On This Day

RichardTheBruce

August 23rd

1963: Last day of principal photography for From Russia With Love.
1966: The New York Times reports the Japanese Cultural Assets Protection Committee suspended filming of You Only Live Twice due to damage caused by Japanese actors to Himeji Castle.

1978: Variety reports the change from Pinewood to Paris sound stages, based on financial benefits.

1988: Licence to Kill films Bond's first scene riding in a limousine with Felix Leiter and Sharkey.

1997: First-person shooter video game GoldenEye 007, developed by Rare/published by Nintendo, released in Japan for Nintendo 64.

2006: The New York Times crossword. 57 Across. _ _ _ _ _ _ Largo. James Bond villain.

E M I L I O

2006: Casino Royale films Bond ordering that martini.
2007: Seven days of Quantum of Solace second unit filming begins in Madrid, Spain.

2008: Six to Start releases the browser-based game The Shadow War, based on By Royal Command by Charlie Higson.

jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/The_Shadow_War

2017: A patch comes available for unofficial Nightfire play.

New Dedicated Server Files for Nightfire

http://nightfirepc.com/
August 23, 2017

We've released a new patch for dedicated server users.

Go to the downloads page to get it.
http://nightfirepc.com/downloads/

2022: Cinedigm premieres GoldenEye 007 Nintendo 64 documentary GoldenEra.

'GoldenEye 007' Nintendo 64 Documentary
'GoldenEra' Acquired by Cinedigm [Exclusive]

See the complete article here:

https://collider.com/goldeneye-007-nintendo-64-documentary-goldenera-cinedigm-acquisition/

By Erick Massoto | Published Aug 11, 2022

The documentary is set to premiere on August 23.

Image via Cinedigm

Ask any video game enthusiast to list the best titles from the late 90s and you’re bound to hear GoldenEye 007 ten times out of ten. The James Bond-inspired game defined a whole generation of players and game designers while also showcasing the potential of future releases for the next two decades. This is all documented in GoldenEra, a film that takes an in-depth look at the rise and fall of the innovative team behind the landmark game. Today, Cinedigm revealed exclusively to Collider that it has acquired the title and shared with us when you will be able to watch the documentary: It arrives on Digital and On Demand in just about two weeks, on August 23.

GoldenEye is, of course, based on the James Bond 1995 movie starring Pierce Brosnan, who played the iconic British spy before Daniel Craig took over the role. However, the Nintendo 64 video game became popular even among people who didn’t follow the film series. The title catapulted the popularity of 3D gaming and the first-person shooter style, not to mention its revolutionary graphics (for the time).

GoldenEra brings front and center the people who helped shape and lived through this cultural change in the gaming world. The documentary features interviews with Peer Schneider, Chief Content Officer at IGN, Robert Bowling, FMR Creative Strategist at Infinity Ward and face of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, and Mick Gordon, Music Composer on DOOM Eternal, Wolfenstein, and Prey – all of which are also huge titles in the first-person shooter genre.

In an official statement, Chief Content Officer at Cinedigm Yolanda Macias commented on the video game legacy of GoldenEye and why GoldenEra is such an important title for their catalog:

“Even two decades after its release, 'GoldenEye' still has a massive impact on modern-day gaming. There is so much for fans to love about this documentary. Whether you’re a fan of gaming, CONs, the 90s or James Bond, this film encapsulates that era so precisely and it brings on a nostalgia factor.”

Cinedigm premieres GoldenEra on August 23 on Digital and On Demand.

You can check out the official synopsis here:

'GoldenEra' seeks to celebrate a watershed moment in gaming history. To reconnect players and fans of the original game with a time and place, when gaming was social, communal and awe-inspiring. The documentary also explores the creative process behind the game, the culture in which innovation thrived, and the team from countryside England whose ambition, innovation and ingenuity, resulted in countless hours of joy for players around the world. Told by academics, journalists, celebrities and the game’s designers, 'GoldenEra' reconnects fans with this one-of-a-kind game.

GoldenEra (2022)

2022 | 1h 39m

Tells the story of the creation and legacy of the video gameGoldenEye 007 (1997) for the Nintendo 64.

Director - Drew Roller
Writers - Brok Power (story by), Drew Roller (story by), Jim Miskell (story by).
Stars - Ben Potter (voice), Robert Bowling, Tristan Ogilvie.

GoldenEra (GoldenEye Documentary) - Official Trailer (1:29)


Full documentary on Tubi (1:44:04)
https://tubitv.com/movies/691128/goldenera

RichardTheBruce

August 24th

1937: Connie Mason is born--Washington, District of Columbia.

1967: Casino Royale released in Uruguay.

1982: Octopussy's first day of circus filming.
1989: A magányos ügynök (The Lone Agent) released in Hungary.

1991: BBC Radio 2 broadcasts a two-part special on John Barry. (Concludes 31 August.)

2020: Heineken Vietnam starts a No Time To Die promotion for residents of Ho Chi Mihn City anticipating a 13 November premiere (later delayed).

HEINEKEN reveals limited edition James Bond packs
with over one million exclusive prizes and Epic 007
experiences for Vietnamese fans

See the complete article here:

https://heineken-vietnam.com.vn/en/news-events/press-release/heineken-reveals-limited-edition-james-bond-packs-with-over-one-million-exclusive-prizes-and-epic-007-experiences-for-vietnamese-fans.html

Ho Chi Minh City, August 28, 2020 – Heineken® has been the proud partner of the James Bond franchise for over 20 years, since 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies. This year, Heineken® continues its long-standing global partnership with the 25th James Bond film, No Time To Die

To celebrate the release of No Time To Die in Vietnam on November 13 2020, Heineken® has launched its limited edition Heineken® James Bond. The new 007 packaging features the James Bond silhouette on Heineken®’s iconic green and red star. Heineken® James Bond packaging will be available in 330ml bottles and cans (both sleek and regular version).

Commenting on the latest James Bond campaign, Ms. Anna Bizon, Marketing Director of HEINEKEN Vietnam, said: “James Bond and Heineken® are instantly recognizable premium brands that share many of the same aspirational qualities. Ahead of the global release of the latest James Bond film, No Time To Die, we want to give Vietnamese fans access to the world of James Bond - with the launch of limited edition Heineken® James Bond packs. Special Heineken® James Bond packaging comes with over one million prizes and an exciting digital adventure.”

From August 24, 2020, consumers in Ho Chi Minh City will stand a chance to win one of the million exclusive on-pack prizes, including: 250 prizes which is one tael of gold for each prize; 2,500 Heineken® power banks; 25,000 Heineken® umbrellas and over one million Heineken® Silver cans. The promotion is only available on special Heineken® James Bond cans with the text “Open the can to win 007 prizes” on the packaging. Redemption period starts from 24 August to 7 December 2020 and products are distributed in Ho Chi Minh City.

“Open the can to win 007 prizes” with over one million prizes

For consumers outside Ho Chi Minh City, from 14 September, Heineken® will present them with the Heineken® James Bond packaging with a special QR code. Using mobile phone, consumers can simply scan this QR code to unlock a digital adventure and experience a series of exhilarating missions to challenge themselves as Heineken agents. Leading Vietnamese influencers will join consumers to unlock these James Bond inspired challenges. The QR code is available only on Heineken® James Bond cans with the text “Scan the QR code to win 007 prizes” on the packaging.

Both campaigns are only open for consumers from 18 years old and above. For more information, please visit the official Facebook Fanpage of Heineken® at https://www.facebook.com/HeinekenVN/

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About HEINEKEN Vietnam
HEINEKEN Vietnam is a subsidiary of HEINEKEN, the world’s most international brewer. Originated in the Netherlands, this family-owned business with a history of over 150 years, brews and distributes over 300 beer & cider brands in more than 190 countries.

HEINEKEN Vietnam was established in 1991 and operates six breweries in Hanoi, Da Nang, Quang Nam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vung Tau, Tien Giang and ten offices across Vietnam.

From humble beginnings with only 20 employees in Vietnam, HEINEKEN Vietnam is now the second largest brewer in Vietnam with more than 3,500 employees. HEINEKEN Vietnam makes a significant annual economic contribution to Vietnam, amounting to approximately 0.95% of the nation’s total GDP.

In Vietnam, HEINEKEN produces and distributes Heineken®, Tiger, Larue, BIVINA, Bia Viet, Sol, Affligem and Strongbow cider.

In 2017, 2018 and 2019, HEINEKEN Vietnam was recognized among the top most sustainable companies in Vietnam by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and as a best place to work in Asia by HR Asia Magazine, one of Asia’s leading publications for HR professionals.

More information about HEINEKEN Vietnam is available on HEINEKEN Vietnam’s website: http://heineken-vietnam.com.vn/

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For more information, please contact:
Ms. Nguyen Huong Mai
Head of Communications
HEINEKEN Vietnam Brewery Limited Company
Telephone: +84 28 3822 2755
Email: [email protected]

Heineken debuts limited edition
James Bond packs

See the complete article here:

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/heineken-debuts-limited-edition-james-bond-packs-4158581.html

By Anh Nguyen September 8, 2020 | 11:00 am GMT+7
Heineken has launched its limited edition Heineken James Bond packaging in Vietnam ahead of the premiere of No Time To Die, scheduled on November 13, 2020.

This year, Heineken continues its long-standing global partnership with James Bond, one of the most iconic characters in cinematic history, in the latest James Bond film. The firm has been a partner of the James Bond franchise for over 20 years, since 1997’s Tomorrow Never Dies.

The new 007 packaging features the James Bond silhouette prominently displayed on Heineken’s iconic green and red star. Heineken James Bond packaging will be available in 330 ml bottles and cans (both sleek and regular version).

Commenting on the latest James Bond campaign, Anna Bizon, Marketing Director of Heineken Vietnam, said: "James Bond and Heineken are instantly recognizable premium brands that share many of the same aspirational qualities. Ahead of the global release of the latest James Bond film, No Time To Die, we want to give Vietnamese fans exclusive access to the world of James Bond - with the launch of limited edition Heineken James Bond packs."

Special Heineken James Bond packaging comes with over one million prizes and an exciting digital adventure to discover this iconic character, showing how Bond lives beyond the film.

From August 24, 2020, consumers in Ho Chi Minh City will stand a chance to win one of the million exclusive on-pack prizes, including 250 prizes including one tael of gold each; 2,500 Heineken power banks; 25,000 Heineken umbrellas and over one million Heineken Silver cans.

The promotion is only available on special Heineken James Bond cans with the text "Open the can to win 007 prizes" on the packaging. The redemption period starts from August 24 to December 7, 2020, with products only distributed in Ho Chi Minh City.

"Open the can to win 007 prizes".

For consumers outside HCMC, from September 14, Heineken will present them with the Heineken James Bond packaging with a special QR code to discover the extraordinary world of secret agents.

Using their mobile phones, consumers can simply scan this QR code to unlock a digital adventure and experience a series of exhilarating missions to challenge themselves as Bond’s secret agents.

Leading Vietnamese artists and influencers will join consumers to unlock these James Bond missions. The QR code is available only on Heineken James Bond cans with the text "Scan the QR code to win 007 prizes" on the packaging.

Both campaigns are only open for consumers 18 years old and above. For more information, please visit the official Facebook fanpage of Heineken at https://www.facebook.com/HeinekenVN/.

Heineken Vietnam is a subsidiary of Heineken, the world’s most international brewer. Originated in the Netherlands, this family-owned business with a history of over 150 years, brews and distributes over 300 beer & cider brands in more than 190 countries.

Heineken Vietnam was established in 1991 and operates six breweries in Hanoi, Da Nang, Quang Nam, HCMC, Vung Tau, Tien Giang, and ten offices across Vietnam.

From humble beginnings with only 20 employees in Vietnam, Heineken Vietnam is now the second largest brewer nationally with more than 3,500 employees. The company makes a significant annual economic contribution to the country, amounting to approximately 0.95 percent of the nation’s total GDP, according to its data.

In Vietnam, Heineken produces and distributes Heineken®, Tiger, Larue, BIVINA, Bia Viet, Sol, Affligem, and Strongbow cider.

In 2017, 2018 and 2019, Heineken Vietnam was recognized among the top most sustainable companies locally by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and as a best place to work in Asia by HR Asia Magazine, one of the continent’s leading human resources publications.

More information about HEINEKEN Vietnam is available on Heineken Vietnam’s website:

http://heineken-vietnam.com.vn/

RichardTheBruce

August 25th

1925: Maurice Binder is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 9 April 1991 at age 65--London, England.)

Maurice Binder, 73, 007 Film-Title Artist

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/15/obituaries/maurice-binder-73-007-film-title-artist.html

APRIL 15, 1991

Maurice Binder, a graphic arts designer known chiefly for his dazzling title sequences in the James Bond films, died on Tuesday at the University College Hospital in London. He was 73 years old and lived in London.

He died of lung cancer, his brother, Mitchell, said.

Mr. Binder was one of the rare film-title artists to receive rave reviews for his work, which critics said was an essential part of the James Bond success story.

In a review of the 1981 film, "For Your Eyes Only," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times: "And Maurice Binder's opening titles, always one of the fancier features of the Bond movies, are still terrific."

Mr. Binder's unusual witty designs introduced other films including "Indiscreet" in 1958; "The Mouse That Roared," 1959; "The Grass is Greener," 1960; "Repulsion," 1964, and "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," 1971.

He also produced several musicals, and in association with John Quested and Lester Goldsmith, produced the 1979 film "The Passage," starring Anthony Quinn.

Born in New York City, Mr. Binder began his career as assistant art director in Macy's art department.

A resident of London for 27 years, he was honored last year by the National Film Club.

Besides his brother, who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., he is survived by two nieces.

Maurice Binder (1925–1991)
Miscellaneous Crew | Art Department | Visual Effects
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082800/

Filmography

Miscellaneous Crew (84 credits)
1991 The Strauss Dynasty (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 8 episodes)
- Adele (1991) ... (title designer)
- Hetti (1991) ... (title designer)
- Lili (1991) ... (title designer)
- Josef (1991) ... (title designer)
- Revolution of 1848 (1991) ... (title designer)
1990 A Captive in the Land (title designer)
1990 Hamlet (title designer)
1990 The Sheltering Sky (title designer)
1990 Mister Johnson (title designer)

1989 Licence to Kill (title designer)
1988 The Deceivers (title designer)
1987 The Last Emperor (title designer: main title)
1987 The Living Daylights (title designer)
1986 Shanghai Surprise (title designer)
1986 Max mon amour (title designer)
1986 If Tomorrow Comes (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (title designer)
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... (title designer)
- Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (title designer)
1985 A View to a Kill (main title designed by)
1985 Rustlers' Rhapsody (main title design)
1983 Octopussy (main title designed by)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (main title designed by)
1981 Green Ice (main title designer)
1980 The Awakening (titles)
1980 The Sea Wolves (titles)

1979 Moonraker (title designer: main titles)
1978 The Wild Geese (main title designed by)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (main title designed by)
1976 Shout at the Devil (title designer: main title)
1975 e'Lollipop (title designer)
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (title designer: main title)
1974 The Little Prince (main title design)
1974 Gold (title designer)
1974 The Tamarind Seed (title designer: main title)
1973 Live and Let Die (main title designed by)
1972 Young Winston (main title designed by)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (main title designed by)
1970 Wuthering Heights (title designer)
1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (title designer: main title)
1970 Brotherly Love (title designer)

1969 A Talent for Loving (designer: main title)
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (main title designed by)
1969 Battle of Britain (title designer: main title)
1969 Staircase (title designer)
1968 Barbarella (titles designer - uncredited)
1968 The Magus (title designer)
1967 Bedazzled (main title)
1967 Billion Dollar Brain (title designer)
1967 The Day the Fish Came Out (title designer)
1967 A Matter of Innocence (title designer: main titles)
1967 Fathom (main title sequence)
1967 You Only Live Twice (main title designed by)
1967 Two for the Road (title designer)
1967 Eye of the Devil (title designer: main titles)
1967 The Taming of the Shrew (main title graphics)
1966 After the Fox (title designer)
1966 Kaleidoscope (title designer: main titles)
1966 Arabesque (title designer: main title)
1966 Promise Her Anything (title designer)
1966 The Chase (main title)
1965 Thunderball (main title designed by)
1965 The Wild Affair (title designer)
1965 Repulsion (title designer - uncredited)
1965 Young Cassidy (title designer)
1964 The 7th Dawn (title designer: main titles)
Espionage (TV Series) (titles - 22 episodes, 1963 - 1964) (titles designed by - 2 episodes, 1963 - 1964)
- A Tiny Drop of Poison (1964) ... (titles designed by)
- A Free Agent (1964) ... (titles)
- Some Other Kind of World (1964) ... (titles)
- The Liberators (1964) ... (titles)
- Once a Spy... (1964) ... (titles)
1964 The Long Ships (prologue and main title by)
1963 Charade (main title designed by)
1963 Summer Flight (title designer: main titles)
1963 The Running Man (main titles by)
1963 The Mouse on the Moon (title designer)
1963 Call Me Bwana (main title design)
1963 I Could Go on Singing (title designer: main titles)
1962 Dr. No (main title designed by)
1962 Sodom and Gomorrah (prologue and main title design)
1962 Reach for Glory (title designer)
1962 The Road to Hong Kong (title designer)
1961 Goodbye Again (title designer: main title)
1960 The Grass Is Greener (title designer: main title)
1960 Surprise Package (main title designed by)

1959-1960 Hotel de Paree (TV Series) (title designer - 11 episodes)
- Sundance and the Fallen Sparrow (1960) ... (title designer)
- Sundance and the Long Trek (1960) ... (title designer)
- Vengeance for Sundance (1960) ... (title designer)
- Sundance and the Black Widow (1960) ... (title designer)
- Sundance and the Greenhorn Trader (1960) ... (title designer)
1960 Purple Noon (title designer)
1960 Once More, with Feeling! (title designer)
1959 The Mouse That Roared (titles designed by)
1959 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) (title designer - 7 episodes)
- Design for Murder (1959) ... (title designer)
- Family Affair (1959) ... (title designer)
- Rough Cut (1959) ... (title designer)
- Hideout (1959) ... (title designer)
- The Limping Man (1959) ... (title designer)
1959 The Young Philadelphians (title designer - uncredited)
1958 Damn Yankees (title designer: main titles - uncredited)
1958 Indiscreet (title designer - uncredited)
1957 The James Dean Story (Documentary) (title designer)
1951 Cry Danger (assistant to producer)

Art department (9 credits)
1985 King David (graphic designer)
1984 Oxford Blues (graphic designer)
1982 Twilight Time (graphics)
1982 The Final Option (graphic artist)
1980 The Sea Wolves (graphic design)
1978 Brass Target (graphic artist)
1977 A Little Night Music (graphics)
1964 Of Human Bondage (graphic designer)
1963 I Could Go on Singing (graphic designer)

Visual effects (2 credits)
1980 The Final Countdown (special visual effects) / (storm sequence)
1979 Dracula (visual consultant)
Hide Hide Director (1 credit)
1960 The Children of Lindos (Short)
Hide Hide Art director (1 credit)
1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series)
Hide Hide Producer (1 credit)
1979 The Passage (associate producer)
Hide Hide Self (2 credits)
1977 The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (TV Series documentary)
Himself
- Producing (1977) ... Himself
1976 Die Titelmacher (TV Movie)
Himself

Archive footage (4 credits)
2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary)
Himself
2000 Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (Video documentary short)
Himself
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short)
Himself
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary)
Himself

1930: Sir Thomas Sean Connery is born--Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland.
(He dies 31 October 2020 at age 90--Lyford Cay, New Providence Island, The Bahamas.)

2008

Sean Connery recalls 'first big break'

See the complete article here:

https://www.modernghana.com/music/7892/3/sean-connery-recalls-first-big-break.html

26 August 2008 | General News - Tonight

Movie star, Bond icon, philanthropist, proud Scot, political activist - now Sean Connery can also call himself an author.

Connery, who shot to international fame as Ian Fleming's fictional spy James Bond, unveiled his new autobiography, Being a Scot, in his hometown of Edinburgh yesterday - his 78th birthday.

He told the audience that it wasn't the blockbuster Dr No that changed his life the most, but his schooling during his impoverished childhood.

"My first big break was when I was five because I had learned to read and write. I am sure prisons and asylums are full of people who cannot read or write," Connery said. "It took me more than 70 years to realise that.

"It's that simple and it's that profound. I left school at 13 and had no formal education (beyond that). When I realised I wanted to become an actor and not a football player, I went out and got myself an education, I read and I went to the theatre."

His frame is not as sturdy as it was when he ordered his martinis shaken, not stirred, or when he entered a Mr Universe competition, and Connery needed help hearing questions at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

But he spoke clearly of Scottish nationalism, his life as an actor, his love of soccer and golf, and Donald Trump's proposed golf resort in Scotland.

Being a Scot describes Connery's early life as a milkman in the city's Fountainbridge neighbourhood, then takes a broad look at Scottish culture, including the work of poet Robert Burns and novelist Walter Scott.

Connery is a vocal supporter of the pro-independence Scottish National Party. He lives in the Bahamas and has said he would not live in Scotland again until it gains independence from the UK.

"There is a lack of Scottish history in our schools," he said. "It was always about English kings and queens, Scotland just didn't figure, it was just about all things English."

He was the first and, many say, the best Bond. Connery also starred in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade and The Untouchables, which earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Director Steven Spielberg's once said Connery was one of seven genuine movie stars - a claim that seemed to embarrass the actor.

"I didn't pay much attention to that. I was more interested in how much money I made," he said. "The status was not something I was generally interested in or thought about."

...

The actor quit acting in 2004 and turned down a role in the latest Indiana Jones movie, but he hinted that he would continue to work.

"I have come into a different cycle in my life since I decided not to do any more films. I have a feeling that something is cooking, something is afoot. I don't quite know what it is yet."

Source:Tonight

1934: John Stears is born--Uxbridge, Hillingdon, Middlesex, England.
(He dies 28 April 1999 at age 64--Los Angeles, California.)

Obituary: John Stears

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-john-stears-1107368.html

Tom Vallance | Monday 19 July 1999 00:02

WINNER OF two Academy Awards, for his work on Thunderball and Star Wars, John Stears was one of the film industry's top men for special visual effects and many of his innovations are incorporated into the work of today's film-makers.

For the early James Bond films, he served as the real-life incarnation of the ingenious "Q", creating such gadgets and vehicles as the Aston Martin of Goldfinger which has been described as "the most famous car in the world". For Star Wars he worked with the production designer John Barry to conceive the unforgettable robots C3PO and R2-D2, and among his other memorable achievements were the flying car of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the model work for the British film about the Titanic, A Night to Remember, and the explosive demolition work in The Guns of Navarone.

Born in 1934, Stears studied at Harrow College of Art and Southall Technical School before working as a draughtsman with the Air Ministry. He served as a dispatch rider during his National Service, then joined a firm of architects where he was able to utilise his passion for model-making by constructing scale models of building projects for clients.

The firm also specialised in model aircraft, and when Rank's special effects expert Bill Warrington saw some of Stears's work he commissioned him to build model aircraft for Lewis Gilbert's screen version of the life of the pilot Douglas Bader, Reach for the Sky (1956).

Signed to a contract by the Rank Organisation, Stears worked with Warrington and Gilbert on three more true-life stories, creating model boats and planes for A Night to Remember (1958), in which Kenneth More, who had played Bader, was Second Officer Lightoller of the Titanic, Carve Her Name With Pride (1958), which starred Virginia McKenna as the British shop assistant Violette Szabo who became a resistance heroine, and Sink the Bismarck! (1960), with Kenneth More as an Admiralty captain intent on destroying Germany's prize battleship. Other Rank films included The One That Got Away (1957), Sea Fury (1958) and Gilbert's HMS Defiant (1962).

Having acquired a reputation impressive enough for him to freelance, Stears was hired to both build and destroy gun miniatures for J. Lee Thompson's exciting transcription of the Alistair MacLean adventure tale The Guns of Navarone (1961), then he created effects for two Disney films, In Search of the Castaways (1962) and the fantasy Three Lives of Thomasina (1962).

The producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman then asked Stears to work with them on a production which was to prove momentous in starting one of the most successful series in cinema history. It was the team's first adaptation of one of Ian Fleming's James Bond stories, Dr No (1962), and Stears's work on the film's finale, the destruction of Dr No's Jamaican hideout, still impresses today.

Aware of the importance of Stears's contribution to the film's success, Broccoli and Saltzman made him head of their special effects department for their next Bond production, From Russia With Love (1963), for which he both created and flew the first remote- controlled helicopter used in a film, and constructed the bizarre knife- toed boots for the Soviet spy Rosa Klebb. Still only 29 years old, Stears confessed later that he was having the time of his life and he described his job as "not really work but the chance to play . . . using other people's money!"

The next Bond film, Goldfinger (1964), included three of Stears's favourite creations, the lethal laser ray which nearly bisects Bond, the steel-rimmed bowler employed as a deadly frisbee by the villain Oddjob, and the famous Aston Martin. In the book, Fleming's hero drives a DB3, but Stears wanted to use the not yet available DB5, a sleekly photogenic model, and he persuaded the manufacturers to provide him with a prototype, which the effects wizard fitted with bullet-proof glass, a fog maker, revolving number plates, road slicker, machine guns and a passenger ejector seat. "I was never certain we would make the seat work," said Stears, "but in the end we did the stunt in one take."

The fourth Bond film Thunderball (1965) was one of the weaker dramatically but Stears did not disappoint, his effects including a rocket-firing motor cycle, an underwater flying saucer, large-scale models of a Vulcan bomber which he then sank in the waters of the Bahamas, and a life-size replica of the villain's yacht which he blew to pieces.

His work on the film brought him his first Oscar for Best Visual Effects. His old friend Lewis Gilbert directed the next Bond film, You Only Live Twice (1967), which included a flying machine that gobbles up a space capsule in outer space, after which Stears had a break from Bond when he worked on Broccoli's production Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) with its flying car.

If asked to pick a favourite Bond film, Stears used to say that the one he most enjoyed working on was On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), partly because he admired its star George Lazenby, who insisted on performing many of his own stunts. It was the start of a lifelong friendship between the two men, both mechanically minded motor bike enthusiasts. For the film, the most challenging moment came when Stears had to set off an avalanche on cue.

In 1970 Stears set up his own company, and worked on such films as Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man! (1973) and Douglas Hickox's Theatre of Blood (1973) in which a ham actor (Vincent Price) murders hostile critics by recreating death scenes from Shakespeare's plays. He returned to Bond for a final time to create effects including Scaramanga's flying car in The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), which featured Roger Moore as Bond.

In 1976 Stears had a call from George Lucas, who had been a great admirer of the Bond films and wanted to know if he was interested in creating mechanical and electrical effects for a film he had written, Star Wars. It was the opportunity to create things that had never been attempted before and Stears enthusiastically accepted.

The phenomenal hit that resulted brought Stears his second Oscar and featured such innovations as Luke Skywalker's Land-speeder, ostensibly a hover-car but actually a four-wheeled vehicle to which Stears had fitted mirrors angled to reflect the Tunisian desert and thus create the illusion that the craft was skimming over the ground. The Lightsabers, the Death Star with its threatening cannons, the robots both manually and remote- controlled, and the metallic suit for C3PO were other Stears creations, along with countless explosions, including the final destruction of the Death Star.

Stears worked again with the first Bond, Sean Connery, on Peter Hyams's Outland (1981), set on a 21st-century planet where space marshal Connery finds himself fighting a lone battle against wholesale corruption.

Subsequent films included The Bounty (1984), an intriguingly unconventional depiction of the famous mutiny, with Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson, and a thriller for which Stears was aptly called in as a special consultant since it featured a special effects expert as its hero, F/X: murder by illusion, in which Bryan Brown played an effects man hired to make a faked assassination appear real, only to find that he is himself the victim of a Mafia plot and has to bring all his ingenuity into play to defend himself. A modest success at the time of its release, it is now considered a cult movie.

In 1988 Stears hoped to produce a film but was unable to obtain sufficient financial backing, and in 1993, after producing effects for the Charlie Sheen vehicle Navy SEALS, he retired to California with his wife Brenda, whom he married in 1960, and two daughters. For most of his life he had lived on an estate in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, where he reared cattle and where his wife ran the Livy Borzoi Kennels, breeding Borzoi show dogs.

In California he continued to indulge his passion for building and flying model aircraft - his wife stated that at the time of his death there were a dozen aircraft in their garage, the latest a Fiat on which Stears had worked for three years and which had a 15-foot wing span. A supremely fit man until suffering a stroke two days before his death, he would ride his 1927 McEvoy motor bike, complete with sidecar built by himself, down to Malibu every Sunday along with his neighbour George Lazenby where they would join around 200 other bike enthusiasts at a beach-front cafe.

He returned to films with last year's The Mask of Zorro, staging the explosions for the film's early action sequences, but left midway through production after artistic disagreements, and at the time of his death was working on a screenplay set in the First World War and seen from the point of view of German aircraft designers.

John Stears, special effects designer: born 25 August 1934; married 1960 Brenda Livy (two daughters); died Malibu, California 28 April 1999.

John Stears (1934–1999)

Special Effects | Visual Effects | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Filmography

Special effects (35 credits)
1998 The Mask of Zorro (special effects coordinator)
1994 Babylon 5 (TV Series) (special effects coordinator - 1 episode)
- Infection (1994) ... (special effects coordinator)
1993 The Gathering (TV Movie) (special effects coordinator)
1990 Navy Seals (special effects)
1986 Haunted Honeymoon (special effects consultant)
1986 Miracles (special effects supervisor)
1986 F/X (special effects consultant)
1984 The Bounty (special effects supervisor)
1983 Sahara (special effects supervisor)
1982 Turkey Shoot (special effects)
1981 Outland (special effects)
1980 Hopscotch (special effects)
1980 The Awakening (special effects)
1980 The Martian Chronicles (TV Mini-Series) (special effects supervisor - 3 episodes)
- The Martians (1980) ... (special effects supervisor)
- The Settlers (1980) ... (special effects supervisor)
- The Expeditions (1980) ... (special effects supervisor)

1977 The Last Remake of Beau Geste (special effects supervisor)
1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (special production & mechanical effects supervisor)
1976 Sky Riders (special effects)
1975 That Lucky Touch (special effects supervisor)
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (special effects)
1973 Ghost in the Noonday Sun (special effects)
1973 O Lucky Man! (special effects)
1973 Theater of Blood (special effects)
1972 Sitting Target (special effects)
1972 The Pied Piper (special effects)
1971 Fiddler on the Roof (special effects - uncredited)
1971 Catch Me a Spy (special effects)
1970 Toomorrow (special effects)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (special effects)
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (special effects)
1967 You Only Live Twice (special effects) / (special effects supervisor - uncredited)
1965 Court Martial (TV Series) (special effects supervisor)
1965 Thunderball (special effects)
1964 Goldfinger (special effects)
1963 From Russia with Love (special effects)
1963 Call Me Bwana (special effects)

Visual effects (6 credits)
1982 Megaforce (visual effects: Introvision)
1978 The Thief of Baghdad (TV Movie) (magic carpet)
1975 One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (special photographic effects)
1960 Sink the Bismarck! (model ships - uncredited)
1957 The One That Got Away (special processes - uncredited)
1956 Reach for the Sky (model aircraft - uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
1980 The Martian Chronicles (TV Mini-Series) (second unit director - 3 episodes)
- The Martians (1980) ... (second unit director)
- The Settlers (1980) ... (second unit director)
- The Expeditions (1980) ... (second unit director)

Self (11 credits)
2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Ken Adam: Designing Bond (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Himself
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself
1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself

1978 The 50th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) - Himself - Winner

Archive footage (1 credit)
2000 The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (Video documentary short) - Himself

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1966: You Only Live Twice films Bond's wedding.

1977: James Bond 007 – Der Spion, der mich liebte released in Germany.

1997: First-person shooter video game GoldenEye 007, developed by Rare/published by Nintendo, released in North America for Nintendo 64.

2006: The Spy Who Loved Me re-released at the Empire Leicester Square Cinema for one week.

2017: From Russia With Love re-released in Chile.
2017: Entertainment Weekly proposes no better Bond film since GoldenEye 007.

What the James Bond
movies can learn from
the GoldenEye video
game

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https://ew.com/gaming/2017/08/25/james-bond-goldeneye-nintendo-64/

By Darren Franich | August 25, 2017

Goldeneye007 Nintendo 64 James Bond
Credit: Nintendo; Stephen Vaughan

It’s been 20 years since the release of GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64. No James Bond video game has ever been better, not even close. Has any James Bond movie been better since then?

A question worth pondering, even if any answer is intangible. Ridiculous, maybe, to compare the franchise across the media. Developed by Rare, GoldenEye 007 is a game with a good single-player story mode and a good multiplayer mode, thus representing hours of entertainment for moody teen loners and raucous sleepover friend-groups. Any singular feature film can only be shorter, time-wise, but it also features actual humans, and the uncontrollable nature of un-interactive art demands your attention and your empathy and the fundamental denial of your own importance. (A single second from a great movie can loom larger in memory than fifty hours of multiplayer battles through well-traveled digital landscapes.)

The two decades post-GoldenEye have seen two acclaimed 007 films: Poker-Parkourist Casino Royale and Freudian-fantastical Skyfall. The video game ranks higher in cultural history than any of then-Bond Pierce Brosnan’s actual movies, but maybe that’s an unfair comparison, too. The movie GoldenEye has to at least pretend to take seriously the ridiculous story. (Renegade Cold War revenants bank-rob all England via EMP pulse, because Cossacks!) The game GoldenEye gets to make the movie’s plot more ridiculous, because anything dumb looks purposefully silly in 64-bit pixels.

The miracle of GoldenEye‘s creation comes up all the time in gamer circles. It remains the best licensed video game of all time, and most licensed video games aren’t even halfway decent. (The second Arkham game comes closest, and probably tops your list if you think more story is good story.) But it holds a strange, separate place in Bond history. The 007 movies under Craig get credit, sometimes undeserved, for reboot-y throat-clearing. But the films have trended self-referential since the millennium, becoming more laden with callbacks, the Goldfinger car, the bikini knife, SPECTRE, Blofeld.

Blofeld! [shakes fist at the vogue for unnecessary continuity and incoherent third-act twists]We know now that current star Daniel Craig will return for one last go-round as James Bond. There will be much hand-wringing over how this final film can improve or fix the previous film – as there was with Skyfall after Quantum of Solace, with Casino Royale after Die Another Day, with GoldenEye after Licence to Kill, with For Your Eyes Only after Moonraker, so on ever backwards. Are there things the Bond movies can learn from the single best Bond non-film thing of the last half-century? Consider this a fond list of the unusual successes of GoldenEye 007, some of them suggested playfully but all of them quite serious:

1. Have a sense of humor
Like many projects considered violent or intense upon release, GoldenEye 007 looks endearingly cartoonish in hindsight. Some of that is the natural evolution of video game aesthetics towards greater “realism,” but the game was always more lighthearted than contemporaneous shooters in the post-Doom era. The production team, led by director Martin Hollis, had a puckish anti-cool sensibility when it came to building the multiplayer modes – this was the game where you could literally select SLAPPERS ONLY as an option for weapons-free showdowns.

I’m not saying the Bond movies should, like, consider filling the agent’s weapons with paintballs, or film some scenes in Big Head mode. But the last few films have trended self-serious beyond absurdity – recall how Spectre featured a somber conversation about a meteorite. The Kingsman movies and the underrated (and wholly unnecessary) Man from U.N.C.L.E. remake are fine counterexamples of espionage thrillers with wit. And we know Craig’s funny – look at Logan Lucky!

2. Bring back the energetic music!
GoldenEye 007 composers Graeme Norgate, Grant Kirkhope, and Robin Beanland reimagined the die-hardiest of Bond anthems into infini-jazz technotronica. The music’s ardently goofy – the orchestra hits on the Frigate mission sound like a ten-year-old running wild with her big brother’s keyboard. It also has the kind of junk-rock swagger that the movie franchise’s music mostly lost years ago. Remember always that the original Bond theme depends on a surf-rock guitar played by a low-paid twentysomething.

Speaking as the lunatic who kind of likes Madonna’s “Die Another Day” song, I’m willing to admit that the only barely beloved Bond theme in the modern age is the one sung by your friend Adele. But beyond the “Skyfall” theme, the recent soundtracks have trended same-y, not particularly memorable, un-hummably “intense.” Thomas Newman’s percussive Day of the Dead theme from Spectre is a step in the right direction, but that direction points unmissably towards the funny-scary chorus hymns in Severnaya.

3. Unabashedly adore the character’s history…
Like most long-running franchises, the Bond movie saga has struggled a bit with its perspective on its own history. There are teasing references backwards – and Sean Connery was almost cast as a paternal-ish figure in Skyfall. But there’s also a general, very Dark Knight-y concern about paying homage to some of the character’s goofier traits. They brought back Q but the gadgets remain dull-y functional – a sign of realism, maybe, or to product-place wristwatches rather than jetpacks.

Say this for the GoldenEye game: It embraces all of Bond’s history. The final two secret levels sequelize Moonraker and The Man With the Golden Gun and Live and Let Die, three flavors of ’70s goofery. Unlockable characters from Bond myth assured that millennials probably know more about Jaws and Oddjob than any bad guy from an actual ’90s Bond movie. Maybe Craig’s version of going out strong is returning his version of the character back to grimdark zero, but you wonder if the franchise would benefit just as much from a touch of Doctor Whoification. (Consider: A Council of Bonds.)

4. …or at least root the character in actual history
The GoldenEye movie kicks off with a Soviet-era prologue before flashing forward to the then-“modern” day. One of the niftier narrative ideas added to the GoldenEye game is to extend that prologue into a complete Act One, following Bond on a mission to Perestroika-era Severnaya and Iron Curtain-era Kyrgyzstan.

Some of this was probably just a nifty shorthand towards more content; Bond returns to Severnaya in later levels, which means the developers could use the same map (with different post-Soviet colors!). But that decision builds up the idea of Bond as a character with a long-running history, who exists in some recognizable version of the real political world.

The Craig-era Bond movies have cycled a couple times through the notion of the character having an origin story: Fine. But that decision – mixed with the idea to continui-tize the villains into a collective cabal in Spectre – has also cut Bond off from all recent real-life geopolitical history. The character doesn’t need to be openly political, of course, but part of the fundamental appeal of the original Ian Fleming character was the suggestion that he’d been involved in real-world espionage events. Let’s give Craig’s Bond some real history, a sense of involvement in espionage activities that don’t involve Illuminati-ish conspiracies with acronymic names.

5. Get young, hungry talent
The GoldenEye 007 team was composed of wildly imaginative programmers, many of them essentially rookies. A programmer named David Doak recalled the experience of working on the game as “joyful naivete.” And, full credit to the Rare higher-ups, that team was given plenty of time to develop their end-product: The game hit stores two full years after the movie.

Recently, the Bond franchise has depended on old pros and established creators, hiring hot screenwriters like John Logan and Paul Haggis (and keeping Neal Purvis and Robert Wade around for rewrites.) Sam Mendes was a well-established director before he joined the Bond franchise. Experience is great until it isn’t: It either produces Skyfall or Spectre. While the producers plot a sendoff for the long-serving Craig, perhaps they should giving a younger director a turn behind the camera.

6. Think hard about how important objectification is
One of the best things about the Daniel Craig films is how willing the actor has been to turn his own body into an impressive special effect. There is no comparison in earlier incarnations of the franchise; where Craig goes shirtless, Moore went with turtlenecks. This is a happy evolution, I think, for a franchise that turned “psychedelic hot-chick dreamscapes” into a title-sequence trope. Equal-opportunity objectification beats the alternative!

Then again, worth remembering that the best James Bond thing of the ’90s ends with a chaste forest make-out between two androgynous pixel-wax figures. In the Deadpool era, what’s bolder than a G rating?

Goldeneye N64 End Credits

2019: BOND 25 films at Matera, Italy.

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August 26th

1941: Akiko Wakabayashi is born--Tokyo, Japan.

1966: Shirley Manson is born--Edinburgh, Scotland.

1978: Charles Boyer dies at age 78--Phoenix, Arizona.
(Born 28 August 1899--Figeac, France.)

Charles Boyer

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Boyer in 1942

Born 28 August 1899, Figeac, France
Died 26 August 1978 (aged 78), Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.
Cause of death - Severe secobarbital overdose
Burial place - Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, U.S.
Occupation - Actor
Years active - 1920–1976
Spouse(s) - Pat Paterson (m. 1934; died 1978)
Children 1
Awards Academy Honorary Award (1943)

Charles Boyer (French: [bwaje]; 28 August 1899 – 26 August 1978) was a French-American actor who appeared in more than 80 films between 1920 and 1976.[1] After receiving an education in drama, Boyer started on the stage, but he found his success in American films during the 1930s. His memorable performances were among the era's most highly praised, in romantic dramas such as The Garden of Allah (1936), Algiers (1938), and Love Affair (1939), as well as the mystery-thriller Gaslight (1944). He received four Oscar nominations for Best Actor.

Biography
Early years
Boyer was born in Figeac, Lot, France, the son of Augustine Louise Durand and Maurice Boyer, a merchant. Boyer (which means "cowherd" in the Occitan language) was a shy, small town boy who discovered the movies and theatre at the age of eleven.

Early acting career
Boyer performed comic sketches for soldiers while working as a hospital orderly during World War I. He began studies briefly at the Sorbonne, and was waiting for a chance to study acting at the Paris Conservatory.

He went to the capital city to finish his education, but spent most of his time pursuing a theatrical career. In 1920, his quick memory won him a chance to replace the leading man in a stage production, Aux jardins de Murcie. He was successful. Then he appeared in a play La Bataille and Boyer became a theatre star overnight.

In the 1920s, he not only played a suave and sophisticated ladies' man on the stage but also appeared in several silent films.

Early French films
Boyer's first film was L'homme du large (1920), directed by Marcel L'Herbier. He had roles in Chantelouve (1921), Le grillon du foyer (1922), and Esclave (1922).

At first, he performed film roles only for the money and found that supporting roles were unsatisfying. However, with the coming of sound, his deep voice made him a romantic star.

Boyer focused on theatre work for a number of years. He returned to the screen with Infernal Circle (1928), Captain Fracasse (1929), and La barcarolle d'amour (1930).
Early trips to Hollywood

Boyer was first brought to Hollywood by MGM who wanted him to play the Chester Morris part in a French version of The Big House (1930), Révolte dans la prison (1931).

Boyer had an offer from Paramount to appear in a small role in The Magnificent Lie (1931) with Ruth Chatterton, directed by Berthold Viertel. It was his first English speaking role.

He went back to MGM to make Le procès de Mary Dugan (1931), the French version of The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929). He did Tumultes (1931) for director Robert Siodmak.

Then he did the English-language The Man from Yesterday (1932) with Claudette Colbert at Paramount again directed by Viertel. He had a choice small role in Jean Harlow's Red-Headed Woman (1932) at MGM.

Return to France
Boyer went back to France where he starred in F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (1932), Moi et l'impératrice (1933), Les Amoureux (1933) (The Sparrowhawk), and La bataille (1933) with Anabella. The latter was also filmed in an English-language version called The Battle with Merle Oberon replacing Anabella and Boyer reprising his role.

He did The Only Girl (1933) with Lilian Harvey and performed on the Paris stage in Le Bonheur which was another success. It would be the last time he appeared on the Parisian stage.[6]

He returned to Hollywood for Caravan (1934) with Loretta Young at Fox. He was also in the French-language version Caravane, again with Annabella.[9]

Then in France he starred in Liliom (1934), directed by Fritz Lang, his first classic.[10]

Boyer starred in some English language movies: Thunder in the East (1934) and The Only Girl (1934).

In France he was in Le bonheur (1934), reprising his stage performance for director Marcel L'Herbier.

Walter Wanger
Boyer co-starred with Claudette Colbert in the psychiatric drama Private Worlds (1935) for Walter Wanger at Paramount. He signed a five-year contract with Wanger.[11]

Then he romanced Katharine Hepburn in Break of Hearts (1935) for RKO, and Loretta Young in Shanghai (1935) for Wanger.

Boyer became an international star with Mayerling (1936), co-starring Danielle Darrieux and directed by Anatole Litvak. Boyer played Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria.

Back in Hollywood he was teamed with Marlene Dietrich in The Garden of Allah (1936) for David O. Selznick. He and Dietrich were reunited on I Loved a Soldier (1936) for director Henry Hathaway at Paramount but the film was abandoned.

Boyer paired with Jean Arthur in History Is Made at Night (1937) for Wanger, and Greta Garbo in Conquest (1937) at MGM (where he played Napoleon Bonaparte). Boyer's fee for the latter was $150,000 but with all the re-takes he wound up earning $450,000.

Boyer returned to France briefly to make Orage (1938), opposite Michèle Morgan for director Marc Allégret.

Back in Hollywood he had the lead in Tovarich (1937) with Claudette Colbert, directed by Litvak.

With Sigrid Gurie and Hedy Lamarr in Algiers (1938)

In 1938, he landed his famous role as Pepe le Moko, the thief on the run in Algiers, an English-language remake of the classic French film Pepe le Moko with Jean Gabin, produced by Wanger. Although in the movie Boyer never said to costar Hedy Lamarr "Come with me to the Casbah," this line was in the movie trailer. The line would stick with him, thanks to generations of impressionists and Looney Tunes parodies.Boyer's role as Pepe Le Moko was already world-famous when animator Chuck Jones based the character of Pepé Le Pew, the romantic skunk introduced in 1945's Odor-able Kitty, on Boyer and his most well-known performance. Boyer's vocal style was also parodied on the Tom and Jerry cartoons, most notably when Tom was trying to woo a female cat. (See The Zoot Cat).

Boyer made two films with Irene Dunne: Love Affair (1939) at RKO and When Tomorrow Comes (1939) at Universal.

World War II
He went back to France to make Le corsaire (1939) for Marc Allégret. He was making the movie in Nice when France declared war on Germany in September 1939. Production ceased on the declaration of war. Boyer joined the French army. The film was never completed, although some footage of it was later released.

By November, Boyer was discharged from the army and back in Hollywood as the French government thought he would be of more service making films.

Boyer played in three classic film love stories: All This, and Heaven Too (1940) with Bette Davis, directed by Litvak at Warners; as the ruthless cad in Back Street (1941) with Margaret Sullavan, at Universal; and Hold Back the Dawn (1941) with Olivia de Havilland and Paulette Goddard, at Paramount.

In contrast to his glamorous image, Boyer began losing his hair early, had a pronounced paunch, and was noticeably shorter than leading ladies like Ingrid Bergman. When Bette Davis first saw him on the set of All This, and Heaven Too, she did not recognize him and tried to have him removed.

Universal
In January 1942 Boyer signed a three-year contract with Universal to act and produce. The contract would cover nine films.

Before he started the contract he finished a film at Warners, The Constant Nymph (1943) with Joan Fontaine.

Boyer was reunited with Sullavan in Appointment for Love (1942) at Universal and was one of many stars in Tales of Manhattan (1942), directed by Julien Duvivier and Immortal France (1942). He became a US citizen in 1942.

He was one of many stars in Flesh and Fantasy (1943) which he also produced with Julien Duvivier at Universal. He was an uncredited producer on Duvivier's Destiny (1944).

In 1943, he was awarded an Honorary Oscar Certificate for "progressive cultural achievement" in establishing the French Research Foundation in Los Angeles as a source of reference (certificate).

Boyer had one of his biggest hits with Gaslight (1944) with Ingrid Bergman and Joseph Cotten. He followed it with Together Again (1944) with Dunne; Congo (1944), a short; and Confidential Agent (1945) with Lauren Bacall, at Warners.

Charles Boyer in 1955

Boyer began his post war career with Cluny Brown (1946) with Jennifer Jones directed by Ernst Lubitsch. He was Warners highest paid actor at this stage earning $205,000 in 1945.

In 1947, he was the voice of Capt. Daniel Gregg in the Lux Radio Theater's presentation of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir,[23] played in the film by Rex Harrison. In 1948, he was made a chevalier of the French Légion d'honneur. That year he did a thriller A Woman's Vengeance (1948).

Another film he did with Bergman, Arch of Triumph (1948), failed at the box office and Boyer was no longer the box office star he had been. "If you are in a big flop, nobody wants you," he said later.

Broadway
Boyer went to Broadway, where he made his first appearance in Red Gloves (1948–49), based on Dirty Hands by Jean-Paul Sartre,[24] which went for 113 performances.

In 1951, he appeared on the Broadway stage in one of his most notable roles, that of Don Juan, in a dramatic reading of the third act of George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman. This is the act popularly known as Don Juan in Hell. In 1952, he won Broadway's 1951 Special Tony Award for Don Juan in Hell. It was directed by actor Charles Laughton. Laughton co-starred as the Devil, with Cedric Hardwicke as the statue of the military commander slain by Don Juan, and Agnes Moorehead as Dona Anna, the commander's daughter, one of Juan's former conquests. The production was a critical success, and was subsequently recorded complete by Columbia Masterworks, one of the first complete recordings of a non-musical stage production ever made. As of 2006, however, it has never been released on CD, but in 2009 it became available as an MP3 download.

Boyer did not abandon cinema: he had leading roles in The 13th Letter (1951), The First Legion (1952), and The Happy Time (1952). He had a character role in Thunder in the East (filmed 1951, released 1953) an Alan Ladd film.

Four Star Playhouse
Boyer moved into television as one of the pioneering producers and stars of the anthology show Four Star Playhouse (1952–56). It was made by Four Star Productions which would make Boyer and partners David Niven and Dick Powell rich.

Boyer returned to France to star in The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) for Max Ophüls alongside Darrieux. While there he was one of many names in Boum sur Paris (1953).

He returned to Broadway for Norman Krasna's Kind Sir (1953–54) directed by Joshua Logan which ran for 166 performances. (In the film version, Indiscreet (1958), Boyer's role was taken by Cary Grant.)

Back in Hollywood, Boyer had a support role in MGM's The Cobweb (1955).

He went back to France to star in Nana (1955) with Martine Carol and then to Italy for What a Woman! (1956) with Sophia Loren.

In 1956, Boyer was a guest star on I Love Lucy and had a cameo in Around the World in 80 Days (1956). In France he had the lead in Paris, Palace Hôtel (1956).

He appeared as the mystery guest on the 10 March 1957 episode of What's My Line?[30]

On 17 March 1957, Boyer starred in an adaptation for TV of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, There Shall Be No Night, by Robert E. Sherwood. The performance starred Katharine Cornell, and was broadcast on NBC as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

He appeared several times in Goodyear Theatre and Alcoa Theatre on TV.

In France, Boyer was one of several stars in It Happened on the 36 Candles (1957) and he co-starred with Brigitte Bardot in La Parisienne (1957) and Michele Morgan in Maxime (1958), the latter directed by Henri Verneuil.

In Hollywood Boyer had a support role in The Buccaneer (1958).

Boyer co-starred again with Claudette Colbert in the Broadway comedy The Marriage-Go-Round (1958–1960), but said to the producer, "Keep that woman away from me".[32] The production was a hit and ran for 431 performances. Boyer did not reprise his performance in the film version. He kept busy doing work for Four Star.[33]

1960s

Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6300 Hollywood Blvd.


With Elsa Martinelli in The Rogues (1964)

Onscreen, he continued in older roles: in Fanny (1961) starring Leslie Caron; Demons at Midnight (1961), in France, the lead; MGM's remake of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962); Adorable Julia (1962) with Lilli Palmer; several episodes of The Dick Powell Theatre; and Love Is a Ball (1963).

He was nominated for the Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) in the 1963 Broadway production of Lord Pengo, which ran for 175 performances.

Later that same year Boyer performed in Man and Boy on the London and New York stage. The Broadway run only went for 54 performances.

Boyer was reunited with David Niven in The Rogues (1964–65), a television series also starring Gig Young. Niven, Boyer and Young revolved from week to week as the episode's leading man, sometimes appearing together.

He had good support roles in A Very Special Favor (1965) with Rock Hudson; How to Steal a Million (1966) with Audrey Hepburn and Peter O'Toole; Barefoot in the Park (1967) with Robert Redford and Jane Fonda. He had cameos in Is Paris Burning? (1966) and Casino Royale (1967) and was top billed in The Day the Hot Line Got Hot (1968).

His career had lasted longer than that of other romantic actors, winning him the nickname "the last of the cinema's great lovers."[19] He recorded a laid-back album called Where Does Love Go in 1966. The album consisted of famous love songs sung (or rather spoken) with Boyer's distinctive deep voice and French accent. The record was reportedly Elvis Presley's favorite album for the last 11 years of his life, the one he most listened to.

Boyer supported in The April Fools (1969) and The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969) and guest starred on The Name of the Game.

1970s
Boyer's son had died in 1965 and Boyer was finding it traumatic to continue living in Los Angeles so in March 1970 he decided to relocate to Europe.

Boyer's final credits included the musical remake of Lost Horizon (1973) and the French film Stavisky (1974), starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, the latter winning him the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor, and also received the Special Tribute at Cannes Film Festival.

Boyer's final performance was in A Matter of Time (1976) with Liza Minnelli and Ingrid Bergman, directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Radio
Boyer was the star of Hollywood Playhouse on NBC in the 1930s, but he left in 1939 "for war service in France," returning on the 3 January 1940, broadcast. When he went on vacation in the summer of 1940, an item in a trade publication reported: "It is an open secret that he doesn't like the present policy of a different story and characters each week. Boyer would prefer a program in which he could develop a permanent characterization." Boyer would later star in his own radio show entitled "Presenting Charles Boyer" during 1950 over NBC.

Personal life and death
Boyer became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1942.

In addition to French and English, Boyer spoke Italian, German, and Spanish.

Boyer was the husband of British actress Pat Paterson, whom he met at a dinner party in 1934. The two became engaged after two weeks of courtship and were married three months later. Later, they would move from Hollywood to Paradise Valley, Arizona. The marriage lasted 44 years until her death.

Boyer's only child, Michael Charles Boyer (9 December 1943 – 21 September 1965), committed suicide at age 21. He was playing Russian roulette after separating from his girlfriend.

On 26 August 1978, two days after his wife's death from cancer, and two days before his own 79th birthday, Boyer committed suicide with an overdose of Seconal while at a friend's home in Scottsdale. He was taken to the hospital in Phoenix, where he died. He was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, alongside his wife and son.

Awards
Boyer never won an Oscar, though he was nominated for Best Actor four times in Conquest (1937), Algiers (1938), Gaslight (1944) and Fanny (1961), the latter also winning him a nomination for the Laurel Awards for Top Male Dramatic Performance. He is particularly well known for Gaslight in which he played a thief/murderer who tries to convince his newlywed wife that she is going insane.

He was nominated for the Golden Globe as Best Actor for the 1952 film The Happy Time; and also nominated for the Emmy for Best Continuing Performance by an Actor in a Dramatic Series for his work in Four Star Playhouse (1952–1956).

In 1960, Boyer was inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame with a motion pictures star and a television star. Both stars are located at 6300 Hollywood Boulevard.

Charles Boyer(I) (1899–1978)

Actor | Producer | Soundtrack
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1988: Licence to Kill films the final scenes with Robert Brown & Caroline Bliss, their final appearances in the franchise.

2005: Titan Classics Re-Issues publishes The Spy Who Loved Me (includes The Harpies).
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

2006: Earl "Jolly" Brown dies at age 66--Las Vegas, Nevada.
(Born 18 October 1939--Houston, Texas.)

Earl Jolly Brown

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

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

Earl Jolly Brown (1939–2006)

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

2008: Penguin publishes Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories in North America.

Croatian edition, Algoritam, 2008.

2022: James Bond Wore the Quartz Revolution at The National Watch & Clock Museum, Columbia, Pennsylvania.

James Bond Wore
the Quartz
Revolution-The
National Watch & Clock
Museum

See the complete article here:

https://www.yorkpa.org/event/james-bond-wore-the-quartz-revolution-the-national-watch-&-clock-museum/21290/

514 Poplar St, Columbia, PA 17512
717-684-8261

Tues-Sat. 10 a.m.- 4 p.m.
Adults- $9, Seniors $8, Kids 5-16 $5, under 5 free

Recurrence: Recurring daily
Location: National Watch & Clock Museum

Expanded exhibit of watches worn by James Bond. On going new exhibit included with museum admission.

James Bond Wore the Quartz Revolution on Fox43 News (2015, 9:27)

2022: Colorado Snowsports Museum has James Bond's snowboard on permanent display at Vail Village, Colorado.

James Bond’s snowboard is at the
Colorado Snowsports Museum in Vail

See the complete article here:

https://www.postindependent.com/news/james-bonds-snowboard-is-at-the-colorado-snowsports-museum-in-vail/

Tom Sims rode the Sims snowboard in 1985's 'A View to a Kill'
News News | Tricia Swenson
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The snowboard chase scene in the James Bond movie “A View to a Kill” exposed millions of viewers to the sport of snowboarding when the movie came out in 1985. Snowboarding wasn’t even allowed on Vail Mountain until 1989.

Colorado Snowsports Museum
There is a piece of pop culture at the Colorado Snowsports Museum.

If you know your James Bond movies, how could you forget the exciting chase on a snowboard in “A View to A Kill,” which came out on May 24, 1985.

The snowboard found its way to the Colorado Snowsports Museum recently.

“I was down at our resource center in Denver talking to Dana Mathios, director of collections and our museum curator, and I see this snowboard leaning up against the wall and I said, ‘What’s that thing?’ and she said, ‘Oh, that’s a snowboard from a James Bond movie’ and I was like, ‘What? We’ve got to get this on display at the museum,” Mason said.

In order to give context for the snowboard that became the “getaway vehicle” in the movie, Mason wanted to have a video screen airing that segment of “A View to a Kill” so people could see the snowboard in action.

“It’s just a cool, short video clip from the movie that you can watch while you are in here and then look at the Sims board and see how it was incorporated into the getaway scene,” Mason said. “Yesterday, we had a 9-year-old boy who watched it 10 times. He was completely enamored by it.”

In the movie, James Bond, who was played by Roger Moore, is being chased by the Russians who are on skis, driving a snowmobile and in a helicopter. Bond eventually takes the snowmobile and is trying to escape but the crew in the helicopter blows up the snowmobile and parts go everywhere, including one of the blades on the snowmobile. Bond takes the blade, hops on it like it’s a snowboard and cruises out of there.

The person doing the stunt riding is none other than one of the godfathers of snowboarding, Tom Sims. The riding is impressive, and Sims even makes it across the pond while the bad guys only make it halfway across the pond on skis. The makeshift snowboard helps Bond survive the chase in the plot.

Although Sims did the majority of the snowboarding, he had another rider, Steve Link, there to do any big airs. John Eaves doubled for Roger Moore in the skiing shots. The scenes were filmed on the Pers Glacier at the base of the Piz Palü in the Alps in Eastern Switzerland near the Diavolezza ski resort.

“Snowboarding wasn’t even allowed on Vail Mountain until 1989, so it really shows you that it was far ahead of its time,” Mason said.

This new exhibit is part of the Tom Sims Collection at the museum.

“It’s really incredible that we have so many of his boards. Tom Sims is a California guy, but his family loves the Colorado Snowsports Museum, and we actually have several of his most precious artifacts,” Mason said. “We have his first snowboard that he made in shop class when he was a teenager, it is on permanent display. And this James Bond board is now on permanent display in the museum.”

To see this piece of pop culture and watch the movie scene, stop by the Colorado Snowsports Museum, , which is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., in the Vail Village parking structure.

RichardTheBruce

27th August

1947: Barbara Goldbach (Barbara Bach) is born--Queens, New York City, New York.

1967: Tom Ford is born--Austin, Texas.

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me LP (Long Play Album) soundtrack makes US music charts, later reaching #40.

1989: TV movie Goldeneye premieres starring Charles Dance as Ian Fleming. Also Christoph Waltz, Deborah Moore, Julian Fellows. Christoph Waltz.

Goldeneye (1989)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097446/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_4
1h 45min | Biography | TV Movie 27 August 1989

Fact-based biography of James Bond author, Ian Fleming. The film focuses on his wartime exploits and romantic adventures which ultimately led to his creation of the super-spy.

Director: Don Boyd
Writers: Reg Gadney, John Pearson (novel)

Cast (in credits order)

Charles Dance ... Ian Fleming
Phyllis Logan ... Ann Fleming
Patrick Ryecart ... Ivar Bryce
Marsha Fitzalan ... Loelia
Ed Devereaux ... Sir William Stephenson
Richard Griffiths ... Second admiral
Lynsey Baxter ... Wren Lieutenant
Julian Fellowes ... Noel Coward
David Forman ... Ernie Chang
Joseph Long ... Lucky Luciano
Donald Douglas ... Lord Kemsley
David Quilter ... Lord Rothermere
Donald Hewlett ... Adm. Godfrey
Kim Kindersley ... Naval lieutenant
Lisa Daniely ... Wren Captain
Freda Dowie ... Harley Street doctor
Ivana Lowell ... Harley Street Nurse
Philip O'Brien ... CBS interviewer
Reg Gadney ... James Bond
Steve Plytas ... Dragoumis
John Lawrence ... Police inspector
Christoph Waltz ... German spy
Stephan Grothgar ... German spy
Carl Bradshaw ... Magistrate
Adrian Hough ... Male companion
Millie Gervasi ... Myra Hess
Peter Gale ... Head waiter
Denise Thompson ... Suzanne
Deborah Moore ... Secretary (as Deborah Barrymore)
Tony Hendriks ... Assistant director
Pat Gorman ... Warder
Dwan Kastelle ... Dancer in gambling club
Angelie Walker ... Dancer in gambling club
Jacqueline Boatswain ... Dancer in gambling club (as Jacqui Botswain)
Stacey Haynes Stacey Haynes ... Dancer in gambling club
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Winston Churchill ... Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tina Simmons ... Telephonist (uncredited)

Goldeneye 1989 (Spanish subtitles, 1:43;06)

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films the closing scene--Bond and Wai Lin kissing.

2012: Swedish security service Säpo become agents under fire regarding a James Bond themed party.

Säpo spent millions on 'James Bond'
party

See the complete article here:

https://www.thelocal.se/20120827/42840

The Local
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@thelocalsweden
27 August 2012

Swedish security service Säpo has come under fire after revelations that a James
Bond themed party in 2011 cost 5.3 million kronor ($802,500), a contract that was
never put out to tender.

The party, which took place in June 2011, had a guest list of around 1,000 people and cost over 5 million kronor. The contract for the event was never put out to tender, revealed the Dagens Nyheter newspaper (DN) on Monday.

Furthermore, Säpo erroneously asked for almost one million kronor back in value added tax (moms), a claim that the Swedish National Audit Office (Riksrevisionen) noticed in February, demanding that the security service repaid 114,500 kronor in compensation.

The head of Säpo since July this year, Anders Thornberg, explained to the paper that the James Bond party was an exception - a relief for staff members after the pressure from 2011's terror threats, suicide bombing and a company reorganization.

“This was a unique and extraordinary time and we'd been subjected to extreme pressure. We thought that we needed a special gathering for the whole security police team,” he told the paper.

The party was organized by former Säpo head Anders Danielsson, who is now the Director General of the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket).

“I take responsibility for everything, if it's wrong then it is wrong, and it will be sorted out in due course," he told DN.

Justice Minister Beatrice Ask has not yet commented on the revelations, but said that a spokesperson will make a statement later on Monday morning.

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2018: Screen Crush asks 'Is James Bond Going to Die in BOND 25?'

Is James Bond Going to Die in ‘Bond 25’?

See the complete article here:

https://screencrush.com/james-bond-dying-danny-boyle-creative-differences/

Matt Singer | Published: August 27, 2018

James Bond is used to operating in the midst of chaos, but the story behind the scenes of Bond 25 is intense even by his standards.

Just a few short months after officially signing on to direct the 25th James Bond film, Danny Boyle abruptly left the production citing “creative differences.” Different rumors have since emerged over the exact reason behind Boyle’s departure. There are some reports that he disagreed with Bond star Daniel Craig over the casting of his main antagonist in the film. And now The Sun claims that the real reason he left was his refusal to participate in a highly unconventional ending for a 007 adventure. Apparently, Bond 25 could have ended with the death of Bond:

An insider said: ‘There were discussions about killing off Bond in dramatic fashion at the end. It would be a final hurrah for Daniel, and leave fans hanging. It would also leave it open for a twist in the next installment — either Bond hadn’t died or there could be a Doctor Who-esque regeneration with a new actor.’

As already noted, there’s a lot of rumors floating around about Bond 25, and this is just one of them. But it’s an interesting one that probably would have made some film fans happy; I’ve seen a lot of people reacting to the news that Bond 25 was in creative turmoil, and likely missing its intended November 2019 release date with relief. Their argument is that James Bond belongs to another era, his time has passed, and it’s time to move on.

I’m not sure I agree. Remember: you only live twice. Bond should get at least one more crack at it. As of this writing, there is still no replacement for Boyle, or news on when Bond 25 will now hit theaters.

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August 28th

1970: Comic strip Colonel Sun ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 1 December 1969. 1175–1393)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://www.cbr.com/the-james-bond-omnibus-003/



Swedish Semic Comic 1971
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3?s=comics&id=01728

Dödligt Toppmöte
(Mortal Top Rendezvous - Colonel Sun)

Swedish Semic Comic 1989
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3?s=comics&id=02358

Dödligt Toppmöte
(Colonel Sun - Part 1) (Colonel Sun - Part 2)

Danish 1971 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-22-1971/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 22: “Colonel Sun” (1971)



https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_cs_review.php3?t=&s=main&id=01086
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/titan_cs.php3?s=comics&id=0883

1971: Comic strip Double Jeopardy ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 21 April 1971. 1597–1708)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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


Swedish Semic Comic 1972
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3?s=comics&id=01759

Dödens Dubbelgångare
(Dead Doppelganger- Double Jeopardy)

Swedish Semic Comic 1978
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3?s=comics&id=02165

Farligt Uppdrag: Dödens Dubbelgångare
("Dangerous Commission" - Double Jeopardy)

Danish 1972 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no24-1972/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 24: “Double Jeopardy” (1972)
"Mysteriet om dobbeltgængerne" [The mystery of the doubles]

1977: Following its West End run, The Spy Who Loved Me begins 2 weeks at North London cinemas.
1978: Robert Shaw dies at age 51--Tourmakeady, County Mayo, England.
(Born 9 August 1927--Westhoughton, Lancashire, England.)

Actor Robert Shaw, Known for Menacing
Roles, Dies in Ireland

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/08/29/actor-robert-shaw-known-for-menacing-roles-dies-in-ireland/10011e2d-0410-4cb0-a10b-90457d2f89a5/
By Gary Arnold
August 29, 1978

Robert Shaw, 52, one of the most forceful and successful character actors on the contemporary English speaking screen, died Sunday near his home in Ireland.

According to a police spokesman, Mr. Shaw became ill while driving with his third wife, Virginia, and their 20-month-old son, Thomas, near the family's home in Tourmakeady, County Mayo. Mr. Shaw reportedly stopped the car, got out and died on the roadside.

Mr. Shaw first achieved movie prominence in 1964 as the sinister assassin with granite physique and short platinum haircut who stalked Sean Connery's James Bond in "From Russia With Love." Later, he made imposing invaluable contributions to a pair of Academy award-winning films-the 1966 "A Man for All Seasons" in which he won an Oscar nomination for his supporting portrayal of Henry VIII, and the 1973 "The Sting," in which he played a menacing Irish gangster-and to one of the greatest box-office sensations, "Jaws," in which he appeared as the fanatical shark-hunter Quint.

While pursuing a notable acting career in the theater and motion pictures. Mr. Shaw also wrote five novels and three plays. He was working on a sixth novel at the time of his death. In a recent interview he remarked. "I find acting much easier than writing, but writing is more important to me. I think as I get older I'd rather write, but acting is so much more profitable." Mr. Shaw's best-known literary effort was The Man in the Glass Booth, a novel the author himself later dramatized successfully.

Born in the Lancashire town of Westhoughton on Aug. 9, 1927. Mr. Shaw grew up in Cornwall and the Orkney Islands. His father, a doctor, committed suicide with an overdose of opium when Robert Shaw was 12.

As a youth, Mr. Shaw excelled at sports, especially rugby, squash and track where his specialty was the 400-meter dash. He spurned a scholarship to Cambridge and a career in the family profession of medicine to apply at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1945. He later recalled RADA with fond horror as a hotbed of competition for aspiring actors in the post-war period, "closer to a concentration camp than a school."

After graduation from RADA, Mr. Shaw spent several years as a member of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon and the Old Vic. He made his professional debut at Stratford-on-Avon as Angus in "Macbeth." His most noteworthy West End credits were "Tiger at the Gates" in 1956 and "The Long and Short and the Tall" in 1959, the same year his first novel, "The Hiding Place," was published.

Mr. Shaw made his film debut in the 1955 British war melodrama "The Dam Busters." Ironically, he will star as the chief dam-buster in "Force 10 from Navarrone" an adventure melodrama about World War II commandoes scheduled for release at Christmas. He also had completed a starring role as a defecting KGB agent in "Avalance Express" at the time of his death. This spy thriller, which costars Lee Marvin, is tentatively scheduled for release in the spring of 1979.

Alert moviegoers might have spotted Mr. Shaw early in 1964 as one of the fascinating misfits in "The Guest" the movie version of Harold Pinter's play "The Caretaker." With in a few months the success of "From Russia With Love" brought mass audience recognition to Mr. Shaw, and fame soon caught up with his costars from "The Caretaker," Donald Pleasence and Alan Bates.

Mr. Shaw's theatrical career has been linked closely with Pleasence and Pinter. He made his Broadway debut in a production of Pinter's "The Physicists" and later costarred in Pinter's "Old Times." Pleasense enjoyed a Broadway triumph in the title role of "The Man in the Glass Booth," which was directed by Pinter.

In an interview with Clarke Taylor that appeared in the Washington Post two years ago, Mr. Shaw stated, "My time is real development, both personally and professionally, came in working with Harold Pinter. He's the most interesting talent working in the theater today. It was a great creative, happy period for me."

A prolific actor and author, Mr. Shaw also extended himself as a paterfamilias. He had four daughters by his first marriage, to Jennifer Bourke, then two sons and two daughters by his second marriage, to actress Mary Ure, who died in 1975 from a fatal combination of alcohol and barbiturate poisoning. Mr. Shaw's third wife, the former Virginia Jansen, had worked as the secretary to the actor and Miss Ure for many tears. Mr. Shaw adopted Jansen's son by a previous marriage, and their own son was born in December 1976.

Mr Shaw frequently cited this brood as a spur to his creative or merly mercenary activity. Discussing his choice of certain film roles with Taylor, Mr. Shaw confided, "Money isn't the sole reason. But I do seem to spend more than I earn. And it takes a lot of money to raise these children of mine.

"I don't spend much on myself, maybe a drink. And I like to travel and stay at really fine hotels. I have an interest in fast cars, and I now have a Mercedes 450SL, but it's not like before, when I woned Rolls Royce convertibles and Astin Martins [sic]. Of course, the tax situation in Britain is impossible.

"I wake up in the middle of the night, frequently, with pain and humiliation and a great deal of shame at some of the work I've done in films. And I would do a good movie any day, regardless of the money. Unfortunately, there aren't many, and . . . if you are not successful now and again, nobody asks you to be in any movies at all. For years the studios would say 'Shaw's pictures make no money, he's not an international star.'"

Despite his vital participation in such hits as "The Sting" and "Jaws," Mr. Shaw never quite established credibility as a bankable star. Usually at his best as a menace, he may have had too much authority for conventional heroic leads. At any rate, he failed to bring a satisfying heroic or romantic presence to such starring vehicles as "Custer of the West," "Swashbuckler" and "Black Sunday." His physically and technique had a rather intimidating potency. He was frequently an impressive performer but rarely an ingratiating one.

Assessing his work, Mr. Shaw remarked. "Most of the time, in movies, I'm about 50 times larger than the part." While justified by the evidence, self-criticism like this was no doubt instrumental in earning the rugged, outspoken actor a reputation for insufferable vanity from some segments of the press.

Moviegoers and film-makers can attest to the authenticity of that larger-than-life quality. Mr Shaw's most gripping sustained scene on film is probably Quint's description of the shark attack on survivors of the U.S.S. Indianapolis that anticipates the thrilling finale of "Jaws."

Director Steven Spielberg has recalled that Mr. Shaw's first reading of Quint's speech, which the actor had helped rewrite, "devastated the set." Ironically, "the effect was so overwhelming that it threatened to capsize everyone prematurely. We had to do it again, with more restraint. In terms of the finished film, the reading was even better because Bob was imposing more controls on his emotions."

The larger-than-life identity seems certain to endure, but Mr. Shaw did submerge himself in the role of a victimized man in "The Caretaker" and a frustrated man in "The Luck of Ginger Coffrey." Irvin Kershner's fine, unjustly neglected movie version of Brian Moore's novel. Mr. Shaw also was prominently, if indecisively, featured in such movies as "Young Winston" (where he played Lord Randolph Churchill). "The Battle of Britain," "The Birthday Party." "Robin and Marian" (as the Sheriff of Nottingham) and "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3."

He achieved considerable success in England as the lead in a television series called "The Buccaneers." He made a brief, unsuccessful attempt at the Broadway musical stage in 1970 as a singing Elmer Gantry in a failed song-and-dance adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel.

Three years ago, Mr. Shaw bought a 150-year-old mansion near a troutfilled lake in Tourmakeady and moved in with his wife and most of the Shaw progeny. According to friends, he described the location as "the nearest point on earth to heaven" and added. "When I go, I hope it will be from here."

Robert Shaw

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

Work

Stage
The Caretaker (1962)
The Physicists (1964)
The Man in the Glass Booth (1968)
Gantry (1970)
Old Times (1971)
The Dance of Death (1974)

Filmography
The Cherry Orchard (1947)

The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) – Chemist at Police Exhibition (uncredited)
The Dam Busters (1954) – Flight Sgt. J. Pulford
Double Cross (1956) – Ernest
A Hill in Korea (1956) – Lance Corporal Hodge
The Buccaneers (1956–1957, TV Series) – Captain Dan Tempest
Rupert of Hentzau (TV, 1957) – Rupert of Hentzau
Sea Fury (1958) – Gorman
Libel (1959) – First Photographer

The Four Just Men (1960, TV Series) – Stuart
The Dark Man (TV, 1960) – Alan Regan
Danger Man (1961) – TV episode – Bury The Dead – Tony Costello
The Winter's Tale (1961) – Leontes
The Valiant (1962) – Lieutenant Field
The Father (1962) – The Captain
Tomorrow at Ten (1962) – Marlowe
The Caretaker (1963) – Aston
The Cracksman (1963) – Moke
From Russia with Love (1963) – Donald 'Red' Grant
Hamlet (1964) – Claudius, King of Denmark
The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964) – Ginger Coffey
Carol for Another Christmas (1964) – Ghost of Christmas Future
Battle of the Bulge (1965) – Col. Martin Hessler
A Man for All Seasons (1966) – King Henry VIII
Custer of the West (1967) – Gen. George Armstrong Custer
Luther (TV, 1968) – Martin Luther
The Birthday Party (1968) – Stanley Webber
Battle of Britain (1969) – Squadron Leader "Skipper"
The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) – Francisco Pizarro

Figures in a Landscape (1970) – MacConnachie (also adapted for the screen)
A Town Called Bastard (a.k.a. A Town Called Hell) (1971) – The Priest
Young Winston (1972) – Lord Randolph Churchill
A Reflection of Fear (a.k.a. Labyrinth) (1973) – Michael
The Hireling (1973) – Steven Ledbetter
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) – The Oracle of All Knowledge (uncredited)
The Sting (1973) – Doyle Lonnegan
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) – Mr. Blue – Bernard Ryder
Jaws (1975) – Quint
The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) – Writer only
End of the Game (a.k.a. Der Richter und sein Henker, Murder on the Bridge, Deception, and Getting Away with Murder) (1975) – Richard Gastmann
Diamonds (a.k.a. Diamond Shaft) (1975) – Charles / Earl Hodgson
Robin and Marian (1976) – Sheriff of Nottingham
Swashbuckler (a.k.a. Scarlet Buccaneer) (1976) – Ned Lynch
Black Sunday (1977) – Major David Kabokov
The Deep (1977) – Romer Treece
Force 10 from Navarone (1978) – Major Keith Mallory
Avalanche Express (1979) – General Marenkov (final film role)

Writing
The Hiding Place (1960)
The Sun Doctor (1961)
The Flag (1965)
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (screenplay adaptation of The Hiding Place, 1965)
The Man in the Glass Booth (1967)
The Man in the Glass Booth (play adaptation, 1968)
A Card from Morocco (1969)
Figures in a Landscape (1970) (screenplay adaptation of novel)
Cato Street (play, 1971)

Awards
He became the second actor to be nominated to the 39th Academy Awards for playing Henry VIII of England in the film A Man for All Seasons (1966). He was also nominated to the 24th Golden Globe Awards for the same role.

1984: A View to a Kill films Zorin sparring with May Day.
1987: John Marcellus Huston dies at age 81 as an Irish citizen--Middletown, Rhode Island.
(Born 5 August 1906--Nevada, Missouri.)

John Huston
American director, writer, and actor

https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Huston
Written By: Michael Barson
Last Updated: Aug 1, 2019 See Article History

John Huston, in full John Marcellus Huston, (born August 5, 1906, Nevada, Missouri, U.S—died August 28, 1987, Middletown, Rhode Island), American motion-picture director, writer, and actor whose taut dramas were among the most popular Hollywood films from the early 1940s to the mid-1980s. Many of his films were literary adaptations or tough action tales with an existential spin. Indeed, his own life—in which Huston starred as a boxer, painter, horseman, gadabout, rebel, and international ladies’ man (who married six times)—was at least as engaging as many of his movies.

Early work
Huston was born in a small town in Missouri that his grandfather claimed to have won in a poker game. Huston’s father, Walter Huston, had given up stage acting for work as a civil engineer that took his family to Texas and Indiana before he decided to return to acting in 1909. Within a few years Huston’s parents were divorced, and he spent his childhood moving between his father, who initially returned to vaudeville, and his mother, Reah, who worked as a journalist and taught him to both ride and bet on horses. Although he suffered from kidney disease and an enlarged heart, Huston overcame a frail, often bedridden youth to become so robust a teenager that he was the amateur lightweight boxing champion of California (with a distinctive broken nose to show for it). After briefly studying painting in Los Angeles, Huston moved to New York City in 1924 to become an actor and performed with the Provincetown Players in Greenwich Village. In 1925, while vacationing in Mexico, he became an honorary member of the Mexican cavalry.

Returning to New York in 1929, Huston took a job as a reporter at the New York Graphic, where his mother was then working. He also began writing and publishing short stories, most notably “Fool,” which appeared in the literary magazine The American Mercury. In 1931 Huston went to Hollywood. After a false start as a contract writer with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), he moved to Universal, contributing to the screenplays of a pair of films starring his father, A House Divided (1931) and Law and Order (1932). During this period of hard drinking and carousing, a car that Huston was driving hit and killed a pedestrian. Consumed with guilt, he moved to London, where he intended to write for the British studio Gaumont but instead lived a ne’er-do-well existence. After a stint in Paris painting, he returned to the United States.

In 1934 Huston played the lead in the Chicago Works Progress Administration production of Robert E. Sherwood’s play Abe Lincoln in Illinois. By 1937 Huston was back in Hollywood, where Warner Brothers signed him to a screenwriting contract. This time his career was on track. Huston collaborated on the scripts for William Wyler’s Jezebel (1938), Anatole Litvak’s The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938), and William Dieterle’s Juárez (1939) before directing his father in A Passage to Bali on Broadway in 1940.

Films of the 1940s
Huston then cowrote three exceptional films: Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (1940) for Dieterle, High Sierra (1941) for Raoul Walsh, and Sergeant York for Howard Hawks, the last of which earned Huston his first Academy Award nomination, for best original screenplay in 1941.

That year Huston was also nominated for an Academy Award in another screenwriting category for his adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s detective mystery The Maltese Falcon (1941), which was Huston’s first film as a director—perhaps the most-impressive debut in Hollywood during the 1940s. The Maltese Falcon had already been filmed by Warner Brothers in 1931 and 1936, but Huston’s proto-film noir had the advantage of Huston as the screenwriter, Humphrey Bogart as the amoral private eye Sam Spade, Mary Astor as the immoral Brigid O’Shaughnessey, and Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre as a pair of lovable cutthroats. It was nominated for the Academy Award for best picture.

After directing the melodrama In This Our Life (1942), Huston was unable to complete his next project, the high-seas espionage tale Across the Pacific (1942), because he was drafted. For the U.S. Army’s Pictorial Service, Huston directed and narrated the renowned World War II documentaries Report from the Aleutians (1943), The Battle of San Pietro (1945), and Let There Be Light, the last a disturbing study of emotionally unstable veterans in a Long Island hospital that was so powerful that it was not given a public release until the early 1980s. Huston was discharged from the army in 1945 with the rank of major and awarded the Legion of Merit for making his films under perilous battle conditions.

Back in the United States, he worked on the scripts for Robert Siodmak’s The Killers and Orson Welles’s The Stranger (both 1946). Huston also directed Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit on Broadway in 1946. In 1947, as the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) geared up for its initial wave of hearings into the Hollywood community’s past or present communist affiliations, Huston joined with director William Wyler and screenwriter Philip Dunne in establishing the Committee for the First Amendment. Huston was part of a delegation of industry liberals—including Bogart and Lauren Bacall—who flew to Washington, D.C., to support those witnesses who had taken a confrontational stand when called to testify before the HUAC. Like other members of the delegation, however, Huston was put off by the aggressive belligerence of the “unfriendly” witnesses who would become known as the Hollywood Ten, though he remained disgusted by the proceedings as a whole.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) was Huston’s return to motion-picture directing in Hollywood. Adapted by Huston from an obscure novel by the mysterious, reclusive writer B. Traven and shot on location in Mexico, it starred Bogart in the decidedly unheroic role of a paranoid prospector, Fred C. Dobbs. As good as Bogart was in depicting Dobbs’s descent into madness, most critics believed that he was out-acted by Walter Huston as the grizzled, sagacious Howard, who tries in vain to keep greed from consuming the little treasure-seeking band. (This was the first time that Huston had cast his father in a major role, though he had appeared in unbilled cameos in The Maltese Falcon and In This Our Life.) Although The Treasure of the Sierra Madre would become one of Huston’s greatest critical triumphs and continues to be widely considered one of the best films of its time, it was a box-office disaster, perhaps because of its grim ending and the daring casting of Bogart against type. Still, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture, Huston won the awards for best director and best screenplay, and his father was named best supporting actor.

Humphrey Bogart (centre) and Walter Huston (right) in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
Courtesy of Warner Brothers, Inc.

Bogart, Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, and Claire Trevor starred in Huston’s next film, Key Largo (1948), a suspenseful adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play that is regarded as a classic film noir. With a screenplay by Huston and Richard Brooks, it is set in a small hotel in the Florida Keys that is taken over by a gangster (Robinson) who has made a clandestine return from deportation to Cuba. Trevor won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her portrayal of the gangster’s mistress. Cuba was then the setting for We Were Strangers (1949), an atmospheric account of revolutionaries’ attempt to overthrow the government, which starred Jennifer Jones and John Garfield.

Films of the 1950s
Huston thought of himself as a writer-director and almost always had a hand in the screenplays for his films, though he preferred working in collaboration with other writers. A lover of literature from the time he learned to read at age three, he drew the stories for his films primarily from novels and plays. The Asphalt Jungle (1950) was based on the hard-boiled crime novel of the same name by W.R. Burnett, who had provided the source novels for High Sierra and Mervyn LeRoy’s Little Caesar (1931). Sam Jaffe, Sterling Hayden, and James Whitmore starred in that caper film noir as a gang plotting the multimillion-dollar robbery of a jewelry exchange. A thrilling exercise in fatalism, The Asphalt Jungle was one of Huston’s most expertly structured films and earned him and cowriter Ben Maddow an Academy Award nomination for their screenplay.

Huston was less fortunate with his 1951 adaptation of Stephen Crane’s literary classic The Red Badge of Courage. Real-life World War II hero Audie Murphy starred in this story of a young Union soldier who deserts his company during the American Civil War. With the Korean War raging, MGM executives felt that the film’s antiwar message was too blatant and cut The Red Badge of Courage down to 69 minutes. (The undoctored version was among Huston’s favourites of his films.) Nevertheless, what remained, including some magnificently staged battle scenes, was impressive enough to have been called a minor masterpiece by Lillian Ross of The New Yorker magazine; she published the book Picture (1952), which chronicled the film’s making.

Much of Huston’s next film, The African Queen (1951), was shot on location in Uganda and Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Novelist and pioneering film critic James Agee worked with Huston on the adaptation of C.S. Forester’s popular novel (as did the uncredited John Collier and Peter Viertel). The performances delivered by Bogart and Katharine Hepburn were among their most memorable, as drunken boat captain Charlie Allnut and as Rosie Sayer, the impossibly prim spinster who convinces him to take her on his rattletrap steamer down the Congo River to civilization at the outset of World War I. This splendid romance-comedy-adventure has remained one of the most popular Hollywood movies of all time. Huston was again nominated for Academy Awards for best director and best screenplay; Bogart won the award for best actor.

In 1952 Huston traveled to France to shoot Moulin Rouge (1952), a gorgeously mounted, sentimental biography of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (played José Ferrer), the crippled artist who became the toast of Montmartre for his lively artworks. Moulin Rouge was nominated for the Academy Award for best picture, and Huston was nominated for best director, the fourth time in five years that he had been nominated for that award. He would have to wait 33 years before the Academy nominated him again, as he entered the extended hit-or-miss phase of his career.

Written with Truman Capote and cofinanced by Bogart’s Santana production company, Beat the Devil (1954) was filmed in Italy. A delightful spoof of The Maltese Falcon, it featured Bogart, Lorre, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, and Gina Lollobrigida as a motley shipboard assembly of adventurers, frauds, and con artists trying to locate a uranium mine while enduring a variety of comic disasters. Capote later said that they made up the story as they went along, an irreverent approach perhaps better suited to sensibilities in the 21st century than to those of the 1950s. Beat the Devil was a box-office disaster and precipitated a split between Bogart (who called the film “a mess”) and Huston after many years of fruitful collaboration.

Moby Dick (1956), Huston’s epic adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel, was shot in Ireland, where Huston had gone to live in 1952, largely because he had become disgusted by the political climate of the United States during the McCarthy era. Although some critics found the stolid Gregory Peck badly suited to the role of the fiery, obsessed Captain Ahab, Huston and Ray Bradbury captured much of the poetry of Melville in their script, and the sea storm and whaling sequences were impressively staged. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), a much quieter affair, starred Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr as a marine and a nun stranded on a Pacific island during World War II. Kerr received an Academy Award nomination for best actress, and Huston’s and John Lee Mahin’s screenplay was also nominated.

Huston began working on David O. Selznick’s remake of A Farewell to Arms (1957) but departed the production to instead direct the undistinguished period film The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958). Filmed in French Equatorial Africa with Errol Flynn and Trevor Howard, The Roots of Heaven (1958) followed and drew mixed reviews.

Films of the 1960s
Something of a return to form for Huston, The Unforgiven (1960) starred Audrey Hepburn in the only western role of her career, as a Native American who has been raised by a Texas settler family. The troubled history of the making of Huston’s next film, The Misfits (1961), became a staple of Hollywood lore. Playwright Arthur Miller adapted his own short story for that very different kind of western as a vehicle for Marilyn Monroe (his wife, though their marriage was collapsing). Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach portrayed aging modern-day cowboys who capture wild horses and sell them to be slaughtered for dog food. Monroe played a divorced former stripper who questions the wranglers’ morality as she falls for one of them (Gable). With her personal life in a tailspin, Monroe reportedly drove Huston to distraction during the filming, showing up on the set late, under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and blowing her lines. This was her last completed role before her death in August 1962. Moreover, eight days after shooting was completed on the film, Gable died of a heart attack.

Huston himself narrated the somber Freud (1962), in which Clift (in one his last roles) played the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. The playful mystery The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) featured a roster of big-name stars (including Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Tony Curtis) who were all but unrecognizable under layers of makeup. Their performances were less memorable, however, than Huston’s portrayal the same year of a Roman Catholic cardinal in another film, Otto Preminger’s The Cardinal. That performance earned Huston an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actor and started a new parallel career for him as an actor.

Huston’s The Night of the Iguana (1964), shot in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, offered another all-star cast (Kerr, Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Sue Lyon) in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s play of the same name that was steeped in psychoses, thwarted desires, and carnal confusion. Huston then decided to make The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966); however, the nearly three hours of Old Testament melodramatics he offered were little appreciated by audiences and critics (though Huston himself turned in an estimable performance as Noah). Huston’s 1967 film version of Carson McCullers’s 1941 novella Reflections in a Golden Eye was a commercial failure but has come to be more widely appreciated with the passage of time. Marlon Brando gave one of his uniquely odd performances as a repressed homosexual army officer whose Southern belle wife (Elizabeth Taylor) becomes involved with another officer (Brian Keith).

In 1967 Huston acted in and was one of five directors who had a hand in guiding Casino Royale, a parody of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond thriller. His string of lacklustre films continued with A Walk with Love and Death (1969), a forgettable medieval drama that is most-notable today for having provided daughter Anjelica Huston with her first lead role in a movie; Sinful Davey (1969), with John Hurt; and the Cold War thriller The Kremlin Letter (1970).

Last films
Fat City, an adaptation of Leonard Gardner’s novel about small-time boxers, significantly reversed Huston’s fortunes as a director and was one of 1972’s most-acclaimed motion pictures. Here Huston had a chance to draw upon his experiences as a boxer in California five decades earlier, and he deftly teased out the downbeat story’s essence. Stacy Keach played a washed-up boxer in Stockton, Susan Tryrell earned an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress for her portrayal of his drink-besotted girlfriend, and Jeff Bridges was terrific as a younger fighter with a less-than-promising future.

Huston’s follow-up was the revisionist western The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1973), a loose biography of the notorious self-appointed hanging judge Roy Bean, which featured Paul Newman in the title role, an irreverent screenplay by John Milius, and a supporting cast that included Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner, and Huston himself. Newman starred again in the Walter Hill-scripted espionage thriller The Mackintosh Man (1973). Then Huston managed to set a new acting standard for himself in Roman Polanski’s classic film noir Chinatown (1974) as the loathsome, evil Noah Cross.

For decades Huston had thought about making The Man Who Would Be King (1975). In the 1950s he had wanted Bogart and Gable to play the intrepid explorers at the centre of Rudyard Kipling’s short story; in the 1960s he had envisioned Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole as the leads. In the event, Sean Connery and Michael Caine, two of the biggest stars of the 1970s, got the roles and traveled to Morocco, which stood in for the story’s Afghanistan locale. Both Connery, as the swaggering Danny, who is taken for a god and comes to believe it himself, and Caine, as his slightly dim sidekick Peachy, gave marvelous performances. Although the film was not particularly successful at the box office and received respectful but restrained reviews, it proved to be a morality tale of unusual resonance and came to be regarded as among Huston’s finest films.

Four years passed before Huston was able to bring to the screen another favourite project, Wise Blood (1979). Brad Dourif played a fanatical Southern evangelist in this adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s darkly comic novel of the same name. Huston’s next film, the low-budget Hitchcockian thriller Phobia (1981), was arguably the nadir of his directorial career. Much better received was the World War II drama Victory (1981), which featured Caine, Sylvester Stallone, and football (soccer) great Pelé as Allied prisoners of war who engineer an escape from the Parisian stadium in which their team of prisoners is playing a German all-star team. Huston’s uneven big-budget adaptation of the Broadway hit Annie (1982) was his one and only musical. Filmed in Mexico, Under the Volcano (1984) was a valiant but ultimately failed attempt to capture Malcolm Lowry’s difficult novel.

Far more satisfying was Prizzi’s Honor (1985), a stylized version of Richard Condon’s novel (adapted by Condon and Janet Roach) about the Mafia. Jack Nicholson delivered what many critics considered to be among his best performances as mob hit man Charley Partanna. He falls for a woman (Kathleen Turner) who turns out not only to share his profession but to become his target. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for best picture, Huston for best director, and Nicholson for best actor, while Anjelica Huston won the award for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Charley’s mistress. Throughout the 1970s and early ’80s Huston continued to act periodically in others’ films, perhaps most notably in Winter Kills (1979), a thriller based on another Condon novel.

In 1987 Huston joined Anjelica and his oldest son, Tony Huston, to make what would be his final movie, The Dead (Anjelica acted in it, and Tony was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay). Based on the short story “The Dead” from James Joyce’s Dubliners, the film focused on a holiday party hosted by a pair of elderly sisters and their niece in turn-of-the-20th-century Dublin. Poignant, stately, and expertly acted, The Dead was just completed when the ailing Huston (who directed the film from a wheelchair, breathing from an oxygen tank) died at age 81. More than a few critics saw The Dead as a fitting epitaph for this prodigiously gifted storyteller.

Michael Barson

John Huston (I) (1906–1987)

Actor | Director | Writer
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Casino Royale (1967)

1987: 007 - Risco Imediato (Immediate Risk) released in Portugal.

1988: The Los Angeles Hollywood Examiner reports on 24 year old dance teacher Sandy Sentell from Knoxville, Tennessee, winning a contest first prize of a walk-on part in Licence to Kill at Key West, Florida.

1994: Hodder & Stoughton publish John Gardner's Bond novel Seafire.

A new Double-O Section has risen
from the ashes of the old British Secret
Service. Now, the entire organization
has been split up and the Double-O
Section reports to a small government
committee called MicroGlobe One.
Gone are the days when James Bond
was answerable only to M. Gone also
is the old licence to kill, for the new
section's targets are not individuals but
large corporations. Gone is the
automatic pistol, replaced by the
pocket calculator.

But weapons are reinstated when Bond
is put on the trail of the self-made
billionaire, Sir Maxwell Tarn, whose
business empuie spans the globe, and
whose activities appear to include
illegal dealings in weapons, on a grand
global scale.

With the shrewd assistance of Flicka
von Grüsse, Bond's stunning partner
introduced in Never Send Flowers, 007
follows a maze of trails from London
to Spain, Israel and Germany. But
they are on board Tarn's floating
laboratory off the coast of Puerto Rico
when their own prey becomes their
captor. There, Bond and Flicka realize
their missstep has placed them squarely
in the audience to a deadly experiment
that will trigger and ecological disaster
of global proportions.

The fate of the oceans, not to mention
their own lives, lies in stopping Tarn
before his cache of deadly weapons
destroys much more than a few
pristine islands in the Caribbean.

John Gardner proves once again his
skills as a master story-teller in this
latest 007 superadventure.

JOHN GARDNER was educated in
Berkshire and at St. John's College,
Cambridge. He has had many fascinating
occupations and was, variously, a Royal
Marine officer, a stage magician, theatre
critic, reviewer and journalist.

As well as his James Bond novels, most
recently Death is Forever and Never Send
Flowers, Gardner's other fiction includes
the acclaimed Secret Generations trilogy
and, most recently, Maestro.

2001: The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena rejects Kevin McClory's claims on Bond.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1512950.stm
Tuesday, 28 August, 2001, 09:40 GMT 10:40 UK

The World is Not Enough was the most recent Bond movie

American writer Kevin McClory has lost his legal battle over the rights to the James Bond film character.

Mr McClory claimed Danjaq Productions LLC - distributor of the Bond films - owed him for creating the onscreen image of Britain's world famous fictional super spy.

Danjaq is owned by the family of Bond movie producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli.

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

Mr McClory, who worked with Bond author Ian Fleming in the 50s to adapt his agent for the cinema, sought royalties in 1998 from a number of Bond movies from 1962-1977.

Presiding Judge Margaret McKeown upheld an earlier decision made by a lower court that Mr McClory had waited too long to bring his case.

Rights
"We conclude that Mr McClory's claims are barred in their entirety (and) affirm the district court's dismissal of his suit," said Judge McKeown.

Mr McClory, who owns Spectre Associates Inc, alleged he owned the rights to the Bond novel Thunderball and to parts of the script for the movie version.

Thunderball, released in 1965, was the first Bond movie to introduce the Spectre organisation [incorrect statement] run by Ernst Stavro Blofeld, 007's arch enemy.

And it was originally going to be the first Bond movie -19 have been made so far - but Dr No was made instead in 1962.

Mr McClory then claimed that Dr No had used material from his Thunderball scripts and Fleming settled the row by giving Mr McClory some rights to Thunderball.

Broccoli
In 1976, Mr McClory again went to court, this time supported by the first Bond star, Sean Connery.

The pair tried to stop production of The Spy Who Loved Me, which they said had elements of a script they were writing together.

Mr McClory's 1998 case was spurred by events from 1997.

That was the year Sony acquired Mr McClory's rights to make James Bond movies.

But Danjaq Productions then sued Sony, its Columbia pictures subsidiary and Mr McClory.

Sony and Mr McClory then filed legal battles of their own, which included Mr McClory's current claim.

Sony later dropped its plans - and therefore its case - to make the Bond movies, leaving only Mr McClory fighting Danjaq.

2005: BBC One airs Ian Fleming--Bondmaker starring Ben Daniels.

Ian Fleming: Bondmaker

TV Movie | 2005 | 1h
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479931/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

A look at the life of Ian Fleming from when he was in Naval Intelligence as a Commander until his death in 1964. This docudrama gives an insight into what Fleming was really like and how he wrote the Bond novels.

Ben Daniels ... Ian Fleming
Emily Woof ... Ann Fleming
Pip Torrens ... Noel Coward
Nickolas Grace ... William Plomer
Emma Darwall-Smith ... Muriel Wright
Annabel Leventon ... Eve Fleming
Peter Penry-Jones ... Admiral Godfrey
William Scott-Masson ... Esmond Rothermere (as William Scott Masson)

RichardTheBruce

2012: MGM and partners announce a new documentary, Everything or Nothing--The Untold Story of 007, to come available 5 October with the 50th anniversary of Bond films.

2023: National Bow Tie Day in the U.S.

RichardTheBruce

August 29th

1928: Charles Gray is born--Bournemouth, Dorset, England.
(He dies 7 March 2000 at age 71--Brompton, London, 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gray_(actor)

Filmography

Selected filmography

I Accuse! (1958) as Capt. Brossard
Heart of a Child (1958) as Fritz Heiss
Official Detective (1958) Episode: "Extortion" as King
The Desperate Man (1959) as Dawson
Follow a Star (1959) as Taciturn Man at Party (uncredited)
Tommy the Toreador (1959) as Gomez
The Entertainer (1960) as Columnist
Man in the Moon (1960) as Leo
Masquerade (1965) as Benson
The Night of the Generals (1967) as General Herbert von Seidlitz-Gabler
You Only Live Twice (1967) as Dikko Henderson
The Man Outside (1967) as Charles Griddon
The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968) as Gen. Adrian Cox-Roberts
The Devil Rides Out (1968) as Mocata
The Nine Ages of Nakedness (1969) as Narrator (voice)
The File of the Golden Goose (1969) as The Owl
Mosquito Squadron (1969) as Air Commodore Hufford

The Executioner (1970) as Vaughan Jones
Cromwell (1970) as The Earl of Essex
When Eight Bells Toll (1971) as Sir Anthony Skouras (voice, uncredited)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971) as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Theatre of Blood (1973) as Solomon Psaltery (voice, uncredited)
Tales That Witness Madness (1973) as Jack Hawkins Voice Double (voice, uncredited)
On the Game (1974) as Narrator (voice)
The Beast Must Die (1974) as Bennington
Fall of Eagles (1974) as Mikhail Rodzianko
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) as The Criminologist - An Expert
Seven Nights in Japan (1976) as Henry Hollander
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) as Mycroft Holmes
Silver Bears (1978) as Charles Cook
Richard II (1978) as Duke of York
The Legacy (1978) as Karl Liebnecht

The Mirror Crack'd (1980) as Bates, The Butler
Ticket to Heaven (1981) as Musician
Shock Treatment (1981) as Judge Oliver Wright
The Jigsaw Man (1983) as Sir James Chorley
The Gourmet (1984) as Manley Kingston
Eine Frau namens Harry (1990) as Satan
Firestar: First Contact (1991) as Commodore Vandross
The Tichborne Claimant (1998) as Arundell

Charles Gray (I) (1928–2000)

Actor | Soundtrack
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1942: Gottfried John is born--Berlin, Germany.
(He dies 1 September 2014 at age 72--Utting, Germany.)

Gottfried John obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/08/gottfried-john

German actor whose unconventional looks helped bring him
villainous roles in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films
Ronald Bergan
Mon 8 Sep 2014 12.02 EDT

Gottfried John as General Arkady Ourumov in the James Bond film GoldenEye, 1995.
Photograph: Keith Hamshere/Getty Images

It was inevitable that the German actor Gottfried John, with his gaunt features, low cheekbones, raspy voice and boxer's flattened nose, would play villains. In commercial terms, the culmination of his 20-year stage, cinema and television career came when John was cast as the perfidious Russian general Arkady Ourumov, James Bond's nemesis, in GoldenEye (1995), the highest-earning Bond film since Moonraker, 16 years previously.

However, for cinephiles, it was not the name of Bond with which John, who has died of cancer aged 74, was immediately associated, but that of the German wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder for whom he appeared in five features, most significantly as the poisonous Reinhold Hoffmann in the 14-part television series Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), based on Alfred Döblin's novel.

John, who was born in Berlin, was brought up by his mother. His father, whom he never met, was an engineer and a loyal Nazi, and had remarried. During the second world war, John and his mother were evacuated to East Prussia. After the war, he went to Paris where he earned a living as a pavement artist and construction worker before returning to Berlin in 1960.

Although he failed to get into the Max Reinhardt acting school, he was taken on by the Schiller theatre. But it was joining Fassbinder's avant-garde theatre troupes that changed John's life. In 1971 Fassbinder founded Tango-Film and, four years later, John appeared in Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975), making an impact as Niemeyer, a sleazy, opportunistic journalist who exploits the grieving, middle-aged widow (the remarkable Brigitte Mira) of a factory worker. Instead of writing about her husband as a peaceful, quiet man as promised, Niemeyer twists things around to make it sound as if he were a wife-beater and drunk. He explains the reason he sensationalised the story with the chilling remark (with its echo of nazism) that he was just carrying out orders.

In Despair (1978), Fassbinder's first film in English, John is a mysterious Russian painter of icons and in In a Year of 13 Moons (also 1978), he is a manipulative butcher, with enough charm to make a young man (Volker Spengler) fall for him. When the latter expresses his love, John replies, "Too bad you're not a girl", prompting the boy to have a sex-change operation, only to be rejected again.

He had a relatively straight role in The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), as Willi Klenze, a soldier returning from the second world war to tell the eponymous heroine (Hanna Schygulla) that her husband has been killed on the Russian front. Willi later becomes a leftwing union leader. In between the Fassbinder films, John had the role of the sinister chauffeur of a former movie star in Billy Wilder's Fedora (1978).

John's jolie-laide looks were used effectively in Berlin Alexanderplatz, in which he was Reinhold, a petty thief who befriends the ex-prisoner Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht), passing on his rejected women to him. In a particularly cruel act, during a robbery, Reinhold throws Franz out of the back of the truck.

After Fassbinder's death in 1984, John embarked on an international career generally playing shady German characters in spy dramas, such as the British TV series Game, Set and Match (1988), based on books by Len Deighton. In GoldenEye, in keeping with the Hollywood tradition of casting any old nationality as a foreigner, John was General Ourumov, the corrupt and ruthless head of the Russian Space Division, secretly planning to take control of the world's satellites. In the exhilarating climax, Ourumov is in a black sedan, drinking from a hip flask and holding a woman hostage, followed by Bond (Pierce Brosnan) driving a Russian tank through the streets of St Petersburg. At one stage, he tells his driver, when faced with a group of people blocking the way, "Use the bumper! That's what it's for!"

In contrast, returning to his avant-garde roots, John appeared in the two live-action features directed by the Quay Brothers, celebrated as animators and designers. They used John's strange aura to effect as an eccentric headteacher of a boarding school for servants in Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1996) and as an evil doctor who kidnaps an opera singer in The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005).

John is survived by his wife, Barbara.

• Gottfried John, actor, born 29 August 1942; died 1 September 2014

Gottfried John
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_John

Filmography

Café Oriental (1962) .... (uncredited)
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962) .... Train passenger (uncredited)

Jaider, der einsame Jäger (1971) .... Jaider
Carlos (1971) .... Carlos
Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972-1973, TV Mini-Series) .... Jochen
World on a Wire (1973, TV Movie) .... Einstein
Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975) .... Niemeyer
Derrick (1976, Season 3, Episode 11: "Das Superding") .... Krummbach
Die Ratten (1977, TV Movie) .... Bruno Mechelke
Despair (1978) .... Perebrodov
Fedora (1978) .... Kritos
In a Year of 13 Moons (1978) .... Anton Seitz
Wo die Liebe hinfällt (1979, TV Movie)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) .... Willi Klenze

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, TV Mini-Series) .... Reinhold
Reiseabrechnung (1980, TV Movie)
Lili Marleen (1981) .... Aaron
Ente oder Trente (1983)
Super (1984) .... Hilpert
Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter (1985, TV Movie) .... Bartolomé de las Casas
Chinese Boxes (1984) .... Zwemmer
Mata Hari (1985) .... Wolff
Die Mitläufer (1985)
Otto - Der Film (1985) .... Sonnemann (Bank robber)
Of Pure Blood (1986, TV Movie) .... Paul Bergmann
Der Fall Franza (1986, TV Movie) .... Capitain
Verworrene Bilanzen (1987, TV Movie) .... Karl M. Kronen
Schön war die Zeit (1988) .... Franz Bauer - Kameramann

Wings of Fame (1990) .... Zlatogorski
Frederick Forsyth Presents: Death Has a Bad Reputation (1990, TV Movie) .... Rodimstev
Night of the Fox (1990, TV Movie) .... Hofer
Elfenbein (1991, TV Movie) .... Nicholas Messier
Ich schenk dir die Sterne (1991) .... Robert Dallburg
Die Verfehlung (1992) .... Jacob Alain
Die Zeit danach (1992)
Colpo di coda (1993, TV Movie) .... Pierre
Abraham (1993, TV Mini-Series) .... Eliezer
Space Rangers (1993-1994, TV Series) .... Colonel Erich Weiss
Polizeiruf 110 (1994, TV Series) .... Hannes Hellwig
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) .... Herr Benjamenta
Novalis - Die blaue Blume (1995) .... Sophies Vater
GoldenEye (1995) .... General Arkady Ourumov
The Ogre (1996) .... Chief Forester
Millennium (1997, TV Series) .... Josef Heim
Am I Beautiful? (1998) .... Herbert
Astérix et Obélix contre César (1999) .... Jules César (Julius Caesar)
Balzac [fr] (1999, TV Movie) .... Count Hanski

Gli amici di Gesù - Maria Maddalena (2000, TV Movie) .... Erode Antipa
Proof of Life (2000) .... Eric Kessler
The Gathering Storm (2002, TV Movie) .... Friedrich von Schroder
Nancy & Frank - A Manhattan Love Story (2002) .... Paul von Bernwarth
Imperium: Augustus (2003, TV Movie) .... Cicero
Sams in Gefahr (2003) .... Schulrat
Die schöne Braut in Schwarz (2004, TV Movie) .... Aldo Caldini
Cowgirl (2004) .... Hans Krahl
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005) .... Dr. Emmanuel Drosz
Störtebeker [fr] (2006, TV Movie) .... Konrad von Wallenrod
Flood (2007) .... Arthur Moyes
Das zweite Leben (2007, TV Movie) .... Robert Kreutzer
Das Papstattentat (2008, TV Movie) .... Paolo Naldini
John Rabe (2009) .... Dr. Oskar Trautmann
Flores negras (2009) .... Curtis
Rumpelstilzchen (2009, TV Movie) .... König Gustav
Das Leben ist zu lang [de] (2010) .... Georg Maria Stahl

Ruby Red (2013) .... Dr. White (final film role)

Gottfried John (1942–2014)

Actor | Soundtrack
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0424167/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

1962: Sean Connery photographed on his way to a golf game. Or maybe it was 31 August.

19th Hole
Bond, Golf and Me - Sean
Connery
Landing the role of 007 lit his passion for golf

https://golftoday.co.uk/bond-golf-and-me-sean-connery/
by GT Editor
Tuesday 27th of August 2020

1978: Moonraker films OO7 and the centrifuge.

https://www.facebook.com/JamesBond007/videos/315179823137903/

1979: Moonraker released in Kenya.

1984: Diamantes para la eternidad re-released in Spain.

1987: Roger Moore hosts the television documentary Happy Anniversary 007--25 Years of James Bond.

Happy Anniversary 007: 25 Years of James Bond (1987)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0223426/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
49min | Documentary | TV Movie 13 May 1987

An hour documentary on the history of Bond for the 25th anniversary of the film series.

Director: Mel Stuart
Writer: Richard Schickel
Stars: Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton

JAMES BOND movies at 25 1987 Entertainment Tonight Roger Moore interview (2:43)

http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/post/2013/06/12/Happy-Anniversary-007";

http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/media/Happy-anniversary-007-1987.mp4

2017: Sir Sean Connery smiles for the James Bond Theme and receives a standing ovation at the U.S. Open.

RichardTheBruce

August 30

1963: Time magazine reviews the latest Fleming novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Fate Worse Than Death

See the complete article here:

http://footenotes.net/Pages/Bond.htm

Time, August 30, 1963

ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
by Ian Fleming
299 pages. New American Library. $4.50.

SOME TIME BACK, when sober-sided Britons belabored Author Ian Fleming for the consumer snobbery of his caddish hero (James Bond's car is a Bentley, his girls invariably smell of Guerlain), Fleming was unrepentant. He was sorry, he said, only for having once permitted Bond the unforgivable gaffe of ordering asparagus with bearnaise instead of mousseline sauce. But in Fleming's latest Bond bombshell, there are disquieting signs that he took the critics to heart. On page 152, sophisticated Secret Agent 007 cozies up to a blonde who smells of nothing more aristocratic than Mennen's baby powder.

For Fleming fans, who like 007 just as he is, worse is to come. Pitted once more against Ernst Blofeld, the fell master of the international crime syndicate called SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Revenge and Extortion), Bond at first displays his customary stocks in trade. He uses his own urine as invisible ink, and successfully escapes from Blofeld's Alpine retreat by a daredevil schuss down the snow-covered, moonlit slope—as patrols of goons with guns set an avalanche tumbling down after him. Then, suddenly, Bond is threatened with what, for an international cad, would clearly be a fate worse than death: matrimony.

The lady is a countess named Tracy. She drives like Stirling Moss and reeks of Guerlain. So far so good. But —horrors—she sometimes sounds like Debbie Reynolds. Gushes Tracy to Bond: "I've got enough sheets and pillows for two and other exciting things to do with being married." The old Bond would ordinarily give this kind of chatter some suavely short shrift. The new Bond revels in it. "Togetherness," he reflects sententiously. "What a curiously valid cliché it was!"

When Bond actually marries Tracy all seems lost. Author Fleming, however, has never been without resources. He appears deus ex machina (the machine, reassuringly, is a lethal red Maserati) on page 299 and saves James Bond from his better self.

1971: James Bond comic strip Starfire begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Finishes 24 December 1971. 1709–1809) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1005


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


Danish 1973 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no26-1973/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 26: “Starfire” (1973)
"Stjernernes herre" [Star Lord]

1983: Octopussy released in the Philippines.
1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Pegasus in the stables.

2010: SNS Publishing releases Joseph Darlington's Being James Bond, as related to his podcast.

https://www.amazon.com/Being-James-Bond-One-Pocket-ebook/dp/B0041HXPDW

2014: The Guardian reports on Roger Moore proposing being known as James Bond has no down side.

Interview
Roger Moore: ‘Being eternally known
as James Bond has no downside’

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/30/roger-moore-being-known-as-james-bond-has-no-down-side

Ruth Huntman | Sat 30 Aug 2014
The actor, 86, on the women in his life, his humanitarian work – and Daniel Craig’s trunks

'I'm one lucky bastard': Roger Moore.
Photograph: Rolf Vennenbernd/Corbis

• I’m one lucky bastard. During my early acting years I was told that to succeed you needed personality, talent and luck in equal measure. I contest that. For me it’s been 99% luck. It’s no good being talented and not being in the right place at the right time.
• The saddest thing about ageing is that most of my friends are now “in the other room”. I miss David Niven the most. I still can’t watch his films without shedding a tear. There’s a bronze bust of him in my study, given to me by his son, David Jr.
• Women have played a big part in my life on and off-screen [Moore has been married to fourth wife, Swedish socialite Kristina Tholstrup, for 12 years] and I think I’ve finally worked them out. I always make sure I have the last word. That word is “yes”.
• Intelligence is my most endearing quality, according to Kristina. That’s her Swedish sense of humour.
• Being eternally known as Bond has no downside. People often call me “Mr Bond” when we’re out and I don’t mind a bit. Why would I?
• The knighthood for my humanitarian work meant more than if it had been for my acting. I’m sure some people would say, “What does an actor know about world issues?” But [working for Unicef] I’ve become an expert on things from the causes of dwarfism to the benefits of breastfeeding. I feel very privileged.
• Some of the things I’ve done in my life I’m ashamed of. We don’t talk about those though. If I could give my younger self some advice it would be: “Grow up!”
• Friends gave me the heads-up on Steve Coogan’s version of me on The Trip. It did make me laugh. Imitation is the highest form of flattery. It’s difficult to find anything different about me to impersonate though – unlike Michael Caine or Jimmy Stewart, I just have a negative, neutral voice.
• I still have some of Bond’s suits in my wardrobe but they don’t fit me now. During the 007 days I was so thin that if I turned sideways you could mark me absent. Thankfully I never had to squeeze into the trunks that Daniel Craig wore – it takes a lot of hard work to look like that.
• My mum instilled in me the proverb: “I cried because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.” Those words are always with me and I’m a believer in showing kindness to others and not expecting repayment.
• On-set pranks should always be done while the cameras are rolling so that victims can’t retaliate.
• Not being offered Peter O’Toole’s role in Lawrence of Arabia is the biggest regret of my life. Other than that, I wouldn’t change a thing.
• Medicine has always fascinated me and I’m a hypochondriac. It’s not that I wake up every morning and think I’m dying. At my age, I know I am.

Last Man Standing: Tales from Tinseltown is out now (£20, Michael O’Mara Books)

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Moneypenny.
Jacob Edgar, artist. Jody Houser, writer.

JAMES BOND: MONEYPENNY
ONE-SHOT

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026074101011
Cover A: Tula Lotay
Writer: Jody Houser
Art: Jacob Edgar
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: August 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 40 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 8/30

By writer JODY HOUSER (Mother Panic, Faith) and new artist JACOB EDGAR, a never-before-told mission starring MONEYPENNY, friend of JAMES BOND, former MI6 field agent and bodyguard of M! On a 'routine' protection mission, Moneypenny discovers a complicated assassination plot that bears a startling resemblance to a terrorist attack from her childhood. Can she call upon her secret agent skills to stop the plot...?

2019: Autoevolution reports on Aston Martin DB5s showing up for filming in Italy. And damage.

James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 Shows Up
for Filming in Italy, Gets Banged Up

See the complete article here:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/james-bonds-aston-martin-db5-shows-up-for-filming-in-italy-gets-banged-up-137133.html

30 Aug 2019 · by Elena Gorgan

Aston Martin is to James Bond what Martinis are to the same 007 agent: the three are inseparable. As such, it was only to be expected to see an iconic car show up again for duty on the set of the upcoming installment.

“No Time to Die,” the 25th Bond movie and leading man Daniel Craig’s last one, is set for an April 2020 release. Under the original plans, it should have been out this fall, but Danny Boyle’s departure as director left a mark on the production, which translated into the inevitable delay.

The movie is now heavily underway, with several reports of action scenes being shot in various Italian cities. Daniel Craig hasn’t arrived in the country just yet, leaving all the experienced stunt work to the actual stuntmen. An intense action scene was also shot with his stunt double, Express notes.

However, that’s the least interesting part about this. The most interesting one is that Bond’s iconic Aston Martin DB5 was featured in the car chase scene and that it got pretty banged up in the process. Well, the damage was mostly scratches to the side of the car and those too were probably not real, but they still make for a painful sight.

The video below shows a scene of the car chase, which sees Craig’s stunt double at the wheel. In the passenger seat is a blonde woman believed to be the stunt double for Lea Seydoux. The footage doesn’t include the moment when the Aston Martin was scratched, only several takes of the same scene and one good look at this beautiful piece of machine.

“No Time to Die” will also be shooting on location in Puglia, Italy, Norway, Jamaica and the U.K., so expect more sightings of beautiful, expensive or powerful cars being either destroyed or used to their maximum potential to catch or get away from the bad guys.

Speaking of, Rami Malek stars as the yet unnamed villain in this installment. The rest of the cast includes Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Whishaw.

[James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 gets banged up during car chase on Italian movie set]
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2020: Mark O'Connell reports on the Bloomsbury Publishing release of Fashioning James Bond - Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007 by Llewella Chapman.

A BOND STITCH IN TIME as
FASHIONING JAMES BOND
opens the wardrobe on the
costuming of a legend

See the complete article here:

https://markoconnell.co.uk/a-bond-stitch-in-time-as-fashioning-james-bond-opens-the-wardrobe-on-the-costuming-of-a-legend/

August 30, 2020 / Mark O'Connell

The creative choices, acumen and outcomes of many artists who work on a film are so often ignored and misunderstood – and confused with off-the-peg labelling rather than deeper stitches into how fashions, zeitgeist, youth culture and cinema can echo or evolve all our costuming choices. Academic writer Llewella Chapman will now rectify this by opening the wardrobe and culture to an new examination on the costuming, suits and sense of gender and representation of the Bond films in a 2021 publication called Fashioning James Bond.

‘Fashioning James Bond provides the first full-length critical study of the costume and fashion evident in the James Bond films. Its methodological approach includes research generated from archives, close textual analysis of the costumes and fashion brands presented within the James Bond films, interviews with families of tailors and shirt-makers who assisted in creating the ‘look’ and fashion for the character of James Bond, and critical reception and the marketing strategies for the films, promoted to create a ‘James Bond lifestyle.’ – Bloomsbury

Bond’s Savile Row era, marketing, 1990s Italian influences, the Tom Ford era, how a suit created both Connery and 007 and then had to do it all over again for the other fellas, the designers themselves and those that have made sartorial, marketing and retail choices for and around 007 are all part of the cut of this new interesting publication.

Fashioning James Bond
Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007
Llewella Chapman (Author)

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

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

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

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

RichardTheBruce

August 31

1954: Caroline Cossey is born--Brooke, Norfolk, England.

1962: Chris Ware photographs Sean Connery in his own basement flat.

1972: The Daily Gleaner reports on Harry Saltzman's 26 August arrival in Jamaica.
He promises filming in Montego Bay (the fishing boat), Falmouth (croc farm, caves), Ocho Rios (the hotel).
1976: Filming of The Spy Who Loved Me begins with General Gogol's office in the Kremlin. (Ken Adams' set, Pinewood Studios.)

1979: Moonraker released in Austria.
1979: James Bond 007 – Moonraker – Streng geheim (James Bond 007 - Moonraker - Top Secret) released in West Germany.

1991: Guns N' Roses perform their live version of "Live and Let Die" at Wembley Stadium, London. Later used on the B-side of the single.

1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a Paris car crash.

2020: BBC airs its 9 minute documentary Inventing James Bond.

Witness History
Inventing James Bond
How author and former intelligence officer Ian Fleming created the British super-spy

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cszmkb

Listen Now
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cszmkb

2021: Being James Bond trailer anticipates its release on Apple TV 7 September.

BEING JAMES BOND | Trailer

RichardTheBruce

September 1st

1943: Don Stroud is born--Honolulu, Hawaii.

1965: Variety reports the cancellation of the Thunderball world benefit premiere (dropped from 21 Oct 1965) at London’s Odeon, Leicester Square Theatre.

1978: Moonraker model unit films space exteriors on Pinewood's F Stage.

1982: Jonathan Cape publishes John Gardner's Bond novel For Special Services.

AFTER a screen bonanza and a literary
absence of more than a decade, the
return of James Bond to the world
of the 1980s a year ago raised some eye-
brows but enticed the fans. In Licence
Renewed (written under commission from
Ian Fleming's copyright holders), John
Gardner beguiled us with a Bond drinking
less, smoking specially made low-tar
cigarettes, his 00 status abolished but still
unofficially sanctioned by M, a passing nod
at feminism, his Mark II Continental
Bentley gone in favour of the sprightly
energy-conserving Saab Turbo 900. But
here again, unmistakably, was the Bond of
Fleming's books which have sold 91 million
copies in 36 languages. John Gardner ex-
plained his attitude to Bond at length on
the front of the Sunday Times Review and on
television and radio; Philip Larkin took a
page in the TLS to review the whole Bond
canon; and Licence Renewed went straight to
No. 1 on the bestseller lists in Britain. A
second Bond-of-the-1980s was promised
and Mr Gardner has been as good as his
word.

In For Special Services, Bond is on loan to
the United States Government, his partner
non other than the tough and beautiful
Cedar, daughter of 007's old friend Felix
Leiter. Their enemy? An old adversary,
the legendary SPECTRE (Special Executive
for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Re-
venge and Extortion), has reappeared.
Bond and Cedar find themselves in some
deadly and terrifying situations -- from
skyjack to plunging elevator, from armies
of killer ants in the Mid-West to horror on
a private mono-rail -- before they come
face to face with the heir to Blofeld's ini-
quitous empire.

JOHN GARDNER'S
first James Bond adventure, written
under licence from Glidrose, Ian
Fleming's copyright holders
LICENCE RENEWED

'Remarkably successful recreation of
everybody's favourite action man.' Sunday
Telegraph

'Gardner's James Bond captures that high
old tone and discreetly updates it.' The
Times

'No fan will fail to be caught up in the
world-scale adventure of Licence Renewed.
The dear old formula of the Mad Scientist
is also renewed, with great success; and the
Girl -- with a splendidly improbably name
of course -- is a worthy addition to the
famous gallery of Bond's beauties.' Finan-
cial Times

'Constructed, scrutinised and checked with
immense care; the story moves effectively;
it's enjoyable. Ian Fleming would not be
displeased.' Daily Telegraph

'Gardner has done a fine stylish job. Bond
in the 1980s is not much different from the
earlier Bond . . . his adventures are as cap-
tivating as ever.' Birmingham Post

Jacket painting and design
by Bill Botten; author's photograph
by Oliver Cheesman

For Special Services, John Gardner, 1982.

AFTERWARD

In 1941 Fleming accompanied Admiral Godfrey to the
United States for the purpose of establishing relations
with the American secret service organisations. In New
York Fleming met Sir William Stephenson, 'the quiet
Canadian', who became a life-long friend. Stephenson
allowed Fleming to take part in a clandestine operation
against a Japanese cipher expert who had an office in
Rockefeller Center. Fleming later embellished this story
and used it in his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale
(1953). Stephenson also introduced Fleming to General
William Donovan, who had just been appointed Co-
ordinator of Information, a post which eventually evolved
into the chairmanship of the Office of Strategic Services
and then of the Central Intelligence Agency. At Donovan's
request Fleming wrote a lengthy memorandum describing
the structure and functions of a secret service organisation.
This memoranum later became part of the charter of the
O.S.S. and, thus, of the C.I.A. In appreciation Donovan
presented Fleming with a .38 Police Positive Colt revolver
inscribed 'For Special Services'.

JOAN DELFATTORE,
University of Delaware
(from a dictionary of
literary biography)

1991: This month Eclipse Comics releases James Bond Permission to Die #3.

https://totaleclipse.blog/2018/07/24/1989-james-bond-permission-to-die/

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Permission_to_Die

https://www.comicsroyale.com/cover-gallery#/eclipse/

1992: This month Marvel Comics publishes James Bond Jr. #9 "Absolute Zero", with Dr. No.

James Bond Jr. #9
Marvel, 1992 Series
Absolute Zero!

(September 1992)
James Bond Jr. / comic story / 20 pages
Script - Dan Abnett (story)
Pencils - Mario Capaldi
Inks - Bambos Georgioli
Colors - Sophie Heath
Letters - Stuart Bartlett

Characters
James Bond Jr.; Horace Boothroyd (I. Q.); Tracey Milbanks; Gordo Leiter; Phoebe Farragut; Coach Mitchell; Trevor Noseworthy III; Connie Fore; Doctor No (Villain)

Synopsis
S.C.U.M. plans to hold Switzerland ransom by encasing in glaciers created by Doctor No's Ice-Cap Machine.

1994: This month Dark Horse Comics releases #25 James Bond Minute of Midnight.

Dark Horse Comics (1992) #25

https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=125061

Cover by Russ Heath, Paul Mendza and Jim Royal. We've got a double bill this issue that would sell out any movie house in the country! In "James Bond: Minute of Midnight," a saboteur holds the fate of the world in his hands, prepared to unleash a nuclear holocaust of unimaginable proportions. Can James Bond, the British Secret Service's agent extraordinaire, stop the madman? Catch the mile-a-minute excitement from Doug Moench and comics legend Russ Heath as they take you on Bond's most thrilling adventure yet! Also in this issue, Randy Stradley and Phill Norwood bring you "Aliens vs. Predator: Blood Time," a violent glimpse into alien rites of passage. The price of failure is death! Cover price $2.50.

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2012: Hal David dies at age 91--West Hollywood, California.
(Born 25 May 1921--Brooklyn, New York.)

Hal David, Songwriter, Is Dead at 9
Legendary Lyricist Hal David
Dies at 91

See the complete article here:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hal-david-dies-obituary-songwriter-burt-bacharach-367366

4:57 PM PDT 9/1/2012 by Mike Barnes

The songwriter worked with
Burt Bacharach on dozens of
classic songs, including
Oscar winner "Raindrops
Keep Fallin' on My Head,"
"(They Long to Be) Close to
You" and Dionne Warwick's
"I Say a Little Prayer."

Hal David, the Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with Burt Bacharach to form one of the most sensational hitmaking teams in the history of popular music, has died. He was 91.

David died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a stroke, his wife Eunice said. He had suffered a major stroke in March and was stricken again Tuesday, she said.

"Even at the end, Hal always had a song in his head," she told The Associated Press. "He was always writing notes, or asking me to take a note down, so he wouldn't forget a lyric.

In the 1960s and beyond, David and Bacharach produced some of the most memorable songs for movies, television and recording artists. They received an Oscar in 1970 for “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head,” recorded by B.J. Thomas for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and a Tony nomination and a Grammy for the score of Promises, Promises, which debuted in 1968 on Broadway.

The team found their muse in a young Dionne Warwick, who rocketed to stardom singing such Bacharach-David tunes as "Don't Make Me Over," "Always Something There to Remind Me," "Alfie," "Walk on By," "Message to Michael," “I Say a Little Prayer" and "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"

Their songs also have been recorded by the likes of The Carpenters, Herb Alpert, Marty Robbins, Perry Como, The 5th Dimension, Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones and more recently by such contemporary acts as Alicia Keys, The White Stripes, The Flaming Lips and the cast of Glee.

The pair had No. 1 hits in the U.S. with Alpert's "This Guy's in Love With You" in April 1968, with the famed trumpeter making in his vocal debut; Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," which debuted in November 1969; and The Carpenters' "(They Long to Be) Close to You," which bowed in June 1970.

The 5th Dimension's heartfelt "One Less Bell to Answer" from 1970 reached No. 2, and "What's New, Pussycat?" from the sexy British singer Jones got as high as No. 3 in 1965.

A native of New York, David started out penning songs to entertain GIs in the South Pacific during World War II. He worked as a copywriter at The New York Post, then wrote for Sammy Kaye, Guy Lombardo and other bandleaders before hooking up with Bacharach. He told The Hollywood Reporter last year that he became a lyricist because his oldest brother, Mack -- also a lyricist and composer who came west from New York -- was his role model. (Mack David wrote “I Don’t Care If the Sun Don’t Shine” for Patti Page.)

David and Bacharach scored their first big hit with "Magic Moments," a million-selling record for Como in 1957. Five years later, they met Warwick.

"In 1962, Dionne came into our office in the Brill Building in Manhattan to do some demos for us," he told THR. "She sang popular music with a gospel sound and rhythm and just blew us away. Her very first recording we produced, 'Don't Make Me Over,' was a hit.

"We wrote just about every hit she sang. We were a trio, really. Burt and I worked together for 17 years. Eleven or 12 of those were with Dionne, too."

David and Bacharach were a team from 1957 until their 1973 musical remake of Lost Horizon, on which they had worked for two years, bombed at the box office.

Bacharach and David sued each other, and Warwick sued them both. The cases were settled out of court in 1979, and the three went their separate ways. They reconciled in 1992 for Warwick's recording of "Sunny Weather Lover."

After splitting with Bacharach, David collaborated with Albert Hammond on "To All the Girls I've Loved Before," a 1984 hit for Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson that reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100; with Henry Mancini on "The Greatest Gift" for The Return of the Pink Panther (1975); and with John Barry on the title song of the James Bond film Moonraker (1979).

David received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in October, and in May, he and Bacharach, 83, were given the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in Washington from President Obama. David was unable to attend because of his stroke.

“Award-winning lyricist Hal David was an American songwriting treasure. His legacy of more than five decades of music has inspired fans, performers and other songwriters with its diversity and longevity," Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in a statement. "He will be missed, but his rich body of work will be with us forever.”

David joined the board of ASCAP in 1974 and served as its president from 1980-86. He was head of the Songwriters Hall of Fame from 2001-11 and chairman emeritus at his death.

"As a lyric writer, Hal was simple, concise and poetic -- conveying volumes of meaning in fewest possible words and always in service to the music," ASCAP's current president, the songwriter Paul Williams, said in a statement. "It is no wonder that so many of his lyrics have become part of our everyday vocabulary and his songs ... the backdrop of our lives."

In addition to his wife, survivors include sons Jim and Craig and three grandchildren. His first wife, Anne, died in 1987.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Songs written by Hal David
https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/3227

Original songs
Title Written by Originally by Original date Covered by

99 Miles from L.A. Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by (13 artists)

A House Is Not a Home Burt Bacharach, Hal David Brook Benton July 1964 Covered by (159 artists)
Alfie Burt Bacharach, Hal David Cilla Black March 25, 1966 Covered by (254 artists)
All Kinds of People Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1971 Covered by (9 artists)
Anonymous Phone Call Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bobby Vee with The Johnny Mann Singers November 1962 Covered by Jim O'Rourke
Another Night Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1966 Covered by Dusty Springfield
Another Tear Falls Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene McDaniels with The Johnny Mann Singers 1961 Covered by (4 artists)
Any Old Time of the Day Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1964 Covered by (7 artists)
Anyone Who Had a Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick November 1963 Covered by (94 artists)
Are You There (With Another Girl) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1965 Covered by (17 artists)
As Long as There's an Apple Tree Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1968 Covered by (2 artists)
A Whistling Tune Hal David, Sherman Edwards Elvis Presley August 1991 Covered by (3 artists)

Balance of Nature Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwicke 1972 Covered by (2 artists)
Bell Bottom Blues Hal David, Leon Carr Teresa Brewer December 1953 Covered by (4 artists)
Blue on Blue Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bobby Vinton May 1963 Covered by (15 artists)
Broken-Hearted Melody Hal David, Sherman Edwards Sarah Vaughan 1959 Covered by (12 artists)

Call off the Wedding (Without a Groom There Can't Be a Bride) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Babs Tino November 1962 Covered by Don Backy

Casino Royale Burt Bacharach, Hal David Herb Alpert and The Tijuana Brass March 1967 Covered by (21 artists)

Christmas Day Burt Bacharach, Hal David Edward Winter, Kay Oslin, Rita O'Connor, Julane Stites and Neil Jones December 1968 Covered by (7 artists)
Country Music Holiday Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bernie Nee with Eddie O'Conner and his Orchestra February 24, 1958 Covered by Adam Faith

Donna Means Heartbreak Hal David, Paul Hampton Gene Pitney October 1962 Covered by (2 artists)
Don't Go Breaking My Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach and His Orchestra & Chorus March 1965 Covered by (22 artists)
Don't Let It Happen to Us Hal David, Sherman Edwards The Shirelles August 1963 Covered by (2 artists)
Don't Make Me Over Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1962 Covered by (51 artists)
Don't Send Me Home Hal David, Leon Carr Harry James - Toni Harper February 22, 1952 Covered by (2 artists)
Downhill and Shady Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1965 Covered by The Waistcoats

Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown? John Barry, Hal David John Barry, Nina van Pallandt 1969 Covered by (2 artists)

Do You Know the Way to San Jose? Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1968 Covered by (112 artists)

Early Morning Strangers Barry Manilow, Hal David Barry Manilow October 1974 Covered by (3 artists)
Everybody's Out of Town Burt Bacharach, Hal David B.J. Thomas April 1970 Covered by (6 artists)

Go with Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1966 Covered by Barbara Acklin

Half as Big as Life Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (4 artists)
Hasbrook Heights Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1971 Covered by (3 artists)
Here I Am Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1965 Covered by (8 artists)
Home Is Where the Heart Is Hal David, Sherman Edwards Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires August 28, 1962 Covered by (11 artists)

I Could Make You Mine Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Wanderers [US] September 1960 Covered by Patrick Logelin
I Cry Alone Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1963 Covered by (4 artists)
If I Could Go Back Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Whitman January 1973 Covered by (2 artists)
If I Never Get to Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson June 1962 Covered by (4 artists)
I Forgot What It Was Like Burt Bacharach, Hal David Ray Peterson July 1963 Covered by (2 artists)
If You Never Say Goodbye Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwicke 1972 Covered by Liliane Saint Pierre
I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tommy Hunt August 1962 Covered by (67 artists)
I'll Never Fall in Love Again Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (169 artists)
I'm a Better Man Burt Bacharach, Hal David Engelbert Humperdinck 1969 Covered by (5 artists)
In Between the Heartaches Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1965 Covered by (7 artists)
In the Land of Make Believe Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Drifters [US] December 1963 Covered by (7 artists)
In Times Like These Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene McDaniels January 1960 Covered by (5 artists)
I Say a Little Prayer Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick August 1967 Covered by (188 artists)
Is There Another Way to Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1965 Covered by Anki
Italian Fuzz Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1966 Covered by Fifty Foot Combo
It Doesn't Matter Anymore Burt Bacharach, Hal David Ricky Nelson December 1966 Covered by (3 artists)
It Only Took a Minute Hal David, Mort Garson Joe Brown and The Bruvvers October 1962 Covered by (3 artists)
It's Love That Really Counts (In the Long Run) Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Shirelles August 1962 Covered by (4 artists)
It Was Almost Like a Song Hal David, Archie Jordan Ronnie Milsap 1977 Covered by (13 artists)
I Wake Up Crying Burt Bacharach, Hal David Del Shannon June 1961 Covered by (19 artists)

Johnny Get Angry Hal David, Sherman Edwards Joanie Sommers April 1962 Covered by (4 artists)

Kaleidoscope Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1977 Covered by Kisu
Knowing When to Leave Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (21 artists)

Let Me Go to Him Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick March 1970 Covered by (6 artists)
Let the Music Play Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Drifters [US] March 1963 Covered by (5 artists)
Living Together, Growing Together Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tony Bennett December 1, 1972 Covered by (8 artists)
Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets Burt Bacharach, Hal David Allison Durbin 1969 Covered by (5 artists)
Long After Tonight Is Over Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jimmy Radcliffe October 1964 Covered by (6 artists)
Long Ago Tomorrow Burt Bacharach, Hal David B. J. Thomas October 1971 Covered by Burt Bacharach
Looking With My Eyes Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick September 1965 Covered by Mike Melvoin
Look in My Eyes Maria Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jay & The Americans September 1963 Covered by Cliff Richard
Lost Horizon Burt Bacharach, Hal David Shawn Phillips January 1973 Covered by (5 artists)
Love Was Here Before the Stars Burt Bacharach, Hal David Brian Foley October 1967 Covered by (6 artists)

Magic Moments Burt Bacharach, Hal David Perry Como December 1957 Covered by (30 artists)
Magic Potion Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson July 1963 Covered by (3 artists)
Make It Easy on Yourself Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Butler June 1962 Covered by (69 artists)
Me Japanese Boy I Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bobby Goldsboro July 1964 Covered by (8 artists)

Message to Martha Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Butler December 1963 Covered by (33 artists)

Moonraker John Barry, Hal David Shirley Bassey 1979 Covered by (38 artists)

My Heart Is an Open Book Hal David, Lee Pockriss Jimmy Dean with Ray Ellis and His Orch. September 1958 Covered by (6 artists)
My Little Red Book Burt Bacharach, Hal David Manfred Mann 1965 Covered by (35 artists)

No Walls, No Ceilings, No Floors Hal David, Archie Jordan Barbara Mandrell September 1978 Covered by (4 artists)
Now While I Still Remember How Hal David, Archie Jordan Orsa Lia September 1979 Covered by (2 artists)

Odds and Ends Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick July 1969 Covered by (10 artists)
One Less Bell to Answer Burt Bacharach, Hal David Keely Smith 1967 Covered by (40 artists)
Only Love Can Break a Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene Pitney October 1962 Covered by (12 artists)
Outside My Window Hal David, Sherman Edwards The Fleetwoods January 1960 Covered by (2 artists)

Promise Her Anything Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tom Jones January 1966 Covered by (2 artists)
Promises, Promises Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (21 artists)

Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head Burt Bacharach, Hal David B.J. Thomas October 1969 Covered by (252 artists)
Rain from the Skies Burt Bacharach, Hal David Adam Wade January 11, 1963 Covered by (3 artists)
Reach Out for Me Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson July 1963 Covered by (26 artists)
Rivers Are for Boats Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by Päivi Paunu

Saturday Sunshine Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach and His Orchestra & Chorus 1963 Covered by (5 artists)
Sea of Heartbreak Hal David, Paul Hampton Don Gibson May 1961 Covered by (61 artists)

She Likes Basketball Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (3 artists)
Something Big Burt Bacharach, Hal David Mark Lindsay December 17, 1971 Covered by (4 artists)

Take a Broken Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Rick Nelson December 1966 Covered by (2 artists)
The April Fools Burt Bacharach, Hal David Percy Faith His Orchestra and Chorus 1969 Covered by (27 artists)
The Face Not the Image Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by Euson
The First Night of the Full Moon Hal David, Al Kealoha Perry Jack Jones May 1964 Covered by Ronnie Tober
The Four Winds and the Seven Seas Hal David, Don Rodney Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians May 1949 Covered by (6 artists)
The Good Times Are Coming John Barry, Hal David Mama Cass Elliot 1970 Covered by Henry Dee
The Last One to Be Loved Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick August 31, 1964 Covered by (5 artists)

The Look of Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Stan Getz 1968 Covered by (382 artists)

The Love of a Boy Burt Bacharach, Hal David Timi Yuro November 1962 Covered by (5 artists)
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Fairmount Singers February 1962 Covered by (18 artists)
(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson July 1964 Covered by (120 artists)
The Story of My Life Burt Bacharach, Hal David Marty Robbins with Ray Conniff and His Orchestra September 30, 1957 Covered by (30 artists)
The Things I Will Not Miss Burt Bacharach, Hal David Sally Kellerman and Andra Willis January 1973 Covered by (2 artists)
The Windows of the World Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick August 1967 Covered by (33 artists)
They Long to Be Close to You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Richard Chamberlain September 1963 Covered by (294 artists)
This Empty Place Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1963 Covered by (10 artists)
This Guy's in Love with You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Danny Williams 1968 Covered by (249 artists)
To All the Girls I've Loved Before Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by (50 artists)
Too Late to Worry Burt Bacharach, Hal David Babs Tino 1962 Covered by (9 artists)
To Wait for Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jay & The Americans February 1964 Covered by (14 artists)
Trains and Boats and Planes Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach and His Orchestra & Chorus March 1965 Covered by (80 artists)
True Love Never Runs Smooth Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene Pitney October 1962 Covered by (5 artists)
Turkey Lurkey Time Burt Bacharach, Hal David Donna McKechnie, Baayork Lee
and Margo Sappington December 1968 Covered by (7 artists)
Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene Pitney October 1963 Covered by (30 artists)

Upstairs Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (4 artists)
Using Things and Loving People Hal David, Archie Jordan B.J. Thomas July 1979 Covered by (3 artists)

Walk on By Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick April 1964 Covered by (199 artists)
Walk the Way You Talk Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1970 Covered by (3 artists)
Wanting Things Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick November 1968 Covered by (7 artists)

We Have All the Time in the World John Barry, Hal David Louis Armstrong 1969 Covered by (55 artists)

What Am I Supposed to Do? Hal David, Archie Jordan Orsa Lia September 1979 Covered by Iris Williams
What Do You See in Her Hal David, Frank Weldon Helen Grayco with Orchestra Conducted by Harold Mooney August 1955 Covered by (7 artists)
What's New Pussycat? Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tom Jones 1965 Covered by (57 artists)
What the World Needs Now Is Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jackie deShannon April 15, 1965 Covered by (240 artists)
Where Would I Go Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1968 Covered by Barbara Acklin
Whoever You Are, I Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (15 artists)
Who Is Gonna Love Me Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick November 1968 Covered by (4 artists)
Wishin' and Hopin' Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1963 Covered by (46 artists)
With Open Arms Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jane Morgan 1959 Covered by Adam Faith with John Barry and His Orchestra
Wives and Lovers Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jack Jones September 1963 Covered by (114 artists)

You'll Answer to Me Hal David, Sherman Edwards Patti Page Featuring The Mike Stewart Singers May 1961 Covered by (3 artists)
You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick July 1964 Covered by (31 artists)
You'll Think of Someone Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (2 artists)
You You Darling Hal David, Lee Pockriss Eddie Williams 1959 Covered by Willy Hagara - Orchester Rolf Anders und Chor

Adapted songs
Title Written by Originals Originally by Covered by

Baby Elephant Walk Hal David Baby Elephant Walk Pat Boone
Dance Mama Dance Papa Dance Hal David Marriage, French Style Joanne and The Streamliners
No Regrets Hal David Non, je ne regrette rien Edith Piaf Covered by (13 artists)
Sole, Sole, Sole Hal David Sole, sole Covered by Sarah Vaughan
Where There's a Heartache Hal David Come Touch the Sun Oliver Covered by (3 artists)
Who Could Love Me Hal David Mi piaci come sei Shirley Bassey

RichardTheBruce

2013: Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis MBE dies at age 97--Reymerston, Norfolk, England.
(Born 26 April 1916--Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.)

Ken Wallis. Aviator 1916-2013 - A short
film from the Into the Wind Archive (13:31)

https://vimeo.com/electricegg/kenwallis

Originally included on the DVD release of Into the Wind, this film has been released online in memory of Ken Wallis who recently passed away. Ken's career in British aviation is well known from his wartime career as a Wellington pilot with Bomber Command to autogyro creations post-war. Ken is known to many through his connection to the James Bond film, 'You Only Live Twice' in which his autogyro 'Little Nellie' is 'flown' by Sean Connery, Bond, in one of the key scenes.

James Bond Pilot Ken Wallis Gets Lifetime Award

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An autogyro pilot from Norfolk, who flew as James Bond's stunt double in You Only Live Twice, has been honoured for his lifetime contribution to aerospace.

Retired Wing Cdr Ken Wallis, 96, who lives near Dereham, was given the award by the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators on Tuesday.

Mr Wallis said he was "privileged to be recognised by an organisation which celebrates professionalism and dedication in flying".

24 October 2012 |Section | BBC News

Kenneth Horatio Wallis, DSO MBE DEng CEng FRAeS PhD

Autogyro Little Nellie with its creator and pilot, Ken Wallis

Born 26 April 1916: Ely, Cambridgeshire
Died 1 September 2013 (aged 97): Dereham, Norfolk
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch Royal Air Force
Years of service 1939–1964
Rank Wing Commander
Unit No. 268 Squadron RAF
No. 103 Squadron RAF
No. 37 Squadron RAF
Battles/wars World War II
Awards Distinguished Service Order
Other work Leading exponent of autogyros

Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis DSO MBE CEng FRAeS RAF (26 April 1916 – 1 September 2013) was a British aviator, engineer, and inventor. During the Second World War, Wallis served in the Royal Air Force and flew 28 bomber missions over Germany; after the war, he moved on to research and development, before retiring in 1964. He later became one of the leading exponents of autogyros and earned 34 world records, still holding eight of them at the time of his death in 2013.

Early life
Born on 26 April 1916 at Ely, Cambridgeshire, Wallis developed a practical interest in mechanics, building a motorcycle at the age of 11. In 1936, he was inspired by a demonstration by Henri Mignet of his Mignet HM.14 Pou-du-Ciel ("Flying Flea"). Using only Mignet's book, Wallis gathered the materials required, and started to build his own Flying Flea. He abandoned construction because of widespread adverse publicity about fatal accidents that implied inadequate design of the type.

Wallis took an interest in powerboats which he kept up until 1957, when he won the 56-mile (90 km) long Missouri Marathon.

Military career
Wallis was keen to join the RAF, and applied for their Volunteer Reserve Service, but he was turned down due to a defective right eye. Consequently, he obtained a private flying licence which required only a certificate signed by his GP. Wallis obtained his A Licence for dual and solo flying in a record 12 hours. In 1938, Wallis tried to join the RAF again, this time with the newly formed RAF Short Service Commission Scheme, but again failed the eye test. In 1939, he was called up to RAF Uxbridge, and again was sent for a medical. When it came to the eyesight test he managed to pass, as Wallis later recalled, "I did the first line with my good eye then they covered it up and asked me to read the bottom line with my bad eye, without them realising I just turned my head slightly so I could again see with my good eye – I passed it with Above Average Eye Sight!"

Wallis's military career started with Westland Lysander patrols in the RAF. In 1942, he was transferred to RAF Bomber Command, flying Wellingtons near Grimsby. Wallis subsequently served in Italy and on secondment to the US Strategic Air Command, where he flew the massive Convair B-36, that had six piston engines and four auxiliary jet engines. Thereafter, he was involved in research and development, and was awarded a number of patents on his inventions. Wallis left the RAF in 1964, retiring to Norfolk.

Autogyros
Wallis produced autogyros for, in his own words, "reconnaissance, research & development, surveillance and military purposes", and his designs were not available for enthusiasts as he considered that although the design is simple it has to be built to the appropriate standards. His contribution to autogyro design included the "offset gimbal rotor head".

Wallis worked as Sean Connery's stunt pilot in the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, where he flew one of his WA-116s named Little Nellie.

Production was at Cambridge by "Wallis Autogyros Ltd." run by his cousin.

In 1970, Wallis provided camera footage from one of his autogyros in a search for the Loch Ness Monster.

In 1970 it was announced that Airmark would produce his autogyro design with a certificate of airworthiness (C of A), that being essential for commercial use of the autogyro. Expected price was around £3,000.

Between 2006 and 2009, Wallis took part in filming for Into the Wind, a documentary by Steven Hatton featuring the experiences and memories of wartime members of Bomber Command. The film, released in 2012, features Wallis demonstrating several of his autogyro designs.

Wallis was the President of the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, and Patron of the Wolf Preservation Foundation.

a 1:24 scale plastic model kit of Wallis' WA-116 Little Nellie autogyro as portrayed
in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice, was released
by the Airfix company.

Autogyros and aircraft
Wallbro Monoplane Replica
Wallis WA-116 Agile
Wallis WA-117
Wallis WA-118 Meteorite
Wallis WA-119
Wallis WA-120
Wallis WA-121

Recognition
Wallis was the recognized world record holder for many categories of autogyro records over the years, and was also recognized as the oldest pilot to set a world flight record at the age of 89. Wallis held most of the autogyro world records during his autogyro flying career. These include the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale time-to-climb, a speed record of 189 km/h (111.7 mph), and the straight-line distance record of 869.23 km (540.11 mi). On 16 November 2002, Wallis increased the speed record to 207.7 km/h (129.1 mph).

Wallis received the MBE in 1996.

In July 2013, Wallis received a campaign medal for his 28 bomber missions over Germany during World War II.

Later life
He was married to Peggy Stapley, a Women's Auxiliary Air Force veteran, from 1942 to her death in 2003. Wallis died on 1 September 2013, aged 97. Prior to his death, he was living in the quiet Norfolk village of Reymerston.

Old Buckenham Airport held a memorial event on 29 September at the request of the Wallis family: "A Celebration of the Life of Wing Commander Ken Wallis". It had been expected that about 500 people would attend, but an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 attended the event.

K.H. Wallis (1916–2013)

Camera and Electrical Department | Stunts
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0909250/

2014: Gottfried John dies at age 72--Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
(Born 29 August 1942--Berlin, Germany.)

Gottfried John obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/08/gottfried-john

German actor whose unconventional looks helped bring him
villainous roles in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films
Ronald Bergan
Mon 8 Sep 2014 12.02 EDT

Gottfried John as General Arkady Ourumov in the James Bond film GoldenEye, 1995.
Photograph: Keith Hamshere/Getty Images

It was inevitable that the German actor Gottfried John, with his gaunt features, low cheekbones, raspy voice and boxer's flattened nose, would play villains. In commercial terms, the culmination of his 20-year stage, cinema and television career came when John was cast as the perfidious Russian general Arkady Ourumov, James Bond's nemesis, in GoldenEye (1995), the highest-earning Bond film since Moonraker, 16 years previously.

However, for cinephiles, it was not the name of Bond with which John, who has died of cancer aged 74, was immediately associated, but that of the German wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder for whom he appeared in five features, most significantly as the poisonous Reinhold Hoffmann in the 14-part television series Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), based on Alfred Döblin's novel.

John, who was born in Berlin, was brought up by his mother. His father, whom he never met, was an engineer and a loyal Nazi, and had remarried. During the second world war, John and his mother were evacuated to East Prussia. After the war, he went to Paris where he earned a living as a pavement artist and construction worker before returning to Berlin in 1960.

Although he failed to get into the Max Reinhardt acting school, he was taken on by the Schiller theatre. But it was joining Fassbinder's avant-garde theatre troupes that changed John's life. In 1971 Fassbinder founded Tango-Film and, four years later, John appeared in Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975), making an impact as Niemeyer, a sleazy, opportunistic journalist who exploits the grieving, middle-aged widow (the remarkable Brigitte Mira) of a factory worker. Instead of writing about her husband as a peaceful, quiet man as promised, Niemeyer twists things around to make it sound as if he were a wife-beater and drunk. He explains the reason he sensationalised the story with the chilling remark (with its echo of nazism) that he was just carrying out orders.

In Despair (1978), Fassbinder's first film in English, John is a mysterious Russian painter of icons and in In a Year of 13 Moons (also 1978), he is a manipulative butcher, with enough charm to make a young man (Volker Spengler) fall for him. When the latter expresses his love, John replies, "Too bad you're not a girl", prompting the boy to have a sex-change operation, only to be rejected again.

He had a relatively straight role in The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), as Willi Klenze, a soldier returning from the second world war to tell the eponymous heroine (Hanna Schygulla) that her husband has been killed on the Russian front. Willi later becomes a leftwing union leader. In between the Fassbinder films, John had the role of the sinister chauffeur of a former movie star in Billy Wilder's Fedora (1978).

John's jolie-laide looks were used effectively in Berlin Alexanderplatz, in which he was Reinhold, a petty thief who befriends the ex-prisoner Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht), passing on his rejected women to him. In a particularly cruel act, during a robbery, Reinhold throws Franz out of the back of the truck.

After Fassbinder's death in 1984, John embarked on an international career generally playing shady German characters in spy dramas, such as the British TV series Game, Set and Match (1988), based on books by Len Deighton. In GoldenEye, in keeping with the Hollywood tradition of casting any old nationality as a foreigner, John was General Ourumov, the corrupt and ruthless head of the Russian Space Division, secretly planning to take control of the world's satellites. In the exhilarating climax, Ourumov is in a black sedan, drinking from a hip flask and holding a woman hostage, followed by Bond (Pierce Brosnan) driving a Russian tank through the streets of St Petersburg. At one stage, he tells his driver, when faced with a group of people blocking the way, "Use the bumper! That's what it's for!"

In contrast, returning to his avant-garde roots, John appeared in the two live-action features directed by the Quay Brothers, celebrated as animators and designers. They used John's strange aura to effect as an eccentric headteacher of a boarding school for servants in Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1996) and as an evil doctor who kidnaps an opera singer in The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005).

John is survived by his wife, Barbara.

• Gottfried John, actor, born 29 August 1942; died 1 September 2014

Gottfried John

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Filmography

Café Oriental (1962) .... (uncredited)
Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962) .... Train passenger (uncredited)

Jaider, der einsame Jäger (1971) .... Jaider
Carlos (1971) .... Carlos
Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972-1973, TV Mini-Series) .... Jochen
World on a Wire (1973, TV Movie) .... Einstein
Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975) .... Niemeyer
Derrick (1976, Season 3, Episode 11: "Das Superding") .... Krummbach
Die Ratten (1977, TV Movie) .... Bruno Mechelke
Despair (1978) .... Perebrodov
Fedora (1978) .... Kritos
In a Year of 13 Moons (1978) .... Anton Seitz
Wo die Liebe hinfällt (1979, TV Movie)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) .... Willi Klenze

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, TV Mini-Series) .... Reinhold
Reiseabrechnung (1980, TV Movie)
Lili Marleen (1981) .... Aaron
Ente oder Trente (1983)
Super (1984) .... Hilpert
Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter (1985, TV Movie) .... Bartolomé de las Casas
Chinese Boxes (1984) .... Zwemmer
Mata Hari (1985) .... Wolff
Die Mitläufer (1985)
Otto - Der Film (1985) .... Sonnemann (Bank robber)
Of Pure Blood (1986, TV Movie) .... Paul Bergmann
Der Fall Franza (1986, TV Movie) .... Capitain
Verworrene Bilanzen (1987, TV Movie) .... Karl M. Kronen
Schön war die Zeit (1988) .... Franz Bauer - Kameramann

Wings of Fame (1990) .... Zlatogorski
Frederick Forsyth Presents: Death Has a Bad Reputation (1990, TV Movie) .... Rodimstev
Night of the Fox (1990, TV Movie) .... Hofer
Elfenbein (1991, TV Movie) .... Nicholas Messier
Ich schenk dir die Sterne (1991) .... Robert Dallburg
Die Verfehlung (1992) .... Jacob Alain
Die Zeit danach (1992)
Colpo di coda (1993, TV Movie) .... Pierre
Abraham (1993, TV Mini-Series) .... Eliezer
Space Rangers (1993-1994, TV Series) .... Colonel Erich Weiss
Polizeiruf 110 (1994, TV Series) .... Hannes Hellwig
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) .... Herr Benjamenta
Novalis - Die blaue Blume (1995) .... Sophies Vater
GoldenEye (1995) .... General Arkady Ourumov
The Ogre (1996) .... Chief Forester
Millennium (1997, TV Series) .... Josef Heim
Am I Beautiful? (1998) .... Herbert
Astérix et Obélix contre César (1999) .... Jules César (Julius Caesar)
Balzac [fr] (1999, TV Movie) .... Count Hanski

Gli amici di Gesù - Maria Maddalena (2000, TV Movie) .... Erode Antipa
Proof of Life (2000) .... Eric Kessler
The Gathering Storm (2002, TV Movie) .... Friedrich von Schroder
Nancy & Frank - A Manhattan Love Story (2002) .... Paul von Bernwarth
Imperium: Augustus (2003, TV Movie) .... Cicero
Sams in Gefahr (2003) .... Schulrat
Die schöne Braut in Schwarz (2004, TV Movie) .... Aldo Caldini
Cowgirl (2004) .... Hans Krahl
The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005) .... Dr. Emmanuel Drosz
Störtebeker [fr] (2006, TV Movie) .... Konrad von Wallenrod
Flood (2007) .... Arthur Moyes
Das zweite Leben (2007, TV Movie) .... Robert Kreutzer
Das Papstattentat (2008, TV Movie) .... Paolo Naldini
John Rabe (2009) .... Dr. Oskar Trautmann
Flores negras (2009) .... Curtis
Rumpelstilzchen (2009, TV Movie) .... König Gustav
Das Leben ist zu lang [de] (2010) .... Georg Maria Stahl

Ruby Red (2013) .... Dr. White (final film role)

Gottfried John (1942–2014)

Actor | Soundtrack
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2020: Arthur Wooster dies at age 91.
(Born 18 May 1929--London, England.)

Arthur Wooster BSC

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September 2, 2020

It is with great sadness that we share the news that Arthur Wooster BSC has passed away this week at the age of 91.

It’s safe to say that hundreds of millions of moviegoers around the world have admired and been excited by Arthur Wooster’s cinematography, more often than not without knowing Wooster was the artist behind those images. Hardly surprising, when you learn that among Arthur Wooster’s most widely seen work is the terrific second unit photography for such James Bond blockbusters as or Your Eyes Only, The Living Daylights and Goldeneye.

Arthur Wooster had an impressive career in cinematography and directing which spanned almost six decades.

ARTHUR WOOSTER
It is with deep regret that we report that Arthur Wooster BSC passed away peacefully yesterday afternoon. He was 91. He had been suffering from Alzheimer’s in later years and his only pleasure had been visiting the cinema but when the pandemic struck all that changed. A stalwart of our industry and one of the most hard working and prolific DPs in our Society and a kind and thoughtful man as well. Our thoughts and condolences go to his wife of 56 years, Anne and his two sons David and Tim.

He became a member of the BSC in 1972 and in 1983 was honoured by BAFTA with an award for "‘Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema” followed by a "BSC Lifetime Achievement Award" in 2007.

Born in 1929, Arthur’s father ran a butcher’s shop opposite Wembley Film Studios (Britain's first purpose- built sound studios). Knowing Arthur was very interested in photography he arranged an interview at The Crown Film Unit in 1944 and Arthur became a clapper loader at Pinewood studios working with Chick Fowle BSC on a documentary The True Story of Lilly Marlene, directed by Humphrey Jennings.

After his national service, he re-joined the Crown Film Unit and worked on Man of Africa as a focus puller, directed by Cyril Frankel and shot in Uganda. A year or so later, Crown were shooting in Malaya when the crew were ambushed and the cameraman, Teddy Catford, was injured. When no-one at the unit wanted to replace him, Arthur volunteered and was now a DP.

When Crown disbanded in 1952, Arthur helped form Film Partnership and also shot newsreels for Pathe and Movietone including a 3D film about the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

Arthur eventually left the company and by now, was directing and photographing numerous short films, commercials and documentaries around the world including Mekong: River of Asia (1964) and Pipeline Alaska (1977) both directed by John Armstrong and nominated for Oscars.

Arthur’s reputation as a cameraman expanded into sports films that included Official Films of the 1966 World Cup, 1968, 1972 & 1976 Olympic Games and later at the 1990 World Cup.

The first feature Arthur worked on was second unit on Downhill Racer (1969 d. Michael Ritchie), followed by films such as Le Mans (1971 d. Lee Katzin) and Gold (1974 d. Peter Hunt). John Glen often worked in the cutting rooms at Film Partnership often cutting films that Arthur had shot and directed, as well as several James Bond films. In 1980 Glen was going to direct For Your Eyes Only and asked if Arthur would be interested in doing the second unit. This was to be the start of a long relationship for Arthur with the Bond company where he would direct and shoot the second unit on titles such as Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, License to Kill, Goldeneye, etc.

Arthur had now established himself as one of the world’s top 2nd Unit Directors who could DP as well, a combination that made him highly sought after but naturally restricted his main unit DP opportunities although he photographed a number of his own films including Eat the Peach (d. Peter Ormerod) and the television series Sharpe, one episode of which Sharpe’s Company, directed by Tom Clegg, won an RTS award for cinematography.

(David Wooster with Phil Méheux BSC)

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Arthur Wooster

Camera and Electrical Department | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | Cinematographer
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2020: No Time To Die teaser poster released. Plus a trailer.

NO TIME TO DIE | Trailer 2

2021: Final trailer(s) for No Time To Die shared.

JAMES BOND 007: NO TIME TO DIE Final Trailer (2021) - US, 2:44


No Time to Die Final International Trailer (2021) | Movieclips Trailers - 2:34

2022: The Royal Institution presents Superspy science - The World of James Bond with author Kathryn Harkup at London, England.

Sep
01
Superspy science: The world of
James Bond
by The Royal Institution

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Discover the science, tech and deaths in the world of James Bond.

About this event

Science and technology have always been central to the plots that make up the world of James Bond.

Join Kathryn Harkup as she explores the practicalities of building a volcano-based lair, whether being covered in gold paint really will kill you, and whether it’s better to use bacteria, bombs, or poison to take over the world.

In this talk, Kathryn discusses plots, gadgets and the ludicrous ways that threatened Bond’s life. From the first book published in 1953 to now.

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2022: The British Library hosts Double or Nothing - James Bond and Beyond with Charlie Higson and Kim Sherwood at London, England.

Double or Nothing: James Bond and Beyond

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Thu 1 Sep 2022, 19:00 - 20:30

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With Charlie Higson and Kim Sherwood.

Early bird offer: Get tickets for £10 for this event until 31 July. After this full-price tickets will be £13.

This event will take place at the British Library. It will be simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform. Tickets may be booked either to attend in person (physical), or to watch on our platform (online) either live or within 48 hours on catch up. Viewing links will be sent out shortly before the event.

The online version of this event will be live captioned.

James Bond is missing… 007 has been captured – perhaps even killed, by a sinister private military company and the future of humanity hangs in the balance. The fate of the world rests in the hands of a trio of MI6's finest Double O agents but time is running out.

So begins the pulsating new spy thriller Double or Nothing by Kim Sherwood, the first in an officially commissioned trilogy that promises to 'blow the world of Ian Fleming's James Bond wide open.'

At this special launch event, Kim is joined by fellow Bond author Charlie Higson to celebrate the ever-thrilling and evolving world of 007.

The event will be followed by a book signing. Early bird price £10 until 31 July (with additional concessions for students and under-26s) after which prices will be £13 full price, £11.50 over 60s, £6.50 other concessions.

Online event bookers can buy a copy of Double or Nothing with a ticket at checkout for £23 (with UK postage) and watch the event for free. International postage will be higher. Books will be posted out within 7 days after the event. Please ensure your address is up to date on your British Library account.

Charlie Higson created and starred in the hugely successful comedy series The Fast Show. He is also author of the bestselling Young Bond books (Blood Fever, Double or Die, Hurricane Gold, Silverfin and By Royal Command) and horror series The Enemy. His latest book Whatever Gets You Through The Night is his first adult crime novel in 25 years; a colourful thriller exposing dark truths lurking beneath the surface of a sunny Mediterranean idyll.

Kim Sherwood won the Bath Novel Award for her debut novel Testament, published in 2018. It was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Award, shortlisted for the Author's Club Best First Novel, and won the Harpers’ Bazaar Big Book Award. She was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 2019. Sherwood has a Bond connection: she is the granddaughter of the actor George Baker who made a number of appearances in the James Bond films - most famously playing Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). Kim is a lifelong fan of Ian Fleming and James Bond. Double or Nothing (released September 1st 2022)is the first in Kim's trilogy of Double O novels expanding the James Bond universe.

In association with Ian Fleming Publications and Harper Collins

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2022: HarperCollins publishes Double or Nothing by Kim Sherwood.

Double or Nothing

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By Kim Sherwood
On Sale: September 1, 2022
£20.00
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James Bond is missing. 007 has been captured, perhaps even killed, by a sinister private military company. His whereabouts are unknown.

Meet the new generation of spies…

Johanna Harwood, 003. Joseph Dryden, 004. Sid Bashir, 009. Together, they represent the very best and brightest of MI6. Skilled, determined and with a licence to kill, they will do anything to protect their country.

The fate of the world rests in their hands…

Tech billionaire Sir Bertram Paradise claims he can reverse the climate crisis and save the planet. But can he really? The new spies must uncover the truth, because the future of humanity hangs in the balance.

Time is running out.

The start of a brand new trilogy following MI6’s agents with a licence to kill, that blows the world of James Bond wide open!

What everyone is saying about DOUBLE OR NOTHING:

‘Filled with characters so real we feel we know them,
the novel races through its surprising plot twists
like an Aston Martin in high gear’
Jeffery Deaver, author of
Carte Blanche, a James Bond novel

‘Stylish, explosive, fresh and fun, Kim Sherwood
takes one of the world’s most beloved series
and makes it her own’ Chris Whitaker, author of We Begin at the End

'Kim Sherwood has taken the world of James Bond
and turned it on its head’
Charles Cumming, author of BOX 88

‘A cleverly plotted and absorbing novel with a
fantastic cast of fully rounded characters’
Lisa Ballantyne, author of The Innocent One

‘Delivers everything you could want and more
from a high-octane, high-stakes spy thriller’
Tim Glister, author of Red Corona

2023: Yvonne Shima dies at age 88--British Columbia, Canada.
(Born 1935--British Columbia, Canada.)

RichardTheBruce

September 2nd

1935: Kenneth Tsang Kong is born--Shanghai, China. (Also reported as 5 October 1934.)
(He dies 27 April 2022 at age 87--Yau Tsim Mong District, Hong Kong, China.)

Kenneth Tsang Dies: Golden Age Hong Kong Film Actor
Who Later Entered Hollywood Was 87

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By Bruce Haring | April 27, 2022 4:45pm | AP

Kenneth Tsang, who made his mark in Hong Kong’s golden age of film before coming to the US and scoring roles in several prominent movies, died at age 87 today. He was found after quarantining in a Hong Kong hotel after entering China from Singapore, per that country’s Covid-19 protocols.

Tsang’s talent manager confirmed his death. “I’m deeply saddened by the news and will miss his laughter and his friendship,” Tsang’s manager, Andrew Ooi, said in a statement.

“He was a pioneer and a legend of his time in the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, who broke boundaries with his fearless performances not only there but in Hollywood too. His legacy will live on in the movies he’s made and my heart goes out to his family in this difficult time.”

In addition to his Hong Kong films, Tsang appeared in Hollywood movies Rush Hour 2 (2001) and the James Bond movie Die Another Day (2002). He made his Hollywood debut in 1998’s The Replacement Killers,” directed by Antoine Fuqua.

Tsang won the Hong Kong Film Award for supporting actor in 2015. He was nominated for the same prize at the 2012 Hong Kong Film Awards for his performance in Overheard 2, which won him the supporting actor trophy at the 2012 China Film Media Awards.

Before his film career, Tsang graduated with a degree in architecture from UC Berkeley, according to the South China Morning Post. He also appeared in dozens of TV series, including The Greed of Man, starring Tsang as Lung family patriarch Sing-bong.

Tsang is survived by his wife of 28 years, Taiwanese film actor Chiao Chiao.
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1939: An overworked Ian Fleming declines his duties as best man at the Gerald and Patricia Coke wedding.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
Chapter 3 - "The world's worst stockbroker"

[Admiral] Godfrey did not let on much about the job he had in mind. More
interest in "having a good look at the fellow", he suggested Ian might
like to come into the NID at the Admiralty on a part-time basis and get
the feel of the place. Ian began attending for three or four afternoons a
week in June. Within a fortnight, Fleming had mastered his limited brief
and was asking Godfrey for something more challenging. Godfrey had
already seen enough: as he recorded in his unpublished memoirs, "I
quickly made up my mind that here was the man for the job." In late July
Ian was appoint to the newly formed Special Branch (dealing with
intelligence and meteorology) of the Wavy Navy, the Royal Navy Vol-
unteer Reserve (RNVR). He joined NID full-time the following month and
was firmly installed, with enough inside information to advise Percy Muir
to move his book collection to the countryside, and enough work on his
desk to have to cancel his engagement as best man at Gerald Coke's
wedding on 2 September, the day before war began.

1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films Bond's first scene--with Moneypenny.

1980: For Your Eyes Only film production officially starts with three days North Sea filming of the St. Georges.

Internet Movie Boat Database Wiki
https://imbd.fandom.com/wiki/For_Your_Eyes_Only

St. Georges

This trawler serves as a British spy ship. It is sunk by a WW2 sea mine, which was accidentally pushed against the hull when it got captured in one of the fishing nets. Bond and Melina later explore the wreckage of the ship. The St. Georges is a model ship.

2013: Veteran actor Dick Van Dyke comments on Daniel Craig as James Bond.

Daniel Craig lacks the panache to be James Bond,
says Dick Van Dyke

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https://www.newdelhitimes.com/daniel-craig-lacks-panache-james-bond-dick-van-dyke/

By Editor | September 2, 2013

Screen legend Dick Van Dyke has revealed that he doesn’t think Daniel Craig is right for the role of James Bond .

The ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ star said that he considered Craig to be a ‘wonderful actor’ with ‘great physicality’, but he was missing a certain something required for the acclaimed part, Metro.co.uk reported.

The 87-year-old actor also revealed that he was considered to play the spy.

He said that when Sean Connery had talked about dropping out of Bond flick, Cubby Broccoli approached him and asked if he was interested in the role.

Van Dyke however turned down the offer, saying that he didn’t have a proper British accent.

2015: American Photography reports on the book Dying to Eat by Henry Hargreaves in collaboration with food stylist Charlotte Omnes, focusing on Bond meals.

Dept of Ideas: Photographing James Bond's Dinners

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https://www.ai-ap.com/publications/article/15063/dept-of-ideas-photographing-james-bonds-dinners.html

By David Schonauer | Wednesday September 2, 2015

He kissed and killed. And ate and drank.

Best known for his consumption of cocktails in the movies, James Bond was also a gourmand in his literary incarnation. “I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from the habit of taking a lot of trouble over details,” he tells Vesper Lynd in 1953’s Casino Royale, the first of the Bond thrillers written by Ian Fleming.

Reading about Bond’s dining habits from a modern perspective is akin to cultural archeology. His dinner with Vesper, for instance, is a remarkable example of post-war extravagance. She orders caviar, to be followed by “a plain grilled rognon de veau with pommes soufflés, and then fraises de bois, with a lot of cream.”

“I myself will accompany Mademoiselle with the caviar, but then I would like a very small tournedos, underdone, with sauce Bearnaise and a coeur d’artichaut,” Bond tells the maitre d’hotel. “While Mademoiselle is enjoying the strawberries, I will have an avocado pear, with a little French dressing.”

Today we don’t necessarily think of avocado as an exotic treat. But in the economically-ravaged Europe of the early 1950s, it could be used by Fleming as a symbol of almost unimaginable privilege. Like his creation, Fleming took trouble over such details, and it paid off. People read the books in part to be transported to a world where both danger and luxury could be found in abundance.

That sense of history is what photographer Henry Hargreaves, in collaboration with food stylist Charlotte Omnes, sat out to capture in his book Dying to Eat/i], a depiction of the meals Bond enjoys during his adventures.

“Ian Fleming wrote for 1950’s Englishman, whose everyday experience of the world was colored by the devastating consequences of war,” Hargreaves notes. “The 50s post-war man could read Fleming’s Bond books and dream not only of adventure and villains in far-off lands, but an exciting lifestyle of fast cars, beautiful women, finely tailored clothes, and exotic gourmet meals from around the world.”

Ironically, a previous Hargreaves project, No Seconds, focused on the last meals ordered by death row inmates, from John Wayne Gacy (fried shrimp, a bucket of chicken from KFC) to Timothy McVeigh (two pints of mint chocolate chip ice cream).

By way of contrast, there are the decadent stone crabs swimming in butter that Bond eats in Miami Beach at the beginning of Goldfinger and the smoked ham and peaches he has in From Russia With Love.

Hargreaves notes at his website that he worked as both a fashion model and in the food industry before becoming a professional photographer. “I was fascinated about people’s requests and [how] what they ordered [revealed] their character and personality. I try to bring this idea into my work by showing the connections visually,” he writes at his website.

Bond’s meals reveal a man whose eyes are perhaps bigger than his stomach (For Bond, the world was not enough, after all). Like his famous cocktail creation, the Vesper (3 measure of Gordon’s gin, 1 measure of vodka, and 1/2 measure of Kina Lillet), Bond’s dinners are showy — and borderline absurd, if not deadly in their own right. (Fleming would later apologize for his Vesper recipe; having actually tried one, he found it “unpalatable,” notes David Leigh in The Complete Guide to The Drinks of James Bond.)

Fleming used booze and food to create an illusion and give his famous character depth; but he had to go to increasingly greater heights of imagination to maintain the illusion, making Bond’s meals more and more bizarre throughout the series. In You Only Live Twice, the second-to-last novel, “Bond is mucking around with Japanese lobster eaten alive as it crawls around his table,” writes Simon Wender in The Man Who Saved Britain: A Personal Journey Into the Disturbing World of James Bond.

Hargreaves takes us on a journey through the Cold War, armed with knife and fork, but not a Walther PPK in sight.

https://henryhargreaves.com/

Casino Royale

Live and Let Die

Moonraker

Diamonds Are Forever

From Russia With Love

Goldfinger

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Thunderball

The Spy Who Loved Me

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

You Only Live Twice

The Man With The Golden Gun

2020: A No Time To Die ten-second teaser anticipates a new trailer on 3 September.

2020: ET Online looks at 26 James Bond posters through the years.

Movies
James Bond Posters Through the
Years

See the complete article here:

https://www.etonline.com/gallery/james-bond-posters-through-the-years-21694/spectre-2015-81456

By ET Staff | September 2, 2020

Take a look back at the legacy of all the
different 007s, from Sean Connery to Daniel
Craig, Roger Moore to Pierce Brosnan.

No Time to Die (2020)

United Artists Releasing
Starring Daniel Craig as Bond.

Spectre (2015)

Sony Pictures Releasing

Skyfall (2012)

Sony Pictures Releasing

James Bond 50th Anniversary Poster

MGM

Quantum of Solace (2008)

Sony Pictures Releasing

Casino Royale (2006)

Sony Pictures Releasing

Starring Pierce Brosnan as Bond.
Die Another Day (2002)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

The World Is Not Enough

MGM

Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

MGM

GoldenEye (1995)

MGM

Starring Timothy Dalton as Bond.
Licence to Kill (1989)

MGM

The Living Daylights (1987)

MGM

Starring Roger Moore as Bond.
A View to a Kill (1985)

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Octopussy (1983)

United International Pictures

For Your Eyes Only (1981)

United Artists

Moonraker (1979)

United Artists

The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

United Artists

The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)

United Artists

Live and Let Die (1973)

United Artists

Starring Sean Connery as Bond.
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

United Artists

Starring George Lazenby as Bond.
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)

United Artists

Starring Sean Connery as Bond.
You Only Live Twice (1967)

United Artists

Thunderball (1965)

United Artists

Goldfinger (1964)

United Artists

From Russia with Love (1963)

United Artists

Dr. No (1962)

United Artists

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September 3rd

1939: Recognizing the German invasion of Poland and a refusal to withdraw, Britain and France declare war.

1943: Valerie Perrine is born--Galveston, Texas.

1963: Serena Gordon is born--London, England.

1984: A View to a Kill films at the Ascot Race Course--Ascot, Berkshire, England.

2002: The Telegraph announces Revlon's limited edition 007 Colour Collection, a Die Another Day tie-in.

Discover your inner Bond girl with
bullet-shaped mascaras and 007 blushes

http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/news-features/TMG4795038/Discover-your-inner-Bond-girl-with-bullet-shaped-mascaras-and-007-blushes.html
Jenni Baden Howard on a new to die for range from Revlon
BY Jenni Baden Howard | 03 September 2002[/center]
With two months to go before the British premiere of Die Another Day, prepare to discover your inner Bond girl. The 007 film archives have always provided an irresistible source of inspiration for make-up artists and hair stylists (Ursula Andress's surf-tousled exit from the sea in Dr No has been recreated in endless magazine spreads), but Revlon has gone one step further and come up with a make-up range based on the latest 007 instalment.

Halle Berry, who stars in the new film, is one of the beauty brand's current faces (former Revlon models who have also been Bond girls include Kim Basinger, Talisa Soto and Carey Lowell), and the company has collaborated with the makers of Die Another Day to create a cosmetics line which is inspired by its two femme fatales: Halle, whose character is called Jinx, and young British actress Rosamund Pike, who plays Bond's M16 agent, Miranda Frost.

The limited edition 007 Colour Collection will be launched here on November 7 to coincide with the film's release. Revlon obviously had a lot of fun dreaming up the product names, which are predictably loaded with Bond-style puns and innuendo.

There is a gold, bullet-shaped mascara in Bond Black, which features a clear lash primer; lipsticks in Mission Mauve and Berry Avenger; a blush imprinted with the famous 007 pinwheel motif and eyeshadow compacts named after Halle and Rosamund's characters.

The range was developed in collaboration with the film's make-up artist and stylist, who advised on the looks and mood of the two characters. Shades and textures range from the warm and vibrant to the cool and frosted (much of the action takes place in an ice palace in Iceland, which was inspired by Sweden's ultra-trendy Ice Hotel). But the Lash Fantasy mascara stands out as a must, as it creates the essential, glamorous Bond babe flutter.

2004: A 1937 Bentley 4¼ Litre Gurney Nutting Drophead Coupé auctioned at Bondham's.

Still in good shape.

https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_76164-Bentley-41-4-Litre-B129JY-1937.html

2006: Wiley publishes The Science of James Bond: From Bullets to Bowler Hats to Boat Jumps, the Real Technology Behind 007's Fabulous Films by Loish H, Grish and Robert Weinberg.

From the Back Cover

The science behind the gadgets, exploits, and enemies of the world′s greatest spy

From the sleek Aston Martin that spits out bullets, nails, and passengers at the push of a button to the microjet that makes hairpin turns to avoid a heat–seeking missile, the science and technology of James Bond films have kept millions of movie fans guessing for decades. Are these amazing feats and gadgets truly possible?

The Science of James Bond takes you on a fascinating excursion through the true science that underlies Bond′s most fantastic and off–the–wall accoutrements. The acclaimed science–fiction authors Lois Gresh and Robert Weinberg provide a highly entertaining, informative look at the real–world achievements and brilliant imaginations behind such singular Bond gadgets as the buzz–saw Rolex, the car that turns into a submarine, and the ever–popular rocket–firing cigarette. They examine hundreds of Q Division′s ingenious inventions; analyze Bond′s astonishing battles beneath the earth and sea, in the skies, and even in outer space; and ask intriguing questions that lead to enlightening discussions about the limits of science, the laws of nature, and the future of technology.

Filled with entertaining anecdotes from Bond movie shoots and supplemented with "tech" ratings for all of the Bond movies, The Science of James Bond separates scientific fact from film fantasy with some very surprising results.

About the Author

LOIS H. GRESH is the author of seventeen books, including four novels. She has written dozens of suspense and science–fiction stories and has been nominated for national fiction awards six times. Gresh and Robert Weinberg have coauthored several books, including The Science of Superheroes and The Science of Supervillains, both from Wiley.

ROBERT WEINBERG is the author of sixteen novels and seventeen nonfiction books. He also scripted comic books for DC, Marvel, and Moonstone Publishers. Weinberg is the only World Fantasy Award winning author who has served as the grand marshal of a rodeo parade.

2015: A new poster for Spectre showcases classic Bond elements and The Day of the Dead.

2017: Scene Therapy looks at Bond's ancestral home in Skyfall.

Fictional Homes: James Bond’s Ancestral Home, Skyfall

See the complete article here:

https://scenetherapy.com/fictional-homes-james-bonds-ancestral-home-skyfall/

The infamous ’Skyfall’ house from the 007 movie of the same name [2012 MGM/Sony/Columbia] is supposed to be situated in the barren rural lands of Glen Coe, Scotland, however the property was purpose-built from scratch at Hankley Common, Surrey, England. The lodge was built to resemble the weather-beaten stone builds of the Highlands, complete with creeping moss and small mullioned windows.

Skyfall Lodge James Bond Stag Gate

Skyfall Lodge Interior 3 Scenetherapy.com

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Skyfall Lodge Entrance Hall

Skyfall Lodge Interior 4 Scenetherapy.com Judi Dench, M, Film set

The interiors, created and shot on a soundstage at Pinewood Studios, feature all the classic features of an ancestral British country lodge, such as wood panelling, oil paintings, grandfather clocks, stone fireplaces, stag-themed paraphernalia and antique furniture.

The Skyfall Lodge, created by Art Director Dean Clegg, was designed, built and filmed in six months.

2020: A new trailer for No Time To Die introduces action from the film.

NO TIME TO DIE | Trailer 2

2021: newsline promotes the Land Rover Defender V8 Bond Version.

Expertise James Bond’s unique SUV

See the complete article here:

https://newsline.news/expertise-james-bonds-unique-suv/

September 3, 2021

Experience James Bond's exclusive SUV

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September 4th

1932: Edward James de Souza is born--Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

1966: The Los Angeles Times reports on You Only Live Twice filming in Tokyo and Kobe, Japan.

1977: The Spy Who Loved Me starts its South London theater booking.

1983: Random House publishes an updated version of Steven Jay Rubin's The James Bond Films - A Behind the Scenes History. Includes the latest films Octopussy and Never Say Never Again.

1993: Hervé Villechaize dies at age 50--North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
(Born 23 April 1943--Paris, France.)

Hervé Villechaize

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

Villechaize in 1977

Born Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize 23 April 1943, Paris, France
Died 4 September 1993 (aged 50), North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Cause of death Suicide by shooting
Resting place | Ashes sprinkled into the Pacific Ocean
Occupation | Actor
Years active | 1966–1993
Notable work
Nick Nack in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
Spider in Seizure (1974)
King Fausto in Forbidden Zone (1980)
Smiley in Two Moon Junction (1988)
Height 3 ft 11 in (119 cm)
Television Fantasy Island
Spouse(s)
Anne Sadowski | (m. 1970; div. 1979)
Camille Hagen | (m. 1980; div. 1982)

Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize (French: [ɛʁve vilʃɛz]; April 23, 1943 – September 4, 1993) was a French American actor. He is best remembered for known for his role as the evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, and for playing Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, on the 1977–1984 American television series Fantasy Island, where his catch phrase was "Ze plane! Ze plane!"

Early life
Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was born in Paris, France on April 23, 1943. to English-born Evelyn (Recchionni) and André Villechaize, a surgeon in Toulon. The youngest of four sons, Villechaize was born with dwarfism, likely due to an endocrine disorder, which his surgeon father tried unsuccessfully to cure in several institutions. In later years, he insisted on being called a "midget" rather than a "dwarf". Villechaize was bullied at school for his condition and found solace in painting. He also had a brief modeling career.[citation needed] In 1959, at age 16, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts to study art. In 1961, he became the youngest artist ever to have his work displayed in the Museum of Paris.

In 1964 he left France for the United States. He settled in a Bohemian section of New York City and taught himself English by watching television.[citation needed]
Career

Villechaize initially worked as an artist, painter and photographer. He began acting in Off-Broadway productions, including The Young Master Dante by Werner Liepolt and a play by Sam Shepard, and he also modeled for photos for National Lampoon before moving on to film.[citation needed]

His first film appearance was in Chappaqua (1966). The second film was Edward Summer's Item 72-D: The Adventures of Spa and Fon filmed in 1969.[8] This was followed by several films including Christopher Speeth's and Werner Liepolt's Malatesta's Carnival of Blood; Crazy Joe; Oliver Stone's first film, Seizure; and The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. He was asked to play a role in Alejandro Jodorowsky's film Dune, which had originally begun pre-production in 1971 but was later cancelled.

His big break was getting cast in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), by which time he had become so poor he was living out of his car in Los Angeles. Prior to being signed up by Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli, he made ends meet by working as a rat catcher's assistant near his South Central home. From what his co-star Christopher Lee saw, The Man with the Golden Gun filming was possibly the happiest time of Villechaize's life: Lee likened it to honey in the sandwich between an insecure past and an uncertain future. In addition to being an actor, Villechaize became an active member of a movement in 1970s and 1980s California to deal with child abuse and neglect, often going to crime scenes himself to help comfort abuse victims. Villechaize's former co-workers recalled that despite his stature, he would often confront and chastise spousal and child abusers when he arrived at crime scenes. In the 1970s, on Sesame Street, Villechaize performed Oscar the Grouch as a pair of legs peeping out from a trash can, for scenes which required the Grouch to be mobile. These appearances began in the second season and included the 1978 Hawaii episodes.

Though popular with the public, Villechaize proved a difficult actor on Fantasy Island, where he continually propositioned women and quarreled with the producers. He was eventually fired after demanding a salary on par with that of his co-star Ricardo Montalbán. Villechaize was replaced with Christopher Hewett, of Mr. Belvedere and The Producers fame.

In 1980, Cleveland International Records released a single by The Children of the World, featuring Villechaize as vocalist: "Why" b/w "When a Child is Born"

He starred in the movie Forbidden Zone (1980), and appeared in Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), and episodes of Diff'rent Strokes and Taxi. He later played the role of the character Rumpelstiltskin in the Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre episode Rumpelstiltskin.

In the 1980s, he became popular in Spain due to his impersonations of Prime Minister Felipe González on the television show Viaje con nosotros (Travel with us), with showman Javier Gurruchaga.

He made his final appearance in a cameo appearance as himself in an episode of The Ben Stiller Show.

Personal life and death
Villechaize was married twice. He met his second wife Camille Hagen, an actress and stand-in double, on the set of the pilot for Fantasy Island.[2] They resided at a 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) San Fernando Valley ranch which also was home to a menagerie of farm animals and pets.

In 1983, for a television program That Teen Show which included messages directed at depressed and suicide-prone teenagers, Haywood Nelson, star of the sitcom What's Happening!!, interviewed Villechaize about his many suicide attempts. Villechaize said then that he had learned to love life.

In the early morning hours of September 4, 1993, Villechaize is believed to have first fired a shot through the sliding glass patio door to awaken his longtime girlfriend, Kathy Self, before shooting himself at his North Hollywood home. Self found Villechaize in his backyard, and he was pronounced dead at a North Hollywood facility. Villechaize left a suicide note saying he was despondent over longtime health problems. Villechaize was suffering from chronic pain due to having oversized internal organs putting increasing pressure on his small body. According to Self, Villechaize often slept in a kneeling position so he could breathe more easily.

At the time of his suicide, Cartoon Network was in negotiations for him to co-star in Space Ghost Coast to Coast, which was in pre-production at the time. Villechaize would have voiced Space Ghost's sidekick on the show.

His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean off Point Fermin in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California.[citation needed]

Depictions in media
In a March 2012 New York Times interview, Peter Dinklage revealed that he and Sacha Gervasi spent several years writing a script about Villechaize. Gervasi, a director and journalist, conducted a lengthy interview with Villechaize just prior to his suicide; according to Dinklage, "[a]fter he killed himself, Sacha realized Hervé's interview was a suicide note". The film, My Dinner with Hervé, which is based on the last few days of Villechaize's life, stars Dinklage in the title role, and premiered on HBO on October 20, 2018.

Filmography

Chappaqua (1966) as Little Person (uncredited)

Maidstone (1970)
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971) as Beppo
The Last Stop (1972) as Deputy
Greaser's Palace (1972) as Mr. Spitunia
Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (1973) as Bobo
Seizure (1974) as The Spider
Crazy Joe (1974) as Samson
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) as Nick Nack
Hot Tomorrows (1977) as Alberict
Fantasy Island (TV series, 1977–1983) as Tattoo
The One and Only (1978) as Milton Miller

Forbidden Zone (1980) as King Fausto of the Sixth Dimension
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) as Little Breather
The Telephone (1988) as Freeway (voice)
Two Moon Junction (1988) as Smiley

Hervé Villechaize (1943–1993)

Actor | Camera and Electrical Department
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1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films its final scene with OO7 and Wai Lin staying undercover.

2008: Puffin Books publishes Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel By Royal Command.

https://www.youngbond.com/by-royal-command/

by Charlie Higson

By Royal Command is the fifth book in the bestselling Young Bond series.

Following a treacherous rescue mission high in the freezing Alps, James Bond is preparing for life back at Eton. But James is under surveillance; his every move is being watched. He alone holds the clue to a sinister plot that will bring bloodshed and carnage to his school – and his country.

Life for James Bond will never be the same again. Forced to flee from Eton to Austria, James must leave behind everything he knows, with only a beautiful – and dangerous – girl by his side. Soon he is trapped in a deadly war of secrets and lies, as a nightmare reunion with a bitter enemy throws him once more into the path of death.

MEET THE CHARACTERS

Roan Power
Roan is the intriguing new boys’ maid at Eton. Tough, witty and beautiful, this Irish girl soon makes an impression on James and his school-friends…

“‘You must be James Bond,’ she said, looking him up and down with a raised eyebrow. ‘I’ve heard a lot about you.’

‘And you must be Roan, the new maid,’ said James. ‘I’ve heard a lot about you, too.’

And his messmates hadn’t been making it up.

Roan was indeed a lot prettier than the previous maid. She was about the same height as James, but two or three years older, with wavy black hair and skin as white and smooth as a marble statue. Her huge eyes were deep and dark, but they shone with an intense brightness, like polished glass. Her wide mouth was curled up at one end in a slight, mocking smile.”

Graf von Schlick
The thrill-seeking Graf von Schlick enjoys fast cars and the cool air of his native Austria. But when the young James Bond encounters him after a tumble in the mountains, he is sure that all is not as it seems. Has James seen the Graf somewhere before..?

“As James and Andrew walked back towards their taxi James glanced up to see the Graf von Schlick emerging through the big brass-studded double doors of the clinic. He was wearing a long, black, astrakhan overcoat that came almost down to the ground, black leather gloves and a black fur hat covering his bald head. Once more he stared at James with that disconcerting blank look.”

Dandy O’Keefe
A friend of the new boys’ maid Roan, James is both drawn to and suspicious of the roguish and charming Dandy…

“The young man was as handsome as Roan was beautiful, with a glamorous mop of wavy fair hair and dark blue, almost black eyes. He was dressed in an olive green moleskin suit with a bright orange waistcoat and a red scarf knotted loosely around his throat.

Roan stretched out on her back on the blanket and called over to James.

‘This is my pal, Dandy O’Keefe,’ she said. ‘Us paddies need to stick together, you know. We’re a long way from home.'”

2011: India Railways Minister puts some controls on BOND 23 filming.

Bond train stunt change ordered
Railways minister says rooftop travel is illegal and cannot be encouraged

See the complete article here:

https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/bond-train-stunt-change-ordered-1.861010

September 04, 2011 00:00 AFP

A crowded passenger train in Patna, capital of the state of Bihar. A terse message from the Congress Party and indications that the Trinamool Congress could be dropped from India's ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) has jolted the maverick West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee
Image Credit: Reuters

New Delhi: India has asked the makers of the latest James Bond movie to change a stunt showing people travelling on train rooftops, saying it would depict the state-run railway in a poor light.

"Rooftop travel is illegal in India and it cannot be encouraged," Indian Railways Minister Dinesh Trivedi said on Saturday. Many Indians seek to avoid paying for tickets by travelling on the roof.

Daniel Craig, who plays the world's most famous secret agent, was supposed to jump from a motorcycle onto a moving train roof packed with travellers and then leap to another equally crowded train top, according to the script.

Trivedi said 007 could perform the stunt - but only if there is nobody on the top of the trains. "Rooftop travel will not be shown," he said, adding that the government has also stipulated the filming "has to be safe and passengers should not be inconvenienced".

The railways minister said that the original movie script could have led to an impression that rooftop travel was common in India. "There are many trains in India and not all trains have people travelling on the rooftops," he argued.

The makers of the as-yet untitled movie - known currently only as "Bond 23" - had agreed to the conditions, Trivedi said in a telephone interview.

The film is to be directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes and will be shot in Mumbai, Ahmedabad and the resort state of Goa. Shooting is planned for February and March next year and the film is slated for release in November 2012.

Trivedi also said he is plugging for the James Bond character to be used to promote the sprawling Indian Railways, still the country's main form of long-distance travel despite fierce competition from new private airlines.

"I have proposed that the spy says something like: 'Indian Railways is as strong as James Bond.' It is my suggestion," the cabinet-ranking minister said.

The state-run railway is the country's largest single employer, with 1.4 million workers, and runs 11,000 trains carrying 19 million passengers daily.

The world's second-largest railway offers some adventurous journeys where trains chug through arid deserts, snowy Himalayan regions and across rickety British-built bridges spanning mountain gorges and fast-flowing rivers.

The last time a Bond film was on location in India was for the 1983 hit Octopussy, with actor Roger Moore in the lead role. It was shot in the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan.

"Bond 23" is one of nearly two dozen films by foreign studios which have been cleared to shoot in India recently. Others include a film adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Trishna, British director Michael Winterbottom's version of Thomas Hardy's classic Tess of the d'Urbervilles, and Yann Martel's Life of Pi.

2015: Ocula magazine interviews Taryn Simon on her book Birds of the West Indies and other subjects.

Ocula Conversation
Taryn Simon in Conversation

See the complete article here:

https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/taryn-simon/

Gagosian Gallery 4 September 2015

Taryn Simon. Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery

In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel’s lead character. He found it “flat and colourless,” a fitting choice for a character intended to be “anonymous. . . a blunt instrument in the hands of the government.” This co-opting of a name was the first in a series of substitutions and replacements that would become central to the construction of the Bond narrative.

Taryn Simon's Birds of the West Indies takes the name and format of the original Bond’s taxonomy to present an inventory of women, weapons, and vehicles—recurring elements in the James Bond films between 1962 and 2012. This visual database of interchangeable variables used in the production of fantasy examines the economic and emotional value generated by their repetition. It also underlines how they function as essential accessories to the myth of the seductive, powerful, and invincible Western male.

Maintaining the illusion upon which the Bond narrative relies––an ageless hero with an inexhaustible supply of state-of-the-art weaponry, luxury vehicles, and desirable women—requires a constant process of replacement. A contract exists between the Bond franchise and the viewer that binds both to a set of expectations. In servicing the desires of the consumer, fantasy becomes formula, and repetition is required; viewers demand something new, but only if it remains essentially the same.

Ten of the fifty-seven women Simon approached to be part of Birds of the West Indies declined to participate. Their reasons included pregnancy, not wanting to distort the memory of their fictional character, and avoiding any further association with the Bond formula. Simon represents each missing woman by reinserting the black rectangle cut from the mat to frame their would-be portrait, covering and at the same time representing their absence.

Simon’s film Honey Ryder (Nikki van der Zyl), 1962 documents the most prolific agent of substitution in the Bond franchise. From 1962 to 1979, Nikki van der Zyl, an unseen and uncredited performer, provided voice dubs for over a dozen major and minor characters throughout nine Bond films. Invisible until now, van der Zyl further underscores the interplay of substitution and repetition in the preservation of myth and the construction of fantasy.

The sequencing of women, weapons, and vehicles in Birds of the West Indies was determined using a random number generator called the Mersenne Twister, used for statistical simulations and in computer programming languages. By randomly reconfiguring the ordering of the works, Birds of the West Indies continuously mimics a longing for endless reiteration unaffected by time and history.

How would you describe your work, since it’s clearly not just photography?
I look at my work as interdisciplinary—not existing in any specific envelope. These days most are working in interdisciplinary forms where things are less easily defined or clear. I find titles limiting and a means of control.

I’m interested in spaces of confusion and disorientation in which subjects and thoughts mutate and transform—and are difficult to understand, and even more difficult to picture. I try to look at those amorphous spaces through something actual—looking at abstraction through something understandable as opposed to through abstraction itself. I’m interested in the questions that keep you up at night – what we are doing here, if there’s purpose—but driving at the unanswerable through something that appears tangible.

Why are photography and text both so integral to your work?
I use photography and writing to highlight an invisible space between the two – a space governed by interpretation, translation and manipulation. These two poles are constantly fighting each other and supporting each other and sometimes doing both at the same time. I do find myself more interested in the camera as a machine, allowing me to inventory certain subjects that are then made into works through their relationship to text, space, font and graphic design.

You were studying science before entering into art. Does that indicate something about your interests?
I am often skating a line between science and aesthetics. Science itself gives the appearance of authority or a clear answer. Graphic design plays a big role in rendering this sense of certainty to the public. I like toying with that relationship (between answers and data and the way in which they are conveyed), and creating systems that appear absolute, but are in fact just personal creations.

Both my father and grandfather were obsessed data collectors and photographers. I was introduced to the larger world, the construction of facts and fantasy, and photographic production through their frequent slideshows. My father recorded histories, peoples and landscapes in Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, Thailand, and Pakistan… And brought me the visual evidence coupled with his other-worldly narratives. My grandfather’s perspective was the opposite—a macro view of the stars, nebulas, insects, minerals and plants. He spent years grinding glass to perfect a lens for his telescope. Both had closets stacked with slides. And both identified every photograph with a considerable amount of collected information.

Taryn Simon, Shark Brain Control Device, 1983. From the series Birds of the West Indies, 2013. 

Framed archival inkjet print and text. 15 11⁄16 x 10 7⁄16 inches, (39.8 x 26.5 cm).
Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery

How do you select the subjects or themes of your works?

The works are often guided by things I've been introduced to in the previous project—peripherally or directly. Or they are a rejection or move against previous work. They start simply, and then unfold into complicated programs. I read a lot – and often cull ideas from discoveries in both fact and fiction.

For example, in A Living Man Declared Dead and other chapters, I tried to articulate certain systems, patterns, and codes through design and narrative. I travelled around the world researching and recording eighteen bloodlines and their related stories. I was exploring the unanswerable questions regarding fate and its relationship to chance, blood and circumstance. Its failures and rejections became a big part of the work. There are several empty portraits representing living members of a bloodline who could not be photographed for reasons including dengue fever, imprisonment, army service, and religious and cultural restrictions on gender. Some just refused because they didn’t want to be part of the narrative. In the end, the blanks establish a code of absence and presence. The stories themselves function as archetypal episodes from the past that are occurring now and will happen again. I was thinking about evolution and if we are in fact unfolding, or if we’re more like a skipping record—ghosts of the past and the future.

For A Living Man…, you traveled to 18 countries over a four year period of time. Has your gender ever been a challenge in this context?
Being a woman has been very difficult at times, and in others helpful. There were a number of difficulties to avoid along the way, something always happened: flash floods, typhoons, landslides, carjacking’s, authorities who didn’t want me photographing certain subjects. We traveled with a ton of gear to accommodate our moving studio which made us uncomfortably visible and indiscreet. In Tanzania for example, our equipment was seized by corrupt authorities that demanded 80,000 dollars for its return. I was there to photograph the bloodline of the director of the Tanzania Albino Society. Albinos in Tanzania are hunted by human poachers who trade their skin, limbs and organs for large sums of money to witchdoctors who promote the belief that albinos have magical powers. This is a subject the authorities are not keen to publicize.

Your work seems very brave. Are you?
It’s quite the opposite. I’m in fact very fearful and many of the projects are about confronting those intimidating and haunting lines.

What are you up to now?
I just completed a project for the Venice Biennale on the paperwork of power and the ways in which human kind exerts the illusion of control over events and the natural world. I'm currently working on a film project in Russia and a large scale performance piece for the Park Avenue Armory in New York and ArtAngel in London. —[O]

Birds of the West Indies/ / A Short Interview for Photo Shanghai

How did you begin your research for Birds of the West Indies? Did you watch all the James Bond films?


The films were watched chronologically in a binge. And then reviewed again and again. The entire studio was involved.

Taryn Simon, 1969 Mercury Cougar XR7, 1969. From the series 
Birds of the West Indies, 2013.

Framed archival inkjet print and text. 15 11⁄16 x 10 7⁄16 inches, (39.8 x 26.5 cm).
Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery

Did your understanding of the Bond franchise change after watching and re-watching all the films for this project?

The films journey through economics, race, gender politics, weapons development and proliferation, branding, identity, global politics, aesthetics in such a radical form. They truly stand as a powerful record of culture's role in all of these categories. Interestingly I was told that MI6 at one point looked to Bond for weapons development ideas as opposed to the other way around. Perhaps that's the way it goes: imagination and fantasy first. 



Will you be in the movie theater for the next James Bond film?

Front and center.



How were you able to photograph the elements of the James Bond film franchise? What was the hardest thing to find?

The weapons and vehicles came from different sites throughout Europe and America: the official Bond archive, auction houses, private collectors, museums. The earlier items presented more obstacles because the value of the franchise was not yet established and elements of the films weren't preserved as they are today. I'm always interested in archives that develop before value is established - and then how they mutate once it is recognized -- the collision of low and high art. 


Did any one of the interchangeable elements of the Bond franchise have particular meaning for you?

As a metaphor, I always liked the Hasselblad signature gun in which a camera is a weapon of death.



Were you concerned about the project’s viability when some of the actresses refused to be photographed? What made you decide to indicate these actresses’ absences with “blank” images?

When Ursula Andress declined to participate, I was sure the project was in jeopardy of failure. She is THE bond girl. I became obsessed with getting her image and history, and in that process discovered that the voice of her character in Dr. No is dubbed by an uncredited English woman named Nikki Van der Zyl. Ursula's character, Honey Ryder, is a fragmented creation; pieced together to compel. In the end Ursula's absence was a blessing. I created a film in which Nikki, who had always been invisible in the Bond universe, reads the complete lines of Ursula's character - and becomes visible. 


Nikki was the most prolific agent of substitution in the Bond franchise. From 1962 to 1979, she provided voice dubs for over a dozen major and minor characters throughout nine Bond films. For me, she underscores the interplay of substitution and repetition in the preservation of myth and the construction of fantasy.



The empty portraits disrupt the archive and present obstacles I couldn't transcend. In my work, I'm often associated with access to difficult and complex areas and subjects. I assumed this project would be a break from those difficulties. Surprisingly, it was even more difficult. Ten of the fifty-seven women I approached to be part of Birds of the West Indies declined to participate. Their reasons included pregnancy, not wanting to distort the memory of their fictional character, and avoiding any further association with the Bond formula.

Taryn Simon, Bibi Dahl (Lynn-Holly Johnson), 1981. From the series 
Birds of the West Indies, 2013.

Framed archival inkjet print and text. 15 11⁄16 x 10 7⁄16 inches, (39.8 x 26.5 cm).
Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery


How do you view the portraits of the women in relation to your ongoing exploration of reality of fiction in the history of your work?

I see the women's portraits existing in this strange liminal space between reality and fiction. Or a space where both reality and fiction disappear and a third space opens up that is neither. The mark of a bond girl is so indelible; there is often no room for another reality or identity. Their poses and clothing play a part in that push/pull. —[O]

Interview supplied by Photo Shanghai

2018: Smithsonian Snapshot features Bond, James Bond - Ornithologist. A mouthful.

Bond, James Bond: Ornithologist

See the complete article here:

https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/snapshot/bond-james-bond-ornithologist

September 4, 2018

Smithsonian Libraries’ copy of the first edition, Birds of the West Indies.
Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History

The famous fictional British spy, James Bond (code name 007), whose action-packed exploits and international adventures are depicted in books and movies, got his name because it was the most bland name his creator Ian Fleming had ever heard.

Fleming said he chose the name because he “wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be a blunt instrument…” Bond’s first appearance was in Casino Royale, published in 1953.

Fleming borrowed the name from a real-life American ornithologist who had written Birds of the West Indies, a book that Fleming, an avid bird watcher, had loved in his youth.

Pictured above is the Cuban tody from the Smithsonian Libraries’ copy of Birds of the West Indies. In addition, the Smithsonian collections contain bird specimens that the real James Bond collected in the Caribbean; they are housed in the National Museum of Natural History’s Division of Birds.

Read more about James Bond, Ian Fleming and bird books at Smithsonian Libraries’ “Unbound” blog.
https://blog.library.si.edu/blog/2016/06/13/bond-james-bond-birds-books-bond/#.WzUOJNJKiUk

2018: James Bond 007 on Twitter celebrates National Wildlife Day.

https://twitter.com/007/status/1036941607243796484

2019: Shanghai China enjoys Secret Cinema Casino Royale.

Brit Event Movie Experience Secret Cinema Launches
In China With ‘Casino Royale’ Show

See the complete article here:

https://deadline.com/2019/09/secret-cinema-casino-royale-china-1202710124/

By Andreas Wiseman | International Editor | @AndreasWiseman | September 3, 2019

Secret Cinema

Secret Cinema, the popular British event cinema brand, is expanding to China, marking the company’s debut on the international stage.

In collaboration with Chinese firm SMG Live, Secret Cinema will launch with its current immersive show Casino Royale in Shanghai on November 23 of this year.

Secret Cinema was founded in the UK in 2007. The immersive cinema screenings include theatrical elements and fancy dress as audiences are assigned a character and become part of the show. The label has run more than 70 productions.

Secret Cinema Presents Casino Royale opened in London this year and has drawn in around 120,000 customers so far; making it the company’s biggest production to date.

SMG is one of the largest media and entertainment businesses in China and its performing arts and live entertainment division, SMG Live has curated hundreds of productions. SMG Live will have the exclusive license to present Secret Cinema’s production of Casino Royale in Shanghai.

“Fabien Riggall, Creator and Chief Creative Officer of Secret Cinema commented, “I created Secret Cinema in 2007 to reinvent the cinema experience allowing participants to live inside the movies. It’s always been my dream to bring it to other parts of the world and now with the support of an amazing team we are able to make this happen. China is the largest film market in the world with a rich cinematic heritage with some of my favourite films, Chen Kaige’s Farewell my Concubine, Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love and Ang Lee’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. It’s been amazing to see Secret Cinema become a cultural phenomenon here in the UK, and we’ve loved thrilling audiences with small and large scale productions of cult cinematic classics such as Back to the Future, Blade Runner and Star Wars. SMG Live’s heritage and production experience makes it the perfect partner to bring the concept of Secret Cinema to life in China.”

Max Alexander, CEO, Secret CInema comments, “Expanding internationally is incredibly complicated even with a traditional theatre show and Secret Cinema is a unique product with added complexities. We can’t just hire a purpose built venue, we need a venue that can house a production of this magnitude and then we have to build it. Having worked with SMG Live in the past I know them to be China’s most ambitious, experienced and skilled producers of live entertainment and a perfect partner for Secret Cinema. This is the first collaboration of many with SMG Live with whom we look forward to a long and creatively rich relationship. Secret Cinema is an incredible entertainment experience and we look forward to bringing it to more markets around the world as we embark on our international growth strategy”.

2022: Taryn Simon - Birds of the West Indies at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, New York.
Continues through 23 October.

Taryn Simon: “Birds of the West Indies”

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbg.org/visit/event/taryn_simon_birds_of_the_west_indies

Taryn Simon: “Birds of the West Indies”EXHIBITS | FOR THE BIRDS
June 7–October 23, 2022
Conservatory Gallery

In “Birds of the West Indies,” which takes its title from a taxonomy by American ornithologist James Bond, Taryn Simon identifies, photographs, and classifies every bird that appears in the first 24 James Bond films. Casting herself as Bond the ornithologist, Simon trains her eye away from the agents of seduction—luxury, power, violence, sex—to look only in the margins. “Birds of the West Indies is installed as part of the Garden’s For the Birds exhibition and program series.

https://www.bbg.org/img/uploads/lightbox/_tile_thumbnail_regular/SIMON-2014-(ed-4)-United-Kingdom-Birds-of-the-West-Indies.jpg
26 images in a matted frame, each with a label
Taryn Simon, “United Kingdom, Birds of the West Indies,” 2014. Archival inkjet prints in boxed mats and aluminum frames, 39⅞ × 94⅞ inches. Edition of 4. © Taryn Simon. Courtesy Gagosian.

https://www.bbg.org/img/uploads/lightbox/_tile_thumbnail_regular/SIMON-2014-(ed-4)-Morocco-Birds-of-the-West-Indies.jpg
7 images with labels elegantly framed with a matte
Taryn Simon, “Morocco, Birds of the West Indies,” 2014. Archival inkjet prints in boxed mats and aluminum frames, 26⅞ × 33⅞ inches. Edition of 4. © Taryn Simon. Courtesy Gagosian.

ABOUT THE WORK
In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel’s lead character. He found it “flat and colourless,” a fitting choice for a character intended to be “anonymous… a blunt instrument in the hands of the government.” This co-opting of a name was the first in a series of substitutions and replacements that would become central to the construction of the Bond narrative. Conflating Bond the ornithologist with 007, Taryn Simon uses the title and format of the ornithologist’s taxonomy for her work, “Birds of the West Indies.”

In “Birds of the West Indies,” Simon casts herself as James Bond (1900–1989) the ornithologist, and identifies, photographs, and classifies all the birds that appear within the first 24 films of the James Bond franchise. The appearance of many of the birds was unplanned and virtually undetected, operating as background noise for whatever set they happened to fly into. Simon ventured through every scene to discover those moments of chance. The result is a taxonomy not unlike the original Birds of the West Indies. The artist has trained her eye away from the agents of seduction—glamour, luxury, power, violence, sex—to look only in the margins. She forces the viewer’s gaze off center, against the intentions of the franchise, by focusing on the forgotten, insignificant, and overlooked.

Each bird is classified by the time code of its appearance, its location, and the year in which it flew. The taxonomy is organized by country: some locations correspond to nations we acknowledge on our maps, including Switzerland, Afghanistan, and North Korea, while others exist solely in the fictionalized rendering of James Bond’s missions, including Republic of Isthmus, San Monique, and SPECTRE Island.

Simon’s ornithological discoveries occupy a liminal space—confined within the fiction of the James Bond universe and yet wholly separate from it. The birds flew freely in the background of the background, unnoticed or unrecognized until they were catalogued by Simon. Sometimes indecipherable specks hovering in the sky or perched on a building, these birds will never know, nor care, about their fame. In their new static form, the birds often resemble dust on a negative, a once common imperfection that has disappeared in the age of Photoshop. Other times, they are frozen in compositions reminiscent of genres from photographic history. Some appear as perfected and constructed still lifes while others have a snapshot quality. Many appear in an obscured, low-resolution form, as if they had been photographed by surveillance drones or hidden cameras. These visual variations are also affected by feature film’s evolution from 35 mm to high-resolution digital output.

Simon’s taxonomy of 331 birds is a precise consideration of a new nature found in an alternate reality. Bird study skins, correspondence, awards, and personal effects of James Bond the ornithologist have been collected by Simon and are displayed in vitrines alongside the photographic works. These artifacts present remnants of the real-life James Bond in his parallel existence to the fictional spy who took his name.

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September 5th

1939: George Lazenby is born--Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.

1966: Mercedes-Benz issues a press release detailing delivery of a white 230 SL to 'Oddjob'.

Watch it, James Bond, 'Oddjob' drives a 230 SL.

https://mercedes-benz-publicarchive.com/marsClassic/en/instance/print/Press-Information-September-5-1966.xhtml?oid=179411113

https://dyler.com/cars/mercedes-benz/230-sl-for-sale/1966/25922/mercedes-benz-230-sl-rhd-cabriolet-roadster-1966-white-for-sale

1968: Richard Maibaum finishes the script used to film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

1979: 007 Contra o Foguete da Morte (OO7: Against the Rocket of Death) released in Brazil.

1984: A View to a Kill films OO7's underwater survival with the Rolls Royce.

1988: Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe dies at age 75--Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.
(Born 25 February 1913--Oberplanitz, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany.)

Gert Frobe, 75; Portrayed Goldfinger in Bond Movie

See the complete article here:

http://articles.latimes.com/1988-09-07/news/mn-1578_1_gert-frobe

September 07, 1988|BURT A. FOLKART | Times Staff Writer

Gert Frobe, the ginger-haired, rotund comic actor who portrayed what has been described as Ian Fleming's "kinkiest villain," Goldfinger, has died following a heart attack.

Frobe, a former violinist and cabaret performer, was 75 when he died in a Munich hospital Monday. He had suffered the attack last Wednesday, a day after he returned to the stage for the first time since a cancer operation in 1986.

Frobe was born Karl-Gerhard Frobe in Planitz in what is now East Germany. He was a natural-born comic, described by critics as Germany's version of American Danny Kaye.

In Nearly 100 Films
Frobe played in nearly 100 films, including roles in the 1961 U.S. production of "The Longest Day" and the British-produced "The Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines," filmed in 1964.

But he was best-known internationally for his role as the greedy villain "Goldfinger" who battled Sean Connery's James Bond in the 1964 film version of the Fleming thriller.

In the picture Goldfinger portrays a preposterous multimillionaire criminal who schemes to rob the U.S. Mint at Ft. Knox. Bond, of course, thwarts him.

The professional triumph Frobe managed in that film was overshadowed a year later when he was quoted in the British newspaper Daily Mail as saying: "Naturally I was a Nazi" during the Third Reich.

Frobe denied making the comment and insisted: "What I told an English reporter during an interview . . . was that during the Third Reich I had the luck to be able to help two Jewish people although I was a member of the (Nazi) party."

Despite Frobe's denial, Israel banned all of his films for months until Mario Blumenau informed the Israeli Embassy in Vienna that Frobe had indeed hidden Blumenau and his mother from the Nazis.

Frobe studied theater under Dresden actor Erich Ponto and Paul Guenther in Berlin during the early years of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.

After theaters were closed by the Nazis in September, 1944, Frobe was called into the German army, where he served until the end of World War II.

'A New Danny Kaye'
In his first major role in a film, "Berlin Ballads," which opened in European cinemas in 1948, film critics wrote: "Germany has a new Danny Kaye." In it he played a character called Otto Normalverbraucher, or Otto Normal Consumer, a soldier returning to a devastated Germany from a prisoner of war camp.

Although he was trained as a classical violinist and played his first recital on German radio when he was in his teens, Frobe turned his back on music to pursue a dramatic career.

Among his other films are "The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse," "Threepenny Opera," "A High Wind in Jamaica," "Is Paris Burning?" in which he played Gen. Dietrich von Sholititz, Hitler's commandant in Paris, "And Then There Were None" and "Bloodline."

Gert Fröbe
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002085/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (111 credits)

1989 The Black Forest Clinic (TV Series) -Theodor Katz
- Hochzeit mit Hindernissen (1989) ... Theodor Katz
1986-1987 The Little Vampire (TV Series) - Detective Gurrmeyer
- Kein Abschied ist für immer (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
- Transportprobleme (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
- Geiermeier ist überall (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
- Das große Fest der Vampire (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
- Unruhe im Keller (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
1985 Alte Sünden rosten nicht (TV Movie) - Konsul Heimann
1984 August der Starke (TV Movie) - August der Starke
1983 Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (TV Movie) - Emanuel Striese
1983 Der Garten (TV Movie) - Mr. Hayward
1981 Banovic Strahinja - Jug Bogdan
1981 Ein sturer Bock (TV Movie)
1980 The Umbrella Coup - Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine (as Gert Froebe)

1979 Bloodline - Inspector Max Hornung
1979 Noch 'ne Oper (TV Movie) - Mann auf der Straße
1978 Der Tiefstapler - Felix von Korn
1978 Der Schimmelreiter - Tede Volkerts (Deichgraf)
1977 Death or Freedom - Graf von Buttlar
1977 The Serpent's Egg - Inspector Bauer (as Gert Froebe)
1977 Das Gesetz des Clans - Philip Brown
1976 Sonntagsgeschichten (TV Movie) - Gastwirt
1976 Death Rite - Vestar
1975 Alte Hüte aus Wien - Witziges - Spitziges - Spritziges (TV Movie)
1975 Mein Onkel Theodor oder Wie man viel Geld im Schlaf verdient - Traugott Wurster / Theodor Wurster
1975 Doctor Justice - Max Orwall / Georges Orwall (as Gert Froebe)
1975 The Man Without a Face (TV Mini-Series) - Le commissaire Sorbier
- Le secret des Templiers (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
- Le rapt (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe, credit only)
- Le sang accusateur (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
- La marche des spectres (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
- La mort qui rampait sur les toits (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
1974 Histoires insolites (TV Series) - Joseph
- Parcelle brillante (1974) ... Joseph
1974 Shadowman - Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
1974 Ten Little Indians - Blore (as Gert Froebe)
1974 Der Räuber Hotzenplotz -Der Räuber Hotzenplotz
1973 Ludwig - Father Hoffman
1971 $ - Mr. Kessel

1969 Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies - Willi Schickel / Horst Müller (as Gert Frobe)
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Baron Bomburst (as Gert Frobe)
1968 Dear Caroline - Le docteur Belhomme (as Gert Froebe)
1967 Those Fantastic Flying Fools - Professor von Bulow (as Gert Frobe)
1967 I Killed Rasputin - Rasputin (as Gert Froebe)
1966 Triple Cross - Colonel Steinhager (as Gert Froebe)
1966 Is Paris Burning? - General Dietrich von Choltitz (as Gert Froebe)
1966 Crook's Honor - Paul
1966 The Upper Hand - Walter (as Gert Froebe)
1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Emil Claasen
1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Count Manfred Von Holstein (as Gert Frobe)
1965 A High Wind in Jamaica - Dutch Captain (as Gert Frobe)
1964 Goldfinger - Goldfinger (as Gert Frobe)
1964 Backfire - Karl Fehrman
1964 Tonio Kröger - Policeman Peterson
1964 Greed in the Sun - Castagliano dit 'La betterave' (as Gert Froebe)
1963 Banana Peel - Raymond Lachard
1963 Three Penny Opera - J.J. Peachum
1963 The Golden Patsy - Alfred Paulsen
1963 Enough Rope - Melchior Kimmel
1962 The Longest Day - Sgt. Kaffekanne
1962 The Terror of Doctor Mabuse - Kriminalkommissar Lohmann
1962 Redhead - Kramer
1961 Auf Wiedersehen - Angelo Pirrone
1961 The Return of Dr. Mabuse - Kommissar Lohmann
1961 Via Mala - Jonas Lauretz
1961 Der grüne Bogenschütze - Abel Bellamy
1960 Crook and the Cross - Paul Wittkowski
1960 Until Money Departs You - Jupp Grapsch
1960 The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse - Kriminalkommissar Kras
1960 Headquarters State Secret - Der Chef
1960 Between Love and Duty - Le général (as Gert Froebe)
1960 The High Life - Docteur Kölling

1959 Alt Heidelberg - Dr. Jüttner
1959 Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee - Johannes Grohmann (alias Dr. Brand)
1959 The Day It Rained - Dr. Albert Maurer
1959 Grand Hotel - Generaldirektor Preysing
1959 Duel with Death - Dag sen.
1959 Jons und Erdme - Smailus, ehem. russischer Matrose
1959 Twelve Hours by the Clock - Blanche
1959 Prisoner of the Volga - Professor
1959 The Kidnapping of Miss Nylon - Hugo
1958 Das Mädchen mit den Katzenaugen - Tessmann' Katja's Father
1958 The Crammer - Freddy Blei
1958 Grabenplatz 17 - Titu Goritsch
1958 It Happened in Broad Daylight - Schrott
1958 Rosemary - Bruster
1958 Wet Asphalt - Jupp
1958 Not Delivered - Hans (as Gert Froebe)
1957 Das Herz von St. Pauli - Jabowski
1957 Charmants garçons - Edmond Petersen (as Gert Froebe)
1957 The Mad Bomberg - Kommerzienrat Gustav-Eberhard Mühlberg
1957 He Who Must Die - Patriarcheas (as Gert Froebe)
1957 The Girl and the Legend - Mr. Gillis
1957 Typhoon Over Nagasaki - Ritter
1956 Waldwinter - Gerstenberg
1956 Ein Herz schlägt für Erika - Heubacher
1956 The Girl from Flanders - Rittmeister Kupfer
1955 Her Crime Was Love
1955 Das Forsthaus in Tirol - Bäuerle, Kaufmann
1955 Heroes and Sinners - Hermann (as Gert Froebe)
1955 Confidential Report - First Policeman - Munich (as Gert Frobe)
1955 Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe - Pfeifer, Inspektor Jugendfürsorge
1955 Der dunkle Stern - Deltorri
1955 Special Delivery - Olaf
1954 The Eternal Waltz - Gawrinoff
1954 A Double Life - Mittelmeier
1954 They Were So Young - Lobos
1954 Das Kreuz am Jägersteig - Kobbe
1954 Morgengrauen - Bit part
1954 The Little Town Will Go to Sleep - Oskar Blume - Gelegenheitsarbeiter
1953 Hochzeit auf Reisen - Herr Mengwasser
1953 Arlette erobert Paris - Manager Edmond Duval
1953 Die vertagte Hochzeitsnacht - Gondoliere
1953 A Heart's Foul Play - Briefüberbringer
1953 Salto Mortale - Jan
1953 Man on a Tightrope - Police Agent (uncredited)
1952 Der Tag vor der Hochzeit - Rundfunkreporter
1951 Decision Before Dawn - German Corporal - Nuremberg Control Point (uncredited)
1950 Die Kreuzlschreiber - Lustiger Bauernbursche (uncredited)

1949 Nach Regen scheint Sonne - Konstantin
1948 The Berliner - Otto Normalverbraucher
1948 Der Herr vom andern Stern - Extra (uncredited)

Soundtrack (5 credits)

1997 MGM Sing-Alongs: Friends (Video short) (performer: "Chu-Chi Face")
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (performer: "Chu-Chi Face", "Happy Birthday" - uncredited)
1963 Three Penny Opera (performer: "Der Morgenchoral des Peachum", "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?", "Von der Unsicherheit der menschlichen Verhältnisse", "Denn wovon lebt der Mensch", "Lied von der Unzulänglichkeit menschlichen Strebens" - uncredited)
1961 Auf Wiedersehen (performer: "Sagt, wie darf ich Euch nennen" - uncredited)
1948 The Berliner (performer: "Kopf hoch, die Sache wird schon schiefgeh'n")

Writer (2 credits)

1986 Aus familiären Gründen (TV Movie) (story)
1978 Als wär's heut' gewesen... Kleine Geschichten sind das Leben (TV Movie)

1993: Claude Renoir dies at age 79--Troyes, Aube, France.
(Born 4 December 1913--Paris, France.)

Cluade Renoir

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Renoir
Born December 4, 1913, Paris, France
Died September 5, 1993 (aged 79), Troyes, Aube, Champagne, France
Nationality French

Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913[1] – September 5, 1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the nephew of director Jean Renoir, and the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

He was born in Paris, his mother being actress Véra Sergine. He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman, a brother of Dziga Vertov, who much later worked in the United States on such films as On the Waterfront (1954). Renoir was the lighting cameraman on numerous pictures such as Monsieur Vincent (1947), Jean Renoir's The River (1951), Cleopatra (1963), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), and the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). At the time of Claude Renoir's death, The Times of London wrote of The River that "its exquisite evocation of the Indian scene, helped to inaugurate a new era in the cinema, one in which color was finally accepted as a medium fit for great film makers to work in."

He also participated in the making of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), the documentary on painter Pablo Picasso directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. He was the cinematographer for The Crucible (1957) and lived in East Germany during filming. Renoir's career came to a close in the late 1970s, as he was rapidly losing sight. In his final years he was largely blind.

He married twice and had two children, a son and a daughter, actress Sophie Renoir. Claude Renoir died at age 79 in Troyes, 55 miles east of Paris, near the village of Essoyes, where he had a home.

Claude Renoir
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005841/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Cinematographer (89 credits)
1981 Sphinx (uncredited)

1979 The Medic
1978 Attention, the Kids Are Watching
1978 The Discord
1977 Animal
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (director of photography)
1976 The Wing or The Thigh? (director of photography)
1976 Une femme fidèle
1976 Femmes Fatales
1976 Docteur Françoise Gailland
1975 French Connection II (director of photography)
1975 The Track
1974 Paul and Michelle
1973 Story of a Love Story (director of photography)
1973 The Serpent
1972 Hellé
1972 Killer
1971 The Burglars
1971 The Horsemen
1971 Swashbuckler
1970 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970 The Adventurers

1969 The Madwoman of Chaillot
1969 Soluna
1968 Barbarella (director of photography)
1968 Spirits of the Dead (director of photography - segment "Metzengerstein")
1966 La Grande Vadrouille
1966 The Game Is Over
1966 Paris au mois d'août
1965 Marco the Magnificent
1965 The Hour of Truth
1964 The Unvanquished
1964 Paris When It Sizzles (uncredited)
1963 The Corrupt
1962 Il fiore e la violenza (segment "La scampagnata")
1962 II Marco Polo
1962 Les amants de Teruel
1962 Lafayette
1960 Wasteland
1960 Blood and Roses
1960 Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion

1959 Gorilla's Waltz
1959 Honeymoon (uncredited)
1959 Hit and Run
1958 Youthful Sinners
1958 End of Desire
1957 The Crucible
1956 Crime and Punishment
1956 Elena and Her Men (director of photography)
1956 The Mystery of Picasso (Documentary) (director of photography)
1955 A Missionary
1954 Madame Butterfly
1954 Fabulous India (Documentary)
1954 Maddalena
1953 Puccini
1952 The Golden Coach
1952 The Green Glove
1951 Images de l'ancienne Égypte (Documentary short)
1951 Amazing Monsieur Fabre
1951 The River
1951 Clara de Montargis
1951 Dr. Knock
1950 Gunman in the Streets
1950 Born of Unknown Father
1950 Prélude à la gloire

1949 Rendezvous in July
1949 Docteur Laennec
1949 Alice in Wonderland (photography)
1948 Dilemma of Two Angels
1948 La grande volière
1947 Monsieur Vincent
1947 La maison sous la mer
1947 The Royalists
1947 Passionnelle (disposal of the body sequence, uncredited)
1946 Mr. Orchid
1946 A Day in the Country (Short)
1946 Le couple idéal
1946 Behind These Walls
1945 The Queer Assignment
1944 L'aventure est au coin de la rue
1944 Bonsoir mesdames, bonsoir messieurs
1943 Aristide Maillol, sculpteur (Documentary short)
1942 Opéra-musette
1940 Sérénade

1938 Les rois de la flotte
1938 Lumières de Paris
1937 Le chanteur de minuit
1936 La vie est à nous
1935 Toni

Camera and Electrical Department (11 credits)
1964 Circus World (second unit cameraman)
1963 Cleopatra (photographer: second unit)

1946 Mr. Orchid (camera operator)
1946 Reunion (Documentary short) (assistant camera - one topic, uncredited)

1939 Le dernier tournant (camera operator - as Cl. Renoir Junior)
1938 La Bête Humaine (camera operator - as Claude Renoir Jr.)
1938 Prison sans barreaux (camera operator)
1938 Legions of Honor[/i] (camera operator)
1937 La Grande Illusion (assistant cameraman)
1933 Chotard and Company (assistant camera)
1932 Night at the Crossroads (assistant camera)

Set decorator (1 credit)
1980 Mont-Oriol (TV Movie)

Self (4 credits)
2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: 007 in Egypt (Video documentary short) Himself
1977 The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (TV Series documentary) Himself
- Shooting Scene 341 (1977) ... Himself
- Also Starring... (1977) ... Himself
1975 Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (TV Series documentary)
Himself
- Le désordre et après 1961-1966 (1975) ... Himself
- Une certaine tradition de qualité 1945-1955 (1975) ... Himself
1956 The Mystery of Picasso (Documentary) Himself (uncredited)

Archive footage (2 credits)
2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short)
Himself
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) Himself

2006: John McLusky dies at age 83--Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.
(Born 20 January 1923--Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland.)

John McLusky

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/John_McLusky
Born: 20 January 1923, Glasgow
Died: 5 September 2006 (aged 83)
Nationality: British
Projects involved in
First: James Bond (Daily Express)
Last: James Bond (Daily Express)

John McLusky (20 January 1923 – 5 September 2006) was a comics artist best known as the original artist of the comic strip featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond.

Biography
McLusky began illustrating the comic strip adaptation of James Bond for the Daily Express. From 1958 to 1966, McLusky adapted 13 of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels or short stories. After Yaroslav Horak had taken over the James Bond strip, McLusky drew Secret Agent 13 for Fleetway. For the magazine TV Comic McLusky illustrated several strips over 15 years, notably Look and Learn and strip adaptations for Laurel & Hardy, and the Pink Panther. In 1982 McLusky returned to illustrate the James Bond strip, collaborating with writer Jim Lawrence to illustrate 4 new original James Bond stories.

James Bond strips
Casino Royale Anthony Hern July 7, 1958 - December 13, 1958 1-138
Live and Let Die Henry Gammidge December 15, 1958 - March 28, 1959 139-225
Moonraker Henry Gammidge March 30, 1959 - August 8, 1959 226-339
Diamonds Are Forever Henry Gammidge August 10, 1959 - January 30, 1960 340-487
From Russia with Love Henry Gammidge February 1, 1960 - May 21, 1960 488-583
Dr. No Peter O'Donnell May 23, 1960 - October 1, 1960 584-697
Goldfinger Henry Gammidge October 3, 1960 - April 1, 1961 698-849
Risico Henry Gammidge April 3, 1961 - June 24, 1961 850-921
From A View To A Kill Henry Gammidge June 26, 1961 - September 9, 1961 922-987
For Your Eyes Only Henry Gammidge September 11, 1961 - December 9, 1961 988-1065
Thunderball Henry Gammidge December 11, 1961 - February 10, 1962 1066-1128
On Her Majesty's Secret Service Henry Gammidge June 29, 1964 - May 15, 1965 1-274
You Only Live Twice Henry Gammidge May 17, 1965 - January 8, 1966 275-475

Other work
The Paradise Plot (1981-1982)
Deathmask (1982–1983)
Flittermouse (1983)
Polestar (1983)
The Scent Of Danger (1984)

Further reading:


https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mclusky_john.htm

UK Comics Wiki
https://ukcomics.fandom.com/wiki/John_McLusky_(1923-2006)

2012: Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style finishes its run at the Barbican Centre, London.
Following cities: Dubai, Paris, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Moscow, Rotterdam, Shanghai, Toronto.

2015: The Guardian through author Sam Goodman proposes "James Bond, spy fiction and the decline of empire."

James Bond, spy fiction and the
decline of empire

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/sep/05/spy-fiction-james-bond-why-spy-fiction-sells

In a week when Anthony Horowitz apologised for a remark about who could play James Bond and it was revealed that Frederick Forsyth worked for MI6, spy fiction’s close links to nation and empire become clear

Daniel Craig in the forthcoming ­Spectre. Photograph: Susie Allnutt/Allstar

Sam Goodman | Sat 5 Sep 2015 06.00 EDT

There are few genres with a hold on the public imagination like spy fiction. This year especially it seems that spies are everywhere, whether in the form of Kit Harington brooding his way through the gritty, Bourne-style movie Spooks: The Greater Good, Daniel Craig’s once-more dependable 007 in the forthcoming Spectre, or played for laughs in Spy by Melissa McCarthy, Miranda Hart and Jason Statham. This week the new James Bond novel is published – entitled Trigger Mortis and written by Anthony Horowitz in the style of Ian Fleming (see review on page 11): the latest in a line of nostalgic additions to the Bond canon after Sebastian Faulks, Jeffery Deaver and William Boyd have already tried their luck.

This popularity is, of course, nothing new. The figure of the spy has lurked in the background of all types of literature for a couple of millennia, but it was around the turn of the 20th century that spy fiction became more closely associated in Britain with nation and empire, and grew into a commercially successful genre in its own right. Against a backdrop of public anxiety over Anglo-German tensions in Europe, espionage novels such as Erskine Childers’s The Riddle of the Sands (1903) gripped the nation and helped launch the careers of William Le Queux and, later, John Buchan. They joined other apparently more serious authors such as Rudyard Kipling, whose Kim (1901) fictionalised the “Great Game” of espionage in colonial India; and Joseph Conrad, who explored the underbelly of fin-de‑siècle London in The Secret Agent (1907). In the interwar years Eric Ambler, Manning Coles, Graham Greene and others continued to develop many of spy fiction’s conventions. It was in the aftermath of the second world war, however, that the genre made its transition from national to global phenomenon.

the MI6 building in Vauxhall Cross, London.

The British empire, victorious but worn out by the war, had begun its long process of dissolution, starting with Indian independence in 1947 and ending (eventually) with the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997. Spy fiction not only spoke to anxieties over the emergent cold war, but also mitigated the fear of international decline in an era of swingeing cuts to British armed forces and costly conflicts in Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Suez, suggesting to the reading public that a vanishing empire was never more secure. Spies such as Fleming’s Bond in particular satisfied the need for reassurance that Britain was still as much of a player on the global stage as it had ever been. As Bond tells his contact in Japanese intelligence, Tiger Tanaka, in You Only Live Twice: “England may have been bled pretty thin by a couple of world wars, our welfare state politics may have made us expect too much for free, and the liberation of our colonies may have gone too fast, but we still climb Everest and beat plenty of the world at plenty of sports and win Nobel prizes.”

Bond proved quite convincing. So successful was Fleming’s vision of the spy, and so dominant has Bond been in popular culture over the past 60 years, that it is near-impossible to discuss cold war fiction without mentioning him. The first of Fleming’s novels, Casino Royale, was published with modest success in 1953. But over the course of the next decade, his books, published at a rate of one a year until his death in 1964, began to be serialised in newspapers and magazines before expanding into radio and film. The Broccoli-Saltzmann productions of the Bond series began in 1962 with Dr No. Connery’s portrayal not only consolidated the image of the spy in popular media, but also made Bond synonymous with ideas of Britishness and nation (who can forget his prominent role at the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony?).

The Quiet American (1958). Photograph: Allstar

Fleming was always broadly conservative in his political outlook (his father, Valentine Fleming, was a Conservative MP and friends with Winston Churchill) and both the novel and film versions of Dr No offer insight into his opinions on decolonisation and the cold war politics that drove it. Fleming owned a home in Jamaica, named Goldeneye, which he lent to Anthony Eden after Suez so that he could recover away from the media spotlight. Fleming’s representation of the Caribbean reflected government policy throughout the 1940s and 50s, suggesting that the British position was best served by acting as a strategic partner to the US, with the maintenance of colonial possessions as an essential buffer zone against Soviet expansion. His intent in the novel is to illustrate that Britain can be an equal ally in the struggle against communism, while maintaining direct control over a colonial empire.

In the novel, Dr No is reputed to be disrupting American intercontinental ballistic missile tests conducted in the Caribbean. In the film, he instead threatens rocket launches from Cape Canaveral and the activities of Nasa’s recently inaugurated Apollo programme, key to winning the space race. In both cases, Bond is dispatched to stop him. In the closing scenes of the novel, Bond sits down to dinner with Honeychile Rider, who, it transpires, is the heiress to an interregnum-era plantation outside of Kingston. Past and present are linked: the postwar special relationship and the age of colonial expansion into the West Indies. There is no hint of British decline.

Fleming’s contemporary Graham Greene, and, later, John le Carré, possessed a firmer grasp of realpolitik, both with regard to the state of the empire and the international pecking order. The ageing reporter Thomas Fowler in Greene’s The Quiet American (1955) realises, to echo Harold Macmillan’s words, that the British were the declining “Greeks” to the American “Romans”. British characters retain their relevance, but not without acknowledging their downgraded status. Few of them can resist sniping at the Americans from the sidelines, and there is a strong anti‑American streak that runs through the genre in Britain. Greene’s Fowler eventually turns against CIA operative Alden Pyle, ostensibly over a botched car-bombing but actually because of Pyle’s involvement with his lover Phuong; while in Le Carré’s The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), another journalist and intelligence agent, Jerry Westerby, takes a perverse pleasure in the despondency of American personnel at an air force base in Cambodia after the fall of Saigon, seeing it as proof that the informal US empire was no match for the British. Both Fowler and Westerby’s attitudes are rooted in the British envy of a former colony now in global ascendancy; both characters swing between weary sagacity and open disdain for their US counterparts.

The Ipcress File (1965). Photograph: Allstar

Other writers acknowledged geopolitical shifts more obliquely. Len Deighton’s novels all but avoid the former territories of empire, instead focusing on a rapidly changing London, or the new arenas of cold war conflict such as Beirut and western Europe. Whereas Bond is squarely aligned with the establishment he serves, Deighton’s unnamed spy from The Ipcress File (1962) prefers the bohemian fringes of contemporary life, from his taste for coffee houses in London’s Soho to an interest in gourmet cookery, one of the author’s own passions. The empire is omitted. This decision had become more plausible, perhaps, by the early 1960s, when Bond, the Beatles and the “British invasion” made up for the nation’s political shortcomings. A decade later, Le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974) would confront far more directly the loss of empire and the degraded fortunes of Britain. A tense and melancholy novel, its establishment characters represent a generation of men who, like Bond, were “trained to empire, trained to rule the waves”, but are now left adrift and redundant in a postcolonial world.

It is near-impossible to discuss cold war fiction without
mentioning Fleming's vision of the spy

Half a century of Bond films later, such ideas of decline appear to have been forgotten. The film budgets have swollen and the book launch events grown more spectacular, but many of the imperial undercurrents of spy fiction remain. Skyfall is littered with the imagery of empire and nation, all union jacks and bulldogs, and the antagonist Raoul Silva’s villainous tendencies are explained away as a result of his having spent too long in the east. Boyd’s Solo (2013) also rearticulated spy fiction’s colonial past, with Bond going undercover as a journalist in the midst of an African civil war. Set in 1969, the novel fictionalises the Biafra-Nigeria conflict of 1967-70 with evident postcolonial overtones – M’s lament over the passing of the “dominant and impressive” British empire in Africa is just one example. (The novel chimes with this week’s revelation that another celebrated spy writer, Frederick Forsyth, reported to MI6 from Biafra while working as a freelance journalist for various magazines and newspapers. Forsyth’s recruitment in 1968 began a relationship between the writer and the intelligence service that apparently lasted more than 20 years. Like many of his contemporaries, he demonstrates how the line between fiction and reality in espionage is often a hazy one.)

What’s more, the racial tensions inherent in the Bond series have resurfaced. Earlier this year, there was a brief social media storm over Roger Moore’s alleged disapproval of Idris Elba’s potential casting as the next Bond; and this week Horowitz has had to apologise for his comment that Elba would be too “street” to play 007.

Many of the political concerns that influenced cold war spy fiction continue to resonate. Britain still seeks to punch above its weight in the international arena, despite the nation’s dwindling armed forces. And stories about espionage remain as marketable as ever.

• Sam Goodman is the author of British Spy Fiction and the End of Empire.

2015: James Bond on Twitter reveals a new Spectre poster with OO7 and Swann.

https://twitter.com/007/status/640177592339968000

2018: Dynamite Comics releases James Bond Origin #1.
Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

JAMES BOND ORIGIN #1

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244701011
Cover A: John Cassaday
Cover B: David Mack
Cover C: Kev Walker
Cover D: Gene Ha
Cover E: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover F: Bob Q. & Jordan Boyd
Writer: Jeff Parker
Art: Bob Q.
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: September 2018
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 9/5/2018

"CHAPTER ONE: THE GREATEST DAYS"
At last, the definitive account of James Bond's exploits during World War II!
MARCH, 1941: Seventeen-year-old James Bond is a restless student in Scotland, an orphan, eager to strike out and make his mark on the world. But a visit by an old family friend coincides with THE CLYDEBANK BLITZ, the most devastating German attack on Scotland during the War. James will fight through hell to survive, coming out the other side determined to make a difference. He'll find his calling in a new British government service, secret in nature...

The ongoing epic kicks off, by JEFF PARKER (Future Quest, Thunderbolts, Batman '66) and BOB Q (The Green Hornet)!

https://syfy.com/syfywire/exclusive-jeff-parker-on-007s-formative-years-in-dynamites-james-bond-origin

2020: James Bond on Twitter wishes George Lazenby a happy birthday.

https://twitter.com/007/status/1302169604433772544

2021: The James Bond 007 Museum remains open for business at Nybro, Sweden.

James Bond 007 Museum

See the complete article here:

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g1572368-d7020603-Reviews-James_Bond_007_Museum-Nybro_Kalmar_County.html

Welcome to the worlds only James Bond 007 Museum in Nybro Sweden Offers the world an exclusive exhibition on the British secret James Bond agent 007 in Nybro Sweden.

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RichardTheBruce

September 6th

1955: Raymond Benson is born--Midland, Texas.

1971: Diamonds Are Forever last day of filming.
1972: Ian Fleming Publications Ltd is incorporated with an office in London, Greater London.

1976: Naomie Melanie Harris is born--London, England.

1978: Date of the first draft for the "Warhead" script, based on the "James Bond of the Secret Service" screenplay by Ian Fleming, Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham. Later auctioned by Christie's of London in 2008.

Sale 5425
Pop Culture: Entertainment Memorabilia
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/kevin-mcclory-warhead-1976-never-5154433-details.aspx
London, South Kensington | 4 December 2008

Lot 86
Kevin McClory Warhead, 1976 Never Say Never Again,
1983

Price realised
GBP 46,850

Estimate
GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000

Kevin McClory Warhead, 1976 Never Say Never Again, 1983
Kevin McClory's script for Warhead, an unmade James Bond project, the script
entitled "Warhead" Based on "JAMES BOND OF THE SECRET SERVICE" by Ian
Fleming, Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, giving further details on the title page of
the screenplay's authors Len Deighton, Sean Connery and Kevin McClory,
production details including c Branwell Film Productions, March 21, 1976... and
FIRST DRAFT 6 September 1978..., 137pp. mimeographed typescript, various
characters in the cast list include the hero James Bond and Bond girls: Justine
Lovesit and Fatima Blush, other Bond regulars include: Ernst Stavros Blofeld, Felix
Leiter, Moneypenny, M and Q, original blue paper covers; accompanied by a black
and white photograph of the three authors of the screenplay, Connery, Deighton and
McClory at the latter's home in Ireland, taken during their collaboration on this
project [printed later] -- 8x10in. (20.4x25.5cm.); and

Kevin McClory's shooting script for Never Say Never Again, 119pp. of
mimeographed typescript, variously dated from 7.9.82 to 23.9.82; 123pp. of
mimeographed storyboards including many dramatic underwater sequences
including shipwreck shark attacks on Bond, the duel between Bond and Largo and
the assassination of Largo by Domino, the pages contained in a maroon vinyl ring
binder -- accompanied by a letter from the vendor explaining the provenance (4)

1979: 007 – Aventura no Espaco (007 - Space Adventure) released in Portugal.

1982: Roger Moore and Maud Adams photographed at Peterborough, England, in promotion of Octopussy.

1994: Putnam and Sons publish the John Gardner Bond novel Seafire in the US.

2007: Puffin publishes Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Hurricane Gold.

https://www.youngbond.com/hurricane-gold/

by Charlie Higson

Hurricane Gold is the fourth book in the bestselling Young Bond series.

James Bond is staring death in the face… As the sun blazes over the Caribbean island of Lágrimas Negras, its bloodthirsty ruler is watching and waiting. Criminals come here to hide, with blood on their hands and escape on their minds.

On the mainland ex-flying ace Jack Stone leaves his son and daughter in the company of James Bond. But a gang of thieves lies in ambush – they want Stone’s precious safe, and will kill for its contents.

Young James Bond embarks on a deadly chase through the Mexican jungle. On this terrifying trail of greed and betrayal, only danger is guaranteed… Survival is not.

MEET THE CHARACTERS

James Bond
James is supposed to be relaxing in Mexico after his adventures in Double or Die, but his life is never uneventful and before he knows it, a hurricane has pitched him into the heart of another terrifying situation.

‘He changed into a loose short-sleeved shirt and a pair of baggy trousers. He looked at himself in the mirror. His skin had darkened in the weeks he had been out here. He could easily pass as Mexican’.

El Huracan
El Huracan rules the island of Lagrimas Negras. On the surface, the island is a villains’ paradise, but El Huracan is not a benevolent ruler and crossing him has fatal consequences…

‘He was dressed in the style of a Mexican aristocrat, with an embroidered velvet suit and a frilly cream cravat at his throat held in place with a pearl stud.

He had a flat nose in the middle of a dark brown face that had the appearance of being carved out of old, hard wood. His thick mop of hair was pure white, as was his neat little Vandyke beard. He might have been forty, or he might have been eighty, it was impossible to tell. His eyes looked like they had lived a thousand years and seen all there was to see. At last he spoke, in English with a strong Mexican accent.’

Jack Stone
Jack Stone is the embodiment of an American hero, or so it seems…

‘James looked up to see Mr Stone coming down the stairs. He was wearing a leather flying jacket and high boots. With his thin moustache and swept-back hair he looked every inch the air ace from the Great War.’

Mrs Glass
Tough, enigmatic and absolutely ruthless, Mrs Glass takes no prisoners. She runs her unruly gang of misfits with an iron hand and will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

‘She stood over them for a moment then dropped her cigarette to the ground and trod on it. It was past eleven and she was still wearing her hat. She only took it off to sleep , and even then she kept a scarf wrapped around her head. The wide brim meant that her eyes were often shaded and hidden. But now the light was from below, from the flames, and James could clearly see her face.

Her perfect, creamy white skin, her pale blue eyes and the glossy blonde curls that split out from under her hat, gave her the looks of a movie star. But there was an iciness in those eyes that made her both beautiful and frightening…’

Precious Stone
When James meets Precious Stone she is everything he hates: spoilt, rude and selfish. They are soon thrown together and as Precious struggles to survive, she discovers strengths she never knew she had.

‘Presently James spotted the owner of the voice. Sitting at a large make-up mirror, painting her nails. She was wearing a long, elegant dress made of shiny gold material, and her dark hair was set into a short, fashionable style with tight waves that someone must have spent ages setting in place. ‘You must be James’ she said without looking round. ‘That’s right,’ said James. ‘I am Precious’ said the girl, who had the manner and accent of a haughty Southern belle.’

JJ Stone
JJ is the younger brother of Precious Stone. He’s had a very easy life, which is suddenly ripped apart by the natural force of the hurricane and the brutality of Mrs Glass’s gang.

‘A boy of about seven, wearing a smart suit, appeared from behind the doll’s house, carrying a doll. … He was slightly pudgy and had a permanent smirk on his round face. He worshipped his sister and laughed at her every petulant outburst.’

More action, more demented crime and more flesh-crawling deaths than ever before.
– Observer

2008: Jack White and Alicia Keyes film a video in Toronto.

2019: Caroline International/Loma Vista Recordings releases Iggy Pop's album Free (single: “James Bond”).

2020: James Bond on Twitter proposes old ways are best... to wish a Happy Birthday to Naomie Harris.

https://twitter.com/007/status/1302531990839853056

RichardTheBruce

September 7th

1932: Ian Fleming mildly demands and gets a (clandestine) salary increase from Sir Roderick and Reuters.

1951: Chrissie Hynde is born--Akron, Ohio.

1961: Richard Maibaum and Wolf Mankowitz submit their Dr. No screenplay first draft.

And taking the fifth.

Read the script pages for
James Bond’s first ever
scene

See the complete article here:

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/happy-50th-anniversary-mr-bond

…and complete an original 1962 Dr No crossword puzzle.
Samuel Wigley | Updated: 27 May 2016

On 5 October 1962, Dr No had its premiere screening in London. The first film adaptation from the popular spy novels of Ian Fleming, it was to begin one of the most successful franchises in cinema history. Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman acquired the film rights to the James Bond novels in the 1950s but it took some time to get the first project off the ground, the producers finding little interest from Hollywood in this very British spy.

The task of adapting the 1958 novel Dr No for the screen initially fell to Richard Maibaum and Wolf Mankowitz, with Johanna Harwood and Berkely Mather brought in to polish later drafts. At this time, Mankowitz – a friend of ‘Cubby’ Broccoli’s – was best-known for the Peter Sellers-Sophia Loren vehicle The Millionairess (1960) and the apocalyptic sci-fi The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). He would later ask for his name to be removed from the Dr No credits after seeing the rushes and fearing a major flop.

Maibaum, on the other hand, who had spent the 1950s writing war films like The Red Beret (1953) and The Cockleshell Heroes (1954), as well as Nicholas Ray’s Bigger than Life (1956), would go on to make a career out of Fleming’s secret agent, penning a further 12 Bond films before bowing out with Licence to Kill in 1989.

To celebrate Mr Bond’s cinematic anniversary, we present an extract from the fifth draft script. It’s the classic moment part-way into Dr No in which the suave superspy (played in the film by Sean Connery) is first introduced to the world. The scene is a London gambling room called Le Cercle, where at the top stakes table, surrounded by onlookers, a chic woman in a red dress and a tuxedoed man with his back to the camera issue their commands to the croupier…

Fifth draft screenplay by Richard Maibaum, Wolf Mankowitz, and JM (Johanna) Harwood for Dr No
(Eon Productions/MGM)

The pressbook issued to exhibitors to help market the film’s release in October 1962 was full of suggestions for innovative gimmicks to exploit the film’s appeal. If a game of chemin de fer at an exclusive casino isn’t on the cards today, there could be worse ways to toast Mr Bond on his 50th anniversary than to have a go at the pressbook’s Dr No crossword puzzle.

1963: O Satânico Dr. No (The Satanic Dr. No) released in Brazil.

1978 Ebal Comic http://www.bialto.pt/item/235081/ebal---serie-007-james-bond-2--o-satanico-dr-no.html

1989: Licence to Kill released in Australia.

Daybill

1994: Terence Young dies at age 79--Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
(Born: 20 June 1915-- Shanghai, China.)

Obituary: Terence Young

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-terence-young-1449081.html

David Shipman | Friday 16 September 1994

Terence Young, film director, producer, screenwriter; born Shanghai 20 June 1915; married (one son, two daughters); died Cannes 7 September 1994.

THE British cinema - as opposed to the British film industry - first began to consider its responsibilities during the Second World War. The quantity and vitality of British movies produced between 1945 and 1950 is astonishing, with the serious variety attracting large audiences as never before. Between them, the benevolent flour- milling mogul Arthur Rank and the creative Hungarian paterfamilias Alexander Korda encouraged new talents, none of whom was more promising than Terence Young.

Young's first two films as director, for Rank, came out early in 1948, proving him anxious to work well outside the British mainstream. One Hour With You, with a typically playful script by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon, imagined the misfortunes of Patricia Roc wooed by the tenor Nino Martini while stranded in Italy. Corridor of Mirrors gave even more meaning to the words bizarre, baroque - as Eric Portman, at his most magniloquent, brooded over a Renaissance painting in his dark mansion, convinced that he and his mistress, Edana Romney, are reincarnations of the lovers in it.

Earlier Young had worked as screenwriter on some interesting films with the director Brian Desmond Hurst: On the Night of the Fire (1939), a fugitive-from-justice tale, heavily influenced by Marcel Carne, with Ralph Richardson and Diana Wynyard; Dangerous Moonlight (1941), a wartime love affair between a Polish airman, Anton Walbrook, and an American journalist, Sally Gray, with the 'Warsaw Concerto' thrown in as a bonus; Hungry Hill (1946), Daphne du Maurier's chronicle of an Irish family with Margaret Lockwood as its matriarch; and Theirs is the Glory (1946), a semi-documentary account of the failure of the Battle of Arnhem. During service with the Armoured Guards Division Young was given leave to work with Clive Brook on the screenplay for On Approval (1944), based on Frederick Lonsdale's comedy and as directed by Brook, with himself, Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers and Roland Culver, a happy version of a filmed play.

Young's first job with Rank was to hack a screenplay out of Mary Webb's novel Precious Bane, which he was scheduled to direct with Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons; but Rank got cold feet at the last minute and transferred him to a comedy with Granger, Woman Hater, for which he brought Edwige Feuillere across from France. Young's other film that year, They Were Not Divided, was a project dear to his heart, as it followed two Welsh Guardsmen, Edward Underdown and the American Ralph Clanton, from square- bashing to D-Day and beyond.

In 1954 he directed That Lady, the story of the romance of the one-eyed Princess of Eboli which scandalised the court of Philip II; he blamed its failure on the fact that that he had asked for Laurence Olivier and Ava Gardner, but had been given Gilbert Roland and Olivia de Havillland. With Zoltan Korda he co-directed Storm Over the Nile (1955), with Laurence Harvey and Anthony Steel, a remake of 1939 The Four Feathers, with footage from that stretched out for CinemaScope.

Young had already experienced his most important career move. Two American producers, Irving Allen and Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, taking advantage of US tax concessions for working abroad, came to Britain with Alan Ladd to make The Red Beret (1953), in which Ladd was an American officer who does a T. E. Lawrence-like stint in the ranks of the British regiment. They had admired Young's work on his war movies and though he won no kudos for this one it was popular. He stayed with their company, Warwick, establishing himself as a director of transatlantic action movies.

He broke away for another personal project, Serious Charge (1959), in which a vengeful teddy boy, Andrew Ray, accuses a vicar, Anthony Quayle, of sexual assault. He then accepted the challenge of bringing four of Roland Petit's ballets to the wide screen in Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre (1960), or Black Tights. Maurice Chevalier introduced these diverse pleasures, including Moira Shearer and Petit in Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyd Charisse as a merry widow and Zizi Jeanmaire with him in Carmen.

Its success was not unqualified, and Young went on to co-direct, with Ferdinando Baldi, Orazi E Curiazi (1961), with Alan Ladd decidedly ill-at-ease as Horatio at the bridge. Cut, dubbed and retitled Duel of Champions, it got a few bookings some years later.

By that time Young's career had soared. Broccoli had teamed up with Harry Saltzman to film Dr No (1963), one of Ian Fleming's thrillers about a British secret service agent, James Bond. Saltzman, the American backer of such films as Look Back in Anger, had been looking for something more evidently popular. Apart from the two of them nobody believed in it, including the distributor, United Artists, who imposed budget restrictions; half a dozen actors turned down the role before it was accepted by the little-known and unlikely Sean Connery. (Young had previously directed Connery in 1957 in a small role in Action of the Tiger.) The notices were mediocre and Fleming was privately contemptuous, but the film went on to knock the box-office for six. With an injection of humour and Connery splendidly easing himself into the role, From Russia with Love (1963) and then Thunderball (1965) proved that Young was a first-rate action director and that the public couldn't get enough of 007.

When Young abandoned Bond, it was with mixed results. The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) was an attempt by Marcel Hellman to duplicate the success of Tom Jones. But Warner Bros then put Young in charge of an adaptation of a long-running play, Wait Until Dark (1967), with Audrey Hepburn menaced by thugs, including a scarey Alan Arkin - and that is surely one of the best thrillers of the decade.

Young followed it with an Italian version of Conrad, L'Avventurio or The Rover (1967), which has been little seen despite the presence of Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn, and Mayerling (1968) with James Mason and Ava Gardner under-used as Franz Joseph and Elisabeth and Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve as the lovers. Several other co-productions with either France or Italy included The Valachi Papers (1972), a Mafia tale with Charles Bronson.

Young's long-delayed first Hollywood film, The Klansman (1974), with Richard Burton and Lee Marvin, was scathingly received - one reason why Paramount pulled the plug on The Jackpot, also with Burton, during production. But that company invited Young back for Bloodline (1979), based on a Sidney Sheldon bestseller which managed to combine a plot about company greed with one about the making of porn movies. Audrey Hepburn and James Mason headed the cast, and after the dreadful notices, she commented that she had made it both because the locations didn't take her far from her family and because she liked the director.

Young attracted Olivier to Inchon (1980) and The Jigsaw Man (1983), in which he respectively played General MacArthur and an admiral involved with Michael Caine, a former head of MI6 who had defected. The former, financed by the Rev Sun Myung Moon to an estimated dollars 100m, took peanuts in the US and has never been seen in Britain; the second ran into financial difficulties during filming and went direct to video.

This is a sad ending to an extraordinary career. No one would class Young with his contemporaries David Lean and Carol Reed, but he was one among others embraced by Hollywood: Michael Anderson, J. Lee Thompson, Ronald Neame, Ken Annakin and Lewis Gilbert. They gave Hollywood some excellent films and the American film industry liked them because they thought in commercial terms.

Terence Young
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950109/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Director (40 credits)

1988 Run for Your Life
1983 The Jigsaw Man
1981 Inchon
1980 Long Days (unconfirmed, uncredited)

1979 Bloodline
1975 Jackpot
1974 The Klansman
1973 The Amazons
1972 The Valachi Papers
1971 Red Sun
1970 Cold Sweat

1969 The Christmas Tree
1968 Mayerling
1967 Wait Until Dark
1967 The Rover
1966 Triple Cross
1966 The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1965 Thunderball
1965 The Secret Agents
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
1963 From Russia with Love
1962 Dr. No
1961 Duel of Champions (english version)
1961 Black Tights
1960 Playgirl After Dark

1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Dark as the Night (1959)
1959 Serious Charge
1958 Tank Force
1957 Action of the Tiger
1956 Zarak
1956 Safari
1955 Storm Over the Nile
1955 That Lady
1953 Paratrooper
1952 The Frightened Bride
1951 Valley of the Eagles
1950 They Were Not Divided

1948 Woman Hater
1948 One Night with You
1948 Corridor of Mirrors

Writer (17 credits)

1977 Foxbat (additional script material)
1973 The Amazons
1969 The Christmas Tree (writer)
1968 Mayerling (screenplay)
1966 Mission to Tokyo (adaptation)
1962 Dr. No (uncredited)

1958 Tank Force [aka No Time to Die] (written by)
1951 Valley of the Eagles (written by)
1950 They Were Not Divided

1949 The Bad Lord Byron (writer - uncredited)
1947 Hungry Hill (screenplay)
1944 On Approval (uncredited)
1943 A Letter from Ulster (Documentary short) (screenplay - as Shaun Terence Young)
1942 Secret Mission (original story - as Shaun Terence Young)
1941 Suicide Squadron (original story) / (screenplay)
1940 A Call for Arms! (Short) (story)

1939 The Fugitive (adaptation) / (scenario)

Miscellaneous Crew (4 credits)

1977 Foxbat (script consultant)
1969 Birds, Orphans and Fools (presenter)
1964 Goldfinger (director: pre-production - uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love (body double: Pedro Armendáriz - uncredited)

Producer (2 credits)

1984 Where Is Parsifal? (executive producer)
1964 Goldfinger (associate producer: pre-production - uncredited)
Hide Hide Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
1988 Chicken and Duck Talk (assistant director)

Editorial department (1 credit)

1980 Long Days (supervising editor)

Thanks (2 credits)

2009 Frankenpimp (special thanks)
1949 The Bad Lord Byron (producers gratefully acknowledge the contributions to the screenplay made by)

Self (13 credits)

2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself
1999 The James Bond Story (TV Movie documentary) - Himself - Interviewee[/u]
1992 Le divan (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Terence Young (1992) ... Himself
1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1988 Sacrée soirée (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 17 February 1988 (1988) ... Himself
1982 Ciné parade (TV Series documentary) = Himself
- L'usine à rêves (1982) ... Himself
1974 The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) - Himself
- On location with "The Klansman" (1974) ... Himself
1968 Vienna: The Years Remembered (Documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
1968 Monsieur Cinéma (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 2 December 1968 (1968) ... Himself
1968 L'invité du dimanche (TV Series) - Himself
- Edwige Feuillère (1968) ... Himself
1965 A Child's Guide to Blowing Up a Motor Car (TV Short) - Himself
1964 Thunderball: Production Footage (Short) - Himself

Archive footage (14 credits)

2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Himself
2002 Happy Anniversary Mr. Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Himself
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
1999 And the Word Was Bond (TV Special documentary) - Himself
1997 The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself
1995 The 67th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) - Himself (Memorial Tribute)
1965 Telescope (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Licensed to Make a Killing (1965) ... Himself
1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1965 Take Thirty (TV Series) - Himself
- Sean Connery on Being Bond (1965) ... Himself

2003: Warren Zevon dies at age 56--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 24 January 1947--Chicago, Illinois.)

Zevon Diagnosed With Lung Cancer

See the complete article here:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/zevon-diagnosed-with-lung-cancer-248846/

Veteran singer-songwriter’s disease untreatable
By Andrew Dansby - September 12, 2002

Warren Zevon has been diagnosed with lung cancer, and the disease
has advanced to an untreatable stage. The fifty-five-year-old
singer-songwriter received the news last month and is currently
spending time at home with his children and in the studio recording
new songs.

In keeping with the acerbic wit found in his songs like “Life’ll
Kill Ya” and “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,” Zevon said of his
diagnosis, “I’m OK with it, but it’ll be a drag if I don’t make it
till the next James Bond movie comes out.”

Nearly three years ago, Zevon released the eerily prophetic
Life’ll Kill Ya, with several songs addressing death and
illness. “Sickness, doctors, that scares me,” he told Rolling
Stone at the time. “Not violence — helplessness. That’s why I
turn to violent stories, I think.” At the time, Zevon said the
songs were not inspired by any sort of health scare. “It’s kind of
the fun of it, pretending to deal with something that you don’t
want to, and try to laugh about it. I mean, I’ve had guns in my
face, I’ve been robbed, but the doctor stuff — it’s too much for
me.”

Zevon began his career in the late Sixties as a session man and
songwriter for the likes of the Everly Brothers and the Turtles. He
also penned Linda Ronstadt’s 1978 hit “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” and
scored one of his own that same year with “Werewolves of London.”
In May, Zevon released his eleventh studio album, My Ride’s
Here, which featured collaborations with writers Hunter S.
Thompson, Carl Hiaasen and Paul Muldoon. Rhino Records will release
a new anthology of his work, Genius: The Best of Warren
Zevon, on October 15th.

Enjoy every.

2012: Press release announces the future Skyfall world premiere (23 October) at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

2021: Documentary Being James Bond with a focus on Daniel Craig comes available first on Apple TV.

'Being James Bond,' a new documentary
that follows Daniel Craig's journey, comes
to Apple TV on September 7
Bond fans are getting a free treat to hold them over until the new film comes out.

See the complete article here:

https://www.imore.com/being-james-bond-new-documentary-follows-daniel-craigs-journey-comes-apple-tv-september-7

Joe Wituschek | 31 Aug 2021

What you need to know

• The "Being James Bond," documentary will premiere on September 7.
• It will be free to watch on the Apple TV app.
• "No Time to Die," Craig's final Bond film, will premiere in theaters starting on September 30.

James Bond will grace the small screen before hitting theaters this fall.

As reported by Deadline, "Being James Bond," a new documentary that follows the journey that Daniel Craig has gone through playing the role, will be released as a free-to-watch film on the Apple TV app on September 7. The documentary is a great treat for Bond fans who are anticipating the release of "No Time to Die," the upcoming Bond film.

The 45-minute retrospective features Daniel Craig reflecting on his 15 years playing Bond, with never-before-seen archival footage from his oeuvre and conversations with 07 producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli. It will be available for free to Apple TV customers in over 30 countries and regions from September 7 through October 7. No Time To Die, Craig's last outing as Bond, will be released in theaters on Sept. 30 in the U.K. through Universal Pictures International and in the U.S. on Oct. 8 through MGM via United Artists Releasing.

You can watch the trailer for "Being James Bond" below. You can also add it to your Up Next list on Apple TV on the Apple TV app.

The announcement of the documentary is well-timed as MGM also released the final trailer for "No Time to Die," Craig's last outing as Bond. The new film will release in theaters starting in the United Kingdom on September 30, 2021. It will come to the United States on October 8, 2021.

"Being James Bond" will be available to stream for free through the Apple TV app between September 7 and October 7. If you want to enjoy the documentary in the best quality possible, check out our list of the Best TVs for Apple TV 2021.

Being James Bond: The Daniel Craig Story (2021)

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt15346636/
Video | 2021 | 46min

Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his fifteen year tenure as James Bond. Includes never-before-seen archival footage spanning from 'Casino Royale' (2006) to 'No Time To Die' (2021).

Director | Baillie Walsh
Stars | Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli.

2022: The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra performs The Music of James Bond at Festival Theatre, Adelaide, Australia.

The Music of James Bond
Presented by Concertworks
With George Lazenby Live on Stage

See the complete article here:

https://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/events/the-music-of-james-bond/

Get dressed to impress as Concertworks presents the Australian concert tour of The Music of James Bond with Australia’s original James Bond 007, George Lazenby in September 2022.

George Lazenby who starred as James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service will be live on stage and this will be the first time in 60 years that a James Bond actor has appeared live in a 4 concert tour featuring the music from the James Bond movies.

The James Bond songs are every bit as irresistible as 007 himself. Under the baton of Nicholas Buc, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra (Sydney), Adelaide Symphony Orchestra (Adelaide), and John Foreman’s Aussie Pops Orchestra (Melbourne) will provide an unforgettable night of music, joined by sensational vocalists Bonnie Anderson (Neighbours, SAS, winner The Masked Singer and winner Australia’s Got Talent) and Luke Kennedy (The Voice Australia, Jesus Christ Superstar, Swing On This), who prefer their martinis shaken not stirred.

Surprise Dad with tickets for Father’s Day, and he can hear the James Bond songs and some secret stories from 007 himself, all in one evening. It’s bound to be a sophisticated secret spy mission with 007 himself, Lazenby…George Lazenby 007.

TIMES
Wed, 7 Sep 2022, 7:30PM
VENUE
Festival Theatre

Music of James Bond with George Lazenby, Adelaide 2022 (2:53)

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September 8th

1925: Peter Sellers is born--Portsmouth, England.
(He dies 24 July 1980--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.)

Peter Sellers Dies at 54

See the complete article here:

https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/peter-sellers-dies-at-54

by Roger Ebert | July 24, 1980

Peter Sellers is dead at 54, a victim of the heart disease that first struck him in 1964 and continued to haunt him during his most productive years as an international star.

His death in London at 6:28 p.m. Chicago time Wednesday came after a massive heart attack. At his bedside were his fourth wife, Lynne Frederick; his second wife, Britt Ekland, and their daughter Victoria, who is 15. But Mr. Sellers never regained consciousness after the attack that struck him Tuesday in his suite at London's Dorchester Hotel.

"Mr. Sellers' death was entirely due to natural causes," a spokesman for Middlesex Hospital said. "His heart just faded away. His condition deteriorated very rapidly."

An emergency team of 10 specialists was at his bedside when he died, but they were helpless.

Mr. Sellers was in London to work on the screenplay of "Romance of the Pink Panther," which was to have been his sixth film in the role of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, his most famous comic creation. He was still basking in the acclaim for his starring role in last year's "Being There," which won him an Academy Award nomination.

His latest film, "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu," opens in Chicago on Aug. 8. In it, as in so many of his films, Mr. Sellers plays six different roles. That was one of his trademarks after such early successes as "The Mouse That Roared" (1959), in which he played the entire population of the mythical Duchy of Grand Fenwick, and "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), in which he played three roles.

His multiple roles were masks, Mr. Sellers liked to claim, describing himself as basically a character actor: "As far as I'm aware, I have no personality of my own whatsoever. I have no character to offer the public. When I look at myself I just see a person who strangely lacks what I consider to be the ingredients for a personality. If you asked me to play myself, I wouldn't know what to do." But as the characters he played in more than 50 major movies, Mr. Sellers became one of the busiest and most popular movie stars of the 1960s and '70s. His widest audiences came for the Inspector Clouseau pictures, which began with "The Pink Panther" in 1963 and continued through "Revenge of the Pink Panther" in 1978.

His best-known roles in more ambitious films were as in "I'm All Right, Jack" (1959), "Lolita" (1962), "Waltz of the Toreadors" (1964), "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), "The Party" (1968) and "Being There."

I remember him talking about the inspirations for some of his famous roles at a press conference at the Hawaiian premiere of "Revenge of the Pink Panther." Inspector Clouseau's famous accent, he recalled, wasn't there in the original "Pink Panther," but came later: "I developed it in 'A Shot in the Dark' [1964]. It came from this brilliant concierge in a hotel I used to stay at in Paris. He was a master of dealing with American tourists. He'd talk to them in a strange accent that wasn't French but sounded French to an English-speaker."

In Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," Mr. Sellers said, he created Strangelove's most famous characteristic - a mechanical hand with an automatic Nazi salute - during the process of filming.

"The right hand was not originally supposed to be a Nazi hand," he said. "Then Stanley Kubrick put the black glove on my hand and suddenly we got this inspiration that Strangelove was schizo, split right down the middle, his left half American, his right half Nazi. If you know what to look for when you see the movie, you could see some of the actors breaking up the first time my hand goes out of control . . ." If Mr. Sellers was correct in saying that he had no personality of his own to portray, then perhaps his performance in "Being There" was his most autobiographical. He played Chauncey, a strange, middle-aged man raised entirely in isolation, with television as his only source of information on how to behave. The character's utter simplicity and transparency led statesmen to imagine they had discovered great depths in him. It was a virtuoso performance, made all the more difficult because Mr. Sellers had to sustain a single note throughout the movie.

Peter Sellers was born Sept. 8, 1925, in Southsea, England, the son of British vaudeville performers, and was literally raised in the wings. He appeared with his parents as a child, won a talent contest at 13, joined the Royal Air Force at 17 and worked as an entertainer. In the 1950s he became famous as the star of England's radio "Goon Show," memories of which were recreated in Richard Lester's famous 1960 short subject, "The Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film."

He moved into British film comedies and was a star by the late 1950s. Mr. Sellers often described himself as a "hopeless romantic" who was constantly falling in love. He married for the first time in 1951, to Australian actress Anne Howe, and they had two children, Michael and Sarah Jane. But in 1960 that marriage broke up as Mr. Sellers fell in love with Sophia Loren while they were filming "The Millionairess" together. Loren turned down his proposal of marriage.

In 1964, shortly after the triumphs as Inspector Clouseau, he married Swedish actress Britt Ekland after an 11-day courtship. Shortly afterward, he suffered his first major heart attack. His marriage to Ekland lasted until 1969 and produced his daughter, Victoria.

In 1970, Mr. Sellers married Miranda Quarry, daughter of a British lord. They were divorced in 1974. He and Liza Minnelli announced they would be married, but the romance cooled and he married actress Lynne Frederick in 1977. Mr. Sellers had his second major heart attack, and was fitted with a pacemaker in 1977. In May of this year, he collapsed in Dublin while making a commercial, but recovered to visit the Cannes Film Festival, where he looked unwell.

Filmmaker Blake Edwards, who directed the Clouseau movies, said Wednesday, "One lived with the realization that Peter could go at any time. But he was a very courageous man who refused to let his heart problems interfere with his personal life."

Mr. Sellers gave evidence of that during the 1978 "Pink Panther" press conference. A reporter asked if he would mind answering a personal question.

"Of course not," Mr. Sellers said.

"I understand you've had some heart attacks . . ." the reporter began, before Mr. Sellers interrupted him with gallows humor: "Yes, but I plan to give them up. I'm down to two a day."

PETER SELLERS
The Official Website of Peter Sellers
https://www.petersellers.com/about/filmography/

Filmography

1982
– Trail of the Pink Panther
1980
-The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
1979
-Being There
-The Prisoner of Zenda
1978
–Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978
-Kingdom of Gifts (voice)
1977
-Best of British Film Comedy
-To See Such Fun
1976
-Best of the Muppet Show
-Murder by Death
-The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1974
-The Great McGonagall
-Soft Beds, Hard Battles
-The Return of the Pink Panther
1973
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
– The Blockhouse
– Ghost in the Noonday Sun
– The Optimists
– Undercovers Hero
1972
-Does It Hurt?
– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
1970
-There’s a Girl in My Soup
– A Day at the Beach
– Hoffman
– Simon Simon
1969
-The Magic Christian
1968
– I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
– The Party
1967
– The Bobo
– Woman Times Seven
– Casino Royale
– Alice in Wonderland
– With Love, Sophia
1966
– After the Fox
– Caccia alla volpe
– The Wrong Box
1965
– What’s New, Pussycat
1964
– Dr. Strangelove
- The World of Henry Orient
– Carol for Another Christmas
– The Pink Panther
– A Shot in the Dark

1961: Date of the original screen treatment for Dr No wherein a Cuban-financed imposter with a caper targeted the Panama Canal. Plus he had a monkey.
1967: Casino Royale released in Australia.

Daybill

1983: Octopussy released in Spain.

2006: Full trailer to Casino Royale released.

2015: Sam Smith announces he's written and will sing the title song for Spectre.
2015: Harper publishes Anthony Horowitz's Bond novel Trigger Mortis. Audio book voiced by David Oyelowo.

JAMES BOND, THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS
SPY, RETURNS TO HIS 1950S HEYDAY IN THIS
THRILLER FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING
AUTHOR ATHONY HOROWITZ, INCORPORATING
NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIAL
FROM 007'S CREATOR, IAN FLEMING.

James Bond won his battle with criminal
mastermind Auric Goldfinger, but a whole
new war is about to begin. With glamorous Pussy
galore by his side--and in his bed--Bond arrives
home from America to the news that SMERSH,
the deadly Soviet counterintelligence agency,
plans to sabotage an international Grand Prix.
He must play a high-speed game of cat and
mouse on the track to stop them, but a chance
encounter with a mysterious Korean millionaire,
Jason Sin, warns him that the scheme is only
the Soviets' opening move.

This dashing and seductive narrative of
fast cars, beautiful women, and ruthless villains
has all the hallmarks of an Ian Fleming original,
including familiar faces such as M and Miss
Moneypenny. Trigger Mortis pits Bond and
American adventurer Jeopardy Lane against
a cold-blooded tycoon determined to bring
America to its knees--with the help of
SMERSH, who will pay any price to secure
Soviet victory in the space race now at the
heart of the Cold War. the clock is ticking as
the scheme unfolds, culminating in a heart-
stopping New York City showdown that will
determine the fate of the west.

ANTHONY HOROWITZ is the author of the
New York Times bestselling The House of Silk, as well
as the New York Times bestselling Alex Rider
series for young adults. As a television screen-
writer, he created Midsomer Murders and the
BAFTA-wining Foyle's War, both of which were
featured on PBS's Masterpiece Mystery. He
regularly contributes to a wide variety of
national newspapers and magazines, and in
January 2014 was appointed an Officer of the
Order of the British Empire for hiss services
to literature. He lives in London.

2020: Heineken Vietnam launches a limited edition James Bond packaging anticipating No Time To Die's 13 November 2020 release. [No rescheduled date for 2021 available at this stime.]

Heineken debuts limited edition
James Bond packs

See the complete article here:

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/heineken-debuts-limited-edition-james-bond-packs-4158581.html

By Anh Nguyen | September 8, 2020

Heineken has launched its limited edition Heineken James Bond packaging in Vietnam ahead of the premiere of “No Time To Die”, scheduled on November 13, 2020. [later delayed]

This year, Heineken continues its long-standing global partnership with James Bond, one of the most iconic characters in cinematic history, in the latest James Bond film. The firm has been a partner of the James Bond franchise for over 20 years, since 1997’s "Tomorrow Never Dies".

The new 007 packaging features the James Bond silhouette prominently displayed on Heineken’s iconic green and red star. Heineken James Bond packaging will be available in 330 ml bottles and cans (both sleek and regular version).

Commenting on the latest James Bond campaign, Anna Bizon, Marketing Director of Heineken Vietnam, said: "James Bond and Heineken are instantly recognizable premium brands that share many of the same aspirational qualities. Ahead of the global release of the latest James Bond film, No Time To Die, we want to give Vietnamese fans exclusive access to the world of James Bond - with the launch of limited edition Heineken James Bond packs."

Special Heineken James Bond packaging comes with over one million prizes and an exciting digital adventure to discover this iconic character, showing how Bond lives beyond the film.

From August 24, 2020, consumers in Ho Chi Minh City will stand a chance to win one of the million exclusive on-pack prizes, including 250 prizes including one tael of gold each; 2,500 Heineken power banks; 25,000 Heineken umbrellas and over one million Heineken Silver cans.

The promotion is only available on special Heineken James Bond cans with the text "Open the can to win 007 prizes" on the packaging. The redemption period starts from August 24 to December 7, 2020, with products only distributed in Ho Chi Minh City.
Open the can to win 007 prizes.

"Open the can to win 007 prizes".

For consumers outside HCMC, from September 14, Heineken will present them with the Heineken James Bond packaging with a special QR code to discover the extraordinary world of secret agents.

Using their mobile phones, consumers can simply scan this QR code to unlock a digital adventure and experience a series of exhilarating missions to challenge themselves as Bond’s secret agents.

Leading Vietnamese artists and influencers will join consumers to unlock these James Bond missions. The QR code is available only on Heineken James Bond cans with the text "Scan the QR code to win 007 prizes" on the packaging.

Both campaigns are only open for consumers 18 years old and above. For more information, please visit the official Facebook fanpage of Heineken at https://www.facebook.com/HeinekenVN/.

Heineken Vietnam is a subsidiary of Heineken, the world’s most international brewer. Originated in the Netherlands, this family-owned business with a history of over 150 years, brews and distributes over 300 beer & cider brands in more than 190 countries.

Heineken Vietnam was established in 1991 and operates six breweries in Hanoi, Da Nang, Quang Nam, HCMC, Vung Tau, Tien Giang, and ten offices across Vietnam.

From humble beginnings with only 20 employees in Vietnam, Heineken Vietnam is now the second largest brewer nationally with more than 3,500 employees. The company makes a significant annual economic contribution to the country, amounting to approximately 0.95 percent of the nation’s total GDP, according to its data.

In Vietnam, Heineken produces and distributes Heineken®, Tiger, Larue, BIVINA, Bia Viet, Sol, Affligem, and Strongbow cider.

In 2017, 2018 and 2019, Heineken Vietnam was recognized among the top most sustainable companies locally by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and as a best place to work in Asia by HR Asia Magazine, one of the continent’s leading human resources publications.

More information about HEINEKEN Vietnam is available on Heineken Vietnam’s website:
http://heineken-vietnam.com.vn/

2020: Aston Martin and The Little Car Company produce the DB5 Junior and DB5 Vantage Junior.

Aston Martin DB5 Junior, the little James Bond
car

See the complete article here:

https://tekdeeps.com/aston-martin-db5-junior-the-little-james-bond-car/

September 8, 2020

It certainly cannot be said that the Luxury car homes do not think about children. Especially if they are children of parents with large bank accounts. The latest example bears the name of Aston Martin DB5 Junior, which is the scaled-down version of the iconic James Bond car.

A toy for 007 in the grass, produced by the English house in collaboration with The Little Car Company – also responsible for the creation of the Bugatti Baby II – and on sale starting from 35,000 pounds (about 38,000 euros).

Small scale, adult care
Produced in just 1,059 copies and about 3 meters long (ie about 66% compared to the normal DB5) the DB5 Junior is in all respects a real DB5. If photographed alone, it could hardly be said that it is a “toy”.

Aston Martin DB5 - Dashboard for children
Beyond the style, there are many adult details, such as the aluminum frame, the 4 disc brakes hidden by 10 ”alloy wheels, the leather interior, wooden and aluminum steering wheel, full instrumentation (no space for any type of digitization) and much more.

A jewel available in 2 different variants: normal and Vantage. The first is powered by a 5 kW (6.8 HP) electric motor powered by a 1.8 kWh lithium-ion battery pack, also rechargeable via regenerative braking. The drive is rear and there are 3 different driving modes: Novice, Expert and Race, for a maximum speed of about 50 km / h and autonomy of about 16 km.

Aston Martin DB5 - Child's wheel
Aston Martin DB5 Junior front light

The Aston Martin DB5 Junior Vantage mounts a 10 kW motor (13.6 HP), 2 1.8 kWh lition ion batteries (range of about 32 km), limited slip rear differential and the modes of the normal version to which the special “Vantage” is added.
Also for grown children

As written, the starting price is set at more than 38,000 euros (almost 50,000 for the Vantage), destined to rise if you fish from the list of options or want to customize your toy.

Source: Motor1.com Italia – News by it.motor1.com.

https://thelittlecar.co/db5junior/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/DB5-and-DB5-Junior-Driving-3.mp4

DB5 Junior and DB5 Vantage Junior

See the complete article here:

https://thelittlecar.co/db5junior/

DB5 JUNIOR
Starting from £35,000*
Power 5kW / 6.7 bhp
Battery Pack 1.8kWh
Top Speed TBC
Limited-Slip Differential -
Driving Modes Novice, Expert

DB5 VANTAGE JUNIOR
Starting from £45,000*
Power 10kW / 13.4 bhp
Battery Pack 2 x 1.8 kWh
Top Speed TBC
Limited-Slip Differential Yes
Driving Modes Novice, Expert, Competition, Vantage
*excludes shipping costs, taxes, customs and excise charges

A CLASSIC, REBORN
Arguably the most famous car in the world, the iconic DB5 has firmly secured its place in automotive history. Coveted by car enthusiasts around the world, DB5 ownership has historically been the preserve of the lucky few. In 2020, more than 50 years on from its initial launch, the DB5 will be reimagined for the modern era.

Hand-crafted to allow the love of driving to be shared across generations, the Aston Martin DB5 Junior will be built to 66% scale of the original and will feature a rear-wheel-drive, fully electric powertrain and multiple driving modes. Just like the original, only 1,059 of the models will be made, providing a rare opportunity for fans of the marque to own a piece of history.

As an official Aston Martin model, the DB5 Junior will pay homage to the rich history of the brand. Each of the limited-edition vehicles produced will feature classic Aston Martin badges, Silver Birch paintwork, Smiths instruments, and individually numbered chassis plates. In tribute to Aston Martin’s more recent technological advances, the DB5 Junior will include swappable lithium-ion battery packs and regenerative braking.

ICONIC DESIGN
The DB5 Junior has all of the iconic details you would expect from an Aston Martin DB5, including:

• Authentic Aston Martin badges consistent with the original cars
• Replicated Smiths instruments, including original DB5 clock
• A full leather interior in a range of colours
• Mahogany & aluminium steering wheel
• Opening and closing bonnet and boot
• Four-wheel disc brakes, and a hydraulic handbrake
• Double wishbone suspension at the front, with the roll centre and camber gain matching the original geometry
• Rear live axle as per the original, with authentic upper and lower trailing-arm suspension and panhard rod

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2022: Sotheby's Auction Item 24 (an On Her Majesty's Secret Service uncorrected proof copy) closes.

25
Ian Fleming | On Her Majesty's Secret Service, uncorrected proof

See the complete article here:

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/james-bond-on-bond-street/ian-fleming-on-her-majestys-secret-service

UK: Greenford Park Warehouse
Estimate:

1,000 - 1,200 GBP

Current bid: 850 GBP

(1 bid, reserve met)

Lot closes: 16:25:46 September 8, 02:24 PM (CEST)

Description
Ian Fleming
On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963

8vo, UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY, original green wrappers, lettered in black, collector's green morocco and cloth clamshell box, slight wear to joints

Gilbert notes a print run of 500 copies.

LITERATURE
Gilbert A11a

2022: Queen Elizabeth II dies at age 96--Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
(Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor born 21 April 1926--Bruton Street, London, England.)
Reigned as Queen of the United Kingdom 6 February 1952 to 8 September 2022 (70 years and 214 days).

RichardTheBruce

September 9th

1924: Ian Fleming shoots his first stag at Black Mount, Argyllshire, Scotland.

1935: Topol is born--Tel Aviv, Palestine.
1935: Nadim Joakim Sawalha is born--Madaba, Jordan.

1943: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
mistress

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

Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess who met Fleming in 1931 when he was just 23
Credit: Cecil Beaton courtesy of Emily Russell

Thursday 9 September, 1943

Last Friday, mainland Italy was invaded by the Eighth Army. There
was great suppressed excitement and whisperings in the office. I.
was speaking on the BBC German Naval Programme. His voice is
excellent – firm, vigorous and dignified. I was pleased with the
performance and told him so later when he came to dinner. I. was
exhausted with the week’s excitements. He was satisfied but not the
least bit exuberant.

1951: Steven Jay Ruben is born--Chicago, Illinois.
1959: Éric Serra is born--Paris, France.

1961: Neal Purvis is born--United Kingdom.

1961: James Bond comic strip From A View A Kill ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Began 26 June 1961. 922-987) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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






Swedish Semic Comic
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3?s=comics&id=01835

Dödligt Uppdrag
("Fatal Commission" - From A View To A Kill)

Danish 1968 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no43-1978/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 43: “From a View to a Kill” (1978)
"Dødelig opgave" [= Deadly Assignment]

Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no13-1968/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 13: “From a View to a Kill” (1968)
Dødelig mission [Deadly Mission]

1966: James Bond comic The Man with the Golden Gun ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Began 10 January 1966. 1-209) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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

Swedish Semic Comic
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3?s=comics&id=01820

Mannen Med Dengyllene Pistolen
(The Man With The Golden Gun)

Danish 1977 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no40-1977/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 40: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (pt. 1)
+ “The Living Daylights” (1977)
"Hjernevasket" [Brainwashed] + "Spionen fra Øst"

Danish 1976 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no35-1976/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 35: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1976)
"Manden med den gyldne pistol"

Danish 1968 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no15-1968/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 15: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1968)
"Manden med den gyldne pistol"

1979: Moonraker released in Spain.

1988: Licence to Kill films Sanchez terminating Krest in the decompression chamber.

2011: Public announcements reveal the Turkish Culture Minister grants permission to film in Istanbul.
2012: Ruth Kempf dies at age 97--Opelousas, Louisiana.
(Born 9 March 1915.)

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

2019: No Time To Die cast photographed in Italy.

2020: Variety reports on Halle Berry and a Jinx spinoff.

James Bond: Halle Berry Says Failed Jinx
Spinoff Was "Ahead of Its Time"

See the complete article here:

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/james-bond-halle-berry-jinx-spinoff/

By Aaron Perine - September 9, 2020

Halle Berry says that the failed James Bond Jinx spinoff was way ahead of its time in a new interview. Filmgoers of a certain age will remember her character from Die Another Day. She was immediately one of the reasons to go see the film in theaters. In a new conversation with Variety, Berry says that the movie's producers had big plans in mind for Jinx. Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson were pushing for a spinoff and all that came with that. But, in the end, MGM wasn't feeling like paying the $80 million to get the Jinx movie rolling. It would be hard to argue with Berry now that this would have been a smart move. She was one of the most recognizable stars of the era and a massive draw. From here in the future, signing her up for her own spinoff series sounds like a no-brainer. But things were different back in 2002.

"It was very disappointing," Berry explained. "It was ahead of its time. Nobody was ready to sink that kind of money into a Black female action star. They just weren't sure of its value. That's where we were then."

Filming Die Another Day proved to be enough excitement for the actress. Berry visited The Tonight Show earlier this year and told Jimmy Fallon that her co-star actually ended up saving her life.

"I was doing a scene with Pierce Brosnan in Die Another Day, and I was supposed to be all sexy and, like, trying to seduce him with a fig, and then I end up choking on it. He had to get up and do the Heimlich," she recalled. "So not sexy, so not sexy…You should've seen it. James Bond knows how to Heimlich. He was there for me, and he will always be one of my favorite people in the whole world."

Would you have been first in line to see a Jinx spinoff? Let us know in the comments!

2020: Safin promotes mask keyrings and magnets.

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2021: CarBuzz reports on James Bond's Vintage Land Rover from John Brown 4x4.

James Bond's Vintage Land Rover Is
For Sale

See the complete article here:

https://carbuzz.com/news/james-bonds-vintage-land-rover-is-for-sale

Sep 5, 2021 | by Sebastian Cenizo | Movies & TV
This custom beauty will fetch a pretty penny.

Time and time again, the latest James Bond film, titled No Time To Die, has been delayed. The producers are aiming to maximize returns with full cinemas, something that the pandemic has made nearly impossible. But there is a silver lining to this. With the numerous teaser trailers, we've seen more and more of the cars that will be featured in the film, which have only served to whet our appetites even further.

These include the Aston Martin Valhalla before its recent redesign and a new Land Rover Defender that we got to drive. But you may have also noticed an old Landy finished in a light blue, and now a Land Rover specialist has recreated that exact car, and is putting it up for sale.

John Brown 4x4

It's unsurprisingly named the Bond Edition Land Rover and will be offered as part of Sotheby's luxury auction 'Life Is Beautiful'. It hasn't been listed just yet, but we do have the details on this limited-edition Series 3. It's been rebuilt by the specialists at John Brown 4x4 and features some modern upgrades "for easier handling and a smooth drive." But it still retains the vintage elements that make these old Land Rovers so beloved.

The special edition includes overdrive for better top speed and fuel efficiency, a galvanized chassis for better longevity, and other aesthetic enhancements like "flared wheel arches, new cappings, vintage plates, and Defender mirrors."

As you can tell from the fact that we've been referring to this build as a limited edition and not a one-off, there are other examples out there. John Brown 4x4 has been producing the Bond edition cars "in very limited numbers since the first clips of No Time To Die aired."

If you're interested in getting your hands on this example, the auction is accessible online or at Sotheby's (coincidentally named) Bond Street address on September 9. It is expected to fetch between £20,000 and £25,000, or roughly between $27,600 and $34,500. We think that's a pretty reasonable price for a silver screen star.

Source Credits: Sotheby's

RichardTheBruce

September 10th


1984: A View to a Kill films James and Stacey uncovering Zorin’s scheme.

1995: Derek Meddings dies at age 64--London, England.
(Born 15 January 1931--Pancras, London, England.)

OBITUARY: Derek Meddings

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-derek-meddings-1600979.html

Cy Young | Thursday 14 September 1995

The work of Derek Meddings thrilled millions of moviegoers, yet only a small percentage could actually name the man responsible for the special effects of the James Bond films of the 1970s and Hollywood blockbusters like Superman (1978). Within the industry, the reverse was true: American film-makers came to Pinewood Studios because of the international reputation of British technicians, and Meddings was one of the best.

His father had been a carpenter at Denham Studios and his mother variously Merle Oberon's stand-in and Alex Korda's secretary, but it was not until the late 1940s that Derek was able to use his art school training to get a job there, lettering credit titles. The first break came when he met the special effects man Les Bowie on a commercial, and joined his matte painting department.

During the Fifties Bowie and his new recruit created Transylvanian landscapes for Hammer Films, where limited budgets necessitated a "string and cardboard" invention that proved useful when Meddings was hired for Gerry Anderson's earliest television puppet shows. From painting cut-out backgrounds of ranch houses and picket fences on Four Feather Falls (a western format), Meddings moved on to design the models for Stingray (1965) with Reg Hill, and was then given a free hand on what has since become a cult series, Thunderbirds.

Drawing on the lessons in ingenuity from his years with Ron Bowie, he applied simple logic to the problem of tracking alongside the futuristic vehicles on take-off and landing; camera and Thunderbird remained stationary, while the background of trees and runway moved backwards on a continuous belt which rotated under the miniature set, on the same principle as an escalator. In 1966 Anderson and Meddings hit the big screen with the full- length cinema feature Thunderbirds are Go!, and then made the crossover to adult, live action, science fiction with Doppelganger (1969, aka Journey to the Far Side of the Sun) about a rogue planet that was a mirror of the earth. Meddings worked again with Anderson on Captain Scarlet (1967) and UFO (1970, another live action venture) until he impressed Cubby Broccoli with some miniature effects done for Live and Let Die, which launched Roger Moore as James Bond in 1973.

Once Broccoli realised the economic advantages of building detailed models instead of expensive full-size constructions, Meddings was encouraged to come up with ideas on the next Bond, The Man With the Golden Gun (1974). However, he was not entirely finished with "string and cardboard" - or, at least, wire and fibreglass. In 1975 John Dark and Kevin Connor decided that their prehistoric adventure The Land That Time Forgot could do without the stop-frame animation and matte superimpositions of Hammer's One Million Years BC - instead they would build prop monsters that could be photographed in the same frame as the actors. It was not Meddings's fault that a low budget meant that the pterodactyls' wings never moved in flight.

He was on safer ground the following year with Aces High. For this First World War aviation drama there was no model work. Authentic fighters and bombers of the period were restored to flying trim by the specialists Doug and Tony Bianchi, and Meddings's principal job was to rig the planes for the combat sequences.

On the release of Aces High, I compiled a programme in Granada television's series Clapperboard about the making of the film, and Meddings was one of our interviewees. Like most backroom professionals in the film business he was modest, quietly spoken, matter-of-fact, and took pleasure in explaining his craft; how the stab of gunfire was simulated by the flashing of a strobe light in the muzzle of a biplane's machine-gun, and how a canister placed discreetly between the underside of a wing and the fuselage would be detonated by the pilot, to leave a dramatic smoke trail as the aircraft spiralled out of a dogfight. Meddings became a friend of Clapperboard, and came back on several occasions to demonstrate the tricks of his trade.

He returned to the world of James Bond for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and came to admire the production designer, Ken Adam, greatly. Adam had the luxury of working on the 007 Stage at Pinewood, which had been purpose- built to accommodate his design for the interior of a supertanker; but Meddings probably had more fun, because he got to spend four months on location in the Bahamas, where he supervised the design and construction of a miniature supertanker for exterior sequences. "Miniature" is a comparative term, since the oil tanker was over 60ft in length; it had to be of a scale to gobble up three equally authentic-looking nuclear submarines and - being filmed on the real ocean - would have to achieve a convincing amount of water displacement.

Meddings's other masterpiece of special effects on The Spy Who Loved Me was the Lotus Esprit which converted into a submersible. For this he cleverly intercut full-size body shells with one-quarter scale miniatures. On screen, nobody could see the join and Meddings won a Grand Prix award from UNIATED for his work on the movie - incidentally, carried out in shark- infested waters.

Riding high, Meddings was persuaded to create the all- important models shots for Superman. Pinewood was again the main venue, and one of the principal sequences filmed there was the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco, in an earthquake. For increased realism, Meddings opted to shoot on the backlot against a genuine sky rather than inside a stage against a blue screen. A 60ft span of bridge was constructed, over which the actor Christopher Reeve was suspended by wires; below, a miniature school bus and several automobiles were made to collide as Superman dived to the rescue. The ice planet of Krypton, a crazy jigsaw of plaster and fibreglass, was built on F Stage. Its disintegration was filmed with a camera mounted on a special arm, the LOUMA, that could tack along the 20ft-deep gullies of the collapsing set. Having made audiences believe that a man could fly, Meddings received an Oscar.

For the next Bond epic, Moonraker (1979), Meddings returned to first principles. Using a technique almost as old as the cinematograph itself, he did all the optical effects for the climactic battle "in the camera"; a process of winding back the film and exposing it again and again, until the required composite image of astronauts, space station and escape pods was obtained.

Ever versatile, Meddings designed the bizarre weapons employed in the sword and sorcery adventure Krull (1983), as well as directing second- unit action in Italy, before lending his talents to Neil Jordan's supernatural comedy High Spirits (1988). When the director Tim Burton visited Meddings at the Irish location to discuss working on Batman (1989), it was not only his track record with 007 and Superman that counted - it emerged that Burton was a fan of Thunderbirds, and Meddings reckoned that was really why he got the job.

The resulting collaboration was another feather in the cap of the Magic Camera Company, the comprehensive visual effects facility that Meddings had established at Lee International Studios in Shepperton. From this base of operations, Meddings also supplied the necessary expertise to Supergirl (1984) and Santa Claus - the Movie (1985); while for the internationally cast production The Never Ending Story II (1990), a tale of magic and dragons, he set up an outfit in Germany.

At the time of his death, Derek Meddings was engaged in post-production on the new James Bond picture, Goldeneye, on which his sons Mark and Elliott also worked.

Derek Meddings, film special effects technician: born London 15 January 1931; twice married (six children); died London 10 September 1995.

Derek Meddings
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0575439/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Special effects (20 credits)

2015 Thunderbirds (TV Series) (special effects - 2015)

1993 Germinal (special effects coordinator)
1991 Hudson Hawk (special effects supervisor)
1988 High Spirits (special effects unit director)
1988 Apprentice to Murder (special effects)
1987 Mio in the Land of Faraway (special effects)
1983 Banzaï (special effects cameraman) / (special effects supervisor)
1981 Invaders from the Deep (director of special effects)

1976 Aces High (special effects)
1974 Invasion: UFO (special effects coordinator)
1974 The Land That Time Forgot (special effects supervisor)
1974 Doctor Who (TV Series) (special effects - 1 episode)
- Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part One (1974) ... (special effects - uncredited)
1973 Live and Let Die (special effects)
UFO (TV Series) (special effects - 21 episodes, 1970 - 1973) (special effects director - 5 episodes, 1970 - 1971)
- The Long Sleep (1973) ... (special effects)
- The Responsibility Seat (1971) ... (special effects)
- Reflections in the Water (1971) ... (special effects)
- The Sound of Silence (1971) ... (special effects) / (special effects director)
- Confetti Check A-O.K. (1971) ... (special effects)
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1972 Fear Is the Key (special effects)
1972 Z.P.G. (special effects)

Thunderbirds (TV Series) (supervising special effects director - 31 episodes, 1965 - 1966) (special effects director - 1 episode, 1965)
- Give or Take a Million (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
- Ricochet (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
- Lord Parker's 'Oliday (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
- Alias Mr. Hackenbacker (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
- Path of Destruction (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
1964-1965 Stingray (TV Series) (special effects director - 39 episodes)
- Aquanaut of the Year (1965) ... (special effects director)
- Marineville Traitor (1965) ... (special effects director)
- Hostages of the Deep (1965) ... (special effects director)
- The Golden Sea (1965) ... (special effects director)
- The Master Plan (1965) ... (special effects director)
1962-1963 Fireball XL5 (TV Series) (special effects - 6 episodes)
- Space Magnet (1963) ... (special effects)
- Hypnotic Sphere (1963) ... (special effects)
- The Fire Fighters (1963) ... (special effects)
- Planet of Platonia (1963) ... (special effects)
- The Doomed Planet (1962) ... (special effects)
1961 Supercar (TV Series) (special effects)

Visual effects (26 credits)

1995 GoldenEye (miniature effects supervisor)
1994 The NeverEnding Story III (visual effects supervisor)
1991 Cape Fear (miniature special effects supervisor: The Magic Camera Company)
1991 Hudson Hawk (supervisor: visual effects and miniatures, The Magic Camera Company)
1990 The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (special visual effects)

1989 Batman (special visual effects)
1985 Spies Like Us (visual effects supervisor)
1985 Santa Claus: The Movie (director of miniature effects) / (director of visual effects)
1984 Supergirl (special visual effects)
1983 Krull (visual effects supervisor)
1983 Superman III (additional model effects - uncredited)
1981 Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars (TV Movie) (supervising director of visual effects)
1981 [n]For Your Eyes Only[/b] (visual effects supervisor)

1980 Superman II (director of miniature effects & additional flying sequences)
1979 Moonraker (visual effects supervisor)
1978 Superman (model effects director & creator)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (special visual effects)
1976 Shout at the Devil (models and special effects)
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (miniatures)
1970-1971 UFO (TV Series) (visual effects supervisor - 5 episodes)
- Computer Affair (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
- Flight Path (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
- Survival (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
- Exposed (1970) ... (visual effects supervisor)
- Identified (1970) ... (visual effects supervisor)

1969 The Secret Service (TV Series) (visual effects director - 1 episode)
- A Case for the Bishop (1969) ... (visual effects director)
1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (visual effects director)
1968 Joe 90 (TV Series) (supervising visual effects director - 1 episode)
- Hi-Jacked (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
1968 Thunderbird 6 (visual effects director)
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) (supervising visual effects director - 20 episodes, 1967 - 1968) (visual effects supervisor - 8 episodes, 1967)
- The Inquisition (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
- Attack on Cloudbase (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
- Flight to Atlantica (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
- Traitor (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
- Inferno (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
1966 Thunderbirds Are GO (visual effects director)

Actor (1 credit)

1985 Spies Like Us - Dr. Stinson

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)

1988 High Spirits (special effects unit director)

Thanks (1 credit)

1995 GoldenEye (dedicatee)

2013: Bond's Lotus Esprit Turbo sells at London auction for £550,000 ($860,000, or 650,000 euros).

James Bond Sub Car Sells for £550,000

See the complete article here:

http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/97496

by Naharnet Newsdesk | 10 September 2013, 03:20

The iconic submarine car driven by James Bond in the 1977 classic The Spy Who Loved Me fetched £550,000 ($860,000, 650,000 euros) when it was floated at auction for the first time in London on Monday.

Following an intense bidding battle, The Lotus Esprit was finally sold to a telephone bidder at RM Auctions in Battersea, south London.

The car was made for the scene in which Bond, played by Roger Moore, evades the gunfire from an overhead helicopter by plunging into the water, accompanied by a nervous Barbara Bach in the passenger seat.

"We are very happy with that price, it is very strong money for what is an important piece of movie memorabilia," said Peter Haynes of RM Auctions Europe.

"Bearing in mind it is not a car that can be driven on the road, the price just goes to prove the draw that all Bond-related memorabilia has," he added.

2014: Richard Dawson Kiel dies at age 74--Fresno, California.
(Born 13 September 1939--Detroit, Michigan.)

Richard Kiel, James Bond villain Jaws
actor, dies at 74

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29152398

11 September 2014

Actor Richard Kiel - who played
steel-toothed villain Jaws in two
James Bond films - has died in
California aged 74.

The towering American star, who appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977 and Moonraker in 1979, died in hospital in Fresno on Wednesday.

A spokeswoman for Saint Agnes Medical Center confirmed Kiel's death, but did not reveal the cause.

The 7ft 2in (2.18m) actor also appeared in the sports comedy Happy Gilmore, starring Adam Sandler, in 1996.

Kiel got his first acting break in the 1950s

Kiel made his name as cable-chomping henchman Jaws opposite Roger Moore as 007.

Sir Roger said he was "totally distraught" at the death of his co-star.

"We were on a radio programme together just a week ago," said the former Bond star, adding "[ I ] can't take it in".

Kiel and Sir Roger were guests on BBC's Radio 4 programme The Reunion, which aired on Sunday, along with Bond actress Britt Ekland, recalling their roles in the spy series.

During the programme, Kiel said he initially thought playing Jaws - a man who killed people with his teeth - could appear "over the top".

"I was very put off by the description of the character and I thought, well, they don't really need an actor, he's more a monster part," he said.

"So I tried to change that view of it... I said if I were to play the part, I want to give the character some human characteristics, like perseverance, frustration."

Sir Roger said he was "distraught" at co-star Kiel's death, a week after they reunited for a radio show

Sandro Monetti, director at Bafta in Los Angeles and a former showbiz reporter, described Kiel as having "teeth of steel, but a heart of gold".

He recalled seeing the actor at James Bond conventions: "It was like seeing kids meeting Santa Claus. Everyone has got such joyous memories of Jaws, and he had time for everybody."

Monetti added: "Whenever you mentioned Jaws, his eyes lit up and there was that famous grin."

Micky Dolenz, who starred with Kiel in the seminal episode of The Monkees - I was a Teenage Monster, tweeted his memories of the star: "The great character actor and gentle giant."

Sandro Monetti, a director of BAFTA in Los Angeles, spoke to Rachel Burden on BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast.

The character of Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me was originally intended to die at the end of the movie, but he was so popular with fans that Kiel was brought back to reprise the role in Moonraker.

"The original script had me being killed by the shark," Kiel said.

"They filmed that and they also filmed an ending where I survive and pop out of the ocean.

"That was one of the big moments for me, watching the blue-collar screening of the movie, The Spy Who Loved Me, and having the reaction of the crowd at the theatre when Jaws popped out of the ocean, survived and swam away. There were hoots and howling, applause. I couldn't believe it."

Kiel, pictured with fellow Bond villains Christopher Lee, Rick Yune and Toby Stephens, was 7ft 2in tall

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kiel had the hormonal condition acromegaly, which was said to have contributed to his height.

His first break came in 1959 when he played the alien Kanamit in Twilight Zone.

He published an autobiography in 2002, called Making It Big In The Movies.

His many other acting roles included deadly assistant Voltaire in the 1960s TV series The Wild, Wild West; playing opposite William Shatner in the 1970s TV sitcom Barbary Coast; taking on the lead character of Eli Weaver in the movie The Giant of Thunder Mountain; and spoofing his most famous role as "Famous big guy with silver teeth" in the movie version of Inspector Gadget.

In recent years, he also spent much of his time touring the world and appearing at conventions to meet Bond fans.

Richard Kiel

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001423/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (82 credits)

The Engagement Ring (announced) - Patterson
2012/IV The Awakened - Jasper
2010 Tangled - Vlad (voice)
2010 Disney Tangled (Video Game) - Vlad (voice)
2003 James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (Video Game) - Jaws (voice)
2000 BloodHounds, Inc. #5: Fangs for the Memories (Video) - Mortimer

1999 Inspector Gadget - Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth
1996 Happy Gilmore - Mr. Larson
1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain - Eli Weaver

1989 The Princess and the Dwarf
1989 Superboy (TV Series) - Vlkabok
- Mr. and Mrs. Superboy (1989) ... Vlkabok
1989 Think Big - Irving
1988 Out of This World (TV Series) - Norman
- Go West, Young Mayor (1988) ... Norman
1985 Qing bao long hu men - Laszlo
1985 Pale Rider - Club
1984 Cannonball Run II - Arnold, Mitsubishi Driver
1984 Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street - Big G
1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Mark Horton
- The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet (1983) ... Mark Horton
1983 Hysterical - Captain Howdy
1981 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Animal
- That's Right, We're Bad (1981) ... Animal
1981 So Fine - Eddie

1979 Moonraker: Milk Is Supreme Commercial (Short) - Jaws
1979 Moonraker - Jaws
1979 The Humanoid - Golob
1978 They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way - Duke
1978 Wu zi tian shi - Steel Hand (Guest star)
1978 Force 10 from Navarone - Drazak
1977 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) - The Hulk (one scene only)
- The Incredible Hulk (1977) ... The Hulk (one scene only) (uncredited)
1977 Young Dan'l Boone (TV Series) - Grimm
- The Game (1977) ... Grimm
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Jaws
1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - Manager - 'Haunted House'
- The Mystery of the Haunted House (1977) ... Manager - 'Haunted House'
1976 Silver Streak - Reace
1976 Land of the Lost (TV Series) - Malak
- Flying Dutchman (1976) ... Malak
- Survival Kit (1976) ... Malak
1976 Gus - Tall Man
1976 Starsky and Hutch (TV Series) - Iggy
- Omaha Tiger (1976) ... Iggy
1975-1976 Barbary Coast (TV Series) - Moose Moran
- The Dawson Marker (1976) ... Moose Moran
- Mary Had More Than a Little (1976) ... Moose Moran
- The Day Cable Was Hanged (1975) ... Moose Moran
- Sharks Eat Sharks (1975) ... Moose Moran
- Arson and Old Lace (1975) ... Moose Moran
1975 Switch (TV Series) - Loach
- Death Heist (1975) ... Loach
1975 Flash and the Firecat - Milo Pewett
1974 Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)
The Monster / The Diablero
- The Spanish Moss Murders (1974) ... The Monster
- Bad Medicine (1974) ... The Diablero
1974 Emergency! (TV Series) - Carlo
- I'll Fix It (1974) ... Carlo (uncredited)
1974 The Longest Yard - Samson (as Dick Kiel)
1972 Deadhead Miles - Big Dick
1970 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Luke Brown
- The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 2 (1970) ... Luke Brown
- The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 1 (1970) ... Luke Brown
1970 The Boy Who Stole the Elephant (TV Movie)
Luke Brown
1970 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever - Blacksmith (uncredited)

1969 Daniel Boone (TV Series) - Lemouche
- Benvenuto... Who? (1969) ... Lemouche
1968 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Willy
- The Galloping Skin Game (1968) ... Willy
1968 Skidoo - Beany
1968 Now You See It, Now You Don't (TV Movie) - Nori
1965-1968 The Wild Wild West (TV Series) - Voltaire / Dimas
- The Night of the Simian Terror (1968) ... Dimas
- The Night of the Whirring Death (1966) ... Voltaire
- The Night That Terror Stalked the Town (1965) ... Voltaire
- The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth (1965) ... Voltaire
1968 A Man Called Dagger - Otto
1968 I Spy (TV Series) - Tiny
- A Few Miles West of Nowhere (1968) ... Tiny
1967 The Monroes (TV Series) - Casmir
- Ghosts of Paradox (1967) ... Casmir
1967 The Monkees (TV Series) - Monster
- I Was a Teenage Monster (1967) ... Monster (as Dick Kiel)
1963-1966 Lassie (TV Series) - Chinook Pete / Dinny
- Lassie the Voyager: Part 6 (1966) ... Dinny
- The Journey: Part 5 (1963) ... Chinook Pete
- The Journey: Part 4 (1963) ... Chinook Pete
1966 Las Vegas Hillbillys - Moose
1966 Gilligan's Island (TV Series)
The Ghost / Russian Agent
- Ghost-a-Go-Go (1966) ... The Ghost / Russian Agent
1966 My Mother the Car (TV Series) - Cracks
- A Riddler on the Roof (1966) ... Cracks
1966 Honey West (TV Series) - Groalgo
- King of the Mountain (1966) ... Groalgo
1965 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Ali
- My Hero? (1965) ... Ali
1965 Brainstorm - Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
1964-1965 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Merry / Guard
- The Hong Kong Shilling Affair (1965) ... Merry
- The Vulcan Affair (1964) ... Guard (uncredited)
1965 The Human Duplicators - Dr. Kolos
1965 Two on a Guillotine - Photographer at Funeral (uncredited)
1964 The Nasty Rabbit - Ranch Foreman (uncredited)
1964 Roustabout - Strongman (uncredited)
1963 30 Minutes at Gunsight (TV Short)
1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) - Paul Bunyan (uncredited)
1963 Lassie's Great Adventure - Chinook Pete
1963 The Nutty Professor - Man in Gym (uncredited)
1963 House of the Damned - The Giant
1962 Eegah - Eegah
1962 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Kanamit
- To Serve Man (1962) ... Kanamit
1962 The Magic Sword - Pinhead No.1 (uncredited)
1961 The Phantom (TV Movie) - Big Mike
1961 The Phantom Planet - The Solarite
1961 The Rifleman (TV Series) - Carl Hazlitt
- The Decision (1961) ... Carl Hazlitt
1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series) - Doorman
- The Wizard of Ice (1961) ... Doorman
1961 Laramie (TV Series) - Rake - Tolan's helper
- Run of the Hunted (1961) ... Rake - Tolan's helper (uncredited)
1961 Thriller (TV Series) - Master Styx
- Well of Doom (1961) ... Master Styx
1960 Klondike (TV Series) - Duff Brannigan
- Bare Knuckles (1960) ... Duff Brannigan

1957 The D.I. - Ugly Marine (uncredited)

Writer (2 credits)

1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain (screenplay)
1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) (uncredited)

Producer (2 credits)

1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain (executive producer)
1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) (producer - uncredited)

Thanks (2 credits)

2014 The Freddy Jenkins Show (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
- R.I.P. Jaws (2014) ... (in memory of)
2014 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)

2022: The West Australian Symphony Orchestra perform The Music of James Bond with George Lazenby Live on Stage at Perth Concert Hall, Perth, Australia.

Presented by Concertworks
The Music of James Bond
With George Lazenby Live on Stage

See the complete article here:

https://www.waso.com.au/concerts-tickets/whats-on/concert/the-music-of-james-bond

Upcoming Dates
Sat 10 Sep 7:30pm

Perth Concert Hall
George Lazenby interviewed live on stage
Bonnie Anderson
Luke Kennedy
Nicholas Buc conductor

Musicians from West Australian Symphony Orchestra
Get dressed to impress as WASO plays The Music of James Bond, Saturday 10 September at the Perth Concert Hall.

George Lazenby, James Bond 007 in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, will be live on stage, the first time in 60 years that a James Bond has appeared in a concert featuring the James Bond music. What a way to celebrate 60 years of James Bond!

The James Bond songs are every bit as irresistible as 007 himself. Under the baton of Maestro Nicholas Buc, WASO musicians will provide an unforgettable night of music and will be joined on stage by the sensational Bonnie Anderson and Luke Kennedy, who prefer their martinis shaken, not stirred.

George Lazenby’s daughter's dance company, Footwork Dance Australia based in Perth, will be guest performers.

Hear your favourite James Bond songs and some secret stories from George all in one evening. It’s bound to be a sophisticated spy mission with Lazenby… George Lazenby.

Presented by Concertworks

2022: The Chiswick Book Festival hosts chemist and author Kathryn Harkup speaking to her books Licence to Kill: The Science of 007 and Licence, Death and Tech in the World of 007.

Chiswick Book Festival – Superspy Science: Science, Death and
Tech in the World of James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://chiswickcalendar.co.uk/event/chiswick-book-festival-superspy-science-science-death-and-tech-in-the-world-of-james-bond/

September 10 @ 11:15

Chemist and author Kathryn Harkup talks about the science and technology involved in Ian Fleming’s James Bond stories, as explored in her latest book Licence to Kill: The Science of 007.

Tickets
General Admission: £8

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2022: The World's Largest Corn Maze honors James Bond films about 65 miles outside Chicago in Spring Grove, Illinois.

The World's Largest Corn Maze Is
Opening Soon and Its Theme May
Surprise You

See the complete article here:

https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/worlds-largest-corn-maze-unveils-design

Located outside of Chicago, the Richardson Corn Maze is taking on a cinematic style.
By Opheli Garcia Lawler | Published on 8/30/2022 at 4:37 PM

On September 10, the world's largest corn maze will open for its 2022 season, and this year it will be crafted to honor James Bond films. The Richardson Corn Maze is a 10-mile trail about 65 miles outside Chicago in Spring Grove, Illinois. This year, the maze will be made up of James Bond actors from throughout the years. There will be Roger Moore, Sean Connery, Daniel Craig, and Pierce Brosnan trails that can be seen from the sky.

There will also be iconic scenes from the film, including the Aston Martin made so famous by 007. Overall, it promises to be hours of fun, especially for the James Bond fans in your life. Tickets for people 13 and up will cost $18 each, tickets for children between 3 and 12 will cost $16 each, and children 2 and under can enter for free.

You'll be able to visit the corn maze until October 30. In addition to the maze, there will also be pumpkin picking, wagon rides, and campfires, according to NBC Chicago. You can get further information about tickets, schedules, and more on the construction of this marvelously giant maze at RichardAdventureMaze.com.

Opheli Garcia Lawler is a Staff Writer on the News team at Thrillist. Follow her on Twitter @opheligarcia and Instagram @opheligarcia.

Courtesy of Richardson Adventure Farm

RichardTheBruce

September 11th

1955: The Sunday Times publishes Ian Fleming's "The Great Riot of Istanbul" about the Istanbul pogroms. His description: "hatred ran through the streets like lava."

1961: Bond comic strip For Your Eyes Only begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 9 December 196. 988-1065) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/fyeo.php3?t=&s=main&id=0770

https://literary007.com/2015/05/02/unused-literary-bond-scenes-that-should-be-filmed-part-002/



Swedish Semic 1986
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3?s=comics&id=02296

Ur Dödlig Synvinkel
(For Your Eyes Only)

Danish 1966 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-8-1966/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 8: “For Your Eyes Only” (1966)
"Fra dødelig synsvinkel"

Danish 1974 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no29-1974/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 29: “For Your Eyes Only” (1974)
"Fra en dræbende synsvinkel"

1967: Agent 007 - du lever kun to gange released in Denmark.

Danish 1967 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/yolt-dk-adsheets-1967/

1978: Moonraker films OO7 arriving at Drax’s chateau at Chateau De Vaux-Le-Vicomte.

1985: Dangereusement votre (Dangerously Yours) released in France.

1989: Hungary lifts border restrictions with Austria, allowing East Germans passage to the West.

1993: Timothy Dalton comments in TV Guide magazine that he'll be in the next Bond film.

2001: In the United States, nineteen terrorists use four hijacked airliners to attack the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, and almost the White House itself. Among over 3000 dead from 90 countries are an estimated 400 first responders at the Twin Towers who rushed to help survivors of the initial strikes.

2008: Coca-Cola Zero's latest ad uses music from Jack White and Bond-style images.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases Ian Fleming's Live and Let Die in the hardcover graphic novel format.
Kewber Baal, artist. Van Jensen, Ian Fleming, writers. Fay Dalton, cover.

JAMES BOND: LIVE AND LET DIE
GRAPHIC NOVEL HARDCOVER

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1524112720
Cover: Fay Dalton
Writer: Van Jensen, Ian Fleming
Art: Kewber Baal
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: September 2019
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 168 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 9/11/2019

In this second adaptation of the Fleming novels...
Bond is sent to New York City to investigate "Mr. Big", an agent of SMERSH and a criminal voodoo leader. With no time for superstition-and with the help of his colleague in the CIA, Felix Leiter, Bond tracks "Mr. Big" through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the everglades and on to the Caribbean, knowing that this criminal heavy hitter is a real threat. No-one, not even the mysterious Solitaire, can be sure how their battle of wills is going to end...
ISBN-13: 978-1-5241-1372-8

2019: Italian city claims a €12 million windfall due to the No Time To Die production.

James Bond car chase brings £10
million boost to quaint Italian
town

See the complete article here:

https://www.tatler.com/article/james-bond-car-chase-brings-10-million-boost-to-quaint-italian-town

By Rebecca Cope | Wednesday 11 September 2019

It’s more used to standing in for Bethlehem or other Biblical locations in films about Jesus, but the ancient city of Matera in Italy had a thorough wake-up call yesterday as the latest James Bond movie zoomed into town.

Daniel Craig and Lea Seydoux were spotted filming scenes for their upcoming 007 film, No Time To Die, including a high-speed car chase involving two Aston Martins and several motorbikes, which all screeched and zipped around the winding streets of the town.

It’s thought that the combination of the 400-strong film crew and tourism boost will result in an estimated €12 million being pumped into the local economy. ‘This is an incredible opportunity,’ said Raffaello De Ruggieri, the mayor.

‘Matera is over the moon about Bond,’ said Ivan Moliterni, head of the local film board. ‘People said that the historical architecture and bureaucracy would rule out a James Bond car chase, but this proves we can do anything.’

The film is set to be Daniel Craig’s last, with his replacement still as of yet unnamed. Current favourites include James Norton, Richard Madden and Aidan Turner. It will see Bond coming out of retirement in Jamaica to face off against a new villain played by Oscar-winner Rami Malek. Killing Eve and Fleabag’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge has worked on the script, while Cary Fukanaga has taken over directing from Danny Boyle.

Currently the European Capital of Culture, Matera is best known for its series of cave dwellings, which first attracted inhabitants 7,000 years ago. Indeed, it is thought to be the third oldest habitation in the world - no wonder it was a location for Passion of The Christ.

2022: The World’s Largest Corn Maze celebrates the 60th Anniversary of James Bond at Richardson Adventure Farm, Spring Grove, Illinois.

World’s Largest Corn Maze
Celebrates 60th Anniversary of
James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://thenetionalnews.com/worlds-largest-corn-maze-celebrates-60th-anniversary-of-james-bond/

Located in Spring Grove, Illinois, a village approximately an hour’s drive away from Chicago, is Richardson Adventure Farm, home to the largest corn maze in the world. This season, the farm looks to celebrate the 60th anniversary of James Bond, creating an intricate maze that paints a mural of Agent 007 actors Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Sean Connery, Daniel Craig, and Pierce Brosnan, as well as the legendary Aston Martin DB5 and fictional Casino de Monte-Carlo.

The corn maze trail stretches 10 miles long and spans over a 28-acre area. According to Richardson, the complex imagery was made using corn-planter tractors fitted with GPS. As the tractors move across the field, they drop corn seeds in specified areas to create a detailed overall image. In addition to the maze, the farm will also offer other activities such as pumpkin picking, hayrides, zip lines, barn rentals, and more.

The maze will open on September 10 and will run until October 30. To celebrate opening day, an Aston Martin used in the film Die Another Day will be on display.

Richardson Adventure Farm
909 English Prairie Rd,
Spring Grove, IL 60081, USA

richardsonadventurefarm
Yes, that’s right! A real Aston Martin used in the filming of Die Another Day will be on display near the entrance of our corn maze this Saturday and Sunday!

The car was graciously loaned to us from Volo Auto Museum, Volo, IL. The car is a 2001 Aston Martin Vanquish acquired at auction by the museum. Like many Hollywood movie cars, this car is an imposter! Built as a stunt car, it is actually a Jaguar. At the time of the movie, Ford owned both Aston Martin and Jaguar. Both share the same platform as a Mustang. For the movie, stunt versions of the Aston Martin were built using both the Mustang and Jaguar chassis with fiberglass replica bodies. When Volvo Auto Museum noticed we were using 60 Years of James Bond as a theme of our corn maze, they contacted us about doing some cross-promotions – and what a great opportunity!

Come see it this weekend! No, you cannot sit in it or drive it around the grounds, but you can take your picture in front of it! Sorry, Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry will not be here to pose with …unless they surprise us!

RichardTheBruce

September 12th

1914: Desmond Llewelyn is born--Newport, Wales.
(He dies 19 December 1999 at age 85--Firle, East Sussex, England.)

Obituary: Desmond Llewelyn

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-desmond-llewelyn-1133864.html

Tom Vallance - Tuesday 21 December 1999 01:02
The Independent Culture

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Filmography

Actor (122 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thanks (4 credits)

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

1930: Mary Barbara Jefford OBE dies 12 September 2020 at age 90--London, England.
(Born 26 July 1930--Plymstock, Plymouth, Devon, England.)

Barbara Jefford obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/sep/16/barbara-jefford-obituary

Actor who exuded intensity and stillness on stage in a vast range of Shakespearean roles
Barbara Jefford in 2000 at Gainsborough Studios, London, where she appeared in the Almeida’s productions of Richard II and Coriolanus.

Barbara Jefford in 2000 at Gainsborough Studios, London, where she appeared in the Almeida’s productions of Richard II and Coriolanus. Photograph: Graham Turner/The Guardian

Michael Coveney | Wed 16 Sep 2020 15.27 EDT

The glory days of Barbara Jefford, who has died aged 90, as the leading classical actor of her generation at the Old Vic, came in the 1950s. In that distant decade, she played every Shakespearean female role going, from Imogen and Portia to Beatrice, Rosalind and Desdemona. It was reckoned that she appeared in all but four of his three dozen plays.

She made her name as Isabella in Peter Brook’s 1950 staging of Measure for Measure – rarely done in those days – at Stratford-upon-Avon. Brook wanted an unknown to play the virginal novice opposite John Gielgud’s Angelo. And he asked her, as she knelt before the Duke to plead pardon for Angelo, whom she had “bed-tricked” in order to save her condemned brother, to hold a pause for as long as the audience would allow. Two minutes is an eternity of silence, and that’s what she sometimes commanded.

Few actors exude such intensity and stillness on a stage as was Jefford’s stock-in-trade. She was thought to be a definitive Viola in Twelfth Night in 1958 – bursting with joyful exuberance – but in that same Old Vic season she played Regan in King Lear, and a “fire-breathing” (said Kenneth Tynan) Queen Margaret in Henry VI.

As she matured, she acquired a majesty and a grandeur that most critical writing about her performances noted, as she blazingly personified Tamora, Queen of the Goths, in Titus Andronicus and was the most possessed Saint Joan since Sybil Thorndike’s introduction of the role in 1924, throughout the UK and on tour in Russia at the start of the 60s.

Barbara Jefford as Desdemona with Basil Hoskins as Lodovico in a production of Othello at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1954. Photograph: ANL/Rex/Shutterstock

She was not involved in the early days of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre, partly because she had played all the great roles open to her before they were launched, but a new London audience discovered her matchless power and dignity when she took over as Gertrude from Angela Lansbury to Albert Finney’s Hamlet at the National in 1975 and partnered him, too, as Zabina in Peter Hall’s magnificent 1976 revival of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine.

At this time, though, she began to feel out of step with current trends and fashions in theatre: “There isn’t the same eagerness to go straight for things, to offer an interpretation of a classic that is bold, straightforward, even obvious … you can only play Shakespeare when you have reached a certain stage of technical expertise. So often you will see very young actors who look divine. Then they open their little traps. You think, oh dear.”

Jefford was born in Plymstock, near Plymouth, in Devon, the daughter of Percival Jefford, a bank manager, and his wife, Elizabeth (nee Laity). She was educated at Weirfield school, Taunton, where she excelled in verse-speaking competitions before being taught elocution by Eileen Hartley at her studio in Bristol. “Whenever I do poems in recitals,” said Jefford, “I can still hear her advice, her instructions, her orders.” She then trained at Rada in London, where she won the Bancroft gold medal.

Her London debut came at the Q theatre in a stage version of Ingmar Bergman’s Frenzy in which she played the Mai Zetterling role (“I wore a plastic mac to show I was a prostitute”). She played three more seasons at Stratford: she was the Queen of France to Richard Burton’s break-out Henry V in 1951 and toured with Anthony Quayle’s company to Australia and New Zealand in 1953-54 as Desdemona, Rosalind, and Lady Percy in Henry IV.

After Andromache opposite Michael Redgrave in Jean Giraudoux’s Tiger at the Gates (translated by Christopher Fry) at the Apollo in 1955, she began a five-year stint at the Old Vic, ending with Lavinia (“superbly suggesting rats at work beneath a smooth white surface,” said one critic) in Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra in 1961 and a US tour as Lady Macbeth, as well as Saint Joan.

Barbara Jefford and Peter O’Toole rehearsing a scene for Ride a Cock Horse at the Piccadilly theatre, 1965. Photograph: PA Archive/PA Images

She formed a fruitful working relationship with Frank Hauser, director of the Oxford Playhouse in the 60s, for whom she played Lina Szczepanowska in Shaw’s Misalliance, Dora Doulebov in Camus’s The Just, Cleopatra, Racine’s Phèdre and Irma in Jean Genet’s The Balcony. She returned to the West End in 1963 to open the new May Fair theatre with Ralph Richardson in Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author and in David Mercer’s Ride a Cock Horse (1965) at the Piccadilly, co-starring Peter O’Toole, Wendy Craig and Siân Phillips in a red raw comedy of an insecure writer, his wife and two mistresses.

She toured extensively abroad in a recital programme, The Labours of Love, with her second husband, the actor John Turner, who was also Antony to her Cleopatra in Dryden’s All For Love, a glittering 1977 production at the Old Vic, again directed by Hauser, in which she miraculously combined a fish-wife swagger with a noble jaw in an unjustly forgotten classic.

When Hall launched several autonomous companies at the National in 1986, she joined the group led by the director Michael Rudman to play the mother in Six Characters (she had been the step-daughter at the May Fair), stoically bereaved and eloquently granite-faced, and made a rare sortie into contemporary drama as a mine owner in male attire in Nick Darke’s Ting Tang Mine. Rudman’s company included two new faces – Ralph Fiennes and Lesley Sharp – as well as Richard Pasco, Alec McCowen and Robin Bailey, and they all shone in Brian Friel’s Fathers and Sons, adapted from Turgenev. She then obligingly repeated her Duchess of York and Queen Margaret for a 1988-89 season at the Phoenix starring Derek Jacobi as both Richard II and Richard III, directed by Clifford Williams, but this was old-style Old Vic, dated and dusty.

Ten years later, in 1998, she joined a far more exciting West End season at the Albery (now the Noël Coward) for Jonathan Kent’s double-header of Racine, playing Oenone, a confidante of steel and ice, to Diana Rigg’s Phèdre (translated by Ted Hughes), and Albina in Britannicus, with Toby Stephens as a livid, unpredictable young Nero on the rise. She re-joined Kent in an Almeida theatre season at the Gainsborough Studios in 2000, once again as the Duchess of York, and as Volumnia, to Fiennes’s tremendous double of Richard II and Coriolanus.

Barbara Jefford, right, as Mrs Higgins, with Tim Pigott-Smith (Henry Higgins) and Michelle Dockery (Eliza Doolittle) in a 2008 Old Vic production of Pygmalion, directed by Peter Hall. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/The Guardian

There was a final rerun of Queen Margaret for Kenneth Branagh’s Richard III at the Sheffield Crucible in 2002, a Simon Gray play, The Old Masters, with Edward Fox and Peter Bowles, at the Comedy in 2004 and a magisterial valedictory as Mrs Higgins at the Theatre Royal, Bath, and the Old Vic, in Hall’s superb 2007 revival of Shaw’s Pygmalion, with Tim Pigott-Smith and Michelle Dockery.

Her most memorable film performance was her erotically supercharged Molly Bloom in Joseph Strick’s Ulysses (1967), and she “dubbed” no fewer than three female James Bond actors, Daniela Bianchi in From Russia With Love (1963), Molly Peters in Thunderball (1965) and Caroline Munro in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). She adorned Roman Polanski’s The Ninth Gate (1999), Terence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea (2011) and Stephen Frears’s Philomena (2013).

On television, she was a charity worker in Ted Kotcheff’s Edna, the Inebriate Woman (1971) starring Patricia Hayes, Ian McKellen’s mother in Walter (1982), the first drama on Channel 4, directed by Frears, and Ian Richardson’s wife, first lady of the college, in the TV adaptation of Tom Sharpe’s Porterhouse Blue (1987).

When Jefford was appointed OBE in 1965, she was at that time the youngest ever civilian recipient of the honour.

Her first marriage, to the actor Terence Longdon, ended in divorce. She married Turner, who survives her, in 1967.

Barbara Mary Jefford, actor, born 26 July 1930; died 12 September 2020

This article was amended on 24 September 2020 to clarify that when Barbara Jefford was appointed OBE in 1965 she was the youngest civilian ever at the time, but not the youngest person.

1940: Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming's memo to Naval Intelligence Director Rear Admiral John Henry Godfrey inspires Operation Ruthless, a pursuit of the Enigma codebooks used by Nazi Germany and its navy.

12 September 1940, Fleming to Godfrey:

I suggest we obtain the loot by the following means:

1. Obtain from Air Ministry an air-worthy German bomber.
2. Pick a tough crew of five, including a pilot, W/T operator and word-perfect German speaker. Dress them in German Air Force uniform, add blood and bandages to suit.
3. Crash plane in the Channel after making S.O.S. to rescue service in P/L.
4. Once aboard rescue boat, shoot German crew, dump overboard, bring rescue boat back to English port.

In order to increase the chances of capturing an R. or M. with, its richer booty, the crash might be staged in mid-Channel. The Germans would presumably employ one of this type for the longer and more hazardous journey.

1942: Martin Grace is born--Lisdowney, County Kilkenny, Ireland.
(He dies 27 January 2010 at age 67--Spain.)

Martin Grace: Roger Moore's stunt
double in the James Bond films

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/martin-grace-roger-moores-stunt-double-in-the-james-bond-films-1897007.html

Friday 12 February 2010 01:00

Performing as Roger Moore's stunt double in the James Bond films brought Martin Grace respect throughout the industry – but, because of the nature of his job, he was never a "star". He also did stunts for some of the early Cadbury's Milk Tray commercials.

Grace first stood in for Moore in the 1977 picture The Spy Who Loved Me, driving a Lotus Esprit through the winding streets of Sardinia in a furious chase – with the express instruction that the car had to be returned to its manufacturer intact. He followed this with Bond's fight with the steel-jawed henchman Jaws on top of a cablecar 1,300 feet above ground in Rio de Janeiro in Moonraker (1979). The action continued in the air in For Your Eyes Only (1981), with Grace hanging on to the outside of a remote-controlled helicopter for the pre-title sequence. Later, in Moore's final Bond film, A View to a Kill (1985), the stunt performer did more aerial acrobatics, on the Eiffel Tower and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

But during Octopussy (1983) a complicated stunt involving a train and a car went horribly wrong while shooting on the Nene Valley railway. A helicopter was to shoot the action from the air, but communication was lost between Grace, the pilot, the train driver and the rest of the stunt team, and Grace smashed into a wall, fracturing his pelvis and damaging his thigh.

"The impact was so lightning fast that I only realised that I had hit something when I found I was hanging prone for dear life on the side of the train!" he recalled. "Adrenalin was pumping through my arms like never before. I looked down and saw my trouser leg had been ripped off and saw my thigh bone through the gash in my thigh muscle."

Born in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1942, Grace attended Kilkenny College. He then moved to England, joined boxing, weight-lifting, wrestling and fencing clubs, and worked at Butlin's.

He then trained as an actor at the Mountview Theatre School, in London, and joined a stunt agency. His first jobs were in commercials, such as the Cadbury's Milk Tray campaign, in which he jumped from a bridge on to a train, was lifted from a sports car and dropped on a hotel roof and, finally, jumped from a cliff on to a moving truck, before diving into a lake to deliver the chocolates to a woman on a boat.

His first film was the television spin-off Dr Who and the Daleks (1965). Like many stunt performers, he was cast in a role that demanded his special skills, as he was in pictures such as Who Dares Wins (1982) and Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), and television programmes that included The Onedin Line (1972) and The Protectors (1973).

In You Only Live Twice (1967), starring the screen's original Bond, Sean Connery, Grace was one of a host of stunt performers taking part in the climactic volcano-eruption scene where Bond gives an elite ninja force access to the villain Blofeld's secret base. Grace underwent four weeks of intensive training – scaling nets, sliding down ropes and practising trampoline "explosions" – before the sequence was shot.

In 1969, he was Oliver Reed's fencing double in The Assassination Bureau. He fought with Anthony Hopkins in When Eight Bells Toll (1971), and did stunts with Kirk Douglas in To Catch a Spy (1971), after seven months out of action as a result of breaking his neck in Scrooge (1970).

Grace appeared in a show that toured Scandinavia in 1974 and starred the Norwegian stunt performer Arne Berg. The experience of doing six performances a week that required high falls, car crashes, motorcycle jumps, fights and tunnels of fire stood him in good stead when he was asked to double for Roger Moore in five Bond films. He also doubled for Richard Kiel, as the villain Jaws, in both The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

This also led Grace to become Moore's stunt double in some of the star's other films – The Wild Geese (1978), Escape to Athena (1979), North Sea Hijack (1979), The Sea Wolves (1980) and The Naked Face (1984). Also among the 70-plus films in which he did stunt work were Superman (1978), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Brazil (1985), King Arthur (2004), Ella Enchanted (2004) and The Number 23 (2007). He had extra responsibility, as stunt co-ordinator, on pictures such as High Spirits (1988), Erik the Viking (1989), Nuns on the Run (1990), Patriot Games (1992) and Angela's Ashes (1999).

In 1978, the Rank Organisation chose Grace to be its fifth famous gong-beater, but in the end his sequence was consigned to the cutting room floor. A keen cyclist, Grace fractured his pelvis in an accident last year. He returned to hospital after developing breathing problems at his home in Spain and died after suffering an aneurysm.

Anthony Hayward

- Martin Ryan Grace, actor and stunt performer and co-ordinator: born Kilkenny, Ireland 12 September 1942; twice married; died Spain 27 January 2010.

Martin Grace
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0333370/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Stunts (75 credits)

2007 The Number 23 (stunts)
2005 Izzat (stunt coordinator)
2004 King Arthur (stunts - uncredited)
2004 Ella Enchanted (stunt double: ogre 2)
2003 New Tricks (TV Series) (stunt coordinator - 1 episode)
- The Chinese Job (2003) ... (stunt coordinator)
2001 Shallow Hal (stunt coordinator)
2001 The Bombmaker (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)

1999 Anna and the King (stunt coordinator)
1998 Dancing at Lughnasa (stunt coordinator)
1998 The Truman Show (stunts)
1997 The Boxer (stunts)
1997 The MatchMaker (stunts)
1996 Body Troopers (stunt coordinator)
1996 North Star (stunt coordinator)
1995 Circle of Friends (stunt coordinator)
1995 An Awfully Big Adventure (stunts)
1994 MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
1993-1994 Between the Lines (TV Series) (stunt performer - 2 episodes)
- Shoot to Kill (1994) ... (stunt performer)
- Big Boys' Rules: Part II (1993) ... (stunt performer)
1994 A Man of No Importance (stunt coordinator)
1994 MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
1993 Head Above Water (stunt coordinator)
1993 Briefest Encounter (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
1993 Bad Company (TV Movie) (stunts)
1992 Boon (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
- Blackballed (1992) ... (stunt performer)
1992 Civvies (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.6 (1992) ... (stunt performer)
1992 Patriot Games (stunt coordinator: UK) / (stunts)
1992 Map of the Human Heart (stunt coordinator)
1992 Lethal Lies (stunt coordinator)
1991 Afraid of the Dark (stunt coordinator)
1991 Robin Hood (stunt coordinator)
1991 A Kiss Before Dying (stunt coordinator: UK) / (stunts)
1991 Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
- The Double Clue (1991) ... (stunts)
1990 The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (stunt coordinator)
1990 Shipwrecked (stunt coordinator)
1990 Nuns on the Run (stunt coordinator)

1989 A Handful of Time (stunts)
1989 Erik the Viking (stunt coordinator)
1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (stunt double: Indiana Jones #2 - uncredited) / (stunts)
1989 The Littlest Viking (stunt coordinator)
1988 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) (stunt coordinator - 5 episodes)
- Part V (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
- Part IV (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
- Part III (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
- Part II (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
- Part I (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
1988 High Spirits (stunt coordinator) / (stunt performer)
1988 Willow (stunts)
1987 Pathfinder (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1987 A Prayer for the Dying (stunts)
1985 Enemy Mine (stunt coordinator)
1985 A View to a Kill (action sequence arranger) / (ski stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore, Golden Gate - uncredited)
1985 Brazil (stunt performer)
1984 The Naked Face (stunt double)
1984 Top Secret! (stunts)
1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (stunt double: Indiana Jones #2 - uncredited)
1984 Ordeal by Innocence (stunt coordinator)
1983 Octopussy (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (the stunt team supervisor)
1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
1982 Badger by Owl-Light (TV Series) (stunts)
1982 Victor Victoria (stunts)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunt team)
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (stunt double: Indiana Jones #3 - uncredited) / (stunts)
1981 Inchon (stunts - uncredited)
1980 The Sea Wolves (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1980 ffolkes (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)

1979 Moonraker (stunt double: Richard Kiel, cable car sequence - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts)
1979 Escape to Athena (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1978 Superman (stunts - uncredited)
1978 The Wild Geese (stunt double: Hardy Krüger - uncredited) / (stunt double: Richard Burton - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunt double: Richard Kiel - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1975 Space: 1999 (TV Series) (stunts)
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited)
1973 Horror Hospital (stunt supervisor)
1971 Catch Me a Spy (stunts - uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)
1970 Scrooge (stunts - uncredited)
1969 It's Tommy Cooper (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
- Christmas Special (1969) ... (stunts - uncredited)
1969 I Alfred the Great (stunts - uncredited)
1968 Mayerling (stunts - uncredited)
1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (20 credits)

1997 Robinson Crusoe - Captain Braga
1992 Brookside (TV Series) - Driver
- Episode #1.1085 (1992) ... Driver
1991 Under Suspicion - Colin

1989 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) - Jumpmaster
- Part IX (1989) ... Jumpmaster
1983 Curse of the Pink Panther - Bruno's Crony #2
1982 The Final Option - U.S. Marine Guard
1980 The Sea Wolves - Kruger

1978 The Wild Geese - East German Officer
1975 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Security Guard
- End of Eternity (1975) ... Security Guard (uncredited)
1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - Gang Member
- Baubles, Bangles and Beads (1973) ... Gang Member
1973 Horror Hospital - Bike Boy
1973 Special Branch (TV Series)
- Round the Clock (1973)
1972 Double Take - Leopard Man
1972 The Fenn Street Gang (TV Series) - Muscleman
- That Sort of Girl (1972) ... Muscleman
1972 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - Martin Thompson
- A Woman Alone (1972) ... Martin Thompson
1972 Villains (TV Series) - Man
- Smudger (1972) ... Man (uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll - Thug (uncredited)

1969 Moon Zero Two - Red Killer (uncredited)
1968 Inadmissible Evidence - Plainclothesman
1965 Dr. Who and the Daleks - Thal

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1987 Pathfinder (action sequences)

Self (12 credits)

2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: 007 in Egypt (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Himself
1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1985 A View to a Kill Original Promotional Featurette (Video documentary short) - Himself
1982 Stuntman Challenge (TV Movie) - Himself
1981 Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1981 Clapper Board (TV Series) - Himself
- For Your Eyes Only Special (1981) ... Himself
1979 Film 2017 (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 27 May 1979 (1979) ... Himself

1947: Christopher Neame is born--London, England.

1957: Hans Florian Zimmer is born--Frankfurt, West Germany.

1965: The Los Angeles Times reports contenders for Bond girl roles included Elsa Martinelli and Raquel Welch.

Elsa Martinelli



Raquel Welch

1966: Bond comic strip The Living Daylights begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 12 November 1966. 210-263) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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


https://bond-and-beyond.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_12.html


http://bdzoom.com/94191/patrimoine/james-bond-operation-comics-premiere-partie/attachment/bond_james_cs15_s1/


Danish 1968 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no14-1968/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 14:
“The Living Daylights” (1968)
"Spionen fra øst"

1975: ABC-TV premieres Diamonds Are Forever.

1982: Octopussy location filming begins at Udaipur, Rajasthan, India.
1983: Octopussy released in Barcelona, Spain.

1985: Επιχείρηση Κινούμενος στόχος (Business Moving Target) released in Greece.

https://dpikeas.wordpress.com/2019/07/

1988: Licence to Kill films Felix Leiter disagreeing with something that eats him.

RichardTheBruce

2005: The Irish Examiner reports on actor Pierce Brosnan's desires for the next Bond film.

Brosnan: 'Sex up Bond'
Former James Bond star Pierce Brosnan has begged 007
filmmakers to spice up the next film's sex scenes or risk it
becoming a flop.

See the complete article here:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30220483.html

Mon, 12 Sep, 2005 - 20:06

Brosnan, who was dropped from playing the suave superspy after the last film, insists producers need to make the next movie sexier and more violent.

The 52-year-old says: "You're not even allowed to show a bloody nipple. It's pathetic. What Bond needs is a good, palpable killing sequence and a good sex scene."

2012: Star Cars episode 007 features the James Bond Tomorrow Never Dies BMW 750IL.

Star Cars
James Bond 'Tomorrow Never Dies' BMW

Episode aired Sep 12, 2012 | S1 E7
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2392426/

Burn rubber like James Bond 007 with this surprisingly affordable rocket-launching BMW.

Director - Brad Hansen
Stars - Athena Stamos, Brian Uiga.

STAR CARS- James Bond 'Tomorrow Never Dies' BMW (Ep. 007)

2017: The Scottish Sun shares Deborah Moore's insight on her father.

WANTING MOORE Roger Moore’s daughter
reveals James Bond star’s heartrending
final diary entries and how he joked until
the end of cancer battle
Veteran star also invented his own lighthearted pensioner text speak as he raced to finish book ahead of his death

See the complete article here:

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/1550333/roger-moores-daughter-reveals-james-bond-stars-heartrending-final-diary-entries-and-how-he-joked-until-the-end-of-cancer-battle/

By Carl Stroud | 12 Sep 2017

ROGER Moore told how he feared joining friends “in the great cutting room in the sky” in poignant final diary entries as he battled cancer, his daughter has revealed.

His heartrending reflections on mortality left Deborah in “floods of tears” when she read them.

She told The Mirror: “It was just so incredibly poignant."

Roger Moore's final diary entries left daughter Deborah in floods of tears when she read them
Credit: Rex Features


In May Sir Roger lost a short battle with cancer at the age of 89
Credit: Getty - Contributor

“We didn’t think he was going to die - he didn’t think he was going to die – until the very last week. Dad’s illness came on quite quickly.”

In May, just weeks after the diary entries, the 007 legend lost his short battle with cancer at the age of 89.

Yet despite undergoing a gruelling course of chemotherapy after being diagnosed last Christmas, the star kept joking until the very end.

Deborah added: “He still had his sense of humour and was still joking with the nurses. He never, ever complained.

“He was amazing.”

Sir Roger died in May at his home in Crans-Montana, Switzerland. His children and wife of 15 years, Kiki, 77, were at his side.

Deborah told how her father maintained his trademark sense of humour right up to the end
Credit: Rex Features


Sir Roger starred in seven Bond films after taking over from Sean Connery in 1973
Credit: Getty

Deborah, 53, and her brothers Geoffrey, 51, and Christian, 44, are his children by his third wife, actress Luisa Mattioli, 78.

Shortly before his death the star had finished writing a book about ageing called À Bientôt - French for see you soon.

In it, Deborah reveals he described himself as “an old fart” and made up his own OAP text speak - BTW: bring the wheelchair. IMHO: Is my hearing aid on? BYOT: Bring your own teeth. GGPBL: Gotta go, pacemaker battery low.

Moore took over from Sean Connery as James Bond in 1973.

Roger was surrounded by his family including wife Kiki when he died in his Swiss home
Credit: AFP

He starred in seven movies over the following 12 years.

In 2012, the actor admitted that he “regretted” basking in the sun as a young man – as he had suffered a string of skin cancers in later years.

He told The Sun: "I (wish I) would... have given myself a warning about having too much sunshine. I've had so many skin cancers as a result.

Shortly before his death Roger had finished writing a book about ageing
called À Bientôt – French for see you soon
Credit: AFP

"No one thought about sun screen or creams in my younger days. Even when they started to give warnings, I thought, 'Well, that won't happen to me.'

"I would get sunburned so I did not have to wear make-up in front of the cameras. Every leading man was sunburned."

2019: A 1964 Aston Martin DB5 Saloon goes to auction at Coys.

Lot 129 - 1964 Aston Martin DB5 Saloon

https://www.coys.co.uk/cars/1964-aston-martin-db5-saloon
Fitted with James Bond 007 Gadgets

ESTIMATE £500,000- £600,000

Auction Fontwell House
Auction Date 12th September 2019
Day of Auction Day 1 - Thursday

Lot Details

Lot Number 129
Reg. Number EU Registered
Chassis Number DB5/1447/R
Year 1964
Make Aston Martin
Model DB5 Saloon

Nice. But needs one of these.

2021: Aston Martin with special James Bond livery races at the Italian Grand Prix, Monza.

Aston Martin
Aston Martin to race with special James Bond livery

See the complete article here:

https://racingnews365.com/formula-1-drivers/sebastian-vettel

Author Nigel Chiu | 09 September

Aston Martin will be the second team to run a different livery at this weekend's Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

Aston Martin will run a special 007-themed livery at this weekend's Italian Grand Prix to pay tribute to the release of the latest James Bond film, No Time To Die, at the end of this month.

James Bond has been synonymous with Aston Martin for decades so the team have decided to run the iconic 007 logo on the side of Sebastian Vettel's and Lance Stroll's cars at Monza.

Aston Martin's motorhome and pit garage will be decked out in Bond iconography to mark the occasion.

"Aston Martin is part of Bond's DNA," said film director Daniel Kleinman.

"It's a partnership that needs no explanation, so it was great fun to fuse those two worlds together: Bond's signature title sequences and Aston Martin Formula 1.

"I hope it will create a lot of excitement ahead of the release of the movie."

Aston Martin are not the only team to run a different livery at Monza, with Alfa Romeo revealing that they will celebrate their first F1 World Championship win back in 1950.

Antonio Giovinazzi and Robert Kubica will hit the track with a livery produced specifically for Monza by the Centro Stile Alfa Romeo, with a star logo using the colours of the Italian flag.

RichardTheBruce

September 13th

1916: Roald Dahl is born--Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales.
(He dies 23 November 1990 at age 74--Oxford, England.)

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

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

https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/roald-dahl-a-life-filled-with-tales-of-the-unexpected/34998768.html
Emily Hourican - August 29 2016 2:30 AM

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roald Dahl

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Filmography

Writer (76 credits)

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

2020 The Witches (novel) (post-production)
2017 Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Video) (novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory")
2016 Revolting Rhymes Part Two (TV Short) (based on the book by)
2016 Revolting Rhymes Part One (TV Short) (based on the book by)
2016 Welcome to the Basement (TV Series) (screenplay - 1 episode)
- You Only Live Twice (2016) ... (screenplay)
2016 The BFG (based on the book by)
2016 In the Ruins (Short) (short story)
2016 Lamb to the Slaughter (Short) (novel)
2015 The Taste (Short) (based on a short story by)
2015 Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (TV Movie) (based on the novel by)
2013 Baa Baa Black Sheep (Short) (story)
2013/I Cheap Thrills (short story "Man from the South" - uncredited)
2012 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the Playroom (Video short) (book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" - uncredited)
2012 Bang-lure (Short) (story)
2012 Chippendale (Short)

2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox (novel)
2008 Three Little Pigs (Short) (writer)
2007 Jackanory Junior (TV Series)
2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (book)
2005 Imagine (TV Series documentary) (quotations - 1 episode)
- Fantastic Mr Dahl (2005) ... (quotations - uncredited)
2005/I The Bet (Short) (story)
2002 Lamb to the Slaughter (story)
2000 Genesis and Catastrophe (Short) (story)

1999 Inaudito (Short) (story)
1997 The Enormous Crocodile (TV Movie)
1996 Matilda (book)
1996 James and the Giant Peach (based on the book by)
1995 Alien Tales (Video Game) (synopsis: Matilda)
Jackanory (TV Series) (book - 14 episodes, 1968 - 1986) (novel - 6 episodes, 1979 - 1995)
- The Twits (1995) ... (novel)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Five (1986) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Four (1986) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Three (1986) ... (book)
- James and the Giant Peach: Part Two (1986) ... (book)
1995 Pisvingers! (Short) (story "The Swan")
1992 Idealnaya para (stories)
1990 Dirty Beasts (TV Movie)
1990 Revolting Rhymes (TV Movie)
1990 The Magic Finger (TV Movie)
1990 The Silent Hunt (novel)
1990 The Witches (book)
1989 Breaking Point (TV Movie) (novel "Beware of the Dog")

1989 Danny the Champion of the World (TV Movie) (novel)
1988 Velká rosáda (TV Movie) (adaptation)
Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) (writer - 15 episodes, 1979 - 1981) (story - 11 episodes, 1979 - 1988)
- The Surgeon (1988) ... (story)
- The Sound Machine (1981) ... (writer)
- The Boy Who Talked with Animals (1981) ... (story)
- Parson's Pleasure (1980) ... (story)
- Vengeance Is Mine Inc. (1980) ... (writer)
1988 The Book Tower (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Episode #10.1 (1988) ... (writer - segment ": "Boy")
1987 The BFG (novel)
1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Pilot (1985) ... (story - segment "Man from the South")
1984 Kobra (Short) (short story "Poison")
1983 Kalle och chokladfabriken (TV Mini-Series) (novel)

1976 James and the Giant Peach (TV Movie) (based upon a novel by)
1976 Le care mogli (TV Movie) (play)
1975 A Gigot (Short) (short story "Lamb to the Slaughter")
1975 Hundert Mark (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- Des Pfarrers Freude ... (writer)
1975 Uit de wereld van Roald Dahl (TV Series) (story - 5 episodes)
- Een frisse duik (1975) ... (story)
- De verrassing (1975) ... (story)
- Op weg naar de hemel (1975) ... (story)
- Vergif (1975) ... (story)
- De weddenschap (1975) ... (story)
1974 Genesis and Catastrophe (Short) (short story "Genesis and Catastrophe")
1973 Et lite grøss? (TV Mini-Series) (short story "The Landlady" - 1 episode)
- Vertinnen (1973) ... (short story "The Landlady")
1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") / (screenplay)
1971 The Road Builder

1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (screenplay)
1968 Late Night Horror (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- William and Mary (1968) ... (writer)
1967 You Only Live Twice (screenplay)
1967 Teatterituokio (TV Series) (short story "Taste" - 1 episode)
- Maku (1967) ... (short story "Taste")
Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) (story - 2 episodes, 1965) (writer - 1 episode, 1967)
- Taste (1967) ... (writer)
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1965) ... (story)
- Parson's Pleasure (1965) ... (story)
1966 Des Pfarrers Freude (TV Movie) (story)
1964 36 Hours (story "Beware of the Dog")
1962 That Was the Week That Was (TV Series)
1961 'Way Out (TV Series) (by - 1 episode)
- William and Mary (1961) ... (by)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (based on a story by - 3 episodes, 1958 - 1961) (story - 2 episodes, 1958) (story by - 1 episode, 1960) (teleplay - 1 episode, 1958)
- The Landlady (1961) ... (based on a story by)
- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1960) ... (based on a story by)
- Man from the South (1960) ... (story by)
- Poison (1958) ... (story)
- Dip in the Pool (1958) ... (based on a story by)

1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) (short story: "Beware of the Dog" - 1 episode)
- Blind Landing (1959) ... (short story: "Beware of the Dog")
1958 Suspicion (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Way Up to Heaven (1958) ... (story)
1956 Le coup du berger (Short) (story - uncredited)
1955 Cameo Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Man from the South (1955) ... (story)
1955 Star Tonight (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Taste (1955) ... (story)
1954 Danger (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- A Dip in the Pool (1954) ... (story)
1954 The Philip Morris Playhouse (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Taste (1954) ... (story)
1952 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Taste (1952) ... (story)
1952 CBS Television Workshop (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- The Sound Machine (1952) ... (story)
1950 Suspense (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
- Poison (1950) ... (story)
-
Actor (2 credits)

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

Soundtrack (2 credits)

2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (lyrics: "Augustus Gloop", "Violet Beauregarde", "Veruca Salt", "Mike Teavee")
1996 James and the Giant Peach (lyrics: "Eating The Peach")

Thanks (3 credits)

2007 This Is Not My Beautiful House (Short) (thanks)
2003 Tales of the Unexpected: The Proposal (Short) (with apologies to)
1995 Four Rooms (special thanks)

1939: Richard Dawson Kiel is born--Detroit, Michigan.
(He dies 10 September 2014 at age 74--Fresno, California.)

Richard Kiel, James Bond villain Jaws
actor, dies at 74

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29152398

11 September 2014

Actor Richard Kiel - who played
steel-toothed villain Jaws in two
James Bond films - has died in
California aged 74.

The towering American star, who appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977 and Moonraker in 1979, died in hospital in Fresno on Wednesday.

A spokeswoman for Saint Agnes Medical Center confirmed Kiel's death, but did not reveal the cause.

The 7ft 2in (2.18m) actor also appeared in the sports comedy Happy Gilmore, starring Adam Sandler, in 1996.

Kiel got his first acting break in the 1950s

Kiel made his name as cable-chomping henchman Jaws opposite Roger Moore as 007.

Sir Roger said he was "totally distraught" at the death of his co-star.

"We were on a radio programme together just a week ago," said the former Bond star, adding "[ I ] can't take it in".

Kiel and Sir Roger were guests on BBC's Radio 4 programme The Reunion, which aired on Sunday, along with Bond actress Britt Ekland, recalling their roles in the spy series.

During the programme, Kiel said he initially thought playing Jaws - a man who killed people with his teeth - could appear "over the top".

"I was very put off by the description of the character and I thought, well, they don't really need an actor, he's more a monster part," he said.

"So I tried to change that view of it... I said if I were to play the part, I want to give the character some human characteristics, like perseverance, frustration."

Sir Roger said he was "distraught" at co-star Kiel's death, a week after they reunited for a radio show

Sandro Monetti, director at Bafta in Los Angeles and a former showbiz reporter, described Kiel as having "teeth of steel, but a heart of gold".

He recalled seeing the actor at James Bond conventions: "It was like seeing kids meeting Santa Claus. Everyone has got such joyous memories of Jaws, and he had time for everybody."

Monetti added: "Whenever you mentioned Jaws, his eyes lit up and there was that famous grin."

Micky Dolenz, who starred with Kiel in the seminal episode of The Monkees - I was a Teenage Monster, tweeted his memories of the star: "The great character actor and gentle giant."

Sandro Monetti, a director of BAFTA in Los Angeles, spoke to Rachel Burden on BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast.

The character of Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me was originally intended to die at the end of the movie, but he was so popular with fans that Kiel was brought back to reprise the role in Moonraker.

"The original script had me being killed by the shark," Kiel said.

"They filmed that and they also filmed an ending where I survive and pop out of the ocean.

"That was one of the big moments for me, watching the blue-collar screening of the movie, The Spy Who Loved Me, and having the reaction of the crowd at the theatre when Jaws popped out of the ocean, survived and swam away. There were hoots and howling, applause. I couldn't believe it."

Kiel, pictured with fellow Bond villains Christopher Lee, Rick Yune and Toby Stephens, was 7ft 2in tall

Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kiel had the hormonal condition acromegaly, which was said to have contributed to his height.

His first break came in 1959 when he played the alien Kanamit in Twilight Zone.

He published an autobiography in 2002, called Making It Big In The Movies.

His many other acting roles included deadly assistant Voltaire in the 1960s TV series The Wild, Wild West; playing opposite William Shatner in the 1970s TV sitcom Barbary Coast; taking on the lead character of Eli Weaver in the movie The Giant of Thunder Mountain; and spoofing his most famous role as "Famous big guy with silver teeth" in the movie version of Inspector Gadget.

In recent years, he also spent much of his time touring the world and appearing at conventions to meet Bond fans.

Richard Kiel

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001423/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

Filmography

Actor (82 credits)

The Engagement Ring (announced) - Patterson
2012/IV The Awakened - Jasper
2010 Tangled - Vlad (voice)
2010 Disney Tangled (Video Game) - Vlad (voice)
2003 James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (Video Game) - Jaws (voice)
2000 BloodHounds, Inc. #5: Fangs for the Memories (Video) - Mortimer

1999 Inspector Gadget - Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth
1996 Happy Gilmore - Mr. Larson
1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain - Eli Weaver

1989 The Princess and the Dwarf
1989 Superboy (TV Series) - Vlkabok
- Mr. and Mrs. Superboy (1989) ... Vlkabok
1989 Think Big - Irving
1988 Out of This World (TV Series) - Norman
- Go West, Young Mayor (1988) ... Norman
1985 Qing bao long hu men - Laszlo
1985 Pale Rider - Club
1984 Cannonball Run II - Arnold, Mitsubishi Driver
1984 Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street - Big G
1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Mark Horton
- The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet (1983) ... Mark Horton
1983 Hysterical - Captain Howdy
1981 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Animal
- That's Right, We're Bad (1981) ... Animal
1981 So Fine - Eddie

1979 Moonraker: Milk Is Supreme Commercial (Short) - Jaws
1979 Moonraker - Jaws
1979 The Humanoid - Golob
1978 They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way - Duke
1978 Wu zi tian shi - Steel Hand (Guest star)
1978 Force 10 from Navarone - Drazak
1977 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) - The Hulk (one scene only)
- The Incredible Hulk (1977) ... The Hulk (one scene only) (uncredited)
1977 Young Dan'l Boone (TV Series) - Grimm
- The Game (1977) ... Grimm
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Jaws
1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - Manager - 'Haunted House'
- The Mystery of the Haunted House (1977) ... Manager - 'Haunted House'
1976 Silver Streak - Reace
1976 Land of the Lost (TV Series) - Malak
- Flying Dutchman (1976) ... Malak
- Survival Kit (1976) ... Malak
1976 Gus - Tall Man
1976 Starsky and Hutch (TV Series) - Iggy
- Omaha Tiger (1976) ... Iggy
1975-1976 Barbary Coast (TV Series) - Moose Moran
- The Dawson Marker (1976) ... Moose Moran
- Mary Had More Than a Little (1976) ... Moose Moran
- The Day Cable Was Hanged (1975) ... Moose Moran
- Sharks Eat Sharks (1975) ... Moose Moran
- Arson and Old Lace (1975) ... Moose Moran
1975 Switch (TV Series) - Loach
- Death Heist (1975) ... Loach
1975 Flash and the Firecat - Milo Pewett
1974 Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)
The Monster / The Diablero
- The Spanish Moss Murders (1974) ... The Monster
- Bad Medicine (1974) ... The Diablero
1974 Emergency! (TV Series) - Carlo
- I'll Fix It (1974) ... Carlo (uncredited)
1974 The Longest Yard - Samson (as Dick Kiel)
1972 Deadhead Miles - Big Dick
1970 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Luke Brown
- The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 2 (1970) ... Luke Brown
- The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 1 (1970) ... Luke Brown
1970 The Boy Who Stole the Elephant (TV Movie)
Luke Brown
1970 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever - Blacksmith (uncredited)

1969 Daniel Boone (TV Series) - Lemouche
- Benvenuto... Who? (1969) ... Lemouche
1968 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Willy
- The Galloping Skin Game (1968) ... Willy
1968 Skidoo - Beany
1968 Now You See It, Now You Don't (TV Movie) - Nori
1965-1968 The Wild Wild West (TV Series) - Voltaire / Dimas
- The Night of the Simian Terror (1968) ... Dimas
- The Night of the Whirring Death (1966) ... Voltaire
- The Night That Terror Stalked the Town (1965) ... Voltaire
- The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth (1965) ... Voltaire
1968 A Man Called Dagger - Otto
1968 I Spy (TV Series) - Tiny
- A Few Miles West of Nowhere (1968) ... Tiny
1967 The Monroes (TV Series) - Casmir
- Ghosts of Paradox (1967) ... Casmir
1967 The Monkees (TV Series) - Monster
- I Was a Teenage Monster (1967) ... Monster (as Dick Kiel)
1963-1966 Lassie (TV Series) - Chinook Pete / Dinny
- Lassie the Voyager: Part 6 (1966) ... Dinny
- The Journey: Part 5 (1963) ... Chinook Pete
- The Journey: Part 4 (1963) ... Chinook Pete
1966 Las Vegas Hillbillys - Moose
1966 Gilligan's Island (TV Series)
The Ghost / Russian Agent
- Ghost-a-Go-Go (1966) ... The Ghost / Russian Agent
1966 My Mother the Car (TV Series) - Cracks
- A Riddler on the Roof (1966) ... Cracks
1966 Honey West (TV Series) - Groalgo
- King of the Mountain (1966) ... Groalgo
1965 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Ali
- My Hero? (1965) ... Ali
1965 Brainstorm - Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
1964-1965 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Merry / Guard
- The Hong Kong Shilling Affair (1965) ... Merry
- The Vulcan Affair (1964) ... Guard (uncredited)
1965 The Human Duplicators - Dr. Kolos
1965 Two on a Guillotine - Photographer at Funeral (uncredited)
1964 The Nasty Rabbit - Ranch Foreman (uncredited)
1964 Roustabout - Strongman (uncredited)
1963 30 Minutes at Gunsight (TV Short)
1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) - Paul Bunyan (uncredited)
1963 Lassie's Great Adventure - Chinook Pete
1963 The Nutty Professor - Man in Gym (uncredited)
1963 House of the Damned - The Giant
1962 Eegah - Eegah
1962 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Kanamit
- To Serve Man (1962) ... Kanamit
1962 The Magic Sword - Pinhead No.1 (uncredited)
1961 The Phantom (TV Movie) - Big Mike
1961 The Phantom Planet - The Solarite
1961 The Rifleman (TV Series) - Carl Hazlitt
- The Decision (1961) ... Carl Hazlitt
1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series) - Doorman
- The Wizard of Ice (1961) ... Doorman
1961 Laramie (TV Series) - Rake - Tolan's helper
- Run of the Hunted (1961) ... Rake - Tolan's helper (uncredited)
1961 Thriller (TV Series) - Master Styx
- Well of Doom (1961) ... Master Styx
1960 Klondike (TV Series) - Duff Brannigan
- Bare Knuckles (1960) ... Duff Brannigan

1957 The D.I. - Ugly Marine (uncredited)

Writer (2 credits)

1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain (screenplay)
1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) (uncredited)

Producer (2 credits)

1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain (executive producer)
1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) (producer - uncredited)

Thanks (2 credits)

2014 The Freddy Jenkins Show (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
- R.I.P. Jaws (2014) ... (in memory of)
2014 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)

1944: Jacqueline Bisset is born--Weybridge, Surrey, England.

1983: Victory Games begins releasing its James Bond 007 role-playing games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_007_(role-playing_game)

2005: IGN reports speculation of Pierce Brosnan's return in Casino Royale.

Brosnan Rumors Start Again
Sony, Eon to eat their hats?

See the complete article here:

https://www.ign.com/articles/2005/09/13/brosnan-rumors-start-again

By Stax | 13 Sep 2005

According to MI6, "Pierce Brosnan is now the top contender for the role of James Bond in Casino Royale after all, due to studio pressure and the lack of an obvious candidate to replace him. No date has been set for an official announcement on the role, but news is imminent."

The site points out comments that Brosnan reportedly made at last week's GQ Men of the Year Awards. Ironically, oft-mentioned Bond contender Daniel Craig was also at the event to accept the Best Actor nod.

"Sony are pulling their hair out over it, apparently. I was in their offices just a few weeks ago pitching Thomas Crown 2," Brosnan apparently told Britian's GQ edition. "They said, 'come back' and I said 'it's not up to me, guys.' ... I think I was caught up between the egos of the producers and the studios, really. They (the producers) didn't know whether to go younger, they didn't know what to do, period. I don't know what the truth is. It could be as honest as that, but it seems strange, especially as each film made more and more money."

Brosnan also told GQ, "What Bond needs is a good, palpable killing sequence and a good sex scene – and it doesn't have to be graphic, you can use your imagination."

No other outlet besides MI6 is reporting so definitively that Brosnan will reprise the role of 007. You will notice that the quotes attributed to Brosnan lack any sort of statement that he is indeed returning to the role. Not to say it couldn't happen but nowhere did he say that he and the powers-that-be have patched things up, signed a new contract and are set to work together again.

Just weeks ago Brosnan was interviewed by Entertainment Weekly wherein he gave the distinct impression that Bond was behind him and the producers didn't want him back. "After that kind of titanic jolt to the system, there was a great sense of calm," Brosnan said of the phone call that ended his tenure in Her Majesty's Secret Service. "I thought, (expletive) it! I can do anything I want to do now. I'm not beholden to them or anyone. I'm not shackled by some contracted image. So there was a sense of liberation."

The full interview is available at Brosnan's official site.
https://www.piercebrosnan.com/menu.php?mm=8&sm=1&pn=ew

If Brosnan does return then how are the filmmakers going to explain that the 52-year-old Brosnan will be playing a younger Bond just starting out in his career? And, continuity-wise, how can Judi Dench still play M since in GoldenEye her character had just recently been appointed? (GoldenEye, Brosnan's first Bond outing, opened during the Cold War with Bond on a mission, thus establishing that he had been a 00 agent for years prior to Dench's arrival.) The only logical way it seems the filmmakers could keep Brosnan as Bond and still tell an "early" 007 story is to recast the role of M ... and Q, too.

In related news, CommanderBond.net says director Martin Campbell has wrapped Legend of Zorro and is now working full-time on pre-production for Casino Royale. Filming is slated to begin in January.

CommanderBond.net also reports that Casino Royale will shoot in the Bahamas. "Campbell and Director of Photography Phil Meheux are currently on Paradise Island scouting shooting locations," the site claims, adding, "it's still not known whether The Bahamas will act as a stand-in for South Africa or will play itself in the film."

Brosnan is scheduled to begin filming the Civil War picture Seraphim Falls in mid-October, a start date that should not conflict too seriously with Casino Royale ... if he is indeed back as Bond, James Bond.

2006: Two days of demolition begin at the 007 Soundstage on the way to repair damage from the 31 July fire.
2008: Two minutes of the song "Another Way to Die" air on the Spanish radio show Siglo.

2021: The Drive reports over 30 cars on display with Bond in Motion at the Petersen Automotive Museum, California.

More Than 30 of the Most Iconic
James Bond Cars Are Moonlighting
at the Petersen
The display includes the Guinness World Record-setting Aston Martin DBS that was rolled
seven times.
By Kristin V. Shaw | September 12, 2021

See the complete article here:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/42343/more-than-30-of-the-most-iconic-james-bond-cars-are-moonlighting-at-the-petersen

I drove a new Jaguar F-Pace for a week recently, and it was lovely. Refreshed for 2021, one of the engine options is a turbocharged 3.0-liter six-cylinder and it tackles twisty roads with aplomb. However, it's obviously no match for the Jaguar XKR James Bond drove in Die Another Day. I mean, my F-Pace didn’t include a rear-mounted Gatling gun, door-mounted missiles, mortars in the trunk, battering rams, or rockets in the grille. Disappointing.

Agent 007 has driven dozens of cars like this in the James Bond movies, and the vehicles play a big role in the overall popularity of Ian Fleming’s franchise. And if you head to the Petersen Automotive Museum in California, you can see more than 30 of the cars, motorcycles, boats, submarines, and aircraft in the largest official gathering of James Bond movies in America. Bond in Motion is a must-see if you're a fan.

The Petersen Automotive Museum

In concert with EON Productions and The Ian Fleming Foundation, with support from Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM), the Bond in Motion exhibit replaces the Petersen’s Hollywood Dream Machines display. It’s a James Bond fan’s happy place, with movie screenings and receptions featuring martinis that I can only assume are shaken, not stirred.

One of the featured vehicles is the stunning Aston Martin DBS Daniel Craig’s Bond drove in Casino Royale. In a chase scene, Bond was forced to swerve hard and subsequently rolled the DBS seven times. Stuntman Adam Kirley performed the maneuver, setting a new Guinness World Record for the most cannon rolls ever completed in a car. It's incredible that the car isn't smashed to bits.

Also included is the 1964 Aston Martin DB5 that made appearances in GoldenEye in 1995, Tomorrow Never Dies in 1997, Skyfall in 2012, Spectre in 2015, and the newest movie, No Time To Die. This DB5 is painted in a shimmering Silver Birch and has been in more Bond movies than any other vehicle.

Other examples in the exhibit are a 1999 Heron XC-70 Parachute Parahawk fromThe World Is Not Enough and 1977 Lotus Esprit S1 Submarine. Nine Lotus Esprits were used in the making of The Spy Who Loved Me, in which Roger Moore’s Bond drives off a pier and it converts into a submarine with surface-to-air missiles, torpedoes, a smoke screen, and a mine launcher.

No Time to Die is slotted to be Daniel Craig's final run as the dashing 007. It will be interesting to see who takes his place after 15 years, and which car takes center stage next.

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2023: Roald Dahl Day and Roald Dahl Story Day.

Fantastic Mr Dahl: celebrate Roald
Dahl Day on 13 September
https://www.boundless.co.uk/be-inspired/lifestyle/roald-dahl-day

RichardTheBruce

September 14th

1967: You Only Live Twice released in The Netherlands.
1967: James Bond 007 - Man lebt nur zweimal released in West Germany.

https://en.todocoleccion.net/cinema-pressbooks/illustrierter-film-kurier-man-lebt-nur-zweimal-guia-cine-original-alemania-james-bond~x154695934#sobre_el_lote

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

1985: A View to a Kill films Martin Grace as OO7 grabbing the dangling rope from Zorin's zeppelin.

https://www.filmonpaper.com/posters/a-view-to-a-kill-one-sheet-usa/

2012: Heineken announces product promotions related to Skyfall.

Heineken announces James Bond campaign

See the complete article here:

14 September 2012

Heineken has announced a new TV and digital campaign in anticipation of the latest James Bond movie, Skyfall.

Challenging consumers to defy his enemies and ‘crack the case’, viewers will be taken on an epic train journey alongside stunning Bond newcomer Bérénice Marlohe. Launching on September 20, the interactive experience begins where the TV advert leaves off, with viewers invited onto a train by Bérénice before it embarks on a voyage through snowy mountains. A series of gruelling tests will lead the viewers to ‘crack the case’ while protecting its contents from ferocious Bond villain.

The campaign builds on Heineken’s 15-year relationship with the Bond franchise.

2012: A James Bond Special, with the BBC Philharmonic and Ren Harvieu, airs on Friday, September 14 on BBC Five Live and on the red button. Promoted by Mark Kermode and BBC DJ Simon Mayo.

James Bond: Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo
are Blofeld and Bond - video
See the BBC DJ and his contributor as never before.

See the complete article here:

https://www.digitalspy.com/fun/a404553/james-bond-mark-kermode-and-simon-mayo-are-blofeld-and-bond-video/

By Mayer Nissim | 07/09/2012

Movie critic Mark Kermode and BBC DJ Simon Mayo have become Blofeld and James Bond in a new promotional video.

The hosts of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review were made up as the iconic characters to promote an upcoming show.

This content is imported from YouTube. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.

A James Bond Special, with the BBC Philharmonic and Ren Harvieu, airs on Friday, September 14 on BBC Five Live and on the red button.

Kermode and Mayo's show last year went from an in-house BBC production to indie producer Somethin' Else after being put out for tender.

In 2010, Kermode was named the most trusted professional critic by the British public, despite winning just 3% of the vote.

After he ruled himself out of the running to replace Jonathan Ross on the BBC Film show, eventual presenter Claudia Winkleman admitted that she wanted Kermode to appear on the programme.

Mark Kermode & Simon Mayo become Bond... And Blofeld.


Nobody Does It Better - Ren Harvieu & BBC Philharmonic (Bond And Beyond, 2012)

2018: Paste magazine reports the Daily Mail reporting on veteran Bond writers brought back to work on BOND 25.

Veteran 007 Writers Will Rewrite Bond
25 After Danny Boyle's Departure

See the complete article here:

https://www.pastemagazine.com/movies/james-bond/veteran-007-writers-will-rewrite-bond-25-after-dan/

By Jim Vorel | September 14, 2018

The fate of the James Bond franchise is back in familiar hands, at least as far as the script is concerned. After the departure of director Danny Boyle, who abandoned the still unnamed Bond 25 for so-called “creative differences,” producers have apparently decided to abandon the film’s current script as well. That script had been written by Boyle and regular collaborator John Hodge, but given that Boyle is no longer around to direct it, producers have brought back in a familiar Bond duo—Neal Purvis and Robert Wade. The two have had a hand in some capacity on almost every Bond film since The World is Not Enough in 1999. According to The Guardian, the two had completed an original treatment for Bond 25, which was set aside when the studio decided to go with Boyle’s script. The original Purvis and Wade script will now be fully written.

Obviously, this means further setbacks in terms of the film’s timeline, and the 2020 release has already been postponed. The film, which is meant to be star Daniel Craig’s last go-round as super spy James Bond, has been somewhat shrouded in mystery, especially from a casting perspective. In particular, it hasn’t been clear who was meant to play this entry’s villain—some outlets speculated that Boyle was angry that his choice for the role, Tomasz Kot, was not greenlit by producers, but other sources disagree. Things were complicated earlier this week when Wonder Woman and Kite Runner actor Said Taghmaoui said in an interview that he had previous been cast by Danny Boyle in the part.

“I’m supposed to do the next James Bond, playing the lead bad guy,” Taghmaoui said to Abu Dhabi publication The National. “I was cast by Danny Boyle, and just now he left the project, so of course there’s some uncertainty.”

One would think that if Bond 25 was now getting an entirely different script from anything Boyle intended, that would likely leave no place for Taghmaoui, unless Purvis and Wade’s new script is informed by Boyle’s old one.

Also unknown, and obviously important, is who will actually direct this Bond installment, which will no doubt be intended as a tentpole blockbuster. As it is with the likes of Star Wars, the responsibility is a heavy one.

2022: Reports say GoldenEye 007 is coming to Nintendo Switch with Online Multiplayer, Xbox Game Pass Gets Remaster.

GoldenEye 007 Is Coming to Nintendo Switch
With Online Multiplayer, Xbox Game Pass Gets
Remaster

See the complete article here:

https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2022/09/goldeneye-007-is-coming-to-nintendo-switch-with-online-multiplayer-xbox-game-pass-gets-remaster/

Andrew Liszewski | September 14, 2022
Filed to:creativeworks

GoldenEye 007 Is Coming to Nintendo Switch With Online Multiplayer, Xbox Game Pass Gets Remaster

The one question that’s been on every Nintendo fan’s mind ever since the company started porting its past hits to newer consoles is when GoldenEye 007, the N64’s beloved first-person shooter, would show up again. After years of licensing and rights battles, we finally have an answer, and it’s even better than we could have hoped.

During a Nintendo Direct presentation this morning, the company revealed that several more N64 games were being added to its Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, including Pilotwings 64, 1080° Snowboarding, Pokémon Stadium, and finally, GoldenEye 007.

https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica/status/1569693240315494403

Nintendo didn’t reveal specifically when GoldenEye 007 would be available through the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack, which is only available through an annual $US50 ($69) subscription fee, but did reveal that for the first time the game would include online multiplayer, in addition to the classic split screen gameplay that claimed so much of our younger lives.

But alongside Nintendo’s announcement that GoldenEye 007 would return on the Switch, Rare itself announced on Twitter that a remastered version of the game is also coming to the Xbox through Xbox Game Pass.

https://twitter.com/RareLtd/status/1569693409467662337

The remastered GoldenEye 007 will run at 4K with a smoother framerate than the N64 could muster, as that console was known for grinding to slideshow speeds when four friends found themselves in a battle all in the same room. According to the official 007 website, the Xbox version will not offer online multiplayer, but at least playing split screen with modern controllers means you won’t have to worry about the console accidentally being yanked to the floor by that one friend who’s angry about being vanquished by the Golden Gun.

There’s also no specific details on when the remastered Xbox version will arrive, aside from a promise of “Coming soon.”

Update, September 13, 11:47am EST: According to the official James Bond website, 007.com, online multiplayer for GoldenEye 007 will only be available on the Switch version. We’ve updated this article to reflect that, and are reaching out to Xbox to confirm.

Exclusive to the new Switch version of the 1997 title will be online play, allowing 007 fans across the world to take part in the popular four person multiplayer mode.

RichardTheBruce

September 15th

1957: The Sunday Times publishes "The Diamond Smugglers: The Million Carat Network", starting a series of articles collected in The Diamond Smugglers.

1967: Elät vain kahdesti released in Finland.

1967: Man lever bara två gånger released in Sweden.

1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films underwater in Nassau.
1977: Caterina Murino is born--Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.

1980: For Your Eyes Only principal photography starts in Corfu--Villa Sylva, Kanoni, above Corfu Town (doubling for a Spanish villa).

1983: Octopussy released in Gent, Belgium.

1983: 007 Contra Octopussy (007 Against Octopussy) released in Brazil.

1983: Octopussy - 007 contra las chicas mortales (Octopussy - 007 Against the Mortal Girls) released in Mexico.
And Peru.

1985: Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson begin work on the screenplay for The Living Daylights.

2008: Reports say Jack White didn't approve that Coke commercial.

Jack White Didn’t Approve That
Coke/Bond Commercial

See the complete article here:

https://www.stereogum.com/21431/jack_white_didnt_approve_that_cokebond_commercial/news/

Brandon Stosuy | September 15, 2008

As we told you last week, that new James Bond-themed Coke commercial uses Jack White’s “Another Way To Die,” aka his duet with Alicia Keys, aka the theme song for the new Bond film Quantum Of Solace, to help rebrand and sell Coke Zero as Coke Zero Zero 7 (duh). What we didn’t tell you (because we didn’t know) is that White didn’t give Coca Cola his approval to pair his riffs with those car chases, slow-mo kung-fu silhouettes, and silhouetted ladies swimming the seas of Coke. Too bad, Jack & Coke has a nice ring to it. Jack — his management, actually — had some words for the soft drink giants:

Via NME:

“Jack White was commissioned by Sony Pictures to write a theme song for the James Bond film Quantum Of Solace, not for Coca Cola,” read the statement. “Any other use of the song is based on decisions made by others, not by Jack White.

“We are disappointed that you first heard the song in a co-promotion for Coke Zero, rather than in its entirety.”

Wonder what changed since he wrote “What Goes Around Comes Around” a couple years ago? Regardless, Jack — or, rather, his management — should read contracts closely.

Quantum Of Solace hits theaters 11/14 (10/31 in the UK). Jack’s second Coke commercial will hit your television screen a bunch of times before that.

[Photo via thefilter.ca]

2017: Albert Moses dies at age 69--London, England.
(Born 19 December 1937--Kandy, Sri Lanka.)

Albert Moses KStJ

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

Albert Moses in 2005
Born 19 December 1937 | Gampola, Kandy District, British Ceylon
Died 15 September 2017 (aged 79) | London, United Kingdom
Years active 1970–2017

Albert Moses, KStJ (19 December 1937 – 15 September 2017)[1] was a Sri Lankan actor based in the United Kingdom. He had begun to act by the 1960s in India where he appeared in several Bollywood films, then produced and directed his first. From India, he moved to Africa where he undertook work on documentaries. From the early 1970s, in Britain, Moses played small parts in several television series before being cast as Ranjeet Singh, a Sikh from Punjab, India, in the ITV sitcom Mind Your Language (1977–79, 1986). His final film was The Snarling (2018)[3] in which he played tribute to his role in An American Werewolf in London (1981). The Snarling is dedicated to his memory. Moses died in September 2017 in London at the age of 79. He was buried at St. Andrew's Church in his native Gampola, Sri Lanka.

Albert Moses (II) (1937–2017)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0608553/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
Actor | Producer

Filmography

Actor (77 credits)

2018 The Snarling - Hospital Patient
1984-2007 The Bill (TV Series) - Mr. Chadhar / Mr. Khan / Imam / ...
- Deadly Intent (2007) ... Mr. Chadhar
- A Willing Victim (1993) ... Mr. Khan
- Come Fly with Me (1990) ... Imam
- Clutching at Straws (1984) ... Ranji
2006 Tripping Over (TV Series) - Nigel
- Episode #1.3 (2006) ... Nigel
2003-2004 Holby City (TV Series) - Kasim Hussein
- Elf and Happiness (2004) ... Kasim Hussein
- Love Nor Money (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
- House of Cards (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
2003 Indian Dream (TV Movie) - Amul
2003 Murder in Mind (TV Series) - Keshav Singh
- Cornershop (2003) ... Keshav Singh

1999 East Is East - Abdul Karim
1998 The Things You Do for Love: Black Butterflies (TV Movie) - Bob
1997 Backup (TV Series) - Shiv
- Not Cricket (1997) ... Shiv
1997 The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo - Conductor
1996 Casualty (TV Series) - Mr. Desai
- Mother's Little Helper (1996) ... Mr. Desai
1996 The Knock (TV Series) - Mr. Malhorta
- Episode #2.1 (1996) ... Mr. Malhorta
1994 Crocodile Shoes (TV Mini-Series) - Pandit Doshi
- The Pitch (1994) ... Pandit Doshi
1994 London's Burning (TV Series) - Shopkeeper
- Episode #7.4 (1994) ... Shopkeeper
1993 Anna Lee: Headcase (TV Movie) - Shop Keeper
1992 Boon (TV Series) - Indian Waiter
- Walkout (1992) ... Indian Waiter
1991 Never the Twain (TV Series) - Policeman
- The First of the Queue (1991) ... Policeman

1989 Bluebirds (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Fire (1989) ... Mr. Patel
- Betrayal (1989) ... Mr. Patel
1989 The Benny Hill Show (TV Series) - Native / Apu Dhurani
- Holding Out for a Hero (1989) ... Native (uncredited)
- The Crook Report (1989) ... Apu Dhurani
1986-1989 The Little and Large Show (TV Series)
- Episode #9.7 (1989)
- Episode #8.5 (1988)
- Episode #6.1 (1986)
1988 Screen Two (TV Series) - Bashir
- Lucky Sunil (1988) ... Bashir
1987 Queenie (TV Mini-Series) - Inspector Gopal
- Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
- Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
1987 Tandoori Nights (TV Series) - Sippy
- Welcome Home Sweetie (1987) ... Sippy
1986 Foreign Body - Paramedic #2
1986 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Lascar
- The Man with the Twisted Lip (1986) ... Lascar
1977-1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) - Ranjeet Singh
- Episode #4.13 (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
- Episode #4.12 (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
- Episode #4.11 (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
- Everybody's Out (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
- Wedding Fever (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
1985 Lytton's Diary (TV Series) - Patel
- Come uppance (1985) ... Patel
1985 Bulman (TV Series) - Jamsit Alam
- Death of a Hitman (1985) ... Jamsit Alam
1985 Travellers by Night (TV Mini-Series) - Lorry driver
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Lorry driver
1985 Who, Sir? Me, Sir? (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.6 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.5 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
1984 Tenko (TV Series) - Dr. Singh
- Episode #3.4 (1984) ... Dr. Singh
1984 The Little Drummer Girl - Green Grocer
1984 Minder (TV Series) - Ajit Desai
- What Makes Shamy Run? (1984) ... Ajit Desai
1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV Mini-Series) - Suleiman
- The Moghul Room (1984) ... Suleiman
- Travelling Companions (1984) ... Suleiman
1984 Scandalous - Vishnu
1984 Cockles (TV Series) - Amin
- Flotsam and Jetsam (1984) ... Amin
1983 Don't Wait Up (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Mr. Patel
1981-1983 Juliet Bravo (TV Series) - Mr. Abdullah / Waiter
- Teamwork (1983) ... Mr. Abdullah
- Barriers (1981) ... Waiter
1983 Al-mas' Ala Al-Kubra - Indian officer (uncredited)
1983 Octopussy - Sadruddin
1982 Squadron (TV Series) - Air Traffic Controller
- Cyclone (1982) ... Air Traffic Controller
1982 The New Adventures of Lucky Jim (TV Series) - Mohindra
- The Apartment (1982) ... Mohindra
1981-1982 The Chinese Detective (TV Series) - Mr. Patel / Mr. Banerjee
- Oblomov (1982) ... Mr. Patel
- The Four from Fulham (1981) ... Mr. Banerjee
1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall - Janitor
1981 An American Werewolf in London - Hospital Porter
1981 Young at Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
- Easy Come, Easy Go (1981) ... Mr. Patel
1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Arab Patrolman
- Would You Believe It? (1981) ... Arab Patrolman
1975-1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Huq / Altab Shahid / Airport worker
- The Garland (1981) ... Huq
- Murder Rap (1980) ... Altab Shahid
- Children of the Sun (1975) ... Airport worker
1981 A Sharp Intake of Breath (TV Series) - Postman
- Match of the Day (1981) ... Postman
1980 Angels (TV Series) - Dr. Mishna
- Episode #6.23 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
- Episode #6.21 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
1980 The Awakening (uncredited)
1980 Company and Co (TV Series) - Gopal
- Miss Lorelei Brown (1980) ... Gopal

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

Producer (1 credit)

1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) (producer - 13 episodes)
- Episode #4.13 (1986) ... (producer)
- Episode #4.12 (1986) ... (producer)
- Episode #4.11 (1986) ... (producer)
- Everybody's Out (1986) ... (producer)
- Wedding Fever (1986) ... (producer)

Self (1 credit)
1980 We'll Tell You a Story (TV Series)
Himself - Reader
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Himself - Reader

2022: CarBuzz reports on a charity auction of Bond cars starting today through 5 October.

You Can Now Buy Famous Stunt Cars
From James Bond Movies

See the complete article here:

https://carbuzz.com/news/you-can-now-buy-famous-stunt-cars-from-james-bond-movies

Jul. 30, 2022 by Jared Rosenholtz Auctions

The upcoming auction includes two Land Rovers and a Jag.

Fans of the James Bond films know that the fictional British Secret Service agent typically drives an Aston Martin, but he has been known to drive vehicles from other brands in a pinch. In the most recent installment of the 007 Series, No Time To Die, Bond drives the classic Aston Martin DB5 and is chased by several Jaguar and Land Rover vehicles. Several of those vehicles are now for sale in a massive charity auction to mark 60 years of Bond films.

The auction features 60 lots in total, with online bidding open from September 15 through October 5 (James Bond Day). The cars will be sold live on September 28 at an invitation-only event.

One of the wildest vehicles up for grabs is a stunt Land Rover Defender 110 with the VIN 007. CarBuzz actually had a chance to drive one of the 10 Defender stunt vehicles used in the film, and can speak to how fun it is off-road. The stunt car, which is expected to sell for around $360,000 to $600,000 (at current exchange rates), will benefit the British Red Cross.

But that's not the only Defender in the auction. Attendees can also bid on a Defender 110 V8 Bond Edition, built by SV Bespoke in anticipation of No Time To Die. Only 300 examples of the Bond Edition were built worldwide, and this one is a road-legal UK specification. It features special Bond touches like a '60 Years of Bond' logo on the instrument panel and a '007' badge on the tailgate. This Defender is expected to bring around $240,000 to $360,000 for Tusk charity, which preserves wildlife in Africa.

The final Land Rover featured in the sale is a Range Rover Sport SVR stunt car that was one of six used in the film's chase scene. Like the Defender V8 Bond Edition, it features a 5.0-liter supercharged V8 engine. It should sell for around $97,000 to $145,000.

Among the screen-used vehicles, the Jaguar XF chase car will be the most affordable one in the auction. Estimates predict it will sell for around $68,000 to $85,000. The Jag is one of two cars used in the pre-credit sequence where the villains chase James Bond (played by Daniel Craig) and Madeleine Swann (played by Laa Seydoux) through Italy's narrow streets.

"Defender, Range Rover, and Jaguar were in the thick of the action in No Time To Die. Each car represents a unique piece of James Bond history which we're sure collectors will be keen to own and we are delighted to be able to support our charity partners through their sale," said Nick Collins, Executive Director Vehicle Programs at Jaguar Land Rover.

RichardTheBruce

September 16th

1922: Guy Hamilton is born--Paris, France.
(He dies 20 April 2016 at age 93--Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.)

Guy Hamilton, Director
of ‘Goldfinger,’ Dies at 93

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/movies/guy-hamilton-director-of-goldfinger-dies-at-93.html

From left, the director Guy Hamilton, Sean Connery and Honor Blackman on the set of
“Goldfinger.” Credit United Artists, via Photofest

By William Grimes and Robert Berkvist | April 21, 2016

Guy Hamilton, a director whose emphasis on fast pacing and witty repartee made “Goldfinger” a model for the James Bond films to follow, and who directed three more installments in the series, died on Wednesday on the Mediterranean island of Majorca. He was 93.

His death was announced in a statement to The Associated Press by the Hospital Juaneda Miramar in the city of Palma. It provided no other details.

Mr. Hamilton, a former assistant to the British director Carol Reed, had the hit prison-escape movie “The Colditz Story” to his credit when the producers Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli asked him to direct “Dr. No,” the first Bond film. Unable to leave Britain, Mr. Hamilton turned down the job (it went to Terence Young), but he enthusiastically accepted the assignment to direct “Goldfinger,” the third Bond film.

He delivered a gem, “the most trendsetting directorial job of all the films,” Raymond Benson wrote in The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984). He sped up the action; accentuated the banter between Bond and his boss, M, and the equipment expert, Q — the key to Q, he told the actor Desmond Llewelyn, was that Q could not stand Bond — and added innumerable touches that became signatures.

“Everyone understands what is ‘Bondian,’” he told The Banner-Herald of Athens, Ga., in 2009. “If it was a cigarette lighter, it couldn’t just be a Zippo, it had to be the latest exclusive toy. It had to be more glamorous. Bond couldn’t have just any yacht — it had to be the biggest yacht in the world. We were creating a dream world, defining what was ‘Bondian.’”

After the modest successes of the first two Bond films, “Goldfinger” (1964) was a blockbuster hit, with Sean Connery giving a definitive performance, aided by a memorable slate of opponents: the supervillain Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), his henchman Oddjob (Harold Sakata) and the femme fatale Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman).

Mr. Hamilton took a break from the series when Mr. Saltzman hired him to direct the Cold War thriller “Funeral in Berlin” (1966), with Michael Caine, and “The Battle of Britain” (1969), a star-studded action film with Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Michael Redgrave and Mr. Caine.

He returned to the Bond films with “Diamonds Are Forever” (1971), the seventh in the series, and brought the franchise into the Roger Moore era with its two successors, “Live and Let Die” (1973) and “The Man With the Golden Gun” (1974).

Guy Hamilton was born on Sept. 16, 1922, in Paris, where his father was a press attaché to the British Embassy. Early on, he became a passionate film fan. As a teenager he worked at menial jobs at a film studio in Nice, and he served an apprenticeship with the director Julien Duvivier. With the outbreak of World War II he returned to London and served in the Royal Navy.

Guy Hamilton at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2005.
Credit Jean-Francois Guyot/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

In January 1944, as part of the 15th Motor Gunboat Flotilla, a secret unit that ferried agents into France and brought downed British pilots back to England, he and several crewmates missed a rendezvous and spent a month on the run in Brittany.

After the war he worked for Mr. Reed on “The Fallen Idol,” “The Third Man” and “Outcast of the Islands.” He made his directing debut with “The Ringer” (1952), a mystery about a shady solicitor whose life is threatened.

After directing the film version of the J.B. Priestley play “An Inspector Calls,” with Alastair Sim in the starring role, he made several films with a military theme.

“The Colditz Story” (1955), written with Ivan Foxwell, was an oddly humorous melodrama set in a Nazi prison camp where the British inmates seem to be having a good time, even as they plot their escape.

Another battleground, the American Revolution, was the setting for Mr. Hamilton’s interpretation of “The Devil’s Disciple” (1959), based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. Laurence Olivier played the British commander, General Burgoyne, Burt Lancaster a Yankee pastor who takes up arms against the British, and Kirk Douglas a rebel who discovers his true beliefs.

“The Best of Enemies” (1962) was another semi-serious war story, this time set in Ethiopia, about a British officer, played by David Niven, who continually crosses paths, and swords, with his Italian counterpart, played by Alberto Sordi. Mr. Hamilton’s skill in directing that movie’s action sequences led the producers of the Bond films to seek him out.

He later directed “Force 10 From Navarone” (1978), with Robert Shaw and Edward Fox as British saboteurs in the Balkans attempting to destroy a strategically vital bridge with the aid of Army Rangers led by Harrison Ford.

Mr. Hamilton returned to the mystery genre in the 1980s, his last active decade in the industry, with two films based on Agatha Christie novels:“The Mirror Crack’d” (1980), with Angela Lansbury as Miss Jane Marple, and “Evil Under the Sun” (1982), in which Peter Ustinov played the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

One of Mr. Hamilton’s last efforts was “Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins” (1985), about a policeman-turned-assassin, played by Fred Ward, who sets out on multiple missions of vengeance.

Mr. Hamilton’s first marriage, to the actress Naomi Chance, ended in divorce. His second wife was the actress Kerima, whom he met on the set of “Outcast of the Islands.” Complete information on his survivors was not avaliable.

“Goldfinger” remained the shining jewel in Mr. Hamilton’s career. In 2010, The Guardian of London, cataloging the film’s virtues, wrote: “Where to start? The card game that opens the movie or the epic golf match in the middle? The gold-obsessed villain or the hulking Korean hardman? The near-castration with the laser beam or the gangster compacted in his Continental? And who could forget sexually ambiguous Pussy Galore, as essayed by husky-voiced, karate-chopping 40-year-old bombshell Honor Blackman? It’s a compendium of everything one loves about 007.”

Guy Hamilton (1922–2016)
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357891/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
Director | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | Writer

Filmography

Director (23 credits)

2006 On Location with 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short)

1989 Try This One for Size
1985 Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
1982 Evil Under the Sun
1980 The Mirror Crack'd

1978 Force 10 from Navarone
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun
1973 Live and Let Die
1971 Diamonds Are Forever

1969 Battle of Britain
1966 Funeral in Berlin
1965 The Party's Over (uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger
1964 The Winston Affair
1961 The Best of Enemies
1960 A Touch of Larceny

1959 The Devil's Disciple
1957 Stowaway Girl
1956 Charley Moon
1955 The Colditz Story
1954 An Inspector Calls
1953 The Intruder
1952 The Ringer

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (11 credits)

1952 Murder on Monday (assistant director)
1951 The African Queen (assistant director)
1951 Outcast of the Islands (assistant director)
1950 The Great Manhunt (assistant director)
1950 The Angel with the Trumpet (assistant director)

1949 The Third Man (assistant director)
1949 Britannia Mews (assistant director)
1948 The Fallen Idol (assistant director)
1948 Anna Karenina (assistant director - uncredited)
1947 Mine Own Executioner (second assistant director - uncredited)
1947 I Became a Criminal (assistant director - uncredited)

Writer (4 credits)

1985 Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (uncredited)
1960 A Touch of Larceny
1957 Stowaway Girl (screenplay)
1955 The Colditz Story (adaptation and script)

Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)

2006 A Sense of Carol Reed (Video documentary short) (private photographic collections courtesy of)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (director: pre-production - uncredited)

Art department (1 credit)

2006 You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman (Video documentary) (illustrator)

Thanks (1 credit)

2010 Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus! (special thanks)

1962: Robert Wade is born--San Diego, California.
1963: The San Francisco Chronicle prints Ian Fleming's article "The Case of the Painfully Pulled Leg."

https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/16072/ian-fleming-and-the-case-of-the-painfully-pulled-leg

1966: NBC television airs the first of 28 episodes of The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. starring Stephanie Powers as agent April Dancer (Fleming's name suggestion) and Noel Harrison as agent Mark Slate.

1981: 007: Sólo para tus ojos (Only For Your Eyes) released in Mexico.

https://librosfugitivos.es/es/superheroes-y-comic-usa/1905300010-cine-comic-1-james-bond-007-solo-para-tus-ojos-ersa-1981-9788428907187.html

1981: The Village Voice in its “Rules of the Game” column declares For Your Eyes Only a “disappointment in relation to costs,” citing the $25 million budget.
1982: Octopussy films the backgammon game between OO7 and Khan.

1987: Tuer n’est pas jouer (Death is not a Game) released in France.

Not to be confused with.

1987: James Bond, praktor 007: Me to daktylo sti skandali (Με το δάχτυλο στη σκανδάλη; James Bond, Practitionaer 007: With Finger on Trigger) released in Greece.

1990: Armchair Detective Library publishes a hardcover version of John Gardner's Licence to Kill novelization.

1991: From Murakami Wolf Swenson, Danjaq and United Artists in cooperation with RLR Associates comes the James Bond Jr. cartoon series beginning with Episode 1 - "The Beginning." Sixty-four episodes follow. It spawns a limited Marvel comic series, paperbacks, video games, action figures.

James Bond Jr. (TV Series)
The Beginning (1991)

Directed by | Bill Hutten, Tony Love

Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
Andy Heyward ... (developer)
Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
Francis Moss ... (writer)
Ted Pedersen ... (writer)
Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Scumlord (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (voice)
Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)

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

1997: Terence Cooper dies at age 64--Cairns, Queensland, Australia.
(Born 5 July 1933--Carnmoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.)

Terence Cooper

See the complete article here:

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

in Casino Royale (1967)

Born - 5 July 1933, Carnmoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Died 16 September 1997 (aged 64), Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Other names - Terrance Cooper; Terrence Cooper
Occupation - Actor
Years active - 1955–1997

Terence Cooper (5 July 1933 – 16 September 1997) was a British film actor, best known for his roles in Australian and New Zealand television and film.

Biography
Born in 1933 at Carnmoney, a district of the modern-day borough of Newtownabbey in Northern Ireland, he became a stage actor and appeared in ITC British television series such as The Buccaneers and The Adventures of William Tell.

Cooper is most famous for appearing in the 1967 film, Casino Royale, a James Bond satire based on Ian Fleming's first Bond novel of the same name. Producer Charles K. Feldman kept him on a contract for two years before the film was made. He also claimed to be a candidate for the role of Bond in a Kevin McClory version of the movie series that predated Eon Productions series.

In New Zealand he starred in many New Zealand TV series such as Hunter's Gold (1977), an episode of Ngaio Marsh Theatre (1977), Gather Your Dreams (1978), Children of Fire Mountain (1979), Jack Holborn (1982) and Mortimer's Patch (1982). He played the part of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's bombastic character 'Professor George Edward Challenger' in a 1982 New Zealand radio dramatization of Doyle's novel "The Lost World" (produced by Peggy Wells and Barry Campbell).

In Australia, he appeared in guest roles in local drama series including Homicide, Division 4, Matlock Police, and Rafferty's Rules, with a regular role as Inspector Leo Vincetti in Bony (1992).

He was also famed as a water color artist. He retired in Far North Queensland, Australia where he painted a collection of water colors depicting Australian tropical rain forests and birdlife.

Perhaps one of Cooper's lesser known achievements was his 1982 publication, Trouper Cooper's Curry Cookbook (William Collins Publishers, Auckland 1982). At the time, Cooper ran a successful Curry restaurant in Auckland, New Zealand, Trouper Cooper's Curry House. He also wrote The Parnell Cookbook,

Partial filmography

The Square Peg (1958) - Paratrooper (uncredited)
Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955) - Gentleman
Top Floor Girl (1959) - (uncredited)
No Safety Ahead (1959) - (uncredited)

Calculated Risk (1964) - Nodge
Man in the Middle (1964) - Maj. Clement
Walk a Tightrope (1964) - Jason Shepperd
Casino Royale (1967) - Cooper (James Bond 007)

Beyond Reasonable Doubt (1980) - Paul Temin
Jack Holborn (1982) - Morris
Trespasses (1984) - Doug Mortimer
Heart of the Stag (1984) - Robert Jackson
Pallet on the Floor (1984) - Brendon O'Keefe
Should I Be Good? (1985) - Frank Lauber
Syliva (1985) - Inspector Bletcher
Kingpin (1985) - Dave Adams
Hot Target (1985) - Carmichael
Lie of the Land (1985) - Clifford
Hot Pursuit (1987) - Captain Andrew
No Way Out (1987) - N.Z. Ambassador
Defense Play (1988) - Professor Vandemeer

The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990) - Sir Ian Hobart
The Grasscutter (1990) - Jack Macready
Old Scores (1991) - Eric Hogg
Fatal Past (1994) - David Preston
Hell's Belles (1995) - (final film role)

Terence Cooper (1933–1997)

Actor | Producer | Writer
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0178414/

2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Reflections of Death.
Writers: Greg Pak, Andy Diggle, Benjamin Percy, Gail Simone, Mark Russell, Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
Artists: Dean Kotz, Luca Casalanguida, Kewber Baal, Eoin Marron, Robert Carey, Jordi Perez

JAMES BOND IN "REFLECTIONS
OF DEATH" OGN HARDCOVER

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1524115010
Cover: Fay Dalton
Writers: Greg Pak, Andy Diggle, Benjamin Percy, Gail Simone, Mark Russell, Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
Art: Dean Kotz, Luca Casalanguida, Kewber Baal, Eoin Marron, Robert Carey, Jordi Perez
Publication Date: September 2020
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 128 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 9/16/2020

128 stunning pages of nonstop thrills and intrigue!
An ALL-NEW, ALL-ORIGINAL James Bond graphic novel, by a cavalcade of superstars!
GREG PAK (Star Wars, Darth Vader)!
ANDY DIGGLE (Daredevil, Green Arrow)!
BENJAMIN PERCY (X-Force, Wolverine)!
GAIL SIMONE (Deadpool, Wonder Woman)!
MARK RUSSELL (Red Sonja, The Flintstones)!
VITA AYALA & DANNY LORE (James Bond ongoing series)!

Six stunning stories, featuring the world's greatest spy! Moneypenny has been kidnapped, and the mystery of who has her, and what they want, will only be revealed when (if?) 007 is able to complete his incredible missions.

2021: Danner Boots offer a limited edition product tied to No Time To Die.

Boots, Danner Boots: Walk
In 007’s Shoes In These
Limited-Edition Danner
Boots

See the complete article here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/breannawilson/2021/09/13/boots-danner-boots-walk-in-007s-shoes-in-these-limited-edition-danner-boots/?sh=5f2f2b6b8f22

Sep 13, 2021 | Breanna Wilson Contributor

James Bond. You’ve heard of the guy. You’ve even seen him in action. So, you know that when 007 needed a new pair of boots, he really needed a new pair of boots.

That’s where Danner Boots comes in. An iconic company that has been making high-quality, beautifully crafted boots ready for any adventure – or, in this case, any mission – for nearly a decade. (And a company that is no stranger to being front and center on the big screen – the images of Reese Witherspoon in her iconic Mountain Light Cascade Danner Boots in Wild are still immortalized in our brains.)

So, how does a company go about building a secret agent-ready military boot that has style and is built to last? They take an old favorite for members of the military and special forces and reconstruct it with 007 in mind.

The boot is based off the original Tanicus Danner Boot.
Danner Boots

Taking the original Tanicus Danner Boot, a boot known for its durable rough-out, full-grain leather, and 1000 Denier nylon offering superior protection, but still with a breathable mesh lining and an added layer of cushioning in the midsole and a dampening heel cup, all while keeping at an impressively light 39 oz. weight, Danner had a great place to start.

Now, replace the Danner Tanicus outsole with a pentagonal-patterned, custom Vibram® outsole made to grip various terrain, both indoors and outdoors. Go with an all-black suede and ballistic nylon construction, keep the breathable mesh lining, and you have the Danner limited-edition 007 Tanicus.

The limited-edition boot comes in a special all-black box customized for the release.
Danner Boots

The limited-edition 007 boot will come in a special all-black box adorning the No Time To Die logo and will only be available in men’s sizes, with women recommended to go down 1.5 to 2 full sizes for a correct fit. The sizes available will be 8-14, and the boot will be released for sale starting September 16, 2021, at Danner.com/bond for $180. Less than 1,000 pairs have been made.

With your 007 limited-edition Danner Boots in hand (and on your feet), watch 007 on his next mission in No Time To Die when it hits theaters on October 8th in the U.S.

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Splitting my time between Ulaanbaatar and Tbilisi, I cover the best of remote and adventure travel in lesser known destinations around the world.

2023: Batman Day.

RichardTheBruce

September 17th

1929: Formula One racing driver Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBE is born--West Kensington, London, England.
(He dies 12 April 2020 at age 90--Mayfair, London,England.)

James Bond's secret mission: to save Stirling Moss

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/11133873/James-Bonds-secret-mission-to-save-Stirling-Moss.html

Anthony Horowitz is to write a new James Bond novel based on a previously
unseen Ian Fleming story about a secret Russian plot to sabotage a Stirling
Moss race

British racing driver Stirling Moss in his vehicle at Silverstone Photo: Getty Images

By Anita Singh, Arts and Entertainment Editor |
6:00AM BST 02 Oct 2014

James Bond villains are usually bent on destroying the world order, but a newly unearthed Ian Fleming story reveals a more surprising target: Sir Stirling Moss.

Murder on Wheels finds 007 attempting to foil a Russian plot to sabotage the British racing driver by forcing his car off the track at the Nürburgring.

Fleming wrote the story as a synopsis for a US television episode. It was one of several commissioned by the US network CBS in the 1950s.

They had already screened Fleming’s early story, Casino Royale, in 1954 – albeit an Americanised version in which the spy was re-named “Jimmy Bond”.

Murder on Wheels never made it to the screen because the television episodes were discarded when the Bond films became hits.

But the story will be used as a starting point for a new Bond novel, to be written by Anthony Horowitz, details of which were announced yesterday.

The novel has been commissioned by the Fleming estate, and Horowitz follows Sebastian Faulks, Jeffrey Deaver and William Boyd in attempting to produce a story faithful to Fleming’s vision.

Horowitz is creator of the television series Foyle’s War and author of the Alex Rider books about a teenage spy. He recently wrote a Sherlock Holmes novel at the behest of the Arthur Conan Doyle estate, but said taking on 007 presented a bigger challenge.

“It’s no secret that Ian Fleming’s extraordinary character has had a profound influence on my life, so when the estate approached me to write a new James Bond novel how could I possibly refuse?” he said yesterday.

“It’s a huge challenge – more difficult even than Sherlock Holmes in some ways – but having original, unpublished material by Fleming has been an inspiration. This is a book I had to write.”

Horowitz will use the motor racing theme but it is understood he will remove references to Sir Stirling, who is now 85.

Lucy Fleming, the author’s niece, said of the unseen source material: “There are various scripts and things that Ian wrote in the 1950s, commissioned by an American broadcasting company. But, of course, once the films took off they never got made.

“It is a ‘treatment’ for a television episode and quite short, not a full script. James Bond gets called into M’s office and his mission is to make sure that a Russian plot to sabotage Stirling Moss’s race by forcing him to crash is intercepted.

“It is 50 years this year since Ian died and we thought it would be really nice if we could use some of his original imagination and storytelling.”

Miss Fleming said she believed it was the only instance of her uncle using a real-life character in one of his books, although they were occasionally included in the films: Janet Brown made a comic appearance as Baroness Thatcher in the closing scenes of For Your Eyes Only.

Stirling Moss

(1929–2020)
Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0609090/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Stirling Moss in the 1967 Casino Royale, far right




https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/1948_Maserati_4CLT

1941: Philip Méheux, BSC is born--Kent, South East England.

1951: Ian Fleming writes a letter to journalist-spy Antony Terry.

James Bond 007: Ian
Fleming Signed
Typewritten Letter
(Beckett/BAS LOA)

https://www.barnebys.com/auctions/lot/james-bond-007-ian-fleming-signed-typewritten-letter-beckett-bas-loa-5sR5eg-QCp
ABOUT THE ITEM

Ian Fleming could never have guessed the impact his creation would have on British culture, cinema, or the world's perception of British espionage. The enduring adoration for James Bond is something which could never had been conceived as Fleming sat down in Jamaica in January 1952, and succeeded in his quest to write the spy story to end all spy stories. Offered here is an ultra-rare letter written from Fleming to journalist and spy Antony Terry, dated September 17, 1951 - clearly, Fleming's interest in espionage had already begun at this point! Antony Terry was a giant of Cold War journalism, a Nazi-hunter, a spy, and a master manipulator - Fleming himself called Terry "by far the best correspondent in Germany". In this particular letter, Fleming praises Terry for his work on a certain assignment in Germany, naming it "as the most important politically of any of our correspondents". He finishes the letter hoping that Terry's "shoulders now feel strong enough to assume the mantle which [he was] intent on thrusting upon them". The typewritten letter on Kemsley House letterhead is signed in black steel tip, "Yours sincerely, Ian Fleming". Fleming has also handwritten at the top "Dear Antony Terry". In good condition with two horizontal folds and minor handling wear. Accompanied by a full Letter of Authenticity from Beckett Authentication Services (BAS).

1958: Ian Fleming responds to Miss Joanne Russell's letter from San Francisco complimenting his books.

549 Ian Fleming

https://www.icollector.com/Ian-Fleming_i9360965
Item Description

TLS, one page, 5 x 8, Kemsley House letterhead, September 17, 1958. Letter of thanks to an admirer. In part, “How very kind of you to have taken the trouble to write to me and I am delighted that the rather harum-scarum of James Bond entertain you. They seem to entertain most people with the vivid and adventurous spirit which I expect you have.” Fleming has also handwritten the greeting and the closing sentiment, “Yours ever.” In very good to fine condition, with some scattered light creasing and mounting remnants to the reverse lightly showing through at each corner.

To be sure, Fleming’s creation has not only entertained people, but spawned a franchise that has spanned more than 50 years and infiltrated not only the literary world but, of course, motion pictures. Not bad for the reckless “harum-scarum” promulgated by the title character and his license to kill. Fleming’s sixth Bond book, Dr. No, had been published just six months before this friendly letter, with eight more books yet to come. A highly desirable Bond reference.

Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.

1964: London premiere of Goldfinger at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, London. Kinematograph Weekly later reports it as chaotic with 5,000 fans creating near-riot conditions drawing police reinforcements. In fact police rescue Honor Blackman from the surging crowds.

1964: BBC airs The Guns of James Bond with Sean Connery and the real Geoffrey Boothroyd.

The Guns of James Bond

1964 | 5min

Short 1964 black-and-white documentary featurette hosted by Sean Connery and featuring the real-life inspiration for the character of Q, Major Geoffrey Boothroyd with a discussion of the gun weaponry used by James Bond.

Stars
Geoffrey Boothroyd
Sean Connery

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0143mf5

1966: CBS-TV premieres Mission: Impossible.

1972: ABC-TV airs the first televised Bond film with the network premiere of Goldfinger. Its 49-point share and 31.1 rating remains one of the most-watched television programs ever.

Goldfinger at 10:10

1977: Älskade spion (Beloved Spy) released in Sweden.

1982: Kingsley Amis reviews John Gardner's For Special Services in The Times Literary Supplement.

Kingsley Amis,
licence to kill

See the complete article here:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/kingsley-amis-licence-to-kill/

We revisit a review by Kingsley Amis of For
Special Services, a James Bond novel by John
Gardner, published in the TLS of September 17,
1982.

Ian Fleming’s last novel, The Man with the Golden Gun, appeared in 1965, the year after its author’s death. I published Colonel Sun: a James Bond adventure under the pseudonym of Robert Markham in 1968. The next Bond novel, Licence Renewed, by John Gardner, did not come along till 1981. Here now is For Special Services, by the same author.

Quite likely it ill becomes a man placed as I am to say that, whereas its predecessor was bad enough by any reasonable standard, the present offering is an unrelieved disaster all the way from its aptly forgettable title to the photograph of the author – surely an unflattering likeness – on the back of the jacket. If so that is just my bad luck. On the other hand, perhaps I can claim the privilege of at least a momentary venting of indignation at the disrepute into which this publication brings the name and works of Ian Fleming. Let me get something like that said before I have to start being funny and clever and risk letting the thing escape through underkill.

Over the last dozen years the Bond of the books must have been largely overlaid in the popular mind by the Bond of the films, a comic character with a lot of gadgets and witty remarks at his disposal. The temptation to let this Bond go the same way must have been considerable, but it has been resisted. Only once is he called upon to round off an action sequence with a yobbo-tickling throwaway of the sort that Sean Connery used to be so good at dropping out of the side of his mouth. No ridiculous feats are required of him. His personal armament seems plausible, his car seems capable of neither flight nor underwater locomotion, his cigarettes in the gunmetal case have the three gold rings as always and M calls him 007.

Nobody else does, though. The designation is a pure honorific like Warden of the Cinque Ports; some ruling from Brussels or The Hague has put paid to the pristine Double-O Section and its licence to kill long ago. Even the cigarettes are low-tar. But these and similar changes would hardly show if he had been allowed to keep some other interests and bits of himself, or find new ones. Does he still drink champagne with scrambled eggs and sausages? Wear a lightweight black-and-white dog-tooth check suit in the country? Do twenty slow press-ups each morning? Read Country Life? Ski, play baccarat and golf for high stakes, dive in scuba gear? What happened to that elegant international scene with its grand hotels and yachts? No information.

One thing Bond still does is have girls. There are three in this book, not counting a glimpse of Miss Moneypenny outside M’s door. The first is there just for local colour, around at the start, to be dropped as soon as the wheels start turning. She is called Q’ute because she comes from Q Branch. (Q himself is never mentioned, lives only in the films, belongs body and soul to Cubby Broccoli, the producer.) Q’ute is liberated and a champion of feminism. Luckily she only has two lines, but one of these contains a jovial mild obscenity, and a moment later there comes a terrifically subtle reference to the famous moment in the film of Dr No when Bond said, “Something big’s come up” in ambiguous circumstances and got the hoped-for laugh from the first audiences, thus, legend says, turning the subsequent films on to their giggly course. When you consider how much the original Bond would have hated these small manifestations of what the world has become since 1960 or so, you might be led to suspect a furtive taking of the piss, but nothing like it occurs again, as if Gardner, not the most self-assured of writers, had repented of his daring.

Bond’s second girl has the cacophonous and uncertainly suggestive name of Cedar Leiter – yes, kin to that Felix Leiter of the CIA whom sharks deprived of an arm and half a leg in Live and Let Die (1954). Cedar is his daughter, a superfluous and unprofitable device that raises that thorniest of all questions, Bond’s age in 1982. Bond keeps his hands off her throughout, perhaps out of scruple but more likely because only a satyromaniac would find her appealing. She is described as short – a deadly word. An attractive girl may be small, tiny, petite, pocket-sized and such, but never short. Poor Cedar has no style or presence, no skills or accessories, no colour, no shape. And it is this wan creature whom Bond instantly accepts as his partner for the whole enterprise. In a Fleming novel – I nearly wrote “in real life” – Bond would have outrun sound getting away from her. To be accurate, of course, he would have done that even if she had been Pussy Galore or Domino Vitali all over again. He knew all about the way women “hang on your gun-arm” and “fog things up with sex and hurt feelings”. But then that was 1953.

Bond scores all right with the third of the present trio, Nena Bismaquer, née Blofeld and the revengeful daughter of his old enemy, a detail meant to be a stunning revelation near the end but you guess it instantly. Nena – let me find the place – Nena looks fantastic and has incredible black eyes. Her voice is low and clear, with a tantalizing trace of accent. She wears exceptionally well-cut jeans and has that special poise which combines all the attributes Bond most admires in a woman. When she sees him first she gives him a smile calculated to make even the most misogynistic male buckle at the knees. As she comes closer, he feels a charge, an unmistakable chemistry passing between them. From expressions like these you can estimate the amount of trouble Gardner has taken with the figure of Nena and indeed the general level of his performance. It remains to be said about her that she has a long, slender nose and – by nature, not surgery – only one breast, an arresting combination of defects. Nobody really cares when she gets thrown among the pythons on the bayou. Well, there are pythons on this bayou.

There are two other villains round the place about whose villainy no bones are made from the beginning, Nena’s husband Markus and his boyfriend Walter Luxor. One is fat and cherubic, the other of corpse-like appearance, but neither exudes a particle of menace or looks for a moment as if he would be any trouble to kill, and Nena casually knocks them off one after the other on a late page. The three had schemed to steal the computer tapes governing America’s military space-satellites, having fed drugged ice-cream to the personnel in charge of them. Bond, brainwashed by other drugs into believing himself to be a US general, is at the head of the party of infiltrators, but a third set of drugs, administered by a suddenly renegade Bisma­quer, brings him to himself just in time. This sounds, I know, like a renewed and more radical bid to take the piss, but seen in the context of the whole book and its genesis the absurdity, however gross, is contingent, mere blundering.

I have suggested that For Special Services has little to do with the Bond films. In one sense this is its misfortune. Those films cover up any old implausibility or inconsistency by piling one outrage on another. You start to say to yourself “But he wouldn’t –” or “But they couldn’t –” and before you can finish Bond is crossing the sunward side of the planet Mercury in a tropical suit or sinking a Soviet aircraft-carrier with his teeth. Hardly a page in the book would not have gone the smoother for a diversion of this sort. Why, for instance, does the New York gang boss set his hoods on Bond when all he has to do is ask him nicely? Echo answers why. The reader is offered no relief from his bafflement.

What makes Mr Gardner’s book so hard to read is not so much its endlessly silly story as its desolateness, its lack of the slightest human interest or warmth. Ian Fleming himself would have conceded that he was not the greatest delineator of character; even so his people have genuine life and substance and many of them both experience and inspire feeling. So far from being “the man who is only a silhouette” Bond is shown to be fully capable of indignation, compunction, remorse, tenderness and a protective instinct towards defenceless creatures. His girls have a liveliness, a tenacity and sometimes a claim on affection beyond the requirements of formula. Most of the Fleming books also have a more or less flamboyant figure assisting Bond and acting as a foil to him, such as Darko Kerim, the Turkish agent in From Russia, with Love, and Enrico Colombo, the virtuous black-marketeer and smuggler in “Risico”. By a kind of tradition, however, perhaps started by Buchan with Dominick Medina in The Three Hostages, the main character-interest in this type of novel attaches to the villain. Mr Big, Hugo Drax, Dr No and their like are persons of some size and power. They are made to seem to exist in their own right, to have been operating since long before Bond crossed their paths, rather than to have been run up on the spot for him to practise on. But then to do anything like that the writer must be genuinely interested in his material.

1986: The Living Daylights second unit films the pre-title action sequence in Gibraltar.

1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 2 of 65 - "Earthcracker." [Also "Earth Cracker"; "Earth-Cracker"]

James Bond Jr. (TV Series)
Earth Cracker (1991)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807100/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_cl_sm

Bond, I.Q. and Tracy travel to find El Dorado, the Lost City of Gold. They are met by Oddjob and Goldfinger and their deadly weapon, Earth Cracker.

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

Cast (in credits order)
Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob (voice)
Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
Jan Rabson ... Auric Goldfinger (voice)
Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Mari Devon ... (voice)

James Bond Jr 02 Earth Cracker

2007: The Irish Examiner reports the Sunday Express reports Bond producers pass on Amy Winehouse

Winehouse rejected by
Bond producers?

See the complete article here:

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30328182.html

Mon, 17 Sep, 2007

British singer Amy Winehouse has been dumped by 'James Bond' producers over her recent 'bad behaviour', according to reports.

The Rehab star was rumoured to be in talks with bosses from the superspy franchise to record the theme tune to the next Bond movie, but her hospitalisation last month after three days of hard partying has allegedly place the deal in jeopardy.

Composer David Arnold - who penned the soundtrack to the last four Bond movies - was on the verge of asking Winehouse to sing the theme tune after praising the star for having "the best record of last year", but the film's producers have now had second thoughts.

A source tells British newspaper the Sunday Express: "A month ago Amy was thought to be a shoo-in for the theme tune to Bond 22. Her voice and musical style was in perfect sync with what Bond is all about.

"There was even talk of her having a cameo by performing the theme tune in a smoky club Bond visits - but that's out of the window now.

"After all the reports of hard drug use, self-injury and domestic violence, it's fair to say the bosses here aren't keen on the idea."

2010: Former Fleming sports car 1962 AC Aceca Coupé goes to auction at Bonhams.

Bond Creator Ian Fleming’s Sports Car Sells For Record
Price

See the complete article here:

https://www.elitetraveler.com/travel/travel-news/bond-creator-ian-flemings-sports-car-sells-for-record-price

By webadmin | September 24 2010
London, UK – Reported by Elite Traveler, the Private Jet Lifestyle Magazine

A 1962 AC Aceca Coupé once owned by the creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming, sold for a believed record £80,000 on Friday 17 September at Bonhams’ Goodwood Revival sale. Dark blue with a red leather interior, the car is one of only six surviving Ford-powered Acecas in the world.

The Goodwood Revival sale, which realised over £3 million with 70% sold by lot, was the culmination of an excellent week for Bonhams UK Motoring Department. Within the space of six days, it has sold £5,000,000 worth of motor cars, motorcycles and automobilia. (Beaulieu Autojumble on Saturday 11 September totalled £2 million).

Another motor car once owned by a high-profile figure, a 1988 Jaguar XJ-S V12 Convertible that belonged to Sarah, Duchess of York, also featured in the Goodwood Revival sale, and sold for £23,000.

Meanwhile top prices were paid for a 1949 Alfa Romeo 6C 2500 Super Sport Cabriolet, at £188,500; a 1938 Lagonda V12 Drophead Coupé, which sold for £186,300; and a 1959 Aston Martin DB4 Series 1 Sports Saloon, the 26th ever produced, which made £145,600.

A collection of motor cars, the property of a titled gentleman, performed exceptionally well. A 1956 Jaguar XK140 Drophead Coupé sold for £131,300, against an estimate of £80,000 – 100,000 and ’67 ARX’ an ex-works 1962 Austin-Healey 3000 MKII Rally car fetched £113,700 having been estimated at £70,000 – 100,000.

In the automobilia sale, children’s cars proved extremely popular: a child’s Mercedes-Benz W125 smashed its pre-sale estimate of £3,000 – 5,000, selling for a remarkable £23,000, and a Jaguar D-Type children’s car sold for £19,550 against an estimate of £10,000 – 12,000.

Although bidding for the top lot in the sale, a 1953 Jaguar C-Type, fell short of its reserve on Friday, Bonhams is currently involved in on-going discussions to conclude a sale.

The replica Supermarine Spitfire owned by The Royal British Legion, which was due to be sold at Goodwood Revival, sold ahead of the auction – to a buyer who magnanimously will continue to make the aircraft available to the charity – in excess of its estimate (£50,000 – 60,000).

James Knight, the Group Head and Managing Director of Bonhams’ Motoring Department, comments: “The UK motoring team have experienced an incredibly busy period and emerged with very positive statistics. Only Bonhams could handle this type of sale schedule and it is a testament to the calibre and enthusiasm of my team and our support departments to deliver these results.”

2015: Monica Belucci says she's a Bond Lady, a Bond woman.

Monica Bellucci: ‘I’m not a Bond girl,
I’m a Bond woman’

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/sep/17/monica-bellucci-james-bond-spectre-bond-woman

The actor, soon to be seen in the new James Bond movie Spectre, on why 007 is the perfect man – and what draws her to roles in ‘violent and unwatchable’ films

Monica Bellucci … 'Bond is the most amazing man'. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Nigel M Smith | @nigelmfs | Thu 17 Sep 2015

Hi Monica! You’re about to become the oldest James Bond love interest in history (1). Why do you think your casting struck such a nerve?
Because the world is a man’s world. Men have the power in everything: journalism, acting, direction; in banks, finances, schools. All the laws are made by men. Men think that women, when they’re not able to procreate any more, become old. That is not true – they are still amazing! That’s why I think that Sam Mendes [director of the new James Bond film, Spectre], in choosing me, an adult woman, created a big revolution.

I don’t know Hollywood very well. I’ve never lived in Los Angeles or New York. But what I can see in Paris, where I live, is that actresses like Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Charlotte Rampling, still get the chance to play strong, sexy roles even though they’re not 20.

Some people take offence at the term Bond girl. Do you?
I can’t say I’m a Bond girl because I’m too mature to be a Bond girl. I say Bond lady; Bond woman. But I’m proud to be a Bond lady, because actually, Bond is the most amazing man. You know why?

Why?
Because he doesn’t exist.

I’ve just seen your new film, Ville-Marie, at the Toronto film festival. You play an actress in it. How was that?
First of all she’s a woman – with so many problems. She uses the fact that she’s an actress in the way a solider protects himself with a weapon. Because when she goes out in public, the people look for an image, not who she is. People think she’s beautiful, famous and special. And actually she feels like less than nothing.

Bellucci and Daniel Craig on the set of Spectre. Photograph: Getty Images.

Could you relate to that?
I hope not! But if you ask me why I’m an actress – I don’t know why. There is one beautiful sentence that Humphrey Bogart used to say ... not Humphrey Bogart! Richard Burton! Richard Burton used to say: “An actress is more than a woman, and an actor is less than a man.” (2) I don’t know what that’s about. But it’s just something that I need to do right now. Maybe in 10 years I won’t be an actress any more. But right now, to play is something I need. It’s one way of learning something about myself.

I hope that I’m a better mother to my children. But I have two girls (3); if I had a boy maybe it would be more difficult. The relationship with my girls is very beautiful. But I think I can understand the pain for a mother who doesn’t have a good relation with her son. I don’t think there’s bigger pain than that.

Daniel Craig and Léa Seydoux on the set of Spectre.

What draws you to more extreme films like Irréversible? (4)
My body is an object of work. That’s why I think to be an actor is one of the most violent jobs. If you’re a pianist, you have your piano. If you’re a guitarist, you have your guitar. But if you’re a dancer, or you’re an actor – your instrument is your body.

For example, when we see dancers while they’re dancing, it’s like they fly up in the air. The most touching moment of my life was when I went to the Bolshoi in Moscow: I’ve never seen such elevation of art. But I’m sure that when the dancers got back into their little room, their feet were full of blood. While they’re dancing, they don’t feel the blood. It’s more of a high than pain. I think actors can do things with their body – it’s like they forget they are inside. They can do things without being ashamed.

Do you ever feel you go too far?
Sometimes I ask why directors ask that I do things that are so violent. I don’t know. Beauty is like a mask, and people think that when you’re beautiful, some things can be easier. For example, I was very shy early in my life. When I started to be pretty I was less shy because people would come to me, instead of me coming to them. But even though the problems are still the same, there’s a moment in your life where the beauty of youth goes away. Even though you say I’m pretty, I’m 50 years old, not 20. There is a moment in your life when you have to deal, because time goes by. All I can say is that I’m ready for it.

Footnotes
(1) In Spectre, out in late October. Bellucci is … 51.
(2) The quotation appears on various websites as “An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman”. It was Richard Burton, though.
(3) Bellucci has two children with actor Vincent Cassel, from whom she separated in 2013.
(4) Gaspar Noé’s 2002 hardcore drama, co-starring Cassel. The critic Roger Ebert called it “so violent and cruel that most people will find it unwatchable”.

2020: Rosamund Pike says she'd love to return to her Bond film role.

James Bond star would ‘LOVE’ to
return to 007 franchise – despite
character death

See the complete article here:

https://www.truehollywoodtalk.com/james-bond-star-would-love-to-return-to-007-franchise-despite-character-death/

By True Hollywood Talk - September 17, 2020

James Bond star would ‘LOVE’ to return to 007 franchise – despite character death

During this, the star was asked about her character, Frost, and if she would make her way back to the franchise.

“I would love to tackle that character again,” she answered without skipping a beat.

She then went on to give her hopes for what Frost could do in another film.

Pike continued: “I’d like her to have the experience that I now have, not just as an actress but as a woman."

2022: John Higgs in The Spectator proposes James Bond and the Beatles at war for Britain's Soul.

James Bond and the Beatles at war
for Britain’s soul

See the complete article here:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/james-bond-and-the-beatles-at-war-for-britain-s-soul

The two post-war British phenomena, one representing Death,
the other Love, are contrasted in many other ingenious ways
by John Higgs

From magazine issue: 17 September 2022

Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr. No (1962).
The agent, a professional killer, represents Death, according to John Higgs,
whereas the Beatles represent Love. [Shutterstock]

Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche
John Higgs
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp. 516, £20

‘Better use your sense,’ advised Bob Dylan: ‘take what you have gathered from coincidence.’ John Higgs is a master of taking what he can gather from coincidence – or, as he would insist, synchronicity. From the filigree of connections and echoes in the KLF (Discordianism through the lens of 1990s pop provocateurs) to the psychogeography of Watling Street to more recent deep dives into William Blake, he confronts the modern Matter of Britain: who wields power, and who resists it?

Love and Let Die starts with another perfect coincidence, namely that it was 60 years ago – to be precise, 5 October 1962 – that saw the first Beatles single appear in shops and the first James Bond film appear in cinemas. From this, Higgs conjures a whole cultural history of the past six decades, as the parallel stories of Bond and the Beatles cross over, contrast with, quarrel with and occasionally enhance each other.

From the dual release of ‘Love Me Do’ and Dr. No, the protagonists keep rubbing up against each other. Help!, the Beatles’ second film, is essentially a Bond homage. Paul McCartney resurrected a dead-in-the-water solo career with a Bond theme. Ringo Starr married Barbara Bach, The Spy Who Loved Me’s Major Anya Amasova. The agent, for his part, was snootier. ‘My dear girl,’ Bond tells Jill Masterson in Goldfinger, ‘there are some things that just aren’t done, such as drinking Dom Perignon ’53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs.’ But, as Higgs notes, the character

“knew exactly which restaurant, tailor or brand of vermouth was the finest,
and always insisted on having the very best for himself. But his mastery only
extends to the material world, and music, along with the emotions it
generates, are [sic] immaterial. Bond no more has good taste in music than he
has an understanding of empathy or intimacy.

For Higgs, the Beatles represent Love: Love Me Do. She Loves You. Can’t Buy Me Love. All You Need is Love. Bond, a professional killer, represents Death: Die Another Day. Live and Let Die. No Time to Die. Eros and Thanatos are at war for the soul of post-war Britain. The contrasts are everywhere. The Beatles are northern; Bond southern. Boys like Bond; girls like the Beatles. The Beatles liked football; Bond is interested only in single-player sports. The dualities extend to minute matters of taste: the Beatles floated on a sea of tea, as anyone who has watched Get Back can attest; Bond (‘be a good girl and make me some coffee’) considered it ‘one of the main reasons for the downfall of the British Empire’.

This is a pointer to the key distinction: Bond represents a version of England that Higgs dubs the Norman Continuity Empire, the England of received pronunciation and private schooling and inherited wealth. Not only Bond, but Ian Fleming gets a rough ride from Higgs, who takes a lot of semi-aristocratic teasing perhaps too much at face value.

In his account, Fleming was a child of privilege who repeatedly failed: expelled from Eton and from Sandhurst; his role in naval intelligence ‘a cushy job handed to him by family contacts’. Jonathan Cape had to be leant on to publish Casino Royale and its first admiring reviews were all from friends. (Later, vituperative reviews were often also from friends, at least notional ones.) The novels, shot through with wish-fulfilment, were ‘rushed and barely edited’: Higgs has a particular disdain for Thunderball’s sentence ‘It was a room-shaped room with furniture-shaped furniture’, which in context is a perfectly fine example of Chandlerian laconic. The dark power of the novels is conceded through gritted teeth.

The two worlds collided most recently at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics. For Higgs, the section where Daniel Craig, in character, escorted the Queen by helicopter and the two appeared to parachute down to the stadium both acknowledged the Norman Continuity Empire and defanged it. ‘Danny Boyle and Frank Cottrell-Boyce had used the banishing power of laughter to protect their ceremony from being claimed by the powers that be through mild ridicule.’ Then the stage was clear for a people’s version of Britain – the NHS, suffragettes and, inevitably, the Beatles, from giant yellow submarines to the Arctic Monkeys singing ‘Come Together’ to Paul McCartney leading a mass singalong of ‘Hey Jude’.

The Beatles and Bond remain the only two post-war UK cultural colossi with multi-generational and global reach: Higgs notes that Doctor Who (whose lead has regenerated more often even than Bond) is largely an Anglophone phenomenon and that today’s teenagers are tiring of Harry Potter. But No Time to Die was the most successful western film since the pandemic. Get Back was watercooler TV and (since the book went to press) a new deluxe edition of Revolver has been announced.

Higgs’s central thesis has an overarching explanatory power and he marshals a wide range of details. The duality may not be quite as sharp as he insists. The Kiss-Kiss is as central to Bond’s glamour as the Bang-Bang. The Beatles were no strangers to occasional cruelty and even violence (in Get Back, John jokes about having beaten and hospitalised a friend at Paul’s 21st birthday party six years earlier). And even if the lyrics celebrate love, rock music’s energy often contains a thrill of aggression. But Higgs’s final verdict, on how James Bond will return, is inarguable. ‘There is no reason why you can’t be emotionally intelligent behind the wheel of a really fast sports car.’ Indeed.

Written by David Honigmann

In The Beatles and Bond
Eros and Thanatos are at
war for the soul of
post-war Britain

2022: The Music of James Bond Without George Lazenby at Hamer Hall, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Concertworks presents
The Music of
James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.artscentremelbourne.com.au/whats-on/2022/contemporary-music/music-of-james-bond-with-george-lazenby

17 September | Hamer Hall
$79.90 - $189.90

Performance dates & times
Saturday 17 Sep
7:30 PM

Running Time
2 hours 30 minutes (20 minute interval)
Price range
Premium
Standard
$189.90
Senior
$170.90

Reserve
Standard
$79.90 - $159.90
Senior
$71.90 - $143.90

The Music of James Bond will now proceed without George Lazenby in attendance.

Come hear the evolution of the last 60 years of pop music through the world of 007.

From the sassy brass of Shirley Bassey’s 'Goldfinger' to the haunting intimacy of Billie Eilish’s 'No Time To Die', the concert will take listeners on a musical journey covering every decade of the iconic film franchise. Featuring songs from legendary composers and songwriters including John Barry, Marvin Hamlisch, Paul McCartney, Bill Conti, David Arnold and Adele, this is set to be an unforgettable night of Bond music and the ultimate celebration on the 60th anniversary of the series.

Under the baton of Nicholas Buc, John Foreman’s Aussie Pops Orchestra will provide an unforgettable night of music, joined on stage by sensational vocalists Bonnie Anderson (Neighbours, SAS, winner Masked Singer and winner Australia’s Got Talent) and Luke Kennedy (The Voice Australia, Jesus Christ Superstar, Swing On This), who prefer their martinis shaken not stirred.

Please Note: Arts Centre Melbourne fully supports the decision of promoter Concertworks to remove Mr Lazenby from The Music of James Bond in light of Mr Lazenby’s language, comments and recollections during a recent performance at the Perth Concert Hall. The concert will now proceed without Mr Lazenby in attendance. If you are an existing ticket holder and no longer wish to attend please contact our team at least 2 hours prior to the commencement of the event on 1300 182 183 between 9:00am-4:30pm or email [email protected].

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I am beyond excited to be a part of this
spectacular show. I still remember hearing
the powerful Adele song ‘Skyfall’ for the
first time, which is my all-time favourite
musical moment of the James Bond
cosmos.
Bonnie Anderson

I am thrilled to perform the iconic 007
songbook with breathtaking orchestras
across Australia, especially in this very
special anniversary year.
Luke Kennedy

Featured Songs
Program

From Russia With Love
Goldfinger
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
Diamonds Are Forever
Live and Let Die
The Man With The Golden Gun
Nobody Does It Better
Moonraker
For Your Eyes Only
A View To A Kill
The Living Daylights
Licence To Kill
Goldeneye
Tomorrow Never Dies
You Know My Name
Skyfall
The Writings On The Wall
No Time To Die