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March 29th

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

Dana Broccoli

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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 - 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)[/b] (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 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) (very special thanks)
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (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 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself
2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (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

Archive 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

1928: Philip Locke is born--St. Marylebone, London, England. (Dies 19 April 2004.)

Philip Locke, actor

https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/philip-locke-actor-1-523590
Born: 29 March, 1928, in London
Died: 24 April, 2004, in London, aged 76

WITH his gaunt and invariably haggard looks, Philip Locke was ideal casting for nervy, rather saturnine villains, corrupt Mafia bosses or somewhat refined bullies. He brought an evil streak to his characters that brought them alive. However, this tall and imposing man also had a fine line in comedy.

His major cinema credit was as Vargas, the silent assassin who fell foul of James Bond’s spear-gun in Thunderball. His list of television credits was substantial and varied (The Avengers seemed to employ him as their resident baddie for a while) and he was often seen to great advantage in the theatre - especially London’s Royal Court in the Sixties.

Philip Locke trained at RADA in the Fifties and he was soon being cast in minor roles at the Royal Court, then soon to enter its golden decade. In 1959, he was in the premire of John Osborne’s The World of Paul Slickey, a musical satire about gossip columnists and critics. It was given a real pasting by the critics - indeed, Noel Coward and John Gielgud were said to have led the booing on the first night - but many still recall the satanic dance Locke performed in the second act.

From the Royal Court, he went on to play at the National Theatre and at the Royal Shakespeare Company (he was Quince in Brook’s famous Midsummer Night’s Dream). His career was to burgeon and Locke was seldom out of work: he played Horatio in Peter Hall’s production of Hamlet which opened the National Theatre in 1975 and four years later he was again directed by Hall in the premire of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus. In the latter, he played Salieri’s valet and spent much of the time feeding Mozart cream buns.

Locke’s TV appearances never let up. He was much in demand for the fondly remembered Armchair Theatre plays and was often seen on the wrong side of the small screen’s best-known detectives, including Inspector Morse, Bergerac and Poirot. He also turned up in Minder, played a newspaper editor alongside Michael Caine in Jekyll and Hyde (LWT, 1990) and was a rather camp uncle in Jeeves and Wooster (Granada, 1993).

His most striking film appearance was undoubtedly in Thunderball (1965), in which he made a particularly sinister appearance in dark glasses and black polo-neck jumper. However, a few years later, he showed his lighter side in the movie version of Porridge. In a favourite scene, Ronnie Barker’s Fletcher asks how Locke can face the prison grub, and Locke laconically replies: "I was at a top English public school and the food was very similar."

Strangely, Locke was at only one Edinburgh Festival, in 1954, with the Old Vic Company in a star-studded production of Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Scottish National Orchestra was in the pit and Moira Shearer and Robert Helpmann were to dance within the play. It was a bold plan to fuse music, drama and dance.

Locke played Puck and although Shearer, in an article in The Scotsman in 1976, recalled that Festival with "particular surprised pleasure" she did refer to the production as "rambling". However, it filled the Empire (now the Festival Theatre) to capacity.

Locke was always a support actor, never a major star, but he had the ability to bring a certain touch of wicked style or a chilling frisson to a role. The fact that he appeared in so many high-profile and prestigious productions in a career spanning 50 years is a sure reflection of the standing he enjoyed in his profession.

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Philip Locke (1928–2004)

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Filmography

Actor (100 credits)

1990-1998 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) - Magnus Mandeville / Kenneth Ames
- Going Wrong: Part 3 (1998) ... Magnus Mandeville
- Going Wrong: Part 2 (1998) ... Magnus Mandeville
- Going Wrong: Part 1 (1998) ... Magnus Mandeville
- Put on by Cunning (1990) ... Kenneth Ames
1997 Wilde - Judge
1995 Othello - 1st Senator
1994 Jacob (TV Movie) - Diviner
1994 Tom & Viv - Charles Haigh-Wood
1993 Jeeves and Wooster (TV Series) - Glossop
- Honoria Glossop Turns Up (or, Bridegroom Wanted!) (1993) ... Glossop
1993 Minder (TV Series) - Fingers Rossetti
- The Roof of All Evil (1993) ... Fingers Rossetti
1991 Turbulence - Vic
1991 Inspector Morse (TV Series) - Freddie Mortimer
- Who Killed Harry Field? (1991) ... Freddie Mortimer
1991 Van der Valk (TV Series) - Conrad Molenaar
- Doctor Hoffmann's Children (1991) ... Conrad Molenaar
1990 Jekyll & Hyde (TV Movie) - Editor

1989 Saracen (TV Series) - Richard Stellman
- Next Year in Jerusalem (1989) ... Richard Stellman
1989 Bergerac (TV Series) - Roger Lemaire
- When Did You Last See Your Father? (1989) ... Roger Lemaire
1989 Screen Two (TV Series) - Wilfred Stiff
- Virtuoso (1989) ... Wilfred Stiff
1989 Poirot (TV Series) - Cutter
- Four and Twenty Blackbirds (1989) ... Cutter
1988 Stealing Heaven - Poussin
1988 The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) - Sir Larry
- Mr. Jolly Lives Next Door (1988) ... Sir Larry
1987 The Secret Garden (TV Movie) - Pitcher
1987 The Inquiry
1985 Theatre Night (TV Series) - Mr. Telfer
- Trelawny of the Wells (1985) ... Mr. Telfer
1985 Connie (TV Series) - Borridge - 6 episodes
1984 The Box of Delights (TV Series) - Arnold of Todi
- Beware of Yesterday (1984) ... Arnold of Todi
1969-1984 Horizon (TV Series documentary) - Sir Francis Galton / Dr. Klaus Fuchs
- The Intelligence Man (1984) ... Sir Francis Galton
- For the Safety of Mankind (1969) ... Dr. Klaus Fuchs
1983 And the Ship Sails On - Il Primo Ministro
1983 Ascendancy - Dr. Strickland
1982 Jackanory Playhouse (TV Series) - Old man
- Hawkwing (1982) ... Old man
1982 The Disappearance of Harry (TV Movie) - Guthfrithson
1982 The Plague Dogs - Civil Servant #1 (voice)
1982/I Oliver Twist (TV Movie) - Mr. Sowerberry
1982 Ivanhoe (TV Movie) - Grand Master
1982 Doctor Who (TV Series)
Bigon / Control
- Four to Doomsday: Part Four (1982) ... Bigon
- Four to Doomsday: Part Three (1982) ... Bigon
- Four to Doomsday: Part Two (1982) ... Bigon
- Four to Doomsday: Part One (1982) ... Bigon / Control
1981 Codename Icarus (TV Series) - John Doll - 5 episodes
1980 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Lord Harrington
- The Hanging (1980) ... Lord Harrington
1980 Armchair Thriller (TV Series) - Commander Lloyd - 4 episodes

1979 An Honourable Retirement (TV Movie) - Charles Tranter
1979 Doing Time - Banyard
1979 The Omega Factor (TV Series) - Vashrevsky
- Double Vision (1979) ... Vashrevsky
1979 Escape to Athena - Vogel
1979 The Mill on the Floss (TV Mini-Series) - Lawyer Wakem
- Episode Seven (1979) ... Lawyer Wakem
- Episode Six (1979) ... Lawyer Wakem
- Episode Four (1979) ... Lawyer Wakem
1978 Play for Today (TV Series) - O'Neil - - Butterflies Don't Count (1978) ... O'Neil
1978 Pennies from Heaven (TV Mini-Series) - Farmer
- Says My Heart (1978) ... Farmer
1977-1978 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) - Acorn / The church superintendent
- She Fell Among Thieves (1978) ... Acorn
- True Patriot (1977) ... The church superintendent
1974 Antony and Cleopatra (TV Movie) - Agrippa
1974 2nd House (TV Series) - Belok
- An Artist's Story (1974) ... Belok
1973 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Vark
- The Mystery of the Amber Beads (1973) ... Vark
1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - Hanske
1972 A Day Out (TV Movie) - Wilkins

1969 Department S (TV Series) - Topek
- The Perfect Operation (1969) ... Topek
1965-1969 Z Cars (TV Series) - Ibbs / Thorpe
- Quiet Day: Part 2 (1969) ... Ibbs
- Quiet Day: Part 1 (1969) ... Ibbs
- A Morning's Sport (1965) ... Thorpe
1968 The Saint (TV Series) - Frug
- The Fiction Makers: Part 2 (1968) ... Frug
- The Fiction Makers: Part 1 (1968) ... Frug
1968 The Fiction-Makers - Frug
1968 The Champions (TV Series) - Yeats
- The Body Snatchers (1968) ... Yeats
1967 The Pilgrim's Progress (TV Series) -Hate-Good / Appollyon / Worldly Wiseman / ...
- Episode #1.3 (1967) ... Hate-Good / Appollyon / Giant Despair / ...
- Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Hate-Good / Appollyon / Official
- Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Interrogator / Worldly Wiseman
1967 The Informer (TV Series) - Croxley
- Here's Where Who Takes Over? (1967) ... Croxley
1960-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Mr Bateman / Sid / Private Smith / ...
- The Girl (1967) ... Mr Bateman
- Always Something Hot (1962) ... Sid
- Roll on Blooming Death (1961) ... Private Smith
- The Cupboard (1960) ... Bert
- A Night Out (1960) ... Kedge
1967 Honey Lane (TV Series) - Ron
- One and Nine for Two Bob (1967) ... Ron
1967 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Johnny Three
- Boa Constrictor (1967) ... Johnny Three
1967 The Baron (TV Series) - Compton
- Countdown (1967) ... Compton
1956-1967 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Vedoni / Edward / Lenny Roberts
- The Crossfire (1967) ... Vedoni
- Goodnight to Heroes (1964) ... Edward
- The Poisoned Earth (1961)
- Come Read Me a Riddle (1956) ... Lenny Roberts
1961-1967 The Avengers (TV Series) - Primble / Roy Hopkins / Moxon
- From Venus with Love (1967) ... Primble
- Mandrake (1964) ... Roy Hopkins
- The Frighteners (1961) ... Moxon
1966 Out of Town Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - The Man
- A Pretty Row of Pretty Ribbons (1966) ... The Man
1966 Four People (TV Mini-Series) - Interrogator
- Judas (1966) ... Interrogator
1966 Redcap (TV Series) - Huntly
- The Pride of the Regiment (1966) ... Huntly
1966 The Man in the Mirror (TV Series) - Stern - 6 episodes
1965 Thunderball - Vargas
1965 Jury Room (TV Series) - Boothby - Juror
- The Friendless Lady (1965) ... Boothby - Juror
1965 Front Page Story (TV Series) - Saunders
- The Public Interest (1965) ... Saunders
1965 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Pentelow
- Dan, Dan, the Charity Man (1965) ... Pentelow
1964 Face of a Stranger - John Bell
1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Peter Quilpe
- The Cocktail Party (1964) ... Peter Quilpe
1964 The Hidden Truth (TV Series) - Michael Watt
- The Final Analysis (1964) ... Michael Watt
1963-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - John Bell / Dave Hughes / Foster
- Face of a Stranger (1964) ... John Bell
- On the Run (1963) ... Dave Hughes
- Incident at Midnight (1963) ... Foster
1964 Hamlet at Elsinore (TV Movie) - Osric
1963-1964 Drama 61-67 (TV Series) - Oliver Willowes / Frame
- Studio '64: The Happy Moorings (1964) ... Oliver Willowes
- Drama '63: Rasputin Was a Nice Old Man (1963) ... Frame
1964 Father Came Too! - Stan
1963 Incident at Midnight - Foster
1963 On the Run - Dave Hughes
1963 Bud (TV Series) - Frank Mer
- Episode #1.3 (1963) ... Frank Mer
1963 Maupassant (TV Series) - Limousin
- Wives and Lovers (1963) ... Limousin
1962-1963 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Bert Dogg, driver / Ian / Paul Dyson
- Just You Wait (1963) ... Bert Dogg, driver
- For Tea on Sunday (1963) ... Ian
- The Square Peg (1962) ... Paul Dyson
1958-1963 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Derek Baynes / Al
- Ben Again (1963) ... Derek Baynes
- Strictly for the Sparrows (1958) ... Al
1963 The King's Breakfast (Short) - 2nd Footman
1962 The Girl on the Boat - Bream Mortimer
1962 Saki (TV Mini-Series) - Roger
- Episode #1.1 (1962) ... Roger
1962 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Brand
- A Job for Johnny (1962) ... Brand
1961 Follow That Man - Vicar
1961 Hurricane (TV Series) - Bob Wilson
- Part 6 (1961) ... Bob Wilson
- Part 2 (1961) ... Bob Wilson
- Part 1 (1961) ... Bob Wilson
1961 If the Crown Fits (TV Series) - Lucky
- Gambling (1961) ... Lucky
1960-1961 The Charlie Drake Show (TV Series) - Scrooge
- Jester Minute (1961)
- A Christmas Carol (1960) ... Scrooge
1961 Seven Keys - Norman's Thug (uncredited)
1960 The Bulldog Breed - Teddy Boy in Cinema Fight (uncredited)
1960 Kipps (TV Mini-Series) - Chester Coote - 7 episodes

1959 Knight Errant Limited (TV Series) - Vincent Gough
- He Fell Among Thieves (1959) ... Vincent Gough
1958 Heart of a Child - 1st Soldier
1957 Aladdin (TV Movie) - The Slave of the Ring
1956 Operation Conspiracy - 1st Soldier
1955 The Wise Cat (TV Movie) - Pierre
1955 Benbow and the Angels (TV Series) - Garage proprietor
- St. Michael and All Angels (1955) ... Garage proprietor
1954 Earthquake in Macedonia (TV Movie) - Silas
1952 Jan at the Blue Fox (TV Series)
2nd Sailor
- The Day of the Wreck (1952) ... 2nd Sailor

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1978 Pennies from Heaven (TV Mini-Series) (1 episode)
- Says My Heart (1978) ... ("March Winds and April Showers", uncredited)

Self (1 credit)

1975 The 29th Annual Tony Awards (TV Special) - Self - Nominee

Archive footage (6 credits)

2015 James Bond's Spectre with Jonathan Ross (TV Movie documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)
2013 Bond's Greatest Moments (TV Movie documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)
2008 The South Bank Show (TV Series documentary) - Bond (2008)
2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Vargas

1989 MTV Movie Special: Licence to Kill (TV Special documentary) - Vargas (uncredited)

1965: Thunderball films OO7 and Domino on the beach and the end of Vargas.
1968: Celine Dion is born--Charlemagne, Quebec, Canada.

1982: At the 54th Academy Awards Albert "Cubby" Broccoli receives the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in Los Angeles, presented by Roger Moore. Nominated title song "For Your Eyes Only" performed by Sheena Easton with appearances by Harold Sakata and Richard Kiel.

Albert R. Broccoli receiving the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award


Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only (Academy Awards '82)

1983: The choice of Rita Coolidge (a favorite of assistant director Barbara Broccoli) to sing the latest title song is confirmed. Father Cubby Broccoli hoped for popular singer Laura Branigan, with support from composer John Barry and lyricist Tim Rice.

1999: A court ruling confirms sole rights of the Bond franchise to MGM (and EON) over Sony (and McClory, who sought to produce rogue missions due to the original Thunderball complications).

Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films, Matthew Field, Ajay Chowdhury, 2015.

...An eleventh-hour settlement was made on 29 March when Sony declared themselves out of the Bond business, compensating MGM with $5 million to settle outside of court. Additionally, MGM obtained the rights to CASINO ROYALE, owned by Sony's subsidiary Columbia pictures. This news left Kevin McClory out in the cold. He vowed to persue [sic] his claim that he was owed profits for creating the cinematic James Bond independently. Unwilling to accept defeat, McClory took out an advertisement in Variety a week later proclaiming his next production: Warhead 2001 was schedule to be produced in Australia. However, nothing came to fruition.

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2007: BBC News reports a Colt revolver once owned by Ian Fleming fetches £12,000 at auction.

Bond author's gun fetches £12,000

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6505711.stm

Although a powerful weapon, Bond never used the Colt Magnum

A revolver owned by James Bond author Ian Fleming has been sold at auction in London for £12,000.

The engraved Colt Python .357 Magnum was specially made for the author and presented to him by the Colt Company.

It was accompanied by a letter from the firearms company and a copy of the 1959 Bond novel Goldfinger.

A Colt was used by villain Scaramanga in The Man with the Golden Gun, but 007 shunned the Colt in favour a gun which could be hidden under a dinner jacket.

The auctioned gun, which is still in working condition, is engraved with the words:

"Presented To Ian Fleming By Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co".

Fleming was a journalist and banker, before working in Naval Intelligence during World War II, where he rose to the rank of Commander and was right-hand man to spymaster Admiral John Godfrey.

After the war, he went to Jamaica for a naval conference and fell in love with the island, where he wrote the Bond novels at his home, Goldeneye.

https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/14881/lot/61/

2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond comic Hammerhead #6.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #6 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272206011
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 3/29

It all comes down to this. With the Royal Navy facing off against the Hammerhead super-weapon, and Britain's nuclear arsenal in the hands of a war-mongering megalomaniac, 007 alone must infiltrate Kraken's fortified retreat. He has a license to kill, and he aims to use it...

2019: Shane Rimmer dies at age 89--Barnet Hospital, Barnet, England.
(Born 28 May 1929--Toronto, Canada.)

Shane Rimmer, voice of Thunderbirds'
Scott Tracy, dies aged 89

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/29/shane-rimmer-voice-of-thunderbirds-scott-tracy-dies-aged-89

The Canadian actor had forged a lengthy career in cult TV shows
and films, appearing in three James Bond movies

Martin Belam | Fri 29 Mar 2019 10.49 EDT | Last modified on Fri 29 Mar 2019 14.15 EDT

Shane Rimmer, who has died aged 89, pictured here during a stint in ITV’s Coronation Street during the 1980s.
Photograph: ITV/REX/Shutterstock

Actor Shane Rimmer, who voiced the character of pilot Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds, has died. The official Gerry Anderson website carried the news, saying that the death of the 89 year old had been confirmed by his widow Sheila Rimmer. Rimmer died at home in the early hours of 29 March. No cause of death has been given.

Rimmer, who was born in Toronto in 1929 and moved to the UK in the 1950s, played the leader of the Thunderbirds crew in 32 episodes produced between 1964 and 1966. The actor also contributed his voice to other Gerry Anderson projects including Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, and appeared in person in the Anderson’s live action project UFO. Behind the scenes, Rimmer also wrote episodes of Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, The Secret Service and The Protectors.

Scott, Lady Penelope and Virgil in Thunderbirds
Photograph: ITV / Rex Features

As well as his work with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson he appeared in over 100 films including Dr Strangelove, Gandhi and Out of Africa. He played three different roles in three different James Bond movies, appearing in Diamonds Are Forever, You Only Live Twice, and The Spy Who Loved Me.

Shane Rimmer with James Bond actor Roger Moore on the set of 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me.
Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

Rimmer was also regularly cast in science fiction and fantasy projects, having appeared in William Hartnell era Doctor Who story The Gunfighters, as well as in Space: 1999, and having minor roles in Star Wars and Superman movies. He also played two different characters in British soap opera Coronation Street – in 1988 as shopkeeper Malcolm Reid, and between 1967 and 1970 as Joe Donnelli, an American GI who had murdered an army colleague and eventually shot himself.

Rimmer had continued to work in his later years, and as recently as 2017 was supplying a voiceover in cult kids’ TV show The Amazing World of Gumball.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/29/shane-rimmer-voice-of-thunderbirds-scott-tracy-dies-aged-89

He told the Washington Times in 2017 that it was his Bond work he was most proud of. “That was crazy. I have no idea how it happened. I did Diamonds Are Forever first. It wasn’t much. I just came on and got into a bit of a slanging match with Sean Connery, who slangs very well. Then I did You Only Live Twice. They got rid of me up in space in that one. The third, The Spy Who Loved Me was a good one all around. It was Roger Moore’s favourite of all the ones he did. You just get a kind of intuitive thing about a movie. It worked very well.”

Shane Rimmer (1929–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0727300/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Filmography

Actor (165 credits)

Firestorm (TV Movie) (post-production) - Tbc
1987-2017 Dick Spanner, P.I. (TV Series) - Dick Spanner - 24 episodes
2014-2017 The Amazing World of Gumball (TV Series) - Louie - 4 episodes
2016 Darkwave: Edge of the Storm (Short) - Anderson
2015 Thunderbirds (TV Series) - Scott Tracy
2012 Dark Shadows - Board Member 1
2010/II Half Moon (Short) - Maj Thomas Brennan
2010 Lovelorn - The Barman

2006 Alien Autopsy - Colonel
2005 Hiroshima (TV Movie documentary) - James F. Byrnes
2005 Mee-Shee: The Water Giant - Bob Anderson
2005 Batman Begins - Older Gotham Water Board Technician
2004 Caught in the Act (TV Movie) - Father
2003 Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (TV Series) - William Kingsley
- The Brooklyn Bridge (2003) ... William Kingsley
2003 The War of the Starfighters - Tantive Base Operative (voice)
2001 Spy Game - Estate Agent
2000 One of the Hollywood Ten - Parnell Thomas

1999 Dockers (TV Movie) - US Longshoreman
1998 I.K. - Ivar Kreuger (TV Mini-Series) - President Hoover
- Episode #1.3 (1998) ... President Hoover
1998 Only Love (TV Movie) - Warren Oliver
1996 Space Truckers - E. J. Saggs
1995 A Kid in King Arthur's Court - Coach
1994 The Saint: The Software Murders (TV Movie) - Bob Harrison
1993 Piccolo grande amore - Mr. Hughes
1993 Lipstick on Your Collar (TV Mini-Series) - Lt. Colonel Trekker / Lt. Col. Trekker
- Episode #1.6 (1993) ... Lt. Col. Trekker
- Episode #1.4 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
- Episode #1.3 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
- Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
- Episode #1.1 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
1992 Double Vision (TV Movie) - Caroline & Lisa's Father
1992 Casualty (TV Series) - Ed Rhinehart
- Cry Wolf (1992) ... Ed Rhinehart
1992 Land of Hope and Gloria (TV Series) - Bob
- The Authentic Taste of England (1992) ... Bob
1992 Year of the Comet - T.T. Kelleher
1991 Stanley and the Women (TV Mini-Series) - Morton Fendig
- Episode #1.1 (1991) ... Morton Fendig
1991 Company Business - Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics
1991 A Kiss Before Dying - Commissioner Malley
1991 Van der Valk (TV Series) - Lovell J Wallace
- A Sudden Silence (1991) ... Lovell J Wallace
1990 Enemy's Enemy (TV Mini-Series) - Skip Harrier
- Del 4 (1990) ... Skip Harrier

1989 The Nightmare Years (TV Mini-Series) - Ambassador Dodd
- Episode #1.4 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
- Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
- Part 2 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
- Part 1 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
1989 Red King, White Knight (TV Movie) - General
1989 Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (TV Movie) - Adm. Riley
1989 The Bretts (TV Series) - Ben Silverstein
- Home and Away: Part One (1989) ... Ben Silverstein
1989 Street Legal (TV Series) - Det. Barnes
- Basketball Story (1989) ... Det. Barnes
1988 The Dirty Dozen (TV Series) - Biddle
- Don Danko (1988) ... Biddle
1988 The Fortunate Pilgrim (TV Mini-Series) - Reilly
- Episode #1.3 (1988) ... Reilly
- The Fortunate Pilgrim (1988) ... Reilly
- The Fortunate Pilgrim (1988) ... Reilly
1967-1988 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Joe Donnelli / Joe Donelli / Malcolm Reid - 25 episodes
1988 A Very British Coup (TV Mini-Series) - The Americans - Secretary of State
- Episode #1.3 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
1988 Crusoe - Mr. Mather
1988 The Bourne Identity (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. Conklin
- Episode #1.2 (1988) ... Gen. Conklin
- Episode #1.1 (1988) ... Gen. Conklin
1987 Roman Holiday (TV Movie) - Hogan
1987 Breakthrough at Reykjavik (TV Movie) - George Schultz
1987 Riviera (TV Movie) - Doc
1987 The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (TV Mini-Series) - Doorman
- Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Doorman
- Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Doorman
1987 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Movie) - Stark
1986 Space Police (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Chuck Brogan
1986 Whoops Apocalypse - Marvin Gelber (US Secretary of State)
1986 Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (TV Mini-Series) - Harvey Coward
- Part II (1986) ... Harvey Coward
- Part I (1986) ... Harvey Coward
1986 Of Pure Blood (TV Movie) - The Colonel
1986 The Last Days of Patton (TV Movie) - Dr. Col. Lawrence Ball
1985 Out of Africa - Belknap
1985 White Nights - Ambassador Smith
1985 Star Quality: Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (TV Movie) - Brod Sarnton
1985 Dreamchild - Mr. Marl
1985 The Holcroft Covenant - Lt. Miles
1985 Reunion at Fairborough (TV Movie) - Joe Szyluk
1985 Space (TV Mini-Series) - Gen Quigley / U.S. General Quigley
- Part III (1985) ... Gen Quigley
- Part I (1985) ... U.S. General Quigley
1985 Morons from Outer Space - Redneck (Melvin)
1985 Gulag (TV Movie) - Jay
1984 Ellis Island (TV Mini-Series) - Detective Duffy
- Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Detective Duffy
1984 Nairobi Affair (TV Movie) - Mr. Gardner
1984 Mistral's Daughter (TV Mini-Series) - Harry Klein
- Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Harry Klein
- Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Harry Klein
- Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Harry Klein
1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Dr. Hersh
- Last Video and Testament (1984) ... Dr. Hersh
1984 Alas Smith & Jones (TV Series)
- Episode #1.5 (1984)
- Episode #1.4 (1984)
- Episode #1.1 (1984)
1984 Lace (TV Mini-Series) - Press Agent
- Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Press Agent
- Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Press Agent
1984 Master of the Game (TV Mini-Series) - Carroll
1984 Partners in Crime (TV Mini-Series) - Hank Ryder
- The Crackler (1984) ... Hank Ryder
1983 The Lonely Lady - Adolph Fannon
1983 Superman III - State Policeman
1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) - Detective Murphy
- Smart Aleck Kill (1983) ... Detective Murphy
1983 The Hunger - Arthur Jelinek
1982 Gandhi - Commentator
1980-1982 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - John Smith / Arthur Beauchamp
- A Man with a Fortune (1982) ... John Smith
- My Lady Love, My Dove (1980) ... Arthur Beauchamp
1982 Nanny (TV Series) - Dick Leonard
- Fathers (1982) ... Dick Leonard
1981 Reds - MacAlpine
1981 Priest of Love - Chief Immigration Officer
1981 The Rose Medallion (TV Series) - Sgt. Ed Kusborski
- Episode #1.3 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
- Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
- Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
1981 Bognor (TV Series) - Horace Higgins
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 6 - Feeding Time (1981) ... Horace Higgins
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 5 - Dummy Run (1981) ... Horace Higgins
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 4 - I Am Yellow: Memoirs of a Danish Dog Lover (1981) ... Horace Higgins
- Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 3 - Meet the Mole (1981) ... Horace Higgins
1980 The Dogs of War - Dr. Oaks
1980 Superman II - Controller #2
1980 Oppenheimer (TV Mini-Series) - Ed Condon
- Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Ed Condon
1980 Very Like a Whale (TV Movie) - Commuter

1979 A Man Called Intrepid (TV Mini-Series) - Willoughby
- Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Willoughby
- Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Willoughby
- Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Willoughby
1979 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Ambassador Bingham
- Speed King (1979) ... Ambassador Bingham
1979 Secret Army (TV Series) - Canadian Commandant
- The Execution (1979) ... Canadian Commandant
1979 A Deadly Game (TV Movie) - Braley
1979 Arabian Adventure - Abu
1979 Hanover Street - Col. Ronald Bart
1979 Return of the Saint (TV Series) - Falco
- Dragonseed (1979) ... Falco
1978 Superman - Naval Transport Commander (uncredited)
1978 The One and Only Phyllis Dixey (TV Movie) - US Colonel
1978 The Famous Five (TV Series) - Mr. Henning
- Five on Finniston Farm (1978) ... Mr. Henning
1978 The Billion Dollar Bubble (TV Movie) - Fred Levin
1978 The Standard (TV Series) - Jack Putnam
- Two Birds, One Stone (1978) ... Jack Putnam
1978 Warlords of the Deep - Captain Daniels
1977 Julia - Customs Officer (uncredited)
1977 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) - Stone
- Professional Foul (1977) ... Stone
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Cmdr. Carter
1977 The People That Time Forgot - Hogan
1977 Alternative 3 (TV Movie) - Bob Grodin
1977 Silver Bears - American Banker
1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope - InCom Engineer (uncredited)
1977 Nasty Habits - Officer I / C
1977 The Velvet Glove (TV Series) - Senator William Chandler
- Mother (1977) ... Senator William Chandler
1977 Twilight's Last Gleaming - Col. Alexander B. Franklin
1976 Alien Attack (TV Movie) - Eagle Pilot (voice, uncredited)
1975-1976 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Eagle Pilot - 6 epsiodes
1976 Horizon (TV Series documentary) - Fred Levin
- Billion Dollar Bubble (1976) ... Fred Levin
1976 Second Verdict (TV Series) - Harold Giles Hoffman
- The Lindbergh Kidnapping (1976) ... Harold Giles Hoffman
1976 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Pollack
- Divorce (1976) ... Pollack
1975 Quiller (TV Series) - Harry Brent
- Thundersky (1975) ... Harry Brent
1975 The 'Human' Factor - CIA Man
1975 Rollerball - Rusty, Team Executive
1975 You're on Your Own (TV Series) - Peter Kovacs
- Value for Money (1975) ... Peter Kovacs
1974 Late Night Drama (TV Series) - Ronald Ziegler
- I Know What I Meant (1974) ... Ronald Ziegler
1974 S*P*Y*S - Hessler
1974 QB VII (TV Mini-Series) - Reporter Outside Court
- Part Three (1974) ... Reporter Outside Court (uncredited)
- Part One & Two (1974) ... Reporter Outside Court (uncredited)
1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - Zeke / Vickers
- Zeke's Blues (1973) ... Zeke
- Vocal (1973) ... Vickers
1973 Take Me High (uncredited)
1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - Police Sergeant Warren
- In the Confessional (1973) ... Police Sergeant Warren
1973 Live and Let Die - Hamilton (voice, uncredited)
1973 The Investigator (Video) - John (voice)
1973 Scorpio - Cop in Hotel (uncredited)
1972 Baffled! (TV Movie) - Track Announcer
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Lomax
- Element of Risk (1971) ... Lomax
1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Tom (uncredited)
1970 UFO (TV Series) - Lt. Bill Johnson / Alien / CIA Agent / ...
- Computer Affair (1970) ... Lt. Bill Johnson / Alien (uncredited)
- Confetti Check A-O.K. (1970) ... CIA Agent
- Identified (1970) ... Seagull X-Ray Co-Pilot
1970 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Goldman
- The Pueblo Affair (1970) ... Goldman

1968-1969 Joe 90 (TV Series) - Radio Control / Colonel Henderson / Taxi Driver / ...
- Double Agent (1969) ... Radio Control (voice, uncredited)
- Business Holiday (1968) ... Colonel Henderson / Taxi Driver (voice, uncredited)
- Big Fish (1968) ... Gardner (voice, uncredited)
- International Concerto (1968) ... Kelly / Clerk / Technician (voice, uncredited)
- Most Special Astronaut (1968) ... Kent (voice, uncredited)
1968 Thunderbird 6 - Scott Tracy (voice)
1967-1968 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) - Sergeant / Pilot / Confused Partygoer / ...
- Flight to Atlantica (1968) ... Sergeant (voice, uncredited)
- Inferno (1968) ... Pilot (voice, uncredited)
- Model Spy (1967) ... Confused Partygoer (voice, uncredited)
- Special Assignment (1967) ... Mason (voice, uncredited)
1967 You Only Live Twice - Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)
1966 Thunderbirds Are GO - Scott Tracy (voice)
1965-1966 Thunderbirds (TV Series) - Scott Tracy (voice) - 32 episodes
1966 Orlando (TV Series) - Kahn - 6 episodes
1966 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Seth Harper
- Don't Shoot the Pianist (1966) ... Seth Harper
- A Holiday for the Doctor (1966) ... Seth Harper
1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Marine Sergeant
- Lee Oswald: Assassin (1966) ... Marine Sergeant
1965-1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Ramsey / Morgan
- All Roads Lead to Callaghan (1966) ... Ramsey
- No Wreath for an Angel (1965) ... Morgan
1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Bud Burdine
- The Flipside (1966) ... Bud Burdine
1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Buchanan
- The Mercenaries (1965) ... Buchanan
1965 The Bedford Incident - Seaman 1st Class - C.I.C.
1964 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Corporal Girtin
- Parade's End #3: A Man Could Stand Up (1964) ... Corporal Girtin
1964 The Saint (TV Series) - Major Smith
- The Hi-Jackers (1964) ... Major Smith
1963-1964 Compact (TV Series) - Russell Corrigan - 30 episodes
1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Doctor
- Seven Sisters of Wong (1964) ... Doctor
1964 Dr. Strangelove - Capt. 'Ace' Owens
1960 Chasing the Dragon (TV Movie) - Corporal Keegan
1960 R.C.M.P. (TV Series) - Tom Hopwood
- Day of Reckoning (1960) ... Tom Hopwood
1959-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - First generator operator / Campbell / Paul
- Come in Razor Red (1960) ... First generator operator
- Roast Goose and Walnut Stuffing (1959) ... Campbell
- Star in the Summer Night (1959) ... Paul

1959 After Hours (TV Series)
- Episode #2.13 (1959)
- Episode #2.12 (1959)
- Episode #2.10 (1959)
- Episode #2.6 (1959)
1958 Cannonball (TV Series) - Tex
- Sights on Safety (1958) ... Tex
1958 The Day the Sky Exploded - John McLaren (English version, voice, uncredited)
1958 Flaming Frontier - Running Bear
1958 Come Fly with Me (TV Series) - Host
1957-1958 Encounter (TV Series) - Sharkey / Bill
- The Riggin' Slinger (1958)
- Baptism of Fire (1958) ... Sharkey
- One of Our Men Is Guilty (1957)
- 99 Times Around the Block (1957) ... Bill
1957 On Camera (TV Series) - Stanley
- The Egghead Approach (1957) ... Stanley
1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (TV Series) - Farber
- The Prisoner (1957) ... Farber
1957 A Dangerous Age - Nancy's Father
1957 Dorchester Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - Rodney Lauder
- Two Sides to a Tortoise (1957) ... Rodney Lauder
1957 Folio (TV Series) - Byron Moon
- Ring Around the Square (1957) ... Byron Moon

Writer (5 credits)

1973-1974 The Protectors (TV Series) (written by - 2 episodes)
- Blockbuster (1974) ... (written by)
- Zeke's Blues (1973) ... (written by)
1973 The Investigator (Video) (story by)

1969 The Secret Service (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
- Hole in One (1969) ... (written by)
1968-1969 Joe 90 (TV Series) (teleplay by - 6 episodes)
- Breakout (1969) ... (teleplay by)
- Relative Danger (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- Big Fish (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- Splashdown (1968) ... (teleplay by - uncredited)
- King for a Day (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- The Fortress (1968) ... (teleplay by)
1967-1968 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) (teleplay by - 3 episodes)
- Inferno (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- Expo 2068 (1968) ... (teleplay by)
- Avalanche (1967) ... (teleplay by)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

2016-2018 The Amazing World of Gumball (TV Series) (performer - 3 episodes)
- The Ghouls (2018) ... (performer: "All Hail All Hallow's Eve!" - uncredited)
- The Father (2018) ... (performer: "The Vermin Man" - uncredited)
- The Compilation (2016) ... (performer: "Weird Like You And Me" - uncredited)

Self (15 credits)

Archive footage (3 credits)

2021: BBC Radio 4 airs The Food Programme with a focus on James Bond.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl7k/2021/03/29

Available Now
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000tm9f

RichardTheBruce

March 30th

1924: Frank McCarthy is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 17 November 2002 at age 78--Sedona, Arizona.)

Frank C. McCarthy

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

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

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

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

Published in The Arizona Republic on Dec. 8, 2002

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

Thunderball





You Only Live Twice




On Her Majesty's Secret Service


Colonel Sun paperback


Casino Royale


Dr. No


From Russia With Love


Goldfinger


Around the World Under the Sea


Where Eagles Dare


The Great Escape


The Dirty Dozen

1939: Detective Comics introduces The Bat-Man.

1950: Anthony Robert McMillan OBE (Robbie Coltrane) is born--Rutherglen, Scotland.
(He dies 14 October 2022 at age 72--Larbert, Scotland.)

Robbie Coltrane death: Harry Potter and James Bond star
dies aged 72

See the complete article here:

CultureFilmNews
Tom Murray | 14 October 2022

Robbie Coltrane, the Scottish actor best known for playing half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film franchise, has died aged 72.

His agent of 40 years, Belinda Wright, confirmed the news on Friday 14 October. A cause of death has not yet been revealed.

Wright thanked the medical staff at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, near Falkirk in Scotland, for their “care and diplomacy”.

In a statement, she added: “Robbie was a unique talent, sharing the Guinness Book of Records’ Award for winning three consecutive Best Actor Baftas...

“For me personally, I shall remember him as an abidingly loyal client as well as being a wonderful actor. He was forensically intelligent, brilliantly witty and after 40 years of being proud to be called his Agent, I shall miss him.”

Aside from the towering, wizarding half-giant Hagrid, Coltrane also starred in two James Bond films as ex-KGB intelligence officer Valentin Zukovsky. The Russian mafia head was a recurring ally of Pierce Brosnan’s 007 in Goldeneye (1995) and The World is Not Enough (1999).

Coltrane as the imposing Rubeus Hagrid
(Warner Bros)

He will also be remembered for his breakout role as Dr Edward “Fitz” Fitzgerald in Jimmy McGovern’s ITV series Cracker, which ran between 1993 and 2006.

The actor was born Anthony Robert McMillan on 30 March, 1950, in Glasgow, Scotland.

After graduating from Glasgow School of Art, Coltrane pursued a career in comic acting, beginning his career alongside Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, and Emma Thompson in the sketch series Alfresco in 1983.

Fry was among the first of a raft of actors to pay tribute to the late star.

“I first met Robbie Coltrane almost exactly 40 years ago,” Fry wrote on Twitter. “I was awe/terror/love struck all at the same time. Such depth, power & talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups & honking as we made our first TV show, ‘Alfresco’. Farewell, old fellow. You’ll be so dreadfully missed.”

In 2006, Coltrane was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama and in 2011, was awarded the Bafta Scotland Award for outstanding contribution to film.

The actor is survived by his sister Annie Rae, his children Spencer and Alice and their mother Rhona Gemmell.

1958: Raymond Chandler reviews Dr. No in The Sunday Times.

Originally posted on another forum by @Revelator.

THE TERRIBLE DR. NO

(March 30 1958) By RAYMOND CHANDLER

Ian Fleming first attracted me for three qualities which I thought—perhaps wrongly—almost unique in English writers. The first was escape from mandarin English, the forced pretentiousness, the preoccupation with the precise and beautiful phrase, which to me is seldom precise or beautiful, since our language contains an interior magic which belongs only to those who in a sense, care nothing about themselves.

The second was daring. He was not afraid to attempt any locale anywhere. He wrote expertly of
New York’s Harlem and Florida’s St. Petersburg, in both of which he didn’t miss a trick. He wrote of Las Vegas and did miss one small trick. He forgot the glass of ice water which is always the first thing a waitress or bus boy would place on your table.

What has happened to him in Dr. No is what happens to every real writer. He has found that a novel, a thriller, or what you choose to call it, is a world, that it has its own depth and subtleties, and that these can be expressed in an offhand way, without calling attention to themselves, and be very much alive.

The first chapter of Dr. No is masterly. The atmosphere and background of the elegant Richmond Road in Kingston, Jamaica, are established with clarity and charm. They had to be, or the ruthless violence which takes place there would be in a vacuum.

The third thing that attracted me in Ian Fleming’s writing was an acute sense at pace. How far to go, when to stop, when to destroy a mood and when to regain it, when to write a scene on a postcard and when to write richly and with leisure. Some of the most honoured novels lack this completely. You have to work at them. You don’t have to work at Fleming. He does the work for you.

The story concerns itself with a strange disappearance of two British agents in Jamaica, and why they disappeared, when no possible reason seemed clear. All was peace, so why suddenly in the night are they gone? James Bond is sent to find out—a trivial matter, a vacation in the sun. Yeah?

I have a few complaints. The beautiful girl does not appear until page 91, but in return for this she is allowed to live, and the last love scene is more gentle and compassionate than Ian Fleming usually permits. My second complaint is that the long sensational business which is the heart of the book not only borders on fantasy, it plunges into it with both feet. Ian Fleming’s impetuous imagination has no rules. I could wish he would write a book with all but one of his other qualities, yet with a plot which, at least to my world, seems part of what I know to be actual. The sequence is beautifully written, there are many very good things in it, especially detailed descriptions of the locale, the birds, the fishes—Fleming seems to be in love with rare fishes, and other dwellers in the water—some interiors, and a long torture scene which I thought a bit too sadistic, as though, he liked to write this sort of thing for its own sake.

The terrible Dr. No is a strange creature, but his motives become clear and his end very original. The beautiful girl this time is no sophisticated doll from the night clubs. The ending of the book is, as I said, written with an unusual tenderness—for Ian Fleming. I’m glad of that.

1959: Bond comic strip Moonraker begins its run in The Daily Express.
(Finishes 8 August 1959. 226-339) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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http://www.frederickmulder.com/john-mclusky



Swedish Semic Comic 1979 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3

Moonraker (Moonraker)

Danish 1966 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-7-1966/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 7: “Moonraker” (1966)

Danish 1975 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no31-1975/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 31: “Moonraker” (1975)

1962: Ian Fleming collaborates with a TV producer leading to television's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1962: The Dr. No production completes 58 days of principal filming.
1966: Thunderball released in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

1979: Moonraker films Drax ejected into space.

1985: British Hovercraft Corporation/Vickers Supermarine's Princess Margaret SR.N4 Mk (as used in Diamonds Are Forever) is blown onto a Dover breakwater killing four.

impdb.org/index.php?title=Category:British_Hovercraft_Corporation_SR.N4

1999: The Kevin McClory Warhead 2000 AD project is terminated when MGM buys the Casino Royale film rights from Sony for $10 million as a court settlement.

2019: Tania Mallet dies at age 77--England.
(Born 19 May 1941--Blackpool, Lancashire, England.)

Tania Mallet, ‘Goldfinger’ Bond

Girl, Dies at 77
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/tania-mallet-dead-dies-goldfinger-james-bond-1203177293/
By Dave McNary

CREDIT: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

British actress and model Tania Mallet, who played Tilly Masterson in the 1964 James Bond classic Goldfinger, has died. She was 77.

The official James Bond Twitter account announced her death on Sunday. “We are very sorry to hear that Tania Mallet who played Tilly Masterson in Goldfinger has passed away,” the tweet reads. “Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.”

Mallet was a first cousin to actress Helen Mirren. She was born in Blackpool, England, to British father Henry Mallet and Russian mother Olga Mironoff, a sibling of Mirren’s father.

Mallet was working as a model when she was cast as Masterson by producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli. She had previously auditioned for the role of Tatiana Romanova in 1963’s From Russia With Love, but lost the part to Daniela Bianchi.

In Goldfinger, Mallet’s character portrayed the sister of Shirley Eaton’s Jill Masterson, who betrays the villain Auric Goldfinger and is killed by him through “skin suffocation” after being completely painted in gold paint. Masterson, bent on avenging her sister’s death, is subsequently killed in the movie by Goldfinger’s servant, Oddjob (played by Harold Sakata), who throws a steel-rimmed hat at her.

Mallet told the James Bond fan site MI6 in 2003 that she had always been “more comfortable” in a small studio with “just a photographer and his assistant.”

“The restrictions placed on me for the duration of the filming grated, were dreadful, and I could not anticipate living my life like that,” she added.

Mirren said in her 2007 memoir, In the Frame: My Life in Words and Pictures, that Mallet was a “loyal and generous person” who helped pay for for her brothers’ education with her income as a model.

Tania Mallet (1941–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0539965/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actress (2 credits)

1976 The New Avengers (TV Series) - Sara
- The Midas Touch (1976) ... Sara (uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger - Tilly Masterson

Self (10 credits)

2013 The Playboy Morning Show (TV Series) - Self
- Episode #2.99 (2013) ... Self
2013 Bond's Greatest Moments (TV Movie documentary) - Self / Tilly Masterson
2012 This Morning (TV Series) - Self
- Episode dated 5 October 2012 (2012) ... Self
2012 007 Days of Bond: The Blu-Relay (Video documentary short) - Self - Actress

1972 What's It All About? (TV Series) - Self
- Episode #1.0 (1972) ... Self
1971 Glamour... (TV Series) - Self - Judge
- Episode #9.13 (1971) ... Self - Judge

1967 Call My Bluff (TV Series) - Self
- Episode #3.10 (1967) ... Self
1966 Late Show London (TV Series) - Self
- Episode #1.7 (1966) ... Self
1965 Thunderball: The London Pavillion Premiere (Documentary short) - Self
1961 Girls Girls Girls! (Documentary short) - Self

Archive footage (3 credits)

2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Tilly Masterson (uncredited)

1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Self
1995 A Day in the Life of GoldenEye (TV Special documentary short) - Tilly Masterson (uncredited)

2022: Car & Driver reports Land Rover unveils Defender 90 as a Bond 60th Anniversary tribute.

Land Rover Defender 90 Dons James Bond Livery

See the complete article here:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a39572189/land-rover-defender-james-bond-60th-anniversary/

The modified Defender 90 honors the Bond films' 60th anniversary with a black and gold color treatment.
By Eric Stafford | Mar 29, 2022

• The Land Rover Defender dons a black-and-gold livery to celebrate the 60th anniversary of James Bond films.
• Along with the commemorative design, this Defender 90 features a modified suspension and a fully integrated roll cage.
• This one-off Defender was driven by Mark Higgins–a stunt driver in four Bond films­–in the 2022 Bowler Defender Challenge rally race.

The automaker most often associated with James Bond is Aston Martin. However, Land Rovers have appeared in Bond films for almost 40 years, starting with Octopussy in 1983 and leading up to the most recent release of No Time to Die. To celebrate the film franchise's 60th birthday, Land Rover built a one-off Defender 90 with a black and gold livery.

Land Rover

Land Rover didn't only build a special version of the Defender so it could don 007 graphics overlaid with a giant 60 on its doors and roof; the company also modified it for rally racing. Enhancements include a unique suspension setup with different springs and modified subframes. The body was fitted with a new rear spoiler, and the 18-inch wheels were wrapped with all-terrain tires. Inside, the Defender was equipped with a fully integrated roll cage for added safety. Under the hood, its standard 296-hp turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four was paired with a sport exhaust system. Its engine and transmission also benefited from upgraded cooling components.

Car and Driver

We’ve tested an unmodified Defender with the more powerful powertrain, the 395-hp turbo- and supercharged 3.0-liter inline-six, and the longer 110 wheelbase. It sprinted to 60 mph in 6.3 seconds and cleared the quarter-mile in 14.8 seconds at 94 mph.

Land Rover

Behind the wheel of this custom-built Land Rover Defender is Mark Higgins, who has also doubled as a stunt driver on the last four Bond films, including Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre. Higgins and his co-driver, Claire Williams, competed in the 2022 Bowler Defender Challenge rally race, which was held on March 26.

Land Rover

Land Rover Introduces Defender Rally Special - To Celebrate 60 Years Of James Bond

2024: 85 years of Batman.

Fan creations
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RichardTheBruce

March 31st

1922: Bob Simmons is born--Fullham, London, England. (He dies 21 October 1987 at age 65.)

Bob Simmons (stunt man)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simmons_(stunt_man)

Bob Simmons as James Bond 007 in the gun
barrel sequence featured in the movies Dr. No,
From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger

Bob Simmons (Fulham, London, England, 31 March 1922 – 21 October 1987) was an English actor and stunt man, best known for his work in many British made films, most notably the James Bond series.

Biography
Simmons was a former Army Physical Training Instructor at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst who had initially planned to be an actor, but thought a career in performing stunts would be more lucrative and interesting. Simmons first worked for Albert R. Broccoli and Irving Allen's Warwick Films on the film The Red Beret, that included future Bond film regulars director Terence Young, screenwriter Richard Maibaum and cameraman, later director of photography Ted Moore. Simmons later worked in many other Warwick Films, and worked for Allen in his The Long Ships and Genghis Khan, where he had his eye injured when kicked by a horse.

When Albert R. Broccoli began to produce the James Bond films, Simmons tested as an actor for the Bond role, but until his death in 1987, he became the stunt coordinator for every Bond film except From Russia with Love, which he joined later in the production, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Man with the Golden Gun. He appeared in the gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger. Simmons is the only person to officially perform the scene, while not starring in the main role as James Bond. Simmons also had a role as SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar in the pre-title sequence of the fourth film, Thunderball.

Simmons developed a stunt technique involving trampolines, first used in You Only Live Twice, whereby stuntmen would bounce off a trampoline in concert with a triggered explosion so as to simulate being blown into the air. This was used in many other films, including by Simmons again in The Wild Geese, where Simmons also doubled for Richard Burton.

Upon retirement, Simmons wrote an autobiography entitled Nobody Does It Better titled after the theme song for the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.

Filmography

Ivanhoe (1952)
The Great Van Robbery (1957) - Peters
The Guns of Navarone (1961) - German Officer (uncredited)
Dr. No (1962) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
From Russia with Love (1963) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
The Long Ships (1964)
Goldfinger (1964) - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
Thunderball (1965) - Colonel Jacque Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
You Only Live Twice (1967)
Shalako (1968)
The Adventurers (1969)
When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Live and Let Die (1973)
The Next Man (1976) - London Assassin
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) - Ivan, KGB Thug (uncredited)
The Wild Geese (1978) - Pilot (uncredited)
For Your Eyes Only (1981) - Henchman Lotus Explosion Victim (uncredited)
A View to a Kill (1985)

Nobody Does It Better, Bob Simmons, 1987.

"When you double for James Bond you do it
for real. Stunts and all. You are plunged into
fantasy where life is lived in the fast lane."

Bob Simmons (I) (1922–1987)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799689/

Filmography

Stunts (49 credits)

1987 Going Bananas (stunt coordinator - as Robert Simmons)
1985 A View to a Kill (stunt team supervisor)
1983 Octopussy (action sequences arranger)
1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
1982 The Wall (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
1981 For Your Eyes Only (action sequences arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1980 The Sea Wolves (stunts - uncredited)

1979 All Quiet on the Western Front (TV Movie) (action arranger)
1979 Moonraker (action sequence arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1979 Zulu Dawn (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1978 The Wild Geese (stunt double: Richard Burton - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1977 Mister Deathman (stunt coordinator)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (action arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1975 De dwaze lotgevallen van Sherlock Jones (fight instructor)
1975 The Man Who Would Be King (stunts - uncredited)
1975 Happy Days Are Here Again (stunt coordinator)
1975 Paper Tiger (action arranger)
1975 The Wilby Conspiracy (stunts)
1974 Caravan to Vaccares (stunts: fight sequence)
1973 Live and Let Die (stunts co-ordinator)
1973 A Touch of Class (stunt and fight arranger)
1973 The Offence (stunts - uncredited)
1972 Lady Caroline Lamb (fight arranger)
1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunt arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Anthony Hopkins - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1971 Murphy's War (stunt arranger)
1970 The Adventurers (stunts - uncredited)

1968 Shalako (action sequences arranger)
1967 You Only Live Twice (action sequences) / (stunt double - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Thunderball (stunt double: Guy Doleman - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1965 Genghis Khan (action sequences)
1964 Goldfinger (action sequences by) / (stunt double: Harold Sakata - uncredited) / (stunt double: Michael Mellinger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love (stunt double - uncredited) / (train fight double: Sean Connery - uncredited)
1962 Dr. No (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunt double - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1962 Night Creatures (fight sequence staged by)
1961 The Hellions (stunt double: Lionel Jeffries - uncredited)
1961 The Secret Ways (stunt supervisor)
1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Gregory Peck - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)
1960 Scent of Mystery (stunt double: Denholm Elliott - uncredited)

1958 Tom Thumb (stunt double: Peter Sellers - uncredited)
1957 Action of the Tiger (stunts - uncredited)
1957 Fire Down Below (stunts - uncredited)
1956 Zarak (stunts)
1954 The Black Knight (stunt double: Alan Ladd - uncredited)
1953 Paratrooper (stunts - uncredited)
1952 Ivanhoe (stunts - uncredited)
1939 Jamaica Inn (stunts - uncredited)

Actor (25 credits)

1981 For Your Eyes Only - Henchman Lotus Explosion Victim (uncredited)

1978 The Wild Geese - Pilot (uncredited)
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - KGB Thug #2 (uncredited)
1976 The Next Man - London Assassin
1976 Montana Trap
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Jeep Driver / Card Player
- Chain of Events (1971) ... Jeep Driver (uncredited)
- To the Death, Baby (1971) ... Card Player (uncredited)
1971 Murphy's War - member of German sub crew (uncredited)

1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Fake Limo Driver
- The Queen's Ransom (1966) ... Fake Limo Driver (uncredited)
1965 Thunderball - Colonel Jacques Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited)
1964 Goldfinger - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1963 From Russia with Love- James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1963 Sparrows Can't Sing
Pub Patron (uncredited)
1962 Dr. No - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
1962 The Road to Hong Kong - Astronaut (uncredited)
1961 The Guns of Navarone - German Soldier on Navarone (uncredited)
1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Carlos, a pirate
1960 Exodus - Man of arms (uncredited)
1960 And the Same to You - Perce's Opponent

1959 Great Van Robbery - Peters
1958 The Vise (TV Series) - Brading
- The Man Who Was Twice (1958) ... Brading
1958 Tank Force (aka No Time To Die) - Mustapha
1955 Tangier Assignment - Peter Valentine (as Robert Simmons)
1953 The Sword and the Rose - French Champion
1953 Bad Blonde - Booth Man (uncredited)

1939 Reform School - Johnny

Miscellaneous Crew (16 credits)

1982 The Final Option (action arranger)
1980 The Sea Wolves (action arranger)

1978 The Wild Geese (action arranger)
1975 The Man Who Would Be King (master of horse)
1973 The Man Called Noon (action supervisor)
1971 Catlow (action sequence coordinator)
1970 The Adventurers (action sequences arranger: second unit)

1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade (action arrangements)
1967 You Only Live Twice (action sequences by)
1965 Thunderball (action sequences by)
1964 Goldfinger (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1964 The Long Ships (action sequences)
1963 From Russia with Love (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1962 Dr. No (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
1962 The Pirates of Blood River (horse master) / (master at arms)
1961 The Naked Edge (fight arranger)

Camera and Electrical Department (2 credits)

George & Mildred (TV Series) (lighting director - 3 episodes, 1977 - 1978) (lighting - 2 episodes, 1979)
- The Twenty Six Year Itch (1979) ... (lighting)
- A Military Pickle (1979) ... (lighting)
- I Believe in Yesterday (1978) ... (lighting director)
- The Right Way to Travel (1977) ... (lighting director)
- All Around the Clock (1977) ... (lighting director)
1977 The Upchat Line (TV Series) (lighting director - 1 episode)
- Accommodation Address (1977) ... (lighting director)

Art department (1 credit)

1987 Promised Land (storyboard artist)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)

1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (second unit director)

Producer (1 credit)

1973 The Man Called Noon (associate producer)

1935: Herb Alpert is born--Los Angeles, California. (He marries Lani Hall 1974.)

1943: Christopher Walken is born--Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York.

1958: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's sixth Bond novel Dr. No.

DR. NO

M hasn't forgiven Bond for the
negligence on his last assignment that
nearly cost Bond his life. Brusquely,
almost contemptuously, he tosses Bond
a time-wasting, shabby little case in the
Caribbean. It will really be a holiday
on an island in the sun -- convalescence.
Angrily, Bond accepts his orders. He
flies off to Jamaica. The sun shines,
the palm trees wave, the calypsos throb.
But on the horizon a cloud forms. It is
no bigger than a man's hand -- an arti-
culated steel hand -- the hand of Dr. No!

1960: In a letter to typist Jean Frampton, Ian Fleming credits her keen mind.

Fleming's 'Moneypenny' revealed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7314336.stm

May 2008 marks the centenary of
Ian Fleming's birth

Letters written by James Bond creator Ian Fleming, due to be sold at auction next month, reveal a close relationship with his typist Jean Frampton.

In one letter, dated 31 March, 1960, he asks her to use her "keen mind" to help get his novel Thunderball "into shape".

"Anything your quick eye falls upon... would be endlessly welcome," he adds.

"You can look on Mrs Frampton as Ian Fleming's Miss Moneypenny," said Amy Brenan of Duke's auctioneers in Dorset, which is offering the letters for sale.

The auction will take place on 10 April to mark the centenary year of the writer's birth.

The entire collection, which includes four signed letters by Fleming, is expected to fetch between £2,000 and £3,000.

'Helpful'
Also included are letters written by Mrs Frampton and Fleming's secretaries, Una Trueblood and Beryl Griffie-Williams.

Hired to type the manuscripts of Fleming's books, Frampton found herself called upon to offer pointers on plot and literary style.

The collection is expected to fetch up to £3,000

"Your occasional comments on the work you have done for me have been so helpful," the author writes.

Frampton, who lived in the Dorset town of Christchurch, is believed never to have actually met Fleming.

Their correspondence, however, reveals a close relationship that extended to such Bond novels as You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun.

"The collection is interesting because it details how the James Bond books were put together in the early 1960s," said Ms Brenan.

1964: Agent 007 ... ser rött (Agent 007 ... Sees Red) released in Sweden.

Sean Connery in a new one...

1964: Goldfinger films OO7 and villain and the laser interrogation.

2016: Douglas Wilmer dies at age 96--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
(Born 8 January 1920--Brentford, London, England.)

Douglas Wilmer obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/apr/05/douglas-wilmer-obituary-sherlock-holmes

Actor who portrayed Sherlock Holmes as a steely antihero in the
1960s BBC TV adaptation of Conan Doyle’s stories

Douglas Wilmer, left, as Holmes, with Nigel Stock as Watson, in The Man with the Twisted Lip,
a 1965 episode of the BBC series Sherlock Holmes.
Photograph: BBC

Toby Hadoke | Tue 5 Apr 2016

Douglas Wilmer, who has died at the age of 96, was a wily, sardonic actor best known for playing Sherlock Holmes on television. He was cast alongside Nigel Stock’s doughty Watson in a 1964 BBC adaptation of The Speckled Band, and then returned for a 12-episode series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories the following year. Wilmer gave his Holmes an arrogance that he found missing from his screen predecessors, and he felt that his steely antihero was closer to Conan Doyle’s intentions for the character.

He was frustrated by the process of making the series, frequently rewriting scripts, clashing with directors and ruing the short rehearsal time typical in television of that period. He did not return for the second series, where Stock was instead joined by Peter Cushing. Wilmer did revisit the role, though – on the big screen in the Gene Wilder film The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975).

Douglas Wilmer as Holmes in the 1975 Gene Wilder film
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother.
Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock

Son of Kate (nee Tavener) and Harry, Wilmer was born in London, but spent his childhood in Shanghai, where his father worked as an accountant. Douglas returned to the UK for education at King’s school, Canterbury, and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. After a year there, he was called up for second world war service in the army and served as a troop commander in Nigeria and the Gambia, before being invalided out with tuberculosis.

After the war he secured leading roles in weekly repertory theatre in Rugby thanks to a recommendation from a fellow student from his Rada days, Elizabeth Melville, who was to become his first wife. He made his West End debut in Antony and Cleopatra at the Piccadilly theatre (1946), spent a season at the Shakespeare Memorial theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon (1948) and joined the Old Vic company in 1951. Among his roles for them was the French king, Charles VI, in Henry V, for which he was singled out for praise by Kenneth Tynan.

Subsequent theatre roles for which he received strong notices included Warwick in St Joan opposite Siobhán McKenna (1954, Arts theatre, then St Martin’s theatre), Claudius to the Hamlet of Alan Bates (Nottingham Playhouse, then Cambridge theatre, 1970) and Patrick Delafield in David Hare’s Knuckle (Comedy theatre, 1974)

His television roles included Father Charles in It Is Midnight, Dr Schweitzer (1953, the earliest complete surviving TV play), the young hero in The Black Tulip (1956), Sir Mulberry Hawk in Nicholas Nickleby (1957), King Charles II in The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1958), and parts in a number of ITV Plays of the Week, before he was cast as Holmes. After hanging up his deerstalker he largely took guest roles in popular series such as The Avengers (1966) and The Main Chance (1970), before adding an addendum to his connection with 221b Baker Street by playing Van Dusen in The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971).

His film debut came as Dorset in Olivier’s Richard III (1955) and his other films included El Cid (1961), Cleopatra (1963, with Elizabeth Taylor), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966) and The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967), as Nayland Smith, the dogged nemesis of Christopher Lee’s eponymous master villain, Patton (1970, with George C Scott), Antony and Cleopatra (1972, with his good friend Charlton Heston), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), The Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978) and Octopussy (1983).

Growing disillusioned with the profession, he withdrew from acting to open a wine bar – inevitably called Sherlock’s – in Woodbridge, Suffolk. He was a self-taught painter, his work inspired by frequent visits to Malta, who exhibited his watercolours and was a member of the Ipswich Art Society. But there was no escaping his most famous role and he came to embrace the praise bestowed upon his performance by admirers such as the Sherlock Homes Society of London, which appointed him an honorary member.

Douglas Wilmer, right, with Charlton Heston in El Cid, 1961.
Photograph: Everett/Rex/Shutterstock

He read a number of the Conan Doyle stories for Penguin audiobooks, took a cameo role as an irate customer at the Diogenes Club in an episode of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss’s TV series Sherlock (2012) and in 2014 contributed, with typical caustic humour, self-effacing wit and blunt candour, to the BFI’s DVD release of his Sherlock Holmes episodes. He published an autobiography, Stage Whispers, in 2009.

Wilmer’s first two marriages ended in divorce. He is survived by his third wife, Anne, and her daughter, Katherine.

• Douglas Wilmer, actor, born 8 January 1920; died 31 March 2016

Douglas Wilmer (1920–2016)

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

2018: BBC's Radio 4 broadcasts its seventh Bond radio drama Moonraker.

Moonraker: The Radio Play

Original title: Moonraker
2018 } 1h 27m
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12139140/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

Moonraker (2018)
It's 1954 and Sir Hugo Drax has built an atomic rocket, Moonraker. But after a double-murder, James Bond goes undercover at Moonraker's secret base. He and agent Gala Brand discover possible treachery. Can they prevent a catastrophe?

Director Martin Jarvis
Writers
Ian Fleming (novel: original story); Archie Scottney (adaptation)

Cast (in credits order)
Toby Stephens ... James Bond (voice)
Samuel West ... Sir Hugo Drax (voice)
John Baddeley ... Sir Winston Churchill (voice)
Janie Dee ... Moneypenny (voice)
John Standing ... M (voice)
Julian Sands ... Q (voice)
Jared Harris ... Vallance (voice)
Patricia Hodge ... Professor Train (voice)
Katherine Kingsley ... Gala Brand (voice)
Nigel Anthony ... Basildon (voice)
Simon De Deney ... Meyer (voice)
Jon Glover ... Movietone (voice)
Ian Ogilvy ... Broadcaster (voice)
Matthew Wolf ... Brevett (voice)
Darren Richardson ... Countdown (voice)
Kenneth Danziger ... Captain (voice)
Martin Jarvis ... Ian Fleming (voice)

BBC Radio 4 - James Bond Radio Drama, Moonraker

2020: Original date for the No Time To Die World Premiere at Royal Albert Hall, London. Delayed to November and then some.

RichardTheBruce

April 1st

1931: George Baker is born--Varna, Bulgaria.
(He dies 7 October 2011 at age 80--West Lavington, Wiltshire, England.)

George Baker: Actor whose career
climaxed in his portrayal of the
Shakespeare-quoting DCI Wexford

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/george-baker-actor-whose-career-climaxed-in-his-portrayal-of-the-shakespeare-quoting-dci-wexford-2368541.html
Anthony Hayward | Tuesday 11 October 2011 00:00

George Baker: Actor whose career climaxed in his portrayal of the Shakespeare-quoting DCI Wexford

In 1987, two detectives from contemporary literature were transferred to television and their screen lives ran in parallel for 14 years.

While John Thaw stepped into the opera-loving shoes of Colin Dexter's Oxford sleuth Inspector Morse, George Baker had his first outing as Ruth Rendell's Shakespeare-quoting Detective Chief Inspector Wexford in "Wolf to the Slaughter".

The 6ft 4in Baker traded his crisp vowels for a regional burr in the roleof the affable, fatherly figure investigating crimes in the fictional south of England market town Kingsmarkham. With his dour sidekick, Detective Inspector Mike Burden (Christopher Ravenscroft), he plodded thoughtfully through an alarmingly high number of murder cases.

Reg Wexford was also a dependable husband and doting father, and Rendell revealed that the character traits were taken from her own father. She was so enamoured with Baker's portrayal that she admitted to writing The Veiled One, the first new Wexford novel published after the television adaptations began, with him in mind.

Following the stand-alone first mini-series, the programmes – featuring 23 stories in all and running until 2000 – were screened as The Ruth Rendell Mysteries and, occasionally, The Ruth Rendell Mystery Movie. Location filming was done in and around the Hampshire town of Romsey, not far from Baker's own home in Wiltshire.

In 1992, his second wife, the actress Sally Home, died after a three-year fight against cancer. The following year, he married Louie Ramsay – who played his screen wife, Dora, in the Wexford dramas and was a long-time friend of the couple – calling her his "soulmate" and adding: "Sally was the love of my life. With Louie, the love is quite different, but it's almost as strong." Ramsay died last March.

Baker was born at the British Embassy in Varna, Bulgaria, where his father, Frank – originally from Wetherby, West Yorkshire – was the honorary British vice-consul. A literate, cultured individual who was a writer and expert wine-taster, Baker was at pains to point out that, according to diplomatic etiquette, he was born on British soil.

When the Second World War broke out, he, his Irish mother Eva and four brothers and sisters moved to Yorkshire. Baker attended Lancing College, West Sussex, before joining Deal repertory company, in Kent, when he was just 15. During national service in Hong Kong he served with the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment. As a horse rider he was made regimental equitation officer but returned to Britain after contracting the intestinal disease sprue, and finished his Army service on a training range in Pembrokeshire.

Baker then acted in repertory theatre across Britain before making his London début as Arthur Wells in a revival of the Frederick Lonsdale drawing-room comedy Aren't We All? (Haymarket Theatre, 1953). Many roles followed in the West End, and with the Old Vic company (1959-60) and the RSC (1975). He also directed some plays himself, including The Sleeping Prince (St Martin's Theatre, 1968) and The Lady's Not for Burning (Old Vic Theatre, 1978). As artistic director, Baker launched his own provincial touring company, Candida Plays (named after his eldest daughter), in 1966.

Film casting directors spotted his matinee-idol looks early on. His first screen appearance, alongside Jack Hawkins, was in The Intruder (1953) and he followed it with a role in theSecond World War drama The Dam Busters (1955). Then came star billing in another war film, A Hill in Korea (1956), and the Civil War adventure The Moonraker (1958).

Baker's six-week affair with Brigitte Bardot while he was at Pinewood Studios filming The Woman for Joe (1955) and she was making Doctor at Sea put a strain on his marriage to the costume designer Julia Squire, which also suffered from the constant pressure of being in debt. He lived with Sally Home for 10 years before she became his second wife. His confidence was knocked by the film director Tony Richardson's description of him as the worst actor in England and another disappointment was the James Bond author Ian Fleming's assertion that Baker would make the perfect 007, before the part went to Sean Connery.

However, Baker appeared in three Bond films: as a Nasa engineer in You Only Live Twice (1967), Captain Benson in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), in which he also dubbed the voice of George Lazenby – in that actor's one screen appearance as the secret agent – for a scene in which 007 impersonates his character.

Television began to play a bigger part in Baker's career, with dramatic roles such as the second Number Two in The Prisoner (1967), Tiberius in I, Claudius (1976) and Detective Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn in four feature-length adaptations of Ngaio Marsh's novels, made in New Zealand in 1977.

He also had some success in sitcoms. After playing Peter Craven's boss in The Fenn Street Gang (1972), Baker was spun off into his own series, Bowler (1973), in which he was seen as a spiv and petty villain trying to exude class but failing abysmally. Later, alongside Penelope Keith in the first two series of No Job for a Lady (1990-91), he played the Conservative MP Godfrey Eagan, sparring with the newly elected Labour MP Jean Price.

As a writer, Baker adapted four of the Ruth Rendell stories himself and scripted many radio dramas and the television play The Fatal Spring (1980), about the First World War poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, which won the United Nations Media Prize Award of Merit.

In 1999, Baker underwent surgery to remove his prostate gland after being diagnosed with cancer. His autobiography, The Way to Wexford, was published three years later. He also collected together recipes from his own culinary exploits in A Cook for All Seasons (1989). In 2007, Baker was made an MBE for youth club fund-raising activities in his then home village of West Lavington, Wiltshire.

George Morris Baker, actor, writer and director: born Varna, Bulgaria 1 April 1931; MBE 2007; married 1950 Julia Squire (divorced 1974, died 1989; four daughters), 1974 Sally Home (died 1992; one daughter), 1993 Louie Ramsay (died 2011); died 7 October 2011.

George Baker (I) (1931–2011)

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Filmography

Actor (145 credits)

2007 New Tricks (TV Series) - Steve Palmer
- Ducking and Diving (2007) ... Steve Palmer
2007 Heartbeat (TV Series) - Maurice Dodson
- Vendetta (2007) ... Maurice Dodson
2005 Spooks (TV Series) - Hugo Ross
- The Russian (2005) ... Hugo Ross
2005 Midsomer Murders (TV Series)
Charlie / Jack Magwood
- The House in the Woods (2005) ... Charlie / Jack Magwood
2003 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Cecil Newton - 6 episodes
2001 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (TV Series) - Berry Pomeroy
- O Happy Isle (2001) ... Berry Pomeroy
1987-2000 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) - Det. Chief Insp. Wexford - 50 episodes
2000 Back to the Secret Garden - Will Weatherstaff

1995 Johnny and the Dead (TV Mini-Series) - Alderman
- Part 4 (1995) ... Alderman
- Part 3 (1995) ... Alderman
- Part 2 (1995) ... Alderman
- Part 1 (1995) ... Alderman
1995 Little Lord Fauntleroy (TV Mini-Series) - The Earl of Dorincourt - 6 episodes
1992 ITV Telethon (TV Series) - Chief Inspector Wexford
- Telethon '92 (1992) ... Chief Inspector Wexford
1990-1991 No Job for a Lady (TV Series) - Godfrey Eagan - 12 episodes
1990 Hudson & Halls (TV Series) - Guest
1980-1989 Minder (TV Series) - Cooper / Altman
- Days of Fines and Closures (1989) ... Cooper
- You Gotta Have Friends (1980) ... Altman
1988 Journey's End (TV Movie) - The Colonel
1988 For Queen & Country - Kilcoyne
1988 Bergerac (TV Series) - Higgins
- A Man of Sorrows (1988) ... Higgins
1987 Out of Order - Chief Inspector
1987 The Charmer (TV Mini-Series) - Harold Bennett
- Gorse in the Middle (1987) ... Harold Bennett
- Gorse, the Deceiver (1987) ... Harold Bennett
1987 Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (TV Movie) - Chief Inspector Fred Davy
1986-1987 Screen Two (TV Series) - Greaves / Valentine Swift
- Coast to Coast (1987) ... Greaves
- Time After Time (1986) ... Valentine Swift
1986 Lenny Henry Tonite (TV Series) - - Gronk Zillman (1986)
1986 The Canterville Ghost (TV Movie) - Uncle Hesketh
1986 Room at the Bottom (TV Series) - Director General
- Winter Schedule (1986) ... Director General
- The Siege (1986) ... Director General
1984-1986 Robin Hood (TV Series) - Sir Richard of Leaford
- The Power of Albion (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
- Herne's Son: Part 2 (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
- Herne's Son: Part 1 (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
- The Prophecy (1984) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
1986 If Tomorrow Comes (TV Mini-Series) - Maximillian Pierpont
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Maximillian Pierpont
1986 Dead Head (TV Mini-Series) - Eldridge
- The Patriot (1986) ... Eldridge
- Anything for England (1986) ... Eldridge
- Why Me? (1986) ... Eldridge
1985 We'll Support You Evermore (TV Movie) - Colonel
1985 Marjorie and Men (TV Series) - Norton Phillips
- Be Your Age (1985) ... Norton Phillips
1985 Bird Fancier (TV Movie) - Albert Seers
1985 A Woman of Substance (TV Mini-Series) - Bruce McGill
- Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Bruce McGill
- Episode #1.2 (1985) ... Bruce McGill (credit only)
- Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Bruce McGill
1984 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - George Damos
- Death Dig (1984) ... George Damos
1984 Goodbye Mr. Chips (TV Mini-Series) - Meldrum
- Episode #1.4 (1984) ... Meldrum
- Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Meldrum
- Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Meldrum
- Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Meldrum
1983 Spyship (TV Mini-Series) - Irving
- Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Irving
1983 The Secret Adversary (TV Movie) - Whittington
1982-1983 Triangle (TV Series) - David West - 52 episodes
1982 The Chinese Detective (TV Series) - Jack Balfe
- Chorale (1982) ... Jack Balfe
1982 Q.E.D. (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Harold Metcalfe
- The Great Motor Race (1982) ... Sir Harold Metcalfe
1982 Little Miss Perkins (TV Movie) - Mr. Macauley
1981 The Gentle Touch (TV Series) - Gerald Harvey
- The Hit (1981) ... Gerald Harvey
1981 The Member for Chelsea (TV Series) - Mr. Chamberlain
- Episode #1.3 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
- Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
- Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
1981 Goodbye Darling (TV Series) - Jonathan Cowper
- Maude (1981) ... Jonathan Cowper
- Anne (1981) ... Jonathan Cowper
1981 Crown Court (TV Series) - - The Merry Widow: Part 1 (1981)
1981 Jackanory Playhouse (TV Series) - Janaka
- The Mouse, the Merchant and the Elephant (1981) ... Janaka
1980 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Login
- Full Circle: Part Four (1980) ... Login
- Full Circle: Part Three (1980) ... Login
- Full Circle: Part Two (1980) ... Login
- Full Circle: Part One (1980) ... Login
1980 Hopscotch - Parker Westlake
1980 Ladykillers (TV Series) - Sir Terence O'Connor, Q.C.
- Don't Let Them Kill Me on Wednesday (1980) ... Sir Terence O'Connor, Q.C.
1980 Square Mile of Murder (TV Series) - Mr. Smith
- A Kiss, a Fond Embrace - Part 2 (1980) ... Mr. Smith
- A Kiss, a Fond Embrace - Part 1 (1980) ... Mr. Smith
1980 ffolkes - Fletcher

1979 Empire Road (TV Series) - Mr. Butterworth
- Godfadder at Bay (1979) ... Mr. Butterworth
1968-1979 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Robert Ballard / George King
- Print Out (1979) ... Robert Ballard
- The Bonegrinder (1968) ... George King
1978 Died in the Wool (TV Movie) - Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn
1978 The Thirty Nine Steps - Sir Walter Bullivant
1977 Colour Scheme (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 Vintage Murder (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 Opening Night (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Capt. Benson
1977 Three Piece Suite (TV Series) - Frank - This Situation / Brad Hunter (segment "Celluloid Dreams")
- Come in, No.1/This Situation/All in the Mind (1977) ... Frank - This Situation
- Miss/Celluloid Dreams/Mea Culpa (1977) ... Brad Hunter (segment "Celluloid Dreams")
1976 I, Claudius (TV Mini-Series) - Tiberius - 10 episodes
1976 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Frank Chandler
- Baked Beans (1976) ... Frank Chandler
1976 Intimate Games - Professor Gottlieb
1976 Get Some In! (TV Series) - Wing-Commander Birch
- Flight (1976) ... Wing-Commander Birch
1976 The Twelve Tasks of Asterix - Prefect / Various (English version, voice)
1970-1976 Z Cars (TV Series) - Gerald / Calvin Flood / Gordon Glossop
- A Preacher in Passing (1976) ... Calvin Flood
- Friends (1974) ... Gordon Glossop
- A Big Shadow: Part 2 (1970) ... Gerald
- A Big Shadow: Part 1 (1970) ... Gerald
1975 Sea Area Forties (Short) - Commentator (voice)
1975 The Firefighters - Station Officer Harrison
1975 Three for All - Eddie Boyes
1975 Spy Trap (TV Series) - Colonel Jacoby
- April Sixty-Seven (1975) ... Colonel Jacoby
1975 Survivors (TV Series) - Arthur Wormley
- Genesis (1975) ... Arthur Wormley
1974 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Det. Inspector Martin
- The Final Chapter (1974) ... Det. Inspector Martin
1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Martin Willis
- Murder on Demand (1974) ... Martin Willis
1974 Zodiac (TV Series) - Mark Braun
- The Cool Aquarian (1974) ... Mark Braun
1973 The Laughing Girl Murder (Short) - Chief Sopt Keegan
1973 Bowler (TV Series) - Stanley Bowler - 13 episodes
1973 Between the Wars (TV Series) - Walter Jeffries
- Voyage in the Dark (1973) ... Walter Jeffries
1973 A Warm December - Dr. Henry Barlow
1973 Because of the Cats - Boersma
1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - George Dixon
- Your Witness (1973) ... George Dixon
1973 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV Series) - Mr. Lewis
- The Salesman's Job (1973) ... Mr. Lewis
1972 The Fenn Street Gang (TV Series) - Mr. Bowler
- Low Noon (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- The Left Hand Path (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- Smart Lad Wanted (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
- The Great Frock Robbers (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
1972 New Scotland Yard (TV Series) - John Randall
- Two Into One Will Go (1972) ... John Randall
1972 The Man Outside (TV Series) - Philip Lockley
- Mandala (1972) ... Philip Lockley
1972 The Main Chance (TV Series - Major Donovan
- Love's Old Sweet Song (1972) ... Major Donovan
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Britten
- Chain of Events (1971) ... Britten
1971 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Morell
- Candida (1971) ... Morell
1970 Fraud Squad (TV Series) - Bill Garland
- Golden Island (1970) ... Bill Garland
1970 The Goodies (TV Series) - Chief Beefeater
- Tower of London (1970) ... Chief Beefeater
1970 Up Pompeii! (TV Series) - Jamus Bondus
- Secret Agents Jamus Bondus (1970) ... Jamus Bondus
1970 The Executioner - Philip Crawford
1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - John Mitchell
- Train and De-Train (1970) ... John Mitchell
1970 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Mark
- Games People Play (1970) ... Mark
1970 Kate (TV Series) - Tom Prentice
- One Good Turn (1970) ... Tom Prentice
-
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Sir Hilary Bray
1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Lord Sutterwick
1969 Justine - British Ambassador David Mountolive
1968 The Sex Game (TV Series)
- Women Can Be Monsters (1968)
1968 Harry Worth (TV Series) - Wing Commander Stebbs
- Private Pimpernel (1968) ... Wing Commander Stebbs
1968 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Commander Benbow (Naval Attaché)
- Stiff Upper Lip (1968) ... Commander Benbow (Naval Attaché)
1957-1968 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Kenny Baker / Theodore Quill / Mike / ...
- Mrs Capper's Birthday (1968) ... Kenny Baker
- Love Life (1967) ... Theodore Quill
- The Paraffin Season (1965) ... Mike
- The Pillars of Midnight (1958) ... Dr. Stephen Monks
- The Constant Stranger (1957)
1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Ernest Whipple
- Happiness Is E Shaped (1968) ... Ernest Whipple
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - The New Number Two
- Arrival (1967) ... The New Number Two
1967 You Only Live Twice - NASA Engineer (uncredited)
1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Tim Johnson
- Myself, I have Nothing Against South Ken (1967) ... Tim Johnson
1967 Seven Deadly Virtues (TV Series) - Martin
- Surface of Innocence (1967) ... Martin
1967 Mister Ten Per Cent - Lord Edward
1965-1967 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Jacques / Louie Summers / Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodson / ...
- Days in the Trees (1967) ... Jacques
- The Big Man Coughed and Died (1966) ... Louie Summers
- Alice (1965) ... Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodson
- The Navigators (1965) ... Vera
1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Frank Ashton
- So Dark the Night (1966) ... Frank Ashton
1966 ITV Sunday Night Drama (TV Series) - Patrick
- Four Triumphant: St Patrick (1966) ... Patrick
1966 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Matthew Hobhouse / Edward Jackson
- Up and Down (1966) ... Matthew Hobhouse
- The Queen and Jackson (1966) ... Edward Jackson
1966 The Master (TV Series short) - Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Death by Misadventure (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- World of Disbelief (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- The Squadron Leader (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Behind the Antlers (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
- Totty McTurk (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
1965 Londoners (TV Series) - Bruce
- Common Ground (1965) ... Bruce
1965 Undermind (TV Series) - Thallon
- End Signal (1965) ... Thallon
1965 Drama 61-67 (TV Series) - Peter Evett
- Drama '65: A Question of Disposal (1965) ... Peter Evett
1965 The Sullavan Brothers (TV Series) - Edward Drayton
- Insufficient Evidence (1965) ... Edward Drayton
1965 Curse of the Fly - Martin Delambre
1965 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Bailey
- The Great Plane Robbery (1965) ... Bailey
1964 Curtain of Fear (TV Series) - Stewart Caxton - 6 episodes
1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Geoffrey Harrison
- Any Other Business (1964) ... Geoffrey Harrison
1964 Rupert of Hentzau (TV Series) - Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V - 6 episodes
1964 The Finest Hours (Documentary) - Lord Randolph (voice)
1964 The Full Man (TV Series documentary) - MacBeth
- Tragedy (1964) ... MacBeth
1963 Sword of Lancelot - Sir Gawaine
1963 It Happened Like This (TV Series) - Miles Standish
- The Hidden Witness (1963) ... Miles Standish
1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Cargan
- Glidepath (1962) ... Cargan
1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Dominic Père
- The Simple Case (1961) ... Dominic Père
1957-1961 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)
Giorgio / Docker Starkie / Biff Loman / ...
- Faraway Music (1961) ... Giorgio
- The Square Ring (1959) ... Docker Starkie
- Death of a Salesman (1957) ... Biff Loman
- The Guinea Pig (1957) ... Nigel Lorraine
1961 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Louis Cornudet
- Boule de Suif (1961) ... Louis Cornudet
1961 The Dickie Henderson Show (TV Series) - The Exchange Visit (1961)
1961 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Bill Walker
- Episode #2.31 (1961) ... Bill Walker
- Episode #2.30 (1961) ... Bill Walker
1959 Nick of the River (TV Series) - Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon - 9 episodes
1958 Tread Softly Stranger - Johnny Mansell
1958 The Moonraker - The Moonraker
1958 The Truth About Melandrinos (TV Series) - David Westbrook
1958 Doomsday for Dyson (TV Movie) - Goltsev
1957 No Time for Tears - Dr. Nigel Barnes
1957 Dangerous Youth - Padre
1957 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Percy French
- The Last Troubadour (1957) ... Percy French
1956 Hell in Korea - The National Servicemen: Lt. Butler / Lt Butler
1956 Adventure Theater (TV Series)
- The Wilful Widow (1956)
1956 The Extra Day - Steven Marlow
1956 The Gentle Touch - Jim
1955 The Woman for Joe - Joe Harrop
1955 The Dam Busters - Flight Lieutenant D. J. H. Maltby, D.S.O., D.F.C.
1955 PT Raiders - Bill Randall
1953 The Intruder - Adjutant

Writer (3 credits)

1991-1998 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) (adaptation - 5 episodes)
- Road Rage: Part Two (1998) ... (adaptation)
- Road Rage: Part One (1998) ... (adaptation)
- The Strawberry Tree: Part 1 (1995) ... (adaptation)
- The Mouse in the Corner: Part One (1992) ... (adaptation)
- From Doon with Death: Part One (1991) ... (adaptation)

1982 Imaginary Friends (TV Movie) (adaptation)
1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) (screenplay - 1 episode)
- Fatal Spring (1980) ... (screenplay)

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1992 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) (production associate - 3 episodes)
- Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)
- The Mouse in the Corner: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)
- The Speaker of Mandarin: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1987 Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (TV Movie) (performer: "Three Little Maids from School Are We" (1885), "A Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One" (1887) - uncredited)

Self (25 credits)

Archive footage (4 credits)

Up Pompei! Jamus Bondus

1944: Aliza Gur is born--Ramat Gan, Israel.

1957: The Daily Express serializes From Russia With Love.

1961: Goldfinger ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 3 October 1960. 698-849.)
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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

Goldfinger (Goldfinger - Part 1) | Goldfinger (Goldfinger - Part 2)


Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk2-goldfinger-1965/
James Bond Agent 007 no. 2: “Contra Goldfinger” (Interpresse 1965)

1963: This month the London Magazine published the James Bond spoof story "Bond Strikes Camp" by Cyril Connolly.

https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/connolly-cyril-bond-strikes-camp-london-the-5906696-details.aspx

1963: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's tenth Bond novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

ON HER MAJESTY'S
SECRET SERVICE

'It was one of those Septembers when
it seemed that the summer would never
end . . . '

But it did end and winter came in a
lethal welter of mystery. Bloodshed
and multiple death amid the snow.

This the eleventh chapter in the
biography of James Bond, is one of the
longest. It is also the most enthralling.

Really the most? Really the most.

1963: Principal filming of From Russia With Love begins at Pinewood Studios with Bond's arrival in M's office. Moneypenny. And Q.
1963: Agent 007 released in Norway.

1965: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's twelfth and final Bond novel The Man With the Golden Gun.

1965: 007 ゴールドフィンガー (007 Gōrudofingā) released in Japan.

1969: Gazino Royal 007 released in Turkey.

1981: Richard Marek publishes John Gardner's Licence Renewed in the US as License Renewed.

1990: Armchair Detective Library publishes John Gardner's Licence to Kill.

1992: VHS video releases of James Bond Jr in the United States.

James Bond Jr. 1 April 1992 The Beginning
James Bond Jr. 1 April 1992 A Chilling Affair
James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 The Eiffel Missile
James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 No Such Loch
James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 A Race Against Disaster
James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 Dance of the Toreadors
James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 Red Star One
James Bond Jr 1 April 1992 Goldie's Gold Scam

1997: The Kanakee, Illinois, Daily Journal falsely proposes local filming for the next James Bond film "The Anastasia Answer" and invites auditions.

2012: Cinema Retro exposes an April Fool's joke involving James Bond and the Queen.

JAMES BOND TEAMS WITH THE QUEEN : APRIL FOOL'S
JOKE

See the complete article here:

https://cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/6645-JAMES-BOND-TEAMS-WITH-THE-QUEEN-APRIL-FOOLS-JOKE.html

Cinema Retro
JAMES BOND TEAMS WITH THE QUEEN : APRIL FOOL'S JOKE

Here's an ambitious April Fool's joke.

The web sites for the London tabloids the Daily Express and The Sun report that Her Majesty The Queen will be teaming with Daniel Craig for a special James Bond promotional stunt for the opening of the London summer Olympics. According to the Sun, Her Majesty has granted access to Buckingham Palace to film a mini-movie that will air on opening night of the games, which will be followed by Daniel Craig parachuting into the Olympics opening ceremony. The Sun reports that Oscar winning director Danny Boyle will oversee directing the events. Before everyone gets excited, we do caution readers to remember this story has appeared on April Fool's Day. The Daily Express reports that Craig actually did film scenes at the palace in February, but they were for the new Bond film Skyfall and featured a look-a-like of Her Majesty. This is a story that contrasts substantially with the Sun's account.

If all this is still being reported as fact tomorrow, maybe we'll be convinced there might be a tiny grain of truth to the notion that perhaps something was filmed inside the Palace, but for now it appears to be an elaborate April Fool's joke, as there is NO WAY Daniel Craig is parachuting into the Olympics!

For the Daily Express report, click here.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/311833/On-Her-Majesty-s-Secret-Service

For The Sun's report click here.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/4232299/James-Bond-news-Daniel-Craig-has-been-invited-by-The-Queen-to-open-the-2012-Olympic-games.html

UPDATE: Well. it's April 2 and the mainstream British press are still reporting this story as though it is true. Until Craig confirms it, we don't believe it. If this does turn out to be an April Fool's joke, there will be a lot of discredited newspapers. Let's see what develops...

Posted by Cinema Retro in James Bond 007 News on Sunday, April 1. 2012

2015: Skyfall filming in Mexico comes to a close.
2016: : The New York Post reports Ben Whishaw suggesting a Daniel Craig return in the next Bond film.

Ben Whishaw thinks Daniel Craig will
return as James Bond

See the complete article here:

https://nypost.com/2016/04/01/ben-whishaw-thinks-daniel-craig-will-return-as-james-bond/

By Barbara Hoffman | April 1, 2016
Ben Whishaw. Joel Ryan/Invision/AP

Somewhere under the massive beard he sports in “The Crucible” lies Ben Whishaw. The fine-boned British star of “London Spy” and the last two James Bond flicks hasn’t been this furry since voicing the bear in “Paddington.”

Indeed, “Crucible” director Ivo van Hove has populated Arthur Miller’s classic with an army of men in beards.

“I think everyone arrived with one,” muses Whishaw, 35, stroking his chin. “But Ivo works like that. He doesn’t say much, but everyone knows what they need to do . . . He sort of makes little corrections, and slowly, something emerges.”

One thing that emerged was a need to choreograph the brawl between Whishaw’s upright, married John Proctor and his fatal attraction, Saoirse Ronan’s Abigail.
Ben Whishaw in “The Crucible” on Broadway.Jan Versweyveld

“ ‘I think maybe you should push her to the ground, fumble around,’ ” Whishaw recalls the director saying. “So Saoirse and me do it in rehearsal, and it’s great. But then you do it eight times a week and you’re black and blue. Actually, she broke her finger!”

This isn’t Whishaw’s first Proctor: He starred in a school production of “The Crucible” at age 15. At 23, he landed the lead in “Hamlet” at London’s Old Vic and has worked steadily since.

He says the best parts of playing the nerdy gadget-master Q in “Skyfall” and “Spectre” were his scenes with Daniel Craig’s James Bond. Despite Craig’s “I’d rather slash my wrists than play James Bond again” remark, Whishaw suspects his co-star won’t hang up his Walther PPK any time soon.

“I feel sorry for Daniel because I think he spoke to a journalist the day after he finished what must have been an eight- or nine-month shoot,” Whishaw says. “The poor guy was on his knees with exhaustion and he said something flippant . . . All I saw, working with him, was someone incredibly committed.”

His own commitments have kept him away from the East London home he shares with his husband, composer Mark Bradshaw. So much for the actor’s life — though Whishaw wouldn’t have it any other way.

“My parents aren’t theater people, but they never said, ‘Well, you should have something to fall back on.’ They just said, ‘Go for it, son!’ ”

And from under his beard, you can see a smile.

2024: Mürren-Schilthorn season begins.

Mürren-Schilthorn: the active summer holiday area
https://www.berneseoberlandpass.ch/public-transport/schilthorn/

The cable car ride to the summit of the 2970 m high Schilthorn takes only 30 minutes. In front of the impressive panorama with the Eiger, Mönch and Jungfrau, even secret agent James Bond has been chasing bad guys and accordingly there is a lot to discover: The interactive exhibition Bond World 007 takes visitors into a world of its own and provides exciting details about the shooting of the film "In Her Majesty's Secret Service" [sic] with Agent 007 actor George Lazenby. On the world's first 007 Walk of Fame, contemporary witnesses will immortalize themselves and leave their mark on the legendary Bond film location. After the impressive experiences, the spaghetti in the 360° restaurant Piz Gloria tastes even better. In 45 minutes the restaurant turns on its own axis during lunch, passing over 200 mountain peaks. For digestion the gondola takes you down to Birg.

Daily from 11.00 to 14.00 hours. A table reservation is recommended. 033 826 00 07

RichardTheBruce

1998: Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine promises All Bonds Mode coming for GoldenEye 007.

https://goldeneye.fandom.com/wiki/4_Bonds_Hoax

2004: A James Bond-related website repeats unfounded rumors regarding Orson Welles and an attempt to film Moonraker in 1956.

https://spywhothrills.com/moonrakerfleming

2006: The Guardian proposes a Sid James connection to James Bond.

'The name's Bond. Sid James Bond'

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/apr/01/news.xanbrooks

Junked Bond ... Ian Fleming favourite Sid James (left) eventually made way
for Sean Connery (right) in the 007 role

Xan Brooks | @XanBrooks | Sat 1 Apr 2006
The list of the actors who have been considered for the role of James Bond is almost as long as the complete credits of a 007 production. Now an extra name can be set alongside the likes of David Niven, James Mason and Cary Grant - that of Carry On star Sid James.

A recently discovered screen test, filmed back in 1962, confirms a long-standing rumour that the bawdy comedian auditioned for the lead role in Dr No, the first film in the 007 series. James is believed to have been the favoured choice of Bond author Ian Fleming, but eventually rejected the role due to concerns that he might be typecast. The producers eventually offered the part to Scottish actor Sean Connery.

The screen test, included as an extra on the forthcoming DVD box-set of Bless This House, shows James brandishing a Walther PPK as he confronts the film's villain at the movie's climax. Apparently due to budgetary constraints, the other characters in the scene are played by James's regular Carry On co-stars. Barbara Windsor is Honey Ryder, a role that would eventually be taken by Ursula Andress. Kenneth Williams cameos as M, while Charles Hawtrey brings a silky menace to the character of Dr No.

"The story that Sid was offered the role of James Bond has been known within industry circles for years," explained Michael Sharona, author of the James biography, Carry On Sidney. "But it is wonderful to have it finally proved. Sid might seem like a surprising choice, but he is extremely good in the role. There is an elegance and a sense of mystery about him. It reveals a side of himself he did not often get the chance to show in his other films."

After turning down the Bond role, James went on to make a number of other successful Carry On comedies. At the time of his death, in 1976, he was reported to have signed to star in an unofficial sequel to Carry On Cabbie. According to sources, the film - entitled Taxi Driver and set in New York - would have revealed a darker side to the Sid James screen persona.
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2016: The Daily Mail prints an exclusive--Broadchurch actress Olivia Coleman cast as first female James Bond.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3518227/Now-S-real-Bond-girl-O-O-Olivia-Coleman-lined-play-007-Broadchurch-star-set-make-history-taking-Daniel-Craig-movie.html"

2018: A remake of Moonraker is announced.

https://theworldofjamesbond.blog/2017/04/01/bond-25-the-remake-of-moonraker/
https://www.deviantart.com/armalarm/art/Moonraker-Reboot-333482459

2019: MGM and Bond producers announce Season 2 for James Bond Jr.

Commander James Bond - CJB

EON annonce une saison 2 à la série James Bond Jr. !

http://www.commander007.net/2019/04/eon-annonce-saison-2-a-serie-james-bond-jr/
By Clément Feutry | - 21 heures ago | - in Actualités, Les Films 0

Original English version below.

Pinewood Studios (31 mars 2019) – MGM, Michael G. Wilson et Barbara Broccoli, producteurs des films de James Bond, annoncent aujourd’hui une seconde saison à la série d’animation JAMES BOND JR. originellement diffusée en 1991. Dans celle-ci, le neveu de l’espion international James Bond, James Bond Jr., était déterminé à suivre les traces de son oncle. James Bond Jr. et ses amis I.Q. (le petit-fils de Q) et Gordo Leiter (fils de l’agent de la CIA, Felix) s’inscrivaient à Warfield, une école préparatoire au Royaume-Uni située sur le terrain d’une ancienne base de formation au contre-espionnage. Ensemble, les camarades de classe se battaient contre S.C.U.M. (Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem), un cartel international de terroristes et de scientifiques fous. Michael G. Wilson :

Quand on a créé James Bond Jr., on voulait raconter une histoire sous un angle nouveau qui parlerait aux enfants des deux cotés de l’Atlantique, tout en rendant hommage au personnage de James Bond avec lequel les plus « grands enfants » ont grandit et ont appris à aimé. Cela fait un moment déjà que nous cherchions à relancer la série mais avions peur de rester trop similaire à l’originale. Le monde ayant bien changé depuis les années ’90, notamment grâce aux nouvelles technologies informatiques, et avec le reboot de la saga avec CASINO ROYALE, nous pensions qu’il était temps de faire revenir la série en l’actualisant à notre époque.

Collaborant avec MGM et EON, l’équipe créative de Titmouse, Inc. (The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past, Ballmastrz: 9009) sera en charge de l’animation et de la coécriture. Le Chief creative officer de Titmouse, Inc., Tim Kalina :

C’est un honneur de faire partie de la franchise Bond et de travailler avec les équipes prestigieuses de la MGM. Nous avons été impliqués dans le projet parce que nous avons toujours été fans de Bond, qu’étant une entreprise américaine nous pouvions plus facilement écrire pour le public américain, et surtout parce que nous avions la même idée pour relancer la série : la situer aujourd’hui. Notre série n’est pas la suite de l’originale [qui se finissait avec Bond Jr. récupérant le marteau de Thor] mais plutôt une remise à zéro, une sorte de reboot comme ils ont plus faire il y a quelques années avec les films. Les fans de la série originale ne serreront toutefois pas déçus dans la mesure où nous avons gardé le meilleur de celle-ci et la même structure. Nous avons cependant vraiment voulu nous servir de ce que Daniel Craig a apporté à la franchise en ancrant notre série dans son « ère » afin de la mettre au goût du jour.

Des changements ont ainsi été opérés pour que le jeune public puisse davantage s’identifier aux derniers films :

Notre James Bond Jr. sera blond et nous avons également penser à changer la couleur de peau de Gordo Leiter pour refléter la participation de Jeffrey Wright aux derniers films. Ce dernier personnage est très important pour nous car il s’agit de la connexion principale avec la culture et la mode américaine qui peut contraster avec celle britannique, donnant un peu de comique à l’ensemble. Dans la série originale Gordo est fan de surf mais ce sport faisant moins rêver les jeunes qu’il y a trente ans, nous avons décidé de lui donner un look « gansta » avec notamment une casquette rouge « make rap great again » afin de l’actualiser pour 2019. De même, Ben Whishaw faisant trop jeune pour être grand-père, nous avons fait de I.Q. le petit frère de Q au lieu de son petit-fils. Nous avons également supprimé le personnage de Tracy Milbanks au profit d’un nouveau : Madeleine Milbanks. Il était très important pour eux et pour nous que la série reflète les films, dit Tim Kalina.

L’une des grandes nouveautés de la série sera la présence de scènes d’action dans un univers de réalité virtuelle :

Les casques de réalité virtuelle ont envahi le marché ces dernières années et vu que notre I.Q. est une sorte de « geek » fan de jeux vidéo on s’est dit que ce serait amusant que Bond Jr. doive affronter S.C.U.M. dans des mondes virtuels crées par I.Q. et son alter ego « génie-informaticien » du camp des méchants, Boris (comme dans la série orignal nous faisons revenir des méchants emblématiques des films comme Boris ou encore Elvis). Ce qui est génial c’est que dans un monde en réalité virtuelle on peut tout faire : changer l’époque, introduire des éléments fantastiques et même abroger les lois de la physique lorsque l’on en a envie ; je pense que ça créer de superbes décors et des combats originaux jamais vus auparavant dans la saga.

Pour le producteur associé Gregg Wilson « la série s’annonce déjà encore meilleure que la précédente, j’ai récemment pu assister à une projection test avec des enfants d’un premier jet d’un épisode où le S.C.U.M. vole la Statue de la Liberté et la tour Eiffel pour demander une rançon ; les retours étaient merveilleux. Ils ne peuvent attendre que la série sorte et je pense que leurs parents aussi, qui n’auront d’ailleurs pas à s’inquiéter car la violence est très réduite et aucun personnage ne meurt à l’écran. On est partie sur un peu moins d’épisodes que la première saison, seulement une quarantaine [contre 65]. D’autant plus que cette fois il y aura un fil conducteur, cela concerne le père de Bond Jr. (le frère de James Bond), je ne peux rien dire de plus mais si vous avez vu SPECTRE, vous avez déjà une idée sur quoi vous attendre… ».

« Et puisque nous avons estimé que deux James Bond Jr. girls ne sont pas suffisantes, nous pouvons d’ores et déjà annoncer un partenariat avec Zodiak Media qui permettra à Bond Jr. de faire équipe avec les agentes secrètes des TOTALLY SPIES! au complet le temps d’un épisode. C’est l’une des nombreuses surprises qui attendent les fans de la nouvelle série ».

La saison 2 de James Bond Jr., produite par MGM et EON Production, réalisée par Titmouse, Inc., et distribuée par MGM sera diffusée début 2020 au Royaume-Uni sur BBC One et suivra peu après aux États-Unis sur NBC. Une gamme de jouets et de comics sera plus tard dévoilée dans le courant de l’année.

Source : 007.com.

Pour « fêter » ça, on se re-regardera bien le premier épisode de la série originale…


Et si l’anglais n’est pas votre tasse de thé, en VF ça donne :


La série originale avait également été adaptée en comics à l’époque…

English version :
Pinewood Studios (March 31, 2019) – MGM, Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, producers of the James Bond films, announced today a second season for the animated series JAMES BOND JR. originally released in 1991. In the original, the international spy James Bond’s nephew, James Bond Jr., was determined to follow in his uncle’s footsteps. James Bond Jr. and his friends I.Q. (Q’s grandson) and Gordo Leiter (son of CIA agent Felix) enrolled in Warfield, a preparatory school located on the grounds of an old counter intelligence training base in the UK. Together, the schoolmates fought against S.C.U.M. (Saboteurs and Criminals United in Mayhem), an international cartel of terrorists and mad scientists. Michael G. Wilson on the new series:

« When we created James Bond Jr., we wanted to tell a story from a new angle that would speak to children on both sides of the Atlantic, while paying tribute to the character of James Bond who the « older children » grew up with and have learned to love. It’s been a while since we thought about restarting the series but were afraid it’d too similar to the original. The world has changed a lot since the 90s, thanks to the computer technologies, and with the reboot of the film series, we thought it was time to bring back the series by updating it to our time.

Collaborating with MGM and EON Productions, the creative team of TITMOUSE, INC. (The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past, Ballmastrz: 9009) will be in charge of animation and co-writing. Chief Creative Officer of Titmouse, Inc., Tim Kalina:

« It’s an honor to be part of the Bond franchise and to work with the prestigious MGM team. We were involved in the project because we were always fans of Bond, and being an American company we could write more easily for the American public, and especially because we had the same idea to relaunch the series: to update it for audiences of today. Our series is not a continuation of the original [which ended with Bond Jr. recovering Thor’s hammer] but rather a reboot, similar to the kind of reboot they did a few years ago for the movies. Fans of the original series will not be disappointed since we took the best of the original series and kept the same structure. However, we really want to use what Daniel Craig has brought to the franchise by anchoring our series in the current ‘era’ to bring it up to date ».

Changes have been made so that young audiences can identify more with the latest films:

« Our James Bond Jr. will be blond and we changed the skin color of Gordo Leiter to reflect Jeffrey Wright’s participation in the movies. This last character is very important to us because he is the main connection with America’s culture and fashion, which can contrast with the British one, giving a little comedic style to the whole series. In the original series Gordo is a fan of surfing, but this sport is less appealing for young people than it was thirty years ago, so we decided to give him a ‘gansta’ style, especially with a red cap with the inscription « Make Rap Great Again » in order to update him for 2019. Similarly, since Ben Whishaw is too young to be a grandfather, we changed I.Q. to Q’s little brother instead of his grandson. We also changed Tracy Milbanks to Madeleine Milbanks. It is very important for MGM, EON and for us that the series reflects the current movies », says Tim Kalina.

One of the big novelties of the series will be the presence of action scenes in a world of virtual reality:

« Virtual reality headsets have invaded the market in recent years and as our I.Q. is a kind of ‘geek’ video game fan we thought it would be fun for Bond Jr. to face S.C.U.M. in virtual worlds created by I.Q. and his alter-ego ‘genius-computer scientist’ baddie, Boris (as in the original series we’re bringing back emblematic villains of the films like Boris and Elvis). The great thing is that in a world of virtual reality you can do anything: change the era, introduce fantastic elements and even do away with the laws of physics when you want to; I think that it creates beautiful scenery and original fights like never seen before in the saga ».

For Associate Producer Gregg Wilson: « The show is already looking better than the previous one, I was recently able to see a test screening with kids of an episode where S.C.U.M. steals the Statue of Liberty and the Eiffel Tower and demand a ransom; the returns were wonderful. They can’t wait for the show to come out and I think their parents won’t either. They won’t worry because the violence is very light and no characters die on the screen. We went with fewer episodes than the first season, only forty. Especially since this time there will be a common thread, it concerns the father of Bond Jr. (the brother of James Bond), I can’t say anything more but if you saw SPECTRE, you already have an idea about what to expect… »

« Since we felt that two James Bond Jr. girls are not enough, we can already announce a partnership with ZODIAK MEDIA that will allow Bond Jr. to team up with the full team secret agents of the TOTALLY SPIES! for one episode. This is one of the many surprises that awaiting fans of the new series ».

Season 2 of James Bond Jr., produced by MGM and EON Productions, directed by Titmouse, Inc. and distributed by MGM will be broadcast in early 2020 in the UK on BBC One and will follow shortly after in the USA on NBC. A range of toys and comics will be unveiled later this year.

Source : 007.com.

2022: Corgi offers a diecast version of a classic Bond car from Die Another Day.

https://twitter.com/corgi/status/1509802853417820160

2022: Real estate developers overtake James Bond Island, Phang Nga Bay, Thailand.

2023: Jimmy Buffet's website reveals Eon's new direction for James Bond.

Jimmy Buffett Cast as Next James Bond

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https://buffettworld.com/2023/04/01/jimmy-buffett-cast-as-next-james-bond/

April 1st, 2023

With Daniel Craig finishing his role as 007 in 2021’s No Time to Die, much speculation has been swirling as to who will portray the suave MI6 agent James Bond in future films.

The wait is over. Eon Productions announced this morning that singer Jimmy Buffett will take over the role beginning in 2025 with The Spy Who Got Drunk and Screwed Me.

The choice of Buffett is a dramatic departure for Eon and the James Bond Franchise, especially considering the fact that Buffett is an American, born in Pascagoula, Mississippi.

Producer Barbara Broccoli said of the choice: “after the massive success of Daniel Craig as Bond, we felt that choosing another young, handsome Brit to play everyone’s favorite secret agent would be too cliche. Jimmy Buffett is the perfect choice to disrupt the James Bond universe.”

While known primarily for his 50+ year career as a singer, Buffett is no stranger to the screen. He’s made multiple appearances on the television show Hawaii Five-O as well as a recent guest slot on Blue Bloods. Cameo appearances were also made in the 1995 film Congo and in 2015’s Jurassic World where he’s seen saving margaritas in the midst of a dinosaur attack.

The 76-year-old singer is expected to do many of his own stunts, from piloting airplanes to surfing and snowboarding.

Not everyone is on board with choice of Buffett. One person confused by the selection is British actor Idris Elba, who was seen as a leading candidate to take over the role. When reached for comment, Elba said “really?”

Buffett is expected to portray Bond in at least three films. Titles being discussed include From Margaritaville with Love, Goldfins, The Fruitcake is Not Enough, License to Chill and Octogenarianpussy.

2024: Reports say "Licence revoked for tobacco" as cigarettes will be digitally removed from James Bond films.

https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/licence-revoked-for-tobacco-as-cigarettes-will-be-digitally-removed-from-james-bond-films-240401

RichardTheBruce

April 2nd

1925: George MacDonald Fraser is born--Carlisle, Cumberland, England.
(He dies 2 January 2008 at age 82--Strang, Isle of Man, United Kingdom.)

George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at 82

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/arts/03fraser.html
By MARGALIT FOXJAN. 3, 2008

George MacDonald Fraser, a British writer whose popular novels about the arch-rogue Harry Flashman followed their hero as he galloped, swashbuckled, drank and womanized his way through many of the signal events of the 19th century, died yesterday on the Isle of Man. He was 82 and had made his home there in recent years.

The cause was cancer, said Vivienne Schuster, his British literary agent.

Over nearly four decades, Mr. Fraser produced a dozen rollicking picaresques centering on Flashman. The novels purport to be installments in a multivolume “memoir,” known collectively as the Flashman Papers, in which the hero details his prodigious exploits in battle, with the bottle and in bed. In the process, Mr. Fraser cheerfully punctured the enduring ideal of a long-vanished era in which men were men, tea was strong and the sun never set on the British Empire.

The Flashman Papers include, among other titles, Flashman (World Publishing, 1969); Flashman in the Great Game (Knopf, 1975); and, most recently, Flashman on the March (Knopf, 2005). The second volume in the series, Royal Flash (Knopf, 1970), was made into a film of the same title in 1975, starring Malcolm McDowell as Flashman.

In what amounted to an act of literary retribution, Mr. Fraser plucked Flashman from the pages of Tom Brown’s School Days, Thomas Hughes’s classic novel of English public-school life published in 1857. In that book, Tom, the innocent young hero, repeatedly falls prey to a sadistic bully named Flashman.

In Mr. Fraser’s hands, the cruel, handsome Flashman is all grown up and in the British Army, serving in India, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Now Brig. Gen. Sir Harry Paget Flashman, he is a master equestrian, a pretty fair duelist and a polyglot who can pitch woo in a spate of foreign tongues. He is also a scoundrel, a drunk, a liar, a cheat, a braggart and a coward. (A favorite combat strategy is to take credit for a victory from which he has actually run away.)

George MacDonald Fraser
Credit HarperCollins, about 2004

Last, but most assuredly not least, Flashman is a serial adulterer who by Volume 9 of the series has bedded 480 women. (That Flashman is married himself, to the fair, dimwitted Elspeth, is no impediment. She cuckolds him left and right, in any case.

Readers adored him. Today, the Internet is populated with a bevy of Flashman fan sites.

Flashman’s exploits take him to some of the most epochal events of his time, from British colonial campaigns to the American Civil War, in which he magnanimously serves on both the Union and the Confederate sides. He rubs up against eminences like Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, Florence Nightingale and Abraham Lincoln.

For his work, Flashman earns a string of preposterous awards, including a knighthood, the Victoria Cross and the American Medal of Honor.

Mr. Fraser was so skilled a mock memoirist that he had some early readers fooled. Writing in The New York Times in 1969 after the first novel was published, Alden Whitman said:

“So far, ‘Flashman’ has had 34 reviews in the United States. Ten of these found the book to be genuine autobiography.”

The son of Scottish parents, George MacDonald Fraser was born on April 2, 1925, in Carlisle, England, near the Scottish border. His boyhood reading, like that of nearly every British boy of his generation, included Tom Brown’s School Days.

In World War II, Mr. Fraser served in India and Burma with the Border Regiment. His memoir of the war in Burma, Quartered Safe Out Here (Harvill), was published in 1993.

The first Flashman novel.

After leaving the military, Mr. Fraser embarked on a journalism career, working for newspapers in England, Canada and Scotland. He eventually became the assistant editor of The Glasgow Herald and in the 1960s, was briefly its editor.

Tiring of newspaper work, Mr. Fraser decided, as he later said in interviews, to “write my way out” with an original Victorian novel. In a flash, he remembered Flashman, and the first book tumbled out in the evenings after work.

“In all, it took 90 hours, no advance plotting, no revisions, just tea and toast and cigarettes at the kitchen table,” he said in an interview quoted in the reference work Authors and Artists for Young Adults.

Mr. Fraser’s survivors include his wife, Kathy; two sons and a daughter. Information on other survivors could not immediately be confirmed.

His other books include several non-Flashman novels, among them Mr. American (Simon & Schuster, 1980); The Pyrates (Knopf, 1984); and Black Ajax (HarperCollins, 1997). With Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson, Mr. Fraser wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film Octopussy, released in 1983.

Mr. Fraser’s latest book, The Reavers, a non-Flashman novel, is scheduled to be published by Knopf in April.

For his work, Mr. Fraser received many honors, among them the Order of the British Empire in 1999. This award, according to every conceivable news account, was entirely genuine.

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page C12 of the New York edition with the headline: George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at 82.

George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292129/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Writer (10 credits)

1989 The Return of the Musketeers (screenplay - as George Macdonald Fraser)
1987 Casanova (TV Movie) (written by)
1986 The Pyrates (TV Movie) (adaptation)
1985 Red Sonja (written by)
1983 Octopussy (screen story and screenplay)

1977 Crossed Swords (final screenplay)
1975 Royal Flash (novel) / (screenplay)
1974 The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (screenplay - as George Macdonald Fraser)
1973 The Three Musketeers (screenplay)
1972 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) (story "The General Danced At Dawn" - 1 episode)
- The Dirtiest Soldier in the World (1972) ... (story "The General Danced At Dawn")

Self (1 credit)

1974 The Book Programme (TV Series documentary) - Self
- Episode #2.5 (1974) ... Self

Archive footage (1 credit)

2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Self

1962: Producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Salztman complete a deal with United Artists to finance Dr. No.
1965: Kingsley Amis reviews The Man With the Golden Gun in The New Statesman.

Shared by @Revelator on the MI6 Community Novel Bondathon discussion.
https://mi6community.com/discussion/comment/847292

***

M for Murder

By Kingsley Amis

We left James Bond in Japan, an amnesia victim after a head wound sustained while escaping by balloon from the castle he had destroyed by blocking-up the mud geyser on which it was built. He was under the impression that he was a local fisherman, and Kissy Suzuki, at that time what the newspapers call his friend, did nothing to put him right, at least not mentally. At the end of You Only Live Twice he was taking off for Vladivostok, because it was part of a country that, he sensed, he had had a lot to do with in the past. This was a promising situation. One could hardly wait for the follow-up: inevitable capture by the KGB, questionings and torturings and brainwashings, break out (aided probably by some beautiful firm-breasted female major of the Foreign Intelligence Directorate), the slaying of Colonel-General Grubozaboyschikov of SMERSH, and perhaps of Lieutenant-General Vozdvishensky of RUMID for good measure, in revenge for what happened on the Orient Express in 1957, and final escape over the Wall.

Nothing of this order takes place in Bond’s latest and last exploit. He’s back in England right at the start, telephoning the Ministry of Defence and apparently set on getting his old job back. It soon emerges that he has indeed been brainwashed, and that the commission allotted him by his Russian controllers is nothing less than the assassination of M. Despite the forebodings pf Miss Moneypenny in the outer office Bond is admitted to the presence, chats briefly about the necessity of working for peace and then whips out a cyanide pistol. But M presses a button which lowers a sheet of armour-plate glass from the ceiling, and the jet of viscous brown fluid splashes harmlessly into its centre.

I lament this outcome of the attentat very much, and not only because it helps to make everything that follows seem rather small-scale. M has always seemed to me about as sinister as Captain Nash (the moon-maniac who tried to shoot Bond with a specially designed copy of War and Peace) and considerably less amiable than Dr No. The depth of Bond’s devotion to M’s keen, lined sailor’s face and clear blue sailor’s eyes remains something of a mystery. Perhaps the pitch of the old monster’s depravity is reached in the title story of For Your Eyes Only. Here he manoeuvres Bond into volunteering to murder an ex-Nazi in Vermont as a personal favour, and says absolutely nothing when Bond departs to carry out this arduous, dangerous, difficult assignment. Even Mr. Deighton’s pair of boors, Colonel Ross and Major Dalby, might in such circumstances have gone as far as to wish Bond luck or thank him. A faceful of cyanide would have done M a world of good.

He survives, however, and goes off to luncheon at Blades, just a grilled sole and a spoonful of Stilton. He used to be much greedier than this, cheerfully doing himself harm by guzzling a marrow-bone after his caviar and devilled kidneys and fresh strawberries. In the old days, too, he would go for 20-year-old clarets; he washes down his grilled sole with a bottle of Algerian red too bad to be allowed on the wine-list. We know now why Bond stepped down from broiled lobsters with melted butter in 1953 to cold roast beef and potato salad in 1963. As always, he was following M’s lead.

After luncheon, M decides to send Bond off to the West Indies to kill a certain Scaramanga, the golden-gun-toter of the title and a free-lance assassin often used by the KGB or Castro. He may well perish in the attempt, for Scaramanga is the best shot in the Caribbean, but that’s all right—to fall on the battlefield would be better than doing 20 years for having tried to kill the head of the Secret Service. Having had a bit of shock treatment at the hands of Sir James Molony, the famous neurologist, and some intensive gun practice at the Maidstone police range. Bond is judged fit for the assignment and in due course noses out Scaramanga in Jamaica. What follows is soon told. Scaramanga hires Bond as his security and trigger-man and takes him off to a half-built hotel on the coast where a ‘business conference’ is to be held. Ostensibly its subject is tourist development. Bond’s identity becomes known and Scaramanga arranges to knock him off during a small-gauge-railway excursion as a piece of light entertainment for the conferrers. But…We last see Bond refusing a knighthood: to accept one would be to aspire inadmissibly to M’s level.

It’s a sadly empty tale, empty of the interests and effects that for better or worse, Ian Fleming had made his own. Violence is at a minimum. Sex too: an old chum of Bond’s called Mary Goodnight appears two or three times, and on her first appearance puts an arm smelling of Chanel No 5 round his neck, but he gets no more out of her later than an invitation to convalesce at her bungalow. And there’s no gambling, no gadgets or machinery to speak of, no undersea stuff, none of those lavish and complicated eats and drinks, hardly even a brand-name apart from Bond’s Hofffitz safety razor arid the odd bottle of Walker’s de luxe Bourbon. The main plot, in the sense of the scheme proposed by the villain’s, is likewise thin. Smuggling marijuana and getting protection-money out of oil companies disappoint expectation aroused by what some of these people’s predecessors planned: a nuclear attack on Miami, the dissemination throughout Britain of crop and livestock pests, the burgling of Fort Knox. The rank-and-file villains, too, have been reduced in scale.

In most of the Bond books it was the central villain on whom interest in character was fixed. Moonraker, for instance, is filled with the physical presence of Huger Drax with his red hair and scarred face, bustling about, puffing cigars, playing the genial host when he isn’t working on his scheme to obliterate London. Scaramanga is just a dandy with a special (and ineffective) gun, a stock of outdated American slang and a third nipple on his left breast. We hear a lot about him early on in the 10-page dossier M consults, including mentions of homosexuality and pistol-fetishism, but these aren’t followed up anywhere. Why not?

It may be relevant to consider at this point an outstandingly clumsy turn in the narrative. Bond has always, been good at ingratiating, himself with his enemies, notably with Goldfinger, who took him on as his personal assistant for the Fort Knox project. Goldfinger, however, had fairly good reason to believe Bond to be a clever and experienced operator on the wrong side of the law. Scaramanga hires him after a few minutes’ conversation in the bar of a brothel. (At this stage he has no idea that there’s a British agent within a hundred miles, so he can’t be hiring him to keep him under his eye.) Bond wonders what Scaramanga wants with him: “it was odd, to say the least of it…the strong smell of a trap.” This hefty hint of a concealed motive on Scaramanga’s part is never taken up. Why not?

I strongly suspect—on deduction alone, let it be said—that these unanswered questions represent traces of an earlier draft, perhaps never committed to paper, wherein Scaramanga hires Bond because he’s sexually interested in him. A supposition of this kind would also take care of other difficulties or deficiencies in the book as it stands, the insubstantiality of the character of Scaramanga, just referred to, and the feeling of suppressed emotion, or at any rate the build-up to and the space for some kind of climax of emotion, in the final confrontation of the two men. But of course Ian Fleming wouldn’t have dared complete the story along those lines. Imagine what the critics would have said!

To read some of their extant efforts, one would think that Bond’s creator was a sort of psychological Ernst Stavro Blofeld, bent on poisoning British morality. An article in this journal in 1958 helped to initiate a whole series of attacks on the supposed “sex, snobbery and sadism” of the books, as if sex were bad per se, and as if snobbery resided in a few glossy-magazine descriptions of Blades and references to Aston Martin cars and Pinaud shampoos and what-not, and as if sadism could be attributed to a character who never wantonly inflicts pain. (Contrast Bulldog Drummond and Spillane’s Mike Hammer.)

These are matters that can’t be argued through in this review. But it seems clear that Ian Fleming took such charges seriously. Violent and bloody action, the infliction of pain in general, was very much scaled down in what he wrote after 1958. Many will regard this as a negative gain, though others may feel that a secret-agent story without violence would be like, say, a naval story without battles. As regards ‘sex’ and ‘snobbery’ and the memorable meals and the high-level gambling, these, however unedifying, were part of the unique Fleming world, and the denaturing of that world in the present novel and parts of its immediate forerunners is a loss. Nobody can write at his best with part of his attention on puritanical readers over his shoulder.

Ian Fleming was a good writer, occasionally a brilliant one, as the gypsy-encampment scene in From Russia, With Love (however sadistic) and the bridge-game in Moonraker (however snobbish) will suggest. His gifts for sustaining and varying action, and for holding down the wildest fantasies with cleverly synthesized pseudo-facts, give him a place beside long defunct entertainer-virtuosos like Jules Verne and Conan Doyle, though he was more fully master of his material than either of these. When shall we see another?

1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films Elliott Carver's first scenes.

2012: The British press continue to perpetrate an apparent April Fool's day rumour that the Queen and Daniel Craig as James Bond plan a stunt to open the Olympic Games.

JAMES BOND TEAMS WITH THE QUEEN : APRIL FOOL'S JOKE

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https://cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/6645-JAMES-BOND-TEAMS-WITH-THE-QUEEN-APRIL-FOOLS-JOKE.html

Cinema Retro

Here's an ambitious April Fool's joke. The web sites for the London tabloids the Daily Express and The Sun report that Her Majesty The Queen will be teaming with Daniel Craig for a special James Bond promotional stunt for the opening of the London summer Olympics. According to The Sun, Her Majesty has granted access to Buckingham Palace to film a mini-movie that will air on opening night of the games, which will be followed by Daniel Craig parachuting into the Olympics opening ceremony. The Sun reports that Oscar winning director Danny Boyle will oversee directing the events. Before everyone gets excited, we do caution readers to remember this story has appeared on April Fool's Day. The Daily Express reports that Craig actually did film scenes at the palace in February, but they were for the new Bond film Skyfall and featured a look-a-like of Her Majesty. This is a story that contrasts substantially with The Sun's account. If all this is still being reported as fact tomorrow, maybe we'll be convinced there might be a tiny grain of truth to the notion that perhaps something was filmed inside the Palace, but for now it appears to be an elaborate April Fool's joke, as there is NO WAY Daniel Craig is parachuting into the Olympics!

For the Daily Express report, click here.
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/311833/On-Her-Majesty-s-Secret-Service
For The Sun's report click here
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizarre/4232299/James-Bond-news-Daniel-Craig-has-been-invited-by-The-Queen-to-open-the-2012-Olympic-games.html

UPDATE: Well. it's April 2 and the mainstream British press are still reporting this story as though it is true. Until Craig confirms it, we don't believe it. If this does turn out to be an April Fool's joke, there will be a lot of discredited newspapers. Let's see what develops...

2020: Original release date for No Time to Die before diverting to November for: United Kingdom. Greece, James Bond 007: Keine Zeit zu sterben in Germany, Sin tiempo para morir in Spain.

2023: Press continue announcing a new James Bond novel to be published 2 days prior to the coronation of King Charles. No joke.

New James Bond story
commissioned to mark King Charles'
coronation

See the complete article here:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/royals/300844906/new-james-bond-story-commissioned-to-mark-king-charles-coronation

Jens Buettner/AP
Auckland reporter | Apr 01 2023

A new James Bond book is set to be released two days ahead of King Charles coronation called On His Majesty’s Secret Service.

The book – which will be written by author of the Young Bond series Charlie Higson – follows the 007 spy as he tries to stop mercenaries from wreaking havoc as King Charles is crowned.

Its title is a play on the 1963 bond novel, On her Majesty's Secret Service.

Ian Fleming Publications, the company responsible for all of the late 007 writer's literary works, commissioned the novel to be released on May 4, two days before the coronation.

According to Variety, Higson was excited about writing the novel, until he realised the short time fame.

“Getting it written and turned around in such a short space of time was going to be as tense and heart-pounding as any Bond mission. Although, of course, nobody would actually be shooting at me.”

“But I’ve been thinking about writing an adult Bond adventure ever since working on the Young Bond books. Fleming famously wrote fast, and I channelled that energy.

“Now it’s exciting for me to finally enter the world of grown-up Bond. Everything you want from a Bond story is in there – sex, violence, cars, a colourful villain with a nasty henchman, and of course, Bond himself, so well-known and yet so unknowable,” he said.

All royalties from the book will go to support the UK charity, the National Literacy Trust.

RichardTheBruce

April 3rd

1926: Director of photography Jean Tournier is born--Toulon, Var, France.
(He dies 5 December 2004 at age 78--Paris, France.)

Jean Tournier (1926–2004)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0869673/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Born April 3, 1926 in Toulon, Var, France
Died December 5, 2004 in Paris, France (cancer)

Mini Bio
Jean Tournier was born on April 3, 1926 in Toulon, Var, France. He is known for his work on Moonraker (1979), The Day of the Jackal (1973) and Target (1985). He died on December 5, 2004 in Paris, France.

Filmography

Cinematographer (55 credits)

1994 Cache Cash
1992 Le secret du petit milliard (TV Movie)
1991 La neige et le feu
1990 Les 1001 nuits
1989 Les mannequins d'osier
1988 Bonjour l'angoisse
1987 Napoleon and Josephine: A Love Story (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
- Part III (1987)
- Part II (1987)
- Part I (1987)
1986 Monte Carlo (TV Mini-Series) (director of photography - 2 episodes)
- Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (director of photography)
- Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (director of photography)
1986 Sins (TV Mini-Series) (director of photography - 3 episodes)
- Episode #1.3 (1986) ... (director of photography - 1986)
- Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (director of photography - 1986)
- Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (director of photography - 1986)
1985 Target
1984 Camille (TV Movie)
1984 Mistral's Daughter (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
- Episode #1.3 (1984)
- Episode #1.2 (1984)
- Episode #1.1 (1984)
1984 Femmes de personne
1983 Par ordre du Roy (TV Movie)
1983 Le battant
1981 Pour la peau d'un flic
1980 3 hommes à abattre
1980 The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu

1979 Moonraker (director of photography)
1978 Les Miserables (TV Movie)
1976 Destinée de Monsieur de Rochambeau (TV Movie)
1975 Le cantique des créatures: Georges Braque ou Le temps différent (Documentary)
1974 Black Thursday
1974 The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
1973 The Day of the Jackal (photographed by)
1972 3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972 The Annuity
1971 On the Lam
1971 Countdown
1970 Start the Revolution Without Me (director of photography)
1970 The Comeuppance

1968 The Little Bather (director of photography)
1968 The Man in the Buick
1967 Le grand bidule
1967 Shock Troops
1966 Divertissement pour amoureux... et concierges (Short)
1966 Father's Trip
1966 Trap for the Assassin
1966 Your Money or Your Life
1965 Compartiment tueurs
1965 The Two Orphans
1965 Fire at Will (director of photography)
1964 The Counterfeit Constable
1964 The Train (photographed by)
1962 Les mystères de Paris
1961 C'est l'heure (Short)
1961 C'est pour demain (Short)
1961 Les bras de la nuit
1961 Amelie or The Time to Love
1960 Les deux entêtés (Short)
1960 Ladies Man
1960 One Does Not Bury Sunday
1960 Quai du Point-du-Jour

1958 Auditorium (Short)
1956 L'album de famille de Jean Renoir (Documentary short)

Camera and Electrical Department (5 credits)

1986 Liberty (TV Movie) (cinematographer: France)
1983 Man, Woman and Child (director of photography: France)
1968 The Troops get Married (director of photography: second unit)
1966 Is Paris Burning? (director of photography: second unit)
1961 Goodbye Again (camera operator)

Actor (1 credit)

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

1942: Wayne Newton is born--Roanoke, Virginia.

1961: The Daily Express comic run of Risico begins. (Ending 24 June 1961, serials 850-921.)
John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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James Bond Agent 007 no. 10: “Risico” (1967)




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James Bond Agent 007 no. 37: “Risico” (1976)

1964: From Russia With Love released in Austria.

1995: GoldenEye main unit filming at the Nene Valley railway, Cambridgeshire, England.
1997: Hodder & Stoughton publish Raymond Benson's first Bond novel Zero Minus Ten.

ZERO MINUS TEN

In ten days, Hong Kong will
pass into the hands of the
Chinese – and 007 is on
his way there to undertake
his most dangerous and
thrilling mission yet.

In the Australian desert, a nuclear
bomb explodes. There are no survivors,
and clues about who has made it or
detonated it.

In England, two police officer are shot
dead when they apprehend a cargo
vessel in Portsmouth dock. Vast
quantities of heroin are later found on
board.

And in Hong Kong, an explosion rips
through one of the colony’s most famous
floating restaurants, killing the entire
Board of Directors of EurAsia
Enterprises Ltd, a multibillion dollar
shipping corporation.

The People’s Republic of China is about
to resume control after a century and a
half of British rule – and the colony is a
powder keg waiting to explode. The
tension reaches breaking point when a
solicitor from one of Britain’s most
prestigious law firms is killed in a car
bomb at Government House.

These apparently random events are
connected – and Bond must find out
how and why, from the heady casinos
of Macau to the seedy strip clubs of
Kowloon 007’s investigations bring
him into conflict with ruthless Triad
gangs, a power-hungry Chinese general
– and a beautiful night club hostess
called Sunni Pei.

All enquiries seem to lead to
EurAsia Enterprises Ltd – and its assassinated
owner. James Bond is about to come
up against one of the most formidable
adversaries of his career.

A new era of high adventure, intrigue
and danger begins for James Bond with
Raymond Benson’s eagerly awaited
007 thriller – a story of sensuality and
nonstop excitement.

Raymond Benson has written over 35 books and served on the Board of Directors of The Ian Fleming Foundation for sixteen years.

2015: Robert Rietti dies at age 92: London, England.
(Born 8 February 1923--London, England.)

Robert Rietti obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/apr/24/robert-rietti
Actor best known for his voice, who dubbed in a number of James
Bond films
Michael Freedland | Fri 24 Apr 2015 12.05 EDT

Robert Rietti unusually facing the camera, in Time to Remember with Yvonne Monlaur (1962).
Photograph: Ronald Grant Archive

As a film and television actor, Robert Rietti, who has died aged 92, was best known for his voice. Although he made occasional on-screen appearances, as in John Schlesinger’s Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971) and the ITV series The Avengers, his regular work came from dubbing the dialogue of actors whose command of English was limited or who could not make the final stages of recording a soundtrack.

After the actor Robert Shaw died in 1978, Rietti was called to dub his voice in parts of three movies for which Shaw had not completed the recording. After a diagnosis of cancer compelled the removal of Jack Hawkins’s larynx in 1966, Rietti provided the spoken words for some of his films. In Treasure Island (1972), he revoiced every word spoken by Orson Welles as Long John Silver.

Rietti had a significant involvement in the James Bond series, providing the voice of the secret agent John Strangways in the first, Dr No (1962), and Adolfo Celi’s voice as Emilio Largo in Thunderball (1965). He even dubbed the Japanese actor Tetsuro Tamba as Tiger Tanaka in You Only Live Twice (1967) and John Hollis as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in For Your Eyes Only (1981). In On Her Majesty’s Secret Service in 1969, he also appeared before the camera as one of the staff in a casino.

For much of his career his name was spelt differently, or did not appear at all. He was billed as Robert Rietty on radio cast lists and for some of the many films on which he worked, but when employed to dub his name was often absent. This was a source of some annoyance. “I don’t really understand why,” he said, “because if they want singing in a film and they have an actress or an actor who doesn’t sing well, they’ll revoice them with a famous voice and there’ll be a credit afterwards. But if they revoice a voice for speaking, nobody must know.”

Experts in his business could recognise a Rietti dubbing, but few others could, as he was highly skilled in mastering both voices and accents. In one sequence in the film Waterloo (1970), for instance, he was heard talking to himself four times in the course of providing no fewer than 98 voices, one of them for Hawkins as Sir Thomas Picton.

He was often called upon to supply Italian voices, and also spoke fluent German, French and Russian.

Born Lucio Rietti, in Paddington, west London, son of Victor, a well-known character actor, and Rachel (nee Rosenay), he came from Italian-Jewish stock. His family, originally from Ferrara, had lived in England for 200 years and one of his ancestors was Rebecca Rietti, Benjamin Disraeli’s grandmother.

Rietti made more than 6,000 radio broadcasts, frequently reading his own short stories or tales from the Bible. For more than 20 years he would end my own BBC Radio London, and then LBC, programme You Don’t Have to Be Jewish, with a reading from either the Old Testament or the Talmud. For a number of years, he also broadcast to the US for the BBC in what was billed as an answer to Alistair Cooke’s Letter from America.

He had his own company, which was responsible for the complete rerecording of films – such as when a movie with Scottish actors speaking with thick accents had to be made available to the American market. He was nominated for a Golden Reel award in Hollywood for dubbing much of Sergio Leone’s gangster movie Once Upon a Time in America. In 2000, he was nominated for the Bafta special award for outstanding work.

He was also active as a writer. He translated the entire works of Pirandello into English and published a number of anthologies, including the collection A Rose For Reuben: Stories of Hope from the Holocaust (2006). He edited the drama quarterly Gambit.

His Iraqi-born wife, Tina (nee Semah), died in 2008. He is survived by two daughters, Anya and Liana, and two sons, Jonathan and Benjamin.

• Robert (Lucio Herbert) Rietti, actor, born 8 February 1923; died 3 April 2015

Robert Rietty (1923–2015)

Actor | Additional Crew | Sound Department
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0726403/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (280 credits)

2008 Beehive (TV Series) - Opera Fan
- Episode #1.1 (2008) ... Opera Fan
2006 Little Britain (TV Series)
- Little Britain Abroad: Part 2 (2006) ... (as Robert Rietti)
- Little Britain Abroad: Part 1 (2006)
2002 Doctor Who: Death Comes to Time (TV Mini-Series) - Bedloe
- No Child of Earth (2002) ... Bedloe (voice, as Robert Rietti)
- The Child (2002) ... Bedloe (voice, as Robert Rietti)
2001 Hannibal - Sogliato (as Robert Rietti)

1998 Hilary and Jackie - Italian Flunky
1998 The Sea Change - Luigi
1997 Déjà Vu - Unconfirmed Part (uncredited)
1996 Beck (TV Series) - Massimo Anconi
- Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Massimo Anconi
1994 Faith (TV Mini-Series) - Suit 3
- Episode #1.2 (1994) ... Suit 3
1991 Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (TV Movie) - Franz Hoffman
1991 30 Door Key (as Robert Rietti)
1990 The March - Leo Borelli

1988 Madame Sousatzka - Leo Milev
1987 The Fourth Protocol - Colonel Kay (uncredited)
1986 Love with a Perfect Stranger (TV Movie) - Bruno
1986 Call Me Mister (TV Series) - Bernard Santori
- Frozen Assets (1986) ... Bernard Santori
1985 Christopher Columbus (TV Mini-Series) - Of various roles - 4 episodes
1984 Ellis Island (TV Mini-Series) - Bruno Santorelli
- Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Bruno Santorelli
1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Marcello
- Last Video and Testament (1984) ... Marcello
1983 Never Say Never Again - Italian Minister
1983 Curse of the Pink Panther - Various roles (voice)
1982 Trail of the Pink Panther - Various roles (voice)
1982 I Remember Nelson (TV Series) - Messenger
- Passion (1982) ... Messenger
1982 The Brack Report (TV Series) - Sr Navaroni
- Chapter 3 (1982) ... Sr Navaroni
1982 The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TV Movie) - Dubbing (voice)
1982 The Story of the Treasure Seekers (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Rosenbaum
- Episode #1.3 (1982) ... Mr. Rosenbaum
1981 The Borgias (TV Mini-Series) - Mantuan Ambassador
- Part 1 (1981) ... Mantuan Ambassador
1981 The Flame Trees of Thika (TV Mini-Series) - Italian Priest
- Friends in High Places (1981) ... Italian Priest
1981 For Your Eyes Only - Ernst Stavro Blofeld (voice, uncredited)
1980 Hawk the Slayer - Narrator (uncredited)
1978-1980 The Professionals (TV Series) - Ambassador / Gino
- Hijack (1980) ... Ambassador
- Man Without a Past (1978) ... Gino
1980 Time of My Life (TV Series) - Giovanni
- Episode #1.4 (1980) ... Giovanni

1979 Avalanche Express - Gen. Marenkov (voice, uncredited)
1979 Ashanti - Slave Trader in Market (voice, uncredited)
1978 The Thief of Baghdad (TV Movie) - Captain of the Guard (voice, uncredited)
1978 Force 10 from Navarone - Drazak (voice, uncredited)
1978 Jackanory Playhouse (TV Series) - Monsieur Legrand
- Big Pete, Little Pete (1978) ... Monsieur Legrand
1977 The New Avengers (TV Series) - Dom Carlos
- Trap (1977) ... Dom Carlos
1977 Gulliver's Travels - Reldresal / King of Blefuscu (voice)
1977 Jesus of Nazareth (TV Mini-Series) - Various small roles
- Part 2 (1977) ... Various small roles (voice)
- Part 1 (1977) ... Various small roles (voice)
1977 Cross of Iron - German Officer (voice, uncredited)
1975-1976 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Sphere / Luke Ferro / Voice of Mateo / ...
- The AB Chrysalis (1976) ... Sphere (voice)
- The Testament of Arkadia (1976) ... Luke Ferro (voice, uncredited)
- The Troubled Spirit (1976) ... Voice of Mateo (uncredited)
- Dragon's Domain (1975) ... Voice of Cellini (uncredited)
1976 No Longer Alone - Joan's father
1976 The Devil's Men - Sgt. Vendris (voice)
1976 The Message of Major and minor roles (voice)
1976 The Omen - Monk
1976 Spanish Fly - Antonio (voice, uncredited)
1975 The Hiding Place - Willem ten Boom
1975 Paper Tiger - Harok (voice)
1975 Deadly Strangers

Various voices (uncredited)

1974 The Early Life of Stephen Hind (TV Series) - Tim Cadnam-Plessy
- Episode #1.2 (1974) ... Tim Cadnam-Plessy
1974 Murder on the Orient Express - Loudspeaker (uncredited)
1974 From Beyond the Grave - Dubbed Marcel Steiner / Dallas Adams (segment 1 "The Gate Crasher") (voice, uncredited)
1973 The Golden Voyage of Sinbad - Haroun / Omar / Koura's Ship Captain (voice, uncredited)
1973 Wessex Tales (TV Mini-Series) - Sculptor
- Barbara of the House of Grebe (1973) ... Sculptor
1973 Gawain and the Green Knight - Green Knight - some lines (voice, uncredited)
1973/II A Doll's House - Small part actor (voice, uncredited)
1973 The Crocodile (TV Series) - Monsieur Duclair
- Stranger from the Sea (1973) ... Monsieur Duclair
1972 The Adventurer (TV Series) - Bank Director
- Deadlock (1972) ... Bank Director
1972 The Ruling Class - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
1972 Frenzy - Doctor (voice, uncredited)
1972 Tales from the Crypt - Radio Newcaster (segment "And All Through the House") (voice, uncredited)
1972 Brother Sun, Sister Moon - Consul and others (voice)
1971 Jason King (TV Series) - Angelo
- All That Glisters...: Part 2 (1971) ... Angelo (voice, uncredited)
1971 Nicholas and Alexandra - Count Fredericks (voice, uncredited)
1971 Captain Apache - Dubbing (voice)
1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Torino
- Five Miles to Midnight (1971) ... Torino
1971 The Last Run - Miguel (voice, uncredited)
1971 Sunday Bloody Sunday - Daniel's Brother
1971 A Town Called Hell - Paco (voice)
1971 From a Bird's Eye View (TV Series) - Porter / Casino Manager / Hotel Clerk
- All in a Day's Work (1971) ... Porter
- Hurricane Millie (1971) ... Casino Manager
- Wife Trouble (1971) ... Hotel Clerk
1971 Flight of the Doves - Irish Airport TV Reporter (voice, uncredited)
1970 Within and Without (as Roberto Rietti)
1970 UFO (TV Series) - Keith Ford
- The Square Triangle (1970) ... Keith Ford (voice, uncredited)
1970 Song of Norway - Winding (uncredited)
1970 The McKenzie Break

Various voices (uncredited)

1970 Deep End - of Four Characters (voice, uncredited)
1965-1970 Mogul (TV Series) - Inspector / Giuseppe
- They Shall Not Pass (1970) ... Inspector
- Out of Range (1965) ... Giuseppe
1970 You Can't Win 'Em All - Col. Enci (voice, uncredited)
1970 Hell Boats - Salvatore (voice)
1970 Land Raiders - Harper - Wagon Master (voice)

1969 A Talent for Loving - Of two roles (voice)
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Casino Baccarat Official (uncredited)
1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Jenkins (voice, uncredited)
1969 A Walk with Love and Death - Various roles (voice)
1969 The Royal Hunt of the Sun - Atahuallpa (voice, uncredited)
1969 The Valley of Gwangi - Carlos (voice, uncredited)
1969 The Italian Job - Police Chief
1969 Sax Rohmer's The Castle of Fu Manchu - Curt and others (voice, uncredited)
1969 Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies - Count Levinovich (voice, uncredited)
1969 Mackenna's Gold - Hachita (voice)
1969 Hannibal Brooks - Kellerman (voice)
1969 The Assassination Bureau - Police Officer with Eleanora (uncredited)
1969 Department S (TV Series) - Pilot
- Six Days (1969) ... Pilot
1969 The Desperados - Deputy (voice)
1969 The Saint (TV Series) - Lafitre
- The Ex-King of Diamonds (1969) ... Lafitre (voice, uncredited)
1968 The Ugliest Girl in Town (TV Series) - Hotel Manager
- The Paris Incident (1968) ... Hotel Manager
1968 The Blood of Fu Manchu - of Jansen and Lopez and others (voice)
1968 Star! - French Ambassador (uncredited)
1968 The Girl on a Motorcycle - Of two roles (voice)
1968 Assignment K - Minor Role (voice, uncredited)
1967 Hell Is Empty - Robert Grant
1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Insurance Executive
- Find the Lady (1967) ... Insurance Executive
1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - Number Two
- Many Happy Returns (1967) ... Number Two (voice, uncredited)
- The General (1967) ... (voice, uncredited)
1967 Reflections in a Golden Eye - Anacleto (voice, uncredited)
1967 Vendetta (TV Series) - Umberto di Benco
- The Scandal Man (1967) ... Umberto di Benco
1967 You Only Live Twice - Tiger Tanaka (voice, uncredited)
1967 Five Golden Dragons - Gert (voice, uncredited)
1967 Casino Royale - Dubbing (voice, uncredited)
1967 The Night of the Generals - Driver (voice, uncredited)
1967 Uncle Charles (TV Series) - Signor Guidi
- Patience (1967) ... Signor Guidi
1966 Triple Cross - B.B.C. Reporter (voice, uncredited)
1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... - Abraham's Steward
1959-1966 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Pollyannis / Mario Comminetti / Roberto Rossi
- The Killing (1966) ... Pollyannis
- The Missing Suit (1961) ... Mario Comminetti
- The Sharp Knife (1959) ... Roberto Rossi
1966 Khartoum - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
1966 Lost Command - Verte (voice, uncredited)
1966 The Great Metropolis (TV Movie documentary) - Italian (with monkey)
1966 Where the Spies Are - Operator (voice, uncredited)
1965 Blood Beast from Outer Space - Medra (voice)
1965 Doctor Zhivago - Kostoyed (voice, uncredited)
1965 Battle of the Bulge - Announcer (uncredited)
1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Translator / Receptionist
- To Our Best Friend (1965) ... Translator
- You're Not in Any Trouble, Are You? (1965) ... Receptionist
1965 Thunderball - Emilio Largo (voice, uncredited)
1965 Return from the Ashes - Paul (voice, uncredited)
1964-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Barelli / Young Fabri
- The Rules of the Game (1965) ... Barelli
- The Lovers of Florence (1964) ... Young Fabri
1965 The Crooked Road - Police Chief
1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce - Hotel Manager (uncredited)
1964 The Castle of the Living Dead - Bruno (voice, uncredited)
1964 The Fall of the Roman Empire - Opening Narrator (voice, uncredited)
1964 Becket - Alexander III (voice, uncredited)
1964 Agent 8 3/4 - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
1963 The Sentimental Agent (TV Series) - Torta / Bank Manager
- A Box of Tricks (1963) ... Torta
- The Beneficiary (1963) ... Bank Manager
1963 The Ceremony - Sanchez / Chief Warden / Gendarme (voice, uncredited)
1963 The Crimson Blade - King Charles I (uncredited)
1963 Harry's Girls (TV Series) - Antonio
- Pilot ... Antonio
1963 Siege of the Saxons - Saxon Prince (voice, uncredited)
1963 Doctor in Distress - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
1963 Man of the World (TV Series) - Lieutenant Chivaro
- The Bandit (1963) ... Lieutenant Chivaro
1963 55 Days at Peking - Spanish Minister (voice, uncredited)
1963 I Could Go on Singing - Palladium Stage Manager
1963 The Avengers (TV Series) - Carlo
- Conspiracy of Silence (1963) ... Carlo
1963 Best of Friends (TV Series)
- Foreign Policy (1963)
1963 Harpers West One (TV Series) - Carlo
- Life in the Big Store (1963) ... Carlo
1962 Time to Remember - Victor
1962 On the Beat - Italian Lawyer
1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Majid (voice, uncredited)
1962 Richard the Lionheart (TV Series) - Father Ignatius
- Queen in Danger (1962) ... Father Ignatius
- When Champions Meet (1962) ... Father Ignatius
1962 Dr. No - John Strangways / Superintendent Duff (voice, uncredited)
1962 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Decker
- The Princess (1962) ... Decker
1962 Two and Two Make Six - Ship captain (voice, uncredited)
1962 The Cheaters (TV Series) - Felix Adrian
- The Hands of Adrian (1962) ... Felix Adrian
1962 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Victor
- Time to Remember (1962) ... Victor
1962 Sir Francis Drake (TV Series) - Captain Riccardo
- Beggars of the Sea (1962) ... Captain Riccardo
1962 Playbox (TV Series) - Alan Saville
- Episode #7.10 (1962) ... Alan Saville
1962 Light in the Piazza - The Priest (uncredited)
1961 The Middle Course - Jacques
1961 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone - Bit Part (uncredited)
1961 Top Secret (TV Series) - Pinerollo
- Stranger in Cantabria (1961) ... Pinerollo
1961 Two Wives at One Wedding
1961 The Story of Joseph and His Brethren - Pharaoh
1961 Hurricane (TV Series) - Quico - 6 episodes
1961 The Naked Edge - Dubbing (uncredited)
1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Bertollini
- The Villa (1961) ... Bertollini
1961 The Guns of Navarone - Mallory - German Voice (voice, uncredited)
1960 The Boy Who Stole a Million - Detective
1960 Man from Interpol (TV Series) - Giovani / Rafaelo
- A Man Alone (1960) ... Giovani
- The Key Witness (1960) ... Rafaelo
1959-1960 The Four Just Men (TV Series) - Francesco
- The Man in the Royal Suite (1960) ... Francesco
- The Rietti Group (1960) ... Francesco
- The Night of the Precious Stones (1959) ... Francesco (uncredited)
1960 Bluebeards Ten Honeymoons - Bank Clerk (uncredited)
1960 The Savage Innocents - Missionary (voice, uncredited)
1960 Conspiracy of Hearts - Emilio Casella
1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Captain Lindemann (voice, uncredited)

1959 Dial 999 (TV Series) - George Williams / Mario Renzo
- Night Mail (1959) ... George Williams
- Living Loot (1959)
- Robbery with Violence (1959) ... Mario Renzo
1959 Glencannon (TV Series) - - Gabriel's Trumpet (1959)
1959 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Pinelli
- Diamond S.O.S. (1959) ... Pinelli
1959 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Victor
- Man in Disguise (1959) ... Victor
1951-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Don Ferdinand / Father Landolina / Major- 6 episodes
1959 Alfred Marks Time (TV Series)
- Episode #4.5 (1959)
- Episode #4.4 (1959)
- Episode #4.3 (1959)
1959 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Lt. Colbert
- While the Sun Shines (1959) ... Lt. Colbert
1958 The Secret Man - John Manning (voice, uncredited)
1958 Women in Love (TV Movie) - Ramon in 'A Candle for the Madonna'
1958 The Snorkel - Station Sergeant (uncredited)
1958/I The Verdict Is Yours (TV Series) - Lawyer (1958)
1958 The Key - Dubbing (voice, uncredited)
1958 Shadow Squad (TV Series) - Ionesco
- Illegal Entry: Part 2 (1958) ... Ionesco
- Illegal Entry: Part 1 (1958) ... Ionesco
1958 Tank Force - Alberto
1958 Hotel Imperial (TV Series)
- The Prima Donna in 472 (1958)
1958 The Silent Enemy - Rosati (voice, uncredited)
1958 A Tale of Two Cities - Foreman of Jury (uncredited)
1957 Flight of the Dove (TV Movie) - Pilot
1957 The New Adventures of Martin Kane (TV Series) - Chagal / Pascal
- The Violin Story (1957) ... Chagal
- The Night Ferry Story (1957) ... Pascal
1957 Blue Murder at St. Trinian's - Policeman (uncredited)
1956-1957 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Bibi de Passanet / Mr. Kosak / Oscar / ...
- Love Her to Death (1957) ... Bibi de Passanet
- My Heart's in the Highlands (1957) ... Mr. Kosak
- Ashes in the Wind (1956) ... Oscar
- The Burning Glass (1956) ... Gerry Hardslip
1957 Just My Luck - Italian (uncredited)
1957 The Truth About Women - Sultan
1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Joe Heinz
- Operation Flint Axe (1957) ... Joe Heinz
1957 The Beasts of Marseilles - Salvatore (voice, uncredited)
1956-1957 Sailor of Fortune (TV Series) - Ginalopulous
- The Million Dollar Rose Tree (1957)
- The Desert Hostages (1956) ... Ginalopulous
1957 Don Kikhot - Carrasco (English version, voice, uncredited)
1957 Let's Be Happy - Hotel Waiter (uncredited)
1957 The Jack Benny Program (TV Series) - Waiter
- Jack Falls Into Canal in Venice (1957) ... Waiter
1957 A Novel Affair - Carlo / Mario (voice, uncredited)
1956 Checkpoint - Frontier Guard
1956 The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Pierre Gringoire (voice, uncredited)
1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Dubbing (voice, uncredited)
1956 The Buccaneers (TV Series) - Capt. Philip Catalan
- Dan Tempest's War with Spain (1956) ... Capt. Philip Catalan
1956 Aggie (TV Series) - Antoine
- Top Secret (1956) ... Antoine
1956 New Ramps for Old (TV Series) - Benjie
- On Hot Ice (1956) ... Benjie
1956 Nom-de-Plume (TV Series) - Hazlitt
- The Counting-House Clerk (1956) ... Hazlitt
1956 Moby Dick - Revoicing (uncredited)
1956 Alexander the Great - Cleitus / Philotas (voice, uncredited)
1956 Jesus of Nazareth (TV Mini-Series) - A Scribe
- Episode #1.6 (1956) ... A Scribe
- Episode #1.4 (1956) ... A Scribe
1955 Born for Trouble - Antoine
1955 Stock Car - Roberto
1955 Brother Ass and Brother Lion (TV Movie) - Brother Damon
1953-1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series)
Jacques Bargeton / French Lieutenant
- Success Train (1955) ... Jacques Bargeton
- The Heel (1953) ... French Lieutenant
1955 As I Was Saying (TV Series) - Bartlett
- For Art's Sake (1955) ... Bartlett
1955 Potasch and Perlmutter (TV Movie) - Boris Andrieff
1955 Miss Patterson (TV Movie) - Cesar
1955 Confidential Report - Airport Control Tower Operator (uncredited)
1955 That Lady - Escovedo (voice, uncredited)
1955 Two Pigeons Flying High (TV Movie) - Chang / Narrator
1954 The Black Rider - Mario
1954 Attila - Aetius (voice, uncredited)
1954 Away in a Manger (TV Movie) - Seth
1954 If It's a Rose (TV Movie) - Mario
1954 Special Providence (TV Movie) - Leon Bonnet
1954 Day for Happiness (TV Movie) - Vito Panuri
1954 They Who Dare - Italian Officer (uncredited)
1953 A Loan from Lorenzo (TV Movie) - Mariotti
1953 Always a Bride - Inspector (uncredited)
1953 Melba - Italian Policeman (uncredited)
1953 The Captain's Paradise - Tea Vendor at Market (uncredited)
1953 Terror on a Train - Mr. Hancock (uncredited)
1953 The Prodigal Son (TV Movie) - Abner
1952 A Time to Be Born (TV Movie) - Kaspar
1952 The Golden Coach - Ramon (voice, uncredited)
1952 Sister Gold (TV Movie) - Juniper
1952 The Little World of Don Camillo - Don Camillo (voice)
1952 Two Dozen Red Roses (TV Movie) - Bernardo
1951 Never Take No for an Answer - Various Roles (voice, uncredited)
1951 Othello - Lodovico (voice, uncredited)
1951 To Live in Peace (TV Movie) - Maso
1950 Operation X - Prince (voice, uncredited)
1950 Prelude to Fame - Giuseppe

1949 The Coventry Nativity Play (TV Movie) - Herod's herald
1949 Give Us This Day - Pietro (uncredited)
1949 The Queen's Maries (TV Movie) - David Rizzio
1949 A Man's House (TV Movie)- Jacob
1949 The Glass Mountain - Gino (voice, uncredited)
1949 Down Our Street (TV Movie) - Pietro
1948 Reunion (TV Movie) - An Italian partisan
1948 Sleeping Car to Trieste - Vincente (voice, uncredited)
1948 Call of the Blood - Gaspare
1947 The Coventry Nativity Play (TV Movie) - Herod's herald
1947 Hamlet Part 2/II (TV Movie) - Rosencrantz
1947 Hamlet Part 2 (TV Movie) - Rosencrantz
1947 Hamlet Part 1/II (TV Movie) - Rosencrantz
1947 Hamlet Part 1 (TV Movie) - Rosencrantz
1947 Edward II (TV Movie) - Herald
1947 Tobias and the Angel (TV Movie) - A bandit
1947 One Fine Day (TV Movie) - Mercury
1946 A Matter of Life and Death - Man on Stairway (uncredited)

1939 The Little Father of the Wilderness (TV Movie) - Native
1938 Runaway Ladies - Boy
1938 The Challenge - Boy (uncredited)
1935 Children of the Fog - Erbert (uncredited)
1935 Emil and the Detectives - Professor (as Bobby Rietti)
1935 In Town Tonight - Boy
1934 The Scarlet Pimpernel - Boy (uncredited)
1934 The Doctor's Secret - Horace
1934 Power - Boy (uncredited)
1934 Wishes (Short) - Boy (uncredited)
1934 My Song Goes Round the World
1934 Girls Will Be Boys - Boy (uncredited)
1934 The Private Life of Don Juan - Boy (uncredited)
1934 I Spy - Boy
1933 Facing the Music - Page Boy (uncredited)
1933 Spy 77 - Little Boy (uncredited)
1933 Happy - Bellhop (scenes deleted)
1933 The Charming Deceiver - Fattorino the Page Boy (uncredited)

Miscellaneous Crew (28 credits)

1990-1992 Coup de foudre (TV Series) (dialogue director - 3 episodes)
- Rendez-vous à Lisbonne (1992) ... (dialogue director)
- Retour (1991) ... (dialogue director)
- Adolphe et les menteuses (1990) ... (dialogue director)
1991 Inspiration (Short) (dialogue director)
1990 A Ilha (Short) (dialogue director)
1990 Carnaval (Short) (dialogue director)
1990 Pas de deux (Short) (dialogue director)
1990 Puerto Verde (Short) (dialogue director)
1990 Ransom (Short) (dialogue director)
1990 Sleeping Beauty (dialogue director: English version)

1989 Cinderella (TV Movie) (dialogue director: English version - uncredited in German version, uncredited)
1988 Quicker Than the Eye (dialogue director)
1987 The Inquiry (dialogue director)
1982 I Remember Nelson (TV Series) (italian advisor - 1 episode)
- Passion (1982) ... (italian advisor)

1979 Beyond the Reef (dialogue director)
1979 Meetings with Remarkable Men (dialogue supervisor)
1976 The Tenant (dialogue director)
1976 The Blue Bird (dialogue coach)
1974 Ten Little Indians (voice dubbing - uncredited)
1974 The Night Porter (voice dubbing - english version, uncredited)
1973 Fury (dialogue director)
1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days (voice dubbing - English version, uncredited)
1970/I Waterloo (adr director - uncredited)
1970 The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (dialogue director: English version)

1969 The Red Tent (voice dubbing - English version, uncredited)
1968 Barbarella (voice dubbing: Marcel Marceau - English version, uncredited)
1968 Danger: Diabolik (voice dubbing - English version, uncredited)
1967 Bonditis (dialogue director)

1956 War and Peace (voice dubbing: Jerry Riggio - English version, uncredited)
1955 Land of the Pharaohs (voice dubbing: Alexis Minotis - uncredited)

Sound department (18 credits)

2001 Shaka Zulu: The Citadel (TV Movie) (adr supervisor - as Robert Rietti)
2001 The Knights of the Quest (dubbing director: English version - as Robert Rietti)

1998 The Sands of Time (TV Movie) (re-recording director - as Roberto Rietti)
1997 The Wax Mask (director of dialogue recording)
1994 Royal Deceit (adr coach)

1989 Eversmile, New Jersey (additional dialogue recording director)
1989 Torrents of Spring (recording director - as Robert Rietti)
1988 The Spider Labyrinth (adr & dialogue director)
1987 Opera (adr director)
1987 Farewell Moscow (english dialogue director)
1985 The Berlin Affair (looping supervisor - as Robert Rietti)
1985 Macaroni (adr supervisor)
1985 Christopher Columbus (TV Mini-Series) (dialogue editor - 4 episodes)
1984 Once Upon a Time in America (dubbing editor)

1979 Tess (post-synchronization - as Robert Rietti)
1976 The Memory of Justice (Documentary) (synch sound - as Robert Rietti)
1976 The Devil's Men (post synchronization)
1974 The Night Porter (post synchronisation director)

Writer (11 credits)

1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- The Rules of the Game (1965) ... (adaptation)
1962 Drama 61-67 (TV Series) (translation - 1 episode)
- Drama '62: The Pinedus Affair (1962) ... (translation)
1962 Playdate (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- The Pinedus Affair (1962) ... (adaptation)
1958-1961 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) (adaptation - 3 episodes)
- Duel for Love (1961) ... (adaptation)
- Strange Meeting (1959) ... (adaptation)
- A Gust of Wind (1958) ... (adaptation)
1960 The Poet (TV Short) (english version)
1960 Limes from Sicily (TV Short) (translated by)

1958 Women in Love (TV Movie) (script)
1957 Encounter (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- The Sacred Scales (1957) ... (adaptation)
1957 Romantic Chapter (TV Movie) (english version)
1956 Folio (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
- Dawn, Day, and Night (1956) ... (adaptation)
1954 If It's a Rose (TV Movie) (translated by)

Self (7 credits)

Archive footage (2 credits)

2021: Still another targeted release date delayed to Fall this year for No Time To Die.

RichardTheBruce

April 4th

1921: Peter Burton is born--Bromley, Kent, England.
(He dies 27 November 1989--Chelsea, London, England.)

Peter Burton

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

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

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

Career

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

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

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

Peter Burton (I) (1921–1989)

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

Filmography

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

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

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

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

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

Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

1979 The Bitch (dialogue coach)

Dr. No - Walther PPK (2:38)

1928: Monty Noserovitch (Monty Norman) is born--London, England.
(He dies 11 July 2022 at age 94--Slough, England.)

Monty Norman

See the complete article here:

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

Background information
Birth name Monty Noserovitch
Born 4 April 1928
London, England
Died 11 July 2022 (aged 94)
Slough, England
Genres Musical theatre, film score
Occupation(s) Composer, conductor, music producer
Instrument(s) Keyboards, Guitar

Spouse(s): Diana Coupland (m. 1956; div. 1975)​; Rina Caesari (m. 2000)​

Monty Norman (né Noserovitch; 4 April 1928 – 11 July 2022) was a British composer, musician and singer. A contributor to West End musicals in the 1950s and 1960s, he is best known for composing the "James Bond Theme", first heard in the 1962 film Dr. No. He was an Ivor Novello Award and Olivier Award winner, and a Tony Award nominee.

Early life
Monty Norman was born on 4 April 1928 in Stepney in the East End of London. His father, Abraham Noserovitch (anglicised to Norman), was a Jewish cabinet maker who immigrated to the United Kingdom from Latvia when he was a child; his mother, Ann (Berlyn), who was also Jewish, worked as a seamstress. He lived with his Jewish immigrant grandparents for the first few years of his life.

As a child during World War II, Norman was evacuated to St Albans from London but later returned during the Blitz. His mother gave him his first guitar (a Gibson) when he was sixteen. As a young man he did national service in the Royal Air Force, where he became interested in pursuing a career in singing. He also worked as a barber during this time.

Career
During the 1950s and early 1960s, Norman was a singer for big bands such as those of Cyril Stapleton, Stanley Black, Ted Heath,[5] and Nat Temple. He also sang in various variety shows, sharing top billing with other singers and comedy stars such as Benny Hill, Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan,[8] Harry Worth,[5] Tommy Cooper, Jimmy James, and Tony Hancock. One of his songs, "False-Hearted Lover", was successful internationally.

From the late 1950s, he moved from singing to composing, including songs for performers such as Cliff Richard, Tommy Steele, Count Basie, and Bob Hope, and lyrics for musicals and (subsequently) films. In 1957 and 1958, he wrote lyrics for the musicals Make Me an Offer, the English-language version of Irma la Douce (based on a 1956 French musical written by Alexandre Breffort and Marguerite Monnot; the English version was nominated for a Broadway Tony Award in 1961) and Expresso Bongo (which Time Out called the first rock and roll musical). Expresso Bongo, written by Wolf Mankowitz, was a West End hit and was later made into a 1960 film starring a young Cliff Richard. Norman's later musicals include Songbook (also known as The Moony Shapiro Songbook in New York), which was also nominated for a Broadway Tony and won an Ivor Novello Award; and Poppy (1982), which was also nominated for the Ivor Novello Award, and won the SWET award (renamed "the Laurence Olivier Awards" in 1984) for "Best Musical". His further film work included music for the Hammer movie The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960), The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961), the Bob Hope Eon Productions movie Call Me Bwana (1963), and the TV miniseries Dickens of London (1976).

Norman worked for several years on his unpublished autobiography, titled A Walking Stick Full of Bagels.

James Bond Theme
Norman is best known for writing the "James Bond Theme", the signature theme of the James Bond franchise, and the score to the first James Bond film, Dr. No. Norman received royalty payments for the theme from 1962 on. However, as the producers were dissatisfied with Norman's arrangement, John Barry re-arranged the theme. Barry later claimed that it was actually he who wrote the theme, but Norman won two different libel actions against Barry's claim he was the composer, the last against The Sunday Times in 2001. In the made-for-DVD documentary Inside Dr. No, Norman performed a music piece that he wrote for an unproduced stage musical based on A House for Mr Biswas several years earlier, entitled "Bad Sign, Good Sign", that he claimed resembles the melody of the "James Bond Theme" in several places.

Norman collected around £485,000 in royalties between 1976 and 1999 for the use of the theme since Dr. No.

Personal life
Norman married actress Diana Coupland in 1956. Together, they had a daughter[1][4] before divorcing in 1975. He later married Rina Caesari in 2000 or 2001. They remained married until his death. He was a worshipper at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue.

Norman died on 11 July 2022 at a hospital in Slough. He was 94, and suffered from an unspecified short illness prior to his death.

Musicals
Make Me an Offer (1958)
Expresso Bongo (1958)
Irma La Douce (1958)
The Art of Living (revue, 1960)
Belle or the Ballad of Dr. Crippen (1961)
The Perils of Scobie Prilt (1963)
Pinkus (1967)
Quick, Quick, Slow (1969)
Stand and Deliver (1972)
So Who Needs Marriage? (1975)
Songbook (1979)
Poppy (1982)
Pinocchio (1988)

1958: The Spectator prints an article by Ian Fleming called "Automobilia" about his Ford Thunderbird, friend Noël Coward, and driving around Jamaica.

Automobilia

By IAN FLEMING
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/4th-april-1958/8/automobilia

DIG that T-bird!' I had cut it a bit fine round Queen Victoria's skirts and my wing mirror had almost dashed the Leica from the GI's hand. If the tourists don't snap the Queen, at about 10 a.m. on most mornings they can at least get a picture of me and my Ford Thunderbird with Buckingham Palace in the background.

I suspect that all motorists are vain about their cars. I certainly am, and have been ever since the khaki Standard with the enamelled Union Jack on its nose which founded my &uric in the Twenties. Today the chorus of `Smashing!; 'Cor !' and 'Rraauu !' which greets my passage is the perfume of Araby.

One man who is even more childishly vain than myself is Noel Coward. Last year, in Jamaica, he took delivery of a sky-blue Chevrolet Belair Convertible which he immediately drove round to show off to me. We went for a long ride to Outer la bourgeoisie. Our passage along the coast road was as triumphal as, a year before, Princess Margaret's had been. As , we swept through a tiny village, a Negro lounger, galvanised by the glorious vision, threw his hands up to heaven and cried, `Cheesus-Kerist!'

'How did he know?' said Coward.

Our pride was to have a fall. We stopped for petrol.

'Fill her up,' said Coward.

There was a prolonged pause, followed by some quiet tinkering and jabbering from behind the car. 'What's going on, Coley?'

`They can't find the hole,' said Leslie Cole from the rear seat.

Coley got out. There was more and louder argumentation. A crowd gathered. I got out and, while Coward stared loftily, patiently at the sky, went over the car front and back with a tooth- comb. There was no hole. I told Coward so.

`Don't be silly, dear boy. The Americans are very clever at making motor-cars. They wouldn't forget a thing like that. In fact, they probably started with the hole and then built the car round it.'

`Come and look for yourself.'

`I wouldn't think of demeaning myself before the natives.'

'Well, have you got an instruction book?'

'How should I know? Don't ask silly questions.' The crowd gazed earnestly at us, trying to fathom whether we were ignorant or playing some white man's game. I found the trick catch of the glove compartment and took out the instruction book. The secret was on the last page. You had to unscrew the stop-light. The filler cap was behind it.

`Anyone could have told you that,' commented Coward airily.

I looked at him coldly. 'It's interesting,' I said. `When you sweat with embarrassment the sweat runs down your face and drops off your first chin on to your second.'

'Don't be childish.'

I am not only vain about my Thunderbird, but proud of it. It is by far the best car I have ever possessed, although, on looking back through my motley stud book, I admit that there is no string of Bentleys and Jaguars and Aston Martins with which to compare it.

After the khaki Standard, I went to a khaki Morris Oxford which was demolished between Munich and Kufstein. I had passed a notice saying 'Achtung Rollbahn!' and was keeping my eyes peeled for a steamroller when, just before I crossed a small bridge over a stream, I heard a yell in my ear and had time to see a terrified peasant leap off a gravity-propelled trolley laden with cement blocks when it hit broadside and hurled the car, with me in it, upside down into the stream.

I changed to the worst car I have ever had, a 16/80 open Lagonda. I fell in love with the whine of its gears and its outside brake. But it would barely do seventy, which made me ashamed of its sporty appearance.

I transferred to a supercharged Graham Paige Convertible Coupe, an excellent car which I stupidly gave to the ambulance service when war broke out.

Half-way through the war I had, for a time, a battered but handy little Opel. One night at the height of the blitz I was dining with Sefton Delmer in his, top-floor flat in Lincoln's Inn. A direct hit blew out the lower three floors and left us swilling champagne and waiting for the top floor to fall into the chasm. The fireman who finally hauled us out and down his ladder was so indignant at our tipsy insouciance that I made him a present of the crumpled remains of the Opel.

After the war I had an umpteenth-hand beetle-shaped Renault and a pre-war Hillman Minx before buying my first expensive car—a 21-litre Riley, which ran well for a year before developing really expensive troubles for which I only obtained some compensation through a personal appeal to Lord Nuffield.

I transferred to one of the first of the Sapphires, a fast, comfortable car, but one which made me feel too elderly when it was going slowly and too nervous when it was going fast. I decided to revert to an open car and, on the advice of a friend, bought a Daimler Convertible. Very soon I couldn't stand the ugliness of its rump and, when the winter came and I found the engine ran so coolly that the heater wouldn't heat, I got fed up with post-war English cars.

* It was then that a fairly handsome ship came home and I decided to buy myself a luxurious present. I first toyed with the idea of a Lancia Gran Turismo, a really beautiful piece of machinery, but it was small and rather' too busy—like driving an angry washing machine—and it cost over £3,000, which seemed ridiculous. I happened to see a Thunderbird in the street and fell head over heels in love. I rang up Lincoln's. Apparently there was no difficulty in buying any make of American car out of the small import quota which we accept in part exchange for our big motor-car exports to the States. The salesman brought along a fire-engine-red model with white upholstery which I drove nervously round Battersea Park.

I dickered and wavered. Why not a Mercedes? But they are still more expensive and selfish and the highly desirable SL has only room beside the driver for a diminutive blonde with a sponge bag. Moreover, when you open those bat-like doors in the rain, the rain pours straight into the car.

I paid £3,000 for a Thunderbird. Black, with conventional gear change plus overdrive, and as 'few power assists as possible. In due course it appeared. My wife was indignant. The car was hideous. There was no room for taking people to the station (a point I found greatly in its favour) and, anyway, why hadn't I bought her a mink coat? To this day she hasn't relented. She has invented a new disease called 'Thunderbird neck' which she complains she gets in the passenger seat. The truth is that she has a prejudice against all American artefacts and, indeed, against artefacts of any kind. She herself drives like Evelyn Waugh's Lady Metroland, using the pavement as if it were part of the road. Like many women, she prides herself on her 'quick reactions' and is constantly twitting Me with my sluggish consideration for others in traffic. She is unmoved when I remind her that in her previous car, a grey and heavily scarred Sunbeam Talbot whose interior always looked as it it had just been used as dustcart for the circus at Olympia, she had been guilty of misdemeanours which would have landed any man in jail. She once hit an old man in a motorised bathchair so hard in the rear that he was propelled right across Oxford Street against the traffic lights. Turning into Dover Street, she had cut a milk cart so fine that she had left her onside door-handle embedded in the rump of the horse. Unfortunately, she is unmoved by these Memories, having that most valuable of all feminine attributes—the ability to see her vices as virtues.

I have now had my Thunderbird for over two Years. It has done 27,000 miles without a single Mechanical failure, without developing a squeak or a rattle. Its paintwork is immaculate and there Is not a spot of discoloration anywhere on its rather over-lavish chrome, despite the fact that it Is never garaged at night and gets a wash only twice a week. I have it serviced every quarter, but this is only a matter of the usual oil-changing, etc. The only time it ever stopped in traffic was carefully planned to give me a short, sharp reminder that, like other fine pieces of machinery, it has a temperament.

The occasion was, for the car's purposes, well chosen—exactly half-way under the Thames in the Blackwall Tunnel, with lorries howling by nose to tail a few inches away in the gloom, and with a giant petrol tanker snoring impatiently down my neck. The din was so terrific that I hadn't even noticed that the engine had stopped when the traffic in front moved on after a halt. It was only then that I noticed the rev. counter at zero. I ground feverishly at the starter with- out result. The perspiration poured down my face at the thought of the ghastly walk I would have to take through the tunnel to get the breakdown Van and pay the £5 fine. Then, having reminded Me never again to take its services for granted, the engine stuttered and fired and we got going.

The reason why I particularly like the Thunderbird, apart from the beauty of its line and the drama of its snarling mouth and the giant, flaring nostril of its air-intake, is that everything works. Absolutely nothing goes wrong. True, it isn't a precision instrument like English sports cars, but that I count a virtue. The mechanical Margin of error in its construction is wider. Everything has a solid feel. The engine—a huge adapted low-revving Mercury V-8 of 5-litre capacity—never gives the impression of stress or strain. When, on occasion, you can do a hundred Without danger of going over the edge of this small island, you have not only the knowledge that you have an extra twenty. m.p.h. in reserve, but the feel of it. As for acceleration, when the two extra barrels of the four-barrel carburetter come in, at around 3,000 revs., it is a real thump in the back. The brakes are good enough for fast driving, but would have to be better if you wanted to drive dangerously. The same applies to the suspension, where rigidity has been sacrificed slightly to give a comfortable ride. Petrol consumption, using overdrive for long runs, averages 17 m.p.g. Water and oil, practically nil.

There is a hard top for the winter which you take off and store during the summer when the soft top is resurrected from its completely disappeared position behind the seat. The soft top can be put up or down without effort and both tops have remained absolutely weatherproof, which, after two years, is miraculous.

One outstanding virtue is that all accessories seem to be infallible, though the speedometer, as with most American cars, is a maddening 10 per cent optimistic. The heater really heats; the wipers, though unfortunately suction-operated, really wipe; and not a fuse has blown nor a lamp bulb died. The engine never overheats and has never failed to start immediately from cold, even after all night outside in a frost. The solidity of the manufacture is, of course, the result of designing cars for a seller's market and for a country with great extremes of heat and cold.

Cyril Connolly once said to me that, if men were honest, they would admit that their motor-cars came next after their women and children in their list of loves. I won't go all the way with him on that, but I do enjoy well-designed and attractively wrapped bits of machinery that really work—and that's what the Thunderbird is, a first-class express carriage.

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1964: The Los Angeles Times repeats a rumor that Burl Ives will appear in Thunderball.

2006: Casino Royale films the stairwell fight.
2010: The Mirror reports Rachel Weisz plays a "criminal mastermind" in the next Bond film.

2015: A message from Daniel Craig recognizes the 10th evolution of Mine Action Day by the United Nations.

Daniel Craig Message for Mine Action Day (1:36)

2018: Soon-tek Oh dies at age 85--Los Angeles, California.
(Born 29 June 1933--Mokpo, Republic of Korea.)

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/187375/summary

Short obit from a Korean source.

Pioneering actor Oh Soon-tek is dead at 85
http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3046619
Apr 07,2018
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Actor Oh Soon-tek, one of the first Korean actors to be noticed in Hollywood, passed away due to a chronic disease at the age of 85 in Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Oh was an ambitious college student who, after graduating with a degree in political science at Yonsei University in 1959, flew to Los Angeles to study international relations. However, after arriving in California, he changed his studies to acting and playwriting at the University of California Los Angeles, and then went on to study at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theater in New York.

Oh made his acting debut in the Broadway play “Rashomon” in 1964, and got his big break in 1974 as the of role Lieutenant Hip in the film The Man with the Golden Gun, which was part of the James Bond movie series. Soon after, the actor appeared in numerous movies including well-known films “Good Guys Wear Black” (1978), “Beverly Hills Ninja” (1997) and the hit Walt Disney animation “Mulan” (1998).

In 2001, Oh came back to Korea to work as a professor at the Korea National University of Arts as well as a jury member for the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival.

By Sung Ji-eun

Soon-Tek Oh (1932–2018)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0644902/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Actor (116 credits)

2006 Les formidables - Jong-chae
2005 Last Mountain - Karus
2004 Mulan II (Video) - Fa Zhou (voice)
2002 Special Weapons and Tactics (Short) - Sayonara
2002 The Visit (Short) - Sujong's Father
2001 True Blue - Tiger
2001 Forgotten Valor - Colonel
2001 Roads and Bridges - Voice Of Father
1997-2001 Touched by an Angel (TV Series) - Mr. Aramaki / Kim Chyung Kyung
- The Face of God (2001) ... Mr. Aramaki
- Amazing Grace: Part 1 (1997) ... Kim Chyung Kyung
2001 The District (TV Series) - Colonel Nguyen Duc Chin
- New World (2001) ... Colonel Nguyen Duc Chin
2000 The President's Man (TV Movie) - General Vinh Tran
2000 King of the Hill (TV Series) - Monk
- Won't You Pimai Neighbor? (2000) ... Monk (voice)

1999 T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger (Video Game) - Si Fu (Mantis Master) (voice, as Soon Teck Oh)
1998 Seven Days (TV Series) - Dr. Huan Chow Lee
- Sleepers (1998) ... Dr. Huan Chow Lee
1998 Mulan - Fa Zhou (voice)
1997 Stargate SG-1 (TV Series) - Moughal
- Emancipation (1997) ... Moughal
1997 Two (TV Series) - Victor Boun
- Forget Me Not (1997) ... Victor Boun
1997 Yellow - Woon Lee
1997 Promised Land (TV Series) - Kim Chyung Kyung
- Amazing Grace: Part 2 (1997) ... Kim Chyung Kyung
1997 Life with Louie (TV Series short) - Buddhist Monk
- The Thank You Note (1997) ... Buddhist Monk (voice, as Soon Tek-Oh)
1997 Malcolm & Eddie (TV Series) - Man Li
- Hai Karate (1997) ... Man Li
1997 Beverly Hills Ninja - Sensei
1996 The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (TV Series) - General Yala
- Nemesis (1996) ... General Yala (voice, as Soon Teck-Oh)
1996 Street Corner Justice - Kwong Chuck Lee (as Soon Teck Oh)
1996 One West Waikiki (TV Series) - Mr. Kimura
- Battle of the Titans (1996) ... Mr. Kimura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1996 Baywatch Nights (TV Series) - Matsuo Sumaro
- Code of Silence (1996) ... Matsuo Sumaro
1995 Cagney & Lacey: Together Again (TV Movie) - Sunny Kim Play
1994-1995 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV Series) - Bon Bon Hai
- Rite of Passage (1995) ... Bon Bon Hai
- Enter the Tiger (1994) ... Bon Bon Hai
- Sing Wah (1994) ... Bon Bon Hai
1994 S.F.W. - Milt Morris (as Soon Teck Oh)
1994 Red Sun Rising - Yamata
1994 Babylon 5 (TV Series) - The Muta-Do
- TKO (1994) ... The Muta-Do (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1994 Time Trax (TV Series) - Akiri
- Return of the Yakuza (1994) ... Akiri
1993 A Home of Our Own - Mr. Munimura
1993 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Kai Kuan
- A Death in Hong Kong (1993) ... Kai Kuan (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1993 The Legend of Prince Valiant (TV Series) - Sing Lu
- The Ghost (1993) ... Sing Lu (voice)
1992 Highlander (TV Series) - Kiem Sun
- The Road Not Taken (1992) ... Kiem Sun (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1992 Zorro (TV Series) - Hiroshi
- Test of Faith (1992) ... Hiroshi
1991 The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (TV Series) - Xay Tao
- Family Business (1991) ... Xay Tao
1991 Deadly Game (TV Movie) - Saito (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1990 Last Flight Out (TV Movie) - Air Force Major (as Soon-Teck Oh)

1989 Hunter (TV Series) - Nyuen Tran
- Yesterday's Child (1989) ... Nyuen Tran (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1989 Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker (TV Movie) - Dr. Chow (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1989 Tour of Duty (TV Series) - Gen. Lam Thoc
- Doc Hock (1989) ... Gen. Lam Thoc (as Soon-Teck OH)
1989 Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (TV Movie) - Capt. Park (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1989 Collision Course - Kitao
1988 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Mitsuo Nagumo
- Zen and the Art of the Split-Finger Fastball (1988) ... Mitsuo Nagumo (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1988 Soursweet - Red Cudgel
1988 MacGyver (TV Series) - Raymond Ling
- Murderers' Sky (1988) ... Raymond Ling
1988 The Red Spider (TV Movie) - Sonny Wu
1987 Death Wish 4: The Crackdown - Det. Phil Nozaki (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1987 Legend of the White Horse - Tai-Ching
1987 Sky Commanders (TV Series) - Kodiak
- Back in the Fold (1987) ... Kodiak (voice, as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Assault on Raider Stronghold (1987) ... Kodiak (voice, as Soon-Teck Oh)
1987 Steele Justice - Gen. Bon Soong Kwan (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1987 Airwolf (TV Series) - Hayashi
- Ground Zero (1987) ... Hayashi (as Soon Teck Oh)
1986 The A-Team (TV Series) - Byron Chin
- Point of No Return (1986) ... Byron Chin (as Soon Tech-Oh)
1981-1986 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - North Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Hue / Dr. Bill Su / Dr. Ling / ...
- Little Girl Who (1986) ... North Vietnamese Gen. Nguyen Hue (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Kiss of the Sabre (1984) ... Dr. Bill Su / Dr. Ling
- Two Birds of a Feather (1983) ... Sato (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Memories Are Forever (1981) ... General Nguyen Hue (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1986 Jonny Quest (TV Series) - Additional Voices (voice)
1985-1986 T.J. Hooker (TV Series) - Ginsu Nabutsu / Nguyen Chi
- Blood Sport (1986) ... Ginsu Nabutsu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Outcall (1985) ... Nguyen Chi (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1986 Dynasty (TV Series) - Kai Liu
- The Rescue (1986) ... Kai Liu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- The Warning (1986) ... Kai Liu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1985 Cagney & Lacey (TV Series) - Doo Koo Kang
- Mothers & Sons (1985) ... Doo Koo Kang (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1985 Hill Street Blues (TV Series) - Pak
- In the Belly of the Bus (1985) ... Pak
- Hacked to Pieces (1985) ... Pak
1985 Missing in Action 2: The Beginning - Colonel Yin (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1984-1985 Airwolf (TV Series) - Minh / Tommy Liu
- The American Dream (1985) ... Minh (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Once a Hero (1984) ... Tommy Liu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1984 Matt Houston (TV Series) - The Warlord
- Escape from Nam: Part 2 (1984) ... The Warlord (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Return to Nam: Part 1 (1984) ... The Warlord
1984 Challenge of the GoBots (TV Series) - Additional Voices (voice)
1984 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Kwon Lu
- Always Say Always (1984) ... Kwon Lu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1984 The Master (TV Series) - Mr. Lika
- Out-of-Time-Step (1984) ... Mr. Lika (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1984 Airwolf (TV Movie) - Vietnamese farmer
1983 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Lang Chen Cheng
- Year of the Dog (1983) ... Lang Chen Cheng (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1983 Girls of the White Orchid (TV Movie) - Hatanaka
1983 The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) - Ernie Shikinami
- Thirty Seconds Over Little Tokyo (1983) ... Ernie Shikinami (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1983 Marco Polo (TV Mini-Series) - Wang Zhu
- Episode #1.7 (1983) ... Wang Zhu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Episode #1.6 (1983) ... Wang Zhu (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1982 CBS Children's Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - James Wong
- The Zertigo Diamond Caper (1982) ... James Wong
1982 Romance Theatre (TV Series)
- A Fragile Affair: Part 5 (1982)
- A Fragile Affair: Part 4 (1982)
- A Fragile Affair: Part 3 (1982)
- A Fragile Affair: Part 2 (1982)
- A Fragile Affair: Part 1 (1982)
1982 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Capt. Bob Nishimura
- Sword of Honor, Blade of Death (1982) ... Capt. Bob Nishimura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1982 Tales of the Gold Monkey (TV Series) - Kenji Miura
- Honor Thy Brother (1982) ... Kenji Miura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1975-1982 M*A*S*H (TV Series) - Joon-Sung / Ralph / Dr. Syn Paik / ...
- Foreign Affairs (1982) ... Joon-Sung (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- The Yalu Brick Road (1979) ... Ralph (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- The Korean Surgeon (1976) ... Dr. Syn Paik (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- The Bus (1975) ... Korean Soldier (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Love and Marriage (1975) ... Mr. Kwang (as Soon-Taik Oh)
1982 Bring 'Em Back Alive (TV Series) - Yataki
- The Warlord (1982) ... Yataki
1982 Cassie & Co. (TV Series) - Chiang Chang
- There Went the Bride (1982) ... Chiang Chang
1982 The Letter (TV Movie) - Ong
1981 Trapper John, M.D. (TV Series) - Dr. Wang Wu-Shen
- The Albatross (1981) ... Dr. Wang Wu-Shen
1981 East of Eden (TV Mini-Series) - Lee
- Part Three (1981) ... Lee (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Part Two (1981) ... Lee (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Part One (1981) ... Lee (as Soon-Teck Oh, credit only)
1980-1981 Charlie's Angels (TV Series) - Lt. Torres
- Hula Angels (1981) ... Lt. Torres
- Waikiki Angels (1981) ... Lt. Torres
- Island Angels (1980) ... Lt. Torres
- Angels of the Deep (1980) ... Lt. Torres
1980 The Final Countdown - Simura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1980 Diff'rent Strokes (TV Series) - Mr. Kim
- Return of the Gooch (1980) ... Mr. Kim (as Soon-Teck Oh)

1968-1979 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Robert Kwon / David Chung / Chaing / ...
- Image of Fear (1979) ... Robert Kwon
- The Silk Trap (1978) ... David Chung (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- The Defector (1975) ... Chaing (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- The Jinn Who Clears the Way (1972) ... Tom Wong (as Soon Taik Oh)
- Wednesday, Ladies Free (1971) ... Vic Tanaka (as Soon Taik Oh)
- Sweet Terror (1969) ... Lao (as Soon Taik Oh)
- Face of the Dragon (1969) ... Lewis Shen (as Soon Taik Oh)
- Cocoon (1968) ... Wo Fat's Lab Technician (as Soon Taik Oh)
1979 The Fantastic Seven (TV Movie) - Kenny Uto
1979 How the West Was Won (TV Series) - Kee
- China Girl (1979) ... Kee (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1978 Good Guys Wear Black - Mjr. Mhin Van Thieu - The Black Tigers (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1977 Black Sheep Squadron (TV Series) - Lieutenant Miragochi / Col. Tokura
- Divine Wind (1977) ... Lieutenant Miragochi (as Soon-Teck Oh)
- Poor Little Lambs (1977) ... Col. Tokura (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1977 Logan's Run (TV Series) - Dexter Kim
- Crypt (1977) ... Dexter Kim (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1977 Enigma (TV Movie) - Mei San Gow
1976 Pacific Overtures (TV Movie) - Tamate / Samurai / Storyteller / ...
1974 Judge Dee and the Monastery Murders (TV Movie) - Kang I-Te
1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Hip (as Soon-Taik Oh)
1973-1974 Kung Fu (TV Series) - Yi Lien / Chen Yi / Kwan Chen
- The Devil's Champion (1974) ... Yi Lien (as Soon-Taik Oh)
- The Passion of Chen Yi (1974) ... Chen Yi (as Soon Taik Oh)
- Sun and Cloud Shadow (1973) ... Kwan Chen (as Soon-Taik Oh)
1974 Rex Harrison Presents Stories of Love (TV Movie) - Mr. Kim (as Soon-Teck Oh)
1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Sheng
- The Illusion of the Lost Dragon (1974) ... Sheng (as Soon Taik-Oh)
1973 The Return of Charlie Chan (TV Movie) - Stephen Chan (as Soon-Taik Oh)
1973 Search (TV Series) - Interrogator
- Moment of Madness (1973) ... Interrogator (as Soon-Taik Oh)
1971 Earth II (TV Movie) - Chinese diplomat (uncredited)
1971 The Reluctant Heroes (TV Movie) - Korean Officer
1971 Ironside (TV Series) - Kwangsoo Yung
- Joss Sticks and Wedding Bells (1971) ... Kwangsoo Yung (as Soon-Taik Oh)
1971 Night Gallery (TV Series) - Chang
- Death in the Family/The Merciful/Class of '99/Witches' Feast (1971) ... Chang (uncredited)
1971 One More Train to Rob - Yung (as Soon-Taik Oh)
1970 Dan August (TV Series) - Au Chau
- When the Shouting Dies (1970) ... Au Chau (as Soon Taik Oh)
1970 Death Valley Days (TV Series) - Matsunosuke Sakurai
- The Dragon of Gold Hill (1970) ... Matsunosuke Sakurai (as Soon-Taik Oh)
-
1969 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Javanese / Servant
- Payoff in the Piazza (1969) ... Javanese (as Soon-Taik Oh)
- Mad in Japan (1969) ... Servant (as Soon Taik Oh)
1967 The President's Analyst - Chinese Agent (uncredited)
1967 The Wild Wild West (TV Series) - Chinese Houseboy
- The Night of the Deadly Blossom (1967) ... Chinese Houseboy (as Soon Taik Oh)
1967 CBS Playhouse (TV Series) - Vietcong Officer
- The Final War of Olly Winter (1967) ... Vietcong Officer
1967 The Invaders (TV Series) - Houseboy
- The Experiment (1967) ... Houseboy (as Soon Taik Oh)
1966 Murderers' Row - Tempura - Japanese Secret Agent (uncredited)
1966 The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV Series) - Takaoshi
- My Island (1966) ... Takaoshi (as Soon Taik Oh)
1966 Mister Roberts (TV Series) - Harry / 1st Japanese - Harry
- Undercover Cook (1966) ... Harry (as Soon Taik Oh)
- Damn the Torpedoes (1966) ... 1st Japanese - Harry
1965 I Spy (TV Series) - Kabuki / Announcer
- Tigers of Heaven (1965) ... Kabuki (as Soon Taik Oh)
- No Exchange on Damaged Merchandise (1965) ... Announcer (as Soon Taik Oh)

Soundtrack (1 credit)

1976 Pacific Overtures (TV Movie) (performer: "There Is No Other Way", "Chrysanthemum Tea")

Self (4 credits)

2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Self
2000 Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short) - Self / Hip (as Soon-Taik Oh)

1997 Kung Pao Chicken (Short documentary) - Narrator (voice)

1986 Miss Universe Pageant (TV Special documentary) - Self - Judge

RichardTheBruce

April 5th

1909: Albert Romolo "Cubby" Broccoli is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 27 June 1996 at age 87--Beverly Hills, California.)

Albert "Cubby" Broccoli

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7733431/Albert-Cubby-Broccoli.htm

Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, the film producer, who has died in Beverly Hills aged 87, was the driving force behind the phenomenally successful James Bond films, 17 of which he either produced or co-produced.

1954: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's second Bond novel Live and Let Die.

LIVE AND LET DIE

In the higher ranges of Secret Service
work the actual acts in many cases were in
every respect equal to the most fantastic
inventions of romance and melodrama.
Tangle within tangle, plot and counter-plot,
ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross,
true agent, false agent, double agent, gold
and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the
firing party, were interwoven in many a
texture so intricate as to be incredible and
yet true. The Chief and the High Officers
of the Secret Service revelled in these subter-
ranean labyrinths, and pursued their task with
cold and silent passion. SIR WINSTON
CHURCHILL in Thoughts and Adventures.

It is in these higher rangers of Secret
Service work that James Bond operates on
the very outside edge of danger, and, in
this story, among hazards no reader will
easily forget.

Ian Fleming's first book, Casino Royale,
an account of the gambling assignment
that nearly cost Bond his life, was described
as 'the best thriller since the war'.

Live and Let Die, a breath-taking hunt
for secret treasure that takes Bond to
Harlem, Florida and Jamaica, is still better.

1955: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's third Bond novel Moonraker.

MOONRAKER
by the author of Casino Royale,
Live and Let Die

It was Monday and a routine day for
James Bond in the quiet office at the
headquarters of the Secret Service.
Idly he ticked off his number--007--on the
charge sheets of the Top Secret files that
had come in over the weekend. He was
bored. Mondays were hell.

Then, suddenly, the red telephone
screamed in the quiet room. 'M. wants
you.' And Bond walked out of his office
and into the assignment that was to put
even his adventures in France (Casino
Royale) and Harlem and Jamaica (Live
and Let Die) in the shade.

And yet what was to happen to him was
to happen out of the clear blue skies of
early summer, here, in England. As it
might have been yesterday. Or, as it
might be, some dreadful tomorrow.

1955: Anthony Horowitz is born--Stanmore, London, England.
1958: Regarding Dr. No, Paul Johnson writes about "Sex, snobbery, and sadism" in the New Statesman.

Sex, snobbery and sadism

https://www.newstatesman.com/society/2007/02/1958-bond-fleming-girl-sex
By Paul Johnson | 5 April 1958

I have just finished what is without a doubt the nastiest book I have ever read. It is a new novel entitled Dr. No and the author is Mr. Ian Fleming. Echoes of Mr Fleming’s fame had reached me before, and I had been repeatedly urged to read his books by literary friends whose judgement I normally respect. When his new novel appeared, therefore, I obtained a copy and started to read. By the time I was a third of the way through, I had to suppress a strong impulse to throw the thing away, and only continued reading because I realised that here was a social phenomenon of some importance.
...

1958: Ian Fleming semi-defends the Bond character in a letter to the Manchester Guardian.

Ian Fleming defends James Bond - from
the archive

https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/from-the-archive-blog/2012/oct/01/ian-fleming-james-bond-1958-archive
The James Bond author writes to the Manchester Guardian in defence of his hero
Lauren Niland | Mon 1 Oct 2012 05.30 EDT

Ian Fleming smoking a cigarette. James Bond had his cigarettes custom made by Morland's,
a habit Fleming claimed was 'less expensive than countless other heroes'
Photograph: Express Newspapers/Getty Images

Fifty years of the James Bond film franchise - the first in the series, Dr No, was released in October 1962 - has meant 50 years of Bond habits ingrained in the public imagination, from how Bond dresses to what he drinks (although his new tipple of Heineken lager in Skyfall, the 23rd installment of the series which is released this year, has caused comment in some corners).

Yet critics of Bond's lifestyle - not least those who see it as an advertising agency's world - have existed for far longer than the life of the films. In 1958 - the year Dr No was published as a novel - Bernard Bergonzi, writing in The Twentieth Century magazine, attacked Ian Fleming's novels for what the Observer called "a diet of unrestricted sadism and satyriasis."

Guardian Bond leader 1958
Published in the Manchester Guardian on 31 March 1958.

The Manchester Guardian published a defence - of sorts - of Fleming's Bond, but their conclusion that "what is more sinister is the cult of luxury for its own sake...these works are symptomatic of a decline in taste" led to the author himself writing to the paper to set the record straight on where Bond's tastes derive from.

In the letter to the Manchester Guardian, (below) published on 5 April 1958, Fleming admits that "to create an illusion of depth I had to fit Bond out with some theatrical props...with distinctive cigarettes...I proceeded to invent a cocktail for Bond (which I sampled some months later and found unpalatable)."

Ian Fleming writes to the Manchester Guardian in defence of Bond.

However, he also argues that the exotic and ostentatious parts of Bond's lifestyle - "the cult of luxury" - proved so popular with his readers, still used to war-time rationing, that he included them for their sake. His own favourite food is scrambled eggs and he claims to smoke "your own, Mancunian, brand of Virginia tobacco." (He has no argument, however, against the case that "sex plays an important part in James Bond's life.")

1963: Agent 007 - mission: drab (Agent 007 - Mission: Killing) released in Denmark.

1965: Norman Wanstall receives the Best Sound Effects Oscar for Goldfinger, presented by Angie Dickenson.

Norman Wanstall

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911232/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

Filmography

Sound department (18 credits)

1985 Romance on the Orient Express (TV Movie) (sound editor)
1983 Never Say Never Again (dubbing editor)

1972 Chelovek s drugoy storony (sound effects)

1967 You Only Live Twice[/b] (dubbing editor)
1966 Fahrenheit 451 (sound)
1966 Road to Saint Tropez (Short) (sound)
1965 Thunderball (dubbing editor)
1965 Coast of Skeletons (dubbing editor)
1965 The Ipcress File (sound editor)
1964 Goldfinger (dubbing editor)
1963 From Russia with Love (dubbing editor)
1963 Call Me Bwana (dubbing editor)
1962 Dr. No (dubbing editor)
1961 Operation Snafu (dubbing editor)

1959 Solomon and Sheba (assistant sound editor - uncredited)
1959 John Paul Jones (assistant sound editor - uncredited)
1958 A Night to Remember (assistant sound editor - uncredited)
1958 Carve Her Name with Pride (assistant sound editor - uncredited)

Editor (10 credits)

1978 The Rise and Fall of Ivor Dickie (Documentary)
1977 Eclipse
1975 Knots (Documentary)
1974 Who?
1972 The Exorcism of Hugh
1972 The Jerusalem File
1970 The Only Way
1970 London Affair

1968 Les bicyclettes de Belsize (Short)
1968 Joanna

Editorial department (7 credits)

1962 Damn the Defiant! (assistant editor - uncredited)
1961 Loss of Innocence (first assistant editor - uncredited)
1960 There Was a Crooked Man (assembly editor)
1960 Sink the Bismarck! (assistant editor - uncredited)

1957 Miracle in Soho (assistant editor - uncredited)
1957 Night Ambush (second assistant editor - uncredited)
1956 Jumping for Joy (second assistant editor - uncredited)

Director (1 credit)

1978 The Rise and Fall of Ivor Dickie (Documentary) (additional sequences)

You Only Live Twice Commentary Exclusive (2021) (3:11:52)

1971: Diamonds Are Forever filming begins near Las Vegas as South Africa locales.

1983: The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. (The Fifteen Years Later Affair) includes George Lazenby as "J.B."

The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (1983 TV Movie)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086191/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
Directed by Ray Austin
Writing Credits
Sam Rolfe ... (developer: original series)
Michael Sloan

Cast

Robert Vaughn ... Napoleon Solo
David McCallum ... Illya Kuryakin
Patrick Macnee ... Sir John Raleigh
Tom Mason ... Benjamin Kowalski
Gayle Hunnicutt ... Andrea Markovitch
Geoffrey Lewis ... Janus
Anthony Zerbe ... Justin Sepheran
Keenan Wynn ... Piers Castillian
Simon Williams ... Nigel Pennington-Smythe
John Harkins ... Alexi Kemp
Jan Tríska ... Vaselievich
Susan Woollen ... Janice Friday
Carolyn Seymour ... Actress
George Lazenby ... J.B.
Judith Chapman ... Z-65
Dick Durock ... Guiedo
Lois De Banzie ... Delquist
Randi Brooks ... The Model
Jack Somack ... The Tailor
Eddie Baker ... Salesman

Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Roger Rinehart ... Card Player in Casino (uncredited)

2017: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond: Black Box #2 (of 6).
Rapha Lobosco, artist. Benjamin Percy, writer.

JAMES BOND #2

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025652202011
Cover A: Dominic Reardon
Cover B: Jason Masters
Cover C: Giovanni Valletta
Writer: Benjamin Percy
Art: Rapha Lobosco
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: April 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 4/5

Black Box Part Two - The Deadly Game
As part of Operation Black Box, James Bond infiltrates the Tokyo underworld and makes a deadly gamble at a Yakuza-controlled casino. All this time 007 is being tailed by a beautiful, mysterious assassin whose mission might be dangerously complicated with his own.

2020: Honor Blackman dies at age 94--Lewes, Sussex, England.
(Born 22 August 1925--Plaistow, London, England.)

Honor Blackman, James Bond’s Pussy
Galore, Dead at 94

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/honor-blackman-bond-girl-dead-979014/

Goldfinger star also appeared in The Avengers and The Upper Hand
By Claire Shaffer

Honor Blackman, the British actress best known for portraying
the James Bond villain Pussy Galore, has died at age 94.
Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/Shutterstock

Honor Blackman, the British actress best known for portraying the James Bond girl Pussy Galore in 1964’s Goldfinger, has died. She was 94.

“It’s with great sadness that we have to announce the death of Honor Blackman, aged 94,” Blackman’s family wrote in a statement to the Guardian. “She died peacefully of natural causes at her home in Lewes, Sussex, surrounded by her family.

“As well as being a much-adored mother and grandmother, Honor was an actor of hugely prolific creative talent,” they added. “With an extraordinary combination of beauty, brains and physical prowess, along with her unique voice and a dedicated work ethic, she achieved an unparalleled iconic status in the world of film and entertainment and with absolute commitment to her craft and total professionalism in all her endeavours she contributed to some of the great films and theatre productions of our times.”

For Goldfinger, in which Blackman’s Pussy Galore helps Auric Goldfinger attempt to rob Fort Knox, Blackman learned judo for the role. The experience helped spur her to co-write the 1966 book Honor Blackman’s Book of Self-Defence, a book that, as NBC News notes, was “among the first books about martial arts aimed at young women.” Goldfinger would go on to become a massive hit, though it would be the only Bond film she would appear in.

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Honor Blackman (1925–2020)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000303/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2021: Simon Paul Adams (Paul Ritter) dies at age 54--Faversham, England.
(Born 20 December 1966--Kent, England.)

English actor Paul Ritter dies aged 54

See the complete article here:

https://www.bolnews.com/entertainment/2021/04/english-actor-paul-ritter-dies-aged-54/

Komal Fatima, Web Editor | 07th Apr, 2021

English actor Paul Ritter, who played Eldred Worple in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, has passed away at the age of 54.

Paul Ritter was famous for his role dad Martin Goodman in Channel 4 comedy Friday Night Dinner. His roles in Sky drama Chernobyl and James Bond film Quantum of Solace were also prominent.

Paul Ritter died due to a brain tumor. Friday Night Dinner creator Robert Popper expressed condolences, saying he was “a deeply clever, funny, intelligent, kind man”.

“But he also had that rare thing, he had the common touch, so people could just relate to him,” Popper told an international media source.

Popper talked more about Ritter said: “He was so quiet and focused before he went on, and then as soon as he went on, all that energy just popped out of him. It was amazing.

“I don’t think he ever did anything wrong… he was very professional and he was a lovely guy.”

Ritter’s agent said he was “an exceptionally talented actor playing an enormous variety of roles on stage and screen with extraordinary skill”, describing him as “fiercely intelligent, kind and very funny”.

Big Talk, the producers of Friday Night Dinner, said in a statement, “He was a brilliant, kind and talented man much loved by everyone lucky enough to know and work with him, and Paul will forever be part of both the Big Talk and Friday Night Dinner families.

“Our thoughts are with his own family at this time and following their wishes we will be making a donation to the Old Vic Impact Fund.”

Paul Ritter (I) (1966–2021)

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

RichardTheBruce

April 6th

1320: Scotland declares its independence.

1940: Pedro Armendáriz Jr. is born--Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.
(He dies 26 December 2011 at age 71--New York City, New York.)

Pedro Armendariz Jr. dies at 71

https://variety.com/2011/film/news/pedro-armendariz-jr-dies-at-71-1118047888/
Character actor, son of Mexican star, appeared in 'Zorro'
By James Young

...

He, like his father, landed a role in a James Bond film — he played the arch President Hector Lopez in “License to Kill” [sic]; his father had played Bond ally Kerim Bey in “From Russia With Love.” They both played revolutionary General Pancho Villa onscreen.

...

Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (1940–2011)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001917/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3

Filmography [includes]

1989 Licence to Kill - President Hector Lopez (as Pedro Armendariz)

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

1967: Operación Trueno (Operation Thunder) released in Mexico.

1973: Live and Let Die finishes insert shots and all filming.
1977: Live and Let Die released in Iceland.

2002: On Tartan Day in the Tunes of Glory Parade, Sean Connery leads a procession of 10,000 as the world's largest pipe and drum parade up Sixth Avenue, New York City, New York.

2011: Sam Mendes and Barbara Broccoli scout South African locations for Bond 23.
2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #6 VARGR (of 6).
Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

JAMES BOND #6

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181806011
Cover A: Dom Reardon
Writer: Warren Ellis
Art: Jason Masters
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: April 2016
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: April 6

The secret of VARGR is revealed, and it means that Bond has to descend into a nightmare scenario - alone. Just his gun and his skills versus a murderous conspiracy to turn Britain into a testing zone for death drugs. Dynamite Entertainment proudly concludes the debut storyline to the first ongoing James Bond comic book in over 20 years! "Ian Fleming's James Bond is an icon, and it's a delight to tell visual narratives with the original, brutal, damaged Bond of the books." - Warren Ellis

RichardTheBruce

April 7th

1966: Doktor No released in Turkey.

1966: Thunderball released in the Netherlands.

2006: Casino Royale films Bond ordering the Vesper martini.
2007: Barry Nelson (Haakon Robert Nielsen) dies at age 89--Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
(Born 16 April 1917--San Francisco, California.)

Barry Nelson, Broadway and Film Actor, Dies at 86

By STUART LAVIETES | APRIL 14, 2007

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/14/obituaries/14nelson.html

Barry Nelson, an actor who had a long career in film and television, starred in some of the more durable Broadway comedies of the 1950s and ’60s, and achieved a permanent place in the minds of trivia buffs as the first actor to portray James Bond, died last Saturday, his wife said yesterday. He was 86.

The cause was not immediately known. His wife, Nansi Nelson, said he died while traveling in Bucks County, Pa., The Associated Press reported.
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Barry Nelson (I) (1917–2007)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0625167/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2009: A plaque unveiling renames the Cloisters building as the Broccoli Cloisters, Wokingham.

Benovolent Bond

By Linda Serck

http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2009/04/07/albert_broccoli_cloisters_wing_feature.shtml

Some of the most important people from the James Bond film franchise were in Wokingham on Monday 7 April 2009 to unveil a special plaque. We chat to late Bond producer Albert R. Broccoli's family to find out more.

James Bond locations are famously exotic and outlandish, be it Casino de Monte-Carlo or crystal-clear waters containing one Ursula Andress.

But on Monday 7 April 2009 the family of Bond producer Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli visited an altogether more serene location in leafy Wokingham.

Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson

Daughter Barbara Broccoli, herself a producer, and her half-brother Michael G Wilson unveiled a special plaque outside Glebelands, the film and TV industry retirement and care home.

Glebelands received a £1 million cash injection from the Albert R. Broccoli and Dana Broccoli Foundation, and the plaque officially marked the renaming of the Cloisters building at Glebelands as the Broccoli Cloisters.

As well as the inaugeration the Broccoli clan met up with residents and walked round the facilities.

Barbara Broccoli, who received an OBE for her services to the film industry, tells BBC Berkshire: "The Bond films were made in Great Britain, they were started by my father Albert Broccoli, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1952 and felt England was home.

"He felt that he was very lucky and had a wonderful professional career here and always wanted to support the people in the industry that helped make him a successful producer."

James Bond creator Ian Fleming with co-producers Harry Saltzman and Albert R. 'Cubby' Broccoli.

She was joined by Samantha Bond, who played Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films starring Pierce Brosnan, but also by Glebelands resident Lewis Gilbert, who directed You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker.

"And what fantastic films they turned out to be," he says, "and not because I directed them, but because Albert Broccoli produced them."

He adds: "I directed 40 films, but why is it that the three Bond films that I worked on - they live in my memory so much.

"It's because of something very unique in the film industry and that was Broccoli himself.

The plaque

"I've made many films with every kind of producer that there was but Broccoli had something that was a very rare commodity as a film producer - he cared, he cared for the unit, he was unique in the way he behaved with the unit and the way the unit loved him.

"Units don't love the producer, he's there to bully them and make them work harder, but Broccoli had this unique way of talking to people, you knew he cared whether you were happy or unhappy."

Michael G Wilson, step-son of Cubby Broccoli and producer/ screenwriter of James Bond films, says that his step-father was actively involved in the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund (CTBF), which runs Glebelands:

"I think it's been fantastic to come out here and see this place, we met the residents, we looked in the rooms, this is something that Cubby and his wife Dana would've loved to have seen.

Fiona Fullerton, Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, Tanya Roberts and Roger Moore,
during the making of A View to a Kill at Pinewood Studios.

"They were always interested in the welfare of the people in the industry, they were always lending a helping hand.

"Cubby was a governor of the CTBF and this is something that he would have been very proud of."

Barbara adds: "I'm feeling very proud, today were are kicking off the Albert R Broccoli centenary year and I feel this is an appropriate way of doing it, and if he were here, this is what he'd be doing."

Broccoli's late wife Dana founded launched the foundation with Barbara and Michael. It supports the arts, children's services, medicine, and higher education.

2010: Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson with David Pope engage in an international phone conversation to discuss whether the next Bond film production can go forward considering the state of MGM.

2012: Tonia Sotiropoulou reveals she auditioned for the role of Sévérine, and was cast in a supporting role in Skyfall.

THR Cover: How the Bond Franchise Almost Died

After MGM's collapse
threatened to derail 007 for
good, "Skyfall's" $17 million
star Daniel Craig lined up
director Sam Mendes and
villain Javier Bardem -- over
drinks — and delivered the
biggest Bond yet.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bond-franchise-daniel-craigs-skyfall-387238

2017: Timothy Peter Pigott-Smith dies at age 70--Northampton, England.
(Born 13 May 1946--Rugby, Warwickshire, England.)

Tim Pigott-Smith obituary

Stage and screen actor best known for his role in the TV series The Jewel in the Crown
Michael Coveney | Sun 9 Apr 2017 13.34 EDT

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2017/apr/09/tim-pigott-smith-obituary

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Television roles after The Jewel in the Crown included the titular chief constable, John Stafford, in The Chief (1990-93) and the much sleazier chief inspector Frank Vickers in The Vice (2001-03). On film, he showed up in The Remains of the Day (1993); Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday (2002), a harrowing documentary reconstruction of the protest and massacre in Derry in 1972; as Pegasus, head of MI7, in Rowan Atkinson’s Johnny English (2003) and the foreign secretary in the Bond movie Quantum of Solace (2008).

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Tim Pigott-Smith (1946–2017)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0683116/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2018: Heritage Auctions' April 7-8 Movie Poster Auction in Dallas, Texas, includes one of Bond's rarest: the Thunderball advance British quad. Plus many other Bond pieces.

https://movieposters.ha.com/c/search-results.zx?N=54+793+794+791+792+2088&Ntk=SI_Titles&Nty=1&Ntt=bond&ic4=KeywordSearch-A-K-071316

LOT #86419 |
Thunderball (United Artists, 1965).
British Quad (30" X 40") Advance Quad Crown Style, Frank McCarthy and Robert McGinnis
https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/james-bond/thunderball-united-artists-1965-british-quad-30-x-40-advance-quad-crown-style-frank-mccarthy-and-robert-mcginnis-ar/a/7178-86419.s?ic4=GalleryView-Thumbnail-071515

2020: One-time scheduled date for the No Time To Die World Premiere at Monoco.
2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Agent of SPECTRE #2.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Christos Gage, writer.

JAMES BOND: AGENT OF SPECTRE #2

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513030383702011
Cover A: Sean Phillips
UPC: 725130303837 02011
Writer: Christos Gage
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: April 2021
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 4/7/2021

James Bond is in the USA...but NOT as part of Her Majesty's Secret Service. Shockingly, he's there as an Agent of SPECTRE, sent to eliminate an upstart rival SPECTRE boss at the bidding of Ernest Blofeld himself! The leverage Blofeld has against Bond is a threat to the life of one of the few people in the world Bond can trust... but that friend may have the interests of Bond's target as the higher priority!

https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/FEB210719?Prevue=1

RichardTheBruce

April 8th

1931: John Gavin (Juan Vincent Apablasa) is born--Los Angeles, California.
(He dies 9 February 2018 at age 86--Beverly Hills, California.)

John Gavin, Actor in ‘Psycho’
and ‘Spartacus,’ Dies at 86

See the full article here:

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/john-gavin-dead-dies-psycho-spartacus-1202694312/

By Carmel Dagan | Staff Writer

CREDIT: Moviestore/REX/Shutterstock

John Gavin, who reached the pinnacle of his acting career with roles in Douglas Sirk’s “Imitation of Life,” Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” and the epic “Spartacus,” later serving as president of the Screen Actors Guild in the early ’70s and as U.S. ambassador to Mexico under Ronald Reagan, died Friday morning in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 86.

The actor was signed to a contract and almost played James Bond in the film Diamonds Are Forever.

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In the late ’60s he returned to film work, starring in Carlos Velo’s Spanish-language art film “Pedro Paramo,” based on the novel that Susan Sontag called “one of the masterpieces of 20th-century world literature.” Also in 1967 he had a supporting role in the Julie Andrews musical “Thoroughly Modern Millie.” The following year he starred in Italian-French spy thriller “OSS 117 — Double Agent,” and Gavin had a supporting role in “The Madwoman of Chaillot” (1969), starring Katharine Hepburn.

After the departure of George Lazenby, Gavin was signed to play James Bond in the 1971 film Diamonds Are Forever, but United Artists ultimately decided to make an offer that Sean Connery couldn’t refuse, and he returned to play 007. Gavin’s contract was nevertheless honored in full.

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John Gavin (I) (1931–2018)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001260/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1957: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming’s fifth Bond novel From Russia With Love.

FROM RUSSIA, WITH LOVE

SMERSH is the Soviet organ of vengeance
-- of interrogation, torture and death --
and James Bond is dedicated to the
destruction of its agents wherever he finds
them.

But, in its turn, the cold eye of SMERSH
focuses on James Bond and far away in
Moscow a trap is laid for him -- a death-
trap with an enticing lure.

Ian Fleming takes us into the head-
quarters of SMERSH. We watch Bond's
assassination being minutely devised. We
meet the executioner. We sit in at the
planning. We inspect the lure.

Then the lever is pulled in Moscow
and in London, Istanbul and Paris the
wheels begin to turn. . . .

Ian Fleming's other Secret Service
thrillers -- Casino Royale, Live and Let Die,
Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever -- may
have made your pulse race.

Be careful of From Russia With Love. Weak nerves
will be shredded by it.

Jacket devised by the author and executed
by Richard Chopping.

The revolver is a Smith & Wesson
Military and Police Model in .38 S. & W.
calibre. Barrel cut to 2-3/4 in., stock modified
and front trigger guard removed to
facilitate use as a close-combat holster
weapon. Also fitted with a 'quick draw'
ramp foresight and adjustable rear sight for
aimed fire. Modified by, and the property
of, Geoffrey Boothroyd.

1964: From Russia With Love has its US premiere in New York City. (That's after the London premiere 10 October 1963/UK release 11 October 1963, and prior to the US general release 27 May 1964.)

http://007magazine.co.uk/news_frwl60-4.htm

1965: Thunderball starts underwater filming of battles at Potter’s Wharf, Nassau.

2017: Ian Fleming Publications releases a 60th anniversary image recognizing From Russia With Love.

2019: Nadja Regin (Nadja Poderegin) dies at age 87--London, England.
(Born 2 December 1931--Niš, Serbia.)

Nadja Regin, Bond Girl in
‘From Russia With Love’ and
‘Goldfinger,’ Dies at 87

By Dave McNary | April 8, 2019 10:14AM PT

See the full article here:

https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/obituary-nadja-regin-james-bond-movies-1203183106/

Sean Connery, Nadja Regin
CREDIT: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

Serbian actress Nadja Regin, who appeared in two early James Bond movies, has died at the age of 87.

The news was announced on the official 007 Twitter account, which said: “We are very sorry to learn that Nadja Regin has passed away at the age of 87. Nadja appeared in two Bond films, From Russia with Love and Goldfinger. Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.”

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Nadja Regin (1931–2019)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716605/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2020: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond Vol. 3 #5, includes limited edition hardcover.
Eric Gapstur, artist. Vita Ayala & Danny Lore, writers.

JAMES BOND VOL. 3 #5

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513028697005051
Cover A: Afua Richardson "Virgin" Cover
Writer: Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
Art: Eric Gapstur
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: April 2020
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 4/8/2020

Fakes are everywhere. 007 has no clue who to trust. His training and intuition are all that stand between the shadows and the light.

By VITA AYALA (Morbius, Gamora), DANNY LORE (Queen Of Bad Dreams) and ERICA D'URSO (Captain Marvel).

2020: One time release date for No Time To Die.

https://twitter.com/007/status/1163843400644403200

RichardTheBruce

April 9th

1933: Jean-Paul Belmondo is born--Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
(He dies 6 September 2021 at age 88--Quai d'Orsay, Paris, France.)

Jean-Paul Belmondo, ‘Breathless’ Star and Epitome of
Gallic Cool, Dies at 88
The former boxer was a standout in New Wave classics and then an action star and box office draw in the 1980s.

See the complete article here:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/jean-paul-belmondo-breathless-star-dies-at-88-1235008952/

By Jordan Mintzer, Duane Byrge | September 6, 2021

Jean-Paul Belmondo Photofest

Jean-Paul Belmondo, the rugged French actor who swept to international stardom as the anti-hero in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 classic Breathless, has died. He was 88.

Belmondo died Monday in his Paris home, his lawyer Michel Godest told the AFP.

In his role in Breathless, as a professional car thief, amoral killer and lover of an American expat played by Hollywood star Jean Seberg, Belmondo was hailed as the French Humphrey Bogart. Many saw him as a cross between Bogie and James Dean.

With his boxer’s nose, shaggy haircut and lopsided smile, he was not your typical matinee idol; he played characters that were often reckless tough guys yet also nonchalantly French.

During the course of six decades and more than 80 films, Belmondo starred in art house movies by Godard, Francois Truffaut, Alain Resnais, Claude Sautet and Jean-Pierre Melville in addition to scores of action flicks in which he did his own stunts.

In 1989, he was awarded a best actor Cesar Award for his performance in the Claude Lelouch dramedy Itineraire d’un enfant gate (Itinerary of a Spoiled Child). But he refused to accept the trophy because it was designed by a famous artist (Cesar Baldaccini) who had never acknowledged the work of Belmondo’s father, the sculptor Paul Belmondo.

The actor suffered a severe stroke in 2001 that paralyzed the right side of his body and left him unable to speak for six months. But he went on to appear in two more movies, including playing the lead in A Man and His Dog (2009), a remake of the Vittorio De Sica neorealist classic Umberto D.

Belmondo received an honorary Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, an honorary Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Film Festival and an honorary Cesar in 2017, when he appeared onstage surrounded by a throng of French stars.

In a 2016 interview with film magazine Premiere, Belmondo, then 85, reflected on his career: “I’ve had the luck to be among those actors who’ve delved into all sorts of genres, from brainy New Wave films to laugh-out-loud comedies. I really have no regrets.”

Jean-Paul Belmondo was born on April, 9, 1933, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, an affluent neighborhood just outside of Paris. His father’s works can be found in the Tuileries Garden near the Louvre and on the facade of the Paris Opera.

The young Belmondo was an avid cyclist and soccer goalie who would co-found the Paris Saint-Germain soccer squad in 1970. He also was a boxer who fought professionally in his teens, with nine fights, four wins and one draw.

When he was 16, Belmondo decided to become an actor and was eventually admitted to the prestigious Paris Conservatoire of Drama, where he would befriend fellow thespians Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle and Bruno Cremer. He graduated in 1956 but was denied entry to the Comedie-Francaise after the Conservatoire jury refused to award him with honors, for which Belmondo apparently responded by giving them the finger.

After minor roles in such films as Marcel Carne’s Youthful Sinners (1958) and Marc Allegret’s Un drole de dimanche (1958), Belmondo crossed paths with the burgeoning French New Wave, starring in Claude Chabrol’s third feature, the seldom-seen crime drama A Double Tour (1959), and the Godard short film Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (1960).

But it was with Godard’s Breathless that the actor skyrocketed to fame in France and abroad. Starring alongside Seberg, Belmondo played a wily gangster named Michel Poiccard who models himself on Bogart, just as Godard fashioned his film after Hollywood B-movies that he deconstructed into a bold new work of modernity.

Chain-smoking and speaking directly to the camera, Belmondo turned in a lively, funny and physical performance that would become one of the most notable of his career while making Breathless one of history’s most influential films.

The actor starred in another 1960 release that also would become a local hit in years to come: Sautet’s debut Classe tous risques, where he played opposite Lino Ventura.

To the public, Belmondo represented a new wave of actors with regular, flawed features. “The revolution of Breathless was that the young lead wasn’t pretty to look at,” he said years later. He would set a precedent for everyday-looking stars like De Niro, Pacino and Hoffman, who would mark Hollywood films of the next two decades.

During the rest of the ’60s, the actor headlined more than 30 movies by a variety of renowned filmmakers: Peter Brook’s Seven Days … Seven Nights (1960); De Sica’s Two Women (1960); Melville’s Leon Morin, Priest (1961), Le Doulos (1962) and Magnet of Doom (1963); Henri Verneuil’s A Monkey in Winter (1962) and Greed in the Sun (1964); Philippe de Broca’s That Man From Rio (1964); Rene Clement’s Is Paris Burning? (1965) and Truffaut’s Mississippi Mermaid (1969).

The actor also would star in two of Godard’s most memorable films: A Woman Is a Woman (1961) and Pierrot le Fou (1965). His performance in the latter — as a family man who falls for a dangerous old flame (Anna Karina) and soon loses his mind — is among his greatest.

In the 1970s, Belmondo switched to more commercial fare, headlining a number of French action flicks in which he famously performed his own stunts and injured himself several times. His most daring work was in Henri Verneuil’s thriller The Night Caller (1975), where he was suspended from a helicopter and stood atop a moving metro.

By the early ’80s, Belmondo had become France’s biggest box-office star, with films like Georges Lautner’s The Professional (1981) and Gerard Oury’s Ace of Aces (1982) attracting millions of moviegoers. A serious injury on the set of Alexandre Arcady’s 1985 police comedy Hold-Up helped put an end to Belmondo’s reign as an action hero.

“I don’t want to be the flying grandpa of French cinema,” he said at the time.

In the years that followed, he returned to the stage, playing Cyrano de Bergerac in 1989 and headlining two renditions of classic works by Georges Feydeau.

After Itineraire d’un enfant gate, he worked again with Lelouch in 1995 on an adaption of the Victor Hugo classic Les Miserables, where he played a character inspired by the novel’s hero, Jean Valjean.

In 2018, it was announced that Belmondo would reteam with Lelouch once more for a sequel to Itineraire d’un enfant gate, with the actor once again starring alongside Richard Anconina.

Belmondo was married to dancer Elodie Constantin, with whom he had three children, Florence, Paul and the late Patricia, from 1952 until their 1966 divorce, which came after he began dating Swiss actress Ursula Andress on the set of Up to His Ears (1965). (She was separated from director John Derek at the time.) Belmondo then was romantically involved with Italian actress Laura Antonelli from 1972-80.

In 1989, he began dating ballet and television danseuse Natty Tardivel. They were married from 2002-08 and had a daughter, Stella.

Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933–2021)

Actor | Producer | Stunts
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000901/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

The son of the renowned French sculptor Paul Belmondo, he studied at Conservatoire National Superieur d'Art Dramatique (CNSAD); after the minor stage performances he made his screen debut in À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957) but the episodes with his participation were cut before release. However, the breakthrough role in ... See full bio »
Born: April 9, 1933 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France], France
Died: September 6, 2021 (age 88) in Paris, France

Filmography

Actor (91 credits)
2008 A Man and His Dog - Charles
2001 Ferchaux (TV Series) - Paul Ferchaux
2000 Amazon - Edouard
2000 Actors - Jean-Paul Belmondo

1999 Frédérick ou le Boulevard du Crime (TV Movie) - Frédérick Lemaitre
1999 Maybe - Ako
1998 Half a Chance - Léo Brassac
1997 La puce à l'oreille (TV Movie) - Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise - Poche
1996 Désiré - Désiré
1995 Les Misérables - Henri Fortin / Jean Valjean
1995 One Hundred and One Nights - Professeur Bébel
1993 Tailleur pour dames (TV Movie) - Docteur Moulineaux
1992 Stranger in the House - Loursat
1990 Cyrano de Bergerac (TV Movie) - Cyrano de Bergerac

1988 Itinerary of a Spoiled Child - Sam Lion
1988 Kean (TV Movie) - Kean
1987 The Loner - Stan Jalard
1986 Les pros (Short) - Star de cinéma
1985 Hold-Up - Grimm
1984 Happy Easter - Stephane Margelle
1984 The Vultures - Sgt. Pierre Augagneur
1983 Le Marginal - Commissaire Philippe Jordan
1982 Ace of Aces - Jo Cavalier
1981 The Professional - Josselin Beaumont dit 'Joss'
1980 Le Guignolo - Alexandre Dupré

1979 Cop or Hood - Antonio Cerutti / Stanislas Borovitz
1977 Animal - Mike Gaucher et Bruno Ferrari
1976 Body of My Enemy - François Leclercq
1976 The Hunter Will Get You - Roger Pilard, dit l'Alpagueur
1975 Incorrigible - Victor Vauthier
1975 The Night Caller - Le commissaire Jean Letellier
1974 Stavisky - Serge Alexandre Stavisky
1973 Le Magnifique - Bob Saint-Clar / François Merlin
1973 The Inheritor - Bart Cordell
1972 Scoumoune - Roberto Borgo
1972 Scoundrel in White - Le docteur Paul Simay
1971 The Burglars - Azad
1971 Swashbuckler - Nicolas Philibert - un candidat au divorce entraîné malgré lui dans la Révolution française
1970 Borsalino - François Capella

1969 Love Is a Funny Thing - Henri
1969 God Chose Paris - Le Photographe / Récitant / Présentateur
1969 Mississippi Mermaid - Louis Mahé
1969 The Brain - Arthur Lespinasse
1968 Ho! Criminal Face - François Holin, aka Ho

1967 Casino Royale French Legionnaire (as Jean Paul Belmondo)

1967 The Thief of Paris - Georges Randal
1966 Is Paris Burning? - Pierrelot - Yvon Morandat
1966 Tender Scoundrel - Tony Maréchal
1965 Bande-annonce de 'Pierrot le fou' (Short)
1965 Up to His Ears - Arthur Lempereur
1965 Pierrot le Fou - Ferdinand Griffon dit Pierrot (as Jean Paul Belmondo)
1965 Crime on a Summer Morning - Francis
1964 Weekend at Dunkirk - Julien Maillat
1964 Male Hunt - Fernand
1964 Backfire - David Ladislas
1964 Greed in the Sun - Rocco
1964 That Man from Rio - Pvt. Adrien Dufourquet
1963 Banana Peel - Michel Thibault
1963 Magnet of Doom - Michel Maudet
1963 Sweet and Sour - Raymond La Légion
1963 Mare matto - Il livornese (as Jean Paul Belmondo)
1963 The Shortest Day - Erede siciliano (uncredited)
1962 Beach Casanova - Cameo (uncredited)
1962 Le Doulos - Silien
1962 A Monkey in Winter - Gabriel Fouquet
1962 Cartouche - Louis-Dominique Bourguignon alias Cartouche
1961 Bande-annonce de 'Une femme est une femme' (Short)
1961 Riviera-Story - L'homme qui fait du karting
1961 Un coeur gros comme ça - Un spectateur au match de boxe
1961 Man Called Rocca - Roberto La Rocca
1961 Famous Love Affairs - Lauzun (segment "Lauzun)
1961 Léon Morin, Priest - Léon Morin
1961 A Woman Is a Woman - Alfred Lubitsch (as Belmondo)
1961 The Love Makers - Amerigo (as Jean Paul Belmondo)
1960 Two Women - Michele Di Libero (as Jean Paul Belmondo)
1960 Lettere di una novizia - Giuliano Verdi
1960 Love and the Frenchwoman - Gilles (segment "Adultere, L'")
1960 Trapped by Fear - Paul Frapier
1960 Seven Days... Seven Nights - Chauvin
1960 Classe Tous Risques - Eric Stark
1960 Breathless - Michel Poiccard a.k.a. Laszlo Kovacs

1959 The Three Musketeers (TV Movie) - D'Artagnan
1959 À double tour - Laszlo Kovacs
1959 An Angel on Wheels - Michel Barrot
1958 Charlotte and Her Boyfriend (Short) - Jules
1958 Un drôle de dimanche - Patrick
1958 Youthful Sinners - Lou (as J.P. Belmondo)
1958 Be Beautiful But Shut Up - Pierrot
1958 Les copains du dimanche - Trébois
1957 À pied, à cheval et en voiture - Venin (as J.P. Belmondo)
1956 Molière (Short) - Le Merluche

Producer (25 credits)
Stunts (14 credits)
Additional Crew (2 credits)
Soundtrack (1 credit)
Thanks (3 credits)
(73 credits)
Archive footage (68 credits)

1963: From Russia With Love films Rosa Klebb battling Bond and Tatiana.
1964: Bosley Crowther in The New York Times and his piece "James Bond Travels the Orient Express" reviews From Russia With Love.

James Bond Travels
the Orient Express

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/09/archives/james-bond-travels-the-orient-express.html

By Bowsley Crowther | 9 April 1964

SECRET AGENT 007 is very much with us again, and anyone who hasn't yet got to know him is urged to do so right away!He is, of course, the snappy fellow who goes by the name of James Bond in Ian Fleming's thrilling novels and is reproduced on the screen by an equally snappy actor by the name of Sean Connery. His reappearance in this instance is in the second delightfully wild film made from a Fleming novel, From Russia With Love. Don't miss it! This is to say, don't miss it if you can still get the least bit of fun out of lurid adventure fiction and pseudo-realistic fantasy. For this mad melodramatization of a desperate adventure of Bond with sinister characters in Istanbul and on the Orient Express is fictional exaggeration on a grand scale and in a dashing style, thoroughly illogical and improbable, but with tongue blithely wedged in cheek. Again good old "Double Oh Seven" is sent by his London chief, "M," to look into a promised opportunity to tweak the hide of the Russians in the Near East. It seems there's a secret mechanism called a Lektor that may be filched from the Soviet Embassy in Turkey, if the cards — and the cads — are smartly played. This means the agent who does it must work in consort with a beautiful girl and a Turkish voluptuary, which is right down old "Double Oh Seven's" street.Of course, he doesn't know the whole set-up is a diabolical plant of that international apparatus, Spectre, aimed to snag Lektor for itself and also to place its favorite nemesis in the gravest jeopardy. And he doesn't sense that the strange and solemn fellow who tails him all over the place is a homicidal paranoiac ("the best kind") working for Spectre, until almost too late.Well, there's no point in trying to tell you all the mad, naughty things that take place — the meetings with mysterious people, the encounters with beautiful girls, the bomb explosions, the chases, the violent encounter of Bond with a helicopter, a motor boat race. Nor is there any point in trying to locate the various characters in the plot, all of whom are deliciously fantastic and delightfully well played.There's Lotte Lenya as an arch Spectre agent, Robert Shaw as the paranoiac, Pedro Armendariz as the jovial Turkish contact and Daniela Bianchi as the beautiful girl. And, oh, how beautiful, luscious and voluptuous she is! Even old "Double Oh Seven" cannot resist her, and takes her home at the end.Terence Young has directed the whole thing grandly, with some color photography of Istanbul and surrounding country that gives it the proper key. Don't ask any more. Just go to see it and have yourself a good time. It is at the Astor and other "showcase" theaters.

FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE, screenplay by Richard Maibaum, from the novel by Ian Fleming; directed by Terence Young; produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli; released through United Artists. At the Astor Theater, Broadway and 45th Street, and other metropolitan area theaters. Running time: 116 minutes.
The Cast
James Bond . . . . . Sean Connery
Tatiana Romanova . . . . . Daniela Bianchi
Kerim Bey . . . . . Pedro Armendariz
Rosa Klebb . . . . . Lotte Lenya
Red Grant . . . . . Robert Shaw
"M" . . . . . Bernard Lee
Sylvia . . . . . Eunice Gayson
Morzeny . . . . . Walter Gotell
Vavra . . . . . Francis de Wolff
Train Conductor . . . . . George Pastell
Kerim's Girl . . . . . Nadia Regin
Miss Moneypenny . . . . . Lois Maxwell
Belly Dancer . . . . . Leila

1974: The Man With the Golden Gun films in Thailand. Includes: the Cessna 206/Seabee; opening sequence with Scaramanga, Andrea, Nick Nack, and Rodney.

1991: Maurice Binder dies at age 72--London, England.
(Born 4 December 1918--New York City, New York.)

Maurice Binder, 73, 007 Film-Title Artist

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Maurice Binder (1925–1991)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082800/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2013: An article in New Statesman relates Anthony Burgess' obsession with James Bond.

Anthony Burgess’s 007 obsession

Unbreakable Bond.
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2013/03/anthony-burgesss-007-obsession
FILM - 9 April 2013
By Andrew Biswell

Ian Fleming and Anthony Burgess might seem an unlikely double act at first glance. It’s hard to imagine Fleming, the suave Old Etonian and veteran of British naval intelligence, having much time for Burgess’s defiantly northern, Catholic, working-class values. Had they met, Fleming may well have agreed with Burgess’s aristocratic pupils at the Malay College in Kuala Kangsar, the “Eton of the east” (where he taught in the 1950s), one of whom later said that Burgess was “not quite a gentleman”. Although Burgess and Fleming shared an agent – the amiable Peter Janson-Smith – there is no evidence to suggest that Fleming ever took the trouble to read A Clockwork Orange or any of Burgess’s other early novels.

Yet Burgess was fascinated by Fleming and in particular by the James Bond novels, which he read with close attention after Terence Young’s film version of Dr No was released in 1962. Burgess’s book collection, now at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester, includes a complete run of the Bond novels and short stories, John Pearson’s The Life of Ian Fleming, Christopher Wood’s novelisations of the films and two copies of The James Bond Bedside Companion. Like his friend Kingsley Amis (who wrote the first post-Fleming Bond novel, Colonel Sun, under the pseudonym Robert Markham), Burgess was excited by the potential of the cold war espionage novel to reach a larger readership than his upmarket literary fictions were ever likely to attract.

Writing on the occasion of Bond’s 35th anniversary in 1988, Burgess celebrated the enduring figure of the international agent known for drinking vodka Martinis and “cold lovemaking with other men’s wives”. In his general introduction to the Coronet series of James Bond reprints, Burgess identified Bond as a hero figure who seemed to defy the austerity of post-1945 Britain.

There is an element of self-identification with Fleming on Burgess’s part, since both of them had come to the writing of popular novels in their middle years. Yet Burgess was aware of the growing distance between Fleming’s novels and the series of films that threatened to displace them in the popular imagination. “Bond,” he wrote, “is often compared facially to Hoagy Carmichael, the composer of ‘Stardust’, a song hit of the 1920s, but for very young readers the name ought to be glossed in a footnote. Bond belongs to history and these are historical novels.”

Burgess’s first attempt at a spy thriller came in 1966, with the publication of Tremor of Intent, a kind of parody of the James Bond novels, featuring a British spy whose enormous appetites for food and athletic sexual intercourse cancel each other out. Having spent time with his first wife in Leningrad and having used elements of Russian vocabulary to construct an invented slang for Alex and his “droogs” in A Clockwork Orange, Burgess was well placed to write about what he had seen in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years.

It is clear from Tremor of Intent that Burgess did not share Fleming’s fathomless hatred of Soviet Russia. In From Russia, with Love, for example, Fleming presents his Soviet characters as deformed villains or sinister masturbators. Burgess’s Russians tend to be either inefficiently buffoonish or harmlessly drunk. This was a reflection of his own experience of visiting Russia for the first time in July 1961. He had expected to find an Orwellian dictatorship full of secret police. When a large fight broke out in the street outside the Metropol restaurant at 3am, no police arrived to break it up. “It is my honest opinion that there are no police in Lenin - grad,” Burgess noted shortly afterwards. When he wrote as much in the pages of the Listener, there was a complaint from the Soviet ambassador and he was officially denounced on Radio Moscow.

Tremor of Intent is also a critique of the excessive appetites to be found in Fleming’s books. One of the set pieces in Burgess’s parodic Bond novel is an eating competition between the British spy Hillier and Theodorescu, a sybaritic villain with a suspiciously perfect English accent. Burgess describes the endless courses with relish:

They got through their sweets sourly. Peach mousse with sirop framboise. Cream dessert ring Chantilly with zabaglione sauce. Poires Hélène with cold chocolate sauce. Cold Grand Marnier pudding, strawberry Marlow. Marrons panaché vicomte. “Look,” gasped Hillier, “this sort of thing isn’t my line at all . . . I think I shall be sick.”

Many critics did not notice that Burgess had written an allegory of the seven deadly sins. William Pritchard, who understood the point of Tremor of Intent, wrote in the Partisan Review: “It might be thought odd that a book whose subjects include gluttony satyriasis, covetousness, smacking self-regard and nagging self-disgust turns out to be not just human but humane.”

Determined to appeal to at least some of Fleming’s readers, Burgess told his editor at William Heinemann that he wanted a dust jacket suitable for the espionage genre. The art department duly produced an image of a spy in a white shirt and black tie, holding a gun and apparently being fellated by a naked woman. This provoked the outrage of the state censors in Malta, as Burgess discovered when he moved there and tried to import a copy.

In 1975, Burgess revived some of the characters from Tremor of Intent when he was commissioned by Albert R Broccoli to write a screenplay for The Spy Who Loved Me. Fleming’s original novel was considered unsuitable for adaptation but the title was retained with the aim of building a new story around it. Burgess’s script, which is now at the University of Texas at Austin, is an outrageous medley of sadism, hypnotism, acupuncture and international terrorism.

The plot concerns a private clinic in Switzerland, where small nuclear devices are secretly inserted into the bodies of wealthy patients while they are under anaesthetic, turning them into human bombs. An organisation called Chaos (Consortium for Hastening the Annihilation of Organised Society) plans to detonate one of these devices at the Sydney Opera House while the Queen is in the audience. Bond uses his newly acquired acupuncture skills to perform an emergency operation and defuse the bomb.

Having read Burgess’s script, Broccoli and his associates decided not to put it into production. They probably suspected (quite rightly) that Burgess was not taking the assignment entirely seriously. The only element from Burgess’s script that survived into the 1977 Roger Moore film was the villain’s underwater base. The script credit went to Christopher Wood and Richard Maibaum.

That may not be the end of the story, however. When Burgess was in the early stages of negotiating with Broccoli, they agreed that the book rights would remain with Burgess and that he would be free to publish a novelisation of his script. The opportunity is still there for another novelist, with the blessing of the Burgess estate, to write an espionage novel based on the materials that Burgess left behind. Perhaps Sebastian Faulks or William Boyd, who have both written Bond novels of their own, could be persuaded to take up the gauntlet?

Tremor of Intent is published in paperback by Serpent’s Tail (£8.99). Andrew Biswell is the director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Anthony Burgess (I) (1917–1993)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0121256/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

https://www.anthonyburgess.org/blog-posts/anthony-burgess-and-james-bond/

2015: In a GQ Magazine feature article Christoph Waltz categorically denies he is playing Blofeld in Spectre.

Christoph Waltz Categorically
Denies He's Playing Blofeld in
SPECTRE

See the complete article here:

https://www.ign.com/articles/2015/04/08/christoph-waltz-categorigally-denies-hes-playing-blofeld-in-spectre

Waltz says no, world says yes.
By Chris Tilly | Posted: 8 Apr 2015 6:22 am
Might Christoph Waltz be toying with us? Like a super-villain’s cat, toying with a mouse? When the cast for new Bond film SPECTRE was announced, he was listed as playing Franz Oberhauser, but there's a school of thought that the character is really Bond’s arch-nemesis, Ernst Stavro Blofeld.

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2024: Artist Dan Goozee dies at age 81.
(Born 1943--Astoria, Oregon.)

RichardTheBruce

April 10th

1929: Max von Sydow is born--Lund, Skåne län, Sweden.
(He dies 8 March 2020: Provence, France.)

Max von Sydow obituary

See the full article here:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Max von Sydow (I) (1929–2020)

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

1962: Danjaq signs the agreement giving United Artists Corporation distribution rights to Dr. No.
1964: Time reviews From Russia With Love in "Cinema: Once More Unto the Breach".

Cinema: Once More Unto the Breach

See the complete article here:

http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,875772,00.html

Friday, Apr. 10, 1964 | Follow @TIME

From Russia with Love. Ian Fleming is the late late late show of literature.

Perused at the witching hour, the violent adventures and immoderate amours of James Bond, Agent 007 of the British Secret Service, seem as normal as Ovaltine—and rather more narcotic.

Shown on screen, they are apt to seem absurd. Doctor No [sic], the first of Fleming's novels to be filmed, was shot as a straight thriller, but most spectators took it as a travesty and had a belly laugh. The reaction was not lost on Director Terence Young. From Russia, his second treatment of a Fleming fiction, is an intentional heehaw at whodunits, an uproarious parody that may become a classic of caricature.

"Once more unto the breach, dear friends," the hero (Sean Connery) announces as the story begins. He means, somebody hastens to explain, a breach of Soviet security; a libidinous Russian cipher clerk (Daniela Bianchi), who has somehow heard of Bond's charms, informs the British Secret Service that for one night with him she'll do anything—like turn over the latest Soviet cipher machine. Obviously a trap, but Hero Bond steps into it as casually as he steps into his rep silk undershorts.

The lovers meet in Istanbul. He wears a hand towel, and she is covered by his automatic. "You're beautiful," he mutters. "Some people think my mouth is too big," she pants in reply. "No," he assures her, "it's the right size—for me." Bang! A bomb explodes in the Russian consulate, and in the ensuing confusion Bond and his musky Russki escape with a cipher machine. But the end is not yet. In the next hour or so, 007 is slugged by a phony British agent, bombed by a passing helicopter, pursued by an avalanche of rats, and drop-kicked by a homicidal charlady (Lotte Lenya) with a poisoned dagger planted in the toe of her terribly sensible shoes.

All this is marvelously exciting. Director Young is a master of the form he ridicules, and in almost every episode he hands the audience shocks as well as yocks. But the yocks are more memorable. They result from slight but sly infractions of the thriller formula. A Russian agent, for instance, does not simply escape through a window; no, he escapes through a window in a brick wall painted with a colossal poster portrait of Anita Ekberg, and as he crawls out of the window, he seems to be crawling out of Anita's mouth. Or again, Bond does not simply train a telescope on the Russian consulate and hope he can read somebody's lips; no, he makes his way laboriously into a gallery beneath the joint, runs a submarine periscope up through the walls, and there, at close range, inspects two important Soviet secrets: the heroine's legs.

Sophisticated? Well, not really. But fast, smart, shrewdly directed and capably performed. And though the film will scarcely eradicate the sex and violence that encumber contemporary movies, it may at least persuade producers that sick subjects may be profitably proffered with a healthy laugh.

1975: David Harbour is born--New York City, New York.

1992: Cec Linder dies at age 71--Toronto, Canada.
(Born 10 March 1921--Galicia, Poland.)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cec Linder

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

Born March 10, 1921, Galicia, Poland
Died April 10, 1992 (aged 71), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Other names Cecil Linder
Occupation Actor
Years active 1955–92

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Cec Linder (1921–1992)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511695/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

2012: Michael O'Mara Books publishes Bond On Bond by Roger Moore.

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Origin #8.
Ibrahim Moustafa, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

JAMES BOND ORIGIN #8

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244708011
Cover A: Dan Panosian
Cover B: Katie O'Meara
Cover C: Will Sliney
Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
Cover E: Bob Q
Writer: Jeff Parker
Art: Ibrahim Moustafa
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: April 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 4/10/2019

Captured by the Russians, Lieutenant Bond meets the beautiful Oksana, who may be his ticket to safety, or lead to his doom. But it's quite difficult to know ally from foe, when you've been drugged.

The epic World War 2 tale continues from JEFF PARKER (Aquaman, Fantastic Four) and superstar artist IBRAHIM MOUSTAFA (Mother Panic, The Flash)!

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2021: Philip Hawkins and sound editor Norman Wanstall host and support a live watchalong of You Only Live Twice on Zoom 7PM BST. Request by email.

https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/20288/you-only-live-twice-watch-along-party#latest

You Only Live Twice Watch Along Party!

LivesinthePictures
April 5

Join myself and special guest Norman Wanstall (Oscar Winning Sound Editor) for a live watch along of You Only Live Twice via Zoom on Saturday 10th April at 7:00pm (BST)). To register, simply email: [email protected], along with your full name. Norman will answer your questions throughout the film. Please submit your questions upon registration or any time prior to the event, and as many questions as possible will be put to Norman during the event. You will need to have your own copy of the film to participate in the event, after a brief introduction at 7:00pm everyone will press play on the film simultaneously and the event will begin. We hope you can join us.

Philip Hawkins
Event Coordinator
Lives In The Pictures

You Only Live Twice Commentary Exclusive - Norman Wanstall

RichardTheBruce

April 11th

1960: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's short story collection For Your Eyes Only - Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond.

FOR YOUR EYES ONLY

The destruction of a Russian hideout at
SHAPE headquarters near Paris; the
planned assassination of a Cuban thug in
America; the tracking of a heroin ring
from Rome to Venice and beyond; sudden
and ghastly death in the Seychelles islands;
and, in between, a story of love and hate
in Bermuda.

These are five episodes in a short span of
tough life--the life of James Bond, agent
number 007 in the Secret Service.

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/007-a-collection-of-books-and-manuscripts-the-property-of-a-gentleman/fleming-chopping-howard-archive-relating-to-the

1969: Roger Moore weds Luisa Mattioli in London, England,

(AP Photo/Frank Leonard Tewksbury)

1981: Alessandra Ambrosio is born--Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
1988: At the 60th Academy Awards, Sean Connery receives the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for The Untouchables. Earlier in the show he introduces himself with "My name is Connery--Sean Connery."

1994: From the set of Scarlett, Timothy Dalton announces his departure from Bond.

2002: BOND 20 films Jinx emerging from the sea.
2005: John Raymond Brosnan dies at age 57--South Harrow, Harrow, London, England.
(Born 7 October 1947--Perth, Australia.)

John Brosnan
Science-fiction writer and film critic

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-brosnan-489441.html
Saturday 16 April 2005 00:00

John Raymond Brosnan, writer and film critic: born Perth, Western Australia 7 October 1947; died London c11 April 2005.

The writer and film critic John Brosnan was a man of deep friendships, some of which had lasted half a century - the Australian writer John Baxter, with whom Brosnan collaborated on a novel, knew him that long - and he enjoyed a wide range of acquaintances throughout the science-fiction and film subcultures of London.

He wrote seven books on film. The first of these was James Bond in the Cinema (1972). His interest in filmed science fiction culminated in Future Tense: the cinema of science fiction (1978). He wrote most of the film entries for The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1979), edited by Peter Nicholls and John Clute.

As a writer of science fiction and often comically exaggerated horror, Brosnan published at least 23 novels. His collaborations with Leroy Kettle were pseudonymous; the best known of these horror tales is probably Bedlam (1992), the film version of which (Beyond Bedlam) gave Liz Hurley her first main role. More ambitious science-fiction novels, under his own name, included the Sky Lords novels from 1988, and his last published novel, Mothership (2004). He had already completed a draft of the sequel at the time of his death.

Brosnan was born in 1947 in Perth, Western Australia, and became active as an SF fan in the mid 1960s. By 1970 he had moved to London, where he settled for good. Though he was convivial from the start - my own 25-year-old memories of post-launch drinks with him at the Troy Club off the Tottenham Court Road remain warm - the story of his life is essentially one of hard work.

His death was reported on 11 April. Friends had become alarmed at his absence over Easter, and gained access to his flat in South Harrow, where he was found. He had died in his sleep, possibly several days earlier. An autopsy determined that the cause of death was acute pancreatitis. This finding has scotched rumours that he had met with foul play.

It was perhaps to be expected that Brosnan died alone, as he had lived alone for many years. But he was a continual and welcome presence in many lives, a friend to some and companion to many. He was a funny and surprisingly tough-minded writer.

John Clute

2011: Angela Scoular dies at age 65--Maide Vale, London, England.
(Born 8 November 1945--London, England.)

Angela Scoular obituary

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/apr/14/angela-scoular-obituary

Wuthering Heights star, Bond girl and Leslie Phillips’s wife
Anthony Hayward | Thu 14 Apr 2011 13.12 EDT
First published on Thu 14 Apr 2011 13.12 EDT

Angela Scoular takes a bath with David Niven’s version of 007
in Casino Royale, 1966 [sic, 1967], the first of her two Bond films.
Photograph: Snap/Rex Features

Angela Scoular, who has died aged 65 after reportedly taking her own life, was known as the wife of the actor Leslie Phillips, but she also had several acting roles of her own that brought her public attention.

She twice played a "Bond girl". First, she took the part of Buttercup, sharing a bath with David Niven as James Bond, in the spoof, "unofficial" release Casino Royale (1966) [sic, 1967]. Then she was the flirtatious farmer's daughter Ruby, bedded by once-only-007 George Lazenby, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), which also featured the former Avenger Diana Rigg and the future New Avenger Joanna Lumley.

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Angela Scoular (1945–2011)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0780029/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases the hardcover James Bond Kill Chain.
Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN HARDCOVER

Cover: Greg Smallwood
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: April 2018
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 160 pages
ON SALE DATE: 4/11/2018

When a counterespionage operation in Rotterdam goes catastrophically wrong, James Bond finds himself in the crosshairs of a plot to smash NATO. Someone is assassinating allied agents, and 007 is the next target in the kill chain. Having kept the peace for decades, the old alliance is collapsing, pitting MI6 against its former ally - the CIA! Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents the return of writer Andy Diggle (James Bond: Hammerhead, The Losers, Green Arrow: Year One) and artist Luca Casalanguida (James Bond: Hammerhead) as they plot the return of James Bond's oldest and deadliest foe: SMERSH!

2023: Harper Collins releases Double or Nothing by Kim Sherwood in the United States.

JAMES BOND IS MISSING...
007 has been captured, perhaps even killed,
by a sinister private military company.
His whereabouts are unknown.

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

THE FATE OF THE WORLD
RESTS IN THEIR HANDS...
Tech billionaire Sir Betram Paradise claims
he can reverse the climate crisis and save
the planet. But can he really? The new spies
must uncover the truth, because the future
of humanity hands in the balance.

KIM SHERWOOD is a novelist
and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the
University of Edinburgh. Her award-winning
debut novel Testament was released in 2018,
and in 2019, Kim was shortlisted for the
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award.
A WIld & True Relation, following a woman
who joins a smuggler's crew in eighteenth-century
Devon, will be published by Virago in 2023.
Double or Nothing is the first in a trilogy
of DOUBLE O novels expanding
the James Bond universe.

RichardTheBruce

April 12th

1944: Society hostess Maud Russell writes about Fleming in her diary.

Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
mistress

By Maud Russell
https://telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

Wednesday 12 April, 1944

I. dined. Still we don’t mention Muriel. He’s just back from Scotland and looks better. I am seeing about his rations. Found Muriel used to. He was in a state and I saw he wouldn’t feel like bothering about any mortal thing connected with himself. So I said nothing but took round marmalade, sugar, butter etc. of my own and said I would look after him till he wanted someone else to.

1956: The Daily Express serializes Fleming's fourth novel Diamonds Are Forever. Illustrations by Robb.

https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2014/10/diamonds-are-forever-artwork-from-daily.html

1961: A few days after appearing in court over whether Thunderball can be published, Ian Fleming has a heart attack.
1963: From Russia With Love pretitle sequence filmed at Pinewood's own main administration block. [Some refilming and a mustache is required due to the Bond imposter looking a bit too much like Connery.]

1984: Never Say Never Again released in Colombia.
1984: Nunca digas nunca jamás (Never Say Never Again) released in Argentina, Mexico, and Peru.

2006: Casino Royale films Bond losing at cards.

2012: Late by previous standards, Skyfall on-set photos come available.

2013: Michael France dies at age 51--St. Pete Beach, Florida.
(Born 4 January 1962--St. Petersburg, Florida.)

Michael France, screenwriter and
Beach Theatre owner, dies

Full article at this lin:

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

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.

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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.

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Michael France (I) (1962–2013)

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

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.

Goldeneye James Bond first draft Michael France 007 Pierce
Brosnan

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/goldeneye-james-bond-first-draft-505742184

2022: Sonny Caldinez dies at age 89-La Push, Washington.
(Born 1 July 1932--Trinidad.)

Sonny Caldinez

See the complete article here:

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

Born 1 July 1932
Trinidad, British West Indies
Died 12 April 2022 (aged 89)
La Push, Washington, U.S.
Occupation(s) Actor, wrestler

Sonny Caldinez (1 July 1932 – 12 April 2022) was a Trinidadian actor and professional wrestler.[1] He was often cast in television and films for his great height and muscular physique. He appeared as various Ice Warriors on the British programme Doctor Who and also in films such as The Man with the Golden Gun, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ali G Indahouse, Arabian Adventure and The Fifth Element.[2]

Caldinez played Ice Warriors in all four of the classic Doctor Who serials in which they appeared. His Ice Warrior roles include Turoc from The Ice Warriors, an unnamed Ice Warrior in The Seeds of Death, Ssorg in The Curse of Peladon and Sskel in The Monster of Peladon. He also appeared as Kemel in The Evil of the Daleks.[3][4][5] Other television roles include Abdullah on Sexton and Blake and the mulatto on The Return of Sherlock Holmes (episode "Wisteria Lodge").[2][6]

Caldinez moved to the U.S. from Trinidad in 2011. He died of a ruptured aortic aneurysm in his personal campsite in La Push, Washington on 12 April 2022, at the age of 89.[6][7]

Filmography
A Challenge for Robin Hood (1967) – Wrestler (uncredited)
White Cargo (1973) – Bodyguard
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) – Kra (uncredited)
The Fosters – Series 2, Episode 1: "The Nude" (1977) – Clyde Davies[8][9]
Mind Your Language – (TV series) Season 1, episode 4 – Surinders' father (1977)
Arabian Adventure (1979) – Nubian
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) – Mean Mongolian
The Fifth Element (1997) – Emperor Kodar Japhet
Ali G Indahouse (2002) – Ambassador (uncredited)

References
"WRESTLING HERITAGE". WRESTLING HERITAGE.
"Sonny Caldinez". BFI.
"BBC – Doctor Who – Classic Series – Photonovels – The Evil of the Daleks". www.bbc.co.uk.
"Sonny Caldinez – Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
"Doctor Who – The Ice Warriors". homepages.bw.edu.
"Sonny Caldinez". Aveleyman. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
"Sonny Caldinez 1932–2022". Doctor Who News. Retrieved 18 April 2022.
"Anglia". Weekend Entertainment. Saffron Walden Weekly News. 14 April 1977. p. VI – via Newspapers.com.
"London ITV". TV and radio. Reading Evening Post. 16 April 1977. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com.

Sonny Caldinez in ‘The Man with the Golden Gun’ (1974) (2:58)

2023: Dynamite Entertainment releases 007 - For King and Country #1.
Giorgio Spalletta, artist. Phillip Kennedy Johnson, writer.

007 - For King and Country
#1

Cover A: JOSEPH MICHAEL LINSNER
Cover B: REBECA PUEBLA
Cover C: CHUMA HILL
Cover D: LESLEY "LEIRIX" LI
Cover E: Blank Authentix
Genre: Spy Fiction / Action Adventure
Publication Date: April, 2023
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32
ON SALE DATE: 4/12/2023

An all-new nail-biting Bond mission from superstar Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Action Comics) and Giorgio Spalletta (Red Sonja). Accused of murder on British soil, James Bond has been branded a traitor by his own government. As M sends the entire 00 division after 007, Bond must go underground with only one ally: Gwendolyn Gann, 003 - another traitor, presumed dead, secretly on a clandestine mission with global implications.

https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2023/04/comic-book-preview-007-for-king-and-country-1/

RichardTheBruce

April 13th

1937: Edward Fox is born--Chelsea, London, England.

1942: Bill Conti is born--Providence, Rhode Island.

1953: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's first Bond novel Casino Royale.

CASINO ROYALE

The dry riffle of the cards and the soft
whirr of the roulette wheel, the sharp call
of the croupiers and the feverish mutter of
a crowded casino hide the thick voice at
Bond's ear which says, 'I will count up
to ten.'

Anyone who has ever gambled will find
this tense and sometimes horrifying story
of espionage and high gambling irresistible.
So will readers who have never entered a
casino. Connoisseurs of realistic fiction
will particularly note the careful documen-
tation of the Secret Service background,
the chilling portrait of Le Chiffre, the
authentic menace of SMERSH, and the
sensual appeal of the girl in 'soie sauvage'.

Jacket devised by the author.

1962: In The New Yorker piece "James Bond Comes to New York", Geoffrey T. Hellman interviews Ian Fleming.

The Talk of the Town
April 21, 1962 Issue

James Bond Comes to New York

See the complete article here:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/04/21/bonds-creator

The author Ian Fleming spent a weekend in the city to see his publishers and “assorted crooks” en route from his Jamaica hideaway to his London home.
By Geoffrey T. Hellman
April 13, 1962

Photograph by Horst Tappe / Hulton Archive / Getty

Ian Fleming, whose nine Secret Service thrillers (Casino Royale, Doctor No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia with Love, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, and Thunderball) have had phenomenal sales in this country and abroad (more than eleven hundred thousand hardcover copies and three and a half million paperbacks), was here for a weekend recently en route from his Jamaica hideaway to his London home, and we caught him on Sunday morning at his hotel, the Pierre, where he amiably stood us a lunch. He ordered a prefatory medium-dry Martini of American vermouth and Beefeater gin, with lemon peel, and so did we.

“I’m here to see my publishers and assorted crooks,” he said. “Not other assorted crooks, mind you. By ‘crooks,’ I don’t mean crooks at all; I mean former Secret Service men. There are one or two of them here, you know.”

“Who?” we asked.

“Oh, men like the boss of James Bond, the operative who’s the chief character in all my books,” said our host. “When I wrote the first one, in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be the blunt instrument. One of the bibles of my youth was Birds of the West Indies, by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, My God, that’s the dullest name I’ve ever heard, so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one. Mrs. Bond once wrote me a letter thanking me for using it.”

Mr. Fleming, a sunburned, tall, curly-haired, blue-eyed man of fifty-three in a dark-blue suit, blue shirt, and blue-dotted bow tie, ordered another Martini, and so did we. “I’ve spent the morning in Central Park,” he said. “I went there to see if I’d get murdered, but I didn’t. The only person who accosted me was a man who asked me how to get out. I love the Park; it was so wonderful to see the brown turning to green. I went to the Wollman skating rink and saw all those enchanting girls skating around, and then I thought, This is the place to meet a spy. What a wonderful place to meet a spy! A spy with a child. A child is the most wonderful cover for a spy, like a dog for a tart. Do tarts here have dogs? I was interested to see that in the bird reservation in the Park there was not a single bird. There are no people there—It’s fenced in, you know, with a sign—but no birds, either. Birds can’t read.”

Mr. Fleming lit a Senior Service cigarette and, in answer to some questions from us, said that he was a Scot, that he had been brought up in a hunting-and-fishing world where you shot or caught your lunch, and that he was a graduate of Eton and Sandhurst. “I shot against West Point,” he said. “When I got my commission, they were mechanizing the Army, and a lot of us decided we didn’t want to be garage hands running those bloody tanks. My poor mamma, in despair, suggested that I try for the diplomatic. My father was killed in the ‘14-‘18 war. Well, I went to the Universities of Geneva and Munich and learned extremely good French and German, but I got fed up with the exams, so in 1929 I joined Reuters as a foreign correspondent and had a hell of a time. Wonderful! I went to Moscow for Reuters. My God, it was fun! It was like a tremendous ball game.”

He ordered a dozen cherrystones and a Miller High Life, and we followed suit. “I like the name ‘High Life,’ ” he said. “That’s why I order it. And American vermouth is the best in the world.”

He added that he had been with Reuters for four years, and we asked what happened next.

“I decided I ought to make some money, and went into the banking and stock-brokerage business—first with Cull & Company and then with Rowe & Pitman,” he said. “Six years altogether, until the war came along. Those financial firms are tremendous clubs, and great fun, but I never could figure out what a sixty-fourth of a point was. We used to spend our whole time throwing telephones at each other. I’m afraid we ragged far too much.”

We inquired about the war, from which, according to the British Who’s Who, Mr. Fleming emerged a naval commander, and he said, “I was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, so I went everywhere.”

We asked what he’d done after the war.

“I joined the editorial board of the London Times,” he said. “I still write articles for it, and I’m a stockholder. And in 1952, when I was in Jamaica, Cyril Connolly asked me to write an article about Jamaica for his magazine, Horizon. It was rather a euphoric piece, about Jamaica as an island for you and me to go to.”

We promised to go, and he said, “How about some domestic Camembert? It’s better here than the French.”

During this and the coffee, he reverted to the non-ornithological James Bond. “I think the reason for his success is that people are lacking in heroes in real life today,” he said. “Heroes are always getting knocked—Philip and Mountbatten are examples of this—and I think people absolutely long for heroes. The thing that’s wrong with the new anticolonialism is that no one has yet found a Negro hero. They’re scratching around with Tshombe, but . . . Well, I don’t regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way, and in the end, after giant despair, he wins the girl or the jackpot or whatever it may be. My books have no social significance, except a deleterious one; they’re considered to have too much violence and too much sex. But all history has that. I finished the last one, my tenth James Bond story, in Jamaica the other day; it’s long and tremendously dull. It’s called The Spy Who Loved Me, and it’s written, supposedly, by a girl. I think it’s an absolute miracle that an elderly person like me can go on turning out these books with such zest. It’s really a terrible indictment of my own character—they’re so adolescent. But they’re fun. I think people like them because they’re fun. A couple of years ago, when I was in Washington, and was driving to lunch with a friend of mine, Margaret Leiter, she spotted a young couple coming out of church, and she stopped our cab. ‘You must meet them,’ she said. ‘They’re great fans of yours.’ And she introduced me to Jack and Jackie Kennedy. ‘Not the Ian Fleming!’ they said. What could be more gratifying than that? They asked me to dinner that night, with Joe Alsop and some other characters. I think the President likes my books because he enjoys the combination of physical violence, effort, and winning in the end—like his PT-boat experiences. I think James Bond may be good for him after the dry pack of the day.”

Mr. Fleming is married to a former wife of Lord Rothermere and has a nine-year-old son, Caspar, who is away at boarding school. “He doesn’t read me, but he sells my autographs for seven shillings a time,” his father said.

♦

Published in the print edition of the April 21, 1962, issue, with the headline “Bond’s Creator.”

1967: Charles K. Feldman's Casino Royale has its world premiere at London's Odeon Leicester Square, two months ahead of Eon's You Only Live Twice. It breaks many opening records.

1973: Live and Let Die films its title sequence on D Stage, Pinewood Studios.

1988: Movieland Wax Museum unveils James Bond in Buena Park, California.

1999: Sean Connery imprints hands and feet in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theater, Hollywood, California.

1964


1999

2003: The Guardian enthusiastically speculates on BOND 21 with Brosnan plus India Bond Girls and locations.

Bond goes to Bollywood for love as well
as money

See the complete article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/13/film.filmnews

007 makes a play for Eastern affections as producers choose
between two former Miss Worlds and a model to star opposite
Brosnan
Vanessa Thorpe, arts and media correspondent | Sun 13 Apr 2003

A commercial and creative meeting of the popular culture of the East and the West is destined to make 'Bond 21' the most lucrative James Bond adventure of all time.

Pierce Brosnan's co-star for his fifth outing in the role now looks likely to be drawn from the ranks of top Bollywood talent.

The former Miss World Aishwarya Rai, who is already a huge star in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), the movie-making capital of the Indian subcontinent, may well become the first Indian actress to star as a Bond girl, according to reports in India.

Casting agents working on the new film for the Pinewood-based Bond film company, Eon Productions, have been travelling around India to meet and watch rival talents at work.

Rai's secretary Hari Singh, who has been on set with her for the filming of her latest project, Rajkumar Santoshi's Khaki with co-star Amitabh Bachchan, has confirmed that the 'unbelievable' approach has been made. Although the actress is currently in the Hinduja hospital in Mumbai having injured her toe during filming near Nashik, Singh has said that the production deadlines could still be worked out.

Bond 21 is due to start filming this summer, in prompt succession to Bond 20, or Die Another Day which came out last November and earned more than £400 million at the international box office. The film, which also starred Oscar winner Halle Berry as the American agent Jinx, has beaten Brosnan's The World Is Not Enough by more than £50m. And still it goes on. This February the film took £1.2m on its opening weekend in Italy, the best-ever return on a Bond picture.

Keen to capitalise on the moment, Eon Productions have secured the services of their 49-year-old, Irish leading man from August and booked the sound stages at Pinewood Studios from the end of the year.

Casting directors will be looking at the work of other leading Bollywood stars too, including Priyanka Chopra, another former Miss World, who recently starred in the film Andaaz with yet another contender and model-turned-actress, Lara Dutta. Dutta is a former Miss Universe, so the competition for the chance to appear with Brosnan is intense. The young star of the film The Hero, Preity Zinta, is also thought to have caught the eye of Western producers.

Whoever is chosen, cultural differences may dictate a change in style for the Bond screenwriters, as actresses with a career in Bollywood ahead of them may not want to appear scantily clad or in bed with Bond.

Rai is still the current favourite and her secretary has been quoted as confirming her interest in the 'unbelievably grand project'.

'Yes, for Aishwarya, it's something unbelievable,' he said. 'An international coordinating agency has approached us on behalf of the studio making the Bond movies.

'They were waiting on the sets and watching the rehearsals, with Aishwarya, Amitabh Bachchan and others,' adds Singh. 'They are keen to cast her. Let's see what Aishwarya has to say. We'd have to rework our earlier schedules.'

The actress is also at the centre of a fiery Bollywood scandal after she refused to work again with her former boyfriend, the actor Salman Khan. On Friday Khan would not speak to Mumbai reporters who quizzed him about Rai and the actor Vivek Oberoi, who accused Khan of threatening him at the beginning of this month.

Khan, who has a reputation as Bollywood's 'superbrat', allegedly suspects Oberoi of having an affair with Rai and in response to the suggestion Oberoi called a press conference during which he claimed that Khan had threatened to kill him.

The much sought-after Rai has since admitted that Khan has bombarded her with messages since their split, but she claims she is indifferent. Oberoi meanwhile has accused Khan of being 'mentally sick'.

Further contenders for the role of Bondgirl 21 include the British singer Sophie Ellis Bextor who was hotly tipped for a part last time around.

Miss World Aishwarya Rai


Miss World Priyanka Chopra


Miss Universe Lara Dutta


Sophie Ellis Bextor

2008: Guy Hamilton receives a Cinema Retro Award at Pinewood Studios' Goldfinger reunion.

HONOR BLACKMAN PRESENTS GUY HAMILTON WITH ...
Cinema Retro
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For James Bond fans, Sunday's Goldfinger reunion had the Midas Touch in every regard. Organized by Cinema Retro colmunist Gareth Owen and his partner Andy Boyle of www.bondstars.com, the event gave 120 lucky attendees from around the world the opportunity to celebrate the classic James Bond film in the ultimate fashion. With the exception of Sean Connery, John Barry and Shirley Bassey, virtually every living actor and technician from the film were reunited at London's Pinewood Studios where principal photography had taken place in 1964. Among the attendees: director Guy Hamilton, cast members Shirley Eaton, Tania Mallett, Burt Kwouk, Martin Benson, Margaret Nolan, Caron Gardner, production designer Sir Ken Adam, art director Peter Murton, Peter Lamont (who served as draughtsman on the film), Leslie Bricusse, who co-wrote the lyrics to the smash hit title song, and sound man Norman Wanstall, who won an Oscar for the film. This was literally an all-day event, as the stars arrived at 10:30 AM for autograph sessions that were followed by a tour of the studio led by Cinema Retro co-publisher Dave Worrall. A highlight was the surprise appearance of one of the original Aston Martin DB5's which was on loan for the event from The Louwman Collection in The Netherlands. In the afternoon, everyone gathered at Pinewood's Theatre 7 for a screening of the film in digital format. It was to be an historic occasion: the largest gathering of cast and crew to view the movie since its original premiere. The digital print was simply stunning and it's safe to say that no matter how many times you've seen the film, you haven't truly seen it until you've experienced the flawless digital presentation. At the conclusion of the film, Cinema Retro editor-in-chief Lee Pfeiffer conducted Q&A sessions with Shirley Eaton, Tania Mallett, Burt Kwouk, Leslie Bricusse, Margaret Nolan and Guy Hamilton. At the conclusion of the session, Honor Blackman, who made a surprise appearance at the screening, joined Pfeiffer and Dave Worrall on stage to present Guy Hamilton with the Cinema Retro Lifetime Achievement award in recognition of his remarkable body of work that includes serving as assistant director to Sir Carol Reed on The Third Man and John Huston on The African Queen and his own hit films as director that include Live and Let Die, Diamonds Are Forever, The Man With the Golden Gun, Funeral in Berlin, The Colditz Story and Battle of Britain. A clearly moved Guy Hamilton gave a gracious acceptance speech and relished reliving his memories of Goldfinger with Honor Blackman.

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(L to R) Shirley Eaton, Honor Blackman, Tania Mallett and Margaret Nolan with event
organizers Andy Boyle and Gareth Owen.

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Cinema Retro's Dave Worrall and Lee Pfeiffer (r) with Honor Blackman and Guy Hamilton

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Finally, there was a memorable photo session as Cinema Retro photographer Mark Mawston posed many of the cast and crew members around the Aston Martin DB5. The event finally ended at 7:00 PM, with weary but enthusiastic attendees recognizing they had been part of a day they will not soon forget.

(Tickets for this event sold out in 24 hours. For those who were not able to attend, but who would like a souvenir of the day, there are a limited number of the illustrated collector's programs available for sale.)

2011: Sony announces its partnership with MGM continues--they will co-release BOND 23 (later Skyfall).

2023: Ian Fleming Publications honours the original publication of Casino Royale with a 70th anniversary release of Fleming titles.

RichardTheBruce

April 14th

1912: Joie Chitwood is born--Denison, Texas.
(He dies 3 January 1988 at age 75--Tampa, Florida.)

Joie Chitwood

See the complete article here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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
Entries 1
Championships 0
Wins 0
Podiums 0
Career points 1
Pole positions 0
Fastest laps 0
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.[1] 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.[1] He was the first man ever to wear a safety belt at the Indy 500.[1]

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,[1] 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.[1] Among his contributions to the sport was the supervision of the construction of Pennsylvania's Selinsgrove Speedway in 1945.

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1917: Richard Wasey Chopping is born--Colchester, Essex, England.
(He dies 17 April 2008 at age 91--Colchester, Essex, England.)

Richard Chopping: Versatile
illustrator best known for his
distinctive Bond book jackets

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/richard-chopping-versatile-illustrator-best-known-for-his-distinctive-bond-book-jackets-813974.html

Wednesday 23 April 2008 00:00

Richard Chopping is probably best known today as the creator of dust-jackets for the publisher Jonathan Cape's Ian Fleming James Bond novels. From Russia with Love (1957), with its pistol and flower design, the skull and rose for Goldfinger (1959), and the slightly eerie spyhole and Ian Fleming's name-plate artwork for For Yours Eyes Only [sic] (1960) are distinctively Chopping's work.

The creator of these confections, with their meticulous attention to detail and delicacy of colour, was, however, much more than a book-jacket designer. By the time they appeared, Chopping had established a reputation as a versatile illustrator who was noted for his depictions of natural objects such as butterflies, flowers, insects and fruit, based on close observation, as well as being a sympathetic teacher, busy exhibitor and author.

Richard Wasey Chopping was born in 1917 in Colchester, Essex – Wasey was an old family name. His father was an entrepreneurial businessman from a milling family, was himself a miller and store owner and eventually became mayor of Colchester. Chopping's twin brother died when young. He also had an older brother, a pilot killed on a Pathfinder mission over Europe in the Second World War.

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A 1956 three-man exhibition at the Hanover Gallery, with Francis Bacon as the main attraction and separate rooms given over to pictures by a French aristocrat and Chopping, led to the Bond dust-jacket commissions. Chopping's flower paintings and trompe-l'oeil works were upstairs, as he remembered, "in a little gallery at the back, that was like a kind of long lavatory".

Bacon took Ann, Ian Fleming's wife, in to see his own work, Chopping recalled. "Then he took her upstairs to see mine, which was very good of him, and Ann went back to Ian and said, 'Well, you ought to get this chap to do your next book jacket.'" They met at one of the Flemings' artistic salons, where Fleming granted Chopping the commission for From Russia with Love.

Although the first edition jacket announced that it had been designed by the author, Chopping later said:

He in no way designed it. He did tell me the things he wanted on it. It had to be a rose with a drop of dew on it. There had to be a sawn-off Smith & Wesson. We never discussed the type of revolver we would use. It had to be that one.

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1961: Ian Fleming is inspired to pursue republishing favorite books gone out of print.

Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.

A glance through The Times Literary
Supplement while he was still at the London Clinic suggested another idea.
In the issue of 14 April he read a leading article which put the case for
republishing books long out of print. This encouraged him to remind his
own publisher that he had several times pushed for a reprint of one of his
favourite novels, All Night at Mr Stanyhurst's by Hugh Edwards, with an
introduction he would write himself. In putting forward such ideas, Ian
was thinking about his future. As he told William Plomer, he had again
almost killed off Bond in The Spy Who Loved Me. He had decided not to,
but the appropriate time had now certainly come.

1961: Robert Carlyle is born--Glasgow, Scotland.
1967: Casino Royale general release in the UK.

1980: Moonraker receives an Academy Award nomination for Best Visual Effects.

1996: English Heritage establishes a ceramic plaque at 22 Ebury Street, Belgravia, London:

IAN FLEMING 1908-1964 Creator of James Bond lived here.

1999: BBC News reports on a "minor planet" named after James Bond. Maybe asteroid.

Sci/Tech
The name's Bond, James
Bond

See the complete article here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/319237.stm

Wednesday, April 14, 1999 Published at 17:25 GMT 18:25 UK

Asteroid 9007 captured on film

By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse

Czech astronomers have named a minor planet they discovered in 1983 after Her Majesty's Secret Agent 007 - James Bond.

Giving a minor planet a name is one of the privileges given to those astronomers who find them. Mostly, these objects are a few miles across and orbit the Sun in-between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.

When a newly-discovered minor planet has been observed several times, and an orbit for it has been well established, it is given a number.

At present, there are 10,448 numbered minor planets of which 7,000 have been officially named.

According to Brian Marsden of the Minor Planet Center at Harvard there are rules about choosing names.

Naming rules
No military or political names are allowed until at least 100 years after the event or death of the person concerned.

No unpronounceable names or those that are obscene or in bad taste. None must be too similar to existing names and none must be longer than 16 characters.

Following these guidelines, 223 minor planets have just received names - a record.

They include asteroid 9007 which according to its discoverers at the Klet observatory in the Czech republic, could only be called James Bond.

Minor planets have also just been named after the writers Iris Murdoch and Arthur Ransome, as well as painters Constable, Holbein and Gainsboroug.

Star gazing
There is also Minor Planet DENI which stands for the Department for Education in Northern Ireland.

But perhaps the most touching name given to a minor planet is 1992 QJ Lewispearce.

Lewis Percival Pearce was born at Nedlands, Western Australia on 23 January this year.

He suffered oxygen deprivation during birth and never regained consciousness.

Twelve days later, he died but not without sharing some experiences with his parents. One of them was observing the stars with his dad, Andrew Pearce.

1999: Anthony Newley dies at age 67--Jensen Beach, Florida.
(Born 24 September 1931--Hackney, London, England.)

Obituary: Anthony Newley

See full article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-anthony-newley-1087464.html

Tom Vallance | Friday 16 April 1999 00:02

ONE OF Britain's most distinctive talents, Anthony Newley was an actor, singer, composer and writer who had his first starring role in films at the age of 16, composed hit musicals and songs, topped the hit parade himself as a pop star, played everything from romantic leads to quirky character roles in movies, starred on both the West End and Broadway stages, and became a favourite of cabaret audiences from New York to Las Vegas.

His elongated Cockney vowel sounds made his voice an unmistakable one which people either loved or hated. It served him well on novelty songs such as "Pop Goes the Weasel", but he was also a fine ballad singer. "What Kind of Fool Am I", "Who Can I Turn To" and "Candy Man" were just three of the hit songs he co-wrote. "I'm not a trained musician or singer," he once said, "but I can turn out a song."

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With Bricusse, Newley wrote the book and score of Stop the World I Want To Get Off, in which Newley starred as Littlechap, an Everyman figure whose whole life is depicted in the show. Newley said, "The role of Littlechap, surrounded by the type of chorus once used in Greek drama, has presented us with a challenge which any cast would surely enjoy tackling." Directed by Newley, the show opened at the Queen's Theatre in July 1961 and was a smash hit, its songs including "What Kind of Fool Am I", "Gonna Build a Mountain" (a hit record for Matt Monro) and "Once in a Lifetime". Sammy Davis was one of many who recorded the songs - he became a close friend of Newley and a great champion of the Newley-Bricusse catalogue.

When Newley was asked why most of his songs became hit records for other singers, he replied, "Sammy Davis, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett . . . their records sell in the millions; when I do it, it just trickles. But for the composer and lyricist there's a tidy bit to be made that way too, so I don't really mind." "What Kind of Fool Am I" won the 1962 Grammy Award as song of the year and has been recorded by over 70 vocalists, though Newley's own recording ran into trouble because he sang the word "damn" - he later made another recording which could be played on sensitive radio stations.

In 1962 Stop the World moved to Broadway where, produced by David Merrick who had bought the American rights while it had been trying out in Nottingham ("I felt no need to wait and see if it would be a hit in London - I had been thoroughly entertained and absorbed by the freshness of conception shown by its authors"), it ran for over 500 performances. Both the London and New York productions were directed by Newley, of whom Merrick was to write, "I have no doubts at all that Mr Newley is going to enjoy widespread and durable success in America. The man does everything - he acts well; he sings with individuality and verve; and most importantly, he is an exceptionally attractive performer. His personality is dynamic and he projects a brilliance of spirit."

During the show's run in 1963 Newley, who had previously been wed to Tiller Girl-turned-actress Ann Lynn, married Joan Collins. "Like most men of my generation," he said, "I had drooled over pictures of Joan. And there she was, backstage at Stop the World and I could not believe it. Did I ask her for a date? Yes I did." Collins described Newley at the time as "a half- Jewish Cockney git" and herself as "a half-Jewish princess from Bayswater via Sunset Boulevard".

The following year the Bricusse-Newley team had a big hit with their lyrics to John Barry's music for Goldfinger, sung over the titles of the James Bond film by Shirley Bassey. The next Newley-Bricusse musical, The Roar of the Greasepaint - the Smell of the Crowd, "a comic allegory about the class system in contemporary Britain", had a better score than its predecessor but its 1964 tryout in Nottingham, starring Norman Wisdom and directed by Newley, did not prove satisfactory and it failed to reach London. David Merrick was again impressed, and offered to take it to Broadway if Newley would assume the leading role.

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2021: Rowman & Littlefield Publisher release an updated version of Jeremy Black's
World Of James Bond: The Lives & Times Of 007.

2048: The first Ian Fleming Bond novel Casino Royale is timed to enter the public domain in the United States.
(And each of the following 13 years another book will do that.)

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April 15th

1947: Lois Chiles is born--Houston, Texas.
1948: Michael Arnold Kamen is born--New York City, New York.
(He dies 18 November 2003 at age 55--London, England.)

Michael Kamen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Chris Salewicz

Michael Kamen (1948–2003)

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Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

1960: Ian Fleming short story "Risico" (as "The Double Take") ends its serial run in The Daily Express.
(Started 11 April 1960.)
1965: Goldfinger released in the Netherlands.
1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films Moneypenny and a new Bond.

1978: 007 나를 사랑한 스파이 (007 Love Me Spy) released in the Republic of Korea.

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1988: The Los Angeles Times reports Timothy Dalton will return.

MOVIES

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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-04-15-ca-1309-story.html

By DEBORAH CAULFIELD
April 15, 1988 12 AM PT

Timothy Dalton apparently passed muster as Agent 007--he’ll return as James Bond in “License Revoked,” set to start filming in Mexico City in mid-July, United Artists announced this week. No word yet on whether the Welsh-born Shakespearean-trained actor will again do many of his own stunts, as he did in “The Living Daylights.”

2017: Clifton James dies at age 96--Gladstone, Oregon.
(Born 29 May 1920--Spokane, Washington.)

Gladstone hometown hero Clifton James
fondly remembered

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Raymond Rendleman - Monday, May 08, 2017

James, awarded the Silver Star for his bravery in combat in 1945, went on international fame as Louisiana Sheriff JW Pepper in two James Bond films

Clifton James, Gladstone's hometown hero for his World War II bravery and extensive acting career spanning nearly six decades, died last month at the age of 96.

SUBMITTED PHOTO - In the photo circa 1980, Clifton James enjoys
the Clackamas River with his family near High Rocks in Gladstone.

James grew up in Gladstone, a town that he always loved. After studying drama at the University of Oregon, he lived in New York and Los Angeles for most of his life, but his sisters lived in Gladstone, so he would often visit them along with his nieces and nephews. He moved in with his daughter, Gladstone resident Mary James, for the final years of his life before succumbing to diabetes on April 15.

SUBMITTED PHOTO - Clifton James as Sheriff JW Pepper plays opposite
Roger Moore as James Bond in 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun.

James' memorial service with full military honors is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 25, at Willamette National Cemetery, 11800 S.E. Mt Scott Blvd., Portland.

"He almost always played that tough, Southern sheriff type," said James' sister Bev Anslow of his successful acting career that included more than 50 film credits.

James made his Broadway stage debut as a construction foreman in "The Cave Dwellers" (1958). He was involved in a lot of off-Broadway shows, where he played various roles, including starring with Al Pacino in "American Buffalo" from 1980-81, which was turned into a 1997 film production starring Dustin Hoffman.

James played a floor walker in the classic film "Cool Hand Luke" (1967). His most famous role was fast-talking Louisiana Sheriff JW Pepper in two James Bond films opposite Roger Moore: 1973's Live and Let Die and 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun. Anslow said an elephant was supposed to knock James' stunt double, not James himself as JW Pepper, into a Southeast Asian river during a memorable scene in The Man with the Golden Gun.

Moore paid tribute to James on Twitter: "Terribly sad to hear Clifton James has left us. As JW Pepper he gave my first two Bond films a great, fun character."

As a character actor, James was called upon to reprise variations on JW Pepper many times. Did he mind being type-cast?

"It didn't bother him, and he rather liked it," Anslow said. "He was an actor's actor, and he would act whatever part was given to him and genuinely enjoy the work."

James loved putting on a show throughout his long life. He was a well-known character around Gladstone, often seen with an unlit cigar in his mouth or taking out his false teeth to scare children.

James' mother taught grade school in Woodland, Washington, and would organize local drama productions, including at the old Gladstone Grade School, which which was K-8 at that time. James went to school in Gladstone through the eighth grade and graduated from Milwaukie High School.

SUBMITTED PHOTO - Staff Sgt. Clifton James of Gladstone
served in the U.S. Army for 42 months during World War II.

James was one of the last survivors of WWII's 41st Division, composed of National Guard units from Idaho, Montana, Oregon, North Dakota and Washington state. Serving in the U.S. Army for 42 months in the South Pacific during WWII, he was awarded the Silver Star for his bravery in combat on April 21, 1945.

During the spring of '45, James served as a staff sergeant leading a combat patrol to determine the strength of enemy entrenchments on several ridges on the Philippines' Jolo Island, where previous U.S. attacks had been repulsed. Rather than endanger the whole patrol on April 21, he asked them to stay under cover and watch him try to crawl undetected toward an enemy's trench system. James came under "heavy automatic fire" once he crawled within 20 yards of the trench.

"Then, with complete disregard for his life, [James] charged the position, killing its occupants," a now-declassified military document says. "Continuing on his mission, he crawled to a vantage point, where he could observe the activity of the enemy on the next ridge. With this valuable information gained, the forthcoming attack was a success."

More information about James' military service and letters he sent home to family is available in copies of "Gladstone, Oregon: A History" by Gladstone historian Herbert K. Beals available at City Hall. James suffered various injuries during WWII, including the loss of his front teeth. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a drama degree in 1950.

In 1951, James married Laurie Harper, who died in 2015. He is survived by six children, 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

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Clifton James The Dukes of Hazzard


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2021: Paper Idol release their single "James Bond."

Electronic indie-pop band
Paper Idol premieres single “James Bond”

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https://www.rockatnight.com/2021/04/electronic-indie-pop-band-paper-idol-premieres-single-james-bond/

April 15, 2021 Rock At Night Contributor New Releases

Paper Idol

Rock At Night says: “James Bond is one song that makes you want to get off your seat and dance across the floor. With its retro 70s disco sound, it’s exactly what we need at this time!

Paper Idol is the genre-bending pop project of LA-based artist and auteur Matan KG. The music weaves dance music and alternative into “something unique and utterly disarming” (Beats per Minute), with storytelling that blurs the line between reality and fantasy, optimism and delusion.

After graduating university with a Neuroscience degree, Matan left medical-school ambitions behind to pursue music in LA. In under two years, he has released a string of singles and a four-track EP, multiple collaborations with forward-thinking dance artists (Yung Bae, Wankelmut, NASAYA), and has been lauded by BBC Radio 1, Billboard, Under the Radar, and Dancing Astronaut.

Paper Idol’s live act, featuring former classmate Adam Rochelle (keys), has played alongside Louis Futon and Sam Gellaitry at legendary venues the Fonda Theatre and the Echoplex. With another single in late October and a sophomore EP due early 2021, Paper Idol continues to rally a generation bombarded by reality and desperate for an escape.

Paper Idol - James Bond (Official Music Video)

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April 16th

1917: Barry Nelson (Haakon Robert Nielsen) is born--San Francisco, California.
(He dies 7 April 2007 at age 89--Bucks County, Pennsylvania.)

Barry Nelson, Broadway and Film Actor, Dies at 86

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By STUART LAVIETES | APRIL 14, 2007

Barry Nelson, an actor who had a long career in film and television, starred in some of the more durable Broadway comedies of the 1950s and ’60s, and achieved a permanent place in the minds of trivia buffs as the first actor to portray James Bond, died last Saturday, his wife said yesterday. He was 86.

The cause was not immediately known. His wife, Nansi Nelson, said he died while traveling in Bucks County, Pa., The Associated Press reported.
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1918: Syd Cain is born--Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.
(He dies 21 November 2011 at age 93--England.)

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

See the full article here:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/dec/01/syd-cain

Kim Newman - Thu 1 Dec 2011 13.29 EST

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Syd Cain (1918–2011)

Filmography

Production designer (17 credits)

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

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

Art department (27 credits)

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

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

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

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

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

Art director (10 credits)

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

1922: Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE is born--Clapham, London, England.
(He dies 22 October 1995 at age 73--London, England.)

Obituary: Sir Kingsley Amis

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David Lodge | Monday 23 October 1995 01:02

Kingsley Amis was the most gifted of the British novelists who began publishing in the 1950s and were grouped together - by the media rather than by their own volition - as "Angry Young Men". He also proved himself to be the one with the most stamina and capacity for development.

Amis was a key figure in the history of British post-war fiction, but his originality was not always fully appreciated because it did not manifest itself in any obvious novelty of form. Indeed the literary new wave of the Fifties, in which Amis played a leading role (its poetic wing, to which he also contributed, was known as "The Movement"), was an aesthetically conservative force, consciously setting itself against modernist experimentation. A passage in a review Amis contributed to the Spectator in 1958 is representative in both its sentiments and the down-to-earth blokeishness of its manner:

The idea about experiment being the life-blood of the English novel is one that dies hard. "Experiment" in this context boils down pretty regularly to "obtruded oddity", whether in construction - multiple viewpoints and such - or in style. It is not felt that adventurousness in subject matter or attitude or tone really count.

This is a thinly disguised manifesto for Amis's own early fiction, but it is as obscuring as it is revealing. It is true that Lucky Jim (1954) and its successors dealt with what was then new or neglected social territory (for example, the provincial university) from unhackneyed perspectives (for example, the upwardly mobile young professional who is unimpressed by the values and lifestyle of the bourgeoisie). This is presumably what Amis meant by adventurousness of subject matter, attitude and tone. And it is also true that these novels were very traditional in form - the specific tradition to which they belonged being that of the English comic novel, in which satirical comedy of manners and robust farce are combined in an entertaining and easily assimilable story. Fielding, Dickens, Wodehouse and Waugh are some of Amis's obvious precursors. But it is also true that Amis's novels are triumphs of "style" - a way of using language that, if not obtrusively "odd", is highly original, and wonderfully expressive.

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In the late Sixties and Seventies he experimented a good deal with "genre" fiction: science fiction (The Anti-Death League, 1966, and The Alteration, 1976), the James Bond thriller (Colonel Sun, 1968), the classic detective story (The Riverside Villas Murder, l973) and the ghost story (The Green Man, 1969). These forms perhaps attracted him as ways of escaping the constraints of the realistic novel and the expectations of an audience who kept hoping he would repeat Lucky Jim. In some of them he addressed himself to weighty philosophic and religious themes, such as the nature of evil.

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This year, Eric Jacobs published a biography, with Amis's collaboration. It revealed (as literary biographies tend to do) a closer correspondence between the life and the fiction than one might have supposed, especially as regards difficulties with women. It also revealed a surprisingly vulnerable person behind the bluff, blimpish public mask, and the poised, sardonic prose stylist: a rather timid man, fearful of flying, unable to drive a car or perform the simplest domestic tasks, needing a regular and repetitive daily routine to keep the black dog of depression at bay: work, club, pub, telly. Work was the most important of these resources. In spite of increasing physical debility, Amis kept writing up till the end of his life. You Can't Do Both (1994) was generally well received and is perhaps the most openly autobiographical of his novels. If The Biographer's Moustache, published earlier this year, was not the biographee's revenge that many reviewers had hoped for, it still had more than a touch of past mastery.

In That Uncertain Feeling the hero is accosted one evening in the street of a small Welsh town by two lascars, one of whom seems to ask him:

"Where is pain and bitter laugh?" This was just the question for me, but before I could smite my breast and cry, "In here, friend", the other little man had said: "My cousin say, we are new in these town and we wish to know where is piano and bit of life, please?"

That is one of my favourite quotations from Amis because it seems to epitomise his art. He did not dodge the pain of existence and his laughter was sometimes bitter, but he always retained the liberating, life- enhancing gift of comic surprise.

Kingsley Amis, writer: born London 16 April 1922; CBE 1981; Kt 1990; books include A Frame of Mind 1953, Lucky Jim 1954, That Uncertain Feeling 1955, A Case of Samples 1956, I Like it Here 1958, Take a Girl Like You 1960, New Maps of Hell 1960, My Enemy's Enemy 1962, One Fat Englishman 1963, The Egyptologists 1965, (with Robert Conquest) The James Bond Dossier 1965, The Anti-Death League 1966, The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 1966, A Look Round the Estate 1967, Colonel Sun 1968, I Want it Now 1968, The Green Man 1969, What Became of Jane Austen? 1970, Girl, 20 1971, On Drink 1972, The Riverside Villas Murder 1973, Ending Up 1974, Rudyard Kipling and His World 1975, The Alteration 1976, Jake's Thing 1978, Collected Poems 1944-79 1979, Russian Hide-and-Seek 1980, Collected Short Stories 1980, Every Day Drinking 1983, How's Your Glass? 1984, Stanley and the Women 1984, The Old Devils 1986, (with J. Cochrane) Great British Songbook 1986, The Crime of the Century 1987, Difficulties with Girls 1988, The Folks that Live on the Hill 1990, We are All Guilty 1991, Memoirs 1991[/i], The Russian Girl 1992, Mr Barrett's Secret and Other Stories 1993, You Can't Do Both 1994, The Biographer's Moustache 1995; married 1948 Hilary Bardwell (two sons, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1965), 1965 Elizabeth Jane Howard (marriage dissolved 1983); died London 22 October 1995.

1939: Dusty Springfield is born--Hampstead, London, England.
(She dies 2 March 1999 at age 59--Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England,.)

Dusty Springfield

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04 Mar 1999

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

Photo: GETTY IMAGES

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

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

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

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

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

- - -

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

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

- - -

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

Published March 4 1999

Dusty Springfield (1939–1999)

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"I Only Want To Be With You"

"The Windmills of Your Mind"

"The Look of Love"

"Six Million Dollar Man"

1962: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's ninth James Bond novel The Spy Who Loved Me.

VIVIENNE MICHEL writes:

'The spy who loved me was called
James Bond and the night on which he
loved me was a night of screaming
terror in The Dreamy Pines Motor
Court, which is in the Adirondacks in the
north of New York State.

'This is the story of who I am and how
I came through a nightmare of torture
and the threat of rape and death to a
dawn of ecstacy. It's all true--absolutely.
Otherwise Mr. Fleming certainly would
not have risked his professional reputa-
tion in acting as my co-author and per-
suading his publisherss, Jonathan Cape,
to publish my story. Ian Fleming has
also kindly obtained clearnace for
certain minor breaches of The Official
Secrets Act that were necessary to my
story.'

FLEMING
The Adventures of James Bond

Casino Royale
Live and Let Die
Moonraker
Diamonds Are Forever
From Russia, With Love
Dr No
Goldfinger
For Your Eyes Only
Thunderball
The Spy Who Loved Me

Non-Fiction:
Thrilling Cities
The Diamond Smugglers

Introduces
his choice among 'lost' books
All Night at Mr Stanyhurst's
by Hugh Edwards

Jacket design by Richard Chopping
Dagger by Wilkinson Swords Ltd;
Ian Fleming 1962

Watermarked promotional letter in early editions.

Richard Chopping at work.

1964: From Russia With Love released in Australia.

Daybills

2021: Helen Elizabeth McCrory OBE dies at age 52--London, England.
(Born 17 August 1968--Paddington, London, England.)

Helen McCrory, British ‘Skyfall’ and
‘Harry Potter’ Actress, Dies at Age 52

‘GO NOW, LITTLE ONE’

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Cheyenne Roundtree | Entertainment Reporter
Published Apr. 16, 2021 12:18PM ET

Photo: Stuart C. Wilson

British actress Helen McCrory has died of cancer at age 52 surrounded by family, her husband, actor Damian Lewis, announced Friday. “I’m heartbroken to announce that after a heroic battle with cancer, the beautiful and mighty woman that is Helen McCrory has died peacefully at home, surrounded by a wave of love from friends and family,” he wrote on Twitter. “She died as she lived. Fearlessly. God we love her and know how lucky we are to have had her in our lives. She blazed so brightly. Go now, Little One, into the air, and thank you.” Lewis and McCrory had been married for 14 years, with 14-year-old daughter Manon and 13-year-old son Gulliver.

With more than 72 acting credits to her name, McCrory was best known for her roles in Peaky Blinders, the Harry Potter franchise, and the James Bond movie Skyfall.

Helen McCrory (1968–2021)

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April 17th

1918: William Holden is born--O'Fallon, Illinois.
(He dies 12 November 1981 at age 63--Santa Monica, California.)

William Holden

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Holden in a publicity photo, 1954

William Franklin Beedle Jr.
Born April 17, 1918 | O'Fallon, Illinois, U.S.
Died November 12, 1981 (aged 63) | Santa Monica, California, U.S.

Cause of death Exsanguination
Resting place Ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean
Nationality American
Alma mater South Pasadena High School
Occupation Actor, wildlife conservationist
Years active 1938–1981
Home town South Pasadena, California, U.S.
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Brenda Marshall
(m. 1941; div. 1971)
Partner(s) Stefanie Powers (1972–1981) (his death)[1]
Children 3

Awards

Academy Award for Best Actor (1953)
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor (1974)

Military career

Allegiance United States of America
Service/branch US Army Air Corps Hap Arnold Wings.svg United States Army Air Forces
Years of service 1942–45
Rank US-O2 insignia.svg First lieutenant[2]
Unit First Motion Picture Unit (USAAF)
Battles/wars World War II

William Holden (born William Franklin Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor who was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s and 1960s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953), and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for the television film The Blue Knight (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard, Sabrina, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch, Picnic and Network. He was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961), and appeared as 25th on the American Film Institute's list of 25 greatest male stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.

Early life and education

With Lee J. Cobb (right) in Holden's first starring role in a film, Golden Boy (1939)

Holden was born William Franklin Beedle Jr. on April 17, 1918, in O'Fallon, Illinois, son of William Franklin Beedle (1891–1967), an industrial chemist, and his wife Mary Blanche Beedle (née Ball, 1898–1990), a schoolteacher.[3] He had two younger brothers, Robert Westfield Beedle (1921–1944) and Richard P. Beedle (1924–1964). One of his father's grandmothers, Rebecca Westfield, was born in England in 1817, while some of his mother's ancestors settled in Virginia's Lancaster County after emigrating from England in the 17th century.[3] His younger brother, Robert W. "Bobbie" Beedle, became a U.S. Navy fighter pilot and was killed in action in World War II, over New Ireland, a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific, on January 5, 1944.

His family moved to South Pasadena when he was three. After graduating from South Pasadena High School, Holden attended Pasadena Junior College, where he became involved in local radio plays.

Career
Paramount
Holden appeared uncredited in Prison Farm (1939) and Million Dollar Legs (1939) at Paramount.

A version of how he obtained his stage name "Holden" is based on a statement by George Ross of Billboard: "William Holden, the lad just signed for the coveted lead in Golden Boy, used to be Bill Beadle. [sic] And here is how he obtained his new movie tag. On the Columbia lot is an assistant director and scout named Harold Winston. Not long ago he was divorced from the actress, Gloria Holden, but carried the torch after the marital rift. Winston was one of those who discovered the Golden Boy newcomer and who renamed him—in honor of his former spouse!"[4]

Golden Boy
Holden's first starring role was in Golden Boy (1939), costarring Barbara Stanwyck, in which he played a violinist-turned-boxer.[5] The film was made for Columbia who negotiated a sharing agreement with Paramount for Holden's services.

Holden was still an unknown actor when he made Golden Boy, while Stanwyck was already a film star. She liked Holden and went out of her way to help him succeed, devoting her personal time to coaching and encouraging him, which made them into lifelong friends. When she received her Honorary Oscar at the 1982 Academy Award ceremony, Holden had died in an accident just a few months prior. At the end of her acceptance speech, she paid him a personal tribute: "I loved him very much, and I miss him. He always wished that I would get an Oscar. And so tonight, my golden boy, you got your wish".[6][7]

Next he starred with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart in the Warner Bros. gangster epic Invisible Stripes (1939).[8]

Back at Paramount he starred with Bonita Granville in Those Were the Days! (1940) followed by the role of George Gibbs in the film adaptation of Our Town (1940), done for Sol Lesser at United Artists.[9]

Columbia put Holden in a Western with Jean Arthur, Arizona (1940), then at Paramount he was in a hugely popular war film, I Wanted Wings (1941) with Ray Milland and Veronica Lake.

He did another Western at Columbia, Texas (1941) with Glenn Ford, and a musical comedy at Paramount, The Fleet's In (1942) with Eddie Bracken, Dorothy Lamour and Betty Hutton.[10]

He stayed at Paramount for The Remarkable Andrew (1942) with Brian Donlevy then made Meet the Stewarts (1943) at Columbia. Paramount reunited him and Bracken in Young and Willing (1943).

World War Two
Holden served as a second and then a first lieutenant in the United States Army Air Force during World War II, where he acted in training films for the First Motion Picture Unit, including Reconnaissance Pilot (1943).

Post War
Holden's first film back from the services was Blaze of Noon (1947), an aviator picture at Paramount directed by John Farrow.

He followed it with a romantic comedy, Dear Ruth (1947) and he was one of many cameos in Variety Girl (1947).[11]

RKO borrowed him for Rachel and the Stranger (1948) with Robert Mitchum and Loretta Young, then he went over to 20th Century Fox for Apartment for Peggy (1948).

At Columbia he did a film noir, The Dark Past (1948) and a Western with Ford, The Man from Colorado (1949). At Paramount he did another Western, Streets of Laredo (1949).

Columbia teamed him with Lucille Ball for Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) then he did a sequel to Dear Ruth, Dear Wife (1949). He did a comedy at Columbia Father Is a Bachelor (1950).

With Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

His career took off in 1950 when Billy Wilder tapped him to play a role in Sunset Boulevard, in which he played a down-at-heel screenwriter taken in by a faded silent-screen star, played by Gloria Swanson. Holden earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination with the part.[12]

Getting the part was a lucky break for Holden, as the role was initially cast with Montgomery Clift, who backed out of his contract.[13] Swanson later said, "Bill Holden was a man I could have fallen in love with. He was perfection on- and off-screen."[14] And Wilder commented "Bill was a complex guy, a totally honorable friend. He was a genuine star. Every woman was in love with him."[14]

Paramount reunited him with Nancy Olson, one of his Sunset Boulevard costars, in Union Station (1950).

Holden had another good break when cast as Judy Holliday's love interest in the big screen adaptation of Born Yesterday (1950). He made two more films with Olson: Force of Arms (1951) at Warners and Submarine Command (1951) at Paramount.

Holden did a sports film at Columbia, Boots Malone (1952) then returned to Paramount for The Turning Point (1952).

Stalag 17 and Peak Era of Stardom
Holden was reunited with Wilder in Stalag 17 (1953), for which Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor. This ushered in the peak years of Holden's stardom.[5]

He made a sex comedy with David Niven for Otto Preminger, The Moon Is Blue (1953), which was a huge hit, in part due to controversy over its content. At Paramount he was in a comedy with Ginger Rogers that was not particularly popular, Forever Female (1953). A Western at MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (1953) did much better, and the all star Executive Suite (1954) was a notable success.[15]

With Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina (1954)

Holden made a third film with Wilder, Sabrina (1954), billed beneath Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.[16] Holden and Hepburn became romantically involved during the filming, unbeknown to Wilder: "People on the set told me later that Bill and Audrey were having an affair, and everybody knew. Well, not everybody! I didn't know."[14]:174 The interactions between Bogart, Hepburn, and Holden made shooting less than pleasant, as Bogart had wanted his wife, Lauren Bacall, to play Sabrina. Bogart was not especially friendly toward Hepburn, who had little Hollywood experience, while Holden's reaction was the opposite, wrote biographer Michelangelo Capua.[17]

Holden recalls their romance:

Before I even met her, I had a crush on her, and after I met her, just a day later, I felt as if we were old friends, and I was rather fiercely protective of her, though not in a possessive way.[18]

Their relationship did not last much beyond the completion of the film. Holden, who was at this point dependent on alcohol, said, "I really was in love with Audrey, but she wouldn't marry me."[19] Rumors at the time had it that Hepburn wanted a family, but when Holden told her that he'd had a vasectomy and having children was impossible, she moved on. A few months later, Hepburn met Mel Ferrer, whom she would later marry.[20]

He took third billing for The Country Girl (1954) with Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly, directed by George Seaton from a play by Clifford Odets.

It was a big hit, as was The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), a Korean War drama with Kelly.[21][22]

In 1954, Holden was featured on the cover of Life. On February 7, 1955, Holden appeared as a guest star on I Love Lucy as himself.[23]

The golden run at the box office continued with Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), from a best-selling novel, with Jennifer Jones, and Picnic (1955), as a drifter, in an adaptation of the William Inge play with Kim Novak.[24][25] Picnic was his last film under the contract with Columbia.

A second film with Seaton did not do as well, The Proud and Profane (1956), where Holden played the role with a moustache.

Neither did Toward the Unknown (1957), the one film Holden produced himself.

The Bridge on the River Kwai
Holden had his most widely recognized role as an ill-fated prisoner in David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) with Alec Guinness,[26] a huge commercial success.

He made another war film for a British director, The Key (1958) with Trevor Howard and Sophia Loren for director Carol Reed.[27] He played an American Civil War military surgeon in John Ford's The Horse Soldiers (1959) opposite John Wayne, which was a box office disappointment.[28] Columbia would not meet Holden's asking price of $750,000 and 10% of the gross for The Guns of Navarone (1961); the amount of money Holden asked exceeding the combined salaries of the stars Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn.[29]

Holden had another big hit with The World of Suzie Wong (1960) with Nancy Kwan that was shot in Hong Kong.

Less popular was Satan Never Sleeps (1961), the last film of Clifton Webb and Leo McCarey; The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), this third film with Seaton; or The Lion (1962), with Trevor Howard and Capucine. The latter was shot in Africa and sparked a fascination with the continent that was to last until the end of Holden's life.

Holden's films continued to struggle at the box office however: Paris When It Sizzles (1964) with Hepburn that was shot in 1962 but given a much delayed release; The 7th Dawn (1964) with Capucine and Susannah York, a romantic adventure set during the Malayan Emergency produced by Charles K. Feldman; Alvarez Kelly (1966), a Western; and The Devil's Brigade (1968). He was also one of many names in Feldman's Casino Royale (1967).

Holden in The Revengers (1972)

In 1969, Holden made a comeback when he starred in director Sam Peckinpah's graphically violent Western The Wild Bunch,[5] winning much acclaim.

Also in 1969, Holden starred in director Terence Young's family film L'Arbre de Noël, co-starring Italian actress Virna Lisi and French actor Bourvil, based on the novel of the same name by Michel Bataille. This film was originally released in the United States as The Christmas Tree and on home video as When Wolves Cry.[30]

Holden made a Western with Ryan O'Neal and Blake Edwards, Wild Rovers (1971). It was not particularly successful. Neither was The Revengers (1972), another Western.

For television roles in 1974, Holden won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his portrayal of a cynical, tough veteran LAPD street cop in the television film The Blue Knight, based upon the best-selling Joseph Wambaugh novel of the same name.[31][5]

In 1973, Holden starred with Kay Lenz in a movie directed by Clint Eastwood called Breezy, which was considered a box-office flop.[32]

Also in 1974, Holden starred with Paul Newman and Steve McQueen in the critically acclaimed disaster film The Towering Inferno,[33] which became a box-office smash and one of the highest-grossing films of Holden's career.

Two years later, he was praised for his Oscar-nominated leading performance in Sidney Lumet's classic Network (1976),[34] an examination of the media written by Paddy Chayefsky, playing an older version of the character type for which he had become iconic in the 1950s, only now more jaded and aware of his own mortality.

Around this time he also appeared in 21 Hours at Munich (1976).

Final Films
Holden made a fourth and final film for Wilder with Fedora (1978). He followed it with Damien: Omen II (1978) and had a cameo in Escape to Athena (1978).

Holden had a supporting role in Ashanti (1979) and was third-billed in another disaster movie with Paul Newman for Irwin Allen, When Time Ran Out... (1980), which was a flop.[35]

In 1980, Holden appeared in The Earthling with popular child actor Ricky Schroder,[36] playing a loner dying of cancer who goes to the Australian outback to end his days, meets a young boy whose parents have been killed in an accident, and teaches him how to survive.

After making S.O.B. (1981) for Blake Edwards, Holden refused to star in Jason Miller's film That Championship Season.[37]

Personal life

Matron of honor Brenda Marshall (left) and best man William Holden,
sole guests at Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan's wedding in 1952

Holden was best man at the wedding of his friend Ronald Reagan to Nancy Davis in 1952; however, he never involved himself in politics.

While in Italy in 1966, Holden killed another driver in a drunk-driving incident. He received an eight-month suspended sentence for vehicular manslaughter.[38]

Holden maintained a home in Switzerland and also spent much of his time working for wildlife conservation as a managing partner in an animal preserve in Africa. His Mount Kenya Safari Club in Nanyuki (founded 1959) became a mecca for the international jet set.[39] On a trip to Africa, he fell in love with the wildlife and became increasingly concerned with the animal species that were beginning to decrease in population. With the help of his partners, he created the Mount Kenya Game Ranch and inspired the creation of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation.[40] The Mount Kenya Game Ranch works to assist in Kenya with the wildlife education of its youth.[41] Within the Mount Kenya Game Ranch is the Mount Kenya Conservancy, which runs an animal orphanage as well as the Bongo Rehabilitation Program in collaboration with the Kenya Wildlife Service. The orphanage provides shelter and care for orphans, injured and neglected animals found in the wild, with the aim of releasing these animals back into the wild whenever possible. The conservancy is home to the critically endangered East African mountain bongo, and aims to prevent its extinction by breeding.[42][43]
Marriage and relationships

Holden was married to actress Ardis Ankerson (stage name Brenda Marshall) from 1941 until their divorce 30 years later, in 1971.[5] They had two sons, Peter Westfield "West" Holden (1943–2014)[44] and Scott Porter Holden (1946–2005).[45] He adopted his wife's daughter, Virginia, from her first marriage with actor Richard Gaines. During the filming of the film Sabrina (1954), costar Audrey Hepburn and he had a brief but passionate affair. Holden met French actress Capucine in the early 1960s. The two starred in the films The Lion (1962) and The 7th Dawn (1964). They reportedly began a two-year affair, which is alleged to have ended due to Holden's alcoholism.[46] Capucine and Holden remained friends until his death in 1981.

In 1972, Holden began a nine-year relationship with actress Stefanie Powers, and sparked her interest in animal welfare.[1] After his death, Powers set up the William Holden Wildlife Foundation at Holden's Mount Kenya Game Ranch.[47]

Death
According to the Los Angeles County Coroner's autopsy report, Holden was alone and intoxicated in his apartment in Santa Monica, California, on November 12, 1981, when he slipped on a rug, severely lacerating his forehead on a teak bedside table, and bled to death. Evidence suggests he was conscious for at least half an hour after the fall. He likely may not have realized the severity of the injury and did not summon aid, or was unable to call for help. His body was found four days later. The causes of death were given as "exsanguination" and "blunt laceration of scalp."[48] Rumors existed that he was suffering from lung cancer, which Holden himself had denied at a 1980 press conference. His death certificate made no mention of any cancer.[39][48] He had dictated in his will that the Neptune Society cremate him and scatter his ashes in the Pacific Ocean. In accordance with his wishes, no funeral or memorial service was held.[49]

Ronald Reagan released a statement, saying, "I have a great feeling of grief. We were close friends for many years. What do you say about a longtime friend – a sense of personal loss, a fine man. Our friendship never waned." [5] For his contribution to the film industry, Holden has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1651 Vine Street.[50] He also has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame.[51] His death was noted by singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, whose 1987 song "Tom's Diner" (about a sequence of events one morning in 1981) included a mention of reading a newspaper article about "an actor who had died while he was drinking". Vega subsequently confirmed that this was a reference to Holden.[52]

Filmography

Film
Year . . . Title . . . . Role . . . . Notes
1938 Prison Farm Prisoner Film debut
Uncredited
1939 Million Dollar Legs Graduate Who Says 'Thank You' Uncredited
1939 Golden Boy Joe Bonaparte
1939 Invisible Stripes Tim Taylor
1940 Those Were the Days! P.J. "Petey" Simmons
1940 Our Town George Gibbs
1940 Arizona Peter Muncie
1941 I Wanted Wings Al Ludlow
1941 Texas Dan Thomas
1942 The Fleet's In Casey Kirby
1942 The Remarkable Andrew Andrew Long
1942 Meet the Stewarts Michael Stewart
1943 Young and Willing Norman Reese
1947 Blaze of Noon Colin McDonald
1947 Dear Ruth Lt. William Seacroft
1947 Variety Girl Himself
1948 Rachel and the Stranger Big Davey
1948 Apartment for Peggy Jason Taylor
1948 The Dark Past Al Walker
1949 The Man from Colorado Del Stewart
1949 Streets of Laredo Jim Dawkins
1949 Miss Grant Takes Richmond Dick Richmond
1949 Dear Wife Bill Seacroft
1950 Father Is a Bachelor Johnny Rutledge
1950 Sunset Boulevard Joe Gillis Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor
1950 Union Station Lt. William Calhoun
1950 Born Yesterday Paul Verrall
1951 Force of Arms Sgt. Joe "Pete" Peterson
1951 Submarine Command LCDR Ken White
1952 Boots Malone Boots Malone
1952 The Turning Point Jerry McKibbon
1953 Stalag 17 Sgt. J.J. Sefton Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated – New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor
1953 The Moon Is Blue Donald Gresham
1953 Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach Tourist Uncredited
1953 Forever Female Stanley Krown
1953 Escape from Fort Bravo Capt. Roper
1954 Executive Suite McDonald Walling Venice Film Festival Special Award for Ensemble Acting
1954 Sabrina David Larrabee
1954 The Bridges at Toko-Ri LT Harry Brubaker, USNR
1954 The Country Girl Bernie Dodd
1955 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing Mark Elliott
1955 Picnic Hal Carter Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actor
1956 The Proud and Profane Lt. Col. Colin Black
1956 Toward the Unknown Maj. Lincoln Bond
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai Cmdr. Shears
1958 The Key Capt. David Ross
1959 The Horse Soldiers Major Henry Kendall
1960 The World of Suzie Wong Robert Lomax Nominated – Laurel Award for Top Male Dramatic Performance
1962 Satan Never Sleeps Father O'Banion
1962 The Counterfeit Traitor Eric Erickson
1962 The Lion Robert Hayward
1964 Paris When It Sizzles Richard Benson / Rick Shot in 1962, given delayed release
1964 The 7th Dawn Major Ferris
1966 Alvarez Kelly Alvarez Kelly
1967 Casino Royale Ransome Cameo role
1968 The Devil's Brigade Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick
1969 The Wild Bunch Pike Bishop
1969 The Christmas Tree Laurent Ségur
1971 Wild Rovers Ross Bodine
1972 The Revengers John Benedict
1973 Breezy Frank Harmon
1974 Open Season Hal Wolkowski Cameo role
1974 The Towering Inferno Jim Duncan
1976 Network Max Schumacher Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated – National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor
1978 Fedora Barry "Dutch" Detweiler
1978 Damien: Omen II Richard Thorn
1979 Escape to Athena Prisoner smoking a cigar in prison camp Uncredited
1979 Ashanti Jim Sandell
1980 When Time Ran Out Shelby Gilmore
1980 The Earthling Patrick Foley
1981 S.O.B. Tim Culley Final film role

Television

1955 Lux Video Theatre Intermission Guest Episode: "Love Letters"
1955 I Love Lucy Himself Episode: "Hollywood at Last"
1956 The Jack Benny Program Himself Episode: "William Holden/Frances Bergen Show"
1973 The Blue Knight Bumper Morgan Television film
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie
1976 21 Hours at Munich Chief of Police Manfred Schreiber Television film

Radio

1940 Lux Radio Theatre Our Town
1946 Lux Radio Theatre Miss Susie Slagle's[53]
1952 Lux Radio Theatre Submarine Command[54]
1952 Hollywood Star Playhouse The Joyful Beggar[54]
1953 Lux Radio Theatre Appointment with Danger[55]
1953 Lux Summer Theatre High Tor[56]

Box-office ranking
For a number of years, exhibitors voted Holden among the most popular stars in the country:

1954 – 7th (US)
1955 – 4th (US)
1956 – 1st (US)
1957 – 7th (US)
1958 – 6th (US), 6th (UK)
1959 – 12th (US)
1960 – 14th (US)
1961 – 8th (US)
1962 – 15th (US)

1930: Rémy Julienne is born--Cepoy, Loiret, France.
(He dies 21 January 2021 at age 90--Montargis, France.)

Legendary stunt driver Rémy Julienne has
passed away

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https://www.topgear.com/car-news/movies/legendary-stunt-driver-remy-julienne-has-passed-away

The skills behind the stunts on The Italian Job and six Bond films dies aged 90
Jason Barlow | 22 Jan 2021

Rémy Julienne, arguably the greatest stunt driver of all time, has died at the age of 90 having contracted Covid-19. According to French news sources, he had been in intensive care in a hospital in the town of Montargis since early January. “What was bound to happen has happened,” a relative commented. “He left us early in the evening [Thursday]. It was predictable, he was on a respirator.”

Julienne was perhaps best-known for his work on 1969’s The Italian Job, in which his sheer bravery was matched by his peerless driving skills and the balletic precision of the sequences he devised, along with his right-hand man, Raphaël Olivotti. “We were very, very lucky to get Rémy Julienne [and his] stunt driving team,” Michael Caine noted, “because they were really the stars of the film in a way.” Added producer Michael Deeley, “During our initial meeting with Rémy, Peter Collinson [the film’s director] and I were delighted to discover that he was prepared to take the chase sequence even further than we had envisaged, suggesting a different range of hair-raising stunts that could be written into the script.”

Julienne was born on 17th April 1930 in the village of Cepoy, and grew up riding motorbikes. By 1957, he was French motocross champion, and began his movie career doubling for Jean Marais in the 1964 film Fantômas. He would go on to amass 1400 film and many more commercial credits, famously allying with Fiat and conducting a variety of improbable stunts for the Italian giant during the Seventies. The great Claude Lelouch, (whose 1976 short film C’était un rendez-vous is a car chase classic), was once moved to call him a ‘reasonable madman’.

Although not a household name – unless the occupants of the house were car obsessives – Julienne’s work on six James Bond films was certainly appreciated by millions of cinema fans worldwide. His speciality was in making ordinary cars do extraordinary things, not least the Citroen 2CV in 1981’s For Your Eyes Only or the Renault 11 in 1985’s A View To A Kill. Then there was the truck tanker sequence in 1989’s Licence To Kill, during which Julienne expanded his core team to include a man who could make a Kenworth perform a wheelie, and another who could get it onto half of its 18 wheels.

“The tanker chase was the most dangerous sequence I ever devised,” the film’s director John Glen told me. But he also points out that, for all his flamboyance, Julienne was fastidious in his preparation. “Remy never really spoke particularly good English, but we somehow managed to communicate very well. He was fantastic, a stopwatch man, nothing was left to chance. He didn’t do anything daring – it was all worked out meticulously.”

As the man himself confirms. “I was a scared little boy, but I had a taste for risk. Over time, I discovered that the real difficulty is finding the right balance between doubt and self-confidence,” he told France Dimanche in 2015. “You must have constant concern for perfection, precision and absolute safety while ensuring that the wishes of the director are met. My job was to calculate the risks.”

Julienne worked with a number of big names during his long career, including Lee Marvin, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Harrison Ford, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. “I shot three James Bond films with Roger Moore,” he recalled. “This kind of Anglo-Saxon production is so strict that insurers refuse to let him do anything. He would say to me, ‘My only stunts, I do them with women’.”

In 1998, he worked with John Frankenheimer on Ronin, another memorable showcase for his commitment to panel-crunching car chase verité. But there was tragedy during the making of Taxi 2 the following year, during which cameraman Alain Dutartre was killed and his assistant seriously injured when one of the stunts went badly wrong. The French authorities alleged safety compromises, and Julienne was given a one year suspended jail sentence and €13,000 fine. He claimed that the film’s producers rejected his demand that the stunt be trialled ahead of shooting. The Paris Court of Appeal subsequently overturned the verdict.

Julienne’s sons Michel and Dominique continue in the family business, and TG.com sends them and the extended Julienne clan our condolences. Rémy Julienne was the original maestro of the car chase and a fearless cinematic pioneer. Back to the man himself, his defining moment, and the film star who he made look very good indeed.

“Very often people ask, ‘what was my favourite stunt?’ I’d say the jump between the two Fiat factory roofs must be the one, because it was emotional, because it was difficult. We worked on the ground, we prepared the ramps, calculated distances, speeds etc. [Originally] it was decided I had to do three separate jumps in each Mini. I explained that, as the roof was very wide, we could make the three Minis jump all together… it looked much better as a shot. It was more complicated, but really amazing.”

Adds Michael Caine: “Afterwards, I said to Rémy, ‘Bloody hell, my heart was in my mouth.’
He said, ‘Michael, it’s mathematics.’”

Rémy Julienne (1930–2021)

Stunts | Actor | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432293/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

1959: Sean Bean is born--Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.

1992: Arthur Calder-Marshall dies at age 84.
(Born 19 August 1908--Wallington, London.)

Arthur Calder-Marshall

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Calder-Marshall

Arthur Calder-Marshall (19 August 1908 – 17 April 1992) was an English novelist, essayist, critic, memoirist and biographer.

Life and career
Calder-Marshall was born in El Misti, Woodcote Road, Wallington, Surrey, the son of Alice (Poole) and Arthur Grotjan Marshall (later Calder-Marshall; 1875 –1958), a civil engineer. The elder Arthur was grandson of the sculptor William Calder Marshall (1813–1894). William Calder Marshall's father William Marshall (1780–1859), D.L. (Edinburgh), a goldsmith (including to the King in the early nineteenth century) and jeweller, had married Annie, daughter of merchant William Calder, Lord Provost of Edinburgh 1810-11, by his wife Agnes, a daughter of landed gentleman Hugh Dalrymple. The Marshall family were Episcopalian goldsmiths from Perthshire; the Calder family were merchants.

A short, unhappy stint teaching English at Denstone College, Staffordshire, 1931–33, inspired his novel Dead Centre. In the 1930s, Calder-Marshall adopted strong left-wing views. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and was also a member of the London-based left-wing Writers and Readers Group which also included Randall Swingler, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Mulk Raj Anand, Maurice Richardson and Rose Macaulay.

In 1937, Calder-Marshall wrote scripts for MGM although none appears to have been filmed.

Calder-Marshall's fiction and non-fiction covered a wide range of subjects. He himself remarked, "I have never written two books on the same subject or with the same object."

In the 1960s, Calder-Marshall took on commissioned work which included a novelisation of the Dirk Bogarde film Victim. He has additionally been proposed as the author of The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ a children's novel about British spy James Bond's nephew, published under the pseudonym R. D. Mascott.

With his wife, writer Ara Calder-Marshall (born Violet Nancy Sales), he was the father of the actress Anna Calder-Marshall and the grandfather of the actor Tom Burke.
Media adaptations

Orson Welles adapted The Way to Santiago in 1941 for RKO. However Welles's troubles with the studio saw to it that no film got made.

James Mason purchased the film rights to Occasion of Glory, intending to make this project his directorial debut. Mason hired Christopher Isherwood to write the script.

Bibliography

Biography
"The Enthusiast; An Enquiry into the Life Beliefs and Character of the Rev. Joseph Leycester Lyne alias Fr. Ignatius,O.S.B., Abbot of Elm Hill, Norwich and Llanthony Wales" (1962, Faber and Faber; Facsimile reprint 2000, Llanerch Publishers, Felinfach)

Adult fiction

Novels:
Two of a Kind (1933)
About Levy (1933)
At Sea (1934)
Dead Centre (1935)
Pie in the Sky (1937)
The Way to Santiago (1940)
A Man Reprieved (1949)
Occasion of Glory (1955)
The Scarlet Boy (1961)

Short fiction:
Crime Against Cania (1934)
A Pink Doll (1935)
A Date with a Duchess (1937)

Play:
Season of Goodwill (1965) (based on Every Third Thought by Dorothea Malm) [15]

As William Drummond:
Midnight Lace (1960) (novelisation)
Victim 1961 (novelisation)
Life for Ruth 1962 (novelisation)
Night Must Fall 1964 (novelisation)
Gaslight 1966 (novelisation)

Children's fiction
The Man from Devil's Island (1958)
The Fair to Middling (1959)

Adult non-fiction

Memoirs
The Magic of My Youth (1951)

Travel
Glory Dead (Trinidad) (1939)
The Watershed (Yugoslavia) (1947)

Miscellany
(With Edward J. H. O'Brien and J. Davenport) The Guest Book (1935 and 1936)
Challenge to Schools: A Pamphlet on Public School Education (1935)
The Changing Scene (essays on English society) (1937)
(With others) Writing in Revolt: Theory and Examples (1937)
The Book Front (1947)
No Earthly Command (biography of Alexander Riall Wadham Woods) (1957)
Havelock Ellis: A Biography (1959) US title The Sage of Sex: A Life of Havelock Ellis (1960)
The Enthusiast (biography of Joseph Leycester Lyne) (1962)
The Innocent Eye (biography of Robert Flaherty) (1963)
Wish You Were Here: The Art of Donald McGill (1966)
Lewd, Blasphemous, and Obscene: Being the Trials and Tribulations of Sundry Founding Fathers of Today's Alternative Societies (1972)
The Grand Century of the Lady (1976)
The Two Duchesses (1978)

Children's non-fiction
Lone Wolf: The Story of Jack London (1963)

Editor - Calder-Marshall edited and wrote the introduction to:
Tobias Smollett (1950)
The Bodley Head Jack London (four volumes: 1963–66)
Prepare to Shed Them Now: The Ballads of George R. Sims (1968)
Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man and Other Writings (1970)

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2002: Die Another Day films 007 and Jinx killing Mr. Kil.

2008: Richard Wasey Chopping dies at age 91--Colchester, Essex, England.
(Born 14 April 1917--Colchester, Essex, England.)

Richard Chopping: Versatile
illustrator best known for his
distinctive Bond book jackets

See the complete article here:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/richard-chopping-versatile-illustrator-best-known-for-his-distinctive-bond-book-jackets-813974.html

Wednesday 23 April 2008 00:00

Richard Chopping is probably best known today as the creator of dust-jackets for the publisher Jonathan Cape's Ian Fleming James Bond novels. From Russia with Love (1957), with its pistol and flower design, the skull and rose for Goldfinger (1959), and the slightly eerie spyhole and Ian Fleming's name-plate artwork for For Yours Eyes Only [sic] (1960) are distinctively Chopping's work.

The creator of these confections, with their meticulous attention to detail and delicacy of colour, was, however, much more than a book-jacket designer. By the time they appeared, Chopping had established a reputation as a versatile illustrator who was noted for his depictions of natural objects such as butterflies, flowers, insects and fruit, based on close observation, as well as being a sympathetic teacher, busy exhibitor and author.

Richard Wasey Chopping was born in 1917 in Colchester, Essex – Wasey was an old family name. His father was an entrepreneurial businessman from a milling family, was himself a miller and store owner and eventually became mayor of Colchester. Chopping's twin brother died when young. He also had an older brother, a pilot killed on a Pathfinder mission over Europe in the Second World War.

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A 1956 three-man exhibition at the Hanover Gallery, with Francis Bacon as the main attraction and separate rooms given over to pictures by a French aristocrat and Chopping, led to the Bond dust-jacket commissions. Chopping's flower paintings and trompe-l'oeil works were upstairs, as he remembered, "in a little gallery at the back, that was like a kind of long lavatory".

Bacon took Ann, Ian Fleming's wife, in to see his own work, Chopping recalled. "Then he took her upstairs to see mine, which was very good of him, and Ann went back to Ian and said, 'Well, you ought to get this chap to do your next book jacket.'" They met at one of the Flemings' artistic salons, where Fleming granted Chopping the commission for From Russia with Love.

Although the first edition jacket announced that it had been designed by the author, Chopping later said:

He in no way designed it. He did tell me the things he wanted on it. It had to be a rose with a drop of dew on it. There had to be a sawn-off Smith & Wesson. We never discussed the type of revolver we would use. It had to be that one.

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https://literary007.com/richard-chopping/

2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #6.
Stephen Mooney, artist. Greg Pak, artist.

JAMES BOND 007 #6

Rating: Teen +
Cover A: Dave Johnson
Cover B: Declan Shalvey
Cover C: Raffaele Ienco
Cover D: Stephen Mooney
Writer: Greg Pak
Art: Stephen Mooney
Genre: Action/Adventure
Publication Date: April 2019
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
ON SALE DATE: 4/17/2019

The modern Bond epic continues by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Firefly) and STEPHEN MOONEY (Grayson, The Dead Hand). Secrets are revealed, allegiances confirmed. Bond and Oddjob learn the awful truth of the terrorist organization ORU, and how they're helpless to prevent the destruction of global infrastructure as we know it...

2020: Tony Parsons proposes he is ready to write a Bond novel.

Tony Parsons has planned his first
James Bond novel

See the complete article here:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/books/article/tony-parsons-james-bond

By Tony Parsons | 17 April 2020

As his latest detective thriller #Taken comes out in paperback and e-book, Tony Parsons muses on the appeal of ‘the space between books’ and how it has shaped the idea for his first James Bond novel. All he needs now is the tap on the shoulder…

Like every writer of a certain vintage, I have always prepared myself for the day I am called by Ian Fleming’s estate. “Tony,” they will say, “we need you now. It’s what Ian would have wanted.”

James Bond’s dapper creator may have died in 1964, but the James Bond books – the first books to fill my dreams – have never stopped coming. Fleming wrote just 13 007 books in his lifetime but since then numerous writers have had a crack at extending his legacy, including Kingsley Amis, Anthony Horowitz, Jeffery Deaver, Sebastian Faulks and William Boyd: some big names trying to catch that Fleming voice and to capture that 007 essence. My day, I always felt – and still do, between you and me – will come to carry on what my literary hero started back in 1953. And I know exactly what I will do – I will write my James Bond story in the space between books.

I have always planned to set my own James Bond book after the end of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and before the start of You Only Live Twice. That means the lost days between the murder of Bond’s wife, Tracy, in the final chapter of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service but before the first chapter of You Only Live Twice, which finds our hero out east in a geisha house, given one last chance of redemption by M. That is surely fertile ground for any novelist – between the loss of the love of your life and your last chance to do something right. I even have a title – spoiler alert – Always Say Die. You can almost imagine Adele or Shirley Bassey singing it.

So I have thought a lot about the space between books. What happens to a series hero when the lights go out? What agonies and ecstasies is he suffering when one adventure ends and the next begins? I spent years thinking about what James Bond did between all those iconic Ian Fleming books and more recently I have thought long and hard about what my own series hero, Max Wolfe, got up to between books.

The space between books was my model and inspiration for the three Max Wolfe short stories – “Dead Time”, “Fresh Blood” and “Tell Him He’s Dead”. The latter is now being brought to you by GQ; you can read the whole thing for free.

When you write a series, the reader should be able to pick up any title and jump right in – this is because almost nobody in the world ever reads a series in order. But when you write a series – and I have published six Max Wolfe titles over the last six years – you need it all to fit together and make perfect sense, because if you choose to run the marathon of writing a series of books about one character – from Lee Child’s Jack Reacher to Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe, from Ian Fleming's Bond to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock and Watson – you better believe in every single word.

The Max Wolfe short stories were conceived as novellas that would only be available as e-books – but they always had to fit perfectly with the rest of the Max Wolfe universe. So if Max carries a scar at the end of a book – physical, psychological, romantic – then that scar must still be throbbing with pain when the next story starts.

“Dead Time”, the first digital short, happens immediately after The Murder Bag, the first Max Wolfe title. It is Christmas at the end of The Murder Bag so it is a snowy new year in London at the start of "Dead Time", when Max is tasked with hunting down the villain who invented the recreational drugs industry. The second short, “Fresh Blood”, takes place after the end of The Slaughter Man, the second Max Wolfe title, and sees Max hunting a couple of spiffy young villains who are obsessed with the Kray brothers. And the third title, “Tell Him He’s Dead” sees the apparent return of the terrorist who dies in the first chapter of the first book. But these stories were not conceived as full-length books. They were meant to be what happens between books, they were conceived as somewhere between marketing device and bonus for hard-core Max Wolfe fans. I probably tried too hard on them. I thought when I wrote them – and still do – that they would have all made good full-length books, that there is enough in them to sustain a proper novel. But I would never sneer at a cracking short story. A lot of my literary heroes have been short story writers.

Raymond Carver never wrote a novel in his brief, chain-smoking life, but in my eyes, Carver stands up there with Philip Roth and John Updike.

Ian Fleming wrote good short stories – and some of them were turned into full-length films – but that is no doubt because, as someone who only wrote a series hero, he thought a lot about the place between books. If your character is real to you (and he has to be to write book after book, year after year about him), then inevitably your mind often drifts to what he is up to now like it might an old lost lover.

So: Max Wolfe.

He is a detective in homicide and serious crime at West End Central, the massive police station that stands on Savile Row. Max is youngish – pushing 30 – the single father of a young daughter. They have a cavalier King Charles spaniel called Stan and a loft overlooking the meat market in Smithfield. And he boxes. When I write this down, I realise how much of myself I have used to create this character who has been my shadow for six years. But then that is exactly what Fleming did with Bond – when Bond talks about women, or Jamaica, or alcohol, or a good shirt, you can hear Fleming’s voice.

But the big difference is that Bond was a hero and Fleming was not. But Fleming knew what it was like to stand in the shadow of a hero. Me too, Ian, me too.

2024: Dynamite Entertainment release James Bond - 007 #4 as part four of "Your Cold, Cold Heart".
Rapha Lobosco, artist. Garth Ennis, writer.

JAMES BOND: 007 #4

Cover A: Dave Johnson
UPC: 72513033924904011
Writer: Garth Ennis
Artist: Rapha Lobosco
Genre: Spy Fiction/Action Adventure
Publication Date: April, 2024
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32
ON SALE DATE: 4/17/2024

Returning from a death-defying trip to the International Space Station, Bond resumes his search for the stolen STALVODA formula. But once he discovers where the trail ultimately leads, the legendary Double O agent finds himself playing for the highest of stakes - and setting a trap for his enemies that risks turning all of MI6 against him!

Featuring cover art by DAVE JOHNSON (100 Bullets, Superman: Red Son, Deadpool) and interior art by 007 veteran RAPHA LOBOSCO (James Bond: Black Box), Part Four of author GARTH ENNIS's cracking tale "Your Cold, Cold Heart" continues the celebration of 10 years of James Bond comics at Dynamite!

https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2024/04/comic-book-preview-james-bond-007-4-2/

RichardTheBruce

April 18th

1964: Screenwriter Ben Hecht dies of a heart attack while reading on a Saturday.
That's after writing three serious Casino Royale script versions for Charles K. Feldman.

Casino Royale: 60 years old

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/9988216/Casino-Royale-60-years-old.html

Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale was first published on April 13 1953 and there is an intriguing tale behind the original screenplay of the 007 film adaptation.

Daniel Craig starred in the film adaptation of Ian Fleming's 1963 novel Casino Royale.

By Jeremy Duns - 8:00AM BST 13 Apr 2013

Sixty years ago, the first 5000 copies of a novel by a new author were printed. The novel was Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, published April 13, 1953.

When he took the part of Dr No in the first James Bond film, Joseph Wiseman had no inkling that the franchise would become such a success. As he admitted in 1992, he thought he’d signed up for "another Grade-B Charlie Chan mystery". How wrong. Last November, 50 years after the premiere of Dr No, the 23rd Bond film was released, directed by Oscar-winner Sam Mendes, co-written by Oscar-nominated John Logan and starring Daniel Craig as the bare-knuckled Bond he debuted in 2005’s [sic] Casino Royale.

The Bond films have come a long way since 1962. The likes of Mendes, Logan, Paul Haggis and Marc Forster signing up to be involved is worlds away from even a decade ago, when the series seemed to be heading into self-parody.

Much of the creative renaissance of the past decade stems from the decision to return to the spirit of Fleming’s novels. Craig’s Casino Royale was an adaptation of Fleming’s first novel. The book merged the traditions of vintage British thrillers with the more realistic and brutal style of hardboiled American writers such as Dashiell Hammett.

But Craig’s debut (below) was not the first attempt to film the novel, but the third. The first was a one-hour play performed live on American television in October 1954: Barry Nelson starred as crew-cut American agent "Jimmy Bond" out to defeat villain Le Chiffre, played by Peter Lorre, at baccarat to ensure he will be executed by Soviet agency Smersh for squandering their funds. Due to the format, this was a much-simplified version of Fleming’s novel, with little of its extravagance or excitement.

The book features a wince-inducing scene in which Le Chiffre, desperate to discover where Bond has hidden the cheque for 40 million francs that he needs to save his life, ties Bond naked to a cane chair with its seat cut out and proceeds to torture him by repeatedly whacking his testicles with a carpet-beater. This could clearly not be shown on television, so instead Bond was placed in a bath, his shoes removed, and viewers watched him howl with pain as, off-screen, Le Chiffre’s men attacked his toenails with pliers.

The second attempt to film Casino Royale was altogether different. Also in 1954, Gregory Ratoff bought a six-month film option on the novel, and the following year bought the rights outright. An extravagant bear of a man who had fled Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ratoff was a well-known actor, producer and director – he had directed Ingrid Bergman's first Hollywood film, Intermezzo, in 1939. He was also a close friend of Charles K. Feldman, the playboy producer and super-agent.

In January 1956, the New York Times announced that Ratoff had set up a production company with actor-turned-agent Michael Garrison, and planned to film Casino Royale that summer in England, Estoril and San Remo, with Twentieth Century-Fox slated to release it. The article mentioned that Fleming himself had written an adaptation of the novel, but that Ratoff was instead negotiating with a "noted scenarist" to write a new script.

Ratoff died in December 1960, and his widow sold the film rights to Casino Royale to Charles Feldman. The long-dormant project soon became a potential goldmine. In March 1961, Life magazine listed From Russia, With Love as one of John F Kennedy’s 10 favourite books, and the Bond novels rapidly became best-sellers in the United States. Three months later, one of Feldman’s former employees at Famous Artists, Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, formed EON Productions with Canadian producer Harry Saltzman after buying the rights to the rest of Fleming’s novels.


In response to the growing popularity of Bond, Feldman turned to Ben Hecht (below) to write a script for Casino Royale. Known as "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", Hecht was a novelist, poet and playwright who had written or co-written several classic scripts, including The Front Page, based on a play he had co-written; Underworld, for which he won the first best screenplay Oscar in 1927; the original Scarface; and Hitchcock’s Spellbound and Notorious. Hecht also worked uncredited on dozens of other screenplays, including Gone With The Wind, Foreign Correspondent and a few other Hitchcock films.

The fact that Ben Hecht contributed to the script of Casino Royale has been known for decades, and is mentioned in passing in many books. But perhaps because the film Feldman eventually released in 1967 was a near-incoherent spoof, nobody has followed up to find out precisely what his contribution entailed. My interest was piqued when I came across an article in a May 1966 issue of Time, which mentioned that the screenplay of Casino Royale had started many years earlier "as a literal adaptation of the novel", and that Hecht had had "three bashes at it". I decided to go looking for it.

To my amazement, I found that Hecht not only contributed to Casino Royale, but produced several complete drafts, and that much of the material survived. It was stored in folders with the rest of his papers in the Newberry Library in Chicago, where it had been sitting since 1979. And, outside of the people involved in trying to make the film, it seemed nobody had read it. Here was a lost chapter, not just in the world of the Bond films, but in cinema history: before the spoof, Ben Hecht adapted Ian Fleming’s first novel as a straight Bond adventure.

The folders contain material from five screenplays, four of which are by Hecht. An early near-complete script from 1957 is a faithful adaptation of the novel in many ways but for one crucial element: James Bond isn’t in it. Instead of the suave but ruthless British agent, the hero is Lucky Fortunato, a rich, wisecracking American gangster who is an expert poker player. Screenwriter Lorenzo Semple Jr, who travelled around Europe with Gregory Ratoff, says he didn’t write it, but it seems likely Feldman sent this script to Hecht as a starting point to see what he could do with it.

Of the remaining material, two of the scripts are missing title pages and so are undated and without a credit, while the other two are from 1964 and are clearly credited to Hecht. There are also snippets of notes, letters, and three pages of "notes for an outline" dated December 17 1963, which feature scenes in Baghdad, Algiers and Naples and culminate in a raid on a German castle. These pages may have been Hecht’s first stab at coming to grips with the novel.

Of all the Bond books, Casino Royale was one of the more problematic to adapt for film. On the one hand, it’s one of Fleming's strongest novels (Raymond Chandler and Kingsley Amis both felt it his best): intense, almost feverishly so, and richer in characterisation and atmosphere than many of the others.

But the novel is also short — practically a novella — with little physical action in it other than the infamous torture scene. Bond also falls in love with his fellow agent on the mission, Vesper Lynd, and even considers proposing marriage to her before he discovers she has been coerced into working for Smersh and has betrayed him. She kills herself, and the novel ends with Bond reporting to London savagely that "the bitch is dead". Although Hecht was tackling the novel 10 years after it had been published, these are all elements it seems hard to imagine in a film adaptation.

But these drafts are a master-class in thriller-writing, from the man who arguably perfected the form with Notorious. Hecht made vice central to the plot, with Le Chiffre actively controlling a network of brothels and beautiful women who he is using to blackmail powerful people around the world. Just as the theme of Fleming’s Goldfinger is avarice and power, the theme of Hecht’s Casino Royale is sex and sin. It’s an idea that seems obvious in hindsight, and Hecht used it both to raise the stakes of Fleming’s plot and to deepen the story’s emotional resonance.

This is visible in the surviving pages of two separate undated drafts. Judging from the plotlines and character names, they were written after the December 1963 notes, but before the three drafts from 1964. Hecht wrote to Feldman on January 13 1964 to say he had 110 pages of "our blissful Casino Royale" ready to be typed and sent to him, but that if he could wait three days he would be able to send him 130 pages of what he refers to as a first draft, which will bring it up to its conclusion. As there is no other material dating from January 1964 in his papers, it seems likely that these are excerpts from that time. Hecht also adds that he has "never had more fun writing a movie".

Both draft fragments feature a British secret agent called James Bond who gambles against a Colonel Chiffre, aided by an American agent called Felix Leiter and a French agent called Rene Mathis. In both, Bond falls in love with Vesper Lynd, who betrays him and kills herself. Both drafts stick closely to the atmosphere of the novel, while adding several new plot elements and characters. These include Mila, one of Chiffre’s former brothel madams and a former lover of Bond’s. Surnamed alternatively Vigne and Brant, she is a classic femme fatale, trying to seduce Bond in her night gown. Bond turns her down — just.

In one of the undated drafts, Chiffre escapes at the last moment and Bond returns to London following Vesper’s suicide, where M tells him to take a holiday in Jamaica. Bond says he would rather stick around in case M has any errands for him. This suggests Feldman may have been considering slotting the film into Broccoli and Saltzman’s series, as he didn’t have the rights to any other Bond novels. The James Bond in these pages is a deft blend of Fleming’s character and the film version as portrayed by Sean Connery. The second Bond film, From Russia With Love, premiered in England in late 1963, but the series had not yet solidified: perhaps as a result, there are no vodka martinis or "Bond. James Bond" lines.

The 40 pages of the draft dated February 20 1964 elaborated on many of the scenes and ideas in these pages, but add an unusual gimmick. Bond is precisely the same character as he was in the other drafts: suave, laconic, ruthless and predatory. But he is not James Bond. Instead, he is an unnamed American agent called in by M who is given the name James Bond. M says that "since Bond’s death" MI6 has put several agents into operation using his name: "It not only perpetuates his memory, but confuses the opposition."

After this scene this agent is indistinguishable from Bond, and doesn’t seem American at all. It may be that Feldman was also considering how to make the film with an actor other than Sean Connery. There are very few logical inconsistencies in Hecht's material – this gimmick sticks out like a sore thumb.

The draft opens with a pre-titles sequence – itself a nod to the Connery films – in which Felix Leiter arrests senior United Nations diplomats and the beautiful prostitutes who have ensnared them in honey traps. Then we cut to M informing his new Bond about the villain he is sending him after. Instead of being a rather small-time agent on the run from Smersh, as he is in the novel, Chiffre is now the head of a massive operation being run by Spectre against the free world’s leaders and scientists, using brothels and honey traps to film them and then extort them for secrets. Bond is assigned to work with fellow MI6 agent Vesper Lynd and sent to Hamburg to check out one of Chiffre’s brothels.

Hecht introduces more new characters in this draft, including Lili Wing, a beautiful but drug-addicted Eurasian madam who once had a fling with Bond, and her girlfriend, Georgie, who carries a black kitten on her shoulder.

Many of the scenes are darkly comic, and some of the sexual antics are politically incorrect even for the Sixties, with references to politicians being attracted to children and a car chase through Hamburg’s red light district ending with Bond drenched in mud disguised as a lesbian wrestler.

The most significant new character is Gita, Chiffre’s beautiful wife. She and much of this draft returned in the final two surviving sections of script, which are dated April 8 and April 14, 1964. The first has 84 pages, and covers most of the plot. The second is 49 pages long and is an addition to it, indicating which pages are to remain untouched from the draft of a week earlier. Taken together, they form a near-complete story. Taken with the rest of the documents, with gaps in one draft often being filled in by others, these 260 or so pages give a strong sense of what a completed final Hecht screenplay would have been like.

The April 8 pages revert to Bond being the real thing. He flirts with Moneypenny, M gives him his mission, and he’s off: it reads just like an early Connery Bond film. The April 14 draft switches back to the counterfeit Bond idea, but adds to and improves the earlier draft in other ways. The first third of the story follows Bond and Vesper as they track down the incriminating rolls of film that Chiffre has collected for Spectre, which are being transported from a warehouse in Hamburg by a protected van.

The Hamburg car chase culminates in Lili Wing being captured by Chiffre’s men and fed into the crusher of a rubbish truck, while Bond uses Gita Chiffre as a shield. She is shot by mistake by Chiffre’s henchmen. Bond commandeers the van and impersonates one of the eye-patched henchmen in the darkness. During a car chase in the Swiss Alps, the van goes over the cliff and explodes with the films in it, Bond escaping at the last moment.

As a result of Bond ruining the extortion scheme, Chiffre loses half of his budget allocated to him by Spectre, and sets about trying to win it back. Then we relocate to northern France and the area around the fictional Royale. Vesper gives Bond instructions from M to accompany her to the casino there to finish Chiffre off for good. This is ingenious in several ways. In the book, Le Chiffre and Bond duel without ever having met each other. Now, Bond is directly responsible for his precarious situation and the reason he sets up the baccarat game, and we have a rematch.

In addition, Madam Chiffre, with half her face destroyed by bullet wounds and speaking metallically through a tube inserted in her ripped out larynx, is a classic Bond villain, a sinister presence lurking in the shadows waiting to exact revenge on 007. In undated handwritten notes, Hecht wrote that a man torturing a naked Bond in this way on screen would seem to audiences like he was not only indulging in "a far-fetched and unmotivated type of cruelty", but also a "yelping pansy".

The torture scene is faithful in spirit to the novel, but perhaps even more brutal, and contains many of the best lines of dialogue. Chiffre quietly continues to ask a naked Bond the location of the missing cheque while encouraging his wife to thrash him with the carpet beater. At one point he tells her to stop, adding: "M’sieur Bond may want to change his mind while he is still a m’sieur." Bond refuses, of course, and when asked about the check later, gives the memorable reply "Up your gizzard, you fat pimp." Chiffre also briefly waterboards Bond with whisky in an attempt to get him to talk.

Just as it seems that Bond is destined to die he is rescued by Specter’s assassins, who let him go but scar his hand so they can identify him in any future operations, and then shoot Chiffre who has hidden in a cupboard. The "brothel Napoleon", as Bond calls him, dies with silk dresses and negligees draping over his corpse.

Bond recovers in hospital, and proposes to Vesper. She accepts, but shortly after confesses she has been working for Spectre all along, then takes her life with cyanide. But just as it seems that the film will end with a grief-stricken and impotent Bond, a doctor prescribes him with testosterone, and a minor character, Georgie, returns and tries to seduce him. Bond is surprised and delighted to find that his body responds to her advances, and order is restored as he plants two solid kisses on her mouth and we fade out.

All the pages in Hecht’s papers are gripping, but the material from April 1964 is phenomenal, and it’s easy to imagine it as the basis for a classic Bond adventure. Hecht’s treatment of the romance element is powerful and convincing, even with the throwaway ending, but there is also a distinctly adult feel to the story. It has all the excitement and glamour you would expect from a Bond film but is more suspenseful, and the violence is brutal rather than cartoonish.

On Thursday April 16 1964, Hecht sent a letter to Feldman attaching an article from Time about Bond and saying he would write up a critique of their "current script" on Monday. He added some comments on Bond, including that he felt the character was cinema’s first "gentleman superman" in a long time, as opposed to Hammett and Chandler’s "roughneck supermen". But Monday never came: Hecht died of a heart attack at his home on Saturday April 18 while reading.


At some point, Feldman went to Broccoli and Saltzman and tried to broker a deal to film Casino Royale in partnership with them, but he wanted too large a share and the talks broke down. It seems he also claimed that Goldfinger had plagiarized Casino Royale and threatened to sue – perhaps he felt that the scene in which gangster Mr Solo is crushed at a scrap yard was too reminiscent of Lili Wing’s death.

Furious that he had not come to an agreement with Broccoli and Saltzman, Feldman approached Connery to see if he would be interested in jumping ship. Connery said he would for a million dollars, but this was too much for Feldman’s blood and he turned him down. He decided to take a new tack, signing an unknown Northern Irish actor, Terence Cooper, who he kept on salary for two years, and recruited Orson Welles, David Niven, Peter Sellers, Ursula Andress, Woody Allen and several others. A set report in Time in May 1966 revealed that after Hecht’s "three bashes" at the script, it had been completely rewritten by Billy Wilder, after which Joseph Heller, Terry Southern, Wolf Mankowitz and John Law had all taken their turn at it. Much of the film was improvised on the spot, and Woody Allen also worked on it.

Very little of Hecht’s work made it to the screen apart from the idea of calling other agents James Bond to confuse the opposition, which grew into the main theme. Eventually released in 1967, it was a bloated and incoherent comedy that wasted the prodigious talent it had assembled, and the title Casino Royale was indelibly linked with a cinematic disaster rather than Fleming’s novel (below, some of the Bond novels he wrote). Finally, in 2004 EON gained the rights to the novel, and set about filming it with Daniel Craig.

The big question raised by Hecht’s material is what would have happened if Feldman had managed to come to an agreement with EON, and Casino Royale had been made with Sean Connery in 1965 or 1966. Perhaps it would have divided the audience, as Goldfinger took Bond into superspy territory, and even a disfigured villainess might not have been enough for viewers so recently awestruck by the Aston Martin DB5’s ejector seat and Odd Job’s hat, especially if coupled with James Bond watching the woman he loves take her own life.

Then again, perhaps it would have deepened Bond as a character and taken the series in a different direction. Casino Royale might even have been regarded as not just a classic Bond film, but as a classic thriller. We’ll never know, but Hecht’s surviving material offers a glimpse into a cinematic genius at work, and an alternate James Bond adventure as rich and thrilling as anything yet brought to the screen.

Jeremy Duns is the author of spy novels. You can order his novels at TelegraphBookshop

1965: Serialisation of The Man With The Golden Gun continues in the Italian Domenica Del Corriere.

1966: John Stears receives the Best Visual Effects Oscar for Thunderball (accepted by Ivan Tors).

1984: Olympic fundraiser with guest of honor Prince Andrew, Duke of York, is attended by Roger Moore, John Barry, Sheena Easton, Anthony Newley, Tom Jones.

2021: Activision announces 007: Legends.

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2015: Spectre films inside London City Hall.

2018: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond: The Body #4 (of 6).
Eoin Marron, artist. Ales Kot, writer.

JAMES BOND: THE BODY #4

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Cover A: Luca Casalanguida
Writer: Ales Kot
Art: Eoin Marron
Genre: Action
Publication Date: April 2018
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 Pages
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ON SALE DATE: 4/18/2018

On the run from a lethal antagonist, weaponless and wounded deep in the Highlands, Bond finds solace with a woman who exchanged her job as a doctor and a life in the city for a cottage and solitary life of a writer. Can Bond find a quiet peace unlike he has known before or will his life choices catch up with him?

2021: WIRED explains why the latest Bond film won't go straight to streaming.

Why a James Bond film will never
premiere on Netflix

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https://www.wired.co.uk/article/james-bond-no-time-to-die-netflix

The economics of blockbusters like No Time to Die simply don’t work
without cinemas. And the pandemic proved it
By Will Bedingfield | Sunday 18 April 2021

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In 2011, movie studio Universal Pictures announced that it would be carrying out a test: it would put out its new film, Tower Heist, on video-on-demand just three weeks after releasing it in cinemas.

The move was doomed. Cinemas were furious. AMC, Regal and Cinemark announced that, if Universal went ahead with the test, they would simply not play the film. Chastened, Universal capitulated and the “test” never went ahead.

Things have changed. Over the last year, cinemas have had no leverage, and studios have been able to carry out the streaming experiments they’ve been pondering for the past decade. But far from opening up a brave new era of home entertainment, these experiments have actually shown Hollywood studios that, yes, they do still need cinemas – at least if they want to make the globe-spanning blockbusters that pull in the big bucks.

Studio responses to the pandemic have varied. Some, lacking popular streaming platforms, have made deals with companies that do: Paramount sold Coming 2 America to Amazon for $125 million; Sony sold Tom Hanks’ Greyhound to Apple TV+ for around $70m.

Others have used the pandemic as a chance to release films on their own platforms. Disney, for instance, has churned out a glut of movies on Disney+, including Mulan, Soul and Raya and the Last Dragon. AT&T, which owns Warner Bros, has released multiple films – like Wonder Woman 1984 and Godzilla vs. Kong – in theatres at the same time as on its streaming service HBO Max, and plans to continue this throughout 2021 with Mortal Kombat, Dune and The Matrix 4.

Filmmakers have lined up to criticise this practice: Denis Villeneuve, director of Dune, publish an op-ed in Variety claiming the move shows “absolutely no love for cinema”, while Christopher Nolan said that “some of our industry’s biggest filmmakers and most important movie stars went to bed the night before thinking they were working for the greatest movie studio and woke up to find out they were working for the worst streaming service.”

It’s not hard to see why streaming would be attractive to studios: if you beam a film directly to people’s homes, you don’t have to share your profits with cinema owners. “Studios have been trying for about ten years to carry out this experiment, but they weren’t allowed to because cinemas boycotted their films if they did anything like that,” says David Hancock, a film analyst at Omdia. “They’ve been making up for ten years worth of experimentation that they couldn’t do.”

While these experiments have yielded different results for different films – Greyhound did well, Raya and the Last Dragon flopped – there’s been a clear takeaway. Hollywood still needs cinemas, and it needs us to return in our droves as they reopen across the world. Omdia’s research shows that video on demand claimed $1 billion in consumer spending globally in 2020, which pales in comparison to the $30bn lost by cinema over the same period.

For big blockbusters, streaming simply cannot match theatres. The new James Bond movie, No Time To Die, is instructive here. The film, to be distributed by MGM in America and Universal in the rest of the world, has been postponed repeatedly because of the pandemic. In October 2020, rumours (which MGM denied) began to circulate that the studio was shopping the film around to streaming platforms for $600m; no one bought it, explains Hancock, because it was way too expensive. It’s questionable whether streaming will ever bring in enough revenue to make blockbusters like Bond, which

could gross more than a billion dollars, a viable proposition.

The rise of Netflix, then, has warped the media industry, and forced major studios to adopt a business model that, at the very least, has some question marks over its longterm viability. Tara Lachapelle at Bloomberg, for instance, calls it “fundamentally broken”. “Spend billions of dollars to create an endless supply of content, then sell monthly access to this deluxe all-you-can-eat buffet for little more than the cost of dinner at McDonald’s.”

One long-term change we may see as a result of the pandemic is in the length of release windows. Both Paramount and Warner Bros. have announced a maximum of 45-days exclusivity for cinemas – half the typical 90 – going into 2022. This is a coup for studios. “Other than stuff like The Greatest Showman, most films make 80 per cent of their box office in the first three weeks, and then they’re gone,” says Kathryn Jacobs, CEO of cinema advertising company Pearl and Dean.

Streaming will also continue to change the industry profoundly, particularly as companies like Netflix and Amazon finance more and more films for their platforms – Sony has agreed an exclusivity deal with the latter – and Disney continues to tinker with the most profitable way to release its films (Cruella, out next month, will come to Disney+ at the same time as cinemas). Release schedules will continue to be in flux. “Because people are working flexibly from home, perhaps they’ll go on a Wednesday, rather than wait and go on a Friday to a multiplex,” says Jacobs.

The billion-dollar question that remains, then, is whether there is an appetite for consumers to return post-pandemic. Will they fear catching some new variant of Covid-19, or have they gotten used to the convenience of home streaming? Or, perhaps, many will consider the cinema an unnecessary luxury in a time of economic recession. Early signs suggest not: Godzilla vs Kong has managed to rake in an impressive amount despite restrictions, while New York cinemas have reported sold-out seats (albeit at 25 per cent capacity).

Cinemas have been battered by the pandemic--forced to watch, helpless, as their streaming rivals have hoovered up tens of millions of new subscribers. But despite Hollywood experiments, the economics of huge blockbusters simply don’t work without your local multiplex. “First it was telly that was gonna kill us, then it was VHS, then it was having more than four television stations in the UK,” says Jacob. Like James Bond, the cinema industry refuses to die.

Will Bedingfield is a culture writer at WIRED. He tweets from @WillBedingfield

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April 19th

1961: In a note to Dennis Hamilton, Ian Fleming confesses he must live as an old man after coming close to death during a meeting.

For your eyes only: Letters that reveal
deepest secrets of the 007 creator Ian Fleming...
and the day he almost dropped dead at a Sunday Times meeting

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- Letters between James Bond creator Ian Fleming and his friend Dennis ‘CD’ Hamilton are on sale for £160,000
- They reveal Fleming had a heart attack at a Sunday Times editorial meeting
- He also confided his plans to marry Ann Rothermere after her divorce
- Fleming predicted the news would cause a 'Fleet Street sensation'

By Chris Hastings - Published: 17:01 EDT, 7 December 2013 | Updated: 20:17 EDT, 7 December 2013

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Letters from James Bond creator Ian Fleming and his friend Dennis Hamilton have gone on sale for £160,000


As the creator of James Bond, Ian Fleming was a master of dreaming up death-defying situations from which the super-spy only just manages to escape.

But Fleming himself owed his life to the prompt actions of one of his closest friends who spotted he was having a major heart attack.

In previously unseen letters, published for the first time today, Fleming also admitted his impending marriage would cause a ‘Fleet Street sensation’ – and reveals that he regards the genteel pastime of gardening as a ‘death trap’.

Fleming’s intimate exchanges with his colleague Dennis ‘CD’ Hamilton form part of an archive of more than 80 letters now on sale for £160,000.

In one note, dated April 19, 1961, Fleming told Hamilton, who was working alongside him at The Sunday Times, that he is now having to behave like an old man following his brush with death during an editorial meeting.

He writes: ‘Although neither of us knew it I am afraid I was in the middle of a rather major heart attack this time last week.’

Fleming adds: ‘One never believes these things so I sat stupidly on trying to make intelligent comments about the thrilling new project about which I long to hear more. However, a thousand thanks for noticing my trouble so quickly and for shepherding me away when the time came.’

The two men had been friends for more than a decade by the time of Fleming’s heart attack.

In 1952, Fleming confided to Hamilton his plans to marry Ann Rothermere, the soon-to-be divorced wife of the 2nd Viscount Rothermere, who was then chairman of Associated Newspapers, owner of the Daily Mail.

He writes from his home in Chelsea: ‘CD – just so you won’t see it first in the public print. This is to tell you that I am getting married to Ann Rothermere, which will cause something of a Fleet Street sensation I fear as the divorce goes into the lists next Wednesday.’

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Revelations: The letters reveal Ian Fleming had a heart attack during a Sunday Times editorial meeting and that he believed his plans to marry Ann Rothermere once she divorced would cause a 'Fleet Street sensation'

He adds: ‘In fact this has been on the cards for a long time. We have known each other for years. There are no hard feelings anywhere.’

Ann had first met Fleming in 1936, and had thought him, then aged 28, ‘a handsome, moody creature’.

Ann was later one of the most charismatic society hostesses, her house in Victoria Square becoming a renowned salon where high society, artists and intellectuals mixed.

In his letter, Fleming assures Hamilton that Lord Kemsley, the then owner of The Sunday Times, has no problems with his relationship with the former wife of a rival newspaper magnate.

He writes: ‘So please calm down excitement at levels other than K [Kemsley] who knows and accepts with an apparent good grace.’

Fleming and Ann eventually married in 1952 and remained together until the author’s death from heart disease in August 1964.

Fleming died aged 56 on their son Caspar’s 12th birthday. In a touching letter, Ann tells Hamilton that her son, who later took his own life, was in turmoil. She wrote: ‘I was deeply touched by your letter to Caspar .  .  . Alas he refuses to answer as he says he refuses to owe anything to friends of his parents.

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Happy couple: Ian Fleming later married Ann, pictured together in 1963, and they remained together until his death from heart disease in 1964

‘His present frame of mind is very distressing to me. I can only pray that it will alter. The only sign of grace is his unhappiness which I am powerless to help.’

Fleming, who joined The Sunday Times after serving as a wartime naval intelligence officer, continued as a journalist even when his career as a novelist took off.

By the time he formally quit the paper in 1961, he had written nine of his Bond novels, including Casino Royale and Live And Let Die.

The letters show also the dividing line between Fleming’s roles of journalist and thriller writer could become obscured. On July 17, 1960, Harry Hodson, the then Sunday Times editor, criticised his profile of the German city of Hamburg because he thought it was too obsessed with its red-light district. He writes: ‘We have to remember that for a great many of our readers .  .  . prostitution is not even a necessary evil, but something entirely immoral and degrading.

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Colleagues: Dennis Hamilton, pictured in 1966, worked alongside Fleming at The Sunday Times

‘Again striptease acts may be alright for callow youths, and frustrated middle-aged men, but are a vulgar .  .  . sort of entertainment for balanced people.’ Fleming’s journalist colleagues were keen to capitalise on the success of the Bond characters, and several letters deal with how the spy may be included in the paper.

On September 5, 1961, Fleming lobbies for an article on ‘the guns of James Bond’ even though he accepts it may bore female readers.

He refuses Hamilton’s request for a 1,000-word article about 007 himself which the editor feels would be more ‘bonne bouche’ to readers.

Just two months before his death, Fleming chastises Hamilton for wasting time in his garden.

A letter dated June 15, 1964, says: ‘I am sorry you have been playing the fool in the garden. You must know that all forms of gardening are tantamount to suicide for the normal sedentary male. For heaven’s sake leave the whole business alone.’

The correspondence also shows that the friends could sometimes fall out. In one undated letter, Fleming criticises his friend for a particularly ‘harsh’ exchange of words.

He writes: ‘You were under great pressure so your wrath is excusable. But you should not use such words to a friend. They were unforgivable so I shall forget them.’

The correspondence has been acquired from Hamilton’s family by independent booksellers Bertram Rota. Owner Julian Rota said: ‘We are asking £160,000 for the letters which we do not consider an unreasonable amount. They show that the relationship between the two men became more relaxed and more intimate with the passing of time.’

Andrew Lycett, Fleming’s official biographer, said of the letters to Hamilton: ‘I think it was very much a mutual admiration society.

‘Ian Fleming was certainly a great fan of Hamilton’s and liked the fact that he had served with distinction during the war.’

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1967: US premiere of Casino Royale.

2004: Philip Locke dies at age 76--Dedham, Essex, England.
(Born 29 March 1928--St. Marylebone, London, England.)

Philip Locke, actor

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Born: 29 March, 1928, in London
Died: 24 April, 2004, in London, aged 76

WITH his gaunt and invariably haggard looks, Philip Locke was ideal casting for nervy, rather saturnine villains, corrupt Mafia bosses or somewhat refined bullies. He brought an evil streak to his characters that brought them alive. However, this tall and imposing man also had a fine line in comedy.

His major cinema credit was as Vargas, the silent assassin who fell foul of James Bond’s spear-gun in Thunderball. His list of television credits was substantial and varied (The Avengers seemed to employ him as their resident baddie for a while) and he was often seen to great advantage in the theatre - especially London’s Royal Court in the Sixties.

Philip Locke trained at RADA in the Fifties and he was soon being cast in minor roles at the Royal Court, then soon to enter its golden decade. In 1959, he was in the premire of John Osborne’s The World of Paul Slickey, a musical satire about gossip columnists and critics. It was given a real pasting by the critics - indeed, Noel Coward and John Gielgud were said to have led the booing on the first night - but many still recall the satanic dance Locke performed in the second act.

From the Royal Court, he went on to play at the National Theatre and at the Royal Shakespeare Company (he was Quince in Brook’s famous Midsummer Night’s Dream). His career was to burgeon and Locke was seldom out of work: he played Horatio in Peter Hall’s production of Hamlet which opened the National Theatre in 1975 and four years later he was again directed by Hall in the premire of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus. In the latter, he played Salieri’s valet and spent much of the time feeding Mozart cream buns.

Locke’s TV appearances never let up. He was much in demand for the fondly remembered Armchair Theatre plays and was often seen on the wrong side of the small screen’s best-known detectives, including Inspector Morse, Bergerac and Poirot. He also turned up in Minder, played a newspaper editor alongside Michael Caine in Jekyll and Hyde (LWT, 1990) and was a rather camp uncle in Jeeves and Wooster (Granada, 1993).

His most striking film appearance was undoubtedly in Thunderball (1965), in which he made a particularly sinister appearance in dark glasses and black polo-neck jumper. However, a few years later, he showed his lighter side in the movie version of Porridge. In a favourite scene, Ronnie Barker’s Fletcher asks how Locke can face the prison grub, and Locke laconically replies: "I was at a top English public school and the food was very similar."

Strangely, Locke was at only one Edinburgh Festival, in 1954, with the Old Vic Company in a star-studded production of Midsummer Night’s Dream. The Scottish National Orchestra was in the pit and Moira Shearer and Robert Helpmann were to dance within the play. It was a bold plan to fuse music, drama and dance.

Locke played Puck and although Shearer, in an article in The Scotsman in 1976, recalled that Festival with "particular surprised pleasure" she did refer to the production as "rambling". However, it filled the Empire (now the Festival Theatre) to capacity.

Locke was always a support actor, never a major star, but he had the ability to bring a certain touch of wicked style or a chilling frisson to a role. The fact that he appeared in so many high-profile and prestigious productions in a career spanning 50 years is a sure reflection of the standing he enjoyed in his profession.

Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/philip-locke-actor-1-523590

Philip Locke (1928–2004)

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2006: Casino Royale films Bond and his poisoned vodka martini.

2008: En route to the BOND 22 filming location, an Aston Martin DBS plunges into Lake Garda, Italy.

2010: One-time release date for Daniel Craig's third Bond film. Troubles at MGM force the Bond producers to announce a delay to the BOND 22 production for a potential release eventually beyond Fall 2011. And Spring 2012.
2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Felix Leiter #4 (of 6).
Aaron Campbell, artist. James Robinson, writer.

JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #4 (OF 6)

https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025458004011
Cover A: Mike Perkins
Writer: James Robinson
Art: Aaron Campbell
Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
Publication Date: April 2017
Format: Comic Book
Page Count: 32 pages
ON SALE DATE: 4/19

In the aftermath of a major terrorist attack in Tokyo by an Aum Shinrikyo-like cult, Felix Leiter finds himself unwittingly drawn into the investigation. And under the oversight of Tiger Tanaka-the Japanese James Bond-and with a squad of Tanaka's elite operatives, Leiter himself helps to bring down the cult's leader!

But now it's up to Leiter and Tanaka to work desperately against the clock: they must discover the secret of the cultist's deadly bio-weapon - especially if they're going to try and avert another terrorist attack!

2020: From Hawaii With Love, Pierce Brosnan executes a GoldenEye watchalong as prompted by Esquire.

Pierce Brosnan Says He Would Return To James Bond As A Villain

See the complete article here:

https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a32205810/pierce-brosnan-would-return-to-james-bond-as-a-villain/

He revealed all in Esquire's live GoldenEye watchalong on Sunday night
By Nick Pope | 20/04/2020

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Pierce Brosnan has revealed he would be willing to return to the Bond series, but not as the iconic spy.

During Esquire’s live GoldenEye watchalong with the man himself last night (that’s us. We’re Esquire), the 66-year-old revealed to fans that he’d be up for making an appearance as a Bond villain.

Answering questions from his Hawaii home, Brosnan said: “Would [ I ] return as a villain? If asked, yes! I believe so.”

So there you have it! And it’s not too late to add him into No Time To Die in post-production, either. A cameo as a henchman? A computer hacker? Some kind of evil croupier? This is above our pay-grade, Fukunaga. Just make it happen.

Brosnan wore the blood-splattered tuxedo for seven years, his acclaimed tenure starting with 1995’s GoldenEye and finishing with 2002’s Die Another Day. He earned a Saturn Award nomination for his performance in the latter, but many critics were in agreement that the series as a whole would benefit from a shift in tone (away from invisible cars, crucially).

Not that Brosnan is bitter. Elsewhere in the livestream, he spoke of his admiration for Daniel Craig, who is departing the franchise following No Time To Die. He also opined on whether 007 should ever have a beard (a very firm "No") and delved into the Tarantino X Brosnan spy thriller that never was.

Better still:
https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/a32205182/best-anecdotes-moments-pierce-brosnan-goldeneye-watchalong/

Pierce Brosnan GoldenEye Live Watchalong: Behind-The-scenes,
Advice To Daniel Craig & A Return? {2:11:20)


https://www.huffpost.com/archive/au/entry/pierce-brosnan-recalls-drunk-meeting-with-quentin-tarantino-and-its-hollywood-gold_au_5e9e1f24c5b6a486d07e0139

RichardTheBruce

April 20th

1904: Bruce Cabot is born--Carlsbad, New Mexico.
(He dies 3 May 1972 at age 67--Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.)

Bruce Cabot, Film Actor, Dies; Played the Hero in ‘King Kong’

See the complete article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/05/04/archives/bruce-cabot-film-actor-dies-played-the-hero-in-king-kong.html

MAY 4, 1972

HOLLYWOOD, May 3 (AP)— Bruce Cabot, whose starring role in the 1933 screen classic “King Kong” was his best known part during four decades of acting, died today at the age of 67. He succumbed to lung cancer at the Motion Picture Country Home and Hospital in Woodland Hills.

Mr. Cabot played the young man who rescued Fay Wray from the clutches of the giant ‘ape in “King Kong.” In the nineteen‐thirties and forties, the 6‐foot 2‐inch actor appeared in numerous films as a cowboy, tough guy or soldier of fortune.

The brown‐haired, blue‐eyed Mr. Cabot was seen with Errol Flynn, who became a close friend, in “Dodge City” and “The Bad Man of Brimstone.”

After World War II service in the Army Air Forces that took him to Africa, Sicily and Italy as an intelligence and op erations officer, Mr. Cabot cut down on his movie‐making. He spent much time in Europe dur ing the nineteen‐fifties, making films and living there.

Mr. Cabot was in several movies with his close friend, John Wayne. Among them were “The Green Berets” in 1968 and “Big Jake” in 1971. He also had a role in “Diamonds Are Forever,” also made last year.

The actor, whose real name was Jacques de Bujac, was born in Carlsbad, N. M. He was married and divorced twice, to Adrienne Ames and Francesca de Scaffa, both actresses. In recent years he had lived in Hollywood.

Tackled Many Jobs

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Bruce Cabot (1904–1972)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0127677/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1953: Sebastian Faulks is born--Donnington, Berkshire, England.

1963: From Russia With Love main unit relocates to Turkey to film at Saint Sophia, with Ian Fleming in attendance as a guest of Terence Young. (Meanwhile, the second unit crew toils away in Pinewood.)

1971: Bond comic strip Fear Face ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 18 January 1971. 1520–1596)
Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/55935


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


https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_Face?file=Twine_casino6.jpg



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

Stålspionen (Steel Spy - Fear Face)

Danish 1973 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no25-1973/

James Bond Agent 007 no. 25:
“Fear Face” (1973)

1985: Billy Magnussen is born--Woodhaven, New York City, New York.
1985: Dali Benssalah is born--Rennes, France.

1989: Domark releases top-down shooter game Licence to Kill developed by Quixel.
Available for DOS, Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, MSX, ZX Spectrum.

1999: The World Is Not Enough films Electra's attempt to seduce OO7 following the avalanche.

2016: Guy Hamilton dies at age 93--Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.
(Born 16 September 1922--Paris, France.)

Guy Hamilton, Director
of ‘Goldfinger,’ Dies at 93

See original article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/movies/guy-hamilton-director-of-goldfinger-dies-at-93.html

From left, the director Guy Hamilton, Sean Connery and Honor Blackman
on the set of “Goldfinger.” Credit United Artists, via Photofest

By William Grimes and Robert Berkvist | April 21, 2016

Guy Hamilton, a director whose emphasis on fast pacing and witty repartee made “Goldfinger” a model for the James Bond films to follow, and who directed three more installments in the series, died on Wednesday on the Mediterranean island of Majorca. He was 93.

His death was announced in a statement to The Associated Press by the Hospital Juaneda Miramar in the city of Palma. It provided no other details.

Mr. Hamilton, a former assistant to the British director Carol Reed, had the hit prison-escape movie “The Colditz Story” to his credit when the producers Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli asked him to direct “Dr. No,” the first Bond film. Unable to leave Britain, Mr. Hamilton turned down the job (it went to Terence Young), but he enthusiastically accepted the assignment to direct “Goldfinger,” the third Bond film.

He delivered a gem, “the most trendsetting directorial job of all the films,” Raymond Benson wrote in The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984). He sped up the action; accentuated the banter between Bond and his boss, M, and the equipment expert, Q — the key to Q, he told the actor Desmond Llewelyn, was that Q could not stand Bond — and added innumerable touches that became signatures.

“Everyone understands what is ‘Bondian,’” he told The Banner-Herald of Athens, Ga., in 2009. “If it was a cigarette lighter, it couldn’t just be a Zippo, it had to be the latest exclusive toy. It had to be more glamorous. Bond couldn’t have just any yacht — it had to be the biggest yacht in the world. We were creating a dream world, defining what was ‘Bondian.’”

After the modest successes of the first two Bond films, “Goldfinger” (1964) was a blockbuster hit, with Sean Connery giving a definitive performance, aided by a memorable slate of opponents: the supervillain Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), his henchman Oddjob (Harold Sakata) and the femme fatale Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman).

Mr. Hamilton took a break from the series when Mr. Saltzman hired him to direct the Cold War thriller “Funeral in Berlin” (1966), with Michael Caine, and “The Battle of Britain” (1969), a star-studded action film with Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Michael Redgrave and Mr. Caine.

He returned to the Bond films with “Diamonds Are Forever” (1971), the seventh in the series, and brought the franchise into the Roger Moore era with its two successors, “Live and Let Die” (1973) and “The Man With the Golden Gun” (1974).

Guy Hamilton was born on Sept. 16, 1922, in Paris, where his father was a press attaché to the British Embassy. Early on, he became a passionate film fan. As a teenager he worked at menial jobs at a film studio in Nice, and he served an apprenticeship with the director Julien Duvivier. With the outbreak of World War II he returned to London and served in the Royal Navy.

Guy Hamilton at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2005. Credit
Jean-Francois Guyot/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

In January 1944, as part of the 15th Motor Gunboat Flotilla, a secret unit that ferried agents into France and brought downed British pilots back to England, he and several crewmates missed a rendezvous and spent a month on the run in Brittany.

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“The Best of Enemies” (1962) was another semi-serious war story, this time set in Ethiopia, about a British officer, played by David Niven, who continually crosses paths, and swords, with his Italian counterpart, played by Alberto Sordi. Mr. Hamilton’s skill in directing that movie’s action sequences led the producers of the Bond films to seek him out.

He later directed “Force 10 From Navarone” (1978), with Robert Shaw and Edward Fox as British saboteurs in the Balkans attempting to destroy a strategically vital bridge with the aid of Army Rangers led by Harrison Ford.

Mr. Hamilton returned to the mystery genre in the 1980s, his last active decade in the industry, with two films based on Agatha Christie novels:“The Mirror Crack’d” (1980), with Angela Lansbury as Miss Jane Marple, and “Evil Under the Sun” (1982), in which Peter Ustinov played the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

One of Mr. Hamilton’s last efforts was “Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins” (1985), about a policeman-turned-assassin, played by Fred Ward, who sets out on multiple missions of vengeance.

Mr. Hamilton’s first marriage, to the actress Naomi Chance, ended in divorce. His second wife was the actress Kerima, whom he met on the set of “Outcast of the Islands.” Complete information on his survivors was not avaliable.

Goldfinger remained the shining jewel in Mr. Hamilton’s career. In 2010, The Guardian of London, cataloging the film’s virtues, wrote: “Where to start? The card game that opens the movie or the epic golf match in the middle? The gold-obsessed villain or the hulking Korean hardman? The near-castration with the laser beam or the gangster compacted in his Continental? And who could forget sexually ambiguous Pussy Galore, as essayed by husky-voiced, karate-chopping 40-year-old bombshell Honor Blackman? It’s a compendium of everything one loves about 007.”

Guy Hamilton (I) (1922–2016)

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2019: David V. Picker dies at age 87--New York, New York.
(Born 14 May 1931--New York, New York.)

David Picker, Studio Chief Who Brought Bond, The
Beatles and Steve Martin to the Movies, Dies at 87

See the complete article here:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/david-picker-dead-studio-chief-who-brought-bond-movies-dies-1203570

In 1969, at just 38, Picker became president and COO
of United Artists; he later ran Paramount and
Columbia.
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David V. Picker, who served as the head of United Artists, Paramount and Columbia over more than a half-century in the film business, died Saturday night after succumbing to colon cancer at his home in New York, his longtime friend and former UA colleague Kathie Berlin told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 87.

Picker was born in New York on May 14, 1931 — and into the movie business. His grandfather, also named David V. Picker, ran a small chain of theaters that he eventually sold to Loews, the company for which his father, Eugene Picker, then got a job booking theaters, which enabled the young Picker to see a movie for free at virtually any theater in the Big Apple, a privilege he took full advantage of.

Most importantly, his uncle was Arnold Picker, who became a partner and executive vp international distribution at UA in 1951, the same year the old studio was risen from the dead by a pair of lawyers, Arthur B. Krim and Robert Benjamin, who, by bankrolling independent filmmakers and then staying out of their way during the filmmaking process, quickly began attracting top talent and raking in profits.

In 1956, having graduated from Dartmouth College and served in the U.S. Army, Picker got a job at UA in the advertising and publicity department. Two years later, he was made assistant to head of production Max Youngstein, and when Youngstein left the company in 1962, Picker was elevated to his position. Any questions about the role that nepotism had played in Picker's rapid ascent at the company were quickly silenced by his major contributions in his new role.

Seeking a property for Alfred Hitchcock, he acquired the rights to Ian Fleming's James Bond novels and fought for Sean Connery to star in the first adaptation, 1962's Dr. No, which was ultimately directed by Terence Young and spawned a franchise that continues to draw masses — and bear the UA name — to this day.

The first film that Picker recommended UA's partners finance from scratch, Tony Richardson's Tom Jones, a British production, became a giant hit and was awarded the best picture Oscar, becoming only the second non-American film to earn that high honor, 24 years after the first. (Richardson, who also produced the film, could not attend the ceremony, so on his behalf Picker accepted the statuette from Frank Sinatra.)

And, looking out for the United Artists Records and Music Publishing division, Picker recommended that the company make a low-budget documentary around a young British band that had impressed him, The Beatles. 1964's A Hard Day's Night, directed by Richard Lester, proved a blockbuster and helped to explode the Fab Four all around the world. UA and The Beatles reteamed on 1965's Help! and 1968's The Yellow Submarine.

UA, however, fell upon hard times thanks to a run of big-budget flops, including 1965's The Greatest Story Ever Told and 1966's Hawaii, causing shuffling in the top ranks. In June 1969, at just 38, Picker was made president and COO of UA, part of a wave of young executives in their thirties — others including Richard Zanuck, Robert Evans and Jay Kanter — who assumed positions of immense power in Hollywood as the old moguls began retiring and dying in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Picker is survived by his wife, the photographer Sandra Lyn Jetton Picker, and his sister, Jean Picker Firstenberg, the former president and CEO of the American Film Institute. He was previously married to — and divorced from — Caryl Schlossman, with whom he had two children, Caryn Picker and Pamela Lee Picker; and Nessa Hyams.

David V. Picker (1931–2019)

Producer | Miscellaneous Crew
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2020: Ronan O'Rahilly dies at age 79--County Louth, Ireland.
(Born 21 May 1940--Dublin, Ireland.)

Ronan O’Rahilly obituary: Founder of
Radio Caroline captured spirit of the
swinging 60s

See the complete article here:

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/ronan-o-rahilly-obituary-founder-of-radio-caroline-captured-spirit-of-the-swinging-60s-1.4242812

Dublin-born maverick who launched pirate station was son of 1916 rebel The O’Rahilly
Sat, May 2, 2020, 07:22

Ronan O’Rahilly, third from left, with former Caroline DJs Tony Blackburn, Tom Lodge, Johnnie Walker, Mike Ahern and Mark Sloane, on a visit to the Radio Caroline ship
at Canary Wharf, London, in 1997.
Photograph: Glen Copus/Evening Standard/Rex/Shutterstock

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He also made Universal Soldier (1971), featuring George Lazenby as a mercenary in Africa. It came two years after Lazenby’s starring role as James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, which not only flopped, but was notable for O’Rahilly having disastrously advised Lazenby – whom he managed – not to sign a seven-film deal because he doubted that the 007 craze would last.

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Ronan O'Rahilly (1940–2020)

Producer | Director | Actor
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0642371/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

RichardTheBruce

April 21st

1962: The New Yorker publishes an interview with Ian Fleming.

The Talk of the Town

James Bond Comes to New York

See the complete article here:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1962/04/21/bonds-creator

The author Ian Fleming spent a weekend in the city to see his publishers and
"assorted crooks" en route from his Jamaica hideaway to his London home.
By Geoffrey T. Hellman | April 13, 1962

Photograph by Horst Tappe / Hulton Archive / Getty

Ian Fleming, whose nine Secret Service thrillers (Casino Royale, Doctor No, For Your Eyes Only, From Russia with Love, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, and Thunderball) have had phenomenal sales in this country and abroad (more than eleven hundred thousand hardcover copies and three and a half million paperbacks), was here for a weekend recently en route from his Jamaica hideaway to his London home, and we caught him on Sunday morning at his hotel, the Pierre, where he amiably stood us a lunch. He ordered a prefatory medium-dry Martini of American vermouth and Beefeater gin, with lemon peel, and so did we.

“I’m here to see my publishers and assorted crooks,” he said. “Not other assorted crooks, mind you. By ‘crooks,’ I don’t mean crooks at all; I mean former Secret Service men. There are one or two of them here, you know.”

“Who?” we asked.

“Oh, men like the boss of James Bond, the operative who’s the chief character in all my books,” said our host. “When I wrote the first one, in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened; I wanted him to be the blunt instrument. One of the bibles of my youth was Birds of the West Indies, by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, My God, that’s the dullest name I’ve ever heard, so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one. Mrs. Bond once wrote me a letter thanking me for using it.”

Mr. Fleming, a sunburned, tall, curly-haired, blue-eyed man of fifty-three in a dark-blue suit, blue shirt, and blue-dotted bow tie, ordered another Martini, and so did we. “I’ve spent the morning in Central Park,” he said. “I went there to see if I’d get murdered, but I didn’t. The only person who accosted me was a man who asked me how to get out. I love the Park; it was so wonderful to see the brown turning to green. I went to the Wollman skating rink and saw all those enchanting girls skating around, and then I thought, This is the place to meet a spy. What a wonderful place to meet a spy! A spy with a child. A child is the most wonderful cover for a spy, like a dog for a tart. Do tarts here have dogs? I was interested to see that in the bird reservation in the Park there was not a single bird. There are no people there—It’s fenced in, you know, with a sign—but no birds, either. Birds can’t read.”

Mr. Fleming lit a Senior Service cigarette and, in answer to some questions from us, said that he was a Scot, that he had been brought up in a hunting-and-fishing world where you shot or caught your lunch, and that he was a graduate of Eton and Sandhurst. “I shot against West Point,” he said. “When I got my commission, they were mechanizing the Army, and a lot of us decided we didn’t want to be garage hands running those bloody tanks. My poor mamma, in despair, suggested that I try for the diplomatic. My father was killed in the ‘14-‘18 war. Well, I went to the Universities of Geneva and Munich and learned extremely good French and German, but I got fed up with the exams, so in 1929 I joined Reuters as a foreign correspondent and had a hell of a time. Wonderful! I went to Moscow for Reuters. My God, it was fun! It was like a tremendous ball game.”

He ordered a dozen cherrystones and a Miller High Life, and we followed suit. “I like the name ‘High Life,’ ” he said. “That’s why I order it. And American vermouth is the best in the world.”

He added that he had been with Reuters for four years, and we asked what happened next.

“I decided I ought to make some money, and went into the banking and stock-brokerage business—first with Cull & Company and then with Rowe & Pitman,” he said. “Six years altogether, until the war came along. Those financial firms are tremendous clubs, and great fun, but I never could figure out what a sixty-fourth of a point was. We used to spend our whole time throwing telephones at each other. I’m afraid we ragged far too much.”

We inquired about the war, from which, according to the British Who’s Who, Mr. Fleming emerged a naval commander, and he said, “I was personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, so I went everywhere.”

We asked what he’d done after the war.

“I joined the editorial board of the London Times,” he said. “I still write articles for it, and I’m a stockholder. And in 1952, when I was in Jamaica, Cyril Connolly asked me to write an article about Jamaica for his magazine, Horizon. It was rather a euphoric piece, about Jamaica as an island for you and me to go to.”

We promised to go, and he said, “How about some domestic Camembert? It’s better here than the French.”

During this and the coffee, he reverted to the non-ornithological James Bond. “I think the reason for his success is that people are lacking in heroes in real life today,” he said. “Heroes are always getting knocked—Philip and Mountbatten are examples of this—and I think people absolutely long for heroes. The thing that’s wrong with the new anticolonialism is that no one has yet found a Negro hero. They’re scratching around with Tshombe, but ... Well, I don’t regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way, and in the end, after giant despair, he wins the girl or the jackpot or whatever it may be. My books have no social significance, except a deleterious one; they’re considered to have too much violence and too much sex. But all history has that. I finished the last one, my tenth James Bond story, in Jamaica the other day; it’s long and tremendously dull. It’s called ‘The Spy Who Loved Me,’ and it’s written, supposedly, by a girl. I think it’s an absolute miracle that an elderly person like me can go on turning out these books with such zest. It’s really a terrible indictment of my own character—they’re so adolescent. But they’re fun. I think people like them because they’re fun. A couple of years ago, when I was in Washington, and was driving to lunch with a friend of mine, Margaret Leiter, she spotted a young couple coming out of church, and she stopped our cab. ‘You must meet them,’ she said. ‘They’re great fans of yours.’ And she introduced me to Jack and Jackie Kennedy. ‘Not the Ian Fleming!’ they said. What could be more gratifying than that? They asked me to dinner that night, with Joe Alsop and some other characters. I think the President likes my books because he enjoys the combination of physical violence, effort, and winning in the end—like his PT-boat experiences. I think James Bond may be good for him after the dry pack of the day.”

Mr. Fleming is married to a former wife of Lord Rothermere and has a nine-year-old son, Caspar, who is away at boarding school. “He doesn’t read me, but he sells my autographs for seven shillings a time,” his father said. ♦
This article appears in the print edition of the April 21, 1962, issue, with the headline “Bond's Creator.”

1969: Toby Stephens is born--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.

1971: Bond comic strip Double Jeopardy begins its run in the The Daily Express.
(Ends 28 August 1971, 1597–1708.) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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

https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1004


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

Swedish Semic Comic 1978 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3

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

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

James Bond Agent 007 no. 24: “Double Jeopardy” (1972)

1983: United States President Ronald Reagan speaks to James Bond's 21st anniversary in film in a taped message for producer Albert R. Broccoli.

Remarks by President Ronald Reagan during taped
message on 21st anniversary of first James Bond film for
Cubby Broccoli. Diplomatic Reception Room.

See the complete article here:

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/161346518

Collection RR-WHCA: Records of the White House Communications Agency (WHCA) (Reagan Administration)
Series: Presidential Audio Recordings
Item

NAID: 161346518 Sound Recordings
Produced: April 21, 1983

1 Audio File (0:58)
https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/presidential-libraries/reagan/rr-whca/5730597/PP1731.mp3

I've been asked to state my feelings on a fellow named Bond. James Bond.

Well, as I see it 007 is really a 10. He's our modern-day version of
the great heroes that appeared from time to time throughout history.

There were many like him in the past. Pioneers. Soldiers. Lawmen. Explorers.
People who all went out and put their lives on the line for the cause of good.

Bond is fearless, skilled, witty, courageous, optimistic, and one other thing:
he always gets his girl. He meets up with some pretty terrifying enemies.
But somehow with his determination, skill, and yes the help of a good script,
he always triumphs over them. James Bond is a man of honor.

Maybe it sounds old-fashioned, but I believe he's a symbol of value to the free world.

Of course some critics may say that Bond is nothing more than an actor in the movies.
But then, we've all gotta start somewhere.

1993: TBS starts James Bond Wednesday.

2010: British store HMV lists Blood Stone as coming soon.

UK retailer lists James Bond:
Bloodstone

See the complete article here:

https://www.gamesradar.com/uk-retailer-lists-james-bond-bloodstone/

By GamesRadar Staff April 21, 2010

Has HMV just revealed the name of the new Bond game?

Just yesterday EON Productions, producer of the James Bond films announced that it has indefinitely postponed all work on Bond 23 (which was slated for release in 2011/12). The delay comes after uncertainty surrounding the future of Hollywood studio MGM.

Well imagine our surprise then to discover thaT HMV is listing a new Bond game for pre-order: title, James Bond: Bloodstone. [sic]

Could this be the game that UK soap actor Adam Croadsell told the BBC he'd just played Bond in back in November last year? The game described as a third-person shooter with a mix of driving elements? The one that was previously leaked by UK retailers as being titled James Bond Racing?

If this all adds up, the delay of the film wouldn't likely affect the game production - if we believe Croadsell (and why would he make it up?) the game won't have anything to do with the film, and seems unlikely to feature the voice of current Bond, Daniel Craig.

Intiguingly, HMV are listing the game in the driving/racing section of the site, giving credence to the theory it will be a James Bond 'racing game' - but contradicting Croadsell's intel that it's a third-person shooter. Who's right?

Only time will tell.

Which would make a great name for a Bond film.

21 April 2010

2017: A Daily Mail article cites a recent poll proposing the reading of Bond books as the most-lied-about.

Do you lie about books you have read?
You are not alone...

See the complete article here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-4432690/Do-lie-books-read-You-not-.html

By Press Association | Published: 09:19 EDT, 21 April 2017 | Updated: 09:29 EDT, 21 April 2017

Many Britons are fibbers when it comes to their reading habits, failing to tell the truth in a bid to impress, a poll suggests.

Around two-fifths (41%) say they would stretch the truth when it comes to what, or how much, they have read, with young people (18 to 24-year-olds) most likely to do so.

A job interview was the most likely place for people to lie about books, the Reading Agency survey found, followed by on a date and when meeting the in-laws.

And given a list of books that were turned into films, Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels are the books people are most likely to claim they have read when they have, in reality, just seen the movie, the Reading Agency concluded. In second place was the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, followed by CS Lewis’s Chronicles Of Narnia.

The poll of 2,000 adults does reveal that two-thirds (67%) would like to read more than they currently do, while nearly half (48%) said they are too busy to read more.

Around 38% said they are rarely in the mood to read, while around a third (35%) said they find it difficult to find books they really like. The survey comes before World Book Night on Sunday.

Reading Agency chief executive Sue Wilkinson, said: “It’s great to see from our research that Brits still love to read, but not surprising that some people feel they are too busy to do so.

“Finding the right book can be key to getting back into the reading habit, and our research shows how influential book recommendations and book gifting can be. So on World Book Night, we are urging keen readers to give a book to someone they know who doesn’t currently read for pleasure.”

List of books adults are most likely to claim they’ve read,
when they’ve actually seen the film, in order of popularity:

1. James Bond books, Ian Fleming
2. Lord Of The Rings, JRR Tolkien

3. The Chronicles Of Narnia, CS Lewis
4. The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown

5. The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
6. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh

7. The Wizard Of Oz, L Frank Baum
8. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding

9. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
10. The Godfather, Mario Puzo

11. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
12. Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn

13. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini

The online survey questioned 2,000 British people in March.

https://007fanart.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/fan-fiction-shadows-of-death-2/

RichardTheBruce

April 22nd

1950: Lee Tamahori is born--Wellington, New Zealand.

1963: From Russia With Love films at the Sophia Mosque in Istanbul.

1976: Ken Adam directs construction of the 007 sound-stage at Pinewood Studios.

2008: Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design begins its run, eventually ending 28 June, at the Fleming Collection, 13 Berkeley Street, London. The same day, The Trustees of The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation publish Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design.

Ian Fleming and the art of book design

See the complete article here:

https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/10-april-2008/ian-fleming-and-the-art-of-book-design/

By System Administrator April 16, 2008 12:08 am

Those who blinked and missed the Royal Mail’s set of stamps featuring James Bond covers back in January should rush to a new exhibition opening next week. Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design is just one part of the author’s centenary celebrations taking place this year, but for designers, it promises to be the best. Covering all of Ian Fleming’s books and a range of archive material, the focus of the show will be firmly on the James Bond novels, beginning with Fleming’s own design for the first one, Casino Royale, published in 1953, and including two subsequent titles art directed by the author, Live and Let Die and Moonraker. The former features the neo-Victorian lettering typical of the then-popular Festival of Britain style, the latter introduces Kenneth Lewis’s flame pattern that would become an integral element of Maurice Binder’s classic 007 titles. What the exhibition clearly shows is how these covers stand strong in their own right, but also combine to paint a fascinating portrait of Britain over the past 60 years. Their designs clearly illustrated Britain’s fast-changing moral attitudes and cultural shifts as designers quickly began to expose the innate animal magnetism of the hero and make obvious a nation’s desire to engage openly with issues such as sex, style, power and politics. The exhibition will incorporate Fleming’s literary legacy with Bond spin-offs by other authors, right up to the yet to be released Devil May Care, Sebastian Faulks’s tribute to Fleming. Like a perfect full stop to the dialogue created by the covers, the cover is designed by The Partners, and features Rankin muse and model Tuuli Shipster, who is a diplomat’s daughter in real life. Fleming couldn’t have made it up.

Bond Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design runs from 22 April to 28 June at the Fleming Collection, 13 Berkeley Street, London W1 For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond is on at London’s Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London SE10 until 1 March 2009

2010: With BOND 23 delayed, rumors fly that Sam Worthington will play Bond.
2012: Michael Wilson assures the Turkish press that filming does not destroy precious buildings of antiquity.
2015: After a scheduled break and minor knee surgery, Daniel Craig resumes filming at Pinewood Studios.

2020: Halle Berry shares the story about how James Bond star Pierce Brosnan saved her life.

When Pierce Brosnan saved Halle Berry from choking

See the complete article here:

https://www.outlookindia.com/new/images/newsscroll/logo.jpg

The News Scroll 22 April 2020 Last Updated at 2:20 pm | Source: IANS

Los Angeles, April 22 (IANS) Actress Halle Berry has shared that "James Bond" star Pierce Brosnan once saved her from choking while filming "Die Another Day".

She made the revelation when she appeared on "The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon", reports dailymail.co.uk.

"I was supposed to be all sexy, trying to seduce him with a fig, and then I end up choking on it and he had to get up and do the Heimlich," said the actress, who was seen as Jinx in 2002''s "Die Another Day".

"That was so not sexy. James Bond knows how to Heimlich! He was there for me, he will always be one of my favourite people in the whole world," added the 53-year-old.

Heimlich is a first-aid procedure to dislodge an obstruction from a person''s windpipe by applying strong pressure to the abdomen between the belly button and rib cage.

It was not the only accident that Berry faced. The actress suffered an injury during an action sequence, being shot in Spain, when debris from a smoke grenade stunt got lodged in her left eye.

Berry was last seen on the big screen in last year''s "John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum" opposite Keanu Reeves. She will next be seen in "Bruised", a drama set in the world of mixed martial arts. She is directing the feature. The actress is also attached to star in a remake of the 1985 classic "Jagged Edge".

--IANS

RichardTheBruce

April 23rd

1943: Hervé Villechaize is born--Paris, France.
(He dies 4 September 1993 at age 50--North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.)

Hervé Villechaize

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

Villechaize in 1977

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

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

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

Early life

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1980, Cleveland International Records released a single by The Children of the World, featuring Villechaize as vocalist: "Why" b/w "When a Child is Born"[9]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Filmography

Chappaqua (1966) as Little Person (uncredited)
Maidstone (1970)
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971) as Beppo
The Last Stop (1972) as Deputy
Greaser's Palace (1972) as Mr. Spitunia
Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (1973) as Bobo
Seizure (1974) as The Spider
Crazy Joe (1974) as Samson
The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) as Nick Nack
Hot Tomorrows (1977) as Alberict
Fantasy Island (TV series, 1977–1983) as Tattoo
The One and Only (1978) as Milton Miller
Forbidden Zone (1980) as King Fausto of the Sixth Dimension
Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) as Little Breather
The Telephone (1988) as Freeway (voice)
Two Moon Junction (1988) as Smiley

Hervé Villechaize (1943–1993)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0898199/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

1953: Ian Fleming's article "2,200 Year Old Wine from Wreck; It Tastes Terrible" published in the Milwaukee Journal confirms what explorer Jacques Cousteau should have suspected all along.

Jacques Yves Cousteau
Un Étudiant Terrible

See the complete article here:

http://www.coopertoons.com/caricatures/jacquescousteau_bio.html

Jacques Yves
Cousteau
(It should have a
hyphen.)

...
After Jacques retired from the Navy, he began working as an independent researcher and film producer. His funding came from various sources. The French government provided some grants and it was Loel Guinness - a titled Englishmen - whose inherited wealth was the wherewithal that let Jacques purchase the Calypso. Loel - not to be confused with the Irish Guinness brewers (whose titled name is Iveagh) - had been a military man himself.

By the mid-1960's Jacques had won another Oscar and had been honored at the White House by John Kennedy. Then in 1968 he began his series, The Underwater World of Jacques Cousteau. Jacques was a household name.

Jacques' research later expanded to more general exploration and he conducted projects with various countries and government agencies. But he is still remembered best for his work beneath the waves. In 1953 Jacques was salvaging the wreck of a ship that had sunk just off the bay of Marseille around 250 BC. Although the ship was Greek, inscriptions indicated that the boat had been owned by Marcus Sestus, a Roman politician and businessman. The excavators hypothesized the boat, hugging the coast as was the navigational custom of the time, had run aground.

The European editor of the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA) came aboard the Calypso and interviewed Jacques. At that point they had just been able to recover deck cargo which included over 1500 amphora - clay wine jars - and many of them still had the clay seals intact and the contents inside.

Jacques approached the discovery of 2000 year old wine like a true fils de France and tried a sample. It was disgusting, he said.

Oh, yes. The NANA editor who interviewed Jacques was a one-time stock broker who had just published what was to be his first novel. His name was Ian Fleming.

A One-Time Stock
Broker
(He interviewed
Jacques.)

...
"2,200 Year Old Wine from Wreck; It Tastes Terrible", Ian Fleming, Milwaukee Journal, April 23, 1953. Yes, this article was written by the Ian Fleming of James Bond fame. He was a reporter and editor for the North American News Alliance.

1964: Parallel to the success of the Eon films, the Los Angeles Times reports Charles K. Feldman's plan to film Bond “with or without” Connery.

2002: Die Another Day films scenes with the Aston Martin "Vanish".

2005: Ian Fleming Publications releases Kev Walker's illustration of thirteen-year-old Young Bond.

2013: Ian Fleming's Casino Royale is one of twenty titles given out on World Book Night.

Books given away on World Book Night

See the complete article here:

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-22266106

23 April 2013

More than 20,000 volunteers have handed out hundreds of thousands of free books
as part of the third World Book Night.

Ian Fleming's James Bond novel Casino Royale and Jojo Moyes' best-seller Me Before You were among the 20 titles being given away.

The event aims to promote literacy in the "spirit of generosity, passion and mass participation".

Each volunteer was due to give out 20 copies of their favourite book to people who do not normally read.

Rose Tremain, whose The Road Home was part of the mass giveaway, described it as a "kind of benign Ponzi scheme for the mighty word".

And Tracy Chevalier, whose historical novel Girl with a Pearl Earring was part of the giveaway, signed up as a volunteer. She was due to hand out Tremain's Orange Prize-winning novel as her book of choice.

Writer and comedian Hardeep Singh Kohli hosted an evening of readings by authors, poets and performers in one of four flagship events across the UK.

His event at London's Southbank on Tuesday was due to feature Irish playwright Sebastian Barry, actor Charles Dance and One Day writer David Nicholls.

Hundreds of libraries, village halls and local book clubs also celebrated World Book Night across the UK. Some 100,000 of the 500,000 books were due to be distributed in hospitals, shelters, care homes, community centres and prisons.

2023: Burlesque for Beginners with James Bond 007 Villainess - Trina Parks at South Fulton Dance Studio, College Park, Georgia.

Burlesque for Beginners with
James Bond 007 Villainess - Trina
Parks

See the complete article here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/burlesque-for-beginners-with-james-bond-007-villainess-trina-parks-tickets-558230882597?aff=ebdssbcitybrowse

Apr 23
Join Trina Parks (the original Black James Bond Villainess - Thumper) for a rare, opportunity. She will teach an intro to Burlesque class.
By Sweet Treats Productions

When and where
Date and time
Sunday, April 23 · 3 - 5pm EDT

Location
South Fulton Dance Studio 5495 Old National Highway Suite B5 College Park, GA 30349

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

About this event
2 hours

Join Trina Parks (the original Black James Bond Villainess - Thumper) for a rare, learning opportunity. She will teach two introductory classes for beginners.

Attendees will build confidence, have fun while learning two routines: Broadway Dance and Burlesque for Beginners during a five week workshop to perform before a live audience on 5/14/23 in Doraville, Georgia.

Organized by
Sweet Treats Productions

Ticket sales end soon
$25 – $150

RichardTheBruce

April 24th

1946: Virginia North is born--London, England.
(She dies 5 June 2004 at age 58--West Sussex, England.)

Virginia North

See the entire article here:

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

Born 24 April 1946 | London, England, United Kingdom
Died 5 June 2004 (aged 58) | East Sussex, England, United Kingdom
Nationality British | Occupation Actress | Years active 1967–1971]

Virginia North, Lady White (24 April 1946 – 5 June 2004) was an Anglo-American actress who appeared in small roles in five films and one TV programme between 1967 and 1971.

Life and career
Born Virginia Anne Northrop in London to a British mother and a U.S. Army father, North spent her early years in Britain, France, Southeast Asia and finally Washington, following her father's military postings. By the mid-1960s she had returned to Britain, where she worked as a model, specialising in swim wear. In 1968 she joined the newly established London agency Models 1, which has since gone on to become one of the major modelling agencies in Europe.

North began her brief film career with small parts in the Bulldog Drummond film Deadlier Than the Male (1967) and the Yul Brynner vehicle The Long Duel (1967). She returned to film two years later as Robot Number Nine in Some Girls Do (1969), the second in the Bulldog Drummond franchise, and as Olympe in two short scenes in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), thus becoming a "Bond girl".

The 1969 Department S episode "The Mysterious Man in the Flying Machine" marked her only television appearance.

Her last and perhaps best-known role was as Vincent Price's silent assistant, the delectably deadly Vulnavia, in the horror comedy The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971).

Personal life
In 1974 North married the wealthy industrialist Gordon White. Later that year she gave birth to her only child, Lucas, who would later become a well-regarded polo player and one of the richest young men in the United Kingdom.[citation needed]

When her husband was awarded a KBE in 1979 for services to British industry, becoming Sir Gordon White, Virginia White became Virginia, Lady White. She and White were divorced in 1991. She never remarried and died at her home in West Sussex, England, in June 2004 after a two-year battle with cancer. She was 58.

Filmography

1967 Deadlier Than the Male (Brenda)
1967 The Long Duel (Champa)
1969 Some Girls Do (Robot No. 9)
1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Olympe)
1971 The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Vulnavia, final film role)

Virginia North (1946–2004)

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0636075/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

2008: BOND 22 stops filming when Aris Cominos crashes an Alfa Romeo near Lake Garda, Limone sul Garda, northern Italy.

Stuntman injured on James Bond set

See the complete article here:

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2008/04/24/stuntman_injured_on_james_bond_set.htm

2011: The inaugural Boscobel Jamaica Air Show celebrates the recent opening of Ian Fleming International Airport, Boscobel, St. Mary.

http://jis.gov.jm/hundreds-at-ian-fleming-airport-air-show-2/

2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases their graphic novel James Bond: Casino Royale.
Ian Fleming, Van Jensen, writers. Dennis Calero, artist. Fay Dalton, cover.

Dynamite introduces James Bond to a new generation of
readers with graphic novel adaptation of Casino Royale

https://borg.com/2018/06/26/dynamite-introduces-james-bond-to-a-new-generation-of-readers-with-graphic-novel-adaptation-of-casino-royale/
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June 26, 2018

The world first met Ian Fleming’s James Bond with the release of the novel Casino Royale in 1953. That first Bond story would be adapted into a newspaper comic strip in the UK in 1958, followed by a film–a satirical comedy version–in 1967 starring David Niven, followed by a dramatic film version in 2006 starring Daniel Craig. But it’s the print comic version, the newspaper adaptation, that received a new retooling of sorts this year. Dynamite Comics tapped writer Van Jensen (Flash, The Six Million Dollar Man: Fall of Man), artist Dennis Calero (Masks, Kolchak), colorist Chris O’Halloran (Lockjaw, Black Panther), letterer Simon Bowland (Red Sonja, Judge Dredd), and vintage cover artist Fay Dalton (Worlds of Tomorrow) to deliver a 2018 update to Casino Royale for a new generation of readers. The result is a rich and elegant new look at Fleming’s first Bond adventure.

From the look of Bond’s classic 1933 Bentley to the French casino where much of the story happens, the tone, mood, and style is fresh while also nostalgic. Jensen balances the extensive dialogue from the original novel to avoid a graphic novel that is merely talking heads. He is most successful at having Bond explain the rules of Baccarat to the reader via a conversation at dinner with M’s assigned companion for him, Vesper Lynd. Calero’s Bond has the steely eyes of Michael Fassbender. At the card table we meet some doppelgangers in this reader’s eyes: Grace Kelly as the American film star, Barbara Bel Geddes as the rich American, Philip Seymour Hoffman as the DuPont heir, Emma Thompson as Mrs. DuPont, Julian Glover as the Belgian, Nigel Green as Lord Danvers, Pete Postlethwaite or Titos Vandis as the Greek. And in Le Chiffre we see a bit of Aleister Crowley (Fleming’s inspiration for the character) mixed with Orson Welles (who played him in the 1967 film), and a little JFK meets Brad Pitt for American CIA agent Felix Leiter.

O’Halloran’s minimalist use of color and Calero’s lack of background detail helps keep the reader engaged, and Calero’s work is particularly interesting visualizing Bond’s thoughts in a way that evokes a Bill Sienkiewicz style. The characters are not reminiscent of actors who have portrayed them previously, leaving readers to experience this version of Casino Royale without any preconceptions, although this version may make fans of the original films wonder how Sean Connery would have played Bond in this tale. The various lettering styles required of the text give more significance to Bowland’s part in telling the story, and O’Halloran’s colors definitely evoke a 1950s world.

Here are some pages from Dynamite’s Casino Royale: [Below]

An appendix includes a behind-the-scenes peek at the script and artwork behind Dynamite’s graphic novel, plus a rundown of all the titles from Dynamite that have carried James Bond in new directions: Kill Chain, Felix Leiter, Hammerhead, Black Box, Eidolon, and Vargr.

For $75, tomorrow a special limited edition of Dynamite’s Casino Royale graphic novel will be available with a tipped-in sheet signed and remarked with a James Bond head sketch by artist Dennis Calero, or for $49.99 you can get a hardcover version with a tipped-in sheet signed by writer Van Jensen. Both of these are only available on order from your local comic book store. Or order a copy of the standard version of the hardcover from your comic shop. The standard hardcover is also available here at Amazon. This looks to be the first of what may be many new graphic novel adaptations of Fleming’s original stories from Dynamite.

C.J. Bunce
Editor
borg.com

Atlanta comics writer Van Jensen takes
James Bond back to the beginning with
“Casino Royale”

See the complete article here:

https://www.artsatl.org/atlanta-comics-writer-van-jensen-takes-james-bond-beginning-casino-royale/

Curt Holman | April 24, 2018

The title You Only Live Twice actually underestimates the number of James Bond’s many lives. Ian Fleming wrote 14 Bond books, and 007 has been played by no fewer than seven actors in 25 films, in addition to appearing in countless satires, follow-up books by various authors, video games and now — a graphic novel.

Atlanta-based comics writer Van Jensen views the many different sides of Bond with an expert eye. Growing up in Western Nebraska, he became interested in the film series as a 13-year-old when GoldenEye was released in 1995. “My cousin and I decided to track down all the Bond movies and watch them in order,” Jensen says. “The Roger Moore ones were my favorite. Growing up in the middle of nowhere, I found them so colorful, so over the top, so absurd; it was a pure escapism that really resonated.”

Atlanta-based comics writer Van Jensen says he’s been a James Bond fan
ever since he came across the films while growing up in Nebraska.
(Holly Renee 2018)

He acknowledges that Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale, which introduced the Bond character in 1953 and which Jensen has adapted into a new graphic novel, is a strikingly different work. “You can’t get much more different than a Roger Moore Bond film like Octopussy and the novel Casino Royale,” he says. “There’s barely a connection beyond the name James Bond.”

Alongside Dennis Calero’s artwork, Jensen strove to retain the seedy cynicism of Fleming’s original book, which bears few traces of the film series’ escapist spectacle. “The gadgets, the action set pieces, the femme fatales, the quips and puns, the novel has pretty much none of that,” Jensen says. “It’s a relatively bleak, fairly slow-moving examination of someone who’s seen the horrors of WWII, survived and entered a new world that’s kind of dangerous and broken.”

The book introduces Bond at the titular French casino, on a mission to bankrupt a cash-strapped criminal and spy called Le Chiffre at the baccarat table, with assistance from the CIA’s Felix Leiter and the ambiguous British agent Vesper Lynd. Calero’s spare, moody art feels more faithful to the book’s noir influences than the films’ globetrotting glamour.

Jensen broke into comics writing with his original series Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer and has written for established superheroes such as The Flash and The Green Lantern Corps. In the early 2010s, Dynamite Entertainment attained the rights to publish new James Bond comics, and Jensen pitched some ideas for Bond stories. While those didn’t pan out, Dynamite came back to Jensen with the notion of adapting Casino Royale.

Jensen’s concepts had to meet the approval of not just the publisher but the Ian Fleming estate, which had very specific requirements for the book. “The sort of marching orders were, ‘This needs to be as close to the original as possible.’ No updating baccarat, no new set pieces, and much of Fleming’s original lines. It was a challenging gig; lots of text doesn’t make for good comics.”

He struck a particularly careful balancing act with the book’s treatment of women. In the adaptation as in the original, Bond reflects that “women were for recreation,” and at one point his assistant Mathis describes Vesper as having “splendid, er, protuberances back and front.”

Jensen did not want to gloss over the book’s sexism and misogyny. “Even if you approach it from a dumb, masculine vantage point, there’s nothing sexy about it; it’s just clueless and gross,” he says. “I don’t buy into saying ‘Well, that was a different era’ as a blanket protection of crappy behavior. Instead, let’s use it as a conversation starter. There’s a lot of James Bond that’s toxic masculinity wrapped up in a tuxedo. I think we can go back and say, the character is what he is, but he’s not what you should want to be. If you read the book, I trust that the last thing you should want is to be anything like James Bond.”

He admits there were parts of the original that crossed a line for him. “I gave [the Fleming estate] three things from the novel that were grossly misogynist. I said, ‘I just can’t write this. I can’t have my name on these phrases.’ And they were like, ‘Please cut that.’”

The need to hew close to the source material, as well as the book’s sexual anxieties, led to one of Jensen’s favorite sequences, set in a hospital after Le Chiffre has tortured Bond with a carpet beater. “Bond has had his nuts pummeled and is laid up in a hospital bed for two chapters,” says Jensen. “The least visually interesting thing is someone sitting in hospital bed, talking to people. The narration has this really deep dive into his doubt and fear that he will be impotent. I asked myself, ‘What in God’s name can I do? I can’t just leave him sitting there!’”

Jensen’s solution was to design a two-page spread with Bond’s interior monologue in word balloons and a close-up of his eyes superimposed over the technical schematics of his signature handgun – the symbol of his masculinity literally dismantled. “It’s an example of when you have really strict narrative restraints, it spurs creativity. And that’s an example of how comics can do things that other media can’t. That’s my favorite part of the whole book, and one of my favorite things I’ve ever written.”

Jensen has already written the script for Fleming’s follow-up, Live and Let Die, which he describes as having more action that fits with film-fan expectations. Illustration hasn’t begun, so he can’t predict a publication date, but he says that soon enough he will have Bond returning to Her Majesty’s Secret Service.

https://www.firstcomicsnews.com/james-bond-casino-royale-preview/

2020: PrintMag shares Santeri Lohi's poster visions.

Branding Bond: 24
Minimalist James Bond
Posters

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Last week, we wrote about Matt Needle’s James Bond poster project, in which he’s creating a poster for every single James Bond movie leading up to the delayed No Time to Die—and soon after, we heard from Finnish-born, UK-based designer Santeri Lohi, who recently completed his own Bond poster challenge.

Lohi works in the branding world, and finds himself perpetually striving to boil his design down to the essentials, which you can see in his output below, capturing all the Bond films he grew up loving.

As he says, “The 007 universe is full of gadgets, colorful characters and villains with crazy, elaborate plans. The task of distilling all this into one simple poster concept is challenging, but equally satisfying when a good idea finally strikes after banging your head against the wall for hours. I was able to keep to my self-imposed deadline of releasing one of these per day, and I’ll certainly be treating myself to a vodka martini for accomplishing that mission. I should have already.”

Here, in chronological order, is Lohi’s concept-rich and Easter Egg–laden full set.

2021: A seminar at Institut für England- und Amerikastudien (Institute for English and American Studies), Frankfurt, addresses For Your Eyes Only? James Bond in the Times of Black Lives Matter. (Homework: For Your Eyes Only, Skyfall, Spectre.)

For Your Eyes Only?James Bond in the Times of
Black Lives Matter

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https://moodle.studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de/moodle/enrol/index.php?id=1257

Trainer/in: Prof. Dr. Karin Ikas

Zugeordnete Person Zuständigkeit
Ikas, Karin, Apl. Prof. Dr. verantwortlich
Institut für England- und Amerikastudien

Veranstaltungsart:
Hauptseminar ('Advanced Seminar') als Blockveranstaltung
Bem. zu Zeit und Ort

Sessions take place as follows:
Intro Session: Monday, 12 April 2021 (18-21 o’clock)
Block Session I: Saturday, 24 April 2021 (10-16 o’clock, ZOOM 10-13 o’clock)
Block Session II: Saturday, 15 May 2021 (10-16 o’clock, ZOOM 10-13 o’clock)
Block Session III: Saturday, 12 June 2021 (10-16 o’clock, ZOOM 10-13 o’clock)

Kommentar
“For Your Eyes Only” is the title and theme song of the 1981 spy film starring Roger Moore as James Bond, which, in turn, is the altogether 12th film in the James Bond Series produced by Eon Productions. It marked a significant change towards more credible film plotlines and more realistic geo-political issues, yet raised questions about Bond’s white (male) gaze, the limited role of the Bond girl and the audience’s viewing perspective. Now, 40 years later, the release of the 25th film in the James Bond Series entitled No Time to Die, has been postponed twice and rumors about the reshooting of scenes due to outdated electronic gadgets make headlines. Yet, is it only electronic and digital innovations that the producers should keep in mind in this context? How about modifications due to (recent) socio-political movements like Black Lives Matter with their continued call for anti-discriminative treatments of people of all wakes of life, irrespective of color, gender, sexual orientation, age, etc.? Whose ‘eyes’ and perspectives have the producers of the earlier as well as the later James Bond movies primarily focused on and transferred to the audience in the past and nowadays?

This seminar takes a critical look at these challenging issues in the James Bond film franchise with a particular focus on For His Eyes Only and the James Bond films of the New Millennium, starring Daniel Craig as fictional MI6 agent 007. We study heroism and villainy and analyze intersections with gender, class, place, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Furthermore, we discuss the popular cultural impact of the Bond films in past and present.

Participants are encouraged to add their voices to the ongoing debates and to contribute different media samples that are relevant to the topics being discussed and appropriate in light of academic and educational purposes.

Literatur
Primary and secondary works:
Participants need to familiarize themselves with the movies For Your Eyes Only (1981), Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2016) during the semester break.

A reader with relevant critical texts will be available at the local copy shop Script & Copy.
Voraussetzungen

Please note that the seminar will be taught online via Zoom and Moodle. All students must be registered for this class and also need to register with Moodle: https://moodle.studiumdigitale.uni-frankfurt.de/moodle/

2023: Taschen publishes The James Bond Archives - No Time To Die Edition in hardcover.

The James Bond Archives: "No Time To
Die" Edition (Hardcover)

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Universe: James Bond
Author: Taschen
Published by: Taschen

£45.00 RRP £60.00

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Product Description
“Bond, James Bond.” Since Sean Connery uttered those immortal words in 1962, the most dashing secret agent in the history of cinema has been charming and thrilling audiences worldwide. This impeccably British character created by author Ian Fleming has starred in 25 EON-produced films, played by six different actors over five decades.

EON Productions opened their archives of photos, designs, storyboards, and production materials to editor Paul Duncan, who spent two years researching over one million images and 100 filing cabinets of documentation. The result is the most complete account of the making of the series, covering every James Bond film ever made, beginning with Dr. No (1962) and ending with No Time To Die (2021), including the spoof Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again (1983).

The wealth of previously unpublished photography, set designs, storyboards, and production memos is supplemented by an oral history recounted by over 150 cast and crew. From producers to stuntmen, directors to production designers, these personal narratives relate the true inside story from the Bond sets, offering outstanding insight into the personalities and processes behind the most successful and longest-running film franchise in cinema history. This book is a comprehensive tribute to the legend of James Bond.

The updated edition includes exclusive photography and new interviews with Daniel Craig, director Cary Fukunaga, producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli, and many others, revealing the full story behind the making of the emotionally charged No Time To Die.

Made with unrestricted access to the Bond archives, this book recounts the history of James Bond in words and pictures

Among the 1,100 images are many previously unseen stills, on-set photos, memos, documents, storyboards, posters, and designs, plus unused concepts, and alternative designs

Behind-the-scenes stories from the people who were there: producers, directors, actors, screenwriters, production designers, special effects technicians, stuntmen, and other crew members

Includes every Bond film from Dr. No (1962) to No Time To Die (2021)

Product Specifications
Author
Taschen
Publisher
Taschen

Type
Books
Universe
James Bond
Binding
Hardback
Cat. No.
5696970
EAN
9783836589321
ISBN
9783836589321