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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  September 29 Posts: 13,719

  2021: No Time To Die release in the UK, Denmark, Finland, Cyprus, Greece, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, India, Italy, Cambodia, Malaysia, Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, Thailand.

  

  
  2021: Sem Tempo Para Morrer release in Brazil.

  
  
  

  2021: 007: Sem Tempo Para Morrer release in Portugal.

  
  

  2021: Sin Tiempo Para Morir release in Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia.

  
  

  
  2021: Keine Zeit zu sterben release in Germany.

  
  
  
  

  2021: James Bond 007 - Keine Zeit zu Sterben release in Austria.

  
  

  
  2021: 007：生死有時 (007: Life and death time) release in Hong Kong.

  

  
  2021: Не время умирать release in Russia.

  
  

  2021: 007: Не час помирати (007: Do not forget the time) release in Ukraine.

  
  

  2021: Није време за умирање (It's not time to die) release in Serbia.

  

  
  2021: Za smrt nema vremena (There is no time for death) release in Croatia.

  
  

  2021: Není čas zemřít release in Czechia.

  
  
  
  

  2021: Ni čas za smrt release in Slovenia.

  

  2021: Nie je čas zomrieť release in Slovakia.

  
  
  

  2021: Nincs idő meghalni release in Hungary.

  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  September 30 Posts: 13,719

  October 1st
  
  1903: Richard Loo is born--Maui, Hawaii.
  (He dies 30 November 1983 at age 80--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  RICHARD LOO,
  ACTOR 5 DECADES

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/22/obituaries/richard-loo-actor-5-decades.html

  Nov. 22, 1983
  
  Richard Loo, a Chinese-American actor best known for his many portrayals of Japanese villains in World War II movies, died in Los Angeles on Sunday night at the age of 80.
  
  Mr. Loo, who was born in Maui, Hawaii, appeared in nearly 150 films over the course of almost 50 years in the movie business. ''He was known as the man who died to make a living,'' said his daughter Beverly Jane Loo.
  
  ''He was always either stabbing himself or committing hara-kiri or kamikaze,'' she said. ''He always played the big honcho who was really going to make life tough for the Americans, the really nasty Japanese general or colonel who ended up killing himself as a point of honor because he never got the best of the Americans.''
  
  Among Mr. Loo's movies were ''The Purple Heart,'' ''God Is My Co-pilot,'' ''Story of Dr. Wessell,'' ''Keys of the Kingdom,'' ''The Good Earth,'' ''The Bitter Tea of General Yen,'' and ''Back to Bataan.''
  
  In later years, he frequently appeared on television, and was featured in the ''Kung Fu'' television series. He was also the subject of impersonation by others; during his own television heyday, Dick Cavett was fond of doing Richard Loo imitations, particularly a scene from ''Purple Heart'' in which Mr. Loo, as a Japanese general, interrogated American fliers shot down in a raid over Tokyo.
  
  According to Miss Loo, Mr. Loo did not mind the typecasting that dominated his career. ''He felt very patriotic about being in those movies,'' she said.

  Mr. Loo's last film was a 1974 James Bond movie called ''The Man With the Golden Gun,'' in which he played a Chinese capitalist who financed the villain.

  He is survived by his wife, Hope; two daughters, Beverly Jane, the head of Beverly Jane Loo Associates, a New York book publishing company, and Angela Levy of Los Angeles, and one grandchild. His former wife, Bessie Loo, served as his agent and maintains her own talent agency, Bessie S. Loo Associates, in Los Angeles.

  
  Richard Loo (I) (1903–1983)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0519618/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (172 credits)
  
  1981 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) -Kam Chong
  - East Winds (1981) ... Kam Chong
  
  1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - Chen Lee
  - The Secret of the Jade Kwan Yin (1977) ... Chen Lee
  1977 Police Story (TV Series) - Eddie Lee
  - The Blue Fog (1977) ... Eddie Lee
  1976 The Quest (TV Series) - Dr. Li Po
  - Welcome to America, Jade Snow (1976) ... Dr. Li Po
  1976 Collision Course: Truman vs. MacArthur (TV Movie) - Chiang-Kai-Shek
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Hai Fat
  1972-1974 Kung Fu (TV Series) - Master Sun / Ho Fai, The Weapons Master / Wu Chang / ...
  - Besieged: Cannon at the Gates (1974) ... Master Sun
  - The Devil's Champion (1974) ... Ho Fai, The Weapons Master
  - Arrogant Dragon (1974) ... Wu Chang
  - The Tong (1973) ... Chen
  - Blood Brother (1973) ... Master Sun
  1974 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV Series) - Tanaka
  - The Attacker (1974) ... Tanaka
  1973 McCloud (TV Series) - Y.S. Chen
  - The Solid Gold Swingers (1973) ... Y.S. Chen (uncredited)
  1973 Ironside (TV Series) - Lin Chu Tai
  - In the Forests of the Night (1973) ... Lin Chu Tai
  1972 The Delphi Bureau (TV Series) - Shen Si
  - The Deadly Little Errand (1972) ... Shen Si
  1972 The Sixth Sense (TV Series) - Matsuo
  - With This Ring, I Thee Kill! (1972) ... Matsuo
  1971 Chandler - Leo
  1971 One More Train to Rob - Mr. Chang
  1970 Which Way to the Front? - Japanese Naval Officer (uncredited)
  1970 One More Time (uncredited)
  1968-1970 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Wong / Dr. Langpoor / Clown
  - Project "X" (1970) ... Wong
  - Payoff in the Piazza (1969) ... Dr. Langpoor
  - A Case of Red Turnips (1968) ... Clown
  1970 Bewitched (TV Series) - Mr. Tanaka
  - Samantha's Better Halves (1970) ... Mr. Tanaka
  
  1969 Here Come the Brides (TV Series) - Chi Pei
  - Marriage, Chinese Style (1969) ... Chi Pei
  1969 Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series) - Kenji Yamashita
  - A Matter of Humanities (1969) ... Kenji Yamashita
  1968 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Wong Tou
  - Twenty-Four Karat Kill (1968) ... Wong Tou
  1967 My Three Sons (TV Series) - Mr. Chang
  - Weekend in Paradise (1967) ... Mr. Chang
  1967 Family Affair (TV Series) - Mr. Chen
  - The Mother Tongue (1967) ... Mr. Chen
  1966 The Sand Pebbles - Major Chin
  1966 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Dr. Yahama
  - The Indian Affairs Affair (1966) ... Dr. Yahama
  1966 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Wong
  - Jeannie and the Kidnap Caper (1966) ... Wong
  1966 The Wild Wild West (TV Series) - Wang Chung
  - The Night the Dragon Screamed (1966) ... Wang Chung
  1966 The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV Series) - Admiral Osuma
  - The Lamb Who Hunted Wolves: Part 2 (1966) ... Admiral Osuma
  - The Lamb Who Hunted Wolves: Part 1 (1966) ... Admiral Osuma
  1965 Burke's Law (TV Series) - Grass Slipper
  - Deadlier Than the Male (1965) ... Grass Slipper
  1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) - Li Tung
  - Time Bomb (1965) ... Li Tung
  1965 Honey West (TV Series) - Tog - Chinese Fine Arts Thief
  - The Owl and the Eye (1965) ... Tog - Chinese Fine Arts Thief
  1965 I Spy (TV Series) - Mr. Tsung
  - So Long, Patrick Henry (1965) ... Mr. Tsung
  1963 Perry Mason (TV Series) - Mr. Eng
  - The Case of the Floating Stones (1963) ... Mr. Eng
  1963 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Liu Yang
  - The Widow O'Rourke Story (1963) ... Liu Yang
  1963 The Outer Limits (TV Series) - Li-Chin Sung
  - The Hundred Days of the Dragon (1963) ... Li-Chin Sung
  1963 The Dakotas (TV Series) - George Yang
  - The Chooser of the Slain (1963) ... George Yang
  1963 Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) - C.K. Yang
  - Two Too Many (1963) ... C.K. Yang
  1962 The Red Uncle (Short)
  1962 A Girl Named Tamiko - Otani
  1962 Diamond Head - Yamagata (uncredited)
  1962 Sam Benedict (TV Series) - Andrew Ling
  - So Various, So Beautiful (1962) ... Andrew Ling
  1962 Confessions of an Opium Eater - George Wah
  1962 The Beachcomber (TV Series) - Ah Wei
  - Charlie Six Kids (1962) ... Ah Wei
  1961 Espionage: Far East
  1961 Bonanza (TV Series) - General Mu Tsung
  - Day of the Dragon (1961) ... General Mu Tsung
  1961 7 Women from Hell - Sgt. Takahashi
  1961 Follow the Sun (TV Series) - District Attorney
  - The Woman Who Never Was (1961) ... District Attorney
  1961 Maverick (TV Series) - Lee Hong Chang
  - The Golden Fleecing (1961) ... Lee Hong Chang
  1960-1961 Hong Kong (TV Series) - Chung / Low
  - Suitable for Framing (1961) ... Chung
  - The Jade Empress (1960) ... Low
  
  1959 The Scavengers
  1958 Hong Kong Affair - Li Noon
  1958 The Quiet American - Mr. Heng
  1958 Tombstone Territory (TV Series) - Quong Key
  - Tong War (1958) ... Quong Key
  1957 Battle Hymn - Gen. Kim (scenes deleted)
  1956 Around the World in 80 Days - Hong Kong Saloon Manager (uncredited)
  1955-1956 TV Reader's Digest (TV Series) - Lew Gar Mun / Officer
  - The Smuggler (1956) ... Lew Gar Mun
  - The Brainwashing of John Hayes (1955) ... Officer
  1954-1956 Cavalcade of America (TV Series) - Ho Chung
  - Diplomatic Outpost (1956) ... Ho Chung
  - Ordeal in Burma (1954)
  1956 Four Star Playhouse (TV Series) - Jo-Kai
  - Wall of Bamboo (1956) ... Jo-Kai
  1956 The Man Called X (TV Series) -
  - Assassination (1956)
  1956 The Conqueror - Captain of Wang's Guard
  1956 Crossroads (TV Series) - Colonel
  - Calvary in China (1956) ... Colonel
  1956 Navy Log (TV Series) - General Hashimoto
  - Dr. Van (1956) ... General Hashimoto
  1955 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Robert Hung
  1955 House of Bamboo - Inspector Kito's Voice (voice, uncredited)
  1955 Soldier of Fortune - Gen. Po Lin
  1954 The Bamboo Prison - Commandant Hsai Tung
  1954 My Little Margie (TV Series) - Mr. Tang
  - San Francisco Story (1954) ... Mr. Tang
  1954 December Bride (TV Series)
  - The Chinese Dinner (1954)
  1954 The Shanghai Story - Junior Officer
  1954 Living It Up - Dr. Lee
  1954 Hell and High Water - Hakada Fujimori
  1953 China Venture -0 Chang Sung
  1953 Fireside Theatre (TV Series) - Major Chang
  - The Traitor (1953) ... Major Chang
  - I Cover Korea (1953)
  1953 Summer Theatre (TV Series)
  - Foo Young (1953)
  1953 Mr. & Mrs. North (TV Series) - John Wing
  - Jade Dragon (1953) ... John Wing
  1953 Destination Gobi - Commanding Officer, Japanese POW Camp (uncredited)
  1953 Target Hong Kong - Fu Chao
  1952 5 Fingers - Japanese Ambassador (uncredited)
  1951 I Was an American Spy - Col. Masamato
  1951 Operation Pacific - Japanese Fighter Pilot (uncredited)
  1951 Chinatown Chump (Short) - Chinese Counterfeiter
  1951 The Steel Helmet - Sgt. Tanaka
  
  1949 Malaya - Colonel Genichi Tomura
  1949 The Clay Pigeon - Ken Tokoyama - aka The Weasel
  1949 State Department: File 649 - Marshal Yun Usu
  1948 Rogues' Regiment - Kao Pang
  1948 The Golden Eye - Undetermined Secondary Role (scenes deleted)
  1948 The Cobra Strikes - Hyder Ali
  1948 Half Past Midnight - Lee Gow
  1948 To the Ends of the Earth - Commissioner Lu (uncredited)
  1948 Women in the Night - Col. Noyama
  1947 Beyond Our Own - James Wong
  1947 Web of Danger - Wing
  1947 Seven Were Saved - Colonel Yamura
  1947 The Beginning or the End - Japanese Officer (uncredited)
  1946 Tokyo Rose - Colonel Suzuki
  1945 Prison Ship - Capt. Osikawa
  1945 First Yank Into Tokyo - Col. Hideko Okanura
  1945 Back to Bataan - Maj. Hasko
  1945 China's Little Devils - Colonel Huraji
  1945 China Sky - Col. Yasuda
  1945 God Is My Co-Pilot - Tokyo Joe
  1945 Betrayal from the East - Lt. Cmdr. Miyazaki, alias Tani
  1944 The Keys of the Kingdom - Lt. Shon
  1944 The Story of Dr. Wassell - Chinese Doctor on Train (uncredited)
  1944 The Purple Heart - General Ito Mitsubi
  1943 Rookies in Burma - Colonel Matsuda (uncredited)
  1943 Jack London - Japanese Ambassador (uncredited)
  1943 So Proudly We Hail! - Japanese Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited)
  1943 Destroyer - Japanese Submarine Commander (uncredited)
  1943 Behind the Rising Sun - Japanese Officer Dispensing Opium (uncredited)
  1943 Yanks Ahoy - Japanese Submarine Officer (uncredited)
  1943 China - Lin Yun
  1943 The Falcon Strikes Back - Jerry
  1943 The Amazing Mrs. Holliday - General Chan (uncredited)
  1943 Flight for Freedom - Mr. Yokahata (uncredited)
  1943 City Without Men - Japanese Spy (uncredited)
  1942 Star Spangled Rhythm - Emperor Hirohito - 'Sweater, Sarong & Peekaboo Bang' Number (uncredited)
  1942 Road to Morocco - Chinese Announcer (uncredited)
  1942 Flying Tigers - Dr. Tsing (uncredited)
  1942 Manila Calling - Filipino (uncredited)
  1942 Across the Pacific - First Officer Miyuma
  1942 Wake Island - Mr. Saburo Kurusu (uncredited)
  1942 Little Tokyo, U.S.A. - Oshima
  1942 Bombs Over Burma - Japanese Colonel
  1942 Submarine Raider - Chauffeur Suji (uncredited)
  1942 Remember Pearl Harbor - Mandolin-Playing Japanese Radioman (uncredited)
  1942 A Yank on the Burma Road - Commandant (uncredited)
  1941 Secret of the Wastelands - Quan
  1941 They Met in Bombay - Japanese Officer (uncredited)
  1941 Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery - Henchman (uncredited)
  1940 Doomed to Die - Tong Leader
  1940 The Fatal Hour - Jeweler
  
  1939 Barricade - Colonel Commander of Rescue Party (uncredited)
  1939 Daughter of the Tong - Wong - Hotel Clerk
  1939 Island of Lost Men - Gen. Ahn Ling
  1939 Lady of the Tropics - Delaroch's Chauffeur (uncredited)
  1939 Miracles for Sale - Chinese Soldier in Demo (uncredited)
  1939 Mr. Wong in Chinatown - Tong Chief
  1939 Panama Patrol - Tommy Young
  1939 Torchy Blane in Chinatown - Masked Chinese Hood (uncredited)
  1939 North of Shanghai - Jed's Pilot
  1938 Shadows Over Shanghai - Fong
  1938 Too Hot to Handle - Charlie (uncredited)
  1938 Blondes at Work - Sam Wong (uncredited)
  1937 Thank You, Mr. Moto - Cop at Shooting Site (uncredited)
  1937 West of Shanghai - Mr. Cheng
  1937 That Certain Woman - Elevator Operator (uncredited)
  1937 Outlaws of the Orient - The General (uncredited)
  1937 The Singing Marine - Shanghai Hotel Official (uncredited)
  1937 The Soldier and the Lady - Tartar (uncredited)
  1937 China Passage - Lia Sen's Husband (voice, uncredited)
  1937 Lost Horizon - Shanghai Airport Official (uncredited)
  1937 The Good Earth - Chinese Farmer (uncredited)
  1936 After the Thin Man - Lichee Club Headwaiter (uncredited)
  1936 Stowaway - Chinese Merchant (uncredited)
  1936 Mad Holiday - Li Yat (uncredited)
  1936/II Shadow of Chinatown - Chinese Man on Street (uncredited)
  1936/I Shadow of Chinatown - Loo, Chinese Man on Street [Chs. 5-7] (uncredited)
  1936 Roaming Lady - Chinese Seaman (uncredited)
  1935 China Seas - Chinese Inspector at Gangplank (uncredited)
  1935 Captured in Chinatown - Ling Hatchet Man (uncredited)
  1935 Shadows of the Orient - Yung Yow - Chinese Henchman (uncredited)
  1935 Stranded - Chinese Groom (uncredited)
  1934 The Mysterious Mr. Wong - Bystander Outside Store (uncredited)
  1934 Limehouse Blues - Customer at Harry Young's (uncredited)
  1934 The Painted Veil - Chinese Peasant (uncredited)
  1934 Student Tour - Geisha's Customer (uncredited)
  1934 Now and Forever - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
  1932 The Bitter Tea of General Yen - Capt. Li
  1932 The Secrets of Wu Sin - Charlie San
  1932 War Correspondent - Bandit (uncredited)

  
  Sergeant Tanaka in Sam Fuller's The Steel Helmet
  
  
  

  
  1959: Ian Fleming sends nephews Christopher, David, and Valentine Fleming ‎£100 for their 21st birthdays (late for David and Valentine). With conditions.

  "Until now I had not got enough money to get people presents
  that were really presents, but now I send each of you ‎£100 on one
  condition--that at least ‎£75 must be spent within a month on one
  single object, or two or three objects, which you would really
  like to have."

  1959: Kinematograph Weekly announces pre-production on the film project James Bond of the Secret Service, with Ian Fleming writing an original script for producer Kevin McClory. Filming planned to start February 1960.
  1959: Ian Fleming writes to Ivar Bryce about Jack Whittingham.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 8 - Enter Jack Whittingham

  Fleming wrote to Bryce on 1 October in
  glowing praise of the new writer: "Whittingham, whom I think I told you I
  greatly liked, is fiddling about most creatively with the story."

  
  1960: James Bond comic strip Dr. No ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 23 May 1960. 584-697)
  John McLusky, artist. Peter O'Donnell , writer.

  
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  Swedish Semic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1973.php3?s=comics&id=01777

  Döden På Jamaica
  (Death At Jamaica- Dr No)
  

  
  Danish 1965 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-4-1964/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 4: “Dr. No” (1965)
  "Doktor No"
  
  
  

  1963: This month the New York Herald Tribune prints "Agent 007 in New York".

  https://james-bond-literary.fandom.com/wiki/007_in_New_York

  

  1964: Dr. No re-released in the UK.
  1965: From Russia With Love released in Belgium.
  1965: This month Marvel Comics introduces the character Desmond Boothroyd, S.H.I.E.L.D. Armorer.

  
  
  https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Desmond_Boothroyd_(Earth-616)
  
  
  Strange Tales Volume 1, #137
  
  http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix2/boothroyd.htm

  
  1976: Moonraker films Richard Kiel as Jaws.
  
  1982: NBC-TV premieres detective show Remington Steele, starring Pierce Brosnan and Stephanie Zimbalist.

  
  

  
  
  
  

  1987: The Living Daylights released in Belgium.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 12 of 65 "Pompei and Circumstance" in Italy.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Pompeii and Circumstance
  Season 1 - Episode 12

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807114/?ref_=ttep_ep12
  

  The Worm's plan to ransack the ancient treasury temple of Pompeii spells disaster for the city above.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Alan Oppenheimer ... Cricket (voice)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / The Worm / Slug (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Kath Soucie ... Luisa (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)
  

  
  James Bond Jr Episode 12 Pompei and Circumstance
  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  1992: This month Marvel comics releases James Bond Jr #10 Friends Like These", featuring Dr. Derange.

  
  James Bond Jr #10 "Friends Like These"
  https://comicvine.gamespot.com/james-bond-jr-10-friends-like-these/4000-36306/user-reviews/

  

  
  James Bond Jr Issue 10 Friends Like These
  http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-010/

  

  1993: Original release month for the cancelled Dark Horse comic James Bond 007: A Silent Armageddon #4.
  John M. Burn, artist. Simon Jowett, writer.

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

  
  

  A Silent
  Armageddon -
  Unreleased Issue
  Synopses and
  Artwork

  https://www.comicsroyale.com/goldeneyetopps-comics#/a-silent-armageddon/

  Simon Jowett’s Bond story was never completed which is a shame because it’s an interesting tale with beautiful painted artwork by John M. Burns, but delays in said artwork meant that readers were left with a cliffhanger and a story was lost to the ether.
  
  According to Jowett, issue #3 was completed, artwork and all, and submitted but never saw publication. If you have information or access to this comic then we Bond fans would love to see it so feel free to contact me!
  
  In this gallery you’ll find issue synopses for the unfinished arc and cover artwork tests by the very talented Burns. And although issue #3 is still a mystery, thanks to friend of the site Colin Brown we have pencils and layouts for the unpublished issue #4!
  
  For more Bond action by Jowett, you can track down the thankfully completed two-issue series James Bond 007: Shattered Helix, featuring art by David Jackson and David Lloyd. For more fine artwork by John Burns, check out the John M. Burns Art Facebook page!
  https://www.facebook.com/groups/578915125862920/

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: Adele is confirmed as the singer of the title song "Skyfall".
  2015: Sony's Made for Bond advertisement with Moneypenny and the Xperia Z5 premieres in the UK.

  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Video of the title theme "No Time To Die" sung by Billie Eilish released.

  Billie Eilish - No Time To Die (Official Music Video) (3:59)
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  October 1 Posts: 13,719

  October 2nd
  
  1926: Tom Pevsner is born--Dresden, Germany.
  (He dies 18 August 2014 at age 80--Fife, Scotland.)

  

  Tom Pevsner

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Born Thomas C. Pevsner, 2 October 1926, Dresden, Germany
  Died 18 August 2014 (aged 87), Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
  Nationality British
  Alma mater University of Cambridge
  Occupation Assistant film director and producer
  Years active 1953–95
  Parent(s) Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, Lola Pevsner

  Tom Pevsner (2 October 1926 – 18 August 2014) was a British assistant film director and producer whose career spanned more than four decades.
  
  He was the second of three children born to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, an architectural historian of Russian-Jewish origin. The family emigrated from Germany in 1933 to escape the Nazi regime.
  
  He served in the British Army from 1944 to 1948 before studying modern languages at the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the St John's College Film Society. He was editor of The Cambridge Review; after graduating he went to work at the Film Finance Corporation.

  Tom Pevsner's s notable credits include assistant director on The Ladykillers (1955) The Longest Day (1962) and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) and as producer for Dracula. He worked as associate, then executive producer on every James Bond film from For Your Eyes Only to GoldenEye. His contribution to the Bond series is acknowledged in the later Bond film Spectre, when Q states that he is staying at a hotel named Pevsner.

  He died in 2014 aged 87. He was included in the In Memoriam tribute during the broadcast of the 87th Academy Awards on 22 February 2015.

  
  Tom Pevsner (1926–2014)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0678932/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (27 credits)
  
  1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (assistant director)
  
  1969 Sinful Davey (assistant director)
  1967 The Day the Fish Came Out (assistant director)
  1967 The Night of the Generals (assistant director)
  1964 Topkapi (assistant director)
  1963 Ladies Who Do (assistant director)
  1962 The Longest Day (assistant director)
  1962 The Counterfeit Traitor (assistant director)
  1961 One, Two, Three (assistant director)
  1961 The Devil's Daffodil (assistant director)
  1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (assistant director)
  1960 The City of the Dead (assistant director)
  1960 The Savage Innocents (assistant director)
  
  1959 Portrait of a Sinner (assistant director)
  1959 The Scapegoat (assistant director)
  1958 Indiscreet (assistant director)
  1958 Gideon of Scotland Yard (assistant director)
  1957 All at Sea (assistant director)
  1957 The Shiralee (assistant director)
  1957 Decision Against Time (assistant director)
  1956 Who Done It ? (assistant director)
  1955 The Ladykillers (assistant director)
  1955 The Night My Number Came Up (assistant director)
  1954 The Divided Heart (second assistant director - uncredited)
  1954 High and Dry (third assistant director - uncredited)
  1953 The Square Ring (third assistant director - uncredited)
  1953 The Cruel Sea (third assistant director - uncredited)
  
  Producer (10 credits)
  
  1995 GoldenEye (executive producer)
  1989 Licence to Kill (associate producer)
  1987 The Living Daylights (associate producer)
  1985 A View to a Kill (associate producer - as Thomas Pevsner)
  1983 Octopussy (associate producer - as Thomas Pevsner)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only (associate producer)
  
  1979 Dracula (associate producer)
  1977 Julia (associate producer)
  1973 Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (associate producer - as Thomas Pevsner)
  1965 A High Wind in Jamaica (associate producer)
  Hide Hide Production manager (4 credits)
  1975 The Wind and the Lion (production supervisor)
  1974 The Spikes Gang (production supervisor)
  1971 'Doc' (production manager)
  
  1969 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (supervising production manager)
  
  Director (1 credit)
  
  1962 Finden sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält?
  

  
  

  
  1962: Dr. No previewed to the British press at the London Pavilion.
  1967: Com 007 Só Se Vive Duas Vezes (With 007 Only If You Live Twice) released in Brazil.

  

  
  1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Stacey sneaking into Zorin’s mine.

  
  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 13 of 65 "Never Give a Villain a Fair Shake."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Never Give a Villain a Fair Shake
  Season 1 - Episode 13

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807294/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
  

  Walker D. Plank hijacks a ship carrying a device capable of producing powerful earthquakes and threatens to flood Britain with a tidal wave.

  Directed by
  Bill Hutten
  Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
  Corey Burton Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Ed Gilbert Ed Gilbert ... Captain Walker D.Plank (voice)
  Julian Holloway Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
  Mona Marshall Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Jan Rabson Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / Reginald Farragut / Professor Firma (voice)
  Susan Silo Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr Episode 13 Never Give A Villain A Fair Shake
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2008 Puffin releases Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Silverfin as a graphic novel.
  Kev Walker, artist. Charlie Higson, writer.

  Released in the US by Disney Hyperion 2010. Awarded the 2011 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award.
  

  
  https://ebabble.net/silverfin-graphic-novel/
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: Bérénice Marlohe promotes BOND 24 in Russia.
  2012: Adele's Bond title theme is leaked online.
  
  2017: Scientific Games showcases casino slot machines representing Casino Royale, Goldfinger and Diamonds are Forever at the Global Gaming Expo ("G2E"), Sands Expo, Las Vegas. With the rights to all existing and future Bond films.

  
  
  
  Casino Royale
  
  Goldfinger
  
  Diamonds Are Forever
  

  
  2020: The release of No Time To Die moves from February to April 2021.
  All after the originally planned November 2019 debut.
  2021: Announcement says Daniel Craig receives a star 7007 Hollywood Boulevard on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 6 October, next to Roger Moore.
  
  
  
  
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  October 3rd
  
  1960: Bond comic strip Goldfinger begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 1 April 1961. 698-849) John McClusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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

  Goldfinger
  (Part 1) | (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)
  
  
  
  

  1960: Variety reports on a James Bond-Dr. No’ stakes held at London’s Wembley Greyhound Stadium on 28 Sep 1962, anticipating the 5 October 1962 world premiere.
  
  1968: Bond comic strip The Spy Who Loved Me ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 18 December 1967. 603-815) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence , writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_tswlm_review.php3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1967 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

  Operation Spökflyg | Bäddat För Bond... Skräcknatten
  (The Spy Who Loved Me - Part 1) | (The Spy Who Loved Me - Part 2)
  

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

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

  
  Danish 1970 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tag/the-spy-who-loved-me/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 20: “The Spy Who Loved Me, pt. II” (1970)
  
  
  
  
  

  1968: EON announce model George Lazenby to replace Sean Connery in the Bond role.

  

  
  1977: La espía que me amó (The Spy Who Loves Me) released in Spain.
  Catalan L'espia que em va estimar (The Spy That Loved Me).

  
  
  
  

  
  1982: Octopussy films OO7 chased by elephants
  1985: 007 En la mira de los asesinos (007 at the Sight of the Murderers) released in Peru.

  
  
  
  

  1987: 007 Marcado para a Morte (007 Marked for Death) released in Brazil.

  https://www.jamesbondbrasil.com/2017/06/tldl-30/
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 14 of 65 - "City of Gold" in the Caribbean.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - City of Gold

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807282/?ref_=ttep_ep14
  

  Goldie Finger uses the curse of the golden dragon to scare off local people to her plan to melt down an ancient city made of solid gold into her stolen tanker. However, she wasn't counting on James Bond Jr. to arrive at the Caribbean island for a field trip.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Kath Soucie ... Goldie Finger / Barbella / Ivy Digger (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr Episode 13 City of Gold
  
  

  https://jamesbondjronline.angelfire.com/characters/goldie.html
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1992: Sheila Johnston and Joel Silver speculate on the stalled James Bond franchise.

  

  FILM / James Bond, for screen and
  country: Sheila Johnston talks to current
  action king Joel Silver about Bond's
  prospects

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/film-james-bond-for-screen-and-country-sheila-johnston-talks-to-current-action-king-joel-silver-1555168.html

  SHEILA JOHNSTON | Saturday 3 October 1992 00:02
  
  Thirty years after James Bond's screen debut, his reputation has been severely shaken, not stirred. He hasn't been activated for three years, has suffered a serious identity crisis, and is being challenged at the box-office by an American arriviste by the name of Ryan, Jack Ryan.
  
  THE celebrations surrounding Dr No's 30th birthday (the film opened on 5 October 1962) have been clouded by one regrettable absence: Bond himself. The latest 007-movie, which ought to have appeared in the summer of 1991 with its usual biennial regularity, failed to show, and any future productions have vanished in a snowstorm of litigation. Cubby Broccoli, the movies' 83-year-old producer, is suing MGM-Pathe, the distributors, and has announced his decision to sell Danjaq, the company that owns the rights to the Fleming novels.
  
  One reason for all this is the poor performance of the last two Bonds, in which Roger Moore was replaced by Timothy Dalton. The Living Daylights grossed only dollars 55m in the US; the follow-up, Licence to Kill, dipped as low as dollars 16.6m there. The theories of what went wrong fall into two camps: those which feel that the character himself is hopelessly outmoded, and those which maintain that there is life in the old dog yet and that it's the films which have lost their way.
  
  This, emphatically, is the view of Joel Silver, who is in a position to know, being the most successful producer of action movies of recent years (his credits include the Beverly Hills Cops, the Lethal Weapons and the Die Hards). 'I love being in the sequel business,' he says. 'Audiences know what to expect and want to see it, but it's also a challenge; you have to bring something new to each movie. Early on the series-makers were very conscious of the Bond concept: Thunderball was quite a different film from Goldfinger. Towards the end, the films were almost ordinary.'
  
  Silver also believes that the movies erred fatally in ceasing to take themselves seriously: he recalls that his own worst disaster was also his most (late-) Bondian--Hudson Hawk, which featured a wise-cracking hero, an incredible plot and caricatured villains. 'When you make everything a farce, it becomes like toffee.' he says. 'The key to the action genre is that you have to believe everything that's happening could happen. The early Bonds were fantastical, but they did feel reality- based. And, although they had a lot of whimsy, they didn't make fun of themselves either. The late films began to be parodies, like Naked Gun 2 1/2 .'
  
  007 is not altogether dead: US kids have been watching one James Bond Jnr [sic] - Bond's skateboarding teenage nephew, who stars (alongside teen versions of Felix Leiter and Q) in an animated show syndicated to more than 100 American television stations. There are no signs of a live-action comeback, however. Plans were announced last year for a 26-part TV series featuring a less violent, non-smoking, celibate - in short, barely recognisable--Bond, but Broccoli has resisted them stoutly.
  
  At Cannes last May, rumours were flying around that Silver himself hoped to acquire the rights: the producer, it was said, had spoken to Mel Gibson and to Richard Donner, the director of the Lethal Weapons, and had convinced them to commit to three Bond movies. Casting Gibson as the quintessential English hero is not as wild as it sounds: Bond has been played in the past by an American (Barry Nelson - the very first 007, in an hour-long TV drama in the Fifties), a Scot (Sean Connery), an Australian (George Lazenby) and a Welshman (Timothy Dalton).
  
  More importantly, Gibson is a world-famous name. 'Putting in him alone would fresh up the genre,' Silver says. 'He has the same good looks and the same boldness as Connery. And casting an international star would make the film an international vehicle.' That, perhaps, was Broccoli's mistake in casting Dalton, believing that he could - as he had before with Connery - turn a highly respected, but relatively unknown actor into a big box-office draw. 'You can't build a star like you could in the old days. You're better served having a well-known personality; that's the way I would do it.' But Silver's plans have so far come to nought.
  
  Meanwhile, the crypto-Bonds continue: Harrison Ford has taken Patriot Games to dollars 83m at the American box-office so far, and has just signed to play the central character, Jack Ryan, in four more films adapted from Tom Clancy's novels - a contract rumoured to bring him a cool dollars 50m. And, of course, there are Silver's own new breeds of hero.
  
  But Silver is scornful of the idea that these will ever take Bond's place in the popular consciousness, or that he himself, having failed to secure the franchise, might one day field a thinly-disguised 007 clone. 'Some of the reviews of the Die Hards referred to them as blue-collar Bonds. But Bond is an icon. He's part of our communal lives and will go through generations. He's magic! He's not just a man who's a spy - he's James Bond! That's what I think is so valuable and that's why I think he should not be lost.'

  The Living Daylights, 6.30pm, tonight, ITV; Thirty Years of James Bond, 9.30pm, tonight ITV

  1992: ITV from London airs The Living Daylights plus a 50 minute special 30 Years of James Bond.

  

  
  2008: "Another Way to Die" premieres on BBC's Channel 4.
  
  2016: Dynamite Entertainment announces a Felix Leiter comic for January 2017 release.
  Aaron Campbell, artist. James Robinson, writer.

  

  2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origin #2.
  Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND ORIGIN #2

  https://dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244702011
  Cover A: John Cassaday
  Cover B: David Mack
  Cover C: Kev Walker
  Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Cover E: Bob Q
  Writer: Jeff Parker
  Art: Bob Q
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: October 2018
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 10/3/2018

  The epic account of James Bond's exploits during World War II continues! After barely surviving the Clydebank Blitz, James is determined to enter the Royal Marines, despite being two years too young. He'll need to rely on a family friend to help him through, where he'll begin training alongside the best and brightest that the United Kingdom has to offer. But his military training becomes dangerous, when it's discovered there's a German mole in their midst.
  
  By superstar JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger)!

  
  
  
  
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  October 4th
  
  1883: The Orient Express begins service.

  

  Tea & Madeleine | November 11, 2017
  Orient Express

  

  An Icon of Art Deco Design
  
  The inaugural Orient Express service launched on 4 October 1883. During its time, the train carried passengers including Tolstoy, Trotsky, Marlene Dietrich, Lawrence of Arabia and the spy Mata Hari. To the present day, movies about the service have starred Sean Connery (The Spy Who Loved Me From Russia With Love, 1963), Kenneth Branagh, Penelope Cruz, Johnny Depp and Judi Dench (Murder on the Orient Express, 2017), among others. And let’s not forget its crucial role in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

  

  The Venice Simplon-Orient Express is the most storied set of carriages in the world. It promises to take you not just across Europe, but to transport you back in time. With its polished wood, sumptuous upholstery and antique fixtures, the train epitomises the glamour and elegance of the Golden Age of travel.
  
  The carefully restored 1920s cabins are rich with craftsmanship. Plush sofas provide the perfect spot to watch the scenery unfold. At night, climb the upholstered ladder to your upper berth or cosy up under crisp sheets on the bottom bunk. Art Deco interiors and Lalique glassware conjure the romance and glamour of the Roaring Twenties.
  
  The luxurious dining car, where scenes for Murder on the Orient Express and other movies were filmed, is now in the OSE museum of Thessalonica. The local authorities plan to refit the train to make it available for tourist use around the Balkans in the near future.

  

  Classic routes on the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express take in such fabled European cities as London, Paris, Venice, Berlin, Prague, Vienna and Budapest. But this experience really is all about the journey. As you glide through lush, rolling countryside and majestic mountains, you’re encouraged to savour every moment.
  
  The glamour and rich history of the Orient Express has frequently lent itself to the plot of books such as Travels with my Aunt by Graham Greene written in 1969, From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming written in 1956 and of course Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie written in 1934.

  

  
  1953: Baruh Djaki Karyo (aka Tcheky Karyo) is born--Istanbul, Turkey.
  1956: Christoph Waltz is born--Vienna, Austria.
  1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
  
  1962: Roger Moore first appears as Leslie Charteris' The Saint in the UK television series of the same name. Episode 1 "The Talented Husband" starred Shirley Eaton.

  
  

  

  1965: The Daily Express serializes Ian Fleming's short story "Octopussy".

  https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2012/06/daily-express-illustrations-by-robb.html
  
  
  

  
  1966: You Only Live Twice films the assassination of Aki.

  

  1967: Agente 007 - Si vive solo due volte released in Italy.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1971: Hoyte Van Hoytema is born--Horgen, Switzerland.
  
  1984: Rachel McDowall is born--Whiston, Merseyside, England.
  1988: Kim Sherwood is born--Camden, England.
  
  1990: Nora Noel Jill Bennett dies at age 58--Kensington, London, England.
  (Born 24 December 1931--Penang, Malaysia.)

  

  Jill Bennett (British actress)

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

  Nora Noel Jill Bennett (24 December 1931 – 4 October 1990) was an English actress, and the fourth wife of playwright John Osborne.
  
  Early life
  She was born in Penang, the Straits Settlements, to British parents, educated at Prior's Field School, an independent girls boarding school in Godalming, and trained at RADA. She made her stage début in the 1949 season at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford upon Avon, and her film début in The Long Dark Hall (1951) with Rex Harrison.
  
  Career

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

  She made forays into television, such as roles in Play for Today (Country, 1981), with Wendy Hiller, and as the colourful Lady Grace Fanner in John Mortimer's adaptation of his own novel, Paradise Postponed (1985). Among several roles, Osborne wrote the character of Annie in his play The Hotel in Amsterdam (1968) for her. But Bennett's busy schedule prevented her from playing the role until it was screened on television in 1971.[1]
  
  She co-starred with Rachel Roberts in the Alan Bennett television play The Old Crowd (1979), directed by Lindsay Anderson.
  
  Personal life
  She was the live-in companion of actor Godfrey Tearle in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She was married to screenwriter Willis Hall and later to John Osborne. She and Osborne divorced acrimoniously in 1978. She had no children.
  
  Death
  She died by suicide in October 1990, aged 58, having long suffered from depression and the brutalising effects of her marriage to Osborne (according to Osborne's biographer). She did this by taking an overdose of Quinalbarbitone. Osborne, who was subject during her life to a restraining order regarding written comments about her, immediately wrote a vituperative chapter about her to be added to the second volume of his autobiography. The chapter, in which he rejoiced at her death, caused great controversy.
  
  In 1992, Bennett's ashes, along with those of her friend, the actress Rachel Roberts (who also died by suicide, in 1980), were scattered by their friend Lindsay Anderson on the waters of the River Thames in London. Anderson, with several of the two actresses' professional colleagues and friends, took a boat trip down the Thames, and the ashes were scattered while musician Alan Price sang the song "Is That All There Is?" The event was included in Anderson's autobiographical BBC documentary Is That All There Is? (1992).

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

  Actress (62 credits)
  
  1990 The Sheltering Sky - Mrs Lyle
  
  1989 A Day in Summer (TV Movie) - Miss Prosser
  1988 Hawks - Vivian Bancroft
  1987 Worlds Beyond (TV Series) - Elizabeth Berrington
  - The Barrington Case (1987) ... Elizabeth Berrington
  1986 Paradise Postponed (TV Mini-Series) - Lady Grace Fanner
  - The Simcox Inheritance (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
  - Faith Unfaithful (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
  - The Gods of the Copy Book Headings (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
  - Enigma Variations (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
  - And a Happy New Year to You, Too! (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
  1986 Lady Jane - Mrs. Ellen
  1985 Time for Murder (TV Series) - Sonia Barrington
  - The Murders at Lynch Cross (1985) ... Sonia Barrington
  1984 Poor Little Rich Girls (TV Series) - Daisy Troop
  - The Gentlemen Caller: Part 2 (1984) ... Daisy Troop
  - The Gentleman Caller (1984) ... Daisy Troop
  - Tit for Tat (1984) ... Daisy Troop
  - The Oriental Chest (1984) ... Daisy Troop
  - Lonely as a Crowd (1984) ... Daisy Troop
  1983 The Aerodrome (TV Movie) - Eustasia
  1982 Britannia Hospital - Dr. MacMillan: Medicos
  1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Alice Carlion
  - Country (1981) ... Alice Carlion
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Jacoba Brink
  1980 Orient-Express (TV Mini-Series) - Jane
  - Jane (1980) ... Jane
  
  1979 The Old Crowd (TV Movie) - Stella
  1977 The Haunting of Julia - Lily Lofting
  1976 Almost a Vision (TV Movie) - Isobel
  1976 Murder (TV Series) - Lola
  - Hello Lola (1976) ... Lola
  1975 Mr. Quilp - Sally Brass
  1975 Aquarius (TV Series documentary) - Maria
  - The Three Marias (1975) ... Maria
  1974 Late Night Drama (TV Series) - Jill
  - Ms or Jill and Jack (1974) ... Jill
  1974 Intent to Murder (TV Movie) - Janet Preston
  1972 I Want What I Want - Margaret Stevenson
  1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series)
  - The Hotel in Amsterdam (1971)
  1971 Speaking of Murder (TV Movie) - Annabelle Logan
  1970 Julius Caesar - Calpurnia
  1969 Rembrandt (TV Movie) - Geertje
  1968 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Penelope
  - Its Only Us (1968) ... Penelope
  1968 Inadmissible Evidence - Liz
  1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Mrs. Duberly
  1968 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Anna
  - The Parachute (1968) ... Anna
  1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Mary Hass
  - Brainscrew (1966) ... Mary Hass
  1966 ABC Stage 67 (TV Series) - Frida Holmeier
  - Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn? (1966) ... Frida Holmeier
  1965 The Nanny - Aunt Pen
  1965 The Skull - Jane Maitland
  1956-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Masha / Marjorie Wilton / Gilda / ...
  - We Thought You'd Like to Be Caesar (1965) ... Marjorie Wilton
  - A Choice of Coward #4: Design for Living (1964) ... Gilda
  - A Midsummer Night's Dream (1964) ... Helena
  - Three Sisters (1963) ... Masha
  - The Rainmaker (1963) ... Lizzie
  1964 First Night (TV Series) - Libby Beeston
  - How Many Angels (1964) ... Libby Beeston
  1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Mistress Patience Wright
  - The Frantick Rebel (1964) ... Mistress Patience Wright
  1963 Maupassant (TV Series)
  - Foolish Wives (1963)
  1962-1963 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Hilary / Victoria Thomson
  - The Sponge Room (1963) ... Hilary
  - Storm in a Teacup (1962) ... Victoria Thomson
  1960-1962 Somerset Maugham Hour (TV Series) - Annette
  - The Book Bag (1962)
  - The Unconquered (1960) ... Annette
  1962 The Cheaters (TV Series) - Ferba Martinez
  - Time to Kill (1962) ... Ferba Martinez
  1960 The Concrete Jungle - Maggie
  1956-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Stella / Lily / Agnes Madinier / ...
  - Thunder on the Snowy (1960) ... Stella
  - Hand in Glove (1959) ... Lily
  - The Web of Lace (1958) ... Agnes Madinier
  - Ring Out the Old (1956) ... Isa
  1960 Return to the Sea (TV Movie) - Penelope Belford
  1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Rena
  - Other People's Houses (1960) ... Rena
  
  1959 A Glimpse of the Sea (TV Movie) - Penelope Belford
  1954-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Anne-Marie / Catherine Sloper / Barbara Shearer / ...
  - Figure of Fun (1959) ... Anne-Marie
  - The Heiress (1958) ... Catherine Sloper
  - Statue of David (1958) ... Barbara Shearer
  - Do It Yourself (1957) ... Grette Brinson
  - Night Was Our Friend (1955) ... Sally Raynor
  1959 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Trilby O'Ferrall
  - Trilby (1959) ... Trilby O'Ferrall
  1957 Do It Yourself (TV Series) - Assistant
  1957 Villette (TV Mini-Series) - Lucy Snowe
  - Episode #1.6 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
  - Episode #1.5 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
  - Episode #1.4 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
  - Episode #1.3 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
  - Episode #1.2 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
  1957 Peace and Quiet (TV Movie) - Josephine Elliott
  1956 Lust for Life - Willemien
  1956 The Extra Day - Susan
  1956 The Anatomist (TV Movie) - Mary Belle
  1955 Murder Anonymous (Short) - Mrs. Sheldon
  1954 Corsican Holiday (Short) - The Girl (voice)
  1954 Aunt Clara - Julie Mason
  1954 Hell Below Zero - Gerda Petersen
  1953 The Pleasure Garden (Short) - Miss Kellerman
  1953 The Nine Days' Wonder (TV Movie) - Miss Smith
  1952 Moulin Rouge - Sarah
  1951 The Long Dark Hall - First Murdered Girl
  
  Writer (1 credit)
  
  1984 Poor Little Rich Girls (TV Series) (idea - 8 episodes)
  - The Gentlemen Caller: Part 2 (1984) ... (idea)
  - The Gentleman Caller (1984) ... (idea)
  - Tit for Tat (1984) ... (idea)
  - The Oriental Chest (1984) ... (idea)
  - Lonely as a Crowd (1984) ... (idea)

  
  
  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 15 of 65 - "Never Lose Hope."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Never Lose Hope

  Season 1 Episode 15
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807295/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  A new science teacher at Warfield Academy, Miss Eternal, quickly makes herself popular with the pupils - but is soon kidnapped, apparently by agents of S.C.U.M..

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Benjamin Pollack ... (writer)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Kath Soucie ... Miss Hope Eternal (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr Episode 15 Never Lose Hope
  
  

  Miss Hope Eternal
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1999: The Radioactive label releases the single for the Garbage title song "The World Is Not Enough" a week early, following an unauthorized leak on Los Angeles airwaves. B side "Ice Bandits".

  
  
  
  

  
  2012: Media reports reveal the casting of Ben Whishaw as Q.

  

  Ben Whishaw to update James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  
  https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/entertainment/film-tv/news/ben-whishaw-to-update-james-bond-28876896.html[/center]

  

  Ben Whishaw stars as Q in the new Bond film
  October 4 2012 11:12 AM
  
  James Bond producers have revealed they cast Ben Whishaw as 007's gadget guru Q in a bid to update the franchise - but they hope he plays the role into his old age.
  
  The 31-year-old British actor - who stars in BBC One drama The Hour - will make his debut as Q opposite Daniel Craig in new film Skyfall later this month.
  
  Producer Michael G Wilson said: "The decision was made to make him a younger man, as would be the case these days. Let's hope he goes on as long as Desmond Llewelyn did."
  
  The Welsh actor played Q in 16 Bond films until he died aged 85 in 1999. Q has not appeared in the last two films.
  
  The film franchise - which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year - began when Albert R 'Cubby' Broccoli secured the rights to Ian Fleming's novels, which he later passed on to his children.
  
  His youngest daughter Barbara Broccoli said: "Cubby used to say, 'This is the goose that laid the golden egg, keep it safe.'
  
  "One of the things he said was we're temporary people making permanent decisions. When you have a franchise, and you're invested in it as emotionally as we are, you make decisions based on the health of the franchise going forward."
  
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  2012: Vintage Publishing release the 6 remaining Fleming Bond novels in paperback.

  

  
  2022: Waterstone's presents John Higgs speaking to his book Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche.

  

  

  Oct 04
  Love and Let Die: An Evening
  with John Higgs - Liverpool

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-and-let-die-an-evening-with-john-higgs-liverpool-tickets-407930199207

  Join us for a wonderful evening as we hear all about John Higgs' new book, Love and Let Die: Bond, the Beatles and the British Psyche.
  By Waterstones
  
  When and where
  Date and time
  Tue, 4 Oct 2022, 18:30 BST
  
  Location
  Waterstones 12 College Lane Liverpool L1 3DL United Kingdom

  The Beatles are the biggest band there has ever been. James Bond is the single most successful movie character of all time. They are also twins. Dr No, the first Bond film, and Love Me Do, the first Beatles record, were both released on the same day - Friday 5 October 1962. Most countries can only dream of a cultural export becoming a worldwide phenomenon on this scale. For Britain to produce two on the same windy October afternoon is unprecedented.
  
  Bond and the Beatles present us with opposing values, visions of Britain, and ideas about male identity. Love and Let Die is the story of a clash between working class liberation and establishment control, and how it exploded on the global stage. It explains why James Bond hated the Beatles, why Paul McCartney wanted to be Bond, and why it was Ringo who won the heart of a Bond Girl in the end.
  
  Told over a period of sixty dramatic years, this is an account of how two out-sized cultural monsters continue to define our aspirations and fantasies and the future we are building. Looking at these touchstones in this new context will forever change how you see the Beatles, the James Bond films and six decade.

  John Higgs is the author of I Have America Surrounded, The KLF, Stranger Than We Can Imagine, Watling Street, The Future Starts Here, William Blake Now and William Blake VS The World. He lives in Brighton with his wife and their two children.

  
  

  
  2022: Live EON Productions and David Arnold charity concert The Sound of 007 - LIVE from the Royal Albert Hall, London, England.

  

  Prime Video to Stream 25
  James Bond Films, and will
  Premiere The Sound of 007
  Documentary and The Sound
  of 007: LIVE from the Royal
  Albert Hall Music Special in
  Celebration of the Legendary
  Franchise’s 60th Anniversary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://press.amazonstudios.com/us/en/press-release/prime-video-to-stream-25-james-bond-films-and-will

  Sep 29, 2022
  
  Prime Video also unveiled the official posters and trailers for The Sound of 007 and the franchise’s 60th anniversary celebration
  
  Downloadable assets: The Sound of 007 OFFICIAL TRAILER; The Sound of 007 OFFICIAL POSTER; 60 Years of Bond OFFICIAL TRAILER; 60 Years of Bond OFFICIAL POSTER

  CULVER CITY, California—September 29, 2022—Prime Video announced today that 25 James Bond films will be available to stream in the U.S., U.K, and other key territories as part of the 60th anniversary celebration of the legendary film franchise. Prime Video also unveiled the official posters and trailers for the 60th anniversary celebration and for The Sound of 007, a Mat Whitecross-helmed feature documentary about the remarkable history of six decades of James Bond music that will premiere exclusively on Prime Video in 240 countries and territories worldwide. All 25 of the Bond franchise films and The Sound of 007 will be available October 5.
  
  Additionally, following the live October 4 EON Productions and David Arnold-created charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall, Prime Video will globally stream an exclusive recording of the show—The Sound of 007: LIVE from the Royal Albert Hall. At the event, guest vocalists and a host of stars will perform iconic Bond themes.

  The 25 films coming to Prime Video in the U.S., U.K., Australia, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico/Latin America (excluding Brazil), Spain, and Southeast Asia for a limited time are Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, The Living Daylights, Licence to Kill, GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, Spectre, and No Time To Die. With the exception of No Time To Die, the 24 films will be available for a limited time in territories including Germany, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Brazil.
  
  The Sound of 007 was directed by BIFA- and BAFTA-nominee Mat Whitecross (The Kings, Oasis: Supersonic, The Road to Guantánamo) for Prime Video and MGM. The feature documentary pulls back the curtain on the remarkable history of six decades of James Bond music, taking viewers on a journey from Sean Connery’s Dr. No through to Daniel Craig’s final outing in No Time To Die. Produced by John Battsek at Ventureland, MGM, and EON Productions, the film charts the incredible history of the music, enthralling true tales behind the tunes and famous faces who have recorded some of the most beloved soundtracks in cinema.
  
  The Sound of 007: LIVE from the Royal Albert Hall is an exclusive recording of the official charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall on October 4. Guest vocalists will join a line up curated by five-time Bond composer David Arnold. The concert marks 60 years since the world premiere of Dr. No, the first 007 film, on October 5, 1962. Honoring the franchise’s long tradition of supporting charitable causes, the proceeds of The Sound of 007: LIVE from the Royal Albert Hall will benefit two music charities: Nordoff Robbins and The BRIT Trust. Following the concert, a custom Duesenberg guitar signed by Michael G. Wilson, Barbara Broccoli, David Arnold, and the artists will be auctioned online at Christie’s to raise additional funds for the music charities.
  
  Additional Amazon activations in celebration of the franchise’s 60th include a [RE]DISCOVER: James Bond playlist. Amazon Music customers will be able to listen to the playlist, which will spotlight the iconic songs that have defined the Bond franchise. Amazon Music’s [RE]DISCOVER series showcases carefully curated playlists across various genres and takes listeners on a career-spanning journey of discovery, or re-discovery, through an entire body of musical work.
  
  For more information on Bond’s 60th anniversary and the October 4 official charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall, please visit www.007.com.
  
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  2022: Prime Video premieres The Sound of 007 Documentary and a recording of The Sound of 007: LIVE from the Royal Albert Hall Music Special in Celebration of the Legendary Franchise’s 60th Anniversary.

  
  

  
  
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  1919: Donald Pleasence is born--Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England.
  (He dies 2 February 1995 at age 75--Saint-Paul de-Vence, Alps-Maritimes, France.)

  

  Donald Pleasence OBE

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

  
  Pleasence in London, 1973.
  Portrait by Allan Warren

  Born Donald Henry Pleasence, 5 October 1919, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
  Died 2 February 1995 (aged 75), Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France
  Nationality British
  Education Ecclesfield School
  Occupation Actor, singer, narrator
  Years active 1946–1995
  Spouse(s) Miriam Raymond (m. 1941–1958), Josephine Crombie (m. 1959–1970), Meira Shore (m. 1970–1988), Linda J. Kentwood (m. 1988)
  Children 5, including Angela Pleasence

  Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (/ˈplɛzəns/); 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an

  English character actor. His best known film roles include psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis in Halloween (1978) and four of its sequels, the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape (1963), SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright (1971), and the President of the United States in Escape from New York (1981).

  Early life
  Pleasence was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of Alice (née Armitage) and Thomas Stanley Pleasence, a railway stationmaster. He was brought up as a strict Methodist in the small village of Grimoldby, Lincolnshire. He received his formal education at Crosby Junior School, Scunthorpe and Ecclesfield Grammar School, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. After working as the Clerk-in-Charge at Swinton railway station in South Yorkshire, he decided that he wanted to be a professional actor, taking up a placement with the Jersey Repertory Company in 1939.
  
  Second World War
  In December 1939, Pleasence initially refused conscription into the British Armed Forces, registering as a conscientious objector, but changed his stance in autumn 1940, after the attacks upon London by the Luftwaffe, and volunteered with the Royal Air Force. He served as aircraft wireless-operator with No. 166 Squadron in Bomber Command, with which he flew almost sixty raids against the Axis over occupied Europe. On 31 August 1944, Lancaster NE112, in which he was a crew member, was shot down during an attack upon Agenville, and he was captured and imprisoned in the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft I, where he was treated well reciprocally (like the British treated captured Luftwaffe pilots) in similar prisoner-of-war camps. Here, Pleasence produced and acted in many plays for the entertainment of his fellow captives.
  
  After the war and his release, he was discharged from the R.A.F. in 1946.
  
  Acting career
  Returning to acting after the war, Pleasence resumed working in repertory theatre companies in Birmingham and Bristol. In the 1950s, Pleasence's stage work included performing as Willie Mossop in a 1952 production of Hobson's Choice at the Arts Theatre, London and as Dauphin in Jean Anouilh's The Lark (1956). In 1960, Pleasence gained excellent notices as the tramp in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the Arts Theatre, a role he would again play in a 1990 revival. Other stage work in the 1960s included Anouilh's Poor Bitos (1963-64) and Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth (1967), for which he won the London Variety Award for Stage Actor of the Year in 1968. Pleasence's later stage work included performing in a double bill of Pinter plays, The Basement and Tea Party, at the Duchess Theatre in 1970.
  
  Television
  Pleasence made his television debut in I Want to Be a Doctor (1946). He received positive critical attention for his role as Syme in the BBC version of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) from the novel by George Orwell. The adaptation was by Nigel Kneale and featured Peter Cushing in the lead role of Winston Smith.
  
  Pleasence played Prince John in several episodes of the ITV series The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956–1958). He appeared twice with Patrick McGoohan in the British spy series, Danger Man, in episodes "Position of Trust" (1960) and "Find and Return" (1961). Pleasence's first appearance in America was in an episode of The Twilight Zone, playing an aging teacher at a boys' school in the episode "The Changing of the Guard" (1962). In 1963, he appeared in an episode of The Outer Limits entitled "The Man With the Power". In 1966, he also guest starred in an episode of The Fugitive entitled "With Strings Attached"
  
  In 1973, Pleasence played a sympathetic murderer in an episode of Columbo entitled "Any Old Port in a Storm". Also that year, he played a supporting role in David Winters' musical television adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
  
  He also portrayed a murderer captured by Mrs. Columbo in "Murder Is a Parlor Game" (1979). In 1978, he played a scout, Sam Purchas in an adaptation of James A. Michener's Centennial. Pleasence starred as the Reverend Septimus Harding in the BBC's TV series The Barchester Chronicles (1982). In this series, his daughter Angela Pleasence played his onscreen daughter Susan.
  
  He hosted the 1981 Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live with music guest Fear.
  
  In 1986, Pleasence joined Ronald Lacey and Polly Jo Pleasence for the television thriller Into the Darkness.
  
  Film

  
  Donald Pleasence in the trailer for
  the film Eye of the Devil (1966).

  Pleasence made his big-screen debut with The Beachcomber (1954). Some notable early roles include Parsons in 1984 (1956), and minor roles opposite Alec Guinness in Barnacle Bill (1957) and Dirk Bogarde in The Wind Cannot Read (1958). In Tony Richardson's film of Look Back in Anger (1959), he plays a vindictive market inspector opposite Richard Burton. In the same year, Pleasence starred in the horror films Circus of Horrors directed by Sidney Hayers, playing the role of Vanet, the owner of a circus, and The Flesh and the Fiends as the real-life murderer William Hare, alongside Peter Cushing, George Rose and Billie Whitelaw.

  Endowed with a bald head, a penetrating stare, and an intense voice, usually quiet but capable of a piercing scream, he specialised in portraying insane, fanatical, or evil characters, including the title role in Dr Crippen (1962), the double agent Dr Michaels in the science-fiction film Fantastic Voyage (1966), the white trader who sells guns to the Cheyenne Indians in the revisionist western Soldier Blue (1970), the mad Doctor in the Bud Spencer–Terence Hill film Watch Out, We're Mad! (1974), Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler in The Eagle Has Landed (1976), and the Bond arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice (1967), the first film in which Blofeld's face is clearly seen. His interpretation of the character has become predominant in popular culture considering the popularity of the comic villain, Dr. Evil in the successful Austin Powers film series, which primarily parodies it. In the crime drama Hell is a City (1960), shot in Manchester, he starred opposite Stanley Baker, whilst he was memorably cast in the horror comedy What a Carve Up! (1961) as the “horrible-looking zombie” solicitor opposite Shirley Eaton, Sid James, Kenneth Connor and Dennis Price.

  He appeared as the mild-mannered and good-natured POW forger Colin Blythe in the film The Great Escape (1963), who discovers that he is slowly going blind, but nonetheless participates in the mass break-out, only to be shot down by German soldiers because he is unable to see them. In The Night of the Generals (1967), he played another uncharacteristically sympathetic role, this time as an old-school German general involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler. In 1971, he returned to the realm of the deranged, delivering a tour de force performance in the role of an alcoholic Australian doctor in Ted Kotcheff's nightmarish outback drama Wake in Fright.
  
  Pleasence played Lucifer in the religious epic The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). His character taking on many dark, shadowy human disguises throughout the film was unprecedented in breathing life into the Luke 4:13 phrase "... he left Him until an opportune time ..." He was one of many stars who were given cameos throughout the film.
  
  He also acted in Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac (1966), in which he portrayed the love-sodden husband of a much younger French wife (Françoise Dorléac). He ventured successfully into American cowboy territory, playing a sadistic self-styled preacher who goes after stoic Charlton Heston in the Western Will Penny (1968).
  
  He portrayed SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), opposite Robert Duvall which was the directorial debut of George Lucas. A few years later, he portrayed antagonist Lucas Deranian, in Walt Disney's Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and, in Telefon (1977), Nicolai Dalchimsky, the Russian seeking to start a war between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  
  Pleasence appeared as Dr. Samuel Loomis in John Carpenter's horror film Halloween (1978). The film was a major success and was considered the highest grossing independent film of its time, earning accolades as a classic of the horror genre. He also played the teacher, Kantorek in All Quiet on the Western Front (1979), Dr. Kobras in The Pumaman (1980) and the held-hostage President of the United States in Escape from New York (1981). The rather sinister accent which Pleasence employed in this and other films may be credited to the elocution lessons he had as a child. He reprised his Dr. Sam Loomis role in Halloween II (1981), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995).
  
  Pleasence admired Sir Laurence Olivier,[15] with whom he worked on-stage in the 1950s, and later on the film version of Dracula (1979). Two years earlier, Pleasence did an amusingly broad impersonation of Olivier in the guise of a horror-film actor called "Valentine De'ath" in the film The Uncanny (1977). According to the film critic Kim Newman on a DVD commentary for Halloween II, the reason for Pleasence's lengthy filmography was that he never turned down any role that was offered.
  
  Spoken records and voice-overs
  During the early 1960s, Pleasence recorded several children's-story records on the Atlas Record label. These were marketed as the Talespinners series in the United Kingdom. They were also released in the United States as Tale Spinners for Children by United Artists. The stories included Don Quixote and the Brave Little Tailor.
  
  Pleasence provided the voice-over for the British public information film, The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water (1973). The film, intended to warn children of the dangers of playing near water, attained notoriety for allegedly giving children nightmares.
  
  Books
  Pleasence was the author of the children's book Scouse the Mouse (1977) (London: New English Library), which was animated by Canadian animator/film director Gerald Potterton (a friend of the actor, who directed him in the Canadian film The Rainbow Boys (1973), retitled The Rainbow Gang for VHS release in the United States) and also adapted into a children's recording (Polydor Records, 1977) with Ringo Starr voicing the book's title character, Scouse the Mouse.
  
  In his book British Film Character Actors (1982), Terence Pettigrew describes Pleasence as "a potent combination of eyes and voice. The eyes are mournful but they can also be sinister or seedy or just plain nutty. He has the kind of piercing stare which lifts enamel off saucepans."
  
  Awards
  Pleasence was nominated four times for the Tony Award for best performance by a leading actor in a Broadway play: in 1962 for Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, in 1965 for Jean Anouilh's Poor Bitos, in 1969 for Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth, and in 1972 for Simon Gray's Wise Child.
  
  Pleasence was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his services to the acting profession by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994.
  
  Personal life
  Pleasence married four times and had five daughters from his first three marriages. He had Angela and Jean with Miriam Raymond (m. 1941–1958); Lucy and Polly with Josephine Martin Crombie (m. 1959–1970); and Miranda with Meira Shore (m. 1970–1988). His last marriage was to Linda Kentwood (m. 1988–1995; his death)
  
  Death
  On 2 February 1995, Pleasence died at age 75 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, from complications of heart failure following heart valve replacement surgery. His body was cremated.
  
  Legacy
  The 1995 film Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers was dedicated to Donald Pleasence. The 1998 film Halloween H20: 20 Years Later also features a dedication to Pleasence in the end credits, with sound-alike voice actor Tom Kane providing a voice-over for Loomis in the film. In the 2018 film, Halloween, sound-alike comedian Colin Mahan voiced Loomis.

  Dr. Evil, the character played by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers comedy films (1997–2002), and Doctor Claw from Inspector Gadget are parodies of Pleasence's performance as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.

  Donald Pleasence (1919–1995)
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  1930: John Pearson is born--Epsom, Surrey, England.
  (He dies 13 November 2021 at age 91--Sussex, Canada.)

  

  John Pearson (author)
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pearson_(author)

  John Pearson
  Born 5 October 1930
  Epsom, Surrey, England
  Died 13 November 2021 (aged 91)
  Occupation Writer
  Genre Biography
  Website www.johnpearson.uk

  John George Pearson (5 October 1930 – 13 November 2021) was an English novelist and an author of biographies, notably of Ian Fleming (the creator of James Bond), of the Sitwells, and of the Kray twins.

  Life and career
  Pearson was born in Epsom, Surrey. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he gained a double first in history. He then worked for The Economist, BBC Television and The Sunday Times. He was Ian Fleming's assistant at the Sunday Times and went on to write the first biography of Fleming, The Life of Ian Fleming, published in 1966.
  
  Pearson was commissioned by Donald Campbell to chronicle his successful attempt on the Land Speed Record in 1964 in Bluebird CN7, resulting in the book Bluebird and the Dead Lake.
  
  Pearson had also written "true crime" biographies, such as The Profession of Violence, an account of the rise and fall of the Kray twins, who had hired him to write their biography in 1967. Over the next several years the brothers, who by now were in jail, wrote frequently to Pearson. He wrote two further books about the Krays: The Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of the Krays and Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins. In 2010 Pearson put up for auction more than 160 previously unseen letters and photographs from the Kray twins. The items sold for £20,780.
  
  Another of Pearson's books, The Gamblers, is an account of the group of gamblers who made up what was known as the Clermont Set, including John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and Lord Lucan. Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to the book in 2006. The Gamblers was made into a two-part TV drama, Lucan, starring Rory Kinnear and Christopher Eccleston, broadcast on ITV1 in December 2013.
  
  Pearson's book Facades was the first full-scale biography of the Sitwell siblings Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell. It was published in 1978.
  
  Pearson had also written five novels. Storm Jameson praised his first novel, Gone to Timbuctoo, as "an unusually good first novel, an exciting story, and a splendid setting in French West Africa. The writing is sharp and witty." Malcolm Muggeridge said, "This is an exceptionally brilliant first novel - exciting, wryly funny and perceptive."

  For his next three novels, Pearson did tie-in fictional biographies. Pearson also became the third official author of the James Bond series, writing in 1973 James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, a first-person biography of the fictional secret agent James Bond. However, Pearson declined an offer to write further Bond novels. Pearson then did fictional tie-in works about Upstairs, Downstairs (The Bellamys of Eaton Place) and Biggles.

  Pearson had three children from his first marriage. In 1980, he married his second wife, Lynette, daughter of Ian Hope Dundas of Dundas, 30th Chief of Clan Dundas, and former wife of Timothy Cecil Frankland, grandson of Sir Frederick Frankland, 10th Baronet by his wife Mary (née Curzon), Baroness Zouche, of the family of the Viscounts Curzon.[8] Pearson died on 13 November 2021, at the age of 91.
  
  Bibliography
  Novels
  Gone To Timbuctoo (1962) - winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award
  James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
  The Bellamys of Eaton Place (1976) - published in the U.S. as The Bellamy Saga
  Biggles: The Authorised Biography (1978)
  The Kindness of Dr Avicenna (1982)
  
  Non-fiction
  Biographies
  Bluebird and the Dead Lake (1965) (published in the U.S. as The Last Hero: The Gallant Story of Donald Campbell and the Land Speed Record in 1966)
  The Life of Ian Fleming (1966)
  The Kray Twins series:
  The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins (1972) - nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award
  The Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of the Krays (2001)
  Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins (2010)
  Facades: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell (1978) (published in the U.S. as The Sitwells in 1979)
  Barbara Cartland: Crusader in Pink (1979), first published as by "Henry Cloud" but subsequently republished under his own name
  Stags and Serpents: The Story of the House of Cavendish and the Dukes of Devonshire (1983) (published in the U.S. as The Serpent and the Stag in 1984)
  The Ultimate Family: The Making of the Royal House of Windsor (1986) (published in the U.S. as The Selling of the Royal Family: The Mystique of the British Monarchy)
  Citadel of the Heart: Winston and the Churchill Dynasty (1991) (published in the U.S. as The Private Lives of Winston Churchill)
  Painfully Rich: the Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty (1995)
  Blood Royal: The Story of the Spencers and the Royals (1999)
  One of the Family: The Englishman and the Mafia (2003)
  The Gamblers: John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and the Murder of Lord Lucan (2005)
  Ian Fleming: The Notes (2020)
  
  History
  Airline Detective: The Fight Against International Air Crime (1962) co-written with BOAC Security expert Donald E. W. Fish although Pearson is uncredited
  Arena: The Story of the Colosseum (1973)
  Edward the Rake (1975) (published in the U.S. as Edward the Rake: An Unwholesome Biography of Edward VII)
  
  Politics
  The Persuasion Industry (1965), with Graham Turner
  
  Adaptations
  Goldeneye (1989), telefilm directed by Don Boyd, based on non-fiction book The Life of Ian Fleming
  Lucan (2013), mini-series directed by Adrian Shergold, based on non-fiction book The Gamblers: John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and the Murder of Lord Lucan
  Legend (2015), film directed by Brian Helgeland, based on non-fiction book The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
  All the Money in the World (2017), film directed by Ridley Scott, based on non-fiction book Painfully Rich: the Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty

  
  
  
  

  
  1946: Victor Monroe Armstrong is born--Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England.
  
  1961: Kinematograph Weekly announces the Dr No film production will begin.
  (Broccoli and Saltzman don't yet have an actor for the Bond role.)

  1962: Dr. No premieres at the London Palladium.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1973: Com 007 Viva e Deixe Morrer (With 007 Live and Let Die) released in Brazil.

  
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  1976: The Spy Who Loved me films Wet Nellie emerging onto the beach at Capricccioli, Sardinia, Italy.
  1977: La espía que me amó released in Venezuela.

  
  
  
  
  Christopher Wood Novelization
  
  Later Gaming
  
  
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  1983: Octopussy released in France.

  
  
  

  1983: Newly discovered asteroid is named in honor of Ian Fleming: 9007 James Bond.

  

  9007 James Bond Asteroid

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.universeguide.com/asteroid/9007jamesbond

  James Bond is an asteroid, a large rock that orbits the Sun mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. They tend to be an irregular shaped but Ceres asteroid is known to be spherical in shape but because it doesn't clear its path round the Sun, it is only a dwarf planet.
  
  James Bond was discovered on Oct 5 1983 by Anton Mrkos. Its orbit takes 3.89 years to travel round the Sun.
  
  The absolute magnitude of the object is 13.9 which is the brightness of the object. A higher absolute magnitude means that the object is faint whereas a very low number means it is very bright.
  
  The Aphelion of the object is 2.84994 A.U. which is the point in the orbit that is furthest from the object that it is orbit. At this point, it will then return back to the orbit target. The Perihelion of the object is 2.09805 A.U. which is the point in the orbit that is closest to the object that it is orbit around.
  
  The Semi-Major Axis of the orbit is 2.47399, which is the furthest point from the centre to the edge of an elliptical point.
  
  The orbital inclination, the angle at which James Bond orbits in relation to the orbital plane is 5.859 degrees. The orbital eccentricity is 0.15196, it is the degree at which James Bond orbits close to a circular (0) orbit as opposed to an elliptical (1) orbit.
  
  Agent James Bond, 007, not 9007
  The asteroid is named after the world's most famous and popular M.I.6. secret agent, James Bond. It was chosen to honour the spy after the ID of the asteroid ended in 007, the agent's code number. It was not sponsored by EON Productions or M.G.M., the distributors.

  James Bond Facts

  Type - Asteroid
  Date of Discovery Oct 5 1983
  Discoverer Anton Mrkos
  Orbital Period 3.89
  Absolute Magnitude 13.9
  Aphelion (Furthest) 2.84994 A.U.
  Perihelion (Nearest) 2.09805 A.U.
  Semi-Major Axis 2.47399
  Orbital Inclination 5.859
  Orbital Eccentricity 0.15196

  
  
  

  1986: Two weeks of filming in Vienna begin for The Living Daylights.
  
  2011: MI6 Community members notice Sony domain names indicating the title of BOND 23 is Skyfall.
  2012: Documentary "Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007" limited release in UK theaters, US television
  Directed by Steven Riley; co-written by Riley and Peter Ettudgui.

  
  
  

  2012: XL/Columbia release the Adele title song "Skyfall" single, part of a 50 year celebration of Bond films. Clear Channel air the song for 24 hours on the hour, 180 radio stations. Within a day it racks up 10 million audience impressions and ranked in the top 50 of Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems Radio Songs chart.

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  2014: Geoffrey Lamont Holder dies at age 84--New York City, New York.
  (Born 1 August 1930--Port of Spain, Trinidad.)

  

  Geoffrey Holder, Dancer, Actor,
  Painter and More, Dies at 84

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/07/arts/geoffrey-holder-dancer-choreographer-and-man-of-flair-dies-at-84.html

  Geoffrey Holder, Dancer, Actor, Painter and More, Dies at 84
  By Jennifer Dunning and William McDonald | Oct. 6, 2014

  
  Mr. Holder, the multitalented artist, and ebullient performer died Sunday at 84.
  Credit Erin Combs/Toronto Star, via Getty Images

  Geoffrey Holder, the dancer, choreographer, actor, composer, designer and painter who used his manifold talents to infuse the arts with the flavor of his native West Indies and to put a singular stamp on the American cultural scene, not least with his outsize personality, died on Sunday in Manhattan. He was 84.
  
  Charles M. Mirotznik, a spokesman for the family, said the cause was complications of pneumonia.
  
  Few cultural figures of the last half of the 20th century were as multifaceted as Mr. Holder, and few had a public presence as unmistakable as his, with his gleaming pate atop a 6-foot-6 frame, full-bodied laugh and bassoon of a voice laced with the lilting cadences of the Caribbean.
  
  Mr. Holder directed a dance troupe from his native Trinidad and Tobago, danced on Broadway and at the Metropolitan Opera and won Tony Awards in 1975 for direction of a musical and costume design for “The Wiz,” a rollicking, all-black version of “The Wizard of Oz.” His choreography was in the repertory of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Dance Theater of Harlem. He acted onstage and in films and was an accomplished painter, photographer and sculptor whose works have been shown in galleries and museums. He published a cookbook.
  
  Mr. Holder acknowledged that he achieved his widest celebrity as the jolly, white-suited television pitchman for 7Up in the 1970s and ’80s, when in a run of commercials, always in tropical settings, he happily endorsed the soft drink as an “absolutely maaarvelous” alternative to Coca-Cola — or “the Uncola,” as the ads put it.
  
  Long afterward, white suit or no, he would stop pedestrian traffic and draw stares at restaurants. He even good-naturedly alluded to the TV spots in accepting his Tony for directing, using their signature line “Just try making something like that out of a cola nut.”
  
  Geoffrey Lamont Holder was born into a middle-class family on Aug. 1, 1930, in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, the youngest of five children of Louise de Frense and Arthur Holder, who had immigrated from Barbados. Geoffrey attended Queen’s Royal College, an elite secondary school in Trinidad. There he struggled with a stammer that plagued him into early adulthood.
  
  “At school, when I got up to read, the teacher would say, ‘Next,’ because the boys would laugh,” he said in an oral history interview.
  
  Growing up, Mr. Holder came under the wing of his talented older brother, Arthur Aldwyn Holder, known to everyone by his childhood nickname, Boscoe. Boscoe Holder taught Geoffrey painting and dancing and recruited him to join a small, folkloric dance troupe he had formed, the Holder Dancing Company. Boscoe was 16; Geoffrey, 7.
  
  Geoffrey Holder’s career mirrored that of his brother in many ways. Boscoe Holder, too, went on to become a celebrated dancer, choreographer, musician, painter and designer, and he, too, left Trinidad, in the late 1940s, for England, where he performed on television and onstage.
  
  His brother’s departure put Geoffrey Holder in charge of the dance company, as its director and lead performer, and he took it to New York City in 1954, invited by the choreographer Agnes de Mille, who had seen the troupe perform two years before in St. Thomas, in the Virgin Islands. She arranged an audition for the impresario Sol Hurok. To pay for the troupe’s passage, Mr. Holder, already an established young painter, sold 20 of his paintings.
  
  After dropping his bags at an uncle’s apartment in Brooklyn, he fell in love with the city.
  
  “It was a period when all the girls looked like Janet Leigh and Elizabeth Taylor, with crinoline petticoats and starched hair,” he told The New York Times in 1985. “The songs of that period were the themes from ‘The Moulin Rouge’ and ‘Limelight,’ and it was so marvelous to hear the music in the streets and see the stylish ladies tripping down Fifth Avenue. Gorgeous black women, Irish women — all of them lovely and all of them going somewhere.”
  
  Mr. Holder had the good fortune to arrive in New York at a time of relative popularity for all-black Broadway productions as well as black dance, both modern and folk. Calypso music was also gaining a foothold, thanks largely to Harry Belafonte.

  
  Mr. Holder at the opening of the Broadway musical “The Lion King” in 1997 accompanied by his wife, the dancer Carmen de Lavallade. He made his own Broadway debut in 1954.
  Credit Nancy Siesel/The New York Times

  For a while Mr. Holder taught classes at the Katherine Dunham School, and he was a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet from 1956 to 1958. He continued to dance and direct the Holder dance company until 1960, when it disbanded. In the meantime, at a dance recital, he caught the attention of the producer Arnold Saint-Subber, who was putting together a show with a Caribbean theme.
  
  Thus did Mr. Holder make his Broadway debut on Dec. 30, 1954, as a featured dancer in “House of Flowers,” a haunting, perfumed evocation of West Indian bordello life, with music by Harold Arlen and a book by Truman Capote, based on his novella of the same name. Directed by Peter Brook at the Alvin Theater, it starred Diahann Carroll and Pearl Bailey, and among its dancers was a ravishingly pretty young woman named Carmen de Lavallade. She and Mr. Holder married in 1955, had a son, Léo, and sometimes shared the stage. Both wife and son survive him. Boscoe Holder died in 2007.

  One character Mr. Holder played in the musical was the top-hatted Baron Samedi, the guardian of the cemetery and the spirit of death, sex and resurrection in Haitian Voodoo culture. Mr. Holder relished Samedi: he played him again in the 1973 James Bond film, “Live and Let Die” (the first of the Bond franchise to star Roger Moore), and featured him in his choreography — in his “Banda” dance from the musical “House of Flowers,” and in “Banda,” a further exploration of folk themes that had its premiere in 1982.
  
  His Voodoo villain in “Live and Let Die” was of a piece with much of his sporadic film career: with his striking looks and West Indian-inflected voice, producers tended to cast Mr. Holder in roles deemed exotic. In “Doctor Dolittle” (1967), he was a giant native who ruled a floating island as William Shakespeare (the 10th). In Woody Allen’s “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * but Were Afraid to Ask” (1972), he played a sorcerer. In “Annie” (1982), he was the Indian servant Punjab. (An exception was the 1992 romantic comedy “Boomerang,” in which he played a randy director of commercials working for Eddie Murphy’s playboy advertising executive.)

  Mr. Holder was multitasking before the term gained currency. In 1957, he landed a notable acting role playing the hapless servant Lucky in an all-black Broadway revival of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” directed by Herbert Berghof. The show, just seven months after the play’s original Broadway production, closed after only six performances because of a union dispute, but the role, with its rambling, signature 700-word monologue, lifted Mr. Holder’s acting career.
  
  That same year, he choreographed and danced in a revival of the George and Ira Gershwin musical “Rosalie” in Central Park. And he received a Guggenheim fellowship in painting.
  
  Painting was a constant for him. Whether life was hectic or jobs were scarce, he could usually be found in the SoHo loft he shared with Ms. de Lavallade, absorbed in work that drew on folk tales and often delivered biting social commentary. On canvases throughout the studio, sensuous nudes jostled for space with elegantly dressed women, ghostly swimmers nestled beside black Virgin Marys, bulky strippers seemed to burst out of their skins, and mysterious figures peered out of tropical forests.
  
  His work was shown at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington and at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. And then there was his photography, and his sculpture.
  
  His visual creativity extended to costume designs, “The Wiz” being just one showcase. Another was John Taras’s 1982 production of “The Firebird” for the Dance Theater of Harlem, in which the Russian fairy tale was relocated to a tropical forest. Mr. Holder designed both the sets and the costumes, one of which was a blend of 30 or 40 colors. He earned another Tony nomination for best costume design for the 1978 Broadway musical “Timbuktu!,” an all-black show based on the musical “Kismet.” He also directed and choreographed “Timbuktu!”
  
  Mr. Holder’s dance designs were equally bold. Reviewing a 1999 revival of “Banda” by the Dance Theater of Harlem, Anna Kisselgoff wrote in The Times, “Mr. Holder is a terrific showman, and his mix of Afro-Caribbean rituals, modern dance and even ballet’s pirouettes is potent and dazzling.”
  
  Other Holder dance classics were “Prodigal Prince” (1971), a dreamlike re-creation of the life and work of Hector Hyppolite, the Haitian folk painter, for which he also composed the musical score; and “Dougla” (1974), an evocation of a mixed-race Caribbean wedding. (Dougla refers to people who are of African and Indian descent.)
  
  In 1959, he published a book on Caribbean folklore, Black Gods, Green Islands, written with Tom Harshman and illustrated by Mr. Holder; in 1973, he produced Geoffrey Holder’s Caribbean Cookbook. He himself was the subject of books and documentaries, including “Carmen & Geoffrey” (2009), by Linda Atkinson and Nick Doob.
  
  Mr. Holder said his artistic life was governed by a simple credo, shaped by his own experience as a West Indian child who had yet to see the world.

  “I create for that innocent little boy in the balcony who has come to the theater for the first time,” he told Dance magazine in 2010. “He wants to see magic, so I want to give him magic. He sees things that his father couldn’t see.”

  
  Correction: Oct. 6, 2014
  An earlier version of this obituary misstated Mr. Holder’s age. He was 84, not 83. (His date of birth was correctly given as Aug. 1, 1930.) It also misstated his middle name. It was Lamont, not Richard.
  Correction: Oct. 6, 2014
  
  An earlier version of a picture caption with this obituary misstated Mr. Holder's surname as Holden.
  Correction: Oct. 14, 2014
  
  An obituary last Tuesday about the dancer, choreographer and actor Geoffrey Holder misstated his tenure as a principal dancer for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet. It was from 1956 to 1958, not 1955 and 1956. The obituary also misstated the number of siblings Mr. Holder had. He was the youngest of five children, not “one of four children.”
  A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 7, 2014, Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: Geoffrey Holder, Multitalented Artist, Dies at 84. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe

  
  Geoffrey Holder
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0390305/
  
  Filmography

  Actor (31 credits)
  
  2008 Butterfield (Short) - Mr. Emory
  2008 The Little Wizard: Guardian of the Magic Crystals - Narrator
  2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Narrator (voice)
  2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Video Game) - The Narrator (voice)
  2002-2003 Cyberchase (TV Series) - Master Pi
  - Double Trouble (2003) ... Master Pi (voice)
  - Problem Solving in Shangri-La (2002) ... Master Pi (voice)
  1997-2002 Bear in the Big Blue House (TV Series) - Ray the Sun
  - Welcome to Woodland Valley: Part 2 (2002) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
  - Welcome to Woodland Valley: Part 1 (2002) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
  - Read My Book (1999) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
  - Let's Get Interactive (1999) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
  - I've Got Your Number (1999) ... Ray the Sun (voice)
  (Total 41 episodes)
  2002 Bear in the Big Blue House LIVE! - Surprise Party (Video) - Ray (voice)
  
  1999 Goosed - Dr. Bowman
  1998 Chance or Coincidence - Owner of Soutine's Bar
  1995 Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller (Video Game) - Jean St. Mouchoir (voice)
  1992 Boomerang - Nelson
  1987 Where Confucius Meets the New Wave - Narrator
  1987 Ghost of a Chance (TV Movie) - Johnson
  1986 John Grin's Christmas (TV Movie) - Ghost of Christmas Future
  1983 Great Performances (TV Series) - Cheshire Cat
  - Alice in Wonderland (1983) ... Cheshire Cat
  1982 Annie - Punjab
  1980 ABC Weekend Specials (TV Series) - Jupiter
  - The Gold Bug (1980) ... Jupiter
  
  1976 Swashbuckler - Cudjo
  1975 The Noah - Friday
  1973 Live and Let Die - Baron Samedi
  1973 The Man Without a Country (TV Movie) - Slave on ship
  1972 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask - Sorcerer
  1970 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Paul Trion
  - Nice Girls Marry Stockbrokers (1970) ... Paul Trion
  
  1968 Krakatoa: East of Java - Sailor
  1967-1968 Tarzan (TV Series) - Mayko / Zwengi
  - A Gun for Jai (1968) ... Mayko
  - The Pride of the Lioness (1967) ... Zwengi
  1967 Doctor Dolittle - William Shakespeare X
  1967 Androcles and the Lion (TV Movie) - Lion
  
  1959 Porgy and Bess - Dancer (uncredited)
  1958 The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) - Genie
  - Cole Porter's 'Aladdin' (1958) ... Genie
  1957 Carib Gold - Voodoo Dancer (as Geoffery Holder)
  1957 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) - Calypso Singer
  - The Bottle Imp (1957) ... Calypso Singer
  

  
  
  
  
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  2018: Aston Martin celebrates Global James Bond Day times seven.

  https://www.motor1.com/news/268490/aston-martin-james-bond-day/
  
  
  
  

  2019: EON releases a No Time To Die teaser poster, from Greg Williams.

  
  
  

  
  2020: Margaret Nolan dies at age 76--London Borough of Camden, London, England.
  (Born 29 October 1943--Hampstead, London, England.)

  

  Margaret Nolan dead: Iconic Goldfinger Bond girl has died aged 76

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-margaret-nolan-dead-iconic-22829278

  Film director Edgar Wright has tweeted his sadness at the passing of Margaret Nolan, who starred in Goldfinger as well as Beatles movies and Carry On films
  By James Brinsford Overnight Showbiz/TV Reporter | 12 OCT 2020

  
  James Bond girl Margaret Nolan has died aged 76.

  She starred in 1964 film Goldfinger and was in the iconic credits of the movie and helped publicise the film, dancing in a gold bikini while painted head to toe in gold.
  
  Though she will always be associated with this image, Margaret did not play the role on screen as Shirley Eaton played the gold-painted Bond girl in the film.
  
  Film director Edgar Wright shared the news of her passing on Twitter in a lengthy tribute to the actress, who also starred in the Beatles' Hard Day's Night movie and a series of Carry On films.
  
  The 46-year-old filmmaker tweeted: "It's my sad duty to report that actress and artist, the magnificent Margaret Nolan has passed away.
  
  "She was the middle of Venn diagram of everything cool in the 60's; having appeared with the Beatles, been beyond iconic in Bond and been part of the Carry On cast too."

  
  Margaret Nolan will always be remembered for her part in Goldfinger

  Edgar continued: "She was the gold painted model in the iconic Goldfinger title sequence and poster (she also played Dink in the movie), she appeared in the classic A Hard Day's Night, Carry On Girls, No Sex Please We're British & many others, frequently sending up her own glamourpuss image."
  
  The film director continued to list some of the famous projects that Margaret was involved in.
  
  He added: "She also appeared in five Spike Milligan Q series, Steptoe & Son, The Likely Lads, Morecambe & Wise and The Sweeney.
  
  "She became deeply involved in political theatre and more recently created visual art; deconstructed her own glamour modelling in a series of photomontages."

  
  Margaret Nolan pictured with Bernard Bresslaw on set of Carry On at Your Convenience in 1971

  Edgar concluded his tribute with a personal note about working with Margaret last year.

  He wrote: "I worked with her last year as she plays a small role in Last Night In Soho.
  
  "She was so funny, sharp and, as you might imagine, full of the most amazing stories.
  
  "I’m so glad I got to know her. My heart goes out to her family and all that loved her. She will be much missed."

  Margaret's son, Oscar Deeks, confirmed that she passed away on October 5.
  
  She was born on October 29, 1943 in Somerset but grew up in London.
  
  Margaret began her career as a glamour model, going by the name Vicky Kennedy in the early ’60s, but switched back to her birth name once she began acting.

  

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  2023: Villainous Bond Bear from Steiff celebrates Global James Bond Day.

  

  Steiff Celebrates Global James Bond Day with
  new Villainous Bond Bear

  https://www.anbmedia.com/news/2023/10/steiff-celebrates-global-james-bond-day-with-new-villainous-bond-bear/
  By aNb Mediaaccess_time

  

  Dr No Bear Steiff
  Steiff, the inventors of the teddy bear, first brought James Bond to life in teddy bear form earlier this year with their Limited Edition James Bond “Dr. No” Musical Bear. The Dr. No Numbered Edition is a beautifully made musical bear with an internal wind-up musical box (a unique Steiff attribute), that plays the iconic 007 theme tune. The bear was crafted by hand in a limited edition of 3,000 bears, of which few are still available at Steiff and 007.com.
  
  Few figures are as iconic as the original international man of mystery, secret agent James Bond, cutting a sophisticated picture in his immaculate suit. The character is so widely beloved that all things Bond are celebrated annually on October 5th, in an homage to the date of the World Premiere of the first James Bond Film Dr. No on October 5th, 1962.
  
  But everyone knows a good guy can’t exist without a bad guy…
  
  Enter the Steiff James Bond “Dr Julius No” Villain Teddy Bear, available for pre-order now via Steiff.com and FAO.com.
  
  This unforgettable villain was the first among later cackling, evil characters Bond would be up against, making his debut in the 1962 motion picture that bears his name. This classic nemesis, which everyone loves to hate, has been transformed into a most lovable Teddy bear by the designers and artisans at Steiff. Their version of Dr. No features a mohair body which simulates the character’s costume, right down to its Nehru-style collar. His head is sewn from bamboo viscose, and his arm paw pads are created with faux leather to simulate the villain’s famous leather gloves. The Dr. No and 007 logs are stitched on his foot paws, which are made of suede-like Alcantara.
  
  What makes this bear even more special? There are only 1,962 pieces available in the Limited Edition piece.
  
  He features a white tag Steiff button in his ear, five swivel joints, so that you can move his arms, legs and head, along with safety eyes. The bear comes with a numbered certificate of authenticity within a special James Bond presentation box, making him the perfect gift for the holiday season.

  
  2023: 24-carat gold Agora models of James Bond's Aston Martin are offered for sale.

  

  24-carat gold models of James Bond´s
  Aston Martin on sale for staggering price
  

  https://euroweeklynews.com/2024/09/22/24-carot-gold-models-of-james-bonds-aston-martin-on-sale-for-staggering-price/
  
  By Anna Akopyan • Updated: 23 Sep 2024 •
  24-carot gold models of James Bond´s Aston Martin on sale for staggering price James Bond´s gold Aston Martin Euro Weekly News

  
  James Bond´s gold Aston Martin Credit: Agora Models

  24-carot gold models of James Bond´s Aston Martin will go on sale for £25,000 (€29, 789) to lucky buyers who will own the emblem of the iconic Goldfinger drama.
  James Bond´s gold Aston Martin on sale
  To mark the 60th anniversary of the iconic Bond drama, Goldfinger, a British car kit connoisseurs at Agora Models crafted seven elaborately gorgeous models of James Bond´s golden Aston Martin. Made with the Bond character, Q´s attention to detail, the design includes everything from a radar tracker screen to tyre slashers, rotating number plates, twin front-mounted Browning machine guns, and an ejector seat.
  
  The seven limited edition models will be sold for £25,000 (€29, 789) each. Made in just seven pieces, the miniatures pay homage to Bond´s 077 [sic] codename. “It is the best and most appropriate number of luxury edition kits to be making of this model,” said Clare Foltynie, a founding member of Agora Models. Foltyne shared the team´s thrill of making the models;

  “It´s just a dream come true to have such a beautiful luxury edition of this stunning, iconic vehicle.”
  
  She emphasised how “proud” the team was of making these “absolutely perfect” models, applying uttermost effort; “The green colour on the cables, the detailing of the dashboard, and of course, we all remember sitting watching the movie with our dads in the 1960s and 1970s and just enjoying the moment Bond deployed all of those gadgets.”
  
  The co-founder of Agora Models, James Franks, added; “We took the DB5 from our range and created this ultra-luxury model kit, which is something as founder I´ve always wanted to do, make something really special.” Each model is approximately 7kg, and measures 569mm by 211mm by 173mm; collectors can purchase it as a fully assembled model or as a self-build kit. The exclusive pieces will be on sale on October 5, celebrating the Global James Bond Day.

  Global James Bond Day; celebrating with gold and vodka martini
  On October 5, 1962, the first of the 25 iconic action thrillers, Dr No premiered as the first James Bond movie at the London Pavilion, then receiving a mixed critical reaction and becoming the first of the classic Bond screen adaptations.
  
  In 1961, American producer Albert R “Cubby” Broccoli lit up with the idea to bring Ian Fleming´s James Bond series to the screen.
  
  He had then collaborated with Canadian producer Harry Saltzman, who had optioned the rights to the series and they had secured the financing for $1 million (€894,000) for the first movie million (894,900) for the first film.
  
  Played by Sean Connery, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig, Mr James Bond became the ultimate movie gentleman, representing class, taste, and masculinity. On October 5, movie and book fans worldwide dress up in Bond costumes, order that vodka martini and cheer for “Bond. James Bond.·
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  2024: Prime Video stands ready for James Bond Day. Kind of.

  

  Prime Video Has Made Your James Bond Day
  Celebration Much Easier, But It Reminds Me
  Of Some Issues I Have With Streaming 007

  https://www.cinemablend.com/streaming-news/prime-video-james-bond-day-celebration-easier-issues-streaming-007
  By Mike Reyes
  
  Time for a lesson in the first rule of mass media...
  
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  Timothy Dalton stands at Hemingway House, looking annoyed in Licence To Kill.
  (Image credit: Danjaq, LLC and MGM)

  It’s that time of year, 007 fans! While the 2024 movie schedule doesn’t have a new adventure in store, it’s time for fans of the James Bond movies to celebrate the anniversary of Dr. No first crossing the gun barrel in 1962. With Global James Bond day arriving on October 5th, Prime Video has already made your celebration plans much easier to execute! However, with this joyous news also comes a firm reminder of the issues I’ve had with streaming the world of 007.
  
  The James Bond Series Is Streaming On Prime
  With Some Promising Bonuses
  Let’s start off with the good news, which is that as of today, Amazon’s streaming platform is boasting all 25 James Bond movies for convenient access. The announcement went public earlier, with the following post hitting Prime Video’s social media presence:
  
  Before anyone asks, yes I do own all of the James Bond adventures on disc; and my Bond 50 box set is still falling apart. But what that set can’t offer you is the new bonus features that Amazon MGM Studios have put together for the occasion.
  
  If you head over to Prime Video’s James Bond landing page, you can not only get access to most of the 007 library, but the first of several new featurettes, “007 Destinations,” is currently playing. With three more pieces of bonus features awaiting, it's safe to bet that these beauties will be doled out once a week.
  
  Also, you read my contradictory claim correctly. As of the time of this writing, not all of the James Bond movies are available to Prime Video subscription holders. At least, that’s true for those of you who don’t have a Paramount+ add-on already handy. Which leads to a mini-rant about the issues I’ve had with 00-streaming in the past four years.

  
  Daniel Craig glares angrily in the field in Casino Royale.
  (Image credit: Danjaq, LLC and MGM)

  The State Of James Bond Streaming Continues To Confuse
  As you can see by logging onto Prime Video, as of October 2024, you need a Paramount+ subscription to enjoy the first of Daniel Craig’s James Bond movies, Casino Royale. Once again, the fractured nature of various pockets of 007 titles rears its head, despite Prime Video’s claim to have all 25 online. Which leads me to believe that one of two things has happened.
  
  The two cases that may help this claim maintain validity are that either Casino Royale is leaving Paramount+ in the days to come, or Amazon’s nature as a portal to various subscriptions means that this promise comes with some extra strings. In either event, it helps remind me of why I’m annoyed that Amazon MGM Studios isn’t leveraging its position to keep the entire James Bond collection in its streaming library on a more permanent basis.

  
  Sean Connery standing in M's office in conversation in Never Say Never Again.
  (Image credit: Warner Bros/Danjaq, LLC and MGM)

  That is, of course, setting aside the reason of licensing the pictures out to other platforms, in the name of sweet, sweet revenue. Which I can't fault the company for doing, as we all should believe in a reasonable rate of return. However, even that brings up a lack that we've seen recur whenever Amazon has held court with all 25 EON Productions flicks
  
  While I know that Casino Royale (1967) and Never Say Never Again are unofficial James Bond movies, they’re novelties everyone should be able to partake in. The same goes for the 1953 episode of Climax! that saw Ian Fleming’s first Bond novel adapted with American agent Jimmy Bond as its lead. Long out of print in physical media, easy streaming access would be a win for everyone since newly-minted fans or diehards who haven't seen these oddities would be able to join in on the long held discussions of their eccentricities.

  
  Pierce Brosnan angrily holds Jonathan Pryce by the shirt in Tomorrow Never Dies.
  (Image credit: Danjaq, LLC and MGM)

  Looking at the wider picture, I’m glad that almost the entire James Bond legacy is present on Prime Video’s platform. I still remember when 007’s early pandemic streaming debut was a joy for everyone bummed out over quarantining at home, and I was certainly one of those parties. But we’re in a different age now, and those who’ve stood by this landmark saga for over six decades are ready for something new.
  
  If we still don’t have any word on what’s going on with Bond 26, or when we’re going to get a remastered box set of everything up to No Time To Die in 4K, a dependable streaming platform for the entire lot is the least us fans should be able to enjoy.
  
  Thankfully, we can mostly do just that thanks to 24 of the 25 James Bond movies currently being available to stream on Prime Video. While you’re at it, I highly recommend watching 007: Road to a Million, which is also available on the platform. The competition reality series is a spectacular stopgap as we await James Bond's return.

  Mike Reyes
  Senior Movies Contributor
  Mike Reyes is the Senior Movie Contributor at CinemaBlend, though that title’s more of a guideline really. Passionate about entertainment since grade school, the movies have always held a special place in his life, which explains his current occupation. Mike graduated from Drew University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science, but swore off of running for public office a long time ago. Mike's expertise ranges from James Bond to everything Alita, making for a brilliantly eclectic resume. He fights for the user.

  
  2024: The International Spy Museum celebrates James Bond Day in Washington, District of Columbia.

  

  Celebrate James Bond Day at SPY!
  $7 Tickets for 007 Day

  https://www.spymuseum.org/calendar/celebrate-james-bond-day-at-spy/2024-10-05/

  Rendezvous Info
  Saturday, October 5, 2024
  All Day
  International Spy Museum
  700 L'Enfant Plaza, SW
  Ticketing Info
  Special Exhibit Only: Bond In Motion
  Combo Ticket: Museum + Bond In Motion

  Happy James Bond Day
  
  Join us on Saturday, October 5 as we celebrate global James Bond Day – a celebration of 62 years of the Bond franchise! The special day is noted on October 5th each year to commemorate the World Premiere of the first James Bond film, Dr. No, in 1962.
  
  For one day only on this James Bond Day, the International Spy Museum is offering 00 $7 tickets to our special exhibit, Bond In Motion. The exhibition, in collaboration with EON Productions Archive and the Ian Fleming Foundation, showcases 17 iconic vehicles, all used on-screen by Bond and his allies and adversaries. NOTE: $7 ticket offer applies to single and combo tickets. Valid online and onsite, 10/5/24 only.
  
  GET TICKETS
  Stop by SPY for a day licensed to thrill! Get access to Bond in Motion, enjoy a special Bond In Motion Scavenger Hunt, play Bond Bingo in the Spy Store, be the first to see our new collection of Ian Fleming artifacts, strike your best bond pose in a 007 photo-op, win prizes and more!
  
  In the Museum

  
  Bond In Motion
  SPY is proud to host this official exhibition of iconic vehicles, all used on-screen by 007 and his many allies and adversaries. Bond In Motion features 17 iconic pieces from the EON Productions Archive and the Ian Fleming Foundation.

  
  License to Thrill Exhibit
  View a sample of spy toys and games from past to present and hear intelligence officers comment on the reality and fiction in spy movies.
  https://www.spymuseum.org/bond-and-beyond/

  
  Ian Fleming Display
  NEW | Get an introduction to Ian Fleming, the former British Naval Intelligence officer, who created James Bond. Now on display in our Spying in WWII exhibit.
  https://www.spymuseum.org/exhibition-experiences/about-the-collection/collection-highlights/?filters[category]=james-bond-007&amp;filters[type]=&amp;submit=Submit

  
  2024: Mockingbird Cinema screens The Spy Who Loved Me at Birmingham, England.

  

  
  

  The Spy Who
  Loved Me W'
  Special Guest
  Caroline Munro

  https://mockingbirdcinema.com/MockingbirdCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=4664
  
  To celebrate International James Bond Day on Saturday October 5th 2024 we will be hosting an exciting 007 event at the Mockingbird Cinema.

  We will be screening what is considered the most iconic of all the Bond films, The Spy Who Loved Me in glorious 4K (who can forget the Union Jack parachute scene) and we will be joined on the day by Bond Girl from the film Caroline Munro who played Strombergs assistant Naomi, and will be taking part in a Q+A and autograph/photo session (Photo/autograph charged separately).

  The event will be hosted by DJ Jacqui Carroll who will also be playing all the best songs from the era.
  
  There will be a pre show Pianist playing Bond themes and a Lotus Esprit S1 displayed to get you in the 007 mood.
  
  All attendees will receive a commemorative wristband and one lucky person will win a prize of a signed Caroline Munro event poster.
  
  Only 80 tickets available for this event in the intimate surroundings of our independently owned Cinema priced at just £28 each.
  
  Bond dress optional.
  
  For more details go to Instagram @cult_film_screenings_brum
  
  Onsite bar with great choice of drinks and cinema snacks.
  Scooter friendly parking outside the venue.
  5 minutes walk from Moor St station
  10 mins walk from New St station
  2 mins walk to public pay and display car park.
  
  Times
  Sat 5 Oct 6:30 PM

  Details
  Runtime: 270 minutes
  Director: Lewis Gilbert
  Cast: Roger Moore
  Country: UK
  Year: 1977
  Rating: (PG)

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  October 5 Posts: 13,719

  October 6th
  
  1941: Sir Frank Nelson writes Admiral Godfrey proposing (Fleming's) plan for better relations with the Special Operations Executive.

  

  Ian Fleming and SOE's Operation POSTMASTER: The Top Secret Story Behind 007. Brian Gordon Lett, 2012.

  Fleming had come up with his own idea for smoothing future
  relations between the Admiralty and SOE. He entered into
  discussions with Lieutenant Colonel Taylor, and with Sir
  Frank Nelson, the head of SOE (a civilian, whose name itself as
  the head of an upstart organization probably did not make
  him any more popular with the Admiralty). On 6 October
  1941, Nelson wrote to Godfrey, putting forward Fleming's
  plan for a better working relationship:

  As has been pointed out to us by Fleming, we think
  it would also be a convenience for the Admiralty if
  plans in which they were bound to have an interest,
  and which would therefore have to pass through
  their hands, could be drawn in a form and in
  language which would be familiar to and easily
  understood by them.
  
  Fleming and Taylor have been discussing this
  question, and I think that they both feel that the
  ideal solution would be the transfer to SOE of an officer
  RN, of about the rank of Commander [author's italics],
  who had worked in the Plans Division at the
  Admiralty. Our idea would be to appoint this officer
  as a member of our special planning staff which,
  under Archie Boyle, directs, supervises and checks
  al plans for our various operations.

  Ian Fleming held the rank of Commander, was heavily
  involved in intelligence planning, and Nelson's letter to
  Godfrey strongly suggests that Fleming was hoping that he
  himself might be appointed full time to SOE -- and thereby
  become one of M's secret agents like his brother Peter.
  Fleming did not get his wish. Godfrey was short of
  experienced intelligence officer, and clearly valued
  Fleming's work too highly to give him away to SOE. For the
  time being, at least, the status quo was preserved. Godfrey
  wrote back to Nelson agreeing that greater supervision was
  necessary, but declining the proposal.
  
  Fleming remained a member of Naval Intelligence under
  Rear Admiral Godfrey's command, and continued to act as
  their liaison officer. He clearly got on well with M
  and his team, and was trusted by them.

  1942: Britt-Marie Ekland is born--Stockholm, Sweden.
  
  1962: Joaquin Cosio Figueroa is born--Nayarit, Mexico.
  1967: Casino Royale released in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
  
  1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films OO7 and XXX and Wet Nelly exiting the sea onto the beach.
  
  1983: Never Say Never Again premieres in Los Angeles, California.

  
  
  

  1984: A View to a Kill via John Richardson begins fourth unit filming on the Golden Gate Bridge.
  
  2011: BOND 23 announces the casting of Bérénice Marlohe and Helen McCrory.
  
  2021: Mourir peut attendre (To Die Can Wait) release in France.

  
  

  
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  October 6 Posts: 13,719

  October 7th
  
  1947: John Brosnan is born--Perth, Australia.
  (He dies 11 April 2005--South Harrow, Harrow, London, England.)

  

  John Brosnan
  Science-fiction writer and film critic

  See the complete article here:
  

  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

  
  Summary Bibliography: John Brosnan
  http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?1755
  
  Bibliography

  Fiction Series
  
  Damned and Fancy
  1 Damned & Fancy (1995) also appeared as:
  - Translation: Verflixt und zugehext [German] (1996)
  - Translation: Anderwelt: Buch Eins [German] (2005)
  2 Have Demon, Will Travel (1996) also appeared as:
  -Translation: Hokuspokus Hexenkuß [German] (1997)
  -Translation: Anderwelt: Buch Zwei [German] (2005)
  Anderwelt [German] (2005) [O/1,2]
  
  Mothership
  1 Mothership (2004) also appeared as:
  -Serializations:
  -Translation: Supernave (Complete Novel) [Italian] (2006)
  2 Mothership Awakening (unpublished)
  
  Sky Lords
  1 The Sky Lords (1988) also appeared as:
  -Translation: I Signori dell'Aria [Italian] (1989)
  2 War of the Sky Lords (1989) also appeared as:
  -Translation: I guerrieri dell'aria [Italian] (1990)
  3 The Fall of the Sky Lords (1991) also appeared as:
  -Translation: La fine del dominio [Italian] (1991)
  
  Novels
  
  Skyship (1981)
  Slimer (1983) with Leroy Kettle also appeared as:
  -Variant: Slimer (1983) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
  -Translation: Terreur déliquescente [French] (1986) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
  The Midas Deep (1983)
  Carnosaur (1984) [only as by Harry Adam Knight]
  The Fungus (1985) with Leroy Kettle only appeared as:
  - Variant: The Fungus (1985) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
  -Translation: L'immonde invasion [French] (1988) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
  -Variant: Death Spore (1990) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
  Tendrils (1986) with Leroy Kettle only appeared as:
  -Variant: Tendrils (1986) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
  -Translation: Vrilles! [French] (1988) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
  Torched! (1986) with John Baxter only appeared as:
  -Variant: Torched! (1986) [as by James Blackstone]
  -Translation: Brasiers humains [French] (1988) [as by James Blackstone]
  Worm (1987) only appeared as:
  -Variant: Worm (1987) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
  -Variant: Worm (1988) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
  -Translation: Les parasites de la haine [French] (1988) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
  Bedlam (1992) with Leroy Kettle [only as by Harry Adam Knight]
  -Serializations:
  -Bedlam (Part 1 of ?) (1994) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
  The Opoponax Invasion (1993)
  
  Nonfiction
  
  James Bond in the Cinema (1972)
  Movie Magic: The Story of Special Effects in the Cinema (1974)
  The Horror People (1976)
  Future Tense: The Cinema of Science Fiction (1978)
  The Primal Screen: A History of Science Fiction Film (1991)
  
  Short Fiction
  
  The Bethlehem File (1972)
  Conversation on a Starship in Warpdrive (1975)
  The Junk Shop (1976) also appeared as:
  -Variant: Junk Shop (1976)
  The One and Only Tale from The White Horse (1986)
  An Eye in Paradise (1989) also appeared as:
  -Translation: Un privé au paradis [French] (1994)
  Barry McKenzie Meets Jerry Cornelius (2013)
  
  Poems
  
  The Dangers of Colour T.V. (1974) also appeared as:
  -Variant: The Dangers of Colour TV (1991) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
  Something Came Out of the Toilet (1991) [only as by Harry Adam Knight]
  
  Essays
  
  Letter (SF Commentary 7) (1969)
  Mrs. B's Wandering Boy, Part One (1970)
  Mrs. B's Wandering Boy, Part Two (1970)
  Special Effects and The Science Fiction Film (1974) also appeared as:
  -Translation: Les magiciens du trompe-l'oeil [French] (1976)
  No Nose is Good Nose (1974)
  SF on TV: Part 1 (1975)
  Star Trek: Film Review (1975)
  Raftan's Viewpoint (1975)
  SF on Television Part 2: Britain (1975)
  The Australian Science Fiction Scene (1975)
  A Look at Space 1999 (1976)
  SF TV Review: The Invisible Man (1976)
  Letter (SF Commentary 52) (1977)
  Film & TV News: A Report from John Brosnan (1978)
  Letter (Science Fiction Review #29) (1979)
  Letter (Starship, Spring 1979) (1979)
  Letter (Australian SF News, August 1979) (1979)
  The British Science Fiction Cinema (1979)
  Letter (Foundation #23) (1981)
  Letter (Izzard #5) (1983)
  Letter (Ansible 41) (1984)
  Special Effects in Science Fiction Cinema (1985)
  Letter (Ansible 45) (1986)
  Ray Harryhausen Filmography (1987) with Jeff Rovin
  The Magician's Magician (1987)
  Terror Tactics (1988)
  Introduzione dell'autore all'edizione italiana (I guerrieri dell'aria) [Italian] (1990)
  Why is Arnold Schwarzenegger Mad at Me? (1991)
  Letter (Banana Wings 9) (1998)
  Hollywood Calling (1998)
  Letter (Interzone #137) (1998)
  Letter (Interzone #141) (1999)
  Letter (Interzone #173) (2001)
  Letter (SF Commentary 77) (2001)
  Letter [2] (SF Commentary 77) (2001)
  Letter (SF Commentary 78) (2003)
  Letter (Ansible 189) (2003)
  Letter (Ansible 195) (2003)
  Letter (SF Commentary 80) (2010)
  
  Interior Art
  
  Trieste '75 Film Festival (1975)
  
  Reviews
  
  A Pictorial History of Science Fiction Films (1976) by Jeff Rovin
  
  Interviews by This Author
  
  Jack Arnold SF Film Director Extraordinaire (1974) with Jack Arnold
  Chris Priest (1974) with Christopher Priest
  Vertex Interviews Harry Harrison (1975) with Harry Harrison
  An Interview with Bob Shaw (1975) with Bob Shaw
  
  Interviews with This Author
  
  An Interview (of sorts) with Harry Adam Knight (1985) by Jo Fletcher and Stephen Jones (co-interviewed with Leroy Kettle )

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1959: Ian Fleming writes Ivar Bryce about Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart. Then Bryce writes back.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 9 - Fleming's Second Bond Script

  At last the news Fleming had been waiting for arrived. Hitchcock had voiced
  interest in the Bond project. Fleming immediately wrote to Bryce on 7 October:
  "Hitchcock is in search of a vehicle, particularly for James Stewart but, whether our
  story would suit Stewart or not, he is definitely interested and want to see it."
  Stewart was a regular star for Hitchcock who'd used him already in four movies,
  notably Rear Window (1954) and Vertigo (1958). Hitchcock was then in Paris but
  due back in London in a few days with the intention of reading the script. "of
  course James Stewart is the toppest of starts," Fleming continued. "And personally
  I wouldn't at all mind him as Bond if he can slightly anglicise his accent. If we got
  him and Hitchcock we really would be off to the races. Cross all your fingers."
  
  In contrast to Fleming's bursting enthusiasm for Hitchcock, Bryce had
  blown cold to the idea. "If he did take it," Bryce immediately wrote back, "he
  would take the whole thing over, lock stock and barrel, and we should all be
  no more than 'angels' investing our money in someone else's enterprise--a
  thing I wouldn't be willing to do, myself.. Hitchcock is, of course, the greatest.
  Let us see what he suggests, but from all I can learn here it will involve the
  freezing out of our group both financially and personally. Also I shudder at
  lackadaisical Stewart portraying dynamic Bond.
  
  Bryce in his letter also made clear his preference for Fleming to continue
  to exert a governing hand over the script. "I personally think it essential for you
  to spend as much time as is humanely possible during the scriptwriting period
  on working on it yourself, probably with Whittingham as your number two."
  And that for this work Fleming should be on a fat salary from the company:
  "I've no idea what; but anything you like."

  
  1962: Dr. No's general release in the UK.

  
  
  
  
  

  1966: LIFE Magazine publishes a two-part feature on Ian Fleming's biography .

  
  

  1968: An EON press conference at the Dorchester Hotel formally introduces Lazenby to the world.

  

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

  On 7 October 1968 the coronation of the new James Bond took place
  before the world's press at the Dorchester, where it had all begun four
  months earlier. Lazenby famously said: '"I'm really looking forward to
  being Bond, for the bread and the birds. It's not that I'm a sex maniac.
  Forget my ego. I wouldn't even care if they didn't put my name on the
  marquee."' [Director Peter] Hunt explained the choice:

  Sean Connery had 'sexual assurance'. I interviewed hundreds [of]
  wonderful actors, marvellous people on the stage but they didn't have this
  quality. They might be able to try to act it but it was not an inherent thing. It
  was quite by chance we came across George Lazenby. You do look at him
  if he walks in the street and so do the girls.

  A soon-to-be Bond Girl in two ways -- the lead in the next film and, briefly,
  Lazenby's companion -- Jill St. John concurred. 'Cubby told me when they
  were interviewing people for the first James bond, in walked Sean. And
  when he left, every secretary said, "Who is that?" And he said the only other
  time it happened again was when George Lazenby walked into the office.

  

  
  1983: Warner Brothers general release for Never Say Never Again.

  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 16 of 65 - "No Such Loch" in Scotland.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - No Such Loch

  Season 1 Episode 16
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807296/?ref_=tt_ep_pr
  

  Walker D. Plank and Jaws are in Scotland, using the legend of the Loch Ness Monster as a cover for an attempt to steal powerful missiles from the British Navy.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Pump (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Ed Gilbert ... Captain Walker D.Plank (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / Bilge (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut / Pirate Parrot (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)
  Produced by
  Bill Hutten ... producer
  Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
  Tony Love ... producer
  Fred Wolf ... executive producer
  

  James Bond Jr Episode 16 No Such Loch
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2011: George Baker dies at age 80--West Lavington, England.
  (Born 1 April 1931--Varna, Bulgaria.)

  

  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 role of 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 the Second 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)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048468/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (144 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
  - Episode #4.8 (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
  - Episode #1.5635 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
  - Episode #1.5634 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
  - Episode #1.5633 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
  - Episode #1.5632 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
  - Episode #1.5631 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
  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 / Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford / Chief Insp. Wexford / ... 50 episodes
  - Harm Done (2000) ... D.C.I. Wexford
  - Road Rage: Part Two (1998) ... D.C.I. Wexford
  - Road Rage: Part One (1998) ... D.C.I. Reg Wexford
  - Simisola: Part Three (1996) ... Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford
  - Simisola: Part Two (1996) ... Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford
  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
  - Episode #1.6 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
  - Episode #1.5 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
  - Episode #1.4 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
  - Episode #1.3 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
  - Episode #1.2 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
  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
  - No Rumour in the Truth (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
  - Undesirable Aliens (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
  - Poetic Justice (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
  - White Knights (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
  - But I Voted for You (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
  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
  - Episode #3.26 (1983) ... David West
  - Episode #3.25 (1983) ... David West
  - Episode #3.24 (1983) ... David West
  - Episode #3.23 (1983) ... David West
  - Episode #3.22 (1983) ... David West
  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
  - Old King Log (1976) ... Tiberius
  - Zeus, by Jove! (1976) ... Tiberius
  - Reign of Terror (1976) ... Tiberius
  - Queen of Heaven (1976) ... Tiberius
  - Some Justice (1976) ... Tiberius
  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
  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
  - Without Let or Hindrance (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
  - Bowler's Analysis (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
  - The Family Tree (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
  - R.I.P. (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
  - Sweet and Sour Charity (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
  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)
  - Drama '65: A Question of Disposal (1965)
  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
  - The Regan Solution (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
  - The Shand Solution (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
  - The Linton Compact (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
  - The Tannikov Dilemma (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
  - The Liebert Question (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
  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
  - The Decision of Fate (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll
  - A Perilous Reunion (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll
  - The Wheel of Chance (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V
  - Audience with the King (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V
  - Return to Zenda (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V
  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
  
  1959 Nick of the River (TV Series) - Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
  - Episode #1.9 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
  - Episode #1.8 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
  - The Mystery of Cabin 5 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
  - Episode #1.6 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
  - Episode #1.5 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
  Show all 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)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Up Pompei - James Bondus
  
  
  

  2012: The "Skyfall" single charts at #4 in the UK 48 hours after release, later peaking at #2.

  
  

  
  2014: Dynamite Entertainment receives its licence to James Bond material.
  2015: Daniel Craig jokingly tells Time Out "I'd rather break this glass and slash my wrists" than do another Bond film. And that if he did, it "would only be for the money."

  
  

  Daniel Craig interview: ‘My advice to
  the next James Bond? Don’t be shit!’
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.timeout.com/london/film/daniel-craig-interview-my-advice-to-the-next-james-bond-dont-be-shit

  As Daniel Craig bursts back onto our screens as 007, he talks to Time Out about staying in
  shape, Sam Mendes and ‘Spectre’
  By Dave Calhoun Posted: Wednesday October 7 2015
  

  
  Photograph: Paul Stuart. Styling: Gareth Scourfield

  
  
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  2021: No Time To Die released in New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.
  2021: Не время умирать (Ne vremya umirat', This Is Not the Time to Die) released in Russia.

  

  
  2023: An auction of Sir Roger Moore's watches at Bonham's generates donations to UNESCO.

  

  Roger Moore’s Collection of James Bond Watches and
  Collectibles Sells for Over $1 Million

  See the complete article here:
  

  Among the top lots were a collection of commemorative Swatch 007 timepieces and two Omegas.
  Published on October 6, 2023
  By Cait Bazemore

  
  Omega limited edition Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary Bonhams

  When it comes to some of the most iconic watches in pop culture, those of James Bond surely top the list. This year marked the 50th anniversary of one special actor’s first appearance as 007. Sir Roger Moore was the third actor to portray the famed secret agent in the iconic film series; his first Bond film Live and Let Die debuted in 1973. In celebration of this acclaimed actor and his legacy as 007, Bonhams hosted a special auction in his honor, selling his personal collection of important Bond memorabilia, collectibles, and other ephemera. The top three lots included a collection of twenty Swatch 007 wristwatches and two Omega timepieces.
  
  Of course, you couldn’t have an auction in honor of one of the legendary James Bond actors without a few watches being involved. Omega didn’t become the official watch of 007 until 1995, many years after Sir Roger Moore’s run as Bond. However, the brand has since become synonymous with the secret agent, so it comes as no surprise the actor had a few in his personal collection.

  
  Omega Speedmaster Triple Calendar Moonphase
  Bonhams

  The first was a limited edition Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary watch, which sold for nearly double its high estimate at just over $70,000 (£57,550). The second model was a stainless steel Speedmaster with a triple calendar and moonphase with a personal engraving to Sir Roger Moore. This truly one-of-a-kind model sold for more than eight times its high estimate for nearly $75,000 (£61,400).
  
  Still, the top lot of Moore’s entire collection of ephemera was a series of twenty Swatch 007 wristwatches presented in a stealthy 007 case dedicated to Sir Roger Moore to commemorate the 40th anniversary of James Bond on film. This truly unique collection ultimately sold for more than three times its high estimate at over $92,000 (£76,000), marking the highest sale of the auction.
  
  Altogether, the 224-lot archive of Sir Roger Moore’s personal collection brought in well over $1 million (£1,117,300) against a pre-sale high estimate of roughly $500,000 (£415,300). Moore was also a passionate UNICEF ambassador, and therefore his family decided to donate a percentage of the sale proceeds to the charity.
  

  

  Roger Moore’s Swatch collection sells for
  £76,000, and not a MoonSwatch among
  them

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.watchpro.com/roger-moores-swatch-collection-sells-for-76000-and-not-a-moonswatch-among-them/

  By Rob Corder - October 6, 20231

  

  50 years after his first appearance as James Bond in Live and Let Die, and six years after his death, a collection of memorabilia and personal items owned by Sir Roger Moore has been sold at auction by Bonhams.
  
  The highest price paid during the sale was for a collection of 20 Swatch 007 watches in a presentation case.
  
  The lot hammered at £76,000, smashing its pre-sale estimate of £10,000 to £20,000.
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  The 20 Swatch watches were made to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the first James Bond film.

  

  A swatch 007 presentation case dedicated to Sir Roger Moore
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  An Omega Speedmaster MK40 (ref. 38205300) triple calendar chronograph in steel from around 1995 sold for £61,400, ten-times its estimate.

  

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  Omega Speedmaster automatic MK40.

  Omega watches have been worn by James Bond in movies since 1995 and the brand is a long-standing official partner with the franchise.

  

  007 Omega seamaster

  A second Omega at the Bonhams auction, a special edition 50 Years of 007 Seamaster, sold for £57,550.

  

  Corum coin

  An 18ct gold Corum watch in the form of a $20 coin was sold in a group lot with four other wristwatches, including one by Longines, which sold for £16,640.

  

  Gold ingot clock roger moore scaledA Jean Roulet ‘gold ingot’ desk clock with the timepiece made by Baume & Mercier, achieved £10,880.

  

  007 Swatch
  Perhaps the most shocking price achieved was for a single Swatch, an unremarkable piece of merch made in 2002 as a gift set commemorating the The Spy Who Loved Me.
  
  Somebody paid £8,320 for it.
  
  In total, the auction raised over £1.1 million, a percentage of which will be donated to UNESCO.
  
  Geoffrey Moore, son of Sir Roger Moore, spoke after the auction on behalf of the Moore family.

  “We always knew our father was popular, but never fathomed just how much he was loved. We are overwhelmed by the incredible success of the sale which surpassed all our expectations, and we are thrilled to share his legacy with his adored fans. We want to thank Bonhams for their tireless work. They have poured love, care, and passion into this sale. We are truly grateful to everyone who took part,” he remarked.

  

  
  
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  October 8th
  
  1963: From Russia with Love press screening at the Leicester Square Odeon, London.

  

  
  1965: A five-day serialization of Octopussy finishes in The Daily Express.

  https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2012/06/daily-express-illustrations-by-robb.html
  
  

  1965: The Daily Telegraph reports "James Bond as Villain in Soviet Novel.”
  
  1972: Roger Moore travels to New Orleans, Louisiana.

  
  

  
  1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Colombia.
  1983: Author Steven Jay Rubin hosts the 007 Master Trivia Marathon near Los Angeles.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 17 of 65 - "Appointment in Macau" in Macau.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Appointment in Macau

  Season 1 Episode 17
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807092/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  Doctor No kidnaps Lily Mai, a new student at Warfield, in an attempt to settle old scores with Macau's chief criminal organisation, the Raven Triad.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Mary Crawford ... (writer)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Alan Templeton ... (writer)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Julius No (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)
  

  James Bond Jr Episode 17 Appointment in Macau
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2011: Duntrune Castle's owners confirm the filmmakers pursued it as a possible location for the final action sequence at the Bond family estate.

  
  
  

  2012: Christie's of London hosts an online charity auction celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Bond movie franchise, ending this date after 11 days.
  
  2013: HarperCollins publishes William Boyd's Bond novel Solo in the US.

  IT'S 1969, AND, HAVING JUST
  celebrated his forty-fifth birthday, James
  Bond -- British special agent 007 -- is sum-
  moned to headquarters to receive an un-
  usual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West
  African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter
  civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the
  rebels threatening the established regime.
  
  Bond's arrival in Africa marks the start
  of a feverish mission to discover the forces
  behind this brutal war -- and he soon realizes
  the situation is far from straightforward.
  Piece by piece, Bond uncovers the real cause
  of the violence in Zanzarim, revealing a
  twisting conspiracy that extends further
  than he ever imagined.
  
  Moving from rebel battlefields in West
  Africa to the closed doors of intelligence
  office in London and Washington, this novel
  is at once a gripping thriller, a tensely plotted
  story full of memorable characters and
  breathtaking twists, and a masterful study
  of power and how it is wielded -- a brilliant
  addition to the James Bond canon.

  WILLIAM BOYD
  is also the author of A Good Man in Africa,
  winner of the Whitbread Award and the
  Somerset Maugham Award; An Ice-Cream
  War, winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys
  Prize and shortlisted for the Booker Prize;
  Brazzaville Beach, winner of the James Tait
  Black Memorial Prize; Restless, winner of the
  Costa Novel of the Year; Ordinary Thunder-
  storms; and Waiting for Sunrise; among other
  books. He lives in London.
  

  WWW.IANFLEMING.COM

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2015: Title song "Writing's on the Wall" reaches #1 on the UK charts, first ever for a James Bond film.

  
  

  2015: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC releases The Man with the Golden Typewriter.

  
  
  
  

  
  2016: Daniel Craig on the Bond role: "As far as I'm concerned, I've got the best job in the world.
  I'll keep doing it as long as I still get a kick out of it."

  

  Is Daniel Craig not quitting as Bond after all?
  "I've got the best job in the world"​

  Maybe hold off on those Hiddleston/Elba bets for now.

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/james-bond-007/news/a810428/daniel-craig-not-quitting-bond-best-job-in-the-world/

  By Sam Warner | 08/10/2016

  
  Sony Pictures

  Will he? Won't he? It's the question that has plagued Bond fans for the better part of the year - or at least since Spectre was released.
  
  And it looks like Daniel Craig is still happy to keep us all guessing, as despite previously saying he would rather "slash his wrists" than play the role of James Bond again, now it seems Daniel is still up for returning again after all.
  
  "They say that shit sticks, and that definitely stuck," he said at the New Yorker Festival last night (October 8) when recalling that particular statement, Vulture reports.
  
  "It was the day after filming [stopped on Spectre]," he explained. "I'd been away from home for a year."
  
  Craig also added that the physical strains of the role coupled with the filming schedule taking him a great distance away from his family had all taken its toll on him - but not enough to completely dampen his spirits about playing 007.
  
  "Boo-hoo," he added. "It's a good gig. I enjoy it."
  
  He continued: "As far as I'm concerned, I've got the best job in the world. I'll keep doing it as long as I still get a kick out of it."
  
  So, he's staying then? At the very least, it looks like Craig doesn't want to NOT be Bond, adding later on that "if [he] were to stop doing it, [he'd] miss it terribly".

  
  Randy Holmes / ABCGetty Images

  Of course, after his original controversial comments, speculation hit fever drive over who could potentially replace the star as 007 should he not return.
  
  Tom Hiddleston and Idris Elba have been seen by many as the frontrunners - Game of Thrones' Rose Leslie is firmly on Team Idris, for one - although maybe those bets are off for the moment, going by Craig's latest comments.
  
  He is, after all, still "absolutely" the producers' first choice to play Bond despite his return still being up in the air.
  
  "I know [producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson] are hoping for him to come back," executive producer Callum McDougall revealed earlier this year, though he still didn't know if Craig had signed on or not.
  
  So, the role is still his if he wants it (and the rumoured $150 million that goes with it), so let's remind ourselves of what makes Craig so good as Bond by re-watching the Spectre trailer:

  
  2021: No Time To Die released in Canada, Iceland, and the US.
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  October 9th
  
  1902: Frederick Archibald (Freddie) Young is born--London, England.
  (He dies 1 December 1998 at age 96--London, England.)

  

  Gentleman Genius
  All Time Greats / Freddie Young OBE, BSC, ASC

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/freddie-young-obe-bsc-asc/

  Frederick Archibald Young was born on 9 October 1902 in London. He entered the film industry in 1917 at Lime Grove Studios, West London.
  
  At that time it was run by Gaumont and had a glass exterior to allow light for shooting. Later it was re-built. It became Gaumont British in 1922. Young said the glasshouse was good in theory but in practice wasn’t so good. If it was a foggy day the studio became a pea souper. If it was cloudy, lights would be required to provide exposure, but if the sun came out the studio would be filled with sunlight and the shot would be ruined.
  
  Young started in the laboratory and eventually moved into cameras, remaining with the studio for ten years. In those days he operated the Debrie Parvo camera. He worked with a cameraman called Arthur Brown. Later, Bill Shenton worked there and despite only having one eye he was considered to be a very good cameraman. Eventually the studio became the home to BBC Television. Housing now stands on the site. One of the films he worked on after leaving Gaumont was Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) photographed by Jack Cox and made at British International Pictures (BIP). Young was asked to shoot a montage for the silent version.
  
  For several years he worked at British and Dominions at Elstree for producer and director Herbert Wilcox. Cinematographer Oswald Morris said: “He was a powerful cinematographer. He treated filmmaking rather like being in the army. There was strict discipline. At the height of his career his crew had to call him Mr Young.”
  
  Sir Sydney Samuelson says: “The first technical marvel for which he was responsible, and which held me in awe of his genius, was as far back as 1938 on Sixty Glorious Years. I remember two technical aspects quite clearly. One sequence was an early example of British Technicolor three-strip. There was a remarkable ballroom scene, which was achieved by means of an early matte shot. Called something like the ‘Shufton process’. There was a glorious wide-angle shot of an elegant ballroom. Freddie once told me that as clever as Shufton was, the most stunning effect was actually brought about by him, pricking holes in the top part of the back of the matte then shining through each chandelier painted on its front. Amazing!”

  

  During WW2 Young was in the Army Kinematograph Service with Freddie Francis. Francis said: “He always insisted on being called Mr Young or sir. After the war Freddie was Freddie to everyone.”
  
  Young was the first President of the BSC 1949-1952. He was President again from 1957-1960. He was also a member of the ASC and Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS).
  
  Following the war Young became head of cameras at MGM Elstree. “I suppose it was the finest studio in the country. It had a beautiful lot and was beautifully equipped,” remarked Young.
  
  Renowned director Nicolas Roeg, who worked with Young at MGM and later photographed the second unit on Lawrence of Arabia, said Freddie was a terrific guy to work with.
  
  In 1959, faced with a pay cut due to production cuts Young decided to leave the company. The day after leaving he realised that it was the first time he’d been out of work since 1917. In 1960 he was approached by producer Sam Spiegel to photograph Lawrence Of Arabia for director David Lean. Other notable directors he worked with include George Cukor, John Ford and John Huston.

  

  He first met Lean on Major Barbara (1941). Lawrence was released in 1962 and was the start of three 65mm wide screen pictures with Lean, earning Young three Oscars. Sydney Samuelson said: “Young is definitely ‘the master’ in my book of cineastes. Arguably and certainly in his era he was the best cameraman in the world. I had the pleasure of involvements with him and his crew from Lawrence Of Arabia onwards. David Lean was such a brilliant storyteller but nobody when working on one of his movies would accuse him of being easygoing. Freddie carried on for him regardless of personal and technical problems. Apart from three American Oscars Freddie won many awards including only the second Fellowship after Hitchcock from our own Academy BAFTA.”
  
  The three films he made with Lean were a challenge. “Lawrence Of Arabia took two years and was shot in Spain, Morocco and Jordan. The heat in the desert was a dry heat of 110 degrees. We had a sunshade over the camera and a wet cloth on top of the camera, which acted like refrigerator. We never saw rushes, the results were cabled from London. The famous mirage scene was shot using a 500mm lens. This was obtained from Panavision in Hollywood along with the rest of the camera equipment,” said Young.
  
  His next outing with Lean was Dr Zhivago (1965). It was filmed in the heat of Spain but was set in Russia, so a lot of faking was required. Some was shot in Finland. “We painted trees white, coloured hedge rows with white plastic and used hundreds of tons of marble dust,” said Young. “We used a blue filter for much of the film and it was my hardest technically.”
  
  His final film for Lean was Ryan’s Daughter (1971). The whole of the film is set on the west coast of Ireland. He said: “Winter came and the summer scenes hadn’t been completed, so the main unit went to South Africa, a second unit stayed behind headed by Roy Stevens. Denys Coop was in charge of the cinematography. Lean gives you an inspiration so you go out of your depth and try and do something extraordinary.”
  
  In conversation with cinematographer Robin Vidgeon’s wife Angela, Young said: “Whenever I had a candlelit scene I would go into a dark room, light a candle, sit and watch it for a while, blow it out and then take those images to set and light accordingly.”

  

  "Lawrence Of Arabia took two years and was shot in Spain, Morocco and Jordan. The heat in the desert was a dry heat of 110 degrees."
  - Freddie Young OBE, BSC, ASC

  
  In 1992 Lawrence of Arabia was re-launched and Young went to several screenings. At one screening Steven Spielberg told him it was seeing Lawrence in 1962 that made him decide a film career was for him.
  
  Later in 1992 he was invited to speak to film students at the royal college of art. In July 1994 the college honoured him by making him a doctor of art.
  
  Young said that people often asked him about his techniques. He said he had no plan or technique; he lit the scene according to what was in the script.
  
  Following Ryan’s Daughter he carried on shooting until 1983. The same year he directed Arthur’s Hallowed Ground, his only film as director and the last he worked on. After this he shot commercials until his retirement aged eighty-five. His autobiography was published by Faber and Faber in 1999 called Seventy Light Years, which can be obtained through Amazon.
  
  Finally, he said: “I worked in the industry for seventy years, photographing more than 120 films and being paid for a job I love. At the age of ninety-six I look back and think I’ve been incredibly lucky.”
  
  Freddie Young OBE passed away on 1 December 1998 age 96.

  
  Freddie Young (I) (1902–1998)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002875/
  
  Filmography

  Cinematographer (130 credits)
  
  1985 Invitation to the Wedding
  1984 Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  1981 Stainless Steel and the Star Spies (TV Movie)
  1980 Ike: The War Years (TV Movie)
  1980 Richard's Things (director of photography)
  1980 Rough Cut
  
  1979 Bloodline
  1978 Stevie (director of photography)
  1977 The Man in the Iron Mask (TV Movie) (director of photography)
  1976 The Blue Bird (director of photography)
  1975 The Executioner
  1974 Great Expectations (TV Movie) (director of photography)
  1974 The Tamarind Seed (director of photography)
  1974 Love from A to Z (TV Movie)
  1974 Luther
  1972 The Asphyx
  1971 Nicholas and Alexandra (director of photography)
  1970 Ryan's Daughter (photographed by)
  1970 The Maker and the Process (TV Short)
  1969 Battle of Britain (director of photography)
  1969 Sinful Davey (director of photography)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (director of photography)
  1967 The Deadly Affair (director of photography)
  1965 Doctor Zhivago (director of photography)
  1965 Rotten to the Core
  1965 Lord Jim (as Frederick A. Young)
  1964 The 7th Dawn (as Frederick Young, photographed by)
  1962 Lawrence of Arabia (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1961 Loss of Innocence (as Frederick A Young, photographed by)
  1961 Hand in Hand (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1961 Gorgo (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1960/III Macbeth (TV Movie) (as F.A. Young)
  
  1959 Solomon and Sheba (director of photography - as Fred A. Young)
  1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1958 Indiscreet (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
  1958 Gideon of Scotland Yard (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
  1958 I Accuse! (director of photography)
  1957 Island in the Sun
  1957 The Little Hut (as F.A. Young)
  1957 The Barretts of Wimpole Street (as F.A. Young)
  1956 Beyond Mombasa (as Frederick A. Young)
  1956 Lust for Life (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1956 Invitation to the Dance (segments "Circus", "Ring Around the Rosy", as F.A. Young)
  1956 Bhowani Junction (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1955 Bedevilled
  1954 Betrayed (as F.A. Young)
  1953 Knights of the Round Table (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1953 Mogambo (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1953 Terror on a Train (as F.A. Young)
  1952 Ivanhoe (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1952 Giselle (Short)
  1951 Calling Bulldog Drummond (as F.A. Young)
  1950 Treasure Island (as F.A. Young)
  
  1949 Conspirator (as F.A. Young, photographed by)
  1949 Edward, My Son (as F.A. Young)
  1948 The Winslow Boy (director of photography)
  1948 Escape (as Frederick A. Young)
  1947 While I Live (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1947 So Well Remembered (director of photography - as Frederick A. Young)
  1946 Bedelia (as Frederick A. Young)
  1945 Caesar and Cleopatra (as F.A. Young, photography)
  1942 The Young Mr. Pitt (director of photography - as Frederick Young)
  1941 49th Parallel (director of photography - as Frederick Young)
  1940 Haunted Honeymoon (as F.A. Young, photography)
  1940 Suicide Legion
  1940 Blackout (as F.A. Young)
  
  1939 Nurse Edith Cavell (director of photography - as F.A. Young)
  1939 Goodbye, Mr. Chips (as F.A. Young, photographed by)
  1938 Queen of Destiny (as F.A. Young)
  1938 A Royal Divorce
  1937 Millions (uncredited)
  1937 The Rat (as F.A. Young)
  1937 Victoria the Great (as F.A. Young)
  1937 Backstage
  1937 The Frog (as F.A. Young)
  1937 Girl in the Street (as F.A. Young)
  1936 The Show Goes On (as F.A. Young)
  1936 This'll Make You Whistle
  1936 Two's Company
  1936 Fame
  1936 When Knights Were Bold (as F.A. Young)
  1935 Come Out of the Pantry
  1935 Peg of Old Drury (as F.A. Young, photography)
  1935 Escape Me Never (uncredited)
  1934 The King of Paris
  1934 Nell Gwyn (as F.A. Young)
  1934 Girls Please!
  1934 Runaway Queen
  1933 It's a King (as F.A. Young)
  1933 Just My Luck
  1933 Night of the Garter
  1933 Up for the Derby
  1933 A Cuckoo in the Nest (uncredited)
  1933 Trouble
  1933 That's a Good Girl
  1933 Summer Lightning
  1933 Yes, Mr. Brown
  1933 Bitter Sweet (as F.A. Young)
  1933 The Little Damozel
  1933 The King's Cup
  1932 Leap Year
  1932 The Love Contract
  1932 Thark
  1932 The Mayor's Nest
  1932 Magic Night
  1932 A Night Like This
  1932 The Blue Danube
  1931 Up for the Cup
  1931 Mischief
  1931 Venetian Nights (as F.A. Young)
  1931 The Chance of a Night Time
  1931 Tilly of Bloomsbury
  1931 The Speckled Band (as F.A. Young)
  1931 The Sport of Kings (as Fred Young)
  1930 Tons of Money
  1930 Plunder
  1930 A Warm Corner (as Fred Young)
  1930 Canaries Sometimes Sing
  1930 On Approval
  1930 Die Somme: Das Grab der Millionen (as Frederick Young)
  1930 The Loves of Robert Burns (uncredited)
  1930 The W Plan
  1930 One Embarrassing Night (uncredited)
  
  1929 White Cargo
  1929 A Peep Behind the Scenes
  1929 The Bondman
  1928 Blue Bottles (Short) (as F.A. Young)
  1928 Day-Dreams (Short)
  1928 The Tonic (Short)
  1928 Victory
  
  Camera and Electrical Department (8 credits)
  
  1979 Ike: The War Years (TV Mini-Series) (cinematographer - 2 episodes)
  - Part II (1979) ... (cinematographer: UK)
  - Part I (1979) ... (cinematographer: UK)
  
  1959 The Wreck of the Mary Deare (additional photographer - as F.A. Young)
  1956 Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light (Documentary short) (cinematographer: scenes from "Lust for Life (1956)
  1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris (location camera - uncredited)
  
  1927 The Somme (second camera operator)
  1927 The Flag Lieutenant (second camera operator)
  1922 Rob Roy (assistant camera)
  
  1919 The First Men in the Moon (film development technician)
  
  Director (1 credit)
  
  1984 Arthur's Hallowed Ground (TV Movie)

  
  

  
  1959: The Spectator publishes Ian Fleming's article "If I Were Prime Minister".

  

  If I were prime minister, by Ian Fleming

  https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2015/05/if-i-were-prime-minister-by-ian-fleming/
  Ian Fleming | 14 May 2015

  

  This article was first published in The Spectator on 9 October, 1959.
  
  I am a totally non-political animal. I prefer the name of the Liberal Party to the name of any other and I vote Conservative rather than Labour, mainly because the Conservatives have bigger bottoms and I believe that big bottoms make for better government than scrawny ones. I only once attended a debate in the House of Commons. It was, I think, towards the end of 1938 when we were unattractively trying to cajole Mussolini away from Hitler. I found the hollowness and futility of the speeches degrading and infantile and the well-fed, deep-throated ‘hear, hears’ for each mendacious platitude verging on the obscene. If this is politics, I reflected, I would much rather not see it happening and I swore never to re-enter the Chamber. I never have.
  
  My own particular hero is Sir Alan Herbert, an independent-minded though admittedly think-shanked man, who swimming alone, stayed out of the muddy red and blue stream and more or less single-handed changed a section of our law for the benefit of the common man. And of course I have the affectionate reverence for Sir Winston Churchill that most of us share. But in general I regard politicians as a race apart and if the Bottle Imp were to offer me high office I would accept, and that with reluctance, nothing less than the Premiership.
  
  On taking office, I would concentrate on small things.
  
  The big things — the H-bomb, the conquest of outer space, the colour problem— these are too vast and confused for one man’s brain; I would leave them to my ministers and to the wave of common sense, which, it seems to me, by a process of osmosis between peoples rather than between politicians, is taking a rapid and healthy control of the world.
  
  My first ‘Action This Day,’ through my Minister of Transport, would be simple but significant: on the road signs displaying a diamond-studded black banana with the word ‘CURVE’ underneath, I would have the word ‘CURVE’ removed. By this and other small tokens, I would proclaim that the English people are no longer babies and that, after all these years of universal education, I propose to deal with the citizens as if they were in fact universally educated. All my education would start with this assumption.
  
  Next, I would try and stop people being ashamed of themselves. In the United Kingdom we have a basically nonconformist conscience and the fact that taxation, controls and certain features of the welfare state have turned the majority of us into petty criminals, liars and work-dodgers is, I am sure, having a very bad effect of the psyche of the kingdom. Tax-dodging in all its forms would have my attention and I would proceed to reduce income tax, surtax and death duties by the maximum amount possible in exchange for abolishing all expense accounts and other forms of fiscal chicanery. Motor-cars, whether Rolls-Royces or Fords, owned by a company, would have the name of that company displayed in half-inch letters in a prominent position so that if a company’s car was seen disgorging a load of mink and cigar smoke in theatreland in the evening, any of the company’s shareholders who happened to be a witness could, if he wanted, ask the company to justify the use of a company vehicle. But the real deterrent would be snobbery. I think everyone would gain morally by this legislation and no real harm would be done to anyone. To begin with, of course, the restaurants would suffer from the absence of the expense-account aristocracy who have ridiculously inflated the price of meals all over the world, while at the same time deflating the quality of the food. I would hope that the really good restaurants would survive, but that the hosts of bogus eating places with Algerian ‘Infuriator’ (otherwise known as ‘Instant’ Burgundy), described as Beaujolais selling at 15s. for half a carafe, would disappear.
  
  Having looked after the moral fibre of the ‘Haves,’ I would next direct my attention to the work-shy ‘Have-nots,’ being convinced that the man who is not returning good work for good money is basically ashamed of himself. In consultation with the trade unions, I would devise a scheme of benevolent Stakhanovism. There would be a minimum wage in every industry, but rapidly mounting merit bonuses for real work in either quantity or quality. This would not abolish tea breaks or the games of whist but make them unpopular with the wives. I would also request the trade unions to re-examine the whole question of overtime. Having obtained an eight-hour day and a five-day week, it seems to me wrong that workers should use two extra days and many extra hours earning overtime double money when they should be enjoying the leisure and repose they have fought to obtain.
  
  And while on the subject of leisure, I would certainly consider appointing a Minister of Leisure, with a small staff, to make every effort to enhance the pleasure people get from their increasing spare time.
  
  Having observed at close quarters the great waste of money on paint and canvases in one of our art schools, I am not convinced that the welfare ‘artist,’ copying as he usually does, one or another, or very often several, of the modern theories of painting, is worth encouraging any farther. Instead, therefore, of spending larger sums on the arts, I would spend them on the crafts. I would encourage the fine metal workers, enamellers, binders, printers, woodworkers, etc., in a most lavish fashion and attempt to arrest at once the decline of the craftsman, even down to the lowly thatcher.
  
  To give the craftsman, the designer and, of course, the artist an outlet for his capabilities, I would take the Rolls-Royce motor-car as an example and persuade all manufacturers that, let us say, 5 per cent of output should consist of an absolutely top-grade, luxury product in which price is an entirely secondary consideration. Every firm would then be producing, perhaps only in small quantities, the Rolls-Royce of its particular line of manufacture — real grain whisky and gin, quintessentially distilled, ice-cream made with real strawberries and real cream, lavatory paper as luxurious as a peach skin, scissors that actually cut your nails, and so on through the list of all our products. By this means I would make quality goods available to those here and abroad who like these things and can afford them and I would hope to educate the admass to eschew the shoddy. Coincidentally, in the world’s markets, ‘British made’ would go back to the place where it used to belong.
  
  Next I should proceed to a complete reform of our sex and gambling laws and endeavour to cleanse the country of the hypocrisy with which we so unattractively clothe our vices. To deal only with my most far-reaching proposal, I would consult with my Minister of Leisure about the possibility of turning the Isle of Wight into one vast pleasuredome (cf. Fr. Baisodrome) which would be a mixture of Monte Carlo, Las Vegas, pre-war Paris and Macao. Here there would be casinos (they are building one on Gibraltar and they have one in Nassau; why not one on the Isle of Wight?) and the most luxurious maisons de tolérance in the world. Bingo, poker, faro, fan-tan, craps— even whist drives with money prizes! This would be a world where the frustrated citizen of every class could give full rein to those basic instincts for sex and gambling which have been crushed through the ages. At last our cliff-girt libido would have an outlet and the sleazy strip-tease joints, rump-sprung street-walkers and backroom card games would be out of business forever. Since it is impossible to suppress the weaknesses of mankind, I would at least put an honest face on the problem and do something to release the homme moyen sensuel, or femme for the matter of that, from some of their burden of shame and sin.
  
  After dealing with the spiritual comfort of the electorate, I would proceed to his physical state, and my first step would be the abatement of noise, carbon-monoxide gas and exasperation caused by the traffic problem in our big towns. I would solve these with the help of Mr Francis Bacon’s recently invented, much-publicized battery. Our present internal-combustion engine is a ridiculous steam-age contraption which turns only a modest proportion of fuel into energy and spews the rest out in the form of petrol vapour of a more or less solid consistency. When there is no wind, this lies in a dense layer in our streets and we breathe it in day and night. It then rises into the upper atmosphere, where I am told, it forms a kind of envelope round the world which has the effect of interfering with the beneficial rays of the sun. Whether that is so or not, the petrol engine is obviously a noxious and noisy machine, and I would gradually abolish and replace it by some form of electric motor. This would take some time, but I would hope that, within three years of assuming office, I could have converted the whole of central London to electric transport. Very cheap, State-owned garages would be built at the point of entry into London of our main roads and drives would there transfer into electric buses or the Underground and later into cheap, state-run electric taxis. There would be quiet, no smell and no parking problems. Gradually I would extend this system to our other great towns and in due course the problem would be solved for the whole country.
  
  In an attempt to make government more honest, I would face up to the fact that my Exchequer battens fatly on the vices and follies of the electorate and I would have HM Stationery Office publish quarterly a periodical entitled Hazard. Hazard would give, without comment, the very latest information obtainable anywhere in the world on the ill-effects of smoking too much, drinking too much and consuming white bread, TT tested milk, refined sugar, foods too long frozen, etc. Hazard would also give the correct odds for football pools and Premium Bonds and, from time to time, publish the annual accounts of the bookmaking firms throughout the country. Road accident figures would be given in detail, and in cases where mechanical failure (those shattering windscreens, for instance) attributable to faulty manufacture was involved, the name of the manufacturer would be published. There would, as I say, be no editorial comment in the magazine, but I should be able to face with a clear conscience the fact, from the Exchequer’s point of view, the most valuable citizen is the man who drinks or smokes himself to death.
  
  There are other various small matters I would attend to, such as men’s clothing, which I regard as out-of-date, unhygienic and rather ridiculous; press reform — we have the grimiest press in the world; the matter of titles — I would greatly reinforce the Orders of Chivalry and, if a Lord or a Baron or an Earl did not behave as a lord or a baron or an earl should, he would lose his title after the third offense (as is more or less the case with service rank); rich state prizes for all inventions or innovations that were even of remote benefit to the Commonwealth; enthusiastic encouragement of emigration, but more particularly of a constant flow of peoples within the Commonwealth; a Commonwealth super-Parliament; and less fried food for the constipated masses.
  
  All these, as I have said, are small, workaday things — too small, alas, for the attention of either M. Harold Macmillan or Mr Gaitskell. So I look forward, with squared shoulders and glazed resignation, to five years of Summitry, pensions and the 11-plus.
  
  Ian Fleming Estate
  This article was first published in The Spectator on 9 October, 1959. Anthony Horowitz’s new James Bond novel will be published in September by Orion.

  
  1966: The Sunday Times of London quotes the late Ian Fleming.

  
  

  ''A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.''

  
  1972: The Gleaner reports the Hanover Parish Council agrees to filming in Lucea, Louisiana. Involves closure of the new road at Johnson Town and assurances local labour will support the filming of the bus chase.
  
  1982: Octopussy films OO7 on horseback catching a plane.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 18 of 65 - "Lamp of Darkness" in the Middle East.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Lamp of Darkness

  Season 1 - Episode 18
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807106/?ref_=ttep_ep18
  

  James, IQ and Phoebe take off for the Middle East in a race to find the legendary Lamp of Aladdin before Maximillian Cortex gets there first.

  James Bond Jr Episode 18 - Lamp of Darkness
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2008: BBC Audiobooks publishes My Word Is My Bond, read by Sir Roger Moore himself.

  

  

  
  2012: DK Books publishes Bond On Set: Filming Skyfall by Greg Williams in the UK.

  
  
  
  

  2013: Ian Fleming Publications announces the Young Bond series of books by Steve Cole.

  
  

  2015: GQ Australia proposes "What Your James Bond Film Car Choice Says About You."

  

  What Your James Bond Car Choice Says About You
  GQ Australia 9 Oct 2015

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/nr-coventry/nailcote-hall-hotel/pink-ball-at-the-hall-james-bond-theme/e-ejqkxo

  

  Comedic cursing or racing driver sliding,
  your Bond depends on your driving style.
  
  Providing they've got $3 million, any Tim, Sean or Roger can buy a Bond car (the going rate for a classic Aston Martin DB5). But driving like 007 - a man capable of imbuing a Citroen 2CV with a certain frisson - is an entirely different matter.
  
  Like the way he carries an Anthony Sinclair suit or Walther PPK, there's something instinctive and wordless about it. But buried under the kudzu of tyre smoke and arched eyebrows there's an imitable kernel of… Bondness.
  
  "Fast, stylish and controlled. That's how you define Daniel Craig's Bond in the car!" shouts Mark Higgins, three-time Word Rally champion and Bond's driving double in Spectre. He's currently steering Bond's new Aston-Martin DB10 at roughly three times the speed of sound at Longcross studios, where some scenes were shot for the film.
  
  As GQ contemplates the swift, savage and extremely irreversible implications of what seems like an imminent crash, he adds, "You'll see through the chase sequences that he's always on the [racing] line, adding a little bit of oversteer because his [Aston Martin DB10] has the power to kick the back end out.
  
  He might even tweak the handbrake going into the corners so he gets a bit of a drift, but he's always in control and his focus is getting from A to B."

  
  Photo: Rex Features

  With Craig, says Higgins, it's all about the details. Small reactions, "but the car's dancing." In Spectre, for instance, he casually calls in for intel while drifting past the Vatican, where the major chase sequence is filmed, at 100mph. More importantly, says Higgins: Craig's not scared of a few stone chips. "He doesn't mind scratching the paint."
  
  Not all Bonds drive equally. Craig is gritty and realistic: almost like he wants to see damage (see Quantum), or at least void the warranty (see literally every other car he drives). By the end of filming, says special effects supervisor Chris Corbould, who's directed the stunts on 15 Bonds, "the cars are wrecked. That's Daniel's style - he doesn't want the car to be shiny and pristine after a chase."
  
  Unlike Brosnan, who is "more accurate and tidy". Roger Moore: "more comedic."

  
  Photo: Rex Features

  And herein lies a problem with defining 007's driving style. Like every Bond, the actor that plays him nuances the idiom. Sean Connery's JB, for example, spends most of his wheel time as he does elsewhere - stroking his jaw as if he himself can't quite believe how handsome he is. Beyond a brief foray on two wheels in a Ford Mustang, the most exciting thing he does in a car is Bond girl Sylvia Trench.

  
  Photo: Rex Features

  And then, of course, there's Roger Moore, driving the likes of the AMC Hornet and, of course, the Citroen 2CV.

  
  Photo: Rex Features

  "There's a lot of slop and play in the cars Moore was driving," says Higgins. "His Bond chucks it into a corner, waits to see what happens next then reacts with an arched eyebrow." Not entirely dissimilar to his approach with the Bondettes, then.
  
  Failing to engender the exuberance of Moore's Bond actually lost a stunt driver his job once. During filming for The Spy Who Loved Me, the second unit director felt that the Lotus Espirit (which defers only to the Aston DB5 in Bond legend), looked too composed during early takes of the chase.
  
  He promptly drafted in Roger Becker, the man sent by Lotus to deliver the car.
  
  "I drove the car as it could be driven," says Becker, "and the second unit director said 'That's how I want it.' From there on in I was behind the wheel most of the time."

  
  Photo: Rex Features

  Timothy Dalton's Bond replaced the wit and mischief of Moore's helmsmanship, driving his Aston Martin V8 Vantage with lock-jawed precision, and joylessly deploying Q Branch's extras with the same intense deadpan as his lines. The car was out of date (it was new in 1977 - The Living Daylights came out in '87) and Dalton, in his stoic seriousness, was ahead of his time.

  
  Photo: Rex Features

  Enter Pierce Brosnan, who, like so many 40-somethings, went through an unfortunate BMW stage. The producers were keen to use the car of the moment, and, reasons stunt man Corbould, "the Pierce Brosnan films were very much made in the BMW era."
  
  Luckily, the high-tech 750iL suited the first 007 to truly enter the digital age, and it was unapologetically tedious enough to befit the dawn of brazen product placement (the manufacturer bought a three-film deal).
  
  The wobbly saloon was such a bad driver's car that Bond didn't bother driving it, rather controlled it via a smartphone from the rear seat. Though he did so with a smile, possibly because he knew he was about to launch it off a multi-storey car park.

  
  Photo: Rex Features

  But despite his questionable wheels, Brosnan was the only Bond to truly relish driving. Even off-duty he raced his Aston Martin DB5 against Xenia's Ferrari 355 in GoldenEye, both sharing a flirtatious cackle as they nearly smear cyclists, some hay bales and each other across the hills above Monaco (though the road that scene's filmed on is actually just north of Nice in France).
  
  Despite his enthusiasm, Bond's speed seems to be qualified by nothing but his own bravura - he's off the racing line, twitchy and very much about to run out of talent. Not Bond driving to aspire to.
  
  Back to Craig. As Higgins says, "he's athletic and minimal - unquestionably the Bond you should drive like." Brosnan's what you do drive like when you think you're driving like Dalton. But really, you want to drive like Moore.
  
  He'll do everything his colleagues can - confound the henchman, dodge the missiles, get the girl (oops, sorry Lazenby), and nobody else drove a 2CV better.
  
  Words: Matt Jones

  
  2022: Media report on Neal Purvis and Robert Wade and their contributions to the Bond franchise over fifteen years and five films.

  

  

  Duo were 'privileged' to renew 007 story

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.fbcnews.com.fj/entertainment/duo-were-privileged-to-renew-007-story/

  October 9, 2022 12:02 pm
  
  Purvis and Wade developed Daniel Craig's arc as Bond over fifteen years and five films [Photo Credit: BBC Entertainment]
  
  They have written seven James Bond screenplays, including all the Daniel Craig films, and their previous collaborations date back over 20 illustrious years.
  
  Yet Neal Purvis and Robert Wade seldom discuss in public the complex way the Bond scripts come together.
  
  The 60th anniversary of the release of Dr No got them to open up about keeping the franchise alive – and killing Bond off.
  
  When, in the late 1990s, the team of Purvis and Wade signed on to write The World is Not Enough, they already had a couple of successful screenplays to their credit.
  
  However, it was their first Bond – Pierce Brosnan’s third – that lifted them to the top rank of screenwriters.
  
  But they weren’t alone in the writing process. The film carried another writing credit too – the American writer Bruce Feirstein.
  
  In fact, almost all their Bond screenplays have then been passed on to at least one other writer for what Purvis terms “a polish”.
  
  Last year, with No Time to Die, Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge was on the writing credits too.

  Wade adds that it can get complex. “In the case of Skyfall, John Logan came on after us and then we did a bit more again. Skyfall in particular just kept developing and it developed really well I thought.”

  Any discussion with movie writers tends at some point to include the term “story arc”. Purvis and Wade faced the ultimate challenge: developing Daniel Craig’s arc as Bond over fifteen years and five films.
  
  Purvis recalls they started work on Casino Royale when the situation paralleled how it is now: a Bond had left and a new actor was yet to be cast.

  “So in that case we were writing our story with no actor in mind but from Ian Fleming’s original Casino Royale novel [published in 1953]. We wrote to his conception of the story as faithfully as we could. Daniel then inhabited the role and of course, over time we saw what Daniel could do.”

  
  Neal Purvis (left) and Robert Wade (right) have co-written seven Bond movies [Photo Credit: BBC Entertainment]

  According to Wade, it was a different experience to write from the beginning.

  “In the two films we’d written for Pierce it was always essentially a continuum of what came before. The basics of character couldn’t change – he was always infallible.”
  
  “We tried to make Pierce’s Bond more vulnerable and Pierce played it very well. But you couldn’t do a big shift in the character because you knew he’d always have to end up being James Bond. Whereas with Daniel we knew we could start developing an arc. In a way, we were starting anew.”
  
  Purvis says dialogue scenes inevitably changed their character with Craig on board because the storyline was changing. “Daniel’s Bond could have the strength and determination and bravado that Pierce had before him. But the actual dramatic scenes were different so inevitably the dialogue moved on. As early as Casino Royale the tone changed.”

  The following film, Quantum of Solace, provided a different challenge. Its title came from a Fleming short story of 1959 but otherwise, the men had to create a totally new story. The critical delight which greeted Casino Royale was not repeated.
  
  Since its release, it has regularly been placed near the bottom end of the charts ranking all the films from the long-running franchise.
  
  Wade says Quantum was conceived to be the second half of Casino Royale. “And then it changed during production. But it was still James Bond being completely affected by what had happened in the previous movie.”

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  October 9 Posts: 13,719

  October 10th
  
  1945: The Royal Navy discharges Commander Ian Lancaster Fleming.
  1946: Charles Dance is born--Redditch, Worcestershire, England.
  
  1956: Fiona Fullerton is born--Kaduna, Nigeria.
  
  1963: London premiere of From Russia With Love at the Odeon Leicester Square.

  

  1963: The Kinematograph Weekly grudgingly admits crowds had been gathered at the theatre since mid-day and opening day records would be bettered by From Russia With Love. It was just the beginning for that type of thing and the film triggered outright spy mania through the 60s. (Later reports say Soviet premier Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev got a copy of the film from the British embassy. And screened it. At least three times.)
  1968: Comic strip The Harpies begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 23 June 1969. 816-1037)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=999
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1978 Fågelkvinnorna ("Bird Woman" - The Harpies)
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3

  Fågelkvinnorna
  ("The Bird Women" - The Harpies)
  

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

  Fågelkvinnorna
  ("The Bird Women" - The Harpies -
  Part 1 | Part 2)
  
  
  

  
  Danish 1970 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-19-1970/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 19: “The Harpies” (1970)
  "Fuglekvinderne" [The Bird Women]
  
  

  
  1979: Moonraker released in France.

  
  
  Novelization.
  https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/James_Bond_and_Moonraker
  

  
  1985: Orson Welles dies at age --Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 6 May 1915--Kenosha, Wisconsin.)

  

  A Cocktail Recipe For
  Disaster: Peter Sellers And
  Orson Welles On The
  Making Of Casino Royale

  https://sabotagetimes.com/tv-film/a-cocktail-recipe-for-disaster-peter-sellers-and-orson-welles-on-the-making-of-casino-royale
  Take one deluded producer, two huge egos, four directors, five 007s and half-a-dozen writers. Sprinkle with cash, add jokes to taste, shake, stir - and voila! Casino Royale: a cocktail recipe for disaster
  Richard Luck | Updated on Nov 2, 2015
  
  Casino Royale must have looked an appetising prospect when it went into pre-production in 1965. The Saltzman/Broccoli Bond movies had established the playboy spy as a bankable commodity, and when producer Charles Feldman signed up comic genius Peter Sellers for his film version of Fleming's novel, he doubtless thought he had a licence to print money. Rather than breaking box-office records, however, Feldman's $12 million movie would devour its budget, fail to recoup its costs and destroy careers, including his own.
  
  But Casino Royale was cursed even before Feldman optioned it in the early '60s. CBS, who had made a US TV movie of it in 1954, passed the option on to actor-director Gregory Ratoff. He signed to make a big-screen version for Fox in 1960 - only to die before a frame was shot.
  
  As for Feldman, his problems began the day he hired Sellers - at the time one of the biggest movie stars in the world. The impact of his performances in Dr Strangelove, in addition to the commercial success of the Pink Panther movies, elevated Sellers to a position of rare power for a comic actor. Feldman knew from experience that Sellers was a draw - the actor had helped make a hit of the producer's giddy comedy What's New Pussycat? - so he agreed to pay the former Goon a then-unheard-of $1m to play accountant and Bond imposter Evelyn Tremble.

  No sooner had he agreed terms than Sellers fell out with Feldman and began to act irrationally. He insisted that the producer hire his friend, TV director Joe McGrath, and refused to appear on set with co-star Orson Welles. Many concluded that the already eccentric Sellers had gone mad, especially after he came to blows with McGrath and then fled the set - never to return.

  The impact of his performances in Dr Strangelove, in addition to the commercial success of the Pink Panther movies, elevated Sellers to a position of rare power for a comic actor
  
  Peter Sellers' walkout seemed to spell the end of Casino Royale. But rather than capitulating, Charles Feldman reverted to his original plan and set about making a truly immense movie. Out went McGrath and original writer Wolf Mankowitz; in came a string of different directors - Val Guest, John Huston, Richard Talmadge, Robert Parrish, Ken Hughes - and a raft of screenwriters that included co-stars Woody Allen and David Niven, Hollywood legend Billy Wilder and groundbreaking novelist Terry Southern .
  
  The end result has to be one of the strangest films ever made by a Hollywood studio. The combination of Sellers' walkout and Feldman's extravagance deprived Casino Royale of anything approaching structure and transformed it into a series of unconnected sketches. Worst of all, here was a comedy almost totally devoid of laughs.
  
  It was to be Feldman's swansong: he died of stomach cancer within a year of the film's 1967 premiere. The paranoid Peter Sellers had predicted as much. "Feldman is going to die!" he once ranted, "and the reason he'll die is so he can blame me! He'll say, 'Sellers killed me!' He'll do it to spite me!"
  
  Charles Feldman (producer): I love the movies, always have. I like money too, but only because it lets me make the movies I want to make.

  Orson Welles (actor, Le Chiffre): The movies need people like Charles Feldman: rich, jolly, generous men who're happy writing cheques.

  Val Guest (director): Charlie found out that, when he bought the book, all he got was the title. Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli had already used everything in the book except the baccarat game, so the whole thing had to be structured around that.
  
  Woody Allen (actor, Jimmy Bond/Dr Noah): I was offered a lot of money and a small part. My manager said, "Why not? It could become a big movie." So I went to London. I was on a good salary and expense account. But they didn't film me for six months! I stayed in London at their expense for six months! That's only one example of how utterly wasteful the project was.

  I once saw him on one phone to Peter Sellers, on a second to United Artists and on a third to the Italian government

  Bryan Forbes (first-choice director): Charlie came into my life brandishing a copy of Casino Royale. He told me he wanted to have five James Bond and would guarantee me an all-star cast. "You can write it wherever you want. Do you like the south of France?" Gifts started to arrive - silk scarves, theatre tickets. Charlie was talking Monopoly money to secure my services. Every time I expressed doubts, he sweetened the deal.
  
  Peter Sellers (actor, Evelyn Tremble): People will swim through shit if you put a few bob in it.
  
  Woody Allen: Charlie was a genius. I once saw him on one phone to Peter Sellers, on a second to United Artists and on a third to the Italian government. He was a big-time charming con man and I never trusted him for a second.
  
  Bryan Forbes: I said 'yes' to Charlie and then thought about the basic idiocies of the script. Five Bonds! That meant departing from the novel. I called one of Charlie's assistants who went into a fit on the phone. But I stuck to my guns.
  
  Wolf Mankowitz (screenwriter): Peter Sellers was a treacherous lunatic. My advice to Feldman was not in any circumstances to get involved with Sellers. But Sellers was at his peak. I told Charlie that Sellers would fuck it all up.
  
  Joseph McGrath (director): Feldman was glad to get Peter at any price. He'd put up the money for Sellers' insurance on What's New Pussycat? - after his heart attack, nobody would cover him.
  
  Wolf Mankowitz: Charlie gave Sellers a Rolls Royce on the first day of shooting as a come-on.
  
  Peter Sellers: I was offered $1 million to play Bond. I said, "You must be out of your bloody minds - what about Sean Connery?" Feldman said, "Yes, I know, but I have this book and I'm going to make it." I said, "I certainly can't play Bond!"
  
  Wolf Mankowitz: Charlie Feldman offered Peter more and more money to play 007. In the end, the fee was so large Peter would have been mad to turn it down.
  
  Peter Sellers: I wanted to play James Bond the way Tony Hancock would play him. But Ian Fleming's people would never have allowed it.
  
  Wolf Mankowitz: In the end, Peter didn't play Bond. He played Evelyn Tremble. "Who's Evelyn Tremble?" everyone asked. Nobody knew. But then we didn't know who Sellers was either.
  
  Charles Feldman: The only way to make a film with Peter is to let him direct, write and produce it as well as star in it.
  
  Wolf Mankowitz: Sellers wanted different directors; he wanted to piss around with the script. He knew nothing about anything except doing funny faces and funny voices.
  
  Joseph McGrath: Peter asked me if I'd be interested in directing a film he'd agreed to star in. I said, "I'd be delighted to." And that's where the trouble started.
  
  Wolf Mankowitz: By Casino Royale, Peter Sellers was pretty well round the bend and couldn't function properly. He'd change the order of shooting. He'd be 'unavailable' or constantly change his timing, making it hard to splice material together.
  

  Sellers was frightened of the scale of Orson - his legend, literally his weight and immensity.

  Orson Welles: Sellers wasn't terribly bright, but he came on as the great actor.

  Joseph McGrath: One of the problems that blew the film apart was that Orson and I got along really well. And Sellers got really annoyed. "I didn't think you and Orson would take sides against me." I said, "I'm not - but Orson thinks we can come up with some funny stuff." Sellers replied, "I'll only attempt to come up with funny stuff so long as he's not here." He was frightened of the scale of Orson - his legend, literally his weight and immensity.

  Wolf Mankowitz: I'll never forget the occasion Orson and I, two rather large fellows, were in the lift. The door opened and Sellers was there. Sellers wasn't talking to Orson, and he was none too keen on me either. He wouldn't go down in the lift with us - said it wasn't safe. Orson was pissed off. "What the fuck is he talking about?" "I think he means the combined weight, Orson." "What the fuck does he weigh? Skinny as a shrimp. Looks like a shrimp, come to think of it."

  Joseph McGrath: Orson didn't have the same attitude about his career as Peter did. Peter was what he did. Orson thought, I'll be here for four weeks, let's enjoy ourselves. Peter's thing was: My career is on the line.

  Wolf Mankowitz: Peter was terrified of playing with Orson and converted this into an aversion for him.

  Joseph McGrath: Orson would come onto the set at 9am prompt, sit down at the baccarat table and say, "So, Joe, where's our thin friend today?"

  Orson Welles: Sellers was very proud of how thin he was. Apparently, he'd taken a lot of pills to help shift the weight. If you listened to him talking, you'd think it was the greatest achievement of his career.

  Wolf Mankowitz: Sellers claimed Orson was surrounded by a dark aura and said it would not be healthy for him to be close to Orson. He was incredibly superstitious. He was obsessed with horoscopes, tarot cards and colours.

  Peter Sellers: Green has been a superstition of mine for a long time. And purple. Vittorio De Sica told me, "My dear Peter, purple is the colour of death." And certain shades of green. The hard, acidy green is bad. I pick up strange vibrations from it. It disturbs me.
  
  Wolf Mankowitz: Sellers was completely obsessed with royalty. He was always going on about Princess Margaret. His biggest thrill was to present people to her.

  Orson Welles: The fact that Princess Margaret was stopping by every day at my house was unknown to Sellers. One day she came to the set to have lunch with Peter, or so he claimed. He couldn't wait to tell the cast and crew who he was dining with. Then she walked past him and said, "Hello, Orson, I haven't seen you for days!" That was the real end. That's when we couldn't speak lines to each other. "Orson, I haven't seen you for days!" absolutely killed him. He went white as a sheet, because he was going to present me!

  Joseph McGrath: Peter and I had a fist fight in his caravan. He threw a punch and I hit him back. We got separated by Gerry Crampton, the stunt coordinator. "I love you both. I don't know who to thump first," Gerry said. Sellers and I started laughing and crying, but I said, "There's no point going on, because somebody's going to hit somebody again." And he did.
  
  Peter Sellers: If I find myself surrounded by stupid people, I get rid of them.
  
  Joseph McGrath: After I was fired - at Peter's request - Sellers phoned and said, "Come back! Feldman's going to give you a Rolls Royce." I said, "I don't want one." Two years later, I was in LA and Jerry Bressler, who got a credit on Casino Royale as an executive producer, pulled up in a white Coriniche. "Are you Joe McGrath?" he said. "I'm driving your Rolls Royce!"
  
  Peter Sellers: In the end, Peter did one of his celebrated walkouts.
  
  Ken Hughes (director): Peter stated that he was not prepared to complete the movie. Casino Royale came to a ghastly halt. Charles Feldman was left with a few scenes shot with Sellers but no movie. He had to consider closing down. But big money was involved and he decided to go ahead.
  
  Joseph McGrath: It's hard to finish a film when you lose your star.
  
  Ken Hughes: At a panic script meeting, it was decided that since they no longer had Sellers, they'd have to improvise. The writers were working like crazy trying to save the day. Feldman hired everyone in sight: Woody Allen, David Niven, John Huston. It was total chaos. Units were shooting in three studios. I was shooting at Shepperton, another unit was shooting at MGM. And none of us saw a completed script. I had to call the director at MGM to find out what he was shooting so I'd know how it dovetailed into what I was shooting.

  Orson Welles: At the end of it, Charlie Feldman hired John Huston to direct and John moved everybody to Ireland because he wanted to go fox hunting.

  Ken Hughes: The end result speaks for itself - a mish-mash that came into being because the star had walked out.
  
  Wolf Mankowitz: The film doesn't make any sense. Because of Sellers it was cut, re-cut, screwed around with a thousand different ways.
  
  Joseph McGrath: Peter told me years later, "I don't have a lot of friends, but I can trust you. Because we've been through hell together. You've actually faced me and thrown a punch at me. I know you won't put up with any shit.
  
  Peter Sellers: I am not a funny man. I don't have a strong comedy personality. But even without that, you can be successful if the material is funny.
  
  Woody Allen: I never bothered to see Casino Royale. I knew it would be horrible. The set was a madhouse. I knew then that the only way to make a film is to control it completely.
  
  Peter Sellers: The making of that film would make an interesting film in itself.

  
  Orson Welles (1915–1985)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000080/
  
  Filmography

  Actor (129 credits)
  
  2005 An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (Short) - Narrator
  
  1987 Someone to Love - Danny's Friend
  1986 The Transformers: The Movie - Unicron (voice)
  1985 Moonlighting (TV Series) - Orson Welles
  - The Dream Sequence Always Rings Twice (1985) ... Orson Welles
  1984 Where Is Parsifal? - Klingsor
  1983 Hot Money - Sheriff Paisley
  1981-1983 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - Robin Masters
  - The Big Blow (1983) ... Robin Masters (voice, uncredited)
  - Birdman of Budapest (1983) ... Robin Masters (voice, uncredited)
  - Double Jeopardy (1982) ... Robin Masters (voice, uncredited)
  - J. "Digger" Doyle (1981) ... Robin Masters (voice)
  1982 The Dreamers (Short) - Marcus Kleek
  1982 Wagner e Venezia (TV Short) - Richard Wagner (voice)
  1982 Slapstick of Another Kind
  Aliens' Father (voice, uncredited) -
  1982 Butterfly - Judge Rauch
  1981 The Enchanted Journey - Pippo (voice)
  1981 Tales of the Klondike (TV Mini-Series) - Narrator
  - Love of Life (1981) ... Narrator
  - The Unexpected (1981) ... Narrator
  - Scorn of Women (1981) ... Narrator
  - The Race for Number One (1981) ... Narrator
  - The One Thousand Dozen (1981) ... Narrator 7 episodes
  1981 History of the World: Part I - Narrator (voice)
  1981 The Man Who Saw Tomorrow - Narrator
  1980 The Greenstone Narrated by Orson Welles (Short) - Narrator (voice)
  1980 Shogun (TV Mini-Series) - Narrator
  - Episode #1.5 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
  - Episode #1.4 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
  - Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
  - Episode #1.2 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
  - Episode #1.1 (1980) ... Narrator (voice)
  1980 Shogun (TV Movie) - Narrator (voice)
  1980 The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla - J.P. Morgan
  
  1979 The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis (Video) - Narrator
  1979 The Double McGuffin - Narrator (voice)
  1979 The Muppet Movie - Lew Lord
  1978 A Woman Called Moses (TV Series) - Narrator
  - Episode #1.2 (1978) ... Narrator (voice)
  - Episode #1.1 (1978) ... Narrator (voice)
  1978 The Biggest Battle - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
  1977 Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Short) - Narrator (voice)
  1977 Some Call It Greed - Narrator (voice)
  1977 It Happened One Christmas (TV Movie) - Henry F. Potter
  1977 Hot Tomorrows - Parklawn Mortuary (voice)
  1976 Voyage of the Damned - Jose Estedes
  1975 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (TV Short) - Narrator / Nag / Chuchundra (voice)
  1974 Ten Little Indians - U. N. Owen / and the voice of (voice)
  1973 The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles (Short) - Narrator
  1973 The Battle of Sutjeska - Winston Churchill
  1972 The Man Who Came to Dinner (TV Movie) - Sheridan Whiteside
  1972 Treasure Island - Long John Silver
  1972 Get to Know Your Rabbit - Mr. Delasandro
  1972 Necromancy - Mr. Cato
  1971 London (Short) - Presenter / Winston Churchill / One-Man Band / ...
  1971 Malpertuis - Cassavius
  1971 Freedom River (Short) - Narrator (voice)
  1971 Ten Days Wonder - Théo Van Horn - un multimillionnaire qui vit en despote dans sa maison
  1971 Night Gallery (TV Series) - Narrator (segment "Silent Snow, Secret Snow")
  - The Phantom Farmhouse/Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1971) ... Narrator (segment "Silent Snow, Secret Snow") (voice)
  1971 A Safe Place - The Magician
  1970 The Deep - Russ Brewer
  1970 Is It Always Right to Be Right? (Short) - Narrator (voice)
  1970 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) - Guest Performer
  - Episode #4.7 (1970) ... Guest Performer
  1970/I Waterloo - Louis XVIII
  1970 The Name of the Game (TV Series) - Narrator
  - The Enemy Before Us (1970) ... Narrator
  1970 Upon This Rock (TV Movie) - Michelangelo (voice)
  1970 Catch-22 - General Dreedle
  1970 Start the Revolution Without Me - The Narrator
  1970 The Kremlin Letter - Bresnavitch
  
  1969 The Merchant of Venice (TV Short) - Shylock
  1969 To Build a Fire - Narrator (voice)
  1969 The Battle of Neretva - Senator
  1969 Twelve Plus One - Maurice Markau
  1969 Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat - Justinian
  1969 The Southern Star - Plankett
  1969 Tepepa - Colonel Cascorro
  1968 The Last Roman - Emperor Justinian
  1968 House of Cards - Leschenhaut
  1968 Oedipus the King - Tiresias
  1968 The Immortal Story (TV Movie) - Mr. Charles Clay
  1967 I'll Never Forget What's'isname - Jonathan Lute
  1967 The Sailor from Gibraltar - Louis de Mozambique
  1967 Casino Royale - Le Chiffre
  1966 A Man for All Seasons - Cardinal Wolsey
  1966 Is Paris Burning? - Consul Raoul Nordling
  1965 La isla del tesoro (Short) - Long John Silver
  1965 Treasure Island (Short) - Long John Silver
  1965 Chimes at Midnight - Falstaff
  1965 Marco the Magnificent - Akerman, Marco's Tutor
  1964 The Finest Hours (Documentary) - Narrator (voice)
  1963 The V.I.P.s - Max Buda
  1963 Ro.Go.Pa.G. - The 'Director' (segment "La ricotta")
  1962 The Trial - Albert Hastler - The Advocate / Narrator
  1962 Lafayette - Benjamin Franklin
  1961 King of Kings - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
  1961 The Tartars - Burundai
  1960 The Battle of Austerlitz - Robert Fulton
  1960 An Arabian Night (TV Movie) - Storyteller
  1960 Crack in the Mirror - Hagolin / Lamerciere
  1960 David and Goliath - King Saul
  
  1959 High Journey (Short) - Narrator (voice)
  1959 Ferry to Hong Kong - Captain Hart
  1959 Compulsion - Jonathan Wilk
  1958 Masters of the Congo Jungle (Documentary) - Narrator, English Language Version (voice)
  1958 The Roots of Heaven - Cy Sedgewick
  1958 Colgate Theatre (TV Series) - Narrator
  - Fountain of Youth (1958) ... Narrator
  1958 The Fountain of Youth (TV Short) - Host / narrator
  1958 South Seas Adventure - Supplemental Narrator (voice)
  1958 The Vikings - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
  1958 Touch of Evil - Police Captain Hank Quinlan
  1958 The Long, Hot Summer - Will Varner
  1957/I Man in the Shadow - Virgil Renchler
  1956 I Love Lucy (TV Series) - Orson Welles
  - Lucy Meets Orson Welles (1956) ... Orson Welles
  1956 Moby Dick - Father Mapple
  1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) - Oscar Jaffe
  - Twentieth Century (1956) ... Oscar Jaffe
  1955 Moby Dick Rehearsed (TV Movie) - An Actor Manager / Father Mapple / Ahab
  1955 Confidential Report - Gregory Arkadin
  1955 Napoleon - Sir Hudson Lowe
  1955 Three Cases of Murder - Lord Mountdrago ("Lord Mountdrago" segment)
  1954 Trouble in the Glen - Sanin Cejador y Mengues
  1954 Royal Affairs in Versailles - Benjamin Franklin
  1953 Return to Glennascaul (Short) - Narrator / Orson Welles
  1953 Omnibus (TV Series) - King Lear (segment)
  - King Lear (1953) ... King Lear (segment)
  1953 L'uomo la bestia e la virtù - Captain Perella - the Beast
  1952 Trent's Last Case - Sigsbee Manderson
  1952 The Little World of Don Camillo - Narrator (voice)
  1951 Othello - Othello
  1950 The Black Rose - Bayan
  
  1949 Prince of Foxes - Cesare Borgia
  1949 The Third Man - Harry Lime
  1949 Black Magic - Joseph Balsamo aka Count Cagliostro
  1948 Macbeth - Macbeth
  1947 The Lady from Shanghai - Michael O'Hara
  1946 Duel in the Sun - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
  1946 The Stranger - Professor Charles Rankin
  1946 Tomorrow Is Forever - John Andrew MacDonald / Erik Kessler
  1944 Follow the Boys - Orson Welles
  1943 Jane Eyre - Edward Rochester
  1943 Journey Into Fear - Colonel Haki
  1942 The Magnificent Ambersons - Narrator (voice)
  1941 Citizen Kane - Kane
  1940 Swiss Family Robinson - Opening Narrator (uncredited)
  1939 The Green Goddess (Short) - Rajah / Narrator
  1938 Too Much Johnson - Keystone Kop
  1934 The Hearts of Age (Short) - Death
  1933 Twelfth Night (Short)
  
  Director (54 credits)
  
  2018 The Other Side of the Wind
  2005 An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (Short)
  1955-2000 Around the World with Orson Welles (TV Mini-Series documentary) (7 episodes)
  - The Dominici Affair (2000)
  - Madrid Bullfight (1955) ... (uncredited)
  - The Queen's Pensioners (1955) ... (uncredited)
  - St. Germain des Prés (1955) ... (uncredited)
  - The Third Man in Vienna (1955)
  2000 Moby Dick (Short)
  1993 It's All True (Documentary)
  1992 Don Quixote (original footage)
  
  1964-1986 Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (TV Series documentary) (9 episodes)
  - Feria de abril a Siviglia (1986)
  - Roma e oriente in Spagna (1964)
  - Tempo di flamenco (1964)
  - Siviglia (1964)
  - Le cantine di Jerez (1964)
  Show all 9 episodes
  1985 Orson Welles' Magic Show (TV Short)
  1984 The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (Short)
  1982 Orson Welles' The Dreamers (Documentary short)
  1982 The Dreamers (Short)
  1981 Filming 'The Trial' (Documentary)
  
  1979 The Orson Welles Show (TV Special) (as G.O. Spelvin)
  1978 Filming 'Othello' (Documentary)
  1976 Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer (Short)
  1973 F for Fake (Documentary)
  1972 Don Quixote
  1971 London (Short)
  1970 The Deep
  
  1969 The Merchant of Venice (TV Short)
  1969 The Southern Star (opening scenes, uncredited)
  1968 Vienna (Short)
  1968 The Immortal Story (TV Movie)
  1967 The Heroine
  1965 Treasure Island (Short)
  1965 Chimes at Midnight
  1962 The Trial
  1962 No Exit (uncredited)
  1961 Tempo (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - The Art of Bullfighting/The Death of Fiction (1961)
  1960 David and Goliath (his own scenes, uncredited)
  
  1958 Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina (TV Short documentary)
  1958 Colgate Theatre (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - Fountain of Youth (1958)
  1958 The Fountain of Youth (TV Short)
  1958 Touch of Evil
  1956 Orson Welles and People (TV Special short)
  1955 Moby Dick Rehearsed (TV Movie)
  1955 Orson Welles' Sketch Book (TV Series) (6 episodes)
  - Bullfighting (1955) ... (uncredited)
  - The War of the Worlds (1955) ... (uncredited)
  - Houdini/John Barrymore/Voodoo Story/The People I Missed (1955) ... (uncredited)
  - The Police (1955) ... (uncredited)
  - Critics (1955) ... (uncredited)
  1955 Confidential Report
  1955 Three Cases of Murder (segment "Lord Mountdrago", uncredited)
  1951 Othello
  1950 The Miracle of St. Anne (Short)
  
  1949 Black Magic (uncredited)
  1948 Macbeth
  1947 The Lady from Shanghai (uncredited)
  1946 The Stranger
  1943 It's All True (Documentary)
  1943 The Story of Samba (Short)
  1943 Journey Into Fear (uncredited)
  1942 The Magnificent Ambersons
  1941 Citizen Kane
  
  1939 The Green Goddess (Short)
  1938 Too Much Johnson
  1934 The Hearts of Age (Short)
  1933 Twelfth Night (Short)
  
  Writer (61 credits)
  
  Something Else (inspired by) (filming)
  2018 The Other Side of the Wind (written by)
  2014 Citizen Vader (Short) (characters)
  2008 F for favor (Short) (writer)
  2007 The Hitchhiker (radio script - uncredited)
  2005 An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (Short)
  2002 The Magnificent Ambersons (TV Movie) (1942 screenplay)
  Around the World with Orson Welles (TV Mini-Series documentary) (1 episode, 1955) (writer - 5 episodes, 1955 - 2000) (script - 1 episode, 1955)
  - The Dominici Affair (2000) ... (writer)
  - Madrid Bullfight (1955) ... (script - uncredited)
  - The Queen's Pensioners (1955) ... (writer - uncredited)
  - St. Germain des Prés (1955) ... (uncredited)
  - The Third Man in Vienna (1955) ... (writer) 7 episodes
  2000 Moby Dick (Short) (play)
  
  1999 The Big Brass Ring (earlier screenplay)
  1998 The Way to Santiago (Short) (writer)
  1997 The Big Brass Ring (Documentary short)
  1997 The Hearts of Age (Short) (concept)
  1992 Don Quixote (uncredited)
  
  1985 Orson Welles' Magic Show (TV Short)
  1984 The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (Short)
  1982 Orson Welles' The Dreamers (Documentary short) (written by)
  1982 The Dreamers (Short) (screenplay)
  1978 Filming 'Othello' (Documentary) (writer)
  1976 Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer (Short)
  1976 NBC: The First Fifty Years (TV Movie documentary)
  1973 F for Fake (Documentary) (writer)
  1972 Don Quixote (written by)
  1972 Treasure Island (adapted for the screen by - as O. W. Jeeves)
  1971 London (Short)
  1970 The Deep
  
  1969 The Merchant of Venice (TV Short)
  1968 Vienna (Short) (writer)
  1968 The Immortal Story (TV Movie)
  1967 The Heroine (written by)
  1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... (uncredited)
  1965 La isla del tesoro (Short)
  1965 Treasure Island (Short)
  1965 Chimes at Midnight
  1962 The Trial (written by)
  1961 Tempo (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
  - The Art of Bullfighting/The Death of Fiction (1961) ... (written by)
  
  1958 Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina (TV Short documentary)
  1958 Colgate Theatre (TV Series) (teleplay - 1 episode)
  - Fountain of Youth (1958) ... (teleplay)
  1958 The Fountain of Youth (TV Short)
  1958 Touch of Evil (screenplay)
  1956 Orson Welles and People (TV Special short)
  1955 Moby Dick Rehearsed (TV Movie)
  1955 Orson Welles' Sketch Book (TV Series) (6 episodes)
  - Bullfighting (1955) ... (uncredited)
  - The War of the Worlds (1955) ... (uncredited)
  - Houdini/John Barrymore/Voodoo Story/The People I Missed (1955) ... (uncredited)
  - The Police (1955) ... (uncredited)
  - Critics (1955) ... (uncredited)
  Show all 6 episodes
  1955 Confidential Report (screenplay) / (story)
  1951 Othello (uncredited)
  1950 The Miracle of St. Anne (Short)
  
  1949 Portrait of a Killer (uncredited)
  1949 The Third Man (uncredited)
  1948 Macbeth (adaptation - uncredited)
  1947 The Lady from Shanghai (screenplay)
  1947 Monsieur Verdoux (based on an idea by)
  1946 The Stranger (uncredited)
  1943 It's All True (Documentary) (screenplay)
  1943 The Story of Samba (Short)
  1943 Journey Into Fear (uncredited)
  1942 The Magnificent Ambersons (script writer)
  1941 Citizen Kane (original screen play)
  
  1939 The Green Goddess (Short) (adaptation)
  1938 Too Much Johnson (writer)
  1934 The Hearts of Age (Short)
  1933 Twelfth Night (Short) (writer: voice-over)
  
  Producer (25 credits)
  
  2005 An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (Short) (producer)
  
  1964-1986 Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (TV Series documentary) (producer - 9 episodes)
  - Feria de abril a Siviglia (1986) ... (producer)
  - Roma e oriente in Spagna (1964) ... (producer)
  - Tempo di flamenco (1964) ... (producer)
  - Siviglia (1964) ... (producer)
  - Le cantine di Jerez (1964) ... (producer)
  Show all 9 episodes
  1985 Orson Welles' Magic Show (TV Short) (producer)
  1982 Orson Welles' The Dreamers (Documentary short) (producer)
  1982 The Dreamers (Short) (producer)
  1981 Filming 'The Trial' (Documentary) (producer)
  
  1976 Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer (Short) (producer)
  1972 Don Quixote (producer)
  1970 The Deep (producer)
  1969 The Merchant of Venice (TV Short) (producer)
  1968 Vienna (Short) (producer)
  
  1958 Colgate Theatre (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
  - Fountain of Youth (1958) ... (producer)
  1958 The Fountain of Youth (TV Short) (producer)
  1956 Orson Welles and People (TV Special short) (producer)
  1955 Confidential Report (producer)
  1951 Othello (producer - uncredited)
  
  1948 Macbeth (producer - uncredited)
  1947 The Lady from Shanghai (producer)
  1943 The Story of Samba (Short) (producer)
  1943 Jane Eyre (associate producer - uncredited)
  1943 Journey Into Fear (producer - uncredited)
  1942 The Magnificent Ambersons (producer - uncredited)
  1941 Citizen Kane (production)
  
  1939 The Green Goddess (Short) (producer)
  1938 Too Much Johnson (producer)
  
  Editor (8 credits)
  
  2018 The Other Side of the Wind
  
  1964-1986 Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (TV Series documentary) (9 episodes)
  - Feria de abril a Siviglia (1986)
  - Roma e oriente in Spagna (1964)
  - Tempo di flamenco (1964)
  - Siviglia (1964)
  - Le cantine di Jerez (1964) 9 episodes
  
  1973 F for Fake (Documentary) (uncredited)
  1972 Don Quixote
  
  1967 The Heroine
  1962 The Trial (uncredited)
  1955 Confidential Report (uncredited)
  1938 Too Much Johnson

  
  
  
  
  
  

  1988: Licence to Kill films Professor Joe Butcher.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 19 of 65 - "Hostile Takeover."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Hostile Takeover

  Season 1 - Episode 19
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807103/?ref_=ttep_ep19
  

  James and his friends are forced to fight a war on the homefront when Warfield Academy's staff are mysteriously called away for a retraining program.

  James Bond Jr Episode 19 - Hostile Takeover
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2002: Planned release date for the "Die Another Day " single.

  

  News Roundup: Oct. 9

  http://www.hollywood.com/general/news-roundup-oct-9-57205166/

  Warner Bros. Records confirms that “Die Another Day,” Madonna‘s new single and the title song for MGM’s forthcoming James Bond film, will be in stores on October 22. The song was to officially debut Oct. 10 but was leaked to radio stations last week. Launch.com reports that Madonna and members of her camp were beside themselves when the song–which they claim wasn’t even finished–aired on a pop station in New York City.

  2005: John Murray publishes Secret Servant--The Moneypenny Diaries by Kate Westbrook (Samantha Weinberg) in the UK.

  
  
  

  2009: Michael Omara publishes Roger Moore's My Word is My Bond: The Autobiography.

  One of the most recognizable big-screen stars
  of the past half-century, Sir Roger Moore
  played the role of James Bond longer than any other
  actor. Beginning with the classic Live and Let Die,
  running through Moonraker and A View to a Kill,
  Moore brought his finely honed wit and wry charm
  to one of Hollywood's most beloved and long-lasting
  characters. Still, James Bond was only one in a
  lifetime of roles stretching back to Hollywood's
  studio era, and encompassing stardom in theater
  and television on both sides of the Atlantic. From
  The Saint to Maverick, Warner Brothers to MGM,
  Hollywood to London to extreme locations the
  world over, Roger Moore's story is one of the last of
  the classic Hollywood lives as yet untold.
  
  Until now. From the dying days of the studio
  system and the birth of television, to the quips of
  Noël Coward and David Niven, to the bedroom
  scenes and outtakes from the Bond movies, Moore
  has seen and heard it all. Nothing is left out --
  especially the naughty bits. The "special effects" by
  which James Bond unzipped a dress with a magnet;
  the spectacular risks in The Spy Who Loved Me's
  opening scene; and Moore's preparation for facing
  down villains (he would imagine they all have
  halitosis): the stories in My Word is My Bond
  are priceless.
  
  Throughout his career, Moore hobnobbed with
  the glamorous and powerful, counting Elizabeth
  Taylor, Jane Seymour, and Cary Grant among his
  contemporaries and friends. Included are stories
  of a foul-mouthed Milton Berle, a surly Richard
  Burton, and a kindhearted Richard Kiel, infamous
  as Bond enemy Jaws.
  
  As much as it is Moore's own exceptional
  story, My Word is My Bond is a treasure trove of
  Hollywood history.

  MY WORD IS MY BOND
  "Guy (Hamilton) wanted to toughen up my Bond a little. I think
  it's most evident in the scenes I had with Maud Adams, where I
  twisted her arm and threatened -- rather coldly -- to break it unless
  she told me what I wanted to know. That sort of characterisation
  didn't sit easy with me, but Guy was keen to make my Bond a
  little more ruthless, like Fleming's. I suggested my Bond would
  have charmed the information out of her by bedding her first.
  My Bond was a lover and a giggler."

  
  
  

  
  
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  October 10 Posts: 13,719

  October 11th
  
  1935: Harold Dan Meaden is born--Bournemouth, England.
  (He dies 28 November 2011--Blackheath, London, England.)

  

  Dan Meaden (1935–2011)

  Actor | Director | Writer
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574987/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t27
  

  

  
  1963: From Russia With Love general release in the UK.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1968: LIFE magazine identifies finalists for the Bond role as Hans DeVries, Robert Campbell, John Richardson, Anthony Rogers and George Lazenby.

  
  
  
  

  
  1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films Cairo, Luxor, and the pyramids in Egypt.
  1979: 007: Misión espacial released in Mexico.

  
  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 20 of 65 - "Cruise to Oblivion" in Bermuda.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Cruise to Oblivion

  Season 1 - Episode 20
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807097/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  During a cruise on one of Phoebe's father's ships, James runs into Goldfinger in Bermuda during his attempt to raise a sunken galleon filled with gold.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack / Oddjob (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Auric Goldfinger (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr Episode 20 - Cruise to Oblivion
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale soundtrack completion this day, for a November release.
  2007: Roger Moore receives the 2,350th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Los Angeles, California.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2011: Javier Bardem confirms his casting in BOND 23.
  2012: A multimedia exhibition BOND by GQ opens to the public to celebrate 50 years of Bond films.
  Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

  
  multimedia exhibition

  BOND by GQ

  http://www.mymarka.ru/en/project/3
  11 October 2012 – 20 November 2012
  Solyanka State Gallery
  
  We created this exhibition with a two-fold purpose: the 50th anniversary of the release on screen of the first film about the adventures of the most suave spy of all time, as well as the forthcoming premiere on 26 October, of the 23rd Bond film, Skyfall. The name is Bond, James Bond. Retired Royal Navy Commander, and current secret agent On Her Majesty’s Service, licensed to kill, with the number 007. Here was the darkened lair of Colonel-General Grubozaboyshikov, head of SMERSH (you can read about him in that most well-known of all Fleming’s books, From Russia with Love); this was a Soviet bunker straight out of the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cold War. In the Chocolate space there are spy accessories spanning the whole Bond legend. In the Made for Gentlemen corner the viewer found the attributes of this quintessential gentleman: three suits by Brioni which appeared in the Bond films; hats, shoes and a golden gun. And, of course, the girls: one whole wall of the gallery was given over to the girls who won Bond’s heart; on the other, vintage portraits of all the 007 stars; glossy photos taken by the legendary photographer Terry O'Neill, who has dedicated half a century of his life to Bondiana. The museum was showing the first screening of a documentary about the filming of the last part of Quantum of Solace. In addition, BOND by GQ was showing a unique collection of the titles to twenty-two of the Bond films.
  
  Artists: Terry O’Neill, Katya Bochavar, Ivan Razumov,
  
  Curators: Katya Bochavar, Nina Tsirkun, Alexander Pumpyanskiy, Natalia Chechel, Dmitriy Sukhodolskiy, Oksana Smirnova, Leonid Gavriliuk, Elena Kaimanova
  
  October 10, 2012
  Solyanka State Gallery | | Opening exhibition
  

  https://in.bookmyshow.com/national-capital-region-ncr/events/james-bond-under-the-stars/ET00315338
  
  

  
  
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  October 11 Posts: 13,719

  October 12th
  
  1942: Daliah Lavi is born--Shavei Tzion, Israel.
  (She dies 3 May 2017--Asheville, North Carolina.)

  

  Daliah Lavi obituary

  Glamorous film actor who made her name in spy spoofs of the
  1960s

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/may/09/daliah-lavi-obituary
  Ronald Bergan | Tue 9 May 2017 07.57 EDT

  
  In the 1970s Daliah Lavi left the silver screen behind and started a new career as a singer. She was particularly popular in Germany. Photograph: Alamy

  With the huge success of the James Bond film franchise, starting with Dr No in 1962, a plethora of spin-offs appeared throughout the 1960s. They followed the original recipe of exotic locales, an evil genius who wishes to take over the world, a laidback, oversexed super spy hero and a bevy of (mostly treacherous) beautiful women. Among the actors portraying the last of these was Daliah Lavi, who has died aged 74.
  
  Almost all Lavi’s film career took place in that swinging decade during which she was most likely to be seen in miniskirt and kinky boots, or displaying her underwear. The multilingual Lavi (born in the British Mandate of Palestine) had already made several French, German, Italian and Hollywood films before she starred as a sexy double agent opposite Dean Martin in The Silencers (1966), the first of the “bosoms and bullets” Matt Helm series.

  Continuing in the light-hearted parodic tone was The Spy With a Cold Nose (1966) – the title refers to a bulldog with a microphone implant – in which Lavi as a Russian princess slips into the bed of a British counterintelligence agent (Lionel Jeffries), something he has long dreamed of. Lavi, with her tongue firmly in her cheek, was one of the plethora of 007s in Casino Royale (1967) and, her dark hair in a high beehive, was an alluring and mysterious woman who runs a gambling house in London in the cold war thriller Nobody Runs Forever (1968). The run of spy spoofs ended with Some Girls Do (1969), in which she was a villain, opposing and attracting “Bulldog” Drummond (Richard Johnson).[/img]

  
  Daliah Lavi with Dean Martin in The Silencers, 1966. Photograph: Alamy

  She was born Daliah Lewinbuk in the village of Shavi Zion in what was to become Israel. Her Jewish parents, Reuben and Ruth, were Russian and German respectively. When Daliah was 10 years old, she met the Hollywood star Kirk Douglas, who was making The Juggler near the Lewinbuks’ village.
  
  Discovering that she wanted to become a ballet dancer, Douglas arranged for her to get a scholarship to study ballet in Stockholm. However, after three yearsshe was advised to give up dancing because of low blood pressure. It was then that she switched her ambitions to acting, making her first screen appearance while still a teenager in Arne Mattsson’s The People of Hemso (1955), a Swedish production based on the August Strindberg novel.

  
  Daliah Lavi in The Spy With a Cold Nose, 1966. Photograph: Alamy

  On her return to Israel, Lavi worked as a model and starred as a femme fatale in Blazing Sand (1960), a trashy “matzo western”, in which she does an exotic dance in a nightclub, a foretaste of her later roles in campy spy movies. Then moving to Paris, and changing her surname to Lavi, which means lioness in Hebrew, she won the part of Cunégonde in Candide (1960), an update to the second world war of Voltaire’s satirical novel.
  
  She had an uncharacteristic part in Violent Summer (Un Soir Sur La Plage, 1961) as a girl found murdered on the beach after a fleeting sexual encounter. For her role as the beautiful Italian woman causing friction between a washed-up movie star (Douglas) and a temperamental newcomer (George Hamilton) in Vincente Minnelli’s Two Weeks in Another Town (1962) – shot in Italy – Lavi won a Golden Globes award as the most promising female newcomer. One of her rare straight dramatic roles was as a young woman who brings comfort to the complex eponymous hero (Peter O’Toole) in Lord Jim (1965), Richard Brooks’s sluggish epic based on Joseph Conrad’s novel, and shot in Cambodia and Malaysia.

  
  Daliah Lavi and Peter O’Toole in Lord Jim, 1965. Photograph: Alamy

  But she had made only a slight impression in the films that preceded the spy spoofs, the exception being The Whip and the Body (1963), a gothic horror film directed by Mario Bava, the father of the Italian giallo genre. One of the fetish set pieces takes place on a beach when the cruel aristocrat (Christopher Lee) horsewhips his brother’s bride (Lavi), before they engage in sado-masochistic love play.
  
  
  Daliah Lavi performing one of her biggest German hits
  
  After a turn as a furious Mexican woman scorned by an outlaw (Yul Brynner) in the mediocre western Catlow (1971), Lavi deserted the silver screen and began a whole new career as a singer. The Israeli actor Topol had persuaded Lavi to make recordings of Hebrew songs for the BBC in 1969. She soon became one of the most popular singers in Germany, her biggest hits being Oh Wann Kommst Du? (Oh, when will you come?) and Willst Du Mit Mir Gehen? (Do you want to go with me?).
  
  She is survived by her fourth husband, the businessman Charles Gans, and their three sons and daughter.
  
  • Daliah Lavi (Daliah Lewinbuk), actor and singer, born 12 October 1942; died 3 May 2017

  
  Daliah Lavi (1942–2017)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492002/
  
  Filmography

  Actress (33 credits)
  
  1997 Duell zu dritt (TV Series)
  - Manöver des letzten Augenblicks (1997)
  1991 Mrs. Harris und der Heiratsschwindler (TV Movie) - Jill Howard
  
  1975 Hallo Peter (TV Series)
  - Episode dated 28 September 1975 (1975)
  1970-1973 Die Drehscheibe (TV Series) - Singer
  - Episode dated 29 November 1973 (1973) ... Singer
  - Episode dated 25 August 1971 (1971) ... Singer
  - Episode dated 25 July 1971 (1971) ... Singer
  - Episode dated 6 June 1971 (1971) ... Singer
  - Episode dated 23 April 1971 (1971) ... Singer 7 episodes
  1972 Sez Les (TV Series)
  - Episode #5.3 (1972)
  1971 Catlow - Rosita
  1970 Schwarzer Peter (TV Series) - Singer
  - Episode #1.2 (1970) ... Singer
  
  1969 Some Girls Do - Helga
  1968 The High Commissioner - Maria Cholon
  1967 Those Fantastic Flying Fools - Madelaine
  1967 Casino Royale - The Detainer (007)
  1966 The Spy with a Cold Nose - Princess Natasha Romanova
  1966 The Silencers - Tina
  1965 Ten Little Indians - Ilona Bergen
  1965 Shots in 3/4 Time - Irina Badoni
  1965 La Celestina - The Girl
  1965 They're Too Much - Lolita, Charly's Step-sister
  1964 Cyrano et d'Artagnan - Marion de l'Orme (as Dalhia Lavi)
  1964 Old Shatterhand - Paloma
  1963 Das große Liebesspiel - Sekretärin
  1963 The Whip and the Body - Nevenka
  1963 The Demon - Purificata
  1962 Black-White-Red Four Poster - Germaine
  1962 Two Weeks in Another Town - Veronica (as Dahlia Lavi)
  1961 Le jeu de la vérité - Gisèle Palerse
  1961 The Return of Dr. Mabuse - Maria Sabrehm
  1961 Le puits aux trois vérités (uncredited)
  1961 No Time for Ecstasy - Nathalie Conrad
  1961 Violent Summer - Marie
  1960 Candide - Cunégonde (as Dahlia Lavi)
  1960 Blazing Sand
  
  1955 The People of Hemso - Professor's Daughter
  
  Soundtrack (6 credits)
  
  2014 Tito's Glasses (Documentary) (performer: "Willst Du mit mir geh'n")
  2010 Cindy Does Not Love Me (performer: "Willst du mit mir geh'n" (Original: "Would you follow me"))
  2002 Richtung Zukunft durch die Nacht (performer: "Oh, wann kommst du?")
  1996 Tohuwabohu (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Beweisstück 30 (1996) ... (performer: "Oh, wann kommst du?" - uncredited)
  1973 Die Rudi Carrell Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Messe (1973) ... (performer: "Wär' ich ein Buch", "Auf 'ner Messe als antik" - uncredited)
  1971 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.1 (1971) ... (performer: "Wer hat mein Lied so zerstört" - uncredited)
  
  Thanks (1 credit)
  
  2008 The Making of 'Casino Royale' (Video documentary) (special thanks)

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1962: Dr. No released in Ireland.

  
  

  

  1965: The Daily Gleaner in Kingston reports another author may continue to write Bond novels post-Fleming.

  

  To continue Bond series

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://newspaperarchive.com/kingston-gleaner-oct-12-1965-p-7/

  By LONDONER
  
  LONDON:
  ON the day that the very
  last lames Bond story writ-
  ten by the late Ian Fleming
  begins to appear in the Daily
  Express, there is word that a
  new author is being consider-
  ed to carry on the Bond saga.
  
  He is none other that Mr.
  Kingsley Amis, author of
  Lucky Jim, That Uncertain
  Feeling, and also more recent-
  ly of The James Bond Dos-
  sier, a detailed study of Flem-
  ing's creation.
  
  Negotiations are still in a
  relatively early stage, says
  Ian Fleming's agent,
  Peter Janson-Smith: decision
  has been made yet. The es-
  tate is a very complex busi-
  ness and there are. Lots of peo-
  pie involved."
  
  And Kingsley Amis himself
  will only say: "I was ap-
  proached three or four
  months ago but have heard
  nothing about the plan since.
  I suppose it would be a rather
  frightening thing to do. One
  would have a great sense of
  responsibility to the readers,
  but I think it would be great
  fun all the same."
  
  One intriguing aspect of
  this proposal is that the new
  Bond series should be written
  under a pseudonym! Someone
  who has heard a whisper of
  the royalties being offered
  for this work suggests that
  the best pseudonym would be
  "Lucky Jim."
  
  But I doubt if Mr. Amis
  would agree. So I offer a fiver
  for the best suggestions on a
  postcard that I receive by
  first post on Wednesday.
  
  --Express

  
  1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films OO7 chased by Jaws through the pyramids.
  1977: L'espion qui m'aimait released in France.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1983: The Ian Fleming Estate supported by MGM/UA and Danjaq file an injunction to block the release of Never Say Never Again in England. (It's later rejected by the lower court plus the court of appeals.)
  
  2006: AOL Music says Chris Cornell was inspired by Tom Jones and "Thunderball".

  

  CHRIS CORNELL Inspired By TOM JONES For
  JAMES BOND Theme

  http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/chris-cornell-inspired-by-tom-jones-for-james-bond-theme/
  October 12, 2006
  
  AUDIOSLAVE frontman Chris Cornell recently told AOL Music that being asked to do the theme song for a James Bond movie is both a great honor and responsibility. "The Bond soundtrack song is different than any other movie you're going to write a song for, because it's steeped in lore," explained Cornell. "It's part of the tradition of the franchise."
  
  Cornell, who has the distinction of doing "You Know My Name", the main song from the upcoming "Casino Royale", told AOL Music he understood the significance in large part because of Paul McCartney. "If you would've told me when I was 10, the first time I heard 'Live and Let Die', being a huge BEATLES and Paul McCartney fan, that I would be doing the song for the 21st James Bond film — imagining that is a fantasy," he said.
  
  But it was another U.K. icon whom Cornell looked to for inspiration in recording "You Know My Name". He says he was thinking about Tom Jones' over-the-top singing style when someone mentioned that Jones actually did a Bond theme.
  
  "So I heard his version of the song 'Thunderball'," Cornell said. "It's kind of a funny song. The words are about a secret agent. His voice is incredible. The band sounds small and thin, and it's Tom Jones singing, so his voice sounds enormous."

  
  2012: Christie's reports the James Bond 50th anniversary combined online auction plus in-house party auction raised $2.6 million/€2,000,000 for charity.

  

  James Bond auction raises $2.6 million

  https://nation.com.pk/12-Oct-2012/james-bond-auction-raises-2-6-million

  

  LONDON (AFP) - A London sale of James Bond souvenirs to mark the secret agent’s 50th silver-screen anniversary has raised over $2.6 million (two million euros), Christie’s auction house said Wednesday.
  
  Buyers from 42 countries took part in the auction with all proceeds going to a charity.
  
  The auction took place in two stages, firstly online from September 28 to October 8, and secondly during a party at Christie’s auction house on Friday.
  
  Notable guests included actor Roger Moore, who played the famous agent on the big screen, and Judi Dench, who appears in Skyfall, the saga’s latest installment which is released on October 24. Many of the objects on offer were supplied by Eon Productions, the British company that has produced the Bond films.
  
  The highlight of the collection was the Aston Martin DBS driven by Daniel Craig, the current Bond, in the opening scene of “Quantum of Solace” (2008), during an Italian car chase.
  
  The car, estimated pre-auction at between $160,000 and $240,000, finally went under the hammer for $390,101.
  
  The titanium Omega watch worn by Craig in Skyfall sold for $250,000 euros while his Tom Ford tuxedo was snapped up for $75,000.

  

  2015: Daniel Craig visits Cyprus in his role as United Nations advocate against the use of land mines.

  
  Entertainment News
  

  UK actor Craig drops Bond killer
  role to see mines in Cyprus

  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-entertainment-craig-landmines/uk-actor-craig-drops-bond-killer-role-to-see-mines-in-cyprus-idUSKCN0S71J620151013
  October 13, 2015

  
  British actor Daniel Craig (R), a UN advocate against use of landmines and explosives, gets a briefing from Cambodian de-miners at an active minefield in Cyprus, October 12 2015.

  Entertainment News October 13, 2015 / 10:31 AM / 3 years ago UK actor Craig drops Bond killer role to see mines in Cyprus 2 Min Read NICOSIA (Reuters) - His James Bond character might blow things up and kill for a living, but actor Daniel Craig was in Cyprus on Tuesday to see first hand the perils of unexploded ordnance littering the ethnically-split island. British actor Daniel Craig (R), a UN advocate against use of landmines and explosives, gets a briefing from Cambodian de-miners at an active minefield in Cyprus, October 12 2015.

  

  
  2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases Hammerhead #1.
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #1
  (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272201011
  Cover A: Francesco Francavilla
  Cover B: Robert Hack
  Cover C: Ron Salas
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: October 2016
  Format: Comic Book | Page Count: 32 Pages | ON SALE DATE: 10/12

  Bond is assigned to hunt down and eliminate Kraken, a radical anti-capitalist who has targeted Britain's newly-upgraded nuclear arsenal. But all is not as it seems. Hidden forces are plotting to rebuild the faded glory of the once-mighty British Empire, and retake by force what was consigned to history. 007 is a cog in their deadly machine - but is he an agent of change, or an agent of the status quo? Loyalties will be broken, allegiances challenged. But in an ever-changing world, there's one man you can rely on: Bond. James Bond.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: Conversations With the Past: Talking About James Bond, Route 9 & Me at Glens Falls, New York.

  

  Conversations With the Past: Talking About
  James Bond, Route 9 & Me

  See the complete article here:
  
  

  https://www.glensfalls.com/event/james-bond-route-9-234048/

  woman on scooter
  Hosted By: Chapman Museum
  When: Wednesday, Oct 12, 2022 7:00 PM
  Where: The Chapman Museum, 348 Glen Street Glens Falls, NY 12801
  Phone:(518) 793-2826

  Frieda Toth recreated the route of a Bond girl, going by motor scooter from the Canadian border to Lake George. It’s true! A Bond girl was in Lake George, where she and James Bond, 007, tackled some baddies at a motel near Storytown. Find out all about this on October 12.

  This program requires a reservation. To register, please call (518) 793-2826.

  Earlier account
  https://literary007.com/2021/11/28/viv-and-let-die-route-9-and-me/
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  October 12 Posts: 13,719

  October 13th
  
  1923: Cyril Leonard Shaps is born--London, England.
  (He dies 1 January 2003 at age 79--London, England.)

  

  Cyril Shaps (1923–2003)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0788670/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  Actor

  The son of a tailor, Cyril studied at the London School of Broadcasting aged 12 years. His first professional appearance, at 12, came on Radio Lyons and Radio Luxembourg in such commercials as O.K. Sauce and Quaker Oats. After demob from the Army, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art which was followed by Guildford rep and the West End. He worked in Hollywood for two years with Radio Netherland as English announcer, scriptwriter and producer of programmes. Then came BBC Radio Drama Rep. for two years (1952 - 54). Cyril, whose forebearers were Polish, was the father of three children, Michael, Simon and Sarah.
  
  - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary P. Rose

  
  

  
  1960: Richard Sammel is born--Heidelberg, Germany.
  1968: EON announce Diana Rigg as the lead female role of Teresa di Vicenzo in On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

  

  
  1972: Live and Let Die films a boat chase on the Irish Bayou, Louisiana.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1997: Sony Pictures Entertainment Company and partner Kevin McClory announce their plan to remake Thunderball. Again. Rumored title: Warhead 2000.
  
  2008: Benjamin Pratt's book Ian Fleming's Seven Deadlier Sins & 007's Moral Compass published in paperback.

  

  2009: Sir Ken Adam appears on In Conversation with Shumon Basar.

  

  ADAM, Sir Ken
  'In Conversation' with Sir Ken Adam

  https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=1163
  
  Series:
  Date: Tuesday 13 October 2009
  Time: 15:01
  Venue:
  Running time: 71 mins

  Sir Ken Adam is one of the most important production designers of the 20th century. In this illustrated conversation with AACP Director Shumon Basar, Adam will discuss highlights from an extraordinary career stretching back over 60 years: the transition from architecture to film, the origins of his iconic James Bond sets and the unique relationship he developed with legendary director Stanley Kubrick.
  
  Sir Ken Adam (b. 1921) originally trained in architecture and interior design. In 1962 he designed the first James Bond film, Dr No, and six subsequent Bonds until Moonraker in 1979. Adam’s design for the war room in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove (1962) became an icon of Cold War paranoia, and his minutely detailed period sets for Barry Lyndon (1974) and The Madness of King George (1994) both earned him Academy Awards.

  All lectures are open to members of the public, staff and students unless otherwise stated.

  

  
  2021: Last day for Rocket League 007's Aston Martin Valhalla.

  

  

  Aston Martin Valhalla Rushes Into Rocket
  League

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.rocketleague.com/news/aston-martin-valhalla-rushes-into-rocket-league/

  October 5, 2021 Max Parker Announcements
  
  A new mission calls for a new car, and this one is equipped to take the pitch by storm. The new 007's Aston Martin Valhalla supercar will make its way in Rocket League starting October 7!
  
  007's Aston Martin Valhalla, a marvel of British engineering, features a sophisticated design with a mid-engined 950PS gasoline/battery electric powertrain, making it the first hybrid vehicle in Rocket League! Check out this sleek supercar in the trailer above. The car, which has a Dominus Hitbox, comes with a Reel Life Decal specific to 007's Aston Martin Valhalla, a unique Engine Audio, and its own signature Wheels. Add it to your inventory for 1100 Credits
  
  *Note: The items included in the bundle can only be equipped by 007's Aston Martin Valhalla. 007's Aston Martin Valhalla cannot be customized with all item types.

  To celebrate James Bond's return to Rocket League, pay close attention to three in-game Challenges, each with its own 007-themed reward. Complete these Challenges, and unlock the 007’s Aston Martin DB5 Player Banner, Agent 007 Avatar Border, and the "00 Agent" Player Title.
  
  And, for any agents who failed the previous mission, 007’s Aston Martin DB5 will return to the Item Shop on the same day, and will be offered in a complete Bond 007 Collection that includes both cars and their additional items for 2000 Credits.

  Rocket League will also host a special Agent vs. Villains event on our Twitch channel featuring personalities from the community! Stay laser focused on our Twitter account for more details about who will be on each side!

  Get 007's Aston Martin Valhalla on October 7 through October 13. Be careful out there, agents!

  Rocket League - Aston Martin Valhalla de No Time To Die
  
  
  
  

  2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Himeros #1.
  Antonio Fuso, artist. Rodney Barnes, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: HIMEROS #1

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513031230301011
  
  Cover A: Francesco Francavilla
  Cover B: Butch Guice
  Cover C: Blank Authentix
  Writer: Rodney Barnes
  Artist: Antonio Fuso
  Genre: Spy/Fiction, Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: October 2021
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32
  ON SALE DATE: 10/13/2021

  Himeros is the Greek God of sexual desire and one of the Erotes, the winged gods of love. When Aphrodite was born from the sea-foams she was greeted by the twin loves Eros and Himeros.
  
  But when sexual desire goes too far, it takes the legendary super-spy James Bond to bring justice to the most vulnerable among us as he investigates the suspicious death of an accused sex trafficker - one whose ties run deep... and deadly.
  
  Writer Rodney Barnes make his Dynamite 007 debut in this special series, featuring art by returning Bond superstar artist Antonio Fuso and two amazing Covers: Francesco Francavilla and Jackson "Butch" Guice!

  • Created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1952.
  • The character appeared in a series of twelve novels and two short story collections written by Fleming and a number of continuation novels and spin-off works after Fleming's death in 1964.
  • There have been twenty-seven films in total, produced between 1962 and 2021.
  • Rodney Barnes is an American screenwriter and producer. Barnes has written and produced The Boondocks, My Wife and Kids, Everybody Hates Chris, Those Who Can't, Marvel's Runaways, American Gods, Wu-Tang: An American Saga, and is currently an executive producer/writer on HBO's Untitled Los Angeles Lakers drama.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  October 14 Posts: 13,719

  October 14th
  
  1927: Roger Moore is born--Stockwell, London.
  (He dies 23 May 2017 at age 89--Crans-Montana, Mollens, Valais, Switzerland.)

  

  Roger Moore: A Matter of Class, Biography, 1995.

  

  
  Roger Moore (I) (1927–2017)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000549/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (97 credits)
  
  Astrid Silverlock (filming) - Narrator (voice)
  Troll Hunters (filming) - Leif (voice)
  2017 The Saint (TV Movie) - Jasper
  2016/I The Carer - Roger Moore
  2015 GivingTales (Video Game)
  Narrator - The Princess and the Pea; The Steadfast Tin Soldier (voice, as Sir Roger Moore)
  2014 The Life of Rock with Brian Pern (TV Series) - Sir Roger Moore
  - The Day of the Triffids (2014) ... Sir Roger Moore (as Sir Roger Moore)
  2013 Incompatibles - Roger Moore
  2011 A Princess for Christmas (TV Movie) - Edward Duke of Castlebury
  2011 The Lighter (Short) - George Boreman (voice)
  2010 Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore - Tab Lazenby (voice)
  
  2009 De vilde svaner - Archbishop (voice)
  2008 Agent Crush - Burt Gasket (voice)
  2005 Foley & McColl: This Way Up (TV Short) - Butler (as Sir Roger Moore)
  2005 Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie (Video) - January Q. Irontail (voice)
  2004 The Fly Who Loved Me (Short) - Father Christmas (voice, as Sir Roger Moore)
  2002 Boat Trip - Lloyd Faversham
  2002 Tatort (TV Series) - Celebrity actor
  - Schatten (2002) ... Celebrity actor
  2002 On Our Own Vesna - Roger Moore
  2002 Alias (TV Series) - Edward Poole
  - The Prophecy (2002) ... Edward Poole
  2001 The Enemy - Supt. Robert Ogilvie
  
  1999 The Dream Team (TV Series) - Desmond Heath
  - El Conquistador (1999) ... Desmond Heath
  - Diplomatic Immunity (1999) ... Desmond Heath
  - Merchant of Death (1999) ... Desmond Heath
  - The Team (1999) ... Desmond Heath
  1997 Spice World - Chief
  1997 The Saint - Car Radio Announcer (voice)
  1996 The Quest - Lord Edgar Dobbs
  1994 The Man Who Wouldn't Die (TV Movie) - Thomas Grace / Inspector Fulbright
  1993 Stakka Bo: Living It Up (Video short)
  1991 Bed & Breakfast - Adam
  1990 Bullseye! - Gerald Bradley-Smith / Sir John Bavistock
  1990 Fire, Ice & Dynamite - Sir George
  
  1987 The Magic Snowman - Lumi Ukko, the Snowman (voice)
  1985 A View to a Kill - James Bond
  1984 The Naked Face - Dr. Judd Stevens
  1983 Curse of the Pink Panther - Chief Insp. Jacques Clouseau (as Turk Thrust II)
  1983 Octopussy - James Bond
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Ian Fleming's James Bond 007
  1981 The Cannonball Run - Seymour
  1980 Sunday Lovers - Harry Lindon (segment "An Englishman's Home")
  1980 The Sea Wolves - Captain Gavin Stewart
  1980 ffolkes - Ffolkes
  
  1979 Moonraker - James Bond
  1979 Escape to Athena - Major Otto Hecht
  1978 The Wild Geese - Lt. Shawn Fynn
  1977-1978 Laugh-In (TV Series) - Guest Performer
  - Episode #1.6 (1978) ... Guest Performer
  - Episode #1.4 (1977) ... Guest Performer
  - Episode #1.3 (1977) ... Guest Performer
  - Episode #1.2 (1977) ... Guest Performer
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - James Bond
  1976 Sherlock Holmes in New York (TV Movie) - Sherlock Holmes
  1976 Shout at the Devil - Sebastian Oldsmith
  1976 Street People - Ulisse
  1975 That Lucky Touch - Michael Scott
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - James Bond
  1974 Gold - Rod Slater
  1973 Live and Let Die - James Bond
  1971-1972 The Persuaders! (TV Series)
  Lord Brett Sinclair / The General / The Admiral / ...
  - Read and Destroy (1972) ... Lord Brett Sinclair
  - Nuisance Value (1972) ... Lord Brett Sinclair
  - A Death in the Family (1972) ... Lord Brett Sinclair / The General / The Admiral / ...
  - Element of Risk (1971) ... Lord Brett Sinclair
  - The Ozerov Inheritance (1971) ... Lord Brett Sinclair
  ... 24 episodes
  1970 The Man Who Haunted Himself - Pelham
  1969-1970 Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (TV Series) - Guest Performer
  - Episode #3.16 (1970) ... Guest Performer (uncredited)
  - Episode #3.13 (1969) ... Guest Performer (uncredited)
  
  1969 Crossplot - Gary Fenn
  1962-1969 The Saint (TV Series) - Simon Templar
  - The World Beater (1969) ... Simon Templar
  - Portrait of Brenda (1969) ... Simon Templar
  - The Man Who Gambled with Life (1969) ... Simon Templar
  - The Ex-King of Diamonds (1969) ... Simon Templar
  - Vendetta for the Saint: Part 2 (1969) ... Simon Templar
  ...118 episodes
  1969 Vendetta for the Saint - Simon Templar
  1968 The Fiction-Makers - The Saint
  1965 The Trials of O'Brien (TV Series) - Roger Taney
  - What Can Go Wrong (1965) ... Roger Taney
  1962 No Man's Land - Enzo Prati
  1961 Romulus and the Sabines - Romulus
  1961 The Roaring 20's (TV Series) - 14 Karat John
  - Right Off the Boat: Part 2 (1961) ... 14 Karat John
  - Right Off the Boat: Part 1 (1961) ... 14 Karat John
  1959-1961 Maverick (TV Series) - Beauregarde Maverick / John Vandergelt
  - Red Dog (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
  - Flood's Folly (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
  - Diamond Flush (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
  - Dutchman's Gold (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
  - The Cactus Switch (1961) ... Beauregarde Maverick
  ...
  1959-1961 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series)
  Roger Moore / Radio Announcer
  - Tiger by the Tail (1961) ... Roger Moore
  - Vacation with Pay (1959) ... Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited)
  1961 Gold of the Seven Saints
  Shaun Garrett
  1961 The Sins of Rachel Cade - Paul Wilton
  1959-1960 The Alaskans (TV Series) - Silky Harris
  - The Devil Made Fire (1960) ... Silky Harris
  - The Ballad of Whitehorse (1960) ... Silky Harris
  - White Vengeance (1960) ... Silky Harris
  - Sign of the Kodiak (1960) ... Silky Harris
  - Calico (1960) ... Silky Harris
  ...
  
  1959 The Miracle - Captain Michael Stuart
  1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Inspector Benson
  - The Avon Emeralds (1959) ... Inspector Benson
  1959 The Third Man (TV Series) - Jimmy Simms
  - The Angry Young Man (1959) ... Jimmy Simms
  1958-1959 Ivanhoe (TV Series) - Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe / Trumper
  - The Devil's Dungeon (1959) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
  - The Circus (1958) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
  - The Fledgling (1958) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
  - The Princess (1958) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
  - The Swindler (1958) ... Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe
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  1957 Matinee Theatre (TV Series) - Old Man / Randolph Churchill
  - Avenging of Anne Leete (1957) ... Old Man
  - The Remarkable Mr. Jerome (1957) ... Randolph Churchill
  - The Importance of Being Earnest (1957)
  1957 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Gavin
  - The Taggart Light (1957) ... Gavin
  1957 Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series) - Legionnaire Paul Harding
  - The Richest Man in the Legion (1957) ... Legionnaire Paul Harding
  1956 Goodyear Playhouse (TV Series) - Patrick Simmons
  - A Murder Is Announced (1956) ... Patrick Simmons
  1956 Ford Star Jubilee (TV Series) - Billy Mitchell
  - This Happy Breed (1956) ... Billy Mitchell
  1956 Diane - Prince Henri
  1955 The King's Thief - Jack
  1955 Interrupted Melody
  Cyril Lawrence
  1954 The Last Time I Saw Paris - Paul
  1954 The Motorola Television Hour (TV Series)
  - Black Chiffon (1954)
  1953 Black Chiffon (TV Movie)
  1953 Julius Caesar (TV Movie)
  1953 The Clay of Kings (TV Movie) - Josiah Wedgwood
  1953 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) - French Diplomat
  - The Wind Cannot Read (1953)
  - World by the Tail (1953) ... French Diplomat
  1951 Honeymoon Deferred - Ornithologist on a Train (uncredited)
  1951 One Wild Oat - Man Watching Elevator Repair (uncredited)
  1950 Drawing-Room Detective (TV Movie)
  
  1949 The Interrupted Journey - Soldier in Paddington Café (uncredited)
  1949 The Gay Lady - Stage Door Johnny (uncredited)
  1949 Paper Orchid - Bit Part
  1949 A House in the Square (TV Movie) - John Anstruther
  1949 The Governess (TV Movie) - Bob Drew
  1946 Piccadilly Incident - Guest Sitting at Pearson's Table (uncredited)
  1946 Showtime - Member of the Audience (uncredited)
  1945 Caesar and Cleopatra - Roman Soldier (uncredited)
  1945 Vacation from Marriage - Soldier (uncredited)
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)
  2017 And the Winner Isn't (Documentary) (additional filming)
  1971-1972 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (clothes - 24 episodes)
  - Read and Destroy (1972) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
  - Nuisance Value (1972) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
  - A Death in the Family (1972) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
  - Element of Risk (1971) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
  - The Ozerov Inheritance (1971) ... (clothes: Lord Sinclair)
  ...
  
  Producer (12 credits)
  2017 The Saint (TV Movie) (co-producer)
  1994 The Man Who Wouldn't Die (TV Movie) (executive producer)
  1991 Bed & Breakfast (producer - uncredited)
  1987 CBS Summer Playhouse (TV Series) (co-producer - 1 episode)
  - The Saint in Manhattan (1987) ... (co-producer - uncredited)
  1978 Return of the Saint (TV Series) (producer - uncredited)
  1975 Hugo the Hippo (executive producer - uncredited)
  1973 Night Watch (executive producer - uncredited)
  1973 A Touch of Class (executive producer - uncredited)
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (co-producer - 1 episode)
  - Overture (1971) ... (co-producer - uncredited)
  1969 Crossplot (co-producer - uncredited)
  1969 The Saint (TV Series) (co-producer - 1 episode)
  - Vendetta for the Saint: Part 1 (1969) ... (co-producer - uncredited)
  1968 The Fiction-Makers (co-producer - uncredited)
  
  Director (2 credits)
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (2 episodes)
  - The Long Goodbye (1971) ... (directed by)
  - The Time and the Place (1971) ... (directed by)
  1964-1968 The Saint (TV Series) (9 episodes)
  - Where the Money Is (1968)
  - Invitation to Danger (1968)
  - Escape Route (1966)
  - The House on Dragon's Rock (1966)
  - The Old Treasure Story (1965)
  
  Soundtrack (2 credits)
  
  1980 The Muppet Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Roger Moore (1980) ... (performer: "Talk to the Animals" - uncredited)
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Greensleeves (1971) ... (performer: "Greensleeves" - uncredited)
  
  Writer (1 credit)
  
  1962 The Saint (TV Series) (uncredited)

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1959: Ian Fleming writes Ivar Bryce about Kevin McClory with budget concerns.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

  With the financial aspects of the production under such serious
  discussion, once again Fleming raised doubts over McClory. Not his
  inexperience this time, but whether he would be able to keep proper rein on
  the budget. He wrote Bryce 14 October: "There's a great difference between
  the sorf of Bobo Commando (meaning McClory) that has been running
  hitherto and the hard working, professional units like the Boulting Brothers
  and such like who get down to work on tight schedules and simply have to
  stick to their budget. I think such a unit might be got together under Kevin,
  but I regard it as absolutely essential that you should sit over his head
  be prepared to command the team."
  
  For some time now Fleming had grown concerned about his friend
  ploughing money into a film whose script hadn't even been written yet, and
  that he really ought to take a tougher stance. "You will have to be a fairly firm
  hand on top of the whole thing and not just a horn of plenty paying the bills."
  
  Again, McClory saw this kind of intervention as Fleming "obviously using
  his influence upon Bryce, my co-partner, gradually to edge me out of the
  projected company and the partnership."

  
  1966: LIFE publishes Ian Fleming Part 2 - James Bond is Born.

  
  

  
  1971: De Rusia Con Amour re-released in Argentina.

  
  

  1975: James Bond comic strip Till Death Do Us Apart ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 7 July 1975 - October 14, 1975 2898-2983) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tddup.php3
  
  
  
  
  http://www.impulsegamer.com/james-bond-omnibus-005-review/
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1977
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

  Kontraspionaget Slår Till: Intrig På Balkan!
  (Till Death Do Us Part)
  
  

  
  Danish 1978 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no45-1978/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 45: “Till Death Do Us Part” (1978)
  "Ballade på Balkan" [Trouble in the Balkan]
  
  

  
  1980: Ben Whishaw is born--Clifton, Bedfordshire, England.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 21 of 65 - "A Race Against Disaster" at Le Mans, France.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - A Race Against Disaster

  Season - Episode 21
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807280/?ref_=ttep_ep21
  

  Doctor Derange uses the 24-hour race at Le Mans, France, as a cover for a daring plutonium theft from a nearby nuclear facility.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Derange (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr Episode 21 - A Race Against Disaster
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1997: Studio head John Calley announces that Sony Pictures Entertainment division, Columbia Pictures, plans its own James Bond motion picture franchise using Kevin McClory's rights to film Thunderball. They plan a 1999 release date, McClory producing.

  

  Bond vs. Bond?

  See the complete article here:
  

  October 14, 1997: 9:10 p.m. ET
  
  Sony inks deal to produce Bond films, leaving MGM threatening a lawsuit
  
  NEW YORK (CNNfn) - In the midst of going public, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is threatening to file suit against Sony Pictures Entertainment over the claim to James Bond -- one of the most successful film series in history.

  Sony Corp.'s Columbia Pictures late Monday said it has entered into an agreement with producer/director Kevin McClory and his company, Spectre Associates Inc., to make a series of new James Bond feature films. McClory wrote the original screenplays which were made into "Thunderball" in 1965 and "Never Say Never Again" in 1983.
  
  "We're evaluating options including legal action," said Craig Parsons, a spokesman for MGM, which has owned the rights to the James Bond franchise since 1962. (3.56M QuickTime movie)

  MGM has hired entertainment lawyer Pierce O'Donnell to advise the company as legal counsel, Parsons told CNNfn.
  
  Sony's announcement comes at a particularly sensitive time for MGM, which filed a $250 million initial public offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Sept. 11.
  
  The legendary motion-picture studio is hoping to peg the success of the IPO with publicity surrounding the upcoming December release of the 18th edition of the James Bond franchise, "Tomorrow Never Dies."
  
  Indeed, MGM's dependence on Bond films and their producer, Danjaq LLC, is highlighted in the "Risk Factors" portion of its S-1 IPO filing.

  Because of the public offering, MGM is restricted from commenting on material issues. But the so-called "quiet period" still isn't keeping down MGM Chairman and Chief Executive Frank Mancuso, who termed McClory's claim to the Bond franchise "delusional."
  
  "Kevin McClory's claims of ownership of rights to James Bond have been disputed for over 10 years," Mancuso said in a written statement. "We hope that Sony has not been duped by Mr. McClory's deception. Today, more than ever, we will vigorously pursue all means to protect this valued franchise."

  To date, Bond films have recorded worldwide gross ticket receipts of $3 billion.
  -- Robert Liu

  
  2005: Official announcement introduces Daniel Craig as the sixth actor to play Bond for EON at naval training facility HMS President on the Thames.

  

  Craig crowned as new James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.screendaily.com/craig-crowned-as-new-james-bond/4024739.article

  By Robert Mitchell13 October 2005 [Event happened on the 14th]
  
  After taking $3.6bn worldwide, 43 years, 20 films, 58 girls and 18 Martinis, James Bond has a sixth face - English actor Daniel Craig.
  
  The 37-year-oldactor was officially announced as the new James Bond today at a London news conference held at HMS President, a naval training facility, on the River Thames.
  
  Craig arrived at the venue on a speedboat. "it's a huge challenge and life is about challenges. It's an iconic figure in movie history and these things don't come along very often," he said.
  
  Craig will take on the world famous role in Casino Royale, due for worldwide release through Sony Pictures from November 2006. The film is based on author Ian Fleming's first Bond title, the only Bond book never adapted by producer Cubby Broccoli and the first film since 1987's The Living Daylights to be based on work originated by Fleming.
  
  Only the second English Bond (after Roger Moore, the actor who remained in the role longest with seven official films) Craig has been building his international profile with lead supporting roles in films such as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Road To Perdition (2002). He will also be seen in Steven Spielberg's Munich at the end of this year. He has also seen critical acclaim in recent years from a variety of leads in British films including The Mother, Sylvia, Enduring Love and Layer Cake.
  
  Director Martin Campbell will return to the Bond helm with Casino Royale for the first time since introducing Pierce Brosnan to the role with 1995's Goldeneye. [sic]

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2009: Entertainment Weekly ranks James Bond #1 of ”The 20 All-Time Coolest Heroes in Pop Culture” claiming “Without 007, the action-hero genre as we know it would not exist.”
  
  2012: "Skyfall" rises to #2 on the UK Singles Chart, tying "A View to a Kill" by Duran Duran for Bond theme success.
  2019: Tristan Rutherford writes about "007 on the Silver Meteor" in The Daily Telegraph.

  

  Rutherford & Tomasetti Travel Writers

  007 on the Silver Meteor, by Tristan Rutherford

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.rutherfordtomasetti.com/james-bond-silver-meteor-telegraph
  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/rail-journeys/new-york-to-miami-silver-meteor/

  Daily Telegraph, 13 October 2019

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Travel/2019/October/getty-new-york.jpg?imwidth=1400
  New York is the starting point of the iconic Silver Meteor train Credit: Getty

  
  In 1943 an Allied conference was planned in Kingston, Jamaica to assuage Nazi U-boat threats to the Caribbean. In attendance was Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence, Ian Fleming. The trip so inspired Fleming that the ‘Train Of Tomorrow’ that carried him from New York to the Jamaica-bound aircraft in Florida featured in several Bond novels: the Silver Meteor.
  
  Fleming would still recognise the gunmetal grey leviathan. Like an endless airstream, today’s Silver Meteor is taller, broader, longer and stronger than any European train. Its double-diesels hum in readiness to thwack the 1,389 miles down to the Miami sun. The 28-hour route allows for holiday stops in 33 cities across 11 states. My wife and I booked with Great Rail Journeys - but tickets for Bond and escaping siren Solitaire were sorted by Felix Leiter: “Pennsylvania Station. Track 14. Very luxurious. Car 245. Compartment H. Ticket’ll be in the name of Mr and Mrs Bryce.”
  

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Travel/2019/October/silver-meteor.jpg?imwidth=1240
  The Silver Meteor is celebrating 80 years in service Credit: Getty

  
  Our Silver Meteor sways out of New York’s Penn Station like a dancing heavyweight. Skyscrapers are obscured by cloud. Interstates ribbon like ticker tape. We charge through a backdrop of Americana with a pummelling gait. Baseball diamonds. School buses. Marshalling yards (“Freight Can’t Wait”). Junk crushers (“New York Collision Center”). There’s Republican and Democrat. Anti-Trump signs and stars’n’stripes. Clapperboard houses and lonely ghettos. Black and white. Rich and poor. The train bolts undescrimatingly through it all.
  
  Every 10 miles brings the continent a day forward: there’s more sunshades and less jackets as we plough relentlessly south. A pageant of boats paddle in the Susquehanna River after Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Atlantic-going yachts ply the lakes near Wilmington, Delaware. Fortunately Amtrak’s Viewliner bedrooms offer panoramic windows. Plus ensuite showers, a double-bed day sofa and another single that unfolds from the roof.
  

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  The Susquehanna river is visible from the train's panoramic windows Credit: Getty

  
  Our cabin attendant introduces herself and unclips the swing-out armchair. “There’s coffee and apple juice in the hall, y’all.” The dining car forms a glass frame around a green and pleasant Maryland. The glorious thing is that the Silver Meteor’s route is far lengthier than board-at-night, disembark-at-dawn European sleepers. That means we have hours to tuck in.
  
  Better still, cabin passengers like us eat for free. There's black angus steak grilled under a flat iron. A Norwegian salmon with rice pilaf. Sadly all is served with plastic forks on plastic plates. Boldly named portraits of other Amtrak greats line the dining car, summoning a bygone era of railroad style (The Southwest Chief to Albuquerque and Flagstaff; The Empire Builder from Chicago to Seattle).
  
  Outside street signs spotlight the quickening night. “We Pay Cash”. “Kennys Gym”. “Mason-Dixon Line.” Sunset ushers last drinks. In a 1955 postcard of theSilver Meteor the lounge complement is all caucasion, barring an African-American waiter. Now an entire continent offers reasons to railroad along the Eastern Seaboard. There’s the lady from Wilmington with airplane phobia. The family decamping to Jacksonville with 50kg of luggage - each. Plus a Mormon couple on a proselytising mission south. Two single travellers, of differing race and sex, mix over $16.50 half-bottles of Californian Merlot.
  

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  Menu in the Silver Meteor's dining car Credit: Getty

  
  Yet outside a blood red sky reflects into the Potomac River at Washington, DC. This ring of fire encircles the Capitol Building, home of the US Congress, as if its divisive politics seethe from within. During the 20-minute stretch-your-legs stop at DC’s beaux-arts Union Station it’s tempting to stroll to the National Mall. Equally alluring are the crisp sheets of our freshly made double bed, towards Richmond, Virginia - where a cigarette break is scheduled in Philip Morris country.

  Now the Silver Meteor snorts and fumes like a mustang. The sleeping cars buck and rattle with an untamed fury that would put a Deutsche Bahn techniker off his bratwurst. The water in our washbasin swings like the Bay of Biscay. We need earplugs too. But the thumping rattle rings with the vivid dreams of a thousand other occupants as we gun past Selma, Fayetteville and into the Deep South. Like 007, aboard the fictionalised Silver Phantom in Live and Let Die, we sleep deeply: “The great train snaked on through the dark...the long shaft of its single searchlight ripping the black calico of the night.”

  Service at the brand new Amtrak terminus at Charleston, South Carolina, is suffused by languorous Deep South fug. It’s one of two stops we’ve planned enroute to Miami. Speech here is slower. Highfalutin’ manners and blasphemous cusses are best left in New York. Grammar at our breakfast diner is questionable: “Employees Must “Wash Hands” Before Returning To Work”. But our breakfast of chicken and waffles and coffee-rubbed bacon, served by the team of Leslee, Bree, Raquel and Cheree, is a Southern classic.
  
  Named after Charles II of England, this Atlantic city is one of America’s oldest and most gorgeous. A House Museums tour with the Historic Charleston Foundation showcases preserved anglo-tropical mansions - alongside garden yields that include a pipe from Cornwall, a plate from the Potteries and a 6-pound cannonball from the Royal Navy. Among the finest pre-Civil War mansions is the Aiken-Rhett House, former home of William Aiken Jr, a Governor of South Carolina. His papa, William Aiken, laid the city’s wealthy foundations by building America’s first steam powered, scheduled passenger train here in 1833. Although like much else the Charleston track was built using slave labour; between one-half and two-thirds of African slaves entered the United States via Charleston’s port.
  

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  Charleston Credit: Getty

  
  The following morning early birds commute one state south to Savannah, Georgia. The Silver Meteor’s café car - as opposed to the ritzy sleeper diner - is burnt coffee and blue collar. Outside a glorious sunrise highlights a Kalahari safari of ochre sand ripening to emerald forest. From Savannah’s art deco station the city looks pretty from the taxi window. “That’s ‘cause it’s the only place that General Sherman don't burn,” says the driver. Although the Civil War ended over 150 years ago, resentment burns hotter than the Deep South sun.
  
  Yet Savannah is another dazzling showcase of Southern charm. Drooping oaks that recall British royals and French Huguenots form a guard of honour over every piazza. Other trees planted for seasonal scents - sweet gum, magnolia, crepe myrtle - promise a revolving carousel of tropical bloom. One restaurant warns: “Kitchen Closes One Hour Before, Folks!” Another: “My Oh My, We Got Key Lime Pie!” Lunch is a $10 blowout of clam chowder and snow crab. On sultry afternoons Christian sects promise salvation from stone benches studded with oyster shells. Each one is shaded by Spanish moss and palmettos. It’s a fine place to be a Jehovah’s Witness.
  

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  Savannah: a dazzling showcase of Southern charm Credit: Getty

  
  Riding a sleeping car by day is an uproarious treat. We take in our final state of Florida - advertised in vintage Silver Meteor posters by orange orchards and pink flamingos - from the comfort of a bed on wheels. Our attendant confirms a cheeky sleeper is a popular treat for business people. “They can sleep off work while avoiding them crowds, sir.” Yet unlike the latest trains in continental Europe, Amtrak offers no push-button waiter service nor at-seat movies. Our attendant is shocked that Italy’s two largest cities are connected by train quicker, and faster, than by air. The speed on Amtrak’s flagship route from New York to Boston averages 68mph. In China, Beijing to Shanghai tops 200mph. The Silver Meteor is a comely cruise through the American soul, not a rocketship to the stars.
  
  James Bond was in a hurry at Jacksonville, our next station stop. After cheating Mr Big in Live and Let Die he rejoined the train for views of swampy lakes and - had he been travelling today - Orlando for Walt Disney World, Tampa for St Petersburg and Winter Haven for Legoland. Then a cross-state saunter through an urban jungle of swimming pools and shopping malls: “Dental Excellence”. “Worship Center”. “Do Not Feed The Alligators.” We arrive in Miami on time. In place of historical legacy, there’s galleries, rollercoasters, Cuban sandwiches and golden sands. Indeed before theSilver Meteor arrived in 1939 Florida’s population was under two million. Now it’s 22 million. It’s neither North nor South, just a sunny state of mind.
  
  Fleming rode the Silver Meteor a final time in 1953. However by then there were BOAC flights from London to Jamaica on the Boeing Stratocruiser via Lisbon, the Azores and Bermuda.
  

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  The final destination: sunny Miami Credit: Getty

  
  Now it’s far quicker and cheaper to fly across the USA, but the train still unites a disparate, welcoming and intensely vast nation. Furthermore, Bond remained a fan. After outwitting Auric Goldfinger at a Miami Hotel in his 1959 novel, 007 railroaded north. “Book me a compartment on the Silver Meteor to New York tonight. Have a bottle of vintage champagne on ice in the compartment and plenty of caviar sandwiches.” Make it a Taittinger, James.
  
  How to do it
  Train journey expert GRJ Independent (01904 734486; greatrail.com/grj-independent) offers New York-Miami Silver Meteor sleeping tickets for £605pp, based on two sharing and including a stay at Moxy NYC Times Square and the Hyatt Regency Miami.  BA (0844 493 0787; ba.com) runs open-jaw returns from London to New York, returning via Miami, from £298pp.
  
  For a grander trip, Great Rail Journeys (01904 527180; greatrail.com) operates a 20-day coast-to-coast tour from £4,395pp including a New York harbour cruise, Amtrak rides on the Capitol Limited and California Zephyr, and Durango and Silverton heritage railways.
  
  Virgin Trains is coming to America
  It may come as a surprise to train travellers in Britain, but Floridians have cause to be excited about Virgin Trains. The firm led by Sir Richard Branson, currently the country’s only private intercity rail operator, is expanding its current route from Miami to West Palm Beach. By 2022 some 170 miles (274km) of new track will lead to Orlando.
  
  When completed, the line’s trains will whizz along the Florida seaside at 125mph. That’s not all. Next year Virgin Trains USA will begin construction of a track that will connect Los Angeles with Las Vegas. The duration? As little as 75 minutes. It could be operational by 2023.
  
  
  Tristan Rutherford writes about great train journeys for The Daily Telegraph
  https://www.rutherfordtomasetti.com/travel-journalist-global-tourism

  

  
  2022: Barbara Broccoli recalls Roger Moore.

  

  James Bond: Roger Moore’s
  incredible generosity at 3am on
  The Man with the Golden Gun
  set

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/films/1682392/James-Bond-Roger-Moore-The-Man-with-the-Golden-Gun-Barbara-Broccoli

  James Bond producer Barbara Broccoli remembers a sweet incident from her teenage years on the set of The Man with the Golden Gun when Roger Moore went above and beyond as the ultimate gentleman.
  By George Simpson
  17:03, Thu, Oct 13, 2022 | UPDATED: 17:15, Thu, Oct 13, 2022
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  The Man With The Golden Gun: Trailer for 1974 James Bond film
  
  Sir Roger Moore would have been 95 this Friday, having been born on October 14, 1927. The James Bond legend, who died at 89 on May 23, 2017, starred in more official 007 movies than any other actor – even surpassing Sir Sean Connery whose Never Say Never Again wasn’t made by EON Productions. In fact, when The Saint actor was cast in 1973’s Live and Let Die he was 45, three years older than the original Scottish star.
  
  By the time Roger starred in 1985’s A View To A Kill he was 57, the oldest official Bond captured on screen. Aside from the lighthearted and tongue-in-cheek nature of his 007 movies, in real life the star was known for being a true gentleman.
  
  When shooting 1974’s The Man with the Golden Gun, future Bond producer Barbara Broccoli was just a teenager and has fond memories of her time with Roger. Barbara’s father Cubby Broccoli helmed the 007 movies in those days and The Man with the Golden Gun was the second film starring the new Bond after Connery and George Lazenby’s incarnations.

  
  James Bond: Roger Moore’s incredible generosity at 3am on The Man with the Golden Gun set (Image: GETTY)
  
  
  Roger Moore with Barbara Broccoli (Image: GETTY)

  Speaking previously with Empire and commenting on a photo from the movie, Cubby’s daughter who now heads up EON Productions remembered: “Charm was Roger’s middle name. He was such a gentleman. I’d known him since I was a kid. I remember we were night-shooting at about 3 o’clock in the morning and some people came over. He had just sat down to eat something. He didn’t take a beat. He got straight up.”

  
  Roger Moore and his The Man with the Golden Gun Bond girls (Image: GETTY)
  
  
  James Bond movies (Image: EXPRESS)

  Introducing himself with his incredible charm when anyone else probably would have been rather frustrated to be interrupted, Roger said: “Where are you from? Nice to meet you.”
  
  Broccoli remembered: “I was just like ‘Wow.’ It was very unusual. These films were so impactful to him. He traveled all over the world and obviously saw both sides of life. Audrey Hepburn was sick and asked him to take over as a UNICEF ambassador and he did. He was an incredible man.”

  
  2022: Anthony Robert McMillan OBE (Robbie Coltrane) dies at age 72--Larbert, Scotland.
  (Born 30 March 1950--Rutherglen, 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.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  October 15th
  
  1955: Victoria Leigh Blum (Tanya Roberts) is born--The Bronx, New York City, New York.
  (She dies 4 January 2021 at age 65--Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Tanya Roberts, a Charlie’s Angel and a
  Bond Girl, Is Dead at 65

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/05/arts/television/tanya-roberts-dead.html

  After finding stardom in the 1980s, she fell out of the spotlight
  until re-emerging in 1998 in the sitcom “That ’70s Show.”

  
  Tanya Roberts with Roger Moore in the 1985 James Bond
  film A View to a Kill. She had earlier starred in the last
  season of Charlie's Angels.
  Credit...Alexis Duclos./Associated Press

  By Anita Gates | Jan. 5, 2021
  
  Tanya Roberts, the breathy-voiced actress who found fame in the 1980s as a detective on “Charlie’s Angels” and as a brave earth scientist in the James Bond film “A View to a Kill,” died on Monday night in Los Angeles. She was 65.
  
  Her death, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, was confirmed on Tuesday by her companion, Lance O’Brien. Her publicist, who was given erroneous information, had announced her death to the news media early Monday, and some news organizations published obituaries about her prematurely.
  
  The publicist, Mike Pingel, said Ms. Roberts collapsed on Dec. 24 after walking her dogs near her Hollywood Hills home and was put on a ventilator at the hospital. He did not give the cause of death, but said it was not related to Covid-19. He said she had not been noticeably ill before she collapsed.
  
  Ms. Roberts’s big acting break came in her mid-20s, when she was cast in the fifth and last season of “Charlie’s Angels,” the ABC drama series that, trading on its stars’ sex appeal, followed the exploits of three attractive former police officers who often fought crime wearing short shorts, low-cut blouses and even bikinis.
  
  The show was an immediate hit in 1976, but Farrah Fawcett, its breakout star, left after one season, replaced by Cheryl Ladd. Kate Jackson quit in 1979, and her replacement, Shelley Hack, was gone after just one season. Ms. Roberts replaced Ms. Hack. Jaclyn Smith appeared throughout the series run.
  
  There were high hopes for Ms. Roberts when she joined the cast. Her character, Julie, had some of Ms. Jackson’s character’s streetwise attitude; Julie was known to knock a handgun right out of a tough criminal’s hand. Her part couldn’t save the show’s plummeting ratings, but it did lead to an active decade for her in Hollywood.

  
  Ms. Roberts, second from left, starred in Charlie's Angels in its fifth and final season. The other angels in this 1980 photo were Cheryl Ladd, left, and Jaclyn Smith, right. Second from right is Patti D'Arbanville, who appeared in an episode.
  Credit...Getty Images

  Most notably, she was a “Bond girl,” playing a geologist threatened by a microchip-monopolist madman (Christopher Walken) in “A View to a Kill” (1985), Roger Moore’s last appearance as Agent 007.

  Ms. Roberts also appeared in “The Beastmaster” (1982), a fantasy film. And she played the title role in “Sheena” (1984), a highly publicized adventure film inspired by a queen-of-the-jungle comic book character. Sheena, a female Tarzan type, wore skimpy fur outfits with décolletage, rode a zebra, talked to animals and shape-shifted. The film flopped at the box office, and Ms. Roberts began fading from public view.
  
  She returned to the spotlight in 1998 on the sitcom “That ’70s Show” as the glamorous, youngish Midwestern mom of a teenage girl (Laura Prepon). In that role she was beautiful, slim and sexy — and delightfully dimwitted. The comic mystery, year after year, was how her short, dumpy husband, played by Don Stark with frighteningly overgrown sideburns, had ever won her heart. Ms. Roberts appeared on the show for three seasons and later made guest visits.
  
  She was born Victoria Leigh Blum in the Bronx on Oct. 15, 1955, the second of two daughters of Oscar Maximilian Blum, a fountain pen salesman, and Dorothy Leigh (Smith) Blum. According to some sources, Tanya was her nickname. She spent her childhood in the Bronx and lived briefly in Canada after her parents’ divorce. She began her career by running away from home to become a model when she was 15.
  
  Back in New York, she studied acting, appeared in some Off Broadway productions and worked as a model and a dance instructor to make ends meet. Her modeling career included work for Clairol and Ultra-Brite toothpaste. She made her screen debut in the horror thriller “The Last Victim” (1976), about a serial rapist-murderer.
  
  Ms. Roberts, right, in 1999 in a scene from the sitcom That 70s Show; with Laura Prepon, another star of the show. Ms. Roberts had kept a low profile for many years until re-emerging in the show.

  
  Ms. Roberts, right, in 1999 in a scene from the sitcom “That ’70s Show” with Laura Prepon, another star of the show. Ms. Roberts had kept a low profile for many years until re-emerging in the show.
  Credit...Frank Carroll/Fox

  After “Charlie’s Angels,” Ms. Roberts acted in both television and films. Her roles included the private eye Mike Hammer’s secretary in the television movie “Murder Me, Murder You” (1983), a detective working undercover at a sex clinic in “Sins of Desire” (1993) and a talk-radio host on the erotic anthology series “Hot Line” (1994-96). Her final screen appearance was on the Showtime series “Barbershop” in 2005.
  
  Even in her heyday, Ms. Roberts appeared not to enjoy being interviewed. Chatting with Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show” in 1981, she laughed nervously, gave short answers and flirted with Michael Landon, her fellow guest. At one point, Mr. Carson mentioned a cover article about her in People magazine, prompting Ed McMahon, the host’s sidekick, to suggest, “Maybe there’s something in the magazine that’d be interesting.”
  
  Ms. Roberts was a teenager when she married in 1971, but the union was quickly annulled at the insistence of her new mother-in-law. In 1974, she met Barry Roberts, a psychology student, while both were standing in line at a movie theater. They married that year. Mr. Roberts became a screenwriter and died in 2006 at 60.
  
  In addition to Mr. O’Brien, she is survived by a sister, Barbara Chase, who was Timothy Leary’s fourth wife.
  
  Ms. Roberts had always insisted that she was a New Yorker at heart, and not just because she hated driving.
  
  “L.A. drives you crazy,” she said in the 1981 People magazine article. “I’m used to weather and walking and people who say what they mean.”

  
  

  
  1964: Kinematograph Weekly (an early doubter of Bond, later affirming the success of From Russia With Love) reports "staggering figures" for Goldfinger's box office.
  1967: Götz Otto is born--Dietzenbach, Hesse, Germany.
  
  1975: Bond comic strip The Torch-Time Affair begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 15 January 1976. 2984-3060.)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1016
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

  En Enkel, Acapulco!
  (The Torch-Time Affair)
  

  
  Danish 1979 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no47-1979/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 47: “The Torch-Time Affair” (1979)
  "En enkelt Acapulco"
  [One-way to Acapulco]
  
  

  1978: The Los Angeles Times reports Albert R. Broccoli confirming NASA's assistance with research and script approval for Moonraker.

  
  
  
  

  
  1982: Octopussy films OO9's arrival at the British Embassy.
  1984: A View To A Kill films Stacy getting fired by Mr. Howe and OO7 dropping the F-bomb.

  A View to A Kill Deleted Scene - Stacey Gets Fired (1:58)
  
  

  1987: 007: Su nombre es peligro (007: His Name is Danger) released in Peru.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 22 of 65 - "The Inhuman Race" in Germany.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - The Inhuman Race

  Season 1 - Episode 22
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807302/?ref_=ttep_ep22

  James and his friends head to South Germany to represent Warfield in high school competition. However, Trevor gets abducted by Skullcap and Nick Nack so that Dr. Derange can use him for a guinea pig to bring a prototype mutant android to life.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Derange (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Alan Oppenheimer ... Professor Frederick (voice)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / Skullcap (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)
  
  Produced by
  Bill Hutten ... producer
  Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
  Tony Love ... producer
  Fred Wolf ... executive producer
  
  Music by
  Dennis C. Brown
  Larry Brown

  James Bond Jr Episode 22 - The Inhuman Race
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2005: James Bond OO7 - From Russia With Love video game released in the US as Gamecube.

  

  

  James Bond 007: From Russia with Love

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0455566/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
  

  This game follows the storyline of the novel and 1963 movie, with adding in new scenes to make the game more action-oriented, as well as changing the affiliation of the main villains.

  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Bruce Feirstein
  Ian Fleming ... (novel)
  Nuno Miranda ... (translation and adaptation)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Sean Connery ... James Bond (voice) (as Sir Sean Connery)
  Natasha Bedingfield ... Elisabeth Stark (voice)
  JB Blanc JB Blanc ... Kerim Bey / Additional Voices (voice)
  Brian McCole ... Red Grant / Additional Voices (voice)
  Maria Menounos ... Eva Adara (voice)
  Phil Proctor ... Q / Bartender / Party Guests (voice)
  Peter Renaday ... M / Party Guests (voice)
  Karly Rothenberg ... Rosa Klebb / Miss Moneypenny / Party Guests (voice)
  Kari Wahlgren ... Tatiana / Additional Voices (voice)
  Gabriel Alaverdashvili ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Steve Blum ... International Thugs (voice) (as Steven Jay Blum)
  Dimitri Diatchenko ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Grant George ... Various Russian Henchmen (voice)
  Leslie Hedger ... Additional Voices (voice)
  David Anthony Pizzuto ... Octopus Commando / Radio Voice (voice)
  Dorota Puzio ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Lloyd Sherr ... Additional Voices (voice)
  André Sogliuzzo ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Sylvio Sumavaski ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Jim Ward ... Additional Voices (voice) (as James Kevin Ward)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Pedro Armendáriz ... Kerim Bey (archive footage) (as Pedro Armendariz)
  Fred Haggerty ... Krilencu (archive footage)
  Bernard Lee ... M (Vice Admiral Sir Miles Messervy KCMG) (archive footage)
  Lotte Lenya ... Rosa Klebb (archive footage)
  Desmond Llewelyn ... Q (archive footage)
  Kimani Ray Smith ... James Bond
  Joseph Wiseman ... Dr. No (archive footage)
  Paul Lazenby ... Various (uncredited)
  Bob Simmons ... James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (archive footage) (uncredited)

  007 From Russia with Love Gamecube Trailer
  
  
  From Russia with Love Q-Lab Trailer
  
  

  
  
  
  

  2005: Rik Van Nutter dies at age 76--West Palm Beach, Florida.
  (Born 1 May 1929--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Rik Van Nutter

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rik_Van_Nutter
  Born: Frederick Allen Nutter - May 1, 1929 - Los Angeles, California, U.S.
  Died: October 15, 2005 (aged 76) - West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.

  Nationality American
  Years active 1959-1979
  Spouse(s) Anita Ekberg (1963-1975)

  Rik Van Nutter (May 1, 1929 – October 15, 2005) was an American actor who appeared in many minor films and the James Bond picture Thunderball.

  Career

  He is best known for playing the third version of Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965). He also had a role alongside Peter Ustinov in Romanoff and Juliet (1968), and his later films included Foxbat (1977) with Henry Silva and Vonetta McGee and the Jim Brown WW2 adventure Pacific Inferno (1979).

  
  Personal life
  Van Nutter was married to film actress Anita Ekberg from 1963 until 1975. They lived in Spain and Switzerland and started a shipping business together.
  
  Death
  Van Nutter died on October 15, 2005 at the age of 76.

  

  Rik Van Nutter (1929–2005)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0887607/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (14 credits)
  
  1979 Pacific Inferno - Dennis
  1977 Foxbat - Crays
  
  1968 A Stroke of 1000 Millions - Fraser
  1967 Joe l'implacabile - 'Dynamite Joe' Ford
  1965 Thunderball - Felix Leiter
  1965 Seven Hours of Gunfire - Buffalo Bill Cody (as Clyde Rogers)
  1965 The Revenge of Ivanhoe - Ivanhoe (as Clyde Rogers)
  1962 Tharus figlio di Attila - Oto
  1961 A noi piace freddo...! - German Officer
  1961 Romanoff and Juliet - Freddie (as Rik Von Nutter)
  1960 The Passionate Thief (as Rik Von Nutter)
  1960 Assignment: Outer Space - Ray Peterson (IZ41) (as Rik Von Nutter)
  
  1959 Guardatele ma non toccatele - Charlie (as Rick Van Nutter)
  1959 Uncle Was a Vampire - Victor (uncredited)
  
  Writer (1 credit)
  
  1971 Casting Call (as Clyde Rogers)
  
  Self (1 credit)
  
  1965 Thunderball: James Bond Follows Beatles in Filming in the Bahamas (Documentary short)

  
  
  
  

  
  2012: The Olive Press proposes Bond just isn't the same in Spain. And hasn't been since early on.

  

  https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2012/10/15/bond-just-isnt-the-same-in-spain/

  
  2012: Sir Roger Moore declares the Best Bond Ever.

  

  Sir Roger Moore: "Daniel Craig Is The Best James Bond Ever"
  "Skyfall is going to be the biggest Bond film there has ever been."

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.ign.com/articles/2012/10/15/sir-roger-moore-daniel-craig-is-the-best-james-bond-ever

  Tom Butler | 15 Oct 2012 5:39 am
  
  Sir Roger Moore has predicted that Skyfall is going to be a huge hit following a private screening over the weekend, and has nothing but good things to say about the incumbent 007.

  Speaking at "An Evening With Roger Moore" at the Rose Theatre in Kingston-Upon-Thames last night Sir Roger revealed, "I was invited on Saturday morning to a private screening of Skyfall. Now, I have always said that the best Bond was obviously Sean [Connery], but I’m happy to say when Skyfall is released on October 26, it is going to be the biggest [Bond film] there has ever been in the cinema, and he [Daniel Craig] will go down as the best Bond in history. It is fantastic."
  
  Speaking to packed house on the former 007's 85th birthday to promote his new book Bond on Bond, Sir Roger went on to reveal how he had always backed Craig to make a big impact, "Before I saw Skyfall, I felt very angry about the way that the English press treated Daniel Craig. Before he’d started Casino Royale they predicted doom and gloom and they criticised him. I used to write letters of support to him, and I was so pleased when I saw Casino Royale because he was truly excellent in it. He’s a wonderful actor, if you’ve seen Munich or In Cold Blood, you know he’s a terrific actor."

  2017: Pinewood Studios designates The Roger Moore Stage in honor of the late Bond actor.

  

  Roger Moore stage opened at Pinewood Studios

  https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41641574
  16 October 2017

  
  Sir Roger had had his own office at Pinewood since 1970 [??]

  A soundstage named after the late Sir Roger Moore has been opened by the Countess of Wessex at Pinewood Studios.
  
  Dame Joan Collins, Sir Michael Caine and Bond producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli were among the attendees at Sunday's private event.
  
  Lady Moore and the star's three children paid an emotional tribute, saying how proud Sir Roger would be.
  
  Sir Roger, who played secret agent James Bond in seven films, died from cancer in May at the age of 89.
  
  It would have been his 90th birthday on Saturday.

  
  Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli were among the speakers at the celebration

  Other guests included Stephen Fry, Sir Tim Rice, Stefanie Powers and David Walliams, representing Unicef.
  
  Sir Roger acted in more than 40 productions at Pinewood in Buckinghamshire and also had an office there.

  
  Sir Michael Caine, Sir Tim Rice, Dame Joan Collins and David Walliams were also present

  Moore's Bond movies

  Live and Let Die (1973)
  The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
  The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
  Moonraker (1979)
  For Your Eyes Only (1981)
  Octopussy (1983)
  A View to a Kill (1985)

  
  
  

  
  
  
  
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  October 16th
  
  1924: Alan Hume is born--London, England.
  (He dies 13 July 2010 at age 85--Chalfont St. Giles, Buckinghamshire, England.)

  

  Alan Hume: Cinematographer who
  switched between James Bond and the
  Carry On films

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/alan-hume-cinematographer-who-switched-between-james-bond-and-the-carry-on-films-2104788.html

  Anthony Hayward | Wednesday 13 October 2010 00:00

  

  In 1976, Alan Hume was standing on a snow-covered, 3,000ft-high rock on Baffin Island, north of Canada. As the second-unit director of photography on the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), he had to capture the breathtaking, pre-title, ski-jump sequence.
  
  For three weeks, Hume and the crew lived in tents on this freezing, far-flung peninsula while they waited for the cloud to lift. When it finally did, they sprang into action, capturing the spectacular sight of 007's stunt double, Rick Sylvester, skiing over the edge and, finally, opening his Union Jack parachute. Being a one-take sequence, there were three cameras shooting the action, one of them with Hume in a helicopter.
  
  It was an example of the dedication that this veteran of more than 100 feature films gave to his job, and it led to his becoming the fully fledged director of photography on the Bond pictures For Your Eyes Only (1981), Octopussy (1983) and A View to a Kill (1985). This signalled a change of gear for Hume, although he had already been earning his living as a director of photography – establishing the look of films and lighting them appropriately – for almost 20 years.

  He took that role on many of the Carry On productions, whose low budgets and tight schedules – in contrast to the resources he enjoyed with the 007 pictures – taught him to work quickly. Carry On Cabby (1963) presented particular challenges. "There were a lot of close-ups in taxi cabs," recalled Hume. "When they were travelling along, I was often hanging outside the cab with the camera or fixing cameras on the front bonnet or inside looking forward. It was difficult lining the shot up and getting the actors to look as if they were driving the taxi. While driving one of the cabs, Charlie Hawtrey banged into my car in the car park and made a dent. Not only did he do that, but he knocked my scooter down as well, making a few dents in that, too."
  
  George Alan Hume was born in Putney, south London, in 1924. His father worked on track maintenance for London Underground and found him a job in its stores on leaving school. The teenager then moved to Olympic Film Laboratories, in Acton, often picking up the daily "rushes" of film footage from Denham Studios.
  
  When Hume heard of a vacancy for a clapper loader there, he left Olympic and found himself working on the wartime picture The First of the Few (1942), the story of the real-life Spitfire designer RJ Mitchell, directed by and starring Leslie Howard. Because there were several other people at the studios called George, he became known by his middle name, Alan.
  
  His next film was In Which We Serve (1942), directed by David Lean and its screenwriter, Noël Coward, who also played the ship's captain in the patriotic tale of a British Second World War destroyer and its crew. Within a year, Hume had been promoted to focus puller on The Yellow Canary (1943), featuring Anna Neagle as a British wartime spy. In this capacity, he also worked on Lean's definitive version of Oliver Twist (1948).
  
  His career was briefly interrupted when, in 1944, he was called up and joined the Fleet Air Arm, working as a photographer. On his return to Denham Studios two years later, Hume continued as a focus puller but had his first opportunity as a camera operator with the second unit working on Lean's Great Expectations (1946), notable for its stark, atmospheric, black-and-white photography.
  
  It was another seven years before he became a fully fledged camera operator, on the comedy Our Girl Friday (1953), starring Joan Collins as a woman stuck on a Pacific island with three love-hungry men. He was soon much in demand in his new role, working on several films a year, including the black comedy The Green Man (1956), starring Alastair Sim and George Cole.
  
  Then, in 1958, came the call from the producer-director team of Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas to shoot Carry On Sergeant, the first of the long-running comedy series featuring stars such as Kenneth Williams, Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey and, from Carry On Constable (1960, the fourth in the series), Sid James.
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  Hume was camera operator on all of the first four, then graduated to director of photography on Carry On Regardless (1961) and another 15 of the 30 films, including the final one, Carry On Columbus (1992).
  
  In between, he was director of photography on many other films, such as Return of the Jedi (1983, later retitled Star Wars: Episode VI – Return of the Jedi), A Fish Called Wanda (1988) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as 26 episodes of the television fantasy series The Avengers (1965-68).
  
  Before his retirement in 1998, Hume spent the last few years of his career working in television, on programmes such as the Gerry Anderson-produced, live-action drama Space Precinct (1994-95), Tales from the Crypt (1996), and a feature-length version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997).
  
  Hume, whose autobiography, A Life Through the Lens: memoirs of a film cameraman, was published in 2004, was president of the British Society of Cinematographers from 1969 to 1971. In retirement, he continued to attend Carry On and James Bond conventions and other events.
  
  All four of his children followed him into the film industry: Lindsey, who died in a car crash in 1967, aged 21, was an assistant editor; Martin is a camera operator; Pauline is a titles designer; and Simon is a focus puller. Simon's son Lewis is a camera assistant.
  
  George Alan Hume, cinematographer: born London 16 October 1924; married 1946 Sheila Nevard (two sons, one daughter, and one son deceased); died Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire 13 July 2010.
  

  
  Alan Hume (I) (1924–2010)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0401727/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  

  
  

  
  1959: Kevin McClory praises Ian Fleming's second screen treatment for Thunderball

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

  McClory responded positively to Fleming's second treatment. "Very
  exciting," he called it in a letter dated 16 October. "Although a great deal of
  work has to be done on it, and I am not as yet convinced that we have the full
  story, but I think this will come in the next few script conferences."

  
  1967: Sólo se vive dos veces (We Only Live Twice) released in Spain.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1984: A View to a Kill films Zorin murdering Howe and framing OO7.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 23 of 65 - "Live and Let's Dance" in Switzerland.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Live and Let Dance

  Season 1 - Episode 23
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807291/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  James and his friends escort a ballerina to Switzerland, but Baron Von Skarin hires an assassin, posing as a famous ballet dancer, to go after her and the King.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Mary Crawford ... (writer)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Alan Templeton ... (writer)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Baron Von Skarin (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr Episode 23 - Live and Let Dance
  
  
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  1992: Vladek Sheybal dies at age 69--London, England.
  (Born 12 March 1923--Zgierz, Lódzkie, Poland.)

  Vladek Sheybal Online

  https://www.vladeksheybal.com/

  In 1963, Vladek was offered a small part in the second James Bond film
  From Russia With Love but was reluctant to take the part and turned
  it down. Eventually he was persuaded by Sean Connery (who was by now
  a close friend) to take the role of the villainous chess master "Kronsteen."
  Vladek played the part as usual, to perfection; creating a character so
  elegantly arrogant that "Kronsteen" is one of the more memorable
  Bond villains of the genre to date.

  
  Here is an interview with Vladek Sheybal which originally appeared in issue #8 (December 1992) of FAB, the magazine produced by the official Gerry Anderson fan club Fanderson. This interview was conducted by Tim Mallett and Glenn Pearce, and is reproduced here with permission from Fanderson.
  https://ufoseries.com/magazines/fab08.html

  THE FAB INTERVIEW
  VLADEK SHEYBAL
  UFO - DOCTOR DOUG JACKSON

  Wladislaw Sheybal was born in March 1923, into a Catholic family at Zgierz, near Lodz in Poland, the son of a university professor. Imprisoned in a concentration camp during the war, Sheybal escaped only to be captured and to escape once again. During each spell in prison, he was forced to face a mock execution as part of the Nazi 'punishment by terror'.
  
  As an actor, Sheybal's first major role came in 1957 with a part in Andrzej Wajda's Kanal, a film about the Polish Resistance and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, but the increasingly Soviet face of his native country dismayed Sheybal, and in 1958 he fled his homeland and re-established his career in Britain. He arrived almost destitute, unable to speak a word of English and knowing no-one.
  
  His first employment in London was as a dish-washer in the kitchens of a drama college, where he eventually began to teach acting to the students who recognised him from Kanal. He learnt English and gradually involved himself in the London theatrical world, staging Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina for the Oxford University Opera Club. This led to a job with the BBC, directing opera for television, and in 1960, he became joint director of a theatre company based at the Little Theatre, Bromley, where his first production - Donald Howarth's All Good Children - was promoted to Hampstead Theatre Club.

  Sheybal had originally wanted to be a romantic actor, but the course of his acting career was laid down by his friend Bette Davis, whom he met in Hollywood. She told him, "Just be the bitch, darling. You'll never stop working then." In 1962, on Sean Connery's request, he took the role of the villainous Kronsteen in the James Bond film From Russia With Love, and this led to a career of similarly creepy roles as middle-European or Soviet villains, in episodes of The Man In Room 17 (twice), The Saint, Danger Man, Strange Report and The Champions.

  In the cinema, he was particularly liked by Ken Russell who used him in the award-winning film of D.H. Lawrence's Women In Love (1970), in which he played the artist-sculptor cavorting in the snow with Glenda Jackson; The Music Lovers (1970); and The Boyfriend (1971), in which he played the film director Cecil B. de Thrill. Russell had previously 'discovered' Sheybal in the BBC canteen in 1961, and hired him to play Debussy in his television production Strauss. Sheybal also appeared in John Boorman's Leo The Last, in which he played a political schemer in the entourage of Marcello Mastroianni's Italian prince.
  
  However, it was his role as the Eurosec physician Dr. Beauville in Gerry Anderson's Doppelganger, that led to his being cast as Dr Doug Jackson in the UFO episode Exposed. Vladek reprised the role on an episode-by-episode basis during the first production block (he was not contracted for the whole series) as his character was required, more often than not as a replacement to Maxwell Shaw's Dr Shroeder when Shaw became seriously ill during production. This resulted in an intriguing character whose real loyalties were uncertain, and whose area of expertise enabled him to function in a variety of roles for both SHADO and the International Astrophysical Commission. For the second block, Jackson's function within SHADO was more clearly defined as a psychiatrist, and Vladek became a more permanent member of the cast.
  
  Following UFO, Vladek appeared in such films as Puppet On A Chain (1971), in which he played the smuggler pursued by Interpol along the canals of Amsterdam, and The Wind And The Lion (1975) as Sean Connery's brother, while on television he made a brief return to the Anderson fold as Sandor Karolean in The Protectors episode Brother Hood, and also made a memorable guest appearance as the bird-man Zacardi in The New Avengers episode Cat Amongst The Pigeons.
  
  More recently, Sheybal had forged a second acting career for himself in France. Leaving his villainous roles behind him, he found a niche playing middle-aged romantics in love with much younger women. His last screen appearance was in The Bill episode Sympathy For The Devil in September 1992, while his last interview was with Fanderson for The UFO Documentary. He died suddenly of an abdominal haemorrhage at his home in London on October 16th, 1992.

  How did you come to get the part of Dr. Jackson in UFO?
  
  "I started playing UFO in...1969? Yes, 1969. So long ago, I can't believe it. And I can't believe that it became a cult film all over the world! It's incredible. Anyway, Sylvia Anderson, who was very beautiful and looked like a film star, with big eyelashes, asked through my agent, "Would I be interested at all to play a Dr Jackson?" and she didn't elaborate at all. Well, I got the (script of the) first episode, I learned my lines and I went to the studio where Sylvia Anderson - with the big eyelashes and a very beautiful hairdo - was there, and I met all these friends afterwards from UFO for the very time, including Gabrielle Drake. You remember Gabrielle Drake? She was my pupil at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - I once was teaching acting there and she was my pupil, and I was very surprised when she was there in the studio.
  
  "Anyway, to cut a long story short, I didn't know who this Dr Jackson was and Sylvia Anderson, after we had finished - or maybe it was while we were filming? - she said, "Would you be at all interested if we feed a script in with Dr Jackson, because we like very much the way that you are doing it." And then I asked her, "Who is this Dr Jackson?". "We don't know," she said. And that is what happened, so from time to time when they wanted to write in Dr Jackson they would ask my agent if I would be free for, let's say, next week for ten days to come to the studio to play Dr Jackson.
  
  "And then I started forming my opinion about the character, and I came to the conclusion that he's got lots of colours and whatever, and I think that I developed it while I was playing it. But I wasn't a regular of UFO like the others - I was only from time to time, whenever I was free and whenever they wanted to write in Dr Jackson."
  
  Jackson spoke with a heavy Eastern European accent, which seemed at odds with the character's ordinary Anglo-Saxon name, leading to speculation that perhaps the character was using an assumed name to hide a secret in his life before SHADO?
  
  "Lots of things happen in films that we don't understand. You know, I have been in about 35 films as an 'international film actor' - as I am called - and believe it or not, in one, which was called The Wind And The Lion, they asked me to play the brother of Sean Connery. Can you imagine that? I was looking up at him and we had completely different hair colour, completely different accents and yet I was his brother. So it is unpredictable.
  
  "You see, my name is Sheybal, which is not Polish name, which is not Armenian name, which comes from Scotland as a matter of fact. And I was brought up in about four or five languages. I was brought up in a terribly international family - as a matter of fact, I don't have a drop of Polish blood. I am mostly Armenian, a little bit of Scottish, a little bit of Austrian, and yet I am Polish actor and I arrived into this country as Polish actor, and (yet) I was lucky enough to have been (cast) in several cult films - Women In Love with (director) Ken Russell and Glenda Jackson, then with Marcello Mastroianni in John Boorman's Leo The Last, then Puppet On A Chain with Barbara Bach, and then UFO of course - and it's incredible really.
  
  "I never aimed at it, I never thought that these sort of things would happen to me, but everything in my career was always the unexpected and coincidence and I was never pushing it or anything - just things were happening."

  Prior to UFO, you were best-known for your role as the sinister chess-master and SPECTRE agent Kronsteen in the James Bond film From Russia With Love.
  
  "It was the second James Bond film. I first of all started my career in this country as a teacher in drama school and as a director in television. I had done quite a lot for BBC Television and suddenly, quite by chance, I was seated in the canteen at BBC Television eating my lunch and a man came up to me and he said, "My name is Ken Russell and I do short artistic films and I would like you to play a part because I saw you in the Polish film Kanal." It was a film about Debussy, the composer, and this was Oliver Reed, who was not yet Oliver Reed and Vladek Sheybal when he was not yet Vladek Sheybal. And then, you know, Harry Saltzman was one of the producers, I think, of James Bond, and he telephoned my agent, my first agent, and he said, "I saw you in Ken Russell's film and I would like you to play a part in From Russia With Love."
  
  "I said to my agent that I would like to read the script and he gave me the script and I just thought, 'No, I'm not going to be bothered about that - one scene in the beginning, one scene in the middle and then Lotte Lenya kills me with that spiked shoe!' I thought this was just ridiculous. I was very serious actor before I started acting in films and I just said to my agent, "This is ridiculous. Why should I bother to play this part? I was just playing a leading part in Ken Russell's film for television!", and he said, "Look, listen! It was Sean Connery who asked personally that you accept the part!" Why did Sean Connery ask me to accept the part? Because I met Sean Connery as well when he wasn't Sean Connery. He was the boyfriend of Diane Cilento, who was an actress and I was directing a television (play) with her, and he was always coming to the rehearsal room to pick her up and the three of us would go for a drink and then Diane Cilento would try to sell him to me. She would say, "Look at him! Isn't he sexy? Doesn't he have star quality? Do you have a part for him?", because nobody wanted him. And two years later he was James Bond and Diane Cilento went into decline or whatever - this happens. And then Sean Connery wanted me to play The Wind And The Lion as well, as his brother, because he thought this would be a good bit of fun.
  
  "So, anyway, when I refused flatly to play this part, suddenly there was a telephone call from Sean Connery saying, "Look, listen! This is something which is going to change the world! It's a new series - 'James Bond' - and it's going to be next episode and next episode, and if you take a part in it you are in cult thing." So I signed to do it. He was very kind because he was waiting personally for me at the doorstep of the studio and he said, "Welcome to From Russia With Love."
  
  "But during the filming there was an incident which shows my tempestuous character, or my honest character perhaps - that I can't be bought for the money. Harry Saltzman, the producer, started interfering in my scenes, in the way I was acting the scene. So I said to Harry Saltzman, "This is the director Terence Young and he doesn't want me to play the part in any different way. Why should I do what you say?" "Because I am the producer," he said. So I said, "You mean that you represent money?" and he said, "Yes."
  
  "Lotte Lenya supported me very much and I played it my way and then Harry Saltzman became completely unbearable so I just said, "I've had enough of it!" I just walked off the studio, not being a star or whatever - later I learned that only the stars walk off the studio! But perhaps I was born a star? I always felt like a star. So I walked off the studio. They followed me (saying), "What are you doing? What are doing?" I went to the dressing room, I started taking off my make-up and I said, "Get away with you! I go back home!" and I went home!
  
  "And in the evening, Terence Young rings me up and he says, "Vladek, I promise that Harry Saltzman won't be in the studio tomorrow. Will you come and finish the part?" So I came in and finished it."

  After your role in From Russia With Love, you found yourself playing a string of memorable villainous roles in series such as The Man In Room 17, The Saint, Danger Man, Strange Report, The Champions and The New Avengers. Did you find that you were becoming typecast?
  
  "Not necessarily, but this happens in the acting profession, that if you chisel for yourself a niche, then you're in. If you can't be identified immediately with your voice, without your villain-ness, with your looks or whatever, then you are in my position when I was completely unknown actor in this country and the western world. I had an accent - I didn't have any chance at all.
  
  "I didn't know anything about it until one fantastic person, great friend of mine for several years, who was Bette Davis, and she said to me, "Honey, you have no chance whatsoever. You're ugly - everything is against you. I think that you should start playing threatening things and everybody will remember you." And I said, "How do I play threatening things? I'm such a loveable character." and she said, "You just narrow your eyes, you lower your voice and just whisper and make long pauses." So that was the trick and I started doing it, and she said, "Just look at me when I'm playing the bitch. I narrow my eyes like that and lower my voice and whisper and make long pauses." And so she launched me - and I'm ever grateful to her - into the part of playing the villains or frightening people.
  
  "But later on, I was playing quite a number of parts in which I wasn't the villain at all, and people will say, "How villainous you were!" People don't want to remember. Once they establish you in a niche, they just want you to stick to this, so I gave them what they wanted.
  
  "But a few years ago, I started playing fringe theatres here in London, and I found I was playing the 'greats' such as Gustav Mahler and Frederick Nietzsche, and I realised that I had to use exactly the same trick to play the 'greats' - whisper, make long pauses and narrow your eyes - so what is the difference between the villain and the 'great', you know?"
  
  More recently, you have been cast in more varied roles both in England and abroad, and have made extensive film appearances in France and Germany. What sort of roles do you prefer to play?
  
  "I have lived, for several years now, partly in France, in Paris mainly, and I have started playing in French films. You know, I had the same trouble, because I thought, 'If I'm going to launch myself into French films, then I've got to find a niche.' But they didn't cast me as villains in France. They cast me as aging men who are madly in love with very young girls and then rejected. So I decided to play them as unhappy, with long pauses as well because it helps, and speaking very fluently, but very softly, and it took off. Here, I'm turning down quite a lot of things, because, quite simply, after so many years now having acted in so many things, I couldn't be bothered playing the same character.
  
  "You see, we actors, we always say that any part which could give you the material to build a character on it in your own way, your own interesting way, is a good part - whether this is cameo part, or larger part, or medium part, or just one close up or whatever. So I think that all actors are multi-character people and that's why they enjoy everything.
  
  "I think I'm no different in being an actor than anybody else. I like playing these unhappy elderly men in France."

  
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  2007: Deborah Jane Trimmer aka Deborah Kerr CBE dies at age 86--Botesdale, England.
  (Born 30 September 1921--Helensburgh, Scotland.)

  

  Deborah Kerr

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  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/oct/19/guardianobituaries.obituaries1

  Graceful and versatile British star whose work across four decades made her a Hollywood icon
  Brian Baxter | Thu 18 Oct 2007
  
  Many Hollywood stars of the wartime generation ended their careers in cameo roles or cult movies, even schlock horror or, worst of all, television soaps. But Deborah Kerr, who has died of Parkinson's disease aged 86, escaped that. Her health would not allow such a route, but it seems unlikely that such an innately graceful and consummately professional actor would have chosen it. The theatre at Chichester perhaps, but not movie Grand Guignol.
  
  She worked steadily, averaging one film a year, with directors of stature, and often opposite chums such as David Niven, Robert Mitchum and Cary Grant. The result was a career that sailed on rather majestically, like an elegant ocean liner, only occasionally hitting a squall or rough passage. There was little to interest gossip columnists or to shock the public and, at least on the surface, she seemed rather serene in the midst of such a frantic profession.
  
  It is impossible not to admire the performances and the performer herself. She achieved fame when barely 20, in a star-laden version of Major Barbara (1941), followed rapidly by four further movies, and for 45 years remained at or near the pinnacle of her profession. Within a period of 12 years, she received six Oscar nominations but did not receive the statuette until 1994, when an honorary Academy award was given for her lifetime's work.
  
  By the late 1980s, in poor health, she had effectively retired from acting, gravitating from her home in Switzerland to Spain with her second husband, the writer Peter Viertel (whose screen credits include The African Queen). Much later still, she was to return to England. Her rare public appearances reminded us of her great popularity in such contrasted roles as the governess in The King and I (1956) and the adulterous wife in From Here to Eternity (1953). She was greatly admired by her fellow actors and always brought a touch of class to the most mundane of roles.
  
  Kerr was born in Helensburgh, Scotland, the daughter of a first world war officer, and educated at Northumberland House, in the Bristol suburb of Clifton. She dabbled in acting during her teens, including radio work for the BBC West Region in Bristol, and in amateur theatricals. She moved to London to study at the Sadler's Wells ballet school, making her debut in Prometheus in 1939. That year too saw her in a small role in Much Ado About Nothing at the Regent's Park open air theatre, and from 1939 to 1940 she worked with the Oxford Repertory. An abortive screen debut as a cigarette girl in Contraband (1940), ended on the editing-room floor. But the directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger were soon to remedy that unkind cut.
  
  Kerr's break came when the ebullient Gabriel Pascal, who had the confidence of George Bernard Shaw, cast her in Major Barbara, in which she gave a touching performance as Jenny Hill. Under contract to Pascal, she was given the lead in 1941 in Love on the Dole and rapidly followed this excellent movie with Penn of Pennsylvania and then a plum role as Robert Newton's downtrodden daughter in the melodramatic Hatter's Castle - where she encountered her first husband, fighter pilot Tony Bartley, who was involved in the nearby filming of The First of the Few. All this in that same year, followed by The Day Will Dawn (1942), opposite Ralph Richardson.
  
  In a piece of casting that Martin Scorsese has justly described as audacious, Powell and Pressburger gave the then 21-year-old the triple roles of driver, governess and wife/nurse, the women who appear throughout Blimp's story in their monumental The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). The film did not receive official approval or the critical acclaim now accorded it, and Kerr's film career paused as she toured and then went into the West End in Heartbreak House. She also worked for the forces' entertainment organisation Ensa throughout Europe, and again met Bartley. They married in 1945.
  
  That year she returned to the screen, opposite Robert Donat in Perfect Strangers, where they play - delightfully - a couple transformed and humanised by their wartime experiences. She moved on to an interesting role in I See a Dark Stranger (1946) as an Irish girl who, through hatred of the English, spies for the Germans. Her love for a British officer (Trevor Howard) reforms her. Her only other screen work that year was in a short in aid of the Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund. The best was yet to come.
  
  In 1947, Kerr was reunited with Powell and Pressburger for a heady masterwork, Black Narcissus. She played the pivotal role of Sister Clodagh, an insecure nun in charge of a Catholic missionary school (Pinewood stood in - remarkably - for the Himalayas). Jealousy, passion, frustration and death become the order of the day in this timeless work. A blend of repression, gentleness and inner turmoil was to feature in many later, often inferior, films but this remains a benchmark in her career.
  
  Meanwhile, Pascal had sold her contract to MGM and Kerr found herself in a postwar drama, The Hucksters (1947), opposite Clark Gable and Ava Gardner. A modestly successful Hollywood debut was soon followed by If Winter Comes (1947). She was subsequently directed by one of the studio's top names, George Cukor, in a rather stodgy version of Robert Morley's stage success, Edward My Son (1948). Despite fine credits and the presence of the screen's greatest actor, Spencer Tracy, the film fails to ignite.
  
  The studio began to use Kerr as decorative contract fodder opposite sturdy leading men and costume became the order of the day in such movies as King Solomon's Mines (1950), Quo Vadis (1951) and The Prisoner of Zenda (1952). She had the small role of Portia in Julius Caesar, but this movie - the best-ever screen treatment of Shakespeare - is remembered for Marlon Brando and John Gielgud, and not the refined Miss Kerr. The MGM period ended dismally with Young Bess (1953).
  
  That year was, however, to prove a highlight, if not a turning point in her fortunes. She extricated herself from the MGM straitjacket and landed the controversial role opposite Burt Lancaster in Fred Zinneman's From Here to Eternity. Cast against her seemingly fragile type, she was formidable as the sexually rapacious officer's wife who has an affair with an NCO, played by Lancaster, at the time of Pearl Harbor in 1941. Today, the famous beach scene - indeed the whole adaptation of James Jones's brutal novel - seems somewhat tame. Not so in the early 1950s.
  
  Adultery was a theme of a rather greater book, Graham Greene's The End of the Affair (1954), which brought Kerr back to England. An underrated film, it suffers from a miscast, rather lightweight Van Johnson as the writer, but she and a fine British cast save the day.
  
  An attempt was made to revamp Eternity, with William Holden replacing Lancaster, in The Proud and the Profane (1956) before she went on to her biggest popular success: a lacklustre version of The King and I. Kerr and Yul Brynner redeemed Walter Lang's rather staid direction and thanks to dubbing from Marni Nixon on the difficult passages and high notes, Kerr sang, danced and acted herself into a third Oscar nomination, and a box office smash.
  
  In 1957 she was reunited with friend Cary Grant in the romantic drama, An Affair to Remember and donned her nun's habit in the popular Heaven Knows, Mr Allison for a favourite director, John Huston. This virtual two-hander reworks Huston's great success, The African Queen, with Robert Mitchum as the reprobate marine who meets his match in the seemingly demure nun. Together they tackle the Japanese just as missionary Katharine Hepburn and drunk Humphrey Bogart had scuppered the Germans in the earlier movie.
  
  There were better parts and higher salaries than in the MGM days and Kerr moved on to Bonjour Tristesse (1957) and another spinster role in the botched version of Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables (1958). Only her old friend David Niven emerged with modest credit from this fiasco. Three duff movies followed before Zinnemann gave her a wonderfully rich part - opposite Robert Mitchum - in The Sundowners (1960). It proved one of the director's most relaxed and commercially successful films.
  
  Kerr joined Mitchum and Grant again in a conventional reworking of the stage hit, The Grass is Greener (1960), followed by an altogether less happy experience. At best The Naked Edge (1961) was a routine thriller, made painful by Gary Cooper, already ill with cancer, in his last role and the last year of his life.
  
  The highlight of this British period came the same year when she again played a governess - this time in Jack Clayton's version of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. Transformed into a handsome CinemaScope film as The Innocents, it showed that Kerr was as good as the material allowed and often better. Her role as the haunted and taunted governess gave perfect rein to her upright demeanour and hidden depths.
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  After a dull version of The Chalk Garden (1963), she was rescued by John Huston and cast as the poet spinster in the steamy The Night of the Iguana (1964). After this she sank without trace in a Frank Sinatra vehicle, Marriage on the Rocks (1965), and then made a trio of films opposite Niven, her Swiss-based neighbour.
  
  They failed to salvage the thriller Eye of the Devil (1966), but had some fun working with Huston again on the chaotic James Bond spoof, Casino Royale (1967). This was followed by a dated comedy, Prudence and the Pill (1968).

  Two big movies in 1969 offered Kerr dull parts - with Burt Lancaster in the sky drama The Gypsy Moths and Kirk Douglas in The Arrangement. They proved only that she was still in demand opposite heavyweight actors. But the films, one lugubrious, the second overwrought, were not to her taste and she effectively retired from Hollywood.
  
  A handful of made-for-television films kept her occupied - Witness for the Prosecution (1982), Reunion at Fairborough (1985) and Hold the Dawn (1986) among them.
  
  Her greatest stage success had been in the once controversial Tea and Sympathy, in a role as a schoolteacher who seduces a pupil who believes himself to be gay. She filmed it in 1956, but the screen version was even milkier than the Broadway success. Her other stage successes included Separate Tables, Candida and The Last of Mrs Cheyney, among many others.
  
  But it is as a screen actor that Kerr will be best remembered, since she had the beauty, the reserve and the inner quality that the camera loves. By a happy chance, her farewell to the big screen utilised those attributes.
  
  In The Assam Garden (1985) Kerr played an isolated middle-class widow who befriends an Indian woman (Madhur Jaffrey) from a nearby council estate. A modest two-hander, it gave her an intriguing, somewhat unglamorous role that perfectly suited her subtle technique and quiet dignity.
  
  Visiting her on location in the Forest of Dean, I was touched by her commitment to the film and her determination to complete what was proving to be an extremely demanding role. She clearly missed her home comforts and had been greatly pleased by the film's attentive publicist - who brought her caviar from his London trips.
  
  The location, charming though it was, and the budget were a far cry from her Hollywood heyday, but the film turned out to be a success and she ended her screen career on a personal high note. She received a spontaneous ovation at the 1994 Oscar ceremony and few actors can so richly have deserved the award.
  
  In 1998 she was made a CBE, but said that she felt too frail to travel to London to receive it personally. In 45 films, in as many years, she seldom, if ever, gave a weak performance and certainly never gave a less than professional one.
  
  Her marriage to Tony Bartley ended in divorce in 1959. He died in 2001. She married Viertel in 1960. He survives her, as do two daughters from her first marriage and three grandsons.
  
  · Deborah Jane Kerr (Deborah Kerr Viertel), actor, born September 30 1921; died October 16 2007

  

  Deborah Kerr

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  2012: Eurocom's North American release of first-person shooter video game 007 Legends, published by Activision.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2012: Globe Pequot Press publishes Bond On Bond by Roger Moore.

  
  
  

  
  2018: Daniel Craig receives support after Piers Morgan's dad-shaming comments.

  

  The best responses to Piers Morgan dad-
  shaming Daniel Craig
  
  Good Morning Britain host mocks James Bond actor for using ‘emasculating’ baby carrier

  https://www.theweek.co.uk/97146/the-best-responses-to-piers-morgan-dad-shaming-daniel-craig
  
  

  

  
  2020: A new Penfold Heart golf ball comes available.

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  Goldfinger, Ian Fleming, 1995.
  Chapter 9 - The Cup and the Lip

  Goldfinger came up. His face was glistening with triumph. 'Well, thanks for the game. Seems I was just too good for you after all.'
  
  'You're a good nine handicap,' said Bond with just sufficient sourness. He glanced at the balls in his hand to pick out Goldfinger's and hand it to him. He gave a start of surprise. 'Hullo!' He looked sharply at Goldfinger. 'You play a Number One Dunlop, don't you?'
  
  'Yes, of course.' A sixth sense of disaster wiped the triumph off Goldfinger's face. 'What is it? What's the matter?'
  
  'Well,' said Bond apologetically.' "Fraid you've been playing with the wrong ball. Here's my Penfold Hearts and this is a Number Seven Dunlop.' He handed both balls to Goldfinger. Goldfinger tore them off his palm and examined them feverishly.

  
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  1959: Ivar Bryce is impressed by Fleming's second screen treatment for Thunderball, though he shares criticisms.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

  Bryce was likewise impressed, though in a letter dated 17 October made
  these criticisms to Fleming: "Be careful not to take Domino off the scene for
  too long. Also, is it necessary to bump off poor Felix? You will need him again
  you know -- a problem you have already had once. I should like to do Live and
  Let Die one day." Bryce also mentioned Ernest Cuneo's positive reaction.
  "Although he is worried by all Italian names of Mafia villains, and fears
  resentment in Italian minority here, but I cannot go along with that." Nor did
  Fleming pay much credence in Cuneo's suggestion that using the Mafia would
  infuriate America's Italian population. "Don't agree with Ernie about the Italian
  names," Fleming wrote back. "The Mafia is a villainous organisation and if the
  Italians don't like it, they ought to suppress it."
  
  In his letter Bryce also referred to a recent news incident of an American
  bomber that collided with a tanker plane and crashed. It was carrying two A-
  bombs, which did not explode. "Of interest for your script?" Is Bryce
  suggesting that this would be a more realistic way of bring the aircraft down,
  of getting the villains to orchestrate a mid-air collision that would look to the
  authorities like an accident? If it was, it was never followed up in any of the
  subsequent scripts.

  
  1962: A review of Dr. No in Variety says "As a screen hero James Bond is clearly here to stay. He will win no Oscars but a heck of a lot of enthusiastic followers."

  Original 31 December 1961 review.

  

  Dr. No

  https://variety.com/1961/film/reviews/dr-no-1200420202/
  December 31, 1961

  First screen adventure of Ian Fleming's hardhitting, fearless, imperturbable, girl-loving Secret Service Agent 007, James Bond, is an entertaining piece of tongue-in-cheek action hokum. Sean Connery excellently puts over a cool, fearless, on-the-ball, fictional Secret Service guy. Terence Young directs with a pace which only occasionally lags.

  With: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee, Zena Marshall
  
  First screen adventure of Ian Fleming’s hardhitting, fearless, imperturbable, girl-loving Secret Service Agent 007, James Bond, is an entertaining piece of tongue-in-cheek action hokum. Sean Connery excellently puts over a cool, fearless, on-the-ball, fictional Secret Service guy. Terence Young directs with a pace which only occasionally lags.
  
  The hero is exposed to pretty (and sometimes treacherous) gals, a poison tarantula spider, a sinister crook, flame throwers, gunshot, bloodhounds, beating up, near drowning and plenty of other mayhem and malarkey, and comes through it all with good humour, resourcefulness and what have you.
  
  Connery is sent to Jamaica to investigate the murder of a British confidential agent and his secretary. Since both murders happen within three or four minutes of the credit titles the pic gets away to an exhilarating start. He becomes involved with the activities of Dr. No, a sinister Chinese scientist (Joseph Wiseman) who from an island called Crab Key is using a nuclear laboratory to divert off course the rockets being propelled from Cape Canaveral.
  
  Among the dames with whom Connery becomes involved are easy-on-the-eye Ursula Andress, who shares his perilous adventures on Crab Key, and spends most of her time in a bikini; Zena Marshall, as an Oriental charmer who nearly decoys him to doom via her boudoir; and Eunice Gayson, whom he picks up in a gambling club in London and who promises to be the biggest menace of the lot.

  Dr. No
  UK
  Production: Eon/United Artists. Director Terence Young; Producer Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli; Screenplay Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkely Mather; Camera Ted Moore; Editor Peter Hunt; Music Monty Norman; Art Director Ken Adam
  
  Crew: (Color) Available on VHS, DVD. Extract of a review from 1962. Running time: 110 MIN.
  
  With: Sean Connery Ursula Andress Joseph Wiseman Jack Lord Bernard Lee Zena Marshall

  1966: You Only Live Twice films OO7 flying Little Nellie.

  

  
  1983: People Magazine features Sean Connery promoting Never Say Never Again.

  

  After a 12-Year Leave, Sean Connery Is
  Back as 007 but Willing to Say Never Again

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  https://people.com/archive/after-a-12-year-leave-sean-connery-is-back-as-007-but-willing-to-say-never-again-vol-20-no-16/

  Jesse Birnbaum
  October 17, 1983 12:00 PM
  
  His name is Bond. James Bond. And he has a problem: lower back pain and a slight paunch. It’s mid-life crisis for 007. And now—of all times—his superiors want to pluck him form semiretirement for the toupee-raising assignment of saving the world from nuclear holocaust. Dispatched ingloriously to a health clinic, he must work out, lift weights and sweat himself into top spy form. Is he getting older, or better?

  This clever, thoroughly ingratiating setup for Never Say Never Again is pointedly ironic: The real high-stakes issue is whether the star, after 12 years in retirement from the high-tech spy biz, can carry the film. His name is Connery. Sean Connery. And he has a problem. At 53, Connery is no longer the slim young Scot who began it all with Dr. No in 1962 and five more through Diamonds Are Forever in 1971. Still, he is back as Bond for one last hurrah.
  
  “I may be 20 years older,” admits Connery, who once aspired to the Mr. Universe title. But, he adds confidently, “The age factor is no crisis.”

  Not now, anyway. Onscreen he rides horseback, fights live sharks in scuba gear and mauls all manner of assailants in hand-to-hand combat. In bed (with girlie magazine co-stars Kim Basinger and Barbara Carrera), he proves that if he’s gained a pound or two across his brawny torso, he hasn’t lost a step on his bygone Bonds.
  
  The thing is—it didn’t come easy. Connery trained hard, keeping barbells in his location trailers through the grueling eight-month shoot in England, France and the Bahamas. He did many stunts and most fight scenes himself, he says. Somehow, his short-cropped toupee never budged. “He was fabulous underwater,” says a very impressed Basinger, who also did her own swimming stunts. “You couldn’t tell Sean from the stunt divers.” She says Connery helped production on land as well. “He took things lightly, instead of panicking. He would tell jokes all day.”
  
  Some stunts were no joke. “I dived 50 feet underwater into a sunken wreck,” says Sean. “I hated that; it’s claustrophobic.”
  
  So why do it at all? That Connery has long expressed his boredom with the character he created and helped make into the longest-running major series in movie history is the joke behind the film’s title. Connery will only say that his wife encouraged him to do it. Other reasons might be the lack of success of his last films (Wrong Is Right, Five Days One Summer).
  
  But pride is also at stake. Connery’s disenchantment with the series began when his character began to give way to gimmickry and gags. But Roger Moore’s six flashy Bonds have been huge hits anyway, eclipsing the memory of Connery in some quarters. Never’s producer Jack Schwartzman thinks audiences might want to see a 007 who is “not a cardboard figure.”
  
  Connery won’t compare himself to Moore, 55, a longtime pal. But some criticism does slip in. “I think the trap with Roger’s way is that one is a bit overwhelmed with the hardware,” says Connery. “You get the feeling they dream up the stunt first, then write the story around it. I try for a more realistic, credible film, within the realm of possibility.”
  
  To keep his life the same way, Connery and his second wife, Micheline Roquebrune, 48, a French artist he married in 1975, shuttle in tax exile between a villa in Marbella, on Spain’s southern coast, and a home in the Bahamas, where he golfs (eight handicap) and plays tennis. British tax laws make it impossible to spend more than 90 days a year in his homeland without going broke. His proudest investment may well be son Jason, 20, by his first wife, actress Diane (Tom Jones) Cilento. The lad made his film debut in Lords of Discipline this year. Though Connery’s own truckdriver father is deceased and his mother bedridden, Sean is atypically emotional about home and hearth. His suntanned arms are emblazoned with two tattoos: One says, “Scotland Forever,” the other, “Mum and Dad.”
  
  Still, coming home to Bond is another matter. For Connery, Never Say Never Again is a movie title, not a promise. “Why do it again,” he says. “I’m too old.”

  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 24 of 65 - "The Sword of Power" in Tokyo, Japan.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - The Sword of Power

  Season 1 - Episode 24
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807125/
  

  James Bond and his friends head to Tokyo, Japan to recover a Japanese sword stolen by Dr. No's Ninjas in his plan to learn of the sword's powerful material origin and uses it to create a powerful weapon for his arsenal.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Ted Pedersen ... (written by)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Julius No (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)
  
  Produced by
  Bill Hutten ... producer
  Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
  Tony Love ... producer
  Fred Wolf ... executive producer
  Music by Dennis C. Brown, Larry Brown

  James Bond Jr - Episode 24 - The Sword of Power
  
  
  James Bond Jr #5: The Sword of Death, John Vincent.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2004: Julius Harris dies at age 81--Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 17 August 1923--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)

  

  Julius Harris, 81; Broke Stereotypes of Movie Roles for Black Actors

  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-oct-22-me-harris22-story.html

  By Dennis McLellan, Times Staff Writer
  Oct. 22, 2004

  Julius Harris, the deep-voiced stage and screen actor who played the villainous Tee Hee in the James Bond film Live and Let Die and Ugandan President Idi Amin in the TV movie “Victory at Entebbe,” has died. He was 81.

  Harris, a former member of the Negro Ensemble Company in New York City, died of heart failure Sunday at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills.
  
  In an acting career that spanned four decades, Harris appeared in more than 70 film and television productions.
  
  He played such diverse roles as a preacher who headed a slave group in the 1982 Civil War miniseries “The Blue and the Gray” and a gangster in the 1972 blaxploitation film classic “Superfly.”
  
  “Even today, if I am walking in a black neighborhood, people call me by my ‘Superfly’ name -- Scatter,” Harris told The Times last October before being honored with a tribute by the Next Generation Council of the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Legacy Film Series at the Directors Guild of America Theatre.
  
  “His work helped African Americans break out of stereotypical movie roles and be seen as dynamic heroes and fully realized human beings,” actress Halle Berry said in a taped introduction to Harris’ film work.
  
  A Philadelphia native whose mother was a Cotton Club dancer and whose father was a musician, Harris served as an Army medic during World War II. After leaving the service in 1950, he found work as an orderly and eventually became a nurse before moving to New York City.
  
  As a regular at a Greenwich Village bar, he became friends with James Earl Jones, Yaphet Kotto, Al Freeman, Louis Gossett Jr. and other actors, whom he teased for being out of work.
  
  “I would say to them, ‘You bums. You are always broke. What kind of actors are you? ... I can do your job with my arms tied behind my back,’ ” he recalled in The Times interview.
  
  To back up his claim, he landed the small role of Ivan Dixon’s drunk, defeated father in “Nothing but a Man,” a critically acclaimed 1964 film about black life in the South starring Dixon and Abbey Lincoln.
  
  “Not knowing the business, feeling I had to be in character, I got me a pint of bourbon, some of the worst rotgut stuff I could get,” Harris said.
  
  When he arrived on the set, the producer and director took one look at him and said, “We can’t do anything with you today, Julius, but if you are the man we think you are, you’ll come back tomorrow.”
  
  Harris said: “I was so embarrassed. So I went back home, sobered up and came back the next day and did the master [shot] in [one] take and close-ups in two [takes] and went home.”
  
  In his review of the film, The Times’s Kevin Thomas deemed Harris’ performance superb.
  
  He is survived by his children, Kimberly and Gideon.
  
  A private memorial service will be held.

  

  Julius Harris (1923–2004)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364918/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  

  
  
  

  2008: David Arnold's Quantum of Solace soundtrack album released by J.

  
  
  

  
  2018: Dynamite releases James Bond: The Body Vol. 1, including Parts One through Four (The Body, The Gut, The Brain, The Heart).

  

  James Bond: The Body (2018) Vol. 1

  https://www.comixology.co.uk/James-Bond-The-Body-2018-Vol-1/digital-comic/704425?ref=Y29taWMvdmlldy9kZXNrdG9wL3NsaWRlckxpc3Qvc2VyaWVz
  
  "As Bond undergoes a post-mission medical examination, he relays the story of his previous mission to the examiner. Each cut, bruise, and broken bone connected to a specific event of the mission. A connection is made between two people with different purposes: one to save lives, the other to take them. PART TWO - THE BRAIN James Bond leads the interrogation of a scientist who allowed a lethal virus to be stolen. But when the investigation takes a surprising turn, Bond begins to question whether he is enough. PART THREE - THE GUT One sauna. Twenty Neo-Nazis. One Bond. James Bond. This weapons deal won't go according to plan. PART FOUR - THE HEART 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? AND MORE…"

  
  
  
  

  
  2021: Noise11 reports Coldplay pursued a Bond theme five times across twenty years.

  

  Coldplay Have Five Unreleased James Bond Themes
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.noise11.com/news/coldplay-have-five-unreleased-james-bond-themes-20211017

  by Music-News.com on October 17, 2021
  
  Coldplay spent 20 years trying to write a decent Bond theme.
  
  Chris Martin has revealed he and his bandmates spent two decades attempting to pen a theme tune for a 007 flick, but he admitted the five songs they ended up with weren’t “very good”.
  
  Martin doesn’t think the titular fictional suave spy – last portrayed by Daniel Craig, who has just completed his tenure in the blockbuster action-thriller franchise with his final film ‘No Time To Die’ – would be impressed with their efforts.

  He told NME: “We kept trying to write one for 20 years, but never submitted them.
  
  “We have Bond themes for about five movies, but they’re not very good, to be honest.
  
  “I don’t know if we’re spiritually on the same trip as James. As much as I like the films, I don’t know if us singing would do it for him.
  
  “He’d be like, ‘That’s not what I’m into at all, fellas. I like guns and shit. All this hippie stuff just isn’t going to work.'”

  Coldplay have just released their ninth studio album, ‘Music of the Spheres’, and previously revealed another famous film franchise inspired the record.
  
  The music came to life after Martin sat down to watch the ‘Star Wars’ movies and was left wondering what music on other planets sounds like.
  
  He said: “One time I was watching ‘Star Wars’ and they had the scene with the Cantina band right? And I was like: ‘I wonder what musicians are like across the universe?’ and that led to this whole thing and now here we are.”
  
  And the whole album is set on a fictional planet.
  
  He added: “It led us to imagining this whole other place called ‘the spheres’, which is like a group of planets, like a solar system with lots of different places and creatures and stuff.
  
  “And what I found is when you’ve imagined a place like that, you can sort of become any artist within that.
  
  “It’s a very freeing thing to take yourself out of Coldplay and just think: ‘OK, I’m not even human, what does music sound like?'”
  
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  October 18th
  
  1898: Lotte Lenya (Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blaumauer) is born--Vienna-Penzing, Austria Hungary.
  (She dies 27 November 1981 at age 83--New York City, New York.)

  

  Lotte Lenya

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://masterworksbroadway.com/artist/lotte-lenya/

  

  Award-winning Austrian actress and singer Lotte Lenya (b. Vienna-Penzing, Austria-Hungary, October 18, 1898; d. New York City, November 27, 1981), transplanted to the United States for the latter part of her career, is best remembered by music-lovers for her interpretations of songs by her husband Kurt Weill (1900–1950), and by moviegoers for her performances in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) and From Russia With Love (1963). She was nominated for an Academy Award® for the former film; from her Broadway performances, which spanned over three decades, she had one Tony Award® (The Threepenny Opera 1957) and was nominated for another (Cabaret 1967).
  
  Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer was born into a working class family in an outlying district of Vienna. At the age of sixteen she moved to Zurich in Switzerland, where she studied classical ballet, singing, and acting, and made a stage debut under the name of Lotte Lenja. In 1921, against the cosmopolitan but precarious backdrop of the Weimar Republic, she moved to Berlin and began rounds of theatrical auditions. In 1924, through playwright Georg Kaiser, she met composer Kurt Weill – actually he had played the piano for her at an audition two years earlier but she had taken no notice of him – and they married early in 1926.
  
  In collaboration with Bertholt Brecht, Weill wrote the leading part of Jenny in Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) as a vehicle specifically for Lenya, and the first performance in 1928 was a big breakthrough for both of them. Soon she was very busy in the theatre, especially in works created by the Weill-Brecht team: Happy End (1929), Der Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny 1930), and Die sieben Todsünden (The Seven Deadly Sins 1933), produced in exile in Paris.
  
  In 1933, with the rise of Nazism and the banning of Weill’s works in Germany, both Lenya and Weill fled to France – although they were now estranged and going through a divorce (Weill was a workaholic and not especially communicative). Weill began work on an unprecedentedly ambitious spectacle-opera with text by Franz Werfel entitled Der Weg der Verheißung (The Promised Road), in the midst of which, in 1935, Lenya and Weill came to be reconciled. They emigrated together to the United States and were married again in 1937.
  
  Lenya sang the roles of Miriam and the Witch of Endor in Weill’s new opus, now called The Eternal Road, for 153 performances at the Manhattan Opera House in early 1937. The cast included 245 actors and singers, wearing a total of 1,772 costumes, and the show – a frightening depiction of Jews hiding from a pogrom in a synagogue that included several generous slices of Biblical history – lasted over six hours. It has not been staged since.
  
  Two successful musicals, Knickerbocker Holiday (1938), with book and lyrics by Maxwell Anderson and introducing the immortal “September Song,” and Lady in the Dark (with Ira Gershwin, 1941) established Kurt Weill’s reputation on Broadway, and the couple was able to move upstate to New City in Rockland County. Their marriage would last until Weill’s death in 1950.
  
  Lenya meanwhile appeared in Anderson’s Candle in the Wind (1941). Her next role was in a Weill “operetta,” The Firebrand of Florence (1945), that was such a box-office disaster that Lenya decided to quit the stage. But in 1951, a little more than a year after her husband’s death, she returned as Xantippe in Maxwell Anderson’s short-lived Barefoot in Athens.She starred again as Jenny in the English-language revival of The Threepenny Opera (1954, 1955), winning the 1956 Tony® for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.

  Lotte Lenya’s American film career began when she was sixty-three, with The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961), and hit a high point in 1963 when she played Rosa Klebb, the Spectre agent with poisoned blades in the toes of her boots, in From Russia with Love. She played the title role in Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder on German television in 1965, and the Gypsy in Tennessee Williams’s sleeper Ten Blocks on the Camino Real on National Education Television in 1966. The same year on Broadway she originated the role of Fräulein Schneider in Kander and Ebb’s musical Cabaret.

  Lenya was married three more times in the thirty-one years between Weill’s death and her own. She established the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, which is still active in the promotion of Weill music and theatre, in 1962. Cancer was the cause of her death in 1981; she is entombed alongside Weill in a mausoleum in Mount Repose Cemetery in Haverstraw, New York. A musical play, Lovemusik, a meditation on the relationship of these two musical and theatrical greats, was produced on Broadway in 2007.
  
  – LEC

  

  Lotte Lenya (1898–1981)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0502322/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actress (10 credits)
  1980 Mahagonny (voice)
  
  1977 Semi-Tough - Clara Pelf
  1974 CBS Daytime 90 (TV Series) - Rosa Harcourt
  - Trio for Lovers (1974) ... Rosa Harcourt
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  1969 The Appointment - Emma Valadier
  1966 Ten Blocks on the Camino Real (TV Movie) - The Gypsy
  1965 Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder - Eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg (TV Movie) - Mutter Courage
  1964 Bertolt Brecht: Übungstücke für Schauspieler (Short)
  1963 From Russia with Love - Rosa Klebb
  1961 The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone - Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales
  
  1931 The 3 Penny Opera - Jenny (as Lotte Lenja)
  
  Soundtrack (6 credits)
  
  2017 Popular Voices at the BBC (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Truth Tellers at the BBC (2017) ... (performer: "Alabama Song")
  2016 Uncle Howard (Documentary) (performer: "September Song")
  2007 The Savages (performer: "Salomon-Song")
  2001 Guileless Guile (Short) (performer: "Denn wie Man sich bettet")
  
  1997 Seven Years in Tibet (performer: "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer/The Ballad of Mack the Knife")
  
  1952 Because of My Hot Youth (performer: "Die Seeräuber-Jenny. Ur Die Dreigroschenoper")

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1916: Anthony Dawson is born--Edinburgh, Scotland.
  (He dies 8 January 1992 at age 75--Sussex, England.)

  

  Anthony Dawson

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

  Born Anthony Douglas Gillon Dawson, 18 October 1916, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
  Died 8 January 1992 (aged 75), Sussex, England
  Nationality British
  Alma mater RADA
  Occupation Actor
  Years active 1940–1991
  
  Anthony Douglas Gillon Dawson (18 October 1916 – 8 January 1992) was a Scottish actor, best known for his supporting roles as villains in British films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (1954) and Midnight Lace (1960), as well as playing Professor Dent in the James Bond film Dr. No (1962). He also appeared as Ernst Stavro Blofeld in From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965).
  
  Life
  Dawson was born in Edinburgh, the son of Ida Violet (Kittel) and Eric Francis Dawson.
  
  Career
  Following RADA training and WW II service, he made his film debut in 1943's They Met in the Dark. He went on to appear in such classic British films as The Way to the Stars (1945), The Queen of Spades (1948) and The Wooden Horse (1950), before moving to America in the early 1950s.
  
  It was while there that he appeared on Broadway in the play, and then the subsequent Alfred Hitchcock film of Dial M for Murder (1954), playing C. A. Swann/Captain Lesgate.[5][6] In the film, he is blackmailed by Tony Wendice (Ray Milland) into murdering his wife Margot (Grace Kelly). In his unpublished memoirs, Rambling Recollections, Dawson reminisced about getting the part:

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

  He had two other memorable roles on his return to Britain, including the evil Marques Siniestro in Hammer's The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) and henchman Professor Dent in the first James Bond film, Dr. No (1962).[7]
  
  Throughout his career he could often be found in the films of director Terence Young, including the aforementioned Dr. No, They Were Not Divided (1950), Valley of Eagles (1951), The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965), Triple Cross (1966), Red Sun (1971), Inchon (1982) and The Jigsaw Man (1983). Young also cast him as the physical presence of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in his Bond films From Russia with Love (1963) and Thunderball (1965), stroking the ubiquitous white cat. His face was never seen, however, and Blofeld's voice was provided by Eric Pohlmann. Dawson appeared alongside fellow Bond veterans Adolfo Celi, Lois Maxwell and Bernard Lee in the Italian Bond knockoff O.K. Connery.
  
  After the early 1960s, his roles got progressively smaller, but he continued to act until his death.
  
  Death
  He died in Sussex of cancer at the age of 75 in January 1992.

  

  Anthony Dawson (I) (1916–1992)

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

  Actor (81 credits)
  
  1991 Selling Hitler (TV Mini-Series) - Marquess of Bath
  - Episode #1.3 (1991) ... Marquess of Bath
  1990 The Gamblers - Roy
  
  1988 Run for Your Life - Colonel Moorcroft
  1987 Ghoulies II - Priest
  1986 Pirates - Spanish Officer
  1983 The Jigsaw Man - Vicar
  1981 Inchon - Gen. Collins
  
  1975 The Count of Monte-Cristo (TV Movie) - Noirtier De Villefort
  1973 Massacre in Rome
  1973 The Big Game - Burton (uncredited)
  1972 Cool Million (TV Series) - Prefect
  - Mask of Marcella (1972) ... Prefect
  1972 The Valachi Papers - Federal Investigator
  1971 Red Sun - Hyatt (as Tony Dawson)
  1970 Deadlock - Anthony Sunshine, der alte Killer
  1970 Rosolino Paternò, soldato... - Italian General
  
  1969 The Battle of Neretva - Morelli
  1968 A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof - Samuel Pratt (as Anthony M. Dawson)
  1967 Dirty Heroes - American Colonel (as Anthony M. Dawson)
  1967 Hell Is Empty - Paul Grant
  1967 Your Turn to Die - Dr. Evans
  1967 The Rover - Captain Vincent
  1967 Death Rides a Horse - Burt Cavanaugh
  1967 Operation Kid Brother - Alpha
  1966 Triple Cross - Major Stillman (as Tony Dawson)
  1966 Kaleidoscope - English Casino Manager (uncredited)
  1965 Change Partners - Ben Arkwright
  1965 Thunderball - Ernst Stavro Blofeld (uncredited)
  1964-1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Simpson / Lucas
  - A Very Dangerous Game (1965) ... Simpson
  - Don't Nail Him Yet (1964) ... Lucas
  1965 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Ben Arkwright
  - Change Partners (1965) ... Ben Arkwright
  1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Officer of Dragoons
  1964 The Yellow Rolls-Royce - Mickey (uncredited)
  1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Colonel Nathan
  - We the Hunted (1964) ... Colonel Nathan
  1963 From Russia with Love - Ernst Stavros Blofeld (as ?)
  1963 Zero One (TV Series) - Harris
  - Key Witness (1963) ... Harris
  1962 Seven Seas to Calais - Lord Burleigh
  1962 The Saint (TV Series) - Floyd Vosper
  - The Arrow of God (1962) ... Floyd Vosper
  1962 Dr. No - Professor Dent
  1961 The Devil Inside - James Dawson
  1961 Naked City (TV Series) - Mike Grundy
  - A Kettle of Precious Fish (1961) ... Mike Grundy
  1961 'Way Out (TV Series) - George Frobisher
  - I Heard You Calling Me (1961) ... George Frobisher
  1961 The Curse of the Werewolf - The Marques Siniestro
  1960 Danger Man (TV Series) - Martin / Security Officer
  - The Leak (1960) ... Martin
  - The Sisters (1960) ... Security Officer
  1960 Midnight Lace - Ash
  1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Clouston
  - Ascent to Murder (1960) ... Clouston
  1960 The Valley of Decision (TV Movie)
  1960 International Detective (TV Series) - Gilles Porret
  - The Dennison Case (1960) ... Gilles Porret
  
  1959 The Flying Doctor (TV Series) - Al Vintner
  - The Conspiracy (1959) ... Al Vintner
  1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Stranger
  - Markheim (1959) ... Stranger
  1959 Libel - Gerald Loddon
  1959 Tiger Bay - Barclay
  1958 The Haunted Strangler - Supt. Burk
  1958 Dial M for Murder (TV Movie) - Captain Lesgate (Swann)
  1958 Ivanhoe (TV Series) - Sir Maurice
  - Wedding Cake (1958) ... Sir Maurice
  - Freeing the Serfs (1958) ... Sir Maurice
  1957 Action of the Tiger - Security Officer
  1957 Hour of Decision - Gary Bax
  1957 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Count Victor Mattoni
  - I Killed the Count: Part 3 (1957) ... Count Victor Mattoni
  - I Killed the Count: Part 2 (1957) ... Count Victor Mattoni
  - I Killed the Count: Part 1 (1957) ... Count Victor Mattoni
  1956 Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series) - Captain Pierre Cordier
  - The Debt (1956) ... Captain Pierre Cordier
  1956 The Buccaneers (TV Series) - Captain Flask
  - The Hand of the Hawk (1956) ... Captain Flask
  1956 The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) - Lucas
  - Blackmail (1956) ... Lucas
  1956 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Archduke Johann Salvator
  - The Mayerling Affair (1956) ... Archduke Johann Salvator
  1955 London Playhouse (TV Series) - Adrian Childe
  - Area Nine (1955) ... Adrian Childe
  1955 That Lady - Don Inigo
  1955 The Elgin Hour (TV Series) - German
  - The Bridge (1955) ... German
  1954 Dial M for Murder - Charles Swann
  1951-1953 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series)
  - Beyond Reason (1953)
  - Colonel Judas (1951)
  1951-1952 Robert Montgomery Presents (TV Series) - - Of Lena Geyer (1952)
  - Claire Ambler (1952)
  - Top Secret (1951)
  1952 The King's Author (TV Movie) - Lord Chamberlain
  1951 Repertory Theatre (TV Series) - - A Little Night Music (1951)
  - Women of Intrigue (1951)
  1951 Valley of the Eagles - Sven Nystrom
  1951 The Long Dark Hall - The Man
  1951 Lucky Nick Cain - Secret Agent (uncredited)
  1950 Five Angles on Murder - Inspector Wilson (uncredited)
  1950 The Wooden Horse - Pomfret
  1950 They Were Not Divided - Michael
  
  1949 The Queen of Spades - Fyodor
  1947 Meet Me at Dawn - First Duelling Opponent (uncredited)
  1946 Secret Flight - Flt. Lt. Norton
  1946 Beware of Pity - Lt. Blannik
  1945 Johnny in the Clouds - Bertie Steen
  1943 They Met in the Dark - 2nd Code Expert
  1940 Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt - Student (uncredited)
  
  Writer (2 credits)
  
  1961 Ghost Squad (TV Series)
  1958 The Snorkel (from "The Snorkel" by)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1939: Earl Jolly Brown is born--Houston, Texas.
  (He dies 26 August 2006 at age 66--Las Vegas, Nevada.)
  (Born 18 October 1939--Houston, Texas.)

  

  Earl Jolly Brown

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Earl Jolly Brown (1939–2006)

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

  
  
  
  

  
  1979: Moonraker released in Belgium.
  
  1985: Od nišana do smrti (Serbian, Croatian) and Od tarče do smrti (Slovenian) released in Yugoslavia.

  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 25 of 65 - "It's All in the Timing" in Switzerland.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - It's All in the Timing

  Season 1 - Episode 25
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807104/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  Dr. Derange's plot threatens to stop the rotation of the Earth. It's up to James Bond, IQ and a Swiss police officer to stop him. Elsewhere, Trevor Noseworthy cheats in the bicycle race in Bern by using IQ's bicycle motor on his bike.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Dr.Derange (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Skullcap (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)
  

  James Bond Jr Episode 25 - It's All in the Timing
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2008: The "Quantum of Solace" single charts at #15 on the Canadian Hot 100, mostly on downloads.
  
  2017: Dynamite Comics publishes James Bond Kill Chain #4 (of 6).
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #4
  (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017804011
  
  Cover A: Greg Smallwood
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: October 2017
  Format: Comic Book
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  2021: Anthony Lane in The New Yorker writes about One For the The Road and "James Bond's Heavy Heart in No Time To Die". (Spoilers)

  

  

  James Bond’s Heavy
  Heart in “No Time to
  Die”
  
  Cary Joji Fukunaga’s relentlessly self-referential film, with
  Daniel Craig making his last bow as Bond, is often exciting,
  but there’s something inward and agonized about the thrills.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/james-bonds-heavy-heart-in-no-time-to-die

  Cary Joji Fukunaga’s film stars Daniel Craig, in his final appearance as James Bond, and Léa Seydoux. Illustration by Clément Soulmagnon
  By Anthony Lane | October 8, 2021
  
  A big welcome back to 007. The news is that nothing much has changed, and all the fixtures and fittings are in place. The license to kill, and the supple deployment of weaponry. The occasional whip of a wisecrack. The prime spot in the cockpit of an aircraft. The Aston Martin. The dress sense. The knockout shades. No question about it: she’s the right woman for the job.
  
  As we are reminded by the latest chapter in the franchise, “No Time to Die,” 007 is not a person so much as a designated slot. Once vacated, it fills up like a parking space. Thus, when James Bond (Daniel Craig)—male, pale, and staled by years of trouncing megalomaniacs—goes off the grid, his prized 00 number is taken by Nomi (Lashana Lynch), who is proud, Black, younger than springtime, and much amused by the autumnal state of her predecessor. “You get in my way, I will put a bullet in your knee,” she says to him, adding, “The one that works.” Harsh.
  
  They meet in Jamaica, whither Bond has retired. (Lord knows what he does all day. Maybe he sets off with a pair of binoculars, a packed lunch, and a copy of Birds of the West Indies by James Bond, the American ornithologist from whom Ian Fleming, another Jamaica resident, pinched the name.) Nomi is on the trail of villainy, and Bond has been asked to follow the same scent—not by the British government but by the C.I.A., in the person of Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright). Who’d have guessed that the cream of Her Majesty’s spies would end up being milked by Uncle Sam? Is that why the opening credits show the symbolic figure of Britannia, with her trusty shield, falling into a giant hourglass and slipping away into the sands of time?
  
  The film, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, runs almost two and three-quarter hours. That’s a lot of movie, longer than some recordings of the St. Matthew Passion, but Fukunaga has a lot of ground to cover. He begins, if you please, with a flashback to the childhood of a secondary character—not, alas, the infant Q, solemnly building particle accelerators out of Lego bricks, but a young French girl who will grow up to be Dr. Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux), the heroine of the previous Bond adventure, “Spectre” (2015).
  
  We now learn that Madeleine, as befits her doubly Proustian name, was marked for life by a potent early experience: the slaying of her mother by Lyutsifer Safin (Rami Malek), who has a scratchy voice and an unfortunate skin condition. Later, fulfilling the standard brief of a Bond baddie, Safin will occupy an island lair and hatch plans to dominate the planet. Needless to say, if only our leading nations had clubbed together to buy him a pot of moisturizer, the whole crisis could have been avoided.
  
  At the conclusion of “Spectre,” Bond beetled off toward Big Ben in his Aston Martin DB5, with the adult Madeleine at his side. The new film finds him in the same car, with the same passenger, in a slightly trickier environment: a hilltop town in Italy, with his enemies circling and his bulletproof windows starred but not yet broken by incoming fire. It’s the perfect moment not just for Bond to ask Madeleine, whom he suspects of betraying him, what the hell’s going on but also for Craig, in his last bow as Bond, to demonstrate what he has brought to the role. Relaxed under pressure, and pressurized by the need to relax, he has the action man’s dread of inactivity. Suits and tuxedos don’t really become him, even if they fit him, until they are bloodied and torn. Craig has been the right Bond for our times, grudging with his charm—barely a virtue nowadays—and nourished by a steady supply of traumas. He has a sense of humor, yet one-liners embarrass him, for the world is too laughably treacherous to be fobbed off with a joke. Even love seems to toughen him up.
  
  To whom or what, then, can Bond be true? To his country? Returning to M.I.6, he is obliged to give his name at security and is handed a plastic nametag. On the way out, in the office of Moneypenny (Naomie Harris), he tosses the tag into the trash: a bitter coda to the memory of Sean Connery, deftly lobbing his hat onto the hat stand. Worse still, Bond learns that M (Ralph Fiennes), usually the solid soul of wisdom, has overseen a secret project called Heracles, which will allow Britain’s foes (unspecified, but possibly the European Union, in a war over sausage exports) to be targeted with nasty nanobots. Safin, naturally, gets hold of Heracles, and prepares to unleash it everywhere. It’s up to Bond—with a little help from Q (Ben Whishaw), the Royal Navy, the loyal Nomi, and, yes, a submersible glider—to save the day. Plus, if possible, himself.
  
  There are many surprises in “No Time to Die.” The major ones I would scorn to reveal, even if you trained a laser on my undercarriage or suspended me over a tank of unfed sharks. Less important, but equally unexpected, are the glitches in continuity: Bond driving directly from labyrinthine Italian streets to a railroad station, on the flat, in what looks like another town entirely, or emerging from a foggy Norwegian forest into a nice bright day. A happier shock is the disclosure that Q has a cat, of the hairless variety. (“You know, they come with fur these days,” Bond remarks.) Maybe Q had cats all along—pussies galore!—and kept us in the dark.
  
  The plot, too, is crawling with twists, yet we soon grasp, all too clearly, where it’s heading: du côté de chez Swann. It turns out that Madeleine has a daughter, named Mathilde (Lisa-Dorah Sonnet). “She’s not yours,” Madeleine says to Bond, reassuringly, yet the kid does have blue eyes, like his, and he is so drawn to her that, in the heat of the finale, he—the sort of fellow who used to blow up a volcano before breakfast—pauses to retrieve her knitted toy, Dou Dou, and tucks it into his suspenders. Lucky for Dou Dou, of course, but what does this herald for the brand of Bond? Everyone agrees that the age of the ladykiller is dead, unmourned, but are we ready for Bond the babysitter?
  
  Fans will fret, and, as if to assuage them, Fukunaga piles on the retro treats: a guest appearance from Blofeld (Christoph Waltz), for one thing, and multiple morsels of Bonds past. As in “Skyfall” (2012), someone is trapped under a frozen lake, and the bunker where Safin breeds his toxins resembles the mega-garage where the madman in “The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977) parked his stolen submarines. In a tribute to “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1969), we get an Aston Martin DBS, a reprise of Louis Armstrong in the end credits, and, during a conversation between Bond and M beside the Thames, a gentle echo of John Barry’s electronic score. (How I miss Barry. Would the myth of Bond even have survived without him?) As a valediction to Craig, though, “No Time to Die” leans so relentlessly on his earlier Bond films that anyone who never saw them, or failed to take copious notes, will be stranded. You mean you’ve forgotten that Madeleine’s father was Mr. White, introduced in “Casino Royale” (2006)? Shame on you!
  
  The problem with “No Time to Die” is that it’s all about itself, and the tug of its own origins. Such is the current mode: we live under the spell of long-form television, and of the Marvel universe, both of which woo us with recurring characters and reward us for the stamina of our emotional investment. You could argue that no form has been longer than Bond’s, but the changes of cast—the actors playing 007, M, Q, Moneypenny, and Blofeld—have refreshed the fun, and each movie, by and large, has stood alone. Not so the new film, which throbs with old wounds. It’s often exciting, but there’s something inward and agonized about the thrills, and the insouciance of Connery’s epoch, for better or worse, seems like ancient history. “No Time to Die” has a heavy heart, and right now, more than ever, we could use a light one. As we trickle back to cinemas, is it merely frivolous to hope that a James Bond flick should leave us feeling cheered up?

  Still, let us give thanks for what we have. Listen to M, for a start, as he issues a command: “Q, hack into Blofeld’s bionic eye”—a strong candidate for the most Bond-tastic line ever spoken. (Top marks to Fiennes for saying it with a straight face.) Best and blithest of all is Bond’s trip to Cuba, where he teams up with a novice agent named Paloma. She is played by Ana de Armas, who is Havana-born, and who consorted so nimbly with Craig in “Knives Out” (2019). Now, in evening dress, and in extreme peril, Paloma and Bond have to shoot their way out of trouble, though not before pausing for a brace of vodka Martinis. Paloma drains most of hers in a single glug. Mid-mayhem, they pause again to refuel, with a quick tot of something at the bar, before getting back to work. What bliss: in the depths of a wry and disconsolate film, it’s like watching Fred and Ginger. “You were excellent,” Bond tells Paloma as they part. She smiles and replies, “You, too.” And so say all of us. ♦

  Published in the print edition of the October 18, 2021, issue, with the headline “One for the Road.”
  Anthony Lane has been a film critic for The New Yorker since 1993. He is the author of Nobody’s Perfect.