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March 1st

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

Actor David Niven's Dashing Life Ends at 73

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Niven was on his way—slowly.

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

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

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

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

Nothing seemed to work. Not even luck.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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David Niven (I) (1910–1983)

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Filmography

Actor (113 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

Producer (2 credits)

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

Soundtrack (3 credits)

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

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

Director (1 credit)

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

On the set of The Sea Wolves.

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

1960: This month Playboy Magazine prints the Ian Fleming story "The Hildebrand Rarity". And a Jill St. John pictorial.

https://pipeandpjspictorials.wordpress.com/2020/11/18/the-hildebrand-rarity-march-1960/

1960: Ian Fleming receives notice by cable that Kevin McClory is arriving that night in Jamaica, there to discuss the film project.

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

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

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

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

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

1971: Sean Connery is announced to return in Diamonds Are Forever.
1973: Bond comic strip Die with My Boots On begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Finishes 18 June 1973. 2173–2256) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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


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



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

Droghandlarna
(Die With My Boots On)

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

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

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

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

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

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

James Bond Jr Issue 3 Earth-Cracker!
http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-003/

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

James Bond 007: A Silent Armageddon #1

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

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

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

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

Capsule Synopsis

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

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

Dark Horse Comics #8

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

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

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

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

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

PIERCE BROSNAN
IS JAMES BOND IN
DIE ANOTHER DAY

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

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

DIE ANOTHER DAY

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

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

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

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

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

Hooder & Stoughton

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2010: Bright Lights Film Journal publishes Robert von Dassanowsk's "Casino Royale at 33: The Postmodern Epic in Spite of Itself".

2017: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond #1 Black Box Part One, combining influences from the films and Bond's inner psychology from the novels. Rapha Lobosco, artist. Benjamin Percy, writer.

JAMES BOND #1

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

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

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

2023: A 1912 painting Complexe by artist Frantisek Kupka previously owned by Sir Sean Connery goes to auction.

2023: Walking Tour - Ian Fleming's Mayfair and St James's at London, England.

Mar 01
Walking Tour - Ian Fleming's
Mayfair and St James's

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Part of the Literary Footprints 2023 collection

A walk round the exclusive streets of Mayfair and St James's, inspiration to Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond.

By Michael Duncan, Footprints of London

When and where
Date and time
Wed, 1 March 2023, 18:00 – 19:30 GMT
Location
Top of Park Lane Park Lane W1K 7AA London W1K 7AA United Kingdom

Refund Policy
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About this event
1 hour 30 minutes

Join Michael as he looks at Mayfair and St James's, two areas of London known well by Ian Fleming.

Fleming was born here,he also partied, drank and gambled here. And it was also here that he got much of his inspiration for his greatest creation, James Bond. But this walk will not just look at the world's most famous fictional spy; it's also an opportunity to look at some real life spy stories.

Five Star Reviews on Footprints' Tripadvisor page:

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The time with Michael was pitched well and never found my attention wavering. Indeed, I could have spent longer in Michael's company, and hope to join him and/or another guide on a walk from this company soon! (Oct 2021)

Very interesting and informative walk. Michael was enthusiastic and a delight. He went over time to show us everything and clearly loved his job. (Oct 2021)

"Michael Duncan's James Bond and the Spies of Mayfair walk on Saturday was superb: intelligently conceived, well researched and genuinely fascinating. It's a must for all Cold War fiends Footprints of London are such a great organisation, offering something different at an excellent price. We've done two of their walks now and are looking forward to trying more."

"I loved this walk and the information provided. I have lived and worked in London all of my working life and had no idea I had walked in the footprints of some of England's most notorious spies. Highly recommended in this mixture of very busy and very quiet streets."

"This is a really fun and interesting walk. Michael is very knowledgeable, we learned a lot - not only about the spies and Mayfair, but also history and other interesting facts. I recommend it to anyone!"

Michael is a qualifed City of Westminster guide. His walks include the history of Savile Row, the Women of Soho, James Bond and the spies of Mayfair, and the scandals of Belgravia, the Americans of Mayfair and the Lambeth Walk
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March 1st , 1973 : Italians see Bruce Lee in cinema for the first time in "Fist of Fury" which was also the first shown in UK. Just a month later Ponti sent movie investors to HK , Lee would only consider it for 2 mill US

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March 2nd

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

Derek Watkins: Trumpeter who played on every Bond soundtrack

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Brian Priestley | Wednesday 27 March 2013 01:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1966: Variety reports in the next Bond film OO7 will have “more brains and less gimmicks.” Also that Connery considered breaking a six-film contract after You Only Live Twice.

1968: Daniel Wroughton Craig is born--Chester, Cheshire, England.

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

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

Dusty Springfield

See the complete article here:

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

04 Mar 1999

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

Photo: GETTY IMAGES

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Published March 4 1999

Dusty Springfield (1939–1999)

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Filmography

Soundtrack (151 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Actress (10 credits)

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

Dusty (True Stereo) I Only Want To Be With You HD


The Windmills of Your Mind (Single)


Dusty Springfield -Look of Love-live and rare!


The Six Million Dollar Man Dusty Springfield Closing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2023: The Music of James Bond & More - All The Songs - All The Hits Live! concert at Waldshut-Tiengen, Switzerland.

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

See the complete article here:

https://www.timeforgig.com/the-music-of-james-bond-more-all-the-songs-all-the-hits-live-waldshut-tiengen/events/9gjxm

Waldshut-Tiengen
Thu 2 Mar 2023
8:00 PM
Stadthalle Waldshut

2023: McMaster's Humanities Society hosts its annual formal One Last Mission at East Hamilton, Ontario.

Mar 02
One Last Mission
McMaster's Humanities Society is hosting its annual formal and the theme is JAMES BOND!

See the complete article here:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/one-last-mission-tickets-523274858187

By Presented by McMaster's Humanities Society
When and where
Date and time
Thu, 2 Mar 2023, 7:00 PM EST
Location
1520 Stone Church Rd E 1520 Stone Church Road East Hamilton, ON L8W 3P9 Canada

Refund Policy
Contact the organizer to request a refund.
Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.

About this event
This formal will take place at Carmen's Banquet Hall in Hamilton from 7:30 - 12:00 am on March 2nd! The McMaster Humanities Society has thrown this Formal for students to enjoy an evening together with a night full of dancing, a live DJ and great food. The theme this year is James Bond, so bring out your best 007 outfits and dress to impress!

We cannot wait to see everyone there!

Frequently asked questions
Is the food halal?
Is transportation provided?

2023: Skye High Burlesque presents 007 - Licence to Thrill at Adelaide, Australia.

007 - Licence To Thrill

See the complete article here:

https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/007-licence-to-thrill-af2023

About this event
“Shaken not stirred”
Calling all James Bond fans. Be immersed into this cinema action blockbuster of glamour, drama and intrigue as our cast perform to the iconic scores of the Bond films opening credits and scenes.

Featuring a star studded cast of incredible artists from across Australia. With our host, keeping you engaged in Bond knowledge and trivia.

Come dressed to impress or express and join us for an evening of Hollywood glamour, style and class as Delza Skye puts on event to remember with burlesque, music, signature cocktails and more.

‘Licence To Thrill’ – A James Bond Burlesque Tribute Show, presented by Skye High Burlesque.

Presented by:
Skye High Burlesque

Skye High Burlesque is Perth's newest production company and burlesque school located in Forrestdale at DivaSquad headquaters. Providing education with theory and movement based classes, courses, workshops and mentorship. Also, offering performance opportunities for students in Skye High's professional showcases. Owner and Director, Delza Skye prides herself on inspiring body positivity, confidence and inclusivity for all. At Skye High Burlesque, the Skye’s the limit.

Cabaret / Burlesque
SA Premiere / Western Australia

Duration
60 min
Dates & times
1 Venue

Content warnings
R18+

2023: 007’s Favourite City: Istanbul - a James Bond Experience at Istanbul, Turkey.

007’s Favourite City: Istanbul -
a James Bond Experience

See the complete article here:

https://www.ebookers.com/things-to-do/007s-favourite-city-istanbul-a-james-bond-experience.a571992.activity-details?endDate=2023-03-16&location=Istanbul City Center, Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye&rid=6200319&startDate=2023-03-02

By Travelium

Free cancellation available
Price was £391, price is now £344 per traveller*
*Get a lower price by selecting multiple travellers

8h 30m
Selective hotel pickup
Multiple languages

Overview
Share the excitement of a world-known figure.
Have the chance to explore hidden gems of the city.
Breath the scent of the pearl on the neck, Bosphorus.
Glimpse in to the lives of the local crowd.
Private guided-tour of 8 people to have the best experience.

What's included, what's not
Professional Tour Guide in your preffered language with live commentary.
Skip-the-Line Access with the Tour Guide.
Transport from/to your location.
Admission Fees to Musuems.
Food & Drinks.

Personal Expenses.
Know before you book
This is a private tour and maximum group size is 8 persons.
Children aged 4 or younger, are complimentary when accompanied by paying adults.
This tour requires a long-distance-walking and a short boat-trip on Bosphorus.
Special services, events, and maintenance may occasionally close all or part, of the sights; please check before you go.
In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect
Ian Fleming’s eternal character, “Bond” - James Bond, took trips to one-hundred-forty-six places in forty-nine countries, but had chance to pay a visit earth’s-capital, Istanbul, for three times, more than any other foreign country. It might be seen as coincidence or necessity due to his MI6 duties, however It is obvious that Istanbul’s his favourite.

Istanbul played a vital role in Bond’s quests while he was chasing down his villains and whatever it was against, She was always there to soothe the chaos matching 007’s will in order for him to carry out important performances to succeed.

For someone who has “Licence-to-Kill”, Bond always has a quite good taste towards the life and luckily his missions in Istanbul led him to catch up with city’s historical splendours even he has been always against the firing line.

And this special excursion will give you the chance to share Bond’s Taste out of the life!

• Maiden’s Tower: Built to protect a Princess, Maiden’s Tower became a pearl on the Bosphorus Strait. In spite of its beauty, Tower failed to keep the princess alive, but stood still for the visitors to pay a visit.
• Eminonu Square: A neighbourhood, became a crucial settlement for transport and trade throughout the history. As it was occupied by Genoese, Venetians, Romans or Ottomans then It is still now by a cosmopolite crowd in Modern Turkey.
• the Deutsche Orient Bank: After world’s economic capital, London, the Deutsche Bank decided to move forward and expand in the world, opening their Istanbul branch in 1909. Its building was in every way unique as it was one of the first examples of buildings made by cement.
• Sirkeci Railway Station (Orient Express): The home to the Orient Express, station was built due to military necessity, realised after the Crimean War during Late Ottoman Era.
• Hagia Sophia Museum: Only place on earth, where the two of the Holy Religions - Islam & Christianity - lives in a harmony. Unique landmark to witness both Islamic and Christian marks and paintings together.
• Nûr-i Osmânî Mosque: Ottoman Baroque was bodied in the hands of a master and a fellow-craftsman for the first time and became the fourth largest dome in Istanbul.
• Grand Bazaar: Standing on roots from 15th Century, bazaar holds its reputation as one of the eldest covered bazaars in the world.

Cleaning and safety practices
Enhanced cleanliness measures
High-touch surfaces cleaned and disinfected
Vehicles and venues cleaned with disinfectants
Vehicles and venues kept vacant between travellers

Social distancing
Contactless ticket redemption
Social distancing measures in place
Safety measures
Personal protective equipment worn by staff
Temperature checks given to staff
Masks required
Masks provided

RichardTheBruce

March 3rd

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

William P. Cartlidge

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

William P. Cartlidge (1942–2021)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2006: Casino Royale films OO7 seducing Solange.

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

JAMES BOND #5

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond - Agent of SPECTRE #1.

JAMES BOND: AGENT OF SPECTRE #1

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513030383701011
Cover A: Steve Epting
Writer: Christos Gage
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: March 2021
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 3/3/2021

AGENT OF SPECTRE Part 1! There's a civil war brewing within SPECTRE. An upstart American member of the international criminal organization is attempting a coup, threatening to depose Ernst Stavro Blofeld. She's on guard against Blofeld's men, so to take her out, Blofeld recruits a wild card - James Bond! With Blofeld threatening the life of Bond's friend Felix Leiter as leverage, Bond agrees...but he has a plan to use this internal strife to bring SPECTRE down once and for all. Will he succeed, or is this a dark path from which even 007 can't return?

2023: The Music of James Bond & More - All The Songs - All The Hits Live! concert at Kurhaus Baden-Baden, Germany.

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

See the complete article here:

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Baden-Baden
Fri 3 Mar 2023
8:00 PM
Kurhaus Baden-baden

2023: The Okotoks & District Chamber of Commerce hosts the 2023 Business Celebration Gala with James Bond-themed cocktail party at Sprung Instant Structures, Aldersyde, Alberta.

James Bond-themed cocktail party

See the complete article here:

https://www.okotokstoday.ca/local-news/datebook-okotoks-public-library-hosting-book-sale-this-weekend-6629605

The Okotoks & District Chamber of Commerce is hosting the 2023 Business Celebration Gala on Friday, March 3 from 6:30 to 11 p.m. at Sprung Instant Structures in Aldersyde. The James Bond-themed cocktail party will celebrate milestones of local businesses and will include a fun money casino. Tickets are $85 for members, $95 for non-members. okotokschamber.ca

RichardTheBruce

March 4th

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

2013: Reports of a crocodile on the Thames are proposed to be Bond-related..

Licence to thrill? 'Thames croc' turns out to be
James Bond prop

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https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/licence-to-thrill-thames-croc-turns-out-to-be-james-bond-prop/articleshow/18785669.cms

LONDON: A supposed sighting of a giant crocodile with large teeth in the river Thames in the heart of London had sent a chill down the British spine only to later emerge to be a James Bond prop.

The Daily Telegraph said on Saturday that a local man had helped put suspense to rest by finding that the alligator is a prop that was used in the James Bond film "Live and Let Die."

Reports last week had 64-year-old retired university lecturer Richard Smith on record saying he had seen "the monster in the river" near his home in Reading, Berkshire while out cycling.

But on Saturday, a local man from Reading Michael Law said he found it to be a dummy man-eater from the scene from the film where 007 Roger Moore has to jump across the backs of alligators.

According to the Telegraph, Law said the prop was kept on an island on the Thames in Reading by boat expert Peter Wallace, who worked on several James Bond and Indiana Jones films.

He said the fake alligator must have been washed from the island during floods and had been spotted by Smith as it bobbed about on the river.

A spokesman for Caversham Boat Services confirmed there used to be a prop there, but could not say whether there still was.

Tim Deaton, managing director of Thames Rivercruise on Pipers Island, Reading , told The Telegraph "I can assure you an alligator or a crocodile couldn't live in the Thames - there's absolutely no way, it's too cold."

It wasn't my crocodile in the River Thames

See the complete article here:

https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/local-news/wasnt-crocodile-river-thames-4191178

There is a new twist in the ‘tail’ of a crocodile seen in the River Thames

Peter Wallace with his crocodile. He had to cut its legs off to ship it back to this country

There is a new twist in the ‘tail’ of a crocodile seen in the River Thames.

The story began with Richard Smith, 64, from West Reading, who told us last month he was convinced he saw a four-foot long crocodile floating by the riverbank near Caversham Bridge while he was cycling past last summer.

Is there a crocodile in the River Thames?

When he turned back to look properly, the creature was gone.

Then Calcot man Michael Law offered the explanation it might have been a James Bond film prop which he said used to be kept on Fry’s Island.

Is Thames crocodile a James Bond film prop?

But the latest news is that it could not have been an ‘escaped’ film prop because the 14-foot fibreglass and rubber crocodile which featured in Octopussy – not the croc scene in Live and Let Die as we suggested in an earlier story – is still safely installed on Fry’s Island.

The pretend croc’s owner Peter Wallace, 71, of Western Elms Avenue, used to run Caversham Boat Services and for many years worked in the film industry as a boat expert.

In the Bond film Octopussy, starring Roger Moore, there was a royal barge in one scene.

Mr Wallace said: “I was dressed in a sari on that barge, which was fitted with an outboard motor, and I was driving it.”

He also worked on Moonraker at Pinewood Studios.

Mr Wallace kept one of the prop crocs and still keeps it on Fry’s Island, where he rents a leisure plot. “It has a fibreglass body and it does float. The tail is made from rubber,” he said.

When the crocodile floated along for the filming, its tail moved from side to side in the water, he added.

Mr Wallace said if there had been a sighting of a crocodile in the River Thames it could not have been his croc because it was safely stored where it belonged.

So the mystery of the Thames crocodile remains unsolved.

Experts say a real crocodile could not survive a summer night, let alone a British winter, but others have suggested it might have been a caiman.

The Reading Post has been told of two sightings of geese and swans pulled under the water along this stretch of the Thames last summer.

If anyone else has seen the croc, or something that might provide an explanation, contact [email protected] .

2015: A statement issued by MGM and the Broccolis declares a James Bond musical is not being pursued--contradicting Merry Saltzman, daughter of Harry.

2019: Announced date for Cary Joji Fukunaga to begin filming BOND 25 at Pinewood Studios.

https://twitter.com/007/status/1042688562335047681

2020: Announced delayed release of No Time To Die to November 2020.
[Later moved to April 2021. Then September 2021.]

https://twitter.com/007/status/1235248760260874241

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

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

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

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

2023: 00-Tease - A Burlesque Revue of James Bond Theme Songs at the King Edward Hotel Ballroom, Jackson, Mississippi.

00-Tease : a BURLESQUE Revue of James Bond Theme Songs

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Mar 4, 2023 - Mar 5, 2023

00-Tease : a BURLESQUE Revue of James Bond Theme Songs, 4 March | Event in Jackson | AllEvents.in 00-Tease : a BURLESQUE Revue of James Bond Theme Songs
The music that made the movies of JAMES BOND ....

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4 March 20023
Jackson, MS
King Edward Hotel Ballroom

An iconic hero with iconic villains; A double 00 means he's ready for anything, anytime, anywhere. YOU KNOW THE DRILL, a "License to .... "

The themes of James Bond from GOLDFINGER to NO TIME TO DIE set the tone for the most explosive master spy master villain series in history.

Black Hat Shows presents New Orleans new "BOND LADIES". The ladies come to present their interpretations of the most recognizable themes in movie history.

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This cast guarantees to lure you in set the trap and have you mesmerized with movement and attitude to some of the most powerful theme music you've ever heard.

Come, join us, as VILLAIN, HERO or ANTI-HERO. As whomever you want to be.

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Date & Time
Sat Mar 4 2023 at 9:00 pm to Mar 5 2023 01:01 am
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Location
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RichardTheBruce

March 5th

1962: Films the first scene with OO7 and the "Bond--James Bond” line.
1962: Simon Abkarian is born--Gonesse, Val-d'Oise, France.

1966: BOAC Boeing 707 Flight 911 from Tokyo crashes into Mount Fuji 25 minutes after takeoff. No survivors.

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

1966: Passenger jet crashes into Mount Fuji

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BOAC 911 Tragedy on Mt. Fuji | BOEING 707 Crash Tokyo Haneda - Hong Kong Kai Tak

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Writer: Robert J. Avrech

Cast

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

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

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

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

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

James Bond Supports
International Women's
Day (2011)

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

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

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

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

2019: Producer Barbara Broccoli confirms BOND 25 is not Shatterhand.

James Bond 25 title is NOT
Shatterhand confirms Barbara Broccoli

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/film/james-bond-25-title-not-14089263

By Lewis Knight | TV and Film Writer | 5 Mar 2019

James Bond 25 will not be titled Shatterhand series producer Barbara Broccoli has confirmed.

The producer revealed the news when signing a fan-made logo for the final film with Daniel Craig in the role of James Bond , with the Shatterhand title in the place for Bond 25, MI6 HQ reports.

An autograph hunter got Barbara Broccoli to sign the logo, but in response she wrote "It's not".

It would seem then that Shatterhand is only a working title for the film .

The original script for Bond 25 was rumoured to be called Shatterhand , with Neal Purvis and Robert Wade looking to do a remake of the sole George Lazenby film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

( Image: Instagram/India Grace)

The film followed Bond (Lazenby) as he tracked down Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas) to the Swiss Alps, whilst also starting a genuine romance with Tracy Di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg), only for their eventual marriage to end in tragedy.

It is unknown if this is still the plan for the final Bond film, but with Lea Seydoux returning as Dr. Madeleine Swann from SPECTRE, fans have expected the worst after it was rumoured her character would be killed off in a similar fashion to Tracy Bond.

We'll have to wait and see if that is the case.

https://twitter.com/PhilNobileJr/status/1102654752867921920

Director Cary Fukunaga has also hinted that Christoph Waltz could return as Ernst Stavro Blofeld from SPECTRE.

We're expecting to have the official title and cast announcement any day now, with shooting set to begin on April 5.

But did the working title reveal how Daniel Craig departs the franchise ?

Bond 25 is released on April 8, 2020.

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

2023: The Music of James Bond & More - All The Songs - All The Hits Live! concert at Offenbach Am Main, Hesse, Germany.

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

See the complete article here:

https://www.timeforgig.com/the-music-of-james-bond-more/artists/yrq6x

Offenbach Am Main
Sun 5 Mar 2023
7:00 PM
Capitol Theater

RichardTheBruce

March 6th

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

Lewis Gilbert obituary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lewis Gilbert (II) (1920–2018)

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

Filmography

Director (42 credits)

2002 Before You Go

1995 Haunted
1991 Stepping Out

1989 Shirley Valentine
1985 Not Quite Paradise
1983 Educating Rita

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

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

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

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

Writer (17 credits)

1995 Haunted

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

1962 Emergency (story - uncredited)

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

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

Producer (13 credits)

1995 Haunted (producer)
1991 Stepping Out (producer)

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

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

1966 Alfie (producer)
1960 Skywatch (producer)

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

Actor (8 credits)

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

1940 Room for Two (uncredited)

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

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1949 Marry Me ("Music in September")

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

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

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

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

Obituaries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conversation With Richard Hughes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1979: Moonraker films space station exteriors.

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

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

1998: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Thailand.

2020: GQ proposes the best dressed Bond actors.

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

See the complete article here:

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

By Zak Maoui | 6 March 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Nikki van der Zyl

See the complete article here:

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

Van der Zyl in 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Filmography

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

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

Nikki Van der Zyl

(1935–2021)
Actress | Additional Crew | Stunts
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2023: Giancarlo Giannini is scheduled for Hollywood Walk of Fame honors.

https://variety.com/2023/film/global/giancarlo-giannini-marlon-brando-marcello-mastroianni-james-bond-1235540695/

RichardTheBruce

March 7th

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

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

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

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

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

See the complete article here:

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

Eric Shorter | Wed 8 Mar 2000 21.16 EST

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Charles Gray never married.

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

Charles Gray (I) (1928–2000)

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Filmography

Actor (135 credits)

2000 Longitude (TV Movie) - Adm. Balchen

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

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

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

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

Soundtrack (7 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

Daniel Craig/The Weeknd

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11844434/?ref_=ttep_ep15
Season 45 Episode 15
Episode aired Mar 7, 2020 | 1h 30m

Daniel Craig in Saturday Night Live (1975)
Host Daniel Craig; The Weeknd performs.

Directors
Don Roy King, Paul Briganti (segment Salad)
Doron Max Hagay (segment On The Couch)
Writers
Michael Che(head writer), Colin Jost (head writer), Kent Sublette (head writer)

RichardTheBruce

March 8th

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

"Nobody Does It Better" (Carole Bayer Sager/Marvin Hamlisch)

Nobody does it better
Makes me feel sad for the rest
Nobody does it half as good as you
Baby, you're the best

I wasn't lookin' but somehow you found me
I tried to hide from your love light
But like heaven above me
The spy who loved me
Is keepin' all my secrets safe tonight...

2003: ダイ・アナザー・デイ (Dai anazā Dei, Die Another Day) released in Japan.

2011: International Women's Day recognized by a short film with Judi Dench, Daniel Craig.

International Women's Day with Daniel Craig and Judi Dench

2016: Sir George Henry Martin, CBE, dies at age 90--Colesshill, Oxordshire, England.
(Born 3 January 1926--Holloway, London.)

Sir George Martin obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/mar/09/george-martin-obituary

The ‘fifth Beatle’, a talented musician and producer who oversaw
landmark albums and helped the band to stretch the boundaries
of sound recording
Adam Sweeting | Wed 9 Mar 2016 01.25 EST | Last modified on Tue 14 Feb 2017 12.58 EST

http://www.theguardian.com/music/video/2016/mar/09/producer-george-martin-beatles-yesterday-archive-video
Producer George Martin recalls making the Beatles’ classic Yesterday – archive video

The death of George Martin at the age of 90 is not only a sad blow to Beatles fans of all generations, but it also draws a line under a vanished age of the entertainment business. Martin’s work as the Beatles’ producer, overseeing such landmarks of popular music as Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and Abbey Road, has guaranteed that his reputation will live as long as that of his illustrious proteges.

Martin and the Beatles were stretching the known boundaries of sound recording almost every time they entered the studio. “When I started, there really weren’t more than a handful of producers,” Martin commented. “Now everyone thinks they’re a producer. Technology has been getting more sophisticated every day. You can make a tune that isn’t that great sound wonderful. This stifles creativity, because you don’t have to work for it, it’s already there.”

A trained musician, Martin possessed invaluable arranging skills. He helped the Beatles to find striking juxtapositions of sounds and electronic effects previously unheard outside the more freakish fringes of the avant garde, in the process helping to justify pop music’s claims to be something more than a cellarful of noise. But perhaps most important was his capacity for making his clients raise their game to levels they themselves hadn’t believed possible.

Martin sensed that it was more a matter of psychology than technology. “I realised I had the ability to get the best out of people,” he reflected. “A producer has to get inside the person. Each artist is very different, and there’s a lot of psychology in it.”

https://theguardian.com/music/video/2016/mar/09/beatles-producer-sir-george-martin-has-died-aged-90-video-obituary
Beatles producer Sir George Martin has died aged 90 – video obituary

After his groundbreaking work with the Beatles, Martin had earned his ticket to ride, and he worked with a spectrum of luminaries including Jeff Beck, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, America, Jimmy Webb, Kenny Rogers, Ultravox and Elton John. He produced Shirley Bassey’s theme song for the Bond movie Goldfinger (1964), and composed the score for a further Bond, Live and Let Die (1973), as well as producing its title song, which was performed by Paul McCartney and Wings.

Before rock’n’roll transformed his career, he had already been well known for his work with jazz and popular musicians such as Stan Getz, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth and Judy Garland, but what especially endeared him to the Beatles was his track record of producing comedy albums, particularly with the Goons and Peter Sellers. John Lennon and George Harrison were aficionados of Goon-humour, and they swiftly struck up a close rapport with Martin.

It has long been a part of Beatle mythology that Martin was the debonair toff who transformed the fortunes of four leather-clad scruffs from Liverpool, but the truth was not so cut and dried. “It’s a load of poppycock really, because our backgrounds were very similar,” Martin argued. “Paul and John went to quite good schools. I went to elementary school, and I went to Jesuit college. We didn’t pay to go to school, my parents were very poor. I wasn’t taught music and they weren’t, we taught ourselves.”
George Martin with the Beatles at Abbey Road.

George Martin with the Beatles at Abbey Road. Photograph: BBC/ Apple Corps Ltd/BBC

Born in Holloway, north London, George was the son of Henry, a carpenter, and Bertha (nee Simpson), a cleaner, and studied at St Ignatius college, Stamford Hill, and Bromley county school, in south-east London. Having taught himself to play the piano, he was running his own dance band at school by the time he was 16.

By way of second world war service, in 1944 Martin joined the Fleet Air Arm. He flew as an observer and achieved the rank of sub-lieutenant. It was there that he acquired the patina of patrician lordliness that would become his trademark, an effect intensified by his aquiline profile topped by a swept-back mane of hair. No wonder the acerbic John Lennon referred to him as “Biggles”. Paul McCartney commented: “He’d dealt with navigators and pilots. He could deal with us when we got out of line.”

After being demobbed in 1947, Martin studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, for three years, specialising in composition and orchestration. In 1950 he joined Parlophone Records, part of the EMI group of companies, and in 1955 was made head of the label. But it was not until 1962 that Martin was approached by the Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, who, having had his group rejected by Phillips, Decca and Pye, was anxious to find a pair of sympathetic ears in the London-based record business.

Epstein almost failed to get anywhere with Martin as well, since the Parlophone boss considered that the Beatles’ demo tape “wasn’t very good... in fact it was awful”. But Martin recognised that the group had ambition and charisma, and once drummer Pete Best had been replaced by Ringo Starr, he could see that that the necessary ingredients were in place.

Nevertheless, even Martin had not foreseen the extraordinary blossoming of the songwriting talents of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Having started out writing shoddy, derivative tunes, they suddenly began churning out a goldmine of great pop songs, from I Want to Hold Your Hand and A Hard Day’s Night to Strawberry Fields Forever and Back in the USSR. Under Martin’s guidance, for the rest of the decade the band made advances in writing, arrangement and use of technology that transformed pop music. Strawberry Fields, in particular, is often cited by contemporary producers as a revolutionary achievement.

Though he will always be chiefly remembered for his Beatles work, Martin had numerous other achievements to his credit. Perhaps frustrated by being tied to the terms of his employment contract with EMI, in 1965 he formed his own independent production company, Associated Independent Recordings (AIR), which lent its name to the AIR studio complex on the Caribbean island of Montserrat in the decade till it was forced to close after a hurricane in 1989, and more recently to AIR studios in Hampstead, north London.

Besides being in steady demand as a producer, Martin participated in a TV documentary marking the 20th anniversary of the Sgt Pepper album in 1987, and in 1993 published a book, Summer of Love – The Making of Sgt Pepper. He examined various aspects of music-making in the BBC TV series The Rhythm of Life (1997) and in his books All You Need Is Ears (1979) and Making Music (1983), and produced the Beatles Anthology double-CD sets in the 1990s. He was knighted in 1996, and in the following year produced Elton John’s reworking of Candle in the Wind, in memory of Princess Diana. It became the bestselling single of all time.

In 1998, he masterminded his own musical swansong with In My Life, an album of Beatles songs performed by an all-star assortment of actors and musicians including Sean Connery, Goldie Hawn, Robin Williams, Celine Dion and Phil Collins. “I’ve had a bloody good innings,” said Martin. “Knowing that I would have to finish, I decided I would make my own last record. It’s a kind of tribute, too, to all the people that I’ve been lucky to work with over the years.”

However, there was still more to come. The six-CD set entitled Produced By George Martin: 50 Years in Recording (2001) was a survey of his entire studio career, and and it was followed by Martin’s illustrated memoir, Playback (2002). George and his son Giles were music directors of the Cirque du Soleil show Love (2006), a theatrical interpretation of the Beatles’ work featuring 80 minutes of their music remixed by the two Martins and staged in Las Vegas. In 2011 the BBC2 series Arena aired a 90-minute documentary, also called Produced By George Martin, tracing his life and career, with contributions from many of the artists he had worked with.

In 1948 he married Sheena Chisholm, with whom he had two children, Alexis and Gregory. That marriage ended in divorce, and in 1966 he married Judy Lockhart Smith, with whom he had two further children, Lucy and Giles. He is survived by Judy and his children.

• George Henry Martin, record producer, born 3 January 1926; died 9 March 2016

This article was amended on 10 March. The TV documentary from 1987 on the making of Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band marked its 20th anniversary rather than its 25th.
Note: His death is recorded as 8 March, vice 9.

George Martin (I) (1926–2016)

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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)

Barry: The beyondness of things

2020: Max von Sydow dies at age 90--Provence, France.
(Born 10 April 1929--Lund, Sweden.)

Max von Sydow obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/mar/09/max-von-sydow-obituary

Swedish stage and screen actor who starred in The Seventh Seal,
The Exorcist and Flash Gordon
Ronald Bergan | Mon 9 Mar 2020 12.10 EDT

Max von Sydow in The Seventh Seal, 1957, directed by Ingmar Bergman.
Photograph: Moviestore/Rex/Shutterstock

The great Swedish film and stage actor Max von Sydow, who has died aged 90, will be remembered by different people for different roles: the title role in The Exorcist, Christ in The Greatest Story Ever Told, and his Oscar-nominated part as the slave-driven Lasse in Pelle the Conqueror, but his passport to cinema heaven will be his many remarkable performances under the direction of Ingmar Bergman.

The tall, gaunt and imposing blond Von Sydow, pronounced Suedorff, made his mark internationally in 1957 as the disillusioned 14th-century knight Antonius Block, in Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.

Returning from the crusades to his plague-stricken country, he finds that he has lost his faith in God and can no longer pray. Suddenly, he is confronted by the personification of Death. Seeking more time on Earth, he challenges Death to a game of chess. Von Sydow’s portrayal of a man in spiritual turmoil demonstrated a maturity beyond his years and was to exemplify his solemn and dignified persona in further Bergman films, even extending to some of his less worthier enterprises.

Max von Sydow and Linda Blair in The Exorcist, 1973.
Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext Collection

Although it was the actor’s first film for Bergman, they had worked together at the Municipal theatre in Malmö on several plays and would continue to do so between films. From 1956 to 1958, for Bergman, Von Sydow played Brick in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Peer in Peer Gynt, Alceste in The Misanthrope and Faust in Urfaust. In the same company were Gunnar Björnstrand, Ingrid Thulin, Bibi Andersson and Gunnel Lindblom, who, with Von Sydow, were to become part of the Bergman repertory company of the screen.

He was born Carl Adolph Von Sydow – later taking the name Max – to an academic family in Lund, southern Sweden. His father, Carl Wilhelm, was an ethnologist and professor of comparative folklore at the university of Lund; his mother, Maria Margareta (nee Rappe), was a school teacher.

He attended a Catholic school before doing his military service. From 1948 to 1951, Von Sydow attended the acting school at the Royal Dramatic theatre in Stockholm; while still a student there, he had small parts in two films directed by Alf Sjöberg, Only a Mother (1949) and Miss Julie (1951). After graduating, Von Sydow, who had married Christina Olin in 1951, joined the Municipal theatre in Helsingborg before moving to Malmö, which resulted in the significant meeting with Bergman.

Max von Sydow, left, and Mathieu Amalric in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, 2007

Following The Seventh Seal, Von Sydow played in six sombre films in a row for Bergman; he was quite content to play supporting roles when asked. He had a small part in Wild Strawberries (1957), and was rather peripheral in Brink of Life (1957), as Eva Dahlbeck’s husband, waiting calmly for his wife to have a baby (which she loses), but was central in The Face (1958, later known as The Magician). As Vogler, a 19th-century mesmerist and magician, Von Sydow embodies admirably the part-charlatan, part-messiah character.

It was back to medieval Sweden in The Virgin Spring (1960), with Von Sydow as the vengeful father of a girl who has been raped and murdered. In Through a Glass Darkly (1961), he was the anguished husband of Harriet Andersson, watching his wife lapsing into insanity, and in Winter Light (1962), he was a man terrified of nuclear annihilation.

Von Sydow refused offers of work outside Sweden, even the title role in the first James Bond movie, Dr No (1962), though two decades later he played the evil genius Blofeld to Sean Connery’s Bond in Never Say Never Again, 1983. He finally gave in when George Stevens begged him to play Jesus in his 225-minute epic The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). However, despite Von Sydow’s charisma, the epic turned out to be Jesus Christ Superbore.

His next two Hollywood movies were not much better: The Reward (1965), in which he was an impoverished crop-dusting pilot trapped in the Mexican desert, and Hawaii (1966), as an unbending and arrogant missionary who makes no effort to understand the islanders. Von Sydow’s two sons played his son in the film, aged seven (Henrik), and 12 (Clas). The scheming German aristocrat in The Quiller Memorandum (1966) was the first of many bad Germans he would play well.

Max von Sydow in Flash Gordon, 1980.
Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex

Complex roles in four films for Bergman temporarily stopped the rot: as an artist subject to terrible nightmares and hallucinations in Hour of the Wolf (1968); as a big, gangling innocent forced to face reality in Shame (1968), a powerful parable in which he was allowed to improvise some of his dialogue for the first time; as a man whose peaceful seclusion is disturbed by a woman recovering from the car accident that killed her husband and son (Liv Ullmann), as well as a warring couple and a homicidal maniac in The Passion of Anna (1969); and as the cold cuckolded doctor husband of Bibi Andersson in The Touch (1971), Bergman’s first English-language film.

Von Sydow and Ullmann suffered beautifully as poor Swedish peasants trying to survive in 19th-century Minnesota in Jan Troell’s diptych, The Emigrants (1971) and The New Land (1972). It was almost inevitable that Von Sydow should be cast as the Jesuit priest, Father Merrin, in William Friedkin’s pretentious shocker The Exorcist (1973) after having gone through so many metaphysical crises in Bergman films. His craggy features haunt the film and its shoddy sequel The Exorcist II – The Heretic (1977).

Max von Sydow and Julie Andrews in Hawai, 1966. Photograph: Ronald Grant

On the whole, his films tended to oscillate between the serious and the silly. Among the former were Steppenwolf (1974), in which he played Hermann Hesse’s alter ego Harry Haller, a disillusioned man going on a spiritual journey; Duet for One (1986), in which he was the callous, death-fearing psychoanalyst; and Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), where he was a prickly, antisocial artist. Allen has said that the only two actors he directed of whom he found himself in awe were Von Sydow and Geraldine Page.

On the more ridiculous side were his Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon (1980), and King Osric in Conan the Barbarian (1982), through which he managed to keep a straight face – and there was no straighter face in films than Von Sydow’s.

He felt much more in his element in Bille August’s Pelle the Conqueror (1987), which won the best foreign film Oscar. Von Sydow elegantly captured the simple grandeur of an illiterate widowed farmer who leaves a poverty-stricken Sweden for a Danish island with his nine-year-old son, to find himself almost a slave on a farm.

Von Sydow reconnected with Bergman when he played the latter’s maternal grandfather in The Best Intentions (1992), directed by August from Bergman’s autobiographical script.

However, his portrayal of the Norwegian novelist Knut Hamsun in the biopic Hamsun (1996), directed by Troell, was far too sympathetic for a man who tried to rationalise his admiration for Hitler.

“Why me?” was Von Sydow’s reaction to the director Jonathan Miller, after he had been cast as Prospero in The Tempest at the Old Vic, in 1988. “Do you have to cross the river to fetch water when you have so many wonderful actors in England?” But Miller was justified in his choice because Von Sydow brought the aura of the Bergman films to the role as well as authority and warmth.
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In 1988, he directed Katinka, a simple tale about a woman stifled by a loveless marriage, which made little impact. Von Sydow was glad to have made it, but said that he would never direct again. He continued to alternate between mainstream Hollywood (he was in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, 2002), and more challenging material such as The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007), mostly in small scene-stealing roles.

He was a sinister German doctor in Martin Scorsese’s psychological thriller Shutter Island (2010); a mysterious mute in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011), for which he received his second Oscar nomination; Lor San Tekka in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015); and the Three-Eyed Raven in the sixth season of Game of Thrones (2016). His last film role came in Thomas Vinterberg’s Kursk (2018).

He and Olin divorced in 1979; in 1997 he married the French film-maker Catherine Brelet, and they settled in Paris (Von Sydow became a French citizen in 2002). He is survived by Brelet and their sons, Cédric and Yvan, and by Henrik and Clas, the sons of his first marriage.

• Max von Sydow (Carl Adolf von Sydow), actor; born 10 April 1929; died 8 March 2020

Max von Sydow (I) (1929–2020)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001884/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (163 credits)

Echoes of the Past (post-production) - Nikolas Andreou (aged)
2018 The Command - Vladimir Petrenko
2016 Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Video Game) - Lor San Tekka (voice)
2016 Game of Thrones (TV Series) - Three-Eyed Raven
- The Door (2016) ... Three-Eyed Raven (as Max Von Sydow)
- Oathbreaker (2016) ... Three-Eyed Raven (as Max Von Sydow)
- Home (2016) ... Three-Eyed Raven (as Max Von Sydow)
2016 The First, the Last - Le croque-mort
2015 Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens - Lor San Tekka
2014 The Simpsons (TV Series) - Klaus Ziegler
- The War of Art (2014) ... Klaus Ziegler (voice)
2014/II The Letters - Father Celeste van Exem
2013 Dragons 3D (Short) - Dr. Alistair Conis
2012 Branded - Marketing Guru
2011 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close - The Renter
2011 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game) - Esbern (voice)
2010 The Last Norwegian Troll (Short) - The Last Norwegian Troll (voice)
2010 Moomins and the Comet Chase - Narrator (French version, voice)
2010 Robin Hood - Sir Walter Loxley
2010 Shutter Island - Dr. Naehring
2010 The Wolfman - Passenger on Train (only in director's cut) (uncredited)

2009 Oscar and the Lady in Pink - Dr. Dusseldorf
2009 Solomon Kane - Josiah Kane
2009 Ghostbusters (Video Game) - Vigo (voice)
2009 The Tudors (TV Series) - Cardinal Von Waldburg
- Search for a New Queen (2009) ... Cardinal Von Waldburg
- Problems in the Reformation (2009) ... Cardinal Von Waldburg
- The Northern Uprising (2009) ... Cardinal Von Waldburg
- Civil Unrest (2009) ... Cardinal Von Waldburg
2008 Un homme et son chien - Le commandant
2007 Emotional Arithmetic - Jakob Bronski
2007 Rush Hour 3 - Reynard
2007 The Diving Bell and the Butterfly - Papinou
2006 The Final Inquiry - Tiberius
2005/I Heidi - Uncle Alp
2004 Curse of the Ring (TV Movie) - Eyvind
2004 Hidden Children (TV Movie) - Valobra
2002 Les amants de Mogador
2002 Minority Report - Director Lamar Burgess
2001 Intacto - Samuel
2001 Druids - Guttuart
2001 Sleepless - Moretti
2000 Nuremberg (TV Mini-Series) - Samuel Rosenman
- Episode #1.1 (2000) ... Samuel Rosenman

1999 Snow Falling on Cedars - Nels Gudmundsson (as Max Von Sydow)
1998 What Dreams May Come - The Tracker
1998 Professione fantasma (TV Series) - Psicanalista dell'Aldilà - 11 episodes
1997 Solomon (TV Mini-Series) - David
1997 The Princess and the Pauper (TV Movie) - Epos
1997 En frusen dröm (Documentary) - S.A. Andrée (voice)
1997 Screen One (TV Series) - Admiral Chernavin
- Hostile Waters (1997) ... Admiral Chernavin
1996 Truck Stop
1996 Private Confessions (TV Movie) - Jacob
1996 Samson and Delilah (TV Mini-Series) - Narratore (voice, uncredited)
1996 Jerusalem - Vicar
1996 Hamsun - Knut Hamsun
1995 Lumière and Company (Documentary) - Jacob (segment "Liv Ullman") (uncredited)
1995 Capture - Meet Robert A. Robinson Photographer (Short) - Narrator
1995 Depth Solitude (Short) - Narrator (English Version) (voice)
1995 Atlanten (Documentary) - Narrator (voice)
1995 Judge Dredd - Judge Fargo
1995 Citizen X (TV Movie) - Dr. Alexandr Bukhanovsky
1994 Onkel Vanja (TV Movie) - Professorn
1994 Radetzkymarsch (TV Mini-Series) - Baron Franz von Trotta und Cipolje
- Episode #1.2 (1994) ... Baron Franz von Trotta und Cipolje
- Episode #1.1 (1994) ... Baron Franz von Trotta und Cipolje
1994 A che punto è la notte (TV Movie) - Arcivescovo di Torino
1994 Time Is Money - Joe Kaufman
1993 Needful Things - Leland Gaunt (as Max Von Sydow)
1993 Morfars resa - Simon S.L. Fromm
1993 The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (TV Series) - Sigmund Freud
- Vienna, November 1908 (1993) ... Sigmund Freud
1993 Och ge oss skuggorna (TV Movie) - Eugene O'Neill
1992 The Touch - Henry Kesdi
1992 The Best Intentions - Johan Åkerblom
1991 The Best Intentions (TV Mini-Series) - Johan Åkerblom
- Episode #1.3 (1991) ... Johan Åkerblom (credit only)
- Episode #1.2 (1991) ... Johan Åkerblom
- Episode #1.1 (1991) ... Johan Åkerblom
1991 Oxen - Vicar
1991 Until the End of the World - Henry Farber
1991 Europa - Narrator (voice)
1991 A Kiss Before Dying - Thor Carlsson
1990 Awakenings - Dr. Peter Ingham (as Max Von Sydow)
1990 Father - Joe Mueller
1990 Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes (TV Movie) - Father Siemes
1990 Una vita scellerata - Pope Clement VII
1990 The Bachelor - Von Schleheim

1989 Carl Jung: Wisdom of the Dream (TV Mini-Series documentary) - Carl Jung (voice)
1989 Red King, White Knight (TV Movie) - Szaz
1989 Ghostbusters II - Vigo (voice, uncredited)
1988 Familjen Schedblad (TV Series) - Chefredaktör Lindström
- Murveln (1988) ... Chefredaktör Lindström
1987 Pelle the Conqueror - Lassefar
1987 The Second Victory - Dr. Huber
1986 Duet for One - Dr. Louis Feldman
1986 The Wolf at the Door - August Strindberg
1986 Gösta Berlings saga (TV Mini-Series) - Melchior Sinclaire
- Del 3 (1986) ... Melchior Sinclaire
- Del 2 (1986) ... Melchior Sinclaire
- Del 1 (1986) ... Melchior Sinclaire
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters - Frederick (as Max Von Sydow)
1985 The Fascination
1985 The Last Place on Earth (TV Mini-Series) - Fridtjof Nansen
- Rejoice (1985) ... Fridtjof Nansen
- Poles Apart (1985) ... Fridtjof Nansen
- Minor Diversions (1985) ... Fridtjof Nansen
1985 The Repenter - Spinola
1985 Code Name: Emerald - Jurgen Brausch
1985 Christopher Columbus (TV Mini-Series) - King John of Portugal
- Episode #1.4 (1985) ... King John of Portugal
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... King John of Portugal
- Episode #1.2 (1985) ... King John of Portugal
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... King John of Portugal
1985 Quo Vadis? (TV Mini-Series) - The Apostle Peter - 6 episodes
1985 Kojak: The Belarus File (TV Movie) - Peter Barak (as Max Von Sydow)
1984 Dune - Doctor Kynes (as Max Von Sydow)
1984 Le dernier civil (TV Movie) - Gérard Bauerle
1984 Dreamscape - Doctor Paul Novotny
1984 The Soldier's Tale - The Devil (voice)
1984 Samson and Delilah (TV Movie) - Sidka (as Max Von Sydow)
1984 The Ice Pirates (uncredited)
1983 Never Say Never Again - Blofeld (as Max Von Sydow)
1983 Strange Brew - Brewmeister Smith (as Max Von Sydow)
1983 Le cercle des passions - Carlo di Vilalfratti / Father
1982 Jugando con la muerte - Coronel O'Donnell
1982 The Flight of the Eagle - S.A. Andrée
1982 Conan the Barbarian - King Osric (as Max Von Sydow)
1981 Victory - The Germans - Major Karl Von Steiner (as Max Von Sydow)
1980 Flash Gordon - The Emperor Ming (as Max Von Sydow)
1980 Death Watch - Gerald Mortenhoe (as Max Von Sydow)

1979 Footloose - Marcello Herrighe
1979 Hurricane - Dr. Danielsson
1978 Brass Target - Shelley Martin Webber
1977 Black Journal - Lisa Carpi / Carabinieri Marshal
1977 March or Die - Francois Marneau
1977 Exorcist II: The Heretic - Father Merrin
1976 Voyage of the Damned - Captain Schroeder (as Max Von Sydow)
1976 The Desert of the Tartars - Captain Ortiz
1976 The Far Side of Paradise - Larsen
1976 Illustrious Corpses - Supreme Court's President
1976 Dog's Heart - Professor Filipp Filippovich Preobrazenski
1975 The Ultimate Warrior - Baron
1975 Three Days of the Condor - Joubert (as Max Von Sydow)
1975 Trompe l'oeil - Matthew Lawrence
1975 Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story - The Father
1974 Steppenwolf - Harry Haller
1973 The Exorcist - Father Merrin
1973 Kvartetten som sprängdes (TV Mini-Series) - Engineer Planertz
- Lyckligt slut (1973) ... Engineer Planertz
- Falska stjärnor (1973) ... Engineer Planertz
- Nya tag! (1973) ... Engineer Planertz
- Kärlek och solsken (1973) ... Engineer Planertz
1972 Embassy - Gorenko
1972 The New Land - Karl Oskar
1971 I havsbandet (TV Mini-Series) - Narrator
1971 The Apple War - Roy Lindberg
1971 I själva verket är det alltid något annat som händer (TV Movie) - Anton
1971 The Touch - Andreas Vergerus
1971 The Emigrants - Karl Oskar
1971 The Night Visitor - Salem
1970 The Kremlin Letter - Colonel Kosnov

1969 The Passion of Anna - Andreas Winkelman / Himself
1969 Made in Sweden - Magnus Rud
1968 Shame - Jan Rosenberg, Evas man
1968 Black Palm Trees - Gustav Olofsson
1968 Hour of the Wolf - Johan Borg
1967 The Diary of Anne Frank (TV Movie) - Otto Frank
1966 Here Is Your Life - Smålands-Pelle
1966 The Quiller Memorandum - Oktober
1966 Hawaii - Rev. Abner Hale
1965 The Reward - Scott Swenson
1965 4 x 4 - Kvist (segment "Uppehåll i myrlandet")
1965 Uppehåll i myrlandet (Short) - Alex Kvist
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told - Jesus
1963 Winter Light - Jonas Persson
1962 The Mistress - The Man
1962 Wonderful Adventures of Nils - The Father
1961 Through a Glass Darkly - Martin
1960 Bröllopsdagen - Anders Frost
1960 The Virgin Spring - Töre

1958 The Magician - Albert Emanuel Vogler
1958 Rabies (TV Movie) - Bo Stensson Svenningson
1958 Spion 503 - Tysk topagent Horst
1958 Brink of Life - Harry Andersson
1957 The Minister of Uddarbo - Gustaf Ömark
1957 Wild Strawberries - Henrik Åkerman
1957 Mr. Sleeman Is Coming (TV Movie) - Jägaren
1957 The Seventh Seal - Antonius Block
1956 Rätten att älska - Bergman
1953 Ingen mans kvinna - Olof
1951 Miss Julie - Hand
1949 Only a Mother - Nils

Soundtrack (2 credits)

2016 The First, the Last (performer: "A Beautiful Life" - as Max von Sidow)

1971 The Apple War (performer: "Calle Schewens vals")

Director (1 credit)

1988 Katinka

RichardTheBruce

March 9th

1915: Ruth Kempf is born.
(She dies 9 September 2012 at age 97--Opelousas, Lousiana.)

Ruth Kempf
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0447448/

Ruth Kempf was born on March 9, 1915 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Live and Let Die (1973) and J.D.'s Revenge (1976). She died on September 9, 2012 in Opelousas, Louisiana, USA.

Born: March 9, 1915 in USA
Died: September 9, 2012 (age 97) in Opelousas, Louisiana, USA

Filmography

Actress (2 credits)

1976 J.D.'s Revenge - Woman Passenger
1973 Live and Let Die - Mrs. Bell

1929: Jean Rougerie is born--Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
(He dies 25 January 1998 at age 68--Ivry-sur-Seine, France.)

Jean Rougerie

(1929–1998)
Actor | Writer | Additional Crew
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0745625/

Jean Rougerie was born on March 9, 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was an actor and writer, known for A View to a Kill (1985), American Dreamer (1984) and Gwendoline (1984). He died on January 25, 1998 in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France.

Born: March 9, 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Died: January 25, 1998 (age 68) in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France

1964: Goldfinger films Sean Connery's first scene--the pre-credit sequence.

1999: Roger Moore receives appointment as Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

With Tom Jones receiving the OBE for Services to Music and Entertainment.

2015: Spectre announces Stephanie Sigman's casting.

2019: BOND 25 reports continue to confirm filming locations and other details.

‘Bond 25’ Will Be Filming in
Matera, Italy in Late July; Other
Locations Include Norway,
Jamaica, & U.K.

https://thegww.com/bond-25-will-be-filming-in-matera-italy-in-late-july-other-locations-include-norway-jamaica-u-k/
By Jacob Tyler | March 9, 2019

The upcoming Bond 25 (not called Shatterhand) just got an update for filming locations. The film will be shooting in Matera, Italy in late July, as well as Norway, Jamaica, and Pinewood Studios in the United Kingdom.

The Matera shoot is for the prologue action sequence, while they’ll use Norway for a frozen lake before it thaws. The latter footage will be a part of the pre-credit scenes. Principal filming will take place in Jamaica and Pinewood Studios.

Moreover, Cary Joji Fukunaga (‘True Detective,’ ‘Maniac’) will be helming Daniel Craig’s last outing as the titular character. Danny Boyle was originally going to direct the film, but creative differences drove him away from the project. Thus, Neal Purvis & Robert Wade came back to finish what they started all the way back in Casino Royale. Along with that film, they wrote all of Craig’s other ‘Bond’ movies: Quantum of Solace, Skyfall. and Spectre. Fukunaga also had his own draft of the screenplay. However, Scott Z. Burns (‘The Bourne Ultimatum,’ ‘Contagion’) was brought on for rewrites last month.

Variety recently gave an update on the script:

“Fukunaga turned in his recent draft at the beginning of the year,
and while reports surfaced that major rewrite work was done to
the script [by Burns], sources say no significant changes were
made, and the producers and Craig were excited with what
Fukunaga had delivered.”

Returning cast members include Ralph Fiennes, Lea Seydoux, Naomie Harris, and Ben Whishaw. Meanwhile, Billy Magnussen is the top choice for a CIA operative, while Rami Malek is in talks for the villain.

Further, with new a April 8, 2020 release, Bond 25 has the Easter weekend all to itself now, instead of the previous Valentine’s Day weekend date. However, who knows what will happen next, as it currently needs to meet its April deadline to begin filming.

Source: Variety and The Daily Mail

2020: Billie Eilish and and brother Finneas kick off their Where Do We Go? World Arena Tour in Miami, Florida.

Billie Eilish Releases Bond Theme ‘No Time To
Die’ And Announces BRIT Awards Performance

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/billie-eilish-no-time-to-die-bond/

Billie Eilish dropped her highly anticipated new song ‘No Time To Die’, the official theme song to the upcoming James Bond film.
Published on February 14, 2020 | By Laura Stavropoulos

‘No Time To Die’ was produced by brother and musical collaborator Finneas, alongside Stephen Lipson, and features orchestral arrangements by legendary film composer Hans Zimmer and Matt Dunkley, and guitar contribution from former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr.

The five-time Grammy winner also announced she will be performing ‘No Time To Die’ live for the first time at The BRIT Awards in London on 18 February 18, and will be joined by Finneas plus special guests Zimmer and Marr.

“It feels crazy to be a part of this in every way,” shared Eilish in a statement. “To be able to score the theme song to a film that is part of such a legendary series is a huge honour. James Bond is the coolest film franchise ever to exist. I’m still in shock”. Finneas adds. “Writing the theme song for a Bond film is something we’ve been dreaming about doing our entire lives. There is no more iconic pairing of music and cinema than the likes of Goldfinger and Live and Let Die. We feel so so lucky to play a small role in such a legendary franchise, long live 007.”

No Time To Die comes ahead of the film’s global release, which hits theatres from 2 April in the UK and 10 April in the US [later delayed]. Eilish is officially the youngest artist in history to both write and record a James Bond theme song.

“There are a chosen few who record a Bond theme. I am a huge fan of Billie and Finneas,” said the film’s director Cary Joji Fukunaga, in a press statement.

“Their creative integrity and talent are second to none and I cannot wait for audiences to hear what they’ve brought – a fresh new perspective whose vocals will echo for generations to come.”

Last month, Eilish made Grammy history as the youngest artist to win in all four major categories, taking away five wins in total for Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Pop Vocal Album. Her brother and sole collaborator Finneas also took home an additional two Grammy Awards for Producer of the Year, Non Classical and Best Engineered Album, Non Classical.

Last Sunday, the duo performed a moving rendition of The Beatles’ classic ‘Yesterday’ during the In Memoriam segment at the 92nd Oscars.

Meanwhile, Eilish and Finneas are gearing up for their Where Do We Go? World Arena Tour that kicks off on 9 March in Miami, Florida.

2020: Daniel Craig in GQ gives detail for injuries sustained during filming Bond. And poses shirtless.

Daniel Craig on the many injuries
he endured during James Bond
filming

See the complete article here:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/daniel-craig-james-bond-injuries

By Olive Pometsey | 9 March 2020

From torn ligaments to ruptured muscles, Daniel Craig tells us how the role of 007 took a toll on his body

It's not easy being Bond. Not only do you have to be slick, suave and quick witted, you also have to perform a lot of intense stunts that could potentially leave you injured. Daniel Craig is an expert on this, having endured many aches and pains over the course of his 14-year stint as Bond, in parts of the body you probably haven't even heard of.

While filming Quantum Of Solace, he tore the labrum (the connecting cartilage, for those of us without a degree in medicine) in his right shoulder while performing a stunt in an aircraft, only to then hit it again when jumping through a window and straight into a wall in Italy. “I was just nervous and overcooked it,” he explains in our April cover story. “At that point, my arm was kind of useless.”

Then, on the shoot for Skyfall, it was his legs' turn to take a hit. Not long into filming, Craig managed to rupture both of his calf muscles, which meant he had to fit rehab in a swimming pool around the shooting schedule. Ouch. Still, for Craig it was all a case of mind over matter. “It’s not about recovery, because you know you can recover. It’s about psychologically thinking that you’re going to do it again.”

While that might sound bad, it was on Spectre that Craig met his breaking point. This time his anterior cruciate ligament (a key ligament in the knee joint) that took the blow. While fighting with former professional wrestler Dave Baustista in March 2015, he literally heard it snap and had to spend the rest of the shoot wearing a knee brace, which was then removed in the editing process. “I was like, ‘Dave, throw me, for Christ’s sake,’ because he was being light with me,” he says, looking back at the incident. “So he threw me and, God bless him, he just left my knee over there.”

All future 007 hopefuls should probably start preparing for the physical toll it might take on their bodies as soon as possible.

2020: Ultimate Classic Rock gathers information on a rumoured Eric Clapton track.

The Mystery of Eric Clapton’s Lost James
Bond Song

See the complete article here:

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/eric-clapton-james-bond/

Martin Kielty | Published: March 9, 2020

Gladys Knight got the nod to sing the main song from the 16th James Bond movie, 1989's License to Kill – but only at the last moment. The musical honor actually belonged to Eric Clapton up until a few weeks before the second and last appearance by Timothy Dalton in the role of 007.

Michael Kamen oversaw the soundtrack in the wake of a medical leave by longtime composer John Barry. Perhaps in an effort to continue the connection, Kamen paired Clapton with a session guitarist who played on Barry’s original “James Bond Theme.”

“It was a phone call out of the blue,” Vic Flick told Permission to Kill in 2009. “Michael Kamen wanted a dark guitar sound to compliment the melody and extemporization Eric Clapton was going to do on their composition. So, knowing of my penchant for low-string guitar playing, he called me for the sessions.

"It was good to see Eric again after many years, and it was wonderful to work with those two gifted musicians," Flick added. "Eric played some amazing guitar on the track, and Michael worked out a fine arrangement. I did my thing with a counter theme in the low register.”

Flick described the results with Clapton as “very good,” and continued: “[T]he following day we went to a loft in the wharf area of London to shoot the video. What little I saw of the video was great. The video was then submitted to the Bond producers who had commissioned the project. I waited, Michael waited and Eric was off doing his thing somewhere in the world. After two weeks came the news that the Bond producers wanted a song as a theme and commissioned Gladys Knight and the Pips, and blew out the track that Michael, Eric and I submitted.”

The guitarist confirmed that he “did well out of the sessions financially,” but Flick regrets that the the Clapton collaboration never reached the public – not even in bootleg form. “That video is now the Holy Grail of Bond aficionados and he who finds it will see the golden light!” Flick joked. “[N]o one knows where the video is. The one person who I thought knew, Michael Kamen, has since passed away – so the secret has passed with him.”

With a career that includes credits with Paul McCartney, Jimmy Page and many others, Flick can’t have many regrets besides the missing Bond music. He remains a fan of Sean Connery’s time in the Bond role, while crediting his own success to “a combination of my face fitting, being able to do what was required of me, turning up on time – and, up until now, keeping my mouth shut.”

Unconfirmed track circulated 2022

2023: The Music of James Bond & More at Stadthalle Aurich, Germany.

https://www.timeforgig.com/the-music-of-james-bond-more/artists/yrq6x

RichardTheBruce

March 10th

1921: Cec Linder is born--Timmins, Ontario, Canada.
(He dies 10 April 1992 at age 71--Toronto, Canada.)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cec Linder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cec_Linder
Born March 10, 1921, Galicia, Poland
Died April 10, 1992 (aged 71), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Other names Cecil Linder
Occupation Actor
Years active 1955–92

Cec Linder as paleontologist Doctor Matthew Roney in the BBC Television serial
Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59)

Cec Linder (March 10, 1921 – April 10, 1992) was a Polish-born Canadian film and television actor. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked extensively in the United Kingdom, often playing Canadian and American characters in various films and television programmes.

In television, he is best remembered for playing Dr. Matthew Roney in the BBC serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59). In film, he is best remembered for his role as James Bond's friend, CIA agent Felix Leiter, in Goldfinger (1964). Another well-known film in which he appeared was Lolita (1962), as Doctor Keegee.

Career
Linder enjoyed an extensive and successful television career on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, probably his most prominent role was as the palaeontologist Roney in the original BBC version of Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59).

In the United States, he was a regular in the CBS soap operas The Secret Storm and The Edge of Night and in the 1980s appeared in several of the Perry Mason revival TV films as District Attorney Jack Welles.

Linder was also a regular on the popular 1980s Canadian crime series Seeing Things, playing Crown Attorney Spenser.

During his career, he also had guest roles in episodes of a variety of other popular British, American and Canadian television programmes, including: The Forest Rangers, Doomwatch, The Littlest Hobo, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ironside, The Saint, Danger Bay, The New Avengers, The Secret Storm (as Peter Ames), and The Edge of Night as Senator Ben Travis #2.

During his early years in Canada, Linder worked as an announcer at CKGB in Timmins.

Linder appeared as Inspector Cramer in the CBC 1982 radio dramatizations of Nero Wolfe short stories.

Linder's last work was as Syd Grady in two episodes of the television series Sweating Bullets (1991).

He died the following year at home in Toronto, Ontario, of complications from emphysema.

He accumulated over 225 credits in film and television productions in a long performing career.

Cec Linder (1921–1992)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511695/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (156 credits)

1988-1992 Street Legal (TV Series) - Gerald Rose / Judge Keil
- Children's Hour (1992) ... Gerald Rose
- Suite Sixteen (1990) ... Gerald Rose
- Elliot vs. McTavish (1988) ... Judge Keil
1991 Rin Tin Tin: K-9 Cop (TV Series) - - Over the Hill Gang (1991)
1991 Tropical Heat (TV Series) - Sid Grady
- Tara, Tara, Tara (1991) ... Sid Grady
- For a Song (1991) ... Sid Grady
1990 On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story (TV Movie)
1990 The Last Best Year (TV Movie) - Dr. Siegel
1990 Hitler's Daughter (TV Movie) - Trautman

1989 Danger Bay (TV Series) - Dr. Andrew Reinhardt
- Emperors New Clothes (1989) ... Dr. Andrew Reinhardt
1989 Bridge to Silence (TV Movie) - Sam
1988 Betrayal of Silence (TV Movie) - Judge Calvin
1988 Blades of Courage (TV Movie) - Stuart Carmody
1987-1988 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Dr. Hoffman / Older Doctor
- Animal Lovers (1988) ... Dr. Hoffman
- When This Man Dies (1987) ... Older Doctor
1987 George and Rosemary (Short) - Narrator (voice)
1985-1987 Night Heat (TV Series)
Harold McVitty / Judge Palmer / Ernest Lefcourt / ...
- These Happy Golden Years (1987) ... Harold McVitty
- Wages of Sin (1986) ... Judge Palmer
- Fire and Ice (1986) ... Ernest Lefcourt
- Ancient Madness (1985) ... Judge Norris
1987 Diamonds (TV Series) - - Domestic Spirits (1987)
1987 Fight for Life (TV Movie)
1981-1987 Seeing Things (TV Series) - Spenser / Spencer - 13 episodes
1987 Amerika (TV Mini-Series) - Speaker of the House of Representatives
- Part VI (1987) ... Speaker of the House of Representatives (uncredited)
- Part V (1987) ... Speaker of the House of Representatives (uncredited)
- Part II (1987) ... Speaker of the House of Representatives (uncredited)
1986 All Sales Final (TV Movie) - Archie
1986 Christmas Eve (TV Movie) - Dr. Greenspan
1986 The High Price of Passion (TV Movie) - Judge
1986 Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star (TV Movie)
1986 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) - Benny Cyrano
- Guns at Cyrano's (1986) ... Benny Cyrano
1986 A Deadly Business (TV Movie) - Carmine Franco
1986 The Ray Bradbury Theatre (TV Series) - Salesman
- The Town Where No One Got Off (1986) ... Salesman
1985 Jimmy Valentine (TV Short) - Joshua Grey
1985 Perry Mason Returns (TV Movie) - Jack Welles
1985 Honeymoon - Barnes
1985 Deadly Nightmares (TV Series) - Dr. Fischer
- Murderous Feelings (1985) ... Dr. Fischer (as Cecil Linder)
1985 Seduced (TV Movie) - Executive at Exchange
1984 Heavenly Bodies - Walter Matheson
1984 The Edison Twins (TV Series) - Cavanaugh / The Imposter
- Double Trouble (1984) ... Cavanaugh / The Imposter
1984 Heartsounds (TV Movie) - Dr. Korber
1982 Little Gloria... Happy at Last (TV Mini-Series)
- Part II (1982)
- Part I (1982)
1982 Deadly Eyes - Dr. Louis Spenser
1979-1982 The Littlest Hobo (TV Series) - Sal Patelli / Hoffner
- Rex Badger P.I. (1982) ... Sal Patelli
- Stand In (1979) ... Hoffner
1981 Chairman of the Board (TV Series) - Paul Morel
1981 Standing Room Only (TV Series) - Rich Man #1
- Red Skelton's Christmas Dinner (1981) ... Rich Man #1
1980 Chairman of the Board (TV Movie)
1980 Atlantic City - President of Hospital
1980 Day of Resurrection - Dr. Latour (as Cecil Linder)
1980 F.D.R.: The Last Year (TV Movie) - Samuel Rosenman
1980 Matt and Jenny (TV Series) - Wayland King
- Sport of Kings (1980) ... Wayland King (as Cecil Linder)
1979-1980 King of Kensington (TV Series) - Alderman McCready
- Good News, Bad News (1980) ... Alderman McCready
- Diabolical Plots (1979) ... Alderman McCready
1980 The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog (TV Movie) - Eddie

1979 An American Christmas Carol (TV Movie) - Auctioneer
1979 Lost and Found - Mr. Sanders (as Cecil Linder)
1979 City on Fire - Councilman Paley
1979 Something's Rotten - Alexis Alexander
1978 Drága kisfiam - Mr. George (as Cecil Linder)
1978 The Case for Barbara Pasons - Loren Bowley
1978 High-Ballin' - Policeman
1978 Drop Dead, Dearest - Chief Parker
1978 Tomorrow Never Comes - Milton
1977 Three Dangerous Ladies - Dr. Carstairs (segment "The Mannikin")
1977 The New Avengers (TV Series) - Baker
- Complex (1977) ... Baker
1977 Deadly Harvest - Henry the Chairman
1977 Age of Innocence - Dr. Hogarth
1977 Mannikin (Short) - Dr. Paul Carstairs
1975-1976 One Life to Live (TV Series) - Dr. Dick Thornley / Dr. Thornley
- A day after the birth of Joe & Vikki's new baby (1976) ... Dr. Thornley
- Episode #1.1926 (1976) ... Dr. Dick Thornley (credit only)
- Episode #1.1728 (1975) ... Dr. Dick Thornley
1976 The Clown Murders - The Developer
1976 Point of No Return - Professor Johns
1976 Second Wind - Graham
1975 Death Among Friends (TV Movie)
1975 S.W.A.T. (TV Series) - Blake
- The Steel-Plated Security Blanket (1975) ... Blake
1975 Thriller (TV Series) - Edgar Harrow
- Nurse Will Make It Better (1975) ... Edgar Harrow
1974 Sunday in the Country - Ackerman
1974 Why Rock the Boat? - Carmichael
1974 House of Pride (TV Series) - Andrew Pride
1974 Only God Knows - Mr. Klein
1974 To Kill the King - Stephen Van Birchard (as Cecil Linder)
1974 The Play's the Thing (TV Series)
- The Bells of Hell (1974)
1974 The Beachcombers (TV Series)
- Cliff Hanger (1974)
1973 The Thanksgiving Treasure (TV Movie) - Aaron Burkhart
1973 Police Surgeon (TV Series) - George Bartlett / Boggs
- Body Count (1973) ... George Bartlett
- Death Holds an Auction ... Boggs
1973 A Touch of Class - Wendell Thompson
1973 Mafia Junction - American Ambassador
1972 The Sloane Affair - Roy Maxwell
1972 The Adventurer (TV Series) - General McCready
- Action! (1972) ... General McCready
1972 Innocent Bystanders - Mankowitz
1972 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Sen. Connell
- Deadly Dangerous Tomorrow (1972) ... Sen. Connell
1971 Famous Jury Trials (TV Series)
1970 Play for Today (TV Series) - Larry
- The Write-Off (1970) ... Larry
1970 Zabriskie Point - White-Haired Executive (uncredited)

1969 Explosion - Mr. Evans
1969 McQueen (TV Series)
- Brotherly Love (1969)
1969 The Thousand Plane Raid - U.S. Officer at Briefing (uncredited)
1968 Festival (TV Series) - Larry
- The Write-off (1968) ... Larry
1968 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - The Official
- When Thieves Fall In (1968) ... The Official
1968 Ironside (TV Series) - Prof. Carl Anderson
- The Challenge (1968) ... Prof. Carl Anderson
1968 Run for Your Life (TV Series) - Warren Windom
- Saro-Jane, You Never Whispered Again (1968) ... Warren Windom
1968 Wojeck (TV Series)
- Give Until It Hurts and Then Some (1968)
1967 Do Not Fold, Staple, Spindle, or Mutilate
1967 Coronet Blue (TV Series) - Vincent Schuster
- Faces (1967) ... Vincent Schuster
1966 Little White Crimes (Short)
1966 The Shattered Silence (Short) - Mo
1966 Quentin Durgens, M.P. (TV Series) - Sherwin
1965-1966 Seaway (TV Series) - Inspector Provost / Provost - 6 episodes
1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Colonel Watson
- La Belle France (1966)
- All Roads Lead to Callaghan (1966) ... Colonel Watson
1966 Hired Killer - Gastel
1966 12 O'Clock High (TV Series) - Ken Shaw
- The Hollow Man (1966) ... Ken Shaw
1966 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) - Van Druten
- The Mechanical Man (1966) ... Van Druten
1966 The Scribe (Short) - O'Malley (uncredited)
1963-1965 The Forest Rangers (TV Series)
Morris / O'Brien / Harry Rogers
- The White Hunter (1965) ... Morris
- The Proof (1963) ... O'Brien
- The Loner (1963) ... Harry Rogers
1965 The Saint (TV Series) - Waldo Oddington
- The Persistent Parasites (1965) ... Waldo Oddington
1965 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Frederick Katzmann
- The Good Shoemaker and the Poor Fish Peddler (1965) ... Frederick Katzmann
1964 The Verdict - Joe Armstrong
1964 Moment of Truth (TV Series) - Dean Hogarth
1964 Here's Harry (TV Series)
- Harry's American Cousin (1964)
1964 Swizzlewick (TV Series) - Filch - 6 episodes
1964 Goldfinger - Felix Leiter
1964 Time of Your Life (TV Mini-Series)
- The Kids and the Kidnapers (1964)
1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) -- Joe Armstrong
- The Verdict (1964) ... Joe Armstrong
1964 The Defenders (TV Series) - Dr. Bell
- The Secret (1964) ... Dr. Bell
1962-1963 Quest (TV Series) - Uncle Jerry
- Paul Loves Libby (1963) ... Uncle Jerry
- The Morning After Mr. Roberts (1962)
1962 Lolita - Physician
1961-1962 Playdate (TV Series) - Bill / Dunlop / Joe Shelley / ...
- One Man to Beat (1962) ... Bill
- Nightmare (1962) ... Dunlop
- Private Potter (1961)
- Heir for a Shoestring (1961) ... Joe Shelley
- The Salt of the Earth (1961) ... Jimmy
1961 John A. Macdonald: The Impossible Idea (Short) - Toronto Globe Reporter (as Cecil Linder)
1961 Salt of the Earth (TV Movie)
1954-1961 Encounter (TV Series) - Bert Kendall / Steven / Shore / ... - 13 episodes
1961 Drama 61-67 (TV Series) - Phil Kadsoe
- Drama '61: Edge of Truth (1961) ... Phil Kadsoe
1960-1961 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Joe Hunter / Samuel Plagett
- Off Centre (1961) ... Joe Hunter
- Twentieth Century Theatre: Musical Chairs (1960) ... Samuel Plagett
1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Harry
- Mr. Krane (1960) ... Harry
1960 Theatre 70 (TV Series) - Nicky
- Boy Makes Good (1960) ... Nicky
1960 Surprise Package - Legal Adviser (uncredited)
1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Richard Maslyn / District Attorney Flint
- Sparrow, Sparrow (1960) ... Richard Maslyn
- Night of January 16th (1960) ... District Attorney Flint
1960 Crack in the Mirror - Murzeau
1960 Too Young to Love - Mr. Brill
1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Sloane
- Come in Razor Red (1960) ... Sloane

1959 R.C.M.P. (TV Series) - Dr. Wright
- The Accused (1959) ... Dr. Wright
1959 The Four Just Men (TV Series) - Bannon
- The Beatniques (1959) ... Bannon
1959 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Captain Tully
- You Can't Die Twice (1959) ... Captain Tully
1959 SOS Pacific - Willy
1959 Jet Storm - Colonel Coe
1959 Subway in the Sky - Carson
1958-1959 Quatermass and the Pit (TV Mini-Series) - Dr. Matthew Roney - 6 episodes
- Hob (1959) ... Dr. Matthew Roney
- The Wild Hunt (1959) ... Dr. Matthew Roney
- The Enchanted (1959) ... Dr. Matthew Roney
- Imps and Demons (1959) ... Dr. Matthew Roney
- The Ghosts (1958) ... Dr. Matthew Roney
- The Halfmen (1958) ... Dr. Matthew Roney
1958 The Man on the Assembly Line (Short)
1958 Television Playwright (TV Series) - Jeffrey Lynton
- The Commentator (1958) ... Jeffrey Lynton
1958 Flaming Frontier - Capt. Dan Carver
1958 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series)
Lt.-Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg / Frank Taylor
- The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1958) ... Lt.-Cmdr. Philip Francis Queeg
- The Land of Promise (1958) ... Frank Taylor (as Cecil Linder)
1955-1958 Folio (TV Series)
- Dark of the Moon (1958)
- A Soviet Portrait (1955)
1958 Suspicion (TV Series) - Lieutenant Green
- Someone Is After Me (1958) ... Lieutenant Green
1957 Double Verdict (Short)
1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (TV Series)
Kinaani / Red Stick
- The Promised Valley (1957) ... Kinaani (as Cecil Linder)
- The Search (1957) ... Red Stick (as Cecil Linder)
1955-1957 On Camera (TV Series) - Mr. Todd / Indian / Sheriff
- Black Cats Are Good Cats (1957) ... Mr. Todd (as Cecil Linder)
- Michael's Mountain (1957)
- Blackfoot Country (1956) ... Indian
- The Guests (1956) ... Sheriff
- Man in 308 (1955)
1957 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Walt Stewart
- A Matter of Guilt (1957) ... Walt Stewart
1957 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) - Russian Soldier
- The Hunted (1957) ... Russian Soldier
1957 The Kaiser Aluminum Hour (TV Series) - Lieutenant Cannavan
- Article 94 - Homicide (1957) ... Lieutenant Cannavan
1956 Is It a Woman's World? (Short)
1956 Strike in Town: Revised (Short)
1956 It's the Law (TV Series)
- Episode #1.1 (1956)
1956 The Edge of Night (TV Series) - Senator Benjamin 'Ben' Travis #2 (1974)
1955 Strike in Town (Short)
1955 Scope (TV Series)
- Oh, Canada! (1955)
1954 Playbill (TV Series)
- Sweet Larceny (1954)
- Turn of the Road (1954)
1954 The Secret Storm (TV Series) - Peter Ames #2 (1962-1964)
1953 Space Command (TV Series) (1953)

Self (2 credits)

1979 Arthur Miller on Home Ground (TV Movie documentary) - Himself

1964 A Questionable Course (Documentary short)

Archive footage (4 credits)

2015 Premium Bond with Mark Gatiss and Matthew Sweet (TV Movie documentary) - Felix Leiter
2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Felix Leiter (uncredited)
2002 Bond Girls Are Forever (TV Movie documentary) - Felix Leiter (uncredited)
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Himself / Felix Leiter

The Saint, "The Persistent Parasites" (Roger Moore, Jan Holden, Cec Linder)

1953: Paul Haggis is born--London, Ontario, Canada.

1995: GoldenEye films Onatopp’s death.

2016: Klaus Hugo (Ken) Adam dies at age 95--London, England.
(Born 5 February 1921--Berlin, Germany.)

Ken Adam, Who Dreamed Up the
Lairs of Movie Villains, Dies at 95

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/movies/ken-adam-who-dreamed-up-the-lairs-of-movie-villains-dies-at-95.html

By William Grimes | March 12, 2016

Mr. Adam’s production design work included the war room in the Stanley Kubrick film “Dr. Strangelove.” Credit Hawk Films

Ken Adam, a production designer whose work on dozens of famous films included the fantasy sets that established the look of the James Bond series, the car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and, for Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove,” the sinister war room beneath the Pentagon, died on Thursday at his home in London. He was 95.

His death was announced by a James Bond Twitter account run by MGM Studios and Eon Productions.

Mr. Adam was hired by the producer Albert Broccoli, known as Cubby, to design the sets for the first Bond film, Dr. No, released in 1962. (The two had worked together on the 1960 film “The Trials of Oscar Wilde,” with Peter Finch and James Mason.) With a budget equivalent to about $300,000 today, Mr. Adam delivered the title character’s sleek, futuristic headquarters, his extravagant living room with wall-size aquarium and his creepy, grottolike laboratory.

The combination of futurism and fantasy became a trademark of the Bond franchise. “Dr. No started a new approach,” Mr. Adam told The Guardian in 2002. “I think they realized that design, exotic locations, plus a tongue-in-cheek element were really successful, and so it became more and more that way.”

In Goldfinger, the third movie in the series, Mr. Adam put Bond, played by Sean Connery, into an Aston Martin equipped with an ejector seat. He envisioned Fort Knox as a cathedral of gold.

Ken Adam, left, on the set of “Diamonds Are Forever,” with the actor Sean Connery. Credit United Artists, via Photofest

With You Only Live Twice, the fifth Bond film, Mr. Adam had more than half the total budget at his disposal. He spent $1 million of it building a volcano that contained a secret military base operated by the international terrorist organization Spectre.

“He was a brilliant visualizer of worlds we will never be able to visit ourselves,” Christopher Frayling, the author of two books on Mr. Adam, told the BBC in an article posted on Friday . “The war room under the Pentagon in ‘Dr. Strangelove,’ the interior of Fort Knox in Goldfinger — all sorts of interiors which, as members of the public, we are never going to get to see, but he created an image of them that was more real than real itself.”

Mr. Adam, who was also the production designer for “The Ipcress File,” “Funeral in Berlin,” “Sleuth,” “The Seven Percent Solution,” “Agnes of God” and many other films, won an Oscar in 1976 for his work on “Barry Lyndon,” his second collaboration with Mr. Kubrick. He shared the award with Vernon Dixon and Roy Walker. He won his second Oscar, with Carolyn Scott, in 1995 for “The Madness of King George.”

Klaus Hugo Adam was born on Feb. 5, 1921, in Berlin, where his father, Fritz, a former Prussian cavalry officer, helped run S. Adam, a famous sporting-goods store. Klaus attended the prestigious French Gymnasium before the family, which was Jewish, emigrated to London in 1934.

In London he attended St. Paul’s School and became entranced by German Expressionist films, which he had not seen in Berlin. “They were so theatrical, these artists who dreamt up these fantastic dreamlike environments, and it struck a note with me,” he told The Sunday Telegraph in 2008.

Mr. Adam worked on seven films in the James Bond series, the last of which was Moonraker in 1979. Credit Eon Productions

He studied at University College, London, to pursue architecture as a way of breaking into production design, heeding the advice of Vincent Korda, a brother of the film producer Alexander Korda and a resident of the Hampstead boardinghouse run by Mr. Adam’s mother, the former Lilli Saalfeld. He enrolled in the Bartlett School of Architecture.

Shortly after the start of World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. In 1943 he took his place as a pilot flying long-range bombing missions over Europe. After the D-Day invasion, his squadron flew support missions for troops on the ground.

He was hired as a draftsman on his first film, “This Was a Woman,” in 1948, and for the next several years worked on numerous films as an assistant art director. His work on “Around the World in 80 Days,” a 1956 film that won an Oscar for best picture, gave him cachet in the industry and elevated him to production designer for “Curse of the Demon,” a 1957 film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and “The Angry Hills,” a 1959 war drama starring Robert Mitchum and directed by Robert Aldrich.

The Bond films — he worked on seven of them, the last of which was Moonraker, with Roger Moore as the superspy, in 1979 — put him in the front ranks of production designers.

“To me, designing the villains’ bases was a combination of tongue-in-cheek and showing the power of these megalomaniacs,” he told The Guardian. “I think in the last Bond film I saw — although they’re brilliantly made action pictures, one chase after another — they lost the importance of the villain. I think the villain is just as important as Bond. But someone who simply wants to destroy an oil pipeline to me is just not sufficiently important as a villain.”

Mr. Adam won an Oscar in 1976 for his work on the film “Barry Lyndon.” Credit Hawk Films

His Bond portfolio, along with his work on “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” and two spy thrillers with Michael Caine based on books by Len Deighton, “Funeral in Berlin” and “The Ipcress File,” qualified him as one of the great Cold War image-makers. The Victoria and Albert Museum honored that achievement in 1999 with the exhibition “Ken Adam: Designing the Cold War.”

He described his relationship with the notoriously finicky and controlling Mr. Kubrick as creatively stimulating but dangerous to his mental health. “I was incredibly close with him,” Mr. Adam told BBC Radio’s World Service in 2013. “It was almost like an unhealthy love affair between us. And I had a breakdown eventually.”

The collaboration produced some of his most memorable work, most notably the war room in “Dr. Strangelove,” which he conceived as a vast bomb shelter with an illuminated table in the center, suggestive of a nefarious game of poker in progress.

The set inspired an accolade he treasured. “I was in the States giving a lecture to the Directors Guild when Steven Spielberg came up to me,” Mr. Adam told the BBC. “He said, ‘Ken, that war room set for “Strangelove” is the best set you ever designed.’ Five minutes later he came back and said, ‘No, it’s the best set that’s ever been designed.’ ”

Mr. Adam, who was awarded a knighthood in 2003, is survived by his wife, the former Maria Letizia.

Correction: March 15, 2016
An obituary on Monday about the production designer Ken Adam misstated the surname of one of the people with whom he shared an Academy Award for his work on “Barry Lyndon.” He was Roy Walker, not Roy Scott. The obituary also referred incorrectly to Mr. Adam’s work as an assistant art director on “Around the World in 80 Days.” It was not uncredited. And the obituary described incorrectly the 1959 film “The Angry Hills,” on which he was production designer. It is a World War II drama, not a western.
A version of this article appears in print on March 14, 2016, on Page A24 of the New York edition with the headline: Ken Adam, 95, Designer for ‘Dr. Strangelove’ and Bond Films, Dies.

Ken Adam (I) (1921–2016)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010553/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Production designer (43 credits)
2004 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (Video Game)
2001 Taking Sides

1999 The Out-of-Towners
1997 In & Out
1996 Bogus
1995 Boys on the Side
1994 The Madness of King George
1993 Addams Family Values
1993 Undercover Blues
1991 Company Business
1991 The Doctor
1990 The Freshman

1989 Dead Bang
1988 The Deceivers
1986 Crimes of the Heart
1985 Agnes of God
1985 King David
1979 Moonraker
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me
1976 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
1976 Salon Kitty
1975 Barry Lyndon
1973 The Last of Sheila
1972 Sleuth
1971 Diamonds Are Forever
1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
1967 You Only Live Twice
1966 Funeral in Berlin
1965 Thunderball
1965 The Ipcress File
1964 Goldfinger
1964 Woman of Straw
1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1963 In the Cool of the Day (as Kenneth Adam)
1962 Dr. No
1962 Sodom and Gomorrah
1960 The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1960 Let's Get Married

1959 Portrait of a Sinner
1959 The Angry Hills
1957 Curse of the Demon
1956 Around the World in 80 Days (uncredited)

Art department (19 credits)

1981 Pennies from Heaven (visual consultant)

1970 The Owl and the Pussycat (design supervisor)

1959 Ben-Hur (assistant art director - uncredited)
1958 Missiles from Hell (set designs)
1956 Around the World in 80 Days (art director: London - as Ken Adams)
1956 Helen of Troy (assistant art director)
1954 Star of India (assistant art director - as Kenneth Adams)
1953 The Intruder (assistant art director - uncredited)
1953 The Master of Ballantrae (assistant art director - uncredited)
1952 The Crimson Pirate (associate art director)
1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (associate art director - uncredited)
1950 Eye Witness (assistant art director - uncredited)

1949 The Gay Adventure (draughtsman - uncredited)
1949 The Hidden Room (assistant art director - uncredited)
1949 Dick Barton Strikes Back (assistant art director - uncredited)
1949 The Queen of Spades (draughtsman - uncredited)
1949 Third Time Lucky (draughtsman - uncredited)
1948 Brass Monkey (draughtsman - uncredited)
1948 This Was a Woman (draughtsman)

Art director (9 credits)

2004 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (Video Game)

1960 In the Nick
1959 Portrait of a Sinner
1959 Web of Evidence
1959 Ten Seconds to Hell
1958 Gideon of Scotland Yard
1957 The Devil's Pass (as Kenneth Adam)
1956 Child in the House
1956 Spin a Dark Web

Miscellaneous Crew (6 credits)

2012 America's Book of Secrets (TV Series documentary) (images courtesy of - 1 episode)
- Fort Knox (2012) ... (images courtesy of - as Sir Ken Adam)
2006 Moonraker: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (footage courtesy of)
2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (footage provider)
2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (footage provider)
2006 You Only Live Twice: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (footage provider)
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) (footage provider)

Camera and Electrical Department (4 credits)

2006 Moonraker: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (camera operator)
2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (camera operator)
2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (camera operator)
2006 You Only Live Twice: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (camera operator)

Actor (2 credits)

1979 Moonraker - Man at St. Marks Square (uncredited)
1970 The Owl and the Pussycat - Middle-Aged Man (uncredited)

Producer (1 credit)

1981 Pennies from Heaven (associate producer)

2023: The Music of James Bond & More - All The Songs - All The Hits Live! Concert at Theatre Itzehoe, Germany.

https://www.timeforgig.com/the-music-of-james-bond-more-all-the-songs-all-the-hits-live-itzehoe/events/57vz9

2023: Shaken Not Stirred at The Marini Bar, The Ocean Blub, Bahamas.

https://www.bahamas.com/fr/events/shaken-not-stirred-at-the-martini-bar

2023: Hillsboro Lighthouse Presents our 2023 Fundraising Gala "Martini. Shaken, not stirred" at Hillsboro, Florida.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hillsboro-lighthouse-presents-our-2023-fundraising-gala-tickets-418952617557

RichardTheBruce

March 11th

1925: Peter Roger Hunt is born--London, England.
(He dies 14 August 2002 at age 77--Santa Monica, California.)

Peter Hunt
The man who cut down 007

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/aug/16/guardianobituaries.filmnews

Ronald Bergan - Thu 15 Aug 2002 20.16 EDT

The film editor and director Peter Hunt, who has died aged 77, was associated with the huge success of the James Bond movies, the longest-running series in the history of the cinema. He edited the first five Bond films - generally considered the best - creating a style of sharp cutting that has been emulated by many editors and directors of action movies.

He also directed one, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), mistakenly thought of as the worst of the Bond films because of George Lazenby's forgettable 007. The inexperienced Australian model carried the can for the film's comparative box-office failure, but Hunt was praised for his pacy, and seemingly effortless, direction.

Already with a decade of editing behind him, Hunt only reluctantly agreed to edit the first Bond film, Dr No (1962). "I was really not interested in doing it at all," he recalled. "But, then I thought, well, if the director is Terence Young, and I know him well enough, and I find him rather nice, maybe it will be alright." Previously, Hunt had suggested to Harry Saltzman that, in his search for an actor to portray James Bond, the producer look at the film he had just edited, the feeble army comedy On The Fiddle (1961), in which Sean Connery played a Gypsy pedlar.

The editing style of the Bond movies was established because, "if we kept the thing moving fast enough, people won't see the plot holes," what editors call "chets", or cheated editing tricks. "On Dr No, for example, there was a great deal missing from the film when we got back from shooting in Jamaica, and I had to cut it and revoice it in such a way as to make sense."

It was from then that Hunt decided to use jump cuts and quick cutting, and very few fade-ins, fade-outs and dissolves, which "destroy the tension of the film". The fight between Connery and Robert Shaw on board the Orient Express, in From Russia With Love (1963), took a total of 59 cuts in 115 seconds of film.

Born in London, Hunt learned his craft from an uncle who made government training and educational films. His first claim to fame was, in fact, appearing on a recruiting poster for the Boy Scouts Association when he was 16, and he read the lesson at Lord Baden-Powell's funeral. At 17, he joined the army, and was almost immediately shipped off to Italy, where he took part in the battle of Cassino.

After the war, he returned to work with his uncle, before becoming assistant cutter for Alexander Korda, and a fully fledged editor with Hill In Korea (1956). He worked with both Terence Young and Lewis Gilbert on a number of films prior to editing their Bond efforts.

Besides editing, Hunt directed some second-unit work on the Bond films, as well as the title sequence for Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). "I had a terrible time in the cutting room on You Only Live Twice (1967), with Donald Pleasance as Blofeld. Lewis [Gilbert] had made him into a camp, mini sort of villain. If you look at the film very carefully, Pleasance doesn't walk anywhere, because he had this mincing stride. He was so short that he looked like a little elf beside Connery. I used every bit of editing imagination I could so that he could be taken seriously as a villain."

Many purist Bond fans regret that Hunt never directed another 007 movie. His determination to be more faithful to the Ian Fleming original, even down to the death of the heroine (Diana Rigg) and the scaling down of gadgetry, puts On Her Majesty's Secret Service above many subsequent films in the series. It also happened to be the best picture he directed.

There followed two overlong adventure yarns set in Africa with Roger Moore, Gold (1974) and Shout At The Devil (1976); a couple of macho movies with Charles Bronson, Death Hunt (1981) and Assassination (1986); and the dispensable Wild Geese II (1985). But the work began to dry up, a situation that depressed the normally ebullient and energetic Hunt. In 1975, he settled in southern California with his partner Nicos Kourtis, who survives him.

Peter Roger Hunt, film editor and director, born March 11 1925; died August 14 2002

Peter R. Hunt (I) (1925–2002)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0402597/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Editor (23 credits)

1980 Night Games

1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Chain of Events (1971) ... (as Peter Hunt)

1969 Arthur? Arthur!
1966 Strange Portrait
1965 The Ipcress File (as Peter Hunt)
1964 Goldfinger (as Peter Hunt)
1963 From Russia with Love (as Peter Hunt)
1963 Call Me Bwana (as Peter Hunt)
1962 Dr. No (as Peter Hunt)
1962 Damn the Defiant! (as Peter Hunt)
1961 Operation Snafu (as Peter Hunt)
1961 Loss of Innocence (as Peter Hunt)
1960 There Was a Crooked Man
1960 Sink the Bismarck! (as Peter Hunt)

1959 Ferry to Hong Kong (as Peter Hunt)
1958 Next to No Time
1958 A Cry from the Streets (as Peter Hunt)
1957 Paradise Lagoon (as Peter Hunt)
1956 This Week (TV Series) (as Peter Hunt)
1956 Hell in Korea (as Peter Hunt)
1956 Doublecross (as Peter Hunt)
1956 The Secret Tent (as Peter Hunt)
1954 The Venusian (as Peter Hunt)

Director (15 credits)

1991 Eyes of a Witness (TV Movie)

1987 Assassination (as Peter Hunt)

1986 Hyper Sapien: People from Another Star
1985 Wild Geese II (as Peter Hunt)
1984 The Last Days of Pompeii (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
- Part 3 (1984) ... (as Peter Hunt)
- Part 2 (1984) ... (as Peter Hunt)
- Part 1 (1984) ... (as Peter Hunt)
1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Smart Aleck Kill (1983)
- The Pencil (1983)
1981 Death Hunt (as Peter Hunt)
1980 Rough Cut (uncredited)

1978 The Beasts Are on the Streets (TV Movie)
1977 Gulliver's Travels (as Peter Hunt)
1976 Shout at the Devil (as Peter Hunt)
1974 Gold (as Peter Hunt)
1972 Shirley's World (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Always Leave Them Laughing (1972)
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Chain of Events (1971) ... (as Peter Hunt, directed by)
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (as Peter Hunt)

Editorial department (15 credits)

1990 Desperate Hours (supervising editor - as Peter Hunt)

1969 Arthur? Arthur! (editorial director)
1967 You Only Live Twice (supervising editor - as Peter Hunt)
1965 Thunderball (supervising editor - as Peter Hunt)

1954 Burnt Evidence (assistant editor - as Peter Hunt)
1954 Orders Are Orders (associate editor - as Peter Hunt)
1953 House of Blackmail (assistant editor - as Peter Hunt)
1952 The Paris Express (assembling editor)
1951 Cheer the Brave (assistant editor - as Peter Hunt)
1950 The Wild Heart (associate editor - uncredited)
1950 They Were Not Divided (associate editor)
1949 Badger's Green (associate editor)
1948 A Gunman Has Escaped (assistant editor - uncredited)
1943 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (associate editor - uncredited)
1940 The Thief of Bagdad (associate editor - uncredited)

Producer (2 credits)

1956-1959 This Week (TV Series) (producer - 13 episodes)
1957 Salute to Show Business (TV Special) (producer - as Peter Hunt)

Actor (7 credits)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Man Reflected in Universal Export Sign (uncredited)
1966 This Man Craig (TV Series) - Mechanic
- Two Thousand a Year (1966) ... Mechanic (as Peter Hunt)
1961 Deadline Midnight (TV Series) - Copytaster
- Take Over (1961) ... Copytaster (as Peter Hunt)
1960 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Harvey
- Episode #1.22 (1960) ... Harvey (as Peter Hunt)

1953-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - An artist
- No Deadly Medicine (1959) ... (as Peter Hunt)
- The Hero (1953) ... An artist (as Peter Hunt)
1955 Touch and Go - Barman (as Peter Hunt)
1954 The Six Proud Walkers (TV Series) - Customs Official
- The Twelve Apostles (1954) ... Customs Official

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (6 credits)

1983 The Jigsaw Man (second unit director - as Peter Hunt)

1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (director: title sequence - uncredited)
1967 You Only Live Twice (second unit director - as Peter Hunt)
1965 Thunderball (second unit director - uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger (second unit director: insert shots - uncredited)

1956 Hell in Korea (second unit director - uncredited)

Miscellaneous Crewp (1 credit)

1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (production associate - as Peter Hunt) / (title sequence - uncredited)

Sound department (1 credit)

1953 Wheel of Fate (sound editor - as Peter Hunt)

Thanks (4 credits)

2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) (acknowledgment: still photographs provided by)
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) (acknowledgment: still photographs provided by) / (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) (acknowledgment: still photographs provided by - as Peter Hunt)
1997 Aquaphobia (Short) (special thanks)

1963: Fernando Guillén Cuervo is born--Barcelona, Spain.
1965: 鐵金剛大戰 金手指 (Tiě jīngāng dàz hàn jīn shǒuzhǐ, or Iron King versus Golden Finger) released in Hong Kong.

2002: Die Another Day films the love scene with Bond and Miranda at the Ice Palace.

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2020: GQ prints a lengthy and insightful interview with Daniel Craig on his Bond films.

Daniel Craig: ‘This is my last Bond
movie. I’ve kept my mouth shut
before and regretted it’

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By Sam Knight | 11 March 2020

Quietly, broodingly, intensely, Daniel Craig muscled his way into double-oh history. And having reframed a national avatar while that nation’s self-image was shaken more than a Vodka Martini, Craig’s fifth and final mission rounds out the longest, most nuanced tenure. Now, ahead of No Time To Die, he reveals how his infamously abrasive affair with the franchise banked box office billions and rewrote the rules of Bond

Shortly before midnight, on a damp Friday last October, Daniel Craig shot his last scene as James Bond. It was a chase sequence, outside, on the backlot of Pinewood Studios, just west of London. The set was a Havana streetscape – Cadillacs and neon. The scene would have been filmed in the Caribbean in the spring if Craig hadn’t ruptured his ankle ligaments and had to undergo surgery. He was 37 and blond when he was cast as the world’s most famous spy, in 2005. He is 52 now, his hair is dirty grey and he feels twinges of arthritis. “You get tighter and tighter,” Craig told me recently. “And then you just don’t bounce.”

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So there he was, being chased down a fake Cuban alleyway in England on a dank autumnal night. He was being paid a reported £19 million. It was what it was. Every Bond shoot is its own version of chaos and the making of No Time To Die, Craig’s fifth and final film in the role, was no different. The first director, Danny Boyle, quit. Craig got injured. A set exploded. “It feels like, ‘How the f--- are we going to do this?’” Craig said. “And somehow you do.” And that was before a novel virus swept the globe, delaying the movie’s April release by seven months, to November.

About 300 people were working on the final stretch of filming at Pinewood and everyone was pretty fried. The director, Cary Fukunaga, had shot the movie’s ending – the true farewell to Craig’s Bond – a few weeks earlier. The last days were about collecting scenes that were lost or flubbed in the previous, exhausting seven months. It was just an accident of the schedule that in his very final frames as Bond – a cinematic archetype that Craig transformed for the first time since the 1960s – he was in a tuxedo, disappearing into the night. The cameras rolled and Craig ran. That bulky, desperate run. “There was smoke,” he said, “and it was like, ‘Bye. See you. I’m checking out.’”

‘So many things are going on in your head. You’ve got to forget. You’ve got to leave your ego’

Craig isn’t the type to linger on moments such as these. For the most part, he blocks them out. “You can ignore these things in life or you can sort of... It’s like family history, isn’t it?” he told me. “The story kind of gets bigger and bigger. I feel a bit like that with movie sets: this legend builds up.” Bond is fraught with legends already. More men have walked on the moon than have played the part and Craig has been Bond for the longest of all – 14 years. (Sean Connery did two comeback gigs, but his main spell lasted only five.) The films are also, insanely, a family business, which only intensifies the sense of folklore. Albert “Cubby” Broccoli made Dr No, the first film in the franchise, in 1962. Fifty-eight years and 25 movies later, the producers are his daughter, Barbara Broccoli, and stepson, Michael G Wilson, who began his Bond career on the set of Goldfinger, in 1964.

The films go toe-to-toe with Marvel: Craig’s Skyfall did around the same box office, $1.1 billion (£680m), as Iron Man 3. At the same time, they are weirdly artisanal, bound by tradition, a certain way of doing things. The offices of Eon Productions, which makes the movies, are a short walk from Buckingham Palace. The opening theme tune hasn’t changed for half a century. The stunts are largely real. The scripts are a nightmare. There is a slightly demonic, British conviction that it will all work out in the end. “There has always been an element that Bond has been on the wing and a prayer,” Sam Mendes, who directed two of Craig’s 007 movies, told me. “It is not a particularly healthy way to work.” Reckoning with any of this doesn’t actually help if you’re the frontman. Craig has spent a lot of his time as James Bond trying not to think at all. While making No Time To Die, he taped some interviews with Broccoli and Wilson about his years in the role. There was a lot that he simply couldn’t remember. “Stop f----ing thinking and just f---ing act,” Craig said once, like it was an incantation. “It’s almost that. Because so many things are going on in your head. I mean, if you start thinking... that’s it. You’ve got to sort of forget. You’ve got to leave your ego.”

All of which means, now that it’s coming to an end, Craig sometimes struggles to comprehend what has happened to him and what he has achieved. When I spent time with him last winter, Craig was warm and voluble in the extreme. He talked a mile a minute, losing threads and finding others. He apologised when answering my questions almost as often as he swore. On screen, Craig’s face – that beautiful boxer’s face, those gas-ring eyes – can have a worrying stillness, while his body moves. In real life, everything about Craig is animated, part-sprung. It’s as if he wants to occupy several spots in the room at once. He self-deprecates a lot. During one long conversation, when I told him he had managed to imbue a previously vacant character with an inner life, a sense of mortality and an unquenchable feeling of loss – in short, that he had triumphed as Bond – Craig initially misunderstood what I meant. When he realised, he spluttered apologetically for a while. “What you’re saying, it’s like, if I say it...” he hesitated. He couldn’t bear to brag. But he also knew. “It’s raised the bar,” Craig finally conceded. “It’s f---ing raised the bar.”

After the last shot at Pinewood, Craig posed with Fukunaga for a picture. His bow tie was wonky. They both looked shattered. “Typically I’m not an emotional person on sets,” Fukunaga told me. “But there was sort of a pulsing feeling to that day.” The night shoot wrapped ahead of schedule and the production crew – many of the day team had stayed on to see Craig’s final bow – gathered next to the set. Fukunaga gave a short speech. Craig struggled through his. Since having a daughter with his wife, Rachel Weisz, in 2018, he has often found himself on the edge of tears. (Craig also has an adult daughter from an earlier marriage.) “I had a whole thing kind of put together in my head that I wanted to say,” he recalled. “I couldn’t get it out.”

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Craig’s stunt double was in tears. Broccoli and Wilson looked on. “We knew it was a monumental moment,” Broccoli said. “There wasn’t a dry eye, to be honest.” A crowd went back to Craig’s trailer. He drank Campari and tonics and made Negronis for everyone else. “I was a mess,” Broccoli said. “I was a complete and utter mess.” On set, the crew hung around. “It’s night shooting – everybody usually runs off,” Wilson told me. “And they just were talking with each other and shaking hands. And it was as if they knew it had to end, but they didn’t like the idea.”

‘I don’t think I would have been OK if I’d done the last film and that had been it’

The producers were reminiscing a few weeks later in a hotel in Lower Manhattan. It was early December. That morning, Craig and the other stars of No Time To Die – Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek and Lashana Lynch – had appeared on Good Morning America to launch the trailer. Crosby Street was a parking lot of celebrities’ black SUVs. Watching the trailer on my phone, like the rest of the world, the 25th Bond movie didn’t look a whole lot different from the 24th or the 23rd. The trailer showed Bond zooming a motorbike up some picturesque steps and Malek, as the baddie, in a worrying mask. There was some evident double-crossing.

Craig, however, did seem like a new person as he prepared to step away from the franchise. He was keen to celebrate his work as Bond and even keener to look forward to whatever is coming next. “I’m really... I’m OK,” he told me. “I don’t think I would have been if I’d done the last film and that had been it. But this, I’m like...” He dusted his hands. “Let’s go. Let’s get on with it. I’m fine.”

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It was a different story with the rest of the Bond family. Craig’s films in the role have grossed more than $3bn (£2.3bn). He also changed the part in dramatic terms. In Craig’s hands, Bond aged, fell in love and wept for the first time. He lost the smirk and gained a hinterland. During the same period, Britain – which Bond, in some way, always represents – has experienced extraordinary turmoil and self-doubt, Me Too has happened and it’s very unclear who the good guys are any more. It’s just possible that Craig smashed Bond in more ways than one. The films can never go back to what they were. When I asked Broccoli how she was going to cope without Craig, it was her turn to flounder. “Honestly, I don’t know,” she replied. “I can’t... I don’t want to think about it.”

It started with a funeral. On 21 April 2004, Mary Selway, a celebrated London casting director, died of cancer. Selway had helped Craig land some important early roles; she had also told him what to do. Craig isn’t exactly a submissive person. He left home as a teenager and never looked back. “My mother would hate me saying this, but I was on my own,” Craig said. In his twenties and thirties, he was self-reliant to a fault. “The idea that people supported me... at the time, I couldn’t see it. It was ‘I’m on my own. I do my own thing.’” Craig was at the airport, on his way to India, when one of Selway’s daughters called. She asked him to help carry the coffin. He was taken aback. “It was a wake-up,” he said. “It was like, ‘Oh, right. People care.’”

Selway’s funeral was at St James’s Piccadilly, a broad, light-filled church in the West End of London. The British acting world was present. Barbara Broccoli was in charge. If you have an image of Broccoli as some old lady in a Rolls-Royce, discard it now. Broccoli was 43 at the time. She has long brown hair and a mid-Atlantic accent and you do what she says. “There’s a very slim chance that the daughter of one of the great commercial producers of the last 100 years should also be a great, great producer, but that is in fact the case,” Mendes told me. Broccoli and Craig met for the first time at the wake. She asked him to come and see her.

Broccoli had been tracking Craig as the next Bond for the previous six years. In 1998, Craig played a psychopathic priest in Cate Blanchett’s Elizabeth. His character was an assassin, dispatched by Rome to kill the Queen. The role suited Craig down to the ground: a damaged, dangerous young man. He has always been interested in portraying violence on the screen. “I always thought it was more violent when you saw within the person,” he told me. “The shock. It’s like Pacino shooting the cop in Godfather. He does it and Pacino’s face... he’s never shot someone before.” In Elizabeth, Craig’s priest had to kill an informant on the beach. The script said that he should strangle and drown him in the surf. But Craig had another idea. He moved the actor out of shot and pretended to dash the man’s brains out with a rock. “I started smashing,” Craig recalled. He carried on. He broke into a sweat. “They went, ‘Cut!’ And the crew went, ‘Oh... OK!’” Like he was a crazy person. Broccoli was transfixed. In another shot of Craig, stalking through a church wearing a long cassock, she saw Bond. “I just remember getting chills all over my body,” she told me. “I just thought, ‘Oh, my God.’”

Based on everything that had gone before, it didn’t make sense to cast Craig as 007. At the time, Pierce Brosnan had made four movies and was a direct descendant of the previous Bonds: dark, raffish, untouchable. The Brosnan films tended toward the camp and the fantastical, but so had many of the others. And they made good money. In 2002, Die Another Day, which featured Madonna as a fencing instructor and Brosnan kite-surfing down a conspicuously CGI wave, cleared more than $400m (£276m). Craig was a different creature altogether: a blond, art-house thug.

‘I remember saying to the producers, “I can’t do a Connery impression.
I can’t be Pierce”’

But the Bond franchise in the early 2000s was in a moment of uncertainty. In 1997, Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery had satirised the movies from head to foot, making it harder to play them for laughs. On the morning of 9/11, Broccoli and Wilson were in London, in a script meeting for Die Another Day. It was too late to rewrite the movie, but they sensed that it would be the last of its kind. “We felt the world has changed and the nature of these films has to change,” Broccoli told me. Two years earlier, after a long legal battle, Eon and MGM Studios had obtained the rights to Casino Royale, Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel, which was published in 1953. After 9/11, the story offered a chance to refresh the franchise, grounding it more strongly in both the darker original tones of the novels and the new, worrying state of the world. “It wasn’t just recasting the role,” Broccoli said. “It was a new century and a new era. It felt like we had to redefine.”

Craig was sure he was the wrong person. The first time he went to the Eon offices, with all the old posters on the walls, he convinced himself it was just an exploratory thing. “I was like, ‘This is what they do. They get people in. They’re just feeling around,’” he said. “Plus, Pierce was not leaving Bond, right?”

When it was clear that Broccoli was serious, Craig tried to talk her out of it. “I remember saying to them early on, ‘I can’t do a Sean Connery impression. I can’t be Pierce,’” he said. Broccoli persisted. Craig held out. He was 36. His film career was in great shape. He didn’t want to say yes. He was terrified of saying no. He had an image of his washed-up older self in a pub, telling strangers that he could have been Bond. He was also a private person. “I could be anonymous in the world,” he said. “It was genuinely like, ‘My life is going to get f---ed if I do this.’”

In October 2004, Brosnan revealed he had been let go. Craig continued to prevaricate. When he is out of his depth, he can be surly and difficult. “It was literally like, ‘F--- off. I don’t f---ing want this. How dare you? How dare you offer this to me?’” he said. “It’s just ludicrous. But it was all defence.”

He demanded to see a script of Casino Royale. It was a good script. His objections were falling apart. One day, on his way to another meeting at Eon, Craig put on a dress shirt, but he couldn’t find any cufflinks. He put on a jacket and his shirtsleeves stuck out. He left the house. He went to a job interview for James Bond looking like he’d gotten dressed in the dark. “I thought, ‘F--- it, I’ll just let them hang down like that,’” Craig told me. As soon as he walked into the office, Broccoli knew he wanted the part.

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Craig was a born show-off. Until his parents broke up, when he was four, they ran a pub, the Ring O’Bells, in Frodsham, a market town in Cheshire, in northwest England. As a toddler, Craig would perform for the regulars, mimicking comics he had seen on TV – Groucho Marx, Laurel and Hardy. “I’d get money,” he said. “I suppose I’ve been making a living out of this from a very early age.”

When his parents separated, Craig’s mother, Olivia, moved him and his sister to a flat in an inner-city neighbourhood in Liverpool, where she went to work as an art teacher. The “L7” postcode of Liverpool, where Craig was a boy in the 1970s, is associated, even now, with poverty, violence and crime. “It’s rough. It’s what she could afford,” he told me. “It was what it was.” Olivia managed to get Craig and his elder sister into a school in an affluent suburb, in the north of the city. Each morning, she would drop them there and make her way back to teach. “Walking home from school was, you know, it was dicey,” Craig said. “I’m not saying it was Brooklyn in the 1980s. But it was dicey.”

Craig was unhappy at school. He failed his exams. He was bullied. He wasn’t a wimp – he played rugby, a passion of his father’s – but he didn’t fit in. When Craig was 14, a couple of friends put him forward to play Mr Sowerberry, an undertaker, in a school production of Oliver! The part has a jolly, macabre song. The audience loved him. “I’m not saying it’s like the first time you take really good drugs,” Craig said. “But it was a body shock of emotion, of adrenaline, in a way that I’d never felt before.”

Craig got an O level in art, his mother’s subject, and drifted out of school. About ten years ago, he found out that Olivia had been admitted to Rada when she was 18 but didn’t attend. “There was no money,” he said. “She couldn’t go.” Olivia would take Craig and his sister to the Liverpool Everyman, the city’s main theatre, where he hung out backstage, but he loved acting because it was his. “My experience on stage was mine,” he said. “It was the first time in my life I had something that I could claim as my own.”

Sometimes Craig stayed with his aunt, who lived on the Wirral Peninsula, to the west of the city. As a teenager, he haunted a cheap cinema, in the seaside town of Hoylake, next to the Irish Sea, where he was often the only customer. “The movies used to arrive late,” Craig said. “They were always terrible prints. They were scratchy. But I sat in there and watched movies.” One afternoon, in the early 1980s, he went to a science fiction double bill. “I’d never heard of this movie, Blade Runner.” Craig watched the film, alone, with a carton of Kia-Ora. He leaned forward in his seat, rapt, mind blown, until the end credits rolled. “I don’t think I took a sip. I just went, ‘That’s what I want to do. That’s what I want to do. I want to do that.’ And I didn’t know what that was,” Craig said. “That was revelatory for me.”

In 1984, when he was 16, Craig auditioned for the National Youth Theatre and moved to London for the summer. A friend of his father lent him a house on Ladbroke Road, in Notting Hill. Craig performed, on and off, with the National Youth Theatre for the next six years while he went through drama school. The theatre’s director, Edward Wilson, became a mentor. Wilson and his partner, Brian Lee, a set designer, let Craig look after their house. He became the theatre’s handyman. He painted the offices. In 1991, Craig was cast to play a racist South African soldier in The Power Of One, a commercial and critical flop starring Stephen Dorff. Craig was 23. He was paid £18,000. “Which was a f---ing fortune. I mean, a fortune,” Craig told me. “I spent every single penny of it.” No one had ever told him about taxes, assuming he would never earn enough to owe any. (It took him five years to pay off the bill.)

Going for auditions in London, Craig encountered plenty of young actors who were better educated or more comfortable in their skin. But what he lacked in polish, he made up for in presence. “At the end of the day, we had to put a show on, and I can put a f---ing show on,” he said. Craig talks about acting the way other people talk about jumping out of an aeroplane. “I love that levelling. When you’re standing backstage and you’re ready to go on... You’re all looking at each other and you’re all shitting yourselves. All bets are off.” He can’t wait to be out there. “That’s the drug,” he said. “It’s a place to be able to be out of control, to be completely out of control. But yet you have to be in control.”

In 1996, Craig made a breakthrough performance appearing in Our Friends In The North, the seminal BBC television series, playing a wheeler-dealer who ends up as a vagrant. Two years later, he was in Love Is The Devil, an art-house movie about the painter Francis Bacon, playing the role of George Dyer, a burglar and a lover of Bacon. Craig was naked and covered in paint for much of the time. “He was laughing his head off,” John Maybury, the director, told me. “He’s not afraid, and that is unusual because lots of actors are quite terrified of misplacing their image or misplacing their craft.” Maybury directed cult music videos in the 1980s and 1990s. He recognised a punk spirit in Craig, “a kind of underlying panic”. Maybury couldn’t get enough of that face on screen. “Those icy-blue eyes,” he said. “Part of you wants to trust him and wants to believe in all of the nice-guy stuff. But there is something in those eyes that is quite psychotic: the navy-blue circle around the edge of the blue.”

Love Is The Devil was a surprise hit. In 2002, Sam Mendes cast Craig as a crime boss’ unbalanced son in Road To Perdition, a big-budget Prohibition-era gangster film. Craig played scenes with Paul Newman and Tom Hanks. He was on edge the whole time. It came through in the performance. “There was something very, very tightly wound,” Mendes told me. “People talk a lot about danger in performances and, truthfully, it’s very rare. But Daniel always had that.” When he heard a few years later that Craig had been chosen to play Bond, Mendes wasn’t sure it would work. “Bond was this sort of constant: this eyebrow-raising, urbane, unflappable, punchline-delivering figure,” he said. “I thought, ‘Daniel can’t do that. He’s completely connected to his emotions.’ I thought he would struggle with it.”

‘I know we can’t have Bond doing amphetamines.
But inside, I know [he’s] doing that’

After Craig agreed to play Bond, the studio insisted on a screen test. A ritual of the franchise is that all potential Bonds are asked to play the same scene, from From Russia With Love, in which the spy returns to his hotel room to find Tatiana, a Russian agent, waiting for him naked in bed. Craig hated the rigmarole, the sense of following tradition. “I can’t believe my own arrogance, really,” he said. But he studied for the part. He went back to Fleming’s novels and found a character quite distinct from the unruffled screen persona of the previous 30 years. The Bond of the books was someone Craig could relate to: cold, messed up, human. “He is really f---ing dark,” he said. In the novel Moonraker (1955), Bond tips a load of speed into his Champagne. “I think it’s more interesting,” Craig told me. “I know we can’t have him having amphetamine and speed and doing all these things. But inside, I know I’m doing that. And I wanted to inform the part and say that’s what he is. He’s kind of a f----up. Because this job would f-- you up.”

The screen test was the whole deal. A stage at Pinewood. Lights, crew, make-up. A half-day shoot. The director, Martin Campbell – who shot GoldenEye in 1995 and went on to make Casino Royale – asked Craig to walk over to a fruit bowl and toss a grape into his mouth. Craig refused. “I just went, ‘No.’ I said, ‘No, I can’t.’” The two men argued. “I’m not going to do it. You do that,” Craig said. “It was about ‘How am I going to be James Bond?’”

From then on, and during the making of Casino Royale, a strange dynamic set in. The more that Broccoli and Wilson saw of Craig on camera, the more excited they became. “You just look in those eyes and you know he’s capable of doing anything,” Broccoli said. The rest of the world, however, was basically in uproar. It’s easy to forget, 15 years later, quite how badly Craig’s casting went down in Britain – where James Bond is considered, like the royal family or the England football team, to be more or less a publicly owned piece of the national culture. It was very quickly determined that Craig was the wrong guy. No one had heard of him. If they had, it was from arty, challenging films such as Love Is The Devil or The Mother, in which he plays a carpenter who starts sleeping with a woman in her sixties.

On 14 October 2005, Craig alighted on the banks of the River Thames from a Royal Navy assault craft to be introduced to the world as the sixth James Bond. He was wearing a life jacket. He wasn’t particularly tall. One of the few things the British tabloids knew about Craig, who was married for two years in his twenties, was that he liked to party. At the press conference, he was asked whether he would prefer Sienna Miller or Kate Moss, whom he was rumoured to have slept with, as a Bond girl. (Craig declined to answer.) And then there was his hair. It seems absurd now, and the colour has faded somewhat over the years, but at his unveiling Craig was flaxen. His hair was like summer straw. Fleming’s Bond might be an enigma, but his dark hair was an immutable fact.

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Outraged fans set up websites – blondnotbond.com, danielcraigisnotbond.com – to register their displeasure. “The Name’s Bland... James Bland,” ran the front page of the Daily Mirror. There was talk of a boycott. When shooting for Casino Royale began, paparazzi stalked the set. In the Bahamas, photographers buried themselves overnight on the beach, like turtles’ eggs. “It was all-over-the-world news,” Broccoli recalled. “Everything was saying that he was not right for the role.” It got to Craig. He called Olivia. “I remember saying to my mum, ‘Can I play James Bond?’” Craig told me. “And she was like, ‘Of course you can. But I am your mother.’”

‘Daniel let us in, which makes the moments he shuts us out even more arresting’
– Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Away from the madness, though, there was lots about Casino Royale that felt right. The script, by experienced Bond writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, and Paul Haggis, who wrote Million Dollar Baby, hewed close to the Fleming original. The story focused on a high-stakes poker game, updated for the 9/11 era, in aid of terrorist financing. For a Bond movie, Casino Royale was quietly revolutionary. There was no Q dishing out gadgets, no flirting with Moneypenny and scarcely a one-liner. Early in the film, Craig drives a Ford Mondeo and is mistaken for a parking valet, ignominies unthinkable for Roger Moore. Craig bulked up for the filming and for the first time James Bond’s body became an object of fascination. His emergence from the aquamarine sea, all muscle and swimming trunks, evoked Ursula Andress and her white bikini from Dr No, 44 years earlier. Craig’s physicality spoke in other ways, too. He performed many of his own stunts. His Bond became a trier, rather than insouciant. He had a thick neck. He vomited. He ran through a wall.

More than anything, though, Craig’s Bond was capable of emotion. His scenes with M, played by Judi Dench, rang with vulnerability. “She’s Mum. It’s as simple as that,” Craig said. “He loves her as much as he has loved anybody.” (Olivia kept a picture of Dench on the fridge in Liverpool when Craig was growing up.) Bond’s relationship with Vesper Lynd, meanwhile, has the heft of a genuine love affair. He talks about getting out of the spy game. My memory of watching Casino Royale is of the wholly new feeling of wanting James Bond to be happy. Of course, he can’t be. As in the book, Vesper betrays Bond and gets killed in the end. “The bitch is dead,” Bond says. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the creator and star of Fleabag, who worked on the script of No Time To Die, was struck by a new complexity in Craig’s performance. “He let us in a bit, which makes the moments he shuts us out even more arresting,” she told me. “Overall, he grounded a fantasy character in real emotion, which is what I think we hadn’t realised we’d missed among the action and the bravado.”

The premiere was at the Odeon Leicester Square, in London’s West End, in November 2006. The Queen came. The lights dimmed. The opening sequence is shot in black and white. Craig is sitting in a darkened office in Prague. There is a flashback to his first kill, a drowning in a sink, a moment of vividly performed violence for a Bond movie. The audience laughed. Then Bond shoots a rogue British agent. At the premiere, the audience laughed again. In his seat, Craig started to panic. “I went, ‘Oh...’ I was like, ‘Oh, f---k,’” he said. Then the opening credits rolled, the music played and the crowd cheered. He realised that they liked him.

When Craig described this moment to me, 13 years later, in a hotel room in New York City, he started to cry. There was an unopened bottle of Champagne and two glasses on a table by the door. “I’m sorry,” he said. “All the pressure suddenly was... Because the whole thing of ‘He’s not right’... I intellectualised all of it.” He said, “I know why they don’t like me. I know why I don’t like me. So I know why they don’t f---ing like me.”

Casino Royale was a hit around the world. It became the biggest-grossing Bond film to date. But the relief that Craig felt upon being accepted by a sceptical domestic audience was particular. Britain has a complicated attitude toward its heroes, even fictional ones. “I don’t really quite understand it,” Craig told me. “But in Britain, it really f---ing matters and we nailed it.” Craig was the first Bond actor to be nominated for a Bafta for his role as 007. He remembered all the Bond movies that came out when he was growing up as a child. “Even when they were bad, it was still an event,” he said. “You still went. For it to be good and for people to go – f--- yes.”

‘The biggest ideas are love, tragedy and loss.
That’s what I aim for’

Philip Larkin was a James Bond fan. In 1981, the poet wrote about Fleming’s novels for the Times Literary Supplement. “What strikes one most about his books today is their unambiguous archaic decency,” Larkin wrote. “England is always right; foreigners are always wrong.” During Craig’s years in the part, the world and Britain’s place in it have changed. When Casino Royale was released, Tony Blair was in Number Ten and Donald Trump was the star of The Apprentice. The risk of a financial crisis was minimal. Brexit was not a word. In 2012, Craig filmed a skit with the Queen for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in London. Bond and Her Majesty strode through Buckingham Palace, corgis all around. They climbed into a helicopter and appeared to parachute down over the Olympic Stadium while the Bond theme tune dang-danged around. Craig compared the experience to swimming off a beautiful beach and staring back at the shore in wonder. “I look around and I go, ‘I can’t believe I’m here,’” he said. If you watch the footage now, everything looks so innocent and long ago.

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Craig introduced time to the Bond movies. Before him, the character, and his world, simply regenerated from film to film. The padded-leather door to M’s office swung open. In Craig’s films, which are loosely serialised, Bond ages and Britain has aged. There is such thing as doubt. England isn’t always right; foreigners aren’t always wrong.

When Casino Royale wrapped, Craig had a sense of where he thought the overall story should go. “The biggest ideas are the best,” he told me. “And the biggest ideas are love and tragedy and loss. They just are. And that’s what I instinctively want to aim for.” After the death of Vesper Lynd, he wanted Bond to shut down, lose everything and, over the course of several adventures, gradually find himself again. “I think we’ve done it with No Time To Die,” Craig said. “I think we’ve got to this place: and it was to discover his love, that he could be in love and that that was OK.”

The challenge has been to reverse-engineer that long, somewhat complex arc through speedboat chases, lethal poisonings, exploding hotels, beautiful women, a touch of skiing and world-destroying maniacs – all under the pressure of movie-release dates set years in advance. It hasn’t always worked. Quantum Of Solace, Craig’s second Bond film, begins moments after the action ends in Casino Royale, but quickly collapses into a zany plot about Bolivian water resources. “We didn’t have a script,” Craig conceded. “So we concentrated a lot on the stunts.”

He found his great collaborator in Sam Mendes. It was Craig’s idea to approach the director. Mendes said yes because of Craig. “He was the reason I did it,” Mendes told me. “I got re-interested in the franchise because of Casino Royale.” Like Craig, he was drawn to the idea of Bond’s mortality and an uncertainty about Britain’s 21st-century status. In Skyfall, their first Bond movie together, Javier Bardem, playing the cyberterrorist villain, says, “England, the empire, MI6 – you’re living in a ruin... You just don’t know it yet.”

‘We struggled to keep Trump out of this film.
But of course it is always there’

The relationship between Bond and Britain – or Britain’s male imagination, at least – has never been totally straightforward. The movies are mainly about escape: the world is endangered, then saved by a man in a dinner jacket. But both Mendes and Craig were concerned with making the franchise at least correspond to the world from which it departs. (Skyfall and Spectre were inspired by Julian Assange and the Edward Snowden NSA disclosures, respectively.) In Skyfall, Mendes told me that he was anxious to correct the “kind of nostalgic, jingoistic, pre-Cold War idea of what Britain was”, represented by the classic films. “It felt right that it was Daniel,” Mendes said, “because he seemed like a contemporary Bond and like a realist, like a person who actually walked on the street.”

During our conversations, Craig didn’t want to talk much about real-world affairs. Not because he isn’t engaged (Craig opposed Brexit and, as a US citizen, gave money to Bernie Sanders), but because once you start, it’s hard to talk about anything else. “We struggled to keep Trump out of this film,” Craig told me of No Time To Die. “But of course it is there. It’s always there, whether it’s Trump or whether it’s Brexit or whether it’s Russian influence on elections or whatever.” Like many Britons who have left home – Craig and Weisz are based in New York – he is baffled by the country’s seemingly inward turn since 2016. “There are British people working in the top industries in the world and at the top of those industries. We do that and we are good at that. And somehow we’re kind of breaking all that apart,” he told me. “Whether that’s breaking from Europe... There is a sort of nihilism, isn’t there?”

It is a stretch, but Craig sometimes sees Bond as an avatar for a kind of selfless public service that doesn’t seem to hold in our populist, polarised moment. “There’s something I feel that Bond represents: someone who’s there, trying to do the job, and doesn’t want any f---ing publicity,” he said. “And this is a joke, because he drives a f---ing Aston Martin and does all these ridiculous things. But these people exist... It’s the ambulance service. I know it’s terribly kind of romantic. But they are people who are just getting on with it and saving people’s lives.” He despairs of the grandstanding of Trump and Boris Johnson and the generalised hysteria of social media – the absence of a certain adult indifference. “But that’s not the way the world works now,” Craig said. “It’s about humiliating others to save one’s own skin. And it’s cowardly. It’s just f---ing cowardly.”

‘No other actor would have attempted to play Bond in that
way, that sense in which he is incendiary’ – Sam Mendes

Making his first two Bond films, Craig experienced, at times, a suffocating sense of responsibility. When he accepted the part, he had insisted on having a say in the creative process, but this sometimes left him feeling like he had to control everything. With Mendes, Craig found he could relax. “He reminded me that my job was to act,” he said. “It loosened me. It took the rod out of my arse, whatever.” He began to experiment, playing with the script and adding other flourishes.

On set, Mendes witnessed an actor wrestling with one of the most familiar, and hackneyed, characters in celluloid history. For some reason, he came to think of Craig as one of those slightly frightening guys at a protest, wearing a T-shirt despite the cold, decorated in tattoos, telling everyone they are not extreme enough. “That’s Daniel. That’s actually who he is,” Mendes said. “The truth is, there is something wounded and hurt about him.” Shooting Skyfall, Craig confided that he was trying to play Bond as if he were burning up. “Really no other actor would have attempted to play Bond in that way,” the director told me, “that sense in which he is incendiary.” And it is by that arduous road that Craig also discovered his own version of the old Bond swagger. In the film’s opening sequence, Bond is chasing an enemy on a Turkish train. He rips off the roof of the train with a mechanical digger and drops into a crowded carriage. His suit is dusty and smeared with blood. He straightens his cuffs.

Craig added the gesture mid-stunt. “It wasn’t in the script,” he told me. “I realised why that came in, why he did it: because he’s scared. He’s f---ing terrified. He’s just jumped off the back of the train. He’s just like, ‘Everything’s fine.’” The moment is pure Bond, yet differently so. Craig’s Bond isn’t detached from the moment; he is fully immersed, holding himself together. “Otherwise he’s just shooting his F---ing cuff,” Craig said. “Isn’t he cool? He’s not cool. He’s really not cool at that point.” When I mentioned the cuffs to Mendes, he remembered the improvisation straightaway. “Because it has come from inside,” he said. “Anyone else doing that, it would have been a cliché, and somehow he manages to make it real.” And that is Craig’s art. “It’s very difficult to achieve,” Mendes said, “finding a way to reimagine those things so they feel real again. It takes unbelievable willpower to do that.”

Skyfall made more than a billion dollars. It also had a solid script. Craig’s tough times as Bond were on the movies that never quite came together, where scenes and dialogues and plot twists were being written and rewritten on the fly. Since Casino Royale, there has been a lot of attention paid to Craig’s body and physical preparation for the films. At times he worked out relentlessly because he had nothing else to go on. “I’ve got to do something,” Craig said. When we met this winter, Knives Out, in which Craig plays an eccentric gentleman detective, was in the cinemas. For the part, he had practised a Southern accent and played with an ornate screenplay by Rian Johnson, also the director, for several months. “You’re learning the script and it gets into you like that,” Craig said. “With Bond, you don’t get the script, so the physicality of it is a preparation, in a way. It’s making my head go, ‘This is what it’s going to be.’” Trying to inhabit a cipher, in a plotless blockbuster, with the world’s eyes upon you, is like living out a very particular anxiety dream. “I have suffered from it in the past,” Craig told me. “I have suffered because it’s been like, ‘I can’t cope. I can’t deal with this.’”

His body has taken the brunt. On Quantum Of Solace, Craig tore the labrum – the connecting cartilage – in his right shoulder during a stunt in a plunging aircraft. Then he bashed it again jumping through a window in Italy and crashing into a wall. “I was just nervous and overcooked it,” he said. “At that point, my arm was kind of useless.” Early in the filming of Skyfall, Craig ruptured both his calf muscles, meaning that he had to undergo rehab in a swimming pool during the shoot. “It’s not about recovery, because you know you can recover,” he told me. “It’s about psychologically thinking that you’re going to do it again.”

‘I felt physically low. The prospect of doing another movie
was off the cards. That’s why it has been five years’

Over the years, Craig has caught himself swaying 60 feet in the air, wondering what the hell he is doing. He burned out on Spectre. In March 2015, he blew his anterior cruciate ligament – heard it go boink – while fighting with Dave Bautista, a former professional wrestler, on the set of a train at Pinewood. “I was like, ‘Dave, throw me for Christ’s sake,’ because he was being light with me,” Craig said. “So he threw me and, God bless him, he just left my knee over there.” Craig spent the rest of the shoot wearing a bulky knee brace, which was disguised during the edit. “That was a drag,” he said.

It was also why, when Craig was asked in an interview two days after filming ended whether he would make a fifth Bond movie, he said that he would prefer to smash the glass he was drinking from and slash his wrists. Craig has never been comfortable selling Bond. “You’re front and centre while filming and then they tell you to go and sell the movie. Literally, you’re standing in a crowd of people,” he said. “And suddenly they’ve all pushed you forward. And they’re like, ‘Go on!’ It’s really disconcerting. And you think you’re responsible. And actually, of course, you are.” Mendes has long sympathised with Craig, who is not a smooth PR man. “He is by nature a much more anarchic person and he is not allowed to be that within the franchise,” Mendes said. “His natural position is to tell the truth.” After Spectre, Craig told the truth. “I was never going to do one again,” he told me. “I was like, ‘Is this work really genuinely worth this, to go through this, this whole thing?’ And I didn’t feel... I felt physically really low. So the prospect of doing another movie was just, like, off the cards. And that’s why it has been five years.”

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The hiatus between Spectre and No Time To Die has been the second longest in the history of the franchise. And the production of the 25th Bond has been no picnic. In August 2018, Danny Boyle, who shot Craig’s double act with the Queen for London 2012 Olympics, walked away from the film, citing creative differences with Broccoli and Wilson. “Danny had ideas and the ideas didn’t work out, and that was just the way it was,” Craig said. At least four versions of the script came and went. “I would love to have gone into this and had a script that we could shoot,” he said. “And it just didn’t happen. There were so many things that went against it.” Fukunaga, who is best known for making HBO’s stylish True Detective, came on board three months before production was due to begin. Then Craig injured his ankle. The release date was pushed back once, and now twice. Last June, an explosion at Pinewood injured a member of the crew. The British tabloids called it a cursed film. “It pisses me off,” Craig said. “Because I’m just like, ‘Don’t curse our movie.’ And also, we’re doing our best here.” (The decision to delay the release of No Time To Die until November because of the coronavirus outbreak was made by studio executives a month before the planned April-release – just as their star was embarking on a full press tour. I wouldn’t have wanted to be the person who had to deliver the news to Craig.)

‘The world outside Bond sort of ceases to exist.
When you’re in it, you’re in it’

“The James Bond of it all,” as Craig sometimes says, was clearly a monster. Craig was more involved in the writing than in any of his other Bond films. “This is my last movie,” he told me. “I’ve kept my mouth shut before and I’ve stayed out of it and I’ve respected it and I’ve regretted that I did.” Craig was instrumental in hiring Waller-Bridge to work on the script partway through the shoot. When things were rough, he didn’t hold back. “I’ve been very forceful in meetings and often way too blunt and probably completely rude,” Craig said. “But I’m like, ‘We’re here! Come on!’ And I always say sorry.”

‘Daniel’s very adamant that Bond is the driving force in
everything. He’s the jackhammer’ – Cary Fukunaga

Waller-Bridge was more diplomatic. “He is incredibly passionate about the work,” she told me. “Bond is very close to his heart and he fights for the integrity of the character every step of the way.”

Fukunaga said that Craig suggested dialogue for entire scenes of No Time To Die, trying to give a voice to a character who many writers find frankly intimidating. “Daniel’s very adamant that Bond is the driving force in everything,” Fukunaga said. “He’s the jackhammer.” Craig worked himself into the ground. “He is tireless,” Fukunaga told me. “He will work until he’s basically crawling home.”

The first time we met, a few weeks after the end of the shoot, Craig seemed almost too close to it all. The production was too large and too recent to make sense of it. “How much of Phoebe is in there, who knows?” Craig said. “We’re all in it somewhere. Phoebe’s in it, Cary’s in it, the writers are in it, but it’s a... We battled it and battled it and battled it. Who knows?” he said. “I’m talking to you now. I’ve seen bits of it. I haven’t seen it. Who the f-- knows?”

But the truth is that, after 14 years, busted shoulders, busted knees, the best part of £40m, a place in the pantheon, a happy home, Craig didn’t feel it so much on No Time To Die. “This one I was like, ‘Nah, it’s not going happen. It’s just not going to happen.’ It doesn’t mean I wasn’t as wound up and just as f---ing, like, mad,” he said. “Because the world outside sort of slightly ceases to exist. When you’re in it, you’re in it and that’s the thing,” he said. And now Craig is no longer completely in it. He can see a world outside. “I don’t know what it is, maybe having another kid, maybe just being older,” he told me. “But all of these things, I was just like, you know, f-- it. There are other things that are more important.”

I saw him again in London a few weeks later. Craig was wearing a large brown leather cap and carrying an empty suitcase. No one in the hotel lobby seemed to recognise him. He was in a sprightly mood. He was looking forward to the Golden Globes, where he was nominated for a best actor award for Knives Out. (The movie has already made $300m [£230m] and Craig is committed to being part of a planned sequel.) “The success of it, going into Bond, could not have come at a better time for me,” he said. Craig was delighted by the contrasting performances: a prolix, Sondheim-humming private eye next to his taciturn, tormented killer. “It’s not like, ‘OK, this is going to be my career after Bond.’ There’s no plan to it. It’s just kind of worked out.” Craig wasn’t about to shoot anything straightaway. Much of 2020 will involve an extended, slow-moving sign-off as 007. But unlike with some of the other actors who have played Bond, it doesn’t make much sense to worry about what Craig will do next – especially when he sounds so unafraid. “I’m pretty sure I can play just about anything,” Craig told me. “Yeah. I’m pretty sure I can, or at least I can make a f---ing good fist of it.”

It was early evening. We ordered some beers from room service. Craig had spent the day in a post-production studio in Soho, recording dialogue for No Time To Die. That morning, he had watched the film for the first time. It was the reason he had crossed the Atlantic. For security, the cut existed on only one or two hard drives. “I couldn’t see it in New York. I had to fly over,” Craig said. “Everything is on such lockdown.”

No Time To Die was projected onto the wall of an editing suite. There was no score, the special effects weren’t finished, but Craig’s final Bond movie was done. He had been allowed to invite a few people to the screening. But he chose to watch it alone. “I need to just be on my own, kind of experiencing it,” he said. The first few minutes are always unbearable: “Why am I standing like that? What am I doing?” Craig said. But it passes, and then he was the boy in the empty cinema by the sea again, transported by a big, wild movie – only now it was him who was up on the screen, doing whatever that is. “I think it works,” Craig said, pausing on every word. “So hallelujah.”

RichardTheBruce

2023: Bond Symphonique at Lille, France.

https://www.moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=view&id=42456

2023: Film Music Concert - Symphonic 007 Orchestra - Filharmonia Łódzka im. Artura Rubinsteina at Łódź, Poland.

http://moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=concertdetail

2023: The Music of James Bond & More at Elbeforum Brunsbüttel, Germany.

https://www.timeforgig.com/the-music-of-james-bond-more-brunsbuettel/events/j6lkj

2023: Free James Bond Walking Tour starts at the Clermont Hotel, London, England.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-james-bond-walking-tour-tickets-564661426527

2023: From Mumbai With Love at South Adelaide, Western Australia.

https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/007-shash-kapur-from-mumbai-with-love-af2023

RichardTheBruce

March 12th

1923: Vladek Sheybal is born--Zgierz, Lódzkie, Poland.
(He dies 16 October 1992 at age 69--London, England.)

http://www.iainfisher.com/russell/rusard.html

Vladek Sheybal worked with Ken Russell from the early BBC days through to the early films and the classic Russell era. As well as his work with Russell, Sheybal appeared in films ranging from the Bond film From Russia with Love to Red Dawn and television series including the sublime U.F.O. and Smiley´s People.

This interview and article is by David Del Valle and originally appeared in Psychotronic magazine. Thanks to David and Psychotronic for permission to reproduce it.

Vladek Sheybal (1923–1992)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792996/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (91 credits)

1992 The Bill (TV Series) - Mr. Lederman
- Sympathy for the Devil (1992) ... Mr. Lederman
1992 Double X: The Name of the Game - Pawnbroker
1990 After Midnight - Hiyam El-Alfi (The Hotel Manager)
1990 Strike It Rich - Kinski

1989 Le bateau bar (Short)
1989 Champagne Charlie (TV Movie) - Count Plasky
1987 Valtos or the Veil (Short) - Narrator
1987 Network 7 (TV Series) (Flesh and Blood segment)
1986 The Lost Secret (Video) - Professor Basil Sline
1986 Masterpiece Theatre: Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy (TV Mini-Series)
Jinnah - 6 episodes
1984 Red Dawn - Bratchenko
1984 Memed My Hawk - Ali
1984 Where Is Parsifal? - Morjack
1983 The Jigsaw Man - Gen. Zorin
1983 Marco Polo (TV Mini-Series) - Prosecutor
- Episode #1.8 (1983) ... Prosecutor (uncredited)
1982 Smiley's People (TV Mini-Series)
Otto Leipzig / Otto Leipzig (The Magician)
- Episode #1.5 (1982) ... Otto Leipzig
- Episode #1.4 (1982) ... Otto Leipzig
- Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Otto Leipzig
- Episode #1.1 (1982) ... Otto Leipzig (The Magician)
1981 Tristan and Isolde - Andret
1980 All About a Prima Ballerina - Marcus
1980 The Apple - Boogalow
1980 Shogun (TV Mini-Series) - Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.5 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.4 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.2 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
- Episode #1.1 (1980) ... Captain Ferriera
1980 Shogun (TV Movie) - Captain Ferriera
1980 The Ghost Sonata (TV Movie) - Bengtsson
1979 Quest of Eagles (TV Series) - Priest - 7 episodes
1979 Avalanche Express - Zannbin (as Vladets Shebal)
1979 The Lady Vanishes - Trainmaster
1979 Running Blind (TV Series) - Kennikin
- The Deception Operation (1979) ... Kennikin
- Sixteen Rivers to Cross (1979) ... Kennikin
1977 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) - Mr. Morango
- The Kitchen (1977) ... Mr. Morango
1977 Hamlet - Player Queen / Lucianus / 1st Player
1977 Supernatural (TV Mini-Series) - Herr Hubert
- Night of the Marionettes (1977) ... Herr Hubert
1977 Gulliver's Travels (voice)
1976 The New Avengers (TV Series) - Zarcardi
- Cat Amongst the Pigeons (1976) ... Zarcardi
1976 The Sell-Out - Dutchman
1976 Rogue's Rock (TV Series) - Boris Lubchenko
- Invasion (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
- Intrepid (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
- Minisub (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
- Crisis (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
- Taped (1976) ... Boris Lubchenko
1976 House of Pleasure for Women - Francesco
1975 The Wind and the Lion - The Bashaw
1974 Invasion: UFO - Dr. Doug Jackson
1974 UFO: Distruggete Base Luna - Dr. Doug Jackson
1974 No, Honestly (TV Series) - Giovanianni
- Only Make Believe (1974) ... Giovanianni
1974 The Kiss of Death - Portiere d'albergo
1974 S*P*Y*S - Borisenko (Russian Spy Chief)
1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Yerimenko
- The Man in the Middle (1974) ... Yerimenko
1974 QB VII (TV Mini-Series) - Sobotnik
- Part Three (1974) ... Sobotnik
- Part One & Two (1974) ... Sobotnik
1974 Napoleon and Love (TV Mini-Series) - Prince Poniatowski
- Maria Walewska (1974) ... Prince Poniatowski
1974 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Mr. Miller
- The Deep Blue Sea (1974) ... Mr. Miller
1973 Scorpio - Zemetkin
1970-1973 UFO (TV Series) - Dr. Doug Jackson / Jackson - 10 episodes
1972 The Protectors (TV Series) - Sandor Karoleon
- Brother Hood (1972) ... Sandor Karoleon
1972 Innocent Bystanders - Aaron Kaplan
1972 Pilatus und andere - Ein Film für Karfreitag (TV Movie) - Kaiphas
1972 The Spy's Wife (Short) - Vladek
1971 The Boy Friend - De Thrill
1971 Puppet on a Chain - Meegeren
1971 The Last Valley - Mathias
1970 Play for Today (TV Series) - Hans Weider
- A Distant Thunder (1970) ... Hans Weider
1970 The Main Chance (TV Series) - Otto Zobel
- First, You Eat - Later We Ruin You (1970) ... Otto Zobel
1970 Leo the Last - Laszlo
1970 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - Joseph Goebbels
- Dance of the Seven Veils (1970) ... Joseph Goebbels

1969 Strange Report (TV Series) - Kulik
- Report 7931: Sniper - When Is Your Cousin Not? (1969) ... Kulik
1969 Women in Love - Loerke
1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun - Psychiatrist
1969 Mosquito Squadron - Lieutenant Schack
1969 Callan (TV Series) - Dicer
- The Little Bits and Pieces of Love (1969) ... Dicer
1968 The Limbo Line - Oleg
1968 The Champions (TV Series) - Max Kellor
- The Dark Island (1968) ... Max Kellor
1968 Deadfall - Dr. Delgado
1968 To Grab the Ring - Mijnheer Smith
1967 Billion Dollar Brain - Dr. Eiwort
1967 The Fearless Vampire Killers - Herbert (voice)
1967 Casino Royale - Le Chiffre's Representative
1966 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Narrator
- Amerika (1966) ... Narrator (voice)
1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Nikita Roskin
- The Helpful Pirate (1966) ... Nikita Roskin
1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Lt. Josef Dyboski
- Silence Is the Enemy (1966) ... Lt. Josef Dyboski
1965-1966 The Man in Room 17 (TV Series) - Yasha Saroya / Max Opals
- How to Rob a Bank - And Get Away with It (1966) ... Yasha Saroya
- Tell the Truth (1965) ... Max Opals
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Reiner
- And Suddenly You're Dead (1966) ... Reiner
1965-1966 The Big Spender (TV Series) - Lamarck
- The Twist (1966) ... Lamarck
- The Snatch (1966) ... Lamarck
- The Green Table (1965) ... Lamarck
- The Front Man (1965) ... Lamarck
- The Hard Sell (1965) ... Lamarck
1965 Return from the Ashes - Paul, Chess Club Manager
1965 Mogul (TV Series) - Herr Lenz
- The Schloss Belt (1965) ... Herr Lenz
1965 Monitor (TV Series documentary) - Pierre Louÿs / Film Director
- The Debussy Film (1965) ... Pierre Louÿs / Film Director
1965 Front Page Story (TV Series) - George Litdz
- Stateless (1965) ... George Litdz
1965 R3 (TV Series) - Jan Wolkowski
- A Whole Lot of Reasons (1965) ... Jan Wolkowski
1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Tewfick
- Fish on the Hook (1964) ... Tewfick
1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - William Jones
- Wild Goose Chase (1964) ... William Jones
1961-1964 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Klaus / Gutman / Mr. Prizborski
- The Other Man (1964) ... Klaus
- Camino Real (1964) ... Gutman
- Ring of Truth (1961) ... Mr. Prizborski
1963 Z Cars (TV Series) - Yador
- Daylight Robbery (1963) ... Yador
1963 The Sentimental Agent (TV Series) - Arva
- Meet My Son, Henry (1963) ... Arva
1963 From Russia with Love - Kronsteen
1963 The Birth of a Private Man (TV Movie) - Jurek Stypulkowsky
1961 Man of Rope (Short) - Prisoner

1957 Trzy kobiety - Gestapo Officer (as Wladyslaw Sheybal)
1957 Kanal - Michal 'Ogromny', the composer (as Wladyslaw Sheybal)
1957 Television Theater (TV Series)
- Grona gniewu (1957) ... (as Wladyslaw Sheybal)

Director (5 credits)

1980 All About a Prima Ballerina

1961-1962 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- A Choice of Weapons (1962)
- Jeannette (1961)
1961 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (1 episode)
- The Visitors (1961)
1961 A Brother for Joe (TV Series) (3 episodes)
- The Morning After (1961)
- Into the Dark (1961)
- The Knife (1961)
-
1955-1957 Television Theater (TV Series) (6 episodes) ... (as Wladyslaw Sheybal, directed by)

Writer (3 credits)

1980 All About a Prima Ballerina

1961 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) (story adaption - 1 episode)
- Jeannette (1961) ... (story adaption)
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1956 Television Theater (TV Series) (translation - 1 episode)
- Tristan i Izolda (1956) ... (translation - as Wladyslaw Sheybal)

Producer (1 credit)

1960 Pagliacci (TV Movie) (producer)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1980 The Apple (performer: "Showbizness", "How to Be a Master")

Self (1 credit)
1970 Review (TV Series documentary) - Himself - Reader
- Erté - High Priest of Camp/Bartok (1970) ... Himself - Reader

Archive footage (2 credits)

2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Kronsteen (uncredited)
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Kronsteen

2002: The producers announce the name of BOND 20 to be Die Another Day.

2012: Local residents of Hankley Common near Elstead in Surrey, England, report a huge (Scottish?) manor-type structure being built there.

2013: Skyfall released on DVD and Blu-ray.

2015: National Assembly for Wales rejects a request to film BOND 24 scenes in Senedd Chamber, Cardiff Bay, Wales.

Assembly refuses James Bond film access to
Senedd chamber

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-31861644
By Huw Thomas BBC Wales arts and media correspondent
12 March 2015

James Bond actor Daniel Craig filming in Rome in February

A request to film scenes for the next James Bond movie at the Senedd chamber in Cardiff Bay was rejected by the National Assembly for Wales.

BBC Wales understands that assembly officials were approached by the makers of Spectre, which stars Daniel Craig as 007, in late 2014.

But the request to film Bond in the Senedd's debating chamber was turned down.

The assembly said the chamber "is not a drama studio".

The Bond production team turned down its offer of using other locations within the assembly's estate.

Filming has already begun on Spectre, the 24th James Bond film, which is due to be shown in cinemas in November.

Sony Pictures has been asked to comment.

The debating chamber inside the Welsh assembly

The assembly statement said: "The Senedd's Siambr [chamber] is the home of Welsh democracy and seat of government for Wales.

"Some media activity is allowed in the Siambr when it relates to the work of the assembly or reflects the Siambr's status as the focal point of Welsh civic life.

"It is not a drama studio.

"Decisions on requests from the creative industries to use the assembly's estate are made on a case by case basis, and we are proud to have collaborated with many television and film companies on drama productions such as Sherlock and Dr Who.

"The request by James Bond to use the Siambr was turned down and they were offered alternative locations on the estate which they subsequently declined."

The Welsh assembly said it had offered filmmakers buildings other than
the Senedd as possible locations

2018: Work commences on the expansion of Ian Fleming International Airport, Boscobel, St. Mary, Jamaica, to make it a regional hub. Includes a police station.

2023: Film Music Concert - Symphonic 007 Orchestra - Aula Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza at Poznań, Poland.

http://moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=view&id=47452

2023: The Music of James Bond & More - All The Songs - All The Hits Live! concert at Musik- Und Kongresshalle, Germany.

https://www.eventim.de/en/event/the-music-of-james-bond-more-all-the-songs-all-the-hits-live-musik-und-kongresshalle-14555889/

2023: Bond: An Unauthorised Parody at Rescue Hall, Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

https://www.datathistle.com/event/620319-bond-an-unauthorised-parody/

2023: James Bond Release Party Tournament at Charleston, South Carolina. Eight rounds of muzzleloading fun. Then three pinball game finals. Last game Her Majesty’s Number 007 chap Bond, James Bond.

https://allevents.in/charleston/james-bond-release-party-tournament/200024168300556

RichardTheBruce

March 13th

1931: Toby Robins is born--Toronto, Canada.

1960: Ian Fleming dines with US Senator John F. Kennedy, shares advice to oust Cuban President Fidel Castro.

Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, 2002.
Chapter 11 - Cuba, Vietnam, and the Rhetorical Interlude

John F. Kennedy was already a leading contender for the Democratic
nomination when, on 13 March 1960, he hosted a dinner party at which
Ian Fleming was a guest. The newly ascendant Fidel Castro was on the
conversation menu—indeed, Kennedy was about to make an election
issue of the Cuban crisis. What could America do to rid itself of this
troublesome communist preening himself in its own backyard? Well,
what would James Bond have done? Fleming mischievously rattled off
a number of suggestions for “the James Bond treatment,” among which
were the exploitation of Cuban religious superstition and the emascula-
tion of Castro's image through the removal of his beard. With one
exception, all eyes were on Fleming as he rattled off his extempo-
raneous recipe.

That exception was Fleming’s fellow guest John Gross, a senior offi-
cer from the CIA. Gross was fascinated not by the British writer but bu
the reactions of one very important listener. Within half an hour of the
dinner party’s end, Gross was on the telephone to Allen Dulles, telling
how the possible future president had lapped up Fleming’s suggestions.

Kennedy could see the droll side of the Bond saga, and he was quite
capable of using spy mystique to enhance his own in a purely tongue-
in-cheek manner, In an interview with Life magazine published on
17 March 1961, he included Fleming’s From Russia With Love among
his ten favorite books—as a “publicity gag” according to his staff. But
the new president was in deadly earnest on the subject of the removal of
Castro. Within a month of the Life interview, he launched the Bay of
Pigs operation to topple the Cuban leader.

When Ian Fleming Met John F. Kennedy

By Matt Reimann. May 27, 2015. 9:00 AM.
https://blog.bookstellyouwhy.com/when-ian-fleming-met-john-f.-kennedy

1979: The Man With the Golden Gun re-released in the Philippines.

1997: Date of Dan Petrie Jr's shooting script for Tomorrow Never Dies.

https://propstore.com/mobile/product/james-bond-tomorrow-never-dies/final-shooting-script/
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2015: Sir Roger Moore, Daniel Craig, Michael G. Wilson, Sam Mendes, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris(!), Rory Kinnear appear in a skit for Comic Relief.

jamesbondlifestyle.com/news/daniel-craig-and-sir-roger-moore-007-sketch-comic-relief

2015: The Guardian reports OO7 is credited for cleaning up Rome streets--literally.

When in Rome: James Bond team win
praise for litter-picking Spectre shoot

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/13/spectre-james-bond-rome-shoot-litter-cardiff

Producers on the new James Bond movie have had their efforts to
clean up the Italian city praised by locals, but Welsh National
Assembly denies 007 permission to shoot at Cardiff HQ
Ben Child | Fri 13 Mar 2015 05.35 EDT

A load of immaculate cobbles … a scene from Spectre is shot in Rome.
Photograph: AGF s.r.l./REX[/center]

Ahead of James Bond’s arrival in Rome to shoot new installment Spectre, some locals openly questioned whether the eternal city was in any state to receive the dapper British spy. But a month into the shoot, and despite misgivings over increased traffic from some Romans, director Sam Mendes’ team has won praise for helping to clean up rubbish-strewn, graffiti-plagued areas as part of the filming process, reports the Telegraph.

Producers are said to have worked with city council workers on the clean-up project, while their introduction of private security firms has helped rid the city of much-detested unlicensed parking attendants in the touristy Trastavere district near the River Tiber. Location fees have brought an estimated €1m into public coffers and news website Linkiesta last week summed up the positive reaction to the arrival of 007 production company Eon with the header “The mayor of Rome is Bond. James Bond”.

The picture is a far cry from the one painted last month by campaigners writing on the Basta Cartelloni blog, who suggested prior to Bond’s arrival that the state of the city was likely to shame Romans. They published photographs showing the 15th-century Ponte Sisto pedestrian bridge appearing dirty and adorned with graffiti and garbage, with the nearby Tiber Farnesina street (where a car chase was due to take place) appearing to be in a similar state.

Meanwhile, the makers of Spectre have received a less cheery welcome in Cardiff, where producers have been refused permission to shoot in the main building of the Welsh Assembly, known as the Senedd, reports the BBC.

A spokesperson for the Assembly said in a statement: “The Senedd’s Siambr [chamber] is the home of Welsh democracy and seat of government for Wales. Some media activity is allowed in the Siambr when it relates to the work of the assembly or reflects the Siambr’s status as the focal point of Welsh civic life. It is not a drama studio.

“Decisions on requests from the creative industries to use the assembly’s estate are made on a case by case basis, and we are proud to have collaborated with many television and film companies on drama productions such as Sherlock and Dr Who. The request by James Bond to use the Siambr was turned down and they were offered alternative locations on the estate which they subsequently declined.”

It is not known why Bond would have wanted to shoot in the chamber. Producers have been filming the 24th official 007 movie in London, Rome and the Austrian Alps over the past month. Daniel Craig returns for his fourth turn as Bond in Spectre, which also stars Christoph Waltz, Léa Seydoux and Monica Bellucci. The film is expected to hit UK cinemas on 23 October and will debut in the US on 6 November.

2017: Scientific Games announces its exclusive licensing agreement for James Bond .

2019: Dynamite Entertainment's release date for James Bond: Origin #7.
Ibrahim Moustafa, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

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2020: Ultimate Classic Rock reports on Blondie's unused title song "For Your Eyes Only".

Why James Bond Rejected Blondie’s Version of
‘For Your Eyes Only’

See the complete article here:

Martin Kielty | March 13, 2020

Blondie were at the height of their fame when John Glen was appointed director of the 12th James Bond movie, For Your Eyes Only, in 1981.

The New York punk icons had scored seven Top 40 hits in the preceding two years, including four No. 1 songs: “Heart of Glass,” “Call Me,” “The Tide is High” and “Rapture.”

Meanwhile, the Bond franchise was being steered in a grittier direction than it had gone in some time. It’s clear that a tie-up could make some sense.

“We had gone as far as we could into space,” Glen later told author Sally Hibbin. “We needed a change of some sort, back to the grass roots of Bond. We wanted to make the new film more of a thriller than a romp, without losing sight of what made Bond famous – its humor.”

The resulting plot found 007, played by Roger Moore for the fifth time, relying more on his intelligence than on clever gadgets, pursuing a classic cloak-and-dagger action-led spy storyline.

Somebody in the production team saw Blondie as a perfect match for the new direction: a band with humor, wit and intelligence all its own, and in the spotlight at the correct moment.

However, as Jon Burlingame noted in his 2012 book The Music of James Bond, the band was only “briefly” considered to deliver the movie theme by composer Bill Conti.

The reason might be simple. "They just wanted me to sing on their track," singer Debbie Harry recalled. That wasn’t acceptable to a group like Blondie. “We actually wrote a song, our own version, and submitted it.," she said.

While that song was swiftly rejected in favor of Sheena Easton singing the title track, Blondie released their version anyway on 1982's The Hunter.

The album was a flop compared to its recent predecessors and launched a chain of events that led to the band’s breakup. But Blondie's take on the “For Your Eyes Only” concept shows that they had a clear understanding of what a Bond theme needed to be.

They even remained 007 fans. They covered the Goldfinger theme, and, for many years, have included a cover of “From Russia With Love” in their live shows.

For Your Eyes Only (Remastered)



Blondie Goldfinger (2:17)



Blondie - From Russia with Love (2:45)

2022: Dame Shirley Bassey performs at the 75th BAFTA Film Awards, Albert Hall, London.

Dame Shirley Bassey to perform James Bond theme at
BAFTAs 2022

See the complete article here:

https://www.nme.com/news/music/dame-shirley-bassey-to-perform-iconic-bond-theme-at-baftas-2022-3176877

The singer will open the ceremony next Sunday (March 13)
By Tom Skinner | 7th March 2022

Dame Shirley Bassey, 2019. CREDIT: Getty

Dame Shirley Bassey will open the BAFTA Film Awards 2022 ceremony with a performance of an iconic James Bond song, it’s been reported.

According to Deadline, the 85-year-old singer is due to make a special appearance at the 75th BAFTAs, which take place at the Royal Albert Hall in London next Sunday (March 13) and will be hosted by Rebel Wilson.

The outlet claims that Bassey will mark the 60th anniversary of the Bond franchise with a live airing of a well-known theme from a past film, though the chosen track will remain under wraps until the night.

Bassey is the only artist to have recorded multiple songs for the Bond series, having soundtracked the classic films Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever and Moonraker.

The singer’s ‘Goldfinger’ (1964) landed at Number Four in NME‘s ranking of every James Bond theme; ‘Moonraker’ (1979) and ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ (1971) appear at Number 20 and Number Nine respectively.

Back in 2020, Bassey praised Billie Eilish’s No Time To Die theme, saying that the pop star “did a good job”. “It’s a big honour for a young artist to live up to the Bond expectation,” the singer explained.

No Time To Die star Lashana Lynch is up for the EE Rising Star Award at the BAFTAs 2022. She appears in the category alongside West Side Story‘s Ariana DeBose and The Power of the Dog actor Kodi Smit-McPhee, as well as Harris Dickinson and Millicent Simmonds.

Lynch, who was the first woman and the first woman of colour to take on the 007 role in the latest James Bond movie, said she was “proud” to hear of her nomination.

“The EE Rising Star Award is one I’ve always admired for recognising exciting emerging talent,” she said in a statement.

You can see the full list of nominees for the 75th BAFTAs here.
https://www.nme.com/news/film/baftas-2022-nominations-see-the-full-list-3152978

Shirley Bassey performs at the BAFTAs


Winners:

https://twitter.com/BAFTA/status/1503091923942260739

https://twitter.com/BAFTA/status/1503092586415890450

https://twitter.com/BAFTA/status/1503114240013619204

Take a look at the list of nominees.

Best Film
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
Dune
Licorice Pizza
The Power of the Dog

Outstanding British Film
After Love
Ali & Ava
Belfast
Boiling Point
Cyrano
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
House of Gucci
Last Night in Soho
No Time To Die
Passing

Leading Actress
Lady Gaga, House of Gucci
Alana Haim, Licorice Pizza
Emilia Jones, CODA
Renata Reinsve, The Worst Person in the World
Joanna Scanlan, After Love
Tessa Thompson, Passing

Leading Actor
Adeel Akhtar, Ali & Ava
Mahershala Ali, Swansong
Benedict Cumberbatch, The Power of the Dog
Leonardo DiCaprio, Don’t Look Up
Stephen Graham, Boiling Point
Will Smith, King Richard

Supporting Actress
Caitríona Balfe, Belfast
Jessie Buckley, The Lost Daughter
Ariana DeBose, West Side Story
Ruth Negga, Passing
Aunjanue Ellis, King Richard
Ann Dowd, Mass

Supporting Actor
Mike Faist, West Side Story
Ciarán Hinds, Belfast
Troy Kotsur, CODA
Woody Norman, C’mon C’mon
Jesse Plemons, The Power of the Dog
Kodi Smit-McPhee, The Power of the Dog

Director
Aleem Khan, After Love
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Drive My Car
Audrey Diwan, Happening
Paul Thomas Anderson, Licorice Pizza
Jane Campion, The Power of the Dog
Julia Ducournau, Titane

Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer
After Love
Boiling Point
The Harder They Fall
Keyboard Fantasies
Passing

Adapted Screenplay
CODA
Drive My Car
Dune
The Lost Daughter
The Power of the Dog

Original Screenplay
Being the Ricardos
Belfast
Don’t Look Up
King Richard
Licorice Pizza

EE Rising Star Award
Harris Dickinson
Millicent Simmonds
Lashana Lynch
Kodi Smit-McPhee
Ariana DeBose

Cinematography
Dune
Nightmare Alley
No Time To Die
The Power of the Dog
The Tragedy of Macbeth

Animated Film
Encanto
Flee
Luca
The Mitchells vs The Machines

Documentary
Becoming Cousteau
Cow
Flee
The Rescue
Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Film Not in the English Language
Drive My Car
The Hand of God
Parallel Mothers
Petite Maman
The Worst Person in the World

Costume Design
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
The French Dispatch
Nightmare Alley

Make Up & Hair
Cruella
Cyrano
Dune
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
House of Gucci
Original Score
Being The Ricardos
Don’t Look Up
Dune
The French Dispatch
The Power of the Dog

Editing
Belfast
Dune
Licorice Pizza
No Time To Die
Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Production Design
Cyrano
Dune
The French Dispatch
Nightmare Alley
West Side Story

Sound

Special Visual Effects

British Short Animation

Casting
Boiling Point
Dune
The Hand of God
King Richard
West Side Story

RichardTheBruce

March 14th

1953: Ian and Anne Fleming depart Jamaica for London via Montego Bay, Nassau, then New York City. They leave behind Mr. and Mrs. Guy Charteris, plus Lucian Freud who establishes his moment of "Goldeneye folklore".

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 8 - Newspaper Romance

After lunch the following day, March 14, Ian and Anne left Goldeneye
for Montego Bay, from where they were due to fly out to Nassau, and then
home to London, via New York. Guy Charteris was amused by the way the
members of the staff were formally lined up to bid their master and
mistress goodbye. He, his wife, and Lucien Frued stayed a bit longer, during
which time the incident occurred which became part of the Goldeneye
folklore. At dinner one evening, Violet, the housekeeper, served some
vegetables in a Pyrex dish. When Freud tried to help himself to what he
thought were sausages, he discovered they were actually Violet's fingers
on the other side of the dish.

1962: Dr. No films Bond and Honey meeting the villain at his lair.

1995: GoldenEye films the first scenes featuring 006.
1998: トゥモロー・ネバー・ダイ (To~umorō nebā dai; Tomorrow Never Die) released in Japan.

1998: Bill Ackridge dies at age 72--San Francisco, California.
(Born 9 January 1926.)

Bill Ackridge (1926–1998)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010089/

2018: Manchester University Press interviews author Claire Hines on her book The Playboy and James Bond.

The playboy and
James Bond – Q&A
with author Claire
Hines

See the complete article here:

https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2018/03/14/playboy-james-bond-qa-author-claire-hines/

Posted by Bethan Hirst - Wednesday, 14 Mar 2018

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1. What book in this field has inspired you the most?

In the area of James Bond studies two key books immediately come to mind. The first is Tony Bennett and Janet Woollacott’s pioneering 1987 cultural studies analysis of James Bond, Bond and Beyond: The Political Career of a Popular Hero. There is no doubt that this book helped to inspire my approach and aim to explore Bond’s intertextual relationship with Playboy magazine in particular in more detail. The other book that inspired me to take James Bond seriously was James Chapman’s analysis of the Bond films in the contexts of cultural and film history, Licence to Thrill (first published by I.B. Tauris in 1999). I remember reading it when I was studying in the early 2000s and grinning from ear to ear because I so appreciated his engaging analysis of Bond.

2. Did your research take you to any unexpected places?

A significant portion of the original research for this book was conducted at the British Library. Obviously, the British Library in central London is not a particularly usual place to visit for the purposes of research, but access to Playboy magazine was well supervised. This meant that I spent a significant amount of time seated at a desk studying copies of Playboy under the watchful eyes of the librarians! These days access to Playboy magazine is much more straightforward, since in 2011 Playboy launched a web-based subscription service.

3. What did you enjoy the most about writing your book?

I enjoyed thinking through and discussing the intertextual relationship between James Bond and Playboy in the context of the playboy image and lifestyle. It was great to get the opportunity to analyse Bond and Playboy beyond the superficial associations and to reflect on their significance as interrelated and long-lived cultural phenomena. It was particularly fun finding evidence of and analysing the parallels between Bond and Playboy in the wider context of the playboy image and lifestyle – for instance, the experience of exotic destinations like Tokyo and Istanbul, the love of cars and the Aston Martin in particular, stylishness and suits, an appreciation for certain foods and drink, and a knowingness about how to behave whatever the situation, among many other things.

5. What did you find hardest about writing your book?

Finding the time and the head space to think and write is always a major challenge.

6. Is this your first published book, or have you had others published?

I have had other books published in this field and related areas. In the area of James Bond studies I edited a collection of essays and interviews about the Bond fanbase and some of the different ways that Bond has been approached and appropriated over the years, Fan Phenomena: James Bond (Intellect, 2015). In the wider field of film studies, I co-authored the 2011 Routledge Film Guidebook book Fantasy with Jacqueline Furby, and co-edited Hard to Swallow: Hard-core Pornography on Screen published by Wallflower Press in 2012 with Darren Kerr.

7. How did you feel when you saw your first published book?

I recall feeling proud and excited when I first saw and held it. I still feel very proud when anything I write appears in print because it’s an achievement and the result of a lot of hard work and thinking!

8. Why did you choose to publish with MUP?

Not only is MUP a well-respected academic publisher, but I was really impressed by the friendly and supportive team from the beginning, and that has continued throughout the publishing process.

9. Did you approach writing this book differently to any of your previous work?

This was the first book I had written alone, and admittedly it has taken me a long time to finish it. The other projects that I have been involved in have been collaborative and that certainly helps with momentum and deadlines. This was harder to write and manage, not because of the research or subject, but because of how I approached the project. I have learnt a lot about myself during the process!

10. Have you had time to think about your next research project yet? What are you working on now?

More on James Bond no doubt as I have more to say, not just about the figure of Bond though. There are other aspects of the Bond phenomenon that interest me and might be further researched. Watch this space…

The playboy and James Bond can be ordered on our website now.
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719082276/

Read a sample chapter here.
https://d2ujvcq4vw00sj.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/20120851/The-playboy-and-James-Bond.pdf

Contents

• List of illustrations page vi
• Acknowledgements ix
• Select timeline xi
• Introduction 1
• 1 Before the bond 8
• 2 The literary Bond 24
• 3 The Connery Bond 58
• 4 The consumer bond 84
• 5 The Bond women 122
• 6 The bond beyond 159
• Select bibliography 199
• Index 204

2020: BBC airs radio drama The Man with the Golden Gun, Stephens' ninth time as OO7.

The Man with the Golden Gun: The Radio Play

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12141626/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
Original title: The Man with the Golden Gun
Video | 2020 | 1h 27m

The Man with the Golden Gun (2020)
Director Martin Jarvis
Writers
Ian Fleming (novel)
Archie Scottney (adaptation)

Cast (in credits order)
Toby Stephens ... James Bond (voice)
Guillermo Díaz ... Scaramanga (voice) (as Guillermo Diaz)
Moira Quirk ... Mary Goodnight (voice)
John Standing ... M (voice)
Janie Dee ... Moneypenny (voice) (as Michael A. Shepperd)
Josh Stamberg ... Felix Leiter (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Townsend (voice)
Lisa Dillon ... Professor Gillian (voice)
Monica McSwain ... Tiffy (voice)
Seamus Dever ... Paradise (voice)
Tim DeKay ... Gengerella (voice)
Matthew Wolf ... Hendricks (voice)
André Sogliuzzo ... Binion (voice)
Darren Richardson ... Garfinkel (voice)
Anna Mathias ... Ruby (voice) (as Anna Louise Plowman)
Lloyd Owen ... Chief-of-Staff (voice)
JD Cullum ... Nicholson (voice)
Gilbert Glenn Brown ... Doctor (voice)
Inger Tudor ... Matron (voice)
John Cothran ... Cargill (voice)
Anna-Louise Plowman ... Telephonist (voice)
Paula J. Newman ... Telephonist (voice) (as Paula Jane Newman)
Anna Erikson ... Telephonist (voice) (as Anna Lyse Erikson)
Brian Perkins ... Newsreader (voice)
Martin Jarvis ... Ian Fleming (voice)

Produced by
Rosalind Ayres ... producer
Sound Department
Mark Holden ... sound designer

BBC Radio 4 - James Bond Radio Drama, The Man With The Golden Gun

2021: BBC One begins the 30th series of Top Gear (20:00 GMT).

Top Gear trio on James Bond, mid-life crises and UK-only trips

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56230566

Steven McIntosh - Entertainment reporter | Fri, March 12, 2021

The trio filmed their links in a west London courtyard, with residents watching from their windows

Ahead of Top Gear's 30th series, its hosts discuss James Bond cars, mid-life crises, and why the show might travel abroad less often in future.

Unlike many TV shows, Top Gear actively thrived in 2020.

While other programmes lost their live audience, and therefore any kind of atmosphere, Top Gear's last season moved its crowd outdoors and filmed the series as a drive-in. It was perfect: a TV show about cars with an audience who were all, appropriately, in their cars.

Unfortunately, the further tightening of restrictions over winter has meant even the drive-in has had to go. Instead, Top Gear's top trio have been filming their links in a courtyard in west London, with residents able to watch from their windows.

"If Paddy McGuinness was performing in my garden, I'd shut my curtains," jokes Freddie Flintoff, highlighting one of the possible issues with the new set-up. "You can imagine some old lady opening her window, remonstrating, shouting, 'Shut up!'" adds Chris Harris.

But it's largely proved to be a good solution for the show, and the location feels particularly fitting. The residential complex where they've been filming used to be part of the BBC's Television Centre headquarters, before the area began to be converted into luxury flats in 2013.

The James Bond episode: Flintoff as Jaws, McGuinness as Bond, and Harris as Oddjob

The show has regained some previously lost ground recently, thanks to a combination of factors, including a move to BBC One and an improved chemistry between the three hosts.

McGuinness in particular has become the BBC's golden boy in the past year or two. In addition to Top Gear, he is fronting Saturday night game shows Catchpoint and the forthcoming I Can See Your Voice. He has also hosted coronavirus fundraisers and New Year's Eve coverage for the corporation.

We're only a few words into making this point when he interrupts with glee.

"You hear that lads?! The BBC's golden boy!" he shouts, laughing. "And I get to be associated with him, I'm blessed," Harris picks up, with a hint of sarcasm. "Sometimes, you just have to accept the fact that you're in the presence of greatness."

That greatness is confined to the UK this series due to travel restrictions, which is uncharacteristic for a show that usually ventures around the world. But the team certainly weren't stuck for ideas or locations for the new episodes.

"What's been surprising is how the UK has given us enough visual material to make the show," says Harris. "It's reminded us that a large part of the show is about how interesting the cars are, and the chemistry between us and the fun we're having."

He adds: "Always having to go further and further away to Timbuktu or wherever you want to go, maybe we got a bit too carried away with that in the past. Top Gear is a show that people expect to be filmed abroad at times, but I think in the new world, after Covid, maybe we won't go abroad as much as we did before. That's not a bad thing, because we all hate airports."

The trio take part in several more death-defying stunts this series

McGuinness particularly enjoyed the episode they shot in Scotland, with its "absolutely stunning scenery", while Flintoff highlights the Lake District in the north west. "It's only an hour-and-a-half from where I'm from," he says, "but it seems a lot of people don't know how beautiful it is, so it's just a chance to show off all these places in the UK. But I think we're all ready for a trip abroad at some point as well."

Also this series is what the trio refer to as the "mid-life crisis" episode, where they decide to embrace their middle-aged tastes.

"That's just a documentary piece that follows us around for a day living our normal lives," jokes Harris, pre-empting what viewers' reactions will be. "There was no plan for it. They said, 'Just be yourself, lads,'" adds Flintoff.

"The key thing is, we've taken the idea of the mid-life crisis, which all of us could stand accused of being in the middle of, and have said, 'It's not a crisis, it's an opportunity, don't be ashamed of the fact you want to buy a TVR, or a fake Ferrari, or a Holden Monaro,'" explains Harris.

"Celebrate the fact that this is the time in life when you are simply buying the things that you wanted to own when you were younger, which you can now because you've either got the money, or the children have left home. And let's face it, if we were to look at the Top Gear audience, there are probably quite a few men in that position."

The episode will feature the team taking part in a triathlon, including being kitted out in lycra for the cycling. "That's going to be a treat, watching that in 4K," McGuinness remarks.

McGuinness reckons Bond producers will want him to replace Daniel Craig

For him, the highlight of the new series was undeniably the James Bond-themed episode. "They gave us all the Bond cars, and as a Bond fan, that was dream-come-true time," McGuinness recalls.

"It was unbelievable. We all get dressed up, I was Bond, these two were the bad guys. Flintoff was Jaws, Harris was Oddjob. It was just so much fun, and it will be one of those episodes which is slightly different to what we normally do, but I think people will really enjoy it when it's on."

Flintoff agrees. "I'm not a big Bond fan, but I saw the cars, got a chance to drive the Lotus, I was dressed as Jaws chasing Paddy as James Bond, and you couldn't not enjoy yourself. I just laughed at the ridiculousness of it."

The new Bond film, No Time To Die, has been delayed so many times now that Top Gear's tribute to the franchise has leapfrogged its release.

"They might throw the film out when they see this!" jokes McGuinness, suggesting they might want to swap him for Daniel Craig. "It's no accident they've put it back, they've seen this episode and gone, 'He's our man.'"

We're looking forward to finding out what on earth is going on here

The new series will be the second to air on BBC One. Its move from BBC Two might not sound particularly important in an era where the power of terrestrial television is diminishing, but it has led to a leap in viewing figures to more than 5.5 million per episode (including catch-up).

McGuinness says they know from data that the show now has more younger and female viewers. "Not that that's what we were aiming for," he says. "But I always thought it would be nice to broaden the audience a little bit so you don't have to be a petrol head to watch the show."

Flintoff adds: "I think we're getting better as well, the more time we spend with each other, we know how each other works, from a production side as well, they know what it's like to work with us and know what makes us tick, so hopefully we can stick at it for a bit longer yet, because I think there's still room for improvement."

The 30th series of Top Gear begins on Sunday 14 March at 20:00 GMT on BBC One.

From 2020:

Driving the best Bond cars ever! | Top Gear

2021: Billie Eilish and brother Finneas win the Best Song Written for Visual Media 2021 Grammy Award for title song “No Time to Die” released 13 February 2020. (The latest film release planned at the time is October 2021.)

2023: An Evening at Casino Royale: Bet on a Bright Future at Naples Sailing & Yacht Club, Naples, Florida.

An Evening at Casino Royale – Bet on a
Bright Future

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March 15th

1924: Walter Gotell is born--Bonn, Germany.
(He dies 5 May 1997 at age 73--London, England.)

Obituary: Walter Gotell

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-walter-gotell-1256876.html
Tom Vallance | Friday 20 June 1997 00:02

A familiar figure of authority or menace in over 90 films and countless television shows, Walter Gotell was one of those reliable character players whose faces are well known but whose names are familiar to only a few. His balding, severe countenance made him the perfect KGB chief in several James Bond adventures, and in war films his crooked smile could quickly become a cruel sneer when he portrayed a Nazi.

Born in 1924, he went in 1943 straight from acting with a repertory company into films, which were suffering from a dearth of young actors due to the Second World War. His first films all dealt with the war - The Day Will Dawn, We Dive at Dawn, Tomorrow We Live, Night Invader (all 1943) and 2,000 Women (1944). Deciding to pursue a more secure business career, he gave up acting for several years. A man of strong intellect (he spoke five languages), he was an astute and successful businessman, but in 1950 returned to the screen with small roles in The Wooden Horse (a rare sympathetic, if enigmatic, role as a member of the French resistance), Cairo Road and Albert RN.

He was to work steadily for the next 40 years, though still combining acting with business (he ultimately became business manager of a group of engineering companies) and, in later years, farming.

In John Huston's fine film version of C.S. Forester's The African Queen (1951), Gotell was one of the German seamen who briefly capture Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn near the film's climax. Subsequent Nazi roles included Ice-Cold in Alex (1958), Sink the Bismarck! (1960, as an officer on the ill-fated battleship), The Guns of Navarone (1961), and a particularly chilling portrayal of ruthlessness in The Boys From Brazil (1978). In this last bizarre tale of Hitler clones, he was Mundt, an assassin despatched by Joseph Mengele (Gregory Peck) to kill the father of one of the clones. Recognising the victim (Wolfgang Preiss) as an old comrade from his days in the SS, he tells the man that he has a difficult assignment but lies about the identity of his intended victim. When his friend assures him that orders must be obeyed, he hurls the man over a snow-covered dam.

As Morzeny, henchman of the memorable villainess Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya) in the second and most distinguished James Bond film, From Russia With Love (1963), it was Gotell who, in the opening "teaser" sequence in which Bond (Sean Connery) is apparently assassinated, peels off the dead man's mask to reveal that it was merely a double being used in a lethal training exercise for a Spectre assassin.

In the first Bond film to star Roger Moore [incorrect statement], The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Gotell had a more prominent role as the KGB chief General Gogol, a role he continued to play in other Bond films, including Moonraker (1979), For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983), A View to a Kill (1985) and the first Bond to star Timothy Dalton, The Living Daylights (1987).

Gotell's prolific television work included the recurring role of Chief Constable Cullen in the popular BBC crime series Softly, Softly: Task Force, which ran for 131 episodes from 1970 to 1976. He was also featured in the mini-series The Scarlet and the Black (1983), in which Gregory Peck played his first dramatic role on television as a real-life Vatican official who aided escaped prisoners of war in Nazi-occupied Rome.

Gotell's last films included the fantasy Wings of Fame (1990) with Peter O'Toole and Colin Firth, and the hit comedy The Pope Must Die (1991). In recent years he had devoted more time to his farm in Ireland.

Walter Gotell, actor: born Bonn 15 March 1924; twice married (two daughters); died 5 May 1997.

Walter Gotell (1924–1997)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331770/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (170 credits)

1997 Prince Valiant - Erik the Old
1995 The X-Files (TV Series) - Victor Klemper
- Paper Clip (1995) ... Victor Klemper
1992 Tales from the Crypt (TV Series) - Mr. Hertz
- Werewolf Concerto (1992) ... Mr. Hertz
1991/II The Nose (Short)
1991 Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (Video) - General Mueller
1990 Wings of Fame - Receptionist

1989 The Nightmare Years (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. Von Fritsch
- Episode #1.4 (1989) ... Gen. Von Fritsch
- Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Gen. Von Fritsch
- Part 2 (1989) ... Gen. Von Fritsch
- Part 1 (1989) ... Gen. Von Fritsch
1987-1989 MacGyver (TV Series) - General Barenov / Starkoss
- Gold Rush (1989) ... General Barenov
- GX-1 (1987) ... Starkoss
1989 She Knows Too Much (TV Movie) - Foreigner
1989 Freddy's Nightmares (TV Series) - Kemmerling
- The End of the World (1989) ... Kemmerling
1988 Cagney & Lacey (TV Series) - J.F. Blackwell
- A Class Act (1988) ... J.F. Blackwell
1988 Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers - Uncle John
1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series) - Kurt Mandl
- Home Soil (1988) ... Kurt Mandl
1987 The Living Daylights - General Anatol Gogol
1987 I'll Take Manhattan (TV Mini-Series) - Jonas Alexander
- Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Jonas Alexander
- Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Jonas Alexander
1986 One Life to Live (TV Series) - Dirk Keller
- Episode dated 4 December 1986 (1986) ... Dirk Keller
- Episode #1.4805 (1986) ... Dirk Keller
1986 Miami Vice (TV Series) - Max Klizer
- When Irish Eyes Are Crying (1986) ... Max Klizer
1986 Liberty (TV Movie) - Rabbi Goteyel
1986 Spenser: For Hire (TV Series) - Max Claus
- A Madness Most Discreet (1986) ... Max Claus
1985 Basic Training - Nabokov
1985 Knight Rider (TV Series) - Simon Carascas
- Knight Sting (1985) ... Simon Carascas
1985 KGB: The Secret War - Nicholai
1985 The A-Team (TV Series) - Ramon DeJarro
- Where Is the Monster When You Need Him? (1985) ... Ramon DeJarro
1985 A View to a Kill - General Gogol
1985 Lace II (TV Movie)
General Zedd
1985 Skuggan av Henry (TV Movie)
Grüner
1985 Robert Kennedy and His Times (TV Mini-Series)
Anatoly Dobrynin
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Anatoly Dobrynin
- Episode #1.2 (1985) ... Anatoly Dobrynin
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Anatoly Dobrynin
1984 Hotel (TV Series) - Douglas Sloane
- Intimate Strangers (1984) ... Douglas Sloane
1984 Memed My Hawk - Sgt. Asim
1984 Fantasy Island (TV Series) - Edward C. Bass / Charles Childress
- Bojangles and the Dancer/Deuces Are Wild (1984) ... Edward C. Bass / Charles Childress
1984 Airwolf (TV Series) - Oberst Helmut Krüger / Hans Daubert
- Fight Like a Dove (1984) ... Oberst Helmut Krüger / Hans Daubert
1984 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Inspector Sekulevitch
- Olympic Quest (1984) ... Inspector Sekulevitch
1983 Masquerade (TV Series) - Kurt Steiner
- Diamonds (1983) ... Kurt Steiner
1983 Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series) - Curt Hollander
- Service Above and Beyond (1983) ... Curt Hollander
1983 Kalabaliken i Bender - Storvesiren
1983 Octopussy - Gogol
1983 Hallelujah! (TV Series) - Col Henderson
- Retirement (1983) ... Col Henderson
1983 The Scarlet and the Black (TV Movie) - Gen. Max Helm
1983 Crown Court (TV Series) - Peter Lindsey-Hewitt QC - 6 episodes
- Night Fever: Part 1 (1983) ... Peter Lindsey-Hewitt QC
1982 County Hall (TV Series) - Sir Michael Gunther
1982 Skulden (TV Mini-Series) - Misjakov
1982 Airline (TV Series) - Wing Cdr. Harrington
- Look After Number One (1982) ... Wing Cdr. Harrington
1981 Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Swinton
- What Price Churchill? (1981) ... Lord Swinton
- The Long Tide of Surrender (1981) ... Lord Swinton
- His Own Funeral (1981) ... Lord Swinton
1981 For Your Eyes Only - General Gogol
1981 Barriers (TV Series) - Karl Zuckmayer
- Episode #1.13 (1981) ... Karl Zuckmayer
1980 Cry of the Innocent (TV Movie) - Jack Brewster
1980 Flight Level 450 - Herbert Anchell

1979 Cuba - Don Jose Pulido
1979 Moonraker - General Gogol
1979 The London Connection - Simmons
1978 The Word (TV Mini-Series) - Hennig
1978 The Boys from Brazil - Mundt
1978 The Stud - Benjamin / Fontaine's husband
1978 The Professionals (TV Series) - Sam Baker
- The Female Factor (1978) ... Sam Baker
1977 March or Die - Col. Lamont
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Gen. Anatol Gogol
1977 The Assignment - Frankenheimer
1977 Black Sunday - Colonel Riat
1976 Wodehouse Playhouse (TV Series) - Sir Rackstraw Cammarleigh
- The Code of the Mulliners (1976) ... Sir Rackstraw Cammarleigh
1969-1975 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Chief Constable Cullen / Chief Constable Arthur Cullen / Chief Constable ArthurCullen - 54 episodes
1974 Funny Ha-Ha (TV Series) - Sgt. Needler
- The Molly Wopsy (1974) ... Sgt. Needler
1974 Special Branch (TV Series) - Morales
- Intercept (1974) ... Morales
1974 The Zoo Gang (TV Series) - Boucher
- Revenge: Post Dated (1974) ... Boucher
1972 Our Miss Fred - Schmidt
1972/I Endless Night - Constantine
1971 Misleading Cases (TV Series) - Judge Basil Bottle, QC
- The Sitting Bird (1971) ... Judge Basil Bottle, QC
1969-1970 The Main Chance (TV Series) - Raymond Berry / Gilbert Fletcher
- Settlement Day (1970) ... Raymond Berry
- Body and Soul (1969) ... Gilbert Fletcher
1970 The First Freedom (TV Movie) - Khmelnitsky
1970 The Borderers (TV Series) - Scott of Branxholm
- Where the White Lillies Grow (1970) ... Scott of Branxholm

1969 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Max Bronson
- There Must Be a Mr. X (1969) ... Max Bronson
1969 Softly Softly (TV Series) - Chief Constable Arthur Cullen
- We Shall Miss You (1969) ... Chief Constable Arthur Cullen
1969 The File of the Golden Goose - George Leeds
1969 Mogul (TV Series) - Ian Webster
- How Much Is One Man Worth? (1969) ... Ian Webster
1968 Cry Wolf
1968 Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Henderson
- Wisteria Lodge (1968) ... Henderson
1968 The Champions (TV Series) - Captain Jost
- Operation Deep-Freeze (1968) ... Captain Jost
1968 Detective (TV Series) - Hamilton Tromp
- The German Song (1968) ... Hamilton Tromp
1968 Attack on the Iron Coast - Van Horst
1968 Pere Goriot (TV Mini-Series) - Baron von Nucingen
- Vautrin (1968) ... Baron von Nucingen
- The Mandarin (1968) ... Baron von Nucingen
1968 Z Cars (TV Series) - Jack Lane
- Out of the Frying Pan: Part 2 (1968) ... Jack Lane
- Out of the Frying Pan: Part 1 (1968) ... Jack Lane
1967 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Gooch
- The Old Pals Act (1967) ... Gooch
1967 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Klaus Wandl
- A Letter from Helga (1967) ... Klaus Wandl
1967 The Baron (TV Series) - Captain Brandt
- Night of the Hunter (1967) ... Captain Brandt
1959-1966 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Brian / 1st Policeman
- The Three Barrelled Shotgun (1966) ... Brian
- The Scent of Fear (1959) ... 1st Policeman
1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Major Stefan Miesko
- Silence Is the Enemy (1966) ... Major Stefan Miesko
1965 Redcap (TV Series) - Insp. Heller
- A Regiment of the Line (1965) ... Insp. Heller
1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Hendryks
- Four Days to Fireworks (1965) ... Hendryks
1965 Armchair Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - The man
- The Stairway (1965) ... The man
1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Holten (uncredited)
1965 Lord Jim - Captain of Patna
1964 The Saint (TV Series) - Hans Lasser
- The Hi-Jackers (1964) ... Hans Lasser
1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Swenson
- Ring of Hate (1964) ... Swenson
1964 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Benton
- The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog: Who the Heck Is Hector? (1964) ... Benton
- The Ballad of Hector the Stowaway Dog: Where the Heck Is Hector? (1964) ... Benton
1963 The Sentimental Agent (TV Series) - Souza
- A Box of Tricks (1963) ... Souza
1963 From Russia with Love - Morzeny
1963 Sword of Lancelot - Sir Cedric
1963 55 Days at Peking - Capt. Hoffman
1963 Richard the Lionheart (TV Series) - Prince Otto
- The Castle of Prince Otto (1963) ... Prince Otto
1962 These Are the Damned - Major Holland
1962 The Devil's Agent - Dr. Ritter (uncredited)
1962 The Longest Day - German Soldier (uncredited)
1962 The Andromeda Breakthrough (TV Series) - Professor Neilson
- The Roman Peace (1962) ... Professor Neilson
- Hurricane (1962) ... Professor Neilson
- Storm Centres (1962) ... Professor Neilson
- Gale Warning (1962) ... Professor Neilson
1962 The Road to Hong Kong - Dr. Zorbb
1962 Studio 4 (TV Series) - Gestapo Commissar Kehr
- The Cross and the Arrow (1962) ... Gestapo Commissar Kehr
1961 Stryker of the Yard (TV Series)
- The Case of the Studio Payroll (1961)
1961 The Devil's Daffodil - Oberinspektor Whiteside / Supt. Whiteside
1961 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series)
Don Manuel Ortega, Captain of the King's Guards
- That Lady (1961) ... Don Manuel Ortega, Captain of the King's Guards
1960-1961 Danger Man (TV Series)
Receptionist / Colonel Perar
- Under the Lake (1961) ... Receptionist
- The Leak (1960) ... Colonel Perar
1961 The Guns of Navarone - Muesel
1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Sergeant
- The Avengers (1961) ... Sergeant
1960 Circle of Deception - Phoney Ballard
1960 Man from Interpol (TV Series) - Gerdhart / Karl / Demitri
- Death in Oils (1960) ... Gerdhart
- The Man Who Sold Hope (1960) ... Karl
- Escape Route (1960) ... Demitri
1960 The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll - Heverton - Second Gambler (uncredited)
1960 Biggles (TV Series)
- Biggles on Mystery Island: Part 3 (1960)
- Biggles on Mystery Island: Part 2 (1960)
- Biggles on Mystery Island: Part 1 (1960)
1960 Circus of Horrors - Baron Von Gruber (uncredited)
1959-1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Fischer / Zeist
- Payment in Advance (1960) ... Fischer
- The Money Game (1959) ... Zeist
1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Signals Officer Mueller on the 'Bismarck' (uncredited)

1959 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Lloyd
- Shadow Bomb (1959) ... Lloyd
1959 The Third Man (TV Series) - Rasmussen
- The Man with Two Left Hands (1959) ... Rasmussen
1959 Hot Money Girl - Hamburg Inspector
1959 World Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - Catholic Lieutenant
- Mother Courage and Her Children (1959) ... Catholic Lieutenant
1959 Shake Hands with the Devil - Sergeant 'Black &Tans' (uncredited)
1959 No Safety Ahead (uncredited)
1959 The Bandit of Zhobe - Azhad Khan
1959 William Tell (TV Series) - Officer
- The Trap (1959) ... Officer
1959 Television Playwright (TV Series) - General Kerch
- The Dark Side of the Earth (1959) ... General Kerch
1959 Behind Closed Doors (TV Series) - The Obelisk (1959)
1958 Hell, Heaven or Hoboken - German Colonel
1958 The Man Inside - Profuno
1958 Dial 999 (TV Series) - Peters
- Illegal Entry (1958) ... Peters
1958 Ice Cold in Alex - 1st German Officer
1958 Ivanhoe (TV Series) - Landlord
- Brothers in Arms (1958) ... Landlord
1958 White Hunter (TV Series) - Kramer
- No Survivors (1958) ... Kramer
1958 Television World Theatre (TV Series) - Dr. Jellinek
- The Captain of Koepenick (1958) ... Dr. Jellinek
1957 Sword of Freedom (TV Series) - Dominick
- Who is Felicia (1957) ... Dominick
1957 The New Adventures of Martin Kane (TV Series) - Ray Dilling
- The Railroad Story (1957) ... Ray Dilling
1957 The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (TV Series) - Inspector Steiner
- A Hamlet in Flames (1957) ... Inspector Steiner
1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Kommandant
- Operation Tulip (1957) ... Kommandant
1957 Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! (TV Series) - Gestapo officer
- My Favourite Kidnapper (1957) ... Gestapo officer
1953-1956 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Mir Jaffar / Manuel Ortega / Shylock
- Clive of India (1956) ... Mir Jaffar
- The Fugitive (1956)
- That Lady (1954) ... Manuel Ortega
- Will Shakespeare (1953) ... Shylock
1956 Potts in Parovia (TV Series) - Colonel Schmidt - 6 episodes
1956 Aggie (TV Series) - Police Captain
- Tangier (1956) ... Police Captain
1956 The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Series)
Le Drue / Florian
- Burgundy (1956) ... Le Drue (as Walter Gotel)
- Bordeaux (1956) ... Florian
1956 The Man Who Knew Too Much - Matthews , Scotland Yard Patrol Car (uncredited)
1956 1984 - Guard (uncredited)
1955 The Way Out - Policeman (uncredited)
1955 The Mysterious Bullet (Short) - Police Constable (uncredited)
1955 The Vise (TV Series) - Anton
- Murder of a Ham (1955) ... Anton
1955 Above Us the Waves - German Officer on Tirpitz (uncredited)
1954 Duel in the Jungle - Jim
1954 Count Albany (TV Short) - A strange gentleman
1953 Stryker of the Yard
1953 Break to Freedom - Feldwebel
1953 Paratrooper - German Sentry
1953 Desperate Moment - Ravitch's Servant-Henchman
1953 The Silver Swan (TV Series) - 1st Gestapo
- Elsa (1953) ... 1st Gestapo
1951 The African Queen - Second Officer
1951 Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared (TV Short) - Luzatto
1950 Lilli Marlene - Direktor of Propaganda
1950 The Wooden Horse - Francois - The Follower
1950 Cairo Road - Prison Officer
1948 No Orchids for Miss Blandish - Joe - Nightclub Doorman (uncredited)
1944 Two Thousand Women - German Soldier (uncredited)
1943 The Night Invader
1943 It Started at Midnight -Captured resistance member
1943 We Dive at Dawn - Luftwaffe Captain (uncredited)
1943 At Dawn We Die - Hans
1942 Secret Mission - Lieutenant Langfeld (uncredited)
1942 The Goose Steps Out - SS Guard (uncredited)
1942 The Avengers - German Soldier (uncredited)

Self (2 credits)

2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself / Morzany

1987 James Bond: Licence to Thrill (TV Movie documentary) - Himself

1942: Molly Peters is born--Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, England.
(She dies 30 May 2017 at age 75--Taunton, Somerset, England.)

Molly Peters, Bond Girl in
‘Thunderball,’ Reportedly Dies
at 75

https://variety.com/2017/film/global/molly-peters-dies-dead-bond-girl-1202448700/
By Stewart Clarke

CREDIT: PIERLUIGI/REX/Shutterstock

Bond girl Molly Peters, whose risque scenes in “Thunderball” caused much comment at the time, has died, according to the official James Bond Twitter account.

Peters, 75, played Pat, a nurse tending to Sean Connery’s Bond in 1965’s “Thunderball.” She was the first Bond girl to take her clothes off onscreen in scenes that were considered racy and controversial. Several were ultimately cut from the film.

The Bond Twitter feed said: “We are sad to hear that Molly Peters has passed away at the age of 75. Our thoughts are with her family.”

Peters’ death comes barely a week after that of Roger Moore, who played the part of the suave 007 more times than any other actor.

Peters, who was also a model, had a fleeting acting career, spanning just a handful of films and series in the mid-1960s. “Thunderball” was her most notable big screen role.

Her movie career ended with the 1968 feature “Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River.” She also had parts in various 1960s series, including “Armchair Theater.”

In later life, she talked about her Bond role in 1995’s “Behind the Scenes With Thunderball” and 2000’s “Terence Young: Bond Vivant.”

The cause of death has not been announced.

Molly Peters (I) (1942–2017)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0676601/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (7 credits)

1968 Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River - Heath's Secretary
1967 Baker's Half-Dozen (TV Series) - The Girl
- The Guy Fawkes Night Massacre (1967) ... The Girl (as Mollie Peters)
1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Waitress
- Easier in the Dark (1967) ... Waitress (as Mollie Peters)
1966 Das Experiment (TV Movie) - Junges Mädchen
1966 Target for Killing - Vera (as Mollie Peters)
1965 Thunderball - Patricia
1964 Peter Studies Form (Short) (as Mollie Peters)

Self (3 credits)

2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Herself

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Herself / Patricia

1966 The Dream World of Harrison Marks - Herself

1944: Fleming associate Maud Russell writes about him in her diary entry.

Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime

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

Wednesday 15 March, 1944

This morning I heard Muriel Wright, I.’s girl, had been killed. Strange things happen. I heard in my room at the Admiralty that she’d been killed by debris flung up from a crater in the road coming through her roof and falling on her in bed. Most of the room was untouched. Appalled for I. and found it difficult to concentrate. I know he will be overcome with remorse and blame himself for not marrying her and for a thousand other things none of which he is to blame for.

1964: The Observer publishes Maurice Richardson's piece "Bondo-san and Tiger Tanaka".

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films ahead of principal photography. Actors on hand include Gerard Butler.

2002: A BOND 20 press release from the producers announces: "We are thrilled that Madonna, who is recognized as the world's most exciting songwriter and performer, has agreed to compose and sing the song for the first James Bond movie of the new millennium."

MADONNA WILL 'DIE' FOR JAMES BOND THEME, POSSIBLE CAMEO

SHE'LL WRITE THE TRACK; HOPES TO GET BEFORE CAMERAS.

http://www.mtv.com/news/1452934/madonna-will-die-for-james-bond-theme-possible-cameo/
Jennifer Vineyard | 03/15/2002

Madonna's no beautiful stranger to spy films — she's acted up a storm as Breathless Mahoney in 1990's "Dick Tracy" and contributed one song to the 1999 spy spoof "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me." Now she's going for the real thing — shaken, not stirred — with the title track to the 20th James Bond film, Die Another Day.

"We are thrilled that Madonna, who is recognized as the world's most exciting songwriter and performer, has agreed to compose and sing the song for the first James Bond movie of the new millennium," said the film's team of producers in a statement Friday. "She has an excellent feel for writing and performing music in films and we are proud she will contribute her talents to Die Another Day."

Madonna had been in talks with MGM for over a month to contribute a song to the film's soundtrack, and now that negotiations are over, she's heading into the studio next week to record the tune. It won't necessarily carry the same title as the movie, despite it being the "title" song, her spokesperson, Liz Rosenberg, said.

There's still a question of whether or not Madonna might have a cameo in Die Another Day. Rosenberg said the singer/actress is interested in having a bit part, and since she's committed to the play "Up for Grabs," which opens in London's West End in May, she's trying to figure out a way to do both. Since the spy caper is shooting on location in Hawaii, Hong Kong, Spain, Iceland and London, Madonna might be able to meet up with the production on a European shoot.

Madonna will be joining a healthy list of past James Bond title trackers, including Duran Duran ("A View to a Kill"), Garbage ("The World Is Not Enough"), Tina Turner ("Goldeneye" [sic]), Sheena Easton ("For Your Eyes Only"), Paul McCartney and Wings ("Live and Let Die"), and the queen of Bond titles, Shirley Bassey ("Goldfinger", "Diamonds Are Forever").

Her past soundtrack contributions, outside of the Grammy Award-winning "Beautiful Stranger" from "Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" (see "Madonna, Mike Myers Team Up For 'Austin Powers' Video"), include "You Must Love Me" from "Evita," "This Used to Be My Playground" from "A League of Their Own," "Who's That Girl?" from the film of the same title, "Live to Tell" from "At Close Range," "Into the Groove" from "Desperately Seeking Susan," and "Crazy for You" from "Vision Quest."

Madonna has returned to acting not only in "Up for Grabs," but also in "Love, Sex, Drugs & Money," the upcoming film by her husband, Guy Ritchie. The movie was formerly called "Swept Away" (see "Madonna 'Swept Away' To Star In Husband's Movie").

Die Another Day, which stars Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry, is scheduled to open Thanksgiving weekend, November 22.

2015: The BOND 24 film crew remains past this scheduled date to continue filming the car chase in Rome.
2017: A competition to design the 27th letter of the English language, inspired by Ian Fleming, starts this date and runs through 25 April.

Could you be the designer behind the 27th
letter of the alphabet?

https://www.creativebloq.com/news/the-search-is-on-for-the-undiscovered-27th-letter-of-the-alphabet
By Dom Carter March 01, 2017

A competition conceived by Ian Fleming is looking for typographers to create a new letter design.

When he wasn't busy penning James Bond novels, Ian Fleming also experimented with typography. In fact, in 1947, while helping out at the typographical magazine Alphabet & Image, he hit on the idea of a competition that called for designers to create a 27th letter of the alphabet. Now, 70 years later, the contest is being run again in connection with The Book Collector.

The 2017 competition will follow Ian Fleming's original rules, namely that the experimental design must conform to the alphabet as known in English-writing countries, and that it must represent a recognised sound or combination of sounds. In terms of design, entrants must also demonstrate decorative, philological and typographical skill.

James Fleming, Ian's nephew, says: “I was intrigued to hear about the alphabet competition and I thought it was a good idea to give this another go. Creative heads don't need a professional qualification in order to enter. Anyone with an idea as to how the English language could be improved in a way that complies with the competition rules can take part.

"Last time submissions included '-sion', 'th' and 'st', but alternatives are yours to explore. Given that most people embrace the fast-moving world of social media, perhaps this time the new letter will become part of the alphabet."

Full rules and conditions can be found at The Book Collector, with the competition running from 15 March to 25 April 2017. The winner will be announced at the ABA Olympia Book Fair on 2 June, with a £250 cash prize up for grabs.
http://www.thebookcollector.co.uk/the-27th-letter

2018: Danny Boyle is confirmed to direct BOND 25. (These plans later change.)
2018: The Japan Meteorological Agency issue a Level 3 warning for Mount Shinmoedake, Japan.

Lightning seen over Japan's so-called
James Bond volcano

See the complete article here:

https://abcnews.go.com/International/lightning-japans-called-james-bond-volcano/story?id=54261603

The volcano has been erupting since the beginning of March.
By Alexandra Faul
April 5, 2018
[Video]
Lightning seen over Japan's so-called James Bond volcano
The volcano has been erupting since the beginning of March.
Kyodo News via Reuters

Mount Shinmoedake, featured in the 1967 James Bond film "You Only Live Twice," put on a show Thursday morning when cameras caught not only the volcano erupting but lightning above it.

PHOTO: Shinmoedake peak spews molten lava as it erupts between Miyazaki and
Kagoshima prefectures, southwestern Japan, in a photo taken by a remote camera
and released by Kyodo News, April 5, 2018.
Kyodo News via ReutersKyodo News via Reuters

The volcano, which is located between Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures in southwest Japan, has been erupting since the beginning of March.

On March 15, the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a Level 3 warning, alerting residents to not approach the volcano and refrain from entering the danger zone.

PHOTO: Lightning lights up the ash cloud above Shinmoedake peak as the volcano erupts
between Miyazaki and Kagoshima prefectures, southwestern Japan, in a photo
taken by a remote camera and released by Kyodo News, April 5, 2018.
Kyodo News via Reuters

According to the Japan Times, the JMA reported ash plumes around 3 miles high from the latest eruption, which occurred at 3:31 a.m. Thursday morning. The agency also confirmed volcanic lightning caused by friction between ash particles.

2020: Kitzbühel Austria hosts its tenth James Bond Themed ‘Fireball’ event, ending today.

James Bond Themed ‘Fireball’ Event
Returns to Kitzbühel for Tenth Time

https://www.inthesnow.com/james-bond-themed-fireball-event-returns-to-kitzbuhel-for-tenth-time/
BY Patrick Thorne 2nd February 2020

Less than a month before the release of the new 007 movie No Time to Die, the Alpine ski resort of Kitzbühel in the Austrian Tirol is set to host the tenth edition of their Fireball festival.

Running from 12-15 March 2020, this James Bond-themed event pays homage to Ian Fleming, who lived in the town in the late 1920s.

It comprises events including a cocktail party, a Blackjack tournament at the casino, a themed ski race and a gala dinner.

Each year the festival has a different Bond movie theme. This year it’s Diamonds are Forever. Last year was Moonraker, 2018 was Live and Let Die and 2017 The Spy Who Loved Me.

2021: Yaphet Kotto dies at age 81--Philippines.
(Born 15 November 1939--New York City, New York.)

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

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

By Neil Genzlinger | March 16, 2021

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

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

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

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

Mr. Kotto as a police lieutenant on the long-running TV series “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
Credit...James Sorensen/NBC Universal, via Getty Images

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

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

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

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

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

In between those stage appearances, two movie roles in the 1970s particularly elevated Mr. Kotto’s his profile. The first, in 1973, was in “Live and Let Die,” Roger Moore’s debut as James Bond. Mr. Kotto played his chief nemesis, a dual role in which he was both a corrupt Caribbean dictator and that character’s alter ago, a drug trafficker named Mr. Big.

Then, in 1979, came “Alien,” Ridley Scott’s outer-space horror classic, in which Mr. Kotto’s character, Parker, was part of a spaceship crew doing battle with a nasty extraterrestrial creature.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mike Ives contributed reporting.

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

Yaphet Kotto (1939–2021)

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

2023: Bond - An Unauthorized Parody at Alvah Parish Hall, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Bond: An Unauthorised Parody

See the complete article here:

https://www.visitabdn.com/whats-on/event/bond-an-unauthorised-parody-1

Alvah Parish Hall
B9121
Turriff
AB45 3XA

Gavin Robertson's keen eye for parody is focused on James Bond.

Following his solo show, Crusoe, Gavin Robertson now focuses his attention on the Bond phenomenon, spoofing the movies eagerly awaited by millions, and exploding every cliche in the book(s) solo.

Along with a French sidekick, the usual female companion, and a time machine, Bond meets his greatest arch-villain yet Ian Fleming himself.

Also featuring the smallest car-chase in theatre history.

With original music by now three-times collaborator Danny Bright (Vampirates, House of Usher, Crusoe).

Dates & Booking
Mar. 16, 2023 7:30pm

Ticket Info
Standard - From £7.00 - £10.00

2023: Colorado Snowsports Museum & Hall of Fame has a new exhibit.

Colorado Snowsports Museum & Hall of Fame
Current Museum Hours:
11am to 6pm Daily
Plan your visit today!

See the complete article here:

https://www.snowsportsmuseum.org/

New Display!

The Colorado Snowsports Museum and Hall of Fame is excited to announce that the Tom Sims snowboard ridden in the James Bond movie “A View to a Kill” is now back on display at the Museum. Generously on loan to us by Hilary Sims, through the Colorado Snowboard Archive, this piece of pop culture was for many - the first snowboard they ever saw.

Photo credit: Colorado Snowboard Archive

2024: Bond Symphonique at Le Grand Rex, Paris, France.

Bond Symphonique

See the complete article here:

http://moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=view&id=47947

15 March 2024
Paris
(France)
50 musiciens from the orchestras Colonne and Musidrama and 2 singers - Le Grand Rex

Program Info:
Bond Symphonique is the first symphonic concert based on musical themes and songs from James Bond films, performed by 50 musicians from the Colonne and Musidrama orchestras and 2 singers. You will find in particular the famous James Bond Theme, instrumental music which appears in the introduction to all films. And of course, all the titles whose mere mention makes you immediately hum the air:

• John Barry - Goldfinger
• John Barry - Diamonds are forever
• Eric Serra - Goldeneye
• Thomas Newman / Adèle - Skyfall
• George Martin / Paul McCartney - Live and let die
• David Arnold - Die another day
• John Barry - The living daylights
• John Barry - A view to a kill
• John Barry - You Only Live Twice
• Marvin Hamlisch - Nobody Does It Better

and more

RichardTheBruce

March 16th

1959: Ludger Pistor is born--Recklinghausen, Germany.

1961: A Thunderball serialisation begins in The Daily Express. Raymond Hawkey, illustrator. Robert Hawkey later designs the 1963 Pan paperback edition of Ian Fleming's Thunderball, setting a photographic style.

1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's eleventh Bond novel You Only Live Twice, the last during his lifetime. Richard Chopping cover.

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE

When Ernst Stavro Blofeld blasted into
eternity the girl whom James Bond had
married only hours before, the heart, the
zest for life, went out of Bond. Incredibly,
from being a top agent of the Secret
Service, he had gone to pieces, was even
on the verge of becoming a security risk.
M is persuaded to give him one last
chance - an impossible mission far re-
moved from his usual duties - and Bond
leaves for Japan.

There, coming under the orders of the
formidable 'Tiger' Tanaka, Head of the
Japanese Security Service, the Koan-Chosap
Kyoku, he is indeed subjected to the
shock treatment his condition demanded.

Shock treatment? The reader will also
be subjected to it in full measure in this,
perhaps the most bizarre and doom-
fraught of all James Bond's adventures.

1965: A serialization of The Man With the Golden Gun appears in Italy's Sunday magazine "Domenica Del Corriere". Tabet, illustrator.

https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2009/10/italian-man-with-golden-gun-artwork.html

1965: Thunderball films Bond and Fiona Volpe in their love scene.

2018: BBC News reports and speculates on BOND 25.

Will Danny Boyle direct the next Bond
film? Here's what we know so far

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43430301
16 March 2018

Boyle and Craig previously worked together on Bond short Happy and Glorious

Danny Boyle has revealed he is working with Trainspotting writer John
Hodge on a script for the next James Bond film.

If made it will reunite the Oscar-winning director with 007 star Daniel Craig, with whom he worked on a short film made for the 2012 London Olympics.

Boyle said this week he and Hodge had "got an idea" and were "working on a script". "It all depends on how it turns out," the director told Metro US.

Bond producers Eon have been contacted by the BBC but have yet to comment.

Boyle and Hodge's agents have also been contacted.

The mini James Bond film Boyle made for the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony
was capped off by a double parachute jump

Eon announced last year that the 25th official instalment in the James Bond series would be released in November 2019.

Craig later confirmed he would be returning to make his fifth Bond, having previously starred in Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre.

When the release date was announced, Eon said the script for the new film would be written by regular Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade.

According to the Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye, however, it is possible that script "now won't get made".

It is not uncommon for Bond producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson to commission scripts that are not eventually produced.

Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli with Daniel Craig in 2011

Peter Morgan, of The Queen and Frost/Nixon fame, reportedly worked with Purvis and Wade on a film treatment entitled Once Upon a Spy.

That film was never made, though one of its key plot points - the death of Bond's superior M - did end up forming the climax to 2012's Skyfall.

The Bond series also has a history of bringing in writers to work on existing scripts. Paul Haggis worked on 2006's Casino Royale, while director Sam Mendes enlisted playwright Jez Butterworth to work on Spectre.

Boyle's other current projects include All You Need is Love, a Richard Curtis-scripted film that revolves around the music of The Beatles.

According to the Mail, it is hoped Boyle can begin shooting Bond 25 at the end of the year once All You Need is Love is completed.

Daniel Craig was last seen as Bond in 2015's Spectre

But what is the "idea" behind Boyle and Hodge's film? "It would be foolish of me to give any of it away," said Boyle this week.

With nothing whatsoever to go on beyond a knowledge of Bond's history, here are a few light-hearted suggestions.

Bond becomes M. After more than 50 years as a Double-0, it's high time 007 got a promotion. What if the new film saw him taking over from Ralph Fiennes in the MI6 hotseat?

Bond gets hitched. James hasn't walked down the aisle since 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service and it didn't end well. Could the new film see him dare to tie the knot again, as Page Six claimed last year?

Bond goes back to school. One aspect of Bond's literary provenance that has yet to be touched on in the films is his education at Eton. Could the new film see him return to his alma mater - possibly in the guise of a teacher? That would be one way of making sure the boys do their homework...

2018: Jonathan Dean in GQ guesses what a Danny Boyle James Bond film will be like.

This is what James Bond will be like
directed by Danny Boyle

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/james-bond-danny-boyle-director
By Jonathan Dean | 16 March 2018

There is a lot of guesswork ahead of how it will look. Our writer imagines what a Bond film directed by Danny Boyle will entail

So, Danny Boyle is going to direct the next James Bond film, but what the hell does that actually mean? If the producers had gone for, say, Christopher Nolan, fans would know what was coming: expensive action with macho pondering. Tim Burton’s 007 would have Johnny Depp as the spy, falling for an undead Bond girl. Sofia Coppola’s would be beautiful, MI6 kitted out in exploding Converse, a theme song sung by Phoenix...

After all, those directors have a distinctive style. A type of film they remake ever so slightly every four years or so. Boyle, though, is probably the most random mainstream director working today. His work can be exceptional (Trainspotting; Frankenstein at the National Theatre, Steve Jobs), excusable (A Life Less Ordinary; Millions; 127 Hours) or excrement (Trance; Trainspotting 2). Totally unpredictable levels of quality and such a scattergun approach to genre that he’ll probably make a Bollywood film before his time’s up.

Oh, he already did: Slumdog Millionaire.

Right. He has such a scattergun approach to genre that he’ll probably make an existentialist sci-fi film…

Oh, he already did: Sunshine.

I give up. He’ll probably do the Olympics one day!

Bond fans should not be so much worried as intrigued. So what can we be certain about, for when the biggest film of the director's career lands next year? First, it will star Daniel Craig. Secondly, the pace will be kinetic. Boyle is excellent at rhythm, with his films moving along to an oft-tribal beat, so his Bond will have far more clip than the stagey Sam Mendes films, probably a blend of Casino Royale's parkour scene and the whole of the underrated Quantum Of Solace. Thirdly, the theme song will be good; don't rule out the first hip hop track played over the opening credits. Maybe Stormzy, possibly with a female vocalist to placate the traditionalists. Stormzy and Florence Welch – watch this space.

Suddenly, this is very exciting. Yes, Boyle can be erratic, but more often than not he skews towards fresh ideas, which cannot be said of Mendes and the Bond franchise as a whole. Imagine this: an opening chase like the extraordinary start of 28 Days Later, in which Cillian Murphy walks across a deserted Westminster Bridge. Then the Stormzy and Florence song. Then a chase, similar to the one in Trainspotting when Renton gets hit by a car. Next, Bond meets a baddie, a slippery tech genius similar to how Michael Fassbender played Steve Jobs, but Russian. Given everything that's going on, the villain will have to be Russian. That is the setup, but what of the romance? How about something scuzzy, such as when Kelly Macdonald and Ewan McGregor met while high in Trainspotting. Maybe 007 will use Tinder on one of Russian Steve Jobs' phones and that is how he will take over the world. Later on, Bond gets his arm stuck under a rock, à la 127 Hours, and has to saw it off using a laser sword given to him by Q. Russian Steve Jobs gives him a replacement arm, made of phones, and starts to control him via The Cloud. In the end, they have a big dance in Mumbai, but I haven't figured out why.

There is a lot of guesswork ahead. Boyle is one of the most passionate directors around, and as one of the nicest in the business, too, everyone should wish him well. But, yes, the final result? Who knows? Yet the last time he tackled something this big and amorphous, which could have been a disaster and deeply embarrassing for both him and his country, he turned in the finest Olympic opening ceremony in history.

And who was in that? Bond, of course. James Bond.

2023: The Music of James Bond & More - All The Songs - All The Hits Live! concert at
Stadthalle Gifhorn, Germany.

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

See the complete article here:

https://www.timeforgig.com/the-music-of-james-bond-more-all-the-songs-all-the-hits-live-gifhorn/events/5y6dd

Gifhorn
Thu 16 Mar 2023
7:30 PM
Stadthalle Gifhorn

2023: Bond: An Unauthorised Parody at Alvah Parish Hall, Turriff, Scotland.

Bond: An Unauthorised Parody

See the complete article here:

https://www.datathistle.com/event/620319-bond-an-unauthorised-parody/

Gavin Robertson's keen eye for parody is focused on James Bond.

Following his solo show, Crusoe, Gavin Robertson now focuses his attention on the Bond phenomenon, spoofing the movies eagerly awaited by millions, and exploding every cliche in the book(s) solo.

Along with a French sidekick, the usual female companion, and a time machine, Bond meets his greatest arch-villain yet Ian Fleming himself.

Also featuring the smallest car-chase in theatre history.

With original music by now three-times collaborator Danny Bright (Vampirates, House of Usher, Crusoe).

Tour dates 2023

At 2 venues:
Alvah Parish Hall, Turriff
The Rondo Theatre, Bath

Whilst every effort has been made to ensure the information displayed here is accurate, always check with the venue before attending.

Alvah Parish Hall, Turriff
B9121, Turriff, AB45 3XA
Thu 16 Mar
£7–£10
19:30

The Rondo Theatre, Bath
St Saviours Road, Bath, Somerset, BA1 6RT
Sat 1 Apr
£12–£14 / 01225 463362
20:00

2023: Essential Bond: Breakfast Briefing Experience at London, England.

Essential Bond:
Breakfast Briefing
Experience

See the complete article here:

https://feverup.com/m/125358

Fri 17 Mar, 2023

Tickets for Essential Bond: Breakfast Briefing Experience in London
🎫 Adult ticket for 1, including a martini, breakfast, and an immersive tour and experience

Highlights
🔎 Be guided through a mission by an expert in the dangerous world of spies, sabotage, and assassination!
🎬 Walk through the London scenes made famous by the Bond films
🖊️ Enjoy a delicious breakfast during a special briefing in Whitehall
🍸 Relax in true 007 style with a Vesper martini, shaken, not stirred (non-alcoholic option available)
✨ Sample Bond's preferred fragrance at a perfumery

General Info
📅 Date: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays (select during purchase)
🕒 Time: 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Arrival at 9:45 p.m.)
⏳ Duration: 3.5 hours
📍 Meeting location: Horse & Guardsman Pub, London
👤 Age requirement: 18+ with valid ID

Menu
Served with tea, coffee, or a soft drink

• A selection of sourdough toasts: topped with your choice of topping
• Potato Rosti Florentine: baby spinach, poached eggs, hollandaise, and cress
• Potato Rosti Benedict: smoked streaky bacon, poached eggs, hollandaise, and cress
• Baked Eggs: with red pepper, chickpeas, baby spinach, tomato ragu, and smoked paprika, served on sourdough toast
• Full English: smoked streaky bacon, old spot sausage, fried egg, slow-roasted tomato, flat mushroom, potato rosti, baked beans, toasted sourdough and butter
• Veggie Breakfast: halloumi, poached egg, avocado and corn salsa, potato rosti, hollandaise, toasted seven seeds, sourdough toast and butter
• Bubble & Squeak Fritter: smoked streaky bacon, bubble and squeak fritter, celeriac crisp, crispy fried egg, chilli jam, and cress
• Buttermilk Pancakes: five buttermilk pancakes stacked up and finished with a selection of toppings to choose from
• Granola (variety of flavours)

Description
Play the lead role in the world's most successful movie franchise! This incredible experience makes the dreams of every James Bond fan come true—to step into the shoes of 007 for the morning. Embark on a glamorous Ian Fleming trail, spritz a splash of Floris 89, and sip on Bond's preferred tipple, as you immerse yourself into the cloak-and-dagger world of espionage and get briefed over breakfast. Learn about the real stories of 007, as you're escorted through the London scenes where Bond was born and immortalised in celluloid. This elegant experience makes for a perfect gift for James Bond fans. Get your tickets now for Essential Bond: Breakfast Briefing Experience in London!

Horse & Guardsman
16-18 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY

2023: James Bond Dining Experience at The Secret Garden, Mersham-le-Hatch Business Village, Hythe Road, Ashford, Kent, England.

James Bond dining experience

See the complete article here:

https://www.meetup.com/ashford-ladies-night-out/events/290688761/

Hosted By
Gemma K.

£49 per person
In advance
Non refundable

Details from the venue-
Bond: Live & Let Dine – The Comedy Dinner Show – Thursday 16th March 2023
If James Bond, Austin Powers, Naked Gun and Airplane made an interactive comedy dinner show it would be…

BOND – Live and Let Dine

From the team who brought you Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, join us for a brand-new slapstick adventure through the cliches of the Bond movies adored by millions. Theatre meets vendetta, meets dinner show as our hero tries to unravel who’s out to get him – and why. With 4 actors playing 13 characters, expect super villains, death defying missions and plenty of puns.

3 Courses
2 Hours
1 Immersive Spy Spoof

Price for this evening is £49.00pp – including a 3 course meal and 2 hour interactive comedy show. Full payment required upon booking to confirm reservation. These evenings are strictly by booking only, no walk-ins. We must be made aware of any and all dietary requirements upon booking. Please give us a call on 01233 501586 to book now.****

Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 7:00 PM to
Thursday, March 16, 2023 at 9:00 PM GMT

The Secret Garden
Mersham-le-Hatch Business Village, Hythe Road, Ashford, Kent. TN25 6NH · Ashford

RichardTheBruce

March 17th

1925: Gabriele Ferzetti is born--Rome, Lazio, Italy.
(He dies 2 December 2015 at age 90--Rome, Lazio, Italy.)

Gabriele Ferzetti obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/22/gabriele-ferzetti
Charismatic Italian actor who starred in Antonioni’s L’Avventura
and played opposite George Lazenby in On Her Majesty’s Secret
Service
Ronald Bergan | Tue 22 Dec 2015 10.41 EST | Last modified on Sun 4 Mar 2018 07.48 EST

Gabriele Ferzetti (right) with Lea Massari in Antonioni’s classic L’Avventura (1960),
in which he played Sandro, a wealthy playboy searching for his missing lover.
Photograph: Snap Stills/Rex Shutterstock

The Italian actor Gabriele Ferzetti, who has died aged 90, was never in danger of being typecast. He played a multitude of different film roles in every known genre, over seven decades, and just about the only constant in his long career was that he was perennially handsome and charismatic without being showy.

To cinephiles, he was most memorable for his intense performance of quiet desperation as the unfulfilled wealthy playboy seeking his missing lover in Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (1960). However, his most widely known roles, dubbed into English, were as the unscrupulous railroad baron on crutches in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and as James Bond’s father-in-law, a powerful crime boss, in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), the one with George Lazenby as 007.

Ferzetti was born in Rome, where he attended the Silvio d’Amico drama school before winning a scholarship to the Rome Academy of Dramatic Art. However, he was eventually expelled for appearing with a professional theatrical troupe. After his role on stage as the young shepherd Sylvius in Luchino Visconti’s 1948 production of As You Like It, designed by Salvador Dalí, Ferzetti had small roles in several films, soon becoming a leading man.

He was first noticed internationally in Mario Soldati’s The Wayward Wife (La Provinciale,1953), although the spotlight was on the ascending star Gina Lollobrigida in the title role. Ferzetti made the most of the thankless part of her husband, a bespectacled science professor who realises his wife does not love him but who wins her round in the end.

In the same year he landed the title role in the sumptuous biopic Puccini, in which he portrayed the philandering Italian opera composer from his student days to a man in his 80s, with a little help from the makeup department. He reprised the role in House of Ricordi (1954), about the music-publishing house.

Ferzetti was then cast by Antonioni in Le Amiche (The Girl Friends, 1955), which won the director the Silver Lion at the Venice film festival. Adapted from a Cesare Pavese story, the film manages to hold the 10 bourgeois characters in balance, giving almost equal weight to their individuality and the shifting pattern of relationships. Among them is Ferzetti, giving a nuanced performance as a morose, frustrated artist, envious of his more successful wife, and the cause of a woman’s suicide attempt.

It would take five years and several mediocre melodramas and epics, including the elephantine Hannibal (1959), in which Ferzetti was impressive as a Roman senator, before he was reunited with Antonioni.

L’Avventura, the film in which the director’s style reached maturity, allowed Ferzetti to play a weak and disillusioned man, a failed architect who complains, while looking around his Sicilian town: “Who needs beautiful things nowadays? How long will they last? All of this was built to last centuries. Today, 10, 20 years at the most, and then?” He later peevishly spills ink over a young man’s sketch of a church. At the film’s bitter end, not a resolution of the conventional type, he weeps pathetically out of guilt and emptiness. Nothing Ferzetti did in films subsequently equalled this.

L’Avventura led him to a number of English-language movies, including the paper-thin romance Jessica (1962) – set in Sicily, and in which he played a reclusive aristocrat who falls for a young midwife (Angie Dickinson) – and a conventional war film, Torpedo Bay (1963), in which he is a noble Italian submarine captain being stalked by a British ship commanded by James Mason. Ferzetti was suitably grim as Lot, fleeing Sodom with his daughters and wife in The Bible (1966), a bad film from the Good Book, directed by the self-proclaimed atheist John Huston.

Though dubbed, Ferzetti was convincing in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) as the rail tycoon Morton, a smooth, cowardly baddie who employs a villainous hired gun, Frank (Henry Fonda), to frighten an owner into selling one of the rare pieces of land with water on it. Being disabled, Morton is vulnerable in his encounters with various unscrupulous bandits, at one stage having his crutches kicked away from him. He is last seen crawling towards a puddle of muddy water in the desert. It was Ferzetti’s favourite role.

He was Draco, a gentlemanly mafia boss in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), enticing Bond to marry his daughter (Diana Rigg), and offering to help 007 track down Blofeld. And he was chilling in Costa-Gavras’s The Confession (1970) as the head Stalinist interrogator who manages to extract a false confession from the Czech dissident Artur London (Yves Montand).

His Italian accent notwithstanding, Ferzetti was equally nasty as an ex-SS officer, now psychiatrist, intent on covering up his tracks in Liliana Cavani’s meretricious The Night Porter (1974), a study of a sadomasochistic relationship between a former Nazi (Dirk Bogarde) and the woman he raped in a concentration camp (Charlotte Rampling).

Ferzetti was kept busy throughout the 70s and 80s in supporting roles in mostly unremarkable Italian/French co-productions, as well as the occasional English-language film, such as the dreadful Inchon (1981), in which he played a Turkish officer in the Korean war with a miscast Laurence Olivier as General MacArthur.

In the 90s Ferzetti appeared more frequently on television, but played the Duke of Venice in Oliver Parker’s Othello on the big screen and won the Ubu prize for his performance in August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death on stage (both 1992). In 2009, aged 84, he gained much praise for playing the head of a wealthy Milanese industrial family in I Am Love (Io Sono l’Amore).

He is survived by his daughter, Anna, also an actor, from his marriage to the actor Maria Grazia Eminente, which ended in divorce, and by two granddaughters.

• Gabriele Ferzetti, actor, born 17 March 1925; died 2 December 2015

Gabriele Ferzetti (1925–2015)

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Filmography

Actor (168 credits)

2010 18 Years Later - Enrico
2009 I Am Love - Edoardo Recchi Senior
1992-2007 A Wonderful Family (TV Series) - Nono
- Les adieux de Nono (2007) ... Nono
- Un Beaumont peut en cacher un autre (2002) ... Nono
- Panique à bord (2000) ... Nono
- L'amour en vacances (1996) ... Nono
- Nicolas s'en va-t-en guerre (1996) ... Nono (credit only)
- Des vacances mouvementées (1993) ... Nono
- Bonnes et mauvaises surprises (1993) ... Nono (credit only)
- Des jours ça rit, des jours ça pleure (1992) ... Nono
- Des vacances orageuses (1992) ... Nono
- Les parents disjonctent (1992) ... Nono
2006 Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God (TV Movie) - Cardinal Siri
2005 Callas e Onassis (TV Movie) - Livanos
2004 Concorso di colpa - Vito Santamaria
2003 Lost Love - Tommaso Pasini
2003 Counselor de Gregorio - Alfonso
2002 Le ragazze di Miss Italia (TV Movie) - The Professor

1998 The Sands of Time (TV Movie) - Father Jacob
1997 Un prete tra noi (TV Series) - Ettore (1997)
1997 Porzûs - Storno vecchio
1997 Con rabbia e con amore - Leone
1995 Natale con papà (TV Movie) - Vittorio
1995 Othello - The Duke of Venice
1994 First Action Hero - Ben Costa
1994 Black as the Heart (TV Movie) - Signor Noé Alga Croce
1993 Private Crimes (TV Mini-Series) - Dottor Guido Braschi
- Episode #1.4 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
- Episode #1.3 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
- Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
- Episode #1.1 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
1992 Alta società (TV Mini-Series) - - Episode #1.3 (1992)
- Episode #1.1 (1992)
1992 Die Ringe des Saturn (TV Movie)
1992 Il coraggio di Anna (TV Movie)
1991 Suffocating Heat - Gaetano Castelli
1990 Pronto soccorso (TV Series)
1990 Una fredda mattina di maggio - Signor Mantoni
1990 Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (TV Movie)

1989 Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-Series) - Italian Chief of Police
- Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
- Episode #1.2 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
- Episode #1.1 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
1988 Computron 22 - Il nonno
1988 Due fratelli (TV Mini-Series) - Procuratore
- Episode #1.3 (1988) ... Procuratore
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... Procuratore
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... Procuratore
1988 Gli angeli del potere (TV Movie) - Dr. Donhal
1987 Julia and Julia - Padre di Paolo
1987 La voglia di vincere (TV Mini-Series) - Professor Besson
- Episode #1.3 (1987) ... Professor Besson
- Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Professor Besson
- Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Professor Besson
1986 Follia amore mio (TV Movie)
1985 Quo Vadis? (TV Mini-Series) - Piso
- Episode #1.6 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.5 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.4 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.2 (1985) ... Piso
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Piso
1983 Die goldenen Schuhe (TV Mini-Series) - Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.5 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.4 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.3 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
- Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
1983 Le ambizioni sbagliate (TV Movie) - Prof. Malacrida
1983 Delitto e castigo (TV Mini-Series) - Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.5 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.4 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.3 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
- Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
1983 The Scarlet and the Black (TV Movie) - Prince Mataeo (uncredited)
1983 Il quartetto Basileus - Mario Cantone
1982 Quasi quasi mi sposo (TV Movie) - The Engineer
1982 Vatican Conspiracy - Cardinale Ixaguirre
1982 Grog - Alberto
1981 I giochi del diavolo (TV Mini-Series) - Mastro Gomin
- La mano indemoniata (1981) ... Mastro Gomin
1981 Inchon - Turkish Brigadier

1979 Anni struggenti - Prof. Bivona
1979 Bloodline - Maresciallo Campagna (uncredited)
1978-1979 I vecchi e i giovani (TV Mini-Series) - Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.5 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.4 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
- Episode #1.1 (1978) ... Flaminio Salvo
1979 Encounters in the Deep - Miles
1978 A torto e a ragione (TV Series)
1978 Porci con la P.38 - Max Astarita
1978 Last In, First Out - Herzog
1978 Mon premier amour - Georges
1978 Suggestionata - Gregorio Lori
1977 Man of Corleone
1977 The Psychic - Emilio Rospini
1977 Oedipus orca - Valerio
1976 La orca - Valerio
1976 A Matter of Time - Antonio Vicari
1976 Nick the Sting - Maurice
1976 The Hornet's Nest - Gaspard
1976 Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga - Father of Stella
1975 Jackpot
1975 End of the Game - Dr. Lutz
1975 Calling All Police Cars - Professore Andrea Icardi
1975 Un uomo curioso (TV Movie) - Moriondo
1975 Smiling Maniacs - Prandó
1974 La prova d'amore - Angela Father
1974 Processo per direttissima - L'avvocato Finaldi
1974 Kidnap - Don Francesco Salvatore
1974 Appassionata - Dr. Emilio Rutelli
1974 The Night Porter - Hans
1973 Secrets of a Nurse - Prof. Daniele Vallotti
1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - Fieldmarshall Keitel
1973 Divorce His - Divorce Hers (TV Movie) - Turi Livicci
1972 3000 Million Without an Elevator - M. Raphaël
1972 Mendiants et Orgueilleux
1972 Alta tensión - Pablo Moncada
1972 Ripped-Off - Tony La Monica
1971 Million Dollar Eel - Vasco
1970 Cold Sweat (uncredited)
1970 French Intrigue - Inspector Bardeche
1970 Die Welt des Pirandello - Liebe! - Liebe? (TV Movie) - Memmo Viola (segment "Wenn man das Spiel kennt")
1970 The Confession - Kohoutek

1969 L'amica - Paolo Marchesi
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Draco
1969 That Splendid November - Biagio
1969 Machine Gun McCain - Don Francesco DeMarco
1968 Il mondo di Pirandello (TV Series) - Memmo Viola
- Amori senza amore (1968) ... Memmo Viola
1968 Once Upon a Time in the West - Morton - Railroad Baron
1968 Bandits in Rome - Commissioner
1968 L'età del malessere - Guido
1968 Better a Widow - Don Calogero Minniti
1968 The Protagonists - Il Commissario
1968 Come Play with Me - Stefano / Lea's lover
1968/I Escalation - Augusto Lambertinghi
1968 Un diablo bajo la almohada - Anselmo
1967 Dossier Mata Hari (TV Mini-Series) - Bouchardon
- Episode #1.4 (1967) ... Bouchardon
- Episode #1.3 (1967) ... Bouchardon
- Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Bouchardon
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Bouchardon
1967 We Still Kill the Old Way - Avvocato Rosello
1966 The Devil in Love - Lorenzo de' Medici
1966 I Spy (TV Series) - Aldo
- To Florence with Love: Part 2 (1966) ... Aldo
- To Florence with Love: Part 1 (1966) ... Aldo
1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... - Lot
1966 Luce a gas (TV Movie) - Rough
1965 Lo scippo - Gambetti
1965 Three Rooms in Manhattan - Comte Larsi
1965 Crime on a Summer Morning - Victor Dermott
1964 Crucero de verano - Carlos Brul y Betancourt
1964 Desideri d'estate
1964 The Warm Life - Guido
1964 Death Where Is Your Victory? - Max Gurgine
1963 Un tentativo sentimentale - Giulio, Carla's Husband
1963 Torpedo Bay - Leonardi
1963 The Shortest Day - Tenente in trincea
1962 Beach Casanova - Avvocato Leblanc
1962 Imperial Venus - Freron
1962 Cross of the Living - L'abbé Delcourt / Abbe
1962 Crime Does Not Pay - Angelo Giraldi (segment "Le masque")
1962 La monaca di Monza - Gian Paolo Osio
1962 Congo vivo - Roberto Santi
1962 Meetings - Ralph Scaffari
1962 Jessica - Edmondo Raumo
1960 Love, the Italian Way - Alberto Bressan
1960 Il carro armato dell'8 settembre - Tommaso
1960 Red Lips - Avvocato Paolo Martini
1960 It Happened in '43 - Franco Villani
1960 L'Avventura - Sandro

1959 Hannibal - Fabius Maximus
1959 Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon
Bernard Turquet de Mayenne (as Gabriel Ferzetti)
1959 Everyone's in Love - Arturo
1958 Love on the Riviera - Giulio Ferrari
1958 Tant d'amour perdu - Frédéric Solingen
1958 Angel in a Taxi - Andrea
1958 March's Child - Sandro
1957 It Happened in Rome - Lawyer Alberto Cortini
1957 Honor Among Thieves - Desiderio / Plebari
1956 Il prezzo della gloria - comandante Alberto Bruni
1956 Defend My Love - Pietro Leonardi
1956 Donatella - Maurizio
1955 Un po' di cielo - Frank Lo Giudice
1955 Le Amiche - Lorenzo
1955 Adriana Lecouvreur - Maurizio di Sassonia
1955 Sins of Casanova - Giacomo Casanova
1954 House of Ricordi - Giacomo Puccini
1954 Camilla - Dott. Mario Rossetti
1954 Modern Virgin - Gabriele Demico
1954 100 Years of Love
Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segment "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
1954 Vestire gli ignudi - Ludovico Nota
1953 Empty Eyes - Fernando Maestrelli
1953 The Counterfeiters - Dario
1953 Puccini - Giacomo Puccini
1953 The Wayward Wife - Il professore Franco Vagnuzzi
1952 Three Forbidden Stories - Comm. Borsani (First segment)
1952 Inganno - Andrea Vannini
1951 Gli amanti di Ravello - Sandro Deodata
1951 The Naked and the Wicked - Giorgio Suprina
1951 The Forbidden Christ - 1950 Lo zappatore
1950 Sigillo rosso
1950 Mountain Smugglers - Lieutenant Berti
1950 Welcome Reverend

1949 Flying Squadron - Ufficiale D'aviazione
1949 Sicilian Uprising
1949 William Tell - Corrado Hant
1949 Fabiola - Claudius
1949 Vertigine d'amore (as Gaetano Ferzetti)
1948 Les Misérables - Tholomyes, un cliente di Fantina (uncredited)
1946 Lost Happiness
1942 The Countess of Castiglione (as Pasquale Ferzetti)
1942 Bengasi (uncredited)
1942 Via delle cinque lune

Self (6 credits)

2006 Press Day in Portugal (Video documentary short) - Himself
2003 An Opera of Violence (Video documentary short) - Himself
2003 Something to Do with Death (Video documentary short) - Himself
2003 The Wages of Sin (Video documentary short) - Himself

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
1968 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Filming of James Bond Epic in Progress in the Swiss Alps (Documentary short) - Himself

1928: Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison (Eunice Gayson) is born--Croydon, South London, England.
(She dies 8 June 2018--London, England.)

Eunice Gayson obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/10/eunice-gayson-obituary
Stage and screen actor who found fame playing Sylvia Trench, the
first Bond girl, opposite Sean Connery
Toby Hadoke | Sun 10 Jun 2018 13.04 EDT

Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench in Dr No, 1962.
Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/UA/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

Eunice Gayson, who has died aged 90, was an actor with a film, television and theatre career that spanned several decades. Despite this, she will be forever associated with her unique place in cinema history as the first Bond girl.

Exactly eight minutes into the running of the 1962 film Dr No, Sean Connery utters the words “Bond, James Bond” for the first time, in answer to a question from Gayson, whose character has introduced herself at the card table as “Trench, Sylvia Trench”. With typical efficiency, Bond adds Miss Trench to his list of conquests shortly after their casino encounter and he later finds her hitting golf balls in his apartment dressed only in his shirt. Their playful exchange is momentarily interrupted when he is summoned to Jamaica on a mission, a clear demonstration of Bond’s constant juggling of business and pleasure.

Unlike the other women on the Bond girl list, Gayson played the same character in more than one of the extremely successful franchise’s films. Trench turns up again in From Russia With Love (1963), when her afternoon punting with 007 has to be curtailed when he gets a call from headquarters. The intention was that Miss Trench would be a regular presence in the films, part of a running joke involving their assignations being cut short when espionage obligations arose at an inopportune moment. Guy Hamilton, the director of the next film in the series – Goldfinger (1964) – had other ideas however, and kiboshed the plan.

Eunice Gayson and Sean Connery in Dr No, 1962.
Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/UA/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

No matter, for by then Gayson’s claim to cinematic immortality was unimpeachable, even though her voice was not heard in either film: she was dubbed by the actor Nikki van der Zyl. No criticism of Gayson should be inferred – Van der Zyl dubbed the majority of female voices in Dr No and many others in future Bond films. Gayson’s perfectly acceptable vocal performance, playful and seductive, can still be heard on the film’s original trailer. She might have had a different slice of Bond movie immortality had the original plan – that she play the recurring role of Miss Moneypenny – gone ahead. As it was, Lois Maxwell took the role (and played it for 23 years). Nevertheless Trench was an important part – Gayson received higher billing than Maxwell in both films – and the actor helped a nervous Connery during that crucial first scene.

She was born in Streatham, south London, the elder of twin daughters and the middle of three children of John Sargaison, a civil servant, and his wife, Maria (nee Gammon). The family moved to Purley, Surrey, then Glasgow and finally Edinburgh, where Eunice enrolled at the Edinburgh Academy. A gifted soprano, she trained as an opera singer and in 1946, aged 18, made her professional debut playing a small role in Ladies Without at the Garrick theatre in London.

That Christmas, she was Princess Luv-Lee in Aladdin (Grand theatre, Derby), with the Stage describing her as a “vivacious” performer “who sings, dances and acts extremely well”. By the end of the decade she was appearing regularly on television – in music shows, revues and television pantomimes. In 1954 she was selected to be a panellist on Guess My Story, a programme in the vein of What’s My Line but featuring disguised celebrities.

Her film break had come in 1948, in My Brother Jonathan, and her other work on the big screen included Melody in the Dark (1949), Dance Little Lady (1954), Basil Dearden’s Out of the Clouds (1955) and Hammer’s The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), in which she played the female lead.

When she was cast in Dr No she was having success on stage playing the Baroness in the original London production (at the Palace theatre, 1962) of The Sound of Music which ran for more than 2,000 performances (she was one of its longest running cast members).

Her other theatre work included Over the Moon (Piccadilly theatre, 1953) and Uproar in the House (Whitehall theatre, 1968, taking over from Joan Sims), Victor Spinetti’s production of Duty Free (on tour 1976-77), The Grass is Greener (with Richard Todd, 1971, in Stratford-upon-Avon for the Royal Shakespeare Company), and An Ideal Husband and Kismet (both 1980, at the Connaught theatre, Worthing). One final run in the West End as the grandmother in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods (Phoenix theatre, 1990-91) was followed by pantomime in the Isle of Man in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Gaiety theatre, 1992).

Her 1953 marriage to the writer Leigh Vance was seen by three million American viewers when it was part of the television show Bride and Groom (“sponsored by Betty Crocker’s Piecrust Mix”). The marriage was dissolved six years later and in 1968 she married the actor Brian Jackson. That marriage also ended in divorce but produced a daughter, Kate, who survives her. Kate appeared in the casino scene in the Pierce Brosnan Bond film GoldenEye (1995).

• Eunice Gayson (Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison), actor, born 17 March 1928; died 8 June 2018
• This article was amended on 11 June 2018, to add further details of Eunice Gayson’s early life

Eunice Gayson (1928–2018) [/b]

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Filmography

Actress (54 credits)

1972 The Adventurer (TV Series) - Countess Marie
- Thrust and Counter Thrust (1972) ... Countess Marie
1970 Turkey Time (TV Movie) - Louise Stoatt
1970 Albert and Victoria (TV Series) - Madame Aix
- Lovers' Quarrel (1970) ... Madame Aix
- The Gothic Church (1970) ... Madame Aix

1968 The World of Beachcomber (TV Series)
- Episode #1.5 (1968)
1967 The Reluctant Romeo (TV Series) - Gina Darletti
- What's in a Name (1967) ... Gina Darletti
1967 The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (TV Series)
- Jim Cleans Up (1967)
1967 The Dick Emery Show (TV Series)
- Episode #6.3 (1967)
1967 Before the Fringe (TV Series)
- Episode #1.3 (1967)
- Episode #1.2 (1967)
1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - Lucille Banks
- Quick-Quick Slow Death (1966) ... Lucille Banks
1963-1965 The Saint (TV Series) - Christine Graner / Nora Prescott
- The Saint Bids Diamonds (1965) ... Christine Graner
- The Invisible Millionaire (1963) ... Nora Prescott
1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Louise Bancroft
- A Man to Be Trusted (1964) ... Louise Bancroft
1963 From Russia with Love - Sylvia Trench
1962 Dr. No -Sylvia Trench
1961 Stryker of the Yard (TV Series)
- The Case of the Bogus Count (1961)

1959 Theatre Night (TV Series) - Liz Pleydell
- Let Them Eat Cake (1959) ... Liz Pleydell
1958 Adventures of the Sea Hawk (TV Series) - Carmelita
- Episode #1.25 (1958) ... Carmelita
1958 The Revenge of Frankenstein - Margaret
1958 Duty Bound (TV Series) - Arlene van Hoyk
- Cows Don't Fly (1958) ... Arlene van Hoyk
1958 Educated Evans (TV Series) - Lady Fanny Kozatski
- Musical Tip (1958) ... Lady Fanny Kozatski
1958 The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (TV Series) - Yasmin Rashied
- The Hand of Hera Dass (1958) ... Yasmin Rashied
1958 White Hunter (TV Series) - Thelma Thomas
- This Hungry Hell (1958) ... Thelma Thomas
1957 The New Adventures of Martin Kane (TV Series) - June Hartley
- The Heiress Story (1957) ... June Hartley
1952-1957 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series)
Madame Caprice / Chris Cummings / Louka
- What the Doctor Ordered (1957) ... Madame Caprice
- The Whiteoak Chronicles #2: Whiteoak Heritage (1955) ... Chris Cummings
- Arms and the Man (1952) ... Louka
1957 Light Fingers - Rose Levenham
1957 The Ship Was Loaded - Jane Godfrey
1956 Zarak - Cathy Ingram
1956 The Last Man to Hang - The Story: Elizabeth
1955 Count of Twelve - Valerie Dyson (episode "Blind Man's Bluff")
1954-1955 The Vise (TV Series) - Angelia Clifton / Valerie Dyson / Julia
- The Bargain (1955) ... Angelia Clifton
- Blind Man's Bluff (1955) ... Valerie Dyson
- Death Pays No Dividends (1954) ... Julia
1954-1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Nora Kenealy / Angela / Dolly / ...
- The Thoroughbred (1955) ... Nora Kenealy
- The Mix-Up (1954) ... Angela
- One Way Ticket (1954) ... Dolly
- The Apples (1954) ... Micky
- Johnny Blue (1954) ... Milly
1955 Out of the Clouds - Penny Henson
1954 One Just Man
1954 Dance Little Lady - Adele
1953 Both Sides of the Law - Janet (uncredited)
1952 Miss Robin Hood - Pam
1952 Down Among the Z Men - Officer's Wife (uncredited)
1952 Goonreel (TV Movie) - Various
1952 Nine Till Six (TV Movie) - Beatrice
1951 La belle Hélène (TV Movie) - Leoena
1951 To Have and to Hold - Peggy
1950 Dance Hall - Mona
1950 Mother of Men (TV Movie) - Jennie
1950 Treasures in Heaven (TV Movie) - Carol Benson
1950 Here Come the Boys (TV Series)
- Episode #2.1 (1950)

1949 Dick Whittington (TV Movie) - Alice
1949 The Director (TV Movie) - Katie
1949 Pink String and Sealing Wax (TV Movie) - Emily Strachan
1949 Melody in the Dark - Pat Evans
1949 The Huggetts Abroad - Peggy (uncredited)
1948 Lady Luck (TV Movie) - Faith
1948 It Happened in Soho - Julie
1948 Halesapoppin! (TV Movie)
1948 My Brother Jonathan - Young Girl
1948 Between Ourselves (TV Movie)

Trivia (7)

Appeared on stage in the musical production of "Into the Woods" in 1990.

Her daughter Kate Gayson later appeared as an extra in the '007' film GoldenEye (1995).

Initially cast as "Miss Moneypenny" (the role ended up going to Lois Maxwell) at the beginning of the James Bond film series, she instead was given the part of seductive "Sylvia Trench" which was to be a recurring role as well. She has the distinction of appearing in the opening casino scene with Sean Connery in Dr. No (1962), in which she says, "I admire your luck, Mr..." and Connery says, "Bond. James Bond". Her part was cut after the second movie, From Russia with Love (1963).

Originally trained as an opera singer, before entering films.

She was dubbed by Nikki Van der Zyl in Dr. No (1962).

Appeared on stage in London for many years playing The Baroness in "The Sound of Music" at the Palace Theatre.

For a long time, she was the only non-'MI6' actress to play the same character in more than one James Bond film until Léa Seydoux played the same character in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2020).

1961: Life Magazine presents US President John F. Kennedy's list of his ten favorite books.
From Russia With Love places 9 out of 10.

https://books.google.com/books?id=vUUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA55&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false

Lord Melbourne by David Cecil
Montrose by John Buchan
Marlborough by Sir Winston Churchill
John Quincy Adams by Samuel Flagg Bemis
The Emergence of Lincoln by Allan Nevins
The Price of Union by Herbert Agar
John C. Calhoun by Margaret L. Coit
Talleyrand by Duff Cooper
Byron in Italy by Peter Quennell
The Red and the Black by M. de Stendhal
From Russia With Love by Ian Fleming
Pilgrim's Way by John Buchan

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films scenes in the casino.

1975: El hombre con el revolver de oro released in Uruguay.

2015: Spectre teaser poster(s) take inspiration from Live and Let Die.

2020: Royal Mail releases ten new stamps celebrating James Bond films each decade, including No Time To Die.

Royal Mail stamps 2020: James Bond, 17 March 2020

https://www.allaboutstamps.co.uk/stamp-guides/royal-mail-stamps-2020-james-bond-17-march-2020/

Royal Mail has released ten new stamps to celebrate James Bond films
over the decades – and the release of the 25th Bond movie No Time To Die

Featuring the six actors who have played Bond over the years, the stamps take inspiration from the classic opening title sequences familiar to millions of film goers the world over.

As an extra treat for Bond fans, a mini sheet featuring four further stamps also forms part of the issue, celebrating some of the best known Q Branch vehicles. These include hidden features that are revealed when using a UV light – and also feature a special 007 perforation.

Iconic films
The first stamp (1st class) features the sixth Bond (Daniel Craig), who joined the film franchise in 2006 as the producers turned to Ian Fleming’s first novel to re-imagine a harder-edged 007 in Casino Royale.

Next, we move to the 1990s, with another 1st class value, this time featuring the 1995 Bond classic Goldeneye where a new Bond (Pierce Brosnan) and a female M (Judi Dench) take the stage as a former agent, 006, threatens the world with a terrifying space weapon, GoldenEye.

Timothy Dalton takes on the Bond mantle as shown on stamp three (1st) in the thrilling, lightning-paced adventure The Living Daylights (1987).

Back to the 60s and 70s
The first of the £1.60 values showcases the 1973 movie Live and Let Die, Roger Moore’s first film as James Bond. In this adventure, inspired by Ian Fleming’s work, 007 travels to Harlem, New Orleans and the Caribbean to investigate the mysterious Dr Kananga, known as Mr Big. Bond saves the day during a voodoo ritual and the stunt team sets a world record for a speedboat jump.

The penultimate stamp shows the 1969 Bond classic On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, as film-makers unveiled a new Bond (George Lazenby) and the adventurous Tracy Di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) in a story that saw Bond marry.

The final stamp takes us back to 1964 and the release of Goldfinger, the third film starring Sean Connery. The story sees Bond track gold smuggler, Auric Goldfinger, dodging death in the form of Oddjob, as well as a terrifying laser beam. Bond, with the help of Pussy Galore, foils a bid to render Fort Knox worthless.

Secrets of the James Bond miniature sheet
See the hidden features that are revealed when using a UV light… perforation.

The mini sheet stamps also feature a special 007.

James Bond stamp details

Issue date: 17 March 2020
Design: Interabang
Format: Landscape
Stamp size: 60mm x 30mm
Printer: International Security Printers
Print process: Lithography
Phosphor: Bars as appropriate
Gum: PVA
1st: Casino Royale
1st: Goldeneye
1st: The Living Daylights
£1.55: Live and Let Die
£1.55: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
£1.55: Goldfinger

2023: A Night of James Bond with The Swing City Big Bandat Glusbern, West Yorkshire, England.

A Night of James Bond with The Swing City Big Band

See the complete article here:

https://www.datathistle.com/events/what:The Bond Band/

"The Bond Band"

A Night of James Bond with The Swing City Big Band and special guests. The Lothersdale-based swing band return to present an evening of classic James Bond film themes with a big band twist, leaving you shaken and stirred. Featuring a selection of the music and theme tunes featured in the 007 movies including: James Bond…

Glusburn Community and Arts Centre
Sat 17 Jun
£12 / 01535 630223
19:30

2023: Bond in Motion at the Brussels Expo, Brussels, Belgium.

Bond In Motion: The
Exhibition of Original
James Bond Vehicles

See the complete article here:

https://feverup.com/m/120054/en

Fri 17 Mar, 2023

⭐ For the first time ever, the official exhibition Bond In Motion is coming to Belgium and, on this occasion, 6000 m2 of Brussels Expo will be transformed into a 007 immersive exhibition. From the real Aston Martin DB5 from "Die Another Day" to the mythical Q Boat from the movie "The World Is Not Enough", come and discover more than 45 collector's items that have been part of the James Bond legacy for over 60 years.

Tickets for Bond in Motion in Brussels
🎫 General Admission - includes access to the experience
Adult (ages 18–64)
Senior (65+) and person with reduced mobility
Student (with valid ID)
Youth (ages 7–18)
Group ticket (min. 6 people)

Highlights
🚁 The largest collection of original Bond vehicles are gathered in Belgium for the first time
💎 6000 m2 of exhibition space for a total immersion in the iconic 007 franchise
🔦 50 unique objects from the James Bond movies
🍸 A 007-themed bar/restaurant with original drinks and a shop with merchandising to fully enjoy the experience
👨‍👩‍👧 An experience with entertainment for the whole family

General Information
📅 Dates: from December 9, 2022
🕒 Times:
- Mondays, Wednesdays and Sundays: from 11.15 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- Fridays and Saturdays: from 11.15 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Special opening some Tuesdays and Thursdays
⏳ Duration: from 1.5 to 2 hours (last entry 1 hour before closing time)
📍 Location: Brussels Expo - Hall 1, Avenue Impératrice Charlotte, 1020 Brussels (the pedestrian entrance is through gate A)
👤 Age requirement: all ages welcome, free for children under 7 years old
♿ Accessibility: this venue is wheelchair accessible
🌍 For more informations on this experience in Flemish, click here
❓ Please consult the FAQs of this experience here

Description
Bond is coming to Belgium. It's simple, the official Bond In Motion - Brussels exhibition brings together the largest number of original pieces from the EON Productions archive. In the 6000 m2 space, you will be able to admire all kinds of motorcycles, boats and planes, such as the remarkable Little Nellie from 1967. You will have the opportunity to see the iconic gadgets that are characteristic of the 007 movies, most notably the extraordinary Aston Martin DB5 from No Time To Die, which is one of the exhibition’s most exceptional pieces. To make sure you don’t miss anything during the experience, each object will be displayed with the relevant video sequence. Buy your tickets now for Bond in Motion in Brussels!

User reviews
4.45/5
based on 2608 reviews

Axel-meinhard A.
Jan 2023
It was a fantastic experience to see all these vehicles from the James Bond movies ❤️

Jean-louis C.
Jan 2023
Très belle exposition ! Les amateurs de 007 ne seront pas déçus !

Vinciane B.
Dec 2022
Exposition magnifique et le bar à la fin est la touche de classe qui finit tout 👌

Claire C.
Jan 2023
Très jolie expérience, nous avons été transporté dans le monde 007.

Bertrand B.
Dec 2022
A ne pas rater pour les amateurs de James Bond ou tout simplement de beaux véhicules.

Xavier D.
Jan 2023
Très belle expérience client/visiteur. Parcours initiatique autour des films avec les véhicules emblématiques et des décors des films. A recommander.

John D.
Jan 2023
Très belle exposition du début à la fin et pour couronner le tout, le bar vous plonge totalement dans l'esprit de James Bond ! À recommander à 100% !

Fabrice C.
Dec 2022
Incroyable de retrouver autant de véhicules et de maquettes ayant accompagnés notre enfance !

Frédéric R.
Dec 2022
Très très bien 👍 😉

Frederic V.
Jan 2023
Superbe collection, très belle exposition

Quentin V.
Dec 2022
Très chouette immersion dans le monde de James Bond depuis ces début !

Sylvie B.
Dec 2022
Très belle expo bravo un très bon moment dans le monde de James Bond

Lorella L.
Jan 2023
Superbe exposition.

Luc B.
Dec 2022
Véhicules bien exposés, légendes par écrans facile à lire. Un grand bar agréable à la fin de l' expo

Benoit C.
Dec 2022
Il manquait les clés de la voiture pour s enfuir avec ! Très belle expo

Brussels Expo
Avenue Impératrice Charlotte, 1020

RichardTheBruce

March 18th

1941: Frank McRae is born--Memphis, Tennessee.
(He dies 29 April 2021 at age 77--Santa Monica, California.)

May 5, 2021

Frank McRae, Actor in ‘Licence to Kill’ and
‘Last Action Hero,’ Dies at 80

See the complete article here:

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/frank-mcrae-dead-actor-last-action-hero-1234967488/

Haley Bosselman

Courtesy of Universal/Everett Collection

Frank McRae, the actor who appeared in films such as “Licence to Kill” and “Last Action Hero,” has died. He was 80.

McRae died in Santa Monica, Calif. on April 29 as a result of a heart attack, his daughter-in-law confirmed to Variety.

The NFL player-turned-actor was born in Memphis, Tenn. A star athlete in high school, he went on to Tennessee State University as a double major in drama and history. McRae had a brief career as a professional football player and was the defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears and Los Angeles Rams.

Making the pivot to a new kind of stage, McRae found his calling in the entertainment industry. In his 30-plus years as a character actor, he appeared in over 40 movies. Standing at approximately six-and-a-half feet tall, McRae took advantage of scooping up tough guy roles in movies like “Hard Times,” “Big Wednesday” and “F.I.S.T.” with Sylvester Stallone. McRae would go on to appear in three more films with Stallone in the ’70s and ’80s, including “Paradise Alley,” “Lock Up” and “Rocky II.”

In the 1973 gangster film “Dillinger,” McRae played Reed Youngblood, a grinning inmate who helps Warren Oates’ titular John Dillinger escape. According to IMDb, he got the role by standing in a production executive’s parking space until granted a meeting. McRae also appeared in the 1989 James Bond film “Licence to Kill” as Sharkey, a close friend of Bond (Timothy Dalton) and Felix Leiter (David Hedison).

Not to be tied down to just playing tough guys and authority figures — he played a police captain four separate times from 1982 to 1983 — McRae was also featured in comedies like “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” “Batteries Not Included” and “Used Cars.” He even parodied his own role in “48 Hours” with a performance in 1993’s “Last Action Hero” alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger.

McRae is survived by his son Marcellus and his grandchildren Camden, Jensen and Holden. Donations in his memory can be made to Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an orphan elephant rescue and wildlife rehabilitation program in Kenya.

Frank McRae (I) (1941–2021)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574433/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1952: Ian Fleming completes his Casino Royale manuscript. He shows it to ex-girlfriend Clare Blanchard.

Her advice: do not publish it. Or at least use a pen name.

1959: Ian Fleming writes praise to artist Richard Chopping for the Goldfinger cover.

"As you will have gathered, the new jacket is quite as big a success
as the first one and I do think Capes have made a splendid job of it . . .
I am busily scratching my head trying to think of a subject for you again.
No-one in the history of thrillers has had such a totally brilliant artistic collaborator!"

1959: Goldfinger starts as a serial in the Daily Express, with a drawing of Goldfinger by Raymond Hawkley.

1963: On Her Majesty's Secret Service starts as a serial in the Daily Express. Robb, illustrator.
1965: Thunderball films OO7 beating Largo at the card table.
1963: Richard Maibaum completes the From Russia With Love screenplay.
1968: Colonel Sun by Robert Markham (Kingsley Amis) starts as a serial in the Daily Express. Robb, illustrator.

1985: Aston Martin Lagonda chairman Victor Gauntlett registers number plate B549 WUU.

2012: Ian Fleming Publications confirms there will be no novelization of Skyfall.

thebookbond.com/2012/03/official-no-skyfall-novelization-dang.html


Notional covers.

2014: The London Film Museum, Covent Garden, launches The Bond In Motion exhibition. In attendance: Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson, Ken Adam, Naomie Harris, Caterina Murino, Maryam d'Abo.

2015: A Spectre press conference in Mexico City kicks off filming of the pre-title sequence with the backdrop of Dia del los Muertos--Day of the Dead.

2020: Nokia announces its new 5G device, to be featured in the now delayed No Time To Die.

Coronavirus may have delayed the next James Bond
film, but we’ve learnt what smartphone he’ll be using..

https://stuff.co.za/2020/03/05/coronavirus-may-have-delayed-the-next-james-bond-film-but-weve-learnt-what-smartphone-hell-be-using/
By Stuff writer on 5th Mar 2020

In some lighter news (remember to wash your hands anyway), the upcoming James Bond film will feature a smartphone brand blast-from-the-past. Nokia has announced that it’ll be the official phone of 007, partnering with the production house to celebrate the 25th James Bond film.

According to a press release, the film will feature Nokia’s upcoming, currently unannounced 5G smartphone. It looks like the brand will also feature some other smartphones, so expect to see Nokia’s in the hands of most of the major characters in the movie. The new 5G device will be announced on 18 March.

“Following the announcement to postpone the movie launch to 12 November, we now have a really exciting year ahead of us in the build-up to this much-anticipated release. Few cultural properties place technology at the heart of their appeal quite like No Time To Die. The film’s commitment to innovation, paired with the amazing technology built into each Nokia smartphone, making our devices the only gadget that anyone – even a 00 agent – will ever need, makes this partnership a real force to be reckoned with,” says Juho Sarvikas, HMD Global chief product officer.

Leading up to the announcement, HMD Global released a new commercial featuring Lashana Lynch as Agent Nomi. The advert shows Agent Nomi using Nokia smartphones as ‘The Only Gadget You’ll Ever Need’.

We’re excited to see Nokia’s new entry in the smartphone market on 18 January. Unfortunately, we’ll have to wait a little longer to get our Bond fix. The movie has been postponed due to Coronavirus fears, so it’ll only debut on 12 November this year.

NO TIME TO DIE | Lashana Lynch features in Nokia phones’ campaign

2023: The Music of James Bond & More - All The Songs - All The Hits Live! concert at E-Werk Köln, Germany.

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

See the complete article here:

https://www.timeforgig.com/the-music-of-james-bond-more-all-the-songs-all-the-hits-live-koeln/events/57v49

Cologne
Sat 18 Mar 2023
8:00 PM
E-Werk Köln

2023: Bond Symphonique at Amnéville, France.

BOND SYMPHONIQUE

See the complete article here:

https://www.ticketmaster.fr/fr/manifestation/bond-symphonique-billet/idmanif/480344

Réservez les meilleures places pour Bond Symphonique - Galaxie - Le 18 mars 2023
18 mars 2023
CINEMA - CINE CONCERT
Artiste : BOND SYMPHONIQUE

2023: Golden Night 007 at Beverly Hills, California.

Standing room x
Tripical GOLDEN
NIGHT ( PRIVE
PARTY)

See the complete article here:

https://shotgun.live/events/golden-night-prive-party

by Golden Night

Description
STANDING ROOM Present :

special event is coming ahead 🎶
March , 18 , 2023 🍹

Gather your friends for an unforgettable evening of glitz and glamour at a luxurious Beverly Hills mansion! We'll be channeling our inner James BOND with a sophisticated and glamorous atmosphere to make the night unforgettable. Get ready for a magical night with a red carpet entrance, shimmering decorations, delicious cocktails and surprises!

Come join us for a night of Oscar vibes… Dress to impress!

For tables reservations please call :
Antonio+1 (310) 985-0528
Naor (TRIPICAL) +1 (818) 255-8791
Tony L issac +1(7474659955)

⭐️ LINE UP ⭐️

♔ TONY L ISSAC ♔
Tony L Issac is an Egyptian musician in the electronic music genre. He started in the early
2000’s and has worked his way up by producing different remixes. With the background of the
Arabic culture, he has managed to bring in different beats from Middle Eastern vibes of music.

Tony has successfully run his show from all over the globe. He started off in Egypt and has landed gigs in different parts of the world such as Dubai, Beirut, Mexico and Europe.
Throughout these places, he has managed to work in A-class clubs, festivals and private
events. Today, Tony lives in Los Angeles, California and has worked for festivals like Burning Man in 2018 and 2022. He is the Co - Founder of Massar LA.

website : www.tonylissac.com
instagram : https://instagram.com/tonylissac?igshid=Zjc2ZTc4Nzk=
https://www.facebook.com/tonylissac?mibextid=LQQJ4d
Soundcloud : https://on.soundcloud.com/gQyQuvYte8RSoDAj6

♛ EDA ♛
Eda is a huge believer in magic, and knows music is the most powerful magician of all..She says, “Music touches everyone’s lives while inflicting love on our hearts. When you begin to see the possibilities from music, you start to desire the need to help others. Thats why I started to playing music, to share and spread my love of this “magic”. “ She was born and raised in Turkey, but currently lives in Los Angeles. Eda’s groovy house music will take you on a journey through time.

Or you can write something you like too :) i played at big burningman camps and art cars on 2022 also lightening in a bottle festival and upcoming more big shows

SOUNDCLOUD :https://on.soundcloud.com/WRuc3TF95vAG9Tor9

♛ CASSEY KISS ♛
Casey Kiss is an international Dj who began her music career in NYC. Casey developed a solid music fan base very quickly. She was noticed immediately and was invited to share the stage at some of the world’s biggest festivals such as Ultra Music Festival, Minus Zero Festival, Coachella After Party, Burning man and EDC New York.
Her sound is influenced by the European music scene and style, which makes her sets unique and differentiate her among other Dj’s.

SOUNDCLOUD :https://on.soundcloud.com/iCSh8BHUnCK41uAt6

♛ ZOLO ♛
A traveler, ZOLO is inspired by sounds from around the world. Her Afghan roots and California upbringing meld in these global house rhythms.

SOUNDCLOUD :https://on.soundcloud.com/qPD2hXLdKgPkyiwcA
INSTAGRAM https://instagram.com/zi1aikha?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
Lineup

Tickets now at $100.00

Sat 18 Mar From 6:00 PM To 1:00 AM
Beverly Hills, CA 90210, USA

Organized By
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2023: InterAct Theatre School presents a musical tale of dreams to be a stunt performer in a James Bond movie at the Marjorie Luke Theater, Santa Monica, California.

No Second Chance

See the complete article here:

https://luketheatre.org/event/no-second-chance/2023-03-18/

InterAct Theatre School presents this action packed musical following the tale of a young student’s dream to be a stunt performer in a James Bond movie! Our InterAct originals are written and adapted specifically for our students. No performance is ever the same!

Performances are Saturday, March 18th at 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm. We will see you there!

Details
Date:
March 18
Time:
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Website:
http://www.interacttheatreschool.com/

Ticket Information
BUY TICKETS
$20 adult, $17 child

2023: Casino Royale - In Concert at the Rady Shell, Jacobs Park, Santa Monica, California.

Casino Royale - In Concert

See the complete article here:

https://fox5sandiego.com/community-calendar/#!/details/Casino-Royale-In-Concert/11264249/2023-03-18T19

Saturday, March 18, 2023, 7:00pm

Location
The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
222 Marina Park Way
San Diego, CA

Description
Artists Scott Terrell , conductor San Diego Symphony Orchestra About Film Concerts Live! proudly presents Casino Royale in Concert, produced in association with EON Productions and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM). For the first time ever, audiences will be able to experience Bond on the big screen accompanied by the power of a full symphony orchestra performing composer David Arnold's thrilling musical score live and in sync to the picture! Directed by Martin Campbell, Casino Royale brings us Bond at the start of his career, having just earned 00 status and his licence to kill. It also marked Daniel Craig's first appearance as the legendary MI6 operative. Casino Royale also features Mads Mikkelsen as "Le Chiffre," Eva Green as "Vesper Lynd" and Judi Dench returning as "M". Locations for the film include the Bahamas, Montenegro, and a jaw-dropping finale on the Grand Canal in Venice. CASINO ROYALE LICENSED BY METRO GOLDWYN MAYER STUDIOS INC. CASINO ROYALE © 2006 DANJAQ, LLC. AND UNITED ARTISTS CORPORATION. AND RELATED JAMES BOND INDICIA © 1962-22 DANJAQ, LLC AND METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER STUDIOS INC. CASINO ROYALE, AND RELATED JAMES BOND TRADEMARKS ARE TRADEMARKS OF DANJAQ, LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

2023: The Gene Siskel Film Center screens On Her Majesty's Secret Service at its Theater 1, Chicago, Illinois.

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

See the complete article here:

https://gsfc.eventive.org/schedule/on-her-majesty-s-secret-service-63dab17cacca850062730a2b

Saturday, March 18, 2023 8:00 PM CDT
Theater 1

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Naturally, the first time the Chicago Film Society shows a James Bond film, they show the most divisive one, thought by some to be the best of the series and others to be among the worst. The first and only appearance of model George Lazenby as 007 features one exquisite action sequence after another, and its reputation has only improved with time. Noted Steven Soderbergh, “Shot to shot, this movie is beautiful in a way none of the other Bond films are.” All of the pre-1970 James Bond films were printed in Technicolor, which was integral to their reputation as lush, garish works of popular cinema.

Year: 1969
Runtime: 142 minutes
Language: English, German

Director: Peter R. Hunt
Screenwriter: Richard Maibaum
Producers: Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Stanley Sopel
Cast: George Lazenby, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas
Cinematographer: Michael Reed
Editor: John Glen
Production Design: Syd Cain
Composer: John Barry

Theater 1
Larger auditorium
164 N State St
March 18, 2023, 8:00 - 10:22 PM CDT

RichardTheBruce

March 19th

1935: Burt Metcalfe is born--Saskatchewan, Canada.
1936: Ursula Andress is born--Ostermundigen, Switzerland.

1958: Dr. No begins as a serial in the Daily Express, with an illustration by Robb. (Ends 1 April 1958.)

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

1964: The first day of filming Goldfinger for Sean Connery at Pinewood Studios, Stage D. Includes the pre-titles action at El Scorpio cafe.

1994: James Duncan (Jim) Lawrence dies at age 75--Summit, New Jersey.
(Born 22 October 1918--Detroit, Michigan.)

Lawrence, Jim

See the complete article here:

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

April 03, 2020

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

born Detroit, Michigan: 22 October 1918

died Summit, New Jersey: 19 March 1994

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

2001: The BBC reports a High Court jury awards Monty Norman £30,000 libel damages for a Sunday Times article stating he didn't write the James Bond theme.

Bond theme writer wins damages
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1229406.stm
Monday, 19 March, 2001, 14:25 GMT

Monty Norman: Libel case victory

Composer Monty Norman has been awarded £30,000 libel damages by a High Court jury over an article which said he did not write the James Bond theme.

"The Sunday Times always said that they were only interested in the truth -
well, now they've got the truth"
Monty Norman

Norman had sued the Sunday Times over the article in October 1997 which claimed John Barry actually wrote the distinctive twanging guitar tune - first heard in the 1962 film Dr No, starring Sean Connery.

It was described during the two-week court case in London as "one of the most famous pieces of music in the world".

Mr Norman said afterwards: "I am absolutely delighted - and vindicated. The Sunday Times always said that they were only interested in the truth. Well, now they've got the truth."

Sean Connery began his
Bond career with Dr No

He was present in court when the jury announced its unanimous verdict after some four hours' deliberation.

Mr Norman had told the court that the article, with the title "Theme tune wrangle has 007 shaken and stirred" had effectively "rubbished" his whole career.

Times Newspapers faces a costs bill unofficially estimated to be well in excess of £500,000.

A spokesman for The Sunday Times said: "This was always going to be a difficult case for a jury given the complexities of the expert musical evidence."

Awards
The court heard that apart from Dr No, Mr Norman was credited with stage and film songs such as Expresso Bongo, Songbook and Poppy.

He has won Ivor Novello, Evening Standard and Laurence Olivier awards.

Mr Norman's counsel, James Price QC, said the article damaged his client's reputation by suggesting he had dishonestly passed himself off as the creator of the Bond theme for 35 years.

Dispute
Mark Warby, for Times Newspapers, denied libel and said the newspaper article was neutral, sensibly balanced and a classic example of a report and comment piece on a live dispute.

He said the article reported only that Mr Barry was claiming to have written the tune.

The Sunday Times
alleged Barry composed
Bond tune

Mr Warby said Mr Barry had been brought in six months into the project to create a more memorable tune, because Mr Norman had run out of inspiration.

Mr Warby added: "In short, it was composed by John Barry with some input from an idea by Monty Norman."

Giving evidence, Mr Barry said that the producers of Dr. No Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli had been "unhappy" with Mr Norman's efforts at a theme tune.

Flat fee
Mr Barry said that a deal was struck whereby he would receive a flat fee of £250 and Mr Norman would receive the songwriting credit.

Mr Barry said that he had had never challenged the registration of the songwriting credit with the Performing Right Society and had no intention of doing so.

He had accepted the deal with United Artists Head of Music Noel Rogers because it would help his career - and it was a "terribly good deal because the whole Bond thing took off."

Mr Barry composed soundtracks for many other Bond films as well as Born Free, Zulu and Midnight Cowboy.

2015: BOND 24 films the helicopter sequence at Zócalo main city square, Mexico City, Mexico.

2018: Manchester Univ Press publishes The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian Fleming, and Playboy Magazine by Claire Hines.

2019: BOND 25 scheduled date to begin filming with director Cary Fukunaga.

2021: Daniel Craig returns to the Bond role.

Daniel Craig confirmed to return as James
Bond, but not in another movie

See the complete article here:

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a35871059/daniel-craig-james-bond-comic-relief-catherine-tate/

He's teaming up with Catherine Tate for Comic Relief.
By Amy West | 18/03/2021

Daniel Craig is set to reprise his role as James Bond, having previously vowed that filming No Time to Die would mark his last appearance as the iconic character. It won't be for another 007 movie though, mind.

Instead, the actor has been persuaded to take part in a sketch for Comic Relief, which will be broadcast on Friday (March 19), and see the suited-and-booted super spy share the screen with Catherine Tate's foul-mouthed Nan.

In the skit, it's explained that Nan has taken up a part-time job as a cleaner. While cleaning the office of Bond's MI6 superior M, she finds herself unexpectedly face to face with the secret agent when he video calls in for a security briefing.

BBC/Comic Relief 2021/Mickey Bishop

Craig and Tate are no strangers to teaming up when it comes to the fundraising event. In 2009, the duo performed another short sequence that saw Tate's Elaine Figgis striking up a whirlwind romance with Craig, playing himself.

"Nan had a right old time meeting Bond. What a smashing fella! As ever, it was great fun filming this Comic Relief sketch, huge thanks to Daniel and all the Bond team for being such great sports," Tate told The Mirror.

"I hope it raises lots of money on the night."

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James Bond comes face-to-face with Catherine Tate's Nan
@Comic Relief: Red Nose Day​ 2021 - BBC


Daniel Craig and Elaine Figgis | Comic Relief (2009)

2023: The Best of Bond Symphonic by Danubia Orchestra & Singers at the Budapest Papp Laszlo Arena, Budapest, Hungary.

The Best of Bond Symphonic
Danubia Orchestra & Singers - Budapest Papp Laszlo Arena

See the complete article here:

http://moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=view&id=45966

19 March 2023
Budapest
(Hungary)

Program Info:
The Best of Bond Symphonic concert 2023.03.19.

The first James Bond film celebrates its sixty-year anniversary. On the occasion of the anniversary, a production featuring James Bond soundtracks and theme songs awaits the audience in Budapest.

In addition to the Danubia Orchestra, Attila Dolhai, Lilla Polyák, Kata Janza, Zsolt Homonnay, Nikolett Füredi and Veronika Nádasi complete the experience.

The Best of Bond Symphonic concert will be held on March 19, 2023 in the Papp László Budapest Sportarena, where the audience will get everything from Golden Eye [sic] to Skyfall and the most famous James Bond soundtracks to have a real 007 experience.

The Best of Bond Symphonic - Goldeneye (videoklip) (3:28)

2023: Bond Symphonique performed by 50 musiciens from the orchestras Colonne and Musidrama plus 2 singers at Capitol Champagne, Châlons-en-Champagne, France.

Bond Symphonique
50 musiciens from the orchestras Colonne and Musidrama and 2 singers - Capitol

See the complete article here:

http://moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=view&id=46724

19 March 2023
Châlons-en-Champagne
(France)
Champagne

Program Info:
Bond Symphonique is the first symphonic concert based on musical themes and songs from James Bond films, performed by 50 musicians from the Colonne and Musidrama orchestras and 2 singers. You will find in particular the famous James Bond Theme, instrumental music which appears in the introduction to all films. And of course, all the titles whose mere mention makes you immediately hum the air:

• John Barry - Goldfinger
• John Barry - Diamonds are forever
• Eric Serra - Goldeneye
• Thomas Newman / Adèle - Skyfall
• George Martin / Paul McCartney - Live and let die
• David Arnold - Die another day
• John Barry - The living daylights
• John Barry - A view to a kill
• John Barry - You Only Live Twice
• Marvin Hamlisch - Nobody Does It Better
• and more

2023: The Music of James Bond & More - All The Songs - All The Hits Live! Concert at Rhein Sieg Forum, Siegburg, Germany.

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

See the complete article here:

https://www.timeforgig.com/the-music-of-james-bond-more-all-the-songs-all-the-hits-live-siegburg/events/vjqdz

Siegburg
Sun 19 Mar 2023
7:30 PM
Rhein Sieg Forum

2023: Reading Uni Big Band and RUMS Jazz Band perform Shaken Not Stirred! at The Great Hall, London Road Campus, Reading, Berkshire, England.

Shaken, Not
Stirred with UoR Music
Classic Bond tunes, Chilled jazz, Dress to
impress!

See the complete article here:

https://whatsonreading.com/venues/university-reading-music/whats-on/shaken-not-stirred-uor-music

Sun 19 Mar, 19:30 - Sun 19 Mar, 21:30

Dust off your tuxedo or your favourite classy Bond-style garb and join us for an evening of jazz.

Reading Uni Big Band and RUMS Jazz Band will get your feet tapping with some classic tunes followed by a celebration of the world of James Bond and the music that has made these films iconic.

Prepare to be “Shaken, not Stirred” as our musicians have a licence to thrill. Let us take you on a journey through the films’ most memorable musical moments, from “Goldfinger” to “Live and Let Die”, and everything in between.

Get your tickets today before they disappear like a secret agent on a mission.

Sunday 19th March 2023
19:30
The Great Hall,
University of Reading,
RG1 5AQ

Doors open 19:00.
Tickets
£15 Full
£10 Students

Type: Music
Host: University of Reading Music

The Great Hall,
University of Reading,
London Road Campus,
RG1 5AQ

RichardTheBruce

March 20th

1911: Milo Sperber is born in Poland.
(He dies 22 December 1992 at age 81--London Borough of Camden, London, England.)

Milo Sperber

See the complete article here:

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

Milo Sperber (20 March 1911 – 22 December 1992) was a British actor, director and writer, who was born in Poland.

Early life
Sperber was born in 1911 into a family of Polish Hasidic Jews who fled anti-Semitism during the Second World War. His older brother was activist, author and intellectual Manès Sperber. The younger Sperber trained as a lawyer in Vienna before joining Max Reinhardt's school; there he played roles in Six Characters in Search of an Author and A Midsummer Night's Dream, among other plays. Martin Esslin was a classmate during this time. While on the rise as an actor in Germany, in 1939 he fled Germany and the Nazis with his family, eventually landing in Britain as refugees.

Career
Early in the Second World War Sperber joined the Oxford Pilgrim Players; he gained experience directing the company on tour in Case 27 VC and spending a season in London even during the Blitz. He also was involved in producing anti-Nazi propaganda for the BBC before the end of the war. His later career included stints in cabaret, theatre and television; in the last capacity, he performed as shoe salesman Mr. Grossman in four episodes of Are You Being Served?. In 1990, at the age of 79, he appeared in Series 2, Episode 7 of Poirot, "The Kidnapped Prime Minister," as Mr. Fingler, Poirot's kvetching tailor.

His big-screen career included performances in minor roles in such films as Foreign Intrigue, The Spy Who Loved Me, Operation Crossbow, In Search of the Castaways and Billion Dollar Brain. He taught for some time at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, and served as a scriptwriter for the BBC's German language service. Many of his students at RADA went on to succeed in the arts, including Glenda Jackson.

Sperber's last appearance in the West End was in a 1984 production of The Clandestine Marriage at the Albany Theatre; he spent his last years travelling Britain, giving readings from the works of his brother, writer Manès Sperber.

Sperber died on 22 December 1992, aged 81 in London, United Kingdom

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1942 Thunder Rock Mr. Hirohiti Uncredited
1944 Mr. Emmanuel Student
1948 Noose Taschlik Uncredited
1949 Golden Arrow Black Marketeer

1954 The End of the Road Uncredited
1956 Foreign Intrigue Baum

1960 Bluebeard's Ten Honeymoons Librarian Uncredited
1962 In Search of the Castaways Crooked Sailor
1963 The Victors Concentration Camp Prisoner
1965 Operation Crossbow German Hotel Porter
1967 Billion Dollar Brain Basil

1976 Voyage of the Damned Rabbi
1977 Providence Mr. Jenner
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me Prof. Markovitz
1978 The Stud Kamara Uncredited

Milo Sperber (1911–1992)

Actor | Writer
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0818269/

1942: Signed "F", Ian Fleming presents a paper to Admiral John Henry Godfrey recognizing successful efforts by Germans to send advance Commando forces that seized "documents, equipment, and ciphers" before they could be destroyed. He suggests a similar effort by the Allies. And later in civilian life collects important manuscripts for posterity.

Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER: The Top Secret Story Behind 007, Brian Gordon Lett, 1995.
Chapter 4 - M and Ian Fleming.

Fleming remained a member of Naval Intelligence under
Rear Admiral Godfrey’s command, and continued to act as
their liaison officer with SOE. He clearly got on well with M
and his team, and was trusted by them. Thus when the
question arose of the cover story to be used for Operation
Postmaster, Fleming was the obvious choice to design it. He
continued in his liaison role until the spring of 1942, when in
fact a naval section within SOE was finally set up. Fleming was
not released to take up a job with them. In his mind, however,
he retained an in-depth knowledge of M’s Secret Service and
how it all worked, which he eventually came to use in his
novels. By 20 March 1942, Commander Ian Fleming was
signing himself off on memos and internal correspondence
simply as ‘F’, an affectation no doubt drawn from his desire to
serve as a Secret Agent under M.

After the war, Fleming remained on friendly terms with M
(now retired from the defunct SOE and simply known as
Major General Sir Colin Gubbins). In the late 1940s, when
Gubbins was hoping to write a definitive history of the Secret
Service that he had run, Fleming wrote twice to encourage
him to do so. However, with the Cold War between the old
Allies and the Soviet Union in full swing Gubbins was
Forbidden from wrting in the book, an attitude by the British
Government that did not substantially change until the 1990s,
after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Ian Fleming's secret memo
https://www.bbc.com/news/special/panels/13/mar/flemingdocument/img/graphic_1362485324.jpg
5 March 2013

1

Embossed emblem of Admiralty paper
2

MOST SECRET – British equivalent of the American term “top secret”
3

A.D.I.C – Assistant Director (Operational) Intelligence Centre
4

D.D.N.I – Deputy Director Naval Intelligence

D.N.I - Director Naval Intelligence - John Henry Godfrey, Fleming’s boss and said to be inspiration for M in the 007 stories

F – Ian Fleming, author of the document
5

N.I.D – Naval Intelligence Division
6

C.C.O – Chief of Combined Operations – Lord Mountbatten, Admiral of the Fleet
7

R.D.F gear – radio direction finding gear, used to determine where a radio signal is coming from
8

Operation “SLEDGEHAMMER” – plan for US troops to land at Brest or Cherbourg in France, later cancelled. But the idea evolved and Fleming’s proposed unit of commandos first deployed in Operation JUBILEE, the Dieppe raid of 19 August 1942 (operation names were always written in capitals)
9

F, N.I.D (17) – Ian Fleming’s codename, signed in pencil, of Naval Intelligence Division, dated 20 March 1942
10

Pencil note signed JHG - John Godfrey. It reads: Yes, most decidedly but we won’t “submit” [he draws arrow to (ii)] The principle be worked out in detail in collaboration with C.C.O. [Chief of Combined Operations]. He thinks the idea so good, he wants his team to keep hold of it, says historian Nick Rankin

1964: Daily Variety reports Goldfinger principal photography began 16 March with interiors at Pinewood. And location filming of Fort Knox (replica) in the London borough of Middlesex.
1965: The Goldfinger soundtrack reaches #1 on the Billboard 200 charts, remaining at the top through 3 April. The LP was released in October 1964.

1968: Lawrence Mukoare is born--Bastion Point, Auckland, New Zealand.

1976: Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe dies at age 61--Wimbledon, London, England.
(Born 1 October 1914--Bebington, Merseyside, England.)

Michael Goodliffe

See the complete article here:

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

Goodliffe
Painted by Aubrey Davidson-Houston in the role of Hamlet,
performed while a POW in Germany.

Born Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe, 1 October 1914, Bebington, Cheshire, England
Died 20 March 1976 (aged 61), Wimbledon, London, England
Years active 1936–1976
Spouse(s) Dorothy Margaret Tyndale 1945-1976 (3 Children)

Lawrence Michael Andrew Goodliffe (1 October 1914 – 20 March 1976) was an English actor known for playing suave roles such as doctors, lawyers and army officers. He was also sometimes cast in working class parts.

Biography
Goodliffe was born in Bebington, Cheshire, the son of a vicar, and educated at St Edmund's School, Canterbury, and Keble College, Oxford. He started his career in repertory theatre in Liverpool before moving on to the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon. He joined the British Army at the beginning of the Second World War, and received a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in February 1940. He was wounded in the leg and captured at the Battle of Dunkirk. Goodliffe was incorrectly listed as killed in action, and even had his obituary published in a newspaper. He was to spend the rest of the war a prisoner in Germany.

Whilst in captivity he produced and acted in (and in some cases wrote) many plays and sketches to entertain fellow prisoners. These included two productions of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, one in Tittmoning and the other in Eichstätt, in which he played the title role. He also produced the first staging of Noël Coward's Post-Mortem at Eichstätt. A full photographic record of these productions exists.

After the war he resumed his professional acting career. As well as appearing in the theatre, he worked in film and television. He appeared in The Wooden Horse in 1950 and in other POW films. His best-known film was A Night to Remember (1958), in which he played Thomas Andrews, designer of the RMS Titanic. His best-known television series was Sam (1973–75) in which he played an unemployed Yorkshire miner. He also appeared with John Thaw and James Bolam in the 1967 television series Inheritance.

Suffering from depression, Goodliffe had a breakdown in 1976 during the period that he was rehearsing for a revival of Equus. He committed suicide a few days later by leaping from a hospital fire escape while a patient at the Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon.

Filmography

The Small Back Room (1949) as Till
Stop Press Girl (1949) as McPherson

The Wooden Horse (1950) as Robbie
Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951) as Col. Caillard - POW Escort
Cry, the Beloved Country (1951) as Martens
The Hour of 13 (1952) as Anderson
Sea Devils (1953) as Ragan
Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1953) as Robert Walpole
Front Page Story (1954) as Kennedy
John Wesley (1954)
The Crowded Day (1954) as Eve's Husband
The End of the Affair (1955) as Smythe
The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955) as Count De Dunois
The Way Out (1955) as John Moffat
Wicked as They Come (1956) as Larry Buckham
The Battle of the River Plate (1956) as Captain McCall - R.N., British Naval Attache for Buenos Aires
Fortune Is a Woman (1957) as Detective Insp. Barnes
The One That Got Away (1957) as R.A.F. Interrogator
Carve Her Name With Pride (1958) as Coding Expert
The Camp on Blood Island (1958) as Father Paul Anjou
Up the Creek (1958) as Nelson
A Night to Remember (1958) as shipbuilder Thomas Andrews
Three Crooked Men (1958) as Shop customer
Further Up the Creek (1958) as Le. Commander Blakeney
The 39 Steps (1959) as Brown
The White Trap (1959) as Inspector Walters

Sink the Bismarck! (1960) as Captain Banister
Testament of Orpheus (1960) as English narrator (voice, uncredited)
The Battle of the Sexes (1960) as Detective
Conspiracy of Hearts (1960) as Father Desmaines
Peeping Tom (1960) as Don jarvis
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) as Charles Gill
No Love for Johnnie (1961) as Dr. West
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) as 'Jacko' Jackson - Night Editor
Jigsaw (1962) as Clyde Burchard
80,000 Suspects (1963) as Clifford Preston
A Stitch in Time (1963) as Doctor on Children's Ward (uncredited)
Man in the Middle (1963) as Col. Shaw
Woman of Straw (1964) as Solicitor (uncredited)
633 Squadron (1964) as Squadron Leader Frank Adams
The 7th Dawn (1964) as Trumphey
The Gorgon (1964) as Professor Jules Heitz
Troubled Waters (1964) as Jeff Driscoll
Von Ryan's Express (1965) as Captain Stein
The Night of the Generals (1967) as Hauser
The Jokers (1967) as Lt. Col. Paling
The Fixer (1968) as Ostrovsky

Cromwell (1970) as Solicitor General
The Fifth Day of Peace (1970) as Gen. Snow
The Johnstown Monster (1971) as McNeil
Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972) as Thomas More
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) as Gen. Helmuth Weidling
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) as Bill Tanner, Chief of Staff (uncredited)
To the Devil a Daughter (1976) as George de Grass

Television
Year Title Role Notes
1955 The Lark play by Jean Anouilh The inquisitor BBC Sunday Night Theatre
1957 The Adventures of Peter Simple Peter's Uncle 4 episodes
1963 Maigret Dr Javet Episode: Maigret's Little Joke
1963 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre Episode: "The £20,000 Kiss"
1967 Inheritance William Oldroyd 10 Episodes
1969 Callan Hunter 5 Episodes (Series 2)
1969 Judge Dee Judge Dee 6 Episodes
1969 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) Arthur de Crecy Episode 13 "But What a Sweet Little Room"
1970 The Woodlanders (BBC Series - lost) George Melbury ? Episodes
1973 Sam Jack Barraclough 39 episodes

Michael Goodliffe (1914–1976)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0328982/

1978: Tom Mankiewicz submits his For Your Eyes Only first draft screenplay. (Some ideas return for the Christopher Wood Moonraker script.)

1981: Bill Conti flies to London starting a two month focus on the For Your Eyes Only musical score.

The Music of James Bond, Jon Burlingame, 2012.
Chapter 13 - "you see what no one else can see . . " For Your Eyes Only[/u[

Conti had a proven ability to write a hit song (“Gonna Fly Now” from
Rocky had gone to number 1) as well as a muscular, energetic score—a neces-
sity for a Bond composer. The lunch took place just before Christmas 1980.
Conti was announced as James Bond’s new composer in mid-February, and on
March 20, 1981, he flew into London to begin two months’ work on For Your
Eyes Only.

The first order of business was to come up with a title tune. “Before you
think about the movie, you have to think about the song,” Conti said in 1981.
And that meant think about the artist. “I wanted Barbra Streisand to write
the lyrics, and Donna Summer to sing it,” he admitted many years later. “I
thought it was a clever idea. I actually talked to Barbra, who was very busy
doing [iYentl[/i]. The last person I had in mind was the one United Artists sug-
gested to me, which was Sheena Easton.

Easton, then 21, was a Scottish singer whose meteoric rise had already
included three top-10 hits in the U.K., including “Modern Girl” and “9 to 5,”
the latter of which (retitled “Morning Train”) reached number 1 in the United
States awhile Conti was in England working on the Bond film. Conti heard her
album and was not convinced that her “poppy” sound, as he put it, was right
for a Bond film. But he called her producer, Christopher Neil, and he sug-
gested a meeting.

Easton visited Conti at his London apartment and he quickly decided “she
could really sing.” Michael (Mick) Leeson was suggested as a lyricist with
whom Easton was comfortable, and work began on a possible title song. Their
original song used the phrase “for your eyes only” in the chorus added, ‘for your
eyes only could ever see / all of the secrets that once eluded me . . . . “

Conti had a meeting scheduled with Broccoli to audition the song and
chose to meet title designer Maurice Binder for lunch beforehand at Pine-
wood. Binder expressed the hope that Conti’s song would open with the phrase
so that it would coincide with the appearance of that title on the screen. (In
fact, of the 1970s Bonds, the only time the two didn’t coincide was in The Spy
Who Loved Me.)

“I cancelled the meeting with Cubby,” Conti remembered. “I called Mick,
he came over to the house, and I said, “Listen, this tune begins with “for your
eyes only.” I don’t care what you say after that.” So a second “For Your Eyes
Only” song, with some musical similarities but an entirely new lyrics, was writ-
ten. Easton sang demos of both songs, which eventually began to circulate
among Bond buffs, but the second tune was clearly superior. (Even the final
version underwent revision, discarding early lyrics including “I’d never, ever
lose control unless I wanted to / I’m not afraid to play with fire for you . . . “)

Binder too a greater than usual interest in the five-foot-one-inch-tall
Easton. “When he saw Sheena, man, did he fall in love,” Conti said with a
smile. “She’s a slight little girl and he was a short little man. I saw a gleam in
his eye. All of sudden this girl had to be in [the titles]. It was his idea to
include her. It wasn’t a hustle from her people.”

So, months before the debut of MTV and a wide public awareness of the
growing visual art form of the “music video,” Binder decided to incorporate
Easton’s image into his title sequence—the first and only time the singer of a
Bond song is actually seen performing it during the opening titles. The final
version of the song was finished and produced on April 21, with Conti himself
playing the piano, and Binder photographed Easton lip-synching to the com-
pleted track on April 24 on Pinewood’s Stage C.

“Some of the greatest singers had done the Bond themes,” Easton later
reflected, “and it was always something that you think, oh wow, it’s a great
honor to be asked. So it was really exciting. It turned out to be a great song.”
Producer Neil, concerned about Easton’s state of mind during the recording
process, refused to allow Broccoli or other Bond executives into the recording
session. Easton recalled Binder as “wacky [but] really creative,” and that
shooting the title sequence was trying because although she was “supposed to
be perfectly relaxed and sexy and naked and underwater,” she was actually . . .

2002: BOND 20 films Jinx threatened by lasers.

2013: Danny Boyle declares to the press he won't direct the next Bond film based on concerns for creative control--and since he's already done a mini-Bond film for the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Danny Boyle rules himself out of directing James Bond film

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/danny-boyle-rules-himself-out-of-directing-james-bond-film-8542164.html
Albertina Lloyd | Wednesday 20 March 2013 12:59


'The Queen' and James Bond parachute into the stadium ( Getty Images )

Danny Boyle says he has ruled himself out of directing the next James Bond film because he wants more creative control - and believes he has already had his 007 moment.

The Oscar-winning film-maker was creative director of the opening ceremony for the London Olympics, which featured Bond star Daniel Craig jumping out of a helicopter with the Queen.

The director of Trainspotting and Slumdog Millionaire admitted he would not want the constraints of working on a big franchise.

Boyle, speaking at the premiere of his new film Trance, said: "It's not for me. I like working under the radar a bit more, so you can take risks.

"As we do with this film (Trance) and the perception of the characters - who's the antagonist? who's the protagonist? - it keeps changing in this film. And I love that freedom."

He added: "We did a sort of mini Bond film already, in the Olympics."

Trance - starring James McAvoy, Rosario Dawson and Vincent Cassel - tells the story of a fine art auctioneer who gets caught up in a robbery and has to enlist the help of a hypnotherapist when he loses his memory along with a priceless painting.

The film is set in London, which Boyle said meant a lot to him.

"I love filming here. I live here and it's a city I think I know, but there's always bits of it you don't," he said.

"So going out and finding a location for a film is fantastic because you discover new parts. So it's very special to have the privilege of working here again."

Film company MGM said yesterday that it expects the 24th Bond film to be released within three years, and will announce a director "soon". Skyfall film-maker Sam Mendes has already ruled out a return in the hot seat.

PA

2014: Rumors propose the BOND 24 title is Come and Dive.

James Bond the subject of a (pretty convincing) hoax

See the complete article here:

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/moviesnow/la-et-mn-james-bond-hoax-come-and-dive-20140320-story.html

By Steven Zeitchik | March 20, 2014

James Bond aficionados are eager for any news of the next film, which is why a few of us — ahem, them — were intrigued by a semi-plausible publicity email this morning claiming the new Daniel Craig film will be called “Come and Dive” and offering a log line for said movie.

“In ‘Come and Dive,’ Bond will be swept away by a dangerous love story. As MI6 rises from its ashes, 007 must protect a mysterious stranger and unveil long forgotten secrets,” it said, even coming in the format of a press release, with the correct names of the producers and links to a fake teaser of Daniel Craig standing at a cemetery.

As it turned out, it was all a hoax, evidenced most prominently by the bogus domain name of “sony-media” behind the unrecognizable and generic-sounding name of “Antonia Garcia.”

It’s easy to understand how it could seem real, though, at least for a second.

The log line was vague — as though someone had just used some daring-sounding adjectives and threw them together with phrases like “long-forgotten secrets” — but then, all log lines these days are kind of like that.

And “Come and Dive” isn’t the snappiest name, but then, neither was “Quantum of Solace.”

Of course, a view of “Come and Dive” outside the Bond lens makes it clear the creators had, er, other connotations in mind. Also, the Daniel Craig-starring, Sam Mendes-directed movie currently referred to as “Bond 24" doesn’t start shooting until the fall (it’s due for a fall 2015 release), which makes a teaser kind of impossible. Oh, and a call to the “senior vice president of media relations” contact listed on the email led to someone named “Edward,” who answered the phone with a “what’s up.”

Still, it does speak to how desperate some fan sites are for Bond tidbits, or at least how desperate someone with access to some nifty editing material believes some fan sites are for Bond tidbits.

In related news, Wayne Knight is reported to be negotiating for the role of the villain in the new film.

Fake Bond 24 teaser claims new film will be
called Come and Dive

See the complete article here:

https://metro.co.uk/2014/03/20/fake-bond-24-teaser-claims-new-film-will-be-called-come-and-dive-4670175/

Ann Lee | Thursday 20 Mar 2014 4:58 pm

The fake trailer for Bond 24 was quickly taken from YouTube
(PIcture: YouTube/Sony Pictures)

James Bond fans thought Christmas had come early after a teaser for the new 007 film surfaced online – along with it’s official title.

The teaser trailer, which features a close up of Daniel Craig and a woman standing in a cemetery, claims the 24th Bond film will be called Come and Dive.

https://twitter.com/Dan_Arlington/status/446685313508077568

https://twitter.com/Brian_KA/status/446685195110866944

https://twitter.com/steve_harnell/status/446691404086267904

Sony Pictures has since confirmed to Metro.co.uk that the teaser and trailer are indeed fake. The teaser has since been taken down from YouTube.

The hoaxers have even gone to the trouble of setting up a Facebook page and emailing a press release to several film outlets but the title doesn’t seem to have duped fans on Twitter.

Craig will reprise his role as Bond in the upcoming blockbuster with Sam Mendes back behind the camera again.

Bond 24 is out in UK cinemas on October 23, 2015.

007 Спектр BOND 24 Come And Dive Official Teaser Trailer 2015 HD

2018: Daniel Craig's 2014 Aston Martin Centenary Edition Vanquish, numbered 007, goes to auction for charity at Christie’s in New York.

Winning bid: $468,500.00.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #5.
Marc Laming, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

JAMES BOND 007 #5

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532505011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
Cover B: Rags Morales
Cover C: Adam Gorham
Cover D: Stephen Mooney
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Marc Laming
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: March 2019
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 3/20/2019

ODD JOB continues, by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Firefly) and STEPHEN MOONEY (Grayson, The Dead Hand)!
007: Arrested! John Lee: Saving the world, solo! But when the time comes, will Lee be able to pull the trigger, or will his love for the mind-controlled Agent K prevent him from stopping her terrorist organization from succeeding in their world-altering endgame?

2023: Pruneyard Dine-In Cinemas screens Casino Royale at their Culinary Cinema, Campbell, California.

CASINO ROYALE

See the complete article here:

https://www.pruneyardcinemas.com/movie/Pruneyard/CASINO-ROYALE

March 13th - Casino Royale
PG-13
144 min.
*Special Ticket Pricing

After earning 00 status and a licence to kill, secret agent James Bond sets out on his first mission as 007. Bond must defeat a private banker funding terrorists in a high-stakes game of poker at Casino Royale, Montenegro.

• Starter: Grilled Asparagus Topped with Shrimp Bearnaise
• Main Entree: Tournedos of Filet Mignon, Port Reduction, Spring Onion Jam, Crispy Artichoke Hearts and Forest Mushrooms, Served with Dauphinoise Potatoes
• Dessert: Strawberries & Cream. Chef’s Suggestion: Pair with Kir Royale
• Film-Inspired Cocktail (+$16): The Vesper - Tito's Vodka, Hendrick's Gin and Lillet Blanc
• Film-Inspired Cocktail (+$13): Kir Royale - Crème de Cassis and Brut

Showtimes
Tomorrow, March 20
Culinary Cinema
7:00 PM

RichardTheBruce

March 21st

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Whitney Houston tipped as Brosnan's Bond girl

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

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

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

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

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

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

2014: The London Film Museum welcomes Bond In Motion.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Brosnan's BMW

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More Bond bikes to come?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tomorrow Never Die's BMW R1200C

Skyfall's Honda CRF250R

Quantum of Solace's Montesa Cota 4RT

2015: BOND 24 films OO7 on the balcony and across rooftops in Mexico City.

2018: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond: The Body #3 (Part Three: The Gut).
Rapha Lobosco, illustrator. Ales Kot, writer. Luca Casalanguida, cover illustrator.

JAMES BOND: THE BODY #3

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

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

2023: The Music of James Bond & More - All The Songs - All The Hits Live! concert at Siegen, Germany.

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

See the complete article here:

https://www.timeforgig.com/the-music-of-james-bond-more-all-the-songs-all-the-hits-live-siegen/events/6olk8

Siegen
Tue 21 Mar 2023
7:30 PM
Leonhard-Gläser-Saal - Siegerlandhalle

2023: James Bond Trivia at Middle James Brewing Company at Pineville, North Carolina.

James Bond trivia at Middle James Brewing Company in
Pineville

See the complete article here:

https://www.charlotteonthecheap.com/middle-james-brewing-company/

Middle James Brewing Company, 400 N Polk Street, in Pineville, is a family-friendly brewery where you can enjoy great beer, great food, and watch your team play.

Middle James also hosts frequent events. You can see them all on their Facebook page.

James Bond Trivia
Tuesday, March 21st, 2023
7 p.m.
Free

Tuesday Trivia with Seabrooks Entertainment
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March 22nd

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2002: The Irish Examiner reports on producer Michael G. Wilson acknowledging the possibility of an actress in the James Bond role.

Bond producer says female lead
is not 'out of the question'

See the complete article here:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30043943.html

     | Fri, 22 Mar, 2002 - 14:31

The producer of the new James Bond film says he wouldn't rule out the idea of a female lead one day.

Michael G Wilson said Bond is a film franchise that moves with the times.

He says people were surprised when they first came up with the idea of having a female M.

Speaking at the opening of the new James Bond exhibition at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford he said: "I suppose nothing is out of the question.

"Bond films are contemporary, they're a reflection of the contemporary free world."

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

Derek Watkins: Trumpeter who played on every Bond soundtrack

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/derek-watkins-trumpeter-who-played-on-every-bond-soundtrack-8550572.html
Brian Priestley | Wednesday 27 March 2013 01:00

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Derek Watkins (II) (1945–2013)

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Filmography

Music department (20 credits)

2010 Made in Dagenham (musician: solo trumpet)

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

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

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

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

Soundtrack [/b](6 credits)

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

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

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

Self (6 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

By Richard Sandomir | March 26, 2019

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scott Walker (II) (1943–2019)

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Filmography

Soundtrack (23 credits)

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

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

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

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

Composer (7 credits)

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

2006 Scott Walker: 30 Century Man (Documentary)

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

Music department (3 credits)

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

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

Actor (2 credits)

1964 Surf Party - Member of the Routers (uncredited)

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

Scott Walker, "The Experience of Love", GoldenEye Soundtrack version


Scott Walker, "The Experience of Love", GoldenEye end titles


Scott Walker cover, "The Look of Love"

RichardTheBruce

March 23rd

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

Through Airmen's Eyes: The
Airman and James Bond

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

(U.S. Air Force graphic/Robin Meredith/courtesy photo)

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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Mr. Fix-It"

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

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

"He was larger than life," Christian said.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"I called him Uncle Sean," he said.

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

Some real spy work

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Charles Russhon (1911–1982)

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Filmography

Miscellaneous Crew (5 credits)

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

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

Actor (1 credit)

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

Location management (1 credit)

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

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

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

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

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

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

GOLDFINGER

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Peter Lorre (I) (1904–1964)

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Filmography

Actor (111 credits)

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

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

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

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

Soundtrack (5 credits)

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

Writer (1 credit)

1951 Der Verlorene (novel) / (screenplay)

Director (1 credit)

1951 Der Verlorene

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

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

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

1964: Goldfinger films Bond seducing Jill Masterson.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Beretta Tomcat pistol was used in Die Another Day

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

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

RichardTheBruce

2022: Faroese Prime Minister reveals a commissioned tombstone at the last known location of 007.

Daniel Craig’s James Bond Lands
Tombstone in Faroe Islands to
Commemorate ‘No Time to Die’

See the complete article here:

https://www.indiewire.com/2022/03/james-bond-tombstone-faroe-islands-no-time-to-die-1234710873/

The tombstone was commissioned by the Faroese government to mark the end of Daniel Craig's turn as the MI6 agent.
Samantha Bergeson | Mar 24, 2022 5:00 pm

“No Time to Die” grave
screenshot/Visit Faroe Islands

Daniel Craig’s take on James Bond is now forever set in stone.

After the final installment of Craig’s turn as Bond, the Faroe Islands commissioned a custom grave to honor the filming location of “No Time to Die.” The island of Kalsoy served as the villain’s lair for Bond’s nemesis Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek), who ultimately kills the famed MI6 agent.

The grave is positioned near the Kallur lighthouse on the island and reads, “In Memory of James Bond, 1962–2021,” as reported by the official Guide to the Faroe Islands page.

“Local villagers have taken it upon themselves to erect a tombstone in memory of the renowned spy,” the statement reads. “Made from Faroese basalt, the gravestone has been cut by an acclaimed stonemason in the village of Skopun. It has then been transported to the exact location on Kalsoy, where Bond meets his fate in ‘No Time to Die.'”

The Prime Minister unveiled the statue March 23. The design of the grave matches Bond’s parents’ tombs in “Skyfall,” and a special quote previously read by M (Ralph Fiennes) in “No Time to Die” is included on the grave: “The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.”

James Bond creator Ian Fleming used the quote, originally by novelist Jack London, in the book You Only Live Twice as part of an obituary for Bond when he was presumed dead.

Actor Craig took over the role of Bond in 2006 with the release of “Casino Royale.” He subsequently portrayed the famed spy in “Quantum of Solace,” “Skyfall,” and “Spectre” before parting ways with the franchise in 2021’s “No Time to Die.”

Fans can now book a tour through the Guide to Faroe Islands website for a special James Bond Sightseeing excursion, which includes stops in Borðoy island, Kalsoy island, and crossing the Kalsoyarfjørður strait. The “No Time to Die” filming locations tour will culminate in the village of Trøllanes, where the James Bond crew shot on Kalsoy island.

“The James Bond film set found themselves in this far-flung corner of the world and now it is your turn to experience the wilderness and the spectacular landscapes,” the promotion states. “You will feel like you are in the scenes from the movie.”

Star Craig previously told IndieWire that the “only ambition” he ever had with the franchise was to “leave it in a good place.”

Now, audiences can visit Bond’s final resting place. Check out the video below.

2023: OG Cocktail Class: Stirred, Not Shaken at Oak and Grist Distilling Company, Black Mountain, North Carolina.

OG Cocktail Class: Stirred, Not Shaken

See the complete article here:

https://www.exploreasheville.com/event-calendar/detail/og-cocktail-class:-stirred-not-shaken/41657/

Oak and Grist Distilling Company
Address: 1556 Grovestone Road, Black Mountain, NC 28711
Times: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Dates: March 23, 2023
Admission: Price Varies

Sure, we all want to feel like James Bond and order our martinis “shaken, not stirred,” but we aren’t teaching you how to shake your martinis in this class! Since February’s class sold out, we’re bringing Martinis back to our lesson plans. Stir your way to the perfect martini and join us on March 23rd as we explore gin, vermouth, bitters, and brine as they come together to create a beautiful, icy-cold, slow sipper. March 23rd’s Cocktail Class, “Stirred, Not Shaken” will focus on the art & science of creating this timeless stirred cocktail fit for an international secret agent.

Come find out what all goes into stirring up this first-class libation at March’s Cocktail Class: “Stirred, Not Shaken”. We’ll take a deep dive into classic stirred martinis: from the dry to the dirty (ain’t no Espresso Martinis in this class!) There are options for both paired and solo tickets, so if you’re coming with a friend, please make sure you purchase the correct ticket. One ticket per participant is required. Classes are capped at a maximum of 12 people per class.

2023: Last day of ‘Photographs from the James Bond Archive’ photography exhibition at the Leica Gallery London, London, England.

Leica celebrates 60 years of Bond with the D-Lux 7 007 Edition
The Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition pays homage to James Bond.
By Abby Ferguson | Published Feb 28, 2023 1:54 PM EST

See the complete article here:

https://www.popphoto.com/news/leica-d-lux-7-007-edition-details/

The Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition in a cityscape
Leica

Leica has just announced another limited edition camera, this time in celebration of the world’s most famous secret agent: James Bond. Bond first arrived on the scene in 1962, just over 60 years ago, in the inaugural Bond movie Dr. No. Leica is celebrating the occasion by releasing a special edition D-Lux 7 007 Edition. The image-making company is also hosting a ‘Photographs from the James Bond Archive’ photography exhibition at the Leica Gallery London through March 23, 2023.

The D-Lux 7 007 Edition is actually the second 007 collaboration for Leica. In 2021, the company released a very limited edition (only 250 cameras) Leica Q2 007 Edition. Luckily the D-Lux 7 camera is much more affordable than the Q2. And this time, it is producing 1,962 cameras in honor of the first film release in 1962.

Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition on white background
The Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition features a textured body and Bond-themed automatic lens cap. Leica

Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition styling
The Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition pulls from the elegant and sophisticated styling of the James Bond character for its design. The trim and handgrip of the camera utilize a high-performance, rhombus-textured material, which makes it look rather similar to the standard Q2 camera. The look is subtle with its all-black colorway, but it provides a better hold on the camera.

The top of the camera features the classic 007 logo to match the one found on the included leather wrist strap. And the camera’s automatic lens cap gets the ‘gun barrel’ design made famous by its use in the opening sequences of the Bond films. The camera comes with a leather case styled like a holster. And it all comes in a specially designed box.

Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition set with special box and leather holster-style case
The full set comes with a leather wrist strap, leather holster-style case, and specially designed box. Leica

Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition camera specifications
Inside the special edition are the same guts as the original Leica D-Lux 7 camera. Leica built the camera around a 17-megapixel Four Thirds MOS sensor. It features a highly versatile 10.9 to 34mm lens, which offers a full-frame equivalent view of 24 to 75mm. The lens is relatively fast, offering a maximum aperture of f/1.7 to 2.8. And it’s capable of recording 4K30p video.

It’s a small camera, weighing just 14.22 ounces. The compact design, in combination with the 24 to 75mm equivalent lens, makes it a great travel companion.

The top of the Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition camera with Bond logo
The top of the camera features the classic Bond logo. Leica

Pricing & availability
The Leica D-Lux 7 007 Edition is available for preorder now for $1,995.00, which is $600 more than the standard D-Lux 7. And remember, there are only 1,962 cameras available, so if you have your eye on one, you’ll need to order soon.

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/james-bond-photographs-go-on-display-60824/

2023: Essential Bond: Breakfast Briefing Experience at London, England.

Essential Bond:
Breakfast Briefing
Experience

See the complete article here:

https://feverup.com/m/125358

Thu 23 Mar, 2023

Tickets for Essential Bond: Breakfast Briefing Experience in London
🎫 Adult ticket for 1, including a martini, breakfast, and an immersive tour and experience

Highlights
🔎 Be guided through a mission by an expert in the dangerous world of spies, sabotage, and assassination!
🎬 Walk through the London scenes made famous by the Bond films
🖊️ Enjoy a delicious breakfast during a special briefing in Whitehall
🍸 Relax in true 007 style with a Vesper martini, shaken, not stirred (non-alcoholic option available)
✨ Sample Bond's preferred fragrance at a perfumery

General Info
📅 Date: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays (select during purchase)
🕒 Time: 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. (Arrival at 9:45 p.m.)
⏳ Duration: 3.5 hours
📍 Meeting location: Horse & Guardsman Pub, London
👤 Age requirement: 18+ with valid ID

Menu
Served with tea, coffee, or a soft drink

• A selection of sourdough toasts: topped with your choice of topping
• Potato Rosti Florentine: baby spinach, poached eggs, hollandaise, and cress
• Potato Rosti Benedict: smoked streaky bacon, poached eggs, hollandaise, and cress
• Baked Eggs: with red pepper, chickpeas, baby spinach, tomato ragu, and smoked paprika, served on sourdough toast
• Full English: smoked streaky bacon, old spot sausage, fried egg, slow-roasted tomato, flat mushroom, potato rosti, baked beans, toasted sourdough and butter
• Veggie Breakfast: halloumi, poached egg, avocado and corn salsa, potato rosti, hollandaise, toasted seven seeds, sourdough toast and butter
• Bubble & Squeak Fritter: smoked streaky bacon, bubble and squeak fritter, celeriac crisp, crispy fried egg, chilli jam, and cress
• Buttermilk Pancakes: five buttermilk pancakes stacked up and finished with a selection of toppings to choose from
• Granola (variety of flavours)

Description
Play the lead role in the world's most successful movie franchise! This incredible experience makes the dreams of every James Bond fan come true—to step into the shoes of 007 for the morning. Embark on a glamorous Ian Fleming trail, spritz a splash of Floris 89, and sip on Bond's preferred tipple, as you immerse yourself into the cloak-and-dagger world of espionage and get briefed over breakfast. Learn about the real stories of 007, as you're escorted through the London scenes where Bond was born and immortalised in celluloid. This elegant experience makes for a perfect gift for James Bond fans. Get your tickets now for Essential Bond: Breakfast Briefing Experience in London!

Horse & Guardsman
16-18 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY

RichardTheBruce

March 24th

1939: Harry Saltzman pledges his Oath of Allegiance to the United States, later working with U.S. intelligence.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1965: Thunderball filming relocates from France to Nassau, capital of the Bahamas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Jameson Empire Awards 2013 Winners in full:

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

Here's some of the winners with their awards:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2015: Spectre films on location at Plaza Tolsá, Mexico, and surrounding streets.

2022: Jim Wright via Zoom presents Thursday - My talk at Hawk Mountain including its Real James Bond connection.

Thursday: My talk at Hawk Mountain

See the complete article here:

https://www.realjamesbond.net/2022/03/march-24-my-talk-at-hawk-mountain.html

03/19/2022

I'll be doing a free Zoom talk from my old stomping ground, Hawk Mountain, on March 24.

I'll be talking about the real James Bond, of course, with a bit of new material -- including Bond's connection to Hawk Mountain.

You can learn more and register here:

https://www.hawkmountain.org/events/meet-the-real-james-bond

See you then!

Meet the Real James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.hawkmountain.org/events/meet-the-real-james-bond

The Real James Bond, Jim Wright

FREE Virtual Program

Learn all about the “Real James Bond!" In 1952, Ian Fleming stole the name of a famous Philly ornithologist and explorer named James Bond (1900-1989), the author of the trail-blazing Birds of the West Indies. This colorfully illustrated talk will focus on Bond, the Fleming connection, the Hawk Mountain connection, and some of the birds, bird eggs and other species that Bond collected. There’ll be some 007 moments as well, in keeping with the latest James Bond movie, No Time to Die.

Do you remember Jim Bond at Hawk Mountain? Have any photos of Jim Bond at North Lookout? Please email Jim Wright at [email protected].

This FREE virtual program is part of our Stay at Home Speaker Series, targeted towards adults and interested learners, but of course attendees of all ages and backgrounds are welcomed!

A private link to the webinar will be emailed to all registrants about 1 hour before the start of the live program. A recording of the webinar will be posted and shared to all registrants following the event.

Registration closes 2 hours before the start of the program.

Hawk Mountain will be recording this webinar, including all questions, comments, etc., by the audience. By participating, you agree to allow the recording to be posted on Hawk Mountain's website, Facebook page, Instagram feed, and other media.

Date & Time
March, 2022
24
7:00 PM

Location
Online via Zoom

Instructor
Jim Wright

2023: Shaken Not Stirred at The Martini Bar, The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas.

Shaken, Not
Stirred at The
Martini Bar

See the complete article here:

https://www.bahamas.com/fr/events/shaken-not-stirred-at-the-martini-bar

24 Mar, 2023
The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort
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A nod to its glamorous and star-studded legacy, The Martini Bar at The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas has launched a new and decadent mixology and culinary experience.

The Martini Bar is known best as the backdrop for the 2006 remake of the Casino Royale film where James Bond can be seen sipping his famous Vesper Martini. This limited seat Living Room Bar transports guests into the scenes of their very own movie.

Whether sipping on a classic Vesper Martini or indulging in the new ultra-luxe Caviar Martini, it’s an unforgettable experience. While cocktails are the heart of The Martini Bar signature experience, new unique culinary creations are presented with suggested Martini pairings.

The Martini Bar and Lounge is open every Friday and Saturday from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Reservations can be made by calling the Resort at +1-242-363-2501.

Visitez le site Web
https://www.fourseasons.com/oceanclub/dining/lounges/martini-bar-and-lounge/

2023: National Cocktail Day in the United States.

National Cocktail Day – March 24, 2023
U.S.

See the complete article here:

https://nationaltoday.com/national-cocktail-day/

National Cocktail Day on March 24 each year celebrates the tasty alcoholic drinks we have come to know and love.

Cocktails remind us of vacations on sandy beaches, relaxing pool-side lounges, or just Friday night out with the girls. Speaking of, did you know that even though cocktails are now often referred to as ‘girly drinks,’ it used to be frowned upon for women to drink them?

On National Cocktail Day, we celebrate the unique concoctions that remind us of good times.

History of National Cocktail Day
National Cocktail Day was created by holidaymaker Jace Shoemaker-Galloway as a fun day to celebrate a fun drink.

Cocktails were traditionally a mixture of spirits, sugar, water, and bitters, and some mixed drinks today still conform to this, such as the Old Fashioned Whiskey cocktail, the Sazerac cocktail, and the Manhattan cocktail.

Many people believe that cocktails originated in the U.S. While this is partly true, cocktails were actually inspired by British punches from the 18th century. British punches were big bowls of spirits mixed with fruit juice, spice, and other flavors.

No one is exactly sure who first created cocktails, but the world is more than grateful to them. What is known is that by the 1860s, it started gaining popularity. Cocktails became especially popular after alcohol was prohibited in the United States from 1920 to 1933 ironically.

Speakeasies began to sell inferior liquor because it was easier to produce illicitly. Then they started adding honey, fruit juice, and other flavorings to mask the foul taste of this liquor, enabling customers to drink faster, which was very important in case of a raid.

The Industrial Age made a major contribution to the evolution of cocktails with the production of ice. Before the Industrial Age, there was no effective way to make ice blocks and keep them from melting.

In the 90s, a group of bartenders at New York’s famous Rainbow Room brought back classic cocktail culture and followed strict quality standards. Today, there is a substantive cocktail culture in the art of mixology, which draws on traditional cocktails, but uses novel ingredients and complex flavors.

National Cocktail Day timeline
1803
‘Cocktail’ Appears in Written History
The first written mention of a cocktail as a beverage appears in a magazine, “The Famer’s Cabinet.”

1806
The Cocktail is Defined
The cocktail was first defined as an alcoholic beverage in a newspaper, “The Balance, and Columbian Repository” in Hudson, New York.

1862
10 cocktail recipes
Jerry Thomas, the father of American mixology, shares 10 cocktail recipes in his bartenders’ guide, “How to Mix Drinks; or, The Bon Vivant’s Companion.”

1917
Cocktail parties bring in the fun
In Missouri, Clara Bell Walsh (or Mrs. Julius Walsh) invites 50 friends to her house on Sunday at high noon and coins it as a ‘cocktail party.’

National Cocktail Day FAQs
Is there a National Drink Day?[/b]
While there is not a single National Drink Day, there are many holidays celebrating drinks. Some examples are National Drink Beer Day, National Rum Day, National Wine Day, National Irish Coffee Day, National Vodka Day, and National Cocktail Day, among many others.

What is the most popular cocktail in the U.S.?
The most popular cocktail in the U.S. is the Margarita. It ranks top in Boston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, and Tampa. However, in Chicago, the Old Fashioned tops the list. The Margarita is most popular in the afternoon and evening.

Does the U.S. have a national cocktail?
While the U.S. does not have a national cocktail as Canada does, it has a national spirit. Bourbon whiskey was proclaimed the U.S. National Spirit by an act of Congress in 1964.

National Cocktail Day Activities

Make a cocktail
On National Cocktail Day, you can create your cocktail from any of the hundreds of recipes available online. Even better, you can test your creativity by coming up with your very own cocktail recipe.

Throw a cocktail party
Gather some of your closest friends and throw the most fabulous cocktail party. Cocktail parties are notoriously great for feel-good times with friends.

Appreciate a bartender
We can’t all be master mixologists. On National Cocktail Day, take the time to appreciate your favorite bartender. You could write them a thoughtful note, get them a nice gift, or leave them an extra big tip.

5 Crazy Facts About Cocktails

Ernest Hemingway had a recipe
Hemingway invented his cocktail called ‘Absinthe and Champagne’ or ‘Death in The Afternoon.’

There’s one with a toe
The Sourtoe Cocktail, which can be found in Yukon, Canada, reputably has a real human toe in it.

Stirred, not shaken
Martini cocktails are traditionally stirred, not shaken, despite how James Bond likes to take his.

Drink a cocktail, get some Chinese wisdom
Cocktail umbrellas traditionally contain hidden scrolls of Chinese newspapers, which you can read like fortune cookies.

A drug or a drink?
Some cocktails can help heal or ease certain diseases, like the Atomic Cocktail, which can cure minor fevers, headaches, and depression.

Why We Love National Cocktail Day

We love the tasty buzz
Alcohol is notoriously bitter, but cocktails break the mold. You can have all kinds of fruity wonderfulness when you get your buzz on with a cocktail. Cocktails make you feel good with drinks that taste good.

It lets us get our party on
On National Cocktail Day, every hour is cocktail hour (don’t tell the boss). National Cocktail Day is all about having good times with wonderful people. When you have a cocktail in your hand, you can let your hair down and truly have fun.

Variety is the spice of life
One of the greatest things about cocktails is that there are so many choices. Although the International Bartender Association only recognizes 77 cocktails, there are at least 300 different cocktail recipes in the world. With cocktails, there are so many options to choose from and you can enjoy the true joy of variety in life.

RichardTheBruce

March 25th

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

Originally shared on another forum by @Revelator.

BONDED GOODS

(March 25 1956) The Sunday Times
By RAYMOND CHANDLER

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sean Connery & Honor Blackman Making of Goldfinger

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

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

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

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

James Bond | The changing world of 007

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

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

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

Synopsis

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

Did you know?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jean Frampton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2022: New James Bond competition TV series announced for Prime Video.

New James Bond Competition TV Series Announced
For Prime Video

See the complete article here:

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/new-james-bond-competition-tv-series-announced-for-prime-video/1100-6501919/

The new show is called 007's Road to a Million, and it will see contestants visit famous Bond locations and take part in challenges to win a cash prize.
By Eddie Makuch on March 25, 2022 at 10:51AM PDT

Amazon's $8.45 billion deal to acquire James Bond studio MGM has been completed, and now it's come to light that the retail and entertainment giant is making a 007 TV show. It's not a drama based on the superspy, but instead a competition TV series inspired by the character and his journey.

According to Variety, the show, 007's Road to a Million, is a "Bond-style spin on a race around the world." The eight-episode series is being produced by 72 Films, with series producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson attached alongside MGM Television.

The report that this new TV series pre-dates Amazon's deal to buy MGM and has been in the works for four years already. It's separate from any potential new 007 content that might come out of Amazon's takeover of MGM, according to the report.

The show itself will feature contestants taking part in a "global adventure" to earn a prize of £1 million ($1.3 million) in cash. Participants will visit Bond locations from across the film series and take part in physical feats and answer trivia questions about the 007 series to advance. Filming is set to begin this year, the report said, and the show will air in 240 countries and territories worldwide on Prime Video.

The latest James Bond movie was No Time To Die, which was the fifth and final entry in the series featuring Daniel Craig in the title role. The search for a new person to play James Bond is now underway and Broccoli has said the next person to play the role with likely be a British man of any ethnicity or race.

In buying MGM, Amazon gains access to a library of more than 4,000 films and 17,000 TV episodes. Outside of James Bond, MGM holds the video game movie rights for Tomb Raider. Some of MGM's other film franchises include Robocop, Rocky, Silence of the Lambs, The Pink Panther, Thelma & Louise, Legally Blonde, and Poltergeist. In terms of TV properties, MGM's catalog includes The Handmaid's Tale, Fargo, and Vikings.

MGM is Amazon's second-largest buyout ever, following its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods in 2017.

In other Prime news, Amazon is developing a Fallout TV series with the creators of Westworld, as well as series based on Life is Strange and Disco Elysium. Amazon makes video games, too, with its latest big hits being the MMOs New World and Lost Ark.

2023: Free James Bond Walking Tour starts at the Clermont Hotel, Charing Cross, The Strand, London, England.

Free James Bond Walking
Tour

See the complete article here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-james-bond-walking-tour-tickets-590331175437

Join and step into the shoes of the world’s most famous spy!
By London with a Local

When and where
Date and time
Sat, 25 Mar 2023 15:30 - 17:30 GMT

Location
Clermont Hotel Charing Cross The Strand London WC2N 5HX United Kingdom

About this event
2 hours

Join the Free James Bond & The History of Espionage to step into the shoes of the world’s most famous spy, as you explore Westminster and uncover some of the most iconic locations from the James Bond films, including Die Another Day, the Living Daylights, A View to a Kill, Skyfall and SPECTRE!

Hear about the time the Queen spent a few minutes with Bond for the 2012 Olympics! Take a few detours along the way to delve into the life of Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming, who spent the Second World War working in Naval Intelligence and built his own team of super spies along the way.

On the Free James Bond & The History of Espionage you will wing by the Ministry of Defence to learn about the Secret Service’s real ‘C’, Mansfield Cumming, first director of the Secret Intelligence Service, and more in a fun, entertaining 2-hour stroll that will absolutely captivate you!

The tour begins in front of The Clermont Hotel, Charing Cross, Strand, WC2N 5HX. https://goo.gl/maps/JKWWHFofEd6Dkm3h6

Look for the guide with the red umbrella.

The tour operates on a ‘pay what you think it’s worth’ basis. There is no booking fee and no payment is required to join, so that it is accessible to every budget. However our guides are all freelancers who work for tips, so if you enjoy the tour, you are welcome to make a donation at the end. The value is up to you, whatever fits in with you budget and your levels of enjoyment.

You can contact us on 07709703141 or email [email protected].

2023: Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra presents Spies, Lies and Treble Clefs at Steinmetz Hall, Orlando, Florida.

Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra Presents
"Spies, Lies and Treble
Clefs"

See the complete article here:

https://www.drphillipscenter.org/events/tickets/2023/spies-lies-and-treble-clefs/

March 25, 2023 | Steinmetz Hall | 3:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
"Spies, Lies and Treble Clefs"

Artists
Chelsea Gallo, conductor
Vocal Soloists

Featuring some of the greatest songs from Spy Movies and TV, this show wows audiences with hits from the James Bond film series, Charlies Angels, Get Smart, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and more.

By purchasing a ticket you are authorizing the Dr. Phillips Center to share your info with show producer. Prices, shows, artists, dates and times are subject to change at any time without notice. The views and opinions expressed within this show are those of the artist(s) and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the Dr. Phillips Center.

COVID-19 Warning: An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. COVID-19 is a highly contagious disease that may result in personal injury, severe illness, and death. By visiting the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts and/or attending the Dr. Phillips Center Shows, Events, Education Programs/Classes or other activities, you voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19. All visitors must follow the Center’s health and safety protocols. Please help keep each other safe.

A Part of
Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra 22/23 Season

Date: Saturday, March 25, 2023
Time: 3:30 p.m. & 7:30 p.m.
Tickets from: $46.54

2023: Cavendish Cancer Care presents Licence to Thrill – James Bond Casino Night at Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

Licence to Thrill

See the complete article here:

https://cavcare.org.uk/events/licence-to-thrill/

March 25, 2023

Licence to Thrill – James Bond Casino Night
Celebrating 70 years of James Bond at this evening, in aid of Cavendish, will see you enjoy an event that is an immersive casino royale, Monte Carlo style night. Guests will be immersed into a lifestyle of luxury and opulence.

Taking a spin on the famous quote licence to kill, guests will be immersed into a thrilling evening of casino games, live performances and an opportunity to earn their 00 status.

Tickets are from £25

2023: Live and Let Dine at Leeds Castle, Maidstone, Kent, England.

Live and Let Dine at Leeds Castle

See the complete article here:

https://leeds-castle.com/events/live-and-let-dine/

5 Mar 2023

His name’s Bond. James Bond.
On Saturday 25th March 2023, join us as we party like 007 himself at our Live and Let Dine Castle dining and entertainment experience.

Get ready to be transported right into a classic Bond action scene. When the most expensive diamond ever discovered suddenly goes missing, it’s time to call on Britain’s most famous spy.

When a murder takes places, Bond must solve the mystery before the finger is pointed at the wrong person. Who did it? Surely James Bond knows the answer!

As actors help set the scene, immerse yourself in this truly interactive evening of dinner theatre.

Throughout the night you will be front and centre as the action unfolds, whilst eating delicious food and savouring themed cocktails, all whilst wearing your best.

Cocktails will be served in the Library before the butler calls for dinner, where a fine dining three course menu awaits, and the evening’s entertainment can commence.

After the party is over, retire to one of the Castle’s luxurious bedrooms. Gather with fellow guests as you recount the night’s events at breakfast in the Castle Dining Room the following morning, for overnight guests only.

Included in your package:

• Two cocktails per person
• Three-course dinner served in the Castle
• Immersive themed murder mystery entertainment
• Coffee and chocolate in the Castle Drawing Rooms
• Residential guests will receive breakfast the following morning (this is included in room price)

Dinner Package only (excluding accommodation) – £125 per person
Castle State Bedrooms (must be booked with Dinner Package) – £325 per room
Castle Classic Bedrooms (must be booked with Dinner Package) – £275 per room

RichardTheBruce

March 26th

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

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

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

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

Whether this was quite what Ian wanted to hear, he was flattered at the
literary attentions of the great man. He thanked Chandler profusely for
the review and again asked him to lunch. The invitation was declined,
but a lively correspondence ensued. Chandler’s message was blunt: Ian
needed to make up his mind what kind of writer he was; he had great
potential, but on the evidence so far it was only clear that he was a bit of
a sadist. These criticisms touched a raw nerve in Ian.

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

James Bond surveyed the glittering
diamonds that lay scattered across the red
leather surface of M’s desk and wondered
what it was all about.

The quiet grey eyes watched him
thoughtfully.

Then M took the pipe out of his mouth
and dryly gave Bond details of the assign-
ment of which even M was afraid. And
Bond walked out of the Headquarters of
the Secret Service and into his greatest
adventure.

Greater than Casino Royale? More
terrible than Live and Let Die? More
hazardous than Moonraker?

Yes

Ian Fleming is in his forties. He was educated at Eton, where
he was Victor Ludorum two years in succession, a distinction
only once equalled. He went on to Sandhurst and then entered
Reuters and served in London, Berlin and Moscow. He was a
special correspondent of The Times in Moscow in the spring of
1939, joined the Naval Intelligence Division in June and served
throughout the war as Personal Assistant to the D.N.I. with the
rank of Commander in the Special Branch of the R.N.V.R.
Since the war he has organized the foreign service of the Sunday
Times and Kemsley Newspapers, of which he is Foreign Manager.
He is married and has one son.

1959: Raymond Thornton Chandler dies at age 70--La Jolla, California.
(Born 23 July 1888--Chicago, Illinois.)

The Only Surviving Recording of
Raymond Chandler’s Voice, in a BBC
Conversation with Ian Fleming

“You starve to death for ten years before your publisher knows you’re any good.”

By Maria Popova

Raymond Chandler (July 23, 1888–March 26, 1959) endures as one of the most celebrated novelists and screenwriters in literary history, an oracle of insight on the written word, a lovable grump dispensing delightfully curmudgeonly advice on editorial manners, and a hopeless cat-lover. In July of 1958, to mark the publication of Chandler’s last book, Playback, BBC brought Chandler and Ian Fleming together on the air. Fleming and the BBC broadcaster producing the program picked up Chandler at 11 A.M. on the day of the interview and even though they “found his voice slurred with whisky,” the broadcast went quite well. Seven months later, Chandler died. This discussion, which covers heroes and villains — Fleming’s James Bond and Chandler’s Philip Marlowe — and the relationship between author and character, is believed to be the only surviving recording of the author’s voice. Transcribed highlights below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj6cc0T1z7I

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Chandler on the doggedness literary success (or any creative success) requires:

"How long did it take me [to become a successful writer]?
You starve to death for ten years before your publisher
knows you’re any good."

Fleming on villains:

"I find it … extremely difficult to write about villains, villains
I find extremely difficult people to put my finger on. … The
really good, solid villain is a very difficult person to build
up, I think."

Fleming and Chandler on heroes:

"Your hero, Philip Marlowe, is a real hero — he behaves in a
heroic fashion. My leading character, James Bond, I never
intended to be a hero — I intended him to be a sort of
blank instrument wielded by a government department,
who would get into bizarre, fantastic situations and more
or less shoot his way out of them, get out of them one way
or another."

Chandler on James Bond and how he differs from Marlowe:

"A man with his job can’t afford to feel tender emotions —
he feels them but he has to quell them."

Fleming, responding to Chandler’s amazement at how he can write so many James Bond books in addition to his intense editorial commitments, offers a glimpse of his creative routine and a testament to the value of discipline:

"I have two months off in Jamaica every year, in my contract
with the Sunday Times, and I sit down and a write a book
every year during those two months."

Chandler on the difference between the British and the American thriller:

"The American thriller is much faster paced."

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

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Filmography

Writer (39 credits)

Marlowe (character) (announced)
Trouble Is My Business (book) (abandoned)
2014 The Long Goodbye (TV Mini-Series) (based on the novel by - 5 episodes)
- Episode #1.5 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
- Episode #1.4 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
- Episode #1.3 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
- Episode #1.2 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
- Episode #1.1 (2014) ... (based on the novel by - unauthorized adaptation)
2007 Marlowe (TV Movie) (characters)
2003 Smart Philip (character)

1998 Poodle Springs (TV Movie) (book)
1996 Once You Meet a Stranger (TV Movie) (screenplay "Stranger on a Train") / (teleplay)
Fallen Angels (TV Series) (based on a story by - 1 episode, 1995) (based on a short story by - 1 episode, 1993)
- Red Wind (1995) ... (based on a story by)
- I'll Be Waiting (1993) ... (based on a short story by)

1987 Morning Patrol (excerpt)
Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) (novels - 10 episodes, 1983 - 1986) (story - 1 episode, 1986)
- Red Wind (1986) ... (novels)
- Trouble Is My Business (1986) ... (novels)
- Guns at Cyrano's (1986) ... (novels)
- Pickup on Noon Street (1986) ... (novels)
- Spanish Blood (1986) ... (novels)
- Blackmailers Don't Shoot (1986) ... (story)
- Smart Aleck Kill (1983) ... (novels)
- Nevada Gas (1983) ... (novels)
- Finger Man (1983) ... (novels)
- The King in Yellow (1983) ... (novels)
- The Pencil (1983) ... (novels)
1982 Ich werde warten (TV Movie) (novel)

1978 Aspetterò (TV Movie) (based on a short story by)
1978 The Big Sleep (novel)
1975 Farewell, My Lovely (novel)
1973 Double Indemnity (TV Movie) (1944 screenplay)
1973 The Long Goodbye (novel "The Long Goodbye")

1969 Marlowe (novel "The Little Sister")
1961 Storyboard (TV Series) (short story - 1 episode)
- I'll Be Waiting (1961) ... (short story)
Philip Marlowe (TV Series) (character - 24 episodes, 1959 - 1960) (creator - 2 episodes, 1959 - 1960)
- You Kill Me (1960) ... (character)
- Last Call for Murder (1960) ... (character)
- Murder Is Dead Wrong (1960) ... (character)
- Murder Is a Grave Affair (1960) ... (creator)
- Murder by the Book (1960) ... (character)
- Murder in the Stars (1960) ... (character)
- Time to Kill (1960) ... (character)
- Gem of a Murder (1960) ... (character)
- One Ring for Murder (1960) ... (character)
- Death Takes a Lover (1960) ... (character)
- Poor Lilli, Sweet Lilli (1960) ... (character)
- A Standard for Murder (1960) ... (character)
- The Scarlet A (1960) ... (character)
- Ricochet (1959) ... (character)
- The Hunger (1959) ... (character)
- Mother Dear (1959) ... (character)
- Hit and Run (1959) ... (character)
- The Mogul (1959) ... (character)
- Temple of Love (1959) ... (character)
- Bum Wrap (1959) ... (character)
- Child of Virtue (1959) ... (character)
- Mama's Boy (1959) ... (character)
- Death in the Family (1959) ... (character)
- Buddy Boy (1959) ... (character)
- Prescription for Murder (1959) ... (character)
- The Ugly Duckling (1959) ... (creator)

1958 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) (screenplay "Strangers on a Train" - 1 episode)
- One False Step (1958) ... (screenplay "Strangers on a Train")
1957 TV de Vanguarda (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Pacto Sinistro (1957)
1957 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Tower Room 14-A (1957) ... (story)
Climax! (TV Series) (story - 1 episode, 1954) (novel - 1 episode, 1954)
- The White Carnation (1954) ... (story)
- The Long Goodbye (1954) ... (novel)
1954 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) (previous screenplay - 1 episode)
- Double Indemnity (1954) ... (previous screenplay)
1951-1953 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) (story - 2 episodes)
- The King in Yellow (1953) ... (story)
- The King in Yellow (1951) ... (story)
1951 Strangers on a Train (screen play)
1951 Nash Airflyte Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Pearls Are a Nuisance (1951) ... (story)
1950 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) (novel - 1 episode)
- The Big Sleep (1950) ... (novel)

1949 The Philco Television Playhouse (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Little Sister (1949) ... (story)
1947 The Brasher Doubloon (novel "The High Window")
1946 Lady in the Lake (novel)
1946 The Big Sleep (short story "Killer in the Rain")
1946 The Blue Dahlia (written by)
1945 The Unseen (screen play)
1944 Murder, My Sweet (novel)
1944 And Now Tomorrow (screen play)
1944 Double Indemnity (screenplay)
1942 Time to Kill (novel "The High Window")
1942 The Falcon Takes Over (novel "Farewell, My Lovely")

Actor (1 credit)

1944 Double Indemnity - Man Reading Magazine Outside Keyes' Office (uncredited)

1962: Dr. No films OO7 and Honey with Dr. No in the reactor room.
1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's eleventh Bond novel You Only Live Twice.
The last published in his life. Richard Chopping cover.

YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE

When Ernst Stavro Blofeld blasted into
eternity the girl whom James Bond had
married only hours before, the heart, the
zest for life, went out of Bond. Incredibly,
from being a top agent of the Secret
Service, he had gone to pieces, was even
on the verge of becoming a security risk.
M is persuaded to give him one last
chance -- an impossible mission far re-
moved from his usual duties -- and Bond
leaves for Japan.

There, coming under the orders of the
formidable 'Tiger' Tanaka, Head of the
Japanese Secret Service, the Koan-Chosa-
Kyoku, he is indeed subjected to the
shock treatment his condition demanded.

Shock treatment? The reader will also
be subjected to it in full measure in this,
perhaps the most bizarre and doom-
fraught of all James Bond's adventures.

1973: Sir Noël Peirce Coward dies at age 73--Blue Harbour, Jamaica.
(Born 16 December 1899--Middlesex, England.)

Noel Coward

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Sir Noel Coward

Birth name: Noël Peirce Coward
Date of birth: 16 December 1899
Birth location: Flag of United Kingdom Middlesex, England
Date of death: 26 March 1973 (aged 73)
Death location: Flag of Jamaica Blue Harbour, Jamaica
Academy Awards: Academy Honorary Award, 1943 In Which We Serve

Sir Noël Peirce Coward (December 16, 1899 – March 26, 1973) was an Academy Award winning English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music. As well as more than 50 published plays and many albums of original songs, Coward wrote comic revues, poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance (1960) and three volumes of autobiography. Books of his song lyrics, diaries, and letters have also been published.

Contents

1 Biography
1.1 Early Life
1.2 Success
1.3 World War II
1.4 Later works
2 Legacy
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links
6 Credits

Biography
During World War II he entertained the troops but also engaged in intelligence work for the British government, for which he almost received a knighthood. In 1970—three years before his death, he finally did. His work, though often comical, has a serious streak running beneath the surface as he explores such themes as friendship, patriotism, duty and a rapidly changing world that dashed people's hopes one moment, then held out unexpected possibilities the next. His works were in tune with the aspirations especially of the generation that lived through two world wars, and feared a third.

Noel Coward in 1914

Early Life
Coward was born in Teddington, Middlesex, England to Arthur Sabin Coward, a clerk, and his wife Violet Agnes, daughter of Henry Gordon Veitch, captain and surveyor in the Royal Navy. He was the second of their three sons, the eldest of whom had died in 1898 at the age of six years old. He began performing in the West End at an young age. He was a childhood friend of Hermione Gingold, whose mother warned her against Coward.

A student at the Italia Conti Academy stage school, Coward’s first professional engagement was in the children’s play The Goldfish on January 27, 1911. After this appearance, he was sought after for children’s roles by several other professional theaters.

When he was 14 years old, he met Philip Streatfeild, a society painter who took him in and introduced him to high society through Mrs. Astley Cooper. She gathered a salon of artists and invited him to live on her property at Hambleton, Rutland, but on the farm rather than in the Hall, due to his lower social class.[1] Streatfeild died from tuberculosis in 1915.

He played in several productions with the actor Sir Charles Hawtrey, a Victorian comedian, whom he idolized and to whom Coward virtually apprenticed himself until he was 20 years old. It was from Hawtrey that Coward learned comic acting technique and playwriting. He was drafted briefly into the British Army during World War I but was discharged due to ill health. Coward appeared in the D. W. Griffith film Hearts of the World (1918) in an uncredited role. He found his voice and began writing plays that he and his friends could star in while at the same time writing revues.

Success
He starred in one of his first full-length plays, the inheritance comedy I'll Leave It To You, in 1920. The following year he completed a one-act satire, The Better Half, about a man's relationship with two women, and it enjoyed a short run at the Little Theatre in London in 1922. The play was thought to be lost until a typescript was rediscovered in 2007 in the archive of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, which at that time licensed all plays for performance in the United Kingdom, and imposed cuts or complete bans.[2]

After he enjoyed some moderate success with the George Bernard Shaw-esque play The Young Idea in 1923. The controversy surrounding his play The Vortex (1924), which contains many veiled references to drug abuse and homosexuality, made him an overnight sensation on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Coward followed this with three more major hits, Hay Fever, Fallen Angels (both 1925) and Easy Virtue (1926).

Much of Coward's best work came in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Enormous productions, such as the full-length operetta Bitter Sweet (1929) and Cavalcade (1931), a huge extravaganza requiring a very large cast, gargantuan sets and an exceedingly complex hydraulic stage, were interspersed with finely-wrought comedies such as Private Lives (1930), in which Coward himself starred alongside his most famous stage partner, Gertrude Lawrence; and the black comedy Design for Living (1932), written for Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne.

Coward again partnered Lawrence in Tonight at 8:30 (1936), an ambitious cycle of ten short plays that were randomly "shuffled" to make up a different playbill of three plays each night. One of these plays, Still Life, was expanded into the 1945 David Lean film Brief Encounter. He was also a prolific writer of popular songs, and a lucrative recording contract with HMV allowed him to release a number of recordings, many now reissued on Compact Disc.

World War II
When England came into World War II in 1939 Coward was working harder than he had before. When the war started he had recently left Paris. He took some time off from writing to perform for the troops, but after a stint at this, coward was eager to return. Alongside his highly-publicized tours entertaining Allied troops, he was also engaged by the British Secret Service MI5 in intelligence work. He was often frustrated by the criticism he faced for his ostensibly glamorous lifestyle, apparently living the high life while his countrymen suffered – especially his trips to America to sway opinion formers there.[3] He was unable, however, to defend himself by revealing his association with the Secret Service.

King George VI, a personal friend, encouraged the government to award Coward a knighthood for his efforts in 1942. This was blocked by Winston Churchill, who disapproved of Coward's flamboyant lifestyle.[4] Churchill advised giving the official reason as being Coward's fine of 200 British pounds for currency offenses (he had spent 11,000 pounds on a trip to America).

Had the Germans invaded Britain, Coward would have been arrested and liquidated as his name was in the The Black Book, along with other public figures such as H. G. Wells, targeted for his socialist views. Some have argued that this attention may have been due to homosexual preferences, but recent documents have surfaced showing Coward to have been a covert operative in the Secret Service.

Coward was active in the war effort as a lyricist for some extraordinarily popular songs during the war, the most famous of which are London Pride and Don't Let's Be Beastly To The Germans. He complained to Churchill, his frequent painting companion, that he felt he was not doing enough to support the war effort. Reportedly, Churchill suggested he make a movie based on the career of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten. The result was a naval film drama, In Which We Serve, which Coward wrote, starred in, composed the music for and co-directed, with David Lean. The film was immensely popular on both sides of the Atlantic and Coward was awarded an honorary Oscar by the American film industry.

In the 1940s, Coward wrote some of his best plays. The social commentary of This Happy Breed and the intricate semi-autobiographical comedy-drama Present Laughter (both 1939) were later combined with the hugely successful black comedy Blithe Spirit (1941) to form a West End triple-bill, which starred Coward in all three simultaneous productions. Blithe Spirit went on to make box-office records for a West End comedy that were not beaten until the 1970s, and was made into a film directed by David Lean.

Later works
Coward's popularity as a playwright declined sharply in the 1950s, with plays such as Quadrille, Relative Values, Nude with Violin and South Sea Bubble all failing to find much favor with critics or audiences. Despite this decline, he maintained a high public profile, continuing to write (and occasionally star in) moderately successful West End plays and musicals, performing an acclaimed solo cabaret act in Las Vegas, Nevada, and starring in films such as Bunny Lake is Missing, Around the World in 80 Days, Our Man in Havana, Boom!, and The Italian Job.

After starring in a number of American television specials in the late 1950s alongside Mary Martin, Coward left the UK for tax reasons. He first settled in Bermuda but later moved to Jamaica, where he remained for the rest of his life. His play Waiting in the Wings (1960), set in a rest home for retired actors, marked a turning-point in his popularity, gaining plaudits from critics, who likened it to the work of Anton Chekhov. Following that success, his earlier work realized a revival in the late 1960s, with several new productions of his 1920s plays and a number of revues celebrating his music. Coward dubbed this comeback "Dad's Renaissance."

Coward's final stage work was Suite in Three Keys (1966), a trilogy set in a hotel penthouse suite, with him taking the lead roles in all three. The trilogy gained excellent reviews and did good box office business in the Great Britain. Coward intended to star in Suite in Three Keys on Broadway but was unable to travel due to age and illness. Only two of the plays were performed in New York, with the title changed to Noel Coward in Two Keys and the lead taken by Hume Cronyn.

By now suffering from advanced arthritis and bouts of memory loss, which affected his work on The Italian Job, Coward retired from the theater. He was finally knighted in 1970, and died in Jamaica in March, 1973 of heart failure at 73 years old. He was buried three days later on the brow of Firefly Hill, Jamaica, overlooking the north coast of the island. On March 28, 1984 a memorial stone was unveiled by the Queen Mother in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey.

Legacy
Noel Coward never married, but he maintained close personal friendships with many women. These included actress and author Esmé Wynne-Tyson, his first collaborator and constant correspondent; the designer and lifelong friend Gladys Calthrop; secretary and close confidante Lorn Loraine; his muse, the gifted musical actress Gertrude Lawrence; actress Joyce Carey; compatriot of his middle period, the light comedy actress Judy Campbell; and (in the words of Cole Lesley) 'his loyal and lifelong amitié amoureuse, film star Marlene Dietrich.

He was also a valued friend of Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Princess Margaret and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. He was a close friend of Ivor Novello and Winston Churchill.

He was the president of The Actors' Orphanage, supported by the theatrical industry. In that capacity he met the young Peter Collinson, who was in the care of the orphanage, becoming Collinson's godfather and helping him get started in show business. When Collinson was named as director of the The Italian Job he invited Coward to play a role in the film.

Coward was a neighbor of James Bond's creator Ian Fleming and his wife Anne in Jamaica, the former Lady Rothermere. Though he was very fond of both of them, the Flemings' marriage was not a happy one, and coward reportedly tired of their constant bickering, as recorded in his diaries. When the first film adaptation of a James Bond novel, Dr. No was being produced, Coward was approached for the role of the villain. He is said to have responded, "Doctor No? No. No. No."

The Papers of Noel Coward are held in the University of Birmingham Special Collections.

Notes

↑ The Noel Coward Story Culturevulture.net. Retrieved December 20, 2007.
↑ "Coward's long-lost satire was almost too 'daring' about women", Guardian News and Media Limited, 2008. Retrieved December 7, 2007.
↑ Winston Churchill vetoed Coward knighthood, Telegraph Media Group Limited, 2008. Retrieved December 7, 2007.
↑ Winston Churchill vetoed Coward knighthood, Telegraph Media Group Limited, 2008. Retrieved December 7, 2007.

References

Coward, Noel. Present Indicative. London: Heinemann, 1974. ISBN 9780434147236
Coward, Noel. Future Indefinite. New York, NY: Da Capo Press, 1980. ISBN 9780306801266
Coward, Noel. Middle East Diary. Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran & Co, 1944. OCLC 387771
Coward, Noel, Graham Payn, and Sheridan Morley. The Noël Coward Diaries. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982. ISBN 9780316695503
Lesley, Cole. Remembered Laughter The Life of Noel Coward. New York: Knopf, 1976. ISBN 9780394498164
Morley, Sheridan. A Talent to Amuse A Biography of Noël Coward. Boston: Little, Brown, 1985. ISBN 9780316583718

Noël Coward (1899–1973)

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Filmography

Writer (139 credits)

2020 Blithe Spirit (based on the play by) (post-production)

2019 Present Laughter
2017 Present Laughter
2013 Noël Coward's Private Lives (by)
2013 Burton and Taylor (TV Movie) (extracts from the play "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward)
2011 In Love With... (TV Series)
2011 Brief Encounter (Short) (as Noel Coward)

2008 Easy Virtue (play - as Noel Coward)
2003 Privatni zivoti (TV Movie) (novel "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward)
2000 Relative Values (play - as Noel Coward)

1991 Angeli caduti (TV Movie) (play)
1991 Tonight at 8.30 (TV Series) (writer - 8 episodes)

1988 Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series) (excerpts from 'TONIGHT AT 8.30' and 'We Were Dancing' by - 1 episode)
- Rumpole and Portia (1988) ... (excerpts from 'TONIGHT AT 8.30' and 'We Were Dancing' by - as Noel Coward)
1987 Sidste akt (play - as Noel Coward)
1986 Földi kacaj (TV Movie) (play "Present Laughter" - as Noel Coward)
1986 Quadrille (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1985 Star Quality: Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 Star Quality: Bon Voyage (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 Me and the Girls (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 What Mad Pursuit? (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 Mrs. Capper's Birthday (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1985 Star Quality (TV Movie) (story - as Noel Coward)
1984 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1984 Hayfever (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever")
1983 La comedia (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Fácil virtud (1983) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
Estudio 1 (TV Series) (play "Fallen Angels" - 1 episode, 1982) (play - 1 episode, 1980) (play "Blithe Spirit" - 1 episode, 1970) (play "Hay Fever" - 1 episode, 1968)
- Ángeles caídos (1982) ... (play "Fallen Angels" - as Noel Coward)
- Desnudo con violín (1980) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Un espíritu burlón (1970) ... (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
- La encantadora familia Bliss (1968) ... (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) (play - 2 episodes, 1981 - 1982) (writer - 1 episode, 1982)
- A Song at Twilight (1982) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
- Come Into the Garden, Maud (1982) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- The Kindness of Mrs. Radcliffe (1981) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1981 Present Laughter (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1980 The Marquise (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1980 Intimitäten (TV Movie)
BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) (play - 2 episodes, 1969 - 1979) (writer - 1 episode, 1968)
- Design for Living (1979) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- The Marquise (1969) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Hay Fever (1968) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)

1978 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play)
1977 Die Marquise (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1976 Private Lives (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
Au théâtre ce soir (TV Series) (play - 3 episodes, 1973 - 1975) (play "Hay Fever" - 1 episode, 1976)
- Week-end (1976) ... (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
- Le nu au tambour (1975) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Jeux d'esprit (1974) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Félicity (1973) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1976 Camera Three (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
- Mad About The Boy: Noel Coward: A Celebration (1976) ... (written by)
1974 Brief Encounter (TV Movie) (play "Still Life" - as Noel Coward)
1974 Fallen Angels (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1973 Play for Today (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Song at Twilight (1973) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
Alta comedia (TV Series) (1 episode, 1970) (play "Blithe Spirit" - 1 episode, 1972)
- Espíritu travieso (1972) ... (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
- El cumpleaños de la señora Capper (1970) ... (as Noel Coward)
1972 Joyeux chagrins (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1972 Amouren (TV Movie) (play "Present Laughter" - as Noel Coward)
1971 Teatro 13 (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Vidas privadas (1971) ... (as Noel Coward)
1971 Temni hrast (TV Movie) (novel - as Noel Coward)

1969 This Happy Breed (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1969 Red Peppers (TV Movie) (short play - as Noel Coward)
1969 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) (by - 1 episode)
- The Vortex (1969) ... (as Noel Coward) / (by - as Noel Coward)
1969 Duett im Zwielicht (TV Movie) (play "A Song at Twilight" - as Noel Coward)
1968 Kratak susret (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
ITV Playhouse (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes, 1968) (story - 1 episode, 1968)
- The Kindness of Mrs Radcliffe (1968) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
- Bon Voyage (1968) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
- Star Quality (1968) ... (story - as Noel Coward)
1968 Interlude (play "Still Life" - as Noel Coward)
1968 The Jazz Age (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Post Mortem (1968) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
1968 Weekend (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1968 Vaimoni kummittelee (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
Armchair Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode, 1968) (writer - 1 episode, 1966)
- Mrs Capper's Birthday (1968) ... (story - as Noel Coward)
- Pretty Polly (1966) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
1967 Before the Fringe (TV Series) (2 episodes)
- Episode #2.6 (1967) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... (as Noel Coward)
1967 A Matter of Innocence (story "Pretty Polly Barlow" - as Noel Coward)
1967 Brian Rix Presents ... (TV Series) (play "Look After Lulu!" - 1 episode)
- Look After Lulu (1967) ... (play "Look After Lulu!")
1967 Acting in the Sixties (TV Series documentary) (play "Hay Fever" - 1 episode)
- Maggie Smith (1967) ... (play "Hay Fever")
ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (1 episode, 1964) (play - 4 episodes, 1959 - 1964) (writer - 2 episodes, 1960 - 1964) (author - 1 episode, 1967)
- Present Laughter (1967) ... (author - as Noel Coward)
- A Choice of Coward #4: Design for Living (1964) ... (as Noel Coward) / (play - as Noel Coward)
- A Choice of Coward #3: The Vortex (1964) ... (as Noel Coward) / (play - as Noel Coward)
- A Choice of Coward #2: Blithe Spirit (1964) ... (as Noel Coward) / (play - as Noel Coward) / (writer - as Noel Coward)
- A Choice of Coward #1: Present Laughter (1964) ... (as Noel Coward)
1966 Hooikoorts (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
1966 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1966 Wechselkurs der Liebe (TV Movie) (play "Relative Values" - as Noel Coward)
1966 Oh, diese Geister (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
1966 Quadrille (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1966 Geisterkomödie (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1966 Falne engler (TV Movie) (based on play - as Noel Coward)
1965 Südsee-Affaire (TV Movie) (play "The South Sea Bubble" - as Noel Coward)
1965 Present Laughter (TV Movie) (play)
1965 Høyfeber (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
1965 Geisterkomödie - Eine unwahrscheinliche Komödie (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
1964 Nude with Violin (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1964 Teatterituokio (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Viisas tohvelisankari (1964) ... (writer - as Noel Coward)
1964 Amouren (TV Movie) (play "Present Laughter" - as Noel Coward)
1964 Markisinnan (TV Movie) (play "The Marquise" - as Noel Coward)
1963 Möblemang i ek (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1963 Festival (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Fallen Angels (1963) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1960-1962 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) (play - 2 episodes)
- This Happy Breed (1962) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Twentieth Century Theatre: The Vortex (1960) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1962 Geisterkomödie (TV Movie) (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
1961 Quadrille (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1961 Zwischen den Zügen (TV Movie) (play "Brief Encounter" - as Noel Coward)
1961 Das Maß ist voll (TV Short) (play - as Noel Coward)
1961 Minkä minulle voitte (TV Movie) (play "Present Laughter" - as Noel Coward)
1961 Hooikoorts (TV Movie) (play "Hay Fever" - as Noel Coward)
1961 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Brief Encounter (1961) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1961 Spirito allegro (TV Movie) (play)
1960 TV de comédia (TV Series) (play "Blithe Spirit" - 1 episode)
- A Mulher do Outro Mundo (1960) ... (play "Blithe Spirit" - as Noel Coward)
1960 Art Carney Special (TV Series) (play Red Peppers - 1 episode)
- Three in One (1960) ... (play Red Peppers - as Noel Coward)

1959 Akt mit Geige (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1959 Kurze Begegnung (TV Movie) (play "Brief Encounter" - as Noel Coward)
1959 Intimitäten (TV Movie) (play "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward)
1959 Fim de Semana no Campo (TV Series) (play - as Noel Coward)
1959 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Private Lives (1959) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1958 Red Peppers (TV Short) (as Noel Coward)
1958 Yoka (TV Short) (texts - as Noel Coward)
1958 Akt mit Geige (TV Movie) (play)
1957 Weekend (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
Grande Teatro Tupi (TV Series) (2 episodes, 1956 - 1957) (play - 1 episode, 1953) (story - 1 episode, 1952)
- Pancada de Amor (1957) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Breve Encontro (1956) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Espírito Travesso (1953) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
- Uma Mulher do Outro Mundo (1952) ... (story - as Noel Coward)
1956 Nude with Violin (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1956 South Sea Bubble (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) (written by - 2 episodes, 1955 - 1956) (adaptation - 1 episode, 1956) (play - 1 episode, 1956)
- This Happy Breed (1956) ... (adaptation - as Noel Coward) / (play - as Noel Coward)
- Blithe Spirit (1956) ... (written by)
- Together with Music (1955) ... (written by - as Noel Coward)
1956 Omnibus (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- The Better Half (1956) ... (play - segment "The Better Half")
1956 Det er så yndigt (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1956 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1955 The 20th Century-Fox Hour (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Cavalcade (1955) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1955 ITV Opening Night at the Guildhall (TV Movie) (play "Private Lives")
1955 TV de Vanguarda (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Desencanto (1955) ... (as Noel Coward)
1955 Zwischen den Zügen (TV Movie) (play "Brief Encounter" - as Noel Coward)
1954 Producers' Showcase (TV Series) (play "Tonight at 8: 30: Red Peppers, Still Life and Shadow Play" - 1 episode)
- Tonight at 8:30 (1954) ... (play "Tonight at 8: 30: Red Peppers, Still Life and Shadow Play" - as Noel Coward)
1952 This Happy Breed (TV Movie) (play)
1952 Tonight at 8:30 (based on three plays from: "Tonight At 8.30")
1951 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) (play - 1 episode)
- Still Life (1951) ... (play - as Noel Coward)
1950 The Astonished Heart (by - as Noel Coward) / (play - uncredited) / (screenplay - as Noel Coward)

1948 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1948 Red Peppers (TV Short) (as Noel Coward)
1946 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1946 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1945 Brief Encounter (play "Still Life" - uncredited)
1945 Blithe Spirit (play - uncredited) / (screenplay - uncredited)
1944 This Happy Breed (play - uncredited)
1942 In Which We Serve (by - as Noel Coward)
1942 We Were Dancing (play "Tonight at 8: 30" - as Noel Coward)
1940 Bitter Sweet (original play - as Noel Coward)

1939 Private Lives (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1939 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1939 The Young Idea (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1938 Hay Fever (TV Movie) (play - as Noel Coward)
1938 Red Peppers (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1938 Hands Across the Sea (TV Short) (play - as Noel Coward)
1937 Red Peppers (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1936 The Terrible Lovers (play "Private Lives" - as Noel Coward)
1933 Design for Living (play - as Noel Coward)
1933 Bitter Sweet (play and dialogue - as Noel Coward)
1933 Tonight Is Ours (play "The Queen Was In the Parlour" - as Noel Coward)
1933 Cavalcade (play - uncredited)
1931 Private Lives (from the play by - as Noel Coward)
1928 The Vortex (play - as Noel Coward)
1928 Easy Virtue (adapted from the play by - as Noel Coward)
1927 Forbidden Love (play - as Noel Coward)

Soundtrack (66 credits)

Actor (19 credits)

Composer (9 credits)

1991 Tonight at 8.30 (TV Series) (8 episodes)

1980 Song by Song (TV Series) (1 episode)
- By Noël Coward (1980) ... (as Noel Coward)

1973 The Black and White Minstrel Show (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Episode #15.4 (1973) ... (as Noel Coward)

1969 Marvelous Party! (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1968 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Star Quality (1968) ... (as Noel Coward)

1955 Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Together with Music (1955) ... (as Noel Coward, original music by)
1950 The Astonished Heart (as Noel Coward)

1942 In Which We Serve (as Noel Coward, musical score)

1933 The Little Damozel (as Noel Coward)

Music department (10 credits)

1998 Shola Ama: Someday I'll Find You (Video short)
1998 Twentieth Century Blues: The Songs of Noël Coward (Video documentary) (music and lyrics by)

1980 Song by Song (TV Series) (lyrics - 1 episode)
- By Noël Coward (1980) ... (lyrics - as Noel Coward)

1978 The Songwriters (TV Series documentary) (music and lyrics by - 1 episode)
- Noël Coward (1978) ... (music and lyrics by)
1973 Lily (TV Special) (composer: 20th Century Blues - as Noel Coward)

1969 The Coward Revue (TV Movie) (lyrics) / (music)
1966 Music for You (TV Series) (music and lyrics by - 1 episode)
- Episode #9.1 (1966) ... (music and lyrics by)
1960 The Grass Is Greener (composer: original theme - uncredited)

1940 Bitter Sweet (music and lyrics by - as Noel Coward)
1933 Bitter Sweet (lyrics and music - as Noel Coward)

Director (4 credits)

1956 Nude with Violin (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1955-1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) (3 episodes)
- This Happy Breed (1956) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Blithe Spirit (1956) ... (as Noel Coward)
- Together with Music (1955) ... (as Noel Coward)
1956 Blithe Spirit (TV Movie) (as Noel Coward)
1942 In Which We Serve (as Noel Coward)

Producer (5 credits)

1963 The Guest (associate producer - uncredited)

1945 Brief Encounter (producer - as Noel Coward)
1945 Blithe Spirit (producer - as Noel Coward)
1944 This Happy Breed (producer - as Noel Coward)
1942 In Which We Serve (producer - as Noel Coward)

Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)

1957 Witness for the Prosecution (dialogue director - uncredited)
1950 Golden Salamander (industry consultant - uncredited)

Self (18 credits)

Archive footage (22 credits)

Statue of Noel Coward on the grounds of Firefly, his former home, Jamaica
Arnie Weissmann, photographer