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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 2019 Posts: 13,785

  August 24th
  
  1967: Casino Royale released in Uruguay.
  1982: Octopussy's first day of circus filming.
  1989: A magányos ügynök (The Lone Agent) released in Hungary.

  
  

  1991: BBC Radio 2 broadcasts a two-part special on John Barry. (Concludes 31 August.)
  2006: Roy Stewart dies at age 66--Las Vegas, Nevada. (Born 18 October 1939--Houston, Texas.)

  
  Roy Stewart
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Stewart
  Born 15 May 1925, Jamaica
  Died 27 October 2008 (aged 83).
  London, England
  Occupation actor
  Years active 1959–1981
  
  Roy Stewart (15 May 1925 – 27 October 2008) was a Jamaican-born British actor. He began his career as a stuntman and went on to work in film and television.

  ]In 1954 he founded Roy Stewart's Gym in Powis Square, North Kensington, and ran the Caribbean club and restaurant The Globe, in Talbot Road until his death. Stewart played Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973). Other film appearances include Carry On Up the Jungle (1970), Leo the Last (1970), Games That Lovers Play (1971), Twins of Evil (1971), Lady Caroline Lamb (1972), Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977) and Arabian Adventure (1979). He was also active on television, with credits including: Out of the Unknown, Adam Adamant Lives!, Doctor Who (in the serials The Tomb of the Cybermen and Terror of the Autons), Doomwatch, Up Pompeii!, The Troubleshooters, Space: 1999 and I, Claudius.
  
  Background
  
  One of seven brothers, Roy Stewart was born in Jamaica, and came to Britain in 1948 with aspirations of being a doctor. But either theatre or a television commercial changed that.
  
  Having suffered for some time from heart disease, Stewart died on 28 October 2008, aged 83.
  
  Film and television career
  
  In a role, possibly his earliest, Stewart appeared in a television advert for Fry's Turkish Delight, playing a snake charmer. Later, he was an extra in films and did stunt work. He would become one of the top black actors and stuntmen in Britain.
  
  Film

  Possibly his earliest role was an uncredited one, playing a slave in the 1959 film, The Mummy. In 1973, he played the part of Quarrel Junior in the James Bond film Live and Let Die starring Roger Moore. Having not returned to Jamaica where the film was being shot for many years, Stewart suffered in the heat and couldn't believe the changes that had taken place over the years.

  One of his last roles in film was as Pomeroy in Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective, a 1981 made-for-television movie.
  
  Television
  
  He appeared in Dr. Who at least twice. He played Toberman in The Tomb of the Cybermen and Tony in Terror of the Autons.
  
  Television commercials
  
  Fry's Turkish Delight[10]
  Surf washing powder[11]
  
  Business interests
  
  Stewart ran a basement gymnasium at 32A Powis Square, Kensington, west London which was opened in 1954. It had the policy of allowing all races to train there. Some actors trained there too, one of them, David Prowse, a Commonwealth Games weightlifter in 1962, went on to play Darth Vader in the film Star Wars. The Gymnasium had a dual purpose. It was also an unofficial after-hours drinking club. By 1964, Stewart had been convicted four times for selling liquor without a license. He also ran a nightclub in Bayswater. Jimi Hendrix, Van Morrison and Bob Marley were some of the patrons.
  
  The Globe
  
  In the 1960s he opened a Caribbean restaurant and bar called The Globe. The Globe, formerly Bajy's, was located at 103 Talbot Road. Jimi Hendrix was reportedly seen there the night before his death in September 1970. Stewart ran The Globe until he died in October 2008. The Globe functions to this day and is one of longest-running nightclubs in London. It also has a Caribbean restaurant upstairs.
  
  Filmography

  The Mummy (1959) – Flashback Slave (uncredited)
  
  Sands of the Desert (1960) – Gong Banger at Sheik's Tent (uncredited)
  On the Fiddle (1961) – Trinidad (uncredited)
  The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964) – Bearer in Museum (uncredited)
  She (1965) – Black Guard (uncredited)
  Prehistoric Women (1967) – Warrior (uncredited)
  
  Carry On Up the Jungle (1970) – Nosha (uncredited)
  Leo the Last (1970) – Jasper's Bodyguard
  Julius Caesar (1970) – Lepidus's Slave #2
  Games That Lovers Play (1971) – Mr. Bwamba
  Twins of Evil (1971) – Joachim
  Call Me by My Rightful Name (1972) – Doug's Agent
  Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) – Black Pug
  Live and Let Die (1973) – Quarrel Jr.
  Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers (1977) – American sailor
  Arabian Adventure (1979) – Nubian

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 2019 edited November 2019 Posts: 13,785

  August 25th
  
  1925: Maurice Binder is born--New York City, New York. (He dies 9 April 1991 at age 65--London, England.)

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

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

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

  Mr. Binder was one of the rare film-title artists to receive rave reviews for his work, which critics said was an essential part of the James Bond success story.
  
  In a review of the 1981 film, "For Your Eyes Only," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times: "And Maurice Binder's opening titles, always one of the fancier features of the Bond movies, are still terrific."

  Mr. Binder's unusual witty designs introduced other films including "Indiscreet" in 1958; "The Mouse That Roared," 1959; "The Grass is Greener," 1960; "Repulsion," 1964, and "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," 1971.
  
  He also produced several musicals, and in association with John Quested and Lester Goldsmith, produced the 1979 film "The Passage," starring Anthony Quinn.
  
  Born in New York City, Mr. Binder began his career as assistant art director in Macy's art department.
  
  A resident of London for 27 years, he was honored last year by the National Film Club.
  
  Besides his brother, who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., he is survived by two nieces.

  

  
  Maurice Binder
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082800/
  
  Filmography

  Miscellaneous Crew (84 credits)
  1991 The Strauss Dynasty (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 8 episodes)
  - Adele (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Hetti (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Lili (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Josef (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Revolution of 1848 (1991) ... (title designer)
  1990 A Captive in the Land (title designer)
  1990 Hamlet (title designer)
  1990 The Sheltering Sky (title designer)
  1990 Mister Johnson (title designer)
  
  1989 Licence to Kill (title designer)
  1988 The Deceivers (title designer)
  1987 The Last Emperor (title designer: main title)
  1987 The Living Daylights (title designer)
  1986 Shanghai Surprise (title designer)
  1986 Max mon amour (title designer)
  1986 If Tomorrow Comes (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 3 episodes)
  - Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (title designer)
  - Episode #1.3 (1986) ... (title designer)
  - Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (title designer)
  1985 A View to a Kill (main title designed by)
  1985 Rustlers' Rhapsody (main title design)
  1983 Octopussy (main title designed by)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only (main title designed by)
  1981 Green Ice (main title designer)
  1980 The Awakening (titles)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (titles)
  
  1979 Moonraker (title designer: main titles)
  1978 The Wild Geese (main title designed by)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (main title designed by)
  1976 Shout at the Devil (title designer: main title)
  1975 e'Lollipop (title designer)
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (title designer: main title)
  1974 The Little Prince (main title design)
  1974 Gold (title designer)
  1974 The Tamarind Seed (title designer: main title)
  1973 Live and Let Die (main title designed by)
  1972 Young Winston (main title designed by)
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever (main title designed by)
  1970 Wuthering Heights (title designer)
  1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (title designer: main title)
  1970 Brotherly Love (title designer)
  
  1969 A Talent for Loving (designer: main title)
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (main title designed by)
  1969 Battle of Britain (title designer: main title)
  1969 Staircase (title designer)
  1968 Barbarella (titles designer - uncredited)
  1968 The Magus (title designer)
  1967 Bedazzled (main title)
  1967 Billion Dollar Brain (title designer)
  1967 The Day the Fish Came Out (title designer)
  1967 A Matter of Innocence (title designer: main titles)
  1967 Fathom (main title sequence)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (main title designed by)
  1967 Two for the Road (title designer)
  1967 Eye of the Devil (title designer: main titles)
  1967 The Taming of the Shrew (main title graphics)
  1966 After the Fox (title designer)
  1966 Kaleidoscope (title designer: main titles)
  1966 Arabesque (title designer: main title)
  1966 Promise Her Anything (title designer)
  1966 The Chase (main title)
  1965 Thunderball (main title designed by)
  1965 The Wild Affair (title designer)
  1965 Repulsion (title designer - uncredited)
  1965 Young Cassidy (title designer)
  1964 The 7th Dawn (title designer: main titles)
  Espionage (TV Series) (titles - 22 episodes, 1963 - 1964) (titles designed by - 2 episodes, 1963 - 1964)
  - A Tiny Drop of Poison (1964) ... (titles designed by)
  - A Free Agent (1964) ... (titles)
  - Some Other Kind of World (1964) ... (titles)
  - The Liberators (1964) ... (titles)
  - Once a Spy... (1964) ... (titles)
  1964 The Long Ships (prologue and main title by)
  1963 Charade (main title designed by)
  1963 Summer Flight (title designer: main titles)
  1963 The Running Man (main titles by)
  1963 The Mouse on the Moon (title designer)
  1963 Call Me Bwana (main title design)
  1963 I Could Go on Singing (title designer: main titles)
  1962 Dr. No (main title designed by)
  1962 Sodom and Gomorrah (prologue and main title design)
  1962 Reach for Glory (title designer)
  1962 The Road to Hong Kong (title designer)
  1961 Goodbye Again (title designer: main title)
  1960 The Grass Is Greener (title designer: main title)
  1960 Surprise Package (main title designed by)
  
  1959-1960 Hotel de Paree (TV Series) (title designer - 11 episodes)
  - Sundance and the Fallen Sparrow (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance and the Long Trek (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Vengeance for Sundance (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance and the Black Widow (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance and the Greenhorn Trader (1960) ... (title designer)
  1960 Purple Noon (title designer)
  1960 Once More, with Feeling! (title designer)
  1959 The Mouse That Roared (titles designed by)
  1959 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) (title designer - 7 episodes)
  - Design for Murder (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Family Affair (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Rough Cut (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Hideout (1959) ... (title designer)
  - The Limping Man (1959) ... (title designer)
  1959 The Young Philadelphians (title designer - uncredited)
  1958 Damn Yankees (title designer: main titles - uncredited)
  1958 Indiscreet (title designer - uncredited)
  1957 The James Dean Story (Documentary) (title designer)
  1951 Cry Danger (assistant to producer)
  
  Art department (9 credits)
  1985 King David (graphic designer)
  1984 Oxford Blues (graphic designer)
  1982 Twilight Time (graphics)
  1982 The Final Option (graphic artist)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (graphic design)
  1978 Brass Target (graphic artist)
  1977 A Little Night Music (graphics)
  1964 Of Human Bondage (graphic designer)
  1963 I Could Go on Singing (graphic designer)
  
  Visual effects (2 credits)
  1980 The Final Countdown (special visual effects) / (storm sequence)
  1979 Dracula (visual consultant)
  Hide Hide Director (1 credit)
  1960 The Children of Lindos (Short)
  Hide Hide Art director (1 credit)
  1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series)
  Hide Hide Producer (1 credit)
  1979 The Passage (associate producer)
  Hide Hide Self (2 credits)
  1977 The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (TV Series documentary)
  Himself
  - Producing (1977) ... Himself
  1976 Die Titelmacher (TV Movie)
  Himself
  
  Archive footage (4 credits)
  2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary)
  Himself
  2000 Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (Video documentary short)
  Himself
  2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short)
  Himself
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary)
  Himself

  1930: Sir Thomas Sean Connery is born--Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland.

  2008
  
  

  
  Sean Connery recalls 'first big break'
  https://modernghana.com/music/7892/3/sean-connery-recalls-first-big-break.html
  26 August 2008 | General News - Tonight
  
  Movie star, Bond icon, philanthropist, proud Scot, political activist - now Sean Connery can also call himself an author.
  
  Connery, who shot to international fame as Ian Fleming's fictional spy James Bond, unveiled his new autobiography, Being a Scot, in his hometown of Edinburgh yesterday - his 78th birthday.
  
  He told the audience that it wasn't the blockbuster Dr No that changed his life the most, but his schooling during his impoverished childhood.
  
  "My first big break was when I was five because I had learned to read and write. I am sure prisons and asylums are full of people who cannot read or write," Connery said. "It took me more than 70 years to realise that.
  
  "It's that simple and it's that profound. I left school at 13 and had no formal education (beyond that). When I realised I wanted to become an actor and not a football player, I went out and got myself an education, I read and I went to the theatre."
  
  His frame is not as sturdy as it was when he ordered his martinis shaken, not stirred, or when he entered a Mr Universe competition, and Connery needed help hearing questions at the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
  
  But he spoke clearly of Scottish nationalism, his life as an actor, his love of soccer and golf, and Donald Trump's proposed golf resort in Scotland.
  
  Being a Scot describes Connery's early life as a milkman in the city's Fountainbridge neighbourhood, then takes a broad look at Scottish culture, including the work of poet Robert Burns and novelist Walter Scott.
  
  Connery is a vocal supporter of the pro-independence Scottish National Party. He lives in the Bahamas and has said he would not live in Scotland again until it gains independence from the UK.
  
  "There is a lack of Scottish history in our schools," he said. "It was always about English kings and queens, Scotland just didn't figure, it was just about all things English."
  
  He was the first and, many say, the best Bond. Connery also starred in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade and The Untouchables, which earned him an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
  
  Director Steven Spielberg's once said Connery was one of seven genuine movie stars - a claim that seemed to embarrass the actor.
  
  "I didn't pay much attention to that. I was more interested in how much money I made," he said. "The status was not something I was generally interested in or thought about."
  
  ...
  
  The actor quit acting in 2004 and turned down a role in the latest Indiana Jones movie, but he hinted that he would continue to work.
  
  "I have come into a different cycle in my life since I decided not to do any more films. I have a feeling that something is cooking, something is afoot. I don't quite know what it is yet."
  
  Source:Tonight

  
  
  

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

  
  Obituary: John Stears
  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-john-stears-1107368.html
  Tom Vallance | Monday 19 July 1999 00:02

  WINNER OF two Academy Awards, for his work on Thunderball and Star Wars, John Stears was one of the film industry's top men for special visual effects and many of his innovations are incorporated into the work of today's film-makers.
  
  For the early James Bond films, he served as the real-life incarnation of the ingenious "Q", creating such gadgets and vehicles as the Aston Martin of Goldfinger which has been described as "the most famous car in the world". For Star Wars he worked with the production designer John Barry to conceive the unforgettable robots C3PO and R2-D2, and among his other memorable achievements were the flying car of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the model work for the British film about the Titanic, A Night to Remember, and the explosive demolition work in The Guns of Navarone.

  Born in 1934, Stears studied at Harrow College of Art and Southall Technical School before working as a draughtsman with the Air Ministry. He served as a dispatch rider during his National Service, then joined a firm of architects where he was able to utilise his passion for model-making by constructing scale models of building projects for clients.
  
  The firm also specialised in model aircraft, and when Rank's special effects expert Bill Warrington saw some of Stears's work he commissioned him to build model aircraft for Lewis Gilbert's screen version of the life of the pilot Douglas Bader, Reach for the Sky (1956).
  
  Signed to a contract by the Rank Organisation, Stears worked with Warrington and Gilbert on three more true-life stories, creating model boats and planes for A Night to Remember (1958), in which Kenneth More, who had played Bader, was Second Officer Lightoller of the Titanic, Carve Her Name With Pride (1958), which starred Virginia McKenna as the British shop assistant Violette Szabo who became a resistance heroine, and Sink the Bismarck! (1960), with Kenneth More as an Admiralty captain intent on destroying Germany's prize battleship. Other Rank films included The One That Got Away (1957), Sea Fury (1958) and Gilbert's HMS Defiant (1962).
  
  Having acquired a reputation impressive enough for him to freelance, Stears was hired to both build and destroy gun miniatures for J. Lee Thompson's exciting transcription of the Alistair MacLean adventure tale The Guns of Navarone (1961), then he created effects for two Disney films, In Search of the Castaways (1962) and the fantasy Three Lives of Thomasina (1962).

  The producers Cubby Broccoli and Harry Saltzman then asked Stears to work with them on a production which was to prove momentous in starting one of the most successful series in cinema history. It was the team's first adaptation of one of Ian Fleming's James Bond stories, Dr No (1962), and Stears's work on the film's finale, the destruction of Dr No's Jamaican hideout, still impresses today.
  
  Aware of the importance of Stears's contribution to the film's success, Broccoli and Saltzman made him head of their special effects department for their next Bond production, From Russia With Love (1963), for which he both created and flew the first remote- controlled helicopter used in a film, and constructed the bizarre knife- toed boots for the Soviet spy Rosa Klebb. Still only 29 years old, Stears confessed later that he was having the time of his life and he described his job as "not really work but the chance to play . . . using other people's money!"
  
  The next Bond film, Goldfinger (1964), included three of Stears's favourite creations, the lethal laser ray which nearly bisects Bond, the steel-rimmed bowler employed as a deadly frisbee by the villain Oddjob, and the famous Aston Martin. In the book, Fleming's hero drives a DB3, but Stears wanted to use the not yet available DB5, a sleekly photogenic model, and he persuaded the manufacturers to provide him with a prototype, which the effects wizard fitted with bullet-proof glass, a fog maker, revolving number plates, road slicker, machine guns and a passenger ejector seat. "I was never certain we would make the seat work," said Stears, "but in the end we did the stunt in one take."
  
  The fourth Bond film Thunderball (1965) was one of the weaker dramatically but Stears did not disappoint, his effects including a rocket-firing motor cycle, an underwater flying saucer, large-scale models of a Vulcan bomber which he then sank in the waters of the Bahamas, and a life-size replica of the villain's yacht which he blew to pieces.
  
  His work on the film brought him his first Oscar for Best Visual Effects. His old friend Lewis Gilbert directed the next Bond film, You Only Live Twice (1967), which included a flying machine that gobbles up a space capsule in outer space, after which Stears had a break from Bond when he worked on Broccoli's production Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) with its flying car.
  
  If asked to pick a favourite Bond film, Stears used to say that the one he most enjoyed working on was On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), partly because he admired its star George Lazenby, who insisted on performing many of his own stunts. It was the start of a lifelong friendship between the two men, both mechanically minded motor bike enthusiasts. For the film, the most challenging moment came when Stears had to set off an avalanche on cue.
  
  In 1970 Stears set up his own company, and worked on such films as Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man! (1973) and Douglas Hickox's Theatre of Blood (1973) in which a ham actor (Vincent Price) murders hostile critics by recreating death scenes from Shakespeare's plays. He returned to Bond for a final time to create effects including Scaramanga's flying car in The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), which featured Roger Moore as Bond.

  In 1976 Stears had a call from George Lucas, who had been a great admirer of the Bond films and wanted to know if he was interested in creating mechanical and electrical effects for a film he had written, Star Wars. It was the opportunity to create things that had never been attempted before and Stears enthusiastically accepted.
  
  The phenomenal hit that resulted brought Stears his second Oscar and featured such innovations as Luke Skywalker's Land-speeder, ostensibly a hover-car but actually a four-wheeled vehicle to which Stears had fitted mirrors angled to reflect the Tunisian desert and thus create the illusion that the craft was skimming over the ground. The Lightsabers, the Death Star with its threatening cannons, the robots both manually and remote- controlled, and the metallic suit for C3PO were other Stears creations, along with countless explosions, including the final destruction of the Death Star.

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

  Subsequent films included The Bounty (1984), an intriguingly unconventional depiction of the famous mutiny, with Anthony Hopkins and Mel Gibson, and a thriller for which Stears was aptly called in as a special consultant since it featured a special effects expert as its hero, F/X: murder by illusion, in which Bryan Brown played an effects man hired to make a faked assassination appear real, only to find that he is himself the victim of a Mafia plot and has to bring all his ingenuity into play to defend himself. A modest success at the time of its release, it is now considered a cult movie.
  
  In 1988 Stears hoped to produce a film but was unable to obtain sufficient financial backing, and in 1993, after producing effects for the Charlie Sheen vehicle Navy SEALS, he retired to California with his wife Brenda, whom he married in 1960, and two daughters. For most of his life he had lived on an estate in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, where he reared cattle and where his wife ran the Livy Borzoi Kennels, breeding Borzoi show dogs.

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

  He returned to films with last year's The Mask of Zorro, staging the explosions for the film's early action sequences, but left midway through production after artistic disagreements, and at the time of his death was working on a screenplay set in the First World War and seen from the point of view of German aircraft designers.
  
  John Stears, special effects designer: born 25 August 1934; married 1960 Brenda Livy (two daughters); died Malibu, California 28 April 1999.

  
  John Stears
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0824210/
  
  Filmography

  Special effects (35 credits)
  1998 The Mask of Zorro (special effects coordinator)
  1994 Babylon 5 (TV Series) (special effects coordinator - 1 episode)
  - Infection (1994) ... (special effects coordinator)
  1993 The Gathering (TV Movie) (special effects coordinator)
  1990 Navy Seals (special effects)
  1986 Haunted Honeymoon (special effects consultant)
  1986 Miracles (special effects supervisor)
  1986 F/X (special effects consultant)
  1984 The Bounty (special effects supervisor)
  1983 Sahara (special effects supervisor)
  1982 Turkey Shoot (special effects)
  1981 Outland (special effects)
  1980 Hopscotch (special effects)
  1980 The Awakening (special effects)
  1980 The Martian Chronicles (TV Mini-Series) (special effects supervisor - 3 episodes)
  - The Martians (1980) ... (special effects supervisor)
  - The Settlers (1980) ... (special effects supervisor)
  - The Expeditions (1980) ... (special effects supervisor)
  
  1977 The Last Remake of Beau Geste (special effects supervisor)
  1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (special production & mechanical effects supervisor)
  1976 Sky Riders (special effects)
  1975 That Lucky Touch (special effects supervisor)
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (special effects)
  1973 Ghost in the Noonday Sun (special effects)
  1973 O Lucky Man! (special effects)
  1973 Theater of Blood (special effects)
  1972 Sitting Target (special effects)
  1972 The Pied Piper (special effects)
  1971 Fiddler on the Roof (special effects - uncredited)
  1971 Catch Me a Spy (special effects)
  1970 Toomorrow (special effects)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (special effects)
  1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (special effects)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (special effects) / (special effects supervisor - uncredited)
  1965 Court Martial (TV Series) (special effects supervisor)
  1965 Thunderball (special effects)
  1964 Goldfinger (special effects)
  1963 From Russia with Love (special effects)
  1963 Call Me Bwana (special effects)
  
  Visual effects (6 credits)
  1982 Megaforce (visual effects: Introvision)
  1978 The Thief of Baghdad (TV Movie) (magic carpet)
  1975 One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (special photographic effects)
  1960 Sink the Bismarck! (model ships - uncredited)
  1957 The One That Got Away (special processes - uncredited)
  1956 Reach for the Sky (model aircraft - uncredited)
  
  Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
  1980 The Martian Chronicles (TV Mini-Series) (second unit director - 3 episodes)
  - The Martians (1980) ... (second unit director)
  - The Settlers (1980) ... (second unit director)
  - The Expeditions (1980) ... (second unit director)
  
  Self (11 credits)
  2000 Harry Saltzman: Showman (Video documentary short)
  Himself
  2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short)
  Himself
  2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short)
  Himself
  2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short)
  Himself
  2000 Ken Adam: Designing Bond (Video documentary short)
  Himself
  2000 Inside 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short)
  Himself
  2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short)
  Himself
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short)
  Himself
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary)
  Himself
  1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary)
  Himself
  1978 The 50th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
  Himself - Winner
  Hide Hide Archive footage (1 credit)
  2000 The Men Behind the Mayhem: The Special Effects of James Bond (Video documentary short)
  Himself

  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  

  2006: The Spy Who Loved Me re-released at the Empire Leicester Square Cinema for one week.
  2017: From Russia With Love re-released in Chile.
  2019: Q The Music Show presents: A James Bond Concert Spectacular with Caroline Munro at Buxton Opera House, Water Street, Buxton, England.

  
  Events
  007 Event: Q The Music Show presents: A James
  Bond Concert Spectacular with Caroline Munro
  25 August 2019
  https://www.007travelers.com/events/007-event-q-the-music-show-presents-a-james-bond-concert-spectacular-with-caroline-munro-25-august-2019/
  August 23, 2019
  
  What: Q The Music Show presents: A James Bond Concert Spectacular with Caroline Munro from “The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977)
  
  Where: Buxton Opera House, Water Street, Buxton, England
  
  When: 25 August 2019 at 7:30pm
  
  Guest Compere: Caroline Munro – Naomi in “The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977)

  2019: San Francisco James Bond Day kicks off and the Castro Theatre has a triple feature.

  
  
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  Outside in front of the theatre, The Aston Martin Owners Club is proud have on display two "Bond" cars for the afternoon screenings: the 1969 Aston Martin DBS from "OHMSS" and the 2008 Aston Martin DBS V12 "Quantum of Solace".
  
  GOLDFINGER 2:00, 9:05 55th ANNIVERSARY
  The third James Bond film adaptation was the one in which all the classic 007 elements came into play, mapping a template that has endured for decades. Joining the inimitable Sean Connery is Gert Frobe as the titular madman, Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore, and Harold Sakata as Oddjob. Composer John Barry sites this as his favourite Bond score, the theme song belted out by Shirley Bassey. (Dir: Guy Hamilton, 1964, 112 min, 4K DCP)
  
  + ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE 4:05 50th ANNIVERSARY!
  George Lazenby’s sole outing as 007, where Bond finds love with adventurous contessa Tracy Di Vicenzo (Diana Rigg) as they battle the evil Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas), who’s launching his most calamitous scheme yet: a germ warfare plot that could kill millions! Staying faithful to Ian Fleming’s novel, long-time Bond film editor Peter R. Hunt directed what is widely regarded as one of the most impressive entries in the series. (1969, 143 min, 4K DCP ‘Scope)
  
  + MOONRAKER 6:45 40th ANNIVERSARY!
  Agent 007 (Roger Moore) blasts into orbit in this action-packed adventure that takes him to Venice, Rio De Janeiro and outer space. When Bond investigates the hijacking of an American space shuttle, he and beautiful CIA agent Holly Goodhead (Lois Chiles) are soon locked in a life-or-death struggle against Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale), a power-mad industrialist bent on Earthly genocide. The most overtly humorous and over-the-top of Moore’s 007 stint features spectacular Oscar-nominated visual effects and the return of Richard Kiel as Jaws. (Dir: Lewis Gilbert, 1979, 127 min, 4K DCP ‘Scope)

  
  

  
  
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  August 2019 Posts: 13,785

  August 26th
  
  1941: Akiko Wakabayashi is born--Tokyo, Japan.
  1966: Shirley Manson is born--Edinburgh, Scotland.
  1988: Licence to Kill films the final scenes with Robert Brown & Caroline Bliss, their final appearances in the series.
  2005: Titan Classics Re-Issues publishes The Spy Who Loved Me (includes The Harpies).
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  Croatian edition, Algoritam, 2008.
  
  

  
  
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  27th August
  
  1947: Barbara Goldbach (Barbara Bach) is born--Queens, New York City, New York.
  1967: Tom Ford is born--Austin, Texas.
  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me LP soundtrack makes US music charts, later reaching #40.

  
  
  

  1989: TV movie Goldeneye premieres starring Charles Dance as Ian Fleming.

  
  
  

  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films the closing scene--Bond and Wai Lin kissing.
  2012: Swedish security service Säpo become agents under fire regarding a James Bond themed party.

  
  Säpo spent millions on 'James Bond'
  party
  https://www.thelocal.se/20120827/42840
  
  The Local
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  @thelocalsweden
  27 August 2012
  
  Swedish security service Säpo has come under fire after revelations that a James
  Bond themed party in 2011 cost 5.3 million kronor ($802,500), a contract that was
  never put out to tender.
  
  The party, which took place in June 2011, had a guest list of around 1,000 people and cost over 5 million kronor. The contract for the event was never put out to tender, revealed the Dagens Nyheter newspaper (DN) on Monday.
  
  Furthermore, Säpo erroneously asked for almost one million kronor back in value added tax (moms), a claim that the Swedish National Audit Office (Riksrevisionen) noticed in February, demanding that the security service repaid 114,500 kronor in compensation.
  
  The head of Säpo since July this year, Anders Thornberg, explained to the paper that the James Bond party was an exception - a relief for staff members after the pressure from 2011's terror threats, suicide bombing and a company reorganization.
  
  “This was a unique and extraordinary time and we'd been subjected to extreme pressure. We thought that we needed a special gathering for the whole security police team,” he told the paper.
  
  The party was organized by former Säpo head Anders Danielsson, who is now the Director General of the Swedish Migration Board (Migrationsverket).
  
  “I take responsibility for everything, if it's wrong then it is wrong, and it will be sorted out in due course," he told DN.
  
  Justice Minister Beatrice Ask has not yet commented on the revelations, but said that a spokesperson will make a statement later on Monday morning.
  
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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  August 2019 Posts: 13,785

  August 28th
  
  1970: Comic strip Colonel Sun ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 1 December 1969. 1175–1393)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  
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  Swedish Semic 1971
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3?s=comics&id=01728
  
  Swedish Semic 1989
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3?s=comics&id=02358
  
  
  Danish 1971 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-22-1971/
  
  
  
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  1971: Comic strip Double Jeopardy ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 21 April 1971. 1597–1708)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  
  
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  Swedish Semic 1972
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3?s=comics&id=01759
  
  Swedish Semic 1978
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  Danish 1972 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no24-1972/
  
  

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

  
  Actor Robert Shaw, Known for Menacing
  Roles, Dies in Ireland
  https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/08/29/actor-robert-shaw-known-for-menacing-roles-dies-in-ireland/10011e2d-0410-4cb0-a10b-90457d2f89a5/
  By Gary Arnold
  August 29, 1978
  
  Robert Shaw, 52, one of the most forceful and successful character actors on the contemporary English speaking screen, died Sunday near his home in Ireland.
  
  According to a police spokesman, Mr. Shaw became ill while driving with his third wife, Virginia, and their 20-month-old son, Thomas, near the family's home in Tourmakeady, County Mayo. Mr. Shaw reportedly stopped the car, got out and died on the roadside.

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

  While pursuing a notable acting career in the theater and motion pictures. Mr. Shaw also wrote five novels and three plays. He was working on a sixth novel at the time of his death. In a recent interview he remarked. "I find acting much easier than writing, but writing is more important to me. I think as I get older I'd rather write, but acting is so much more profitable." Mr. Shaw's best-known literary effort was The Man in the Glass Booth, a novel the author himself later dramatized successfully.
  
  Born in the Lancashire town of Westhoughton on Aug. 9, 1927. Mr. Shaw grew up in Cornwall and the Orkney Islands. His father, a doctor, committed suicide with an overdose of opium when Robert Shaw was 12.
  
  As a youth, Mr. Shaw excelled at sports, especially rugby, squash and track where his specialty was the 400-meter dash. He spurned a scholarship to Cambridge and a career in the family profession of medicine to apply at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London in 1945. He later recalled RADA with fond horror as a hotbed of competition for aspiring actors in the post-war period, "closer to a concentration camp than a school."
  
  After graduation from RADA, Mr. Shaw spent several years as a member of the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon and the Old Vic. He made his professional debut at Stratford-on-Avon as Angus in "Macbeth." His most noteworthy West End credits were "Tiger at the Gates" in 1956 and "The Long and Short and the Tall" in 1959, the same year his first novel, "The Hiding Place," was published.
  
  Mr. Shaw made his film debut in the 1955 British war melodrama "The Dam Busters." Ironically, he will star as the chief dam-buster in "Force 10 from Navarrone" an adventure melodrama about World War II commandoes scheduled for release at Christmas. He also had completed a starring role as a defecting KGB agent in "Avalance Express" at the time of his death. This spy thriller, which costars Lee Marvin, is tentatively scheduled for release in the spring of 1979.
  
  Alert moviegoers might have spotted Mr. Shaw early in 1964 as one of the fascinating misfits in "The Guest" the movie version of Harold Pinter's play "The Caretaker." With in a few months the success of "From Russia With Love" brought mass audience recognition to Mr. Shaw, and fame soon caught up with his costars from "The Caretaker," Donald Pleasence and Alan Bates.
  
  Mr. Shaw's theatrical career has been linked closely with Pleasence and Pinter. He made his Broadway debut in a production of Pinter's "The Physicists" and later costarred in Pinter's "Old Times." Pleasense enjoyed a Broadway triumph in the title role of "The Man in the Glass Booth," which was directed by Pinter.
  
  In an interview with Clarke Taylor that appeared in the Washington Post two years ago, Mr. Shaw stated, "My time is real development, both personally and professionally, came in working with Harold Pinter. He's the most interesting talent working in the theater today. It was a great creative, happy period for me."
  
  A prolific actor and author, Mr. Shaw also extended himself as a paterfamilias. He had four daughters by his first marriage, to Jennifer Bourke, then two sons and two daughters by his second marriage, to actress Mary Ure, who died in 1975 from a fatal combination of alcohol and barbiturate poisoning. Mr. Shaw's third wife, the former Virginia Jansen, had worked as the secretary to the actor and Miss Ure for many tears. Mr. Shaw adopted Jansen's son by a previous marriage, and their own son was born in December 1976.
  
  Mr Shaw frequently cited this brood as a spur to his creative or merly mercenary activity. Discussing his choice of certain film roles with Taylor, Mr. Shaw confided, "Money isn't the sole reason. But I do seem to spend more than I earn. And it takes a lot of money to raise these children of mine.
  
  "I don't spend much on myself, maybe a drink. And I like to travel and stay at really fine hotels. I have an interest in fast cars, and I now have a Mercedes 450SL, but it's not like before, when I woned Rolls Royce convertibles and Astin Martins [sic]. Of course, the tax situation in Britain is impossible.
  
  "I wake up in the middle of the night, frequently, with pain and humiliation and a great deal of shame at some of the work I've done in films. And I would do a good movie any day, regardless of the money. Unfortunately, there aren't many, and . . . if you are not successful now and again, nobody asks you to be in any movies at all. For years the studios would say 'Shaw's pictures make no money, he's not an international star.'"
  
  Despite his vital participation in such hits as "The Sting" and "Jaws," Mr. Shaw never quite established credibility as a bankable star. Usually at his best as a menace, he may have had too much authority for conventional heroic leads. At any rate, he failed to bring a satisfying heroic or romantic presence to such starring vehicles as "Custer of the West," "Swashbuckler" and "Black Sunday." His physically and technique had a rather intimidating potency. He was frequently an impressive performer but rarely an ingratiating one.
  
  Assessing his work, Mr. Shaw remarked. "Most of the time, in movies, I'm about 50 times larger than the part." While justified by the evidence, self-criticism like this was no doubt instrumental in earning the rugged, outspoken actor a reputation for insufferable vanity from some segments of the press.
  
  Moviegoers and film-makers can attest to the authenticity of that larger-than-life quality. Mr Shaw's most gripping sustained scene on film is probably Quint's description of the shark attack on survivors of the U.S.S. Indianapolis that anticipates the thrilling finale of "Jaws."
  
  Director Steven Spielberg has recalled that Mr. Shaw's first reading of Quint's speech, which the actor had helped rewrite, "devastated the set." Ironically, "the effect was so overwhelming that it threatened to capsize everyone prematurely. We had to do it again, with more restraint. In terms of the finished film, the reading was even better because Bob was imposing more controls on his emotions."
  
  The larger-than-life identity seems certain to endure, but Mr. Shaw did submerge himself in the role of a victimized man in "The Caretaker" and a frustrated man in "The Luck of Ginger Coffrey." Irvin Kershner's fine, unjustly neglected movie version of Brian Moore's novel. Mr. Shaw also was prominently, if indecisively, featured in such movies as "Young Winston" (where he played Lord Randolph Churchill). "The Battle of Britain," "The Birthday Party." "Robin and Marian" (as the Sheriff of Nottingham) and "The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3."
  
  He achieved considerable success in England as the lead in a television series called "The Buccaneers." He made a brief, unsuccessful attempt at the Broadway musical stage in 1970 as a singing Elmer Gantry in a failed song-and-dance adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis novel.
  
  Three years ago, Mr. Shaw bought a 150-year-old mansion near a troutfilled lake in Tourmakeady and moved in with his wife and most of the Shaw progeny. According to friends, he described the location as "the nearest point on earth to heaven" and added. "When I go, I hope it will be from here."

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

  Stage
  
  The Caretaker (1962)
  The Physicists (1964)
  The Man in the Glass Booth (1968)
  Gantry (1970)
  Old Times (1971)
  The Dance of Death (1974)
  
  Filmography
  
  The Cherry Orchard (1947)
  
  The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) – Chemist at Police Exhibition (uncredited)
  The Dam Busters (1954) – Flight Sgt. J. Pulford
  Double Cross (1956) – Ernest
  A Hill in Korea (1956) – Lance Corporal Hodge
  The Buccaneers (1956–1957, TV Series) – Captain Dan Tempest
  Rupert of Hentzau (TV, 1957) – Rupert of Hentzau
  Sea Fury (1958) – Gorman
  Libel (1959) – First Photographer
  
  The Four Just Men (1960, TV Series) – Stuart
  The Dark Man (TV, 1960) – Alan Regan
  Danger Man (1961) – TV episode – Bury The Dead – Tony Costello
  The Winter's Tale (1961) – Leontes
  The Valiant (1962) – Lieutenant Field
  The Father (1962) – The Captain
  Tomorrow at Ten (1962) – Marlowe
  The Caretaker (1963) – Aston
  The Cracksman (1963) – Moke
  From Russia with Love (1963) – Donald 'Red' Grant
  Hamlet (1964) – Claudius, King of Denmark
  The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964) – Ginger Coffey
  Carol for Another Christmas (1964) – Ghost of Christmas Future
  Battle of the Bulge (1965) – Col. Martin Hessler
  A Man for All Seasons (1966) – King Henry VIII
  Custer of the West (1967) – Gen. George Armstrong Custer
  Luther (TV, 1968) – Martin Luther
  The Birthday Party (1968) – Stanley Webber
  Battle of Britain (1969) – Squadron Leader "Skipper"
  The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969) – Francisco Pizarro
  
  Figures in a Landscape (1970) – MacConnachie (also adapted for the screen)
  A Town Called Bastard (a.k.a. A Town Called Hell) (1971) – The Priest
  Young Winston (1972) – Lord Randolph Churchill
  A Reflection of Fear (a.k.a. Labyrinth) (1973) – Michael
  The Hireling (1973) – Steven Ledbetter
  The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) – The Oracle of All Knowledge (uncredited)
  The Sting (1973) – Doyle Lonnegan
  The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) – Mr. Blue – Bernard Ryder
  Jaws (1975) – Quint
  The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) – Writer only
  End of the Game (a.k.a. Der Richter und sein Henker, Murder on the Bridge, Deception, and Getting Away with Murder) (1975) – Richard Gastmann
  Diamonds (a.k.a. Diamond Shaft) (1975) – Charles / Earl Hodgson
  Robin and Marian (1976) – Sheriff of Nottingham
  Swashbuckler (a.k.a. Scarlet Buccaneer) (1976) – Ned Lynch
  Black Sunday (1977) – Major David Kabokov
  The Deep (1977) – Romer Treece
  Force 10 from Navarone (1978) – Major Keith Mallory
  Avalanche Express (1979) – General Marenkov (final film role)
  
  Writing
  
  The Hiding Place (1960)
  The Sun Doctor (1961)
  The Flag (1965)
  Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (screenplay adaptation of The Hiding Place, 1965)
  The Man in the Glass Booth (1967)
  The Man in the Glass Booth (play adaptation, 1968)
  A Card from Morocco (1969)
  Figures in a Landscape (1970) (screenplay adaptation of novel)
  Cato Street (play, 1971)
  
  Awards
  
  He became the second actor to be nominated to the 39th Academy Awards for playing Henry VIII of England in the film A Man for All Seasons (1966). He was also nominated to the 24th Golden Globe Awards for the same role.

  

  1987: John Marcellus Huston dies at age 81 as an Irish citizen--Middletown, Rhode Island.
  (Born 5 August 1906--Nevada, Missouri.)

  
  John Huston
  American director, writer, and actor
  https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Huston
  Written By: Michael Barson
  Last Updated: Aug 1, 2019 See Article History
  
  John Huston, in full John Marcellus Huston, (born August 5, 1906, Nevada, Missouri, U.S—died August 28, 1987, Middletown, Rhode Island), American motion-picture director, writer, and actor whose taut dramas were among the most popular Hollywood films from the early 1940s to the mid-1980s. Many of his films were literary adaptations or tough action tales with an existential spin. Indeed, his own life—in which Huston starred as a boxer, painter, horseman, gadabout, rebel, and international ladies’ man (who married six times)—was at least as engaging as many of his movies.
  Early work
  
  Huston was born in a small town in Missouri that his grandfather claimed to have won in a poker game. Huston’s father, Walter Huston, had given up stage acting for work as a civil engineer that took his family to Texas and Indiana before he decided to return to acting in 1909. Within a few years Huston’s parents were divorced, and he spent his childhood moving between his father, who initially returned to vaudeville, and his mother, Reah, who worked as a journalist and taught him to both ride and bet on horses. Although he suffered from kidney disease and an enlarged heart, Huston overcame a frail, often bedridden youth to become so robust a teenager that he was the amateur lightweight boxing champion of California (with a distinctive broken nose to show for it). After briefly studying painting in Los Angeles, Huston moved to New York City in 1924 to become an actor and performed with the Provincetown Players in Greenwich Village. In 1925, while vacationing in Mexico, he became an honorary member of the Mexican cavalry.
  
  Returning to New York in 1929, Huston took a job as a reporter at the New York Graphic, where his mother was then working. He also began writing and publishing short stories, most notably “Fool,” which appeared in the literary magazine The American Mercury. In 1931 Huston went to Hollywood. After a false start as a contract writer with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), he moved to Universal, contributing to the screenplays of a pair of films starring his father, A House Divided (1931) and Law and Order (1932). During this period of hard drinking and carousing, a car that Huston was driving hit and killed a pedestrian. Consumed with guilt, he moved to London, where he intended to write for the British studio Gaumont but instead lived a ne’er-do-well existence. After a stint in Paris painting, he returned to the United States.
  
  In 1934 Huston played the lead in the Chicago Works Progress Administration production of Robert E. Sherwood’s play Abe Lincoln in Illinois. By 1937 Huston was back in Hollywood, where Warner Brothers signed him to a screenwriting contract. This time his career was on track. Huston collaborated on the scripts for William Wyler’s Jezebel (1938), Anatole Litvak’s The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938), and William Dieterle’s Juárez (1939) before directing his father in A Passage to Bali on Broadway in 1940.
  
  Films of the 1940s
  
  Huston then cowrote three exceptional films: Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (1940) for Dieterle, High Sierra (1941) for Raoul Walsh, and Sergeant York for Howard Hawks, the last of which earned Huston his first Academy Award nomination, for best original screenplay in 1941.
  
  That year Huston was also nominated for an Academy Award in another screenwriting category for his adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s detective mystery The Maltese Falcon (1941), which was Huston’s first film as a director—perhaps the most-impressive debut in Hollywood during the 1940s. The Maltese Falcon had already been filmed by Warner Brothers in 1931 and 1936, but Huston’s proto-film noir had the advantage of Huston as the screenwriter, Humphrey Bogart as the amoral private eye Sam Spade, Mary Astor as the immoral Brigid O’Shaughnessey, and Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre as a pair of lovable cutthroats. It was nominated for the Academy Award for best picture.
  
  After directing the melodrama In This Our Life (1942), Huston was unable to complete his next project, the high-seas espionage tale Across the Pacific (1942), because he was drafted. For the U.S. Army’s Pictorial Service, Huston directed and narrated the renowned World War II documentaries Report from the Aleutians (1943), The Battle of San Pietro (1945), and Let There Be Light, the last a disturbing study of emotionally unstable veterans in a Long Island hospital that was so powerful that it was not given a public release until the early 1980s. Huston was discharged from the army in 1945 with the rank of major and awarded the Legion of Merit for making his films under perilous battle conditions.
  
  Back in the United States, he worked on the scripts for Robert Siodmak’s The Killers and Orson Welles’s The Stranger (both 1946). Huston also directed Jean-Paul Sartre’s No Exit on Broadway in 1946. In 1947, as the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) geared up for its initial wave of hearings into the Hollywood community’s past or present communist affiliations, Huston joined with director William Wyler and screenwriter Philip Dunne in establishing the Committee for the First Amendment. Huston was part of a delegation of industry liberals—including Bogart and Lauren Bacall—who flew to Washington, D.C., to support those witnesses who had taken a confrontational stand when called to testify before the HUAC. Like other members of the delegation, however, Huston was put off by the aggressive belligerence of the “unfriendly” witnesses who would become known as the Hollywood Ten, though he remained disgusted by the proceedings as a whole.
  
  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) was Huston’s return to motion-picture directing in Hollywood. Adapted by Huston from an obscure novel by the mysterious, reclusive writer B. Traven and shot on location in Mexico, it starred Bogart in the decidedly unheroic role of a paranoid prospector, Fred C. Dobbs. As good as Bogart was in depicting Dobbs’s descent into madness, most critics believed that he was out-acted by Walter Huston as the grizzled, sagacious Howard, who tries in vain to keep greed from consuming the little treasure-seeking band. (This was the first time that Huston had cast his father in a major role, though he had appeared in unbilled cameos in The Maltese Falcon and In This Our Life.) Although The Treasure of the Sierra Madre would become one of Huston’s greatest critical triumphs and continues to be widely considered one of the best films of its time, it was a box-office disaster, perhaps because of its grim ending and the daring casting of Bogart against type. Still, the film was nominated for an Academy Award for best picture, Huston won the awards for best director and best screenplay, and his father was named best supporting actor.
  
  

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

  
  Bogart, Bacall, Edward G. Robinson, Lionel Barrymore, and Claire Trevor starred in Huston’s next film, Key Largo (1948), a suspenseful adaptation of a Maxwell Anderson play that is regarded as a classic film noir. With a screenplay by Huston and Richard Brooks, it is set in a small hotel in the Florida Keys that is taken over by a gangster (Robinson) who has made a clandestine return from deportation to Cuba. Trevor won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for her portrayal of the gangster’s mistress. Cuba was then the setting for We Were Strangers (1949), an atmospheric account of revolutionaries’ attempt to overthrow the government, which starred Jennifer Jones and John Garfield.
  
  Films of the 1950s
  
  Huston thought of himself as a writer-director and almost always had a hand in the screenplays for his films, though he preferred working in collaboration with other writers. A lover of literature from the time he learned to read at age three, he drew the stories for his films primarily from novels and plays. The Asphalt Jungle (1950) was based on the hard-boiled crime novel of the same name by W.R. Burnett, who had provided the source novels for High Sierra and Mervyn LeRoy’s Little Caesar (1931). Sam Jaffe, Sterling Hayden, and James Whitmore starred in that caper film noir as a gang plotting the multimillion-dollar robbery of a jewelry exchange. A thrilling exercise in fatalism, The Asphalt Jungle was one of Huston’s most expertly structured films and earned him and cowriter Ben Maddow an Academy Award nomination for their screenplay.
  
  Huston was less fortunate with his 1951 adaptation of Stephen Crane’s literary classic The Red Badge of Courage. Real-life World War II hero Audie Murphy starred in this story of a young Union soldier who deserts his company during the American Civil War. With the Korean War raging, MGM executives felt that the film’s antiwar message was too blatant and cut The Red Badge of Courage down to 69 minutes. (The undoctored version was among Huston’s favourites of his films.) Nevertheless, what remained, including some magnificently staged battle scenes, was impressive enough to have been called a minor masterpiece by Lillian Ross of The New Yorker magazine; she published the book Picture (1952), which chronicled the film’s making.
  
  Much of Huston’s next film, The African Queen (1951), was shot on location in Uganda and Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). Novelist and pioneering film critic James Agee worked with Huston on the adaptation of C.S. Forester’s popular novel (as did the uncredited John Collier and Peter Viertel). The performances delivered by Bogart and Katharine Hepburn were among their most memorable, as drunken boat captain Charlie Allnut and as Rosie Sayer, the impossibly prim spinster who convinces him to take her on his rattletrap steamer down the Congo River to civilization at the outset of World War I. This splendid romance-comedy-adventure has remained one of the most popular Hollywood movies of all time. Huston was again nominated for Academy Awards for best director and best screenplay; Bogart won the award for best actor.
  
  
  
  In 1952 Huston traveled to France to shoot Moulin Rouge (1952), a gorgeously mounted, sentimental biography of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (played José Ferrer), the crippled artist who became the toast of Montmartre for his lively artworks. Moulin Rouge was nominated for the Academy Award for best picture, and Huston was nominated for best director, the fourth time in five years that he had been nominated for that award. He would have to wait 33 years before the Academy nominated him again, as he entered the extended hit-or-miss phase of his career.
  
  Written with Truman Capote and cofinanced by Bogart’s Santana production company, Beat the Devil (1954) was filmed in Italy. A delightful spoof of The Maltese Falcon, it featured Bogart, Lorre, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, and Gina Lollobrigida as a motley shipboard assembly of adventurers, frauds, and con artists trying to locate a uranium mine while enduring a variety of comic disasters. Capote later said that they made up the story as they went along, an irreverent approach perhaps better suited to sensibilities in the 21st century than to those of the 1950s. Beat the Devil was a box-office disaster and precipitated a split between Bogart (who called the film “a mess”) and Huston after many years of fruitful collaboration.
  
  Moby Dick (1956), Huston’s epic adaptation of Herman Melville’s novel, was shot in Ireland, where Huston had gone to live in 1952, largely because he had become disgusted by the political climate of the United States during the McCarthy era. Although some critics found the stolid Gregory Peck badly suited to the role of the fiery, obsessed Captain Ahab, Huston and Ray Bradbury captured much of the poetry of Melville in their script, and the sea storm and whaling sequences were impressively staged. Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957), a much quieter affair, starred Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr as a marine and a nun stranded on a Pacific island during World War II. Kerr received an Academy Award nomination for best actress, and Huston’s and John Lee Mahin’s screenplay was also nominated.
  
  Huston began working on David O. Selznick’s remake of A Farewell to Arms (1957) but departed the production to instead direct the undistinguished period film The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958). Filmed in French Equatorial Africa with Errol Flynn and Trevor Howard, The Roots of Heaven (1958) followed and drew mixed reviews.
  
  Films of the 1960s
  
  Something of a return to form for Huston, The Unforgiven (1960) starred Audrey Hepburn in the only western role of her career, as a Native American who has been raised by a Texas settler family. The troubled history of the making of Huston’s next film, The Misfits (1961), became a staple of Hollywood lore. Playwright Arthur Miller adapted his own short story for that very different kind of western as a vehicle for Marilyn Monroe (his wife, though their marriage was collapsing). Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, and Eli Wallach portrayed aging modern-day cowboys who capture wild horses and sell them to be slaughtered for dog food. Monroe played a divorced former stripper who questions the wranglers’ morality as she falls for one of them (Gable). With her personal life in a tailspin, Monroe reportedly drove Huston to distraction during the filming, showing up on the set late, under the influence of drugs or alcohol, and blowing her lines. This was her last completed role before her death in August 1962. Moreover, eight days after shooting was completed on the film, Gable died of a heart attack.
  
  Huston himself narrated the somber Freud (1962), in which Clift (in one his last roles) played the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud. The playful mystery The List of Adrian Messenger (1963) featured a roster of big-name stars (including Mitchum, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Tony Curtis) who were all but unrecognizable under layers of makeup. Their performances were less memorable, however, than Huston’s portrayal the same year of a Roman Catholic cardinal in another film, Otto Preminger’s The Cardinal. That performance earned Huston an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actor and started a new parallel career for him as an actor.
  
  Huston’s The Night of the Iguana (1964), shot in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, offered another all-star cast (Kerr, Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, and Sue Lyon) in an adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s play of the same name that was steeped in psychoses, thwarted desires, and carnal confusion. Huston then decided to make The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966); however, the nearly three hours of Old Testament melodramatics he offered were little appreciated by audiences and critics (though Huston himself turned in an estimable performance as Noah). Huston’s 1967 film version of Carson McCullers’s 1941 novella Reflections in a Golden Eye was a commercial failure but has come to be more widely appreciated with the passage of time. Marlon Brando gave one of his uniquely odd performances as a repressed homosexual army officer whose Southern belle wife (Elizabeth Taylor) becomes involved with another officer (Brian Keith).

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

  Last films
  
  Fat City, an adaptation of Leonard Gardner’s novel about small-time boxers, significantly reversed Huston’s fortunes as a director and was one of 1972’s most-acclaimed motion pictures. Here Huston had a chance to draw upon his experiences as a boxer in California five decades earlier, and he deftly teased out the downbeat story’s essence. Stacy Keach played a washed-up boxer in Stockton, Susan Tryrell earned an Academy Award nomination as best supporting actress for her portrayal of his drink-besotted girlfriend, and Jeff Bridges was terrific as a younger fighter with a less-than-promising future.
  
  Huston’s follow-up was the revisionist western The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1973), a loose biography of the notorious self-appointed hanging judge Roy Bean, which featured Paul Newman in the title role, an irreverent screenplay by John Milius, and a supporting cast that included Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner, and Huston himself. Newman starred again in the Walter Hill-scripted espionage thriller The Mackintosh Man (1973). Then Huston managed to set a new acting standard for himself in Roman Polanski’s classic film noir Chinatown (1974) as the loathsome, evil Noah Cross.
  
  For decades Huston had thought about making The Man Who Would Be King (1975). In the 1950s he had wanted Bogart and Gable to play the intrepid explorers at the centre of Rudyard Kipling’s short story; in the 1960s he had envisioned Richard Burton and Peter O’Toole as the leads. In the event, Sean Connery and Michael Caine, two of the biggest stars of the 1970s, got the roles and traveled to Morocco, which stood in for the story’s Afghanistan locale. Both Connery, as the swaggering Danny, who is taken for a god and comes to believe it himself, and Caine, as his slightly dim sidekick Peachy, gave marvelous performances. Although the film was not particularly successful at the box office and received respectful but restrained reviews, it proved to be a morality tale of unusual resonance and came to be regarded as among Huston’s finest films.
  
  Four years passed before Huston was able to bring to the screen another favourite project, Wise Blood (1979). Brad Dourif played a fanatical Southern evangelist in this adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s darkly comic novel of the same name. Huston’s next film, the low-budget Hitchcockian thriller Phobia (1981), was arguably the nadir of his directorial career. Much better received was the World War II drama Victory (1981), which featured Caine, Sylvester Stallone, and football (soccer) great Pelé as Allied prisoners of war who engineer an escape from the Parisian stadium in which their team of prisoners is playing a German all-star team. Huston’s uneven big-budget adaptation of the Broadway hit Annie (1982) was his one and only musical. Filmed in Mexico, Under the Volcano (1984) was a valiant but ultimately failed attempt to capture Malcolm Lowry’s difficult novel.
  
  Far more satisfying was Prizzi’s Honor (1985), a stylized version of Richard Condon’s novel (adapted by Condon and Janet Roach) about the Mafia. Jack Nicholson delivered what many critics considered to be among his best performances as mob hit man Charley Partanna. He falls for a woman (Kathleen Turner) who turns out not only to share his profession but to become his target. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for best picture, Huston for best director, and Nicholson for best actor, while Anjelica Huston won the award for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Charley’s mistress. Throughout the 1970s and early ’80s Huston continued to act periodically in others’ films, perhaps most notably in Winter Kills (1979), a thriller based on another Condon novel.
  
  In 1987 Huston joined Anjelica and his oldest son, Tony Huston, to make what would be his final movie, The Dead (Anjelica acted in it, and Tony was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay). Based on the short story “The Dead” from James Joyce’s Dubliners, the film focused on a holiday party hosted by a pair of elderly sisters and their niece in turn-of-the-20th-century Dublin. Poignant, stately, and expertly acted, The Dead was just completed when the ailing Huston (who directed the film from a wheelchair, breathing from an oxygen tank) died at age 81. More than a few critics saw The Dead as a fitting epitaph for this prodigiously gifted storyteller.
  
  Michael Barson

  
  John Huston
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Huston
  Filmography

  Director

  1941
  The Maltese Falcon
  -Nominated-Academy Award for Best Writing Adapted Screenplay
  1942
  In This Our Life
  Across the Pacific
  1946
  Let There Be Light Documentary
  1948
  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Academy Award for Best Director
  -Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
  -Golden Globe Award for Best Director
  -New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director
  -Nominated—Venice Film Festival Grand International Award
  Key Largo
  1949 We Were Strangers
  
  1950
  The Asphalt Jungle National Board of Review Award for Best Director
  -Nominated—Academy Award for Best Director
  -Nominated—Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
  -Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Director
  -Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director
  -Nominated—Venice Film Festival Golden Lion
  
  1951
  The Red Badge of Courage
  The African Queen
  -Nominated—Academy Award for Best Director
  -Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director
  1952
  Moulin Rouge Venice Film Festival Silver Lion
  -Nominated—Academy Award for Best Picture
  -Nominated—Academy Award for Best Director
  -Nominated—Venice Film Festival Golden Lion
  1953
  Beat the Devil
  1956
  Moby Dick
  -Silver Ribbon for Best Foreign Film
  -National Board of Review Award for Best Director
  -New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director
  -Nominated—Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
  1957
  Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison
  -Nominated—Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
  1958
  The Barbarian and the Geisha
  The Roots of Heaven
  
  1960
  The Unforgiven
  The Misfits
  -Nominated—Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
  1962
  Freud
  -Nominated—Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
  -Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Director
  -Nominated—Golden Bear for Best Motion Picture
  1963
  The List of Adrian Messenger
  1964
  The Night of the Iguana
  -Nominated—Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
  -Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Director
  1966
  The Bible
  -Nominated—David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director
  1967
  Reflections in a Golden Eye
  Casino Royale
  1969
  Sinful Davey
  A Walk with Love and Death
  1970
  The Kremlin Letter
  1972
  Fat City
  The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
  1973
  The Mackintosh Man
  1975
  The Man Who Would Be King
  1976
  Independence, Documentary
  1979
  Wise Blood
  -Nominated—Gold Hugo for Best Feature
  -Nominated— San Sebastián International Film Festival for Best Film
  
  1980
  Phobia
  1981
  Victory
  -Nominated—Moscow International Film Festival Golden Prize
  1982
  Annie
  1984
  Under the Volcano
  -Nominated—Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or
  1985
  Prizzi's Honor
  -Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
  -Golden Globe Award for Best Director
  -National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
  -New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director
  -Venice Film Festival Golden Ciak for Best Film
  -Nominated—Academy Award for Best Director
  -Nominated—David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director
  -Nominated—Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
  -Nominated—Silver Ribbon for Best Foreign Director
  -Nominated—Venice Film Festival Golden Lion
  1987
  The Dead
  -Bodil Award for Best Non-European Film
  -French Syndicate of Cinema Critics for Best Foreign Film
  -Independent Spirit Award for Best Director
  -London Film Critics Circle Award for Director of the Year
  -Silver Guild Film Award for Best Foreign Film
  -Nominated—David di Donatello for Best Foreign Film
  -Nominated—David di Donatello for Best Foreign Director
  -Nominated—National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
  -Nominated—New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director
  -Nominated—Tokyo International Film Festival Grand Prix

  Screenwriter

  1930
  The Storm, William Wyler (written with Charles Logue, Langdon McCormick, Tom Reed, and Wells Root)
  1931
  A House Divided, (written with John B. Clymer, Olive Edens, and Dale Van Every)
  1932
  Murders in the Rue Morgue, Robert Florey (written with Tom Reed, and Dale Van Every)
  1932
  Law and Order, Edward L. Cahn (written with Tom Reed, and Richard Schayer)
  1935
  Death Drives Through, Edward L. Cahn (written with Katherine Strueby, and Gordon Wellesley)
  It Happened in Paris, Robert Wyler
  Carol Reed (written with Katherine Strueby, H. F. Maltby)
  1938
  The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Anatole Litvak (written with John Wexley)
  Jezebel, William Wyler (written with Clements Ripley, Abem Finkel, and Robert Buckner)
  1940
  Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, William Dieterle (written with Norman Burnstine and Heinz Herald)
  -Nominated—Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
  1941
  High Sierra, Raoul Walsh (written with W. R. Burnett)
  The Maltese Falcon, Himself
  -Nominated—Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
  Sergeant York, Howard Hawks (written with Abem Finkel, Harry Chandler, and Howard Koch)
  -Nominated—Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
  1946 The Killers, Robert Siodmak (written with Anthony Veiller)
  (uncredited)
  The Three Strangers, Jean Negulesco (written with Howard Koch)
  1948
  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Himself
  -Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
  -National Board of Review Award for Best Screenplay
  -Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Western
  -Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama
  Key Largo, (written with Richard Brooks)
  -Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama
  1949
  We Were Strangers, (written with Peter Viertel)
  
  1950
  The Asphalt Jungle, (written with Ben Maddow)
  -Nominated—Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
  -Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay
  -Nominated—The Robert Meltzer Award (Screenplay Dealing Most Ably with Problems of the American Scene)
  -Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama
  1951
  The African Queen, (written with James Agee)
  -Nominated—Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
  1952
  Moulin Rouge, (written with Anthony Veiller)
  -Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama
  1953
  Beat the Devil, (written with Truman Capote)
  1956
  Moby Dick, (written with Ray Bradbury)
  -New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay (2nd place)
  1957 Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (written with John Lee Mahin)
  -Nominated—Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
  -Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama
  1961
  The Asphalt Jungle, Herman Hoffman (written with Ben Maddow; teleplay by George Bellak)
  Television; episode "The Professor"
  1964
  The Night of the Iguana, Himself (written with Anthony Veiller)
  -Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Drama
  1970
  The Kremlin Letter, (written with Gladys Hill)
  1975
  The Man Who Would Be King, (written with Gladys Hill)
  -Nominated—Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
  -Nominated—Writers Guild of America Award for Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium
  1988
  Mr. North, Danny Huston (written with Janet Roach and James Costigan)

  Actor

  1929
  The Shakedown, Extra Directed by William Wyler
  Hell's Heroes
  
  1930
  The Storm
  1948
  The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, American in Tampico in White Suit Also director
  Uncredited
  1949
  We Were Strangers, Señor Muñoz
  
  1951
  The Red Badge of Courage, Grizzled union veteran
  1956
  Moby Dick, Barman / ship's lookout (voice)
  
  1961
  The Misfits, Extra in Blackjack scene
  1962
  Freud: The Secret Passion, Narrator
  The List of Adrian Messenger, Lord Ashton
  1963
  The Cardinal, Cardinal Lawrence Glennon Directed by Otto Preminger
  -Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
  -Nominated—Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
  -Nominated—Laurel Award for Top Male Supporting Performance
  1966
  The Bible, Noah Also director
  The Legend of Marilyn Monroe, Narrator, Directed by Terry Sanders
  1967
  Casino Royale, M / General McTarry, Also co-director
  1968
  Candy, Dr. Arnold Dunlap, Directed by Christian Marquand
  1969
  De Sade, The Abbe, Directed by Cy Endfield
  A Walk with Love and Death, Robert the Elder, Also director
  1970
  The Kremlin Letter, Admiral
  Myra Breckinridge, Buck Loner, Directed by Michael Sarne
  1971
  The Bridge in the Jungle, Sleigh, Directed by Pancho Kohner
  The Deserter, General Miles, Directed by Burt Kennedy
  Man in the Wilderness, Captain Henry, Directed by Richard C. Sarafian
  1972
  Appointment with Destiny, Narrator, Episode: "The Crucifixion of Jesus"
  The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, Grizzly Adams, Also director
  1973
  Battle for the Planet of the Apes, The Lawgiver, Directed by J. Lee Thompson
  1974
  Chinatown, Noah Cross, Directed by Roman Polanski
  -Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor
  -Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor
  -Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
  1975
  Breakout, Harris Wagner, Directed by Tom Gries
  The Wind and the Lion, John Hay, Directed by John Milius
  1976
  Sherlock Holmes in New York, Professor Moriarty, Directed by Boris Sagal
  1977
  The Rhinemann Exchange, Ambassador Henderson Granville, Directed by Burt Kennedy
  Tentacles, Ned Turner, Directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis
  Angela, Hogan, Directed by Boris Sagal
  The Hobbit, Gandalf, Directed by Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass
  1978
  The Greatest Battle, Sean O'Hara, Directed by Umberto Lenzi
  The Bermuda Triangle, Edward, Directed by René Cardona, Jr.
  The Word, Nathan Randall, TV miniseries
  1979
  The Visitor, Jerzy Colsowicz, Directed by Giulio Paradisi
  Winter Kills, Pa Kegan, Directed by William Richert
  Wise Blood, Grandfather, Also director
  Jaguar Lives! Ralph Richards, Directed by Ernest Pintoff
  1980
  The Return of the King, Gandalf, Directed by Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin, Jr.
  Head On, Clarke Hil,l Directed by Michael Grant
  1982
  Cannery Row, Narrator, Directed by David S. Ward
  Annie, Actor on radio, Also director
  Uncredited
  1983
  Lovesick, Larry Geller, M.D., Directed by Marshall Brickman
  A Minor Miracle, Father Cardenas, Directed by João Fernandes
  1985
  Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Carlos
  Narrator Episode: "Pilot"
  Segment: "Man from the South"
  Epic, Narrator, Directed by Yoram Gross
  The Black Cauldron, Directed by Ted Berman and Richard Rich
  1986
  Momo, Meister Hora, Directed by Johannes Schaaf
  1987
  Mister Corbett's Ghost, Soul collector, Directed by Danny Huston
  2018
  The Other Side of the Wind, Jake Hannaford, Directed by Orson Welles. [Scenes filmed in 1974–1975].

  Casino Royale (1967)
  
  

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

  

  2001: The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena rejects Kevin McClory's claims on Bond.
  2005: BBC One airs Ian Fleming--Bondmaker starring Ben Daniels.

  
  

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

  
  
  

  2018: National Bow Tie Day in the U.S.
  
  
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  1928: Charles Gray is born--Bournemouth, Dorset, England. (He dies 7 March 2000 at age 71--Brompton, London.)

  
  Charles Gray
  Actor who played a series of elegant cads - and a memorable opponent for James Bond
  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/mar/09/guardianobituaries2
  Eric Shorter | Wed 8 Mar 2000 21.16 EST
  

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

  Gray endowed toffs, cads, crooks, and braggarts with hauteur and elegance. What gave them authenticity was his belief in them. The voice was commanding, though it rarely needed raising, and its tone belonged to high society.
  
  Gray learned his powers of spoken speech as a young Shakespearian in Regent's Park, at Stratford-on-Avon and the Old Vic in the post-war heyday of Richard Burton, John Neville and Paul Rogers. The actor cut an imposing figure; and the voice and its inflections were under such control that together they served undetectably as Jack Hawkins's when that even better actor lost his voice from throat cancer.
  
  Gray's shamelessly affected persona, which could be arrestingly camp or plain overbearing, sometimes spilled over into his private life in Kensington. Not as private as some neighbours, Gray used to entertain friends into the small hours on his apartment balcony. When asked why he cut such a self-important dash, he would protest: "I'm not in the least aristocratic in real life, old boy. I much prefer a pint at the local."
  
  Born in Bournemouth, he spent his early adult years in an estate agent's office. By his mid-20s he felt the call of the stage; and under his real name, Donald Gray, made his first professional appearance in As You Like It (1952) for Robert Atkins in Regent's Park, playing Charles the Wrestler.
  
  Changing his name to Charles for the next production, Cymbeline, Gray then moved to Stratford-on-Avon in walk-on parts and in 1954 joined the Old Vic. Almost immediately he created a stir as the messenger Mercadé, coming on at the end of Frith Banbury's revival of Love's Labour's Lost, with decor and costumes by Cecil Beaton.
  
  By 1956 Gray was taking leads. One of his best was Achilles in Tyrone Guthrie's Edwardian revival of Troilus And Cressida. "Looking like a prize-fighter gone to seed, with muscle turning to flesh, a puffy, dissipated monster, alternately petting and tormenting his favourite orderly Patroclus," as Ivor Brown wrote in the Observer. Other Old Vic credits included Macduff to Paul Rogers's Macbeth, Lodovico to Richard Burton's and John Neville's Othellos, Escalus to Neville's Romeo, and Bolingbroke to Neville's Richard II. If neither his Bolingbroke nor Macduff could stir the audience, that would remain part of Gray's dramatic problem: however much we might admire his acting, he could never touch our feelings.
  
  After a north American tour in those roles and as Achilles, Gray returned to the West End in 1958. In Wolf Mankowitz's musical Expresso Bongo (Saville 1958) he played Capt Cyril Mavors, condescending restaurateur.
  
  In 1961 Gray was back on Broadway, this time as the Prince of Wales, later William IV, in Kean, Sartre's sardonic revision of the Alexandre Dumas play about the 19th century actor. When Peter Hall's newly formed Royal Shakespeare Company launched its contemporary season in 1962, Giles Cooper's black comedy Everything In The Garden did so well that it transferred to the West End; and Gray then took over as the aghast suburban husband who discovers in sundry pots and jars hundreds of pound notes, his wife's illicit earnings in Wimpole Street.
  
  Back at the Old Vic later that year Gray revelled in the role of the voluptuous glutton, Sir Epicure Mammon, in Tyrone Guthrie's modern-dress revival of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist; and in 1964 he won the Clarence Derwent Award for the year's best supporting actor as the land-owning host of a party given to taunt the hero of Anouilh's Poor Bitos (Arts, Duke of York's and Broadway). Staying on in New York, Gray took the title-role in The Right Honourable Gentle man (1965), a Victorian politician and sexual hypocrite. Plenty of other stage credits followed.
  
  Among small screen credits were Strickland in The Moon And Sixpence, rated as rivalling George Sanders in the film, the bland brother-in-law in Pinter's The Tea Party, the amorous TV personality in Fay Weldon's The Three Wives Of Felix Hull, an overbearing Randolph Churchill in Hugo Charteris's Asquith, the trouble-making judge in Blind Justice, the acerbic Sir Cathcart in Porterhouse Blue, an impoverished peer in The Upper Crust series and an imperious old buffer in Longitude.
  
  Among film credits were Narrator in Jim Sharman's The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the satanic priest who duelled with Christopher Lee in The Devil Rides Out, the sinister butler in The Mirror Crack'd and Judge in Shock Treatment.
  
  Charles Gray never married.
  
  • Charles (Donald Marshall) Gray, actor, born August 29 1928; died March 7 2000

  
  Charles Gray
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gray_(actor)
  
  Filmography

  Selected filmography
  
  I Accuse! (1958) as Capt. Brossard
  Heart of a Child (1958) as Fritz Heiss
  Official Detective (1958) Episode: "Extortion" as King
  The Desperate Man (1959) as Dawson
  Follow a Star (1959) as Taciturn Man at Party (uncredited)
  Tommy the Toreador (1959) as Gomez
  The Entertainer (1960) as Columnist
  Man in the Moon (1960) as Leo
  Masquerade (1965) as Benson
  The Night of the Generals (1967) as General Herbert von Seidlitz-Gabler
  You Only Live Twice (1967) as Dikko Henderson
  The Man Outside (1967) as Charles Griddon
  The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968) as Gen. Adrian Cox-Roberts
  The Devil Rides Out (1968) as Mocata
  The Nine Ages of Nakedness (1969) as Narrator (voice)
  The File of the Golden Goose (1969) as The Owl
  Mosquito Squadron (1969) as Air Commodore Hufford
  
  The Executioner (1970) as Vaughan Jones
  Cromwell (1970) as The Earl of Essex
  When Eight Bells Toll (1971) as Sir Anthony Skouras (voice, uncredited)
  Diamonds Are Forever (1971) as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
  Theatre of Blood (1973) as Solomon Psaltery (voice, uncredited)
  Tales That Witness Madness (1973) as Jack Hawkins Voice Double (voice, uncredited)
  On the Game (1974) as Narrator (voice)
  The Beast Must Die (1974) as Bennington
  Fall of Eagles (1974) as Mikhail Rodzianko
  The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) as The Criminologist - An Expert
  Seven Nights in Japan (1976) as Henry Hollander
  The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) as Mycroft Holmes
  Silver Bears (1978) as Charles Cook
  Richard II (1978) as Duke of York
  The Legacy (1978) as Karl Liebnecht
  
  The Mirror Crack'd (1980) as Bates, The Butler
  Ticket to Heaven (1981) as Musician
  Shock Treatment (1981) as Judge Oliver Wright
  The Jigsaw Man (1983) as Sir James Chorley
  The Gourmet (1984) as Manley Kingston
  Eine Frau namens Harry (1990) as Satan
  Firestar: First Contact (1991) as Commodore Vandross
  The Tichborne Claimant (1998) as Arundell

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

  
  Gottfried John obituary
  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/08/gottfried-john
  German actor whose unconventional looks helped bring him
  villainous roles in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films
  Ronald Bergan
  Mon 8 Sep 2014 12.02 EDT
  
  Gottfried John as General Arkady Ourumov in the James Bond film GoldenEye, 1995.
  Photograph: Keith Hamshere/Getty Images

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

  However, for cinephiles, it was not the name of Bond with which John, who has died of cancer aged 74, was immediately associated, but that of the German wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder for whom he appeared in five features, most significantly as the poisonous Reinhold Hoffmann in the 14-part television series Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), based on Alfred Döblin's novel.
  
  John, who was born in Berlin, was brought up by his mother. His father, whom he never met, was an engineer and a loyal Nazi, and had remarried. During the second world war, John and his mother were evacuated to East Prussia. After the war, he went to Paris where he earned a living as a pavement artist and construction worker before returning to Berlin in 1960.
  
  Although he failed to get into the Max Reinhardt acting school, he was taken on by the Schiller theatre. But it was joining Fassbinder's avant-garde theatre troupes that changed John's life. In 1971 Fassbinder founded Tango-Film and, four years later, John appeared in Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975), making an impact as Niemeyer, a sleazy, opportunistic journalist who exploits the grieving, middle-aged widow (the remarkable Brigitte Mira) of a factory worker. Instead of writing about her husband as a peaceful, quiet man as promised, Niemeyer twists things around to make it sound as if he were a wife-beater and drunk. He explains the reason he sensationalised the story with the chilling remark (with its echo of nazism) that he was just carrying out orders.
  
  In Despair (1978), Fassbinder's first film in English, John is a mysterious Russian painter of icons and in In a Year of 13 Moons (also 1978), he is a manipulative butcher, with enough charm to make a young man (Volker Spengler) fall for him. When the latter expresses his love, John replies, "Too bad you're not a girl", prompting the boy to have a sex-change operation, only to be rejected again.
  
  He had a relatively straight role in The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), as Willi Klenze, a soldier returning from the second world war to tell the eponymous heroine (Hanna Schygulla) that her husband has been killed on the Russian front. Willi later becomes a leftwing union leader. In between the Fassbinder films, John had the role of the sinister chauffeur of a former movie star in Billy Wilder's Fedora (1978).
  
  John's jolie-laide looks were used effectively in Berlin Alexanderplatz, in which he was Reinhold, a petty thief who befriends the ex-prisoner Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht), passing on his rejected women to him. In a particularly cruel act, during a robbery, Reinhold throws Franz out of the back of the truck.

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

  In contrast, returning to his avant-garde roots, John appeared in the two live-action features directed by the Quay Brothers, celebrated as animators and designers. They used John's strange aura to effect as an eccentric headteacher of a boarding school for servants in Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1996) and as an evil doctor who kidnaps an opera singer in The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005).
  
  John is survived by his wife, Barbara.
  
  • Gottfried John, actor, born 29 August 1942; died 1 September 2014

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

  Café Oriental (1962) .... (uncredited)
  Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962) .... Train passenger (uncredited)
  
  Jaider, der einsame Jäger (1971) .... Jaider
  Carlos (1971) .... Carlos
  Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972-1973, TV Mini-Series) .... Jochen
  World on a Wire (1973, TV Movie) .... Einstein
  Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975) .... Niemeyer
  Derrick (1976, Season 3, Episode 11: "Das Superding") .... Krummbach
  Die Ratten (1977, TV Movie) .... Bruno Mechelke
  Despair (1978) .... Perebrodov
  Fedora (1978) .... Kritos
  In a Year of 13 Moons (1978) .... Anton Seitz
  Wo die Liebe hinfällt (1979, TV Movie)
  The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) .... Willi Klenze
  
  Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, TV Mini-Series) .... Reinhold
  Reiseabrechnung (1980, TV Movie)
  Lili Marleen (1981) .... Aaron
  Ente oder Trente (1983)
  Super (1984) .... Hilpert
  Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter (1985, TV Movie) .... Bartolomé de las Casas
  Chinese Boxes (1984) .... Zwemmer
  Mata Hari (1985) .... Wolff
  Die Mitläufer (1985)
  Otto - Der Film (1985) .... Sonnemann (Bank robber)
  Of Pure Blood (1986, TV Movie) .... Paul Bergmann
  Der Fall Franza (1986, TV Movie) .... Capitain
  Verworrene Bilanzen (1987, TV Movie) .... Karl M. Kronen
  Schön war die Zeit (1988) .... Franz Bauer - Kameramann
  
  Wings of Fame (1990) .... Zlatogorski
  Frederick Forsyth Presents: Death Has a Bad Reputation (1990, TV Movie) .... Rodimstev
  Night of the Fox (1990, TV Movie) .... Hofer
  Elfenbein (1991, TV Movie) .... Nicholas Messier
  Ich schenk dir die Sterne (1991) .... Robert Dallburg
  Die Verfehlung (1992) .... Jacob Alain
  Die Zeit danach (1992)
  Colpo di coda (1993, TV Movie) .... Pierre
  Abraham (1993, TV Mini-Series) .... Eliezer
  Space Rangers (1993-1994, TV Series) .... Colonel Erich Weiss
  Polizeiruf 110 (1994, TV Series) .... Hannes Hellwig
  Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) .... Herr Benjamenta
  Novalis - Die blaue Blume (1995) .... Sophies Vater
  GoldenEye (1995) .... General Arkady Ourumov
  The Ogre (1996) .... Chief Forester
  Millennium (1997, TV Series) .... Josef Heim
  Am I Beautiful? (1998) .... Herbert
  Astérix et Obélix contre César (1999) .... Jules César (Julius Caesar)
  Balzac [fr] (1999, TV Movie) .... Count Hanski
  
  Gli amici di Gesù - Maria Maddalena (2000, TV Movie) .... Erode Antipa
  Proof of Life (2000) .... Eric Kessler
  The Gathering Storm (2002, TV Movie) .... Friedrich von Schroder
  Nancy & Frank - A Manhattan Love Story (2002) .... Paul von Bernwarth
  Imperium: Augustus (2003, TV Movie) .... Cicero
  Sams in Gefahr (2003) .... Schulrat
  Die schöne Braut in Schwarz (2004, TV Movie) .... Aldo Caldini
  Cowgirl (2004) .... Hans Krahl
  The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005) .... Dr. Emmanuel Drosz
  Störtebeker [fr] (2006, TV Movie) .... Konrad von Wallenrod
  Flood (2007) .... Arthur Moyes
  Das zweite Leben (2007, TV Movie) .... Robert Kreutzer
  Das Papstattentat (2008, TV Movie) .... Paolo Naldini
  John Rabe (2009) .... Dr. Oskar Trautmann
  Flores negras (2009) .... Curtis
  Rumpelstilzchen (2009, TV Movie) .... König Gustav
  Das Leben ist zu lang [de] (2010) .... Georg Maria Stahl
  
  Ruby Red (2013) .... Dr. White (final film role)

  

  1978: Moonraker films OO7 and the centrifuge.
  1979: Moonraker released in Kenya.

  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/post/2013/06/12/Happy-Anniversary-007";
  
  http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/media/Happy-anniversary-007-1987.mp4
  

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

  
  

  
  
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  August 30
  
  1963: Time magazine reviews the latest Fleming novel On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

  footenotes.net/Pages/Bond.htm
  
  Fate Worse Than Death
  Time, August 30, 1963
  
  ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
  by Ian Fleming
  299 pages. New American Library. $4.50.
  
  SOME TIME BACK, when sober-sided Britons belabored Author Ian Fleming for the consumer snobbery of his caddish hero (James Bond's car is a Bentley, his girls invariably smell of Guerlain), Fleming was unrepentant. He was sorry, he said, only for having once permitted Bond the unforgivable gaffe of ordering asparagus with bearnaise instead of mousseline sauce. But in Fleming's latest Bond bombshell, there are disquieting signs that he took the critics to heart. On page 152, sophisticated Secret Agent 007 cozies up to a blonde who smells of nothing more aristocratic than Mennen's baby powder.
  
  For Fleming fans, who like 007 just as he is, worse is to come. Pitted once more against Ernst Blofeld, the fell master of the international crime syndicate called SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Revenge and Extortion), Bond at first displays his customary stocks in trade. He uses his own urine as invisible ink, and successfully escapes from Blofeld's Alpine retreat by a daredevil schuss down the snow-covered, moonlit slope—as patrols of goons with guns set an avalanche tumbling down after him. Then, suddenly, Bond is threatened with what, for an international cad, would clearly be a fate worse than death: matrimony.
  
  The lady is a countess named Tracy. She drives like Stirling Moss and reeks of Guerlain. So far so good. But —horrors—she sometimes sounds like Debbie Reynolds. Gushes Tracy to Bond: "I've got enough sheets and pillows for two and other exciting things to do with being married." The old Bond would ordinarily give this kind of chatter some suavely short shrift. The new Bond revels in it. "Togetherness," he reflects sententiously. "What a curiously valid cliché it was!"
  
  When Bond actually marries Tracy all seems lost. Author Fleming, however, has never been without resources. He appears deus ex machina (the machine, reassuringly, is a lethal red Maserati) on page 299 and saves James Bond from his better self.

  

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

  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1005
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/sf.php3
  
  
  Danish 1973 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no26-1973/
  
  

  1983: Octopussy released in the Philippines.
  1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Pegasus in the stables.
  2017: Dynamite Comics releases James Bond: Moneypenny.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
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  1954: Caroline Cossey is born--Brooke, Norfolk, England.
  1962: Chris Ware photographs Sean Connery in his own basement flat.

  

  1972: The Daily Gleaner reports on Harry Saltzman's 26 August arrival in Jamaica.
  He promises filming in Montego Bay (the fishing boat), Falmouth (croc farm, caves), Ocho Rios (the hotel).
  1976: Filming of The Spy Who Loved Me begins with General Gogol's office in the Kremlin. (Ken Adams' set, Pinewood Studios).
  1979: Moonraker released in Austria.
  1979: James Bond 007 – Moonraker – Streng geheim released in West Germany.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  

  1997: Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a Paris car crash.
  
  
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  1943: Don Stroud is born--Honolulu, Hawaii.
  2012: Hal David dies at age 91--West Hollywood, California. (Born 25 May 1921--Brooklyn, New York.)

  
  Hal David, Songwriter, Is Dead at 9
  Legendary Lyricist Hal David
  Dies at 91
  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hal-david-dies-obituary-songwriter-burt-bacharach-367366
  4:57 PM PDT 9/1/2012 by Mike Barnes
  
  
  The songwriter worked with
  Burt Bacharach on dozens of
  classic songs, including
  Oscar winner "Raindrops
  Keep Fallin' on My Head,"
  "(They Long to Be) Close to
  You" and Dionne Warwick's
  "I Say a Little Prayer."
  
  Hal David, the Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with Burt Bacharach to form one of the most sensational hitmaking teams in the history of popular music, has died. He was 91.
  
  David died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles of complications from a stroke, his wife Eunice said. He had suffered a major stroke in March and was stricken again Tuesday, she said.
  
  "Even at the end, Hal always had a song in his head," she told The Associated Press. "He was always writing notes, or asking me to take a note down, so he wouldn't forget a lyric.
  
  In the 1960s and beyond, David and Bacharach produced some of the most memorable songs for movies, television and recording artists. They received an Oscar in 1970 for “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head,” recorded by B.J. Thomas for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and a Tony nomination and a Grammy for the score of Promises, Promises, which debuted in 1968 on Broadway.
  
  The team found their muse in a young Dionne Warwick, who rocketed to stardom singing such Bacharach-David tunes as "Don't Make Me Over," "Always Something There to Remind Me," "Alfie," "Walk on By," "Message to Michael," “I Say a Little Prayer" and "Do You Know the Way to San Jose?"
  
  Their songs also have been recorded by the likes of The Carpenters, Herb Alpert, Marty Robbins, Perry Como, The 5th Dimension, Dusty Springfield and Tom Jones and more recently by such contemporary acts as Alicia Keys, The White Stripes, The Flaming Lips and the cast of Glee.
  
  The pair had No. 1 hits in the U.S. with Alpert's "This Guy's in Love With You" in April 1968, with the famed trumpeter making in his vocal debut; Thomas' "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head," which debuted in November 1969; and The Carpenters' "(They Long to Be) Close to You," which bowed in June 1970.
  
  The 5th Dimension's heartfelt "One Less Bell to Answer" from 1970 reached No. 2, and "What's New, Pussycat?" from the sexy British singer Jones got as high as No. 3 in 1965.
  
  A native of New York, David started out penning songs to entertain GIs in the South Pacific during World War II. He worked as a copywriter at The New York Post, then wrote for Sammy Kaye, Guy Lombardo and other bandleaders before hooking up with Bacharach. He told The Hollywood Reporter last year that he became a lyricist because his oldest brother, Mack -- also a lyricist and composer who came west from New York -- was his role model. (Mack David wrote “I Don’t Care If the Sun Don’t Shine” for Patti Page.)
  
  David and Bacharach scored their first big hit with "Magic Moments," a million-selling record for Como in 1957. Five years later, they met Warwick.
  
  "In 1962, Dionne came into our office in the Brill Building in Manhattan to do some demos for us," he told THR. "She sang popular music with a gospel sound and rhythm and just blew us away. Her very first recording we produced, 'Don't Make Me Over,' was a hit.
  
  "We wrote just about every hit she sang. We were a trio, really. Burt and I worked together for 17 years. Eleven or 12 of those were with Dionne, too."
  
  David and Bacharach were a team from 1957 until their 1973 musical remake of Lost Horizon, on which they had worked for two years, bombed at the box office.
  
  Bacharach and David sued each other, and Warwick sued them both. The cases were settled out of court in 1979, and the three went their separate ways. They reconciled in 1992 for Warwick's recording of "Sunny Weather Lover."

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

  David received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in October, and in May, he and Bacharach, 83, were given the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song in Washington from President Obama. David was unable to attend because of his stroke.
  
  “Award-winning lyricist Hal David was an American songwriting treasure. His legacy of more than five decades of music has inspired fans, performers and other songwriters with its diversity and longevity," Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in a statement. "He will be missed, but his rich body of work will be with us forever.”
  
  David joined the board of ASCAP in 1974 and served as its president from 1980-86. He was head of the Songwriters Hall of Fame from 2001-11 and chairman emeritus at his death.
  
  "As a lyric writer, Hal was simple, concise and poetic -- conveying volumes of meaning in fewest possible words and always in service to the music," ASCAP's current president, the songwriter Paul Williams, said in a statement. "It is no wonder that so many of his lyrics have become part of our everyday vocabulary and his songs ... the backdrop of our lives."
  
  In addition to his wife, survivors include sons Jim and Craig and three grandchildren. His first wife, Anne, died in 1987.
  
  The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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

  Original songs
  Title Written by Originally by Original date Covered by

  99 Miles from L.A. Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by (13 artists)
  
  A House Is Not a Home Burt Bacharach, Hal David Brook Benton July 1964 Covered by (159 artists)
  
  Alfie Burt Bacharach, Hal David Cilla Black March 25, 1966 Covered by (254 artists)
  
  All Kinds of People Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1971 Covered by (9 artists)
  
  Anonymous Phone Call Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bobby Vee with The Johnny Mann Singers November 1962 Covered by Jim O'Rourke
  
  Another Night Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1966 Covered by Dusty Springfield
  
  Another Tear Falls Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene McDaniels with The Johnny Mann Singers 1961 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  Any Old Time of the Day Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1964 Covered by (7 artists)
  
  Anyone Who Had a Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick November 1963 Covered by (94 artists)
  
  Are You There (With Another Girl) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1965 Covered by (17 artists)
  
  As Long as There's an Apple Tree Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1968 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  A Whistling Tune Hal David, Sherman Edwards Elvis Presley August 1991 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  Balance of Nature Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwicke 1972 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  Bell Bottom Blues Hal David, Leon Carr Teresa Brewer December 1953 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  Blue on Blue Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bobby Vinton May 1963 Covered by (15 artists)
  
  Broken-Hearted Melody Hal David, Sherman Edwards Sarah Vaughan 1959 Covered by (12 artists)
  
  Call off the Wedding (Without a Groom There Can't Be a Bride) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Babs Tino November 1962 Covered by Don Backy

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

  Christmas Day Burt Bacharach, Hal David Edward Winter, Kay Oslin, Rita O'Connor, Julane Stites and Neil Jones December 1968 Covered by (7 artists)
  
  Country Music Holiday Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bernie Nee with Eddie O'Conner and his Orchestra February 24, 1958 Covered by Adam Faith
  
  Donna Means Heartbreak Hal David, Paul Hampton Gene Pitney October 1962 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  Don't Go Breaking My Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach and His Orchestra & Chorus March 1965 Covered by (22 artists)
  
  Don't Let It Happen to Us Hal David, Sherman Edwards The Shirelles August 1963 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  Don't Make Me Over Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1962 Covered by (51 artists)
  
  Don't Send Me Home Hal David, Leon Carr Harry James - Toni Harper February 22, 1952 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  Downhill and Shady Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1965 Covered by The Waistcoats

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

  Do You Know the Way to San Jose? Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1968 Covered by (112 artists)
  
  Early Morning Strangers Barry Manilow, Hal David Barry Manilow October 1974 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  Everybody's Out of Town Burt Bacharach, Hal David B.J. Thomas April 1970 Covered by (6 artists)
  
  Go with Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1966 Covered by Barbara Acklin
  
  Half as Big as Life Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  Hasbrook Heights Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1971 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  Here I Am Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1965 Covered by (8 artists)
  
  Home Is Where the Heart Is Hal David, Sherman Edwards Elvis Presley with The Jordanaires August 28, 1962 Covered by (11 artists)
  
  I Could Make You Mine Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Wanderers [US] September 1960 Covered by Patrick Logelin
  
  I Cry Alone Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1963 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  If I Could Go Back Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Whitman January 1973 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  If I Never Get to Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson June 1962 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  I Forgot What It Was Like Burt Bacharach, Hal David Ray Peterson July 1963 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  If You Never Say Goodbye Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwicke 1972 Covered by Liliane Saint Pierre
  
  I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tommy Hunt August 1962 Covered by (67 artists)
  
  I'll Never Fall in Love Again Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (169 artists)
  
  I'm a Better Man Burt Bacharach, Hal David Engelbert Humperdinck 1969 Covered by (5 artists)
  
  In Between the Heartaches Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1965 Covered by (7 artists)
  
  In the Land of Make Believe Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Drifters [US] December 1963 Covered by (7 artists)
  
  In Times Like These Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene McDaniels January 1960 Covered by (5 artists)
  
  I Say a Little Prayer Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick August 1967 Covered by (188 artists)
  
  Is There Another Way to Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1965 Covered by Anki
  
  Italian Fuzz Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach 1966 Covered by Fifty Foot Combo
  
  It Doesn't Matter Anymore Burt Bacharach, Hal David Ricky Nelson December 1966 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  It Only Took a Minute Hal David, Mort Garson Joe Brown and The Bruvvers October 1962 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  It's Love That Really Counts (In the Long Run) Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Shirelles August 1962 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  It Was Almost Like a Song Hal David, Archie Jordan Ronnie Milsap 1977 Covered by (13 artists)
  
  I Wake Up Crying Burt Bacharach, Hal David Del Shannon June 1961 Covered by (19 artists)
  
  Johnny Get Angry Hal David, Sherman Edwards Joanie Sommers April 1962 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  Kaleidoscope Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1977 Covered by Kisu
  
  Knowing When to Leave Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (21 artists)
  
  Let Me Go to Him Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick March 1970 Covered by (6 artists)
  
  Let the Music Play Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Drifters [US] March 1963 Covered by (5 artists)
  
  Living Together, Growing Together Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tony Bennett December 1, 1972 Covered by (8 artists)
  
  Loneliness Remembers What Happiness Forgets Burt Bacharach, Hal David Allison Durbin 1969 Covered by (5 artists)
  
  Long After Tonight Is Over Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jimmy Radcliffe October 1964 Covered by (6 artists)
  
  Long Ago Tomorrow Burt Bacharach, Hal David B. J. Thomas October 1971 Covered by Burt Bacharach
  
  Looking With My Eyes Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick September 1965 Covered by Mike Melvoin
  
  Look in My Eyes Maria Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jay & The Americans September 1963 Covered by Cliff Richard
  
  Lost Horizon Burt Bacharach, Hal David Shawn Phillips January 1973 Covered by (5 artists)
  
  Love Was Here Before the Stars Burt Bacharach, Hal David Brian Foley October 1967 Covered by (6 artists)
  
  Magic Moments Burt Bacharach, Hal David Perry Como December 1957 Covered by (30 artists)
  
  Magic Potion Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson July 1963 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  Make It Easy on Yourself Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Butler June 1962 Covered by (69 artists)
  
  Me Japanese Boy I Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Bobby Goldsboro July 1964 Covered by (8 artists)
  
  Message to Martha Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Butler December 1963 Covered by (33 artists)

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

  My Heart Is an Open Book Hal David, Lee Pockriss Jimmy Dean with Ray Ellis and His Orch. September 1958 Covered by (6 artists)
  
  My Little Red Book Burt Bacharach, Hal David Manfred Mann 1965 Covered by (35 artists)
  
  No Walls, No Ceilings, No Floors Hal David, Archie Jordan Barbara Mandrell September 1978 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  Now While I Still Remember How Hal David, Archie Jordan Orsa Lia September 1979 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  Odds and Ends Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick July 1969 Covered by (10 artists)
  
  One Less Bell to Answer Burt Bacharach, Hal David Keely Smith 1967 Covered by (40 artists)
  
  Only Love Can Break a Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene Pitney October 1962 Covered by (12 artists)
  
  Outside My Window Hal David, Sherman Edwards The Fleetwoods January 1960 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  Promise Her Anything Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tom Jones January 1966 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  Promises, Promises Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (21 artists)
  
  Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head Burt Bacharach, Hal David B.J. Thomas October 1969 Covered by (252 artists)
  
  Rain from the Skies Burt Bacharach, Hal David Adam Wade January 11, 1963 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  Reach Out for Me Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson July 1963 Covered by (26 artists)
  
  Rivers Are for Boats Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by Päivi Paunu
  
  Saturday Sunshine Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach and His Orchestra & Chorus 1963 Covered by (5 artists)
  
  Sea of Heartbreak Hal David, Paul Hampton Don Gibson May 1961 Covered by (61 artists)
  
  She Likes Basketball Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  Something Big Burt Bacharach, Hal David Mark Lindsay December 17, 1971 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  Take a Broken Heart Burt Bacharach, Hal David Rick Nelson December 1966 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  The April Fools Burt Bacharach, Hal David Percy Faith His Orchestra and Chorus 1969 Covered by (27 artists)
  
  The Face Not the Image Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by Euson
  
  The First Night of the Full Moon Hal David, Al Kealoha Perry Jack Jones May 1964 Covered by Ronnie Tober
  
  The Four Winds and the Seven Seas Hal David, Don Rodney Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians May 1949 Covered by (6 artists)
  
  The Good Times Are Coming John Barry, Hal David Mama Cass Elliot 1970 Covered by Henry Dee
  
  The Last One to Be Loved Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick August 31, 1964 Covered by (5 artists)

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

  The Love of a Boy Burt Bacharach, Hal David Timi Yuro November 1962 Covered by (5 artists)
  
  The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Burt Bacharach, Hal David The Fairmount Singers February 1962 Covered by (18 artists)
  
  (There's) Always Something There to Remind Me Burt Bacharach, Hal David Lou Johnson July 1964 Covered by (120 artists)
  
  The Story of My Life Burt Bacharach, Hal David Marty Robbins with Ray Conniff and His Orchestra September 30, 1957 Covered by (30 artists)
  
  The Things I Will Not Miss Burt Bacharach, Hal David Sally Kellerman and Andra Willis January 1973 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  The Windows of the World Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick August 1967 Covered by (33 artists)
  
  They Long to Be Close to You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Richard Chamberlain September 1963 Covered by (294 artists)
  
  This Empty Place Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1963 Covered by (10 artists)
  
  This Guy's in Love with You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Danny Williams 1968 Covered by (249 artists)
  
  To All the Girls I've Loved Before Hal David, Albert Hammond Albert Hammond 1975 Covered by (50 artists)
  
  Too Late to Worry Burt Bacharach, Hal David Babs Tino 1962 Covered by (9 artists)
  
  To Wait for Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jay & The Americans February 1964 Covered by (14 artists)
  
  Trains and Boats and Planes Burt Bacharach, Hal David Burt Bacharach and His Orchestra & Chorus March 1965 Covered by (80 artists)
  
  True Love Never Runs Smooth Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene Pitney October 1962 Covered by (5 artists)
  
  Turkey Lurkey Time Burt Bacharach, Hal David Donna McKechnie, Baayork Lee
  and Margo Sappington December 1968 Covered by (7 artists)
  
  Twenty Four Hours from Tulsa Burt Bacharach, Hal David Gene Pitney October 1963 Covered by (30 artists)
  
  Upstairs Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach December 1968 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  Using Things and Loving People Hal David, Archie Jordan B.J. Thomas July 1979 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  Walk on By Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick April 1964 Covered by (199 artists)
  
  Walk the Way You Talk Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick December 1970 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  Wanting Things Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick November 1968 Covered by (7 artists)

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

  What Am I Supposed to Do? Hal David, Archie Jordan Orsa Lia September 1979 Covered by Iris Williams
  
  What Do You See in Her Hal David, Frank Weldon Helen Grayco with Orchestra Conducted by Harold Mooney August 1955 Covered by (7 artists)
  
  What's New Pussycat? Burt Bacharach, Hal David Tom Jones 1965 Covered by (57 artists)
  
  What the World Needs Now Is Love Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jackie deShannon April 15, 1965 Covered by (240 artists)
  
  Where Would I Go Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick February 1968 Covered by Barbara Acklin
  
  Whoever You Are, I Love You Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (15 artists)
  
  Who Is Gonna Love Me Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick November 1968 Covered by (4 artists)
  
  Wishin' and Hopin' Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick 1963 Covered by (46 artists)
  
  With Open Arms Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jane Morgan 1959 Covered by Adam Faith with John Barry and His Orchestra
  
  Wives and Lovers Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jack Jones September 1963 Covered by (114 artists)
  
  You'll Answer to Me Hal David, Sherman Edwards Patti Page Featuring The Mike Stewart Singers May 1961 Covered by (3 artists)
  
  You'll Never Get to Heaven (If You Break My Heart) Burt Bacharach, Hal David Dionne Warwick July 1964 Covered by (31 artists)
  
  You'll Think of Someone Burt Bacharach, Hal David Jerry Orbach and Jill O'Hara December 1968 Covered by (2 artists)
  
  You You Darling Hal David, Lee Pockriss Eddie Williams 1959 Covered by Willy Hagara - Orchester Rolf Anders und Chor
  
  Adapted songs
  Title Written by Originals Originally by Covered by
  
  Baby Elephant Walk Hal David Baby Elephant Walk Pat Boone
  Dance Mama Dance Papa Dance Hal David Marriage, French Style Joanne and The Streamliners
  No Regrets Hal David Non, je ne regrette rien Edith Piaf Covered by (13 artists)
  Sole, Sole, Sole Hal David Sole, sole Covered by Sarah Vaughan
  Where There's a Heartache Hal David Come Touch the Sun Oliver Covered by (3 artists)
  Who Could Love Me Hal David Mi piaci come sei Shirley Bassey

  
  1978: Moonraker model unit films space exteriors on Pinewood's F Stage.
  
  1982: Jonathan Cape publishes John Gardner's Bond novel For Special Services.

  
  
  

  AFTER a screen bonanza and a literary
  absence of more than a decade, the
  return of James Bond to the world
  of the 1980s a year ago raised some eye-
  brows but enticed the fans. In Licence
  Renewed (written under commission from
  Ian Fleming's copyright holders), John
  Gardner beguiled us with a Bond drinking
  less, smoking specially made low-tar
  cigarettes, his 00 status abolished but still
  unofficially sanctioned by M, a passing nod
  at feminism, his Mark II Continental
  Bentley gone in favour of the sprightly
  energy-conserving Saab Turbo 900. But
  here again, unmistakably, was the Bond of
  Fleming's books which have sold 91 million
  copies in 36 languages. John Gardner ex-
  plained his attitude to Bond at length on
  the front of the Sunday Times Review and on
  television and radio; Philip Larkin took a
  page in the TLS to review the whole Bond
  canon; and Licence Renewed went straight to
  No. 1 on the bestseller lists in Britain. A
  second Bond-of-the-1980s was promised
  and Mr Gardner has been as good as his
  word.
  
  In For Special Services, Bond is on loan to
  the United States Government, his partner
  non other than the tough and beautiful
  Cedar, daughter of 007's old friend Felix
  Leiter. Their enemy? An old adversary,
  the legendary SPECTRE (Special Executive
  for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Re-
  venge and Extortion), has reappeared.
  Bond and Cedar find themselves in some
  deadly and terrifying situations -- from
  skyjack to plunging elevator, from armies
  of kille rants in the Mid-West to horror on
  a private mono-rail -- before they come
  face to face with the heir to Blofeld's ini-
  quitous empire.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  For Special Services, John Gardner, 1982.

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

  

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

  
  Gottfried John obituary
  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/sep/08/gottfried-john
  German actor whose unconventional looks helped bring him
  villainous roles in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's films
  Ronald Bergan
  Mon 8 Sep 2014 12.02 EDT
  
  Gottfried John as General Arkady Ourumov in the James Bond film GoldenEye, 1995.
  Photograph: Keith Hamshere/Getty Images

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

  However, for cinephiles, it was not the name of Bond with which John, who has died of cancer aged 74, was immediately associated, but that of the German wunderkind director Rainer Werner Fassbinder for whom he appeared in five features, most significantly as the poisonous Reinhold Hoffmann in the 14-part television series Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980), based on Alfred Döblin's novel.
  
  John, who was born in Berlin, was brought up by his mother. His father, whom he never met, was an engineer and a loyal Nazi, and had remarried. During the second world war, John and his mother were evacuated to East Prussia. After the war, he went to Paris where he earned a living as a pavement artist and construction worker before returning to Berlin in 1960.
  
  Although he failed to get into the Max Reinhardt acting school, he was taken on by the Schiller theatre. But it was joining Fassbinder's avant-garde theatre troupes that changed John's life. In 1971 Fassbinder founded Tango-Film and, four years later, John appeared in Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975), making an impact as Niemeyer, a sleazy, opportunistic journalist who exploits the grieving, middle-aged widow (the remarkable Brigitte Mira) of a factory worker. Instead of writing about her husband as a peaceful, quiet man as promised, Niemeyer twists things around to make it sound as if he were a wife-beater and drunk. He explains the reason he sensationalised the story with the chilling remark (with its echo of nazism) that he was just carrying out orders.
  
  In Despair (1978), Fassbinder's first film in English, John is a mysterious Russian painter of icons and in In a Year of 13 Moons (also 1978), he is a manipulative butcher, with enough charm to make a young man (Volker Spengler) fall for him. When the latter expresses his love, John replies, "Too bad you're not a girl", prompting the boy to have a sex-change operation, only to be rejected again.
  
  He had a relatively straight role in The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979), as Willi Klenze, a soldier returning from the second world war to tell the eponymous heroine (Hanna Schygulla) that her husband has been killed on the Russian front. Willi later becomes a leftwing union leader. In between the Fassbinder films, John had the role of the sinister chauffeur of a former movie star in Billy Wilder's Fedora (1978).
  
  John's jolie-laide looks were used effectively in Berlin Alexanderplatz, in which he was Reinhold, a petty thief who befriends the ex-prisoner Franz Biberkopf (Günter Lamprecht), passing on his rejected women to him. In a particularly cruel act, during a robbery, Reinhold throws Franz out of the back of the truck.

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

  In contrast, returning to his avant-garde roots, John appeared in the two live-action features directed by the Quay Brothers, celebrated as animators and designers. They used John's strange aura to effect as an eccentric headteacher of a boarding school for servants in Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1996) and as an evil doctor who kidnaps an opera singer in The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005).
  
  John is survived by his wife, Barbara.
  
  • Gottfried John, actor, born 29 August 1942; died 1 September 2014

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

  Café Oriental (1962) .... (uncredited)
  Das Mädchen und der Staatsanwalt (1962) .... Train passenger (uncredited)
  
  Jaider, der einsame Jäger (1971) .... Jaider
  Carlos (1971) .... Carlos
  Eight Hours Don't Make a Day (1972-1973, TV Mini-Series) .... Jochen
  World on a Wire (1973, TV Movie) .... Einstein
  Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven (1975) .... Niemeyer
  Derrick (1976, Season 3, Episode 11: "Das Superding") .... Krummbach
  Die Ratten (1977, TV Movie) .... Bruno Mechelke
  Despair (1978) .... Perebrodov
  Fedora (1978) .... Kritos
  In a Year of 13 Moons (1978) .... Anton Seitz
  Wo die Liebe hinfällt (1979, TV Movie)
  The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) .... Willi Klenze
  
  Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980, TV Mini-Series) .... Reinhold
  Reiseabrechnung (1980, TV Movie)
  Lili Marleen (1981) .... Aaron
  Ente oder Trente (1983)
  Super (1984) .... Hilpert
  Bartolome oder Die Rückkehr der weißen Götter (1985, TV Movie) .... Bartolomé de las Casas
  Chinese Boxes (1984) .... Zwemmer
  Mata Hari (1985) .... Wolff
  Die Mitläufer (1985)
  Otto - Der Film (1985) .... Sonnemann (Bank robber)
  Of Pure Blood (1986, TV Movie) .... Paul Bergmann
  Der Fall Franza (1986, TV Movie) .... Capitain
  Verworrene Bilanzen (1987, TV Movie) .... Karl M. Kronen
  Schön war die Zeit (1988) .... Franz Bauer - Kameramann
  
  Wings of Fame (1990) .... Zlatogorski
  Frederick Forsyth Presents: Death Has a Bad Reputation (1990, TV Movie) .... Rodimstev
  Night of the Fox (1990, TV Movie) .... Hofer
  Elfenbein (1991, TV Movie) .... Nicholas Messier
  Ich schenk dir die Sterne (1991) .... Robert Dallburg
  Die Verfehlung (1992) .... Jacob Alain
  Die Zeit danach (1992)
  Colpo di coda (1993, TV Movie) .... Pierre
  Abraham (1993, TV Mini-Series) .... Eliezer
  Space Rangers (1993-1994, TV Series) .... Colonel Erich Weiss
  Polizeiruf 110 (1994, TV Series) .... Hannes Hellwig
  Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) .... Herr Benjamenta
  Novalis - Die blaue Blume (1995) .... Sophies Vater
  GoldenEye (1995) .... General Arkady Ourumov
  The Ogre (1996) .... Chief Forester
  Millennium (1997, TV Series) .... Josef Heim
  Am I Beautiful? (1998) .... Herbert
  Astérix et Obélix contre César (1999) .... Jules César (Julius Caesar)
  Balzac [fr] (1999, TV Movie) .... Count Hanski
  
  Gli amici di Gesù - Maria Maddalena (2000, TV Movie) .... Erode Antipa
  Proof of Life (2000) .... Eric Kessler
  The Gathering Storm (2002, TV Movie) .... Friedrich von Schroder
  Nancy & Frank - A Manhattan Love Story (2002) .... Paul von Bernwarth
  Imperium: Augustus (2003, TV Movie) .... Cicero
  Sams in Gefahr (2003) .... Schulrat
  Die schöne Braut in Schwarz (2004, TV Movie) .... Aldo Caldini
  Cowgirl (2004) .... Hans Krahl
  The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2005) .... Dr. Emmanuel Drosz
  Störtebeker [fr] (2006, TV Movie) .... Konrad von Wallenrod
  Flood (2007) .... Arthur Moyes
  Das zweite Leben (2007, TV Movie) .... Robert Kreutzer
  Das Papstattentat (2008, TV Movie) .... Paolo Naldini
  John Rabe (2009) .... Dr. Oskar Trautmann
  Flores negras (2009) .... Curtis
  Rumpelstilzchen (2009, TV Movie) .... König Gustav
  Das Leben ist zu lang [de] (2010) .... Georg Maria Stahl
  
  Ruby Red (2013) .... Dr. White (final film role)

  

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

  

  Ken Wallis. Aviator 1916-2013 - A short
  film from the Into the Wind Archive

  https://vimeo.com/electricegg/kenwallis

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

  In Memory of Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis MBE 1916-2013

  
  James Bond Pilot Ken Wallis Gets Lifetime Award
  Kenneth Horatio Wallis, DSO MBE DEng CEng FRAeS PhD
  
  Autogyro Little Nellie[/i] with its creator and pilot, Ken Wallis
  
  Born 26 April 1916: Ely, Cambridgeshire
  Died 1 September 2013 (aged 97): Dereham, Norfolk
  Allegiance United Kingdom
  Service/branch Royal Air Force
  Years of service 1939–1964
  Rank Wing Commander
  Unit No. 268 Squadron RAF
  No. 103 Squadron RAF
  No. 37 Squadron RAF
  Battles/wars World War II
  Awards Distinguished Service Order
  Other work Leading exponent of autogyros
  
  Wing Commander Kenneth Horatio Wallis DSO MBE CEng FRAeS RAF (26 April 1916 – 1 September 2013) was a British aviator, engineer, and inventor. During the Second World War, Wallis served in the Royal Air Force and flew 28 bomber missions over Germany; after the war, he moved on to research and development, before retiring in 1964. He later became one of the leading exponents of autogyros and earned 34 world records, still holding eight of them at the time of his death in 2013.
  
  Early life
  Born on 26 April 1916 at Ely, Cambridgeshire, Wallis developed a practical interest in mechanics, building a motorcycle at the age of 11. In 1936, he was inspired by a demonstration by Henri Mignet of his Mignet HM.14 Pou-du-Ciel ("Flying Flea"). Using only Mignet's book, Wallis gathered the materials required, and started to build his own Flying Flea. He abandoned construction because of widespread adverse publicity about fatal accidents that implied inadequate design of the type.
  
  Wallis took an interest in powerboats which he kept up until 1957, when he won the 56-mile (90 km) long Missouri Marathon.
  
  Military career
  Wallis was keen to join the RAF, and applied for their Volunteer Reserve Service, but he was turned down due to a defective right eye. Consequently, he obtained a private flying licence which required only a certificate signed by his GP. Wallis obtained his A Licence for dual and solo flying in a record 12 hours. In 1938, Wallis tried to join the RAF again, this time with the newly formed RAF Short Service Commission Scheme, but again failed the eye test. In 1939, he was called up to RAF Uxbridge, and again was sent for a medical. When it came to the eyesight test he managed to pass, as Wallis later recalled, "I did the first line with my good eye then they covered it up and asked me to read the bottom line with my bad eye, without them realising I just turned my head slightly so I could again see with my good eye – I passed it with Above Average Eye Sight!"
  
  Wallis's military career started with Westland Lysander patrols in the RAF. In 1942, he was transferred to RAF Bomber Command, flying Wellingtons near Grimsby. Wallis subsequently served in Italy and on secondment to the US Strategic Air Command, where he flew the massive Convair B-36, that had six piston engines and four auxiliary jet engines. Thereafter, he was involved in research and development, and was awarded a number of patents on his inventions. Wallis left the RAF in 1964, retiring to Norfolk.
  
  Autogyros
  Wallis produced autogyros for, in his own words, "reconnaissance, research & development, surveillance and military purposes", and his designs were not available for enthusiasts as he considered that although the design is simple it has to be built to the appropriate standards. His contribution to autogyro design included the "offset gimbal rotor head".
  

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

  Production was at Cambridge by "Wallis Autogyros Ltd." run by his cousin.
  
  In 1970, Wallis provided camera footage from one of his autogyros in a search for the Loch Ness Monster.
  
  In 1970 it was announced that Airmark would produce his autogyro design with a certificate of airworthiness (C of A), that being essential for commercial use of the autogyro. Expected price was around £3,000.
  
  Between 2006 and 2009, Wallis took part in filming for Into the Wind, a documentary by Steven Hatton featuring the experiences and memories of wartime members of Bomber Command. The film, released in 2012, features Wallis demonstrating several of his autogyro designs.
  
  Wallis was the President of the Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, and Patron of the Wolf Preservation Foundation.
  
  a 1:24 scale plastic model kit of Wallis' WA-116 Little Nellie autogyro as portrayed in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice, was released by the Airfix company.
  
  Autogyros and aircraft
  Wallbro Monoplane Replica
  Wallis WA-116 Agile
  Wallis WA-117
  Wallis WA-118 Meteorite
  Wallis WA-119
  Wallis WA-120
  Wallis WA-121
  
  Recognition
  Wallis was the recognized world record holder for many categories of autogyro records over the years, and was also recognized as the oldest pilot to set a world flight record at the age of 89. Wallis held most of the autogyro world records during his autogyro flying career. These include the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale time-to-climb, a speed record of 189 km/h (111.7 mph), and the straight-line distance record of 869.23 km (540.11 mi). On 16 November 2002, Wallis increased the speed record to 207.7 km/h (129.1 mph).
  
  Wallis received the MBE in 1996.
  
  In July 2013, Wallis received a campaign medal for his 28 bomber missions over Germany during World War II.
  
  Later life
  He was married to Peggy Stapley, a Women's Auxiliary Air Force veteran, from 1942 to her death in 2003. Wallis died on 1 September 2013, aged 97. Prior to his death, he was living in the quiet Norfolk village of Reymerston.
  
  Old Buckenham Airport held a memorial event on 29 September at the request of the Wallis family: "A Celebration of the Life of Wing Commander Ken Wallis". It had been expected that about 500 people would attend, but an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 attended the event.

  

  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  September 2019 edited September 2019 Posts: 13,785

  September 2nd
  
  1939: An overworked Ian Fleming declines his duties as best man at the Gerald and Patricia Coke wedding.

  

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

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

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

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

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

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  September 2019 Posts: 13,785

  September 3rd
  
  1939: Recognizing the invasion of Poland and a refusal to withdraw, Britain and France declare war on Germany.
  1943: Valerie Perrine is born--Galveston, Texas.
  1963: Serena Gordon is born--London, England.
  1984: A View to a Kill films at the Ascot Race Course.

  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  Discover your inner Bond girl with
  bullet-shaped mascaras and 007 blushes
  http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/beauty/news-features/TMG4795038/Discover-your-inner-Bond-girl-with-bullet-shaped-mascaras-and-007-blushes.html
  Jenni Baden Howard on a new to die for range from Revlon
  BY Jenni Baden Howard | 03 September 2002

  With two months to go before the British premiere of Die Another Day, prepare to discover your inner Bond girl. The 007 film archives have always provided an irresistible source of inspiration for make-up artists and hair stylists (Ursula Andress's surf-tousled exit from the sea in Dr No has been recreated in endless magazine spreads), but Revlon has gone one step further and come up with a make-up range based on the latest 007 instalment.
  
  Halle Berry, who stars in the new film, is one of the beauty brand's current faces (former Revlon models who have also been Bond girls include Kim Basinger, Talisa Soto and Carey Lowell), and the company has collaborated with the makers of Die Another Day to create a cosmetics line which is inspired by its two femme fatales: Halle, whose character is called Jinx, and young British actress Rosamund Pike, who plays Bond's M16 agent, Miranda Frost.
  
  The limited edition 007 Colour Collection will be launched here on November 7 to coincide with the film's release. Revlon obviously had a lot of fun dreaming up the product names, which are predictably loaded with Bond-style puns and innuendo.
  
  There is a gold, bullet-shaped mascara in Bond Black, which features a clear lash primer; lipsticks in Mission Mauve and Berry Avenger; a blush imprinted with the famous 007 pinwheel motif and eyeshadow compacts named after Halle and Rosamund's characters.
  
  The range was developed in collaboration with the film's make-up artist and stylist, who advised on the looks and mood of the two characters. Shades and textures range from the warm and vibrant to the cool and frosted (much of the action takes place in an ice palace in Iceland, which was inspired by Sweden's ultra-trendy Ice Hotel). But the Lash Fantasy mascara stands out as a must, as it creates the essential, glamorous Bond babe flutter.

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

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  
  
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  September 4th
  
  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me starts its South London booking.
  1993: Hervé Villechaize dies at age 50--North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. (Born 23 April 1943--Paris, France.)

  
  Hervé Villechaize
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervé_Villechaize
  
  Villechaize in 1977

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

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

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

  Early life
  
  Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize was born in Paris, France on April 23, 1943. to English-born Evelyn (Recchionni) and André Villechaize, a surgeon in Toulon. The youngest of four sons, Villechaize was born with dwarfism, likely due to an endocrine disorder, which his surgeon father tried unsuccessfully to cure in several institutions. In later years, he insisted on being called a "midget" rather than a "dwarf". Villechaize was bullied at school for his condition and found solace in painting. He also had a brief modeling career.[citation needed] In 1959, at age 16, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts to study art. In 1961, he became the youngest artist ever to have his work displayed in the Museum of Paris.
  
  In 1964 he left France for the United States. He settled in a Bohemian section of New York City and taught himself English by watching television.[citation needed]
  Career
  
  Villechaize initially worked as an artist, painter and photographer. He began acting in Off-Broadway productions, including The Young Master Dante by Werner Liepolt and a play by Sam Shepard, and he also modeled for photos for National Lampoon before moving on to film.[citation needed]
  
  His first film appearance was in Chappaqua (1966). The second film was Edward Summer's Item 72-D: The Adventures of Spa and Fon filmed in 1969.[8] This was followed by several films including Christopher Speeth's and Werner Liepolt's Malatesta's Carnival of Blood; Crazy Joe; Oliver Stone's first film, Seizure; and The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. He was asked to play a role in Alejandro Jodorowsky's film Dune, which had originally begun pre-production in 1971 but was later cancelled.

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

  Though popular with the public, Villechaize proved a difficult actor on Fantasy Island, where he continually propositioned women and quarreled with the producers. He was eventually fired after demanding a salary on par with that of his co-star Ricardo Montalbán. Villechaize was replaced with Christopher Hewett, of Mr. Belvedere and The Producers fame.
  
  In 1980, Cleveland International Records released a single by The Children of the World, featuring Villechaize as vocalist: "Why" b/w "When a Child is Born"[9]
  
  He starred in the movie Forbidden Zone (1980), and appeared in Airplane II: The Sequel (1982), and episodes of Diff'rent Strokes and Taxi. He later played the role of the character Rumpelstiltskin in the Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre episode Rumpelstiltskin.
  
  In the 1980s, he became popular in Spain due to his impersonations of Prime Minister Felipe González on the television show Viaje con nosotros (Travel with us), with showman Javier Gurruchaga.
  
  He made his final appearance in a cameo appearance as himself in an episode of The Ben Stiller Show.
  
  Personal life and death
  
  Villechaize was married twice. He met his second wife Camille Hagen, an actress and stand-in double, on the set of the pilot for Fantasy Island.[2] They resided at a 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) San Fernando Valley ranch which also was home to a menagerie of farm animals and pets.[2]
  
  In 1983, for a television program That Teen Show which included messages directed at depressed and suicide-prone teenagers, Haywood Nelson, star of the sitcom What's Happening!!, interviewed Villechaize about his many suicide attempts. Villechaize said then that he had learned to love life.
  
  In the early morning hours of September 4, 1993, Villechaize is believed to have first fired a shot through the sliding glass patio door to awaken his longtime girlfriend, Kathy Self, before shooting himself at his North Hollywood home. Self found Villechaize in his backyard, and he was pronounced dead at a North Hollywood facility. Villechaize left a suicide note saying he was despondent over longtime health problems. Villechaize was suffering from chronic pain due to having oversized internal organs putting increasing pressure on his small body. According to Self, Villechaize often slept in a kneeling position so he could breathe more easily.
  
  At the time of his suicide, Cartoon Network was in negotiations for him to co-star in Space Ghost Coast to Coast, which was in pre-production at the time. Villechaize would have voiced Space Ghost's sidekick on the show.
  
  His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean off Point Fermin in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California.[citation needed]
  
  Depictions in media
  
  In a March 2012 New York Times interview, Peter Dinklage revealed that he and Sacha Gervasi spent several years writing a script about Villechaize. Gervasi, a director and journalist, conducted a lengthy interview with Villechaize just prior to his suicide; according to Dinklage, "[a]fter he killed himself, Sacha realized Hervé's interview was a suicide note". The film, My Dinner with Hervé, which is based on the last few days of Villechaize's life, stars Dinklage in the title role, and premiered on HBO on October 20, 2018.
  
  Filmography

  Chappaqua (1966) as Little Person (uncredited)
  Maidstone (1970)
  The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971) as Beppo
  The Last Stop (1972) as Deputy
  Greaser's Palace (1972) as Mr. Spitunia
  Malatesta's Carnival of Blood (1973) as Bobo
  Seizure (1974) as The Spider
  Crazy Joe (1974) as Samson
  The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) as Nick Nack
  Hot Tomorrows (1977) as Alberict
  Fantasy Island (TV series, 1977–1983) as Tattoo
  The One and Only (1978) as Milton Miller
  Forbidden Zone (1980) as King Fausto of the Sixth Dimension
  Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) as Little Breather
  The Telephone (1988) as Freeway (voice)
  Two Moon Junction (1988) as Smiley

  1997: BOND 18 films its final scene with OO7 and Wai Lin staying undercover.

  
  

  2015: Ocula magazine interviews Taryn Simon on her book Birds of the West Indies and other subjects.

  
  Ocula Conversation
  Taryn Simon in Conversation
  https://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/taryn-simon/
  Gagosian Gallery 4 September 2015
  
  Taryn Simon. Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery
  
  In 1936, an American ornithologist named James Bond published the definitive taxonomy Birds of the West Indies. Ian Fleming, an active bird-watcher living in Jamaica, appropriated the name for his novel’s lead character. He found it “flat and colourless,” a fitting choice for a character intended to be “anonymous. . . a blunt instrument in the hands of the government.” This co-opting of a name was the first in a series of substitutions and replacements that would become central to the construction of the Bond narrative.
  
  Taryn Simon's Birds of the West Indies takes the name and format of the original Bond’s taxonomy to present an inventory of women, weapons, and vehicles—recurring elements in the James Bond films between 1962 and 2012. This visual database of interchangeable variables used in the production of fantasy examines the economic and emotional value generated by their repetition. It also underlines how they function as essential accessories to the myth of the seductive, powerful, and invincible Western male.
  
  Maintaining the illusion upon which the Bond narrative relies––an ageless hero with an inexhaustible supply of state-of-the-art weaponry, luxury vehicles, and desirable women—requires a constant process of replacement. A contract exists between the Bond franchise and the viewer that binds both to a set of expectations. In servicing the desires of the consumer, fantasy becomes formula, and repetition is required; viewers demand something new, but only if it remains essentially the same.
  
  Ten of the fifty-seven women Simon approached to be part of Birds of the West Indies declined to participate. Their reasons included pregnancy, not wanting to distort the memory of their fictional character, and avoiding any further association with the Bond formula. Simon represents each missing woman by reinserting the black rectangle cut from the mat to frame their would-be portrait, covering and at the same time representing their absence.
  
  Simon’s film Honey Ryder (Nikki van der Zyl), 1962 documents the most prolific agent of substitution in the Bond franchise. From 1962 to 1979, Nikki van der Zyl, an unseen and uncredited performer, provided voice dubs for over a dozen major and minor characters throughout nine Bond films. Invisible until now, van der Zyl further underscores the interplay of substitution and repetition in the preservation of myth and the construction of fantasy.
  
  The sequencing of women, weapons, and vehicles in Birds of the West Indies was determined using a random number generator called the Mersenne Twister, used for statistical simulations and in computer programming languages. By randomly reconfiguring the ordering of the works, Birds of the West Indies continuously mimics a longing for endless reiteration unaffected by time and history.
  
  How would you describe your work, since it’s clearly not just photography?
  
  I look at my work as interdisciplinary—not existing in any specific envelope. These days most are working in interdisciplinary forms where things are less easily defined or clear. I find titles limiting and a means of control.
  
  I’m interested in spaces of confusion and disorientation in which subjects and thoughts mutate and transform—and are difficult to understand, and even more difficult to picture. I try to look at those amorphous spaces through something actual—looking at abstraction through something understandable as opposed to through abstraction itself. I’m interested in the questions that keep you up at night – what we are doing here, if there’s purpose—but driving at the unanswerable through something that appears tangible.
  
  Why are photography and text both so integral to your work?
  
  I use photography and writing to highlight an invisible space between the two – a space governed by interpretation, translation and manipulation. These two poles are constantly fighting each other and supporting each other and sometimes doing both at the same time. I do find myself more interested in the camera as a machine, allowing me to inventory certain subjects that are then made into works through their relationship to text, space, font and graphic design.
  
  You were studying science before entering into art. Does that indicate something about your interests?
  
  I am often skating a line between science and aesthetics. Science itself gives the appearance of authority or a clear answer. Graphic design plays a big role in rendering this sense of certainty to the public. I like toying with that relationship (between answers and data and the way in which they are conveyed), and creating systems that appear absolute, but are in fact just personal creations.
  
  Both my father and grandfather were obsessed data collectors and photographers. I was introduced to the larger world, the construction of facts and fantasy, and photographic production through their frequent slideshows. My father recorded histories, peoples and landscapes in Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, Thailand, and Pakistan… And brought me the visual evidence coupled with his other-worldly narratives. My grandfather’s perspective was the opposite—a macro view of the stars, nebulas, insects, minerals and plants. He spent years grinding glass to perfect a lens for his telescope. Both had closets stacked with slides. And both identified every photograph with a considerable amount of collected information.
  
  
  Taryn Simon, Shark Brain Control Device, 1983. From the series Birds of the West Indies, 2013. 
Framed archival inkjet print and text. 15 11⁄16 x 10 7⁄16 inches, (39.8 x 26.5 cm). Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery
  
  How do you select the subjects or themes of your works?

  
  The works are often guided by things I've been introduced to in the previous project—peripherally or directly. Or they are a rejection or move against previous work. They start simply, and then unfold into complicated programs. I read a lot – and often cull ideas from discoveries in both fact and fiction.
  
  For example, in A Living Man Declared Dead and other chapters, I tried to articulate certain systems, patterns, and codes through design and narrative. I travelled around the world researching and recording eighteen bloodlines and their related stories. I was exploring the unanswerable questions regarding fate and its relationship to chance, blood and circumstance. Its failures and rejections became a big part of the work. There are several empty portraits representing living members of a bloodline who could not be photographed for reasons including dengue fever, imprisonment, army service, and religious and cultural restrictions on gender. Some just refused because they didn’t want to be part of the narrative. In the end, the blanks establish a code of absence and presence. The stories themselves function as archetypal episodes from the past that are occurring now and will happen again. I was thinking about evolution and if we are in fact unfolding, or if we’re more like a skipping record—ghosts of the past and the future.
  
  For A Living Man…, you traveled to 18 countries over a four year period of time. Has your gender ever been a challenge in this context?
  
  Being a woman has been very difficult at times, and in others helpful. There were a number of difficulties to avoid along the way, something always happened: flash floods, typhoons, landslides, carjacking’s, authorities who didn’t want me photographing certain subjects. We traveled with a ton of gear to accommodate our moving studio which made us uncomfortably visible and indiscreet. In Tanzania for example, our equipment was seized by corrupt authorities that demanded 80,000 dollars for its return. I was there to photograph the bloodline of the director of the Tanzania Albino Society. Albinos in Tanzania are hunted by human poachers who trade their skin, limbs and organs for large sums of money to witchdoctors who promote the belief that albinos have magical powers. This is a subject the authorities are not keen to publicize.
  
  Your work seems very brave. Are you?
  
  It’s quite the opposite. I’m in fact very fearful and many of the projects are about confronting those intimidating and haunting lines.
  
  What are you up to now?
  
  I just completed a project for the Venice Biennale on the paperwork of power and the ways in which human kind exerts the illusion of control over events and the natural world. I'm currently working on a film project in Russia and a large scale performance piece for the Park Avenue Armory in New York and ArtAngel in London. —[O]

  Birds of the West Indies/ / A Short Interview for Photo Shanghai

  How did you begin your research for Birds of the West Indies? Did you watch all the James Bond films?
  
  
The films were watched chronologically in a binge. And then reviewed again and again. The entire studio was involved.
  
  
  Taryn Simon, 1969 Mercury Cougar XR7, 1969. From the series 
Birds of the West Indies, 2013. 
Framed archival inkjet print and text. 15 11⁄16 x 10 7⁄16 inches, (39.8 x 26.5 cm). Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery
  
  Did your understanding of the Bond franchise change after watching and re-watching all the films for this project?

  
  The films journey through economics, race, gender politics, weapons development and proliferation, branding, identity, global politics, aesthetics in such a radical form. They truly stand as a powerful record of culture's role in all of these categories. Interestingly I was told that MI6 at one point looked to Bond for weapons development ideas as opposed to the other way around. Perhaps that's the way it goes: imagination and fantasy first. 


  
  Will you be in the movie theater for the next James Bond film?

  
  Front and center.


  
  How were you able to photograph the elements of the James Bond film franchise? What was the hardest thing to find?

  
  The weapons and vehicles came from different sites throughout Europe and America: the official Bond archive, auction houses, private collectors, museums. The earlier items presented more obstacles because the value of the franchise was not yet established and elements of the films weren't preserved as they are today. I'm always interested in archives that develop before value is established - and then how they mutate once it is recognized -- the collision of low and high art. 

  
  Did any one of the interchangeable elements of the Bond franchise have particular meaning for you?

  
  As a metaphor, I always liked the Hasselblad signature gun in which a camera is a weapon of death.
  


  Were you concerned about the project’s viability when some of the actresses refused to be photographed? What made you decide to indicate these actresses’ absences with “blank” images?

  
  When Ursula Andress declined to participate, I was sure the project was in jeopardy of failure. She is THE bond girl. I became obsessed with getting her image and history, and in that process discovered that the voice of her character in Dr. No is dubbed by an uncredited English woman named Nikki Van der Zyl. Ursula's character, Honey Ryder, is a fragmented creation; pieced together to compel. In the end Ursula's absence was a blessing. I created a film in which Nikki, who had always been invisible in the Bond universe, reads the complete lines of Ursula's character - and becomes visible. 

  
  Nikki was the most prolific agent of substitution in the Bond franchise. From 1962 to 1979, she provided voice dubs for over a dozen major and minor characters throughout nine Bond films. For me, she underscores the interplay of substitution and repetition in the preservation of myth and the construction of fantasy.
  
  

The empty portraits disrupt the archive and present obstacles I couldn't transcend. In my work, I'm often associated with access to difficult and complex areas and subjects. I assumed this project would be a break from those difficulties. Surprisingly, it was even more difficult. Ten of the fifty-seven women I approached to be part of Birds of the West Indies declined to participate. Their reasons included pregnancy, not wanting to distort the memory of their fictional character, and avoiding any further association with the Bond formula.
  
  
  Taryn Simon, Bibi Dahl (Lynn-Holly Johnson), 1981. From the series 
Birds of the West Indies, 2013. 
Framed archival inkjet print and text. 15 11⁄16 x 10 7⁄16 inches, (39.8 x 26.5 cm). Image courtesy Gagosian Gallery
  
  
How do you view the portraits of the women in relation to your ongoing exploration of reality of fiction in the history of your work?
  
  
I see the women's portraits existing in this strange liminal space between reality and fiction. Or a space where both reality and fiction disappear and a third space opens up that is neither. The mark of a bond girl is so indelible; there is often no room for another reality or identity. Their poses and clothing play a part in that push/pull. —[O]
  
  Interview supplied by Photo Shanghai

  
  
  

  
  
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  September 5th
  
  1939: George Lazenby is born--Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.
  1968: Richard Maibaum finishes the script used to film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

  
  
  
  

  1979: 007 Contra o Foguete da Morte (OO7: Against the Rocket of Death) released in Brazil.

  

  1988: Karl Gerhart "Gert" Fröbe dies at age 75--Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.
  (Born 25 February 1913--Oberplanitz, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany.)

  
  Gert Frobe, 75; Portrayed Goldfinger in Bond Movie
  http://articles.latimes.com/1988-09-07/news/mn-1578_1_gert-frobe
  September 07, 1988|BURT A. FOLKART | Times Staff Writer
  

  Gert Frobe, the ginger-haired, rotund comic actor who portrayed what has been described as Ian Fleming's "kinkiest villain," Goldfinger, has died following a heart attack.

  Frobe, a former violinist and cabaret performer, was 75 when he died in a Munich hospital Monday. He had suffered the attack last Wednesday, a day after he returned to the stage for the first time since a cancer operation in 1986.
  
  Frobe was born Karl-Gerhard Frobe in Planitz in what is now East Germany. He was a natural-born comic, described by critics as Germany's version of American Danny Kaye.
  
  In Nearly 100 Films
  Frobe played in nearly 100 films, including roles in the 1961 U.S. production of "The Longest Day" and the British-produced "The Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines," filmed in 1964.

  But he was best-known internationally for his role as the greedy villain "Goldfinger" who battled Sean Connery's James Bond in the 1964 film version of the Fleming thriller.
  
  In the picture Goldfinger portrays a preposterous multimillionaire criminal who schemes to rob the U.S. Mint at Ft. Knox. Bond, of course, thwarts him.

  The professional triumph Frobe managed in that film was overshadowed a year later when he was quoted in the British newspaper Daily Mail as saying: "Naturally I was a Nazi" during the Third Reich.
  
  Frobe denied making the comment and insisted: "What I told an English reporter during an interview . . . was that during the Third Reich I had the luck to be able to help two Jewish people although I was a member of the (Nazi) party."
  
  Despite Frobe's denial, Israel banned all of his films for months until Mario Blumenau informed the Israeli Embassy in Vienna that Frobe had indeed hidden Blumenau and his mother from the Nazis.
  
  Frobe studied theater under Dresden actor Erich Ponto and Paul Guenther in Berlin during the early years of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.
  
  After theaters were closed by the Nazis in September, 1944, Frobe was called into the German army, where he served until the end of World War II.
  
  'A New Danny Kaye'
  In his first major role in a film, "Berlin Ballads," which opened in European cinemas in 1948, film critics wrote: "Germany has a new Danny Kaye." In it he played a character called Otto Normalverbraucher, or Otto Normal Consumer, a soldier returning to a devastated Germany from a prisoner of war camp.
  
  Although he was trained as a classical violinist and played his first recital on German radio when he was in his teens, Frobe turned his back on music to pursue a dramatic career.
  
  Among his other films are "The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse," "Threepenny Opera," "A High Wind in Jamaica," "Is Paris Burning?" in which he played Gen. Dietrich von Sholititz, Hitler's commandant in Paris, "And Then There Were None" and "Bloodline."

  
  Gert Fröbe
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002085/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography
  

  Actor (111 credits)
  
  1989 The Black Forest Clinic (TV Series) -Theodor Katz
  - Hochzeit mit Hindernissen (1989) ... Theodor Katz
  1986-1987 The Little Vampire (TV Series) - Detective Gurrmeyer
  - Kein Abschied ist für immer (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
  - Transportprobleme (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
  - Geiermeier ist überall (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
  - Das große Fest der Vampire (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
  - Unruhe im Keller (1987) ... Detective Gurrmeyer
  1985 Alte Sünden rosten nicht (TV Movie) - Konsul Heimann
  1984 August der Starke (TV Movie) - August der Starke
  1983 Der Raub der Sabinerinnen (TV Movie) - Emanuel Striese
  1983 Der Garten (TV Movie) - Mr. Hayward
  1981 Banovic Strahinja - Jug Bogdan
  1981 Ein sturer Bock (TV Movie)
  1980 The Umbrella Coup - Otto Krampe, dit La Baleine (as Gert Froebe)
  
  1979 Bloodline - Inspector Max Hornung
  1979 Noch 'ne Oper (TV Movie) - Mann auf der Straße
  1978 Der Tiefstapler - Felix von Korn
  1978 Der Schimmelreiter - Tede Volkerts (Deichgraf)
  1977 Death or Freedom - Graf von Buttlar
  1977 The Serpent's Egg - Inspector Bauer (as Gert Froebe)
  1977 Das Gesetz des Clans - Philip Brown
  1976 Sonntagsgeschichten (TV Movie) - Gastwirt
  1976 Death Rite - Vestar
  1975 Alte Hüte aus Wien - Witziges - Spitziges - Spritziges (TV Movie)
  1975 Mein Onkel Theodor oder Wie man viel Geld im Schlaf verdient - Traugott Wurster / Theodor Wurster
  1975 Doctor Justice - Max Orwall / Georges Orwall (as Gert Froebe)
  1975 The Man Without a Face (TV Mini-Series) - Le commissaire Sorbier
  - Le secret des Templiers (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
  - Le rapt (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe, credit only)
  - Le sang accusateur (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
  - La marche des spectres (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
  - La mort qui rampait sur les toits (1975) ... Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
  1974 Histoires insolites (TV Series) - Joseph
  - Parcelle brillante (1974) ... Joseph
  1974 Shadowman - Le commissaire Sorbier (as Gert Froebe)
  1974 Ten Little Indians - Blore (as Gert Froebe)
  1974 Der Räuber Hotzenplotz -Der Räuber Hotzenplotz
  1973 Ludwig - Father Hoffman
  1971 $ - Mr. Kessel
  
  1969 Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies - Willi Schickel / Horst Müller (as Gert Frobe)
  1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Baron Bomburst (as Gert Frobe)
  1968 Dear Caroline - Le docteur Belhomme (as Gert Froebe)
  1967 Those Fantastic Flying Fools - Professor von Bulow (as Gert Frobe)
  1967 I Killed Rasputin - Rasputin (as Gert Froebe)
  1966 Triple Cross - Colonel Steinhager (as Gert Froebe)
  1966 Is Paris Burning? - General Dietrich von Choltitz (as Gert Froebe)
  1966 Crook's Honor - Paul
  1966 The Upper Hand - Walter (as Gert Froebe)
  1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Emil Claasen
  1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Count Manfred Von Holstein (as Gert Frobe)
  1965 A High Wind in Jamaica - Dutch Captain (as Gert Frobe)
  1964 Goldfinger - Goldfinger (as Gert Frobe)
  1964 Backfire - Karl Fehrman
  1964 Tonio Kröger - Policeman Peterson
  1964 Greed in the Sun - Castagliano dit 'La betterave' (as Gert Froebe)
  1963 Banana Peel - Raymond Lachard
  1963 Three Penny Opera - J.J. Peachum
  1963 The Golden Patsy - Alfred Paulsen
  1963 Enough Rope - Melchior Kimmel
  1962 The Longest Day - Sgt. Kaffekanne
  1962 The Terror of Doctor Mabuse - Kriminalkommissar Lohmann
  1962 Redhead - Kramer
  1961 Auf Wiedersehen - Angelo Pirrone
  1961 The Return of Dr. Mabuse - Kommissar Lohmann
  1961 Via Mala - Jonas Lauretz
  1961 Der grüne Bogenschütze - Abel Bellamy
  1960 Crook and the Cross - Paul Wittkowski
  1960 Until Money Departs You - Jupp Grapsch
  1960 The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse - Kriminalkommissar Kras
  1960 Headquarters State Secret - Der Chef
  1960 Between Love and Duty - Le général (as Gert Froebe)
  1960 The High Life - Docteur Kölling
  
  1959 Alt Heidelberg - Dr. Jüttner
  1959 Der Schatz vom Toplitzsee - Johannes Grohmann (alias Dr. Brand)
  1959 The Day It Rained - Dr. Albert Maurer
  1959 Grand Hotel - Generaldirektor Preysing
  1959 Duel with Death - Dag sen.
  1959 Jons und Erdme - Smailus, ehem. russischer Matrose
  1959 Twelve Hours by the Clock - Blanche
  1959 Prisoner of the Volga - Professor
  1959 The Kidnapping of Miss Nylon - Hugo
  1958 Das Mädchen mit den Katzenaugen - Tessmann' Katja's Father
  1958 The Crammer - Freddy Blei
  1958 Grabenplatz 17 - Titu Goritsch
  1958 It Happened in Broad Daylight - Schrott
  1958 Rosemary - Bruster
  1958 Wet Asphalt - Jupp
  1958 Not Delivered - Hans (as Gert Froebe)
  1957 Das Herz von St. Pauli - Jabowski
  1957 Charmants garçons - Edmond Petersen (as Gert Froebe)
  1957 The Mad Bomberg - Kommerzienrat Gustav-Eberhard Mühlberg
  1957 He Who Must Die - Patriarcheas (as Gert Froebe)
  1957 The Girl and the Legend - Mr. Gillis
  1957 Typhoon Over Nagasaki - Ritter
  1956 Waldwinter - Gerstenberg
  1956 Ein Herz schlägt für Erika - Heubacher
  1956 The Girl from Flanders - Rittmeister Kupfer
  1955 Her Crime Was Love
  1955 Das Forsthaus in Tirol - Bäuerle, Kaufmann
  1955 Heroes and Sinners - Hermann (as Gert Froebe)
  1955 Confidential Report - First Policeman - Munich (as Gert Frobe)
  1955 Ich weiß, wofür ich lebe - Pfeifer, Inspektor Jugendfürsorge
  1955 Der dunkle Stern - Deltorri
  1955 Special Delivery - Olaf
  1954 The Eternal Waltz - Gawrinoff
  1954 A Double Life - Mittelmeier
  1954 They Were So Young - Lobos
  1954 Das Kreuz am Jägersteig - Kobbe
  1954 Morgengrauen - Bit part
  1954 The Little Town Will Go to Sleep - Oskar Blume - Gelegenheitsarbeiter
  1953 Hochzeit auf Reisen - Herr Mengwasser
  1953 Arlette erobert Paris - Manager Edmond Duval
  1953 Die vertagte Hochzeitsnacht - Gondoliere
  1953 A Heart's Foul Play - Briefüberbringer
  1953 Salto Mortale - Jan
  1953 Man on a Tightrope - Police Agent (uncredited)
  1952 Der Tag vor der Hochzeit - Rundfunkreporter
  1951 Decision Before Dawn - German Corporal - Nuremberg Control Point (uncredited)
  1950 Die Kreuzlschreiber - Lustiger Bauernbursche (uncredited)
  
  1949 Nach Regen scheint Sonne - Konstantin
  1948 The Berliner - Otto Normalverbraucher
  1948 Der Herr vom andern Stern - Extra (uncredited)
  
  Soundtrack (5 credits)
  
  1997 MGM Sing-Alongs: Friends (Video short) (performer: "Chu-Chi Face")
  1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (performer: "Chu-Chi Face", "Happy Birthday" - uncredited)
  1963 Three Penny Opera (performer: "Der Morgenchoral des Peachum", "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?", "Von der Unsicherheit der menschlichen Verhältnisse", "Denn wovon lebt der Mensch", "Lied von der Unzulänglichkeit menschlichen Strebens" - uncredited)
  1961 Auf Wiedersehen (performer: "Sagt, wie darf ich Euch nennen" - uncredited)
  1948 The Berliner (performer: "Kopf hoch, die Sache wird schon schiefgeh'n")
  
  Writer (2 credits)
  
  1986 Aus familiären Gründen (TV Movie) (story)
  1978 Als wär's heut' gewesen... Kleine Geschichten sind das Leben (TV Movie)

  
  

  1993: Claude Renoir dies at age 79--Troyes, Aube, France. (Born 4 December 1913--Paris, France.)

  
  Claude Renoir
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Renoir
  Born December 4, 1913, Paris, France
  Died September 5, 1993 (aged 79), Troyes, Aube, Champagne, France
  Nationality French
  
  Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913[1] – September 5, 1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the nephew of director Jean Renoir, and the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

  He was born in Paris, his mother being actress Véra Sergine. He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman, a brother of Dziga Vertov, who much later worked in the United States on such films as On the Waterfront (1954). Renoir was the lighting cameraman on numerous pictures such as Monsieur Vincent (1947), Jean Renoir's The River (1951), Cleopatra (1963), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), and the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). At the time of Claude Renoir's death, The Times of London wrote of The River that "its exquisite evocation of the Indian scene, helped to inaugurate a new era in the cinema, one in which color was finally accepted as a medium fit for great film makers to work in."

  He also participated in the making of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), the documentary on painter Pablo Picasso directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. He was the cinematographer for The Crucible (1957) and lived in East Germany during filming. Renoir's career came to a close in the late 1970s, as he was rapidly losing sight. In his final years he was largely blind.
  
  He married twice and had two children, a son and a daughter, actress Sophie Renoir. Claude Renoir died at age 79 in Troyes, 55 miles east of Paris, near the village of Essoyes, where he had a home.

  
  Claude Renoir
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005841/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Cinematographer (89 credits)
  1981 Sphinx (uncredited)
  
  1979 The Medic
  1978 Attention, the Kids Are Watching
  1978 The Discord
  1977 Animal
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (director of photography)
  1976 The Wing or The Thigh? (director of photography)
  1976 Une femme fidèle
  1976 Femmes Fatales
  1976 Docteur Françoise Gailland
  1975 French Connection II (director of photography)
  1975 The Track
  1974 Paul and Michelle
  1973 Story of a Love Story (director of photography)
  1973 The Serpent
  1972 Hellé
  1972 Killer
  1971 The Burglars
  1971 The Horsemen
  1971 Swashbuckler
  1970 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
  1970 The Adventurers
  
  1969 The Madwoman of Chaillot
  1969 Soluna
  1968 Barbarella (director of photography)
  1968 Spirits of the Dead (director of photography - segment "Metzengerstein")
  1966 La Grande Vadrouille
  1966 The Game Is Over
  1966 Paris au mois d'août
  1965 Marco the Magnificent
  1965 The Hour of Truth
  1964 The Unvanquished
  1964 Paris When It Sizzles (uncredited)
  1963 The Corrupt
  1962 Il fiore e la violenza (segment "La scampagnata")
  1962 II Marco Polo
  1962 Les amants de Teruel
  1962 Lafayette
  1960 Wasteland
  1960 Blood and Roses
  1960 Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion
  
  1959 Gorilla's Waltz
  1959 Honeymoon (uncredited)
  1959 Hit and Run
  1958 Youthful Sinners
  1958 End of Desire
  1957 The Crucible
  1956 Crime and Punishment
  1956 Elena and Her Men (director of photography)
  1956 The Mystery of Picasso (Documentary) (director of photography)
  1955 A Missionary
  1954 Madame Butterfly
  1954 Fabulous India (Documentary)
  1954 Maddalena
  1953 Puccini
  1952 The Golden Coach
  1952 The Green Glove
  1951 Images de l'ancienne Égypte (Documentary short)
  1951 Amazing Monsieur Fabre
  1951 The River
  1951 Clara de Montargis
  1951 Dr. Knock
  1950 Gunman in the Streets
  1950 Born of Unknown Father
  1950 Prélude à la gloire
  
  1949 Rendezvous in July
  1949 Docteur Laennec
  1949 Alice in Wonderland (photography)
  1948 Dilemma of Two Angels
  1948 La grande volière
  1947 Monsieur Vincent
  1947 La maison sous la mer
  1947 The Royalists
  1947 Passionnelle (disposal of the body sequence, uncredited)
  1946 Mr. Orchid
  1946 A Day in the Country (Short)
  1946 Le couple idéal
  1946 Behind These Walls
  1945 The Queer Assignment
  1944 L'aventure est au coin de la rue
  1944 Bonsoir mesdames, bonsoir messieurs
  1943 Aristide Maillol, sculpteur (Documentary short)
  1942 Opéra-musette
  1940 Sérénade
  
  1938 Les rois de la flotte
  1938 Lumières de Paris
  1937 Le chanteur de minuit
  1936 La vie est à nous
  1935 Toni
  
  Camera and Electrical Department (11 credits)
  1964 Circus World (second unit cameraman)
  1963 Cleopatra (photographer: second unit)
  
  1946 Mr. Orchid (camera operator)
  1946 Reunion (Documentary short) (assistant camera - one topic, uncredited)
  
  1939 Le dernier tournant (camera operator - as Cl. Renoir Junior)
  1938 La Bête Humaine (camera operator - as Claude Renoir Jr.)
  1938 Prison sans barreaux (camera operator)
  1938 Legions of Honor[/i] (camera operator)
  1937 La Grande Illusion (assistant cameraman)
  1933 Chotard and Company (assistant camera)
  1932 Night at the Crossroads (assistant camera)
  
  Set decorator (1 credit)
  1980 Mont-Oriol (TV Movie)
  
  Self (4 credits)
  2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: 007 in Egypt (Video documentary short) Himself
  1977 The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (TV Series documentary) Himself
  - Shooting Scene 341 (1977) ... Himself
  - Also Starring... (1977) ... Himself
  1975 Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (TV Series documentary)
  Himself
  - Le désordre et après 1961-1966 (1975) ... Himself
  - Une certaine tradition de qualité 1945-1955 (1975) ... Himself
  1956 The Mystery of Picasso (Documentary) Himself (uncredited)
  
  Archive footage (2 credits)
  2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short)
  Himself
  2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) Himself

  
  

  2006: John McLusky dies at age 83--Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.
  (Born 20 January 1923--Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland.)

  
  John McLusky
  https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/John_McLusky
  Born: 20 January 1923, Glasgow
  Died: 5 September 2006 (aged 83)
  Nationality: British
  Projects involved in
  First: James Bond (Daily Express)
  Last: James Bond (Daily Express)
  
  John McLusky (20 January 1923 – 5 September 2006) was a comics artist best known as the original artist of the comic strip featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond.
  
  Biography
  
  McLusky began illustrating the comic strip adaptation of James Bond for the Daily Express. From 1958 to 1966, McLusky adapted 13 of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels or short stories. After Yaroslav Horak had taken over the James Bond strip, McLusky drew Secret Agent 13 for Fleetway. For the magazine TV Comic McLusky illustrated several strips over 15 years, notably Look and Learn and strip adaptations for Laurel & Hardy, and the Pink Panther. In 1982 McLusky returned to illustrate the James Bond strip, collaborating with writer Jim Lawrence to illustrate 4 new original James Bond stories.
  
  James Bond strips
  
  Casino Royale Anthony Hern July 7, 1958 - December 13, 1958 1-138
  Live and Let Die Henry Gammidge December 15, 1958 - March 28, 1959 139-225
  Moonraker Henry Gammidge March 30, 1959 - August 8, 1959 226-339
  Diamonds Are Forever Henry Gammidge August 10, 1959 - January 30, 1960 340-487
  From Russia with Love Henry Gammidge February 1, 1960 - May 21, 1960 488-583
  Dr. No Peter O'Donnell May 23, 1960 - October 1, 1960 584-697
  Goldfinger Henry Gammidge October 3, 1960 - April 1, 1961 698-849
  Risico Henry Gammidge April 3, 1961 - June 24, 1961 850-921
  From A View To A Kill Henry Gammidge June 26, 1961 - September 9, 1961 922-987
  For Your Eyes Only Henry Gammidge September 11, 1961 - December 9, 1961 988-1065
  Thunderball Henry Gammidge December 11, 1961 - February 10, 1962 1066-1128
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service Henry Gammidge June 29, 1964 - May 15, 1965 1-274
  You Only Live Twice Henry Gammidge May 17, 1965 - January 8, 1966 275-475
  
  Other work
  
  The Paradise Plot (1981-1982)
  Deathmask (1982–1983)
  Flittermouse (1983)
  Polestar (1983)
  The Scent Of Danger (1984)

  
  
  
  
  
  Further reading:
  
  
  https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mclusky_john.htm
  
  UK Comics Wiki
  https://ukcomics.fandom.com/wiki/John_McLusky_(1923-2006)

  2012: Designing 007 – Fifty Years of Bond Style finishes its run at the Barbican Centre, London.
  Following cities: Dubai, Paris, Madrid, Melbourne, Mexico City, Moscow, Rotterdam, Shanghai, Toronto.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2018: Dynamite Comics releases James Bond Origins #1.

  
  https://syfy.com/syfywire/exclusive-jeff-parker-on-007s-formative-years-in-dynamites-james-bond-origin
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  September 2019 edited September 2019 Posts: 13,785

  September 6th
  
  1955: Raymond Benson is born--Midland, Texas.
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever last day of filming.
  1972: Ian Fleming Publications Ltd is incorporated with an office in London, Greater London.
  1976: Naomie Melanie Harris is born--London, England.
  1978: Date of the first draft for the "Warhead" script, based on the "James Bond of the Secret Service" screenplay by Ian Fleming, Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham. Later auctioned by Christie's of London in 2008.

  
  Sale 5425
  Pop Culture: Entertainment Memorabilia
  https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/kevin-mcclory-warhead-1976-never-5154433-details.aspx
  London, South Kensington | 4 December 2008

  Lot 86

  Kevin McClory Warhead, 1976 Never Say Never Again,
  1983

  Price realised
  GBP 46,850

  Estimate
  GBP 2,000 - GBP 3,000

  Kevin McClory Warhead, 1976 Never Say Never Again, 1983
  Kevin McClory's script for Warhead, an unmade James Bond project, the script
  entitled "Warhead" Based on "JAMES BOND OF THE SECRET SERVICE" by Ian
  Fleming, Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, giving further details on the title page of
  the screenplay's authors Len Deighton, Sean Connery and Kevin McClory,
  production details including c Branwell Film Productions, March 21, 1976... and
  FIRST DRAFT 6 September 1978..., 137pp. mimeographed typescript, various
  characters in the cast list include the hero James Bond and Bond girls: Justine
  Lovesit and Fatima Blush, other Bond regulars include: Ernst Stavros Blofeld, Felix
  Leiter, Moneypenny, M and Q, original blue paper covers; accompanied by a black
  and white photograph of the three authors of the screenplay, Connery, Deighton and
  McClory at the latter's home in Ireland, taken during their collaboration on this
  project [printed later] -- 8x10in. (20.4x25.5cm.); and

  Kevin McClory's shooting script for Never Say Never Again, 119pp. of
  mimeographed typescript, variously dated from 7.9.82 to 23.9.82; 123pp. of
  mimeographed storyboards including many dramatic underwater sequences
  including shipwreck shark attacks on Bond, the duel between Bond and Largo and
  the assassination of Largo by Domino, the pages contained in a maroon vinyl ring
  binder -- accompanied by a letter from the vendor explaining the provenance (4)

  
  
  
  

  1979: 007 – Aventura no Espaco (007 - Space Adventure) released in Portugal.

  
  

  2007: Puffin publishes Charlie Higson's Young Bond novel Hurricane Gold.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2008: Jack White and Alicia Keyes film a video in Toronto.

  

  2019: Caroline International/Loma Vista Recordings releases Iggy Pop's album Free (single: “James Bond”).

  

  2019: Q the Music Show is paired with an appearance by Caroline Bliss at St. George's Hall, Bradford.

  
  The James Bond Concert Spectacular
  https://whatson.bradford.gov.uk/the-james-bond-concert-spectacular/
  Music - Choir Concert
  Friday, 6 September 2019
  
  The popular Q The Music Show bring the fabulous and iconic music of James Bond to you in a stunning concert. Fresh from the West End, this show has been a huge success all around the world with its energetic and exciting performance by some of the UK’s leading musicians and is compered by Caroline Bliss, who played Miss Moneypenny in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill.

  Opening Times / Details:
  19:30

  Price notes:
  Tickets £26.50
  Booking fees apply

  For more information:
  Website: www.bradford-theatres.co.uk.

  Venue Details
  
  Address:
  St George's Hall
  Bridge Street
  Bradford
  BD1 1JT

  Directions:
  
  Full information on where to park can be obtained from the Box Office staff when booking your tickets.
  
  Designated parking spaces are available for disabled patrons at the Alhambra on Morley Street and on Randall Well Street opposite the Love Apple Cafe Bar. Please access the Morley Street spaces via Great Horton Road at the side of the Alhambra.
  
  There is a drop-off and pick-up point in the lay-by outside St George's Hall for wheelchair users.
  
  For further information please ask for a copy of our leaflet Access to Bradford Theatres when booking your tickets.

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  September 2019 edited January 2020 Posts: 13,785

  September 7th
  
  1932: Ian Fleming mildly demands and gets a (clandestine) salary increase from Sir Roderick and Reuters.
  1951: Chrissie Hynde is born--Akron, Ohio.
  1961: Richard Maibaum and Wolf Mankowitz submit their Dr. No screenplay first draft.

  And taking the fifth.

  
  Read the script pages for
  James Bond’s first ever
  scene
  https://www.bfi.org.uk/news/happy-50th-anniversary-mr-bond
  …and complete an original 1962 Dr No crossword puzzle.
  Samuel Wigley | Updated: 27 May 2016
  
  On 5 October 1962, Dr No had its premiere screening in London. The first film adaptation from the popular spy novels of Ian Fleming, it was to begin one of the most successful franchises in cinema history. Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman acquired the film rights to the James Bond novels in the 1950s but it took some time to get the first project off the ground, the producers finding little interest from Hollywood in this very British spy.
  
  The task of adapting the 1958 novel Dr No for the screen initially fell to Richard Maibaum and Wolf Mankowitz, with Johanna Harwood and Berkely Mather brought in to polish later drafts. At this time, Mankowitz – a friend of ‘Cubby’ Broccoli’s – was best-known for the Peter Sellers-Sophia Loren vehicle The Millionairess (1960) and the apocalyptic sci-fi The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). He would later ask for his name to be removed from the Dr No credits after seeing the rushes and fearing a major flop.
  
  Maibaum, on the other hand, who had spent the 1950s writing war films like The Red Beret (1953) and The Cockleshell Heroes (1954), as well as Nicholas Ray’s Bigger than Life (1956), would go on to make a career out of Fleming’s secret agent, penning a further 12 Bond films before bowing out with Licence to Kill in 1989.
  
  To celebrate Mr Bond’s cinematic anniversary, we present an extract from the fifth draft script. It’s the classic moment part-way into Dr No in which the suave superspy (played in the film by Sean Connery) is first introduced to the world. The scene is a London gambling room called Le Cercle, where at the top stakes table, surrounded by onlookers, a chic woman in a red dress and a tuxedoed man with his back to the camera issue their commands to the croupier…
  
  
  
  Fifth draft screenplay by Richard Maibaum, Wolf Mankowitz, and JM (Johanna) Harwood for Dr No (Eon Productions/MGM)
  
  The pressbook issued to exhibitors to help market the film’s release in October 1962 was full of suggestions for innovative gimmicks to exploit the film’s appeal. If a game of chemin de fer at an exclusive casino isn’t on the cards today, there could be worse ways to toast Mr Bond on his 50th anniversary than to have a go at the pressbook’s Dr No crossword puzzle.
  
  

  1963: O Satânico Dr. No (The Satanic Dr. No) released in Brazil.

  
  1978 Ebal Comic http://www.bialto.pt/item/235081/ebal---serie-007-james-bond-2--o-satanico-dr-no.html
  
  
  
  
  

  1989: Licence to Kill released in Australia.

  Daybill

  

  1994: Terence Young dies at age 79--Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France. (Born: 20 June 1915-- Shanghai, China.)

  
  Obituary: Terence Young
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-terence-young-1449081.html
  David Shipman | Friday 16 September 1994 00:02
  
  Terence Young, film director, producer, screenwriter; born Shanghai 20 June 1915; married (one son, two daughters); died Cannes 7 September 1994.
  
  THE British cinema - as opposed to the British film industry - first began to consider its responsibilities during the Second World War. The quantity and vitality of British movies produced between 1945 and 1950 is astonishing, with the serious variety attracting large audiences as never before. Between them, the benevolent flour- milling mogul Arthur Rank and the creative Hungarian paterfamilias Alexander Korda encouraged new talents, none of whom was more promising than Terence Young.
  
  Young's first two films as director, for Rank, came out early in 1948, proving him anxious to work well outside the British mainstream. One Hour With You, with a typically playful script by Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon, imagined the misfortunes of Patricia Roc wooed by the tenor Nino Martini while stranded in Italy. Corridor of Mirrors gave even more meaning to the words bizarre, baroque - as Eric Portman, at his most magniloquent, brooded over a Renaissance painting in his dark mansion, convinced that he and his mistress, Edana Romney, are reincarnations of the lovers in it.
  
  Earlier Young had worked as screenwriter on some interesting films with the director Brian Desmond Hurst: On the Night of the Fire (1939), a fugitive-from-justice tale, heavily influenced by Marcel Carne, with Ralph Richardson and Diana Wynyard; Dangerous Moonlight (1941), a wartime love affair between a Polish airman, Anton Walbrook, and an American journalist, Sally Gray, with the 'Warsaw Concerto' thrown in as a bonus; Hungry Hill (1946), Daphne du Maurier's chronicle of an Irish family with Margaret Lockwood as its matriarch; and Theirs is the Glory (1946), a semi-documentary account of the failure of the Battle of Arnhem. During service with the Armoured Guards Division Young was given leave to work with Clive Brook on the screenplay for On Approval (1944), based on Frederick Lonsdale's comedy and as directed by Brook, with himself, Beatrice Lillie, Googie Withers and Roland Culver, a happy version of a filmed play.
  
  Young's first job with Rank was to hack a screenplay out of Mary Webb's novel Precious Bane, which he was scheduled to direct with Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons; but Rank got cold feet at the last minute and transferred him to a comedy with Granger, Woman Hater, for which he brought Edwige Feuillere across from France. Young's other film that year, They Were Not Divided, was a project dear to his heart, as it followed two Welsh Guardsmen, Edward Underdown and the American Ralph Clanton, from square- bashing to D-Day and beyond.
  
  In 1954 he directed That Lady, the story of the romance of the one-eyed Princess of Eboli which scandalised the court of Philip II; he blamed its failure on the fact that that he had asked for Laurence Olivier and Ava Gardner, but had been given Gilbert Roland and Olivia de Havillland. With Zoltan Korda he co-directed Storm Over the Nile (1955), with Laurence Harvey and Anthony Steel, a remake of 1939 The Four Feathers, with footage from that stretched out for CinemaScope.

  Young had already experienced his most important career move. Two American producers, Irving Allen and Albert 'Cubby' Broccoli, taking advantage of US tax concessions for working abroad, came to Britain with Alan Ladd to make The Red Beret (1953), in which Ladd was an American officer who does a T. E. Lawrence-like stint in the ranks of the British regiment. They had admired Young's work on his war movies and though he won no kudos for this one it was popular. He stayed with their company, Warwick, establishing himself as a director of transatlantic action movies.

  He broke away for another personal project, Serious Charge (1959), in which a vengeful teddy boy, Andrew Ray, accuses a vicar, Anthony Quayle, of sexual assault. He then accepted the challenge of bringing four of Roland Petit's ballets to the wide screen in Un, Deux, Trois, Quatre (1960), or Black Tights. Maurice Chevalier introduced these diverse pleasures, including Moira Shearer and Petit in Cyrano de Bergerac, Cyd Charisse as a merry widow and Zizi Jeanmaire with him in Carmen.
  
  Its success was not unqualified, and Young went on to co-direct, with Ferdinando Baldi, Orazi E Curiazi (1961), with Alan Ladd decidedly ill-at-ease as Horatio at the bridge. Cut, dubbed and retitled Duel of Champions, it got a few bookings some years later.

  By that time Young's career had soared. Broccoli had teamed up with Harry Saltzman to film Dr No (1963), one of Ian Fleming's thrillers about a British secret service agent, James Bond. Saltzman, the American backer of such films as Look Back in Anger, had been looking for something more evidently popular. Apart from the two of them nobody believed in it, including the distributor, United Artists, who imposed budget restrictions; half a dozen actors turned down the role before it was accepted by the little-known and unlikely Sean Connery. (Young had previously directed Connery in 1957 in a small role in Action of the Tiger.) The notices were mediocre and Fleming was privately contemptuous, but the film went on to knock the box-office for six. With an injection of humour and Connery splendidly easing himself into the role, From Russia with Love (1963) and then Thunderball (1965) proved that Young was a first-rate action director and that the public couldn't get enough of 007.

  When Young abandoned Bond, it was with mixed results. The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965) was an attempt by Marcel Hellman to duplicate the success of Tom Jones. But Warner Bros then put Young in charge of an adaptation of a long-running play, Wait Until Dark (1967), with Audrey Hepburn menaced by thugs, including a scarey Alan Arkin - and that is surely one of the best thrillers of the decade.
  
  Young followed it with an Italian version of Conrad, L'Avventurio or The Rover (1967), which has been little seen despite the presence of Rita Hayworth and Anthony Quinn, and Mayerling (1968) with James Mason and Ava Gardner under-used as Franz Joseph and Elisabeth and Omar Sharif and Catherine Deneuve as the lovers. Several other co-productions with either France or Italy included The Valachi Papers (1972), a Mafia tale with Charles Bronson.
  
  Young's long-delayed first Hollywood film, The Klansman (1974), with Richard Burton and Lee Marvin, was scathingly received - one reason why Paramount pulled the plug on The Jackpot, also with Burton, during production. But that company invited Young back for Bloodline (1979), based on a Sidney Sheldon bestseller which managed to combine a plot about company greed with one about the making of porn movies. Audrey Hepburn and James Mason headed the cast, and after the dreadful notices, she commented that she had made it both because the locations didn't take her far from her family and because she liked the director.
  
  Young attracted Olivier to Inchon (1980) and The Jigsaw Man (1983), in which he respectively played General MacArthur and an admiral involved with Michael Caine, a former head of MI6 who had defected. The former, financed by the Rev Sun Myung Moon to an estimated dollars 100m, took peanuts in the US and has never been seen in Britain; the second ran into financial difficulties during filming and went direct to video.
  
  This is a sad ending to an extraordinary career. No one would class Young with his contemporaries David Lean and Carol Reed, but he was one among others embraced by Hollywood: Michael Anderson, J. Lee Thompson, Ronald Neame, Ken Annakin and Lewis Gilbert. They gave Hollywood some excellent films and the American film industry liked them because they thought in commercial terms.

  
  Terence Young
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0950109/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Director (40 credits)
  
  1988 Run for Your Life
  1983 The Jigsaw Man
  1981 Inchon
  1980 Long Days (unconfirmed, uncredited)
  
  1979 Bloodline
  1975 Jackpot
  1974 The Klansman
  1973 The Amazons
  1972 The Valachi Papers
  1971 Red Sun
  1970 Cold Sweat
  
  1969 The Christmas Tree
  1968 Mayerling
  1967 Wait Until Dark
  1967 The Rover
  1966 Triple Cross
  1966 The Poppy Is Also a Flower
  1965 Thunderball
  1965 The Secret Agents
  1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
  1963 From Russia with Love
  1962 Dr. No
  1961 Duel of Champions (english version)
  1961 Black Tights
  1960 Playgirl After Dark
  
  1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - Dark as the Night (1959)
  1959 Serious Charge
  1958 Tank Force
  1957 Action of the Tiger
  1956 Zarak
  1956 Safari
  1955 Storm Over the Nile
  1955 That Lady
  1953 Paratrooper
  1952 The Frightened Bride
  1951 Valley of the Eagles
  1950 They Were Not Divided
  
  1948 Woman Hater
  1948 One Night with You
  1948 Corridor of Mirrors
  
  Writer (17 credits)
  
  1977 Foxbat (additional script material)
  1973 The Amazons
  1969 The Christmas Tree (writer)
  1968 Mayerling (screenplay)
  1966 Mission to Tokyo (adaptation)
  1962 Dr. No (uncredited)
  
  1958 Tank Force [aka No Time to Die] (written by)
  1951 Valley of the Eagles (written by)
  1950 They Were Not Divided
  
  1949 The Bad Lord Byron (writer - uncredited)
  1947 Hungry Hill (screenplay)
  1944 On Approval (uncredited)
  1943 A Letter from Ulster (Documentary short) (screenplay - as Shaun Terence Young)
  1942 Secret Mission (original story - as Shaun Terence Young)
  1941 Suicide Squadron (original story) / (screenplay)
  1940 A Call for Arms! (Short) (story)
  
  1939 The Fugitive (adaptation) / (scenario)
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (4 credits)
  
  1977 Foxbat (script consultant)
  1969 Birds, Orphans and Fools (presenter)
  1964 Goldfinger (director: pre-production - uncredited)
  1963 From Russia with Love (body double: Pedro Armendáriz - uncredited)
  
  Producer (2 credits)
  
  1984 Where Is Parsifal? (executive producer)
  1964 Goldfinger (associate producer: pre-production - uncredited)
  Hide Hide Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
  1988 Chicken and Duck Talk (assistant director)
  
  Editorial department (1 credit)
  
  1980 Long Days (supervising editor)
  
  Thanks (2 credits)
  
  2009 Frankenpimp (special thanks)
  1949 The Bad Lord Byron (producers gratefully acknowledge the contributions to the screenplay made by)
  
  Self (13 credits)
  
  2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  1999 The James Bond Story (TV Movie documentary) - Himself - Interviewee[/u]
  1992 Le divan (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Terence Young (1992) ... Himself
  1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1988 Sacrée soirée (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode dated 17 February 1988 (1988) ... Himself
  1982 Ciné parade (TV Series documentary) = Himself
  - L'usine à rêves (1982) ... Himself
  1974 The Merv Griffin Show (TV Series) - Himself
  - On location with "The Klansman" (1974) ... Himself
  1968 Vienna: The Years Remembered (Documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
  1968 Monsieur Cinéma (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode dated 2 December 1968 (1968) ... Himself
  1968 L'invité du dimanche (TV Series) - Himself
  - Edwige Feuillère (1968) ... Himself
  1965 A Child's Guide to Blowing Up a Motor Car (TV Short) - Himself
  1964 Thunderball: Production Footage (Short) - Himself
  
  Archive footage (14 credits)
  
  2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Himself
  2002 Happy Anniversary Mr. Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  2000 Cubby Broccoli: The Man Behind Bond (TV Short documentary) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
  2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
  1999 And the Word Was Bond (TV Special documentary) - Himself
  1997 The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself
  1995 The 67th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) - Himself (Memorial Tribute)
  1965 Telescope (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Licensed to Make a Killing (1965) ... Himself
  1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1965 Take Thirty (TV Series) - Himself
  - Sean Connery on Being Bond (1965) ... Himself

  

  2003: Warren Zevon dies at age 56--Los Angeles, California. (Born 24 January 1947--Chicago, Illinois.)

  

  Zevon Diagnosed With Lung Cancer

  https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/zevon-diagnosed-with-lung-cancer-248846/
  Veteran singer-songwriter’s disease untreatable
  By Andrew Dansby - September 12, 2002
  
  Warren Zevon has been diagnosed with lung cancer, and the disease
  has advanced to an untreatable stage. The fifty-five-year-old
  singer-songwriter received the news last month and is currently
  spending time at home with his children and in the studio recording
  new songs.

  In keeping with the acerbic wit found in his songs like “Life’ll
  Kill Ya” and “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,” Zevon said of his
  diagnosis, “I’m OK with it, but it’ll be a drag if I don’t make it
  till the next James Bond movie comes out.”

  Nearly three years ago, Zevon released the eerily prophetic
  Life’ll Kill Ya, with several songs addressing death and
  illness. “Sickness, doctors, that scares me,” he told Rolling
  Stone at the time. “Not violence — helplessness. That’s why I
  turn to violent stories, I think.” At the time, Zevon said the
  songs were not inspired by any sort of health scare. “It’s kind of
  the fun of it, pretending to deal with something that you don’t
  want to, and try to laugh about it. I mean, I’ve had guns in my
  face, I’ve been robbed, but the doctor stuff — it’s too much for
  me.”
  
  Zevon began his career in the late Sixties as a session man and
  songwriter for the likes of the Everly Brothers and the Turtles. He
  also penned Linda Ronstadt’s 1978 hit “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” and
  scored one of his own that same year with “Werewolves of London.”
  In May, Zevon released his eleventh studio album, My Ride’s
  Here, which featured collaborations with writers Hunter S.
  Thompson, Carl Hiaasen and Paul Muldoon. Rhino Records will release
  a new anthology of his work, Genius: The Best of Warren
  Zevon, on October 15th.

  Enjoy.

  

  

  2012: Press release announces the future Skyfall world premiere (23 October) at the Royal Albert Hall, London.
  
  
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  September 8th
  
  1925: Peter Sellers is born--Portsmouth, England. (He dies 24 July 1980--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.)

  
  Peter Sellers Dies at 54
  https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/peter-sellers-dies-at-54
  by Roger Ebert | July 24, 1980
  
  Peter Sellers is dead at 54, a victim of the heart disease that first struck him in 1964 and continued to haunt him during his most productive years as an international star.
  
  His death in London at 6:28 p.m. Chicago time Wednesday came after a massive heart attack. At his bedside were his fourth wife, Lynne Frederick; his second wife, Britt Ekland, and their daughter Victoria, who is 15. But Mr. Sellers never regained consciousness after the attack that struck him Tuesday in his suite at London's Dorchester Hotel.
  
  "Mr. Sellers' death was entirely due to natural causes," a spokesman for Middlesex Hospital said. "His heart just faded away. His condition deteriorated very rapidly."
  
  An emergency team of 10 specialists was at his bedside when he died, but they were helpless.
  
  Mr. Sellers was in London to work on the screenplay of "Romance of the Pink Panther," which was to have been his sixth film in the role of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau, his most famous comic creation. He was still basking in the acclaim for his starring role in last year's "Being There," which won him an Academy Award nomination.
  
  His latest film, "The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu," opens in Chicago on Aug. 8. In it, as in so many of his films, Mr. Sellers plays six different roles. That was one of his trademarks after such early successes as "The Mouse That Roared" (1959), in which he played the entire population of the mythical Duchy of Grand Fenwick, and "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), in which he played three roles.
  
  His multiple roles were masks, Mr. Sellers liked to claim, describing himself as basically a character actor: "As far as I'm aware, I have no personality of my own whatsoever. I have no character to offer the public. When I look at myself I just see a person who strangely lacks what I consider to be the ingredients for a personality. If you asked me to play myself, I wouldn't know what to do." But as the characters he played in more than 50 major movies, Mr. Sellers became one of the busiest and most popular movie stars of the 1960s and '70s. His widest audiences came for the Inspector Clouseau pictures, which began with "The Pink Panther" in 1963 and continued through "Revenge of the Pink Panther" in 1978.
  
  His best-known roles in more ambitious films were as in "I'm All Right, Jack" (1959), "Lolita" (1962), "Waltz of the Toreadors" (1964), "Dr. Strangelove" (1964), "The Party" (1968) and "Being There."
  
  I remember him talking about the inspirations for some of his famous roles at a press conference at the Hawaiian premiere of "Revenge of the Pink Panther." Inspector Clouseau's famous accent, he recalled, wasn't there in the original "Pink Panther," but came later: "I developed it in 'A Shot in the Dark' [1964]. It came from this brilliant concierge in a hotel I used to stay at in Paris. He was a master of dealing with American tourists. He'd talk to them in a strange accent that wasn't French but sounded French to an English-speaker."
  
  In Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," Mr. Sellers said, he created Strangelove's most famous characteristic - a mechanical hand with an automatic Nazi salute - during the process of filming.
  
  "The right hand was not originally supposed to be a Nazi hand," he said. "Then Stanley Kubrick put the black glove on my hand and suddenly we got this inspiration that Strangelove was schizo, split right down the middle, his left half American, his right half Nazi. If you know what to look for when you see the movie, you could see some of the actors breaking up the first time my hand goes out of control . . ." If Mr. Sellers was correct in saying that he had no personality of his own to portray, then perhaps his performance in "Being There" was his most autobiographical. He played Chauncey, a strange, middle-aged man raised entirely in isolation, with television as his only source of information on how to behave. The character's utter simplicity and transparency led statesmen to imagine they had discovered great depths in him. It was a virtuoso performance, made all the more difficult because Mr. Sellers had to sustain a single note throughout the movie.
  
  Peter Sellers was born Sept. 8, 1925, in Southsea, England, the son of British vaudeville performers, and was literally raised in the wings. He appeared with his parents as a child, won a talent contest at 13, joined the Royal Air Force at 17 and worked as an entertainer. In the 1950s he became famous as the star of England's radio "Goon Show," memories of which were recreated in Richard Lester's famous 1960 short subject, "The Running, Jumping and Standing Still Film."
  
  He moved into British film comedies and was a star by the late 1950s. Mr. Sellers often described himself as a "hopeless romantic" who was constantly falling in love. He married for the first time in 1951, to Australian actress Anne Howe, and they had two children, Michael and Sarah Jane. But in 1960 that marriage broke up as Mr. Sellers fell in love with Sophia Loren while they were filming "The Millionairess" together. Loren turned down his proposal of marriage.
  
  In 1964, shortly after the triumphs as Inspector Clouseau, he married Swedish actress Britt Ekland after an 11-day courtship. Shortly afterward, he suffered his first major heart attack. His marriage to Ekland lasted until 1969 and produced his daughter, Victoria.
  
  In 1970, Mr. Sellers married Miranda Quarry, daughter of a British lord. They were divorced in 1974. He and Liza Minnelli announced they would be married, but the romance cooled and he married actress Lynne Frederick in 1977. Mr. Sellers had his second major heart attack, and was fitted with a pacemaker in 1977. In May of this year, he collapsed in Dublin while making a commercial, but recovered to visit the Cannes Film Festival, where he looked unwell.
  
  Filmmaker Blake Edwards, who directed the Clouseau movies, said Wednesday, "One lived with the realization that Peter could go at any time. But he was a very courageous man who refused to let his heart problems interfere with his personal life."
  
  Mr. Sellers gave evidence of that during the 1978 "Pink Panther" press conference. A reporter asked if he would mind answering a personal question.
  
  "Of course not," Mr. Sellers said.
  
  "I understand you've had some heart attacks . . ." the reporter began, before Mr. Sellers interrupted him with gallows humor: "Yes, but I plan to give them up. I'm down to two a day."

  PETER SELLERS
  The Official Website of Peter Sellers
  https://www.petersellers.com/about/filmography/
  
  Filmography

  1982
  – Trail of the Pink Panther
  
  1980
  -The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
  
  1979
  -Being There
  -The Prisoner of Zenda
  
  1978
  –Revenge of the Pink Panther
  
  1978
  -Kingdom of Gifts (voice)
  
  1977
  -Best of British Film Comedy
  -To See Such Fun
  
  1976
  -Best of the Muppet Show
  -Murder by Death
  -The Pink Panther Strikes Again
  
  1974
  -The Great McGonagall
  -Soft Beds, Hard Battles
  -The Return of the Pink Panther
  
  1973
  – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  – The Blockhouse
  – Ghost in the Noonday Sun
  – The Optimists
  – Undercovers Hero
  
  1972
  -Does It Hurt?
  – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
  
  1970
  -There’s a Girl in My Soup
  – A Day at the Beach
  – Hoffman
  – Simon Simon
  
  1969
  -The Magic Christian
  
  1968
  – I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
  – The Party
  
  1967
  – The Bobo
  – Woman Times Seven
  – Casino Royale
  – Alice in Wonderland
  – With Love, Sophia
  
  1966
  – After the Fox
  – Caccia alla volpe
  – The Wrong Box
  
  1965
  – What’s New, Pussycat
  
  1964
  – Dr. Strangelove
  - The World of Henry Orient
  – Carol for Another Christmas
  – The Pink Panther
  – A Shot in the Dark

  

  1961: Date of the original screen treatment for Dr No wherein a Cuban-financed imposter with a caper targeting the Panama Canal. Plus he had a monkey.
  1967: Casino Royale released in Australia.

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  1983: Octopussy released in Spain.

  
  
  

  2006: Full trailer to Casino Royale released.

  

  2015: Sam Smith announces he's written and will sing the title song for Spectre.
  2015: Orion publishes Anthony Horowitz's Bond novel Trigger Mortis. Audio book voiced by David Oyelowo.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  September 9th
  
  1924: Ian Fleming shoots his first stag at Black Mount, Argyllshire.
  1935: Topol is born--Tel Aviv, Palestine.
  1943: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

  
  Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
  secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
  mistress
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/
  
  Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess who met Fleming in 1931 when he was just 23
  Credit: Cecil Beaton courtesy of Emily Russell
  

  Thursday 9 September, 1943
  
  Last Friday, mainland Italy was invaded by the Eighth Army. There
  was great suppressed excitement and whisperings in the office. I.
  was speaking on the BBC German Naval Programme. His voice is
  excellent – firm, vigorous and dignified. I was pleased with the
  performance and told him so later when he came to dinner. I. was
  exhausted with the week’s excitements. He was satisfied but not the
  least bit exuberant.

  1951: Steven Jay Ruben is born--Chicago, Illinois.
  1959: Éric Serra is born--Paris, France.
  1961: Neal Purvis is born--United Kingdom.
  1961: James Bond comic strip From A View A Kill ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Began 26 June 1961. 922-987) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/favtak.php3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1976.php3?s=comics&id=01835
  
  
  Danish 1968 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no43-1978/
  
  
  
  Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no13-1968/
  

  1966: James Bond comic The Man with the Golden Gun ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Began 10 January 1966. 1-209) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tmwtgg.php3
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3?s=comics&id=01820
  
  
  Danish 1977 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no40-1977/
  
  
  
  
  Danish 1976 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no35-1976/
  
  
  Danish 1968 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no15-1968/
  
  
  
  
  

  1979: Moonraker released in Spain.

  
  
  
  
  

  1988: Licence to Kill films Sanchez terminating Krest in the decompression chamber.
  2011: Public announcements reveal the Turkish Culture Minister grants permission to film in Istanbul.
  2012: Ruth Kempf dies at age 97--Opelousas, Louisiana. (Born 9 March 1915.)

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

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

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

  Actress (2 credits)
  
  1976 J.D.'s Revenge - Woman Passenger
  1973 Live and Let Die - Mrs. Bell
  

  
  
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  September 10th
  
  1984: A View to a Kill films James and Stacey uncovering Zorin’s scheme.
  1995: Derek Meddings dies at age 64--London, England. (Born 15 January 1931--Pancras, London, England.)

  
  OBITUARY: Derek Meddings
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-derek-meddings-1600979.html
  Cy Young | Thursday 14 September 1995

  The work of Derek Meddings thrilled millions of moviegoers, yet only a small percentage could actually name the man responsible for the special effects of the James Bond films of the 1970s and Hollywood blockbusters like Superman (1978). Within the industry, the reverse was true: American film-makers came to Pinewood Studios because of the international reputation of British technicians, and Meddings was one of the best.

  His father had been a carpenter at Denham Studios and his mother variously Merle Oberon's stand-in and Alex Korda's secretary, but it was not until the late 1940s that Derek was able to use his art school training to get a job there, lettering credit titles. The first break came when he met the special effects man Les Bowie on a commercial, and joined his matte painting department.
  
  During the Fifties Bowie and his new recruit created Transylvanian landscapes for Hammer Films, where limited budgets necessitated a "string and cardboard" invention that proved useful when Meddings was hired for Gerry Anderson's earliest television puppet shows. From painting cut-out backgrounds of ranch houses and picket fences on Four Feather Falls (a western format), Meddings moved on to design the models for Stingray (1965) with Reg Hill, and was then given a free hand on what has since become a cult series, Thunderbirds.

  Drawing on the lessons in ingenuity from his years with Ron Bowie, he applied simple logic to the problem of tracking alongside the futuristic vehicles on take-off and landing; camera and Thunderbird remained stationary, while the background of trees and runway moved backwards on a continuous belt which rotated under the miniature set, on the same principle as an escalator. In 1966 Anderson and Meddings hit the big screen with the full- length cinema feature Thunderbirds are Go!, and then made the crossover to adult, live action, science fiction with Doppelganger (1969, aka Journey to the Far Side of the Sun) about a rogue planet that was a mirror of the earth. Meddings worked again with Anderson on Captain Scarlet (1967) and UFO (1970, another live action venture) until he impressed Cubby Broccoli with some miniature effects done for Live and Let Die, which launched Roger Moore as James Bond in 1973.
  
  Once Broccoli realised the economic advantages of building detailed models instead of expensive full-size constructions, Meddings was encouraged to come up with ideas on the next Bond, The Man With the Golden Gun (1974). However, he was not entirely finished with "string and cardboard" - or, at least, wire and fibreglass. In 1975 John Dark and Kevin Connor decided that their prehistoric adventure The Land That Time Forgot could do without the stop-frame animation and matte superimpositions of Hammer's One Million Years BC - instead they would build prop monsters that could be photographed in the same frame as the actors. It was not Meddings's fault that a low budget meant that the pterodactyls' wings never moved in flight.

  He was on safer ground the following year with Aces High. For this First World War aviation drama there was no model work. Authentic fighters and bombers of the period were restored to flying trim by the specialists Doug and Tony Bianchi, and Meddings's principal job was to rig the planes for the combat sequences.
  
  On the release of Aces High, I compiled a programme in Granada television's series Clapperboard about the making of the film, and Meddings was one of our interviewees. Like most backroom professionals in the film business he was modest, quietly spoken, matter-of-fact, and took pleasure in explaining his craft; how the stab of gunfire was simulated by the flashing of a strobe light in the muzzle of a biplane's machine-gun, and how a canister placed discreetly between the underside of a wing and the fuselage would be detonated by the pilot, to leave a dramatic smoke trail as the aircraft spiralled out of a dogfight. Meddings became a friend of Clapperboard, and came back on several occasions to demonstrate the tricks of his trade.

  He returned to the world of James Bond for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), and came to admire the production designer, Ken Adam, greatly. Adam had the luxury of working on the 007 Stage at Pinewood, which had been purpose- built to accommodate his design for the interior of a supertanker; but Meddings probably had more fun, because he got to spend four months on location in the Bahamas, where he supervised the design and construction of a miniature supertanker for exterior sequences. "Miniature" is a comparative term, since the oil tanker was over 60ft in length; it had to be of a scale to gobble up three equally authentic-looking nuclear submarines and - being filmed on the real ocean - would have to achieve a convincing amount of water displacement.
  
  Meddings's other masterpiece of special effects on The Spy Who Loved Me was the Lotus Esprit which converted into a submersible. For this he cleverly intercut full-size body shells with one-quarter scale miniatures. On screen, nobody could see the join and Meddings won a Grand Prix award from UNIATED for his work on the movie - incidentally, carried out in shark- infested waters.

  Riding high, Meddings was persuaded to create the all- important models shots for Superman. Pinewood was again the main venue, and one of the principal sequences filmed there was the destruction of the Golden Gate Bridge, in San Francisco, in an earthquake. For increased realism, Meddings opted to shoot on the backlot against a genuine sky rather than inside a stage against a blue screen. A 60ft span of bridge was constructed, over which the actor Christopher Reeve was suspended by wires; below, a miniature school bus and several automobiles were made to collide as Superman dived to the rescue. The ice planet of Krypton, a crazy jigsaw of plaster and fibreglass, was built on F Stage. Its disintegration was filmed with a camera mounted on a special arm, the LOUMA, that could tack along the 20ft-deep gullies of the collapsing set. Having made audiences believe that a man could fly, Meddings received an Oscar.

  For the next Bond epic, Moonraker (1979), Meddings returned to first principles. Using a technique almost as old as the cinematograph itself, he did all the optical effects for the climactic battle "in the camera"; a process of winding back the film and exposing it again and again, until the required composite image of astronauts, space station and escape pods was obtained.

  Ever versatile, Meddings designed the bizarre weapons employed in the sword and sorcery adventure Krull (1983), as well as directing second- unit action in Italy, before lending his talents to Neil Jordan's supernatural comedy High Spirits (1988). When the director Tim Burton visited Meddings at the Irish location to discuss working on Batman (1989), it was not only his track record with 007 and Superman that counted - it emerged that Burton was a fan of Thunderbirds, and Meddings reckoned that was really why he got the job.
  
  The resulting collaboration was another feather in the cap of the Magic Camera Company, the comprehensive visual effects facility that Meddings had established at Lee International Studios in Shepperton. From this base of operations, Meddings also supplied the necessary expertise to Supergirl (1984) and Santa Claus - the Movie (1985); while for the internationally cast production The Never Ending Story II (1990), a tale of magic and dragons, he set up an outfit in Germany.

  At the time of his death, Derek Meddings was engaged in post-production on the new James Bond picture, Goldeneye, on which his sons Mark and Elliott also worked.

  Derek Meddings, film special effects technician: born London 15 January 1931; twice married (six children); died London 10 September 1995.

  
  Derek Meddings
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0575439/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Special effects (20 credits)
  
  2015 Thunderbirds (TV Series) (special effects - 2015)
  
  1993 Germinal (special effects coordinator)
  1991 Hudson Hawk (special effects supervisor)
  1988 High Spirits (special effects unit director)
  1988 Apprentice to Murder (special effects)
  1987 Mio in the Land of Faraway (special effects)
  1983 Banzaï (special effects cameraman) / (special effects supervisor)
  1981 Invaders from the Deep (director of special effects)
  
  1976 Aces High (special effects)
  1974 Invasion: UFO (special effects coordinator)
  1974 The Land That Time Forgot (special effects supervisor)
  1974 Doctor Who (TV Series) (special effects - 1 episode)
  - Invasion of the Dinosaurs: Part One (1974) ... (special effects - uncredited)
  1973 Live and Let Die (special effects)
  UFO (TV Series) (special effects - 21 episodes, 1970 - 1973) (special effects director - 5 episodes, 1970 - 1971)
  - The Long Sleep (1973) ... (special effects)
  - The Responsibility Seat (1971) ... (special effects)
  - Reflections in the Water (1971) ... (special effects)
  - The Sound of Silence (1971) ... (special effects) / (special effects director)
  - Confetti Check A-O.K. (1971) ... (special effects)
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  1972 Fear Is the Key (special effects)
  1972 Z.P.G. (special effects)
  
  Thunderbirds (TV Series) (supervising special effects director - 31 episodes, 1965 - 1966) (special effects director - 1 episode, 1965)
  - Give or Take a Million (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
  - Ricochet (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
  - Lord Parker's 'Oliday (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
  - Alias Mr. Hackenbacker (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
  - Path of Destruction (1966) ... (supervising special effects director)
  1964-1965 Stingray (TV Series) (special effects director - 39 episodes)
  - Aquanaut of the Year (1965) ... (special effects director)
  - Marineville Traitor (1965) ... (special effects director)
  - Hostages of the Deep (1965) ... (special effects director)
  - The Golden Sea (1965) ... (special effects director)
  - The Master Plan (1965) ... (special effects director)
  1962-1963 Fireball XL5 (TV Series) (special effects - 6 episodes)
  - Space Magnet (1963) ... (special effects)
  - Hypnotic Sphere (1963) ... (special effects)
  - The Fire Fighters (1963) ... (special effects)
  - Planet of Platonia (1963) ... (special effects)
  - The Doomed Planet (1962) ... (special effects)
  1961 Supercar (TV Series) (special effects)
  
  Visual effects (26 credits)
  
  1995 GoldenEye (miniature effects supervisor)
  1994 The NeverEnding Story III (visual effects supervisor)
  1991 Cape Fear (miniature special effects supervisor: The Magic Camera Company)
  1991 Hudson Hawk (supervisor: visual effects and miniatures, The Magic Camera Company)
  1990 The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (special visual effects)
  
  1989 Batman (special visual effects)
  1985 Spies Like Us (visual effects supervisor)
  1985 Santa Claus: The Movie (director of miniature effects) / (director of visual effects)
  1984 Supergirl (special visual effects)
  1983 Krull (visual effects supervisor)
  1983 Superman III (additional model effects - uncredited)
  1981 Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars (TV Movie) (supervising director of visual effects)
  1981 [n]For Your Eyes Only[/b] (visual effects supervisor)
  
  1980 Superman II (director of miniature effects & additional flying sequences)
  1979 Moonraker (visual effects supervisor)
  1978 Superman (model effects director & creator)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (special visual effects)
  1976 Shout at the Devil (models and special effects)
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (miniatures)
  1970-1971 UFO (TV Series) (visual effects supervisor - 5 episodes)
  - Computer Affair (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
  - Flight Path (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
  - Survival (1971) ... (visual effects supervisor)
  - Exposed (1970) ... (visual effects supervisor)
  - Identified (1970) ... (visual effects supervisor)
  
  1969 The Secret Service (TV Series) (visual effects director - 1 episode)
  - A Case for the Bishop (1969) ... (visual effects director)
  1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (visual effects director)
  1968 Joe 90 (TV Series) (supervising visual effects director - 1 episode)
  - Hi-Jacked (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
  1968 Thunderbird 6 (visual effects director)
  Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) (supervising visual effects director - 20 episodes, 1967 - 1968) (visual effects supervisor - 8 episodes, 1967)
  - The Inquisition (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
  - Attack on Cloudbase (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
  - Flight to Atlantica (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
  - Traitor (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
  - Inferno (1968) ... (supervising visual effects director)
  1966 Thunderbirds Are GO (visual effects director)
  
  Actor (1 credit)
  
  1985 Spies Like Us - Dr. Stinson
  
  Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
  
  1988 High Spirits (special effects unit director)
  
  Thanks (1 credit)
  
  1995 GoldenEye (dedicatee)

  
  
  
  

  2013: Bond's Lotus Esprit Turbo sells at London auction for £550,000 ($860,000, or 650,000 euros).

  
  James Bond Sub Car Sells for £550,000
  by Naharnet Newsdesk | 10 September 2013, 03:20
  http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/97496

  
  

  The iconic submarine car driven by James Bond in the 1977 classic The Spy Who Loved Me fetched £550,000 ($860,000, 650,000 euros) when it was floated at auction for the first time in London on Monday.
  
  Following an intense bidding battle, The Lotus Esprit was finally sold to a telephone bidder at RM Auctions in Battersea, south London.
  
  The car was made for the scene in which Bond, played by Roger Moore, evades the gunfire from an overhead helicopter by plunging into the water, accompanied by a nervous Barbara Bach in the passenger seat.
  
  "We are very happy with that price, it is very strong money for what is an important piece of movie memorabilia," said Peter Haynes of RM Auctions Europe.
  
  "Bearing in mind it is not a car that can be driven on the road, the price just goes to prove the draw that all Bond-related memorabilia has," he added.

  2014: Richard Dawson Kiel dies at age 74--Fresno, California. (Born 13 September 1939--Detroit, Michigan.)

  
  Richard Kiel, James Bond villain Jaws
  actor, dies at 74
  https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29152398
  11 September 2014
  
  Actor Richard Kiel - who played
  steel-toothed villain Jaws in two
  James Bond films - has died in
  California aged 74.

  The towering American star, who appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977 and Moonraker in 1979, died in hospital in Fresno on Wednesday.

  A spokeswoman for Saint Agnes Medical Center confirmed Kiel's death, but did not reveal the cause.
  
  The 7ft 2in (2.18m) actor also appeared in the sports comedy Happy Gilmore, starring Adam Sandler, in 1996.
  
  Kiel got his first acting break in the 1950s

  Kiel made his name as cable-chomping henchman Jaws opposite Roger Moore as 007.
  
  Sir Roger said he was "totally distraught" at the death of his co-star.
  
  "We were on a radio programme together just a week ago," said the former Bond star, adding "[ I ] can't take it in".
  
  Kiel and Sir Roger were guests on BBC's Radio 4 programme The Reunion, which aired on Sunday, along with Bond actress Britt Ekland, recalling their roles in the spy series.
  
  During the programme, Kiel said he initially thought playing Jaws - a man who killed people with his teeth - could appear "over the top".
  
  "I was very put off by the description of the character and I thought, well, they don't really need an actor, he's more a monster part," he said.
  
  "So I tried to change that view of it... I said if I were to play the part, I want to give the character some human characteristics, like perseverance, frustration."
  
  Sir Roger said he was "distraught" at co-star Kiel's death, a week after they reunited for a radio show
  
  Sandro Monetti, director at Bafta in Los Angeles and a former showbiz reporter, described Kiel as having "teeth of steel, but a heart of gold".
  
  He recalled seeing the actor at James Bond conventions: "It was like seeing kids meeting Santa Claus. Everyone has got such joyous memories of Jaws, and he had time for everybody."
  
  Monetti added: "Whenever you mentioned Jaws, his eyes lit up and there was that famous grin."

  Micky Dolenz, who starred with Kiel in the seminal episode of The Monkees - I was a Teenage Monster, tweeted his memories of the star: "The great character actor and gentle giant."
  
  Sandro Monetti, a director of BAFTA in Los Angeles, spoke to Rachel Burden on BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast.

  The character of Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me was originally intended to die at the end of the movie, but he was so popular with fans that Kiel was brought back to reprise the role in Moonraker.
  
  "The original script had me being killed by the shark," Kiel said.
  
  "They filmed that and they also filmed an ending where I survive and pop out of the ocean.
  
  "That was one of the big moments for me, watching the blue-collar screening of the movie, The Spy Who Loved Me, and having the reaction of the crowd at the theatre when Jaws popped out of the ocean, survived and swam away. There were hoots and howling, applause. I couldn't believe it."
  
  Kiel, pictured with fellow Bond villains Christopher Lee, Rick Yune and Toby Stephens, was 7ft 2in tall

  Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kiel had the hormonal condition acromegaly, which was said to have contributed to his height.
  
  His first break came in 1959 when he played the alien Kanamit in Twilight Zone.
  
  He published an autobiography in 2002, called Making It Big In The Movies.
  
  His many other acting roles included deadly assistant Voltaire in the 1960s TV series The Wild, Wild West; playing opposite William Shatner in the 1970s TV sitcom Barbary Coast; taking on the lead character of Eli Weaver in the movie The Giant of Thunder Mountain; and spoofing his most famous role as "Famous big guy with silver teeth" in the movie version of Inspector Gadget.
  
  In recent years, he also spent much of his time touring the world and appearing at conventions to meet Bond fans.

  
  Richard Kiel
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001423/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (82 credits)
  
  The Engagement Ring (announced) - Patterson
  2012/IV The Awakened - Jasper
  2010 Tangled - Vlad (voice)
  2010 Disney Tangled (Video Game) - Vlad (voice)
  2003 James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (Video Game) - Jaws (voice)
  2000 BloodHounds, Inc. #5: Fangs for the Memories (Video) - Mortimer
  
  1999 Inspector Gadget - Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth
  1996 Happy Gilmore - Mr. Larson
  1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain - Eli Weaver
  
  1989 The Princess and the Dwarf
  1989 Superboy (TV Series) - Vlkabok
  - Mr. and Mrs. Superboy (1989) ... Vlkabok
  1989 Think Big - Irving
  1988 Out of This World (TV Series) - Norman
  - Go West, Young Mayor (1988) ... Norman
  1985 Qing bao long hu men - Laszlo
  1985 Pale Rider - Club
  1984 Cannonball Run II - Arnold, Mitsubishi Driver
  1984 Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street - Big G
  1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Mark Horton
  - The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet (1983) ... Mark Horton
  1983 Hysterical - Captain Howdy
  1981 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Animal
  - That's Right, We're Bad (1981) ... Animal
  1981 So Fine - Eddie
  
  1979 Moonraker: Milk Is Supreme Commercial (Short) - Jaws
  1979 Moonraker - Jaws
  1979 The Humanoid - Golob
  1978 They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way - Duke
  1978 Wu zi tian shi - Steel Hand (Guest star)
  1978 Force 10 from Navarone - Drazak
  1977 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) - The Hulk (one scene only)
  - The Incredible Hulk (1977) ... The Hulk (one scene only) (uncredited)
  1977 Young Dan'l Boone (TV Series) - Grimm
  - The Game (1977) ... Grimm
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Jaws
  1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - Manager - 'Haunted House'
  - The Mystery of the Haunted House (1977) ... Manager - 'Haunted House'
  1976 Silver Streak - Reace
  1976 Land of the Lost (TV Series) - Malak
  - Flying Dutchman (1976) ... Malak
  - Survival Kit (1976) ... Malak
  1976 Gus - Tall Man
  1976 Starsky and Hutch (TV Series) - Iggy
  - Omaha Tiger (1976) ... Iggy
  1975-1976 Barbary Coast (TV Series) - Moose Moran
  - The Dawson Marker (1976) ... Moose Moran
  - Mary Had More Than a Little (1976) ... Moose Moran
  - The Day Cable Was Hanged (1975) ... Moose Moran
  - Sharks Eat Sharks (1975) ... Moose Moran
  - Arson and Old Lace (1975) ... Moose Moran
  1975 Switch (TV Series) - Loach
  - Death Heist (1975) ... Loach
  1975 Flash and the Firecat - Milo Pewett
  1974 Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)
  The Monster / The Diablero
  - The Spanish Moss Murders (1974) ... The Monster
  - Bad Medicine (1974) ... The Diablero
  1974 Emergency! (TV Series) - Carlo
  - I'll Fix It (1974) ... Carlo (uncredited)
  1974 The Longest Yard - Samson (as Dick Kiel)
  1972 Deadhead Miles - Big Dick
  1970 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Luke Brown
  - The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 2 (1970) ... Luke Brown
  - The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 1 (1970) ... Luke Brown
  1970 The Boy Who Stole the Elephant (TV Movie)
  Luke Brown
  1970 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever - Blacksmith (uncredited)
  
  1969 Daniel Boone (TV Series) - Lemouche
  - Benvenuto... Who? (1969) ... Lemouche
  1968 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Willy
  - The Galloping Skin Game (1968) ... Willy
  1968 Skidoo - Beany
  1968 Now You See It, Now You Don't (TV Movie) - Nori
  1965-1968 The Wild Wild West (TV Series) - Voltaire / Dimas
  - The Night of the Simian Terror (1968) ... Dimas
  - The Night of the Whirring Death (1966) ... Voltaire
  - The Night That Terror Stalked the Town (1965) ... Voltaire
  - The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth (1965) ... Voltaire
  1968 A Man Called Dagger - Otto
  1968 I Spy (TV Series) - Tiny
  - A Few Miles West of Nowhere (1968) ... Tiny
  1967 The Monroes (TV Series) - Casmir
  - Ghosts of Paradox (1967) ... Casmir
  1967 The Monkees (TV Series) - Monster
  - I Was a Teenage Monster (1967) ... Monster (as Dick Kiel)
  1963-1966 Lassie (TV Series) - Chinook Pete / Dinny
  - Lassie the Voyager: Part 6 (1966) ... Dinny
  - The Journey: Part 5 (1963) ... Chinook Pete
  - The Journey: Part 4 (1963) ... Chinook Pete
  1966 Las Vegas Hillbillys - Moose
  1966 Gilligan's Island (TV Series)
  The Ghost / Russian Agent
  - Ghost-a-Go-Go (1966) ... The Ghost / Russian Agent
  1966 My Mother the Car (TV Series) - Cracks
  - A Riddler on the Roof (1966) ... Cracks
  1966 Honey West (TV Series) - Groalgo
  - King of the Mountain (1966) ... Groalgo
  1965 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Ali
  - My Hero? (1965) ... Ali
  1965 Brainstorm - Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
  1964-1965 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Merry / Guard
  - The Hong Kong Shilling Affair (1965) ... Merry
  - The Vulcan Affair (1964) ... Guard (uncredited)
  1965 The Human Duplicators - Dr. Kolos
  1965 Two on a Guillotine - Photographer at Funeral (uncredited)
  1964 The Nasty Rabbit - Ranch Foreman (uncredited)
  1964 Roustabout - Strongman (uncredited)
  1963 30 Minutes at Gunsight (TV Short)
  1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) - Paul Bunyan (uncredited)
  1963 Lassie's Great Adventure - Chinook Pete
  1963 The Nutty Professor - Man in Gym (uncredited)
  1963 House of the Damned - The Giant
  1962 Eegah - Eegah
  1962 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Kanamit
  - To Serve Man (1962) ... Kanamit
  1962 The Magic Sword - Pinhead No.1 (uncredited)
  1961 The Phantom (TV Movie) - Big Mike
  1961 The Phantom Planet - The Solarite
  1961 The Rifleman (TV Series) - Carl Hazlitt
  - The Decision (1961) ... Carl Hazlitt
  1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series) - Doorman
  - The Wizard of Ice (1961) ... Doorman
  1961 Laramie (TV Series) - Rake - Tolan's helper
  - Run of the Hunted (1961) ... Rake - Tolan's helper (uncredited)
  1961 Thriller (TV Series) - Master Styx
  - Well of Doom (1961) ... Master Styx
  1960 Klondike (TV Series) - Duff Brannigan
  - Bare Knuckles (1960) ... Duff Brannigan
  
  1957 The D.I. - Ugly Marine (uncredited)
  
  Writer (2 credits)
  
  1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain (screenplay)
  1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) (uncredited)
  
  Producer (2 credits)
  
  1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain (executive producer)
  1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) (producer - uncredited)
  
  Thanks (2 credits)
  
  2014 The Freddy Jenkins Show (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
  - R.I.P. Jaws (2014) ... (in memory of)
  2014 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)

  
  

  2015: Stephanie Sigman appears in Moët Hennessy's ad for Belvedere vodka.

  

  2015: Promotional artwork for Spectre times three released.

  
  https://www.jamesbond-club.dk/spectre/three-new-pieces-of-spectre-artwork-have-been-released
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  September 2019 Posts: 13,785

  September 11th
  
  1955: Ian Fleming writes "The Great Riot of Istanbul" about the Istanbul pogroms, later published in The Sunday Times. His description: "hatred ran through the streets like lava."
  1961: Bond comic strip For Your Eyes Only begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 9 December 196. 988-1065) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/fyeo.php3?t=&s=main&id=0770
  
  
  
  https://literary007.com/2015/05/02/unused-literary-bond-scenes-that-should-be-filmed-part-002/
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic 1986 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3?s=comics&id=02296
  
  
  Danish 1966 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-8-1966/
  
  
  
  
  Danish 1974 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no29-1974/
  
  
  
  

  1967: Agent 007 - du lever kun to gange released in Denmark.

  
  
  Danish 1967 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/yolt-dk-adsheets-1967/
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1985: Dangereusement votre (Dangerously Yours) released in France.

  
  
  
  
  

  1993: Timothy Dalton comments in TV Guide magazine that he'll be in the next Bond film.

  
  
  

  2001: Nineteen terrorists use four hijacked airliners to attack the Pentagon, the World Trade Center, and almost the White House itself. Among the 3000 dead are an estimated 400 first responders at the Twin Towers who rushed to help survivors of the initial strikes.
  2008: Coca-Cola Zero's latest ad uses music from Jack White and Bond-style images.

  
  

  
  
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  September 2019 edited December 2019 Posts: 13,785

  September 12th
  
  1914: Desmond Llewelyn is born--Newport, Wales.
  (He dies 19 December 1999 at age 85--Firle, East Sussex, England.)

  
  Culture
  Obituary: Desmond Llewelyn
  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-desmond-llewelyn-1133864.html
  Tom Vallance - Tuesday 21 December 1999 01:02
  The Independent Culture

  DESMOND LLEWELYN was an actor for over 60 years, but will forever be remembered for just one role, that of "Q", inventor of countless gadgets for the spy James Bond. With an air of impatient but kindly acumen, he would introduce Bond to a batch of innocent-looking but lethal high-tech instruments in a scene that was always a highlight of each adventure.
  
  When the producers left him out of one of the Bond movies, Live and Let Die (1973), claiming that the films were becoming too dependent on gadgetry, there was a storm of protest from fans who missed his trademark cameo. The character was restored permanently and is to be seen in the latest adventure, The World Is Not Enough. During the last week Llewelyn had been attracting large crowds at book signings for a new biography, Q: the biography of Desmond Llewelyn, written by Sandy Hernu, who described the actor as "enormously funny and entertaining and great fun to be with". She said that the man on screen was similar to the real one, except that Llewelyn hated gadgets. He once said, "In real life gadgets explode or expire as I touch them."

  The son of a coal-mining engineer, Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1914. His parents wanted him to be a chartered accountant, but a period as an articled clerk bored him, and after considering several professions he decided on a stage career and enrolled, at the age of 20, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he studied for two years.
  
  As he said later, "I'd tried the Church and that failed. I was too dim for accountancy, too short-sighted for the police force and an insufficient liar to make a good politician. What else was left but to become an actor? I remember Richard Burton saying to me years later that the reason there are so many Welsh actors is because the Church is not very popular nowadays." Fellow students at Rada included Geoffrey Keen, later to appear in several Bond films, and Margaret Lockwood, "to whom I quite lost my heart".
  
  While still at Rada he made his film debut with a walk-on in the Gracie Fields film Look Up and Laugh (1935), but his first professional job after leaving the academy was with a repertory company in Southend, the first of several such companies with whom he gained experience. He was appearing in Bexhill, East Sussex (where he eventually settled) when he met Pamela Pantlin, a member of the "Women's League for Health and Beauty", and they were married in 1938.
  
  The following year, Llewelyn was in another film, the Will Hay comedy Ask a Policeman, but his career was then interrupted by the Second World War, in which he served as a second lieutenant assigned to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Captured by German soldiers in France, he spent five years as a prisoner of war.
  
  He resumed his film career with a war film, They Were Not Divided (1950), in which he was one of two soldiers named Jones, who was thus addressed as "77 Jones" - the other was "45 Jones". The director was Terence Young, who 13 years later was director of From Russia With Love, the film which changed the course of Llewelyn's career.

  Llewelyn had been appearing in regional theatre and playing small film roles - he had four lines in Cleopatra (1962) - when he auditioned for the role of Q. The character is not in the Ian Fleming books, though in the first Bond story, Casino Royale, it is "Q Branch" that provides 007's gadgets, and in Llewelyn's first two Bond films his character is billed as "Major Boothroyd", becoming simply "Q" in Thunderball (1965). (In the first Bond film, Dr No (1962), Boothroyd had been played by Peter Burton, who was not available for the filming of From Russia With Love.)
  
  Young wanted the character to speak with a Welsh accent, but Llewelyn preferred to interpret the character as "a toffee-nosed Englishman". "At the risk of losing the part and with silent apologies to my native land, I launched into Q's lines using the worst Welsh accent, followed by the same in English," he said.
  
  Bond was in need of gadgets in From Russia With Love, for he had to contend with two of the most dastardly villains of the series, the blond hulk Red Grant (Robert Shaw) and the sadistic Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), who uses knife-toed boots to kick her victims to death. A booby-trapped briefcase was the principal item with which Bond was equipped, courtesy of Q, who was to become a fixture of the Bond adventures (with the exception of Live and Let Die) and almost as popular a figure as Bond himself. His description of the versatile briefcase was typical of Q's briefings: "Here is an ordinary black leather case. Hidden in these steel rods are 20 rounds of ammunition. Press that button and you have a throwing knife. Inside is your AR7, a folding sniper's rifle and 50 gold sovereigns. This looks like an ordinary tin of talcum powder, but it conceals a tear gas cartridge and is kept in place by a magnetic device . . ."
  
  Guy Hamilton directed the next film in which Llewelyn played Q, Goldfinger (1964), and the actor credits him with changing his approach to the role. "Previously I'd played Q as a toffee-nosed technician, more than slightly in awe of Bond." Hamilton changed that approach. "He said, `This man annoys you. He's irritatingly flippant and doesn't treat your gadgets with respect. Deep down you may envy his charm with women, but remember you're the teacher."
  
  After that, Llewelyn stated, he played Q with "a veiled exasperation coupled with a humorous tolerance to 007's flippancy and aggravating habit of fiddling with the gadgets". That exasperation mounted over the years, and in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Q's first words to 007 were "Now pay attention, Bond", and his last, "Oh, grow up, 007!"
  
  Asked recently which Bond he considered best, Llewelyn chose Sean Connery as "perfect", adding, "George Lazenby played it straight and rather well. Roger Moore was much lighter and more jokey. It was a rather camp portrayal, with a lot more emphasis on humour, but it worked. Timothy Dalton was Ian Fleming's Bond - a real character. His confidence and surliness were straight from the books. It was brave, but people didn't like it. Pierre Brosnan is extremely good. He has the right look and manner."
  
  The character of Q was due to be retired after the latest Bond film, The World Is Not Enough, with his sidekick R, played by John Cleese, replacing him. The actor loved playing Q, but in recent years his private life had been marked by tragedy as he watched his wife suffer from Alzheimer's disease.
  
  Llewelyn appeared in such television series as Doomwatch and Follyfoot and made other films, including Operation Kid Brother (1967), which starred Sean Connery's brother Neil playing the sibling of 007. Bernard Lee ("M") and Lois Maxwell ("Moneypenny") were other Bond regulars cast in this weak film to bolster its appeal. But it is for his performances in 17 Bond films that Llewelyn will have a permanent part in film history, equipping the hero with toxic fountain-pens, exploding toothpaste and dozens of similar gadgets with which to confound or exterminate his adversaries.

  Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn, actor: born Newport, Monmouthshire 12 September 1914; married 1938 Pamela Pantlin (two sons); died Firle, East Sussex 19 December 1999.

  
  Desmond Llewlyn
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005155/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (122 credits)
  
  1999 License to Thrill (Short) - Q
  1999 Die Millennium-Katastrophe - Computer-Crash 2000 (TV Movie) - Peregrin Morley
  1999 The World Is Not Enough - Q
  1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Q
  1997 Taboo (Short) -
  1995 GoldenEye - Q
  1993 October 32nd - Professor Mycroft
  
  1989 Licence to Kill - Q[/u]
  1988 Prisoner of Rio - Commissioner Ingram
  1987 The Living Daylights - Q
  1985 A View to a Kill - Q
  1983 Octopussy - Q
  1982 Play for Today (TV Series) - Official in Dream
  - Soft Targets (1982) ... Official in Dream
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Q
  1981 The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (TV Series) - Lord Lansdowne
  - No. 10 (1981) ... Lord Lansdowne (as Desmond Llewellyn)
  1979-1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Papa / Major Bill Whittall
  - The Happy Autumn Fields (1980) ... Papa
  - Speed King (1979) ... Major Bill Whittall
  1980 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Sir Danvers Carew
  
  1979 The Golden Lady - Professor Dixon
  1979 Moonraker - Q
  1979 Hazell (TV Series) - Bell
  - Hazell and the Suffolk Ghost (1979) ... Bell
  1978 Lillie (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Dudley
  - The Jersey Lily (1978) ... Lord Dudley
  1978 Wilde Alliance (TV Series) - Colonel Thripp
  - Well Enough Alone (1978) ... Colonel Thripp
  1977 Eustace and Hilda (TV Series) - Sir John Staveley
  - The Sixth Heaven (1977) ... Sir John Staveley
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Q
  1976 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - President
  - Loss of the Helen May (1976) ... President
  1976 Wodehouse Playhouse (TV Series) - Rev. Sidney Gooch
  - Anselm Gets His Chance (1976) ... Rev. Sidney Gooch
  1975 A Man in the Zoo (TV Movie) - Chairman
  1975 The Love School (TV Series) - Thomas Combe
  - Seeking the Bubbles (1975) ... Thomas Combe
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - 'Q'
  1974 The Pallisers (TV Mini-Series) - Speaker
  - Part Twenty-three (1974) ... Speaker
  1974 The Nine Tailors (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Charles Thorpe
  - Episode #1.1 (1974) ... Sir Charles Thorpe
  1973 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV Series) - Air Commodore Drew
  - The R.A.F. Reunion (1973) ... Air Commodore Drew
  1971-1973 Follyfoot (TV Series) - The Colonel
  - Walk in the Wood (1973) ... The Colonel
  - Hazel (1973) ... The Colonel
  - Rain on Friday (1973) ... The Colonel
  - The Helping Hand (1973) ... The Colonel (credit only)
  - Uncle Joe (1973) ... The Colonel
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever - 'Q'
  1971 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Somers
  - Something Big (1971) ... Somers
  1971 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Thompson
  - Flight Into Yesterday (1971) ... Thompson
  1970 Codename (TV Series) - Barrett
  - A Walk with the Lions (1970) ... Barrett
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 'Q'
  1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Coggins
  1960-1968 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Dr. Pearce / Bank Manager / Det. Insp. Jones
  - The Man (1968) ... Dr. Pearce
  - The Commander (1968) ... Bank Manager
  - Everything Goes in Threes (1960) ... Det. Insp. Jones
  1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Headmaster
  - Where Did You Get That Hat? (1968) ... Headmaster
  1968 Virgin of the Secret Service (TV Series) - Count Kolinsky
  - Russian Roundabout (1968) ... Count Kolinsky
  1967 Mickey Dunne (TV Series) - Lord Boutard
  - The Hon. Bird (1967) ... Lord Boutard
  1967 You Only Live Twice - 'Q'
  1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) - Q
  1961-1967 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Fergus de la Roux / Constable
  - Old Ben in the Belfry (1967) ... Constable
  - Episode #1.436 (1961) ... Fergus de la Roux
  - Episode #1.431 (1961) ... Fergus de la Roux
  1965 Thunderball - 'Q'
  1965 Moulded in Earth (TV Series) - Squire
  - The End of the Feud (1965) ... Squire
  - Family Conference (1965) ... Squire
  1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Jailer (uncredited)
  1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Charles - Doorman
  - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove (1965) ... Charles - Doorman
  1964 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Senior Police Officer
  - State Visit (1964) ... Senior Police Officer (uncredited)
  1964 The Sullavan Brothers (TV Series) - Colonel Barlow
  - A Plea of Provocation (1964) ... Colonel Barlow
  1964 Goldfinger - 'Q'
  1964 The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (TV Series) - Member of Council
  - A Germ Destroyer (1964) ... Member of Council
  1964 The Plane Makers (TV Series) - John Webb
  - A Job for the Major (1964) ... John Webb
  1963 Silent Playground - Dr. Green
  1959-1963 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Murgatroyd / Supt. Hitchcock
  - Always a Copper (1963) ... Murgatroyd
  - Stranger in the Parlour (1959) ... Supt. Hitchcock
  1963 From Russia with Love - Boothroyd - 'Q'
  1963 Suspense (TV Series) - Company Spokesman / Ian MacDonald / President of the Court
  - The Rescuers (1963) ... Company Spokesman
  - The Dogs of Durga Das (1963) ... Ian MacDonald
  - The Uncertain Witness (1963) ... President of the Court
  1963 Cleopatra - Senator (uncredited)
  1962 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Mr. Forbes
  - Episode #4.18 (1962) ... Mr. Forbes
  1962 The Pirates of Blood River - Tom Blackthorne (uncredited)
  1962 The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (TV Movie) - Frank Misquith, QC, MP
  1962 Only Two Can Play - Clergyman on Bus (uncredited)
  1961 Stryker of the Yard (TV Series) - - The Case of Uncle Henry (1961)
  1961 The Curse of the Werewolf - 1st Footman (uncredited)
  1961 The House Under the Water (TV Mini-Series) - Colonel Tregaron
  - Episode #1.1 (1961) ... Colonel Tregaron
  1960 Sword of Sherwood Forest - Wounded Fugitive (uncredited)
  1960 Garry Halliday (TV Series) - Psychiatrist
  - A Message from a Stranger (1960) ... Psychiatrist
  1960 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Sergeant Harris
  - Home and the Heart (1960) ... Sergeant Harris
  1960 How Green Was My Valley (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Evans
  - Proposal and Disposal (1960) ... Mr. Evans
  
  1959 Private Investigator (TV Series) - Police Constable Jones
  - The Battle for Diana (1959) ... Police Constable Jones (as Desmond Llewellyn)
  1959 Call Me Sam (TV Series) -
  - Episode #1.5 (1959)
  1959 Sapphire - Police Constable (uncredited)
  1959 A Farthing Damages (TV Movie) - O'Connor
  1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - John Redmond
  - Parnell (1959) ... John Redmond
  1959 Barbed Wire and Bracken (TV Movie) - The Rector
  1958 Corridors of Blood - Assistant at Operations (uncredited)
  1958 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Det. Sergeant
  - Blind Justice (1958) ... Det. Sergeant
  1958 Further Up the Creek - Chief Yeoman (uncredited)
  1958 Queen's Champion (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Bretherton
  - The Edge of Defeat (1958) ... Lord Bretherton
  - The Eve of the Armada (1958) ... Lord Bretherton
  1958 The Sky Larks (TV Series) - Police Sgt. Ryan
  - Touch of the Irish (1958) ... Police Sgt. Ryan
  1958 A Night to Remember - Seaman at Steerage Gate (uncredited)
  1958 The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) - Two Fingers
  - Little Mother (1958) ... Two Fingers
  1957 Thunder in the West (TV Series) - King James II
  - For King and Monmouth (1957) ... King James II
  1957 Escape (TV Series) - Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
  - Harry (1957) ... Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
  - The Great Bluff (1957) ... Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
  1957 Boyd Q.C. (TV Series) - McCracken
  - The Open and Shut Case (1957) ... McCracken
  1957 The Soldier and the Gentlewoman (TV Movie) - Philip Vaughan
  1955 The Leakage (TV Movie) - Wing-Commander Stone
  1955 Spider's Web (TV Movie) - Constable Jones
  1954 Patrol Car (TV Series) - - Moral Murder
  1954 The Gentle Falcon (TV Series) - Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
  - A Strange Tournament (1954) ... Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
  1954 Tyrant's Tower (TV Movie) - 2nd Surveyor
  1953 Bunty Wins a Pup (Short) - Mr. Brown
  1953 Operation Diplomat - Police Constable at barrier (uncredited)
  1953 Stryker of the Yard
  1953 Knights of the Round Table - A Herald (uncredited)
  1953 Valley of Song - Lloyd - Schoolmaster
  1953 Both Sides of the Law - Police Constable (uncredited)
  1952 Huckleberry Finn (TV Series) - Harvey Wilks
  - The Auction (1952) ... Harvey Wilks
  1952 My Wife Jacqueline (TV Series) - Keith Appleyard
  - Happily Ever After (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
  - The Landed Proprietor (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
  - Getting Margaret Married (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
  - Common Interests (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
  1952 How Does It End? (TV Series) - Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
  - A Tale of Two Cities (1952) ... Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
  1952 The Locked Room (TV Movie) - Stephen Amesbury
  1952 The Twelfth Brother (TV Short) - Reuben
  1952 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Pandimiglio
  - The Wanderer (1952) ... Pandimiglio
  1951 The Lavender Hill Mob - Customs Officer (uncredited)
  1950 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Mr. Hyde
  1950 They Were Not Divided -'77 Jones
  1950 Guilt Is My Shadow - Pub customer (uncredited)
  
  1949 The Amazing Mr. Beecham - First guardsman (uncredited)
  1949 Adam and Evalyn - Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)
  1949 The Good Companions (TV Movie) - Policeman at Ribsden / Mr. Gooch
  1948 Hamlet - Extra (uncredited)
  1948 A Comedy of Good and Evil (TV Movie) - Owain Flatfish
  1947 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Theseus
  1947 Saloon Bar (TV Movie) - Peter / Police Constable
  1947 Captain Boycott - Gentleman on Train (uncredited)
  1946 The Murder Rap (TV Movie) - Inspector Fearon
  1946 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Theseus
  1946 As You Like It (TV Movie) - Duke
  
  1939 Ask a Policeman - Headless Coachman (uncredited)
  1939 Campbell of Kilmhor (TV Movie) - Captain Sandeman
  
  Thanks (4 credits)
  
  2012 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
  - La última noche del Titanic (2012) ... (in memory of)
  2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short) (in memory of)
  2000 Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn (TV Movie documentary) (in memory of)
  1999 The World Is Not Enough (dedicatee)

  

  1940: Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming's memo to Naval Intelligence Director Rear Admiral John Henry Godfrey inspires Operation Ruthless, a pursuit of the Enigma codebooks used by Nazi Germany and its navy.

  12 September 1940, Fleming to Godfrey:

  I suggest we obtain the loot by the following means:

  1. Obtain from Air Ministry an air-worthy German bomber.
  2. Pick a tough crew of five, including a pilot, W/T operator and word-perfect German speaker. Dress them in German Air Force uniform, add blood and bandages to suit.
  3. Crash plane in the Channel after making S.O.S. to rescue service in P/L.
  4. Once aboard rescue boat, shoot German crew, dump overboard, bring rescue boat back to English port.

  In order to increase the chances of capturing an R. or M. with, its richer booty, the crash might be staged in mid-Channel. The Germans would presumably employ one of this type for the longer and more hazardous journey.

  1942: Martin Grace is born--Lisdowney, County Kilkenny, Ireland. (He dies 27 January 2010 at age 67--Spain.)

  
  Martin Grace: Roger Moore's stunt
  double in the James Bond films
  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/martin-grace-roger-moores-stunt-double-in-the-james-bond-films-1897007.html
  Friday 12 February 2010 01:00
  

  Performing as Roger Moore's stunt double in the James Bond films brought Martin Grace respect throughout the industry – but, because of the nature of his job, he was never a "star". He also did stunts for some of the early Cadbury's Milk Tray commercials.
  
  Grace first stood in for Moore in the 1977 picture The Spy Who Loved Me, driving a Lotus Esprit through the winding streets of Sardinia in a furious chase – with the express instruction that the car had to be returned to its manufacturer intact. He followed this with Bond's fight with the steel-jawed henchman Jaws on top of a cablecar 1,300 feet above ground in Rio de Janeiro in Moonraker (1979). The action continued in the air in For Your Eyes Only (1981), with Grace hanging on to the outside of a remote-controlled helicopter for the pre-title sequence. Later, in Moore's final Bond film, A View to a Kill (1985), the stunt performer did more aerial acrobatics, on the Eiffel Tower and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.
  
  But during Octopussy (1983) a complicated stunt involving a train and a car went horribly wrong while shooting on the Nene Valley railway. A helicopter was to shoot the action from the air, but communication was lost between Grace, the pilot, the train driver and the rest of the stunt team, and Grace smashed into a wall, fracturing his pelvis and damaging his thigh.
  
  "The impact was so lightning fast that I only realised that I had hit something when I found I was hanging prone for dear life on the side of the train!" he recalled. "Adrenalin was pumping through my arms like never before. I looked down and saw my trouser leg had been ripped off and saw my thigh bone through the gash in my thigh muscle."

  Born in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1942, Grace attended Kilkenny College. He then moved to England, joined boxing, weight-lifting, wrestling and fencing clubs, and worked at Butlin's.
  
  He then trained as an actor at the Mountview Theatre School, in London, and joined a stunt agency. His first jobs were in commercials, such as the Cadbury's Milk Tray campaign, in which he jumped from a bridge on to a train, was lifted from a sports car and dropped on a hotel roof and, finally, jumped from a cliff on to a moving truck, before diving into a lake to deliver the chocolates to a woman on a boat.
  
  His first film was the television spin-off Dr Who and the Daleks (1965). Like many stunt performers, he was cast in a role that demanded his special skills, as he was in pictures such as Who Dares Wins (1982) and Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), and television programmes that included The Onedin Line (1972) and The Protectors (1973).

  In You Only Live Twice (1967), starring the screen's original Bond, Sean Connery, Grace was one of a host of stunt performers taking part in the climactic volcano-eruption scene where Bond gives an elite ninja force access to the villain Blofeld's secret base. Grace underwent four weeks of intensive training – scaling nets, sliding down ropes and practising trampoline "explosions" – before the sequence was shot.

  In 1969, he was Oliver Reed's fencing double in The Assassination Bureau. He fought with Anthony Hopkins in When Eight Bells Toll (1971), and did stunts with Kirk Douglas in To Catch a Spy (1971), after seven months out of action as a result of breaking his neck in Scrooge (1970).

  Grace appeared in a show that toured Scandinavia in 1974 and starred the Norwegian stunt performer Arne Berg. The experience of doing six performances a week that required high falls, car crashes, motorcycle jumps, fights and tunnels of fire stood him in good stead when he was asked to double for Roger Moore in five Bond films. He also doubled for Richard Kiel, as the villain Jaws, in both The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

  This also led Grace to become Moore's stunt double in some of the star's other films – The Wild Geese (1978), Escape to Athena (1979), North Sea Hijack (1979), The Sea Wolves (1980) and The Naked Face (1984). Also among the 70-plus films in which he did stunt work were Superman (1978), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Brazil (1985), King Arthur (2004), Ella Enchanted (2004) and The Number 23 (2007). He had extra responsibility, as stunt co-ordinator, on pictures such as High Spirits (1988), Erik the Viking (1989), Nuns on the Run (1990), Patriot Games (1992) and Angela's Ashes (1999).
  
  In 1978, the Rank Organisation chose Grace to be its fifth famous gong-beater, but in the end his sequence was consigned to the cutting room floor. A keen cyclist, Grace fractured his pelvis in an accident last year. He returned to hospital after developing breathing problems at his home in Spain and died after suffering an aneurysm.
  
  Anthony Hayward
  
  - Martin Ryan Grace, actor and stunt performer and co-ordinator: born Kilkenny, Ireland 12 September 1942; twice married; died Spain 27 January 2010.

  
  Martin Grace
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0333370/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Stunts (75 credits)
  
  2007 The Number 23 (stunts)
  2005 Izzat (stunt coordinator)
  2004 King Arthur (stunts - uncredited)
  2004 Ella Enchanted (stunt double: ogre 2)
  2003 New Tricks (TV Series) (stunt coordinator - 1 episode)
  - The Chinese Job (2003) ... (stunt coordinator)
  2001 Shallow Hal (stunt coordinator)
  2001 The Bombmaker (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
  
  1999 Anna and the King (stunt coordinator)
  1998 Dancing at Lughnasa (stunt coordinator)
  1998 The Truman Show (stunts)
  1997 The Boxer (stunts)
  1997 The MatchMaker (stunts)
  1996 Body Troopers (stunt coordinator)
  1996 North Star (stunt coordinator)
  1995 Circle of Friends (stunt coordinator)
  1995 An Awfully Big Adventure (stunts)
  1994 MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
  1993-1994 Between the Lines (TV Series) (stunt performer - 2 episodes)
  - Shoot to Kill (1994) ... (stunt performer)
  - Big Boys' Rules: Part II (1993) ... (stunt performer)
  1994 A Man of No Importance (stunt coordinator)
  1994 MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
  1993 Head Above Water (stunt coordinator)
  1993 Briefest Encounter (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
  1993 Bad Company (TV Movie) (stunts)
  1992 Boon (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
  - Blackballed (1992) ... (stunt performer)
  1992 Civvies (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.6 (1992) ... (stunt performer)
  1992 Patriot Games (stunt coordinator: UK) / (stunts)
  1992 Map of the Human Heart (stunt coordinator)
  1992 Lethal Lies (stunt coordinator)
  1991 Afraid of the Dark (stunt coordinator)
  1991 Robin Hood (stunt coordinator)
  1991 A Kiss Before Dying (stunt coordinator: UK) / (stunts)
  1991 Agatha Christie's Poirot (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
  - The Double Clue (1991) ... (stunts)
  1990 The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (stunt coordinator)
  1990 Shipwrecked (stunt coordinator)
  1990 Nuns on the Run (stunt coordinator)
  
  1989 A Handful of Time (stunts)
  1989 Erik the Viking (stunt coordinator)
  1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (stunt double: Indiana Jones #2 - uncredited) / (stunts)
  1989 The Littlest Viking (stunt coordinator)
  1988 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) (stunt coordinator - 5 episodes)
  - Part V (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
  - Part IV (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
  - Part III (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
  - Part II (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
  - Part I (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
  1988 High Spirits (stunt coordinator) / (stunt performer)
  1988 Willow (stunts)
  1987 Pathfinder (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1987 A Prayer for the Dying (stunts)
  1985 Enemy Mine (stunt coordinator)
  1985 A View to a Kill (action sequence arranger) / (ski stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore, Golden Gate - uncredited)
  1985 Brazil (stunt performer)
  1984 The Naked Face (stunt double)
  1984 Top Secret! (stunts)
  1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (stunt double: Indiana Jones #2 - uncredited)
  1984 Ordeal by Innocence (stunt coordinator)
  1983 Octopussy (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (the stunt team supervisor)
  1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
  1982 Badger by Owl-Light (TV Series) (stunts)
  1982 Victor Victoria (stunts)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunt team)
  1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (stunt double: Indiana Jones #3 - uncredited) / (stunts)
  1981 Inchon (stunts - uncredited)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1980 ffolkes (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1979 Moonraker (stunt double: Richard Kiel, cable car sequence - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts)
  1979 Escape to Athena (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 Superman (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 The Wild Geese (stunt double: Hardy Krüger - uncredited) / (stunt double: Richard Burton - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunt double: Richard Kiel - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1975 Space: 1999 (TV Series) (stunts)
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited)
  1973 Horror Hospital (stunt supervisor)
  1971 Catch Me a Spy (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)
  1970 Scrooge (stunts - uncredited)
  1969 It's Tommy Cooper (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
  - Christmas Special (1969) ... (stunts - uncredited)
  1969 I Alfred the Great (stunts - uncredited)
  1968 Mayerling (stunts - uncredited)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
  
  Actor (20 credits)
  
  1997 Robinson Crusoe - Captain Braga
  1992 Brookside (TV Series) - Driver
  - Episode #1.1085 (1992) ... Driver
  1991 Under Suspicion - Colin
  
  1989 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) - Jumpmaster
  - Part IX (1989) ... Jumpmaster
  1983 Curse of the Pink Panther - Bruno's Crony #2
  1982 The Final Option - U.S. Marine Guard
  1980 The Sea Wolves - Kruger
  
  1978 The Wild Geese - East German Officer
  1975 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Security Guard
  - End of Eternity (1975) ... Security Guard (uncredited)
  1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - Gang Member
  - Baubles, Bangles and Beads (1973) ... Gang Member
  1973 Horror Hospital - Bike Boy
  1973 Special Branch (TV Series)
  - Round the Clock (1973)
  1972 Double Take - Leopard Man
  1972 The Fenn Street Gang (TV Series) - Muscleman
  - That Sort of Girl (1972) ... Muscleman
  1972 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - Martin Thompson
  - A Woman Alone (1972) ... Martin Thompson
  1972 Villains (TV Series) - Man
  - Smudger (1972) ... Man (uncredited)
  1971 When Eight Bells Toll - Thug (uncredited)
  
  1969 Moon Zero Two - Red Killer (uncredited)
  1968 Inadmissible Evidence - Plainclothesman
  1965 Dr. Who and the Daleks - Thal
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)
  
  1987 Pathfinder (action sequences)
  
  Self (12 credits)
  
  2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: 007 in Egypt (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1985 A View to a Kill Original Promotional Featurette (Video documentary short) - Himself
  1982 Stuntman Challenge (TV Movie) - Himself
  1981 Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1981 Clapper Board (TV Series) - Himself
  - For Your Eyes Only Special (1981) ... Himself
  1979 Film 2017 (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode dated 27 May 1979 (1979) ... Himself

  1966: Bond comic strip The Living Daylights begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 12 November 1966. 210-263) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tld.php3
  
  
  https://bond-and-beyond.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_12.html
  
  
  http://bdzoom.com/94191/patrimoine/james-bond-operation-comics-premiere-partie/attachment/bond_james_cs15_s1/
  
  
  
  Danish 1968 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no14-1968/
  
  
  

  1975: ABC-TV premieres Diamonds Are Forever.

  

  1983: Octopussy released in Barcelona Spain.

  
  
  
  

  1985: Επιχείρηση Κινούμενος στόχος (Business Moving Target) released in Greece.
  1988: Licence to Kill films Felix Leiter disagreeing with something that ate him.
  2019: A 1964 Aston Martin DB5 Saloon goes to auction at Coys.

  
  Lot 129 - 1964 Aston Martin DB5 Saloon
  https://www.coys.co.uk/cars/1964-aston-martin-db5-saloon
  Fitted with James Bond 007 Gadgets

  ESTIMATE £500,000- £600,000

  Auction Fontwell House
  Auction Date 12th September 2019
  Day of Auction Day 1 - Thursday

  Lot Details

  Lot Number 129
  Reg. Number EU Registered
  Chassis Number DB5/1447/R
  Year 1964
  Make Aston Martin
  Model DB5 Saloon

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  September 2019 Posts: 13,785

  September 13th
  
  1916: Roald Dahl is born--Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales. (He dies 23 November 1990 at age 74--Oxford, England.)

  

  Wednesday 12 September 2018
  Roald Dahl: a life filled with tales of the unexpected
  Roald Dahl was born 100 years ago in September and lived a life
  scarred by tragedy and marred by his own difficult personality.
  But his magical characters are more alive than ever
  
  
  Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal (recovering from a stroke, hence the eye patch) in 1965, with their children Theo, baby Ophelia and Tessa, at their home in Great Missenden.
  
  Emily Hourican - August 29 2016 2:30 AM
  
  Roald Dahl was born 100 years ago, on September 13, to Norwegian parents in Cardiff. He died 26 years ago, yet his books, specifically his children's books, are still bought in huge numbers (over 200 million worldwide) and regularly adapted for film, TV and stage. Matilda has been playing on Broadway since 2013 and, of course, The BFG has just been released in a new, big-screen version directed by Spielberg. Roald also created a dynasty and established Dahl as a surname that manages to be both thoroughly establishment and fascinatingly bohemian.
  
  His remarkable imagination - exuberant, vengeful, often nauseating - and ability to create characters, usually orphans, filled with a pathos that makes us burn with indignation, are what have kept Dahl's books alive, but the whiff of sulphur that always hung around the man hasn't gone away either. Because as much as he is acknowledged a wonderful writer, with a rare understanding of children's psychology, he was also a difficult, often cruel man, with a heap of unpalatable views.
  
  Most recently, as Spielberg prepared for the release of The BFG, he was ambushed by allegations of Dahl's anti-Semitism, specifically a quote Dahl gave to The New Statesman: "There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews . . . even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason."
  
  Spielberg, himself Jewish, of course, and visibly horrified, was forced to try and defend Dahl, and by extension himself, saying he had "no excuse" for not researching Dahl's public statements, but adding: "Later, when I began asking questions of people who knew Dahl, they told me he liked to say things he didn't mean just to get a reaction. And all his comments . . . he would say for effect, even if they were horrible things."
  
  
  Dahl's second wife, Felicity, beneath his portrait.
  
  It is difficult to judge and condemn the products of a previous era by our own much-changed standards. But even so, Spielberg's defence seems weak and Dahl's words far less the act of a provocateur than the musings of a bigot.
  
  Probably the best defence - if one is to be admitted - is Dahl's own life; the many tragedies he faced, the strange mixture of courage and cruelty he displayed. Bad things happen in Roald Dahl books - James's parents die, Mr Fox gets his tail shot off, the child (never named) from The Witches spends his life as a mouse - and they are full of disgusting, terrible people, such as James's aunts, Matilda's father, George's grandmother. These people and events are faithfully rendered, with no glossing-over or soothing euphemisms, and the reason for it becomes very obvious with even a passing knowledge of Dahl's life.
  
  He may have been dashing, handsome, brilliant - his second wife, Felicity Crosland, described him as the "sexiest seducer in Washington" - but Dahl was also known as 'Roald The Rotten'; domineering, inconsistent and driven by his memories of tragedy. Granddaughter Sophie described him as "a very difficult man - very strong, very dominant".
  
  The little girl with the big eyes in The BFG is based on Sophie, but the book is dedicated to Olivia, Dahl's eldest daughter, who he adored and who died of measles encephalitis when she was just seven. It was a terrible loss, one that had heart-breaking echoes of the death from appendicitis, also at the age of seven, of Roald's elder sister, Astri.
  
  A month after her death, Roald's father, who never recovered from the blow, died of pneumonia.
  
  Roald was just three at the time. From the age of eight, he was sent off to a series of boarding schools, where he was mostly miserable and homesick. That may have been the experience of most small boys dispatched in that particularly English tradition; the difference with Roald is that he never forgot. Nor, perhaps, did he ever recover.
  
  Reviewer Kathryn Hughes once said: "No matter how you spin it, Roald Dahl was an absolute sod. Crashing through life like a big, bad child, he managed to alienate pretty much everyone he ever met."
  
  His nickname when young was 'Apple' because he was his mother's favourite. He wrote to her every day from boarding school, but never confessed the depths of his loneliness and misery. Instead, he put a brave face on the regular bouts of violence and ritual humiliation that were so much part of the boarding-school experience then and this daily exercise in glossing over the wretched truth may very well have been the early training in storytelling he needed.
  
  After school, Dahl travelled the world, working for Shell oil, then joined the RAF when the Second World War broke out. A dashing, daring pilot, he spent much of the war in the US, sleeping with society beauties and passing on whatever bits of intelligence he gleaned from pillow talk. Felicity Crosland described Dahl, 6ft 6ins and a fine sportsman, as "wildly attractive and handsome, in his RAF uniform, speaking English, a fighter pilot - completely seductive. And he was charming and intelligent. A lot of women fell for him."
  
  Dahl, in turn, fell for the actress Patricia Neal, who he met at a dinner party hosted by playwright and screenwriter Lillian Hellman. Neal's career had started in a blaze of glory - before she was 21, she won a Tony award for her Broadway debut. Then she moved to Hollywood, where she started in the film adaptation of Ayn Rand's best-selling, ground-breaking novel The Fountainhead, and fell passionately in love with Gary Cooper.
  
  The affair lasted three years, during which time Neal got pregnant and had an abortion.
  
  Later, she wrote: "If I had only one thing to do over in my life, I would have that baby" - but Cooper refused ultimately to leave his wife.
  
  The Fountainhead was a disaster, followed by a couple more turkeys, and by the age of 27, Neal was back in New York, heartbroken, barely over a nervous breakdown, with her career in tatters. This was the point at which she met Dahl.
  
  Years later, in her autobiography As I Am, Neal wrote that she knew she didn't love Dahl from the moment they married in 1953 but she wanted to have "beautiful children" with him. And initially, the marriage seemed to be working. Neal's career revived and she won an Oscar for Best Actress in 1963 for Hud. Meantime, the couple were indeed having "beautiful children", five in all: Olivia, Tessa, Theo, Ophelia and Lucy.
  
  Seven years after their marriage, the couple's baby son, Theo, four months old, was crushed between a bus and a taxi while out with a nanny and left brain-damaged. The accident was witnessed by Tessa.
  
  Theo had eight brain operations and Dahl, unhappy with the shunt put in to drain the fluid that clogged his brain, spent two years designing and manufacturing a better version. He decided to move the family back home to England, settling in Gypsy House in the village of Great Missenden. But just a few years later, seven-year-old Olivia, the eldest, died of measles encephalitis, a tragedy that left Dahl "limp with despair".
  
  Patricia Neal did some of her best work in this period, then suffered a series of strokes when she was 39 and pregnant with her fifth child.
  
  After a lengthy operation on her brain, Patricia couldn't talk or walk and was largely paralysed.
  
  Here, Dahl showed himself to be a man of complete determination and a certain vision, but touched with coldness, even sadism.
  
  He essentially forced Patricia to get well. If she wanted something, he held it out of reach until she asked for it. He badgered her to walk, to move, to read and memorize and forced her to do hours of painful physical and speech therapy.
  
  For those watching, there were many pitiful moments, but in the end, Dahl's strange, stubborn insistence came good. Six months after the brain operation Neal gave birth to a healthy daughter, Lucy. Shortly after that, he decided she was ready to give a speech to a charity dinner for brain-damaged children. Although terrified, she did, to thunderous applause. "I knew at that moment that Roald the slave driver, Roald the bastard, with his relentless scourge, Roald the Rotten, as I had called him more than once, had thrown me back into the deep water. Where I belonged," she later said.
  
  He may have forced Neal to get well again, but there didn't seem any way of saving the marriage. Dahl began an affair with one of Neal's best friends, Felicity Crosland, and in 1983 the couple divorced and he remarried. To Patricia's fury, their children mostly knew of and condoned the affair. Ophelia Dahl, who was 14 when her parents divorced, later said: "All of us realised that he had found the love of his life with Liccy (Felicity) and there's always a sense of relief when that happens."
  
  Throughout, Dahl had been writing, finding early and considerable success with Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, published in 1964 and a classic ever since.
  
  At the same time, he was also writing adult fiction, including pornography for Playboy - friend and fellow writer Noel Coward once said of his adult fiction: "The stories are brilliant and the imagination is fabulous. Unfortunately, there is, in all of them, an underlying streak of cruelty and macabre unpleasantness and a curiously adolescent emphasis on sex" - and was often very dismissive of children's literature and his own role within it.
  
  Of course, the streak of "cruelty and macabre unpleasantness" that Coward detected was very much present in his children's books too.
  
  It seemed also to be present in his life. As a father, Dahl was irascible and inconsistent; protective and manipulative, controlling and kind; a tough combination. Tessa, the daughter next to Olivia in age, was frequently compared with the child her father mourned so obviously - "my older sister Olivia had been the love of Daddy's life . . . both of us contracted measles, but she had died" - and always unfavourably.
  
  "In our family, you got attention only if you were brain-damaged or dead or terribly ill. There was no reward for being normal," she once said. And so Tessa gave up on being 'normal', instead becoming wild, precocious and deeply unhappy.
  
  In a piece written in 2012, she talks of being brought to see psychiatrist Anna Freud after Theo's accident. Freud recommended therapy for the whole family, but Dahl had a mistrust of something that he believed had left various friends unable to write because they "had all their nooks and crannies flattened like pancakes", so he insisted on medication instead. Freud refused, so Dahl found another doctor, less scrupulous, to prescribe, and Tessa, from the age of four, was medicated.
  
  By her teenage years, Tessa was given Quaaludes, a sedative, by her father, who brought them home from America, and regularly drank alcohol with him. She had developed, she says "narcissistic character disorders" and was "the problem child who became the scapegoat." But she insists: "My parents did their best."
  
  Tessa, like her mother, was a beauty. By her teenage years, she had become a gossip-column fixture, for dating Peter Sellers and Brian de Palma, among others. Sophie was her first child, from a short affair with actor Julian Holloway when Tessa was 19. Later, she married twice, and had three more children.
  
  She battled drug addiction and crippling depression and began a long search for meaning, visiting ashrams, falling under the spell of various gurus.
  
  She also began to write - articles, children's books and one novel. Dahl, although publicly supportive, was privately competitive: "After I sold my first children's book, he had struggled up to his hut with agonised hips to fetch his royalty statements - to prove to me that I would never make as much money as him, however successful I became."
  
  And yet despite, or more likely because of, Dahl's emotional distance, he was the great focus of Tessa's life.
  
  "I loved him with an undiluted and unmet passion. He was my major motivation as my whole life consisted of proving to him that, although my sister died, I was still worthy of life and love."
  
  Someone once said that all siblings have different parents. Dahl was perhaps a different kind of father to his other children.
  
  Ophelia is a social justice and healthcare advocate, while Lucy, the youngest and a screenwriter in Hollywood - she wrote Wild Child, made into a film with Natasha Richardson - remembers a generous, magical kind of parent.
  
  "He absolutely hated children being bored. He used to say boredom was death," she recalls, and so he bought a Morris Minor for them to drive around a track he had created.
  
  As a grandfather, Dahl seems to have hit his stride. For Tessa's daughter, Sophie, whose young life was spent trailing along on her mother's search for happiness, peace and enlightenment, he was a fixed and stable point.
  
  "Wonderful, really wonderful," is how she describes him.
  
  He had an old gypsy caravan in his garden, which Sophie and her friends used as a playhouse.
  
  "It was brutally uncomfortable and really cold, but I would stay in there with my friends and so we'd have midnight feasts of chocolate in bed. Then, in the morning, we'd appear in the house and he'd make us all breakfast."
  
  Sophie now lives in Gipsy House with her husband, singer-songwriter Jamie Cullum, and their two children.
  
  By the time Dahl died in 1990, aged 74, 4,000 letters a week were arriving to the local post office for him. Last year, 80,000 people visited the museum dedicated to him in Great Missenden.
  
  They don't go despite the core of darkness in his books, but because of it. The enduring magic of Dahl's world is the way it acknowledges the nasty side of life, has irresistible fun with it, then allows good to triumph.

  
  Roald Dahl
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001094/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Writer (76 credits)
  
  Matilda (based on the book by) (announced)
  Willy Wonka (creator) (announced)
  
  2020 The Witches (novel) (post-production)
  2017 Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Video) (novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory")
  2016 Revolting Rhymes Part Two (TV Short) (based on the book by)
  2016 Revolting Rhymes Part One (TV Short) (based on the book by)
  2016 Welcome to the Basement (TV Series) (screenplay - 1 episode)
  - You Only Live Twice (2016) ... (screenplay)
  2016 The BFG (based on the book by)
  2016 In the Ruins (Short) (short story)
  2016 Lamb to the Slaughter (Short) (novel)
  2015 The Taste (Short) (based on a short story by)
  2015 Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (TV Movie) (based on the novel by)
  2013 Baa Baa Black Sheep (Short) (story)
  2013/I Cheap Thrills (short story "Man from the South" - uncredited)
  2012 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the Playroom (Video short) (book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" - uncredited)
  2012 Bang-lure (Short) (story)
  2012 Chippendale (Short)
  
  2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox (novel)
  2008 Three Little Pigs (Short) (writer)
  2007 Jackanory Junior (TV Series)
  2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (book)
  2005 Imagine (TV Series documentary) (quotations - 1 episode)
  - Fantastic Mr Dahl (2005) ... (quotations - uncredited)
  2005/I The Bet (Short) (story)
  2002 Lamb to the Slaughter (story)
  2000 Genesis and Catastrophe (Short) (story)
  
  1999 Inaudito (Short) (story)
  1997 The Enormous Crocodile (TV Movie)
  1996 Matilda (book)
  1996 James and the Giant Peach (based on the book by)
  1995 Alien Tales (Video Game) (synopsis: Matilda)
  Jackanory (TV Series) (book - 14 episodes, 1968 - 1986) (novel - 6 episodes, 1979 - 1995)
  - The Twits (1995) ... (novel)
  - James and the Giant Peach: Part Five (1986) ... (book)
  - James and the Giant Peach: Part Four (1986) ... (book)
  - James and the Giant Peach: Part Three (1986) ... (book)
  - James and the Giant Peach: Part Two (1986) ... (book)
  1995 Pisvingers! (Short) (story "The Swan")
  1992 Idealnaya para (stories)
  1990 Dirty Beasts (TV Movie)
  1990 Revolting Rhymes (TV Movie)
  1990 The Magic Finger (TV Movie)
  1990 The Silent Hunt (novel)
  1990 The Witches (book)
  1989 Breaking Point (TV Movie) (novel "Beware of the Dog")
  
  1989 Danny the Champion of the World (TV Movie) (novel)
  1988 Velká rosáda (TV Movie) (adaptation)
  Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) (writer - 15 episodes, 1979 - 1981) (story - 11 episodes, 1979 - 1988)
  - The Surgeon (1988) ... (story)
  - The Sound Machine (1981) ... (writer)
  - The Boy Who Talked with Animals (1981) ... (story)
  - Parson's Pleasure (1980) ... (story)
  - Vengeance Is Mine Inc. (1980) ... (writer)
  1988 The Book Tower (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #10.1 (1988) ... (writer - segment ": "Boy")
  1987 The BFG (novel)
  1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - Pilot (1985) ... (story - segment "Man from the South")
  1984 Kobra (Short) (short story "Poison")
  1983 Kalle och chokladfabriken (TV Mini-Series) (novel)
  
  1976 James and the Giant Peach (TV Movie) (based upon a novel by)
  1976 Le care mogli (TV Movie) (play)
  1975 A Gigot (Short) (short story "Lamb to the Slaughter")
  1975 Hundert Mark (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Des Pfarrers Freude ... (writer)
  1975 Uit de wereld van Roald Dahl (TV Series) (story - 5 episodes)
  - Een frisse duik (1975) ... (story)
  - De verrassing (1975) ... (story)
  - Op weg naar de hemel (1975) ... (story)
  - Vergif (1975) ... (story)
  - De weddenschap (1975) ... (story)
  1974 Genesis and Catastrophe (Short) (short story "Genesis and Catastrophe")
  1973 Et lite grøss? (TV Mini-Series) (short story "The Landlady" - 1 episode)
  - Vertinnen (1973) ... (short story "The Landlady")
  1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") / (screenplay)
  1971 The Road Builder
  
  1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (screenplay)
  1968 Late Night Horror (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - William and Mary (1968) ... (writer)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (screenplay)
  1967 Teatterituokio (TV Series) (short story "Taste" - 1 episode)
  - Maku (1967) ... (short story "Taste")
  Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) (story - 2 episodes, 1965) (writer - 1 episode, 1967)
  - Taste (1967) ... (writer)
  - Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1965) ... (story)
  - Parson's Pleasure (1965) ... (story)
  1966 Des Pfarrers Freude (TV Movie) (story)
  1964 36 Hours (story "Beware of the Dog")
  1962 That Was the Week That Was (TV Series)
  1961 'Way Out (TV Series) (by - 1 episode)
  - William and Mary (1961) ... (by)
  Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (based on a story by - 3 episodes, 1958 - 1961) (story - 2 episodes, 1958) (story by - 1 episode, 1960) (teleplay - 1 episode, 1958)
  - The Landlady (1961) ... (based on a story by)
  - Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1960) ... (based on a story by)
  - Man from the South (1960) ... (story by)
  - Poison (1958) ... (story)
  - Dip in the Pool (1958) ... (based on a story by)
  
  1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) (short story: "Beware of the Dog" - 1 episode)
  - Blind Landing (1959) ... (short story: "Beware of the Dog")
  1958 Suspicion (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - The Way Up to Heaven (1958) ... (story)
  1956 Le coup du berger (Short) (story - uncredited)
  1955 Cameo Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - The Man from the South (1955) ... (story)
  1955 Star Tonight (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - Taste (1955) ... (story)
  1954 Danger (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - A Dip in the Pool (1954) ... (story)
  1954 The Philip Morris Playhouse (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - Taste (1954) ... (story)
  1952 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - The Taste (1952) ... (story)
  1952 CBS Television Workshop (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - The Sound Machine (1952) ... (story)
  1950 Suspense (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - Poison (1950) ... (story)
  -
  Actor (2 credits)
  
  1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Narrator
  - Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1965) ... Narrator (voice)
  1961 'Way Out (TV Series) - Host
  - 20/20 (1961) ... Host
  - Side Show (1961) ... Host
  - Hush-Hush (1961) ... Host
  - The Overnight Case (1961) ... Host
  - The Croaker (1961) ... Host
  
  Soundtrack (2 credits)
  
  2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (lyrics: "Augustus Gloop", "Violet Beauregarde", "Veruca Salt", "Mike Teavee")
  1996 James and the Giant Peach (lyrics: "Eating The Peach")
  
  Thanks (3 credits)
  
  2007 This Is Not My Beautiful House (Short) (thanks)
  2003 Tales of the Unexpected: The Proposal (Short) (with apologies to)
  1995 Four Rooms (special thanks)

  1939: Richard Kiel is born--Detroit, Michigan. (He dies 10 September 2014 at age 74--Fresno, California.)

  
  Richard Kiel, James Bond villain Jaws
  actor, dies at 74
  https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29152398
  11 September 2014
  
  Actor Richard Kiel - who played
  steel-toothed villain Jaws in two
  James Bond films - has died in
  California aged 74.

  The towering American star, who appeared in The Spy Who Loved Me in 1977 and Moonraker in 1979, died in hospital in Fresno on Wednesday.

  A spokeswoman for Saint Agnes Medical Center confirmed Kiel's death, but did not reveal the cause.
  
  The 7ft 2in (2.18m) actor also appeared in the sports comedy Happy Gilmore, starring Adam Sandler, in 1996.
  
  Kiel got his first acting break in the 1950s

  Kiel made his name as cable-chomping henchman Jaws opposite Roger Moore as 007.
  
  Sir Roger said he was "totally distraught" at the death of his co-star.
  
  "We were on a radio programme together just a week ago," said the former Bond star, adding "[ I ] can't take it in".
  
  Kiel and Sir Roger were guests on BBC's Radio 4 programme The Reunion, which aired on Sunday, along with Bond actress Britt Ekland, recalling their roles in the spy series.
  
  During the programme, Kiel said he initially thought playing Jaws - a man who killed people with his teeth - could appear "over the top".
  
  "I was very put off by the description of the character and I thought, well, they don't really need an actor, he's more a monster part," he said.
  
  "So I tried to change that view of it... I said if I were to play the part, I want to give the character some human characteristics, like perseverance, frustration."
  
  Sir Roger said he was "distraught" at co-star Kiel's death, a week after they reunited for a radio show
  
  Sandro Monetti, director at Bafta in Los Angeles and a former showbiz reporter, described Kiel as having "teeth of steel, but a heart of gold".
  
  He recalled seeing the actor at James Bond conventions: "It was like seeing kids meeting Santa Claus. Everyone has got such joyous memories of Jaws, and he had time for everybody."
  
  Monetti added: "Whenever you mentioned Jaws, his eyes lit up and there was that famous grin."

  Micky Dolenz, who starred with Kiel in the seminal episode of The Monkees - I was a Teenage Monster, tweeted his memories of the star: "The great character actor and gentle giant."
  
  Sandro Monetti, a director of BAFTA in Los Angeles, spoke to Rachel Burden on BBC Radio 5 live Breakfast.

  The character of Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me was originally intended to die at the end of the movie, but he was so popular with fans that Kiel was brought back to reprise the role in Moonraker.
  
  "The original script had me being killed by the shark," Kiel said.
  
  "They filmed that and they also filmed an ending where I survive and pop out of the ocean.
  
  "That was one of the big moments for me, watching the blue-collar screening of the movie, The Spy Who Loved Me, and having the reaction of the crowd at the theatre when Jaws popped out of the ocean, survived and swam away. There were hoots and howling, applause. I couldn't believe it."
  
  Kiel, pictured with fellow Bond villains Christopher Lee, Rick Yune and Toby Stephens, was 7ft 2in tall

  Born in Detroit, Michigan, Kiel had the hormonal condition acromegaly, which was said to have contributed to his height.
  
  His first break came in 1959 when he played the alien Kanamit in Twilight Zone.
  
  He published an autobiography in 2002, called Making It Big In The Movies.
  
  His many other acting roles included deadly assistant Voltaire in the 1960s TV series The Wild, Wild West; playing opposite William Shatner in the 1970s TV sitcom Barbary Coast; taking on the lead character of Eli Weaver in the movie The Giant of Thunder Mountain; and spoofing his most famous role as "Famous big guy with silver teeth" in the movie version of Inspector Gadget.
  
  In recent years, he also spent much of his time touring the world and appearing at conventions to meet Bond fans.

  
  Richard Kiel
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001423/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (82 credits)
  
  The Engagement Ring (announced) - Patterson
  2012/IV The Awakened - Jasper
  2010 Tangled - Vlad (voice)
  2010 Disney Tangled (Video Game) - Vlad (voice)
  2003 James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (Video Game) - Jaws (voice)
  2000 BloodHounds, Inc. #5: Fangs for the Memories (Video) - Mortimer
  
  1999 Inspector Gadget - Famous Big Guy with Silver Teeth
  1996 Happy Gilmore - Mr. Larson
  1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain - Eli Weaver
  
  1989 The Princess and the Dwarf
  1989 Superboy (TV Series) - Vlkabok
  - Mr. and Mrs. Superboy (1989) ... Vlkabok
  1989 Think Big - Irving
  1988 Out of This World (TV Series) - Norman
  - Go West, Young Mayor (1988) ... Norman
  1985 Qing bao long hu men - Laszlo
  1985 Pale Rider - Club
  1984 Cannonball Run II - Arnold, Mitsubishi Driver
  1984 Mad Mission 3: Our Man from Bond Street - Big G
  1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Mark Horton
  - The Skeleton Who Came Out of the Closet (1983) ... Mark Horton
  1983 Hysterical - Captain Howdy
  1981 The Fall Guy (TV Series) - Animal
  - That's Right, We're Bad (1981) ... Animal
  1981 So Fine - Eddie
  
  1979 Moonraker: Milk Is Supreme Commercial (Short) - Jaws
  1979 Moonraker - Jaws
  1979 The Humanoid - Golob
  1978 They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way - Duke
  1978 Wu zi tian shi - Steel Hand (Guest star)
  1978 Force 10 from Navarone - Drazak
  1977 The Incredible Hulk (TV Series) - The Hulk (one scene only)
  - The Incredible Hulk (1977) ... The Hulk (one scene only) (uncredited)
  1977 Young Dan'l Boone (TV Series) - Grimm
  - The Game (1977) ... Grimm
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Jaws
  1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - Manager - 'Haunted House'
  - The Mystery of the Haunted House (1977) ... Manager - 'Haunted House'
  1976 Silver Streak - Reace
  1976 Land of the Lost (TV Series) - Malak
  - Flying Dutchman (1976) ... Malak
  - Survival Kit (1976) ... Malak
  1976 Gus - Tall Man
  1976 Starsky and Hutch (TV Series) - Iggy
  - Omaha Tiger (1976) ... Iggy
  1975-1976 Barbary Coast (TV Series) - Moose Moran
  - The Dawson Marker (1976) ... Moose Moran
  - Mary Had More Than a Little (1976) ... Moose Moran
  - The Day Cable Was Hanged (1975) ... Moose Moran
  - Sharks Eat Sharks (1975) ... Moose Moran
  - Arson and Old Lace (1975) ... Moose Moran
  1975 Switch (TV Series) - Loach
  - Death Heist (1975) ... Loach
  1975 Flash and the Firecat - Milo Pewett
  1974 Kolchak: The Night Stalker (TV Series)
  The Monster / The Diablero
  - The Spanish Moss Murders (1974) ... The Monster
  - Bad Medicine (1974) ... The Diablero
  1974 Emergency! (TV Series) - Carlo
  - I'll Fix It (1974) ... Carlo (uncredited)
  1974 The Longest Yard - Samson (as Dick Kiel)
  1972 Deadhead Miles - Big Dick
  1970 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Luke Brown
  - The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 2 (1970) ... Luke Brown
  - The Boy Who Stole the Elephant: Part 1 (1970) ... Luke Brown
  1970 The Boy Who Stole the Elephant (TV Movie)
  Luke Brown
  1970 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever - Blacksmith (uncredited)
  
  1969 Daniel Boone (TV Series) - Lemouche
  - Benvenuto... Who? (1969) ... Lemouche
  1968 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Willy
  - The Galloping Skin Game (1968) ... Willy
  1968 Skidoo - Beany
  1968 Now You See It, Now You Don't (TV Movie) - Nori
  1965-1968 The Wild Wild West (TV Series) - Voltaire / Dimas
  - The Night of the Simian Terror (1968) ... Dimas
  - The Night of the Whirring Death (1966) ... Voltaire
  - The Night That Terror Stalked the Town (1965) ... Voltaire
  - The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth (1965) ... Voltaire
  1968 A Man Called Dagger - Otto
  1968 I Spy (TV Series) - Tiny
  - A Few Miles West of Nowhere (1968) ... Tiny
  1967 The Monroes (TV Series) - Casmir
  - Ghosts of Paradox (1967) ... Casmir
  1967 The Monkees (TV Series) - Monster
  - I Was a Teenage Monster (1967) ... Monster (as Dick Kiel)
  1963-1966 Lassie (TV Series) - Chinook Pete / Dinny
  - Lassie the Voyager: Part 6 (1966) ... Dinny
  - The Journey: Part 5 (1963) ... Chinook Pete
  - The Journey: Part 4 (1963) ... Chinook Pete
  1966 Las Vegas Hillbillys - Moose
  1966 Gilligan's Island (TV Series)
  The Ghost / Russian Agent
  - Ghost-a-Go-Go (1966) ... The Ghost / Russian Agent
  1966 My Mother the Car (TV Series) - Cracks
  - A Riddler on the Roof (1966) ... Cracks
  1966 Honey West (TV Series) - Groalgo
  - King of the Mountain (1966) ... Groalgo
  1965 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Ali
  - My Hero? (1965) ... Ali
  1965 Brainstorm - Asylum Inmate (uncredited)
  1964-1965 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Merry / Guard
  - The Hong Kong Shilling Affair (1965) ... Merry
  - The Vulcan Affair (1964) ... Guard (uncredited)
  1965 The Human Duplicators - Dr. Kolos
  1965 Two on a Guillotine - Photographer at Funeral (uncredited)
  1964 The Nasty Rabbit - Ranch Foreman (uncredited)
  1964 Roustabout - Strongman (uncredited)
  1963 30 Minutes at Gunsight (TV Short)
  1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) - Paul Bunyan (uncredited)
  1963 Lassie's Great Adventure - Chinook Pete
  1963 The Nutty Professor - Man in Gym (uncredited)
  1963 House of the Damned - The Giant
  1962 Eegah - Eegah
  1962 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Kanamit
  - To Serve Man (1962) ... Kanamit
  1962 The Magic Sword - Pinhead No.1 (uncredited)
  1961 The Phantom (TV Movie) - Big Mike
  1961 The Phantom Planet - The Solarite
  1961 The Rifleman (TV Series) - Carl Hazlitt
  - The Decision (1961) ... Carl Hazlitt
  1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series) - Doorman
  - The Wizard of Ice (1961) ... Doorman
  1961 Laramie (TV Series) - Rake - Tolan's helper
  - Run of the Hunted (1961) ... Rake - Tolan's helper (uncredited)
  1961 Thriller (TV Series) - Master Styx
  - Well of Doom (1961) ... Master Styx
  1960 Klondike (TV Series) - Duff Brannigan
  - Bare Knuckles (1960) ... Duff Brannigan
  
  1957 The D.I. - Ugly Marine (uncredited)
  
  Writer (2 credits)
  
  1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain (screenplay)
  1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) (uncredited)
  
  Producer (2 credits)
  
  1991 The Giant of Thunder Mountain (executive producer)
  1963 The Paul Bunyan Show (TV Short) (producer - uncredited)
  
  Thanks (2 credits)
  
  2014 The Freddy Jenkins Show (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
  - R.I.P. Jaws (2014) ... (in memory of)
  2014 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)

  
  

  1944: Jacqueline Bisset is born--Weybridge, Surrey, England.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1983: Victory Games begins releasing its James Bond 007 role-playing games.

  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond_007_(role-playing_game)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2008: Two minutes of "Another Way to Die" air on the Spanish radio show Siglo.
  2019: Roald Dahl Day.

  
  Fantastic Mr Dahl: celebrate Roald
  Dahl Day on 13 September
  https://www.boundless.co.uk/be-inspired/lifestyle/roald-dahl-day
  

  
  
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  1967: You Only Live Twice released in The Netherlands.
  1967: James Bond 007 - Man lebt nur zweimal released in West Germany.

  
  
  
  

  1981: Sólo para sus ojos (Only For Your Eyes) released in Barcelona and Madrid, Spain.
  (Catalan title: Només per als teus ulls/Only For Your Eyes.)

  
  

  1985: A View to a Kill films OO7 grabbing the dangling rope from Zorin's zeppelin.
  
  
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  September 15th
  
  1967: Elät vain kahdesti released in Finland.

  

  1967: Man lever bara två gånger released in Sweden.

  
  
  

  1976: The Spy Who Loved Me underwater filming in Nassau.
  1977: Caterina Murino is born--Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.
  1980: For Your Eyes Only principal photography starts in Corfu--Villa Sylva, Kanoni, above Corfu Town (doubling for a Spanish villa).
  1983: Octopussy released in Gent, Belgium.

  

  1983: 007 Contra Octopussy (007 Against Octopussy) released in Brazil.

  

  1983: Octopussy - 007 contra las chicas mortales (Octopussy - 007 Against the Mortal Girls) released in Mexico and Peru.

  
  

  2008: Reports say Jack White didn't approve that Coke commercial.

  
  Jack White Didn’t Approve That
  Coke/Bond Commercial
  https://www.stereogum.com/21431/jack_white_didnt_approve_that_cokebond_commercial/news/
  Brandon Stosuy | September 15, 2008 - 9:25 am
  
  As we told you last week, that new James Bond-themed Coke commercial uses Jack White’s “Another Way To Die,” aka his duet with Alicia Keys, aka the theme song for the new Bond film Quantum Of Solace, to help rebrand and sell Coke Zero as Coke Zero Zero 7 (duh). What we didn’t tell you (because we didn’t know) is that White didn’t give Coca Cola his approval to pair his riffs with those car chases, slow-mo kung-fu silhouettes, and silhouetted ladies swimming the seas of Coke. Too bad, Jack & Coke has a nice ring to it. Jack — his management, actually — had some words for the soft drink giants:
  
  Via NME:

  “Jack White was commissioned by Sony Pictures to write a theme song for the James Bond film Quantum Of Solace, not for Coca Cola,” read the statement. “Any other use of the song is based on decisions made by others, not by Jack White.
  
  “We are disappointed that you first heard the song in a co-promotion for Coke Zero, rather than in its entirety.”

  Wonder what changed since he wrote “What Goes Around Comes Around” a couple years ago? Regardless, Jack — or, rather, his management — should read contracts closely.
  
  Quantum Of Solace hits theaters 11/14 (10/31 in the UK). Jack’s second Coke commercial will hit your television screen a bunch of times before that.
  
  [Photo via thefilter.ca]

  2017: Albert Moses dies at age 69--London, England. (Born 19 December 1937--Kandy, Sri Lanka.)

  
  Albert Moses KStJ
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Moses

  
  Albert Moses in 2005
  Born 19 December 1937 | Gampola, Kandy District, British Ceylon
  Died 15 September 2017 (aged 79) | London, United Kingdom
  Years active 1970–2017

  Albert Moses, KStJ (19 December 1937 – 15 September 2017)[1] was a Sri Lankan actor based in the United Kingdom. He had begun to act by the 1960s in India where he appeared in several Bollywood films, then produced and directed his first. From India, he moved to Africa where he undertook work on documentaries. From the early 1970s, in Britain, Moses played small parts in several television series before being cast as Ranjeet Singh, a Sikh from Punjab, India, in the ITV sitcom Mind Your Language (1977–79, 1986). His final film was The Snarling (2018)[3] in which he played tribute to his role in An American Werewolf in London (1981). The Snarling is dedicated to his memory. Moses died in September 2017 in London at the age of 79. He was buried at St. Andrew's Church in his native Gampola, Sri Lanka.

  
  Albert Moses (II) (1937–2017)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0608553/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  Actor | Producer
  
  Filmography

  Actor (77 credits)
  
  2018 The Snarling - Hospital Patient
  1984-2007 The Bill (TV Series) - Mr. Chadhar / Mr. Khan / Imam / ...
  - Deadly Intent (2007) ... Mr. Chadhar
  - A Willing Victim (1993) ... Mr. Khan
  - Come Fly with Me (1990) ... Imam
  - Clutching at Straws (1984) ... Ranji
  2006 Tripping Over (TV Series) - Nigel
  - Episode #1.3 (2006) ... Nigel
  2003-2004 Holby City (TV Series) - Kasim Hussein
  - Elf and Happiness (2004) ... Kasim Hussein
  - Love Nor Money (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
  - House of Cards (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
  2003 Indian Dream (TV Movie) - Amul
  2003 Murder in Mind (TV Series) - Keshav Singh
  - Cornershop (2003) ... Keshav Singh
  
  1999 East Is East - Abdul Karim
  1998 The Things You Do for Love: Black Butterflies (TV Movie) - Bob
  1997 Backup (TV Series) - Shiv
  - Not Cricket (1997) ... Shiv
  1997 The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo - Conductor
  1996 Casualty (TV Series) - Mr. Desai
  - Mother's Little Helper (1996) ... Mr. Desai
  1996 The Knock (TV Series) - Mr. Malhorta
  - Episode #2.1 (1996) ... Mr. Malhorta
  1994 Crocodile Shoes (TV Mini-Series) - Pandit Doshi
  - The Pitch (1994) ... Pandit Doshi
  1994 London's Burning (TV Series) - Shopkeeper
  - Episode #7.4 (1994) ... Shopkeeper
  1993 Anna Lee: Headcase (TV Movie) - Shop Keeper
  1992 Boon (TV Series) - Indian Waiter
  - Walkout (1992) ... Indian Waiter
  1991 Never the Twain (TV Series) - Policeman
  - The First of the Queue (1991) ... Policeman
  
  1989 Bluebirds (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
  - Fire (1989) ... Mr. Patel
  - Betrayal (1989) ... Mr. Patel
  1989 The Benny Hill Show (TV Series) - Native / Apu Dhurani
  - Holding Out for a Hero (1989) ... Native (uncredited)
  - The Crook Report (1989) ... Apu Dhurani
  1986-1989 The Little and Large Show (TV Series)
  - Episode #9.7 (1989)
  - Episode #8.5 (1988)
  - Episode #6.1 (1986)
  1988 Screen Two (TV Series) - Bashir
  - Lucky Sunil (1988) ... Bashir
  1987 Queenie (TV Mini-Series) - Inspector Gopal
  - Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
  - Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
  1987 Tandoori Nights (TV Series) - Sippy
  - Welcome Home Sweetie (1987) ... Sippy
  1986 Foreign Body - Paramedic #2
  1986 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Lascar
  - The Man with the Twisted Lip (1986) ... Lascar
  1977-1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) - Ranjeet Singh
  - Episode #4.13 (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
  - Episode #4.12 (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
  - Episode #4.11 (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
  - Everybody's Out (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
  - Wedding Fever (1986) ... Ranjeet Singh
  1985 Lytton's Diary (TV Series) - Patel
  - Come uppance (1985) ... Patel
  1985 Bulman (TV Series) - Jamsit Alam
  - Death of a Hitman (1985) ... Jamsit Alam
  1985 Travellers by Night (TV Mini-Series) - Lorry driver
  - Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Lorry driver
  1985 Who, Sir? Me, Sir? (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
  - Episode #1.6 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
  - Episode #1.5 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
  - Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
  1984 Tenko (TV Series) - Dr. Singh
  - Episode #3.4 (1984) ... Dr. Singh
  1984 The Little Drummer Girl - Green Grocer
  1984 Minder (TV Series) - Ajit Desai
  - What Makes Shamy Run? (1984) ... Ajit Desai
  1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV Mini-Series) - Suleiman
  - The Moghul Room (1984) ... Suleiman
  - Travelling Companions (1984) ... Suleiman
  1984 Scandalous - Vishnu
  1984 Cockles (TV Series) - Amin
  - Flotsam and Jetsam (1984) ... Amin
  1983 Don't Wait Up (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
  - Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Mr. Patel
  1981-1983 Juliet Bravo (TV Series) - Mr. Abdullah / Waiter
  - Teamwork (1983) ... Mr. Abdullah
  - Barriers (1981) ... Waiter
  1983 Al-mas' Ala Al-Kubra - Indian officer (uncredited)
  1983 Octopussy - Sadruddin
  1982 Squadron (TV Series) - Air Traffic Controller
  - Cyclone (1982) ... Air Traffic Controller
  1982 The New Adventures of Lucky Jim (TV Series) - Mohindra
  - The Apartment (1982) ... Mohindra
  1981-1982 The Chinese Detective (TV Series) - Mr. Patel / Mr. Banerjee
  - Oblomov (1982) ... Mr. Patel
  - The Four from Fulham (1981) ... Mr. Banerjee
  1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall - Janitor
  1981 An American Werewolf in London - Hospital Porter
  1981 Young at Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
  - Easy Come, Easy Go (1981) ... Mr. Patel
  1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Arab Patrolman
  - Would You Believe It? (1981) ... Arab Patrolman
  1975-1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Huq / Altab Shahid / Airport worker
  - The Garland (1981) ... Huq
  - Murder Rap (1980) ... Altab Shahid
  - Children of the Sun (1975) ... Airport worker
  1981 A Sharp Intake of Breath (TV Series) - Postman
  - Match of the Day (1981) ... Postman
  1980 Angels (TV Series) - Dr. Mishna
  - Episode #6.23 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
  - Episode #6.21 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
  1980 The Awakening (uncredited)
  1980 Company and Co (TV Series) - Gopal
  - Miss Lorelei Brown (1980) ... Gopal
  
  1979 Shoestring (TV Series) - Tailor
  - The Link-Up (1979) ... Tailor
  1978 Carry On Emmannuelle - Doctor
  1978 What's Up Nurse! - 1st Asian
  1978 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Charles Riarcht
  - All Part of the Service (1978) ... Charles Riarcht
  1977 The Rag Trade (TV Series) - Ahmed
  - The New Brother (1977) ... Ahmed
  1977 The Fuzz (TV Series) - 2nd Pakistani
  - Coppers Under the Sun (1977) ... 2nd Pakistani
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Barman
  1977 Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers - Indian shopkeeper
  1977 Horse in the House (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
  - Episode #1.3 (1977) ... Mr. Singh
  - Episode #1.2 (1977) ... Mr. Singh
  1977 Robin's Nest (TV Series) - Conductor
  - The Bistro Kids (1977) ... Conductor
  1976 Rogue's Rock (TV Series) - Abdullah
  - El Aziz (1976) ... Abdullah
  - Up the Spout (1976) ... Abdullah
  - Penny (1976) ... Abdullah
  - El Akhram (1976) ... Abdullah
  1976 Bill Brand (TV Mini-Series) - Pakistani
  - Tranquillity of the Realm (1976) ... Pakistani
  - Now and in England (1976) ... Pakistani
  - Yarn (1976) ... Pakistani
  1975 The Man Who Would Be King - Ghulam
  1974 Boy Dominic (TV Series) - Jailor
  - Sermons and Snuff (1974) ... Jailor
  - A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (1974) ... Jailor
  1973 A Touch of Eastern Promise (TV Short) - Assistant Manager
  1973 White Cargo - Arab (uncredited)
  1973 The Two Ronnies (TV Series) - - Episode #3.3 (1973)
  1973 Warship (TV Series) - Arab Operator Two
  - Nobody Said Frigate (1973) ... Arab Operator Two
  1973 On the Buses (TV Series) - Alf
  - Friends in High Places (1973) ... Alf
  1973 The Regiment (TV Series) - Monkeynut-Wallah
  - Heat (1973) ... Monkeynut-Wallah
  1973 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Indian Sailor
  - Carnival of Monsters: Episode Three (1973) ... Indian Sailor (uncredited)
  1972 Doctor in Charge (TV Series) - Sailor
  - The Long, Long Night (1972) ... Sailor (uncredited)
  1972 The Moonstone (TV Series) - Treasury Guard
  - Episode #1.1 (1972) ... Treasury Guard
  1971 Budgie (TV Series) - Pakistani
  - Some Mothers' Sons (1971) ... Pakistani
  1970 Wicked Women (TV Series) - Salmaan
  - Augusta Fullam (1970) ... Salmaan
  
  Producer (1 credit)
  
  1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) (producer - 13 episodes)
  - Episode #4.13 (1986) ... (producer)
  - Episode #4.12 (1986) ... (producer)
  - Episode #4.11 (1986) ... (producer)
  - Everybody's Out (1986) ... (producer)
  - Wedding Fever (1986) ... (producer)
  
  Self (1 credit)
  1980 We'll Tell You a Story (TV Series)
  Himself - Reader
  - Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Himself - Reader

  

  
  
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  September 2019 Posts: 45,489

  Richard, you have a typo in your translation of OP that makes it look like it is Octopussy who is up aginst those mortal girls.
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  Yes, @Thunderfinger, believe it or not I recognized the incorrect language/word order but repeated it from my source. Instead of looking at the true source--the poster images I searched out. Now corrected, thanks.
  
  
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  September 16th
  
  1922: Guy Hamilton is born--Paris, France. (He dies 20 April 2016 at age 93--Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.)

  
  Guy Hamilton, Director
  of ‘Goldfinger,’ Dies at 93
  https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/movies/guy-hamilton-director-of-goldfinger-dies-at-93.html
  
  From left, the director Guy Hamilton, Sean Connery and Honor Blackman on the set of
  “Goldfinger.” Credit United Artists, via Photofest
  
  By William Grimes and Robert Berkvist | April 21, 2016

  Guy Hamilton, a director whose emphasis on fast pacing and witty repartee made “Goldfinger” a model for the James Bond films to follow, and who directed three more installments in the series, died on Wednesday on the Mediterranean island of Majorca. He was 93.

  His death was announced in a statement to The Associated Press by the Hospital Juaneda Miramar in the city of Palma. It provided no other details.

  Mr. Hamilton, a former assistant to the British director Carol Reed, had the hit prison-escape movie “The Colditz Story” to his credit when the producers Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli asked him to direct “Dr. No,” the first Bond film. Unable to leave Britain, Mr. Hamilton turned down the job (it went to Terence Young), but he enthusiastically accepted the assignment to direct “Goldfinger,” the third Bond film.
  
  He delivered a gem, “the most trendsetting directorial job of all the films,” Raymond Benson wrote in The James Bond Bedside Companion (1984). He sped up the action; accentuated the banter between Bond and his boss, M, and the equipment expert, Q — the key to Q, he told the actor Desmond Llewelyn, was that Q could not stand Bond — and added innumerable touches that became signatures.
  
  “Everyone understands what is ‘Bondian,’” he told The Banner-Herald of Athens, Ga., in 2009. “If it was a cigarette lighter, it couldn’t just be a Zippo, it had to be the latest exclusive toy. It had to be more glamorous. Bond couldn’t have just any yacht — it had to be the biggest yacht in the world. We were creating a dream world, defining what was ‘Bondian.’”
  
  After the modest successes of the first two Bond films, “Goldfinger” (1964) was a blockbuster hit, with Sean Connery giving a definitive performance, aided by a memorable slate of opponents: the supervillain Auric Goldfinger (Gert Fröbe), his henchman Oddjob (Harold Sakata) and the femme fatale Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman).

  Mr. Hamilton took a break from the series when Mr. Saltzman hired him to direct the Cold War thriller “Funeral in Berlin” (1966), with Michael Caine, and “The Battle of Britain” (1969), a star-studded action film with Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Michael Redgrave and Mr. Caine.

  He returned to the Bond films with “Diamonds Are Forever” (1971), the seventh in the series, and brought the franchise into the Roger Moore era with its two successors, “Live and Let Die” (1973) and “The Man With the Golden Gun” (1974).

  Guy Hamilton was born on Sept. 16, 1922, in Paris, where his father was a press attaché to the British Embassy. Early on, he became a passionate film fan. As a teenager he worked at menial jobs at a film studio in Nice, and he served an apprenticeship with the director Julien Duvivier. With the outbreak of World War II he returned to London and served in the Royal Navy.
  
  
  Guy Hamilton at the Cannes
  International Film Festival in 2005. Credit
  Jean-Francois Guyot/Agence France-
  Presse — Getty Images
  
  In January 1944, as part of the 15th Motor Gunboat Flotilla, a secret unit that ferried agents into France and brought downed British pilots back to England, he and several crewmates missed a rendezvous and spent a month on the run in Brittany.
  
  After the war he worked for Mr. Reed on “The Fallen Idol,” “The Third Man” and “Outcast of the Islands.” He made his directing debut with “The Ringer” (1952), a mystery about a shady solicitor whose life is threatened.
  
  After directing the film version of the J.B. Priestley play “An Inspector Calls,” with Alastair Sim in the starring role, he made several films with a military theme.
  
  “The Colditz Story” (1955), written with Ivan Foxwell, was an oddly humorous melodrama set in a Nazi prison camp where the British inmates seem to be having a good time, even as they plot their escape.
  
  Another battleground, the American Revolution, was the setting for Mr. Hamilton’s interpretation of “The Devil’s Disciple” (1959), based on the play by George Bernard Shaw. Laurence Olivier played the British commander, General Burgoyne, Burt Lancaster a Yankee pastor who takes up arms against the British, and Kirk Douglas a rebel who discovers his true beliefs.

  “The Best of Enemies” (1962) was another semi-serious war story, this time set in Ethiopia, about a British officer, played by David Niven, who continually crosses paths, and swords, with his Italian counterpart, played by Alberto Sordi. Mr. Hamilton’s skill in directing that movie’s action sequences led the producers of the Bond films to seek him out.

  He later directed “Force 10 From Navarone” (1978), with Robert Shaw and Edward Fox as British saboteurs in the Balkans attempting to destroy a strategically vital bridge with the aid of Army Rangers led by Harrison Ford.
  
  Mr. Hamilton returned to the mystery genre in the 1980s, his last active decade in the industry, with two films based on Agatha Christie novels:“The Mirror Crack’d” (1980), with Angela Lansbury as Miss Jane Marple, and “Evil Under the Sun” (1982), in which Peter Ustinov played the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.
  
  One of Mr. Hamilton’s last efforts was “Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins” (1985), about a policeman-turned-assassin, played by Fred Ward, who sets out on multiple missions of vengeance.
  
  Mr. Hamilton’s first marriage, to the actress Naomi Chance, ended in divorce. His second wife was the actress Kerima, whom he met on the set of “Outcast of the Islands.” Complete information on his survivors was not avaliable.

  “Goldfinger” remained the shining jewel in Mr. Hamilton’s career. In 2010, The Guardian of London, cataloging the film’s virtues, wrote: “Where to start? The card game that opens the movie or the epic golf match in the middle? The gold-obsessed villain or the hulking Korean hardman? The near-castration with the laser beam or the gangster compacted in his Continental? And who could forget sexually ambiguous Pussy Galore, as essayed by husky-voiced, karate-chopping 40-year-old bombshell Honor Blackman? It’s a compendium of everything one loves about 007.”

  
  Guy Hamilton (1922–2016)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0357891/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  Director | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director | Writer
  
  Filmography

  Director (23 credits)
  
  2006 On Location with 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (Video documentary short)
  
  1989 Try This One for Size
  1985 Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
  1982 Evil Under the Sun
  1980 The Mirror Crack'd
  
  1978 Force 10 from Navarone
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun
  1973 Live and Let Die
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever
  
  1969 Battle of Britain
  1966 Funeral in Berlin
  1965 The Party's Over (uncredited)
  1964 Goldfinger
  1964 The Winston Affair
  1961 The Best of Enemies
  1960 A Touch of Larceny
  
  1959 The Devil's Disciple
  1957 Stowaway Girl
  1956 Charley Moon
  1955 The Colditz Story
  1954 An Inspector Calls
  1953 The Intruder
  1952 The Ringer
  
  Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (11 credits)
  
  1952 Murder on Monday (assistant director)
  1951 The African Queen (assistant director)
  1951 Outcast of the Islands (assistant director)
  1950 The Great Manhunt (assistant director)
  1950 The Angel with the Trumpet (assistant director)
  
  1949 The Third Man (assistant director)
  1949 Britannia Mews (assistant director)
  1948 The Fallen Idol (assistant director)
  1948 Anna Karenina (assistant director - uncredited)
  1947 Mine Own Executioner (second assistant director - uncredited)
  1947 I Became a Criminal (assistant director - uncredited)
  
  Writer (4 credits)
  
  1985 Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (uncredited)
  1960 A Touch of Larceny
  1957 Stowaway Girl (screenplay)
  1955 The Colditz Story (adaptation and script)
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)
  
  2006 A Sense of Carol Reed (Video documentary short) (private photographic collections courtesy of)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (director: pre-production - uncredited)
  
  Art department (1 credit)
  
  2006 You Will Believe: The Cinematic Saga of Superman (Video documentary) (illustrator)
  
  Thanks (1 credit)
  
  2010 Vixen Highway 2006: It Came from Uranus! (special thanks)
  

  
  

  1963: The San Francisco Chronicle prints Ian Fleming's article "The Case of the Painfully Pulled Leg."

  https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/16072/ian-fleming-and-the-case-of-the-painfully-pulled-leg

  1966: NBC television airs the first of 28 episodes of The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. starring Stephanie Powers as agent April Dancer (Fleming's name suggestion) and Noel Harrison as agent Mark Slate.

  
  
  
  
  

  1981: 007: Sólo para tus ojos (Only For Your Eyes) released in Mexico.

  
  
  
  https://librosfugitivos.es/es/superheroes-y-comic-usa/1905300010-cine-comic-1-james-bond-007-solo-para-tus-ojos-ersa-1981-9788428907187.html
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1982: Octopussy films the backgammon game between OO7 and Khan.
  1987: Tuer n’est pas jouer (Death is not a Game) released in France.

  
  
  
  
  Not to be confused with.

  

  1987: James Bond, praktor 007: Me to daktylo sti skandali (Με το δάχτυλο στη σκανδάλη; James Bond, Practitionaer 007: With Finger on Trigger) released in Greece.
  1990: Armchair Detective Library publishes a hardcover version of John Gardner's Licence to Kill novelization.

  
  

  1991: The James Bond Jr. cartoon series begins with Episode 1 - "The Beginning." Sixty-four episodes follow. It spawns a limited Marvel comic series, paperbacks, video games, action figures.

  
  

  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
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  September 17th
  
  1929: Formula One racing driver Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss, OBE is born--West Kensington, London, England.

  
  James Bond's secret mission: to save Stirling Moss
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/11133873/James-Bonds-secret-mission-to-save-Stirling-Moss.html

  Anthony Horowitz is to write a new James Bond novel based on a previously
  unseen Ian Fleming story about a secret Russian plot to sabotage a Stirling
  Moss race

  
  British racing driver Stirling Moss in his vehicle at Silverstone Photo: Getty Images
  
  By Anita Singh, Arts and Entertainment Editor |
  6:00AM BST 02 Oct 2014
  
  James Bond villains are usually bent on destroying the world order, but a newly unearthed Ian Fleming story reveals a more surprising target: Sir Stirling Moss.
  
  Murder on Wheels finds 007 attempting to foil a Russian plot to sabotage the British racing driver by forcing his car off the track at the Nürburgring.
  
  Fleming wrote the story as a synopsis for a US television episode. It was one of several commissioned by the US network CBS in the 1950s.
  
  They had already screened Fleming’s early story, Casino Royale, in 1954 – albeit an Americanised version in which the spy was re-named “Jimmy Bond”.
  
  Murder on Wheels never made it to the screen because the television episodes were discarded when the Bond films became hits.
  
  But the story will be used as a starting point for a new Bond novel, to be written by Anthony Horowitz, details of which were announced yesterday.
  
  The novel has been commissioned by the Fleming estate, and Horowitz follows Sebastian Faulks, Jeffrey Deaver and William Boyd in attempting to produce a story faithful to Fleming’s vision.
  
  Horowitz is creator of the television series Foyle’s War and author of the Alex Rider books about a teenage spy. He recently wrote a Sherlock Holmes novel at the behest of the Arthur Conan Doyle estate, but said taking on 007 presented a bigger challenge.
  
  “It’s no secret that Ian Fleming’s extraordinary character has had a profound influence on my life, so when the estate approached me to write a new James Bond novel how could I possibly refuse?” he said yesterday.
  
  “It’s a huge challenge – more difficult even than Sherlock Holmes in some ways – but having original, unpublished material by Fleming has been an inspiration. This is a book I had to write.”
  
  Horowitz will use the motor racing theme but it is understood he will remove references to Sir Stirling, who is now 85.
  
  Lucy Fleming, the author’s niece, said of the unseen source material: “There are various scripts and things that Ian wrote in the 1950s, commissioned by an American broadcasting company. But, of course, once the films took off they never got made.
  
  “It is a ‘treatment’ for a television episode and quite short, not a full script. James Bond gets called into M’s office and his mission is to make sure that a Russian plot to sabotage Stirling Moss’s race by forcing him to crash is intercepted.
  
  “It is 50 years this year since Ian died and we thought it would be really nice if we could use some of his original imagination and storytelling.”
  
  Miss Fleming said she believed it was the only instance of her uncle using a real-life character in one of his books, although they were occasionally included in the films: Janet Brown made a comic appearance as Baroness Thatcher in the closing scenes of For Your Eyes Only.

  Stirling Moss in the 1967 Casino Royale, far right
  
  
  

  1951: Ian Fleming writes a letter to journalist-spy Antony Terry.

  
  James Bond 007: Ian
  Fleming Signed
  Typewritten Letter
  (Beckett/BAS LOA)
  https://www.barnebys.com/auctions/lot/james-bond-007-ian-fleming-signed-typewritten-letter-beckett-bas-loa-5sR5eg-QCp
  ABOUT THE ITEM

  Ian Fleming could never have guessed the impact his creation would have on British culture, cinema, or the world's perception of British espionage. The enduring adoration for James Bond is something which could never had been conceived as Fleming sat down in Jamaica in January 1952, and succeeded in his quest to write the spy story to end all spy stories. Offered here is an ultra-rare letter written from Fleming to journalist and spy Antony Terry, dated September 17, 1951 - clearly, Fleming's interest in espionage had already begun at this point! Antony Terry was a giant of Cold War journalism, a Nazi-hunter, a spy, and a master manipulator - Fleming himself called Terry "by far the best correspondent in Germany". In this particular letter, Fleming praises Terry for his work on a certain assignment in Germany, naming it "as the most important politically of any of our correspondents". He finishes the letter hoping that Terry's "shoulders now feel strong enough to assume the mantle which [he was] intent on thrusting upon them". The typewritten letter on Kemsley House letterhead is signed in black steel tip, "Yours sincerely, Ian Fleming". Fleming has also handwritten at the top "Dear Antony Terry". In good condition with two horizontal folds and minor handling wear. Accompanied by a full Letter of Authenticity from Beckett Authentication Services (BAS).

  

  1958: Ian Fleming responds to Miss Joanne Russell's letter from San Francisco complimenting his books.

  
  549 Ian Fleming
  https://www.icollector.com/Ian-Fleming_i9360965
  Item Description

  TLS, one page, 5 x 8, Kemsley House letterhead, September 17, 1958. Letter of thanks to an admirer. In part, “How very kind of you to have taken the trouble to write to me and I am delighted that the rather harum-scarum of James Bond entertain you. They seem to entertain most people with the vivid and adventurous spirit which I expect you have.” Fleming has also handwritten the greeting and the closing sentiment, “Yours ever.” In very good to fine condition, with some scattered light creasing and mounting remnants to the reverse lightly showing through at each corner.
  
  To be sure, Fleming’s creation has not only entertained people, but spawned a franchise that has spanned more than 50 years and infiltrated not only the literary world but, of course, motion pictures. Not bad for the reckless “harum-scarum” promulgated by the title character and his license to kill. Fleming’s sixth Bond book, Dr. No, had been published just six months before this friendly letter, with eight more books yet to come. A highly desirable Bond reference.
  
  Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.

  

  1964: London premiere of Goldfinger at the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, London. Kinematograph Weekly later reports it as chaotic with 5,000 fans creating near-riot conditions drawing police reinforcements. In fact police rescue Honor Blackman from the surging crowds.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1964: BBC airs The Guns of James Bond with Sean Connery and the real Geoffrey Boothroyd.

  
  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0143mf5
  
  
  

  1966: CBS-TV premieres Mission: Impossible.
  1972: ABC-TV airs the first televised Bond film with the network premiere of Goldfinger. Its 49-point share and 31.1 rating remains one of the most-watched television programs ever.

  Goldfinger at 10:10
  

  1977: Älskade spion (Beloved Spy) released in Sweden.

  
  

  1982: Kingsley Amis reviews John Gardner's For Special Services in The Times Literary Supplement.

  
  Kingsley Amis,
  licence to kill
  https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/kingsley-amis-licence-to-kill/
  We revisit a review by Kingsley Amis of For
  Special Services, a James Bond novel by John
  Gardner, published in the TLS of September 17,
  1982.

  Ian Fleming’s last novel, The Man with the Golden Gun, appeared in 1965, the year after its author’s death. I published Colonel Sun: a James Bond adventure under the pseudonym of Robert Markham in 1968. The next Bond novel, Licence Renewed, by John Gardner, did not come along till 1981. Here now is For Special Services, by the same author.
  
  Quite likely it ill becomes a man placed as I am to say that, whereas its predecessor was bad enough by any reasonable standard, the present offering is an unrelieved disaster all the way from its aptly forgettable title to the photograph of the author – surely an unflattering likeness – on the back of the jacket. If so that is just my bad luck. On the other hand, perhaps I can claim the privilege of at least a momentary venting of indignation at the disrepute into which this publication brings the name and works of Ian Fleming. Let me get something like that said before I have to start being funny and clever and risk letting the thing escape through underkill.
  
  Over the last dozen years the Bond of the books must have been largely overlaid in the popular mind by the Bond of the films, a comic character with a lot of gadgets and witty remarks at his disposal. The temptation to let this Bond go the same way must have been considerable, but it has been resisted. Only once is he called upon to round off an action sequence with a yobbo-tickling throwaway of the sort that Sean Connery used to be so good at dropping out of the side of his mouth. No ridiculous feats are required of him. His personal armament seems plausible, his car seems capable of neither flight nor underwater locomotion, his cigarettes in the gunmetal case have the three gold rings as always and M calls him 007.
  
  Nobody else does, though. The designation is a pure honorific like Warden of the Cinque Ports; some ruling from Brussels or The Hague has put paid to the pristine Double-O Section and its licence to kill long ago. Even the cigarettes are low-tar. But these and similar changes would hardly show if he had been allowed to keep some other interests and bits of himself, or find new ones. Does he still drink champagne with scrambled eggs and sausages? Wear a lightweight black-and-white dog-tooth check suit in the country? Do twenty slow press-ups each morning? Read Country Life? Ski, play baccarat and golf for high stakes, dive in scuba gear? What happened to that elegant international scene with its grand hotels and yachts? No information.
  
  One thing Bond still does is have girls. There are three in this book, not counting a glimpse of Miss Moneypenny outside M’s door. The first is there just for local colour, around at the start, to be dropped as soon as the wheels start turning. She is called Q’ute because she comes from Q Branch. (Q himself is never mentioned, lives only in the films, belongs body and soul to Cubby Broccoli, the producer.) Q’ute is liberated and a champion of feminism. Luckily she only has two lines, but one of these contains a jovial mild obscenity, and a moment later there comes a terrifically subtle reference to the famous moment in the film of Dr No when Bond said, “Something big’s come up” in ambiguous circumstances and got the hoped-for laugh from the first audiences, thus, legend says, turning the subsequent films on to their giggly course. When you consider how much the original Bond would have hated these small manifestations of what the world has become since 1960 or so, you might be led to suspect a furtive taking of the piss, but nothing like it occurs again, as if Gardner, not the most self-assured of writers, had repented of his daring.
  
  Bond’s second girl has the cacophonous and uncertainly suggestive name of Cedar Leiter – yes, kin to that Felix Leiter of the CIA whom sharks deprived of an arm and half a leg in Live and Let Die (1954). Cedar is his daughter, a superfluous and unprofitable device that raises that thorniest of all questions, Bond’s age in 1982. Bond keeps his hands off her throughout, perhaps out of scruple but more likely because only a satyromaniac would find her appealing. She is described as short – a deadly word. An attractive girl may be small, tiny, petite, pocket-sized and such, but never short. Poor Cedar has no style or presence, no skills or accessories, no colour, no shape. And it is this wan creature whom Bond instantly accepts as his partner for the whole enterprise. In a Fleming novel – I nearly wrote “in real life” – Bond would have outrun sound getting away from her. To be accurate, of course, he would have done that even if she had been Pussy Galore or Domino Vitali all over again. He knew all about the way women “hang on your gun-arm” and “fog things up with sex and hurt feelings”. But then that was 1953.
  
  Bond scores all right with the third of the present trio, Nena Bismaquer, née Blofeld and the revengeful daughter of his old enemy, a detail meant to be a stunning revelation near the end but you guess it instantly. Nena – let me find the place – Nena looks fantastic and has incredible black eyes. Her voice is low and clear, with a tantalizing trace of accent. She wears exceptionally well-cut jeans and has that special poise which combines all the attributes Bond most admires in a woman. When she sees him first she gives him a smile calculated to make even the most misogynistic male buckle at the knees. As she comes closer, he feels a charge, an unmistakable chemistry passing between them. From expressions like these you can estimate the amount of trouble Gardner has taken with the figure of Nena and indeed the general level of his performance. It remains to be said about her that she has a long, slender nose and – by nature, not surgery – only one breast, an arresting combination of defects. Nobody really cares when she gets thrown among the pythons on the bayou. Well, there are pythons on this bayou.
  
  There are two other villains round the place about whose villainy no bones are made from the beginning, Nena’s husband Markus and his boyfriend Walter Luxor. One is fat and cherubic, the other of corpse-like appearance, but neither exudes a particle of menace or looks for a moment as if he would be any trouble to kill, and Nena casually knocks them off one after the other on a late page. The three had schemed to steal the computer tapes governing America’s military space-satellites, having fed drugged ice-cream to the personnel in charge of them. Bond, brainwashed by other drugs into believing himself to be a US general, is at the head of the party of infiltrators, but a third set of drugs, administered by a suddenly renegade Bisma­quer, brings him to himself just in time. This sounds, I know, like a renewed and more radical bid to take the piss, but seen in the context of the whole book and its genesis the absurdity, however gross, is contingent, mere blundering.
  
  I have suggested that For Special Services has little to do with the Bond films. In one sense this is its misfortune. Those films cover up any old implausibility or inconsistency by piling one outrage on another. You start to say to yourself “But he wouldn’t –” or “But they couldn’t –” and before you can finish Bond is crossing the sunward side of the planet Mercury in a tropical suit or sinking a Soviet aircraft-carrier with his teeth. Hardly a page in the book would not have gone the smoother for a diversion of this sort. Why, for instance, does the New York gang boss set his hoods on Bond when all he has to do is ask him nicely? Echo answers why. The reader is offered no relief from his bafflement.
  
  What makes Mr Gardner’s book so hard to read is not so much its endlessly silly story as its desolateness, its lack of the slightest human interest or warmth. Ian Fleming himself would have conceded that he was not the greatest delineator of character; even so his people have genuine life and substance and many of them both experience and inspire feeling. So far from being “the man who is only a silhouette” Bond is shown to be fully capable of indignation, compunction, remorse, tenderness and a protective instinct towards defenceless creatures. His girls have a liveliness, a tenacity and sometimes a claim on affection beyond the requirements of formula. Most of the Fleming books also have a more or less flamboyant figure assisting Bond and acting as a foil to him, such as Darko Kerim, the Turkish agent in From Russia, with Love, and Enrico Colombo, the virtuous black-marketeer and smuggler in “Risico”. By a kind of tradition, however, perhaps started by Buchan with Dominick Medina in The Three Hostages, the main character-interest in this type of novel attaches to the villain. Mr Big, Hugo Drax, Dr No and their like are persons of some size and power. They are made to seem to exist in their own right, to have been operating since long before Bond crossed their paths, rather than to have been run up on the spot for him to practise on. But then to do anything like that the writer must be genuinely interested in his material.

  

  

  1986: The Living Daylights second unit films the pre-title action sequence in Gibraltar.