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January 3rd

1922: Dana Natol (later Dana Wilson Broccoli) is born--New York City, New York.
(She dies 29 February 2004 at age 82--Los Angeles, California.)

Dana Broccoli

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1455828/Dana-Broccoli.html
12:03AM GMT 03 Mar 2004

Dana Broccoli who died on Sunday aged 82, was the widow of Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, the producer of the James Bond films; during their 37-year marriage she was her husband's unofficial adviser and muse, and became, after his death, the custodian of the James Bond franchise.

Elegant and well-connected, Dana Broccoli was the perfect foil to her husband who was the son of an Italian-American bricklayer; but while the vast and affable Cubby - who liked to cook pasta for his cast and crew - was noted for his geniality, it was the chic, raven-haired Dana who had a more steely reputation. "I'm half Irish and half Italian," she would explain. "I'm just bloody-minded." Even her adoring husband described her as "formidable" several times in his autobiography. "Dana," he wrote, "takes no prisoners. She does not have the gift of forgiveness".

In 1959 Broccoli was already a successful producer when he married Dana Wilson, a divorcee, following a six-week courtship. A year later Broccoli and the Canadian producer Harry Saltzman set up a film company with the intention of putting Ian Fleming's James Bond novels on the big screen. Broccoli was not the first film-maker to approach Fleming, but, aided by his shrewd and glamorous wife, the bear-like New Yorker struck up an unlikely friendship with Fleming, an Old Etonian with a marked disdain for Hollywood. "I found him a lovely man," Dana Broccoli recalled years later, "charming and intelligent."

Moreover, it was Dana Broccoli who decided that an unknown beefcake named Sean Connery was the right man to play Bond in Dr No (1962), the first of the Bond films. Connery had come to Cubby Broccoli's attention playing a burly farmhand in a Walt Disney film about leprechauns.

"One day," Dana Broccoli later recalled, "Cubby called me and said: 'Could you come down and look at this Disney leprechaun film, Darby O'Gill and the Little People, at the Goldwyn Studios? I don't know if this Sean Connery guy has any sex appeal.' I saw that face and the way he moved and talked, and I said: 'Cubby, he's fabulous!' He was just perfect, he had star material right there."

But she had little sympathy with Connery after he referred, in 1966, to "fat-slob producers living off the backs of lean actors", and after Connery issued a law-suit in 1984 against Broccoli demanding more royalties from the Bond films. Connery eventually abandoned the dispute after settling for merchandising rights.

But, following Cubby Broccoli's death in 1996, Dana Broccoli was surprised and disappointed when Connery did not appear at the memorial service. "I don't have to understand Sean," she said in 2000, "and he doesn't need my understanding; he's doing very well without my understanding."

She was born Dana Natol in New York on January 3 1922. Having decided at an early age to become an actress, she attended Cecil Clovelly's Academy of Dramatic Arts at Carnegie Hall in New York. There she met her first husband, Lewis Wilson, who was the first actor to play Batman. In 1942 she gave birth to a son, Michael, and three years later the family moved to California where Dana Wilson and her husband joined the Pasadena Playhouse.

After separating from Wilson, she moved to Beverly Hills where she became a screenwriter; in 1959, at a party, she met Broccoli, whose previous wife had died. Broccoli, had been born into an impoverished family of Italian immigrants in Queens, and was a self-made man, descended, apparently, from farmers who had invented broccoli by crossing a cauliflower and a pea.

A keen gambler, he had had a sketchy career, working as a vegetable packer and coffin polisher before getting a job as a tea boy at Twentieth Century Fox. In 1947, while trying to earn some extra dollars, he had got a job selling Christmas trees on a street corner and was particularly struck by a beautiful young woman who had bought one of the trees and for whom he had constructed a stand to hold it. When he was finally introduced to Dana Wilson, 12 years later, he realised that she was the same woman, and she too remembered the incident. Both believed that fate had brought them together.

Following their wedding in Las Vegas (Cary Grant was the best man), the couple returned to Cubby Broccoli's house in London. Dana adopted Cubby's two children from his previous marriage and the following year gave birth to a daughter, Barbara.

In 1967, Danjaq LLC, the film company set up by Cubby and Dana Broccoli, produced Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, another of Fleming's books; and in 2002 Dana Broccoli produced the successful stage version, which is still running in the West End.

Dana Broccoli also published two novels, Scenario for Murder, and Florinda. She adapted the latter for the musical, La Cava, which was staged in London in 2000.

The Broccolis lived in London for many years until, in 1977, they reluctantly sold their house in Mayfair and moved to Los Angeles for tax reasons. Although the couple enjoyed the wealth acquired through the Bond films (they had a large collection of paintings, including a Renoir and a Picasso) they also raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charities, particularly the NSPCC, which benefited greatly from the Broccolis' largesse.

In 1977 Dana Broccoli's son, Michael G Wilson, and daughter, Barbara Broccoli, took over production of the Bond films, and after her husband's death Dana Broccoli took over as chairman of the board. "It was all family," she explained, "that was a large part of our success; the big extended family . . . We still see a lot of Timothy Dalton, and Roger [Moore] is always popping in. Roger always liked the pasta and the backgammon."

Cubby Broccoli's death left her bereft but by no means bowed. "I was very happy taking care of Cubby," she said recently, adding, "I would never marry again. Cubby was irreplaceable. We went through so much together, ups and downs, but it has been a fabulous journey."

Dana Broccoli is survived by her two sons and two daughters.

Dana Broccoli (1922–2004)

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Filmography

Actress (5 credits)

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

1965 Thunderball - Cafe Martinique Dancer (uncredited)

1952 Craig Kennedy, Criminologist (TV Series) - Sandra Whitney
- The Golden Dagger ... Sandra Whitney (as Dana Wilson)
1951 Wild Women of Wongo - Queen (as Dana Wilson)
1950 Once a Thief - Jane (as Dana Wilson)

Thanks (26 credits)

2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) (special thanks)
2000 Designing Bond: Peter Lamont (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Ian Fleming: 007's Creator (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'The Living Daylights' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Ken Adam: Designing Bond (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 The Bond Sound: The Music of 007 (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Licence to Kill' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)

1999 Inside 'Live and Let Die' (Video documentary short) (special thanks)
1995 The Goldfinger Phenomenon (Video documentary short) (special thanks)

Self (19 credits)

2002 Premiere Bond: Die Another Day (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Herself
2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'The Living Daylights' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself

1989 Licence to Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1987 James Bond: Licence to Thrill (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
1985 A View to a Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself

1979 The Paul Ryan Show (TV Series) - Herself
- Albert R. Broccoli and Dana Broccoli (1979) ... Herself
- Episode #1.63 ... Herself
1979 My Name Is Bond... James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
1967 You Only Live Twice: The Royal Premiere (Documentary short) - Herself
1967 Whicker's World (TV Series documentary) - Herself
- The World of James Bond (1967) ... Herself

HiArchive footage (4 credits)

2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Herself
2008 James Bond in the Bahamas (Video documentary short) - Herself
2006 Premiere Bond: Opening Nights (Video documentary short) - Herself
2006 The Exotic Locations of 'Thunderball' (Video documentary short) - Cafe Martinique Dancer

1926: Sir George Henry Martin, CBE, is born--Holloway, London, England.
(He dies 8 March 2016 at age 90--Colesshill, Oxfordshire, England.)

Sir George Martin obituary

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

George Martin (I) (1926–2016)

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Filmography

Music department (31 credits)

2006 Live and Let Die: Conceptual Art (Video documentary short) (music)
2005 Yoshiki Symphonic Concert 2002 with Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra Featuring Violet UK (Video documentary) (music arranger)

1999 Live and Let Die: On Set with Roger Moore (Video short) (music)
1997 Tropic Island Hum (Short) (incidental score) / (orchestrator)

1989 The Prince's Trust Rock Gala (TV Special) (musical director)
1985 Rupert and the Frog Song (Short) (music arranger)
1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street (music arranger) / (musical director) / (orchestrator)

1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (conductor) / (music arranger) / (musical director) / (original soundtrack album produced by)
1972 Pulp (conductor)
1970 Tales of Unease (TV Series) (composer - 6 episodes)
- The Old Banger (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- Bad Bad Jo Jo (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- Superstitious Ignorance (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- The Black Goddess (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- Calculated Nightmare (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)
- Ride, Ride (1970) ... (composer: theme music "Eary Feary" - uncredited)

1969 The Beatles: Something (Video short) (record producer)
1969 The Beatles: Get Back (Video short) (record producer)
1969 The Beatles: Don't Let Me Down (Video short) (record producer)
1968 The Beatles: Hey Jude (Video short) (record producer)
1968 Frost on Sunday (TV Series) (composer: theme "By George! It's the David Frost Theme")
1968 Yellow Submarine (musical director)
1967 The Beatles: A Day in the Life (Video short) (record producer)
1967 The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever (Video short) (record producer)
1967 Magical Mystery Tour (TV Movie) (music producer - uncredited)
1967 The Beatles: Hello, Goodbye (Video short) (record producer)
1967 The Beatles: Penny Lane (Video short) (record producer)
1966 The Beatles: Rain (Video short) (record producer)
1966 The Family Way (music adaptor - uncredited) / (music arranger) / (music supervisor)
1966 Cilla at the Savoy (TV Special) (orchestra)
1966 The Beatles: Paperback Writer (Video short) (record producer)
1965 The Beatles: We Can Work it Out (Video short) (record producer)
1965 Help! (music producer - uncredited)
1964 Ferry Cross the Mersey (musical director)
1964 A Hard Day's Night (composer: incidental music - uncredited) / (music arranger - uncredited) / (music producer - uncredited) / (musical director) / (performer: "This Boy: Ringo's Theme" - uncredited)
1963 Calculated Risk (music director)
1963 Take Me Over (arranger and conductor)

Soundtrack (31 credits)

2017/I My Generation (Documentary) (producer: "Strawberry Fields Forever")
2017 The Big Catch (TV Series) (producer: "A Hard Day's Night")
2016 Good Girls Revolt (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Puff Piece (2016) ... (performer: "My Baby Loves Me" - uncredited)
2016 Storm Chasing: The Anthology (Documentary) ("Elephants and Castles")
2016 Morfi, todos a la mesa (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
- Episode dated 5 April 2016 (2016) ... (producer: "All You Need Is Love")
2016 Hola y adiós (TV Series documentary) (producer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.11 (2016) ... (producer: "Blackbird")
2016 The Walking Dead: Michonne (Video Game) (writer: "Gun in my Hand")
2015/I Aloha (performer: "Pepperland") / (writer: "Pepperland")
2014 Tu cara me suena - Argentina (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
- Episode #2.8 (2014) ... (producer: "Yesterday", "Ticket to Ride", "Help!")

2008 Frost/Nixon (writer: "By George It's David Frost" - as George Henry Martin)
2007 Across the Universe (performer: "A Day In The Life")
2003 The Alchemists of Sound (TV Movie documentary) (writer: "Time Beat" - as Ray Cathode) / (writer: "Waltz in Orbit")

1997 Tropic Island Hum (Short) (arranger: "Tropic Island Hum")
1997 The Rhythm of Life (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Melody (1997) ... ("God Only Knows", uncredited) / (performer: "All By Myself" - uncredited)
1995 The Beatles Anthology (TV Mini-Series documentary) (writer: "Love in the Open Air", "By George! It's The David Frost Theme")
1994 EarthBound (Video Game) (arranger: "La Marseillaise" - uncredited)
1991 Ai monogatari (TV Mini-Series) (producer: "I Want to Hold Your Hand")

1981 Honky Tonk Freeway (writer: "Ticlaw Anthem", "Love Keeps Bringing Me Down")
1980 Roadie (producer: "Everything Works If You Let It")

1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (producer: "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Fixing A Hole", "Getting Better", "Here Comes The Sun", "I Want You (She's So Heavy)", "Good Morning, Good Morning", "Nowhere Man", "Polythene Pam", "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Reprise), "Mean Mr. Mustard", "She's Leaving Home", "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds", "Oh! Darling", "Maxwell's Silver Hammer", "Because", "Strawberry Fields Forever", "Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite", "You Never Give Me Your Money", "When I'm 64", "Come Together", "Golden Slumbers", "Carry That Weight", "The Long And Winding Road", "A Day In The Life", "Get Back", "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (Finale))
1978 Ringo (TV Movie) (arranger: "Yellow Submarine in Pepperland" (instrumental))
1975 Goodbye Bruce Lee: His Last Game of Death ("Trespassers Will Be Eaten")
1970 Mister Jerico (TV Movie) (music: "Mister Jerico")

1969 The Southern Star (arranger: "The Southern Star")
1967 The Bobo ("Girl from Barcelona", "The Bulls of Salamanca")
1966 The Family Way (performer: "Love In The Open Air" (main theme) - uncredited)
1966 Alfie (producer: "Alfie")
1962 Crooks Anonymous (music: "I Must Resist Temptation" - uncredited)
1961 V.D. (performer: "Lovers Blues") / (writer: "Lovers Blues")
1961 I Like Money (music: "I Like Money")

1956 Smiley (producer: "Smiley")

Composer (10 credits)

1981 Honky Tonk Freeway

1973 The Optimists of Nine Elms
1973 Live and Let Die (music score)
1972 Pulp

1969 With a Little Help from my Friends (TV Special) (music by)
1966 The Family Way (uncredited)
1964 Ferry Cross the Mersey
1963 Calculated Risk
1963 Take Me Over
1962 Crooks Anonymous

Actor (2 credits)

2017 MIRA Protocol (Short) - Esteban

1984 Give My Regards to Broad Street - Producer

Producer (2 credits)

2002 Spike Milligan: I Told You I Was Ill... - A Live Tribute (TV Movie) (event producer - as Sir George Martin)

1997 Music for Montserrat (TV Special documentary) (producer)

1962: In a letter to Geoffrey Boothroyd, Ian Fleming sends greetings. "I feel safe in wishing you a Prosperous New Year, and if the tax man becomes too difficult, I suggest you shoot him."

The strange tale of the man who armed James Bond

https://www.scotsman.com/news/the-strange-tale-of-the-man-who-armed-james-bond-1-558731
Published: 23:58

THE expert behind the guns used by James Bond has been revealed as a Glaswegian whose world-class knowledge of firearms earned him the role of the Armourer in the 007 books.

Geoffrey Boothroyd, who worked for ICI in Glasgow, wrote to the author Ian Fleming shortly after reading Casino Royale in 1956, pointing out that the gun Bond used, a .25 Beretta, was inappropriate for the character.

The strength of his argument persuaded Fleming not only to incorporate his suggestions, but also to adopt Boothroyd as a paid adviser on arms-related matters in the Bond novels.

Fleming used Boothroyd’s persona as the Armourer in Dr No, describing him as Major Boothroyd, "a short slim man with sandy hair" with "very wide apart, clear, grey eyes that never seemed to flicker".

The character of Boothroyd makes a dramatic entry in Dr No: "M bent forward to the intercom. ‘Is the Armourer there? Send him in.’ M sat back. ‘You may not know it, 007, but Major Boothroyd’s the greatest small-arms expert in the world." Not surprisingly, the major had a rather acerbic view of Bond’s Beretta. When asked as to its use, Boothroyd replied in a clipped manner: "Ladies’ gun, sir."

Correspondence between Fleming and Boothroyd, which is to go under the hammer at Bloomsbury Auctions, the London specialist saleroom for books and manuscripts, reveal how far the author took on board the latter’s technical advice. Fleming frequently asked Boothroyd for more information on weapons and even borrowed his Smith & Wesson to be painted by Richard Chopping for the dust-jacket of From Russia with Love.

Academics and archivists hope the correspondence will not be broken up but kept together and deposited in a library where scholars can use it. Bloomsbury is to offer it as one lot with a pre-sale estimate of 15,000-20,000.

The collection of 30 previously unknown letters, written between 31 May, 1956, and 30 September, 1963, demonstrate Fleming’s passion for guns and attention to detail, coupled with Boothroyd’s intense knowledge and enthusiasm for the subject.

From that first letter on, Bond was never without the correct firearm and his enemies were suitably equipped in return.

Potential problems over legally holding guns arise in the letters. Fleming assures Boothroyd that, as the Deputy Commissioner of Scotland Yard is "a close personal friend, we should have no complications over firearms certificates."

The two men’s dry sense of humour often comes through in the correspondence. In a letter dated 3 January, 1962, Fleming writes: "I feel safe in wishing you a Prosperous New Year, and if the tax man becomes too difficult, I suggest you shoot him."

Boothroyd was paid for his technical advice. In a letter to him, Fleming wrote: "I propose to pay you 25 per cent of all revenue I get from this piece and I suggest we needn’t draw up any legal contracts as my secretary, Miss Griffie-Williams, is an extremely honest person and will see that you get your due!" Fleming even signed himself in 1962 as "Comptroller of the Boothroyd Privy Purse".

Boothroyd, who was born in Lancashire but lived in Glasgow from the age of three, became one of the greatest authorities on the history and development of the sporting gun and was a regular contributor to the Shooting Times. He wrote several books, including A Guide to Guns in 1961 and The Handgun in 1988. He died in 2001. Stagecoach chief executive Martin Griffiths.

A series of first edition 007 books from Boothroyd’s library are also to be sold by Bloomsbury. Fleming signed very few books and, consequently, there is a large premium for signed and presentation copies. As Boothroyd played such a key role in shaping the character of Bond, two of the books are likely to fetch new world records.

A copy of From Russia with Love is dedicated by Fleming "To Geoffrey Boothroyd - herewith appointed Armourer to J. Bond from Ian Fleming." The inscription in Dr No reads, "To Geoffrey Boothroyd - alias The Armourer from Ian Fleming". Each is expected to make up to 5,000.

Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/the-strange-tale-of-the-man-who-armed-james-bond-1-558731

1971: The Palm Beach Post reports American John Gavin may be the next actor in the Bond role.
1972: 007 - Os Diamantes São Eternos released in Brazil.

1988: Joie Chitwood dies at age 75--Tampa, Florida.
(Born 14 April 1912--Denison, Texas.)

Joie Chitwood
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Joie Chitwood

Born April 14, 1912 | Denison, Texas
Died January 3, 1988 (aged 75) | Tampa Bay, Florida
Formula One World Championship career

Nationality United States American
Active years 1950
Teams Kurtis Kraft
...
First entry 1950 Indianapolis 500
Last entry 1950 Indianapolis 500

George Rice Chitwood (April 14, 1912 – January 3, 1988), nicknamed "Joie", was an American racecar driver and businessman. He is best known as a daredevil in the Joie Chitwood Thrill Show.

Born in Denison, Texas of Cherokee Indian ancestry, he was dubbed "Joie" by a track promoter and the name stuck.

Racing career
Chitwood started his racecar driving career in 1934 at a dirt track in Winfield, Kansas. From there, he began racing sprint cars. In 1939 and 1940 he won the AAA East Coast Sprint car championship. He switched to the CSRA and won its title in 1942.[1] Between 1940 and 1950 he competed at the Indianapolis 500 seven times, finishing fifth on three different occasions. He was the first man ever to wear a safety belt at the Indy 500.

Joie Chitwood Thrill Show
Chitwood also operated the "Joie Chitwood Thrill Show", an exhibition of auto stunt driving that became so successful he gave up racing. Often called "Hell Drivers," he had five units that for more than forty years toured across North America thrilling audiences in large and small towns alike with their death-defying automobile stunts.

His show was so popular, that in January 1967, the performance at the Islip Speedway, New York was broadcast on ABC television's Wide World of Sports.

On May 13, 1978, Joie Chitwood Jr.(b. Aug. 31, 1943) set a world record when he drove a Chevrolet Chevette for 5.6 miles (9.0 km) on just 2 wheels. His sons, Joie Jr. and Tim both joined the auto thrill show and continued to run the "Joie Chitwood Chevy Thunder Show" after their father's retirement. The Chitwood show toured the US from 1945-98. His grandson, Joie Chitwood III, is the President of Daytona International Speedway and a former president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The show was featured during season 3 of CHiPs in an episode entitled "Thrill Show". Joie Jr. did stunts for Miami Vice on several occasions. Joie Jr. (b. 1943) also appeared as a guest challenger on the TV game show To Tell The Truth. Joie Jr. worked in over 60 feature films and national commercials.

Chitwood's show was credited by Evel Knievel as being his inspiration to become a daredevil when his show appeared in his home town of Butte, Montana.

Stuntman
Chitwood was frequently hired by Hollywood film studios to either do stunt driving for films or to act as auto-stunt coordinator. On a few occasions he appeared in a minor role, notably with Clark Gable and Barbara Stanwyck in the 1950 film about auto racing, To Please a Lady.

In 1973, Joie Chitwood Jr. is credited as a Stunt Coordinator for the hugely successful James Bond film Live and Let Die, where he was also the stunt driver and acted in a minor part.

Safety Consultant
Joie Chitwood Jr. also acted as a car safety consultant, intentionally crashing vehicles for subsequent investigation. He had intentionally crashed more than 3000 vehicles by the time he appeared on the game show I've Got A Secret in 1965. Joie Jr. and Joie Sr. test-crashed guardrails and breakaway Interstate signs for US Steel and aluminum light poles for ALCOA. The highways are safer today because of these tests.

Retirement
When Chitwood retired, his sons took over the business. Joie Chitwood died in 1988, aged 75, in Tampa Bay, Florida.

He was inducted in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 1993. He was inducted in the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2010 in the Historic category. Among his contributions to the sport was the supervision of the construction of Pennsylvania's Selinsgrove Speedway in 1945.

Joie Chitwood (I) (1912–1988)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0158374/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

[bStunts[/b] (5 credits)

1983 Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (stunts - as Joie Chitwood Sr.)
1980 Phobia (stunts)

1978 Big Bob Johnson and His Fantastic Speed Circus (TV Movie) (stunts)
1977 Stunts (ski car and special stunt driving)
1976 A Small Town in Texas (stunts)

Actor (4 credits)

1980 CHiPs (TV Series) - Joie Chitwood
- Thrill Show (1980) ... Joie Chitwood (as Joie Chitwood Jr.)
1978 Mr. No Legs
1973 Live and Let Die - Charlie

1968 Fireball Jungle (uncredited)

Self (1 credit)

1963 To Tell the Truth (TV Series) - Himself - Contestant
- Episode dated 11 March 1963 (1963) ... Himself - Contestant

Live and Let Die 1973, Charlie Dart Scene 1040p (2:39)

2003: "Two Koreas Blast New James Bond Film", so reports Associated Press and multiple news outlets.

Two Koreas Blast New James Bond Film

https://www.mrt.com/news/article/Two-Koreas-Blast-New-James-Bond-Film-7720206.php
SOO-JEONG LEE Published 6:00 pm CST, Thursday, January 2, 2003
Associated Press Writer

Some in South Korea are complaining that the latest James Bond movie unfairly depicts their communist neighbor to the north as a diabolically evil regime.

"Die Another Day" attracted crowds at its Seoul premiere on New Year's Eve. But in recent days some moviegoers have been siding with the communist North in condemning the film despite the nuclear standoff that has increased tensions between the nations.

"I don't want to see a movie where North Korea is depicted as a menace to peace on the Korean Peninsula and the United States is depicted as a hero that resolves the crisis," said Jin-young Park, a 22-year-old university student waiting for a different picture Friday. "It's really getting old."

In the movie, Bond is sent to North Korea to investigate a rogue communist officer who is planning an invasion of South Korea. The British spy is caught, imprisoned and subjected to extreme torture.

Later, the rogue North Korean officer uses a satellite-based laser to burn a swath through the demilitarized zone separating the Koreas. His plot is foiled by Bond and an American agent.

"I initially wanted to see the movie, but I decided not to because I heard some stuff from the media that the film is critical of North Korea and so I changed my mind," said Yi Hye-mi, a university student in Seoul.

On Friday, a South Korean civic group announced plans to boycott the film, which stars Pierce Brosnan as Bond. Critics say it's demeaning and distorts the situation between the two nations, which have been divided by a demilitarized zone since the Korean War of 1950-1953.

North Korea criticized the movie when it opened last year, calling it an example of the "corrupt sex culture," in the United States.

Despite calls for a boycott, however, many are still lining up for the movie.

"I want to see the movie just to see what the critics are complaining about," Lee Se-young, 27, said after buying his ticket.

Protests of the time.

2006: Casino Royale principle photography commences.
2008: Quantum of Solace main unit filming kicks off at Pinewood (originally scheduled for 10 December 2007).

2016: The Independent reports that Christoph Waltz is signed for two more Bond films. As long as Craig returns.

Christoph Waltz will appear in two
more James Bond films as long as
Daniel Craig returns as 007

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/christoph-waltz-will-appear-in-two-more-james-bond-films-as-long-as-daniel-craig-returns-as-007-a6794351.html

'Christoph could make a brilliant ongoing man for Bond to battle like in the old days'
Jack Shepherd - @JackJShepherd - Sunday 3 January 2016 10:03

Christoph Waltz makes his debut as Franz Oberhauser ( Spectre )

Christoph Waltz's appearance in the latest James Bond film was originally surrounded in mystery, with many wondering if the actor was playing the evil genius Blofeld.

On Spectre’s release, it was revealed that he was indeed the iconic villain, the film ending with Waltz’s character having been defeated by Bond and captured by the police.

Many expect the 59-year-old to return to the series to reprise the role, with it now being revealed he has signed on for two more films - but with a catch.

The Inglourious Basterds actor will only return if Daniel Craig returns as the titular MI6 agent.

2019: Planned production start date for BOND 25 with director Danny Boyle for a 25 October release date, same year. (Update: changed to a March production start; director Cary Fukunaga; 14 February 2020 release date. Then April 2020 release date. Then November 2020 release. Then April 2021 release. And finally an October 2021 release.)

RichardTheBruce

January 4th

1900: Ornithologist James Bond is born--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
(He dies 14 February 1989 at age 89--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)

January 4 — James Bond Born (1900)

See the complete article her:

http://todayinconservation.com/2018/01/january-4-james-bond-born-1900/

January 3, 2018

“Bond. James Bond.” Those words are now immortal among the fans of Ian Fleming’s super-spy. James Bond has been played by Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Daniel Craig and a number of others. But who was the real James Bond? Not a spy, not a dapper man-about-town. No, the real James Bond was an ornithologist.

James Bond was born on January 4, 1900, in Philadelphia (died in 1989). He later moved to England with his father and studied at Trinity College, Cambridge University. Returning to Philadelphia, he soon gave up a career in banking to focus on his first love—natural history. He followed in his father’s footsteps by sailing on a collecting expedition to the lower Amazon River in 1925 on behalf of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Now completely hooked, he became a volunteer curator there—one of “the last of a traditional museum breed, the independently wealthy, non-salaried curator, who lacked advanced university degrees.”

Bond was intrigued especially with the bird fauna of the Caribbean. He explored more than 100 Caribbean islands during his career. His most influential work is the definitive guide to the birds of the region, first published in 1936 as The Birds of the West Indies. Bond is credited with discovering that the birds of the Caribbean are related to those of North America, not South America, as had been previously assumed. He also published books about the birds of Maine and Bolivia, along with dozens of other scientific papers. Bond received many honors and awards for his work, including the Brewster Medal in 1954, the highest honor of the American Ornithologists’ Union.

But it was The Birds of the West Indies that earned him fame as the namesake for the world’s favorite spy. Ian Fleming, the creator of the fictional James Bond, spent months at a time at his Jamaican home (Goldeneye) and was an amateur bird-watcher. When he was writing his first spy novel, Casino Royale, in 1952, he was casting around for a name for the hero that would be unremarkable. Fleming later wrote:

“I was determined that my secret agent should be as anonymous as possible….At that time one of my bibles was, and still is, Birds of the West Indies by James Bond, and it struck me that this name, brief, unromantic and yet very masculine, was just what I needed and so James Bond II was born…”

The real James Bond—JB authenticus, as his wife referred to him—wasn’t amused by the appropriation of his name. He never played up the connection, even when offered $100 to land in a helicopter on the roof of a movie theater. Ian Fleming appreciated the couple, however, and, at their only meeting, gave them a pre-publication copy of his novel, You Only Live Twice, inscribed “To the real James Bond, from the Thief of his identity, Ian Fleming, Feb. 5, 1964—a great day!” That book sold recently at auction for $84,000.

Next time you watch the Bond film, Die Another Day, pay attention to the early scenes. As usual, Bond is pretending to be something other than a spy. This time, he claims to be an ornithologist and holds a copy of The Birds of the West Indies.

References:

Blakely, Julia. 2016. Bond, James Bond: The birds, the books, the bond. Unbound, blog of the Smithsonian Libraries. Available at: https://blog.library.si.edu/2016/06/bond-james-bond-birds-books-bond/#.WG0aeVMrKpp . Accessed January 3, 2017.

New York Times. 1989. James Bond, ornithologist, 89; Fleming adopted name for 007. New York Times, February 17, 1989. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/1989/02/17/obituaries/james-bond-ornithologist-89-fleming-adopted-name-for-007.html. Accessed January 3, 2017.

Parkes, Kenneth C. 1989. In memoriam: James Bond. The Auk, 106:718-720. Available at: http://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v106n04/p0718-p0720.pdf. Accessed January 3, 2017.

http://jamesbondradio.com/talking-ornithology-and-espionage-with-the-real-james-bond-author-jim-wright/

1962: Michael France is born--St. Petersburg, Florida.
(He dies 12 April 2013 at age 51--St. Pete Beach, Florida.)

Michael France, screenwriter and
Beach Theatre owner, dies

See the complete article here:

https://www.tampabay.com/news/obituaries/michael-france-screenwriter-and-beach-theatre-owner-dies/2115065

The screenwriter was one of the region's most successful movie industry figures.
By Steve Persall | Published April 14 2013
Updated April 14 2013



ST. PETE BEACH — Hollywood screenwriter and Beach Theatre owner Michael France was discovered dead at his St. Pete Beach home Friday morning after an extended illness, his sister said. He was 51.

In recent years Mr. France struggled with diabetes that impaired his left arm and right leg. Nine months ago he was found comatose at his residence by his sister, who also discovered his body Friday.

"He didn't look that bad on Thursday night," his sister, Suzanne France said when contacted at home Saturday. "He was sick, but I didn't think he was as bad as he was the last time or I would have just called an ambulance.

"He was sitting up, he had good color, he was making jokes. Just sitting there on the couch with his dog."

Suzanne France, who lives only a few houses away, took over soup and zero-calorie soft drinks Thursday, leaving her brother around 8:30 p.m. The two swapped text messages for another couple of hours, about Mr. France's nausea and groceries she would pick up for him Friday morning.

Around 10 a.m. Mr. France hadn't responded to text messages from Suzanne or their mother. Using a key she kept as a precaution, Suzanne entered his home to check on him.

"I went in, and I thought maybe he was just unconscious so I called 911," she said, sobbing. "They had me doing chest compressions on him but by the time the ambulance got there it was too late."

Mr. France was one of Tampa Bay's most successful movie industry figures, starting with his screenplay for 1993's Cliffhanger starring Sylvester Stallone. That was followed two years later with a story credit for GoldenEye, reinvigorating the James Bond franchise with Pierce Brosnan. Mr. France also did uncredited work on the script for another 007 adventure, The World is Not Enough.

His final three produced screenplays were among the first Marvel Comics adaptations to the screen: Oscar winning director Ang Lee's 2003 version of Hulk, Fantastic Four (2005) and a co-writing credit on The Punisher (2004), filmed around Tampa Bay.

Last month at the Gasparilla International Film Festival, Mr. France presented a career achievement award to The Punisher star Thomas Jane, celebrating the movie's 10th anniversary of its local filming. Before the presentation, Mr. France and Jane met for the first time on the red carpet in Ybor City — not uncommon in a business where screenwriters generally aren't involved much when shooting begins.

In 2007, Mr. France purchased St. Pete Beach's landmark Beach Theatre for $800,000 cash, prolonging the survival of a decades-old, single-screen venue where he watched movies as a child. For five years, he presented classic, independent and foreign films generally unavailable at multiplexes, along with current hits to "pay the bills," as he often said. Eventually the bills couldn't be paid.

Beach Theatre closed its doors to business in November, 2012, after Mr. France claimed attendance had declined and efforts failed to obtain not-for-profit status that would reduce tax liabilities. Mr. France also faced the necessity to convert the theater's projection system to an expensive digital format, in order to continue showing new releases as Hollywood phases out film distribution.

Around the same time, Mr. France was sued by local small-business owner Brenton Clemons, who alleged he defaulted on a loan with the theater used as collateral. That case is still pending, as are divorce proceedings between Mr. France and his wife Elizabeth that he told the Times thwarted his bid for not-for-profit status.

"He wanted to reopen the theater, wanted to start writing again," Suzanne France said. "Obviously he didn't think he was as sick as he was. I have seen him at his sickest, and I did not see anything that indicated in any way that he would die in his sleep.

"Obviously nobody knows what's going to happen now."

Suzanne France called her brother "my best, my closest friend," especially after the death years ago of their younger brother Andrew, from hypothermia while attempting to rescue a friend from drowning.

"Mike was an extraordinary friend. He was kind. He was hilarious, and he was so good with my son," she said. "They used to watch the same kind of (television) shows because I'm such a wimp that I couldn't watch them: The Walking Dead and that one with the guy from Malcolm in the Middle, Bryan Cranston. (Breaking Bad)."

Suzanne France said her brother hadn't changed much from the boy who used to keep comic books stacked floor-to-ceiling in his room.

"If you went into his house... there's a giant Hulk toy and remember Lost in Space? He had the 'Danger, Will Robinson' robot. That's what is sitting around. Everybody else would have coffee table books; he had movie posters and the Lost in Space robot.

"Mike was a big kid. A big, intelligent kid."

Times researcher John Martin contributed to this report. Steve Persall can be reached at [email protected] or (727) 893-8365. Follow him @StevePersall or Twitter.

Michael France (I) (1962–2013)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0289833/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1

Filmography

Writer (7 credits)

2005/I Fantastic Four (written by)
2004 The Punisher (Video Game) (based on the film written by - uncredited)
2004 The Punisher (written by)
2003 Hulk (screenplay)

1997 GoldenEye 007 (Video Game) (story, characters and earlier screenplay - uncredited)
1995 GoldenEye (story)
1993 Cliffhanger (screen story) / (screenplay)

Trivia

Produced a James Bond fan magazine as a youngster in the early 1970s.

France's favorite Punisher comic writer is Chuck Dixon. France told Comicbook Resources, "Chuck's comics had the best crime story tone of them all - they were larger than life, they had huge stylized action, but they still felt realistic. I had to use a hilarious bit of his from one of the comics - the scene where Frank threatens to blowtorch some information out of a crook is straight out of an old 'War Journal.'"

When preparing to write GoldenEye, he toured Russian airbases, a mob casino named "Casino Royale", and KGB facilities around Red Square.

Though uncredited on The World Is Not Enough, he wrote the first versions of key sequences, including the buzzsaw helicopter attack and the battle in the nuclear disarmament plant at Kazakhstan.

On the Hulk movie, he was hired twice. The first time he was replaced before he began when the studio decided to hire Jonathan Hensleigh to write and to make his directorial debut. When Hensleigh's version collapsed, France was hired to bring the movie back on track. (Ironically, Hensleigh later made his directorial debut with another France screenplay based on a Marvel character, "The Punisher".)

Although he may be best known for adapting Marvel characters, he has also worked with Marvel comics guru Stan Lee to create new characters for film and television.

1973: Live and Let Die films OO7 meeting Solitaire at the Fillet of Soul.

1984: The Hollywood Reporter reports David Bowie was considered for the Max Zorin role that eventually went to Christopher Walken.

1990: John Cleese spoofs James Bond in a Schweppes soft drinks commercial.

1991: Richard Maibaum dies, age 81--Santa Monica, California.
(Born 26 May 1909--New York City, New York.)

Richard Maibaum, Screenwriter For James Bond Films, Dies at 81

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/09/obituaries/richard-maibaum-screenwriter-for-james-bond-films-dies-at-81.html

By ELEANOR BLAU | JAN. 9, 1991

Richard Maibaum, who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for a dozen James Bond films, died on Friday at St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 81 years old and lived in Los Angeles.

He died of a heart attack, The Associated Press reported.

Early in the James Bond series, Mr. Maibaum remarked that the hugely popular movies about British secret agent 007 were really parodies of the Ian Fleming novels on which they were based.

A Sleuth With Humor

In an article he wrote after the first three adaptations, "Dr. No" (1963), "From Russia With Love" and "Goldfinger" (both 1964), he said that the movie character James Bond, played by Sean Connery, retained Mr. Fleming's image of a "super sleuth, super fighter, super hedonist, super lover," but that the film makers "added another large dimension: humor."

"Humor vocalized in wry comments at critical moments," he said. "In the books, Bond was singularly lacking in this."

Mr. Maibaum started his career as a playwright and actor. He was born in New York, attended New York University and then studied dramatic art the University of Iowa, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees and wrote plays, one of which, "The Tree," an anti-lynching play, was produced on Broadway.

Returning to New York, he acted with the Shakespearean Repertory Theater in 1933, and wrote two more plays for Broadway, "Birthright," an anti-Nazi drama, and "Sweet Mystery of Life," a comedy. He then got a contract as a writer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood. While there, he wrote another play, "See My Lawyer," which was produced in New York by George Abbott and which starred Milton Berle. Invited by Producer

Mr. Maibaum worked with film while serving in the Army during World War II, then became a writer and producer for Paramount from 1945 to 1951. He moved to England in the 1950's to work for the producer Albert Broccoli's Warwick Films, returned to the United States and wrote for television, then was invited by Mr. Broccoli to write the first Bond movie.

He wound up writing most of them, including "Thunderball," "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," "Diamonds Are Forever," "Octopussy," "For Your Eyes Only," "The Living Daylights" and "Licence to Kill."

He is survived by his wife, Sylvia; two sons, Matthew and Paul, of Los Angeles; a sister, Gladys Gould of Washington, and a granddaughter.

A version of this obituary appears in print on January 9, 1991, on Page D00021 of the National edition with the headline: Richard Maibaum, Screenwriter For James Bond Films, Dies at 81. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

Richard Maibaum (1909–1991)

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Filmography

Writer (52 credits)

1996 Ransom (story)
1991 James Bond Jr. (TV Series) (character Jaws - uncredited)

1989 Licence to Kill (written by)
1987 The Living Daylights (screenplay)
1985 A View to a Kill (screenplay)
1983 Octopussy (screen story and screenplay)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (screenplay)
1980 S.H.E: Security Hazards Expert

1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (screenplay)
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (screenplay)
1973 Jarrett (TV Movie)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (screenplay)

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (screenplay)
1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (additional dialogue)
1965 Thunderball (screenplay)
1964 Goldfinger (screenplay)
1963 From Russia with Love (screenplay)
1963 Combat! (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
- The Medal (1963) ... (writer)
1962 Dr. No (screenplay)
1961 Battle at Bloody Beach (screenplay) / (story)
1960 The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (adaptation)

1959 Killers of Kilimanjaro (story)
1959 The Bandit of Zhobe (story)
1958 The Man Inside (uncredited)
Wagon Train (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode, 1958) (teleplay - 1 episode, 1958)
- The John Wilbot Story (1958) ... (writer)
- The Bernal Sierra Story (1958) ... (teleplay)
1958 Tank Force (written by)
1956 Zarak
1956 Bigger Than Life (story and screenplay)
1956 Ransom! (screenplay)
1955 The Cockleshell Heroes (screenplay)
1954-1955 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) (writer - 2 episodes)
- Fearful Decision (1955) ... (writer)
- Fearful Decision (1954) ... (writer)
1954 Hell Below Zero (adaptation)
1953 Paratrooper (screenplay)

1949 Song of Surrender (screenplay)
1949 The Great Gatsby (writer)
1946 O.S.S. (written by)
1945 See My Lawyer (play)
1942 Ten Gentlemen from West Point
1941 Hold Back the Dawn (contributor to screenplay construction - uncredited)
1941 I Wanted Wings (screenplay)
1940 Foreign Correspondent (uncredited)
1940 20 Mule Team
1940 The Ghost Comes Home (screen play)

1939 The Amazing Mr. Williams (screenplay)
1939 Coast Guard (original screenplay)
1939 The Lady and the Mob (screen play)
1938 Stablemates (writer)
1937 The Bad Man of Brimstone (screenplay)
1937 Live, Love and Learn (screenplay)
1937 They Gave Him a Gun
1936 Gold Diggers of 1937 (based on the play by: "Sweet Mystery of Life")
1936 We Went to College (screen play)

Producer (14 credits)

1973 Jarrett (TV Movie) (producer)

1963 Combat! (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
- No Time for Pity (1963) ... (producer)
1961 Battle at Bloody Beach (producer)
1960 Maisie (TV Movie) (executive producer)

1958-1959 The Thin Man (TV Series) (executive producer - 35 episodes)
1950 No Man of Her Own (producer)

1949 Captain Carey, U.S.A. (producer)
1949 Dear Wife (producer)
1949 Song of Surrender (producer)
1949 The Great Gatsby (producer)
1949 Bride of Vengeance (producer)
1948 The Sainted Sisters (producer)
1948 The Big Clock (producer)
1946 O.S.S. (producer)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (2 credits)

1956 Zarak (associate director - uncredited)

1949 The Great Gatsby (second unit director)

Self (4 credits)

2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself
1987 James Bond: Licence to Thrill (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1985 Eye on L.A. (TV Series) - Himself
- OO7: A View of James Bond (1985) ... Himself

Archive footage (6 credits)

2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Himself
2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself
2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Himself
1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Himself

1996: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd release the John Gardner novelization of Goldeneye.

Ian Fleming's
JAMES BOND

in
John Gardner's

GOLDENEYE

Based on the screenplay by Michael France
and Jeffrey Caine

James Bond is back on screen!
The new film starring Pierce
Brosnan is a breathtaking
superadventure in which Bond's
enemies are more bloodthirsty,
his girls more beautiful and the
action faster than ever before.

The first thing James Bond
notices about Xenia Onatopp
is her yellow Ferrari, as it races
Bond's Aston Martin along the
narrow Corniche. The second
thing he notices is that she
is beautiful, Russian - and
fascinatingly dangerous.

Once Xenia worked for the KGB.
But her new master is Janus,
a powerful and ambitious Russian
leader who no longer cares about
ideology. Janus' ambitions are
money and power: his normal
business methods include theft
and murder. And he has just
acquired GoldenEye, a piece of
high-tech space technology with
the power to destroy or corrupt
the West's financial markets.

But Janus has underestimated
his most determined enemy.

James Bond is soon in St
Petersburg on the track of Xenia
and Janus, armed with the latest
high-tech weaponry. He will need
it all, as he uncovered his most
dangerous adversary yet.

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

1996: GoldenEye released in the Philippines.
1996: Zlaté oko (The Golden Eye) released in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Video marketing.

1998: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the Philippines.

2000: The World Is Not enough released in the Philippines.
2004: Jeff Nuttall dies at age 70--Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales.
(Born 8 July 1933--Clitheroe, Lancashire, England.)

Jeff Nuttall (1933–2004)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0638346/

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2007: Puffin Books publishes Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Double or Die in paperback.

2013: Activision and Steam remove online copies and pages for Quantum of Solace, Blood Stone, 007 Legends.

Activision's James Bond games disappear from
Steam and Xbox 360

See the complete article here:

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/activisions-james-bond-games-disappear-from-steam-and-xbox-360/1100-6402017/

PC versions of Activision's James Bond games have been removed from digital sale on Steam,
Xbox 360 Games on Demand and Activision's own web store.
By Martin Gaston | January 4, 2013

Activision's suite of James Bond games have all disappeared from Steam, Xbox 360 and Activision's own digital store. Spotted by Neogamr.net, 007 Legends and James Bond 007: Blood Stone, from now-defunct studios Eurocom and Bizarre Creations, and the Treyarch-helmed Quantum of Solace are no longer available to purchase from Steam.

There are no results in Activision's own store, either. On the consoles, the Xbox 360 Games on Demand version of GoldenEye 007: Reloaded has also been pulled. The game is still available to buy on the PlayStation 3, but it is not clear if the game will remain listed on the PlayStation Store when the marketplace is refreshed this week.

One reason for games being pulled from digital sale can be down to licensing agreements expiring, as happened with GTA: Vice City on Steam recently. Activision obtained the gaming rights to the then-lucrative Bond license from EA in 2006, in a deal with MGM and EON that was scheduled to last until 2014. It is possible that Activision has pulled the plug on this arrangement.

The last Bond game, Eurocom's 007 Legends, was derided by critics and failed to make an impact on the sales charts, despite being timed to coincide with the release of uber-blockbuster Skyfall. The studio's previous game, the lukewarm 2010 remake of the classic GoldenEye 007, also failed to capture hearts and wallets and the Derby-based studio was closed at the end of 2012.

https://www.gamespot.com/videos/007-legends-skyfall-dlc-trailer/2300-6399775/

2021: Victoria Leigh Blum (Tanya Roberts) dies at age 65--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 15 October 1955-- The Bronx, New York City, New York.)

Tanya Roberts, Bond Girl and ‘That ’70s
Show’ Star, Dies at 65 After Premature
Death Announcement

See the complete article here:

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/tanya-roberts-james-bond-that-70s-show-dead-1234878064/

By Naman Ramachandran

AP

UPDATE: Tanya Roberts, known for playing Stacey Sutton in the 1985 James Bond film “A View to a Kill” and Midge Pinciotti on “That ’70s Show” between 1998 and 2004, died Monday night after it was prematurely reported by many outlets that she had died on Sunday night. She was 65.

On Tuesday, Roberts’ publicist, Mike Pingel, confirmed to Variety that she died Monday night at 9:30 p.m. PT due to a urinary tract infection that spread to her kidney, gallbladder, liver and blood stream. However, Pingel mistakenly told many publications that Roberts had died on Sunday night after her partner, Lance O’Brien, visited her in the hospital and presumed she was no longer living. She remained hospitalized in “dire” condition Monday, Pingel told Variety earlier that day.

Roberts was out walking her dogs on Christmas Eve when she collapsed. The cause of death is not understood to be related to COVID-19.

Born Victoria Leigh Blum, Roberts had a successful modeling career and appeared in some off-Broadway roles. She made her film debut in 1975 with “The Last Victim.” Thereafter, she appeared in a series of films that attained cult status, including “The Beastmaster” (1982), “Sheena: Queen of the Jungle” (1984), “Body Slam” (1987) and “Night Eyes” (1990). She also played Julie Rogers in the “Charlie’s Angels” TV series.

On “That ’70s Show,” Roberts played the laidback hippie mother of Donna Pinciotti (Laura Prepon). While she left the show in 2001, she returned in 2004.

Roberts’ final on-screen appearance was in the television series “Barbershop” in 2005.

Britt Ekland, who played a Bond girl in “The Man With The Golden Gun” (1974), tweeted: “Rip Tanya Roberts, once a Bond Girl always a Bond Girl!”

“The Beastmaster” director Don Coscarelli tweeted: “I just heard the sad news that actress Tanya Roberts passed away. Tanya was a beautiful person, inside and out. I will always remember Tanya for being incredibly sweet and for her genuine love of animals. She was beloved by ‘Beastmaster’ fans everywhere. RIP.”

An online memorial for Roberts will be announced soon, and donations can be given in her name to the ASPCA.

2021: Film Music Reporter gives detail for the Next Station Music release of John Piscitello's soundtrack for Becoming Bond.

‘Becoming Bond’ Soundtrack Released

See the complete article here:

https://filmmusicreporter.com/2021/01/04/becoming-bond-soundtrack-released/

Posted: January 4, 2021 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums

Next Station Music has released a soundtrack album for the documentary Becoming Bond. The album features the film’s original music composed by John Piscitello (No Place on Earth, Mike Wallace Is Here, Too Funny to Fail, Memory Games). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon, where you can also check out audio samples. Becoming Bond is directed by Josh Greenbaum and tells the true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, despite having never acted a day in his life. The documentary premiered at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival and is now available to stream on Hulu.

Here’s the track list of the album:
1. The Forgotten James Bond (1:11)
2. Twelve, Maybe Thirteen (0:50)
3. A Wild Larrikin (1:06)
4. Who Cares? (0:52)
5. Snakes and Bats (1:17)
6. My Bike’s Broken Down (1:07)
7. Dry Rooting (0:31)
8. Listen, Don’t Talk (2:04)
9. A Little Roughed Up (1:50)
10. Intimidated by the Love (2:14)
11. In a Tortuous State (1:34)
12. Totally in Love (2:54)
13. Sailing to London (1:03)
14. It Was Instinctive (1:02)
15. Platonically (0:54)
16. I Could Smell Her (1:09)
17. Smoke out of My Butt (1:50)
18. Gone to Heaven (0:47)
19. Gundel (1:03)
20. Pass Me a Banana (1:22)
21. Two or Three Times a Day (0:39)
22. On the Kings Road (0:38)
23. Maggie Calls (3:15)
24. Casting Office (4:41)
25. The Airport (3:42)
26. Having Fun With It (1:43)
27. A Little Bigger Head (0:48)
28. Helicopters at Night (2:06)
29. A Famously Bad Decision (1:42)
30. This Is Who I Am (0:44)
31. Write Your Own Story (3:01)

2022: History of the Silver Screen! Movie Collectibles and a James Bond Collection! Live Broadcast Auction Online from Monmouth Junction, New Jersey.

History of the Silver Screen! Movie Collectibles and
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January 5th

1945: Roger Spottiswoode is born--Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

1970: 007 - A Serviço Secreto de Sua Majestade (007 - To Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Brazil.

1975: 007 Contra o Homem com a Pistola de Ouro (007 Against the Man with the Pisstol of Gold) released in Brazil.

Video marketing.

1978: Roger Moore signs a contract for his fourth mission as OO7.

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

Obituaries

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

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/05/obituaries/richard-hughes-77-is-dead-australian-covered-the-wars.html

By WILLIAM G. BLAIRJAN. 5, 1984
...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Conversation With Richard Hughes

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https://www.timbowden.com.au/2012/01/28/conversation-with-richard-hughes/

By timbowden On January 28, 2012
CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD HUGHES | With Tim Bowden

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Richard Hughes, Ian Fleming in Japan



You Only Live twice (Dikko Henderson) | The Honourable Schoolboy (Old Craw)

2006: Player One publishes a mobile game based on Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel SilverFin.

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/SilverFin_(mobile_game)

2006: Puffin Books publishes Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Blood Fever.

Blood Fever by Charlie Higson

https://www.youngbond.com/blood-fever/

Blood Fever is the second book in the bestselling Young Bond series.

James Bond has discovered danger. Now it’s come looking for him. An Eton boy’s family disappears at sea. James uncovers a shadowy society operating in a hidden corner of the school. And far from England, in the bandit-infested interior of Sardinia, a sinister Italian count has built himself a mountain fortress. Is there a connection? Young James Bond is about to find out – and face a lethal group of villains beneath the burning Mediterranean sun.

"Takes the reader by the throat." – Observer

JAMES BOND
James Bond will grow up to become the greatest secret agent in the world, but in the summer of 1933 he is still just a schoolboy. While staying at his cousin Victor’s villa in Sardinia he is drawn into a dangerous and terrifying adventure that will require all his bravery, skill and cunning to survive.

‘He ran across the roof and leapt over to the next building… He laughed. This was exactly the same situation he’d been in that night with the Danger Society back at Eton. Only this time he risked more than a beating. This time he was running for his life.’


SMILER
Smiler is Count Ugo’s chief henchman and executioner. A murderous former criminal from the streets of Glasgow he was mutilated by his old gang for selling them out to the police. He now bears the scars of this attack on his cheeks, which have earned him his nickname. A red letter M is tattooed on the back of each of his hands. The symbol of the Millenaria society.

‘Zoltan was never sure whether the man was really smiling or not. But he had known him long enough to realize that he probably wasn’t.’


ZOLTAN
Zoltan the Magyar is a Hungarian smuggler. A ruthless but simple man, he dreams of making enough money to retire. James is never sure if Zoltan is a villain or a friend, but if James wants to stay alive he is going to need all the help he can get.

‘The blond captain grinned, his teeth flashing. His arms, which were as thick as his legs and knotted with muscle, were crossed on his broad chest… His eyes were startling. The irises were so pale as to be almost colourless and were ringed with a grey that seemed to shine like silver.’


AMY GOODENOUGH
Amy Goodenough is the sister of one of James’s school friends. When the pirate Zoltan murders her father and kidnaps her, Amy, a strong, resourceful girl, vows to kill him. But a strange bond grows between the two of them, and when Amy is taken to Sardinia she realises that Zoltan might be the only friend she has.

‘She had short, untidy hair cut raggedly into uneven clumps, pale freckled skin and big eyes that were shining in the dark…

‘I thought I was dreaming,’ said the girl. ‘Who are you?’

‘The name’s Bond, James Bond. Who are you?’

‘I’m Amy Goodenough.’


VICTOR
James’s Swiss cousin, Victor, has retired to live in seclusion in a bizarre villa in Sardinia, surrounded by the surreal artworks of his artist friend, Poliponi. Victor has had enough of the world of men and wants to live out his days in peace. He loves the finer things in life, wine, art, music and good food, but events on the island make him realise that he can’t hide from the world forever.

‘No, it is me who must apologise,’ said Victor, his expression softening. ‘I did not mean to get angry, but there are rumours that the Millenaria are here on the island, and I do not want to think about such things. Life should be for pleasure, not for war.’


UGO CARNIFEX
Count Ugo Carnifex has built himself a palace high in the mountains of Sardinia. As head of the sinister Millenaria society, he has secret plans to recreate the Roman Empire. He has a hatred and fear of dirt, dresses all in white and wears silver jewellery dug from the mines beneath his palace.

‘His fingers were festooned with silver rings; he had silver chains around his neck, and small silver earrings. His skin, unlike that of the two guards, was a pure, milky white; so pale that James could see the blue veins beneath it. And his close-cropped hair was as white as everything else about him.’


VENDETTA
Vendetta is a 13-year-old whose father was killed in a feud between two Sardinian bandit families. She has lived a harsh life among people whose arguments are settled with the gun or the knife. After a night of hideous torture, she rescues James and nurses him back to health.

‘The guard was sitting in the water, slumped against a slimy rock, his head tipped backwards, his eyes staring and white-rimmed, his mouth open in a silent scream of terror. Below his chin was what looked like a second mouth cut into his throat. The girl had sliced clean across it with her knife.’

2007: 007 - Casino Royale released in Italy.

2010: Reports say Sam Mendes is connected with BOND 23. (MGM at the time denies he's signed as director. EON later confirms he was hired as a consultant until MGM worked out its financial issues.)
2015: Spectre films at Lake Altaussee, Austria.

2022: China mines James Bond to mock privacy concerns in a short film.

China makes James Bond video mocking US
tech privacy fears

See the complete article here:

https://www.usatodaynews.us/china-makes-james-bond-video-mocking-us-tech-privacy-fears/

By Vasani Vanraj | January 5, 2022

Chinese state media have trivialised US and UK concerns around tech privacy and security with a parody film entitled: 0.07: No Time to Die Laughing.

The video, which was posted to Twitter and YouTube on Tuesday, apparently takes aim at Western governments for banning telecoms giant Huawei from running future 5G networks, among other actions taken against Beijing by both the US and UK.

In the video, a spy called “James Pond” – or “0.07” – and another called the “Black Window” – or “0.06” – makes contact with an American spy called “M” in the video shared by China’s state controlled Xinhua News Agency.

“M” tells “Pond” not to to buy a Huawei phone because the devices are a “Chinese backdoor”, and suggests the two spies take “CIA-certified” phones from underneath a table.

“Pond” and “Black Window” are then shocked that “M” admits to being assigned to spy on “the Great United Kingdom” with the “CIA-certified” phones.

The focus on Huawei and mobile technology was an apparent reference to the announcement of US sanctions against Huawei in 2020.

That came amid US claims that China had illustrated a “well-orchestrated, very top down, well-resourced effort to steal American and European intellectual property” and data, as NBC News reported.

While Huawei denied those claims, the UK government in 2020 also announced that it would remove the Chinese tech giant from its future 5G network, in a decision that Huawei said was “politically motivated and not based on a fair evaluation of the risks”.

As have UK and US lawmakers aired criticisms of Chinese tech firms such as TikTok for allegedly being beholden to China’s ruling Communist Party, although the social media platform also refutes the allegations.

Tweeting out the four minute-long parody, Xinhua News Agency said that the video showed a “’Secret Meeting’ between MI6 Agent 0.07 and the CIA after MI6 chief Richard Moore made China the agency’s top priority. Rib-tickling moments…”

Mr Moore, the head of the UK’s intelligence agency, said in November that China was responsible for “large-scale espionage operations” against the UK and other nations, and that the country had become the “single biggest priority” for MI6.

China, which ridiculed the claims and Britain in its parody video, responded at the time by saying Mr Moore was ““peddling fake news and false intelligence”, as Sky News reported.

Parody Show | 0.07: No Time to Die Laughing

2023: From Saratoga with Love - Celebrates 60 years of James Bond with car exhibit at the Saratoga Automotive Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York.

From Saratoga with love: Celebrate 60 years of
James Bond with car exhibit in Upstate NY

See the complete article here:

https://www.newyorkupstate.com/events/2023/01/from-saratoga-with-love-celebrate-60-years-of-james-bond-with-car-exhibit-in-upstate-ny.html

Published: Jan. 03, 2023

The "Bond in Motion" exhibit at the Saratoga Automobile Museum in Saratoga Springs, NY features 25 vehicles used in the iconic and longest running franchise in movie history. The exhibit runs through November 2023. Zach Skowronek | Photos provided by Saratoga Automobile Museum

By Sunny Hernandez | [email protected]

It’s been 60 years of secret agent James Bond movies and to celebrate the anniversary, an official collection of James Bond vehicles is now on display in Upstate New York.

“Bond in Motion” has brought 25 iconic “007″ vehicles to the Saratoga Automobile Museum. It opened in November 2022 and will run through November 2023.

The exhibit includes the 1964 Aston Martin DB5, the 1977 Lotus Esprit from “The Spy Who Loved Me,” the 2007 “Casino Royale” Aston Martin DBS that made movie history with a record-breaking seven rotation roll, and one of the ten Aston Martin DB10s built specifically for 2015′s “Spectre.”

“Bond in Motion” will also feature other vehicles including a motorbike, three-wheeler, submarine, and the Indian motorized rickshaw, or “tuk-tuk,” that appeared in a chase scene through the crowded streets of Udaipur in the 1983 film “Octopussy.”

The "Bond in Motion" exhibit at the Saratoga Automobile Museum in Saratoga Springs, NY features 25 vehicles used in the iconic and longest running franchise in movie history. The exhibit runs through November 2023. Zach Skowronek | Photos provided by Saratoga Automobile Museum

In addition, movie memorabilia, images, and video from all 25 films will be on display to create a full Bond experience for museum visitors.

According to The Daily Gazette, Steve Struss, the curator of the museum, said it is only the second time the collection has been on exhibit in a museum in the U.S. The first time being at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California.

Since the Saratoga museum is smaller, it is only 10 percent of the full collection.
Bond in Motion exhibit in Saratoga

The "Bond in Motion" exhibit at the Saratoga Automobile Museum in Saratoga Springs, NY features 25 vehicles used in the iconic and longest running franchise in movie history. The exhibit runs through November 2023. Zach Skowronek | Photos provided by Saratoga Automobile Museum

Other exhibits at the museum include the two cars build specifically for the Mille Miglia race, the history of the automobile industry in New York, car racing in New York including the first Grand Prix in America, the stock car hall of fame, and an exhibit about the museum building’s history as a bottling plant of Saratoga Spa waters.

Admission prices are $15 for adults, $12 for children ages 6-18, military and law enforcement, and senior citizens. Free admission is available for children under age six and museum members.

Tickets are available the Saratoga Automobile Museum website.
https://saratogaauto.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/saratogaauto/eventRegistration.jsp?event=4455

2024: National Bird Day in the US.

RichardTheBruce

January 6th

1955: Rowan Atkinson is born--Consett, County Durham, England.

1966: Operación Trueno (Operation Thunder) released in Colombia.

Not to be confused with

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films Blofeld and Tracy exchanging verses from James Elroy Flecker's The Story of Hassan.

http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3834/pg3834.html

ISHAK
Thy dawn, O Master of the world, thy dawn;
The hour the lilies open on the lawn,
The hour the grey wings pass beyond the mountains,
The hour of silence, when we hear the fountains,
The hour that dreams are brighter and winds colder,
The hour that young love wakes on a white shoulder,
O Master of the world, the Persian Dawn.

That hour, O Master, shall be bright for thee:
Thy merchants chase the morning down the sea,
The braves who fight thy war unsheathe the sabre,
The slaves who work thy mines are lashed to labour,
For thee the waggons of the world are drawn—
The ebony of night, the red of dawn!

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t4th8r737&view=1up&seq=88

1998: Sutra ne umire nikad (Tomorrow Is Not Dying Never) released in Serbia.

2012: Robert Wentworth John (Bob) Holness dies at age 83--Pinner, England.
(Born 12 November 1928-- Vryheid, South Africa.)

Bob Holness obituary
Modest quizmaster who achieved cult status at the helm of Blockbusters

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2012/jan/06/bob-holness
Dennis Barker - Fri 6 Jan 2012 12.06 EST

Bob Holness in the Blockbusters studio in 1987.
He always made a point of sympathising with contestants who lost.
Photograph: ITV/Rex

Before television and radio quizmasters became increasingly raucous, clever-clever and sarcastic, Bob Holness, who has died aged 83, saw the role as that of a rewarder of knowledge rather than the ringmaster of a hysterical circus. Indeed, one of the worst mistakes one could make with Holness was to refer to any of the many quizzes he conducted as gameshows. In his unostentatious clothes, he resembled a jovial and thoughtful golfing companion rather than a smirking media man, and he always made a point of sympathising with contestants who lost.

Blockbusters, the TV quiz for 16- to 18-year-old contestants but aimed at a much wider audience, consolidated Holness's popularity and also gained him cult status. In the programme, he posed questions, the answers to which began with a letter of the alphabet that had been chosen by contestants from a honeycomb grid. A favourite wheeze of the contestants was to tease him by asking, "Can I have a P please, Bob?" or even "Can I have U?" Holness, who said that he always recognised the "little snigger" in the contestants' voices, took all this in good part, knowing that it helped to build up the programme's audience to more than 6 million.

A variant of a show first screened in the US, Blockbusters was the most popular programme Holness conducted. Produced by Central, it was first broadcast in the UK in 1983 and ran for 10 years at differing times in various regions on the ITV network, before being taken up by Sky – with Holness still as quizmaster – for a short run. There followed variations of the show, hosted by Michael Aspel and Liza Tarbuck.

Holness was born in Vryheid, Natal, in South Africa. His grandfather had fought in the South African wars at the turn of the century and settled there as a mining engineer and prospector. He had many contacts with Zulu people, and taught King Solomon how to drive a car. Holness's father, too, enjoyed the country, and regularly drove across Natal, paying out the wages at the mines, and returning with lumps of gold that had been discovered.

When he was young, Holness's family relocated to the UK and he won a scholarship to Ashford grammar school, now the Norton Knatchbull school, in Kent. During the second world war he and a gang of schoolmates plundered shot-down German aircraft for souvenirs. He enjoyed listening to forces radio, and would sometimes stay up all night, tuned to American stations.

After attending Maidstone College of Art, he was persuaded by his father to become a printing apprentice. He took up a printer's job in South Africa and joined a repertory theatre in Durban within two months of arriving. In the 1950s he acted first in repertory, where he met his future wife, Mary, and then on radio. He was one of the first actors to portray James Bond, taking the role in a Durban radio production of Ian Fleming's Moonraker in the mid-50s. He also presented music and magazine programmes on radio.

After he and Mary had started a family, they decided to move to the UK. It took the couple a few years to save up enough money for the tickets, and when they arrived at Southampton, it was with virtually empty pockets. They stayed with Mary's family in London while Holness looked for work.

The British actors he had met in South Africa had spoken with great enthusiasm about the booming television industry in the UK. Within three weeks of approaching companies, Holness was put under contract by Granada in Manchester. The company introduced him to audiences in 1961 on the TV shows Take a Letter and Junior Criss Cross Quiz, as well as using him as a continuity announcer and newsreader.

This lasted for three years until he moved south, buying a modest house in Pinner, north-west London, which remained the family home for more than three decades. Over the years, he worked as a reporter, interviewer and announcer for TV programmes such as World in Action and Today, and radio shows including the unscripted Late Night Extra. He delivered LBC radio's traffic reports from a helicopter and for many years, he and Douglas Cameron co-hosted LBC's morning news show, AM, which required him to get up at 3.30am.

Holness had a long association with BBC Radio 2, chiefly as presenter of Bob Holness and Friends, and with the BBC World Service, for which he presented Anything Goes, a weekly anthology of words and music. Once Blockbusters had put him on the path to celebrity, he became recognised as a master of the quizshow genre and in the 1990s, he was seen presiding over Raise the Roof and Call My Bluff.

He also lent his support to a number of children's charities including Teenage Cancer Trust, Young People's Trust for the Environment and, as vice-president from 1994, National Children's Home (now Action for Children).

Holness, who had suffered a number of minor strokes in recent years, is survived by Mary and their children, Carol, Rosalind and Jonathan.

• Robert Wentworth John Holness, quizmaster, presenter and actor, born 12 November 1928; died 6 January 2012

Bob Holness (1928–2012)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0392223/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (6 credits)

2004 The Impressionable Jon Culshaw (TV Series) - Julius Caesar
- Episode #1.2 (2004) ... Julius Caesar
1998 Rex the Runt (TV Series) - Mr. Formal
- Adventures on Telly 1 (1998) ... Mr. Formal (voice)
1991 The Little and Large Show (TV Series) - - Episode #11.4 (1991)
1990 Harry Enfield's Television Programme (TV Series) - Bob Holness
- Episode #1.5 (1990) ... Bob Holness

1984 The Chain - Newsreader

1974 Thriller (TV Series) - Announcer
- One Deadly Owner (1974) ... Announcer (voice)

Self (37 credits)

2006 Blockbusters: Interactive Quiz (Video Game) - Himself - Presenter (voice)
2006 The Top of the Form Story (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
2005 Gameshow Marathon (TV Series)
Himself / Himself - Audience Member
- The Golden Shot (2005) ... Himself
- Take Your Pick (2005) ... Himself
- The Price Is Right (2005) ... Himself - Audience Member
2005 Avenue of the Stars: 50 Years of ITV (TV Special) - Himself - Audience Member
2004 Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #3.3 (2004) ... Himself
1997-2002 Call My Bluff (TV Series) - Himself - Presenter / Himself - Chairman - 12 episodes
- Episode dated 30 May 2002 (2002) ... Himself - Presenter
- Episode dated 4 February 2002 (2002) ... Himself - Presenter
- Pantomime Special (1999) ... Himself - Presenter
- Episode dated 19 November 1999 (1999) ... Himself - Presenter
- Episode dated 5 November 1999 (1999) ... Himself - Presenter
2001 Bob Martin (TV Series) - Himself
- This Life (2001) ... Himself
2001 Trigger Happy TV (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #2.3 (2001) ... Himself
2001 An Audience with Des O'Connor (TV Special) - Himself - Audience Member (uncredited)
2000 I Love a 1970's Christmas (TV Special documentary) - Himself

1991-1998 Telly Addicts (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #13.4 (1998) ... Himself
- Episode #7.17 (1991) ... Himself
1997 Auntie's Bloomers (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Auntie's New Winter Bloomers (1997) ... Himself (uncredited)
1997 Celebrity Ready, Steady, Cook (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #1.5 (1997) ... Himself
1993-1997 The Hypnotic World of Paul McKenna (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 30 April 1997 (1997) ... Himself
- Episode #1.0 (1993) ... Himself
1996 Happy Birthday Shirley (TV Special) - Himself (uncredited)
1995 Raise the Roof (TV Series) - Himself - Host
-1994 Blockbusters (TV Series) - Himself / Himself - Host / Himself - Presenter / ... 875 episodes
1994 An Audience with Bob Monkhouse (TV Special documentary) - Himself - Audience Member (uncredited)
1994 Joy to the World (TV Movie) - Himself - Narrator
1994 Noel's House Party (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #3.13 (1994) ... Himself
1993 Paul Merton: The Series (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #2.3 (1993) ... Himself
1993 Cluedo (TV Series) - Himself - Studio Guest
- Seven Deadly Sinners (1993) ... Himself - Studio Guest
1993 The Word (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #3.19 (1993) ... Himself
1992 Gamesmaster (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #2.13 (1992) ... Himself
1992 Public Enemy Number One (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #1.1 (1992) ... Himself
1992 Frank Sidebottom's Fantastic Shed Show (TV Series) - Himself
- Oh Blimey It's All Gone wrong (1992) ... Himself
1992 WYSIWYG (TV Series) - Himself
- Shopping (1992) ... Himself
1990 Celebrity Fifteen to One (TV Series) - Himself - Contestant
- 1990 Special (1990) ... Himself - Contestant
1990 This Is Your Life (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Bob Holness (1990) ... Himself

1989 You Bet! (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode #2.8 (1989) ... Himself
1988 Bullseye (TV Series) - Himself - Guest Contestant
- Christmas Special 1988 (1988) ... Himself - Guest Contestant
1986 Looks Familiar (TV Series) - Himself - Guest
- Episode #14.9 (1986) ... Himself - Guest

1968/I Today (TV Series) - Himself
1967 Transworld Top Team (TV Series) - Himself - Scorer
1965 Thank Your Lucky Stars (TV Series) - Himself - Guest DJ
- Episode #7.23 (1965) ... Himself - Guest DJ
1962-1964 Take a Letter (TV Series) - Himself - Host
- Episode dated 24 June 1964 (1964) ... Himself - Host
- Episode dated 11 March 1964 (1964) ... Himself - Host (as Robert Holness)
- Episode #1.1 (1962) ... Himself - Host
1963 Bootsie and Snudge (TV Series) - Himself
- The Lorry Route (1963) ... Himself (as Robert Holness)

Trivia

The second actor to 'play' James Bond - he was the voice of Bond in a 1957 radio dramatisation of 'Moonraker' on South African radio.

One of his daughters, Ros Holness was in a pop group called "Toto Coelo", they had a smash hit with "I Eat Cannibals".

He was the subject of an urban myth, initiated by broadcaster Stuart Maconie, who while writing for the New Musical Express, claimed (untruthfully) that he played the saxophone solo on Gerry Rafferty's song Baker Street. The true performer was Rafael Ravenscroft. The story clearly appealed to his sense of humour as he has often played along with the myth, and has also at various times jokingly claimed to be the lead guitarist on Derek and the Dominoes' Layla and the mysterious individual putting Elvis Presley off his stride on the infamous "laughing version" of Are You Lonesome Tonight?.

2012: Skyfall films M's funeral.

James Bond 'Skyfall' films funeral scenes in
London?

See the complete article here:

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a358869/james-bond-skyfall-films-funeral-scenes-in-london/

New 007 movie Skyfall is reportedly shooting funeral scenes at Greenwich Park.
By Paul Millar
06/01/2012

New James Bond movie Skyfall has reportedly filmed funeral scenes in Greenwich, London.

Producers started shooting today (Friday, January 6) at the Old Royal Naval College outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, says Footprints of London.

"Eight coffins draped in union flags" sit in the Painted Hall, the website has claimed.

Architecture, Facade, City, Landmark, Dome, Palace, Column, Dome, Classical architecture, Byzantine architecture,
Andrew Hendry

Grass, Plain, Tree, Land lot, Grassland, Garden, Lawn, Park, Golf course, Finial,
Denis Jones / Evening Standard

One onlooker wrote on Twitter: "Walked past eight hearses with flag draped coffins at the Chapel at the Old Royal Naval College. The funeral scene for the new James Bond."

Another fan said that Dame Judi Dench, who reprises her role as M in the movie, was attending the filming.

The official Skyfall 007 Twitter account has since posted a photograph of a clapperboard resting on what appears to be one of the coffins used for filming.

Starring Daniel Craig and directed by Sam Mendes, the 23rd Bond movie is due to hit cinemas on October 26, 2012.

2013: The Oscars promise a 50 year James Bond tribute on 24 February.

Oscars pay tribute to 50
years of James Bond

See the complete article here:

http://lucire.com/insider/20130106/oscars-pay-tribute-to-50-years-of-james-bond-say-producers/

Filed by Lucire staff/January 6, 2013/2.00

Danjaq LLC/United Artists Corp.

Above Instead of Switzerland, it’s Scotland, and Daniel Craig pays homage to Sean Connery in a Skyfall publicity photo.

The 85th Academy Awards—the Oscars—will pay tribute to 50 years of the James Bond films, it was announced Friday.

Show producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron said in a statement that there will be a special sequence ‘saluting the Bond films on their 50th birthday.

‘Starting with Dr No back in 1962, the 007 movies have become the longest-running motion picture franchise in history and a beloved global phenomenon.’

The six actors who have portrayed Bond in the official franchise—Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig—will feature in the sequence.

The Oscars telecast will take place on February 24. Nominations will be announced on January 10 in Los Angeles.

The latest entry in the Eon Productions franchise, Skyfall, has taken over US$1,000 million, with the film still yet to open in China.

The film, directed by Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes, has overtaken 1965’s Thunderball as the highest-grossing Bond film adjusted for inflation.

Since the “reboot” of the franchise in 2006 with Casino Royale, the Bond films have had more critical nods than their predecessors, which were generally acclaimed on their technical merit. In the mid-1960s, Goldfinger won an Oscar for sound effects, while Thunderball won for special visual effects.

Daniel Craig had a BAFTA nomination for Casino Royale, the first Bond actor to achieve this, while Skyfall’s Javier Bardem received a best supporting actor nomination by the Screen Actors’ Guild.

Skyfall is on the shortlist of the Producers’ Guild of America’s best film nominees, alongside Lincoln and Argo.

The theme song, by Adele and Paul Epworth, could take home a best song Oscar.

The British Academy Awards, the BAFTAs, paid tribute to 50 years of the Bond films last year, with Tom Jones singing the theme song from Thunderball.

2016: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond #3 comic, continuing VARGR.
Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

JAMES BOND #3

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181803011
Cover A: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: January 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: January 6

Bond is on his way to break up a small, agile drug-trafficking operation in Berlin. The truth about what he's walking into is bigger, scarier and much more lethal. Berlin is about to catch fire, and James Bond is trapped inside. Dynamite Entertainment proudly continues the "VARGR" storyline, the debut chapter of the ongoing James Bond saga as written by industry legend Warren Ellis and illustrated by Jason Masters!

2018: Daniel Craig announces he'll purchase the home of Martin Amis, Brooklyn, New York.

James Bond is about to be a Brooklynite

https://pagesix.com/2018/01/06/james-bond-is-about-to-be-a-brooklynite/
By Oli Coleman and Emily Smith
January 6, 2018 | 4:59pm

James Bond is Brooklyn bound.

Sources in the borough are buzzing that Bond star Daniel Craig is the mystery buyer of a Brooklyn brownstone sold by author Martin Amis and his wife, Isabel Fonseca, for $6.75 million. The home burned in a fire on New Year’s Eve a year ago, and Amis and his family have reportedly decamped to a Downtown Brooklyn high-rise.

The 1901 Cobble Hill home was bought through an LLC called On the Rows last year, according to property records. Reps for Craig and his wife, Rachel Weisz, did not respond to repeated requests for comment. A broker for the property declined to comment on Friday.

Craig and Weisz reportedly lived previously in an $11.5 million Soho penthouse purchased in 2012 after Craig sold a Tribeca pad. They’d be just the latest celebs to call booming Brooklyn home, following stars such as Michelle Williams, Jason Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, and John Krasinksi and Emily Blunt (who are reportedly selling their $8 million Park Slope home).

Amis and Fonseca bought the home for $2.5 million, in 2010. But last year, a faulty chimney led to an accidental blaze that ignited the roof. A Corcoran listing for the 6,600-square-foot property explained it was being “offered as a clean, blank slate and ready for a purchaser to finish to their specifications. This home has just received a brand new roof and extensive repair after damage from a fire that was contained to the top floor and is ready for a contractor to begin the finishing work . . . Wall studs are intact, and most mechanical systems are in good working order (including radiant heat in two of the bathrooms and the garden level).”

Amis reportedly said the fire was like “the last kick in the arse of 2016.”

Amis’ famous father, Kingsley Amis, published a 1968 Bond novel, Colonel Sun — under the pseudonym Robert Markham — after the death of Ian Fleming. He also wrote a book called The James Bond Dossier, analyzing Fleming’s novels.

2022: Ultimate Classic Rock Radio reports that Variety reports on multiple endings considered by the filmmakers of No Time To Die.

James Bond Team Rejected ‘Realistic’ End for
‘No Time to Die’

See the complete article here:

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/james-bond-no-time-to-die-end/

Martin Kielty - Published: January 6, 2022
John Phillips, Getty Images

Director Cary Joji Fukunaga said the team behind the latest James Bond movie No Time to Die rejected a “realistic” ending for Daniel Craig’s final appearance as 007.

In the 25th title of the franchise, the spy is involved in an epic and heroic sacrifice after finding himself in a no-win situation. But in a new interview with Variety, Fukunaga revealed that several alternate climax moments were discussed before being dismissed.

“How he meets his end wasn’t decided yet,” he said. “It was just the fact that he would, so the question then became how to do it. … There were many, many iterations. ... A bullet, like an anonymous bullet, I remember that one. But it just seemed like a conventional weapons death didn’t seem appropriate. Given how much he had been able to escape from everything else, the fact that it would just be a bullet that always had your name on it from the beginning, as a sort of the thematic element seemed, while realistic, for Bond it had to be something even beyond that – like the impossible, impossible situation.”

Craig argued that

"the important thing was that we all try to create a situation of tragedy … the idea that there’s an insurmountable problem, there’s a greater force at play, and there’s nothing anybody can do about it.” He also outlined the circumstances of Bond’s demise, describing it as a deliberate choice that’s also “the last thing on earth he wants to do. ... It couldn’t feel like a random act. It had to have weight – without it, it wasn’t gonna work. And if we hadn’t have got that weight, I don’t think we would’ve done it. We would’ve found another way of ending it.”

Asked about the risk of a negative response from the audience, which might “walk in expecting that James Bond is going to save the day every time,” Craig noted: “

If you stay to the end credits, it definitely says, ‘James Bond will return.’ So all is good.”

Producer Barbara Broccoli added:

“The amazing thing was that the audience managed to keep this secret, and that’s really a testament, I think, to the Bond fans, that they didn’t want to spoil other people’s enjoyment by telling them the end of the story.”

RichardTheBruce

January 7th

1924: Albert Geoffrey Bayldon is born--Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
(He dies 10 May 2017 at age 93--Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.)

Geoffrey Bayldon

See the complete article here:

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

Geoffrey Bayldon in 2009

Born Albert Geoffrey Bayldon | 7 January 1924 | Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
Died 10 May 2017 (aged 93) | Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Occupation Actor | Years active 1952–2010
Partner(s) Alan Rowe

Albert Geoffrey Bayldon (7 January 1924 – 10 May 2017) was an English actor. After playing roles in many stage productions, including the works of William Shakespeare, he became known for portraying the title role of the children's series Catweazle (1970–71). Bayldon's other long-running parts include the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge (1979–81) and Magic Grandad in the BBC television series Watch (1995).

Early life
Bayldon was born in Leeds and attended Bridlington School and Hull College of Architecture.[6] Following service in the Royal Air Force during World War II, he appeared in amateur theatricals and then trained at the Old Vic Theatre School.

Career

Bayldon enjoyed a substantial stage career, including work in the West End and for the RSC. He made several film appearances in the 1960s and 1970s, including King Rat (1965), To Sir, with Love (1967), Casino Royale (as Q) (1967), the Envy segment of The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971), the Marc Bolan/T. Rex film Born to Boogie (1972), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976), as well as the film versions of Steptoe and Son, Steptoe and Son Ride Again (1973) as the vicar, and Porridge (1979) as the Prison Governor.

Bayldon also appeared in several horror films; Dracula and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed for Hammer Films and The House That Dripped Blood, Asylum and Tales from the Crypt for Amicus. In 2004, after many years of successful television work he appeared in the film Ladies in Lavender.

He appeared in Doctor Who with a guest appearance as Organon in The Creature from the Pit (1979) opposite Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor. Subsequently, he played an alternative First Doctor in two audio plays based on the Doctor Who television series by Big Finish Productions in the Doctor Who Unbound series: Auld Mortality (2003) and A Storm of Angels (2005). In 1963, Bayldon had been one of the first actors offered the role of the Doctor.

Bayldon's other television roles include, ITV Play of the Week (1957, 1959, 1964, 1967), The Avengers (1961 and 1967), Z-Cars (1963, 1968), Theatre 625 (1964–1968), The Wednesday Play (1968, 1969), ITV Sunday Night Theatre (1970, 1972), Space: 1999 (1976), The Tomorrow People (1976), Tales of the Unexpected (1980, 1983), Blott on the Landscape (1985), Star Cops (1987), Rumpole of the Bailey (1987), The Chronicles of Narnia (1989).[14] He later took part in a number of BBC Schools programmes,[15] where he displayed a number of otherwise unexploited talents (such as singing). In 1993, he played Simplicio in the Open University video Newton's Revolution.

In 1986, Bayldon provided the vocals on Paul Hardcastle's The Wizard which was also used (without the vocal) as the theme for BBC1's Top of the Pops.

Among his later television appearances were the Five game show Fort Boyard (1998–2001), Waking the Dead (2004), Heartbeat (2004) and Casualty (2006, after previous appearances in 1991, 1997 and 2004).[14] His final television appearances, before his retirement, were New Tricks (2007) and My Family (2010).

Death
Bayldon died on 10 May 2017, aged 93, from undisclosed causes.[20] His partner of many years, fellow actor Alan Rowe, had predeceased him in 2000.

Geoffrey Bayldon (1924–2017)

Actor

Trivia (9)

• He played the Doctor in two Doctor Who (1963) Unbound audio plays, "Auld Mortality" (2003) and "A Storm Of Angels" (2005).
• He served in the Royal Air Force prior to training to be an actor.
• Has said in an interview he was offered the role of the first Doctor Who (played by William Hartnell). This is at odds with most documents of the official history of the series, which have stated that Hartnell was the third choice after Cyril Cusack and Leslie French. Bayldon was considered for several roles in the series, including Sir Robert Muir in Doctor Who: Black Orchid: Part One (1982), Lord President Borusa in Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity: Part One (1983) and Lord Ravensworth in Doctor Who: The Mark of The Rani Part One (1985).
• Appeared as a butler in the rock and roll movie Born to Boogie (1972) featuring Marc Bolan and T. Rex, and directed by Ringo Starr, due to their fondness for his TV series Catweazle (1970).
• At the age of 80 in 2004, he became the oldest actor to ever play the Doctor Who (1963) character the Doctor, which he did (for the second time) in the Big Finish audio drama "A Storm of Angels".
• He was considered for the roles of Dr. Hans Fallada, Dr. Armstrong, Sir Percy Heseltine and the Fatherly Guard in Lifeforce (1985).
• He died only seven days after his Casino Royale (1967) co-star Daliah Lavi.
• Trained as an R.A.F.air-crew radio operator during the war but by the time his training was complete there were sufficient crews so he worked in orderly rooms and helped with entertainment.
• He was the long-term partner of fellow actor Alan Rowe, who died in 2000.

1964: Laurence Harvey states he's been asked by Kevin McClory to play Bond in a film version of Thunderball. And he'd like that a lot.

The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
Chapter 22 - Bond Goes Head To Head

It wasn't long before stories began emerging in the press about who would
play 007 in McClory's renegade Bond film, which was ready to go before
cameras in March 1964, the same month as Goldfnger. Two names mentioned
were the Australian actor Rod Taylor, recent star of Hitchcock's The Birds, and
Laurence harvey, who'd made his name in the kitchen sink drama Room at the
Top before moving on to Hollywood and films like The Alamo and The
Manchurian Candidate. Harvey seemed the favourite and on 7 January revealed
that he had been asked and was considering the offer. "I think the script is
marvellous and I would be delighted to portray Bond."

1966: Sean Connery appears on the cover of Life magazine.

1974: Richard Maibaum finishes the first draft of the screenplay for The Man with the Golden Gun.

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24240/lot/42/?category=results&length=90&page=1

1976: Producer Kevin McClory announces in Variety his planned film James Bond of the Secret Service, to begin filming in the Bahamas with the involvement of Len Deighton and Sean Connery.

1981: 문 레이커 (Moon-ray-ee-kuh) released in South Korea.

1981: RCA Selectavision buys the laser-disc rights to the 007 films for $1.5 million.

1985: Pinewood's Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage re-opens, rebuilt after a July 1984 fire. A huge Peter Lamont set of Zorin's mine interior is already constructed.

July 1984.

January 1985.

1993: Fantail publish James Bond Jr. paperback Live and Let's Dance by John Peel, writing as John Vincent.

2000: Ο κόσμος δεν είναι αρκετός (James Bond, praktor 007 - O kosmos den einai arketos) released in Greece.

2000: Swiat to za malo (World for a Little While) released in Poland.

2012: Shooting resumes for Skyfall with the funeral scene following the explosion at MI6 Headquarters. On location at the Old Royal Navy College in Greenwich, Michael G. Wilson on hand for his cameo.
2015: Spectre cast members Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Dave Bautista pose on Gaislachkogl's peak, Sölden, Austria prior to filming there.

2015: Khan Bonfils dies at age 43--London, England.
(Born 1 January 1972--Vietnam.)

Khan Bonfils

See the complete article here:

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

Kan (Khan) Bonfils (1972[1] – January 5, 2015) was a Danish actor and performer. He was born in Vietnam and adopted by a Danish family when he was 5 years old. He grew up in Denmark and later moved to London to fulfil his dream. He trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. He was a trained Martial Artist and studied the art of Wing Chun Kung Fu from Austin Goh, and was also a practitioner of Yin Style Ba Gua Zhang in London since 2008.

His film credits include Jedi Master Saesee Tiin (Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Body Armour (2007) and Traveller (2013).

His other film credits include Tomb Raider 2, Batman Begins, and the James Bond films Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and Skyfall (2012).

Bonfils also performed in the West End: Miss Saigon at Drury Lane, Theatre Royal London and The King & I at London Palladium where he performed the lead with Elaine Paige.

Bonfils also had a brief modelling career, before starting acting, modelling for Michiko Kochino, Hermes, Oswald Boateng and more.

On 5 January 2015, Bonfils was rehearsing an upcoming stage production of Dante's Inferno when he collapsed. He could not be resuscitated, and was pronounced dead by paramedics. He was 42 years old.

Filmography
His film credits include:

• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) - Satoshi Isagura (uncredited)
• Shadow Run (1998) - Baz
• Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999) - Saesee Tiin
• Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) - Reiss' Guard
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) - Creepy
• Batman Begins (2005) - League of Shadows Warrior #3
• Body Armour (2007) - Ozu
• Tribe (2011) - Tolui
• Skyfall (2012) - Silva's henchman
• Traveller (2013) - Tolui
• Razors: The Return of Jack the Ripper (2016) - JK (final film role)

Khan Bonfils (1972–2015)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0094416/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2019: The 76th Golden Globes Awards generates evidence of potential rivalry over the Bond role.

007 Times 2? Idris Elba Poses for
'Awks' Selfie with Daniel Craig at
2019 Golden Globes

https://people.com/movies/golden-globes-2019-idris-elba-daniel-craig-bond-selfie/

As shared by Mr. Idris Elba.

2020: Reports say Hans Zimmer will compose the soundtrack to No Time To Die.

Hans Zimmer hired to score Bond film
No Time to Die at last minute

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/07/hans-zimmer-hired-to-score-bond-film-no-time-to-die-at-last-minute

Famed composer behind Inception and Gladiator drafted in to
replace Dan Romer following creative differences

New Bond project ... Hans Zimmer. Photograph: Matt Alexander/PA

Ben Beaumont-Thomas | @ben_bt | Tue 7 Jan 2020

Hans Zimmer has been drafted in as a last-minute replacement to score the James Bond movie No Time to Die, less than three months before its release.

He replaces Dan Romer, who departs due to creative differences with the film’s production company Eon Productions, Variety reports. Romer had scored previous projects by Bond director Cary Fukunaga, such as Beasts of No Nation and Maniac. The theme song, a key element of each Bond film, has not yet been announced.

Zimmer is one of Hollywood’s most high-profile composers, celebrated for his scores for films such as Gladiator, The Da Vinci Code and the Pirates of the Caribbean series. He won an Oscar for his 1994 theme for The Lion King, though he is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Christoper Nolan on Inception, Interstellar, the Dark Knight movies and more. Last week, Quentin Tarantino said “you could define the decade by” Zimmer’s score for Nolan’s film Dunkirk.

Zimmer has scored two more films approaching release: superhero sequel Wonder Woman 1984 and Denis Villeneuve’s remake of Dune. He recently announced a live tour of arenas across Europe in spring 2021.

2020: Michael Apted dies at age 79--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 10 February 1941--Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, South East England.)

Michael Apted, director and Seven Up
documentarian, dies at 79

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/08/michael-apted-director-seven-up-dies-79

British director made films Coal Miner’s Daughter and The World is
Not Enough, and the long-running Up documentary series

Michael Apted Photograph: Vince Bucci/Getty Images

Benjamin Lee | Fri 8 Jan 2021

The British director Michael Apted has died at the age of 79.

The film-maker and documentarian was known for films such as Gorillas in the Mist and Coal Miner’s Daughter, as well as his long-running series of Up documentaries.

His death has been confirmed by his agency to the Hollywood Reporter. No further details are yet known.

Apted’s career started in the 1960s on the small screen, and in 1964, he assisted on the the show Seven Up! as part of the current affairs show World in Action. He helped the director Paul Almond interview 14 seven-year-old children, and continued to independently revisit them every seven years over the course of their lives. The most recent, 63 Up, was released in 2019 and the director referred to it as “the most important thing I have ever done”. The series as a whole won the Peabody award in 2012.

“The series was an attempt to do a long view of English society,” Apted said in an interview last year. “The class system needed a kick up the backside.”

In promotion for the most recent installment, Apted expressed a desire to continue in another seven years’ time, saying he would continue as long as he “can breathe and speak”.

In the 1970s, Apted made his big-screen debut, directing the second world war drama The Triple Echo, starring Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. But he saw see his first major film success in 1980 with Coal Miner’s Daughter, a Loretta Lynn biopic starring Sissy Spacek. It was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one for Spacek as best actress.

Sissy Spacek in Coal Miner’s Daughter Photograph: Cinetext Bildarchiv/Allstar/UNIVERSAL

Apted went on to direct Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist, a film that also picked up five Oscar nominations; Nell, which scored an Oscar nomination for Jodie Foster; the Kate Winslet drama Enigma; the Jennifer Lopez thriller Enough and, most recently, the action film Unlocked starring Noomi Rapace.

“What I like about women at the center of films is that I find that a woman character brings a lot of emotion to a story, whatever a story is,” he said in a 2017 interview. “Whether it’s a woman with gorillas or a country music singer, a woman’s emotional life – at least on the surface – is more dramatic than a man’s.”

He also directed the James Bond adventure The World is Not Enough and the fantasy sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

Apted has been remembered by his peers on Twitter, including Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids.

“So very very sad to hear of the passing of Michael Apted,” Feig wrote. “He was always so kind to me and I was such a great admirer of his work.”

Gale Anne Hurd, producer of Aliens and The Terminator, tweeted: “Another legendary filmmaker gone … a brilliant documentarian and a wonderful colleague. Do yourself a favor and check out his terrific filmography.”

Apted is survived by his wife, Paige Simpson, sons Jim and John, and daughter Lily Mellis.

Michael Apted (1941–2021)

Director | Producer | Additional Crew
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000776/

RichardTheBruce

January 8th

1920: Douglas Wilmer is born--Brentford, London, England.
(He dies 31 March 2016 at age 96--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.)

Douglas Wilmer (1920–2016)

Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932811/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1937: Dame Shirley Bassey is born--Tiger Bay, Cardiff, Wales.

1962: Ian Fleming begins writing On Her Majesty's Secret Service at Goldeneye.
1966: Bond comic strip You Only Live Twice ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Began 17 May 1965. 275-475) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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

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

Man Lever Bara Två Gånger
(You Only Live Twice - Part 1) | (You Only Live Twice - Part 2)

Swedish Semic Comic 1976 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3

Man Lever Bara Två Gånger - Djävulens Trädgård
(You Only Live Twice - "Devil Garden")

Swedish Semic Comic 1967

Djävulens Trädgård - Man Lever Bara Två Gånger!
(Devil's Garden - You Only Live Twice!)

Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no12-1967/

James Bond 007 no. 39 (1977)
"Djævelens urtegård ..."
The Devil's Garden"

Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no39-1977/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 12/1967
"Djævelens urtegård ..." "The Devil's garden"

1971: 007 카지노 로얄 (Kah-gee-no low-yal; Casino Royale) released in the Republic of Korea.

1976: Richard Maibaum and Christopher Wood complete the screenplay for The Spy Who Loved Me. Today found at the University of Iowa Special Collections Repository.

1992: Anthony Dawson dies at age 75--Sussex, England.
(Born 18 October 1916--Edinburgh, Scotland.)

Anthony Dawson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anthony Dawson (I) (1916–1992)

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

Filmography

Actor (81 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writer (2 credits)

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

1992: Dali Bensallah is born--Rennes, France.

2006: Media report director Quentin Tarantino is furious with James Bond producers. Or at least unhappy.

Tarantino furious with Bond producers

See the complete article here:

https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a27981/tarantino-furious-with-bond-producers/

Quentin Tarantino is unhappy with James Bond producers.
By Daniel Kilkelly | 8 Jan 2006

The director claims that he suggested the idea of filming Casino Royale to former Bond star Pierce Brosnan, who has since been replaced by Daniel Craig.

"I'm annoyed that the James Bond producers never even called me up to talk to me about it because I can tell you they would not be making Casino Royale if I hadn't talked about it first," Tarantino is quoted by the Sunday Mirror[/b] as saying.

"They should have called me. Especially since they are taking my idea and they are taking the publicity I gave them towards that idea. They should have at least out of courtesy had coffee with me."

Visions of the project.

2008: Norvic FDC (First Day Cover) issues James Bond commemorative stamps for the Fleming Centenary.

RichardTheBruce

January 9th

1943: Scott Walker is born--Hamilton, Ohio.
(He dies 22 March 2019 at age 76--London, England.)

Scott Walker, Pop Singer Who
Turned Experimental, Dies at 76

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/obituaries/scott-walker-dead.html

Scott Walker with the Scottish pop singer Lulu during an awards ceremony in the late 1960s. Evoking the blue-eyed soul of the Righteous Brothers, his group, the Walker Brothers, had several hits, two of which rose to No. 1 on the British charts.
Credit Ballard/Hulton Archive

By Richard Sandomir | March 26, 2019

Scott Walker, who with his American pop group, the Walker Brothers, became a teenage idol in Britain in the 1960s, but who later immersed himself in experimental music that influenced artists like David Bowie and Radiohead, died on Friday in London. He was 76.

His record label, 4AD, said the cause was cancer. He had been living in England since the 1960s.

The Walker Brothers arrived in England in early 1965, reversing the earlier British invasion of America. There, the group — made up of Mr. Walker (his real name was Noel Scott Engel), a dramatic baritone who played bass; John Maus, a guitarist and vocalist; and Gary Leeds, the drummer, all of whom used the surname Walker — found the success that had eluded them in the United States.

Though their popularity never reached Beatlemania levels, their fans, like those of the Beatles, would scream during their performances — and, in one harrowing incident, turned over a van taking them from a concert in Dublin.

Evoking the blue-eyed soul of the Righteous Brothers, the Walker Brothers had several hits, two of which rose to No. 1 on the British charts: “Make It Easy on Yourself,” a ballad by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore,” which had first been recorded by Frankie Valli of the Four Seasons. Both songs also rose to the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.

Mr. Walker left the group in 1967 to start a solo career that became a rejection of his rock-star phase. In one iteration he recorded songs by the Belgian singer and songwriter Jacques Brel. But his most critical period was a retreat into the studio to create avant-garde music that was hard to categorize: ominous and clangorous, existential and electronic, with big blocks of sound, his baritone voice now used to almost operatic effect. For many years, he did not appear in concert.

Reviewing a recording on which Mr. Walker collaborated with the metal band Sunn O))) in 2014, Ben Ratliff of The New York Times described his music as “intricate puzzles of shock, indiscretion, non-resolution, theatrical uses of text and extended technique, often with a 40-piece orchestra.” He added that Mr. Walker was always looking for a “whoops factor”— “a moment of incomprehension from the listener.”

In a message on Twitter, Thom Yorke, the lead singer and main songwriter of Radiohead, wrote that Mr. Walker had shown him “how I could use my voice and words.”

“Met him once at Meltdown,” he added, referring to the annual music and art festival in England, “such a kind gentle outsider.”

Noel Scott Engel was born on Jan 9, 1943, in Hamilton, Ohio, about 30 miles north of Cincinnati, the only child of Noel and Elizabeth Marie (Fortier) Engel. His father was an oil company geologist whose job took the family to various cities. When Scott was about 6 his parents divorced, and he went to live in Denver with his mother.

They subsequently moved to New York, where in the mid-1950s Scott, still a schoolboy, began his entertainment career. He had small roles in the Broadway musicals “Plain and Fancy” and “Pipe Dream” and recorded singles, including “When Is a Boy a Man?” (1957), as Scotty Engel — hoping, without success, to break through as a teenage idol. Many of those songs were later released in the compilation album “Looking Back With Scott Walker” (1968).

Mr. Walker performing on television in an undated photo. After leaving the Walker Brothers in 1967, he began a solo career that became a rejection of his rock-star phase, eventually retreating into the studio to create avant-garde music that was hard to categorize.
Credit David Redfern/Redferns

Around 1960 he and his mother moved to Los Angeles, where he attended high school and the Chouinard Art Institute. He also played in various music groups, worked as a session bassist and, in 1964, formed the Walker Brothers with Mr. Maus (who had already been using John Walker as a pseudonym). They played at the Whisky a Go Go and other clubs along the Sunset Strip.

Although the best-known songs of his Walker Brothers period did not portend how radical his music would become, Mr. Walker began to demonstrate a willingness to free himself from the conventions of pop and rock as early as 1967, when he began releasing a series of solo albums — “Scott,” “Scott 2,” Scott 3” and “Scott 4.” He did so again on “Nite Flights” (1978), an album made during a brief reunion of the Walker Brothers.

Along the way, he found an admirer in David Bowie. Mr. Bowie, a transcendent musical experimenter, was in a relationship with a woman who had dated Mr. Walker and kept his albums. Mr. Bowie listened to the music and became so enamored that he later took the role of executive producer of “Scott Walker: 30 Century Man” (2007), a documentary directed by Stephen Kijak.

“I like the way he can paint a picture with what he says,” Mr. Bowie said in the film. “I had no idea what he was singing about. And I didn’t care.”

Mr. Walker, who worked on his albums slowly and meticulously, continued his musical evolution with “Climate of Hunter” (1984). With “Tilt” (1995) and “The Drift” (2006), he drew closer to matching his ambition to his creative visions — and to those that crept into his mind while he slept.

“I have a very nightmarish imagination,” he said in the documentary, which focuses on the recording of “The Drift.” He added: “I’ve had bad dreams all my life. Everything in my life is big, it’s out of proportion.”

“Clara,” a song on “The Drift,” reimagines the executions of Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, at the hands of Italian partisans in 1945. (It was inspired by newsreels Mr. Walker had seen as a child.) Another song, “Jesse,” imagines a conversation between Elvis Presley and Jesse, his stillborn twin brother, as a vehicle to write about the destruction of the World Trade Center.

In a plaintive, eerie vocal reminiscent of Mr. Bowie, Mr. Walker sings:

Fame is a tall, tall tower
A building left in the night
Jesse, are you listening?
It casts ruins in shadows
Under Memphis moonlight
Jesse, are you listening?

Howard Kaylan, a founding member of the Turtles, said in a 2013 interview that he had been listening to Mr. Walker since the 1960s. He was a fan of the Walker Brothers, he said, but thought of Mr. Walker’s solo music as the work of genius.

“My jaw hit the ground when I heard ‘Tilt,’ ” Mr. Kaylan told the newspaper Record Collector News. “And by the time he got to ‘Drift,’ I understood what he was doing: He is doing the most conventional pop music I ever heard. He is just doing it as if he was observing it from outer space and then trying to tell you what he saw as an alien.”

Mr. Walker’s survivors include his partner, Beverly; his daughter, Lee; and a granddaughter. Mr. Maus died in 2011.

Some of Mr. Walker’s lyrics were published last year in the book Sundog, with an introduction by the Irish novelist Eimear McBride, who compared Mr. Walker to James Joyce.

“Walker’s work, as Joyce’s before it, is a complex synesthesia of thought, feeling, the doings of the physical world and the weight of foreign objects slowly ground together down into diamond,” Ms. McBride wrote. “This is not art for the passive. It does not impart comfort or ease. Tempests will not be reconciled by the final bars, and no one is going home any more.”
A version of this article appears in print on March 27, 2019, on Page B14 of the New York edition with the headline: Scott Walker, 76, Pop Idol Who Turned Experimental.

Scott Walker, "The Experience of Love", Soundtrack version


Scott Walker, "The Experience of Love", GoldenEye end titles

Scott Walker cover, "The Look of Love"

1965: Goldfinger general release in the US.

1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films the shootout at Piz Gloria.

1972: The RMS Queen Elizabeth catches fire and sinks in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, ending plans to use it as "the Floating College".

1998: Jonathan B. Dinerstein in The Harvard Crimson proposes "When Bond Flicks Are Formulaic, Everyone Loses."

When Bond Flicks Are Formulaic,
Everyone Loses

See the complete article here:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1998/1/9/when-bond-flicks-are-formulaic-everyone/

TOMORROW NEVER DIES Directed by Roger Spottiswoode Starring Pierce Brosnan, Michelle Yeoh
By Jonathan B. Dinerstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
January 9, 1998

Secret agent, my foot. How secret can this guy be? He keeps going around telling people his name.

Although James Bond was never one to be coy or reserved, the claim that his agent ship is secret becomes an increasingly ridiculous assertion with the advent of each new film. The bad guys in each movie must all have flunked out of elementary bad guy school, where dealing with James Bond is a more important part of the curriculum than even sections devoted to Superman and proper income tax return techniques. They were most assuredly all absent the day The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly was shown and Eli Wallach's priceless gem of wisdom was studied: "When you gotta shoot, shoot, don't talk."

In fact, Tomorrow Never Dies is no better than a mediocre, run-of-the-mill, modern action flick. Sure, the high paced action scenes, abundant chases, explosions and lavish gadgetry with which a Bond film is now associated has entertainment value of its own. But to claim that the current films have any more tradition or class to them than any generic action movie with say, Arnold or Stephen Segal, is bunk. Better to just do away with the whole cumbersome apparatus and obligatory baggage which slapping a Bond label on a movie entails, and instead devote the energy to making good original action films.

Tomorrow Never Dies is fairly watchable, taken by itself. There are some nice scenic shots of missiles and jet fighters cruising over mountain ranges. There are many appreciably nifty action sequences involving vehicles of all sorts. There is also the usual bevy of beautiful Bond women, this time including Teri Hatcher, and a new twist to the series in the person of Michelle Yeoh, a Chinese dish who joins forces with 007 and is as skilled and equipped for secret agency as Bond.

But the relentless drive for more action and stunts eventually becomes overwhelming. The machine guns effectively attached to the characters' arms only function as noise-makers, and by the end, the movie becomes bogged down in big bangs and blow-ups.

Pierce Brosnan is substantially improved as 007. Although no one can possibly surpass the standards set by Sean Connery, Brosnan in Tomorrow Never Dies probably comes the closest. In this movie he is much more somber, more reserved and better composed. He makes it seem as though his predicaments represent business as usual, and in so doing, seems to be having more fun. He has tamed his rampant smirks, paring down their usage so that they become a potent portrayer of cunning and savoir-faire and not simply a crutch.

Despite Brosnan championing the character's cause, the gadgetry and explosions win out. The action should have featured less gadgetry, and that gadgetry should have included fewer Ericsson mobile phones.

Now instead of simply selling the James Bond character out for the sake of box office sales, Tomorrow Never Dies has eliminated the middle-man and gone straight to selling him to private companies. Ultimately, the movie is nothing more than the world's most expensive commercial.

1998: Το αύριο ποτέ δεν πεθαίνει (To avrio pote den pethainei, or The Tomorrow Never Dies) released in Greece.

2000: The World Is Not Enough released in Egypt.
2003: Die Another Day released in the Netherlands.

2012: Producers announce Thomas Newman will score Skyfall.

Skyfall

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyfall:_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack

Development
Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced on 9 January 2012 that Thomas Newman, frequent collaborator of Skyfall director Sam Mendes, would score Skyfall. On describing how the job became his, Newman said, "I very shyly gave [Mendes] a call or emailed him and said, just so you know, I’d be overjoyed to do it, but would never want to be presumptuous. He emailed me back, saying I was just about to call you, let’s meet for lunch!" Newman took over musical duties for the film from David Arnold who was busy directing the musical aspects of the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic closing ceremonies. However, Arnold later commented that the reason behind the selection of Newman had been because of his past work with Mendes.Newman's collaborator J. A. C. Redford did the orchestration.

On 6 October 2012, the album's track list was revealed featuring the running times of each track. The first preview of the score was released a few days later on 9 October 2012, while the soundtrack itself was released less than a month later by Sony Classical. This was the second time the label had released a Bond soundtrack, with the first being the Casino Royale soundtrack album.

Unlike most other Bond soundtracks, the soundtrack album to Skyfall does not contain the title song performed by Adele. This marks only the second time that this has happened, the first being the Casino Royale soundtrack album. Despite this, at the producer's insistence Newman added an interpolation of "Skyfall" in the track "Komodo Dragon", used in a scene where Bond enters a casino in Macau.

The CD booklet mentions that the score contains interpolations of the "James Bond Theme", written by Monty Norman. Arnold's arrangement of the "James Bond Theme" (which appears on the Casino Royale soundtrack as "The Name's Bond…James Bond") plays over Skyfall's end titles (which begin with the film's gun barrel sequence); however, the track does not appear on the soundtrack album. Newman's arrangement of the theme plays over the reveal of Bond's Aston Martin and his escape with M to Scotland; the track appears on the album as "Breadcrumbs."

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #3.
Marc Laming, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

JAMES BOND 007 #3

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532503011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
UPC: 725130275325 03011
Cover B: Philip Tan
UPC: 725130275325 03021
Cover C: Kris Anka
UPC: 725130275325 03031
Cover D: Marc Laming
UPC: 725130275325 03041
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Marc Laming
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: January 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 1/9/2019

ODD JOB continues, by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Mech Cadet Yu) and MARC LAMING (Star Wars, Wonder Woman)!
Northern Australia: Agent 007 infiltrates an illegal outpost, to prevent a uranium dealer's negotiations with terrorists. Or, that WOULD be his mission, if not for the interference of a (seemingly ever-present) Korean secret agent. Will James Bond stay on target, or will his fury towards John Lee overtake his priorities?

RichardTheBruce

January 10th

1908: Bernard Lee is born--Brentford, Middlesex, England.
(He dies 16 January 1981 at age 73--Hampstead, London, England.)

Obituaries

BERNARD LEE IS DEAD;
BRITISH ACTOR HAD ROLES
IN JAMES BOND MOVIES

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/obituaries/bernard-lee-is-dead-british-actor-had-roles-in-james-bond-movies.html
Jan. 18, 1981

Bernard Lee, a British character actor who appeared in more than 100 films and was perhaps best known as the spy chief ''M'' in James Bond movies, died of cancer Friday at a London hospital. He was 73 years old.

Mr. Lee's officious manner and clipped British accent made him a natural choice for detective roles or military dramas. In 1954 he played Inspector Valentine in ''The Detective,'' in which Alec Guinness starred. He had the leading role, that of a traitorous war hero, Henry Houghton, in ''Ring of Treason'' in 1964, and the starring role of a doomed pilot in ''Trouble in the Sky'' in 1964. In ''The Purple Plain,'' with Gregory Peck in 1955, he played a sympathetic Air Force medic.

Mr. Lee also portrayed Inspector Valentine in ''Cage of Gold'' in 1952 and ''The Man Upstairs'' in 1959. He appeared in such post-World War II pictures as ''Quartet,'' based on stories by Somerset Maugham, and the Carol Reed-Graham Greene classics, ''The Fallen Idol'' and ''The Third Man.''

Mr. Lee made his stage debut at the Oxford Theatre in London at the age of 6 with his father, Edmund Lee. He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and, after a measure of success on the stage and screen, made appearances on television.

He appeared in all 12 Bond thrillers from the first, Dr. No, with Sean Connery, in 1962, to the latest, Moonraker, with Roger Moore, in 1979. His illness prevented his planned appearance in the 13th movie, For Your Eyes Only, which is yet to be released.

Mr. Lee is survived by his wife, Ursula.

Bernard Lee (I) (1908–1981)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0496866/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (150 credits)

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

1979 Saint Joan (TV Movie) - La Tremouille
1979 Moonraker - M
1977-1978 The Foundation (TV Series) - Eddie Prince - 13 episodes
1978 Sense of Place (TV Series) - Man
- Seawrack (1978) ... Man
1977 A Christmas Carol (TV Movie) - Ghost of Christmas Present
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - M
1976 Beauty and the Beast (TV Movie) - Edward Beaumont
1976 Killers (TV Series) - Thomas Ley
- The Chalkpit Murder (1976) ... Thomas Ley
1976 Warship (TV Series) - Yachtsman
- Knight Errant (1976) ... Yachtsman
1975 From Hong Kong with Love - M
1975 Comedy Premiere (TV Series) - Wally Warner
- What a Turn Up (1975) ... Wally Warner
1975 Against the Crowd (TV Series) - Beeley
- Murrain (1975) ... Beeley
1975 Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Drury
- Kate (1975) ... Mr. Drury
1974-1975 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Sir Peter Teazle / Hornblower
- The School for Scandal (1975) ... Sir Peter Teazle
- The Skin Game (1974) ... Hornblower
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - 'M'
1974 Father Brown (TV Series) - John Raggley
- The Quick One (1974) ... John Raggley
1974 It's Not the Size That Counts - Barraclough
1974 Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell - Tarmut
1973 Vienna 1900 (TV Mini-Series) - Herr Welponer
- Mother and Son (1973) ... Herr Welponer
1973 Follyfoot (TV Series) - Woodman
- Walk in the Wood (1973) ... Woodman
1973 Crime of Passion (TV Series) - Marcel Amiot
- Emile (1973) ... Marcel Amiot
1973 Once Upon a Time (TV Series) - James Cable
- Silver (1973) ... James Cable
1973 Live and Let Die - 'M'
1973 The Man Who Died Twice (TV Movie)
Francis Cumberland
1972-1973 General Hospital (TV Series) - Harold Brophy - 6 episodes
1972 The Pathfinders (TV Series) - Air Vice Marshal
- Codename Gomorrah (1972) ... Air Vice Marshal
1971 Danger Point - Captain
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - 'M'
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Sam Milford
- Someone Like Me (1971) ... Sam Milford
1971 Dulcima - Mr. Gaskain
1971 Long Ago, Tomorrow - Uncle Bob

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 'M'
1969 Crossplot - Chilmore
1969 Strange Report (TV Series) - Arthur Pater
- Report 8319: Grenade - What Price Change? (1969) ... Arthur Pater
1969 The Expert (TV Series) - Harry Kirby
- Post-Mortem on Harry Kirby (1969) ... Harry Kirby
1969 The Champions (TV Series) - Squires
- The Body Snatchers (1969) ... Squires
1969 Journey to the Unknown (TV Series) - Ben Loker
- Poor Butterfly (1969) ... Ben Loker
1968 Journey to Midnight - Ben Loker (episode 'Poor Butterfly')
1968 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Frank Lanton
- Nothing Will Be the Same (1968) ... Frank Lanton
1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Baxter
- The System: Them Down There (1968) ... Baxter
1968 The Jazz Age (TV Series) - Sir James
- Post Mortem (1968) ... Sir James
1968 Public Eye (TV Series) - Detective Sergeant Davidson
- Mercury in an Off-White Mac (1968) ... Detective Sergeant Davidson
1967 The Gamblers (TV Series) - Bob Townsend
- The Man Beneath (1967) ... Bob Townsend
1967 Mogul (TV Series) - Bernard Hart
- Mr. Know-How (1967) ... Bernard Hart
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - George Kershaw
- The Girl Who Never Was (1967) ... George Kershaw
1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Frank Graham
- Friends (1967) ... Frank Graham
1967 You Only Live Twice - 'M'
1967 Operation Kid Brother - Commander Cunningham
1966-1967 King of the River (TV Series) - Joss King - 16 epsiodes
1966 Court Martial (TV Series)
- Flight of a Tiger (1966)
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Morgan Travis
- The Killing (1966) ... Morgan Travis
- Masquerade (1966) ... Morgan Travis
1959-1966 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Daniel Whittaker / Tom / Aaronson / ...
- The Night Before the Morning After (1966) ... Daniel Whittaker
- Nest of Four (1960) ... Tom
- Cold Fury (1960) ... Aaronson
- Ernie Barger Is 50 (1959) ... Ernie Barger
1965-1966 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Derringham / Lord Ammanford
- The Man with the Foot (1966) ... Derringham
- Whatever Happened to George Foster? (1965) ... Lord Ammanford
1966 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Jeremiah
- The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 2 (1966) ... Jeremiah
- The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 1 (1966) ... Jeremiah
1965 The Man in a Looking Glass (TV Movie) - Morgan Travis
1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - The Man
- The Passenger (1965) ... The Man
1965 Thunderball - 'M'
1965 Blackmail (TV Series) - Steve Bradwell
- Tricks of the Trade (1965) ... Steve Bradwell
1965 Love Story (TV Series) - Henry Golden
- After Hours (1965) ... Henry Golden
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Landlord (uncredited)
1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Mr. Patmore - Grocer
1965 Two Left Feet - Mr. Crabbe
1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors - Hopkins (segment "Creeping Vine")
1965 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Jim Cherry
- The Flowering Cherry (1965) ... Jim Cherry
1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Jim Garner
- Ring of Hate (1964) ... Jim Garner
1964 Goldfinger - 'M'
1964 Who Was Maddox? - Superintendent Meredith
1960-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Superintendent Meredith / Det. Supt. Meredith / Inspector Mann
- Who Was Maddox? (1964) ... Superintendent Meredith
- The Share Out (1962) ... Det. Supt. Meredith
- Clue of the Silver Key (1961) ... Superintendent Meredith
- Partners in Crime (1961) ... Inspector Mann
- Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960) ... Superintendent Meredith
1964 Saturday Night Out - George Hudson
1964 Shadow of Treason - Henry Houghton
1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Villager: unknown name
- Dead Men Don't Drive (1964) ... Villager: unknown name
1964 Espionage (TV Series) - John Neary
- Snow on Mount Kama (1964) ... John Neary
1963 From Russia with Love - 'M'
1963 A Place to Go - Matt Flint
1963 The Third Man (TV Series) - Angus Meyrick
- Portrait of Harry (1963) ... Angus Meyrick
1962 The Share Out - Det. Supt. Meredith
1961-1962 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Company Commander / Jack Brown
- Behind the Line (1962) ... Company Commander
- Venus Brown (1961) ... Jack Brown
1962 The L-Shaped Room - Charlie
1962 The Brain - Dr. Frank Shears
1962 Dr. No - M.
1961 Clue of the Silver Key - Superintendent Meredith
1961 Partners in Crime - Inspector Mann
1961 The Interrogator (TV Movie) - Superintendent Farron
1961 O Captain, My Captain (TV Movie) - Vasco, The Captain
1961 Whistle Down the Wind - Bostock
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Black John
1961 The Secret Partner - Det. Supt. Frank Hanbury
1960 Clue of the Twisted Candle - Superintendent Meredith
1960 Trouble in the Sky - Capt. Gort
1960 The Angry Silence - Bert Connolly
1960 Kidnapped - Captain Hoseason
1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Firing Officer (uncredited)

1955-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Hoederer / Edward Blunt / Hurst / ...
- Crime Passionnel (1959) ... Hoederer
- The Uninvited (1958) ... Edward Blunt
- In Writing (1956) ... Hurst
- Mirror, Mirror (1955) ... Mervin Llewellyn
1959 Web of Evidence - Patrick Mathry
1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Lunt
- Family on Trial (1959) ... Det. Insp. Lunt
1959 Breakout - Lt. Col. Huxley
1958 Nowhere to Go - Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson
1958 The Man Upstairs - The Inspector
1955-1958 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Cornelius / Prison Governor / William Lotless
- Cornelius (1958) ... Cornelius
- All Correct, Sir (1956) ... Prison Governor
- The Golden Fleece (1955) ... William Lotless
1958 The Key - Cmdr. Wadlow
1958 Dunkirk - Charles Foreman
1957 High Flight - Flight Sergeant Harris
1957 Across the Bridge - Chief Inspector Hadden
1957 Fire Down Below - Doctor Sam
1956 The Spanish Gardener - Leighton Bailey
1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Captain Dove - M.S. Africa Shell
1956 Theatre Royal (TV Series) - Candleblow Smith
- The Stolen Pearl (1956) ... Candleblow Smith
1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Rudi Lankert
- A Borderline Case (1955) ... Rudi Lankert
1955 PT Raiders - Sam Brewster,The Customs Officer
1955 Out of the Clouds - Customs Officer
1955 Sweet Coz (TV Movie) - Job
1954 The Purple Plain - Dr. Harris
1954 Crest of the Wave - Seaman 'Lofty' Turner
1954 The Detective - Inspector Valentine
1954 The Rainbow Jacket - Racketeer (uncredited)
1953 Beat the Devil - Insp. Jack Clayton
1953 Sailor of the King - Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley
1953 The Yellow Balloon - Constable Chapman
1952 Glory at Sea - A.S. 'Stripey' Wood
1951 Mr. Denning Drives North - Inspector Dodds
1951 Island Rescue - Brigadier
1951 Calling Bulldog Drummond - Col. Webson
1951 White Corridors - Burgess
1951 Fortune in Diamonds - O'Connell
1950 Cage of Gold - Inspector Grey
1950 Odette - Jack
1950 Last Holiday - Inspector Wilton
1950 Operation Disaster - Commander Gates
1950 The Blue Lamp - Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry

1949 The Third Man - Sgt. Paine
1949 I Have Been Here Before (TV Movie) - Walter Ormund
1948 Elizabeth of Ladymead - John Beresford in 1903
1948 Quartet - Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")
1948 The Fallen Idol - Detective Hart
1947 The Adventures of Dusty Bates - Captain Ford
1947 Katy's Love Affair - Colonel Gascoyne
1946 This Man Is Mine - James Nicholls
1943 The New Lot - Interviewing Officer (uncredited)
1941 Once a Crook - Duke
1940 Spare a Copper - Jake
1940 To Hell with Hitler - Oscar

1939 The Frozen Limits - Bill McGrew
1939 Murder in the Night - Roy Barnes
1938 Love from a Stranger (TV Movie) - Bruce Lovell
1938 The Terror - Ferdy Fane
1937 The Black Tulip - William Of Orange
1936 Rhodes - Cartwright
1935 The River House Mystery - Wade Belloc
1934 The Double Event - Dennison

Writer (1 credit)

1975 Animal Kwackers (TV Series) (deviser)

Self (4 credits)

2006 Press Day in Portugal (Video documentary short) - Himself

1980 Star Games (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 4 November 1980 (1980) ... Himself

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQhV9A9R2no
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: James Bond's Wedding in Portugal (Documentary short) - Himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMPVQw0hvt4

1966: Bond comic strip The Man with the Golden Gun begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 9 September 1966. 1-209) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence writer.
They go on to adapt five more Fleming titles, plus Colonel Sun and 20 original Bond adventures.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tmwtgg.php3?id=0559





Swedish Semic Comic 1987 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1987.php3

Mannen Med Dengyllene Pistolen
(The Man With The Golden Gun - Part 1) | (The Man With The Golden Gun - Part 2)

Swedish Semic Comic 1968 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1968.php3

Manden Med Den Gyllene Pistole
(The Man With The Golden Gun)

Danish 1977 http://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" [The Spy from the East]

Danish 1976 http://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 http://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

1977: ABC-TV premiere of The Man With the Golden Gun.

Television-friendly titles.

2003: 007 - Um Novo Dia Para Morrer (007 - A New Day to Die) released in Brazil.

2003: 007 어 나 더 데이 (007 Uh-nah-duh-day-ee; 007 Another Day) released in the Republic of Korea.

https://movie.daum.net/moviedb/main?movieId=3766

2003: 007 - Morre Noutro Dia (007 - Die Another Day) released in Portugal.

2013: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announces Skyfall's 5 Oscar nominations, includes Best Song.
2015: Spectre completes filming at the 3S Cable Car and ICE Q Restaurant at Sölden, Austria.

2016: Best Original Song at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards goes to Sam Smith for "Writing's on the Wall".

RichardTheBruce

January 11th

1966: Principle photography begins for Casino Royale.

1978: D'Artagnan Extracolor publishes the James Bond comic Convención en Bahía Sangrienta (Convention in Bloody Bay, or The Man With the Golden Gun) in Argentina. Yoroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

1990: The Hollywood Walk of Fame honors Albert R. Broccoli with a star.

1999: Principal photography for The World Is Not Enough begins at Pinewood Studios.

2000: Chapter III Records releases a second soundtrack album for Tomorrow Never Dies.

The original soundtrack release occurred before the actual score of the film was completed. Chapter III Records removed the theme songs, Moby's Bond theme remake, "Station Break". Added: new music tracks plus an interview with composer David Arnold.

2002: Die Another Day begins filming at Pinewood Studios. Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry and cast pose for on hand photographers.

2012: MGM and EON Productions announce the 9 November 2012 release date for BOND 23. Sam Mendes directing. John Logan assisting with the script.
2015: Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg dies at age 83--Rocca di Papa, Italy.
(Born 29 September 1931-- Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden.)

Anita Ekberg - obituary

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11338898/Anita-Ekberg-obituary.html
Anita Ekberg was a Swedish actress who found fame cavorting in Rome’s Trevi Fountain for Fellini’s La Dolce Vita

Anita Ekberg in Back from Eternity (1956) Photo: Allstar Picture Library

8:35PM GMT 11 Jan 2015

Anita Ekberg, who has died aged 83, was the statuesque former Miss Sweden who became a global film sensation after cavorting in Rome’s Trevi Fountain for Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960). Although demure and innocent by today’s standards, the scene caused a scandal and made the 29-year-old Swede a household name.

Some gossip columnists sniffily nicknamed her “The Iceberg” due to her Scandinavian roots, yet her dramatic décolletage, glowering good looks and vivacious delivery proved an enticing and popular combination with cinema audiences of the Sixties.

Director Frank Tashlin, who directed her in the 1956 comedy Hollywood or Bust – the pun was intended – claimed that Anita Ekberg’s appeal lay in “the immaturity of the American male: this breast fetish. There’s nothing more hysterical to me than big-breasted women, like walking, leaning towers.”

Anita Ekberg was indeed a teetering tower. She was 5ft 7in tall and possessed a considerable bust, of which she once said: “It’s not cellular obesity, it’s womanliness.” Yet in the same year that Tashlin had typecast her, Ekberg showed that she could really act, if given the opportunity, when she played Hélène Kuragin, the unfaithful wife of Pierre Bezukhov (Henry Fonda) in King Vidor’s epic War and Peace. However, she was fully aware that her allure was centred on her physicality. “I have a mirror,” she said in the late Sixties, “I would be a hypocrite if I said I didn’t know I am beautiful.”

Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was born on September 29 1931 in Malmö, Sweden, one of a large family (she had seven siblings). As a youngster she had no desire to be famous. She wanted to marry and settle down to a conventional life. A childhood pleasure was to draw and fashion clothes.

Out walking one day, a talent scout spotted her and persuaded her to enter the Miss Universe contest. Winning as Miss Sweden, she gained a trip to Hollywood. A screen test did not bring much work and she returned home disheartened. However, she was determined to make good as an actress and began saving for a return trip.

Her break came when Bob Hope chose her to accompany him on a Christmas tour of American air force bases in Greenland in 1954. Studio moguls soon heard about the roars of approval for Anita and offered her a contract. She had small uncredited roles in films such as The Mississippi Gambler, Abbott and Costello go to Mars and The Golden Blade, before winning supporting parts in Artists and Models (1955) and Blood Alley (1955; playing a Chinese girl). Her first lead came in Back from Eternity (1956). By this time she was being touted as “Paramount’s Marilyn Monroe”.

Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita (Kobal Collection)

She moved to London in the mid-Fifties but was lonely and hardly left her hotel. Having refused dozens of invitations to premieres, something impelled her to finally accept one offer. Her escort turned out to be Anthony Steel, a matinee idol alumnus of the “Rank School”. They were married in 1956.

In her first British film, Zarak (1956), she met her match in Victor Mature. Playing a native dancer, with a few spangles and bangles judiciously placed, who falls in love with Mature’s hulking Zarak Khan. The film left audiences wondering who had the bigger chest. She teamed up again with Mature the following year for the thriller Interpol.

At this time her marriage to Steel was rarely out of the headlines, with reports of drunken driving, rows and violent recriminations. Eventually the union completely soured and they divorced after three years.

Anita Ekberg with her first husband Anthony Steel (REX)

She did not have time to mourn the marriage. Her performance in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita the following year made her a star. Shot in Rome at a time when the Italian obsession with celebrity was at its height, she played the starlet Sylvia opposite Marcello Mastroianni’s philandering paparazzo journalist. The part fixed her in audience’s minds as the European blonde “sex bomb” – stylish, sensual, shallow and ephemeral.

In the film’s most famous scene, she splashes with abandon in the Trevi Fountain, her black low-necked dress trailing in the frothy waters, cooing: “Marcello, come here.” In fact the scene had been shot in February and Mastroianni was doped up on vodka. “I was freezing,” she recalled. “They had to lift me out of the water because I couldn’t feel my legs any more.”

Following the success of Fellini’s masterpiece, Anita Ekberg appeared opposite Bob Hope in Call Me Bwana and Frank Sinatra in 4 for Texas (both 1963). She was also considered for the part of Honey Ryder in Dr No but lost out to Ursula Andress. When she did appear in a Bond film, it was both unwitting and unflattering: in From Russia with Love (1963) Sean Connery shoots a spy escaping through a gigantic Call Me Bwana poster featuring Anita Ekberg’s face. “She should have kept her mouth shut,” says Bond.

Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain (Alamy)

Anita Ekberg’s on-screen persona – a freewheeling man-eater from overseas – soon spilt over into her private life. Sinatra was one of the many leading men she was rumoured to have taken as a lover, along with Errol Flynn, Yul Brynner, Tyrone Power and Gary Cooper.

She often played characters possessed of an untethered and wild spirit. As a “war lady” in The Mongols (1961) she indulged in torture and sado-masochism, striding in thigh-high boots among the slave girls cracking a bullwhip. For “The Temptation of Dr Antonio”, Fellini’s episode in the portmanteau feature Boccaccio '70 (1962), she was once again the sex object, this time as the model featured on a “Drink More Milk” billboard poster who is brought to life to trap a puritanical doctor. Thus Fellini followed Tashlin in using her abilities for erotic satire.

In 1963 Ekberg married Rik Van Nutter (who later played Felix Leiter in Thunderball). They lived in Spain and Switzerland and in 1969 became entrepreneurs. “Rick and I have gone into the shipping business. We found a cargo ship and we’re in business with the captain,” she said (the couple also bought a Chinese junk). “Ours is a good marriage. There are so many good times in marriage, that the bad times are really unimportant. Anyway, I learnt from my parents that difficulties are there to be overcome.”

As with all sex symbols, age diminished her currency. By the end of the Sixties she was complaining about the lack of available roles. “I should be able to get work myself on the strength of my acting. I shouldn’t have to sleep with producers to get parts. It’s depressing to see parts going to actresses who can’t act their way out of a wet paper bag but who are friendly with producers,” she observed. “My life has changed quite a bit, of course. The Ferrari’s gone – now I have a Mini Moke.”

The downward spiral continued throughout the Seventies. She made films but they were more often than not B-movies with salacious titles such as The French Sex Murders (1972) and The Killer Nun (1979). Her scenes for Valley of the Dancing Widows (1975) were left on the cutting room floor. At home things also began to disintegrate: she accused Van Nutter of cheating her over a car-hire business they owned. The couple divorced in 1975.

Anita Ekberg in 2010 (AFP)

Two years later, her house was robbed, with the thieves stealing fur coats, jewels and silver, the fruits of her once-famous career. “My last 10 years have brought nothing but bad luck,” she stated.

After a second robbery in 2011, she appealed to the Fellini Foundation for financial help. It was a sad sign of decline from the Amazonian actress who had five decades earlier threatened paparazzi with a bow and arrow.

Her final years were spent living in semi-reclusion in a run-down Italian villa outside Rome, where her only companions were two great Danes.

Anita Ekberg, born September 29 1931, died January 11 2015

Anita Ekberg (1931–2015)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001179/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (65 credits)

2002 Beauty Centre (TV Series) - Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
- Ottobre (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
- Settembre (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
- Agosto (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
- Maggio (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
- Aprile (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
- Febbraio (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
- Gennaio (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti

1998 Le nain rouge - Paola Bendoni
1996 Bámbola - Mamma Greta
1996 Witness Run (TV Movie)
1992 Cattive ragazze - Milli
1992 Dov'era Lei a quell'Ora? - Anita Ekberg
1992 Ambrogio - Clarice
1991 Il conte Max - Marika

1988 Quando ancora non c'erano i Beatles (TV Mini-Series) - La pianista
- Episode #1.3 (1988) ... La pianista
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... La pianista
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... La pianista
1987 Intervista - Anita Ekberg
1986 The Seduction of Angela - Signora Rocchi
1982 Cicciabomba - Baronessa Judith von Kemp
1980 S.H.E: Security Hazards Expert - Dr. Else Biebling

1979 Killer Nun - Sister Gertrude
1979 Gold of the Amazon Women (TV Movie) - Queen Na-Eela
1975 Das Tal der tanzenden Witwen (scenes deleted)
1974 Anno Schmidt (Short)
1974 Northeast of Seoul - Katherine
1972 Deadly Trackers - Jane
1972 The French Sex Murders - Madame Colette
1970 Quella chiara notte d'ottobre (as Anita Edberg)
1970 The Conjugal Debt - Ines
1970 The Divorce - Flavia

1969 Death Knocks Twice - Sophia Ferretti
1969 A Candidate for a Killing - Jacqueline Monnard
1969 Fangs of the Living Dead - Malenka / Sylvia Morel
1969 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium - Performer
1968 Crónica de un atraco - Bessie
1967 Woman Times Seven - Claudie (segment "Snow")
1967 The Glass Sphinx - Paulette
1967 The Cobra - Lou
1966 Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario? - Olga, la baronessa
1966 Way... Way Out - Anna Soblova
1966 Come imparai ad amare le donne - Margaret Joyce
1965 The Alphabet Murders - Amanda Beatrice Cross
1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Lolita Young
1964 Love Factory - Alberchiaria
1963 4 for Texas - Elya Carlson
1963 Call Me Bwana - Luba
1962 Boccaccio '70 - Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
1961 The Mongols - Hulina
1961 A porte chiuse - Olga Duvovich
1960 Little Girls and High Finance
1960 Le tre eccetera del colonnello - Georgina
1960 The Dam on the Yellow River - Miss Dorothy Simmons
1960 La Dolce Vita - Sylvia

1959 Sheba and the Gladiator - Zenobia - Queen of Palmira
1958 The Man Inside - Trudie Hall
1958 Screaming Mimi - Virginia Wilson / Yolanda Lange
1958 Paris Holiday - Zara
1957 Valerie - Valerie Horvat
1957 Pickup Alley - Gina Broger
1956 Hollywood or Bust - Anita Ekberg
1956 Zarak - Salma
1956 Man in the Vault - Flo Randall
1956 Back from Eternity - Rena
1956 War and Peace - Helene Kuragina
1955 Artists and Models - Anita
1955 Blood Alley - Wei Ling
1955 Casablanca (TV Series) - Katrina Jorgenson
- Who Holds Tomorrow? (1955) ... Katrina Jorgenson
1953 Private Secretary (TV Series) - The Hubby Killer
- The Hubby Killer (1953) ... The Hubby Killer
1953 The Golden Blade - Handmaiden (uncredited)
1953 Take Me to Town - Dancehall Girl (uncredited)
1953 Abbott and Costello Go to Mars - Venusian Guard
1953 The Mississippi Gambler - Maid of Honor (uncredited)

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

2003 Lost in Translation (film clip: "La Dolce vita" courtesy of - as Ms. Anita Ekberg)

2015: Rome officials ban (= limit) the filming of a car chase in the city.

Rome bans James Bond car chase

See the complete article here:

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/rome-bans-james-bond-car-chase.html

11 Jan, 2015

Culture officials fear damage to Quattro Fontane fountains

Rome’s cultural heritage officials have blocked plans to film a high-speed car chase at the Quattro Fontane intersection as part of the new James Bond movie being filmed in the Italian capital.

Producers of Spectre, the 24th edition in the Bond series, had hoped to shoot a sequence in which 007, played by British actor Daniel Craig, would race through Rome in a night-time car chase.

However city officials have refused to authorise the scene planned at the Quattro Fontane crossroads between Via del Quirinale and Via XX Settembre, over concerns that the 16th-century fountains are too fragile to risk being hit by a speeding Aston Martin.

Instead the city has suggested that the filmmakers recreate the sequence using post-production special effects. The fountains are currently undergoing a €320,000 restoration due for completion in late February.

Filming in Rome begins on 19 February and is expected to last throughout March. The most dramatic scene will feature 007 landing by parachute onto the 15th-century Ponte Sisto pedestrian bridge between Campo de' Fiori and Trastevere.

Bond will also appear in a number of high-speed car chases on Borgo Vittorio near the Vatican, on Corso Vittorio Emanuele II between Piazza Navona and Campo de' Fiori, and on the Lungotevere along the river Tiber.

The movie is being directed by Britain's Sam Mendes – who was behind the most recent Bond film Skyfall – and is due for release on 6 November.

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Hammerhead #4.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #4 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272204011
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: January 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
UPC: 725130252722 04011
ON SALE DATE: 1/11

Bond finds himself at the mercy of Malfakhar, a Yemeni smuggler and black marketeer. But both men are mere pawns in a far greater game, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. As the Hammerhead weapon is deployed and the true identity of the criminal mastermind Kraken is finally revealed, 007 makes a last desperate bid to prevent nuclear war!

2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Felix Leiter #1.
Aaron Campbell, artist. James Robinson, writer.

JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #1

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025458001011
Cover A: Mike Perkins
Writer: James Robinson
Art: Aaron Campbell
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: January 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
UPC: 725130254580 01011
ON SALE DATE: 1/11

From superstar creative team James Robinson (Starman, Red Sonja) and Aaron Campbell (The Shadow, Uncanny) comes the Bond spin-off highlighting 007's American counterpart!

Felix Leiter finds himself in Japan, tracking down a beautiful, Russian spy from his past. But when the mission takes a turn for the worse, he will discover that there are more deadly schemes afoot in Tokyo and beyond!

2021: Last day for Bollinger Champagne Brut Special Cuvée 007 Limited Edition offer.

BOLLINGER
CHAMPAGNE BRUT

Special Cuvée 007 Limited Edition

See the complete article here:

https://www.glugulp.com/bollinger-champagne-brut-special-cuvee-limited-edition-007-gift-pack-en

Bottle 0,75 L in box[/b]
EUR 75.00
Vat included
Dosage Brut
Cuvèe Assemblage
Grapes Pinot Noir 60%, Chardonnay 25%, Meunier 15%
Winery area A.O.C. Champagne
Particularity Limited Edition
Winery category Maisons
Alcohol 12% Vol.
Product Code BLS007B1

In celebration of over 40 years of partnership as the Official Champagne of 007 and the upcoming film No Time To Die, Champagne Bollinger has produced a limited edition gift box that brings together three icons: Bollinger’s signature Special Cuvée, the Aston Martin DB5 and the legendary British secret agent, James Bond.

Honouring the most perfect of partnerships, the limited edition gift box features the silhouette of James Bond alongside his Aston Martin DB5. The colourway of the gift box echoes the silver birch finish of the DB5. The Bollinger lettering and logos are depicted in gold and the iconic Special Cuvée bottle has been adapted to feature a black and gold neck collar with a 007 blazon.

Champagne Bollinger worked with celebrated photographer Greg Williams, for the soon to be released Special Cuvée 007 Limited Edition campaign, featuring his signature cinematic style that also appears in the No Time To Die campaign.

Bond, Bollinger and Aston Martin all return in No Time To Die.
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The Special Cuvée represents the best expression of the Bollinger style. The entire know-how of the Maison Bollinger embodies every year a top Champagne, with style and persistent qualities, in unique assemblages - balanced in their roundness, vinousity and elegange.

The Maison Bollinger bases its diversity and qualitative choices on this wine and it is willing to be tested. The assemblage is 60% Pinot Noir (35% from Ay), granting vinousity and complexity, 25% Chardonnay, adding fineness and elegance, as well as 15% Meunier, bringing freshness and elegance.

The grapes comes from their 80% from Grand and Premier Crus territories; for Pinot Noir: Ay, Tauxeries, Verzenay and Louvois; for Chardonnay: Le Mesnil s/Oger, Oger, Cuis and Grauves. To maintain quality and style, the maison adds 5 to 10% vins de reserve, which firstly fermented in oak barrels and later conserved according to cru, vine and vintage, fro 5 to 12 years in magnum with cork caps.

The Special Cuvée rests on yeasts for at least 3 years before disgorging: this is a longer period than the time requested by the guidelines (15 months). It also rests in the cave for at least 3 months before shipping.

RichardTheBruce

January 12th

1937: Shirley Eaton is born--Edgware, Middlesex, England.

1996: Επιχείρηση Χρυσά Μάτια (Epiheirisi Hrysa Matia, Enterprise Golden Eyes) released in Greece.

1996: Agente 007 - GoldenEye released in Italy.

2002: BBC News reports "Pierce Brosnan agrees to a fifth 007 film".

Brosnan agrees to fifth 007 film

See the complete article here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1753809.stm

Saturday, 12 January, 2002, 07:56 GMT

Bond is to drive an Aston Martin again in the new film

Actor Pierce Brosnan has extended his contract to play James Bond for a fifth time.

The Irish performer told reporters at the launch of his fourth 007 adventure he was keen to make one more film, but admitted it would probably be his last.

The 20th James Bond movie - as yet untitled - starts shooting officially at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire on Monday before taking in locations including Hawaii, Iceland, Spain and London.

The movie marks the 40th anniversary of the series that began in 1962 with Dr No, starring Sean Connery.

Sean Connery starred in many classic Bond films

Brosnan, 48, said he was delighted to be continuing in the role.

"I will do another one. Time has gone by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday I was sitting here for GoldenEye," he said.

But he said he might be too old for a sixth appearance as the British spy.

"It takes stamina to play this role. I would like to get off the stage with grace.

"I am honouring my contract here but it would be wonderful to do another one. After that, I do not know."

The 20th film will be directed by Lee Tamahori, whose previous successes include Along Came a Spider and The Edge.

Swordfish star Halle Berry and newcomer Rosamund Pike will be Brosnan's glamorous female co-stars.

Berry, who also worked on X-Men, said it a dream come true to be playing opposite 007.

Halle Berry is tipped for an Oscar for Monsters Ball

She said: "I hope I will fit in and do as fine a job as the women before me."

Pike, who has never starred in a movie before, admitted she was not keen on Bond when she was growing up, but said she was looking forward to an "electrifying" experience.

British actor Toby Stevens will play the villainous bad guy.

Other stars returning include Dame Judi Dench as M, Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny and John Cleese in the role of Q following the death of Desmond Llewelyn.

Bond will once again drive an Aston Martin, after a deal with the manufacturer.

The V12 Vanquish will be the fourth Aston Martin that Bond has driven since the association began in 1964 with the film Goldfinger - when the DB5 was fitted with ejector seats and rockets.

Award
Co-producer Barbara Broccoli is the daughter of Cubby Broccoli, the producer who originally brought Ian Fleming's spy to the big screen, and who died in 1996.

Broccoli and fellow producer Michael G Wilson, will receive a special award from the London Film Critics' Circle.

The award will be presented at the Circle's 22nd awards ceremony on 13 February.

It is being given to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the James Bond films, and the organisers say they expect some familiar Bond faces to be among the guests at the event.

2011: Ian Fleming International Airport (formerly Boscobel Aerodrome) in Jamaica, a $300 million renovation, is officially re-opened by Prime Minister Bruce Golding plus Lucy Fleming, Fleming's niece. A 10 minute drive from Golden Eye (sic) Resort.

2011: The Telegraph prints Tim Robey's article "Sam Mendes may have problems directing new James Bond movie."

Sam Mendes may have problems directing new James
Bond movie

See the complete article here:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/8255072/Sam-Mendes-may-have-problems-directing-new-Bond-movie.html

Director could have to battle for his 'vision' if past Bond films are a guide, says
Tim Robey.
By Tim Robey, Film Critic | 2:05PM GMT 12 Jan 2011

It's a full year since Sam Mendes was first put in the frame as a potential Bond director, in which time MGM’s financial woes derailed the production schedule, allowing 007’s more possessive fans to forget their immediate beef and prematurely mourn the whole franchise.

Now it’s back on, but they’re still not happy about the (reconfirmed) Mendes appointment. “It’ll be all middlebrow and safe!” seems to be the standard assumption. The Bond they want is gleeful, sly and viscerally over-the-top, qualities it’s fair to say haven’t been much in evidence in Mendes’s movies to date.

Bond, though, is simply not a director’s franchise. Fans on message boards love to rail against the last one, Quantum of Solace, and throw a lot of blame at Marc Forster, the Swiss helmer of Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland and other literary Oscar-bait, whose face-value credentials for the job were every bit as elusive as those of Mendes.

The argument goes that you need a real action-director’s pair of hands, and that Martin Campbell, who rebooted the series twice with GoldenEye and Casino Royale, is the right type of guy. Directors with artistic pretensions tackle Bond at their peril and everyone else’s.

Because their names carry unexpected pedigree for the task of a mass-market blockbuster, Forster, and now Mendes, become convenient stooges for what’s actually a producer’s logistical nightmare – and responsibility.

It’s about marshalling an army of second unit/assistant directors, stunt co-ordinators and effects technicians. In the Brosnan years, people such as Roger Spottiswoode and Michael Apted may have had the helm, but most of the standout set-pieces were famously masterminded by Vic Armstrong and his team.

Sure, directors of Bond movies have their work cut out to get the actors and story into shape, but they have less autonomy to foist any particular vision of their own on to the screen than in most other franchises this side of Police Academy. You could pick apart the auteur theory on the evidence of editor-turned-director John Glen, who directed the last three Roger Moore instalments, then made the terrific first Timothy Dalton one, The Living Daylights, and then followed it up with surely the nadir of the entire series, Licence To Kill.

This proves my point: who directs a Bond movie has almost nothing to do with how good it is. (A further dent in the just-use-Martin-Campbell argument is available to anyone who’s actually tried to watch GoldenEye lately, Famke Janssen’s ace villainess honourably excepted.)

So imagining that Mendes will somehow attempt to turn Bond into Revolutionary Road II or The Cherry Orchard: Dawn Inferno is a mug’s game. He won’t be allowed.

Whether his instalment is praised or pilloried will be down to the entire creative team, the script, the editing, effects, production design, score, and the harmony of all those elements, as it always is – and, as usual, it'll be mainly the producers', not Mendes's, concern to foster that harmony.

Oh, and the casting. Rumours are abroad that Simon Russell Beale is currently being considered for a role. He’d love to be a baddie. I’d love him to be a baddie. The petition starts here.

2022: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond - Himeros #4.
Giorgio Pontrelli, artist. Rodney Barnes, writer.

JAMES BOND: HIMEROS #4

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513031230304011
Cover A: Francesco Francavilla
Cover B: Jackson Guice
Writer: Rodney Barnes
Artist: Giorgio Pontrelli
Genre: Spy/Fiction, Action/Adventure
Publication Date: January 2022
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32
ON SALE DATE: 01/12/2022

James Bond has survived a series of deadly assaults as he and Sarah Richmond make it to Wilhelm's island. Amidst the traumatic memories the island unleashes, will they find what they're looking for or does death continue to await them at every turn?

Featuring two amazing Covers: Francesco Francavilla and the legendary Jackson Guice!
Did you know: Ian Fleming wrote the story Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to entertain his son Caspar.

RichardTheBruce

January 13th

1925: Count Robin Ian Evelyn Milne Stuart de la Lanne-Mirrlees is born--Cairo, Egypt.
(He dies 23 June 2012 at age 87--Stornoway, Scotland.)

https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=10262

Obituary: Robin de la Lanne-
Mirrlees; title-loving prince who
found peace on isle of Great
Bernera

https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-robin-de-la-lanne-mirrlees-title-loving-prince-who-found-peace-on-isle-of-great-bernera-1-2382350
Published: 00:00 Friday 29 June 2012

Born: 13 January, 1925, in Cairo. Died: 23 June, 2012, in Stornoway, aged 87.

COUNT Robin de la Lanne-Mirrlees was the dashing figure whose colourful career lay at odds with his decision to adopt self-imposed exile on the island of Great Bernera, off Lewis. He encompassed lives as an army captain, herald, laird, count and prince, as well as aiding Ian Fleming in writing On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, in which he is cast as the main character.

This fluent linguist, international heraldic figure, one-time Lloyds’ “name”, property owner and castle restorer became revered in the Western Isles as a benevolent laird, who swapped a Paris flat for a croft, and was known to the 350 islanders on Great Bernera simply as “Robin”.

In spite of holding a Yugoslav royal title, attending the Queen as a herald at her coronation and being in direct descent of Louis Philippe I of France, he latterly became anti-monarchist. In a reference to his own princely title, he remarked, “Any old fool can be a prince, and in my case legitimately”, adding, “I’m quite a man of the people really”.

Robin Ian Evelyn Milne Stuart de la Lanne-Mirrlees was born Robin Grinnell-Milne in Cairo, son of Captain Duncan Gribbell-Milne, a Great War pilot, and the Countess Frances de la Lanne. He initially changed his name when his mother later married another Great War hero, Major-General William Mirrlees. His second change of name occurred two decades ago.

Learned and outgoing, he was a born networker, whose godfather was the 11th Duke of Argyll. Educated at the English School of Cairo, in Paris and Merton College, Oxford, he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery and saw service in India. Passionate about heraldry, his career began in 1952 at the College of Arms in London as Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, being promoted to Richmond Herald. In later years, he was a regular at Edinburgh meetings of the Heraldry Society of Scotland.

In his 15 years at England’s centre of heraldry, he corresponded with Fleming, then researching On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Bond’s cover role was based on Mirrlees, the fictional spy having the title Sable Basilisk Pursuivant, suggested by Robin. Villain Stavro Blofeld also bears the “deformity” of having no ear lobes.

Robin too was lobeless. His friendship with Fleming resulted in a jointly written book, Sable Basilisk (1965), centring on Bond’s “genealogy”, with 007’s coat-of-arms on the cover and motto: “The World Is Not Enough”.

Critics accused Count Robin of basking in “flummery” – and he did love titles. That of count came through his mother’s line, recognised in 1964 by the Republic of San Marino. His claim to his princedom emanated in 1967 from the exiled King Peter II of Yugoslavia, his “Prince of Coronata” covering islands off Dalmatia. Further titles followed: in 1975, he was recognised as Baron of Inchdrewer and Laird of Bernera. He was also a Knight of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta.

In 2005, he began to assert his princely title, informing friends: “Maybe it will help me find a princess at my age”. His only marriage, at 45 to a nurse half his age, lasted less than a week.

Robin proved a generous and witty host, enormously enjoying good company and stimulating conversation. In the early 1970s he restored Inchdrewer Castle near Banff, but never occupied the place. His purchase sight unseen in 1962 of Great Bernera off Lewis and his croft home there made him an adopted islander. He refused to raise rents, and donated land for community use. Three years ago when in a care home on Great Bernera, he and the only other resident faced being made to move by Western Isles Council; the pair retained their residency through becoming “tenants”.

The Lloyds crash of the early 1990s almost ruined him but Count Robin paid off more than £2 million in debts after “a property clear-out”. He lost his house in Holland Park, London, chateau in France, flats in Paris and Switzerland, and Ratzenegg Castle in Austria, yet good humouredly, joined the Lottery syndicate on his beloved Bernera.

He is survived by Patrick de la Lanne,, his natural son through his relationship with Margarethe, Duchess of Wurttemberg; and three grandchildren.

Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-robin-de-la-lanne-mirrlees-title-loving-prince-who-found-peace-on-isle-of-great-bernera-1-2382350

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LANNE-MIRRLEES, Robin de la (aka Sable Basilisk or the Rouge Dragon). Sable Basilisk. Privately printed, n.d. (c. 1965). Exceedingly rare Fleming item, one of an edition of about six copies. Reproduction from typescript by Xerox, 51 leaves printed on rectos only, bound in red buckram with gilt-lettered spine. A TLS is laid in from the author "to Jonathan", dated 26 May 1965, presenting the book. Condition: About fine. Note: Lanne-Mirrlees held the post of Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary at the College of Arms in London from 1952 until 1967. He is perhaps best known for his correspondence with Ian Fleming while Fleming was doing research for his book On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

1944: Maud Russell writes in her diary about Ian Fleming.

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/

Thursday 13 January, 1944

Ian dined and talked about his plans for the future, whether to take a newspaper job with the Daily Telegraph and go on hustling and bustling all his life, or whether to live in a cottage, take off his collar and tie, and write a novel or two. Then pros and cons of marriage. I said he would be happier married and shouldn’t leave it too long – not after 40. He is worn out almost every time I see him and wants to talk about cottages, seashores, Tahiti, long naked holidays on coral islands and marriage.

1948: The Gleaner in Jamaica announces the arrival of Fleming and (still married) Lady Ann Rothermere the day prior. With photo.

https://gleaner.newspaperarchive.com/kingston-gleaner/1948-01-13/page-12/

1965: Variety reports Elsa Martinelli was considered for a role.

1972: 007: Los diamantes son eternos (007 - The Diamonds Are Eternal) released in Mexico.

1977: D'Artagnan Extracolor publishes James Bond comic Clínica Peligrosa (Fear Face). Yoroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
1977: The Spy Who Loved Me sinks the Atlantis model near Goulding Cay, Nassau, the Bahamas.

2000: Jeden svet nestací (One World Is Not Enough) released in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Video marketing.

2012: Journalists post an image of Daniel Craig at the Four Seasons Hotel, Canary Wharf, (doubling for Shanghai) on the web--the first leak of Skyfall filming.

2015: Spectre finishes two days of filming around the Sölden Glacier and tunnel, Austria.

2020: Producers confirm Hans Zimmer is scoring No Time To Die, and the departure of Dan Romer over creative differences.

Hans Zimmer confirmed as new ‘No
Time to Die’ Bond film composer

See the complete article here:

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/zimmer/hans-hired-no-time-to-die-james-bond-score/

By Sian Moore | 14 January 2020, 11:01

Hans Zimmer to score the latest Bond instalment No Time To Die. Picture: Getty / YouTube / Eon Productions

The legendary film composer will be taking over from Dan Romer as
a last-minute replacement – just three months before the Bond
movie is set to be released.

The score to the new Bond film No Time To Die will now be produced by Hans Zimmer.

Zimmer, who has been drafted in as a last-minute replacement, is taking the reins from composer Dan Romer who was originally set to score the film.

The announcement was confirmed yesterday (13 January) by producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, in an official statement on the movie’s website.

Director of the latest installment, Cary Joji Fukunaga, said: “I’m beyond excited that Hans is scoring No Time To Die. The music of Bond has always been iconic and I’ve already witnessed Hans adding his touch of genius to the Bond legacy.”

According to Variety, the Beasts of No Nation composer was dismissed over “creative differences” with the film’s production company, Eon Productions, last month.

We’re sure the score to the highly-anticipated action movie is in safe hands with Zimmer, whose track record in cinematic music includes the instantly recognisable sounds of the Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator and The Da Vinci Code.

But taking on this job is no small task, especially considering Zimmer is already scoring three big movies this year – Wonder Woman 1984, Dune and Top Gun: Maverick.

Zimmer is an 11-time Oscar nominee, who won the Best Score award in 1994 for The Lion King.

Back in 2015 we spoke to Daniel Craig, ahead of the release of Spectre, about the importance of music throughout the Bond franchise – particularly when it comes to those iconic motifs.

“It’s so emotive that sound, and if you use it at the right point in the movie then everyone remembers, ‘Yes, we’re in a Bond movie.’”

We’re excited to see what Zimmer produces in this latest instalment – especially considering he’s got less than three months to do it.

2020: Bonham's gets no bids on Licence to Kill storyboard.

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James Bond: A set of storyboards for Licence To Kill

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Eon Productions, 1988, Qty Eon Productions, 1988, comprising; 53 printed sheets for the pre-title sequence, the underwater fight/sea plane sequence, and the petrol tanker pursuit, dated June and July 1988, with certificates of authenticity from Prop Store, 17in x 11in (43cm x 28cm), (Qty) This lot is offered without copyright or any reproduction...

2021: Electric Dreams adds the Scalextric C4202 - James Bond Aston Martin DB5 ‘No Time To Die’ model slot car to their catalog.

Scalextric C4202 - James Bond Aston Martin DB5 ‘No Time To Die’

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The 25th and latest Bond film sees 007 once again back behind the wheel of the iconic Aston Martin DB5. The car looks as resplendent as ever in the famous Silver Birch shade and in his tuxedo Bond looks as dapper as ever!

In the 25th installment of the franchise, No Time To Die, Bond relies once more on the faithful DB5 to escape an army of henchmen while in Italy. And now you can recreate that excitement at home with your own James Bond model slot car!

RichardTheBruce

January 14th

1947: Stuart Baird is born--Uxbridge, Middlesex, England.

1956: Ian Fleming starts his novel From Russia With Love at Goldeneye.

1962: EON's crew arrives in Jamaica, to start filming 2 days later. Monty Norman and wife--actress-singer Diana Coupland--also arrive on island this date.

1964: The Los Angeles Times reports Guy Hamilton is hired to direct the next Bond film Dr. Goldfinger. [sic]
1965: Jonathan Cape publishes Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Volume 3.

1965: James Bond 007 - Goldfinger released in West Germany.

1972: Diamonds Are Forever released in Ireland.
1974: ABC-TV network premiere of From Russia with Love.

1985: A View to a Kill completes principal photography with OO7 and May Day at the mine.

2000: 007 - Il mondo non basta released in Italy.

2000: Dünya Yetmez (World Not Enough) released in Turkey.

2002: Scheduled start to filming Die Another Day.

2020: The No Time To Die film production announces (American) brother-sister team Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell as creators of the title theme.

2022: Actor Toshiaki Karasawa donates his white Toyota 2000GT to the Toyota Automobile Museum.

Actor donates Toyota 2000GT, of James Bond fame, to
museum

See the complete article here:

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14508260

By JUMPEI MIURA/ Staff Writer | January 14, 2022

Actor Toshiaki Karasawa poses for a photo with a Toyota 2000GT he donated to the Toyota Automobile Museum. (Provided by the museum)

NAGAKUTE, Aichi Prefecture--The Toyota Automobile Museum received an unexpected call in mid-August offering up an ultrarare Toyota 2000GT sports car for donation.

The surprise caller was film and TV actor Toshiaki Karasawa, who said he had decided to finally let go of the specialty sports car, one of only a handful in the world, and that he wanted to give it to the museum.

Toyota Motor Co., which is now known as Toyota Motor Corp., developed the vehicle in collaboration with Yamaha Motor Co. in 1964, on the heels of the explosion in popularity of sports cars around the world.

When the world-class luxury car debuted, it boasted a maximum speed of 220 kph and the ability to accelerate from 0 to 100 kph in just 8.6 seconds.

Two trial cars were remodeled into a custom open-top version, driven by Sean Connery when he played James Bond in the 1967 film You Only Live Twice, which was filmed in Japan.

The vehicle was released that year but production was halted three years later. 

Only 337 units were ever produced of the 2000GT.

Karasawa, a classic car enthusiast, approached the museum with the donation because he wanted many people to be able to see and enjoy his beloved car. And he has a connection to the museum.

Karasawa played a race car driver in a TV drama produced by Japan Broadcasting Corp. (NHK) that aired in 2018. The museum was one of the locations where the show was filmed.

"We hope people seize the opportunity and visit the museum to see (the vehicle)," a museum official said.

The museum attracts many fans and families looking to see its displays of historical vehicles made by automakers from around the world.

The actor’s car will join the ranks of several other 2000GTs, including the one used in the 007 movie, kept at the museum.

Karasawa’s 2000GT has been placed near the entrance since late October.

Many visitors stop at the spot to admire the rare car, which has also caused a stir on social media.

The 2000GT is on display until the end of March 2022, according to the museum.

RichardTheBruce

January 15th

1913: Aston Martin Ltd. is incorporated.

Aston martin History and Company Founders

https://myautoworld.com/astonmartin/cars/history/historic-1915/historic-1915.html

http://cdn.astonmartin.com/magazine/issue-21/archive/am20/feature-timeline.html

1931: Derek Meddings is born--Pancras, London, England.
(He dies 10 September 1995 at age 64--London, England.)

OBITUARY: Derek Meddings

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

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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)
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)

1952: This morning Ian Fleming begins writing Casino Royale at Goldeneye.

1964: Goldfinger films the aerial view of the Fountainbleu Hotel, Miami.
1967: The Los Angeles Times estimates the You Only Live Twice set to be 126 feet tall, concealing a sixty-six foot rocket.
1968: The last original Man from U.N.C.L.E. episodes airs.

1976: Bond comic strip The Torch-Time Affair ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 15 October 1975. 2984-3060) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1016


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

En Enkel, Acapulco! (The Torch-Time Affair)
[And Simple, Aculpulco!]

Danish 1979 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no47-1979/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 47: “The Torch-Time Affair” (1979)
"En enkelt Acapulco" [One-way to Acapulco]

1998: El mañana nunca muere (The Tomorrow Never Die) released in Argentina.

2020: GQ associates James Bond with Dry January.

Even James Bond is doing Dry
January, apparently

See the complete article here:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/james-bond-heineken-advert

By Thomas Barrie | 15 January 2020

Still sneering at the non-drinkers this month? Get over yourself. The world’s most famous spy has been spotted in a new advert for nonalcoholic Heineken

“No, Mr Bond, I expect you to Dry... January.”

No? Bear with us, because long-time James Bond drinks sponsor Heineken has co-opted Daniel Craig to star in a new advert, in which the famously heavy-drinking MI6 man turns down a cocktail in favour of a nonalcoholic beer.

The jokes write themselves (something something dry Martini?). It’s a welcome change for a character branded an alcoholic not only by Craig, but also the world’s most redundant study, which was carried out by the University Of Otago and published in the Medical Journal Of Australia in 2018. Its findings? That 007 is, yes, a complete lush, noting that during one flight in Quantum Of Solace, he consumed 24 units of alcohol – the equivalent of eight pints.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1214913750073040902

So it’s perhaps no wonder the idea of Bond laying off booze after a heavy Christmas period captures the imagination. The advert itself is a bit odd; for some reason, Bond watches a slightly shady-looking bartender – perhaps played by a cousin of ur-villain Mark Strong – make him a whole double Martini before giving it back and pointing silently at Heineken 0.0 on ice.

“Oh,” stutters the bartender, clearly thrown by Bond’s new-found puritanism. After all, the 20-second spot is about as believable as Oliver Reed ordering a lemonade down the pub. But in a world where even Keith Richards has second thoughts about his ongoing liver abuse, anything is possible.

A side note: what on earth has the man served Bond? A Martini, shaken not stirred, sure, but then... with two massive ice cubes plopped in it. That’s not right. GQ’s pet theory is that Bond is so freaked out by the waiter’s concoction that he decides on the spot that he’s “not drinking”, and that a beer will have to do instead.

Either way, all Bond says is, “I’m working.” A missed opportunity for a pun, perhaps, given the character’s heroic past efforts (“Christmas only comes once a year,” anyone?) but we’ll let it slide – the spluttering rage the advert will no doubt spark on anti-snowflake Twitter is all the entertainment we need. Meanwhile, Heineken will continue to rake in the views and Bond can enjoy improved sleep and mental health while lowering his risk of heart disease, cirrhosis of the liver and cancer. Everybody wins!

Update: As of 15 January, Heineken has released its full-length advert, playing heavily on the fact that Daniel Craig and James Bond are very much different characters and, perhaps, Mr Craig isn’t quite up for running after speeding cars through exotic locations when not on the job. “Once James Bond, always James Bond,” it announces, perhaps to the chagrin of Craig himself, who has been pretty open about his wishes not to be defined by the role for his entire career. And as for the booze? At the end of this ad, Bond/Craig picks up a bottle as before – but it’s been re-edited to show him enjoying a normal Heineken. All is as it should be, so now we can rest easy and look forward to Billie Eilish’s newly announced No Time To Die track.

2020: The Mirror reports on the Jinx spinoff failure to launch.

James Bond fans miss out on female-
led spin-off film starring Halle Berry

See the complete article here:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/film/james-bond-fans-miss-out-21289185

Halle Berry portrayed Jinx in the critically-derided Die Another Day but was set to become the lead of a James Bond spin-off film
By Lewis Knight TV and Film Writer
15 Jan 2020

Die Another Day star Halle Berry almost led a James Bond spin-off film.

The Oscar-winning actress was set to reprise her role as the 2002 film's leading lady Jinx in her own standalone outing.

But now franchise producer Barbara Broccoli has revealed there were budgetary issues in getting the film off the ground.

In an interview with Variety , Broccoli was revealed to be "incensed" when studio MGM was apprehensive about the thought of rewarding Jinx a film with an $80 million budget.

Also she described the slow battle for the film series to improve its approach to women.

Broccoli surmised: "Bond's been evolving along with all the other men in the world.

"Some have just gotten there more quickly than others."

Halle Berry in Die Another Day ( Image: 20th Century Fox)

The character of Jinx was a CIA field operative who crossed paths with Pierce Brosnan's Bond in Die Another Day.

She soon became his lover not long after memorably emerging from the ocean akin to iconic Bond star Ursula Andress in the film Dr No.

2021: The Daily Record reports on shenanigans at the Skyfall lodge.

Drunk James Bond fans visiting Skyfall location plague
Scots locals with rowdy behaviour

See the complete article here:

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/drunk-james-bond-fans-visiting-23322158

007's 'childhood village' in Glen Etive is being strewn with litter and abandoned camping gear causing hell for those who live there.

Daniel Craig as James Bond in Glen Etive where his childhood home is located in Skyfall
(Image: 2012 Danjaq, LLC)

James Bond’s childhood village is being made hell by drunken campers – according to locals who want to bring in a booze ban.

The village of Glen Etive in the Highlands, appeared in 2012 movie Skyfall when Daniel Craig and Judi Dench visited the area where 007 grew up.

Only a handful of people live there now but the scenic beauty spot has become a magnet for alleged anti-social behaviour from campers in visiting vans – who use being over the limit as an excuse not to leave when asked.

Shocking photos showed abandoned camping gear, beer bottles and empty cans stacked in the embers of campfires.

Wild camping, littering and tourist traffic are long-standing problems but the boom in staycations following the lifting of the lockdown in the summer exacerbated the problem.

Piles of rubbish left behind by campers around Glen Etive
(Image: Mark Shone / SWNS.COM)

One night in the summer, 167 tents were pitched and a campervan is said to have been parked there for a week between Christmas and New Year.

The community is hoping a booze ban aimed at campers could help reduce the problem.

Viki Sutherland, 76, said: “Only seven people live in Glen Etive but they have a terrible life.” She moved to the area with husband Alister 20 years ago.

Viki, who is originally from Denmark and has lived in Scotland for 57 years, said: “I got dog’s abuse when I suggested that campervans didn’t really bring any benefit to the community.

“They have got their own accommodation, their own food. I had over 80 posts, telling me to go back to Denmark. Someone said I should be shot. I’m 76, I’m not used to that.

“There are lots of things that we want and the money is obviously not going to cover it all.

“Even though we have an extremely good community policeman here, Glen Etive is a long way from Fort William and if they are going to apprehend anyone, they reckon to charge someone from Glen Etive would take up four hours of their time.

Empty booze bottles and cannisters were dumped (Image: Mark Shone / SWNS.COM)

“Basically, there aren’t enough police – it’s a huge area.

“The police go down and they say, ‘We can’t go anywhere because we’ve already drunk four cans of beer’ – so we want to get an alcohol ban.

“Our councillor needs to get the permission from the procurator fiscal and he’s been on to this for about six months and he’s keeping on at it.

“The police think that an alcohol ban is the way forward because at least then if they have been drinking, the police can book them.”

The community welcomed the announcement that £375,000 has been allocated by the Scottish Government to address “increasing visitor pressures” in the Glen Etive and Glencoe area to improve tourism infrastructure in rural areas.

The money will be used to improve car parking provision and introduce measures to restrict traffic, in a joint project with Highland Council and the National Trust for Scotland.

2023: Aston Martin celebrates its 110th anniversary.

Aston Martin celebrates 110th
anniversary

See the complete article here:

https://anglotopia.net/british-history/aston-martin-celebrates-110th-anniversary/

January 12, 2023 By Anglotopia Staff

Car maker Aston Martin has brought together two of its most innovative models to mark its 110th anniversary.

One of the brand’s oldest surviving racing cars, the 1923 Razor Blade, was pictured alongside a modern Valkyrie sports car.

Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford formed a partnership on January 15, 1913 that went on to create the first Aston Martin car.

Two Aston Martin cars
Aston Martin described the cars as ‘iconic and innovative’ (Aston Martin/PA)

The Razor Blade was one of the first cars to be specifically designed with aerodynamics taken into account.

It broke various performance records at Brooklands race track in Surrey.

Valkyrie is a high-performance car that brings Formula One engineering to public roads.

Aston Martin Lagonda chief executive Amedeo Felisa said: “In 1913, Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford came together with a shared vision of racing cars and using learnings from the racetrack to push the boundaries of automotive innovation.

“One hundred and 10 years and little over 110,000 cars later, that spirit continues.

“Our 110th year promises to be just as exciting as our first, as we turn a new chapter in Aston Martin history with the launch of our next generation of sports cars and the reveal of an extraordinary special model later this year that will celebrate this unique milestone.”

RichardTheBruce

January 16th

1946: Kabir Bedi is born--Lahore, Punjab, British India (now Pakistan).
1949: Caroline Munro is born--Windsor, Berkshire, England.

1962: Fifth draft of the screenplay complete, Dr. No filming begins on location in Jamaica. Exteriors of Crab Key and Kingston, in the vicinity of the Fleming Goldeneye estate (and he was a frequent visitor with guests). Scenes filmed at Oracabessa, the Palisadoes strip, plus Port Royal in St. Andrew.
1966: The Los Angeles Times reports director Terence Young saying he intends to divert from Bond films.

1970: In geheime dienst van Hare Majesteit (In Secret Service of Her Majesty. Flemish title) released in Belgium.

1971: Bond comic strip The Golden Ghost ends its run in The Daily Express.
(Began 21 August 1970. 1394–1519) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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

Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no23-1972/

"Det gyldne spøgelse" [The Golden Ghost]

1976: Bond comic strip Hot-Shot begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 17 January 1976. 3061-3178) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, artist.

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

Dödsstrålen (Hot-Shot)
[The Ray of Death]

Danish 1978 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no46-1978/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 46: “Hot-Shot” (1978)

"Dødsstrålen" [= The Death Ray]

1981: Bernard Lee dies at age 73--Hampstead, London, England.
(Born 10 January 1908--Brentford, Middlesex, England.)

Obituaries

BERNARD LEE IS DEAD;
BRITISH ACTOR HAD ROLES
IN JAMES BOND MOVIES

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/18/obituaries/bernard-lee-is-dead-british-actor-had-roles-in-james-bond-movies.html
Jan. 18, 1981

Bernard Lee, a British character actor who appeared in more than 100 films and was perhaps best known as the spy chief ''M'' in James Bond movies, died of cancer Friday at a London hospital. He was 73 years old.

Mr. Lee's officious manner and clipped British accent made him a natural choice for detective roles or military dramas. In 1954 he played Inspector Valentine in ''The Detective,'' in which Alec Guinness starred. He had the leading role, that of a traitorous war hero, Henry Houghton, in ''Ring of Treason'' in 1964, and the starring role of a doomed pilot in ''Trouble in the Sky'' in 1964. In ''The Purple Plain,'' with Gregory Peck in 1955, he played a sympathetic Air Force medic.

Mr. Lee also portrayed Inspector Valentine in ''Cage of Gold'' in 1952 and ''The Man Upstairs'' in 1959. He appeared in such post-World War II pictures as ''Quartet,'' based on stories by Somerset Maugham, and the Carol Reed-Graham Greene classics, ''The Fallen Idol'' and ''The Third Man.''

Mr. Lee made his stage debut at the Oxford Theatre in London at the age of 6 with his father, Edmund Lee. He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and, after a measure of success on the stage and screen, made appearances on television.

He appeared in all 12 Bond thrillers from the first, Dr. No, with Sean Connery, in 1962, to the latest, Moonraker, with Roger Moore, in 1979. His illness prevented his planned appearance in the 13th movie, For Your Eyes Only, which is yet to be released.

Mr. Lee is survived by his wife, Ursula.

Bernard Lee (I) (1908–1981)

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Filmography

Actor (150 credits)

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

1979 Saint Joan (TV Movie) - La Tremouille
1979 Moonraker - M
1977-1978 The Foundation (TV Series) - Eddie Prince - 13 episodes
1978 Sense of Place (TV Series) - Man
- Seawrack (1978) ... Man
1977 A Christmas Carol (TV Movie) - Ghost of Christmas Present
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - M
1976 Beauty and the Beast (TV Movie) - Edward Beaumont
1976 Killers (TV Series) - Thomas Ley
- The Chalkpit Murder (1976) ... Thomas Ley
1976 Warship (TV Series) - Yachtsman
- Knight Errant (1976) ... Yachtsman
1975 From Hong Kong with Love - M
1975 Comedy Premiere (TV Series) - Wally Warner
- What a Turn Up (1975) ... Wally Warner
1975 Against the Crowd (TV Series) - Beeley
- Murrain (1975) ... Beeley
1975 Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Drury
- Kate (1975) ... Mr. Drury
1974-1975 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Sir Peter Teazle / Hornblower
- The School for Scandal (1975) ... Sir Peter Teazle
- The Skin Game (1974) ... Hornblower
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - 'M'
1974 Father Brown (TV Series) - John Raggley
- The Quick One (1974) ... John Raggley
1974 It's Not the Size That Counts - Barraclough
1974 Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell - Tarmut
1973 Vienna 1900 (TV Mini-Series) - Herr Welponer
- Mother and Son (1973) ... Herr Welponer
1973 Follyfoot (TV Series) - Woodman
- Walk in the Wood (1973) ... Woodman
1973 Crime of Passion (TV Series) - Marcel Amiot
- Emile (1973) ... Marcel Amiot
1973 Once Upon a Time (TV Series) - James Cable
- Silver (1973) ... James Cable
1973 Live and Let Die - 'M'
1973 The Man Who Died Twice (TV Movie)
Francis Cumberland
1972-1973 General Hospital (TV Series) - Harold Brophy - 6 episodes
1972 The Pathfinders (TV Series) - Air Vice Marshal
- Codename Gomorrah (1972) ... Air Vice Marshal
1971 Danger Point - Captain
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - 'M'
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Sam Milford
- Someone Like Me (1971) ... Sam Milford
1971 Dulcima - Mr. Gaskain
1971 Long Ago, Tomorrow - Uncle Bob

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 'M'
1969 Crossplot - Chilmore
1969 Strange Report (TV Series) - Arthur Pater
- Report 8319: Grenade - What Price Change? (1969) ... Arthur Pater
1969 The Expert (TV Series) - Harry Kirby
- Post-Mortem on Harry Kirby (1969) ... Harry Kirby
1969 The Champions (TV Series) - Squires
- The Body Snatchers (1969) ... Squires
1969 Journey to the Unknown (TV Series) - Ben Loker
- Poor Butterfly (1969) ... Ben Loker
1968 Journey to Midnight - Ben Loker (episode 'Poor Butterfly')
1968 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Frank Lanton
- Nothing Will Be the Same (1968) ... Frank Lanton
1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Baxter
- The System: Them Down There (1968) ... Baxter
1968 The Jazz Age (TV Series) - Sir James
- Post Mortem (1968) ... Sir James
1968 Public Eye (TV Series) - Detective Sergeant Davidson
- Mercury in an Off-White Mac (1968) ... Detective Sergeant Davidson
1967 The Gamblers (TV Series) - Bob Townsend
- The Man Beneath (1967) ... Bob Townsend
1967 Mogul (TV Series) - Bernard Hart
- Mr. Know-How (1967) ... Bernard Hart
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - George Kershaw
- The Girl Who Never Was (1967) ... George Kershaw
1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Frank Graham
- Friends (1967) ... Frank Graham
1967 You Only Live Twice - 'M'
1967 Operation Kid Brother - Commander Cunningham
1966-1967 King of the River (TV Series) - Joss King - 16 epsiodes
1966 Court Martial (TV Series)
- Flight of a Tiger (1966)
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Morgan Travis
- The Killing (1966) ... Morgan Travis
- Masquerade (1966) ... Morgan Travis
1959-1966 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Daniel Whittaker / Tom / Aaronson / ...
- The Night Before the Morning After (1966) ... Daniel Whittaker
- Nest of Four (1960) ... Tom
- Cold Fury (1960) ... Aaronson
- Ernie Barger Is 50 (1959) ... Ernie Barger
1965-1966 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Derringham / Lord Ammanford
- The Man with the Foot (1966) ... Derringham
- Whatever Happened to George Foster? (1965) ... Lord Ammanford
1966 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Jeremiah
- The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 2 (1966) ... Jeremiah
- The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 1 (1966) ... Jeremiah
1965 The Man in a Looking Glass (TV Movie) - Morgan Travis
1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - The Man
- The Passenger (1965) ... The Man
1965 Thunderball - 'M'
1965 Blackmail (TV Series) - Steve Bradwell
- Tricks of the Trade (1965) ... Steve Bradwell
1965 Love Story (TV Series) - Henry Golden
- After Hours (1965) ... Henry Golden
1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Landlord (uncredited)
1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Mr. Patmore - Grocer
1965 Two Left Feet - Mr. Crabbe
1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors - Hopkins (segment "Creeping Vine")
1965 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Jim Cherry
- The Flowering Cherry (1965) ... Jim Cherry
1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Jim Garner
- Ring of Hate (1964) ... Jim Garner
1964 Goldfinger - 'M'
1964 Who Was Maddox? - Superintendent Meredith
1960-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Superintendent Meredith / Det. Supt. Meredith / Inspector Mann
- Who Was Maddox? (1964) ... Superintendent Meredith
- The Share Out (1962) ... Det. Supt. Meredith
- Clue of the Silver Key (1961) ... Superintendent Meredith
- Partners in Crime (1961) ... Inspector Mann
- Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960) ... Superintendent Meredith
1964 Saturday Night Out - George Hudson
1964 Shadow of Treason - Henry Houghton
1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Villager: unknown name
- Dead Men Don't Drive (1964) ... Villager: unknown name
1964 Espionage (TV Series) - John Neary
- Snow on Mount Kama (1964) ... John Neary
1963 From Russia with Love - 'M'
1963 A Place to Go - Matt Flint
1963 The Third Man (TV Series) - Angus Meyrick
- Portrait of Harry (1963) ... Angus Meyrick
1962 The Share Out - Det. Supt. Meredith
1961-1962 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Company Commander / Jack Brown
- Behind the Line (1962) ... Company Commander
- Venus Brown (1961) ... Jack Brown
1962 The L-Shaped Room - Charlie
1962 The Brain - Dr. Frank Shears
1962 Dr. No - M.
1961 Clue of the Silver Key - Superintendent Meredith
1961 Partners in Crime - Inspector Mann
1961 The Interrogator (TV Movie) - Superintendent Farron
1961 O Captain, My Captain (TV Movie) - Vasco, The Captain
1961 Whistle Down the Wind - Bostock
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Black John
1961 The Secret Partner - Det. Supt. Frank Hanbury
1960 Clue of the Twisted Candle - Superintendent Meredith
1960 Trouble in the Sky - Capt. Gort
1960 The Angry Silence - Bert Connolly
1960 Kidnapped - Captain Hoseason
1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Firing Officer (uncredited)

1955-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Hoederer / Edward Blunt / Hurst / ...
- Crime Passionnel (1959) ... Hoederer
- The Uninvited (1958) ... Edward Blunt
- In Writing (1956) ... Hurst
- Mirror, Mirror (1955) ... Mervin Llewellyn
1959 Web of Evidence - Patrick Mathry
1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Lunt
- Family on Trial (1959) ... Det. Insp. Lunt
1959 Breakout - Lt. Col. Huxley
1958 Nowhere to Go - Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson
1958 The Man Upstairs - The Inspector
1955-1958 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Cornelius / Prison Governor / William Lotless
- Cornelius (1958) ... Cornelius
- All Correct, Sir (1956) ... Prison Governor
- The Golden Fleece (1955) ... William Lotless
1958 The Key - Cmdr. Wadlow
1958 Dunkirk - Charles Foreman
1957 High Flight - Flight Sergeant Harris
1957 Across the Bridge - Chief Inspector Hadden
1957 Fire Down Below - Doctor Sam
1956 The Spanish Gardener - Leighton Bailey
1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Captain Dove - M.S. Africa Shell
1956 Theatre Royal (TV Series) - Candleblow Smith
- The Stolen Pearl (1956) ... Candleblow Smith
1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Rudi Lankert
- A Borderline Case (1955) ... Rudi Lankert
1955 PT Raiders - Sam Brewster,The Customs Officer
1955 Out of the Clouds - Customs Officer
1955 Sweet Coz (TV Movie) - Job
1954 The Purple Plain - Dr. Harris
1954 Crest of the Wave - Seaman 'Lofty' Turner
1954 The Detective - Inspector Valentine
1954 The Rainbow Jacket - Racketeer (uncredited)
1953 Beat the Devil - Insp. Jack Clayton
1953 Sailor of the King - Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley
1953 The Yellow Balloon - Constable Chapman
1952 Glory at Sea - A.S. 'Stripey' Wood
1951 Mr. Denning Drives North - Inspector Dodds
1951 Island Rescue - Brigadier
1951 Calling Bulldog Drummond - Col. Webson
1951 White Corridors - Burgess
1951 Fortune in Diamonds - O'Connell
1950 Cage of Gold - Inspector Grey
1950 Odette - Jack
1950 Last Holiday - Inspector Wilton
1950 Operation Disaster - Commander Gates
1950 The Blue Lamp - Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry

1949 The Third Man - Sgt. Paine
1949 I Have Been Here Before (TV Movie) - Walter Ormund
1948 Elizabeth of Ladymead - John Beresford in 1903
1948 Quartet - Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")
1948 The Fallen Idol - Detective Hart
1947 The Adventures of Dusty Bates - Captain Ford
1947 Katy's Love Affair - Colonel Gascoyne
1946 This Man Is Mine - James Nicholls
1943 The New Lot - Interviewing Officer (uncredited)
1941 Once a Crook - Duke
1940 Spare a Copper - Jake
1940 To Hell with Hitler - Oscar

1939 The Frozen Limits - Bill McGrew
1939 Murder in the Night - Roy Barnes
1938 Love from a Stranger (TV Movie) - Bruce Lovell
1938 The Terror - Ferdy Fane
1937 The Black Tulip - William Of Orange
1936 Rhodes - Cartwright
1935 The River House Mystery - Wade Belloc
1934 The Double Event - Dennison

Writer (1 credit)

1975 Animal Kwackers (TV Series) (deviser)

Self (4 credits)

2006 Press Day in Portugal (Video documentary short) - Himself

1980 Star Games (TV Series) - Himself
- Episode dated 4 November 1980 (1980) ... Himself

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQhV9A9R2no
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: James Bond's Wedding in Portugal (Documentary short) - Himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMPVQw0hvt4

James Bond 007 | EVERY "M" SCENE COMPILATION (58:56)

1984: Nunca digas nunca jamás released in Spain.

1995: First day of GoldenEye filming at EON Studios with OO7 and Zukovsky.
1998: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre (Tomorrow Never Dies) released in Brazil.

1998: 007: El mañana nunca muere released in Mexico.

1998: Jutro nie umiera nigdy released in Poland.

https://uml.lodz.pl/kalendarz/wydarzenie/letni-kinematograf-rozrywkowy-jutro-nie-umiera-nigdy-id3656/2017/08/1/

2003: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Argentina.

2008: Mythbusters airs their James Bond Special: Part 1.

MythBusters
James Bond Special: Part 1

Season 1, Episode 1 - Episode aired Jan 16, 2008
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1177694/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2

"The name's Hyneman. James Hyneman." It's tuxedos and martinis as the Mythbusters take on 007 in this James Bond special one-hour episode. Our stealthy secret agents are on a mission to explode the myths about Bond's gadgets, getaways, and guns.

2011: National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, New Forest in England, launches the Bond In Motion exhibition to celebrate 50 years of Bond films.

James Bond's cars on display at Beaulieu
The world's biggest display of James Bond cars, bikes and planes is on show at Beaulieu

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motoring/james-bonds-cars-display-beaulieu
by Julian Rendell | 16 January 2012

Lotus Esprit became a submarine in The Spy Who Loved Me

The world’s biggest-ever collection of Bond cars, bikes and planes is going on show at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic action movie.

At least 50 vehicles, including the Lotus Esprit S1 submarine driven underwater in the Roger Moore movie The Spy Who Loved Me, an Aston Martin DB5 of the type that starred in Goldfinger and Thunderball and the BMW Z8 from The World Is Not Enough, feature in the exhibition ‘Bond In Motion’.

‘This is a really fitting celebration in an important year for Bond movies. It marks the 50th anniversary of the start of filming of the first Bond movie Dr No and In October we will release the latest movie, starring Daniel Craig,’ says Eon Productions, which makes the Bond films.

The exhibition has largely been assembled from two major collections — one owned by the charitable US-based Ian Fleming Foundation and another owned by Eon Productions. Although other exhibits come from private collections around the world.

The DB5, for example, is on loan from the Dutch National Motor Museum. It is one of two replicas built to promote Thunderball, but never used in filming.

Other DB5s are scheduled to take its place as the exhibition carries on throughout the year.

‘We came up with the idea for the exhibition late in 2010, knowing the importance of 2012,’ says Meg Simmonds, archivist for Eon productions.

Interestingly, Dr No is the only Bond movie for which no cars exist and no-one knows what happened to them after filming.

In the early days, props were disposed-of as soon as filming was finished, simply because there was nowhere to store them. Bond movie owner Cubby Broccoli famously growled: ‘I’m not in the warehousing business.’

But times change and since the Goldeneye movie of 1995, Eon has been keeping the cars and other action props in its own collection, stored in the east of England.

From Eon’s collection comes the Cagiva 600 W16 that features in the dramatic opening sequence of Goldeneye, in which the bike hurtles off a cliff allowing Bond to catch-up with a plane and jump in the cockpit. Filmed seven times, only two bikes are thought to have survived.

Other stars at the show include an AMC Hornet of the type that performed an amazing barrel roll jump in 1974’s The Man With the Golden Gun. Bond jumps the red hatchback 40ft — a shot completed in one clean take, even though legendary stuntman ‘Bumps’ Willard had never attempted the jump before. The car on show is a showroom vehicle used in a city chase.

Daniel Craig’s Aston DBS, which was famously rolled at Millbrook test track for Casino Royale is also on show, complete with smashed up bodywork and cracked glass.

Modified with an air cannon to initiate the roll, the DBS flipped through seven and three-quarter turns, with stuntman Adam Kirley at the wheel, to take a place in the Guinness Book of Records.

Other star machinery includes the Renault 11 from View To A Kill, Citroen 2CV from For Your Eyes Only, Bede BD5 microjet from Octopussy and ‘Little Nellie’, the Wallis WA 116 autogyro from You Only Live Twice, the latter still owned by Ken Wallis.

Aston Martin DB5, the most iconic of all Bond cars


Aston Martin DBS was rolled at Millbrook in Bedfordshire


Wallis WA Autogyro, A.K.A. "Little Nellie"


AMC Hornet which performed a barrel roll in The Man With The Golden Gun


Citroen 2CV from For Your Eyes Only


Ken Wallis and the WA-116 autogyro he flew in You Only Life Twice [sic]


Destroyed Aston Martin DBS from Casino Royale


The World is Not Enough's BMW Z8


Hovercraft as featured in Die Another Day

2015: Spectre completes the three-day build of a wooden structure to be filmed at Obertilliach, Austria.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origins #5.
Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

JAMES BOND ORIGIN #5

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244705011
Cover A: John Cassaday
Cover B: Mike McKone
Cover C: Michael Walsh
Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover E: Bob Q
Writer: Jeff Parker
Art: Bob Q
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: January 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 1/16/2019

"Rocket Sea" continues, by JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger). Bond and his squad commander a German bomber plane, to sink a Nazi cruiser. And aside from not knowing how to fly the bomber, or how to drop bombs from it, all should go as planned...

RichardTheBruce

January 17th

1962: The Gleaner reports that filming of Dr. No started the 16th at Palisadoes airport. Also noted are local casting, includes the beautiful 1961 Miss Jamaica: Marguerite LeWars.

https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/dr-no-1962-danish-connections/

1963: Agente 007 - Licenza di uccidere (Agent 007 - Licence to Kill) released in Italy.

1966: 007 Contra a Chantagem Atômica (007 Against Atomic Blackmail) released in Brazil.

1998: 007 네버 다이 (007 Nay-buh dah-ee) released in the Republic of Korea.

2003: Baska Gün Öl (Die Another Day) released in Turkey.

2009: 007／慰めの報酬 (007/Remuneration for Comfort) limited release in Japan.

2011: Title and cover art for Jeffrey Deaver's Bond novel revealed at The InterContinental, Dubai.

James Bond: Jeffery Deaver unveils his 21st Century spy

By Tim Masters Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News
25 May 2011

Jeffery Deaver was accompanied by "Bond girl" model Chesca Miles at the launch

Thriller writer Jeffery Deaver, who unveiled his James Bond novel Carte Blanche on Wednesday, has admitted that he gives Ian Fleming's superspy a tough time in the 21st Century.

At a launch event planned with the precision of an MI6 operation, the American author received the first copy of the book from a team of Royal Marines who abseiled from the roof of London's St Pancras station.

Deaver's novel, which is set in the present day, is published on Thursday.

The book's release coincides with the anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth. The writer who created the original Bond novels in the 1950s would have been 103 on Saturday 28 May.

His niece, actress Lucy Fleming, told the launch event that her uncle would have been pleased by the way that Deaver "has kicked his dear old James Bond into the 21st Century".

Spy app

Carte Blanche was not "a pastiche", Deaver told the BBC.

"I took Ian Fleming's iconic character and made him younger - and the poor guy ends up in a Jeffery Deaver novel. I write rollercoasters, which means he doesn't get a minute's rest."

Earlier, the 61-year-old author had arrived at the launch event, at a champagne bar at St Pancras International, in a red Bentley with 007 emblazoned on the bonnet.

He was flanked by a female stunt rider on a 1960s BSA motor-bike.

The author arrived at the launch event in a Bentley,
which is the car of choice for his 21st Century Bond

Deaver is not the first writer to take on the Bond legacy. Sebastian Faulks and John Gardner are among other authors to have written officially-sanctioned Bond novels since creator Ian Fleming's death in 1964.

But he is the first to set Fleming's character in 2011. In Carte Blanche, Bond has served in the Royal Naval Reserve, including a tour in Afghanistan, before joining the secret service.

In an early chapter he uses a mobile phone application to eavesdrop on a target in Serbia.

"In the movies he got a bit gadget-oriented," said Deaver. "Fleming actually gave him relatively few gadgets - and I went back to that. Nowadays my BlackBerry has more capacity than the best computer in the mid-1950s."

Who would have thought
that the dreams and
aspirations of a young
boy so many years ago
would come full circle in
the way that they have?

Jeffery Deaver

Deaver was eight years old when he read his first James Bond novel. A self-confessed "Bond addict", he wrote his first unpublished novel aged 11 about "a British agent who sneaks into Russia to steal a Soviet bomber".

Eighteen months ago, Deaver - whose 28 novels have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide - accepted the offer to carry on the Bond legacy.

Deaver said: "Who would have thought that the dreams and aspirations of a young boy so many years ago would come full circle in the way that they have?"

But why does he think the publishing industry loves bringing back famous characters like James Bond, Dracula, Peter Pan and - later this year - Sherlock Holmes?

"The industry has always known that this is a market-driven business - business is the dirty little word that nobody wants to mention - but it is business.

"Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Mozart, Beethoven - they wrote on commission, it was a business to them.

Books are no different, and we are beholden to the audience to give them something they want.

2012: Naomie Harris denies her Skyfall character is Miss Moneypenny.
2014: Writer John Logan talks to IGN about Bond 24 and Bond 25.

James Bond Writer John Logan Intends Bond
24 and 25 to Build on What They Did in
Skyfall

See the complete article here:

https://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/17/james-bond-writer-john-logan-intends-bond-24-and-25-to-build-on-what-they-did-in-skyfall

"There's resonance from Skyfall in the new movie."
Roth Cornet
By Roth Cornet
Posted: 17 Jan 2014 6:47 pm

Skyfall writer John Logan is busy completing production on his new horror series for Showtime, Penny Dreadful. He and series' stars Eva Green and Josh Hartnett took a small break from shooting on location in Ireland to attend this week's TCA (Television Critics Association) press tour for early promotion of the series.

We had the opportunity to sit down with both Logan and Hartnett do discuss the Gothic monster series (more on that to come). During the course of our conversation with Logan, we also touched on his other commitments, namely the upcoming 24th and 25th installments in the James Bond franchise, the first of which Skyfall director Sam Mendes will also helm.

Details on Bond films are notoriously kept under lock and key, and Logan was hesitant to reveal particulars about the story for the upcoming film. "All I can say about Bond is that I'm happily writing it" he said. Joking that, "Sam [Mendes] would rappel through the window and kill me." Though the writer did indicate that the next two films would carry forward what had been established with Skyfall.

One of the intentions with Skyfall was to recapture and contemporize some of the classic elements of Bond.

"My goal is to write a great movie that's appropriate, to build on what we did on Skyfall, but make it its own unique animal," Logan said of the teams aspirations for Bond 24. "The themes, ideas and the characters from Skyfall can obviously continue on, because it is a franchise, and it is an ongoing story. So I think there's resonance from Skyfallin the new movie."

"I grew up on the Bond movies," Logan said of his own connection to the franchise. "The first one I saw was Diamonds Are Forever, when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces. I love all the elements, from the books -- mostly from the novels; going back to Ian Flemming is where I started with Skyfall -- and there's certainly elements of the movies and the novels that we've brought into the new movie, as they did into Skyfall."

One of the most memorable elements in Skyfall was Javier Bardem's villainous Silva. "He was just fantastic!" Logan enthused, adding that the creative team didn't feel pressure to match the success of that villain as each story requires its own unique antagonist.

Eon, the production company behind the Bond franchise, just got back the rights back to the Joker of the Bond world, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. As such, fans have been wondering if we may see Blofeld make an appearance was early as the next Bond film.

"You know, I think our villain's appropriate to the story we're telling," Logan said slyly when asked if there was a temptation to utilize that character now that they are able.

We will keep you updated as details on Bond 24 and 25 emerge.
Roth Cornet is an Entertainment Editor for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @RothCornet and IGN at Roth-IGN.

2018: Dynamite's James Bond: The Body #1 goes on sale.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Ales Kot, writer.

JAMES BOND: THE BODY #1

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026419001011
Cover A: Luca Casalanguida
Writer: Ales Kot
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action
Publication Date: January 2018
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 1/17

PART ONE - THE BODY

As Bond undergoes a post-mission medical examination, he relays the story of his previous mission to the examiner. Each cut, bruise, and broken bone connected to a specific event of the mission. A connection is made between two people with different purposes: one to save lives, the other to take them.

From writer Ales Kot (Secret Avengers, Zero) comes a James Bond story that explores the secret agent in ways that we have yet to experience!

2024: Dynamite Entertainment marks ten years of publishing James Bond comics with James Bond - 007 Vol. 2 #1, and its part one of story "Your Cold, Cold Heart".

JAMES BOND: 007 VOL. 2 #1

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513033924901011
Cover A: Dave Johnson
UPC: 72513033924901011
Writer: Garth Ennis
Artist: Rapha Lobosco
Genre: Spy Fiction / Action Adventure
Publication Date: January, 2024
Format: Comic Book
ON SALE DATE: 1/17/2024

Codename: Stalvoda
Translation (from Russian): Steel Water
A relic of the Cold War, the deadly compound Stalvoda has a long buried connection with MI6. So when it mysteriously reappears in disturbing circumstances, the agency naturally assigns its best operative to get to the bottom of things - 007 himself, James Bond.
But Bond isn't the only one to have carried the Double O rank, and with it MI6's secrets. Former agent Archibald Tyron is another, and he's also carrying a grudge - one that's aimed squarely at the heart of His Majesty's Secret Service!

Legendary comics author GARTH ENNIS (The Boys, Preacher, Battlefields, The Punisher) joins artist RAPHA LOBOSCO (James Bond: Black Box) and cover artist DAVE JOHNSON (100 Bullets, Superman: Red Son, Deadpool) to bring you Part One of "Your Cold, Cold Heart" - marking the 10-year anniversary of James Bond comics being published at Dynamite!

Featuring cardstock covers on all issues!

https://blog.gocollect.com/james-bond-and-dynamite-celebrate-multiple-anniversaries/




https://aiptcomics.com/2023/12/06/exclusive-dynamite-preview-james-bond-007-1/

RichardTheBruce

January 18th

1936: Joseph Rudyard Kipling dies at age 70--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.
(Born 30 December 1865--Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India.)

The Day's Work, by Rudyard Kipling Ian Flemings 007 prefix ?

http://www.007museum.com/rudyard_kipling.htm

...

Fleming had picked up number 007 from the title of a novel by the famous British writer and Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (best known for "The Jungle Book"). Kipling wrote a short story that actually was called ".007", which is about a steam engine and is part of his collection of short stories The Days Framework, published in 1898. The steam engine is in the short story number 007, the short story has nothing whatsoever with agents or so to do.

The Day's Work, by Rudyard Kipling
·007

A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him. He looked at the semicircle of bold, unwinking headlights, heard the low purr and mutter of the steam mounting in the gauges—scornful hisses of contempt as a slack valve lifted a little—and would have given a month’s oil for leave to crawl through his own driving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. .007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he stood he was worth ten thousand dollars on the Company’s books. But if you had bought him at his own valuation, after half an hour’s waiting in the darkish, echoing round-house, you would have saved exactly nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents...

Complete story linked here.
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2569/2569-h/2569-h.htm#link2H_4_0009

1940: A memorandum notes Commander Ian Fleming considering misdirection involving U-boats.

Letters in bottles and leaky U-boats: Ian Fleming’s ideas factory

https://sites.durham.ac.uk/writersandpropaganda/2019/01/27/letters-in-bottles-and-leaky-u-boats-ian-flemings-ideas-factory/
Posted on 27th January 2019 by PWE Propagandist
Document of the month: FO 898/6/64-5

Guy Woodward traces the involvement of the creator of 007 in covert wartime propaganda

This is a memo dated 18 January 1940 – it reports on a recent meeting of the ‘Consultative Committee’ of the Department of Publicity in Enemy Countries. This department was part of Electra House, a secret body under the control of the Foreign Office, responsible for clandestine propaganda in the early stages of the war – before the foundation of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in July 1940 and the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) in September 1941.

The meeting discussed a number of ‘sibs’ – rumours invented to spread misinformation – but also makes a series of references to Lieutenant Ian Fleming, later creator of James Bond, then serving in the British Naval Intelligence Department (NID).

We read first about a mysterious plan involving a ‘letter from a U-Boat Commander in a bottle’:

It is unclear what the first plan involved – there are no other references in the archive to letters in bottles – but we can speculate that moves were afoot to produce a fake letter from a U-boat commander to be thrown into the sea, which would mislead its intended German recipients (the cross marked beside the proposal suggests that this was never enacted anyway). The second plan is more straightforward, involving the dissemination of propaganda material to Germany via containers dropped at sea. Ian Fleming’s assertion that sailors on naval patrol ‘will like’ doing this is striking however, an expression of adventurousness and derring-do at odds with the cold formality of many of these departmental records – and indicative of the approach he took to his own role.[1]

Indeed, the plans cited here are very much milder than some of the schemes which Fleming hatched in the early stages of the war. In For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond (2008) Ben Macintyre writes that ‘Some of Fleming’s ideas were run-of-the-mill, some were fantastical and impractical, and some, in the opinion of his colleagues, were simply mad.’[2] These included:

scuttling cement barges in the Danube at its most narrow
point in order to block the waterway for German shipping;
forging Reichsmarks to disrupt the German economy;
dropping an observer (possibly Fleming himself) on the island
of Heligoland to monitor the shipping outside Kiel; luring
German secret agents to Monte Carlo and capturing them; and
floating a radio ship in the North Sea to broadcast depressing
hand/or irritating propaganda to the Germans.[3]

Although Fleming would later dismiss such plans as ‘nonsense’ and ‘romantic Red Indian daydreams’, the fact that they were considered indicates the operational leeway afforded naval intelligence, before the foundation of SOE and before the fall of France and consequent Battle of the Atlantic dictated other naval priorities. Through Fleming, NID continued to be involved in the formulation of propaganda, however.

Fleming had been recruited in May 1939 by Admiral John Godfrey, Director of Naval Intelligence and widely credited as inspiration for ‘M’ in the James Bond novels. Working from the ‘ideas factory’ – room 39 in the Admiralty – Fleming developed his schemes and liaised officially and unofficially with a wide circle of military personnel, agents and propagandists.[4]

The PWE’s Sefton Delmer had known Fleming as a journalist before the war, and recalls in his memoir Black Boomerang, being introduced by his friend to Godfrey, who was excited by the potential of ‘black’ radio stations as a means of attacking the morale of U-boat crews. Both Godfrey and Fleming proved enthusiastic supporters of Delmer’s methods.

Delmer explains this naval enthusiasm (as opposed to the frequent hostility of the army and RAF to propaganda activities) with reference to the fact that the Royal Navy had been engaged in all-out war from the beginning of the conflict in 1939, when army and air force remained engaged in the phoney war. He notes that the navy were also unique among the services in having direct contact with the enemy from the beginning of the war, as they captured German prisoners at sea. Interrogations of these prisoners provided valuable intelligence material, later used by Delmer’s propagandists in crafting black propaganda such as the Soldatensender Calais radio station, intended to undermine the morale of U-boat crews.[5]

Fleming’s linguistic skills even enabled him to make direct contributions to such outlets, voicing commentaries on special programmes aimed at sailors of the Kriegsmarine broadcast by the BBC German Service and telling a friend ‘You may have heard my austere tones […] telling the Germans that all their U-boats leak.’[6]

Many connections can of course be drawn between Fleming’s wartime activities and his later creation of British secret agent 007 – the ability to conceive a compelling scenario and a predilection for imaginative and unorthodox methods are certainly clear assets in the fields of propaganda and of popular fiction. Delmer, whose name appears in a passing reference in Fleming’s Diamonds are Forever (1956) certainly suggested that his friend had drawn on his involvement with the PWE, writing that:

I sometimes wonder whether he did not pick up something for his thriller writing from our ‘black’ propaganda technique in return. For our first clandestine radio ‘Gustav Siegfried Eins’ and later our counterfeit German soldiers radio ‘Soldatensender Calais’ we used the most meticulous minutiae, taking care to get them exactly right , street numbers, technical terms, nicknames, and what have you, so that the deception itself would gain acceptance through their accuracy.[7]

Notes
All archival material is Crown Copyright and is held in The National Archives. Quotations which appear here have been transcribed by members of the project team.

[1] The RAF were notably sceptical about the value of dropping propaganda leaflets from the air and were often reluctant to facilitate drops over enemy territory. See Tim Brooks, British Propaganda to France, 1940-1944: Machinery, Method and Message, (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), p. 37 and David Garnett, The Secret History of PWE: The Political Warfare Executive 1939-1945, (London: St Ermin’s Press, 2002), p. 188.

[2] Ben Macintyre, For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond, (London: Bloomsbury, 2008), p. 27.

[3] Macintyre, p. 28.

[4] Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995), p. 102.

[5] Sefton Delmer, Black Boomerang: An Autobiography: Volume Two, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1962), p. 70.

[6] Lycett, p. 133.

[7] See https://www.psywar.org/delmer/2030/1001.

1969: David Michael Bautista is born--Washington, District of Columbia.

1971: Bond comic strip Fear Face begins its comic strip run in the Daily Express.
(Ends 20 April 1971. 1520–1596) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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



https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1003


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



Swedish Semic Comic 1978 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3

Trollkarlen + Stålspionen
("Magician + Steel Spy" - Fear Face & When The Wizard Awakes)

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

Stålspionen
(Steel Spy - Fear Face)

Danish 1973 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no25-1973/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 25: “Fear Face” (1973)
"Stålspionen" [The Steel Spy]

1984: Mai dire mai (Never Say Never) released in Italy.

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies second unit filming begins, handled by Vic Armstrong, involves pre-titles action at the Peyresourde Airport, French Pyrenees.

1998: James Villiers dies at age 64--Arunddel, Sussex, England.
(Born 29 September 1933--London, England.)

Obituary: James Villiers

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-james-villiers-1139946.html
Tom Vallance | Wednesday 21 January 1998 01:02

James Michael Hyde Villiers, actor: born London 29 September 1933; married 1966 Patricia Donovan (marriage dissolved 1984), 1994 Lucy Jex; died Arundel, West Sussex 18 January 1998.

One of the country's most distinctive character actors, with ripe articulation and a flair for displaying supercilious arrogance that put him in the Vincent Price class of screen villains, James Villiers was often cast in such roles in his early years. He was also the most English of actors, and not surprisingly his career was liberally sprinkled with the works of Shaw, Coward, Wilde and dramatists of the Restoration.

His film career flourished in the Sixties when he was a particular favourite of the director Joseph Losey, while his work in the theatre spans over 40 years. On television he achieved particular success and recognition with his portrayal of Charles II (to whom he bore a strong resemblance) in the series The First Churchills.

Born in London in 1933, Villiers (pronounced Villers) was proud of his aristocratic lineage (his family tree goes back to the Duke of Rockingham). He was brought up in Shropshire and later at Ormeley Lodge in Richmond, more recently the home of James Goldsmith, and educated at Wellington College. He had, however, become stage-struck as a child (his brother John recalls Villiers as a boy begging Colchester Repertory to take him on in any capacity whatever and being heartbroken when they refused) and at prep school he gained a reputation as their best actor.

After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he formed lifelong friendships with fellow students and cricket enthusiasts Peter O'Toole and Ronald Fraser, he made his stage debut at the Summer Theatre in Frinton as William Blore in Agatha Christie's thriller Ten Little Niggers (1953), and the following year made his first West End appearance with the Shakespeare Memorial Company in Toad of Toad Hall.

In 1955 he started a two-year period with the Old Vic Company, his roles including Trebonius in Julius Caesar and Bushy in Richard II. He made his Broadway debut in the latter role in 1956 during the Old Vic tour of the United States and Canada, then spent a year with the English Stage Company. In 1960 he made his film debut in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer (which also marked the screen debuts of Alan Bates and Albert Finney), and the following year made his first thriller (in a rare heroic role), The Clue of the New Pin (1961).

He first worked with Losey on The Damned (1961), and for the same director played in Eve (1962) and as an officer in the finely acted pacifist piece King and Country (1964). In Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) he was the friend who ambiguously gives John Fraser a kiss, in Seth Holt's The Nanny (1965) Villiers and Wendy Craig were the parents of a disturbed child left in the care of Bette Davis at her most neurotic, and in George Sidney's Half a Sixpence (1968) he was the snobbish father of the society girl Kipps (Tommy Steele) hopes to marry.

Other films included Nothing But the Best (1963), Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Let Him Have It (1991). His many television appearances included Pygmalion (as Professor Higgins), Lady Windermere's Fan, Fortunes of War and most recently Dance to the Music of Time. Stage successes include the thriller Write Me a Murder (1962), a superbly droll and highly acclaimed performance as Victor Prynne in John Gielgud's 1972 revival of Coward's Private Lives, starring Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, a forceful Earl of Warwick in John Clements's 1974 production of Saint Joan, and prominent roles in such classics as Pirandello's Henry IV (with Rex Harrison), The Way of the World and The Last of Mrs Cheyney.

A few years ago he created the role of Lord Thurlow in Nicholas Hytner's staging for the National Theatre of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III, and most recently was featured as Mr Brownlow in the hit revival of Oliver! at the London Palladium.

James Villiers (1933–1998)

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2015: June Randall dies at age 87.
(Born 26 June 1927--London, England.)

June Randall

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June Randall (26 June 1927 – 18 January 2015) was a British script supervisor whose career spanned over five decades and more than 100 film and television productions. She was most noted for being director Stanley Kubrick's "continuity girl" on A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, and The Shining and for her work on five of the James Bond films: The Spy Who Loved Me, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, and GoldenEye.

Biography
Randall was born on 26 June 1927 in London, England. When World War II began in 1939, Randall, then aged twelve, was sent to Australia aboard the MS Batory. She returned to England four years later. ] Soon thereafter, Randall sought employment at Gainsborough Pictures in the hopes of meeting actor James Mason after seeing him in an advert for his film The Wicked Lady. She did not get to meet Mason, but did manage to secure a job as secretary to the studio's Head of Production, Betty Box. Wishing to be on the studio floor, however, Randall took the lower-paying job of assistant continuity girl (now script supervisor). In this capacity, she worked on such films as Dear Murderer and Ken Annakin's Miranda.

Over the next two decades, Randall monitored continuity on such films as Hell in Korea, X: The Unknown, Quatermass 2, Tony Richardson's groundbreaking Look Back in Anger, Circus of Horrors, The Long and the Short and the Tall, Roy Ward Baker's The Anniversary, and Terence Fisher's The Devil Rides Out. She also began working in television, including 35 episodes of The Avengers and 22 episodes of The Saint. It was on the latter that Randall met actor Roger Moore, who nicknamed her "Randy" and with whom Randall remained friends for the rest of her life. Randall and Moore later worked together on two of Moore's outings as secret agent James Bond: The Spy Who Loved Me and A View to a Kill. Although the latter was Moore's last film as Bond, Randall continued with the franchise, working with Timothy Dalton on The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill and Pierce Brosnan on GoldenEye.

Randall also had a long-standing partnership with director Stanley Kubrick, whom she met during pre-production of his film A Clockwork Orange in 1970[ She agreed to work with Kubrick not only on that film, but on Barry Lyndon and The Shining, as well, despite the director's notorious compulsiveness and perfectionism. Other films on which Randall supervised continuity include the cult genre favorites Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter and Flash Gordon, Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning Gandhi, Michael Mann's crime thriller Manhunter, and David Fincher's Alien³. She retired in 2001 and died in London on 18 January 2015, at the age of 87.

June Randall (1927–2015)

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2017: Professor Jeremy Black proposes James Bond is more of a feminist than you might think.

Dr. No means no: Why James
Bond is more of a feminist than
you might think

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/dr-no-means-no-james-bond-feminist-might-think/
Jeremy Black Professor of History at the University of Exeter
18 January 2017 • 9:46am

The Bond of the films doesn't always bear resemblance to the Bond of Ian Fleming's novels

When Judi Dench accused James Bond of being a "sexist, misogynist dinosaur" at the beginning of GoldenEye, she was reflecting conventional wisdom about 007. Bond girls were cardboard cut-out fantasy figures: stunning, acquiescent and up for a little danger. In the course of his films, Bond used his club-land charm to seduce 58 of them, inviting feminists to condemn him as a woman-hater who wants his ‘girls’ to iron shirts, leap into bed with him and then look grateful. Bond, we've been told, wallows in a "sewer of misogyny”.

The critics may have a point – if the 007 cinematic opus before Daniel Craig’s arrival on the scene is the case for the prosecution. But before the Bond films were Ian Fleming’s books, written in the 1950s and 1960s; a pre-pill age when Britain was a socially-disapproving place and sexual freedom was frowned upon. I've spent a large chunk of the last two years studying Fleming's words, as research for a book on the subject – and what I've found is that while Bond may have pre-war manners, his attitudes to women were, in many ways, very modern.

Throughout Fleming's series, Bond admires female partners who are not only as sexually liberated and demanding as him, but independent, resourceful and tough enough to help him defeat villains. These are women who are not constrained or defined by the search for matrimony and motherhood – women, in other words, who buck the social norms of the time they live in. Far from misogynistic in attitude, Bond was ahead of his time.

On close inspection, it's a theme that crops up repeatedly. For example, in the books, 007 rails against the victimisation of women and the depiction of sexually-liberated women as ‘tarts’ or whores.

Here's Fleming on Bond's admiration of Dominetta Vitali, the mistress of arch villain Emilio Largo in Thunderball: "'Whore', ‘tart’, 'prostitute' were not words Bond used about women unless they were professional streetwalkers or the inmates of a brothel. This was an independent, a girl of authority and character. She might like the rich, gay life, but so far as Bond was concerned, that was the right kind of girl. She might sleep with men, obviously did, but it would be on her terms and not on theirs.”

Halle Berry as Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson Credit: Film still

Tellingly, some of the female characters Bond most admires are not only sexually adventurous but independent of men. The improbably-named Pussy Galore, for example, is the resourceful leader of a lesbian motorcycle gang, “who had never met a man before.” In Goldfinger, she helps Bond foil a plot to gas the guards at Fort Knox. Fleming says of Ms Galore, whom he eventually seduces: “[Bond] was amused by the uncompromising attitude that said to Goldfinger and to the room ‘All men and bastards and cheats. Don’t try any masculine hocus on me’.”

That's not to say Bond wasn't a quintessential tough-guy. The books describe a character who is the very image of physicality, sharpness and resolution – all necessary qualities if you are single-handedly defeating the world’s super-villains. Of course, these attributes can be read as those of a “school boy bully”. In 1958, Paul Johnson described Bond as having “the mechanical two-dimensional sex longing of a frustrated adolescent’; while William Rees-Mogg, the former editor of the Times, writes that Bond is a “high technology killer, a sadistic womaniser and a pseudo sophisticate.”

In my book The World of James Bond, published later this year, I draw a distinction between the hardened war-hero type Fleming created and the priapic caricature he became in many of the films.

Unlike the films, Fleming depicts Bond's desires as normal, not insatiable. It is central to the image of Bond’s sexuality that he gives, as well as receives, pleasure – and the women he sleeps are not beyond setting the sexual pace.

To use Goldfinger as the example again: in a scene that didn't make the film, Jill Masterston accompanies Bond on the Silver Meteor train from Miami to New York. Fleming writes:

“She had woken him twice more in the night with soft demanding caresses, saying nothing, just reaching for his hard, lean body. The next day she had twice pulled down the roller blinds to shut out the hard light and had taken him by the hand and said ‘Love me, James’….. Neither had had regrets.”

Fleming’s own private life was far from conventional. His wife Ann had an affair with Hugh Gaitskell, then leader of the Labour party, and from 1955 Fleming had his own lover. His commitment to living in the West Indies was in part linked to his sex life.

We should also note that in the books, Bond is disgusted with villains’ sadistic behaviour towards women. He dislikes the very attitudes 007’s critics have sometimes attributed to him. Fleming actually contrasts the mechanistic megalomania of many of the villains and the sadistic evil of their agents with Bond’s sensuality.

In Goldfinger 007 feels disgust reading a passage in a SMERSH manual which says: “A drunken woman can also usually be handled by using the thumb and forefinger to grab the lower lip. By pinching hard and twisting, as the pull is made, the woman will come along.”

Bond’s reputation as a Paleolithic sexist has not been helped by quotes from Fleming’s works, frequently taken out of context.

One Bond remark often taken as evidence against him is in the short story "Quantum of Solace", in which 007 contends that if he married he would marry an air hostess. He could then have “a pretty girl always tucking you up and bringing you drinks and hot meals and asking if you had everything you waned. And they’re always smiling and wanting to please. If I don’t marry an air hostess, there’ll be nothing for it but marry a Japanese. They seem to have the right ideas too.”

"Unlike the films, Fleming depicts Bond's desires as normal, not insatiable"

Jeremy Black

A clear case for the prosecution: unconstructed sexism with a dose of racism thrown in. But read on.

Fleming writes that Bond deliberately made such as provocative remark “to outrage the Governor into a discussion of some human topic. Bond had no intention of marrying anyone. If he did, it would certainly not be an insipid slave.”

This is not to say that Bond is a new man who in our day would be happy to work part time and share parenting duties. His attitude to same-sex relationships, between men, is hostile and derogatory. In a Miami restaurant in Goldfinger, the manager is described as “a pansified Italian”, while at the start of the novel From Russia, with Love, Bond advocates the recruitment of gays to hunt gay spies.

In many ways Bond is old fashioned, with old fashioned prejudices: the last of the club-land heroes who adheres to an older established code and set of values. With a martini ‘shaken but not stirred’ in one hand, and a Walther PPK concealed on his person, he is possibly too flamboyant for the modern mode of espionage. And beware the Russian honey-trap: there is also no doubt that Bond is an admirer of a well-turned ankle.

But Fleming’s Bond is more complex and interesting character in the books than in many of the films. He is certainly not the misogynistic dinosaur described by Judi Dench’s M. Is James Bond a feminist? Perhaps that's stretching it a bit. But he's far from the monster we're led to believe either.

Professor Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the
University of Exeter. His book The World of James Bond, is to
be published by Rowman and Littlefield this year

RichardTheBruce

January 19th

1922: Ken Graham Hughes is born--Liverpool, England.
(He dies 28 April 2001 at age 79--Los Angeles, California.)

Ken Hughes

See the complete article here:

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

Born - Kenneth Graham Hughes, 19 January 1922, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom
Died - 28 April 2001 (aged 79), Los Angeles, California, United States

Kenneth Graham Hughes (19 January 1922 – 28 April 2001)[2] was an English film director, writer and producer. He was the co-writer and director of the children's film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968). He has been called "a filmmaker whose output was consistently interesting and entertaining, and deserved more critical attention than it has received."

Early Life and Career
Hughes was born in Yates St, Toxteth, Liverpool. His family moved to London soon after. Hughes won an amateur film contest at age 14 and worked as a projectionist. When he was sixteen he went to work for the BBC as a technician and became a sound engineer.

In 1941 he began making documentaries and short features; he also made training films for the Ministry of Defence. Hughes eventually returned to the BBC where he made documentaries.

Director
Hughes's first film as director was the "B" movie Wide Boy (1952). He did a short feature, The Drayton Case (1953), which became the first of Anglo-Amalgamated's Scotland Yard film series (1953-61), and several of the later installments including The Dark Stairway (1953) and Murder Anonymous (1955). He did Black 13 (1954) then made The House Across the Lake (1954) for Hammer Films, based on Hughes' own novel.

He made The Brain Machine (1955), Little Red Monkey (1955), and Confession (1955). Timeslip (1955) was science fiction. He was one of several writers on The Flying Eye (1955) and Portrait of Alison (1955).

Hughes received notice for Joe MacBeth (1955) a modernised re-telling of Macbeth set among American gangsters of the 1930s, but shot at Shepperton Studios in Surrey. He shared an Emmy Award in 1959 for writing the television play Eddie (for Alcoa Theatre) which starred Mickey Rooney.

The later 1950s
Hughes made some films for Columbia: Wicked as They Come (1956), and The Long Haul (1957). He wrote High Flight (1957) made by Warwick Films, producers Albert Broccoli and Irving Allen, who released through Columbia. For British TV he wrote episodes of Solo for Canary (1958).

For Warwick Films, he directed two films with Anthony Newley, Jazz Boat (1960) and In the Nick (1960). Warwick liked his work and hired Hughes to direct The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) with Peter Finch. It was well received, and was Hughes favourite among his films because he did not make any concessions in its production.

Career peak
Hughes wrote and directed The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963), based on Hughes' television play Sammy which had been broadcast by the BBC in 1958. Anthony Newley was the title lead in both playing a confidence trickster and gambler. He directed episodes of the TV series Espionage (1964).

He replaced Bryan Forbes, who in turn had replaced Henry Hathaway as director of Of Human Bondage (1964), starring Laurence Harvey and Kim Novak. It was financed by Seven Arts who used Hughes on the Tony Curtis comedy Drop Dead Darling (1965). Hughes also wrote episodes for the TV series An Enemy of the State (1965). He was subsequently one of several directors who worked on the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967).

He co-wrote and directed Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) for producer Broccoli. Although it was a success at the box-office, it received a negative response from critics who objected to its sentimentality. It was a project he did not enjoy working on. "The film made a lot of money, but that doesn't really make me feel any better about it. On the other hand, I've made pictures that got awards at Berlin and places, and didn't make any money, and that doesn't make me feel any better either".

Irving Allen produced Cromwell (1970), a dream project of Hughes who called it the "best thing I've ever done". It starred Richard Harris in the title role and Alec Guinness as Charles I, but was not a financial success. It meant he was unable to raise funds for a proposed film of Ten Days That Shook the World.

In 1969 Hughes sold his company, Ken Hughes Productions, to Constellation Investments for the issue at par of 300,000 of 6 percent convertible unsecured loan stock. The stock was deposited by the vendors as security for warranties that profits of Ken Hughes Productions during the next ten years will exceed £500,000 after corporations tax and be available to Constellation.

Later career
Hughes directed The Internecine Project (1974) for British Lion and Alfie Darling (1975), a sequel to Alfie (1966); they both flopped He wrote and directed episodes of Oil Strike North (1975).

Hughes sold his production company for £300,000 in 1969, but encountered financial difficulties in the 1970s.[12] In July 1975 he declared bankruptcy. He told the London Bankruptcy Court he earned £44,177 in 1968 and £47,960 in 1969 but nothing in 1970. "The film industry collapsed," said Hughes. "It has not recovered yet." He had debts of £32,277 and had to sell his house to pay creditors. Hughes attributed his financial situation to paying maintenance to two wives and an inability to reduce expenses. ("But I am afraid it was too late by then. The time for me to do do was in 1969 or 1970.") He was also hit by a tax bill. At one stage, claims against him reached £48,000.

He worked in the United States for the first time directing Mae West in her last film, Sextette (1978).

His final film was the slasher movie Night School (1981), the film debut of Rachel Ward.

Personal life and death
Hughes had three marriages, to two women. From 1946 to 1957, he was married to Charlotte Epstein. From 1970 to 1976, he was married to Cherry Price, with whom he had a daughter Melinda, an opera singer. The marriage was dissolved in 1976, and Hughes remarried his first wife in 1982. They were married when Hughes died from complications from Alzheimer's Disease. He had been living in a nursing home in Panorama City in Los Angeles.

Critical appraisal

Filmink magazine did a profile on Hughes which argued "he was a very 'ups and downs' kind of guy with a solid overall average: the maker of a genuine classic (Trials of Oscar Wilde), a handful of terrific movies (Long Haul, Joe MacBeth, Wide Boy) and some films that have splendid things in them (Small World of Sammy Lee, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and yes, Casino Royale). He also made movies that were dull (Cromwell), dire (Alfie Darling), disappointing (Timeslip) and in one case, beyond belief (Sextette). He clearly worked best when attached to a feisty little production company with strong Hollywood links."

Filmography
Sammy (1952) - writer
Wide Boy (1952) - director
The Drayton Case (1953) - director, writer
The Missing Man (1953) - writer, director
The Candlelight Murder (1953) - writer, director
Black 13 (1953) - director, writer
The Dark Stairway (1953) aka The Greek Street Murder - director, writer
The Blazing Caravan (1954) (short) - writer, director
Passenger to Tokyo (1954) (short) - director
The Strange Case of Blondie (1954) (short) - writer, director
The House Across the Lake (1954) aka Heat Wave - director, writer
The Brain Machine (1955) - director, writer
Little Red Monkey (1955) aka Case of the Red Monkey - director, writer
Night Plane to Amsterdam (1955) - director
Confession (a.k.a., The Deadliest Sin, 1955) - director, writer
Timeslip (a.k.a. The Atomic Man, 1955) - director
The Flying Eye (1955) - writer
Joe MacBeth (1955) - director, writer
Postmark for Danger (1955) aka Portrait of Alisonr - writer
Murder Anonymous (1955) (short) - director
Wicked As They Come (1956) aka Portrait in Smoke - director, writer
Town on Trial (1957) - writer
The Long Haul (1957) - director, writer
High Flight (1957) - writer
Sammy (1958) - producer, writer, director
Solo for Canary (1958) - writer
Alcoa Theatre (1958) - writer episode "Eddie"

Jazz Boat (1960) - director, writer
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) - director, writer
In the Nick (1960) - director, writer
The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963) - director, writer
Espionage (1964) - writer, director
Of Human Bondage (1964) - director
An Enemy of the State (1965) - writer
Drop Dead Darling (1966) aka Arrivederci, Baby! - director, producer, writer
Casino Royale (1967) - director, writer
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) - director, writer
Shark! (1969) - writer

Cromwell (1970) - director, writer
Sammy (1972) - writer
Menace (1973) - writer
Colditz (1974) - writer
The Internecine Project (1974) - director
Fall of Eagles (1974) - writer
Dial M for Murder (1974) - writer
Alfie Darling (1975) - director, writer
Oil Strike North: Deadline (1975) - episode "Deadline" - writer
Sextette (1978) - director

Night School (1981) - director

Novels
The Long Echo (1955)

Ken Hughes

Writer | Director | Producer
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 1967


Casino Royale, 1967


Sextette, 1978

1941: Putter Smith is born--Bell, California.

1960: Jack Whittingham reports to Ivar Bryce the progress he's making with Kevin McClory on a Thunderball screenplay.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.

..."We are both working in the dark so far as Ian Fleming is concerned--and Bond is very much his personal creation. Thus they needed to get together with Ian to discuss their first draft. I know he will be very helpful at this much more detailed stage, and it would encourage us enormously if we felt we were all still pulling at the same rope."

1981: The For Your Eyes Only production crew at Metoria, Greece, feels of the wrath of monks who place laundry and other eyesores on their dwellings to disrupt filming. A show of displeasure, potentially over to small a stipend paid to them by the producers. Filming continues nonetheless.

1995: GoldenEye films Valentin.

2000: Radioactive/MCA releases the soundtrack for The World Is Not Enough by David Arnold in Japan. 68 minutes in length.

2015: To capitalize on Fleming and Bond material becoming public domain in Canada, Independent Toronto publisher ChiZine Publications announces Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond. An anthology of short stories, available only in Canada.

2016: Titan Books publishes James Bond: Spectre: The Complete Comic Strip Collection.

2017: Anthony Horowitz announces on Twitter he's writing a second Bond novel due out October 2018.

2018: Manchester University Press publish The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian Fleming, and Playboy Magazine by Claire Hines.

The Playboy and James Bond: 007, Ian Fleming, and Playboy Magazine
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Playboy-James-Bond-Fleming-Magazine/dp/0719082269
Hardcover – 19 Jan. 2018
by Claire Hines (Author)
—
This is the first book-length study to focus on James Bond’s relationship to the playboy ideal during the sixties and beyond. The book examines aspects of the Bond phenomenon and the playboy lifestyle, best represented in the pages of Playboy magazine, and considers how they are interconnected, especially in terms of gender and consumption, to construct and reflect a powerful male fantasy in the post-war era onwards. This analysis of the close association and relations between the emerging cultural icons of James Bond and the playboy is particularly concerned with Sean Connery’s definitive Bond as seen in the films and promoted and used by the media. By exploring the connections between Bond and Playboy within the historical framework and contemporary debates, this book offers new insights into the related phenomena and their enduring legacy in popular culture.

Throughout, the book traces and analyses key aspects of the development of James Bond’s connections to the lifestyle fantasy and image of the playboy. These connections are rooted in the fifties and were formalised in Playboy during the 1960s with the help of Ian Fleming and his Bond novels, followed by the rising popularity of the big screen character first played by Connery, which established other associations that still remain influential today. This book will contribute to the growing area of Bond studies as well as to the study of popular culture, and will interest scholars and students in these and other fields of research.

Review

'This book engages a range of topic relevant to university courses in fields such as English, History and Cultural Studies. It will also appeal to fans of Bond and popular culture. The playboy and James Bond is concise, fluent and eminently readable, striking the right balance between sharp analysis and telling a compelling story.'
Professor Christoph Linder, University of Oregon

'The more fascinating part of Hines's analysis, however, goes beyond the two enterprises' mutual boosting to spotlight the astonishingly parallel guidance they provided in encouraging male consumerism. One of the shared foci, on "fetishized mechanical objects", was represented by Bond's Aston Martin DB5 car and the Playboy automated round bed. Both Playboy and Bond encouraged the commodification of women and guilt-free (hetero-)sexuality, as evidences by the Bond girls and Playboy Bunnies. Both championed elaborate male grooming routines, gourmet food and alcohol, and travel to exotic locations ... [This book] would be of use to scholars and teachers of intertextual analysis, magazine studies, and gender and sex in the media. It could also make an excellent addition to the reading lists of seminars on fanship studies or fan magazines.'
Journal of Magazine Media

About the Author
Claire Hines is Senior Lecturer in Film and Television at Southampton Solent University -- .
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manchester University Press (19 Jan. 2018)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 226 pages

RichardTheBruce

January 20th

1923: John McClusky is born--Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland.
(He dies 5 September 2006 at age 83--Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.)

James Bond comic
strip artist John
McLusky has died
aged 83

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08-Sep-2006 • Bond News

John McLusky, best known for his long tenure as James Bond comic strip artist, has died at the age of 83. He passed away on Tuesday 5th September 2006.

Four years before Sean Connery would bring 007 to the silver screen with Dr No, Daily Express readers in the UK got their first sight of James Bond in 1958. The face John McLusky gave to Bond would be many people's first and lasting image of 007, including composer John Barry.

Above: John McLusky's representation of James Bond 007.

Fleming's first James Bond novel Casino Royale would also become the starting point for the newspaper series, with the first strip published in the Daily Express on July 7th 1958. Staff writer Anthony Hearne adapted the novel, and John McLusky was brought in to illustrate.

Initially sticking closely to Fleming's source material, the strips created by Hearne and McLusky were an instant success and boosted sales of the newspaper. The punchy, fast-paced style and daily "cliff-hangers" suited Bond's adventures perfectly.

McLusky teamed up with writer Henry Gammidge for the following seven years, recreating Fleming's novels and short stories in the graphic form almost chronologically (except for a one-off partnership of writer Peter O'Donnell with McLusky for 1960's Dr. No adaptation).

Thirteen adventures since the Express began publishing Bond strips back in 1958, Gammidge and McLusky stepped aside for the new team of Jim Lawrence and Yaroslav Horak as writer and artist respectively. In 1981, series writer Lawrence was then paired with the original strip artist John McLusky returning for a further four adventures.

As well as his long run as James Bond comic strip artist, McLusky also drew strips such as "Secret Agent 13" for Fleetway's "June" and illustrations for "Look and Learn", and also worked for 15 years on "TV Comic" with strips such as "Orlando", "Laurel & Hardy" and "Pink Panther". In the early 1980's he worked on Thames TV series "Hattytown". He the retired but was lured back in to action in 1986 when Gerald Lip, the Express strip Editor, asked him to draw the last James Bond strips, which he did for three years. He then regularly lectured in the History of Art and was also a Punch and Judy Professor and Puppeteer. He spent his final years taking it easy at his home due to heath reasons but enjoyed reading, meeting his friends and listening to his favourite Jazz collections.

John McLusky will be best remembered for giving to the world "the face of James Bond", and with Titan Books republishing the original strip adventures, fans old and new can enjoy his timeless work again.

Click here to read more about John McLusky's artwork and the James Bond comic strip series.
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John McLusky

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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)

1958: Ian Fleming comments on Jamaica.

Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker, 2015.
1950 Doctor Jamaica

As well as finding a trip to Jamaica hugely restorative, [Noël] Coward also
found it creatively invigorating. After one visit he wrote in his diary
that ‘it has been a lovely holiday - I feel well and full of ideas and, as
usual, I am grateful to dear Jamaica.’ On another occasion, he noted:
‘this place has a strange and very potent magic for me. I also seem to
be cable to do more work here in less time than anywhere else.’ Ann,
too, recommended Jamaica to her aspiring novelist brother Hugo as
‘healing, beneficial and inspiring’. Fleming agreed. ‘Here there is
peace and that wonderful vacuum of days that makes one work,’ he
noted while writing Goldfinger. Not only Coward, but ‘other still more
famous writers, let alone painters, have been stimulated by Jamaica’.
he later wrote. ‘I suppose it is the peace and silence and cut-offness
from the madding world that urges people to create here.’

1964: Goldfinger principal photography begins at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, Florida. Director Hamilton plus Broccoli, Adam, and cinematographer Ted Moore. Only Cec Linder of the main cast is present in Miami. Connery is filming elsewhere in the US.

1980: ITV broadcast of Live and Let Die attracts 23.5 million viewers, a record for the UK.
1983: The New York Times airs producer Broccoli’s concerns for how Never Say Never Again could spoil the Bond character as “a troubled, middle-aged operative” and affect future box office of the franchise. He proposed his target audience (12-22) didn't want character development.
1984: Never Say Never Again released in Denmark.

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1984: James Bond 007 - Sag niemals nie (James Bond 007 - Never Say Never) released in West Germany.

2000: Vse in še svet (Everything and the World) released in Slovenia.

2006: Swiss businessman pays $1.9 million (£1.1 million) for a 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe used to promote Goldfinger and Thunderball. To be shipped "back to Switzerland".

James Bond car sells for $1.9 million

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-01/22/content_514435.htm
(Reuters) Updated: 2006-01-22 11:08

A Swiss businessman won the keys to James Bond's silver 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe on Friday with a $1.9 million bid at an annual classic car auction in Arizona.

People inspect a James Bond's 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe on
auction at the Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix, Arizona
January 20, 2006. [Reuters]

The 45-year-old man, who did not want to be identified, placed his bids over the telephone through friend and car dealer Beat Roos to win the gadget-packed 007 car used in such classics as Goldfinger and Thunderball. Both men live in Bern, Switzerland.

"His instructions were to bring the car back to Switzerland," Roos said.

The winner, who was bidding in his first auction, will add the car to a collection of some dozen vehicles that includes classic Aston Martins and Porsches.

Auction officials had estimated that Bond's vehicle could fetch between $1.5 million and $2.5 million.

Two other classics cars also were sold, with bidders paying $565,000 for gangster Al Capone's 1928 Cadillac sedan and $195,000 for country music singer Hank Williams Jr.'s 1964 Pontiac Bonneville convertible, officials said.

All three vehicles had been at the Smoky Mountain Car Museum in Tennessee.

The sale, presented by Canada's RM Auctions, is one of five held by different companies in the Phoenix area through the end of the month. More than $100 million is expected to be spent on vehicles of all makes and sizes.

2020: Land Rover promotes the introduction of its Defender model in No Time To Die.

2020 Land Rover Defender Makes Film Debut in New James Bond Movie

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Monday, 20 January, 2020

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2021: As UN Global Advocate for the Elimination of Mines and Explosive Hazards, Daniel Craig takes the fight to Cambodia.

'James Bond' advocates Cambodia's demining
effort

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Cambodia | Wednesday, 20 Jan 2021

Daniel Craig is the UN Global Advocate for the Elimination of Mines and Explosive Hazards. - AFP

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): James Bond actor Daniel Craig will virtually attend the launch of Cambodia’s first Safe Ground on Jan 22 at 7.30pm in a live online event organised by United Nations Development Programme Cambodia (UNDP).

UNDP said Craig is the UN Global Advocate for the Elimination of Mines and Explosive Hazards.

During the online event Craig will speak about why he cares so deeply about this issue and what further efforts can be made to end the scourge of landmines which still claim thousands of civilian lives each year.

UNDP resident representative Nick Beresford said the event has been organised to support Cambodia’s goal to achieve mine-free status by 2025.

Craig will be speaking with Cambodian Mine Action Authority (CMAA) first vice president Ly Thuch for the virtual event.

Beresford said the Safe Ground campaign turns minefields into playing fields – safe spaces for children to learn and play.

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres launched the five-year Safe Ground campaign on April 4,2019 as part of that year’s International Mine Awareness Day, which has been observed annually since 2005.

The Safe Ground campaign will be launched in Cambodia in a small village in Battambang province at Stoeng Toch Krom primary school, which is located on a former minefield.

Thuch told The Post on Jan 19 that Cambodia is happy to have such a famous celebrity to help raise awareness of the impact of mines in the country and to help raise more funds to support demining activities.

“We have been working with UNDP and they invited Daniel Craig [to attend]. He wanted to visit Cambodia but due to Covid-19 [UNDP] were forced to change the event into a video conference, ” Thuch said.

The presence of “James Bond” at the Safe Ground event is meant to serve as a wakeup call to donors around the globe to consider the impacts of explosive remnants of war and to support Cambodia’s demining efforts.

Thuch said Cambodia will show the planned video conference to the annual international mine assembly and at other big events related to the demining issue.

He noted Cambodia still has 800sq km of land littered with mines – especially along the border with Thailand.

“The Kingdom will need to demine more than 100sq km of land each year going forward in order to meet its mine-free target date of 2025, ” he said. - Phnom Penh Post/ANN

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January 21st

1922: Aristotle (Telly) Savalas is born--Garden City, Long Island, New York.
(He dies 22 January 1994 at age 72--Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, California.)

Obituary: Telly Savalas

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-telly-savalas-1409252.html
David Shipman | Tuesday 25 January 1994 01:02

Aristotle (Telly) Savalas, actor: born Garden City, New York 21 January 1924; married Katharine Nicolaides (one daughter), 1960 Marilynn Gardner (two daughters), 1974 Sally Adams (one son), 1984 Julie Howland (one son, one daughter); died Los Angeles 22 January 1994.

IN 1973 a television cop series transformed a much-respected movie actor of the second rank - in box-office terms - into a figure instantly recognisable the world over. Telly Savalas was Lieutenant Theo Kojak of the New York Police Department, bald, not ugly but no oil painting ('Romeo inside a gorilla exterior', he once described himself), with intense eyes and a bewitching smile - when he cared to use it.

Kojak preferred to appear menacing to his enemies and even to his colleagues. In speech he was direct, never wasting words, though these tended to be sarcastic. All the most popular television series, from The Untouchables to Cheers, have something special to them: in Kojak, more than the casual, near- rebellious, atmosphere of the precinct (new to television but not to movies) it was Kojak's character and Savalas's dynamic playing of him. He sucked on lollipops, sported glaring fancy waistcoats and porkpie hats, and demanded 'Who loves ya, baby?'

Kojak was sympathetic to outcasts and ruthless with social predators. The show maintained a high quality to the end, mixing tension with some laughs and always anxious to tackle civic issues, one of its raisons d'etre in the first place. It was required viewing in Britain every Saturday evening for eight years. To almost everyone everywhere Kojak means Savalas and vice versa, but to Savalas himself the series was merely an interval, albeit a long one, in a distinguished career.

A first-generation American of Greek extraction, he was born Aristotle Savalas in New York in 1924 and started his career in the Information Services of the State Department. He moved on to ABC television, in charge of Special Events and creating the prestigious Your Voice of America series. He had not acted or even considered doing so till he was asked if he could recommend an actor with a command of European accents. He decided to go to the audition himself, in 1959, and found himself appearing in Bring Home a Baby on Armstrong Circle Theater TV.

Further acting opportunities followed, and movies claimed him. He made his debut in a minor crime story, Mad Dog Coll (1961); but John Frankenheimer had already cast him in The Young Savages, which starred Burt Lancaster as a lawyer designated to prosecute some juvenile delinquents. It was not, as social-concern films go, very profound; but for Savalas it was an omen, for he was the inspector in charge of the investigation. He was also the best thing in the film, as Frankenheimer recognised by putting him into Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), as a fellow-con of Lancaster's; a performance which brought Savalas an Oscar nomination. In the interim, he had played another detective in Cape Fear, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. The three films established Savalas as the sort of actor who could make mincemeat out of the likes of Lancaster and Peck.

The Man from the Diner's Club (1963), with Danny Kaye, marked Savalas's entry into screen comedies, which he managed with a confidence that enabled him to move from the most subtle expressions to the broadest of gestures. He played a morose mobster with tax problems. He was to demonstrate, when required, that he was simply one of the best screen heavies of his time. He was certainly one of the few whose reputation was unscathed by The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), in which he played Pontius Pilate with obvious enjoyment. Its producer-director, George Stevens, persuaded Savalas to shave his hair for the role.

After playing the swinish Foreign Legion sergeant in Beau Geste (1966) - the only element to put it in the same class as the two earlier versions - he was the most unpleasant of Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen (1967) - soldier convicts promised remission after being sent secretly into France to prepare the locals for D-Day. As a religious maniac rapist, he stood out in a movie which included Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson also on top form; and the film's popularity put stardom within Savalas's grasp. He was superb as a psychopathic bounty-hunter who doublecrosses Burt Lancaster in Sydney Pollack's irresistible western The Scalphunters (1968).

Melvin Frank's Buona Sera Mrs Campbell (1968) brought Savalas back to Europe - literally, as one of the ex-GIs who, along with two others (Peter Lawford, Phil Silvers), was paying maintenance for Gina Lollobrigida's daughter, conceived in Naples in 1944. He first acted in Britain in Basil Dearden's black comedy The Assassination Bureau (1969), playing a newspaper magnate who commissions the would- be journalist Diana Rigg to expose a gang of professional killers. He remained in Britain, to be 007's nemesis figure, Ernst Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE with dreams of world domination, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Savalas was billed immediately after Clint Eastwood, overshadowing him however as an actor, in Kelly's Heroes (1970), a wartime jape in which they and two others (Don Rickless, Donald Sutherland) steal behind German lines in pursuit of gold.

Savalas liked London. He took a house in the Boltons and enjoyed a romance with a Hollywood actress appearing on the London stage. He began to choose films for the locations rather than the roles, and thus did more than his fair share of spaghetti westerns, invariably as the villain. In the midst of these he was offered a television movie, The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973), based on the Miranda case of 1963, when a detective was determined to see that a black teenager should not be convicted of a crime he did not commit. The direction and writing won Emmys for Joseph Sargent and Abby Mann respectively; Savalas was nominated and did not win but, more significantly, this was his introduction to Kojak: the three-hour film was in fact the pilot for a one-hour Kojak series.

The decision to end Kojak after 110 episodes was mutual. The series had covered just about every crime that can happen in a large municipality and there were indications that the public was becoming somewhat less fond of the abrasive detective who hauled the wrongdoers into the precinct in the last 10 minutes. The novelty had worn off.

Savalas's brother George played his shambling subordinate Stavros, and it was not till the end of the first run that it was revealed that they were brothers in the show as well. They returned to the roles in a telemovie for Universal, Kojak - the Belarus File (1985). This was to test the atmosphere for a new series, but nothing came of it immediately, nor of Hellinger's Law, in which Savalas would have been a lawyer.

The initial impact of Kojak was to make Savalas more than ever in demand as a movie actor. Few of the films he now made were memorable, but mention should be made of the Anglo-German Inside Out (1975), since it became a feature of a libel-suit against the Daily Mail. That paper printed a story from the location-shooting in Berlin, alleging that Savalas's 'private excesses' were damaging the film, and contrasting the professionalism of James Mason (described in reports as his 'co-star', though in fact billed below Savalas and in a smaller role). Mason not only testified for Savalas, but was in court for much of the hearing, beaming encouragement and seeing him awarded the then high sum of pounds 34,000.

However, by the time Kojak finished in 1978 movie offers were beginning to dry up. Savalas's identification with the one role was so complete that others had been hard to come by - they were either cameos, as in Capricorn One (1978) or The Muppet Movie (1979), or second goes at popular films, such as Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) and Cannonball Run II (1983). Understandably, since he would always be a star in that medium, television offered frequent work, as when he played the Cheshire Cat in an all-star Alice in Wonderland (1985) and his old role alongside Ernest Borgine in The Dirty Dozen: the Deadly Mission (1987) and The Dirty Dozen: the Fatal Mission (1988).

In 1989 he again played Kojak - but not for Universal and CBS, as before. ABC had lured Burt Reynolds back to television to play a gumshoe, BL Stryker, but Reynolds was not prepared to appear again on a weekly basis, so The ABC Saturday Mystery rotated four different shows, with Jaclyn Smith as Christine Cromwell and two gentlemen from the past - Peter Falk as Columbo and Savalas as Kojak. Savalas insisted on New York's being used for the locations and not, as before, Los Angeles standing in for New York. To a journalist watching the shooting he said, 'C'mon, willya? I was born in this city . . . Raised in the neighbourhood, right? I speak the language. So Telly and Kojak are one and the same. That's what makes the show interesting for me - and easy. I'm basically playing myself to a large extent - a street-smart fella with the soul of a pussycat.'

He admitted that the character was older and wiser, but the verdict of the press was that he was older and very tired. ABC dropped Kojak after the contracted four episodes (which were not seen in Britain).

Savalas used his fame as Kojak to become a singer, with indifferent results as far as his records were concerned, but he did appear at the 1974 Oscar ceremony, singing 'You're so Nice To Be Around' from Cinderella Liberty. In 1992 he opened 'Telly's Sporting Bar' in the Sheraton - where he lived in Los Angeles - at Universal City, featuring mementoes of Kojak.

Savalas liked to be recognised - indeed, he revelled in his fame. He was only slightly ambivalent, declaring that television was 'so powerful it can wipe out anything you've done in the past'. He went on, 'I won't mention names, but I remember sitting with two major motion-picture stars. Here's poor little Telly comin' off a little TV show and people are comin' up to me and askin' for my autograph. And I look at these two global personalities alongside me and nobody's askin' them. How come? Because they didn't recognise them. The power of TV, my friend.'

Telly Savalas (1922–1994)

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Filmography

Actor (132 credits)

1995 Backfire! - Most Evil Man
1993 Mind Twister - Richard Howland
1992-1993 The Commish (TV Series) - Tommy Colette
- Out of Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
- Family Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
- The Frame (1992) ... Tommy Colette
1991-1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) - Teddy
- Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... Teddy
- Ein Glatzkopf kommt selten allein (1991) ... Teddy
1991 Rose Against the Odds (TV Movie) - George Parnassus
1990 Kojak: None So Blind (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1990 Kojak: It's Always Something (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1990 Kojak: Flowers for Matty (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1989 Kojak: Fatal Flaw (TV Movie) - Theo Kojak

1989 Kojak: Ariana (TV Movie) - Kojak
1989 The Hollywood Detective (TV Movie) - Harry Bell
1988 The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
1987 J.J. Starbuck (TV Series) - The Greek
- Gold from the Rainbow (1987) ... The Greek
1987 Faceless - Terry Hallen
1987 The Equalizer (TV Series) - Brother Joseph Heiden
- Blood & Wine: Part 2 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
- Blood & Wine: Part 1 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
1987 Kojak: The Price of Justice (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1986 GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords - Magmar (voice)
1985 Solomon's Universe (TV Movie) - Solomon Stark
1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) - The Cheshire Cat
1985 George Burns Comedy Week (TV Series) - - The Assignment (1985)
1985 Beyond Reason - Dr. Nicholas Mati
1985 Kojak: The Belarus File (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Theo Kojak
1985 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Dr. Fabian Cain
- Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 2 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
- Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 1 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
1984 The Cartier Affair (TV Movie) - Phil Drexler
1984 Cannonball Run II - Hymie Kaplan
1983 Afghanistan pourquoi? - Rebel Leader
1982 Fake-Out - Lt. Thurston
1982 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Peter Panakos
- My Palikari (1982) ... Peter Panakos
1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Joe Brisson
- Completely Foolproof (1981) ... Joe Brisson
1981 Hellinger's Law (TV Movie) - Nick Hellinger
1980 Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (TV Movie) - Cretzer
1980 Border Cop - Frank Cooper

1979 The French Atlantic Affair (TV Mini-Series) - Father Craig Dunleavy
- Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
- Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
- Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
1979 Alice (TV Series) - Telly Savalas
- Has Anyone Here Seen Telly? (1979) ... Telly Savalas
1979 The Muppet Movie - El Sleezo Tough
1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure - Captain Stefan Svevo
1979 Escape to Athena - Zeno
1978 Windows, Doors & Keyholes (TV Movie)
1973-1978 Kojak (TV Series) - Lt. Theo Kojak - 117 episodes
- In Full Command (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- 60 Miles to Hell (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- Photo Must Credit Joe Paxton (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- May the Horse Be with You (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- The Halls of Terror (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
...
1977 Capricorn One - Albain
1976 The Diamond Mercenaries - Harry Webb
1975 Inside Out - Harry Morgan
1975 The Hitman
1975 The House of Exorcism - Leandro
1975 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Singer / Kojak
- Episode #2.1 (1975) ... Singer / Kojak
1973 Lisa and the Devil - Leandro
1973 She Cried Murder (TV Movie) - Inspector Joe Brody
1973 The Marcus-Nelson Murders (TV Movie) - Lt. Theo Kojak
1973 Senza ragione - Memphis
1972 A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die - Maggiore Ward
1972 Pancho Villa - Pancho Villa
1972 Visions... (TV Movie) - Lt. Phil Keegan
1972 The Killer Is on the Phone - Ranko Drasovic
1972 Horror Express - Capt. Kazan
1972 Sonny and Jed - Sheriff Franciscus
1972 Crime Boss - Don Vincenzo
1971 Steel Wreath (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Pete Tolstad
1971 Clay Pigeon - Redford
1971 A Town Called Hell - Don Carlos
1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Gregor Antonescu
- Man and Boy (1971) ... Gregor Antonescu
1971 Pretty Maids All in a Row - Surcher
1970 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) - Tex
- Stagecoach Hijack (1970) ... Tex
1970 Violent City - Al Weber
1970 Kelly's Heroes - Big Joe
1970 Land Raiders - Vicente Cardenas

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Blofeld
1969 Sophie's Place - Herbie Haseler
1969 Mackenna's Gold - Sergeant Tibbs
1969 The Assassination Bureau - Lord Bostwick
1968 Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell - Walter Braddock
1968 The Scalphunters - Jim Howie
1968 Sol Madrid - Emil Dietrich
1967 Cimarron Strip (TV Series) - Bear
- The Battleground (1967) ... Bear
1967 Garrison's Gorillas (TV Series) - Wheeler
- The Big Con (1967) ... Wheeler
1967 The Dirty Dozen - Archer Maggott
1967 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Mueller
- Don't Wait for Tomorrow (1967) ... Mueller
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Count Valeriano De Fanzini
- The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
- The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
1967 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Ed Clementi
- The Executioners: Part 2 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
- The Executioners: Part 1 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
1964-1967 Combat! (TV Series) - Jon / Colonel Kapsalis
- Anniversary (1967) ... Jon
- Vendetta (1964) ... Colonel Kapsalis
1966 Beau Geste - Sgt. Maj. Dagineau
1964-1966 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Steve Keller / Victor Leonetti / Dan Polichek
- Stroke of Genius (1966) ... Steve Keller
- May God Have Mercy (1965) ... Victor Leonetti
- Where the Action Is (1964) ... Dan Polichek
1966 The Virginian (TV Series) - 'Colonel' Bliss
- Men with Guns (1966) ... 'Colonel' Bliss
1965 Battle of the Bulge - Sgt. Guffy
1965 The Slender Thread - Dr. Joe Coburn
1965 Run for Your Life (TV Series) - Istvan Zabor
- How to Sell Your Soul for Fun and Profit (1965) ... Istvan Zabor
1965 Bonanza (TV Series) - Charles Augustus Hackett
- To Own the World (1965) ... Charles Augustus Hackett
1965 Genghis Khan - Shan
1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! - Macmuid (Harem Recruiter) (uncredited)
1963-1965 Burke's Law (TV Series)
Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth / Charlie Prince / Fakir George O'Shea
- Who Killed the Man on the White Horse? (1965) ... Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth
- Who Killed His Royal Highness? (1964) ... Charlie Prince
- Who Killed Purity Mather? (1963) ... Fakir George O'Shea
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told - Pontius Pilate
1964 The Rogues (TV Series) - Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
- Viva Diaz! (1964) ... Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
1964 Fanfare for a Death Scene (TV Movie) - Ilchidai Khan
1964 The New Interns - Dr. Dominick 'Dom' Riccio
1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle / Beret
- The Watchman (1964) ... Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle
- The Action of the Tiger (1964) ... Beret
1964 Breaking Point (TV Series) - Vincenzo Gracchi
- My Hands Are Clean (1964) ... Vincenzo Gracchi
1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) - Philadelphia Harry
- A Matter of Murder (1964) ... Philadelphia Harry
1964 Arrest and Trial (TV Series) - Frank Santo
- The Revenge of the Worm (1964) ... Frank Santo
1964 Channing (TV Series) - Paul Atherton
- A Claim to Immortality (1964) ... Paul Atherton
1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Erich Streator
- Living Doll (1963) ... Erich Streator
1963 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) - Brother Hendricksen
- 5: Part 4 (1963) ... Brother Hendricksen
1963 Grindl (TV Series) - Mr. Hartman
- The Gruesome Basement (1963) ... Mr. Hartman
1963 Johnny Cool - Vincenzo 'Vince' Santangelo
1963 Love Is a Ball
Dr. Christian Gump (Millie's uncle)
1963 The Man from the Diners' Club - Foots Pulardos
1963 Empire (TV Series) - Tibor
- Arrow in the Sky (1963) ... Tibor
1963 The Dakotas (TV Series) - Jake Volet
- Reformation at Big Nose Butte (1963) ... Jake Volet
1963 The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) - Ben Cohen
- A Tumble from a High White House (1963) ... Ben Cohen
1961-1963 The Untouchables (TV Series)
Leo Stazak / Matt Bass / Wally Baltzer
- The Speculator (1963) ... Leo Stazak
- The Matt Bass Scheme (1961) ... Matt Bass
- The Antidote (1961) ... Wally Baltzer
1962 Alcoa Premiere (TV Series) - Mario Lombardi
- The Hands of Danofrio (1962) ... Mario Lombardi
1962 The Interns - Dr. Dominic Riccio
1962 Birdman of Alcatraz -Feto Gomez
1962 Cape Fear - Private Detective Charles Sievers
1961-1962 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) - Harry Remick / Frank Meehan
- Savage in Darkness (1962) ... Harry Remick
- In the Balance (1961) ... Frank Meehan (as Telly Savales)
1961 The Sin of Jesus (Short) - Felix (as Telli Savales)
1961 Ben Casey (TV Series) - George Dempsey
- A Dark Night for Billy Harris (1961) ... George Dempsey
1961 The Detectives (TV Series) - Ben
- Escort (1961) ... Ben
1961 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Sergeant Marius
- Three Soldiers (1961) ... Sergeant Marius
1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series) - Massis / Jerry Larch
- Stop Johnny King! (1961) ... Massis
- The Wizard of Ice (1961) ... Jerry Larch
1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Dr. Buel Reed
- The Compulsion to Confess (1961) ... Dr. Buel Reed
1961 The Young Savages - Detective Lt. Gunderson
1961 Mad Dog Coll - Lt. Darro
1961 Acapulco (TV Series) - Mr. Carver
- Murder with Love (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Blood Money (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Death Is a Smiling Man (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Fisher's Daughter (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Carbon Copy Cat (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- The Gentleman from Brazil (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Killer in a Rose Colored Mask (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Bell's Half Acre (1961) ... Mr. Carver
1961 The Aquanauts (TV Series) - Paul Price
- Stormy Weather (1961) ... Paul Price
1960 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
- Operation North Star (1960)
1960 The Witness (TV Series) - Al Capone / Lucky Luciano
- Al Capone (1960) ... Al Capone
- Roger 'The Terrible' Touhy (1960)
- Lucky Luciano (1960) ... Lucky Luciano
1960 Naked City (TV Series) - Gabriel Hody
- To Walk in Silence (1960) ... Gabriel Hody
1959-1960 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) - Dieter Wislieny / Dieter Wisliceny / Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire / ...
- Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wislieny
- Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wisliceny
- 35 Rue Du Marche (1959) ... Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire
- Sound of Violence (1959) ... Charles Rogan
- House of Cards (1959)
- And Bring Home a Baby (1959)
1960 Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (TV Series) - - The Cat and the Canary (1960)
1960 Diagnosis: Unknown (TV Series) - Irish Tony Salivarro
- Gina, Gina (1960) ... Irish Tony Salivarro
1959 Deadline (TV Series) - Anders
- The Two Ounce Trap (1959) ... Anders
1959 Sunday Showcase (TV Series) - Cotton
- Murder and the Android (1959) ... Cotton

Soundtrack (12 credits)

2013 In the Name of (performer: "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend")

2006 The Break-Up (performer: "Who Loves Ya Baby")

1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... (performer: "Come on, Baby")

1987 The 59th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: "Fugue for Tinhors")
1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) (performer: "There's No Way Home")

1976 Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby? (TV Special) (performer: "Who Loves Ya, Baby?", "This Is All I Ask", "We Were So Poor", "Zorbas (aka Zorba's Dance)", "The Men in My Little Girl's Life")
1975 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Top of the Pops '75: Part 2 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
1975 Disco (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.53 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
1975 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #5.2 (1975) ... (performer: "If" - uncredited)
1975 Kojak (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard (1975) ... (performer: "Azure Dee")
1974 The 46th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: " (You're So) Nice to Be Around")
1972 Pancho Villa (performer: "We All End Up the Same")

Director (3 credits)

1985 Beyond Reason

1974-1978 Kojak (TV Series) (5 episodes)
- In Full Command (1978)
- Kiss It All Goodbye (1977)
- Over the Water (1975)
- I Want to Report a Dream (1975)
- The Betrayal (1974)

1959 Report to New York (TV Series)

Writer (1 credit)

1985 Beyond Reason (screenplay)

"Some Broken Hearts Never Mend", Telly Savalas


"If", Telly Savalas.


Who Loves Ya, Baby 1976 - Greek Dance

1942: Fleming forms a unit of commandos, known as No. 30 Commando or 30 Assault Unit (30AU), composed of specialist intelligence troops.
1942: Michael Gregg Wilson is born--New York City, New York.

1976: Maiden flight of Air France's Concorde, by the first plane delivered in 1975. The route from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport through Dakar to Rio is the same route used by the arriving Concorde in Moonraker. The two weekly Air France flights from Paris to Rio continued through 1982.

1983: Octopussy filming finishes, for a June release.

1998: Jack Lord dies at age 77--Honolulu, Hawaii.
(Born 30 December 1920--New York City, New York.)

Obituary: Jack Lord

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-jack-lord-1140283.html

Tom Vallance | Friday 23 January 1998 01:02

John Joseph Patrick Ryan (Jack Lord), actor: born New York 30 December 1920; married 1952 Marie de Narde; died Honolulu, Hawaii 21 January 1998.

The actor Jack Lord will forever be associated with the role he played for 12 straight years on television, Steve McGarrett, head of a fictitious Hawaiian State Police Force, in Hawaii Five-O, one of television's most successful series, still being shown all over the world.

Though he had been an actor on stage, screen and television for several years, stardom had eluded him and would probably have continued to do so. As an actor on the big screen, the intense, taciturn Lord excelled in villainous roles but as a hero was somewhat bland - in Dr No (1962) he had a prominent role as Felix Leighter [sic], the CIA man who helps Bond discover the identity of the scoundrel who is plotting to take over the world, but his character paled beside that of Sean Connery as Bond. Hawaii Five-O made Lord a household name (and a millionaire). At its peak, the series was seen in 80 countries with an audience estimated at more than 300 million.

Born John Joseph Patrick Ryan in Brooklyn, New York, in 1920, he was the son of a steamship executive and during high school summers would work as a seaman. He studied at New York University on a football scholarship and majored in art - his paintings are hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other galleries. "I'd rather paint than eat," he once said. "I'm using acting as a way of getting my name before the public. Then my pictures will have a name value." In fact the Metropolitan purchased a lithograph when Lord was plain J.J. Ryan and only 18 years old.

He was running an art school in Greenwich Village when he decided to take up acting, and for three years he studied at the Neighbourhood Playhouse while working days as a car salesman. He also studied at the Actors' Studio along with Marlon Brando and Paul Newman, and was given roles in two Broadway plays, The Travelling Lady (1953, for which he won a Theatre World Award) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954), but in 1955 he went to Hollywood to concentrate on film and television.

He had made his screen debut (billed as John Ryan) in R.G. Springsteen's The Red Menace (1949), an anti- Communist propaganda thriller that now seems risible and has achieved enough cult status to be issued on laser disc. Lord's movie career never quite took off - he tested for the leading role of a naive cowboy in Bus Stop (1956) and was told by director Joshua Logan, "You can't play a virgin, your face looks lived in" - but he had a good year in 1958 with roles in two impressive films directed by Anthony Mann.

In God's Little Acre, adapted from Erskine Caldwell's racy bestseller about Georgia farmers in the Depression, a quirky tale resembling Tennessee Williams crossed with Al Capp, Lord was one of Robert Ryan's sons, Buck, violently jealous of his wife's attraction to her brother-in-law (Aldo Ray). In Man of the West, he was a particularly sadistic henchman of outlaw Lee J. Cobb, suspicious (rightly) of the hero Gary Coop-er's motives in rejoining the gang, and in one powerful scene holding a knife to Cooper's throat and forcing Julie London, as a saloon singer, to strip.

Television, though, was offering Lord more consistently rewarding work, in such series as The Untouchables, Route 66 and Bonanza, and in 1962 he was given a western series, Stoney Burke, though it ran for only one season. "A star like Jack is money in the bank," said one television producer. "He's always on time, no bags under his eyes and he always knows his lines." After many guest roles in such series as The Man from UNCLE, Have Gun Will Travel, The Fugitive and Ironside, Lord was offered the lead in Hawaii Five-O in 1968.

The show initially met local opposition because of its portrayal of crime in the state, but that melted when its depiction of Hawaii's beauty proved a potent tourist attraction. As the gruff chief who ended each episode capturing the criminals and invariably telling his sidekick (James McArthur), "Book 'em, Danno", Lord became a top television star. The show ran for 12 years (284 episodes), ending in 1980 with McGarrett finally capturing his long- standing enemy, the crime boss Wo Fat.

Lord had made his home in Hawaii, producing the show and sometimes directing it. When the series finished, he and his wife remained in Hawaii, living in a beachfront condominium in Kahala, and Lord returned to his first love, painting.

Jack Lord (I) (1920–1998)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0520437/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (75 credits)

1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie) - Admiral Henderson

1968-1980 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Det. Steve McGarrett / Prof. Elton Raintree - 281 episodes
- Woe to Wo Fat (1980) ... Det. Steve McGarrett / Prof. Elton Raintree
...
- Cocoon (1968) ... Det. Steve McGarrett
1968 The Counterfeit Killer - Don Owens
1968 The Name of the Game Is Kill! - Symcha Lipa
1968 The High Chaparral (TV Series) - Dan Brookes
- The Kinsman (1968) ... Dan Brookes
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Pharos Mandor
- The Master's Touch Affair (1967) ... Pharos Mandor
1967 Ironside (TV Series) - John Trask
- Dead Man's Tale (1967) ... John Trask
1967 The Ride to Hangman's Tree - Guy Russell
1967 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Alan Bartlett
- Goodbye My Love (1967) ... Alan Bartlett
1967 The Invaders (TV Series) - George Vikor
- Vikor (1967) ... George Vikor
1966 The Doomsday Flight (TV Movie) - Special Agent Frank Thompson
1965-1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Harry Marcus / Don Owens / Abe Perez
- Storm Crossing (1966) ... Harry Marcus
- The Faceless Man (1966) ... Don Owens
- The Crime (1965) ... Abe Perez
1966 The Virginian (TV Series) - Roy Dallman
- High Stakes (1966) ... Roy Dallman
1966 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Frank Andreas Shroeder
- Collision Course (1966) ... Frank Andreas Shroeder
1965-1966 12 O'Clock High (TV Series) - Col. Arnold Yates / Lt. Col. Preston Gallagher
- Face of a Shadow (1966) ... Col. Arnold Yates
- Big Brother (1965) ... Lt. Col. Preston Gallagher
1966 Laredo (TV Series) - Jab Harlan
- Above the Law (1966) ... Jab Harlan
1965 Combat! (TV Series) - Barney McKlosky
- The Linesman (1965) ... Barney McKlosky
1965 The Loner (TV Series) - Reverend Booker
- The Vespers (1965) ... Reverend Booker
1965 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Paul Campbell
- The Long Ravine (1965) ... Paul Campbell
1965 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Lee Barton
- The Echo Pass Story (1965) ... Lee Barton
1964 Grand Hotel (TV Movie)
1964 The Reporter (TV Series) - Nick Castle
- How Much for a Prince? (1964) ... Nick Castle
1964 The Greatest Show on Earth (TV Series) - Wally Walker
- Man in a Hole (1964) ... Wally Walker
1964 Dr. Kildare (TV Series) - Dr. Frank Michaels
- A Willing Suspension of Disbelief (1964) ... Dr. Frank Michaels
1962-1963 Stoney Burke (TV Series) - Stoney Burke - 32 episodes
1962 Dr. No - Felix Leiter
1962 Checkmate (TV Series) - Ernie Chapin
- The Star System (1962) ... Ernie Chapin
1961 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) - Wilt Farrell
- Dead Load: Dave Braddock (1961) ... Wilt Farrell
1959-1961 Rawhide (TV Series) - Paul Evans / Blake
- Incident of His Brother's Keeper (1961) ... Paul Evans
- Incident of the Calico Gun (1959) ... Blake
1961 Stagecoach West (TV Series) - Johnny Dane / Russ Doty
- The Butcher (1961) ... Johnny Dane
- House of Violence (1961) ... Russ Doty
1961 The Robert Herridge Theater (TV Series) - - A Song with Orange in It (1961)
1961 Outlaws (TV Series) - Jim Houston
- The Bell (1961) ... Jim Houston
1961 The Americans (TV Series) - Charlie Goodwin
- Half Moon Road (1961) ... Charlie Goodwin
1961 Route 66 (TV Series) - Gabe Johnson
- Play It Glissando (1961) ... Gabe Johnson
1960 Naked City (TV Series) - Cary Glennon
- The Human Trap (1960) ... Cary Glennon
1960 Walk Like a Dragon - Linc Bartlett
1960 Bonanza (TV Series) - Clay Renton
- The Outcast (1960) ... Clay Renton

1959 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Dan Gardner
- Father Image (1959) ... Dan Gardner
1959 The Lineup (TV Series) - Army Armitage
- The Strange Return of Army Armitage (1959) ... Army Armitage
1959 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Bill Hagen
- The Jake Lingle Killing (1959) ... Bill Hagen
1959 The Hangman - Johnny Bishop
1959 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Joe
- Marriage Crisis (1959) ... Joe
1958 The Sergeant and the Lady (TV Movie)
1958 The Millionaire (TV Series) - Lee Randolph
- Millionaire Lee Randolph (1958) ... Lee Randolph
1958 U.S. Marshal (TV Series) - Matt Bonner
- Sentenced to Death (1958) ... Matt Bonner
1958 Man of the West - Coaley
1958 God's Little Acre - Buck Walden
1958 The True Story of Lynn Stuart - Willie Down
1957-1958 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Homer Aswell / Jim Kester
- Reunion (1958) ... Homer Aswell
- The Lone Woman (1957) ... Jim Kester
1957 The Silent Service (TV Series) - Hurt
- The Loss of the Perch (1957) ... Hurt
1957 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Nat Brandel / Myles Brandel
- Doc's Reward (1957) ... Nat Brandel / Myles Brandel
1957 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series) - Dave
- Three Bells to Perdido (1957) ... Dave
1957 Tip on a Dead Jockey - Jimmy Heldon
1957 Climax! (TV Series) - Charlie Mullaney
- Mr. Runyon of Broadway (1957) ... Charlie Mullaney
1957 Conflict (TV Series)
- Pattern for Violence (1957)
1957 Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot (Short) - John Fry
1956 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Rudd Kendall / Buck
- Old Acquaintance (1956) ... Rudd Kendall
- Jezebel (1956) ... Buck
1956 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Matt / Paul Chester
- A Day Before Battle (1956) ... Matt
- An Incident of Love (1956) ... Paul Chester
1956 The Vagabond King - Ferrebouc
1956 Omnibus (TV Series) (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell") / (segment "One Nation")
- The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1956) ... (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell")
- One Nation (1956) ... (segment "One Nation")
1956 Goodyear Playhouse (TV Series)
- This Land Is Mine (1956)
1956 Repertory Theatre (TV Series)
- This Land Is Mine (1956)
1955 The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell - Lt. Cmdr. Zachary 'Zack' Lansdowne
1955 The Elgin Hour (TV Series) - Lieutenant Davis
- Combat Medics (1955) ... Lieutenant Davis
1955 Appointment with Adventure (TV Series) - Bill - Diner Proprietor
- Five in Judgment (1955) ... Bill - Diner Proprietor
1955 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series)
- Buckskin (1955)
1955 Danger (TV Series)
- Season for Murder (1955)
1954 Suspense (TV Series)
- String (1954)
1954 The Web (TV Series)
- Grand Finale (1954)
1953-1954 Man Against Crime (TV Series)
- The Chinese Dolls (1954)
- The Midnight Express (1953)
1953 Broadway Television Theatre (TV Series)
- Criminal at Large (1953)
1952 The Hunter (TV Series)
- The Puzzle of Pier 90 (1952) ... (as Jack Ryan)
1950 The Tattooed Stranger - Detective Deke Del Vecchio (uncredited)
1950 Cry Murder - Tommy Warren

1949 Project X - John Bates

Producer (3 credits)

1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie) (executive producer)

1974-1977 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (executive producer - 49 episodes)

1950 Cry Murder (associate producer)

Director (2 credits)

1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie)

1974-1979 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (6 episodes)
- Who Says Cops Don't Cry? (1979)
- Why Won't Linda Die? (1978)
- The Bells Toll at Noon (1977)
- Honor Is an Unmarked Grave (1975)
- How to Steal a Masterpiece (1974)
- Death with Father (1974)

2013: 007：大破天幕杀机 (007: Dàpò tiānmù shājī, or 007: Skyscraper) released in China.

2013: BBC News reports on the China release of Skyfall and censorship.

Censored Bond film Skyfall
opens in China

See the complete article here:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-21115987

Published 21 January 2013

Skyfall is already the biggest grossing film internationally of all time

The latest James Bond film, Skyfall, has finally opened in China after a two-
month delay, with some key scenes removed by Chinese censors.

A scene in which Bond kills a security guard in Shanghai has been cut, as have references to prostitution in Macau.

Subtitles have also been changed to hide references to torture by the Chinese security forces.

China routinely censors foreign films to remove content deemed to be morally or politically damaging.

The authorities also limit the number of imported films that can be screened in cinemas, partly to protect the domestic entertainment industry.

Skyfall was released internationally in 2012 and has become one of the biggest grossing films of all time, taking more than $1bn (£630m) at the box office.

The Chinese release was probably delayed to give domestic films a better chance of box office success, says the BBC's John Sudworth in Shanghai.

Much of the film is set in China, in part to appeal to Chinese cinema-goers.

But capturing the lucrative Chinese market comes at a price, says our correspondent, with movie companies who champion free speech at home having to make compromises to pass the Chinese censors.

The changes made to Skyfall are however minor compared to some other films, he adds. In addition, a pirated version of the film has been available in China for weeks so many people will have seen the full version anyway.

2019: Nick Finlayson dies at age 63. (Born 31 July 1955.)

Nick Finlayson

22nd January 2019
The special effects technician who served on 10 Bond films passed away this month
https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/biography-nick-finlayson

Nick Finlayson

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278014/

Filmography

Special effects (43 credits)

2019 Spider-Man: Far from Home (senior special effects technician)
2019 Pokémon Detective Pikachu (senior special effects technician)
2019 The Kid Who Would Be King (special effects lead senior technician)
2018 Mary Poppins Returns (senior special effects technician)
2017/I Life (senior special effects technician)
2016 Assassin's Creed (senior special effects technician)
2016 Ben-Hur (senior special effects technician)
2016 The Legend of Tarzan (senior special effects technician)
2014 Fury (senior special effects technician)
2014 Edge of Tomorrow (senior special effects technician)
2013 World War Z (senior special effects technician)
2012 Skyfall (senior effects technician)
2012 Wrath of the Titans (senior special effects technician)
2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (senior special effects technician)
2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (senior special effects technician)
2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (senior special effects technician)

2008 Quantum of Solace (senior special effects technician)
2008 The Dark Knight (senior special effects technician)
2007 Fred Claus (senior special effects technician)
2007 Hannibal Rising (special effects lead technician)
2006 Casino Royale (senior special effects technician)
2005 Batman Begins (special effects senior technician)
2003 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (senior special effects technician)
2002 Die Another Day (workshop supervisor)
2002 Below (senior special effects technician - uncredited)
2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (special effects technician)
2000 102 Dalmatians (special effects senior technician)

1999 The World is Not Enough (special effects workshop supervisor)
1999 The Mummy (senior special effects technician)
1998 Firestorm (senior special effects technician)
1997 Tomorrow Never Dies (special effects crew - as Nicholas Finlayson)
1997 The Fifth Element (special effects technician)
1995 GoldenEye (special effects crew - as Nicholas Finlayson)
1993 Cliffhanger (uncredited)
1992 Far and Away (senior special effects technician - uncredited)
1991 Highlander II: The Quickening (senior special effects technician)
1989 Licence to Kill (special effects technician)
1988 Willow (senior special effects technician)
1987 The Living Daylights (special effects technician - uncredited)
1986 Aliens (senior special effects technician)
1985 A View to a Kill (special effects technician - uncredited)
1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall (aircraft subcontractor)
1980 Hopscotch (special effects assistant - uncredited)

Visual effects (2 credits)

1990 Memphis Belle (modeller and technician: model unit)

1983-1985 Terrahawks (TV Series) (HOD model workshop - 26 episodes)

Art department (1 credit)

1985 Lifeforce (modeller)

Self (7 credits)
2002 The Bond Essentials (TV Special documentary short) - Himself
2002 Die Another Day: Shaken and Stirred on Ice (Video documentary short) - Himself
2002 5th Gear (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Episode #2.7 (2002) ... Himself
2000 The World Is Not Enough: James Bond Down River (TV Special documentary) - Himself
1999 The Making of 'The World Is Not Enough' (Video documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
1999 The Bond Cocktail (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
1999 Comme au cinéma (TV Series documentary) - Himself
- Episode dated 18 November 1999 (1999) ... Himself

RichardTheBruce

January 22nd

1950: Pamela Salem is born--Mumbai, India.

1964: Variety reports Kevin McClory's statements his Bramwell Film Productions Ltd. based in the Bahamas scouted for actresses in Rome.

1977: Bond comic strip Ape of Diamonds finishes its run in The Daily Express.
(Started 5 November 1976. 3313 - 3437) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1019


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



Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3

Dödligt Kommando
("Fatal Command" - Ape Of Diamonds)

Danish 1979 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-no48-1979/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 48: “Ape of Diamonds” (1979)
"Dødelig kommando" [=Deadly Command]

1977: Bond comic strips end in the Daily Express, but begin anew 30 January in the Sunday Express with the title When the Wizard Awakes. Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

1994: Telly Savalas dies at age 72--Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, California.
(Born 21 January 1922--Garden City, Long Island, New York.)

Obituary: Telly Savalas

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-telly-savalas-1409252.html
David Shipman | Tuesday 25 January 1994 01:02

Aristotle (Telly) Savalas, actor: born Garden City, New York 21 January 1924; married Katharine Nicolaides (one daughter), 1960 Marilynn Gardner (two daughters), 1974 Sally Adams (one son), 1984 Julie Howland (one son, one daughter); died Los Angeles 22 January 1994.

IN 1973 a television cop series transformed a much-respected movie actor of the second rank - in box-office terms - into a figure instantly recognisable the world over. Telly Savalas was Lieutenant Theo Kojak of the New York Police Department, bald, not ugly but no oil painting ('Romeo inside a gorilla exterior', he once described himself), with intense eyes and a bewitching smile - when he cared to use it.

Kojak preferred to appear menacing to his enemies and even to his colleagues. In speech he was direct, never wasting words, though these tended to be sarcastic. All the most popular television series, from The Untouchables to Cheers, have something special to them: in Kojak, more than the casual, near- rebellious, atmosphere of the precinct (new to television but not to movies) it was Kojak's character and Savalas's dynamic playing of him. He sucked on lollipops, sported glaring fancy waistcoats and porkpie hats, and demanded 'Who loves ya, baby?'

Kojak was sympathetic to outcasts and ruthless with social predators. The show maintained a high quality to the end, mixing tension with some laughs and always anxious to tackle civic issues, one of its raisons d'etre in the first place. It was required viewing in Britain every Saturday evening for eight years. To almost everyone everywhere Kojak means Savalas and vice versa, but to Savalas himself the series was merely an interval, albeit a long one, in a distinguished career.

A first-generation American of Greek extraction, he was born Aristotle Savalas in New York in 1924 and started his career in the Information Services of the State Department. He moved on to ABC television, in charge of Special Events and creating the prestigious Your Voice of America series. He had not acted or even considered doing so till he was asked if he could recommend an actor with a command of European accents. He decided to go to the audition himself, in 1959, and found himself appearing in Bring Home a Baby on Armstrong Circle Theater TV.

Further acting opportunities followed, and movies claimed him. He made his debut in a minor crime story, Mad Dog Coll (1961); but John Frankenheimer had already cast him in The Young Savages, which starred Burt Lancaster as a lawyer designated to prosecute some juvenile delinquents. It was not, as social-concern films go, very profound; but for Savalas it was an omen, for he was the inspector in charge of the investigation. He was also the best thing in the film, as Frankenheimer recognised by putting him into Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), as a fellow-con of Lancaster's; a performance which brought Savalas an Oscar nomination. In the interim, he had played another detective in Cape Fear, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. The three films established Savalas as the sort of actor who could make mincemeat out of the likes of Lancaster and Peck.

The Man from the Diner's Club (1963), with Danny Kaye, marked Savalas's entry into screen comedies, which he managed with a confidence that enabled him to move from the most subtle expressions to the broadest of gestures. He played a morose mobster with tax problems. He was to demonstrate, when required, that he was simply one of the best screen heavies of his time. He was certainly one of the few whose reputation was unscathed by The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), in which he played Pontius Pilate with obvious enjoyment. Its producer-director, George Stevens, persuaded Savalas to shave his hair for the role.

After playing the swinish Foreign Legion sergeant in Beau Geste (1966) - the only element to put it in the same class as the two earlier versions - he was the most unpleasant of Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen (1967) - soldier convicts promised remission after being sent secretly into France to prepare the locals for D-Day. As a religious maniac rapist, he stood out in a movie which included Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson also on top form; and the film's popularity put stardom within Savalas's grasp. He was superb as a psychopathic bounty-hunter who doublecrosses Burt Lancaster in Sydney Pollack's irresistible western The Scalphunters (1968).

Melvin Frank's Buona Sera Mrs Campbell (1968) brought Savalas back to Europe - literally, as one of the ex-GIs who, along with two others (Peter Lawford, Phil Silvers), was paying maintenance for Gina Lollobrigida's daughter, conceived in Naples in 1944. He first acted in Britain in Basil Dearden's black comedy The Assassination Bureau (1969), playing a newspaper magnate who commissions the would- be journalist Diana Rigg to expose a gang of professional killers. He remained in Britain, to be 007's nemesis figure, Ernst Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE with dreams of world domination, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Savalas was billed immediately after Clint Eastwood, overshadowing him however as an actor, in Kelly's Heroes (1970), a wartime jape in which they and two others (Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland) steal behind German lines in pursuit of gold.

Savalas liked London. He took a house in the Boltons and enjoyed a romance with a Hollywood actress appearing on the London stage. He began to choose films for the locations rather than the roles, and thus did more than his fair share of spaghetti westerns, invariably as the villain. In the midst of these he was offered a television movie, The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973), based on the Miranda case of 1963, when a detective was determined to see that a black teenager should not be convicted of a crime he did not commit. The direction and writing won Emmys for Joseph Sargent and Abby Mann respectively; Savalas was nominated and did not win but, more significantly, this was his introduction to Kojak: the three-hour film was in fact the pilot for a one-hour Kojak series.

The decision to end Kojak after 110 episodes was mutual. The series had covered just about every crime that can happen in a large municipality and there were indications that the public was becoming somewhat less fond of the abrasive detective who hauled the wrongdoers into the precinct in the last 10 minutes. The novelty had worn off.

Savalas's brother George played his shambling subordinate Stavros, and it was not till the end of the first run that it was revealed that they were brothers in the show as well. They returned to the roles in a telemovie for Universal, Kojak - the Belarus File (1985). This was to test the atmosphere for a new series, but nothing came of it immediately, nor of Hellinger's Law, in which Savalas would have been a lawyer.

The initial impact of Kojak was to make Savalas more than ever in demand as a movie actor. Few of the films he now made were memorable, but mention should be made of the Anglo-German Inside Out (1975), since it became a feature of a libel-suit against the Daily Mail. That paper printed a story from the location-shooting in Berlin, alleging that Savalas's 'private excesses' were damaging the film, and contrasting the professionalism of James Mason (described in reports as his 'co-star', though in fact billed below Savalas and in a smaller role). Mason not only testified for Savalas, but was in court for much of the hearing, beaming encouragement and seeing him awarded the then high sum of pounds 34,000.

However, by the time Kojak finished in 1978 movie offers were beginning to dry up. Savalas's identification with the one role was so complete that others had been hard to come by - they were either cameos, as in Capricorn One (1978) or The Muppet Movie (1979), or second goes at popular films, such as Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) and Cannonball Run II (1983). Understandably, since he would always be a star in that medium, television offered frequent work, as when he played the Cheshire Cat in an all-star Alice in Wonderland (1985) and his old role alongside Ernest Borgine in The Dirty Dozen: the Deadly Mission (1987) and The Dirty Dozen: the Fatal Mission (1988).

In 1989 he again played Kojak - but not for Universal and CBS, as before. ABC had lured Burt Reynolds back to television to play a gumshoe, BL Stryker, but Reynolds was not prepared to appear again on a weekly basis, so The ABC Saturday Mystery rotated four different shows, with Jaclyn Smith as Christine Cromwell and two gentlemen from the past - Peter Falk as Columbo and Savalas as Kojak. Savalas insisted on New York's being used for the locations and not, as before, Los Angeles standing in for New York. To a journalist watching the shooting he said, 'C'mon, willya? I was born in this city . . . Raised in the neighbourhood, right? I speak the language. So Telly and Kojak are one and the same. That's what makes the show interesting for me - and easy. I'm basically playing myself to a large extent - a street-smart fella with the soul of a pussycat.'

He admitted that the character was older and wiser, but the verdict of the press was that he was older and very tired. ABC dropped Kojak after the contracted four episodes (which were not seen in Britain).

Savalas used his fame as Kojak to become a singer, with indifferent results as far as his records were concerned, but he did appear at the 1974 Oscar ceremony, singing 'You're so Nice To Be Around' from Cinderella Liberty. In 1992 he opened 'Telly's Sporting Bar' in the Sheraton - where he lived in Los Angeles - at Universal City, featuring mementoes of Kojak.

Savalas liked to be recognised - indeed, he revelled in his fame. He was only slightly ambivalent, declaring that television was 'so powerful it can wipe out anything you've done in the past'. He went on, 'I won't mention names, but I remember sitting with two major motion-picture stars. Here's poor little Telly comin' off a little TV show and people are comin' up to me and askin' for my autograph. And I look at these two global personalities alongside me and nobody's askin' them. How come? Because they didn't recognise them. The power of TV, my friend.'

Telly Savalas (1922–1994)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001699/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (132 credits)

1995 Backfire! - Most Evil Man
1993 Mind Twister - Richard Howland
1992-1993 The Commish (TV Series) - Tommy Colette
- Out of Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
- Family Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
- The Frame (1992) ... Tommy Colette
1991-1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) - Teddy
- Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... Teddy
- Ein Glatzkopf kommt selten allein (1991) ... Teddy
1991 Rose Against the Odds (TV Movie) - George Parnassus
1990 Kojak: None So Blind (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1990 Kojak: It's Always Something (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1990 Kojak: Flowers for Matty (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1989 Kojak: Fatal Flaw (TV Movie) - Theo Kojak

1989 Kojak: Ariana (TV Movie) - Kojak
1989 The Hollywood Detective (TV Movie) - Harry Bell
1988 The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
1987 J.J. Starbuck (TV Series) - The Greek
- Gold from the Rainbow (1987) ... The Greek
1987 Faceless - Terry Hallen
1987 The Equalizer (TV Series) - Brother Joseph Heiden
- Blood & Wine: Part 2 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
- Blood & Wine: Part 1 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
1987 Kojak: The Price of Justice (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
1986 GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords - Magmar (voice)
1985 Solomon's Universe (TV Movie) - Solomon Stark
1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) - The Cheshire Cat
1985 George Burns Comedy Week (TV Series) - - The Assignment (1985)
1985 Beyond Reason - Dr. Nicholas Mati
1985 Kojak: The Belarus File (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Theo Kojak
1985 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Dr. Fabian Cain
- Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 2 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
- Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 1 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
1984 The Cartier Affair (TV Movie) - Phil Drexler
1984 Cannonball Run II - Hymie Kaplan
1983 Afghanistan pourquoi? - Rebel Leader
1982 Fake-Out - Lt. Thurston
1982 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Peter Panakos
- My Palikari (1982) ... Peter Panakos
1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Joe Brisson
- Completely Foolproof (1981) ... Joe Brisson
1981 Hellinger's Law (TV Movie) - Nick Hellinger
1980 Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (TV Movie) - Cretzer
1980 Border Cop - Frank Cooper

1979 The French Atlantic Affair (TV Mini-Series) - Father Craig Dunleavy
- Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
- Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
- Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
1979 Alice (TV Series) - Telly Savalas
- Has Anyone Here Seen Telly? (1979) ... Telly Savalas
1979 The Muppet Movie - El Sleezo Tough
1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure - Captain Stefan Svevo
1979 Escape to Athena - Zeno
1978 Windows, Doors & Keyholes (TV Movie)
1973-1978 Kojak (TV Series) - Lt. Theo Kojak - 117 episodes
- In Full Command (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- 60 Miles to Hell (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- Photo Must Credit Joe Paxton (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- May the Horse Be with You (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
- The Halls of Terror (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
...
1977 Capricorn One - Albain
1976 The Diamond Mercenaries - Harry Webb
1975 Inside Out - Harry Morgan
1975 The Hitman
1975 The House of Exorcism - Leandro
1975 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Singer / Kojak
- Episode #2.1 (1975) ... Singer / Kojak
1973 Lisa and the Devil - Leandro
1973 She Cried Murder (TV Movie) - Inspector Joe Brody
1973 The Marcus-Nelson Murders (TV Movie) - Lt. Theo Kojak
1973 Senza ragione - Memphis
1972 A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die - Maggiore Ward
1972 Pancho Villa - Pancho Villa
1972 Visions... (TV Movie) - Lt. Phil Keegan
1972 The Killer Is on the Phone - Ranko Drasovic
1972 Horror Express - Capt. Kazan
1972 Sonny and Jed - Sheriff Franciscus
1972 Crime Boss - Don Vincenzo
1971 Steel Wreath (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Pete Tolstad
1971 Clay Pigeon - Redford
1971 A Town Called Hell - Don Carlos
1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Gregor Antonescu
- Man and Boy (1971) ... Gregor Antonescu
1971 Pretty Maids All in a Row - Surcher
1970 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) - Tex
- Stagecoach Hijack (1970) ... Tex
1970 Violent City - Al Weber
1970 Kelly's Heroes - Big Joe
1970 Land Raiders - Vicente Cardenas

1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Blofeld
1969 Sophie's Place - Herbie Haseler
1969 Mackenna's Gold - Sergeant Tibbs
1969 The Assassination Bureau - Lord Bostwick
1968 Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell - Walter Braddock
1968 The Scalphunters - Jim Howie
1968 Sol Madrid - Emil Dietrich
1967 Cimarron Strip (TV Series) - Bear
- The Battleground (1967) ... Bear
1967 Garrison's Gorillas (TV Series) - Wheeler
- The Big Con (1967) ... Wheeler
1967 The Dirty Dozen - Archer Maggott
1967 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Mueller
- Don't Wait for Tomorrow (1967) ... Mueller
1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Count Valeriano De Fanzini
- The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
- The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
1967 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Ed Clementi
- The Executioners: Part 2 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
- The Executioners: Part 1 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
1964-1967 Combat! (TV Series) - Jon / Colonel Kapsalis
- Anniversary (1967) ... Jon
- Vendetta (1964) ... Colonel Kapsalis
1966 Beau Geste - Sgt. Maj. Dagineau
1964-1966 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Steve Keller / Victor Leonetti / Dan Polichek
- Stroke of Genius (1966) ... Steve Keller
- May God Have Mercy (1965) ... Victor Leonetti
- Where the Action Is (1964) ... Dan Polichek
1966 The Virginian (TV Series) - 'Colonel' Bliss
- Men with Guns (1966) ... 'Colonel' Bliss
1965 Battle of the Bulge - Sgt. Guffy
1965 The Slender Thread - Dr. Joe Coburn
1965 Run for Your Life (TV Series) - Istvan Zabor
- How to Sell Your Soul for Fun and Profit (1965) ... Istvan Zabor
1965 Bonanza (TV Series) - Charles Augustus Hackett
- To Own the World (1965) ... Charles Augustus Hackett
1965 Genghis Khan - Shan
1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! - Macmuid (Harem Recruiter) (uncredited)
1963-1965 Burke's Law (TV Series)
Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth / Charlie Prince / Fakir George O'Shea
- Who Killed the Man on the White Horse? (1965) ... Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth
- Who Killed His Royal Highness? (1964) ... Charlie Prince
- Who Killed Purity Mather? (1963) ... Fakir George O'Shea
1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told - Pontius Pilate
1964 The Rogues (TV Series) - Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
- Viva Diaz! (1964) ... Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
1964 Fanfare for a Death Scene (TV Movie) - Ilchidai Khan
1964 The New Interns - Dr. Dominick 'Dom' Riccio
1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle / Beret
- The Watchman (1964) ... Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle
- The Action of the Tiger (1964) ... Beret
1964 Breaking Point (TV Series) - Vincenzo Gracchi
- My Hands Are Clean (1964) ... Vincenzo Gracchi
1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) - Philadelphia Harry
- A Matter of Murder (1964) ... Philadelphia Harry
1964 Arrest and Trial (TV Series) - Frank Santo
- The Revenge of the Worm (1964) ... Frank Santo
1964 Channing (TV Series) - Paul Atherton
- A Claim to Immortality (1964) ... Paul Atherton
1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Erich Streator
- Living Doll (1963) ... Erich Streator
1963 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) - Brother Hendricksen
- 5: Part 4 (1963) ... Brother Hendricksen
1963 Grindl (TV Series) - Mr. Hartman
- The Gruesome Basement (1963) ... Mr. Hartman
1963 Johnny Cool - Vincenzo 'Vince' Santangelo
1963 Love Is a Ball
Dr. Christian Gump (Millie's uncle)
1963 The Man from the Diners' Club - Foots Pulardos
1963 Empire (TV Series) - Tibor
- Arrow in the Sky (1963) ... Tibor
1963 The Dakotas (TV Series) - Jake Volet
- Reformation at Big Nose Butte (1963) ... Jake Volet
1963 The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) - Ben Cohen
- A Tumble from a High White House (1963) ... Ben Cohen
1961-1963 The Untouchables (TV Series)
Leo Stazak / Matt Bass / Wally Baltzer
- The Speculator (1963) ... Leo Stazak
- The Matt Bass Scheme (1961) ... Matt Bass
- The Antidote (1961) ... Wally Baltzer
1962 Alcoa Premiere (TV Series) - Mario Lombardi
- The Hands of Danofrio (1962) ... Mario Lombardi
1962 The Interns - Dr. Dominic Riccio
1962 Birdman of Alcatraz -Feto Gomez
1962 Cape Fear - Private Detective Charles Sievers
1961-1962 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) - Harry Remick / Frank Meehan
- Savage in Darkness (1962) ... Harry Remick
- In the Balance (1961) ... Frank Meehan (as Telly Savales)
1961 The Sin of Jesus (Short) - Felix (as Telli Savales)
1961 Ben Casey (TV Series) - George Dempsey
- A Dark Night for Billy Harris (1961) ... George Dempsey
1961 The Detectives (TV Series) - Ben
- Escort (1961) ... Ben
1961 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Sergeant Marius
- Three Soldiers (1961) ... Sergeant Marius
1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series) - Massis / Jerry Larch
- Stop Johnny King! (1961) ... Massis
- The Wizard of Ice (1961) ... Jerry Larch
1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Dr. Buel Reed
- The Compulsion to Confess (1961) ... Dr. Buel Reed
1961 The Young Savages - Detective Lt. Gunderson
1961 Mad Dog Coll - Lt. Darro
1961 Acapulco (TV Series) - Mr. Carver
- Murder with Love (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Blood Money (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Death Is a Smiling Man (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Fisher's Daughter (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Carbon Copy Cat (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- The Gentleman from Brazil (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Killer in a Rose Colored Mask (1961) ... Mr. Carver
- Bell's Half Acre (1961) ... Mr. Carver
1961 The Aquanauts (TV Series) - Paul Price
- Stormy Weather (1961) ... Paul Price
1960 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
- Operation North Star (1960)
1960 The Witness (TV Series) - Al Capone / Lucky Luciano
- Al Capone (1960) ... Al Capone
- Roger 'The Terrible' Touhy (1960)
- Lucky Luciano (1960) ... Lucky Luciano
1960 Naked City (TV Series) - Gabriel Hody
- To Walk in Silence (1960) ... Gabriel Hody
1959-1960 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) - Dieter Wislieny / Dieter Wisliceny / Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire / ...
- Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wislieny
- Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wisliceny
- 35 Rue Du Marche (1959) ... Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire
- Sound of Violence (1959) ... Charles Rogan
- House of Cards (1959)
- And Bring Home a Baby (1959)
1960 Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (TV Series) - - The Cat and the Canary (1960)
1960 Diagnosis: Unknown (TV Series) - Irish Tony Salivarro
- Gina, Gina (1960) ... Irish Tony Salivarro
1959 Deadline (TV Series) - Anders
- The Two Ounce Trap (1959) ... Anders
1959 Sunday Showcase (TV Series) - Cotton
- Murder and the Android (1959) ... Cotton

Soundtrack (12 credits)

2013 In the Name of (performer: "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend")

2006 The Break-Up (performer: "Who Loves Ya Baby")

1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... (performer: "Come on, Baby")

1987 The 59th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: "Fugue for Tinhors")
1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) (performer: "There's No Way Home")

1976 Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby? (TV Special) (performer: "Who Loves Ya, Baby?", "This Is All I Ask", "We Were So Poor", "Zorbas (aka Zorba's Dance)", "The Men in My Little Girl's Life")
1975 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Top of the Pops '75: Part 2 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
1975 Disco (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #1.53 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
1975 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
- Episode #5.2 (1975) ... (performer: "If" - uncredited)
1975 Kojak (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
- Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard (1975) ... (performer: "Azure Dee")
1974 The 46th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: " (You're So) Nice to Be Around")
1972 Pancho Villa (performer: "We All End Up the Same")

Director (3 credits)

1985 Beyond Reason

1974-1978 Kojak (TV Series) (5 episodes)
- In Full Command (1978)
- Kiss It All Goodbye (1977)
- Over the Water (1975)
- I Want to Report a Dream (1975)
- The Betrayal (1974)

1959 Report to New York (TV Series)

Writer (1 credit)

1985 Beyond Reason (screenplay)

"Some Broken Hearts Never Mend", Telly Savalas


"If", Telly Savalas.


Who Loves Ya, Baby 1976 - Greek Dance

1995: The Press meets the new Bond cast at EON Studios, Leavesden.

http://pbfiles.net/goldeneye/ge-press02.html

1998: 新铁金刚之明日帝国 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī míngrì dìguó; New Iron King Kong Tomorrow Empire) released in Hong Kong.

2000: The World Is Not Enough released in Kuwait.
2008: Bond fans notice the domain name of quantumofsolace.com as registered by Sony Pictures this date, leaking the title ahead of its 24 January press conference and official announcement.

2020: The Independent reports on why Daniel Craig came back for No Time To Die, and why he almost didn't.

No Time to Die: Daniel Craig almost quit Bond over
health concerns

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/daniel-craig-no-time-die-health-james-bond-25-release-date-trailer-a9296016.html

Actor explains what ultimately prompted his decision to return as 007
Jacob Stolworthy | @Jacob_Stol | Wednesday 22 January 2020

Daniel Craig has opened up about why he almost quit as James Bond before deciding to return for one final film.

The actor, who said he’d rather “slash his wrists” than return as the British spy after filming 2015’s Spectre, will appear in No Time to Die, which almost shut down production after Danny Boyle quit as director.

It was unknown for some time whether Craig would return – and the actor has revealed this is because of an injury he suffered on Spectre.

“I finished that movie with a broken leg,” he told Entertainment Weekly.

“I had to question myself – was I physically capable of doing [another Bond film] or did I want to do another one? Because that phone call to your wife saying ‘I’ve broken my leg’ is not pleasant.”

It was producer Barbara Broccoli that convinced Craig to play 007 once more.

“He felt at the end of the last movie he’d kind of done it,” she added.

“I said to him, ‘I don’t think you have, I think there’s still more of the story of your Bond to tell.’ Fortunately, he came around to agree with that.”

Craig confirmed in the interview that this was his final Bond film.

“This is going to be my last James Bond adventure,” he said. ”This is it – it’s over.”

No Time to Die – which is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga – will be released on 1 April. Billie Eilish will sing the theme song.

2022: Verve Times reports on George Lazenby and Telly Savalas and Dani Sheridan during the filming of On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Telly Savalas’ kindness to George Lazenby in
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

See the complete article here:

https://vervetimes.com/james-bond-telly-savalas-kindness-to-george-lazenby-in-on-her-majestys-secret-service-films-entertainment/

James Bond: | Films | Entertainment
By Craig Fedirighi On Jan 22, 2022

Following Sean Connery’s original departure from the James Bond film franchise with 1967’s You Only Live Twice, unknown model George Lazenby was cast to fill his shoes in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Producer Cubby Broccoli suggested established star Telly Savalas play Bond villain Blofeld this time around. The SPECTRE villain’s plan would be to hold the world to ransom by threatening to render all food plants and livestock infertile.

Back in 1981, the one-time Bond actor Lazenby gave an interview to 007 magazine about working alongside Savalas, who would have been 100 today.

Asked about his billing on the poster being in the same wording as his co-stars, the Aussie said at the time: “I will tell you another thing. Telly Savalas thought he was the star!”

On how he got along with the Kelly’s Heroes legend, the 007 actor said: “He was OK – I didn’t fall in love with him if that’s what you mean. His lifestyle is completely the opposite to the way I lived. So I mean, we could get along – talk, act, laugh and joke together.”

Nevertheless, Savalas was incredibly kind to Lazenby, helping him along with his acting when others doubted the model’s talents.

During filming in January 1969, Savalas also met Sally Adams (billed as Dani Sheridan) who played one of Blofeld’s Angels of Death and was 25 years his junior.

The two later moved in together and had their son Nicholas Savalas on February 24, 1973.

Although the couple never legally married she would go by Sally Savalas while they were together until 1978.

Savalas also went on to have great success during this period playing Kojak on TV. The star himself died on January 22, 1994, just one day after his 72nd birthday following a battle with cancer.

RichardTheBruce

January 23rd

1942: Willy Bogner is born--Munich, Germany.
1944: Maggie Wright is born--London, England.

1962: Tonight plus two more nights Monty Norman supervises the music for the Dr. No scene at Puss Feller's nightclub. Bond, Leiter, Quarrel, and that photographer in attendance.
1962: David Arnold is born--Luton, England.
1964: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover prepares a document regarding Harry Saltzman's request to use military aircraft (and intent to portray the FBI in a positive light) in the latest Bond film production.

Opening the “James Bond File”

See the complete article here:

mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/01/opening-the-james-bond-file/

Nick Redfern January 8, 2016

Have you ever wondered how government agencies react to seeing their employees portrayed in big-bucks movies? It’s an intriguing question. And so is the answer. In 2015, under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI declassified its file on the creator of the world’s most famous secret-agent: James Bond, 007. We’re talking about none other than author Ian Fleming. The 25-page file makes for eye-opening, interesting, and entertaining reading.
https://vault.fbi.gov/ian-fleming/

An FBI document dated January 23, 1964 – and prepared by J. Edgar Hoover himself, for the Los Angeles and Miami offices of the FBI – states that one Harry Saltzman “…today contacted a representative of the Department of Defense in Washington requesting the use of military aircraft in connection with a movie based on the Pocket Book entitled quote Goldfinger unquote by Ian Fleming. Stated FBI would be depicted in movie in favorable manner.” And who, you may ask, was Harry Saltzman? None other than one of the leading figures in the production of such James Bond movies as Dr. No, From Russia With Love, You Only Live Twice, Live And Let Die, and The Man With The Golden Gun.

Ian Fleming and Harry Saltzman

The dossier on Fleming and his work continues: “Bufiles contain no derogatory information concerning Saltzman. Fleming is writer of paperback novels concerning spy stories in which his fictional character, James Bond, is the star, and they are generally filled with sex and bizarre situations. Los Angeles is instructed to advise the Bureau regarding any information in their possession regarding this proposed movie.”

Hoover added: “Miami is instructed to contact Saltzman who is residing at the Fontainebleau Hotel and vigorously protest any mention of FBI or portrayal of its agents in his proposed movie. You should bring forcefully to his attention the provisions of Public Law Six Seventy which prohibits the use of the words quote Federal Bureau of Investigation unquote or its initials in any manner without my written permission.” Clearly, Hoover was far from happy with the plans for Goldfinger.

1973: Geoffrey Holder and 16 dancers begin rehearsing Baron Samedi’s Dance of Death.

1984: Ποτέ μην ξαναπείς ποτέ (James Bond, praktor 007: Pote min xanapeis pote; translated--Never Ever Again) released in Greece.

2005: Tanya Gold in her piece in The Guardian "The World Has Had Enough" proposes Bond is over.

The world has had enough

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jan/24/news.comment

Tanya Gold | Sun 23 Jan 2005
It wasn't feminism, terrorism or the end of the cold war that finally did for James Bond. It was Austin Powers

Last week James Bond was fired. His nuclear pencil gathers dust beneath Whitehall. There is no news of 007 No 6 (Radio 4 listeners have helpfully suggested Jeremy Paxman) and the production of Bond film 21, due this November, has stalled. There is trouble at MI6, minister: our martini-quaffing sexoholic is suffering an existential crisis and it can't be cured by an intelligent Rolex or a gondola that can drive on dry land.

Eon, who produce Bond, and MGM, who finance his capers, are bickering. It is rumoured that MGM want an action-movie franchise - Spiderman in a tux - that sprouts money. As Bond said to Dr No: "World domination; same old dream; our asylums are full of men who think they are Napoleon." Eon, however, are fighting for their cold war relic, the "sexist, misogynist dinosaur" and gentleman spy who flowed from the pen of Ian Fleming.

Why is Bond in crisis? He is a corpse; the hero of a dead time and a dead place called postwar Clubland. Fleming was an Eton-educated journalist who worked in British naval intelligence during the second world war, where his professional apogee was evacuating King Zog of Albania from Nazi-occupied Europe. Bond was his fantasy alter ego, a libidinous killer who thought women were "for recreation". Bond slapped bottoms and peered at his watch during sex; he killed women he had slept with and, worse, he told one dewy-eyed poppet: "I never miss."

This was acceptable in 1952, when Bond was born on the pages of Casino Royale; but feminism castrated Fleming's hero. Today, any responsible GP would refer him to Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous and any respectable woman would hit him. We know, though Fleming didn't, that Bond won't be polished off by Soviet crocodiles, but by Aids. He had a weird predilection for girls with silly names. He had an Electra, a Honey, a Christmas, a Pussy and an Octopussy. He probably had a Decapussy, or did I dream it?

Fleming created two villainous organisations to wound his baby Bond. The first was Spectre (Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion), a gaggle of freelance megalomaniacs who wanted to take over the world for fun. Today they would be politicians. Is there anyone who can't imagine Michael Howard menacingly stroking a cat, Tessa Jowell feeding the enemies of the gambling bill to sharks or Tony Blair planting a bomb under Fort Knox? Spectre grins on the news every day. You voted for it.

Fleming's other nemesis Smersh (aka Death to Spies) was a mutant strain of the KGB. Smersh is as frightening as eating toast. Bond always has a vodka martini and a chuckle with the Reds at the end, because, for Fleming, the cold war was just a disagreement between western gentlemen.

At the end of The Spy Who Loved Me, Bond escapes into a tented pod with a beautiful KGB agent. He boasts to M that he is "just keeping the British end up, sir". Recent Bonds have experimented with a psychotic heiress, a renegade British agent and a media baron who resembles Barbara Amiel. Apart from Amiel, they lacked menace. The authentic candidates for modern Bond villains are, of course, Islamist fundamentalists but it's hard to imagine even 007 peeling back a burka or keeping the British end up with an al-Qaida operative.

Our tolerance for snobbery has withered. When we hear James musing to a baddie: "Red wine with fish; that should have told me something" and explaining that "certain things just aren't done - like drinking Dom Perignon '53 above a temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit" we don't fawn and sputter on to satin sheets. Bond behaves like an ancient gay dress designer, living in Surbiton and clinging to his final (crystal) marble.

Everywhere, Fleming's fastasies are dust. We've seen the faces of intelligence operatives because they flog their books at literary festivals. David Shayler is No 008; the only thing he leaves shaken but not stirred are the people he bumps into on street corners. We know from Spycatcher that the British secret service spend their time watching Irish grandmothers and destabilising Labour governments - and faking dossiers for Downing Street. The spying game has been demystified.

But Bond's final bullet didn't come from feminism, the government, Andrew Gilligan or the poor entertainment possibilities of modern terrorism. In the end Sean, Roger, George, Timothy and Pierce were vanquished by just one man - Austin Powers. Bond's satirical twin, who danced and shagged and bit his way through two blockbuster Bond spoofs, finally achieved what Smersh could not. Austin's silly ruffled shirts, his encounters with Dr Evil and the Fembots and, most particularly, his plaintive cry, "Do I make you horny, baby?" did for the straight man. Some things just can't withstand satire; least of all a crumbling imperialist spy who puns badly. MGM will find a new aspirational hero for us, one who won't make us hurl into our popcorn: a gay Bond, a black Bond, a paraplegic Bond, an obese Bond, a Welsh bond. Any Bond but James Bond.

Jeremy Paxman

2013: Film fans in mainland China complain of censor cuts to Skyfall.

Includes:

• hitman Patrice killing a Chinese security guard in Shanghai.
• mention of prostitution in Macau.
• the villain Silva speaking of torture as a prisoner of the Chinese.

China
State media slams censors after Skyfall cuts
Xinhua issues rare rebuke for changes including the deletion of scenes in latest
James Bond film

See the complete article here:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1133945/state-media-slams-censors-after-skyfall-cuts

Topic | Censorship in China
Stephen Chen | and AFP | Published: 12:00am, 23 Jan, 2013

Berenice Marlohe stars opposite Daniel Craig in the thriller Skyfall.

Xinhua has published a rare admonishment of government censors for cutting and manipulating scenes in the latest James Bond movie, which hit mainland cinemas this week.

The state media organ said the censorship, which almost every foreign film goes through before reaching Chinese cinemas, highlighted a problem with the nation's movie-review system - that is, that decisions about cuts and changes to films are often arbitrary. In some cases, Xinhua reported, an anonymous letter drove what content was cut.

Skyfall began showing in mainland cinemas on Monday - nearly three months after the movie's premier in Britain. Foreign films' delayed mainland release is common due to the censorship process, and because preference is given to domestic productions.

However, government censors rarely, if ever, admit that content is cut or altered. All foreign movies are subject to review by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, Xinhua said.

Among the Skyfall scenes censors deleted was one in which a French hitman kills a Chinese security guard in a Shanghai skyscraper.

A scene depicting prostitution in Macau was also cut, as was a line spoken by Bond's nemesis mentioning that Chinese security agents had tortured him.

Furthermore, in a scene where Bond asks a mysterious woman whether she has been a prostitute since the age of 12 or 13, censors decided to keep the audio but alter the Chinese subtitles to indicate that Bond asked her whether she had become a triad member at that age.

Xinhua's criticism of the censorship came after a highly publicised row early this month between the editorial staff of a Guangdong-based magazine, Southern Weekly, and provincial propaganda authorities.

Professor Shi Chuan , who teaches at Shanghai University's School of Film and TV Arts and Technology, was quoted by Xinhua as saying that while authorities have reason to remove depictions of nudity or extreme violence in movies, as they violate Chinese law, a film's content should otherwise be left alone.

"Movie regulators should respect the producers' original ideas, rather than chopping scenes arbitrarily," he said.

2013: Hollywood buzz for the 2013 Oscars says a tribute to James Bond's 50th anniversary in film may assemble all six OO7 actors on stage.

2015: OverMental reports the original pitch for a James Bond game became Splinter Cell.

Splinter Cell Was Originally Pitched as a
James Bond Action Game

See the complete article here:

https://overmental.com/content/splinter-cell-was-originally-pitched-as-a-james-bond-action-game-1143

Last Updated: January 23, 2015 0 1 minute read

Ubisoft Montreal revealed a surprising origin for the massively successful Splinter Cell franchise. Apparently, they originally pitched it as a James Bond game, unrelated to any Tom Clancy works.

An ex-Ubisoft developer told IGN that they had been working on an action game called The Drift, which was on the verge of being cancelled. In the hopes of keeping the project alive, the team “made an attempt to impress the [007] license holder.” The pitch featured, “vertical traversal, vision modes, and remote-controlled surveillance cameras.”

That didn’t pan out though, and Ubisoft opted to apply its pre-existing Tom Clancy license to the game, with a plan to base it on Clancy’s The Sum of All Fears. 11 games later, and Splinter Cell has evolved into something distinctly not Bond, or Jack Ryan for that matter.

2015: Canada considers their 50-year view on the copyrights to Ian Fleming material and writing new Bond novels.

Copyright quirk leaves James Bond up for grabs in
Canada

See the complete article here:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/copyright-change-leaves-james-bond-up-for-grabs-in-canada/article22606770/

Ian Bailey | Published January 23, 2015

A man takes photographs beside a display of James Bond books on display at the "For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming and James Bond" exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London, Wednesday April 16, 2008. MATT DUNHAM/AP

Master spy James Bond, one of pop culture's most iconic figures, is now available for dangerous assignments from Canadian writers, thanks to a copyright quirk that allows the writing and publication in Canada of original material based on Bond creator Ian Fleming's work. As of Jan. 1, the original writings of Fleming, a former British naval intelligence agent who published 12 novels and nine stories featuring 007 between 1952 and 1966, have entered the public domain. That's because Canada's view of copyright is that it extends for 50 years after the death of a writer.

Fleming died in 1964, but Bond has lived on in films featuring such actors as Sean Connery and, most recently, Daniel Craig, who's now working on a 24th Bond film, Spectre, due for release in November. But Bond has also lived on in about two dozen novels by authors sanctioned by Fleming's estate: William Boyd, Sebastian Faulks and John Gardner, who wrote 14 Bond novels, have sent Bond on assignment.

Some novels have been set in the present day and others during the Cold War. The latest is a 1950s-set Bond novel, based on unpublished material by Fleming, due next fall from screenwriter Anthony Horowitz, perhaps best known as the creator and lead writer of the British TV series Foyle's War. Horowitz's work has Bond taking on the Russians against the backdrop of a Formula 1 race in Germany.

Now, some Canadian writers, mindful of the 2015 copyright changes, are musing about the prospect of taking 007 for a spin with the consensus among two leading authors that Bond would best work in the past.

Linwood Barclay of Oakville, Ont., says he would relish writing a Bond novel set in Canada in the 1970s. "That's a good time period," said Barclay, author of several bestselling mysteries and thrillers that have sold in 40 countries and been optioned for film and TV production. "[Canada] just came out of the Centennial. You had FLQ stuff going on. You had a lot of stuff happening," he said in an interview.

Barclay said he has a lot on his plate, but has been a fan of the character since he saw the Bond film Thunderball in 1965. "If someone was to say, 'Hey, are you interested in this?' I would probably, at the very least, think about it and I'd find some way to squeeze it in," he said.

Peter Robinson, author of the popular Inspector Banks series set in Britain that have also been adapted for TV, said he would "love to have a go" at writing 007. In an e-mail exchange with The Globe, Robinson said he has read all of the Bond novels, including the post-Fleming works, and has been a fan of the character since 1962 when he first saw Ursula Andress walk out of the sea in Dr. No, the first Bond film.

Robinson, who splits his time between Toronto and North Yorkshire, said he would be more interested in picking up where Fleming left off, exploring the character as a Cold War spy living in a late-1960s world, than bringing him into the present day. Bond is a "man of action in a very specific arena," he said.

However, he doubts that any Canadian writer would try a Bond novel unless the book could be distributed and sold outside Canada. "There wouldn't be much point. Canada has a terrible track record when it comes to buying its own genre fiction, and I doubt that the sales generated by such an undertaking would be adequate compensation for the time and effort that went into it."

In an e-mail exchange, Giles Blunt, author of the popular John Cardinal mystery novels set in small-town Northern Ontario and a scriptwriter on such TV series as Law & Order, said it would not be appealing to spend the year he requires to write a novel using someone else's characters. "In addition, you have to hit all those well-known bases: the martini, the casino, the babe, the megalomaniac, the astounding weapon etc. It seems far too restrictive an endeavour to be any fun."

But noted Canadian agent Helen Heller, who represents Barclay, says checking through that list might be appealing to some authors. "It would provide some people with a kind of literary corset they could put around themselves when they write," she said. "There are other people who would hate that, who would feel they could not do that."

Ms. Heller said, in an interview, that she has been mindful of the looming public domain access to 007 with the arrival of 2015. "But Canadian agent Helen Heller, who represents Barclay, said that "none of my clients have rung me after midnight on Jan. 1 to say: 'Whoopee. I can now do a James Bond story.'"

The challenge, in her view, would be making Bond a living, breathing, appealingly complicated character beyond the "construct" Fleming created. "I could see a way of making it appealing if you went the Mad Men route – you could make it something quite sophisticated," she said. "A sophisticated, early-sixties take on something going on in Canada. There's a lot you could use."

Representatives of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd., which manages issues around the Fleming works, did not respond to requests for comment on the copyright situation.

2018: Tom Hanks reveals he's never been asked to appear in a Bond film.

Tom Hanks has never been approached for
James Bond role

Hollywood legend Tom Hanks has admitted he would love to star in a James Bond movie but has never been approached for a role.
https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/movies/movie-news/tom-hanks-never-approached-james-bond-role-1123978.html
23 January 2018

Tom Hanks has never been asked to star in a James Bond movie.

Tom Hanks

The 61-year-old multi-Academy Award winner has been working in Hollywood for four decades and has worked with a number of legendary actors and filmmakers, but there is one franchise for which Hanks hasn't even been approached for a role.

Speaking to Time Out London magazine, Hanks has admitted he would love to join the 007 family and would be up for playing a villain, in a departure from his usual good guy roles.

He said: "That'd be a treat. No one's asked me to be in any of those.

"I might have to hold out to play the guy who says 'before I kill you, Mr. Bond, perhaps you'd like a tour of my installation?'"

...

Surely he expected to go Full Bond.

2023: The newly renovated Vesper Bar reopens at the Dorchester Hotel, London, England.

The newly renovated Vesper Bar reopens at the Dorchester Hotel

See the complete article here:

https://www.dorchestercollection.com/en/london/the-dorchester/restaurants-bars/vesper-bar/

Vesper Bar
Serving up an illustrious history and lively reputation, our bar has long been London’s ultimate destination for cocktail sipping, celebrating and deal making. For this is the address where the energy and spirit of the city thrives. Here, every drink is poured into bespoke glassware and savoured alongside a cool soundtrack and globally-inspired bites from the eclectic bar menu. Let the good times roll.

Location:
Vesper Bar
The Dorchester, Park Lane, London W1K 1QA
Call: 44 (0) 20 7317 6530

The newly renovated Vesper Bar opens on Monday, January 23, 2023.
Reservations are now open and we look forward to welcoming you.

Live in the moment
Our bar’s film-star looks and talented team of bartenders are the perfect combination for an exceptional evening in the heart of London. This is where life is lived not in minutes but in a collection of splendid moments. Inspired by the legends that surround us and brought to life with creativity and character, we warmly welcome you to a place of endless possibilities.

THE TEAM
Masters of the bar
Stepping into this atmospheric space reveals our award-winning team of cocktail alchemists, ready to fix up whatever your heart desires. Classic and experimental cocktails, concoctions from rare and forgotten recipes or just a glass of your ‘usual’, it’s all up to you. The bar team are your storytellers, drink masters and cocktail creators. Your only task is to relax, choose your tipple and have a wonderful time.

Vesper bar strawberry fizz forever

DESIGN
A modern classic
Vesper Bar is a masterclass in strikingly beautiful, contemporary design from London’s interiors specialist, Martin Brudnizki. Inspired by the spirit and sophistication of the roaring thirties, delight in an atmosphere that’s both playful and eye-catching. Here, modern glamour most definitely takes centre stage.

Our welcoming bar team at Vesper’s are ready to rustle up your drink of choice, including the more extraordinary creations on our ‘Stories’ menu. This bespoke selection of signature cocktails has fascinating tales to tell, taking you on a drinkable tour of wonderful moments in time found only at The Dorchester.

Vesper Martini

Exterior of The Dorchester hotel

Opening hours
Daily
4pm - 1am

Vesper Martini
INSPIRATION
All in the name
Martinis are the stars of the show here, and one in particular was the inspiration for our name. The Vesper Martini first starred in the 1953 James Bond novel, Casino Royale. A Vesper differs from Bond’s usual martini in that it uses both gin and vodka instead of dry vermouth, and lemon peel instead of an olive. The name also honours The Dorchester’s many connections with James Bond over the years.
DINE
Perfect pairings
When it comes to dining, further delights adorn our carefully curated menu. Think elegantly dressed rock oysters, crispy lobster tempura and tempting truffle pizzette. An indulgent taste of luxury awaits you.

RichardTheBruce

January 24th

1947: Ian Fleming enjoys a "bachelor sojourn" with Ivar Bryce and John Fox-Strangways at his recently completed Goldeneye estate, Jamaica.

Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker, 2015.
1947 The Bachelor Party

On 24 January, before the end of their bachelor sojourn, Fleming,
Bryce and Fox-Strangways motored down to Montego Bay on the
North-west coast of the island for the opening of the Sunset Lodge
Club. This is now seen as a seminal moment: the birth of what would
become the ‘North Coast Jet Set’.

1947: Warren Zevon is born--Chicago, Illinois.
(He dies 7 September 2003 at age 56--Los Angeles, California.)

Zevon Diagnosed With Lung Cancer

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.

1960: A series of articles by Ian Fleming on "Thrilling Cities" begins in The Sunday Times.

1971: 007 James Bond Kraliçenin Hizmetinde (007 James Bond at the Service of the Queen) released in Turkey.

https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2010/01/turkish-paperback-artwork.html

1986: A View To a Kill released in New Zealand.
1988: Pierce Brosnan appears in a Bond-inspired Diet Coke® ad (his second).

It airs Super Bowl (XXII) Sunday--ninjas, train, and all.

1998: 007 明日帝國 (007 Míngrì dìguó; 007 Tomorrow Empire) released in Taiwan.

2003: Die Another Day released in Denmark.
2003: Не умирай днес (Do Not Die Today) released in Bulgaria.

2003: Sa nu mori azi (Do Not Die Today) released in Romania.

2008: BOND 22's title goes public.

New Bond film title is confirmed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7206997.stm
Last Updated: Thursday, 24 January 2008, 17:39 GMT

Daniel Craig helped launch the new film at Pinewood Studios

The next James Bond film is to be called Quantum of Solace, producers have confirmed.

The title is taken from one of a collection of short stories published by 007 creator Ian Fleming in 1960.

Producer Michael Wilson said the film would have "twice as much action" as 2006's Casino Royale, which saw Daniel Craig debut as the iconic secret agent.

The next outing, previously known as Bond 22, is partly being shot at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.

At a press conference at the facility, reporters were shown a minute of footage from the new film, including Bond swinging on a rope after an explosion at an art gallery in Siena, Italy.

Another scene showed him meeting M - played by Dame Judi Dench - outside in the snow.

Filming on the movie has been taking place at Pinewood since November.

"He's looking for revenge,
you know, to make himself
happy with the world again"

Daniel Craig on James Bond

Craig said the cryptic title referenced how Bond's heart had been broken at the end of Casino Royale.

"Ian Fleming had written about relationships," he explained.

"When they go wrong, when there's nothing left, when the spark has gone, when the fire's gone out, there's no quantum of solace.

"And at the end of the last movie, Bond has the love of his life taken away from him and he never got that quantum of solace."

Craig said the new film would follow 007 as he goes out "to find the guy who's responsible".

"So he's looking for revenge, you know, to make himself happy with the world again.

"But the title also alludes to something else in the film," he added.

'Driven by revenge'

Olga Kurylenko and Gemma Arterton star alongside Craig

Olga Kurylenko, who plays Bond girl Camille in the film, said that she has yet to film any scenes, but was working hard preparing for her role.

"I'm doing weapons training and body flight training for aerial scenes and stunt work for fighting," she said.

"This girl is going to kick ass. She's on her own mission and she's driven by revenge."

But it is not clear whether Camille is a secret agent.

French actor Mathieu Amalric, who plays the villainous Dominic Greene, told reporters his character had "the smile of Tony Blair and the crazy eyes of Nicholas Sarkozy".

Actress Gemma Arterton plays an MI6 agent in the film and has already shot her love scenes with 007.

She said: "I felt like a giggly girl, and I felt so young and inexperienced - but I kissed James Bond!"

The 21-year-old, who recently starred in the St Trinian's film, said her Bond role is "not so frolicksome" and her character "fresh and young, not sultry and a femme fatale".

'Pretty prickly'
Dame Judi Dench, who returns for her sixth Bond film, said: "I get to do more in this one, which is brilliant."

She hinted that her character's relationship with Bond would be "pretty prickly".

Rumours about the name had grown after fans noticed that film studio Sony had bought the domain name quantumofsolace.com.

But co-producer Michael Wilson said the name had only been decided "a few days ago", adding the story's start point would be "literally an hour after the last film left off".

Asked if Casino Royale star Eva Green would appear in Quantum of Solace, co-producer Barbara Broccoli said: "There are no flashbacks in the film, but she's certainly on Bond's mind."

Director Marc Forster is in charge of work on the movie, which is due for release on 7 November.

2009: 007 慰めの報酬 (Remuneration for Comfort) general release in Japan.

2012: Omega Seamaster offers a James Bond 50th Anniversary Watch.

Omega Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary Watch sports a 007 themed dial

luxurylaunches.com/watches/omega_seamaster_james_bond_50th_anniversary_watch_sports_a_007_themed_dial.php
by kamakshi

The world was never enough for 007, and 50 years later, it seems it still hold true. As a part of the celebrations Omega will be bring out a “limited edition” Omega Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary Watch. While details remain sparse, some nice internet junkie has posted pictures of the stunning the Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary edition watch that sports “007″ theme on the dial and a “50″ marked in red on the bezel. The back case sports a true-blue Bond identity, the “bullet in a gun barrel” which marks the opening sequence in every James Bond movie. The bullet reads “50 years of James Bond.” The 41mm steel case watch will be limited to 11,0007 pieces and will run on the automatic mechanical Omega’s caliber 2507 co-axial movement.

2015: The Irish Mirror reports on changes to planned action during Spectre filming in Rome.

New James Bond movie Spectre thrown into chaos after
row over protected bridge in Rome

See the complete article here:

https://www.irishmirror.ie/whats-on/film-news/new-james-bond-movie-spectre-5037584

Producers had planned for Daniel Craig to leap from a helicopter on the 15th century Ponte Sisto bridge

A bridge too far? 007 will need more than a pistol to fix this mix-up

By Simon Boyle | 24 JAN 2015
Filming for the new James Bond movie has been thrown into chaos after a row over a historic site in Rome.

Producers had planned to shoot key scenes for Spectre on the 15th century Ponte Sisto bridge, including having Daniel Craig leap from a helicopter.

But religious campaigners are furious as the bridge holds special significance, with links to Pope Innocent X – prompting protests to authorities in the Italian capital.

Filming for the Sam Mendes blockbuster was set to begin at the bridge in March after months of preparation.

But producers may now have to find a new spot.

A set source in Italy said: “Some campaigners are concerned about damage to the bridge, which dates from the 1400s, others are upset over the religious connection.

"The bridge is said to be haunted by the ghost of Donna Olimpia Pamphili, Pope Innocent X’s lover who crossed it each night on her way to his bed. Believers get quite upset by the prospect of disturbing spirits.

“Sam has already had to change one major scene, now it looks like he’s going to have to go back to the drawing board on this one.”

Plans to shoot a high-octane car chase at the 15th century Quattro Fontane were vetoed last month.

Officials feared the landmark, which has recently undergone expensive restoration, could be damaged.

Culture minister Federica Galloni said: “The site is too delicate from an architectural point of view.”

The movie, which sees Daniel Craig return as the British spy alongside Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Whishaw, is due out later this year.

Sony Pictures was unavailable for comment.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/gallery/james-bond-spectre-on-location-4990628

2021: Ana de Armas appears on the cover of UK Style magazine as The Bond Girl Everyone's Talking About.

RichardTheBruce

January 25th

1874: William Somerset Maugham, CH, is born--Paris, France.
(He dies 16 December 1965 at age 91--Nice, France.)

Profile: W Somerset Maugham

https://www.spyculture.com/profile-w-somerset-maugham/

Born: 25 January 1874
Died: 16 December 1965
Intelligence involvement: Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during World War One.
Culture involvement: Author of popular plays, novels and short stories. Reputedly the best paid author of the 1930s.

Bio: William Somerset Maugham was born into a diplomatically connected family, indeed he was born in the British Embassy in Paris. Both parents died by the time he was 10 years old and he was raised, in effect an only child despite having several siblings, by one of his uncles. Despite the family background mostly being made up of lawyers, Maugham trained as a doctor before the instant success of his second book convinced him to become a writer.

He then gave up medicine and took to travelling and writing full time, and in 1908 wrote a book called The Magician, in part inspired by Aleister Crowley. In 1915 he was recruited into SIS/MI6 by John Wallinger. After a period in Switzerland he was then asked by William Wiseman to go to Russia as part of an attempt to help the Russian Provisional Government fend off the threat from the Bolsheviks.

Maugham and the other MI6 agents failed in this effort, but Maugham used these experiences as the basis for his popular and very influential short story series published as Ashenden: Or the British Agent in 1928. Two of these stories were adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1936 for his film Secret Agent, and several others were adapted by the BBC for television in 1991 (at the end of the Cold War). The Ashenden stories are widely considered to have influenced later spy authors such as Ian Fleming, John Le Carre and Graham Greene.

Documents

Somerset Maugham’s usefulness to the establishment did not end after WW1. During the second World War he was one of a number of writers approached by the government to write stories or articles ‘on the results of careless talk’. At the time the government was trying to enforce the strictest secrecy about what it was doing, and there were huge propaganda campaigns to persuade the public not to talk about what they knew. In March 1940 the Committee on Issue of Warnings Against Discussion of Confidential Matters in Public circulated a report on their activity, which you can download here (PDF 400KB).

https://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/ReportofCommitteeon-WarningsAgainstDiscussion.pdf
In the same month one of Maugham’s Ashenden spy stories was used as a propaganda broadcast by the government, as detailed in the 8th Report by the Minister of Information to the War Cabinet, which you can download here (PDF, 2.73MB).
https://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/WarCabinet-8threport-Ministerofinformation-Ashenden.pdf

1950: John Terry is born--Florida.
1955: Noël Coward writes a diary entry about his friend Ian Fleming.

I have read Ian's new thriller in proof. It is the best he has done yet, very exciting and, although as usual too far-fetched, not quite so much so as the last two and there are fewer purple sex passages. His observation is extraordinary and his talent for description vivid. I wish he would try a non-thriller for a change; I would so love for him to triumph over the sneers of Annie's intellectual friends.

1963: James Bond 007 jagt Dr. No (James Bond 007 Chasing Dr. No) released in West Germany.

1981: Alicia Augello Cook (Keyes) is born--Hell's Kitchen, New York City, New York.

1995: GoldenEye films Natalya meeting Xenia Onatopp.
1998: Jean Rougerie dies 25 January 1998 at age 68--Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
(Born 9 March 1929--Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

Jean Rougerie

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

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

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

2013: Skyfall's gross to date ($1.78 billion) exceeds that of Thunderball ($1.037 billion, inflation-adjusted).

2021: Daily Mail repeats unfounded claims by The Sun that No Time To Die will have to reshoot scenes related to product placement and being current.

James Bond bosses 'set to
painstakingly RE-SHOOT key scenes in
a desperate attempt to save time-
sensitive product placement deals'...
after No Time To Die is delayed AGAIN

See the complete article here:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9186459/James-Bond-bosses-SHOOT-scenes-attempt-save-time-sensitive-product-placement-deals.html

By Natasha Hooper For Mailonline | 25 January 2021

The James Bond film, No Time to Die, was scheduled to be released in 2020 but was delayed due to the pandemic.

And now the film's bosses will frustratingly have to re-shoot key scenes because the MI6 agent's technology is out-of-date, it was reported on Monday.

The updates will allegedly be made to the 007 franchise in hopes of saving product placement deals from sponsors who are concerned their high-tech items have evolved over the one-year delay.

Oh no! No Time To Die bosses will reportedly have to re-shoot scenes because James Bond's technology is now out-of-date due to delays with the film's release date amid the pandemic

An insider told The Sun on Monday: 'The details of the gadgets and things are all kept tightly under wraps, but everyone knows that James Bond always carries the latest kit with him.

'But by the time the movie comes out now it will look like Daniel Craig and all of the other cast members are carrying something that has been out for ages. That isn’t really the point of these deals.

'It means some of the scenes are going to have to be very carefully edited and looked at to bring things up to date.'

No Time To Die reportedly features a number of sponsored products including gadgets from tech firms and mobile phones provided by Nokia - with bosses said to be keen to change scenes where tech guru Q hands out items.

Evolve: The updates will allegedly be made to the 007 franchise in hopes of saving product placement deals from sponsors who are concerned their high-tech items have changed

Other rumoured product deals include Omega watches, Adidas footwear and Bollinger champagne.

Lucrative sponsorships are common practice in the film industry and can help finance expensive productions.

No Time To Die is the 25th film in the franchise, and will feature Daniel Craig's last performance as the 007 agent.

A new release for the movie was shared on the film's official Twitter account on Thursday, revealing the latest expected date is October 8, 2021.

The film, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, was originally scheduled for release in April 2020, but was pushed back to November before the release was changed once again to April 2021 in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

Automaton: No Time To Die reportedly features a number of sponsored products including gadgets from tech firms and mobile phones provided by Nokia

Expensive taste: Lucrative sponsorships are common practice in the film industry and other rumoured product deals are Omega watches, Adidas footwear and Bollinger champagne

No Time To Die follows Bond after he has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica when his old friend Felix Leiter, played by Jeffrey Wright, from the CIA turns up asking for help.

Leaving his seemingly happy life with Madeleine (Lea Seydoux), Bond returns to the field to face Safin (Rami Malek) who is armed with a new dangerous technology that could impact the world.

Producer Barbara Broccoli has already teased what fans can expect and said that the movie will deliver a satisfying ending for Daniel's Bond.

Speaking on the official James Bond podcast, she said: 'It's a culmination of everything that his portrayal of the character has been through and it ties up all the storylines. It's a pretty epic film, I have to say.'

MailOnline have contacted James Bond reps for comment

NO TIME TO DIE top 10 product placement brands – JAMES BOND (1:29)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=PtQvWG-rQmY

2023: Dynamite Entertainment releases 007 #6 in stores.
Marco Finnegan, artist. Phillip Kennedy Johnson, writer.

007 #6

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513032194706011

Cover A: Tommy Lee Edwards
Cover B: Rus Wooton
Cover C: Marc Laming
Cover D: Soo Lee
Writer: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Artist: Marco Finnegan
Genre: Spy Fiction / Action Adventure
Publication Date: January 2023
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32
ON SALE DATE: 1/18/23

THE FINALE TO PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON'S NEW BOND EPIC IS HERE!
The Myrmidons are unloosed. The traitorous mole is revealed. Bond and Rook fight to the death.

Cover A: Tommy Lee Edwards

Cover B: Rus Wooton

Cover C: Marc Laming

Cover D: Soo Lee

RichardTheBruce

January 26th

1904: Charles Fraser-Smith is born--Deal, Kent, England.
(He dies 9 November 1992--Bratton Fleming, Devon, England.)

Spying gadgets serve as tribute to the
real-life Q: Exhibition recalls the
eccentric inventor who became the
model for James Bond's saviour

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/spying-gadgets-serve-as-tribute-to-the-real-life-q-exhibition-recalls-the-eccentric-inventor-who-1454181.html
WILL BENNETT | Friday 9 April 1993 00:02

THE DEVICES are fiendishly cunning. The tiny camera masquerades as a cigarette lighter and the golf balls have compasses hidden inside them.

At the entrance to the exhibition is a cut-out figure of James Bond and the music playing is the theme from the 007 films. But the display is not about the suave British agent.

It is a tribute to Charles Fraser-Smith, an eccentric figure who spent the Second World War fooling the Germans by providing spies, saboteurs and escaping prisoners with concealed gadgets.

But for the children who go to the exhibition at Dover Castle, the lure is that Mr Fraser- Smith was the model for Q, the inventor of scores of devices that enabled Bond to escape repeatedly from the jaws of death.

Ian Fleming, author of the books on which the films were based, worked alongside Mr Fraser-Smith for British Intelligence during the war, and realised that for a novelist he was a dream character.

The exhibition, just opened, is called Live and Let Spy: Who Was the Real Q?. On display is a hairbrush which conceals a compass, a map and a double- edged saw; a miniature radio disguised as a lunch box; and a set of apparently innocuous plastic balls coated inside with luminous radium paint, which were used as landing lights.

With typical ingenuity Mr Fraser-Smith realised that the one liquid people were not going to run short of was urine. So he devised a handkerchief which when dipped in it revealed a map which could be used by escaping prisoners.

Compasses concealed inside buttons became standard issue for British agents dropped into German-occupied territory, while the camera disguised as a lighter enabled spies to take pictures of the damage caused by Allied bombing without attracting attention.

Many of his devices were sent to British prisoners of war who used them to escape. The Germans failed to spot maps hidden inside playing cards and cutting wire concealed inside shoelaces.

The exhibition was the brainchild of Mr Fraser-Smith, who was born in Deal, Kent, but he never lived to see it open. He died last November, aged 87.

For years he used the prototypes on display for giving talks. But as he neared the end of his life he got in touch with Ken Scott, general manager of Dover Castle.

Mr Scott went to see him at his home in Bratton Fleming, north Devon, and Mr Fraser- Smith offered the devices to the nation. English Heritage, which runs Dover Castle, will keep them there for two years and then move them to another site.

English Heritage hopes that with the James Bond connection as bait, the exhibition will teach children about the Second World War, which is now part of the national curriculum.

1996: GoldenEye released in Denmark.

https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/ge-dk-poster-1996/

1997: Reports say BOND 18 features Bond driving a BMW 750iL.

Bavarian Bond — A Brief History
of James Bond BMWs

https://www.bmwblog.com/2019/12/08/bavarian-bond-a-brief-history-of-james-bond-bmws/
Interesting, News | December 8th, 2019 by Nico DeMattia

Just a few days ago, the first official trailer for the all new James Bond movie, No Time to Die, was released. As a fan of the Bond franchise, I was very excited to see the new trailer and am waiting very impatiently for it to hit theaters. While the most recent entry to the series, Spectre, wasn’t it’s best, this new one looks like it’s going to be a thrill ride.

It also features some fantastic cars, such as the iconic Aston Martin DB5, an ’80s Aston Martin V8 Vantage and even the new Land Rover Defender. James Bond is most certainly cemented in the Aston Martin brand once again, that’s for sure. However, there was once a time when 007 actually drove BMWs.

During Pierce Brosnan’s stint as James Bond back in the ’90s and early ’00s, the famous British spy actually drove some Bimmers. The first time James Bond sat his behind in a Bavarian was in GoldenEye, possibly Brosnan’s best Bond film, as well as his first. The BMW in question was a questionably-colored blue BMW Z3 and he drove it for about thirty seconds, after being hyped for all of its weapons. So it was one of the lamer Bond-car entries in the entire film franchise, despite being a cool car.

The most famous Bond BMW of them all was the E38 BMW 750iL in Tomorrow Never Dies, thanks to fully remote-control capability. Far before Tesla’s summon mode, James Bond was able to remote control his E38 7 Series from the back seat and escape some baddies. Not only was it cool but it was given a spectacular Bond-car death as it gets driven off of the roof of a parking garage.

Following the E38, the BMW Z8 was featured in The World is Not Enough, another one of Brosnan’s entries. It’s a shame the Z8 didn’t get more screen-time, because it was — and still is — such a stunningly beautiful car and one of the few BMWs actually fit for James Bond. Sure, he drove it a bit and the movie did show off how good looking the car is but it still wasn’t enough. It did get a fantastic Bond-car death, though, as it was cut in half by a massive helicopter-mounted saw after using one of its cool rockets to take down a different helicopter.

Sadly, no other BMW cars were actually featured in any James Bond movies. It’s doubtful we’ll ever see Bond in a Bavarian ever again, as the brand is quite dedicated to Aston Martin at the moment. But never say never again. Again.

2015: International Artists Management announces Brigitte Millar to play a villainous character in BOND 24.
2017: Head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service C says the real-life Q is a woman.

Real-life Q is a woman, MI6 chief
reveals, despite James Bond character
always having been played by men

See the complete article here:

https://kaleistyleguide.com/news/2017/01/26/mi6-head-real-life-q-woman/

Telegraph Reporters | 26 January 2017

Ben Whishaw playing Q in Skyfall Credit: Rex Features

From Desmond Llewelyn to Ben Whishaw, we are used to seeing the tech wiz agent known as "Q" played by men in the James Bond movies.

However, the head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service has revealed that the "real-life-Q" is actually a woman.

Sir Alex Younger, the head of MI6, has made the revelation in his keynote speech at the Women in IT Awards in London as part of his appeal for more women to join MI6.

“If any of you would like to join us … the real-life Q is looking forward to meeting you and I’m pleased to report that the real-life Q is a woman,” said Mr Younger, also known by the code name "C", on Wednesday evening.

https://twitter.com/MelissaAllen333/status/824354453998489601

The geeky genius responsible for the gadgets that help keep the fictional spy alive has always been played by a man in all the James Bond films.

“The gadgets now that we employ – or operational technology as we more properly call it – probably defy the imagination of spy writers. So it’s always been there, but technology now is at the core of what we do in a way that it wasn’t before,” Mr Younger said in his speech, opening the awards that showcase the achievements and innovation of women in technology.

Mr Younger, who took over as chief of the SIS in 2014, said that his priority was to employ the best and that meant dispelling myths.

“The problem for me is that we’ve got to get over and see through the Bond thing. Alright, that’s good actually – let’s do the Bond thing for a bit. It’s great in some ways because it means that all of our opponents think there’s an MI6 officer behind every bush and that we’re 10,000 times larger than we actually are.

“That’s all great, but there’s a problem because it leads to a stereotype, which is of a particular kind or a particular sort of person that will join MI6 – whether they’re really posh or going to Oxford or whatever it is. I’m none of those things by the way.

“And the issue for me is that stands in the way of something I regard as being so important, which is that we can reach into every community in Britain and make sure that we get the people that are the best regardless of their background.”

Last year Mr Younger debunked another James Bond myth when he said that the fictional secret agent would fail to make the grade if he tried to become a spy today.

"Our staff are not from another planet. They are ordinary men and women operating in the face of complex moral, ethical and physical challenges, often in the most forbidding environments on Earth," he told the Black History Month website.

"In contrast to James Bond, MI6 officers are not for taking moral shortcuts. In fact, a strong ethical core is one of the first qualities we look for in our staff."

MI6 has been attempting to broaden its recruitment and fight the perception that intelligence officers are only drawn from Oxford or Cambridge.

https://twitter.com/GillianA/status/734145694055976960

Intelligence agencies recently admitted to using female-friendly websites to recruit more women in an attempt to rebalance the intelligence workforce.

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Q'ute

Trivia
In the 2019 Casino Royale immersive theatrical experience hosted by Secret Cinema, actress Veronica Hare is credited as portraying Ann Reilly of Q Branch.

2019: Michel Legrand dies at age 86--Paris, France.
(Born 24 February 1932--Bécon les Bruyères, France.)

Michel Legrand obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/27/michel-legrand-obituary

French composer, jazz musician and conductor who wrote the scores for more than 250 films including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Yentl

John Fordham | Sun 27 Jan 2019 11.16 EST

Michel Legrand in 1975. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images

The music of the composer, singer, arranger, conductor, jazz musician and producer Michel Legrand went on glowing long after many of the 250-odd films he had written soundtracks for had fallen by the wayside.

Legrand, who has died aged 86, made deadpan reference to that phenomenon when he played at Ronnie Scott’s club in London in 2011 – announcing that it was his ambition to meet “one of the 19 people who ever saw The Happy Ending”, the 1969 Hollywood film for which he wrote his classic love song What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?

But if some of the film vehicles for Legrand’s artistry were outlasted by his music, several became famous, including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), with Noel Harrison singing The Windmills of Your Mind, which won Legrand’s first Oscar, for best film theme song, in 1969. Another Oscar followed for The Summer of ’42 two years later – this time for best film music. Its theme, The Summer Knows, was recorded later that year by Barbra Streisand, whose 1983 film, Yentl, won him his third Oscar, again for best music.

The famous Legrand Jazz album. Photograph: Sabine Weiss/Columbia Records

Legrand’s songwriting skills flowered in the early 1950s through intimate acquaintance with the modern chanson movement in Paris, at first as a gifted piano accompanist. After the second world war, the US was nostalgic for French culture, and when Columbia Records commissioned an English-language album of chanson classics, the young Legrand was hired to steer it – and found himself with an 8m-selling hit.

By his mid-20s, Legrand was able to call the shots as a composer and arranger on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1958, he even had more than sufficient clout to hire Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans – three of the hippest and most acclaimed young jazz musicians of the decade – to play sidemen’s roles on his Legrand Jazz session.

Michel was born in the Paris suburb of Bécon-les-Bruyères into a family with strong musical connections. His father, Raymond Legrand, was a composer, conductor and former pupil of Gabriel Fauré, and in his later years would go on to collaborate with Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier. His maternal uncle on his mother Marcelle’s side was the dance-band saxophonist and bandleader Jacques Hélian.


But Raymond left home when Michel was three, and his mother Marcelle (nee Ter-Mikaëlian), struggled to provide for the boy and his older sister, Christiane. He found a consoling friend in the flat’s battered piano and it quickly emerged that he had a gift. Christiane also played the instrument, and she was similarly destined for a successful career in music, as a jazz singer.

Michel became obsessed with the music and life of Franz Schubert, and – with Nadia Boulanger among his teachers – won a raft of prizes on a variety of instruments at the Paris Conservatoire, which he began attending as a 10-year-old in 1942. But a 1947 Paris concert by the bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and his big band thrilled him with the sound of jazz.

By the time he left the conservatoire in 1949 he was a budding jazz pianist with a profound knowledge of musical theory and a working knowledge of many instruments. His resourcefulness quickly found him work with chanson stars including Juliette Gréco and Zizi Jeanmaire, and in 1954 the international popularity of chanson brought his international breakthrough.

Michel Legrand playing at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in the mid-1970s.
Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns

Columbia-EMI wanted an English-language version of those evocative Parisian songs, and none of the big-name American arrangers was interested. Through a contact at the record company, the unknown Legrand was commissioned to produce it – for $200 and no royalties. The result was the bestseling album I Love Paris,. Chevalier then hired Legrand as his musical director and the resulting US tours enhanced the newcomer’s stature.

Legrand began a solo career, with the easy-listening but sophisticated jazz albums Holiday in Rome (1955), Michel Legrand Plays Cole Porter (1957) and Legrand in Rio (1958). He also worked with the French Caribbean singer Henri Salvador, who, under the alias of Henri Cording, made some of the first French forays into rock’n’roll, with Legrand furnishing the music and the surrealist novelist, poet and jazz critic Boris Vian the lyrics. In 1958, he returned to New York to make his celebrated Legrand Jazz album – with Ben Webster joining Coltrane, Evans and Davis in the lineup.

Legrand later admitted to being anxious about Davis’s involvement. The trumpeter rarely played sessions other than his own and made a diva’s point of arriving 15 minutes late, checking out the music from the studio doorway and promptly leaving if he did not like the sound of it. But, according to Legrand, the usually taciturn Davis not only participated, but even asked the young bandleader if he had liked his contribution.

By this point, Legrand was developing a parallel career as a film composer. He scored Henri Verneuil’s 1955 crime passionel movie Les Amants du Tage (The Lovers of Lisbon), and became a significant collaborator with the new wave directors Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and François Reichenbach. He also composed for Jacques Demy, most notably on the innovative Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) – a reappraisal of the film musical, combining a realist perspective with a narrative in which songs replaced dialogue.

The movie’s theme song Je Ne Pourrai Jamais Vivre Sans Toi was covered – in English as I Will Wait for You – by stars including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Liza Minnelli. Legrand, Demy and the film’s lead, Catherine Deneuve, collaborated on the Hollywood homage Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort, 1967), with Gene Kelly. Legrand also wrote for Gilles Grangier and Yves Allégret, and for Joseph Losey – most notably in 1971 on the Palme d’Or winner The Go-Between.

Through close relationships with the jazz-enthusiastic chanson singer Claude Nougaro and the Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel, Legrand not only began to develop a personal repertoire of original songs, but to consider performing them himself. He collaborated on the lyrics with other writers including Eddy Marnay and Jean Dréjac, and worked on the occasional forays into songwriting by the novelist Françoise Sagan.

In 1968, Legrand moved to Los Angeles, during which time he composed the award-winning scores to The Thomas Crown Affair and then, two years later, Summer of ’42. Legrand later said that Jewison cut the highly charged seven-and-a-half-minute chess game scene between Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair to fit the music, which begins with a solo harp and ends with a big band playing a jazz waltz.

As well as the Oscars, between 1971 and 1975 Legrand won five Grammy awards, and in this period was on his way to becoming one of the US’s most popular Frenchmen. A sharp and witty raconteur, he appeared on television chatshows, and for relaxation worked at Shelly’s Manne Hole club in Los Angeles with the great double bassist Ray Brown. In the next decade, he composed for Clint Eastwood and Orson Welles, for Streisand’s Yentl, and the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983).

During this time Legrand also played a lot of jazz, making three albums with a regular trio featuring the bassist Marc-Michel Le Bévillon and the drummer André Ceccarelli, and bringing together the celebrated American saxophonists Phil Woods and Zoot Sims to join him in a septet to make the 1982 album After the Rain. He released a solo vocal album, and staged his own oratorio, inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as part of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the French Revolution, in 1989.

Legrand’s search for new challenges found one that even he could not pull off when he directed the unsuccessful semi-autobiographical film Cinq Jours en Juin (1989), but leading a big band in the next decade found him on more secure ground – he toured widely, and accompanied Ray Charles, Diana Ross and Björk with it. Legrand composed for Jean Guidoni’s 1995 album Vertigo and participated in an award-winning show at the Casino de Paris with Guidoni the following year.

In 1997, with the playwright Didier Van Cauwelaert, he worked on Le Passe Muraille, a quirky musical adapted from a 1943 Marcel Aymé short story about an unassuming clerk who can walk through walls. The show went to Broadway as Amour five years later, and its lead singer Melissa Errico became an important muse for Legrand. They worked together for six years on the album Legrand Affair (2011).

In his later years, Legrand remained ready for surprises, even if the world was beginning to treat him as a grand old man. Stars queued up to perform his hits in a celebration at the Louvre in 2000; and the French government made him an officier de la Légion d’honneur in 2003.

When his friend Nougaro died in 2004, he recorded Legrand Nougaro, where the composer and a bespoke jazz band accompanied tapes of his friend’s voice in new performances of the Toulouse singer’s songs – including the previously unheard Mon Dernier Concert.

In 2009 Legrand came to Britain with a repertoire combining his biggest hits and a selection of jazz favourites, and a lineup including his longterm partner, the harpist Catherine Michel and the singer Alison Moyet. The following year, he conducted the Moscow Virtuosi chamber group in Russia, for the two-CD set The Music of Michel Legrand. And for his 80th birthday Christmas album the following year – Noël! Noël!! Noël!!! – Legrand was joined by Rufus Wainwright, Jamie Cullum and Iggy Pop.

“When I hit 80,” he said, “I knew that the last chapter of my work would be classical. So I wrote a piano concerto that I recorded myself, a cello concerto, a harp concerto, some sonatas. I wrote a huge ballet. I’m very proud of that. It’s a good final chapter.”

Last September, Legrand conducted orchestral arrangements of music from his soundtracks with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, against projections of the scenes they originally accompanied, at the Royal Festival Hall, in London.

He lived his last years as he had lived his earliest ones as a precocious music student in Paris – guided, as he said, by the “ambition … to live completely surrounded by music. My dream is not to miss out anything. That’s why I’ve never settled on one musical discipline. I love playing, conducting, singing and writing, and in all styles. So I turn my hand to everything – not just a bit of everything. Quite the opposite, I do all these activities at once, seriously, sincerely and with deep commitment.”

Legrand had three marriages. The first, to Christine Bouchard, a model, and second, to the actor and producer Isabelle Rondon, ended in divorce. In 2014, he married the actor Macha Méril.

He is survived by Macha and his four children, Dominique, Hervé, Benjamin and Eugénie.
• Michel Jean Legrand, composer and musician, born 24 February 1932; died 26 January 2019

Michel Legrand (I) (1932–2019)

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Filmography

Composer (211 credits)

Morning Shine (pre-production)
2017-2019 William à Midi (TV Series) (10 episodes)
2019 Clara Luciani et Vladimir Cauchemar - La chanson de Delphine (Video short)
2018 I Lost Albert
2018 The Other Side of the Wind
2017 The Guardians
2017 Le Point Culture (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Le Corps Humain (2017)
2014 The Price of Fame

2009 Il était une fois... notre Terre (TV Series) (3 episodes)
- Santé, éducation (2009)
- Climat: le Grand Nord (2009)
- Les héritiers de la planète (2009)
2009 Oscar and the Lady in Pink
2008 Disco
2006 Deadly Lessons
2005 Cavalcade
2004 Léaud de Hurle-dents (Documentary short)
2003 Yantarnye krylya
2002 And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
2000 The Blue Bicycle (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
- La douleur de la libération (2000)
- L'occupation et la résistance (2000)
- L'amour et la guerre (2000)

1999 La bûche
1999 Doggy Bag
1998 Madeline
1996 Il était une fois... les explorateurs (TV Series)
1996 The Ring (TV Movie)
1995 Aaron's Magic Village
1995 Les enfants de Lumière (Documentary)
1995 Les Misérables
1995 The World of Jacques Demy (Documentary)
1994 Børne 1'eren (TV Series) (segment "Vera", 2001)
1994 Il était une fois... les découvreurs (TV Series)
1994 Ready to Wear
1993 The Young Girls Turn 25 (Documentary)
1993 The Pickle
1992 Il était une fois... les Amériques (TV Series) (26 episodes)
1992 Coup de foudre (TV Series) (1 episode)
- Masques de lune (1992)
1991 Dingo
1991 Burning Shore (TV Movie)
1990 Fate
1990 Gaspard et Robinson
1990/II Eternity
1990 Flight from Paradise
1990 Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (TV Movie)

1989 Cinq jours en juin
1988 The Jeweller's Shop
1988 Un coupable (TV Movie)
1988 Three Seats for the 26th
1987-1988 Il était une fois... la vie (TV Series) (26 episodes)
1988 Switching Channels
1987 La baleine blanche (TV Series)
1987 Spiral
1987 Casanova (TV Movie)
1987 Club de rencontres
1986 As Summers Die (TV Movie)
1986 You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know (Short)
1986 Crossings (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
1986 Sins (TV Mini-Series) (1 episode)
1980-1985 Anna Liza (TV Series) (1,315 episodes)
1985 Promises to Keep (TV Movie)
1985 Parking
1985 Partir, revenir
1985 Palace
1985 Hell Train
1984 Paroles et musique
1984 The Jesse Owens Story (TV Movie)
1984 Secret Places
1983 A Film Is Born: The Making of 'Yentl' (TV Short documentary)
1983 Lani Hall: Never Say Never Again (Video short)
1983 Yentl
1983 Les uns et les autres (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
1983 Never Say Never Again
1983 A Love in Germany
1983 Revenge of the Humanoids
1982 Friends of the Family (Short)
1982 Once Upon a Time... Space (TV Series) (26 episodes)
1982 Best Friends
1982 Slapstick of Another Kind
1982 Le rêve d'Icare (TV Movie)
1982 Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David?
1982 A Woman Called Golda (TV Movie)
1982 Bankers Also Have Souls
1981 Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
1981 Bolero
1980 Falling in Love Again
1980 Atlantic City (music composed by)
1980 The Hunter
1980 The Mountain Men

1979 Les fabuleuses aventures du légendaire Baron de Munchausen
1979 Lady Oscar
1979 Je vous ferai aimer la vie
1978 Mon premier amour
1978 Firebird: Daybreak Chapter
1978 Once Upon a Time... Man (TV Series)
1978 Roads to the South
1976-1978 ABC Afterschool Specials (TV Series) (2 episodes)
1978 One Can Say It Without Getting Angry
1977 The Other Side of Midnight
1977 Gulliver's Travels
1976 The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
1976 Ode to Billy Joe
1976 The Honeymoon Trip
1976 Gable and Lombard
1975 Simon dans l'autobus (Short)
1975 Le Sauvage
1975 Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
1975 Cage Without a Key (TV Movie)
1974 Our Time
1974 It's Good to Be Alive (TV Movie)
1973 The Three Musketeers
1973 Breezy
1973 F for Fake (Documentary)
1973 A Slightly Pregnant Man
1973 Cops and Robbers (as Michel LeGrand)
1973 40 Carats
1973 Story of a Love Story
1973 Le temps de vivre, le temps d'aimer (TV Mini-Series) (40 episodes)
1973/II A Doll's House
1973 The Nelson Affair
1973 Le gang des otages
1973 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) (1 episode)
- The Adventures of Don Quixote (1973)
1972 The Outside Man
1972 Not Dumb, the Bird
1972 Lady Sings the Blues
1972 One is a Lonely Number
1972 Portnoy's Complaint
1972 Hearth Fires
1972 A Time for Loving
1972 The Old Maid
1971 La vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur (Short)
1971 Zoom the White Dolphin (TV Series)
1971 Brian's Song (TV Movie)
1971 A Few Hours of Sunlight
1971 Touch and Go
1971 La ville-bidon
1971 Le Mans
1971 The Go-Between
1971 Summer of '42
1971 Swashbuckler
1970 To Catch a Pebble
1970 Wuthering Heights
1970 Donkey Skin
1970 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970 Pieces of Dreams

1969 The Picasso Summer
1969 The Happy Ending
1969 Call Me Mathilde
1969 An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte (TV Special)
1969 Castle Keep
1969 The Swimming Pool
1969 Play Dirty
1968 Ice Station Zebra
1968 The Thomas Crown Affair
1968 A Hatful of Rain (TV Movie)
1968 Sweet November
1968 How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
1968 The Man in the Buick
1967 1999 A.D. (Short) (as Michel LeGrand)
1967 A Matter of Innocence
1967 The Oldest Profession
1967 The Young Girls of Rochefort
1966 Derrière l'écran (TV Series)
1966/II Le misanthrope (Short)
1966 The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
1966 Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
1966 Tender Scoundrel
1966 Et la femme créa l'amour
1966 L'or et le plomb
1966 Monkey Money
1966 A Matter of Resistance
1965 Fraternelle Amazonie (Documentary)
1965 When the Pheasants Pass
1965 Code Name: Jaguar
1964 À propos d'une star (Documentary short)
1964 Soleil (Documentary short)
1964 The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (segment "Grand escroc, Le")
1964 Band of Outsiders
1964 The Lovers of the France
1964 Agent 38-24-36
1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1963 Illuminations (Documentary short)
1963 La douceur du village (Documentary)
1963 Maigret voit rouge
1963 Le joli mai (Documentary)
1963 Love Is a Ball
1963 Bay of Angels
1962 Histoire d'un petit garçon devenu grand (Short)
1962 Jouer a Paris (Documentary short)
1962 The Empire of Night
1962 Eva
1962 The Gentleman from Epsom
1962 Vivre Sa Vie
1962 Comme un poisson dans l'eau
1962 Cleo from 5 to 7
1962 The Seven Deadly Sins (segments "Envie, L'", "Paresse, La", "Luxure, La", "Gourmandise, La", "Colère, La")
1962 A Swelled Head
1961 Melancholia (Short)
1961 Nom d'une pipe (Short)
1961 The Fiancés of the Bridge Mac Donald (Short)
1961 Un coeur gros comme ça
1961 Keep Talking, Baby
1961 The Counterfeiters of Paris
1961 A Woman Is a Woman
1961 Me faire ça à moi
1961 Lola
1960 Le coeur battant
1960 The Door Slams
1960 Jack of Spades
1960 Wasteland
1960 America As Seen by a Frenchman (Documentary)

1958 L'américain se détend (Short)
1958 Sinners of Paris
1957 The Tricyclist
1957 Maurice Chevalier's Paris (TV Movie documentary)
1955 Visages de Paris (Documentary short)

Soundtrack (190 credits)
Music department (60 credits)
Actor (8 credits)
Director (3 credits)
Writer (2 credits)
Producer (1 credit)
Thanks (2 credits)
Self (98 credits)
Archive footage (6 credits)
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1963: James Bond 007 contre Dr. No (Also: Docteur No; James Bond 007 contre docteur No) released in France.

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1965: Alan Cumming is born--Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland.
1966: Tamlyn Naomi Tomita is born--Okinawa, Japan.

1979: Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike is born--Hammersmith, London, England.

2010: Martin Ryan Grace dies at age 67--Spain.
(Born 12 September 1942--Lisdowney, County Kilkenny, Ireland.)

News > Obituaries

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 (1942–2010)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0333370/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Stunts (74 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 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)
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: 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

http://clontubrid.ie/index.php/projects/local-hero/images-of-martins-career/

2012: Fire from a Skyfall catering lorry spreads to the roof of a Pinewood studio building but does not affect filming.

2023: GoldenEye 007 Comes to Nintendo Switch and Xbox.

GoldenEye 007 is hitting
Nintendo Switch and Xbox this week.

See the complete article here:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/goldeneye-007-comes-to-nintendo-switch-xbox-on-friday/

GoldenEye 007 Comes to Nintendo Switch, Xbox on Friday
The iconic 1997 Nintendo 64 first-person shooter brings classic James Bond action to Nintendo Switch Online and Xbox Game Pass.
Jan. 26, 2023 9:01 a.m. PT

Guards confront James Bond in a GoldenEye 007 screenshot

Load up your silenced PP7s and prime those remote mines: GoldenEye 007 is coming to the Nintendo Switch Online and Xbox Game Pass subscription services this Friday, Jan. 27. The beloved James Bond first-person shooter originally hit the N64 in 1997, and this will be the game's first rerelease since then.

Online multiplayer will be exclusive to the Switch release, the official 007 website noted, but this version will otherwise be the same as the N64 original. It's unclear if you'll be able to use twin-stick controls -- the N64 controller only had one stick, but the Switch offers two and the original game allowed you to do by using two controllers (gaming was weird in the '90s).

You'll need to be subscribed to Switch Online's $50-a-year Expansion Pack tier to access GoldenEye and other N64 games.

The Game Pass version (playable on Xbox One and Xbox Series X and S) will include "alternative control options, achievements to unlock and native 16:9 resolution up to 4K Ultra HD," Craig Duncan, head of Microsoft-owned developer Rare, said in a blog post Wednesday. So it offers more modern bells and whistles than the Switch release, but lacks online multiplayer (you'll still have local splitscreen).

A subscription costs $10 a month, though people who own a digital copy of Rare Replay, the 30-game compilation of classics that came out in 2015, will also get access to GoldenEye for free.

GoldenEye's return was revealed in a Nintendo Direct livestream last September.

As a licensed tie-in to the 1995 movie that introduced actor Pierce Brosnan as the legendary British agent, the game won critical acclaim for its fun single-player campaign and epic split-screen competitive multiplayer. It became the N64's third bestselling title, with 8.09 million units sold -- it was only topped by Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64, which sold 11.91 million and 9.87 million copies, respectively.

Rare also developed GoldenEye followup Perfect Dark for the N64 in 2000, before Microsoft acquired the company in 2002.

Fans have been expecting a remaster for Microsoft's Xbox Series X and S to be revealed for months, since achievements for it have leaked multiple times. It was reportedly planned for release on Xbox 360 in the late 2010s, and an apparent extended gameplay video appeared in 2016. At the time, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said the game's licensing rights complicated efforts to get it on the console. The versions coming on Friday don't appear to be the remasters; the Switch release seems visually identical to the N64 one, while the Xbox release looks like an upscaled edition of the original.

"Great to see that GE007 is being made available again. I hope this means that a new generation will get to experience and enjoy the game," David Doak, a developer whose face was famously used for in-game Bond ally Dr. Doak, tweeted after the announcement last September. "It was an absolute privilege to be part of the talented team that created it 25 years ago."

Characters battle in a four-player splitscreen match in GoldenEye 007
Prepare to revisit some '90s splitscreen multiplayer chaos.
Rare

He also tweeted a recent shot of him dressed like his in-game counterpart, and joked that players shouldn't "come crying" to him if they have trouble unlocking the infamous Invincibility cheat. That's one of the game's most difficult challenges -- you have to beat the Facility level in under 2 minutes, 5 seconds to get it.

Doak has spoken at length about the game's development over the years, and tweeted a 1997 shot of the original development team on Wednesday.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of Bond's first appearance, in author Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale. Last year was the 60th anniversary of the Bond movie franchise -- with latest film No Time to Die now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video -- but the series is in a state of flux as fans await the announcement of Daniel Craig's successor in the role. Hitman developer IO Interactive is also working on its own Bond game.

GoldenEye 007 – Xbox Game Pass Date Reveal Trailer (0:52)

2023: Ciné-Club Online Discussion: The Man from Acapulco (Le Magnifique) on Zoom.

Ciné-Club Online Discussion: The Man from Acapulco (Le
Magnifique)
A film by Philippe de Broca

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At Online Activity via Zoom

Who said that French cinema is all about drama, heartache and doom and gloom? Join Barbara for an online discussion after you watch - at your leisure - the classic French comedy, Le Magnifique with French superstar Jean-Paul Belmondo. The movie is available on our partner's channel, TV5Monde On Demand, also through the Sling TV App.

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About the movie:
François Merlin (Belmondo) is a pulp espionage novels author who attempts to write his 43rd book, featuring superspy Bob Sinclar, from his dusty apartment, in his pajamas and charentaises. About half of the film plays in his imagination, where he is Bob Sinclar, flamboyantly battling villains in exotic countries, surrounded by beautiful women. A very entertaining spoof on James Bond movies and Gérard de Villiers pulp novels by master of French comedies Philippe de Broca.

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January 28th

1965: Dedos de oro (Fingers of Gold) released in Argentina.

1965: 007 Contra Goldfinger (007 Against Goldfinger) released in Brazil.

1973: The New York Times reports on jumping boats in Live and Let Die.

Jumping Boats: James Bond Film
Goes to Any Length

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1973/01/28/archives/jumping-boats-james-bond-film-goes-to-any-length.html

By Bill Pearsall | Jan. 28, 1973

James Bond has done it again—eluded a band of treacherous rascals, this time by soaring through the air in an outboard boat to vault a highway in a spectacular leap of 110 feet.

Bond's achievement marks a new distance record in the esoteric sport of jumping boats. At least, that's the consensus of small‐craft skippers who were witnesses recently to the filming of a new James Bond movie, “Live and Let Die,” which will be released next June.

In the picture, Bond, on a mission for Her Majesty, attempts to break a harddrug ring on a Caribbean island from whence he is pursued to New Orleans by a gaggle of “heavies.” It is in Louisiana that Bond and the villains engage in a chase with jet, stern‐drive and outboard‐powered boats.

In the chase scene, Roger Moore, as Bond, is joined by 29‐year‐old Jerry Comeaux, a stunt man and technical adviser to the star. “The two put on some dazzling acrobatics,” said a cameraman who photographed them driving boats through barricades, under a bridge, across a lawn at a wedding reception and into the open mouth of an ancient Navy LST.

In a critical segment of the chase, Bond, in his boat, is pursued by the heavies in their craft down a canal, which is bisected by a gravel roadway. Bond reaches the intersection of canal and roadway at precisely the moment a sheriff, in his car, comes to a careening halt with one of the “baddies” driving a hard‐top convertible. The latter are directly in the path of Secret Agent 007. Bond has no choice. He must run his boat up an embankment, hurtle over the automobiles, soar across the roadway and land safely in the water on the other side of the canal.

The setup was such that Bond's boat, driven by Comeaux, had to make a straightline approach to the ramp, anchored dead center at the end of the canal. The canal, itself, was barely 50 feet wide. Its middle, on the approach to the ramp, had been dredged by a trapline. Shoal water lay on either side of the dredged area.

“The base of the ramp,” Comeaux said, “marked a critical point of no return. There was no alternative— no veering off to right or left. Either I jumped—or else.”

In making the jump, Comeaux drove a Glastron GT‐150 runabout, mounting a 135‐horsepower Evinrude Starflite engine. Boat and motor were tailored to the task. The boat is a deep‐vee 15‐footer, weighing 585 pounds.

Two wooden strakes were bolted to the after portion of its bottom. The strakes, equidistant on either side of the keel, were designed to keep the boat upright as it traveled up the ramp. This they did admirably, according to Comeaux. However, they also caused the boat to “surge” at planing speed.

Comeaux estimated that he needed a jump speed of 56 miles an hour. To achieve this speed and to decrease the boat's surging attitude, Evinrude assigned Ray Heurtin, a youthful technical adviser, to the film. Heurtin reached into a bag of tricks that has proved successful on the racing circuit. The first was to jack up the motor on the boat's transom. The second was to fit the motor with a cleaver racing pro

The jack‐up was accomplished by through‐bolting an aluminum plate to the transom. This permitted the motor to be raised four inches above its normal transom height. The cleaver propeller is a surfacing prop. One half of the propeller works out of the water at all times. The combination of these factors tends to raise boat and motor from its element.

The critical “jump day” for the Bond film was on a recent Monday on an isolated waterway in the Louisiana bayou. About 300 townspeople gathered on a nearby levee to witness the attempted leap.

The film's assistant director called for quiet as the crew prepared to record sound. Comeaux gunned his boat and streaked down the canal. On target, he was up and over the ramp, hurtling nearly 12 feet above the roadway, sailing over two automobiles on a trajectory that carried him 110 feet before he landed the GT‐150 on the other side of the canal. The crowd cheered.

“This jump stands as an all‐time record,” said Jim Rusing, a former Cypress Gardens skier and boat driver, now producing water shows at Sea World, San Diego.

2000: Lumea nu e suficientă released in Romania.
2008: Quantum of Solace films the interrogation of Mr. White.

2012: BOND 23 films at Smithfield Market, OO7 travels to MI6's "new digs".
2013: Bernard Horsfall dies at age 82--Isle of Skye, Scotland.
(Born 20 November 1930--Bisshops Stortford, Herfordshire, England.)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bernard Horsfall (1930–2013)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0395420/

Filmography

Actor (109 credits)

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

1995 Queen of the East (TV Movie) - Sir William Pitt
1988-1995 Casualty (TV Series)
Gerald Lassiter / Dr. Alex Upchurch, Coroner / Tom Baxter
- When All Else Fails (1995) ... Gerald Lassiter
- Judgement Day (1991) ... Dr. Alex Upchurch, Coroner
- Welcome to Casualty (1988) ... Tom Baxter
1995 Braveheart - Balliol
1993 Seekers (TV Series) - Major Hurley
- Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Major Hurley
1992 Nice Town (TV Mini-Series) - Peter Dobson
- Idyll (1992) ... Peter Dobson
- Unto Us a Child Is Born (1992) ... Peter Dobson
- Immaculate Conception (1992) ... Peter Dobson
1992 Between the Lines (TV Series) - Ch. Const. Gordon
- The Chill Factor (1992) ... Ch. Const. Gordon
1992 Virtual Murder (TV Series) - Professor Donn
- A Torch for Silverado (1992) ... Professor Donn
1992 The Advocates (TV Series) - Lord Thornhill (3 episodes)
1991 Thatcher: The Final Days (TV Movie) - Alan Clark
1991 For the Greater Good (TV Series) - Prime Minister
- Minister (1991) ... Prime Minister
1991 Poirot (TV Series) - Harrington Pace
- The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge (1991) ... Harrington Pace

1989 Chelworth (TV Mini-Series) - Albert Blackwell
- You Can't Beat Mozart (1989) ... Albert Blackwell
1989 The Bill (TV Series) - Dr. de Beyfus
- Getting It Right (1989) ... Dr. de Beyfus
1988 The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV Movie) - Frankland
1986 First Among Equals (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Nigel Hartwell
- Episode #1.5 (1986) ... Sir Nigel Hartwell
- Episode #1.4 (1986) ... Sir Nigel Hartwell
1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Doctor
- A Distant Scream (1984) ... Doctor
1984 Weekend Playhouse (TV Series) - Logan Mayhew
- Grand Duo (1984) ... Logan Mayhew
1984 Goodbye Days (TV Movie) - Armitage
1984 Strangers and Brothers (TV Series) - Dr. Bradbury
- Episode #1.13 (1984) ... Dr. Bradbury
1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV Mini-Series) - Major General Rankin
- Regimental Silver (1984) ... Major General Rankin
1982 Gandhi - General Edgar
1982 Juliet Bravo (TV Series) - Jack Driscoll
- A Breach of the Peace (1982) ... Jack Driscoll
1982 Inside the Third Reich (TV Movie) - Fritz Todt
1976-1982 Crown Court (TV Series) - Prosecuting Counsel / Mr. Baldwin
- Face Value: Part 1 (1982) ... Prosecuting Counsel
- The Merry Widow: Part 1 (1981)
- Beyond the Call of Duty: Part 1 (1976) ... Mr. Baldwin
1982 Badger by Owl-Light (TV Series) - Hardekker (3 episodes)
1982 Minder (TV Series) - Mr. Russel QC
- Poetic Justice, Innit? (1982) ... Mr. Russel QC
1981 Echoes of Louisa (TV Series) - Roger Burr
- The Quarry (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Trip (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Ride (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Secret (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Meeting (1981) ... Roger Burr
- The Homecoming (1981) ... Roger Burr
1981 When the Boat Comes In (TV Series) - Rowse
- Back to Dear Old Blighty (1981) ... Rowse
1980 The Square Leopard (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Percival
- Episode #1.4 (1980) ... Det. Insp. Percival
1980 Ladykillers (TV Series) - Melford Stevenson, Q.C.
- Lucky, Lucky Thirteen! (1980) ... Melford Stevenson, Q.C.
1980 Turtle's Progress (TV Series) - Janos
- Episode #2.4 (1980) ... Janos
1978-1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Dr. Philip Martel / Dr. Philip Martell
- Escape (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- From a View to a Death (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Right Blood (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- War Game (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Jealousy (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Post Mortem (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Committee Man (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- No Quarter Given (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Angels That Soar Above (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Judgement of Solomon (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Prussian Officer (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Pains and Penalties (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Treason (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Jerrybag (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- Officers of the Law (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Polish Affaire (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- V for Victory (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Laws and Usages of War (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martell
- Steel Hand from the Sea (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- After the Ball (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- The Librarian (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
- By Order of the Fuhrer (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel

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

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

2016: Last night for the Aston Martin window display at Harrods, London.

Harrods Aston Martin Window Shopping

See the complete article here:

https://justbritish.com/harrods-aston-martin-window-shopping/

January 10, 2016 Staff Aston Martin, Classic Cars, Corporate Business, Highlights

As the Christmas displays disappear, shoppers in London’s Knightsbridge are to be treated to the sight of a very special Aston Martin window display in Harrods, the world’s most famous luxury department store.

Three stunning Aston Martin sports cars will take over the iconic Harrods storefront in a month-long celebration of the British marques’ ‘DB’ nameplate. Since their debut in the early 1950s, the ‘DB’ models offered by Aston Martin – named after Sir David Brown who bought Aston Martin in 1947 – have been synonymous with sophisticated grand touring and thrilling sports car performance.

Taking pride of place is the Aston Martin DB10, the car that was built specifically for James Bond. Aston Martin has been associated with the James Bond franchise for over 50 years, with the DB10 exclusively designed, engineered and hand crafted for the latest Bond film, Spectre. Bond fans will get another chance to enjoy Spectre with the Blu-ray™ and DVD release on 22 February.

Also on display, the DB9 GT – the luxury British sports car maker’s most compelling production ‘DB’ to date. Designed to offer the best of what DB9 can be, this new model delivers world-class grand touring and hand-built excellence.

Finally, the Aston Martin DB5, arguably the most famous ‘DB’ of them all is also on display. Revealed in 1963, the car set the benchmark for all the DBs that followed, with its iconic design language and substantial improvements in performance.

Aston Martin Chief Creative Officer Marek Reichman said: “Harrods is one of the world’s most trusted luxury brands and we are delighted to join forces with them to create this rather unique display in tribute to our most famous nameplate.”

Specialists from Aston Martin headquarters will be available throughout the exhibition, providing visitors with an opportunity to discover more about the Aston Martin product range and the brand’s recently launched AM37 yacht, created in partnership with Quintessence Yachts. Both the window display and exhibition area will remain in place until 28 January.

Note: Press release courtesy of Aston Martin.

RichardTheBruce

January 29th

1931: Leslie Bricusse is born--Pinner, Harrow, Greater London, England.
(He dies 19 October 2021 at age 90.)

Leslie Bricusse, OBE

See the complete article here:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1962: Ursula Andress arrives in Jamaica, stays at the Courtleigh Manor Hotel, Kingston.

http://jamaicahotelhistory.com/brochures/Courtleigh-Manor-1956.htm

1965: 007 ja Kultasormi (007 and Gold Bull; Swedish: 007 och Guldfinger, 007 and Goldfinger) released in Finland.

1966: The Calgary Herald prints Pearl Sheffy's piece "The Man who got the Bond Going" regarding Harry Saltzman.

https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=BP5kAAAAIBAJ&pg=2849,7473734&dq=harry+saltzman+cuthbert&hl=en

1967: The Colgems label releases "The Look of Love" written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, sung by Dusty Springfield. Inspired by Ursula Andress in the film, says Bacharach.

1983: Varley Thomas dies at age 81--Ewell, Surrey, England.
(Born 29 November 1901--Wandsworth, Surrey, England.)

Varley Thomas (1901–1983)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859620/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

Biography

Born November 29, 1901 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England, UK
Died January 29, 1983 in Ewell, Surrey, England, UK
Birth Name Margaret Ada Thomas
Height 5' (1.52 m)

Varley Thomas was born on November 29, 1901 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England as Margaret Ada Thomas. She was an actress, known for Goldfinger (1964), Jack the Ripper (1973) and Home Tonight (1961). She died on January 29, 1983 in Ewell, Surrey.

Filmography

Actress (10 credits)

1973 Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-Series) - Emily Holland
- The First Two (1973) ... Emily Holland

1969 Public Eye (TV Series) - Janet
- The Comedian's Graveyard (1969) ... Janet
1967 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Mrs. Neehan
- A Family Likeness (1967) ... Mrs. Neehan
1966 Love Story (TV Series) - Minnie Fry
- Two's Company (1966) ... Minnie Fry
1965 Television Club (TV Series) - Mrs. Bostock
- The Brent Family: Its None of Your Business (1965) ... Mrs. Bostock
1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Neighbour
- The Rules of the Game (1965) ... Neighbour
1964 Crossroads (TV Series) - Madame Durand
1964 Goldfinger - Swiss Gatekeeper
1962 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Mrs. Coggins
- Accessories After the Fact (1962) ... Mrs. Coggins
1961 Home Tonight (TV Series) - Mrs. Jackson


Archive footage (2 credits)

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Old Lady with Gun
1964 Goldfinger: The World Premiere (Documentary short)

1995: BOND 17 films in Puerto Rico.
1998: Nintendo publishes James Bond 007 single-player game developed by Saffire in Europe.

James Bond 007 (1998 game)

See the complete article here:

https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/James_Bond_007_(1998_game)

James Bond 007
Game information:
Developer(s): Saffire
Publisher(s): Nintendo
Released:
NA February 9, 1998
EU January 29, 1998
Genre: Action-Adventure
Mode(s): Single-player
Platform(s): Game Boy
Series:
Preceded by: GoldenEye 007
Followed by: Tomorrow Never Dies

James Bond 007 is a 1998 action-adventure video game developed by Saffire and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. Capitalising on the success of GoldenEye 007, the game features an original story mixing together characters from multiple James Bond films, from Oddjob to Jaws. Unlike GoldenEye 007, this title was of the adventure genre, viewed from a top-down perspective. It also incorporated gambling mini-games such as Baccarat and Blackjack.

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Game Boy - James Bond 007 - 1998 Nintendo - Gameplay

2007: 皇家赌场 (Royal Casino) released in Beijing, China.

2014: British miniseries Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond starring Dominic Cooper premieres in the US.

Fleming

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2647420/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
TV-MA | 44min | Biography, Drama, Romance | TV Mini-Series (2014)

Look at the 007 creator, Ian Fleming, and his early life set against the permissive society of war-torn WWII London.

Cast
Dominic Cooper ... Ian Fleming
Lara Pulver ... Ann O'Neill
Samuel West ... Rear Admiral John Godfrey
Anna Chancellor ... Second Officer Monday
Rupert Evans ... Peter Fleming
Lesley Manville ... Evelyn Fleming
Pip Torrens ... Esmond Rothermere
Camilla Rutherford ... Loelia, Duchess of Westminster

2015: Spectre films airplane action at Obertilliach, Austria.

2015: Pierce Brosnan appears in a Bondian Super Bowl ad for Gia. And un-Bondian.

Pierce Brosnan & The Kia Sorento

RichardTheBruce

January 30th

1960: Bond comic strip Diamonds Are Forever ends its run in the Daily Express.
(Started 10 August 1959. 340-487) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/daf.php3?s=comics&id=01045

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

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

Diamantfeber
(Diamond Fever - Diamonds Are Forever)

Swedish Semic Comic 1988 https://mi6confidential.com/sections/comics/semic_1988.php3

Diamantfeber (Diamonds Are Forever - Part 1) | Diamantfeber (Diamonds Are Forever - Part 2)

Danish 1967 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no9-1967/

1971: Reports say American John Gavin is cast as Bond to appear in Diamonds Are Forever.

https://cometoverhollywood.com/2018/02/10/the-man-who-was-almost-bond-john-gavin/

1977: Bond comic strip When the Wizard Awakes begins its run in the Sunday Express.
(Ends 22 May 1977. 1-54) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1020

http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1020


Swedish Semic Comic 1978 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3

Trollkarlen + Stålspionen
("Magician + Steel Spy" -
Fear Face & When The Wizard Awakes)

Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no49-1979/

James Bond 007 no. 49:
“Nightbird/When the Wizard Awakes” (1979)

1992: Puffin Books publishes James Bond Jr novelization A View to a Thrill by John Vincent (aka John Peel).

1996: Guy Doleman dies at age --Los Angeles, California
(Born 22 November 1923--Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand.)

Guy Doleman

See the complete article here:

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

Guy Doleman in The Prisoner (1967)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2003: 新鐵金剛之不日殺機 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī bù rì shājī, New Iron King Kong's Imminent Murder) released in Hong Kong, China.

2006: BOND 21 filming begins in Prague, Czech Republic.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=3286&catid=2

2011: Press reports suggest Javier Bardem is in BOND 23.
2011: John Barry Prendergast dies at age 77--Oyster Bay, New York.
(Born 3 November 1933--York, North Yorkshire, England.)

John Barry obituary
Composer most closely associated with the golden age of James Bond but whose scores ranged from Midnight Cowboy to Dances With Wolves

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jan/31/john-barry-obituary
Adam Sweeting - Mon 31 Jan 2011 13.31 EST

John Barry in the recording studio, 1965. Photograph: Dezo Hoffmann / Rex Features

John Barry, who has died aged 77 following a heart attack, will always be associated with the golden age of James Bond, but though much of his most famous music was written to accompany the outlandish adventures of 007, his work covered a huge variety of moods and styles. Barry wrote epic, sweeping film scores for Zulu (1964), Born Free (1966) and Out of Africa (1985), introduced blues and jazz themes into The Chase (1966) and The Cotton Club (1984), and conceived the shivery, sinister music for The Ipcress File (1965). He even became something of a pop star in his own right.

He was born John Barry Prendergast in York, where his father ran a chain of cinemas. His mother was a talented musician, but had abandoned the attempt to establish herself as a concert pianist. "My father had seven or eight cinemas, so I was brought up in the cinema," he recalled. "I remember my dad carrying me through the foyer of the Rialto in York and pushing the swing doors open at a matinee. I was looking at this big black-and-white mouse on the screen, and he'd taken me to see a Mickey Mouse cartoon."

Barry cherished an early ambition to join the family business and become a projectionist, but the combination of film and music made a deep impression on him. He began taking piano lessons with Francis Jackson, master of the music at York Minster, and studied with the jazz arranger Bill Russo, who had worked with Stan Kenton's orchestra. His father was a jazz fan, and would present concerts by such stars as Kenton and Count Basie.

After national service with the army, Barry formed his own jazz combo, the John Barry Seven, and scored a string of pop hits during the late 50s and early 60s, including Hit and Miss (the theme from TV's Juke Box Jury), Walk Don't Run and Black Stockings.

Barry thrived on the feverish wave of creativity that made London the world's most fascinating city at the time. He socialised with Michael Caine and Terence Stamp, collaborated with the pop stars Adam Faith and Nina & Frederik, and guaranteed himself the attention of gossip columnists by marrying the actress Jane Birkin. In 1960 he was asked to write music for the Peter Sellers/Richard Todd vehicle Never Let Go and then for the Faith comedy Beat Girl.

In 1962, he was signed up to work on the first Bond film, Dr No, although only as back-up to the composer Monty Norman, for a fee of £250. The official story is that Barry merely arranged Norman's famous James Bond Theme, and when Barry claimed in a Sunday Times interview many years later that he had written it himself, Norman successfully sued for libel and was awarded £30,000 in damages.

Subsequently there was no such ambiguity, as Barry's scores for From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964) and [n]Thunderball[/b] (1965) became popular the world over. Such was the potency of the Bond mystique that Barry's soundtrack album for Goldfinger knocked the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night off the top of the American charts in 1964, and earned the composer his first gold disc. He scored 10 consecutive Bond films and decided he had had enough after The Living Daylights (1987) because "all the good books had been done". 

In 1969, he scored John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy, one of the first movies to use a selection of pop songs on the soundtrack. It was a technique that would be copied by countless imitators. "That movie is still shown at the cinema school at UCLA as the epitome of how songs should be used in the movies," Barry said in 1997. "We only bought in a couple of songs, Everybody's Talkin', sung by Harry Nilsson, and a John Lennon song, and for the rest we got young songwriters to score the scenes with songs. The songs work because they were written for the movie."

However, Barry always gave credit to the great classically influenced Hollywood film composers, such as Bernard Herrmann or Max Steiner, and echoes of their work would frequently bubble up in his own. Barry's music was used on the soundtracks of many other films – The Knack (1965), The Quiller Memorandum (1966), The Lion in Winter (1968), Murphy's War (1971), The Day of the Locust (1975), Raise the Titanic (1980), Body Heat (1981), Jagged Edge (1985), Chaplin (1992), Dances With Wolves (1990) and Indecent Proposal (1993) – and he was a natural choice to write the theme for the Roger Moore/Tony Curtis TV series, The Persuaders!

He won five Oscars, including two for Born Free and one each for The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa and Dances With Wolves. He also won Bafta's Anthony Asquith award for The Lion in Winter, and a Grammy for Dances With Wolves. In 1998 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

Barry had never needed a career boost, but during the 1990s he found himself being feted by a younger generation of artists, including David Arnold, who had stepped into the role of James Bond's personal composer for Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Arnold masterminded the Shaken and Stirred album in homage to Barry's Bond music, and commented that "for me the success of the Bond series was 50% Sean Connery and 50% John Barry". Barry was delighted by Arnold's enthusiasm. "I think Shaken and Stirred is terrific. David Arnold has kept all the essence of the originals, and he's cast it beautifully with all the different performers. It has a real freshness and rhythmic impetus, which sounds very now."

A throat cancer scare in 1989 slowed Barry's work rate, but his ambition remained undimmed. In 1998 he released The Beyondness of Things, a "tone poem" unconnected to any film and which he presented as a concert piece. "It's amazing to work without film or without a director or producer," commented Barry, who was appointed OBE in 1999. "I love doing films, but it's been refreshing to work with such total freedom."

It was rumoured that Beyondness … had been derived from his rejected score for The Horse Whisperer, and a certain sameness of mood could be discerned creeping into his compositions. Perhaps recognising the need for fresh stimulus, he signed up to collaborate with the lyricist Don Black and director Michael Attenborough on a stage musical version of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, which had a short run in London in 2004. "I don't mind people going on about my past as long as I've still got a future," said Barry, "and I've got plenty of things coming up."

In 2006, Barry was executive producer on the album Here's to the Heroes by the Australian group the Ten Tenors. It featured several songs he had written with Black. The duo also wrote a new song, Our Time Is Now, for Shirley Bassey's 2009 album The Performance, their first for her since Diamonds Are Forever.

Barry, who had lived in Oyster Bay, New York state, since 1980, is survived by his fourth wife Laurie, their son Jonpatrick, and three daughters, Susie, Sian and Kate.

Eddi Fiegel writes:

I wrote to John Barry in 1997 telling him I had been commissioned to write his biography. I heard nothing for months but then, just at the point when I had almost given up hope of a reply, I got a message on my answerphone saying, "This is John Barry. I'm in London working at Abbey Road studios. Why don't you come in and we can meet?"

He immediately put me at ease with a dry, self-deprecating humour and extraordinary personal charm. A few days later we had the first of many epic lunches at his favourite London restaurant, Rules, in Covent Garden.

He had an excellent memory and was a superb raconteur – a gift for a biographer. Like many artists he could also veer between insecurity and supreme confidence. When he arranged to play his first British concert in decades at the Albert Hall, he asked me: "Do you think people will come?"

Another day, however, I mentioned to him that an electronic dance act had recently recorded what they described as a tribute to his television theme to The Persuaders! I played it to him, curious to know what he would make of it. He listened in silence. Then after a pause, he said: "It's not as good as The Persuaders!, is it?"

• John Barry (John Barry Prendergast), composer and songwriter, born 3 November 1933; died 30 January 2011
• The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday 10 February 2011. In this article, we said that John Barry scored 10 consecutive Bond films; in fact he scored six consecutively, 11 in all. We quoted Barry as saying that the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack included a John Lennon song. It contained two songs by Elephants Memory, who worked with Lennon, but none written by him. Barry had a ruptured oesophagus in the late 80s, rather than a throat cancer scare. The film Beat Girl is not a comedy, although Halliwell's film guide describes it as risible melodrama.

• This obituary was further amended on 24 February 2015. Earlier versions said that Barry was born Jonathan, rather than John, Barry Prendergast.

John Barry (I) (1933–2011)
Music Department | Soundtrack | Composer

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Filmography

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RichardTheBruce

January 31st

1942: Daniela Bianchi is born--Rome, Lazio, Italy.

1960: The Sunday Times of London prints Ian Fleming's "The Thrilling Cities: Hong Kong."
1963: Dr. No released in the Netherlands.
1964: A 007, dalla Russia con amore (At 007, From Russia With Love) released in Italy.

1970: Minnie Driver is born--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.
1972: Richard Burton in his diary records his feelings on Sean Connery and Diamonds Are Forever.

https://mobile.twitter.com/burtondiaries/status/1223313450941722628

31 Jan 72 We went to see a James Bond film yesterday afternoon called Diamonds are Forever.....His Scots accent was more pronounced than ever - perhaps deliberately - perhaps indicating Home Rule for Scotland. He has become a devout nationalist. Anyway it was all good clean fun.

1973: B.J. Arnau films her Filet of Soul scenes at Pinewood Studios.

2003: Die Another Day released in Norway. Filming used several Norway locations, doubling for Iceland and the car chase across the ice.

Die Another Day (2002)
Filming & Production

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246460/locations

Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
(ice car chase - ice palace environs - additional filming)

Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway
(ice cliffs - plate for cgi)

Jostedal Glacier National Park, Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
(ice car chase - ice palace environs - additional filming)

2003: La morte può attendere (Death Can Wait) released in Switzerland (Italian speaking region, after French and German speaking regions).

2003: 誰與爭鋒 (Shuí yǔ zhēngfēng, Who is Fighting) released in Taiwan.

2008: Paul Foronoff in the South China Morning Post writes about Hong Kong's Jane Bond film phenomenon.

Film studies: Jane Bond

See the complete article here:

https://www.scmp.com/article/624985/film-studies-jane-bond

Paul Fonoroff | 31 Jan, 2008

One facet of Hong Kong cinema's unique take on feminism is gloriously highlighted in the Hong Kong Film Archive's retrospective, Licensed to Kick (Men) - The Jane Bond Films. One of the more over-the-top subgenres in the 1960s, these James Bond knock-offs are far more than the transplanting of a Hollywood trend onto Hong Kong celluloid. Two aspects stand out: the primacy of women in what was originally a male-dominated genre, and the ability of local filmmakers to not only embrace a western fad but transform it into something distinctively Hong Kong.

Even four decades ago, both of these aspects had already enjoyed a long history on the local stage and screen. The sex-segregated nature of Cantonese opera troupes until the 30s fostered gender-bending conventions that persisted well beyond, ensuring that 60s audiences were comfortable watching women play men's roles and vice versa.

Even though talking pictures overtook live performances in popularity in the post-war era, the theatrical heritage lived on-screen in the presence of many Cantonese opera-trained stars. Yam Kim-fai is the most famous example of a woman who almost always donned male garb regardless of whether the setting was historical or contemporary.

The tradition was given a breath of fresh air in the 60s by teen idols like Connie Chan Po-chu, while in Mandarin movies, Ivy Ling Po's success in cross-dressing costume spectacles led her to become Shaw Brothers' top star.

Gender-bending aside, the pre-60s Hong Kong filmography contained a lengthy roster of action adventures featuring swordswomen, lady thieves and female Robin Hoods. For the city's producers, performers, and the ticket-buying public, a transition to 007-style spies wasn't too much of a stretch.

The 60s saw feisty females like Connie Chan, Josephine Siao Fong-fong, Nam Hung and Suet Nei wearing trendy pantsuits, mini-skirts, and ingenious disguises to battle nefarious villains in camp classics like Black Rose (1965), Spy With My Face (right, 1966), The Cat Eyed Girl (1967), The Iron Lady Against the One Eyed Dragon (1967) and Gold Skeleton (1967).

Mandarin pictures also hopped onto the Jane Bond bandwagon, Shaw Brothers leading the way with thrillers sporting exploitable titles such as Angel With the Iron Fists (1967), Operation Lipstick (1967) and The Brain Stealers (1968). These were more opulent and more sexist than their Cantonese counterparts, with actresses like Lily Ho Li-li and Tina Chin Fei displaying more curves than fighting prowess.

The Jane Bond craze peaked in 1967 and fizzled out by the end of the decade, coinciding with the demise of Cantonese-language cinema and the rise of a new generation of muscular male stars like Ti Lung and Bruce Lee. New modes in martial arts and kung fu became all the rage, and the genre's formerly powerful leading lady was relegated to little more than supporting status - if she appeared at all. The decades since have witnessed relatively few actresses able to attain the status of superstar. Gone, too, was Jane Bond as a viable subgenre.

Sam Hui Koon-kit scored a huge hit with his 007-like Aces Go Places series in the 80s, with no female rivals in sight. Jane's condition experienced a brief recovery with the unexpected critical and popular success of 92 The Legendary La Rose Noire (1992), a wacky homage to Spy With My Face. But a feeble attempt to update the genre in The Heroic Trio proved to be a flop, due more to the filmmakers' muddled vision than viewers' reluctance to accept the heroic female trio of Anita Mui Yim-fong, Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng, and Maggie Cheung Man-yuk.

Fifteen years later, there are even fewer women with box office clout, relegating Jane Bond and her ilk to the realm of retrospectively explored iconography.

Licensed to Kick (Men) - The Jane Bond Films, ends Mar 2, HK Film Archive, 50 Lei King Rd, Sai Wan Ho

Paul Fonoroff
A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Paul began learning Mandarin while in high school, continuing his Chinese studies as an undergraduate at Brown University and Singapore's Nanyang University. After earning a Masters in Fine Arts in cinema at the University of Southern California, he obtained a grant to research Chinese cinema at Peking University from 1980-82. He moved to Hong Kong in 1983 and began writing for the South China Morning Post in 1988. A collection of his articles was published as At the Hong Kong Movies, 600 Reviews from 1988 till the Handover. In addition to writing, he hosted over one thousand movie-related TV shows in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English, and had roles in twenty movies. He is a member of the Hong Kong Film Critics Society and the Performing Artists Guild of Hong Kong, and is an advisor to the Hong Kong Film Archives. His research resulted in one of the world's largest collections of Chinese and Hong Kong movie publications, posters, and memorabilia, a portion of which was highlighted in his book, Silver Light, A Pictorial History of Hong Kong Cinema 1920-1970. The collection was recently acquired by the University of California-Berkeley's Starr East Asian Library, which in 2017 launched the Paul Fonoroff Collection as a major research facility for Chinese cinema studies.

Jane Bond - The Mulan of Hong Kong Cinema


https://spyvibe.blogspot.com/2014/08/jane-bond-records.html

2019: The London ceremony for the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) presents producer Barbara Broccoli a Casting Society of America (CSA) UK Artios Award for lifetime achievement.

https://jamesbond007.se/eng/nyheter/barbara_broccoli_casting_society_of_america_award
Barbara Broccoli recipient of CSA Lifetime Achievement Award

Accepting the award, Barbara Broccoli said:
“There is no job for me that is too small or too big. Get those pitches ready...!”

RichardTheBruce

February 1st

1960: Bond comic strip From Russia with Love begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Ends 21 May 1960. 488-583) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=985

Swedish Semic Comic 1980 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1980.php3

Agent 007 Ser Rött
("Agent 007 See Red" - From Russia With Love)

Swedish Semic Comic 1987 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1987.php3

Agent 007 Ser Rött
("Agent 007 See Red" - From Russia With Love)

Danish 1966 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-no-5-frwl-1966-eng/

1961: Mrs. James Bond writes Ian Fleming and calls his Bond "a rascal."

The Man with the Golden Typewriter, Fergus Fleming (Editor), 2015.

TO MRS. JAMES BOND, 721, Davidson Road, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
18, Pasadena

'It was inevitable we should catch up with you. . . " On which ominous note
Mrs James Bond began her letter of 1 February 1961. Fleming had never
made any secret of the fact that he had borrowed his name from one
of his favorite books, Birds of the West Indies, by the American orni-
thologist James Bond. But now, almost ten years after he had written
Casino Royale, news reached the Bonds that 'you had brazenly picked
up the name of a real human being for your rascal.' They didn't really
mind, as the real Bond had led an adventurous life, his colorful exploits
not being too far, in the ornithological scale of things, from those of his fic-
tional equivalent. 'I told MY JB he could sue you for defamation of charac-
ter,' Mrs. Bond concluded cheerfully. 'JBBA [James Bond British
Agent] is too much fun for that and JB authenticus regards the whole thing
as "a joke".'

1974: Crazy Magazine features James Bond.

https://museumofuncutfunk.com/2012/03/28/live-and-let-sky-crazy-magazine-2-circa-1974/

1992: This month Marvel Comics releases James Bond Jr #2 "The Eiffel Missile".
Episode 9 of the cartoon features Dr. Derange.

James Bond Jr Issue 2 The Eiffel Missile
http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-002/


https://www.bedetheque.com/BD-James-Bond-Jr-1992-Tome-2-The-Eiffel-Missile-365316.html

1993: This Is Your Life records a show with Honor Blackman, her second.

Honor BLACKMAN (1925-2020)

See the complete article here:

https://www.bigredbook.info/honor_blackman_2.html

Honor Blackman This Is Your Life

THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Honor Blackman, actress, was surprised by Michael Aspel during an interview at Thames Television's Teddington Studios.

Honor trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and after securing roles in several West End plays was offered a film contract as a Rank starlet. She appeared in a steady stream of films throughout the 1950s, but achieved fame in 1962 as Cathy Gale in the television series The Avengers, which led, two years later, to her role as Bond girl Pussy Galore in the third James Bond film Goldfinger.

Her theatre productions include the London revival of The Sound of Music in 1981, and On Your Toes in 1984, as well as several pantomimes during the 1980s. In 1990 she was cast as man-eater Laura West in the popular ITV situation comedy The Upper Hand.

Honor Blackman was a subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions – previously surprised by Eamonn Andrews in December 1969 at Thames Television's Euston Road Studios.

"Oh my goodness!"

programme details...
Edition No: 857
Subject No: second timer
Broadcast date: Wed 17 Feb 1993
Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
Recorded: Mon 1 Feb 1993
Venue: Teddington Studios
Series: 33
Edition: 21
Code name: Obey

on the guest list...
Barnaby – son
Lottie – daughter
Maurice Kaufmann
Diana Weston
Joe McGann
Kellie Bright
William Puttock
Christopher Walker
Leonard White
Jackie Pallo
Elspet Gray
June Whitfield
Tim Flavin
Norman Wisdom
Filmed tributes:
Patrick Macnee
Ronnie Corbett
Richard Johnson
Ray Cooney

Honor Blackman THIS IS YOUR LIFE (February 1993)

1993: This month Dark Horse Comics releases James Bond 007: Serpent's Tooth #3.
Paul Gulacy, artist. Doug Moench, writer.

James Bond 007: Serpent's Tooth #3

Would you destroy the world to make a new, perfect one? Indigo plays God and Bond is the serpent in Indigo's New Eden. Serpent's Tooth delivers all the Bond action, all the Bond thrills, and all the Bond savoir faire. There's no way anyone should miss the exciting conclusion to this incredible series. Written by Doug Moench (Batman/Dracula: Red Rain) with art by Paul Gulacy (Terminator: Secondary Objectives) and color by Steve Oliff (John Byrne's 2112). Painted cover by Gulacy.

Creators
Writer: Doug Moench
Artist: Paul Gulacy
Letterer: Pat Brosseau
Colorist: Steve Oliff
Editor: Jerry Prosser & Dick Hansom
Cover Artist: Paul Gulacy
Genre: Action/Adventure

Publication Date: February 01, 1993

1995: Dark Horse Comics releases James Bond 007: The Quasimodo Gambit #2.
Gary Caldwell, artist. Don McGregor, write.

James Bond 007: Quasimodo Gambit #2

Bond's midnight excursion into The Estate for the Disciples of the Heavenly Way reveals that the believers are more than just quiet and devout -- they're fanatical soldiers bent on the destruction of The Beast -- whatever that is! Following leads and his instincts, he heads deep into the Georgia swamps, only to find his worst fears confirmed and a bloody nightmare from which he cannot escape!

Creators
Writer: Don McGregor
Artist: Gary Caldwell
Letterer: Elitta Fell
Editor: Edward Martin III & Robert Conte
Cover Artist: Christopher Moeller
Genre: Action/Adventure

Publication Date: February 01, 1995

2002: Die Another Day films 007 escaping the military medical facility.
2005: Actor Pierce Brosnan posts a letter on his Web site confirming an end to his involvement with Bond, detailing his future projects, and thanking fans for their support through the uncertainty of the previous year.

February 1, 2005

Dear Friends,

Is it too late to say Happy New Year? I don't think so. I've just come back from The Sundance Film Festival. It was the first outing for my company Irish DreamTime with our independent film The Matador which was greeted warmly and heralded a great success. In fact, we sold out all eight performances and received a standing ovation!

From start to finish the movie was a joy to make. The cast and crew were a tight outfit. Of course when you only have a cast of three main characters, and when those players are actors like Greg Kinnear and Hope Davis, well, it was a walk in the park. We shot the entire movie in Mexico City in early spring of last year. The city and her people embraced us all, and in return we were seduced by her charms; it was truly a gifted time.

Immediately following Sundance, we sold our film The Matador, to none other than Mr. Harvey Weinstein at Miramax. To say that we are happy and overjoyed is an understatement. These moments must be cherished, shared, and enjoyed with friends as they don't come around that often.

Next up…

Irish DreamTime is going full steam ahead on Thomas Crown 2, AKA The Topaki Affair, along with Lochinvar and a few other projects we are developing. In the meantime, life is filled with family. This time at home away from the hustle and bustle of location life is wonderful. I could get used to it.

I would like to thank all of you who have supported me over the last year or so in regard to my playing Bond. It was a decade of my life that I will always hold dear to my heart and a time that will never be forgotten. And you dear friends stood by me throughout. Many, many thanks! But everything comes to an end, and one must accept this decision which cannot be dealt with in any other way but with some kind of grace and knowledge that I did the job to the best of my ability.

So let us all go out there into each new day and be great, to ourselves and each other.

Love and only love,

Pierce Brosnan

2011: Rob Hastings in the Independent rolls up the tributes to John Barry.

Tributes to John Barry,
the man with the Midas touch for movie music

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/tributes-to-john-barry-the-man-with-the-midas-touch-for-movie-music-2200165.html
Rob Hastings | @robhastings | Tuesday 1 February 2011 01:00

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The skill of a great film composer is to marry moving images with sound in such a way that they seem organically linked. Yesterday the superlative John Barry united film and music one last time, as figures from both circles offered tributes to his career on the news of his death at 77.

Mr Barry, who died of a heart attack in his adopted home city of New York, played a vital part in establishing the James Bond films in the public imagination. There was far more to his career than the spy movie franchise, however. He won a total of five Oscars for his work on Dances With Wolves, Out Of Africa, The Lion In Winter and Born Free, for which he won two.

Many of his most famous and evocative scores were written in the 1960s during the age of Beatlemania, a phenomenon of which James Bond clearly disapproved. Sean Connery, playing Bond in Goldfinger, states: "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."

Yet prior to his film-scoring career, Mr Barry had considerable success with his own pop group, the John Barry Seven, which he formed in 1957. And while his first passion was classical music – his idol was Gustav Mahler – together with lyricists such as Don Black and Leslie Bricusse he composed grand orchestral melodies that were still catchy enough to create some of the decade's most memorable pop songs. Thunderball remains one of the most popular numbers in Tom Jones' repertoire, while You Only Live Twice – featuring Nancy Sinatra – proved so timeless that it was sampled prominently in Robbie Williams' number one single Millennium more then 30 years later.

Yesterday Tim Rice paid tribute to this versatility, saying: "He made these great rock 'n' roll records and then you heard these symphonic works as well."

Born in York in 1933, Barry was the son of a former concert pianist and the owner of a small chain of cinemas. His youth was therefore steeped in piano music and the movies, before he discovered jazz in his teens and took up the trumpet. He began arranging music during his two years of national service with the army, and on being asked to score his first movie in 1960 found he had a natural talent.

Don Black, who wrote the lyrics for Born Free, told The Independent that the death of the man he considered one of his best friends for the past 50 years came as a shock. "He was a bit fragile the last year – he was never very robust anyway – but he wasn't ill," he said.

Black fondly remembers the John Barry of his youth, who bore more than a passing resemblance to the Bond man-about-town and over long lunches tended to consume more alcohol than food.

"In his hell-raising days he used to drink too much and I used to end up taking him home, though that hadn't happened for the last 30 years. He used to have lots of beautiful women and fancy cars and all of that. He was a handsome, eligible bachelor, very vibrant and very attractive with that Yorkshire accent. I don't know who you'd liken him to – the George Clooney of his day, I suppose."

But Black said the four-times married Barry remained true to his roots. "He never changed, he was still the boy from Yorkshire all the way through. There was nothing New York about him, even though he'd lived there for 40 years. He'd never been to a deli or had a pickle or had a big sandwich – he was still a lad who liked fish and chips with vinegar on the side."

Black worked on many songs with Barry. "He would go away and say, 'Come in Wednesday and I'll be ready with that tune'. By then he had been through every kind of emotion in writing it and it had been vetted to an inch of its life. So when he said, 'Here it is', it was more like an unveiling."

David Arnold, who succeeded Barry as the main Bond composer in recent years, told the BBC: "It's impossible to separate James Bond from John Barry's music. They went hand in hand. He was able to show you the menace, the sexiness, the aggression and the emotion.

"Everything that is cool and fabulous about James Bond is in the music. You could be stuck in a traffic jam on the M25 in a Ford Fiesta, but if you're playing a John Barry score you're in an Aston Martin. It was just an extraordinary, transfigurative thing he did."

John Barry 1933-2011

Midnight Cowboy (1969)
"He was able to catch the mood of a scene or a whole film by the genius of orchestration with fairly conventional instruments. Film seemed to bring out the very best in him."
- Sir Tim Rice

Out of Africa (1985)
"When he played you a melody it was like an unveiling. You didn't question it because you knew he had been up all night working on it."
- Don Black (lyricist)

Goldfinger (1964)
"I think James Bond would have been far less cool without John Barry holding his hand."
- Current Bond composer David Arnold

Born Free (1966)
"He wrote some of the most memorable and beautiful scores we could ever wish to hear."
- Michael Crawford

2012: First official photo of BOND 23 shows scruffy beard growth on OO7 in Shanghai (actually Pinewood Studios).

2013: An Oscar promo with Seth MacFarlane roasts Bond.

Seth MacFarlane Oscar Promo Video - Making Fun of James Bond!