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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  January 2020 Posts: 13,785

  January 9th
  
  1943: Scott Walker is born--Hamilton, Ohio. (He dies 22 March 2019 at age 76--London, England.)

  

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

  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/26/obituaries/scott-walker-dead.html
  
  
  Scott Walker with the Scottish pop singer Lulu during an awards ceremony in the late 1960s. Evoking the blue-eyed soul of the Righteous Brothers, his group, the Walker Brothers, had several hits, two of which rose to No. 1 on the British charts.
  Credit Ballard/Hulton Archive
  
  By Richard Sandomir | March 26, 2019
  
  Scott Walker, who with his American pop group, the Walker Brothers, became a teenage idol in Britain in the 1960s, but who later immersed himself in experimental music that influenced artists like David Bowie and Radiohead, died on Friday in London. He was 76.
  
  His record label, 4AD, said the cause was cancer. He had been living in England since the 1960s.
  
  The Walker Brothers arrived in England in early 1965, reversing the earlier British invasion of America. There, the group — made up of Mr. Walker (his real name was Noel Scott Engel), a dramatic baritone who played bass; John Maus, a guitarist and vocalist; and Gary Leeds, the drummer, all of whom used the surname Walker — found the success that had eluded them in the United States.
  
  Though their popularity never reached Beatlemania levels, their fans, like those of the Beatles, would scream during their performances — and, in one harrowing incident, turned over a van taking them from a concert in Dublin.
  
  Evoking the blue-eyed soul of the Righteous Brothers, the Walker Brothers had several hits, two of which rose to No. 1 on the British charts: “Make It Easy on Yourself,” a ballad by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, and “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore,” which had first been recorded by Frankie Valli of the Four Seasons. Both songs also rose to the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States.
  
  Mr. Walker left the group in 1967 to start a solo career that became a rejection of his rock-star phase. In one iteration he recorded songs by the Belgian singer and songwriter Jacques Brel. But his most critical period was a retreat into the studio to create avant-garde music that was hard to categorize: ominous and clangorous, existential and electronic, with big blocks of sound, his baritone voice now used to almost operatic effect. For many years, he did not appear in concert.
  
  Reviewing a recording on which Mr. Walker collaborated with the metal band Sunn O))) in 2014, Ben Ratliff of The New York Times described his music as “intricate puzzles of shock, indiscretion, non-resolution, theatrical uses of text and extended technique, often with a 40-piece orchestra.” He added that Mr. Walker was always looking for a “whoops factor”— “a moment of incomprehension from the listener.”
  
  In a message on Twitter, Thom Yorke, the lead singer and main songwriter of Radiohead, wrote that Mr. Walker had shown him “how I could use my voice and words.”
  
  “Met him once at Meltdown,” he added, referring to the annual music and art festival in England, “such a kind gentle outsider.”
  
  Noel Scott Engel was born on Jan 9, 1943, in Hamilton, Ohio, about 30 miles north of Cincinnati, the only child of Noel and Elizabeth Marie (Fortier) Engel. His father was an oil company geologist whose job took the family to various cities. When Scott was about 6 his parents divorced, and he went to live in Denver with his mother.
  
  They subsequently moved to New York, where in the mid-1950s Scott, still a schoolboy, began his entertainment career. He had small roles in the Broadway musicals “Plain and Fancy” and “Pipe Dream” and recorded singles, including “When Is a Boy a Man?” (1957), as Scotty Engel — hoping, without success, to break through as a teenage idol. Many of those songs were later released in the compilation album “Looking Back With Scott Walker” (1968).
  
  
  Mr. Walker performing on television in an undated photo. After leaving the Walker Brothers in 1967, he began a solo career that became a rejection of his rock-star phase, eventually retreating into the studio to create avant-garde music that was hard to categorize.
  Credit David Redfern/Redferns
  
  Around 1960 he and his mother moved to Los Angeles, where he attended high school and the Chouinard Art Institute. He also played in various music groups, worked as a session bassist and, in 1964, formed the Walker Brothers with Mr. Maus (who had already been using John Walker as a pseudonym). They played at the Whisky a Go Go and other clubs along the Sunset Strip.
  
  Although the best-known songs of his Walker Brothers period did not portend how radical his music would become, Mr. Walker began to demonstrate a willingness to free himself from the conventions of pop and rock as early as 1967, when he began releasing a series of solo albums — “Scott,” “Scott 2,” Scott 3” and “Scott 4.” He did so again on “Nite Flights” (1978), an album made during a brief reunion of the Walker Brothers.
  
  Along the way, he found an admirer in David Bowie. Mr. Bowie, a transcendent musical experimenter, was in a relationship with a woman who had dated Mr. Walker and kept his albums. Mr. Bowie listened to the music and became so enamored that he later took the role of executive producer of “Scott Walker: 30 Century Man” (2007), a documentary directed by Stephen Kijak.
  
  “I like the way he can paint a picture with what he says,” Mr. Bowie said in the film. “I had no idea what he was singing about. And I didn’t care.”
  
  Mr. Walker, who worked on his albums slowly and meticulously, continued his musical evolution with “Climate of Hunter” (1984). With “Tilt” (1995) and “The Drift” (2006), he drew closer to matching his ambition to his creative visions — and to those that crept into his mind while he slept.
  
  “I have a very nightmarish imagination,” he said in the documentary, which focuses on the recording of “The Drift.” He added: “I’ve had bad dreams all my life. Everything in my life is big, it’s out of proportion.”
  
  “Clara,” a song on “The Drift,” reimagines the executions of Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Claretta Petacci, at the hands of Italian partisans in 1945. (It was inspired by newsreels Mr. Walker had seen as a child.) Another song, “Jesse,” imagines a conversation between Elvis Presley and Jesse, his stillborn twin brother, as a vehicle to write about the destruction of the World Trade Center.
  
  In a plaintive, eerie vocal reminiscent of Mr. Bowie, Mr. Walker sings:

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

  Howard Kaylan, a founding member of the Turtles, said in a 2013 interview that he had been listening to Mr. Walker since the 1960s. He was a fan of the Walker Brothers, he said, but thought of Mr. Walker’s solo music as the work of genius.
  
  “My jaw hit the ground when I heard ‘Tilt,’ ” Mr. Kaylan told the newspaper Record Collector News. “And by the time he got to ‘Drift,’ I understood what he was doing: He is doing the most conventional pop music I ever heard. He is just doing it as if he was observing it from outer space and then trying to tell you what he saw as an alien.”
  
  Mr. Walker’s survivors include his partner, Beverly; his daughter, Lee; and a granddaughter. Mr. Maus died in 2011.
  
  Some of Mr. Walker’s lyrics were published last year in the book Sundog, with an introduction by the Irish novelist Eimear McBride, who compared Mr. Walker to James Joyce.
  
  “Walker’s work, as Joyce’s before it, is a complex synesthesia of thought, feeling, the doings of the physical world and the weight of foreign objects slowly ground together down into diamond,” Ms. McBride wrote. “This is not art for the passive. It does not impart comfort or ease. Tempests will not be reconciled by the final bars, and no one is going home any more.”
  A version of this article appears in print on March 27, 2019, on Page B14 of the New York edition with the headline: Scott Walker, 76, Pop Idol Who Turned Experimental.

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

  

  
  Scott Walker cover, "The Look of Love"

  

  
  
  

  
  1965: Goldfinger general release in the US.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films the shootout at Piz Gloria.
  
  1972: The RMS Queen Elizabeth catches fire and sinks in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong, ending plans to use it as "the Floating College".

  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2000: The World Is Not Enough released in Egypt.
  2003: Die Another Day released in the Netherlands.
  
  2012: Producers announce Thomas Newman will score Skyfall.

  

  Skyfall

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyfall:_Original_Motion_Picture_Soundtrack
  
  Development
  Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli announced on 9 January 2012 that Thomas Newman, frequent collaborator of Skyfall director Sam Mendes, would score Skyfall.[1] On describing how the job became his, Newman said, "I very shyly gave [Mendes] a call or emailed him and said, just so you know, I’d be overjoyed to do it, but would never want to be presumptuous. He emailed me back, saying I was just about to call you, let’s meet for lunch!"[2] Newman took over musical duties for the film from David Arnold who was busy directing the musical aspects of the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic closing ceremonies. However, Arnold later commented that the reason behind the selection of Newman had been because of his past work with Mendes.[3] Newman's collaborator J. A. C. Redford did the orchestration.[4]
  
  On 6 October 2012, the album's track list was revealed featuring the running times of each track.[5] The first preview of the score was released a few days later on 9 October 2012,[6] while the soundtrack itself was released less than a month later by Sony Classical.[7] This was the second time the label had released a Bond soundtrack, with the first being the Casino Royale soundtrack album.
  
  Unlike most other Bond soundtracks, the soundtrack album to Skyfall does not contain the title song performed by Adele. This marks only the second time that this has happened, the first being the Casino Royale soundtrack album. Despite this, at the producer's insistence Newman added an interpolation of "Skyfall" in the track "Komodo Dragon", used in a scene where Bond enters a casino in Macau.[8][9]
  
  The CD booklet mentions that the score contains interpolations of the "James Bond Theme", written by Monty Norman. Arnold's arrangement of the "James Bond Theme" (which appears on the Casino Royale soundtrack as "The Name's Bond…James Bond") plays over Skyfall's end titles (which begin with the film's gun barrel sequence); however, the track does not appear on the soundtrack album. Newman's arrangement of the theme plays over the reveal of Bond's Aston Martin and his escape with M to Scotland; the track appears on the album as "Breadcrumbs."

  
  

  2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #3.

  

  JAMES BOND 007 #3

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  January 2020 edited January 2020 Posts: 13,785

  January 10th
  
  1908: Bernard Lee is born--Brentford, Middlesex, England.
  (He dies 16 January 1981 at age 73--Hampstead, London, England.)

  
  Obituaries

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

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

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

  Mr. Lee's officious manner and clipped British accent made him a natural choice for detective roles or military dramas. In 1954 he played Inspector Valentine in ''The Detective,'' in which Alec Guinness starred. He had the leading role, that of a traitorous war hero, Henry Houghton, in ''Ring of Treason'' in 1964, and the starring role of a doomed pilot in ''Trouble in the Sky'' in 1964. In ''The Purple Plain,'' with Gregory Peck in 1955, he played a sympathetic Air Force medic.
  
  Mr. Lee also portrayed Inspector Valentine in ''Cage of Gold'' in 1952 and ''The Man Upstairs'' in 1959. He appeared in such post-World War II pictures as ''Quartet,'' based on stories by Somerset Maugham, and the Carol Reed-Graham Greene classics, ''The Fallen Idol'' and ''The Third Man.''
  
  Mr. Lee made his stage debut at the Oxford Theatre in London at the age of 6 with his father, Edmund Lee. He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and, after a measure of success on the stage and screen, made appearances on television.

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

  Mr. Lee is survived by his wife, Ursula.

  

  Bernard Lee (I) (1908–1981)

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

  Actor (150 credits)
  
  1981 Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (TV Movie) - Sergeant Ben
  
  1979 Saint Joan (TV Movie) - La Tremouille
  1979 Moonraker - M
  1977-1978 The Foundation (TV Series) - Eddie Prince - 13 episodes
  1978 Sense of Place (TV Series) - Man
  - Seawrack (1978) ... Man
  1977 A Christmas Carol (TV Movie) - Ghost of Christmas Present
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - M
  1976 Beauty and the Beast (TV Movie) - Edward Beaumont
  1976 Killers (TV Series) - Thomas Ley
  - The Chalkpit Murder (1976) ... Thomas Ley
  1976 Warship (TV Series) - Yachtsman
  - Knight Errant (1976) ... Yachtsman
  1975 From Hong Kong with Love - M
  1975 Comedy Premiere (TV Series) - Wally Warner
  - What a Turn Up (1975) ... Wally Warner
  1975 Against the Crowd (TV Series) - Beeley
  - Murrain (1975) ... Beeley
  1975 Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Drury
  - Kate (1975) ... Mr. Drury
  1974-1975 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Sir Peter Teazle / Hornblower
  - The School for Scandal (1975) ... Sir Peter Teazle
  - The Skin Game (1974) ... Hornblower
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - 'M'
  1974 Father Brown (TV Series) - John Raggley
  - The Quick One (1974) ... John Raggley
  1974 It's Not the Size That Counts - Barraclough
  1974 Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell - Tarmut
  1973 Vienna 1900 (TV Mini-Series) - Herr Welponer
  - Mother and Son (1973) ... Herr Welponer
  1973 Follyfoot (TV Series) - Woodman
  - Walk in the Wood (1973) ... Woodman
  1973 Crime of Passion (TV Series) - Marcel Amiot
  - Emile (1973) ... Marcel Amiot
  1973 Once Upon a Time (TV Series) - James Cable
  - Silver (1973) ... James Cable
  1973 Live and Let Die - 'M'
  1973 The Man Who Died Twice (TV Movie)
  Francis Cumberland
  1972-1973 General Hospital (TV Series) - Harold Brophy - 6 episodes
  1972 The Pathfinders (TV Series) - Air Vice Marshal
  - Codename Gomorrah (1972) ... Air Vice Marshal
  1971 Danger Point - Captain
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever - 'M'
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Sam Milford
  - Someone Like Me (1971) ... Sam Milford
  1971 Dulcima - Mr. Gaskain
  1971 Long Ago, Tomorrow - Uncle Bob
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 'M'
  1969 Crossplot - Chilmore
  1969 Strange Report (TV Series) - Arthur Pater
  - Report 8319: Grenade - What Price Change? (1969) ... Arthur Pater
  1969 The Expert (TV Series) - Harry Kirby
  - Post-Mortem on Harry Kirby (1969) ... Harry Kirby
  1969 The Champions (TV Series) - Squires
  - The Body Snatchers (1969) ... Squires
  1969 Journey to the Unknown (TV Series) - Ben Loker
  - Poor Butterfly (1969) ... Ben Loker
  1968 Journey to Midnight - Ben Loker (episode 'Poor Butterfly')
  1968 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Frank Lanton
  - Nothing Will Be the Same (1968) ... Frank Lanton
  1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Baxter
  - The System: Them Down There (1968) ... Baxter
  1968 The Jazz Age (TV Series) - Sir James
  - Post Mortem (1968) ... Sir James
  1968 Public Eye (TV Series) - Detective Sergeant Davidson
  - Mercury in an Off-White Mac (1968) ... Detective Sergeant Davidson
  1967 The Gamblers (TV Series) - Bob Townsend
  - The Man Beneath (1967) ... Bob Townsend
  1967 Mogul (TV Series) - Bernard Hart
  - Mr. Know-How (1967) ... Bernard Hart
  1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - George Kershaw
  - The Girl Who Never Was (1967) ... George Kershaw
  1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Frank Graham
  - Friends (1967) ... Frank Graham
  1967 You Only Live Twice - 'M'
  1967 Operation Kid Brother - Commander Cunningham
  1966-1967 King of the River (TV Series) - Joss King - 16 epsiodes
  1966 Court Martial (TV Series)
  - Flight of a Tiger (1966)
  1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Morgan Travis
  - The Killing (1966) ... Morgan Travis
  - Masquerade (1966) ... Morgan Travis
  1959-1966 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Daniel Whittaker / Tom / Aaronson / ...
  - The Night Before the Morning After (1966) ... Daniel Whittaker
  - Nest of Four (1960) ... Tom
  - Cold Fury (1960) ... Aaronson
  - Ernie Barger Is 50 (1959) ... Ernie Barger
  1965-1966 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Derringham / Lord Ammanford
  - The Man with the Foot (1966) ... Derringham
  - Whatever Happened to George Foster? (1965) ... Lord Ammanford
  1966 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Jeremiah
  - The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 2 (1966) ... Jeremiah
  - The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 1 (1966) ... Jeremiah
  1965 The Man in a Looking Glass (TV Movie) - Morgan Travis
  1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - The Man
  - The Passenger (1965) ... The Man
  1965 Thunderball - 'M'
  1965 Blackmail (TV Series) - Steve Bradwell
  - Tricks of the Trade (1965) ... Steve Bradwell
  1965 Love Story (TV Series) - Henry Golden
  - After Hours (1965) ... Henry Golden
  1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Landlord (uncredited)
  1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Mr. Patmore - Grocer
  1965 Two Left Feet - Mr. Crabbe
  1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors - Hopkins (segment "Creeping Vine")
  1965 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Jim Cherry
  - The Flowering Cherry (1965) ... Jim Cherry
  1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Jim Garner
  - Ring of Hate (1964) ... Jim Garner
  1964 Goldfinger - 'M'
  1964 Who Was Maddox? - Superintendent Meredith
  1960-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Superintendent Meredith / Det. Supt. Meredith / Inspector Mann
  - Who Was Maddox? (1964) ... Superintendent Meredith
  - The Share Out (1962) ... Det. Supt. Meredith
  - Clue of the Silver Key (1961) ... Superintendent Meredith
  - Partners in Crime (1961) ... Inspector Mann
  - Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960) ... Superintendent Meredith
  1964 Saturday Night Out - George Hudson
  1964 Shadow of Treason - Henry Houghton
  1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Villager: unknown name
  - Dead Men Don't Drive (1964) ... Villager: unknown name
  1964 Espionage (TV Series) - John Neary
  - Snow on Mount Kama (1964) ... John Neary
  1963 From Russia with Love - 'M'
  1963 A Place to Go - Matt Flint
  1963 The Third Man (TV Series) - Angus Meyrick
  - Portrait of Harry (1963) ... Angus Meyrick
  1962 The Share Out - Det. Supt. Meredith
  1961-1962 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Company Commander / Jack Brown
  - Behind the Line (1962) ... Company Commander
  - Venus Brown (1961) ... Jack Brown
  1962 The L-Shaped Room - Charlie
  1962 The Brain - Dr. Frank Shears
  1962 Dr. No - M.
  1961 Clue of the Silver Key - Superintendent Meredith
  1961 Partners in Crime - Inspector Mann
  1961 The Interrogator (TV Movie) - Superintendent Farron
  1961 O Captain, My Captain (TV Movie) - Vasco, The Captain
  1961 Whistle Down the Wind - Bostock
  1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Black John
  1961 The Secret Partner - Det. Supt. Frank Hanbury
  1960 Clue of the Twisted Candle - Superintendent Meredith
  1960 Trouble in the Sky - Capt. Gort
  1960 The Angry Silence - Bert Connolly
  1960 Kidnapped - Captain Hoseason
  1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Firing Officer (uncredited)
  
  1955-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Hoederer / Edward Blunt / Hurst / ...
  - Crime Passionnel (1959) ... Hoederer
  - The Uninvited (1958) ... Edward Blunt
  - In Writing (1956) ... Hurst
  - Mirror, Mirror (1955) ... Mervin Llewellyn
  1959 Web of Evidence - Patrick Mathry
  1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Lunt
  - Family on Trial (1959) ... Det. Insp. Lunt
  1959 Breakout - Lt. Col. Huxley
  1958 Nowhere to Go - Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson
  1958 The Man Upstairs - The Inspector
  1955-1958 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Cornelius / Prison Governor / William Lotless
  - Cornelius (1958) ... Cornelius
  - All Correct, Sir (1956) ... Prison Governor
  - The Golden Fleece (1955) ... William Lotless
  1958 The Key - Cmdr. Wadlow
  1958 Dunkirk - Charles Foreman
  1957 High Flight - Flight Sergeant Harris
  1957 Across the Bridge - Chief Inspector Hadden
  1957 Fire Down Below - Doctor Sam
  1956 The Spanish Gardener - Leighton Bailey
  1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Captain Dove - M.S. Africa Shell
  1956 Theatre Royal (TV Series) - Candleblow Smith
  - The Stolen Pearl (1956) ... Candleblow Smith
  1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Rudi Lankert
  - A Borderline Case (1955) ... Rudi Lankert
  1955 PT Raiders - Sam Brewster,The Customs Officer
  1955 Out of the Clouds - Customs Officer
  1955 Sweet Coz (TV Movie) - Job
  1954 The Purple Plain - Dr. Harris
  1954 Crest of the Wave - Seaman 'Lofty' Turner
  1954 The Detective - Inspector Valentine
  1954 The Rainbow Jacket - Racketeer (uncredited)
  1953 Beat the Devil - Insp. Jack Clayton
  1953 Sailor of the King - Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley
  1953 The Yellow Balloon - Constable Chapman
  1952 Glory at Sea - A.S. 'Stripey' Wood
  1951 Mr. Denning Drives North - Inspector Dodds
  1951 Island Rescue - Brigadier
  1951 Calling Bulldog Drummond - Col. Webson
  1951 White Corridors - Burgess
  1951 Fortune in Diamonds - O'Connell
  1950 Cage of Gold - Inspector Grey
  1950 Odette - Jack
  1950 Last Holiday - Inspector Wilton
  1950 Operation Disaster - Commander Gates
  1950 The Blue Lamp - Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry
  
  1949 The Third Man - Sgt. Paine
  1949 I Have Been Here Before (TV Movie) - Walter Ormund
  1948 Elizabeth of Ladymead - John Beresford in 1903
  1948 Quartet - Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")
  1948 The Fallen Idol - Detective Hart
  1947 The Adventures of Dusty Bates - Captain Ford
  1947 Katy's Love Affair - Colonel Gascoyne
  1946 This Man Is Mine - James Nicholls
  1943 The New Lot - Interviewing Officer (uncredited)
  1941 Once a Crook - Duke
  1940 Spare a Copper - Jake
  1940 To Hell with Hitler - Oscar
  
  1939 The Frozen Limits - Bill McGrew
  1939 Murder in the Night - Roy Barnes
  1938 Love from a Stranger (TV Movie) - Bruce Lovell
  1938 The Terror - Ferdy Fane
  1937 The Black Tulip - William Of Orange
  1936 Rhodes - Cartwright
  1935 The River House Mystery - Wade Belloc
  1934 The Double Event - Dennison
  
  Writer (1 credit)
  
  1975 Animal Kwackers (TV Series) (deviser)
  
  Self (4 credits)
  
  2006 Press Day in Portugal (Video documentary short) - Himself
  
  1980 Star Games (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode dated 4 November 1980 (1980) ... Himself
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQhV9A9R2no
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: James Bond's Wedding in Portugal (Documentary short) - Himself
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMPVQw0hvt4

  
  
  

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

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tmwtgg.php3?id=0559
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1987 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1987.php3

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

  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1968 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1968.php3
  Manden Med Den Gyllene Pistole (The Man With The Golden Gun)
  
  
  Danish 1977 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no40-1977/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 40: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (pt. 1) + “The Living Daylights” (1977)
  
  
  
  Danish 1976 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no35-1976/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 35: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1976)
  
  
  
  Danish 1968 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no15-1968/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 15: “The Man with the Golden Gun” (1968)
  
  
  

  

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

  Television-friendly titles.
  

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

  
  
  
  
  

  2003: 007 어 나 더 데이 (007 Another Day) released in the Republic of Korea.

  

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2016: The award for Best Original Song at the 73rd Grammy awards goes to Sam Smith for "Writing's on the Wall".
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  January 2020 edited January 2020 Posts: 13,785

  January 11th
  
  1966: Principle photography begins for Casino Royale.
  
  1978: D'Artagnan Extracolor publishes the James Bond comic Convención en Bahía Sangrienta (Convention in Bloody Bay, or The Man With the Golden Gun). Yoroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
  
  1990: The Hollywood Walk of Fame honors Albert R. Broccoli with a star.

  
  
  
  

  1999: Principal photography for The World Is Not Enough begins at Pinewood Studios.
  
  2000: A second soundtrack album for Tomorrow Never Dies is released.

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

  2002: Die Another Day begins filming at Pinewood Studios.
  
  2012: MGM and EON Productions announce the 9 November 2012 release date for BOND 23. Sam Mendes directing. John Logan assisting with the script.
  2015: Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg dies at age 83--Rocca di Papa, Italy.
  (Born 29 September 1931-- Malmö, Skåne län, Sweden.)

  

  Anita Ekberg - obituary

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11338898/Anita-Ekberg-obituary.html
  Anita Ekberg was a Swedish actress who found fame cavorting in Rome’s Trevi Fountain for Fellini’s La Dolce Vita
  
  Anita Ekberg in Back from Eternity (1956) Photo: Allstar Picture Library
  8:35PM GMT 11 Jan 2015
  
  Anita Ekberg, who has died aged 83, was the statuesque former Miss Sweden who became a global film sensation after cavorting in Rome’s Trevi Fountain for Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960). Although demure and innocent by today’s standards, the scene caused a scandal and made the 29-year-old Swede a household name.
  
  Some gossip columnists sniffily nicknamed her “The Iceberg” due to her Scandinavian roots, yet her dramatic décolletage, glowering good looks and vivacious delivery proved an enticing and popular combination with cinema audiences of the Sixties.
  
  Director Frank Tashlin, who directed her in the 1956 comedy Hollywood or Bust – the pun was intended – claimed that Anita Ekberg’s appeal lay in “the immaturity of the American male: this breast fetish. There’s nothing more hysterical to me than big-breasted women, like walking, leaning towers.”
  
  Anita Ekberg was indeed a teetering tower. She was 5ft 7in tall and possessed a considerable bust, of which she once said: “It’s not cellular obesity, it’s womanliness.” Yet in the same year that Tashlin had typecast her, Ekberg showed that she could really act, if given the opportunity, when she played Hélène Kuragin, the unfaithful wife of Pierre Bezukhov (Henry Fonda) in King Vidor’s epic War and Peace. However, she was fully aware that her allure was centred on her physicality. “I have a mirror,” she said in the late Sixties, “I would be a hypocrite if I said I didn’t know I am beautiful.”
  
  Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was born on September 29 1931 in Malmö, Sweden, one of a large family (she had seven siblings). As a youngster she had no desire to be famous. She wanted to marry and settle down to a conventional life. A childhood pleasure was to draw and fashion clothes.
  
  Out walking one day, a talent scout spotted her and persuaded her to enter the Miss Universe contest. Winning as Miss Sweden, she gained a trip to Hollywood. A screen test did not bring much work and she returned home disheartened. However, she was determined to make good as an actress and began saving for a return trip.
  
  Her break came when Bob Hope chose her to accompany him on a Christmas tour of American air force bases in Greenland in 1954. Studio moguls soon heard about the roars of approval for Anita and offered her a contract. She had small uncredited roles in films such as The Mississippi Gambler, Abbott and Costello go to Mars and The Golden Blade, before winning supporting parts in Artists and Models (1955) and Blood Alley (1955; playing a Chinese girl). Her first lead came in Back from Eternity (1956). By this time she was being touted as “Paramount’s Marilyn Monroe”.
  
  Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita (Kobal Collection)
  
  She moved to London in the mid-Fifties but was lonely and hardly left her hotel. Having refused dozens of invitations to premieres, something impelled her to finally accept one offer. Her escort turned out to be Anthony Steel, a matinee idol alumnus of the “Rank School”. They were married in 1956.
  
  In her first British film, Zarak (1956), she met her match in Victor Mature. Playing a native dancer, with a few spangles and bangles judiciously placed, who falls in love with Mature’s hulking Zarak Khan. The film left audiences wondering who had the bigger chest. She teamed up again with Mature the following year for the thriller Interpol.
  
  At this time her marriage to Steel was rarely out of the headlines, with reports of drunken driving, rows and violent recriminations. Eventually the union completely soured and they divorced after three years.
  
  Anita Ekberg with her first husband Anthony Steel (REX)
  
  She did not have time to mourn the marriage. Her performance in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita the following year made her a star. Shot in Rome at a time when the Italian obsession with celebrity was at its height, she played the starlet Sylvia opposite Marcello Mastroianni’s philandering paparazzo journalist. The part fixed her in audience’s minds as the European blonde “sex bomb” – stylish, sensual, shallow and ephemeral.
  
  In the film’s most famous scene, she splashes with abandon in the Trevi Fountain, her black low-necked dress trailing in the frothy waters, cooing: “Marcello, come here.” In fact the scene had been shot in February and Mastroianni was doped up on vodka. “I was freezing,” she recalled. “They had to lift me out of the water because I couldn’t feel my legs any more.”

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

  
  Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain (Alamy)
  
  Anita Ekberg’s on-screen persona – a freewheeling man-eater from overseas – soon spilt over into her private life. Sinatra was one of the many leading men she was rumoured to have taken as a lover, along with Errol Flynn, Yul Brynner, Tyrone Power and Gary Cooper.
  
  She often played characters possessed of an untethered and wild spirit. As a “war lady” in The Mongols (1961) she indulged in torture and sado-masochism, striding in thigh-high boots among the slave girls cracking a bullwhip. For “The Temptation of Dr Antonio”, Fellini’s episode in the portmanteau feature Boccaccio '70 (1962), she was once again the sex object, this time as the model featured on a “Drink More Milk” billboard poster who is brought to life to trap a puritanical doctor. Thus Fellini followed Tashlin in using her abilities for erotic satire.

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

  As with all sex symbols, age diminished her currency. By the end of the Sixties she was complaining about the lack of available roles. “I should be able to get work myself on the strength of my acting. I shouldn’t have to sleep with producers to get parts. It’s depressing to see parts going to actresses who can’t act their way out of a wet paper bag but who are friendly with producers,” she observed. “My life has changed quite a bit, of course. The Ferrari’s gone – now I have a Mini Moke.”
  
  The downward spiral continued throughout the Seventies. She made films but they were more often than not B-movies with salacious titles such as The French Sex Murders (1972) and The Killer Nun (1979). Her scenes for Valley of the Dancing Widows (1975) were left on the cutting room floor. At home things also began to disintegrate: she accused Van Nutter of cheating her over a car-hire business they owned. The couple divorced in 1975.
  
  Anita Ekberg in 2010 (AFP)
  
  Two years later, her house was robbed, with the thieves stealing fur coats, jewels and silver, the fruits of her once-famous career. “My last 10 years have brought nothing but bad luck,” she stated.
  
  After a second robbery in 2011, she appealed to the Fellini Foundation for financial help. It was a sad sign of decline from the Amazonian actress who had five decades earlier threatened paparazzi with a bow and arrow.
  
  Her final years were spent living in semi-reclusion in a run-down Italian villa outside Rome, where her only companions were two great Danes.
  
  Anita Ekberg, born September 29 1931, died January 11 2015

  

  Anita Ekberg (1931–2015)

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

  Actress (65 credits)
  
  2002 Beauty Centre (TV Series) - Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
  - Ottobre (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
  - Settembre (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
  - Agosto (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
  - Maggio (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
  - Aprile (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
  - Febbraio (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
  - Gennaio (2002) ... Ingrid Schöller Foglietti
  
  1998 Le nain rouge - Paola Bendoni
  1996 Bámbola - Mamma Greta
  1996 Witness Run (TV Movie)
  1992 Cattive ragazze - Milli
  1992 Dov'era Lei a quell'Ora? - Anita Ekberg
  1992 Ambrogio - Clarice
  1991 Il conte Max - Marika
  
  1988 Quando ancora non c'erano i Beatles (TV Mini-Series) - La pianista
  - Episode #1.3 (1988) ... La pianista
  - Episode #1.2 (1988) ... La pianista
  - Episode #1.1 (1988) ... La pianista
  1987 Intervista - Anita Ekberg
  1986 The Seduction of Angela - Signora Rocchi
  1982 Cicciabomba - Baronessa Judith von Kemp
  1980 S.H.E: Security Hazards Expert - Dr. Else Biebling
  
  1979 Killer Nun - Sister Gertrude
  1979 Gold of the Amazon Women (TV Movie) - Queen Na-Eela
  1975 Das Tal der tanzenden Witwen (scenes deleted)
  1974 Anno Schmidt (Short)
  1974 Northeast of Seoul - Katherine
  1972 Deadly Trackers - Jane
  1972 The French Sex Murders - Madame Colette
  1970 Quella chiara notte d'ottobre (as Anita Edberg)
  1970 The Conjugal Debt - Ines
  1970 The Divorce - Flavia
  
  1969 Death Knocks Twice - Sophia Ferretti
  1969 A Candidate for a Killing - Jacqueline Monnard
  1969 Fangs of the Living Dead - Malenka / Sylvia Morel
  1969 If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium - Performer
  1968 Crónica de un atraco - Bessie
  1967 Woman Times Seven - Claudie (segment "Snow")
  1967 The Glass Sphinx - Paulette
  1967 The Cobra - Lou
  1966 Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario? - Olga, la baronessa
  1966 Way... Way Out - Anna Soblova
  1966 Come imparai ad amare le donne - Margaret Joyce
  1965 The Alphabet Murders - Amanda Beatrice Cross
  1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Lolita Young
  1964 Love Factory - Alberchiaria
  1963 4 for Texas - Elya Carlson
  1963 Call Me Bwana - Luba
  1962 Boccaccio '70 - Anita (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor Antonio")
  1961 The Mongols - Hulina
  1961 A porte chiuse - Olga Duvovich
  1960 Little Girls and High Finance
  1960 Le tre eccetera del colonnello - Georgina
  1960 The Dam on the Yellow River - Miss Dorothy Simmons
  1960 La Dolce Vita - Sylvia
  
  1959 Sheba and the Gladiator - Zenobia - Queen of Palmira
  1958 The Man Inside - Trudie Hall
  1958 Screaming Mimi - Virginia Wilson / Yolanda Lange
  1958 Paris Holiday - Zara
  1957 Valerie - Valerie Horvat
  1957 Pickup Alley - Gina Broger
  1956 Hollywood or Bust - Anita Ekberg
  1956 Zarak - Salma
  1956 Man in the Vault - Flo Randall
  1956 Back from Eternity - Rena
  1956 War and Peace - Helene Kuragina
  1955 Artists and Models - Anita
  1955 Blood Alley - Wei Ling
  1955 Casablanca (TV Series) - Katrina Jorgenson
  - Who Holds Tomorrow? (1955) ... Katrina Jorgenson
  1953 Private Secretary (TV Series) - The Hubby Killer
  - The Hubby Killer (1953) ... The Hubby Killer
  1953 The Golden Blade - Handmaiden (uncredited)
  1953 Take Me to Town - Dancehall Girl (uncredited)
  1953 Abbott and Costello Go to Mars - Venusian Guard
  1953 The Mississippi Gambler - Maid of Honor (uncredited)
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)
  
  2003 Lost in Translation (film clip: "La Dolce vita" courtesy of - as Ms. Anita Ekberg)

  
  
  

  
  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Hammerhead #4.

  

  JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #4 (OF 6)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Felix Leiter #1.

  

  JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #1

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

  From superstar creative team James Robinson (Starman, Red Sonja) and Aaron Campbell (The Shadow, Uncanny) comes the Bond spin-off highlighting 007's American counterpart!
  
  Felix Leiter finds himself in Japan, tracking down a beautiful, Russian spy from his past. But when the mission takes a turn for the worse, he will discover that there are more deadly schemes afoot in Tokyo and beyond!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  January 12th
  
  1937: Shirley Eaton is born--Edgware, Middlesex, England.
  
  1996: Επιχείρηση Χρυσά Μάτια (Epiheirisi Hrysa Matia, Enterprise Golden Eyes) released in Greece.

  

  1996: Agente 007 - GoldenEye released in Italy.
  
  2002: BBC News reports "Pierce Brosnan agrees to a fifth 007 film".

  
  Saturday, 12 January, 2002, 07:56 GMT
  Brosnan agrees to fifth 007 film
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1753809.stm
  
  
  Bond is to drive an Aston Martin again in the new film
  
  Actor Pierce Brosnan has extended his contract to play James Bond for a fifth time.
  
  The Irish performer told reporters at the launch of his fourth 007 adventure he was keen to make one more film, but admitted it would probably be his last.
  
  The 20th James Bond movie - as yet untitled - starts shooting officially at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire on Monday before taking in locations including Hawaii, Iceland, Spain and London.
  
  The movie marks the 40th anniversary of the series that began in 1962 with Dr No, starring Sean Connery.
  
  
  Sean Connery starred in many classic Bond films
  
  Brosnan, 48, said he was delighted to be continuing in the role.
  
  "I will do another one. Time has gone by so quickly. It seems like only yesterday I was sitting here for GoldenEye," he said.
  
  But he said he might be too old for a sixth appearance as the British spy.
  
  "It takes stamina to play this role. I would like to get off the stage with grace.
  
  "I am honouring my contract here but it would be wonderful to do another one. After that, I do not know."
  
  The 20th film will be directed by Lee Tamahori, whose previous successes include Along Came a Spider and The Edge.
  
  Swordfish star Halle Berry and newcomer Rosamund Pike will be Brosnan's glamorous female co-stars.
  
  Berry, who also worked on X-Men, said it a dream come true to be playing opposite 007.
  
  
  Halle Berry is tipped for an Oscar for Monsters Ball
  
  She said: "I hope I will fit in and do as fine a job as the women before me."
  
  Pike, who has never starred in a movie before, admitted she was not keen on Bond when she was growing up, but said she was looking forward to an "electrifying" experience.
  
  British actor Toby Stevens will play the villainous bad guy.
  
  Other stars returning include Dame Judi Dench as M, Samantha Bond as Miss Moneypenny and John Cleese in the role of Q following the death of Desmond Llewelyn.
  
  Bond will once again drive an Aston Martin, after a deal with the manufacturer.
  
  The V12 Vanquish will be the fourth Aston Martin that Bond has driven since the association began in 1964 with the film Goldfinger - when the DB5 was fitted with ejector seats and rockets.
  
  Award
  
  Co-producer Barbara Broccoli is the daughter of Cubby Broccoli, the producer who originally brought Ian Fleming's spy to the big screen, and who died in 1996.
  
  Broccoli and fellow producer Michael G Wilson, will receive a special award from the London Film Critics' Circle.
  
  The award will be presented at the Circle's 22nd awards ceremony on 13 February.
  
  It is being given to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the James Bond films, and the organisers say they expect some familiar Bond faces to be among the guests at the event.

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

  
  
  
  

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

  

  Sam Mendes may have problems directing new James
  Bond movie

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/jamesbond/8255072/Sam-Mendes-may-have-problems-directing-new-Bond-movie.html
  Director could have to battle for his 'vision' if past Bond films are a guide, says
  Tim Robey.
  By Tim Robey, Film Critic | 2:05PM GMT 12 Jan 2011
  
  It's a full year since Sam Mendes was first put in the frame as a potential Bond director, in which time MGM’s financial woes derailed the production schedule, allowing 007’s more possessive fans to forget their immediate beef and prematurely mourn the whole franchise.
  
  Now it’s back on, but they’re still not happy about the (reconfirmed) Mendes appointment. “It’ll be all middlebrow and safe!” seems to be the standard assumption. The Bond they want is gleeful, sly and viscerally over-the-top, qualities it’s fair to say haven’t been much in evidence in Mendes’s movies to date.
  
  Bond, though, is simply not a director’s franchise. Fans on message boards love to rail against the last one, Quantum of Solace, and throw a lot of blame at Marc Forster, the Swiss helmer of Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland and other literary Oscar-bait, whose face-value credentials for the job were every bit as elusive as those of Mendes.
  
  The argument goes that you need a real action-director’s pair of hands, and that Martin Campbell, who rebooted the series twice with GoldenEye and Casino Royale, is the right type of guy. Directors with artistic pretensions tackle Bond at their peril and everyone else’s.
  
  Because their names carry unexpected pedigree for the task of a mass-market blockbuster, Forster, and now Mendes, become convenient stooges for what’s actually a producer’s logistical nightmare – and responsibility.
  
  It’s about marshalling an army of second unit/assistant directors, stunt co-ordinators and effects technicians. In the Brosnan years, people such as Roger Spottiswoode and Michael Apted may have had the helm, but most of the standout set-pieces were famously masterminded by Vic Armstrong and his team.
  
  Sure, directors of Bond movies have their work cut out to get the actors and story into shape, but they have less autonomy to foist any particular vision of their own on to the screen than in most other franchises this side of Police Academy. You could pick apart the auteur theory on the evidence of editor-turned-director John Glen, who directed the last three Roger Moore instalments, then made the terrific first Timothy Dalton one, The Living Daylights, and then followed it up with surely the nadir of the entire series, Licence To Kill.
  
  This proves my point: who directs a Bond movie has almost nothing to do with how good it is. (A further dent in the just-use-Martin-Campbell argument is available to anyone who’s actually tried to watch GoldenEye lately, Famke Janssen’s ace villainess honourably excepted.)
  
  So imagining that Mendes will somehow attempt to turn Bond into Revolutionary Road II or The Cherry Orchard: Dawn Inferno is a mug’s game. He won’t be allowed.
  
  Whether his instalment is praised or pilloried will be down to the entire creative team, the script, the editing, effects, production design, score, and the harmony of all those elements, as it always is – and, as usual, it'll be mainly the producers', not Mendes's, concern to foster that harmony.
  
  Oh, and the casting. Rumours are abroad that Simon Russell Beale is currently being considered for a role. He’d love to be a baddie. I’d love him to be a baddie. The petition starts here.

  
  
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  January 13th
  
  1925: Count Robin Ian Evelyn Milne Stuart de la Lanne-Mirrlees is born--Cairo, Egypt.
  (He dies 23 June 2012 at age 87--Stornoway, Scotland.)

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

  

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

  https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-robin-de-la-lanne-mirrlees-title-loving-prince-who-found-peace-on-isle-of-great-bernera-1-2382350
  Published: 00:00 Friday 29 June 2012
  
  Born: 13 January, 1925, in Cairo. Died: 23 June, 2012, in Stornoway, aged 87.

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

  This fluent linguist, international heraldic figure, one-time Lloyds’ “name”, property owner and castle restorer became revered in the Western Isles as a benevolent laird, who swapped a Paris flat for a croft, and was known to the 350 islanders on Great Bernera simply as “Robin”.
  
  In spite of holding a Yugoslav royal title, attending the Queen as a herald at her coronation and being in direct descent of Louis Philippe I of France, he latterly became anti-monarchist. In a reference to his own princely title, he remarked, “Any old fool can be a prince, and in my case legitimately”, adding, “I’m quite a man of the people really”.
  
  Robin Ian Evelyn Milne Stuart de la Lanne-Mirrlees was born Robin Grinnell-Milne in Cairo, son of Captain Duncan Gribbell-Milne, a Great War pilot, and the Countess Frances de la Lanne. He initially changed his name when his mother later married another Great War hero, Major-General William Mirrlees. His second change of name occurred two decades ago.
  
  Learned and outgoing, he was a born networker, whose godfather was the 11th Duke of Argyll. Educated at the English School of Cairo, in Paris and Merton College, Oxford, he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery and saw service in India. Passionate about heraldry, his career began in 1952 at the College of Arms in London as Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, being promoted to Richmond Herald. In later years, he was a regular at Edinburgh meetings of the Heraldry Society of Scotland.

  In his 15 years at England’s centre of heraldry, he corresponded with Fleming, then researching On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Bond’s cover role was based on Mirrlees, the fictional spy having the title Sable Basilisk Pursuivant, suggested by Robin. Villain Stavro Blofeld also bears the “deformity” of having no ear lobes.
  
  Robin too was lobeless. His friendship with Fleming resulted in a jointly written book, Sable Basilisk (1965), centring on Bond’s “genealogy”, with 007’s coat-of-arms on the cover and motto: “The World Is Not Enough”.

  Critics accused Count Robin of basking in “flummery” – and he did love titles. That of count came through his mother’s line, recognised in 1964 by the Republic of San Marino. His claim to his princedom emanated in 1967 from the exiled King Peter II of Yugoslavia, his “Prince of Coronata” covering islands off Dalmatia. Further titles followed: in 1975, he was recognised as Baron of Inchdrewer and Laird of Bernera. He was also a Knight of Honour and Devotion of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta.
  
  In 2005, he began to assert his princely title, informing friends: “Maybe it will help me find a princess at my age”. His only marriage, at 45 to a nurse half his age, lasted less than a week.
  
  Robin proved a generous and witty host, enormously enjoying good company and stimulating conversation. In the early 1970s he restored Inchdrewer Castle near Banff, but never occupied the place. His purchase sight unseen in 1962 of Great Bernera off Lewis and his croft home there made him an adopted islander. He refused to raise rents, and donated land for community use. Three years ago when in a care home on Great Bernera, he and the only other resident faced being made to move by Western Isles Council; the pair retained their residency through becoming “tenants”.
  
  The Lloyds crash of the early 1990s almost ruined him but Count Robin paid off more than £2 million in debts after “a property clear-out”. He lost his house in Holland Park, London, chateau in France, flats in Paris and Switzerland, and Ratzenegg Castle in Austria, yet good humouredly, joined the Lottery syndicate on his beloved Bernera.
  
  He is survived by Patrick de la Lanne,, his natural son through his relationship with Margarethe, Duchess of Wurttemberg; and three grandchildren.
  
  Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-robin-de-la-lanne-mirrlees-title-loving-prince-who-found-peace-on-isle-of-great-bernera-1-2382350

  
  
  
  

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

  

  Spies, affairs and James Bond... The
  secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime
  mistress

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

  Thursday 13 January, 1944
  
  Ian dined and talked about his plans for the future, whether to take a newspaper job with the Daily Telegraph and go on hustling and bustling all his life, or whether to live in a cottage, take off his collar and tie, and write a novel or two. Then pros and cons of marriage. I said he would be happier married and shouldn’t leave it too long – not after 40. He is worn out almost every time I see him and wants to talk about cottages, seashores, Tahiti, long naked holidays on coral islands and marriage.

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

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

  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1977: D'Artagnan Extracolor publishes James Bond comic Clínica Peligrosa (Fear Face). Yoroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me sinks the Atlantis model near Goulding Cay, Bahamas.
  
  2000: Jeden svet nestací (One World Is Not Enough) released in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

  
  Video marketing.
  
  
  
  

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

  

  
  
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  January 14th
  
  1947: Stuart Baird is born--Uxbridge, Middlesex, England.
  
  1962: EON's crew arrives in Jamaica to start filming 2 days later. Monty Norman and wife--actress-singer Diana Coupland--also arrive on island this date.
  1965: Jonathan Cape publishes Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Volume 3.

  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1972: Diamonds Are Forever released in Ireland.
  1974: ABC-TV network premiere of From Russia with Love.
  
  1985: A View to a Kill completes principal photography with OO7 and May Day at the mine.
  
  2000: 007 - Il mondo non basta released in Italy.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
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  2002: Scheduled start to filming Die Another Day.
  
  2020: Announcements say Hans Zimmer will score No Time To Die.
  
  
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  1931: Derek Meddings is born--Pancras, London, England.
  (He dies 10 September 1995 at age 64--London, England.)

  

  OBITUARY: Derek Meddings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Derek Meddings

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

  
  
  
  

  
  1952: This morning Ian Fleming begins writing Casino Royale at Goldeneye.

  

  
  1964: Goldfinger films the aerial view of the Fountainbleu Hotel, Miami.
  1968: The last original Man from U.N.C.L.E. episodes airs.
  
  1976: Bond comic strip The Torch-Time Affair ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 15 October 1975. 2984-3060) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1016
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3
  En Enkel, Acapulco! (The Torch-Time Affair)
  
  
  Danish 1979 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no47-1979/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 47: “The Torch-Time Affair” (1979)
  
  
  
  

  
  1998: El mañana nunca muere (The Tomorrow Never Die) released in Argentina.

  
  

  
  2020: Announcements say Billie Eilish recorded the theme song for No Time To Die.
  
  
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  January 16th
  
  1946: Kabir Bedi is born--Lahore, Punjab, British India.
  1949: Caroline Munro is born--Windsor, Berkshire, England.
  
  1962: Dr. No filming begins on location in Jamaica. Exteriors of Crab Key and Kingston, in the vicinity of the Fleming Goldeneye estate (and he was a frequent visitor with guests). Scenes filmed at Oracabessa, the Palisadoes strip, plus Port Royal in St. Andrew.
  
  1970: In geheime dienst van Hare Majesteit (In Secret Service of Her Majesty. Flemish title) released in Belgium.

  
  
  

  1971: Bond comic strip The Golden Ghost ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Began 21 August 1970. 1394–1519) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tgg.php3
  
  
  
  Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no23-1972/

  
  
  
  

  1976: Bond comic strip Hot-Shot begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 17 January 1976. 3061-3178) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, artist.

  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3
  Dödsstrålen (Hot-Shot)
  
  
  Danish 1978 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no46-1978/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 46: “Hot-Shot” (1978)
  
  
  
  

  
  1981: Bernard Lee dies at age 73--Hampstead, London, England.
  (Born 10 January 1908--Brentford, Middlesex, England.)

  
  Obituaries

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

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

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

  Mr. Lee's officious manner and clipped British accent made him a natural choice for detective roles or military dramas. In 1954 he played Inspector Valentine in ''The Detective,'' in which Alec Guinness starred. He had the leading role, that of a traitorous war hero, Henry Houghton, in ''Ring of Treason'' in 1964, and the starring role of a doomed pilot in ''Trouble in the Sky'' in 1964. In ''The Purple Plain,'' with Gregory Peck in 1955, he played a sympathetic Air Force medic.
  
  Mr. Lee also portrayed Inspector Valentine in ''Cage of Gold'' in 1952 and ''The Man Upstairs'' in 1959. He appeared in such post-World War II pictures as ''Quartet,'' based on stories by Somerset Maugham, and the Carol Reed-Graham Greene classics, ''The Fallen Idol'' and ''The Third Man.''
  
  Mr. Lee made his stage debut at the Oxford Theatre in London at the age of 6 with his father, Edmund Lee. He went on to study at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and, after a measure of success on the stage and screen, made appearances on television.

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

  Mr. Lee is survived by his wife, Ursula.

  

  Bernard Lee (I) (1908–1981)

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

  Actor (150 credits)
  
  1981 Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective (TV Movie) - Sergeant Ben
  
  1979 Saint Joan (TV Movie) - La Tremouille
  1979 Moonraker - M
  1977-1978 The Foundation (TV Series) - Eddie Prince - 13 episodes
  1978 Sense of Place (TV Series) - Man
  - Seawrack (1978) ... Man
  1977 A Christmas Carol (TV Movie) - Ghost of Christmas Present
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - M
  1976 Beauty and the Beast (TV Movie) - Edward Beaumont
  1976 Killers (TV Series) - Thomas Ley
  - The Chalkpit Murder (1976) ... Thomas Ley
  1976 Warship (TV Series) - Yachtsman
  - Knight Errant (1976) ... Yachtsman
  1975 From Hong Kong with Love - M
  1975 Comedy Premiere (TV Series) - Wally Warner
  - What a Turn Up (1975) ... Wally Warner
  1975 Against the Crowd (TV Series) - Beeley
  - Murrain (1975) ... Beeley
  1975 Affairs of the Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Drury
  - Kate (1975) ... Mr. Drury
  1974-1975 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Sir Peter Teazle / Hornblower
  - The School for Scandal (1975) ... Sir Peter Teazle
  - The Skin Game (1974) ... Hornblower
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - 'M'
  1974 Father Brown (TV Series) - John Raggley
  - The Quick One (1974) ... John Raggley
  1974 It's Not the Size That Counts - Barraclough
  1974 Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell - Tarmut
  1973 Vienna 1900 (TV Mini-Series) - Herr Welponer
  - Mother and Son (1973) ... Herr Welponer
  1973 Follyfoot (TV Series) - Woodman
  - Walk in the Wood (1973) ... Woodman
  1973 Crime of Passion (TV Series) - Marcel Amiot
  - Emile (1973) ... Marcel Amiot
  1973 Once Upon a Time (TV Series) - James Cable
  - Silver (1973) ... James Cable
  1973 Live and Let Die - 'M'
  1973 The Man Who Died Twice (TV Movie)
  Francis Cumberland
  1972-1973 General Hospital (TV Series) - Harold Brophy - 6 episodes
  1972 The Pathfinders (TV Series) - Air Vice Marshal
  - Codename Gomorrah (1972) ... Air Vice Marshal
  1971 Danger Point - Captain
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever - 'M'
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Sam Milford
  - Someone Like Me (1971) ... Sam Milford
  1971 Dulcima - Mr. Gaskain
  1971 Long Ago, Tomorrow - Uncle Bob
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 'M'
  1969 Crossplot - Chilmore
  1969 Strange Report (TV Series) - Arthur Pater
  - Report 8319: Grenade - What Price Change? (1969) ... Arthur Pater
  1969 The Expert (TV Series) - Harry Kirby
  - Post-Mortem on Harry Kirby (1969) ... Harry Kirby
  1969 The Champions (TV Series) - Squires
  - The Body Snatchers (1969) ... Squires
  1969 Journey to the Unknown (TV Series) - Ben Loker
  - Poor Butterfly (1969) ... Ben Loker
  1968 Journey to Midnight - Ben Loker (episode 'Poor Butterfly')
  1968 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Frank Lanton
  - Nothing Will Be the Same (1968) ... Frank Lanton
  1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Baxter
  - The System: Them Down There (1968) ... Baxter
  1968 The Jazz Age (TV Series) - Sir James
  - Post Mortem (1968) ... Sir James
  1968 Public Eye (TV Series) - Detective Sergeant Davidson
  - Mercury in an Off-White Mac (1968) ... Detective Sergeant Davidson
  1967 The Gamblers (TV Series) - Bob Townsend
  - The Man Beneath (1967) ... Bob Townsend
  1967 Mogul (TV Series) - Bernard Hart
  - Mr. Know-How (1967) ... Bernard Hart
  1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - George Kershaw
  - The Girl Who Never Was (1967) ... George Kershaw
  1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Frank Graham
  - Friends (1967) ... Frank Graham
  1967 You Only Live Twice - 'M'
  1967 Operation Kid Brother - Commander Cunningham
  1966-1967 King of the River (TV Series) - Joss King - 16 epsiodes
  1966 Court Martial (TV Series)
  - Flight of a Tiger (1966)
  1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Morgan Travis
  - The Killing (1966) ... Morgan Travis
  - Masquerade (1966) ... Morgan Travis
  1959-1966 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Daniel Whittaker / Tom / Aaronson / ...
  - The Night Before the Morning After (1966) ... Daniel Whittaker
  - Nest of Four (1960) ... Tom
  - Cold Fury (1960) ... Aaronson
  - Ernie Barger Is 50 (1959) ... Ernie Barger
  1965-1966 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Derringham / Lord Ammanford
  - The Man with the Foot (1966) ... Derringham
  - Whatever Happened to George Foster? (1965) ... Lord Ammanford
  1966 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Jeremiah
  - The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 2 (1966) ... Jeremiah
  - The Legend of Young Dick Turpin: Part 1 (1966) ... Jeremiah
  1965 The Man in a Looking Glass (TV Movie) - Morgan Travis
  1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - The Man
  - The Passenger (1965) ... The Man
  1965 Thunderball - 'M'
  1965 Blackmail (TV Series) - Steve Bradwell
  - Tricks of the Trade (1965) ... Steve Bradwell
  1965 Love Story (TV Series) - Henry Golden
  - After Hours (1965) ... Henry Golden
  1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Landlord (uncredited)
  1965 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold - Mr. Patmore - Grocer
  1965 Two Left Feet - Mr. Crabbe
  1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors - Hopkins (segment "Creeping Vine")
  1965 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Jim Cherry
  - The Flowering Cherry (1965) ... Jim Cherry
  1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Jim Garner
  - Ring of Hate (1964) ... Jim Garner
  1964 Goldfinger - 'M'
  1964 Who Was Maddox? - Superintendent Meredith
  1960-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Superintendent Meredith / Det. Supt. Meredith / Inspector Mann
  - Who Was Maddox? (1964) ... Superintendent Meredith
  - The Share Out (1962) ... Det. Supt. Meredith
  - Clue of the Silver Key (1961) ... Superintendent Meredith
  - Partners in Crime (1961) ... Inspector Mann
  - Clue of the Twisted Candle (1960) ... Superintendent Meredith
  1964 Saturday Night Out - George Hudson
  1964 Shadow of Treason - Henry Houghton
  1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Villager: unknown name
  - Dead Men Don't Drive (1964) ... Villager: unknown name
  1964 Espionage (TV Series) - John Neary
  - Snow on Mount Kama (1964) ... John Neary
  1963 From Russia with Love - 'M'
  1963 A Place to Go - Matt Flint
  1963 The Third Man (TV Series) - Angus Meyrick
  - Portrait of Harry (1963) ... Angus Meyrick
  1962 The Share Out - Det. Supt. Meredith
  1961-1962 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Company Commander / Jack Brown
  - Behind the Line (1962) ... Company Commander
  - Venus Brown (1961) ... Jack Brown
  1962 The L-Shaped Room - Charlie
  1962 The Brain - Dr. Frank Shears
  1962 Dr. No - M.
  1961 Clue of the Silver Key - Superintendent Meredith
  1961 Partners in Crime - Inspector Mann
  1961 The Interrogator (TV Movie) - Superintendent Farron
  1961 O Captain, My Captain (TV Movie) - Vasco, The Captain
  1961 Whistle Down the Wind - Bostock
  1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Black John
  1961 The Secret Partner - Det. Supt. Frank Hanbury
  1960 Clue of the Twisted Candle - Superintendent Meredith
  1960 Trouble in the Sky - Capt. Gort
  1960 The Angry Silence - Bert Connolly
  1960 Kidnapped - Captain Hoseason
  1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Firing Officer (uncredited)
  
  1955-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Hoederer / Edward Blunt / Hurst / ...
  - Crime Passionnel (1959) ... Hoederer
  - The Uninvited (1958) ... Edward Blunt
  - In Writing (1956) ... Hurst
  - Mirror, Mirror (1955) ... Mervin Llewellyn
  1959 Web of Evidence - Patrick Mathry
  1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Lunt
  - Family on Trial (1959) ... Det. Insp. Lunt
  1959 Breakout - Lt. Col. Huxley
  1958 Nowhere to Go - Victor Sloane, alias Lee Henderson
  1958 The Man Upstairs - The Inspector
  1955-1958 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Cornelius / Prison Governor / William Lotless
  - Cornelius (1958) ... Cornelius
  - All Correct, Sir (1956) ... Prison Governor
  - The Golden Fleece (1955) ... William Lotless
  1958 The Key - Cmdr. Wadlow
  1958 Dunkirk - Charles Foreman
  1957 High Flight - Flight Sergeant Harris
  1957 Across the Bridge - Chief Inspector Hadden
  1957 Fire Down Below - Doctor Sam
  1956 The Spanish Gardener - Leighton Bailey
  1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Captain Dove - M.S. Africa Shell
  1956 Theatre Royal (TV Series) - Candleblow Smith
  - The Stolen Pearl (1956) ... Candleblow Smith
  1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Rudi Lankert
  - A Borderline Case (1955) ... Rudi Lankert
  1955 PT Raiders - Sam Brewster,The Customs Officer
  1955 Out of the Clouds - Customs Officer
  1955 Sweet Coz (TV Movie) - Job
  1954 The Purple Plain - Dr. Harris
  1954 Crest of the Wave - Seaman 'Lofty' Turner
  1954 The Detective - Inspector Valentine
  1954 The Rainbow Jacket - Racketeer (uncredited)
  1953 Beat the Devil - Insp. Jack Clayton
  1953 Sailor of the King - Petty Officer 'Stokes' Wheatley
  1953 The Yellow Balloon - Constable Chapman
  1952 Glory at Sea - A.S. 'Stripey' Wood
  1951 Mr. Denning Drives North - Inspector Dodds
  1951 Island Rescue - Brigadier
  1951 Calling Bulldog Drummond - Col. Webson
  1951 White Corridors - Burgess
  1951 Fortune in Diamonds - O'Connell
  1950 Cage of Gold - Inspector Grey
  1950 Odette - Jack
  1950 Last Holiday - Inspector Wilton
  1950 Operation Disaster - Commander Gates
  1950 The Blue Lamp - Divisional Detective Inspector Cherry
  
  1949 The Third Man - Sgt. Paine
  1949 I Have Been Here Before (TV Movie) - Walter Ormund
  1948 Elizabeth of Ladymead - John Beresford in 1903
  1948 Quartet - Prison Visitor (segment "The Kite")
  1948 The Fallen Idol - Detective Hart
  1947 The Adventures of Dusty Bates - Captain Ford
  1947 Katy's Love Affair - Colonel Gascoyne
  1946 This Man Is Mine - James Nicholls
  1943 The New Lot - Interviewing Officer (uncredited)
  1941 Once a Crook - Duke
  1940 Spare a Copper - Jake
  1940 To Hell with Hitler - Oscar
  
  1939 The Frozen Limits - Bill McGrew
  1939 Murder in the Night - Roy Barnes
  1938 Love from a Stranger (TV Movie) - Bruce Lovell
  1938 The Terror - Ferdy Fane
  1937 The Black Tulip - William Of Orange
  1936 Rhodes - Cartwright
  1935 The River House Mystery - Wade Belloc
  1934 The Double Event - Dennison
  
  Writer (1 credit)
  
  1975 Animal Kwackers (TV Series) (deviser)
  
  Self (4 credits)
  
  2006 Press Day in Portugal (Video documentary short) - Himself
  
  1980 Star Games (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode dated 4 November 1980 (1980) ... Himself
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQhV9A9R2no
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: James Bond's Wedding in Portugal (Documentary short) - Himself
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMPVQw0hvt4

  
  
  

  1984: Nunca digas nunca jamás (Never Say Never) released in Spain.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1995: First day of GoldenEye filming at EON Studios with OO7 and Zukovsky.
  1998: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre (Tomorrow Never Dies) released in Brazil.

  
  
  

  1998: 007: El mañana nunca muere released in Mexico.

  
  

  1998: Jutro nie umiera nigdy released in Poland.

  
  
  https://uml.lodz.pl/kalendarz/wydarzenie/letni-kinematograf-rozrywkowy-jutro-nie-umiera-nigdy-id3656/2017/08/1/
  
  
  
  

  
  2003: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Argentina.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2008: Mythbusters airs their James Bond Special: Part 1.

  imdb.com/title/tt1177694/
  

  
  2012: National Motor Museum at Beaulieu, New Forest in England, launches the Bond In Motion exhibition to celebrate 50 years of Bond films.

  

  
  James Bond's cars on display at Beaulieu
  The world's biggest display of James Bond cars, bikes and planes is on show at Beaulieu

  https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motoring/james-bonds-cars-display-beaulieu
  by Julian Rendell | 16 January 2012
  
  Lotus Esprit became a submarine in The Spy Who Loved Me

  The world’s biggest-ever collection of Bond cars, bikes and planes is going on show at the National Motor Museum at Beaulieu to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic action movie.

  At least 50 vehicles, including the Lotus Esprit S1 submarine driven underwater in the Roger Moore movie The Spy Who Loved Me, an Aston Martin DB5 of the type that starred in Goldfinger and Thunderball and the BMW Z8 from The World Is Not Enough, feature in the exhibition ‘Bond In Motion’.
  
  ‘This is a really fitting celebration in an important year for Bond movies. It marks the 50th anniversary of the start of filming of the first Bond movie Dr No and In October we will release the latest movie, starring Daniel Craig,’ says Eon Productions, which makes the Bond films.
  
  The exhibition has largely been assembled from two major collections — one owned by the charitable US-based Ian Fleming Foundation and another owned by Eon Productions. Although other exhibits come from private collections around the world.
  
  The DB5, for example, is on loan from the Dutch National Motor Museum. It is one of two replicas built to promote Thunderball, but never used in filming.
  
  Other DB5s are scheduled to take its place as the exhibition carries on throughout the year.
  
  ‘We came up with the idea for the exhibition late in 2010, knowing the importance of 2012,’ says Meg Simmonds, archivist for Eon productions.
  
  Interestingly, Dr No is the only Bond movie for which no cars exist and no-one knows what happened to them after filming.
  
  In the early days, props were disposed-of as soon as filming was finished, simply because there was nowhere to store them. Bond movie owner Cubby Broccoli famously growled: ‘I’m not in the warehousing business.’
  
  But times change and since the Goldeneye movie of 1995, Eon has been keeping the cars and other action props in its own collection, stored in the east of England.
  
  From Eon’s collection comes the Cagiva 600 W16 that features in the dramatic opening sequence of Goldeneye, in which the bike hurtles off a cliff allowing Bond to catch-up with a plane and jump in the cockpit. Filmed seven times, only two bikes are thought to have survived.
  
  Other stars at the show include an AMC Hornet of the type that performed an amazing barrel roll jump in 1974’s The Man With the Golden Gun. Bond jumps the red hatchback 40ft — a shot completed in one clean take, even though legendary stuntman ‘Bumps’ Willard had never attempted the jump before. The car on show is a showroom vehicle used in a city chase.
  
  Daniel Craig’s Aston DBS, which was famously rolled at Millbrook test track for Casino Royale is also on show, complete with smashed up bodywork and cracked glass.
  
  Modified with an air cannon to initiate the roll, the DBS flipped through seven and three-quarter turns, with stuntman Adam Kirley at the wheel, to take a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
  
  Other star machinery includes the Renault 11 from View To A Kill, Citroen 2CV from For Your Eyes Only, Bede BD5 microjet from Octopussy and ‘Little Nellie’, the Wallis WA 116 autogyro from You Only Live Twice, the latter still owned by Ken Wallis.

  
  Aston Martin DB5, the most iconic of all Bond cars
  
  
  Aston Martin DBS was rolled at Millbrook in Bedfordshire
  
  
  Wallis WA Autogyro, A.K.A. "Little Nellie"
  
  
  AMC Hornet which performed a barrel roll in The Man With The Golden Gun
  
  
  Citroen 2CV from For Your Eyes Only
  
  
  Ken Wallis and the WA-116 autogyro he flew in You Only Life Twice [sic]
  
  
  Destroyed Aston Martin DBS from Casino Royale
  
  
  The World is Not Enough's BMW Z8
  
  
  Hovercraft as featured in Die Another Day

  2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origins #5.

  

  JAMES BOND ORIGIN #5

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244705011
  Cover A: John Cassaday
  Cover B: Mike McKone
  Cover C: Michael Walsh
  Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Cover E: Bob Q
  Writer: Jeff Parker
  Art: Bob Q
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: January 2019
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 1/16/2019

  "Rocket Sea" continues, by JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger). Bond and his squad commander a German bomber plane, to sink a Nazi cruiser. And aside from not knowing how to fly the bomber, or how to drop bombs from it, all should go as planned...

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  January 17th
  
  1962: The Gleaner reports that filming of Dr. No started the 16th at Palisadoes airport. Also noted are local casting, includes the beautiful 1961 Miss Jamaica 1961: Marguerite LeWars.
  1966: 007 Contra a Chantagem Atômica (007 Against Atomic Blackmail) released in Brazil.

  
  

  
  1998: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the Republic of Korea.
  
  2003: Baska Gün Öl (Die Another Day) released in Turkey.

  

  2009: 007／慰めの報酬 (007/Remuneration for Comfort) limited release in Japan.

  
  
  
  

  
  2011: Title and cover art for Jeffrey Deaver's Bond novel revealed at The InterContinental, Dubai.

  

  James Bond: Jeffery Deaver unveils his 21st Century spy

  By Tim Masters Entertainment and arts correspondent, BBC News
  25 May 2011

  
  Jeffery Deaver was accompanied by "Bond girl" model Chesca Miles at the launch

  Thriller writer Jeffery Deaver, who unveiled his James Bond novel Carte Blanche on Wednesday, has admitted that he gives Ian Fleming's superspy a tough time in the 21st Century.

  At a launch event planned with the precision of an MI6 operation, the American author received the first copy of the book from a team of Royal Marines who abseiled from the roof of London's St Pancras station.
  
  Deaver's novel, which is set in the present day, is published on Thursday.
  
  The book's release coincides with the anniversary of Ian Fleming's birth. The writer who created the original Bond novels in the 1950s would have been 103 on Saturday 28 May.
  
  His niece, actress Lucy Fleming, told the launch event that her uncle would have been pleased by the way that Deaver "has kicked his dear old James Bond into the 21st Century".
  
  Spy app
  
  Carte Blanche was not "a pastiche", Deaver told the BBC.
  
  "I took Ian Fleming's iconic character and made him younger - and the poor guy ends up in a Jeffery Deaver novel. I write rollercoasters, which means he doesn't get a minute's rest."
  
  Earlier, the 61-year-old author had arrived at the launch event, at a champagne bar at St Pancras International, in a red Bentley with 007 emblazoned on the bonnet.
  
  He was flanked by a female stunt rider on a 1960s BSA motor-bike.
  

  
  The author arrived at the launch event in a Bentley,
  which is the car of choice for his 21st Century Bond

  
  Deaver is not the first writer to take on the Bond legacy. Sebastian Faulks and John Gardner are among other authors to have written officially-sanctioned Bond novels since creator Ian Fleming's death in 1964.
  
  But he is the first to set Fleming's character in 2011. In Carte Blanche, Bond has served in the Royal Naval Reserve, including a tour in Afghanistan, before joining the secret service.
  
  In an early chapter he uses a mobile phone application to eavesdrop on a target in Serbia.
  
  "In the movies he got a bit gadget-oriented," said Deaver. "Fleming actually gave him relatively few gadgets - and I went back to that. Nowadays my BlackBerry has more capacity than the best computer in the mid-1950s."

  Who would have thought
  that the dreams and
  aspirations of a young
  boy so many years ago
  would come full circle in
  the way that they have?
  
  Jeffery Deaver

  Deaver was eight years old when he read his first James Bond novel. A self-confessed "Bond addict", he wrote his first unpublished novel aged 11 about "a British agent who sneaks into Russia to steal a Soviet bomber".
  
  Eighteen months ago, Deaver - whose 28 novels have sold more than 20 million copies worldwide - accepted the offer to carry on the Bond legacy.
  
  Deaver said: "Who would have thought that the dreams and aspirations of a young boy so many years ago would come full circle in the way that they have?"
  
  But why does he think the publishing industry loves bringing back famous characters like James Bond, Dracula, Peter Pan and - later this year - Sherlock Holmes?
  
  "The industry has always known that this is a market-driven business - business is the dirty little word that nobody wants to mention - but it is business.
  
  "Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Mozart, Beethoven - they wrote on commission, it was a business to them.
  
  Books are no different, and we are beholden to the audience to give them something they want.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2012: Naomie Harris denies her Skyfall character is Miss Moneypenny.
  2018: Dynamite's James Bond: The Body #1 goes on sale.

  

  JAMES BOND: THE BODY #1

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026419001011
  Cover A: Luca Casalanguida
  Writer: Ales Kot
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Genre: Action
  Publication Date: January 2018
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 1/17

  PART ONE - THE BODY
  
  As Bond undergoes a post-mission medical examination, he relays the story of his previous mission to the examiner. Each cut, bruise, and broken bone connected to a specific event of the mission. A connection is made between two people with different purposes: one to save lives, the other to take them.
  
  From writer Ales Kot (Secret Avengers, Zero) comes a James Bond story that explores the secret agent in ways that we have yet to experience!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  January 18th
  
  1936: Joseph Rudyard Kipling dies at age 70--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.
  (Born 30 December 1865--Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India.)

  The Day's Work, by Rudyard Kipling Ian Flemings 007 prefix ?
  http://www.007museum.com/rudyard_kipling.htm
  
  
  ...
  
  Fleming had picked up number 007 from the title of a novel by the famous British writer and Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (best known for "The Jungle Book"). Kipling wrote a short story that actually was called ".007", which is about a steam engine and is part of his collection of short stories The Days Framework, published in 1898. The steam engine is in the short story number 007, the short story has nothing whatsoever with agents or so to do.
  
  

  The Day's Work, by Rudyard Kipling
  ·007
  
  A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him. He looked at the semicircle of bold, unwinking headlights, heard the low purr and mutter of the steam mounting in the gauges—scornful hisses of contempt as a slack valve lifted a little—and would have given a month’s oil for leave to crawl through his own driving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. .007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he stood he was worth ten thousand dollars on the Company’s books. But if you had bought him at his own valuation, after half an hour’s waiting in the darkish, echoing round-house, you would have saved exactly nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents...

  
  Complete story linked here.
  https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2569/2569-h/2569-h.htm#link2H_4_0009

  
  1940: A memorandum notes Commander Ian Fleming considering misdirection involving U-boats.

  

  Letters in bottles and leaky U-boats: Ian Fleming’s ideas factory

  https://sites.durham.ac.uk/writersandpropaganda/2019/01/27/letters-in-bottles-and-leaky-u-boats-ian-flemings-ideas-factory/
  Posted on 27th January 2019 by PWE Propagandist
  Document of the month: FO 898/6/64-5

  Guy Woodward traces the involvement of the creator of 007 in covert wartime propaganda

  This is a memo dated 18 January 1940 – it reports on a recent meeting of the ‘Consultative Committee’ of the Department of Publicity in Enemy Countries. This department was part of Electra House, a secret body under the control of the Foreign Office, responsible for clandestine propaganda in the early stages of the war – before the foundation of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in July 1940 and the Political Warfare Executive (PWE) in September 1941.
  
  The meeting discussed a number of ‘sibs’ – rumours invented to spread misinformation – but also makes a series of references to Lieutenant Ian Fleming, later creator of James Bond, then serving in the British Naval Intelligence Department (NID).
  
  We read first about a mysterious plan involving a ‘letter from a U-Boat Commander in a bottle’:
  
  It is unclear what the first plan involved – there are no other references in the archive to letters in bottles – but we can speculate that moves were afoot to produce a fake letter from a U-boat commander to be thrown into the sea, which would mislead its intended German recipients (the cross marked beside the proposal suggests that this was never enacted anyway). The second plan is more straightforward, involving the dissemination of propaganda material to Germany via containers dropped at sea. Ian Fleming’s assertion that sailors on naval patrol ‘will like’ doing this is striking however, an expression of adventurousness and derring-do at odds with the cold formality of many of these departmental records – and indicative of the approach he took to his own role.[1]
  
  Indeed, the plans cited here are very much milder than some of the schemes which Fleming hatched in the early stages of the war. In For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond (2008) Ben Macintyre writes that ‘Some of Fleming’s ideas were run-of-the-mill, some were fantastical and impractical, and some, in the opinion of his colleagues, were simply mad.’[2] These included:

  scuttling cement barges in the Danube at its most narrow
  point in order to block the waterway for German shipping;
  forging Reichsmarks to disrupt the German economy;
  dropping an observer (possibly Fleming himself) on the island
  of Heligoland to monitor the shipping outside Kiel; luring
  German secret agents to Monte Carlo and capturing them; and
  floating a radio ship in the North Sea to broadcast depressing
  hand/or irritating propaganda to the Germans.[3]

  Although Fleming would later dismiss such plans as ‘nonsense’ and ‘romantic Red Indian daydreams’, the fact that they were considered indicates the operational leeway afforded naval intelligence, before the foundation of SOE and before the fall of France and consequent Battle of the Atlantic dictated other naval priorities. Through Fleming, NID continued to be involved in the formulation of propaganda, however.
  
  Fleming had been recruited in May 1939 by Admiral John Godfrey, Director of Naval Intelligence and widely credited as inspiration for ‘M’ in the James Bond novels. Working from the ‘ideas factory’ – room 39 in the Admiralty – Fleming developed his schemes and liaised officially and unofficially with a wide circle of military personnel, agents and propagandists.[4]
  
  The PWE’s Sefton Delmer had known Fleming as a journalist before the war, and recalls in his memoir Black Boomerang, being introduced by his friend to Godfrey, who was excited by the potential of ‘black’ radio stations as a means of attacking the morale of U-boat crews. Both Godfrey and Fleming proved enthusiastic supporters of Delmer’s methods.
  
  Delmer explains this naval enthusiasm (as opposed to the frequent hostility of the army and RAF to propaganda activities) with reference to the fact that the Royal Navy had been engaged in all-out war from the beginning of the conflict in 1939, when army and air force remained engaged in the phoney war. He notes that the navy were also unique among the services in having direct contact with the enemy from the beginning of the war, as they captured German prisoners at sea. Interrogations of these prisoners provided valuable intelligence material, later used by Delmer’s propagandists in crafting black propaganda such as the Soldatensender Calais radio station, intended to undermine the morale of U-boat crews.[5]
  
  Fleming’s linguistic skills even enabled him to make direct contributions to such outlets, voicing commentaries on special programmes aimed at sailors of the Kriegsmarine broadcast by the BBC German Service and telling a friend ‘You may have heard my austere tones […] telling the Germans that all their U-boats leak.’[6]
  
  Many connections can of course be drawn between Fleming’s wartime activities and his later creation of British secret agent 007 – the ability to conceive a compelling scenario and a predilection for imaginative and unorthodox methods are certainly clear assets in the fields of propaganda and of popular fiction. Delmer, whose name appears in a passing reference in Fleming’s Diamonds are Forever (1956) certainly suggested that his friend had drawn on his involvement with the PWE, writing that:

  I sometimes wonder whether he did not pick up something for his thriller writing from our ‘black’ propaganda technique in return. For our first clandestine radio ‘Gustav Siegfried Eins’ and later our counterfeit German soldiers radio ‘Soldatensender Calais’ we used the most meticulous minutiae, taking care to get them exactly right , street numbers, technical terms, nicknames, and what have you, so that the deception itself would gain acceptance through their accuracy.[7]

  Notes
  All archival material is Crown Copyright and is held in The National Archives. Quotations which appear here have been transcribed by members of the project team.
  
  [1] The RAF were notably sceptical about the value of dropping propaganda leaflets from the air and were often reluctant to facilitate drops over enemy territory. See Tim Brooks, British Propaganda to France, 1940-1944: Machinery, Method and Message, (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), p. 37 and David Garnett, The Secret History of PWE: The Political Warfare Executive 1939-1945, (London: St Ermin’s Press, 2002), p. 188.
  
  [2] Ben Macintyre, For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming and James Bond, (London: Bloomsbury, 2008), p. 27.
  
  [3] Macintyre, p. 28.
  
  [4] Andrew Lycett, Ian Fleming, (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1995), p. 102.
  
  [5] Sefton Delmer, Black Boomerang: An Autobiography: Volume Two, (London: Secker & Warburg, 1962), p. 70.
  
  [6] Lycett, p. 133.
  
  [7] See https://www.psywar.org/delmer/2030/1001.

  
  1969: David Michael Bautista is born--Washington, District of Columbia.
  
  1971: Bond comic strip Fear Face begins its comic strip run in the Daily Express.
  (Ends 20 April 1971. 1520–1596) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/ff.php3
  
  
  
  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1003
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1978 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3
  Trollkarlen + Stålspionen ("Magician + Steel Spy" - Fear Face & When The Wizard Awakes)
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1972 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3
  Stålspionen (Steel Spy - Fear Face)
  
  
  
  
  
  https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_Face
  
  Danish 1973 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no25-1973/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 25: “Fear Face” (1973)
  
  
  

  

  

  
  1984: Mai dire mai (Never Say Never) released in Italy.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies second unit filming begins, handled by Vic Armstrong, involves pre-titles action at the Peyresourde Airport, French Pyrenees.

  
  
  
  

  1998: James Villiers dies at age 64--Arunddel, Sussex, England. (Born 29 September 1933--London, England.)

  

  Obituary: James Villiers

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-james-villiers-1139946.html
  Tom Vallance | Wednesday 21 January 1998 01:02
  
  James Michael Hyde Villiers, actor: born London 29 September 1933; married 1966 Patricia Donovan (marriage dissolved 1984), 1994 Lucy Jex; died Arundel, West Sussex 18 January 1998.
  
  One of the country's most distinctive character actors, with ripe articulation and a flair for displaying supercilious arrogance that put him in the Vincent Price class of screen villains, James Villiers was often cast in such roles in his early years. He was also the most English of actors, and not surprisingly his career was liberally sprinkled with the works of Shaw, Coward, Wilde and dramatists of the Restoration.
  
  His film career flourished in the Sixties when he was a particular favourite of the director Joseph Losey, while his work in the theatre spans over 40 years. On television he achieved particular success and recognition with his portrayal of Charles II (to whom he bore a strong resemblance) in the series The First Churchills.
  
  Born in London in 1933, Villiers (pronounced Villers) was proud of his aristocratic lineage (his family tree goes back to the Duke of Rockingham). He was brought up in Shropshire and later at Ormeley Lodge in Richmond, more recently the home of James Goldsmith, and educated at Wellington College. He had, however, become stage-struck as a child (his brother John recalls Villiers as a boy begging Colchester Repertory to take him on in any capacity whatever and being heartbroken when they refused) and at prep school he gained a reputation as their best actor.
  
  After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he formed lifelong friendships with fellow students and cricket enthusiasts Peter O'Toole and Ronald Fraser, he made his stage debut at the Summer Theatre in Frinton as William Blore in Agatha Christie's thriller Ten Little Niggers (1953), and the following year made his first West End appearance with the Shakespeare Memorial Company in Toad of Toad Hall.
  
  In 1955 he started a two-year period with the Old Vic Company, his roles including Trebonius in Julius Caesar and Bushy in Richard II. He made his Broadway debut in the latter role in 1956 during the Old Vic tour of the United States and Canada, then spent a year with the English Stage Company. In 1960 he made his film debut in Tony Richardson's The Entertainer (which also marked the screen debuts of Alan Bates and Albert Finney), and the following year made his first thriller (in a rare heroic role), The Clue of the New Pin (1961).
  
  He first worked with Losey on The Damned (1961), and for the same director played in Eve (1962) and as an officer in the finely acted pacifist piece King and Country (1964). In Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965) he was the friend who ambiguously gives John Fraser a kiss, in Seth Holt's The Nanny (1965) Villiers and Wendy Craig were the parents of a disturbed child left in the care of Bette Davis at her most neurotic, and in George Sidney's Half a Sixpence (1968) he was the snobbish father of the society girl Kipps (Tommy Steele) hopes to marry.

  Other films included Nothing But the Best (1963), Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Let Him Have It (1991). His many television appearances included Pygmalion (as Professor Higgins), Lady Windermere's Fan, Fortunes of War and most recently Dance to the Music of Time. Stage successes include the thriller Write Me a Murder (1962), a superbly droll and highly acclaimed performance as Victor Prynne in John Gielgud's 1972 revival of Coward's Private Lives, starring Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens, a forceful Earl of Warwick in John Clements's 1974 production of Saint Joan, and prominent roles in such classics as Pirandello's Henry IV (with Rex Harrison), The Way of the World and The Last of Mrs Cheyney.

  A few years ago he created the role of Lord Thurlow in Nicholas Hytner's staging for the National Theatre of Alan Bennett's The Madness of George III, and most recently was featured as Mr Brownlow in the hit revival of Oliver! at the London Palladium.

  

  James Villiers (1933–1998)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0898376/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (129 credits)
  
  2005 The Kingdom of Shadows (Short) - The Man At The Lake
  
  1998 The Tichborne Claimant - Uncle Henry
  1997 A Dance to the Music of Time (TV Mini-Series) - Buster Foxe
  - The Thirties (1997) ... Buster Foxe
  1996 The Willows in Winter (TV Movie) - Magistrate (voice)
  1996 E=mc2 - Dr. James Mallinson
  1995 The Wind in the Willows (TV Movie) - Magistrate (voice)
  1994 Uncovered - Montegrifo
  1994 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Cantlemere
  - The Mazarin Stone (1994) ... Lord Cantlemere
  1992 Lovejoy (TV Series) - Lionel Beckwith
  - Out to Lunch (1992) ... Lionel Beckwith
  1991 The Gravy Train Goes East (TV Mini-Series) - Penhurst
  - Episode #1.4 (1991) ... Penhurst
  - Episode #1.3 (1991) ... Penhurst
  - Episode #1.2 (1991) ... Penhurst
  - Episode #1.1 (1991) ... Penhurst
  1991 Let Him Have It - Cassels
  1991 A Perfect Hero (TV Mini-Series) - Air Commodore
  - Episode #1.6 (1991) ... Air Commodore
  1991 King Ralph - Hale
  1990 House of Cards (TV Mini-Series) - Charles Collingridge
  - Episode #1.3 (1990) ... Charles Collingridge
  - Episode #1.2 (1990) ... Charles Collingridge
  - Episode #1.1 (1990) ... Charles Collingridge
  1990 Mountains of the Moon - Lord Oliphant
  
  1989 Anything More Would Be Greedy (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Fyson
  - Georgian Silver (1989) ... Lord Fyson
  - Second Term (1989) ... Lord Fyson
  - Trading Favours (1989) ... Lord Fyson
  - Enigma Variations (1989) ... Lord Fyson
  1989 Chelworth (TV Mini-Series) - Ronnie Esholt
  - A Real House (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
  - Taking Your Profits (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
  - Shopping Around (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
  - A Wonderfully Wrong Thing (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
  - Coming Home (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
  1989 Scandal - Conservative M.P.
  1988 Hemingway (TV Mini-Series) - Perceval
  - The Old Man and the Sea (1988) ... Perceval
  - For Whom the Bell Tolls (1988) ... Perceval
  - The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1988) ... Perceval
  - Discovery of Europe (1988) ... Perceval
  1988 The Dirty Dozen (TV Series) - Lord Welbourne
  - Heavy Duty (1988) ... Lord Welbourne (as Jimmie Villiers)
  1988 Blind Justice (TV Mini-Series) - Peter Steinsson
  - The One About the Irishman (1988) ... Peter Steinsson
  1988 A Gentlemen's Club (TV Series) - Fabian
  - The New Boy (1988) ... Fabian
  1988 Room at the Bottom (TV Series) - Director General
  - The Hostage (1988) ... Director General
  1987 Fortunes of War (TV Mini-Series) - Inchcape
  - Romania: June 1940 (1987) ... Inchcape
  - Romania: January 1940 (1987) ... Inchcape
  - The Balkans: September 1939 (1987) ... Inchcape
  1987 Running Out of Luck
  1986 If Looks Could Kill: The Power of Behaviour (Video short)
  1986 Call Me Mister (TV Series) - Sir Edward
  - Humpty Dumpty (1986) ... Sir Edward
  1986 The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams (TV Movie) - Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller
  1985 Honour, Profit & Pleasure (TV Movie) - Addison
  1984 The Irish R.M. (TV Series) - General Portius
  - A Horse! A Horse! (1984) ... General Portius
  1984 Under the Volcano - Brit
  1983 ABC Mantrap - Tony Walmsley
  1983 Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series) - Sir Arthur Remnant
  - Rumpole and the Golden Thread (1983) ... Sir Arthur Remnant
  1983 All for Love (TV Series) - Mr. Lyng
  - Mrs. Silly (1983) ... Mr. Lyng
  1983 Jack of Diamonds (TV Series) - George Billyard
  - The Fun of the Fair (1983) ... George Billyard
  - Herr of the Dog (1983) ... George Billyard
  - Going Dutch (1983) ... George Billyard
  - A Drip in the Ocean (1983) ... George Billyard
  1982 The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV Movie) - Baron de Batz
  1982 Spooner's Patch (TV Series) - Film Producer
  - The Sting (1982) ... Film Producer
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Tanner
  1980-1981 The Other 'Arf (TV Series) - Freddy Apthorpe
  - After the Ball (1981) ... Freddy Apthorpe
  - The Big 'E' (1981) ... Freddy Apthorpe
  - Holding the Baby (1981) ... Freddy Apthorpe
  - Moving Away (1981) ... Freddy Apthorpe
  - Separate Ways (1980) ... Freddy Apthorpe
  - Open to the Public (1980) ... Freddy Apthorpe
  - A Bit on the Side (1980) ... Freddy Apthorpe
  - Decisions, Decisions (1980) ... Freddy Apthorpe
  - Them and Us (1980) ... Freddy Apthorpe
  - Shooting the Germans (1980) ... Freddy Apthorpe
  1981 Brendon Chase (TV Series) - Colonel Hensman
  - Run to Earth (1981) ... Colonel Hensman
  1981 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Hilary Martin
  - Unity (1981) ... Hilary Martin
  1980 The Marquise (TV Movie) - Esteban (the Duke)
  1980 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Lord Fordingham
  - The Thief-Taker (1980) ... Lord Fordingham
  
  1979 The Music Machine - Hector Woodville (uncredited)
  1979 Saint Jack - Frogget
  1978-1979 Crown Court (TV Series) - Richard Ireland QC
  - Boys Will Be Boys: Part 1 (1979) ... Richard Ireland QC
  - Meeting Place: Part 1 (1978) ... Richard Ireland QC
  1978 The Famous Five (TV Series) - Johnson
  - Five Go to Kirren Island: Episode Two (1978) ... Johnson
  - Five Go to Kirren Island: Episode One (1978) ... Johnson
  1978 Two's Company (TV Series) - Peter Boatwright
  - The Politicians (1978) ... Peter Boatwright
  1978 Wilde Alliance (TV Series) - Roper
  - Flower Power (1978) ... Roper
  1977 Spectre (TV Movie) - Sir Geoffrey Cyon
  1977 Joseph Andrews - Mr. Booby
  1976 Seven Nights in Japan - Finn
  1975 Making Faces (TV Series) - Peter de Witt
  - December 1974: Waiting for the Monsoon (1975) ... Peter de Witt
  - April 1968: Late Sitting, Finance Bill (1975) ... Peter de Witt
  - Summer 1966: In Funland (1975) ... Peter de Witt
  1975 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - John Harley
  - Beware, Wet Paint (1975) ... John Harley
  1975 Thriller (TV Series) - Paul
  - The Double Kill (1975) ... Paul
  1974 Marty Back Together Again (TV Series) - Various Characters
  - Episode #1.4 (1974) ... Various Characters
  - Episode #1.3 (1974) ... Various Characters
  - Episode #1.2 (1974) ... Various Characters
  - Episode #1.1 (1974) ... Various Characters
  1973 Ghost in the Noonday Sun - Parsley-Freck
  1972-1973 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Professor Henry Higgins / Alastair Fitzfassenden / Cecil Graham
  - Pygmalion (1973) ... Professor Henry Higgins
  - The Millionairess (1972) ... Alastair Fitzfassenden
  - Lady Windermere's Fan (1972) ... Cecil Graham
  1972 E. Nesbit (TV Movie)
  1972 The Edwardians (TV Mini-Series) - Hubert Bland
  - E. Nesbit (1972) ... Hubert Bland
  1972 The Amazing Mr. Blunden - Uncle Bertie
  1972 The Public Eye - Dinner Guest (uncredited)
  1972/I Asylum - George (segment "Lucy Comes to Stay")
  1972 The Ruling Class - Dinsdale
  1972 Mogul (TV Series) - Lord Hawdcombe
  - Whatever Became of the Year 2000? (1972) ... Lord Hawdcombe
  1971 Shirley's World (TV Series) - Morgan
  - Knightmare (1971) ... Morgan
  1971 Now Look Here (TV Series) - Jeremy
  - Episode #1.4 (1971) ... Jeremy
  1963-1971 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Billy / Derek / Robin Fiske / ...
  - Father's Help (1971) ... Billy
  - The Story-teller (1969) ... Derek
  - Unscheduled Stop (1968) ... Robin Fiske
  - The Living Image (1963) ... Blackie
  - Blue and White (1963)
  1971 Blood from the Mummy's Tomb - Corbeck
  1971 Masterpiece Classic (TV Series) - Charles II
  - The First Churchills: The Lion and the Unicorn (1971) ... Charles II
  - The First Churchills: Plot Counter-Plot (1971) ... Charles II
  - The First Churchills: Bridals (1971) ... Charles II
  - The First Churchills: The Chaste Nymph (1971) ... Charles II
  1970 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Philipott
  - Married Alive (1970) ... Philipott
  
  1969 A Nice Girl Like Me - Freddie
  1969 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Oscar
  - Aggers and Torters: Back to Nature (1969) ... Oscar
  1969 The First Churchills (TV Mini-Series) - Charles II
  - Rebellion (1969) ... Charles II
  - The Lion and the Unicorn (1969) ... Charles II
  - Plot, Counter-Plot (1969) ... Charles II
  - Bridals (1969) ... Charles II
  - The Chaste Nymph (1969) ... Charles II
  1969 Counterstrike (TV Series) - Wyatt
  - The Lemming Syndrome (1969) ... Wyatt
  1969 Otley - Hendrickson
  1969 Some Girls Do - Carl Petersen
  1969 Absolute Aggers and Torters (TV Short)
  1968 The Touchables - Twyning
  1967 Half a Sixpence - Hubert
  1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Peters
  - Dead Man's Shoes (1967) ... Peters
  1967 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Lord Darlington
  - Lady Windermere's Fan (1967) ... Lord Darlington
  1965-1967 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Ian Kilbannock / John Styles / Lord Strange / ...
  - The Fantasist (1967) ... John Styles
  - Sword of Honour #3: Unconditional Surrender (1967) ... Ian Kilbannock
  - Sword of Honour #2: Officers and Gentlemen (1967) ... Ian Kilbannock
  - Sword of Honour #1: Men at Arms (1967) ... Ian Kilbannock
  - The Siege of Manchester (1965) ... Lord Strange
  - Poor Bitos (1965) ... Brassac / Tallien
  1967 Stiff Upper Lip (TV Movie) - Antrobus
  1966 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Lt. Cmdr. Paul Williams
  - A Piece of Resistance (1966) ... Lt. Cmdr. Paul Williams
  1966 The Wrong Box - Sydney Whitcombe Sykes
  1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Roddy Harrington
  - The Persuaders (1966) ... Roddy Harrington
  1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - Simon Trent
  - Small Game for Big Hunters (1966) ... Simon Trent
  1965 The Alphabet Murders - Franklin
  1965 The Nanny - Bill Fane
  1965 You Must Be Joking! - Bill Simpson
  1965 A World of Comedy (TV Mini-Series) - Voice only - role unknown
  - The Enormous Ear (1965) ... Voice only - role unknown
  1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Yamamoto (voice, uncredited)
  1965 Repulsion - John
  1964 Daylight Robbery
  1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Clive Rodingham
  - Write Me a Murder (1964) ... Clive Rodingham
  1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Paul
  - Solo Performance (1964) ... Paul
  1964 King & Country - Captain Midgley
  1964 The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (TV Series) - Wander
  - A Germ Destroyer (1964) ... Wander
  1964 Nothing But the Best - Hugh
  1964 The Saint (TV Series) - Inspector Pryor
  - The High Fence (1964) ... Inspector Pryor
  1964 Father Came Too! - Benzil Bulstrode
  1964 The Plane Makers (TV Series) - Harvey 'Smiler' Graves
  - The Smiler (1964) ... Harvey 'Smiler' Graves
  1963 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Jeremy Trout
  - Nicked at the Bottle (1963) ... Jeremy Trout
  1963 The Model Murder Case - David Dane
  1963 Festival (TV Series) - Willy
  - Fallen Angels (1963) ... Willy
  1963 Bomb in the High Street - Stevens
  1963 Love Story (TV Series) - Gregory
  - Snakes and Ladders (1963) ... Gregory
  1963 Murder at the Gallop - Michael Shane
  1960-1963 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Capt. Hamilton
  - Beachhead (1963) ... Capt. Hamilton
  - Who's Owen Stephens...? (1960)
  1963 Hancock (TV Series)
  - The Man on the Corner (1963)
  1963 Zero One (TV Series) - The sheikh
  - The Man Who Waited (1963) ... The sheikh
  1962 These Are the Damned - Captain Gregory
  1962 Eva - Alan McCormick - a screenwriter
  1962 Operation Snatch - Lt. Keen
  1962 Thirty Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Mathias
  - Dare to Be a Daniel (1962) ... Mathias
  1961 Petticoat Pirates - English Lieutenant
  1961 The Final Test (TV Movie) - Alexander Whitehead
  1961 Harpers West One (TV Series) - Lucien Harper
  - Episode #1.2 (1961) ... Lucien Harper
  1961 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Andrew Thurbank
  - A Girl Like Xanthe (1961) ... Andrew Thurbank
  1961 Clue of the New Pin - Tab Holland
  1961 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Miller
  - The Wrong Side of the Park (1961) ... Miller
  1961 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Tab Holland
  - Clue of the New Pin (1961) ... Tab Holland
  1960 The Strange World of Gurney Slade (TV Mini-Series) - Studio Representative
  - Episode #1.6 (1960) ... Studio Representative
  1960 No Wreath for the General (TV Series) - Peake-Harmon
  - Episode #1.6 (1960) ... Peake-Harmon
  - Episode #1.3 (1960) ... Peake-Harmon
  - Episode #1.2 (1960) ... Peake-Harmon
  - Episode #1.1 (1960) ... Peake-Harmon
  1960 Knight Errant Limited (TV Series)
  - The Genius (1960) ... (as Jimmy Villiers)
  
  1958 Carry On Sergeant - Seventh Recruit
  1958 Ivanhoe (TV Series)
  - Murder at the Inn (1958)
  1954 Late Night Final (Short) - Lab Assistant (uncredited)
  
  Soundtrack (1 credit)
  
  1972 The Ruling Class (performer: "Dry Bones" - uncredited)
  
  Self (6 credits)
  
  1976 Going a Bundle (TV Series) - Himself - Presenter
  - Heathrow Airport (1976) ... Himself - Presenter
  - Newspapers (1976) ... Himself - Presenter
  1976 It's a Knockout (TV Series) - Himself
  - It's a Celebrity Knockout 1976 (1976) ... Himself
  1975 Larry Grayson's Generation Game (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode #4.19 (1975) ... Himself
  1972 Film Night (TV Series) - Himself
  - Two's a Company (1972) ... Himself
  1972 He Said, She Said (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode #2.2 (1972) ... Himself
  1971 Call My Bluff (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode #6.20 (1971) ... Himself
  - Episode #6.19 (1971) ... Himself
  
  Archive footage (4 credits)
  
  2018 The Ghost of Peter Sellers (Documentary) - Himself
  2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Tanner (uncredited)
  2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Tanner
  
  1979-1981 Clapper Board (TV Series) - Tanner / Uncle Bertie
  - For Your Eyes Only Special (1981) ... Tanner (uncredited)
  - Episode dated 23 April 1979 (1979) ... Uncle Bertie

  
  
  

  
  2017: Professor Jeremy Black proposes James Bond is more of a feminist than you might think.

  

  Dr. No means no: Why James
  Bond is more of a feminist than
  you might think

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/dr-no-means-no-james-bond-feminist-might-think/
  Jeremy Black Professor of History at the University of Exeter
  18 January 2017 • 9:46am
  
  The Bond of the films doesn't always bear resemblance to the Bond of Ian Fleming's novels
  
  When Judi Dench accused James Bond of being a "sexist, misogynist dinosaur" at the beginning of GoldenEye, she was reflecting conventional wisdom about 007. Bond girls were cardboard cut-out fantasy figures: stunning, acquiescent and up for a little danger. In the course of his films, Bond used his club-land charm to seduce 58 of them, inviting feminists to condemn him as a woman-hater who wants his ‘girls’ to iron shirts, leap into bed with him and then look grateful. Bond, we've been told, wallows in a "sewer of misogyny”.
  
  The critics may have a point – if the 007 cinematic opus before Daniel Craig’s arrival on the scene is the case for the prosecution. But before the Bond films were Ian Fleming’s books, written in the 1950s and 1960s; a pre-pill age when Britain was a socially-disapproving place and sexual freedom was frowned upon. I've spent a large chunk of the last two years studying Fleming's words, as research for a book on the subject – and what I've found is that while Bond may have pre-war manners, his attitudes to women were, in many ways, very modern.
  
  Throughout Fleming's series, Bond admires female partners who are not only as sexually liberated and demanding as him, but independent, resourceful and tough enough to help him defeat villains. These are women who are not constrained or defined by the search for matrimony and motherhood – women, in other words, who buck the social norms of the time they live in. Far from misogynistic in attitude, Bond was ahead of his time.
  
  On close inspection, it's a theme that crops up repeatedly. For example, in the books, 007 rails against the victimisation of women and the depiction of sexually-liberated women as ‘tarts’ or whores.
  
  Here's Fleming on Bond's admiration of Dominetta Vitali, the mistress of arch villain Emilio Largo in Thunderball: "'Whore', ‘tart’, 'prostitute' were not words Bond used about women unless they were professional streetwalkers or the inmates of a brothel. This was an independent, a girl of authority and character. She might like the rich, gay life, but so far as Bond was concerned, that was the right kind of girl. She might sleep with men, obviously did, but it would be on her terms and not on theirs.”
  
  Halle Berry as Giacinta 'Jinx' Johnson Credit: Film still
  
  Tellingly, some of the female characters Bond most admires are not only sexually adventurous but independent of men. The improbably-named Pussy Galore, for example, is the resourceful leader of a lesbian motorcycle gang, “who had never met a man before.” In Goldfinger, she helps Bond foil a plot to gas the guards at Fort Knox. Fleming says of Ms Galore, whom he eventually seduces: “[Bond] was amused by the uncompromising attitude that said to Goldfinger and to the room ‘All men and bastards and cheats. Don’t try any masculine hocus on me’.”
  
  That's not to say Bond wasn't a quintessential tough-guy. The books describe a character who is the very image of physicality, sharpness and resolution – all necessary qualities if you are single-handedly defeating the world’s super-villains. Of course, these attributes can be read as those of a “school boy bully”. In 1958, Paul Johnson described Bond as having “the mechanical two-dimensional sex longing of a frustrated adolescent’; while William Rees-Mogg, the former editor of the Times, writes that Bond is a “high technology killer, a sadistic womaniser and a pseudo sophisticate.”
  
  In my book The World of James Bond, published later this year, I draw a distinction between the hardened war-hero type Fleming created and the priapic caricature he became in many of the films.
  
  Unlike the films, Fleming depicts Bond's desires as normal, not insatiable. It is central to the image of Bond’s sexuality that he gives, as well as receives, pleasure – and the women he sleeps are not beyond setting the sexual pace.
  
  To use Goldfinger as the example again: in a scene that didn't make the film, Jill Masterston accompanies Bond on the Silver Meteor train from Miami to New York. Fleming writes:

  “She had woken him twice more in the night with soft demanding caresses, saying nothing, just reaching for his hard, lean body. The next day she had twice pulled down the roller blinds to shut out the hard light and had taken him by the hand and said ‘Love me, James’….. Neither had had regrets.”

  Fleming’s own private life was far from conventional. His wife Ann had an affair with Hugh Gaitskell, then leader of the Labour party, and from 1955 Fleming had his own lover. His commitment to living in the West Indies was in part linked to his sex life.
  
  We should also note that in the books, Bond is disgusted with villains’ sadistic behaviour towards women. He dislikes the very attitudes 007’s critics have sometimes attributed to him. Fleming actually contrasts the mechanistic megalomania of many of the villains and the sadistic evil of their agents with Bond’s sensuality.
  
  In Goldfinger 007 feels disgust reading a passage in a SMERSH manual which says: “A drunken woman can also usually be handled by using the thumb and forefinger to grab the lower lip. By pinching hard and twisting, as the pull is made, the woman will come along.”
  
  Bond’s reputation as a Paleolithic sexist has not been helped by quotes from Fleming’s works, frequently taken out of context.
  
  One Bond remark often taken as evidence against him is in the short story "Quantum of Solace", in which 007 contends that if he married he would marry an air hostess. He could then have “a pretty girl always tucking you up and bringing you drinks and hot meals and asking if you had everything you waned. And they’re always smiling and wanting to please. If I don’t marry an air hostess, there’ll be nothing for it but marry a Japanese. They seem to have the right ideas too.”

  "Unlike the films, Fleming depicts Bond's desires as normal, not insatiable"
  
  Jeremy Black

  A clear case for the prosecution: unconstructed sexism with a dose of racism thrown in. But read on.
  
  Fleming writes that Bond deliberately made such as provocative remark “to outrage the Governor into a discussion of some human topic. Bond had no intention of marrying anyone. If he did, it would certainly not be an insipid slave.”
  
  This is not to say that Bond is a new man who in our day would be happy to work part time and share parenting duties. His attitude to same-sex relationships, between men, is hostile and derogatory. In a Miami restaurant in Goldfinger, the manager is described as “a pansified Italian”, while at the start of the novel From Russia, with Love, Bond advocates the recruitment of gays to hunt gay spies.
  
  In many ways Bond is old fashioned, with old fashioned prejudices: the last of the club-land heroes who adheres to an older established code and set of values. With a martini ‘shaken but not stirred’ in one hand, and a Walther PPK concealed on his person, he is possibly too flamboyant for the modern mode of espionage. And beware the Russian honey-trap: there is also no doubt that Bond is an admirer of a well-turned ankle.
  
  But Fleming’s Bond is more complex and interesting character in the books than in many of the films. He is certainly not the misogynistic dinosaur described by Judi Dench’s M. Is James Bond a feminist? Perhaps that's stretching it a bit. But he's far from the monster we're led to believe either.
  
  Professor Jeremy Black is Professor of History at the
  University of Exeter. His book The World of James Bond, is to
  be published by Rowman and Littlefield this year

  
  
  
  

  
  
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  January 19th
  
  1941: Putter Smith is born--Bell, California.
  
  1960: Jack Whittingham reports to Ivar Bryce the progress he's making with Kevin McClory on a Thunderball screenplay.

  

  Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
  
  ..."We are both working in the dark so far as Ian Fleming is concerned--and Bond is very much his personal creation. Thus they needed to get together with Ian to discuss their first draft. I know he will be very helpful at this much more detailed stage, and it would encourage us enormously if we felt we were all still pulling at the same rope."

  
  1981: The For Your Eyes Only production crew at Metoria, Greece, feels of the wrath of monks who place laundry and other eyesores on their dwellings to disrupt filming. A show of displeasure, potentially over to small a stipend paid to them by the producers. Filming continues nonetheless.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2000: Radioactive/MCA releases the soundtrack for The World Is Not Enough by David Arnold in Japan. 68 minutes in length.

  

  
  2015: To capitalize on Fleming and Bond material becoming public domain in Canada, Independent Toronto publisher ChiZine Publications announces Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond. An anthology of short stories, available only in Canada.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2016: Titan Books publishes James Bond: Spectre: The Complete Comic Strip Collection.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2017: Anthony Horowitz announces on Twitter he's writing a second Bond novel due out October 2018.

  

  
  
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  January 20th
  
  1923: John McClusky is born--Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland.
  (He dies 5 September 2006 at age 83--Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.)

  

  James Bond comic
  strip artist John
  McLusky has died
  aged 83

  https://mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=4069"]https://mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=4069
  08-Sep-2006 • Bond News
  
  John McLusky, best known for his long tenure as James Bond comic strip artist, has died at the age of 83. He passed away on Tuesday 5th September 2006.
  
  Four years before Sean Connery would bring 007 to the silver screen with Dr No, Daily Express readers in the UK got their first sight of James Bond in 1958. The face John McLusky gave to Bond would be many people's first and lasting image of 007, including composer John Barry.
  
  
  Above: John McLusky's representation of James Bond 007.
  
  Fleming's first James Bond novel Casino Royale would also become the starting point for the newspaper series, with the first strip published in the Daily Express on July 7th 1958. Staff writer Anthony Hearne adapted the novel, and John McLusky was brought in to illustrate.
  
  Initially sticking closely to Fleming's source material, the strips created by Hearne and McLusky were an instant success and boosted sales of the newspaper. The punchy, fast-paced style and daily "cliff-hangers" suited Bond's adventures perfectly.
  
  McLusky teamed up with writer Henry Gammidge for the following seven years, recreating Fleming's novels and short stories in the graphic form almost chronologically (except for a one-off partnership of writer Peter O'Donnell with McLusky for 1960's Dr. No adaptation).
  
  Thirteen adventures since the Express began publishing Bond strips back in 1958, Gammidge and McLusky stepped aside for the new team of Jim Lawrence and Yaroslav Horak as writer and artist respectively. In 1981, series writer Lawrence was then paired with the original strip artist John McLusky returning for a further four adventures.
  
  As well as his long run as James Bond comic strip artist, McLusky also drew strips such as "Secret Agent 13" for Fleetway's "June" and illustrations for "Look and Learn", and also worked for 15 years on "TV Comic" with strips such as "Orlando", "Laurel & Hardy" and "Pink Panther". In the early 1980's he worked on Thames TV series "Hattytown". He the retired but was lured back in to action in 1986 when Gerald Lip, the Express strip Editor, asked him to draw the last James Bond strips, which he did for three years. He then regularly lectured in the History of Art and was also a Punch and Judy Professor and Puppeteer. He spent his final years taking it easy at his home due to heath reasons but enjoyed reading, meeting his friends and listening to his favourite Jazz collections.
  
  John McLusky will be best remembered for giving to the world "the face of James Bond", and with Titan Books republishing the original strip adventures, fans old and new can enjoy his timeless work again.
  
  Click here to read more about John McLusky's artwork and the James Bond comic strip series.
  mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/index.php3

  
  

  
  1958: Ian Fleming comments on Jamaica.

  

  Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker, 2015.
  1950 Doctor Jamaica

  As well as finding a trip to Jamaica hugely restorative, [Noël] Coward also
  found it creatively invigorating. After one visit he wrote in his diary
  that ‘it has been a lovely holiday - I feel well and full of ideas and, as
  usual, I am grateful to dear Jamaica.’ On another occasion, he noted:
  ‘this place has a strange and very potent magic for me. I also seem to
  be cable to do more work here in less time than anywhere else.’ Ann,
  too, recommended Jamaica to her aspiring novelist brother Hugo as
  ‘healing, beneficial and inspiring’. Fleming agreed. ‘Here there is
  peace and that wonderful vacuum of days that makes one work,’ he
  note while writing Goldfinger. Not only Coward, but ‘other still more
  famous writers, let alone painters, have been stimulated by Jamaica’.
  he later wrote. ‘I suppose it is the peace and silence and cut-offness
  from the madding world that urges people to create here.’

  
  1964: Goldfinger principal photography begins at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, Florida. Director Hamilton plus Broccoli, Adam, and cinematographer Ted Moore. Only Cec Linder of the main cast is present in Miami. Connery is filming elsewhere in the US.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1980: ITV broadcast of Live and Let Die attracts 23.5 million viewers, a record for the UK.
  1984: Never Say Never Again released in Denmark.

  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/nsna-dk-ad-sheet-1984/
  

  1984: James Bond 007 - Sag niemals nie (James Bond 007 - Never Say Never) released in West Germany.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2000: Vse in še svet (Everything and the World) released in Slovenia.
  2006: Swiss businessman pays $1.9 million (£1.1 million) for a 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe used to promote Goldfinger and Thunderball.

  

  James Bond car sells for $1.9 million

  http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2006-01/22/content_514435.htm
  (Reuters) Updated: 2006-01-22 11:08
  
  A Swiss businessman won the keys to James Bond's silver 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe on Friday with a $1.9 million bid at an annual classic car auction in Arizona.

  
  People inspect a James Bond's 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe on
  auction at the Arizona Biltmore Resort in Phoenix, Arizona
  January 20, 2006. [Reuters]

  
  The 45-year-old man, who did not want to be identified, placed his bids over the telephone through friend and car dealer Beat Roos to win the gadget-packed 007 car used in such classics as Goldfinger and Thunderball. Both men live in Bern, Switzerland.
  
  "His instructions were to bring the car back to Switzerland," Roos said.
  
  The winner, who was bidding in his first auction, will add the car to a collection of some dozen vehicles that includes classic Aston Martins and Porsches.
  
  Auction officials had estimated that Bond's vehicle could fetch between $1.5 million and $2.5 million.
  
  Two other classics cars also were sold, with bidders paying $565,000 for gangster Al Capone's 1928 Cadillac sedan and $195,000 for country music singer Hank Williams Jr.'s 1964 Pontiac Bonneville convertible, officials said.
  
  All three vehicles had been at the Smoky Mountain Car Museum in Tennessee.
  
  The sale, presented by Canada's RM Auctions, is one of five held by different companies in the Phoenix area through the end of the month. More than $100 million is expected to be spent on vehicles of all makes and sizes.

  

  
  
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  January 21st
  
  1922: Aristotle (Telly) Savalas is born--Garden City, Long Island, New York.
  (He dies 22 January 1994 at age 72--Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, California.)

  

  Obituary: Telly Savalas

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-telly-savalas-1409252.html
  David Shipman | Tuesday 25 January 1994 01:02
  
  Aristotle (Telly) Savalas, actor: born Garden City, New York 21 January 1924; married Katharine Nicolaides (one daughter), 1960 Marilynn Gardner (two daughters), 1974 Sally Adams (one son), 1984 Julie Howland (one son, one daughter); died Los Angeles 22 January 1994.
  
  IN 1973 a television cop series transformed a much-respected movie actor of the second rank - in box-office terms - into a figure instantly recognisable the world over. Telly Savalas was Lieutenant Theo Kojak of the New York Police Department, bald, not ugly but no oil painting ('Romeo inside a gorilla exterior', he once described himself), with intense eyes and a bewitching smile - when he cared to use it.
  
  Kojak preferred to appear menacing to his enemies and even to his colleagues. In speech he was direct, never wasting words, though these tended to be sarcastic. All the most popular television series, from The Untouchables to Cheers, have something special to them: in Kojak, more than the casual, near- rebellious, atmosphere of the precinct (new to television but not to movies) it was Kojak's character and Savalas's dynamic playing of him. He sucked on lollipops, sported glaring fancy waistcoats and porkpie hats, and demanded 'Who loves ya, baby?'
  
  Kojak was sympathetic to outcasts and ruthless with social predators. The show maintained a high quality to the end, mixing tension with some laughs and always anxious to tackle civic issues, one of its raisons d'etre in the first place. It was required viewing in Britain every Saturday evening for eight years. To almost everyone everywhere Kojak means Savalas and vice versa, but to Savalas himself the series was merely an interval, albeit a long one, in a distinguished career.
  
  A first-generation American of Greek extraction, he was born Aristotle Savalas in New York in 1924 and started his career in the Information Services of the State Department. He moved on to ABC television, in charge of Special Events and creating the prestigious Your Voice of America series. He had not acted or even considered doing so till he was asked if he could recommend an actor with a command of European accents. He decided to go to the audition himself, in 1959, and found himself appearing in Bring Home a Baby on Armstrong Circle Theater TV.
  
  Further acting opportunities followed, and movies claimed him. He made his debut in a minor crime story, Mad Dog Coll (1961); but John Frankenheimer had already cast him in The Young Savages, which starred Burt Lancaster as a lawyer designated to prosecute some juvenile delinquents. It was not, as social-concern films go, very profound; but for Savalas it was an omen, for he was the inspector in charge of the investigation. He was also the best thing in the film, as Frankenheimer recognised by putting him into Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), as a fellow-con of Lancaster's; a performance which brought Savalas an Oscar nomination. In the interim, he had played another detective in Cape Fear, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. The three films established Savalas as the sort of actor who could make mincemeat out of the likes of Lancaster and Peck.
  
  The Man from the Diner's Club (1963), with Danny Kaye, marked Savalas's entry into screen comedies, which he managed with a confidence that enabled him to move from the most subtle expressions to the broadest of gestures. He played a morose mobster with tax problems. He was to demonstrate, when required, that he was simply one of the best screen heavies of his time. He was certainly one of the few whose reputation was unscathed by The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), in which he played Pontius Pilate with obvious enjoyment. Its producer-director, George Stevens, persuaded Savalas to shave his hair for the role.
  
  After playing the swinish Foreign Legion sergeant in Beau Geste (1966) - the only element to put it in the same class as the two earlier versions - he was the most unpleasant of Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen (1967) - soldier convicts promised remission after being sent secretly into France to prepare the locals for D-Day. As a religious maniac rapist, he stood out in a movie which included Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson also on top form; and the film's popularity put stardom within Savalas's grasp. He was superb as a psychopathic bounty-hunter who doublecrosses Burt Lancaster in Sydney Pollack's irresistible western The Scalphunters (1968).

  Melvin Frank's Buona Sera Mrs Campbell (1968) brought Savalas back to Europe - literally, as one of the ex-GIs who, along with two others (Peter Lawford, Phil Silvers), was paying maintenance for Gina Lollobrigida's daughter, conceived in Naples in 1944. He first acted in Britain in Basil Dearden's black comedy The Assassination Bureau (1969), playing a newspaper magnate who commissions the would- be journalist Diana Rigg to expose a gang of professional killers. He remained in Britain, to be 007's nemesis figure, Ernst Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE with dreams of world domination, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Savalas was billed immediately after Clint Eastwood, overshadowing him however as an actor, in Kelly's Heroes (1970), a wartime jape in which they and two others (Don Rickless, Donald Sutherland) steal behind German lines in pursuit of gold.

  Savalas liked London. He took a house in the Boltons and enjoyed a romance with a Hollywood actress appearing on the London stage. He began to choose films for the locations rather than the roles, and thus did more than his fair share of spaghetti westerns, invariably as the villain. In the midst of these he was offered a television movie, The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973), based on the Miranda case of 1963, when a detective was determined to see that a black teenager should not be convicted of a crime he did not commit. The direction and writing won Emmys for Joseph Sargent and Abby Mann respectively; Savalas was nominated and did not win but, more significantly, this was his introduction to Kojak: the three-hour film was in fact the pilot for a one-hour Kojak series.
  
  The decision to end Kojak after 110 episodes was mutual. The series had covered just about every crime that can happen in a large municipality and there were indications that the public was becoming somewhat less fond of the abrasive detective who hauled the wrongdoers into the precinct in the last 10 minutes. The novelty had worn off.
  
  Savalas's brother George played his shambling subordinate Stavros, and it was not till the end of the first run that it was revealed that they were brothers in the show as well. They returned to the roles in a telemovie for Universal, Kojak - the Belarus File (1985). This was to test the atmosphere for a new series, but nothing came of it immediately, nor of Hellinger's Law, in which Savalas would have been a lawyer.
  
  The initial impact of Kojak was to make Savalas more than ever in demand as a movie actor. Few of the films he now made were memorable, but mention should be made of the Anglo-German Inside Out (1975), since it became a feature of a libel-suit against the Daily Mail. That paper printed a story from the location-shooting in Berlin, alleging that Savalas's 'private excesses' were damaging the film, and contrasting the professionalism of James Mason (described in reports as his 'co-star', though in fact billed below Savalas and in a smaller role). Mason not only testified for Savalas, but was in court for much of the hearing, beaming encouragement and seeing him awarded the then high sum of pounds 34,000.
  
  However, by the time Kojak finished in 1978 movie offers were beginning to dry up. Savalas's identification with the one role was so complete that others had been hard to come by - they were either cameos, as in Capricorn One (1978) or The Muppet Movie (1979), or second goes at popular films, such as Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) and Cannonball Run II (1983). Understandably, since he would always be a star in that medium, television offered frequent work, as when he played the Cheshire Cat in an all-star Alice in Wonderland (1985) and his old role alongside Ernest Borgine in The Dirty Dozen: the Deadly Mission (1987) and The Dirty Dozen: the Fatal Mission (1988).
  
  In 1989 he again played Kojak - but not for Universal and CBS, as before. ABC had lured Burt Reynolds back to television to play a gumshoe, BL Stryker, but Reynolds was not prepared to appear again on a weekly basis, so The ABC Saturday Mystery rotated four different shows, with Jaclyn Smith as Christine Cromwell and two gentlemen from the past - Peter Falk as Columbo and Savalas as Kojak. Savalas insisted on New York's being used for the locations and not, as before, Los Angeles standing in for New York. To a journalist watching the shooting he said, 'C'mon, willya? I was born in this city . . . Raised in the neighbourhood, right? I speak the language. So Telly and Kojak are one and the same. That's what makes the show interesting for me - and easy. I'm basically playing myself to a large extent - a street-smart fella with the soul of a pussycat.'
  
  He admitted that the character was older and wiser, but the verdict of the press was that he was older and very tired. ABC dropped Kojak after the contracted four episodes (which were not seen in Britain).
  
  Savalas used his fame as Kojak to become a singer, with indifferent results as far as his records were concerned, but he did appear at the 1974 Oscar ceremony, singing 'You're so Nice To Be Around' from Cinderella Liberty. In 1992 he opened 'Telly's Sporting Bar' in the Sheraton - where he lived in Los Angeles - at Universal City, featuring mementoes of Kojak.
  
  Savalas liked to be recognised - indeed, he revelled in his fame. He was only slightly ambivalent, declaring that television was 'so powerful it can wipe out anything you've done in the past'. He went on, 'I won't mention names, but I remember sitting with two major motion-picture stars. Here's poor little Telly comin' off a little TV show and people are comin' up to me and askin' for my autograph. And I look at these two global personalities alongside me and nobody's askin' them. How come? Because they didn't recognise them. The power of TV, my friend.'

  

  Telly Savalas (1922–1994)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001699/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (132 credits)
  
  1995 Backfire! - Most Evil Man
  1993 Mind Twister - Richard Howland
  1992-1993 The Commish (TV Series) - Tommy Colette
  - Out of Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
  - Family Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
  - The Frame (1992) ... Tommy Colette
  1991-1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) - Teddy
  - Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... Teddy
  - Ein Glatzkopf kommt selten allein (1991) ... Teddy
  1991 Rose Against the Odds (TV Movie) - George Parnassus
  1990 Kojak: None So Blind (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
  1990 Kojak: It's Always Something (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
  1990 Kojak: Flowers for Matty (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
  1989 Kojak: Fatal Flaw (TV Movie) - Theo Kojak
  
  1989 Kojak: Ariana (TV Movie) - Kojak
  1989 The Hollywood Detective (TV Movie) - Harry Bell
  1988 The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
  1987 J.J. Starbuck (TV Series) - The Greek
  - Gold from the Rainbow (1987) ... The Greek
  1987 Faceless - Terry Hallen
  1987 The Equalizer (TV Series) - Brother Joseph Heiden
  - Blood & Wine: Part 2 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
  - Blood & Wine: Part 1 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
  1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
  1987 Kojak: The Price of Justice (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
  1986 GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords - Magmar (voice)
  1985 Solomon's Universe (TV Movie) - Solomon Stark
  1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) - The Cheshire Cat
  1985 George Burns Comedy Week (TV Series) - - The Assignment (1985)
  1985 Beyond Reason - Dr. Nicholas Mati
  1985 Kojak: The Belarus File (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Theo Kojak
  1985 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Dr. Fabian Cain
  - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 2 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
  - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 1 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
  1984 The Cartier Affair (TV Movie) - Phil Drexler
  1984 Cannonball Run II - Hymie Kaplan
  1983 Afghanistan pourquoi? - Rebel Leader
  1982 Fake-Out - Lt. Thurston
  1982 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Peter Panakos
  - My Palikari (1982) ... Peter Panakos
  1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Joe Brisson
  - Completely Foolproof (1981) ... Joe Brisson
  1981 Hellinger's Law (TV Movie) - Nick Hellinger
  1980 Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (TV Movie) - Cretzer
  1980 Border Cop - Frank Cooper
  
  1979 The French Atlantic Affair (TV Mini-Series) - Father Craig Dunleavy
  - Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
  - Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
  - Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
  1979 Alice (TV Series) - Telly Savalas
  - Has Anyone Here Seen Telly? (1979) ... Telly Savalas
  1979 The Muppet Movie - El Sleezo Tough
  1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure - Captain Stefan Svevo
  1979 Escape to Athena - Zeno
  1978 Windows, Doors & Keyholes (TV Movie)
  1973-1978 Kojak (TV Series) - Lt. Theo Kojak - 117 episodes
  - In Full Command (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
  - 60 Miles to Hell (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
  - Photo Must Credit Joe Paxton (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
  - May the Horse Be with You (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
  - The Halls of Terror (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
  ...
  1977 Capricorn One - Albain
  1976 The Diamond Mercenaries - Harry Webb
  1975 Inside Out - Harry Morgan
  1975 The Hitman
  1975 The House of Exorcism - Leandro
  1975 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Singer / Kojak
  - Episode #2.1 (1975) ... Singer / Kojak
  1973 Lisa and the Devil - Leandro
  1973 She Cried Murder (TV Movie) - Inspector Joe Brody
  1973 The Marcus-Nelson Murders (TV Movie) - Lt. Theo Kojak
  1973 Senza ragione - Memphis
  1972 A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die - Maggiore Ward
  1972 Pancho Villa - Pancho Villa
  1972 Visions... (TV Movie) - Lt. Phil Keegan
  1972 The Killer Is on the Phone - Ranko Drasovic
  1972 Horror Express - Capt. Kazan
  1972 Sonny and Jed - Sheriff Franciscus
  1972 Crime Boss - Don Vincenzo
  1971 Steel Wreath (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Pete Tolstad
  1971 Clay Pigeon - Redford
  1971 A Town Called Hell - Don Carlos
  1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Gregor Antonescu
  - Man and Boy (1971) ... Gregor Antonescu
  1971 Pretty Maids All in a Row - Surcher
  1970 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) - Tex
  - Stagecoach Hijack (1970) ... Tex
  1970 Violent City - Al Weber
  1970 Kelly's Heroes - Big Joe
  1970 Land Raiders - Vicente Cardenas
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Blofeld
  1969 Sophie's Place - Herbie Haseler
  1969 Mackenna's Gold - Sergeant Tibbs
  1969 The Assassination Bureau - Lord Bostwick
  1968 Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell - Walter Braddock
  1968 The Scalphunters - Jim Howie
  1968 Sol Madrid - Emil Dietrich
  1967 Cimarron Strip (TV Series) - Bear
  - The Battleground (1967) ... Bear
  1967 Garrison's Gorillas (TV Series) - Wheeler
  - The Big Con (1967) ... Wheeler
  1967 The Dirty Dozen - Archer Maggott
  1967 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Mueller
  - Don't Wait for Tomorrow (1967) ... Mueller
  1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Count Valeriano De Fanzini
  - The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
  - The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
  1967 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Ed Clementi
  - The Executioners: Part 2 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
  - The Executioners: Part 1 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
  1964-1967 Combat! (TV Series) - Jon / Colonel Kapsalis
  - Anniversary (1967) ... Jon
  - Vendetta (1964) ... Colonel Kapsalis
  1966 Beau Geste - Sgt. Maj. Dagineau
  1964-1966 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Steve Keller / Victor Leonetti / Dan Polichek
  - Stroke of Genius (1966) ... Steve Keller
  - May God Have Mercy (1965) ... Victor Leonetti
  - Where the Action Is (1964) ... Dan Polichek
  1966 The Virginian (TV Series) - 'Colonel' Bliss
  - Men with Guns (1966) ... 'Colonel' Bliss
  1965 Battle of the Bulge - Sgt. Guffy
  1965 The Slender Thread - Dr. Joe Coburn
  1965 Run for Your Life (TV Series) - Istvan Zabor
  - How to Sell Your Soul for Fun and Profit (1965) ... Istvan Zabor
  1965 Bonanza (TV Series) - Charles Augustus Hackett
  - To Own the World (1965) ... Charles Augustus Hackett
  1965 Genghis Khan - Shan
  1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! - Macmuid (Harem Recruiter) (uncredited)
  1963-1965 Burke's Law (TV Series)
  Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth / Charlie Prince / Fakir George O'Shea
  - Who Killed the Man on the White Horse? (1965) ... Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth
  - Who Killed His Royal Highness? (1964) ... Charlie Prince
  - Who Killed Purity Mather? (1963) ... Fakir George O'Shea
  1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told - Pontius Pilate
  1964 The Rogues (TV Series) - Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
  - Viva Diaz! (1964) ... Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
  1964 Fanfare for a Death Scene (TV Movie) - Ilchidai Khan
  1964 The New Interns - Dr. Dominick 'Dom' Riccio
  1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle / Beret
  - The Watchman (1964) ... Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle
  - The Action of the Tiger (1964) ... Beret
  1964 Breaking Point (TV Series) - Vincenzo Gracchi
  - My Hands Are Clean (1964) ... Vincenzo Gracchi
  1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) - Philadelphia Harry
  - A Matter of Murder (1964) ... Philadelphia Harry
  1964 Arrest and Trial (TV Series) - Frank Santo
  - The Revenge of the Worm (1964) ... Frank Santo
  1964 Channing (TV Series) - Paul Atherton
  - A Claim to Immortality (1964) ... Paul Atherton
  1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Erich Streator
  - Living Doll (1963) ... Erich Streator
  1963 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) - Brother Hendricksen
  - 5: Part 4 (1963) ... Brother Hendricksen
  1963 Grindl (TV Series) - Mr. Hartman
  - The Gruesome Basement (1963) ... Mr. Hartman
  1963 Johnny Cool - Vincenzo 'Vince' Santangelo
  1963 Love Is a Ball
  Dr. Christian Gump (Millie's uncle)
  1963 The Man from the Diners' Club - Foots Pulardos
  1963 Empire (TV Series) - Tibor
  - Arrow in the Sky (1963) ... Tibor
  1963 The Dakotas (TV Series) - Jake Volet
  - Reformation at Big Nose Butte (1963) ... Jake Volet
  1963 The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) - Ben Cohen
  - A Tumble from a High White House (1963) ... Ben Cohen
  1961-1963 The Untouchables (TV Series)
  Leo Stazak / Matt Bass / Wally Baltzer
  - The Speculator (1963) ... Leo Stazak
  - The Matt Bass Scheme (1961) ... Matt Bass
  - The Antidote (1961) ... Wally Baltzer
  1962 Alcoa Premiere (TV Series) - Mario Lombardi
  - The Hands of Danofrio (1962) ... Mario Lombardi
  1962 The Interns - Dr. Dominic Riccio
  1962 Birdman of Alcatraz -Feto Gomez
  1962 Cape Fear - Private Detective Charles Sievers
  1961-1962 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) - Harry Remick / Frank Meehan
  - Savage in Darkness (1962) ... Harry Remick
  - In the Balance (1961) ... Frank Meehan (as Telly Savales)
  1961 The Sin of Jesus (Short) - Felix (as Telli Savales)
  1961 Ben Casey (TV Series) - George Dempsey
  - A Dark Night for Billy Harris (1961) ... George Dempsey
  1961 The Detectives (TV Series) - Ben
  - Escort (1961) ... Ben
  1961 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Sergeant Marius
  - Three Soldiers (1961) ... Sergeant Marius
  1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series) - Massis / Jerry Larch
  - Stop Johnny King! (1961) ... Massis
  - The Wizard of Ice (1961) ... Jerry Larch
  1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Dr. Buel Reed
  - The Compulsion to Confess (1961) ... Dr. Buel Reed
  1961 The Young Savages - Detective Lt. Gunderson
  1961 Mad Dog Coll - Lt. Darro
  1961 Acapulco (TV Series) - Mr. Carver
  - Murder with Love (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  - Blood Money (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  - Death Is a Smiling Man (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  - Fisher's Daughter (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  - Carbon Copy Cat (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  - The Gentleman from Brazil (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  - Killer in a Rose Colored Mask (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  - Bell's Half Acre (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  1961 The Aquanauts (TV Series) - Paul Price
  - Stormy Weather (1961) ... Paul Price
  1960 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
  - Operation North Star (1960)
  1960 The Witness (TV Series) - Al Capone / Lucky Luciano
  - Al Capone (1960) ... Al Capone
  - Roger 'The Terrible' Touhy (1960)
  - Lucky Luciano (1960) ... Lucky Luciano
  1960 Naked City (TV Series) - Gabriel Hody
  - To Walk in Silence (1960) ... Gabriel Hody
  1959-1960 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) - Dieter Wislieny / Dieter Wisliceny / Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire / ...
  - Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wislieny
  - Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wisliceny
  - 35 Rue Du Marche (1959) ... Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire
  - Sound of Violence (1959) ... Charles Rogan
  - House of Cards (1959)
  - And Bring Home a Baby (1959)
  1960 Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (TV Series) - - The Cat and the Canary (1960)
  1960 Diagnosis: Unknown (TV Series) - Irish Tony Salivarro
  - Gina, Gina (1960) ... Irish Tony Salivarro
  1959 Deadline (TV Series) - Anders
  - The Two Ounce Trap (1959) ... Anders
  1959 Sunday Showcase (TV Series) - Cotton
  - Murder and the Android (1959) ... Cotton
  
  Soundtrack (12 credits)
  
  2013 In the Name of (performer: "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend")
  
  2006 The Break-Up (performer: "Who Loves Ya Baby")
  
  1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... (performer: "Come on, Baby")
  
  1987 The 59th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: "Fugue for Tinhors")
  1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) (performer: "There's No Way Home")
  
  1976 Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby? (TV Special) (performer: "Who Loves Ya, Baby?", "This Is All I Ask", "We Were So Poor", "Zorbas (aka Zorba's Dance)", "The Men in My Little Girl's Life")
  1975 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Top of the Pops '75: Part 2 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
  1975 Disco (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.53 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
  1975 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #5.2 (1975) ... (performer: "If" - uncredited)
  1975 Kojak (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard (1975) ... (performer: "Azure Dee")
  1974 The 46th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: " (You're So) Nice to Be Around")
  1972 Pancho Villa (performer: "We All End Up the Same")
  
  Director (3 credits)
  
  1985 Beyond Reason
  
  1974-1978 Kojak (TV Series) (5 episodes)
  - In Full Command (1978)
  - Kiss It All Goodbye (1977)
  - Over the Water (1975)
  - I Want to Report a Dream (1975)
  - The Betrayal (1974)
  
  1959 Report to New York (TV Series)
  
  Writer (1 credit)
  
  1985 Beyond Reason (screenplay)

  
  
  
  "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend", Telly Savalas
  
  
  "If", Telly Savalas.
  
  
  Who Loves Ya, Baby 1976 - Greek Dance
  
  
  

  
  1942: Michael Gregg Wilson is born--New York City, New York.
  1942: Fleming formed a unit of commandos, known as No. 30 Commando or 30 Assault Unit (30AU), composed of specialist intelligence troops.
  
  1976: Maiden flight of Air France's Concorde, by the first plane delivered in 1975. The route from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport through Dakar to Rio is the same route used by the arriving Concorde in Moonraker. The two weekly Air France flights from Paris to Rio continued through 1982.

  
  
  

  
  1983: Octopussy filming finishes, for a June release.
  
  1998: Jack Lord dies at age 77--Honolulu, Hawaii. (Born 30 December 1920--New York City, New York.)

  

  Obituary: Jack Lord

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-jack-lord-1140283.html
  Tom Vallance | Friday 23 January 1998 01:02
  
  John Joseph Patrick Ryan (Jack Lord), actor: born New York 30 December 1920; married 1952 Marie de Narde; died Honolulu, Hawaii 21 January 1998.
  
  The actor Jack Lord will forever be associated with the role he played for 12 straight years on television, Steve McGarrett, head of a fictitious Hawaiian State Police Force, in Hawaii Five-O, one of television's most successful series, still being shown all over the world.

  Though he had been an actor on stage, screen and television for several years, stardom had eluded him and would probably have continued to do so. As an actor on the big screen, the intense, taciturn Lord excelled in villainous roles but as a hero was somewhat bland - in Dr No (1962) he had a prominent role as Felix Leighter [sic], the CIA man who helps Bond discover the identity of the scoundrel who is plotting to take over the world, but his character paled beside that of Sean Connery as Bond. Hawaii Five-O made Lord a household name (and a millionaire). At its peak, the series was seen in 80 countries with an audience estimated at more than 300 million.

  Born John Joseph Patrick Ryan in Brooklyn, New York, in 1920, he was the son of a steamship executive and during high school summers would work as a seaman. He studied at New York University on a football scholarship and majored in art - his paintings are hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other galleries. "I'd rather paint than eat," he once said. "I'm using acting as a way of getting my name before the public. Then my pictures will have a name value." In fact the Metropolitan purchased a lithograph when Lord was plain J.J. Ryan and only 18 years old.
  
  He was running an art school in Greenwich Village when he decided to take up acting, and for three years he studied at the Neighbourhood Playhouse while working days as a car salesman. He also studied at the Actors' Studio along with Marlon Brando and Paul Newman, and was given roles in two Broadway plays, The Travelling Lady (1953, for which he won a Theatre World Award) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954), but in 1955 he went to Hollywood to concentrate on film and television.
  
  He had made his screen debut (billed as John Ryan) in R.G. Springsteen's The Red Menace (1949), an anti- Communist propaganda thriller that now seems risible and has achieved enough cult status to be issued on laser disc. Lord's movie career never quite took off - he tested for the leading role of a naive cowboy in Bus Stop (1956) and was told by director Joshua Logan, "You can't play a virgin, your face looks lived in" - but he had a good year in 1958 with roles in two impressive films directed by Anthony Mann.
  
  In God's Little Acre, adapted from Erskine Caldwell's racy bestseller about Georgia farmers in the Depression, a quirky tale resembling Tennessee Williams crossed with Al Capp, Lord was one of Robert Ryan's sons, Buck, violently jealous of his wife's attraction to her brother-in-law (Aldo Ray). In Man of the West, he was a particularly sadistic henchman of outlaw Lee J. Cobb, suspicious (rightly) of the hero Gary Coop-er's motives in rejoining the gang, and in one powerful scene holding a knife to Cooper's throat and forcing Julie London, as a saloon singer, to strip.
  
  Television, though, was offering Lord more consistently rewarding work, in such series as The Untouchables, Route 66 and Bonanza, and in 1962 he was given a western series, Stoney Burke, though it ran for only one season. "A star like Jack is money in the bank," said one television producer. "He's always on time, no bags under his eyes and he always knows his lines." After many guest roles in such series as The Man from UNCLE, Have Gun Will Travel, The Fugitive and Ironside, Lord was offered the lead in Hawaii Five-O in 1968.
  
  The show initially met local opposition because of its portrayal of crime in the state, but that melted when its depiction of Hawaii's beauty proved a potent tourist attraction. As the gruff chief who ended each episode capturing the criminals and invariably telling his sidekick (James McArthur), "Book 'em, Danno", Lord became a top television star. The show ran for 12 years (284 episodes), ending in 1980 with McGarrett finally capturing his long- standing enemy, the crime boss Wo Fat.
  
  Lord had made his home in Hawaii, producing the show and sometimes directing it. When the series finished, he and his wife remained in Hawaii, living in a beachfront condominium in Kahala, and Lord returned to his first love, painting.

  

  Jack Lord (I) (1920–1998)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0520437/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (75 credits)
  
  1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie) - Admiral Henderson
  
  1968-1980 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Det. Steve McGarrett / Prof. Elton Raintree - 281 episodes
  - Woe to Wo Fat (1980) ... Det. Steve McGarrett / Prof. Elton Raintree
  ...
  - Cocoon (1968) ... Det. Steve McGarrett
  1968 The Counterfeit Killer - Don Owens
  1968 The Name of the Game Is Kill! - Symcha Lipa
  1968 The High Chaparral (TV Series) - Dan Brookes
  - The Kinsman (1968) ... Dan Brookes
  1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Pharos Mandor
  - The Master's Touch Affair (1967) ... Pharos Mandor
  1967 Ironside (TV Series) - John Trask
  - Dead Man's Tale (1967) ... John Trask
  1967 The Ride to Hangman's Tree - Guy Russell
  1967 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Alan Bartlett
  - Goodbye My Love (1967) ... Alan Bartlett
  1967 The Invaders (TV Series) - George Vikor
  - Vikor (1967) ... George Vikor
  1966 The Doomsday Flight (TV Movie) - Special Agent Frank Thompson
  1965-1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Harry Marcus / Don Owens / Abe Perez
  - Storm Crossing (1966) ... Harry Marcus
  - The Faceless Man (1966) ... Don Owens
  - The Crime (1965) ... Abe Perez
  1966 The Virginian (TV Series) - Roy Dallman
  - High Stakes (1966) ... Roy Dallman
  1966 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Frank Andreas Shroeder
  - Collision Course (1966) ... Frank Andreas Shroeder
  1965-1966 12 O'Clock High (TV Series) - Col. Arnold Yates / Lt. Col. Preston Gallagher
  - Face of a Shadow (1966) ... Col. Arnold Yates
  - Big Brother (1965) ... Lt. Col. Preston Gallagher
  1966 Laredo (TV Series) - Jab Harlan
  - Above the Law (1966) ... Jab Harlan
  1965 Combat! (TV Series) - Barney McKlosky
  - The Linesman (1965) ... Barney McKlosky
  1965 The Loner (TV Series) - Reverend Booker
  - The Vespers (1965) ... Reverend Booker
  1965 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Paul Campbell
  - The Long Ravine (1965) ... Paul Campbell
  1965 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Lee Barton
  - The Echo Pass Story (1965) ... Lee Barton
  1964 Grand Hotel (TV Movie)
  1964 The Reporter (TV Series) - Nick Castle
  - How Much for a Prince? (1964) ... Nick Castle
  1964 The Greatest Show on Earth (TV Series) - Wally Walker
  - Man in a Hole (1964) ... Wally Walker
  1964 Dr. Kildare (TV Series) - Dr. Frank Michaels
  - A Willing Suspension of Disbelief (1964) ... Dr. Frank Michaels
  1962-1963 Stoney Burke (TV Series) - Stoney Burke - 32 episodes
  1962 Dr. No - Felix Leiter
  1962 Checkmate (TV Series) - Ernie Chapin
  - The Star System (1962) ... Ernie Chapin
  1961 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) - Wilt Farrell
  - Dead Load: Dave Braddock (1961) ... Wilt Farrell
  1959-1961 Rawhide (TV Series) - Paul Evans / Blake
  - Incident of His Brother's Keeper (1961) ... Paul Evans
  - Incident of the Calico Gun (1959) ... Blake
  1961 Stagecoach West (TV Series) - Johnny Dane / Russ Doty
  - The Butcher (1961) ... Johnny Dane
  - House of Violence (1961) ... Russ Doty
  1961 The Robert Herridge Theater (TV Series) - - A Song with Orange in It (1961)
  1961 Outlaws (TV Series) - Jim Houston
  - The Bell (1961) ... Jim Houston
  1961 The Americans (TV Series) - Charlie Goodwin
  - Half Moon Road (1961) ... Charlie Goodwin
  1961 Route 66 (TV Series) - Gabe Johnson
  - Play It Glissando (1961) ... Gabe Johnson
  1960 Naked City (TV Series) - Cary Glennon
  - The Human Trap (1960) ... Cary Glennon
  1960 Walk Like a Dragon - Linc Bartlett
  1960 Bonanza (TV Series) - Clay Renton
  - The Outcast (1960) ... Clay Renton
  
  1959 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Dan Gardner
  - Father Image (1959) ... Dan Gardner
  1959 The Lineup (TV Series) - Army Armitage
  - The Strange Return of Army Armitage (1959) ... Army Armitage
  1959 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Bill Hagen
  - The Jake Lingle Killing (1959) ... Bill Hagen
  1959 The Hangman - Johnny Bishop
  1959 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Joe
  - Marriage Crisis (1959) ... Joe
  1958 The Sergeant and the Lady (TV Movie)
  1958 The Millionaire (TV Series) - Lee Randolph
  - Millionaire Lee Randolph (1958) ... Lee Randolph
  1958 U.S. Marshal (TV Series) - Matt Bonner
  - Sentenced to Death (1958) ... Matt Bonner
  1958 Man of the West - Coaley
  1958 God's Little Acre - Buck Walden
  1958 The True Story of Lynn Stuart - Willie Down
  1957-1958 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Homer Aswell / Jim Kester
  - Reunion (1958) ... Homer Aswell
  - The Lone Woman (1957) ... Jim Kester
  1957 The Silent Service (TV Series) - Hurt
  - The Loss of the Perch (1957) ... Hurt
  1957 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Nat Brandel / Myles Brandel
  - Doc's Reward (1957) ... Nat Brandel / Myles Brandel
  1957 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series) - Dave
  - Three Bells to Perdido (1957) ... Dave
  1957 Tip on a Dead Jockey - Jimmy Heldon
  1957 Climax! (TV Series) - Charlie Mullaney
  - Mr. Runyon of Broadway (1957) ... Charlie Mullaney
  1957 Conflict (TV Series)
  - Pattern for Violence (1957)
  1957 Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot (Short) - John Fry
  1956 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Rudd Kendall / Buck
  - Old Acquaintance (1956) ... Rudd Kendall
  - Jezebel (1956) ... Buck
  1956 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Matt / Paul Chester
  - A Day Before Battle (1956) ... Matt
  - An Incident of Love (1956) ... Paul Chester
  1956 The Vagabond King - Ferrebouc
  1956 Omnibus (TV Series) (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell") / (segment "One Nation")
  - The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1956) ... (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell")
  - One Nation (1956) ... (segment "One Nation")
  1956 Goodyear Playhouse (TV Series)
  - This Land Is Mine (1956)
  1956 Repertory Theatre (TV Series)
  - This Land Is Mine (1956)
  1955 The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell - Lt. Cmdr. Zachary 'Zack' Lansdowne
  1955 The Elgin Hour (TV Series) - Lieutenant Davis
  - Combat Medics (1955) ... Lieutenant Davis
  1955 Appointment with Adventure (TV Series) - Bill - Diner Proprietor
  - Five in Judgment (1955) ... Bill - Diner Proprietor
  1955 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series)
  - Buckskin (1955)
  1955 Danger (TV Series)
  - Season for Murder (1955)
  1954 Suspense (TV Series)
  - String (1954)
  1954 The Web (TV Series)
  - Grand Finale (1954)
  1953-1954 Man Against Crime (TV Series)
  - The Chinese Dolls (1954)
  - The Midnight Express (1953)
  1953 Broadway Television Theatre (TV Series)
  - Criminal at Large (1953)
  1952 The Hunter (TV Series)
  - The Puzzle of Pier 90 (1952) ... (as Jack Ryan)
  1950 The Tattooed Stranger - Detective Deke Del Vecchio (uncredited)
  1950 Cry Murder - Tommy Warren
  
  1949 Project X - John Bates
  
  Producer (3 credits)
  
  1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie) (executive producer)
  
  1974-1977 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (executive producer - 49 episodes)
  
  1950 Cry Murder (associate producer)
  
  Director (2 credits)
  
  1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie)
  
  1974-1979 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (6 episodes)
  - Who Says Cops Don't Cry? (1979)
  - Why Won't Linda Die? (1978)
  - The Bells Toll at Noon (1977)
  - Honor Is an Unmarked Grave (1975)
  - How to Steal a Masterpiece (1974)
  - Death with Father (1974)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2013: 007：大破天幕杀机 (007: Dàpò tiānmù shājī, or 007: Skyscraper) released in China.

  
  
  
  

  2019: Nick Finlayson dies at age 63. (Born 31 July 1955.)

  

  Nick Finlayson

  22nd January 2019
  The special effects technician who served on 10 Bond films passed away this month
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/biography-nick-finlayson
  

  

  Nick Finlayson

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278014/
  
  Filmography

  Special effects (43 credits)
  
  2019 Spider-Man: Far from Home (senior special effects technician)
  2019 Pokémon Detective Pikachu (senior special effects technician)
  2019 The Kid Who Would Be King (special effects lead senior technician)
  2018 Mary Poppins Returns (senior special effects technician)
  2017/I Life (senior special effects technician)
  2016 Assassin's Creed (senior special effects technician)
  2016 Ben-Hur (senior special effects technician)
  2016 The Legend of Tarzan (senior special effects technician)
  2014 Fury (senior special effects technician)
  2014 Edge of Tomorrow (senior special effects technician)
  2013 World War Z (senior special effects technician)
  2012 Skyfall (senior effects technician)
  2012 Wrath of the Titans (senior special effects technician)
  2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (senior special effects technician)
  2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (senior special effects technician)
  2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (senior special effects technician)
  
  2008 Quantum of Solace (senior special effects technician)
  2008 The Dark Knight (senior special effects technician)
  2007 Fred Claus (senior special effects technician)
  2007 Hannibal Rising (special effects lead technician)
  2006 Casino Royale (senior special effects technician)
  2005 Batman Begins (special effects senior technician)
  2003 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (senior special effects technician)
  2002 Die Another Day (workshop supervisor)
  2002 Below (senior special effects technician - uncredited)
  2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (special effects technician)
  2000 102 Dalmatians (special effects senior technician)
  
  1999 The World is Not Enough (special effects workshop supervisor)
  1999 The Mummy (senior special effects technician)
  1998 Firestorm (senior special effects technician)
  1997 Tomorrow Never Dies (special effects crew - as Nicholas Finlayson)
  1997 The Fifth Element (special effects technician)
  1995 GoldenEye (special effects crew - as Nicholas Finlayson)
  1993 Cliffhanger (uncredited)
  1992 Far and Away (senior special effects technician - uncredited)
  1991 Highlander II: The Quickening (senior special effects technician)
  1989 Licence to Kill (special effects technician)
  1988 Willow (senior special effects technician)
  1987 The Living Daylights (special effects technician - uncredited)
  1986 Aliens (senior special effects technician)
  1985 A View to a Kill (special effects technician - uncredited)
  1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall (aircraft subcontractor)
  1980 Hopscotch (special effects assistant - uncredited)
  
  Visual effects (2 credits)
  
  1990 Memphis Belle (modeller and technician: model unit)
  
  1983-1985 Terrahawks (TV Series) (HOD model workshop - 26 episodes)
  
  Art department (1 credit)
  
  1985 Lifeforce (modeller)
  
  Self (7 credits)
  2002 The Bond Essentials (TV Special documentary short) - Himself
  2002 Die Another Day: Shaken and Stirred on Ice (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2002 5th Gear (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Episode #2.7 (2002) ... Himself
  2000 The World Is Not Enough: James Bond Down River (TV Special documentary) - Himself
  1999 The Making of 'The World Is Not Enough' (Video documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
  1999 The Bond Cocktail (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1999 Comme au cinéma (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Episode dated 18 November 1999 (1999) ... Himself

  
  

  
  
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  January 22nd
  
  1950: Pamela Salem is born--Mumbai, India.
  
  1977: Bond comic strip Ape of Diamonds finishes its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 5 November 1976. 3313 - 3437) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1019
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/aod.php3
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3
  Dödligt Kommando ("Fatal Command" - Ape Of Diamonds)
  
  
  Danish 1979 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-no48-1979/
  James Bond Agent 007 no. 48: “Ape of Diamonds” (1979)
  
  

  1977: Bond comic strips end in the Daily Express, but begin anew 30 January in the Sunday Express with the title When the Wizard Awakes. Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
  
  1994: Telly Savalas dies at age 72--Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, California.
  (Born 21 January 1922--Garden City, Long Island, New York.)

  

  Obituary: Telly Savalas

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-telly-savalas-1409252.html
  David Shipman | Tuesday 25 January 1994 01:02
  
  Aristotle (Telly) Savalas, actor: born Garden City, New York 21 January 1924; married Katharine Nicolaides (one daughter), 1960 Marilynn Gardner (two daughters), 1974 Sally Adams (one son), 1984 Julie Howland (one son, one daughter); died Los Angeles 22 January 1994.
  
  IN 1973 a television cop series transformed a much-respected movie actor of the second rank - in box-office terms - into a figure instantly recognisable the world over. Telly Savalas was Lieutenant Theo Kojak of the New York Police Department, bald, not ugly but no oil painting ('Romeo inside a gorilla exterior', he once described himself), with intense eyes and a bewitching smile - when he cared to use it.
  
  Kojak preferred to appear menacing to his enemies and even to his colleagues. In speech he was direct, never wasting words, though these tended to be sarcastic. All the most popular television series, from The Untouchables to Cheers, have something special to them: in Kojak, more than the casual, near- rebellious, atmosphere of the precinct (new to television but not to movies) it was Kojak's character and Savalas's dynamic playing of him. He sucked on lollipops, sported glaring fancy waistcoats and porkpie hats, and demanded 'Who loves ya, baby?'
  
  Kojak was sympathetic to outcasts and ruthless with social predators. The show maintained a high quality to the end, mixing tension with some laughs and always anxious to tackle civic issues, one of its raisons d'etre in the first place. It was required viewing in Britain every Saturday evening for eight years. To almost everyone everywhere Kojak means Savalas and vice versa, but to Savalas himself the series was merely an interval, albeit a long one, in a distinguished career.
  
  A first-generation American of Greek extraction, he was born Aristotle Savalas in New York in 1924 and started his career in the Information Services of the State Department. He moved on to ABC television, in charge of Special Events and creating the prestigious Your Voice of America series. He had not acted or even considered doing so till he was asked if he could recommend an actor with a command of European accents. He decided to go to the audition himself, in 1959, and found himself appearing in Bring Home a Baby on Armstrong Circle Theater TV.
  
  Further acting opportunities followed, and movies claimed him. He made his debut in a minor crime story, Mad Dog Coll (1961); but John Frankenheimer had already cast him in The Young Savages, which starred Burt Lancaster as a lawyer designated to prosecute some juvenile delinquents. It was not, as social-concern films go, very profound; but for Savalas it was an omen, for he was the inspector in charge of the investigation. He was also the best thing in the film, as Frankenheimer recognised by putting him into Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), as a fellow-con of Lancaster's; a performance which brought Savalas an Oscar nomination. In the interim, he had played another detective in Cape Fear, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. The three films established Savalas as the sort of actor who could make mincemeat out of the likes of Lancaster and Peck.
  
  The Man from the Diner's Club (1963), with Danny Kaye, marked Savalas's entry into screen comedies, which he managed with a confidence that enabled him to move from the most subtle expressions to the broadest of gestures. He played a morose mobster with tax problems. He was to demonstrate, when required, that he was simply one of the best screen heavies of his time. He was certainly one of the few whose reputation was unscathed by The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), in which he played Pontius Pilate with obvious enjoyment. Its producer-director, George Stevens, persuaded Savalas to shave his hair for the role.
  
  After playing the swinish Foreign Legion sergeant in Beau Geste (1966) - the only element to put it in the same class as the two earlier versions - he was the most unpleasant of Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen (1967) - soldier convicts promised remission after being sent secretly into France to prepare the locals for D-Day. As a religious maniac rapist, he stood out in a movie which included Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson also on top form; and the film's popularity put stardom within Savalas's grasp. He was superb as a psychopathic bounty-hunter who doublecrosses Burt Lancaster in Sydney Pollack's irresistible western The Scalphunters (1968).

  Melvin Frank's Buona Sera Mrs Campbell (1968) brought Savalas back to Europe - literally, as one of the ex-GIs who, along with two others (Peter Lawford, Phil Silvers), was paying maintenance for Gina Lollobrigida's daughter, conceived in Naples in 1944. He first acted in Britain in Basil Dearden's black comedy The Assassination Bureau (1969), playing a newspaper magnate who commissions the would- be journalist Diana Rigg to expose a gang of professional killers. He remained in Britain, to be 007's nemesis figure, Ernst Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE with dreams of world domination, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Savalas was billed immediately after Clint Eastwood, overshadowing him however as an actor, in Kelly's Heroes (1970), a wartime jape in which they and two others (Don Rickless, Donald Sutherland) steal behind German lines in pursuit of gold.

  Savalas liked London. He took a house in the Boltons and enjoyed a romance with a Hollywood actress appearing on the London stage. He began to choose films for the locations rather than the roles, and thus did more than his fair share of spaghetti westerns, invariably as the villain. In the midst of these he was offered a television movie, The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973), based on the Miranda case of 1963, when a detective was determined to see that a black teenager should not be convicted of a crime he did not commit. The direction and writing won Emmys for Joseph Sargent and Abby Mann respectively; Savalas was nominated and did not win but, more significantly, this was his introduction to Kojak: the three-hour film was in fact the pilot for a one-hour Kojak series.
  
  The decision to end Kojak after 110 episodes was mutual. The series had covered just about every crime that can happen in a large municipality and there were indications that the public was becoming somewhat less fond of the abrasive detective who hauled the wrongdoers into the precinct in the last 10 minutes. The novelty had worn off.
  
  Savalas's brother George played his shambling subordinate Stavros, and it was not till the end of the first run that it was revealed that they were brothers in the show as well. They returned to the roles in a telemovie for Universal, Kojak - the Belarus File (1985). This was to test the atmosphere for a new series, but nothing came of it immediately, nor of Hellinger's Law, in which Savalas would have been a lawyer.
  
  The initial impact of Kojak was to make Savalas more than ever in demand as a movie actor. Few of the films he now made were memorable, but mention should be made of the Anglo-German Inside Out (1975), since it became a feature of a libel-suit against the Daily Mail. That paper printed a story from the location-shooting in Berlin, alleging that Savalas's 'private excesses' were damaging the film, and contrasting the professionalism of James Mason (described in reports as his 'co-star', though in fact billed below Savalas and in a smaller role). Mason not only testified for Savalas, but was in court for much of the hearing, beaming encouragement and seeing him awarded the then high sum of pounds 34,000.
  
  However, by the time Kojak finished in 1978 movie offers were beginning to dry up. Savalas's identification with the one role was so complete that others had been hard to come by - they were either cameos, as in Capricorn One (1978) or The Muppet Movie (1979), or second goes at popular films, such as Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) and Cannonball Run II (1983). Understandably, since he would always be a star in that medium, television offered frequent work, as when he played the Cheshire Cat in an all-star Alice in Wonderland (1985) and his old role alongside Ernest Borgine in The Dirty Dozen: the Deadly Mission (1987) and The Dirty Dozen: the Fatal Mission (1988).
  
  In 1989 he again played Kojak - but not for Universal and CBS, as before. ABC had lured Burt Reynolds back to television to play a gumshoe, BL Stryker, but Reynolds was not prepared to appear again on a weekly basis, so The ABC Saturday Mystery rotated four different shows, with Jaclyn Smith as Christine Cromwell and two gentlemen from the past - Peter Falk as Columbo and Savalas as Kojak. Savalas insisted on New York's being used for the locations and not, as before, Los Angeles standing in for New York. To a journalist watching the shooting he said, 'C'mon, willya? I was born in this city . . . Raised in the neighbourhood, right? I speak the language. So Telly and Kojak are one and the same. That's what makes the show interesting for me - and easy. I'm basically playing myself to a large extent - a street-smart fella with the soul of a pussycat.'
  
  He admitted that the character was older and wiser, but the verdict of the press was that he was older and very tired. ABC dropped Kojak after the contracted four episodes (which were not seen in Britain).
  
  Savalas used his fame as Kojak to become a singer, with indifferent results as far as his records were concerned, but he did appear at the 1974 Oscar ceremony, singing 'You're so Nice To Be Around' from Cinderella Liberty. In 1992 he opened 'Telly's Sporting Bar' in the Sheraton - where he lived in Los Angeles - at Universal City, featuring mementoes of Kojak.
  
  Savalas liked to be recognised - indeed, he revelled in his fame. He was only slightly ambivalent, declaring that television was 'so powerful it can wipe out anything you've done in the past'. He went on, 'I won't mention names, but I remember sitting with two major motion-picture stars. Here's poor little Telly comin' off a little TV show and people are comin' up to me and askin' for my autograph. And I look at these two global personalities alongside me and nobody's askin' them. How come? Because they didn't recognise them. The power of TV, my friend.'

  

  Telly Savalas (1922–1994)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001699/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (132 credits)
  
  1995 Backfire! - Most Evil Man
  1993 Mind Twister - Richard Howland
  1992-1993 The Commish (TV Series) - Tommy Colette
  - Out of Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
  - Family Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
  - The Frame (1992) ... Tommy Colette
  1991-1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) - Teddy
  - Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... Teddy
  - Ein Glatzkopf kommt selten allein (1991) ... Teddy
  1991 Rose Against the Odds (TV Movie) - George Parnassus
  1990 Kojak: None So Blind (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
  1990 Kojak: It's Always Something (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
  1990 Kojak: Flowers for Matty (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
  1989 Kojak: Fatal Flaw (TV Movie) - Theo Kojak
  
  1989 Kojak: Ariana (TV Movie) - Kojak
  1989 The Hollywood Detective (TV Movie) - Harry Bell
  1988 The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
  1987 J.J. Starbuck (TV Series) - The Greek
  - Gold from the Rainbow (1987) ... The Greek
  1987 Faceless - Terry Hallen
  1987 The Equalizer (TV Series) - Brother Joseph Heiden
  - Blood & Wine: Part 2 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
  - Blood & Wine: Part 1 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
  1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
  1987 Kojak: The Price of Justice (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
  1986 GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords - Magmar (voice)
  1985 Solomon's Universe (TV Movie) - Solomon Stark
  1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) - The Cheshire Cat
  1985 George Burns Comedy Week (TV Series) - - The Assignment (1985)
  1985 Beyond Reason - Dr. Nicholas Mati
  1985 Kojak: The Belarus File (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Theo Kojak
  1985 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Dr. Fabian Cain
  - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 2 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
  - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 1 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
  1984 The Cartier Affair (TV Movie) - Phil Drexler
  1984 Cannonball Run II - Hymie Kaplan
  1983 Afghanistan pourquoi? - Rebel Leader
  1982 Fake-Out - Lt. Thurston
  1982 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Peter Panakos
  - My Palikari (1982) ... Peter Panakos
  1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Joe Brisson
  - Completely Foolproof (1981) ... Joe Brisson
  1981 Hellinger's Law (TV Movie) - Nick Hellinger
  1980 Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (TV Movie) - Cretzer
  1980 Border Cop - Frank Cooper
  
  1979 The French Atlantic Affair (TV Mini-Series) - Father Craig Dunleavy
  - Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
  - Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
  - Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
  1979 Alice (TV Series) - Telly Savalas
  - Has Anyone Here Seen Telly? (1979) ... Telly Savalas
  1979 The Muppet Movie - El Sleezo Tough
  1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure - Captain Stefan Svevo
  1979 Escape to Athena - Zeno
  1978 Windows, Doors & Keyholes (TV Movie)
  1973-1978 Kojak (TV Series) - Lt. Theo Kojak - 117 episodes
  - In Full Command (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
  - 60 Miles to Hell (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
  - Photo Must Credit Joe Paxton (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
  - May the Horse Be with You (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
  - The Halls of Terror (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
  ...
  1977 Capricorn One - Albain
  1976 The Diamond Mercenaries - Harry Webb
  1975 Inside Out - Harry Morgan
  1975 The Hitman
  1975 The House of Exorcism - Leandro
  1975 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Singer / Kojak
  - Episode #2.1 (1975) ... Singer / Kojak
  1973 Lisa and the Devil - Leandro
  1973 She Cried Murder (TV Movie) - Inspector Joe Brody
  1973 The Marcus-Nelson Murders (TV Movie) - Lt. Theo Kojak
  1973 Senza ragione - Memphis
  1972 A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die - Maggiore Ward
  1972 Pancho Villa - Pancho Villa
  1972 Visions... (TV Movie) - Lt. Phil Keegan
  1972 The Killer Is on the Phone - Ranko Drasovic
  1972 Horror Express - Capt. Kazan
  1972 Sonny and Jed - Sheriff Franciscus
  1972 Crime Boss - Don Vincenzo
  1971 Steel Wreath (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Pete Tolstad
  1971 Clay Pigeon - Redford
  1971 A Town Called Hell - Don Carlos
  1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Gregor Antonescu
  - Man and Boy (1971) ... Gregor Antonescu
  1971 Pretty Maids All in a Row - Surcher
  1970 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) - Tex
  - Stagecoach Hijack (1970) ... Tex
  1970 Violent City - Al Weber
  1970 Kelly's Heroes - Big Joe
  1970 Land Raiders - Vicente Cardenas
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Blofeld
  1969 Sophie's Place - Herbie Haseler
  1969 Mackenna's Gold - Sergeant Tibbs
  1969 The Assassination Bureau - Lord Bostwick
  1968 Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell - Walter Braddock
  1968 The Scalphunters - Jim Howie
  1968 Sol Madrid - Emil Dietrich
  1967 Cimarron Strip (TV Series) - Bear
  - The Battleground (1967) ... Bear
  1967 Garrison's Gorillas (TV Series) - Wheeler
  - The Big Con (1967) ... Wheeler
  1967 The Dirty Dozen - Archer Maggott
  1967 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Mueller
  - Don't Wait for Tomorrow (1967) ... Mueller
  1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Count Valeriano De Fanzini
  - The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
  - The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
  1967 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Ed Clementi
  - The Executioners: Part 2 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
  - The Executioners: Part 1 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
  1964-1967 Combat! (TV Series) - Jon / Colonel Kapsalis
  - Anniversary (1967) ... Jon
  - Vendetta (1964) ... Colonel Kapsalis
  1966 Beau Geste - Sgt. Maj. Dagineau
  1964-1966 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Steve Keller / Victor Leonetti / Dan Polichek
  - Stroke of Genius (1966) ... Steve Keller
  - May God Have Mercy (1965) ... Victor Leonetti
  - Where the Action Is (1964) ... Dan Polichek
  1966 The Virginian (TV Series) - 'Colonel' Bliss
  - Men with Guns (1966) ... 'Colonel' Bliss
  1965 Battle of the Bulge - Sgt. Guffy
  1965 The Slender Thread - Dr. Joe Coburn
  1965 Run for Your Life (TV Series) - Istvan Zabor
  - How to Sell Your Soul for Fun and Profit (1965) ... Istvan Zabor
  1965 Bonanza (TV Series) - Charles Augustus Hackett
  - To Own the World (1965) ... Charles Augustus Hackett
  1965 Genghis Khan - Shan
  1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! - Macmuid (Harem Recruiter) (uncredited)
  1963-1965 Burke's Law (TV Series)
  Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth / Charlie Prince / Fakir George O'Shea
  - Who Killed the Man on the White Horse? (1965) ... Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth
  - Who Killed His Royal Highness? (1964) ... Charlie Prince
  - Who Killed Purity Mather? (1963) ... Fakir George O'Shea
  1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told - Pontius Pilate
  1964 The Rogues (TV Series) - Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
  - Viva Diaz! (1964) ... Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
  1964 Fanfare for a Death Scene (TV Movie) - Ilchidai Khan
  1964 The New Interns - Dr. Dominick 'Dom' Riccio
  1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle / Beret
  - The Watchman (1964) ... Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle
  - The Action of the Tiger (1964) ... Beret
  1964 Breaking Point (TV Series) - Vincenzo Gracchi
  - My Hands Are Clean (1964) ... Vincenzo Gracchi
  1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) - Philadelphia Harry
  - A Matter of Murder (1964) ... Philadelphia Harry
  1964 Arrest and Trial (TV Series) - Frank Santo
  - The Revenge of the Worm (1964) ... Frank Santo
  1964 Channing (TV Series) - Paul Atherton
  - A Claim to Immortality (1964) ... Paul Atherton
  1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Erich Streator
  - Living Doll (1963) ... Erich Streator
  1963 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) - Brother Hendricksen
  - 5: Part 4 (1963) ... Brother Hendricksen
  1963 Grindl (TV Series) - Mr. Hartman
  - The Gruesome Basement (1963) ... Mr. Hartman
  1963 Johnny Cool - Vincenzo 'Vince' Santangelo
  1963 Love Is a Ball
  Dr. Christian Gump (Millie's uncle)
  1963 The Man from the Diners' Club - Foots Pulardos
  1963 Empire (TV Series) - Tibor
  - Arrow in the Sky (1963) ... Tibor
  1963 The Dakotas (TV Series) - Jake Volet
  - Reformation at Big Nose Butte (1963) ... Jake Volet
  1963 The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) - Ben Cohen
  - A Tumble from a High White House (1963) ... Ben Cohen
  1961-1963 The Untouchables (TV Series)
  Leo Stazak / Matt Bass / Wally Baltzer
  - The Speculator (1963) ... Leo Stazak
  - The Matt Bass Scheme (1961) ... Matt Bass
  - The Antidote (1961) ... Wally Baltzer
  1962 Alcoa Premiere (TV Series) - Mario Lombardi
  - The Hands of Danofrio (1962) ... Mario Lombardi
  1962 The Interns - Dr. Dominic Riccio
  1962 Birdman of Alcatraz -Feto Gomez
  1962 Cape Fear - Private Detective Charles Sievers
  1961-1962 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) - Harry Remick / Frank Meehan
  - Savage in Darkness (1962) ... Harry Remick
  - In the Balance (1961) ... Frank Meehan (as Telly Savales)
  1961 The Sin of Jesus (Short) - Felix (as Telli Savales)
  1961 Ben Casey (TV Series) - George Dempsey
  - A Dark Night for Billy Harris (1961) ... George Dempsey
  1961 The Detectives (TV Series) - Ben
  - Escort (1961) ... Ben
  1961 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Sergeant Marius
  - Three Soldiers (1961) ... Sergeant Marius
  1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series) - Massis / Jerry Larch
  - Stop Johnny King! (1961) ... Massis
  - The Wizard of Ice (1961) ... Jerry Larch
  1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Dr. Buel Reed
  - The Compulsion to Confess (1961) ... Dr. Buel Reed
  1961 The Young Savages - Detective Lt. Gunderson
  1961 Mad Dog Coll - Lt. Darro
  1961 Acapulco (TV Series) - Mr. Carver
  - Murder with Love (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  - Blood Money (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  - Death Is a Smiling Man (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  - Fisher's Daughter (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  - Carbon Copy Cat (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  - The Gentleman from Brazil (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  - Killer in a Rose Colored Mask (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  - Bell's Half Acre (1961) ... Mr. Carver
  1961 The Aquanauts (TV Series) - Paul Price
  - Stormy Weather (1961) ... Paul Price
  1960 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
  - Operation North Star (1960)
  1960 The Witness (TV Series) - Al Capone / Lucky Luciano
  - Al Capone (1960) ... Al Capone
  - Roger 'The Terrible' Touhy (1960)
  - Lucky Luciano (1960) ... Lucky Luciano
  1960 Naked City (TV Series) - Gabriel Hody
  - To Walk in Silence (1960) ... Gabriel Hody
  1959-1960 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) - Dieter Wislieny / Dieter Wisliceny / Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire / ...
  - Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wislieny
  - Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wisliceny
  - 35 Rue Du Marche (1959) ... Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire
  - Sound of Violence (1959) ... Charles Rogan
  - House of Cards (1959)
  - And Bring Home a Baby (1959)
  1960 Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (TV Series) - - The Cat and the Canary (1960)
  1960 Diagnosis: Unknown (TV Series) - Irish Tony Salivarro
  - Gina, Gina (1960) ... Irish Tony Salivarro
  1959 Deadline (TV Series) - Anders
  - The Two Ounce Trap (1959) ... Anders
  1959 Sunday Showcase (TV Series) - Cotton
  - Murder and the Android (1959) ... Cotton
  
  Soundtrack (12 credits)
  
  2013 In the Name of (performer: "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend")
  
  2006 The Break-Up (performer: "Who Loves Ya Baby")
  
  1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... (performer: "Come on, Baby")
  
  1987 The 59th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: "Fugue for Tinhors")
  1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) (performer: "There's No Way Home")
  
  1976 Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby? (TV Special) (performer: "Who Loves Ya, Baby?", "This Is All I Ask", "We Were So Poor", "Zorbas (aka Zorba's Dance)", "The Men in My Little Girl's Life")
  1975 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Top of the Pops '75: Part 2 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
  1975 Disco (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.53 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
  1975 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #5.2 (1975) ... (performer: "If" - uncredited)
  1975 Kojak (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard (1975) ... (performer: "Azure Dee")
  1974 The 46th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: " (You're So) Nice to Be Around")
  1972 Pancho Villa (performer: "We All End Up the Same")
  
  Director (3 credits)
  
  1985 Beyond Reason
  
  1974-1978 Kojak (TV Series) (5 episodes)
  - In Full Command (1978)
  - Kiss It All Goodbye (1977)
  - Over the Water (1975)
  - I Want to Report a Dream (1975)
  - The Betrayal (1974)
  
  1959 Report to New York (TV Series)
  
  Writer (1 credit)
  
  1985 Beyond Reason (screenplay)

  
  
  
  "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend", Telly Savalas
  
  
  "If", Telly Savalas.
  
  
  Who Loves Ya, Baby 1976 - Greek Dance
  
  
  

  1995: The Press meets the new Bond cast at EON Studios, Leavesden.

  http://pbfiles.net/goldeneye/ge-press02.html
  

  1998: 新铁金刚之明日帝国 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī míngrì dìguó; New Iron King Kong Tomorrow Empire) released in Hong Kong.

  
  
  

  
  2000: The World Is Not Enough released in Kuwait.
  2008: Bond fans notice the domain name of quantumofsolace.com as registered by Sony Pictures this date, leaking the title ahead of its 24 January press conference and official announcement.
  
  
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  January 23rd
  
  1943: Willy Bogner is born--Munich, Germany.
  1944: Maggie Wright is born--London, England.
  
  1962: Tonight plus two more nights Monty Norman supervises the music for the scene at Puss Feller's nightclub. Bond, Leiter, Quarrel, and that photographer in attendance.
  1962: David Arnold is born--Luton, England.
  1964: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover prepares a document regarding Harry Saltzman's request to use military aircraft (and intent to portray the FBI in a positive light) in the latest Bond film production.

  
  Opening the “James Bond File”
  mysteriousuniverse.org/2016/01/opening-the-james-bond-file/
  Nick Redfern January 8, 2016
  
  Have you ever wondered how government agencies react to seeing their employees portrayed in big-bucks movies? It’s an intriguing question. And so is the answer. In 2015, under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI declassified its file on the creator of the world’s most famous secret-agent: James Bond, 007. We’re talking about none other than author Ian Fleming. The 25-page file makes for eye-opening, interesting, and entertaining reading.
  https://vault.fbi.gov/ian-fleming/

  An FBI document dated January 23, 1964 – and prepared by J. Edgar Hoover himself, for the Los Angeles and Miami offices of the FBI – states that one Harry Saltzman “…today contacted a representative of the Department of Defense in Washington requesting the use of military aircraft in connection with a movie based on the Pocket Book entitled quote Goldfinger unquote by Ian Fleming. Stated FBI would be depicted in movie in favorable manner.” And who, you may ask, was Harry Saltzman? None other than one of the leading figures in the production of such James Bond movies as Dr. No, From Russia With Love, You Only Live Twice, Live And Let Die, and The Man With The Golden Gun.

  
  
  Ian Fleming and Harry Saltzman
  
  The dossier on Fleming and his work continues: “Bufiles contain no derogatory information concerning Saltzman. Fleming is writer of paperback novels concerning spy stories in which his fictional character, James Bond, is the star, and they are generally filled with sex and bizarre situations. Los Angeles is instructed to advise the Bureau regarding any information in their possession regarding this proposed movie.”

  Hoover added: “Miami is instructed to contact Saltzman who is residing at the Fontainebleau Hotel and vigorously protest any mention of FBI or portrayal of its agents in his proposed movie. You should bring forcefully to his attention the provisions of Public Law Six Seventy which prohibits the use of the words quote Federal Bureau of Investigation unquote or its initials in any manner without my written permission.” Clearly, Hoover was far from happy with the plans for Goldfinger.

  
  1973: Geoffrey Holder and 16 dancers begin rehearsing Baron Samedi’s Dance of Death.
  
  1984: Ποτέ μην ξαναπείς ποτέ (James Bond, praktor 007: Pote min xanapeis pote; translated--Never Ever Again) released in Greece.

  

  
  2013: Film fans in mainland China complain of censor cuts to Skyfall.

  Includes:

  • hitman Patrice killing a Chinese security guard in Shanghai.
  • mention of prostitution in Macau.
  • the villain Silva speaking of torture as a prisoner of the Chinese.

  2013: Hollywood buzz for the 2013 Oscars says a tribute to James Bond's 50th anniversary in film may assemble all six OO7 actors on stage.
  2015: Canada considers their 50-year view on the copyrights to Ian Fleming material and writing new Bond novels.

  

  Copyright quirk leaves James Bond up for grabs in
  Canada

  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/copyright-change-leaves-james-bond-up-for-grabs-in-canada/article22606770/
  Ian Bailey | Published January 23, 2015

  
  A man takes photographs beside a display of James Bond books on display at the "For Your Eyes Only, Ian Fleming and James Bond" exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London, Wednesday April 16, 2008. MATT DUNHAM/AP

  
  Master spy James Bond, one of pop culture's most iconic figures, is now available for dangerous assignments from Canadian writers, thanks to a copyright quirk that allows the writing and publication in Canada of original material based on Bond creator Ian Fleming's work. As of Jan. 1, the original writings of Fleming, a former British naval intelligence agent who published 12 novels and nine stories featuring 007 between 1952 and 1966, have entered the public domain. That's because Canada's view of copyright is that it extends for 50 years after the death of a writer.
  
  Fleming died in 1964, but Bond has lived on in films featuring such actors as Sean Connery and, most recently, Daniel Craig, who's now working on a 24th Bond film, Spectre, due for release in November. But Bond has also lived on in about two dozen novels by authors sanctioned by Fleming's estate: William Boyd, Sebastian Faulks and John Gardner, who wrote 14 Bond novels, have sent Bond on assignment.
  
  Some novels have been set in the present day and others during the Cold War. The latest is a 1950s-set Bond novel, based on unpublished material by Fleming, due next fall from screenwriter Anthony Horowitz, perhaps best known as the creator and lead writer of the British TV series Foyle's War. Horowitz's work has Bond taking on the Russians against the backdrop of a Formula 1 race in Germany.
  
  Now, some Canadian writers, mindful of the 2015 copyright changes, are musing about the prospect of taking 007 for a spin with the consensus among two leading authors that Bond would best work in the past.
  
  Linwood Barclay of Oakville, Ont., says he would relish writing a Bond novel set in Canada in the 1970s. "That's a good time period," said Barclay, author of several bestselling mysteries and thrillers that have sold in 40 countries and been optioned for film and TV production. "[Canada] just came out of the Centennial. You had FLQ stuff going on. You had a lot of stuff happening," he said in an interview.
  
  Barclay said he has a lot on his plate, but has been a fan of the character since he saw the Bond film Thunderball in 1965. "If someone was to say, 'Hey, are you interested in this?' I would probably, at the very least, think about it and I'd find some way to squeeze it in," he said.
  
  Peter Robinson, author of the popular Inspector Banks series set in Britain that have also been adapted for TV, said he would "love to have a go" at writing 007. In an e-mail exchange with The Globe, Robinson said he has read all of the Bond novels, including the post-Fleming works, and has been a fan of the character since 1962 when he first saw Ursula Andress walk out of the sea in Dr. No, the first Bond film.
  
  Robinson, who splits his time between Toronto and North Yorkshire, said he would be more interested in picking up where Fleming left off, exploring the character as a Cold War spy living in a late-1960s world, than bringing him into the present day. Bond is a "man of action in a very specific arena," he said.
  
  However, he doubts that any Canadian writer would try a Bond novel unless the book could be distributed and sold outside Canada. "There wouldn't be much point. Canada has a terrible track record when it comes to buying its own genre fiction, and I doubt that the sales generated by such an undertaking would be adequate compensation for the time and effort that went into it."
  
  In an e-mail exchange, Giles Blunt, author of the popular John Cardinal mystery novels set in small-town Northern Ontario and a scriptwriter on such TV series as Law & Order, said it would not be appealing to spend the year he requires to write a novel using someone else's characters. "In addition, you have to hit all those well-known bases: the martini, the casino, the babe, the megalomaniac, the astounding weapon etc. It seems far too restrictive an endeavour to be any fun."
  
  But noted Canadian agent Helen Heller, who represents Barclay, says checking through that list might be appealing to some authors. "It would provide some people with a kind of literary corset they could put around themselves when they write," she said. "There are other people who would hate that, who would feel they could not do that."
  
  Ms. Heller said, in an interview, that she has been mindful of the looming public domain access to 007 with the arrival of 2015. "But Canadian agent Helen Heller, who represents Barclay, said that "none of my clients have rung me after midnight on Jan. 1 to say: 'Whoopee. I can now do a James Bond story.'"
  
  The challenge, in her view, would be making Bond a living, breathing, appealingly complicated character beyond the "construct" Fleming created. "I could see a way of making it appealing if you went the Mad Men route – you could make it something quite sophisticated," she said. "A sophisticated, early-sixties take on something going on in Canada. There's a lot you could use."
  
  Representatives of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd., which manages issues around the Fleming works, did not respond to requests for comment on the copyright situation.

  2018: Tom Hanks reveals he's never been asked to appear in a Bond film.

  

  Tom Hanks has never been approached for
  James Bond role

  Hollywood legend Tom Hanks has admitted he would love to star in a James Bond movie but has never been approached for a role.
  https://www.femalefirst.co.uk/movies/movie-news/tom-hanks-never-approached-james-bond-role-1123978.html
  23 January 2018
  
  Tom Hanks has never been asked to star in a James Bond movie.

  
  Tom Hanks

  
  The 61-year-old multi-Academy Award winner has been working in Hollywood for four decades and has worked with a number of legendary actors and filmmakers, but there is one franchise for which Hanks hasn't even been approached for a role.
  
  Speaking to Time Out London magazine, Hanks has admitted he would love to join the 007 family and would be up for playing a villain, in a departure from his usual good guy roles.
  
  He said: "That'd be a treat. No one's asked me to be in any of those.
  
  "I might have to hold out to play the guy who says 'before I kill you, Mr. Bond, perhaps you'd like a tour of my installation?'"
  
  Hanks can currently be seen alongside Meryl Streep in Steven Spielberg's latest movie 'The Post' and the journalism drama marks his fifth collaboration with the iconic filmmaker.
  
  The film follows Katharine Graham (Streep) who, as the first female publisher of The Washington Post, relies on the help of editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks) to catch up with The New York Times to break the story of the classified Pentagon Papers, which expose the US government's lies about the Vietnam War.
  
  Together they must overcome their differences as they risk their careers to help bring the truths to light, whilst risking the future of the newspaper.
  
  However, Hanks admitted he thought he signed on to star in a film about "defending the First Amendment" not about gender politics or harassment.
  
  He said: "It's a suspense thriller where there's an awful lot at stake, and it's a piece of history that still comments on the present day. I thought I'd signed on to make a movie about defending the First Amendment, but it turned out we also walked into gender politics, harassment, and a chief executive [the president] who is hell-bent on obfuscating facts.
  
  "We didn't have to alter a single word or event in our movie in order to comment on today."

  
  
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  I don't think Tom Hanks would fit into any Bond film, past, present or future.

  
  Agreed, Tom Hanks is too Big for Bond.
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  January 24th
  
  1947: Ian Fleming enjoys a "bachelor sojourn" with Ivar Bryce and John Fox-Strangways at his recently completed Goldeneye estate, Jamaica.

  

  Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker, 2015.
  1947 The Bachelor Party

  On 24 January, before the end of their bachelor sojourn, Fleming,
  Bryce and Fox-Strangways motored down to Montego Bay on the
  North-west coast of the island for the opening of the Sunset Lodge
  Club. This is now seen as a seminal moment: the birth of what would
  become the ‘North Coast Jet Set’.

  
  
  
  

  1947: Warren Zevon is born--Chicago, Illinois. (He dies 7 September 2003 at age 56--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Zevon Diagnosed With Lung Cancer

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

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

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

  Enjoy.

  

  
  

  
  1960: A series of articles by Ian Fleming on "Thrilling Cities" begins in The Sunday Times.
  
  1971: 007 James Bond Kraliçenin Hizmetinde (007 James Bond at the Service of the Queen) released in Turkey.

  https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2010/01/turkish-paperback-artwork.html
  
  

  
  1986: A View To a Kill released in New Zealand.
  
  1988: Pierce Brosnan appears in a Bond-inspired Diet Coke® ad.

  It airs Super Bowl (XXII) Sunday--ninjas, train, and all.
  

  
  
  
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  1998: 007 明日帝國 (007 Míngrì dìguó; 007 Tomorrow Empire) released in Taiwan.

  
  
  

  
  2003: Die Another Day released in Denmark.
  2003: Не умирай днес (Do Not Die Today) released in Bulgaria.

  
  

  2003: Sa nu mori azi (Do Not Die Today) released in Romania.

  
  
  

  2008: BOND 22's title goes public.

  

  

  New Bond film title is confirmed

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7206997.stm
  Last Updated: Thursday, 24 January 2008, 17:39 GMT
  
  Daniel Craig helped launch the new film at Pinewood Studios
  
  The next James Bond film is to be called Quantum of Solace, producers have confirmed.
  
  The title is taken from one of a collection of short stories published by 007 creator Ian Fleming in 1960.
  
  Producer Michael Wilson said the film would have "twice as much action" as 2006's Casino Royale, which saw Daniel Craig debut as the iconic secret agent.
  
  The next outing, previously known as Bond 22, is partly being shot at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.
  
  At a press conference at the facility, reporters were shown a minute of footage from the new film, including Bond swinging on a rope after an explosion at an art gallery in Siena, Italy.
  
  Another scene showed him meeting M - played by Dame Judi Dench - outside in the snow.
  
  Filming on the movie has been taking place at Pinewood since November.
  

  "He's looking for revenge,
  you know, to make himself
  happy with the world again"
  
  Daniel Craig on James Bond

  Craig said the cryptic title referenced how Bond's heart had been broken at the end of Casino Royale.
  
  "Ian Fleming had written about relationships," he explained.
  
  "When they go wrong, when there's nothing left, when the spark has gone, when the fire's gone out, there's no quantum of solace.
  
  "And at the end of the last movie, Bond has the love of his life taken away from him and he never got that quantum of solace."
  
  Craig said the new film would follow 007 as he goes out "to find the guy who's responsible".
  
  "So he's looking for revenge, you know, to make himself happy with the world again.
  
  "But the title also alludes to something else in the film," he added.
  
  'Driven by revenge'
  
  
  Olga Kurylenko and Gemma Arterton star alongside Craig
  
  Olga Kurylenko, who plays Bond girl Camille in the film, said that she has yet to film any scenes, but was working hard preparing for her role.
  
  "I'm doing weapons training and body flight training for aerial scenes and stunt work for fighting," she said.
  
  "This girl is going to kick ass. She's on her own mission and she's driven by revenge."
  
  But it is not clear whether Camille is a secret agent.
  
  French actor Mathieu Amalric, who plays the villainous Dominic Greene, told reporters his character had "the smile of Tony Blair and the crazy eyes of Nicholas Sarkozy".
  
  Actress Gemma Arterton plays an MI6 agent in the film and has already shot her love scenes with 007.
  
  She said: "I felt like a giggly girl, and I felt so young and inexperienced - but I kissed James Bond!"
  
  The 21-year-old, who recently starred in the St Trinian's film, said her Bond role is "not so frolicksome" and her character "fresh and young, not sultry and a femme fatale".
  
  'Pretty prickly'
  
  Dame Judi Dench, who returns for her sixth Bond film, said: "I get to do more in this one, which is brilliant."
  
  She hinted that her character's relationship with Bond would be "pretty prickly".
  
  Rumours about the name had grown after fans noticed that film studio Sony had bought the domain name quantumofsolace.com.
  
  But co-producer Michael Wilson said the name had only been decided "a few days ago", adding the story's start point would be "literally an hour after the last film left off".
  
  Asked if Casino Royale star Eva Green would appear in Quantum of Solace, co-producer Barbara Broccoli said: "There are no flashbacks in the film, but she's certainly on Bond's mind."
  
  Director Marc Forster is in charge of work on the movie, which is due for release on 7 November.

  

  2009: Quantum of Solace general release in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: Omega Seamaster offers a James Bond 50th Anniversary Watch.

  

  Omega Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary Watch sports a 007 themed dial

  luxurylaunches.com/watches/omega_seamaster_james_bond_50th_anniversary_watch_sports_a_007_themed_dial.php
  by kamakshi
  
  
  The world was never enough for 007, and 50 years later, it seems it still hold true. As a part of the celebrations Omega will be bring out a “limited edition” Omega Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary Watch. While details remain sparse, some nice internet junkie has posted pictures of the stunning the Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary edition watch that sports “007″ theme on the dial and a “50″ marked in red on the bezel. The back case sports a true-blue Bond identity, the “bullet in a gun barrel” which marks the opening sequence in every James Bond movie. The bullet reads “50 years of James Bond.” The 41mm steel case watch will be limited to 11,0007 pieces and will run on the automatic mechanical Omega’s caliber 2507 co-axial movement.

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  January 2020 edited January 2020 Posts: 13,785

  January 25th
  
  1874: William Somerset Maugham, CH, is born--Paris, France.
  (He dies at age 91--16 December 1965--Nice, France.)

  

  Profile: W Somerset Maugham

  https://www.spyculture.com/profile-w-somerset-maugham/

  Born: 25 January 1874
  Died: 16 December 1965
  Intelligence involvement: Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during World War One.
  Culture involvement: Author of popular plays, novels and short stories. Reputedly the best paid author of the 1930s.

  Bio: William Somerset Maugham was born into a diplomatically connected family, indeed he was born in the British Embassy in Paris. Both parents died by the time he was 10 years old and he was raised, in effect an only child despite having several siblings, by one of his uncles. Despite the family background mostly being made up of lawyers, Maugham trained as a doctor before the instant success of his second book convinced him to become a writer.
  
  He then gave up medicine and took to travelling and writing full time, and in 1908 wrote a book called The Magician, in part inspired by Aleister Crowley. In 1915 he was recruited into SIS/MI6 by John Wallinger. After a period in Switzerland he was then asked by William Wiseman to go to Russia as part of an attempt to help the Russian Provisional Government fend off the threat from the Bolsheviks.

  Maugham and the other MI6 agents failed in this effort, but Maugham used these experiences as the basis for his popular and very influential short story series published as Ashenden: Or the British Agent in 1928. Two of these stories were adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1936 for his film Secret Agent, and several others were adapted by the BBC for television in 1991 (at the end of the Cold War). The Ashenden stories are widely considered to have influenced later spy authors such as Ian Fleming, John Le Carre and Graham Greene.

  Documents

  Somerset Maugham’s usefulness to the establishment did not end after WW1. During the second World War he was one of a number of writers approached by the government to write stories or articles ‘on the results of careless talk’. At the time the government was trying to enforce the strictest secrecy about what it was doing, and there were huge propaganda campaigns to persuade the public not to talk about what they knew. In March 1940 the Committee on Issue of Warnings Against Discussion of Confidential Matters in Public circulated a report on their activity, which you can download here (PDF 400KB).
  
  https://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/ReportofCommitteeon-WarningsAgainstDiscussion.pdf
  In the same month one of Maugham’s Ashenden spy stories was used as a propaganda broadcast by the government, as detailed in the 8th Report by the Minister of Information to the War Cabinet, which you can download here (PDF, 2.73MB).
  https://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/WarCabinet-8threport-Ministerofinformation-Ashenden.pdf

  
  1950: John Terry is born--Florida.
  1955: Noël Coward writes a diary entry about his friend Ian Fleming.

  I have read Ian's new thriller in proof. It is the best he has done yet, very exciting and, although as usual too far-fetched, not quite so much so as the last two and there are fewer purple sex passages. His observation is extraordinary and his talent for description vivid. I wish he would try a non-thriller for a change; I would so love for him to triumph over the sneers of Annie's intellectual friends.

  
  1963: James Bond 007 jagt Dr. No (James Bond 007 Chasing Dr. No) released in West Germany.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1981: Alicia Augello Cook (Keyes) is born--Hell's Kitchen, New York City, New York.
  1987: Pierce Brosnan and ninjas feature in a Diet Coke® commercial premiering during Super Bowl XXI.

  
  

  
  2013: Skyfall's gross to date ($1.78 billion) exceeds that of Thunderball ($1.037 billion, inflation-adjusted).
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  January 2020 edited February 2020 Posts: 13,785

  January 26th
  
  1904: Charles Fraser Smith is born--Deal, Kent, England.
  (He dies 9 November 1992--Bratton Fleming, Devon, England.)

  [img]Spying gadgets serve as tribute to the real-life Q: Exhibition recalls the eccentric inventor who became the model for James Bond's saviour[/img]

  Spying gadgets serve as tribute to the
  real-life Q: Exhibition recalls the
  eccentric inventor who became the
  model for James Bond's saviour

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/spying-gadgets-serve-as-tribute-to-the-real-life-q-exhibition-recalls-the-eccentric-inventor-who-1454181.html
  WILL BENNETT | Friday 9 April 1993 00:02
  
  THE DEVICES are fiendishly cunning. The tiny camera masquerades as a cigarette lighter and the golf balls have compasses hidden inside them.
  
  At the entrance to the exhibition is a cut-out figure of James Bond and the music playing is the theme from the 007 films. But the display is not about the suave British agent.
  
  It is a tribute to Charles Fraser-Smith, an eccentric figure who spent the Second World War fooling the Germans by providing spies, saboteurs and escaping prisoners with concealed gadgets.
  
  But for the children who go to the exhibition at Dover Castle, the lure is that Mr Fraser- Smith was the model for Q, the inventor of scores of devices that enabled Bond to escape repeatedly from the jaws of death.
  
  Ian Fleming, author of the books on which the films were based, worked alongside Mr Fraser-Smith for British Intelligence during the war, and realised that for a novelist he was a dream character.
  
  The exhibition, just opened, is called Live and Let Spy: Who Was the Real Q?. On display is a hairbrush which conceals a compass, a map and a double- edged saw; a miniature radio disguised as a lunch box; and a set of apparently innocuous plastic balls coated inside with luminous radium paint, which were used as landing lights.
  
  With typical ingenuity Mr Fraser-Smith realised that the one liquid people were not going to run short of was urine. So he devised a handkerchief which when dipped in it revealed a map which could be used by escaping prisoners.
  
  Compasses concealed inside buttons became standard issue for British agents dropped into German-occupied territory, while the camera disguised as a lighter enabled spies to take pictures of the damage caused by Allied bombing without attracting attention.
  
  Many of his devices were sent to British prisoners of war who used them to escape. The Germans failed to spot maps hidden inside playing cards and cutting wire concealed inside shoelaces.
  
  The exhibition was the brainchild of Mr Fraser-Smith, who was born in Deal, Kent, but he never lived to see it open. He died last November, aged 87.
  
  For years he used the prototypes on display for giving talks. But as he neared the end of his life he got in touch with Ken Scott, general manager of Dover Castle.
  
  Mr Scott went to see him at his home in Bratton Fleming, north Devon, and Mr Fraser- Smith offered the devices to the nation. English Heritage, which runs Dover Castle, will keep them there for two years and then move them to another site.
  
  English Heritage hopes that with the James Bond connection as bait, the exhibition will teach children about the Second World War, which is now part of the national curriculum.

  
  
  
  

  
  1996: Goldeneye released in Denmark.

  https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/ge-dk-poster-1996/
  

  1997: Reports say BOND 18 features Bond driving a BMW 750iL.

  

  Bavarian Bond — A Brief History
  of James Bond BMWs

  https://www.bmwblog.com/2019/12/08/bavarian-bond-a-brief-history-of-james-bond-bmws/
  Interesting, News | December 8th, 2019 by Nico DeMattia
  
  
  Just a few days ago, the first official trailer for the all new James Bond movie, No Time to Die, was released. As a fan of the Bond franchise, I was very excited to see the new trailer and am waiting very impatiently for it to hit theaters. While the most recent entry to the series, Spectre, wasn’t it’s best, this new one looks like it’s going to be a thrill ride.
  
  It also features some fantastic cars, such as the iconic Aston Martin DB5, an ’80s Aston Martin V8 Vantage and even the new Land Rover Defender. James Bond is most certainly cemented in the Aston Martin brand once again, that’s for sure. However, there was once a time when 007 actually drove BMWs.
  
  During Pierce Brosnan’s stint as James Bond back in the ’90s and early ’00s, the famous British spy actually drove some Bimmers. The first time James Bond sat his behind in a Bavarian was in GoldenEye, possibly Brosnan’s best Bond film, as well as his first. The BMW in question was a questionably-colored blue BMW Z3 and he drove it for about thirty seconds, after being hyped for all of its weapons. So it was one of the lamer Bond-car entries in the entire film franchise, despite being a cool car.
  

  The most famous Bond BMW of them all was the E38 BMW 750iL in Tomorrow Never Dies, thanks to fully remote-control capability. Far before Tesla’s summon mode, James Bond was able to remote control his E38 7 Series from the back seat and escape some baddies. Not only was it cool but it was given a spectacular Bond-car death as it gets driven off of the roof of a parking garage.
  

  Following the E38, the BMW Z8 was featured in The World is Not Enough, another one of Brosnan’s entries. It’s a shame the Z8 didn’t get more screen-time, because it was — and still is — such a stunningly beautiful car and one of the few BMWs actually fit for James Bond. Sure, he drove it a bit and the movie did show off how good looking the car is but it still wasn’t enough. It did get a fantastic Bond-car death, though, as it was cut in half by a massive helicopter-mounted saw after using one of its cool rockets to take down a different helicopter.
  
  Sadly, no other BMW cars were actually featured in any James Bond movies. It’s doubtful we’ll ever see Bond in a Bavarian ever again, as the brand is quite dedicated to Aston Martin at the moment. But never say never again. Again.

  
  
  
  

  
  2015: International Artists Management announces Brigitte Millar to play a villainous character in BOND 24.
  2019: Michel Legrand dies at age 86--Paris, France. (Born 24 February 1932--Bécon les Bruyères, France.)

  

  Michel Legrand obituary

  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jan/27/michel-legrand-obituary

  French composer, jazz musician and conductor who wrote the scores for more than 250 films including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Yentl

  John Fordham | Sun 27 Jan 2019 11.16 EST
  

  
  Michel Legrand in 1975. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images

  
  The music of the composer, singer, arranger, conductor, jazz musician and producer Michel Legrand went on glowing long after many of the 250-odd films he had written soundtracks for had fallen by the wayside.
  
  Legrand, who has died aged 86, made deadpan reference to that phenomenon when he played at Ronnie Scott’s club in London in 2011 – announcing that it was his ambition to meet “one of the 19 people who ever saw The Happy Ending”, the 1969 Hollywood film for which he wrote his classic love song What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?
  
  But if some of the film vehicles for Legrand’s artistry were outlasted by his music, several became famous, including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), with Noel Harrison singing The Windmills of Your Mind, which won Legrand’s first Oscar, for best film theme song, in 1969. Another Oscar followed for The Summer of ’42 two years later – this time for best film music. Its theme, The Summer Knows, was recorded later that year by Barbra Streisand, whose 1983 film, Yentl, won him his third Oscar, again for best music.
  

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  The famous Legrand Jazz album. Photograph: Sabine Weiss/Columbia Records

  
  Legrand’s songwriting skills flowered in the early 1950s through intimate acquaintance with the modern chanson movement in Paris, at first as a gifted piano accompanist. After the second world war, the US was nostalgic for French culture, and when Columbia Records commissioned an English-language album of chanson classics, the young Legrand was hired to steer it – and found himself with an 8m-selling hit.
  
  By his mid-20s, Legrand was able to call the shots as a composer and arranger on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1958, he even had more than sufficient clout to hire Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans – three of the hippest and most acclaimed young jazz musicians of the decade – to play sidemen’s roles on his Legrand Jazz session.
  
  Michel was born in the Paris suburb of Bécon-les-Bruyères into a family with strong musical connections. His father, Raymond Legrand, was a composer, conductor and former pupil of Gabriel Fauré, and in his later years would go on to collaborate with Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier. His maternal uncle on his mother Marcelle’s side was the dance-band saxophonist and bandleader Jacques Hélian.
  
  
  But Raymond left home when Michel was three, and his mother Marcelle (nee Ter-Mikaëlian), struggled to provide for the boy and his older sister, Christiane. He found a consoling friend in the flat’s battered piano and it quickly emerged that he had a gift. Christiane also played the instrument, and she was similarly destined for a successful career in music, as a jazz singer.
  
  Michel became obsessed with the music and life of Franz Schubert, and – with Nadia Boulanger among his teachers – won a raft of prizes on a variety of instruments at the Paris Conservatoire, which he began attending as a 10-year-old in 1942. But a 1947 Paris concert by the bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and his big band thrilled him with the sound of jazz.
  
  By the time he left the conservatoire in 1949 he was a budding jazz pianist with a profound knowledge of musical theory and a working knowledge of many instruments. His resourcefulness quickly found him work with chanson stars including Juliette Gréco and Zizi Jeanmaire, and in 1954 the international popularity of chanson brought his international breakthrough.
  
  Michel Legrand playing at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in the mid-1970s. Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns
  
  Columbia-EMI wanted an English-language version of those evocative Parisian songs, and none of the big-name American arrangers was interested. Through a contact at the record company, the unknown Legrand was commissioned to produce it – for $200 and no royalties. The result was the bestseling album I Love Paris,. Chevalier then hired Legrand as his musical director and the resulting US tours enhanced the newcomer’s stature.
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  Legrand began a solo career, with the easy-listening but sophisticated jazz albums Holiday in Rome (1955), Michel Legrand Plays Cole Porter (1957) and Legrand in Rio (1958). He also worked with the French Caribbean singer Henri Salvador, who, under the alias of Henri Cording, made some of the first French forays into rock’n’roll, with Legrand furnishing the music and the surrealist novelist, poet and jazz critic Boris Vian the lyrics. In 1958, he returned to New York to make his celebrated Legrand Jazz album – with Ben Webster joining Coltrane, Evans and Davis in the lineup.
  
  Legrand later admitted to being anxious about Davis’s involvement. The trumpeter rarely played sessions other than his own and made a diva’s point of arriving 15 minutes late, checking out the music from the studio doorway and promptly leaving if he did not like the sound of it. But, according to Legrand, the usually taciturn Davis not only participated, but even asked the young bandleader if he had liked his contribution.
  
  By this point, Legrand was developing a parallel career as a film composer. He scored Henri Verneuil’s 1955 crime passionel movie Les Amants du Tage (The Lovers of Lisbon), and became a significant collaborator with the new wave directors Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and François Reichenbach. He also composed for Jacques Demy, most notably on the innovative Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) – a reappraisal of the film musical, combining a realist perspective with a narrative in which songs replaced dialogue.
  
  The movie’s theme song Je Ne Pourrai Jamais Vivre Sans Toi was covered – in English as I Will Wait for You – by stars including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Liza Minnelli. Legrand, Demy and the film’s lead, Catherine Deneuve, collaborated on the Hollywood homage Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort, 1967), with Gene Kelly. Legrand also wrote for Gilles Grangier and Yves Allégret, and for Joseph Losey – most notably in 1971 on the Palme d’Or winner The Go-Between.
  
  Through close relationships with the jazz-enthusiastic chanson singer Claude Nougaro and the Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel, Legrand not only began to develop a personal repertoire of original songs, but to consider performing them himself. He collaborated on the lyrics with other writers including Eddy Marnay and Jean Dréjac, and worked on the occasional forays into songwriting by the novelist Françoise Sagan.
  
  In 1968, Legrand moved to Los Angeles, during which time he composed the award-winning scores to The Thomas Crown Affair and then, two years later, Summer of ’42. Legrand later said that Jewison cut the highly charged seven-and-a-half-minute chess game scene between Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair to fit the music, which begins with a solo harp and ends with a big band playing a jazz waltz.

  As well as the Oscars, between 1971 and 1975 Legrand won five Grammy awards, and in this period was on his way to becoming one of the US’s most popular Frenchmen. A sharp and witty raconteur, he appeared on television chatshows, and for relaxation worked at Shelly’s Manne Hole club in Los Angeles with the great double bassist Ray Brown. In the next decade, he composed for Clint Eastwood and Orson Welles, for Streisand’s Yentl, and the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983).

  During this time Legrand also played a lot of jazz, making three albums with a regular trio featuring the bassist Marc-Michel Le Bévillon and the drummer André Ceccarelli, and bringing together the celebrated American saxophonists Phil Woods and Zoot Sims to join him in a septet to make the 1982 album After the Rain. He released a solo vocal album, and staged his own oratorio, inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as part of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the French Revolution, in 1989.
  
  Legrand’s search for new challenges found one that even he could not pull off when he directed the unsuccessful semi-autobiographical film Cinq Jours en Juin (1989), but leading a big band in the next decade found him on more secure ground – he toured widely, and accompanied Ray Charles, Diana Ross and Björk with it. Legrand composed for Jean Guidoni’s 1995 album Vertigo and participated in an award-winning show at the Casino de Paris with Guidoni the following year.
  
  In 1997, with the playwright Didier Van Cauwelaert, he worked on Le Passe Muraille, a quirky musical adapted from a 1943 Marcel Aymé short story about an unassuming clerk who can walk through walls. The show went to Broadway as Amour five years later, and its lead singer Melissa Errico became an important muse for Legrand. They worked together for six years on the album Legrand Affair (2011).
  
  In his later years, Legrand remained ready for surprises, even if the world was beginning to treat him as a grand old man. Stars queued up to perform his hits in a celebration at the Louvre in 2000; and the French government made him an officier de la Légion d’honneur in 2003.
  
  When his friend Nougaro died in 2004, he recorded Legrand Nougaro, where the composer and a bespoke jazz band accompanied tapes of his friend’s voice in new performances of the Toulouse singer’s songs – including the previously unheard Mon Dernier Concert.
  
  In 2009 Legrand came to Britain with a repertoire combining his biggest hits and a selection of jazz favourites, and a lineup including his longterm partner, the harpist Catherine Michel and the singer Alison Moyet. The following year, he conducted the Moscow Virtuosi chamber group in Russia, for the two-CD set The Music of Michel Legrand. And for his 80th birthday Christmas album the following year – Noël! Noël!! Noël!!! – Legrand was joined by Rufus Wainwright, Jamie Cullum and Iggy Pop.
  
  “When I hit 80,” he said, “I knew that the last chapter of my work would be classical. So I wrote a piano concerto that I recorded myself, a cello concerto, a harp concerto, some sonatas. I wrote a huge ballet. I’m very proud of that. It’s a good final chapter.”
  
  Last September, Legrand conducted orchestral arrangements of music from his soundtracks with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, against projections of the scenes they originally accompanied, at the Royal Festival Hall, in London.
  
  He lived his last years as he had lived his earliest ones as a precocious music student in Paris – guided, as he said, by the “ambition … to live completely surrounded by music. My dream is not to miss out anything. That’s why I’ve never settled on one musical discipline. I love playing, conducting, singing and writing, and in all styles. So I turn my hand to everything – not just a bit of everything. Quite the opposite, I do all these activities at once, seriously, sincerely and with deep commitment.”
  
  Legrand had three marriages. The first, to Christine Bouchard, a model, and second, to the actor and producer Isabelle Rondon, ended in divorce. In 2014, he married the actor Macha Méril.
  
  He is survived by Macha and his four children, Dominique, Hervé, Benjamin and Eugénie.
  • Michel Jean Legrand, composer and musician, born 24 February 1932; died 26 January 2019

  

  Michel Legrand (I) (1932–2019)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0006166/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Composer (211 credits)
  
  Morning Shine (pre-production)
  2017-2019 William à Midi (TV Series) (10 episodes)
  2019 Clara Luciani et Vladimir Cauchemar - La chanson de Delphine (Video short)
  2018 I Lost Albert
  2018 The Other Side of the Wind
  2017 The Guardians
  2017 Le Point Culture (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - Le Corps Humain (2017)
  2014 The Price of Fame
  
  2009 Il était une fois... notre Terre (TV Series) (3 episodes)
  - Santé, éducation (2009)
  - Climat: le Grand Nord (2009)
  - Les héritiers de la planète (2009)
  2009 Oscar and the Lady in Pink
  2008 Disco
  2006 Deadly Lessons
  2005 Cavalcade
  2004 Léaud de Hurle-dents (Documentary short)
  2003 Yantarnye krylya
  2002 And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
  2000 The Blue Bicycle (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
  - La douleur de la libération (2000)
  - L'occupation et la résistance (2000)
  - L'amour et la guerre (2000)
  
  1999 La bûche
  1999 Doggy Bag
  1998 Madeline
  1996 Il était une fois... les explorateurs (TV Series)
  1996 The Ring (TV Movie)
  1995 Aaron's Magic Village
  1995 Les enfants de Lumière (Documentary)
  1995 Les Misérables
  1995 The World of Jacques Demy (Documentary)
  1994 Børne 1'eren (TV Series) (segment "Vera", 2001)
  1994 Il était une fois... les découvreurs (TV Series)
  1994 Ready to Wear
  1993 The Young Girls Turn 25 (Documentary)
  1993 The Pickle
  1992 Il était une fois... les Amériques (TV Series) (26 episodes)
  1992 Coup de foudre (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - Masques de lune (1992)
  1991 Dingo
  1991 Burning Shore (TV Movie)
  1990 Fate
  1990 Gaspard et Robinson
  1990/II Eternity
  1990 Flight from Paradise
  1990 Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (TV Movie)
  
  1989 Cinq jours en juin
  1988 The Jeweller's Shop
  1988 Un coupable (TV Movie)
  1988 Three Seats for the 26th
  1987-1988 Il était une fois... la vie (TV Series) (26 episodes)
  1988 Switching Channels
  1987 La baleine blanche (TV Series)
  1987 Spiral
  1987 Casanova (TV Movie)
  1987 Club de rencontres
  1986 As Summers Die (TV Movie)
  1986 You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know (Short)
  1986 Crossings (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
  1986 Sins (TV Mini-Series) (1 episode)
  1980-1985 Anna Liza (TV Series) (1,315 episodes)
  1985 Promises to Keep (TV Movie)
  1985 Parking
  1985 Partir, revenir
  1985 Palace
  1985 Hell Train
  1984 Paroles et musique
  1984 The Jesse Owens Story (TV Movie)
  1984 Secret Places
  1983 A Film Is Born: The Making of 'Yentl' (TV Short documentary)
  1983 Lani Hall: Never Say Never Again (Video short)
  1983 Yentl
  1983 Les uns et les autres (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
  1983 Never Say Never Again
  1983 A Love in Germany
  1983 Revenge of the Humanoids
  1982 Friends of the Family (Short)
  1982 Once Upon a Time... Space (TV Series) (26 episodes)
  1982 Best Friends
  1982 Slapstick of Another Kind
  1982 Le rêve d'Icare (TV Movie)
  1982 Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David?
  1982 A Woman Called Golda (TV Movie)
  1982 Bankers Also Have Souls
  1981 Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
  1981 Bolero
  1980 Falling in Love Again
  1980 Atlantic City (music composed by)
  1980 The Hunter
  1980 The Mountain Men
  
  1979 Les fabuleuses aventures du légendaire Baron de Munchausen
  1979 Lady Oscar
  1979 Je vous ferai aimer la vie
  1978 Mon premier amour
  1978 Firebird: Daybreak Chapter
  1978 Once Upon a Time... Man (TV Series)
  1978 Roads to the South
  1976-1978 ABC Afterschool Specials (TV Series) (2 episodes)
  1978 One Can Say It Without Getting Angry
  1977 The Other Side of Midnight
  1977 Gulliver's Travels
  1976 The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
  1976 Ode to Billy Joe
  1976 The Honeymoon Trip
  1976 Gable and Lombard
  1975 Simon dans l'autobus (Short)
  1975 Le Sauvage
  1975 Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
  1975 Cage Without a Key (TV Movie)
  1974 Our Time
  1974 It's Good to Be Alive (TV Movie)
  1973 The Three Musketeers
  1973 Breezy
  1973 F for Fake (Documentary)
  1973 A Slightly Pregnant Man
  1973 Cops and Robbers (as Michel LeGrand)
  1973 40 Carats
  1973 Story of a Love Story
  1973 Le temps de vivre, le temps d'aimer (TV Mini-Series) (40 episodes)
  1973/II A Doll's House
  1973 The Nelson Affair
  1973 Le gang des otages
  1973 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - The Adventures of Don Quixote (1973)
  1972 The Outside Man
  1972 Not Dumb, the Bird
  1972 Lady Sings the Blues
  1972 One is a Lonely Number
  1972 Portnoy's Complaint
  1972 Hearth Fires
  1972 A Time for Loving
  1972 The Old Maid
  1971 La vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur (Short)
  1971 Zoom the White Dolphin (TV Series)
  1971 Brian's Song (TV Movie)
  1971 A Few Hours of Sunlight
  1971 Touch and Go
  1971 La ville-bidon
  1971 Le Mans
  1971 The Go-Between
  1971 Summer of '42
  1971 Swashbuckler
  1970 To Catch a Pebble
  1970 Wuthering Heights
  1970 Donkey Skin
  1970 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
  1970 Pieces of Dreams
  
  1969 The Picasso Summer
  1969 The Happy Ending
  1969 Call Me Mathilde
  1969 An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte (TV Special)
  1969 Castle Keep
  1969 The Swimming Pool
  1969 Play Dirty
  1968 Ice Station Zebra
  1968 The Thomas Crown Affair
  1968 A Hatful of Rain (TV Movie)
  1968 Sweet November
  1968 How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
  1968 The Man in the Buick
  1967 1999 A.D. (Short) (as Michel LeGrand)
  1967 A Matter of Innocence
  1967 The Oldest Profession
  1967 The Young Girls of Rochefort
  1966 Derrière l'écran (TV Series)
  1966/II Le misanthrope (Short)
  1966 The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
  1966 Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
  1966 Tender Scoundrel
  1966 Et la femme créa l'amour
  1966 L'or et le plomb
  1966 Monkey Money
  1966 A Matter of Resistance
  1965 Fraternelle Amazonie (Documentary)
  1965 When the Pheasants Pass
  1965 Code Name: Jaguar
  1964 À propos d'une star (Documentary short)
  1964 Soleil (Documentary short)
  1964 The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (segment "Grand escroc, Le")
  1964 Band of Outsiders
  1964 The Lovers of the France
  1964 Agent 38-24-36
  1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
  1963 Illuminations (Documentary short)
  1963 La douceur du village (Documentary)
  1963 Maigret voit rouge
  1963 Le joli mai (Documentary)
  1963 Love Is a Ball
  1963 Bay of Angels
  1962 Histoire d'un petit garçon devenu grand (Short)
  1962 Jouer a Paris (Documentary short)
  1962 The Empire of Night
  1962 Eva
  1962 The Gentleman from Epsom
  1962 Vivre Sa Vie
  1962 Comme un poisson dans l'eau
  1962 Cleo from 5 to 7
  1962 The Seven Deadly Sins (segments "Envie, L'", "Paresse, La", "Luxure, La", "Gourmandise, La", "Colère, La")
  1962 A Swelled Head
  1961 Melancholia (Short)
  1961 Nom d'une pipe (Short)
  1961 The Fiancés of the Bridge Mac Donald (Short)
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  1965: Alan Cumming is born--Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland.
  
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  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.
  
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  Martin Ryan Grace, actor and stunt performer and co-ordinator: born Kilkenny, Ireland 12 September 1942; twice married; died Spain 27 January 2010.

  

  Martin Grace (1942–2010)

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

  Stunts (74 credits)
  
  2007 The Number 23 (stunts)
  2005 Izzat (stunt coordinator)
  2004 King Arthur (stunts - uncredited)
  2004 Ella Enchanted (stunt double: ogre 2)
  2003 New Tricks (TV Series) (stunt coordinator - 1 episode)
  - The Chinese Job (2003) ... (stunt coordinator)
  2001 Shallow Hal (stunt coordinator)
  2001 The Bombmaker (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
  
  1999 Anna and the King (stunt coordinator)
  1998 Dancing at Lughnasa (stunt coordinator)
  1998 The Truman Show (stunts)
  1997 The Boxer (stunts)
  1997 The MatchMaker (stunts)
  1996 Body Troopers (stunt coordinator)
  1996 North Star (stunt coordinator)
  1995 Circle of Friends (stunt coordinator)
  1995 An Awfully Big Adventure (stunts)
  1994 MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
  1993-1994 Between the Lines (TV Series) (stunt performer - 2 episodes)
  - Shoot to Kill (1994) ... (stunt performer)
  - Big Boys' Rules: Part II (1993) ... (stunt performer)
  1994 A Man of No Importance (stunt coordinator)
  1994 MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
  1993 Head Above Water (stunt coordinator)
  1993 Briefest Encounter (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
  1993 Bad Company (TV Movie) (stunts)
  1992 Boon (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
  - Blackballed (1992) ... (stunt performer)
  1992 Civvies (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.6 (1992) ... (stunt performer)
  1992 Patriot Games (stunt coordinator: UK) / (stunts)
  1992 Map of the Human Heart (stunt coordinator)
  1992 Lethal Lies (stunt coordinator)
  1991 Afraid of the Dark (stunt coordinator)
  1991 Robin Hood (stunt coordinator)
  1991 A Kiss Before Dying (stunt coordinator: UK) / (stunts)
  1991 Poirot (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
  - The Double Clue (1991) ... (stunts)
  1990 The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (stunt coordinator)
  1990 Shipwrecked (stunt coordinator)
  1990 Nuns on the Run (stunt coordinator)
  
  1989 A Handful of Time (stunts)
  1989 Erik the Viking (stunt coordinator)
  1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (stunt double: Indiana Jones #2 - uncredited) / (stunts)
  1989 The Littlest Viking (stunt coordinator)
  1988 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) (stunt coordinator - 5 episodes)
  - Part V (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
  - Part IV (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
  - Part III (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
  - Part II (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
  - Part I (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
  1988 High Spirits (stunt coordinator) / (stunt performer)
  1988 Willow (stunts)
  1987 Pathfinder (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1987 A Prayer for the Dying (stunts)
  1985 Enemy Mine (stunt coordinator)
  1985 A View to a Kill (action sequence arranger) / (ski stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore, Golden Gate - uncredited)
  1985 Brazil (stunt performer)
  1984 The Naked Face (stunt double)
  1984 Top Secret! (stunts)
  1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (stunt double: Indiana Jones #2 - uncredited)
  1984 Ordeal by Innocence (stunt coordinator)
  1983 Octopussy (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (the stunt team supervisor)
  1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
  1982 Badger by Owl-Light (TV Series) (stunts)
  1982 Victor Victoria (stunts)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunt team)
  1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (stunt double: Indiana Jones #3 - uncredited) / (stunts)
  1981 Inchon (stunts - uncredited)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1980 ffolkes (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1979 Moonraker (stunt double: Richard Kiel, cable car sequence - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts)
  1979 Escape to Athena (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 Superman (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 The Wild Geese (stunt double: Hardy Krüger - uncredited) / (stunt double: Richard Burton - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunt double: Richard Kiel - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1975 Space: 1999 (TV Series) (stunts)
  1973 Horror Hospital (stunt supervisor)
  1971 Catch Me a Spy (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)
  1970 Scrooge (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1969 It's Tommy Cooper (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
  - Christmas Special (1969) ... (stunts - uncredited)
  1969/I Alfred the Great (stunts - uncredited)
  1968 Mayerling (stunts - uncredited)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
  
  Actor (20 credits)
  
  1997 Robinson Crusoe - Captain Braga
  1992 Brookside (TV Series) - Driver
  - Episode #1.1085 (1992) ... Driver
  1991 Under Suspicion - Colin
  
  1989 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) - Jumpmaster
  - Part IX (1989) ... Jumpmaster
  1983 Curse of the Pink Panther - Bruno's Crony #2
  1982 The Final Option - U.S. Marine Guard
  1980 The Sea Wolves - Kruger
  1978 The Wild Geese - East German Officer
  1975 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Security Guard
  - End of Eternity (1975) ... Security Guard (uncredited)
  1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - Gang Member
  - Baubles, Bangles and Beads (1973) ... Gang Member
  1973 Horror Hospital - Bike Boy
  1973 Special Branch (TV Series)
  - Round the Clock (1973)
  1972 Double Take - Leopard Man
  1972 The Fenn Street Gang (TV Series) - Muscleman
  - That Sort of Girl (1972) ... Muscleman
  1972 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - Martin Thompson
  - A Woman Alone (1972) ... Martin Thompson
  1972 Villains (TV Series) - Man
  - Smudger (1972) ... Man (uncredited)
  1971 When Eight Bells Toll - Thug (uncredited)
  
  1969 Moon Zero Two - Red Killer (uncredited)
  1968 Inadmissible Evidence - Plainclothesman
  1965 Dr. Who and the Daleks - Thal
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)
  
  1987 Pathfinder (action sequences)
  
  Self (12 credits)
  
  2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: 007 in Egypt (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  
  1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  
  1985 A View to a Kill: Featurette (Video documentary short) - Himself
  1982 Stuntman Challenge (TV Movie) - Himself
  1981 Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1981 Clapper Board (TV Series) - Himself
  - For Your Eyes Only Special (1981) ... Himself
  
  1979 Film 2017 (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode dated 27 May 1979 (1979) ... Himself

  

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  (Born 20 November 1930--Bisshops Stortford, Herfordshire, England.)

  

  Bernard Horsfall obituary
  Imposing stage and screen actor whose work ranged from
  Shakespeare to The Bill

  https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/jan/30/bernard-horsfall
  Michael Coveney | Wed 30 Jan 2013 13.14 EST
  
  Bernard Horsfall in The Merry Widow, a 1981 episode of the ITV show, Crown Court.
  Photograph: ITV/Rex Features
  
  The character actor Bernard Horsfall, who has died aged 82, appeared in television, films and on the stage for more than half a century. Tall, imposing and authoritative, he appeared in many of the major television series from Z Cars and Dr Finlay's Casebook to Casualty and The Bill, and in Doctor Who took no fewer than four roles.
  
  In 1968 he played Lemuel Gulliver in The Mind Robber, where he was encountered by Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor, in the Land of Fiction. The following year he returned as a Time Lord in The War Games. In 1973, with Jon Pertwee now donning the time-traveller's cape, he played the Thal chieftain, Taron, in the six-part Planet of the Daleks. And finally, he was another Time Lord, Chancellor Goth, in the 1976 story The Deadly Assassin, famously battling with Tom Baker's Doctor inside the Matrix and holding him under water. This sequence drew complaints from the campaigner Mary Whitehouse, and was edited out of the repeat showings.

  His many film roles included Campbell in the sixth James Bond movie, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), starring George Lazenby, and General Edgar in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi (1982) with Ben Kingsley. He had an extensive, distinguished stage career, too, playing the Ghost to Richard Burton's Hamlet at the Old Vic in 1953 and the Player King to Roger Rees's with the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984, first in a series of prominent roles with the company in Stratford-upon-Avon and London in the late 1980s.

  Horsfall was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, and always claimed he was a 25th-generation descendant of William the Conqueror. The son of an opera singer, Margaret Horsfall, nee Norton, and her RAF officer husband, Charles, Bernard grew up in Hindhead, Surrey, and Wisborough Green, West Sussex. Always drawn to the outdoor , adventurous life, he left Rugby school early to visit his favourite uncle, Jack Norton, in Canada, and took a job cutting down trees. Jack had been a first world war pilot, flown with TE Lawrence in Palestine and had run the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.
  
  Returning to London, Bernard trained as an actor at the Webber Douglas Academy and was soon in rep, at Dundee in 1952, at the Old Vic, the old Nottingham Playhouse in the mid-1950s (in a company that included Graham Crowden, Joan Plowright and Denis Quilley) and at the Birmingham Rep under John Harrison at the end of the 60s.
  
  He met and married the actor Jane Jordan Rogers while she was appearing at the Bristol Old Vic, and made his mark in movies such as The Steel Bayonet (1957), a second world war adventure featuring an unknown Michael Caine, and Guy Green's The Angry Silence (1960) in which Attenborough played a strike-breaker. His notable television work after Doctor Who included a performance as Melford Stevenson, QC, in a documentary drama about Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain. Later well-known as a judge, Stevenson was the barrister who defended Ellis. He had a leading role as the doctor, Philip Martel, in the highly successful Channel Islands wartime drama, Enemy at the Door (1978-80).
  
  At the RSC in 1984, Horsfall was part of a great season that, in addition to Rees's Hamlet, included Kenneth Branagh as Henry V (Horsfall played a wonderful ageing hooligan of a Pistol) and Antony Sher as a speedy, spidery Richard III. He also appeared in Pam Gems's Camille, with Frances Barber, when Ron Daniels's RSC production transferred to the Comedy Theatre, London, in 1985.
  
  Back at Stratford, he was, says the director Terry Hands, "the epitome of warmth" as a genuinely funny Old Shepherd (his young sidekick was Simon Russell Beale) in The Winter's Tale in 1987 with Jeremy Irons as Leontes, and he also played the title role in Cymbeline (in a red dressing gown) and a brutally authoritarian Capulet in the Romeo and Juliet of Mark Rylance and Georgia Slowe.
  
  This period coincided with a family move from London to the Isle of Skye, where Horsfall rambled over mountains and became a dedicated crofter, producing fruit and vegetables.
  
  His renown as a wise and generous actor led to him becoming a natural father figure in any company he joined. Jonathan Kent cast him as Ventidius in Dryden's All For Love at the Almeida in 1991, and he expertly discharged the great suicide speech; James Laurenson and Diana Rigg were Antony and Cleopatra. In 1993 at the Birmingham Rep, he was described as "scurrilous, lofty and urbane" as Volpone. His last major film was Mel Gibson's Braveheart in 1995, and in 1998 he played a witty and touching Sir Patrick Cullen in Michael Grandage's revival of Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma at the Almeida and on a National Theatre tour.
  
  He was another dignified old shepherd, Corin (doubled with Hymen, god of marriage), in the revival by Grandage of As You Like It at the Sheffield Crucible in 2000 that propelled Victoria Hamilton into the front rank. Grandage said that the older Horsfall got, the younger his outlook; he was always keenly interested in environmental matters.
  
  He is survived by Jane; their daughters, Hannah, an occupational therapist, and Rebecca, a theatre director and novelist; five grandchildren; and a sister. His son, Christian, died last year.
  
  • Bernard Arthur Gordon Horsfall, actor, born 30 November 1930; died 28 January 2013
  • This article was amended on 7 February 2013. The original referred to the Doctor Who character Taron as a Thai chieftain. This has been corrected.

  

  Bernard Horsfall (1930–2013)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0395420/
  
  Filmography

  Actor (109 credits)
  
  2008 Stone of Destiny - Archdeacon
  2005 Doctors (TV Series) - Joseph Bryan
  - Locked Away (2005) ... Joseph Bryan
  2000 Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series) - Crawford Senior
  - The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes: Part 1 (2000) ... Crawford Senior
  
  1995 Queen of the East (TV Movie) - Sir William Pitt
  1988-1995 Casualty (TV Series)
  Gerald Lassiter / Dr. Alex Upchurch, Coroner / Tom Baxter
  - When All Else Fails (1995) ... Gerald Lassiter
  - Judgement Day (1991) ... Dr. Alex Upchurch, Coroner
  - Welcome to Casualty (1988) ... Tom Baxter
  1995 Braveheart - Balliol
  1993 Seekers (TV Series) - Major Hurley
  - Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Major Hurley
  1992 Nice Town (TV Mini-Series) - Peter Dobson
  - Idyll (1992) ... Peter Dobson
  - Unto Us a Child Is Born (1992) ... Peter Dobson
  - Immaculate Conception (1992) ... Peter Dobson
  1992 Between the Lines (TV Series) - Ch. Const. Gordon
  - The Chill Factor (1992) ... Ch. Const. Gordon
  1992 Virtual Murder (TV Series) - Professor Donn
  - A Torch for Silverado (1992) ... Professor Donn
  1992 The Advocates (TV Series) - Lord Thornhill
  - Episode #2.3 (1992) ... Lord Thornhill
  - Episode #2.2 (1992) ... Lord Thornhill
  - Episode #2.1 (1992) ... Lord Thornhill
  1991 Thatcher: The Final Days (TV Movie) - Alan Clark
  1991 For the Greater Good (TV Series) - Prime Minister
  - Minister (1991) ... Prime Minister
  1991 Poirot (TV Series) - Harrington Pace
  - The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge (1991) ... Harrington Pace
  
  1989 Chelworth (TV Mini-Series) - Albert Blackwell
  - You Can't Beat Mozart (1989) ... Albert Blackwell
  1989 The Bill (TV Series) - Dr. de Beyfus
  - Getting It Right (1989) ... Dr. de Beyfus
  1988 The Hound of the Baskervilles (TV Movie) - Frankland
  1986 First Among Equals (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Nigel Hartwell
  - Episode #1.5 (1986) ... Sir Nigel Hartwell
  - Episode #1.4 (1986) ... Sir Nigel Hartwell
  1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Doctor
  - A Distant Scream (1984) ... Doctor
  1984 Weekend Playhouse (TV Series) - Logan Mayhew
  - Grand Duo (1984) ... Logan Mayhew
  1984 Goodbye Days (TV Movie) - Armitage
  1984 Strangers and Brothers (TV Series) - Dr. Bradbury
  - Episode #1.13 (1984) ... Dr. Bradbury
  1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV Mini-Series) - Major General Rankin
  - Regimental Silver (1984) ... Major General Rankin
  1982 Gandhi - General Edgar
  1982 Juliet Bravo (TV Series) - Jack Driscoll
  - A Breach of the Peace (1982) ... Jack Driscoll
  1982 Inside the Third Reich (TV Movie) - Fritz Todt
  1976-1982 Crown Court (TV Series) - Prosecuting Counsel / Mr. Baldwin
  - Face Value: Part 1 (1982) ... Prosecuting Counsel
  - The Merry Widow: Part 1 (1981)
  - Beyond the Call of Duty: Part 1 (1976) ... Mr. Baldwin
  1982 Badger by Owl-Light (TV Series) - Hardekker
  - Episode #1.3 (1982) ... Hardekker
  - Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Hardekker
  - Episode #1.1 (1982) ... Hardekker
  1982 Minder (TV Series) - Mr. Russel QC
  - Poetic Justice, Innit? (1982) ... Mr. Russel QC
  1981 Echoes of Louisa (TV Series) - Roger Burr
  - The Quarry (1981) ... Roger Burr
  - The Trip (1981) ... Roger Burr
  - The Ride (1981) ... Roger Burr
  - The Secret (1981) ... Roger Burr
  - The Meeting (1981) ... Roger Burr
  - The Homecoming (1981) ... Roger Burr
  1981 When the Boat Comes In (TV Series) - Rowse
  - Back to Dear Old Blighty (1981) ... Rowse
  1980 The Square Leopard (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Percival
  - Episode #1.4 (1980) ... Det. Insp. Percival
  1980 Ladykillers (TV Series) - Melford Stevenson, Q.C.
  - Lucky, Lucky Thirteen! (1980) ... Melford Stevenson, Q.C.
  1980 Turtle's Progress (TV Series) - Janos
  - Episode #2.4 (1980) ... Janos
  1978-1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Dr. Philip Martel / Dr. Philip Martell
  - Escape (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - From a View to a Death (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - The Right Blood (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - War Game (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - Jealousy (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - Post Mortem (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - Committee Man (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - No Quarter Given (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - Angels That Soar Above (1980) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - Judgement of Solomon (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - The Prussian Officer (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - Pains and Penalties (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - Treason (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - The Jerrybag (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - Officers of the Law (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - The Polish Affaire (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - V for Victory (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - The Laws and Usages of War (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martell
  - Steel Hand from the Sea (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - After the Ball (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - The Librarian (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  - By Order of the Fuhrer (1978) ... Dr. Philip Martel
  
  1978 Brass Target - Shelley
  1977 Jubilee (TV Series) - Mervyn Marsh
  - An Hour in the Life... (1977) ... Mervyn Marsh
  1977 Big Boy Now! (TV Series) - Alan Viner
  - Follow That Cat (1977) ... Alan Viner
  - Edgar's Other Woman (1977) ... Alan Viner
  - Supergirl (1977) ... Alan Viner
  - Ships with Everything (1977) ... Alan Viner
  - Poker Face (1977) ... Alan Viner
  1977 This Year Next Year (TV Mini-Series) - Lars Gunnerson
  - Profit and Loss (1977) ... Lars Gunnerson
  - Another Place (1977) ... Lars Gunnerson
  1976 Beasts (TV Series) - Clyde Boyd
  - The Dummy (1976) ... Clyde Boyd
  1968-1976 Doctor Who (TV Series)
  Taron / Chancellor Goth / Gulliver / ... 15 episodes
  - The Deadly Assassin: Part Four (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
  - The Deadly Assassin: Part Three (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
  - The Deadly Assassin: Part Two (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
  - The Deadly Assassin: Part One (1976) ... Chancellor Goth
  - Planet of the Daleks: Episode Six (1973) ... Taron
  1976 Within These Walls (TV Series) - Mr. Parrington
  - The Complaint (1976) ... Mr. Parrington
  1976 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Mr. Wendell
  - Future Imperfect (1976) ... Mr. Wendell
  1976 John Macnab (TV Series) - John Palliser-Yeates
  - The Old Hero (1976) ... John Palliser-Yeates
  - The Return of Harold Blacktooth (1976) ... John Palliser-Yeates
  - Our Reputations at the Stake (1976) ... John Palliser-Yeates
  1976 Shout at the Devil - Captain Joyce
  1976 Red Letter Day (TV Series) - Nigel
  - The Five Pound Orange (1976) ... Nigel
  1975 The Hill of the Red Fox (TV Mini-Series) - Duncan Mor
  - Episode #1.6 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
  - Episode #1.5 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
  - Episode #1.4 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
  - Episode #1.3 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
  - Episode #1.2 (1975) ... Duncan Mor
  1975 The Changes (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Gore
  - The Noise (1975) ... Mr. Gore
  1974 South Riding (TV Mini-Series) - David Brownlow
  - The Powers That Be (1974) ... David Brownlow
  1974 ITV Sunday Night Drama (TV Series) - Sweyn
  - The Ceremony of Innocence (1974) ... Sweyn
  1974 Gold - Dave Kowalski
  1974 Childhood (TV Series) - Dr. Braden
  - Easter Tells Such Dreadful Lies (1974) ... Dr. Braden
  1973 Freewheelers (TV Series) - Cunliffe
  - The Hoist (1973) ... Cunliffe
  - The Think Bank (1973) ... Cunliffe
  - Break-Up (1973) ... Cunliffe
  - Switched! (1973) ... Cunliffe
  - The Crypt! (1973) ... Cunliffe
  - Darkness at Noon (1973) ... Cunliffe
  1973 Harriet's Back in Town (TV Series) - Inspector Kelsey
  - Episode #1.76 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
  - Episode #1.75 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
  - Episode #1.74 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
  - Episode #1.73 (1973) ... Inspector Kelsey
  1972 Some Kind of Hero - George Crane
  1972 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Steven Granger
  - Sex and Violence (1972) ... Steven Granger
  1972 Crime of Passion (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Severin
  - Cecile (1972) ... Det. Insp. Severin
  1972 Love Story (TV Series) - Tony Walker
  - Never Too Late (1972) ... Tony Walker
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Christianson
  - The Morning After (1971) ... Christianson
  1971 Suspicion (TV Series) - Klaus
  - Off Season (1971) ... Klaus
  1971 Mr. Horatio Knibbles - Mr. Bunting
  1971 Jackanory (TV Series) - Storyteller
  - The Sea Islanders: Part 5 - The Whole Truth (1971) ... Storyteller
  - The Sea Islanders: Part 4 - Friday's Decision (1971) ... Storyteller
  - The Sea Islanders: Part 3 - On the Beach (1971) ... Storyteller
  - The Sea Islanders: Part 2 - Penguin Island (1971) ... Storyteller
  - The Sea Islanders: Part 1 - The Far North Bus (1971) ... Storyteller
  1971 Quest for Love - Telford
  1971 Elizabeth R (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Christopher Hatton
  - Shadow in the Sun (1971) ... Sir Christopher Hatton
  1967-1970 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Fidel Castro / Timekeeper
  - Revolutions: Fidel Castro (1970) ... Fidel Castro
  - The Timekeepers (1967) ... Timekeeper
  1970 Ivanhoe (TV Mini-Series) - Black Knight... 6 episodes
  - Saint Martin's Day (1970) ... Black Knight
  - Time of Trial (1970) ... Black Knight
  - Templestowe (1970) ... Black Knight
  - The Black Knight (1970) ... Black Knight
  - Condemned (1970) ... Black Knight
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  1969 Take Three Girls (TV Series) - Tony Fraser
  - Try Loving (1969) ... Tony Fraser
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Campbell
  1969 Canterbury Tales (TV Series) - Arveragus
  - The Canon Yeoman's Tale/The Franklin's Tale (1969) ... Arveragus
  1969 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Charles Peters
  - M.Y.O.B (1969) ... Charles Peters
  - The Day of the Miuras (1969) ... Charles Peters
  1969 Department S (TV Series) - Captain Carter
  - Six Days (1969) ... Captain Carter
  - Six Days ... Captain Carter
  1969 Out of the Unknown (TV Series) - John Stewart
  - 1+1=1.5 (1969) ... John Stewart
  1969 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - William Wordsworth
  - The Woman from the Shadows (1969) ... William Wordsworth
  1965-1968 The Avengers (TV Series)
  Captain Smythe / Fox / Jephcott
  - They Keep Killing Steed (1968) ... Captain Smythe
  - The Fear Merchants (1967) ... Fox
  - The Cybernauts (1965) ... Jephcott
  1968 Sanctuary (TV Series) - Father Carlo Frallini SJ
  - Diary and the Devil's Advocate (1968) ... Father Carlo Frallini SJ
  1968 Detective (TV Series) - Nigel Strangeways
  - The Beast Must Die (1968) ... Nigel Strangeways
  1968 Mogul (TV Series) - Peter
  - Give Me the Simple Life (1968) ... Peter
  1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Keith Lythgoe
  - The Jonah Site (1968) ... Keith Lythgoe
  1966-1967 Softly Softly (TV Series) - Gentleman John Cassidy / Jackson
  - The Bombay Doctor (1967) ... Gentleman John Cassidy
  - Barlow Was There: Part 1: Allegation (1966) ... Jackson
  1967 Dr. Finlay's Casebook (TV Series) - Adam Hadley
  - Criss-Cross (1967) ... Adam Hadley
  1958-1967 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Dr. Ernst Bang / Sir Purback Temple / Valentine
  - ITV Summer Playhouse #8: One Fat Englishman (1967) ... Dr. Ernst Bang
  - The Killing of the King (1959) ... Sir Purback Temple
  - You Never Can Tell (1958) ... Valentine
  1957-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Inspector / Interviewer
  - Any Number Can Play (1967) ... Inspector
  - The Last Flight (1957) ... Interviewer
  1967 Mrs Thursday (TV Series) - Norman Millett
  - The Old School Tie Up (1967) ... Norman Millett
  1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Bill Bast
  - The Death Game (1967) ... Bill Bast
  1966 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - John Harris
  - The World of Silence (1966) ... John Harris
  1965 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Palethorpe
  - The Minister (1965) ... Palethorpe
  1964 Guns at Batasi - Sgt. 'Schoolie' Prideaux
  1963 Maupassant (TV Series) - Harding
  - War (1963) ... Harding
  1963 Z Cars (TV Series) - Murdoch
  - The Bad Lad (1963) ... Murdoch
  1962 Harpers West One (TV Series) - Philip Nash
  - Episode #2.14 (1962) ... Philip Nash
  - Episode #2.8 (1962) ... Philip Nash
  - Episode #2.6 (1962) ... Philip Nash
  - Episode #2.3 (1962) ... Philip Nash
  - Episode #2.1 (1962) ... Philip Nash
  1962 Out of This World (TV Series) - Dr. Arthur Bailey
  - Divided We Fall (1962) ... Dr. Arthur Bailey
  1961 Family Solicitor (TV Series) - Francis Naylor
  - Test Case (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  - House in Order (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  - Threats and Menaces (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  - Wage Snatch (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  - Slander (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  - Conflict of Laws (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  - Possession Order (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  - First Eleven Plus (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  - Dangerous Driving (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  - Strike Action (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  - Cross Petition (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  - Man of Straw (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  - Arson (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  - The Case of the Dyed Hair (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  - The Meeting (1961) ... Francis Naylor
  1960 Pathfinders to Mars (TV Series) - Professor Hawkins
  - Sabotage in Space (1960) ... Professor Hawkins
  - The Imposter (1960) ... Professor Hawkins
  1960 Man in the Moon - Rex
  1960 Death of a Ghost (TV Series) - Albert Campion
  - Episode #1.6 (1960) ... Albert Campion
  - Episode #1.5 (1960) ... Albert Campion
  - Episode #1.4 (1960) ... Albert Campion
  - Episode #1.3 (1960) ... Albert Campion
  - Episode #1.2 (1960) ... Albert Campion
  - Episode #1.1 (1960) ... Albert Campion
  1960 Don't Do It Dempsey (TV Series) - Paul Gossett
  - Mothers' Help (1960) ... Paul Gossett
  1960 Captain Moonlight: Man of Mystery (TV Series) - Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
  - Episode #1.6 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
  - Episode #1.5 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
  - Episode #1.4 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
  - Episode #1.3 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
  - Episode #1.2 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
  - Episode #1.1 (1960) ... Stephen Sycamore / Captain Moonlight
  1960 The Angry Silence - Pryce-Evans
  
  1959 Dancers in Mourning (TV Series) - Albert Campion
  - Part 6 (1959) ... Albert Campion
  - Part 5 (1959) ... Albert Campion
  - Part 4 (1959) ... Albert Campion
  - Part 3 (1959) ... Albert Campion
  - Part 2 (1959) ... Albert Campion
  - Part 1 (1959) ... Albert Campion
  1958-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Philip Irwin / Frank Barrett
  - The Driving Force (1959) ... Philip Irwin
  - The Shadow of Doubt (1958) ... Frank Barrett
  1959 For Schools: Twelfth Night (TV Movie) - Sir Andrew Aguecheek
  1958 Cinderella (TV Movie) - Signor Benvenuto
  1958 Victory (TV Movie) - Captain Blackwood
  1958 The Riddle of the Red Wolf (TV Series) - Rompus
  - Poor Rufus! (1958) ... Rompus
  1957 The Critical Point (TV Movie) - Detective Sergeant Green
  1957 The One That Got Away - Lieutenant - Kent (uncredited)
  1957 High Flight - Radar Operator
  1957 Paradise Lagoon - Lifeboatman (uncredited)
  1957 The Steel Bayonet - Pvt. Livingstone

  
  

  
  
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  January 29th
  
  1931: Leslie Bricusse is born--London, England.
  
  1962: Ursula Andress arrives in Jamaica, stays at the Courtleigh Manor Hotel, Kingston.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  1965: 007 ja Kultasormi (007 and Gold Bull; Swedish: 007 och Guldfinger, 007 and Goldfinger) released in Finland.

  

  1966: Vanity Fair prints Pearl Sheffy's piece "The Man who got the Bond Going" regarding Harry Saltzman.
  1967: The Colgems label releases "The Look of Love" written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, sung by Dusty Springfield. Inspired by Ursula Andress in the film, says Bacharach.

  

  
  1983: Varley Thomas dies at age 81--Ewell, Surrey, England.
  (Born 29 November 1901--Wandsworth, Surrey, England.)

  

  Varley Thomas (1901–1983)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859620/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
  
  Biography

  Born November 29, 1901 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England, UK
  Died January 29, 1983 in Ewell, Surrey, England, UK
  Birth Name Margaret Ada Thomas
  Height 5' (1.52 m)

  Varley Thomas was born on November 29, 1901 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England as Margaret Ada Thomas. She was an actress, known for Goldfinger (1964), Jack the Ripper (1973) and Home Tonight (1961). She died on January 29, 1983 in Ewell, Surrey.

  Filmography

  Actress (10 credits)
  
  1973 Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-Series) - Emily Holland
  - The First Two (1973) ... Emily Holland
  
  1969 Public Eye (TV Series) - Janet
  - The Comedian's Graveyard (1969) ... Janet
  1967 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Mrs. Neehan
  - A Family Likeness (1967) ... Mrs. Neehan
  1966 Love Story (TV Series) - Minnie Fry
  - Two's Company (1966) ... Minnie Fry
  1965 Television Club (TV Series) - Mrs. Bostock
  - The Brent Family: Its None of Your Business (1965) ... Mrs. Bostock
  1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Neighbour
  - The Rules of the Game (1965) ... Neighbour
  1964 Crossroads (TV Series) - Madame Durand
  1964 Goldfinger - Swiss Gatekeeper
  1962 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Mrs. Coggins
  - Accessories After the Fact (1962) ... Mrs. Coggins
  1961 Home Tonight (TV Series) - Mrs. Jackson
  - Episode #1.40 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
  - Episode #1.39 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
  - Episode #1.38 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
  - Episode #1.37 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
  - Episode #1.36 (1961) ... Mrs. Jackson
  
  Archive footage (2 credits)
  
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Old Lady with Gun
  1964 Goldfinger: The World Premiere (Documentary short)

  

  
  
  1995: BOND 17 films in Puerto Rico.
  
  2007: 皇家赌场 (Royal Casino) released in Beijing, China.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2014: British miniseries Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond starring Dominic Cooper premieres in the US.

  

  
  
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  January 30th
  
  1960: Bond comic strip Diamonds Are Forever ends its run in the Daily Express.
  (Started 10 August 1959. 340-487) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/daf.php3?s=comics&id=01045
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1972 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3

  Diamantfeber (Diamond Fever - Diamonds Are Forever)
  

  Swedish Semic Comic 1988 https://mi6confidential.com/sections/comics/semic_1988.php3

  Diamantfeber (Diamonds Are Forever - Part 1) | Diamantfeber (Diamonds Are Forever - Part 2)
  

  
  Danish 1967 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no9-1967/
  
  
  
  

  
  1977: Bond comic strip When the Wizard Awakes begins its run in the Sunday Express.
  (Ends 22 May 1977. 1-54) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1020
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1978 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3
  

  
  2003: Die Another Day released in Hong Kong, China.

  

  2006: BOND 21 filming begins in Prague, Czech Republic.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/news/index.php?itemid=3286&catid=2

  
  
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  2011: John Barry Prendergast, OBE, dies at age 77--Oyster Bay, New York.
  (Born 3 November 1933--York, North Yorkshire, England.)

  

  John Barry Dies at 77; Composed for Bond Films

  https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/movies/01barry.html
  By WILLIAM GRIMESJAN. 31, 2011
  
  John Barry, whose bold, jazzy scores for “From Russia With Love,” “Goldfinger” and nine other James Bond films put a musical stamp on one of the most successful film franchises of all time, and who won five Academy Awards as a composer for “Born Free,” “Dances With Wolves” and other films, died on Sunday in New York. He was 77.
  
  His death was announced in a statement by family members and reported by The Associated Press. No other details about the cause of death or where he died were provided.
  
  Mr. Barry scored dozens of films, big and small, that called for music to express a wide variety of human emotions and dramatic situations. He composed taut, pulsing, jittery music for the espionage thrillers “The Ipcress File” (1965) and “The Quiller Memorandum” (1966), delivered a sultry sound for the noirish “Body Heat” (1981) and established an offbeat intimacy for “Midnight Cowboy” (1969), with its haunting harmonica theme.
  
  “I like to score the inner feelings of a character — get into their shoes in an imaginative way and take the audience there and enlighten them in a poetic rather than realistic way,” he told The New York Times in 2000.
  
  His throbbing, expansive score for “Born Free” (1966) earned him two Oscars, one for best score and the other for best song.
  

  Although he won Oscars for his work on “The Lion in Winter” (1968), “Out of Africa” (1985) and “Dances With Wolves” (1990), he was known first and foremost as the resident composer for most of the Bond films.
  
  The musical template he established was as much a part of the films as Bond’s double entendres, Q’s gadgetry and Miss Moneypenny’s flirtatious repartee. The films began with a catchy song performed by a pop star, its themes picked up and reprised throughout the movie, most effectively in the tense transitions when Bond moved from one exotic location to the next or prepared to execute a choice bit of spycraft.
  
  His role in composing the most famous Bond music of all, the theme that has been a signature of the films since “Dr. No” (1962), remains unclear. When he took credit for the theme in an interview with The Sunday Times of London in 1997, the original composer hired for the film, Monty Norman, successfully sued the newspaper for libel, asserting that Mr. Barry had only done the orchestration.
  
  After being called in as a kind of musical special agent for “Dr. No” by the film’s producers, Mr. Barry went on to score “From Russia With Love” (1963), “Goldfinger” (1964), “Thunderball” (1965), “You Only Live Twice” (1967), “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1969), “Diamonds Are Forever” (1971), “The Man With the Golden Gun” (1974), “Moonraker” (1979), “Octopussy” (1983), “A View to a Kill” (1985) and “The Living Daylights” (1987).

  John Barry Prendergast was born on Nov. 3, 1933, in York, England. His father ran a chain of movie theaters in the north of England, and early on he became entranced by film music. He later credited film composers like Max Steiner, Erich Korngold and Bernard Herrmann as important influences, as well as Stan Kenton’s big band.
  
  
  John Barry scored dozens of films that called for music to express a wide variety of human emotions and situations. Credit PBS, via Photofest
  
  “I think the genesis of the Bond sound was most certainly that Kentonesque sharp attack,” he told Film Score Monthly in 1996, calling it a brassy wall of sound with notes hitting extreme highs and lows.

  
  He studied piano and took instruction in composition with Francis Jackson, the organist and composer at York Minster. He later played the trumpet with dance bands and, during his military service, with an Army band.
  
  In 1957 he formed the John Barry Seven, a rock ’n’ roll band styled after the popular guitar-based instrumental group the Ventures. His group recorded several instrumental hits as well as “Hit and Miss,” the theme song for the popular television program “Juke Box Jury.”
  
  The band reached its widest audience as the backup group for Adam Faith on the BBC pop show “Drumbeat.” When the singer was cast in the 1959 film “Beat Girl,” released in the United States as “Wild for Kicks,” and the Peter Sellers film “Never Let Go,” Mr. Barry came along to write the music.
  
  He quickly found himself in demand at a time when British directors looked to jazz and pop music to create a cool image for their films. He was the composer for “Man in the Middle” (1963), “The Wrong Box” (1966), “The L-Shaped Room” (1962) and “Zulu” (1964).
  
  He inched closer to the center of the British New Wave when he married the actress Jane Birkin in 1965, inspiring Newsweek to call him the man “with the E-type Jag and the E-type wife.”
  
  It was his second marriage. He is survived by his fourth wife, Laurie; four children, Kate, Suzanne, Sian and Jonpatrick; and five grandchildren.
  

  The origins of the James Bond theme are disputed. Mr. Norman said that he brushed off a musical passage from “Bad Sign, Good Sign,” a song he had written for a musical version of the V. S. Naipaul novel “A House for Mr. Biswas.” With a few adjustments, it became the theme to “Dr. No.” The John Barry Orchestra, an expanded version of Mr. Barry’s group, performed the theme, with Vic Flick supplying the twangy, Duane Eddy-style guitar sound.
  
  Mr. Barry testified in court in 2001 that he had entered into a secret agreement with the film’s producers to write the theme for a flat fee, with Mr. Norman, whose authorship claims he called “absolute nonsense,” retaining the credit. He adopted a more circumspect tone after the libel judgment in 2001.

  
  When he was not scoring the Bond films, Mr. Barry composed the music for films like “The Tamarind Seed” (1974), “The Day of the Locust” (1975), “Robin and Marian” (1976), “The Deep” (1977), “The Cotton Club” (1984), “Peggy Sue Got Married” (1986), “Jagged Edge” (1985) and, perhaps least of all, “Howard the Duck” (1986). He also composed the theme for the 1970s television series “The Persuaders,” with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore.
  
  His scores for “Mary, Queen of Scots” (1971) and “Chaplin” (1992) were nominated for Academy Awards.
  

  Mr. Barry decided to quit the Bond game while the going was still good. “I gave up after ‘The Living Daylights’ in 1987,” he told The Sunday Express of London in 2006. “I’d exhausted all my ideas, rung all the changes possible. It was a formula that had run its course. The best had been done as far as I was concerned.”

  
  Correction: February 2, 2011
  An obituary on Tuesday about the film composer John Barry misstated the surname of one of the composers he considered an influence. He was Max Steiner, not Stern. The obituary also misstated part of the title under which the British movie “Beat Girl,” for which Mr. Barry wrote the music, was released in the United States. It was “Wild for Kicks,” not “Living for Kicks.”
  
  Correction: February 19, 2011
  An obituary on Feb. 1 about the film composer John Barry misstated his legal given name. He was born John Barry Prendergast, not Jonathan.
  
  A version of this article appears in print on February 1, 2011, on Page B18 of the New York edition with the headline: John Barry Dies at 77; Composed for Bond Films.

  

  John Barry (I) (1933–2011)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000290/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Music department (146 credits)
  
  Soundtrack (284 credits)
  
  2020 No Time to Die (arranger: "James Bond Theme") (post-production)
  2020 The World According to Jeff Goldblum (TV Series documentary) (music - 1 episode)
  - Jewelry (2020) ... (music: "Diamonds Are Forever" - uncredited)
  2019 Good Morning Britain (TV Series) (arranger - 2 episodes)
  - Episode dated 9 September 2019 (2019) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  - Episode dated 26 April 2019 (2019) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  Britain's Got More Talent (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode, 2019) (writer - 1 episode, 2019)
  - 2019: Auditions 4 (2019) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited) / (writer: "You Only Live Twice", "Goldfinger" - uncredited)
  2019 Koptashow (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Episode dated 10 March 2019 (2019) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2018 Escape at Dannemora (TV Mini-Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Part 6 (2018) ... (writer: "The Rockafeller Skank")
  2018 Wedding Day Winners (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.5 (2018) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  2018 Ready or Not (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.1 (2018) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  2018 The Grand Tour (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Breaking, Badly (2018) ... (writer: "Mood One" - uncredited)
  2018 Tully (writer: "You Only Live Twice")
  2017 Lorraine (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Episode dated 13 December 2017 (2017) ... (writer: "Millennium" - uncredited)
  2017 Popular Voices at the BBC (TV Mini-Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Showstoppers at the BBC (2017) ... (writer: "Goldfinger")
  2017 GoGoManTV (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Hókus pókus, ktorý neskúsaj doma! (2017) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  Panorama (TV Series documentary) (arranger - 1 episode, 2017) (performer - 1 episode, 2017) (writer - 1 episode, 2017)
  - Offshore Secrets of the Rich Exposed (2017) ... (arranger: "The Ipcress File" - uncredited) / (performer: "The Ipcress File" - uncredited) / (writer: "The Ipcress File" - uncredited)
  2017 Tähdet, tähdet (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - Elokuvamusiikki (2017) ... (music: "Diamonds are Forever")
  2017 Tvoje tvár má známý hlas (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Episode #4.1 (2017) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  GMB Today (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode, 2017) (writer - 1 episode, 2017)
  - Episode #1.6 (2017) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited) / (writer: "Goldfinger" - uncredited)
  2017 Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - The Beast of Hollow Mountain (2017) ... (writer: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  2017 Becoming Bond (Documentary) (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2017 MenT (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - The Forest - Vesnice kanibalu! #2 (2017) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2017 T2 Trainspotting (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2016 Go for It (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Christmas Special (2016) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  2016 The X Factor: Celebrity (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Live Show 7: Movies Week (2016) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  2016 Who's Doing the Dishes? (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Edele Lynch (2016) ... (writer: "We Have All the Time in the World" - uncredited)
  2016 Nocturama ("Theme - The Persuaders") / (music: "Theme from the Persuaders" (Cover Version))
  2016 Me Before You (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2016 Vinyl (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - E.A.B. (2016) ... (writer: "Midnight Cowboy")
  2016 The Brontes at the BBC (TV Movie documentary) ("The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair", uncredited) / (performer: "The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair" - uncredited)
  2016 Ladbrokes World Grand Prix (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - 2016: Day Two - Part 1 (2016) ... (writer: "Thunderball" - uncredited)
  2015 Leo & Tony's Parody Center Show (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - O Ai Vasilis einai Lera!! (2015) ... (music: "Moonraker")
  2015 Sanders Shorts (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - When Paper Does the Thing (2015) ... (music: "Born Free")
  The Simpsons (TV Series) (2 episodes, 1993 - 1999) (writer - 3 episodes, 2002 - 2013) (music - 2 episodes, 2003 - 2005) (arranger - 1 episode, 2015)
  - Friend with Benefit (2015) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  - YOLO (2013) ... (writer: "You Only Live Twice")
  - You Kent Always Say What You Want (2007) ... (writer: "Midnight Cowboy" - uncredited)
  - On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister (2005) ... (music: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  - A Star Is Born Again (2003) ... (music: "Born Free")
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  2015/I Spectre (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2015 Kill Your Friends (writer: "6 Underground")
  2015 Back in Time for Dinner (TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode)
  - The 1990s (2015) ... (writer: "Millenium" - uncredited)
  2014 Strictly Come Dancing (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Week 8 Results (2014) ... (writer: "Goldfinger")
  2014 Skyfall: The Swede (Short) (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2014 P.O.V. (TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode)
  - The Act of Killing (2014) ... (writer: "Born Free")
  2014 Atop the Fourth Wall (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - SCI-Spy #6 (2014) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2014 Somewhere Over the Rainbow (TV Movie documentary) (writer: "Goldfinger" - uncredited)
  2014 Gameballcz (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Prasátko Slezina - 11. díl: Divoké sny (Prasátko Peppa - parodie) (2014) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2014 Caffeine Madness (Short) (writer: "Somewhere in Time")
  2014 Spise med Price (TV Series documentary) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - De umættelige helte (2014) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  2013 The Wolf of Wall Street (writer: "Goldfinger")
  2013 Grand Theft Auto V (Video Game) ("6 Underground")
  Rude Tube (TV Series) (arranger - 2 episodes, 2011 - 2013) (music - 1 episode, 2011)
  - Bad Trips (2013) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  - Extreme Rides (2011) ... (music: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  - Mashed 'n' Mixed (2011) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  2013 The Secret Life of Uri Geller (TV Movie documentary) (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  2013 Dead Man Down (writer: "Life in Mono")
  2013 The Oscars (TV Special) (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited) / (writer: "Goldfinger")
  2013 Tu cara me suena (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - Episode #2.16 (2013) ... (music: "Goldfinger")
  2013 Bond's Greatest Moments (TV Movie documentary) (music: "The Living Daylights", "A View to a Kill")
  2012 Cinematic Excrement (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Moonraker (2012) ... (writer: "Moonraker")
  2012 Skyfall (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) (arranger: "James Bond Theme", "James Bond Theme (Moby Re-Version)") / (music: "We Have All The Time In The World") / (performer: "You Only Live Twice" - uncredited) / (writer: "From Russia With Love", "Goldfinger", "Thunderball", "You Only Live Twice" (uncredited))
  2012 The Act of Killing (Documentary) (writer: "Born Free")
  2012 Sushi Girl (music: "Diamonds Are Forever")
  2012 Britain's Secret Treasures (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)
  - Episode #1.4 (2012) ... ("Goldfinger")
  2012 Hansi und Hubsi (TV Movie) (music: "Diamonds Are Forever (Mantronik 007 Mix)")
  2012 Nostalgia Critic (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - The Top 11 Awesome Movie Themes (2012) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  2012 Ted (writer: "All Time High")
  2012 Mad Men (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - The Phantom (2012) ... (music: "You Only Live Twice" - uncredited)
  2012 Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (writer: "Born Free")
  2012 One Hit Wonderland (TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Take on Me (2012) ... (writer: "The Living Daylights")
  2012 Banda sonora (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #8.10 (2012) ... (writer: "I Had a Farm in Africa")
  2012 Swap the Sport (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Fencing Vs Rowing (2012) ... (writer: "Rockafella Skank")
  2011 BBC Proms (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Prom 38: Film Music Night (2011) ... (writer: "Love Theme from Out of Africa", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", "Capsule in Space" from You Only Live Twice, "007" from From Russia With Love, "Goldfinger")
  2011 Hewy's Animated Movie Reviews (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Cars 2 (2011) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2011 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Episode dated 31 March 2011 (2011) ... (writer: "A View to a Kill" - uncredited)
  2011 Pixelface (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Mrs. Dynamo's Son (2011) ... (writer: "The Ipcress File" - uncredited)
  2011 The Night Clerk (writer: "Smoky Blues')
  2010 Just Dance 2 (Video Game) (writer: "Rockafeller Skank")
  20 to 1 (TV Series documentary) (arranger - 1 episode, 2010) (writer - 1 episode, 2010)
  - Blockbuster Heroes (2010) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  - Sporty, Rich & Sexy (2010) ... (writer: "From Russia With Love" - uncredited)
  
  2009 SuperSilvester 2009 (TV Special) (writer: "Diamonds Are Forever")
  2009 You Are Beautiful (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.8 (2009) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2009 BBC Electric Proms (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Dame Shirley Bassey (2009) ... (writer: "Goldfinger", "Diamonds Are Forever")
  2009 Reading and Leeds Festival (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Arctic Monkeys (2009) ... (writer: "Diamonds Are Forever")
  2009 New Tricks (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Shadow Show (2009) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  2009 The Real Hustle (TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #7.2 (2009) ... (writer: "Goldfinger" - uncredited)
  2009 Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (writer: "6 Underground")
  2009 Skins (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Cook (2009) ... (writer: "Millennium")
  2008 Quantum of Solace (Video Game) (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2008 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (writer: "Born Free")
  2008 Quantum of Solace (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2008 The South Bank Show (TV Series documentary) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Bond (2008) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2008 Willkommen Österreich (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Die 49. Sendung: Michaela Schaffrath und Heinz Strunk (2008) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  Getaway (TV Series documentary) (arranger - 1 episode, 2008) (writer - 1 episode, 2008)
  - Episode #17.28 (2008) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited) / (writer: "We Have All The Time In The World" - uncredited)
  2008 Burn After Reading (writer: "Born Free" (1966))
  2008 No Subtitles Necessary: Laszlo & Vilmos (Documentary) (writer: "Theme from Frances")
  2008 It Takes Two (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #3.8 (2008) ... (writer: "Goldfinger")
  2007 Hoge bomen: Pioniers (TV Series documentary) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Simon van Collem (2007) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2007 Donkey Xote (writer: "Born Free")
  2007 In the Hands of the Gods (Documentary) ("All Things To All Men")
  2007 So You Think You Can Dance (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - The Finale (2007) ... (writer: "The Rockafeller Skank")
  2007 Remember the Daze (writer: "6 Underground (The Umbrellas of Ladywell Mix #2)")
  2007 Dancing with the Stars (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Round 3 (2007) ... (writer: "Goldfinger")
  2007 A Taste of My Life (TV Series documentary) (writer - 1 episode)
  - John Barrowman (2007) ... (writer: "Goldfinger")
  2006 From Russia with Love: The Boat Chase Animated Storyboard Sequence (Video) (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2006 Dexter (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Born Free (2006) ... (writer: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  2006 Torchwood (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Greeks Bearing Gifts (2006) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  2006 Casino Royale (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  The King of Queens (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode, 2005) (writer - 1 episode, 2005)
  - G'Night Stalker (2005) ... (performer: "I'm Frightened" - uncredited) / (writer: "I'm Frightened" - uncredited)
  2005 Idol (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Min Idol (2005) ... (writer: "Millennium")
  2005 Madagascar (writer: "Born Free")
  2005 The Jacket (writer: "We Have All the Time in the World")
  2004 The Private Life of a Masterpiece (TV Series documentary) (music - 1 episode)
  - Katsushika Hokusai: The Great Wave (2004) ... (music: "You Only Live Twice" (instrumental))
  2004 That '70s Show (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - My Wife (2004) ... (music: "Born Free")
  2004 The 76th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (music: "Seabiscuit")
  2000-2003 EastEnders (TV Series) (writer - 5 episodes)
  - Episode dated 23 September 2003 (2003) ... (writer: "A View to a Kill" - uncredited)
  - Episode dated 30 July 2001 (2001) ... (writer: "A View to a Kill" - uncredited)
  - Episode dated 30 November 2000 (2000) ... (writer: "Millennium" - uncredited)
  - Episode dated 31 July 2000 (2000) ... (writer: "Millennium" - uncredited)
  - Episode dated 17 February 2000 (2000) ... (writer: "Millennium" - uncredited)
  2003 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (writer: "Born Free")
  2003 Mannerheim ja Pietari (TV Movie documentary) (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2003 Monkey Dust (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Episode #2.5 ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  2003 A Guy Thing (writer: "Born Free")
  2002 Catch Me If You Can (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (writer: "Wednesday's Child")
  2002 Happy Anniversary Mr. Bond (TV Movie documentary) (writer: "Goldfinger")
  2002 Die Another Day: From Script to Screen (Video) (music: "Diamonds Are Forever")
  2002 Premiere Bond: Die Another Day (TV Movie documentary) (music: "The Man with the Golden Gun")
  2002 Die Another Day (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  2002 Bond Girls Are Forever (TV Movie documentary) (arranger: "James Bond Theme") / (music: "Diamonds are Forever", "Goldfinger", "The Living Daylights", "All Time High", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", "Thunderball")
  2002 Party at the Palace: The Queen's Concerts, Buckingham Palace (TV Special documentary) (writer: "Goldfinger")
  2002 Hinter Gittern - Der Frauenknast (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Der Tunnel (2002) ... (writer: "Goldfinger")
  2001 Zoolander (writer: "Born Free")
  2001 Murphy's Law (TV Movie) (music: "Diamonds are Forever")
  2001 The Oblongs (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - Disfigured Debbie (2001) ... (music: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  Saturday Night Live (TV Series) (arranger - 2 episodes, 1987 - 2001) (music - 2 episodes, 1987)
  - Pierce Brosnan/Destiny's Child (2001) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  - Steve Martin/Sting (1987) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited) / (music: "007" - uncredited)
  - John Lithgow/Anita Baker (1987) ... (music: "Goldfinger" - uncredited)
  2001 Langt fra Las Vegas (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - En Ordentlig Sneppetur (2001) ... (writer: "A View To a Kill")
  2001 100 Greatest Number One Singles (TV Special documentary) (writer: "Millennium")
  2000/II Brothers (performer: "The Rockafeller Skank") / (writer: "The Rockafeller Skank")
  2000 Digimon: The Movie (writer: "The Rockafeller Skank")
  2000/I The Watcher (writer: "6 UNDERGROUND")
  2000 Histeria! (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - Big Fat Baby Theatre (2000) ... (music: "Gold Standard")
  
  1999 Soft Toilet Seats (writer: "Born Free")
  1999 Behind the Scenes with 'The World Is Not Enough' (Video documentary short) (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1999 De Club van Sinterklaas (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - De Club van Sinterklaas E06 (1999) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1999 The World is Not Enough (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1990-1999 Stars in Their Eyes (TV Series) (writer - 6 episodes)
  1999 One Day in September (Documentary) (writer: "It's Not Too Beautiful")
  1999 An Audience with Tom Jones (TV Special) (writer: "Thunderball")
  1999 Mission Hill (TV Series) (writer: "Midnight Cowboy")
  1999 Robbie Williams: Live at Slane Castle (TV Special) (writer: "Millennium")
  1999 The Debt Collector (writer: "Life in Mono (Sweatband Mix)")
  1999 Frasier (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Shutout in Seattle: Part 2 (1999) ... (writer: "Goldfinger" - uncredited)
  1999 Duran Duran: Greatest - The Videos (Video) (writer: "A View To A Kill", "Burning The Ground")
  1999 Go (writer: "Fire Up The Shoesaw" (LP Version))
  1999 A Walk on the Moon (writer: "King Rat" (1965))
  1999 She's All That (writer: "The Rockafeller Skank")
  1977-1999 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (writer - 4 episodes)
  - Episode dated 15 January 1999 (1999) ... (writer: "Millennium")
  - Episode dated 24 November 1994 (1994) ... (writer: "We Have All the Time in the World")
  - Episode #22.20 (1985) ... (writer: "A View to a Kill")
  - Episode #14.34 (1977) ... (writer: "Down Deep Inside (Theme From The Deep)")
  1998 Children in Need (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.19 (1998) ... (writer: "Diamonds Are Forever")
  1998 Robbie Williams: Millennium (Video short) (writer: "Millennium")
  Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV Series) (arranger - 3 episodes, 1989 - 1994) (music - 2 episodes, 1993 - 1998) (writer - 2 episodes, 1992 - 1993)
  - Quest of the Delta Knights (1998) ... (music: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  - Teen-Age Crime Wave (1994) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  - Gunslinger (1993) ... (writer: "Goldfinger" - uncredited)
  - 'Manos' the Hands of Fate (1993) ... (music: "Goldfinger" (as "Charred Finger") - uncredited)
  - City Limits (1992) ... (writer: "Goldfinger")
  Show all 7 episodes
  1998 Little Voice (writer: "Goldfinger")
  1998 Can't Hardly Wait (writer: "6 Underground" (The Umbrellas of Ladywell Mix #2))
  1998 Great Expectations (writer: "Life in Mono")
  1997 100% (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - The James Bond Special (1997) ... (music: "You Only Live Twice")
  1992-1997 Tohuwabohu (TV Series) (arranger - 7 episodes)
  - Parte 41 (1997) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  - Episode #4.1 (1994) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  - Reg.Nr.11 (1993) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  - Folge 12 - Das Schlechteste aus Tohuwabohu (1993) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  - Episode #3.3 (1993) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  Show all 7 episodes
  1997 Isle of Darkness (writer: "Life in Mono")
  1997 Tomorrow Never Dies (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1997 GoldenEye 007 (Video Game) (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1997 This Life (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Who's That Girl? (1997) ... (writer: "6 Underground" - uncredited)
  1997 The Saint ("6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Edit)") / (performer: "6 Underground (Nellee Hooper Edit)")
  1996 Bat Yam - New York (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Seret Ba-Kibbutz (1996) ... (writer: "Original Motion Picture Soundtrack" - uncredited)
  1995 In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross (TV Movie documentary) (music: "A View to a Kill")
  1995 GoldenEye (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1995 The World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1994 100 Years at the Movies (TV Short documentary) (writer: "Goldfinger" - uncredited)
  1993 Heartbeat (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Father's Day (1993) ... (writer: "Goldfinger")
  1993 What's Up Doc? (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.33 (1993) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  1993 Indecent Proposal ("In All the Right Places") / (music: "In All the Right Places")
  1993 Faith No More: Video Croissant (Video) (writer: "Midnight Cowboy")
  1992 Ruby Cairo (music: "The Secrets of My Heart", "Ruby Cairo Theme - Flamenco")
  1992 Rederiet (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - Ringar på vattnet (1992) ... (music: "Goldfinger" - uncredited)
  1992 The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (writer: "Born Free")
  1992 Sjans (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Voor Altijd (1992) ... (writer: "All time High" - uncredited)
  1991 Only Fools and Horses (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Miami Twice (Oh to Be in England) (1991) ... (writer: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  1991 Chasing the Wind (Video documentary short) ("Journey to the Buffalo Killing Grounds")
  1990 Dear John (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - True Confessions (1990) ... (music: "Diamonds Are Forever")
  
  1989 MTV Movie Special: Licence to Kill (TV Special documentary) (music: "A View to a Kill")
  1989 Licence to Kill (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1989 Licence to Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1987 Full House (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - Our Very First Promo (1987) ... (music: "Born Free", "Born Free (Reprise)")
  1987 James Bond: Licence to Thrill (TV Movie documentary) (music: "The Living Daylights")
  1987 The Living Daylights (arranger: "James Bond Theme") / (music: "The Living Daylights", "Where has Every Body Gone ?", "If there was a Man")
  1987 A Nightmare on Sesame Street (Short) (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  1987 The Tortellis (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - Svengali (1987) ... (music: "Born Free")
  1986 The Golden Child (music: "THE BEST MAN IN THE WORLD") / (performer: "WISDOM OF THE AGES") / (writer: "WISDOM OF THE AGES")
  1986 Howard the Duck (producer: "Duckworld Television Muzak" - uncredited) / (writer: "Duckworld Television Muzak" - uncredited)
  1986 Pilat palat pois (TV Series) (arranger - 1 episode)
  - Polttaa, polttaa (1986) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  1985 Live Aid (TV Special documentary) (writer: "A View to a Kill")
  1985 A View to a Kill: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) (music: "A View to a Kill")
  1985 Eye on L.A. (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - OO7: A View of James Bond (1985) ... (music: "A View to a Kill")
  1985 The Goonies (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1985 A View to a Kill (arranger: "James Bond Theme") / (music: "A View to a Kill")
  1985 Morons from Outer Space (music: "BORN FREE")
  1983 The Golden Seal (music: "LETTING GO")
  1983 Octopussy (arranger: "James Bond Theme") / (music: "All Time High")
  1983 Svengali (TV Movie) (music: "I Never Lost a Lover Yet", "One Dream at a Time", "Getting Some Feeling Back")
  1983 High Road to China (arranger: "Revelry" - uncredited)
  1981 Pornô! (music: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  1981 The Facts of Life (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - Sweet Sorrow (1981) ... (music: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1981 The Legend of the Lone Ranger (writer: "The Man in the Mask")
  1980 Somewhere in Time (music: "Somewhere In Time (End Title Theme)") / (performer: "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43, Variation XVIII Andante Cantabile")
  
  1979 The Return of Superman (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  1979 Ripping Yarns (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - Roger of the Raj (1979) ... (music: "Mood Two" - uncredited)
  1979 Moonraker (arranger: "James Bond Theme") / (music: "Moonraker")
  1979 Hanover Street (arranger: "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen", "Little Brown Jug" - uncredited)
  1979 Saint Jack (music: "Goldfinger")
  1978 The Tender Trap (writer: "Down, Deep Inside" - uncredited)
  1978 Starcrash (arranger: "Starcrash Main Title", "Hyper Space", "Larkon Space City", "The Haunted Stars", "The Trogs Attack", "Stella's Theme", "The Red Ball Attack and Space Walk", "Battle at Space Fortress", "Acton's Laser Fight", "The Ice Planet", "The First Circle of the Universe", "Starcrash End Title") / (writer: "Starcrash Main Title", "Hyper Space", "Larkon Space City", "The Haunted Stars", "The Trogs Attack", "Stella's Theme", "The Red Ball Attack and Space Walk", "Battle at Space Fortress", "Acton's Laser Fight", "The Ice Planet", "The First Circle of the Universe", "Starcrash End Title")
  1978 Het is weer zo laat! (TV Series) (music - 2 episodes)
  - De sigaar (1978) ... (music: "Thunderball" - uncredited)
  - Stop de neutronenbom! (1978) ... (music: "Diamonds Are Forever" - uncredited)
  1978 Quark (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - Vanessa 38-24-36 (1978) ... (music: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  1978 Game of Death (lyrics: "Will This Be the Song I'll Be Singing Tomorrow?") / (music: "Will This Be the Song I'll Be Singing Tomorrow?")
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1977 The Deep (writer: "Theme from 'The Deep' (Down, Deep Inside)")
  1976 Wada'an Ella Alabad (performer: "Moon Buggy Ride", "Death At The Whyte House")
  1976 De ondergang van de Onan (TV Movie) (writer: "From Russia With Love" - uncredited)
  1976 Exit the Dragon, Enter the Tiger (writer: "Goodnight Goodnight")
  1975 Pleasure Island (writer: "Thunderball" - uncredited)
  1975 Secret Desire (writer: "Music from the 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' soundtrack" - uncredited)
  1975 Teenage Coeds (writer: "Goldfinger" - uncredited)
  1975 The Day of the Locust (music: "Lonely Hearts" - uncredited)
  1975 The Benny Hill Show (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - Show 23 (1975) ... (music: "Orson Welles Great Mysteries" (theme))
  1975 Jane Bond (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  1975 Shampoo (music: "Born Free" (1966) - uncredited)
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (arranger: "James Bond Theme") / (music: "The Man with the Golden Gun")
  1974 The Longest Yard (as Barry, "Born Free")
  1974 The Tamarind Seed (music: "Play It Again")
  1974 The Dove (music: "Sail the Summer Winds")
  1973 Yarasa adam - Bedmen ("Main Theme - On Her Majesty's Secret Service")
  1973 The True Way (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  1973 Live and Let Die (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1973 The Graham Kennedy Show (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Episode dated 12 June 1973 (1973) ... (writer: "Midnight Cowboy")
  1973 Barend is weer bezig! (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Huldiging van onze held (1973) ... (writer: "From Russia With Love" (instrumental), "You only live twice" (instrumental), "Into Miami" (instrumental) - uncredited)
  1972 Battal Gazi'nin Intikami (music: "The Lion In Winter" - uncredited)
  1972 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Nursery Rhyme, Reprise, The Mock Turtle's Song, Evidence Read At The Trail Of The Knave Of Hearts", (music: "The Duchess Is Waiting", "Curiouser And Curiourser", "You've To Know When To Stop", "The Royal Processions", "The Last Word Is Mine", "Digging For Apples", "There Goes Bill", "How Doth The Little Busy Bee", "Dum And Dee Dance", "From The Queen An Invitation For The Duchess To Play Croquette", "The Duchess' Lullaby", "It's More Like A Pig Than A Baby", "I See What I Eat", "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat", "The Pun Song", "Off With Their Heads", "The Croquet Game", "Off With Their Heads", "I've Never Been This Far Before", "The Moral Song", "The Me I Never Knew", "The Lobster Quadrille", "Will You Walk A Little Faster, Said A Whiting To A Snail", "They Told Me)
  1972 Kär-lek, så gör vi: Brev till Inge och Sten (Documentary) (music: "Mood Two" - uncredited)
  1972 The Public Eye (music: "Follow Follow")
  1972 The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #11.145 (1972) ... (writer: "Goldfinger")
  1972 Living Free (writer: "Excerpts")
  1971 Mary, Queen of Scots (music: "Vivre et Mourir")
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever (arranger: "James Bond Theme") / (music: "Diamonds are Forever") / (writer: "Slumber, Inc." - uncredited)
  1971 Battal Gazi Destani (music: "The Lion In Winter" - uncredited)
  1971 Tarkan and the Blood of the Vikings ("The Lion In The Water")
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) (writer: "The Persuaders")
  1970 Monte Walsh (music: "The Good Times Are Comin")
  1970 Sounds Like Us (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Episode dated 7 May 1970 (1970) ... (writer: "Born Free")
  1967-1970 The Lawrence Welk Show (TV Series) (music - 2 episodes)
  - Academy Awards (1970) ... (music: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  - Music! Music! Music! (1967) ... (music: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (arranger: "James Bond Theme") / (music: "We Have all the Time in the World", "Do you Know How Christmas Trees are Grown ?", "On Her Majesty's Secret Service")
  1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - The BBC Entry for the Zinc Stoat of Budapest/It's the Arts (1969) ... (music: "James Bond Is Back--From Russia with Love" - uncredited)
  1969 The Jonathan Winters Show (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - The Smothers Brothers, Marvin Gaye (1969) ... (music: "Born Free")
  1969 The Lions Are Free (Documentary) (music: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  1968 Bewitched (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Samantha on the Keyboard (1968) ... (writer: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  1968 Deadfall (music: "My Love Has Two Faces") / (writer: "The Meeting" (uncredited), "Statue Dance" (uncredited), "The Last Deadfall" (uncredited), "Romance For Guitar And Orchestra")
  1968 Petulia (performer: "Main Title - Petulia", "Friends Of The Evergreen", "Highway 101", "A Little Old-Fashioned Nostalgia", "Motel", "Petulia", "Comprehendo?", "Border Gate At Tijuana", "Once Having Been Lovers", "Eat Topless", "End Title - Petulia") / (writer: "Main Title - Petulia", "Friends Of The Evergreen", "Highway 101", "A Little Old-Fashioned Nostalgia", "Motel", "Petulia", "Comprehendo?", "Border Gate At Tijuana", "Once Having Been Lovers", "Eat Topless", "End Title - Petulia")
  1967 You Only Live Twice (arranger: "James Bond Theme") / (music: "You Only Live Twice")
  1967 Casino Royale (music: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  1967 The 39th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (music: "Born Free")
  Whicker's World (TV Series documentary) (arranger - 1 episode, 1967) (music - 1 episode, 1967)
  - The World of James Bond (1967) ... (arranger: "James Bond Theme") / (music: "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang")
  1966 Carousella (Documentary short) (writer: "Christine" - as Count Jaime-de-More Y Aragon)
  1966 Love in Tokyo (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1966 Tom Jones Hilton Special (TV Special) (writer: "Thunderball")
  1966 The Quiller Memorandum (music: Theme Song - "WEDNESDAY'S CHILD")
  Bandstand (TV Series) (music - 2 episodes, 1965 - 1966) (writer - 2 episodes, 1966)
  - Episode dated 9 July 1966 (1966) ... (music: "Born Free")
  - Episode dated 2 July 1966 (1966) ... (writer: "Thunderball")
  - Episode dated 12 February 1966 (1966) ... (writer: "Thunderball")
  - Episode dated 15 May 1965 (1965) ... (music: "Goldfinger")
  1966 Born Free (music: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  Hollywood a Go Go (TV Series) (1 episode, 1965) (writer - 1 episode, 1966)
  - Episode #1.58 (1966) ... (writer: "Thunderball")
  - Episode #1.9 (1965) ... ("Goldfinger")
  1965 Boy and Bicycle (Short) (performer: "Onward Christian Spacemen") / (writer: "Onward Christian Spacemen")
  1965 Thunderball (arranger: "James Bond Theme") / (music: "Thunderball")
  1965 Help! (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  1965 The Knack... and How to Get It (writer: "The Knack (Main Theme)", "Here Comes Nancy Now!", "Photo Strip", "Three On A Bed", "Blues And Out", "The Knack (vocal)", "And How To Get It", "Something's Up!", "Doors And Bikes And Things", "Ecstasy!", "The Knack (End Title)")
  1965 The Party's Over (music: "Time Waits For No Man" - uncredited)
  1965 Be My Guest (music: "Gotta Get Away Now") / (performer: "Gotta Get Away Now") / (writer: "Gotta Get Away Now")
  1965 Shindig! (TV Series) (music - 1 episode)
  - Shirley Ellis, Jackie Wilson, Bobby Goldsboro, Standells (1965) ... (music: "Goldfinger")
  1965 The Ipcress File (arranger: "The Ipcress File (Main Title)", "Alone In Three-Quarter Time", "Meeting With Grantby And Fight", "Jazz Along Alone", "The Death Of Carswell", "A Man Alone", "If You're Not Clean - I'll Kill You", "Alone Blues", "Goodbye Harry") / (performer: "The Ipcress File (Main Title)", "Alone In Three-Quarter Time", "Meeting With Grantby And Fight", "Jazz Along Alone", "The Death Of Carswell", "A Man Alone", "If You're Not Clean - I'll Kill You", "Alone Blues", "Goodbye Harry") / (writer: "The Ipcress File (Main Title)", "Alone In Three-Quarter Time", "Meeting With Grantby And Fight", "Jazz Along Alone", "The Death Of Carswell", "A Man Alone", "If You're Not Clean - I'll Kill You", "Alone Blues", "Goodbye Harry")
  1964 Goldfinger (arranger: "James Bond Theme") / (music: "Goldfinger")
  1964 Swingers' Paradise (arranger: "James Bond Theme" - uncredited)
  1964 Zulu (writer: "Stamp and Shake")
  1963 From Russia with Love (arranger: "James Bond Theme") / (music: "From Russia with Love")
  1962 Dr. No (arranger: "James Bond Theme")
  1961 What a Whopper (arranger: "What a Whopper", "The Time Has Come")
  1961 A Matter of WHO (arranger: "A Matter of Who")
  1960 Evidence in Concrete (Short) (music: "Smokey Blues" - uncredited)
  1960 Wild for Kicks (music: "I Did What You Told Me", "Made You", "It's Legal" - uncredited)
  1960 Never Let Go (arranger: "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" - uncredited) / (performer: "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" - uncredited)
  
  1958 Six-Five Special (performer: "You've Gotta Way", "Ev'ry Which Way") / (writer: "You've Gotta Way")
  
  Composer (125 credits)
  
  2006 The Man with the Golden Gun: Girls Fighting (Video)
  2003 Jennifer Lopez: Baby I Love U! (Video short)
  2001 Enigma
  
  1998 Fatboy Slim: The Rockafeller Skank - The Audition Demo Version (Video short)
  1998 Playing by Heart
  1998 Robbie Williams: Millennium (Video short)
  1998 Fatboy Slim: The Rockafeller Skank (Video short)
  1998 Mercury Rising
  1997 What Makes Me Tick! (Short)
  1997 David Arnold & David McAlmont: Diamonds Are Forever (Short)
  1997 Swept from the Sea
  1995 Across the Sea of Time
  1995 The Scarlet Letter
  1995 Cry, the Beloved Country
  1994 The Specialist (music composed by)
  1993 My Life
  1993 Indecent Proposal (music composed by)
  1993 Great Performances (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - John Barry: Moviola (1993)
  1993 The Witness (TV Short)
  1993 Faith No More: Video Croissant (Video) (composer "Midnight Cowboy")
  1992 Chaplin
  1992 Ruby Cairo
  1990 Dances with Wolves
  
  1988 Masquerade
  1987 Hearts of Fire
  1987 A-ha: The Living Daylights (Video short)
  1987 The Living Daylights
  1986 Peggy Sue Got Married
  1986 Howard the Duck
  1986 A Killing Affair
  1985 Out of Africa (original music composed by)
  1985 Jagged Edge
  1985 Duran Duran: A View to a Kill (Video short) (music by)
  1985 A View to a Kill
  1984 The Cotton Club
  1984 Until September
  1984 Mike's Murder
  1983 Rita Coolidge: All Time High (Video short)
  1983 Octopussy
  1983 Svengali (TV Movie)
  1983 High Road to China
  1982 Frances
  1982 Murder by Phone
  1982 Hammett
  1981 Body Heat
  1981 The Legend of the Lone Ranger
  1980 Inside Moves
  1980 Touched by Love
  1980 Somewhere in Time
  1980 Raise the Titanic
  1980 Night Games
  
  1979 The Black Hole (music composed by)
  1979 Moonraker
  1979 Hanover Street
  1979 Willa (TV Movie)
  1979 The Corn Is Green (TV Movie)
  1978 St. Joan
  1978 Starcrash
  1978 Game of Death
  1978 The Betsy
  1977 The Gathering (TV Movie)
  1977 First Love (uncredited)
  1977 Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (TV Movie)
  1977 The Deep
  1977 The War Between the Tates (TV Movie)
  1977 The White Buffalo (music composed and conducted by)
  1977 Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (TV Movie)
  1976 King Kong
  1976 Robin and Marian
  1976 Eleanor and Franklin (TV Mini-Series) (2 episodes)
  - Episode #1.2 (1976)
  - Episode #1.1 (1976)
  1975 The Day of the Locust
  1975 Love Among the Ruins (TV Movie)
  1974 UFO: Distruggete Base Luna
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun
  1974 The Tamarind Seed
  1974 The Dove
  1974 Korkusuzlar
  1973 The Glass Menagerie (TV Movie)
  1973/I A Doll's House
  1972 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  1972 The Public Eye
  1971 Mary, Queen of Scots
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever
  1971 They Might Be Giants
  1971 Walkabout
  1971 The Last Valley
  1970 Monte Walsh
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  1969 Midnight Cowboy (uncredited)
  1969 The Appointment
  1968 The Lion in Winter
  1968 Deadfall
  1968 Petulia
  1968 Boom!
  1967 The Whisperers
  1967 You Only Live Twice
  1966 Dutchman
  1966 The Quiller Memorandum
  1966 The Wrong Box
  1966 Born Free
  1966 The Chase
  1965 Thunderball
  1965 King Rat
  1965 Four in the Morning
  1965 The Knack... and How to Get It
  1965 Mister Moses
  1965 The Party's Over
  1965 The Ipcress File
  1964 Muloorina (Documentary short)
  1964 Sophia Loren in Rome (TV Special documentary)
  1964 Goldfinger
  1964 Impromptu (TV Series) (8 episodes)
  - Episode #1.8 (1964)
  - Episode #1.7 (1964)
  - Episode #1.6 (1964)
  - Episode #1.5 (1964)
  - Episode #1.4 (1964)
  Show all 8 episodes
  1964 Seance on a Wet Afternoon
  1964 They All Died Laughing
  1964 The Winston Affair (orchestral music)
  1964 Zulu
  1963 A True Story of One Man and His Bank (Documentary short)
  1963 From Russia with Love (composer: orchestral music)
  1963 Elizabeth Taylor in London (TV Movie documentary)
  1962 The Amorous Mr. Prawn
  1962 Mix Me a Person (uncredited)
  1961 Falling in Love (TV Movie documentary)
  1961 Girl on a Roof (TV Movie)
  1960 Wild for Kicks
  1960 Never Let Go
  
  Actor (2 credits)
  
  1987 The Living Daylights - Orchestra Conductor (uncredited)
  
  1968 Deadfall - Orchestra Conductor

  
  
  

  2012: Industry reports connect Javier Bardem to BOND 23.
  
  2020: Concert ‘A Night at the Oscars’ in Dublin, Ireland, pays special tribute to John Barry.

  

  Concert ‘A Night at the Oscars’ with special
  tribute to John Barry, Dublin, 30 January

  https://johnbarry.org.uk/index.php/news/item/1010-concert-a-night-at-the-oscars-with-special-tribute-to-john-barry-dublin-30-january
  Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:51
  Written by Super User
  
  The RTÉ Concert Orchestra conducted by Stephen Bell, together with guest vocalist Matthew Ford, will perform a special concert entitled ‘A Night at the Oscars’ next Thursday, 30th of January, at the National Concert Hall in Dublin (Ireland).

  When: Thursday, January 30th, 2020 at 20:00h
  Where: National Concert Hall (Dublin, Ireland)
  
  Tickets: 15-42 € – https://orchestras.rte.ie/events/2917/a-night-at-the-oscars-2/?ticketID=1580414400
  
  Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/445922976057038/
  
  Website
  "There are no available seats for the selected event."

  The concert will include Academy Award-winning music from Star Wars, Schindler’s List, The Incredibles, Beauty and the Beast, Gravity and lots more, and to mark the anniversary of John Barry’s death on this date, 30 January 2011, it will also pay tribute to the legendary five-time Oscar winner with music from The Ipcress File, Born Free, and Out of Africa.
  
  The program will be the following:

  John Williams – Devil’s Dance (The Witches of Eastwick)
  Alan Menken – Beauty and the Beast
  Sam Smith – arr. Nic Raine – Spectre: Writing’s on the Wall
  John Barry – arr. Nic Raine – The Ipcress File
  Steven Price – Gravity
  Cole Porter – arr. Riddle – I’ve Got You Under My Skin
  John Williams – Theme from Schindler’s List
  Michael Giacchino – The Incredibles
  Arthur Schwartz – arr. Bissill – That’s Entertainment! Overture
  Frederick Loewe – On the Street Where You Live
  John Williams – Star Wars Suite: Yoda’s Theme
  John Williams – The Force Awakens: Rey’s Theme
  John Barry – Born Free
  John Barry – arr. Tate – Out of Africa
  Maurice Jarre – arr. Nic Raine – Lawrence of Arabia
  Danny Elfman – Batman Suite

  
  
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  January 31st
  
  1942: Daniela Bianchi is born--Rome, Lazio, Italy.
  
  1960: The Sunday Times of London prints Ian Fleming's "The Thrilling Cities: Hong Kong."
  1963: Dr. No released in the Netherlands.
  1964: A 007, dalla Russia con amore (At 007, From Russia With Love) released in Italy.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1970: Minnie Driver is born--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.
  1973: B.J. Arnau films her Filet of Soul scenes at Pinewood Studios.
  
  2003: Die Another Day released in Norway. Filming used several Norway locations, doubling for Iceland and the car chase across the ice.

  

  Die Another Day (2002)
  Filming & Production

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246460/locations
  
  Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
  (ice car chase - ice palace environs - additional filming)
  
  Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway
  (ice cliffs - plate for cgi)
  
  Jostedal Glacier National Park, Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
  (ice car chase - ice palace environs - additional filming)

  2003: La morte può attendere (Death Can Wait) released in Switzerland (Italian speaking region, after French and German speaking regions).

  
  
  
  
  

  2003: Die Another Day released in Taiwan.

  

  
  2019: The London ceremony for the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) presents producer Barbara Broccoli a Casting Society of America (CSA) UK Artios Award for lifetime achievement.

  
  https://jamesbond007.se/eng/nyheter/barbara_broccoli_casting_society_of_america_award
  Barbara Broccoli recipient of CSA Lifetime Achievement Award

  Accepting the award, Barbara Broccoli said:
  “There is no job for me that is too small or too big. Get those pitches ready...!”

  

  
  
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  February 1st
  
  1960: Bond comic strip From Russia with Love begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 21 May 1960. 488-583) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  
  
  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=985
  
  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1980 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1980.php3
  Agent 007 Ser Rött ("Agent 007 See Red" - From Russia With Love)
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1987 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1987.php3
  Agent 007 Ser Rött ("Agent 007 See Red" - From Russia With Love)
  
  
  Danish 1966 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-no-5-frwl-1966-eng/
  

  1961: Mrs. James Bond writes Ian Fleming and calls his Bond "a rascal."

  

  The Man with the Golden Typewriter, Fergus Fleming (Editor), 2015.

  TO MRS. JAMES BOND, 721, Davidson Road, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
  18, Pasadena
  
  'It was inevitable we should catch up with you. . . " On which ominous note
  Mrs James Bond began her letter of 1 February 1961. Fleming had never
  made any secret of the fact that he had borrowed his name from one
  of his favorite books, Birds of the West Indies, by the American orni-
  thologist James Bond. But now, almost ten years after he had written
  Casino Royale, news reached the Bonds that 'you had brazenly picked
  up the name of a real human being for your rascal.' They didn't really
  mind, as the real Bond had led an adventurous life, his colorful exploits
  not being too far, in the ornithological scale of things, from those of his fic-
  tional equivalent. 'I told MY JB he could sue you for defamation of charac-
  ter,' Mrs. Bond concluded cheerfully. 'JBBA [James Bond British
  Agent] is too much fun for that and JB authenticus regards the whole thing
  as "a joke".'

  
  

  
  1992: This month Marvel Comics releases James Bond Jr #2 "The Eiffel Missile". Episode 9 of the cartoon features Dr. Derange.

  
  https://www.bedetheque.com/BD-James-Bond-Jr-1992-Tome-2-The-Eiffel-Missile-365316.html
  
  

  1993: This month Dark Horse Comics releases James Bond 007: Serpent's Tooth #3.

  

  James Bond 007: Serpent's Tooth #3

  Would you destroy the world to make a new, perfect one? Indigo plays God and Bond is the serpent in Indigo's New Eden. Serpent's Tooth delivers all the Bond action, all the Bond thrills, and all the Bond savoir faire. There's no way anyone should miss the exciting conclusion to this incredible series. Written by Doug Moench (Batman/Dracula: Red Rain) with art by Paul Gulacy (Terminator: Secondary Objectives) and color by Steve Oliff (John Byrne's 2112). Painted cover by Gulacy.

  Creators
  Writer: Doug Moench
  Artist: Paul Gulacy
  Letterer: Pat Brosseau
  Colorist: Steve Oliff
  Editor: Jerry Prosser & Dick Hansom
  Cover Artist: Paul Gulacy
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  
  Publication Date: February 01, 1993

  
  
  
  
  
  

  1995: Dark Horse Comics releases James Bond 007: The Quasimodo Gambit #2.

  

  James Bond 007: Quasimodo Gambit #2

  Bond's midnight excursion into The Estate for the Disciples of the Heavenly Way reveals that the believers are more than just quiet and devout -- they're fanatical soldiers bent on the destruction of The Beast -- whatever that is! Following leads and his instincts, he heads deep into the Georgia swamps, only to find his worst fears confirmed and a bloody nightmare from which he cannot escape!

  Creators
  Writer: Don McGregor
  Artist: Gary Caldwell
  Letterer: Elitta Fell
  Editor: Edward Martin III & Robert Conte
  Cover Artist: Christopher Moeller
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  
  Publication Date: February 01, 1995

  

  
  2002: Die Another Day films 007 escaping the military medical facility.
  2005: Actor Pierce Brosnan posts a letter on his Web site confirming an end to his involvement with Bond, detailing his future projects, and thanking fans for their support through the uncertainty of the previous year.

  February 1, 2005
  
  Dear Friends,
  
  Is it too late to say Happy New Year? I don't think so. I've just come back from The Sundance Film Festival. It was the first outing for my company Irish DreamTime with our independent film The Matador which was greeted warmly and heralded a great success. In fact, we sold out all eight performances and received a standing ovation!
  
  From start to finish the movie was a joy to make. The cast and crew were a tight outfit. Of course when you only have a cast of three main characters, and when those players are actors like Greg Kinnear and Hope Davis, well, it was a walk in the park. We shot the entire movie in Mexico City in early spring of last year. The city and her people embraced us all, and in return we were seduced by her charms; it was truly a gifted time.
  
  Immediately following Sundance, we sold our film The Matador, to none other than Mr. Harvey Weinstein at Miramax. To say that we are happy and overjoyed is an understatement. These moments must be cherished, shared, and enjoyed with friends as they don't come around that often.
  
  Next up…
  
  Irish DreamTime is going full steam ahead on Thomas Crown 2, AKA The Topaki Affair, along with Lochinvar and a few other projects we are developing. In the meantime, life is filled with family. This time at home away from the hustle and bustle of location life is wonderful. I could get used to it.
  
  I would like to thank all of you who have supported me over the last year or so in regard to my playing Bond. It was a decade of my life that I will always hold dear to my heart and a time that will never be forgotten. And you dear friends stood by me throughout. Many, many thanks! But everything comes to an end, and one must accept this decision which cannot be dealt with in any other way but with some kind of grace and knowledge that I did the job to the best of my ability.
  
  So let us all go out there into each new day and be great, to ourselves and each other.
  
  Love and only love,
  
  Pierce Brosnan

  
  2011: Rob Hastings in The Independent rolls up the tributes to John Barry.

  

  Tributes to John Barry,
  the man with the Midas touch for movie music

  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/tributes-to-john-barry-the-man-with-the-midas-touch-for-movie-music-2200165.html
  Rob Hastings | @robhastings | Tuesday 1 February 2011 01:00
  
  Gety Images
  
  The skill of a great film composer is to marry moving images with sound in such a way that they seem organically linked. Yesterday the superlative John Barry united film and music one last time, as figures from both circles offered tributes to his career on the news of his death at 77.
  
  Mr Barry, who died of a heart attack in his adopted home city of New York, played a vital part in establishing the James Bond films in the public imagination. There was far more to his career than the spy movie franchise, however. He won a total of five Oscars for his work on Dances With Wolves, Out Of Africa, The Lion In Winter and Born Free, for which he won two.

  Many of his most famous and evocative scores were written in the 1960s during the age of Beatlemania, a phenomenon of which James Bond clearly disapproved. Sean Connery, playing Bond in Goldfinger, states: "There are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs."
  
  Yet prior to his film-scoring career, Mr Barry had considerable success with his own pop group, the John Barry Seven, which he formed in 1957. And while his first passion was classical music – his idol was Gustav Mahler – together with lyricists such as Don Black and Leslie Bricusse he composed grand orchestral melodies that were still catchy enough to create some of the decade's most memorable pop songs. Thunderball remains one of the most popular numbers in Tom Jones' repertoire, while You Only Live Twice – featuring Nancy Sinatra – proved so timeless that it was sampled prominently in Robbie Williams' number one single Millennium more then 30 years later.

  Yesterday Tim Rice paid tribute to this versatility, saying: "He made these great rock 'n' roll records and then you heard these symphonic works as well."
  
  Born in York in 1933, Barry was the son of a former concert pianist and the owner of a small chain of cinemas. His youth was therefore steeped in piano music and the movies, before he discovered jazz in his teens and took up the trumpet. He began arranging music during his two years of national service with the army, and on being asked to score his first movie in 1960 found he had a natural talent.
  
  Don Black, who wrote the lyrics for Born Free, told The Independent that the death of the man he considered one of his best friends for the past 50 years came as a shock. "He was a bit fragile the last year – he was never very robust anyway – but he wasn't ill," he said.
  
  Black fondly remembers the John Barry of his youth, who bore more than a passing resemblance to the Bond man-about-town and over long lunches tended to consume more alcohol than food.
  
  "In his hell-raising days he used to drink too much and I used to end up taking him home, though that hadn't happened for the last 30 years. He used to have lots of beautiful women and fancy cars and all of that. He was a handsome, eligible bachelor, very vibrant and very attractive with that Yorkshire accent. I don't know who you'd liken him to – the George Clooney of his day, I suppose."
  
  But Black said the four-times married Barry remained true to his roots. "He never changed, he was still the boy from Yorkshire all the way through. There was nothing New York about him, even though he'd lived there for 40 years. He'd never been to a deli or had a pickle or had a big sandwich – he was still a lad who liked fish and chips with vinegar on the side."
  
  Black worked on many songs with Barry. "He would go away and say, 'Come in Wednesday and I'll be ready with that tune'. By then he had been through every kind of emotion in writing it and it had been vetted to an inch of its life. So when he said, 'Here it is', it was more like an unveiling."
  
  David Arnold, who succeeded Barry as the main Bond composer in recent years, told the BBC: "It's impossible to separate James Bond from John Barry's music. They went hand in hand. He was able to show you the menace, the sexiness, the aggression and the emotion.
  
  "Everything that is cool and fabulous about James Bond is in the music. You could be stuck in a traffic jam on the M25 in a Ford Fiesta, but if you're playing a John Barry score you're in an Aston Martin. It was just an extraordinary, transfigurative thing he did."
  
  John Barry 1933-2011

  Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  "He was able to catch the mood of a scene or a whole film by the genius of orchestration with fairly conventional instruments. Film seemed to bring out the very best in him."
  - Sir Tim Rice

  Out of Africa (1985)
  "When he played you a melody it was like an unveiling. You didn't question it because you knew he had been up all night working on it."
  - Don Black (lyricist)

  Goldfinger (1964)
  "I think James Bond would have been far less cool without John Barry holding his hand."
  - Current Bond composer David Arnold

  Born Free (1966)
  "He wrote some of the most memorable and beautiful scores we could ever wish to hear."
  - Michael Crawford

  2012: First official photo of BOND 23 shows scruffy beard growth on OO7 in Shanghai (actually Pinewood Studios).

  

  
  
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  February 2nd
  
  1973: Live and Let Die films Baron Samedi rising from the dead.
  
  1981: Bond comic strip Doomcrack begins its run in The Sunday Express. (Ends 19 August 1981. 1-174)
  Harry North (known for Mad Magazine film parodies), artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1025
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Tamil https://tamilcomicsulagam.blogspot.com/2010/01/
  
  
  
  

  1983: Bond comic strip Deathmask ends its run in The Sunday Express.
  (Started 7 June 1982. 379-552) John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://piktag.net/shatterhandgrice/photo/1892640221298045302_2057419686

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Semic Comic 1983 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1983.php3

  Dödsmasken (Deathmask - Part 1) | Dödsmasken (Deathmask - Part 2)
  

  1984: Insan gibi yasa (Human-Like Law) released in Turkey. Television title: Asla asla deme (Never Say Never).

  
  

  1986: Gemma Arterton is born--Gravesend, Kent, England.

  

  
  1995: Donald Pleasence dies at age 75--Saint-Paul de-Vence, Alps-Maritimes, France.
  (Born 5 October 1919--Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England.)

  

  Donald Pleasence OBE

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Pleasence
  
  Pleasence in London, 1973.
  Portrait by Allan Warren

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

  Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (/ˈplɛzəns/); 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English character actor. His best known film roles include psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis in Halloween (1978) and four of its sequels, the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape (1963), SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright (1971), and the President of the United States in Escape from New York (1981).
  
  Early life
  Pleasence was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of Alice (née Armitage) and Thomas Stanley Pleasence, a railway stationmaster. He was brought up as a strict Methodist in the small village of Grimoldby, Lincolnshire. He received his formal education at Crosby Junior School, Scunthorpe and Ecclesfield Grammar School, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. After working as the Clerk-in-Charge at Swinton railway station in South Yorkshire, he decided that he wanted to be a professional actor, taking up a placement with the Jersey Repertory Company in 1939.
  
  Second World War
  In December 1939, Pleasence initially refused conscription into the British Armed Forces, registering as a conscientious objector, but changed his stance in autumn 1940, after the attacks upon London by the Luftwaffe, and volunteered with the Royal Air Force. He served as aircraft wireless-operator with No. 166 Squadron in Bomber Command, with which he flew almost sixty raids against the Axis over occupied Europe. On 31 August 1944, Lancaster NE112, in which he was a crew member, was shot down during an attack upon Agenville, and he was captured and imprisoned in the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft I, where he was treated well reciprocally (like the British treated captured Luftwaffe pilots) in similar prisoner-of-war camps. Here, Pleasence produced and acted in many plays for the entertainment of his fellow captives.
  
  After the war and his release, he was discharged from the R.A.F. in 1946.
  
  Acting career
  Returning to acting after the war, Pleasence resumed working in repertory theatre companies in Birmingham and Bristol. In the 1950s, Pleasence's stage work included performing as Willie Mossop in a 1952 production of Hobson's Choice at the Arts Theatre, London and as Dauphin in Jean Anouilh's The Lark (1956). In 1960, Pleasence gained excellent notices as the tramp in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the Arts Theatre, a role he would again play in a 1990 revival. Other stage work in the 1960s included Anouilh's Poor Bitos (1963-64) and Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth (1967), for which he won the London Variety Award for Stage Actor of the Year in 1968. Pleasence's later stage work included performing in a double bill of Pinter plays, The Basement and Tea Party, at the Duchess Theatre in 1970.
  
  Television
  Pleasence made his television debut in I Want to Be a Doctor (1946). He received positive critical attention for his role as Syme in the BBC version of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) from the novel by George Orwell. The adaptation was by Nigel Kneale and featured Peter Cushing in the lead role of Winston Smith.
  
  Pleasence played Prince John in several episodes of the ITV series The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956–1958). He appeared twice with Patrick McGoohan in the British spy series, Danger Man, in episodes "Position of Trust" (1960) and "Find and Return" (1961). Pleasence's first appearance in America was in an episode of The Twilight Zone, playing an aging teacher at a boys' school in the episode "The Changing of the Guard" (1962). In 1963, he appeared in an episode of The Outer Limits entitled "The Man With the Power". In 1966, he also guest starred in an episode of The Fugitive entitled "With Strings Attached"
  
  In 1973, Pleasence played a sympathetic murderer in an episode of Columbo entitled "Any Old Port in a Storm". Also that year, he played a supporting role in David Winters' musical television adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
  
  He also portrayed a murderer captured by Mrs. Columbo in "Murder Is a Parlor Game" (1979). In 1978, he played a scout, Sam Purchas in an adaptation of James A. Michener's Centennial. Pleasence starred as the Reverend Septimus Harding in the BBC's TV series The Barchester Chronicles (1982). In this series, his daughter Angela Pleasence played his onscreen daughter Susan.
  
  He hosted the 1981 Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live with music guest Fear.
  
  In 1986, Pleasence joined Ronald Lacey and Polly Jo Pleasence for the television thriller Into the Darkness.
  
  Film
  
  Donald Pleasence in the trailer for
  the film Eye of the Devil (1966).
  
  Pleasence made his big-screen debut with The Beachcomber (1954). Some notable early roles include Parsons in 1984 (1956), and minor roles opposite Alec Guinness in Barnacle Bill (1957) and Dirk Bogarde in The Wind Cannot Read (1958). In Tony Richardson's film of Look Back in Anger (1959), he plays a vindictive market inspector opposite Richard Burton. In the same year, Pleasence starred in the horror films Circus of Horrors directed by Sidney Hayers, playing the role of Vanet, the owner of a circus, and The Flesh and the Fiends as the real-life murderer William Hare, alongside Peter Cushing, George Rose and Billie Whitelaw.

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

  He appeared as the mild-mannered and good-natured POW forger Colin Blythe in the film The Great Escape (1963), who discovers that he is slowly going blind, but nonetheless participates in the mass break-out, only to be shot down by German soldiers because he is unable to see them. In The Night of the Generals (1967), he played another uncharacteristically sympathetic role, this time as an old-school German general involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler. In 1971, he returned to the realm of the deranged, delivering a tour de force performance in the role of an alcoholic Australian doctor in Ted Kotcheff's nightmarish outback drama Wake in Fright.
  
  Pleasence played Lucifer in the religious epic The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). His character taking on many dark, shadowy human disguises throughout the film was unprecedented in breathing life into the Luke 4:13 phrase "... he left Him until an opportune time ..." He was one of many stars who were given cameos throughout the film.
  
  He also acted in Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac (1966), in which he portrayed the love-sodden husband of a much younger French wife (Françoise Dorléac). He ventured successfully into American cowboy territory, playing a sadistic self-styled preacher who goes after stoic Charlton Heston in the Western Will Penny (1968).
  
  He portrayed SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), opposite Robert Duvall which was the directorial debut of George Lucas. A few years later, he portrayed antagonist Lucas Deranian, in Walt Disney's Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and, in Telefon (1977), Nicolai Dalchimsky, the Russian seeking to start a war between the United States and the Soviet Union.
  
  Pleasence appeared as Dr. Samuel Loomis in John Carpenter's horror film Halloween (1978). The film was a major success and was considered the highest grossing independent film of its time, earning accolades as a classic of the horror genre. He also played the teacher, Kantorek in All Quiet on the Western Front (1979), Dr. Kobras in The Pumaman (1980) and the held-hostage President of the United States in Escape from New York (1981). The rather sinister accent which Pleasence employed in this and other films may be credited to the elocution lessons he had as a child. He reprised his Dr. Sam Loomis role in Halloween II (1981), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995).
  
  Pleasence admired Sir Laurence Olivier, with whom he worked on-stage in the 1950s, and later on the film version of Dracula (1979). Two years earlier, Pleasence did an amusingly broad impersonation of Olivier in the guise of a horror-film actor called "Valentine De'ath" in the film The Uncanny (1977). According to the film critic Kim Newman on a DVD commentary for Halloween II, the reason for Pleasence's lengthy filmography was that he never turned down any role that was offered.
  
  Spoken records and voice-overs
  
  During the early 1960s, Pleasence recorded several children's-story records on the Atlas Record label. These were marketed as the Talespinners series in the United Kingdom. They were also released in the United States as Tale Spinners for Children by United Artists. The stories included Don Quixote and the Brave Little Tailor.
  
  Pleasence provided the voice-over for the British public information film, The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water (1973). The film, intended to warn children of the dangers of playing near water, attained notoriety for allegedly giving children nightmares.
  
  Books
  Pleasence was the author of the children's book Scouse the Mouse (1977) (London: New English Library), which was animated by Canadian animator/film director Gerald Potterton (a friend of the actor, who directed him in the Canadian film The Rainbow Boys (1973), retitled The Rainbow Gang for VHS release in the United States) and also adapted into a children's recording (Polydor Records, 1977) with Ringo Starr voicing the book's title character, Scouse the Mouse.
  
  In his book British Film Character Actors (1982), Terence Pettigrew describes Pleasence as "a potent combination of eyes and voice. The eyes are mournful but they can also be sinister or seedy or just plain nutty. He has the kind of piercing stare which lifts enamel off saucepans."
  
  Awards
  Pleasence was nominated four times for the Tony Award for best performance by a leading actor in a Broadway play: in 1962 for Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, in 1965 for Jean Anouilh's Poor Bitos, in 1969 for Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth, and in 1972 for Simon Gray's Wise Child.
  
  Pleasence was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his services to the acting profession by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994.
  
  Personal life
  Pleasence married four times and had five daughters from his first three marriages. He had Angela and Jean with Miriam Raymond (m. 1941–1958); Lucy and Polly with Josephine Martin Crombie (m. 1959–1970); and Miranda with Meira Shore (m. 1970–1988). His last marriage was to Linda Kentwood (m. 1988–1995; his death)
  
  Death
  On 2 February 1995, Pleasence died at age 75 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, from complications of heart failure following heart valve replacement surgery. His body was cremated.
  
  Legacy
  The 1995 film Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers was dedicated to Donald Pleasence. The 1998 film Halloween H20: 20 Years Later also features a dedication to Pleasence in the end credits, with sound-alike voice actor Tom Kane providing a voice-over for Loomis in the film. In the 2018 film, Halloween, sound-alike comedian Colin Mahan voiced Loomis.
  
  Dr. Evil, the character played by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers comedy films (1997–2002), and Doctor Claw from Inspector Gadget are parodies of Pleasence's performance as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.

  
  Donald Pleasence (1919–1995)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000587/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (234 credits)
  
  1996 Fatal Frames -Professor Robinson
  1995 Safe Haven - The Sailor
  1995 Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers - Dr. Loomis
  1995 Signs and Wonders (TV Series) - Cornelius Van Damm
  - Episode #1.4 (1995) ... Cornelius Van Damm
  - Episode #1.3 (1995) ... Cornelius Van Damm
  - Episode #1.2 (1995) ... Cornelius Van Damm
  - Episode #1.1 (1995) ... Cornelius Van Damm
  1994 Guinevere (TV Movie) - Merlin
  1993 The Thief and the Cobbler - Phido the Vulture (original and Majestic Films version) / Additional voices (Miramax version) (voice)
  1993 The Big Freeze (TV Movie) - Soup slurper
  1993 The Advocate - Pincheon
  1993 Screen Two (TV Series) - Victor Harty
  - Femme Fatale (1993) ... Victor Harty
  1992 Lovejoy (TV Series) - Karel Redl
  - The Prague Sun (1992) ... Karel Redl
  1992 Diên Biên Phú - Howard Simpson
  1991 Shadows and Fog - Doctor
  1991 Millions - Ripa
  1991 Women in Arms (TV Movie) - Dreyfuss
  1991 L'avvoltoio può attendere - Armon Shalik
  1990 Moi, général de Gaulle (TV Movie) - Winston Churchill
  
  1989 American risciò - Reverend Mortom
  1989 Buried Alive - Dr. Schaeffer
  1989 Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (TV Movie) - Jason Rafiel
  1989 Casablanca Express - Colonel Bats
  1989 Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers - Loomis
  1989 Paganini Horror - Mr. Pickett
  1989 Ten Little Indians - Judge Wargrave
  1989 River of Death - Heinrich Spaatz
  1989 The House of Usher - Walter Usher
  1988 The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (TV Movie) - Dr. Absalon
  1988 Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers - Dr. Sam Loomis
  1988 Vampire in Venice - Don Alvise
  1988 Last Platoon - Colonel B. Abrahams
  1988 The Commander - Henry Carlson
  1988 The Ray Bradbury Theatre (TV Series) - George Hill
  - Punishment Without Crime (1988) ... George Hill
  1988 Hanna's War - Captain Thomas Rosza
  1988 Phantom of Death - Inspector Datti
  1987 Gila and Rik (TV Movie) - Joe Gardenia
  1987 Urban Animals - Prof. Livingstone
  1987 Django Strikes Again - Ben Gunn
  1987 Prince of Darkness - Priest
  1987 Ground Zero - Prosper Gaffney
  1987 Double Target - Senator Blaster
  1987 Basements (TV Movie) - Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room")
  1987 Specters - Professor Lasky
  1987 Scoop (TV Movie) - London - Lord Copper
  1987 Warrior Queen - Clodius
  1986 Hit Man (TV Mini-Series) - Olindo Cuomo
  - Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Olindo Cuomo
  - Episode #1.2 (1986) ... Olindo Cuomo
  - Episode #1.1 (1986) ... Olindo Cuomo
  1986 Honor Thy Father (TV Movie) - Aldo Rossi (as Donald Pleasance)
  1986 Into the Darkness (Video) - David Beckett
  1986 Operation Nam - Father Lenoir
  1986 To Kill a Stranger - Col. Kostik
  1985 Nothing Underneath - Commissioner Danesi
  1985 Treasure of Doom - Klaus von Blantz
  1985 The Corsican Brothers (TV Movie) - The Chancellor
  1985 Phenomena - Professor John McGregor
  1985 Black Arrow (TV Movie) - Sir Oliver Oates
  1984 Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie - Victor Frankenstein / Old Baron Frankenstein
  1984 Arch of Triumph (TV Movie) - Haake
  1984 A Breed Apart - J.P. Whittier
  1984 Where Is Parsifal? - Mackintosh
  1984 The Ambassador - Minister Eretz
  1984 Master of the Game (TV Mini-Series) - Salomon Van der Merwe
  - Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Salomon Van der Merwe
  - Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Salomon Van der Merwe
  - Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Salomon Van der Merwe
  1983 Warrior of the Lost World - Prossor
  1983 The Devonsville Terror - Dr. Warley
  1971-1983 Play for Today (TV Series) - Samuel Johnson / Gerry Muddiman / Tom
  - The Falklands Factor (1983) ... Samuel Johnson
  - Skin Deep (1971) ... Gerry Muddiman
  - The Fox Trot (1971) ... Tom
  1982 The Barchester Chronicles (TV Mini-Series) - Rev. Septimus Harding
  - Part 7 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
  - Part 6 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
  - Part 5 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
  - Part 4 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
  - Part 3 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
  1982 Witness for the Prosecution (TV Movie) - Mr. Myers
  1982 Alone in the Dark - Dr. Leo Bain
  1981 Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr - Gilbert Carson
  1981 Halloween II - Sam Loomis
  1981 Computercide (TV Movie) - George Dettler
  1981 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Ignatius Slake
  - Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 4 (1981) ... Ignatius Slake
  - Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 1 (1981) ... Ignatius Slake
  1981 The Monster Club - Pickering (segment "Vampire Story")
  1981 Escape from New York - President
  1980 Blade on the Feather (TV Movie) - Professor Jason Cavendish
  1980 The Ghost Sonata (TV Movie) - The old man
  1980 The Pumaman - Kobras (as Donald Pleasance)
  
  1979 The French Atlantic Affair (TV Mini-Series) - Max Dechambre
  - Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Max Dechambre
  - Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Max Dechambre
  - Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Max Dechambre
  1979 All Quiet on the Western Front (TV Movie) - Kantorek
  1979 Better Late Than Never (TV Movie) - Colonel Riddle
  1979 Jaguar Lives! - General Villanova
  1979 Dracula - Dr. Jack Seward
  1979 Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff - Dr. Steiner
  1979 L'homme en colère - Albert Rumpelmayer
  1979 Gold of the Amazon Women (TV Movie) - Clarence Blasko
  1979 Mrs. Columbo (TV Series) - Ian A. Morly
  - Murder Is a Parlor Game (1979) ... Ian A. Morly
  1978-1979 Centennial (TV Mini-Series) 0 Sam Purchas
  - The Scream of Eagles (1979) ... Sam Purchas
  - The Winds of Death (1979) ... Sam Purchas
  - The Winds of Fortune (1979) ... Sam Purchas
  - The Crime (1979) ... Sam Purchas
  - The Storm (1979) ... Sam Purchas
  1978 Halloween - Loomis
  1978 Last In, First Out - Rothko
  1978 Power Play - Blair
  1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - B.D. Hoffler
  1978 The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (TV Mini-Series) - Narrator
  - Tithing Day, Sheaving Tide, Husking Bee, Corn Play, Kindling Night, Harvest Home (1978) ... Narrator (voice)
  - Ploughing Day, Planting Day, Agnes Fair, Choosing the Young Lord, the Day of Seasoning (1978) ... Narrator (voice)
  1978 Night Creature - Axel MacGregor
  1978 The Bastard (TV Movie) - Solomon Sholto
  1978 Tomorrow Never Comes - Dr. Todd
  1978 Blood Relatives - James Doniac
  1978 The Defection of Simas Kudirka (TV Movie) - Captain Vladimir Popov
  1977 Telefon - Nicolai Dalchimsky
  1977 Oh, God! - Doctor Harmon
  1977 The Uncanny - Valentine De'ath (segment "Hollywood 1936")
  1977 Jesus of Nazareth (TV Mini-Series) - Melchior
  - Part 1 (1977) ... Melchior
  1976 Ubu roi (TV Movie) - Pa Ubu
  1976 The Eagle Has Landed - Himmler
  1976 Hindle Wakes (TV Movie) - Nat Jeffcote
  1976 The Last Tycoon - Boxley
  1976 The Passover Plot - Pontius Pilate
  1973-1976 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - George Livingston / Aaron / Bendel
  - The Mind Beyond: Meriel, the Ghost Girl (1976) ... George Livingston
  - The Cafeteria (1974) ... Aaron
  - The Joke (1973) ... Bendel
  1976 Glory Days - John Tyler Jones
  1976 Land of the Minotaur - Father Roche
  1976 A Dirty Knight's Work - Sir Giles Marley
  1976 Death of an Informer (TV Movie) - The man in the office
  1976 Peep Show (TV Series) - Max
  - Death (1976) ... Max
  1975 Performance (TV Series) - - The Captain of Kopenick (1975)
  1975 Shades of Greene (TV Series) - Puckler
  - The Root of All Evil (1975) ... Puckler
  1975 Hearts of the West - A.J. Nietz
  1975 Journey Into Fear - Kuvetli
  1975 Sharon's Baby - Dr. Finch
  1975 Escape to Witch Mountain - Deranian
  1975 The Count of Monte-Cristo (TV Movie) - Danglars
  1974 Barry McKenzie Holds His Own - Erich Count von Plasma
  1974 The Mutations - Professor Nolter
  1974 House of the Damned - Martin Zayas
  1974 Occupations (TV Movie) - Christo Kabak
  1974 The Black Windmill - Cedric Harper
  1974 Watch Out, We're Mad - The Doctor
  1974 From Beyond the Grave - Jim Underwood (segment 2 "An Act of Kindness")
  1973 The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water (TV Short) - The Spirit (voice)
  1973 Malachi's Cove - Malachi
  1973 Tales That Witness Madness - Tremayne (segment "Clinic Link Episodes")
  1973 Columbo (TV Series) - Adrian Carsini
  - Any Old Port in a Storm (1973) ... Adrian Carsini
  1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - Cawser
  - Captain Rogers (1973) ... Cawser
  1973 The Rainbow Boys - Ralph Logan
  1973 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Fred Smudge
  1972 Wedding in White - Jim Dougall, Sr.
  1972 Raw Meat - Inspector Calhoun
  1972 Police Surgeon (TV Series) - Jerry Hahn
  - Lady X (1972) ... Jerry Hahn
  1972 Innocent Bystanders - Loomis
  1972 Henry VIII and His Six Wives - Thomas Cromwell
  1972 The Man Outside (TV Series) - Victor Cobb
  - A Glass of Snake Wine (1972) ... Victor Cobb
  1972 The Pied Piper - Baron
  1972 The Jerusalem File - Major Samuels
  1972 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Hans Vogler
  - The Ninety-Second War: Part II (1972) ... Hans Vogler
  1971 Kidnapped - Ebenezer Balfour
  1971 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Carnacki
  - The Horse of the Invisible (1971) ... Carnacki
  1971 Wake in Fright - Doc Tydon
  1971 THX 1138 - SEN
  1970 Confession (TV Series) - Sergeant Hurby
  - The Fell Sergeant (1970) ... Sergeant Hurby
  1970 Soldier Blue - Isaac Q. Cumber
  
  1969 Arthur? Arthur! - Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon
  1969 The Madwoman of Chaillot - The Prospector
  1969 NBC Experiment in Television (TV Series) - - Pinter People (1969) ... (voice)
  1968 Creature of Comfort - James Thorne
  1968 The Other People - Clive - Elsa's father
  1968 Mr. Freedom - Dr. Freedom (as Don Pleasence)
  1967-1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - J.G. / Richard Pratt
  - The News-Benders (1968) ... J.G.
  - Taste (1967) ... Richard Pratt
  1967 Call Me Daddy (TV Movie) - Mr. Hoffman
  1967 Will Penny - Preacher Quint
  1967 The Diary of Anne Frank (TV Movie) - Albert Dussel
  1967 Matchless - Gregori Andreanu
  1967 You Only Live Twice - Blofeld
  1967 Eye of the Devil - Pere Dominic
  1957-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Ben Hoffman / Fred Watson / Arthur Gladwell / ...
  - Call Me Daddy (1967) ... Ben Hoffman
  - The Bandstand (1964)
  - The Cupboard (1960) ... Fred Watson
  - Small Fish Are Sweet (1959) ... Arthur Gladwell
  - A House of His Own (1959)
  1967 Seven Deadly Virtues (TV Series) - Buchanan
  - The Good & Faithful Servant (1967) ... Buchanan
  1967 The Night of the Generals - General Kahlenberge
  1966 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - The Head Waiter
  - The Head Waiter (1966) ... The Head Waiter
  1966 Fantastic Voyage - Dr. Michaels
  1966 Cul-de-sac - George
  1956-1966 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Supt. Smith / Barton Keyes / Henri Pincoff / ...
  - The Move After Checkmate (1966) ... Supt. Smith
  - Double Indemnity (1960) ... Barton Keyes
  - ... And Humanity (1958) ... Henri Pincoff
  - One (1956) ... Burden
  1966 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Max Pfeiffer
  - With Strings Attached (1966) ... Max Pfeiffer
  1965 Armchair Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Ambrose
  - Ambrose (1965) ... Ambrose
  1965 The Hallelujah Trail - 'Oracle' Jones
  1965 The Defenders (TV Series) - Dr. Byron Saul
  - Fires of the Mind (1965) ... Dr. Byron Saul
  1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told - The Dark Hermit - Satan
  1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Escalon
  - The Liberators (1964) ... Escalon
  1963 The Outer Limits (TV Series) - Harold J. Finley
  - The Man with the Power (1963) ... Harold J. Finley
  1963 Dr. Crippen - Dr. Crippen
  1963 The Guest - Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins
  1963 The Great Escape - Blythe 'The Forger'
  1962 The Hatchet Man (TV Movie) - Harry Laws, assistant to Curnic
  1962 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Professor Ellis Fowler
  - The Changing of the Guard (1962) ... Professor Ellis Fowler
  1962 Lisa - Sgt. Wolters
  1961 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Captain Pinski
  - The Horsemasters: Tally Ho (1961) ... Captain Pinski
  - The Horsemasters: Follow Your Heart (1961) ... Captain Pinski
  1961 No Place Like Homicide! - Everett Sloane
  1961 Spare the Rod - Mr. Jenkins
  1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Harvey Laurence
  - The Confession (1961) ... Harvey Laurence
  1961 The Wind of Change - 'Pop' Marley
  1961 No Love for Johnnie - Roger Renfrew
  1960-1961 Danger Man (TV Series) - Nikolides / Captain Aldrich
  - Find and Return (1961) ... Nikolides
  - Position of Trust (1960) ... Captain Aldrich
  1960 A Story of David: The Hunted - Nabal
  1960 The Hands of Orlac - Graham Coates
  1960 Alice Through the Looking Box (TV Movie) - Caterpillar
  1960 The Risk - Parsons, alias Bill Brown
  1960 The Big Day - Victor Partridge
  1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Karl Haussman
  - The Absent Assassin (1960) ... Karl Haussman
  1960 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Admiral Vespery
  - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin (1960) ... Admiral Vespery
  1960 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Potter
  - The Dodo (1960) ... Potter
  1960 Sons and Lovers - Pappleworth
  1960 Circus of Horrors - Vanet
  1960 Hell Is a City - Gus Hawkins
  1960 The Battle of the Sexes - Irwin Hoffman (as Donald Pleasance)
  1960 The Flesh and the Fiends - William Hare
  1960 The Shakedown - Jessel
  1960 The Four Just Men (TV Series) - Paul Koster
  - The Survivor (1960) ... Paul Koster
  
  1959 Killers of Kilimanjaro - Captain
  1956-1959 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Robert Robertson / Leonard Browne / Lenin / ...
  - The Silk Purse (1959) ... Robert Robertson
  - Mr. Browne Comes Home (1959) ... Leonard Browne
  - Blood on the Snow (1958) ... Lenin
  - Fate and Mister Browne (1958) ... Captain Browne
  - Chance Meeting (1956) ... Albert
  1952-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Doctor / The Foreign Minister / Syme / ...
  - The Millionairess (1959) ... Doctor
  - The Moment of Truth (1955) ... The Foreign Minister
  - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) ... Syme
  - Caesar's Friend (1954) ... Gamaliel
  - Such Men Are Dangerous (1954) ... Chamberlain
  6 episodes
  1959 The Traitor (TV Movie) - Grantley Caypor
  1959 William Tell (TV Series) - The Spider
  - The Spider (1959) ... The Spider (as Donald Pleasance)
  1959 Look Back in Anger - Hurst
  1959 The Scarf (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Harry Yates
  - Episode #1.6 (1959) ... Det. Insp. Harry Yates
  - Episode #1.5 (1959) ... Det. Insp. Harry Yates
  - Episode #1.4 (1959) ... Det. Insp. Harry Yates
  - Episode #1.3 (1959) ... Det. Insp. Harry Yates
  - Episode #1.2 (1959) ... Det. Insp. Harry Yates
  6 episodes
  1958 Granite (TV Movie) - A nameless man
  1958 The Two-Headed Spy - General Hardt (as Donald Pleasance)
  1958 The Man Inside - Organ Grinder (as Donald Pleasance)
  -1958 The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) - Prince John / Bailiff Baldwin
  - Marian's Prize (1958) ... Prince John
  - Ambush (1957) ... Prince John
  - Isabella (1956) ... Prince John
  - A Village Wooing (1956) ... Bailiff Baldwin (as Donald Pleasance)
  - The Prisoner (1956) ... Prince John
  6 episodes
  1958 The Wind Cannot Read - The Doctor
  1958 The Desk Set (TV Movie) - Kenny
  1958 Heart of a Child - Spiel
  1958 The Killing Stones (TV Series) - Jakob Kleiber
  - The Carefulness of Kleiber (1958) ... Jakob Kleiber
  1958 A Tale of Two Cities - Barsad
  1958 I Spy (TV Movie) - Mr. Frute
  1957 All at Sea - Cashier
  1957 Stowaway Girl - Evans
  1957 Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series) - Commandant
  - The Coward (1957) ... Commandant
  1957 Decision Against Time - Crabtree
  1956 The Black Tent - Ali
  1956 1984 - R. Parsons (as Donald Pleasance)
  1956 Encounter (TV Series) - - We Must Kill Toni (1956)
  1955 On Camera (TV Series)
  - The Tell-Tale Heart (1955)
  1955 Value for Money - Limpy
  1955 The Grove Family (TV Series) - Monsieur Paul
  - Parlez-Vous Français? (1955) ... Monsieur Paul
  1954 Orders Are Orders - L / Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)
  1954 The Face of Love (TV Movie) - Alex
  1954 The Runaway Slave (TV Movie) - Kidnapper
  1954 Montserrat (TV Movie) - Juan Alvarez
  1954 The Beachcomber - Tromp
  1954 The Coiners (TV Movie) - Mr. Chamberlayn
  1952 The Dybbuk (TV Movie) - Second batlon
  
  Writer (5 credits)
  
  1959 The Unforeseen (TV Series) (teleplay - 1 episode)
  - Vengeance (1959) ... (teleplay)
  1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
  - Ebb Tide (1959) ... (adaptation)
  1958 The Telltale Heart (TV Movie) (adapted by)
  1955 On Camera (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
  - The Tell-Tale Heart (1955) ... (adaptation)
  1954 Encounter (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
  - Ebb Tide (1954) ... (adaptation)
  
  Soundtrack (3 credits)
  
  1981 Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr (performer: "Beautiful Browneye" - uncredited)
  1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (performer: "I Want You (She's So Heavy)")
  1973 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) (performer: "Smudge's Song")
  
  Director (1 credit)
  1970 Zur Nacht (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)
  - Dialogue of actors - Versuch eines Schauspielerporträts (1970)

  
  
  

  
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