On This Day

RichardTheBruce

November 14th

1966: Bond comic strip Octopussy begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 27 May 1967. 264-428) Yaroslav Horak,artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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


http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=996






Barcelona James Bond numero 04: Octopussy
https://en.todocoleccion.net/comics/james-bond-numero-04-octopussy~x116600976



JAMES BOND DI IAN FLEMING. OCTOPUSSY. N. 112. ED. C. CONTI, 1977. ITALIANO


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

Undervattensdöden (Octopussy - Part 1) -
Undervattensdöden (Octopussy - Part 2)

Danish 1969 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no16-1969/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 16: “Octopussy” (1969)
”Undervandsdøden” [The Underwater Death]

Danish 1977 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no42-1977/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 42: “Octopussy” (1977)
"Undervandsdøden" [The death underwater]

1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service's films OO7 and more cowbell.

1972: Live and Let Die begins filming on location in Jamaica.
1979: Olga Kurylenko is born--Berdyansk, Zaporozhye Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.
(Today known as Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine.)

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 44 of 65 - "A DeRanged Mind."

James Bond Jr - A DeRanged Mind

Season 1 - Episode 44
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807090/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

When an UFO is shot down by a military close to New York, the craft is taken for analysis to a military research laboratory.

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 / Oddjob (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (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 44 - A DeRanged Mind

1995: EMI releases Éric Serra's GoldenEye soundtrack.

2006: Casino Royale Royal Premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square, London.

2006: Casino Royale released in Kuwait.
2006: Sony Classical releases David Arnold's Casino Royale soundtrack.

2008: Quantum of Solace released in Morocco (Casablanca), Kenya, Pakistan, and the US.

2008: 007 Quantum (French title) and Quantum of Solace released in Canada.
2008: 007 Quantum released in Mexico.
2008: Định Mức Khuây Khỏa (Comfort Rate) released in Vietnam.

2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origin #3.
Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

James Bond Origin #3

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244703011
Cover A: John Cassaday
Cover B: Declan Shalvey
Cover C: Kev Walker
Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover E: Bob Q
Writer: Jeff Parker
Art: Bob Q

"CHAPTER THREE: ROCKET SEA"
The epic account of James Bond's exploits during World War II continues, by superstar JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger)!
Aboard a Royal Navy submarine, Lieutenant James Bond and crew encounter deadly German warships and bombers! Can the British crew keep their nerve and evade...or will they sink into a watery grave?

2021: Big Band James Bond Tribute at The Pear, Shanghai, China.

Big Band James Bond Tribute

See the complete article here:

https://www.thatsmags.com/shanghai/event/detail/74430

Date
November 14, 2021
Time
door open at 6pm , concert starts at 8pm
Email
[email protected]

Venue Name
The Pearl
Address
471 Zhapu Lu, by Wujin Lu
Phone
13621688556

The James Bond franchise is best remembered for a dapper leading man, gorgeous women, death-defying stunts, and an epic songbook. The Pearl is proud to present 3 out of the 4 to you for an evening of James Bond classics delivered by the man with the golden voice. Otherwise, known as man about town Bray, Frank Bray, and backed by a big band.

A well-healed crowd will be on hand as Frank provides the powerful vocals to Bond classics. In addition, the Pearl will also be introducing its newest chanteuse, K-one, as she compliments Mr. Bray on delivering the hits. Blessed with a strong voice that matches her beauty, K-one will mesmerize the audience with her range and soulfulness. Expect songs from Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only, Thunderball, Diamonds are Forever and Spectre, just to name a few. Of course, there will be a smattering of Sinatra standards thrown in to round out an evening of sophisticated refinement. Band leader Rolf Becker will be at the helm of a 17-piece big band

RichardTheBruce

November 15th

1939: Yaphet Kotto is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 15 March 2021 at age 81--The Philippines.)

Yaphet Kotto, Bond Villain and ‘Alien’
Star, Dies at 81

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/arts/yaphet-kotto-dead.html

Well known for playing hardened personalities, he was also seen in movies like “Midnight Run” and the TV show “Homicide: Life on the Street.”

Yaphet Kotto with Sigourney Weaver in the 1979 film “Alien,” in which he played
a member of a spaceship crew doing battle with an extraterrestrial creature.
Credit...20th Century Fox, via Associated Press

By Neil Genzlinger | March 16, 2021

Yaphet Kotto, a versatile actor whose many roles included the wisecracking engineer in the hit science-fiction film “Alien,” the villainous adversary in the James Bond movie “Live and Let Die” and a police lieutenant on the long-running television series “Homicide: Life on the Street,” died on Monday near Manila. He was 81.

His agent, Ryan Goldhar, confirmed the death but said he did not know the cause. Mr. Kotto had lived in the Philippines for some years.

Mr. Kotto worked mostly in the theater for the first decade or so of his career. His bodily size made him a dominating figure in any sort of role, though it tended to bring him parts as a heavy.

“I’m always called powerful, bulky or imposing,” he told The Baltimore Sun in 1993, when “Homicide: Life on the Street” made its debut. “Or they say I fill up a room. I’m a 200-pound, 6-foot 3-inch Black guy. And I think I have this image of a monster. It’s very difficult.”

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/03/16/world/16xp-kotto-2/merlin_185107449_2d104fce-156b-4003-9df1-341bf22b7253-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp
Mr. Kotto as a police lieutenant on the long-running TV series “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
Credit...James Sorensen/NBC Universal, via Getty Images

In 1969, still largely unknown, he had the formidable task of replacing James Earl Jones on Broadway in “The Great White Hope,” Howard Sackler’s drama based on the life of the boxer Jack Johnson. Mr. Jones had won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the lead character, who in the play is named Jack Jefferson. Mr. Kotto stepped into the role as the production entered its second year, and Clive Barnes, taking a fresh look at the show in The New York Times, was impressed.

“I had never even heard of the Hollywood-based Mr. Kotto,” he wrote. “But luckily someone had, for this is inspired casting, and Mr. Kotto will never be unheard-of again.”

It was two decades before he returned to the stage, and again it was as something of a shadow to Mr. Jones, who had received another Tony playing Troy Maxson in August Wilson’s “Fences” in 1987. Mr. Kotto tackled the role in 1990 at Arena Stage in Washington, again drawing raves.

“Setting the tone throughout is the thunderous Mr. Kotto,” Hap Erstein wrote of that production in The Washington Times, “a caged animal pacing the backyard, a bullying brute more expressive with his hands than his words. Away from the theater for many years pursuing film and TV work, he makes a scorching return to the stage.”

Mr. Kotto with Roger Moore in the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die.”
It was Mr. Moore’s first film as Bond, and one of Mr. Kotto’s best-known movie roles.
Credit...MGM/UA Entertainment

In between those stage appearances, two movie roles in the 1970s particularly elevated Mr. Kotto’s his profile. The first, in 1973, was in “Live and Let Die,” Roger Moore’s debut as James Bond. Mr. Kotto played his chief nemesis, a dual role in which he was both a corrupt Caribbean dictator and that character’s alter ago, a drug trafficker named Mr. Big.
Then, in 1979, came “Alien,” Ridley Scott’s outer-space horror classic, in which Mr. Kotto’s character, Parker, was part of a spaceship crew doing battle with a nasty extraterrestrial creature.

“The combination punch for my career of ‘Live and Let Die’ and ‘Alien’ was like wham, bam!” he told The Canadian Press in 2003, adding that those wildly different roles showcased his versatility. “I think the only other person who has a combination like that is Harrison Ford.”

Yaphet Frederick Kotto was born on Nov. 15, 1939, in Harlem and grew up in the Bronx. His father, he told The Baltimore Jewish Times in 1995, was from Cameroon and jumped ship as a merchant seaman, ending up in New York; his mother, he said, was of Panamanian and West Indian descent. His father had adopted Judaism, and his mother was Roman Catholic. The couple separated when Mr. Kotto was a child, and he was raised by his maternal grandparents.

Mr. Kotto said his career path was set by a fateful trip to the movies.

“One day, when I was about 16, I walked into this theater showing ‘On the Waterfront’ and I saw Marlon Brando for the first time,” he told The Orange County Register of California in 1994. “I couldn’t speak. It was like somebody had punched me in the stomach. It was like someone had crashed cymbals in both ears. I was blasted out of the theater. I knew from that moment that I wanted to be an actor.”

The actress Judy Holliday saw him in a stage production and became a mentor, he said, “moving me around like furniture, telling me what to eat.” He said his knowledge of Yiddish earned him his only other Broadway credit, in the 1965 production of “The Zulu and the Zayda,” a comedy about a Jewish grandfather who settles in South Africa.

Mr. Kotto received an Emmy nomination for his performance as Idi Amin, the Ugandan strongman, in the 1977 television movie “Raid on Entebbe.” He appeared opposite Robert Redford in the prison movie “Brubaker” in 1980.

In the 1988 action-comedy “Midnight Run,” starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, he played the F.B.I. agent Alonzo Mosely, whose stolen ID becomes fodder for a running joke. And in “The Running Man,” a dystopian 1987 thriller set in what was then the near future (2019), Mr. Kotto played a resistance fighter alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in a fascist version of America.

Mr. Kotto married three times, Mr. Goldhar said. He and Thessa Sinahon, who is from the Philippines, married in 1998. A full list of survivors was not immediately available.

Mr. Kotto was always conscious of the image projected by his roles, something that led him to reject certain ones.

“I was offered a part in ‘Glory’” — a 1989 movie about a Black company commanded by a white office in the Civil War — “which I refused, because for me it purported to be about a Black experience and was really about the white guy,” he told The Globe and Mail of Canada in 1994. “Do you see me taking orders like that? I couldn’t see myself in ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ either, playing the chauffeur, taking it from some old lady. Some other actor may be able to put that on and make it look real, but I couldn’t do it.”

“Homicide,” a police series that was innovative for its time, was a career high point, running for seven seasons. But things started off badly, Mr. Kotto said.

“The script was so good and the camera work was so different than what I was used to that I forgot my lines,” he told The Register. “I was really embarrassed. That had never happened to me before.

“But the other actors came over to me and told me the same thing had happened to them.”

Mike Ives contributed reporting.

Neil Genzlinger is a writer for the Obituaries Desk. Previously he was a television, film and theater critic. @genznyt

Yaphet Kotto (1939–2021)

Actor | Writer | Director
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001433/

1972: Live and Let Die films Rosie Carver's death by scarecrow.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 45 of 65 - "Catching the Wave."

James Bond Jr - Catching the Wave

Season 1 - Episode 45
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807096/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

Jaws and Nick Nack prepare to gatecrash a secret meeting of the Government Technology Committee.

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 ... Baron Von Skarin (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)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 45 - Cacthing the Wave

1999: Radioactive releases "The World Is Not Enough" as a limited-edition digipak CD single and a cassette single in the UK. Both include "Ice Bandits". CD adds remix by Unkle.

2004: Video game GoldenEye Rogue Agent released in Canada.

GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (2004)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422335/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Join the other side of the law, as you play a rogue MI6 Agent, who becomes involved in a bitter gang war between Dr. No and Auric Goldfinger.

Directed by Ken Harsha ... (in-game cinematics)
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Danny Bilson
Paul De Meo
Ian Fleming ... (characters)

Cast (in credits order)
Enn Reitel ... Auric Goldfinger (voice)
Jeannie Elias ... Pussy Galore (voice)
Christopher Lee ... Francisco Scaramanga (voice)
Jenya Lano ... Xenia Onatopp (voice)
Carlos Alazraqui ... Dr. Julius No (voice)
Jason Carter ... James Bond / 007 (voice)
Gideon Emery ... Number One (Ernst Stavro Blofeld) (voice)
André Sogliuzzo ... (voice)
Robert Wu ... (voice)
Ron Yuan ... (voice)
Danny Mann ... (voice)
Brian George ... (voice)
Linda Wang ... Hong Kong 1 'Sexy Bath House Girl' (voice)
Peter Kwong ... Hong Kong 1 (voice)
Tim Dang ... Triad Informant (voice) (as Timothy Dang)
Greg Ellis ... (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Judi Dench ... M (voice)
Zach Goldsmith ... (voice)
Kirsten Kairos ... Hologram Hostess (voice) (as Kristen Kairos)
Nolan North ... (voice)
Robin Sachs ... (voice)
Toonyun ... Hong Kong 'Sexy Bath House Girl' (voice) (as Shirley To)

HQ James Bond: Goldeneye:Rogue Agent Introduction


GoldenEye: Rogue Agent Teaser Trailer

2006: Casino Royale released in Bahrain, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Jordan, Oman, and the Philippines.

2011: Michael Alexander Olson (of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada) completes Goldeneye 007's Antenna Cradle in record time on Nintendo 64.

2012: The New York Times prints Edward Rothstein's "No, Mr. Bond, We Expect You to Die".

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/arts/design/exquisitely-evil-bond-villains-at-international-spy-museum.html?ref=todayspaper

2012: Skyfall released in Cambodia.
2013: Danjaq, LLC and MGM announce they acquired full rights to Blofeld and SPECTRE from the McClory estate.

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Kill Chain #5.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #5 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017805011
Cover A: Greg Smallwood
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Publication Date: November 2017
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 11/15

As NATO tears itself apart from within, 007 is declared Europe's most wanted man. Hunted by SMERSH and the CIA, he must infiltrate a nuclear airbase to learn the secrets of Operation Hooded Falcon before Europe erupts into all-out war!

2021: End Polio Now benefit showing of No Time To Die at Gawler, South Australia.

James Bond - End Polio Now Event

See the complete article here:

https://everi.events/event/14267753-a/james-bond-end-polio-now-event

Mon 15th Nov, 6:30 PM
11 Murray St, Gawler SA 5118
Book Ticket
View Website

End Polio Now Movie Fundraiser, with James Bond - No Time to Die
Mon 15 Nov 2021 6:30 PM - 10:00 PM (UTC+09:30)

Location
Gawler Cinema
11 Murray Street, Gawler SA 5118

RichardTheBruce

November 16th

1942: Joanna Pettet is born--Westminster, London.

1968: Yildirim Harekati (Lightning Strike) released in Turkey.

Apparently there was also a sequel.

1986: The Los Angeles Times reports only minor changes to the finished script for The Living Daylights since the casting of Timothy Dalton.

1995: L'oeil de feu (The Eye of Fire) released in Canada.

1999: The World Is Not Enough premieres in Malaysia.
1999: Tomorrow Never Dies video game released in the UK and US.

Tomorrow Never Dies
Video Game | 1999 | T

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253823/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

As suave secret agent 007, employ your cunning wit and high-tech gadgets to survive multiple levels of espionage based on exciting situations from the blockbuster film.

Directed by
William Botti
Writing Credits
Flint Dille ... (written by)
Ian Fleming ... (character)
William Botti

Cast (in credits order)
Stephen Critchlow ... Additional Voices (voice)
Adam Blackwood ... James Bond (voice)
Andrew Bicknell ... Stamper / Bartender (voice)
Miles Anderson ... Dr. Kaufmann / Isagura / Q (voice)
Ève Karpf ... Paris Carver (voice)
Larissa Murray ... Wai Lin (voice)
Steve Hope Wynne ... Elliot Carver (voice)
Caron Pascoe ... M (voice)
Nicolas Read ... Additional Voices (voice)

Music by
David Alexander ... (as Sonic Mayhem)
Howard Ulyate

Tomorrow Never Dies PS1 Trailer


Tomorrow Never Dies (Video Game) Medley

2006: Casino Royale released in the UK, Ireland, Czech Republic, Greece, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Singapore, and Syria.

2006: James Bond: Casino Royale released in Slovakia.
2006: Казино Рояль released in Russia.
2006: 007: Казино Рояль released in Ukraine.

2012: Skyfall premieres in Sydney, Australia, at the State Theatre.

2012: The International Spy Museum in Washington DC opens its Exquisitely Evil: 50 Years of Bond Villains exhibit.

2012: OO7 Legends video game released in the US.

OO7 Legends
Video Game | 2012 | T

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2171704/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Play as James Bond in this first person shooter adventure. You will encounter the most memorable nemeses of 007 spanning from Goldfinger to Skyfall.

Directed by
John Dower ... (film segment director) (voice director)
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Bruce Feirstein
Ian Fleming ... (characters)

Cast (in credits order)
Timothy Watson ... James Bond / Auric Goldfinger / Drax Henchman (voice)
Judi Dench ... M (voice)
Rory Kinnear ... Bill Tanner (voice)
Demetri Goritsas ... Felix Leiter (voice)
Naomie Harris ... Eve (voice)
Natasha Little ... Pussy Galore (voice)
Orion Lee ... Mr. Ling / Moonraker Scientist (voice)
Glenn Wrage ... Ernst Stavro Blofeld (voice)
Nicola Walker ... Teresa di Vicenzo (voice)
Anthony Edridge ... Marc Ange Draco (voice) (as Antony Edridge)
Roberto Davide ... Franz Sanchez / Additional Voices (voice) (as Rob David)
Carey Lowell ... Pam Bouvier (voice)
Vincent Carmichael ... Alfonso / Additional Voices (voice)
Madalena Alberto ... Jinx Johnson / Moonraker Scientist (voice)
Toby Stephens ... Gustav Graves (voice)
Jason Wong ... Zao / Additional Voices (voice)
Jane Perry ... Holly Goodhead / Moonraker Scientist (voice)
Michael Lonsdale ... Hugo Drax (voice)
Gyuri Sarossy ... Additional Voices (voice)
Nicholas Boulton ... Aston Martin GPS (voice)
Jen Bradshaw ... Additional Voices (voice)
Joseph May ... Additional Voices (voice)
Joseph Balderrama ... Additional Voices (voice)
Lauren Dagley ... Additional Voices (voice)
Luis Soto ... Additional Voices (voice)
James Goode ... Additional Voices (voice)
Nick Fletcher ... Additional Voices (voice)
Nigel Whitmey ... Additional Voices (voice)
Ollie Hollis ... Additional Voices (voice)
Paul Courtenay Hyu ... Goldfinger Soldier / Additional Voices (voice) (as Paul Hyu)
Peter Stark ... Additional Voices (voice)
Richard Cant ... Additional Voices (voice)
David Thomas ... Additional Voices (voice) (as Rob Matthews)
Stephane Cornicard ... Additional Voices (voice)
Stephen Hoo ... Additional Voices (voice)
Todd Boyce ... Additional Voices (voice)
Trevor White ... Additional Voices (voice)
Velibor Topic ... Additional Voices (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Peter Brück ... (voice)
Kezia Burrows ... Performance Capture Various
Daniel Curshen ... Additional Voices (voice)
Carsten Hayes ... Blofeld Guard (voice)

Music by
Kevin Kiner

007 Legends Launch trailer


007 Legends - GOLDFINGER Trailer


007 Legends - ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE Trailer


007 Legends: Die Another Day & Licence to Kill Trailer


007 LEGENDS SKYFALL TRAILER


007 Legends: Multiplayer Trailer

2020: Adrian Harrington Ltd. publish Ian Fleming and James Bond by Jon Gilbert.

Ian Fleming and James Bond. Manuscripts in The Schøyen Collection
Series 32. [Silver]
GILBERT, Jon (born 1972).

See the complete article here:

https://www.harringtonbooks.co.uk/pages/books/58365/jon-gilbert-born-1972/ian-fleming-and-james-bond-manuscripts-in-the-schoyen-collection-series-32

Royal Tunbridge Wells: Adrian Harrington Ltd., 2020. [Literary and film Reference] 'SILVER' edition, SIGNED by the author. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.292, printed on Munken Lynx paper. Illustrated throughout in black and white, with a colour frontispiece and 32 colour plates. Bound in full graphite buckram, blocked in two-colour metallic foils with silver titles to front cover, red and grey endbands and cherry red endpapers. New book, sold at the RRP. PRE-ORDER ONLY (Published 16th November 2020). A comprehensive account of the Ian Fleming/James Bond material held at The Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, compiled by Jon Gilbert, with an introduction by Dr. Martin Schøyen and a foreword by Fergus Fleming. Item #58365

Price: £65.00

2021: The Real James Bond author event with Jim Wright at the Franklin Lakes Public Library in New Jersey.
And again Wednesday.

Author Event: The Real James Bond by Jim Wright

See the complete article here:

https://www.evensi.us/author-event-meet-real-james-bond-jim-wright-franklin-lakes-public-library/422504299

From Tuesday 16 November 2021 to Wednesday 17 November 2021

Tuesday, November 16th @ 7pm
Meet "The Real James Bond." In 1952, Ian Fleming stole the name of a famous ornithologist and explorer named James Bond [masked]), the author of the trail-blazing Birds of the West Indies. This colorfully illustrated talk will focus on Bond, Ian Fleming, and 007 moments as well, in keeping with the new James Bond movie, No Time to Die.

Jim Wright is the author of The Real James Bond, the acclaimed biography of the author and 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.

The Record s long-time birding columnist, Wright is a Celery Farm marsh warden and blogger (https://www.celeryfarm.net/) and (https://www.realjamesbond.net/)

Register online: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf5WhpZoZ-yJnFfJOq7RUw6Q4QPV7wNQHBQ8MgqpUrdcme_1w/viewformusp=sf_link

You can learn more about the real Bond in Jim s recent article from [bi]Smithsonian[/i] magazine:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/who-was-the-real-james-bond-180978746/

Registration is required for this program. This event will happen indoors, masks are required.

Franklin Lakes Public Library
470 De Korte Dr, Franklin Lakes, 07417, NJ, US

https://www.realjamesbond.net/

https://www.franklinlakes.org/index.asp?SEC=B0CD874C-01BF-479F-AC59-59026D02A515&DE=441D7A6B-C198-46EA-8C4F-94C949255367&Type=B_BASIC

RichardTheBruce

November 17th

1905: Teru Shimada is born--Mito, Japan.
(He dies 19 June 1988 at age 82--Encino, California.)

Teru Shimada

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

Born Akira Shimada, November 17, 1905 - Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
Died June 19, 1988 (aged 82) - Encino, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor, Years active 1932–1975

Teru Shimada (November 17, 1905 – June 19, 1988) was a Japanese American actor who was cast most famously as Mr. Osato, a SPECTRE agent in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice. His film career began in 1932 with the Night Club Lady. He appeared with Peter Lorre in the 1939 classic Mr. Moto's Last Warning. Another notable role was opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1949 film, Tokyo Joe. He had an uncredited role in 20th Century Fox's 1966 film Batman as a Japanese Delegate and as Mr. Kurawa in Cary Grant's final film, Walk, Don't Run. He also appeared in an episode (titled "And Five of Us are Left") of the 1960s American television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea in 1965. That year he also made a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Dr. Maseo Tachikawa in "The Case of the Baffling Bug" and as Ito Kumagi in the 1962 episode "The Case of the Capricious Corpse". In 1970, he had had a leading role in an episode of Hawaii Five-O (titled "The Reunion"). He later retired in the mid-1970s following appearances in Barnaby Jones and The Six Million Dollar Man and died in Encino, Los Angeles, California in 1988.

During World War II, Shimada was interned at the Poston War Relocation Center. He is buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

Teru Shimada (1905–1988)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793574/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (74 credits)

1975 The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series) - Shige Ishikawa
- The Wolf Boy (1975) ... Shige Ishikawa
1975 Barnaby Jones (TV Series) - Hidekei Ito
- The Deadly Conspiracy: Part 2 (1975) ... Hidekei Ito
1971 To Rome with Love (TV Series) - Mr. Okada
- Bonsai (1971) ... Mr. Okada
1970 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Shigato
- The Reunion (1970) ... Shigato
1970 The Doris Day Show (TV Series) - Mr. Orokumu
- Doris Leaves Today's World: Part 2 (1970) ... Mr. Orokumu
1970 Which Way to the Front? - Japanese Naval Officer (uncredited)
1970 Family Affair (TV Series) - Mr. Osaki
- Mr. Osaki's Tree (1970) ... Mr. Osaki
-
1968 The Felony Squad (TV Series) - Mr. Namura
- Hostage (1968) ... Mr. Namura
1968 Mannix (TV Series) - Gardener
- The Need of a Friend (1968) ... Gardener
1968 Judd for the Defense (TV Series) - Judge Hara
- Transplant (1968) ... Judge Hara
1968 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Mr. Tsu
- When Good Friends Get Together (1968) ... Mr. Tsu
1967 The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk - Mr. Pan
1967 Savage Justice - Tom Hirata
1967 You Only Live Twice - Mr. Osato
1966 Batman: The Movie
Japanese Delegate (uncredited)
1966 Walk Don't Run - Mr. Kurawa
1965 The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV Series) - Capt. Osama
- I'm Dreaming of a Wide Isthmus (1965) ... Capt. Osama
1965 I Spy (TV Series) - Mr. Okura
- Tigers of Heaven (1965) ... Mr. Okura
1962-1965 Perry Mason (TV Series) - Dr. Maseo Tachikawa / Ito Kumagi
- The Case of the Baffling Bug (1965) ... Dr. Maseo Tachikawa
- The Case of the Capricious Corpse (1962) ... Ito Kumagi
1965 King Rat - The Japanese General
1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) - Nakamura
- ...And Five of Us Are Left (1965) ... Nakamura
1965 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - President Sing-Mok
- Alexander the Greater Affair: Part Two (1965) ... President Sing-Mok
1965 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Japanese Captain
- A Time for Killing (1965) ... Japanese Captain
1963 The Prize - Japanese Correspondent (uncredited)
1963 Sunday in New York - Maitre 'd (uncredited)
1963 Hazel (TV Series) - Mr. Nakuro Isaka
- A Good Example for Harold (1963) ... Mr. Nakuro Isaka
1962 Checkmate (TV Series) - Ling Chow
- In a Foreign Quarter (1962) ... Ling Chow
1962 The Horizontal Lieutenant - Master of Ceremonies at Show (uncredited)
1962 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series) - Takara - Board Game Opponent
- Coming of the Tiger (1962) ... Takara - Board Game Opponent
1961 Follow the Sun (TV Series) - Captain Suma
- The Longest Crap Game in History (1961) ... Captain Suma
1961 Laramie (TV Series) - Kami
- Dragon at the Door (1961) ... Kami
1960-1961 The Islanders (TV Series) - Kam Chuh / Regas
- The Strange Courtship of Danny Koo (1961) ... Kam Chuh
- The Terrified Blonde (1960) ... Regas
1961 Assignment: Underwater (TV Series) - - Affair in Tokyo (1961)
1960 The Wackiest Ship in the Army - Maj. Samada
1960 Hong Kong (TV Series) - Colonel Okumara
- Colonel Cat (1960) ... Colonel Okumara
1960 Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) - Noburu
- Sword of the Samurai (1960) ... Noburu
1960 The Detectives (TV Series) - Mr. Harada
- Karate (1960) ... Mr. Harada

1959 The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (TV Series) - Osato
- The Ricardos Go to Japan (1959) ... Osato
1959 Battle of the Coral Sea - Comm. Mori
1959 Tokyo After Dark - Sen-Sei
1959 Steve Canyon (TV Series) - Major Fukuda
- The Prisoner (1959) ... Major Fukuda
1958 The Geisha Boy - Osakawa, Japanese Detective (uncredited)
1958 Run Silent Run Deep - Japanese Submarine Commander (uncredited)
1956-1957 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Kiyoshi Arikawa / Kiyoshi
- Innocent Conspiracy (1957) ... Kiyoshi Arikawa
- The Pearl (1956) ... Kiyoshi
1956-1957 Navy Log (TV Series) - Patriarch / Judge Toyama
- The Commander and the Kid (1957) ... Patriarch
- A Guy Called Mickey (1956) ... Judge Toyama
1957 The Delicate Delinquent - Togo's Japanese Interpreter (uncredited)
1957 Battle Hymn - Korean Official
1956 Navy Wife - Mayor Yoshida
1956 Telephone Time (TV Series)
- Time Bomb (1956)
1956 Cavalcade of America (TV Series)
- Call Home the Heart (1956)
1955 House of Bamboo - Nagaya (uncredited)
1954 The Bridges at Toko-Ri - Japanese Father (uncredited)
1954 The Snow Creature - Subra
1953 The War of the Worlds - Japanese Diplomat (uncredited)
1950 Emergency Wedding - Ho (uncredited)

1949 Tokyo Joe - Ito
1944 Dragon Seed - Villager (uncredited)
1941 They Met in Bombay - Japanese Colonel (uncredited)

1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning - Fake Mr. Moto (uncredited)
1936 White Legion - Dr. Nogi (as Teru Shumada)
1936 Revolt of the Zombies - Buna
1935 The Affair of Susan - Spieler (uncredited)
1935 Oil for the Lamps of China - Tea House Owner (uncredited)
1935 Public Hero Number 1 - Sam - Sonny's Japanese Houseboy (uncredited)
1935 Let 'em Have It - Chinese Houseboy (uncredited)
1935 Bordertown - Law School Graduate (uncredited)
1934 Imitation of Life - Japanese Customer in Pancake Shop (uncredited)
1934 Charlie Chan's Courage - Jiu Jitsu Man
1934 Murder at the Vanities - Koto (uncredited)
1934 Four Frightened People - Native (uncredited)
1933 Midnight Club - Nishi (uncredited)
1933 Gabriel Over the White House - Japanese Admiral at Debt Conference (uncredited)
1932 The Night Club Lady - Ito Mura (uncredited)
1932 The Washington Masquerade - Japanese Dignitary (uncredited)

Self (2 credits)

2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Mr. Osato
1967 Whicker's World (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- The World of James Bond (1967) ... Himself

1936: John Campbell Wells is born--Ashford, Kent, England.
(He dies 11 January 1998 at age 61--London, England.)

John Wells (satirist)

See the complete article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wells_(satirist)

John Wells

From John Wells and the Three Wise Men
(produced by Open Media in 1988)

Born - John Campbell Wells, 17 November 1936, Ashford, Kent, England
Died 11 January 1998 (aged 61), London, England
Occupation Actor, writer and satirist

John Campbell Wells (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist.

Early life
The son of a clergyman, Wells was born in Ashford, Kent in 1936. He was educated at Eastbourne College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Career
Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television career as a writer on That Was The Week That Was, the 1960s weekly satire show that launched the careers of David Frost and Millicent Martin, among others, and also appeared in the television programme Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, as well as in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball. Besides making cameo appearances in films such as Casino Royale (1967) and Rentadick (1972), television dramas like Casanova (1987), an episode of Lovejoy (1991) and comedy shows like Yes Minister, he also wrote television scripts and screenplays, such as Princess Caraboo (1994).

In 1971, with John Fortune, he published the comedy classic A Melon for Ecstasy, about a man who consummates his love affair with a tree. Wells played the headmaster of Thursgood's Preparatory School in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979).

Wells was one of the original contributors to the satirical magazine Private Eye and contributed to Mrs Wilson's Diary, the long-running spoof journal of the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson. From 1979 he repeated that success with Dear Bill, a series of letters (co-written with Richard Ingrams) supposedly sent by Denis Thatcher, husband of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to Bill Deedes. Wells developed the feature into a stage farce, Anyone for Denis?, first performed in 1981, in which he played Denis Thatcher. Co-starring Angela Thorne as Mrs. Thatcher, the play was a major West End hit, toured the UK and was adapted for television. Wells also played Denis Thatcher in the Bond movie For Your Eyes Only (1981). In 1991, he and Thorne again played the Thatchers in Dunrulin, a one-off TV sitcom-like satirical look at the couple in retirement. He also voiced Arnold the Elephant, Edward the Monkey and Bert in the children's TV series Charlie Chalk.

In 1988, Leonard Bernstein started working on a new version of his much-revised operetta Candide. The author of the original book, Hugh Wheeler, had died, and John Wells was asked to help revise the text.[3] The first production of this "final version", by Scottish Opera, was followed by a "final revised version" in 1989, performances of which have been released on CD and DVD. An insert in the DVD ("Bernstein and Voltaire"), written by Wells, explained what Bernstein had wanted in this final revised version.

In 1997 Wells appeared in the BBC situation comedy Chalk as ineffectual headmaster Richard Nixon. His fellow cast members do not recall him being ill on set, but he was too unwell to participate in the second series.

Wells' last book, House of Lords, was a best-seller and published a year before his death in 1998. The book is a historical and humorous study of the British peerage system.

Personal life
From 1982, Wells was the second husband of Teresa Chancellor (daughter of Sir Christopher and sister of Alexander). His daughter Dolly is an actress.

Wells died of cancer in London in 1998 at the age of 61.

Filmography

Title Year Role Notes
Casino Royale 1967 'Q's' assistant
The Bobo 1967 Pompadour Major Domo
30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia 1968 Honorable Gavin Hopton

Every Home Should Have One 1970 Tolworth
Rentadick 1972 Owltruss

For Your Eyes Only 1981 Denis Thatcher
Bullshot 1983 American Scientist
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984 Sir Evelyn Blount
Revolution 1985 Corty
Consuming Passions 1988 Dr. Forrester

Princess Caraboo 1994 Reverend Hunt
Gulliver's Travels 1996 Flimnap the Treasurer TV Mini-Series, 1 episode

1966: Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu (Sophie Marceau) is born--Paris, France.

1982: Octopussy films OO7 fighting Mischka and Grischka.

1995: GoldenEye general release in the US.

2002: Frank McCarthy dies at age 78--Sedona, Arizona.
(Born 30 March 1924--New York City, New York.)

Frank C. McCarthy

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

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

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

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

Published in The Arizona Republic on Dec. 8, 2002

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

Thunderball





You Only Live Twice




On Her Majesty's Secret Service


Colonel Sun paperback


Casino Royale


Dr. No


From Russia With Love


Goldfinger


Around the World Under the Sea


Where Eagles Dare


The Great Escape


The Dirty Dozen



Danger: Diabolik

2006: Casino Royale released in Canada, Iceland, Poland, Turkey, and the US.

2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Estonia.
2006: Kazino Royale released in Lithuania and Latvia.

2006: 皇家赌场 (Huángjiā dǔchǎng; Royal Casino) released in Taiwan.

2020: Hero Collector publishes 50 Greatest Bond Cars, Ben Robinson, editor.

50 Greatest Bond Cars

See the complete article here:

https://www.herocollector.com/en-us/Article/50-greatest-bond-cars

Out next week from Hero Collector, the ultimate resource on James Bond cars, 50 Greatest Bond Cars.

Here's a selection of the lavish contents you can find in this new fully illustrated hardback book.

50 legendary cars from 25 James Bond movies. The vehicles featured in this book were driven by – or pursued – the world's most celebrated spy. Stylish, fast, and especially equipped with state-of-the-art gadgets, each detailed graphic shows the key features that set them among the world's greatest cars. Includes the cars from No Time to Die movie starring Daniel Craig and Rami Malek.

007 has driven some of the most exciting and iconic cars in movie history and he has been involved in some of the greatest car chases ever filmed. Famously, many of Bond’s cars have been modified by Q Branch, who fitted them with everything from machine guns, to bulletproof screens, mines, lasers and ejector seats. Some of Q’s cars can even turn into submarines or become invisible!

Aston Martin DB5, Lotus Esprit, Ford Mustang, BMW Z8, Rolls-Royce, Cadillac, Ferrari, Jaguar, Alfa Romeo and many many more, with facts and figures plus their key scenes and stunts, these are the cars that made Bond history.

2021: The Music Of James Bond & More - All The Songs: All The Hits Live! aat Bensheim, Germany.

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

See the complete article here:

https://eventseeker.com/bensheim-de/nov-17-2021/400354503-the-music-of-james-bond-more-all-the-songs-all-the-hits-live

Wednesday, 17 Nov 2021 @ 19:30

Parktheater Bensheim

Photo: Kuebi = Armin Kübelbeck

2021: TimeOut share the Best Things to Do In Melbourne, Australia. (#3 is a Cocktails and Caviar Experience.)

Photograph: Vesper

Things to do in Melbourne this week

See the complete article here:

https://www.timeout.com/melbourne/things-to-do/things-to-do-in-melbourne-this-week

All the best things to do in Melbourne this week
Written by Rebecca Russo, Nicola Dowse, Cassidy Knowlton, Rushani Epa & Adena MaierMonday 15 November 2021

What did you miss the most during the lockdown? Was it fine dining and going to the theatre, or maybe music festivals and listening to live, local artists? Or maybe you missed visiting artisan markets, travelling to regional Victoria or checking out new art exhibits. Whatever it was, all those things and more are back in full force and ready to welcome you with open arms.

This week, get ready to sing your heart out at Moulin Rouge! The Musical, enjoy luxurious experiences like a soak in the hot springs or an abundance of cocktails and caviar, and immerse yourself in art exhibitions at the Lume and the NGV. We've rounded up all of the coolest things happening in Melbourne, so have a scroll and start making plans.

Don't forget that if you are keen on going out, you need to be fully vaccinated and prepared to provide proof via a vaccine certificate.

Looking to do some domestic travel? Vaccinated Victorians can now travel to NSW without quarantining.

3. Indulge in the finer things
in life at this 'Cocktails and
Caviar' experience
Things to do | Food and drink
South YarraUntil | 12 Dec 2021

Have you seen the new James Bond film yet? We have (and we
loved it), but we will admit it definitely sparked a yearning for fast
cars, European holidays and the finer things in life. Although we're
not ready to try to get a licence to kill, we'd be pretty interested in
some of that Bond high living without HM's coin purse to pay for
it. Luckily, Melbourne bar Vesper has created a 'Cocktails and
Caviar' experience so you can live that Bond life without ever
stepping foot on a plane.

Revelator

When Frank McCarthy died, so did the art of the film poster. I can barely look at what passes for them nowadays.

RichardTheBruce

November 18th

1928: Mickey Mouse is born in the film short Steamboat Willy. (Known as Topolino --Baby Mouse-- in Italy.)

1962: The Sunday Times prints the Ian Fleming piece "James Bond's Hardware. [The Guns of James Bond]".

Lot 59 of 721:
Two rare Ian Fleming appearances

https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/442/lot/142155/Two-appearances-by-Ian-Fleming-in-The-Sunday-Times-Magazine

1966: You Only Live Twice films OO7 infiltrating the volcano.

1974: Chelsea Records releases Lulu's single "The Man with the Golden Gun".

1988: Licence to KIll principal photography finishes. (Started 18 July.)

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 46 of 65 - "Last of the Tooboos."

James Bond Jr - Last of the Tooboos

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807107/?ref_=ttep_ep46

While visiting the London Zoo, James interrupts Skullcap during his theft of a rare animal, a tooboo, whose unusual enzymes Dr. Derange wants for himself.

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
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 / Skullcap (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)
Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 46 - Last of the Tooboos

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Malaysia and Singapore.
1999: Hodder & Stoughton publish Raymond Benson's novelization of The World Is Not Enough.

THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH

Greed, revenge, world domination
through the power of oil,
high-tech terrorism . . Only
some of the ingredients of this
latest 007 adventure which
begins outside the Guggenheim
Museum in Bilbao, Spain and
continues with a spectacular
high-speed boat chase up the
Thames and an avalanche in
the Caucasus Mountains before
Bond faces a murderous enemy
in Baku and a potential nuclear
explosion in Turkey.

Sir Robert King, a wealthy oil
tycoon, is murdered in an
unprecedented bombing at the
Secret Intelligence Service's
London headquarters. M takes
the attack personally and sends
James Bond to what was once
the USSR to protect King's
heiress, his beautiful and fiery
daughter Elektra. For the
bombing is the work of "Renard",
the cruel and cunning terrorist
who once kidnapped Elektra King
and held her to ransom.

With nuclear weapons expert Dr
Christmas Jones at his
side, Bond travels to the Caspian
Sea - where a former enemy
becomes a formidable
ally - before the final dramatic
confrontation in the
claustrophobic confines of
a nuclear submarine beneath the
surface of the Bosphorus.

THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
takes James Bond to new
levels of danger, intrigue and
non-stop action.

RAYMOND BENSON
is the author of HIGH TIME TO KILL,
THE FACTS OD DEATH, ZERO MINUS
TEN and the novelisation of the
Bond film TOMORROW NEVER DIES.
His first book, The James
Bond Bedside Companion, was
shortlisted for an Edgar Allan
Poe Award for Best
Biographical/Critical Work.
A director of the Ian Fleming
Foundation, he lives and works
in the Chicago area.

2002: Die Another Day world premiere at Royal Albert Hall, London.

2003: Michael Arnold Kamen dies at age 55--London, England.
(Born 15 April 1948--New York City, New York.)

Michael Kamen

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/nov/21/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Driven classical and pop composer
Friday 21 November 2003 01:00

Michael Kamen, composer: born New York 15 April 1948; married Sandra Keenan (two daughters); died London 18 November 2003.

The extraordinary musical career of Michael Kamen was a testament not only to his talent and driven ambition, but also to a ceaseless passion and energy for his chosen course in life: following the twin paths of classical and pop music, he seemingly effortlessly balanced work as a composer, collaborator, performer, orchestrator and producer.

On one hand, he was the driving force behind such fantastically ambitious projects as the 1994 Great Music Experience at Todaiji Temple in Nara, Japan, in aid of Unesco, to which Kamen not only brought Bob Dylan together with an orchestra for the first time, but also composed and conducted an overture for 350 performers including a symphony orchestra, 200 Buddhist monks, 35 Kodo Japanese drummers, an ancient Chinese orchestra, the Irish folk group the Chieftains and an all-star rock band. Yet, he was also the co-composer of Bryan Adams' 1991 hit "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You", a No 1 single in the UK for four months and for seven weeks in the United States. It was the biggest selling single in the history of A & M Records, and won Kamen one of several Grammy awards.

The Adams' hit song, which many loved to hate, was taken from the soundtrack of Robin Hood: prince of thieves. The film world readily came to appreciate Kamen's abilities: he could write under pressure and he was fast - it took him just three weeks to come up with the soundtrack for The Three Musketeers in 1993 ("He thought visually," said the film producer Eric Fellner) and he wrote over 30 musical soundtracks, including those for all the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon series, for Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa (1986), The Krays (1990), the James Bond film Licence To Kill (1989) and X-Men (2000); several of these soundtracks were Oscar-nominated.

"He was a man of many parts, using a very wide brush," said his close friend David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. "He was about the most successful film writer in recent years. He had such a gift for a memorable tune, and a great gift for melody. He also had huge enthusiasm, and a compulsion to keep at it." Gilmour had considerable experience of Kamen's work method. At the instigation of the producer Bob Ezrin, Kamen was brought in to orchestrate the string sections of Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall and subsequently moved to London from his native New York. In 1983 he co-produced Pink Floyd's The Final Cut album with the group. Kamen was an ebullient, bouncing bear of a man, with a gregarious personality.

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Chris Salewicz

Michael Kamen (1948–2003)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004383/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Licence to Kill (Suite), Michael Kamen, 1989.





The Final Cut, Pink Floyd, 1983. Produced by Roger Waters, James Guthrie, Michael Kamen.

2012: Daniel Craig visits British troops at Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and screens Skyfall with 800 soldiers.

2017: Mark Milsome dies at age 54--Ghana.
(Born 1963--London, England.)

Mark Milsome Foundation

https://www.imago.org/index.php/news/item/800-mark-milsome-foundation.html

On 18th November 2017, Mark Milsome was killed age 54 on a film set in Ghana whilst operating a camera for a car stunt that went tragically wrong. It was a shocking happening leaving everybody astonished by the fact that the accident ocurred while in duty and should have never happened. Now a few initiatives like getting up a foundation under is name is now underway in the occasion of the date of the first year of his death.

The Mark Milsome Foundation is inspired by the achievements, character and unique nature of our respected friend and colleague, Mark Milsome who was killed behind his camera whilst filming a car stunt in Ghana 18th November 2017.

We are a non profit registered UK charity which aims to support, encourage and inspire young people, initially through two scholarship programmes, and to raise awareness of the importance of Health and Safety in the Film and Television Industry.

We have established one scholarship in advance of our launch via the Guild of British Camera Technicians Training Programme and will announce a second early in 2019 that will support deserving Film Students to secure mentorship and work experience.
We have taken our core values and ambitions as a charity from the example set by Mark Milsome and believe opportunities should be open to men and women who prove they have the character, determination and focus needed to thrive in the industry.

We will encourage young people from all parts of the UK, all social and economic backgrounds, all levels of academic achievement, whether from obscurity or from a recognised educational programme to work with us. We will require evidence of genuine passion and a strong work ethic before considering anyone to be deserving of support or scholarships in Mark’s name.

As an organisation we are open to exploring other areas, including furthering health and safety, and will evolve in any way that best serves the scholars, the Film and Television Industry and the memory of Mark Milsome.

Please go to www.markmilsomefoundation.com to remember Mark and discover more about the ambitions of the foundation.

LAUNCH OF MARK MILSOME FOUNDATION WEBSITE AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF BLACK - T - WEEK (18TH -24TH NOVEMBER)
Following the tragic death of Mark Milsome on set in Ghana on 18th November 2017 a charitable foundation has been set up in his name by industry professionals, friends and family.

The Foundation will officially launch early 2019 but as we approach the anniversary of Mark’s death they are inviting cast and crew from the film making community worldwide to honour Mark during the week of 18th - 24th November by wearing a black foundation T shirt on set. The limited edition T shirts will be available to purchase through October from the Foundation website at: www.markmilsomefoundation.com with deliveries early November in time for Black - T - Week.

The Foundation are encouraging crew to visit their site to remember Mark and to sign up for updates and the ambitions of the Foundation to help young people in the industry.

You can also receive Mark Milsome Foundation updates and info from:
Facebook @MarkMilsomeFoundation
Twitter @MarkMilsomeFDN
Instagram @markmilsomefoundation

Mark Milsome (1963–2017)

Camera and Electrical Department | Cinematographer | Miscellaneous Crew
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590600/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Camera and Electrical Department (80 credits)

2018 Black Earth Rising (TV Series) (camera operator)
2018 The Etruscan Smile (camera operator)
2018 National Treasure: Kiri (TV Mini-Series) (second camera operator - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.4 (2018) ... (second camera operator)
2017 Bang (TV Series) (camera operator - 2 episodes)
- Episode #1.2 (2017) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.1 (2017) ... (camera operator)
2017 The Durrells in Corfu (TV Series) (camera operator - 6 episodes)
- Episode #2.6 (2017) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #2.5 (2017) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #2.4 (2017) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #2.3 (2017) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #2.2 (2017) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #2.1 (2017) ... (camera operator)
2017 Bitter Harvest (b camera operator: additional photography)
2016 Game of Thrones (TV Series) (b camera operator - 3 episodes)
- Battle of the Bastards (2016) ... (b camera operator: White Walker)
- The Door (2016) ... (b camera operator: White Walker)
- Book of the Stranger (2016) ... (b camera operator: White Walker)
2014-2015 Downton Abbey (TV Series) (a camera operator - 9 episodes)
- Christmas Special (2015) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #6.8 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #6.7 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #6.6 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #6.5 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #6.4 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #6.3 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #5.6 (2014) ... (a camera operator)
- Episode #5.5 (2014) ... (a camera operator)
2015/I Bill (camera operator)
2015 Safe House (TV Series) (camera operator - 2 episodes)
- Episode #1.4 (2015) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.3 (2015) ... (camera operator)
2015 Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (camera operator)
2014 The Theory of Everything (camera operator: 'b' camera)
2014 24: Live Another Day (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator - 2 episodes)
- 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. (2014) ... (camera operator)
- 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (2014) ... (camera operator)
2014 Call the Midwife (TV Series) (camera operator - 4 episodes)
- Episode #3.4 (2014) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #3.3 (2014) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #3.2 (2014) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #3.1 (2014) ... (camera operator)
2010-2014 Sherlock (TV Series) (camera operator - 7 episodes)
- The Sign of Three (2014) ... (camera operator)
- The Empty Hearse (2014) ... (camera operator)
- The Reichenbach Fall (2012) ... (camera operator)
- The Hounds of Baskerville (2012) ... (camera operator)
- A Scandal in Belgravia (2012) ... (camera operator)
- The Great Game (2010) ... (camera operator - uncredited)
- The Blind Banker (2010) ... (camera operator)
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2013 What Remains (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator - 4 episodes)
- Episode #1.4 (2013) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.3 (2013) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.2 (2013) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.1 (2013) ... (camera operator)
2013 How I Live Now (additional photography) / (camera operator: "b" camera)
2012 Hunted (TV Series) (camera operator - 1 episode)
- Snow Maiden (2012) ... (camera operator)
2012 Accused (TV Series) (second camera operator - 2 episodes)
- Tina's Story (2012) ... (second camera operator)
- Tracie's Story (2012) ... (second camera operator)
2011 Hunky Dory (camera operator: second unit)
2011 My Week with Marilyn (camera operator: "c" camera)
2011 Your Highness (camera operator: "b" camera)

2009 Into the Rose-Garden (Short) (camera operator)
2009 Small Island (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator)
2009 Nowhere Boy (camera operator: "b" camera)
2009 Skellig: The Owl Man (TV Movie) (camera operator)
2008 Quantum of Solace (camera operator "b" camera: main unit)
2008 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (focus puller: "a" camera)
2008 The Passion (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator - 4 episodes)
- Episode #1.4 (2008) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.3 (2008) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.2 (2008) ... (camera operator)
- Episode #1.1 (2008) ... (camera operator)
2007 Elizabeth: The Golden Age (camera operator: second unit)
2007 1408 (additional camera operator)
2006 Dracula (TV Movie) (additional camera operator)
2006 Notes on a Scandal (second assistant camera)
2006 Miss Potter (focus puller: "a" camera)
2006 Caught Out (Short) (camera operator)
2006 Longford (TV Movie) (focus puller)
2006 The History Boys (first assistant camera: "a" camera)
2006 Breaking and Entering (focus puller)
2005 Mrs Henderson Presents (first assistant camera)
2005/I Game Over (first assistant camera)
2005 The Constant Gardener ("b" focus puller: London)
2005 Russian Dolls (first assistant camera: London)
2005 The Dark (camera operator: second unit)
2005 On a Clear Day (second camera operator: Isle of Man)
2004 Finding Neverland (focus puller: "b" camera)
2004 King Arthur (camera operator: additional photography - uncredited)
2004 Stage Beauty (camera operator: "c" camera) / (focus puller: "a" camera)
2004 Sex Lives of the Potato Men (camera operator)
2003 Winter Solstice (TV Movie) (camera operator)
2003 Loving You (TV Movie) (focus puller)
2002 Anita & Me (focus puller)
2002 Tipping the Velvet (TV Mini-Series) (focus puller - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.3 (2002) ... (focus puller)
- Episode #1.2 (2002) ... (focus puller)
- Episode #1.1 (2002) ... (focus puller)
2002 Ritual (first assistant camera)
2002 Silent Cry (focus puller)
2002 Thunderpants (focus puller)
2001 Victoria & Albert (TV Movie) (focus puller)
2001 Wit (TV Movie) (focus puller: "b" camera)
2000 The House of Mirth (focus puller) / (focus puller: second unit)
2000 Purely Belter (focus puller)
2000 24 Hours in London (camera operator)

1999 Oklahoma! (TV Movie) (focus puller)
1999 Heart (focus puller)
1998 Little Voice (focus puller)
1998 Saving Private Ryan (first assistant camera)
1997 Photographing Fairies (focus puller)
1997 A Merry War (camera focus)
1997 Zeus and Roxanne (assistant camera: second unit)
1996 Brassed Off (focus puller)
1996 Mary Reilly (clapper loader)
1995 Hackers (clapper loader)
1994 Dandelion Dead (TV Mini-Series) (second assistant camera - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.4 (1994) ... (second assistant camera)
- Episode #1.3 (1994) ... (second assistant camera)
- Episode #1.1 (1994) ... (second assistant camera)
1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral (clapper loader)
1993 Dark Waters (camera operator)
1993 Cliffhanger (second assistant camera: "b" camera)
1992 Wuthering Heights (camera loader)
1992 Blame It on the Bellboy (clapper loader)
1991 American Friends (clapper loader)
1990 Memphis Belle (clapper loader: aerial unit)
1990 Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (TV Movie) (clapper loader)
1989 About Face (TV Series) (clapper/loader - 1 episode)
- Bag Lady (1989) ... (clapper/loader)

Cinematographer (5 credits)

Rasta Man Vibrations (Short) (completed)
2017 Arsenal and Dashen and the Penalty (Short)
2017 Bang (TV Series) (6 episodes)
- Episode #1.8 (2017)
- Episode #1.7 (2017)
- Episode #1.6 (2017)
- Episode #1.5 (2017)
- Episode #1.4 (2017)
- Episode #1.3 (2017)
2014 Touch 4 Love (Short)

1991 Caruncula (Short)

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1988 The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) (jobfit trainee - 1 episode)
- The Yob (1988) ... (jobfit trainee)

Thanks (1 credit)

2018 King of Thieves (in memory of)

Self (1 credit)

2000 Supporting Acts (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Special Effects Contact Lenses/Focus Puller ... Himself (as Mark Millsome)

2021: Mickey Mouse Day.

RichardTheBruce

November 19th

1962: Sports Illustrated publishes Fleming's article "The Guns of James Bond."

1963: Ian Fleming is photographed by the Keystone Press Agency Ltd.

1963: In the case of McClory v Fleming, the Chancery Division of the High Court allows Fleming and Ivar Bryce to settle. McClory gains rights to the screenplay, including film rights. Fleming receives rights to his novel, to be labeled "based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and the Author".
1965: Rusya'dan Sevgilerle (From Russia With Love) released in Turkey.

1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Australia.

1981: Sólo para sus ojos (Only For Your Eyes) released in Argentina.

1987: The Living Daylights released in Australia.

1988: Licence to Kill completes filming, representing Timothy Dalton's last day on camera as Bond.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 47 of 65 - "S.C.U.M. on the Water."

James Bond Jr - S.C.U.M. on the Water

Season 1 - Episode 47
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807298/?ref_=ttep_ep47

James Bond Jr. and his comrades are planning a great day out at the regatta. However, he doesn't consider on the appearance of Captain Walker D. Plank, whose latest scheme involves building the deadliest ship that ever hoisted the Jolly Roger. He kidnapped marine engineer Walter Gibson to this end.

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 / Pump (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Ed Gilbert ... Captain Walker D.Plank (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Bilge (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Jenny Gibson (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr Episode 47 - S.C.U.M. on the Water

1999: Le monde ne suffit pas released in Canada.

1999: The World Is Not Enough US general release, plus Iceland premiere.

2002: Electronic Arts publishes Nightfire in North America for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and Game Boy Advance in the US.

007: Nightfire
Video Game | 2002 | T

James Bond is on a mission to investigate about a stolen space weapon platform. Raphael Drake, who is an industrialist that takes on a job to disarm nuclear missiles, is suspected to secretly using them to start a nuclear holocaust.

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Danny Bilson
Paul De Meo
Ian Fleming ... (characters)

Cast (in credits order)
Maxwell Caulfield ... James Bond (voice)
Samantha Eggar ... M (voice)
Kimberley Davies ... Alura McCall (voice)
Michael Ensign ... Drake (voice)
Ian Abercrombie ... Alexander Mayhew (voice)
Tamlyn Tomita ... Makiko Hayashi (voice)
Lena Reno ... Dominique Paradis (voice)
Kai Wulff ... Austrian Guards / Party Guests (voice)
Gregg Berger ... Q (voice)
Jeanne Mori ... Zoe Nightshade (voice)
Richard Whiten ... Armitage Rook (voice)
Gustavo Rex ... Truck Driver / Additional Voices (voice)
Yoshio Be ... Security Guard (voice)
Jean Gilpin ... Civilians (voice)
Vanessa Marshall ... Car Computer (voice)
J. Grant Albrecht ... Power Plant Guards (voice) (as Grant Alberecht)
Hiroshi Otaguro ... Yakuza Soldiers (voice) (as Hiroshi Taguro)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Masa Kanome ... Yakuza (voice)

Produced by
Scott Blackwood ... producer
Ken Rogers ... associate producer
Music by
Lars Anderson
Ed Lima
Jeff Tymoschuk

James Bond 007 - Nightfire Trailer


Nightfire - Theme Song | Esthero - Nearly Civilized

2008: Quantum of Solace released in Australia, Peru, and South Africa.

2013: BBC reports "Bond villain Blofeld could return to Bond."

Bond villain Blofeld could return to Bond

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-24999407
19 November 2013

Charles Gray played Blofeld in Diamonds are Forever

Famous Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld could appear in future 007 films now that a long-running legal dispute has been settled.

Kevin McClory, who came up with the story for Thunderball with Ian Fleming, had been locked in a battle over Bond rights since 1959.

McClory, and later his estate, asserted he had created the Blofeld character.

Now film studio MGM and Bond film company Danjaq have acquired all the rights from McClory's estate.

A joint statement from the three parties involved said the deal brought "to an amicable conclusion the legal and business disputes that have arisen periodically over 50 years".

The agreement means that Bond producers are clear to use the Blofeld character again if they wish.

Dispute
Blofeld's face was often concealed in the films as the camera focused on him stroking his white cat.

The character has appeared in six official Bond films - From Russia with Love (1963), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and For Your Eyes Only (1981), as well as McClory's Never Say Never Again (1983).

He has been played by Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Gray and Max von Sydow.

The dispute began when McClory worked on the script for Thunderball, which first introduced the character of Blofeld.

It was then used by Fleming to form the basis for his novel of the same name.

But McClory and another scriptwriter, Jack Whittingham, were unaware the novel was being published and were not credited.

This led them to sue Fleming successfully in 1963.

Connery's return
McClory, who died in 2006, produced the movie of Thunderball in 1965.

But the dispute raised its head again in the 1970s, when McClory wanted to make another Bond film - he won the right to do so in court and the result was his 1983 movie Never Say Never Again.

He brought back Sean Connery as agent 007 after a 12-year hiatus, and the film was again based on the Thunderball novel.

However the movie has never been welcomed into the official Bond canon.

McClory lost another legal case in 2001 over the rights to the James Bond film character.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco dismissed his case, saying McClory had waited too long to make a claim.

The next Bond film, starring Daniel Craig and directed by Sam Mendes, is due for release in 2015.

2015: With Spectre, Bond has stolen kisses in India.

Pay attention 007: In India, you can kill - but
don't kiss

See the complete article here:

https://de.reuters.com/article/us-films-bond-india-idUSKCN0T81NW20151119

By Shilpa Jamkhandikar

Actors Lea Seydoux, Daniel Craig and Monica Bellucci (L-R) pose for photographers on the red carpet at the French premiere of the new James Bond 007 film "Spectre" in Paris, France, October 29, 2015. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier

MUMBAI (Reuters) - If the Indian censors have their way, James Bond can make liberal use of his licence to kill. But he’ll have to cut back on the kissing - by exactly half.

The latest installment of the 007 franchise, “Spectre”, will be released on Friday with heavy cuts after censors deemed the romantic encounters between Daniel Craig, and co-stars Monica Belluci and Lea Seydoux, inappropriate for the viewing public.

“The committee which was to certify the film thought some of the kissing scenes were too long,” said a source familiar with the application to the censors, who asked Sony Pictures cut the kissing scenes by 50 percent.

“The studio either had the choice to accept the cuts or apply for an A certificate, which significantly cuts down reach and exhibition.”

The Censor Board is controlled by India’s nationalist government and has turned a disapproving eye on films with steamy sex scenes.

It is currently headed by Pahlaj Nihalani, a Bollywood producer who made a campaign video for Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year, and released another promotional video for him last week.

Its ruling has been panned by critics on social media, who accuse it of serving the government’s conservative moral agenda, stifling freedom of expression. Nihalani could not be reached for comment.

Under Indian law, films with an A - or adult - certificate can’t be shown on TV. India still accounts for a fraction of Hollywood’s revenues, but franchises like James Bond and the Avengers can beat Bollywood’s own productions at the box office.

“50 Shades of Grey”, the film based on E.L. James’s erotic novel, was never released in India even after the studio cut every sex scene. The board rejected it on the basis that the language used in the film was inappropriate.

Editing by Douglas Busvine and Sanjeev Miglani

2020: IO Interactive announces Project 007 in development.

Project 007: Everything we
know about the first new
Bond game in 8 years

See the complete article here:

https://www.inverse.com/gaming/project-007-release-date-io-interactive-james-bond-game-trailer

"I must be dreaming."
Danny Paez | 11.19.2020 4:15 PM

Hitman developer IO Interactive revealed November 19, 2020 that it's developing a new game starring the unmistakable British spy, James Bond, with the working title Project 007.

The upcoming title will be completely outside of the Hitman universe and IO Interactive is collaborating with film production entities EON Productions and MGM. It will be the first James Bond video game to be released since Activision's poorly-received 2012 launch of 007 Legends, which ultimately lost the publisher the 007 license months after its launch. That's how bad the game was. But IO Interactive will seemingly breathe new life into the franchise in the world of gaming.

James Bond games have a bit of a tainted history outside of the universally loved GoldenEye Nintendo 64 game, but IO Interactive's 20 years of experience developing the stealth franchise Hitman seems to lend itself well towards creating a game about everyone's favorite superspy. CEO of IO Interactive Hakan Abrak even went as far as saying that it will be the studio's most monumental undertaking to date.

"Our passionate team is excited to unleash their creativity into the iconic James Bond universe and craft the most ambitious game in the history of our studio," he states in a press release.

The Project 007 announcement comes only few months after IO Interactive teased the January 20, 2021 release of Hitman 3. Once that's hit consoles and PCs the studio should be able to dedicate a majority of its resources to bringing James Bond to life on next-generation consoles.

It's unclear if Daniel Craig will play James Bond in 'Project 007.'
PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU/AFP/Getty Images

When is the Project 007
release date?

IO Interactive did not announce when Project 007 will be released, but it did confirm that the title is in "active development."

The developer is wrapping production on Hitman 3 so even a 2021 release date would seem too ambitious. Expect a 2022 launch at the earliest, unless IO Interactive and its partners have been secretly working on the title in tandem with Hitman 3. But we'll need to wait for an update from the studio to be sure.

Is there a Project 007 trailer?

Yes, IO Interactive published a brief teaser trailer for Project 007 on November 19 that plays out like every James Bond intro sequence before it.

Will Project 007 be released on current- or next-gen consoles?

IO Interactive stated that "will be made for modern systems and platforms," which presumably refers to the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. But this nonspecific statement could mean it'll come to other consoles.

Hitman 3 is being released on the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, as well as the PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Seeing as Project 007 doesn't even have a release date yet, it might come out when the PS4 and Xbox One are seen as completely outdated, so it might skip those platforms depending on when it launches.

IO Interactive's experience with the 'Hitman' franchise could prove to be the secret
ingredient to make 'Project 007' shine. IO Interactive

What is the Project 007 story?

Project 007 will tell the story about what made James Bond into the espionage expert action movie fans have been obsessing over for decades.

The upcoming title's press release described the game as "the very first James Bond origin story" that "will feature a wholly original Bond story exclusively as a video game."

When will we find out more about Project 007?

IO Interactive didn't specific when it will have more to say about Project 007. Inverse suspects it'll be after the release of Hitman 3, but interested gamers can head to the game's website to sign up for email notifications for the latest information.

'GoldenEye 007' is by and large the most acclaimed James Bond game to be released.
Rare / Nintendo

What other James Bond games have
been released?

Bond has over three decades of video game appearances, including the 8-bit James Bond 007, the critically acclaimed GoldenEye 007 on Nintendo's N64, and most-recent 007 Legends on PS3 and Xbox 360.

The spy's licensing has been passed around to heavy-weight publishers throughout the years. Nintendo held it during the 1990s, Electronics Arts took over in the early 2000s, and Activision had it between 2006 and 2013.

The more modern releases have fallen out of favor with gamers but IO Interactive has the chance to have the international spy make a comeback.

Project 007 is in active development.

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

The Music Of Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.viagogo.co.uk/Theatre-Tickets/Shows-and-Awards/The-Music-Of-Bond-Tickets/E-4599147

The Music of James Bond & More - All The Songs - All The Hits Live!
Konzerthaus Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Friday, November 19 2021 8:00 PM
Today

RichardTheBruce

November 20th

1926: John Edmund Gardner is born--Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, England.
(He dies 3 August 2007 at age 80--Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.)

John Gardner
Prolific thriller writer behind the revival of James Bond and Professor Moriarty

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/nov/02/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries
Mike Ripley - 3 Nov 2007 19.53 EDT

John Gardner, who has died aged 80, was the consummate thriller writer, producing[ more than 50 novels. But he owed his reputation to James Bond. His early success came with send-ups of the Bond genre, and he was to find greater fame, if not satisfaction, in reinventing Agent 007 almost 20 years after the death of the secret agent's creator, Ian Fleming.

Born in Seaton Delaval, then in Northumberland, Gardner was the only child of an Anglican priest - the family moved south when his father became chaplain at St Mary's, Wantage, Berkshire, where Gardner attended King Alfred's school. During the second world war, he joined the Home Guard aged only 14. He then served in the Fleet Air Arm in 1944 and the Royal Marine commandos in the Middle and Far East. After the war, he read theology at St John's College, Cambridge, and entered the Anglican priesthood, but after five years and a crisis of faith, he turned to journalism as drama critic of the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, and to drink.

By the age of 33, he realised that his intake of gin qualified him as an alcoholic. As part of his therapy, he wrote Spin the Bottle (1963), a memoir about his relationship with alcohol. He claimed never to have touched booze since 1959, and the memoir - his only non-fiction book - launched him on a writing career.

Gardner's first novel, The Liquidator, a spoof of the Bond books, was published in 1964, the year of Fleming's death. The anti-hero, Boysie Oakes, had one drawback as a licensed-to-kill man of action: he was a coward who hated violence and sub-contracted parts of his missions to an assassin.

The book was filmed by Jack Cardiff, with Rod Taylor in the Oakes role and Eric Sykes as the hit man. Gardner was unimpressed with the result, but he was far less complimentary about Michael Winner's 1973 film The Stone Killer, starring Charles Bronson, adapted from his novel, A Complete State of Death (not one of the Oakes series), which he wrote in 1969 under the pen name Derek Torry.

Seven more Oakes books followed, including Amber Nine (1966), in which the villain turned out to be Hitler's long-lost daughter. By 1974, though, Gardner was ready for a change and launched a new series based on the diaries of Professor James Moriarty, the nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. He intended a trilogy, but after the appearance of The Return of Moriarty (1974) and The Revenge of Moriarty (1975), he could not agree a publishing deal for a third book, and, in any case, Bond was about to intervene once more.

While living in tax exile in Ireland, Gardner was approached by crime novelist and president of the Detection Club Harry Keating, on behalf of the Fleming estate. The proposition was to reinvent the Bond books for the late 1970s. Gardner, by now the author of 17 novels and two collections of short stories, was at first reluctant to commit. But in the end he convinced himself he could "round out" the character.

Licence Renewed (1976) was the first in a franchise which lasted 20 years. There was a media frenzy at the return to the page of a more politically correct Bond - and an outcry that 007 was now driving a Saab 900 Turbo.

Although they brought him wealth and a worldwide audience, Gardner never seemed comfortable with the Bond franchise, though he remained proud of one title, The Man From Barbarossa. Within three years, he had launched a series of five much grittier, hardboiled espionage thrillers, starting with The Nostradamus Traitor (1979) starring "Big" Herbie Kruger, a character shaped by the second world war - as Gardner had been.

Gardner wrote more Bond books than Fleming - a total of 16, two based on the films Licensed [sic] to Kill (1989) and GoldenEye (1995) - but in the same period, he also produced the Kruger books, another trilogy of spy stories and six stand-alone thrillers.

Gardner moved to America in 1989, but ill-health forced him to relinquish the Bond franchise to Raymond Benson in 1996. Medical bills for treating cancer of the oesophagus forced his return to England in reduced circumstances, only to suffer further when his wife of more than 40 years, Margaret, died suddenly the following year.

Now living quietly in an almshouse in Basingstoke, he turned to his own memories of wartime Britain for his final series of thrillers, featuring Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford. The first, Bottled Spider, was published in 2002. The leading character was based on Gardner's youthful romance with a nurse named Patricia Mountford, who, some 50 years after their last meeting, contacted him after reading about her namesake. The couple enjoyed a romantic reunion.

In the field of espionage fiction, Gardner lacked the intellectual complexities of John le Carré or the stylistic innovations of Len Deighton or Anthony Price, but he was a prolific and reliable deliverer to a thrill-seeking audience. Harsher critics have suggested he fed off the creations of others. He always knew that Bond would overshadow everything, and longed to be remembered as more than the man who brought back 007. In that, despite 52 novels, he probably failed.

The fifth Suzie Mountford book, No Human Enemy, has just been published. The third Moriarty book, The Redemption of Moriarty, completed shortly before Gardner's death, will be published posthumously. He is survived by the son and daughter of his marriage, Simon and Alexis; Miranda, the daughter of his relationship with Susan Wright; and Patricia Mountford, to whom he was engaged.

· John Edmund Gardner, writer, born November 20 1926; died August 3 2007

John Gardner (British Writer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gardner_(British_writer)

Works

Autobiography

Spin the Bottle (1964)

Boysie Oakes novels

The Liquidator (1964)
Understrike (1965)
Amber Nine (1966)
Madrigal (1967)
Founder Member (1969)
Traitor's Exit (1970)
The Airline Pirates (1970) - published in the US as Air Apparent
A Killer for a Song (1975)

Two Boysie Oakes short stories appear in The Assassination File (A Handful of Rice, Corkscrew).
Two Boysie Oakes short stories appear in Hideaway (Boysie Oakes and The Explosive Device, Sunset At Paleokastritsa).

Derek Torry novels

A Complete State of Death (1969) - reissued in the US as The Stone Killer
The Corner Men (1974)

Professor Moriarty novels

The Return of Moriarty (1974)
The Revenge of Moriarty (1975)
Moriarty (2008)

Herbie Kruger novels

The Nostradamus Traitor (1979)
The Garden of Weapons (1980)
The Quiet Dogs (1982)
Maestro (1993)
Confessor (1995)

Herbie Kruger also appears in The Secret Houses and The Secret Families.

The Railton family novels

The Secret Generations (1985)
The Secret Houses (1988)
The Secret Families (1989)

James Bond novels

Licence Renewed (1981)
For Special Services (1982)
Icebreaker (1983)
Role of Honour (1984)
Nobody Lives for Ever (1986)
No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987)
Scorpius (1988)
Win, Lose or Die (1989)
Licence to Kill (1989) – novelization of a film script
Brokenclaw (1990)
The Man from Barbarossa (1991)
Death is Forever (1992)
Never Send Flowers (1993)
SeaFire (1994)
GoldenEye (1995) – novelization of a film script
Cold (1996) – published in the US as Cold Fall

Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford novels

Bottled Spider (2002)
The Streets of Town (2003)
Angels Dining at the Ritz (2004)
Troubled Midnight (2005)
No Human Enemy (2007)

Other novels

The Censor (1970)
Every Night's a Bullfight (1971) (Published in the US in a bowdlerized edition as Every Night's a Festival in 1972.)
To Run a Little Faster (1976)
The Werewolf Trace (1977)
The Dancing Dodo (1978)
Golgotha (1980) - (Published in the US as The Last Trump)
The Director (1982) (A re-working of his 1971 novel Every Night's a Bullfight.)
Flamingo (1983)
Blood of the Fathers (1992) (as by "Edmund McCoy". Later published under his own name in 2004.)
Day of Absolution (2000)

Short story collections

Hideaway (1968) (Contains two Boysie Oakes stories.)
The Assassination File (1974) (Contains two Boysie Oakes stories.)

1930: Bernard Horsfall is born--Bishop's Stortford, Herfordshire England.
(He dies 28 January 2013 at age 82--Isle of Skye, Scotland.)

Bernard Horsfall obituary
Imposing stage and screen actor whose work ranged from
Shakespeare to The Bill

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/jan/30/bernard-horsfall
Michael Coveney | Wed 30 Jan 2013 13.14 EST

Bernard Horsfall in The Merry Widow, a 1981 episode of the ITV show, Crown Court.
Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

The character actor Bernard Horsfall, who has died aged 82, appeared in television, films and on the stage for more than half a century. Tall, imposing and authoritative, he appeared in many of the major television series from Z Cars and Dr Finlay's Casebook to Casualty and The Bill, and in Doctor Who took no fewer than four roles.

In 1968 he played Lemuel Gulliver in The Mind Robber, where he was encountered by Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor, in the Land of Fiction. The following year he returned as a Time Lord in The War Games. In 1973, with Jon Pertwee now donning the time-traveller's cape, he played the Thal chieftain, Taron, in the six-part Planet of the Daleks. And finally, he was another Time Lord, Chancellor Goth, in the 1976 story The Deadly Assassin, famously battling with Tom Baker's Doctor inside the Matrix and holding him under water. This sequence drew complaints from the campaigner Mary Whitehouse, and was edited out of the repeat showings.

His many film roles included Campbell in the sixth James Bond movie, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), starring George Lazenby, and General Edgar in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982) with Ben Kingsley. He had an extensive, distinguished stage career, too, playing the Ghost to Richard Burton's Hamlet at the Old Vic in 1953 and the Player King to Roger Rees's with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984, first in a series of prominent roles with the company in Stratford-upon-Avon and London in the late 1980s.

Horsfall was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and always claimed he was a 25th-generation descendant of William the Conqueror. The son of an opera singer, Margaret Horsfall, nee Norton, and her RAF officer husband, Charles, Bernard grew up in Hindhead, Surrey, and Wisborough Green, West Sussex. Always drawn to the outdoor , adventurous life, he left Rugby school early to visit his favourite uncle, Jack Norton, in Canada, and took a job cutting down trees. Jack had been a first world war pilot, flown with TE Lawrence in Palestine and had run the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

Returning to London, Bernard trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy and was soon in rep, at Dundee in 1952, at the Old Vic, the old Nottingham Playhouse in the mid-1950s (in a company that included Graham Crowden, Joan Plowright and Denis Quilley) and at the Birmingham Rep under John Harrison at the end of the 60s.

He met and married the actor Jane Jordan Rogers while she was appearing at the Bristol Old Vic, and made his mark in movies such as The Steel Bayonet (1957), a second world war adventure featuring an unknown Michael Caine, and Guy Green's The Angry Silence (1960) in which Attenborough played a strike-breaker. His notable television work after Doctor Who included a performance as Melford Stevenson, QC, in a documentary drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain. Later well-known as a judge, Stevenson was the barrister who defended Ellis. He had a leading role as the doctor, Philip Martel, in the highly successful Channel Islands wartime drama, Enemy at the Door (1978-80).

At the RSC in 1984, Horsfall was part of a great season that, in addition to Rees's Hamlet, included Kenneth Branagh as Henry V (Horsfall played a wonderful ageing hooligan of a Pistol) and Antony Sher as a speedy, spidery Richard III. He also appeared in Pam Gems's Camille, with Frances Barber, when Ron Daniels's RSC production transferred to the Comedy Theatre, London, in 1985.

Back at Stratford, he was, says the director Terry Hands, "the epitome of warmth" as a genuinely funny Old Shepherd (his young sidekick was Simon Russell Beale) in The Winter's Tale in 1987 with Jeremy Irons as Leontes, and he also played the title role in Cymbeline (in a red dressing gown) and a brutally authoritarian Capulet in the Romeo and Juliet of Mark Rylance and Georgia Slowe.

This period coincided with a family move from London to the Isle of Skye, where Horsfall rambled over mountains and became a dedicated crofter, producing fruit and vegetables.

His renown as a wise and generous actor led to him becoming a natural father figure in any company he joined. Jonathan Kent cast him as Ventidius in Dryden's All For Love at the Almeida in 1991, and he expertly discharged the great suicide speech; James Laurenson and Diana Rigg were Antony and Cleopatra. In 1993 at the Birmingham Rep, he was described as "scurrilous, lofty and urbane" as Volpone. His last major film was Mel Gibson's Braveheart in 1995, and in 1998 he played a witty and touching Sir Patrick Cullen in Michael Grandage's revival of Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma at the Almeida and on a National Theatre tour.

He was another dignified old shepherd, Corin (doubled with Hymen, god of marriage), in the revival by Grandage of As You Like It at the Sheffield Crucible in 2000 that propelled Victoria Hamilton into the front rank. Grandage said that the older Horsfall got, the younger his outlook; he was always keenly interested in environmental matters.

He is survived by Jane; their daughters, Hannah, an occupational therapist, and Rebecca, a theatre director and novelist; five grandchildren; and a sister. His son, Christian, died last year.

• Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall, actor, born 30 November 1930; died 28 January 2013
• This article was amended on 7 February 2013. The original referred to the Doctor Who character Taron as a Thai chieftain. This has been corrected.

Bernard Horsfall (1930–2013)

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Filmography

Actor (109 credits)

2008 Stone of Destiny - Archdeacon
2005 Doctors (TV Series) - Joseph Bryan
- Locked Away (2005) ... Joseph Bryan
2000 Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series) - Crawford Senior
- The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes: Part 1 (2000) ... Crawford Senior

1995 Queen of the East (TV Movie) - Sir William Pitt
1988-1995 Casualty (TV Series)
Gerald Lassiter / Dr. Alex Upchurch, Coroner / Tom Baxter
- When All Else Fails (1995) ... Gerald Lassiter
- Judgement Day (1991) ... Dr. Alex Upchurch, Coroner
- Welcome to Casualty (1988) ... Tom Baxter
1995 Braveheart - Balliol
1993 Seekers (TV Series) - Major Hurley
- Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Major Hurley
1992 Nice Town (TV Mini-Series) - Peter Dobson
- Idyll (1992) ... Peter Dobson
- Unto Us a Child Is Born (1992) ... Peter Dobson
- Immaculate Conception (1992) ... Peter Dobson
1992 Between the Lines (TV Series) - Ch. Const. Gordon
- The Chill Factor (1992) ... Ch. Const. Gordon
1992 Virtual Murder (TV Series) - Professor Donn
- A Torch for Silverado (1992) ... Professor Donn
1992 The Advocates (TV Series) - Lord Thornhill
- Episode #2.3 (1992) ... Lord Thornhill
- Episode #2.2 (1992) ... Lord Thornhill
- Episode #2.1 (1992) ... Lord Thornhill
1991 Thatcher: The Final Days (TV Movie) - Alan Clark
1991 For the Greater Good (TV Series) - Prime Minister
- Minister (1991) ... Prime Minister
1991 Poirot (TV Series) - Harrington Pace
- The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge (1991) ... Harrington Pace

1989 Chelworth (TV Mini-Series) - Albert Blackwell
- You Can't Beat Mozart (1989) ... Albert Blackwell
1989 The Bill (TV Series) - Dr. de Beyfus
- Getting It Right (1989) ... Dr. de Beyfus
1988 The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV Movie) - Frankland
1986 First Among Equals (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Nigel Hartwell
- Episode #1.5 (1986) ... Sir Nigel Hartwell
- Episode #1.4 (1986) ... Sir Nigel Hartwell
1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Doctor
- A Distant Scream (1984) ... Doctor
1984 Weekend Playhouse (TV Series) - Logan Mayhew
- Grand Duo (1984) ... Logan Mayhew
1984 Goodbye Days (TV Movie) - Armitage
1984 Strangers and Brothers (TV Series) - Dr. Bradbury
- Episode #1.13 (1984) ... Dr. Bradbury
1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV Mini-Series) - Major General Rankin
- Regimental Silver (1984) ... Major General Rankin
1982 Gandhi - General Edgar
1982 Juliet Bravo (TV Series) - Jack Driscoll
- A Breach of the Peace (1982) ... Jack Driscoll
1982 Inside the Third Reich (TV Movie) - Fritz Todt
1976-1982 Crown Court (TV Series) - Prosecuting Counsel / Mr. Baldwin
- Face Value: Part 1 (1982) ... Prosecuting Counsel
- The Merry Widow: Part 1 (1981)
- Beyond the Call of Duty: Part 1 (1976) ... Mr. Baldwin
1982 Badger by Owl-Light (TV Series) - Hardekker
- Episode #1.3 (1982) ... Hardekker
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Hardekker
- Episode #1.1 (1982) ... Hardekker
1982 Minder (TV Series) - Mr. Russel QC
- Poetic Justice, Innit? (1982) ... Mr. Russel QC
1981 Echoes of Louisa (TV Series) - Roger Burr
- The Quarry (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Trip (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Ride (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Secret (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Meeting (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Homecoming (1981) ... Roger Burr
1981 When the Boat Comes In (TV Series) - Rowse
- Back to Dear Old Blighty (1981) ... Rowse
1980 The Square Leopard (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Percival
- Episode #1.4 (1980) ... Det. Insp. Percival
1980 Ladykillers (TV Series) - Melford Stevenson, Q.C.
- Lucky, Lucky Thirteen! (1980) ... Melford Stevenson, Q.C.
1980 Turtle's Progress (TV Series) - Janos
- Episode #2.4 (1980) ... Janos
1978-1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Dr. Philip Martel / Dr. Philip Martell
- Escape (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- From a View to a Death (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Right Blood (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- War Game (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Jealousy (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Post Mortem (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Committee Man (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- No Quarter Given (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Angels That Soar Above (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Judgement of Solomon (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Prussian Officer (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Pains and Penalties (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Treason (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Jerrybag (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Officers of the Law (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Polish Affaire (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- V for Victory (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Laws and Usages of War (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martell
- Steel Hand from the Sea (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- After the Ball (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Librarian (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- By Order of the Fuhrer (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel

1978 Brass Target - Shelley
1977 Jubilee (TV Series) - Mervyn Marsh
- An Hour in the Life... (1977) ... Mervyn Marsh
1977 Big Boy Now! (TV Series) - Alan Viner
- Follow That Cat (1977) ... Alan Viner
- Edgar's Other Woman (1977) ... Alan Viner
- Supergirl (1977) ... Alan Viner
- Ships with Everything (1977) ... Alan Viner
- Poker Face (1977) ... Alan Viner
1977 This Year Next Year (TV Mini-Series) - Lars Gunnerson
- Profit and Loss (1977) ... Lars Gunnerson
- Another Place (1977) ... Lars Gunnerson
1976 Beasts (TV Series) - Clyde Boyd
- The Dummy (1976) ... Clyde Boyd
1968-1976 Doctor Who (TV Series)
Taron / Chancellor Goth / Gulliver / ... 15 episodes
- The Deadly Assassin: Part Four (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
- The Deadly Assassin: Part Three (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
- The Deadly Assassin: Part Two (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
- The Deadly Assassin: Part One (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
- Planet of the Daleks: Episode Six (1973) ... Taron
1976 Within These Walls (TV Series) - Mr. Parrington
- The Complaint (1976) ... Mr. Parrington
1976 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Mr. Wendell
- Future Imperfect (1976) ... Mr. Wendell
1976 John Macnab (TV Series) - John Palliser-Yeates
- The Old Hero (1976) ... John Palliser-Yeates
- The Return of Harold Blacktooth (1976) ... John Palliser-Yeates
- Our Reputations at the Stake (1976) ... John Palliser-Yeates
1976 Shout at the Devil - Captain Joyce
1976 Red Letter Day (TV Series) - Nigel
- The Five Pound Orange (1976) ... Nigel
1975 The Hill of the Red Fox (TV Mini-Series) - Duncan Mor
- Episode #1.6 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
- Episode #1.5 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
- Episode #1.4 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
- Episode #1.3 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
- Episode #1.2 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
1975 The Changes (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Gore
- The Noise (1975) ... Mr. Gore
1974 South Riding (TV Mini-Series) - David Brownlow
- The Powers That Be (1974) ... David Brownlow
1974 ITV Sunday Night Drama (TV Series) - Sweyn
- The Ceremony of Innocence (1974) ... Sweyn
1974 Gold - Dave Kowalski
1974 Childhood (TV Series) - Dr. Braden
- Easter Tells Such Dreadful Lies (1974) ... Dr. Braden
1973 Freewheelers (TV Series) - Cunliffe
- The Hoist (1973) ... Cunliffe
- The Think Bank (1973) ... Cunliffe
- Break-Up (1973) ... Cunliffe
- Switched! (1973) ... Cunliffe
- The Crypt! (1973) ... Cunliffe
- Darkness at Noon (1973) ... Cunliffe
1973 Harriet's Back in Town (TV Series) - Inspector Kelsey
- Episode #1.76 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
- Episode #1.75 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
- Episode #1.74 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
- Episode #1.73 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
1972 Some Kind of Hero - George Crane
1972 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Steven Granger
- Sex and Violence (1972) ... Steven Granger
1972 Crime of Passion (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Severin
- Cecile (1972) ... Det. Insp. Severin
1972 Love Story (TV Series) - Tony Walker
- Never Too Late (1972) ... Tony Walker
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Christianson
- The Morning After (1971) ... Christianson
1971 Suspicion (TV Series) - Klaus
- Off Season (1971) ... Klaus
1971 Mr. Horatio Knibbles - Mr. Bunting
1971 Jackanory (TV Series) - Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 5 - The Whole Truth (1971) ... Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 4 - Friday's Decision (1971) ... Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 3 - On the Beach (1971) ... Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 2 - Penguin Island (1971) ... Storyteller
- The Sea Islanders: Part 1 - The Far North Bus (1971) ... Storyteller
1971 Quest for Love - Telford
1971 Elizabeth R (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Christopher Hatton
- Shadow in the Sun (1971) ... Sir Christopher Hatton
1967-1970 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Fidel Castro / Timekeeper
- Revolutions: Fidel Castro (1970) ... Fidel Castro
- The Timekeepers (1967) ... Timekeeper
1970 Ivanhoe (TV Mini-Series) - Black Knight... 6 episodes
- Saint Martin's Day (1970) ... Black Knight
- Time of Trial (1970) ... Black Knight
- Templestowe (1970) ... Black Knight
- The Black Knight (1970) ... Black Knight
- Condemned (1970) ... Black Knight
-
1969 Take Three Girls (TV Series) - Tony Fraser
- Try Loving (1969) ... Tony Fraser
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Campbell
1969 Canterbury Tales (TV Series) - Arveragus
- The Canon Yeoman's Tale/The Franklin's Tale (1969) ... Arveragus
1969 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Charles Peters
- M.Y.O.B (1969) ... Charles Peters
- The Day of the Miuras (1969) ... Charles Peters
1969 Department S (TV Series) - Captain Carter
- Six Days (1969) ... Captain Carter
- Six Days ... Captain Carter
1969 Out of the Unknown (TV Series) - John Stewart
- 1+1=1.5 (1969) ... John Stewart
1969 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - William Wordsworth
- The Woman from the Shadows (1969) ... William Wordsworth
1965-1968 The Avengers (TV Series)
Captain Smythe / Fox / Jephcott
- They Keep Killing Steed (1968) ... Captain Smythe
- The Fear Merchants (1967) ... Fox
- The Cybernauts (1965) ... Jephcott
1968 Sanctuary (TV Series) - Father Carlo Frallini SJ
- Diary and the Devil's Advocate (1968) ... Father Carlo Frallini SJ
1968 Detective (TV Series) - Nigel Strangeways
- The Beast Must Die (1968) ... Nigel Strangeways
1968 Mogul (TV Series) - Peter
- Give Me the Simple Life (1968) ... Peter
1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Keith Lythgoe
- The Jonah Site (1968) ... Keith Lythgoe
1966-1967 Softly Softly (TV Series) - Gentleman John Cassidy / Jackson
- The Bombay Doctor (1967) ... Gentleman John Cassidy
- Barlow Was There: Part 1: Allegation (1966) ... Jackson
1967 Dr. Finlay's Casebook (TV Series) - Adam Hadley
- Criss-Cross (1967) ... Adam Hadley
1958-1967 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Dr. Ernst Bang / Sir Purback Temple / Valentine
- ITV Summer Playhouse #8: One Fat Englishman (1967) ... Dr. Ernst Bang
- The Killing of the King (1959) ... Sir Purback Temple
- You Never Can Tell (1958) ... Valentine
1957-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Inspector / Interviewer
- Any Number Can Play (1967) ... Inspector
- The Last Flight (1957) ... Interviewer
1967 Mrs Thursday (TV Series) - Norman Millett
- The Old School Tie Up (1967) ... Norman Millett
1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Bill Bast
- The Death Game (1967) ... Bill Bast
1966 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - John Harris
- The World of Silence (1966) ... John Harris
1965 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Palethorpe
- The Minister (1965) ... Palethorpe
1964 Guns at Batasi - Sgt. 'Schoolie' Prideaux
1963 Maupassant (TV Series) - Harding
- War (1963) ... Harding
1963 Z Cars (TV Series) - Murdoch
- The Bad Lad (1963) ... Murdoch
1962 Harpers West One (TV Series) - Philip Nash
- Episode #2.14 (1962) ... Philip Nash
- Episode #2.8 (1962) ... Philip Nash
- Episode #2.6 (1962) ... Philip Nash
- Episode #2.3 (1962) ... Philip Nash
- Episode #2.1 (1962) ... Philip Nash
1962 Out of This World (TV Series) - Dr. Arthur Bailey
- Divided We Fall (1962) ... Dr. Arthur Bailey
1961 Family Solicitor (TV Series) - Francis Naylor
- Test Case (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- House in Order (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Threats and Menaces (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Wage Snatch (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Slander (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Conflict of Laws (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Possession Order (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- First Eleven Plus (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Dangerous Driving (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Strike Action (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Cross Petition (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Man of Straw (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- Arson (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- The Case of the Dyed Hair (1961) ... Francis Naylor
- The Meeting (1961) ... Francis Naylor
1960 Pathfinders to Mars (TV Series) - Professor Hawkins
- Sabotage in Space (1960) ... Professor Hawkins
- The Imposter (1960) ... Professor Hawkins
1960 Man in the Moon - Rex
1960 Death of a Ghost (TV Series) - Albert Campion
- Episode #1.6 (1960) ... Albert Campion
- Episode #1.5 (1960) ... Albert Campion
- Episode #1.4 (1960) ... Albert Campion
- Episode #1.3 (1960) ... Albert Campion
- Episode #1.2 (1960) ... Albert Campion
- Episode #1.1 (1960) ... Albert Campion
1960 Don't Do It Dempsey (TV Series) - Paul Gossett
- Mothers' Help (1960) ... Paul Gossett
1960 Captain Moonlight: Man of Mystery (TV Series) - Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
- Episode #1.6 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
- Episode #1.5 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
- Episode #1.4 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
- Episode #1.3 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
- Episode #1.2 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
- Episode #1.1 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
1960 The Angry Silence - Pryce-Evans

1959 Dancers in Mourning (TV Series) - Albert Campion
- Part 6 (1959) ... Albert Campion
- Part 5 (1959) ... Albert Campion
- Part 4 (1959) ... Albert Campion
- Part 3 (1959) ... Albert Campion
- Part 2 (1959) ... Albert Campion
- Part 1 (1959) ... Albert Campion
1958-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Philip Irwin / Frank Barrett
- The Driving Force (1959) ... Philip Irwin
- The Shadow of Doubt (1958) ... Frank Barrett
1959 For Schools: Twelfth Night (TV Movie) - Sir Andrew Aguecheek
1958 Cinderella (TV Movie) - Signor Benvenuto
1958 Victory (TV Movie) - Captain Blackwood
1958 The Riddle of the Red Wolf (TV Series) - Rompus
- Poor Rufus! (1958) ... Rompus
1957 The Critical Point (TV Movie) - Detective Sergeant Green
1957 The One That Got Away - Lieutenant - Kent (uncredited)
1957 High Flight - Radar Operator
1957 Paradise Lagoon - Lifeboatman (uncredited)
1957 The Steel Bayonet - Pvt. Livingstone

1943: Mie Hama is born--Tokyo, Japan.

1963: US President John F. Kennedy screens From Russia With Love at the White House.
Then travels to Dallas, Texas.

1983: Richard Loo dies at age 80--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 1 October 1903--Maui, Hawaii.)

RICHARD LOO,
ACTOR 5 DECADES

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/22/obituaries/richard-loo-actor-5-decades.html

Nov. 22, 1983

Richard Loo, a Chinese-American actor best known for his many portrayals of Japanese villains in World War II movies, died in Los Angeles on Sunday night at the age of 80.

Mr. Loo, who was born in Maui, Hawaii, appeared in nearly 150 films over the course of almost 50 years in the movie business. ''He was known as the man who died to make a living,'' said his daughter Beverly Jane Loo.

''He was always either stabbing himself or committing hara-kiri or kamikaze,'' she said. ''He always played the big honcho who was really going to make life tough for the Americans, the really nasty Japanese general or colonel who ended up killing himself as a point of honor because he never got the best of the Americans.''

Among Mr. Loo's movies were ''The Purple Heart,'' ''God Is My Co-pilot,'' ''Story of Dr. Wessell,'' ''Keys of the Kingdom,'' ''The Good Earth,'' ''The Bitter Tea of General Yen,'' and ''Back to Bataan.''

In later years, he frequently appeared on television, and was featured in the ''Kung Fu'' television series. He was also the subject of impersonation by others; during his own television heyday, Dick Cavett was fond of doing Richard Loo imitations, particularly a scene from ''Purple Heart'' in which Mr. Loo, as a Japanese general, interrogated American fliers shot down in a raid over Tokyo.

According to Miss Loo, Mr. Loo did not mind the typecasting that dominated his career. ''He felt very patriotic about being in those movies,'' she said.

Mr. Loo's last film was a 1974 James Bond movie called ''The Man With the Golden Gun,'' in which he played a Chinese capitalist who financed the villain.

He is survived by his wife, Hope; two daughters, Beverly Jane, the head of Beverly Jane Loo Associates, a New York book publishing company, and Angela Levy of Los Angeles, and one grandchild. His former wife, Bessie Loo, served as his agent and maintains her own talent agency, Bessie S. Loo Associates, in Los Angeles.

Richard Loo (I) (1903–1983)
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Filmography

Actor (172 credits)

1981 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) -Kam Chong
- East Winds (1981) ... Kam Chong

1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - Chen Lee
- The Secret of the Jade Kwan Yin (1977) ... Chen Lee
1977 Police Story (TV Series) - Eddie Lee
- The Blue Fog (1977) ... Eddie Lee
1976 The Quest (TV Series) - Dr. Li Po
- Welcome to America, Jade Snow (1976) ... Dr. Li Po
1976 Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur (TV Movie) - Chiang-Kai-Shek
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Hai Fat
1972-1974 Kung Fu (TV Series) - Master Sun / Ho Fai, The Weapons Master / Wu Chang / ...
- Besieged: Cannon at the Gates (1974) ... Master Sun
- The Devil's Champion (1974) ... Ho Fai, The Weapons Master
- Arrogant Dragon (1974) ... Wu Chang
- The Tong (1973) ... Chen
- Blood Brother (1973) ... Master Sun
1974 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV Series) - Tanaka
- The Attacker (1974) ... Tanaka
1973 McCloud (TV Series) - Y.S. Chen
- The Solid Gold Swingers (1973) ... Y.S. Chen (uncredited)
1973 Ironside (TV Series) - Lin Chu Tai
- In the Forests of the Night (1973) ... Lin Chu Tai
1972 The Delphi Bureau (TV Series) - Shen Si
- The Deadly Little Errand (1972) ... Shen Si
1972 The Sixth Sense (TV Series) - Matsuo
- With This Ring, I Thee Kill! (1972) ... Matsuo
1971 Chandler - Leo
1971 One More Train to Rob - Mr. Chang
1970 Which Way to the Front? - Japanese Naval Officer (uncredited)
1970 One More Time (uncredited)
1968-1970 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Wong / Dr. Langpoor / Clown
- Project "X" (1970) ... Wong
- Payoff in the Piazza (1969) ... Dr. Langpoor
- A Case of Red Turnips (1968) ... Clown
1970 Bewitched (TV Series) - Mr. Tanaka
- Samantha's Better Halves (1970) ... Mr. Tanaka

1969 Here Come the Brides (TV Series) - Chi Pei
- Marriage, Chinese Style (1969) ... Chi Pei
1969 Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series) - Kenji Yamashita
- A Matter of Humanities (1969) ... Kenji Yamashita
1968 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Wong Tou
- Twenty-Four Karat Kill (1968) ... Wong Tou
1967 My Three Sons (TV Series) - Mr. Chang
- Weekend in Paradise (1967) ... Mr. Chang
1967 Family Affair (TV Series) - Mr. Chen
- The Mother Tongue (1967) ... Mr. Chen
1966 The Sand Pebbles - Major Chin
1966 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Dr. Yahama
- The Indian Affairs Affair (1966) ... Dr. Yahama
1966 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Wong
- Jeannie and the Kidnap Caper (1966) ... Wong
1966 The Wild Wild West (TV Series) - Wang Chung
- The Night the Dragon Screamed (1966) ... Wang Chung
1966 The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV Series) - Admiral Osuma
- The Lamb Who Hunted Wolves: Part 2 (1966) ... Admiral Osuma
- The Lamb Who Hunted Wolves: Part 1 (1966) ... Admiral Osuma
1965 Burke's Law (TV Series) - Grass Slipper
- Deadlier Than the Male (1965) ... Grass Slipper
1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) - Li Tung
- Time Bomb (1965) ... Li Tung
1965 Honey West (TV Series) - Tog - Chinese Fine Arts Thief
- The Owl and the Eye (1965) ... Tog - Chinese Fine Arts Thief
1965 I Spy (TV Series) - Mr. Tsung
- So Long, Patrick Henry (1965) ... Mr. Tsung
1963 Perry Mason (TV Series) - Mr. Eng
- The Case of the Floating Stones (1963) ... Mr. Eng
1963 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Liu Yang
- The Widow O'Rourke Story (1963) ... Liu Yang
1963 The Outer Limits (TV Series) - Li-Chin Sung
- The Hundred Days of the Dragon (1963) ... Li-Chin Sung
1963 The Dakotas (TV Series) - George Yang
- The Chooser of the Slain (1963) ... George Yang
1963 Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) - C.K. Yang
- Two Too Many (1963) ... C.K. Yang
1962 The Red Uncle (Short)
1962 A Girl Named Tamiko - Otani
1962 Diamond Head - Yamagata (uncredited)
1962 Sam Benedict (TV Series) - Andrew Ling
- So Various, So Beautiful (1962) ... Andrew Ling
1962 Confessions of an Opium Eater - George Wah
1962 The Beachcomber (TV Series) - Ah Wei
- Charlie Six Kids (1962) ... Ah Wei
1961 Espionage: Far East
1961 Bonanza (TV Series) - General Mu Tsung
- Day of the Dragon (1961) ... General Mu Tsung
1961 7 Women from Hell - Sgt. Takahashi
1961 Follow the Sun (TV Series) - District Attorney
- The Woman Who Never Was (1961) ... District Attorney
1961 Maverick (TV Series) - Lee Hong Chang
- The Golden Fleecing (1961) ... Lee Hong Chang
1960-1961 Hong Kong (TV Series) - Chung / Low
- Suitable for Framing (1961) ... Chung
- The Jade Empress (1960) ... Low

1959 The Scavengers
1958 Hong Kong Affair - Li Noon
1958 The Quiet American - Mr. Heng
1958 Tombstone Territory (TV Series) - Quong Key
- Tong War (1958) ... Quong Key
1957 Battle Hymn - Gen. Kim (scenes deleted)
1956 Around the World in 80 Days - Hong Kong Saloon Manager (uncredited)
1955-1956 TV Reader's Digest (TV Series) - Lew Gar Mun / Officer
- The Smuggler (1956) ... Lew Gar Mun
- The Brainwashing of John Hayes (1955) ... Officer
1954-1956 Cavalcade of America (TV Series) - Ho Chung
- Diplomatic Outpost (1956) ... Ho Chung
- Ordeal in Burma (1954)
1956 Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) - Jo-Kai
- Wall of Bamboo (1956) ... Jo-Kai
1956 The Man Called X (TV Series) -
- Assassination (1956)
1956 The Conqueror - Captain of Wang's Guard
1956 Crossroads (TV Series) - Colonel
- Calvary in China (1956) ... Colonel
1956 Navy Log (TV Series) - General Hashimoto
- Dr. Van (1956) ... General Hashimoto
1955 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Robert Hung
1955 House of Bamboo - Inspector Kito's Voice (voice, uncredited)
1955 Soldier of Fortune - Gen. Po Lin
1954 The Bamboo Prison - Commandant Hsai Tung
1954 My Little Margie (TV Series) - Mr. Tang
- San Francisco Story (1954) ... Mr. Tang
1954 December Bride (TV Series)
- The Chinese Dinner (1954)
1954 The Shanghai Story - Junior Officer
1954 Living It Up - Dr. Lee
1954 Hell and High Water - Hakada Fujimori
1953 China Venture -0 Chang Sung
1953 Fireside Theatre (TV Series) - Major Chang
- The Traitor (1953) ... Major Chang
- I Cover Korea (1953)
1953 Summer Theatre (TV Series)
- Foo Young (1953)
1953 Mr. & Mrs. North (TV Series) - John Wing
- Jade Dragon (1953) ... John Wing
1953 Destination Gobi - Commanding Officer, Japanese POW Camp (uncredited)
1953 Target Hong Kong - Fu Chao
1952 5 Fingers - Japanese Ambassador (uncredited)
1951 I Was an American Spy - Col. Masamato
1951 Operation Pacific - Japanese Fighter Pilot (uncredited)
1951 Chinatown Chump (Short) - Chinese Counterfeiter
1951 The Steel Helmet - Sgt. Tanaka

1949 Malaya - Colonel Genichi Tomura
1949 The Clay Pigeon - Ken Tokoyama - aka The Weasel
1949 State Department: File 649 - Marshal Yun Usu
1948 Rogues' Regiment - Kao Pang
1948 The Golden Eye - Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
1948 The Cobra Strikes - Hyder Ali
1948 Half Past Midnight - Lee Gow
1948 To the Ends of the Earth - Commissioner Lu (uncredited)
1948 Women in the Night - Col. Noyama
1947 Beyond Our Own - James Wong
1947 Web of Danger - Wing
1947 Seven Were Saved - Colonel Yamura
1947 The Beginning or the End - Japanese Officer (uncredited)
1946 Tokyo Rose - Colonel Suzuki
1945 Prison Ship - Capt. Osikawa
1945 First Yank Into Tokyo - Col. Hideko Okanura
1945 Back to Bataan - Maj. Hasko
1945 China's Little Devils - Colonel Huraji
1945 China Sky - Col. Yasuda
1945 God Is My Co-Pilot - Tokyo Joe
1945 Betrayal from the East - Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki, alias Tani
1944 The Keys of the Kingdom - Lt. Shon
1944 The Story of Dr. Wassell - Chinese Doctor on Train (uncredited)
1944 The Purple Heart - General Ito Mitsubi
1943 Rookies in Burma - Colonel Matsuda (uncredited)
1943 Jack London - Japanese Ambassador (uncredited)
1943 So Proudly We Hail! - Japanese Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited)
1943 Destroyer - Japanese Submarine Commander (uncredited)
1943 Behind the Rising Sun - Japanese Officer Dispensing Opium (uncredited)
1943 Yanks Ahoy - Japanese Submarine Officer (uncredited)
1943 China - Lin Yun
1943 The Falcon Strikes Back - Jerry
1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday - General Chan (uncredited)
1943 Flight for Freedom - Mr. Yokahata (uncredited)
1943 City Without Men - Japanese Spy (uncredited)
1942 Star Spangled Rhythm - Emperor Hirohito - 'Sweater, Sarong & Peekaboo Bang' Number (uncredited)
1942 Road to Morocco - Chinese Announcer (uncredited)
1942 Flying Tigers - Dr. Tsing (uncredited)
1942 Manila Calling - Filipino (uncredited)
1942 Across the Pacific - First Officer Miyuma
1942 Wake Island - Mr. Saburo Kurusu (uncredited)
1942 Little Tokyo, U.S.A. - Oshima
1942 Bombs Over Burma - Japanese Colonel
1942 Submarine Raider - Chauffeur Suji (uncredited)
1942 Remember Pearl Harbor - Mandolin-Playing Japanese Radioman (uncredited)
1942 A Yank on the Burma Road - Commandant (uncredited)
1941 Secret of the Wastelands - Quan
1941 They Met in Bombay - Japanese Officer (uncredited)
1941 Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery - Henchman (uncredited)
1940 Doomed to Die - Tong Leader
1940 The Fatal Hour - Jeweler

1939 Barricade - Colonel Commander of Rescue Party (uncredited)
1939 Daughter of the Tong - Wong - Hotel Clerk
1939 Island of Lost Men - Gen. Ahn Ling
1939 Lady of the Tropics - Delaroch's Chauffeur (uncredited)
1939 Miracles for Sale - Chinese Soldier in Demo (uncredited)
1939 Mr. Wong in Chinatown - Tong Chief
1939 Panama Patrol - Tommy Young
1939 Torchy Blane in Chinatown - Masked Chinese Hood (uncredited)
1939 North of Shanghai - Jed's Pilot
1938 Shadows Over Shanghai - Fong
1938 Too Hot to Handle - Charlie (uncredited)
1938 Blondes at Work - Sam Wong (uncredited)
1937 Thank You, Mr. Moto - Cop at Shooting Site (uncredited)
1937 West of Shanghai - Mr. Cheng
1937 That Certain Woman - Elevator Operator (uncredited)
1937 Outlaws of the Orient - The General (uncredited)
1937 The Singing Marine - Shanghai Hotel Official (uncredited)
1937 The Soldier and the Lady - Tartar (uncredited)
1937 China Passage - Lia Sen's Husband (voice, uncredited)
1937 Lost Horizon - Shanghai Airport Official (uncredited)
1937 The Good Earth - Chinese Farmer (uncredited)
1936 After the Thin Man - Lichee Club Headwaiter (uncredited)
1936 Stowaway - Chinese Merchant (uncredited)
1936 Mad Holiday - Li Yat (uncredited)
1936/II Shadow of Chinatown - Chinese Man on Street (uncredited)
1936/I Shadow of Chinatown - Loo, Chinese Man on Street [Chs. 5-7] (uncredited)
1936 Roaming Lady - Chinese Seaman (uncredited)
1935 China Seas - Chinese Inspector at Gangplank (uncredited)
1935 Captured in Chinatown - Ling Hatchet Man (uncredited)
1935 Shadows of the Orient - Yung Yow - Chinese Henchman (uncredited)
1935 Stranded - Chinese Groom (uncredited)
1934 The Mysterious Mr. Wong - Bystander Outside Store (uncredited)
1934 Limehouse Blues - Customer at Harry Young's (uncredited)
1934 The Painted Veil - Chinese Peasant (uncredited)
1934 Student Tour - Geisha's Customer (uncredited)
1934 Now and Forever - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
1932 The Bitter Tea of General Yen - Capt. Li
1932 The Secrets of Wu Sin - Charlie San
1932 War Correspondent - Bandit (uncredited)

Sergeant Tanaka in Sam Fuller's The Steel Helmet

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1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 48 of 65 - "Goldie's Gold Scam."

James Bond Jr - Goldie's Gold Scam

Season 1 - Episode 48
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807288/?ref_=ttep_ep48

While in Africa, the group is attacked by a rhino wearing a strap with a micro chip in it. Tracking it back to its source, Bond and IQ uncover a plot by Goldfinger and Goldie Finger to seize all the gold mines in the area for themselves.[/img]

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
J.R. Morton ... (written by)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Auric Goldfinger (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Goldie Finger (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 48 - Goldie's Gold Scam

2000: Electronic Arts publishes 007 Racing for PlayStation released in Brazil, Canada, and the US.

007 Racing
Video Game | 2000 | T

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268100/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl

You are Bond, James Bond, behind the wheel of the famous Bond vehicles and a new rental car. When a freighter bound for Halifax, Canada was intercepted and eliminated with military precision, Bond was elsewhere, distracted by a decoy mission that was orchestrated by a Dr. Hammondd Litte indicating that his daughter Cherise was kidnapped. Bond was dispatched to New York City to meet up with Jack Wade and find out about the conspiracy. He discovered a truck load of cars and found information that led him to Mexico to end up being captured and brought to Louisiana to find out that Litte actually orchestrated the attack on the freighter and that his real plan was to unleash a deadly virus that would kill millions. Can Bond Stop Litte in his Aston Marton DB5, his Lotus Esprit, his BMW Z3, his BMW 750iL, or the new BMW Z8?

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Ian Fleming ... (James Bond creator)
Richard Schenkman ... (dialogue)

Cast (in credits order)
Alistair Abell ... Georgi Koskov (voice)
John Cleese ... R (voice)
Tim Bentinck ... Hammond Little (voice)
Adam Blackwood ... James Bond / Valentin Zukovsky (voice)
Philip Maurice Hayes ... (voice) (as Phillip Maurice Hayes)
Inez Jesionowski
Bill Mondy ... Jack Wade (voice)
Liesa Norman
Caron Pascoe ... M (voice)
Rebecca Reichert ... Cherise Little (voice)
Kim Restell ... Dr. Melody Chase (voice)
Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff ... Xenia Onatopp (voice)
Sara Stockstad ... (voice)
Cathy Weseluck ... (voice)
Serena Whitters ... (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Miles Anderson ... (voice)
Pierce Brosnan ... James Bond (archive footage)
Richard Kiel ... Jaws (archive footage)
Desmond Llewelyn ... Q (archive footage)

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007 Racing Soundtrack (28:03)


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2002: Die Another Day released in the UK, Ireland, and Switzerland.

2002: Meurs un autre jour released in France.

2002: James Bond 007 - Stirb an einem anderen Tag (James Bond 007 - Die of One Another Day) premiere at Berlin, Germany.

2006: Kevin O'Donovan McClory dies at age 80--Dublin, Ireland.
(Born 8 June 1924--Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland.)

Kevin McClory
Co-author of the 'Thunderball' screenplay who sued Ian Fleming

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/kevin-mcclory-427368.html

Thursday 7 December 2006 01:00
Kevin O'Donovan McClory, screenwriter and film producer: born Dublin 8
June 1926; twice married (two sons, two daughters); died London 20
November 2006.

To devotees of James Bond history, the name Kevin McClory will be forever associated with Thunderball - the Ian Fleming novel, the court case surrounding it, and the film - and his myriad abortive attempts, countered by litigation, to launch an alternative James Bond film franchise.

Born in Dublin in 1926, Kevin O'Donovan McClory was a descendant of the literary Brontë family through his grandmother Alice McClory. His parents were both actors on the Irish stage, which fired Kevin's early desire to become an actor, but this ambition was hampered by severe dyslexia at school, and was finally blocked by a nervous stammer that was caused by a traumatic incident during the Second World War; in 1943, when serving in the Merchant Navy, Kevin McClory's ship was torpedoed while in the North Atlantic. He drifted over 700 miles in a lifeboat in freezing conditions with other crew members for 14 days, before being picked up off the coast of Ireland as one of the few remaining survivors.

In 1946, his desire still strong to be in show business and now with a greater appreciation of life, McClory talked his way into a £4-a-week job as a boom operator and "tea boy" at Shepperton Studios. Keen to be noticed, McClory worked in various capacities on classic British films including Anna Karenina (1948) and The Cockleshell Heroes (1955). It was during this early period at Shepperton that he formed a lifelong friendship with the director John Huston, another larger-than-life Irishman.

McClory was Huston's assistant on pictures like The African Queen (1951) and Moulin Rouge (1952), before graduating to Assistant Director on Huston's version of the Herman Melville classic Moby Dick (1956), starring Gregory Peck. This was McClory's stepping stone to becoming jack-of-all-trades on the mammoth production Around the World in 80 Days (1956), with him as the producer Mike Todd's assistant, as Assistant Producer and as Assistant Director.

McClory wanted more control over his own creative destiny and decided to write, produce and direct The Boy and the Bridge (1959). In the Bahamas, he met the wealthy Englishman Ivar Bryce, who formed Xanadu Productions with McClory to finance his first solo production. Bryce was a very close friend of the James Bond author Ian Fleming, and it wasn't long before, at Bryce's suggestion, McClory read several of Fleming's novels with a view to filming one of them.

The young and enthusiastic Irishman realised that these books had great potential. And great earning potential. However, McClory thought very much in visual terms, a hangover from his childhood dyslexia, and believed that he, Fleming and Bryce should collaborate on an original, more cinematic screenplay. To this triumvirate, he introduced Jack Whittingham, then ranked among the top 10 screenwriters in the UK, whose work had been received with great critical and public acclaim in Ealing Studios films including Mandy (1952) and The Divided Heart (1954).

Whittingham wrote a first-draft screenplay that eventually Ian Fleming would title Thunderball. The Bondwagon was about to start rolling, with the big bucks and the fame only a stone's throw away, or so McClory believed. Unfortunately for him, The Boy and the Bridge performed very badly at the box office and sank without a trace. Bryce and Fleming's initial enthusiasm for the young Irishman's handling the production of their first James Bond film project suddenly faded. Having expected the profits from The Boy and the Bridge to part-finance the Thunderball film, both Bryce and Fleming got cold feet and walked away from the project, leaving McClory high and dry.

When Ian Fleming sat at his typewriter at his Jamaican home, Goldeneye, in January 1961 to write his ninth Bond novel, he was in ill-health with heart trouble and felt very much a spent force. Writing to William Plomer, an old friend from his days with Naval Intelligence, who always proof-read and pre-edited his Bond novels, Fleming complained that he was

terribly stuck with James Bond. What was easy at 40 is very difficult at 50. I used to believe - sufficiently - in Bonds and blondes and bombs. Now the keys creak as I type and I fear the zest may have gone. Part of the trouble is having a wife and child. They knock the ruthlessness out of one. I shall definitely kill off Bond with my next book - better a poor bang than a rich whimper!

Perhaps it was no surprise, then, that a tired writer would turn to a convenient formed idea. Why let it go to waste? So Fleming based his ninth novel, Thunderball, on the collaborative screenplay, without any idea of including any credit for McClory's input and Whittingham's screen treatment. It would prove to be a costly error in judgement.

Before the publication of Thunderball on 27 March 1961 in London by Jonathan Cape, Kevin McClory obtained an advance proof copy of the novel. As soon as he realised that Fleming had plagiarised their collaborative screenplay, he sent a warning letter to the publishers that if they published the book as it stood he would take legal action. Receiving no answer, McClory sued. McClory was out to stop Jonathan Cape from representing Thunderball as the sole work of Fleming.

At a hearing, a judge decided that, since the accused had insufficient time to mount a defence, and publication of Thunderball was already so well advanced it couldn't be stopped, McClory and Whittingham's application would be refused. A little over two weeks after the failed book injunction, Ian Fleming suffered a major heart attack during the regular Tuesday-morning conference at The Sunday Times. He was rushed to the London Clinic, where he remained for a month.

The ensuing case that began on 20 November 1963 at the High Court in London was heavily covered in the media. Newspaper headlines screamed, "James Bond in a Thunderball clash!" Whittingham found it necessary to withdraw as co-plaintiff due to escalating costs, but, although in extreme ill-health, he returned loyally every day to support McClory. After nine days in court both Ivar Bryce and Ian Fleming decided to settle. McClory demanded £55,000.

In the final outcome, McClory was awarded £35,000 and his court costs paid (totalling £52,000), plus the film and television rights to all the existing Thunderball screen treatments. However, even though he had won the case, he was unhappy with the financial result and never paid his lawyer's costs. He also did nothing to help Whittingham meet his crippling court costs.

Fleming had two further serious heart attacks during the trial. On 12 August 1964, he suffered a final, fatal heart attack, aged 56, and died in the Kent and Canterbury Hospital.

Thunderball was eventually made into a film in 1965 by the producers Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli & Harry Saltzman, who "presented' the film for their company EON Productions. McClory was billed as producer on the film and Thunderball credited as being "Based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham & Ian Fleming". The film grossed $141.2m worldwide. Whittingham died of a heart attack in Malta in 1973, his contribution to the cinematic legacy of James Bond all but forgotten and unrecognised.

In 1983 Kevin McClory acted as executive producer on Never Say Never Again, a remake of Thunderball, for which Sean Connery returned after 12 years to star as James Bond, going head-to-head with Roger Moore as Bond in Octopussy. The film grossed an estimated £137.5m worldwide.

One of McClory's closest friends during the late Fifties and Sixties was Jeremy Vaughn, who also knew Ian Fleming well as his neighbour in Jamaica. He told Robert Sellers, author of the upcoming The Battle for Bond, that

Kevin was a smooth operator, an attractive character, but not a particularly pleasant one, certainly compared to his brother, Desmond, who was one of the kindest people you could ever meet. If a friend was in trouble, Desmond would always be there. Kevin would just tell you to piss off, if you weren't any good to him.

He's been very cruel to a number of people over the years who thought they were his friends. The overdriving thing with Kevin was that he just wanted to be a celebrity, he wanted to be famous . . . He probably had some semi-professional technical interest in making a film, but he really wanted the glamour.

McClory continued to be involved in legal wrangles over the years. In the 1990s, he announced plans to make Warhead 2000 AD, another adaptation of the Thunderball story, which was to have been made by Sony, with Timothy Dalton in the lead role, but this was eventually scrapped.

"It was Kevin's burning ambition, these [Bond] movies," Vaughn said,

but I don't think he gave a damn who he walked over and what he did in order to get there. Kevin had a project in life and that project was Kevin McClory.

Graham Rye

Kevin McClory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McClory
Second World War

As a teenaged radio officer in the British Merchant Navy, McClory endured attacks by German U-boats on two different occasions. The first attack occurred on 20 September 1942 was while he was serving aboard The Mathilda. A U-Boat surfaced and attacked the ship with heavy machine gun fire. The crew of the ship fired back and the U-Boat retreated. The second attack occurred on 21 February 1943 when McClory was serving on the Norwegian tanker Stigstad, which was attacked by torpedo from multiple U-boats. The ship sank and McClory and the other survivors made it to a life raft. They survived in terrible conditions for two weeks and traveled more than 600 miles before being rescued off the coast of Ireland. Two seaman died on the raft and a third died soon after they were rescued. McClory suffered severe frostbite and lost the ability to speak for more than a year after the incident. When he recovered his voice he was left with a pronounced stammer. He served out the rest of the war in the British Navy.

Kevin McClory (1926–2006)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565886/?ref_=nv_sr_5?ref_=nv_sr_5

Filmography

Producer (5 credits)

1983 Never Say Never Again (executive producer)

1976 Circasia (Short) (producer)

1965 Thunderball (producer)

1959 The Boy and the Bridge (producer)
1956 Around the World in 80 Days (associate producer - uncredited)

Sound department (5 credits)

1953 Beat the Devil (boom operator - uncredited)
1952 Moulin Rouge (boom operator - uncredited)
1951 The African Queen (boom operator - uncredited)
1950 The Mudlark (boom operator - uncredited)

1948 Anna Karenina (assistant boom operator - uncredited)

Miscellaneous Crew (5 credits)

1983 Never Say Never Again (presenter)

1957 Legend of the Lost (assistant to Henry Hathaway - uncredited)
1956 Around the World in 80 Days (assistant to producer: foreign locations - as Kevin O'Donovan McClory)
1952 Moulin Rouge (assistant: Mr. Huston - uncredited)
1951 The African Queen (assistant: Mr. Huston - uncredited)

Writer (3 credits)

1983 Never Say Never Again (based on an original story by)

1965 Thunderball (original story)

1959 The Boy and the Bridge (writer)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (2 credits)

1956 Around the World in 80 Days (second unit director: foreign locations - as Kevin O'Donovan McClory)
1956 Moby Dick (assistant director - uncredited)

Director (1 credit)

1959 The Boy and the Bridge

Actor (1 credit)

1965 Thunderball - Man Smoking at Nassau Casino (uncredited)

Location management (1 credit)

1955 The Cockleshell Heroes (location manager)

Self (6 credits)

2010 Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (Documentary) - Himself - Interviewee
2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
2003 Brits Go to Hollywood (TV Series) - Himself
- Sean Connery (2003) ... Himself
1996 John Huston: An t-Éireannach (Documentary) - Himself

1983 Never Say Never Again: Royal Film Premiere (TV Special short) - Himself

1965 Thunderball: The London Pavillion Premiere (Documentary short) - Himself[/u\

2006: 007首部曲：皇家夜總會 (007 Shǒubù qǔ: Huángjiā yèzǒnghuì; 007 The Royal Nightclub) released in Hong Kong China.

2015: Spectre released in India.
2019: GQ tells a tale of Bollinger and James Bond.

How Bollinger became the official
Champagne of James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/food-drink/article/bollinger-champagne-james-bond

By Thomas Barrie | 20 November 2019

The Champagne maison and Britain’s most famous spy have a storied history – and one that was celebrated with typical largesse in Paris this month

The gilded rooms of the Hôtel De Crillon in Paris’ Eighth Arrondissement have seen a lot. Marie Antoinette lived here for a time during the French Revolution, when the then-palace overlooked the guillotine and the queen’s own eventual place of execution. Teddy Roosevelt stayed at the hotel, as did Winston Churchill. It was here that the League Of Nations – the inter-war predecessor to the United Nations – was signed into existence and here that the American delegation stayed for the peace negotiations after the First World War. Taylor Swift is a fan. So is Madonna.

This month, the hotel added another line to its storied history as Bollinger, the house founded by the Comte de Villermont and his associates in 1829, celebrated four decades as the official Champagne of the James Bond franchise. To celebrate, Bollinger did what Champagne brands do best: they held a massive, decadent party. Under Napoleonic eagles, stucco colonnades and frescoes, the house revealed a limited-edition Moonraker-themed bottle and case: a reference to the 1979 Bond film in which the Champagne first appeared by official arrangement. On display was a case designed in pewter and wood veneer by Eric Berthes, inspired by the space-age Moonraker sets of production designer Sir Ken Adam, which opens at the push of a button to reveal a crystal ice bucket with a magnum of Bollinger 2007 (the “007” vintage, get it?). Q himself could hardly have done better.

The Moonraker-inspired case, which opens to reveal a magnum of Bollinger

Historically, Bond was – naturally – a fan of all Champagne. But in 1979, over lunch, Christian Bizot and Cubby Broccoli, the legendary Bond producer, decided that the spy preferred Bollinger. The link made sense, given Bollinger’s relationship with the franchise extends back to 1956 – the Champagne appears in Live And Let Die, but its first mention was in the novel Diamonds Are Forever – and the British establishment’s penchant for Bollinger is well attested. In fact, Queen Victoria liked Bollinger so much that she granted Jacques Joseph Bollinger the first Royal Warrant awarded to a Champagne house in 1884, a fact proudly displayed at the brand’s headquarters in Aÿ-Champagne. It was here, down the road at the original production address of 16 Rue Jules Lobet and far from the sparkle of the Crillon, that Bollinger first conceived of their now-famous limited-edition Bond Champagnes, which began with Quantum Of Solace and a special magnum of Le Grande Année 1999 housed in a case shaped like a bullet. This was followed by the limited-edition Bond 2002 La Grande Année Brut (released for Skyfall in 2012) and the 2009 equivalent (for Spectre in 2015).

Sleepy, picturesque Aÿ itself might not seem like the place you’d expect Her Majesty’s agents to be caught lurking, but in fact, some 12 million bottles are stored under the tiny village in dank brick tunnels more than fit for a Bond action sequence. The chase scene would take place on forklift trucks, which race through the tunnels at such speed, apparently, that pedestrians have to turn on a special system of red alarm lights to let everyone else know they’re heading into the tunnels. Otherwise, a forklift might race around a corner and, well, it wouldn’t be pretty. But it would be a dramatic end for a henchman or two.

Perhaps an idea for the next 40 years. Will Bond films still be in production in 2059? Definitely. Will Daniel Craig finally have retired, as he suggested two films ago? Who can say? But whatever incarnation the future 007 takes, one thing’s for certain: they’ll be sipping on Bollinger.

2020: No Time To Die onetime US release date, delayed to April 2021.

2021: The Music Of James Bond & More! at Stadttheater Idar-Oberstein, Germany.

The Music Of James Bond & More!

See the complete article here:

https://www.moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=view&id=34499

20 November 2021
Idar-Oberstein
(Germany)
The Music Of James Bond & More!
Hochkarätige Musiker, Sänger/innen, die Bond-Girls und eine Stuntcrew - Stadttheater Idar-Oberstein

Program Info:
25 Movies - One Show - All The Hits Live
The Music Of James Bond: Since the 60s until today, the music of the thriller around the British secret agent is inextricably linked to the movies. Original music from "Skyfall", "Casino Royale", "Golden Eye", "Moonraker" and many more let memories wake up to the mega hits in the cinemas. The songs are timeless and world-famous - stars like Tom Jones, Tina Turner, Madonna, Shirley Bassey and last but not least also Adele made the songs of the action-packed films true stars of film music.

With music from John Barry, Monty Norman, Paul McCartney, Bill Conti, Marvin Hamlisch, Eric Serra, David Arnold, Thomas Newman and others.

Details & tickets
Last edited: 07 November 2020 - 10:08 hours

2021: James Bond in Concert at Parktheater Eindhoven, Netherlands.

James Bond in Concert

See the complete article here:

https://www.moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=view&id=39964

20 November 2021
Eindhoven
(Netherlands)
James Bond in Concert
Noordpool Orkest conducted by Reinout Douma - Parktheater Eindhoven

Program Info:
The James Bond films and their title songs have been a global concept for 25 years. World stars are lining up to compose a Bond song and for various artists the interpretation of the title song marked the start of their career. Edison winner Ruben Hein and 3FM Serious Talent Elske DeWall perform these iconic title songs. Accompanied by the 42-strong North Pole Orchestra conducted by Reinout Douma you can hear Skyfall, Live And Let Die, Diamonds Are Forever, Goldfinger and all other Bond hits in a super-exciting orchestra version!

with music from John Barry, Monty Norman, Adèle, Paul McCartney and others

2021: Saturday Night Live Jazz - Pure Desmond Plays James Bond Songs at Birdland, Hamburg, Germany.

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE JAZZ - PURE DESMOND PLAYS JAMES BOND SONGS

See the complete article here:

https://happeningnext.com/event/saturday-night-live-jazz-pure-desmond-plays-james-bond-songs-eid3a08ac61k0

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE JAZZ - PURE DESMOND PLAYS JAMES BOND SONGS
Schedule
Sat Nov 20 2021 at 08:30 pm to 11:30 pm UTC+01:00

Location
Birdland Hamburg | Hamburg, HH

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE JAZZ - PURE DESMOND PLAYS JAMES BOND SONGS
„Geschüttelt, nicht gerührt“ – Der bekannteste Geheimagent der Welt mit der Nummer 007 ist ebenso ein Inbegriff für Stil und Geschmack wie der Sound des Saxophonisten Paul Desmond, der selbst wie ein „Dry Martini“ klingt.
Die vier Musiker von pure desmond verbinden diese beiden Welten durch instrumentale Bearbeitungen der legendären Songs zur Filmreihe im modernen Cool Jazz Sound zu etwas Neuem. Mit ihren Interpretationen nehmen sie den Hörer mit auf eine Fahrt durch die Welt von James Bond – voll fieser Bösewichter, rasanter Verfolgungsjagden, luxuriöser Reisen und romantischer Flirts.
“So haben Sie Bond noch nie gehört!” schreibt dazu die auflagenstärkste Fernsehzeitung im Lande, RTV “Man hatte schon fast vergessen, was für eine coole Musik Jazz sein kann – auch daran erinnern einen pure desmond”, so die FAZ.
“Eine edle und enstpannte Hommage an den bekanntesten Geheimagenten der Welt” konstatiert der NDR.
Mit:
Lorenz Hargassner (as)
Johann Weiß (g)
Christian Flohr (b)
Sebastian Deufel (dr)

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November 21st

1942: Al Matthews is born--Brooklyn, New York.
(He dies 22 September 2018--Orihuela, Spain.)

Aliens actor Al Matthews dies aged 75

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/al-matthews-dead-age-aliens-grande-hill-death-a8552286.html

Matthews also appeared on Grange Hill as the father of Benny Green and had his song 'Fool' reach number 16 in the UK Singles Chart in 1975
Clarisse Loughrey | @clarisselou | Monday 24 September 2018 11:48

20th Century Fox

Al Matthews, best known for playing Gunnery Sergeant Apone in Aliens (1986), has died aged 75.

El Pais reports that the actor was found dead in his home, in Orihuela Costa, in the Spanish Mediterranean province of Alicante, on Sunday, after a neighbour called the emergency services.

Born in Brooklyn in 1942, Matthews had served as a Marine in the Vietnam War. His website states: "I hold thirteen combat awards and decorations, including two purple hearts. I was the first black Marine in the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam to be meritoriously promoted to the rank of sergeant".

Alongside his role in Aliens, Matthews also played the fire chief in Superman III (1983), a workman in Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981), and General Tudor in The Fifth Element (1997). He returned to the role of Sgt Apone nearly 30 years later, when he voiced the character in the video game Aliens: Colonial Marines (2013).

He also had a strong career in the UK, where he appeared on Grange Hill as the father of Benny Green and had his song "Fool" reach number 16 in the UK Singles Chart in 1975. He retired in Spain in 2005, although his last film was this year's The Price of Death, which is currently in post-production.

Al Matthews (I) (1942–2018)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559922/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (35 credits)

2018 The Price of Death - Williamson
2013 Aliens: Colonial Marines (Video Game) - Sgt. Al Apone (voice)
2011 Operation Flashpoint: Red River (Video Game) - Col. Shannon J.Hardaway (voice)

1998 Short Stories About Love (TV Mini-Series)
- Shlosha Kochavim (1998)
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Master Sergeant 3
1997 The Fifth Element - General Tudor
1997 The Apocalypse Watch (TV Movie) - Wesley Sorenson
1996 Ellington (TV Series) - J.P. Coates
- Matchmaker (1996) ... J.P. Coates
1995 Soul Survivors (TV Movie) - Grover Cleveland
1994 Desmond's (TV Series) - Reverend Marvin Jones
- Judgement Day (1994) ... Reverend Marvin Jones

1989 Saracen (TV Series) - Dube
- Three Blind Mice (1989) ... Dube
1988 American Roulette - Morrisey
1988 Stormy Monday - Radio DJ
1987 Excuse Me But That's My Car (Short) - Winston Smith
1987 Out of Order - U.S. DJ
1987 London Embassy (TV Mini-Series) - Uwlie Cooper
- The Man on the Clapham Omnibus (1987) ... Uwlie Cooper
1987 Screen Two (TV Series) - Curtis Duchamps
- Coast to Coast (1987) ... Curtis Duchamps
1986 Big Deal (TV Series) - American punter
- Panel Money (1986) ... American punter
1986 Aliens - Sergeant Apone
1986 The American Way - Benedict
1985 Defense of the Realm - First U.S. Controller
1984 The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) - Admiral
- The Bullshitters: Roll out the Gunbarrel (1984) ... Admiral
1983 Funny Money - 1st Hood
1983 Superman III - Fire Chief
1983 The Professionals (TV Series) - Faroud
- The Ojuka Situation (1983) ... Faroud
1982 The Sender - Viet Nam Veteran
1982 Shelley (TV Series) - Newscaster
- No News Is Good... (1982) ... Newscaster
1982 Nancy Astor (TV Mini-Series) - Billy
- The Longhornes of Virginia (1982) ... Billy
1981 Ragtime - Maitre D'
1981 The Final Conflict - Workman
1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Oxford St. John
- The Black Madonna (1980) ... Oxford St. John
1980 Rough Cut - Ferguson
1979-1980 Grange Hill (TV Series) - Mr. Green
- Episode #3.10 (1980) ... Mr. Green
- Episode #2.2 (1979) ... Mr. Green
- Episode #2.1 (1979) ... Mr. Green

1979 Yanks - Black G.I. at Dance
1977 Bad Loser (Short)

"Fool", Al Matthews, 1975.

1966: You Only Live Twice films Donald Pleasance as Blofeld.

1985: A View to a Kill released in Australia.

1989: Peter Ray Burton dies at age 68--Chelsea, London, England.
(Born 4 April 1921--Bromley, Kent, England.)

Peter Burton

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

Peter Ray Burton (4 April 1921 – 21 November 1989) was an English film and television actor.

Early life
Peter Ray Burton, was born in Bromley, Kent, to Frederick Ray Burton and Gladys Maude (née Frazer).

Career

He is perhaps best known for playing Major Boothroyd in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962). Burton made two uncredited reappearances in Bond films, first as an RAF officer in Thunderball (1965) and later as a secret agent in the satirical Casino Royale.

In The Scarlet and the Black, the 1983 made-for-television docudrama concerning British, Irish, and U.S. counterintelligence agents working to rescue c. 4,000 Allied prisoners-of-war from Nazi deportation, Burton played the role of English aristocrat and British diplomat D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne, the 12th (and last) Duke of Leeds.[4]

Burton guest starred in a number of television shows, including The Avengers, The Saint, Return of the Saint and UFO.

Peter Burton (I) (1921–1989)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078252/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (68 credits)
1990 Number One Gun - Merlin
1990 Press Gang (TV Series) - Mr. Campbell
- At Last a Dragon (1990) ... Mr. Campbell

1987 One by One (TV Series) - Golf Club Secretary
- Remember the Humble Guinea-Pig (1987) ... Golf Club Secretary
1986 C.A.T.S. Eyes (TV Series) - Doctor
- Passage Hawk (1986) ... Doctor
1985 The Doctor and the Devils - Customer
1983 The Jigsaw Man - Douglas Ransom
1983 The Nation's Health (TV Series) - David Marvill
- Collapse (1983) ... David Marvill
1983 The Scarlet and the Black (TV Movie) - Sir D'Arcy Osborne
1981 Inchon - Adm. Sherman
1980 Richard's Things - Colonel
1980 The Professionals (TV Series) - Conroy
- Involvement (1980) ... Conroy

1979 The Bitch - Hotel Night Manager
1978 Return of the Saint (TV Series) - Dr. Evans
- The Arrangement (1978) ... Dr. Evans
1978 Out (TV Series) - Card Player
- Not Just Pennies (1978) ... Card Player
1978 Leopard in the Snow - Mr. Framley
1972 Lovebox - Charles Lambert (Charles and Margery) (as Peter Burdon)
1971 A Clockwork Orange - Junior Minister - Minister Frederick's Aid
1971 Carry On at Your Convenience - Hotel Manager
1970-1971 UFO (TV Series) - Dr. Murray / Perry
- Computer Affair (1971) ... Dr. Murray
- Ordeal (1971) ... Perry
- Close Up (1970) ... Dr. Murray (uncredited)
1971 All the Right Noises - Stage Manager
1971 Brett (TV Series) - Boone
- Investment - Long Term (1971) ... Boone
1970 Hell Boats - Admiral's Aide

1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun - Medical Technician (uncredited)
1968 Amsterdam Affair - Herman Ketelboer
1967 Berserk - Gustavo
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Anderson
- The Sitting Pigeon (1967) ... Anderson
1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Claude Molliere
- The Gadget Lovers (1967) ... Claude Molliere
1966 Judith - Conklin
1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - Fleming
- Small Game for Big Hunters (1966) ... Fleming
1965 Thunderball - RAF Officer in Car (uncredited)
1963 That Kind of Girl - Elliot Collier
1963 The Swingin' Maiden - Thompson's Salesman
1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Sheik in Arab Council (uncredited)
1962 Dr. No - Major Boothroyd
1962 The Six Proud Walkers (TV Series) - Det. Supt. Arrowsmith
- All in the Family (1962) ... Det. Supt. Arrowsmith
1961 The Pursuers (TV Series) - Paul De Bois
- Breakout (1961) ... Paul De Bois
1961 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Sir Ben Cheviot
- Flight 447 Delayed (1961) ... Sir Ben Cheviot
1961 Roommates - 1st Viola
1961 Knight Errant Limited (TV Series) - John Barry
- Tall, Dark Stranger (1961) ... John Barry
1960 On Trial (TV Series) - Henry Matthews QC
- W.T. Stead (1960) ... Henry Matthews QC
1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - The Commodore
- The Patchwork Quilt (1960) ... The Commodore
1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Art Expert
- The Girl with Grey Hair (1960) ... Art Expert (uncredited)
1960 Sink the Bismarck ! - Captain - HMS Solent - First Destroyer

1959 Make Mine a Double - 2nd Pilot
1958 White Hunter (TV Series) - Chauvet
- The Girl Hunt (1958) ... Chauvet
1958 A Night to Remember - 1st Class Steward (uncredited)
1958 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Spanish Major
- Operation Eel (1958) ... Spanish Major
1957 The Betrayal - Tony Adams
1957 Five on a Treasure Island - Quentin Kirrin
1957 Hour of Mystery (TV Series) - Walter Hartright
- The Woman in White (1957) ... Walter Hartright
1956 Child in the House - Howard Forbes (uncredited)
1956 Reach for the Sky - Peter / Coltishall Officer (uncredited)
1956 The Third Key - Creasey
1956 Spin a Dark Web - Inspector Collis
1956 Johnny You're Wanted
1955 Value for Money - Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
1955 Three Cases of Murder - Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs (segment "Lord Mountdrago") (uncredited)
1954 The Green Scarf - Purser
1954 The Gentle Falcon (TV Series) - 2nd Messenger / 1st Courtier
- Home at Last (1954)
- The Cry of the Falcon (1954)
- Farewell Richard (1954) ... 2nd Messenger
- A Strange Tournament (1954) ... 1st Courtier
1954 They Who Dare - Marine Barrett
1953 The Heart of the Matter - Perrot (uncredited)
1953 Paratrooper - Minor Role (uncredited)
1952 The Stolen Plans - Dr. Foster
1952 The Frightened Bride - Graham Moore
1950 The Wooden Horse - Nigel
1950 What the Butler Saw - Bill Fenton
1950 They Were Not Divided - Minor Role (uncredited)
1950 Family Affairs (TV Series) - Captain Heddle
- Ah! The Peace of It All (1950) ... Captain Heddle

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1979 The Bitch (dialogue coach)

Dr No

https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=2414
Thunderball

Casino Royale

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 49 of 65 - "Canine Caper."

James Bond Jr - Canine Caper

Season 1 - Episode 49
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807281/?ref_=ttep_ep49

James, IQ and Gordo use a stray dog which follows Bond back to the Warfield to locate its master who had the security plan of Scotland Yard, who is abducted by Skullcap; Dr. Derange needs the microfilm so that he can break through Scotland Yard's security so that he can place his acid bomb in Scotland Yard's building foundation and destroy it.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Benjamin Pollack ... (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 / 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)

Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 49 - Canine Caper

1995: Royal premiere of GoldenEye at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London.

2003: Entertainment Arts releases 007 - Everything or Nothing for Game Boy Advance.

James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
Video Game | 2003 } T

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366629/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

007 and Serena St. Germaine discover that Katya Nadonova's project, nanobots designed to repair nuclear reactors; have been stolen by Nikolai Diavolo. Together the two set off to new Orleans and beyond to confront Diavolo.

Directed by Scot Bayless
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Danny Bilson ... (story)
Paul De Meo ... (story)
Bruce Feirstein
Ian Fleming ... (characters)
Nuno Miranda ... (adaptation)
Nuno Miranda ... (translation)
Cast (in credits order)
Pierce Brosnan ... James Bond (voice)
John Cleese ... Q (voice)
Willem Dafoe ... Nikolai Diavolo (voice)
Judi Dench ... M (voice)
Heidi Klum ... Katya Nadanova (voice)
Shannon Elizabeth ... Serena St. Germaine (voice)
Misaki Itô ... Miss Nagai (voice)
Richard Kiel ... Jaws (voice)
Mya ... Mya Starling (voice) (as Mya Marie Harrison)
James Arnold Taylor ... Jack Mason, 003 / Yayakov's Thug (voice) (as James A. Taylor)
Tim Bentinck ... Additional Voices (voice)
Edita Brychta ... Additional Voices (voice)
Vladimir Cuk ... Additional Voices (voice)
Neil Dickson ... Additional Voices (voice)
Samantha Eggar ... Additional Voices (voice)
Alex Fernandez ... The General (voice)
Carlos Ferro ... South American Guard (voice)
Marc Graue ... Jean Le Rouge (voice)
Boris Lee Krutonog ... Additional Voices (voice) (as Boris Krutonog)
Vanessa Marshall ... Computer (voice)
Kara Noble ... Additional Voices (voice)
Dorota Puzio ... Additional Voices (voice) (as Durato Puzio)
Victor Raider-Wexler ... Additional Voices (voice)
Scott Rummell ... Additional Voices (voice) (as Scott Rummell Taylor)
Keith Szarabajka ... Arkady Yayakov (voice) (as Keith Szarabaijka)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Samantha Newark ... (voice)
Linda Wang ... (voice)
Produced by
Scott Bandy ... senior producer
Scot Bayless ... executive producer
Scott Blackwood ... producer
Joe Rush ... producer
Music by
Sean Callery

007 Everything or Nothing - E3 2003 Trailer (2:01)


James Bond Everything or Nothing GBA - Theme OST


Mya - Everything or Nothing (Jazz) (2:50)

Later Japan release

2006: German premiere of Casino Royale in Berlin.
2008: Quantum of Solace released in Spain.

2011: Syd Cain dies at age 93--London, England.
(Born 16 April 1918--Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.)

Syd Cain obituary
Production designer behind the deadly gadgets used by James Bond – and his foes

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/dec/01/syd-cain
Kim Newman - Thu 1 Dec 2011 13.29 EST

Syd Cain at Pinewood Studios with the model used in the explosive climax to
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969). Photograph: 007magazine.com

The production designer Syd Cain, who has died aged 93, was one of many behind-the-scenes professionals elevated to something like prominence by the worldwide interest in the James Bond films. An industry veteran who began work in British cinema as a draughtsman in 1947, contributing to the look of the gothic melodrama Uncle Silas, Cain is credited on a range of film and television projects, but remains best known for his work in various design capacities on the 007 series, from Dr No in 1962 to GoldenEye in 1995.

Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Cain served in the armed forces in the second world war, surviving a plane crash and recovering from a broken back. Working at Denham Studios in Buckinghamshire in the 1940s and 50s, he moved up from uncredited draughtsman (on Adam and Evelyne, The Interrupted Journey, You Know What Sailors Are and Up to His Neck) to assistant art director (for The Gamma People, Fire Down Below, Interpol, How to Murder a Rich Uncle and The World of Suzie Wong). During this time, he developed a habit of slipping his name on to the screen among documents provided as props. In Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana (1959), where the blueprints for a vacuum cleaner are mistaken for rocket secrets, he is listed on the papers as the designer of the device. His first credit as art director was on The Road to Hong Kong (1962), the British-produced last gasp of the series of Bob Hope/Bing Crosby comedies. Cain also worked on the Hope vehicle Call Me Bwana (1963), best remembered because of an in-joke reference to it in From Russia With Love, where a sniper is concealed behind a billboard advertising the film.

Having worked as a draughtsman on Hell Below Zero (1954) and assistant art director on The Cockleshell Heroes (1956), both produced by Albert R Broccoli, he was chosen by Broccoli to work on the Bond films. Though uncredited, he worked with the production designer Ken Adam – in whose shadow he modestly remained for much of his career – on Dr No, taking over as art director when Adam was not available for the immediate follow-up, From Russia With Love (1963). This was the film that introduced the character of Q (Desmond Llewelyn). Cain was responsible for the design of the gadgets issued to Sean Connery's Bond, notably the briefcase with concealed sniper rifle and tear-gas talcum tin. For the villains, Cain also provided Rosa Klebb's shoes, with poison-tipped blade, and the chess-themed decor of Blofeld's lair.

Later, he was production designer for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). With a new Bond (George Lazenby) and a move away from the gadgets and vast sets of Connery and Adam's later work, Thunderball and Goldfinger, this tried to seem less fantastical – the only contraption issued to Bond is a photocopier. Cain was the supervising art director on Roger Moore's first Bond film, Live and Let Die (1973), then left the series, eventually returning as a storyboard artist for Pierce Brosnan's 007 debut, GoldenEye.

Arguably more impressive than his Bond associations, Cain worked with a number of notable film-makers throughout the 1960s and 70s, as assistant art director for Stanley Kubrick (Lolita, 1962), art director for Ronald Neame (Mister Moses, 1965) and François Truffaut (Fahrenheit 451, 1966), executive art director for Richard Lester (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1966) and production designer for Ken Russell (Billion Dollar Brain, 1967), Alfred Hitchcock (Frenzy, 1972) and Jack Gold (Aces High, 1976).

Contributing to lasting British pop-culture artefacts, he was also art director on the Cliff Richard vehicle Summer Holiday (1963) and production designer of the revival series The New Avengers (1976). After the popular, action-oriented Alistair Maclean adventure Fear Is the Key (1973), Cain became associated with a brand of high adventure that grew out of the Bond films, working with Peter R Hunt (director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service) on the Moore movies Gold (1974) and Shout at the Devil (1976), both set in Africa, and with the producer Euan Lloyd on a series of boozy, British macho epics – The Wild Geese (1978), The Sea Wolves (1980) and Who Dares Wins (1982).

Cain retired as a production designer after Tusks (1988), but contributed storyboards to a select run of high-profile films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). His final credit was on the Michael Caine boxing movie Shiner (2000). In retirement, he illustrated children's books, wrote an autobiography (Not Forgetting James Bond: The Autobiography of James Bond Production Designer Syd Cain, 2002) and was a well-liked guest at Bond-themed fan events.

Cain was married twice. His five sons and three daughters survive him.

• Sidney Cain, production designer, art director and illustrator, born 16 April 1918; died 21 November 2011

Syd Cain (1918–2011)

Filmography

Production designer (17 credits)

1988 Tusks
1985 Wild Geese II
1982 The Final Option
1981 Loophole
1980 Lion of the Desert
1980 The Sea Wolves

1978 The Wild Geese
1976 The New Avengers (TV Series) (13 episodes)
- Dirtier by the Dozen (1976)
- Gnaws (1976)
- Sleeper (1976)
- Faces (1976)
- Three Handed Game (1976)
- The Tale of the Big Why (1976)
- Target! (1976)
- Cat Amongst the Pigeons (1976)
- To Catch a Rat (1976)
- The Last of the Cybernauts...? (1976)
- House of Cards (1976)
- The Midas Touch (1976)
- The Eagle's Nest (1976)
1976 Aces High
1976 Shout at the Devil
1974 Gold
1972 Fear Is the Key (as Sidney Cain)
1972 Frenzy
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1967 Billion Dollar Brain
1966 Fahrenheit 451
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

Art department (27 credits)

2001 The Fourth Angel (storyboard artist)
2000 Shiner (storyboard artist)

1998 Tarzan and the Lost City (storyboard artist)
1995 GoldenEye (storyboard artist)
1994 The NeverEnding Story III (storyboard artist)
1991 Robin Hood (storyboard artist - as Sydney Cain)

1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (storyboard artist: UK)
1984 Supergirl (research art director)

1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (executive art director)
1962 Lolita (associate art director - as Sidney Cain)
1960 The World of Suzie Wong (assistant art director - as Sydney Cain)
1959 Our Man in Havana (assistant art director)
1958 Tank Force (assistant art director)
1957 High Flight (assistant art director)
1957 How to Murder a Rich Uncle (assistant art director)
1957 Fire Down Below (assistant art director)
1957 Pickup Alley (assistant art director)
1956 Zarak (assistant art director - uncredited)
1956 The Gamma People (assistant art director)
1955 The Cockleshell Heroes (assistant art director)
1954 Up to His Neck (draughtsman - uncredited)
1954 You Know What Sailors Are (draughtsman - uncredited)
1954 Hell Below Zero (draughtsman - uncredited)

1949 The Interrupted Journey (draughtsman - uncredited)
1949 Madness of the Heart (draughtsman - uncredited)
1949 Adam and Evalyn (draughtsman - uncredited)
1947 The Inheritance (draughtsman - uncredited)

Art director (10 credits)

1973 Live and Let Die (supervising art director)
1966 Fahrenheit 451
1965 Mister Moses
1965 McGuire, Go Home!
1964 Agent 8 3/4
1963 From Russia with Love
1963 Call Me Bwana
1963 Summer Holiday
1962 Dr. No (uncredited)
1962 The Road to Hong Kong

2012: The University of Hertfordshire awards an honorary Doctorate of Arts degree to Roger Moore, for outstanding contribution to UK film and television industry for over 50 years.

https://www.whtimes.co.uk/what-s-on/reviews/sir-roger-moore-james-bond-the-saint-at-elstree-studios-hertsmere-university-of-hertfordshire-1-5033710

2017: Dynamite Entertainment announces its third one-off comic (on M this time) to be released 7 February 2018.
PJ Holden & Dearbhla Kelly, artists. Declan Shalvey, writer.

2017: Aston Martin reveals "the next" Vantage (based on the DB10).
More than 500 horse power and 505 foot pounds of torque.

https://autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/2018-aston-martin-vantage-confirmed-more-500hp

RichardTheBruce

November 22nd

1899: Hoagy Carmichael is born--Bloomington, Indiana.
(He dies 27 December 1981 at age 82--Rancho Mirage, California.)

Hoagy Carmichael

American composer, musician, and actor
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hoagy-Carmichael
Written By: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last Updated: Nov 18, 2019 See Article History
Alternative Title: Hoagland Howard Carmichael

Hoagy Carmichael, byname of Hoagland Howard Carmichael, (born November 22, 1899, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.—died December 27, 1981, Rancho Mirage, California), American composer, singer, self-taught pianist, and actor who wrote several of the most highly regarded popular standards in American music.

Carmichael’s father was an itinerant electrician, and his mother earned extra money for the family as a pianist for dances and silent movies; from her, Carmichael absorbed the basics of playing the piano. He was strongly influenced by ragtime music and by the music he heard from black families and churches in his neighbourhood. As a teenager, he made every effort to hear and play as much jazz as possible, studying in Indianapolis, Indiana, with pianist Reginald DuValle and traveling to Chicago to hear Louis Armstrong. While studying at Indiana University in Bloomington (LL.B., 1926), Carmichael led a small jazz band that had some success playing for college dances throughout the Midwest. In the spring of 1924, Carmichael became friends with Bix Beiderbecke after engaging the young cornetist to play for several fraternity parties. Carmichael’s first composition, “Free Wheeling,” was retitled “Riverboat Shuffle” when recorded by Beiderbecke and his band, the Wolverines, later the same year; the recording subsequently became a jazz classic.

After graduating from college, Carmichael practiced law in Florida for a brief period. During this time, he happened to hear a recording of his song “Washboard Blues,” by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Surprised that the song had been recorded and encouraged by this mark of success, he abandoned law and moved to New York City to embark on a career as a musician and composer. He recorded a version of his song “Stardust” in 1927; the song, an instrumental until fitted with lyrics by Mitchell Parrish in 1929, attracted little notice at first. In 1930 Isham Jones and his Orchestra had a hit with the song, and it went on to become one of the most renowned and most recorded standards in all of American music. During his stay in New York, Carmichael became friends with the young lyricist Johnny Mercer; the two collaborated on several songs throughout the years, with “Lazy Bones” being their first hit in 1933. Other hits composed during Carmichael’s years in New York include “Lazy River,” “Rockin’ Chair,” and “Georgia” (also known as “Georgia on My Mind”).

Hoagy Carmichael.
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Carmichael moved to Hollywood, California, in 1936. There he composed songs for films and found additional success as a character actor, often playing the role of a philosophical and world-weary piano player, as in To Have and Have Not (1944). His hit songs for movies include “Two Sleepy People,” “Small Fry,” “Heart and Soul,” “Ole Buttermilk Sky,” “The Nearness of You,” and “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,” which won an Oscar for the best film song of 1951. One of his best-known compositions of the 1940s was “Skylark,” another collaboration with Mercer, and a song that reflected Carmichael’s jazz influences in that, according to one music scholar, it “seemed to have the improvisations built right into the melody.”

As the golden age of American popular song waned during the advent of rock and roll in the 1950s, Carmichael continued to write songs—including such minor hits as “My Resistance Is Low” and “Winter Moon”—but had no more major successes as a songwriter. He also acted in a variety of television roles, such as his recurring dramatic part on the western series Laramie during the 1959–60 season. He never stopped composing, although most of his later songs were never recorded. One notable exception was a collection of children’s music released in 1971, Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop. Mostly, he devoted his later years to his hobbies of golf and coin collecting.

Carmichael wrote two well-received volumes of memoirs, The Stardust Road (1946) and Sometimes I Wonder (1965). After Carmichael’s death, his family donated his archives and personal effects to his alma mater, Indiana University, which opened the Hoagy Carmichael Room in his honour in 1986.

Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005994/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (23 credits)

1972 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV Series) - Uncle Walter
- Smiles from Yesterday (1972) ... Uncle Walter
1970 The Name of the Game (TV Series) - Willie Meeker
- Echo of a Nightmare (1970) ... Willie Meeker

1966 The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series)
- Oh Boy, Is the Honeymoon Over (1966)
1965 The Man Who Bought Paradise (TV Movie) - Mr. Leoni
1964 Burke's Law (TV Series) - Carl Baker / 'Jango' Jordan
- Who Killed Molly? (1964) ... Carl Baker
- Who Killed Snooky Martinelli? (1964) ... 'Jango' Jordan
1960 The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) - Narrator
- Those Ragtime Years (1960) ... Narrator
1959-1960 Laramie (TV Series) - Jonesy
- Cemetery Road (1960) ... Jonesy
- Midnight Rebellion (1960) ... Jonesy
- Saddle and Spur (1960) ... Jonesy
- The Protectors (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Hour After Dawn (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Ride or Die (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Street of Hate (1960) ... Jonesy
- Duel at Alta Mesa (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Rope of Steel (1960) ... Jonesy
- Company Man (1960) ... Jonesy
- Death Wind (1960) ... Jonesy
- The Legend of Lily (1960) ... Jonesy
- Day of Vengeance (1960) ... Jonesy
- Trail Drive (1960) ... Jonesy
- Ride into Darkness (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- The Pass (1959) ... Jonesy
- Night of the Quiet Men (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- The Lonesome Gun (1959) ... Jonesy
- Bare Knuckles (1959) ... Jonesy
- Man of God (1959) ... Jonesy
- Dark Verdict (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- The General Must Die (1959) ... Jonesy
- The Run to Tumavaca (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- General Delivery (1959) ... Jonesy
- The Iron Captain (1959) ... Jonesy
- The Lawbreakers (1959) ... Jonesy
- The Star Trail (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
- Fugitive Road (1959) ... Jonesy
- Circle of Fire (1959) ... Jonesy
- Glory Road (1959) ... Jonesy
- Stage Stop (1959) ... Jonesy

1958 Climax! (TV Series) - Jazzman
- Sound of the Moon (1958) ... Jazzman
1957 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Marty Dix
- The Helen Morgan Story (1957) ... Marty Dix
1956 The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series)
Frazier
- Death in the Snow (1956) ... Frazier
1955 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Sam
- Casablanca (1955) ... Sam
1955 Timberjack - Jingles
1952 The Gulf Playhouse (TV Series) -
- The Whale on the Beach (1952)
1952 Belles on Their Toes - Thomas George Bracken
1952 The Las Vegas Story - Happy
1950 Young Man with a Horn - Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby

1949 Johnny Holiday - Hoagy Carmichael
1947 Night Song - Chick
1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Butch Engle
1946 Canyon Passage - Hi Linnet
1945 Johnny Angel - Celestial O'Brien
1944 To Have and Have Not - Cricket
1937 Topper - Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)

Soundtrack (376 credits)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005994/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Music department (5 credits)

2012 All American Alston (TV Movie)

1992 George Shearing: Lullaby in Birdland (Video) (music: "Memphis in June")
1990 Michael Bolton: Georgia on My Mind (Video short)

1956 Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (TV Series) (featuring the music of - 1 episode)
- C (1956) ... (featuring the music of)

1939 St. Louis Blues (songs by)

Composer (1 credit)

1964 De muziek van Hoagy Carmichael (TV Short)

Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953.
Chapter 5 - The Girl From Headquarters

'He is very good looking. He reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless in his . . .'

Chapter 8 - Pink Lights and Champagne

As he tied his thin, double ended, black satin tie, he paused for a moment and examined himself levelly in the mirror. His grey blue eyes looked calmly back with a hint of ironical inquiry and the short lock of black hair which would never stay in place slowly subsided to form a thick comma above his right eyebrow. With the thin vertical scar down his right cheek the general effect was faintly piratical. Not much of Hoagy Carmichael there, thought Bond, as he filled a flat, light gunmetal box with fifty of the Morland cigarettes with the triple gold band. Mathis had told him of the girl's comment.

Moonraker, Ian Fleming, 1955.
Chapter XIV - Itching Fingers

Commander Bond. James Bond. Clearly a conceited young man like so many of them in the Secret Service. And why had he been sent down instead of somebody she could work with, one of her friends from the Special Branch, or even somebody from MI5? The message from the Assistant Commissioner had said that there was no one else available at short notice, that this was one of the stars of the Secret Service who had the complete confidence of the Special Branch and the blessings of MI5. Even the Prime Minister had had to give permission for him to operate, for just this one assignment, inside England. But what use could he be in the short time that was left? He could probably shoot all right and talk foreign languages and do a lot of tricks that might be useful abroad. But what good could he do down here without any beautiful spies to make love to. Because he was certainly good-looking. (Gala Brand automatically reached into her bag for her vanity case. She examined herself in the little mirror and dabbed at her nose with a powder puff.) Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold. Were they grey or blue? It had been difficult to say last night. Well, at any rate she had put him in his place and shown him that she wasn't impressed by dashing young men from the Secret Service, however romantic they might look.

"Stardust", Hoagy Carmichael.


Have and Have Not, "Am I Blue", Hoagy Carmichael, 1944.


Have and Have Not, "Georgia", Hoagy Carmichael, 1944.

1923: Guy Doleman is born--Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand.
(He dies 30 January 1996 at age 72--Los Angeles, California.)

Guy Doleman

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Guy Doleman in The Prisoner (1967)

Guy Doleman
Born 22 November 1923
Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand
Died 30 January 1996 (aged 72)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Years active 1948–1992

Guy Doleman (22 November 1923 – 30 January 1996) was a New Zealand actor.

Early life
Doleman was born in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand, later moving to Australia.

Career
During the 1940s and '50s, Doleman was one of the busiest actors in Australia, appearing in the majority of films made there at the time, and being busy on radio, particularly in the drama Hagen's Circus, which made him a radio star in Australia. A history of Australian radio grouped Doleman with Peter Finch, Grant Taylor, Rod Taylor and Lloyd Berrell as part of "a wild but very colourful group of actors... who in their own way helped forge a wonderful ambience which was unique to Sydney radio. They had their friendly fights in studios and even took on gangs of hecklers in the backstreets of Kings Cross, with a sense of joy. Most times they came out on top in these scuffles."

In 1952 he won a £300 Actor's Choice Award for his performance in the radio drama The Coward. He used this money to go to Hollywood for a film in September 1953, where he did a bit of television work, then returned to Australia.

He was cast in Long John Silver (1954) but passed on the role because it meant he had to wear contact lenses – Rod Taylor took the part instead.[5] He had moved to London by the early 1960s. Later he returned to Australia.

He is perhaps best known for his role as "Count Lippe" in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965) and as "Colonel Ross" in the three film adaptations of Len Deighton's Harry Palmer novels, starring Michael Caine, released between 1965 and 1967. He also played Number Two in the TV series The Prisoner (1967). Doleman's was the first of a pair of Number Twos who appeared in the first episode, "Arrival"; the second being played by George Baker.

Death
Guy Doleman died of lung cancer in Los Angeles on 30 January 1996 aged 72.

Filmography
Always Another Dawn (1948) - Warren Melville
Strong Is the Seed (1949) - William Farrer

The Kangaroo Kid (1950) - Sgt. Jim Penrose
Kangaroo (1952) - Pleader (uncredited)
The Phantom Stockman (1953) - Mr. Stapleton
His Majesty O'Keefe (1954) - Herr Weber
Dial M for Murder (1954) - Detective (uncredited)[6]
Smiley (1956) - Bill McVitty
The Adventures of Long John Silver (1957, TV Series) - Dr. Stanhope
The Shiralee (1957) - Son O'Neill
Smiley Gets a Gun (1958) - Quirk
On the Beach (1959) - Lt. Cmdr. Farrel

The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960, TV Movie)[7]
The Square Ring (1960, TV Movie)
Whiplash (1961, TV Series) - Sundowner / Raike Dartner / Norris
Follow the Sun (1961, TV Series) - Alex Cooper
ITV Play of the Week (1962-1963, TV Series) - Walter Ramsden / Captain Lee
No Hiding Place (1962-1964, TV Series) - Melvyn Kerry / Felix Seymour / James Conway
The Avengers (1963, TV Series) - Oliver Waldner
Jezebel ex UK (1963, TV Series) - Robin Coleridge
Captain Sindbad (1963)
The Dickie Henderson Show (1963, TV Series)
BBC Sunday-Night Play (1963, TV Series) - Managing Editor
The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1963, TV Series) - Wayne Douglas
The Hidden Truth (1964, TV Series) - Charles Medwin
The System (1964) (aka: The Girl Getters) - Philip
Boy with a Flute (1965, Short)
Young Cassidy (1965) - Officer
The Ipcress File (1965) - Colonel Ross
Thunderball (1965) - Count Lippe
The Idol (1966) - Martin Livesey
The Power Game (1966, TV Series) - Stephen Gray
Funeral in Berlin (1966) - Colonel Ross
The Deadly Bees (1967) - Ralph Hargrove
The Prisoner (1967, Episode: "Arrival") - Number Two
Thirty-Minute Theatre (1967, Episode: "The Tape Recorder")
Billion Dollar Brain (1967) - Colonel Ross
A Twist of Sand (1968) - Patrol Boat Commander
Strange Report (1969, TV Series) - Glyn Crowley

Chilling (1974)
The Six Million Dollar Man (1977, TV Series) - Henry Bulman
Enigma (1977) - Maurice Mockcastle
The Greatest Battle (1978) - General Whitmore

A Dangerous Summer (1981) - Julian Fane
Early Frost (1982) - Mike Hayes
Goodbye Paradise (1983) - Quiney
Matt Houston (1984, TV Series) - Richard / Rudy Bezmer
The Colbys (1986, TV Series) - Peter Hackford
The Shiralee (1987)
Hell Raiders (1988)

Tagget (1991, TV Movie) - Commander Arthur Green
Murder, She Wrote (1992, TV Series) - Corsair (final appearance)

Theatre Credits
Little Lambs Eat Ivy, Minerva Theatre, Kings Cross, NSW, May 1949
Edward, My Son, Theatre Royal, Sydney, NSW, 16 September 1949
All for Mary national tour 1956-57
The Piccadilly Bushman national tour Sept 1959-Feb 1960

Select Radio Credits
The Coward (1952)[8]
Chips (1954)[9]
The Orchard Walls (1954)[10]

1944: Paul Brooke is born--London, England.

1961: Broccoli & Saltzman announce Sean Connery in the James Bond role and kick off a big publicity campaign.

1965: Mads Mikkelsen is born--Østerbro, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1966: O.K. Connery (aka Operation Kid Brother; Operation Double 007) released in the US.

1980: Leonard Barr dies at age 77--West Hollywood, California.
(Born 27 September 1903--West Virginia.)

Leonard Barr

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

Barr in Diamonds Are Forever, 1971

Birth name Leonard Barra
Born September 27, 1903, West Virginia, U.S.
Died November 22, 1980 (aged 77), Burbank, California, U.S.
Medium Stand-up, television, film
Years active 1970–1980
Genres One-liners
Relative(s) Dean Martin (nephew)
Notable works and roles Diamonds Are Forever

Leonard Barr (born Leonard Barra; September 27, 1903 – November 22, 1980) was an American stand-up comic, actor, and dancer.

Barr appeared several times with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis when they hosted the Colgate Comedy Hour. He had a brief role in The Sting, appropriately as a burlesque comic. That is also the way his character is listed in the credits—as an anonymous comedian. However, in the wings of the stage just before the comic's entrance, he has a brief conversation with Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford), who addresses him as "Leonard".

He is perhaps best remembered internationally for his appearance in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever in which he played Shady Tree, a stand-up comedian and smuggler in Las Vegas who was assassinated by henchmen Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd. He also appeared in The Odd Couple usually in the non-dialogue New York street scenes in the first season or 5 episodes later in 1975 with dialogue and, albeit unnamed, on an episode of M*A*S*H as a USO comedian. He also made numerous guest appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Cameron Crowe briefly depicted Barr as a foul-mouthed real-life character in Almost Famous, his semi-autobiographical film of 2000.

Personal life
He was the uncle of Dean Martin (being the brother of Dean Martin's mother Angela).

Death
The 77-year-old Leonard Barr suffered a stroke on October 28, 1980, in his hotel room in West Hollywood and died on November 22, 1980, in a hospital in Burbank, California.

Leonard Barr (1903–1980)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056536/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm

Filmography

Actor (14 credits)

1981 Under the Rainbow - Pops
1980 Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (TV Series) - Comic
- Pilot: Part 1 (1980) ... Comic

1979 Skatetown, U.S.A. - 1977-1978 Szysznyk (TV Series)
Leonard Kriegler
- Youth of the Year (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
- Norton's Head Trip (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
- Hell on Wheels (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
- A Star Is Burned (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
- You Stomped on My Heart (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
1978 Battered (TV Movie) - Prof. Jeremiah Hayden
1977 Record City - Sickly Man
1977 Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid (TV Movie) - Hospital Roommate
1976 The Tony Randall Show (TV Series) - Bellhop
- Case: His Honor vs. Her Honor (1976) ... Bellhop
1975 Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) - Proprietor
- To See the World (1975) ... Proprietor
1970-1975 The Odd Couple (TV Series) - Walter / Stickman / Mayor / ...
- Old Flames Never Die (1975) ... Walter
- The Hollywood Story (1974) ... Stickman / Mayor
- To Bowl or Not to Bowl (1974) ... Arnold
- Lovers Don't Make House Calls (1971) ... Panhandler (uncredited)
- Oscar's Ulcer (1970) ... Old Playful Boxer on the Street (uncredited)
1973 The Sting - Burlesque House Comedian
1972 Evil Roy Slade (TV Movie) - Crippled Man
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Shady Tree
1970 Love, American Style (TV Series) - Passing Buck (segment "Love and the Longest Night")
- Love and the Big Date/Love and the Longest Night (1970) ... Passing Buck (segment "Love and the Longest Night")

Soundtrack (2 credits)

1967 The Dean Martin Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #2.25 (1967) ... (performer: "Crazy Rhythm" - uncredited)
1959 Gangster Story (music: "The Itch for Scratch")

1981: ABC-TV premieres Moonraker.

1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Zorin fighting at the top of the Golden Gate Bridge at Stage C Pinewood Studios.

1999: The World Is Not Enough European Charity London premiere at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square, London.

2002: Die Another Day released in the US and Puerto Rico.

2002: Meurs un autre jour released in Canada.

2002: Muere otro día released in Spain. (Catalan: Mor un altre dia.)

2002: למות ביום אהר (Lamut B'Yom A'her; To Die the Next Day) premieres in Israel. (premiere)

2002: Smierc nadejdzie jutro (Death Will Come tomorrow)released in Poland.

2006: "You Know My Name" (the grittier version) charts at #20 as a UK Single Download.

2006: Casino Royale released in Belgium, France, and Switzerland.

2012: Skyfall released in Australia, Republic of Macedonia, New Zealand.
2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Solstice.
Ibrahim Moustafa, artist. Ibrahim Moustafa, writer.

JAMES BOND: SOLSTICE ONE-SHOT

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026279001011
Cover A: Ibrahim Moustafa
Writer: Ibrahim Moustafa
Art: Ibrahim Moustafa
Publication Date: November 2017
Page Count: 40 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 11/22

Dynamite is proud to present their first ever James Bond Holiday special. This one-shot Bond adventure is perfect for both the new and hard-core Bond fan.
007 accepts an unofficial mission. He travels to Paris, in pursuit of a Russian. But is Bond the hunter, or the hunted?

A stunning thirty-page tale by superstar writer/artist IBRAHIM MOUSTAFA (Savage Things, Mockingbird, Jaeger).

2021: Man of Many interviews No Time To Die stunt driver Mark Higgins.

Interview: James Bond ‘No Time to Die’ Stunt Driver
Mark Higgins

See the complete article here:

https://manofmany.com/rides/cars/interview-james-bond-no-time-to-die-stunt-driver-mark-higgins

Man of Many, 22 Nov 2021 | News

We recently had the chance to attend the Aston Martin Complex at Silverstone for a special launch event in celebration of James Bond’s latest movie ‘No Time to Die’. On a day that reads more like imagination than reality and far from something, you would consider work, we had the chance to speak with Daniel Craig’s stunt driver, Mark Higgins, another lucky bloke like us whose job it is to push these classics to their limits on the track.

Here’s how it went down.

Image: Max Earey

Outside on the asphalt, lined up in all their glory were three cars we only thought we’d see together as Matchbox cars, a modern-day DBS, an 80s V8 (similar to the Vantage) and a 60s DB5. Just to have the three cars there to look at was exciting, but to know we’d be able to take each for a drive was something else.

We started with the ‘easiest’ to drive of the bunch, and jumped behind the wheel of the DBS, a twin-turbo V12 monster that does 0-100km/h in 3.4sec, it’s far from run of the mill. The DBS was featured in both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace (remember the opening scene with the chase through the tunnels around Lake Garda in Italy). After a lap as a passenger to ‘learn the racing line’ we jumped behind the wheel and went for a spin. With brake markers to keep alert for, apex’s to hit and a flappy paddle gearbox, you couldn’t wipe the smile off your face.

Next up was the V8, the ‘winterised’ version of the Vantage Volante from The Living Daylights. At over 2 tonnes it was not your quintessential nimble ‘Bond car’, but it made up for that with brute power, a familiar 5-speed stick-shift and a timeless V8 rumble – a throwback to the British muscle. It was a rare lovely sunny day at Silverstone, and manhandling the heavy V8 round the Stowe track was exhilarating but sweaty business.

It wasn’t long before we were handed the keys to the creme de la creme, the iconic DB5. Sitting behind the wood trim finish steering wheel and analogue dials instantly transports you to the French Riviera. Firing up the E46 BMW M3 sourced 4.0L inline 6 and idling towards the track paralleled the feeling of Christmas eve as a child. The DB5 won’t set any track records but it is the most beautiful driving experience and is no surprise Daniel Craig is recalling it for ‘No Time to Die’.

Image: Max Earey

Interview with Mark Higgins, James Bond Stunt Driver
We had the opportunity to meet with Mark Higgins one-to-one and hear from him what it takes to become a Bond stunt driver and his experiences on set. We also had the unrivalled experience to sit in the passenger seat as Mark put the stunt car around the track, mostly sideways and with a trail of tyre smoke. Can you believe this is his job?!

MOM: How did you get started in stunt driving?
Mark: I’ve worked in motorsport for probably 30 years, my background is rally driving. I’d done the odd TV thing here and there, sort of Top Gear-ish. And a friend of mine, who is Ben Collins, who was the original Stig, we were at a do one night, and he was asked to find some drivers for Quantum of Solace. So he sort of mentioned it to me, would I be interested? Of course, after a glass of wine or so, I’d have said yes to anything, but I said yes, thinking nothing more of it. And then March time came, I get a phone call, “Are you free for the next three months?” We flew off to Italy. And that was the start of Bond for me.

MOM: And then you followed the franchise through since then?
Mark: Yeah, I mean, I did a few other films, Fast & Furious, I’ve done some big, Star Wars, Batman, those types of films in between. But I’ve been lucky enough to stay involved with the franchise. We did Skyfall. I basically was the baddy in Quantum of Solace, you know, chasing the cars down. Because it was a gravelly type scene, it’s just a rally driver, and that’s how I got the job.

MOM: So is driving in a Bond film the pinnacle of stunt driving?
Mark: Yeah, it’s easy for me to say that now because I’m very lucky enough to be involved in it, but yeah, I think everybody wants to be in a Bond film. Of all the films it’s got the kudos, it’s got the history, it’s very iconic, and wherever you go around the world everybody’s heard of a Bond film. I think when I watched my first Bond film with my dad, it was probably Moonraker or something, when I was a kid, to ever think I’d be in a movie, let alone actually driving the Bond cars, you have to pinch yourself, and it’s great to be involved in such a thing.

MOM: So if you weren’t driving the DB5, what’s your Bond car of choice?
Mark: Very difficult one to answer, because the most iconic Bond car is, of course, the DB5. And now we’ve got the modified one here, which is great to drive. I think, talking about Bond, another car that you associated, maybe the Lotus. The underwater Lotus was quite a cool car to be in. It might not be the best handling and the best one to actually drive and skid around, but it’s still a very iconic, cool Bond car.

MOM: So, is it hard to jump back into a regular car after filming, or is it a breath of fresh air?
Mark: Well, thankfully on set, we’d only get taken in a minibus, so we’re not diving down the roads quickly. It’s quite interesting with my rally background, you do a rally stage and then you drive on the road in between. So you’ve been going flat out through the trees at 120 miles an hour, to then go back into normal road regulations. But now it’s quite nice to be chauffeured around when you’ve done your bit.

MOM: How much training goes into stunts? Do you get multiple attempts or is it typically just one go at it?
Mark: We’ll do rehearsing. We rehearse with the cars to make sure they’re doing what we want them to do. We’ll sort of set out the scene of the location with cones and what have you, and then get all the other vehicles involved, so we do practise that. So when we go to shoot for the first time, we’re not wasting time at the venue because the venue is very expensive. It’s very time consuming for the cameras. And I would say nearly every scene we do, we might do it four, five, even ten times, because there are different angles they want to get from it. And the camera is often looking at something totally different than what we think they’re looking at.

When you do a scene with a big stunt in it, for example, depending on how big it is, you might do it once. Or if you’re lucky, twice, depending on if you’ve been blowing things up, how many spare items you’ve got to blow up. So it’s quite intense when you do a big scene like that, that you’ve got to get it right or it can be very expensive.

MOM: So what stunt excites you most in No Time To Die?
Mark: Well, my other passion is motorbikes. I’m not very good on two wheels, but I love bikes. Watching Paul Edmonson who jumped the bike off the tower, was quite a cool thing to do. I don’t think you ever get the impression of how sort of dangerous it actually was when you see it on film, we’ve seen it in the trailer, but when you actually looked over the wall at what he was jumping off of, it was quite special.

MOM: If you could only have one gadget or weapon added to the DB5, what would it be and why?
Mark: If it was a car I could take care of occasionally, it would probably be the ejector seat. I’m sure I could find many uses for that in certain scenarios. So yeah, I’d put the ejector seat in there. It’s not on this particular DB5. It was on the old school one, but that would be quite cool.

To witness Marks stunts for yourself, check out James Bond’s latest mission ‘No Time to Die’ in cinemas now.

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Aston martin db5 stunt car interior 3

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Aston martin db5 stunt car interior 2

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RichardTheBruce

November 23rd

1930: Ricou Browning is born--Fort Pierce, Florida.

1990: Roald Dahl dies at age 74--Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.
(Born 13 September 1916--Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales.)

Roald Dahl: a life filled with tales of the unexpected

Roald Dahl was born 100 years ago in September and lived a life
scarred by tragedy and marred by his own difficult personality.
But his magical characters are more alive than ever
Wednesday 12 September 2018

Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal (recovering from a stroke, hence the eye patch) in 1965, with their children Theo, baby Ophelia and Tessa, at their home in Great Missenden.

Emily Hourican - August 29 2016 2:30 AM

Roald Dahl was born 100 years ago, on September 13, to Norwegian parents in Cardiff. He died 26 years ago, yet his books, specifically his children's books, are still bought in huge numbers (over 200 million worldwide) and regularly adapted for film, TV and stage. Matilda has been playing on Broadway since 2013 and, of course, The BFG has just been released in a new, big-screen version directed by Spielberg. Roald also created a dynasty and established Dahl as a surname that manages to be both thoroughly establishment and fascinatingly bohemian.

His remarkable imagination - exuberant, vengeful, often nauseating - and ability to create characters, usually orphans, filled with a pathos that makes us burn with indignation, are what have kept Dahl's books alive, but the whiff of sulphur that always hung around the man hasn't gone away either. Because as much as he is acknowledged a wonderful writer, with a rare understanding of children's psychology, he was also a difficult, often cruel man, with a heap of unpalatable views.

Most recently, as Spielberg prepared for the release of The BFG, he was ambushed by allegations of Dahl's anti-Semitism, specifically a quote Dahl gave to The New Statesman: "There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews . . . even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason."

Spielberg, himself Jewish, of course, and visibly horrified, was forced to try and defend Dahl, and by extension himself, saying he had "no excuse" for not researching Dahl's public statements, but adding: "Later, when I began asking questions of people who knew Dahl, they told me he liked to say things he didn't mean just to get a reaction. And all his comments . . . he would say for effect, even if they were horrible things."

Dahl's second wife, Felicity, beneath his portrait.

It is difficult to judge and condemn the products of a previous era by our own much-changed standards. But even so, Spielberg's defence seems weak and Dahl's words far less the act of a provocateur than the musings of a bigot.

Probably the best defence - if one is to be admitted - is Dahl's own life; the many tragedies he faced, the strange mixture of courage and cruelty he displayed. Bad things happen in Roald Dahl books - James's parents die, Mr Fox gets his tail shot off, the child (never named) from The Witches spends his life as a mouse - and they are full of disgusting, terrible people, such as James's aunts, Matilda's father, George's grandmother. These people and events are faithfully rendered, with no glossing-over or soothing euphemisms, and the reason for it becomes very obvious with even a passing knowledge of Dahl's life.

He may have been dashing, handsome, brilliant - his second wife, Felicity Crosland, described him as the "sexiest seducer in Washington" - but Dahl was also known as 'Roald The Rotten'; domineering, inconsistent and driven by his memories of tragedy. Granddaughter Sophie described him as "a very difficult man - very strong, very dominant".

The little girl with the big eyes in The BFG is based on Sophie, but the book is dedicated to Olivia, Dahl's eldest daughter, who he adored and who died of measles encephalitis when she was just seven. It was a terrible loss, one that had heart-breaking echoes of the death from appendicitis, also at the age of seven, of Roald's elder sister, Astri.

A month after her death, Roald's father, who never recovered from the blow, died of pneumonia.

Roald was just three at the time. From the age of eight, he was sent off to a series of boarding schools, where he was mostly miserable and homesick. That may have been the experience of most small boys dispatched in that particularly English tradition; the difference with Roald is that he never forgot. Nor, perhaps, did he ever recover.

Reviewer Kathryn Hughes once said: "No matter how you spin it, Roald Dahl was an absolute sod. Crashing through life like a big, bad child, he managed to alienate pretty much everyone he ever met."

His nickname when young was 'Apple' because he was his mother's favourite. He wrote to her every day from boarding school, but never confessed the depths of his loneliness and misery. Instead, he put a brave face on the regular bouts of violence and ritual humiliation that were so much part of the boarding-school experience then and this daily exercise in glossing over the wretched truth may very well have been the early training in storytelling he needed.

After school, Dahl travelled the world, working for Shell oil, then joined the RAF when the Second World War broke out. A dashing, daring pilot, he spent much of the war in the US, sleeping with society beauties and passing on whatever bits of intelligence he gleaned from pillow talk. Felicity Crosland described Dahl, 6ft 6ins and a fine sportsman, as "wildly attractive and handsome, in his RAF uniform, speaking English, a fighter pilot - completely seductive. And he was charming and intelligent. A lot of women fell for him."

Dahl, in turn, fell for the actress Patricia Neal, who he met at a dinner party hosted by playwright and screenwriter Lillian Hellman. Neal's career had started in a blaze of glory - before she was 21, she won a Tony award for her Broadway debut. Then she moved to Hollywood, where she started in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's best-selling, ground-breaking novel The Fountainhead, and fell passionately in love with Gary Cooper.

The affair lasted three years, during which time Neal got pregnant and had an abortion.

Later, she wrote: "If I had only one thing to do over in my life, I would have that baby" - but Cooper refused ultimately to leave his wife.

The Fountainhead was a disaster, followed by a couple more turkeys, and by the age of 27, Neal was back in New York, heartbroken, barely over a nervous breakdown, with her career in tatters. This was the point at which she met Dahl.

Years later, in her autobiography As I Am, Neal wrote that she knew she didn't love Dahl from the moment they married in 1953 but she wanted to have "beautiful children" with him. And initially, the marriage seemed to be working. Neal's career revived and she won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1963 for Hud. Meantime, the couple were indeed having "beautiful children", five in all: Olivia, Tessa, Theo, Ophelia and Lucy.

Seven years after their marriage, the couple's baby son, Theo, four months old, was crushed between a bus and a taxi while out with a nanny and left brain-damaged. The accident was witnessed by Tessa.

Theo had eight brain operations and Dahl, unhappy with the shunt put in to drain the fluid that clogged his brain, spent two years designing and manufacturing a better version. He decided to move the family back home to England, settling in Gypsy House in the village of Great Missenden. But just a few years later, seven-year-old Olivia, the eldest, died of measles encephalitis, a tragedy that left Dahl "limp with despair".

Patricia Neal did some of her best work in this period, then suffered a series of strokes when she was 39 and pregnant with her fifth child.

After a lengthy operation on her brain, Patricia couldn't talk or walk and was largely paralysed.

Here, Dahl showed himself to be a man of complete determination and a certain vision, but touched with coldness, even sadism.

He essentially forced Patricia to get well. If she wanted something, he held it out of reach until she asked for it. He badgered her to walk, to move, to read and memorize and forced her to do hours of painful physical and speech therapy.

For those watching, there were many pitiful moments, but in the end, Dahl's strange, stubborn insistence came good. Six months after the brain operation Neal gave birth to a healthy daughter, Lucy. Shortly after that, he decided she was ready to give a speech to a charity dinner for brain-damaged children. Although terrified, she did, to thunderous applause. "I knew at that moment that Roald the slave driver, Roald the bastard, with his relentless scourge, Roald the Rotten, as I had called him more than once, had thrown me back into the deep water. Where I belonged," she later said.

He may have forced Neal to get well again, but there didn't seem any way of saving the marriage. Dahl began an affair with one of Neal's best friends, Felicity Crosland, and in 1983 the couple divorced and he remarried. To Patricia's fury, their children mostly knew of and condoned the affair. Ophelia Dahl, who was 14 when her parents divorced, later said: "All of us realised that he had found the love of his life with Liccy (Felicity) and there's always a sense of relief when that happens."

Throughout, Dahl had been writing, finding early and considerable success with Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, published in 1964 and a classic ever since.

At the same time, he was also writing adult fiction, including pornography for Playboy - friend and fellow writer Noel Coward once said of his adult fiction: "The stories are brilliant and the imagination is fabulous. Unfortunately, there is, in all of them, an underlying streak of cruelty and macabre unpleasantness and a curiously adolescent emphasis on sex" - and was often very dismissive of children's literature and his own role within it.

Of course, the streak of "cruelty and macabre unpleasantness" that Coward detected was very much present in his children's books too.

It seemed also to be present in his life. As a father, Dahl was irascible and inconsistent; protective and manipulative, controlling and kind; a tough combination. Tessa, the daughter next to Olivia in age, was frequently compared with the child her father mourned so obviously - "my older sister Olivia had been the love of Daddy's life . . . both of us contracted measles, but she had died" - and always unfavourably.

"In our family, you got attention only if you were brain-damaged or dead or terribly ill. There was no reward for being normal," she once said. And so Tessa gave up on being 'normal', instead becoming wild, precocious and deeply unhappy.

In a piece written in 2012, she talks of being brought to see psychiatrist Anna Freud after Theo's accident. Freud recommended therapy for the whole family, but Dahl had a mistrust of something that he believed had left various friends unable to write because they "had all their nooks and crannies flattened like pancakes", so he insisted on medication instead. Freud refused, so Dahl found another doctor, less scrupulous, to prescribe, and Tessa, from the age of four, was medicated.

By her teenage years, Tessa was given Quaaludes, a sedative, by her father, who brought them home from America, and regularly drank alcohol with him. She had developed, she says "narcissistic character disorders" and was "the problem child who became the scapegoat." But she insists: "My parents did their best."

Tessa, like her mother, was a beauty. By her teenage years, she had become a gossip-column fixture, for dating Peter Sellers and Brian de Palma, among others. Sophie was her first child, from a short affair with actor Julian Holloway when Tessa was 19. Later, she married twice, and had three more children.

She battled drug addiction and crippling depression and began a long search for meaning, visiting ashrams, falling under the spell of various gurus.

She also began to write - articles, children's books and one novel. Dahl, although publicly supportive, was privately competitive: "After I sold my first children's book, he had struggled up to his hut with agonised hips to fetch his royalty statements - to prove to me that I would never make as much money as him, however successful I became."

And yet despite, or more likely because of, Dahl's emotional distance, he was the great focus of Tessa's life.

"I loved him with an undiluted and unmet passion. He was my major motivation as my whole life consisted of proving to him that, although my sister died, I was still worthy of life and love."

Someone once said that all siblings have different parents. Dahl was perhaps a different kind of father to his other children.

Ophelia is a social justice and healthcare advocate, while Lucy, the youngest and a screenwriter in Hollywood - she wrote Wild Child, made into a film with Natasha Richardson - remembers a generous, magical kind of parent.

"He absolutely hated children being bored. He used to say boredom was death," she recalls, and so he bought a Morris Minor for them to drive around a track he had created.

As a grandfather, Dahl seems to have hit his stride. For Tessa's daughter, Sophie, whose young life was spent trailing along on her mother's search for happiness, peace and enlightenment, he was a fixed and stable point.

"Wonderful, really wonderful," is how she describes him.

He had an old gypsy caravan in his garden, which Sophie and her friends used as a playhouse.

"It was brutally uncomfortable and really cold, but I would stay in there with my friends and so we'd have midnight feasts of chocolate in bed. Then, in the morning, we'd appear in the house and he'd make us all breakfast."

Sophie now lives in Gipsy House with her husband, singer-songwriter Jamie Cullum, and their two children.

By the time Dahl died in 1990, aged 74, 4,000 letters a week were arriving to the local post office for him. Last year, 80,000 people visited the museum dedicated to him in Great Missenden.

They don't go despite the core of darkness in his books, but because of it. The enduring magic of Dahl's world is the way it acknowledges the nasty side of life, has irresistible fun with it, then allows good to triumph.

Roald Dahl (1916–1990)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001094/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Writer (76 credits)

Matilda (based on the book by) (announced)
Willy Wonka (creator) (announced)

2020 The Witches (novel) (post-production)
2017 Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Video) (based on the novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by)
2016 Revolting Rhymes Part Two (TV Short) (based on the book by)
2016 Revolting Rhymes Part One (TV Short) (based on the book by)
2016 Welcome to the Basement (TV Series) (screenplay - 1 episode)
- You Only Live Twice (2016) ... (screenplay)
2016 The BFG (based on the book by)
2016 In the Ruins (Short) (short story)
2016 Lamb to the Slaughter (Short) (novel)
2015 The Taste (Short) (based on a short story by)
2015 Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (TV Movie) (based on the novel by)
2013 Baa Baa Black Sheep (Short) (story)
2013/I Cheap Thrills (short story "Man from the South" - uncredited)
2012 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the Playroom (Video short) (book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" - uncredited)
2012 Bang-lure (Short) (story)
2012 Chippendale (Short)
2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox (novel)
2008 Three Little Pigs (Short) (writer)
2007 Jackanory Junior (TV Series)
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (book)
2005 Imagine (TV Series documentary) (quotations - 1 episode)
- Fantastic Mr Dahl (2005) ... (quotations - uncredited)
2005/I The Bet (Short) (story)
2002 Lamb to the Slaughter (story)
2000 Genesis and Catastrophe (Short) (story)

1999 Inaudito (Short) (story)
1997 The Enormous Crocodile (TV Movie)
1996 Matilda (book)
1996 James And The Giant Peach (based on the book by)
1995 Alien Tales (Video Game) (synopsis: Matilda)
Jackanory (TV Series) (book - 14 episodes, 1968 - 1986) (novel - 6 episodes, 1979 - 1995)
- The Twits (1995) ... (novel)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Five (1986) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Four (1986) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Three (1986) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Two (1986) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part One (1986) ... (novel)
- George's Marvellous Medicine: Grandma Gets the Medicine (1986) ... (novel)
- George's Marvellous Medicine: The Cook-Up (1986) ... (novel)
- George's Marvellous Medicine: The Marvellous Plan (1986) ... (novel)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1979) ... (novel)
- James and the Giant Peach: Down to Earth (1968) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Adventures in the Air (1968) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Danger - Sharks! (1968) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Strange Creatures (1968) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: The Mysterious Peach (1968) ... (book)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A Surprise for Charlie (1968) ... (book)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A Shock for Veruca and Violet (1968) ... (book)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Chocolate Room (1968) ... (book)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Fudgemallow Delight (1968) ... (book)
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Golden Tickets (1968) ... (book)
1995 Pisvingers! (Short) (story "The Swan")
1992 Idealnaya para (stories)
1990 Dirty Beasts (TV Movie)
1990 Revolting Rhymes (TV Movie)
1990 The Magic Finger (TV Movie)
1990 The Silent Hunt (novel)
1990 The Witches (book)

1989 Breaking Point (TV Movie) (novel "Beware of the Dog")
1989 Danny the Champion of the World (TV Movie) (novel)
1988 Velká rosáda (TV Movie) (adaptation)
Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) (writer - 15 episodes, 1979 - 1981) (story - 11 episodes, 1979 - 1988)
- The Surgeon (1988) ... (story)
- The Sound Machine (1981) ... (writer)
- The Boy Who Talked with Animals (1981) ... (story)
- Parson's Pleasure (1980) ... (story)
- Vengeance Is Mine Inc. (1980) ... (writer)
- Mr Botibol's First Love (1980) ... (story)
- Genesis & Catastrophe (1980) ... (story)
- The Umbrella Man (1980) ... (story)
- Depart in Peace (1980) ... (writer)
- Georgy Porgy (1980) ... (story)
- My Lady Love, My Dove (1980) ... (writer)
- Taste (1980) ... (writer)
- Poison (1980) ... (story)
- The Hitch-Hiker (1980) ... (story)
- Galloping Foxley (1980) ... (story)
- Skin (1980) ... (writer)
- Royal Jelly (1980) ... (writer)
- The Way Up to Heaven (1979) ... (writer)
- A Dip in the Pool (1979) ... (writer)
- Edward the Conqueror (1979) ... (writer)
- Neck (1979) ... (writer)
- The Landlady (1979) ... (writer)
- Lamb to the Slaughter (1979) ... (writer)
- William and Mary (1979) ... (writer)
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1979) ... (writer)
- The Man from the South (1979) ... (story)
1988 The Book Tower (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #10.1 (1988) ... (writer - segment ": "Boy")
1987 The BFG (novel)
1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Pilot (1985) ... (story - segment "Man from the South")
1984 Kobra (Short) (short story "Poison")
1983 Kalle och chokladfabriken (TV Mini-Series) (novel)

1976 James and the Giant Peach (TV Movie) (based upon a novel by)
1976 Le care mogli (TV Movie) (play)
1975 A Gigot (Short) (short story "Lamb to the Slaughter")
1975 Hundert Mark (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Des Pfarrers Freude ... (writer)
1975 Uit de wereld van Roald Dahl (TV Series) (story - 5 episodes)
- Een frisse duik (1975) ... (story)
- De verrassing (1975) ... (story)
- Op weg naar de hemel (1975) ... (story)
- Vergif (1975) ... (story)
- De weddenschap (1975) ... (story)
1974 Genesis and Catastrophe (Short) (short story "Genesis and Catastrophe")
1973 Et lite grøss? (TV Mini-Series) (short story "The Landlady" - 1 episode)
- Vertinnen (1973) ... (short story "The Landlady")
1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") / (screenplay)
1971 The Road Builder
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (screenplay)
1968 Late Night Horror (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- William and Mary (1968) ... (writer)
1967 You Only Live Twice (screenplay)
1967 Teatterituokio (TV Series) (short story "Taste" - 1 episode)
- Maku (1967) ... (short story "Taste")
Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) (story - 2 episodes, 1965) (writer - 1 episode, 1967)
- Taste (1967) ... (writer)
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1965) ... (story)
- Parson's Pleasure (1965) ... (story)
1966 Des Pfarrers Freude (TV Movie) (story)
1964 36 Hours (story "Beware of the Dog")
1962 That Was the Week That Was (TV Series)
1961 'Way Out (TV Series) (by - 1 episode)
- William and Mary (1961) ... (by)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (based on a story by - 3 episodes, 1958 - 1961) (story - 2 episodes, 1958) (story by - 1 episode, 1960) (teleplay - 1 episode, 1958)
- The Landlady (1961) ... (based on a story by)
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1960) ... (based on a story by)
- Man from the South (1960) ... (story by)
- Poison (1958) ... (story)
- Dip in the Pool (1958) ... (based on a story by)
- Lamb to the Slaughter (1958) ... (story) / (teleplay)
1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) (short story: "Beware of the Dog" - 1 episode)
- Blind Landing (1959) ... (short story: "Beware of the Dog")
1958 Suspicion (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Way Up to Heaven (1958) ... (story)
1956 Le coup du berger (Short) (story - uncredited)
1955 Cameo Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Man from the South (1955) ... (story)
1955 Star Tonight (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Taste (1955) ... (story)
1954 Danger (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- A Dip in the Pool (1954) ... (story)
1954 The Philip Morris Playhouse (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Taste (1954) ... (story)
1952 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Taste (1952) ... (story)
1952 CBS Television Workshop (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Sound Machine (1952) ... (story)
1950 Suspense (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Poison (1950) ... (story)

Actor (2 credits)
1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Narrator
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1965) ... Narrator (voice)
1961 'Way Out (TV Series) - Host
- 20/20 (1961) ... Host
- Side Show (1961) ... Host
- Hush-Hush (1961) ... Host
- The Overnight Case (1961) ... Host
- The Croaker (1961) ... Host
-
Soundtrack (2 credits)

2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (lyrics: "Augustus Gloop", "Violet Beauregarde", "Veruca Salt", "Mike Teavee")

1996 James And The Giant Peach (lyrics: "Eating The Peach")

2002: Madonna’s Die Another Day single peaks at #1, Canadian Soundscan Singles Sales chart.
Stays there (on and off) 7 weeks.

2006: Casino Royale released in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Croatia, and the Netherlands.
2006: 007 - Casino Royale released in Slovenia.
2006: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Germany and Portugal.
2006: Казино ројал (Kazino rojal) released in Serbia.
2006: 007 カジノ・ロワイヤル (007: Kajino rowaiyaru) opens the Tokyo International Cine City Festival.

2021: The Music Of James Bond & More! Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate, Germany.

The Music Of James Bond & More!

See the complete article here:

https://www.moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=view&id=31388

22 November 2021
Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz
(Germany)
Hochkarätige Musiker, Sänger/innen, die Bond-Girls und eine Stuntcrew - Festsaal im Reitstadel

Program Info:

25 Movies - One Show - All The Hits Live

The Music Of James Bond: Since the 60s until today, the music of the thriller around the British secret agent is inextricably linked to the movies. Original music from "Skyfall", "Casino Royale", "Golden Eye", "Moonraker" and many more let memories wake up to the mega hits in the cinemas. The songs are timeless and world-famous - stars like Tom Jones, Tina Turner, Madonna, Shirley Bassey and last but not least also Adele made the songs of the action-packed films true stars of film music.

With music from John Barry, Monty Norman, Paul McCartney, Bill Conti, Marvin Hamlisch, Eric Serra, David Arnold, Thomas Newman and others.

External links:
Details & tickets

2021: Trivia Tuesday! Theme - James Bond at Malt & Barley Public House, Kitchener, Canada.

Trivia Tuesday! Theme: James Bond
Tue Nov 23, 2021

See the complete article here:

https://allevents.in/kitchener/trivia-tuesday-theme-james-bond/200021781084101

Event in Kitchener | AllEvents.in Trivia Tuesday! Theme: James Bond

We've been expecting you. Test your knowledge of James Bond for the chance to win prizes!

Trivia starts at 7pm but we recommend getting here early to get a good seat as we do not accept reservations. Max 6 people to a team.

Sponsored by Cowbell Brewing Co.

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November 24th

1959: Jack Whittingham meets Ian Fleming and Ivor Bryce in New York.

1965: Variety reports Tom Jones signed up for the Thunderball title song, plus (not entirely correctly) that Shirley Bassey recorded a John Barry-Leslie Bricusse tune for the end titles.
1966: You Only Live Twice films the throwing star and Blofeld.

1981: Altin Tabancali Adam (The Golden Gun Man) released in Turkey.

1966


But not this one from 1970

1983: Octopussy released in Australia.

Australian Daybill

1983: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Επιχείρηση Οκτάπουσι (James Bond, Agent 007: Enterprise Octopus) released in Greece.

1995: GoldenEye released in the UK, Ireland, and Poland.

2006: Casino Royale released in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Romania, and Sweden.
2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Spain.
2006: Казино Pоял released in Bulgaria.

2014: The Sony Corp. entertainment computer network is hacked, releasing sensitive information including details of the Spectre script. The biggest cyberattack to that date in the US. North Korea denies involvement. The FBI investigates.
2018: Ricky Jay (Richard Jay Potash) dies at age 70--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 26 June 1948--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.)

Ricky Jay, Master Magician and
Actor in ‘Deadwood,’ ‘Boogie
Nights,’ Dies at 72

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/ricky-jay-dead-dies-magician-boogie-nights-1203035879/
https://twitter.com/Variety_PatS

Ricky Jay 'Life of Pi' film premiere at the 50th Annual New York Film Festival, America - 28 Sep 2012
CREDIT: Dave Allocca/Starpix/REX/Shutter

Ricky Jay, a master magician who also acted in films and TV shows such as “Boogie Nights,” “House of Games” and “Deadwood,” died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 72.

Jay’s manager, Winston Simone, said he died of natural causes, adding, “He was one of a kind. We will never see the likes of him again.”

His attorney Stan Coleman confirmed his death. His partner in the Deceptive Practices company, Michael Weber, tweeted, “I am sorry to share that my remarkable friend, teacher, collaborator and co-conspirator is gone.”

A New Yorker profile called him “the most gifted sleight of hand artist alive,” and Jay was also known for his card tricks and memory feats.

He appeared in several David Mamet movies, including “House of Games,” “The Spanish Prisoner,” “Things Change,” “Redbelt” and “State and Main.”

Steve Martin, with whom he appeared in “The Spanish Prisoner,” described Jay in the New Yorker profile, “I sort of think of Ricky as the intellectual élite of magicians. He’s expertly able to perform and yet he knows the theory, history, literature of the field.”

In “Deadwood,” he played card sharp Eddie Sawyer during the first season, and also wrote for the show.

In the 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies,” Jay played a cyber-terrorist to Pierce Brosnan’s Bond.

He also provided the narration for movies such as Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia.” His one-man Broadway show directed by Mamet, “Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants,” was recorded for an HBO special in 1996.

With Weber, he created the Deceptive Practices company, which provided solutions to movies and TV productions such as the wheelchair that hid Gary Sinise’s legs in “Forrest Gump.” They also worked on films including “The Prestige,” “The Illusionist” and “Oceans Thirteen.”

Jay, who was born Richard Jay Potash in Brooklyn, was introduced to magic by his grandfather. He began performing in New York, opening for rock bands. Jay first worked in film with on Caleb Deschanel’s “The Escape Artist.”

A documentary about his life, “Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay,” was released in 2012.

A student of all facets of magic, prestidigitation and trickery, he maintained a large library of historic works and wrote two books, as well as numerous articles for the New Yorker; he also frequently lectured at museums and universities.

Ricky Jay (1946–2018)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419633/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Trivia
Ricky Jay (Henry Gupta) is also an acclaimed magician, who holds a world record for the fastest throwing playing cards. The producers initially wanted a scene where he threw playing cards at Bond. They set up the scene to block, Ricky was fifty or seventy-five feet away, and was asked to hit Pierce Brosnan in the face. Ricky warned them it wasn't a good idea, safety wise. After they convinced him to do it, he agreed, and hit Pierce right above the eyes. To his disappointment, for some reason, they never asked him to repeat it on film. Gupta is shown throwing cards in the DVD deleted scenes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cofb-jJiFk

Filmography

Actor (41 credits)

2019 Sneaky Pete (TV Series) - T.H. Vignetti
- The Sunshine Switcheroo (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Little Sister (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The California Split (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Invisible Man (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Brooklyn Potash (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti (voice, uncredited)
- The Vermont Victim & The Bakersfield Hustle (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Stamford Trust Fall (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
- The Huckleberry Jones (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
2015 The Automatic Hate - Josh / Howard's son
2014 Getting On (TV Series) - Thoracic Surgeon
- Turnips... North Day... Yes, yes. (2014) ... Thoracic Surgeon
2013 Breathe Life Radio TV (TV Series)
2013 Teen Titans Go! (TV Series short) - Narrator
- Double Trouble (2013) ... Narrator (voice)
2011 The End of 'Sluggers' (Short)
2010 Lost Masterpieces of Pornography (Video short) - Narrator
2009-2010 Flashforward (TV Series) - Ted Flosso / Man in Warehouse
- Revelation Zero: Part 2 (2010) ... Ted Flosso
- Revelation Zero: Part 1 (2010) ... Ted Flosso
- Playing Cards with Coyote (2009) ... Man in Warehouse
2009 Lie to Me (TV Series) - Mason Brock
- Fold Equity (2009) - .. Mason Brock

2009 Intense - John
2007-2009 The Unit (TV Series) - Agent Kern
- Bad Beat (2009) ... Agent Kern
- Pandemonium: Part Two (2007) ... Agent Kern
- Paradise Lost (2007) ... Agent Kern
- Bedfellows (2007) ... Agent Kern
2008 The Brothers Bloom - Narrator (voice)
2008 Redbelt - Marty Brown
2008 The Great Buck Howard - Gil Bellamy
2006-2007 Kidnapped (TV Series) - Roger Prince
- Mutiny (2007) ... Roger Prince
- Gone Fishing (2007) ... Roger Prince
- Number One with a Bullet (2006) ... Roger Prince
- Pilot (2006) ... Roger Prince
2006 The Prestige - Milton
2005 Last Days - Detective
2004 Deadwood (TV Series) - Eddie Sawyer
- Sold Under Sin (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Mister Wu (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- No Other Sons or Daughters (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Suffer the Little Children (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Bullock Returns to the Camp (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Plague (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- The Trial of Jack McCall (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Here Was a Man (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
- Reconnoitering the Rim (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
2004 Incident at Loch Ness - Party Guest
2001 Heist - Don 'Pinky' Pincus
2001 Heartbreakers - Dawson's Auctioneer
2000 State and Main - Jack
2000 The X-Files (TV Series) - The Amazing Maleeni / Herman Pinchbeck / Albert Pinchbeck
- The Amazing Maleeni (2000) ... The Amazing Maleeni / Herman Pinchbeck / Albert Pinchbeck

1999 Magnolia - Burt Ramsey / Narrator
1999 Mystery Men - Vic Weems
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Henry Gupta
1997/I Hacks - The Hat
1997 Boogie Nights - Kurt Longjohn
1997 The Spanish Prisoner - George Lang
1995 The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (TV Movie) - Hawkes
1993 Magiskt (TV Series) - Magic film clip
- Special guest: John Houdi (1993) ... Magic film clip
- Special guest: John Houdi (1993) ... Magic film clip
- Special guest: Lars-Peter Loeld (1993) ... Magic film clip
1990-1992 The Secret Cabaret (TV Series) - Special appearance
1992 Ring of the Musketeers (TV Movie) - Kerns (as Rickey Jay)
1992 The Water Engine (TV Movie) - Ratty Inventor
1991 Civil Wars (TV Series) - Lenny NiCastro
- Pilot (1991) ... Lenny NiCastro
1991 The Thrill Is Gone (TV Movie) - Dealer
1991 Homicide - Aaron

1988 Things Change - Mr. Silver
1987 House of Games - George / Vegas Man
1985/II A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Philostrate
1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Bird
- Red Dog Blues (1983) ... Bird

Miscellaneous Crew (21 credits)

2008 The Great Buck Howard (technical consultant: magic)
2007 Ocean's Thirteen (consultant)
2006 The Prestige (technical advisor: magic)
2006 The Illusionist (technical advisor: magic)
2001 The Affair of the Necklace (technical consultant)
2001 Heist (technical consultant)
2001 Heartbreakers (technical consultant: con games)

1998 The Parent Trap (technical consultant)
1997 The Spanish Prisoner (technical consultant)
1995 Congo (illusion creator) / (technical consultant)
1994 Forrest Gump (illusion wheelchair designer)
1994 Wolf (technical consultant)
1994 I Love Trouble (technical consultant)
1992 Leap of Faith (consultant: cons and frauds)
1992 Sneakers (sleight of hand consultant)
1990 The Magic Balloon (Short) (technical consultant)

1987 House of Games (consultant: confidence games)
1987 The Believers (technical consultant)
1984 The Natural (technical consultant)
1983 New Magic (Documentary short) (magic advisor)
1982 The Escape Artist (technical advisor)
Hide Hide Writer (5 credits)
2007 The Unit (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Bedfellows (2007) ... (story)
2004 Deadwood (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
- Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking (2004) ... (written by)
1996 Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (TV Movie)
1990-1992 The Secret Cabaret (TV Series) (12 episodes)

1989 Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (TV Special)

Music department (1 credit)

1985/II A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) (music effects)

2020: Sotheby's auctions Lot 160 Italian James Bond film festival poster Tutti Contro James Bond (All Against James Bond) from 1975.

Tutti Contro James Bond / All
Against James Bond (1975)
Poster, Italian, James Bond film
festival

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/original-film-posters/tutti-contro-james-bond-all-against-james-bond
Estimate: 1,000 - 1,600 GBP

2020: Yaroslav Horak dies at age 94--Sydney, Australia.
(Born 12 June 1927--Harbin, China.)

In Memoriam: James Bond comic artist Yaroslav
Horak

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https://downthetubes.net/?p=123513&fbclid=IwAR2OztK1Hj9eCj16H9EVQrZag8EkYebdcpRSqcU9hC89hhm5JsT_La3IpR4

By John Freeman on December 5, 2020

We’re sorry to report the passing of James Bond newspaper strip artist Yaroslav Horak, who passed late last month, aged 93. He passed away peacefully at his rest home in Australia, after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Born in Manchuria to the son of a Russian mother and Czech father in 1927, Yaroslav was renowned for his dynamic black and white art for James Bond 007, which he drew for the Daily Express from 1966 to 1977, taking over from John McLusky.

James Bond – The Man with the Golden Gun

Horak and his family migrated to Sydney, Australia before World War Two, first working as an artist as a portrait painter but switching to illustration for the larger Australian magazine publishers. His appreciation for storytelling, art and adventure led him into writing and illustrating comic strips, and became one of Australian’s most prolific cartoonists, producing thousands of pages of comics in Australia before moving to England in 1962.

In his detailed biography on Comics Down Under Kevin Patrick notes Horak’s first published comics work, “Grey Thorne, Counter Espionage Agent”, appeared in Frank Johnson Publications’ Gem Comics in 1947.

He created his first recurring character, “Rick Davis, Special Correspondent”, as a supporting feature in H.J. Edwards’ top-selling Action Comic. This was followed by “The Skyman”, which ran in both Action Comic and John Dixon’s Tim Valour Comic. This aviation-themed series was the first comic to carry the artist’s Anglicised by-line, “Larry Horak”.

(Documenting the holdings of Horak’s held by the National Library of Australia, Liesl Mitchell notes it was publisher John Edwards who gave Horak the name “Larry” by which he is also known. This was not to the artist’s liking and he only managed to shed this imposed name when he moved to Europe).

Art from Jet Fury #17 via Pikitia Press

Horak’s first solo comic book, Mr Combat, for Elmsdale Publications, was published in 1950, but his “globetrotting crime-buster” was cancelled after just three issues. But “Jet Fury”, a series which began as a supporting feature in Michael Chance Comic, about a masked aviator who flew to global trouble-spots aboard the Comet, an “anti-gravity” jet, firmly established his reputation as a comics artist. Its popularity led to the title being re-named as Jet Fury Comic with its 16th issue in 1951.

Other early credits include The Mask – The Man of Many Faces for Atlas Publications – but Comics Down Under notes the ran foul of Queensland’s Literature Board of Review, which objected to the character’s full-face mask, and imposed a state-wide sales ban on the comic, forcing Atlas Publications to reluctantly cancel the title with its third issue in 1954.

Disillusioned, Horak turned to newspaper strips, creating “Captain Fortune“, running in Sydney’s Sun-Herald from December 1957 until July 1962; and drawing “Mike Steel – Desert Rider“, for Woman’s Day magazine, written by editor Keith Findlay (under the pseudonym “Roger Rowe”), running from August 1962 until January 1969.

Moving to England in 1963, he secured work from DC Thomson his known credits including “Johny Hop” for The Victor, telling the adventures of Constable Bill Lennox and his Aboriginal tracker companion, Wally Omes, in Outback Australia in 1964, followed by “The Bent Copper” for The Hornet, about ex-Scotland Yard detective John Bright, who sought revenge against the criminal who framed him for a crime he did not commit, published in 1965.

Between 1963 and 1966, he also drew stories for Fleetway’s War Picture Library and Battle Picture Library, before replacing John McLusky on the James Bond newspaper strip, at the suggestion of writer Peter O’Donnell, drawing some 33 adventures starring the secret agent between 1966 and 1984.

Horak’s take on the secret agent resembled Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, long before either actor took up the role on the big screen.

He first drew adaptations of The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy, The Hildebrand Rarity, and The Living Daylights, followed by an adaptation of Colonel Sun (the Bond novel written by Kingsley Amis).

It was Horak’s acclaimed adaptation of The Man with the Golden Gun, published between January 1966 and September 1966, that led to writer Jim Lawrence being given permission by the Fleming Trust to write original Bond stories for Horak to draw, including River of Death, Trouble Spot and The Girl Machine.

Horak returned to Australia in 1975, drawing a newspaper strip adaptation of the Australian TV show Cop Shop for Sydney’s Sun-Herald, which ran from 1980 to 1983, collected in a tie-in magazine.

His final comics project was his own – the SF series, “Andea”, published by Australia’s Daily Mirror, centring on a glamorous female extra-terrestrial who travelled to Australia from the distant planet Xavax.

“‘Andea’ showcased Horak’s storytelling skills to brilliant effect,” notes Kevin Patrick, “with his intricate plots, fantastic characters, and exquisite artwork demonstrating his complete mastery of the medium throughout the series’ seven-year run. It was a fitting end to Yaroslav Horak’s incomparable career as one of Australia’s great comic artists.”

Refocusing on painting in later life, Horak was awarded the Ledger of Honour in recognition of his contributions to Australian comics, as part of the Ledger Awards for 2018.

Our sympathies to his family at this time, who requested that donations in his memory be made to Dementia Australia.

Yaroslav Horak, artist, born 12th June 1927, died 24th November 2020. Survived by his wife, Jacqueline and children Anton, Natasha and Damon

Comics Down Under

Yaroslav Horak: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

See the complete article here:

http://comicsdownunder.blogspot.com/2015/06/yaroslav-horak-portrait-of-artist-as.html

While recently browsing through a box of old magazines and newspapers in an antiques shop, I came across a tattered and torn copy of The News, a tabloid newspaper produced by the Australian Journalists Association and the Printing Industry Employees' Union during a wartime industrial dispute with Sydney Newspaper Proprietors' Association. This copy of The News, dated Tuesday, 17 October 1944, caught my eye because it contained a brief profile of a talented young high-school student from Sydney, Yaroslav Horak (See image). The text of the article reads as follows:

Sixteen-year-old Russian, Yaroslav Horak, of Centennial Park, pupil of St Mary's Cathedral High School, displays a poster he has entered in the Australia-wide Second Victory Loan School contests. Born in Manchuria, Yaroslav came to Australia four years ago. He has since learnt to speak English fluently.

Yaroslav Horak, of course, went on to become a talented and highly sought-after comic book artist in Australia following World War Two, creating such popular characters as Jet Fury (originally a back-up feature in Michael Chance Comics), along with The Mask, which was controversially banned by Queensland's Literature Board of Review in 1954, at the height of anti-comics hysteria in Australia (A comprehensive interview with Yaroslav Horak was published in the Australian Cartoonists' Association's Inkspot magazine in 2009).

Emigrating to Great Britain in the 1960s, Horak worked for British comics publishers, such as IPC's popular Battle Picture Library series, and went on to succeed John McLusky as the illustrator of the James Bond comic strip appearing in The Daily Express newspaper (An informative profile of Horak's work on James Bond appears on the Dave Karlen Original Art Blog).

Posted 25th June 2015 by Kevin Patrick

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Yaroslav Horak on James Bond

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http://davekarlenoriginalartblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/yaroslav-horak-on-james-bond.html

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Russian born Yaroslav Horak began his early career as a portrait sketch artist, but soon switched to illustration for the larger Australian magazine publishers after migrating to Sydney. His successful comic series The Mask, ran afoul with Victoria's State censors, but was soon followed by his daily outback adventure strip Mike Steel for Sydney's, The Woman's Day. A quick talent for animation and storyboards also kept Horak busy on many different projects. When given the James Bond strip in 1965, Horak's adaptation of The Man with the Golden Gun was highly praised in the new direction he approached the series. The syndicate was so pleased with their creative team that Jim Lawrence was given permission by the Fleming Trust to produce original stories for Horak to draw. Overall they worked on thirty-three thrilling Bond tales for the Daily Express and other various newspaper syndicates in Europe.

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In the UK recently he presented Pierce Brosnan with a portrait of the "Brosnan Bond", at a UK fan club occasion, in Horak's new rough style. I have a full size copy of it and he also did one of Ursulla Andress, which he didn't get to present to her for some reason, the large original ink on paper is of her in a bikini depicted from Dr. No. with two diving knives.

Yaroslav Horak

See the complete article here:

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

War Picture Library

WPL 214 Rough Justice 1963
WPL 303 Death Or Dishonour 1965
WPL 304 Battle Drill 1965
WPL 315 Cross For Courage 1965
WPL 323 Passage Of Arms 1966
WPL 648 The Curse 1971
BPL 156 The Savage Sands 1964
BPL 173 The Stronghold 1964
BPL 190 Killers Code 1965
BPL 197 Gun Crazy 1965
BPL 231 Victory Cry 1965

James Bond strips

Title | Writer | Published date | Serial no.
The Man with the Golden Gun | Jim Lawrence 10 January 1966 – 9 September 1966 1-209
The Living Daylights | Jim Lawrence 12 September 1966 – 12 November 1966 210-263
Octopussy | Jim Lawrence 14 November 1966 – 27 May 1967 264-428
The Hildebrand Rarity | Jim Lawrence 29 May 1967 – 16 December 1967 429-602
The Spy Who Loved Me | Jim Lawrence 18 December 1967 – 3 October 1968 603-815
The Harpies | Jim Lawrence 10 October 1968 – 23 June 1969 816-1037
River Of Death | Jim Lawrence 24 June 1969 – 29 November 1969 1038–1174
Colonel Sun | Jim Lawrence 1 December 1969 – 28 August 1970 1175–1393
The Golden Ghost | Jim Lawrence 21 August 1970 – 16 January 1971 1394–1519
Fear Face | Jim Lawrence 18 January 1971 – 20 April 1971 1520–1596
Double Jeopardy | Jim Lawrence 21 April 1971 – 28 August 1971 1597–1708
Starfire | Jim Lawrence 30 August 1971 – 24 December 1971 1709–1809
Trouble Spot | Jim Lawrence 28 December 1971 – 10 June 1972 1810–1951
Isle Of Condors | Jim Lawrence 12 June 1972 – 21 October 1972 1952–2065
The League Of Vampires | Jim Lawrence 25 October 1972 – 28 February 1973 2066–2172
Die With My Boots On | Jim Lawrence 1 March 1973 – 18 June 1973 2173–2256
The Girl Machine | Jim Lawrence 19 June 1973 – 3 December 1973 2257–2407
Beware Of Butterflies | Jim Lawrence 4 December 1973 – 11 May 1974 2408–2541
The Nevsky Nude | Jim Lawrence 13 May 1974 – 21 September 1974 2542–2655
The Phoenix Project | Jim Lawrence 23 September 1974 – 18 February 1975 2656–2780
The Black Ruby Caper | Jim Lawrence 19 February 1975 – 15 July 1975 2781–2897
Till Death Do Us Apart | Jim Lawrence 7 July 1975 – 14 October 1975 2989-2983
The Torch-Time Affair | Jim Lawrence 15 October 1975 – 15 January 1976 2984-3060
Hot-Shot | Jim Lawrence 16 January 1976 – 1 June 1976 3061-3178
Nightbird | Jim Lawrence 2 June 1976 – 4 November 1976 3179-3312
Ape Of Diamonds | Jim Lawrence 5 November 1976 – 22 January 1977 3313-3437
When The Wizard Awakes | Jim Lawrence 30 January 1977 – 22 May 1977 1-54
Sea Dragon | Jim Lawrence 1977 55-192
Death Wing | Jim Lawrence 1977-1978 193-354
The Xanadu Connection | Jim Lawrence 1978 355-468
Shark Bait | Jim Lawrence 1978-1979 469-636
Snake Goddess | Jim Lawrence 1983-1984 822-893
Double Eagle | Jim Lawrence 1984 894-965

2021: James Bond Themed Social Distance Trivia at The Highlander, Atlanta, Georgia.

JAMES BOND themed Social Distance trivia at The
Highlander

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Schedule
Wed Nov 24 2021 at 08:00 pm to 11:00 pm | UTC-05:00
Location
The Highlander | Atlanta, GA

JAMES BOND themed Social Distance trivia at The Highlander
This week's theme is all about JAMES BOND and everything associated with him!!!
About this Event
That's EVERYTHING you may THINK you know. Be prepared! There's more than just the movies here...

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The Highlander, 931 Monroe Drive Northeast, Atlanta, United States

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November 25th

1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films Jaws exiting the train, his final scene filmed.
1977: 007 - La spia che mi amava released in Italy.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 51 of 65 - "Ol' Man River."

James Bond Jr - Ol' Man River

Season 1 - Episode 51
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807112/?ref_=ttep_ep51

Captain Walker D. Plank plans to flood New Orleans by destroying the levee with a large amount of explosives placed in a fake River Queen. During evacuation, Plank attempts to use this to his advantage to gain access to the U.S. Mint and steal the printing press.

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 (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 (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)
Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 51 - Ol' Man River

1997: Filmtracks.com publishes Christian Clemmensen's review of the Tomorrow Never Dies score.
(Revised 3 March 2008.)

EDITORIAL REVIEW

FILMTRACKS TRAFFIC RANK: #47

See the complete article here:

https://www.filmtracks.com/titles/tomorrow_nevter.html

WRITTEN 11/25/97, REVISED 3/3/08

Tomorrow Never Dies: (David Arnold) If one thing is certain about Pierce Brosnan's tenure as British agent James Bond, it's the superiority of Tomorrow Never Dies. Everything clicked in this, the second of his films as 007. His performance reached back to the confidence of Sean Connery, the love interest came packaged as Michelle Yeoh (who is more Bond's equal than just another conquest), a previous flame's death provokes a malice in Bond loyal to the books' original intent, the villain is charmingly enthusiastic and has a cool new stealth weapon as a toy, and David Arnold's score combined the best of the John Barry years with the younger composer's techno-saavy sensibilities. While Goldeneye had revived the series by becoming the first $100 million grossing Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies was far better packaged and drew greater interest from hardcore fans of the franchise's classics. With John Barry now out of the picture (despite his seeming renewed interest in scoring another Bond film during the Brosnan years), Arnold was a perfect successor. His love of the franchise and knack for imitating the expansive style of Barry in his early scores, not to mention his British heritage, made him the logical choice. And fans weren't disappointed. The score than Arnold assembled for Tomorrow Never Dies is a sophisticated and intelligent tribute to the classic Barry scores while pushing the envelope with synthetic rhythms and drum pads to aide the traditional orchestra in joining Bond in a rapidly evolving technological age. The trademark action style that Arnold established in Stargate and Independence Day is combined with a distinct return to the flamboyant style of the jazzy Bond scores of the 1960's, and with the presence of the synthetic elements native to Arnold's roots in the rock genre, every variety of Arnold fan had something to look forward. Arnold would become the franchise's regular voice, allowing the subsequent films to really define his career (with very few notable scores for non-Bond films mixed in between). He would continue pushing the synthetic side of his music for the franchise until a somewhat dissatisfying score for Die Another Day would pull Arnold back to the combo style of Tomorrow Never Dies in the outstanding Casino Royale.

Arnold was obviously keenly aware that the Bond frachise's scores had their own unique formula while Barry was in charge, and that formula would continue here. The franchise theme by Monty Norman is quoted liberally in Tomorrow Never Dies, with its incorporation ranging from full-blown three-minute tributes to clever counterpoint against the new themes for the film. Arnold's full expressions of the Norman theme are extremely astute in an instrumental sense. Even the opening fifteen seconds of the score offers brass and cymbal accents true to Barry's introductions. The muted trumpets, solo flute, and electric guitar performances in "Company Car" provide the most true and entertaining modern performance of the Norman concept available. This three-minute cue establishes a standard by which fans and students of the franchise can worship and study. Acoustically, the recording is flawless. Aside from the statements of Norman's theme throughout the score, Arnold wrote one of the franchise's best title songs and integrated its theme extremely well throughout the entire score. With all the wailing brass flair of Goldfinger, his title theme is both seductively alluring and strikingly defiant, an easily memorable aspect of the film. In the opening action sequence before the credits ("White Knight"), Arnold introduces the theme with nobility at the 7:10 mark (in between ample development of Norman's theme). This theme punctuates many of the action sequences and is given an Eastern personality in "Kowloon Bay" before a last monumental statement for strings and bold brass counterpoint at the resolution of the film. A theme for Teri Hatcher's role as the villain's wife and former Bond lover is provided twice in Tomorrow Never Dies. As they reunite, Arnold allows the Barry-like idea to flourish with the full ensemble (once again in layered strings under brass counterpoint) before a solo woodwind echos accompany her demise. A deliberate, pounding motif for the villain Elliot Carver and his stealth ship is sparsely utilized throughout the score (its fullest appearance is at 3:55 into "The Sinking of the Devonshire"), though it receives some intriguing, less obvious exploration in "Underwater Discovery." If the score for Tomorrow Never Dies has a weakness, it's in the largely understated musical representation for Carver, as well as other "badguy" elements such as in "Doctor Kaufman."

To counter the theme for Carver's wife earlier in the film, Arnold writes a theme for Michelle Yeoh's agent and the Eastern locations of the story. It's only receives brief treatment, but it is quite gorgeous on solo guitar and piano in the early portions of "Bike Shop Fight" and "Kowloon Bay." A full rendition in the latter cue, merging with the title theme, is a highlight of the score. Faint hints of this theme come through in the very last minute of the score, though this progression seems to be a nod to Barry's You Only Live Twice. And that brings up another important point about Tomorrow Never Dies: the many references to previous scores in the franchise. In the opening battle, Arnold states a fragment of From Russia With Love. The following cue offers brass wails identical to later action sequences in Goldfinger. In both "White Knight" and more obviously at 0:45 into "Hamburg Break In," Arnold quotes the five-note bass sequence that preceded Tina Turner's song for Goldeneye, arguably the most memorable element from the soundtrack of that film. He would not make the same number of references in his scores for the subsequent Brosnan/Bond films, though he does make a clever reference to the title theme for Tomorrow Never Dies during a conversational cue after Bond's early rescue in Die Another Day. In retrospect, Tomorrow Never Dies is a much better score than many gave it credit for being at the time. Some listeners were turned off by the extensive synthetic percussion used in "Back Seat Driver" and "Hamburg Break Out," among a few others, and these cues are indeed less effective outside the context of the film (where they come in conflict with the better balance of the surrounding material). But the varied, slapping percussion of "Bike Chase" is a perfect combination of both worlds, and its highly effective sound would set the stage for cues like the one for the opening chase sequence in Casino Royale. For the most part, the balance in mixing in Tomorrow Never Dies is outstanding, and the gorgeous piano solos in several cues are testimony to this clarity. Subsequent Arnold scores tended to get muddy in their rowdy action cues, especially in Die Another Day, though a total lack of theme in that later score is the greater problem.

As anyone can expect, not everything with Tomorrow Never Dies went well. First and foremost, the song situation would be very dissatisfying for both Arnold and Bond fans alike. While the recording of the title song by k.d. lang would match the style and theme of Arnold's score with incredible cohesion and effectiveness, the producers of the film saw fit to hire a bigger name to provide a replacement song for the traditional opening credits sequence. This move was unfortunate not only because of Arnold's song was superior and in spirit of the franchise, but also because of lang's sulty voice and spirited performance. The replacement song is performed by Sheryl Crow, whose popularity at the time was seen as an asset, but whose beach-bum voice and lazy performance was a disgrace to the film. The video game score for Tomorrow Never Dies would heavily favor the use of Arnold's song theme, retitled "Surrender," over the presence of Crow's song. With critics, fans, and producers all easily recognizing the superiority of the lang song, Arnold was rewarded with the opportunity to write his own song for The World is Not Enough two years later (before suffering from extraordinary frustration trying to adapt Madonna's non-thematic song into the score for Die Another Day). A more minor criticism of Tomorrow Never Dies responds to the fact that Arnold only used his trademark, beautiful choir for a short snippet of "The Sinking of the Devonshire," though given that this cue sounds awkward in its sudden shift to Stargate during the slow-motion sinking and death sequence, that's not necessarily a negative. A truly major problem with Tomorrow Never Dies, however, was its album release. Much to the angst of Arnold, a hectic and disorganized post-production schedule for the film caused the music to be recorded chronologically in small portions over a matter of many months. As a result, the original 1997 album release by A&M Records could only feature the score material that had been mixed and mastered from the first half of the film. The entire last third of the score was missing from this product, including all of the Eastern-flavored cues and the pivotal "Bike Chase" and "All in a Day's Work" music of over ten minutes. This omission, which didn't make sense to consumers at the time, combined with the replacement of lang's song from the title credits, caused Bond fans to go stir crazy immediately.

After much fuss and delay, controversy and discussion, most of the remaining music from the film was finally made available on a commercial release from Chapter III Records in 2000 (along with a concurrent release of Tommy Tallarico's score for the Tomorrow Never Dies video game). At the time, The World is Not Enough was failing to muster the same approval as its predecessor, and the latter film's release date forced Chapter III to hold back the expanded version of Tomorrow Never Dies by several weeks. Despite providing 26 minutes of score not available on the previous album, the Chapter III product does have its share of flaws. Although the packaging and press information advertised it as being "complete," it's actually missing several important pieces of music from the film. One major omission is the track "Station Break," the four-minute cue that plays as Bond takes Elliot Carver off the air and Arnold provides a darkly dramatic performance of the love theme that foreshadows an uncertain future for the Paris character. Ironically, this cue appeared in full on the 1997 album. Additionally, several very short snippets of music remain missing on album, including the film's ending to "White Knight." The second major drawback to the expanded album is the lack of the k.d. lang song. None of the songs on the original album appears on the expanded volume, likely due to financial reasons. The eleven-minute interview with Arnold at the end of the 2000 album is interesting; the questions are intelligent and the interview is mixed nicely with some of Arnold's cues. But it's not something you'll find yourself listening to a second time. A perfect album could have resulted if the interview were dumped in favor of "Station Break" and "Surrender," but failing that, fans of the film and franchise are forced to own both products. The sound quality on both albums is equally vibrant. For the most hardcore of fans, there do exist 2-CD bootlegs that are indeed complete, featuring the isolated DVD score, the two songs, and bonus material totalling over 140 minutes in length. Overall, Tomorrow Never Dies remains ahead of Casino Royale as the definitive David Arnold entry in the James Bond franchise. Perhaps it is no coincidence that the best film of the Brosnan era featured the best score during that period.

1999: The World Is Not Enough preview screening in the UK.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Australia.
1999: A világ nem elég (The World Not Enough) released in Hungary.

1999: Ha-Olam E'ino Maspik released in Israel.

2011: English actor Ben Whishaw is revealed as "Q" for BOND 23.

New Q cast for next Bond -
report
Ben Whishaw is to play Q in the new James Bond film.

See the complete article here:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30529762.html

Fri, 25 Nov, 2011 - 09:44

The 31-year-old actor has been cast as the MI6 gadget master in 'Skyfall' and for the first time in the franchise's history Q will be younger than 007, who will be played again by 43-year-old Daniel Craig.

A source told The Sun newspaper: "Female fans will now have more than Daniel to gush over now Ben's been cast as Q. He'll be a big draw. It's a bold decision as it means Q will be younger than Bond for the first time.

"His role will be very different from previous Qs. He'll be far more serious, as is the trend with the new films."

Q last appeared in 2002's 'Die Another Day', with John Cleese in the role, after he took over from the late Desmond Llewelyn, who played the inventor for 36 years.

This is not the first time Ben has starred in a movie alongside Daniel Craig. In 2004, they appeared together in gangster movie 'Layer Cake'.

'Skyfall' – which will be directed by Sam Mendes and is the 23rd Bond movie – is due for release next October.

2020: One-time scheduled release date for No Time To Die in the US.

2021: Movie Fundraiser James Bond at the Capri Theatre, Goodwood, Adelaide, Australia.

Movie Fundraiser: James Bond at the Capri Theatre, Goodwood

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To celebrate the screening of the latest James Bond film, No Time to Die - we are hosting a private screening for friends and family to come together and honour those who have been impacted by bowel cancer.

Together, we can help save lives by supporting the work of the Jodi Lee Foundation.

Tickets are $25 and portion of proceeds will be donated to the Jodi Lee Foundation.

Raffle tickets and prizes will be available on the night to help raise much needed funds for the prevention and early detection of bowel cancer.

On the night, we would like to take a moment to honour and acknowledge those who have been impacted by this disease. If you would like to be involved, please email us with an image of your loved one, friend or colleague to [email protected]

Invite your friends, family and colleagues.

Thank you for your support and we look forward to seeing you there.

Also check out other Entertainment Events in Adelaide, Nonprofit Events in Adelaide, Arts Events in Adelaide.

Date & Time
Thu Nov 25 2021 at 02:30 am to 07:30 am
(Eastern Standard Time)

Location
Capri Theatre, 141 Goodwood Rd Goodwood, Adelaide, Australia

2021: ‘Bond’...ing Cocktails & Caviar with Vesper: Celebrating The New 007 at South Yarra, Australia.

‘Bond’...ing Cocktails & Caviar
with Vesper: Celebrating The
New 007

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Thu 25 Nov
Tickets
🎫 Ticket for 1 to Cocktails & Caviar, including:
- 3 canapes
- 1 x 'Vesper' Martini
- 1 x glass of Bollinger Special Cuvée James Bond '007' Edition

Highlights
🕵️ Celebrate the new James Bond 007 movie at Vesper Bistro and Bar
🍽️ Nibble on three exquisite canapes
🍸 Enjoy a ‘Vesper’ Martini and glass of special edition champagne
🍾 Answer the quiz questions right for a chance to win a bottle of Bollinger Special Cuvée James Bond '007' Edition

General Info
📅 Date: Wednesdays, Thursdays & Fridays from 11th November – 10th December
🕒 Time: 5:30 p.m. until late
📍 Location: Vesper Bistro and Bar
👤 Age requirement: 18+ with valid ID
📱 Please see your Fever ticket & confirmation email for all essential post-purchase information

Menu

• Brook trout golden pearls, house cured ocean trout, taramasalata
• ‘Polanco’ Baerii Siberian sturgeon caviar, prawn tartare & potato blinis
• Yarra Valley smoked salmon roe, buffalo mozzarella & colatura di alici

Description
Celebrate the release of the new James Bond 007 movie “No Time to Die” with Vesper Bistro and Bar. Head on down from Wednesday through to Friday and enjoy a delightful evening of cocktails and caviar. Tempt your taste buds with a sumptuous array of canapes washed down with a signature ‘Vesper’ Martini and a glass of special edition Bollinger champagne. Get your tickets now for this tasty 007 experience. After all, there’s no time to dine like the present.

Getting there
Vesper Bistro & Bar
25 TOORAK RD,SOUTH YARRA, 3141

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November 26th

1939: Tina Turner is born--Nutbush, Tennessee.

1959: During a meeting in the Bahamas, Jack Whittingham signs a £5,000 contract that gives Kevin McClory rights to Thunderball.

1963: An out-of-court settlement between Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham gives McClory credit on all reprints of Thunderball--plus the film rights.
1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang Volume 2 (of 3).

1965: NBC television airs David Wolper's documentary The Incredible World of James Bond (replacing The Man from U.N.C.L.E. for that Friday night schedule).

The Incredible World of James Bond

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

Original television advertisement designed prior to Sean Connery quitting the project

Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
Produced by David L. Wolper
Written by Jack Haley Jr. & Al Ramrus
Narrated by Alexander Scourby
Production company - Wolper Productions
Distributed by United Artists Television
Release date November 26, 1965 (U.S.)
Running time 51 min.
Country - United States

The Incredible World of James Bond was a 1965 television special produced by David L. Wolper for United Artists Television to showcase the James Bond film series and promote the upcoming December 1965 release of the film Thunderball.

In the United States, the show replaced The Man From U.N.C.L.E. on NBC on Friday, 26 November 1965; the day after American Thanksgiving that unofficially begins the shopping frenzy for Christmas. It was the highest rated American television show for the week.

Plot and production
The show featured film scenes of the worldwide popularity of James Bond novels, films, and tie-in merchandise, black and white scenes of Ian Fleming at his home Goldeneye in Jamaica giving comments on his writing, a biography of James Bond with footage of Glencoe, Eton, Fettes College, and Royal Marine Commandos on exercise, home movie footage shot by production designer Ken Adam in the Bahamas during the production of Thunderball, and scenes from four Bond films.

Behind the scenes footage from the making of Thunderball included scenes of the preparation and filming of a scene of a rocket firing motorcycle destroying Count Lippe's car, a choreographed fist fight in a studio mock up of the cabin of the Disco Volante, a photo shoot of the Bond girls on a beach in the Bahamas, and a scene of the Aston Martin DB5 driving away from the Château d'Anet that was not seen in the finished film.

Director Terence Young, producers Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Kevin McClory, editor Peter R. Hunt and action director and stuntman Bob Simmons are shown during sequences. The "James Bond Theme" and other music from the Bond film soundtracks are heard with the gun barrel titles and 007 logo from the Goldfinger film trailer appearing in the opening titles.

The narration was to have been originally given by Sean Connery. However, when Connery read the script and found out they were referring to James Bond as an actual person he refused to do the show. Telephone calls from Joan Crawford who was a major shareholder in Pepsi Cola, the sponsor of the show, failed to sway Connery and his narrating chores were taken by Alexander Scourby.

Pepsi Cola used the special to unveil commercials for its latest products.

The special is available as a featurette on the "James Bond Ultimate Edition" DVD of Thunderball.

Pepsi Cola and Frito Lay also sold promotional James Bond tie-in toys and a record album titled The Incredible World of James Bond. The album featured the original soundtrack music and cover versions of four of the themes from the first three Bond films played by United Artists Records house band The Leroy Holmes Orchestra. The back of the album cover was full of photographic stills from the Bond films. The record was later reissued with an attractive Frank Gauna designed album cover on Unart Records in 1967 with two music tracks deleted to fit on the budget album.

1982: Octopussy films the assault on Kamal Khan’s fortress.
1985: Variety reports Roger Moore giving notice to producer Cubby Broccoli he will not return.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 52 of 65 - "Between a Rock and a Hard Place."

James Bond Jr - Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Season 1 - Episode 52
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2382320/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

James and his friends race against time to get to an advanced prototype fighter jet which has crashed somewhere in wild country of Australia before Dr. Derange and his henchmen get there first.

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 / Oddjob (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 / Jaws (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)
Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 52 - Between a Rock and a Hard Place

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in the UK, Ireland, Iceland, and South Africa.

2002: Die Another Day released in the Republic of Macedonia.

2011: Skyfall filming at the Ascot Racecourse (doubling for the Shanghai airport terminal).
2012: The South China Morning Post posts Jason Y Ng's review of Skyfall.

Movie Review: Skyfall

See the complete article here:

https://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1091054/movie-review-skyfall
25 Nov

As I see it by Jason Y Ng
Movie Review: Skyfall
Published: 12:11pm, 26 Nov, 2012

What Daniel Craig lacks in good looks and hair, he more than makes up for in quiet confidence and depth.

English author Ian Fleming wrote his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952. It became an instant hit. Other bestsellers like From Russia, with Love, Dr. No and Goldfinger soon followed. In all, Fleming published 14 full length novels and nine short stories under the series. If the British Empire has lost much of its former glory, then Fleming’s flamboyant spy character promises to restore some of it with his snazzy handguns, tailored suits and wry sense of humor.

In 1961, Fleming sold the film rights to Eon Productions, owned by filmmakers Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli. Since then, every Bond film has been made by the same studio. In the past 50 years, the film series has grossed nearly US$13 billion in total box office earnings (inflation adjusted), second only to the Harry Potter franchise. That the Broccolis have kept the film rights within the family and overseen the production of every installment has contributed to the series’ enduring success and lasting relevance.

That brings us to Skyfall, the latest Bond film that opened a month ago. With the memories of the universally scorned Quantum of Solace still fresh in our minds, Eon Productions this time went with a director with more weight: Oscar-winning Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition). And it worked. Skyfall is every bit as compelling as Casino Royale and comes close to Goldfinger, the gold standard of Bond films.

The movie opens with an elaborate chase scene in Istanbul, culminating in a hand-to-hand combat on top of a speeding train and ending in 007 being shot by another MI6 agent. Bond then falls – presumably to his death – into a raging river, which reminds me of the cathartic bridge jump in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. But that’s not the end of our spy hero. Bond soon resurrects to tackle villain Raoul Silva, an ex-MI6 spy who has stolen the names of undercover agents as part of an elaborate scheme to exact revenge on his ex-boss M. The movie is a cross between Mission Impossible (remember the stolen “NOC list”?) and the Batman franchise. Indeed, Mendes borrows heavily from Christopher Nolan who has reinvented the superhero genre by making his villains more contemplative, self-righteous and apocalyptic.

Back in 2005 when Daniel Craig was tapped to be the fifth generation James Bond, many questioned whether he could fill the role. But Craig has proven his critics wrong and is now hailed as the best Bond ever. What he lacks in good looks and hair, he more than makes up for in quiet confidence and depth. In Skyfall, his character shoots with poise, cuts himself up without a wince, and heck, he even walks into a girl’s shower without looking like a fool or a pervert! That alone makes him every man’s hero and every woman’s dream. Craig, now 44, can make at least two or even three more Bond films before he is too old is to do a chin-up. After all, Roger Moore was 57 when he made his last Bond film A View to Kill.

Other than Craig, Skyfall owes much of its success to a star-studded supporting cast. Spanish actor Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Vicky Cristina Barcelona), one of the most talented character actors of our time, plays the diabolical and sexually ambiguous villain. His presence is large enough to maintain the tension throughout the movie but not too large to upstage Craig. Shakespearean actor Ben Wishaw (Perfume, Bright Star) plays quartermaster Q brilliantly. He lights up the screen and leaves the audience craving for more. French actress Bérénice Marlohe makes a dark femme fatale, although she isn’t as dynamic as Eva Green and her character dies too early in the movie. Last but not least, there is Dame Judi Dench, who portrays M with equal grit and vulnerability. Dench is one of the handful of actresses who can rival Meryl Streep in versatility and the number of Oscar nominations.

Skyfall is about an aging spy who goes back to the basics. It is about being old-fashioned without being old. It will go down in film history as one of the strongest entries in the Bond canon. My only gripe is that, even in this day and age, Asia is still portrayed by Hollywood with stereotypical exoticism. In Skyfall, Bond arrives in Macau and is taken by a bamboo raft to a floating casino in the middle of a lantern-lit lake before he tackles a pair of sumo wrestler-like hit men in a pit filled with man-eating lizards. That must have given Stanley Ho a few chuckles.

Born in Hong Kong, Jason is a globe-trotter who spent his entire adult life in Europe, the United States and Canada before settling back in his birthplace to rediscover his roots. He is a full-time lawyer and a freelance writer who raves and rants about Hong Kong and its people. Jason is the bestselling author of HONG KONG State of Mind and No City for Slow Men.

2015: Spectre special screening hosted by the UK Embassy at Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Bond is GREAT: British Embassy hosts
private screening of SPECTRE in
Honduras

See the complete article here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bond-is-great-british-embassy-hosts-private-screening-of-spectre-in-honduras

The British Embassy hosted a 'Bond is GREAT' private
screening of SPECTRE in Tegucigalpa.
Published 27 November 2015
From: British Embassy Guatemala City (for Honduras)

Ambassador Carolyn Davidson

On Thursday 26 November the British Embassy together with Sony Pictures Entertainment, hosted a private screening to celebrate the release of Bond’s latest movie, SPECTRE, premiered in November around the world, including Honduras.

Her Excellency Carolyn Davidson, British Ambassador to Honduras, welcomed authorities, political figures, prominent business leaders and members of Honduran society to an elegant cocktail reception at City Mall, a luxury shopping mall in the heart of Tegucigalpa.

To mark the event, the British Ambassador to Honduras said:

James Bond is one of the greatest film franchises of all times, and the UK is a world leader in movie production and the creative industries. $2.4bn were spent on UK film production last year, as many directors and producers recognised the talent and expertise of British filmmakers. SPECTRE has been the most popular film in the world for the last two weeks and I hope it will encourage many people in Honduras, and elsewhere, to go and visit some of the stunning locations in the UK featured in the film I would also like to thank the sponsors of tonight’s gala: Heineken, Belvedere Vodka, Land Rover and Sony Entertainment.

As the reception drew to a close, guests made their way up to a special private screening of SPECTRE at Cinemark VIP, following the film’s official release in Honduras at the beginning of the month.

2019: The Hong Kong Watch Auction moves some Bond-related items.

The Hong Kong Watch Auction: NINE
Hong Kong Auction 25-26 November 2019

https://www.phillips.com/auctions/auction/HK080319/filter/makers=Corum!Omega

Auctions
25 November at 6:30pm HKT
Session 1 (Lot 801-853)
26 November at 12:00pm HKT
Session 2 (Lot 854-1121)

JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong
88 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong (map)

22 November 10am-6pm
23 November 10am-7pm
24 November 10am-6pm
25 November 10am-6pm
Contact [email protected]

1046
Omega
Ref. 2537.80
Model: Seamaster “40 Years of James Bond”
A fine and attractive limited edition stainless steel diver’s wristwatch with date, gas escape valve, bracelet guarantee and presentation box, numbered 06317 out of a limited edition of 10007
Estimate HK$16,000 - 30,000
Sold for HK$30,000
Omega - A fine and attractive limited edition stainless steel diver’s wristwatch with date, gas escape valve, bracelet guarantee and presentation box, numbered 03689 out of a limited edition of 11007 pieces

https://www.phillips.com/detail/omega/HK080319/1046/

1047
Omega
Ref. 212.30.41.20.01.005
Model: Seamaster “50 Years of James Bond”
A fine and attractive limited edition stainless steel diver’s wristwatch with date, gas escape valve, bracelet guarantee and presentation box, numbered 03689 out of a limited edition of 11007 pieces
Estimate HK$24,000 - 40,000

https://www.phillips.com/detail/omega/HK080319/1047/

1048
Omega
Ref. 233.32.41.21.01.001
A very fine limited edition stainless steel “Spectre 007” diver’s wristwatch with international warranty card and presentation box, numbered 5731 out of a limited edition of 7007 pieces

歐米茄，型號233.32.41.21.01.001，限量版精鋼自動上弦腕錶，特別為電影007鬼影帝國，限量發行7007枚，編號第5731 號，約2015年製。附錶盒、國際保證卡和配件

Circa 2015
41mm Diameter
Case, dial, movement and clasp signed

Estimate
HK$63,000 - 100,000
€7,200-11,400
$8,100-12,800

Sold for HK$68,750

Manufacturer: Omega
Year: Circa 2015
Reference No: 233.32.41.21.01.001
Movement No: 87’624’420
Case No: 5731/7007
Model Name: Seamaster 300, “Spectre”
Material: Stainless steel
Calibre: Automatic, cal. 8400, 38 jewels
Bracelet/Strap: Omega Nato strap
Clasp/Buckle: Stainless steel Omega buckle
Dimensions: 41mm Diameter
Signed: Case, dial, movement and clasp signed
Accessories: Further accompanied by International Warranty card dated 18 November, 2015 and stamped Watches of Switzerland, Cardiff, Certificate of Authenticity numbered 5731/7007, Pictograms card with limited edition number 5731, stainless steel Omega link bracelet with 007 deployant clasp, Omega lug tool, operating instruction manual, polish cloth, Omega cloth pouch, Spectre 007 presentation box and outer packaging.
Catalogue Essay

In 2015, the 24th James Bond film “Spectre” premiered pitting Bond against the global crime syndicate “Spectre”. The “Spectre 007” Seamaster replicated the watch worn by the British spy and was released in a limited edition of 7007 examples. The stainless steel wristwatch had several unique characteristics including a black ceramic bi-directional bezel with 12-hour scale in Liquidmetal™. The dial was given a vintage feel with aged hour markers, Broad Arrow hands and a lollipop center seconds hand. The sapphire crystal display back was engraved “Spectre” along with the timepieces edition number, while the Nato strap holder was engraved 007.

The present Omega “Spectre” 007 wristwatch is in near new condition and has probably only been worn a handful of times. Complete with guarantee and presentation box, this model is a modern reinterpretation of a classic mid-20th century timepiece and embodies not only the ethos of Omega but of that of James Bond.

https://www.phillips.com/detail/omega/HK080319/1048/

2021: Fundraiser screening of No Time To Die at Sun Theatre, Yarraville, Victoria, Australia.

James Bond Movie Night

See the complete article here:

https://everi.events/event/14309030-a/james-bond-movie-night

Fri 26th Nov, 6:00 PM
8 Ballarat St, Yarraville VIC 3013

Sun Theatre Yarraville Fundraiser Movie Night - James Bond: no time to die, rating:M
Fri 26 Nov 2021 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM (UTC+11)
Location
Sun Theatre Yarraville
8 Ballarat Street, Yarraville VIC 3013

2021: The James Bond Experience at Windy Ridge Wedding and Functions Venue, Hamilton, New Zealand.

The Bond Experience

See the complete article here:

https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2021/the-bond-experience/hamilton

Windy Ridge Wedding and Functions Venue, 101 Great South Rd Ohaupo, Hamilton, Hamilton

Friday 26 November 2021 11:00am and Saturday 4 December 2021 11:00am
The Bond Experience
Mid-Winter: 2-course dinner: $75.00 ea
End of Year: 3-course dinner + show + DJ: $95.00 ea
Additional fees may apply

Dates
Fri 26 Nov 2021, 11:00am
Sat 4 Dec 2021, 11:00am

Welcome to the MI6 location and training facility in the top secret location in Ohaupo. We are on the hunt for new recruits to replace Bond, James Bond that is. James is tired and about to retire and so the hunt begins with a series of challenges that will test your mental, physical, and of course your sexual attraction stamina. You will be challenged; you will be tested and only a true James Bond will shine and win the girl. Of course, with any Bond escapade there MUST be a bad guy and a bond girl so be prepared to step up and take your rightful place to restore peace and harmony to the world.

Private functions available.
Bookings essential, limited seats available.
Book early to avoid disappointment.
Phone the office on 078236951 or [email protected] to reserve your table.

RichardTheBruce

November 27th

1928: Ronald William "Josh" Kirby is born--Waterloo, England.
(He dies 23 October 2001 at age 72--Shelfanger, England.)

https://www.joshkirbyart.com/bio

https://www.joshkirbyart.com/gallery

1961: Samantha Bond is born--Kensington, London, England.

1981: Lotte Lenya (Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blaumauer) dies at age 83--New York City, New York.
(Born 18 October 1898--Vienna-Penzing Austria, Hungary.)

Lotte Lenya

https://masterworksbroadway.com/artist/lotte-lenya/

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
-
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")

1982: 유 아 이 즈 온 리 (Yoo ah-ee-jeu own-lee) released in the Republic of Korea.

1987: Lashana Lynch is born--London, England.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 53 of 65 - "Sherlock IQ."

James Bond Jr - Sherlock IQ

Season 1 - Episode 53
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807119/?ref_=ttep_ep53

In London, James and IQ come from a Sherlock Holmes convention, but Baron von Skarin, with his henchmen Jaws and Nick Nack, use a prototype super tank they stole and attack the city, but then a knock on the head causes IQ to think he is Sherlock Holmes.

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 (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Baron Von Skarin (voice)
Mona Marshall Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / John Q.Law (voice)
Susan Silo Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)

Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 53 - Sherlock IQ

1995: Documentary 007: The Return presenting the new film and the Royal Premiere airs on British television.

007: The Return (1995)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0934770/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
1h | Documentary | TV Movie 27 November 1995

Promotional documentary television special celebrating the release of the then new James Bond film GoldenEye (1995) including cast interviews, clips from the movie and a cross to the Royal Premiere of the film.

Director: Bob Cousins
Star: Mariella Frostrup

1997: A&M releases David Arnold's Tomorrow Never Dies soundtrack.

2002: Die Another Day released in Belgium and the Philippines.
2006: Daniel Craig in The Irish Examiner proposes "I wouldn't dye for Bond".

Craig: 'I wouldn’t dye for Bond'

See the complete article here:

New James Bond Daniel Craig refused to dye his blond locks
dark brown for his role in new 007 smash Casino Royale.
Mon, 27 Nov, 2006 - 07:26

The actor faced a barrage of criticism when he was chosen to play the world's most famous secret agent, with opponents saying he was too short, too ordinary-looking and too blond to play Bond.

But while the 38-year-old actor agreed to undertake a punishing gym regime to build up a 007 body, he drew the line when directors asked him to change his hair colour for the movie.

He admits: "I was asked to dye my hair brown to play this role but it was out of the question. I suggested instead that I could cut my hair really short to create a more brutal appearance."

2008: Quantum of Solace released in New Zealand.

2015: 007 スペクター (007 Supekutā) limited release in Japan.

2015: Spectre released in South Africa.

South Africas' Role in the New Bond
Movie 'Spectre'

See the complete article here:

https://www.sapeople.com/2015/11/04/south-africas-role-in-the-new-bond-movie-spectre/

South Africa plays a feature role – and it’s a good one – in the new James Bond movie, ‘Spectre’, even though South Africa will be one of the last countries in the world that actually sees a major launch of the spy extravaganza.

While the movie itself – which is brilliant – flits from Mexico to Italy to Austria to Morocco, among other places, as Bond tries to track down a mysterious organisation, things aren’t going so well for him back at headquarters in London.

A new major character in MI6 is trying to launch a spy agency called Nine Eyes that will combine all the major spy networks of the world, but South Africa is the only one to vote against it. Later in the movie, Cape Town features not as a location but in TV footage crucial to the story.

Ralph Fiennes as M, Naomi Harris as Moneypenny and a new character behind Nine Eyes, C (played by Andrew Scott).

But South Africans will have to wait longer than most audiences to see the movie. While ‘Spectre’ is already showing in London and will be launched on Friday in the United States, it will only be released in South Africa on 27 November, the world’s last major launch before Japan.

‘Spectre’ (named after the shady evil organisation that has featured in six Bond movies already) is believed to be Daniel Craig’s last movie as Bond, and gossip is rife about who will take over from him.

2020: Mark Edlitz publishes his own book The Lost Adventures of James Bond.

RichardTheBruce

November 28th

1694: Matsuo Bashō (born Matsuo Kinsaku, later Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa) dies at age 50.
Known as the master of haiku.

Matsuo Bashō

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

You Only Live Twice, Ian Fleming, 1964.
Chapter 11 - Anatomy Class

The Murasaki Maru was a very modern 3,ooo-ton ship with all the luxuries of an ocean liner. Crowds waved her goodbye as if the ship was setting off across the Atlantic instead of doing a day trip down the equivalent of a long lake. There was much throwing of paper streamers by groups bearing placards to show whom they represented - business outings, schools, clubs-part of the vast travelling population of Japan, for ever on the move, making an outing, visiting relatives or shrines, or just seeing the sights of the country. The ship throbbed grandly through the endless horned islands. Tiger said that there were fine whirlpools 'like great lavatory pans, specially designed for suicides' between some of these. Meanwhile, Tiger and Bond sat in the first class dining-room and consumed 'Hamlets' - ham omelets - and sake. Tiger was in a lecturing mood. He was determined to correct Bond's boorish ignorance of Japanese culture. 'Bondo-san, I wonder if I will ever get you to appreciate the nuances of the Japanese tanka, or of the haiku, which are the classical forms of Japanese verse. Have you ever heard of Basho, for instance?'

'No,' said Bond with polite interest. 'Who's he?'

'Just so,' said Tiger bitterly. 'And yet you would think me grossly uneducated if I had never heard of Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe. And yet Basho, who lived in the seventeenth century, is the equal of any of them.'

'What did he write?'

'He was an itinerant poet. He was particularly at home with the haiku, the verse of seventeen syllables.' Tiger assumed a contemplative expression. He intoned:

'In the bitter radish
that bites into me, I feel
the autumn wind.

'Does that not say anything to you? Or this:

'The butterfly is perfuming
its wings, in the scent
of the orchid.

'You do not grasp the beauty of that image?'

'Rather elusive compared to Shakespeare.'

'In the fisherman's hut
mingled with dried shrimps
crickets are chirping.'

Tiger looked at him hopefully.

'Can't get the hang of that one,' said Bond apologetically.

'You do not catch the still-life quality of these verses? The flash of insight into humanity, into nature? Now, do me a favour, Bondo-san. Write a haiku for me yourself. I am sure you could get the hang of it. After all you must have had some education?'

Bond laughed. 'Mostly in Latin and Greek. All about Caesar and Balbus and so on. Absolutely no help in ordering a cup of coffee in Rome or Athens after I'd left school. And things like trigonometry, which I've totally forgotten. But give me a pen and a piece of paper and I'll have a bash, if you'll forgive the bad joke.' Tiger handed them over and Bond put his head in his hands. Finally, after much crossing out and rewriting he said, 'Tiger, how's this? It makes just as much sense as old Basho and it's much more pithy.' He read out:

'You only live twice:
Once when you are born
And once when you look death in the face.'

Tiger clapped his hands softly. He said with real delight, 'But that is excellent, Bondo-san. Most sincere.' He took the pen and paper and jotted some ideograms up the page. He shook his head. 'No, it won't do in Japanese. You have the wrong number of syllables. But it is a most honourable attempt.' He looked keenly at Bond. 'You were perhaps thinking of your mission?'

1966: You Only Live Twice films the ninja assault.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 54 of 65 - "Killer Astroid."

James Bond Jr - Killer Astroid

Season 1 - Episode 54
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807105/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

Goldfinger hijacks a space shuttle in midair so that he can use it to bring an asteroid made up solid gold on a collision course with Earth. With the tracing software being designed by IQ, James and the gang head to Iceland where the signal of the space shuttle is coming from.

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

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob (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 / Auric Goldfinger (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)

Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 54 - Killer Asteroid

1999: And the Word Was Bond documentary promoting The World Is Not Enough airs in the UK.

And the Word Was Bond (1999)

25min | Documentary, Short | TV Short 28 November 1999
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918490/
Promotional documentary released to promote The World Is Not Enough (1999).

Director: Rob Done
Writer: David Castell

And The Word Was Bond - James Bond Documentary (24:48)

2002: Die Another Day released in Sweden.

2002: James Bond 007 - Stirb an einem anderen Tag (James Bond 007 - Die of One Other Day) released in Austria, Germany, and the German-speaking region of Switzerland.

2002: Umri drugi dan (Die the Other Day) released in Croatia.

2002: Lamut B'Yom A'her (To die with more invincible values) released in Israel.

2005: Marc Lawrence dies at age 95--Palm Springs, California.
(Born 17 February 1910--New York City, New York.)

Marc Lawrence

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

Marc Lawrence (born Max Goldsmith, February 17, 1910 – November 28, 2005) was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. He has also been credited as F. A. Foss, Marc Laurence and Marc C. Lawrence.

Early years
Lawrence was born in New York City, the son of a Polish Jewish mother, Minerva Norma (née Sugarman), and a Russian Jewish father, Israel Simon Goldsmith. He participated in plays in school, then attended the City College of New York. In 1930, he received a two-year scholarship to the repertory theater operated by Eva Le Gallienne.
Career

In 1930, Lawrence befriended another young actor, John Garfield. The two appeared in a number of plays before Lawrence was given a film contract with Columbia Pictures. Lawrence's film debut came in 1933.

Lawrence's pock-marked complexion, brooding appearance and New York street-guy accent made him a natural for heavies, and he played scores of gangsters and mob bosses over the next six decades. Later, Lawrence found himself under scrutiny for his political leanings. When called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he admitted he had once been a member of the Communist Party. He named Sterling Hayden, Lionel Stander, Anne Revere, Larry Parks, Karen Morley and Jeff Corey as Communists. He was blacklisted[citation needed] and departed for Europe, where he continued to make films.

Following the demise of the blacklist, he returned to America and resumed his position as a familiar and talented purveyor of gangland types. He played gangsters in two James Bond movies: 1971's Diamonds Are Forever opposite Sean Connery, and 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun opposite Roger Moore. He also portrayed a henchman opposite Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man (1976) and a stereotypical Miami mob boss alongside Jerry Reed and Dom DeLuise in the comedy Hot Stuff (1979).

One of his last roles was as Mr. Zeemo in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang", which aired in February 1999. Previously he played the elderly Gatherer Volnoth in the 1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Vengeance Factor".

His final film role was in Looney Tunes Back in Action (2003), appearing as an Acme Corporation vice president.

Lawrence directed Nightmare in the Sun (1965).

Books
In 1991 Lawrence's autobiography was published entitled Long Time No See: Confessions of a Hollywood Gangster (ISBN 0-9636700-0-X). Lawrence was also the subject of a novel, The Beautiful and the Profane (ISBN 978-1-4107-0292-0) (published in 2002).

Personal life
For much of his adult life Lawrence lived in Palm Springs, California (1971–2006).[7] Lawrence married Odessa-born novelist and screenwriter Fanya Foss; she died on December 12, 1995. They had two children, Michael and Toni.

Death
Lawrence died of heart failure on November 28, 2005 at the age of 95. He was buried at Westwood Memorial Park in Westwood, California.

Marc Lawrence (I) (1910–2005)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492908/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2

Filmography

Actor (221 credits)

2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action - Acme VP, Stating the Obvious
2001 The Shipping News - Cousin Nolan

1999 End of Days - Old Man
1999 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series) - Mr. Zeemo
- Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang (1999) ... Mr. Zeemo
1998 ER (TV Series) - Mr. Newton
- Shades of Gray (1998) ... Mr. Newton
1996 Gotti (TV Movie) - Carlo Gambino
1996 From Dusk Till Dawn - Old Timer Motel Owner
1995 Four Rooms - Sam the Bellhop
1994 Metaltech: Earthsiege (Video Game) - Pilot #5 (as Marc C. Lawrence)
1992 Newsies - Kloppman
1992 Ruby - Santos Alicante
1990 Donor (TV Movie) - Ben Beloit
1990 Shannon's Deal (TV Series) - Abe the Just
- Art (1990) ... Abe the Just

1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series) - Volnath
- The Vengeance Factor (1989) ... Volnath
1989 Blood Red - Michael Fazio
1986 The Big Easy - Vinnie 'The Cannon' DiMotti
1986 The A-Team (TV Series) - Sam Marlini
- The Little Town with an Accent (1986) ... Sam Marlini (as Mark Lawrence)
1985 Night Train to Terror - Mr. Weiss / Dieter (segment "The Case of Claire Hansen")
1983 Savage Journey (TV Movie) - Chief Walker (uncredited)
1983 Thieves and Robbers - Don Salvatore Licuti
1982 Terror at Alcatraz (TV Movie) - Daniel Ginelli
1981 Border Pals (TV Short) - Joe Cincinnati
1980 Cataclysm - Abraham Weiss / Dieter
1980 Super Fuzz - Torpedo

1979 The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series) - Rostosky
- The Meeting (1979) ... Rostosky
1979 Swap Meet - Mr. Booth
1979 Hot Stuff - Carmine
1979 Wonder Woman (TV Series) - Mr. Jones
- Going, Going, Gone (1979) ... Mr. Jones
1978 Goin' Coconuts - Webster
1978 Foul Play - Stiltskin
1978 CHiPs (TV Series) - Co-Driver
- Crack-Up (1978) ... Co-Driver
1977 A Piece of the Action - Louie
1976 Baretta (TV Series) - Linsky
- Street Edition (1976) ... Linsky
1976 Marathon Man - Erhard
1976 The Rookies (TV Series) - Roger Marsten
- Journey to Oblivion (1976) ... Roger Marsten
1975 Switch (TV Series) - Don Vincenzo / Franks
- Kiss of Death (1975) ... Don Vincenzo
- Las Vegas Roundabout (1975) ... Franks
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Rodney
1974 McCloud (TV Series) - Vito Gilardi
- The Gang That Stole Manhattan (1974) ... Vito Gilardi
1969-1974 Mannix (TV Series) - Al Stanik / Ty Webber / Angelo Palerma
- A Fine Day for Dying (1974) ... Al Stanik
- Overkill (1971) ... Ty Webber
- The Nowhere Victim (1969) ... Angelo Palerma
1973 Frasier, the Sensuous Lion - Chiarelli (as Mark Lawrence)
1973 Pigs - Zambrini
1973 Honor Thy Father (TV Movie) - Stefano Magaddino
1972 In Pursuit of Treasure
1972 Nichols (TV Series) - Prouty
- Zachariah (1972) ... Prouty
1971 The Doris Day Show (TV Series) - Frankie Fury
- The Wings of an Angel (1971) ... Frankie Fury
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Slumber Inc. Attendant
1970-1971 Here's Lucy (TV Series) - Ruby / Joe Grapefruit
- Lucy and Mannix Are Held Hostage (1971) ... Ruby
- Lucy and Ma Parker (1970) ... Joe Grapefruit
1971 The Partners (TV Series) - Kelso
- The Prisoner of Fender (1971) ... Kelso
1970 Dream No Evil - Undertaker
1970 Bonanza (TV Series) - Red Gaskell
- Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing (1970) ... Red Gaskell
1970 The Kremlin Letter - The Priest

1969 Il killer (TV Mini-Series)
1968 Krakatoa: East of Java - Jacobs
1968 King of Kong Island - Albert Muller
1967 Custer of the West- Gold Miner
1967 Du mou dans la gâchette - Magnum
1966 7 monaci d'oro - Lucky Marciano, Capo da banda
1966 Savage Pampas - Sgt. Barril
1966 The Rat Patrol (TV Series) - Abu Hassan
- The Moment of Truce Raid (1966) ... Abu Hassan
1966 Johnny Tiger - William Billie
1966 2 mafiosi contro Al Capone - Joe Minasi
1965 Mister Ed (TV Series) - Spike the Bank Robber
- The Bank Robbery (1965) ... Spike the Bank Robber
1965 Petticoat Junction (TV Series) - Barney Dawson
- Hooterville Crime Wave (1965) ... Barney Dawson
1964 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Plato Atutle
- The Timothy Heist (1964) ... Plato Atutle
1964 Arrest and Trial (TV Series) - Leo Tucci
- Tigers Are for Jungles (1964) ... Leo Tucci
1963 Johnny Cool - Johnny Colini
1960-1963 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Lou Cagan / Mike Genna / Luigi Renaldo
- Blues for a Gone Goose (1963) ... Lou Cagan
- The Genna Brothers (1961) ... Mike Genna
- Star Witness (1960) ... Luigi Renaldo
1960-1962 The Detectives (TV Series) - Marcus Maroon / Ed Watkins / Rocco Silvano
- Three Blind Mice: Part II (1962) ... Marcus Maroon
- Three Blind Mice: Part 1 (1962) ... Marcus Maroon
- The Other Side (1960) ... Ed Watkins
- Life in the Balance (1960) ... Rocco Silvano
1961 Whispering Smith (TV Series) - Frankie Wisdom
- Death at Even Money (1961) ... Frankie Wisdom
1961 Lawman (TV Series) - Frank Walker
- Homecoming (1961) ... Frank Walker
1961 The Deputy (TV Series) - Alvy Burke
- The Hard Decision (1961) ... Alvy Burke
1960 Thriller (TV Series) - Dr. Emil Berland
- The Mark of the Hand (1960) ... Dr. Emil Berland (uncredited)
1958-1960 The Rifleman (TV Series) - Cougar / Gavin
- Trail of Hate (1960) ... Cougar
- The Safe Guard (1958) ... Gavin
1960 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) - Vito Doria
- Running Scared (1960) ... Vito Doria
1960 Bronco (TV Series) - Joe Russo
- Tangled Trail (1960) ... Joe Russo
1960 Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) - Wade Migill
- Killer Instinct (1960) ... Wade Migill

1959 Shotgun Slade (TV Series) - Gideon Finch
- Mesa of Missing Men (1959) ... Gideon Finch
1959 Johnny Staccato (TV Series) - Vic Raffe
- The Unwise Men (1959) ... Vic Raffe
1959 Tightrope (TV Series) - Frankie Farrell
- Man in the Middle (1959) ... Frankie Farrell
1959 M Squad (TV Series) - Vince Cronin
- Jeopardy by Fire (1959) ... Vince Cronin
1959 Peter Gunn (TV Series) - Max Grayco
- Vendetta (1959) ... Max Grayco
1958-1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - El Sordo / The Cajun / Scarface
- For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2 (1959) ... El Sordo
- For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1 (1959) ... El Sordo
- Child of Our Time (1959)
- Old Man (1958) ... The Cajun
- Days of Wine and Roses (1958) ... Scarface
1958 Wagon Train (TV Series) - First Mate Ferris
- Around the Horn (1958) ... First Mate Ferris
1957 Kill Her Gently - Connors
1956 Helen of Troy - Diomedes
1955 Ballata tragica - Felipe Alvaro
1955 La catena dell'odio - Braschi
1955 Suor Maria - Don Mario, proprietario del night club
1955 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Cow Nelson
- A Terrible Day (1955) ... Cow Nelson
1955 New Moon - Pierre
1954 Vacation with a Gangster - Jack Mariotti
1953 Funniest Show on Earth - Il proprietario del circo
1953 Trouble for the Legion - Serg. Schwartz
1953 Noi peccatori - Camillo
1953 Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair - Van Gould
1952 Brothers of Italy - Il capitano March - un ufficiale austriarco
1952 The Three Pirates - Van Gould
1952 La tratta delle bianche - Machedi
1952 Torment of the Past - Andrea Rossi (alias Piero)
1951 My Favorite Spy - Ben Ali
1951 Hurricane Island - Angus Macready (uncredited)

1950 Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion - Frankie--Loan Shark
1950 The Desert Hawk - Samad
1950 The Asphalt Jungle - Cobby
1950 Black Hand - Caesar Xavier Serpi

1949 Tough Assignment - Vince
1949 Calamity Jane and Sam Bass - Harry Dean
1949 Jigsaw - Angelo Agostini
1948 Out of the Storm - Red Stubbins
1948 Key Largo - Ziggy
1947 I Walk Alone - Nick Palestro
1947 Captain from Castile - Corio
1947 Unconquered - Sioto - Medicine Man
1947 Joe Palooka in the Knockout - John Mitchell
1947 Yankee Fakir - Duke
1946 Cloak and Dagger - Luigi
1946 Inside Job - Donovan
1946 The Virginian - Pete
1946 Blonde Alibi - Joe DeRita
1945 Life with Blondie - Pete, Blackie's Henchman
1945 Club Havana - Joe Reed
1945 Don't Fence Me In - Clifford Anson
1945 Flame of Barbary Coast - Joe Disko
1945 Dillinger - Doc Madison
1944 The Princess and the Pirate - Pedro
1944 Rainbow Island - Alcoa
1944 Tampico - Valdez
1943 Hit the Ice - Phil
1943 Submarine Alert - Vincent Bela
1943 Calaboose - Sluggsy Baker
1942 The Ox-Bow Incident - Jeff Farnley
1942 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge - McGaffey
1942 Eyes of the Underworld - Gordon Finch
1942 Call of the Canyon - Horace Dunston
1942 This Gun for Hire - Tommy
1942 Yokel Boy - Henchman Trigger
1942 Nazi Agent - Joe Aiello
1941 Public Enemies - Mike
1941 Sundown - Abdi Hammud
1941 A Dangerous Game - Joe
1941 Hold That Ghost - Charlie Smith
1941 Lady Scarface - Lefty Landers
1941 The Shepherd of the Hills - Pete Matthews
1941 Blossoms in the Dust - La Verne
1941 The Man Who Lost Himself - Frank DeSoto
1941 The Monster and the Girl - Sleeper
1941 Tall, Dark and Handsome - Louie
1940 Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum - Steve McBirney
1940 The Great Profile - Tony
1940 Brigham Young - Prosecutor
1940 The Golden Fleecing - 'Happy' Dugan
1940 The Man Who Talked Too Much - Lefty Kyler
1940 Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! - Tony Luffo
1940 Johnny Apollo - Bates

1939 Invisible Stripes - Lefty
1939 The Housekeeper's Daughter - Floyd
1939 Beware Spooks! - Slick Eastman
1939 Dust Be My Destiny - Venetti
1939 Think First (Short) - Joe
1939 S.O.S. Tidal Wave - Melvin Sutter
1939 Ex-Champ - Bill Crosle - Olsen's Manager
1939 Blind Alley - Buck
1939 Code of the Streets - Henchman Halstead, aka Denver Collins
1939 Romance of the Redwoods - Joe
1939 Sergeant Madden - 'Piggy' Ceders
1939 The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt - Henchman in Trenchcoat (uncredited)
1939 Homicide Bureau - Chuck Brown
1938 Charlie Chan in Honolulu - Johnny McCoy
1938 There's That Woman Again - Stevens (uncredited)
1938 While New York Sleeps - Happy Nelson
1938 Adventure in Sahara - Poule
1938 The Spider's Web - Steve Harmon
1938 I Am the Law - Eddie Girard
1938 Convicted - Milton Militis
1938 Squadron of Honor - Lawlor
1938 Who Killed Gail Preston? - Frank Daniels
1938 Penitentiary - Jack Hawkins (uncredited)
1937 The Shadow - Kid Crow
1937 Murder in Greenwich Village - Rusty Morgan
1937 Counsel for Crime - Edwin Mitchell
1937 Life Begins with Love - Pearson (uncredited)
1937 Charlie Chan on Broadway - Thomas Mitchell
1937 A Dangerous Adventure - Calkins
1937 It Can't Last Forever - Hoodlum (uncredited)
1937 What Price Vengeance - Pete Brower
1937 San Quentin - Venetti
1937 Criminals of the Air - 'Blast' Reardon
1937 I Promise to Pay - Henchman Whitehat
1937 Motor Madness - Gus Slater
1937 Racketeers in Exile - 'Blackie' White
1936 Night Waitress - Dorn (as Marc Laurence)
1936 Charlie Chan at the Opera - Undetermined Minor Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
1936 The Cowboy Star - Johnny Sampson
1936 Blackmailer - Pinky (uncredited)
1936 The Final Hour - Mike Magellon
1936 Trapped by Television - Frank Griffin (uncredited)
1936 Counterfeit - Dint Coleman
1936 Under Two Flags - Grivon (uncredited)
1936 Robin Hood of El Dorado - Manuel (uncredited)
1936 Love on a Bet - County Fair Barker (uncredited)
1936 Desire - Charles - the Valet (uncredited)
1936 Don't Gamble with Love - Gambler (uncredited)
1936 Road Gang - Pete
1935 3 Kids and a Queen - Gangster (uncredited)
1935 Dr. Socrates - Lefty Croger - a Gangster (uncredited)
1935 Little Big Shot - Doré's Henchman
1935 After the Dance - Tom - a Prisoner (uncredited)
1935 Don't Bet on Blondes - Gangster #6 (uncredited)
1935 The Arizonian - Henchman Who Pistol-Whipped Clay (uncredited)
1935 Men of the Hour - Joe
1935 Strangers All - Communist Meeting Chairman (uncredited)
1935 Go Into Your Dance - Eddie Logan (uncredited)
1935 'G' Men - Gangster Killed at Lodge (uncredited)
1934 Million Dollar Baby - Gangster
1934 Death on the Diamond - Bookies' Doorman (uncredited)
1934 Straight Is the Way - Monk's Henchmen (uncredited)
1933 White Woman - Connors
1933 Lady for a Day - Nick - Mug at Reception (uncredited)
1933 Her First Mate - Orderly with Message (uncredited)
1933 Gambling Ship - Hood (uncredited)
1932 If I Had a Million - Henchman of Mike the Gangster (uncredited)

Director (8 credits)

1973 Pigs
1965 Nightmare in the Sun
1961-1962 Maverick (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Mr. Muldoon's Partner (1962)
- A Technical Error (1961)
1962 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Jennifer (1962)
1960-1962 The Roaring 20's (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Footlights (1962)
- Vendetta on Bleecker Street (1960)
1961 Bronco (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- The Equalizer (1961)
- Prince of Darkness (1961)
1960-1961 Lawman (TV Series) (16 episodes)
- The Juror (1961)
- Conditional Surrender (1961)
- Blind Hate (1961)
- The Trial (1961)
- Whiphand (1961)
- Fugitive (1961)
- Mark of Cain (1961)
- The Inheritance (1961)
- Detweiler's Kid (1961)
- Hassayampa (1961)
- The Squatters (1961)
- The Marked Man (1961)
- The Frame-Up (1961)
- Cornered (1960)
- The Catcher (1960)
- The Post (1960)
1960 M Squad (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Man with the Ice (1960)
- The Twisted Way (1960)

Writer (2 credits)

1973 Pigs (as F.A. Foss)
1965 Nightmare in the Sun

Producer (2 credits)

1973 Pigs (producer)
1965 Nightmare in the Sun (producer)

RichardTheBruce

November 29th

1901: Varley Thomas is born--Wandsworth, Surrey, England.
(She dies 29 January 1983 at age 81--Ewell, Surrey, England.)

Varley Thomas

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859620/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Biography

Born November 29, 1901 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England, UK
Died January 29, 1983 in Ewell, Surrey, England, UK
Birth Name Margaret Ada Thomas
Height 5' (1.52 m)

Varley Thomas was born on November 29, 1901 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England as Margaret Ada Thomas. She was an actress, known for Goldfinger (1964), Jack the Ripper (1973) and Home Tonight (1961). She died on January 29, 1983 in Ewell, Surrey.

Filmography

Actress (10 credits)

1973 Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-Series) - Emily Holland
- The First Two (1973) ... Emily Holland

1969 Public Eye (TV Series) - Janet
- The Comedian's Graveyard (1969) ... Janet
1967 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Mrs. Neehan
- A Family Likeness (1967) ... Mrs. Neehan
1966 Love Story (TV Series) - Minnie Fry
- Two's Company (1966) ... Minnie Fry
1965 Television Club (TV Series) - Mrs. Bostock
- The Brent Family: Its None of Your Business (1965) ... Mrs. Bostock
1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Neighbour
- The Rules of the Game (1965) ... Neighbour
1964 Crossroads (TV Series) - Madame Durand
1964 Goldfinger - Swiss Gatekeeper
1962 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Mrs. Coggins
- Accessories After the Fact (1962) ... Mrs. Coggins
1961 Home Tonight (TV Series) - Mrs. Jackson
- Episode #1.40 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
- Episode #1.39 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
- Episode #1.38 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
- Episode #1.37 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
- Episode #1.36 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson

Archive footage (2 credits)

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Old Lady with Gun
1964 Goldfinger: The World Premiere (Documentary short)

1961: Variety reports their estimation Eon bought rights to Fleming's novels for $500,000.
1963: Kevin McClory receives Thunderball film rights and £50,000 damages. Any additional Bond films would necessarily be remakes.
1964: The San Francisco Examiner publishes the Donald Stanley short story "Holmes Meets 007". Later published by Beaune Press in 1967 in a very limited run.

"Holmes Meets 007"
http://www.wikiwand.com/en/James_Bond_uncollected_and_other_miscellaneous_short_stories

Then I noticed the crestfallen figure standing near the window. "What should we do with Bond?" I asked. "Bond? Oh, send him back to his little bureaucratic niche, I expect. Really, I couldn't be less concerned."

Donald Stanley wrote this short story - under two-thousand words - first published in The San Francisco Examiner on 29 November 1964. The Beaune Press (San Francisco) subsequently published 247 copies of this seven page story in December 1967. There is no copy 222: this is instead numbered 221B. Copies 223 through to 247 are numbered I to XXV and were printed especially for the author's friends.

Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes's amanuensis, narrates the story. M and Bond visit Holmes and Watson at Holmes's Baker Street address. Holmes's deductive abilities impress M who wishes Bond had the same ability. Bond questions if such intuitive talents could hold up against a Smersh assassin. Bond confronts Holmes about the latter's drug addiction and accuses Watson of being the source of Holmes's narcotics supplier. Once Holmes admits it, Bond aims his Walther PPF [sic] at Watson and announces that Watson is an imposter and none other than Bond's arch-enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld - the man who killed Bond's bride. Holmes throughout the meeting has been fiddling his Stradivarius - much to everyone's annoyance - and brings it crashing down, knocking Bond's gun away. Holmes plunges a needle containing morphine into M's arm, quickly rendering him unconscious. Holmes reveals that M is none other than Professor Moriarty; Bond is nothing more than a "fairly ignorant tool" who had been unaware of his boss's treachery all this time.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupParodies.aspx?id=12


https://colinatthemovies.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/james-bond-will-not-return-the-device-of-the-ignominious-end-in-007-parodies/
[some detail of the seven-page story given here]

https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/holmes-meets-007/
(San Francisco: The Beaune Press 1967, Donald Stanley)

1969: Bond comic strip River of Death ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 24 June 1969. 1038–1174) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/54698


http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1000


Spanish publishing house Buru Lan Ediciones, James Bond (vol. 1, #13)
https://www.comicsroyale.com/foreign-reprints#/buru-lan-reprints/
Reprints The River of Death, written by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Yaroslav Horak.


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

Dödens Flod
(The Dead River - River Of Death)

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

Dödens Flod
(The Dead River - River Of Death)

Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-21-1971/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 21:
“River of Death” (1971)
"Dødens flod"

1972: The Live and Let Die production moves to Jamaica, doubling for San Monique.
1973: 007: Vivir y dejar morir released in Argentina.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 55 of 65 - "Danger Train."

James Bond Jr - Danger Train

Season 1 - Episode 55
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807284/?ref_=ttep_ep55

James Bond Jr. and IQ get caught in a S.C.U.M. feud between Ms. Fortune and Walker D. Plank over stealing a super powerful engine from the 'Cold Fusion' Train.

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

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Scumlord (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 / Snuffer (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut / Miss Fortune / Pirate Parrot (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 55 - Danger Train

2002: Die Another Day released in Iceland.
2002: 007: Surra veel üks päev released in Estonia.

2002: 007 - Döden får vänta (007: Death Has to Wait; also 007 - Kuolema saa odottaa, 007: Death Must Wait) released in Finland.

2002: Mirsti Citu Dienu (To Die Another Day) released in Latvia.
2002: Pasveikink mirti kitą dieną (Happy to Die the Next Day) released in Lithuania.

2003: Norman Burton dies at age 79--California.
(Born 5 December 1923--New York City, New York.)

Norman Burton

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

Norman Burton
Born December 5, 1923
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died November 29, 2003 (aged 79)
Imperial, California, U.S.
Occupation Film, television actor
Years active 1957–1993

Norman Burton (December 5, 1923 – November 29, 2003), occasionally credited as Normann Burton, was an American stage film and television actor.

Early life
Born in New York City, Burton was a student of The Actor's Studio. After early work on stage, he broke into films with a minor role in Fright (1956).

Career

His career in film and television was long and relatively successful, but he never achieved major recognition. He played the Hunt Leader, a gorilla, in the science fiction film Planet of the Apes, notable as being the first ape to be seen by both Taylor and the audience, and also appeared as a (human) army officer in the second sequel Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). In film, he is perhaps best known for his unconventional (and frequently disparaged) performance as Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). He played Will Giddings, an ill fated engineer, in the action film The Towering Inferno (1974), and his later films included The Gumball Rally (1976), Crimes of Passion (1984) and Deep Space (1988). He played Dennis Christopher's mean and ill fated boss in the slasher Fade To Black (1980).

On television, he is best known for his performance as Inter-Agency Defense Command's supervisor Joe Atkinson during the second season of the DC Comics-based fantasy adventure drama series The New Adventures of Wonder Woman starring Lynda Carter. He also played Burt Dennis in the situation comedy The Ted Knight Show in the spring of 1978, and appeared as General George Marshall in the 1988 television miniseries War and Remembrance. Throughout his life, Burton was a devotee of the method school of acting, and taught method acting in Lakeside, California.

Death
Burton was just six days short of his 80th birthday when he died as a result of an auto accident while returning from Ajijic, Mexico near the California-Arizona state line.

Norman Burton (1923–2003) Actor

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123680/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (89 credits)

1993 American Ninja 5 - Ambassador Halden
1992 Live Wire - Senator Victor
1991 The New Adam-12 (TV Series) - Eric Monroe
- 211 Pizza (1991) ... Eric Monroe
1990 Dragnet (TV Series) - Safe Job (1990)
1990 Thirtysomething (TV Series) - Charley Sayers
- Arizona (1990) ... Charley Sayers

1988-1989 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. George C. Marshall
- Part XII (1989) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
- Part III (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
- Part I (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
1988 Shakedown on the Sunset Strip (TV Movie) - Ward Sullivan
1988 Deep Space - General Randolph
1988 Bloodsport - Helmer
1988 Highway to Heaven (TV Series) - Captain Friend
- Back to Oakland (1988) ... Captain Friend
1986 Bad Guys - Captain Watkins
1986 St. Elsewhere (TV Series) - Monsignor Senti
- Time Heals: Part 1 (1986) ... Monsignor Senti
1983-1986 Knight Rider (TV Series) - Damon Leland / Barnswell
- Redemption of a Champion (1986) ... Damon Leland
- A Nice, Indecent Little Town (1983) ... Barnswell
1986 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Drew Narramore
- Trial by Error (1986) ... Drew Narramore
1985 Pray for Death - Lt. Anderson
1984 Crimes of Passion - Lou Bateman
1983 Mausoleum - Dr. Simon Andrews
1982 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Carl Emory
- Fowl Play (1982) ... Carl Emory
1982 The Facts of Life (TV Series) - Dr. Green
- The Affair (1982) ... Dr. Green
1982 CHiPs (TV Series) - Kessler
- Tiger in the Streets (1982) ... Kessler
1981 Amy - Caruthers
1980 Fade to Black - Marty Berger (as Normann Burton)
1980 To Race the Wind (TV Movie) - Mr. Krents (as Normann Burton)
1980 Bogie (TV Movie) - Hopkins
1977-1980 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Dr. George Danner / Max
- Cover-Up (1980) ... Dr. George Danner (as Normann Burton)
- No Deadly Secret (1977) ... Max (as Normann Burton)

1979 The Ultimate Impostor (TV Movie) - Papich
1978 Lou Grant (TV Series) - Franklin Nash
- Conflict (1978) ... Franklin Nash (as Normann Burton)
1978 Project U.F.O. (TV Series) - Dr. Phil Greiner
- Sighting 4022: The Camouflage Incident (1978) ... Dr. Phil Greiner (as Normann Burton)
1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries (TV Series)
- Murder, Murder (1978) ... (as Normann Burton)
1978 Insight (TV Series) - Sam
- The Flawed Magi (1978) ... Sam (as Normann Burton)
1978 The Ted Knight Show (TV Mini-Series) - Burt Dennis
- The Honeymoon Game (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- Sweet Sixteen (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- The Wedding (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- Hop to It (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- My Hero (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- Strike (1978) ... Burt Dennis
1977 Wonder Woman (TV Series) - Joe Atkinson
- The Man Who Made Volcanoes (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- I Do, I Do (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Queen and the Thief (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Pied Piper (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- Knockout (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Bermuda Triangle Crisis (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Man Who Could Move the World (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- Anschluss '77 (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Return of Wonder Woman (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
1977 Murder in Peyton Place (TV Movie) - Jay Kamens (as Normann Burton)
1977 Dog and Cat (TV Series) - Tedesco
- Dead Skunk (1977) ... Tedesco
1974-1976 The Rockford Files (TV Series) - Markell / Melvyn Moss
- Return to the 38th Parallel (1976) ... Markell (as Normann Burton)
- The Big Ripoff (1974) ... Melvyn Moss (as Normann Burton)
1976 Rhoda (TV Series) - Ben Levy
- Meet the Levys (1976) ... Ben Levy (as Normann Burton)
1976 Black Sheep Squadron (TV Series) - General Carl Gant
- Presumed Dead (1976) ... General Carl Gant (as Normann Burton)
1976 Scorchy - Chief Frank O'Brien (as Normann Burton)
1976 The Gumball Rally - Lieutenant Roscoe (as Normann Burton)
1976 Harry O (TV Series) - Dr. Lusk
- Death Certificate (1976) ... Dr. Lusk (as Normann Burton)
1975-1976 Lincoln (TV Mini-Series) - General Ulysses S. Grant
- The Last Days (1976) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
- The Unwilling Warrior (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
- Sad Figure, Laughing (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
1975 Conspiracy of Terror (TV Movie) - Lt. Rossos (as Normann Burton)
1975 Baretta (TV Series) - Councilman
- The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues (1975) ... Councilman (as Normann Burton)
1975 The Reincarnation of Peter Proud - Dr. Frederick Spear (as Normann Burton)
1975 Force Five (TV Movie) - Arthur Haberman
1974 Let's Call It Quits (Short) - Bill
1974 The Towering Inferno - Giddings (as Normann Burton)
1974 Kojak (TV Series) - 'Fish' Fisher
- The Best War in Town (1974) ... 'Fish' Fisher (as Normann Burton)
1974 Planet of the Apes (TV Series) - Yalu
- The Interrogation (1974) ... Yalu (as Normann Burton)
1974 The Terminal Man - Det. Capt. Anders
1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Malloy
- The Illusion of Black Gold (1974) ... Malloy (as Normann Burton)
1974 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Bren
- Selkirk's War (1974) ... Bren
1973 Hit! - The Director
1973 Save the Tiger - Fred Mirrell
1972 A Great American Tragedy (TV Movie)
1972 The Partners (TV Series) - Romero
- The 217 in 402 (1972) ... Romero
1972 Fuzz - Police Commissioner Nelson
1971 They Call It Murder (TV Movie) - Movie Director
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Leiter
1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Army Officer
1971 Simon, King of the Witches - Willard Rackum
1971 Jud - Uncle Hornkel
1970 R.P.M. - Coach McCurdy

1969 Land of the Giants (TV Series) - Sergeant
- The Chase (1969) ... Sergeant
1968 The Felony Squad (TV Series) - Solly Hirt
- Matched for Murder (1968) ... Solly Hirt
1968 Judd for the Defense (TV Series) - Roger Helmsman
- Transplant (1968) ... Roger Helmsman
1968 Planet of the Apes - Hunt Leader
1968 I Spy (TV Series) - Brandon
- Tag, You're It (1968) ... Brandon
1967 Valley of the Dolls - Neely O'Hara's Director (uncredited)
1967 Days of Our Lives (TV Series) - Cab Driver
- Episode #1.391 (1967) ... Cab Driver
1966 The Hero (TV Series)
- The Day They Shot Sam Garrett (1966)
1966 Get Smart (TV Series) - Control Agent
- The Decoy (1966) ... Control Agent (uncredited)
1966 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Mr. Asher
- What's New, Poodle Dog? (1966) ... Mr. Asher
1966 Love on a Rooftop (TV Series)
- 117 Ways to Cook Hamburger (1966)
1965 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Ed
- The Reward (1965) ... Ed
1965 Wild Seed - Policeman
1965 The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series) - Mr. Hilmer
- Never Listen to Rumors (1965) ... Mr. Hilmer
1965 Bewitched (TV Series) - Moving Man
- Pleasure O'Riley (1965) ... Moving Man
1963 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Car Salesman
- See Hollywood and Die (1963) ... Car Salesman (uncredited)
1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Office Worker
- Miniature (1963) ... Office Worker (uncredited)
1963 Sam Benedict (TV Series) - Lt. Warren Jones
- Some Fires Die Slowly (1963) ... Lt. Warren Jones
1961-1962 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Solly / Wally Dagan
- The Floyd Gibbons Story (1962) ... Solly
- 90-Proof Dame (1961) ... Wally Dagan
1962 Hand of Death - Chief Homicide Investigator
1962 Shannon (TV Series) - John Herman
- Dolphin and the Mermaid (1962) ... John Herman
1962 Womanhunt
1961 Checkmate (TV Series) - Lou Lewis
- Kill the Sound (1961) ... Lou Lewis
1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Poulos
- Death of a Ghost (1961) ... Poulos
1960 Pretty Boy Floyd - Bill Courtney

1956 Fright - Thompkins - Reporter

Archive footage (2 credits)

2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Felix Leiter
1980 Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes (TV Movie) - Yalu

Planet of the Apes

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Diamonds Are Forever

2005: Joseph Fürst dies at age 89--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
(Born 13 February 1916--Vienna, Austria.)

Joseph Fürst

Joseph Fürst (13 February 1916 – 29 November 2005) was an Austrian-born international film and television actor known for his English language roles in Britain and Australia, after first appearing on the Canadian stage.

Career
Fürst was regularly featured in UK television drama series of the 1960s and early 1970s with appearances in The Saint, The Champions, Doomwatch, The Persuaders!, and as the mad (and well remembered) Professor Zaroff in the Doctor Who story The Underwater Menace. Many people believe his accent in this role to have been put on; this is incorrect, it is in fact his real accent. He also played the role of Schneider in the Armchair Theatre play "A Magnum for Schneider", which launched Edward Woodward as the character of Callan. (The play led to the highly regarded Callan TV series.)

Fürst's notable film appearances included 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever (1971) as Dr Metz, and Inn of the Damned (1975).

He emigrated to Australia and starting in the mid-1970s acted in several guest roles on Australian television drama series. His roles included several appearances in the top-rated police drama Division 4 produced by Crawford Productions in the 1970s. He played an ongoing role in soap opera Number 96 in 1976 as deli owner Carlo Lenzi, who was introduced to the series as a new Italian family alongside Arianthe Galani and Harry Michaels, his character romanced wine bar proprietor Norma Whittaker (Sheila Kennelly). He also played Heinrik Smeaton in The Young Doctors in 1979, and was a guest on situation comedy Kingswood Country, again opposite Kennelly. He guest starred in four episodes of A Country Practice in the early 1980s. In 1984, he starred in the ABC TV film The Schippan Mystery.

Fürst was interviewed by Dwayne Bunney and Dallas Jones for "Loose Cannon" and spoke about his career in an interview to be an extra feature for the reconstruction of the missing Doctor Who story "The Underwater Menace". This interview took place shortly before his death.

032 The Underwater Menace Interview with Joseph Furst
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUv2arY95lc

Joseph Fürst (1916–2005) Actor

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0299822/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (80 credits)

1986 Tusitala (TV Mini-Series) - Von Pilsarch
- Teller of Tales: Part Three (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
- Teller of Tales: Part Two (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
- The Teller of Tales: Part One (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
1985 The Dunera Boys (TV Mini-Series) - The Baron
- Episode #1.2 (1985) ... The Baron (as Joseph Furst)
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... The Baron (as Joseph Furst)
1984 Special Squad (TV Series) - Raddich
- The Würzburg Link (1984) ... Raddich
1984 The Schippan Mystery (TV Movie) - Mathias Schippan
1982 Jonah (TV Mini-Series) - Hans Paach
- Episode #1.4 (1982) ... Hans Paach
- Episode #1.3 (1982) ... Hans Paach
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Hans Paach
- Episode #1.1 (1982) ... Hans Paach
1982 A Country Practice (TV Series) - Alex Popovich
- Mates: Part 2 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
- Mates: Part 1 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
- Suffer Little Children: Part 2 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
- Suffer Little Children: Part 1 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
1980 Kingswood Country (TV Series) - Enzo Bertoluci
- There's No Place Like Rome (1980) ... Enzo Bertoluci
1980 Spy! (TV Series) - Colonel Malini
- The Venlo Incident (1980) ... Colonel Malini
1979-1980 Skyways (TV Series) - Poppa Fanelli / Pappa Fanelli
- Pili (1980) ... Poppa Fanelli
- Homecoming (1979) ... Pappa Fanelli

1976 The Young Doctors (TV Series) - Heinrik Smeaton (1978)
1976 Number 96 (TV Series) - Carlo Lenzi - 5 episodes
1976 Luke's Kingdom (TV Series) - Storekeeper,
- The Prisoner (1976) ... Storekeeper
- An Enemy Too Many (1976) ... Storekeeper
- Devil's Man (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Dam and the Damned (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Hypocrites (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The King's Gentleman (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Surveyor (1976) ... Storekeeper
- A Woman Waiting (1976) ... Storekeeper
- A Man Worse Than Cormac (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Man From Home (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Bait (1976) ... Storekeeper
- The Land Lovers (1976) ... Storekeeper
- A Sort of Gentleman (1976) ... Storekeeper
1975 Plugg - Judge, Fraudenheist
1975 Inn of the Damned - Lazar Straulle
1973-1975 Division 4 (TV Series) - Ernst Kaufmann / Emmanuel Czoski / Stefan Gronowski
- Check, Check, Check (1975) ... Ernst Kaufmann
- The Fanatic (1975) ... Emmanuel Czoski
- Today Is Eagle Day (1973) ... Stefan Gronowski
1974-1975 Behind the Legend (TV Series) - Ferdinand von Mueller
- Tom Roberts (1975)
- Ferdinand von Mueller (1974) ... Ferdinand von Mueller
1974 Mother's Day (TV Movie)
1974 The Evil Touch (TV Series) - Dr. Gornak
- Gornak's Prism (1974) ... Dr. Gornak
1973 ...And Millions Die! (TV Movie) - Franz Kessler
1973 Ryan (TV Series) - Eric Stahl
- Liz (1973) ... Eric Stahl
1972 The Money Game (TV Movie)
The Foreigner (voice)
1972 The Far Country (TV Series) - 5 episodes
- Episode #1.6 (1972)
- Episode #1.5 (1972)
- Episode #1.4 (1972)
- Episode #1.3 (1972)
- Episode #1.2 (1972)
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Yelker
- The Ozerov Inheritance (1971) ... Yelker (as Joseph Furst)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Dr Metz (as Joseph Furst)
1971 Take Three Girls (TV Series) - Leon Mailer
- The Company of Madmen (1971) ... Leon Mailer
1971 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Josef Walczak
- Cue Murder! (1971) ... Josef Walczak
1970 Goodbye Gemini - Georgiu
1970 Sudden Terror - Local Police Sgt (as Joseph Furst)
1970 Callan (TV Series) - Sabovski
- A Village Called 'G' (1970) ... Sabovski (as Joseph Furst)
1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Dr. Charles Goldsworthy
- Re-Entry Forbidden (1970) ... Dr. Charles Goldsworthy

1968-1969 The Champions (TV Series) - Dr. Rudolf Mueller / Chislenkan
- The Search (1969) ... Dr. Rudolf Mueller
- The Beginning (1968) ... Chislenkan
1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - President Obotnik
- The Flag (1968) ... President Obotnik
1968 Vendetta (TV Series) - Paul Bonner
- The Anniversary Man (1968) ... Paul Bonner
1968 Hammerhead - Count Ortega
1968 Mogul (TV Series) - Zaluchin
- Stop It, You're Breaking My Heart (1968) ... Zaluchin
1967 Boy Meets Girl (TV Series) - Mr. Swyvoski
- Lucinda (1967) ... Mr. Swyvoski
1967 Theatre of Death - Karl Schiller (as Joseph Furst)
1960-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Schneider / Ekhart / Ex-King Gustavus III
- A Magnum for Schneider (1967) ... Schneider
- Till the Day I Die (1961) ... Ekhart
- A Heart and a Diamond (1960) ... Ex-King Gustavus III
1967 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Professor Zaroff
- The Underwater Menace: Episode 4 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
- The Underwater Menace: Episode 3 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff (as Joseph Furst)
- The Underwater Menace: Episode 2 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
- The Underwater Menace: Episode 1 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
1966 Harry Worth (TV Series) - Carl Mildenhoff
- An Epic in the Sand (1966) ... Carl Mildenhoff
1966 Arrivederci, Baby! - German Brasshat
1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Professor Brodzinski
- Corridors of Power (1966) ... Professor Brodzinski
1966 Out of Town Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - Koplaski
- The Great Kopalski (1966) ... Koplaski
1963-1966 The Saint (TV Series)
Karel Jorovitch / Kane Luker / Dr. Ernst Zellerman
- The Russian Prisoner (1966) ... Karel Jorovitch (as Joseph Furst)
- The Saint Plays with Fire (1963) ... Kane Luker
- The Saint Sees It Through (1963) ... Dr. Ernst Zellerman (as Joseph Furst)
1966 The Brides of Fu Manchu - Otto Lentz (as Joseph Furst)
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Colonel Bucholz
- Enemy of the State (1966) ... Colonel Bucholz
1961-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)
Bertheimer / Dr. Heller / Lecherenko / ...
- Finesse in Diamonds (1965) ... Bertheimer
- The Finambulists (1963) ... Dr. Heller
- Freedom in September (1962) ... Lecherenko
- I Remember Mama (1961) ... Lars Papa Hanson
- The Poisoned Earth (1961) ... Dr. Brockmeyer
1965 McGuire, Go Home! - Dr. Andros
1964 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) -General Fitz Fromm
- The July Plot (1964) ... General Fitz Fromm
1964 The Midnight Men (TV Series) - King Alexander
- Promise to Kill (1964) ... King Alexander
- The King's Business (1964) ... King Alexander
- Time of Danger (1964) ... King Alexander
- The King Shall Die (1964) ... King Alexander
- The Man from Miditz (1964) ... King Alexander
1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Von Elm
- Medal for a Turned Coat (1964) ... Von Elm
1963 Sergeant Cork (TV Series) - Ernst Lukas
- The Case of the Girl Upstairs (1963) ... Ernst Lukas
1963 55 Days at Peking - Capt. Hanselman (as Joseph Furst)
1963 Anna Christie (TV Movie) - Chris Christopherson
1962 Freud - Herr Jacob Koertner (as Joseph Furst)
1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Glidepath (1962) ... (as Joseph Furst)
1962 Studio 4 (TV Series) - Doctor Korczak
- Doctor Korczak and the Children (1962) ... Doctor Korczak
1962 Man of the World (TV Series) - Wilhelm
- Shadow of the Wall (1962) ... Wilhelm
1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Gastin
- The Liars (1961) ... Gastin
1960-1961 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Hauptmann Denker / Colonel von Kohl / Dr. Görtler
- Cross of Iron (1961) ... Hauptmann Denker
- Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin (1960) ... Colonel von Kohl
- Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before (1960) ... Dr. Görtler
1961 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Koster
- Assassin (1961) ... Koster
1961 The Devil Inside - Paul Varna (as Joseph Furst)
1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Judge
- The Sorcerer (1961) ... Judge (as Joseph Furst)
1961 A Coming-Out Party - Luftwaffe Interrogator (as Joseph Furst)
1960 Exodus - Avidan (as Joseph Furst)
1960 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Descius Heiss
- The Shop at Sly Corner (1960) ... Descius Heiss
1960 R.C.M.P. (TV Series) - Vasyl
- Violence at the Wedding (1960) ... Vasyl
1960 Inside Story (TV Series) - Jacob Leibmann
- The Protege (1960) ... Jacob Leibmann
1960 Skyport (TV Series) - Dr. Haltrecht
- Episode #1.44 (1960) ... Dr. Haltrecht
1960 Counter-Attack! (TV Series) - Major Heinrich Wolf
- Last Chance (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Guard Duty (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Traitor's Mark (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Secret Agent (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Sealed Orders (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- Escape (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
- White Flag (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf

1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Doctor
- Echo from Afar (1959) ... Doctor
1953-1959 Encounter (TV Series) - Voller / ex-King Gustavus / Emil Thibodeau / ...
- A Leap in the Dark (1959)
- The Delicate Deal (1958) ... Voller
- A Heart and a Diamond (1958) ... ex-King Gustavus
- Chain Reaction (1958) ... Emil Thibodeau
- A Question of Discipline (1958) ... Joe Greenwood
- The Acrobats (1957)
- It's Murder in Algiers (1955) ... Kadis
- The Duke in Darkness (1954)
- Deadlier Than the Male (1954)
- A Look in the Mirror (1954)
- Flight Into Egypt (1954)
- Captain Carvallo (1953)
- Operation North Star (1953)
- Fortune My Foe (1953)
- Guilt (1953) ... Inspector
- The Vigil (1953) ... Prosecutor
- Othello (1953) ... Iago
1958-1959 The Unforeseen (TV Series)
- Mademoiselle Fifi (1959)
- The Ikon of Elijah (1958)
1957-1958 Folio (TV Series)
Doc Schwartz
- The Strong Are Lonely (1958)
- The Ottawa Man (1958) ... Doc Schwartz
- The Secret Agent (1957)
1958 The Telltale Heart (TV Movie) - Policeman
1954-1958 On Camera (TV Series) - Henry Barron / Mr. Klotsy
- The Absentee Murderer (1958) ... Henry Barron
- They Shot an Arrow (1956) ... Mr. Klotsy
- A Handful of Salt (1955)
- The Waltz (1955)
- Miracle at the Windsor (1954)
- The Bottle Imp (1954)
1955 First Performance (TV Series)
- The Colonel and the Lady (1955)
1955 CBC Summer Theatre (TV Series) - Baron
- Captain Carvallo (1955) ... Baron
1955 Scope (TV Series)
- The Colonel and the Lady (1955)
1953-1955 Playbill (TV Series) - Vanluven
- The Mayerling Riddle (1955)
- Death Pulls No Strings (1955)
- Tobacco Farm (1954) ... Vanluven
- Greek Street (1953)
- Confession (1953)

Self (1 credit)

Citizen Varek (Short documentary) 1953

2008: "Another Way to Die" charts at #81 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (spends one week on the chart).

2012: Skyfall released in Bangladesh.
2013: The Guardian reports on a tribute to Lewis Collins and his greatest disappointment.

Unthinkable? 007, working-class hero
Editorial

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/29/unthinkable-james-bond-working-class-hero

Lewis Collins's greatest disappointment was his failure to get
the James Bond role after Roger Moore
Fri 29 Nov 2013 18.03 EST

A tribute to Lewis Collins, the Mojo musician who became famous in the late 1970s as hit man Bodie in The Professionals, reveals that his greatest disappointment was not his decision to be a hairdresser rather than join the Beatles as a drummer but his failure to get the James Bond role after Roger Moore. Too aggressive, it was said, but really – since they chose cleft-chinned toff Timothy Dalton instead – they probably meant he wasn't smooth enough. Yet, as Ian Fleming said when he wrote to the Guardian in 1958 to defend his creation against encouraging a cult of luxury (eg choosing a brand of cigarette for its exclusivity rather than its taste), his James Bond was meant to be a blank sheet, an unobtrusive figure to whom exotic things happened. The personal style – the martini cocktail and the Walther PPK – were added as mere dabs of colour, at least as understood by an old Etonian living in Jamaica. It was Hollywood, not Fleming, that fleshed out the empire's last superhero, building up his suave style and the one-liners and making him a maverick rather than Fleming's classic Englishman. But Fleming enjoyed suggesting that Bond's sadistic violence was actually a rejection of the post-war world of teeth and specs on the state, while what one critic called his satyriasis was, according to Fleming, merely blatant heterosexuality in a world of gender confusion. It's harder to know the face of the enemy now, and Daniel Craig's Bond has become less upper-crust and more complex. But not yet a man of the people.

2021: Last day to see all 6 Bonds at Madame Tussauds London.

https://www.facebook.com/officialmadametussaudslondon/posts/10153222320245698?comment_id=10153222828025698&offset=0&total_comments=25&comment_tracking={"tn":"R0"}

2021: Tommy Lane dies at age 83--Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
(Born Tommy Lee Jones 1936--Tipton, Atoka, Tennessee.)

Tommy Lane, Actor and Stuntman in ‘Live
and Let Die,’ ‘Shaft,’ Dies at 83

See the complete article here:

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/tommy-lane-dead-live-and-let-die-shaft-1235122222/

Tommy Lane
Courtesy of Kamala Lane

Stuntman and actor Tommy Lane, who appeared in films including “Live and Let Die” and “Shaft,” died Monday in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He was 83.

His daughter Kamala reported that he died after a long bout of COPD.

In Richard Roundtree’s “Shaft,” his character Leroy could be seen crashing through Richard Roundtree’s Times Square office window. “That’s some cold shit, throwing my man Leroy out the window. Just picked my man up and threw him out the goddamn window,” says Willy in the 1971 blaxploitation classic.

Roger Moore with Tommy Lane during the shooting of “Live and Let Die”
Courtesy of Kamala Lane

In the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die,” he played Adam, one of Kananga’s henchmen who chases Roger Moore in a speedboat off the coast of the fictional island of San Monique. His character threatens, “You made one mistake back on that island, Bond. You took something that didn’t belong to you. And you took it from a friend of Mr. Big’s. That kind of mistake is tough to bounce back from.”

Before the speedboat scene, he can be heard to say “Bond ripped off one of our boats. He’s headed for the Irish Bayou. The man that gets him stays alive! Now, move you mothers!”

He also appeared in “Cotton Comes to Harlem,” “Ganja & Hess,” Burt Reynolds-starrer “Shamus” and TV shows including “Simon & Simon” and “Flipper.”

Born Tommy Lee Jones in Miami, Lane was also a jazz musician, and played trumpet and flugelhorn at New York City’s Blue Note throughout the 1980s.

He is survived by wife Raquel Bastias-Lane, seven children; a stepson and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

RichardTheBruce

November 30

1917: Ilse Steppat is born--Barmen, Germany.
(She dies 21 December 1969 at age 52--West Berlin, Germany.)

Ilse Paula Steppat

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

Born Ilse Paula Steppat
30 November 1917
Wuppertal, Germany
Died 21 December 1969 (aged 52)
West Berlin, Germany
Nationality German
Occupation Actress
Years active 1932–1969

Ilse Paula Steppat (30 November 1917 in Barmen – 21 December 1969 in West Berlin) was a German actress. Her husband was noted actor and director Max Nosseck.

Biography
She began her cinematic career at the age of 15 playing Joan of Arc. Steppat appeared regularly on the German stage, and starred in more than forty movies. In the 1960s, she appeared frequently in crime movies based on the work of author Edgar Wallace, such as Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloss, Der unheimliche Mönch and Die blaue Hand, which brought her great fame in Germany.

In her only English language role, Steppat played Blofeld's assistant and henchwoman Irma Bunt in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

In the first English language conversation between Steppat and the movie's producer, Albert R. Broccoli, she confused the word verlobt (engaged) with engagiert (dedicated).[citation needed]

Despite this, however, she was awarded the role of Irma Bunt. Steppat was unable to capitalise on her new fame outside Germany, as she died of a heart attack only four days after the movie's international release. She was buried in the Waldfriedhof Dahlem in Berlin. Steppat was supposed to reprise her role as Irma Bunt in Diamonds Are Forever. However her character was withdrawn after the actress's death.

Ilse Steppat (1917–1969)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827375/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (60 credits)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Irma Bunt
1969 Alle Hunde lieben Theobald (TV Series) - Lily Landraf
- Diana und die Landgräfin (1969) ... Lily Landraf
1968 Berliner Antigone (TV Movie) - Wärterin
1968 Altaich (TV Movie) - Charlotte Schnaase
1968 Liliomfi (TV Movie) - Camilla
1968 Death in a Red Jaguar - Mrs. Cunnings
1968 Hauptstraße Glück (TV Series) - Grete Lehkamp
- Heirate sich, wer kann (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Der liebe Nachbar (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Dachschaden ausgeschlossen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Auf, auf ins Grüne (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Romanze in Mull (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Die Verlobung findet nicht statt (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Mütter denken - Töchter lenken (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
- Rote Georginen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
1968 Eine etwas sonderbare Dame (TV Movie) - Mrs. Paddy
1967 Creature with the Blue Hand - Lady Emerson
1966 Hinter diesen Mauern (TV Movie) - Miss Burgess
1966 Living it Up - Carol Stevens
1965 The Sinister Monk - Lady Patricia
1965 Niemandsland (TV Movie) - Rachel Verney
1965 Der Krake (TV Movie) - Sophie Krebs
1964 Hafenpolizei (TV Series) - Frau Lammers
- Reisebegleiterin gesucht (1964) ... Frau Lammers
1964 Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloß - Margaret
1964 Rauf und runter (TV Movie)
1964 Das Haus der Schlangen (TV Series) - Edith Edwards
- Sechster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Fünfter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Vierter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Dritter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Zweiter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
- Erster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
1963 The Invisible Terror - Dr. Louise Richards
1963 Apartment-Zauber - Sittenkommissarin (as Jlse Steppat)
1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Wife
- Das Rendezvous (1963) ... Wife
1963 Das Glück der Ehe (TV Movie) - Katja
1962 Die Post geht ab - Elfriede Stolze
1961 Schau heimwärts, Engel (TV Movie) - Madame Elizabeth
1961 Der jüngste Tag (TV Movie) - Frau Hudetz
1960 Auf Engel schießt man nicht - Bellini
1960 A Mother's Revenge - Frau Barlowsky
1960 Pension Schöller - Amalie Schöller

1959 Ausflug mit Damen (TV Movie) - Juno
1958 Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen - Widow Prang
1958 Sehnsucht hat mich verführt - Brandner-Bäuerin
1958 The Eighth Day of the Week - Walicka
1958 Naked in the Night - Madam Clavius
1958 Nachtschwester Ingeborg - Frau Burger
1958 Sie schreiben mit (TV Series)
1957 Der versteinerte Wald (TV Movie) - Mrs. Chisholm
1957 Das Geheimnis (TV Movie) - Sara Callifer
1957 Confessions of Felix Krull - Maria Pia Kuckuck
1957 Der entscheidende Augenblick (TV Short) - Kate
1957 Der Adler vom Velsatal - Coletta Nicolini
1956 Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben - Ada Schenk
1956 Waldwinter - Frieda Stengel
1955 The Captain and His Hero - Yvonne
1955 Die Ratten - Frau Knobbe
1955 Der dunkle Stern - Frl. Rieger, die Lehrerin
1955 Oberarzt Dr. Solm - Claudia Möllenhauer, Tochter
1954 Das Phantom des großen Zeltes - Dolores, Frau mit dem Löwen
1954 Cavalry Captain Wronski - Leonore Cronberg
1953 Der Kaplan von San Lorenzo - Isabella Catani
1952 Lockende Sterne - Karena Rodde
1952 Wenn abends die Heide träumt - Brigitte
1951 Hanna Amon - Vera Colombani
1951 Die Schuld des Dr. Homma - Dr. Ilse Kersten
1951 Veronika, die Magd - Alice
1951 Die Tat des Anderen
1950 Der Fall Rabanser - Baronin Felten
1950 The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice - Oberschwester Hilde

1949 The Blue Swords - Frau von Tschirnhausen
1949 The Bridge - Therese Sander
1947 Marriage in the Shadows - Elisabeth Maurer

Soundtrack (2 credits)

1955 The Captain and His Hero (performer: "Ich sehne mich nach einem Wunder" - uncredited)
1952 Lockende Sterne (performer: "Tausend kleine Lügen")

1933: Tsai Chin is born--Shanghai, China.

1949: Wendy Leech is born--Buckinghamshire, England.
1949: Nicholas Woodeson is born--Sudan.

1956: Claude-Oliver Rudolph is born--Frankfurt, Germany.
1959: On the ninth day of the trial over rights to Thunderball, proceedings pause that Friday for a weekend of small conferences.

1969: Marc Forster is born--Illertissen, Bavaria, Germany.]

1994: Famke Janssen signs on to the GoldenEye production in the Xenia Onatopp role.

2010: Clement Graham Crowden is born--Edinburgh, Scotland.
(He dies 19 October 1922 at age 87--Edinburgh, Scotland.)

Obituary: Graham Crowden,
actor

See the complete article here:

https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituary-graham-crowden-actor-1699734

SCOTS actor Graham Crowden, best remembered for the medical drama
A Very Peculiar Practice and sitcom Waiting for God, has died at the age
of 87.
By The Newsroom | Thursday, 21st October 2010, 12:59 pm

Though known for comedy-drama roles, Crowden began as a Shakespearean actor, appearing on the big screen, television, stage and radio, in a career that stretched over seven decades.

Born and brought up in Edinburgh, he lived in London for much of his life but had returned to his birthplace with his wife, actress Phyllida Hewat, several years ago.

He died on Tuesday following a short illness.

His daughter, actress Sarah Crowden, said: "His legacy lives on. He did so much work that there's something of his on almost all the time somewhere in the world."

Born Clement Graham Crowden on 30 November, 1922, he was the third of four children born into a respectable Scottish Presbyterian family laid low by the First World War in which his father, a classics teacher, was seriously injured.

He had an unremarkable time at Edinburgh Academy, failing all of his exams, before going on to work in a tannery.

He joined the Royal Scots Youth Battalion in 1940, but his military career ended after a year when he suffered internal injuries from a gunshot fired by his own platoon sergeant.

His burgeoning theatre career could have ended in a similarly inglorious fashion had he heeded the advice of Shakespeare Without Frills director Robert Atkins, who told him: "You're too tall, too thin, you're not good looking and you have a funny voice."

Despite this early knock he persuaded Atkins to grant him a student contract, beginning a long stage apprenticeship with a succession of rep companies.

He married Phyllida Hewat, then a costume designer, in 1952. In the ensuing years the couple had four children, and Mr Crowden's stage career began to take off starting with major role in a Bristol Old Vic production of Major Barbara.

His introduction to movies started inauspiciously with a series of flops, beginning with 1961's Don't Bother To Knock, but he finally found his form with his appearances in director Lindsay Anderson's iconic satirical trilogy of If..., O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital.

Among some of the many films he appeared in were Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky, Out of Africa and the Bond movie For Your Eyes Only.

In 1974, Crowden turned down the chance to succeed Jon Pertwee as Dr Who.

Unable to commit the amount of time required by the part, he recommended Tom Baker for the role instead.

Speaking of his decision to refuse the role, he once joked: "Working with a lot of Daleks didn't sound like much fun."

When asked for his epitaph, Mr Crowden first thought of Lewis Casson's observation that "he looked funny even in serious roles", but he eventually settled on his own verdict: "I've done very good work for very bad money."

Graham Crowden (1922–2010)

Actor | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189561/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2012: Skyfall released in Bangladesh and South Africa.

RichardTheBruce

December 1st

1930: Matt Monro is born--London, England.
(He dies 7 February 1985 at age 54--Ealing, London, England.)

Matt Monro, Britain’s ‘Cockney
Como,’ Dies at 54

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-08-mn-4672-story.html
By BURT A. FOLKART | Feb. 8, 1985 | Times Staff Writer

Matt Monro, an East London bus driver who perfected his lyrical baritone techniques while serenading his passengers, died Thursday of liver cancer in London.

The popularizer of such hits as “Born Free” and “From Russia With Love” died in London’s Cromwell Hospital after a liver transplant operation was deemed useless two weeks ago.

Likened to Perry Como because of his effortless versions of the ballads of the day, Monro, 54, had the speaking voice of a Cockney but phrased like an English troubadour. Although he once had a succession of such hit recordings as “My Kind of Girl,” “Portrait of My Love,” “Softly, As I Leave You” and “Yesterday,” in recent years he had been out of the international arena and his appearances limited to nightclubs and cameos on British television.

Munro admitted in the late 1960s that alcohol had once been a problem but that he had overcome it. He also confessed to being an ongoing nicotine addict.

‘Smoked Incessantly’
“I have smoked incessantly since I started at 9 on tea leaves,” he had said. “If they’re announcing, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen--Matt Monro,’ I’ll light a cigarette because I know we’ve got two minutes of overture time and I can have a puff.”

Monro, who was born Terence Parsons in London’s middle-class East End, got his first paying job as a lorry operator. He later graduated to buses. But even as a boy, he told The Times in a 1968 interview when he was appearing in Las Vegas, he had always wanted to sing.

He took those frustrated ambitions out on his passengers who encouraged him, and he soon made his debut in small clubs.

In 1960 he recorded “Portrait of My Love” and followed it with “Walk Away.” Both were popular in England and abroad but it was his agent, lyricist Don Black, who made Monro a true international star.

Monro recorded Black’s lyrics to “Born Free,” the theme from the film about a lioness domesticated by a British couple in Africa, and the song topped charts in Britain, America and Japan.

He also had capitalized on a recording industry oversight. One of The Beatles’ most popular tunes, “Yesterday,” had not been released as a single and Monro, by then called the “Cockney Como,” soon filled that gap with his own version.

It stayed on Britain’s Top 10 for months.

Favorite Among Fellow Vocalists
His warm, relaxed interpretations of old and new songs and his gentle phrasing made him a favorite among fellow vocalists.

Frank Sinatra once said that Monro was the only British singer he ever listened to.

Monro’s hospitalization and recent illnesses were kept from the public until an exploratory operation Jan. 20 revealed that his cancer had spread too far for a liver transplant to save him.

He is survived by his wife, Mickie, and three children.

Matt Monro (1930–1985)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598448/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Soundtrack (32 credits)

2016 Cuéntame (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- La boda de cristal (2016) ... (performer: "No puedo quitar mis ojos de tí (Can't Take My Eyes Off You)")
2014/II Nightingale (performer: "The Good Life")
2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) (performer: "From Russia With Love")
2011 Rude Tube (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Extreme Rides (2011) ... (performer: "Born Free" - uncredited)
2010 Formula 1: BBC Sport (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- The European Grand Prix: Qualifying (2010) ... (performer: "From Russia With Love" - uncredited)
2010 From Paris with Love (performer: " They Long to Be - Close to You"))

2009 ...Sings the Beatles (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Yesterday")
2001 Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (performer: "Put on a Happy Face")

1997 Super Speedway (Documentary) (performer: "On Days Like These")
1992 The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (performer: "Born Free")
1990 The Krays (performer: "Walk Away")

1985 The Humans and The Jinns (performer: "Yesterday")
1983 Lady Is a Tramp (TV Series) (performer: "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Title theme))
1980 The Sea Wolves (performer: "The Precious Moments")

1978 Tomorrow Never Comes (performer: "Alone am I")
1973 Three Giant Men (performer: "The Southern Star")
1972 Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.3 (1972) ... (performer: "The Second Time Around", "Time After Time", "I Want to Be Happy")
1970 Hoffman (performer: "If there ever Is a next time")
1970 Satan's Harvest (performer: "Two People")

1969 Burbujas (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Sueños y pesadillas (1969) ... (performer: "Alguien cantó", "Qué tiempo tan feliz (Those Were the Days)", "Todo pasará")
1969 The Italian Job (performer: "On Days Like These")
1969 The Southern Star (performer: "The Southern Star")
1967 A Matter of Innocence (performer: "Pretty Polly")
1966 The Quiller Memorandum (performer: Theme Song - "WEDNESDAY'S CHILD")
1966 Born Free (performer: "Born Free" - uncredited)
1965 Go Go Mania (performer: "Pop Gear", "Walk Away" (uncredited), "For Mamma" (uncredited))
1964 Shindig! (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.12 (1964) ... (performer: "My Kind of Girl', "Walk Away")
1964 The Eurovision Song Contest (TV Special) (performer: "I Love The Little Things")
1964 A Song for Europe (TV Movie) (performer: "Choose", "Its Funny How You Know", "I've Got the Moon on My Side", "Ten Out of Ten", "Beautiful, Beautiful")
1963 From Russia with Love (performer: "From Russia with Love")
1959 The Chaplin Revue (performer: "I'm Bound for Texas")
1923 The Pilgrim (performer: "I'm Bound for Texas" (1971))

Actor (2 credits)

1970 Satan's Harvest - Bates
1961 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) - Singer
- Episode #15.16 (1961) ... Singer
- Episode #15.6 (1961) ... Singer

Archive footage (8 credits)

2015 Spectre: My Bond Song - Sam Smith (TV Special documentary short) - Himself
2012 ... Sings James Bond (TV Movie) - Himself - From Russia with Love
2010-2011 Breakfast (TV Series) - Himself - Singer
- Episode dated 9 March 2011 (2011) ... Himself - Singer
- Episode dated 8 February 2010 (2010) ... Himself - Singer
2009 ...Sings the Beatles (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
2007 Legends (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Matt Monro: The Man with the Golden Voice (2007) ... Himself
2007 La tele de tu vida (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #1.5 (2007) ... Himself
2006 James Bond's Greatest Hits (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
2005 An Evening with Matt Monro (Video) - Himself

1935: Woody Allen is born--New York City, New York.

1961: This month Argosy magazine for men Volume 353, Number 6, includes an extra bonus book Thunderball.

'Thunderball' (A James Bond Spy Thriller) contained within 'Argosy'
magazine for men. Volume 353, Number 6, December 1961.
FLEMING, Ian.

https://www.harringtonbooks.co.uk/pages/books/39259/ian-fleming/thunderball-a-james-bond-spy-thriller-contained-within-argosy-magazine-for-men-volume-353-number-6

Ohio and New York: Popular Publications, Incorporated. 1961. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps. Original price: 50 cents. Minor wear to spine and postal label to upper else fine. The novel 'Thunderball' is advertised on the front cover as an 'extra book bonus' and appears on pages 128–44, with a sepia-toned frontispiece illustration by Gil Cohen. An abridged version published shortly after the bookform edition. This is the first American periodical appearance and the first US illustrated edition. Scarce. Item #39259

Gilbert A9b 'Periodical Appearances', page 319

'Thunderball' (A James Bond Spy Thriller) contained within 'Argosy' magazine for men. Volume 353, Number 6, December 1961. Ian FLEMING.

1962: This month Classics Illustrated releases a Dr. No film comic in the UK. DC version in the US 1963.

https://13thdimension.com/the-curious-case-of-when-james-bond-joined-the-dc-universe/

http://secretagentlair.blogspot.com/2016/12/james-bond-comic-book-day.html


https://mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/comicbook_dn.php3?s=comics&id=02435

Above: A panel from "Dr No" by artist Norman J. Nodel, who used production stills from the movie.

1964: This month Takao Saito's 007 manga begins monthly serialization in Shogakukan's Boy's Life magazine through August 1967. Republished by Shogakukan's Golden Comics. Re-reprinted 1981 by Shogakukan Bunko, again in 2015 by Big Comics Special imprint.

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

1965: Variety reports the Shirley Bassey filed an (unsuccessful) injunction regarding an oral agreement to use "Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang” as the title song to Thunderball. Still, it appears on the official soundtrack if not in the film (which used an instrumental version).

1969: Bond comic strip Colonel Sun begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 28 August 1970. 1175–1393)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2015/10/colonel-sun-by-kingsley-amis.html


https://www.cbr.com/the-james-bond-omnibus-003/











https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_cs_review.php3?t=&s=main&id=01086


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

Dödligt Toppmöte (Colonel Sun - Part 1) | Dödligt Toppmöte (Colonel Sun - Part 2)

Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-22-1971/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 22: “Colonel Sun” (1971)
"Møde med døden"
[Rendezvous with death]

1982: Octopussy films Q in the gondola getting attention from Octopussy's Girls.

]

1992: This month Marvel Comics releases James Bond Jr. #12, "Homeward Bound!"
His last, with: Scumlord, Jaws, Dr. Derange, Odd Job, Dr. No, Walker D Plank and Baron von Skarin.

James Bond Jr. #12 - Homeward Bound!

https://comicvine.gamespot.com/james-bond-jr-12-homeward-bound/4000-36542/

Creators
Bambos Georgiou - inker
Mario Capaldi - penciler
Sophie Heath - colorist
Stuart Bartlett - letterer

James Bond Jr Issue 12 Homeward Bound!
http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-012/

1997: A&M releases the "Tomorrow Never Dies" single. Some releases also include "Strong Enough", "The Book", "No One Said It Would Be Easy", "Ordinary Morning..

1998: Freddie Young dies at age 96--London, England.
(Born 9 October 1902--London, England.)

Gentleman Genius
All Time Greats / Freddie Young OBE, BSC, ASC

https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/freddie-young-obe-bsc-asc/

Frederick Archibald Young was born on 9 October 1902 in London. He entered the film industry in 1917 at Lime Grove Studios, West London.

At that time it was run by Gaumont and had a glass exterior to allow light for shooting. Later it was re-built. It became Gaumont British in 1922. Young said the glasshouse was good in theory but in practice wasn’t so good. If it was a foggy day the studio became a pea souper. If it was cloudy, lights would be required to provide exposure, but if the sun came out the studio would be filled with sunlight and the shot would be ruined.

Young started in the laboratory and eventually moved into cameras, remaining with the studio for ten years. In those days he operated the Debrie Parvo camera. He worked with a cameraman called Arthur Brown. Later, Bill Shenton worked there and despite only having one eye he was considered to be a very good cameraman. Eventually the studio became the home to BBC Television. Housing now stands on the site. One of the films he worked on after leaving Gaumont was Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) photographed by Jack Cox and made at British International Pictures (BIP). Young was asked to shoot a montage for the silent version.

For several years he worked at British and Dominions at Elstree for producer and director Herbert Wilcox. Cinematographer Oswald Morris said: “He was a powerful cinematographer. He treated filmmaking rather like being in the army. There was strict discipline. At the height of his career his crew had to call him Mr Young.”

Sir Sydney Samuelson says: “The first technical marvel for which he was responsible, and which held me in awe of his genius, was as far back as 1938 on Sixty Glorious Years. I remember two technical aspects quite clearly. One sequence was an early example of British Technicolor three-strip. There was a remarkable ballroom scene, which was achieved by means of an early matte shot. Called something like the ‘Shufton process’. There was a glorious wide-angle shot of an elegant ballroom. Freddie once told me that as clever as Shufton was, the most stunning effect was actually brought about by him, pricking holes in the top part of the back of the matte then shining through each chandelier painted on its front. Amazing!”

During WW2 Young was in the Army Kinematograph Service with Freddie Francis. Francis said: “He always insisted on being called Mr Young or sir. After the war Freddie was Freddie to everyone.”

Young was the first President of the BSC 1949-1952. He was President again from 1957-1960. He was also a member of the ASC and Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS).

Following the war Young became head of cameras at MGM Elstree. “I suppose it was the finest studio in the country. It had a beautiful lot and was beautifully equipped,” remarked Young.

Renowned director Nicolas Roeg, who worked with Young at MGM and later photographed the second unit on Lawrence of Arabia, said Freddie was a terrific guy to work with.

In 1959, faced with a pay cut due to production cuts Young decided to leave the company. The day after leaving he realised that it was the first time he’d been out of work since 1917. In 1960 he was approached by producer Sam Spiegel to photograph Lawrence Of Arabia for director David Lean. Other notable directors he worked with include George Cukor, John Ford and John Huston.

He first met Lean on Major Barbara (1941). Lawrence was released in 1962 and was the start of three 65mm wide screen pictures with Lean, earning Young three Oscars. Sydney Samuelson said: “Young is definitely ‘the master’ in my book of cineastes. Arguably and certainly in his era he was the best cameraman in the world. I had the pleasure of involvements with him and his crew from Lawrence Of Arabia onwards. David Lean was such a brilliant storyteller but nobody when working on one of his movies would accuse him of being easygoing. Freddie carried on for him regardless of personal and technical problems. Apart from three American Oscars Freddie won many awards including only the second Fellowship after Hitchcock from our own Academy BAFTA.”

The three films he made with Lean were a challenge. “Lawrence Of Arabia took two years and was shot in Spain, Morocco and Jordan. The heat in the desert was a dry heat of 110 degrees. We had a sunshade over the camera and a wet cloth on top of the camera, which acted like refrigerator. We never saw rushes, the results were cabled from London. The famous mirage scene was shot using a 500mm lens. This was obtained from Panavision in Hollywood along with the rest of the camera equipment,” said Young.

His next outing with Lean was Dr Zhivago (1965). It was filmed in the heat of Spain but was set in Russia, so a lot of faking was required. Some was shot in Finland. “We painted trees white, coloured hedge rows with white plastic and used hundreds of tons of marble dust,” said Young. “We used a blue filter for much of the film and it was my hardest technically.”

His final film for Lean was Ryan’s Daughter (1971). The whole of the film is set on the west coast of Ireland. He said: “Winter came and the summer scenes hadn’t been completed, so the main unit went to South Africa, a second unit stayed behind headed by Roy Stevens. Denys Coop was in charge of the cinematography. Lean gives you an inspiration so you go out of your depth and try and do something extraordinary.”

In conversation with cinematographer Robin Vidgeon’s wife Angela, Young said: “Whenever I had a candlelit scene I would go into a dark room, light a candle, sit and watch it for a while, blow it out and then take those images to set and light accordingly.”

"Lawrence Of Arabia took two years and was shot in Spain, Morocco and Jordan. The heat in the desert was a dry heat of 110 degrees."
- Freddie Young OBE, BSC, ASC

In 1992 Lawrence of Arabia was re-launched and Young went to several screenings. At one screening Steven Spielberg told him it was seeing Lawrence in 1962 that made him decide a film career was for him.

Later in 1992 he was invited to speak to film students at the royal college of art. In July 1994 the college honoured him by making him a doctor of art.

Young said that people often asked him about his techniques. He said he had no plan or technique; he lit the scene according to what was in the script.

Following Ryan’s Daughter he carried on shooting until 1983. The same year he directed Arthur’s Hallowed Ground, his only film as director and the last he worked on. After this he shot commercials until his retirement aged eighty-five. His autobiography was published by Faber and Faber in 1999 called Seventy Light Years, which can be obtained through Amazon.

Finally, he said: “I worked in the industry for seventy years, photographing more than 120 films and being paid for a job I love. At the age of ninety-six I look back and think I’ve been incredibly lucky.”

Freddie Young OBE passed away on 1 December 1998 age 96.

Freddie Young (I) (1902–1998)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002875/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Cinematographer (130 credits)

1985 Invitation to the Wedding
1984 Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1981 Stainless Steel and the Star Spies (TV Movie)
1980 Ike: The War Years (TV Movie)
1980 Richard's Things (director of photography)
1980 Rough Cut

1979 Bloodline
1978 Stevie (director of photography)
1977 The Man in the Iron Mask (TV Movie) (director of photography)
1976 The Blue Bird (director of photography)
1975 The Executioner
1974 Great Expectations (TV Movie) (director of photography)
1974 The Tamarind Seed (director of photography)
1974 Love from A to Z (TV Movie)
1974 Luther
1972 The Asphyx
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra (director of photography)
1970 Ryan's Daughter (photographed by)
1970 The Maker and the Process (TV Short)

1969 Battle of Britain (director of photography)
1969 Sinful Davey (director of photography)
1967 You Only Live Twice (director of photography)
1967 The Deadly Affair (director of photography)
1965 Doctor Zhivago (director of photography)
1965 Rotten to the Core
1965 Lord Jim (as Frederick A. Young)
1964 The 7th Dawn (as Frederick Young, photographed by)
1962 Lawrence of Arabia (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1961 Loss of Innocence (as Frederick A Young, photographed by)
1961 Hand in Hand (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1961 Gorgo (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1960/III Macbeth (TV Movie) (as F.A. Young)

1959 Solomon and Sheba (director of photography - as Fred A. Young)
1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1958 Indiscreet (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
1958 Gideon of Scotland Yard (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
1958 I Accuse! (director of photography)
1957 Island in the Sun
1957 The Little Hut (as F.A. Young)
1957 The Barretts of Wimpole Street (as F.A. Young)
1956 Beyond Mombasa (as Frederick A. Young)
1956 Lust for Life (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1956 Invitation to the Dance (segments "Circus", "Ring Around the Rosy", as F.A. Young)
1956 Bhowani Junction (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1955 Bedevilled
1954 Betrayed (as F.A. Young)
1953 Knights of the Round Table (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1953 Mogambo (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1953 Terror on a Train (as F.A. Young)
1952 Ivanhoe (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1952 Giselle (Short)
1951 Calling Bulldog Drummond (as F.A. Young)
1950 Treasure Island (as F.A. Young)

1949 Conspirator (as F.A. Young, photographed by)
1949 Edward, My Son (as F.A. Young)
1948 The Winslow Boy (director of photography)
1948 Escape (as Frederick A. Young)
1947 While I Live (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1947 So Well Remembered (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
1946 Bedelia (as Frederick A. Young)
1945 Caesar and Cleopatra (as F.A. Young, photography)
1942 The Young Mr. Pitt (director of photography - as Frederick Young)
1941 49th Parallel (director of photography - as Frederick Young)
1940 Haunted Honeymoon (as F.A. Young, photography)
1940 Blackout (as F.A. Young)

1939 Nurse Edith Cavell (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips (as F.A. Young, photographed by)
1939 Suicide Legion
1938 Queen of Destiny (as F.A. Young)
1938 A Royal Divorce
1937 Millions (uncredited)
1937 The Rat (as F.A. Young)
1937 Victoria the Great (as F.A. Young)
1937 Backstage
1937 The Frog (as F.A. Young)
1937 Girl in the Street (as F.A. Young)
1936 The Show Goes On (as F.A. Young)
1936 This'll Make You Whistle
1936 Two's Company
1936 Fame
1936 When Knights Were Bold (as F.A. Young)
1935 Come Out of the Pantry
1935 Peg of Old Drury (as F.A. Young, photography)
1935 Escape Me Never (uncredited)
1934 The King of Paris
1934 Nell Gwyn (as F.A. Young)
1934 Girls Please!
1934 Runaway Queen
1933 It's a King (as F.A. Young)
1933 Just My Luck
1933 Night of the Garter
1933 Up for the Derby
1933 A Cuckoo in the Nest (uncredited)
1933 Trouble
1933 That's a Good Girl
1933 Summer Lightning
1933 Yes, Mr. Brown
1933 Bitter Sweet (as F.A. Young)
1933 The Little Damozel
1933 The King's Cup
1932 Leap Year
1932 The Love Contract
1932 Thark
1932 The Mayor's Nest
1932 Magic Night
1932 A Night Like This
1932 The Blue Danube
1931 Up for the Cup
1931 Mischief
1931 Venetian Nights (as F.A. Young)
1931 The Chance of a Night Time
1931 Tilly of Bloomsbury
1931 The Speckled Band (as F.A. Young)
1931 The Sport of Kings (as Fred Young)
1930 Tons of Money
1930 Plunder
1930 A Warm Corner (as Fred Young)
1930 Canaries Sometimes Sing
1930 On Approval
1930 Die Somme: Das Grab der Millionen (as Frederick Young)
1930 The Loves of Robert Burns (uncredited)
1930 The W Plan
1930 One Embarrassing Night (uncredited)

1929 White Cargo
1929 A Peep Behind the Scenes
1929 The Bondman
1928 Blue Bottles (Short) (as F.A. Young)
1928 Day-Dreams (Short)
1928 The Tonic (Short)
1928 Victory

Camera and Electrical Department (8 credits)

1979 Ike: The War Years (TV Mini-Series) (cinematographer - 2 episodes)
- Part II (1979) ... (cinematographer: UK)
- Part I (1979) ... (cinematographer: UK)

1959 The Wreck of the Mary Deare (additional photographer - as F.A. Young)
1956 Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light (Documentary short) (cinematographer: scenes from "Lust for Life (1956)
1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris (location camera - uncredited)

1927 The Somme (second camera operator)
1927 The Flag Lieutenant (second camera operator)
1922 Rob Roy (assistant camera)

1919 The First Men in the Moon (film development technician)

Director (1 credit)

1984 Arthur's Hallowed Ground (TV Movie)

1999: Robert Hale Ltd. publishes Sean Connery: A Celebration by Robert Sellers.
1999: Fox Studios Australia in Sydney opens the final location of the 007: License to Thrill simulator ride.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Belgium and Switzerland (French speaking region).
1999: Le monde ne suffit pas released in France.

2006: Casino Royale released in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.
2006: 007 カジノ・ロワイヤル (007: Kajino rowaiyaru) released in Japan.

2008: "Another Way to Die" reaches top forty status in Australia, peaking at twenty-nine.

2012: 007 スカイフォール (007 Sukaifōru) released in Japan.

2015: The Guardian reports on a potential Canadian low-budget remake of For Your Eyes Only.

James Bond goes to Ottawa in For Your
Eyes Only remake

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/01/james-bond-for-your-eyes-only-remake-ian-fleming

Low-budget film-making duo announce plans to take advantage of
Canadian copyright laws and adapt the Ian Fleming story. Ideally,
with Ryan Reynolds

Roger Moore as 007, with Lynn-Holly Johnson as Bibi Dahl, in the 1981 film For Your Eyes Only.
Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext Collection

Andrew Pulver | @Andrew_Pulver | Tue 1 Dec 2015

A duo of low-budget Canadian film-makers have announced plans to remake the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only, thanks to a loophole in copyright laws.

Lee Demarbre and Ian Driscoll, whose back catalogue includes the Mexican-wrestler thriller The Dead Sleep Easy and comedy musical Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, say they are planning to take advantage of Canada’s 50-year copyright limit to start work on a new adaptation of Ian Fleming’s 1960 short story. Unlike most other major film markets, Canada does not enforce the Berne convention that extended authors’ copyright to 70 years after death, meaning that Fleming, who died in 1964, is in the public domain in the country.

Ian Fleming with his 1964 short story collection For Your Eyes Only – which is out of copyright in Canada.
Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis

Pitching their film as “James Bond comes to Ottawa”, Demabre and Driscoll told CBC they were interested in For Your Eyes Only because Fleming has 007 visit the Canadian capital. In an interview with CBC’s Shadrach Kabango, the pair said they were not intending to compete with the blockbuster style of Spectre, and would instead be making an “arthouse James Bond”. They suggested Ryan Reynolds as a potential Canadian 007, with Christopher Plummer, Donald Sutherland and Michael Ironside as their favourites for supporting roles. Mad Men’s Jessica Paré was named as a possible female lead, and Montreal rappers Dead Obies as possible theme song performers.

The film-makers concede that copyright regulations mean they would be unable to release the proposed film in the US, limiting potential investment, but suggest that the restriction would not apply to “China and most of Asia”. As yet, the project lacks a producer.

2019: No Time To Die releases a 15-second teaser to the upcoming trailer.

RichardTheBruce

December 2nd

1916: Jack London shares his thoughts on life and time with Ernest J. Hopkins in San Francisco's The Bulletin.

Where M's Touching Tribute to James Bond
at the End of 'No Time to Die' Originates
From

See the complete article here:

https://www.newsweek.com/m-quote-james-bond-no-time-die-ending-1634622

By Jamie Burton On 10/9/21

Where does the Jack London quote originate?
The quote used by M in No Time To Die was a snippet from a larger quote attributed to London.

According to Bartleby.com, the full quote was said by London to journalist Ernest J. Hopkins, who published them in San Francisco's The Bulletin on December 2, 1916.

London reportedly told Hopkins this while discussing his life just two months before his death. He was just 40 years old when he passed away on November 22, 1916.

The full excerpt from both the newspaper report reads:

I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.

The wider quote was eventually unearthed from The Bulletin by Irving Shepard in his 1956 book Jack London's Tales of Adventure.

1931: Nadezda Poderegin (Nadja Regin) is born--Niš, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
(She dies 6 April 2019 at age 87--London, England.)

Nadja Regin, Bond Girl in
‘From Russia With Love’ and
‘Goldfinger,’ Dies at 87

https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/obituary-nadja-regin-james-bond-movies-1203183106/
By Dave McNary | April 8, 2019 10:14AM PT


Credit: Photo by Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5886267ec)Sean Connery, Nadja Regin
CREDIT: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

Serbian actress Nadja Regin, who appeared in two early James Bond movies, has died at the age of 87.

The news was announced on the official 007 Twitter account, which said: “We are very sorry to learn that Nadja Regin has passed away at the age of 87. Nadja appeared in two Bond films, ‘From Russia with Love’ and ‘Goldfinger.’ Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.”

She was born as Nadezda Poderegin on Dec. 2, 1931, and began acting while a student. She graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and also the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Philosophy.

Regin began appearing in British films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, starting with the horror film “The Man Without a Body,” followed by the comedy “Don’t Panic Chaps!,” “Edgar Wallace Mysteries,” “Solo for Sparrow” and “The Fur Collar.” TV roles included “Danger Man,” “The Saint” and “Dixon of Dock Green.”

She acted in “From Russia with Love” as the mistress of Kerim Bey, portrayed by Pedro Armendariz as the station chief of MI6 in Istanbul. Regin also appeared as Bonita, a dancer who sets a trap for James Bond in the pre-credit sequence of “Goldfinger.”

During the 1970s, Regin worked for Rank Film and horror producers Hammer, selecting film scripts for production. In 1980, she co-founded Honeyglen Publishing Ltd. She recently published her own novel, “The Victims and the Fools,” under her full name Nadja Poderegin. The book is set during World War II and is centered on a romance between a poet and a dancer.

Nadja Regin (1931–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716605/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actress (52 credits)

1967-1968 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Smyrna (maid) / Frederique Duval
- Stiff Upper Lip (1968) ... Smyrna (maid)
- The Old Campaigner (1967) ... Frederique Duval
1968 The World of Beachcomber (TV Series)
- Episode #1.6 (1968)
- Episode #1.4 (1968)
1968 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Mrs. Green
- Ania (1968) ... Mrs. Green
1967 Death Happens to Other People (TV Movie) - Bettina
1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Ylena Davos
- Reason for Sale (1967) ... Ylena Davos
1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Lucille Legrand
- The Art Collectors (1967) ... Lucille Legrand
1966 The Man in Room 17 (TV Series) - Roxana Polynescu
- The Catacombs (1966) ... Roxana Polynescu
1966 Donaug'schichten (TV Series)
- W. M. und die Diplomatie (1966)
1966 The Liars (TV Series) - Madame Moraldi
- Episode #1.1 (1966) ... Madame Moraldi
1965 The Third Man (TV Series) - Aldrina
- Members Only: Part 2 (1965) ... Aldrina
- Members Only: Part 1 (1965) ... Aldrina
1965 Riviera Police (TV Series) - Lisa
- The Lucky One Was the Snake (1965) ... Lisa
1965 The Flying Swan (TV Series) - Tanja Sykes
- Company Property (1965) ... Tanja Sykes
1964 Downfall - Suzanne Crossley
1964 Runaway Killer - Laura Kossovich
1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Ira Frankel
- The Professionals (1964) ... Ira Frankel (as Nadja Ragin)
1964 Goldfinger - Bonita
1962-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Suzanne Crossley / Mrs. Reynolds / Nadia Leiven
- Downfall (1964) ... Suzanne Crossley
- Solo for Sparrow (1962) ... Mrs. Reynolds
- Number Six (1962) ... Nadia Leiven
1963 From Russia with Love - Kerim's Mistress
1963 Crane (TV Series) - Maria Cortez
- The Golden Attraction (1963) ... Maria Cortez
1963 Man of the World (TV Series) - Maria
- In the Picture (1963) ... Maria
1963 Zero One (TV Series) - Didi Druson
- The Creators (1963) ... Didi Druson
1963 Stranglehold - Lilli
1963 Benny Hill (TV Series) - Russian Girl
- The Vanishing Man (1963) ... Russian Girl
1962 Solo for Sparrow - Mrs. Reynolds
1962 The Fur Collar - Marie Lejeune
1962 Six More Faces of Jim (TV Series)
- The Face of Wisdom (1962)
1962 Richard the Lionheart (TV Series) - Shirin
- The Lord of Kerak (1962) ... Shirin
1962 Brothers in Law (TV Series) - Nina Zoffany
- Special Examiner (1962) ... Nina Zoffany
1962 Parbottle Speaking (TV Series) - Zuhra
- Railway Lane (1962) ... Zuhra
- Paley Goes It Alone (1962) ... Zuhra
- The Chinese Chauffeur (1962) ... Zuhra
- Manalik Opens Fire (1962) ... Zuhra
- The Secret of the Cellar (1962) ... Zuhra
- The Man from Khazakand (1962) ... Zuhra
1962 Number Six - Nadia Leiven
1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Maria
- The Winning Ticket (1961) ... Maria
1961 Blond muß man sein auf Capri - Helga Wagner
1961 Danger Man (TV Series) - Melina
- Find and Destroy (1961) ... Melina
1961 International Detective (TV Series) - Nora Galloway
- The Anthony Case (1961) ... Nora Galloway
1960 Wir wollen niemals auseinandergehen - Livia
1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Estelle
- Once a Crook (1960) ... Estelle
-
1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Mary Darwin
- Murder in Berkeley Square (1959) ... Mary Darwin
1959 Don't Panic Chaps - Elsa
1959 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Princess Taima
- Man in Power (1959) ... Princess Taima (as Nadia Regin)
1958 William Tell (TV Series) - Maddelena
- The Bride (1958) ... Maddelena (as Nadja Regen)
1957 Es wird alles wieder gut - Lucilla Coletti, Artistin
1957 Franziska - Helen Philipps
1957 Die Unschuld vom Lande - Lollo
1957 The Man Without a Body - Odette Vernet
1955 Der Frontgockel - Claudette, Französin
1955 Du mein stilles Tal - Rita
1955 Esalon doktora M. - Hatidza (as Nadja Poderegin)
1954 Roman eines Frauenarztes - Nina Bertens
1954 Das Haus an der Küste - Marina
1952 Frosina (as Nadja Poderegin)
1950 The Magic Sword (as Nadja Poderegin)

1949 The Factory Story - Tekstilna ranica (as Nadja Poderegin)

Self (3 credits)

2018 Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros Years (Documentary) - Herself
2017 Hammer's Lost Worlds (Short) - Herself
1964 Goldfinger: The World Premiere (Documentary short) - Herself / Bonita

1959: A surprising conclusion to McClory's pursuit of rights to film Thunderball plays out.

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

All the more strange, then, what was to happen on the trial's ninth day.
McClory had just taken the stand was giving evidence when, as Peter
Carter-Ruck later recorded, "The hearing was unexpectedly and somewhat
dramatically adjourned after Leading Counsel on both sides had seen the
judge in his private rooms." It was Friday afternoon and the hearing was
a weekend of conferences with various lawyers and solicitors, leading to a
meeting on the offices of Fleming's solicitors, Farrer & Co, on the Sunday
afternoon. Fleming arrived accompanied by his wife Ann; Bryce was with
[Ernie] Cuneo and McClory with Bobo, his brother Desmond O'Donovan and Jack
Whittingham. There were also sundry solicitors. Carter-Rock quickly
detected an atmosphere of, "muted hostility."

Everyone was shown into a room with chairs set out in a circle but with
no table in the centre. After the formalities, Carter-Ruck opened the proceedings
by outlining the terms upon which McClory was prepared to settle his
action. This would involve the payment of his costs and the vesting in McClory
of the film rights in Thunderball. The copyright in both the finished picture and
the film scripts should be his as well, plus a sum by way of damages to
recompense him for the mental anguish and physical inconvenience he had been
caused. A figure was mentioned. "So great," Bryce later wrote "as to draw a gasp
even from that sophisticated group." It was a figure of £50,000. In less than 10
minutes it was agreed in principle to come to terms.

Why after nearly three years of expensive legal wrangling did Fleming
and Bryce so quickly throw in the towel after just nine days in court? ...

1966: You Only Live Twice films Bond's last scene, with Blofeld.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 56 of 65 - "Quantum Diamonds."

James Bond Jr - Quantum Diamonds

Season 1 - Episode 56
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807115/?ref_=ttep_ep56

James and his friend visit Yellowstone National Park where Dr. Derange attempts to extract a crystal from Old Faithful for his latest plot.

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 / Nick Nack (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 ... Jaws (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 56 - Quantum Diamonds

1992: Michael Gothard dies at age 53--London, England.
(Born 24 June 1939--Hendon, Middlesex, England.)

Michael Gothard

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

as Emile Locque in For Your Eyes Only, 1981

Born Michael Alan Gothard, 24 June 1939, London, England
Died 2 December 1992 (aged 53), Hampstead, London, England
Years active 1961–1992

Michael Alan Gothard (24 June 1939 – 2 December 1992) was an English actor, who portrayed Kai in the television series Arthur of the Britons and the mysterious villain Emile Leopold Locque in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.

Early life
Michael Gothard was born in London in 1939. As a child, he lived in both Wales and London. After leaving Haverstock School, he travelled in France for several months before returning home. He went through various jobs, including being a building labourer and a trainee reporter. He even had a brief spell as a clothes model, but he never felt comfortable doing that job. He said: "I was as stiff as a board and I couldn’t overcome my sense of the ridiculous. I was a clothes hanger, an object, not a person."

Career
He joined the New Arts Theatre as a scenery mover, and became part of an amateur film a friend was making. After landing the lead role, he was encouraged to take up the profession. He attended evening classes at an actors' workshop whilst holding down a day job. He was involved working in some of the first "Lunchtime theatre" productions in the 1960s, from pub cellars to top floor spaces off St. Martin's Lane. His first television role was in an episode of Out of the Unknown in 1966 called "The Machine Stops". He was then cast in Don Levy's film Herostratus in 1967 and Up the Junction in 1968. He then acquired a female following after taking a role as the villainous Mordaunt in the BBC's adaptation of Twenty Years After (Further Adventures of the Musketeers).

His performance as the nightclubbing killer Keith in Scream and Scream Again, directed by Gordon Hessler, was a break-out role for him, giving him exposure and leading to other, more prominent parts. In the film, Keith makes one of the most memorable escapes from the police ever seen. The film also starred Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Executive producer Louis M. Heyward said of Gothard's performance: "I felt that Michael Gothard was going to be the biggest thing that ever happened. He had that insane look and that drive, and he was wonderful. Here is a kid who really threw himself into the picture wholeheartedly. Do you remember the scene where he appears to be walking up the cliff? That's a stunt that, as an actor, I would not have agreed to; I’d say, 'Hey, get a double or get a dummy. I ain't either one.' But the kid agreed to do it, without a double—he was that driven. He had a lot of class and a lot of style. Gordon (Hessler) came up with the idea of using an overhead cable to give that illusion of his walking up the cliff."

He appeared in Ken Russell's 1971 horror film, The Devils, in which Gothard had a stand-out role as a fanatic witch-hunter and exorcist who defiles Vanessa Redgrave and tortures Oliver Reed. His performance as a young disillusioned hippie in Barbet Schroeder's La Vallée (1972) contrasted with the rest of his career. He also played a fictionalised version of the 17th century assassin John Felton in Richard Lester's 1973 film of The Three Musketeers and its 1974 sequel, The Four Musketeers.

He had a regular role as Kai opposite Oliver Tobias's King Arthur on the aforementioned Arthur of the Britons during the early 1970s. He became known to a wider cinema audience for his menacing turn as the villainous (and non-speaking) Belgian henchman, Emile Leopold Locque, in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only. Gothard was actually the one who suggested Locque's signature octagonal glasses in an effort to make the character more menacing. His later appearances included supporting roles in Tobe Hooper's 1985 science-fiction horror extravaganza, Lifeforce, and as George Lusk in the 1988 TV movie, Jack the Ripper, with Michael Caine. He appeared with Dean Stockwell and Shirley Knight in a Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (a.k.a. Fox Mystery Theatre) episode, The Sweet Scent of Death.[4] His last few roles were in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery in 1992, where he briefly acted opposite Marlon Brando. It was directed by his For Your Eyes Only director John Glen, but was a box office failure.

Glen had actually cast Gothard in the role beneath Brando with the intention of moving Gothard into the role of Tomás de Torquemada, Brando's character, in case Brando did not show up for filming. Brando did indeed miss the first day of filming, and Gothard took over this role for the day's shooting. However, Tom Selleck told the director that without Brando, he would quit the film. Word apparently got out, for Brando was on the set the next day, and assumed the role of Torquemada, with Glen reshooting the scene. Glen described Gothard as "a very good" and "captivating" actor, as well as a friend.

His final role was in David Wickes's Frankenstein, starring Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid.

Death

Gothard, who struggled with depression for much of his life, committed suicide by hanging on 2 December 1992. He was fifty-three years old.

Michael Gothard (1939–1992)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331788/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (42 credits)

1992 Frankenstein (TV Movie) - Boatswain
1992 Christopher Columbus: The Discovery - Inquisitor's Spy
1990 Out of Time - Xaros

1989 Massacre Play - Zabo
1989 Capital City (TV Series) - Stefan
- Twelve Degrees Capricorn (1989) ... Stefan
1988 Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-Series) - George Lusk
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... George Lusk
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... George Lusk
1987 Destroying Angel - Ennio Volpe
1985 Lytton's Diary (TV Series) - Jake Cutler
- Daddy's Girls (1985) ... Jake Cutler
1985 Minder (TV Series) - Sergei
- From Fulham with Love (1985) ... Sergei
1985 Going Undercover - Strett
1985 Lifeforce - Dr. Bukovsky
1984 Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series) - Karl Portillo
- Our Man in Tegernsee (1984) ... Karl Portillo
1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Terry Marvin
- The Sweet Scent of Death (1984) ... Terry Marvin
1982 Ivanhoe (TV Movie) - Athelstane
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Locque
1981 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Dieter
- The Perfect House (1981) ... Dieter
1980 Shoestring (TV Series) - Harry
- The Mayfly Dance (1980) ... Harry
1980 A Tale of Two Cities (TV Mini-Series) - Gaspard
- Part 3 (1980) ... Gaspard
- Part 1 (1980) ... Gaspard

1979 The Professionals (TV Series) - Kodai
- Stopover (1979) ... Kodai
1978 Warlords of the Deep - Atmir
1978 Warrior Queen (TV Series) - Volthan
- Episode #1.6 (1978) ... Volthan
- Episode #1.5 (1978) ... Volthan
- Episode #1.4 (1978) ... Volthan
- Episode #1.3 (1978) ... Volthan
- Episode #1.2 (1978) ... Volthan
- Episode #1.1 (1978) ... Volthan
1975 King Arthur, the Young Warlord - Kai
1974 The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge - Felton
1973 The Three Musketeers - Felton
1972-1973 Arthur of the Britons (TV Series) - Kai
- The Girl from Rome (1973) ... Kai
- The Treaty (1973) ... Kai
- The Games (1973) ... Kai
- Daughter of the King (1973) ... Kai
- Six Measures of Silver (1973) ... Kai
- In Common Cause (1973) ... Kai
- The Marriage Feast (1973) ... Kai
- Go Warily (1973) ... Kai
- Some Saxon Women (1973) ... Kai
- The Prisoner (1973) ... Kai
- Rowena (1973) ... Kai
- The Swordsman (1973) ... Kai
- The Prize (1973) ... Kai
- The Wood People (1973) ... Kai
- The Slaves (1973) ... Kai
- Enemies and Lovers (1973) ... Kai
- Rolf the Preacher (1973) ... Kai
- The Pupil (1973) ... Kai
- The Duel (1973) ... Kai
- People of the Plough (1973) ... Kai
- The Penitent Invader (1972) ... Kai
- The Challenge (1972) ... Kai
- The Gift of Life (1972) ... Kai
- Arthur Is Dead (1972) ... Kai
1972 The Valley (Obscured by Clouds) - Olivier
1971 The Devils - Father Barre
1971 Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? - Albie
1971 The Last Valley - Hansen
1970 Menace (TV Series) - Pip
- Nine Bean Rows (1970) ... Pip
1970 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Ivan
- Games People Play (1970) ... Ivan
1970 Scream and Scream Again - Keith
1970 My Partner the Ghost (TV Series) - Perrin
- When the Spirit Moves You (1970) ... Perrin

1969 Department S (TV Series) - Weber
- Les Fleurs du Mal (1969) ... Weber
1969 Fraud Squad (TV Series) - Jacky Joyce
- Run for Your Money (1969) ... Jacky Joyce
1969 Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell - John
1969 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Brian
- The Story-teller (1969) ... Brian
1968 Up the Junction - Terry
1967 The Further Adventures of the Musketeers (TV Series) - Mordaunt
- Hunted (1967) ... Mordaunt
- Treachery (1967) ... Mordaunt
- The Scaffold (1967) ... Mordaunt
- The Trial (1967) ... Mordaunt
- The Oath (1967) ... Mordaunt
- Escape (1967) ... Mordaunt
- The Boy King (1967) ... Mordaunt
- Abduction (1967) ... Mordaunt
- Peril (1967) ... Mordaunt
- Conflict (1967) ... Mordaunt
- Conspiracy (1967) ... Mordaunt
1967 Herostratus - Max
1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Grady
- The Excavation (1966) ... Grady
1966 Out of the Unknown (TV Series) - Kuno
- The Machine Stops (1966) ... Kuno

Self (1 credit)

1971 Director of Devils (Documentary short) - Himself

Archive footage (6 credits)

2013 Carlsen's Curse with Steve Railsback (Video short) - Bukovsky
2013 Dangerous Beauty with Mathilda May (Video short) - Bukovsky

2006 For Your Eyes Only: Expanded Angles (Video documentary short) - Locque
2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Locque

1981 Clapper Board (TV Series) - Locque
- For Your Eyes Only Special (1981) ... Locque (uncredited)
1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short)

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Lebanon.

2011: Skyfall films Bond swimming at the top of the Four Seasons, Canary Wharf, London (as Shanghai).
2015: Gabriele Ferzetti dies at age 90--Rome, Lazio, Italy.
(Born 17 March 1925--Rome, Lazio, Italy.)

Gabriele Ferzetti obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/22/gabriele-ferzetti

Charismatic Italian actor who starred in Antonioni’s L’Avventura
and played opposite George Lazenby in On Her Majesty’s Secret
Service

Ronald Bergan | Tue 22 Dec 2015 10.41 EST | Last modified on Sun 4 Mar 2018 07.48 EST

Gabriele Ferzetti (right) with Lea Massari in Antonioni’s classic L’Avventura (1960), in which he played Sandro, a wealthy playboy searching for his missing lover. Photograph: Snap Stills/Rex Shutterstock

The Italian actor Gabriele Ferzetti, who has died aged 90, was never in danger of being typecast. He played a multitude of different film roles in every known genre, over seven decades, and just about the only constant in his long career was that he was perennially handsome and charismatic without being showy.

To cinephiles, he was most memorable for his intense performance of quiet desperation as the unfulfilled wealthy playboy seeking his missing lover in Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (1960). However, his most widely known roles, dubbed into English, were as the unscrupulous railroad baron on crutches in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and as James Bond’s father-in-law, a powerful crime boss, in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), the one with George Lazenby as 007.

Ferzetti was born in Rome, where he attended the Silvio d’Amico drama school before winning a scholarship to the Rome Academy of Dramatic Art. However, he was eventually expelled for appearing with a professional theatrical troupe. After his role on stage as the young shepherd Sylvius in Luchino Visconti’s 1948 production of As You Like It, designed by Salvador Dalí, Ferzetti had small roles in several films, soon becoming a leading man.

He was first noticed internationally in Mario Soldati’s The Wayward Wife (La Provinciale,1953), although the spotlight was on the ascending star Gina Lollobrigida in the title role. Ferzetti made the most of the thankless part of her husband, a bespectacled science professor who realises his wife does not love him but who wins her round in the end.

In the same year he landed the title role in the sumptuous biopic Puccini, in which he portrayed the philandering Italian opera composer from his student days to a man in his 80s, with a little help from the makeup department. He reprised the role in House of Ricordi (1954), about the music-publishing house.

Ferzetti was then cast by Antonioni in Le Amiche (The Girl Friends, 1955), which won the director the Silver Lion at the Venice film festival. Adapted from a Cesare Pavese story, the film manages to hold the 10 bourgeois characters in balance, giving almost equal weight to their individuality and the shifting pattern of relationships. Among them is Ferzetti, giving a nuanced performance as a morose, frustrated artist, envious of his more successful wife, and the cause of a woman’s suicide attempt.

It would take five years and several mediocre melodramas and epics, including the elephantine Hannibal (1959), in which Ferzetti was impressive as a Roman senator, before he was reunited with Antonioni.

L’Avventura, the film in which the director’s style reached maturity, allowed Ferzetti to play a weak and disillusioned man, a failed architect who complains, while looking around his Sicilian town: “Who needs beautiful things nowadays? How long will they last? All of this was built to last centuries. Today, 10, 20 years at the most, and then?” He later peevishly spills ink over a young man’s sketch of a church. At the film’s bitter end, not a resolution of the conventional type, he weeps pathetically out of guilt and emptiness. Nothing Ferzetti did in films subsequently equalled this.

L’Avventura led him to a number of English-language movies, including the paper-thin romance Jessica (1962) – set in Sicily, and in which he played a reclusive aristocrat who falls for a young midwife (Angie Dickinson) – and a conventional war film, Torpedo Bay (1963), in which he is a noble Italian submarine captain being stalked by a British ship commanded by James Mason. Ferzetti was suitably grim as Lot, fleeing Sodom with his daughters and wife in The Bible (1966), a bad film from the Good Book, directed by the self-proclaimed atheist John Huston.

Though dubbed, Ferzetti was convincing in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) as the rail tycoon Morton, a smooth, cowardly baddie who employs a villainous hired gun, Frank (Henry Fonda), to frighten an owner into selling one of the rare pieces of land with water on it. Being disabled, Morton is vulnerable in his encounters with various unscrupulous bandits, at one stage having his crutches kicked away from him. He is last seen crawling towards a puddle of muddy water in the desert. It was Ferzetti’s favourite role.

He was Draco, a gentlemanly mafia boss in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), enticing Bond to marry his daughter (Diana Rigg), and offering to help 007 track down Blofeld. And he was chilling in Costa-Gavras’s The Confession (1970) as the head Stalinist interrogator who manages to extract a false confession from the Czech dissident Artur London (Yves Montand).

His Italian accent notwithstanding, Ferzetti was equally nasty as an ex-SS officer, now psychiatrist, intent on covering up his tracks in Liliana Cavani’s meretricious The Night Porter (1974), a study of a sadomasochistic relationship between a former Nazi (Dirk Bogarde) and the woman he raped in a concentration camp (Charlotte Rampling).

Ferzetti was kept busy throughout the 70s and 80s in supporting roles in mostly unremarkable Italian/French co-productions, as well as the occasional English-language film, such as the dreadful Inchon (1981), in which he played a Turkish officer in the Korean war with a miscast Laurence Olivier as General MacArthur.

In the 90s Ferzetti appeared more frequently on television, but played the Duke of Venice in Oliver Parker’s Othello on the big screen and won the Ubu prize for his performance in August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death on stage (both 1992). In 2009, aged 84, he gained much praise for playing the head of a wealthy Milanese industrial family in I Am Love (Io Sono l’Amore).

He is survived by his daughter, Anna, also an actor, from his marriage to the actor Maria Grazia Eminente, which ended in divorce, and by two granddaughters.

• Gabriele Ferzetti, actor, born 17 March 1925; died 2 December 2015

Gabriele Ferzetti (1925–2015)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0275213/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (168 credits)

2010 18 Years Later - Enrico
2009 I Am Love - Edoardo Recchi Senior
1992-2007 A Wonderful Family (TV Series) - Nono
- Les adieux de Nono (2007) ... Nono
- Un Beaumont peut en cacher un autre (2002) ... Nono
- Panique à bord (2000) ... Nono
- L'amour en vacances (1996) ... Nono
- Nicolas s'en va-t-en guerre (1996) ... Nono (credit only)
- Des vacances mouvementées (1993) ... Nono
- Bonnes et mauvaises surprises (1993) ... Nono (credit only)
- Des jours ça rit, des jours ça pleure (1992) ... Nono
- Des vacances orageuses (1992) ... Nono
- Les parents disjonctent (1992) ... Nono
2006 Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God (TV Movie) - Cardinal Siri
2005 Callas e Onassis (TV Movie) - Livanos
2004 Concorso di colpa - Vito Santamaria
2003 Lost Love - Tommaso Pasini
2003 Counselor de Gregorio - Alfonso
2002 Le ragazze di Miss Italia (TV Movie) - The Professor

1998 The Sands of Time (TV Movie) - Father Jacob
1997 Un prete tra noi (TV Series) - Ettore (1997)
1997 Porzûs - Storno vecchio
1997 Con rabbia e con amore - Leone
1995 Natale con papà (TV Movie) - Vittorio
1995 Othello - The Duke of Venice
1994 First Action Hero - Ben Costa
1994 Black as the Heart (TV Movie) - Signor Noé Alga Croce
1993 Private Crimes (TV Mini-Series) - Dottor Guido Braschi
- Episode #1.4 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
- Episode #1.3 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
- Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
- Episode #1.1 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
1992 Alta società (TV Mini-Series) - - Episode #1.3 (1992)
- Episode #1.1 (1992)
1992 Die Ringe des Saturn (TV Movie)
1992 Il coraggio di Anna (TV Movie)
1991 Suffocating Heat - Gaetano Castelli
1990 Pronto soccorso (TV Series)
1990 Una fredda mattina di maggio - Signor Mantoni
1990 Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (TV Movie)

1989 Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-Series) - Italian Chief of Police
- Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
- Episode #1.2 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
- Episode #1.1 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
1988 Computron 22 - Il nonno
1988 Due fratelli (TV Mini-Series) - Procuratore
- Episode #1.3 (1988) ... Procuratore
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... Procuratore
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... Procuratore
1988 Gli angeli del potere (TV Movie) - Dr. Donhal
1987 Julia and Julia - Padre di Paolo
1987 La voglia di vincere (TV Mini-Series) - Professor Besson
- Episode #1.3 (1987) ... Professor Besson
- Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Professor Besson
- Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Professor Besson
1986 Follia amore mio (TV Movie)
1985 Quo Vadis? (TV Mini-Series) - Piso
- Episode #1.6 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.5 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.4 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.2 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Piso
1983 Die goldenen Schuhe (TV Mini-Series) - Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.5 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.4 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.3 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
1983 Le ambizioni sbagliate (TV Movie) - Prof. Malacrida
1983 Delitto e castigo (TV Mini-Series) - Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.5 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.4 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.3 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
1983 The Scarlet and the Black (TV Movie) - Prince Mataeo (uncredited)
1983 Il quartetto Basileus - Mario Cantone
1982 Quasi quasi mi sposo (TV Movie) - The Engineer
1982 Vatican Conspiracy - Cardinale Ixaguirre
1982 Grog - Alberto
1981 I giochi del diavolo (TV Mini-Series) - Mastro Gomin
- La mano indemoniata (1981) ... Mastro Gomin
1981 Inchon - Turkish Brigadier

1979 Anni struggenti - Prof. Bivona
1979 Bloodline - Maresciallo Campagna (uncredited)
1978-1979 I vecchi e i giovani (TV Mini-Series) - Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.5 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.4 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.1 (1978) ... Flaminio Salvo
1979 Encounters in the Deep - Miles
1978 A torto e a ragione (TV Series)
1978 Porci con la P.38 - Max Astarita
1978 Last In, First Out - Herzog
1978 Mon premier amour - Georges
1978 Suggestionata - Gregorio Lori
1977 Man of Corleone
1977 The Psychic - Emilio Rospini
1977 Oedipus orca - Valerio
1976 La orca - Valerio
1976 A Matter of Time - Antonio Vicari
1976 Nick the Sting - Maurice
1976 The Hornet's Nest - Gaspard
1976 Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga - Father of Stella
1975 Jackpot
1975 End of the Game - Dr. Lutz
1975 Calling All Police Cars - Professore Andrea Icardi
1975 Un uomo curioso (TV Movie) - Moriondo
1975 Smiling Maniacs - Prandó
1974 La prova d'amore - Angela Father
1974 Processo per direttissima - L'avvocato Finaldi
1974 Kidnap - Don Francesco Salvatore
1974 Appassionata - Dr. Emilio Rutelli
1974 The Night Porter - Hans
1973 Secrets of a Nurse - Prof. Daniele Vallotti
1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - Fieldmarshall Keitel
1973 Divorce His - Divorce Hers (TV Movie) - Turi Livicci
1972 3000 Million Without an Elevator - M. Raphaël
1972 Mendiants et Orgueilleux
1972 Alta tensión - Pablo Moncada
1972 Ripped-Off - Tony La Monica
1971 Million Dollar Eel - Vasco
1970 Cold Sweat (uncredited)
1970 French Intrigue - Inspector Bardeche
1970 Die Welt des Pirandello - Liebe! - Liebe? (TV Movie) - Memmo Viola (segment "Wenn man das Spiel kennt")
1970 The Confession - Kohoutek

1969 L'amica - Paolo Marchesi
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Draco
1969 That Splendid November - Biagio
1969 Machine Gun McCain - Don Francesco DeMarco
1968 Il mondo di Pirandello (TV Series) - Memmo Viola
- Amori senza amore (1968) ... Memmo Viola
1968 Once Upon a Time in the West - Morton - Railroad Baron
1968 Bandits in Rome - Commissioner
1968 L'età del malessere - Guido
1968 Better a Widow - Don Calogero Minniti
1968 The Protagonists - Il Commissario
1968 Come Play with Me - Stefano / Lea's lover
1968/I Escalation - Augusto Lambertinghi
1968 Un diablo bajo la almohada - Anselmo
1967 Dossier Mata Hari (TV Mini-Series) - Bouchardon
- Episode #1.4 (1967) ... Bouchardon
- Episode #1.3 (1967) ... Bouchardon
- Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Bouchardon
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Bouchardon
1967 We Still Kill the Old Way - Avvocato Rosello
1966 The Devil in Love - Lorenzo de' Medici
1966 I Spy (TV Series) - Aldo
- To Florence with Love: Part 2 (1966) ... Aldo
- To Florence with Love: Part 1 (1966) ... Aldo
1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... - Lot
1966 Luce a gas (TV Movie) - Rough
1965 Lo scippo - Gambetti
1965 Three Rooms in Manhattan - Comte Larsi
1965 Crime on a Summer Morning - Victor Dermott
1964 Crucero de verano - Carlos Brul y Betancourt
1964 Desideri d'estate
1964 The Warm Life - Guido
1964 Death Where Is Your Victory? - Max Gurgine
1963 Un tentativo sentimentale - Giulio, Carla's Husband
1963 Torpedo Bay - Leonardi
1963 The Shortest Day - Tenente in trincea
1962 Beach Casanova - Avvocato Leblanc
1962 Imperial Venus - Freron
1962 Cross of the Living - L'abbé Delcourt / Abbe
1962 Crime Does Not Pay - Angelo Giraldi (segment "Le masque")
1962 La monaca di Monza - Gian Paolo Osio
1962 Congo vivo - Roberto Santi
1962 Meetings - Ralph Scaffari
1962 Jessica - Edmondo Raumo
1960 Love, the Italian Way - Alberto Bressan
1960 Il carro armato dell'8 settembre - Tommaso
1960 Red Lips - Avvocato Paolo Martini
1960 It Happened in '43 - Franco Villani
1960 L'Avventura - Sandro

1959 Hannibal - Fabius Maximus
1959 Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon
Bernard Turquet de Mayenne (as Gabriel Ferzetti)
1959 Everyone's in Love - Arturo
1958 Love on the Riviera - Giulio Ferrari
1958 Tant d'amour perdu - Frédéric Solingen
1958 Angel in a Taxi - Andrea
1958 March's Child - Sandro
1957 It Happened in Rome - Lawyer Alberto Cortini
1957 Honor Among Thieves - Desiderio / Plebari
1956 Il prezzo della gloria - comandante Alberto Bruni
1956 Defend My Love - Pietro Leonardi
1956 Donatella - Maurizio
1955 Un po' di cielo - Frank Lo Giudice
1955 Le Amiche - Lorenzo
1955 Adriana Lecouvreur - Maurizio di Sassonia
1955 Sins of Casanova - Giacomo Casanova
1954 House of Ricordi - Giacomo Puccini
1954 Camilla - Dott. Mario Rossetti
1954 Modern Virgin - Gabriele Demico
1954 100 Years of Love
Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segment "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
1954 Vestire gli ignudi - Ludovico Nota
1953 Empty Eyes - Fernando Maestrelli
1953 The Counterfeiters - Dario
1953 Puccini - Giacomo Puccini
1953 The Wayward Wife - Il professore Franco Vagnuzzi
1952 Three Forbidden Stories - Comm. Borsani (First segment)
1952 Inganno - Andrea Vannini
1951 Gli amanti di Ravello - Sandro Deodata
1951 The Naked and the Wicked - Giorgio Suprina
1951 The Forbidden Christ - 1950 Lo zappatore
1950 Sigillo rosso
1950 Mountain Smugglers - Lieutenant Berti
1950 Welcome Reverend

1949 Flying Squadron - Ufficiale D'aviazione
1949 Sicilian Uprising
1949 William Tell - Corrado Hant
1949 Fabiola - Claudius
1949 Vertigine d'amore (as Gaetano Ferzetti)
1948 Les Misérables - Tholomyes, un cliente di Fantina (uncredited)
1946 Lost Happiness
1942 The Countess of Castiglione (as Pasquale Ferzetti)
1942 Bengasi (uncredited)
1942 Via delle cinque lune

Self (6 credits)

2006 Press Day in Portugal (Video documentary short) - Himself
2003 An Opera of Violence (Video documentary short) - Himself
2003 Something to Do with Death (Video documentary short) - Himself
2003 The Wages of Sin (Video documentary short) - Himself

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
1968 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Filming of James Bond Epic in Progress in the Swiss Alps (Documentary short) - Himself

2015: Big Comics Special Edition publishes reprints of Takao Saito's manga for ００７死ぬのは奴らだ (007 They are the ones who die; a.k.a. Live and Let Die) and サンダーボール作戦 (Sandābōru sakusen; Thunderball Strategy).

2019: Screen Idle reports new James Bond film cancelled after cameraman forgot to press record.

New James Bond film cancelled after
cameraman forgot to press record

See the complete article here:

2 December 2019 Neil Tollfree News 18

The latest James Bond film has been cancelled after the discovery that a cameraman forgot to press record during key scenes.

No Time to Die has been beset by problems throughout its production including injury to star Daniel Craig, a change of director, the villain’s lair under a volcano flooding with lava, a biblical plague of toads, minor earthquake, alien abduction, and someone losing their keys.

“We were just sorting through the footage in preparation for editing and there was stuff missing,” explained director Cary Fukunaga as a small meteor landed on his car.

“Bond doing stunts, a bit with Bond getting off with a sexy lady, another bit with Bond getting off with a sexy lady, Bond doing stunts whilst getting off with a sexy lady – they just weren’t there.

“So, we went back to the cameraman and he confessed that he’d forgotten to press record on the camera during key scenes.

“The cameraman was really sorry and everything and even offered to come back and help reshoot the scenes but he was suffering from a really nasty plague of boils so we’d have to wait until after that cleared up.”

Ultimately, producers decided that it simply wasn’t worth it and the best option now would be to simply cancel the whole thing and move on to the next film instead.

“I think it’s the right idea, and I’m really looking forward to starting work on the new movie,” agreed Fukunaga.

“Apparently, we’re shooting in that studio that was built on top of an old Indian burial ground.

“So, I’m sure that will all be fine.”

Note: To everyone reading this article unfamiliar with us at Screen Idle. This is just a joke. Unless something crazy has happened in the last 24 hours, The new James Bond film is still coming soon.

If it made you laugh, then great – stick around, sign up for the newsletter. If it didn’t then try the Onion or Newsthump instead, they’re really funny.

2021: Gala Dinner & 007 Fashion Show at East Cliff, Bournemouth, Dorset, England.

007 Bond night fashion show

See the complete article here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/007-bond-night-fashion-show-tickets-201557793787

A fabulous evening of entertainment to celebrate the release of the new
James Bond film No Time To Die.

Date and time
Thu, 2 December 2021
18:30 – 23:30 GMT

Location
Marsham Court Hotel
3 Russell Cotes Road
East Cliff
BH1 3AB
United Kingdom

007 Bond night fashion show

at

Marsham Court Hotel
3 Russell Cotes Road, East Cliff, BH1 3AB, United Kingdom

RichardTheBruce

December 3rd

1963: Copyright lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck announces a settlement awarding Kevin McClory Thunderball film rights plus £50,000 damages. Kevin diverts from Jack Whittingham to partner with Broccoli & Saltzman, receiving the producer credit (Broccoli & Saltzman represented as ‘presented by’).

1971: Ola Rapace (Pär Ola Norell) is born--Tyresö, Stockholms län, Sweden.
1973: Bond comic strip The Girl Machine ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 19 June 1973. 2257–2407) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1010


https://www.popoptiq.com/the-girl-machine/




Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3

Jakten På Det Svarta Guldet
("Hunt For The Black Gold" - The Girl Machine)

Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-34-1975/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 34: “The Girl Machine” (1975)
"Jagten på det sorte guld" (The Hunt for the Black gold)

1985: Roger Moore declares he's retiring from the Bond role after 12 years on screen and 7 films.
1987: Με το δάχτυλο στη σκανδάλη (James Bond, praktor 007: Me to daktylo sti skandali; With the Finger on the Trigger) released in Greece.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 57 of 65 - "Rubies Aren't Forever."

James Bond Jr - Rubies Aren't Forever

Season 1 - Episode 57
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807117/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

James saves a girl named Ruby who was captured by a gang who wanted her necklace, but she was set up by her aunt, Tiara Hotstones, who tries to bring them to Baron von Skarin in Germany to use them to steal the F-15 Jets for himself.

Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Kent Stevenson ... (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 / Baron Von Skarin (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / First biker / Second biker (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Tiara Hotstones (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)

Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)
Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 57 - Rubies Aren't Forever

1991: Geffen releases the "Live and Let Die" single from the Guns 'N Roses Use Your Illusion album. (B-side is "Live and Let Die" Live at Wembley Stadium, London recorded 31 August 1991, plus "Shadow of Your Love" (Live).)

UK Orange Vinyl

1999: Amb el món no n'hi ha prou (There Is Not Enough With the World, and Catalan title El mundo nunca es suficiente; The World Is Never Enough) released in Spain.

1999: Världen räcker inte till released in Finland.

Later DVD cover.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Norway and Thailand.
1999: 007 - O Mundo Não Chega (The World Does Not Arrive) released in Portugal.

2018: BOND 25 originally scheduled production start date at Pinewood with planned director Danny Boyle.

2019: No Time To Die releases character posters anticipating the next day's full trailer.

2021: University Wind Orchestra playlist includes The Music of James Bond at Bristol, England.

University Wind Orchestra

See the complete article here:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/arts/events/2021/december/university-wind-orchestra.html

3 December 2021, 1.15 PM - 3 December 2021, 2.00 PM

Conducted by Felicity Lewis
Auditorium, Victoria Rooms

• Harold L Walters: Instant Concert
• arr. John McAllister: Joy to the World
• arr. Jay Bocook: The Music of James Bond
• arr. John McAllister: Jingle Bells
• Eric Coates arr. W J Duthoit: The Dam Busters
• arr. John McAllister: Bell Carol
• arr. Stephen Bulla: Symphonic Highlights from Frozen

To attend the concert please register here.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lunchtime-concert-university-wind-orchestra-tickets-216256096807

University of Bristol
Beacon House
Queens Road
Bristol, BS8 1QU, UK
Tel: +44 (0)117 928 9000

RichardTheBruce

December 4th

1913: John Kitzmiller is born--Battle Creek, Michigan.
(He dies 23 February 1965 at age 51--Rome, Lazio, Italy.)

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

John Kitzmiller

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

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

John Kitzmiller in Dr. No

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

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

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

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

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

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

mattblake | July 23, 2009 at 1:20 pm

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

mattblake | July 23, 2009 at 1:26 pm

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

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

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

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

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

...

mattblake | November 25, 2010 at 4:41 pm

And here’s another newspaper article mentioning his marriage:

John Kitzmiller's wedding article from Jet

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

John Kitzmiller (I) (1913–1965)

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

Filmography

Actor (53 credits)

1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Uncle Tom

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

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

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

Archive footage (3 credits)

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

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

1913: Claude Renoir is born--Paris, France.
(He dies 5 September 1993 at age 79--Troyes, Aube, France.)

Claude Renoir

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

Born December 4, 1913, Paris, France
Died September 5, 1993 (aged 79), Troyes, Aube, Champagne, France
Nationality French

Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913[1] – September 5, 1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the nephew of director Jean Renoir, and the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

He was born in Paris, his mother being actress Véra Sergine. He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman, a brother of Dziga Vertov, who much later worked in the United States on such films as On the Waterfront (1954). Renoir was the lighting cameraman on numerous pictures such as Monsieur Vincent (1947), Jean Renoir's The River (1951), Cleopatra (1963), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), and the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). At the time of Claude Renoir's death, The Times of London wrote of The River that "its exquisite evocation of the Indian scene, helped to inaugurate a new era in the cinema, one in which color was finally accepted as a medium fit for great film makers to work in."

He also participated in the making of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), the documentary on painter Pablo Picasso directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. He was the cinematographer for The Crucible (1957) and lived in East Germany during filming. Renoir's career came to a close in the late 1970s, as he was rapidly losing sight. In his final years he was largely blind.

He married twice and had two children, a son and a daughter, actress Sophie Renoir. Claude Renoir died at age 79 in Troyes, 55 miles east of Paris, near the village of Essoyes, where he had a home.

Claude Renoir

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005841/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Cinematographer (89 credits)

1981 Sphinx (uncredited)

1979 The Medic
1978 Attention, the Kids Are Watching
1978 The Discord
1977 Animal
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (director of photography)
1976 The Wing or The Thigh? (director of photography)
1976 Une femme fidèle
1976 Femmes Fatales
1976 Docteur Françoise Gailland
1975 French Connection II (director of photography)
1975 The Track
1974 Paul and Michelle
1973 Story of a Love Story (director of photography)
1973 The Serpent
1972 Hellé
1972 Killer
1971 The Burglars
1971 The Horsemen
1971 Swashbuckler
1970 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970 The Adventurers

1969 The Madwoman of Chaillot
1969 Soluna
1968 Barbarella (director of photography)
1968 Spirits of the Dead (director of photography - segment "Metzengerstein")
1966 La Grande Vadrouille
1966 The Game Is Over
1966 Paris au mois d'août
1965 Marco the Magnificent
1965 The Hour of Truth
1964 The Unvanquished
1964 Paris When It Sizzles (uncredited)
1963 The Corrupt
1962 Il fiore e la violenza (segment "La scampagnata")
1962 II Marco Polo
1962 Les amants de Teruel
1962 Lafayette
1960 Wasteland
1960 Blood and Roses
1960 Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion

1959 Gorilla's Waltz
1959 Honeymoon (uncredited)
1959 Hit and Run
1958 Youthful Sinners
1958 End of Desire
1957 The Crucible
1956 Crime and Punishment
1956 Elena and Her Men (director of photography)
1956 The Mystery of Picasso (Documentary) (director of photography)
1955 A Missionary
1954 Madame Butterfly
1954 Fabulous India (Documentary)
1954 Maddalena
1953 Puccini
1952 The Golden Coach
1952 The Green Glove
1951 Images de l'ancienne Égypte (Documentary short)
1951 Amazing Monsieur Fabre
1951 The River
1951 Clara de Montargis
1951 Dr. Knock
1950 Gunman in the Streets
1950 Born of Unknown Father
1950 Prélude à la gloire

1949 Rendezvous in July
1949 Docteur Laennec
1949 Alice in Wonderland (photography)
1948 Dilemma of Two Angels
1948 La grande volière
1947 Monsieur Vincent
1947 La maison sous la mer
1947 The Royalists
1947 Passionnelle (disposal of the body sequence, uncredited)
1946 Mr. Orchid
1946 A Day in the Country (Short)
1946 Le couple idéal
1946 Behind These Walls
1945 The Queer Assignment
1944 L'aventure est au coin de la rue
1944 Bonsoir mesdames, bonsoir messieurs
1943 Aristide Maillol, sculpteur (Documentary short)
1942 Opéra-musette
1940 Sérénade

1938 Les rois de la flotte
1938 Lumières de Paris
1937 Le chanteur de minuit
1936 La vie est à nous
1935 Toni

Camera and Electrical Department (11 credits)

1964 Circus World (second unit cameraman)
1963 Cleopatra (photographer: second unit)

1946 Mr. Orchid (camera operator)
1946 Reunion (Documentary short) (assistant camera - one topic, uncredited)

1939 Le dernier tournant (camera operator - as Cl. Renoir Junior)
1938 La Bête Humaine (camera operator - as Claude Renoir Jr.)
1938 Prison sans barreaux (camera operator)
1938 Legions of Honor[/i] (camera operator)
1937 La Grande Illusion (assistant cameraman)
1933 Chotard and Company (assistant camera)
1932 Night at the Crossroads (assistant camera)

Set decorator (1 credit)

1980 Mont-Oriol (TV Movie)

Self (4 credits)

2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: 007 in Egypt (Video documentary short) Himself
1977 The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (TV Series documentary) Himself
- Shooting Scene 341 (1977) ... Himself
- Also Starring... (1977) ... Himself
1975 Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (TV Series documentary)
Himself
- Le désordre et après 1961-1966 (1975) ... Himself
- Une certaine tradition de qualité 1945-1955 (1975) ... Himself
-
1956 The Mystery of Picasso (Documentary) Himself (uncredited)

Archive footage (2 credits)

2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Himself

1918: Maurice Binder is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 9 April 1991--London, England.)

Maurice Binder, 73, 007 Film-Title Artist

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/15/obituaries/maurice-binder-73-007-film-title-artist.html

APRIL 15, 1991

Maurice Binder, a graphic arts designer known chiefly for his dazzling title sequences in the James Bond films, died on Tuesday at the University College Hospital in London. He was 73 years old and lived in London.

He died of lung cancer, his brother, Mitchell, said.

Mr. Binder was one of the rare film-title artists to receive rave reviews for his work, which critics said was an essential part of the James Bond success story.

In a review of the 1981 film, "For Your Eyes Only," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times: "And Maurice Binder's opening titles, always one of the fancier features of the Bond movies, are still terrific."

Mr. Binder's unusual witty designs introduced other films including "Indiscreet" in 1958; "The Mouse That Roared," 1959; "The Grass is Greener," 1960; "Repulsion," 1964, and "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," 1971.

He also produced several musicals, and in association with John Quested and Lester Goldsmith, produced the 1979 film "The Passage," starring Anthony Quinn.

Born in New York City, Mr. Binder began his career as assistant art director in Macy's art department.

A resident of London for 27 years, he was honored last year by the National Film Club.

Besides his brother, who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., he is survived by two nieces.

Maurice Binder (1925–1991)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082800/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Miscellaneous Crew (84 credits)

1991 The Strauss Dynasty (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 8 episodes)
- Adele (1991) ... (title designer)
- Hetti (1991) ... (title designer)
- Lili (1991) ... (title designer)
- Josef (1991) ... (title designer)
- Revolution of 1848 (1991) ... (title designer)
- Schani (1991) ... (title designer)
- Emilie (1991) ... (title designer)
- Anna (1991) ... (title designer)
1990 A Captive in the Land (title designer)
1990 Hamlet (title designer)
1990 The Sheltering Sky (title designer)
1990 Mister Johnson (title designer)

1989 Licence to Kill (title designer)
1988 The Deceivers (title designer)
1987 The Last Emperor (title designer: main title)
1987 The Living Daylights (title designer)
1986 Shanghai Surprise (title designer)
1986 Max mon amour (title designer)
1986 If Tomorrow Comes (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (title designer)
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... (title designer)
- Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (title designer)
1985 A View to a Kill (main title designed by)
1985 Rustlers' Rhapsody (main title design)
1983 Octopussy (main title designed by)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (main title designed by)
1981 Green Ice (main title designer)
1980 The Awakening (titles)
1980 The Sea Wolves (titles)

1979 Moonraker (title designer: main titles)
1978 The Wild Geese (main title designed by)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (main title designed by)
1976 Shout at the Devil (title designer: main title)
1975 e'Lollipop (title designer)
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (title designer: main title)
1974 The Little Prince (main title design)
1974 Gold (title designer)
1974 The Tamarind Seed (title designer: main title)
1973 Live and Let Die (main title designed by)
1972 Young Winston (main title designed by)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (main title designed by)
1970 Wuthering Heights (title designer)
1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (title designer: main title)
1970 Brotherly Love (title designer)

1969 A Talent for Loving (designer: main title)
1969On Her Majesty's Secret Service (main title designed by)
1969 Battle of Britain (title designer: main title)
1969 Staircase (title designer)
1968 Barbarella (titles designer - uncredited)
1968 The Magus (title designer)
1967 Bedazzled (main title)
1967 Billion Dollar Brain (title designer)
1967 The Day the Fish Came Out (title designer)
1967 A Matter of Innocence (title designer: main titles)
1967 Fathom (main title sequence)
1967 You Only Live Twice (main title designed by)
1967 Two for the Road (title designer)
1967 Eye of the Devil (title designer: main titles)
1967 The Taming of the Shrew (main title graphics)
1966 After the Fox (title designer)
1966 Kaleidoscope (title designer: main titles)
1966 Arabesque (title designer: main title)
1966 Promise Her Anything (title designer)
1966 The Chase (main title)
1965 Thunderball (main title designed by)
1965 The Wild Affair (title designer)
1965 Repulsion (title designer - uncredited)
1965 Young Cassidy (title designer)
1964 The 7th Dawn (title designer: main titles)
Espionage (TV Series) (titles - 22 episodes, 1963 - 1964) (titles designed by - 2 episodes, 1963 - 1964)
- A Tiny Drop of Poison (1964) ... (titles designed by)
- A Free Agent (1964) ... (titles)
- Some Other Kind of World (1964) ... (titles)
- The Liberators (1964) ... (titles)
- Once a Spy... (1964) ... (titles)
- Snow on Mount Kama (1964) ... (titles)
- Castles in Spain (1964) ... (titles)
- The Frantick Rebel (1964) ... (titles)
- We the Hunted (1964) ... (titles)
- Do You Remember Leo Winters? (1964) ... (titles)
- Final Decision (1964) ... (titles)
- Medal for a Turned Coat (1964) ... (titles)
- Never Turn Your Back on a Friend (1964) ... (titles)
- A Camel to Ride (1963) ... (titles)
- Festival of Pawns (1963) ... (titles)
- The Light of a Friendly Star (1963) ... (titles)
- The Whistling Shrimp (1963) ... (titles)
- The Dragon Slayer (1963) ... (titles)
- To the Very End (1963) ... (titles)
- He Rises on Sunday and We on Monday (1963) ... (titles)
- The Gentle Spies (1963) ... (titles)
- The Incurable One (1963) ... (titles)
- The Weakling (1963) ... (titles)
- Covenant with Death (1963) ... (titles designed by)
1964 The Long Ships (prologue and main title by)
1963 Charade (main title designed by)
1963 Stolen Hours (title designer: main titles)
1963 The Running Man (main titles by)
1963 The Mouse on the Moon (title designer)
1963 Call Me Bwana (main title design)
1963 I Could Go on Singing (title designer: main titles)
1962 Dr. No (main title designed by)
1962 Sodom and Gomorrah (prologue and main title design)
1962 Reach for Glory (title designer)
1962 The Road to Hong Kong (title designer)
1961 Goodbye Again (title designer: main title)
1960 The Grass Is Greener (title designer: main title)
1960 Surprise Package (main title designed by)
1959-1960 Hotel de Paree (TV Series) (title designer - 11 episodes)
- Sundance and the Fallen Sparrow (1960) ... (title designer)
- Sundance and the Long Trek (1960) ... (title designer)
- Vengeance for Sundance (1960) ... (title designer)
- Sundance and the Black Widow (1960) ... (title designer)
- Sundance and the Greenhorn Trader (1960) ... (title designer)
- Hard Luck for Sundance (1960) ... (title designer)
- Sundance Goes to Kill (1960) ... (title designer)
- Sundance and the Blood Money (1960) ... (title designer)
- The Man Who Believed in Law (1959) ... (title designer)
- Return of Monique (1959) ... (title designer)
- The High Cost of Justice (1959) ... (title designer)
1960 Purple Noon (title designer)
1960 Once More, with Feeling! (title designer)

1959 The Mouse That Roared (titles designed by)
1959 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) (title designer - 7 episodes)
- Design for Murder (1959) ... (title designer)
- Family Affair (1959) ... (title designer)
- Rough Cut (1959) ... (title designer)
- Hideout (1959) ... (title designer)
- The Limping Man (1959) ... (title designer)
- Jukebox (1959) ... (title designer)
- Crown of Silla (1959) ... (title designer)
1959 The Young Philadelphians (title designer - uncredited)
1958 Damn Yankees (title designer: main titles - uncredited)
1958 Indiscreet (title designer - uncredited)
1957 The James Dean Story (Documentary) (title designer)
1951 Cry Danger (assistant to producer)

Art department (9 credits)

1985 King David (graphic designer)
1984 Oxford Blues (graphic designer)
1982 Twilight Time (graphics)
1982 The Final Option (graphic artist)
1980 The Sea Wolves (graphic design)

1978 Brass Target (graphic artist)
1977 A Little Night Music (graphics)
1964 Of Human Bondage (graphic designer)
1963 I Could Go on Singing (graphic designer)
Hide Hide Visual effects (2 credits)
1980 The Final Countdown (special visual effects) / (storm sequence)
1979 Dracula (visual consultant)

Director (1 credit)

1960 The Children of Lindos (Short)

Art director (1 credit)

1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series)

Producer (1 credit)

1979 The Passage (associate producer)

Self (2 credits)

1977 The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Producing (1977) ... Himself
1976 Die Titelmacher (TV Movie) - Himself

Archive footage (4 credits)

2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Himself
2000 Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself

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

1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films Tracy's rescue.

1973: Bond comic strip Beware of Butterflies begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Finishes 11 May 1974. 2408–2541) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1011


https://www.popoptiq.com/beware-of-butterflies/




Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no36-1976/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 36: “Beware of Butterflies” (1976)
"Operation Sommerfugl" [= Operation Butterfly]

1989: 鐵金剛勇戰殺人狂魔，殺人執照 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng zhàn shārén kuáng mó, shārén zhízhào; Iron King Kong fights the murderous madness, the license to kill) released in Hong Kong.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 58 of 65 - "Garden of Evil."

James Bond Jr - Garden of Evil

Season 1 - Episode 58
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807286/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

In Hong Kong, Trevor picks a purple rose, but it somehow hypnotizes him; now it is up to James, IQ, Tracey, and Jasmine to go to the field of the purple rose to find a cure; however, Doctor No and Oddjob try to stop their plan.

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

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Julius No (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
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)

Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 58 - Garden of Evil

1997: MGM announces their purchase of the rights to Never Say Never Again from Taliafilm. Earlier in 1997 the Sony Corporation acquired most of McClory's rights, later bought by MGM.

2006: Casino Royale premieres in Sydney, Australia.

2014: Spectre press conference.

2015: 007 スペクター (007 Supekutā) general release in Japan. The last country to open the film in theaters.

2019: No Time To Die trailer debuts.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Vol. 3 #1.
Eric Gapstur, artist. Vita Ayala & Danny Lore, writers.

JAMES BOND VOL. 3 #1 - JIM CHEUNG LIMITED VIRGIN COVER

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513028697001061
Cover A: Jim Cheung
UPC: 725130286970 01061
Writer: Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
Art: Eric Gapstur
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: December 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 12/4/2019

In James Bond #1, Ian Fleming's classic gentleman spy is on a new adventure by writers Vita Ayala and Danny Lore, and it features the first of three connecting covers from one of comics' superstar artists, Jim Cheung! Get this Limited, "Virgin" version of Jim's cover for your Bond collection and brace yourself to collect all three!

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#1B Incentive Jim Cheung Black & White Variant Cover

#1C Incentive Jim Cheung Pencil Sketch Variant Cover

#1D Incentive Jim Cheung Vintage Paperback Variant Cover

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#1F Incentive Jim Cheung Tint Dressed Variant Cover

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2021: James Bond Not Time To Die Christmas Ball at The Anstice Memorial Club, Anstice, England.

James Bond Christmas Party

Sat 4 Dec 2021 6:30 PM - 1:00 AM GMT | The Anstice Memorial Club, TF7 5BB

See the complete article here:

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/andysmithpresents/582827/

Description
MI5 at The Anstice
Guns, gadgets, fast cars, gambling and Christmas in Madeley.

Britain’s number 1 action hero James Bond finally returns to the Big Screen and The Anstice this Christmas.

Join us on Saturday 4th December at Madeley’s Headquarters “The Anstice” for our James Bond “No Time To Die” Christmas Ball.

Let’s dress to impress. Tuxedos and Posh Frocks or perhaps your favourite James Bond villain or character.

Step off the red carpet and have your photo taken looking your best and make your way up to The Ballroom and into the secret world of James Bond

The Floating Dragon casino will open its doors early this evening from 8, and we are giving away complimentary casino chips with every ticket

Our James Bond tribute artiste Dawn Alacey will perform all the classic James Bond theme tunes and return for her 2nd set with uplifting kitchen belters.

We finish the night off with our resident dj for a Christmas Party night to remember.

Location
The Anstice Memorial Club, TF7 5BB

2021: The Bond Show at Bright, Victoria, Austraila.

The Bond Show

See the complete article here:

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/839033

Commercial Dance Show featuring music from James Bond movies across the decades!
Saturday 4 December 2021 (UTC+11)

Location
Elm Court Outdoor Stage
5 Elm Court, Bright Victoria 3741
SESSIONS

Saturday 4 December 2021 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM | 7 AVAILABLE

Saturday 4 December 2021 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM | Sold Out

2021: The Bond Experience at Windy Ridge Wedding and Functions Venue, Hamilton, New Zealand.

The Bond Experience

See the complete article here:

https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2021/the-bond-experience/hamilton

Windy Ridge Wedding and Functions Venue, 101 Great South Rd Ohaupo, Hamilton, Hamilton.
Saturday 4 December 2021 11:00am

Welcome to the MI6 location and training facility in the top secret location in Ohaupo. We are on the hunt for new recruits to replace Bond, James Bond that is. James is tired and about to retire and so the hunt begins with a series of challenges that will test your mental, physical, and of course your sexual attraction stamina. You will be challenged; you will be tested and only a true James Bond will shine and win the girl. Of course, with any Bond escapade there MUST be a bad guy and a bond girl so be prepared to step up and take your rightful place to restore peace and harmony to the world.

Private functions available.
Bookings essential, limited seats available.
Book early to avoid disappointment.
Phone the office on 078236951 or [email protected] to reserve your table.

Ticket Information

• Mid-Winter: 2-course dinner: $75.00 ea
• End of Year: 3-course dinner + show + DJ: $95.00 ea

Additional fees may apply

Dates
Sat 4 Dec 2021, 11:00am

Restrictions
All Ages

RichardTheBruce

December 5th

1923: Norman Burton is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 29 November 2003 at age 79--Imperial, California.)

Norman Burton

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

Norman Burton
Born December 5, 1923
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died November 29, 2003 (aged 79)
Imperial, California, U.S.
Occupation Film, television actor
Years active 1957–1993

Norman Burton (December 5, 1923 – November 29, 2003), occasionally credited as Normann Burton, was an American stage film and television actor.

Early life
Born in New York City, Burton was a student of The Actor's Studio. After early work on stage, he broke into films with a minor role in Fright (1956).

Career

His career in film and television was long and relatively successful, but he never achieved major recognition. He played the Hunt Leader, a gorilla, in the science fiction film Planet of the Apes, notable as being the first ape to be seen by both Taylor and the audience, and also appeared as a (human) army officer in the second sequel Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). In film, he is perhaps best known for his unconventional (and frequently disparaged) performance as Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). He played Will Giddings, an ill fated engineer, in the action film The Towering Inferno (1974), and his later films included The Gumball Rally (1976), Crimes of Passion (1984) and Deep Space (1988). He played Dennis Christopher's mean and ill fated boss in the slasher Fade To Black (1980).

On television, he is best known for his performance as Inter-Agency Defense Command's supervisor Joe Atkinson during the second season of the DC Comics-based fantasy adventure drama series The New Adventures of Wonder Woman starring Lynda Carter. He also played Burt Dennis in the situation comedy The Ted Knight Show in the spring of 1978, and appeared as General George Marshall in the 1988 television miniseries War and Remembrance. Throughout his life, Burton was a devotee of the method school of acting, and taught method acting in Lakeside, California.

Death
Burton was just six days short of his 80th birthday when he died as a result of an auto accident while returning from Ajijic, Mexico near the California-Arizona state line.

Norman Burton (1923–2003) Actor

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123680/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (89 credits)

1993 American Ninja 5 - Ambassador Halden
1992 Live Wire - Senator Victor
1991 The New Adam-12 (TV Series) - Eric Monroe
- 211 Pizza (1991) ... Eric Monroe
1990 Dragnet (TV Series) - Safe Job (1990)
1990 Thirtysomething (TV Series) - Charley Sayers
- Arizona (1990) ... Charley Sayers

1988-1989 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. George C. Marshall
- Part XII (1989) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
- Part III (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
- Part I (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
1988 Shakedown on the Sunset Strip (TV Movie) - Ward Sullivan
1988 Deep Space - General Randolph
1988 Bloodsport - Helmer
1988 Highway to Heaven (TV Series) - Captain Friend
- Back to Oakland (1988) ... Captain Friend
1986 Bad Guys - Captain Watkins
1986 St. Elsewhere (TV Series) - Monsignor Senti
- Time Heals: Part 1 (1986) ... Monsignor Senti
1983-1986 Knight Rider (TV Series) - Damon Leland / Barnswell
- Redemption of a Champion (1986) ... Damon Leland
- A Nice, Indecent Little Town (1983) ... Barnswell
1986 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Drew Narramore
- Trial by Error (1986) ... Drew Narramore
1985 Pray for Death - Lt. Anderson
1984 Crimes of Passion - Lou Bateman
1983 Mausoleum - Dr. Simon Andrews
1982 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Carl Emory
- Fowl Play (1982) ... Carl Emory
1982 The Facts of Life (TV Series) - Dr. Green
- The Affair (1982) ... Dr. Green
1982 CHiPs (TV Series) - Kessler
- Tiger in the Streets (1982) ... Kessler
1981 Amy - Caruthers
1980 Fade to Black - Marty Berger (as Normann Burton)
1980 To Race the Wind (TV Movie) - Mr. Krents (as Normann Burton)
1980 Bogie (TV Movie) - Hopkins
1977-1980 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Dr. George Danner / Max
- Cover-Up (1980) ... Dr. George Danner (as Normann Burton)
- No Deadly Secret (1977) ... Max (as Normann Burton)

1979 The Ultimate Impostor (TV Movie) - Papich
1978 Lou Grant (TV Series) - Franklin Nash
- Conflict (1978) ... Franklin Nash (as Normann Burton)
1978 Project U.F.O. (TV Series) - Dr. Phil Greiner
- Sighting 4022: The Camouflage Incident (1978) ... Dr. Phil Greiner (as Normann Burton)
1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries (TV Series)
- Murder, Murder (1978) ... (as Normann Burton)
1978 Insight (TV Series) - Sam
- The Flawed Magi (1978) ... Sam (as Normann Burton)
1978 The Ted Knight Show (TV Mini-Series) - Burt Dennis
- The Honeymoon Game (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- Sweet Sixteen (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- The Wedding (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- Hop to It (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- My Hero (1978) ... Burt Dennis
- Strike (1978) ... Burt Dennis
1977 Wonder Woman (TV Series) - Joe Atkinson
- The Man Who Made Volcanoes (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- I Do, I Do (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Queen and the Thief (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Pied Piper (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- Knockout (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Bermuda Triangle Crisis (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Man Who Could Move the World (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- Anschluss '77 (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
- The Return of Wonder Woman (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
1977 Murder in Peyton Place (TV Movie) - Jay Kamens (as Normann Burton)
1977 Dog and Cat (TV Series) - Tedesco
- Dead Skunk (1977) ... Tedesco
1974-1976 The Rockford Files (TV Series) - Markell / Melvyn Moss
- Return to the 38th Parallel (1976) ... Markell (as Normann Burton)
- The Big Ripoff (1974) ... Melvyn Moss (as Normann Burton)
1976 Rhoda (TV Series) - Ben Levy
- Meet the Levys (1976) ... Ben Levy (as Normann Burton)
1976 Black Sheep Squadron (TV Series) - General Carl Gant
- Presumed Dead (1976) ... General Carl Gant (as Normann Burton)
1976 Scorchy - Chief Frank O'Brien (as Normann Burton)
1976 The Gumball Rally - Lieutenant Roscoe (as Normann Burton)
1976 Harry O (TV Series) - Dr. Lusk
- Death Certificate (1976) ... Dr. Lusk (as Normann Burton)
1975-1976 Lincoln (TV Mini-Series) - General Ulysses S. Grant
- The Last Days (1976) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
- The Unwilling Warrior (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
- Sad Figure, Laughing (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
1975 Conspiracy of Terror (TV Movie) - Lt. Rossos (as Normann Burton)
1975 Baretta (TV Series) - Councilman
- The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues (1975) ... Councilman (as Normann Burton)
1975 The Reincarnation of Peter Proud - Dr. Frederick Spear (as Normann Burton)
1975 Force Five (TV Movie) - Arthur Haberman
1974 Let's Call It Quits (Short) - Bill
1974 The Towering Inferno - Giddings (as Normann Burton)
1974 Kojak (TV Series) - 'Fish' Fisher
- The Best War in Town (1974) ... 'Fish' Fisher (as Normann Burton)
1974 Planet of the Apes (TV Series) - Yalu
- The Interrogation (1974) ... Yalu (as Normann Burton)
1974 The Terminal Man - Det. Capt. Anders
1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Malloy
- The Illusion of Black Gold (1974) ... Malloy (as Normann Burton)
1974 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Bren
- Selkirk's War (1974) ... Bren
1973 Hit! - The Director
1973 Save the Tiger - Fred Mirrell
1972 A Great American Tragedy (TV Movie)
1972 The Partners (TV Series) - Romero
- The 217 in 402 (1972) ... Romero
1972 Fuzz - Police Commissioner Nelson
1971 They Call It Murder (TV Movie) - Movie Director
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Leiter
1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Army Officer
1971 Simon, King of the Witches - Willard Rackum
1971 Jud - Uncle Hornkel
1970 R.P.M. - Coach McCurdy

1969 Land of the Giants (TV Series) - Sergeant
- The Chase (1969) ... Sergeant
1968 The Felony Squad (TV Series) - Solly Hirt
- Matched for Murder (1968) ... Solly Hirt
1968 Judd for the Defense (TV Series) - Roger Helmsman
- Transplant (1968) ... Roger Helmsman
1968 Planet of the Apes - Hunt Leader
1968 I Spy (TV Series) - Brandon
- Tag, You're It (1968) ... Brandon
1967 Valley of the Dolls - Neely O'Hara's Director (uncredited)
1967 Days of Our Lives (TV Series) - Cab Driver
- Episode #1.391 (1967) ... Cab Driver
1966 The Hero (TV Series)
- The Day They Shot Sam Garrett (1966)
1966 Get Smart (TV Series) - Control Agent
- The Decoy (1966) ... Control Agent (uncredited)
1966 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Mr. Asher
- What's New, Poodle Dog? (1966) ... Mr. Asher
1966 Love on a Rooftop (TV Series)
- 117 Ways to Cook Hamburger (1966)
1965 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Ed
- The Reward (1965) ... Ed
1965 Wild Seed - Policeman
1965 The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series) - Mr. Hilmer
- Never Listen to Rumors (1965) ... Mr. Hilmer
1965 Bewitched (TV Series) - Moving Man
- Pleasure O'Riley (1965) ... Moving Man
1963 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Car Salesman
- See Hollywood and Die (1963) ... Car Salesman (uncredited)
1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Office Worker
- Miniature (1963) ... Office Worker (uncredited)
1963 Sam Benedict (TV Series) - Lt. Warren Jones
- Some Fires Die Slowly (1963) ... Lt. Warren Jones
1961-1962 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Solly / Wally Dagan
- The Floyd Gibbons Story (1962) ... Solly
- 90-Proof Dame (1961) ... Wally Dagan
1962 Hand of Death - Chief Homicide Investigator
1962 Shannon (TV Series) - John Herman
- Dolphin and the Mermaid (1962) ... John Herman
1962 Womanhunt
1961 Checkmate (TV Series) - Lou Lewis
- Kill the Sound (1961) ... Lou Lewis
1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Poulos
- Death of a Ghost (1961) ... Poulos
1960 Pretty Boy Floyd - Bill Courtney

1956 Fright - Thompkins - Reporter

Archive footage (2 credits)

2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Felix Leiter
1980 Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes (TV Movie) - Yalu

Planet of the Apes

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

Diamonds Are Forever

1944: Jeroen Krabbé is born--Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

1974: The Hollywood Reporter reports on a United Artists advertising campaign for The Man With the Golden Gun that put Christopher Lee, Maud Adams, and Hervé Villechaize tour of eight cities across two weeks. (At a cost of about $25,000 and recalling Hollywood promotions of old said EON's publicity executive Jerry Juroe.)

1976: The 007 Stage officially opens at Pinewood Studios, former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in attendance. Construction began March 1976 supporting the film production of The Spy Who Loved Me. Available for other film-making thereafter.

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1976: The Los Angeles Times reports on producer Albert R. Broccoli pursuing Catherine Deneuve, Marthe Keller, and Dominique Sanda. Then deferring to Barbara Bach. “…Remember this: the money I’ve saved by not using a well-known actress I spent on that marvelous ski stunt.”

Catherine Deneuve


Marthe Keller


Dominique Sanda


Rick Sylvester

1985: Halálvágta (Death Gallop) released in Hungary.

Eventual DVD and Blu-ray covers.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 59 of 65 - "The Thing in the Ice."

James Bond Jr - The Thing in the Ice

Season 1 - Episode 59
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807126/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

The gang is in Antarctica, where they see the massive devastation caused by a metallic monster with acid-spitting tentacles.

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)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / Reginald Farragut (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)

Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 59 - The Thing in the Ice

2002: Die Another Day released in Malaysia and Singapore.
2008: 007 released in Venezuela.
2012: Skyfall becomes the highest grossing film to that time in the UK.

2018: Playboy highlights Dynamite Comics' James Bond Origin: A Train to Catch.
Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

https://twitter.com/Playboy/status/1070820946439757825

James Bond Origin: A Train to Catch

https://www.playboy.com/read/james-bond-origin-a-train-to-catch

It's the British operative as you've never seen him in this exclusive-to-Playboy pre-007 adventure
Written by Jeff Parker Illustration by Bob Q Published on December 05, 2018

Jeff Parker/Bob Q/Jordie Bellaire/Simon Bowland/Nate Cosby

James Bond has enlivened PLAYBOY's pages for nearly 60 years, beginning with the March 1960 publication of The Hildebrand Rarity, Ian Fleming's short story about the dashing 007's adventures. Before his fiction appeared in the magazine, Fleming dropped by the Playboy Building in Chicago, where he displayed a curiosity about real-life local villains, asking the editors, "I don't suppose you could introduce me to any of the Mafia chaps?" Fleming's famous hero, of course, is a secret agent of the British government. But how did Bond become the daring operative we know and love? For one chapter of his pre-007 backstory, we turn to this exclusive installment of James Bond Origin from the creative team at Dynamite Comics.

2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #2.
Greg Pak, writer. Marc Laming, artist.

JAMES BOND 007 #2

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532502011
SKU: C72513027532502011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
UPC: 725130275325 02011
Cover B: Marguerite Sauvage
UPC: 725130275325 02021
Cover C: Clayton Henry
UPC: 725130275325 02031
Cover D: Marc Laming
UPC: 725130275325 02041
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Marc Laming
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: December 2018
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 12/5/2018

The ODD JOB epic continues, by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Mech Cadet Yu) and MARC LAMING (Star Wars, Wonder Woman)!
Somewhere in the world, a smuggler is trying to deliver a mysterious briefcase to the world's most deadly terrorists. 007 must get this case and is licensed to kill anyone that gets in his way.

This is the story of the man who gets in his way.

2021: Spies, Lies and Double Agents walking tour at Cambridge, England.

Spies, Lies and Double Agents

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Event Information
A walking tour which unmasks the long tradition of Cambridge spying, from the earliest days of the university to recent times

About this event
A walking tour which unmasks the long tradition of Cambridge spying, from the earliest days of the university to recent times; from Christopher Marlowe to James Blunt, via James Bond. The tour will be led by Green Badge Guides.

Enjoy a spy-filled walk around some of Cambridge's loveliest streets. Discover how the Tudor monarchs made the university their secret-service HQ, and how they exploited codes, ciphers and undercover agents in their determination to reveal plots. Learn how a famous Elizabethan dramatist was exposed as a spy by his college bar bill. And why did Churchill call the Cambridge code-breakers at Bletchley Park, "the geese that laid the golden eggs."? Then there's James Bond, Miss Moneypenny the Big Five, and much more...

Email [email protected] if you would like a tour in Spanish, Russian, French, German Cantonese, Mandarin or Putonghua.

If booking has closed, or if the tour is full, we may be able to slip you in at the last minute, or get another Guide, so email [email protected] or phone 0777 4017 424 and we'll see what we can do.

Location
Outside Great St Mary's (GSM)
The University Church
Senate House Hill
Cambridge
CB2 3PQ
United Kingdom

After you've been, you can write a review at Tripadvisor so that others know how it was for you.

2021: James Bond Another Way to Glide at the Walter Brown Arena, Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts.

BUFSC Presents James Bond: Another Way to Glide

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BUFSC Presents James Bond: Another Way to Glide, 5 December | Event in Cambridge |

AllEvents.in BUFSC Presents James Bond: Another Way to Glide

BUFSC would like to officially announce our annual fall ice show! Mark your calendars for Sunday, December 5th! The show will also be streamed on Facebook Live for those who are unable to attend in-person.

Hostd by
Boston University Figure Skating Club

Date & Time
Sun Dec 5 2021 at 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
(Eastern Standard Time)

Location
Walter Brown Arena, Boston, MA 02215, Cambridge, United States

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December 6th

1921: George Leech is born--London, England.
(He dies 17 June 2012 at age 90--Cardiff, Wales.)

George Leech: Stuntman and actor
best known for his work on the Bond
films franchise

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/george-leech-stuntman-and-actor-best-known-for-his-work-on-the-bond-films-franchise-8008516.html
Gavin Gaughan | Monday 6 August 2012 00:00

The resourceful stunt arranger and performer George Leech epitomised the phrase "unsung hero of the film business".

Alongside the usual falls and fights of his trade, Leech walked along the arm of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio di Janeiro, fell from a cable car, and swam with sharks. He was particularly noted for his work on the James Bond franchise, which began with its inception in Dr No; he demonstrated remarkable durability and, in a minor way, established a dynasty of screen stunting.

Stern-visaged, with receding hair and slender in build compared to most stuntmen, Leech was among a generation who parlayed their military experiences during the Second World War into film action sequences, through an agency known as HEP (Howard, Evans and Powell). Another was Bob Simmons, stunt arranger for the Bond films.

George Leech was born in north London in 1921; his father worked in the London docks, and George was a small, pale child. To build him up, George's father and uncle gave him boxing lessons and he was soon a regular at a St Pancras boxing club. He won the ABA National Championships when he was 15 (at six and a half stone). After leaving school at 14, he joined the Navy in 1943 and won four fights as a welterweight. In 1946 he got his first job in the film industry, in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947); his first stunt involved rolling down a flight of stone steps in place of James Mason.

When flim work was not forthcoming, Leech performed in the then popular "open-air aqua shows", once appearing with Johnny Weismuller at the Earls Court Aqua Show.

Leech was among a team of British stuntmen provided by HEP for Helen of Troy (1955), made in Rome by the Italian division of Warner Brothers, with the pioneering Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt as second-unit director. When rehearsing one stunt jump of around 15 feet, Leech landed badly due to a gap between two mattresses, and broke his foot. An Italian first-aid man promptly realigned his foot to its correct place and bound it tightly; despite being in bandages, he was soon back at work, on Port Afrique (1956), starring Pier Angeli.

His earliest work for television was Teddy Gang (1956), an hour-long drama about rebellious youth made for Lew Grade's company ITC, by the producer Harry Alan Towers, who used Leech again on two minor film thrillers, Coast of Skeletons and Mozambique (both 1964). Again for ITC, Leech lurked in the background in a rollneck jumper and dark glasses, only emerging to take part in punch-ups, in Man in a Suitcase and The Prisoner (both 1967).

After The Guns of Navarone (1961), Leech was recruited as Simmons' assistant for Dr No (1962), in which he also doubled Sean Connery in a pool fight, and he continued in that position for the next four films. His onscreen appearances included taking a fall from a Fort Knox balcony in Goldfinger (1964), and a minor, nautical henchman in Thunderball (1965).

When Simmons was unavailable, Leech was his ideal replacement as stunt arranger for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), personally selecting a dozen stuntmen for the film. He later likened this task to "being in charge of a gang of unruly schoolboys." The production office once rang him to complain: "Please control your men. One is climbing the Eiger, another is skiing across a table while hotel guests are having breakfast and [George] Lazenby is shooting at animals on the Alps with a pistol and driving the insurance people and producers mad." To which Leech replied, "You can't keep a gang of virile men sitting on their arses waiting."

One of Leech's OHMSS stuntmen was Vic Armstrong, with whom he had previously worked on You Only Live Twice (1967). Armstrong would become one of the film world's most respected stuntmen, particularly for his work for Steven Spielberg; he also became Leech's son-in-law, marrying his daughter Wendy, who had successfully followed her father into the stunting profession. All three worked on Superman (1978), and later two granddaughters, Nina and Georgie, entered the family trade.

Simmons returned for Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Leech remained on hand, doubling for the campy assassin Putter Smith as he was set on fire at the climax. He also contributed to The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and For Your Eyes Only (1981), as a Greek heavy; neither The Wild Geese (1978) nor North Sea Hijack (1979) were Bonds, but both starred Roger Moore.

Leech took charge of stunts for Philip Martin's Gangsters (BBC, 1975) a Play For Today that led to a series. He was also a beekeeper accidentally assaulted with a spiked mace by Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976). One of his last credits as stunt arranger was in Ireland, on The Fantasist (1986), part of the sparse filmography of Robin Hardy, director of The Wicker Man.

Leech recalled the experience of working alongside genuine, hungry, sharks during Thunderball on an ITV documentary, 30 Years of James Bond (1992). In retirement he kept fit – even at the beginning of 2012 he was still jogging – and was a guest at Bond-themed conventions.

George Daniel Leech, stunt arranger and performer: born London 6 December 1921; married 1952 Elizabeth Mary Hopkins (two daughters); died Cardiff 17 June 2012.

George Leech (I) (1921–2012)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498543/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Stunts (34)

1985 No Surrender (stunt coordinator)
1985 A View to a Kill (stunt double: Willoughby Gray - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1984 Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (TV Movie) (stunts)
1983 Never Say Never Again (additional stunts - uncredited)
1983 Octopussy (explosion stunt - uncredited) / (stunt driver - uncredited)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (stunt team)
1980 The Sea Wolves (stunts: attacker on dock - uncredited)
1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)

1979 Game for Vultures (stunt coordinator)
1979 The Passage (stunts - uncredited)
1978 Superman (stunts: Man in burglar's office - uncredited)
1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther (stunt double: Peter Sellers - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1978 The Wild Geese (stunts - uncredited)
1978 The Professionals (TV Series) (stunt double - 1 episode)
- When the Heat Cools Off (1978) ... (stunt double - uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunt driver: Lotus Esprit - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1977 A Bridge Too Far (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (stunts - uncredited)
1976 The Eagle Has Landed (stunts - uncredited)
1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again (stunts - uncredited)
1975 Brannigan (stunts - uncredited)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunts - uncredited)
1971 Puppet on a Chain (stunts - uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)
1970 Kelly's Heroes (stunts - uncredited)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
1967 Casino Royale (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Thunderball (stunts - uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunt driver - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Dr. No (stunt double: Joseph Wiseman - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunts - uncredited)
1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)

1956 Helen of Troy (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (36 credits)

1985 Dempsey and Makepeace (TV Series) - 1st. Warder
- Hors de Combat (1985) ... 1st. Warder
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Henchman Shark Victim (uncredited)
1980 ffolkes - Magnussen

1978 Superman - Man in Office (uncredited)
1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther - Asylum Policeman (uncredited)
1978 The Wild Geese - Stone (uncredited)
1978 People Like Us (TV Mini-Series) - 2nd Thief
- Hungry Men Are Angry Men (1978) ... 2nd Thief
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Cortina Gunman #2 (uncredited)
1976 The Eagle Has Landed - Traumer (uncredited)
1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Mr. Stutterstutt
1975 Brannigan - Man in Bar (uncredited)
1971 Puppet on a Chain - Thug (uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll - Thug (uncredited)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Strangled SPECTRE Skier (uncredited)
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - 4th Guardian / First Corridor Guard
- Hammer Into Anvil (1967) ... 4th Guardian (as George Leach)
- The General (1967) ... First Corridor Guard
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Second Guard
- Brainwash (1967) ... Second Guard
1967 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Guard
- Shinda Shima (1967) ... Guard (uncredited)
1963-1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Chauffeur / Production Assistant
- The Queen's Ransom (1966) ... Chauffeur (uncredited)
- Marcia (1963) ... Production Assistant (uncredited)
1966 Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
1966 The Spies (TV Series) - Karl
- I Don't Even Volunteer (1966) ... Karl
1965 Thunderball - Largo's Crewman (uncredited)
1965 The Face of Fu Manchu - Manchu Minion (uncredited)
1965 Coast of Skeletons - Carlo Seton
1964 Mozambique - Carl
1964 Scene Nun, Take One (Short)
1964 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb - Ship Attacker (uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger - Man in Bulletproof Vest at 'Q' Division (uncredited)
1964 Carry On Spying - Waiter (uncredited)
1962 Dr. No - Decontamination Technician (uncredited)
1962 Billy Budd - Marine (uncredited)
1960 And the Same to You - Jake
1960 Sink the Bismarck ! - War Room Officer (uncredited)

1959 Hot Money Girl - Man In Fight (uncredited)
1956 Port Afrique - Second Arab
1956 Private's Progress - German Soldier (uncredited)
1956 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series)
- Teddy Gang (1956)

Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)

1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (film extra - uncredited)

1947 Odd Man Out (stand-in: Mr. Mason - uncredited)

Self (5 credits)

2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself

Archive footage (1 credit)

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

30 Years of James Bond, 3/5, George Leech at 4:35

1938 : Patrick Bauchau is born--Brussels, Belgium.

1962: Colin Salmon is born--Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
1963 : Ulrich Thomsen is born--Næsby, Odense, Denmark.
1963: Ann Fleming writes to Evelyn Waugh commenting on the Thunderbal court case.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

And Bryce convinced himself that Fleming was happy with the case
outcome. But a close friend who dined with Fleming the evening after the
settlement later revealed that the writer bitterly denounced Bryce's perfidy.
Ann was not to happy too. She scrawled in her husband's personal copy of
Diamonds Are Forever, which had a dedication to Bryce inside, the words:
"Dedicated to Ivar Bryce. The man who betrayed Ian in the Thunderball
case." In a letter to Evelyn Waugh, dated 6 December 1963, Ann expressed
her feelings about the trial more succinctly: "Goodness I miss the old Bailey,
the case did Ian a power of good, no smoking in court and one hour for a
simple lunch. It was sad for him having to settle. Our solicitors say we're all
right, but one can never tell. So maybe we'll have to settle up. "

Seeing that the whole ghastly business had lowered his spirits, friends of
Fleming tired to cheer him up. John Betjeman wrote to commiserate but also
to congratulate him on the movie version of From Russia With Love, which
he'd just seen and loved, comparing Bond to a jet-setting Sherlock Holmes.
"Write on, fight on," he championed.

1967: Critic Marjorie D. Lawrie from Punch praises the illustrations by Christopher Chamberlain in The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ as "satisfying". (Short of commenting on the prose.)

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1982: Octopussy films Kamal Khan speaking to a concealed Octopussy.
1985: A View to a Kill released in Sri Lanka.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 60 of 65 - "Goldie Finger at the End of the Rainbow."

James Bond Jr - Goldie Finger at the End of the Rainbow

Season 1 - Episode 60
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807102/?ref_=ttep_ep60

James, Phoebe, Gordo, and Trevor head to Ireland to investigate a haunted castle which was taken by a leprechaun who was actually Nick Nack who is scaring the people to find the secret treasure room for Goldie Finger.

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 (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 / Leah Callaghan (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)

Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 60 - Goldie Finger at the End of the Rainbow

1999: Radioactive's release of the "Die Another Day" three-track CD digipak single (from 15 November) ends this day.

2001: BBC News reports a rare book find.

Rare Bond find in charity shop

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1695888.stm
Thursday, 6 December, 2001, 18:08 GMT

Ian Fleming began writing Bond novels late in life

A rare copy of a James Bond book by Ian Fleming has been discovered in a charity shop in Scotland.

The first edition copy of Live and Let Die was handed in by a mystery donor in a plastic bag full of other books.

It had been in storage when John Fyfe, a volunteer at the Morningside branch of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), spotted the rare edition.

The item has been valued at about £5,000 by book experts at Sotheby's in London, where it is due to be auctioned next Thursday.

Shock
Mr Fyfe admitted he was very surprised at the find.

He said: "I've no idea who handed it in. I work two days a week and I was off when the books were left in the shop.

"It was just lying with a pile of books and we go through them all to check for anything special.

Sean Connery starred as Bond

"It's quite a plain looking thing, although its dust jacket was in good condition. When I saw it was a first edition I knew it would be worth a bit."

Jay Hogarty, ICRF area retail manager, said: "If the auction estimate is right, this will be the biggest find we've had in Scotland.

"Mr Fyfe is a volunteer specialist who knows about books, and not all our shops have those specialists.

"The money will go back to the shop and then to our central fund to help vital cancer research."

Origins
In July 2000 a copy of Fleming's first James Bond book, Casino Royale, published in 1953, sold at Sotheby's for £6,500.

Fleming was born in 1908 but it was not until 1952 that he wrote his first James Bond draft.

Casino Royale was a hit, and was televised in the US in 1954.

In the following years he dedicated himself to its successors and oversaw the move of James Bond onto the big screen.

Among his other works was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - the story of a mad professor who invents an amazing flying car.

2002: Die Another Day released in South Africa.

2011: Skyfall films Moneypenny handing a box to OO7 on the Department of Energy and Climate Change rooftop, Whitehall.

2012: Skyfall released in the Dominican Republic.
2014: Scheduled start date for the filming of BOND 24.

2021: Last day to purchase tickets for the 007 Casino Christmas Party, North Queensland Club, Townsville, Australia.

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December 7th

1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service bombs the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

1955: Priscilla Barnes is born--Fort Dix, New Jersey.
1959: After a signed agreement with Jack Whittingham, Kevin McClory registers the title "Thunderball", anticipating a future film based on meetings with Ian Fleming and Whittingham.

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

Despite the amount of work Whittingham had already contributed, it
wasn't until 7 December that an agreement was finally drawn up and signed
between himself and McClory, on behalf of Xanadu. His usual feed of 6,000
reduced to 5,00 on the understanding that this would be his first of a hopeful
series of Bond screenplays. Significantly, Whittingham assigned the copyright
in the script over to McClory. A clause in the contract also stated that all
material written could be used for subsequent motion pictures. This was a
normal contract between producer and writer, but it would later have severe
repercussions for Whittingham.

1965: Jeffrey Wright is born--Washington, District of Columbia.
1966: Variety reports on competing schedules and release dates for Bond films You Only Live Twice and Casino Royale, in that order. (Eventually Casino Royale releases April 1967, ahead of the EON mission.)

1972: Live and Let Die films Bond taking the top off a double decker bus.

1995: GoldenEye released in Argentina, the Netherlands, and Singapore.
1997: The New York Times prints Adam Bryant's piece "007: License to Shill."

Agent 007: License to Shill

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/07/weekinreview/agent-007-license-to-shill.html
By Adam Bryant | Dec. 7, 1997

IT seems like only yesterday that the dream of any self-respecting teen-age boy with a freshly minted driver's license was to have his date lean across the front seat and whisper, ''Oh James, you drive beautifully.''

That's James as in ''Bond, James Bond,'' a phrase that got hard-wired into the brains of an entire generation of guys who grew to admire this founding member of the Pantheon of Real Men. After all, nobody ever gets the best of Bond, women are his life and he's smart enough to instantly recognize a counterfeit license plate on a Ferrari in France.

But now this secret agent with a knack for being in the right place at the right time is turning up everywhere, and that hard-wired reverence for the original super-suave Bond is threatening to short out.

These days, it is hard to miss all the Bond cross-promotional ads. Ericsson cellular phones are suddenly ''Bond Approved.'' His BMW car and motorcycle are described as ''Bond's new loves.'' Visa, Smirnoff, Heineken, Avis and Omega are all in on the act. In the market for makeup? L'Oreal is now selling lipstick and nail polish in shades of ''Bond Bordeaux.''

True, Bond and marketing tie-ins are nothing new (guys could once buy 007 cologne, and the last movie, ''Goldeneye,'' helped BMW sell thousands of new Z3 roadsters). But the sheer number of promotional partners for the 18th Bond movie, ''Tomorrow Never Dies,'' which opens Friday, seems over the top. Could this really be James Bond, the seemingly omniscient and omnipotent secret agent for whom stuff and gadgets were simply a means to a variety of ends?

''The blubbery arms of the soft life had Bond round the neck and they were slowly strangling him,'' Ian Fleming wrote in an early Bond book, From Russia, With Love. ''He was a man of war and when, for a long period, there was no war, his spirit went into decline.''

Seeing Bond -- or at least his latest incarnation, Pierce Brosnan -- over and over in ads with a Visa card waved in front of his face by his gadget guru Q will surely cause many other spirits to dip, too. But Karen C. Sortito, executive vice president for worldwide promotions at MGM/UA, which is releasing the new movie, is adamant that the essence of Bond has not been compromised in the name of cutting through ad clutter.

For one thing, she said, Bond is not making any you-should-buy-this-product pitches himself. The ads are also clever and funny, Ms. Sortito said, and are a kind of celebration of Bond in the same way that agencies show off some of their best work for the Super Bowl.

''It's all cool and hip,'' she said. ''If this wasn't creative, we would not be doing it.''

The advertising is also helpful in reaching a broader audience and drawing them into the 35-year-old Bond phenomenon, Ms. Sortito said. It has been hard to generate a lot of interest among the many women who see Bond movies as popcorn for guys, so the L'Oreal products should help. The Heineken and BMW motorcycle ads build interest among young males, she said, while the Smirnoff vodka ads appeal to traditionalists.

''How can you justifiably criticize this when we are trying to grow the audience?'' she asked. Another important test, she added, was that the products were not forced into the screenplay. ''We would never sell out Bond for that and we haven't yet.''

Perhaps the problem is that a lot of these products are kind of pedestrian. Bond and Heineken? Beer cans, unlike martinis, are not supposed to be shaken. Bond and Avis? Avis may boast that ''We Try Harder,'' but the real Bond makes everything look effortless.

Of course, debates over quintessential Bondness are endless. Which actor came closest to capturing the Bond of Ian Fleming's books -- a secret agent who is neither witty nor dapper, but somebody who is somber, ruthless and deadly serious?

But one thing seems beyond dispute: the sight of a cardboard cutout of Mr. Brosnan next to a stack of Heineken cases -- coming to a supermarket near you -- is not what Mr. Fleming had in mind. In Moonraker, Bond describes how he thinks others see him: ''The tough man of the world. The secret agent. The man who is only a silhouette.''

A silhouette should never be confused with a cardboard cutout.

1999: European CD single for "The World Is Not Enough" released.

2006: Casino Royale released in Argentina, Australia, Chile, Hungary, New Zealand, and Peru,
2006: 007 พยัคฆ์ร้ายเดิมพันระห่ำโลก (Phyạkhḳh̒ r̂āy deimphạn rah̄̀ả lok; The Evil Tiger Stakes the World) released in Thailand.

2008: Daniel Craig confirms BOND 23's plot will not continue the Casino Royale, nor Quantum of Solace story arcs: "I'm done with that story. I want to lie on a beach for the first half an hour of the next movie drinking a cocktail."

RichardTheBruce

December 8th

1925: Sammy Davis Jr. is born--Harlem, New York City, New York.
(He dies 16 May 1990 at age 64--Beverly Hills, California.)

From the Archives: Consummate
Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. Dies at
64

https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-sammy-davis-jr-19900517-story.html

Altovise and Sammy Davis Jr. in 1972

By Edward J. Boyer | May 17, 1990 | Times Staff Writer

Sammy Davis Jr., the quintessential showman embraced by his peers as “Mr. Entertainment” for his enormous talent and versatility, died early Wednesday morning at his home in Beverly Hills after a nine-month battle with throat cancer.

Death came as friends and fans of the diminutive, 64-year-old entertainer maintained a vigil outside his home. They had been gathering there since Tuesday when word began to circulate that the end was near.

The tributes were immediate:

Frank Sinatra, who with Davis, Joey Bishop, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford became Hollywood’s fast-living “Rat Pack” of the 1960s and who knew him for 40 years, said he “wished the world could have known Sam as I did. . . . It was a generous God who gave him to us for all these years . . . . Sam was the best friend a man could have.”

Said Bishop: “Guess they must need a good show up in Heaven, that’s all I can say.” Then he added, “God I’m sorry. I loved him.”

Martin hailed Davis as a great entertainer and “an even greater friend, not only to me, but to everyone whose life he touched.”

Former President Ronald Reagan remembered him as “a special talent which made him more than just a great entertainer--it made him magical.” Comedian Bill Cosby said that “it would have been fantastic to see him at age 82 still enjoying performing for the people. I’ll see him later.”

Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley—who counted Davis among his friends and political supporters—ordered the city’s flags flown at half staff.

Davis had battled the cancer in his throat since September, when a tumor was discovered growing behind his vocal cords. He began a series of radiation treatments that left his skin discolored and raw enough to bleed when he touched his throat.

When his illness became known, fans around the world deluged him with letters letting him know that he was in their prayers.

Show business friends from Sinatra and Cosby to Liza Minnelli and Steve Lawrence rallied to his side, putting themselves at his disposal. A month before the cancer was detected, Davis, Sinatra and Minnelli (filling in for an ailing Dean Martin) had been on a reunion tour, bringing sellout audiences to their feet.

His friends’ affection for the man who enjoyed describing himself as a “little one-eyed colored guy” was nowhere more evident than during a television tribute earlier this year, commemorating his more than six decades in show business.

Said singer Whitney Houston, a guest on the televised tribute taped last year: “He helped to break down the color barriers. I think he fought the battle for the rest of us.”

Davis would have been the first to acknowledge that he was but one soldier among generations of troops who assaulted color barriers. Nonetheless, he determinedly fought his battles with whatever weapons were available, including one that he felt the haters could not withstand—his talent.

Whether dancing with his father and uncle on countless television guest spots, captivating movie audiences as Sportin’ Life in “Porgy and Bess,” singing his way through “Mr. Wonderful” on Broadway, or finding a hit song and a theme in “Candy Man,” Davis brought an exuberance to every performance.

His versatility was such that he could go on a bare stage alone and weave a stunning evening of entertainment with song, dance, impressions and comedy.

“This is what I want on my tombstone,” he once told an interviewer:

“Sammy Davis Jr., the date, and underneath, one word: ‘Entertainer.’ That’s all, because that’s what I am, man.”

Behind Davis’ superb stagecraft, however, and despite the adoration of faithful fans, Davis was for much of his life a man at war with himself.

He buried his pain in alcohol and cocaine—chasing the delusion that his “swinging” lifestyle somehow compensated for his two divorces, his estrangement from his children, and his futile efforts to become what he thought others expected him to be.

“I didn’t like me,” Davis told an interviewer in 1989. “So it made all the sense in the world to me at the time that if you don’t like yourself, you destroy yourself.

“The monkey on my back is that I created a lifestyle that was no good for me. My life was empty. I had drugs, booze and broads, and I had nothing.”

He had to fight his way through what he has called “the tortures of the damned,” and he credited Altovise, his wife of 20 years, with helping him make a turnaround.

“She was there for me,” he said. “She gave me all the support in the world.”

The turnaround began when doctors told him in 1983 that his stomach and liver were so damaged that he would die soon if he didn’t stop drinking. He stopped. In 1984 and 1985, he underwent hip replacement surgery.

But he returned to dance again and charmed movie fans as Little Mo, the veteran hoofer with still enough moves to accept a “challenge” dance, in the 1989 film “Tap.”

The drinking was only one of his excesses. He spent money just as easily.

During his illustrious career, he had earned millions and spent or given away more. And by the 1980s, the Internal Revenue Service was clamoring for unpaid millions in taxes it said he owed.

Davis also shamelessly gushed over every guest on his television shows. And his ostentation became a trademark. If one gold ring was good, four had to be better.

Try as he might to win love with his talent, his public persona had become an easy target--grist for a devastating (and, he said, all too accurate) impersonation by comedian Billy Crystal.

But if his excesses were obnoxious to some, Davis, the individual, was a monument to generosity for others. He marched for civil rights in Selma, Ala., played benefits for Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH, and helped raise funds to investigate the Atlanta child murders.

Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, remembered him Wednesday as “a humanitarian whose heart was so big . . . that it dwarfed his frame.”

Hooks, in a statement, called attention to Davis’ accomplishments “in the struggle of African-Americans,” much of which “was not widely known . . . .”

Coretta Scott King called him “not only one of the greatest performing artists of our age” but “an ardent, tireless supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement . . . .”

Davis would break into his schedule to play a benefit for a blind ex-fighter or sell bonds for Israel. Even as his bank account slid toward empty, he was contributing thousands of dollars to his child’s school.

This consummate entertainer whose career has been described as a series of radical mood swings was born Dec. 8, 1925, in Harlem, N.Y., where his father was lead dancer and his mother, Elvera (Sanchez) Davis, was in the chorus of a vaudeville troupe headed by his adopted uncle, Will Mastin.

When the act went on the road, Davis remained with his paternal grandmother, Rosa (Mama) Davis, who raised him until his parents divorced. His father took custody, and by age 3 a mugging little Sammy had made his stage debut.

He learned to dance by watching routines from the wings, and the rhythms from his flashing feet soon became a popular addition to the act. He made his film debut in 1933, at age 7, in “Rufus Jones for President,” a comedy in which a boy dreams he is elected President.

Davis never attended school. His father and Mastin hired tutors—especially when truant officers applied pressure—to teach the youngster the three Rs. That irregular instruction and Davis’ later friendship with a U.S. Army sergeant who loaned him books and taught him remedial reading was as close as he came to formal education.

Mastin’s troupe, which had included 12 members, began to shrink with the decline of vaudeville and eventually was reduced to “The Will Mastin Trio, Featuring Sammy Davis Jr.”

Touring in the 1930s and ‘40s, the trio often could not find hotels that would rent rooms to blacks or restaurants that would serve them. But it was not until Davis was drafted into the Army’s first integrated unit at age 18 that he ran into the naked racism never far beneath the surface of World War II America.

During basic training in Wyoming, he was beaten, kicked and spat upon by bigoted whites in his barracks. Describing those days in his best-selling 1965 biography, “Yes, I Can,” Davis said his knuckles were covered with scabs from fighting racists during his first three months in the Army.

Perhaps the ugliest incident occurred when a group of white enlistees decided to teach him a lesson for being too familiar with a white female officer.

Davis said they lured him to a remote spot on the base, where they beat him and painted racial slurs on his chest and forehead. They forced him to tap dance and smeared more white paint over his body, only to remove a spot to demonstrate that beneath the paint he was still “just as black ‘n’ ugly as ever.”

The pain of that incident motivated him to pump even more energy into his performances at camp shows. He felt that his sheer talent could reach the haters, “neutralize them,” force them to recognize him as a person.

He used an audience’s affection as fuel, and he made no secret of his “joy of being liked.” And he would work himself to exhaustion to please an audience, friends said, in a futile effort to make the world love him--to erase the brutal memories of his Army experiences.

Davis rejoined his father and uncle after the war, but the trio led a hand-to-mouth existence as vaudeville died and they tried breaking into nightclubs. They worked hotels in Las Vegas, where they could neither register as guests nor enter the casinos because they were black.

Some New York City clubs would not allow him to enter, and he needed a special permit just to be on the streets of Miami Beach at night when he performed there.

But Davis continued to increase his repertoire—adding trumpet, drums, celebrity impressions—as the trio crisscrossed the country, taking whatever dates they could find.

In 1946, Metronome magazine named him “Most Outstanding New Personality” on the strength of his Capitol recording of “The Way You Look Tonight,” the magazine’s selection as record of the year. Davis recorded it under a deal paying him $50 a side for each recording.

During the next two years, the trio appeared with headliners such as Mickey Rooney, Sinatra and Bob Hope. Jack Benny later intervened to get them a booking at Ciro’s nightclub in Hollywood where they opened for singer Janis Paige. The audience would not let them off—or Paige on—stage. The next night, Paige was the opening act for the Will Mastin Trio.

The group’s later appearance on Eddie Cantor’s NBC television show was such a hit that they became the comedian’s summer replacement.

By 1954, when Davis released his first album under a contract to Decca Records, his father and Mastin had become background accompaniment to his soaring performances.

With Davis as its centerpiece, the trio sold out clubs from Los Angeles to New York, and the group was in constant demand for guest spots on television variety shows.

Davis’ on-target impersonations of Jimmy Cagney, Jerry Lewis and Jimmy Stewart were a revelation to audiences who simply had never imagined a black performer being able to so accurately capture a white celebrity’s character.

But it all nearly ended in November, 1954, in a car crash on a stretch of highway between Las Vegas and Los Angeles that cost him his left eye. During his recuperation at a San Bernardino hospital, he said, he began thinking seriously about religion and converted to Judaism.

Once out of the hospital, he was in even more demand. And contract offers began a steady march upward through five figures for a week’s work. In 1956, he made his Broadway debut in “Mr. Wonderful,” a musical comedy created for him.

By the late 1950s, the Will Mastin Trio had broken up, but Davis continued dividing his income with his father and uncle for months—some friends say years.

He became a member of Hollywood’s so-called “Rat Pack” and made six of his 23 movies with them, beginning with “Ocean’s Eleven” in 1960 and ending with “One More Time” in 1970.

After a brief marriage to dancer Loray White in 1959, Davis married Swedish actress May Britt in 1960. The couple had a daughter, Tracey, and adopted two sons, Mark and Jeff. The couple divorced in 1968, and two years later Davis married dancer Altovise Gore. They adopted a son, Manny, last year.

During his marriage to Britt, his celebrity could not shield him from white anger and black consternation.

Davis noted in an interview with Playboy magazine that his mother was Puerto Rican.

“So I’m Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman,” he said. “When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.”

He was bitterly criticized in 1972, during the Republican National Convention in Miami, for hugging Richard M. Nixon. To many black Americans, the photo of that incident was eloquent testimony to what they saw as Davis’ misplaced values.

That criticism, however, wasn’t as painful as the rejection that came his way from John F. Kennedy, whose candidacy he had tirelessly supported.

Davis had been invited to Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration, but the invitation was rescinded a few days after it was offered because the Kennedy camp felt Davis and his white wife might anger Southerners.

“The guy I ran with is the man that told me, ‘Don’t come to the White House cause you’ll embarrass me’ because I was married to a white woman,” Davis said in a 1987 interview. “And I had to accept that. But that was the man I campaigned for, and went all out for. That was John Kennedy.”

By now Davis was a fixture in the firmament of American stars. Before his “Rat Pack” movies, he had appeared in “The Benny Goodman Story,” co-starred with Eartha Kitt in “Anna Lucasta” and won rave notices as Sportin’ Life in the film version of “Porgy and Bess.”

He returned to the stage in the mid-1960s in a musical adaptation of Clifford Odets’ “Golden Boy,” a production that ran for 568 performances before closing in March, 1966.

Davis, meanwhile, had remained busy in films, producing the forgettable “A Man Called Adam” with his own company in 1966. He also appeared as revivalist Big Daddy in “Sweet Charity” and performed in the 1972 documentary “Save the Children.”

While moving between stage, television and movies, Davis also recorded dozens of albums and released several hit singles, including his all-time top-seller, “Candy Man.”

His was a familiar face in America’s living rooms as he turned up on television in shows ranging from “The Beverly Hillbillies” to “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” to the soap opera “One Life to Live.” He hosted several specials of his own, sat in for Johnny Carson and did the brief and ill-fated “Sammy Davis Jr. Show” on NBC from 1965 to 1966.

He was a smash hit in “Sammy,” a television retrospective of his first half-century in show business. But his second try at a network show, “NBC Follies,” was canceled midway through the 1973-74 season.

Last year he published a second biography, Why Me? co-written, as was his best-selling first book, with Jane and Burt Boyar. In interviews discussing the new book, he acknowledged that racial prejudice had profoundly affected him.

He poignantly told a story of a man coming to his table at a nightclub to greet him after he had become an international celebrity. The man was the very person who had refused him admission to the same club some years before.

He felt he should have told the man “to get away from me with his hypocrisy.” But he was silent.

“So I went home and threw up,” he said. “I had stifled my own feelings and made myself sick. That night I vowed: ‘I’ll never let that happen again.’ ”

He said he began to fight the subtle prejudices he encountered, whether it was fellow board members of a company being surprised that he could do more than sing and dance, or making it clear to guests at a party that he could talk about more than what Carson or Sinatra are “really like.”

Still, by his own admission, he had mellowed in the last five years.

He overcame what he called his obsession with his career even as he was being increasingly called upon to accept yet another honor for his body of work or for his commitment to various social and political causes.

“I’ve been looking inward,” he said last year. “I’ve been counting my blessings. I no longer feel I have to do it all. I don’t yearn to be at the top of the mountain.”

Davis is survived by his wife, four children and two grandchildren. His mother and a sister also survive. Services are scheduled at 11 a.m. Friday at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Hollywood Hills. Burial will follow at Forest Lawn, Glendale.

The family suggested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Sammy Davis Jr. National Liver Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark.

Times staff writer Eric Malnic contributed to this obituary.

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1950: Rick Baker is born--Binghamton, New York.
1953: Kim Basinger is born--Athens, Georgia.

1964: Teri Hatcher is born--Palo Alto, California.
1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films OO7 and the cable car.

1979: 007/ムーンレイカー (Mūnreikā; Moon Laker) released in Japan.

1983: Zeg Nooit, Nooit Meer (Say Never, Never Again) released in the Netherlands.

1983: The Hollywood Reporter reports Moore Bond will return for another mission--his seventh, and EON's fourteenth.
1989: Licence to Kill released in Cyprus.

1995: GoldenEye released in Israel and Sweden.
1995: 007 - GoldenEye released in Portugal.
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Malta.
1999: Världen räcker inte till released in Sweden.

2006: Casino Royale released in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Mexico.

2014: BOND 24 production begins at Pinewood Studios. Filming continues the next 7 months in London, Mexico City, Rome, Morocco.

2021: Skyfall in Concert at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl Reserve, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Skyfall in Concert

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https://whatson.melbourne.vic.gov.au/things-to-do/skyfall-in-concert

Daniel Craig plays the legendary secret agent in the franchise’s most successful film to date, with the MSO performing Thomas Newman’s award-winning score live to picture.

The 2012 film, directed by Sam Mendes, pits 007 against one of his most formidable foes, the ruthless cyberterrorist and former MI6 agent Silva (Javier Bardem). Judi Dench returns once again as the steadfast M, and Skyfall re-introduces two familiar and beloved Bond characters: the ingenious quartermaster Q (Ben Whishaw), and the charming and resourceful Eve Moneypenny (Naomie Harris).

Dates and times
Wed 8 Dec
7.30pm - 9pm 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Location
Sidney Myer Music Bowl Reserve
Melbourne
Victoria 3004
Open in maps location for Sidney Myer Music Bowl Reserve

Price and bookings
From $74 to $149
Book online for Skyfall in Concert

Contact details
telephone number: 03 9929 9600
email address: [email protected]

Visit website for Skyfall in Concert
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2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Himeros #3.
Pierluigi Minotti, artist. Rodney Barnes, writer.

JAMES BOND: HIMEROS #3

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513031230303011

Cover A: Francesco Francavilla
Cover B: Jackson Guice
Writer: Rodney Barnes
Artist: Pierluigi Minotti
Publication Date: December 2021
Page Count: 32
ON SALE DATE: 12/08/2021

James Bond continues to unravel the horror he's uncovered as he makes his way to the center of it all - Wilhelm's island - with the reluctant Sarah Richmond in tow. All the while: Kino continues to stalk the pair, awaiting his moment to strike!

Featuring two amazing Covers: Francesco Francavilla and the legendary Jackson Guice!

Did you know: Ian Fleming was a well-known as a book collector. He founded The Book Collector the same year he published Casino Royale.

RichardTheBruce

December 8th updated for the Dynamite Entertainment release of Himeros #3.


December 9th

1912: Blanche Blackwell is born--Costa Rica.
(She dies 8 August 2017 at age 104--London, England.)

Blanche Blackwell obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/29/blanche-blackwell-obituary

Heiress who became the ‘Jamaican wife’ of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and was supposedly the model for Goldfinger’s Pussy Galore

Ian Thomson | Tue 29 Aug 2017 12.26 EDT

Blanche Blackwell and Ian Fleming. Photograph:
Taken from the biography of Ian Fleming by Andrew Lycett

Blanche Blackwell, who has died aged 104, was a divorcee in her 40s when in 1956 she met Ian Fleming, her neighbour in Jamaica and the creator of James Bond; and soon they became lovers. Cracks had by then begun to show in Fleming’s marriage to Ann Charteris. Ann was ashamed of her husband’s success as a thriller writer (the Bond novels were “pornography”, she told friends), and had begun to stay away from their Jamaican home, Goldeneye.

Blackwell’s friendship with Fleming intensified when Ann began an affair with the politician Hugh Gaitskell. Ann became suspicious of “Ian’s Jamaican wife” after Anthony Eden’s wife, Clarissa, mentioned how helpful Blackwell had been at Goldeneye when the prime minister recuperated there in 1956 after the debacle of Suez. In an attempt to make Goldeneye more welcoming for the Edens, Blackwell had planted the garden with flowers; Ann later tore them out and threw them over the cliff.

Fleming wrote all 13 of his 007 novels in Jamaica, though only three (Dr No, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun) were set partly on the island. Noël Coward, another neighbour, dubbed Fleming’s home “Goldeneye, nose and throat” for its lack of creature comforts. It was in this Spartan retreat that Fleming immersed himself in a Bond-like life of tropical oblivion fuelled by vodka and cigarettes (like 007, Fleming smoked 70 a day).

Impishly, he included sketches of his friends (and enemies) in his fiction. Blackwell was supposedly a model for Pussy Galore, the trapeze artist turned leader of a team of lesbian cat burglars who passes herself off as an air stewardess in his novel Goldfinger; for the film, she is a pilot and martial arts expert. In Dr No, the guano-collecting ship was named the Blanche. Blackwell claimed not to have read any of the books, though: “I don’t like violence.”

Daughter of Hilda (nee Lindo) and Percy Lindo, cousins who married, she was born into a wealthy Jamaican family, descended from Sephardic Jews from western Europe who had settled in Kingston in the mid-18th century and came to control much of the island’s commerce. Her father had helped to consolidate the family fortune in Costa Rica – where Blanche was born, in San José – before returning to Jamaica, where he owned property and produced rum.

In 1936, in London, Blanche married Joseph Blackwell, a captain in the Irish Guards and heir to the Crosse & Blackwell foods fortune. Together they ran the family estates in Jamaica and owned a string of racehorses. In 1937 their son Christopher was born. Blanche was not happy in the marriage, however. The actor Errol Flynn (“a gorgeous god,” Blackwell called him) became one of her admirers.

By the time she and Joseph divorced in 1949, she had moved to Jamaica’s north coast, to a house equidistant between Coward’s and Fleming’s. “Noël became a special pal of mine,” Blackwell told me during an interview in 2007, and Coward was said to have based his play Volcano on island life, and one of its central characters, Adela, on Blackwell.

Fleming adored “Birdie” Blackwell and her darting, kingfisher mind. And Blackwell, in her turn, considered Fleming a “charming, handsome, gifted man”, but one plagued by self-doubt and self-hate. “Ian was an angel”, she told me. “Errol was another … Both lovely men – both exceptionally gifted and definitely not for domesticating.”

When Fleming died of a heart attack in 1964, Blanche was invited neither to the funeral nor the memorial service. For years, she kept watch over Goldeneye for Fleming’s son Caspar; and after Caspar’s death in 1975 the house was bought first by Bob Marley, and then by her son, Chris, the founder in 1959 of Island Records, who had “discovered” Marley.

Tough and good-humoured, in later life Blackwell wore her white hair bobbed round an animated, heart-shaped face. Her life, until she decamped in 2003 to a flat in Knightsbridge, London, had been one of island entertainments and literary friendships. Now, looked after by three Jamaican maids, Blackwell became an unlikely devotee of bingo. Each week her chauffeur took her to the Cricklewood Mecca to play. In Kingston, she had liked to bet on the horses, but London bingo was not without its thrills. “Cricklewood might seem a little dull to you,” she said. “It isn’t really. I could sit for hours in the Mecca. The tension as your number comes up. Bing-bing-bingo!”

She is survived by her son.

• Blanche Blackwell, born 9 December 1912; died 8 August 2017

This article was amended on 13 September 2017. The original description of Pussy Galore as a pilot and martial arts expert applies only to the film; in the novel she is a trapeze artist turned leader of a team of lesbian cat burglars who passes herself off as an air stewardess.

1934: Judi Dench is born--York, North Yorkshire, England.

1961: Bond comic strip For Your Eyes Only ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 11 September 1961. 988-1065) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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

http://www.michaelmay.online/2014/08/for-your-eyes-only-comic-strip.html





Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-8-1966/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 8: “For Your Eyes Only” (1966)
"Fra dødelig synsvinkel"
Note: The title of the main story is announced as "Fra dødelig synsvinkel" in issue no. 7 and on page 3, but the front page says "Fra en dræbende synsvinkel". Rather confusingly, both Danish titles translate as "From a view to a kill", even though this particular comic is adapted from another Ian Fleming short story, "For Your Eyes Only".

Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no29-1974/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 29: “For Your Eyes Only” (1974)
"Fra en dræbende synsvinkel"
Note: The story's Danish title somewhat confusingly translates as "From a View to a Kill", though it is based on "For Your Eyes Only".

1965: 007/サンダーボール作戦 (007/Sandâbôru sakusen; 007/Thunderball Strategy) premieres in Tokyo, Japan.

1974 Re-release

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in Australia and South Africa.

1987: Barbara Walters interviews Sean Connery on ABC-TV.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5jduhc

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 61 of 65 - "Dutch Treat."

James Bond Jr - Dutch Treat

Season 1 - Episode 61
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807099/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

In Holland, Tiara Hotstones stole an emerald from the museum to get to a counterfeit artist named Rembrandt but she accidentally drops it into a box of chocolates that Phoebe brought.

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 Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Jan Rabson Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Kath Soucie Kath Soucie ... Tiara Hotstones (voice)
Simon Templeman Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)

Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 61 - Dutch Treat

1997: World Charity premiere of Tomorrow Never Dies at the London Odeon. No Royal family in attendance this time.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/tnd_premiere

http://pbfiles.net/tnd/tnd-premiere1.html

1999: James Bond 007 - Die Welt ist nicht genug released in Germany.

2006: “You Know My Name” written by Chris Cornell and David Arnold peaks at 57 on The Billboard Hot 100. Cornell's highest charting single.

Making of video

2016: Radio Christmas interviews John Glen.

Director John Glen on
Radio Christmas

https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/director-john-glen-on-radio-christmas/

On 9 Dec, 2016 By Bond on the BoxIn Radio Broadcast

Former James Bond director John Glen will be on the charity station Radio Christmas on Friday, 9 December 2016 from 7:00 – 9:00PM (GMT).

2020: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries present Dressed to Kill: The West End tailors who suited James Bond.

Dec
09

Dressed to Kill: The West End
tailors who suited James Bond

by Royal Borough of Kensington and
Chelsea Libraries

See the complete article here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dressed-to-kill-the-west-end-tailors-who-suited-james-bond-tickets-128852155265

Date and Time
Wed, 9 December 2020
13:30 – 14:30 EST

Producer Albert R ‘Cubby’ Broccoli once said of James Bond: ‘Regimes may rise and fall, lapels may widen or narrow, but ultimately he remains the old-fashioned suited hero.’ Since the release of Eon Production’s first Bond film, Dr No, in 1962, the character has been tailored by Anthony Sinclair (Sean Connery), Dimitrov ‘Dimi’ Major (George Lazenby), Cyril Castle, Angelo Vittuci and Douglas ‘Doug’ Hayward (Roger Moore), Benjamin Simon and Lambert Hofer (Timothy Dalton), Brioni (Pierce Brosnan) and Tom Ford (Daniel Craig), respectively. This talk will provide a fun tour of the London-based, Westminster tailors who suited James Bond, and discusses where they were based, who they were, and how they assisted in the creation of the image of the eponymous suited hero who endures today.



Llewella Chapman is a film historian and visiting scholar at the University of East Anglia, completing her PhD in 2018 on the historic relationship between film, television and Hampton Court Palace. Her research interests include British cinema, gender, heritage and costume design. Llewella is under contract with Bloomsbury to publish her monograph, Fashioning James Bond: Costume, Gender and Identity in the world of 007, which is due to be released next year.

RichardTheBruce

December 10th

1963: Following the award of film rights for Thunderball plus ten other Bond stories to Kevin McClory, the Los Angeles Times reports his plans for a film budgeted at $2.24 million.
1963: Jack Whittingham issues a writ against Ian Fleming for damages citing libel, malicious falsehood, damage to professional reputation.
1965: Daily Variety reports Ann-Margret and Glenda Grainger recording and releasing versions of "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" from the upcoming film Thunderball.

"Mister Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", Ann-Margret.


"Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", Glenda Grainger.

1966: You Only Live Twice finishes filming Blofeld in the control room.

1972: Live and Let Die films OO7 and Solitaire transferring from bus to Quarrel Junior's boat.

1977: 007 私を愛したスパイ (Watashiwoai shitasupai; My Beloved Spy) released in Japan.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 62 of 65 - "No Time to Lose."

James Bond Jr - No Time to Lose

Season 1 - Episode 62
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807297/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

A case of mistaken identity leads Spoiler to kidnap IQ, as part of Doctor No's plan to build an impenetrable government airship known as the Vulture.

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

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Michael Gough ... Spoiler
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Julius No (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)
Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 62 - No Time to Lose

1992: MGM/UA settles lawsuits delaying production of Bond films--key executives depart. Credit Lyonnais finances future operations.
1995: Zlatno oko (Golden Eye) released in Slovenia.

1999: James Bond 007 - Die Welt ist nicht genug released in Austria.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Denmark.

[img]“The World is Not Enough”: Danish press book and ad sheet (1999) https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/twine-dk-pressbook-1999/[/img]

2011: Skyfall films late night action on Childers Street, Lewisham, London, for the escape to Scotland.
2019: Last day of Sotheby's online literature sale for the letters of Anne and Ian Fleming.

'Extraordinary' letters between Ian
Fleming and wife to be sold

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/11/extraordinary-letters-between-ian-fleming-and-wife-to-be-sold

More than 160 letters written over 20 years shine light on James Bond author’s life

Mark Brown Arts correspondent | Mon 11 Nov 2019 15.01 EST
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Ann Fleming, née Charteris, was born into the aristocracy and married wealthy men. Photograph:
©The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's

An extraordinary stash of letters that shine a light on the tangled relationship between the James Bond creator, Ian Fleming, and his wife, Ann, from their intense and secret affair to the bitter end of their marriage, are to appear at auction.

Sotheby’s is selling more than 160 letters between the couple, written over 20 years. Gabriel Heaton, a specialist in books and manuscripts at the auction house, said the letters in their scope and scale provided what “must surely be an unmatchable record of the life of the author as his fortunes changed”.

They also provide insight into the rise of Bond. Heaton said it was no coincidence that Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in the year of his marriage.
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c80da8e2dabb059ffa334a4d1f5b02f46b28a826/0_1502_4870_2922/master/4870.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7622d11c346b2ee914fd5e39673683f9
Ian Fleming had numerous flings and affairs with other women. Photograph:
©The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's

It was “both as an outlet for his libido and imagination, and also in an attempt to make money for a woman who was used to being unthinkingly rich”.

Ann Fleming, née Charteris, was born into the aristocracy and married wealthy men. Her first husband was Shane O’Neill, the 3rd Baron O’Neill. After his death in military action in 1944, she married the newspaper magnate Esmond Harmsworth, the 2nd Viscount Rothermere.

During both marriages she and Fleming were lovers, an intense relationship that had sado-masochistic elements. “I long for you even if you whip me because I love being hurt by you and kissed afterwards,” Ann once wrote to Fleming.

In 1948 Ann became pregnant with Fleming’s child, a girl who was a month premature and lived only eight hours. The collection includes a number of sad and gentle letters written by Fleming on Gleneagles stationery shortly after he played golf with Rothermere, the cuckolded husband.

In one letter he writes: “I have nothing to say to comfort you. After all this travail and pain it is bitter. I can only send you my arms and my love and all my prayers.”

Fleming had numerous flings and affairs with other women and when the couple finally married in 1952 that was never likely to stop.

Ann once wrote to him: “You mention ‘bad old bachelor days’ – the only person you stopped sleeping with when they ceased was me!”

A letter from Fleming written on British Overseas Airways Corporation stationery reads: “In the present twilight, we are hurting each other to an extent that makes life hardly bearable.”

Heaton said the letters were packed with stories of high society, travel, love of nature and gossip.

“They are quite something, it has been a real treat,” he said. “They are an extraordinary read because Ian Fleming is pretty much incapable of writing a dull sentence.”

Fleming wrote all of the Bond novels at GoldenEye, his house in Jamaica, a place visited by many of Ann’s remarkable circle of friends. The artist Lucian Freud, for example, and the Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell, with whom she had a long affair.

There were also surprising visitors. “Truman Capote has come to stay,” Fleming writes. “Can you imagine a more incongruous playmate for me. On the heels of a telegram he came hustling and twittering along with his tiny face crushed under a Russian Commissars’ uniform hat [...] he had just arrived from Moscow.”

The letters consist of more than 500 typed and handwritten pages, at least three written on endpapers torn from books. Two of the letters from Ann are written on the back of a gin rummy card and a hospital temperature chart.

They will be offered in Sotheby’s online literature sale between 3 and 10 December and come with an estimate of £200,000-300,000.

It was important to keep them together, said Heaton. “They are much more than the sum of their parts, the correspondence as a whole is far more substantial and interesting and revealing and exciting than simply an accumulation of individual letters.”

Ian Fleming's Love Letters at Sotheby's

https://www.thebookcollector.co.uk/features/ian-flemings-love-letters-sothebys

2021: Skyball James Bond inspired Christmas Party & musical tribute show at Leonardo Royal London City.
[SOLD OUT]

Skyball: James Bond
inspired Christmas Party
& musical tribute show,
London 2021

See the complete article here:

https://westendevents.co.uk/james-bond-inspired-skyball-shared-christmas-party-2021-leonardo-royal-london-city-hotel/

09, 10 & 17 Dec 2021
7.30pm – 12.00am
£100+VAT

Leonardo Royal London City
8-14 Cooper’s Row
London, EC3N 2BQ

What to expect from our James Bond inspired Christmas party nights…

About the venue
Join us once again for a suave and sophisticated, themed Christmas party night at the Leonardo Royal London City Hotel. This 4 star venue is perfectly situated in the City of London, just around the corner from Tower Bridge and the Tower of London. Nearby transport links include Tower Hill and Aldgate tube stations, Tower Gateway DLR and London Fenchurch Street overground station. For party-goers looking for an overnight stay the hotel offers 307 bedrooms as well as a spa and swimming pool.

About the entertainment
Over dinner entertainment – Q The Music are the world’s leading tribute to James Bond music. The band have wowed audiences across the globe in countries such as the UK, Maldives, Monte Carlo, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Gibraltar and Majorca. In 2017 the band were honoured to perform at Sir Roger Moore’s official memorial event and in 2019 won praise in The Times for their sell-out show at the Adelphi Theatre. In December 2021, West End Events is pleased to be working with Q The Music for the 5th time. Prepare yourself for an unforgettable night!

• Casino tables – Blackjack and roulette tables are included in the ticket price and are a great way to compete against your colleagues. The “gambling” is only for fun, with paper money and casino chips provided.
• Photo booth – Your ticket price includes unlimited trips to the photo booth. Each visit includes double prints for guests to take home as a souvenir.
• Glitter face painters – The perfect addition to the glitz and glam of a secret agent night. Our face painters will be open after dinner with their sophisticated, sparkly designs. Glitter beard anyone?
• After dinner dancing with our live party band – After dinner, Q The Music return in their party-wear as their alter ego, the sensational London Showband. Despite all of the other entertainment, you’ll struggle to leave the dance floor as these guys churn out the party hits. The playlist will contain something for everyone with a variety of popular classics from across the decades.

Skyball tickets include…

• Glass of sparkling wine on arrival
• Three course Christmas dinner
• Half bottle of wine per guest
• 007 tribute band over dinner
• Live party band after dinner
• Secret agent theme
• Glitter face painting
• Photo booth
• Casino tables
• Spectacular 4* venue

STANDARD MENU

• Poached salmon rillette served with potato salad and pickled cucumber on sourdough
• Roast turkey breast served with sage and onion stuffing, chipolata wrapped in bacon, roast potatoes, seasonal vegetables and roast gravy
• Trio of festive desserts: chocolate orange tart, vanilla cheesecake and Christmas pudding with brandy sauce

VEGETARIAN / VEGAN MENU

• Roasted beetroot, red onion and watercress salad
• Oyster and shitake mushroom served with leek crumble tart and pan gravy
• Caramelised pineapple steak, toasted coconut, champagne sorbet
• Menus subject to change if certain ingredients are unavailable due to supply chain issues

DRINKS
TIMINGS
DRESS CODE
KEY INFO

• A glass of sparkling wine is included on arrival.
• Half bottle of wine per guest included in package
• Drink tokens are available on request. Pre-order 3 tokens (house wine, beer or soft drinks) for £13.50+VAT or 5 tokens for £21+VAT.
• A full cash bar is available throughout the night should you require any drinks outside of the standard package.
• Jugs of iced water are provided on each table.

Contact us to discuss your drinks package now.

RichardTheBruce

December 11th

1961: James Bond comic strip Thunderball begins its run in The Daily Mail.
(Ends 10 February 1962. 1066-1128) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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

1122-1123

1126-11327

First ending, Daily Express.

Second ending in syndication.

Danish 1966 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-6-eng/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 6:
“Thunderball” (1966)

1965: 007/サンダーボール作戦 (007/Sandâbôru sakusen; 007/Thunderball Strategy) released in Japan.

1975: The British-American Chamber of Commerce honors Roger Moore--Man of the Year.
1979: Moonraker released in Davao, the Philippines.

1984: Daily Variety reports a Christmas respite for the A View to a Kill production while final sets are built. Filming to resume in the New Year on the Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage.
1986: Prince Charles and Princess Diana visit the set of The Living Daylights and meet Timothy Dalton.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 63 of 65 - "Monument to S.C.U.M."

James Bond Jr - Monument to S.C.U.M.

Season 1 - Episode 63
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807293/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

James and the gang are in Arizona and entering the scientist competition contest. Meanwhile, Dr. Derange uses a magnetic generator to change the Earth's core.

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

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack (voice)
Corey Burton Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Michael Gough Michael Gough ... Spoiler (voice)
Julian Holloway Julian Holloway ... Dr.Derange (voice)
Mona Marshall Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Jan Rabson Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (voice)
Simon Templeman Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)

Produced by
Bill Hutten ... producer
Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
Tony Love ... producer
Fred Wolf ... executive producer
Music by
Dennis C. Brown
Larry Brown

James Bond Jr Episode 63 - Monument to S.C.U.M.

1997: Documentary James Bond Shaken and Stirred airs on television as a Tomorrow Never Dies tie-in.

James Bond: Shaken
and Stirred (1997)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0934868/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5
1h | Documentary | TV Movie 11 December 1997

Promotional TV documentary to publicize the release of the then new James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Includes interviews with a number of key cast and crew production personnel.

Stars: Samantha Bond, Vic Armstrong, David Arnold

2002: Die Another Day released in Venezuela.
2006: Interscope Records releases the "You Know My Name" CD single in the UK.

2020: Mark Edlitz appears on James Bond Radio to discuss his book The Lost Adventures of James Bond.

James Bond Radio: 007 News, Reviews &
Interviews!

https://jamesbondradio.libsyn.com/197-the-lost-adventures-of-james-bond-with-mark-edlitz
Fri, 11 December 2020

#197: The Lost Adventures of James Bond with Mark Edlitz

This week, author, Mark Edlitz returns to the show to talk about his new book: The Lost Adventures of James Bond.

As Bond fans, we've all seen the movies and read the books, but there is a hidden world of 007 content left to discover when it comes to the 'lost' or unmade adventures.

In today's episode, Mark talks us through the ideas and outlines for Timothy Dalton's 3rd and 4th Bond films, explores the unproduced Casino Royale stage play written by Raymond Benson, exposes the secret history of the James Bond Jr. animated series, and much more.

Direct download: JBR197-The-Lost-Adventures-of-James-Bond.mp3
http://traffic.libsyn.com/jamesbondradio/JBR197-The-Lost-Adventures-of-James-Bond.mp3?dest-id=181959

Category:TV/Film -- posted at: 12:30am UTC

The Lost Adventures of James Bond | A James Bond Virtual Book Launch

2020: Scientific Games slot game James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever showcased at Inside Asian Gaming’s “MAD Santa” Macau After Dark.

Scientific Games to showcase new slot game
“James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever” at this
week’s Macau After Dark 7

See the complete article here:

https://www.asgam.com/index.php/2020/12/09/scientific-games-to-showcase-new-slot-game-james-bond-diamonds-are-forever-at-this-weeks-macau-after-dark-7/

by Newsdesk | Wednesday 9 December 2020 at 04:11
Inside Asian Gaming names Galeria Lisboa at Macau Fisherman’s Wharf as venue for this Friday’s “MAD Santa” Macau After Dark event

Leading gaming product developer Scientific Games will showcase its brand new slot game, “James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever” at Inside Asian Gaming’s “MAD Santa” Macau After Dark industry networking event this Friday 11 December 2020.

To be held at Galeria Lisboa at Macau’ Fisherman’s Wharf, the invitation-only seventh rendition of Macau After Dark will represent one of the last opportunities for the industry to come together in 2020, with Scientific Games taking pride of place as Showcase Sponsor.

“We are thrilled to continue our 2020 sponsorship for the Macau After Dark,” said Scientific Games Vice President and Managing Director, Ken Jolly.

“This event happening in December is special in bringing the industry together as a very tough year winds down.”

Discussing the company’s product presentation at MAD 7, Jolly added, “Scientific Games continues to work tirelessly, planning and creating new products for the gaming industry’s recovery.

“We are highlighting our upcoming branded slot game ‘James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever’ during the event.

“Also coming in 2021 in our slots line up is the third Duo Fu Duo Cai game on DualosX, ‘Hurricane Horse’, and fourth Jin Ji Bao Xi game – ‘Singing Cats’ – adding to both successful families of games. Additionally, 1,2,3 Wild, a new link progressive, is also coming in early 2021.

“Game changers on the Shufflers and Utilities side are the MDX shuffler, which has up to 10 decks shuffling and sorting capacity. The new Safe-Shoe X also has a 10 deck capacity that works seamlessly with the new iScore®Ultra baccarat display. It is the winning combination for any baccarat gameplay.”

MAD is a regular series of industry networking social events held in Asia’s gaming hub of Macau. Each MAD brings together key industry decision-makers with the people they want to meet in a relaxed and friendly environment. A new venue is chosen for each event.

Attendees of MAD must work for an operator, a supplier to an operator, a VIP promoter or be connected to the industry in some way. All attendees supply their business cards upon entrance.

For the upcoming MAD Santa event on 11 December, attendees must be invited to attend.

For sponsorship, please contact:
Jadeson Ho
+853 2883 6497
[email protected]

For more information, please contact:
Victoria Man
+853 6395 2307
[email protected]

2021: Dallas String Quartet at Ozark Christian College, Joplin, Missouri.

Saturday 11 December 2021
Dallas String Quartet

See the complete article here:

https://www.songkick.com/concerts/39973634-dallas-string-quartet-at-ozark-christian-college

Ozark Christian College, Joplin, MO, US
Dallas String Quartet live

Ozark Christian College
1111 N Main 64801 Joplin, MO, US

We had a great time at the concert. Such a nice venue, with all the trees lit up and reflecting in the lake in the background. Really enjoyed their mash-up of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the James Bond theme …

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy/James Bond - DSQ Electric