodd
1954 Sabrina - David Larrabee
1954 Executive Suite - McDonald Walling
1953 Escape from Fort Bravo - Capt. Roper
1953 Forever Female - Stanley Krown
1953 Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach - Tourist (uncredited)
1953 The Moon Is Blue - Donald Gresham
1953 Stalag 17 - Sgt. J.J. Sefton
1952 The Turning Point - Jerry McKibbon
1952 Boots Malone - Boots Malone
1951 Submarine Command - Lt. Cmdr. Ken White
1951 Force of Arms - Sgt. John 'Pete' Peterson
1950 Born Yesterday - Paul Verrall
1950 Union Station - Lt. William Calhoun
1950 Sunset Blvd. - Joe Gillis
1950 Father Is a Bachelor - Johnny Rutledge

1949 Dear Wife - Bill Seacroft
1949 Miss Grant Takes Richmond - Dick Richmond
1949 Streets of Laredo - Jim Dawkins
1948 The Man from Colorado - Del Stewart
1948 The Dark Past - Al Walker
1948 Apartment for Peggy - Jason Taylor
1948 Rachel and the Stranger - Big Davey
1947 Variety Girl - William Holden
1947 Dear Ruth - Lt. William Seacroft
1947 Blaze of Noon - Colin McDonald
1943 Reconnaissance Pilot (Documentary short) - Lt. Packard A. Cummings (uncredited)
1943 Young and Willing - Norman Reese
1942 Meet the Stewarts - Michael Stewart
1942 The Remarkable Andrew - Andrew Long
1942 The Fleet's In - Casey Kirby
1941 Texas - Dan Thomas
1941 I Wanted Wings - Al Ludlow
1940 Arizona - Peter Muncie
1940 Our Town - George Gibbs
1940 Those Were the Days! - P.J. 'Petey' Simmons

1939 Invisible Stripes - Tim Taylor
1939 Golden Boy - Joe Bonaparte
1939 Million Dollar Legs - Graduate Who Says 'Thank You' (uncredited)
1938 Prison Farm - Prisoner (uncredited)

Soundtrack (6 credits)

1971 Wild Rovers (performer: "Ballad of the Wild Rovers" - uncredited)
1956 Picnic (performer: "Moonglow" - uncredited)
1950 Sunset Blvd. (performer: "La Cumparsita" (1916) - uncredited)
1947 Variety Girl ("HARMONY")
1940 Arizona (performer: "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" (1854), "Kiss Me Quick and Go" (1856) - uncredited)
1939 Golden Boy (performer: "Lullaby (Cradle Song)", "Funiculi, Funicula")

1984: A View to Kill films OO7 and Stacey in elevator peril.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 42 of 65 - "Invaders from S.C.U.M."

James Bond Jr - Invaders from S.C.U.M.

Season 1 - Episode 42
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807290/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

Student Hayley Comet and her scientist father are both convinced they've made first contact when a UFO lands at Warfield, but James suspects the truth is closer to home.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Jennie Tremaine ... (written by)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack / Scumlord (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 42 - Invaders from S.C.U.M.

1995: GoldenEye cast including Pierce Brosnan attend the Second Annual James Bond Convention, New York.

http://pbfiles.net/goldeneye/ge-press05.html?i=1







promotional comic

1999: The World Is Not Enough premieres in Singapore.

2002: Warner Bros. Records releases David Arnold's Die Another Day soundtrack.

Now expanded.

2015: Spectre released in Australia, Greece, and Uruguay.

2020: No Time To Die planned UK premiere date in UK, fourth attempt.

2020: The most expensive bikini in the world goes to auction in Los Angeles, California.

The most expensive bikini in the
world will be auctioned off!

See the complete article here:

https://en.bikiniartmuseum.com/gewinnspiel

Ursula Andress white belted bikini from James Bond "007 chases Dr. No" comes under the hammer in Los Angeles Several hundred props from Hollywood blockbusters will be auctioned online in Los Angeles on November 12. The sensation is that the legendary bikini by Ursula Andress from James Bond "007 chases Dr. No" will also change hands. The bikini achieved cult status when Ursula Andress climbed out of the sea in 1962 as a honey rider and is one of the most famous film scenes of all time. The episode promoted the worldwide triumphal march of the bikini, which like no other piece of clothing had divided the minds and caused turmoil. The bikini had already come under the hammer at an auction of the British auction house Christie's in 2001 for the equivalent of 45,000 Euros. This time the bikini is to be auctioned for a multiple.

The BikiniARTmuseum will also participate in the auction of the auctioneers "Profiles in History" in Los Angeles for several swimwear exhibits.

Closing date: Thursday, 12.11.2020, 20 hrs

Guess what auction price the James Bond bikini will fetch?
The winner is the person who guesses the exact auction price or comes closest to it. In the event of several correct answers, the winner will be decided by drawing lots.

My guess is that the James Bond bikini for
_____________ Dollar is auctioned off.

2021: No Time To Die Black Tie Movie Night at Tamworth, Australia.

"No Time to Die" Black Tie Movie Night

Fri Nov 12 2021 at 07:00 pm UTC+11:00
Forumsixcinema Tamworth | Tamworth

See the complete article here:

https://stayhappening.com/e/andquotno-time-to-dieandquot-black-tie-movie-night-E2ISU0CJQC5

Rotary Club of Tamworth Sunrise
Publisher/HostRotary Club of Tamworth Sunrise

Join the Rotary Club of Tamworth Sunrise for a Black Tie movie night for the new James Bond film, No Time to Die.
Use this opportunity to pop on your 007 suit or best Bond Girl glam, enjoy a drink with cheese & biscuits and watch Daniel Craig's final Bond appearance in style.
Tickets are $30 and will be on sale from October 18. You can register your interest by emailing [email protected] or contacting us via Facebook.

RichardTheBruce

November 13th

1923: Linda Christian is born--Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
(She dies 25 July 2011 at age 87--Palm Desert, California.)

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

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Linda Christian (I) (1923–2011)

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Filmography

Actress (36 credits)

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

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

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

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

Valerie Mathis and CIA Agent Jimmy Bond

Diego Rivera painting.

1952: Art Malik is born--Bahawalpur, Pakistan.

1969: Gerard Butler is born--Paisley, Scotland.

1986: Goldfinger re-released in Norway.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 43 of 65 - "Going for the Gold."

James Bond Jr - Going for the Gold

Season 1 - Episode 43
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807287/?ref_=ttep_ep43

Barbella makes several failed attempts to get rid of James Bond Jr. when he and his friends represent Warfield in the High School games in Barcelona; Goldie Finger plans to rob the Columbus museum of its golden treasury.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Doug Molitor
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Goldie Finger / Barbella / Ynez Aragonez (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 43 - Going for the Gold

1995: GoldenEye world premiere at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York.

Video (0:55)
https://www.azcentral.com/videos/news/nation/2020/11/13/day-13-november-1995/6276159002/

2001: Electronic Arts publishes video game Agent Under Fire for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube.

2005: Draft US cover art for Blood Fever revealed, dropping the UK tagline "Death is contagious".

2006: A&M releases the Chris Cornell single "You Know My Name" from his album Carry On.

2008: A Quantum csendje (The Silence of Quantum) released in Hungary.

2015: Spectre released in Cambodia and Ecuador.
2015: 幽灵 released in China in an edited form.

2019: The Sunday Times Driving shares "James Bond stunt team provide toughest test of all for new Land Rover" with the promotional video.

James Bond stunt
team provide
toughest test of all
for new Land Rover
Defender

Nobody punishes it better
https://www.driving.co.uk/video/james-bond-stunt-team-provide-toughest-test-new-land-rover-defender/
Published 13 November 2019 by Will Dron

WHATEVER your thoughts on the all-new Land Rover Defender, the 4×4 has been put through some serious testing during its development, covering more than 745,000 miles in some of the most extreme environments around the world, where temperature ranged from -40C to 50C and the altitude reached 10,000ft. But nothing could have prepared it for what the James Bond stunt team had in store.

A new teaser video released by Land Rover shows Lee Morrison, stunt co-ordinator for No Time To Die, the 25th official James Bond film, and stunt driver Jess Hawkins doing their absolute best to punish the Defender.

Behind the scenes of Stunt Coordinator Lee Morrison with the New Land Rover Defender featured in No Time To Die

Land Rover says its design team worked closely with Chris Corbould, the special effects and action vehicles supervisor, on the specification of the Defenders to feature in the movie.

The cars used were the first Defenders to be built at Jaguar Land Rover’s new production facility in Nitra, Slovakia, and based on the Defender X model in Santorini Black, with darkened skid pans, 20in dark finish wheels and professional off-road tyres.

Behind the scenes image of the New Land Rover Defender featured in No Time To Die

No Time To Die, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and starring Daniel Craig, who returns for his fifth film as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007, will be released globally in cinemas in April 2020. [later delayed]

It will also feature the Range Rover Sport SVR, Series III Land Rover and Range Rover Classic, as well as a host of models from other brands including the Jaguar XF, Aston Martin Valhalla supercar and, of course, the legendary Aston Martin DB5.

2021: No Time to Die movie fundraiser at Adelaide, South Australia.

James Bond 'No Time to Die' - Movie Fundraiser
for Community Alliance

Capri Theatre | Adelaide
Community Alliance SA Inc

See the complete article here:

https://stayhappening.com/e/james-bond-no-time-to-die-movie-fundraiser-for-community-alliance-E2ISTYFPLVF

Sat Nov 13 2021 at 06:30 pm to 09:30 pm UTC+10:30
Publisher/HostCommunity Alliance SA Inc

James Bond 'No Time to Die' - Movie Fundraiser for Community Alliance

Yes, 007 has been on and off, and on and off, BUT ... this time 007 is showing up for the greatest ever Community Alliance fundraiser!

James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, an old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

Doors open at 6:30pm for a drink or two before the movie starts at 7:15pm. Don't miss Daniel Craig in his last Bond film!

Capri Theatre, 141 Goodwood Rd Goodwood, Adelaide, Australia

2021: James Bond parody No Time To Cry screening at the Promenade Playhouse, Santa Monica, California.

James Bond Parody Screening "No Time to Cry", 72 min
Bond's PARODY is here, and actually, it's FUNNY!

See the complete article here:

https://allevents.in/santa monica/james-bond-parody-screening-no-time-to-cry-72-min/10000207710286057

About this Event

Bond is alive! He has a very important mission to accomplish in Los Angeles. Instead of chasing the villain with a fast car, he moves around the city in old... RV.

2021: BBC Big Band: The Music of James Bond....And Beyond at the Octagon Auditorium, Yeovil, England.

BBC Big Band: The Music of James Bond....And Beyond

See the complete article here:

https://www.octagon-theatre.co.uk/bookevent/bbc-big-band-the-music-of-james-bondand-beyond/362510ACGHSQCKKRCKRDHSMKRTKVHGNKV

Choose Seats
To book Wheelchair/Disabled concessions and groups of 10 or more, please contact the Box Office on 01935 422884 during opening hours.

BBC Big Band: The Music of James Bond....And Beyond, Saturday 13 November 2021, 19:30

Octagon Auditorium, Octagon Theatre, Yeovil

Please select your seats (maximum 10 for this event per order)

2021: James Bond and the History of Espionage in London, England. Free.

James Bond and the History of Espionage

See the complete article here:

https://www.evensi.uk/james-bond-history-espionage/422179035

Saturday 13 November 2021
3:20 PM - 5:30 PM

Join the Free James Bond & The History of Espionage to step into the shoes of the worlds most famous spy, as you explore Westminster and uncover some of the most iconic locations from the James Bond films, including Die Another Day, The Living Daylights, A View to a Kill, Skyfall and SPECTRE!

2021: John Pearson dies at age 91--Sussex, Canada.
(Born 5 October 1930--Epsom, Surrey, England.)

John Pearson (author)

See the complete article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pearson_(author)

John Pearson
Born 5 October 1930
Epsom, Surrey, England
Died 13 November 2021 (aged 91)
Occupation Writer
Genre Biography
Website www.johnpearson.uk

John George Pearson (5 October 1930 – 13 November 2021) was an English novelist and an author of biographies, notably of Ian Fleming (the creator of James Bond), of the Sitwells, and of the Kray twins.

Life and career

Pearson was born in Epsom, Surrey. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he gained a double first in history.[1] He then worked for The Economist, BBC Television and The Sunday Times. He was Ian Fleming's assistant at the Sunday Times and went on to write the first biography of Fleming, The Life of Ian Fleming, published in 1966.

Pearson was commissioned by Donald Campbell to chronicle his successful attempt on the Land Speed Record in 1964 in Bluebird CN7, resulting in the book Bluebird and the Dead Lake.

Pearson had also written "true crime" biographies, such as The Profession of Violence, an account of the rise and fall of the Kray twins, who had hired him to write their biography in 1967.[2] Over the next several years the brothers, who by now were in jail, wrote frequently to Pearson. He wrote two further books about the Krays: The Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of the Krays and Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins.[3] In 2010 Pearson put up for auction more than 160 previously unseen letters and photographs from the Kray twins. The items sold for £20,780.[4]

Another of Pearson's books, The Gamblers, is an account of the group of gamblers who made up what was known as the Clermont Set, including John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and Lord Lucan. Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to the book in 2006.[5] The Gamblers was made into a two-part TV drama, Lucan, starring Rory Kinnear and Christopher Eccleston, broadcast on ITV1 in December 2013.

Pearson's book Facades was the first full-scale biography of the Sitwell siblings Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell. It was published in 1978.

Pearson had also written five novels. Storm Jameson praised his first novel, Gone to Timbuctoo, as "an unusually good first novel, an exciting story, and a splendid setting in French West Africa. The writing is sharp and witty."[6] Malcolm Muggeridge said, "This is an exceptionally brilliant first novel - exciting, wryly funny and perceptive."[6]

For his next three novels, Pearson did tie-in fictional biographies. Pearson also became the third official author of the James Bond series, writing in 1973 James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, a first-person biography of the fictional agent James Bond. However, Pearson declined an offer to write further Bond novels.[7] Pearson then did fictional tie-in works about Upstairs, Downstairs (The Bellamys of Eaton Place) and Biggles.

Pearson had three children from his first marriage.[1] In 1980, he married his second wife, Lynette, daughter of Ian Hope Dundas of Dundas, 30th Chief of Clan Dundas, and former wife of Timothy Cecil Frankland, grandson of Sir Frederick Frankland, 10th Baronet by his wife Mary (née Curzon), Baroness Zouche, of the family of the Viscounts Curzon.[8] Pearson died on 13 November 2021, at the age of 91.[9][10]

Bibliography
Novels
Gone To Timbuctoo (1962) - winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award
James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
The Bellamys of Eaton Place (1976) - published in the U.S. as The Bellamy Saga
Biggles: The Authorised Biography (1978)
The Kindness of Dr Avicenna (1982)

Non-fiction
Biographies
Bluebird and the Dead Lake (1965) (published in the U.S. as The Last Hero: The Gallant Story of Donald Campbell and the Land Speed Record in 1966)
The Life of Ian Fleming (1966)
The Kray Twins series:
The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins (1972) - nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award
The Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of the Krays (2001)
Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins (2010)
Facades: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell (1978) (published in the U.S. as The Sitwells in 1979)
Barbara Cartland: Crusader in Pink (1979), first published as by "Henry Cloud" but subsequently republished under his own name
Stags and Serpents: The Story of the House of Cavendish and the Dukes of Devonshire (1983) (published in the U.S. as The Serpent and the Stag in 1984)
The Ultimate Family: The Making of the Royal House of Windsor (1986) (published in the U.S. as The Selling of the Royal Family: The Mystique of the British Monarchy)
Citadel of the Heart: Winston and the Churchill Dynasty (1991) (published in the U.S. as The Private Lives of Winston Churchill)
Painfully Rich: the Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty (1995)
Blood Royal: The Story of the Spencers and the Royals (1999)
One of the Family: The Englishman and the Mafia (2003)
The Gamblers: John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and the Murder of Lord Lucan (2005)
Ian Fleming: The Notes (2020)

History
Airline Detective: The Fight Against International Air Crime (1962) co-written with BOAC Security expert Donald E. W. Fish although Pearson is uncredited[11]
Arena: The Story of the Colosseum (1973)
Edward the Rake (1975) (published in the U.S. as Edward the Rake: An Unwholesome Biography of Edward VII)

Politics
The Persuasion Industry (1965), with Graham Turner

Adaptations
Goldeneye (1989), telefilm directed by Don Boyd, based on non-fiction book The Life of Ian Fleming
Lucan (2013), mini-series directed by Adrian Shergold, based on non-fiction book The Gamblers: John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and the Murder of Lord Lucan
Legend (2015), film directed by Brian Helgeland, based on non-fiction book The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
All the Money in the World (2017), film directed by Ridley Scott, based on non-fiction book Painfully Rich: the Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul

References
Hunt, George P. (7 October 1966). "Editor's Note: The Biography of Ian Fleming". Life. Vol. 61, no. 15. p. 7.
"Kray twins memorabilia sold at auction". 20 October 2010 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
Campbell, Duncan (3 September 2015). "The selling of the Krays: how two mediocre criminals created their own legend | Duncan Campbell" – via www.theguardian.com.
"Kray twin items sell for £20,780". 19 October 2010 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
Michael Fleming (5 October 2006). "'Departed' scribe digs WB: Studio inks overall deal with Monahan". Variety. Retrieved 5 January 2007.
The Publisher, Volume 176.
Reineke, Hank. "...a lot of criminals and very dodgy people". 007 Magazine #49 (2006)
Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, 107th edition, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, vol. 1, p. 1221, vol. 3, p. 4291
"In Memoriam: James Bond author John Pearson (1930-2021)". 007travelers.com. 13 November 2021.
Obituaries, Telegraph (15 November 2021). "John Pearson, author of a seminal study of the Kray twins and biographer of both Ian Fleming and 007 – obituary". The Telegraph.
Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.514