On This Day

RichardTheBruce

December 12th

1964: The Goldfinger soundtrack makes the Billboard chart, eventually reaches #1. Spends 77 weeks in top 200.
1964: Playboy magazine publishes its Ian Fleming interview.

1981: Sólo para sus ojos (Only For Your Eyes, also Catalan title Només per als teus ulls) released in Spain.

1987: 007/リビング・デイライツ (007/ Ribingu deiraitsu; Living Daylights) released in Japan.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 64 of 65 - "Northern Lights."

James Bond Jr - Northern Lights

Season 1 - Episode 64
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807110/?ref_=ttep_ep64

The Warfield students arrive in Toronto on a clean-up project, unaware that Baron von Skarin is also in town with a scheme to hold the city's electricity for ransom.

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

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack / Scumlord (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / 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)
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 64 - Northern Lights

1993: The (James Bond 007 International Fan Club's) "Diamonds are Forever 22-Carat Christmas Lunch" is held at Pinewood Studios with Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, and the moon buggy.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the UK, Ireland, and Iceland.

2002: Die Another Day released in Australia, the Dominican Republic, and Lebanon.
2002: 007: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Mexico.

2002: Умри, но не сейчас (Die But Not Now) released in Russia.

2014: Spectre films at Solden, Austria, near the glacier and through the tunnel.
2016: Jamaica reports its nine wins at the 23rd World Travel Awards from 4 December.

JAMAICA WINS NINE AWARDS AT
WTA CEREMONY

https://www.un.int/jamaica/news/jamaica-wins-nine-awards-wta-ceremony
Date: Monday, 12 December 2016

MONTEGO BAY, Dec. 4 (JIS):
Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the nine awards won by Jamaica at the 23rd World Travel Awards (WTA) ceremony on Friday (December 2) are a testament to the current international value of Brand Jamaica.

Mr. Bartlett said the awards were a vindication of all the hard work and dedication that have been put into enhancing the tourism product and “a ringing endorsement of all the policies and programmes we have been undertaking.”

“Jamaica starred big time and had the most combined awards from the scores of destinations that were nominated,” Mr. Bartlett said via email from the Maldives, southern Asia, on Saturday (December 3).

“It is not an exaggeration to say that the garnering of such prestigious accolades, on such a stage and on that particular night, will be a major advertising boost for us and something which could positively improve on our projections throughout the winter tourist season,” he added.

The ceremony, which was held at the Sun Siyam Iru Fushi Hotel in the heart of the Maldives, saw Jamaica winning individual awards for: World’s Leading Cruise Destination and World’s Leading Wedding Destination.

Mr. Bartlett also received the distinctive award of the World’s Leading Personality for Outstanding Services to Travel at the function.

Other awards won by Jamaica and its resorts and travel partners were: World’s Leading Luxury Hotel Villa (Ian Fleming Villa at GoldenEye); World’s Leading New Island Resort (Melia Braco Village); World’s Leading Villa Resort (Round Hill Hotel and Villas); World’s Leading Family Resort Brand (Beaches); World’s Leading All-Inclusive Company (Sandals Resorts International) and World’s Leading Caribbean Attractions Company (Island Routes Caribbean Adventure).

Meanwhile, Mr. Bartlett stressed that now is not the time for complacency as “rest assured that as we celebrate, our competitors are busy plotting marketing strategies”.

“We must also be cognisant of the fact that the success of our tourism will not be sufficiently measured by the number of international awards that are won, but by the resilience of our people and the nimbleness of our models,” he explained.

He added that the consistency of Jamaica’s tourism growth, both in revenues and visitor arrivals, has positioned the country as world-beaters.

“I offer my deepest and most profound gratitude to the many partners in tourism who over time have conspired to give Jamaica a moment of glory like this,” Mr. Bartlett noted.

Jamaica was also represented at the ceremony by Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang who collected the award for World’s Leading Cruise Destination on behalf of the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ).

CONTACT: GARWIN DAVIS
JIS REGIONAL OFFICE
MONTEGO BAY

2018: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond Origin #4.
Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

JAMES BOND ORIGIN #4

Cover A: John Cassaday
Cover B: Kev Walker
Cover C: Wilfredo Torres
Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover E: Bob Q
Writer: Jeff Parker
Art: Bob Q
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: December 2018
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 12/12/2018

"Rocket Sea" continues...Forced to surface in enemy waters, a damaged Royal Navy submarine docks at a mysterious island for repairs. Lieutenant James Bond leads a hunting expedition across the island. But while hunting beasts, he discovers a far more dangerous prey...

Thunderfinger

Haha, Ribingu deiratsu. That s great.

RichardTheBruce

December 13th

1915: Curd Jürgens is born--Solin, Munich, Germany. (He dies 18 June 1982 at age 66--Vienna, Austria.)

CURT JURGENS, WAR FILMS' STAR

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/19/obituaries/curt-jurgens-war-films-star.html
UPI | JUNE 19, 1982

Curt Jurgens, the West German movie actor who was a star of countless World War II films, died in a hospital here today. He was 66 years old.

Mr. Jurgens had been hospitalized for the last two months. Friends said he had refused to reduce his activities despite years of heart trouble and the replacement of three heart valves in an operation in the United States two years ago.

His physician, Dr. Anton Neumayr, said he had been making progress up to a week ago but suffered a relapse Monday. Mr. Jurgens, who made more than 160 films, began his film career in 1936 with ''Imperial Waltz.'' He established himself internationally with performances in ''The Enemy Below'' in 1957 and a year later in ''Inn of the Sixth Happiness,'' co-starring with Ingrid Bergmann.

Mr. Jurgens went on to star in such films as ''The Blue Angel'' (1958), ''I Aim at the Stars'' (1959), ''Nicholas and Alexandra'' (1971) and the James Bond thriller ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977).

Born in Munich, Dec. 13, 1915, the son of a Hamburg tradesman and a French teacher, Mr. Jurgens's personality was a blend of German roughness and Southern charm. Swedish fans dubbed him the ''Viking with steel eyes.'' In Love With Screen Partners

Mr. Jurgens once said he enjoyed acting alongside any actress. ''Every time I fall madly in love with the woman I make love with on the screen,'' he said.

A strong believer in love at first sight, he was married five times, to three actresses - Lulu Basler, Judith Holzmeister and Eva Bartok - and to the model Simone Bicheron, before marrying Margie Schmitz in 1978.

With a taste for the romantic and extravagant, he once said the things he liked best were ''comfort, women, whisky, marriage and work.''

Mr. Jurgens owned a luxury villa on France's Cote d'Azur and a house in Lausanne, Switzerland. But his favorite retreat was a farm he owned in Vence, France, with a house consisting of just one big room with a bath for two sunken in front of a fireplace.

Curd Jürgens (1915–1982)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432007/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (169 credits)

1982 Smiley's People (TV Mini-Series) - The General
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... The General
- Episode #1.1 (1982) ... The General
1981 Collin (TV Movie) - Hans Collin
1981 Assassination Attempt - Maître Legraine
1980 The Sleep of Death - Count St. Alyre
1980 Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen - UFO Commander

1979 Berggasse 19 (TV Movie) - Siegmund Freud
1979 The Other One's Mug - Wilfrid
1979 Goldengirl - Dr. Serafin
1979 Breakthrough - Gen. Hofmann
1979 Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident - Baron Marchant (as Curt Jurgens)
1978 Just a Gigolo - Prince
1978 Im Zweifel für den Angeklagten (TV Movie) - Clarence Darrow
1978 Tatort (TV Series) - Konrad Pfandler
- Rot - rot - tot (1978) ... Konrad Pfandler
1977 La lunga strada senza polvere - Cameo (uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Karl Stromberg (as Curt Jurgens)[/b]
1977 La foire (TV Movie) - Alexis B., le grand-père
1976 The Twist - Le bijoutier / Jeweller
1976 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Standesbeamter
- Episode #3.2 (1976) ... Standesbeamter
1976 As of Tomorrow - Senator Shelton
1976 Auch Mimosen wollen blühen - Josef Popov
1976 Povero Cristo -Man Engaging Giorgio
1975 Second Spring - Fox
1975 Derrick (TV Series)- Paul Bubach
- Madeira (1975) ... Paul Bubach
1975 Die gelbe Nachtigall (TV Movie) - Schauspieler Korz
1975 Cagliostro - Cardinal Braschi (as Curd Jurgens)
1974 Galileo (Short) - 1974 Radiografia di una Svastika
1974 Fräulein Else (TV Movie) - Dorsday
1974 Les flocons rouges (TV Movie) - Gunther Richter
1974 Fall of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Otto von Bismarck
- The Honest Broker (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
- The English Princess (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
1974 Undercovers Hero - General von Grotjahn (as Curt Jurgens)
1973 Occupation (TV Series)
1973 3. November 1973 (TV Movie) - Ölmillioär
1972-1973 Der Kommissar (TV Series)
Harald Bergmann / Dr. Hochstätter
- Ein Mädchen nachts auf der Straße (1973) ... Harald Bergmann
- Traum eines Wahnsinnigen (1972) ... Dr. Hochstätter
1973 Profession: Adventurers - Alvarez
1973 The Vault of Horror - Sebastian (segment "This Trick'll Kill You") (as Curt Jurgens)
1972 War Is Hell - Russian general
1971 Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! - Grueningen
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra - The German Consul (as Curt Jurgens)
1971 Two Males for Alexa - Ronald Marvelling
1971 Nurses for Sale - Käpt'n Markus Jolly
1971 The Mephisto Waltz - Duncan Ely (as Curt Jurgens)
1970 Millionen nach Maß (TV Mini-Series) - Carlos Ribeiro
- Bitte, zur Kasse (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
- Wir zahlen bar (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
1970 French Intrigue - Henri Emery
1970 Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli - Konrad Johannsen
1970 Hello-Goodbye - Baron De Choisis (as Curt Jurgens)
1970 The Invincible Six - Baron
1970 Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli - Kommissar Canisius
1970 Slap in the Face - Thomas Nathan Terbanks

1969 The Battle of Neretva - Lohring
1969 Battle of Britain - Baron von Richter (as Curt Jurgens)
1969 The Bedroom - Hannes Teversen
1969 Battle of the Commandos - Gen. von Reilow (as Curd Jurgens)
1969 The Assassination Bureau - Gen. von Pinck (as Curt Jurgens)
1968 Les yeux crevés (TV Movie) - Gottfried von Esch (scenes deleted)
1968 Babeck (TV Mini-Series) - Der Mann im Rollstuhl
- Tödliche Geschäfte (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
- Das Geheimnis der Calasetta (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
1968 Bedroom Stewardesses - Dr. Jan Diffring
1968 OSS 117 Murder for Sale - Il Maggiore - il capo dei gangster
1968 Le fil rouge (TV Movie) - Sigmund Freud
1967 Dirty Heroes - Gen. Edwin von Keist
1967 Der Lügner und die Nonne - The cardinal
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Carl Von Kesser
- The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
- The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
1966 Der schwarze Freitag (TV Movie) - Richard Whitney
1966 The Gardener of Argenteuil - Le Baron Edouard de Santis
1966 Target for Killing - Gérard van Looch / Giant
1966 Congress of Love - Czar Alexander I
1966 An Affair of States - Dave O'Connor
1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series)
1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Stefan von Cramer
1965 Lord Jim - Cornelius (as Curt Jurgens)
1965 They're Too Much - Kurt Lehnert
1964 Psyche 59 - Eric Crawford (as Curt Jurgens)
1964 Pariahs of Glory - Ludwig Goetz
1964 Begegnung in Salzburg - Hans Wilke, General Director
1964 Hide and Seek - Hubert Marek
1964 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) - Kleinerts
- The Hell Walkers (1964) ... Kleinerts
1963 Nutty, Naughty Chateau - Hugo Falsen
1963 Of Love and Desire - Paul Beckmann (as Curt Jurgens)
1963 Berlin-Melodie - Vom Zille-Ball zum Jazzlokal (TV Movie)
1963 Miracle of the White Stallions - Gen. Tellheim (as Curt Jurgens)
1963 Three Penny Opera - Captain Macheath
1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Husband
- Die Phantasten (1963) ... Husband
1962 Beach Casanova - Mr. Edmond (as Curd Jurgens)
1962 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Amatole Respighi
- The Great Anatole (1962) ... Amatole Respighi (as Curt Jurgens)
1962 The Longest Day - Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt (as Curt Jürgens)
1962 Disorder - Carlo's Father (as Curd Jurgens)
1961 Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour - Cliff MacHardy
1960 Gustav Adolfs Page - König Gustav Adolf
1960 Brainwashed - Werner von Basil
1960 I Aim at the Stars - Wernher von Braun

1959 Adorable Sinner - Czar Alexander II
1959 The Blue Angel - Professor Immanuel Rath (as Curt Jurgens)
1959 Ferry to Hong Kong -Mark Conrad (as Curt Jurgens)
1959 Time Bomb - Eric Muller
1958 Duel in the Forest - Johann 'Schinderhannes' Bückler
1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - Capt. Lin Nan (as Curt Jurgens)
1958 Me and the Colonel - Colonel Prokoszny (as Curt Jurgens)
1958 This Happy Feeling - Preston Mitchell (as Curt Jürgens)
1958 Tamango - Captain John Reinker
1957 The Enemy Below - Von Stolberg (as Curt Jurgens)
1957 Les espions - Alex
1957 An Eye for an Eye - Dr. Walter
1957 Bitter Victory - Major Brand
1956 Michael Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
1956 The House of Intrigue - Colonel Bernes (as Curt Jurgens)
1956 ...And God Created Woman - Eric Carradine (as Curd Jurgens)
1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht - Dr. Robert Kessler
1956 The Golden Bridge - Balder
1956 Teufel in Seide - Thomas Ritter
1955 Du mein stilles Tal - Gerd
1955 Heroes and Sinners - Wolf Gerke (as Curd Jüergens)
1955 Die Ratten - Bruno Mechelke
1955 Love Without Illusions - Walter
1955 The Devil's General - General Harry Harras
1955 Du bist die Richtige - Stefan Selby
1954 Afraid to Love - Paul Kahr
1954 Orient Express - Bate
1954 Prisoners of Love - Willi Kluge
1954 Circus of Love - Toni
1954 Eine Frau von heute - Heinz Bender
1954 Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline - Pat
1953 Alles für Papa - Clemens Haberland
1953 The Last Waltz - Rittmeister Graf Sarassow
1953 Music by Night - Hans Kersten
1953 Man nennt es Liebe - Peter Malmö
1953 Praterherzen - Toni Brandstetter
1952 Rose of the Mountain - Composer Jack Long
1952 1. April 2000 - Capitano Herakles
1952 Knall und Fall als Hochstapler - John Vandergold
1952 Haus des Lebens - Axel Jolander
1951 Gangsterpremiere - Kommissar
1951 Der schweigende Mund - Architekt Reinhold
1951 Geheimnis einer Ehe - Dirigent Felix Adrian
1951 Ein Lächeln im Sturm - Jean Langrand
1950 Eine seltene Geliebte - Sascha Borotraz
1950 Die gestörte Hochzeitsnacht - Lawrence Vinning
1950 Kissen Is No Sin - Kammersänger, Felix Alberti
1950 Der Schuß durchs Fenster - Dr. Winkler
1950 Prämien auf den Tod - Gunarson, Operntenor

1949 Young Girls of Vienna - Graf Lechenberg
1949 Hexen - Heinz Wagner
1949 Lambert Is Threatened - Roland
1949 Das Kuckucksei - Dr. Kurt Walla
1948 Verlorenes Rennen - George Miller
1948 The Heavenly Waltz - Clemens M. Weidenauer
1948 The Mozart Story - Emperor Joseph II
1948 An klingenden Ufern - Stefan Keller
1948 The Angel with the Trumpet - Graf Leopold Thraun
1948 Hin und her - Prinz Bernardo von Lappalien
1947 The Singing House - Bandleader Hans Storch
1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie - Wolfgang Schwab
1944 Ein Blick zurück - Dr. Erich Thienwiebel
1943 Ein glücklicher Mensch - Petersen
1943 Frauen sind keine Engel - Bandini
1942 Wen die Götter lieben - Emperor Joseph II
1942 Stimme des Herzens - Volontär Drews
1940 Operette - Karl Millöcker
1940 Herz ohne Heimat - Bob (uncredited)
1940 Weltrekord im Seitensprung - Peter Enderlein - Kapellmeisster
1939 Die gute alte Zeit (Short) - Fritz, Gretes Verlobter
1939 Salonwagen E 417 - Prinz Heinrich Karl
1938 The Girl of Last Night - Die drei Attachés (uncredited)
1937 Tango Notturno - Ein Freund Jacs, Musiker (uncredited)
1937 To New Shores - Bobby Wells' Freund
1937 Liebe kann lügen - Student Holger Engström
1936 The Unknown - Hans Wellenkamp
1936 Familienparade - Graf Erik Stjernenhö
1935 Königswalzer - Kaiser Franz Joseph von Österreich (as Kurt Jürgens)

Director (6 credits)

1979 Curd Jürgens: Bonn, wie ich es sehe (TV Movie documentary) (uncredited)
1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series) (4 episodes)
- Immer die Bigelows (1966)
- Flug nach Ankara (1966)
- Mit Brillanten und Schwertern (1966)
- Sein letzter Einsatz (1966)
1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour
1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht
1951 Gangsterpremiere
1950 Prämien auf den Tod

Soundtrack (4 credits)

1994 Forsthaus Falkenau (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Irrungen und Wirrungen (1994) ... (performer: "60 Jahre und kein bißchen weise")
1967 Schauspieler sind Schauspieler - Musikalische Seitensprünge (TV Movie) (performer: "Blacky Jones")
1963 Three Penny Opera (performer: "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?", "Der Kanonensong", "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?" (reprise), "Zuhälter-Ballade", "Ballade vom angenehmen Leben", "Verfolgt das Unrecht nicht zu sehr" - uncredited)
1957 The Enemy Below (performer: "So leben wir alle Tage" (Drinking Song) - uncredited)

Writer (2 credits)

1951 Gangsterpremiere (idea) / (co-writer)
1950 Prämien auf den Tod (story and screenplay)
Hide Hide Music department (1 credit)
1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie (singer)

1925: Dick Van Dyke is born--West Plains, Missouri.

1941: Anouska Hempel (The Australian Girl) is born--Wellington, New Zealand.

1958: Lynn-Holly Johnson is born--Chicago, Illinois.
1958: The first Bond comic strip Casino Royale ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 7 July 1958. 1-138) John McLusky, artist. Anthony Hern, writer.

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










Swedish Semic Comic 1972 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3

Högt Spel I Monte Carlo
(High Game In Monte Carlo - Casino Royale)

Swedish Semic Comic 1981 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1981.php3

Högt Spel I Monte Carlo
(High Game In Monte Carlo - Casino Royale)

Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/007jb-dk1-1965-eng/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 1: “Casino Royale” (1965)
"Højt spil i Monte Carlo"
[High Stakes in Monte Carlo]

1964: The New York Times prints Richard Maibaum's piece "James Bond's 39 Bumps".

James Bond's 39 Bumps

http://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/13/james-bonds-39-bumps.html?_r=0
RICHARD MAIBAUM - DEC. 13, 1964

I ONCE told the late Ian Fleming that he wrote too well. Speaking strictly as a screenwriter, that is, who is handed a novel by a producer and told to trans­late it into celluloid. In the long run, of course, the di­rector does that, but the screenplay is his blueprint and has inherent in it the completed motion picture.

Mr. Fleming seemed pleased, beaming when I as­cribed to him “an untrans­ferable literary quality,” but I’m sure he did not entirely realize I was paying him a left - handed compliment. Again from the standpoint of the screen dramatist.

There is little doubt in my mind that the success of the Bond films stems directly from the success of the nov­els, their combination of ter­ror and elegance, sophisti­[cation]...

Fleming's tongue‐in-cheek attitude toward his material (intrigue, expertise, violence, love, death) finds a rea­dy mass response in a world where audiences enjoy sick jokes. Incidentally, it is the aspect of Fleming which the films have most developed. Sometimes, I think, far be­yond what Fleming himself intended. He said as much to me once when he com­mented rather innocently, “Somehow the pictures seem funnier than my books.”

Digging Deep
Having said all this about the novels, it would appear that a screenwriter adapting them would feel like a for­tunate prospector discovering an inexhaustible mother‐lode of pure gold. And yet there are problems.

A screenwriter is limited to setting down, as sugges­tion to the director, only what can be said and done by actors and what can be photographed by the camera­man. Lovely descriptive pass­ages; illuminating streams of consciousness revealing char­acter; great hunks of bril­liant, interesting exposition; carefully documented quasi­treatises; all must go.

A case in point is a scene in Goldfinger in which Bond is strapped to a work­bench and menaced by an approaching circular saw. Somehow in the reading, be­cause Fleming writes so effectively, “The Perils of Pauline” do not immediately occur to one. Vividly depicted on the screen, however, we were sure audiences would find the episode old‐fashioned, hackneyed and ludicrous. What to do? We substitut­ed an industrial laser beam, a development as fresh as tomorrow, for the antiquated circular saw. Do I hear any­one asking sotto voce about the screenwriter's blushes? If he was the blushing type he wouldn't be doing Bond screenplays in the first place. Besides, it's all good clean fun, or so he tells himself.

Logic is another problem. Once, as a young man, I worked as Writer Number 34, I think, for Alfred Hitchcock on Foreign Correspondent. I told him I thought a cer­tain situation was illogical. He looked at me sadly and replied, “Dear boy, don't be dull. I’m not interested in log­ic, but in effects. If the au­dience ever thinks about log­ic it's on their way home from the theater and by that time they’ve already paid for their tickets.”

Verisimilitude
Still there is a point be­yond which audiences will re­ject a film for too many abuses of actuality. In Gold­finger, for example, Flem­ing has Goldfinger, a suppos­edly criminal genius, plot to break into Fort Knox and steal 16 billion dollars worth of gold bullion. Fleming, bless him, in the best Hitchcockian tradition, never bothered his head about how long it would take to transport that amount of gold, or how many men and vehicles would be re­quired. Obviously, it would take weeks, hundreds of trucks and hundreds of men. The problem that faced us was not an easy one. Why, we...

Rough Grind
Then there is the question of “bumps.” Hitchcock once said to me, “If I have 13 ‘bumps’ I know I have a pic­ture.” By “bumps,” he meant, of course, shocks, highpoints, thrills, whatever you choose to call them. From the be­ginning, through Dr. No, From Russia With Love, and now with Goldfinger, Mr. Broccoli and Mr. Saltzman, the producers, and myself have not been content with 13 “bumps.” We aim for 39. Our objective has been to make every foot of film pay off in terms of exciting en­tertainment. Fleming, too, has his “bumps,” but not nearly enough for the kind of films we’re trying to make.

Actually, Fleming himself, unlike many authors of well­-known literary works to be made into films, seemed un­usually complacent as to how his books were treated. The only question he ever asked...

The actual characterization of James Bond (and we are lucky devils to have Sean Connery) was also a depar­ture from the novels. Both Terence Young and Guy Hamilton, our directors, shared and augmented the concept of Bond as visualized by the producers and myself. That concept retained a basic super‐sleuth, super‐fighter, super‐hedonist, super‐lover of Fleming's, but added another large dimension: humor. Hu­mor vocalized in wry com­ments at critical moments. In the books, Bond was singu­larly lacking in this.

A bright young produc­er accord me one day with glittering eyes. “I’m making a parody of the James Bond films.” How, I asked myself, does one make a parody of a parody? For that is precisely, in the final analysis, what we have done with Fleming's books. Parodied them. I’m not sure that Ian himself ever completely realized this. Or perhaps I underestimate his perception. At any rate, he seemed happy with what we were doing.

The writer adapted Dr. No, From Russia With Love,” and Goldfinger which opens at the DeMille and Coronet Theaters on Dec. 21, to the screen.

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1969: 女王陛下の007 (Joô heika no 007, Her Majesty's OO7) released in Japan. That's ahead of UK 18 December, US 19 December.

1973: Live and Let Die released in the Netherlands.
1973: Å leve og la dø (To Live and Let Die) released in Norway.

1973: Lev og lad dø (live and Let Die) released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/category/film/lev-og-lad-doe-live-and-let-die-1973/

1984: A View to a Kill films the death of Bob Conley.

A View to a Kill (1985) - Mine Massacre

1985: Ölüme Bir Bakis (A Look to Death) released in Turkey.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 65 of 65 - "Thor's Thunder."
And I'm glad that's over.

James Bond Jr - Thor's Thunder

Season 11 - Episode 65
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807128/?ref_=ttep_ep65

Captain Walker D. Plank and Skullcap are on the prowl in Norway to find Mjölnir, which gives infinite power to whoever wields it.

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

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
Corey Burton Ed Gilbert 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 / Skullcap / Digger (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)
Kath Soucie ... Olga (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 65 - Thors Thunder

1997: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre premieres in Portugal.

2002: Die Another Day released in Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay.
2002: ดาย อนัทเธอร์ เดย์ 007 พยัคฆ์ร้ายท้ามรณะ (Dāy xnạth ṭhex r̒ dey̒ - 007 phyạkhḳh̒ r̂āy tĥā mrṇa; 007 Deadly Tiger) released in Thailand.

2014: EON make a public statement regarding recent incidents at Sony involving hackers absconding with their Spectre script.

Film News

Hackers vs. James Bond: 'SPECTRE' script
stolen in Sony attack

See the complete article here:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sony-cybersecurity-bond/hackers-vs-james-bond-spectre-script-stolen-in-sony-attack-idINKBN0JR0ML20141213

December 13, 20144:28 PM | By Reuters Staff

Actors Lea Seydoux, Daniel Craig and Monica Bellucci (L-R) pose on stage during an event to mark the start of production for the new James Bond film "Spectre", at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, southern England December 4, 2014.
REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Early villains have emerged in the next James Bond film “SPECTRE”: hackers who stole a version of the screenplay as part of a devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures.

Producers of the James Bond films said they learned on Saturday morning that an early version of the “SPECTRE” script was among material stolen and made public by hackers who infiltrated computers at the Sony studio.

“Eon Productions is concerned that third parties who have received the stolen screenplay may seek to publish it or its contents,” Eon said in a statement, while warning that the script is protected by U.K. copyright laws.

“SPECTRE,” starring Daniel Craig as 007, is set for release on Nov. 6, 2015. Filming began this month after producer Barbara Broccoli and director Sam Mendes unveiled the title, cast and new car, but little about the plot.

“I was so excited to tell this story but to explain why, I would have to tell you the plot and I can’t do that,” said Mendes at the presentation in England, a reminder of Sony’s might in the movie world.

The Bond franchise is one of the most lucrative for Sony Pictures and the last installment “Skyfall” brought in $1.1 billion worldwide, more than any other Bond film.

A Sony spokesman said news reports that the cyberattack forced the studio to stop production on films, including “SPECTRE,” were wrong.

“Productions are still moving forward,” Robert Lawson told Reuters.

Hackers launched an attack on the Sony Corp. entertainment arm on Nov. 24, disabling the computer network and stealing and leaking a trove of sensitive information in the most severe cyberattack on a company on U.S. soil. The identity of the hackers has yet to be determined.

Reporting by Mary Milliken in Los Angeles and Mike Davidson in London; Editing by David Gregorio

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

EON Productions issued the following statement today (13th December, 2014):

OFFICIAL STATEMENT
EON PRODUCTIONS, the producers of the James Bond films, learned this morning that an early version of the screenplay for the new Bond film SPECTRE is amongst the material stolen and illegally made public by hackers who infiltrated the Sony Pictures Entertainment computer system.

Eon Productions is concerned that third parties who have received the stolen screenplay may seek to publish it or its contents.

The screenplay for SPECTRE is the confidential information of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Danjaq, LLC, and is protected by the laws of copyright in the United Kingdom and around the world. It may not (in whole or in part) be published, reproduced, disseminated or otherwise utilised by anyone who obtains a copy of it. Metro-Goldwin-Mayer Studios and Danjaq LLC will take all necessary steps to protect their rights against the persons who stole the screenplay, and against anyone who makes infringing uses of it or attempts to take commercial advantage of confidential property it knows to be stolen.

2021: Bond Night at the Strand Cinema Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

BOND NIGHT

See the complete article here:

https://happeningnext.com/event/bond-night-eid4sntkog1nn1

Schedule
Mon Dec 13 2021 at 07:00 pm to 11:00 pm

Location
The Strand Cinema Belfast | Belfast, NI

BOND NIGHT
A night at the movies with HF. Come along to our 007 themed showing of ‘No Time To Die’.

About this Event
The Strand Cinema we be rolling out the red carpet for this one time HF event, Bond Style. With mocktails (shaken, not stirred) on arrival and popcorn included, you won’t want to miss out.

Dress Code : Bond, James Bond. Aka Black Tie (or something fancy).

It's going to be a party.

Normal Covid-19 Regulations will be in place to include proof of full vaccination, or proof of a negative lateral flow test.

Where is it happening?
The Strand Cinema Belfast, 152-154 Holywood Road, Belfast, United Kingdom

RichardTheBruce

December 14

1923: Janet McLuckie Brown is born--Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
(She dies 27 May 2011 at age 87--Hove, East Sussex, England.)

Janet Brown

See the complete article here:

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

Janet Brown
Born Janet McLuckie Brown, 14 December 1923, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Died 27 May 2011 (aged 87), Hove, East Sussex, England
Occupation Actress, comedian, impressionist
Years active 1946–2009[1]
Spouse(s) Peter Butterworth (m. 1946; died 1979)​
Children Tyler Butterworth (born 1959)
Emma Butterworth (1962–1996) (deceased)

Janet McLuckie Brown (14 December 1923 – 27 May 2011) was a Scottish actress, comedian and impressionist who gained considerable fame in the 1970s and 1980s for her impersonations of Margaret Thatcher. Brown was the wife of Peter Butterworth who was best known for his appearances in the Carry on films. Butterworth died in 1979 and Brown never remarried.

Career
Brown was born in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, and educated at Rutherglen Academy.

During World War II, Brown enlisted in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and was the first female performer to take part in Stars in Battledress.

She entered British film as an actress in 1948 noticeably in Folly to Be Wise (1952) then appeared in several British television series such as The Eric Barker Half-Hour (1952), How Do You View? (1952-1953) and Friends and Neighbours (1954).
Margaret Thatcher impersonations

Beginning with Margaret Thatcher's election as the leader of the Conservative Party in 1975, Brown gained increasing prominence because of her realistic impression of the Tory politician. She performed as Thatcher on BBC TV's Mike Yarwood Show, on BBC Radio's The News Huddlines, and on film in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.

In 1979, Brown starred as Thatcher on the comedy album Iron Lady: The Coming of the Leader, written by Private Eye satirist John Wells and produced by Secret Policeman's Ball series co-creator/producer Martin Lewis and Not the Nine O'Clock News series co-creator/producer John Lloyd. The largely spoken 'song' "Iron Lady" was released as a single, and Brown promoted it on Top of the Pops as a new release, but it did not chart.

She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1980 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.

During the 1970s and 1980s, she was occasionally confused by some with fellow actress and comedienne Faith Brown because they had the same surname and were both best remembered for their Margaret Thatcher impersonations. In 1990, she recorded a spoken word sequence in her Margaret Thatcher voice for Mike Oldfield's album Amarok. Still acting in her 80s, her last role was as Old Lady Squeamish on the London West End stage in a production of Wycherley's The Country Wife at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, which opened in September 2007.

She entitled her 1986 autobiography Prime Mimicker.

Personal life
Brown was married to Carry On actor Peter Butterworth from 1946 until his death in 1979. The two appeared alongside each other in the television comedy series, How Do You View? (1947–53), written by and starring Terry-Thomas. The couple had two children, a son, actor Tyler Butterworth (born 1959), and a daughter, Emma, who died in 1996, aged 34.

Brown never remarried, spending the rest of her life in Hove, until her death following a brief illness in a nursing home in May 2011, aged 87. She is buried alongside her husband Peter Butterworth in Danehill Cemetery, in East Sussex.

Filmography

Title Year | Role | Notes

Floodtide 1949 Rosie

Folly to Be Wise 1953 Jessie Killegrew

A Home of Your Own 1964
Hey Boy! Hey Girl 1967
The Adding Machine 1969 Fat Woman

My Lover, My Son 1970 Mrs. Woods
Bless This House 1972 Annie Hobbs
Wombling Free 1977 Womble Voice

For Your Eyes Only 1981 Margaret Thatcher, The Prime Minister

Summer Solstice 2005 Mrs. Armstrong
Underground Ernie 2006 Victoria Voice

Zorro and Scarlet Whip Revealed! 2010 Mrs. McAlistair Voice, (final film role)

Janet Brown (I) (1923–2011)

Actress | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113789/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

"Iron lady"


This Is Your Life

1953: Vijay Amritraj is born--Madras, Madras State, India.

1960: Gregory Ratoff (born 20 April 20 1897--Samara, Russian Empire) dies at age 63--Solothurn, Switzerland. Later in 1961, his widow sells the Casino Royale film rights to producer Charles K. Feldman for $75,000.
1967: You Only Live Twice released in Australia.

Daybill

1967: 鐵金剛勇破火箭嶺 {Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò huǒjiàn lǐng; Iron King Kong Breaks Through Rocket Ridge) released in Hong Kong.

1971: James Bond 007 - Diamantenfieber released in West Germany. Ahead of the US (17 December) and UK (30 December) dates.

1974: 007 黄金銃を持つ男 (Ōgonjūwomotsuotoko; Man With Golden Gun) released in Japan.

1983: Never Say Never Again UK Royal Charity Premiere at the Warner West End Cinema, Leicester Square, London.

1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Stacey in the mine confirming Zorin's caper.

1995: Aranyszem released in Hungary.

https://vitrinfotok.blogspot.com/2018/01/aranyszem-goldeneye-1995.html

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies limited release in the Netherlands.

2006: Surefone releases the single "You Know My Name".
B-side: Soundgarden song "Black Hole Sun" acoustic version.

2009: The Orient Express, featured in the From Russia With Love book and film, ceases operations. Replaced by high-speed trains and air travel. (The Venice-Simplon Orient Express train--an Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. private venture, now Belmond--still runs carriages circa 1920s-1930s from London to Venice and even the original Paris to Istanbul route.)

2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Hammerhead #3.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #3 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272203011
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: December 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
UPC: 725130252722 03011
ON SALE DATE: 12/14

After a massacre in Dubai, 007 closes in on the mysterious Kraken. But while investigating a mercenary safehouse in Yemen, Bond discovers the most advanced Q-Branch technology can sometimes prove less an asset than a liability. And a weapon is only as lethal as the man who wields it...

2021: James Bond tribute band search for a Christmas party expires unanswered in London.

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James Bond Tribute Band Wanted For Christmas Party - Tower Hill - London - 14 December 2021

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120 people, 14th of Dec, Hilton Tower Bridge

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Event Date: 14th December, 2021
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2021: Eaglemoss Collection releases its coffee table book The James Bond Film Guide edited by Will Lawrence.

https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/deep-dive-the-bond-gadgets-in-the-james-bond-film-guide

RichardTheBruce

December 15th

1948: Cassandra Harris is born--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
(She dies 29 December 1991 at age 43--Los Angeles, California.

Cassandra Harris; TV, Movie Actress

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-30-mn-878-story.html
Dec. 30, 1991

Cassandra Harris, movie and TV actress, died Saturday at USC Cancer Center after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 39 [correction: she was 43].

Miss Harris was a native of Australia acclaimed for her beauty. She was included in Lord Patrick Lichfield’s book The World’s Most Beautiful Women and also appeared on the cover of British Vogue in addition to several other magazines.

She probably was best known to film audiences as Countess Lisl in the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.

The wife of Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, she had a recurring role as con-artist Felicia in her husband’s popular television series, “Remington Steele.”

Miss Harris began her acting career as a child in Sydney, and at 16 won a scholarship to Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art. She eventually won Australia’s Best Actress Award and moved to England to appear in that country’s National Theatre.

In addition to her work on the British stage, she starred in such British television productions as “All Out at Kangaroo Valley” and the “Dick Barton” and “The Boy Merlin” series.

In addition to her husband, Miss Harris is survived by their three children, Charlotte, 19; Christopher, 18, and Sean William, 7.

Cassandra Harris (I) (1948–1991)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364520/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (9 credits)

1986 Five Days (Short) - Librarian
1982-1985 Remington Steele (TV Series)
Felicia / Anna Simpson / Catherine Simone
- Steele Searching: Part 2 (1985) ... Felicia
- Steele Searching: Part 1 (1985) ... Felicia
- Woman of Steele (1984) ... Anna Simpson
- Thou Shalt Not Steele (1982) ... Felicia / Catherine Simone
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Lisl
1980 Rough Cut - Mrs. Lloyd Palmer
1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Trudi Engel
- The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Trudi Engel

1979 Dick Barton: Special Agent (TV Series) - Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 9 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 8 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 4 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 2 (1979) ... Melissa
1978 Shadows (TV Series) - Ismena
- The Boy Merlin (1978) ... Ismena
1978 The Greek Tycoon - Cassandra
1977 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Sares / Controller
- Devil's Planet (1977) ... Sares / Controller

Self (4 credits)

2006 For Your Eyes Only: Bond in Greece (Video documentary short) - Herself
1984 Late Night with David Letterman (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode dated 20 November 1984 (1984) ... Herself
1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1981 Saturday Night at the Mill (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode #6.11 (1981) ... Herself

Archive footage (4 credits)

2018 Celebrity Page (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode #4.57 (2018) ... Herself
2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself

1958: Bond comic strip Live and Let Die begins its run in the Daily Express.
(Ends 28 March 1959. 139-225) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

https://www.michaelmay.online/2014/07/



http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/post/2014/09/15/Live-and-Let-Die-newspaper-comic-strip-1958


https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1414401

214 https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=116429


Swedish Semic Comic 1970-71 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3
Swedish Semic Comic 1986 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die) 1971 | Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die) 1986

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

James Bond Agent 007 no. 3:
“Live and Let Die” (1965)
"Leve og lade dø"

1965: Agente 007 - Operazione Tuono (Operation Thunder) released in Italy.

1966: You Only Live Twice films Tiger and Kissy at the volcano.

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in the Netherlands.
1977: 007: La espía que me amó released in Mexico.

1983: Never Say Never Again released in the UK and Australia. (Compare to US release 7 October.)

1983: Nunca Mais Digas Nunca released in Portugal.

1989: 007 - Permissão para Matar (Permission to Kill) released in Brazil.

1995: GoldenEye released in Iceland and Switzerland.
1995: 007: GoldenEye released in Mexico.
1995: 007 Contra GoldenEye released in Brazil.

1995: 007 ja kultainen silmä (007 and a Golden Eye) released in Finland.

1995: Altin Göz (Golden Eye) released in Turkey.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Venezuela.

2006: Casino Royale released in Pakistan and Uruguay.
2006: 007: Cassino Royale released in Brazil.

2006: ప్రపంచానికి ఒక్కడు (Prapanchaniki Okkadu; One to the World--Telugu title) released in India.

2014: Vodka producer Belvedere showcases two limited edition 007 bottles at a London Film Museum launch party.

Belvedere Is Making Sure That James Bond Will Actually Drink
A Vodka Martini In The New ‘Spectre’ Movie

businessinsider.com/belvedere-vodka-partners-james-bond-spectre-2014-12
Lara O'Reilly - Dec. 15, 2014, 7:01 PM

Belvedere, the luxury vodka brand owned by the LVMH Group, is partnering with the next movie in the James Bond franchise, Spectre.

Harnessing Bond’s penchant for vodka martinis and his iconic “Shaken, not stirred” line, Belvedere becomes the official vodka of the movie, which is due for cinematic release next November from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

The news will be something of a relief for Bond fans: In previous movies the spy had been seen (implausibly) drinking Heineken and (more plausibly) Smirnoff. Fans tend to forget he also drank Red Stripe in the first movie, Dr. No. The arrival of Belvedere will therefore pull Bond upmarket a bit.

Sitting down with Business Insider at a suitably secretive London location this week (think "spies," that's all we're allowed to say,) Belvedere Vodka president Charles Gibbs told us the partnership marks the brand’s “biggest” marketing push to date, although he declined to divulge financial details. It is hoped the partnership will raise awareness of the brand globally and highlight Belvedere vodka's quality credentials.

To kick off the partnership, Belvedere has created two (very large) 1.75l limited edition bottles, which it will showcase at a launch party at London's Film Museum tonight (December 15.)

The MI6 bottle pays homage to 007's HQ, swapping the signature Belvedere blue ink with the color of green ink used by MI6 officials to sign documents. Belvedere has also replaced the iconic Belvedere Palace that appears on its bottles with an etching of the MI6 building. Only 100 of this bottle will be made, but they won’t be available to buy. Instead Belvedere plans to gift them to “Bond aficionados” and put them up for charity auctions.

Here's the MI6 bottle:

The second, more flashy bottle is called the 007 Silver Saber. The metallic bottle lights up, thanks to an in-built LED system. It will be available on sale next year "in selective distribution."

Here's the 007 Silver Saber:

Next year, the campaign will ramp up with TV, cinema, digital ads, additional special packs and events planned. As the film is still in production, Gibbs could not confirm exactly what role Belvedere will play in Spectre. Gibbs also turned coy when asked whether there was the possibility of partnering with one of the other brands paying for product placement in the film (Aston Martin is the only other brand confirmed to appear so far, although that doesn't seem a likely fit.)

The main appeal of the partnering with the Bond franchise was its global reach beyond its core base of 25 to 40-year-old customers, but Gibbs also hopes the partnership will allow the aspirational Belvedere brand to "break through the clutter" of marketing messages from big-spending alcohol brands by associating with a "moment in popular culture."

The martini story also allows Belevedere to authentically talk up the provenance of its ingredients. The vodka is made from Dankowskie Rye and blended with own water from its own source in Poland, all key messages the brand hopes will hit home with lapsed drinkers as well as those new to the brand. It is hoped that making Belvedere Bond's choice for a vodka martini will also encourage bartenders to push the product to their cocktail lists.

LVMH, which also owns the Moët Hennessy brand, saw a 7% drop year on year in reported revenue in the first 9 months of 2014 to €2.63 billion. At the time of reporting, the company said the trend was reflective of a declining cognac market in China. It did not split out separate figures for Belvedere, but said the brand had "sustained volume growth."

2014: Daniel Craig and Rory Kinnear are spotted on a boat on the Thames sans life jackets, Spectre filming.

James Bond boat spotted in Spectre filming on Thames

See the complete article here:

https://www.mby.com/news/james-bond-boat-spotted-spectre-filming-thames-43822

Chris Jefferies December 16, 2014

Daniel Craig and Rory Kinnear were spotted in London yesterday when the
latest James Bond boat was filmed cruising up the Thames

The latest James Bond boat has been caught on camera as filming for the new 007 movie Spectre got underway on the Thames yesterday (15 December).

Daniel Craig, playing her Majesty’s most famous fictional spy, was seen riding a black and grey RIB near Vauxhall.

Holding onto a handrail on the bow, the star of Skyfall and Casino Royale cut a stark figure all in black. Presumably the producers decided that a luminous lifejacket would somewhat ruin the look.

Accompanied by Rory Kinnear, who plays Mi6 chief of staff Bill Tanner, the James Bond actor made his way up the Thames in the bright December sunshine.

Both men were flanked by a pair of armoured guards – seemingly members of the Marine Policing Unit who had landed a cameo role in the film.

The latest James Bond movie, Spectre, is due out on 6 November 2015 and also stars Christoph Waltz as the chief villain.

Previous Bond outings have seen starring roles for a Fairey Huntress (From Russia With Love), a Glastron GT150 (Live and Let Die) and a Sunseeker XS2000 (Casino Royale).

For more James Bond boat action, read our list of the Top 5 James Bond boat chase scenes.
https://www.mby.com/news/top-5-classic-james-bond-boat-chase-scenes/

2015: Madame Tussauds in Hollywood exhibits six James Bonds in wax. George Lazenby headlines.

2020: Dicebreaker reports on James Bond role-playing games.

d007: How the all-but-forgotten
James Bond RPG
changed roleplaying

Tomorrow Never Dice.

See the complete article here:

https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/james-bond-007-rpg/feature/james-bond-rpg-changed-roleplaying

Feature by Rob Wieland Contributor
Published on 15 Dec, 2020

Perhaps it's wishful thinking that, were he real, James Bond could have stopped the wild ride that 2020 has been. Every day features a headline that feels like it could like it came out of one of his big action blockbusters, containing the potent mix of doomsday potent and ridiculous on-the-nose circumstances that can only be appreciated after a shaken, not stirred martini or two. With Bond’s next adventure, No Time To Die, delayed until next spring (or perhaps longer) due to the coronavirus, most fans will have to take solace in his previous adventures. But a lucky few can not only be Bond, but see how he changed the way game designers thought of creating RPGs.

[MORE

About James Bond 007:
Role Playing In Her
Majesty’s Secret Service
Released: 1983
https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/james-bond-007-rpg

James Bond RPG - Character Creation (25:37)

2021: Janine Johnson sings Bond hits at Canary Wharf, London, England.

A Night Of Bond With Janine Johnson

See the complete article here:

https://www.list.co.uk/events/what:Bond Night/

Janine Johnson singing hits such as 'Goldfinger', 'Live and Let Die', 'License to Kill', 'Skyfall', 'Diamonds are Forever' and many more will take your mind on a journey to the celestial zones of your inner self, and that's just the music! When you come back down to earth and get the visual of Janine Johnson's passion in her production of the hits we all love, you will be back up among the stars again.

Canary Wharf, London E14
Wed 15 Dec

Prices to be confirmed
21:30

Janine Johnson - A NIGHT OF JAMES BOND - 007 (5:53)


Past Event

2021: No Time To Die released in the Philippines.

RichardTheBruce

December 16th

1967: Bond comic strip The Hildebrand Rarity ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 29 May 1967. 429-602) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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

https://www.slideshare.net/luisnarbona/james-bond-007-the-hildebrand-rarity-mu








India Star Comics https://www.comicsroyale.com/foreign-reprints#/star-comics/


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

Ubåt Saknad! (The Hildebrand Rarity - Part 1) | Ubåt Saknad! (The Hildebrand Rarity - Part 2)

Swedish Semic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

Ubåt Saknas (Submarine Missing; The Hildebrand Rarity)

Danish 1969 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no17-1969/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 17: “The Hildebrand Rarity” (1969)
"U-båd savnes" ("Submarine missing")

1967: 007/カジノ・ロワイヤル (007/ Kajino rowaiyaru) released in Japan.

1983: Never Say Never Again released in Ireland and Sweden.
1983: Neka aldrig två gånger (Never Deny It Twice--Swedish title) released in Finland.

1988: People Magazine votes Sean Connery the "Sexiest Man Alive".

1989: Licence to Kill released in the Philippines.

1995: 007 ゴールデンアイ (007 Gōruden'ai; 007 Golden Eye) released in Japan

Japan

1995: 007 골든 아이 (007 goal-deun ah-ee; 007 Golden Eye) released in the Republic of Korea.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies US premiere in Los Angeles, California.

http://pbfiles.net/tnd/tnd-premiere3.html

1997: El mañana nunca muere (The Tomorrow Never Die) released in Spain.
(Catalan title El demà no mor mai or Tomorrow Does Not Die).

1999: 新鐵金剛之黑日危機 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī hēi rì wéijī; New Iron King Kong's Black Sun Crisis) released in Hong Kong.

1999: Svijet nije dovoljan released in Croatia.

2002: New York Times article "North Korea Denounces Bond Film" reports North Korea denounces Bond film.

North Korea Denounces James Bond Film

nytimes.com/2002/12/15/world/north-korea-denounces-james-bond-film.html
By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE - DEC. 15, 2002

North Korea issued a statement today denouncing the latest James Bond film, Die Another Day, for ''insulting the Korean nation.''

''The U.S. should stop at once the dirty and cursed burlesque'' the official Korean Central News Agency said, citing a bulletin by the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland.

In the film, the fictional secret agent 007 is captured in North Korea and tortured. He also has sex in a Buddhist temple.

The film is ''a deliberate and premeditated act of mocking at and insulting the Korean nation,'' the news agency said, citing the bulletin, and shows that the United States is ''the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation,'' ''an empire of evil'' and ''the headquarters that spreads abnormality, degeneration, violence and fin-de-siècle corrupt sex culture.''

2014: Spectre films at Notting Hill.

2020: That 1969 Mercury Cougar goes to auction at Bonhams.

1969 Mercury Cougar from James Bond 007
film ready to shake up the auction block

See the complete article here:

https://granthshala.com/1969-mercury-cougar-from-james-bond-007-film-ready-to-shake-up-the-auction-block/

Entertainment Hollywood | December 8, 2020

The car was used in ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’, which featured George Lazenby as Bond

Replica ‘Goldfinger’ Aston Martin DB5S will have smoke screen and machine gun

The automaker is working with Aston Martin James Bond film franchise special effects supervisors to develop 25 entertainments of the iconic DB5 as seen in the 007 film ‘Goldfinger’. The coupes will be equipped with functional smoke screen generators, simulated oil slick spreaders, recoiling machine gun barrels that emanate from the front corner lights and allow lighted devices to be destroyed as well as other gadgets.

When most people think that “James Bond”, George Lazenby is the last actor to play the role to come to mind. Likewise, the phrase “Bond car” probably does not cause the philosophy of the Mercury Cougar to dance in your head.

But if by chance you are an outsider and you have some money, then we have good news.

(Bonhams)

Used in “On His Majesty’s Secret Service” by the 1969 Merger Cougar XR7, the only film to feature Lazenby as Bond is coming up for auction. Bonhams.

The red convertible was not one of the 007 gadget-filled rides from the Q branch, but the property of Countess Tracy di Vicenzo of Diana Rigg, who (SPOILER ALERT) would become Mrs. Bond and complete an untimely end before the credit roll. .

The “Avengers” chairman of Diana RIGG helped the Lotus Allen family

According to Bonhams, four cars were used during production, it was driven in the snow during a memorabilia “Barn scene. “The car has had more than eight owners since the 1969 film was completed, but belongs to the same person since 1990 and was fully restored this year. Another cougar was damaged during a car chase. Gaya and later separated, while the other two are currently owned by the Ian Fleming Foundation and a private owner.

(Bonhams)

It is equipped with a 428-4V Cobra Jet Ram Air V-8 engine with Ram Air Induction, automatic transmission, screen-corrected French floating license plate and trunk rack fitted with classic Kneel skis.

(Bonhams)

The cougar is being offered appropriately at Bonham’s Bond Street event in London on 16 December, but bids can be submitted remotely. Pre-auction estimates for the car are $ 130,000 to $ 200,000.

2021: Bloomsbury Publishing releases Fashioning James Bond - Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007 by Llewella Chapman.

Fashioning James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/fashioning-james-bond-9781350145481/

Description
Fashioning James Bond is the first book to study the costumes and fashions of the James Bond movie franchise, from Sean Connery in 1962's Dr No to Daniel Craig in Spectre (2015). Llewella Chapman draws on original archival research, close analysis of the costumes and fashion brands featured in the Bond films, interviews with families of tailors and shirt-makers who assisted in creating the 'look' of James Bond, and considers marketing strategies for the films and tie-in merchandise that promoted the idea of an aspirational 'James Bond lifestyle'.

Addressing each Bond film in turn, Chapman questions why costumes are an important tool for analysing and evaluating film, both in terms of the development of gender and identity in the James Bond film franchise in relation to character, and how it evokes the desire in audiences to become part of a specific lifestyle construct through the wearing of fashions as seen on screen. She researches the agency of the costume department, director, producer and actor in creating the look and characterisation of James Bond, the villains, the Bond girls and the henchmen who inhibit the world of 007. Alongside this, she analyses trends and their impact on the Bond films, how the different costume designers have individually and creatively approached costuming them, and how the costumes were designed and developed from novel to script and screen. In doing so, this book contributes to the emerging critical literature surrounding the combined areas of film, fashion, gender and James Bond.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• 1: 'My tailor… Savile Row': Sean Connery (1962)
• 2: 'Fitting Fleming's hero': Sean Connery (1963-1967)
• 3: The Man with the Midas touch: Lifestyle, fashion and marketing in the 1960s
• 4: 'Coming out of Burton's short of credit': George Lazenby (1969)
• 5: 'Provided the collars and the cuffs match': Sean Connery (1971)
• 6: 'Licence to frill': Roger Moore (1971-1975)
• 7: Breaking his tailor's heart: Roger Moore (1976-1980)
• 8: 'You can always spot a Hayward': Roger Moore (1980-1985)
• 9: Licence to tailor revoked: Timothy Dalton (1987-1989)
• 10: Cool Brioni: Pierce Brosnan (1995-2002)
• 11: Slick trigger suits: Daniel Craig (2005-2008)
• 12.You travel with a tuxedo? Daniel Craig (2010 – 2015)
• Conclusion
• Appendix
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index

Product details
Published 16 Dec 2021
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 336
ISBN 9781350145481
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 8 colour and 46 bw illus
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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2021: Funko POP! Movies tentative release date for James Bond S2 - Pierce Brosnan (Golden Eye) Vinyl Figure.

2021: The Dallas String Quartet plays at the Vilar Performing Arts Center, Beaver Creek, Colorado.

Dallas String Quartet

See the complete article here:

https://www.songkick.com/concerts/39973637-dallas-string-quartet-at-vilar-performing-arts-center

Thursday 16 December 2021
Dallas String Quartet
Vilar Performing Arts Center, Beaver Creek, CO, US

Dallas String Quartet live review
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 …

Venue
Vilar Performing Arts Center
68 Avondale Ln. 81620 Beaver Creek, CO, US
www.vilarpac.org

Additional details
Price: US $15.00
Doors open: 12:30

Tour name: Where Bach Meets Bon Jovi

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy/James Bond - DSQ Electric

RichardTheBruce

December 17th

1964: London premiere of Goldfinger.

http://www.007magazine.co.uk/london_calling.htm

1965: James Bond 007 - Feuerball (Jame Bond 007 - Fireball) released in West Germany.

1965: Agent 007 i ilden (Agent 007 In the Fire) released in Denmark.

1965: Åskbollen (The Thunderbolt) released in Sweden.

1965: Opération Tonnerre (Operation Thunder) released in France.

1968: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang released in the UK.

1969: Honor Blackman is featured on This is Your Life, Thames TV. (They had to do it again 17 February 1993.)

1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in US and Canada.

1971: Diamanter varer evigt (Diamonds Last Forever) released in Denmark.

1971: Agente 007 - Una cascata di diamanti (Agent 007 - A Cascade of Diamonds) released in Italy.

1973: Lev og lad dø released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/lald-dk-pressemateriale-1973/

1973: Vive y deja morir released in Spain. (Catalan title Viu i deixa morir.)

1975: Producer Harry Saltzman concludes the sale of his interests in the Bond franchise to United Artists, ending his partnership with Albert R. Broccoli.

1982: Octopussy films OO7 and Octopussy attacked in her bedroom.

1997: Mary Fanning Wickham Bond dies at age 89.
(Born 8 Jun 1898.)

Mary Wickham Bond

See the complete article here:

https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Bond__Mary_Fanning_Wickham

Mary Wickham Bond
6/8/1898 - 12/17/1997

Primary Vocation: Literary
Geographic Connection to Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Philadelphia County

Novelist and memoirist Mary Wickham Fanning Bond was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
Awards: Philadelphia Browning Society Gold Medal

Abstract:
Mary Fanning Wickham Bond was born in 1898 into a well-to-do family in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. In the early 1950s she wrote her first bestseller, Device and Desire: a Novel of Bad Manners. While an accomplished writer, she is also known for her second marriage to James Bond, the namesake of the famous spy character. Bond passed away in 1997.

Biography
Mary Fanning Wickham Bond was born on June 8, 1898, the daughter of Samuel and Maria Porcher. Her father Samuel made a good living as the chief purchasing agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad. She was born into a life of privilege and was educated at a local private school. As a youth, she enjoyed such pastimes as horseback riding and attending debutante balls. Although born into this lifestyle, she never felt it dictated her behavior. Much to her father's dismay, her first job was selling at Wanamaker's. She was accepted to Bryn Mawr College around the time of World War I but chose instead to be an emergency aide, someone who volunteered as a nurse or air raid warden.

Her first marriage was in 1930 to a man by the name of Shippen Lewis, a prominent lawyer in the region. This marriage lasted until 1952, when Lewis died. Two years later she married a man whose name would inspire one of the most wellknown fictional characters in history: James Bond.

Author of spy novels, Ian Fleming, read James Bond's book Birds of the West Indies and gave his international spy the name James Bond. What was to Mary Bond the "dullest name in the world" would become one of the most wellknown, much to the chagrin of the real life James Bond and his wife. She didn't mind the attention much during the day, but her husband would get calls at 2 and 3 a.m. from women looking for James Bond. She would answer these calls irritably, saying "Yes, James is here, but this is Pussy Galore and he's busy now." Eventually, she set a meeting up between her husband and Ian Fleming, which led to them becoming friends and also inspired her 1966 book How 007 Got His Name (1966).

Bond's writing career actually began in the 1920s and, although none of her seven novels were published, she did receive the Philadelphia Browning Society's gold medal in 1926 for her sonnet entitled "The Gift." She took a hiatus from writing novels but continued to write poetry, magazine articles, and short stories. Then, in the 1940s she found inspiration at a local library in the form of a book titled Unusual and Eccentric Wills. The book was about a rich Viennese man who left nine of his relatives $25,000 but with one condition: they all had to stay away from his funeral. The real twist was that anyone who did show up would receive his entire fortune. Bond transplanted this story into 1950s Philadelphia, and it resulted in her bestseller: Device and Desire (1949).

In 1980, her book To James Bond with Love was published. In this book she chronicled her life married to James Bond. She accompanied her husband on his frequent trips to the Bahamas to gather information on birds. On one of these trips in February of 1964 they dropped in unannounced at Ian Fleming's Jamaica residence, an event she describes in comical detail. Apparently Mr. Fleming first thought that the Bonds may have dropped in unannounced to slap him with a libel suit for the theft of the name James Bond. This was not the case, and all went well with their meeting. Upon their departure, Fleming even presented them with a copy of his then latest novel, You Only Live Twice. On the fly cover Fleming had signed it "To the real James Bond, from the Thief of his Identity." The remainder of Bond's book describes their other adventures in the Caribbean, everything from traveling between islands on small boats and sleeping in less than desirable conditions, to how James proved through his work that birds in the West Indies originated in North America. She also wrote of these experiences in Far Afield in the Caribbean (1971).

Mary Bond released her autobiography Ninety Years At Home In Philadelphia in 1988. Just one year later, James died in February of 1989.

In 1997, Mary Bond died of congestive heart failure at the age of 99 in her home in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia.

Selected Works:

• Device and Desire: A Novel of Bad Manners. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1949.
• The Petrified Gesture: A Novel. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1951.
• How 007 Got His Name. London: Collins, 1966.
• Far Afield in the Caribbean: Migratory Flights of a Naturalist's Wife. Wynnewood, PA: Livingston, Publishing, 1971.
• To James Bond with Love. Lititz, PA: Sutter House, 1980.
• White Swallow and Other Poems. Bar Harbor, ME: Bar Harbor Times Press, 1983.
• Ninety Years At Home in Philadelphia. Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing, 1988.

Sources:

• Capuzzo, Michael. "A Philadelphia Lady Takes a Stroll Through the Century Mary Bond's New Book Coincides With Her 90th Birthday." Philadelphia Inquirer 5 June 1988: J01.
• Contosta, David R. Suburb in the City. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992.
• "Mary Fanning Wickham Bond." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale 2002. 25 Sept. 2011.
• Wallace, Andy."Mary Fanning Bond, 99." Philadelphia Inquirer 17 Dec. 1997: B06.

Photo Credit: rjschatz. "Photograph of Mary Wickham Bond." Photograph. Cropped to 4x3. Source: Online Resource.
Rob Lutz
Written by Rob Lutz, 2011; updated 2018

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Switzerland and Kuwait.
1997: Demain ne meurt jamais released in France.

1999: 007: Liiga kitsas maailm (007: Too Narrow a World) released in Estonia.

2018: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings.

http://www.ianfleming.com/seasons-greetings-us-ian-fleming-publications

2020: Artists involved in creating the title theme "No Time To Die" discuss their experience during Variety’s Virtual FYC Festival.

Bond on the Box
James Bond Film, TV and Radio Alerts

Music for Screens: The
Making of ‘No Time To Die’ at
Variety FYC Festival

See the complete article here:

https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/

On 12 Dec, 2020 | By Bond on the Box | In Events

Billie Eilish, FINNEAS, Johnny Marr
and Hans Zimmer will take part in the
Music for Screens panel discussion
exploring the creation of the James
Bond theme, ‘No Time To Die’, at
Variety’s Virtual FYC Festival on
Thursday, 17 December, 2020 from
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM (PT).

No Time To Die by Billie Eilish Smoke Vinyl

https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1337517606153162755

2020: Jeremy Bulloch dies at age 75--St George's Hospital, London, England.
(Born 16 February 1945--Market Harborough, England.)

Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch dies
aged 75

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/17/star-wars-actor-jeremy-bulloch-dies-aged-75

English performer played bounty hunter Boba Fett in original
trilogy
PA Media || Thu 17 Dec 2020 17.20 EST

Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original films, has died
aged 75.

The English actor died in hospital on Thursday from “health complications following his many years living with Parkinson’s disease”, according to his agent.

Bulloch played the bounty hunter in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Return of the Jedi in 1983. A statement from his agent said: “We are very sad to announce the death of actor Jeremy Bulloch earlier today.

“He died peacefully, in hospital, surrounded by his family.

“Jeremy was best-known for the role of Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy.

“He had a long and happy career spanning more than 45 years. He was devoted to his wife, three sons and 10 grandchildren and they will miss him terribly. We ask that their privacy be respected at this very difficult time.”

Bulloch, who was born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, also had roles in the James Bond film Octopussy in 1983 and featured in a number of Doctor Who episodes in the 70s.

Some of Bulloch’s Star Wars co-stars paid tribute on social media.

Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, tweeted: “Jeremy Bulloch was the quintessential English gentleman.

“A fine actor, delightful company & so kind to everyone lucky enough to meet or work with him.

“I will deeply miss him & am so grateful to have known him. RIP – DearJeremy.”

Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in the original trilogy, said:

“Today we lost the best bounty hunter in the galaxy, RIP Jeremy Bulloch Boba Fett.”

The official Star Wars Twitter account also paid tribute, writing: “He will be remembered not only for his iconic portrayal of the legendary character, but also for his warmth and generous spirit which have become an enduring part of his rich legacy.”

Daniel Logan, who played a young Boba Fett in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones in 2002, paid tribute to Bulloch on Instagram, writing: “RIP legend I’ll never forget all you’ve taught me! I’ll love you forever! Conventions won’t be the same without you – may the force be with you always.”

Jeremy Bulloch (1945–2020)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120116/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

https://www.comicbookmovie.com/sci-fi/star_wars/star-wars-original-boba-fett-and-the-empire-strikes-back-star-jeremy-bulloch-passes-away-aged-75-a181030#gs.odi7zx

Bulloch still became synonymous with the role in the years that followed, and when he gave up the convention circuit in 2014, the actor shared a touching message with his fans.

"In 1979 I was called onto the set of Empire Strikes Back to play Boba Fett, and since that day it has changed the entire direction of my life in such a wonderful way," Bulloch said. "It has been a privilege to have had the opportunity to inspire so many generations of Star Wars fans. I have had over 20 years of travelling with my wife Maureen to some amazing countries and have met so many wonderful fans. Thank you all so much and we will miss you all."

The Spy Who Loved Me

For Your Eyes Only

Octopussy

2021: James Bond The Musical at the Coronado Playhouse, California.

James Bond: The Musical

See the complete article here:

https://www.coronadoplayhouse.org/james-bond-the-musical/

James Bond: The Musical
Written and Performed by Tom Steward
A whistle-stop cabaret parody.
December 17 – 19, 2021
Friday & Saturday @ 7pm, Sunday @ 2pm
Directed by Tom Steward

Writer and performer Tom Steward takes the audience on a whistle-stop tour of all 25 Bond films from Connery to Craig in and around live musical performances of James Bond-related music.

An evening of comedy and music in tribute to the James Bond films and their themes. Writer-performer Tom Steward parodies each and every Bond film in a new version of his solo show featuring performances by local musicians and musical theatre performers of rejected Bond themes, alternatives to the classic film scores, and some of the more bizarre soundtracks. Also featuring lip-sync, mime and interpretive dance, the show will close with the debut performance of an original theme composed for the as-yet unreleased 25th official Bond film, No Time to Die. [?!?]

The show is based on Lonesome Whistle Productions’ One-Man Bond which debuted in July 2018 during The San Diego International Fringe Festival at The Geoffrey Off Broadway. Condensing all the Bond films into 60 minutes of stage time, this fast-paced solo show written, performed and directed by Tom Steward took audiences on a whistle-stop tour through all the Bonds from Connery to Craig featuring comic parodies, actor impersonations, and lines of dialogue from the films. In early 2019, the show was revived as part of the full-length productions of Bond on Third at Onstage Playhouse and Bond on Draper at La Jolla Riford Library with extensive new material including a multi-part staged reading of a James Bond TV serial.

Presented by Coronado Playhouse in association with Lonesome Whistle Productions.

Lonesome Whistle Productions, a company dedicated to developing innovative solo theatre, was conceived as a way of bringing Steward’s original one-person show OneMan Bond to The San Diego International Fringe Festival in 2018. Since then, the company has collaborated with three San Diego theatre companies (OnStage Playhouse, La Jolla Theatre Ensemble and, now, Coronado Playhouse) to present short runs of “Bond on… “, a theatrical celebration of all things James Bond. Going forward, Lonesome Whistle plans to collaborate with other emerging solo artists in San Diego to develop their ideas and help them get their work to the stage.

“A very impressive one-man show … The attention to detail and Bond trivia make it a delight for Bond fans but the clever writing and stellar performance made it fun for anyone” Beth Accomando, KPBS

“Steward … keeps the festival audience engaged for the entire performance … Your mission is to see Bond.” David Dixon, San Diego Story

Contact Us:
1835 Strand Way, Coronado CA 92118-3005
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (619) 435-4856
Fax: ‭(619) 435-2866‬

RichardTheBruce

December 18th

1914: James Marne Kumar Maitland is born--Kolkata, India.
(He dies March 1992 at age 77--Rome, Italy.)

Marne Maitland (1914–1992)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537962/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1959: Ivar Bryce questions whether he will continue with the Bond project.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 13 - Disaster Strikes

The Boy and the Bridge was dead in the water.

Fearing its poor box office was going to hit him hard financially,
Bryce was now having grave thoughts about the Bond project. On 18
December he wrote a letter to McClory that must have sent the Irishman's
spirits crashing. Bryce had decided that he no longer wished to proceed any
further with Bond. Already his personal outlay on the film's pre-production
was considerable, and set to rise. With the hope for cash bonanza from Boy
and the Bridge non-existent, the 007 project's only chance of redemption was
through financial backing from outside sources.

Chapter 21 - The Court Case that Killed Ian Fleming

[In court] McClory's counsel pointed out
that the agreement with Fleming was signed on 8 July 1959 and Bryce's letter
of 18 December was only five months later, and so certainly within the
reasonable period in which the company might have been incorporated.

1967: Bond comic strip The Spy Who Loved Me begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 3 October 1968. 603-815) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
The 18th and final Bond comic for them.

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





Swedish Semic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

Operation Spökflyg (Part 1) | Bäddat För Bond... Skräcknatten (Part 2)

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

Operation Spökflyg (The Spy Who Loved Me - Part 1)
[Operation Ghost Flight]

https://www.comics.org/issue/73996/

Bäddat För Bond... Skräcknatten (Part 2)
[The Night of Horror]

Danish 1969 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-18-1969/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 18: “The Spy Who Loved Me, pt. I” (1969)
"Operation spøgelsesfly ..." [Operation Ghost Plane)

Danish 1970 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-20-1970/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 20: “The Spy Who Loved Me, pt. II” (1970)
"Rædslernes nat" [Night of Terrors]

1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films the start of the ski chase with OO7 and Blofeld.
1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service London premiere at the Leicester Square Odeon.

http://www.007magazine.co.uk/london_calling2.htm

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in the Netherlands.
1969: Agent 007 i Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste (Agent 007 In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/ohmss-dk-filmprogram-1969/

1969: James Bond i hemmelig tjeneste (James Bond in Secret Service) released in Norway.

1969: I hennes majestäts hemliga tjänst (In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Sweden.

1969: Au service secret de Sa Majesté (At His Majesty's Secret Service) released in France.

1969: Στην υπηρεσία της αυτής μεγαλειότητος (In the Service of the Same Majesty) released in Greece.

1969: Agente 007 - Al servizio segreto di Sua Maestà (At the Secret Service of His Majesty) released in Italy.

1984: Mai Dire Mai (Never Say Never) released in Italy.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Switzerland, Lebanon and the Netherlands.
1997: James Bond 007 - Der Morgen stirbt nie released in Germany.

1997: A holnap markában (Tomorrow's Mark) released in Hungary.

1997: James Bond - Jutri nikoli ne umre (Tomorrow He Never Dies) released in Slovenia.

1999: 007 언리미티드 (007 Un-lee-mee-tee-deu; 007 Unlimited) released in the Republic of Korea.

2001: Billie Eilish is born--Los Angeles, California.
2002: Die Another Day released in Indonesia and Kuwait.

2019: Claudine Oger (Auger) dies at age 78--Paris France.
(Born 26 April 1941--Paris, France.)

Claudine Auger, James Bond’s First
French Co-Star, Dies at 78

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/movies/claudine-auger-dead.html

“Thunderball” was her breakthrough, and she went on to appear
in movies with Alain Delon and Giancarlo Giannini. But
Hollywood stardom eluded her.

Claudine Auger in London in 1968. She was a star in Europe,
but her American projects were few and far between.
Credit...Dove/Daily Express, via Getty Images

By Anita Gates | Published Dec. 22, 2019 | Updated Dec. 23, 2019

Claudine Auger, Sean Connery’s co-star in Thunderball and the first French actress to play James Bond’s love interest, died on Wednesday in Paris. She was 78.

Her death was confirmed by the Parisian agency Time Art, which represented her.

Ms. Auger (pronounced oh-JHAY) was 24 when Thunderball, the fourth film in the long-running Bond franchise, was released in 1965. Her character, Domino, is the mistress of an evil mastermind who has stolen two nuclear warheads — and killed her brother. Domino does not hold back when exacting revenge on her former lover. (A harpoon gun is involved.)

Because she spoke English with a heavy accent, Ms. Auger’s voice was dubbed by another actress. But because she was an excellent swimmer, she did her own underwater scenes in the film, which was shot largely in the Bahamas.

- - -

When, during a 1965 interview, the American gossip columnist Dorothy Manners announced, “Hollywood could use you,” Ms. Auger answered cheerfully, “Not as much as I can use Hollywood.” But a couple of decades later, she had reconsidered.

“French actresses have never had much success in Hollywood,” she observed in a 1986 Los Angeles Times interview, adding that Germans and Swedes had done better but that “it’s hard to explain why.”

Still, she was fond of Southern California. In the same interview, she said, “I always go to the end of Santa Monica Pier and throw a coin in the Pacific” at the end of a visit — to ensure her return.

She was born Claudine Oger in Paris on April 26, 1941, the daughter of an architect. At 17, she was crowned Miss France Monde and was first runner-up in the Miss World competition.

She had a modeling career and played an uncredited role in a 1959 Jean Cocteau film, “Le Testament d’Orphée” (“The Testament of Orpheus”). (Almost everyone in the film, with the exception of Cocteau himself, was uncredited.) After that experience, she studied drama at the Conservatoire de Paris.

Ms. Auger’s first credited film role was in Marcel Carné’s “Terrain Vague” (1960), or “Wasteland,” about a teenage street gang in Paris. Her final screen appearance was in a 1997 television movie version of Stendhal’s “Le Rouge et le Noir” (“The Red and the Black”), playing Madame de Fervaques, an elegant widow who receives love letters from a younger man.

She and Pierre Gaspard-Huit, a director and writer 25 years her senior — he had cast her in her first uncredited film role, in the romance “Christine” (1958) — were married in 1959, when she was 18. They divorced a decade later. In 1984 she married Peter Brent, a British businessman, who died in 2008. They had a daughter, Jessica Claudine Brent, who survives her.

In a 1965 television interview, Ms. Auger spoke the words that became her most famous quotation. Asked the difference between acting in a James Bond movie and in classic theater by Molière, she insisted there was none. Acting was “un jeu,” and the two forms were “la même chose,” she said. A game. The same thing.

Claudine Auger (1941–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000805/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

2020: Peter Curtis Lamont dies at age 91.
(Born 12 November 1929--London, England.)

Peter Lamont, Legendary
Production Designer on Bond
Films and 'Titanic,' Dies at 91

See the complete article here:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peter-lamont-legendary-production-designer-on-bond-films-and-titanic-dies-at-91

11:10 AM PST 12/18/2020 by Mike Barnes

GOLDFINGER, from left: Sean Connery, Harold Sakata, 1964
Courtesy Everett Collection

Sean Connery (left) and Harold Sakata do battle on the Fort Knox set of 'Goldfinger.'

An Oscar winner and four-
time nominee, he also
worked on 'The Seven-Per-
Cent Solution,' 'Fiddler on
the Roof' and 'Aliens.'

Peter Lamont, the top-notch British art director, set decorator and production designer who worked on 18 James Bond films and received an Academy Award for Titanic, has died. He was 91.

Lamont's death was reported by the official 007 account on Twitter. No details of his passing were immediately available.

"Peter Lamont was a much beloved member of the Bond family and a giant in the industry," producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said in a statement. He was "inextricably linked with the design and aesthetic of James Bond since Goldfinger."

Indeed, the four-time Oscar nominee helped create the monumental scenarios for every 007 movie from Goldfinger (1964) through Casino Royale (2006) except for one — Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). He had a good reason for missing that, however; he was serving as production designer on James Cameron's best picture winner Titanic.

Lamont, who collaborated often with two-time Oscar winner Ken Adam, landed his other Academy Award noms for Norman Jewison's Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Lewis Gilbert's The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Cameron's Aliens (1986).

Lamont also contributed to such notable films as This Sporting Life (1963), The Ipcress File (1965), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), The Boys From Brazil (1978) and his final partnership with Cameron, True Lies (1994).

Peter Curtis Lamont was born in London on Nov. 12, 1929. He worked as print boy runner at Pinewood Studios, and after serving for two years in the Royal Air Force, he returned to the studio as a draughtsman on features including Captain Boycott (1950), The Browning Version (1951) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952).

For art director Peter Murton on Goldfinger, the third Bond movie, he and Adam designed Pinewood's iconic Fort Knox set, which was one of the most expensive ever built at that time.

"I drew it all up and made a model," Lamont recalled in a 2006 interview. "And I remember [director] Guy Hamilton and [producers] Cubby [Broccoli] and Harry [Saltzman] came up and they looked at it and said, 'Well, let's get an estimate of how much it's going to cost.' And I almost fell through the roof because the estimate was for £56,000 … I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to get fired for this.' But nobody turned a hair."

In today's dollars, that set would have cost some $6.3 million.

Lamont graduated to set decorator on Thunderball (1965), to art director on Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth (1972), to visual effects art director on Moonraker (1979) and to production designer on For Your Eyes Only (1981).

After working with Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, he ended his career on [/b]Casino Royale[/b] (2006), the first Bond film to star Daniel Craig.

His autobiography, The Man With the Golden Eye: Designing the James Bond Films, was published in 2016.

Survivors include his son, Neil Lamont, an art director on Harry Potter films and Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, and his daughter, Madeline.

Peter Lamont (I) (1929–2020)

Art Department | Production Designer | Art Director
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2021: James Bond Concert Spectacular by Q The Music Show at Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
Compered by Caroline Munro.

James Bond Concert Spectacular

See the complete article here:

https://happeningnext.com/event/james-bond-concert-spectacular-eid1ar6h0k9m9

Schedule
Sat Dec 18 2021 at 07:30 pm to 08:30 pm

Location
St George's Hall | Bradford, EN
James Bond Concert Spectacular

Guest Compere: Caroline Munro - The Spy Who Loved Me

The James Bond Concert Spectacular by Q The Music Show is widely regarded across the world as the best tribute to the music of James Bond that has been produced.

Formed in 2004 as the world’s first dedicated tribute to the music of 007 they have gone on to establish themselves amongst every Bond fan club around the world as the finest performances of the songs since the originals.

Their stirring emotional and adrenaline-fueled performances mixed in with superb musicianship and flair have been met by critical acclaim wherever they have gone.

Some of the most notable comments have come from hugely influential Bond related stars including:

David Arnold: “They do a phenomenal job”

George Lazenby: “They did John Barry proud”

Sir Roger Moore’s Office (following his Memorial): “They helped make a wonderful day an extraordinary day”

Steven Saltzman (son of legendary Bond producer Harry Saltzman): “You did my Dad proud”

Even The Times national newspaper raved about their performance in a 4-star review of their West End debut: “It’s hard to imagine this music being served better. Simply stunning.”

The show has become the go-to provider for all the top events in the world when it comes to James Bond. In 2017 they were asked to perform at Sir Roger Moore’s official memorial event at Pinewood Studios in front of the who’s who of the British film and TV industry including Sir Michael Caine Dame Joan Collins and David Walliams. In 2019 they performed at an event with George Lazenby: the 50thanniversary event for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service held at Piz Gloria in the Swiss Alps.

The show features all the Bond songs such as Goldfinger Diamonds Are Forever Live and Let Die and Nobody Does It Better performed with the most authentic and dedicated arrangements to the originals ever heard but with such passion enthusiasm and flair: you can’t help but be wowed.

The musicians in the show are taken from the UK’s leading orchestras sessions and shows and combined with a former Bond girl compering. Caroline Bliss who played Moneypenny in The Living Daylights and Licence To Kill will guide you through the concert sharing the odd anecdote about her time working in this legendary series.

With stunning singing exquisite musicianship an informative compere and a show full of iconic tunes it really is a night guaranteed of the highest quality. Don’t miss it.

Where is it happening?
St George's Hall, Bridge St, Bradford BD1 1JT, UK, Bradford, United Kingdom

James Bond Concert Spectacular Theatre Promo by Q The Music Show


https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/james-bond-concert-spectacular-by-q-the-music-tickets-176689171067

RichardTheBruce

December 19th

1937: Albert Moses is born--Kandy, Sri Lanka.
(He dies 15 September 2017 at age --London, England.)

Albert Moses: End of ‘A thousand apologies…’

Sunday, 15 Dec 2019

Albert Moses, the Sri Lankan born actor, who went on to achieve international stardom, gained popularity over his acting in the ITV comedy television series, Mind Your Language, where he was cast as Ranjeet Singh, a Sikh from Punjab, India. Indeed he was better known among the populace as Ranjeet Singh, rather than as Albert Moses.

Born on December 19, 1937 in Gampola, Albert Moses passed away on September 15, 2017 in London, and was put to rest at St. Andrew's Church in Gampola yesterday (9). As per his obituary, he has passed away peacefully.

IMDb lists Moses as an actor and producer, known for the movies, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Octopussy (1983). Both, The Spy Who Loved Me and Octopussy were James Bond movies.

Moses had worked at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya before beginning his acting career in the 1960s. It was in India that he made his first appearances in movies, produced and directed for the first time. He acted in seven movies and was the producer and director of the eighth movie. From there, he had moved on to Africa to work on documentaries. Afterwards, he moved to London to pursue studies in theatre and drama, where his acting career began.

It was after responding to a newspaper advertisement that he had landed the part of Ranjeet Singh, in Mind Your Language. It was set in a class teaching English as foreign language, at an adult education college in London, illustrating the daily trials of the teacher, handling his diverse group of students.

At the auditions, Moses outdid a native Sikh and went on to win the part. Moses spent days learning the lifestyle of the Sikhs, including the food they eat, the way they speak and even the way they wrap the turban round their heads, from his many Sikh friends. Perhaps, it was his indepth research into minute details of the character of Ranjeet Singh which made the character and his ‘thousand apologies’ such a success. Moses went on to produce 13 episodes of Mind Your Language, which was telecast from 1977 to 1986. In his later days, Moses lived in Hertfordshire, teaching English to Eastern European migrant workers, free of charge.

Moses has been in the television and movie industry for over 30 years. During the span of his career, he has worked with legendary directors of the day, including, John Landis, John Houston, Rob Cohen and Alan Parker.

He starred in numerous movies, including, The Man Who Would Be King, a John Huston film; What's Up Nurse, a Derek Ford sex comedy; Stand Up; Virgin Soldiers; Carry On Emmanual; The Little Drummer Girl; The Awakening; The Great Quest; Pink Floyd: The Wall, an Alan Parker film; The Little Drummer Girl, a George Roy Hill film; Scandalous; The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo; and East Is East which was a BAFTA award winning Film4 production.

Albert Moses with Roger Moore

Moses has acted alongside many accomplished actors including, Sean Connery, Michael Caine , Christopher Plummer, Roger Moore, Sir John Gielguld and Pamela Stevenson.

He has participated in theatre productions in London, including, Phædra Britannica , at National Theatre, in which he acted with Diana Rigg, Long March to Jerusalem at the Watford Palace Theatre and Freeway at National Theatre.

He was popular for his acting in the television series including Queenie, a Hollywood mini series; On the Buses, on London Weekend Television; Warship, a BBC television drama; Robin's Nest a Thames Television sitcom; Juliet Bravo, a BBC television drama; four episodes of The Jewel in the Crown, on Granada Television; The Little and Large Show, a BBC television comedy; The Benny Hill Show, a Thames Television comedy; Boon, an ITV Central drama; five episodes of The Bill a talkback, a Thames television drama; Never the Twain, a Thames Television sitcom; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man With The Twisted Lip, on Granada Television; London's Burning, a London Weekend Television drama; and Tandoori Nights, on Channel 4.

Moses directed and produced the television series Gabriella, which was produced in Malta. He has written scripts for The Seventh Commandment, a TV drama, Side by Side, a TV comedy, Don't Talk to Strangers, a TV thriller and The Jokers, a TV drama.

He was also a past Chairman of the St Albans Film Society and of Asian, Caribbean, Oriental and Asian Artistes of EQUITY, and a member of the London regional committee of ITV under the chairmanship of Lord Lipsey.

Moses also wrote children’s books, including Tales from India, The Hawk and the Turtles, and Mustapha Mouse Goes to the City, and published a poetry book consisting of 87 poems.

He was a philanthropist, and the trustee and patron of the children's charity, Ivy Trust. He has also volunteered at hospitals, schools and elders' homes. In recognition of his work for children, he was made a Knight of the Order of St. John.

The man Albert Moses has become the soil of his motherland, but Ranjeet Singh, with his thousand apologies, will eternally remain in the hearts of the millions of fans around the world.

- D A

Albert Moses (II) (1937–2017)

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Filmography

Actor (77 credits)

2018 The Snarling - Hospital Patient

1984-2007 The Bill (TV Series) - Mr. Chadhar / Mr. Khan / Imam / ...
- Deadly Intent (2007) ... Mr. Chadhar
- A Willing Victim (1993) ... Mr. Khan
- Come Fly with Me (1990) ... Imam
- Clutching at Straws (1984) ... Ranji
2006 Tripping Over (TV Series) - Nigel
- Episode #1.3 (2006) ... Nigel
2003-2004 Holby City (TV Series) - Kasim Hussein
- Elf and Happiness (2004) ... Kasim Hussein
- Love Nor Money (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
- House of Cards (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
2003 Indian Dream (TV Movie) - Amul
2003 Murder in Mind (TV Series) - Keshav Singh
- Cornershop (2003) ... Keshav Singh
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1999 East Is East - Abdul Karim
1998 The Things You Do for Love: Black Butterflies (TV Movie) - Bob
1997 Backup (TV Series) - Shiv
- Not Cricket (1997) ... Shiv
1997 The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo - Conductor
1996 Casualty (TV Series) - Mr. Desai
- Mother's Little Helper (1996) ... Mr. Desai
1996 The Knock (TV Series)- Mr. Malhorta
- Episode #2.1 (1996) ... Mr. Malhorta
1994 Crocodile Shoes (TV Mini-Series) - Pandit Doshi
- The Pitch (1994) ... Pandit Doshi
1994 London's Burning (TV Series) - Shopkeeper
- Episode #7.4 (1994) ... Shopkeeper
1993 Anna Lee: Headcase (TV Movie) - Shop Keeper
1992 Boon (TV Series) - Indian Waiter
- Walkout (1992) ... Indian Waiter
1991 Never the Twain (TV Series) - Policeman
- The First of the Queue (1991) ... Policeman

1989 Bluebirds (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Fire (1989) ... Mr. Patel
- Betrayal (1989) ... Mr. Patel
1989 The Benny Hill Show (TV Series) - Native / Apu Dhurani
- Holding Out for a Hero (1989) ... Native (uncredited)
- The Crook Report (1989) ... Apu Dhurani
1986-1989 The Little and Large Show (TV Series)
- Episode #9.7 (1989)
- Episode #8.5 (1988)
- Episode #6.1 (1986)
1988 Screen Two (TV Series) - Bashir
- Lucky Sunil (1988) ... Bashir
1987 Tandoori Nights (TV Series) - Sippy
- Welcome Home Sweetie (1987) ... Sippy
1987 Queenie (TV Mini-Series) - Inspector Gopal
- Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
- Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
1986 Foreign Body - Paramedic #2
1986 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Lascar
- The Man with the Twisted Lip (1986) ... Lascar
1977-1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) - Ranjeet Singh -42 episodes
1985 Lytton's Diary (TV Series) - Patel
- Come uppance (1985) ... Patel
1985 Bulman (TV Series) - Jamsit Alam
- Death of a Hitman (1985) ... Jamsit Alam
1985 Travellers by Night (TV Mini-Series) - Lorry driver
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Lorry driver
1985 Who, Sir? Me, Sir? (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.6 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.5 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
1984 Tenko (TV Series) - Dr. Singh
- Episode #3.4 (1984) ... Dr. Singh
1984 The Little Drummer Girl - Green Grocer
1984 Minder (TV Series) - Ajit Desai
- What Makes Shamy Run? (1984) ... Ajit Desai
1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV Mini-Series) - Suleiman
- The Moghul Room (1984) ... Suleiman
- Travelling Companions (1984) ... Suleiman
1984 Scandalous - Vishnu
1984 Cockles (TV Series) - Amin
- Flotsam and Jetsam (1984) ... Amin
1983 Don't Wait Up (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Mr. Patel
1981-1983 Juliet Bravo (TV Series) - Mr. Abdullah / Waiter
- Teamwork (1983) ... Mr. Abdullah
- Barriers (1981) ... Waiter
1983 Al-mas' Ala Al-Kubra - Indian officer (uncredited)
1983 Octopussy - Sadruddin
1982 Squadron (TV Series) - Air Traffic Controller
- Cyclone (1982) ... Air Traffic Controller
1982 The New Adventures of Lucky Jim (TV Series) - Mohindra
- The Apartment (1982) ... Mohindra
1981-1982 The Chinese Detective (TV Series) - Mr. Patel / Mr. Banerjee
- Oblomov (1982) ... Mr. Patel
- The Four from Fulham (1981) ... Mr. Banerjee
1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall - Janitor
1981 An American Werewolf in London - Hospital Porter
1981 Young at Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Easy Come, Easy Go (1981) ... Mr. Patel
1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Arab Patrolman
- Would You Believe It? (1981) ... Arab Patrolman
1975-1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Huq / Altab Shahid / Airport worker
- The Garland (1981) ... Huq
- Murder Rap (1980) ... Altab Shahid
- Children of the Sun (1975) ... Airport worker
1981 A Sharp Intake of Breath (TV Series)
Postman
- Match of the Day (1981) ... Postman
1980 Angels (TV Series) - Dr. Mishna
- Episode #6.23 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
- Episode #6.21 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
1980 The Awakening (uncredited)
1980 Company and Co (TV Series) - Gopal
- Miss Lorelei Brown (1980) ... Gopal

1979 Shoestring (TV Series) - Tailor
- The Link-Up (1979) ... Tailor
1978 Carry On Emmannuelle - Doctor
1978 What's Up Nurse! - 1st Asian
1978 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Charles Riarcht
- All Part of the Service (1978) ... Charles Riarcht
1977 The Rag Trade (TV Series) - Ahmed
- The New Brother (1977) ... Ahmed
1977 The Fuzz (TV Series) - 2nd Pakistani
- Coppers Under the Sun (1977) ... 2nd Pakistani
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Barman
1977 Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers - Indian shopkeeper
1977 Horse in the House (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.3 (1977) ... Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.2 (1977) ... Mr. Singh
1977 Robin's Nest (TV Series) - Conductor
- The Bistro Kids (1977) ... Conductor
1976 Rogue's Rock (TV Series) - Abdullah
- El Aziz (1976) ... Abdullah
- Up the Spout (1976) ... Abdullah
- Penny (1976) ... Abdullah
- El Akhram (1976) ... Abdullah
1976 Bill Brand (TV Mini-Series) - Pakistani
- Tranquillity of the Realm (1976) ... Pakistani
- Now and in England (1976) ... Pakistani
- Yarn (1976) ... Pakistani
1975 The Man Who Would Be King - Ghulam
1974 Boy Dominic (TV Series) - Jailor
- Sermons and Snuff (1974) ... Jailor
- A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (1974) ... Jailor
1973 A Touch of Eastern Promise (TV Short) - Assistant Manager
1973 White Cargo - Arab (uncredited)
1973 The Two Ronnies (TV Series)
- Episode #3.3 (1973)
1973 Warship (TV Series) - Arab Operator Two
- Nobody Said Frigate (1973) ... Arab Operator Two
1973 On the Buses (TV Series) - Alf
- Friends in High Places (1973) ... Alf
1973 The Regiment (TV Series) - Monkeynut-Wallah
- Heat (1973) ... Monkeynut-Wallah
1973 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Indian Sailor
- Carnival of Monsters: Episode Three (1973) ... Indian Sailor (uncredited)
1972 Doctor in Charge (TV Series) - Sailor
- The Long, Long Night (1972) ... Sailor (uncredited)
1972 The Moonstone (TV Series) - Treasury Guard
- Episode #1.1 (1972) ... Treasury Guard
1971 Budgie (TV Series) - Pakistani
- Some Mothers' Sons (1971) ... Pakistani
1970 Wicked Women (TV Series) - Salmaan
- Augusta Fullam (1970) ... Salmaan

Producer (1 credit)

1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) (producer - 13 episodes)

Self (1 credit)

1980 We'll Tell You a Story (TV Series) - Himself - Reader
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Himself - Reader

1960: Fleming assigns Thunderball to Trustees – Glidrose Productions.

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in the UK and USA.

1969: Hänen majesteettinsa salaisessa palveluksessa (His Majesty in Secret Service; Swedish title I hennes majestäts hemliga tjänst, In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Finland.

1969: James Bond 007 - Im Geheimdienst Ihrer Majestät (James Bond 007 - In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in West Germany.

1969: The New York Times reviews the latest Bond film.

The New York Times

Screen: New James Bond:George Lazenby Follows the Connery Pattern

December 19, 1969 - By A. H. WEILER

See the complete article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F07E5DC1131EE3BBC4152DFB4678382679EDE&pagewanted=print

A BARE fact must be faced. The superheated screen activities of Ian Fleming's supersleuth and sex symbol, James Bond, are as inevitable as sex or crime or On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth steaming annal in the sock 'em and spoof 'em spy series that crashed into the DeMille and other local theaters yesterday.

Serious criticism of such an esteemed institution would be tantamount to throwing rocks at Buckingham Palace, but it does call for a handful of pebbles. Devotees will note that Sean Connery, the virile, suave conqueror of all those dastards and dames in the five previous capers, has given up his 007 Bond credentials to George Lazenby, a 30-year-old Australian newcomer to films. He's tall, dark, handsome and has a dimpled chin. But Mr. Lazenby, if not a spurious Bond, is merely a casual, pleasant, satisfactory replacement.

For the record, he plays a decidedly second fiddle to an overabundance of continuous action, a soundtrack as explosive as the London Blitz, and flip dialogue and characterizations set against some authentic, truly spectacular Portuguese and Swiss scenic backgrounds, caught in eyecatching colors.

What are Bond's problems now? They're too numerous, as usual, to hold the constant attention of anyone other than a charter member of Her Majesty's Secret Service. What sets our bully boy off and fighting, running, shooting and loving this time is a lissome, leggy lass mysteriously bent on drowning herself in the waves thunderously crashing on a lonely Portuguese beach.

First thing you know he's involved in a battle with two toughs that is as full of karate chops and belts in the belly as a brawl in a Singapore alley. To the credit of Richard Maibaum, the scenarist, the film's tongue-in-cheek attitude is set right at the outset. Once our new Bond emerges triumphant, he turns to the audience and says, somewhat plaintively: "This never happened to the other fellow."

But it does. The lady of his life, the svelte Diana Rigg, who learned her karate chops from the British TV "Avenger" series, is the daughter of the blandly effete Gabriele Ferzetti, Mafioso-like tycoon, who likes Bond and wants to destroy that Spectre chief, Telly Savalas, his competition in world crime. That suits Bond too, and practically right off he's in Switzerland, where our villain maintains an eyrie atop an Alp.

It's an inaccessible retreat, supposedly an institute for allergy research complete with hired guns, scientific gimmicks and an international conclave of allegedly allergic beauties who are really being brainwashed by the oily, bald-domed Mr. Savalas to spread his biological destruction of the world's food supply. Get it?

Bond dallies with the dolls, of course, but the heart of the matter is a series of chases shot by the 41-year-old Peter Hunt, second unit director of the previous adventures, who's making his directorial debut with this one. The chases are breakneck, devastating affairs.

A viewer must remember what seems to be the longest ski chase and bobsled run ever, full of gunfire and spills, that even includes an avalanche. There also is a decibel-filled fight amid clanging Swiss cow bells, the jarring bombing of that eyrie by helicopter-borne rescuers and the inadvertent clashes of the escaping Bond and Miss Rigg in a slithering, bang-up stock car race. One must say amen to a colleague's observation:

"I never expected to see Switzerland defoliated like "this."

It should be reported that the producers and distributors already have rung up a reported $82,200,000 on their first five Bond issues. It is not ungallant to report that Bond marries Miss Rigg, who is gunned down and killed by Savalas on their honeymoon. So it is reasonable to expect that Bond inevitably will be loving, shooting and running again.

1973: James Bond 007 - Leben und sterben lassen released in West Germany

1973: 007 - Vivi e lascia morire released in Italy.

1974: The Man With the Golden Gun premieres Leicester Square Odeon, HRH Prince Philip in attendance.

1974: The Man with the Golden Gun released in the US and the Netherlands.

1974: James Bond 007 - Der Mann mit dem goldenen Colt (James Bond 007: The Man With the Golden Colt) released in West Germany.

1974: Manden med den gyldne pistol released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tmwtgg-dk-adsheet-1974/

1985: 007: En la mira de los asesinos (007: In the Sights of the Murderers) released in Mexico.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the US, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Israel.

Danish Teaser

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Canada. (French title Demain ne meurt jamais).

1997: Huominen ei koskaan kuole released in Finland.

1997: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre released in Portugal.

1997: Завтра не умрёт никогда (Tomorrow Will Never Die) released in Russia,

1997: A&M releases the "Tomorrow Never Dies" single.

1997: The New York Times reviews the latest Bond film.

The New York Times
FILM REVIEW; Shaken, Not Stirred, Bond Is in Business

See the complete article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F04E1DB113FF93AA25751C1A961958260

By JANET MASLIN - Published: December 19, 1997

No need to feel badly if the right watch, drink, cell phone, etc., don't turn you into James Bond. They don't really do it for Pierce Brosnan in Tomorrow Never Dies, either. Despite Mr. Brosnan's best efforts to be lethally debonair, the Bond franchise has sacrificed most of what made this character unique in the first place, turning the world's suavest spy into one more pitchman and fashion plate. This latest film is such a generic action event that it could be any old summer blockbuster, except that its hero is chronically overdressed.

This is not to say that Tomorrow Never Dies won't be an international success like Goldeneye, which wasn't much better. But it should fare best in corners of the world where nobody knows how little the title means, or how accurately it reflects the rest of the film's shallowness. Closer than ever to cartoon superhero status, Bond is seen battling ridiculous odds, dodging computer-generated explosions, delivering lame bon mots and boasting pitifully about his sexual prowess. All that gives this an up-to-date sensibility is the audience's awareness that M (Judi Dench) and Moneypenny (Samantha Bond) could sue him for sexual harassment on the basis of his small talk.

This film does have a lively villain in Jonathan Pryce, as a media mogul who dreams of everything from manufacturing his own war to marketing software with bugs (so that customers will have to upgrade for years). Mr. Pryce reigns mischievously over an empire that Bond must infiltrate, and he also has a wife (Teri Hatcher) who is one of Bond's approximately one million ex-flames. Ms. Hatcher, like Mr. Brosnan, speaks in a perfect monotone, and so does Michelle Yeoh, the Hong Kong action star who is meant to kick some life into the series.

The film's other attempts to show Bond in a romantic light are so hopeless that it's a lucky thing his partnership with Ms. Yeoh's character, the svelte and athletic Wai Lin, stays confined to toylike weaponry and flat double-entendres.

''And now a word from our sponsor,'' muttered the critic beside me, as the camera offered a good look at James Bond's vodka bottle midway through the so-called story. (The humor-free screenplay is by Bruce Feirstein, author of Real Men Don't Eat Quiche as well as Goldeneye. The workmanlike director is Roger Spottiswoode.) Indeed, despite Bond's mission to defeat the evil mogul, product plugs are the film's most serious business, especially since the audience may be bored enough to start looking at labels.

The film's two best supporting turns come from Vincent Schiavelli, who has a cheerfully outrageous scene as a torture expert, and from a nice, smart BMW that works on remote control. Hiding in the back seat, Bond pilots the car through a tire-screeching chase. Don't try this at home.

Tomorrow Never Dies is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes violence a la videogames, smirky innuendoes and a couple of brief sexual situations.

1999: Desmond Llewelyn dies at age 85--Firle, East Sussex, England.
(Born 12 September 1914--Newport, Wales. UK.)

Culture

Obituary: Desmond Llewelyn

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-desmond-llewelyn-1133864.html
Tom Vallance - Tuesday 21 December 1999 01:02
The Independent Culture

DESMOND LLEWELYN was an actor for over 60 years, but will forever be remembered for just one role, that of "Q", inventor of countless gadgets for the spy James Bond. With an air of impatient but kindly acumen, he would introduce Bond to a batch of innocent-looking but lethal high-tech instruments in a scene that was always a highlight of each adventure.

When the producers left him out of one of the Bond movies, Live and Let Die (1973), claiming that the films were becoming too dependent on gadgetry, there was a storm of protest from fans who missed his trademark cameo. The character was restored permanently and is to be seen in the latest adventure, The World Is Not Enough. During the last week Llewelyn had been attracting large crowds at book signings for a new biography, Q: the biography of Desmond Llewelyn, written by Sandy Hernu, who described the actor as "enormously funny and entertaining and great fun to be with". She said that the man on screen was similar to the real one, except that Llewelyn hated gadgets. He once said, "In real life gadgets explode or expire as I touch them."

The son of a coal-mining engineer, Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1914. His parents wanted him to be a chartered accountant, but a period as an articled clerk bored him, and after considering several professions he decided on a stage career and enrolled, at the age of 20, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he studied for two years.

As he said later, "I'd tried the Church and that failed. I was too dim for accountancy, too short-sighted for the police force and an insufficient liar to make a good politician. What else was left but to become an actor? I remember Richard Burton saying to me years later that the reason there are so many Welsh actors is because the Church is not very popular nowadays." Fellow students at Rada included Geoffrey Keen, later to appear in several Bond films, and Margaret Lockwood, "to whom I quite lost my heart".

While still at Rada he made his film debut with a walk-on in the Gracie Fields film Look Up and Laugh (1935), but his first professional job after leaving the academy was with a repertory company in Southend, the first of several such companies with whom he gained experience. He was appearing in Bexhill, East Sussex (where he eventually settled) when he met Pamela Pantlin, a member of the "Women's League for Health and Beauty", and they were married in 1938.

The following year, Llewelyn was in another film, the Will Hay comedy Ask a Policeman, but his career was then interrupted by the Second World War, in which he served as a second lieutenant assigned to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Captured by German soldiers in France, he spent five years as a prisoner of war.

He resumed his film career with a war film, They Were Not Divided (1950), in which he was one of two soldiers named Jones, who was thus addressed as "77 Jones" - the other was "45 Jones". The director was Terence Young, who 13 years later was director of From Russia With Love, the film which changed the course of Llewelyn's career.

Llewelyn had been appearing in regional theatre and playing small film roles - he had four lines in Cleopatra (1962) - when he auditioned for the role of Q. The character is not in the Ian Fleming books, though in the first Bond story, Casino Royale, it is "Q Branch" that provides 007's gadgets, and in Llewelyn's first two Bond films his character is billed as "Major Boothroyd", becoming simply "Q" in Thunderball (1965). (In the first Bond film, Dr No (1962), Boothroyd had been played by Peter Burton, who was not available for the filming of From Russia With Love.)

Young wanted the character to speak with a Welsh accent, but Llewelyn preferred to interpret the character as "a toffee-nosed Englishman". "At the risk of losing the part and with silent apologies to my native land, I launched into Q's lines using the worst Welsh accent, followed by the same in English," he said.

Bond was in need of gadgets in From Russia With Love, for he had to contend with two of the most dastardly villains of the series, the blond hulk Red Grant (Robert Shaw) and the sadistic Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), who uses knife-toed boots to kick her victims to death. A booby-trapped briefcase was the principal item with which Bond was equipped, courtesy of Q, who was to become a fixture of the Bond adventures (with the exception of Live and Let Die) and almost as popular a figure as Bond himself. His description of the versatile briefcase was typical of Q's briefings: "Here is an ordinary black leather case. Hidden in these steel rods are 20 rounds of ammunition. Press that button and you have a throwing knife. Inside is your AR7, a folding sniper's rifle and 50 gold sovereigns. This looks like an ordinary tin of talcum powder, but it conceals a tear gas cartridge and is kept in place by a magnetic device . . ."

Guy Hamilton directed the next film in which Llewelyn played Q, Goldfinger (1964), and the actor credits him with changing his approach to the role. "Previously I'd played Q as a toffee-nosed technician, more than slightly in awe of Bond." Hamilton changed that approach. "He said, `This man annoys you. He's irritatingly flippant and doesn't treat your gadgets with respect. Deep down you may envy his charm with women, but remember you're the teacher."

After that, Llewelyn stated, he played Q with "a veiled exasperation coupled with a humorous tolerance to 007's flippancy and aggravating habit of fiddling with the gadgets". That exasperation mounted over the years, and in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Q's first words to 007 were "Now pay attention, Bond", and his last, "Oh, grow up, 007!"

Asked recently which Bond he considered best, Llewelyn chose Sean Connery as "perfect", adding, "George Lazenby played it straight and rather well. Roger Moore was much lighter and more jokey. It was a rather camp portrayal, with a lot more emphasis on humour, but it worked. Timothy Dalton was Ian Fleming's Bond - a real character. His confidence and surliness were straight from the books. It was brave, but people didn't like it. Pierre Brosnan is extremely good. He has the right look and manner."

The character of Q was due to be retired after the latest Bond film, The World Is Not Enough, with his sidekick R, played by John Cleese, replacing him. The actor loved playing Q, but in recent years his private life had been marked by tragedy as he watched his wife suffer from Alzheimer's disease.

Llewelyn appeared in such television series as Doomwatch and Follyfoot and made other films, including Operation Kid Brother (1967), which starred Sean Connery's brother Neil playing the sibling of 007. Bernard Lee ("M") and Lois Maxwell ("Moneypenny") were other Bond regulars cast in this weak film to bolster its appeal. But it is for his performances in 17 Bond films that Llewelyn will have a permanent part in film history, equipping the hero with toxic fountain-pens, exploding toothpaste and dozens of similar gadgets with which to confound or exterminate his adversaries.

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn, actor: born Newport, Monmouthshire 12 September 1914; married 1938 Pamela Pantlin (two sons); died Firle, East Sussex 19 December 1999.

Desmond Llewlyn
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005155/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (122 credits)

1999 License to Thrill (Short) - Q
1999 Die Millennium-Katastrophe - Computer-Crash 2000 (TV Movie) - Peregrin Morley
1999 The World Is Not Enough - Q
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Q
1997 Taboo (Short) -
1995 GoldenEye - Q
1993 October 32nd - Professor Mycroft

1989 Licence to Kill - Q[/u]
1988 Prisoner of Rio - Commissioner Ingram
1987 The Living Daylights - Q
1985 A View to a Kill - Q
1983 Octopussy - Q
1982 Play for Today (TV Series) - Official in Dream
- Soft Targets (1982) ... Official in Dream
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Q
1981 The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (TV Series) - Lord Lansdowne
- No. 10 (1981) ... Lord Lansdowne (as Desmond Llewellyn)
1979-1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Papa / Major Bill Whittall
- The Happy Autumn Fields (1980) ... Papa
- Speed King (1979) ... Major Bill Whittall
1980 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Sir Danvers Carew

1979 The Golden Lady - Professor Dixon
1979 Moonraker - Q
1979 Hazell (TV Series) - Bell
- Hazell and the Suffolk Ghost (1979) ... Bell
1978 Lillie (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Dudley
- The Jersey Lily (1978) ... Lord Dudley
1978 Wilde Alliance (TV Series) - Colonel Thripp
- Well Enough Alone (1978) ... Colonel Thripp
1977 Eustace and Hilda (TV Series) - Sir John Staveley
- The Sixth Heaven (1977) ... Sir John Staveley
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Q
1976 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - President
- Loss of the Helen May (1976) ... President
1976 Wodehouse Playhouse (TV Series) - Rev. Sidney Gooch
- Anselm Gets His Chance (1976) ... Rev. Sidney Gooch
1975 A Man in the Zoo (TV Movie) - Chairman
1975 The Love School (TV Series) - Thomas Combe
- Seeking the Bubbles (1975) ... Thomas Combe
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - 'Q'
1974 The Pallisers (TV Mini-Series) - Speaker
- Part Twenty-three (1974) ... Speaker
1974 The Nine Tailors (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Charles Thorpe
- Episode #1.1 (1974) ... Sir Charles Thorpe
1973 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV Series) - Air Commodore Drew
- The R.A.F. Reunion (1973) ... Air Commodore Drew
1971-1973 Follyfoot (TV Series) - The Colonel
- Walk in the Wood (1973) ... The Colonel
- Hazel (1973) ... The Colonel
- Rain on Friday (1973) ... The Colonel
- The Helping Hand (1973) ... The Colonel (credit only)
- Uncle Joe (1973) ... The Colonel
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - 'Q'
1971 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Somers
- Something Big (1971) ... Somers
1971 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Thompson
- Flight Into Yesterday (1971) ... Thompson
1970 Codename (TV Series) - Barrett
- A Walk with the Lions (1970) ... Barrett

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 'Q'
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Coggins
1960-1968 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Dr. Pearce / Bank Manager / Det. Insp. Jones
- The Man (1968) ... Dr. Pearce
- The Commander (1968) ... Bank Manager
- Everything Goes in Threes (1960) ... Det. Insp. Jones
1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Headmaster
- Where Did You Get That Hat? (1968) ... Headmaster
1968 Virgin of the Secret Service (TV Series) - Count Kolinsky
- Russian Roundabout (1968) ... Count Kolinsky
1967 Mickey Dunne (TV Series) - Lord Boutard
- The Hon. Bird (1967) ... Lord Boutard
1967 You Only Live Twice - 'Q'
1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) - Q
1961-1967 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Fergus de la Roux / Constable
- Old Ben in the Belfry (1967) ... Constable
- Episode #1.436 (1961) ... Fergus de la Roux
- Episode #1.431 (1961) ... Fergus de la Roux
1965 Thunderball - 'Q'
1965 Moulded in Earth (TV Series) - Squire
- The End of the Feud (1965) ... Squire
- Family Conference (1965) ... Squire
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Jailer (uncredited)
1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Charles - Doorman
- The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove (1965) ... Charles - Doorman
1964 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Senior Police Officer
- State Visit (1964) ... Senior Police Officer (uncredited)
1964 The Sullavan Brothers (TV Series) - Colonel Barlow
- A Plea of Provocation (1964) ... Colonel Barlow
1964 Goldfinger - 'Q'
1964 The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (TV Series) - Member of Council
- A Germ Destroyer (1964) ... Member of Council
1964 The Plane Makers (TV Series) - John Webb
- A Job for the Major (1964) ... John Webb
1963 Silent Playground - Dr. Green
1959-1963 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Murgatroyd / Supt. Hitchcock
- Always a Copper (1963) ... Murgatroyd
- Stranger in the Parlour (1959) ... Supt. Hitchcock
1963 From Russia with Love - Boothroyd - 'Q'
1963 Suspense (TV Series) - Company Spokesman / Ian MacDonald / President of the Court
- The Rescuers (1963) ... Company Spokesman
- The Dogs of Durga Das (1963) ... Ian MacDonald
- The Uncertain Witness (1963) ... President of the Court
1963 Cleopatra - Senator (uncredited)
1962 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Mr. Forbes
- Episode #4.18 (1962) ... Mr. Forbes
1962 The Pirates of Blood River - Tom Blackthorne (uncredited)
1962 The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (TV Movie) - Frank Misquith, QC, MP
1962 Only Two Can Play - Clergyman on Bus (uncredited)
1961 Stryker of the Yard (TV Series) - - The Case of Uncle Henry (1961)
1961 The Curse of the Werewolf - 1st Footman (uncredited)
1961 The House Under the Water (TV Mini-Series) - Colonel Tregaron
- Episode #1.1 (1961) ... Colonel Tregaron
1960 Sword of Sherwood Forest - Wounded Fugitive (uncredited)
1960 Garry Halliday (TV Series) - Psychiatrist
- A Message from a Stranger (1960) ... Psychiatrist
1960 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Sergeant Harris
- Home and the Heart (1960) ... Sergeant Harris
1960 How Green Was My Valley (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Evans
- Proposal and Disposal (1960) ... Mr. Evans

1959 Private Investigator (TV Series) - Police Constable Jones
- The Battle for Diana (1959) ... Police Constable Jones (as Desmond Llewellyn)
1959 Call Me Sam (TV Series) -
- Episode #1.5 (1959)
1959 Sapphire - Police Constable (uncredited)
1959 A Farthing Damages (TV Movie) - O'Connor
1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - John Redmond
- Parnell (1959) ... John Redmond
1959 Barbed Wire and Bracken (TV Movie) - The Rector
1958 Corridors of Blood - Assistant at Operations (uncredited)
1958 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Det. Sergeant
- Blind Justice (1958) ... Det. Sergeant
1958 Further Up the Creek - Chief Yeoman (uncredited)
1958 Queen's Champion (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Bretherton
- The Edge of Defeat (1958) ... Lord Bretherton
- The Eve of the Armada (1958) ... Lord Bretherton
1958 The Sky Larks (TV Series) - Police Sgt. Ryan
- Touch of the Irish (1958) ... Police Sgt. Ryan
1958 A Night to Remember - Seaman at Steerage Gate (uncredited)
1958 The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) - Two Fingers
- Little Mother (1958) ... Two Fingers
1957 Thunder in the West (TV Series) - King James II
- For King and Monmouth (1957) ... King James II
1957 Escape (TV Series) - Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
- Harry (1957) ... Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
- The Great Bluff (1957) ... Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
1957 Boyd Q.C. (TV Series) - McCracken
- The Open and Shut Case (1957) ... McCracken
1957 The Soldier and the Gentlewoman (TV Movie) - Philip Vaughan
1955 The Leakage (TV Movie) - Wing-Commander Stone
1955 Spider's Web (TV Movie) - Constable Jones
1954 Patrol Car (TV Series) - - Moral Murder
1954 The Gentle Falcon (TV Series) - Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
- A Strange Tournament (1954) ... Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
1954 Tyrant's Tower (TV Movie) - 2nd Surveyor
1953 Bunty Wins a Pup (Short) - Mr. Brown
1953 Operation Diplomat - Police Constable at barrier (uncredited)
1953 Stryker of the Yard
1953 Knights of the Round Table - A Herald (uncredited)
1953 Valley of Song - Lloyd - Schoolmaster
1953 Both Sides of the Law - Police Constable (uncredited)
1952 Huckleberry Finn (TV Series) - Harvey Wilks
- The Auction (1952) ... Harvey Wilks
1952 My Wife Jacqueline (TV Series) - Keith Appleyard
- Happily Ever After (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
- The Landed Proprietor (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
- Getting Margaret Married (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
- Common Interests (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
1952 How Does It End? (TV Series) - Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
- A Tale of Two Cities (1952) ... Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
1952 The Locked Room (TV Movie) - Stephen Amesbury
1952 The Twelfth Brother (TV Short) - Reuben
1952 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Pandimiglio
- The Wanderer (1952) ... Pandimiglio
1951 The Lavender Hill Mob - Customs Officer (uncredited)
1950 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Mr. Hyde
1950 They Were Not Divided -'77 Jones
1950 Guilt Is My Shadow - Pub customer (uncredited)

1949 The Amazing Mr. Beecham - First guardsman (uncredited)
1949 Adam and Evalyn - Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)
1949 The Good Companions (TV Movie) - Policeman at Ribsden / Mr. Gooch
1948 Hamlet - Extra (uncredited)
1948 A Comedy of Good and Evil (TV Movie) - Owain Flatfish
1947 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Theseus
1947 Saloon Bar (TV Movie) - Peter / Police Constable
1947 Captain Boycott - Gentleman on Train (uncredited)
1946 The Murder Rap (TV Movie) - Inspector Fearon
1946 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Theseus
1946 As You Like It (TV Movie) - Duke

1939 Ask a Policeman - Headless Coachman (uncredited)
1939 Campbell of Kilmhor (TV Movie) - Captain Sandeman

Thanks (4 credits)

2012 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
- La última noche del Titanic (2012) ... (in memory of)
2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short) (in memory of)
2000 Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn (TV Movie documentary) (in memory of)
1999 The World Is Not Enough (dedicatee)

2002: Die Another Day released in Chile.
2002: Halj meg máskor (Hang On at Another Time) released in Hungary.

2002: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Peru.

2002: Umri kdaj drugič (Die Sometime Else) released in Slovenia.

2019: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings.

http://www.ianfleming.com/seasons-greetings-us-ian-fleming-publications-2/

Sourced from their own

Thunderfinger

Start of the Danish press release:" For the ninth time, and still in great shape, James Bond manages to survive in a new James Bond film: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN."

Reassuring, yet probably met with eye rolling.

RichardTheBruce

December 20th

1959: The Atticus column of the Sunday Times presents some thoughts from Ian Fleming on Christmas.

Thriller-writer Ian Fleming has more positive ideas on Christmas:

"Ideally, the only possible place to spent it is Monte Carlo. You don't have to eat turkey--a detestable bird. There aren't any people there you know at this time of year, and it's perfectly easy to play a little golf and avoid over-eating."

But even for the creator of James Bond, the ideal is not always attainable, and Mr. Fleming will in fact be spending his Christmas near Belfast, reading three good American thrillers, including the latest Rex Stout, and "going to church in a long crocodile with the rest of the family" on Christmas morning. His one way of simplifying Christmas is to give the same present year after year to all and sundry. It consists of a dozen snuff handkerchiefs from Fribourg and Treyer.

1959: As arranged by producer Kevin McClory, writer Jack Whittingham begins working with Ian Fleming in New York on the "Longitude 78 West" screenplay.

1963: Agent 007 jages (Agent 007 is Chased) released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/frwl-dk-release-poster-1963/
http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/category/films/from-russia-with-love-1963/


Re-release

1966: You Only Live Twice films the underground war room with Secretary of Defence, military chiefs.
1966: Paul Ritter is born--Kent, Engand.
(He dies 5 April 2021 at age 54--Faversham, Kent, England.)

Paul Ritter: Friday Night Dinner star dies
of brain tumour at 54

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/apr/06/friday-night-dinner-star-paul-ritter-dies-of-brain-tumour-at-54

Ritter, who also appeared in films including Harry Potter and the
Half-Blood Prince, died at home beside his wife and two sons

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9f7ccac332a65f7a84ec2fab73f940f36e7b6416/308_325_2252_1351/master/2252.jpg?width=445&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=ece1bf9dd55bd1c23795a0ab202e7a79
Paul Ritter at a Friday Night Dinner launch in 2020. Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images
Toby Moses
@tobymoses | Tue 6 Apr 2021 07.12 EDT

The actor Paul Ritter has died of a brain tumour at the age of 54, his agent has told the Guardian. Ritter, who starred as the family patriarch Martin in Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner alongside Tamsin Greig, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal, died on Monday.

In a statement, his agent said that the actor, who also appeared in numerous films including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Quantum of Solace, died at home with his family by his side.

Robert Popper, the creator of the sitcom for which Ritter is best known, shared his thoughts saying: “Devastated at this terribly sad news. Paul was a lovely, wonderful human being. Kind, funny, super caring and the greatest actor I ever worked with.”

In 2019, Ritter displayed his range with a terrifying performance as Anatoly Dyatlov in the multi-award winning Chernobyl. Toby Whithouse, who wrote spy thriller The Game in which Ritter starred in 2014, said: “This is terrible devastating news. Paul was a stunning actor, a lovely lovely guy. How utterly dreadful.”

Ritter was also a talented stage actor, and was nominated for an Olivier award in 2006 for his performance in Coram Boy and for a Tony award for his 2009 starring role in the Norman Conquests.

“It is with great sadness we can confirm that Paul Ritter passed away last night,” said his agent. “He died peacefully at home with his wife Polly and sons Frank and Noah by his side. He was 54 and had been suffering from a brain tumour.

“Paul was an exceptionally talented actor playing an enormous variety of roles on stage and screen with extraordinary skill. He was fiercely intelligent, kind and very funny. We will miss him greatly.”

Ritter is due to appear in the Friday Night Dinner 10th anniversary retrospective, which will air on Channel 4 later this year.

Paul Ritter (I) (1966–2021)

Actor | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0728795/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

1967: Casino Royale released in Monaco.

1971: Les diamants sont éternels (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in France.

1971: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Τα διαμάντια είναι παντοτινά (James Bond, Agent 007: Diamonds are Forever) released in Greece.
1971: Diamantfeber released in Sweden.

1974: De man met de gouden revolver (Flemish title) released in Belgium.

1974: 007 ja kultainen ase (007 and a Golden Gun; Swedish title Mannen med den gyllene pistolen) released in Finland.

1974: L'homme au pistolet d'or (The Man With the Golden Pistol) released in France.

1974: Az aranypisztolyos férfi (The Golden-Haired Man) released in Hungary.

1974: Agente 007 - L'uomo dalla pistola d'oro released in Italy.

Not to be confused with.

1974: Manden med den gyldne pistol released in Norway.

1974: Czlowiek ze zlotym pistoletem (A Man With a Golden Pistol) released in Poland.

1974: The Man With the Golden Gun released in the UK, USA, and Ireland.

1974: Daily Variety reports The Man With the Golden Gun's budget under $7 million. Product placement (free) includes Nikon, Sony, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Dunlop, American Motors Corporation, and Colibri (lighter, fountain pen, cuff link).
1975: William Lundigan dies at age --Duarte, California.
(Born 12 June 1914, Syracuse, New York.)

William Lundigan

See the complete article here:

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

Lundigan in The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)

Born June 12, 1914, Syracuse, New York, U.S.
Died December 20, 1975 (aged 61), Duarte, California, U.S.
Resting place Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California
Occupation Actor
Years active 1937–1971
Spouse(s) Rena Morgan (1945–1975; his death) 1 child

William Lundigan (June 12, 1914 – December 20, 1975) was an American film actor. His more than 125 films include Dodge City (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), The Sea Hawk (1940), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Dishonored Lady (1947), Pinky (1949), Love Nest (1951) with Marilyn Monroe, The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951) and Inferno (1953).

Biography
Growing up in Syracuse, New York, Lundigan was the oldest of four sons. His father, Michael F. Lundigan, owned a shoe store (at which Lundigan worked) in the same building as a local radio station, WFBL. Becoming fascinated by radio, he was playing child roles on radio and producing radio plays at 16.

A graduate of Nottingham High School, Lundigan studied law at Syracuse University, earning money as a radio announcer at WFBL. He graduated and passed the bar examination before events changed his career path. Charles Rogers, a Universal Pictures production chief, heard Lundigan's voice, met him, arranged a screen test and signed him to a motion picture contract in 1937.

Universal
He was in Armored Car (1937) billed as "Larry Parker". Then his name was changed to "William Lundigan" for West Bound Limited (1937).

Lundigan was billed third in The Lady Fights Back (1937) then promoted to male lead for That's My Story! (1937). He was back down the cast list for The Black Doll (1938) and Reckless Living (1938) but was the male lead for State Police (1938). He had support parts in Wives Under Suspicion (1938) directed by James Whale, Danger on the Air (1938), The Missing Guest (1938), and Freshman Year (1938).

Lundigan was one of the romantic leads in Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939). He was borrowed by Warners for a support part in Dodge City (1939).

Lundigan was top billed in They Asked for It (1939) then was Sigrid Gurie's leading man in The Forgotten Woman (1939). He supported in Legion of Lost Flyers (1939). He said "nothing much happened" of his time at Universal and left the studio.

Warner Bros
Lundigan signed with Warner Bros, where he had support roles in The Old Maid (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940), The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940), Young America Flies (1940, a short), The Sea Hawk (1940), Service with the Colors (1940, a short), East of the River (1940), and Santa Fe Trail (1940).

Lundigan later described this period as "I was always turning up as Olivia de Havilland's weak brother. Well, I got in a rut - that old bugaboo, type casting - and made one quickie after another."

Warners promoted him to the lead of some "B"s, The Case of the Black Parrot (1941) and A Shot in the Dark (1941); he was support in The Great Mr. Nobody (1941), Highway West (1941) and International Squadron (1941).

Lundigan then had a lead in Sailors on Leave (1941) for Republic Pictures.

MGM
Lundigan went to MGM where he had support roles in The Bugle Sounds (1942) and The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942). He was promoted to the lead of a "B", Sunday Punch (1942) and had the second lead in Apache Trail (1942) and Northwest Rangers (1942).

He reprised his role from the Andy Hardy series in Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942) and supported in Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943) and Salute to the Marines (1943). Republic asked him back to play the lead in Headin' for God's Country (1943).

World War Two
He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps for World War II and served as a combat cameraman in the Battle of Peleliu and the Battle of Okinawa, returning at war's end as a Corporal. He was wounded on Okinawa.

Post War
Lundigan returned to Hollywood and tried freelancing. He had support roles in some independent movies, The Fabulous Dorseys (1947) and Dishonored Lady (1947). He was the leading man in Republic's The Inside Story (1948) and was top billed in Mystery in Mexico (1948), State Department: File 649 (1949) and Follow Me Quietly (1949). He decided to try acting on stage and was cast by John Ford in a revival of What Price Glory?.

20th Century Fox
Lundigan's career revived when he successfully auditioned for the role of Jeanne Crain's romantic interest in Pinky (1949) at 20th Century Fox, initially directed by Ford (Elia Kazan took over). The movie was a huge hit and the studio signed him to a long term contract. He went on to be leading man to Dorothy McGuire in Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950), June Haver in I'll Get By (1950) and Love Nest (1951), Susan Hayward in I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951).

He was also in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) and Elopement (1951), and was the male lead in Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952) and Serpent of the Nile (1953). The New York Times called him "the male counterpart to the girl next door".

He had a good part in Inferno (1953).

Television
In an episode of Desilu Playhouse, "K.O. Kitty", L-R: William Lundigan, Aldo Ray, and Lucille Ball (1958).

Lundigan began appearing on TV shows like Lux Video Theatre, Schlitz Playhouse, General Electric Theater, The Ford Television Theatre, and The Star and the Story and was host for Climax! and Shower of Stars.

He had the lead in some low budget films like Riders to the Stars (1954), Terror Ship (1954) and The White Orchid (1954), the latter for Reginald Le Borg. He mostly worked on television now, such as episodes of Science Fiction Theatre, Playhouse 90 and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, and travelled the country extensively selling automobiles.

From September 30, 1959, to September 7, 1960, Lundigan portrayed Col. Edward McCauley in the CBS television series, Men into Space.

In 1961, Lundigan was cast as Nathaniel Norgate in the episode, "Dangerous Crossing", on the syndicated anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. The story focuses on religious settlers who encounter outlaws operating an illegal tollgate.

He had the lead in The Underwater City (1962) and guest starred on The Dick Powell Theatre , Run for Your Life, Medical Center and Marcus Welby, M.D.. His last film was The Way West (1967).

Politics
In 1963 and 1964, Lundigan joined fellow actors Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., in making appearances on behalf of U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater, the Republican nominee in the campaign against U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Lundigan himself waged an unsuccessful campaign for a nominally non-partisan seat on the Los Angeles City Council.

Family
Lundigan married Rena Morgan, and they had a daughter, Anastasia.[2]

Death
Lundigan died at the age of 61 of apparent heart failure at City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California.

Radio appearances

1951 Screen Guild Players ("Apartment for Peggy")
1952 Stars in the Air ("Deep Waters")[20]

William Lundigan (1914–1975)

Actor | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0526485/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in the Philippines.

1985: A View to a Kill released in the Philippines.

1995: GoldenEye released in Belgium, France, and Spain.

2002: ప్రపంచ హీరో (Prapan̄ca vīruḍu 007; World Hero 007, Telugu title) released in India.

2006: 新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場 (xīn tiě jīngāng zhì pò huángjiā dǔchǎng; New Iron King Kong Breaks the Royal Casino) released in Hong Kong.

2009: Screenwriter Peter Morgan reveals an unimaginable twist planned for BOND 23--

The death of M.

2011: Hodder & Stoughton publish a special limited holiday James Bond Edition of Jeffery Deaver's novel Carte Blanche, designed by Bentley Motors.

Bentley Celebrates James Bond in Style!

See the complete article here:

https://www.zigwheels.com/news-features/news/bentley-celebrates-james-bond-in-style/8297/#leadform

by Vikram Gour | Apr 27, 2011

In order to commemorate the latest James Bond novel, Carte Blanche, Bentley Motors was roped in to create an exclusive edition. Judging a book by its cover just got a whole new meaning!

Carte Blanche, the new James Bond book, penned by Jeffery Deaver, and published by, Hodder & Stoughton, has partnered with Bentley Motors for a rather unique promotion which involves creating 500 limited edition copies of the novel in an ultimate luxury edition package.

James Bond, the super MI6 agent created by Ian Fleming has always had a penchant for expensive cars and even in the original 14 novels written by Fleming himself, James Bond owned three Bentleys over the course of the original stories. With Carte Blanche, Jeffery Deaver has taken the inspiration from Fleming and has reunited Bond with a fully loaded new ‘Bond Spec’ Bentley Continental GT as part of this much anticipated super spy thriller.

A lot of work has gone into creating these special edition books. A team from Bentley worked closely with the publishers in order to capture the essence of Bond and Bentley. In fact the agenda was to work with the book in such a manner that reading this exclusive edition works as an experience in itself. Luckily, the nuances of Bond and Bentley allow for such radical concepts and therefore it was a task of taking exclusive book ownership to the next level.

Each copy of the book arrives in a exquisitely crafted polished aluminium case which has been inspired by the deserts of Dubai as Dubai happens to be one of the major exotic locations that form a part of this latest Bond adventure as well as the new Continental GT. The end result is a sculpture that is reminiscent of the GT’s signature silhouette and the effect is as though the car has risen from the desert sand. That is just the cover.

The book itself comes wrapped in Nappa leather, which incidentally is what Bentley uses on the interiors of their cars. Further similarities to the interior of a Bentley exist in the fact that the white leather is contrasted by the stark red Pillar Box edging. The title, author’s name and Bentley logo have been carefully embossed into the front. The text is printed in two colors, namely black and red and the paper used is high quality ivory paper.

As mentioned earlier, the book boasts of being an experience and taking that to a whole new level is the little ‘twist’ that has been incorporated. Playing on the idea of an agent being given Carte Blanche, is one of the most dramatic features of the design: a die-cut bullet hole that pierces pages of the book. Hidden within the pages is a single polished 9mm bullet, individually marked with a number distinct to each copy, making the edition truly bespoke!

The special edition is strictly limited to 500 copies worldwide at a price of £1,000 each. Incidentally, over 100 million Bond books have been sold and over half the world’s population has seen a Bond film! If in today’s day and age there is anything more popular than Facebook, it’s James Bond, and an association with this brand is always bound to garner enough eyeballs. For Bentley however, this is just being part of the 007 family.

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases Kill Chain #6.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #6 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-James_Bond_Kill_Chain
Cover A: Greg Smallwood
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
UPC: 725130260178 06011
ON SALE DATE: 12/20

SMERSH has activated Operation Hooded Falcon, bringing Europe to its knees and NATO to the brink of collapse. A key ally is about to fall into Russia's grasp, re-drawing the geopolitical map and setting a new foundation for the coming century. But one man can make a difference. You know his name.

RichardTheBruce

December 21st

1961: Dr. No screen tests for the role of Miss Taro.

Liha Margo
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Zena Marshall
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551243/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0


Violette Marceau
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0545136/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0


Talitha Pol (Talitha Dina Getty)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688751/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1963: Bjørn Rasmussen reviews From Russia With Love for the Danish daily magazine Aktuelt.

“From Russia With Love”: Aktuelt’s film review (1963)

[Source: http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/frwl-aktuelt-film-review-1963/ ]
Film review, 21 December 1963

Several Danish film critics expressed their dislike of the James Bond 007 films during their original release in the early 1960's. The highly regarded Bjørn Rasmussen, M.A., who reviewed films for the Danish daily Aktuelt and hosted the film programme "Filmorientering" on national Danish television during the 60's, dismissed the Bond films as "sensationalist entertainment marked by poor taste" in his reference book Filmens Hvem-Hvad-Hvor (1967). He did however note that From Russia with Love (1963) was "the best in the series".

When EON Productions' From Russia with Love was released into Danish theatres in December 1963, Bjørn Rasmussen was markedly less kind in his scathing review for Aktuelt:

”Agent 007” returns
Christmas programming at Nørreport Cinema is brutal entertainment

With the pulp thriller From Russia with Love (1963), Nørreport [Cinema] picks up from Dr. No. This is a coarsely brutal, sensational serial based on Ian Fleming's vulgar novels, issued in Denmark by [Sven] Hazel's publishing house (of all!). The films, as well as the novels, are brimming with straightforward suspense, devoid of probability and based on the spectator not having time to detect the obvious gaffes.

This time, a so-called ”Lektor” is to be smuggled out and change hands from Russian to English ownership. We are not dealing with a lecturer [”lektor” in Danish, ed.] but a decoding machine. Fights, murders, sex, and speed is mobilized as well as all kinds of spies for all kinds of nations. They are secretly spying on each other nonstop. The most repulsive of them all would be Lotte Lenja [sic], the widow of Kurt Weill, evil incarnate and an efficient member of the international crime organization ”Spectre” who are also out to get the Lektor.

In the middle of all this nonsense, a glimmer of something truly cinematic shines through as is often the case with rudimentary pulp thrillers such as this. But [the film] is dreadfully simple and unpleasant to watch.

Written by Bjørn Rasmussen
Translation by Bond•O•Rama.dk

1964: Goldfinger premieres in the US--at the DeMille Theatre, New York City, NY.
(Compare to UK premiere 17 September in London. Followed by Hollywood, CA 25 December.
Then US general release 9 January 1965.)

1965: Thunderball premieres in the US--New York City, New York.
(Followed by US general release 22 December. UK release 29 December. The true world premiere was earlier: December 9, Hibiya Cinema, Tokyo, Japan.)

1967: Casino Royale released in Austria, the Netherlands, and West Germany.
1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Denmark.
1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service principal shooting ends. (Began: 21 October.)
1969: Ilse Steppat dies at age 51--West Berlin, Germany.
(Born 30 November 1917--Barmen, 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")

1973: Leven en laten sterven released in Belgium.

French and Dutch

1973: Leva och låta dö (Swedish title) released in Finland.

1973: Vivre et laisser mourir released in France.

1974: Mannen med den gyllene pistolen released in Sweden.

1982: Moonraker released in Iceland.

1995: 新鐵金剛之金眼睛 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī jīn yǎnjīng; Golden Eyes of New Iron King Kong) released in Hong Kong.

2006: 007 카지노 로얄 (007 kah-gee-no low-yal; 007 Casino Royale) released in the Republic of Korea.

2010: BOND 23 resumes pre-production, halted most of this year as related to MGM financial issues.
2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #12 (Eidolon Chapter 6).
Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

JAMES BOND #12

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-James_Bond
Cover: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: December 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: 12/21

EIDOLON, CHAPTER 6: The explosive conclusion to the second JAMES BOND 007 story - Eidolon are in the open, British Intelligence is cracked and in disarray, friends are dead and enemies seem unstoppable - can James Bond intercept the most direct strike of all, from the dead hand of SPECTRE to the heart of British government?

https://bleedingcool.com/comics/creator-commentary-jason-masters-james-bond-12/

2017: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings with their annual card.

http://www.ianfleming.com/merry-christmas-ian-fleming-publications/


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2021: No Time To Die released on DVD and Bluray.

No Time to Die (2021)

See the complete article here:

https://www.dvdsreleasedates.com/movies/6031/No-Time-to-Die-2021.html

No Time to Die DVD and Blu-ray release date is set for December 21, 2021 and available on Digital HD from Amazon Video and iTunes on December 7, 2021.

Rating: 4.2/5 (205 users) *Please help rate
Rating: PG-13
imdb: 7.6
Runtime: 163
Theater date | October 8, 2021
Theater gross | $160.5 mil
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Thriller

Actor(s)
Daniel Craig
Rami Malek
Lea Seydoux
Ralph Fiennes
Ben Whishaw
Lashana Lynch
Naomie Harris
Jeffrey Wright
Christoph Waltz
Billy Magnussen

Director(s)
Cary Joji Fukunaga
Producer(s)
Barbara Broccoli
Michael G. Wilson

Overview
Years after James Bond has decided to leave his work behind and retire, he is contacted by a friend of his working in the CIA, Felix Leiter, to help him search for a scientist that has turned up missing. James Bond quickly leaves retirement after meeting up with Felix as they both find out that the missing scientist may have fallen into the arms of dangerous criminals that are looking to use emerging technology for evil.

RichardTheBruce

December 22nd

1962: Ralph Fiennes is born--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
1964: Bosley Crowther reviews Goldfinger in The New York Times.

GOLDFINGER

See the complete article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF173DE464BC4A51DFB467838F679EDE

By Bosley Crowther - Published: December 22, 1964

Old Double-Oh Seven is slipping—or, rather, his scriptwriters are. They are involving him more and more with gadgets and less and less with girls. This is tediously apparent in Goldfinger, the latest movie adventure of James Bond, the dauntless sleuth of Ian Fleming's detective fiction, whom Sean Connery so handsomely portrays.

In this third of the Bond screen adventures, which opened last night at the DeMille and goes continuous today at that theater and the Coronet, Agent 007 of the British Secret Service virtually spurns the lush temptations of voluptuous females in favor of high-powered cars and tricky machines.

That is to say, he virtually spurns them in comparison to the way he went for them in his previous cinematic conniptions, Dr. No and From Russia with Love. In those fantastic fabrications, you may remember, he was constantly assailed by an unending flow of luxurious, exotic, and insatiable girls. And, being the sort of omnipotent and adaptable fellow he is, he did what he could to oblige them in the course of pursuing his sleuthing chores.

But in this most gaudy of his outings—the most elaborate and fantastic to date—he manages to bestow his male attentions on only a couple of passing supplicants. One is a pliant little number who expires early, sealed in a skin of gold paint, and the other is a brawny pilot who remarkably resembles Gorgeous George. Neither is up to the standard of femininity usually maintained for Mr. Bond.

Why this neglect of his love life is difficult to imagine—except that Mr. Bond's off-handed conquests were always open to a certain amount of doubt, a certain amount of skepticism as to how much of a Lothario he actually is. Indeed, they have often intimated a bland contempt for, or, at least, a slippery spoof of the whole notion of masculine prowess. One might question whether Bond really likes girls.

So maybe his careful scriptwriters have played down that overly amorous side, delicately displacing dolls with automation and beautiful bodies with electronic brains. Anyhow, what they give us in Goldfinger is an excess of science-fiction fun, a mess of mechanical melodrama, and a minimum of bedroom farce.

It is good fun, all right, fast and furious, racing hither and yon about the world as Double-Oh Seven pursues the intrigues of a mysterious financier named Goldfinger, who is criminally tampering with the gold reserves of Britain and the United States.

Meeting his quarry in a crooked card game on the terrace of a hotel in Miami Beach, he follows him to a golf club outside London, trails him to a gold refinery in the Swiss Alps, and then is captured by him and flown to America to be an inside observer of a fantastic raid on Fort Knox. En route, the fellow has some lively set-tos, exercises smashing ingenuity, and meets that Amazonian pilot, whom he conquers after a deadly judo match.

As usual, Mr. Connery plays the hero with an insultingly cool, commanding air, providing a great vicarious image for all the panting Walter Mittys in the world. Gert Fršbe is aptly fat and feral as the villainous financier, and Honor Blackman is forbiddingly frigid and flashy as the latter's aeronautical accomplice.

In lesser roles, Shirley Eaton is delectable as the girl who is quickly painted out, and Harold Sakata is traditionally sinister as a mute Oriental who is adept at throwing a razor-brimmed hat.

Of course, the high point of the picture is the climactic raid on Fort Knox with the intent of blowing it up and contaminating its hoard of gold with a nuclear bomb. It is spinningly staged and enacted, drenched in cliff-hanging suspense. But somehow, by the time it gets to this point—well, we've had Mr. Bond.

1965: Thunderball released in the US.

https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2014/01/us-thunderball-posters.html

1965: Bosley Crowther reviews Thunderball in The New York Times.

Screen: 007's Underwater Adventures:Connery Plays Bond in 'Thunderball'

See the complete article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9907E4DE1430E33ABC4A51DFB467838E679EDE

By BOSLEY CROWTHER - Published: December 22, 1965

THE popular image of James Bond as the man who has everything, already magnificently developed in three progressively more compelling films, is now being cheerfully expanded beyond any possible chance of doubt in this latest and most handsome screen rendering of an Ian Fleming novel, "Thunderball."

Now Mr. Fleming's superhero, still performed by Sean Connery and guided through this adventure by the director of his first two, Terence Young, has not only power over women, miraculous physical reserves, skill in perilous maneuvers and knowledge of all things great and small, but he also has a much better sense of humor than he has shown in his previous films. And this is the secret ingredient that makes "Thunderball" the best of the lot.

This time old Double-Oh Seven, which is Mr. Bond's code number in the British intelligence service he so faithfully and tirelessly adorns, is tossing quips faster and better then he did even in "From Russia With Love," and he is viewing his current adventure with more gaiety and aplomb.

I think you will, too. In this creation of superman travesty, which arrived yesterday at the reopened Paramount, the Sutton, Cinema II and twoscore or more other theaters in the metropolitan area. Bond is engaged in discovering who hijacked two nuclear bombs in a NATO aircraft over Europe and is secretly holding them for a ransom of £100 million.

That in itself is fairly funny — fanciful and absurd in the same way as are all the problems that require the attention of Bond. But what Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins as the script writers have done is sprinkle their gaudy fabrication with the very best sight and verbal gags.

"Let my friend sit this one out." Bond asks politely of two disinterested young men as he places his dancing partner in a chair beside them at a table in a nightclub in Nassau. The gentlemen nod permission. "She's just dead," he explains.

Or when Bond leaps from a hovering helicopter wearing a skindiver's suit of extraordinary mechanical complexity to engage in an underwater war between SPECTRE and C.I.A. frogmen in the climactic scene of the film, he flips the conclusive comment: "Here comes the kitchen sink!"

In addition to being funny, "Thunderball" is pretty, too, and it is filled with such underwater action as would delight Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The gimmick is that the airplane carrying the hijacked bombs has been ditched, sunk and covered with camouflaging on a coral reef off Nassau. And to get this information and then find and explore the sunken plane. Bond has to do a lot of skindiving, with companions and alone.

The amount of underwater equipment the scriptwriters and Mr. Young have provided their athletic actors, including an assortment of beautiful girls in the barest of bare bikinis, is a measure of the splendor of the film. Diving saucers, aqualungs, frogman outfits and a fantastic hydrofoil yacht that belongs to the head man of SPECTRE are devices of daring and fun.

So it is in this liveliest extension of the cultural scope of the comic strip. Machinery of the most way-out nature become the instruments and the master, too, of man. "I must be six inches taller," Bond wryly quips at one point after he has been almost shaken to pieces on an electric vibrating machine. The comment is not without significance. This is what machines do to men in these extravagant and tongue-in-cheek Bond pictures. They make distortions of them.

Mr. Connery is at his peak of coolness and nonchalance with the girls. Adolfo Celi is piratical as the villain with a black patch over his eye. Claudine Auger, a French beauty winner, is a tasty skindiving dish and Luciana Paluzzi is streamlined as the inevitable and almost insuperable villainous girl.

The color is handsome. The scenery in the Bahamas is an irresistible lure. Even the violence is funny. That's the best I can say for a Bond film.

1965: Tony Mastroianni reviews Thunderball in the Cleveland Press.

Thunderball Improves on Bond's Technique

See the complete article here:

http://www.clevelandmemory.org/mastroianni/tm364.html

Cleveland Press December 22, 1965

By now the James Bond films are pure formula and Bond fans wouldn't want them any other way. It is the fantasy world in which the super-hero finds all villains beatable, all women willing, and no situation hopeless.

This latest Bond film, "Thunderball," is better than "Goldfinger" and though sex still is a major part, it is not nearly so vulgar.

Again there is an attempt at humor but in this respect, "From Russia With Love," number two in the series, remains the best.

Bond's dryly-delivered cliches at the end of an escapade, the purely Bondsian flourish (stopping to toss flowers on the body of a man he has just killed while his pursuers are breaking in a door), the Bond elegance (ordering the right wine at dinner) -- all are still there but are growing thin.

Where "Thunderball" triumphs is in its special effects, its gadgets, its underwater scenes. The lengthiest of these is an underwater battle in which two armies -- the forces of SPECTRE in black, American aqua-paratroopers in orange -- advance and meet head-on.

THERE ARE underwater sleds that pull a man through water, the front of it armed with spear guns. There is a two-man sub that can carry an H-bomb, a yacht that breaks apart into a speedy hydrofoil.

In a prologue, Bond seems hopelessly trapped on the balcony of a building, but escapes by going straight up -- thanks to a jet power pack he has strapped to his back.

In "Thunderball'' the international crime syndicate known as SPECTRE has hijacked a NATO plane carrying two atom bombs, demands a ransom from the Western world with the threat of destroying two major cities unless paid $2,800,000.

BOND AND ALL the other agents with a double-0 prefix on their number (it indicates a license to kill) spread out around the world to find the bombs. Bond, agent 007, ends up in the Bahamas where there are villains, girls in bikinis, sharks, girls in bikinis, the bombs and girls in bikinis.

It's not much of a plot for two hours and 10 minutes but the writers and producers pad it out with alternating fights and love scenes.

One of the latter occurs underwater and where fireworks once indicated this sort of thing, it's now done with a burst of bubbles rushing to the surface.

SEAN CONNERY plays Bond with a greater air of detachment than ever, as though his conquests -- amorous and otherwise -- were all in a day's work. It's the proper spirit for the part.

The movie publicity doesn't say so but the man who did all the underwater scenes in the Bond role is a fellow whose name is Frank Cousins. He deserves plenty of credit.

Adolfo Celi is sinister as the heavy, the number two man in SPECTRE. The newest Bond girl is Claudine Auger and lesser Bond girls are Luciana Paluzzi and Molly Peters, all of whom seem to have the proper dimensions.

Short Subjects... Ursula Andress, who appeared in the first James Bond film, will be in another. She has been cast in "Casino Royale," a Bond film being made by a rival company. In it Peter Sellers is Bond.

1967: Casino Royale released in Spain, Finland, and France.
1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Italy.

1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale! released in Sweden.

1969: 007 al servicio secreto de su Majestad (007 To His Majesty's Secret Service) released in Spain.

1971: Diamantes para la eternidad (Diamonds for Eternity) released in Spain. (Diamants per a l'eternitat, Catalan title.)

1973: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ζήσε κι άσε τους άλλους να πεθάνουν (James Bond, Agent 007: Live and Let the Others Die) released in Greece.

https://dpikeas.wordpress.com/2019/06/08/james-bond-live-and-let-die/

1973: Leva och låta dö released in Sweden.

http://www.jamesbond-shop.com/Live_and_Let_Die.htm

1982: Octopussy films OO7 hunted and hissing off.
1983: Jamais plus Jamais; Never Again Never) released in Belgium.

1985: 007 뷰 투 어 킬 (byoo too uh keel; 007 View to a Kill) released in the Republic of Korea.

1995: GoldenEye released in Luxembourg and Malaysia.

2006: Casino Royale released in Panama.

2014: Richard Graydon dies at age 92--England.
(Born 12 May 1922--London, England.)

Richard Graydon - obituary

Richard Graydon was an amateur jockey turned stuntman whose daredevil
feats in 10 James Bond films made audiences gasp

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11316314/Richard-Graydon-obituary.html

Richard Graydon at home in Surrey in 2000 Photo: REX FEATURES

5:30PM GMT 29 Dec 2014

Richard Graydon, who has died aged 92, was a former amateur jockey who became one of the most celebrated stuntmen in the business, keeping cinemagoers on the edges of their seats in some of the most hair-raising sequences in the James Bond canon.

Graydon’s first outing as “007” came in 1969 when he doubled for George Lazenby, tobogganing down the Cresta Run at breakneck speed in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. In one terrifying sequence, in which Bond effects his escape from Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s mountaintop eyrie, Graydon was required to slide down, using a piece of chain, to a cable-car dangling over the abyss. “The drop was about 80 feet,” he recalled. “The only safety devices I had were two hooks in the palm of my hand attached to my safety belt. The difficulty was that ice had formed on the cable.”

The scene was filmed without mishap and 10 years later Graydon was again to be found atop a cable-car, this time suspended hundreds of feet above the ground in Rio de Janeiro, doubling for Roger Moore in the scene in Moonraker (1979) where Bond fights the steel-toothed “Jaws” (fellow stuntman Martin Grace). On this occasion things nearly came unstuck when Graydon slipped and was left hanging from the cable-car by just one hand without any safety hooks. “One slip and it would have been certain death,” he said, recalling the episode as “the nastiest moment of my career”.

Graydon performed in 10 Bond films in total. In You Only Live Twice (1967), he was seen abseiling down into a volcano and made a brief appearance as a Russian cosmonaut. In Octopussy he replaced Martin Grace (who had been injured on the second day of filming) as Roger Moore’s stunt double for much of the sequence in which Bond makes his way along the roof of a moving train, fighting off henchmen of the arch villain Kamal Khan, with the action taking place on top, hanging on to the side and even under the train. He also played the part of “Francisco the Fearless” – the man who gets shot out of a cannon at Octopussy’s circus.

Martin Grace described Graydon as the most courageous stuntman he had ever worked with: “He treated hanging in the rafters of a volcano 120 feet up, and on top of the cable car in Rio as if he was having a coffee down at Piccadilly Circus in London. He made what other stuntmen claimed as too dangerous and impossible look like a walk in the park.”

Inevitably such daredevilry came at a cost. Graydon broke an arm in four places when the horse he was riding in Waltz of the Toreadors (1962, with Peter Sellers) collided with a camera car. Worse was to come at a stunt show in Sweden in the 1970s, when a guide wire snapped as he was launching himself off the top of a tall tower. He broke his back and both legs and was in hospital for 14 weeks.

Richard Graydon was born on May 12 1922 into a theatrical family. His grandfather owned the Middlesex Music Hall (now the New London Theatre) in Drury Lane and his father was an agent and manager for such stars as Maurice Chevalier.

By contrast, after leaving Stowe Richard Graydon began his career as a gentleman jockey working for trainers – an occupation which, he later observed, provided an excellent grounding in stunt work and also brought him his first injuries. On one occasion he broke his neck and a leg riding for Boggy Whelan in a novice chase at Wye. The nearest he got to success on the turf was coming third on Squire’s Mount in the amateur riders’ Carnarvon Cup at Salisbury.

Graydon on top of a cable-car above Rio de Janeiro in Moonraker (REX FEATURES)

Graydon continued to ride out for trainers as he embarked on his showbusiness career, first as a dancer at the Windmill and other London theatres. Partially blinded in one eye following a childhood accident, he was turned down for wartime service in the RAF, though he performed with Ensa in India.

His first screen credit came in 1952 when he played one of Robin Hood’s Merrie Men in the Disney film of that name. His stunt career began with James Bond’s second big screen adventure, From Russia with Love, in 1963, and he appeared, uncredited, in Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965).

Graydon’s experience and knowledge of horsemanship also led to work as a stunt coordinator. He taught horses to fall without injuring themselves in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and – ignoring the advice of experts that it could not be done – taught camels to jump a low wall in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962). He also worked as stunt coordinator in the horse racing drama Champions (1984).

He earned more than 30 credits for stunt work in such productions as Where Eagles Dare (1968); When Eight Bells Toll (1971); Don’t Look Now (1973); Royal Flash (1975); The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976); The Duellists (1977); Star Wars (1977); The Wild Geese (1978); International Velvet (1978); Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Batman (1989); and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) in which he played a butler.

In 1970 Richard Graydon married Hermione Bedford, who survives him. There were no children of the marriage.

Richard Graydon, born May 12 1922, died December 22 2014

Richard Graydon (1922–2014)

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Filmography

Stunts (44 credits)

1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (stuntman)
1997 Pie in the Sky (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
- The Apprentice (1997) ... (stunts)
1993 Doctor Finlay (TV Series) (stunts)
1992 Gøngehøvdingen (TV Series) (stunt coordinator - 1 episode)
- Død mand ønskes (1992) ... (stunt coordinator)
1991 Boon (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
- Bad Pennies (1991) ... (stunt performer)

1989 Batman (stunts)
1989 The Littlest Viking (stunts)
1988 Willow (stunts)
1987 Pathfinder (stunts)
1986 Pirates (stunts - uncredited)
1986 Dream Lover (stunt coordinator: UK)
1985 A View to a Kill (additional stunts - uncredited)
1985 Ladyhawke (stunt coordinator)
1984 A Passage to India (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1984 Champions (stunt coordinator)
1984 Ordeal by Innocence (stunts)
1983 Octopussy (stunts - uncredited)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (additional stunts - uncredited)
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (stunts - uncredited)
1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)

1979 Moonraker (stunt double: Roger Moore, cable car sequence - uncredited) / (stunts)
1979 The Lady Vanishes (stunt arrangements)
1979 The Passage (stunts - uncredited)
1978 International Velvet (stunt coordinator)
1978 The Wild Geese (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Death or Freedom (horse master)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (second stunt guard at cellblock AA-23 - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1977 The Duellists (horsemaster)
1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth (stunt coordinator - as Dickie Graydon)
1975 Royal Flash (stunt arranger)
1974 11 Harrowhouse (stunts - uncredited)
1974 Dead Cert (stunts - uncredited)
1973 Don't Look Now (stunt coordinator - as Richard Grayden)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt double: George Lazenby - uncredited)
1968 Where Eagles Dare (stunts - uncredited)
1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Thunderball (stunts - uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger (stunts - uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Lawrence of Arabia (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1962 Waltz of the Toreadors (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (24 credits)

1997 Shooting Fish - Racehorse Trainer (as Dickie Graydon)
1993 Between the Lines (TV Series) - Edmonds
- Some Must Watch (1993) ... Edmonds
1990 The Fool - 1990 Wings of Fame

1989 London's Burning (TV Series) - Old Man
- Episode #2.6 (1989) ... Old Man
1985 Déjà Vu - Captain Wilson
1983 Octopussy - Francisco the Fearless
1982 Jockey School (TV Mini-Series) - Reggie Sheaton
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Reggie Sheaton
1981 Eye of the Needle - Home Guard Private
1980 ffolkes - Rasmussen

1979 Moonraker - Space Fighter (uncredited)
1979 Love and Bullets - Antonio
1977 The Duellists - Cossack / Hussar
1974 Dead Cert - Jockey (uncredited)
1974 The Fortunes of Nigel (TV Mini-Series) - Groom
- Part 5 (1974) ... Groom
1971 The Last Valley - Yuri (uncredited)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Draco's Driver (uncredited)
1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Lord Bingham
1967 You Only Live Twice - Astronaut - Russian Spacecraft
1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - George Reed
- Honey for the Prince (1966) ... George Reed
1965 Thunderball - Largo's Henchman (uncredited)

1959 The Unseeing Eye (Short) - Eddie Brown (as Dick Graydon)
1953 Wicked Wife - Chandler (as Richard Grayden)
1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men - Merrie Man

Miscellaneous Crew (5 credits)

1997 Shooting Fish (animal handler)
1991 Robin Hood (horse master)
1985 Ladyhawke (horse master)
1984 Champions (horse master)
1977 Death or Freedom (horse master)

Self (12 credits)

2006 Moonraker: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' [/b](Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (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
1982 Stuntman Challenge (TV Movie) - Himself
1979 Film 2017 (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 27 May 1979 (1979) ... Himself

Archive footage (1 credit)

2009 À l'abordage - L'aventure de pirates (Video documentary) - Himself

2016: Ian Fleming Publications sends Season's Greetings.

http://www.jamesbondthesecretagent.com/2016/12/christmas-card-from-ian-fleming.html

James Bond hunts Santa

2021: James Bond Themed Trivia at Original Westshore Pizza South Tampa, Florida.

Dec
22
JAMES BOND THEMED TRIVIA - ONE TICKET PER ATTENDEE

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JAMES BOND THEMED TRIVIA - ONE TICKET PER ATTENDEE
About this event

The Original Westshore Pizza is hosting a special JAMES BOND themed trivia game. There is no entry fee or cost to play, just come out and have a good time.

SPACE IS LIMITED TO 100 PEOPLE, RESERVE ONE TICKET PER ATTENDEE.

In addition to reserving your team's ticket, follow this link to RSVP and get a free question and answer on the day of the game:

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Great food, beer and wine and lots of fun!!!
Prizes for the top 3 teams for themed games are Gift Cards for $40, $30, & $20!

Wed, December 22, 2021
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EST

Location
Original Westshore Pizza South Tampa
4802 West Bay Court Avenue
Tampa, FL 33611

2021: MI6 share their Christmas Card in The Times.

From MI6 with love, a Bond-style
Christmas card with a licence to
chill

See the complete article here:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/from-mi6-with-love-a-bond-style-christmas-card-with-a-licence-to-chill-6w8vzkxjc

George Sandeman | Wednesday December 22 2021, The Times

The MI6 Christmas card parodies the James Bond opening sequence

The head of MI6 said this year that the legend of James Bond was a double-edged sword. His attitude seems to have softened, however, with a nod to the fictional spy in the secret service’s Christmas card.

It adopts the image featured in the opening sequences of the 007 films where Bond, dressed in dinner jacket and bow tie, turns and shoots towards the camera. Instead of the dapper spy, a tubby Father Christmas points a red and white striped candy cane skywards.

The card was produced by one of the overseas intelligence agency’s officers.

Richard Moore, who was appointed chief of the service last year, told The Times in April that he enjoyed the films depicting Ian Fleming’s character but they were a far...

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December 23rd

1944: Ian Fleming arrives in Colombo, Ceylon, and strikes up a friendship with Wren Clare Blanshard.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycott, 1995.

As soon as he arrived 23 September, Ian struck up a close friendship
with Clare who was swept off her feet by the handsome, educated naval
officer in his tropical uniform. In a letter to her brother Paul a month
later, "Since I wrote last (and continuously, every day, but about to be
lopped off at a moment's notice like Marlow's Faustas) a beauteous being
has swum into my ken--on an official visit--and I like him very very very
much indeed. As the Wrens say, whose letters I censor so very monotonously,
he's absolutely it. It doesn't make any difference that I don't mean any-
thing to him as he's so awfully nice--so that is why I haven't written.
Next time I write he'll have gone for ever and ever and practically won't
have existed. But, believe me, he's the right shape, size, and height, has the
right sort of hair, the right sort of laugh, is 36 and beautiful. I wish I were
more glamorous..."

Ian had arrived at the height of the Christmas party season in Colombo.
He invited Clare to a dance at the Septic Prawn, the nightclub in the
Galleface Hotel where he was staying. She was impressed that he was "a
plodder dancer: I dislike men who dance well". She wore a stunning long
white silk dress, plugged with little pieces of real silver. Ian was fascinated
with the garment and, seventeen years later, sent her a postcard of the
ballroom of a Sussex hotel where he was recuperating from an illness. He
marked the front with an X and wrote, "I'm behind the palm tree on the
right, watching you in the white dress clearing the floor in the centre."
Clare recalled, "He couldn't get over that dress. He really minded about
materials and such things."

He also expressed interest in exploring the Ceylon countryside. When
Clare had told him about the jungle which straddled the railway on the
way up to the hill-station of Kandy, he jumped at the opportunity to
investigate. Enjoying the hear and mild humidity of the tropical island,
he told Clare, "I'm never going to spend the winter in England again." He
did not mention Jamaica, but his fantasy of his post-war experience was
beginning to take shape.

1964: Variety reports Goldfinger breaking US records in New York at the DeMille and Coronet theaters. The New York Times says as a result, the Coronet plans midnight screenings. The DeMille says it will run the film 24 hours through year's end to meet demand.
1965: Thunderball released in Australia.

1965: Operación Trueno (Operation Thunder) released in Spain. (Operació tro, Catalan title.)

1966: You Only Live Twice completes principal photography filming Ninjas.

1970: Anatole Taubman is born--Zurich, Switzerland.
1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in Australia and the Netherlands.

Australian Daybill,

1971: 鐵金剛勇破鑽石黨 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò zuànshí dǎng; Iron King Kong broke the Diamond Party) released in Hong Kong.

1972: 007 ドクター・ノオ (Dokutā nō) re-release in Japan.

1974: El hombre de la pistola de oro (The Man With the Pistol of Gold) released in Spain. (L'home de la pistola d'or, Catalan title.)

Disclaimer: not this one.

1983: 내버 새이 내버 어개인 (Nay-buh say-ee nay-buh uh-gay-een) released in the Republic of Korea.

1997: 007 - Il domani non muore mai released in Italy.

1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Chile.
1999: 007, el mundo no basta released in Argentina.

2013: Ian Fleming Publications unveils its new logo.

Ian Fleming Publications unveils new logo

https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/news/ian-fleming-publications-unveils-new-logo.htm
December 23, 2013 by David Leigh

Ian Fleming Publications last week unveiled a smart new logo comprising of the signatureian-fleming-publications-logo of James Bond’s creator and a “Doctor Bird”, Jamaica’s national bird.

There are numerous links to the bird, also known as the Streamer-tailed Humming Bird; all the Bond books were written at Goldeneye in Jamaica; 007 was named after the ornithologist who wrote A Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies; and the Doctor Bird was mentioned by Fleming in the books.

2015: Ian Fleming Publications sends Season's Greetings.

2020: The Hollywood Reporter reports on a Star Trek episode inspired by Bond.

How James Bond Inspired This Underrated ‘Star Trek’
Episode
'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' writer Ron Moore looks back at "Our Man Bashir," which earned
a stern letter from 007 studio MGM 25 years ago.

See the complete article here:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/how-james-bond-inspired-this-underrated-star-trek-episode-4108416/

December 23, 2020 11:39am

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Twenty-five years ago, Star Trek helped introduce James Bond to the Final Frontier. Well, kind of.

Writer Ronald D. Moore’s Deep Space Nine episode, “Our Man Bashir,” served as a nod to 1960s spy films like Goldfinger and Our Man Flint as a transporter accident (naturally) swaps out all of the main characters in Doctor Bashir’s (Alexander Siddig) secret agent holosuite program with those that look like Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) and the rest of the main crew. Soon, Bashir — sporting a very Bondian look and tuxedo — must complete the mission and save the day, 007-style, in order to return order to the station.

To celebrate this year’s 25th anniversary of this underrated episode of Trek, Ron Moore shares with The Hollywood Reporter how he and the rest of the production pulled off one of DS9’s best episodes — and irked the makers of the Bond movie in the process.

“I remember it being a very fun episode to write,” Moore says of the season four putting, which aired at the end of November 1995. “It was one of our more challenging shoots, too, if I recall. I had always loved the classic James Bond movies, I grew up with the Sean Connery films, so it was a great opportunity to combine a version of them with another thing I loved, which was Star Trek.”

“Our Man Bashir” originated as a freelance pitch from Bob Gillan, but it almost didn’t happen. At the time, DS9 producers were leery of doing yet another episode centered on the “malfunctioning holodeck” trope, since it was used very often on Star Trek: The Next Generation. But what eventually won producers over, Moore recalls, is Gillan’s unique way into the story by using the holosuite as means to store the crew’s transporter patterns during a tech glitch while beaming.

“Once we had that [narrative] device locked down, we were able to break the story in a way that was relatively easy, if I recall, because we had years of Bond movies to rely on and borrow from,” Moore says.

And like the Bond movies that inspired the episode, “Our Man Bashir” also set out to capture the action-y feel of those classic films. The extensive approach to the episode’s set pieces led to “Our Man Bashir” being the longest shoot in the history of Deep Space Nine. Most DS9 episodes took seven, sometimes eight, days to make. The production filmed “Bashir” in nine.

“It was a very ambitious episode, and the sets were amazing,” Moore recalls. “Especially the evil villain’s lair set. It was great to see the production value put into what was our version of, an homage to the classic volcanic lair-type sets that [the late Bond production designer] Ken Adams made back in the day. I mean, it was the closest thing you got to making a Bond movie.”

At the time, it was rare for Trek writers to be on set, but “Our Man Bashir” marked one of the few times Moore was able to visit the production and watch the filming of a key action scene.

“There’s this sequence with Bashir’s spy and one of the bad guys, you know, our version of an Odd Job-type character [Falcon, played by Colm Meany]. And there was this explosion and, we rarely got to go on set back in the TNG days. But I was able to see this and I have to say it was such a cool thing to be on set for because — we were really, essentially, trying to make a James Bond movie,” says Moore. “It was hard, very hard work. The shoot was a bear for the crew. But there was an energy to it because everyone was so excited to be pulling it off and doing something different, with the period, Bond-era costumes, too. One of my favorite memories from my time working on the show.”

Another notable memory Moore has from the episode was MGM’s reaction to it. Even though Moore’s script avoids any direct lifts or references to its inspiration, the studio that holds the rights to Bond deemed what references were in “Our Man Bashir” hit too close to home.

“MGM sent us a letter,” Moore remembers. “I don’t recall [Bond producers] the Broccolis being on it or having signed it, but I remember after the episode aired, the studio sent us a very stern letter. And it even got back to some of the higher-ups at Paramount. It seems [MGM was] not very flattered by our ‘homage,’ but it wasn’t like we got in any serious trouble or anything.”

As a result, when Deep Space Nine revisited Bashir’s espionage holonovel in season five’s “A Simple Investigation,” the production made a very concentrated effort to dial back and water down any references to Bond iconography.

Despite the objection from Bond’s home studio, “Our Man Bashir” proved to be somewhat of a popular episode among the staff and the fans.

“It was an important episode for Siddig’s character,” Moore says. “At the time, we were still trying to figure out how best to use Bashir and give him agency, because we cast such a talented and versatile actor to play this character. You want to service those talents and the character the best way you can. And I remember there was this sort of change in how Bashir was treated and perceived by the fans, at least in our experience, from that point on. And I think Siddig said as much in interviews at the time or whatever. It was really a key moment for the character, a fun turning point for him, that helped us as writers when it came to find more stories for [Bashir] to do.”

Unlike Bond, Bashir’s holosuite exploits as a secret agent were short-lived — fans only got two episodes featuring Bashir’s suave alter ego. But like Bond, the missions we did get made for very rewatchable hours of escapist entertainment. Something both Trek and Ian Fleming’s iconic character have in common.

Our Man Bashir - A James Bond style trailer


DS9 Garak the wingman (Our Man Bashir)

https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSpaceNine/comments/qe6qan/our_man_bashir/

"Our Man Bashir Suite", Jay Chattaway Star Trek DS9

RichardTheBruce

December 24th

1931: Nora Noel Jill Bennett is born--Penang, Malaysia.
(She dies 4 October 1990 at age 58--Kensington, London, England.)

Jill Bennett (British actress)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Bennett_(British_actress)

Jill Bennett in trailer for The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

Born Nora Noel Jill Bennett, 24 December 1931, Penang, Straits Settlements
Died 4 October 1990 (aged 58), London, England, United Kingdom
Cause of death Suicide
Years active 1951–1990
Spouse(s) Willis Hall (m. 1962–1965), John Osborne (m. 1968–1978)

Nora Noel Jill Bennett (24 December 1931 – 4 October 1990) was an English actress, and the fourth wife of playwright John Osborne.

Early life
She was born in Penang, the Straits Settlements, to British parents, educated at Prior's Field School, an independent girls boarding school in Godalming, and trained at RADA. She made her stage début in the 1949 season at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford upon Avon, and her film début in The Long Dark Hall (1951) with Rex Harrison.
Career

Bennett made many appearances in British films including Lust for Life (1956), The Criminal (1960), The Nanny (1965), The Skull (1965), Inadmissible Evidence (1968), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Julius Caesar (1970), I Want What I Want (1972), Mister Quilp (1975), Full Circle (1977) and Britannia Hospital (1982). She also appeared in the Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981), Lady Jane (1986) and Hawks (1988). Her final film performance was in The Sheltering Sky (1990).

She made forays into television, such as roles in Play for Today (Country, 1981), with Wendy Hiller, and as the colourful Lady Grace Fanner in John Mortimer's adaptation of his own novel, Paradise Postponed (1985). Among several roles, Osborne wrote the character of Annie in his play The Hotel in Amsterdam (1968) for her. But Bennett's busy schedule prevented her from playing the role until it was screened on television in 1971.[1]

She co-starred with Rachel Roberts in the Alan Bennett television play The Old Crowd (1979), directed by Lindsay Anderson.

Personal life
She was the live-in companion of actor Godfrey Tearle in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She was married to screenwriter Willis Hall and later to John Osborne. She and Osborne divorced acrimoniously in 1978. She had no children.

Death
She died by suicide in October 1990, aged 58, having long suffered from depression and the brutalising effects of her marriage to Osborne (according to Osborne's biographer). She did this by taking an overdose of Quinalbarbitone. Osborne, who was subject during her life to a restraining order regarding written comments about her, immediately wrote a vituperative chapter about her to be added to the second volume of his autobiography. The chapter, in which he rejoiced at her death, caused great controversy.

In 1992, Bennett's ashes, along with those of her friend, the actress Rachel Roberts (who also died by suicide, in 1980), were scattered by their friend Lindsay Anderson on the waters of the River Thames in London. Anderson, with several of the two actresses' professional colleagues and friends, took a boat trip down the Thames, and the ashes were scattered while musician Alan Price sang the song "Is That All There Is?" The event was included in Anderson's autobiographical BBC documentary Is That All There Is? (1992).

Jill Bennett (I) (1931–1990)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0071824/

Filmography

Actress (62 credits)

1990 The Sheltering Sky - Mrs Lyle

1989 A Day in Summer (TV Movie) - Miss Prosser
1988 Hawks - Vivian Bancroft
1987 Worlds Beyond (TV Series) - Elizabeth Berrington
- The Barrington Case (1987) ... Elizabeth Berrington
1986 Paradise Postponed (TV Mini-Series) - Lady Grace Fanner
- The Simcox Inheritance (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- Faith Unfaithful (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- The Gods of the Copy Book Headings (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- Enigma Variations (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
- And a Happy New Year to You, Too! (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
1986 Lady Jane - Mrs. Ellen
1985 Time for Murder (TV Series) - Sonia Barrington
- The Murders at Lynch Cross (1985) ... Sonia Barrington
1984 Poor Little Rich Girls (TV Series) - Daisy Troop
- The Gentlemen Caller: Part 2 (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- The Gentleman Caller (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- Tit for Tat (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- The Oriental Chest (1984) ... Daisy Troop
- Lonely as a Crowd (1984) ... Daisy Troop
1983 The Aerodrome (TV Movie) - Eustasia
1982 Britannia Hospital - Dr. MacMillan: Medicos
1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Alice Carlion
- Country (1981) ... Alice Carlion
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Jacoba Brink
1980 Orient-Express (TV Mini-Series) - Jane
- Jane (1980) ... Jane

1979 The Old Crowd (TV Movie) - Stella
1977 The Haunting of Julia - Lily Lofting
1976 Almost a Vision (TV Movie) - Isobel
1976 Murder (TV Series) - Lola
- Hello Lola (1976) ... Lola
1975 Mr. Quilp - Sally Brass
1975 Aquarius (TV Series documentary) - Maria
- The Three Marias (1975) ... Maria
1974 Late Night Drama (TV Series) - Jill
- Ms or Jill and Jack (1974) ... Jill
1974 Intent to Murder (TV Movie) - Janet Preston
1972 I Want What I Want - Margaret Stevenson
1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series)
- The Hotel in Amsterdam (1971)
1971 Speaking of Murder (TV Movie) - Annabelle Logan
1970 Julius Caesar - Calpurnia
1969 Rembrandt (TV Movie) - Geertje
1968 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Penelope
- Its Only Us (1968) ... Penelope
1968 Inadmissible Evidence - Liz
1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Mrs. Duberly
1968 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Anna
- The Parachute (1968) ... Anna
1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Mary Hass
- Brainscrew (1966) ... Mary Hass
1966 ABC Stage 67 (TV Series) - Frida Holmeier
- Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn? (1966) ... Frida Holmeier
1965 The Nanny - Aunt Pen
1965 The Skull - Jane Maitland
1956-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Masha / Marjorie Wilton / Gilda / ...
- We Thought You'd Like to Be Caesar (1965) ... Marjorie Wilton
- A Choice of Coward #4: Design for Living (1964) ... Gilda
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1964) ... Helena
- Three Sisters (1963) ... Masha
- The Rainmaker (1963) ... Lizzie
1964 First Night (TV Series) - Libby Beeston
- How Many Angels (1964) ... Libby Beeston
1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Mistress Patience Wright
- The Frantick Rebel (1964) ... Mistress Patience Wright
1963 Maupassant (TV Series)
- Foolish Wives (1963)
1962-1963 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Hilary / Victoria Thomson
- The Sponge Room (1963) ... Hilary
- Storm in a Teacup (1962) ... Victoria Thomson
1960-1962 Somerset Maugham Hour (TV Series) - Annette
- The Book Bag (1962)
- The Unconquered (1960) ... Annette
1962 The Cheaters (TV Series) - Ferba Martinez
- Time to Kill (1962) ... Ferba Martinez
1960 The Concrete Jungle - Maggie
1956-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Stella / Lily / Agnes Madinier / ...
- Thunder on the Snowy (1960) ... Stella
- Hand in Glove (1959) ... Lily
- The Web of Lace (1958) ... Agnes Madinier
- Ring Out the Old (1956) ... Isa
1960 Return to the Sea (TV Movie) - Penelope Belford
1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Rena
- Other People's Houses (1960) ... Rena

1959 A Glimpse of the Sea (TV Movie) - Penelope Belford
1954-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Anne-Marie / Catherine Sloper / Barbara Shearer / ...
- Figure of Fun (1959) ... Anne-Marie
- The Heiress (1958) ... Catherine Sloper
- Statue of David (1958) ... Barbara Shearer
- Do It Yourself (1957) ... Grette Brinson
- Night Was Our Friend (1955) ... Sally Raynor
1959 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Trilby O'Ferrall
- Trilby (1959) ... Trilby O'Ferrall
1957 Do It Yourself (TV Series) - Assistant
1957 Villette (TV Mini-Series) - Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.6 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.5 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.4 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.3 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
- Episode #1.2 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
1957 Peace and Quiet (TV Movie) - Josephine Elliott
1956 Lust for Life - Willemien
1956 The Extra Day - Susan
1956 The Anatomist (TV Movie) - Mary Belle
1955 Murder Anonymous (Short) - Mrs. Sheldon
1954 Corsican Holiday (Short) - The Girl (voice)
1954 Aunt Clara - Julie Mason
1954 Hell Below Zero - Gerda Petersen
1953 The Pleasure Garden (Short) - Miss Kellerman
1953 The Nine Days' Wonder (TV Movie) - Miss Smith
1952 Moulin Rouge - Sarah
1951 The Long Dark Hall - First Murdered Girl

Writer (1 credit)

1984 Poor Little Rich Girls (TV Series) (idea - 8 episodes)
- The Gentlemen Caller: Part 2 (1984) ... (idea)
- The Gentleman Caller (1984) ... (idea)
- Tit for Tat (1984) ... (idea)
- The Oriental Chest (1984) ... (idea)
- Lonely as a Crowd (1984) ... (idea)

1941: Michael Billington is born--Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
(He dies 3 June 2005 at age 63--Margate, Kent, England.)

Michael Billington

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/29/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

Charismatic actor whose tough-guy image distracted from his broader gifts
David McGillivray | Tue 28 Jun 2005 19.02 EDT

The actor Michael Billington, who has died of cancer aged 63, achieved minor cult status as Colonel Paul Foster in UFO (1969), the first live action adventure series produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the creators of Thunderbirds. This, and similar roles, resulted in the tough-guy actor being tipped, for more than 10 years, as "the next James Bond".

His failure to succeed first Sean Connery, then Roger Moore, was the biggest disappointment of Billington's career. His compensation, a brief part as the agent killed off before the main titles of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), was not enough to keep him in Britain.

Deciding that he no longer wanted to be an action hero, he went to the United States, where he studied acting with Lee and Anna Strasberg. But the roles that followed, in episodes of series such as Hart To Hart and Magnum, PI, were not that different to what had gone before. He tried, unsuccessfully, to sell the screenplays he had written, and, after returning to the UK, worked mostly as a teacher.

A fine actor with star quality - and a very funny man to boot - Billington could, if fate had decreed it, have become a British Burt Reynolds. I first met him when I was a teenager in 1965, working in a film library he visited regularly, and was awestruck by his charisma, and later by his generosity. He played himself in an amateur film I made and, soon afterwards, got me my first professional job as a screenwriter. He was defeated by bad luck and his uncertainty about what he wanted to achieve.

Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, Billington loved the cinema from childhood and came to London to work for the film distributor Warner-Pathé. Connections made at the gym got him work as a chorus boy in such West End musicals as How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Shaftesbury, 1963) and Little Me (Cambridge, 1964). He also stooged at Danny La Rue's nightclub.

His first film was the short Dream A40 (1964), banned by the censors because of a scene in which male lovers kissed. In 1965, he made his television debut, as Neil Hall in the football soap opera United, and his stage debut in Incident At Vichy at the Phoenix theatre.

Sylvia Anderson spotted Billington in an episode of The Prisoner and cast him in UFO. "I cringe when I see it," he claimed later (but attended UFO conventions almost until the end of his life). His other major TV role at this time was as Daniel Fogarty, in the seafaring drama The Onedin Line (1971-4), which he left after one series. He was credited in the film Alfred The Great (1969), but was a glorified extra. He also had a small part in a television production of War And Peace (1972).

Throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, Billington waited for the call that never came to play Bond. In 1980, he sold his only filmed screenplay, Silver Dream Racer. In the US, he had a gag role in a parody, Flicks (1981), and was uncomfortably Russian in KGB The Secret War (1985), two films that were shelved for years before release on video. Back in the UK, he had his last decent role as co-star, with Peter McEnery, of The Collectors (1986), a television series about HM Customs and Excise.

Billington worked on the book of a stage musical about Jack the Ripper, and his last stage appearance was in the highly regarded Never Nothing From No One (Cockpit theatre, 2000). He enjoyed his work at the Lee Strasberg Studio in London, where he was a popular tutor in the mid-1990s. He wrote enthusiastically on his website about the craft of acting that he was able to practise, to his satisfaction, all too rarely.

After eight years as the partner of Barbara Broccoli, daughter of the Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, Billington married Katherine Kristoff in 1988. She died in 1998, after which he devoted himself to raising their son, Michael Jr, who survives him.

· Michael Billington, actor, born December 24 1941; died June 3 2005

Michael Billington (I) (1941–2005)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082545/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (34 credits)

1993 Maigret (TV Series) - Oscar
- Maigret and the Night Club Dancer (1993) ... Oscar

1986 The Collectors (TV Series) - Tom Gibbons
- Touch and Go (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Cover Up (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Rare Bird (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- The Dog It Was... (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Uncommon Market (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Major Barclay's Last Stand (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- The Great Ice-Cream War (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Swings and Roundabouts (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Go for Gold (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
- Diversions (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
1985 KGB: The Secret War - Peter Hubbard
1984 Antony and Cleopatra (TV Movie) - Ventidius
1984 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - Lever
- Holmes Is Where the Heart Is (1984) ... Lever
1984 All the World's a Stage (TV Mini-Series)
1983 Flicks - Deputy Inspector (segment 'Whodunit')
1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) - King Leopardi
- The King in Yellow (1983) ... King Leopardi
1983 Fantasy Island (TV Series) - Henri Ducette
- King of Burlesque/Death Games (1983) ... Henri Ducette
1982 The Quest (TV Series) - Count Louis Dardinay
- R.S.V.P. (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Daddy's Home (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Hunt for the White Tiger (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- A Prince of a Fellow (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Escape from a Velvet Box (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- His Majesty, I Presume (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- He Stole-A My Art (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Last One There Is a Rotten Heir (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
- Pilot (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
1982 Gavilan (TV Series) - Roger Morgan
- Pirates (1982) ... Roger Morgan
1982 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Raymond Dumont
- Vintage Harts (1982) ... Raymond Dumont
1982 The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) - Talenikov
- It's All Downhill from Here (1982) ... Talenikov

1979 Thundercloud (TV Series) - Ben Adams
- Fair Shares All Round (1979) ... Ben Adams
1978 The Professionals (TV Series) - John Coogan
- The Rack (1978) ... John Coogan
1978 Spearhead (TV Series) - Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Truth Games (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Thieves in the Night (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Both Ends Against the Middle (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Jackal (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Loyalties (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Leave (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
- Suspect (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
1977 Sister Dora (TV Mini-Series) - Kenyon Jones
- Part 3 (1977) ... Kenyon Jones
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Sergei Barsov
1975 Edward the King (TV Mini-Series) - Czar Nicholas II
- Good Old Teddy! (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
- The Peacemaker (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
- The Years of Waiting (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
1975 The Way of the World (TV Movie) - Fainall
1974 Invasion: UFO - Col. Paul Foster
1974 UFO: Distruggete Base Luna - Col. Paul Foster
1974 UFO: Prendeteli vivi. - Col. Paul Foster
1974 UFO... annientare S.H.A.D.O. stop. Uccidete Straker... - Col. Paul Foster
1974 Z Cars (TV Series) - John
- Intruder (1974) ... John
1971-1974 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - Daniel Fogarty
- The Passenger (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Port Out, Starboard Home (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Silver Caddy (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Over the Horizon (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
- A Proposal of Marriage (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Ice and Fire (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Law of the Fist (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Black Gold (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Danger Level (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Amazon Cargo (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Echoes from Afar (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Stranger (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Ship Devils (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Race for Power (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Challenge (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Bloody Week (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Goodbye, Goodbye (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- An Inch of Candle (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Beyond the Upper Sea (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- 'Frisco Bound (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Coffin Ship (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Survivor (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Yellow Jack (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- A Woman Alone (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Pound and Pint (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The Hard Case (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Winner Take All (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Shadow of Doubt (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Cry of the Blackbird (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Mutiny (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Salvage (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Catch as Can (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- The High Price (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Other Points of the Compass (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
- Plain Salling (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
1970-1973 UFO (TV Series) - Col. Paul Foster / Col. Foster / Paul Foster
- The Long Sleep (1973) ... Col. Paul Foster
- The Responsibility Seat (1971) ... Col. Foster
- Reflections in the Water (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- The Sound of Silence (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Court Martial (1971) ... Col. Foster
- Ordeal (1971) ... Col. Foster
- Timelash (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- The Dalotek Affair (1971) ... Col. Foster
- The Man Who Came Back (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Mindbender (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Survival (1971) ... Col. Foster
- The Psychobombs (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Close Up (1970) ... Col. Foster
- The Square Triangle (1970) ... Col. Foster
- Destruction (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Sub-Smash (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Kill Straker! (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- E.S.P. (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Conflict (1970) ... Col. Foster
- The Cat with Ten Lives (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
- Exposed (1970) ... Paul Foster
1972 War & Peace (TV Series)
Lt. Berg / Lieut. Berg
- A Beautiful Tale (1972) ... Lt. Berg
- Reunions (1972) ... Lt. Berg
- Austerlitz (1972) ... Lt. Berg
- Part One: Name Day (1972) ... Lieut. Berg
1971 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Freddie Hepton
- Breakdown (1971) ... Freddie Hepton
- Absolutely Feudal (1971) ... Freddie Hepton

1969/I Alfred the Great - Offa (as Mike Billington)
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - 2nd Woodland Man
- A Change of Mind (1967) ... 2nd Woodland Man
1966 United! (TV Series) - Neil Hall 23 episodes
1965 Dream A40 (Short) - Young Man (as Mike Billington)
1964 The Valiant Varneys (TV Series)
- Episode #1.5 (1964)

Writer (2 credits)

1980 Silver Dream Racer (an original story by)

1968 BBC Show of the Week (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Roy Hudd and Bill Haley & His Comets (1968) ... (writer)

Soundtrack (2 credits)

1971 The Onedin Line (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Plain Salling (1971) ... (performer: "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" - uncredited)
1971 UFO (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Ordeal (1971) ... (performer: "Beautiful Dreamer")

Archive footage (3 credits)

2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Sergei Barsov (uncredited)
2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Sergi

1971: James Bond comic Starfire comic finishes its run in Daily Express.
(Started 30 August 1971. 1709–1809) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1005




Not Found:
Swedish Semic Comic 1989 #6 - Stjärnornas Herre (Starfire)

Danish 1973 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no26-1973/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 26: “Starfire” (1973)
"Stjernernes herre" [Star Lord]

1969: Gene Siskel"s "Bond and de Sade" reviews On Her Majesty's Secret Service in the Chicago Tribune

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41872982/gene-siskel-movie-reviewson-her/

1971: Diamanten zijn eeuwig (Diamonds Are Eternal, Flemish title) released in Belgium.

1982: Octopussy films Gobinda arming the bomb.
1983: ネバーセイ・ネバーアゲイン (Nebāsei nebāagein) released in Japan.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Singapore.
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Cyprus, Ecuador, Peru, plus Trinidad and Tobago.
1999: 007 - O Mundo Não é o Bastante released in Brazil.

1999: 007: El mundo no basta released in Mexico.

2019: yahoo!movies reports on Empire Magazine's interview with Daniel Craig and why he returned for No Time To Die.

Daniel Craig says 'secret idea' prevented him from quitting
Bond after 'Spectre'

See the complete article here:

https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/daniel-craig-couldnt-quit-bond-after-spectre-121222836.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS91cmw_c2E9dCZyY3Q9aiZxPSZlc3JjPXMmc291cmNlPXdlYiZjZD0mdmVkPTJhaFVLRXdqSTR2R2d4LVh0QWhXQnpsa0tIVEpFQkRzUUZqQVJlZ1FJSkJBQyZ1cmw9aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ1ay5tb3ZpZXMueWFob28uY29tJTJGZGFuaWVsLWNyYWlnLWNvdWxkbnQtcXVpdC1ib25kLWFmdGVyLXNwZWN0cmUtMTIxMjIyODM2Lmh0bWwmdXNnPUFPdlZhdzBQRlZ5aDlzUTVvcTM3YXVoVk9VNjQ&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHpHG4UkemPHlqt14ae4Y2coZLTmTDdPW7sfqEalZkor5OzHrBRUmCR_F1Zs9qZEHiyipWs0d-HjHCEdck6k6Y-eTJSciqSuX5B0J3TSFLv7SsJ8ByLE-1jXj9lWmL8Wq-_rWqu1dCrMPA3kNK_6wiXs44Mf3byLa962cTdipaPc

Tom Butler·Senior Editor | 24 December 2019

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/3nATuinmTPvcHN7dRX00Xw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA--/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-12/f3625070-169b-11ea-bbfc-fefc9a10c2a0
James Bond (Daniel Craig) prepares to shoot in NO TIME TO DIE,
a DANJAQ and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film.
(Credit: Nicola Dove. © 2019 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

Daniel Craig says unfinished business with James Bond prevented him from quitting the role after the release of Spectre in 2015.

The 51-year-old actor is returning as Ian Fleming’s super spy for the fifth and final time in 2020’s No Time To Die but, for a while, it looked like he’d had enough after his second 007 film with Sam Mendes.

When asked about making a fifth outing by Time Out in 2015, Craig infamously responded: “Now? I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists. No, not at the moment. Not at all. That’s fine. I’m over it at the moment. We’re done. All I want to do is move on.”

Now, talking to Empire Magazine for its February 2020 issue, Craig says he had “a secret idea” for his swan song that Spectre failed to achieve.

“If Spectre had been [my last Bond film], the world would have carried on as normal, and I would have been absolutely fine,” he says.

“But somehow it felt like we needed to finish something off. If I’d left it at Spectre, something at the back of my head would have been going, ‘I wish I’d done one more.’”

“I always had a kind of secret idea about the whole lot in my head, and where I wanted to take it. And Spectre wasn’t that,” he adds. “But this feels like it is.”

Craig’s comments suggest No Time To Die may offer closure for his incarnation of 007 which was first introduced to the world in 2006’s Casino Royale.

Craig’s tenure is the first time a Bond actor’s films have enjoyed a loose narrative connection to form a canon of sorts. Casino Royale was an origin film, while 2008’s Quantum of Solace followed Bond as he sought revenge for the death of Eva Green’s Vesper Lynd.

2012’s Skyfall and 2015’s Spectre also shared narrative threads, including the return of the mysterious Mr White (Jesper Christensen) in Spectre. White is the father of Léa Seydoux’s Dr. Madeleine Swann, also returning in No Time To Die.

Empire’s new issue – which promises new interviews with Craig, director Cary Joji Fukunaga, producer Barbara Broccoli, and Lashana Lynch and Rami Malek – is on newsstands from Friday 27 December.

RichardTheBruce

December 25th

1964: Goldfinger US premiere--Hollywood, CA.
(That's after the New York City premiere, and before the 9 January US general release.)
1965: Pallosalama (Fireball; Åskbollen, The Thunderbolt, Swedish title) released in Finland.

1969: 鐵金剛勇破雪山堡 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò xuěshān bǎo; Iron King Kong Breaks Through the Snow Mountain Fort) released in Hong Kong.

http://playitagain.info/site/1969/on-her-majesty-secret-service/

1969: Al servicio secreto de Su Majestad (To His Majesty's Secret Service) released in Colombia.

1971: Los diamantes son eternos (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in Colombia.

1971: Timantit ovat ikuisia (Diamentena är eviga/Diamonds Are Eternal, Swedish title) released in Finland.

1971: ダイヤモンドは永遠に (007 / Diayamondo wa eien ni; Diamonds Forever) released in Japan.

1995: GoldenEye released in Panama.
1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Colombia and Panama.
1999: Само един свят не стига (Only One World Is Not Enough) released in Bulgaria.

2001: Russia DVD premiere for From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice.
2002: Die Another Day released in Bolivia and Jamaica.
2006: Casino Royale released in Bolivia.

2015: Radiohead releases their unused Bond theme for Spectre.

Radiohead's James Bond Theme Song 'Spectre' Released - Listen Now!

http://www.justjared.com/2015/12/25/radiohead-spectre-james-song-theme-song/
Fri, 25 December 2015 at 12:45 pm

Radiohead just released a new song!

“Last year we were asked to write a theme tune for the [James] Bond movie Spectre,” Radiohead singer Thom Yorke wrote on his Twitter. “Yes we were. It didn’t work out, but became something of our own, which we love very much. As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it. Merry Christmas.”

He even ended his note with a reference to Star Wars, which is currently dominating the box office. Thom capped off his tweets with: “May the force be with you.”

Listen to Radiohead‘s “Spectre” below!



FYI: Sam Smith ended up recording the official Spectre theme song called “Writing’s on the Wall“.

2021: The Cubby Broccoli Cinema at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, England, is closed for the Christmas Holiday.

CUBBY BROCCOLI CINEMA

https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/cubby-broccoli


Savour the intimate ambience of the 106-seat Cubby Broccoli cinema—home to a truly diverse film programme. Enjoy world cinema, classic films, and independent and arthouse delights.

Browse the full list of films showing now and coming soon at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford.

About the cinema
Dedicated to Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, producer of many James Bond films, this cinema shows movies from around the world projected in formats from 16mm to digital 3D—all in the heart of Bradford, UNSECO [sic] City of Film. [Correction: UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.] It’s played host to everything from silent films with live piano accompaniment to a Super High Vision broadcast from the 2012 Olympics.

Twin 35mm projectors allow the screening of archive film prints, shown using traditional reel change-overs via alternate projectors.

In 2012, Cubby Broccoli screened a broadcast from the 2012 London Olympics in Super High Vision—one of only three venues in the UK to do so.

Guests interviewed here have included Tim Peake, Olivier Assayas and Jenny Agutter.

RichardTheBruce

December 26th

1943: Ian Fleming's mistress--society hostess Maud Russell--records in her diary details of war planning, influenza.

Spies, affairs and James Bond... The secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime mistress

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/
17 March 2017 • 9:00am

Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess who met Fleming in 1931 when he was just 23
Credit: Cecil Beaton courtesy of Emily Russell

Long before he created James Bond, a young Ian Fleming had a remarkably close – and secretive – relationship with an older woman, Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess.

They met in 1931 when Russell was 40 and Fleming just 23. There was a strong mutual attraction, and Fleming quickly became a regular guest at Mottisfont, Russell’s 2,000-acre estate in Hampshire, and at the glamorous parties she threw in her Knightsbridge home, attended by Cecil Beaton, Lady Diana Cooper, Clementine Churchill, Margot Asquith and members of the Bloomsbury Group.

To Fleming, Russell was a sophisticated and impeccably connected mentor who found him first a job in banking, introduced him to members of the Intelligence Corps and, later, paid for his Jamaican retreat, Goldeneye, where his 007 novels were written. To Russell, Fleming (named ‘I.’ in her diaries) was the dashing, charismatic young spy who became her close friend, her confidante – and her lover.

Ian Fleming in his Naval Uniform during the war
Credit: Courtesy of Emily Russell/A Constant Heart

These entries from Russell’s private diary take place towards the end of the Second World War, when Fleming worked in naval intelligence and Russell, then 52, was recently widowed; it was a time when, despite the food shortages and air raids, the tide of the war was gradually turning in the Allies’ favour – and, despite his other liaisons, the couple spoke of marriage.

[See the link above for inclusive dates Wednesday 30 June 1943 thru Monday 30 July 1945.]

Sunday 26 December, 1943

Ian came to dinner, back from the Cairo conference [a meeting of the British, US and Chinese leaders on Asia Pacific strategy]. The surroundings were like an armed camp, soldiers, guns, anti-aircraft guns etc. guarding the precious delegates – the PM, President and Chiang.

When Ian was taken ill with influenza, he sank back exhausted in bed and lay blissfully resting, looking through the window at the blue sky and eating delicious food. He was very struck by the desert, sand and camels.

Russell and Fleming remained close until his marriage to Ann Charteris in 1952. In 1946 she gave him £5,000 to buy Goldeneye in Jamaica. She had a long-term affair with Boris Anrep but never remarried. In 1957, she donated Mottisfont to the National Trust and died in London in 1982, aged 91. Her ashes were placed in the same urn as Gilbert’s.

A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell, edited by Emily Russell, is published by The Dovecote Press (£20). To order your copy for £16.99 plus p&p call 0844 871 1514 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk

1947: Trina Parks is born--Brooklyn, New York.

1964: Agent 007 contra Goldfinger released in Denmark.

http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/category/films/goldfinger-1964/

1964: Agent 007 mot Goldfinger released in Norway.

1965: Agent 007 operasjon Tordensky (Agent 007 Operation Thundercloud) released in Norway.

http://www.jamesbond.no/visBoker.asp?ID=18

1971: Diamanter varer evig released in Norway.

https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/daf-dk-adsheet-1971/




http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/daf-dk-souvenir-programme-1971/

1974: The Man With the Golden Gun released in Australia .

Australian Daybill.

1974: 鐵金剛大戰金槍客 (Tiě jīngāng dàzhàn jīn qiāng kè; Iron King Kong vs. Golden Gunner) released in Hong Kong.

http://playitagain.info/site/1975/man-with-the-golden-gun-the/

1983: Aldri si aldri (Never Say Never) released in Norway.

Later video marketing.

Not to be confused with.

1995: GoldenEye released in Australia, Norway, and New Zealand.
1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Australia and New Zealand.
1997: 007: Igavene homne (007: Eternal Tomorrow) released in Estonia.
1997: Yarin Asla Ölmez released in Turkey.

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1999: The World Is Not Enough released in New Zealand.

RichardTheBruce

2002: The Washington Post reports the Republic of Korea expects Bond protests as release date 31 December approaches.

In Koreas, Latest Bond Movie Provokes
Outcry, Calls for Boycott

See the complete article here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/12/26/in-koreas-latest-bond-movie-provokes-outcry-calls-for-boycott/b095bdcf-b0ed-4650-9f6d-b6d414905a24/

By Joohee Cho | December 26, 2002

James Bond dodges bullets in the Demilitarized Zone in his latest movie, but "Die Another Day" is already getting zinged by protests from both North and South Korea.

The movie is a "dirty and cursed burlesque aimed to slander [North Korea] and insult the Korean nation," North Korea said huffily through its propaganda channels. In South Korea, the film faces calls for a boycott when it opens Dec. 31.

Protesters contend that the movie portrays South Korean soldiers as inferior to the U.S. military, depicts the country as third-world and underdeveloped, and is offensive to Korean culture. Buddhists here have joined the fray because of a sex scene set in a Buddhist temple.

"You don't see a Hollywood hit movie where you have a hero like James Bond having sex in a Christian church," said Chung Han-Shin, in charge of public relations at Jogye Buddhist order, the largest in South Korea.

In the latest adventure, Bond is taken hostage and tortured in North Korea before being released in a hostage exchange. He later chases an illegal arms deal from Hong Kong to Cuba to London in a quest for revenge against North Korean renegade Zao, played by Korean American actor Rick Yune, and also manages to prevent a catastrophic war.

Criticism here started in Internet chat rooms and e-mail early this month by viewers who had seen the movie in the United States or heard about it. The online buzz came at a time of rising anti-American sentiment in South Korea. The acquittal of two U.S. soldiers whose armored vehicle killed two teenage girls in June sparked large protests throughout the country.

South Korean actor Cha In Pyo became a hero of sorts for turning down a role in the movie as one of the villains. The Hollywood role, a coveted ticket to stardom for most actors here, "distorts Korea's image, portrays North Korea as a group of evil forces, and [its] contents were too demeaning of South Korea," Cha told reporters.

In an effort to head off the boycott campaign, 20th Century Fox, which distributes MGM films, previewed the film in Seoul last week a few days earlier than scheduled.

"It's a movie. Not reality. Viewers must understand that it's fiction," said Lee Joo Sung , president of 20th Century Fox Korea. Lee said the controversial contents of the movie had been misquoted and exaggerated as word spread.

"North Korean criminals in the movie are no different from Iraqi, Cuban or Russian terrorists, who easily commit mass murders in Hollywood action movies," complained newspaper JoongAng Ilbo in Seoul.

Technically, North and South Korea have been at war since 1950, but a mood of reconciliation has swept the country in recent years.

Critics also say the movie portrays South Korea as a U.S. colony. "The scene where U.S. intelligence agency orders South Korean army to mobilize immediately, that didn't sit well with me," said Kim Hyun Jin, 33, a Korean American living in Atlanta. "It made me embarrassed as a Korean."

2005: Vincent Andrew Schiavelli dies at age 57--Polizzi Generosa, Italy.
(Born 11 November 1948--Brooklyn, New York, New York.)

Vincent Schiavelli

See the complete article here:

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

Vincent Schiavelli

Schiavelli and then-wife actress Allyce Beasley on September 20, 1987

Born - Vincent Andrew Schiavelli, November 11, 1948 - Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Died - December 26, 2005 (aged 57), Polizzi Generosa, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Other names Vince Schiavelli
Education New York University (MFA)
Occupation Actor, food writer
Years active 1971–2005
1993−2005 (writing)
Spouse(s) Allyce Beasley, (m. 1985; div. 1988)​; Carol Mukhalian (m. 1992; his death 2005)​
Children 1

Vincent Andrew Schiavelli (/ˌskiːəˈvɛli/; November 11, 1948 – December 26, 2005) was an American character actor and food writer noted for his work on stage, screen, and television. Described as an "instantly recognizable sad-faced actor", Schiavelli was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome in childhood.

Schiavelli gained fame as a character actor, mainly in supporting roles. His best-known roles include Fredrickson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Mr. Vargas in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), the Subway Ghost in Ghost (1990), Organ Grinder in Batman Returns (1992), Chester in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and ABC executive Maynard Smith in Man on the Moon (1999).

Before his death in 2005, Schiavelli was considered by many as one of Hollywood's best character actors. Roger Ebert stated Schiavelli "had a way of slipping into films without people knowing his name, but they remembered his great performances as unique characters."

Early life
Schiavelli was born in Brooklyn to a Sicilian-American family, the son of John Schiavelli and Katherine Coco. He attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn. He studied acting through the theatre program at New York University and began performing on stage in the 1960s.

Career
Schiavelli's first film role occurred in Miloš Forman's 1971 production Taking Off,[1] in which he played a counselor who taught parents of runaway teens to smoke marijuana in order to better understand their children's experiences. Schiavelli's aptitude and distinctive appearance soon provided him with a steady stream of supporting roles, often in Forman's films, including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Valmont, and the 1999 biopic Man on the Moon.

He played Mr. Vargas, the biology teacher, in the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a role he reprised in the 1986 television spin-off Fast Times. He was cast in a similar role in Better Off Dead in which he played Mr. Kerber, a geometry teacher.

In 1987, he starred alongside Tim Conway in the short film comedy Dorf on Golf, and then Dorf and the First Games of Mount Olympus in 1988. In 1990, he played the Subway Ghost in Ghost and in 1992, he played in Tim Burton's Batman Returns as the "Organ Grinder", one of the Penguin's henchmen. He appeared as another villain in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), as a silent monk in The Frisco Kid (1979), and as John O'Connor, one of the evil Red Lectroids in 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. In 1994 he appeared in the music video for ZZ Top's "Breakaway", alongside Fairuza Balk and in 1997, was named one of America's best character actors by Vanity Fair magazine. He also made several voice appearances in the animated television show Hey Arnold!. In 2002, he played a children's television show host turned heroin addict named Buggy Ding Dong in Death to Smoochy.

His first television role came in 1972 as Peter Panama in The Corner Bar, the first sustained portrayal of a gay character on American television. His other television credits include The Moneychangers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, WKRP in Cincinnati and Taxi as the priest who marries Latka and Simka. He appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Arsenal of Freedom" as a holographic salesman, on Miami Vice as a research scientist who conspires to steal a top-secret prototype weapon from his employer, and in an uncredited role in an episode of Punky Brewster. In 1987 he appeared as Lyle, a gangster, in the MacGyver season 2 episode "Soft Touch". In Highlander: The Series, he played Leo Atkins, a homeless Vietnam War veteran accused of murder in the Season 1 episode "Innocent Man". In The X-Files, he played Lanny, man with an underdeveloped conjoined twin in the Season 2 episode "Humbug".

He wrote a number of cookbooks and food articles for various magazines and newspapers, notably Gourmet, Saveur, and the Los Angeles Times. In 1999, Schiavelli starred in a 26-episode Italian cooking show called Chefs of Cucina Amore that aired on PBS periodically for the next couple of years. He received a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award in 2001 and was nominated on several other occasions.

Schiavelli's three cookbooks are memoirs, with recipes related to personal history and anecdotes:

• Papa Andrea's Sicilian Table: Recipes from a Sicilian Chef As Remembered by His Grandson, 1993
• Bruculinu, America: Remembrances of Sicilian-American Brooklyn, Told in Stories and Recipes, 1998
• Many Beautiful Things: Stories and Recipes from Polizzi Generosa, 2002

Vincent Schiavelli's tombstone in Polizzi Generosa graveyard

Schiavelli served as honorary co-chair of the National Marfan Foundation, an organization which serves those affected by Marfan syndrome, from which Schiavelli suffered.

Schiavelli also performed in a few video games, including Emperor: Battle for Dune (as Harkonnen Mentat Yanich Kobal) and as Dr. Hellman in the video game Corpse Killer.
Personal life

Schiavelli was married to actress Allyce Beasley from 1985 until their 1988 divorce. He guest-starred as the love interest of Beasley's character on one episode of Moonlighting. Their son, Andrea Schiavelli, was born in 1987.

In 1992, Schiavelli married American harpist Carol Mukhalian.

Death
Schiavelli died of lung cancer on December 26, 2005, aged 57, at his home in Polizzi Generosa, the Sicilian town where his grandfather, Andrea Coco, was born, and about which he wrote in his 2002 book Many Beautiful Things: Stories and Recipes from Polizzi Generosa (ISBN 0-7432-1528-1).[5] Schiavelli was buried at Polizzi Generosa Cemetery, near Palermo, Sicily.

Two documentaries were made about Schiavelli's Sicilian life. The first, Once Upon a Time in Polizzi, was released on October 11, 2005 (two months before his death), and the second, Many Beautiful Things (Tanti Beddi Cosi is the Sicilian title), was produced by Aurelio Gambadoro and released in 2014. The film Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie is dedicated to his memory. (Schiavelli provided a guest voice appearance as the Pigeon Man in the original series.)

Vincent Schiavelli (1948–2005)

Actor
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2006: A Beta release of GoldenEye: Source was scheduled for 25 December 2006, but released 26 December 2006.

Fan-made computer game remake

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/James_Bond_fandom

GoldenEye: Source is a total conversion mod in development using the Source engine developed by Valve for the computer game, Half-Life 2. GoldenEye: Source is based on the award-winning Nintendo 64 video game, GoldenEye 007, featuring Bond. An alpha release was distributed on 25 December 2005 receiving more than 65,000 downloads in 2 weeks. A Beta release of GoldenEye: Source was scheduled for 25 December 2006, but was released on 26 December 2006.

In January 2007 it was awarded twice in the 2006 annual Moddb awards, a win in Editor's Choice[12] for the Reinvention category, and was player-voted 3rd place in the overall category Mod of the year. A significant rise from the 2005 awards, which earned GoldenEye: Source 4th place in the unreleased category.

On 5 December 2007 one of the developers released an unofficial patch. This patch fixes some of the bugs there are present in the first beta version. The developer team will not support this patch, and support is only available in a topic in the GoldenEye: Source forum.

2008: Quantum of Solace released in Uruguay.

2011: Pedro Armendáriz Jr. dies at age 71--New York City, New York.
(Born 6 April 1940--Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.)

Pedro Armendariz Jr. dies at 71

https://variety.com/2011/film/news/pedro-armendariz-jr-dies-at-71-1118047888/
Character actor, son of Mexican star, appeared in 'Zorro'
By James Young

Mexican character actor Pedro Armendariz Jr., a near constant presence on screens big and small for more than four decades, died Monday of eye cancer in New York City. He was 71.

Armendariz, the son of Mexico “golden age” movie star Pedro Armendariz and actress Carmelita Pardo, appeared in some 140 films and dozens of Televisa skeins, mostly sudsers. The actor played Gov. Riley in the 2005 movie “The Legend of Zorro”; the president of Mexico in Robert Rodriguez’s “Once Upon a Time in Mexico”; and the corrupt cop who stole the gun from Brad Pitt in “The Mexican.” He also appeared in 1989’s “Old Gringo” and in some of the top-grossing Mexican films in recent history, including all-time domestic B.O. champ “The Crime of Father Amaro” as well as action hit “Matando Cabos” and acclaimed political satire “Herod’s Law.”

Armendariz also played a key role in expanding the voice of a new generation of filmmakers and actors as president of the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AMACC) from 2006-10.

The sturdily framed thesp was instantly recognizable for bristly beards and mustaches that framed passionate, often wildly sparkling eyes, forming a countenance that could transform alarmingly from menacing to tender in the blink of an eye.

At risk of living his life in the shadow of his father, who was known as Mexico’s Clark Gable, Armendariz Jr. followed in his footsteps, taking his first film role on locations in Mexico for Westerns like “El cachorro” in 1965 and appearing in an episode of “Daniel Boone” in 1966.

Coming into his own during a dark period for the Mexican box office, when local production slowed to a trickle in the 1970s and ’80s, the actor worked with local auteurs like Arturo Ripstein, Felipe Cazals and Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, while bringing home a steady paycheck with roles in telenovelas and character-actor bits in numerous Stateside pics, in which he was often cast as a Mexican tough guys, graying statesmen and Latin military types.

He, like his father, landed a role in a James Bond film — he played the arch President Hector Lopez in “License to Kill” [sic]; his father had played Bond ally Kerim Bey in “From Russia With Love.” They both played revolutionary General Pancho Villa onscreen.

Aside from some nods and wins at AMACC’s Ariel awards, Armendariz really only began to win widespread respect in the last decade or so, as he worked on multiple projects every year, even through most of 2011, and the industry began to look back at his sizable body of work.

Hitting the boards, Armendariz won further kudos for recent work in leading stage roles for Mexican productions of “Fiddler on the Roof” and “The Producers.”

In 2010, reacting to harsh industry criticism, Armendariz Jr., as president of the academy, led the transformation of the AMACC, opening voting privileges that previously belonged to an aging 25-person body that only evolved through attrition to more than 625 industry members, including producers, who until that time were barred from official voting status.

He also became a vocal political agent, fighting for industry support from Congress in heated budget battles over the last few years.

Armendariz will appear in several films posthumously, including Spanish-language Will Ferrell laffer “Casa de mi padre,” which opens March 16 and stars Mexican thesps Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal.

Luna, speaking on Twitter, said of the actor, “Just seeing him made you smile. He had time for everyone.”

As news of the death spread Monday afternoon, condolences to the family mounted, even coming from Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Televisa’s CEO Emilio Azcarraga Jean, among other officials and members of Mexico’s media elite.

Armendariz was married and divorced twice, from former Televisa spokesmodel Lucia Gomez de Parada and actress-turned-activist Ofelia Medina. He is survived by several children.

Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (1940–2011)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001917/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

Filmography

Actor (222 credits)

Desde dentro (announced) - Domingo Altamirano
2012 Freelancers - Gabriel Baez
2012 Casa de mi Padre - Miguel Ernesto
2011 The Snitch Cartel - Don Modesto
2011 The Power of Destiny (TV Series) - Anthony - 95 episodes
2011 Mamitas - Ramon 'Tata' Donicio
2011/I Despertar (Short) (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2010 El baile de San Juan - Marqués de la Villa
2010 Hilos y cables (Short)
2010 Outlaw (TV Series) - Francisco Garza
- Pilot (2010) ... Francisco Garza (as Pedro Armendariz)
2010 Sin memoria - Benitez

2009 Dare to Dream (TV Series) - Max Williams
- Promesa de amor (2009) ... Max Williams
2009 Nikté - Kaas
2008 X-mas, Inc. - Santa Claus
2008 Divina confusión - Melesio
2008 Purgatorio - Don Julio
2008 Looking for Palladin - Police Chief
2007 El último justo - Padre del Toro
2007 Distilling Love (TV Series) - Mr. Thomas
- Gran final (2007) ... Mr. Thomas
- Episode #1.2 (2007) ... Mr. Thomas
- Destilando amor (2007) ... Mr. Thomas
2007 One Long Night - Don Ricardo
2006 Guadalupe - Simon
2006 Un mundo maravilloso - Director del Periódico
2005 Después de la muerte - Don Julio
2005 The Legend of Zorro - Governor Riley (as Pedro Armendariz)
2005 Barrera de amor (TV Series) - Don Pedro Valladolid
- Barrera de amor (2005) ... Don Pedro Valladolid
2004 Matando Cabos - Oscar Cabos
2004 El segundo - El Mayor
2004 Amy, the Girl with the Blue Schoolbag (TV Series) - Captain Matías Granados
- Episode #1.15 (2004) ... Captain Matías Granados
2003 Bajo la misma piel (TV Series) - Joaquín Vidaurri
- Episode #1.1 (2003) ... Joaquín Vidaurri
2003 And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (TV Movie) - Don Luis Terrazas (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2003 Casa de los babys - Ernesto (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico - El Presidente (as Pedro Armendariz)
2002 The Crime of Padre Amaro - Presidente Municipal Gordo (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2001 Entre los dioses del desprecio
2001 In the Time of the Butterflies (TV Movie) - Captain Pena (as Pedro Armendariz Marquez)
2001 Asesinato en el Meneo - Don Manuel
2001 Original Sin - Jorge Cortés (as Pedro Armendáriz)
2001 Serafín: La película - Thinker (voice)
2001 His Most Serene Highness
2001 The Mexican - Mexican Policeman
2000 El grito - Duarte
2000 Furcio (TV Series)
- Episode #1.1 (2000)
2000 Before Night Falls - Reinaldo's Grandfather (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1999-2000 Labyrinths of Passion (TV Series) - Padre Mateo Valencia - 80 episodes

1999 A Christmas Carol (TV Mini-Series)
- Episode #1.4 (1999)
- Episode #1.3 (1999)
- Episode #1.2 (1999)
- Episode #1.1 (1999)
1999 Serafín (TV Series) - Thinker
- Episode #1.3 (1999) ... Thinker (voice)
- Episode #1.2 (1999) ... Thinker (voice)
- Episode #1.1 (1999) ... Thinker (voice)
1999 Tres mujeres (TV Series) - Federico Méndez - 280 episodes
1999 Herod's Law - López (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1998 Derbez en cuando (TV Series) - Chofer de Joséctor Gustavo
- Telenovela Mari (1998) ... Chofer de Joséctor Gustavo
1998 Al Borde - Don Gabino
1998 On the Border (TV Movie) - Herman
1998 The Mask of Zorro - Don Pedro (as Pedro Armendariz)
1997 Amistad - General Espatero (as Pedro Armendariz)
1997 Reclusorio - Abogado defensor (segment "Sangre entre mujeres")
1997 Esmeralda Comes by Night - Rossellini, tenor husband
1997 A Corner of Paradise - Minister (as Pedro Armendariz)
1996 La culpa (TV Series) - Tomás Mendizábal
- Episode #1.3 (1996) ... Tomás Mendizábal (as Pedro Armendáriz)
- Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Tomás Mendizábal (as Pedro Armendáriz)
- Episode #1.1 (1996) ... Tomás Mendizábal (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1996 La sombra del otro (TV Series) - Comandante Tello
- Episode #1.3 (1996) ... Comandante Tello (as Pedro Armendáriz)
- Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Comandante Tello (as Pedro Armendáriz)
- Episode #1.1 (1996) ... Comandante Tello (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1994 Agujetas de color de rosa (TV Series) - Aarón - 299 episodes
1994 Dos crímenes - Alfonso
1994 Una luz en la escalera - Capt. Fonseca
1994 Ámbar - Comisario
1994 Guerrero negro
1994 Novia que te vea
1993-1994 Acapulco H.E.A.T. (TV Series) - Colonel Rodriguez
- Code Name: Assassin (1994) ... Colonel Rodriguez (uncredited)
- Code Name: Honeymoon Lost (1993) ... Colonel Rodriguez (as Pedro Armendariz)
- Code Name: Checkmate - Part 2 (1993) ... Colonel Rodriguez (as Pedro Armendariz)
- Code Name: Checkmate - Part 1 (1993) ... Colonel Rodriguez (as Pedro Armendariz)
1994 Tramp - Pedro Riel
1994 The Cisco Kid (TV Movie) - General Montano (as Pedro Armendariz)
1993 Code... Death: Frontera Sur
Dragon (as Pedro Armendariz)
1993 La última esperanza (TV Series) - Alejandro Burana - - Episode #1.149 (1993) ... Alejandro Burana - 150 episodes
1993 Tombstone - Priest (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1993 Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 (TV Movie)
1993 Extraños caminos
1992 Sonata de luna - Raúl
1991-1992 Tropical Heat (TV Series) - Lt. Carillo - 29 episodes
1992 Los años de Greta - Gustavo
1992 Cuentos de Borges (TV Series) - Blot
- Death and the Compass (1992) ... Blot
1992 Diplomatic Immunity - Oswaldo Delgado
1991 Corrupción y placer - Augusto Alarcon
1991 Highway Patrolman - Sargento Barreras
1991 Bandits - Cura
1991 The Legend of the Mask - López
1990 La secta del sargon
1990 Formula I (TV Series)
- Episode #1.9 ... (as Pedro Armendariz)
1990 ¡Maten a Chinto! - Don Chinto

1989 Ke arteko egunak
1989 Old Gringo - Pancho Villa (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1989 Licence to Kill - President Hector Lopez (as Pedro Armendariz)
1989 The Cost of Living
1988-1989 Un nuevo amanecer (TV Series) - Gerardo - 80 episodes
1988 Diana, René, y El Tíbiri
1988 Tony Tijuana (TV Series) - Tony Tijuana
- Episode #1.3 (1988) ... Tony Tijuana
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... Tony Tijuana
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... Tony Tijuana
1988 El placer de la venganza
1988 Camino largo a Tijuana - Juan
1988 El secreto de Romelia - Widower Roman
1988 Lovers, Partners & Spies - Duke
1988 Hora Marcada (TV Series)
- Concierto para mano izquierda (1988)
1988 Les pyramides bleues - Perez-Valdez
1987 Herencia maldita
1987 Mariana, Mariana - Carlos (adult)
1987 Walker - Muñoz (as Pedro Armendariz)
1987 Persecución en Las Vegas: 'Volvere' - Pagano
1987 A Walk on the Moon - Doctor
1986-1987 El camino secreto (TV Series) - Alejandro - 120 episodes
1986 El puente II
1986 El tres de copas
1986 La gloria y el infierno (TV Series) - Sebastián Arteaga
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Sebastián Arteaga
- Episode #1.2 (1986) ... Sebastián Arteaga
- Episode #1.1 (1986) ... Sebastián Arteaga
1986 Murder in Three Acts (TV Movie) - Col. Mateo (as Pedro Armendariz)
1986 On Wings of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Dobuti
- Part II (1986) ... Mr. Dobuti (as Pedro Armendariz)
1986 Maine Ocean - Pedro De La Moccorra (as Pedro Armendariz)
1986 Airwolf (TV Series) - Captain Mendez
- Break-In at Santa Paula (1986) ... Captain Mendez
1985 Secuestro sangriento
1985 Treasure Island - Mendoza (as Pedro Armendariz Jnr.)
1985 Wandering Lives - El ingeniero
1985 Historias violentas - Hombre rico (segment 3 "Reflejos")
1985 Treasure of Doom - Pablo / Zapata (as Pedro Armendariz)
1985 Sangre en el Caribe - Mario
1984 Matar o morir - Tony Collins (as Pedro Armendariz)
1984 El billetero
1984 Extraño matrimonio
1984 La silla vacía
1984 Knight Rider (TV Series) - Eduardo O'Brian
- Mouth of the Snake (1984) ... Eduardo O'Brian (as Pedro Armendariz)
1984 El corazón de la noche - El Ciego; Domingo
1983 Los dos carnales - Don Cristóbal
1983 Remington Steele (TV Series) - Captain Rios
- Steele Away with Me: Part 2 (1983) ... Captain Rios (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
- Steele Away with Me: Part 1 (1983) ... Captain Rios (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1983 Las musiqueras - Alejandro del Río
1982 El día que murió Pedro Infante (as Pedro Armendariz)
1982 Cosa fácil - Hector Belascoaran Shayne
1982 Huevos rancheros (segment: La virginidad en el rio)
1982 Días de combate - Héctor Belascoarán Shayne
1982 En el país de los pies ligeros
1981 La Chevre - The Captain
1981 Rastro de muerte - Alberto Villamosa
1981 La mujer del ministro - Inspector Romero (as Pedro Armendariz)
1981 Novia, esposa y amante - Esteban Ampudia (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1981 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Ricardo
- Sally's Paradise/I Love You, Too, Smith/Mamma and Me (1981) ... Ricardo (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1981 Evita Peron (TV Movie) - Cypriano Reyes (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1980 Ni solteros, ni cazados (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1980 The Dogs of War - The Captain (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1980 Mamá solita (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1980 Me olvidé de vivir - Pedro

1979 Julia (TV Series) - 17 episodes
1979 La ilegal - Felipe Leyva
1979 El vuelo de la cigüeña
1979 These Ruins That You See - Raymundo Rocafuerte
1979 Life Sentence - Javier Lira; El Tarzan
1979 Spree - Paco
1979 Crónica íntima
1978 El hijo es mío
1978 Rosario de amor (TV Series) - Pablo - 20 episodes
1978 El complot mongol - Filiberto
1978 Los pequeños privilegios - Pedro
1978 La plaza de Puerto Santo - Ernesto
1978 Carroña - El Rengo
1977 La casta divina - Abel Ortiz Argumedo
1977 Mina, Wind of Freedom
1977 The Rhinemann Exchange (TV Mini-Series) - Lt. Fuentes
- Episode #1.3 (1977) ... Lt. Fuentes (as Pedro Armendariz)
1976 Longitud de guerra - Manuel Chávez
1976 The Passion of Berenice - Rodrigo Robles
1976 El pacto - Raúl Mateos
1976 The Great Adventure of Zorro - Emilio Walter
1976 Columbo (TV Series) - Commandante Sanchez
- A Matter of Honor (1976) ... Commandante Sanchez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1975 Ven conmigo (TV Series) - Eduardo
- Episode #1.3 (1975) ... Eduardo
- Episode #1.2 (1975) ... Eduardo
- Episode #1.1 (1975) ... Eduardo
1975 Darker Than Night - Roberto
1975 A Home of Our Own (TV Movie) - Police Captain
1975 Los caciques - Arrieta
1975 The Log of the Black Pearl (TV Movie) - Archie Hector (as Pedro Armendariz)
1974 Earthquake - Chavez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1974 Traiganlos vivos o muertos
1974 Guns and Guts - Esposo abandonado
1974 Chosen Survivors - Luis Cabral (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1974 Cinco mil dolares de recompensa - William Law
1973 The Deadly Trackers - Herrero
1973 Police Story (TV Series) - Joe Gaitan
- The Violent Homecoming (1973) ... Joe Gaitan (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1973 Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (TV Movie) - Francisco Perez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1973 The Soul of Nigger Charley - Sandoval (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1972 Los hermanos Coraje (TV Series) - 15 episodes
1972 Me llaman Martina Sola (TV Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1972)
- Episode #1.2 (1972)
- Episode #1.1 (1972)
1972 Los indomables
1972 Indio - Jesse James
1972 The Magnificent Seven Ride! - Pepe Carral (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1972 Trio y cuarteto (segment "Cuarteto")
1972 Sucedió en Jalisco - Muñoz
1972 Ni solteros, ni casados
1972 Hardcase (TV Movie) - Simon Fuegus
1972 Killer by Night (TV Movie) - Dr. Carlos Madera
1972 Primero el dólar
1971 Siete muertes para el texano
1971 Una vez, un hombre... - Suárez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1971 Vuelo 701 - Máximo
1971 River of Gold (TV Movie) - Angel (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1970 La belleza (Short)
1970 Su precio... unos dólares - Sam
1970 Macho Callahan - Juan
1970 Los juniors - Rafael Segura Jr.
1970 Chisum - Ben (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1970 The Phantom Gunslinger - Algernon
1970 Como enfriar a mi marido

1969 Honor y orgullo (TV Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1969)
- Episode #1.2 (1969)
- Episode #1.1 (1969)
1969 Las impuras
1969 Patsy, mi amor
1969 The Undefeated - Escalante (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1969 Super Colt 38 - Morton (as Pedro Armendariz)
1969 La marcha de Zacatecas - Mayor González
1969 Memories of the Future - Capitán Flores
1969 The Vampires - Carlos Mayer (as Pedro Armendariz)
1969 Todo por nada - Pedro
1969 El golfo (as Pedro Armendáriz)
1968 Los asesinos - Talbot
1968 El corrido del hijo desobediente - Ramiro
1968 No hay cruces en el mar - Sergio
1968 Amor perdoname
1968 4 contra el crimen - Gustavo
1968 Guns for San Sebastian - Father Lucas
1967 The Bandits - Priest (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
1967 Los tres mosqueteros de Dios - Manuel
1966 To Kill Is Easy - Gustavo de la Rosa
1966 The Female Soldier - Isidro
1966 El temerario
1966 Los gavilanes negros
1966 El cachorro
1966 Daniel Boone (TV Series) - First Horseman
- The High Cumberland: Part 2 (1966) ... First Horseman (as Pedro Armandarez Jr.)
1966 Outside the Law - Willy

Producer (5 credits)

1994 Dos crímenes (associate producer)
1991 Sólo con Tu Pareja (associate producer)

1985 Un retrato del indio (Documentary short) (producer)
1982 Aprendamos juntos (TV Series) (producer - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.3 (1982) ... (producer)
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... (producer)
- Episode #1.1 (1982) ... (producer)
1980 El qué sabe, sabe (TV Series) (producer - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... (producer)
- Episode #1.2 (1980) ... (producer)
- Episode #1.1 (1980) ... (producer)

Archive footage (2 credits)

2006 Licence to Kill: Deleted Scenes with Director John Glen (Video documentary short) - President Hector Lopez
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short)
Presidient Lopez

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SPYSCAPE's new online James Bond Exhibition takes you behind the scenes of 007's movie-making magic, with incredible online insights and never before seen animations, images and interviews with the people behind the ultimate spy franchise.

2021: Boxing Day in the Commonwealth.
2021: The Junkanoo street parade in the Bahamas resumes tonight through New Year's Day.

Junkanoo Bahamas

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Junkanoo Carnival is held every Boxing Day & New Year’s Day. Junkanoo is the heart and soul of Bahamian culture & the most anticipated event of the year! Here is everything you nned to know about Junkanoo!

Information

• Location: Bahamas, Nassau
• Date: 🔴 2021 Cancelled
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When is Junkanoo 2021 – 2022?
Junkanoo is a four-day celebration that always runs between Boxing Day, 26th December and New Year’s Day 1st January.

Check what restrictions may have due to covid-19. There may be restrictions and even cancellations.

Where to experience Junkanoo?
Junkanoo celebrations today occur only on the Islands of The Bahamas. The street parades are held in downtown Nassau on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. However smaller celebrations occur on other islands including the Abacos, the Exumas, Harbour Island, and Grand Bahama.

What is Junkanoo?
The Bahamas Junkanoo is held in Nassau, Bahamas. Junkanoo is an exciting four-day carnival celebration that that showcases Bahamian culture and traditions.

It attracts visitors from all over the world who descend on the Bahamas to have a great time and get immersed in the Bahamian Culture.

Uniquely Bahamian
Forget about Trinidad many believe that carnival is better in the Bahamas! Junkanoo Festival is a carnival that rivals any other throughout the Caribbean. The reason its so revered is because Junkanoo Bahamas is the ultimate celebration of everything Bahamian.

Junkanoo is the absolute heart and soul of Bahamian culture. In fact Junkanoo is the only part of Bahamian society that is uniquely Bahamian. Junkanoo in the Bahamas is all about enjoying life and embracing your heritage with dancing, music, and joy.

For Bahamian people Junkanoo is more than just a parade. The absolute essence of Junkanoo is about joy and happiness. It’s a representation of the people and their culture, music and food that makes the Bahamas such a special place.

How is Junkanoo celebrated?
Originally Junkanoo began as a small street celebration but today into something that can rival any Carnival or Mardi Gras celebration around the world!.

Junkanoo has two street parades held annually on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. So on these days you can expect large street celebrations full of music, dancing, costumes and spirited revellers. Expect an amazing display of local arts, crafts and delicious local cuisine for sale.

There is also some other carnival events including JunkaMania, Music Masters, Midnight Rush, and Road Fever. Junk Mania is a 3-night music festival that showcases Junkanoo Music, and other Junkanoo art forms like drumming and dance.

What is the History of Junkanoo
What are the origins of Junkanoo? Junkanoo is a party that has been occurring in The Bahamas for well over 500 years! The history of Junkanoo dates back to the Bahamas colonial days, when there were still slaves working on plantations.

During the Christmas season slaves were given three days off and would spend those days throwing large celebrations. The celebrations were filled with dance, music, costumes, colourful masks and see participants travel from house to house on stilts.

Others believed that The Bahamas Junkanoo started from the French ‘gens inconnus,’ which translates to ‘masked people’.

The Legend of John Canoe
Who is John Canoe? Well there is a local folk legend that believes that The Bahamas Junkanoo celebrations actually began because of a West African Prince named John Canoe who is revered for outwitting the English to become a local hero.

Rumour has it that John Canoe demanded the right along with the rights for his people to be able to celebrate even after they were captured and brought to the West Indies as a slave.

Humble Beginnings of Junkanoo
Historically Junkanoo was a more spontaneous celebrations that consisted of simple costumes and hand-made instruments. In the early parades participants work masks made from flour paste. By the 1920’s costumes were made from paper, cloth and facial painting or natural material like sea sponges.

By the 1940s anything and everything was used to make Junkanoo costumes material, crepe paper, newspaper and wires. The original Junkanoo musical instruments were home-made. created from conch shells, horns, and poinciana pods.

Junkanoo Groups
What are Junkanoo groups? Junkanoo Groups are organisations created and organised by members of the community that participate in the parades. Some of the different Junkanoo groups include the Saxons, Roots, One Family and The Valley Boys.

The Junkanoo groups have around 500-1000 members who are divided into three different categories that include musicians, dancers and costumers. Each of these three different categories is used as criteria for judging.

Each Junkanoo group competes for cash prizes and bragging rights that comes with winning the title of Best Junkanoo Group. Junkanoo Groups spend an entire year preparing and co-ordinating the parade with their chosen themes.

Themes, musical compositions, costume designs and choreographed dance moves are kept top secret all year because of how fierce the competition is in Junkanoo.

Scrap Groups
The Junkanoo Parade also features smaller groups that are called Scrap Groups who aren’t as well organised but represent broad sections of the community.

Anyone who wants is allowed to participate in Junkanoo so long as they follow a clear set of rules established by the National Junkanoo Association. Even tourists can join in the Junkanoo Parade.

Junkanoo Boxing Day & New Year’s Day Street Parade
Junkanoo has been recognised as having one of the most entertaining street parades in the world! Junkanoo Street Parade is traditionally held twice on both Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. The Parades are held in downtown Nassau on Bay and Shirley streets.

Junkanoo Street Parades contain different groups in each of the parades so you won’t feel like you’re watching the same parade again. The Parades actually begin in the early hours of the morning before the sun comes up and it gets too hot, so from around 2am-10am.

Junkanoo Parades are a visual delight full of colours and sound. Everywhere you look you will see bright colourful costumes. Rhythmic sounds fill the air made by the drums, cowbells or whistles that accompany an array brass instruments.

The Junkanoo Groups have spent months perfecting their dance routines and perform with vast amounts of energy and enthusiasm. The musicians bang out pop songs on cowbells and the goat skin drums. The elaborate costumes are on full display wowing the audience.

Both sides of the street are full with large crowds of spectators and die-hard fans that you can barely move. People climbs atop trees and street lights and fill balconies to get a good view. The atmosphere is electric everyone is dancing and everyone is having a good time.

All this is being done under the intense scrutiny of the judges who mark the groups on the who has the best music, costume and overall best group. At the end of the procession is when the judges announce the winners and hand out cash prizes and bragging rights for the next year.

Cultural expression
Cultural expression is highly revered in Junkanoo and the chosen Junkanoo themes are always incredibly creative depictions of fantasy and reality. Often you will see visual representations of The Bahamas past and present, or satirical or political themes.

Themes, musical compositions, costume designs and choreographed dance moves are kept top secret all year because of how fierce this competition is in Junkanoo.

Junkanoo Costumes
One of the things that make Junkanoo Festival so spectacular are the Junkanoo Costumes! Junkanoo costuming is a an incredibly creative and tedious process that demands thousands of man hours. The Junkanoo costume designers are required to have tremendous skill and creativity. The Junkanoo costume ideas always stem from the chosen Junkanoo groups chosen theme.

Junkanoo Costumes DIY – Junkanoo Groups spend months creating carnival costumes out not much more than styrofoam, cardboard and crepe paper. This is why Junkanoo costumes are so unique and different to typical carnival costumes because

The Junkanoo Costume designers create intricate patterns using the selected theme as inspiration onto carboard. This is then used as the base for the Junkanoo costumes. Once the structure is complete, hundreds of brilliantly coloured layers of fringed crepe paper are pasted on.

This fringe effect is what gives the Junkanoo costumes the Bahamas so much texture and dimension! Truly you will spend your time at the Junkanoo Festival wandering around admiring the Junkanoo Costumes.

Junkanoo Bahamas Music
The unique Junkanoo music is equally as lively as the costumes are beautiful. The music makes everyone want to get up and dance. Junkanoo music was heavily influence by West African drum rhythms, the blues, and other Caribbean musical sounds.

Today most of the original home-made instruments have been replaced by modern musical instruments with most Junkanoo Bahamas groups featuring a brass band and brass instruments to create the melody.

Pulsating music is produced from the goat-skin drums. However you will still see some original home-made musical instruments such as the conch shell, horns, cowbells and poinciana pods.

Junkanoo Bahamas New Year’s Day
Before the Junkanoo New Year’s Day Parade kicks off, take to the streets and watch all the firework celebrations occurring across the islands. Immediately following the fireworks all the Junkanoo groups start setting up for their parade.

Most of the locals are in church so you can see behind the scenes and feel the frenzy and excitement as the groups prepare. When church finishes thousands start to fill up the streets for the start of the next parade.

Junior Junkanoo Festival
Junior Junkanoo is all about getting the next generation excited about Junkanoo. The kids get their very own chance to join groups and perform in a children’s parade. The children’s parade is full of color and very cute to watch.

Junkanoo Festival Expo
If you were impressed by the costumes in the parade then check out the Junkanoo Expo. It is a museum dedicated to Junkanoo. It showcases some of the best costumes from the previous parades. Looking up-close lets you appreciate just how beautiful and intricate these costumes are.

Where to watch Junkanoo?
It is free to watch the parades along Bay and Shirley Streets, Bethel Avenue, Blue Hill Road and Poinciana Drive. However you will be fighting with thousands of others for a good view so we highly recommend arriving early.

Junkanoo Festival Tickets
The best way to watch the parade is to buy a ticket for one of the many grandstands that align the parade route. Tickets can be purchased from the official website bahamasjunkanoocarnival.com.

How to get to Junkanoo Bahamas?
The best way to get to the Bahamas is to fly. The airport is connected to many international airports. To get a quote for a flight click here.

You can also arrive by boat from another island or the USA. Once you are on the island it is very easy to take a taxi around.

Where to stay for Junkanoo Bahamas?
There are hundreds of options for accommodations. From luxurious resorts and hotels, to guesthouses there is something for all budgets. Most tourists stay in the Paradise Island area of Nassau, and just take a taxi to the carnival parade.

Most of the action takes place in downtown Nassau and there are plenty of hotels and guest houses in this area if you want to be close to the action.

Thunderfinger

Interesting informations from Danish United Artists ad sheet there. Blofeld is now played by Charles Gray, after previously having been played by Gert Froebe, Adolfo Celi, Donald Pleasence and Telly Savalas.

RichardTheBruce

December 27th

1960: Maryam d'Abo is born--London, England.

1972: Live and Let Die films 007 surveilling his hotel room for bugging devices. Also the last day of filming in Jamaica includes Ross Kananga at Jamaica Swamp Safari, Falmouth.

1974: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ο άνθρωπος με το χρυσό πιστόλι (James Bond, Agent 007: The Man With the Gold Pistol) released in Greece.

Later video marketing.



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1981: Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael dies at age 82--Rancho Mirage, California.
(Born 22 November 1899--Bloomington, Indiana.)

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.

2019: The New Year Honours List recognizes Samuel Alexander Mendes to become a Knight Bachelor, Order of the British Empire, for services to Drama.

2020 New Year Honours

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_New_Year_Honours

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

The riband and badge of the
"Companions of Honour"

Order of the Companions of Honour

Companion of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

• Sir Elton Hercules John CBE – For services to Music and charity
• Sir Keith Vivian Thomas FBA – For services to the Study of History

Knight Bachelor

• David Julian Bintley CBE – For services to Dance
• Humphrey Burton CBE – For services to Classical Music, to the Arts and to Media
• Professor Anthony Kevin Cheetham FRS, Distinguished Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge – For services to Material Chemistry, to UK Science and to Global Outreach
• Peter Kenneth Estlin, Lately Lord Mayor of London – For services to International Business, to Inclusion and to Skills.
• Dr Dennis Barry Gillings CBE – For services to the Advancement of Dementia and to Life Sciences Research
• Francis John Stapylton Habgood, QPM, lately Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police. For services to Policing
• Christopher James Hampton, CBE, playwright. For services to Drama
• Clive Lloyd CBE - For services to Cricket
• Samuel Alexander Mendes, CBE, theatre and film director. For services to Drama
• Robert James Macgillivray Neill, MP. Member of Parliament for Bromley and Chislehurst. For political service
• Menelas Nicolas Pangalos. Executive Vice-President, and President, Biopharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca. For services to UK Science
• Rt Hon George Iain Duncan Smith MP - for political and public service.
• Simon Laurence Stevens. Chief Executive of the National Health Service. For services to Health and the NHS in England
• Jonathan Richard Symonds, CBE. Chair, Genomics England and Deputy Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc. For services to UK Life Sciences and Finance
• William Gennydd Thomas. For charitable and political service
• Professor Duncan John Wingham. Professor of Climate Physics, University College London and Executive Chair, Natural Environment Research Council. For services to Climate Science
• Andrew William Graham Wylie, CBE. Co-Founder, The Sage Group plc and Chair and Founder, Technology Services Group. For services to Business and charity

Diplomatic Service and Overseas List

• Steven Rodney McQueen CBE - For services to Film

2021: 007xSPYSCAPE presents their immersive James Bond exhibition in New York City, New York.

007xSPYSCAPE: The James Bond Immersive Exhibition

See the complete article here:

https://feverup.com/m/102102

Mon 27 Dec
⭐ 007xSPYSCAPE is an immersive James Bond exhibition that uses projection mapping and larger-than-life installations to take you inside the magic of 007

Tickets
🎫 Standard (Adult or Child) - includes admission to the exhibition
🎫 Premium (Adult or Child) - includes admission plus a $10 retail voucher
🎫 VIP (Adult or Child) - includes admission plus a 156-page hardback 007xSPYSCAPE book ($30 RRP)

Highlights
✨ Experience all that is 007 through projection mapping and larger-than-life installations
😮 See James Bond's actual Aston Martin DB5, investigate gadgets in Q's lab, go behind the scenes on Skyfall's film production, and explore original artworks
🎬 Enjoy never-before-seen images and animations plus brand-new interviews with the people who make the movie magic

General Info
📅 Dates: until December 31st
🕒 Opening hours: (last admission is 90 minutes before closing)
- Wednesdays–Thursdays: 12pm–8pm
- Fridays–Saturdays: 11am–9pm
- Sundays: 11am–7pm
⏳ Duration: a complete visit will take around 30-45 minutes
📍 Location: SPYSCAPE
👤 Age requirement: all ages are welcome. Children 5 and under are always free
❓ You can find FAQs and more details about the experience here
♿ Accessibility: entrances, galleries, retail spaces, café, and restrooms are accessible via wheelchair and walker. A limited number of wheelchairs are available free of charge on a first-come, first-served basis. Service animals are welcome inside SPYSCAPE
✔️ Safety measures will be in place throughout the experience
📄 Proof of vaccination is required for entry to this event

Description
This all-new immersive James Bond exhibition uses projection mapping and larger-than-life installations to take you inside the magic of 007. You'll find James Bond's actual Aston Martin DB5, investigate gadgets in Q's lab, go behind the scenes on the film production set for the explosive finale of Skyfall, and explore original artworks in Oscar®-winner Sir Ken Adam's studio. With never-before-seen images and animations, plus brand-new interviews with the people who make the movie magic, 007xSPYSCAPE will appeal to fans of design and film-making as much as to James Bond fans.

Getting there
SPYSCAPE
928 8th Ave, 10019
59th St - Columbus Circle - 1
57th St - 7th Ave - N-Q-R

RichardTheBruce

December 28th

1956: Fleming writes a letter to Wren Howard questioning his own "enthusiasm for Bond and his unlikely adventures."

The Man With the Golden Typewriter, Thomas Fleming, 2015.

TO WREN HOWARD

Fleming had written on 28 December 1956 to clarify the terms of a serialization in the Daily Express, to thank Daniel George fulsomely for his comments—‘I think the book has been greatly improved as a result’—and to assure Howard that he had no intention of changing publisher. But he cast a warning note:

‘Incidentally, when you talk airily of future books, I do beg you to believe that the vein of my inventiveness is running extremely dry and I seriously doubt if I shall be able to complete a book in Jamaica this year. There are many reasons for this, which I need not go into, but I am finding it increasingly difficult to work up enthusiasm for Bond and his unlikely adventures.’

1971: Comic strip Trouble Spot begins its run in the Daily Express.
(Ends 10 June 1972. 1810–1951) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.popoptiq.com/trouble-spot/



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


http://venusianfrogbroth.blogspot.com/2016/07/trouble-spot-by-lawrence-and-horak.html

Swedish Semic Comic 1973 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1973.php3

Dödligt Budskap
(Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)

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

Dödligt Budskap
(Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)

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

Dödligt Budskap
(Trouble Spot)

Danish 1974 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no27-1974/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 27:
“Trouble Spot” (1974)
"Dræbende budskab"
[= Lethal Message]

1972: Live and Let Die films OO7 and a close shave with an asp.

1991: Cassandra Harris (Sandra Colleen Waites) dies at age 43--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 15 December 1948--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.)

Cassandra Harris; TV, Movie Actress

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-30-mn-878-story.html
Dec. 30, 1991

Cassandra Harris, movie and TV actress, died Saturday at USC Cancer Center after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 39.

Miss Harris was a native of Australia acclaimed for her beauty. She was included in Lord Patrick Lichfield’s book The World’s Most Beautiful Women and also appeared on the cover of British Vogue in addition to several other magazines.

She probably was best known to film audiences as Countess Lisl in the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.

The wife of Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, she had a recurring role as con-artist Felicia in her husband’s popular television series, “Remington Steele.”

Miss Harris began her acting career as a child in Sydney, and at 16 won a scholarship to Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art. She eventually won Australia’s Best Actress Award and moved to England to appear in that country’s National Theatre.

In addition to her work on the British stage, she starred in such British television productions as “All Out at Kangaroo Valley” and the “Dick Barton” and “The Boy Merlin” series.

In addition to her husband, Miss Harris is survived by their three children, Charlotte, 19; Christopher, 18, and Sean William, 7.

Cassandra Harris (I) (1948–1991)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364520/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (9 credits)

1986 Five Days (Short) - Librarian
1982-1985 Remington Steele (TV Series)
Felicia / Anna Simpson / Catherine Simone
- Steele Searching: Part 2 (1985) ... Felicia
- Steele Searching: Part 1 (1985) ... Felicia
- Woman of Steele (1984) ... Anna Simpson
- Thou Shalt Not Steele (1982) ... Felicia / Catherine Simone
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Lisl
1980 Rough Cut - Mrs. Lloyd Palmer
1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Trudi Engel
- The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Trudi Engel

1979 Dick Barton: Special Agent (TV Series) - Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 9 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 8 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 4 (1979) ... Melissa
- Adventure One: Part 2 (1979) ... Melissa
1978 Shadows (TV Series) - Ismena
- The Boy Merlin (1978) ... Ismena
1978 The Greek Tycoon - Cassandra
1977 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Sares / Controller
- Devil's Planet (1977) ... Sares / Controller

Self (4 credits)

2006 For Your Eyes Only: Bond in Greece (Video documentary short) - Herself
1984 Late Night with David Letterman (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode dated 20 November 1984 (1984) ... Herself
1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1981 Saturday Night at the Mill (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode #6.11 (1981) ... Herself

Archive footage (4 credits)

2018 Celebrity Page (TV Series) - Herself
- Episode #4.57 (2018) ... Herself
2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself

1995: James Bond 007 - GoldenEye released in Germany.

2002: BBC airs James Bond - A BAFTA Tribute celebrating 40 years of the film series.

James Bond: A BAFTA
Tribute (2002)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347268/
1h 25min | TV Special 28 December 2002

Director: Stuart McDonald
Writer: Steve Punt
Stars: Michael Parkinson, Shirley Bassey, Ken Adam, many others

James Bond 40th Anniversary BAFTA Tribute

2002: Pierce Brosnan in the Irish Examiner proposes who the next Bond actor could be.

Pierce Brosnan reveals who he
thinks should be next Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30082189.html

Pierce Brosnan has revealed who he thinks should succeed him in the role of James Bond.
Sat, 28 Dec, 2002 - 08:51

Pierce Brosnan has revealed who he thinks should succeed him in the role of James Bond.

Brosnan says he thinks the next 007 should be Colin Salmon.

Salmon has already appeared in three Bond films as Charles Robinson.

Brosnan says he thinks Salmon is a "great actor".

"It'll be interesting to see how I really kind of deal with it, letting go" he says.

"You become a bit possessive of the role. Especially when you've had the success like you do with Die Another Day, and each one has gotten better and better," Brosnan says.

2015: Big Comics Special Edition reprints Takao Saito's manga 007 series for 女王陛下の007 (Jo'ō Heika no Zero Zero Sebun/Her Majesty's Secret Service) and 黄金の銃を持つ男 (Ōgon no Jū o Motsu Otoko/The Man with the Golden Gun). Serialized monthly in Shogakukan's Boy's Life magazine December 1964 to August 1967.

女王陛下の007



黄金の銃を持つ男


1981 reprint.

2015: The Guardian remembers an interview with Sean Connery from 28 December 1971.

Sean Connery, back in Bondage -
interview

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/28/james-bond-sean-connery-interview-1971-archive

28 December 1971: Tom Hutchinson talks to Sean Connery about his
love/hate affair with James Bond
Tom Hutchinson - Mon 28 Dec 2015 00.30 EST

Sean Connery, December 1971. Photograph: Don Morley/The Guardian

Sean Connery ordered a Perrier water because he had been drinking heavily the night before and, mortal, had not been able to make a James Bond-like with one leap he was free escape from the clutches of the resulting hangover. He watched the elegant back of Kenneth Tynan disappearing into the further recesses of the restaurant. “K-k-kenneth (sic) f-f-fucking T-t-tynan,” he mimicked. “Spends his life criticising plays from a position of lofty principle and then dives into a show like “Oh, Calcutta!” which isn’t half so well presented as Raymond’s Revuebar where I was the other night. Even though the Revuebar champagne is so bloody pricey…

‘Of course the
films will go on, but
who’ll play me?’
Sean Connery

“I’ll give Tynan one thing, though: I was once at a party and he was there and there was this fight between two men over a girl and he helped separate the men and do you know what he said? ‘Stop behaving like people,’ he said. He must have been waiting all his life for a situation where he could make a remark like that.”

He ordered a dozen oysters and consumed them with the avid rapidity of a man who is now aged forty-one and knows he needs the vitamins to make him feel human again. For the actor who has so often assumed the myth of snobbish thuggery that is Bond he is very human indeed: he does not evade or avoid; talks with a fine growl of voice that, when relaxed, occasionally lapses into the dour vowels inherited from a working-class background in the tougher areas of Edinburgh (milkman, lorry driver, cement mixer, bricklayer, steel bender, coffin-polisher, and other grinding etceteras). He uses four-letter words like a dramatic technician: to freeze what you might pass off as a casual remark into a statement of import.

His new Bond film, “Diamonds Are Forever,” is to be released on Thursday (Odeon, Leicester Square) and he had, he said, been put through the necessary mill of interviews to promote that event. “At least you converse. Usually I hate interviews because I end up boring myself listening to me talking all the time.” He managed, though, to talk without self-inflicting too much pain.

Sean Connery as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Photograph: Allstar/UNITED ARTISTS

His love-hate affair with the character of Bond began ten years ago, when producers Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli signed him up for “Dr No[.” He is not exactly in sympathy with the character (“I’ve only read two Bond books; I found Ian Fleming himself much more interesting than his writing”), but realises that without Bond he would not be the rich man he is today. He is a director of a Pall Mall bank and was able to donate a lot of the money to his self-founded Scottish International Educational Trust from the deal he made on “Diamonds Are Forever.”

The role of Bond was taken over for the last film, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” by George Lazenby, an actor whose most eloquent claim to previous fame was as Big Fry in the TV commercial. The result was a Big Drag. The lure that trapped Connery back again in the part was the chance to produce two further films of his own choice for United Artists, a large percentage of the profits and a start-stop clause in his contract which meant that if shooting over-ran 18 weeks he would be paid $10,000 a week. The film finished on time.

“It can be done, you see, if there’s money at stake. I’d been frigged about too much on other Bond pictures. There’s so much bullshit that comes from bad decisions being made at the top. I admire efficiency: like watching a good racehorse or the way Picasso works: where everything functions perfectly within its capacity. But talking to some of these moguls about it is like trying to describe to someone who has never taken exercise what it is like to feel fit when you do exercise. They don’t understand.”

He is notably overt in his opinions of producers Saltzman and Broccoli (“for every good idea Harry has had he’s gone on to eight flops”) and said: “They’re not exactly enamoured of each other. Probably because they’re both sitting on fifty million dollars or pounds and looking across the desk at each other and thinking: that bugger’s got half of what should be all mine.”

He revealed his lack of Bond’s culinary conceit by saying he couldn’t remember what lobster thermidor was, settled for cold lobster instead, and maintained yet again that “Diamonds Are Forever” would be the last Bond film he would ever make. “Of course the films will go on, but who’ll play me I just don’t know and can’t guess.”

This is an edited extract, read the full article
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RichardTheBruce

December 29th

1959: A letter from Ian Fleming to friend and partner Ivar Bryce considers possibilities. Including diminishing Kevin McClory's involvement in the Bond film project.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 13 - Disaster Strikes

When rumours reached Fleming that Bryce was having second thoughts he
wrote to his old friend on 29 December: "Having heard nothing from you for so
long, I presume you are not dead," he began. "I have no idea what your plans are for the whole project, but the frost-bitten right toe which I suffered at my
delicious Thanksgiving weekend is pulsating that you may have gone a bit cold on
the whole business. If so, I shall perfectly understand. The idea of a $3 million
budget with Kevin [McClory] at the helm dismays me, although I'm sure he could help to
make a James Bond film that would please us both and bring in the cash
customers. But I'm in the dark about all this and it may be that the jelly has jelled
since I last saw you."

At the start of the project, Fleming had led McClory to believe that he
was the only person whom he would like to produce the Bond film, and
realized too that it would be a very costly enterprise. Now he seemed
to be using the very size of the project to undermine McClory's authority as
producer and suggesting to Bryce that he be merely an assistant of some
kind who could "help" with the picture. Also if Fleming's sums were correct
the intended budget was now $3 million, and astronomical sum, and three
times the eventual budget of 1962's Dr. No. Little wonder that Bryce was
stepping back from the prospect of having to foot most that bill himself.
"Showbiz is a ghastly biz," Fleming concluded in his letter. "And the last thing
I want is for your to lose your pin-striped trousers in its grisly maw, however
much fun you may have in the process. Nor do I want the first James Bond
film to be botched, but the first consideration is primary. If you decide to
skip the whole thing, don't forget that you have, or should have, a good
saleable property in the script, so all is not completely lost." In other words,
if Bryce wasn't going to make the film, maybe they could find somebody else
that would. But where would that leave McClory?

Most of all it left the vexed question of who exactly owned the Bond film
project. McClory made it clear that as a partner in Xanadu he believed he owned
a share in it and was unwilling to let it go...

1965: Thunderball released in the UK--premiere at the London Pavilion and Rialto theaters. At the Pavilion, includes a midnight gala benefiting the British Rheumatism & Arthritis Association.

1965: Variety reports Thunderball out-grosses Goldfinger to date. For the next film, a shorter filming schedule and budget are expected.
1965: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Επιχείρηση Κεραυνός (James Bond, Agent 007: Enterprise Thunderbolt) released in Greece.

1966: You Only Live Twice films 12 days at Pinewood's Stage E.

1971: Gyémántok az örökkévalóságnak (Diamonds For Eternity) released in Hungary.

1995: GoldenEye released in Austria.

2016: South China Morning Post reports on 2D game I Expect You To Die from Schell Games.

Game review: I Expect You To Die – 007-
inspired puzzle game revels in the spy genre’s
thrills and clichés

See the complete article here:

https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2057642/game-review-i-expect-you-die-007-inspired-puzzle-game

Even playing in standard 2D format, this short but sweet game offers challenging escape-room-type puzzles
Pavan Shamdasani | Published: 7:46am, 29 Dec, 2016

A still from I Expect You to Die. The James Bond theme is evident.

I Expect You To Die
Schell Games
4 stars

“Do you expect me to talk?,” asks the tuxedoed spy, strapped down and facing a comically oversized laser. “No, Mr Bond,” replies the slightly pudgy German villain. “I expect you to die!”

I love that scene from the James Bond film Goldfinger. It’s my favourite part of an otherwise average Bond flick – and appropriately it provides the title of this cool little spy game.

Full disclosure, though: most critics are harping on about its virtual-reality capabilities, but my low budget meant we were forced to play it on a standard PC. That didn’t detract much from the overall gameplay, but we imagine complete immersion is a decidedly different experience.

I Expect You To Die - Launch Trailer (1:07)

The concept is simple, taking 1960s-style spy film clichés and transporting them into escape-room puzzle environments. But what could have been yet another set of stealthy situations poorly put together, are instead clever, crafty and often comical takes on being an overly curious video game spy.

Let’s say you have to steal a car off a cargo ship. You’ve sneaked into the driver’s seat and maybe you want to start it up. Simply enough, right? Nope, the retina eye-scan immediately goes off and you’re quickly burned to a crisp.

A still from the game I Expect You To Die.

Most games take death a little too seriously, but Die takes its name seriously (if little else), and you really are expected to croak it numerous times before finding the not-too-obvious solution. Submarine escapes, serum concoctions – there’s a whole lot of classic espionage love in this package, everything from its British-tinged voiceover to the overly obvious quips and one-liners. We can’t say we loved every single one of them, but we did appreciate the exactitude.

Sadly, there aren’t enough levels here to sustain a proper experience, although that might change with add-ons and patches.

Die takes its “super-spy” concept a little too far, giving your character strange telekinesis powers. I mean, we’re all for a bit of outlandish Moonraker-style escapades, but superpowers, really? Nevertheless, I Expect You to Die is a clever game, one of the smartest we’ve played all year. There’s a little bit too much that’s silly to make it one of our favourite spy games of all time, but in full-frontal VR we imagine it’s an experience worth dying for.

'I Expect You To Die' Opening Credits (2:37)


I Expect You To Die VR FULL WALKTHROUGH [NO COMMENTARY] 1080P 60FPS (1:11:17)

2020: CineFix offers YouTube watchalong of GoldenEye with Martin Campbell and Famke Janssen in attendance.

Watch ‘GoldenEye’ Live with
Martin Campbell and
Famke Janssen

See the complete article here:

https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/

On 24 Dec, 2020 By Bond on the Box | In Film Screenings

GoldenEye Live Watch Along w/ Famke Janssen and Martin Campbell (2:55:40)

CineFix will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of ‘GoldenEye’ (1995) by hosting a watchalong with actress Famke Janssen (Xenia Onatopp) and director Martin Campbell, on Tuesday, 29 December, 2020.

Hosted by CineFix, the event is a ‘Watch From Home’ special encouraging viewers to stay safe, and stay home, during the pandemic.

The event will stream live on YouTube from 7:00 PM (GMT).

RichardTheBruce

December 30th

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Obituary: Jack Lord

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jack Lord (I) (1920–1998)

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

Filmography

Actor (75 credits)

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

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

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

1949 Project X - John Bates

Producer (3 credits)

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

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

1950 Cry Murder (associate producer)

Director (2 credits)

1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie)

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

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

1970: The San Francisco Examiner reports John Gavin and Burt Reynolds tested for the Bond role.

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1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in the UK.

Concept art

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

VCD

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

Later video marketing.

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

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

1999 New Year Honours

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RichardTheBruce

December 31st

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

1961: The Susan Barnes Sunday Express interview "Women and Me — by the Screen's James Bond" ends on violence towards women and Barnes abruptly exiting actor Sean Connery's apartment.

1963: Deed of Assignment executed this date states Ian Fleming, Ivar Bryce, and publisher Jonathan Cape assign rights to Kevin McClory for "all the copyright in the film scripts and the exclusive right to re-produce any part of the novel Thunderball in films and for the purpose of making such films to make scripts." And specifically from Fleming, "the exclusive right to the character James Bond as a character in any such scripts or film of Thunderball."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DONALD WESTLAKE

See the complete article here:

https://www.donaldwestlake.com/autobiography

Autobiography

Don (center) doing the interrogating.

I think I’d best treat this as an interrogation, in which I am not certain of the intent or attitude of the interrogator.

I was born Donald Edwin Westlake on July 12th, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York. My mother, Lillian, maiden name Bounds, mother’s maiden name Fitzgerald, was all Irish. My father, Albert, his mother’s maiden name being Tyrrell, was half Irish. (The English snuck in, as they will.) They were all green, and I was born on Orangeman’s Day, which led to my first awareness of comedy as a consumer. I got over the unfortunate element of my birth long before my uncles did.

My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up. One of her beliefs was that people whose initials spelled something would be successful in life. That’s why I went through grammar school as Dewdrip. However, my mother forgot Confirmation, when the obedient Catholic is burdened with yet another name. So she stuck Edmond in there, and told me that E was behind the E of Edwin, so I wasn’t DEEW, I was DEW. Perhaps it helped.

I attended three colleges, all in New York State, none to much effect. Interposed amid this schooling was two and a half years in the United States Air Force, during which I also learned very little, except a few words in German. I was a sophomore in three colleges, finally made junior in Harpur College in Binghamton, NY, and left academe forever. However, I was eventually contacted by SUNY Binghamton, the big university that Harpur College had grown up to become. It was their theory that their ex-students who did not graduate were at times interesting, and worthy to be claimed as alumni. Among those she mentioned were cartoonist Art Spiegelman and dancer Bill T. Jones, a grandfaloon I was very happy to join, which I did when SUNY Binghamton gave me a doctorate in letters in June 1996. As a doctor, I accept no co-pay.

I have one sister, one wife and two ex-wives. (You can’t have ex-sisters, but that’s all right, I’m pleased with the one I have.) The sister was named by my mother Virginia, but my mother had doped out the question of Confirmation by then–Virigina’s two and half years younger than me, still–and didn’t give here a middle name. Her Confirmation name was Olga, the only thing my mother could find that would make VOW. The usual mother-daughter dynamic being in play, my sister immediately went out and married a man whose name started with B.

My wife, severally Abigail Westlake, Abby Adams Westlake and Abby Adams, which makes her three wives right there, is a writer, of non-fiction, frequently gardening, sometimes family history. Her two published books are An Uncommon Scold and The Gardener’s Gripe Book.

Seven children lay parental claims on us. They have all reached drinking age, so they’re on their own.

Having been born in Brooklyn, I was raised first in Yonkers and then in Albany, schooled in Platttsburgh and Troy and Binghamton, and at last found Manhattan. (At least I was looking in the right state.) Abby was born in Manhattan, which makes it easier. We retain a rope looped over a butt there, but for the last decade have spent most of our time on an ex-farm upstate. It is near nothing, which is the point. Our nearest neighbor on two sides is Coach Farm, producer of a fine goat cheese I’ve eaten as far away as San Francisco. They have 750 goats up there on their side of the hill. More importantly, they have put 770 acres abutting our land into the State Land Conservancy, so it cannot be built on. I recommend everybody have Miles and Lillian Cann and Coach Farm as their neighbors.

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New York City, 1959

I knew I was a writer when I was eleven; it took the rest of the world about ten years to begin to agree. Up till then, my audience was mainly limited to my father, who was encouraging and helpful, and ultimately influential in an important way.

Neophyte writers are always told, “write what you know,” but the fact is, kids don’t know anything. A beginning writer doesn’t write what he knows, he writes what he read in books or saw in movies. And that’s the way it was with me. I wrote gangster stories, I wrote stories about cowboys, I wrote poems about prospecting–in Alaska, so I could rhyme with “cold”–I wrote the first chapters of all kinds of novels. The short stories I mailed off to magazines, and they mailed them back in the self-addressed, stamped envelopes I had provided. And in the middle of it all, my father asked me a question which, probably more than any other single thing, decided what kind of writer I was going to be.

I was about fourteen. I’d written a science-fiction about aliens from another planet who come to Earth and hire a husband-wife team of big-game hunters to help them collect examples of every animal on Earth for their zoo back on Alpha Centauri or wherever. At the end of the story, they kidnap the hero and heroine and take them away in the spaceship because they want examples of every animal on Earth.

Now, this was a perfectly usable story. It has been written and published dozens of times, frequently with Noah’s Ark somewhere in the title, and my version was simply that story again, done with my sentences. I probably even thought I’d made it up.

So I showed it to my father. He read it and said one or two nice things about the dialogue or whatever, and then he said, “why did you write this story?”

I didn’t know what he meant. The true answer was that science-fiction magazines published that story with gonglike regularity and I wanted a story published somewhere. This truth was so implicit I didn’t even have words to describe it, and therefore there was no way to understand the question.

So he asked it a different way: “What’s the story about?” Well, it’s about these people that get taken to be in a zoo on Alpha Centauri. “No, what’s it about?” he said. “The old fairy tales that you read when you were a little boy, they all had a moral at the end. If you put a moral at the end of this story, what would it be?”

I didn’t know. I didn’t know what the moral was. I didn’t know what the story was about.

The truth was, of course, that the story wasn’t about anything. It was a very modest little trick, like a connect-the-dots thing on a restaurant place mat. There’s nothing particularly wrong with connect-the-dots things, and there’s nothing particularly wrong with this constructivist kind of writing, a little story or a great big fat novel with nothing and nobody in it except this machine that turns over and at the end this jack-in-the-box pops out. There’s nothing wrong with that.

But it isn’t what I thought I wanted to be. So that question of my father’s wriggled right down into my brain like a worm, and for quite a while it took the fun out of things. I’d be sitting there writing a story about mobsters having a shootout in a nightclub office–straight out of some recent movie–and the worm would whisper: Why are you writing this story?

Naturally, I didn’t want to listen, but I had no real choice in the matter. The question kept coming, and I had to try to figure out some way to answer it, and so, slowly and gradually, I began to find out what I was doing. And ultimately I refined the question itself down to this: What does this story mean to me that I should spend my valuable time creating it?

And that’s how I began to become a writer.

Ancram, New York – Winter, 2001
Credit: David Jennings for The New York Times

Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008)

Writer | Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922799/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

FOREVER AND A DEATH

See the complete article here:

http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?title=Forever and a Death

Donald E. Westlake
June 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78565-423-7

Cover art by Paul Mann

A FORTUNE IN STOLEN GOLD...
A DEVICE THAT WILL KILL MILLIONS...
AND JUST ONE MAN CAN STOP IT!

Read a sample chapter
http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?entry=bk144&type=excerpt

Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up—about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was returned to Chinese rule—had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure, but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good story go to waste, Westlake wrote an original novel based on the premise instead—a novel he never published while he was alive.

Now, nearly a decade after Westlake’s death, Hard Case Crime is proud to give that novel its first publication ever, together with a brand new afterword by one of the movie producers describing the project’s genesis, and to give fans their first taste of the Westlake-scripted Bond that might have been.

First publication ever!
A lost novel by MWA Grand Master Donald E. Westlake
Inspired by Westlake’s treatment for a James Bond movie that never got filmed

Acclaim for DONALD E. WESTLAKE...

"One of the great writers of the 20th Century."
— Newsweek

"Westlake’s ability to construct an action story filled with unforeseen twists and quadruple-crosses is unparalleled."
— San Francisco Chronicle

"The novel’s deeper meditations will keep you thinking long after you’ve closed the book."
— USA Today

2011: Reports say Craig almost quit the Bond role after Quantum of Solace.

James Bond star almost quit as 007

See the complete article here:

https://britmovietours.com/movie-tv-news/james-bond-star-almost-quit-as-007/

Post by lewis. Posted in James Bond, News on December 31, 2011.

In a recent interview, James Bond star Daniel Craig admitted he almost quit as James Bond. The actor who also stars in the remake of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ says he considered walking away due to lengthy delays due to MGM suffering from financial problems.

However fortunes changed for both MGM and Daniel Craig as he has now restarted work on Bond 23 ‘Skyfall’ with director Sam Mendes. He said “There was that long period where Bond maybe wasn’t happening. I’d got it into my head that if it went another two years on top of the two-year gap we’d already had, then they should probably find someone else. And I should think about getting on with things.

However, Craig also said he had “no desire to escape the role” now and said that Bond fans awaiting the release of Skyfall will be in for a real spectacular.

2020: CinemaBlend reports why Steven Soderbergh turned down directing a Bond movie.

Why Steven Soderbergh Turned Down
Directing A James Bond Movie

See the complete article here:

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2560814/why-steven-soderbergh-turned-down-directing-a-bond-movie

By Adreon Patterson published December 31, 2020

Daniel Craig in No Time to Die

For any director, getting asked to direct a James Bond film is a career highlight. There’s been the legendary run of John Glen to Sam Mendes’ gritty reinterpretation to Cary Joji Fukunaga overseeing Daniel Craig’s final Bond movie. At some point, Eon Productions and MGM were courting celebrated filmmaker Steven Soderbergh to enter the Bond pantheon, and now the acclaimed director discussed why his vision of Bond never made it to the silver screen.

Steven Soderbergh recently spoke with the podcast Happy Sad Confused to discuss his latest film Let Them All Talk. He spoke on a variety of subjects, including his take on film’s future and the importance of 2011’s Contagion in today’s climate. The conversation eventually turned to the director’s brief brush with the iconic spy franchise. Soderbergh explained to the podcast how his vision of 007 didn’t match up with MGM and Eon Production.

Absolutely. Yeah. I love that world. I
think we were at odds about some
things that were important. We had
some great conversations, and it
was fun to think about. But we just
couldn't...the last ten yards were,
we just couldn't do it. We just
couldn't figure it out.

Given how experimental Soderbergh’s work tends to be, I could see where MGM and he might have clashed over Bond’s portrayal. He might have wanted to take Bond in directions Eon may have seen as going against the Bond brand. Soderbergh’s timeline did line up with the Daniel Craig era – Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall. The same thing happened with fellow Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle after being chosen to direct Daniel Craig’s final Bond film. His clash with the production company eventually led to him leaving the project and Fukunaga stepping in.

Around the time Soderbergh was being vetted for a Bond film, he had decided to take a brief hiatus from filmmaking due to the current Hollywood system. The filmmaker in him didn’t die as he directed and produced more projects during his “hiatus” than any other time in his career.

But Soderbergh’s career hasn’t suffered from not doing a Bond film, to say the least. He went on to direct films such as the Magic Mike series, Side Effects and Haywire. The celebrated director even delved into television as the driving force behind the acclaimed Emmy-winning HBO television film Behind the Candelabra with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.

In recent years, Steven Soderbergh has returned to being behind the camera with critically acclaimed films such as Logan Lucky, Unsane, High Flying Bird and The Laundromat. He just wrapped filming No Sudden Moves with an all-star cast including Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Jon Hamm and Ray Liotta. It’s nice to see someone as prolific as Soderbergh not let one film stop him from doing his craft even after taking some time away from the film industry.

If you want more Steven Soderbergh, check out his latest film Let Them All Talk on HBO Max.

2021: Last day for The Bond Experience in Chicago. And Pittsburgh. And San Francisco.

The Bond Experience: Become A Famous
Mi6 Agent (Chicago)

https://www.explorehidden.com/event/details/the-bond-experience-become-a-famous-mi6-agent-1547752

The Bond Experience: Become A Famous
Mi6 Agent (Pittsburgh)

https://explorehidden.com/event/details/the-bond-experience-become-a-famous-mi6-agent-pittsburgh-1548294

The Bond Experience: Become A Famous
Mi6 Agent (San Francisco)

https://www.explorehidden.com/public/event/details/the-bond-experience-become-a-famous-mi6-agent-san-francisco-1548434

2021: Last day for the SPYSCAPE James Bond Exhibition in New York.

007 X SPYSCAPE
SPYSCAPE
4 Oct 2021 — 31 Dec 2021

See the complete article here:

https://www.tiqets.com/en/spyscape-tickets-l146455/007-x-spyscape-e13249/

In New York's first James Bond exhibition, you can discover the skills and secrets behind MI6's most notorious agent. You'll also get to experience the movies' magic through gadgets, memorabilia, and never-before-seen animations, interviews, and images.

Only included with All Access Pass.

2021: New Year's Eve 15 key moments from 2021 with the London Eye include James Bond.
Virtually. In a two-minute light display.

Celebrate 15 key moments from
2021 with the London Eye on New
Year's Eve

See the complete article here:

https://www.timeout.com/london/news/celebrate-15-key-moments-from-2021-with-the-london-eye-on-new-years-eve-122221

Tune in on December 31 to remember some of the most significant moments of the year
Written by Lauryn Berry | Wednesday 22 December 2021

Sadly, on December 31, we won’t be able to stand in the freezing cold and sing Auld Lang Syne in Trafalgar Square while fireworks blast off and fill the sky. Like many New Year’s celebrations and parties, the central London shindig has been cancelled due to the ongoing Covid crisis.

It’s been a weird year, but it hasn’t all been bad. We’ve had some spectacular moments that have given us hope and reminded us all what it’s like to experience ‘real life’ surrounded by unique, incredible, (and yes, sometimes, slightly annoying) people.

In order to celebrate these key moments, London Eye has prepared a special two-minute light display which will be streamed on all of their social channels at 4pm on December 31.

The giant wheel’s lights will change to represent different moments: shining blue to applaud the NHS’s resilience and hard work throughout the pandemic; orange-red in honour of NASA’s rover landing on Mars in February; turning into a Union Jack to remember Captain Sir Tom Moore who passed away in February; a radiant rainbow will represent Pride and the LGBTQ+ community; and finally the lights will be turned off in a tribute to Prince Philip’s passing and the anniversary of George untimely Floyd’s death.

Other celebrated events will include a whole lot of sports: from England reaching the finals in the Euro 2021, the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics and Paralympics, and finally Emma Raducanu’s incredible victory at the US Open.

London Eye’s lights will also flicker and change to green to represent the importance of COP26 and our collective responsibility in fighting climate change; pink and blue to represent the arrivals of four royal babies; and red to celebrate Marcus Rashford’s MBE award.

Our beloved pop-culture will get a couple of mentions too, with black and white lights for the latest James Bond installment ‘No Time to Die’, and even the ‘Friends’ reunion (remember that?) will get a mention with big bright red, yellow, and blue lights. After all, where would we all be if we hadn’t had entertainment to get us through multiple lockdowns?

Lauryn Berry

2021: Licence to Party New Year's Eve at Embargo Republica, London, England.

LICENCE TO PARTY NEW YEAR'S EVE

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https://fixr.co/event/857936313

Friday 31 Dec | Opens 10:00 PM (GMT) at Embargo Republica

Licence to party New Year's Eve
The name's Bond, James Bond....
Embargo cordially invites you for an evening of glitz and glamour 007 style.

Dress code is sexy and stylish, suit and bow tie preferred but not essential... it's all about the party!

Lots of secret missions to be confirmed so hold fire all to be revealed in the coming weeks.

First 50 spies will receive a complimentary James Bond Belvedere martini cocktail.

This will be a dangerously good end to 2021, do not miss out and get your tickets now!

There will be tickets on the door @ £40

Organised by
Embargo Republica
Venue
Embargo Republica, 533b King's Road , London, SW10 0TZ
Embargo Republica

• Last entry: 2:00 AM (GMT). Closes 4:00 AM (GMT)
• Over 18s only
• Photo ID required
• Dress to impress, No fancy dress

2021: New Year's Eve and The Music of James Bond at Manchester, England.

The Music of James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.visitmanchester.com/whats-on/the-music-of-james-bond-p560731

Type:New Year
The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3WS

About
Celebrate New Year’s Eve in style, with classic songs and music from the James Bond movies.

Toby Cruse conducts the fabulous 007 Orchestra, alongside West End stars Shona Lindsay, Mike Sterling and Miranda Wilford, in what promises to be a special evening in the company of some of the big screen’s most iconic soundtracks. Nobody does it better…​

Including performances of From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, Nobody Does It Better, Skyfall, Writing’s on the Wall and No Time to Die.

Guide Prices
From £40.00
Dates and Opening Times
Open 31 Dec 2021
Friday 20:00

2021: Maggie's Club James Bond - Octopussy for New Year's in London, England.

NYE James Bond: Octopussy

See the complete article here:

https://www.maggies-club.com/event/new-years-eve-james-bond-octopussy2/

NYE James Bond: Octopussy
Have you got a license to thrill? Bond is BACK once again! Expect a night of 007 glamour, as we shake things up (not stir it…) and you pull out those bow ties, throw on those frocks and don your finest black-tie. Will you be a spy undercover? A villain? Or a femme fatale? The choice is yours… Enjoy a Belvedere cocktail reception and dance all night long to the best of ‘80s and Bond hits. On behalf of Her Maggie’s-tey’s Secret Service, get ready to toast 2021 goodbye in the sexiest, most ‘spy-lish’ way!

GUESTLIST TICKETS: £20pp

• Complimentary welcome Belvedere Vodka cocktail.
• All-night access to NYE event.
• Epic midnight countdown.

TABLE TICKETS:

• £80pp minimum spend per guest.
• Guaranteed seating and table service.
• For groups of 8 or more, enjoy a complimentary sharer on us!

No entry between 11.30pm and 12.30am.

In line with government guidance, all guests will be required to show their NHS Covid Passes upon arrival.

2021: Bollywood Never Dies (a James Bond Theme Party) at the Boleo Rooftop Bar, The Kimpton Gray Hotel, Chicago, Illinois.

NYE 2022: Bollywood Never Dies (a James
Bond Theme Party)

See the complete article here:

https://www.evensi.us/nye-2022-bollywood-dies-james-bond-theme-party-boleo/423206948

From Friday 31 December 2021 to Saturday 1 January 2022
8:30 PM - 2:00 AM
Hosted by ABCD BEATZ ENTERTAINMENT

[UPDATE] Complimentary and required onsite PCR testing (via oral swab) will be provided for the added safety of our guests.

Boleo Rooftop Bar at The Kimpton Gray Hotel
122 W Monroe Street in Downtown Chicago

TICKETS INCLUDE:

• Premium rooftop venue rated in the Top 10 Rooftop Bars in America by EATER
• Music by Chicago's rising star DJ Ujwal. Spinning the latest Bollywood, Bhangra, & Club Anthems
• Veg and Non-Veg Buffet Station, 8:30p-10:30p (see below)
• Complimentary Champagne Toast at 12a
• Go-Go Dancers dressed as Bond Girls
• Cash Bar (Pay As You Go) - Main Bar and Auxiliary Bar
• VIP Table Purchase Options (See Below) SOLD-OUT

BOLEO Buffet Menu:

• Vegetable Empanadas - Kale, Caramelized Onions, Mushrooms, Roasted Red Peppers, Mozzarella, Provolone with Romesco Sauce
• Arroz Chaufa - Shrimp, Potato, Bell Peppers, Scallions, Egg, Aji Marisol Soy, and Jasmine Rice
• Arroz Chaufa - Crimini Mushrooms, Potato, Bell Peppers, Scallions, Egg, Aji Marisol Soy, and Jasmine Rice
• Quinoa Caliente - Red Quinoa, Roasted Oyster Mushrooms, Confit Sweet Potatoes with Chimichurri Rojo Sauce
• Pollo Brasa - Peruvian Marinated Chicken Breast & Thighs, Aji Verde, and Grilled Scallions
• Yaquitas - Yucca Fries, Lime, Garlic, Cilantro with Rocoto Aioli Sauce

IMPORTANT NOTE: Tuxedo or Semi-Formal attire required. No Jeans, No Casual/Gym Shoes, No Collarless Shirts allowed. For questions or VIP table service, call Hamed at 773-490-0975 or Dhruv at 814-932-9976. Valet and nearby garage parking available. Mandatory coat check. Capacity limited to 350 guests. 21 to enter with Government-issued ID.

2021: The Cincinnati Symphony performs James Bond hits as part of its Multicultural Awareness Council (MAC) Series at Cincinnati, Ohio.

New Year's Eve
At Music Hall:
Shaken, Not
Stirred

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Artists
John Morris Russell, conductor
Capathia Jenkins, vocalist
Ron Bohmer, vocalist

Venue
Music Hall
Ticket Prices
$25-$115

Series
This concert is part of the Multicultural Awareness Council (MAC) Series

Program

MONTY NORMAN: The James Bond Theme
JOHN BARRY: 007 Theme from From Russia With Love, or "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
JOHN BARRY: Thunderball
SHERYL CROW: Tomorrow Never Dies
DAVID ARNOLD: Surrender
LIONEL BART: From Russia with Love
JOHN BARRY: Diamonds are Forever
PAUL MCCARTNEY: Live and Let Die
BILLIE EILISH: No Time to Die
QUINCY JONES: Soul Bossa Nova
HENRY MANCINI: Theme from Peter Gunn
LALO SHIFRIN: Main Theme from Mission Impossible
HENRY MANCINI: Theme from Pink Panther
ADELE ADKINS: Skyfall
ANTHONY NEWLEY: License to Kill
DAVID ARNOLD: "You Know My Name" from Casino Royale
MARVIN HAMLISCH: "Nobody Does It Better" from The Spy Who Loved Me

The countdown stops at 007. John Morris Russell leads a thrilling Top Secret program featuring iconic themes and famous music from the longest-running franchise in movie history. Shake things up with all things James Bond, including hits like Skyfall, Diamonds Are Forever, The World Is Not Enough and more. Ring in this New Year in style!

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IMPORTANT: Please review our health and safety information and current protocols at cincinnatisymphony.org/safety.

All dates, programs, artists and prices are subject to change.

2021: James Bond New Year's Eve Party at Cambridge, Maryland.

James Bond New Year’s Eve Party

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James Bond New Year’s Eve Party
December 31 @ 6:00 pm - 11:30 pm

Blue Ruin hosts New Year’s Eve fun with a four-course dinner (must reserve in advance) followed by a party, live music, and ball drop.

• Classy, Bond-themed attire highly encouraged.
• Limited special menu.
• Dinner reservations begin at 5pm.
• Themed cocktails.
• Music by Harvey Allen Stanley Trio.
• Outdoor bar in heated tent.
• Midnight ball drop in front of Blue Ruin on the corner of Gay St. and Race St.

Blue Ruin will be announcing more details (including pricing) soon. To reserve a spot at the dinner or for any questions, email [email protected].

Address: 400 Race St., Cambridge, MD

2021: James Bond New Year's Eve Party at the Enzian Theater, Maitland, Florida.

James Bond New Year's Eve Party

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Schedule
Fri Dec 31 2021 at 08:00 pm | UTC-05:00

Location
Enzian Theater | Maitland, FL
James Bond New Year's Eve Party

Bond is back! Toast to 2022 with your closest friends and family at our signature New Year’s Eve bash. Come in your most impressive Bond fit and you could win a prize. Enjoy some bubbly, light hors d’oeuvres and our special NYE cocktails while dancing your way into the new year!

• 21 & up only
• 8PM — Doors open
• 9PM-1AM — Music, Open Bar, Light Hors d ’Oeuvres and Ball Drop at Midnight!
• GENERAL ADMISSION: $99
• Open Bar (top-shelf liquors will be available for purchase)
• Light Hors d’oeuvres
• Live DJ

Where is it happening?
Enzian Theater, 1300 S Orlando Ave, Maitland, FL 32751, Maitland, United States

Want to see what it's like? Visit this link:

2021: New Year's Eve James Bond Themed Celebration at the Balboa Resort, Newport Beach, California.

New Year's Eve James Bond Themed Celebration

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Schedule
Fri Dec 31 2021 at 09:00 pm to Sat Jan 01 2022 at 01:00 am | UTC-08:00

Location
Balboa Bay Resort | Newport Beach, CA

No, you're not dreaming! Dance the night away at the party of the year at Balboa Bay Resort from 9:00 pm until 1:00 am. Enjoy entertainment by Flashback Heart Attack, as well as the Cirque Mirage Aerial Entertainment, casino tables, and cigar rolling. Be sure to stay for the balloon drop and sparkling wine toast at midnight followed by light bites. Visit the bar for a specialty martini "shaken, not stirred" and cheers to 2022!

VIP BOOTHS - A limited amount of VIP Booths are also available. Booths include seating for up to 10 people, party favors and hats, a bottle of Grey Goose along with mixers, a charcuterie platter, quesadillas, and chips, salsa and guacamole. A bottle of Veuve Clicquot and VIP pour by the Cirque Mirage Aerial Entertainment is also included.

BALBOA BAY CLUB MEMBERS AND HOTEL GUESTS - call (949)630-4257 or email [email protected] to reserve your tickets.

21+ only - all sales final. Price subject to change. Parking included.

DRESS TO IMPRESS - Semi-formal or cocktail attire required

Where is it happening?
Balboa Bay Resort, 1221 West Coast Highway, Newport Beach, United States

2021: Bitter & Twisted offers a Bond-inspired New Year's Eve Party at Phoenix, Arizona.

Cheers to 2022: A cocktail lover's
guide to New Year's Eve parties in
metro Phoenix

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Bitter & Twisted

Owner Ross Simon at his Bitter & Twisted Cocktail Parlour in downtown Phoenix.

After spending the holiday season strung with thousands of lights and decorated with blow-up flamingos, Bitter & Twisted will be back to it's usual swanky self by New Year's Eve. But the staff is continuing to have a little fun. This year's party is a James Bond-inspired event, with a dress code of "Dressed to kill (agents or villains welcome)" according to the bar's website. There are multiple levels of tickets available, ranging from a $75 barstool spot to an $895 reservation for eight people that includes three bottles of champagne, eight shareable plates, eight items from the handheld or favorites food menus and eight cocktails.

Details:
1 W. Jefferson St., Phoenix. 602-340-1924, bitterandtwistedaz.com.

2021: A Bond-themed New Year's Eve party at Le Meridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre, Dubai.

A James Bond-themed New Year's Eve
party is coming to Dubai

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https://whatson.ae/2021/12/a-james-bond-themed-new-years-eve-party-is-coming-to-dubai/

14th December 2021 | Sponsored: The name’s What’s On…

New Year’s Eve is just around the corner, and if you’re looking for a swanky party worthy of digging out your best suits and dresses, how does a James Bond and Bollinger (champagne)-themed brunch sound? It’s taking place at longstanding restaurant, Yalumba, found at Le Meridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre, on December 31.

The sophisticated New Year’s Eve Party at Yalumba will be hosted by the Sons of Olympus band and live DJ entertainment by DJ Rubi B. As well as sipping on free-flowing beverages, you can feast on over 100 different delicacies at one of the biggest and best-known buffets in the city. There will be plenty of fun props so make sure to snag a picture.

The party kicks off from 8pm until 12am, priced at Dhs295 for the soft beverage package, Dhs495 for selected sparkling, wines, and spirits or Dhs950 including one bottle of champagne, plus sparkling, wines and spirits. Children are welcome to come too, and it’s priced at Dhs115 for children aged between 6 to 12 years. A happy hour will run from 12am to 3am.

Alternatively, you could spend New Year’s Eve in the laidback lounge that is Warehouse. This mega-buffet will also have over 100 delicacies for you to choose from, as well as free-flowing beverages from 8pm to 3am. Live entertainment will be brought to you by the Boxtones, along with a live DJ performance by DJ Kennedy.

It’s priced at priced at Dhs245 for the soft beverage package, Dhs445 for selected sparkling, wines, and spirits or Dhs850 including one bottle of champagne, plus sparkling, wines and spirits, and it’s priced at Dhs115 for children aged between 6 to 12 years.

What a way to ring in 2022…

Le Meridien Dubai Hotel & Conference Centre, Airport Road, Dubai. lmdvillage.com/festive

2021: New Year's Eve has the James Bond Chronicles at Shanghai.

The James Bond Chronicles NYE Party

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https://www.smartshanghai.com/event/69634

Today , 9pm

Kee Club
4/F, Twin Villas, 796 Huaihai Zhong Lu near Ruijin Er Lu
688rmb

About

MVP Events hosts their yearly, posh NYE party to ride out 2021: The James Bond Chronicle - New Year’s Eve Luxury celebration. On December 31, from 9pm till late, Kee Club Private Villa is the venue for a night of food, drinks, and music. Expect a fancy production featuring iconic elements from all the James Bond movies. MVP Events & Kee Club is offering free flow of tapas, finger food, canapés, prosecco and all kinds of spirit(s). Play at their Casino Royale table to try to win gifts, take memorable pictures with their "goldfinger lady", sing with a talented Opera singer and participate in many more activities throughout the night. Tickets from 688rmb (includes free flow tapas/finger food, prosecco, and premium brand spirits). Tables from 4000rmb.

2021: Casino Royale New Year's Eve Celebrations at Pig 'N' Whistle West End, Brisbane, Australia.

Casino Royale New Year's Eve Celebrations
Pig 'N' Whistle West End

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https://www.visitbrisbane.com.au/brisbane/whats-on/festivals-and-celebrations/casino-royale-new-year-s-eve-celebrations?sc_lang=en-au

31 Dec, 2021

Casino Royale New Year's Eve at Pig 'N' Whistle West End
Dress in your best Bond attire and order that martini. Shaken, not stirred.

The new year is nearly here and we are celebrating ‘Bond, James Bond’ style. Dress in your best Bond theme attire as there is no better way to welcome in a new year (especially after this last).

Enjoy three hours of pure casino fun, from Black Jack to Russian Roulette, it’s time to grab that martini. Shaken, Not Stirred.

Details:

• Canape & beverage package
• 3 hours of casino-style games
• Prizes for best dressed
• Black tie dress code

It’s time to keep the British end up, and join them to welcome in a whole new year.

Event Information
Upcoming Dates
31 Dec, 2021 7:00PM - 31 Dec, 2021 11:59PM

Pricing
All tickets $109.00 - $126.77

Contact
Visit our Website
[email protected]
07 3062 2510

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

RichardTheBruce

Annual thanks once again go to @SirHilaryBray for starting this thread. And to any corrections and additions from @Thunderfinger and @BondOnThisDay and others.

RichardTheBruce

January 1st

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Zena Marshall (1925–2009)

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Filmography

Actress (59 credits)

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

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

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

Self (3 credits)

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

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

Archive footage (9 credits)

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

Soundtrack (1 credit)

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

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

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

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

Not to be confused with.

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

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

Strange Tales Vol 1 164

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Strange Tales Vol 1 #164

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

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

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

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

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

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

James Bond (Earth-616)

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History

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

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

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

Trivia

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

Master of Kung Fu #3


Captain America Vol 1 #401 (second appearance)

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

Video marketing.

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

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

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

James Bond Jr. (1992 Marvel) #1

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

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

36 pgs

James Bond Jr Issue 1 The Beginning
http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-001/

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

James Bond 007: Quasimodo Gambit #1

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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

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

Video marketing.

1998: Zajtrajsok nikdy nezomiera released in Slovakia.

Video marketing.

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

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

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

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

Cyril Shaps (1923–2003)

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

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

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

2022: In New Year's Honours, Daniel Craig is set to receive the same title as James Bond.

New Year’s honors 2022: Daniel Craig
receives the same title as James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://missthinkup.com/new-years-honors-2022-daniel-craig-receives-the-same-title-as-james-bond/

January 1, 2022 by admin987

Daniel Craig was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, which is the same honor bestowed on James Bond in the 007 franchise.

The 53-year-old – who has played Bond since 2006 – received the honor for his services to film and theater. He is one of many public figures to appear on the 2022 New Year’s Honors list, published Friday, December 31.

The honor bestowed on Craig recognizes service in a foreign country, or in connection with foreign and Commonwealth affairs, such as the work of diplomats abroad.

The Fictional Spy has a CMG in Ian Fleming’s books as well as their film adaptations.

Craig made his last outing in 007 earlier this year with the highly anticipated No time to die.

Prior to the film’s release, the actor was named Honorary Commander of the Royal Navy, another rank held by James Bond.

Following multiple delays related to Covid, No time to die premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in September.

The event was attended by British Royalty, with The Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall and The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge all in attendance.

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

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

RichardTheBruce

January 2nd

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See the complete article here:

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

By JAMES BROOKE - JAN. 2, 2003

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/arts/03fraser.html

By MARGALIT FOXJAN. 3, 2008

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

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

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

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

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

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

Credit HarperCollins, about 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The first Flashman novel.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292129/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
Writer

Filmography

Writer (10 credits)
1989 The Return of the Musketeers (screenplay - as George Macdonald Fraser)
1987 Casanova (TV Movie) (written by)
1986 The Pyrates (TV Movie) (adaptation)
1985 Red Sonja (written by)
1983 Octopussy (screen story and screenplay)

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

Self (1 credit)
1974 The Book Programme (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Episode #2.5 (1974) ... Himself

Archive footage (1 credit)
2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself

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2008: Quantum of Solace filming begins.

2022: Peterson Automotive Museum continues to host Bond In Motion at Los Angeles, California.

THE LARGEST OFFICIAL BOND VEHICLE EXHIBIT IN THE UNITED STATES
NOW OPEN!
IN THE MULLIN GRAND SALON

See the complete article here:

https://www.petersen.org/bond

2022: A lost Aston Martin DB5 is reportedly found at an undisclosed Middle East location.

Missing James Bond Car Has Reportedly Been Found

See the complete article here:

https://thenewsmotion.com/missing-james-bond-car-has-reportedly-been-found/

By Paul Jackson On Jan 2, 2022

The 1963 Aston Martin DB5 used in the filming of the James Bond film Goldfinger has reportedly been found. According to Motorious (via Yahoo!), the sportscar, Chassis NO. DP/216/1, had been missing since June 1997 when it was stolen from a secured hangar at the Boca Raton Airport where it had been stored. In the nearly 25 years since the theft, many have theorized about the car’s location but now, investigators believe that they have located the Aston Martin in the Middle East. The exact location has not been released.

Per the report, a witness spotted the car in a “private setting”, but Art Recovery International has only indicated that Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain are “particular areas of interest”. The report notes that someone was able to verify the car’s serial number and found it to be a match for the missing Aston Martin. The car is worth more than $25 million and investigators are hopeful it will be recovered soon.

“I’m hopeful that the possessor will come forward voluntarily before I have to make an announcement,” chief executive of Art Recovery International said. “It’s my policy to give the possessors of stolen and looted objects every opportunity to do the right thing. I don’t believe the current possessor knew the car was stolen when he or she acquired it. Now they do know, I think they should make every effort to have a discreet confidential discussion about how we clear the title to this iconic vehicle.”

The vehicle was driven by Sean Connery in the 1964 film Goldfinger. This specific vehicle is unique due to the number of gadgets that were installed in it for the purposes of making the movie, such as pop-out machine guns, water/oil sprayers, tire shredders, and more. At the time of the theft, the vehicle was owned by a businessman named Anthony Pugliese who had purchased the vehicle at a Sotheby’s New York auction in 1986 for $275,000. Since the theft, there have been numerous theories about the vehicle, including that the vehicle was stolen by a real-life Bond villain, though the real story about the car’s theft may have to wait until it’s been safely recovered.

The stolen Aston Martin isn’t the only car from the Goldfinger-era to remain in existence. An original 1965 Aston Martin DB85 built to Bond specifications — a vehicle that was built specifically for a tour promoting the film Thunderball — went up for auction in June 2019. There were a total of four DB5s created for Goldfinger-era of James Bond.

RichardTheBruce

January 3rd

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

Dana Broccoli

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Dana Broccoli (1922–2004)

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

Filmography

Actress (5 credits)

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

1965 Thunderball - Cafe Martinique Dancer (uncredited)

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

Thanks (26 credits)

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

1999 Inside 'Live and Let Die' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
1995 The Goldfinger Phenomenon (Video documentary short) (special thanks)

Self (19 credits)

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

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

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

HiArchive footage (4 credits)

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

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

Sir George Martin obituary

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

George Martin (I) (1926–2016)

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Filmography

Music department (31 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

Soundtrack (31 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

1956 Smiley (producer: "Smiley")

Composer (10 credits)

1981 Honky Tonk Freeway

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

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

Actor (2 credits)

2017 MIRA Protocol (Short) - Esteban

1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street - Producer

Producer (2 credits)

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

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

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

The strange tale of the man who armed James Bond

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1971: The Palm Beach Post reports American John Gavin may be the next actor in the Bond role.
1972: 007 - Os Diamantes São Eternos released in Brazil.

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

Joie Chitwood
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joie Chitwood

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Joie Chitwood (I) (1912–1988)

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Filmography

[bStunts[/b] (5 credits)

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

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

Actor (4 credits)

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

1968 Fireball Jungle (uncredited)

Self (1 credit)

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

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

Two Koreas Blast New James Bond Film

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Protests of the time.

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

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

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

See the complete article here:

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

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

Christoph Waltz makes his debut as Franz Oberhauser ( Spectre )

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

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

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

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

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

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

RichardTheBruce

January 4th

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

January 4 — James Bond Born (1900)

See the complete article her:

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

January 3, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

References:

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

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

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

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

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

Michael France, screenwriter and
Beach Theatre owner, dies

See the complete article here:

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Michael France (I) (1962–2013)

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

Filmography

Writer (7 credits)

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

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

Trivia

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

See the complete article here:

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

By ELEANOR BLAU | JAN. 9, 1991

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

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

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

A Sleuth With Humor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Maibaum (1909–1991)

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Filmography

Writer (52 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Producer (14 credits)

1973 Jarrett (TV Movie) (producer)

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

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

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

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (2 credits)

1956 Zarak (associate director - uncredited)

1949 The Great Gatsby (second unit director)

Self (4 credits)

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

Archive footage (6 credits)

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

1996: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd release the John Gardner novelization of Goldeneye.

Ian Fleming's
JAMES BOND

in
John Gardner's

GOLDENEYE

Based on the screenplay by Michael France
and Jeffrey Caine

James Bond is back on screen!
The new film starring Pierce
Brosnan is a breathtaking
superadventure in which Bond's
enemies are more bloodthirsty,
his girls more beautiful and the
action faster than ever before.

The first thing James Bond
notices about Xenia Onatopp
is her yellow Ferrari, as it races
Bond's Aston Martin along the
narrow Corniche. The second
thing he notices is that she
is beautiful, Russian - and
fascinatingly dangerous.

Once Xenia worked for the KGB.
But her new master is Janus,
a powerful and ambitious Russian
leader who no longer cares about
ideology. Janus' ambitions are
money and power: his normal
business methods include theft
and murder. And he has just
acquired GoldenEye, a piece of
high-tech space technology with
the power to destroy or corrupt
the West's financial markets.

But Janus has underestimated
his most determined enemy.

James Bond is soon in St
Petersburg on the track of Xenia
and Janus, armed with the latest
high-tech weaponry. He will need
it all, as he uncovered his most
dangerous adversary yet.

John Gardner was educated in
Berkshire and at St John's
College, Cambridge. He has had
many fascinating occupations and
was, variously, a Royal Marine
officer, a stage magician, theater
critic, reviewer and journalist.

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

Video marketing.

1998: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the Philippines.

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

Jeff Nuttall (1933–2004)

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

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

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

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

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2021: Victoria Leigh Blum (Tanya Roberts) dies at age 65--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 15 October 1955-- The Bronx, New York City, New York.)

Tanya Roberts, Bond Girl and ‘That ’70s
Show’ Star, Dies at 65 After Premature
Death Announcement

See the complete article here:

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/tanya-roberts-james-bond-that-70s-show-dead-1234878064/

By Naman Ramachandran

AP

UPDATE: Tanya Roberts, known for playing Stacey Sutton in the 1985 James Bond film “A View to a Kill” and Midge Pinciotti on “That ’70s Show” between 1998 and 2004, died Monday night after it was prematurely reported by many outlets that she had died on Sunday night. She was 65.

On Tuesday, Roberts’ publicist, Mike Pingel, confirmed to Variety that she died Monday night at 9:30 p.m. PT due to a urinary tract infection that spread to her kidney, gallbladder, liver and blood stream. However, Pingel mistakenly told many publications that Roberts had died on Sunday night after her partner, Lance O’Brien, visited her in the hospital and presumed she was no longer living. She remained hospitalized in “dire” condition Monday, Pingel told Variety earlier that day.

Roberts was out walking her dogs on Christmas Eve when she collapsed. The cause of death is not understood to be related to COVID-19.

Born Victoria Leigh Blum, Roberts had a successful modeling career and appeared in some off-Broadway roles. She made her film debut in 1975 with “The Last Victim.” Thereafter, she appeared in a series of films that attained cult status, including “The Beastmaster” (1982), “Sheena: Queen of the Jungle” (1984), “Body Slam” (1987) and “Night Eyes” (1990). She also played Julie Rogers in the “Charlie’s Angels” TV series.

On “That ’70s Show,” Roberts played the laidback hippie mother of Donna Pinciotti (Laura Prepon). While she left the show in 2001, she returned in 2004.

Roberts’ final on-screen appearance was in the television series “Barbershop” in 2005.

Britt Ekland, who played a Bond girl in “The Man With The Golden Gun” (1974), tweeted: “Rip Tanya Roberts, once a Bond Girl always a Bond Girl!”

“The Beastmaster” director Don Coscarelli tweeted: “I just heard the sad news that actress Tanya Roberts passed away. Tanya was a beautiful person, inside and out. I will always remember Tanya for being incredibly sweet and for her genuine love of animals. She was beloved by ‘Beastmaster’ fans everywhere. RIP.”

An online memorial for Roberts will be announced soon, and donations can be given in her name to the ASPCA.

2021: Film Music Reporter gives detail for the Next Station Music release of John Piscitello's soundtrack for Becoming Bond.

‘Becoming Bond’ Soundtrack Released

See the complete article here:

https://filmmusicreporter.com/2021/01/04/becoming-bond-soundtrack-released/

Posted: January 4, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums

Next Station Music has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Becoming Bond. The album features the film’s original music composed by John Piscitello (No Place on Earth, Mike Wallace Is Here, Too Funny to Fail, Memory Games). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Becoming Bond is directed by Josh Greenbaum and tells the true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, despite having never acted a day in his life. The documentary premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival and is now available to stream on Hulu.

Here’s the track list of the album:
1. The Forgotten James Bond (1:11)
2. Twelve, Maybe Thirteen (0:50)
3. A Wild Larrikin (1:06)
4. Who Cares? (0:52)
5. Snakes and Bats (1:17)
6. My Bike’s Broken Down (1:07)
7. Dry Rooting (0:31)
8. Listen, Don’t Talk (2:04)
9. A Little Roughed Up (1:50)
10. Intimidated by the Love (2:14)
11. In a Tortuous State (1:34)
12. Totally in Love (2:54)
13. Sailing to London (1:03)
14. It Was Instinctive (1:02)
15. Platonically (0:54)
16. I Could Smell Her (1:09)
17. Smoke out of My Butt (1:50)
18. Gone to Heaven (0:47)
19. Gundel (1:03)
20. Pass Me a Banana (1:22)
21. Two or Three Times a Day (0:39)
22. On the Kings Road (0:38)
23. Maggie Calls (3:15)
24. Casting Office (4:41)
25. The Airport (3:42)
26. Having Fun With It (1:43)
27. A Little Bigger Head (0:48)
28. Helicopters at Night (2:06)
29. A Famously Bad Decision (1:42)
30. This Is Who I Am (0:44)
31. Write Your Own Story (3:01)

2022: Three Bond-related tours offered in Jamaica.

THREE JAMES BOND PACKAGES TO
BOOK IN JAMAICA

See the complete article here:

https://www.ttgmedia.com/features/features/three-james-bond-packages-to-book-in-jamaica-30893

13 Oct 2021by Abra Dunsby

With new James Bond movie No Time To Die shining a spotlight on
Jamaica, where it is set, Abra Dunsby reveals three new packages to
recommend to 007 fans planning a visit.

In the footsteps of Ian Fleming at GoldenEye
A stay at GoldenEye, James Bond author Ian Fleming’s original 1950s Jamaican hideaway, is a must for 007 fans. It’s where the character of Bond was born, and Fleming continued to write many of the James Bond novels here.

Helen Baker, senior travel adviser and Jamaica specialist at Caribtours, says: "We love the fun and funky design of GoldenEye’s colourful Beach Huts – we’d especially recommend the Tall Beach Huts which are raised up on stilts to make the most of the cooling sea breezes."

Book it: Caribtours offers seven nights’ B&B at GoldenEye from £2,949pp based on two sharing a One Bedroom Beach Hut, departing 17 January, 2022. Offer valid for travel between 4 Jan and 19 Dec, 2022.
caribtours.co.uk

Discover Bond at Round Hill Hotel & Villas
This guest package from Round Hill Hotel & Villas includes an hour-long Shaken Not Stirred Mixology class, a tour of Rose Hall Great House, where scenes from Live and Let Die were filmed, and an optional Spy for A Day Experience add-on, which features a helicopter ride to Port Antonio and a picnic lunch at the Folly Oval ruins.

Book it: Prices start from £4,465 for two. roundhill.com

Jamaica Inn’s Bond Experience
Clients opting for this package will take a tour of sites including the White River, Reynolds Pier, Green Grotto and Rose Hall Great House, where Live and Let Die and Dr No were filmed; experience an outdoor screening of a James Bond film; take part in a martini-making class; and unwind like Bond with a 50-minute massage for two at the award-winning Ocean Spa.

The package also includes Club MoBay VIP arrival and lounge access, while those who stay a minimum of four nights will stay in a Deluxe Veranda Suite with ocean views.

Book it: The package costs from $2,790 for two. jamaicainn.com

RichardTheBruce

January 5th

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

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

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

Video marketing.

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

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

Obituaries

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

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conversation With Richard Hughes

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Hughes, Ian Fleming in Japan



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

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

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/SilverFin_(mobile_game)

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

Blood Fever by Charlie Higson

https://www.youngbond.com/blood-fever/

Blood Fever is the second book in the bestselling Young Bond series.

James Bond has discovered danger. Now it’s come looking for him. An Eton boy’s family disappears at sea. James uncovers a shadowy society operating in a hidden corner of the school. And far from England, in the bandit-infested interior of Sardinia, a sinister Italian count has built himself a mountain fortress. Is there a connection? Young James Bond is about to find out – and face a lethal group of villains beneath the burning Mediterranean sun.

"Takes the reader by the throat." – Observer

JAMES BOND
James Bond will grow up to become the greatest secret agent in the world, but in the summer of 1933 he is still just a schoolboy. While staying at his cousin Victor’s villa in Sardinia he is drawn into a dangerous and terrifying adventure that will require all his bravery, skill and cunning to survive.

‘He ran across the roof and leapt over to the next building… He laughed. This was exactly the same situation he’d been in that night with the Danger Society back at Eton. Only this time he risked more than a beating. This time he was running for his life.’


SMILER
Smiler is Count Ugo’s chief henchman and executioner. A murderous former criminal from the streets of Glasgow he was mutilated by his old gang for selling them out to the police. He now bears the scars of this attack on his cheeks, which have earned him his nickname. A red letter M is tattooed on the back of each of his hands. The symbol of the Millenaria society.

‘Zoltan was never sure whether the man was really smiling or not. But he had known him long enough to realize that he probably wasn’t.’


ZOLTAN
Zoltan the Magyar is a Hungarian smuggler. A ruthless but simple man, he dreams of making enough money to retire. James is never sure if Zoltan is a villain or a friend, but if James wants to stay alive he is going to need all the help he can get.

‘The blond captain grinned, his teeth flashing. His arms, which were as thick as his legs and knotted with muscle, were crossed on his broad chest… His eyes were startling. The irises were so pale as to be almost colourless and were ringed with a grey that seemed to shine like silver.’


AMY GOODENOUGH
Amy Goodenough is the sister of one of James’s school friends. When the pirate Zoltan murders her father and kidnaps her, Amy, a strong, resourceful girl, vows to kill him. But a strange bond grows between the two of them, and when Amy is taken to Sardinia she realises that Zoltan might be the only friend she has.

‘She had short, untidy hair cut raggedly into uneven clumps, pale freckled skin and big eyes that were shining in the dark…

‘I thought I was dreaming,’ said the girl. ‘Who are you?’

‘The name’s Bond, James Bond. Who are you?’

‘I’m Amy Goodenough.’


VICTOR
James’s Swiss cousin, Victor, has retired to live in seclusion in a bizarre villa in Sardinia, surrounded by the surreal artworks of his artist friend, Poliponi. Victor has had enough of the world of men and wants to live out his days in peace. He loves the finer things in life, wine, art, music and good food, but events on the island make him realise that he can’t hide from the world forever.

‘No, it is me who must apologise,’ said Victor, his expression softening. ‘I did not mean to get angry, but there are rumours that the Millenaria are here on the island, and I do not want to think about such things. Life should be for pleasure, not for war.’


UGO CARNIFEX
Count Ugo Carnifex has built himself a palace high in the mountains of Sardinia. As head of the sinister Millenaria society, he has secret plans to recreate the Roman Empire. He has a hatred and fear of dirt, dresses all in white and wears silver jewellery dug from the mines beneath his palace.

‘His fingers were festooned with silver rings; he had silver chains around his neck, and small silver earrings. His skin, unlike that of the two guards, was a pure, milky white; so pale that James could see the blue veins beneath it. And his close-cropped hair was as white as everything else about him.’


VENDETTA
Vendetta is a 13-year-old whose father was killed in a feud between two Sardinian bandit families. She has lived a harsh life among people whose arguments are settled with the gun or the knife. After a night of hideous torture, she rescues James and nurses him back to health.

‘The guard was sitting in the water, slumped against a slimy rock, his head tipped backwards, his eyes staring and white-rimmed, his mouth open in a silent scream of terror. Below his chin was what looked like a second mouth cut into his throat. The girl had sliced clean across it with her knife.’

2007: 007 - Casino Royale released in Italy.

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

2022: China mines James Bond to mock privacy concerns in a short film.

China makes James Bond video mocking US
tech privacy fears

See the complete article here:

https://www.usatodaynews.us/china-makes-james-bond-video-mocking-us-tech-privacy-fears/

By Vasani Vanraj | January 5, 2022

Chinese state media have trivialised US and UK concerns around tech privacy and security with a parody film entitled: 0.07: No Time to Die Laughing.

The video, which was posted to Twitter and YouTube on Tuesday, apparently takes aim at Western governments for banning telecoms giant Huawei from running future 5G networks, among other actions taken against Beijing by both the US and UK.

In the video, a spy called “James Pond” – or “0.07” – and another called the “Black Window” – or “0.06” – makes contact with an American spy called “M” in the video shared by China’s state controlled Xinhua News Agency.

“M” tells “Pond” not to to buy a Huawei phone because the devices are a “Chinese backdoor”, and suggests the two spies take “CIA-certified” phones from underneath a table.

“Pond” and “Black Window” are then shocked that “M” admits to being assigned to spy on “the Great United Kingdom” with the “CIA-certified” phones.

The focus on Huawei and mobile technology was an apparent reference to the announcement of US sanctions against Huawei in 2020.

That came amid US claims that China had illustrated a “well-orchestrated, very top down, well-resourced effort to steal American and European intellectual property” and data, as NBC News reported.

While Huawei denied those claims, the UK government in 2020 also announced that it would remove the Chinese tech giant from its future 5G network, in a decision that Huawei said was “politically motivated and not based on a fair evaluation of the risks”.

As have UK and US lawmakers aired criticisms of Chinese tech firms such as TikTok for allegedly being beholden to China’s ruling Communist Party, although the social media platform also refutes the allegations.

Tweeting out the four minute-long parody, Xinhua News Agency said that the video showed a “’Secret Meeting’ between MI6 Agent 0.07 and the CIA after MI6 chief Richard Moore made China the agency’s top priority. Rib-tickling moments…”

Mr Moore, the head of the UK’s intelligence agency, said in November that China was responsible for “large-scale espionage operations” against the UK and other nations, and that the country had become the “single biggest priority” for MI6.

China, which ridiculed the claims and Britain in its parody video, responded at the time by saying Mr Moore was ““peddling fake news and false intelligence”, as Sky News reported.

Parody Show | 0.07: No Time to Die Laughing

2022: Jane Pickens Theater screens Goldfinger as the first of four Bond movies in 4K at Newport, Rhode Island.

Jane Pickens to screen
James Bond favorites in
January

See the complete article here:

https://whatsupnewp.com/2022/01/jane-pickens-to-screen-james-bond-favorites-in-january/

Four iconic films coming to the big screen beginning January 5
by Ken Abrams

If you like your martini’s shaken, not stirred, your time is now. Get your Bond on for a James Bond movie celebration this month at the Jane Pickens Theater in Newport.

In addition to screening first-run movies like Belfast and The French Dispatch this month, Pickens is presenting a series of classic James Bond films in January. The series features Sean Connery in the original hits Goldfinger, From Russia with Love, Thunderball and Dr. No the way they were intended to be seen – on the big screen in a vintage theater, fully restored in 4K.

And, no kidding, martinis will be available at the theater, along with the usual concessions.

Check the schedule below for specific dates:

• January 5: Goldfinger
• January 12: From Russia With Love
• January 19: Thunderball
• January 26: Dr. No

For more on upcoming shows at Pickens, click here.
https://janepickens.com/shows

Goldfinger Official Trailer #1 - Sean Connery Movie (1964) HD

2022: National Bird Day in the US.