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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  May 2020 edited June 2020 Posts: 13,785

  May 19th
  
  1937: Francis Patrick Roach (Pat Roach) is born--Birmingham, England.
  (He dies 17 July 2004 at age 67-- Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, England.)

  

  Pat Roach (I) (1937–2004)

  Actor | Stunts
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0730053/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  1938: Bryan Marshall is born--Battersea, London, England.
  (He dies 25 June 2019 at age 81.)

  

  Bryan Marshall obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jul/04/bryan-marshall-obituary

  Character actor admired for his role in the London gangster film
  The Long Good Friday

  
  Bryan Marshall as Captain Wentworth in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, 1971.
  Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

  
  Anthony Hayward | Published on Thu 4 Jul 2019 12.56 EDT
  
  The actor Bryan Marshall, who has died aged 81, was a solid character actor who brought integrity and realism to the parts he played on screen in Britain throughout the 1960s and 70s. Many will remember him best for his pivotal role as the duplicitous Councillor Harris in the classic film The Long Good Friday (1979), which made a massive impact at the box office with its brutal tale of a London gangland boss, Harold Shand, played by Bob Hoskins, seeing his empire being threatened by rivals from the IRA.
  
  The drama, written by Barrie Keeffe and directed by John Mackenzie, brilliantly captures the dreary London of the 70s as it approaches a new decade of aspiration and docklands regeneration. Shand sees the development opportunities and Harris is on his payroll. For much of the film, Marshall is a silent presence, but that changes when his character gets drunk at a dinner with potential American mafia investors.
  
  Describing himself as a self-made man who rose from the gutter, he tries to sell the idea of developing “a magnificent, high in the sky hotel, something to be proud of”, but is too loud for their liking. When it emerges that he had a hand in the IRA’s attempt to take Shand’s empire, Harris ends up being shot and killed.

  Earlier, Marshall had put himself on the radar of James Bond fans when he was seen in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) as Commander Talbot, captain of a British nuclear submarine captured by a supertanker. It brought another grisly end for the actor when Talbot was killed by a grenade while storming the ship’s control room after Roger Moore’s 007 freed him and his crew.

  
  Bryan Marshall, right, and Andrew Keir in the film Quatermass and the Pit, 1967.
  Photograph: Hammer Film/Allstar/Studiocanal

  
  Marshall’s talent was largely lost to British film and TV producers and directors after he moved to Australia in 1983, although he made a few returns to his homeland and was seen in Australian soaps broadcast in Britain.
  
  He was born in Battersea, south London, and on leaving the local Salesian college went through jobs in an insurance office and as a sales rep while acting with amateur companies. His ambition to act full-time was realised after he trained at Rada (1961-63). He found work in repertory theatres before coming to the attention of a nationwide audience during a six-month run as the fictional Brentwich United’s awkward club captain Jack Birkett in the BBC football soap United!, from its first episode in 1965 until 1966.
  
  Marshall returned to soap in 1971 with a one-off role in Coronation Street as Trevor Parkin, who attended a horticultural lecture given by Albert Tatlock and upstaged the host by showing greater knowledge of the subject. In between, on television he played Captain Dobbin in Vanity Fair (1967), Detective Sergeant Peach in Spindoe (1968), Gilbert Markham in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1968), Dr John Graham Bretton in Villette (1970) and Captain Wentworth in Persuasion (1971).
  
  He showed that he could carry a drama himself when he starred in two 1972 Play for Today productions – as the striking Cornish clay miner Manuel Stocker in Stocker’s Copper and Bill Huntley in Better Than the Movies – as well as Commander Alan Glenn in the third series (1976) of Warship, the property developer Ray Campion in the thriller serial The Mourning Brooch (1979) and the air freight business’s chief pilot Tony Blair (before the future prime minister found fame) in Buccaneer (1980). He was back in soap as Clive Lawson for the first two runs (1974-75) of the afternoon serial Rooms, in which he and Sylvia Kay played the owners renting out bedsits in their London house.

  
  Bryan Marshall, left, in The Long Good Friday, 1980, the role for which he is most remembered.
  Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

  
  Another pivotal role for Marshall came in the film Quatermass and the Pit (1967), a big-screen remake of the writer Nigel Kneale’s third sci-fi serial for TV about a scientist confronting alien forces. He played Potter, a bomb squad captain identifying an unexploded device unearthed during an archaeological dig as a German V-missile. It was his fourth appearance in a Hammer Films production. Earlier he was the Russian villager Vasily in Rasputin: The Mad Monk (1966), played Tom in The Witches (1966) and was Dominic in The Viking Queen (1967).
  
  After moving to Australia in 1983, Marshall remained a prolific screen actor. Among many appearances in television dramas, he starred in Golden Pennies (1985) as a pioneering Englishman seeking his fortune in an 1850s gold-rush mining area, and played Duncan Stewart, Australian ambassador to a fictional south-east Asian country, in the first two series of Embassy (1990-91).
  
  His soap roles included Piet Koonig in A Country Practice (1983), Dr Jonathan Edmonds in Prisoner (retitled Prisoner: Cell Block H in Britain, 1984), Gerard Singer in Neighbours (1987) and Ron Hawkins in The Flying Doctors (1988), and he took two parts in Home and Away – John Simpson (1998) and Trevor Bardwell (2003). In 1989 Marshall hosted the first series of Australia’s Most Wanted, featuring real-life unsolved crimes.
  
  There were occasional returns to Britain for roles that included DSI Don Roberts in two 1997 episodes of Thief Takers and a vet with a drink problem in Heartbeat in 1998.
  
  Marshall is survived by his wife, Vicki, and their three sons, Sean, Paul and Joshua.
  
  • Bryan Marshall, actor, born 19 May 1938; died 25 June 2019

  

  Bryan Marshall (I) (1938–2019)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0550789/
  

  

  1941: Tania Mallet is born--Blackpool, Lancashire, England.
  (She dies 30 March 2019 at age 77--England.)

  

  Tania Mallet, ‘Goldfinger’ Bond
  Girl, Dies at 77

  See the complete article here:
  
  

  https://variety.com/2019/film/news/tania-mallet-dead-dies-goldfinger-james-bond-1203177293/

  By Dave McNary
  

  
  CREDIT: Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

  British actress and model Tania Mallet, who played Tilly Masterson in the 1964 James Bond classic “Goldfinger,” has died. She was 77.
  
  The official James Bond Twitter account announced her death on Sunday. “We are very sorry to hear that Tania Mallet who played Tilly Masterson in ‘Goldfinger’ has passed away,” the tweet reads. “Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this sad time.”

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

  Mallet was working as a model when she was cast as Masterson by producer Albert “Cubby” Broccoli. She had previously auditioned for the role of Tatiana Romanova in 1963’s “From Russia With Love,” but lost the part to Daniela Bianchi.
  
  In “Goldfinger,” Mallet’s character portrayed the sister of Shirley Eaton’s Jill Masterson, who betrays the villain Auric Goldfinger and is killed by him through “skin suffocation” after being completely painted in gold paint. Masterson, bent on avenging her sister’s death, is subsequently killed in the movie by Goldfinger’s servant, Oddjob (played by Harold Sakata), who throws a steel-rimmed hat at her.
  
  Mallet told the James Bond fan site MI6 in 2003 that she had always been “more comfortable” in a small studio with “just a photographer and his assistant.”
  
  “The restrictions placed on me for the duration of the filming grated, were dreadful, and I could not anticipate living my life like that,” she added.

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

  

  Tania Mallet (1941–2019)

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

  
  

  1948: Grace Jones is born--Spanish Town, Jamaica.
  
  1965: Mikhail Vitalievich Gorevoy (Russian: Михаил Витальевич Горевой) is born--Moscow, Russia.
  
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever films OO7 fighting Bambi and Thumper.
  1978: Christopher Wood completes his Moonraker script.

  
  

  1979: Bérénice Lim Marlohe is born--Paris, France.
  
  1992: Samuel Frederick "Sam" Smith is born--Bishop's Stortford, England.
  
  2009: Pierce Brosnan, whale activist, is photographed walking the White House grounds, Washington, D.C.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2016: The Daily Record proposes Daniel Craig is finished as Bond.

  

  Daniel Craig 'done with James Bond after rejecting
  £68m deal for two films' as Tom Hiddleston speculation
  increases

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/daniel-craig-done-james-bond-8003248

  The 007 actor is said to have told studio bosses he is finished with the spy saga
  By Alistair McGeorge | 07:53, 19 MAY 2016

  
  Daniel Craig and Tom Hiddleston

  
  Daniel Craig has reportedly called time on his tenure as James Bond after snubbing a £68 million offer for two more films.
  
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  2019: Bond cars for auction at Bonham's.

  
  James Bond's Favorite Aston Martin Cars Up For Auction
  https://www.forbes.com/sites/joanneshurvell/2019/05/13/james-bonds-favorite-aston-martin-cars-up-for-auction/#688101ec58ca
  Joanne Shurvell | Contributor | Travel | I write about travel, food, culture and fashion.
  
  
  Aston Martin's iconic DB5, released in 1963, driven by James Bond and now available for sale at Bonhams' auction 19 May
  
  The twentieth edition of Bonhams’ annual Aston Martin sale is to be held for the first time at The Wormsley Estate in the Chiltern Hills, about an hour outside of London. The Wormsley Estate, home to both a world-famous cricket ground and to the annual Garsington Opera festival, has been owned by the Getty family since 1985. Aston Martin auction attendees will also be able to view the semi-annual "Concours" event where Aston Martin Club owners display their cars to be judged. Aston Martin was founded in 1913 and takes its name from Lionel Martin (co-owner with Robert Bamford) who used to race at Aston Hill (a hill used to race cars until it was deemed too dangerous in 1925). Associated with elegance and speed, it's no surprise that the Aston Martin has been the car of choice by Ian Fleming's famous secret agent.
  
  
  A 2019 Aston Martin Vanquish Zagato | Bonhams
  
  The automobiles in the Bonhams' auction on 19 May will range in age from a 1952 Lagonda to a 2019 Vanquish Zagato shooting brake. All eyes will be on the top lot, a 1963 DB4 series V convertible, one of only 70 ever made, estimated to sell for at least £750,000.
  
  
  A 1969 Aston Martin DBS similar to the one driven by George Lazenby in the sixth Bond film | Bonhams

  James Bond fans will be pleased to see a wide range of the secret agent’s favorites at this sale, including a 1965 model of the iconic Aston Martin DB5. The DB5 featured in Goldfinger, Thunderball and Goldeneye, as well as Casino Royale and Skyfall. The 1965 model in the Bonhams’ auction is a classic silver birch with black leather interiors and has an estimate of £620,000-£680,000. A 1969 DBS sports saloon similar to the one driven by George Lazenby in the sixth Bond film, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service has an estimate of £100,00-£120,000.

  
  
  1987 V8 Vantage X Pack Volante | Bonhams

  Timothy Dalton’s 007 drove a V8 Vantage in the 1987 film The Living Daylights. This sale includes two examples from 1987, both in metallic blue. One of these is one of only 131 made, an X-Pack sports saloon that is expected to command in excess of £320,000. The other model, one of only 109 ever made, an X-Pack V8 Vantage Volante, was the world’s fastest convertible at the time with a cruising speed of over 150 miles per hour. The estimate is £300,000-£350,000.

  
  
  The 1959 DB2 Aston Martin available for restoration | Bonhams
  
  Collectors interested in restoring their own cars will be interested in the first and only Mark III Sports Saloon 1959 with automatic transmission and left-hand drive from California. It was delivered new to California and is now offered as a restoration project. This left-hand drive car (estimate £85,000 - £115,000) includes a dismantled 3.0-litre engine in the sale, together with a Borg Warner automatic transmission and a David Brown manual gearbox, giving the new owner the option to fit their preferred transmission.
  
  
  Aston Martin 1952 Lagonda Drophead Coupé | Bonhams
  
  The oldest car for sale on 19 May will be the 1952 Lagonda 2.6 litre Drophead Coupé, originally designed and engineered by W.O. Bentley, founder of another iconic British car brand Bentley Motors. The elegant lines with their Italianate flair, created by renowned automotive designer Frank Feeley, may have been a nostalgic nod to the pre-war Lagondas (estimate £70,000 - £80,000.)
  
  
  A rare "Agents for Lagonda Cars" sign | Bonhams

  The Aston Martin sale will also contain automobile memorabilia, including a Javan Smith 1:8 scale scratch-built model of the 1963 Monza-winning Aston Martin "DP214" (estimate £2,000 - £3,000), a rare “Agents for Lagonda Cars” enamel sign (estimate £1,300 - £1,800), a pre-world war II tool roll for the 1.5L Aston Martin (estimate £500 - £800) and numerous “007” related items, including several photographs of the various Bond cars, signed by the actors Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig.
  
  James Bond fans who are keen to view more "007" cars should visit London's film museum in Covent Garden to see the Bond in Motion exhibition. With over 100 cars and artefacts from all 24 James Bond films, this is the world's largest official collection of James Bond vehicles.

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  May 2020 edited May 2020 Posts: 13,785

  May 20th
  
  1917: Major Valentine Fleming is killed during World War I shelling on the Western Front at Gillemont Farm area,
  Picardy, France. Eulogized by close friend Winston Churchill. A fellow officer calls him "absolutely our best officer".

  

  ‘Absolutely our best officer’: Valentine Fleming (1882-1917)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com/2017/05/19/absolutely-our-best-officer-valentine-fleming-1882-1917

  Posted on May 19, 2017 by The History of Parliament
  

  
  Major Valentine Fleming, Illustrated London News, 9 June 1917, p. 684., via wikimedia

  
  In the latest of our blogs on MPs killed in the First World War, Dr Kathryn Rix marks the centenary of the death of Valentine Fleming on 20 May 1917…
  
  Major Valentine Fleming, Illustrated London News, 9 June 1917, p. 684., via wikimedia
  
  On 25 May 1917, the obituary of Valentine Fleming, Conservative MP for South Oxfordshire since January 1910, appeared in The Times, following his death five days earlier on the Western Front. Its author – ‘W. S. C.’ – was none other than Winston Churchill, who had known Fleming not only as a fellow MP, but also as an officer in the same yeomanry regiment, the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars. A framed copy of this obituary was one of the most cherished possessions of Fleming’s second son Ian, the creator of James Bond. He was just about to turn nine when his father died.
  
  Born in Fife in 1882, Fleming had a ‘distinguished and creditable’ career at Eton and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he excelled at rowing and athletics. He graduated with a degree in History in 1905. His father, Robert, a wealthy financier, had purchased a country estate at Nettlebed, near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire in 1903. Aided financially by his father, Fleming bought his own property in the county at Braziers Park, Ipsden, where he and his wife Evelyn lived after their marriage in 1906.
  
  In January 1907 Fleming was chosen as the prospective Conservative candidate for South Oxfordshire (also known as the Henley division). The chairman of the meeting which adopted him noted his academic achievements, his commercial experience in the City and his involvement as an officer in the Queen’s Own Oxfordshire Hussars, which he had joined as a second lieutenant in 1904. He also considered it an important asset that Fleming had ‘a charming wife – who would be of great assistance to him in the campaign, considering the part women now took in politics’. Fleming worked assiduously to cultivate support in the constituency, attending thirty meetings in his first two months as candidate, and also became well-known in the hunting field.
  
  At the January 1910 election, when he advocated the policies of tariff reform and colonial preference, Fleming won a convincing victory over his Liberal opponent. Giving thanks when the result was declared, he was particularly grateful to Oxfordshire’s under-sheriff for performing the duties of returning officer. As Fleming explained, ‘he has rescued me from the somewhat embarrassing position of being returned by my own father’: as High Sheriff of Oxfordshire that year, Robert Fleming should have acted as returning officer.
  
  Fleming was re-elected at the December 1910 general election, but in April 1913 decided that he would not stand again when the next election took place. His father was taking partial retirement from the merchant bank of Robert Fleming and Co., which he had founded. Fleming therefore anticipated having to spend more time on business, especially as he would have to make periodic visits to the United States. Churchill’s obituary of him suggested that his decision stemmed also from his dislike of ‘the violence of faction and the fierce tumults which swayed our political life up to the very threshold of the Great War’.
  
  When war broke out in 1914, Fleming, now a captain, enlisted for service with his regiment. Churchill recorded that Fleming had taken every opportunity to attend training courses as a yeomanry officer, with the result that ‘on mobilization there were few more competent civilian soldiers of his rank’. He fought at the battle of Ypres, was twice mentioned in dispatches and was promoted to the rank of major.
  
  In the early hours of 20 May 1917, Fleming was one of five members of his squadron killed in a heavy German bombardment, while defending Gillemont Farm, near Epehy in northern France. A few weeks before his death he had sent a final postcard to his son, Ian, writing:
  

  In the wood where we slept last night were wild boars. I killed a snake but not a poisonous one. A hedgehog came into Philip’s shelter one night. (J. Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming)

  Philip (1889-1971) was Fleming’s younger brother, who served alongside him in the Oxfordshire Hussars. A talented rower, who had won a gold medal at the 1912 Olympics, he survived the war.
  
  Posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Order, Valentine Fleming was buried at Templeux-le-Guerard British cemetery in northern France. Churchill remembered his ‘lovable and charming personality’, while a fellow officer wrote that
  

  The loss to the regiment is indescribable. He was … absolutely our best officer, utterly fearless, full of resource, and perfectly magnificent with his men.

  
  KR

  
  

  
  1927: David Hedison is born--Providence, Rhode Island.
  (He dies 18 July 2019 at age 92--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  David Hedison, Actor in
  'Voyage to the Bottom of the
  Sea’ and ‘The Fly’, Dies at 92

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://variety.com/2019/film/news/david-hedison-dead-dies-the-fly-voyage-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-1203275257/

  Mackenzie Nichols, Staff Writer
  
  
  David Hedison, a film, television, and theater actor known for his role as Captain Lee Crane in the sci-fi adventure television series “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” and as the crazed scientist turned human insect in the first iteration of the film “The Fly,” died on July 18. He was 92, and the family said in a statement that he “died peacefully” with his daughters at his side.
  
  “Even in our deep sadness, we are comforted by the memory of our wonderful father. He loved us all dearly and expressed that love every day. He was adored by so many, all of whom benefited from his warm and generous heart. Our dad brought joy and humor wherever he went and did so with great style,” said the family in a statement.
  
  David Hedison, born Al Hedison, was from Providence, R.I. and studied at Brown University where he grew fond of the theater, becoming a part of the university’s theater production group “Sock and Buskin Players.” He then moved to New York, studying with Sanford Meisner at “The Neighborhood Playhouse” as well as Lee Strasberg of “The Actor’s Studio.” In the 1950s, he appeared in “Much Ado About Nothing” and “A Month in the Country,” working with Uta Hagen and Michael Redgrave on productions by Clifford Odets and Christopher Fry, among others.
  
  Shortly after “A Month in the Country,” Hedison first hit the big screen with his role in the 1957 film “The Enemy Below” and in the 1958 film “Son of Robin Hood.” He also played André Delambre in “The Fly,” (1958) which became a cult phenomenon and sparked a remake in 1986 with Jeff Goldblum reprising the role. Hedison then signed with Twentieth Century Fox in 1959 and changed his first name to David, his given middle name. In 1964, he hit his big television break as Captain Lee Crane in producer Irwin Allen’s “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” which ran until 1968.

  He also joined Roger Moore in the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die” as well as Timothy Dalton in 1989 with “License to Kill,” becoming the first actor to play CIA agent Felix Leiter twice. In the 1980s and 1990s, he worked on shows such as “Another World,” “T.J. Hooker,” “Dynasty,” “The Love Boat,” “Who’s the Boss” and “The Colbys.”

  According to family members, Hedison joked during his final days that “instead of RIP he preferred SRO ‘Standing Room Only.'” They said that he was “tall and strikingly handsome,” and “a true actor through and through.”
  
  Hedison’s wife, Bridget, a production associate on “Dynasty” and an assistant to producer on “The Colbys,” died in 2016. He is survived by two daughters; Serena and Alexandra, an actress and director who is married to Jodie Foster.
  
  Donations may be made to the Actor’s Fund.

  
  http://david-hedison.com/wp/filmography/
  Filmography

  Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk (2017) Interviewee #2
  Superman and the Secret Planet (Video) (2013) ….. Jor El
  The Reality Trap (2005) …. Morgan Jameson
  “The Young and the Restless” …. Arthur Hendricks / … (50 episodes, 2004)
  … aka “Y&R” – USA (promotional abbreviation)
  Spectres (2004) …. William
  … aka “Soul Survivor” – USA (cable TV title)
  Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001) …. Daniel Alexander
  … aka “Megiddo” – USA (short title)
  Mach 2 (2001) …. Senator Stuart Davis
  
  Fugitive Mind (1999) (V) …. Senator Davis
  “Another World” (1964) TV series …. Spencer Harrison (1991-1996, 1999) (unknown episodes)
  Sheng zhan feng yun (1990) …. US Ambassador
  … aka “Undeclared War” – Hong Kong (English title)
  
  Licence to Kill (1989) …. Felix Leiter
  “Murder, She Wrote” …. Mitch Payne / … (3 episodes, 1986-1989)
  – Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Part 2 (1989) TV episode …. Victor Casper
  – Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Part 1 (1989) TV episode …. Victor Caspar
  – The Perfect Foil (1986) TV episode …. Mitch Payne
  “The Law and Harry McGraw” …. Blake Devaroe (1 episode, 1987)
  – Mr. Chapman, I Presume? (1987) TV episode …. Blake Devaroe
  “Who’s the Boss?” …. Jim Ratcliff (1 episode, 1987)
  – Mona (1987) TV episode …. Jim Ratcliff
  “The Colbys” …. Lord Roger Langdon / … (9 episodes, 1985-1987)
  “Hotel” …. Dr. Howard Bentley / … (2 episodes, 1985-1987)
  – Pitfalls (1987) TV episode …. Dr. Howard Bentley
  – Distortions (1985) TV episode …. Jack Fitzpatrick
  Smart Alec (1986) …. Frank Wheeler
  … aka “Hollywood Dreaming” – USA (alternative title)
  “Trapper John, M.D.” …. Miles Warner (1 episode, 1985)
  – The Second Best Man (1985) TV episode …. Miles Warner
  “The A-Team” …. David Vaun (1 episode, 1985)
  – Mind Games (1985) TV episode …. David Vaun
  “Crazy Like a Fox” …. Ed Galvin (1 episode, 1985)
  – Eye in the Sky (1985) TV episode …. Ed Galvin
  “A.D.” …. Porcius Festus (5 episodes, 1985)
  “Knight Rider” …. Theodore Cooper (1 episode, 1985)
  – Knight in Retreat (1985) TV episode …. Theodore Cooper
  “Double Trouble” …. David Burke (2 episodes, 1985)
  – The Day of the Rose (1985) TV episode …. David Burke
  – September Song (1985) TV episode …. David Burke
  “Finder of Lost Loves” …. Neil Palmer (1 episode, 1985)
  – Haunted Memories (1985) TV episode …. Neil Palmer
  “Simon & Simon” …. Austin Tyler (2 episodes, 1985)
  – Simon Without Simon: Part 2 (1985) TV episode …. Austin Tyler
  – Simon Without Simon: Part 1 (1985) TV episode …. Austin Tyler
  “The Love Boat” …. Cliff Jacobs / … (7 episodes, 1977-1985)
  – Love on the Line/Don’t Call Me Gopher/Her Honor, the Mayor (1985) TV episode …. Barry Singer
  – Spoonmaker Diamond, The/Papa Doc/The Role Model/Julie’s Tycoon: Part 1 (1982) TV episode …. Cliff Jacobs
  – Spoonmaker Diamond, The/Papa Doc/The Role Model/Julie’s Tycoon: Part 2 (1982) TV episode …. Cliff Jacobs
  – April in Boston/Saving Grace/Breaks of Life (1982) TV episode …. Bradford York
  – Lady from Sunshine Gardens/Eye of the Beholder/Bugged (1981) TV episode …. Allan Christensen
  “The Fall Guy” …. Jordan Stevens / … (3 episodes, 1982-1985)
  – Her Bodyguard (1985) TV episode …. Monte Sorrenson
  – Undersea Odyssey (1984) TV episode …. Milo
  – The Snow Job (1982) TV episode …. Jordan Stevens
  “Partners in Crime” …. Davidson (1 episode, 1984)
  – Fantasyland (1984) TV episode …. Davidson
  The Naked Face (1984) …. Dr. Peter Hadley
  “Fantasy Island” …. Captain John Day / … (6 episodes, 1978-1984)
  Kenny Rogers as The Gambler: The Adventure Continues (1983) (TV) …. Carson
  “Dynasty” …. Sam Dexter (2 episodes, 1983)
  – The Vote (1983) TV episode …. Sam Dexter
  – The Downstairs Bride (1983) TV episode …. Sam Dexter
  “Amanda’s” …. David (1 episode, 1983)
  … aka “Amanda’s by the Sea” – USA (alternative title)
  – All in a Day’s Work (1983) TV episode …. David
  “Matt Houston” …. Pierre Cerdan (1 episode, 1982)
  – Recipe for Murder (1982) TV episode …. Pierre Cerdan
  “T.J. Hooker” …. Saxon (1 episode, 1982)
  – The Protectors (1982) TV episode …. Saxon
  “Hart to Hart” …. Miles Wiatt (1 episode, 1982)
  – Hart of Diamonds (1982) TV episode …. Miles Wiatt
  The Awakening of Cassie (1982)
  “Nero Wolfe” …. Phillip Corrigan (1 episode, 1981)
  – Murder by the Book (1981) TV episode …. Phillip Corrigan
  “Charlie’s Angels” …. Carter Gillis / … (2 episodes, 1978-1981)
  – He Married an Angel (1981) TV episode …. John Thornwood
  
  – Angels in the Stretch (1978) TV episode …. Carter Gillis
  “Benson” …. John Taylor (1 episode, 1979)
  – Pilot (1979) TV episode …. John Taylor
  The Power Within (1979) (TV) …. Danton
  “Greatest Heroes of the Bible” …. Ashpenaz (1 episode, 1979)
  – Daniel and Nebuchadnezzar (1979) TV episode …. Ashpenaz
  ffolkes (1979) …. King
  … aka “North Sea Hijack” – UK (original title)
  … aka “Assault Force” – USA (TV title)
  “Flying High” (1 episode, 1978)
  – High Rollers (1978) TV episode
  Colorado C.I. (1978) (TV) …. David Royce
  “Project U.F.O.” …. Frederick Flanagan (1 episode, 1978)
  … aka “Project Blue Book” – USA (alternative title)
  – Sighting 4011: The Dollhouse Incident (1978) TV episode …. Frederick Flanagan
  “The Bob Newhart Show” …. Steve Darnell (1 episode, 1978)
  – It Didn’t Happen One Night (1978) TV episode …. Steve Darnell
  “The New Adventures of Wonder Woman” …. Evan Robley (1 episode, 1977)
  … aka “Wonder Woman” – USA (original title)
  … aka “The New Original Wonder Woman” – USA (first episodes title)
  – The Queen and the Thief (1977) TV episode …. Evan Robley
  Murder in Peyton Place (1977) (TV) …. Steven Cord
  “Barnaby Jones” …. Paul Nugent (1 episode, 1977)
  – The Deadly Charade (1977) TV episode …. Paul Nugent
  “Gibbsville” (1 episode, 1977)
  – The Grand Gesture (1977) TV episode
  “Family” …. Peter Towne (2 episodes, 1976)
  – Coming of Age (1976) TV episode …. Peter Towne
  – Coming Apart (1976) TV episode …. Peter Towne
  “Ellery Queen” …. Roger Woods (1 episode, 1976)
  – The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer (1976) TV episode …. Roger Woods
  “Bronk” …. Lyle Brewster (1 episode, 1975)
  – Betrayal (1975) TV episode …. Lyle Brewster
  “Cannon” …. Bell / … (3 episodes, 1973-1975)
  – The Star (1975) TV episode …. David Farnum
  – Night Flight to Murder (1973) TV episode …. John Sandler
  – The Dead Samaritan (1973) TV episode …. Bell
  The Art of Crime (1975) (TV) …. Parker Sharon
  The Lives of Jenny Dolan (1975) (TV) …. Dr. Wes Dolan
  Adventures of the Queen (1975) (TV) …. Doctor Peter Brooks
  For the Use of the Hall (1975) (TV) …. Allen
  “The ABC Afternoon Playbreak” …. Clay (1 episode, 1974)
  … aka “ABC Matinee Today” – USA (alternative title)
  – Can I Save My Children? (1974) TV episode …. Clay
  “The Manhunter” …. Jeffrey Donnenfield (1 episode, 1974)
  – The Man Who Thought He Was Dillinger (1974) TV episode …. Jeffrey Donnenfield
  The Compliment (1974) (TV) …. Steve Barker
  “Wide World Mystery” …. Herbert Kasson (1 episode, 1974)
  – Murder Impossible (1974) TV episode …. Herbert Kasson
  “Medical Center” …. Dave (1 episode, 1974)
  – Dark Warning (1974) TV episode …. Dave
  “Shaft” …. Gil Kirkwood (1 episode, 1974)
  – The Capricorn Murders (1974) TV episode …. Gil Kirkwood
  “The New Perry Mason” …. Calvin (1 episode, 1973)
  – The Case of the Frenzied Feminist (1973) TV episode …. Calvin
  The Cat Creature (1973) (TV) …. Prof. Roger Edmonds
  Live and Let Die (1973) …. Felix Leiter
  … aka “Ian Fleming’s Live and Let Die” – UK (complete title), USA (complete title)
  Crime Club (1973) (TV) …. Nick Kelton
  “The F.B.I.” …. Lou Forrester (2 episodes, 1972-1973)
  – A Gathering of Sharks (1973) TV episode
  – The Buyer (1972) TV episode …. Lou Forrester
  The Man in the Wood (1973) (TV) …. Edmund hardy
  “BBC Play of the Month” …. John Buchanan (1 episode, 1972)
  – Summer and Smoke (1972) TV episode …. John Buchanan
  “ITV Saturday Night Theatre” …. Bill Kromin (1 episode, 1972)
  – A Man About a Dog (1972) TV episode …. Bill Kromin
  A Man About a Dog (1972) (TV) …. Bill Kronin
  A Kiss Is Just a Kiss (1971) (TV) …. Kit Shaeffer
  Kemek (1970) …. Nick
  
  “Love, American Style” …. Rob (segment “Love and the Other Love”) (1 episode, 1969)
  – Love and the Bachelor/Love and the Other Love/Love and the Positive Man (1969) TV episode …. Rob (segment “Love and the Other Love”)
  “Journey to the Unknown” …. William Searle (1 episode, 1968)
  – Somewhere in a Crowd (1968) TV episode …. William Searle
  “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” …. Captain Crane / … (110 episodes, 1964-1968)
  The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) …. Philip
  … aka “George Stevens Presents The Greatest Story Ever Told” – UK (complete title), USA (complete title)
  “The Farmer’s Daughter” …. Richard Barden (1 episode, 1964)
  – The Mink Machine (1964) TV episode …. Richard Barden
  “The Saint” …. Bill Harvey (1 episode, 1964)
  – Luella (1964) TV episode …. Bill Harvey
  “Perry Mason” …. Damion White (1 episode, 1962)
  – The Case of the Dodging Domino (1962) TV episode …. Damion White
  “Bus Stop” …. Max Hendricks (1 episode, 1961)
  – Call Back Yesterday (1961) TV episode …. Max Hendricks
  Marines, Let’s Go (1961) …. Pfc. Dave Chatfield
  “Hong Kong” …. Roger Ames (1 episode, 1961)
  – Lesson in Fear (1961) TV episode …. Roger Ames
  The Lost World (1960) …. Ed Malone
  … aka “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World” – USA (complete title)
  
  “Five Fingers” …. Victor Sebastian (5 episodes, 1959)
  – Final Dream (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
  – The Temple of the Swinging Doll (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
  – The Emerald Curtain (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
  – The Men with Triangle Heads (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
  – Station Break (1959) TV episode …. Victor Sebastian
  Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) (uncredited) …. Narrator
  … aka “Leo McCarey’s Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys!” – USA (complete title)
  The Son of Robin Hood (1958) (as Al Hedison) …. Jamie
  The Fly (1958) (as Al Hedison) …. Andre Delambre
  The Enemy Below (1957) (as Al Hedison) …. Lt. Ware (Executive Officer [XO])
  “Star Tonight” (1 episode, 1956)
  – The Mirthmaker (1956) TV episode (as Al Hedison)
  “Kraft Theatre” (1 episode, 1955)
  … aka “Kraft Television Theatre” – USA (original title)
  … aka “Kraft Mystery Theatre” – USA (new title)
  – Eleven O’Clock Flight (1955) TV episode (as Al Hedison)
  
  As Himself
  
  Atomic Recall (2007) (V) (special thanks)
  On the Set with John Glen (2006) (V) …. Himself
  “SoapTalk” …. Himself (2 episodes, 2004)
  – Episode dated 23 March 2004 (2004) TV episode …. Himself
  – Episode dated 18 March 2004 (2004) TV episode …. Himself
  The Fly Papers: The Buzz on Hollywood’s Scariest Insect (2000) (TV) …. Himself
  Inside ‘Licence to Kill’ (1999) (V) …. Himself
  To the Galaxy and Beyond with Mark Hamill (1997) (TV) …. Himself
  … aka “Hollywood Aliens & Monsters” – USA (original title)
  The Fantasy Worlds of Irwin Allen (1995) (TV) …. Himself
  ABC’s Silver Anniversary Celebration (1978) (TV) …. Himself
  “The Hollywood Palace” …. Himself (1 episode, 1967)
  – Episode #5.3 (1967) TV episode …. Himself
  “Dream Girl of ’67” …. Himself (5 episodes, 1967)
  “The Hollywood Squares” …. Guest Appearance (5 episodes, 1967)
  
  Archive Footage
  
  The 16th Annual Soap Opera Awards (2000) (TV) …. Spencer Harrison
  Terror in the Aisles (1984)
  The Horror Show (1979)

  
  
  

  
  1936: Anthony Zerbe is born--Long Beach, California.
  
  1941: Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming discusses Operation Goldeneye with other Allied intelligence
  organizations at Lisbon, Portugal.

  Operation Goldeneye https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Goldeneye
  
  

  
  1963: Richard Maibaum provides his 54 page Goldfinger screen treatment.
  
  1977: Roger Moore and Barbara Bach promote The Spy Who Loved Me at the Cannes Film Festival.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1983: Bond comic strip Flittermouse ends its run in The Daily Express
  (Began 9 February 1983. 553-624) John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1028
  
  https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=870828
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1984
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1984.php3
  https://www.comics.org/issue/73111/cover/4/

  Vampyrernas Härskare (Flittermouse)
  

  
  Swedish Semic 1993 https://www.comics.org/issue/74014/#496710
  Operation Xanadu; Vampyrernas härskare

  

  
  Norwegian 1984 https://www.comics.org/issue/369589/

  Vampyrenes herskere
  

  
  1998: Wolf Mankowitz dies at age 73--County Cork, Ireland.
  (Born 7 November 1924--Bethnal Green, London, England.)

  

  Obituary: Wolf Mankowitz

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-wolf-mankowitz-1158253.html

  John Calder | Saturday 23 May 1998 00:02
  
  THE JEWISH community of London's East End has produced an amazing variety of talent. Some have made their careers in the commercial and financial worlds, while the very significant contributors to the arts have tended to be many-faceted. Joan Littlewood, Steven Berkoff and Mark Anthony Turnage are just a few of the names that spring to mind, but even among such exceptional people, Wolf Mankowitz stands out as a strong and individual voice.
  
  When London first became aware of him as a writer in the early 1950s, he had already made a name for himself as a dealer and authority on antique porcelain, especially Wedgwood. His experience came from working in street markets, then in his own lock-up shop, a practical schooling that he put to good account, becoming both a scholar and (with R.G. Haggar) the editor of the Concise Encyclopaedia of English Pottery and Porcelain (1957). In 1953 he had published his definitive book, The Portland Vase and the Wedgwood Copies, which paid much attention to the copies of that famous Greek antiquity made by Josiah Wedgwood.
  
  Mankowitz's special talent was to make an abstruse and specialised subject read like a detective story, and The Portland Vase sold well. Wedgwood, even in mass-produced modern copies, remained fashionable and Mankowitz cashed in by opening a glittering new shop in the Piccadilly Arcade in London.
  
  At the same time he was using his former experiences, both as a street trader and as a bright young boy with an observant eye - not least for the main chance - to write short novels, which were published by Andre Deutsch; these became very successful. Make Me An Offer (about an antique dealer in search of the Portland Vase) appeared in 1952 and A Kid For Two Farthings a year later. They were both filmed in 1954, directed by Cyril Frankel and Carol Reed respectively.
  
  Next Mankowitz began to write for the theatre and scored a considerable success with The Bespoke Overcoat (1953), in which David Kossoff played Morry, at the Arts Theatre in London, a role he repeated many times. Nobody appeared to notice at the time that the play was an update of a Gogol short story. In 1958 he wrote a musical, Expresso Bongo, based on the career of Tommy Steele, which was filmed the following year.

  He followed it with a great outpouring of novels, short stories, plays, musicals and film scripts (including The Millionairess in 1960 and the James Bond film Casino Royale in 1967), some of which were successful with the public. With his ebullient self-confident personality he was always able to convince producers, but in spite of the volume of work, by the mid-Sixties his name had lost much of its lustre. Most of his new plays, especially the larger-scale ones, did not stay long on the boards.

  Exceptions were adaptations of French plays or other work done in collaboration, such as the film The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961), directed by Leslie Norman, which was based on Willis Hall's stage play. Others worth noting are the novels My Old Man's a Dustman (1956) and A Night With Casanova (1991), The Mendelman Fire and Other Stories (short stories, 1957), and his documentary on Yiddish cinema in the 1930s, Almonds and Raisins (1984). The influence of Yiddish life and lore is evident in much of his work.
  
  Born in Bethnal Green in 1924, Mankowitz was educated at East Ham Grammar School and Downing College, Cambridge, where he read English and was tutored by F.R. Leavis. During the Second World War he served as a volunteer coal miner and in the Army.
  
  In addition to fiction and drama, he wrote books about Dickens, whose observation of urban life was not dissimilar from his own (Dickens of London, 1976), Edgar Allen Poe (The Extraordinary Mr Poe, 1978), and some historical subjects. He published a small volume of poetry in 1971.
  
  Visits to Central America inspired his work and in 1971 he became Honorary Consul to the Republic of Panama in Dublin, a post which gave him some amusement, but little revenue.
  
  In the Seventies he retired to a comfortable house and small property on the south-west coast of Ireland to continue writing and to take advantage of the government's generosity to writers, who pay no tax. There he turned to art and began to make collages; some have been exhibited in Dublin and London.
  
  In 1982, he took a post teaching theatre at the University of New Mexico as well as being Adjunct Professor of English there. He stayed until the late Eighties before moving back to Ireland.
  
  Wolf Mankowitz was a man of many parts with a voracious appetite for knowledge, an outgoing personality, attracted to women, a good talker, with an underlying interest in philosophy which developed particularly during his illness from cancer in his last years. Much of his work shows an ironic sense of humour, an understanding of human motivation and weakness, and a compassion for those unable to rise from the underside of society.
  
  The works that are likely to survive longest, and which are most often revived in small theatres by such enthusiastic character actors as Leonard Fenton, are the early plays, and The Irish Hebrew Lesson (1978), written about the Black and Tans, although the author had the IRA in mind.
  
  His compulsion towards success marred work that with more attention and time would have been better, but he became stoical about that at the end. At his best he was a craftsman with an ability to communicate with his public in all mediums and to make the complex simple and interesting.
  
  Cyril Wolf Mankowitz, writer: born London 7 November 1924; married 1944 Ann Seligmann (three sons, and one son deceased); died Durrus, Co Cork 20 May 1998.

  

  

  Screenwriting Lessons from One of Britain’s
  Best: A Rare Interview with Wolf Mankowitz

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://cinephiliabeyond.org/screenwriting-lessons-one-britains-best-rare-interview-wolf-mankowitz/

  

  One of the most interesting cultural personas of the British fifties and sixties, the versatile writer Wolf Mankowitz made a name for himself in the spheres of literature, film industry and theater. As a child of two Russian Jewish immigrants, he lived in poverty but unexpectedly got the opportunity to turn the tables around when he received a scholarship for Cambridge, where he went to study English and soon dedicate himself to writing. In 1952 he published his first novel ‘Make Me an Offer,’ which was soon turned into a film and a successful West End musical. The very next year his biggest literary success came out: ‘A Kid for Two Farthings’ was translated into many languages and ultimately ended up as a Carol Reed film. In 1960 he wrote the script for Anthony Asquith’s The Millionairess, an adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s play with Sofia Loren and Peter Sellers in leading roles, and his musical Expresso Bongo, a fine satire of the music industry, blossomed as a successful movie with Cliff Richard and Laurence Harvey. Interestingly enough, one of Mankowitz’s biggest contributions to the world of cinema came surprisingly from a project he didn’t even want his name on. Mankowitz introduced his friend Albert ‘Cubby’ Broccoli to Harry Saltzman, the man who held the film rights to James Bond. This partnership instigated one of the biggest franchises in the history of film business starting with Dr. No, but Mankowitz, fearing the movie would be a huge flop that could potentially seriously damage his reputation, asked that his name be removed from the credits, even though he worked on the script. Mankowitz would later, however, write the screenplay for the 1967 Bond movie Casino Royale.

  Mankowitz continued to write all the way until 1991, when he anounced he suffered from cancer and stepped away from the spotlight. Some MI5 files released in 2010 revealed that the famous screenwriter and playwright had been seen as a security risk by the secret service for roughly a decade after the Second World War due to his Russian roots, connections and the fact that his wife was once a member of the Communist Party, a suspicion that caused Mankowitz to unsuccessfully apply for several BBC positions during the fifties. He was ultimately allowed to join BBC on a three-week contract to translate and dub Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Bear’ for television, but not before BBC consulted the secret service first, concluding that translating Chekhov, despite Mankowitz’s obviously controversial background, failed to present any serious security risks for the country.
  
  Today we bring you a precious interview with Mr. Mankowitz published in the February, 1974 edition of the great Filmmakers Newsletter. The esteemed novelist and screenwriter talks about the differences between writing for the stage, film and literary audiences, about his greatest professional successes, the problems he faced throughout his career, the role of the writer both as someone who tries to illuminate and to entertain, and much more. It’s a wonderful and educational read we wholeheartedly recommend, especially if you want to learn more about the craft from the mouth of one of Britain’s best.

  
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  “The task of adapting the 1958 novel ‘Dr No’ for the screen initially fell to Richard Maibaum and Wolf Mankowitz, with Johanna Harwood and Berkely Mather brought in to polish later drafts. At this time, Mankowitz—a friend of ‘Cubby’ Broccoli’s—was best-known for the Peter Sellers-Sophia Loren vehicle The Millionairess (1960) and the apocalyptic sci-fi The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961). He would later ask for his name to be removed from the Dr No credits after seeing the rushes and fearing a major flop. Maibaum, on the other hand, who had spent the 1950s writing war films like The Red Beret (1953) and The Cockleshell Heroes (1954), as well as Nicholas Ray’s Bigger than Life (1956), would go on to make a career out of Fleming’s secret agent, penning a further 12 Bond films before bowing out with Licence to Kill in 1989. To celebrate Mr Bond’s cinematic anniversary, we present an extract from the fifth draft script. It’s the classic moment part-way into Dr No in which the suave superspy (played in the film by Sean Connery) is first introduced to the world. The scene is a London gambling room called Le Cercle, where at the top stakes table, surrounded by onlookers, a chic woman in a red dress and a tuxedoed man with his back to the camera issue their commands to the croupier…”
  —British Film Institute

  

  Wolf Mankowitz (1924–1998)

  Writer | Producer | Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0542554/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: The Daily Record claims James Bond was almost a woman played by Susan Hayward.

  

  James Bond was almost a woman played by Susan Hayward, filmmakers reveal

  See the complete article here:

  https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/entertainment/tv-radio/james-bond-was-almost-a-woman-played-by-susan-878333

  EXCLUSIVE: THE name was always Bond…but Britain’s top secret agent was almost Jane, not James, when 007 first hit the big screen.
  By Toby McDonald - 08:41, 20 MAY 2012U

  

  
  THE name was always Bond…but Britain’s top secret agent was almost Jane, not James, when 007 first hit the big screen.
  
  Filmmakers have revealed how Hollywood idol Susan Hayward was first choice for the role.
  
  But the plot to give Ian Fleming’s suave superspy a sex change was dropped and Sean Connery was cast as the legendary MI6 man.
  
  Lorenzo Semple Jr, who was hired to write Casino Royale for the big screen, said: “Frankly, we thought that James Bond was kind of unbelievable and, as I recall, even kind of stupid.
  
  “So we thought the solution was to make Bond a woman, ‘Jane Bond’, if you will.
  
  “There was even a plan to cast Susan Hayward in the role.”
  
  Semple, who later wrote Never Say Never Again for Sir Sean, admits that the Edinburgh-born former milkman was ultimately the right choice.
  
  He added: “What made Bond work was the fact that Sean Connery wasn’t an upper-class David Niven type.
  
  “That would have been deadly. Sean is working class but has all the required elegance and intelligence.
  
  “The foundation is rooted in something people could relate to.”
  
  Semple said that Fleming had sold the film rights for his first novel Casino Royale for just $6000 (£4000) in 1955 – $218,000 (£140,000) at today’s prices.
  
  But producer Gregory Ratoff, who had bought the rights, and Semple struggled to turn the book into a believable movie.
  
  After a brainstorming session, they hit upon making Bond a woman instead.
  
  Semple said: “Gregory announced one day, ‘We’ll get Susie Hayward. I dated her when she was a $75-a-week actress so she owes me one’.”
  
  But the sultry Oscar-winning actress passed on the role and Sir Sean eventually made the part his instead with Dr No.
  
  The director Terence Young and co-producers Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli were finally won over by the Scot after he brought such passion to their first meeting.
  
  They remember a scruffy, tough-talking young actor who repeatedly banged the table or his thigh to make his point.
  
  Sir Sean had told his acting teacher, Yat Malmgren, a few days before the meeting: “I shall establish myself on overpowering and take the interview like that.
  
  “That would be a good thing, don’t you think, sir?”
  
  Malmgren told his pupil to think about cats “because they are very loose”.
  
  He later said: “I think he walked into that audition very self-assured, very large, very secure.”
  
  Broccoli said: “It was the sheer self-confidence he exuded. I’ve never seen a surer guy. It wasn’t just an act, either.
  
  “When he left, we watched him through the window as he walked down the street.
  
  “He walked like the most arrogant son-of-a-gun you’ve ever seen – as if he owned every bit of the street. ‘That’s our Bond,’ I said.”
  
  Sir Sean shot six 007 films before quitting. But Semple persuaded him out of retirement for one last outing in Never Say Never Again.
  
  Semple, who wrote the Oscar-winning thriller Three Days of the Condor, said in a US interview that he flew to Marbella to win Sir Sean over.
  
  He added: “Sean was tough and his wife, Micheline, was even tougher. She was almost like his agent.
  
  “But I understood how Sean felt. Bond was very special to him and he was very careful about it.
  
  “In the end he loved the idea of Bond coming back.”
  
  He was paid the equivalent of £4.5million in today’s money and a percentage of the profits. In the 1983 film Connery, then 52, played an ageing Bond who is brought back into action to investigate the theft of two nuclear weapons by SPECTRE.
  
  It was released in the same year as Octopussy, starring Roger Moore, and won unanimous good reviews.
  
  A one-off spoof version of Casino Royale was made in 1967 starring David Niven. But it was remade with Daniel Craig – earning almost £400 million at the box office, the most successful of the franchise.
  
  Bond’s 23rd outing for filmmakers Eon Productions, Skyfall, is due to be released in the UK in October and stars Craig for the third time.

  2018: Poster designer Bill Gold dies at age 97--Greenwich, Connecticut.
  (Born 3 January 1921--New York City, New York.)

  

  Bill Gold, Iconic Master of the
  Movie Poster, Dies at 97

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bill-gold-dead-master-movie-poster-was-97-1111346

  1:58 PM PDT 5/20/2018 by Mike Barnes
  

  
  Courtesy of Bill Gold

  
  His résumé included 'Casablanca,' 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'The Exorcist,' 'Dog Day Afternoon' and decades' worth of Eastwood films.
  
  Bill Gold, who revolutionized the art of the movie poster over a seven-decade career that began with Casablanca and included A Clockwork Orange, The Exorcist and dozens of Clint Eastwood films, has died. He was 97.
  
  Gold died at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut, on Sunday, according to family spokeswomen Christine Gillow.
  
  The Brooklyn native began at Warner Bros. in the early 1940s and had a hand in more than 2,000 posters during his iconic career, working on films for everyone from Alfred Hitchcock (1954's Dial M for Murder), Elia Kazan (1955's East of Eden) and Federico Fellini (1963's 8 1/2) to Sam Peckinpah (1969's The Wild Bunch), Robert Altman (1971's McCabe & Mrs. Miller) and Martin Scorsese (1990's GoodFellas).
  
  Gold, who received a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Hollywood Reporter during its 1994 Key Art Awards ceremony, had a way of setting the mood for a movie using a less-is-more philosophy.
  
  "We try not to tell the whole story," he told CBS News in March. "We try to tell a minimum amount of a story, because anything more than that is confusing."
  
  Gold's fruitful relationship with Eastwood began with Dirty Harry (1971), and he gave the actor a gun or a gritty countenance on posters for such films The Enforcer (1976), The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), The Gauntlet (1977), Pale Rider (1985) and Unforgiven (1992).
  
  Gold retired after working on the Eastwood-directed Mystic River (2003) but re-emerged to do the poster for the filmmaker's J. Edgar (2011).
  
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  Bill Gold’s Memorable Movie Posters
  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/gallery/bill-gold-s-memorable-movie-187230/1-casablanca-1942
  
  "With Bill, I knew he would bring great ideas, and the poster he created would be one less thing we had to think about," Eastwood writes in the introduction to the 2010 book Bill Gold PosterWorks. "He respected the film, he respected the story, and he always respected what we were trying to accomplish.
  
  "Four of the films he worked on won best picture Oscars, including Unforgiven. The first image you have of many of your favorite films is probably a Bill Gold creation."
  
  Movie critic Leonard Maltin once noted that each of Gold's posters is "as individual as the movies they are promoting. I can't discern a Bill Gold style, which is a compliment, because rather than trying to shoehorn a disparate array of movies into one way of thinking visually, he adapted himself to such a wide variety."
  
  Gold "started drawing at age 8 and never stopped," he said in a 2016 interview. After graduating from Pratt Institute in New York City, he approached the art director of the poster department at Warner Bros.' offices in New York.
  
  "He sent me away on a trial to design posters for four earlier films: Escape Me Never and [The Adventures of] Robin Hood with Errol Flynn, The Man I Love with Ida Lupino and Bette Davis' Winter Meeting," he recalled.
  
  Gold passed the test and was hired at age 21, and his first assignment was Casablanca (1942).
  
  As he told CBS News, Gold laid out the poster for Casablanca and placed a gun in Humphrey Bogart's hand at the last minute: "Somebody suggested, 'This is Bogart. Let's put a gun in his hand. That's the way he acts, the way he exaggerates his action. We don't want just a head of him. It's too boring!' "
  
  The gun was taken from another Bogie film, High Sierra (1941). Gold also was assigned work on Warners' Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) around this time.
  
  After enlisting and serving three years during World War II, when he made training films for the U.S. Army Air Force, Gold returned to Warner Bros. and in the late 1950s moved west to work on the studios' Burbank lot. He started his own company in the early 1960s back in New York.
  
  Gold's poster for William Friedkin's The Exorcist (1973) — showing the priest played by Max von Sydow under a shaft of light outside the Georgetown home of the possessed young girl (Linda Blair) — was created after he was told not to "show anything that had any hint of religious connotation."

  Gold also worked on posters for The Searchers (1956), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Funny Girl (1968), My Fair Lady (1968), Bullitt (1968), Woodstock (1970), Klute (1971), Deliverance (1972), The Sting (1973), Blazing Saddles (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), On Golden Pond (1981), For Your Eyes Only (1981) and Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser (1988).

  In 2011, producer Sid Ganis, who headed advertising at Warner Bros. during the 1970s, told THR that Gold was "the maestro. He was the one directing his art directors and directing his copy writers on what to do, which was a great thing. He was also the one who communicated with the studio. He was the guy in charge of the symphony."
  
  Survivors include his wife, Susan, son Bob, daughter in-law Joanne, daughter Marcy, grandson Spencer, granddaughter Dylann and her fiancé Justin, great nephew Jaaron and "man's best friend" Willoughby.
  
  In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Fisher Center for Alzheimer’s Research Foundation at alzinfo.org.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Bill Gold, designer. Brian Bysouth, artist.
  
  
  
  
  Concept art by Boris Vallejo, as commissioned by Bill Gold.
  

  
  
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  May 2020 edited May 2020 Posts: 13,785

  May 21st
  
  1940: Aodogán Ronan O'Rahilly is born--Dublin, Ireland.
  (He dies 20 April 2020 at age 79-- County Louth, Ireland.)

  

  Ronan O’Rahilly obituary: Founder of
  Radio Caroline captured spirit of the
  swinging 60s

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/ronan-o-rahilly-obituary-founder-of-radio-caroline-captured-spirit-of-the-swinging-60s-1.4242812

  Dublin-born maverick who launched pirate station was son of 1916 rebel The O’Rahilly
  Sat, May 2, 2020, 07:22
  

  
  Ronan O’Rahilly, third from left, with former Caroline DJs Tony Blackburn, Tom Lodge, Johnnie Walker, Mike Ahern and Mark Sloane, on a visit to the Radio Caroline ship
  at Canary Wharf, London, in 1997.
  Photograph: Glen Copus/Evening Standard/Rex/Shutterstock

  
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  He also made Universal Soldier (1971), featuring George Lazenby as a mercenary in Africa. It came two years after Lazenby’s starring role as James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, which not only flopped, but was notable for O’Rahilly having disastrously advised Lazenby – whom he managed – not to sign a seven-film deal because he doubted that the 007 craze would last.

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  Ronan O'Rahilly (1940–2020)

  Producer | Director | Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0642371/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  

  1941: Barry Rigg (later Carl Rigg) is born--Eton, Buckinghamshire, England.
  
  1960: Comic strip From Russia with Love begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Finishes 1 February 1960. 488-583) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  https://www.comicartfans.com/searchresult.asp?txtSearch=John McLusky&PM=1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1980 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1980.php3?s=comics&id=02192

  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/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 5: “From Russia with Love” (1966)
  

  1967: The British series The Saint starring Roger Moore debuts in the US on NBC.

  
  
  

  1967: Kingley Amis confides to Philip Larkin that he's finished writing his Bond novel.
  
  1981: Jonathan Cape publishes John Gardner's first Bond novel Licence Renewed.

  BOND is back and he's better than ever.
  Miss Moneypenny thinks so. So does
  attractive Ann Reilly. And it's only a
  matter of time before Lavender Peacock,
  the beautiful ward of the Laird of
  Murcaldy, will heartily agree. Bond is
  drinking noticeably less these days;
  he's perhaps more diligent about exercise
  and has a special low tar tobacco blended
  for his cigarettes at Morelands of Grosvenor
  Street. But the 1980s have reached the
  department as well. Political restraints are
  squeezing in on the Service. The elite
  Double-O status, for example, conveying
  its authority to kill, is being abolished. But
  M takes little notice of these restrictions
  when it comes to Bond. In M's words,
  'There are moment when this country
  needs a trouble-shooter -- a blunt instru-
  ment -- and by heaven it's going to have
  one.'
  
  One of these moments had indisputably
  arrived. There is something very ominous
  about the meetings (insufficiently investi-
  gated by M.I.5) between the international
  terrorist known as Franco and the
  renowned nuclear physicist who has
  dubiously inherited the title of Laird of
  Murcaldy -- Dr Anton (not a well-known
  Scottish name) Murik. Someone must
  infiltrate the Laird's castle and only Bond
  could so deftly extract an invitation from
  Murik on Gold Cup Day at Ascot. Then
  with a Ruger Super Blackhawk .44
  Magnum in its secret compartment and an
  impressive selection of Q's latest gadgetry
  ingeniously dispersed throughout his lug-
  gage, Bond points the Saab 900 Turbo
  (with a lower pollution level than a
  Bentley) towards the north-west High-
  lands and the fun begins.

  John Gardner has brilliantly portrayed
  the most famous spy in the world as he pits
  his nerve and cunning against a danger-
  ously deranged opponent -- one prepared
  to sacrifice most of the Western world to
  prove that only he can make it safe from
  accidental nuclear holocaust. As the
  seconds tick away on the valued Rolex
  Oyster Perpetual, the world comes
  nearer a fright death and ever nearer
  Miss Lavender Peacock.

  JOHN GARDNER has been writing thrillers
  since the early 1960s. Among his most
  recent international bestsellers are The
  Nostradamus Traitor and The Garden of
  Weapons. He was commissioned by Glidrose
  Publications Ltd, who own the James
  Bond copyright, to contribute a further
  episode about that immortal among
  Secret Service agents.
  
  
  Jacket design by Mon Mohan, using a
  commissioned water-colour painting by
  Richard Chopping, and featuring a
  Browning 9mm-long 1903, made under
  Browning patent by Fabrique Nationale
  D'Armes de Guerre in Belgium. Model for
  reference provided by Holland and
  Holland of Bruton Street, London.
  
  In the photograph by Jerry Bauer on the
  back cover, John Gardner is standing in
  front of a reproduction of Amherst Villiers's
  portrait of Ian Fleming.

  
  
  
  
  

  1987: Jonathan Cape publishes John Gardner's sixth Bond novel No Deals, Mr. Bond.
  Trevor Scobie, cover artist.

  Between the Danish island of Bornholm and
  the Baltic coast of East Germany a nuclear
  submarine of the Royal Navy surfaces under
  the cloak of darkness. James Bond and two
  marines slip quietly from the forward hatch
  into their powered inflatable and set off for a
  lonely beach where they are to collect two
  young women who have to get out in their
  socks. Planted to seduce the communist agents to
  run for cover in the West, they have been
  rumbled by the other side. Bond little knows
  that this routine exercise is but the prelude to a
  nerve-racking game of bluff and double bluff,
  played with consummate skill by his own chief
  M against the East German HVA and the elit
  branch of the KGB, formed out of Bond's old
  adversary SMERSH.
  
  Over a plain lunch in a sober dining room
  in Blades, Bond learns of M's predicament. he
  cannot tell the police what he knows about the
  series of grisly murders of young women,
  found with their tongues removed, which
  occupy the day's headlines. Two of his
  undercover 'plants' have gone; Bond must find
  three others and conduct them to safety before
  they meet a similar fate. the first he spirits
  away from her Mayfair salon just as the next
  strike is made, taking her with him to the Irish
  Republic in pursuit of the second. But the
  urbane HVA boss, Maxim Smolin, is ahead of
  him this time, despite the astute ministrations
  of the Irish police. The KGB is soon on the
  scene, but nothing is at all what it seems, and
  Bond finds he needs all his wits to negotiate the
  labyrinth of double-crossing that is to lead him
  to a bewildering showdown in a remote corner
  of the Kowloon province of Hong Kong.
  
  There, with only the trusted belt of secret
  weapons specially devised by Q branch, he has
  to fight a terrifying duel in the dark, with all
  the cards in the hands of his opponents. No
  Deals, Mister Bond is the sixth and by far the
  best of John Gardner's OO7 adventures.

  
  

  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films the shower scene with Bond and Wai Lin.
  
  2009: Daniel Craig offers the opinion he'd like Moneypenny and Q to return.
  
  2012: Activision releases a trailer for their 007 Legends.

  

  2012: The first Skyfall teaser trailer comes available.

  

  
  
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  May 22nd
  
  1959: Chris Blackwell forms Island Records in Jamaica.

  

  Chris Blackwell

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.radioswissclassic.ch/en/music-database/musician/222292fc175d8cb543c962f69af75b96a57ce/biography?app=true

  

  
  1970: 007 여왕폐하 대작전 (007 Her Majesty the Great Queen) released in the Republic of Korea.

  
  
  https://m.blog.naver.com/

  

  
  1977: Bond comic strip When the Wizard Awakes ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 30 January 1977. 1-54) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1020
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1978
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3?s=comics&id=02165

  Trollkarlen + Stålspionen
  ("Magician + Steel Spy" - Fear Face & When The Wizard Awakes)
  

  
  Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no49-1979/

  James Bond 007 no. 49: “Nightbird/When the Wizard Awakes” (1979)
  
  
  

  
  1985: US premiere of A View to a Kill--Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California. Stuntman B.J. Worth descends by parachute to City Hall.

  
  San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  B.J. Worth skydives to City Hall.
  

  Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco. More recent photographs.

  
  

  
  2015: BOND 24 films at Covent Garden, London, England.

  
  HuntingBond
  James Bond movie locations around the World
  https://huntingbond.com/rules-london-spectre/
  Rules of Attraction
  

  2019: Top Gear reports on the Aston Martin Superleggera.

  

  Aston has built a Bond-themed DBS
  Superleggera

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.topgear.com/car-news/movies/aston-has-built-bond-themed-dbs-superleggera

  On Her Majesty’s Secret Service is 50 years old. Sound the special edition klaxon!
  Vijay Pattni | 22 May 2019
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Aston Martins shouldn’t really try to ram home the James Bond connection so explicitly, should they? After all, most sentient beings are well versed in the irrefutable fact that James Bond = Aston Martin. And vice versa.

  Exhibit A: this new ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service DBS Superleggera’,which references 50 years since, well, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service was first released into cinemas. You may or may not remember, in that 1967 [sic] film James Bond (George Lazenby) drove a DBS. In Olive Green.

  And lo, this new DBS Superleggera gets an Olive Green paint job too. Which is good, because green is a good car colour. Don’t @ us.
  
  Elsewhere, the OHMSS DBS features wild, intricately designed forged alloys (diamond-turned, no less), much carbon fibre, an aero blade and a new splitter. The grille gets six horizontal vanes for a better homage to that 1967 [sic]movie car.
  
  Inside, it’s black leather with red striping, some Alcantara, and the option of a bespoke drinks case that slots into the boot. Naturally, there are badges all over the place to remind you that yes, James Bond = Aston Martin. And vice versa. At some point, you will have to explain these badges to someone.
  
  There’s no more power, but you probably don’t need it. Aston’s 5.2-litre twin-turbo V12 remains on very active duty here, kicking out 715bhp which is plenty to scare yourself down a narrow mountain pass.
  
  “Creating a James Bond special edition is always an exciting challenge as we work to create a car that embodies the legend of James Bond, and the original movie car,” explains Aston’s Marek Reichman.
  
  Only 50 of these special edition cars will be made, each costing £300,007 (ah, we see what you did there, AM). Are Astons cooler when the Bond connection is a little more… subtle? Or should we just rejoice in the fact that this is a very, very attractive car with a little hat tip to its silver screen past?

  
  
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  May 23rd
  
  1960: Comic strip Dr. No begins its run in The Daily Express. (Finishes 1 October 1960. 584-697)
  John McLusky, artist. Peter O'Donnell, writer.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Swedish Semic Comic 1973 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1973.php3?s=comics&id=01777

  Döden På Jamaica (Death At Jamaica- Dr No)
  

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

  
  1963: From Russia With Love films Bond and Tatiana Romanova's train escape.
  
  1983: Comic strip Polestar begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 15 July 1983, mid-way through the story. Complete versions eventually published in non-UK media. 625-719) John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Polestar-by-James-Duncan-Lawrence-Yaroslav-Horak-John-McLusky-Ian-Fleming/9781845767174
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3?s=comics&id=02218

  Projekt Polstjärnan
  (Project Polestar - The Paradise Plot [Part 2])
  

  
  

  1986: Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson complete the script for The Living Daylights.

  

  1988: Putnam releases the John Gardner Bond novel Scorpius in the US.

  
  
  
  
  https://www.thebookbond.com/2012/04/catching-scorpius-in-1988.html
  

  
  2016: The Spy Who Loved Me re-released in Barcelona, Spain.
  2017: Newsarama reports on the Dynamite Entertainment future release of James Bond: Moneypenny.

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  JAMES BOND's MONEYPENNY Goes Solo
  In Her Own Title

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.newsarama.com/34601-james-bond-moneypenny-puts-moneypenny-in-her-first-lead-role.html

  By Newsarama Staff May 23, 2017 11:00am ET

  
  Press Release | Credit: Dynamite

  
  Hitting stores August 30th, James Bond: Moneypenny focuses on what was intended to be a ‘routine' protection mission for Moneypenny, until she uncovers a complicated assassination plot that bears a striking and unsettling resemblance to a tragic, and life-changing terrorist attack from her childhood. In the face of imminent danger, will Moneypenny be able summon her secret agent skills to stop the impending plot before it's too late?
  
  Writer Jody Houser says, "As someone who came to James Bond late (much to the horror of many of my friends), the idea that I'd get to play in that world is amazing. Writing a character like Moneypenny and exploring what makes her different from the more familiar MI6 operative has been a blast. In this story, we'll get a look at exactly how she operates and some of the events that made her the woman she is."
  
  Houser earned an MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College in Boston, where she completed her master's thesis in screenwriting and was a winner of the Rod Parker Fellowship for Playwriting. Starting in 2006, Houser began experimenting with webcomics, and in 2010 debuted the popular Cupcake POW!, before going on to work with a number of the top industry publishers to write some of her most successful titles including Mother Panic, Faith, and Orphan Black.
  
  "We're excited to launch James Bond: Moneypenny and bring a fresh, new voice to the Bond universe," says Nick Barrucci, CEO and Publisher of Dynamite Entertainment. "We've followed Jody's career and have wanted to work with her for quite a big, and this is the perfect project to work with her on. As the first female writer to tackle the comic book world of Bond, Jody is certain to bring new perspective and a fresh take on the iconic characters, while adding that extra touch of class Jody brings to all her works."
  
  Moneypenny first appeared alongside James Bond in Ian Fleming's very first novel, Casino Royale, published in 1953. As the personal secretary to M, Bond's boss at MI6, she would go on to play a small role in almost all of Ian Fleming's Bond novels, but did not receive much character development until 2006's spin-off series, The Moneypenny Diaries. In 2015, Dynamite published Warren Ellis' James Bond: Eidolon series, in which Moneypenney is featured as a major character. James Bond: Moneypenny marks the first time the character has received a dedicated story in comic book form!
  
  James Bond: Moneypenny will be solicited in Diamond Comic Distributors' June 2017 Previews catalog, the premier source of merchandise for the comic book specialty market, and slated for release in August. Comic book fans are encouraged to reserve copies of James Bond: Moneypenny with their local comic book retailers. James Bond: Moneypenny will also be available for individual customer purchase through digital platforms courtesy of Comixology, Kindle, iBooks, Google Play,Dynamite Digital, iVerse, Madefire, and Dark Horse Digital.

  

  
  
  
  2017: Roger Moore dies at age 89--Crans-Montana, Valais, Switzerland.
  (Born 14 October 1927--Stockwell, London, England.)

  

  Roger Moore dies at 89; debonair British actor played James Bond in 7 movies

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-roger-moore-snap-story.html

  By Steve Chawkins - May 23, 2017 | 7:20 AM
  
  Sir Roger Moore started acting in the 1940s and continued the craft up to his death.

  Roger Moore, the suave British actor who starred in seven James Bond movies and brought a likable, comedic dimension to the unflappable secret agent, has died after a short battle with cancer, his family said Tuesday. He was 89.

  From 1973 to 1985, Moore was Agent 007 in "Live and Let Die," "The Man with the Golden Gun," "The Spy Who Loved Me," "Moonraker," "For Your Eyes Only," "Octopussy" and "A View to a Kill."
  
  He was often compared with Sean Connery, the Scottish actor who originated the film role and in many ways was the prototypical Bond.
  
  "I'm often asked, 'Who is the best Bond?'" Moore wrote in his 2012 book, Bond on Bond.
  
  "Apart from myself?" I modestly enquire. "It has to be Sean."
  
  "Sean was Bond. He created Bond," Moore wrote. "He was a bloody good 007."
  
  From 1962 to 1969, Moore starred on TV's "The Saint" as the rakish Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood who targeted wealthy villains. In his later years, he was a globetrotting goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, a job he embraced after his friend Audrey Hepburn cajoled him into it. In 2003, he was knighted for his charity efforts.
  

  
  https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-roger-moore-snap-story.html

  
  But he was best known as Bond, James Bond—the dashing British spy who, in Moore's hands, never met a woman or a pun he could resist.
  
  In private, he had distinctly un-Bondlike qualities.
  
  He was a hypochondriac. He feared heights and loathed guns, perhaps because a friend accidentally shot him in the leg with an air rifle when he was 15. And he didn't care for vodka martinis, Bond's trademark cocktail; Moore said that if he had just 24 hours left to live, he would order a dry Tanqueray gin martini, with three olives on the side.
  
  In contrast to Connery's dark, rough-hewn good looks, Moore was fair.

  "I was fortunately always offered jobs because I was so pretty," he told the London Evening Standard in 2003. "Women used to complain about it!"
  
  Roger Moore to the London Evening Standard in 2003

  Moore was one of seven big-screen Bonds. The others were Connery, followed by George Lazenby, Pierce Brosnan, Timothy Dalton and Daniel Craig. David Niven was Bond in "Casino Royale," a 1967 spoof that was not part of Eon Productions' "official" Bond franchise.
  
  At 58, when Moore announced that he would finally hang up his Walther PPK, he was the oldest of all the Bonds.
  
  Moore recalled that when he took his young son Geoffrey to lunch one afternoon in the early 1970s, he endured an interrogation that would rattle even the suavest superspy.
  
  Asked if he could beat up anybody in the restaurant, Moore said yes, of course he could.
  
  But Geoffrey persisted.
  
  "What about if James Bond came in?"
  
  "I'm going to be James Bond," Moore reminded him.
  
  "No, I mean the real one," Geoffrey said. "Sean Connery."
  
  Decades later, Moore delighted in telling the story of his son's unnerving frankness – while noting that he had gone on to star as Bond in seven movies over 12 years, and had so thoroughly distinguished himself from his most celebrated predecessor that the words "shaken, not stirred" never passed his lips.
  
  Moore later said that Craig had the best build and better acting abilities than the other Bonds.
  
  The subject has been debated as long as maniacs bent on world conquest have sprung open trapdoors and fed their enemies to the ravenous sharks below.
  
  Compared to Connery, Moore conveyed "much more of the flavor of the Etonian dropout that Fleming envisaged," wrote Steven Jay Rubin in "The James Bond Films: A Behind The Scenes History."
  
  He "brought to the role a sophisticated sense of comedy which was not a feature of Connery's style."
  
  When making love to sexy "Bond girls," Moore managed to toss off one bad double-entendre after another without being thrown out of bed. Confronting the world's most demented thugs, like the steel-toothed, flesh-ripping Jaws (played by the towering Richard Kiel), he could seem almost natural when explaining that his new friend had "just dropped in for a quick bite."
  
  Moore claimed there wasn't much of a trick to it; he was going for laughs, he said, not high drama.
  
  "I only had three expressions as Bond," he joked. "Right eyebrow raised, left eyebrow raised, and eyebrows crossed when grabbed by Jaws."
  
  Critics were sometimes unkind.
  
  The New Yorker's Pauline Kael likened Moore in "The Spy Who Loved Me" to "an office manager who is turning into dead wood but hanging on to collect his pension."
  
  Moore himself confessed to feeling too old for the Bond role a couple of years before he gave it up.
  
  "After 'Octopussy,' I resigned myself to thoughts of retirement," he said. "There are only so many stunts an aging actor can tackle, and only so many young girls he can kiss without looking like a perverted grandfather."
  
  Born Oct. 14, 1927, in London, Roger George Moore was the only child of police officer George Alfred Moore and his wife Lily Pope Moore.
  
  As a teenager, he showed some talent for art and landed a part-time job as an animator-trainee at a movie studio that made World War II military training films.
  
  He also worked as an extra on films in London and, for two terms, attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
  
  "They taught me to talk 'properly' without a South London accent, the art of mime, fencing, ballet (I wasn't too keen on that) and something called 'basic movement,' which consisted of wearing swimming shorts and bending and stretching whilst swinging my arms," he wrote in his 2008 memoir, "My Word is My Bond."
  
  One of his classmates was Lois Maxwell, who became the brisk but playful secretary Miss Moneypenny in 14 Bond films.
  
  Moore struggled like many other actors.
  
  He picked up jobs in London plays, but also modeled for women's magazines and knitwear ads. In 1953, he appeared on Broadway in "A Pin to See the Peepshow," a play that opened and closed on the same day.
  
  Still, his performances in early TV dramas brought him recognition from Hollywood, where he signed on with MGM and appeared with Van Johnson and Elizabeth Taylor in "The Last Time I Saw Paris" (1954). Other films followed, including "The King's Thief" (1955) with David Niven, a close friend who cavorted with Moore for decades at their Swiss chalets and in Monaco, where Moore settled to avoid what he felt were excessive British taxes.
  
  Before Moore's breakthrough role in "The Saint," there were other TV series, including "Ivanhoe" and "The Alaskans." Moore also played James Garner's refined British cousin Beauregarde on the TV western "Maverick."
  
  After "The Saint," Moore starred with Tony Curtis as playboy-investigators in "The Persuaders!" a 1971 series more popular in Europe than in the U.S.
  
  "There was no sudden moment when I was famous," he told the York Press, a British newspaper, in 2014. "It was all sort of gradual. It went from one begging letter a month to 400."
  
  Asked how he dealt with that, he said: "I keep writing them."
  
  He did many other movies but remained most closely identified with Bond. In 1981, he played a Bond wannabe – in actuality a girdle magnate – in the zany "Cannonball Run" with Burt Reynolds, Farrah Fawcett, Sammy Davis Jr. and other big names.
  
  Moore took home a best-acting Oscar in 1973—but kept it for less than 24 hours.
  
  He and Liv Ullman were presenters when Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather declined the award on behalf of Marlon Brando for his title role in "The Godfather." Moore took the statuette to his overnight digs at the home of Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, the Bond producer, where armed guards picked it up the next morning.
  
  Moore was married to ice dancer Doorn van Steyn; British actress Dorothy Squires; and Luisa Mattioli, an Italian actress he met in Rome while filming "Romulus and The Sabines" (1961). Those marriages ended in divorce.
  
  In 2002, he married Kristina "Kiki" Throlstrup, a former neighbor on the French Riviera who connected with Moore over their individual struggles with cancer.
  
  In addition to Throlstrup, his survivors include the children he had with Mattioli: Geoffrey, Deborah and Christian.
  
  With typical self-effacement and Bondian charm, Moore described all his wives as "lovely ladies with bad taste in men."

  
  
  
  

  

  

  
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  
  

  
  
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  May 24th
  
  1931: Michael Lonsdale is born--Paris, France.
  1939: Ian Fleming is introduced to Admiral John Godfrey.

  

  Ian Fleming's Commandos: The Story of the Legendary 30 Assault Unit, Nicholas Rankin, 2011.

  On 24 May 1939 Ian Fleming walked into the downstairs Grill of
  the Carlton Hotel, at the bottom of London's Haymarket where
  it met the eastern end of Pall Mall. The debonair thirty-year-old,
  smoking a Morland Special cigarette, looked a natural denizen of
  St. James;s, 'someone out of a Wodehouse novel' as Cyril Connolly
  once noted when he bumped into Fleming in his bluy suit and
  Eton Rambelers' cricket club tie in Brook Street. Fleming's club
  was Boodle's, because White's was too noisy, and he often ate in
  Scott's just up the road. Someone extremely important whom he
  had never met before had invited him to lunch, but polish
  of Eton College and a brush of Sandhurst had given Fleming
  the social aplomb to deal with such an event effortlessly. He was
  good at charming older men and senior officer types: the trick
  was not deference but confidence. Tall, dark and handsome (a
  broken nose gave him an interesting gladiator look), the chain-
  smoking, smooth-haired Ian Fleming was an easily bored flâneur
  and gambler who had yet to find his niche, a late starter and a
  dabbler who feared that he might be a failure. Because he was
  amusing and posed as a cynical romantic, he had little trouble
  getting women into bed, though he dumped them afterwards
  rather too quickly. The primrose path toward alcoholism was
  already looking attractive.
  
  Sitting at the luncheon table were two admirals in dark suits.
  Fleming had already met the first, white-bearded Aubrey Hugh-
  Smith, one of the two nautical brothers of the senior partner in
  Rowe & Pitman, the stockbroking firm that gave him an annual
  income without engaging his energies. (He had chosen not to
  go into his grandfather's merchant bank, Robert Fleming & Co.)
  Smith introduced him to their host, Admiral John Godfrey, with
  his air of a stern Roman senator; previously Fleming had only
  spoken to him one, on the telephone.

  
  1944: Patti Labelle is born--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  1949: Roger Deakins is born--Torquay, Devon, England.
  
  1965: Thunderball films OO7's mission brief by M.
  
  1985: A View to a Kill gets general release in the United States.

  Revelator wrote: »

  Here's a column by the legendary San Francisco columnist (and Ian Fleming fan) Herb Caen on the premiere:
  

  San Francisco Chronicle, May 24, 1985
  
  For Your Eyes Only
  With the enthusiastic cooperation of the Mayor and the police and fire departments, San Francisco is made to look like a loony-bin in the newest and possibly last James Bond film, “A View to a Kill,” an awkward movie with an awkward title. As I recall, author Ian Fleming’s original title for the flimsy short story on which this $30-million bombo is shakily based was “With [sic] a View to a Kill,” which scans a little more smoothly. It wasn't Fleming at his best but the movie it inspired may be James Bondage at its worst, except for the all-time stinker, “Casino Royale,” which, oddly, used only the title of Fleming's first historic best-seller.
  
  It is an article of faith among civic leaders that having a movie made in your town is, by and of itself, A Good Thing. Some mumbojumble about identity, business, tourism, etc., but how many remember that Errol Flynn's classic “Robin Hood” was shot in Chico’s Bidwell Park? San Francisco, of course, has a lot more to offer than Chico, Velveeta jokes aside, and is ruthlessly exploited by every movie and TV maker this side of the Mitchell Brothers who can capture our publicity-crazed Mayor's ear. One can imagine her ecstasy upon learning that a Bond flick would be made in our own backyard, besides which she is said to be keen on Roger Moore, which is understandable.
  
  In return for her unflagging enthusiasm for the Bond project, what do we get? A series of crashes in which our already shaky Police Dept. is made to look like raving incompetents at best and idiots at worst. Very funny, Chiefie, the way they drive their squad cars up the Lefty O'Doul Bridge on Third at China Basin as it is being raised. It is even funnier when they all slide down into each other. Best of all, the bridge's counterweight crushes the captain's car like an eggshell. Not only THAT, the actor playing the captain is a ringer for Chief Con Murphy! They had all been chasing Bond, James Bond, who had stolen a hook’n’ladder from the firemen fighting a blazing City Hall wherein a city official had just been murdered, and that brings up another point.
  
  For reasons not entirely clear—but what is in a Bond flick?—the laughable villain, played with understandable embarrassment by Christopher Walken, pulls out a pistol and kills a city executive as he is seated behind his desk, American Flag in the background. It could even be the mayor’s office, or a supervisor’s. Have memories of the Moscone-Milk murders already grown so dim? The Mayor, a woman of fine sensibilities, might have suggested that the killing take place elsewhere—or not at all, since it has nothing to do with the plot. By coincidence, and I realize nobody could have foreseen this, Wednesday, May 22, the day of the world premiere, would have been Harvey Milk's 55th birthday. There were no observances, unless you count this crass scene as one. And as City Hall burned on screen, a few remembered that May 21 was the seventh anniversary of the “White Night” riots during which police cars were set ablaze in the fury that followed Dan White's junk-food verdict.
  
  Well, as the saying goes, it’s only a movie and a very tedious one. Unlike the first blockbusters—“Doctor No,” “From Russia With Love,” “Goldfinger”—it is strangely slow, witless and charmless. A scene in a tunnel on the San Andreas Fault (?!) is straight out of “Indiana Jones,'” with flood waters pouring through the shaft as the villainous Walken kills dozens with a submachine gun. In fact, there is more randumb violence in this Bond film than in any other, a sure sign of flagging inspiration. As for Roger Moore, he seems a delightful chap but there is no doubt he has passed his prime, unless we're talking about beef, of which he has a bit too much. He hasn’t got whatever made Sean Connery a believable 007, and to his credit, he knows it. Also in the film: Patrick Macnee, who played the suave Steed to Diana Rigg’s Mrs. Peel in the unforgettable “Avengers” TV series; he too has grown beefy. Come to think of it, Patrick McGoohan as “Secret Agent,” Roger Moore as “The Saint” and “The Avengers” may have constituted a TV mini-golden age.
  
  The premiere Wed. night at the Palace of Fine Arts was the usual embarrassing crush of teenagers screaming from behind barricades (they were screaming for Duran Duran, the rock group, not the movie stars) and cops looking a bit sheepish as limos rolled and cameras flashed. The film's producer, Albert (Cubby) Broccoli, now in his 70s with millions to match, looked weary—a man who has seen it all so many times; his old S.F. friend, Jimmy Flood, with whom he once sailed the Pacific, kept calling him “Mr. Cauliflower,” which drew a wan Broccolian smile. The Mayor made a gung-ho speech, blissfully unaware that whoever selects her clothes (Howdy Dowdy?) had once again betrayed her. Not only that, she has regressed to her short Planet of the Apes haircut. Maybe 007 can have a word with her.
  
  And so the James Bond era draws to a close. The incredible is no longer credible and, with Britain reduced to a third-rate nation, the idea of a British secret agent saving the world becomes laughable. But I will never forget the excitement of that first novel, which I read in the late 1950s on a plane from London—what better setting?—or the impact of the Bondian theme music, still alive after being copied to death. It got every movie off to a brilliant start, even this one. The descent toward twilight comes later.

  
  Caen was an early Bond fan and even met Ian Fleming. He wrote about Bond in several of his columns, and Fleming in turn wrote an article praising Caen for the San Francisco Chronicle.
  https://www.mi6community.com/discussion/comment/606578/

  

  
  2008: BBC's Radio 4 airs its first Bond radio drama: Dr. No starring Toby Stephens as OO7. David Suchet. Dramatized by Hugh Whitemore.

  

  Dr No

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00bfd0d
  Saturday Drama
  A distinguished cast, headed by Toby Stephens and David Suchet, takes part in this 'radio movie' of Ian Fleming's 1958 novel, dramatised by Hugh Whitemore.
  
  Bond is sent to investigate a strange disappearance on the island of Jamaica, and discovers that the heart of the mystery lies with a sinister recluse known as 'Dr No'. Another chance to hear this classic Bond adventure - the first in Radio 4's ongoing all-star series.

  Cast:
  'M' ..... John Standing
  Moneypenny ..... Janie Dee
  James Bond ..... Toby Stephens
  The Armourer ..... Peter Capaldi
  Chief of Staff ..... Nicky Henson
  Airport Announcer/Receptionist ...... Inika Leigh Wright
  Airport Official/Pus-Feller/ Henchman .....Kobna Holdbrook-Smith
  Quarrel ..... Clarke Peters
  Miss Chung/ Sister Lily ...... Kosha Engler
  Pleydell Smith ..... Samuel West
  Miss Taro/ Telephonist/ Sister May/Tennis girl..... Jordanna Tin
  Librarian ..... Lucy Fleming
  Honey Rider ...... Lisa Dillon
  Guard /Henchman/Crane Driver ..... Jon David Yu
  Dr No ..... David Suchet
  Acting Governor of Jamaica ..... Simon Williams
  Voice of Ian Fleming ..... Martin Jarvis

  Original music by Mark Holden and Sam Barbour
  
  Producer: Rosalind Ayres
  Director: Martin Jarvis
  A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4.

  

  
  2015: Spectre films at Westminster Bridge, Big Ben, and Whitehall Road in London, England.
  2016: Burt Kwouk OBE dies at age 85--Hampstead, London.
  (Born 18 July 1930--Warrington, Cheshire, England.)

  

  Burt Kwouk obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/may/24/burt-kwouk-obituary

  Actor best known for his roles in the Pink Panther films and the
  BBC’s Last of the Summer Wine
  Ronald Bergan | Tue 24 May 2016 12.24 EDT

  
  Burt Kwouk, right, was a regular co-star with Peter Sellers in the Pink Panther films,
  including Return of the Pink Panther, 1975. Photograph: SNAP/Rex/Shutterstock

  
  Anna May Wong, the first of the few Chinese actors to gain Hollywood stardom, explained why she retired from the screen: “I was so tired of the parts I had to play. Why is it that the screen Chinese is nearly always the villain? And so crude a villain – murderous, treacherous, a snake in the grass. We are not like that. How should we be, with a civilisation that is so many times older than that of the west?” Burt Kwouk, who has died aged 85, felt the same way but, as he remarked: “I look at it this way – if I don’t do it, someone else will. So why don’t I go in, get some money and try to elevate it a bit, if I can?”
  
  Kwouk, mostly seen in British films and TV, did manage to elevate many of his roles, finally transcending stereotypes such as his celebrated Cato, the foil to Peter Sellers’ bungling Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies, to become a national treasure, this status being consecrated in 2002 by his joining the cast of the BBC’s longest running sitcom, Last of the Summer Wine.
  
  Kwouk was born in Warrington, Lancashire, “because my mother happened to be there at the time,” but at 10 months old was taken back to the family home in Shanghai. There he remained until he was 17, when his well-off parents sent him to the US to study politics and economics. However, before he was able to graduate his parents lost all their money in the 1949 revolution, and he returned to Shanghai. A few years later, Kwouk took advantage of his dual nationality and returned to Britain, where he took various menial jobs before his girlfriend “nagged me into acting”. Capitalising on his oriental looks, he started getting roles mostly as villainous or comic Chinese or Japanese characters.
  
  One of his first TV appearances was a comic one, in a Hancock’s Half Hour (1957), as a Japanese man presenting two bowls of rice to Tony Hancock, who has won a lifetime’s supply in a newspaper competition. A year later, Kwouk was fortunate, so early in his career, to have one of his better film roles in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, set in China but shot in Wales. Kwouk, one of the few genuine Chinese people in the cast, played Li, who helps Ingrid Bergman, as the English Christian missionary Gladys Aylward, escape from the Japanese with 100 children. After a long and arduous journey, he is shot and killed by Japanese soldiers when he tries to distract them from the children.
  
  He was soon cast in a couple of Hammer Horror films, The Terror of the Tongs, as one of evil Christopher Lee’s hatchet men, and Visa to Canton (both 1961). Kwouk was subsequently to play the sidekick of Lee’s Fu Manchu in The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), The Vengeance of Fu Manchu (1967) and The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969). But in The Fiendish Plot of Fu Manchu (1980), Sax Rohmer’s master criminal was played by Sellers, with Kwouk as his manservant. It was a best-forgotten, dismal ending to Sellers’ career, but it did give him and Kwouk a last chance to work together.
  
  Their first chance had come 16 years before in A Shot in the Dark (1964), the second of Blake Edwards’s slapstick comedies featuring Sellers as the extraordinarily maladroit Inspector Clouseau, who seemed unable to cross a room without breaking something. Kwouk played Clouseau’s Chinese “houseboy”, whose sole function was to ambush his master with kung fu attacks at the most unexpected moments from the most unsuspected places. These brilliantly choreographed running and jumping gags, which always resulted in the destruction of Clouseau’s apartment and Cato coming off worst, were the highlights of all the Pink Panther films, which included The Return of the Pink Panther (1975), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and The Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).
  
  “Peter and I fell about laughing so much that very often we were unable to complete the day’s work as scheduled, which the producers hated,” Kwouk recalled. “Cato and I are very different. He never stands still. I only move when I have to.” The death of Sellers in 1980 didn’t prevent Edwards from making The Trail of the Pink Panther (1982) by piecing together out-takes and clips from the previous films in the series. Kwouk was seen as Cato, bravely being interviewed about his boss, and again in Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), this time as proprietor of the Clouseau museum. Kwouk’s protracted association with the Pink Panther series ended with Son of the Pink Panther (1993), in which, in various disguises, he attacks villains on behalf of Roberto Benigni in the title role.

  Kwouk also appeared in three James Bond movies: Goldfinger (1964), as a nuclear scientist sent to oversee the bomb that China has given to Goldfinger (Gert Frobe) to blow up Fort Knox, but who is later double-crossed and shot; Casino Royale (1967), as a Chinese general; and You Only Live Twice (1967), as one of Blofeld’s gang of Spectre henchmen.

  His other roles varied from Chairman Peng of the People’s Republic in Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) to a corrupt Laotian general who’s hoping to save up enough money to buy a Holiday Inn in the US in Air America (1990), to the trustworthy contact in Paris of Jet Li’s Chinese cop in the formulaic martial arts thriller Kiss of the Dragon (2001).
  
  Parallel to his film career, Kwouk made a niche for himself on British television in series including The Saint (1965-68), It Ain’t Half Hot Mum (1977-78), Doctor Who (1982), and as himself in The Kenny Everett Show (1983-84) and The Harry Hill Show (1997-2000). But the role that revealed his underused talents as a dramatic actor was Major Yamauchi, the strict but honourable commandant of a women’s POW camp in Tenko (1981-84).
  
  In contrast was his Mr Entwistle, a philosophical electrical handyman from Hull in Last of the Summer Wine, a part specially written for him by Roy Clarke. “It is a very pleasant and easygoing programme, a lovely gentle comic show,” Kwouk remarked. “There is no one charging around, and even the slapstick is quite gentle – certainly more gentle than I am used to.”
  
  Kwouk’s voice was almost as famous as his face. It can be heard in the video game Fire Warrior, narrating the English version of the Japanese TV series The Water Margin (1976-78), the bizarre “interactive” gambling show Banzai! (2001-04) and in many TV commercials.
  
  Kwouk was appointed OBE in 2011 for services to drama.
  
  He is survived by Caroline Tebbs, whom he married in 1961, and their son Christopher.
  
  • Burt Kwouk, actor, born 18 July 1930; died 24 May 2016

  
  https://filmography.bfi.org.uk/person/223941

  Films | Year | Film | Role
  
  1958 Windom's Way (villager)
  1959 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Li)
  1959 Upstairs and Downstairs (Chinese restaurant proprietor)
  
  1960 Expresso Bongo ([Soho youth])
  1960 The Terror of the Tongs (Ming)
  1960 Visa to Canton (Jimmy)
  1962 Satan Never Sleeps (Ah Wong)
  1962 The Sinister Man (Captain Feng)
  1963 The Cool Mikado ([art teacher])
  1964 Goldfinger (Mr Ling)
  1965 A Shot in the Dark (Kato)
  1965 Curse of the Fly (Tai)
  1966 Our Man in Marrakesh (export analysis manager)
  1966 The Brides of Fu Manchu (Feng)
  1966 The Sandwich Man (ice cream salesman)
  1967 Casino Royale ([Chinese Army officer at auction])
  1967 You Only Live Twice (SPECTRE No 3)
  1968 Nobody Runs Forever (Pham Chinh)
  1969 The Most Dangerous Man in the World (Chang Shou)
  
  1970 Deep End (hot dog stand man)
  1972 Die Folterkammer des Doktor Fu Manchu (henchman)
  1975 Girls Come First (Sashimi)
  1976 Return of the Pink Panther (Cato)
  1977 The Pink Panther Strikes Again (Cato)
  1977 The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation As We Know It (Chinese delegate)
  1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther (Cato)
  
  1982 Trail of the Pink Panther (Cato)
  1983 Curse of the Pink Panther (Cato)
  
  1990 I Bought a Vampire Motorcycle (Fu King owner)
  1992 Carry On Columbus (Wang)
  1993 Leon the Pig Farmer (art collector)
  
  2004 Fat Slags (Dalai Lama)

  
  

  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Service Special.
  Antonio Fuso, artist. Kieron Gillen, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: SERVICE SPECIAL

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1524104078
  Cover A: Jamie McKelvie
  Writer: Kieron Gillen
  Art: Antonio Fuso
  Publication Date: May 2017
  Page Count: 48 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 5/24

  In contemporary politics, where Britain's world standing is often more zero than 007, an assassin plans to exterminate the "special relationship," and lead Britain and the United States into a very dark place...especially when he does so by aiming down the sights of an ancient Enfield rifle! It'll test Bond's deadly talents to their limits, in order to defeat the assassin and avert certain geopolitical disaster...
  
  A stand-alone, oversized special written by Kieron Gillen (The Wicked + The Divine, Darth Vader) and drawn by Antonio Fuso (Torchwood, Drive) with their thrilling take on the icon of espionage. Featuring a cover by Jamie McKelvie (The Wicked + The Divine)!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  May 25th
  
  1917: The Times publishes the obituary Winston Churchill penned for his close friend--"Valentine Fleming. An Appreciation"--who died 20 May in military action in France.
  
  1921: Harold Lane (Hal) David is born--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.
  (He dies 1 September 2012 at age 91--West Hollywood, California.)

  

  Hal David, Songwriter, Is Dead at 9

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hal-david-dies-obituary-songwriter-burt-bacharach-367366

  Legendary Lyricist Hal David
  Dies at 91
  
  4:57 PM PDT 9/1/2012 by Mike Barnes

  
  The songwriter worked with
  Burt Bacharach on dozens of
  classic songs, including
  Oscar winner "Raindrops
  Keep Fallin' on My Head,"
  "(They Long to Be) Close to
  You" and Dionne Warwick's
  "I Say a Little Prayer."

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

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

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

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

  Original songs
  Title Written by Originally by Original date Covered by

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  1985: Title song "A View to a Kill" tops out at number two in the UK Singles Chart.

  

  1985: AMC Puente 10 Theaters holds The James Bond 007 Master Trivia Tournament in Industry, California.
  
  2011: A press release and publicity event involving the Royal Marines Display Team anticipate the Hodder & Stoughton release of Jeffrey Deaver's Bond novel Carte Blanche the next day.

  

  See the complete article here:

  http://primary.newspress.co.uk/LINKS/64143bm/index.html
  http://primary.newspress.co.uk/LINKS/64143bm/64143bm.doc

  LAUNCH OF NEW JAMES BOND BOOK, CARTE BLANCHE, LIFTS THE
  ROOF AT ST PANCRAS INTERNATIONAL

  
  (CREWE, ENGLAND May 25) The first copies of the eagerly awaited new Bond book, Carte Blanche, arrived in style at St Pancras International in London today (Wednesday 25 May 2011). Copies of the book by the best–selling American thriller writer Jeffery Deaver, published in the UK tomorrow by Hodder & Stoughton, were delivered by the Royal Marines Commandos in a stunning display involving abseiling, a fast car and a beautiful Bond girl on a motorbike.
  
  In a scene which could have been lifted from a James Bond novel, Jeffery Deaver pulled up at Europe’s longest bar – The Champagne Bar at St Pancras International – in a special Carte Blanche red Bentley Continental GT flanked by a Bond girl clad in black leathers.
  
  It was by air, however, that the author received the first copy of his novel. In a dramatic twist to the launch, four members of the Royal Marines Display Team descended from the iconic roof of St Pancras International onto the concourse below, bearing copies of the novel. The books were handed over to Deaver in front of members of Ian Fleming’s family and invited guests, before being put under lock and key in an undisclosed location. The plot of the book remains, until midnight tonight, a closely guarded secret.
  
  Despite the secrecy surrounding Carte Blanche, it can be revealed that each part of the launch had particular relevance to the new novel and to Ian Fleming, the creator of the original James Bond novels, who would have been 103 this Saturday, 28 May. St Pancras International, at the heart of London, is a fitting venue for a very British icon who became an international phenomenon whilst the Bentley Continental GT is the car of choice for Deaver’s Bond. The day’s Bond girl, who drove a BSA 1966 Spitfire motorbike to the launch, is inspired by one of Bond’s love interests in Carte Blanche, whose passion for speed and fast engines rivals Bond’s own.
  
  As an integral component of the Naval Service the role of the Royal Marines Commandos is also pertinent. A Commander in the Royal Navy, Ian Fleming worked as Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence during the war years and was responsible for the creation of a specialist unit of commandos known as 30 Commando or the 30 Assault Unit: trained commandos specialising in targeting enemy headquarters to secure documentation with an intelligence value. In Carte Blanche, Jeffery Deaver’s 21st century Bond served in the Royal Naval Reserve, including a tour in Afghanistan, before joining the secret service.

  Lucy Fleming, Ian Fleming’s niece, commented at today’s launch: “On Saturday my uncle, Ian Fleming, would be 103 years old. If he had been here today he would have loved the occasion.
  
  “With his brilliant plot and clever twists, his perfectly horrible villain and his detailed knowledge of the British intelligence Service, Jeffery Deaver brings Bond straight into the heart of modern espionage.”

  Carte Blanche will be published in hardback by Hodder & Stoughton tomorrow, Thursday 26 May 2011, just ahead of Ian Fleming’s birthday on Saturday 28 May. Priced at £19.99, the book will be available nationwide. For more information, visit www.007carteblanche.co.uk.
  
  For further information please contact:
  Julia Marozzi
  Email: [email protected]

  Notes to Editors:

  • Official photographs from the event are available through Colman Getty
  • Jeffery Deaver will be in the UK for publication and is available for interview through Colman Getty
  • Carte Blanche by Jeffery Deaver will be published in the UK on 26 May 2011 by Hodder & Stoughton priced £19.99
  • Audio and ebook versions will be published simultaneously
  • The Carte Blanche cover artwork is available from Colman Getty
  • All Jeffery Deaver’s books have been published in the UK by Hodder & Stoughton
  • Ian Fleming Publications Ltd is the Fleming family owned company that owns the copyright of the James Bond books www.ianfleming.com
  • For further information about Jeffery Deaver, visit: www.jefferydeaver.com

  
  Royal Marines Commandos
  www.royalmarines.mod.uk
  
  Bentley Motors:
  To celebrate the release of Carte Blanche Hodder & Stoughton has partnered with Bentley Motors to create an exclusive Bentley special edition. Each copy of the special edition is custom-produced to Bentley’s exacting standards and arrives inside a stunning metal case. The result is a striking and unique collector’s item. The special edition is strictly limited to 500 copies worldwide at a price of £1,000 each.
  For more information about Bentley Motors, visit: www.bentleymotors.com
  
  Chesca Miles
  Chesca Miles is the first and only female motorbike stunt rider in the UK who combines her career as a rider with modelling and singing. She began riding bikes at 14 and was an experienced rider by the time she was old enough to hold a licence. www.chescamiles.com
  For the launch, Chesca rides a BSA spitfire, courtesy of the London Motorcycle Museum. www.london-motorcycle-museum.org
  
  Hodder & Stoughton:
  Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house, now an imprint of Hachette. They publish general fiction including bestselling authors David Nicholls, Stephen King, Jodi Picoult and Jeffery Deaver. http://www.hodder.co.uk/

  Bond Books

  • Over 100 million Bond books have been sold (and over half the world’s population has seen a Bond film)
  • Ian Fleming wrote 14 James Bond books: Casino Royale (1953); Live and Let Die (1954); Moonraker (1955); Diamonds Are Forever (1956); From Russia with Love (1957); Dr. No (1958); Goldfinger (1959); For your Eyes Only (1960); Thunderball (1961); The Spy Who Loved Me (1962); On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1963); You Only Live Twice (1964); The Man With The Golden Gun (1965) and Octopussy and the Living Daylights (1966)
  • Fleming’s other works include the children’s favourite, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1964), which was made into a film and stage musical, The Diamond Smugglers (1957) and a collection of travel writings called Thrilling Cities (1963)
  • Charlie Higson is author of the Young Bond books which are published by Puffin
  • Samantha Weinberg, writing as Kate Westbrook, is the author of the Moneypenny Diaries
  • Other previous authors of official James Bond novels include Kingsley Amis, John Gardner, Raymond Benson and Sebastian Faulks, whose book became the publisher’s fastest selling hardback fiction title

  All of Ian Fleming’s original James Bond books are published by Penguin in the UK and the US

  
  
  
  
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  2018: Bond at Bletchley Park, once the central site for British codebreakers during World War II, hosts Illustrations and Inspirations which highlights a Fleming connection. Runs through October.

  
  MAY 2018 - Bond at Bletchley Park: Illustrations and Inspirations
  https://bletchleypark.org.uk/whats-on/bond-at-bletchley-park-illustrations-and-inspirations
  
  Art exhibition celebrating James Bond
  Friday, 25 May 2018 — Sunday, 14 October 2018
  From 09:30 to 17:00 Free with admission
  
  New exhibition of contemporary art celebrating James Bond
  
  This summer James Bond comes to Bletchley Park. On display in Hut 12, a temporary art exhibition celebrates Ian Fleming’s original James Bond series, as well as the most recent 007 continuation novels written by critically acclaimed author, Anthony Horowitz.
  
  The exhibition includes a special section presenting new research into Fleming’s connection to Bletchley Park, exploring how his work in Naval Intelligence helped to inspire the creation of the James Bond books. When Ian Fleming was assistant to the Head of Naval Intelligence during World War Two he vowed to ‘write the spy story to end all spy stories’ and went on to create Casino Royale.
  
  The artworks have been newly commissioned by social enterprise Eazl from a carefully selected roster of emerging and mid-career artists from the UK and beyond. Participating artists include Threadneedle Prize finalists David Storey and Tomas Tichy, the Australian painter Marc Freeman, and the prize-winning illustrator Finn Dean. The pieces are each inspired by a specific scene, theme or character from a James Bond novel.
  
  The exhibition is part of a wider project organised by Eazl, with the kind permission of Ian Fleming Publications. The project will culminate in a charity auction in London, in October 2018.
  
  The exhibition coincides with the release of the second official Bond novel by Horowitz ‘Forever and a Day’, the follow up to the critically acclaimed ‘Trigger Mortis’.

  1 / 4 — Magnus Gjoen, 'Goldfinger' (2018). Inspired by the novel by Ian Fleming.
  
  
  2 / 4 — Paul Wright, ‘James - On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ (2018), oil on linen.
  Inspired by the novel by Ian Fleming.
  
  
  3 / 4 — David Storey, ‘Bond Arriving at the Devil’s Own Stone Circle’ (2018),
  oil on canvas. Inspired by a passage from ‘Trigger Mortis’ where Bond discovers
  Pussy Galore being painted gold.
  
  
  4 / 4 — Alan Fears, ‘From Breakfast with Love’ (2018). Inspired by the scene
  in ‘Trigger Mortis’, by Anthony Horowitz, where Bond and Pussy Galore share
  an awkward breakfast in Bond’s flat.
  

  2018: BOND 25 details released from the source.

  

  BOND 25
  ANNOUNCEMENT
  Director, writer,
  distributor and production
  start date revealed

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.007.com/bond-25-announcement-2/

  Posted 25.05.2018
  
  Production on Bond 25 will begin in December with Danny Boyle directing Daniel Craig’s 5th outing as Bond. EON Productions and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM) have reached an agreement with Universal Pictures to partner on the worldwide release of the 25th James Bond film.
  
  Daniel Craig returns as 007 and Academy Award-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Steve Jobs) will direct from an original screenplay by Academy Award nominee John Hodge (Trainspotting) with production set to begin on 3 December 2018. Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures will release the film theatrically in the US on 8 November 2019 through its new joint venture for domestic theatrical distribution with Annapurna Pictures, and Universal Pictures will release internationally commencing with the traditional earlier release in the UK on 25 October 2019.
  
  Producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli commented, “We are delighted to announce that the exceptionally talented Danny Boyle will be directing Daniel Craig in his fifth outing as James Bond in the 25th instalment of the franchise. We will begin shooting Bond 25 at Pinewood Studios in December with our partners at MGM and thrilled that Universal Pictures will be our international distributor.”
  
  “Under the leadership of Michael and Barbara, we couldn’t be more thrilled than to bring the next 007 adventure to the big screen uniting the incomparable Daniel Craig with the extraordinary vision of Danny Boyle,” said MGM’s Chairman of the Board of Directors, Kevin Ulrich. MGM’s President, Motion Picture Group Jonathan Glickman added, “It has been 16 years since DIE ANOTHER DAY was distributed by MGM and it’s incredibly gratifying to be releasing this film alongside the powerhouse team at Universal.”
  
  “Universal is extremely proud to collaborate with Michael, Barbara and MGM on the international marketing and distribution of Bond 25,” said Chairman of Universal Pictures Donna Langley. “The unparalleled combination of Danny’s innovative filmmaking and Daniel’s embodiment of 007 ensured we simply had to be partners in the next chapter of this iconic series.”
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  May 26th
  
  1909: Richard Maibaum is born--New York City, New York.
  (He dies 4 January 1991 at age 81--Santa Monica, California.)

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  By ELEANOR BLAU | JAN. 9, 1991
  
  Richard Maibaum, who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for a dozen James Bond films, died on Friday at St. John's Hospital and Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 81 years old and lived in Los Angeles.
  
  He died of a heart attack, The Associated Press reported.
  
  Early in the James Bond series, Mr. Maibaum remarked that the hugely popular movies about British secret agent 007 were really parodies of the Ian Fleming novels on which they were based.
  
  A Sleuth With Humor

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

  Mr. Maibaum started his career as a playwright and actor. He was born in New York, attended New York University and then studied dramatic art the University of Iowa, where he received bachelor's and master's degrees and wrote plays, one of which, "The Tree," an anti-lynching play, was produced on Broadway.
  
  Returning to New York, he acted with the Shakespearean Repertory Theater in 1933, and wrote two more plays for Broadway, "Birthright," an anti-Nazi drama, and "Sweet Mystery of Life," a comedy. He then got a contract as a writer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood. While there, he wrote another play, "See My Lawyer," which was produced in New York by George Abbott and which starred Milton Berle. Invited by Producer

  Mr. Maibaum worked with film while serving in the Army during World War II, then became a writer and producer for Paramount from 1945 to 1951. He moved to England in the 1950's to work for the producer Albert Broccoli's Warwick Films, returned to the United States and wrote for television, then was invited by Mr. Broccoli to write the first Bond movie.
  
  He wound up writing most of them, including "Thunderball," "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," "Diamonds Are Forever," "Octopussy," "For Your Eyes Only," "The Living Daylights" and "Licence to Kill."

  He is survived by his wife, Sylvia; two sons, Matthew and Paul, of Los Angeles; a sister, Gladys Gould of Washington, and a granddaughter.
  
  A version of this obituary appears in print on January 9, 1991, on Page D00021 of the National edition with the headline: Richard Maibaum, Screenwriter For James Bond Films, Dies at 81. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe

  

  Richard Maibaum(1909–1991)

  Writer | Producer | Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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  1925: Alec McCowen is born--Royal Tunbridge Wells, England.
  
  1944: Bisera Vukotić (Бисера Вукотић, later Olga Bisera) is born--Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
  
  1965: Thunderball films Q issuing gadgets to OO7.
  1966: 007 contra Goldfinger (007 Against Goldfinger) released in Mexico.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  1967: Casino Royale released in Ireland.
  1968: Charles K Feldman dies at age 63--Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 25 April 1905--New York City, New York.)
  (He dies 25 May 1968 at age 63--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Charles K. Feldman

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_K._Feldman

  Charles K. Feldman (April 26, 1905 – May 25, 1968) was a Hollywood attorney, film producer and talent agent who founded the Famous Artists talent agency.
  
  According to one obituary, Feldman disdained publicity. "Feldman was an enigma to Hollywood. No one knew what he was up to – from producing a film to packaging one for someone else."

  Charles K. Feldman
  Born Charles Kenneth Gould, April 26, 1905, New York City, U.S.
  Died May 25, 1968 (aged 63), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
  Alma mater University of Michigan
  Occupation Producer and celebrity agent
  Notable work: The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire; The Seven Year Itch
  Spouse(s) Jean Howard (1935 m.–1947 div.); Clotilde Barot(April 1968 m.–death)

  
  Early life
  Charles Kenneth Gould was born to a Jewish family in New York City on April 26, 1905. His father was a diamond merchant who immigrated to New Jersey. Both of his parents, however, died of cancer and he was orphaned at age six, along with his five siblings. He was taken in by Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Feldman at age seven. Feldman was from Bayonne, New Jersey and was a furniture-store owner. A few years later, the Feldmans moved permanently to California.
  
  Career
  Charles Feldman studied at the University of Michigan and later became a lawyer, earning his degree from the University of Southern California. He earned money to put himself through college by working as a mail carrier and a cameraman in a movie studio. He became a lawyer for talent agencies, and by age 30, he had become known as a Hollywood attorney; however, he became an agent instead.
  
  Agent
  In 1932, Feldman left his job as a lawyer and co-founded with Adeline Schulberg, the Schulberg-Feldman talent agency which was soon joined by Schulberg's brother Sam Jaffe and Noll Gurney.] In 1933, Schulberg left to form her own agency and the company was renamed the Famous Artists Agency. Feldman combined his background as a lawyer with his celebrity connections to help find and contract jobs. Among his first clients were Charles Boyer and Joan Bennett. Feldman's Famous Artists was bought by Ted Ashley's Ashley-Steiner agency in 1962 and renamed Ashley-Famous.
  
  Feldman began using new tactics in his field. He would buy story ideas contract them to unemployed writers to make into a screenplay. He would also negotiate one-picture deals for a star, not a long-term studio contract, as was the custom. This way clients could work at multiple studios simultaneously. Feldman also combined several clients into one package and sold them to a producer or studio as one unit. Another tactic was the use of overlapping nonexclusive contracts with clients like Irene Dunne and Claudette Colbert, demonstrating flexible alternatives to the so-called iron-clad studio contract in the classical Hollywood era.
  
  In 1942, Feldman was in charge of the Hollywood Victory Caravan for Army and Navy Relief. As an agent, he became friends with celebrities like Jack Warner, Sam Goldwyn, Gary Cooper, Greta Garbo, and John Wayne, among others.
  
  Packaging
  In June 1942, Feldman signed Marlene Dietrich, Randolph Scott and John Wayne and presented them to Universal for Pittsburgh along with the script and director as a "package".
  
  This idea was the beginning of Hollywood's "package deal." One of his greatest successes was The Bishop's Wife which was produced in 1948. He bought the rights to the book by Robert Nathan for $15,000 and sold the screen play for $200,000.
  
  Feldman held considerable sway in the making of some films. It was Feldman who suggested to Jack Warner (as a friend) that he recut Howard Hawks's Big Sleep (1946) and add scenes to enhance Lauren Bacall's performance,[14] which he felt was more or less a "bit part" in the 1945 cut.
  
  Charles K. Feldman Productions
  He later produced his own movies instead of selling the screenplays[7] and created the Charles K. Feldman Productions in 1945.
  
  In 1947, he announced a deal where his company would help make three films at Republic Pictures, Orson Welles's Macbeth (1948), Lewis Milestone's The Red Pony (1949) and Ben Hecht's The Shadow. At Republic he also helped produce Moonrise (1948). The Shadow was never produced.
  
  This company produced A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) where Feldman had to fight to protect the script from censorship.
  
  He later produced The Seven Year Itch (1955) It stars Marilyn Monroe of whom he was the agent from 1951 to 1955.
  
  In 1956, he sold six books to 20th Century Fox including Heaven Knows Mr Allison, The Wayward Bus, Hilda Crane and Bernadine.
  

  In 1960, Feldman acquired the film rights to Casino Royale following the death of Gregory Ratoff who purchased film rights to the property from Ian Fleming in 1955.
  
  A 1967 profile on Feldman said "he still sounds much like an agent when he talks."

  
  Personal life and death
  In 1935 Feldman married actress Jean Howard. They fought frequently, and divorced in 1947; however, they remained good friends and even continued to share a house for some time. He also gave up gambling in 1947. Throughout his life, his biological siblings often sent him letters asking for money. Although he preferred to not have contact with them, he did send money and old clothes. He married Clotilde Barot on April 14, 1968 just six weeks before he died of pancreatic cancer. He died May 25, 1968, although no funeral was held for him. C. K. Feldman was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.
  
  Filmography

  The Lady Is Willing (1942) – producer
  The Spoilers (1942) – executive producer
  Pittsburgh (1942) – executive producer
  Follow the Boys (1944) – producer
  The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) – executive producer
  Red River (1948) – executive producer
  Moonrise (1948) – producer
  Orson Welles's Macbeth (1948) – executive producer
  The Red Pony (1949) – executive producer
  The Glass Menagerie (1950) – producer
  A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) which was nominated for an Academy Award – producer
  The Seven Year Itch (1955) – producer
  North to Alaska (1960) – producer
  Walk on the Wild Side (1962) – producer
  The 7th Dawn (1964) – producer
  What's New Pussycat? (1965) – producer
  The Group (1966) – executive producer
  The Honey Pot (1967) – executive producer
  Casino Royale (1967) – producer
  
  Unmade Projects
  Mr Shadow (1950) – about twin magicians
  Once There Was a Russian (1956)
  Cold Wind and the Warm (1958)
  Mary Magdelene starring Capucine (1962)
  Voyage Out, Voyage In from a story by Irwin Shaw (1962)
  Fair Game (1962) from a story by Sam Locke
  Eternal Fire (1965)
  Lot's Wife (1965) from a script by I.A.L. Diamond starring Leslie Caron and Warren Beatty
  Take the Money and Run – announced for Feldman in 1965 and was directed by Woody Allen after his death
  

  

  Charles K. Feldman (1904–1968)

  Producer | Miscellaneous Crew | Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0271012/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2
  

  
  
  

  
  2011: Hodder & Stoughton publish Jeffery Deaver's Bond novel Carte Blanche.

  The face of war is
  changing. The other
  side doesn't play by the
  rules much any more.
  There's thinking, in some
  circles, that we need to
  play by a different set
  of rules too . . '

  Fresh from Afghanistan, James Bond
  has been recruited to a new agency.
  Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it
  operates independent of Five, Six and
  the MoD, its very existence deniable. Its
  aim: to protect the Realm, by any means
  necessary.
  
  The Night Action alert calls Bond from
  dinner with a beautiful woman. GCHQ has
  decrypted an electronic whisper about
  an attack scheduled for later in the week:
  casualties estimated in the thousands,
  British interests adversely affected.
  
  And 007 has been given carte blanche to
  do whatever it takes to fulfill his mission.

  The best psychological thriller writer
  around' THE TIMES

  'The master of ticking-bomb
  suspense' PEOPLE

  In 2004, Jeffery Deaver won the Crime Writers'
  Association Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for
  his book Garden of Beasts. Little did he know
  that his acceptance speech, where he spoke
  about his life-long admiration of Fleming's
  writing, would lead to his being approached to
  write this James Bond novel.
  
  Deaver is the international number-one
  bestselling author of two collections of short
  stories and 28 suspense novels. He is best
  known for his Kathryn Dance and Lincoln Rhyme
  thrillers, most notably The Bone Collector, which
  was made into a feature film starring Denzel
  Washington and Angelina Jolie. His many
  awards include the Novel of the Year at the
  International Thriller Writers' Awards in 2009 for
  his standalone novel The Bodies Left Behind.
  
  Jeffery Deaver lives in North Carolina. Parallels
  between Bond's and Deaver's lives include their
  love of fast cars, skiing and whiskey.
  
  For further information, visit www.jefferydeaver.com.

  
  
  

  2011: 500 special edition copies of Carte Blanche come available, associated with Bentley.

  

  Hard case: James Bond is back in a
  Bentley

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/details/hard-case-james-bond-is-back-in-a-bentley-24622/

  April 28, 2011
  
  British agent 007 is set to steer a Bentley Continental GT in his latest epic, and the link is rammed home by the specially designed case for limited-edition copies of the book
  
  The gadget-laden Aston Martins favoured by James Bond have been consigned to mothballs, as the suave British superspy is set to pilot a Bentley Continental GT in his next adventure, titled Carte Blanche.
  
  Written by Jeffrey Deaver and set for the most part in that bastion of bling -- Dubai -- the latest novel is effectively a reboot of the 007 theme, with the new-age Bond said to have been born in the early 1980s and backed by tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq (unlike Ian Fleming’s original character, who was a WWII veteran and Cold War secret agent).
  
  However, the fact the new Bond drives a Bentley is in keeping with the original novels as Ian Fleming was a devotee of the marque and, as a result, his fictional superhero-esque spy owned three Bentleys over the course of the 14 original novels.
  
  The publishers of Carte Blanche, which releases on May 26, are now taking the opportunity to cash in via 500 limited-edition copies of the book that are available for pre-order.
  
  The special edition is said to be crafted to Bentley's exacting standards and is even packaged in a metal case profiled like a Continental GT and allegedly inspired by the deserts of Dubai. Mimicking the exterior of the GT, the case is made from polished aluminium, "giving it a seamless and aerodynamic shape".
  
  In deference to the Carte Blanche title, the book itself is bound in white Nappa leather, said to be of the same grade used in Bentley's interior, and the trim of the Conti GT is replicated with its contrast of white leather trim and Pillar Box red edging.
  
  Meanwhile, the title, author's name and the Bentley winged logo are embossed into the front cover and foil-blocked onto the spine. The text is printed in two colours, black and red, on sumptuous ivory paper, with endpapers of a matching red leather.
  
  The pages are claimed to have been expertly cut and trimmed to reflect the handcrafted techniques of the Bentley construction process. The book sits on a base of black anodised aluminium, chosen not to mark the white leather.
  
  In one last twist, playing on the idea of an agent being given carte blanche, is one of the most dramatic features of the design: a die-cut bullet hole that pierces pages of the book. Hidden within the pages is a single polished 9mm bullet, individually marked with a number distinct to each copy.
  
  Naturally, all this doesn't come cheap as each of the 500 limited-edition copies of Carte Blanche will be sold for £1000 ($1520) and they'll be delivered to their new owners after the publication date. In case you fancy having one for your mahogany bookcase, you can place your order on www.007carteblanchebentley.com.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2011: With the release of Carte Blanche, Bentley continues its influence with a Breitling wristwatch edition that featured in the text.

  http://jamesbondwatchesblog.com/2011/07/08/how-you-benefit-from-an-absolute-james-bond-breitling-watch-id-part-1/

  

  
  http://www.jamesbondwatchphotos.com/category/literary-2/jeffery-deaver/carte-blanche-2011/

  

  
  

  2016: Neil Cunningham dies at age 53--Mumbles, Swansea, Wales.
  (Born 1962--New Zealand.)

  

  Neil Cunningham:
  Remembering a national
  favourite

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.autosport.com/national/feature/7066/neil-cunningham-remembering-a-national-favourite

  Neil Cunningham was a national-racing favourite who was just 53 when he lost his battle against motor-neurone disease a few weeks ago. Here is a personal account of a popular racer

  ---

  By James Beckett | Published on Friday July 1st 2016

  Born in New Zealand, but raised on Australia's
  Gold Coast, Neil Cunningham's love of motoring
  and motorsport developed at an early age.
  Showing a talent for driving cars, he managed to
  scrape a number of drives in local championships
  down under before travelling to Britain in 1983 as a
  winner of the Australian Driver to Europe
  competition.

  As a Kiwi it was no mean feat in its own right to win an Australian prize! "Tell them you're an Aussie when you get there, they won't know the difference," was the advice as he boarded the plane.
  
  Arriving to race a Formula Ford 2000 car, Neil's prize drive didn't last long, as a lack of funds severely limited his time in the car and, as a well-known Autosport journalist has since observed, Cunningham's participation in the squad was similar to that of a third driver in a one-car team. It was time to look for a drive, and Neil looked hard.
  
  Drives were acquired, by hook or by crook, in a variety of categories, FF2000 and Formula Ford 1600 in particular. During the next few years, if there was a major Formula Ford race somewhere, Neil was in it. And he was quick. Carving out a reputation as a single-seater racer, Cunningham began to star, often referred to as the 'likeable Australian'.
  
  His performances were noticed but, as other racers graduated to Formula 1 and other international categories, Neil's lack of funds prevented such movement.
  
  During the period 1986 to '92, Cunningham was a Formula Ford stalwart - Andy Dawson's Swift, Amity Racing's Van Diemen, a Quest, a Mondiale, the Central Racing Services Van Diemen RF90 and more before the factory Swift team came knocking. The works Swift SC92F presented him with his best shot at glory to date, and Neil led the 1992 Formula Ford Festival Final until a gear-linkage failure ended that dream.
  
  A return to Formula Renault (in which he'd shone in 1990) and a surprise appearance in the DTM at Donington Park during '94 followed, before Cunningham's talents were showcased in the popular Eurocar series. In '96, in the final race of the season, at a rain-soaked Brands Hatch, Neil took the lead on the opening lap and simply drove away to championship victory.
  
  A Marcos Mantis Challenge title followed and soon Cunningham's performances allowed him to enter the world of GT racing. His obvious talents and superb car control soon attracted attention; if a team had a seat going, invariably Neil could be found in it - driving the wheels off it.
  
  The British GT Championship became home for Neil, and in 2005 he enjoyed his best season in the category - third in the championship with Ben Collins and Embassy Racing's Porsche, scoring victories along the way at Knockhill and spectacularly on his 'home' grand prix circuit at Silverstone.
  
  A dream to race at Le Mans was achieved in 2004, when he led the Morgan works team in the 24 Hours, driving the manufacturer's Aero 8 GT in the famous event. Cunningham started the race and also drove the car across the line at the finish. He returned two years later to drive a Courage in the LMP2 class, finishing 21st overall.
  
  Later in his career, Cunningham forged a strong reputation as a racer of historic cars, winning twice at the Silverstone Classic in a Jaguar D-type with its owner, Ben Eastick, and driving like a man possessed in Bob Pepper's Ford Mustang to win the British Grand Prix Historic support race of 2008. Sliding the Mustang around half of Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire to victory, all Neil wanted to know afterwards was, "Did I look good? Was I really sideways through Bridge?"
  
  Many historic races followed, including qualifying a Jaguar E-type on pole position at Le Mans for a Legends race, and winning his class in Nigel Webb's XKD 505 D-type during the 2011 Le Mans support event. He was presented with his trophy by Sir Stirling Moss, a driver who called time on his own career during the same meeting.

  Cunningham's supreme car control led to his talent being observed, and then snapped up by film and television producers. A stunt driver for the opening sequences of the James Bond film Quantum of Solace, Neil also deputised on occasions as The Stig for the BBC show, Top Gear. V8 cars, tyres smoking and in broadside - that was Neil's forte.

  His entertaining sideways style was also often seen in the Walter Hayes Trophy at Silverstone, driving my own FF1600 Van Diemen RF78, a car he christened 'Black Beauty'. Neil and 'Beauty' became common features at the end-of- season showcase. Winning the opening heat of the 2005 event is something I will never forget.
  
  In 2006, Neil became the only driver in the event's history - and maybe at any meeting - to have a race-control bulletin directed at him during pre-race testing for driving too sideways! Quite simply, Bulletin 1 was issued by Dave Scott, race director, and titled, 'Who do you think you are? A Kiwi Superstar?'
  
  No fine was levied, and if there had been there's no doubt Neil would have asked the car owner to pay it, but he bought a box of Mars bars to give to the marshals the following day. All those who thought he 'looked good' and 'sideways' got one!
  
  Maybe it was fitting that Cunningham's racing career ended behind the wheel of a Formula Ford. Driving Dave Morgan's Van Diemen RF90 on a September day in 2011 - the very same car he had raced 20 years earlier - Neil drove his last race. He was really suffering by this time and, as we travelled up to Donington, we chatted about the good old days. I think deep down we knew this could be his last race.
  
  Practice was wet, conditions awful, but Neil showed he still had it. Only afterwards did he tell me he hadn't got the strength to hold the steering wheel with his left hand.
  
  It was a superhuman effort to climb into the car, let alone race it. But that was Cunningham, superhuman and keen to just get on with his job, what he knew best - and that was driving racing cars. When Neil was driven away from the track that night everyone felt numb.
  
  He was my champion and I felt that I had just witnessed him floored by a single punch in the centre of the ring - although his final big fight was underway, and it would be bigger than any challenge experienced on the track.
  
  After his diagnosis with motor-neurone disease, Neil set up a charity to heighten awareness of - and raise funds for - the fight against MND. His many friends stepped up to the plate to support Cunningham and his quest to defeat his condition, with a total of £100,000 raised at the time of his passing.
  
  Neil was forever smiling, and always happy. He displayed strength, courage and a dogged determination - the same qualities that earned him such a fine reputation on-track. He was certain that a cure would be found, that he would live to fight again. Works of the charity will continue, creating a lasting legacy.
  
  Away from the tracks, Cunningham also had a love of the ocean and, following an emotional memorial service held in the Mumbles, close to his Welsh home, it was fitting that his surfing friends should take to their boards under a clear blue sky and head out from the shore for one final tribute.
  
  In the Autosport issue dated January 8 2009, I was described as a 'one-man Neil Cunningham Fan Club', but in the weeks since his passing it is obvious to me that his fan club was huge.
  
  I will never forget the flamboyance and the love of driving, all conducted with a smile on the face. I met Neil shortly after his arrival in Britain back in 1983, and I enjoyed a very special friendship with him from that time. I am going to miss him. I believe we are all going to miss him. Motor racing has lost a fine man.
  

  

  Neil Cunningham, Looking Back On DSC

  http://www.dailysportscar.com/2012/12/25/looking-back-on-dsc-neil-cunningham.html

  

  
  
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  May 27th
  
  1922: Christopher Frank Carandini Lee is born--Belgravia, London, England.
  (He dies 7 June 2015 at age 93--Chelsea, London.)

  

  Christopher Lee obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/11/christopher-lee

  Actor known for villainous or sinister roles in films from Hammer
  horror to James Bond and The Lord of the Rings
  Alex Hamilton | Thu 11 Jun 2015 09.38 EDT

  
  Christopher Lee, pictured in 1959, studied method acting at Rank’s ‘charm school’, but recognised theatre was not his strength and never went near the stage again.
  Photograph: Everett/Rex Shutterstock

  Sir Christopher Lee, who has died aged 93, achieved his international following through playing monsters and villains. In his 30s, he was Dracula, the Mummy and Frankenstein’s creature; in his 80s, Count Dooku in Star Wars and the evil wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings. Along the way he was Rasputin, Fu Manchu several times and Scaramanga – The Man With the Golden Gun – opposite Roger Moore as a weak 007, whom Lee did something to offset. For the last of these he was paid £40,000 – his highest fee, among hundreds of screen appearances, until the blockbusters of his later years. “The Bonds get the big money, and they save on the heavies,” he said.

  Lee became an actor almost by accident. Through birth and education he seemed a more likely candidate for the diplomatic ladder, but he never reached the first rung. His father, Geoffrey, a colonel much decorated in the first world war, wrecked through gambling his marriage to Estelle, the daughter of the Italian Marquis de Sarzano, and a society beauty of the 1920s. Christopher was born in Belgravia, London. His education at Wellington college, Berkshire, ended abruptly at 17, and he had to get along on the pittance of a City clerk.
  
  But the second world war might be said to have rescued him, making him an intelligence officer with an RAF squadron through north Africa and Italy. At the end, he was seconded for a period with a unit investigating war crimes. Though demobbed with the rank of lieutenant, he had suffered a psychological trauma in training and was never a pilot. In his later civilian life he was endlessly required to fly as a passenger, and it was barely a consolation to him having his film contracts stipulate that he travel first class.
  
  Without previous aspirations or natural talent for acting, except a pleasing dark baritone voice that he exercised in song at home and abroad every day of his life, he was pushed towards film by one of his influential Italian relatives, Nicolò Carandini, then president of the Alitalia airline, who backed the suggestion with a chat to the Italian head of Two Cities Films, Filippo del Giudice. Lee was put on a seven-year contract by the Rank entertainment group, with the executive who signed it saying: “Why is Filippo wasting my time with a man who is too tall to be an actor?”
  
  His height – 6ft 4in, kept upright by his lofty temperament and fondness for playing off scratch in pro-am golf tournaments – actually proved helpful in securing him the parts for which he had the most affinity: authority figures. He lent a severe and commanding presence to James I of Aragon in The Disputation (1986), the Comte de Rochefort in The Three Musketeers (1973), Ramses II in Moses (1995), the cardinal in L’Avaro (1990), a high priest in She (1965), the Grand Master of the Knights Templar in Ivanhoe (1958) and the Duc in The Devil Rides Out (1968).
  

  
  Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula (1958). He later regretted taking on so many of the
  vampire’s increasingly absurd adventures.
  Photograph: Everett/Rex Shutterstock

  
  He shared his aptness for sinister material with two friends who lived near his London home in a Chelsea square: the writer of occult thrillers Dennis Wheatley and the actor Boris Karloff. The latter once cheered him up when Lee was overloaded with horror roles, remarking, “Types are continually in work.”
  
  Lee initially studied method acting at Rank’s “charm school”, where he was supposed to spend six months of the year in rep. But floundering at the Connaught in Worthing, and humiliated by audience laughter when he put his hand through a window supposedly made of glass, he recognised that the theatre was not his metier and never went near the stage again. Perhaps the most useful coaching Rank gave him was in swordplay: across his career he fought in more screen duels than opponents such as Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks put together.
  
  
  Sir Christopher Lee, veteran horror film actor, has died at the age of 93 after being hospitalised for respiratory problems and heart failure

  Terence Young gave Christopher his first – and minimal – chance before the film cameras in Corridor of Mirrors (1948). Over the next 10 years, he played secondary and anonymous characters in a miscellany of mostly low-budget British films. This had a lasting effect into his later years: he would accept virtually any role. The film that lifted him out of obscurity, and showed him to Times Square as a 50ft-tall vampire, was the Hammer production of Dracula in 1958. It cost £82,000 and earned £26m, of which Christopher’s take was £750. It was the first time he and Peter Cushing worked together, in a pairing that lasted through 22 films.

  It was often said in the film business that it was not easy to make friends with Lee. But he always knew his part, and he was always in the right place, so that he was at any rate approved of by the cameramen. Furthermore, three other actors who also enjoyed sinister roles in exploitation movies kept a quartet of friendship with him: Cushing, Karloff and Vincent Price.
  
  Lee’s particular difference as Dracula lay in his height and powerful showing, and his terrifying presence even when no words had been written for him. But while admitting that Dracula had been his cornerstone, he eventually left the role to others, and later regretted letting himself in for so many of the vampire’s increasingly absurd adventures.
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  He took work wherever he could find it, including five times as Fu Manchu. When he could not find roles in Britain, he cast about in France, Italy, Spain and Germany. His ability to say his lines in their languages was a great advantage when it came to dubbing. He became the first actor to play both Sherlock Holmes and, for the director Billy Wilder in 1970, Sherlock’s brother Mycroft. While shooting by Loch Ness in Scotland, Wilder remarked to him, as they walked in the twilight by the spooky stretch of dark water with bats wheeling about: “You must feel quite at home here.”
  
  Supporting roles in action pictures – as a Nazi officer, a western gunman and a pirate – extended not only his portfolio but also the range of lead actors who were his idols. Among them was Burt Lancaster, whose example as his own stunt man Lee strove to emulate. Lancaster once warned him against journalists: “Never let them get too close.” Lee liked to give interviews, but resented the results, since they invariably harped on about Dracula despite his protestations that he had left the “prince of darkness” behind.
  
  Given this attitude, he rather surprisingly gave me, a journalist, the job of ghostwriting his autobiography, which was published in 1977 as Tall, Dark and Gruesome. In 2003, after he had played several roles a year for 25 more years, we updated the story as Lord of Misrule.

  
  Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man (1973).
  Photograph: Everett/Rex Shutterstock
  
  Lee had come nearest to producing something lasting for the cinema in 1973, playing the pagan Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man. With a marvellous script by Anthony Shaffer, and despite almost no money for production, it was a rare horror film that proved to have a long life. Lee was prevented by injury from taking the role of Sir Lachlan Morrison in a sequel, The Wicker Tree (2011), though he made a cameo appearance as “Old Gentleman”.

  After the high-profile part in The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), Lee – at the urging of Wilder – left Britain for Hollywood. America delivered some of his hopes. On the downside was the disaster film Airport 77; on the upside, a completely unexpected comic success hosting Saturday Night Live on TV, with such stars as John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. In among the 40 jobs he undertook in the 1970s, Lee’s sword and sorcery, murder and spook movies made way for his roles as a U-boat captain in Spielberg’s 1941 (1979), a Hell’s Angel biker in Serial (1980) and, back in Europe, the studied interpretation of the executioner Charles-Henri Sanson as a dandy, for a 1989 French TV history of the Revolution. Lee was fascinated by public executions. His move to the US allowed him the opportunity to see the electric chair firsthand, in a similarly detached mood of inquiry with which he had previously invited England’s last hangman to come to his house and talk about his own career. One of his favourite pastimes was visiting Scotland Yard’s Black Museum.

  
  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, with Christopher Lee as the wizard Saruman.
  Photograph: Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

  
  He worked on tirelessly, becoming a familiar figure in the studios of France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Balkans, the Baltic and Russia; he also made films in Pakistan and New Zealand, and in 2000 he struck a touching figure as the butler Flay in the BBC TV production of Gormenghast.
  
  The 21st century saw a major reinvigoration of his reputation – first in the Star Wars prequels, and then even more significantly as Saruman in Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning film sequence of The Lord of the Rings. He was upset when Jackson cut his scenes in the theatrical edition of the trilogy’s final instalment, The Return of the King (2003), but their rift was healed when the scenes were restored in the extended editions on DVD. At last, in his 80s, Lee was earning six figures. He reprised the role in The Hobbit films.
  
  Nonetheless, one of the roles for which he was most proud was a low-budget assignment: the arduous – and politically precarious – challenge of playing the title role in Jinnah (1998). Though Lee worked with all due seriousness and admiration for the founder of Pakistan (and looked remarkably like him), he had to be constantly under armed guard because of an abusive press campaign against the producers for associating the father of the nation with Dracula; the Pakistan government eventually caved in to the pressure and withdrew its funding for the film. The end product was well reviewed; Lee himself thought it his best achievement, though not everybody would agree.
  
  Still, at home he was becoming the nation’s darling. Tim Burton fitted him into small parts in five films and was on stage to introduce him when Lee won a Bafta fellowship award for lifetime achievement in 2011. A BFI fellowship in 2013 was presented to him by Johnny Depp. In France, he was made a commander of arts and letters; he was likewise honoured in Berlin. He was made CBE in 2001 and knighted in 2009. A prolific schedule of film appearances continued and most recently he had taken the lead role in the comedy Angels in Notting Hill.
  
  He is survived by his wife, Gitte (nee Kroencke), whom he married in 1961, and their daughter, Christina.
  
  • Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, actor, born 27 May 1922; died 7 June 2015

  

  CHRISTOPHER LEE FILMOGRAPHY

  https://www.fandango.com/people/christopher-lee-389466/film-credits

  Year Title Role
  
  2015 Extraordinary Tales
  2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Saruman
  2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Saruman
  2012 Dark Shadows Clarney
  2011 The Wicker Tree Old Gentleman
  2011 Hugo Monsieur Labisse
  2011 Season of the Witch (2011) Cardinal D'Ambroise
  2011 The Resident August
  2010 Burke and Hare Old Joseph
  2010 Alice in Wonderland (2010) Jabberwocky
  
  2009 The Heavy Boots' Father
  2009 Triage Joaquin Morales
  2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars Count Dooku
  2007 The Golden Compass First High Councilor
  2007 Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs Narrator
  2005 Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Pastor Galswells
  2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Dr. Wonka
  2005 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Count Dooku
  2005 Greyfriars Bobby
  2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Saruman
  2002 Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones Count Dooku
  2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Saruman
  
  1999 Sleepy Hollow Burgomaster
  1998 Jinnah Mohammed Ali Jinnah
  1997 Ivanhoe Lucas de Beaumanoir
  
  1986 The Girl (1987) Peter Storm
  1983 The Return of Captain Invincible Mr. Midnight
  1982 The Last Unicorn King Haggard
  
  1979 1941 Von Kleinschmidt
  1979 Alien Encounter Captain Ramses
  1979 Arabian Adventure Alquazar
  1975 The Four Musketeers Rochefort
  1975 Diagnosis: Murder Dr. Stephen Hayward
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Scaramanga
  1973 The Wicker Man (1974) Lord Summerisle
  1972 Dracula A.D. 1972 Count Dracula
  1972 The Creeping Flesh James Hildern
  1972 Horror Express Prof. Alex Caxton
  1971 The House That Dripped Blood Reid
  1970 The Scars of Dracula Count Dracula
  1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Mycroft Holmes
  1970 Scream and Scream Again Fremont
  
  1969 The Magic Christian Ship's Vampire
  1968 Dracula Has Risen From the Grave Dracula
  1968 The Devil Rides Out Duc De Richeleau
  1968 Eve Col. Stuart
  1966 Dracula, Prince of Darkness Dracula
  1965 Face of Fu Manchu Fu Manchu
  1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors Franklyn Marsh
  1964 The Gorgon Prof. Carl Maister
  1964 The Devil-Ship Pirates Capt. Robeles
  1962 The Pirates of Blood River LaRoche
  1962 The Longest Day
  1961 Hercules In The Haunted World (1961) Lichas
  1961 Scream of Fear Dr. Gerrard
  1961 Terror of the Tongs Chung King
  1960 Horror Hotel Prof. Allan Driscoll
  
  1959 The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Henry Baskerville
  1959 The Mummy (1959) Kharis, the Mummy
  1958 Horror of Dracula Count Dracula
  1958 The Accursed Doctor Neumann
  1957 Ill Met By Moonlight German officer at dentist's
  1957 The Curse of Frankenstein The Creature
  1957 Bitter Victory Sgt. Barney
  1956 Moby Dick (1956)
  1952 The Crimson Pirate Joseph, Attache
  1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower Captain
  1950 Prelude to Fame Newsman
  
  1948 Hamlet (1948)
  1948 Scott of the Antarctic Bernard Day
  1948 Corridor of Mirrors Charles

  

  Christopher Lee (I) (1922–2015)

  Actor | Soundtrack | Producer
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000489/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  

  
  1964: Από τη Ρωσία με αγάπη (From Russia With Love; also James Bond, praktor 007 se pagida, or James Bond 007 is paging) released in Greece.

  

  1964: From Russia With Love opens in Los Angeles, California. That's after the New York opening 8 April.
  1967: Comic strip Octopussy ends its run in The Daily Express. (Started 14 November 1966. 264-428)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/post/2016/11/04/Octopussy-Newspaper-Comic-Strip-1966
  
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/op.php3

  

  
  https://www.007collector.com/comic-octopussy-2/
  
  
  Italian 1977 http://www.007collector.com/comic-jb007-no-16/
  
  Spanish 1989 https://en.todocoleccion.net/comics/james-bond-numero-04-octopussy~x116600976
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1986 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3?s=comics&id=02296

  Undervattensdöden
  (Octopussy - Part 1) | (Octopussy - Part 2)
  

  
  Danish 1977 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no42-1977/

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  1971: Diamonds Are Forever films OO7 and Tiffany Case's confronting Blofeld on an oil rig'
  1974: Sébastien Foucan is born--Paris, France.
  
  2008: A press party on the HMS Exeter anticipates the release of the Sebastian Faulks Bond novel Devil May Care. Includes delivery of copies by speedboat on the Thames and two Lynx helicopters.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2011: Janet McLuckie Brown dies at age 87--Hove, East Sussex, England.
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  May 2020 Posts: 13,785

  May 28th
  
  1908: Ian Lancaster Fleming is born--Mayfair, London, England.
  (He dies 12 August 1964 at age 56--Canterbury, Kent, England.)

  

  100 things you didn't know about Ian Fleming

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/100-things-you-didn-t-know-about-ian-fleming-1-1170076

  Published: 21:35 Tuesday 27 May 2008
  Today is 100 years since the birth of the author who introduced the world to the coolest spy of all. Now, with a new Bond book written by Sebastian Faulks on sale, we unveil the man who forged a modern phenomenon

  1 Ian Lancaster Fleming was born on 28 May 1908, at Green Street, London,
  
  2 His parents were Valentine Fleming, a soldier and Tory MP who was killed during the First World War, and Evelyn Ste Croix Rose .
  
  3 He was given the middle name Lancaster because his mother liked to claim descent from John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and son of Edward III – though she also claimed Highland descent, and dressed her four sons in kilts.
  
  4 Evelyn had an affair with the famous painter Augustus John when in her forties.
  
  5 At Fleming’s prep school, the headmaster’s wife read to the pupils from boys’ classics such as The Prisoner of Zenda.
  
  6 While he didn’t excel as a scholar, Fleming was twice athletics champion at Eton.
  
  7 James Bond, however, didn’t last long at Eton and ended up at Fettes, in Edinburgh.
  
  8 Fleming said he was harshly beaten at Eton by a sadistic housemaster.
  
  9 Withdrawn from Eton at 17, he went to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, where his tutor declared that he would make a good soldier “provided always that the ladies don’t ruin him”.
  
  10 At Sandhurst, Fleming was indeed ensnared by the ladies – he caught an STI from a prostitute, and was withdrawn from the college and sent to a finishing school in Austria.

  11 His broken nose was the result of a football game collision with Henry Douglas-Home, brother of the future prime minister, Sir Alec.
  
  12 Following his signal lack of success at Eton and Sandhurst, He failed exams for a place in the Foreign Office, but in 1931 got his first job with the press agency Reuters. He would later say it taught him to write fast and accurately.
  
  13 In 1939 he was recruited as personal assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence.
  
  14 In “Room 39”, the intelligence office at the Admiralty, he honed skills as an espionage planner.
  
  15 One of his more imaginative plans (unused) was “Operation Ruthless”, a bid to retrieve a German naval codebook by crashing a captured German bomber into the English Channel.
  
  16 Fleming also went on foreign operations for the Admiralty, travelling to a chaotic Paris as the Germans approached.
  
  17 After the war, he joined the Sunday Times.
  
  18 Having returned to journalism, he also acquired a plot of land in Jamaica on which he built Goldeneye, the hideway where he wrote the Bond novels.
  
  19 He named the house after both a wartime operation and Carson McCullers’ novel Reflections in a Golden Eye.
  
  20 Two years ago, Goldeneye was converted by its owner, Chris Blackwell, founder of Island Records, into an exclusive holiday resort.

  21 Blackwell’s mother, Blanche Blackwell, had had an affair with Fleming and gave him a small boat, Octopussy, which provided the title of one of his Bond stories.
  
  22 Other guests at Goldeneye included Noel Coward and Errol Flynn.
  
  23 The first Bond novel, Casino Royale, came out in 1953.
  
  24 Fleming is thought to have christened his agent after the author of the Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies, written in 1947 by one James Bond.
  
  25 Fleming was also involved in the creation of 30 Assault Unit, an intelligence-gathering Commando group.
  
  26 Peter Fleming, his older brother may have been part inspiration for the character of Bond. He was a popular travel writer, and also had an eventful wartime career, narrowly escaping death in Greece, where his life was saved by an officer called Rodney Bond. Another suggested model was the Scottish soldier, author and diplomat Sir Fitzroy Maclean.
  
  27 Others point to the brothers’ dead war hero father – and to Ian Fleming himself, his descriptions of Bond matching his own appearance, with his “longish nose” and “cruel mouth”.
  
  28 He said he wanted 007 to have “the dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find ... brief, unromantic, Anglo-Saxon and yet very masculine”.
  
  29 Bond’s boss, “M”, was at least partly based on Fleming’s gruff boss in Naval intelligence, John Godfrey.
  
  30 The codename 007 also stemmed from his Admiralty days, when all top secret communications carried a double-zero prefix.

  31 The name of Miss Moneypenny comes from a character in an unfinished novel by Peter Fleming. The main model for her character seems to have been Kathleen Pettigrew, personal assistant to Stewart Menzies, director general of MI6.
  
  32 M’s secretary was called “Miss Pettavel” or “Petty”, in the first draft of Casino Royale.
  
  33 Fleming was actively interested in cars, golf and snorkelling.
  
  34 He was also, from an early age, an avid book collector, amassing a large collection of first editions.
  
  35 His collection, now at Indiana university, includes papers by Einstein and the first printing of the Communist Manifesto.
  
  36 He married Ann Charteris, former wife of Viscount Rothermere, the newspaper magnate, in 1952. Noel Coward was a witness.
  
  37 Fleming had affairs with many women, including the wives of close friends.
  
  38 Ann, for her part, had an affair with Hugh Gaitskell, then leader of the Labour Party.
  
  39 Fleming amassed a large collection of erotica at Goldeneye that he liked to show off to visitors of either sex.
  
  40 He liked to beat Ann – and she liked him beating her. “It’s very lonely not to be beaten and shouted at every five minutes,” she once wrote to him in 1948. “I must be perverse and masochistic to want you to whip me and contradict me, particularly as you are always wrong about everything.”
  
  41 According to Ben Macintyre, the young Fleming cultivated “a sort of rou batchelor-chic” that lasted throughout his life, wearing fashionable suits and either bow ties or old-Etonian ties.
  
  42 Bond didn’t quite take to bow ties and stuck to black knitted silk.
  
  43 Fleming smoked the same brand as Bond, Morland Specials, when he could get them.
  
  44 Fleming never intended Bond to be a particularly likeable character. Himself witty and dry, he wanted 007 to remain “ironical, brutal and cold”.
  
  45 Fleming was caustic about tasteless dressers, bad manners and homosexuals – even though he was close friends with two gay men, Noel Coward and William Plomer.
  
  46 He also became a friend of Somerset Maugham, also gay, whose lavish lifestyle he admired.
  
  47 He was also an accomplished travel writer, his articles for the Sunday Times eventually being published in book form as Thrilling Cities, due to be reissued
  
  48 Another book, about the diamond trade, The Diamond Smugglers, is also about to be republished.
  
  49 These world travels informed his novels – not least in the international cuisine savoured by 007.
  
  50 For breakfast, Bond and creator liked eggs from Maran hens, boiled for 3 minutes and served on Minton china.

  51 Giving him a taste for vodka martinis Fleming described him as “basically a hard liquor man … not a wine snob”.
  
  52 In 1961, he sold the film rights to all published and future Bond novels to Harry Saltzman, who co-produced the first Bond film Dr No with Cubby Broccoli.
  
  53 Fleming initially suggested his old friend Noel Coward for the role of Dr No. He also suggested David Niven as Bond.
  
  54 Undaunted, he went on to suggest Roger Moore as James Bond, but he too was rejected in favour of Sean Connery.
  
  55 Fleming met Connery for lunch, but initially wondered whether “this overgrown stuntman”, was suited to the role. He was assured by women that Connery had the right stuff.
  
  56 Fleming was a long-standing member of Boodle’s, a gentlemen’s club on which he modelled Bond’s fictitious haunt, Blades.
  
  57 The Bond books did not immediately catch on in the US, until President John F Kennedy named From Russia With Love as one of his favourite books.
  
  58 Fleming had met Kennedy in 1960, before he was president, and invited him to dinner, reportedly giving Kennedy his ideas on how to discredit Cuba’s Fidel Castro.
  
  59 the first US paperback edition of Casino Royale was retitled You Asked For it. Similarly, the first US paperback of Moonraker went on the shelves as Too Hot to Handle.
  
  60 Fleming said his hero should be portrayed as “a blunt instrument wielded by a government department”.

  61 With the impact of the first film, sales of Bond paperbacks in Britain and the US rocketed to 17 million.
  
  62 A stickler for detail and accuracy, Fleming would consult experts about the hardware in his adventures, including science fiction guru Arthur C Clarke
  
  63 He also became friendly with the French diving pioneer Jacques Cousteau, and joined him investigating a sunken Greek treasure ship.
  
  64 Fleming was bored by guns, but owned a Colt .38 Police Positive presented by Bill Donovan of US intelligence, engraved with: “For special services”.
  
  65 Bond frequently uses a Beretta, regarded by some as a ladies’ gun. Fleming, however, had been given a Beretta during his war service.
  
  66 The first actor to play Bond was the American Barry Nelson who turned up as the spy in a US television adaptation of Casino Royale in 1954.
  
  67 Fleming found the transposition of the Bond yarns to screen “a riot”. On visiting the set of Dr No, he arrived just as Ursula Andress was emerging from the lagoon, was yelled at by the filmmakers and had to dive out of camera shot.
  
  68 In his 1991 novel, The Sixth Column, Fleming’s brother, Peter described Britain as being in need of a hero “with the urbane, faintly swashbuckly sangfroid of Raffles”.
  
  69 Fleming regarded post-war Britain as being in decline, reflected in his writings: “The blubbery arms of the soft life had Bond round the neck and they were slowly strangling him.”
  
  70 Of his many villains, he wrote: “It is so difficult to make [them] frightening. But one is ashamed to overwrite them, though that is probably what the public would like.”

  71 During the Cold War, Soviet critics of the Bond stories condemned Fleming for creating “a nightmarish world where laws are written at the point of a gun”.
  
  72 Joining the Sunday Times (with whose owner, Lord Kelmsley he had become friendly during the war), he negotiated an extremely generous salary and contract, which allowed lavish expenses and two months off every year to write at Goldeneye.
  
  73 During the 1950s, he developed a sophisticated network for collecting information and intelligence from Sunday Times foreign correspondents.
  
  74 Fleming once remarked that he wrote “chiefly for pleasure, then for money”.
  
  75 Ben Macintyre suggests that “007’s fatherless reverence for ‘M’” in the Bond stories can be traced back to Fleming’s early loss of his father.
  
  76 Fleming gave Bond a Scottish father, Andrew Bond, and Scottish settings are to the fore in Charlie Higson’s “Young Bond” novels, which began in 2004 with Silverfin.
  
  77 Fleming appears as a minor fictional character in William Boyd’s 2002 novel Any Human Heart.
  
  78 Sting wrote the Police hit "Every Breath You Take", at the same desk at which Fleming wrote his Bond Novels.
  
  79 A Conservative, Fleming thought the party too readily associated with the upper classes, and that it should change its name to The People’s Party.
  
  80 He also believed people running company cars should have the name of their businesses on the side – so shareholders would be able to recognise them when pictures appeared in the papers of Rolls-Royces disgorging mink-clad women at premieres.

  81 He was also an early supporter of the idea of electric cars.
  
  82 According to his biographer, Andrew Lycett, he proposed that the Isle of Wight be turned into a vast pleasure zone with casinos and brothels.
  
  83 Eventually, the pressure to produce started to tell, and Fleming threatened to kill off Bond, telling a friend: “I used to believe – sufficiently – in Bonds and Blondes and Bombs. Now the keys creak as I type and I fear the zest may have gone … I shall definitely kill off Bond in my next book.”
  
  84 The last book Ian Fleming wrote was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, written for his son, Caspar.
  
  85 It also became a hugely successful film, in which the name of one character, Truly Scrumptious, is droll take-off of a Bond girl name.
  
  86 Following an attack of pleurisy, Fleming died of a heart attack on 12 August 1964. He was just 56.
  
  87 Caspar died of a drug overdose in 1975.
  
  88 The year after Fleming’s death, his books sold some 27 million copies, in numerous languages, throughout the world.
  
  89 Licence to Kill was the Bond film not to have its title based on a Fleming story.
  
  90 Forty years ago, the author Kingsley Amis analysed all of the Bond novels, and compiled a guide for would-be agents, The Book of Bond.

  91 Amis also wrote a Bond novel, Colonel Sun, in 1968, while other post-Fleming Bond authors included Raymond Benson and John Gardner.
  
  92 Today’s centenary saw the launch of a new Bond novel, Devil May Care by Birdsong author Sebastian Faulks.
  
  93 Fleming loved scrambled eggs, and ordered them at New York’s ultra-exclusive Lutce restaurant, followed simply by strawberries.
  
  94 In January stamps marking the centenary sold out faster than those celebrating the Beatles in 2007.
  
  95 Penguin is publishing new hardback editions of the 14 Bond books.
  
  96 The Queen Anne Press, formerly managed by Ian Fleming, has been acquired by his literary estate and is producing a centenary edition of his complete works, including a new volume, Talk of the Devil, containing unpublished and rarely seen material.
  
  97 A major exhibition, For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming + James Bond, is running at the Imperial War Museum until March next year.
  
  98 Among memorabilia, the exhibition includes a letter written to the author written by a Major Boothroyd, who wanted to advise him what handguns he thought most appropriate for Bond.
  
  99 This Fleming centenary week, the Oxfam shop in Edinburgh’s Nicolson Street shop made its biggest ever sale with a rare first edition of From Russia with Love, which went for 300.
  
  100 A centenary exhibition of cover artwork for the Bond books, Bond-Bound: Ian Fleming and the Art of Cover Design, will run in Edinburgh’s City Arts Centre, City Art Centre from 5 July to 14 September.

  
  Compiled from sources including Ben Macintyre’s For Your Eyes Only: Ian Fleming + James Bond, written in association with the Imperial War Museum exhibition. See also ianflemingcentenary.com
  
  His name's still Bond, but it's 007 with a brand new twist

  
  
  

  1908: The birth date of Ernst Stavro Blofeld from the pages of On Her Majesty's Secret Service by Ian Fleming.

  

  On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Ian Fleming, 1963.
  Chapter 7 - The Hairy Heel of Achilles

  Bond said urgently, 'So what happened? Have you kept the contact?'
  
  'Oh yes, but rather tenuously, I'm afraid. Of course I wrote at once accepting the commission and agreeing to the vow of secrecy which' - he smiled - 'you now force me to break presumably by invoking the Official Secrets Act. That is so, isn't it? I am acting under force majeure?'
  
  'You are indeed,' said Bond emphatically.
  
  Sable Basilisk made a careful note on the top paper in the file and continued. ' Of course the first thing I had to ask for was the man's birth certificate and, after a delay, I was told that it had been lost and that I was on no account to worry about it. The Count had in fact been born in Gdynia of a Polish father and a Greek mother - I have the names here - on May 28th, 1908. Could I not pursue my researches backwards from the de Bleuville end?

  I replied temporizing, but by this time I had indeed established from our library that there had been a family of de Bleuvilles, at least as lately as the seventeenth century, at a place called Blonville-sur-Mer, Calvados, and that their arms and motto were as claimed by Blofeld.' Sable Basilisk paused. 'This of course he must have known for himself. There would have been no purpose in inventing a family of de Bleuvilles and trying to stuff them down our throats. I told the lawyers of my discovery and, in my summer holidays - the North of France is more or less my private heraldic beat, so to speak, and very rich it is too in connexions with England -1 motored down there and sniffed around. But meanwhile I had, as a matter of routine, written to our Ambassador in Warsaw and asked him to contact our Consul in Gdynia and request him to employ a lawyer to make the simple researches with the Registrar and the various churches where Blofeld might have been baptized. The reply, early in September, was, but is no longer, surprising. The pages containing the record of Blofeld's birth had been neatly cut out. I kept this information to myself, that is to say I did not pass it on to the Swiss lawyers because I had been expressly instructed to make no inquiries in Poland. Meanwhile I had carried out similar inquiries through a lawyer in Augsburg. There, there was indeed a record of Blofelds, but of a profusion of them, for it is a fairly common German name, and in any case nothing to link any of them with the de Bleuvilles from Calvados. So I was stumped, but no more than I have been before, and I wrote a neutral report to the Swiss lawyers and said that I was continuing my researches. And there' - Sable •Basilisk slapped the file shut - 'until my telephone began ringing yesterday, presumably because someone in the Northern Department of the Foreign Office was checking the file copies from Warsaw and the name Blofeld rang a bell, and you appeared looking very impatient from the cave of my friend the Griffon, the case rests.'
  
  Bond scratched his head thoughtfully. 'But the ball's still in play?'
  
  'Oh yes, definitely.'

  
  Arae et Foci
  [Bleuchamp family motto, hearth and home]
  

  
  1929: Shane Rimmer is born--Toronto, Canada.
  (He dies dies 29 March 2019 at age 89--Barnet Hospital, Barnet, England.)

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  The Canadian actor had forged a lengthy career in cult TV shows
  and films, appearing in three James Bond movies
  Martin Belam | Fri 29 Mar 2019 10.49 EDT | Last modified on Fri 29 Mar 2019 14.15 EDT
  

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

  
  Actor Shane Rimmer, who voiced the character of pilot Scott Tracy in Thunderbirds, has died. The official Gerry Anderson website carried the news, saying that the death of the 89 year old had been confirmed by his widow Sheila Rimmer. Rimmer died at home in the early hours of 29 March. No cause of death has been given.
  
  Rimmer, who was born in Toronto in 1929 and moved to the UK in the 1950s, played the leader of the Thunderbirds crew in 32 episodes produced between 1964 and 1966. The actor also contributed his voice to other Gerry Anderson projects including Joe 90 and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, and appeared in person in the Anderson’s live action project UFO. Behind the scenes, Rimmer also wrote episodes of Captain Scarlet, Joe 90, The Secret Service and The Protectors.
  

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

  As well as his work with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson he appeared in over 100 films including Dr Strangelove, Gandhi and Out of Africa. He played three different roles in three different James Bond movies, appearing in Diamonds Are Forever, You Only Live Twice, and The Spy Who Loved Me.
  
  
  Shane Rimmer with James Bond actor Roger Moore on the set of 1977’s The Spy Who Loved Me.
  Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

  Rimmer was also regularly cast in science fiction and fantasy projects, having appeared in William Hartnell era Doctor Who story The Gunfighters, as well as in Space: 1999, and having minor roles in Star Wars and Superman movies. He also played two different characters in British soap opera Coronation Street – in 1988 as shopkeeper Malcolm Reid, and between 1967 and 1970 as Joe Donnelli, an American GI who had murdered an army colleague and eventually shot himself.
  
  Rimmer had continued to work in his later years, and as recently as 2017 was supplying a voiceover in cult kids’ TV show The Amazing World of Gumball.
  
  https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/mar/29/shane-rimmer-voice-of-thunderbirds-scott-tracy-dies-aged-89

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

  

  Shane Rimmer (1929–2019)

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

  Actor (165 credits)
  
  Firestorm (TV Movie) (post-production) - Tbc
  1987-2017 Dick Spanner, P.I. (TV Series) - Dick Spanner - 24 episodes
  2014-2017 The Amazing World of Gumball (TV Series) - Louie - 4 episodes
  2016 Darkwave: Edge of the Storm (Short) - Anderson
  2015 Thunderbirds (TV Series) - Scott Tracy
  2012 Dark Shadows - Board Member 1
  2010/II Half Moon (Short) - Maj Thomas Brennan
  2010 Lovelorn - The Barman
  
  2006 Alien Autopsy - Colonel
  2005 Hiroshima (TV Movie documentary) - James F. Byrnes
  2005 Mee-Shee: The Water Giant - Bob Anderson
  2005 Batman Begins - Older Gotham Water Board Technician
  2004 Caught in the Act (TV Movie) - Father
  2003 Seven Wonders of the Industrial World (TV Series) - William Kingsley
  - The Brooklyn Bridge (2003) ... William Kingsley
  2003 The War of the Starfighters - Tantive Base Operative (voice)
  2001 Spy Game - Estate Agent
  2000 One of the Hollywood Ten - Parnell Thomas
  
  1999 Dockers (TV Movie) - US Longshoreman
  1998 I.K. - Ivar Kreuger (TV Mini-Series) - President Hoover
  - Episode #1.3 (1998) ... President Hoover
  1998 Only Love (TV Movie) - Warren Oliver
  1996 Space Truckers - E. J. Saggs
  1995 A Kid in King Arthur's Court - Coach
  1994 The Saint: The Software Murders (TV Movie) - Bob Harrison
  1993 Piccolo grande amore - Mr. Hughes
  1993 Lipstick on Your Collar (TV Mini-Series) - Lt. Colonel Trekker / Lt. Col. Trekker
  - Episode #1.6 (1993) ... Lt. Col. Trekker
  - Episode #1.4 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
  - Episode #1.3 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
  - Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
  - Episode #1.1 (1993) ... Lt. Colonel Trekker
  1992 Double Vision (TV Movie) - Caroline & Lisa's Father
  1992 Casualty (TV Series) - Ed Rhinehart
  - Cry Wolf (1992) ... Ed Rhinehart
  1992 Land of Hope and Gloria (TV Series) - Bob
  - The Authentic Taste of England (1992) ... Bob
  1992 Year of the Comet - T.T. Kelleher
  1991 Stanley and the Women (TV Mini-Series) - Morton Fendig
  - Episode #1.1 (1991) ... Morton Fendig
  1991 Company Business - Chairman, Maxine Gray Cosmetics
  1991 A Kiss Before Dying - Commissioner Malley
  1991 Van der Valk (TV Series) - Lovell J Wallace
  - A Sudden Silence (1991) ... Lovell J Wallace
  1990 Enemy's Enemy (TV Mini-Series) - Skip Harrier
  - Del 4 (1990) ... Skip Harrier
  
  1989 The Nightmare Years (TV Mini-Series) - Ambassador Dodd
  - Episode #1.4 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
  - Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
  - Part 2 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
  - Part 1 (1989) ... Ambassador Dodd
  1989 Red King, White Knight (TV Movie) - General
  1989 Tailspin: Behind the Korean Airliner Tragedy (TV Movie) - Adm. Riley
  1989 The Bretts (TV Series) - Ben Silverstein
  - Home and Away: Part One (1989) ... Ben Silverstein
  1989 Street Legal (TV Series) - Det. Barnes
  - Basketball Story (1989) ... Det. Barnes
  1988 The Dirty Dozen (TV Series) - Biddle
  - Don Danko (1988) ... Biddle
  1988 The Fortunate Pilgrim (TV Mini-Series) - Reilly
  - Episode #1.3 (1988) ... Reilly
  - The Fortunate Pilgrim (1988) ... Reilly
  - The Fortunate Pilgrim (1988) ... Reilly
  1967-1988 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Joe Donnelli / Joe Donelli / Malcolm Reid - 25 episodes
  1988 A Very British Coup (TV Mini-Series) - The Americans - Secretary of State
  - Episode #1.3 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
  - Episode #1.2 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
  - Episode #1.1 (1988) ... The Americans - Secretary of State
  1988 Crusoe - Mr. Mather
  1988 The Bourne Identity (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. Conklin
  - Episode #1.2 (1988) ... Gen. Conklin
  - Episode #1.1 (1988) ... Gen. Conklin
  1987 Roman Holiday (TV Movie) - Hogan
  1987 Breakthrough at Reykjavik (TV Movie) - George Schultz
  1987 Riviera (TV Movie) - Doc
  1987 The Two Mrs. Grenvilles (TV Mini-Series) - Doorman
  - Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Doorman
  - Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Doorman
  1987 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Movie) - Stark
  1986 Space Police (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Chuck Brogan
  1986 Whoops Apocalypse - Marvin Gelber (US Secretary of State)
  1986 Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna (TV Mini-Series) - Harvey Coward
  - Part II (1986) ... Harvey Coward
  - Part I (1986) ... Harvey Coward
  1986 Of Pure Blood (TV Movie) - The Colonel
  1986 The Last Days of Patton (TV Movie) - Dr. Col. Lawrence Ball
  1985 Out of Africa - Belknap
  1985 White Nights - Ambassador Smith
  1985 Star Quality: Mr. and Mrs. Edgehill (TV Movie) - Brod Sarnton
  1985 Dreamchild - Mr. Marl
  1985 The Holcroft Covenant - Lt. Miles
  1985 Reunion at Fairborough (TV Movie) - Joe Szyluk
  1985 Space (TV Mini-Series) - Gen Quigley / U.S. General Quigley
  - Part III (1985) ... Gen Quigley
  - Part I (1985) ... U.S. General Quigley
  1985 Morons from Outer Space - Redneck (Melvin)
  1985 Gulag (TV Movie) - Jay
  1984 Ellis Island (TV Mini-Series) - Detective Duffy
  - Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Detective Duffy
  1984 Nairobi Affair (TV Movie) - Mr. Gardner
  1984 Mistral's Daughter (TV Mini-Series) - Harry Klein
  - Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Harry Klein
  - Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Harry Klein
  - Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Harry Klein
  1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Dr. Hersh
  - Last Video and Testament (1984) ... Dr. Hersh
  1984 Alas Smith & Jones (TV Series)
  - Episode #1.5 (1984)
  - Episode #1.4 (1984)
  - Episode #1.1 (1984)
  1984 Lace (TV Mini-Series) - Press Agent
  - Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Press Agent
  - Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Press Agent
  1984 Master of the Game (TV Mini-Series) - Carroll
  1984 Partners in Crime (TV Mini-Series) - Hank Ryder
  - The Crackler (1984) ... Hank Ryder
  1983 The Lonely Lady - Adolph Fannon
  1983 Superman III - State Policeman
  1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) - Detective Murphy
  - Smart Aleck Kill (1983) ... Detective Murphy
  1983 The Hunger - Arthur Jelinek
  1982 Gandhi - Commentator
  1980-1982 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - John Smith / Arthur Beauchamp
  - A Man with a Fortune (1982) ... John Smith
  - My Lady Love, My Dove (1980) ... Arthur Beauchamp
  1982 Nanny (TV Series) - Dick Leonard
  - Fathers (1982) ... Dick Leonard
  1981 Reds - MacAlpine
  1981 Priest of Love - Chief Immigration Officer
  1981 The Rose Medallion (TV Series) - Sgt. Ed Kusborski
  - Episode #1.3 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
  - Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
  - Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Sgt. Ed Kusborski
  1981 Bognor (TV Series) - Horace Higgins
  - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 6 - Feeding Time (1981) ... Horace Higgins
  - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 5 - Dummy Run (1981) ... Horace Higgins
  - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 4 - I Am Yellow: Memoirs of a Danish Dog Lover (1981) ... Horace Higgins
  - Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: Part 3 - Meet the Mole (1981) ... Horace Higgins
  1980 The Dogs of War - Dr. Oaks
  1980 Superman II - Controller #2
  1980 Oppenheimer (TV Mini-Series) - Ed Condon
  - Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Ed Condon
  1980 Very Like a Whale (TV Movie) - Commuter
  
  1979 A Man Called Intrepid (TV Mini-Series) - Willoughby
  - Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Willoughby
  - Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Willoughby
  - Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Willoughby
  1979 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Ambassador Bingham
  - Speed King (1979) ... Ambassador Bingham
  1979 Secret Army (TV Series) - Canadian Commandant
  - The Execution (1979) ... Canadian Commandant
  1979 A Deadly Game (TV Movie) - Braley
  1979 Arabian Adventure - Abu
  1979 Hanover Street - Col. Ronald Bart
  1979 Return of the Saint (TV Series) - Falco
  - Dragonseed (1979) ... Falco
  1978 Superman - Naval Transport Commander (uncredited)
  1978 The One and Only Phyllis Dixey (TV Movie) - US Colonel
  1978 The Famous Five (TV Series) - Mr. Henning
  - Five on Finniston Farm (1978) ... Mr. Henning
  1978 The Billion Dollar Bubble (TV Movie) - Fred Levin
  1978 The Standard (TV Series) - Jack Putnam
  - Two Birds, One Stone (1978) ... Jack Putnam
  1978 Warlords of the Deep - Captain Daniels
  1977 Julia - Customs Officer (uncredited)
  1977 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) - Stone
  - Professional Foul (1977) ... Stone
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Cmdr. Carter
  1977 The People That Time Forgot - Hogan
  1977 Alternative 3 (TV Movie) - Bob Grodin
  1977 Silver Bears - American Banker
  1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope - InCom Engineer (uncredited)
  1977 Nasty Habits - Officer I / C
  1977 The Velvet Glove (TV Series) - Senator William Chandler
  - Mother (1977) ... Senator William Chandler
  1977 Twilight's Last Gleaming - Col. Alexander B. Franklin
  1976 Alien Attack (TV Movie) - Eagle Pilot (voice, uncredited)
  1975-1976 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Eagle Pilot - 6 epsiodes
  1976 Horizon (TV Series documentary) - Fred Levin
  - Billion Dollar Bubble (1976) ... Fred Levin
  1976 Second Verdict (TV Series) - Harold Giles Hoffman
  - The Lindbergh Kidnapping (1976) ... Harold Giles Hoffman
  1976 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Pollack
  - Divorce (1976) ... Pollack
  1975 Quiller (TV Series) - Harry Brent
  - Thundersky (1975) ... Harry Brent
  1975 The 'Human' Factor - CIA Man
  1975 Rollerball - Rusty, Team Executive
  1975 You're on Your Own (TV Series) - Peter Kovacs
  - Value for Money (1975) ... Peter Kovacs
  1974 Late Night Drama (TV Series) - Ronald Ziegler
  - I Know What I Meant (1974) ... Ronald Ziegler
  1974 S*P*Y*S - Hessler
  1974 QB VII (TV Mini-Series) - Reporter Outside Court
  - Part Three (1974) ... Reporter Outside Court (uncredited)
  - Part One & Two (1974) ... Reporter Outside Court (uncredited)
  1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - Zeke / Vickers
  - Zeke's Blues (1973) ... Zeke
  - Vocal (1973) ... Vickers
  1973 Take Me High (uncredited)
  1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - Police Sergeant Warren
  - In the Confessional (1973) ... Police Sergeant Warren
  1973 Live and Let Die - Hamilton (voice, uncredited)
  1973 The Investigator (Video) - John (voice)
  1973 Scorpio - Cop in Hotel (uncredited)
  1972 Baffled! (TV Movie) - Track Announcer
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Lomax
  - Element of Risk (1971) ... Lomax
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Tom (uncredited)
  1970 UFO (TV Series) - Lt. Bill Johnson / Alien / CIA Agent / ...
  - Computer Affair (1970) ... Lt. Bill Johnson / Alien (uncredited)
  - Confetti Check A-O.K. (1970) ... CIA Agent
  - Identified (1970) ... Seagull X-Ray Co-Pilot
  1970 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Goldman
  - The Pueblo Affair (1970) ... Goldman
  
  1968-1969 Joe 90 (TV Series) - Radio Control / Colonel Henderson / Taxi Driver / ...
  - Double Agent (1969) ... Radio Control (voice, uncredited)
  - Business Holiday (1968) ... Colonel Henderson / Taxi Driver (voice, uncredited)
  - Big Fish (1968) ... Gardner (voice, uncredited)
  - International Concerto (1968) ... Kelly / Clerk / Technician (voice, uncredited)
  - Most Special Astronaut (1968) ... Kent (voice, uncredited)
  1968 Thunderbird 6 - Scott Tracy (voice)
  1967-1968 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) - Sergeant / Pilot / Confused Partygoer / ...
  - Flight to Atlantica (1968) ... Sergeant (voice, uncredited)
  - Inferno (1968) ... Pilot (voice, uncredited)
  - Model Spy (1967) ... Confused Partygoer (voice, uncredited)
  - Special Assignment (1967) ... Mason (voice, uncredited)
  1967 You Only Live Twice - Hawaii Radar Operator (uncredited)
  1966 Thunderbirds Are GO - Scott Tracy (voice)
  1965-1966 Thunderbirds (TV Series) - Scott Tracy (voice) - 32 episodes
  1966 Orlando (TV Series) - Kahn - 6 episodes
  1966 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Seth Harper
  - Don't Shoot the Pianist (1966) ... Seth Harper
  - A Holiday for the Doctor (1966) ... Seth Harper
  1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Marine Sergeant
  - Lee Oswald: Assassin (1966) ... Marine Sergeant
  1965-1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Ramsey / Morgan
  - All Roads Lead to Callaghan (1966) ... Ramsey
  - No Wreath for an Angel (1965) ... Morgan
  1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Bud Burdine
  - The Flipside (1966) ... Bud Burdine
  1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Buchanan
  - The Mercenaries (1965) ... Buchanan
  1965 The Bedford Incident - Seaman 1st Class - C.I.C.
  1964 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Corporal Girtin
  - Parade's End #3: A Man Could Stand Up (1964) ... Corporal Girtin
  1964 The Saint (TV Series) - Major Smith
  - The Hi-Jackers (1964) ... Major Smith
  1963-1964 Compact (TV Series) - Russell Corrigan - 30 episodes
  1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Doctor
  - Seven Sisters of Wong (1964) ... Doctor
  1964 Dr. Strangelove - Capt. 'Ace' Owens
  1960 Chasing the Dragon (TV Movie) - Corporal Keegan
  1960 R.C.M.P. (TV Series) - Tom Hopwood
  - Day of Reckoning (1960) ... Tom Hopwood
  1959-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - First generator operator / Campbell / Paul
  - Come in Razor Red (1960) ... First generator operator
  - Roast Goose and Walnut Stuffing (1959) ... Campbell
  - Star in the Summer Night (1959) ... Paul
  
  1959 After Hours (TV Series)
  - Episode #2.13 (1959)
  - Episode #2.12 (1959)
  - Episode #2.10 (1959)
  - Episode #2.6 (1959)
  1958 Cannonball (TV Series) - Tex
  - Sights on Safety (1958) ... Tex
  1958 The Day the Sky Exploded - John McLaren (English version, voice, uncredited)
  1958 Flaming Frontier - Running Bear
  1958 Come Fly with Me (TV Series) - Host
  1957-1958 Encounter (TV Series) - Sharkey / Bill
  - The Riggin' Slinger (1958)
  - Baptism of Fire (1958) ... Sharkey
  - One of Our Men Is Guilty (1957)
  - 99 Times Around the Block (1957) ... Bill
  1957 On Camera (TV Series) - Stanley
  - The Egghead Approach (1957) ... Stanley
  1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (TV Series) - Farber
  - The Prisoner (1957) ... Farber
  1957 A Dangerous Age - Nancy's Father
  1957 Dorchester Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - Rodney Lauder
  - Two Sides to a Tortoise (1957) ... Rodney Lauder
  1957 Folio (TV Series) - Byron Moon
  - Ring Around the Square (1957) ... Byron Moon
  
  Writer (5 credits)
  
  1973-1974 The Protectors (TV Series) (written by - 2 episodes)
  - Blockbuster (1974) ... (written by)
  - Zeke's Blues (1973) ... (written by)
  1973 The Investigator (Video) (story by)
  
  1969 The Secret Service (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
  - Hole in One (1969) ... (written by)
  1968-1969 Joe 90 (TV Series) (teleplay by - 6 episodes)
  - Breakout (1969) ... (teleplay by)
  - Relative Danger (1968) ... (teleplay by)
  - Big Fish (1968) ... (teleplay by)
  - Splashdown (1968) ... (teleplay by - uncredited)
  - King for a Day (1968) ... (teleplay by)
  - The Fortress (1968) ... (teleplay by)
  1967-1968 Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (TV Series) (teleplay by - 3 episodes)
  - Inferno (1968) ... (teleplay by)
  - Expo 2068 (1968) ... (teleplay by)
  - Avalanche (1967) ... (teleplay by)
  
  Soundtrack (1 credit)
  
  2016-2018 The Amazing World of Gumball (TV Series) (performer - 3 episodes)
  - The Ghouls (2018) ... (performer: "All Hail All Hallow's Eve!" - uncredited)
  - The Father (2018) ... (performer: "The Vermin Man" - uncredited)
  - The Compilation (2016) ... (performer: "Weird Like You And Me" - uncredited)
  
  Self (15 credits)
  
  Archive footage (3 credits)

  
  
  

  
  1941: Ian Fleming celebrates his 32nd birthday in New York City then travels by train with Sir Godfrey to Washington DC to discuss the need for a unified US secret service.
  
  
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  1944: Gladys Knight is born--Oglethorpe, Georgia.
  
  1959: Ernest Cunio sends Ivar Bryce a memorandum detailing thoughts for a Bond movie plot discussed with Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

  As Bryce's solicitor in the States, Cuneo had represented his interests in
  Boy and the Bridge and now flew into London to bring his highly charged legal
  brain to bear on Bond. Buoyed by the news that The Boy and the Bridge had
  been selected as Britain's sole representative at the Venice Film Festival, vying
  for honours alongside works from Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa ("A
  thousand congratulations," Fleming wrote McClory upon hearing the news.
  "This is a feather in your cap as tall as the Eiffel Tower!"), a meeting between
  the four main protagonists took place at Moyn's Park, Bryce's sumptuous UK
  residence. Here ideas bounced around for a possible scenario for the Bond
  project which tied-in with McClory's idea of some kind of underwater
  adventure: A notion that particularly appealed to Fleming, himself a keen scuba
  diver and personal friend of acclaimed oceanographer Jacques Cousteau.
  
  During the meeting Cuneo carefully jotted down a rough plot based on
  the group's ideas. After returning to Washington he sent a memo to Bryce,
  dated 28 May 1959, detailing his idea. This was in turn handed to McClory who
  later claimed that Bryce told him: "I do not know whether it is any good but
  have a look at it. It seems to use most of your ideas and so we might like it."
  McClory then sent a copy to Fleming.
  
  Given that Cuneo's memo stands today as the first ever story outline for
  a James Bond movie, it was sent by the author with a cautious covering note:
  "Enclosed was written at night, mere improvisation hence far from author's
  pride, possible author's mortification. Haven't even read it."

  
  1976: A DV article gives detail to McClory’s lawsuit describing a late 1950s agreement with Fleming toward filming James Bond of the Secret Service and sequels. And the 1965 agreement with Broccoli, Saltzman, and Danjaq that Thunderball film and TV rights belong to McClory as of 1 January.
  
  2008: Pengiun OO7 publishes Bond novel Devil May Care by Sebastian Faulks.

  BOND IS BACK.
  WITH A VENGEANCE.
  
  Devil May Care is a masterful continuation of
  the James Bond legacy--an electrifying new
  chapter in the life of the most iconic spy of
  literature and film, written to celebrate the
  centenary of Ian Fleming's birth on Ma8 28, 1908.
  
  An Algerian drug runner is savagely exe-
  cuted in the desolate outskirts of Paris. This
  seemingly isolated event leads to the recall of
  Agent 007 from his sabbatical in Rome and his
  return to the world of intrigue and danger
  where is most at home. The head of MI6, M,
  assigns him to shadow the mysterious Dr.
  Julius Gorner, a power-crazed pharmaceutical
  magnate, whose wealth is exceeded only by his
  greed. Gorner has lately taken a disquieting
  interest in opiate derivatives, both legal and
  illegal, and this urgently bears looking into.
  
  Bond finds a willing accomplice in the shape
  of a glamorous Parisian named Scarlett Papava.
  He will need her help in a life-and-death struggle
  with his most dangerous adversary yet, as a
  chain of events threatens to lead to global
  catastrophe. A British airliner goes missing
  over Iraq. The thunder of a coming war echoes
  in the Middle East. And a tide of lethal nar-
  cotics threatens to engulf a Great Britain in the
  throes of the social upheavals of the late sixties.
  
  Picking up where Ian Fleming left off,
  Sebastian Faulks takes Bond back to the height
  of the Cold War in a story of almost unbearable
  pace and tension. Devil May Care not only
  captures the very essence of Fleming's original
  novels but also shows Bond facing dangers
  with a powerful relevance to our own times.
  
  
  SEBASTIAN FAULKS's seven previous novels
  include the international bestseller Birdsong (1993),
  Charlotte Gray (2000), and, most recently, Engelby
  (2007). He lives in London, is married, and has two
  sons and a daughter.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2008: James Bond, Bentley Motors and Penguin Books publish a special limited edition of Devil May Care.

  

  Bentley Motors Designs Limited Collector's Edition of the New
  Bond Book: Devil May Care

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.dexigner.com/news/14775

  May 7, 2008 11:30 am EDT
  
  In a unique collaboration between three of Britain's iconic brands - James Bond, Bentley Motors and Penguin Books - a special, limited edition of the new Bond book Devil May Care will be published on 28th May. Written by Sebastian Faulks at the invitation of Ian Fleming Publications to celebrate the Ian Fleming centenary, Devil May Care is one of the most eagerly anticipated publications of 2008.
  
  Cars and James Bond have always had a strong association and, contrary to popular belief, Bond's preference has historically been firmly with Bentley Motors. He owned three Bentleys in the course of the fourteen original novels written by Ian Fleming. It is fitting therefore that in Devil May Care - published to coincide with the centenary of Ian Fleming's birth - Bond is found once again in the driving seat of his favourite car.

  
  Dirk van Braeckel and Kate

  
  To mark the reunion, Penguin approached Bentley to produce a luxury, limited edition of https://www.dexigner.com/images/article/17063/Dirk_van_Braeckel_and_Kate_thumb.jpg. The result is a beautiful and striking edition which takes its inspiration from hard-covers of the original 1950s and 1960s Bond books combined with the stylish Bentley owner's manuals and handbooks of the era. Inside the book is a specially designed model pewter Bentley, described in detail by Fleming in Thunderball.
  
  Bentley Chief Designer Dirk van Braeckel says, "Transferring our design knowledge from the car world to a book was a new challenge for us, but working closely with Penguin, we think we have come up with a unique product which is complementary to the history of Bentley and Bond that can be appreciated by all."
  
  Only 300 copies of the Special Series edition will be produced, costing £750 each, available exclusively from the Penguin James Bond books website.
  

  
  Devil May Care Book

  
  The Design
  Evoking the feeling of the Cold War period in which Devil May Care is set, the edition is bound in Bodoniana style cases and finished in burnt oak leather sourced from the tannery in Italy which provides the hides for Bentley's interiors. The iconic Bentley diamond pattern found on the radiator grille and upholstery of modern Bentley's, is hand-stitched on the leather casing and the front cover and spine is finished with the silver Bentley "Flying B" - the radiator cap of the Bentley's of Bond's time.
  
  The inside of the casing is trimmed in deep red hotspur leather and has the striking fluting used on the 1950's and 1960's Bentley interior upholstery. Each book has a unique edition number embossed on a black aluminium plate produced the same company that makes the Bentley engine plates.
  
  Devil May Care Book Open
  Fleming described in detail a modified Bentley R type in Thunderball and On Her Majesty's Secret Service which Bond lovingly called "the Locomotive". The car never existed but, using Fleming's exact specifications, a cast and polished 1:43 scale model of the car has been hand crafted by Bentley for this edition. The miniature is inserted into the book in a car-shaped hole and is individually numbered to match the plate on the inside cover. Each book is protected by a custom-made Plexiglass slip case, which will be sealed in protective and numbered wrapping.
  
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  2015: Orion Publishing announces Anthony Horowitz's next Bond title Trigger Mortis to be available September.

  

  New James Bond novel Trigger Mortis
  resurrects Pussy Galore

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/may/28/new-james-bond-novel-trigger-mortis-pussy-galore-anthony-horowitz

  Anthony Horowitz has drawn on an unseen Ian Fleming script for
  latest authorised 007 sequel
  Alison Flood | Thu 28 May 2015 02.01 EDT

  
  ‘The most famous Bond girl of all’ ... Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore in the 1964 film of Goldfinger.
  Photograph: Allstar/United Artists

  
  Pussy Galore, the violet-eyed lesbian gangster dreamed up by Ian Fleming for Goldfinger, was last seen in a clinch with James Bond, a wanted woman drifting off the coast of Canada. Now she is set to return thanks to the novelist Anthony Horowitz, who is bringing her back this September in the latest official 007 adventure, Trigger Mortis.
  
  The Foyle’s War and Midsomer Murders creator unveiled the title and a plot outline for the forthcoming James Bond thriller on Thursday morning, to mark what would have been Fleming’s 107th birthday. Trigger Mortis will be set in 1957, two weeks after the events of Goldfinger, placing Bond in the middle of the Soviet-American Space Race as the US prepares for a critical rocket launch.
  
  As well as bringing back Pussy, who was played in the film adaptation by Honor Blackman, Horowitz will introduce another Bond girl, Jeopardy Lane, as well as a “sadistic, scheming Korean adversary hell-bent on vengeance” named Jai Seung Sin.
  
  The plot also includes Fleming’s own treatment for an unfilmed episode of a television series, "Murder on Wheels", in which Bond gets involved in a Formula One race in Nürburgring in Germany. This will kick off the action in Trigger Mortis.
  

  
  The cover for the new novel, due this September.
  Photograph: PR

  
  Horowitz, the author of the bestselling young adult series about a teenage spy, Alex Rider, and of two authorised Sherlock Holmes novels, said it had always been his intention “to go back to the true Bond, which is to say, the Bond that Fleming created, and it was a fantastic bonus having some original, unseen material from the master to launch my story”.
  
  Goldfinger, he added, was his favourite Bond novel, and he was delighted that Pussy Galore is back. The Bond girl last appeared at the end of the 1959 novel Goldfinger, in “nothing but a grey fisherman’s jersey that was decent by half an inch”. The pair had just been rescued from a life raft after they made it off Goldfinger’s plane.
  
  Pussy asks 007 “not in a gangster’s voice, or a Lesbian’s, but in a girl’s voice, ‘Will you write to me in Sing Sing?’” Bond looks into her “deep blue-violet eyes that were no longer hard, imperious”, and says: “They told me you only liked women.” Pussy replies: “I never met a man before,” and Bond’s mouth “came ruthlessly down on hers”.
  
  “It was great fun revisiting the most famous Bond girl of all – although she is by no means the only dangerous lady in Trigger Mortis,” said Horowitz. “I hope fans enjoy it. My aim was to make this the most authentic James Bond novel anyone could have written.”
  
  Lucy Fleming, the niece of Ian Fleming, said “it was almost as if Ian had written b][i]Trigger Mortis[/i][/b himself”.
  
  “It does feel like a Fleming book,” she said. “It takes place a couple of weeks after Goldfinger – Pussy’s back, which is fantastic, and we’ve got a particularly good villain in Sin – he’s absolutely horrible, a megalomaniac type, but fascinating as well … Pussy Galore is one of the iconic characters from the films and the books … It will be interesting to see what the public make of that.”
  
  Although novelists including Jeffrey Deaver, Sebastian Faulks and William Boyd have all written authorised new Bond novels, Horowitz is the first to place his work directly within Fleming’s original canon, to continue the adventures of one of the Bond girls created by the novelist, and to work with previously unpublished Fleming material.
  
  “Each writer has their own style, but I think Anthony is closest to Ian’s style,” said Lucy Fleming. “And he has the page-turning effect of making you think ‘what the hell is going to happen next?’ … He’s worked "Murder on Wheels" in brilliantly – it’s woven into the whole thing. It was just a treatment, really, with the idea for the plot.”
  
  Orion Publishing will release Trigger Mortis on 8 September. Fleming wrote 14 Bond books in total, from 1953’s Casino Royale to 1966’s "The Living Daylights". More than 100m 007 books have been sold worldwide.

  
  
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  May 29th
  
  1920: Clifton James is born--Spokane, Washington. (He dies 15 April 2017 at age 96--Gladstone, Oregon.)

  

  

  Gladstone hometown hero Clifton James
  fondly remembered

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://pamplinmediagroup.com/pt/9-news/357972-237884-gladstone-hometown-hero-clifton-james-fondly-remembered

  Raymond Rendleman - Monday, May 08, 2017

  James, awarded the Silver Star for his bravery in combat in 1945, went on international fame as Louisiana Sheriff JW Pepper in two James Bond films

  Clifton James, Gladstone's hometown hero for his World War II bravery and extensive acting career spanning nearly six decades, died last month at the age of 96.
  

  
  SUBMITTED PHOTO - In the photo circa 1980, Clifton James enjoys the Clackamas River with his family near High Rocks in Gladstone.

  
  James grew up in Gladstone, a town that he always loved. After studying drama at the University of Oregon, he lived in New York and Los Angeles for most of his life, but his sisters lived in Gladstone, so he would often visit them along with his nieces and nephews. He moved in with his daughter, Gladstone resident Mary James, for the final years of his life before succumbing to diabetes on April 15.

  
  SUBMITTED PHOTO - Clifton James as Sheriff JW Pepper plays opposite Roger Moore as James Bond in 1974's 'The Man with the Golden Gun.'

  James' memorial service with full military honors is scheduled for 3 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 25, at Willamette National Cemetery, 11800 S.E. Mt Scott Blvd., Portland.
  
  "He almost always played that tough, Southern sheriff type," said James' sister Bev Anslow of his successful acting career that included more than 50 film credits.
  
  James made his Broadway stage debut as a construction foreman in "The Cave Dwellers" (1958). He was involved in a lot of off-Broadway shows, where he played various roles, including starring with Al Pacino in "American Buffalo" from 1980-81, which was turned into a 1997 film production starring Dustin Hoffman.

  James played a floor walker in the classic film "Cool Hand Luke" (1967). His most famous role was fast-talking Louisiana Sheriff JW Pepper in two James Bond films opposite Roger Moore: 1973's "Live and Let Die" and 1974's "The Man with the Golden Gun." Anslow said an elephant was supposed to knock James' stunt double, not James himself as JW Pepper, into a Southeast Asian river during a memorable scene in "The Man with the Golden Gun."
  
  Moore paid tribute to James on Twitter: "Terribly sad to hear Clifton James has left us. As JW Pepper he gave my first two Bond films a great, fun character."

  As a character actor, James was called upon to reprise variations on JW Pepper many times. Did he mind being type-cast?
  
  "It didn't bother him, and he rather liked it," Anslow said. "He was an actor's actor, and he would act whatever part was given to him and genuinely enjoy the work."
  
  James loved putting on a show throughout his long life. He was a well-known character around Gladstone, often seen with an unlit cigar in his mouth or taking out his false teeth to scare children.
  
  James' mother taught grade school in Woodland, Washington, and would organize local drama productions, including at the old Gladstone Grade School, which which was K-8 at that time. James went to school in Gladstone through the eighth grade and graduated from Milwaukie High School.
  
  SUBMITTED PHOTO - Staff Sgt. Clifton James of Gladstone served in the U.S. Army for 42 months during World War II. (Posted above)
  
  James was one of the last survivors of WWII's 41st Division, composed of National Guard units from Idaho, Montana, Oregon, North Dakota and Washington state. Serving in the U.S. Army for 42 months in the South Pacific during WWII, he was awarded the Silver Star for his bravery in combat on April 21, 1945.
  
  During the spring of '45, James served as a staff sergeant leading a combat patrol to determine the strength of enemy entrenchments on several ridges on the Philippines' Jolo Island, where previous U.S. attacks had been repulsed. Rather than endanger the whole patrol on April 21, he asked them to stay under cover and watch him try to crawl undetected toward an enemy's trench system. James came under "heavy automatic fire" once he crawled within 20 yards of the trench.
  
  "Then, with complete disregard for his life, [James] charged the position, killing its occupants," a now-declassified military document says. "Continuing on his mission, he crawled to a vantage point, where he could observe the activity of the enemy on the next ridge. With this valuable information gained, the forthcoming attack was a success."
  
  More information about James' military service and letters he sent home to family is available in copies of "Gladstone, Oregon: A History" by Gladstone historian Herbert K. Beals available at City Hall. James suffered various injuries during WWII, including the loss of his front teeth. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a drama degree in 1950.
  
  In 1951, James married Laurie Harper, who died in 2015. He is survived by six children, 14 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

  

  Clifton James

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  
  Selected Filmography

  The Strange One (1957) as Colonel Ramsey
  The Last Mile (1959) as Harris
  
  Something Wild (1961) as Detective Bogart
  Experiment in Terror (1962) as Capt. Moreno
  David and Lisa (1962) as John
  Black Like Me (1964) as Eli Carr
  Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964) as Tuttle
  The Chase (1966) as Lem Brewster
  The Happening (1967) as O'Reilly
  The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967) as Philippe
  Cool Hand Luke (1967) as Carr
  Will Penny (1967) as Catron
  The Reivers (1969) as Butch Lovemaiden
  
  ...tick...tick...tick... (1970) as D.J. Rankin
  WUSA (1970) as Speed - Sailor in Bar
  The Biscuit Eater (1972) as Mr. Eben
  The New Centurions (1972) as Whitey
  Kid Blue (1973) as Mr. Hendricks
  Live and Let Die (1973) as Sheriff J.W. Pepper
  The Werewolf of Washington (1973) as Attorney General
  The Iceman Cometh (1973) as Pat McGloin
  The Last Detail (1973) as M.A.A.
  The Laughing Policeman (1973) as Officer Jim Maloney SFPD Bomb Squad
  Bank Shot (1974) as Streiger
  Buster and Billie (1974) as Jake
  Juggernaut (1974) as Corrigan
  The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) as Sheriff J.W. Pepper
  Rancho Deluxe (1975) as John Brown
  Friendly Persuasion (1975) as Sam Jordan
  The Deadly Tower (1975) as Captain Fred Ambrose
  From Hong Kong with Love (1975) as Bill
  Silver Streak (1976) as Sheriff Chauncey
  The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) as Sy Orlansky
  
  Caboblanco (1980) as Lorrimer
  Superman II (1980) as Sheriff
  Talk to Me (1984) as State Trooper
  Kidco (1984) as Orville Peterjohn
  Stiffs (1985) as Uncle Leo
  Where Are the Children? (1986) as Chief Coffin
  The Untouchables (1987) as District Attorney (uncredited)
  Whoops Apocalypse (1988) as Maxton S. Pluck
  Eight Men Out (1988) as Charles 'Commie' Comiskey
  Walter & Carlo i Amerika (1989) as Tex
  She-Devil (1989) as Bob's Father (uncredited)
  
  The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) as Albert Fox
  Lone Star (1996) as Hollis
  
  Interstate 84 (2000) as Buddy
  Sunshine State (2002) as Buster Bidwell
  Raising Flagg (2006) as Ed McIvor

  

  Clifton James (I) (1920–2017)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0416378/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  

  
  1963: Dr. No released in New York City, New York. (That's after the 8 May 1963 release in Denver, Colorado.)
  1964: Goldfinger films at the Auric Stud stud farm.
  1967: Comic strip The Hildebrand Rarity begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Finishes 16 December 1967. 429-602) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/thr.php3
  
  
  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=997
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Hindi https://www.comicsroyale.com/foreign-reprints#/star-comics/
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3?s=comics&id=01952

  Ubåt Saknas (The Hildebrand Rarity)
  
  [Ubåt Saknas, translates as Missing Submarine]

  
  Swedish 1986 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3?s=comics&id=02296

  Ubåt Saknad!
  (The Hildebrand Rarity - Part 1) | (The Hildebrand Rarity - Part 1)
  

  
  Danish 1969 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no17-1969/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 17: “The Hildebrand Rarity” (1969)
  
  
  
  
  Titan, 2004
  

  
  1989: A kém, aki szeretett engem released in Hungary.

  
  

  
  2008: Penguin Books publishes Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories.

  
  
  
  

  
  
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  May 2020 Posts: 13,785

  May 30th
  
  1929: Michael Andreas Mellinger is born--Kochel, Bavaria, Germany.
  (He dies 17 March 2004--London England.)

  

  Michael Mellinger (1929–2004)

  Actor | Miscellaneous Crew
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0577996/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  

  
  1963: Bosley Crowther's review of Dr. No goes to print in The New York Times.
  (The Screen: 'Dr. No,' Mystery Spoof; Film Is First Made of Ian Fleming Novels Sean Connery Stars as James Bond.)

  
  Archives | 1963

  The Screen: 'Dr. No,' Mystery Spoof: Film Is First Made of Ian Fleming
  Novels Sean Connery Stars as Agent James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1963/05/30/archives/the-screen-dr-no-mystery-spooffilm-is-first-made-of-ian-fleming.html

  By BOSLEY CROWTHER | MAY 30, 1963

  IF you haven't yet made the acquaintance of Ian Fleming's suave detective, James Bond, in the author's fertile series of mystery thrillers akin to the yarns of Mickey Spillane, here's your chance to correct that misfortune in one quick and painless stroke. It's by seeing this first motion picture made from a Fleming novel, "Dr. No."This lively, amusing picture, which opened yesterday at the Astor, the Murray Hill and other theaters in the "premiere showcase" group, is not to be taken seriously as realistic fiction or even art, any more than the works of Mr. Fleming are to be taken as long-hair literature. It is strictly a tinseled action-thriller, spiked with a mystery of a sort. And, if you are clever, you will see it as a spoof of science-fiction and sex.For the crime-detecting adventure that Mr. Bond is engaged in here is so wildly exaggerated, so patently contrived, that it is obviously silly and not to be believed. It is a perilous task of discovering who is operating a device on the tropical island of Jamaica that "massively interferes" with the critical rocket launchings from Cape Canaveral. Nonsense, you say. Of course, it's nonsense — pure, escapist bunk, with Bond, an elegant fellow, played by Sean Connery, doing everything (and everybody) that an idle day-dreamer might like to do. Called from a gaming club in London to pick up his orders and his gun and hop on a plane for Jamaica before a tawny temptress leads him astray, old "Double Oh Seven" (that's his code name) is in there being natty from the start. And he keeps on being natty, naughty and nifty to the end. It's not the mystery that entertains you, it's the things that happen along the way—the attempted kidnapping at the Jamaica airport, the tarantula dropped onto Bond's bed, the seduction of the Oriental beauty, the encounter with the beautiful blond bikini-clad Ursula Andress on the beach of Crab Key. And it's all of these things happening so smoothly in the lovely Jamaica locale, looking real and tempting in color, that recommend this playful British film.The ending, which finds Joseph Wiseman being frankly James Masonish in an undersea laboratory that looks like something inspired by Oak Ridge, is a bit too extravagant and silly, and likewise too frantic and long. But something outrageous had to be found with which to end the reckless goings-on.

  A version of this review appears in print on May 30, 1963 of the National edition with the headline: The Screen: 'Dr. No,' Mystery Spoof:Film Is First Made of Ian Fleming Novels Sean Connery Stars as Agent James Bond. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|Subscribe
  

  
  2015: Julie Harris dies at age 94--London, England.
  (Born 26 March 1921--London, England.)

  

  Remembering Julie Harris,
  costume designer
  for Bond and Hitchcock

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/remembering-julie-harris-costume-designer-bond-hitchcock

  Curator Josephine Botting pays tribute to the late, Oscar-winning
  costume designer, one of our last surviving links with the golden age
  of British cinema.
  Josephine Botting | Updated: 2 June 2015
  

  
  Julie Harris’s costumes for The Slipper and the Rose (1976)

  
  Oscar- and BAFTA-winning costume designer Julie Harris died on 30 May at the age of 94. Over a 44-year career she worked on more than 80 films and television productions and dressed some of the biggest stars of both the British and American film industries.
  
  Julie was one of the last surviving creatives who learned her craft in the golden age of British cinema, making her solo debut in 1947 on the Gainsborough film Holiday Camp, an assignment which dashed any illusions she had regarding the glamour of the movies, as she and the rest of the crew found themselves on location at Butlins in Filey, Yorkshire.
  

  
  Harris during her years at the Rank studio

  
  She went on to work with many of the studio’s stars, including Patricia Roc, Phyllis Calvert and Dennis Price but had an especially good relationship with Jean Kent, who specifically asked for Julie to dress her in Good-time Girl (1948), in which she played a juvenile delinquent who gets in with a shady crowd. She and Jean were reunited at BFI Southbank in 2011 at a celebration of Kent’s 90th birthday.
  
  After receiving excellent on-the-job training at Gainsborough, under the tutelage of the studio’s talented head of costume, Elizabeth Haffenden, Julie went on to get a contract with Rank in the early 1950s. There she designed not only film costumes but also evening wear for the stars’ public appearances at premieres and festivals such as Cannes. One of the more flamboyant stars she had to cater for was Diana Dors; she was once instructed to dye an entire outfit turquoise, fur and all, to match her Rolls Royce and also designed the infamous ‘mink bikini’ Dors wore on a gondola at the 1955 Venice Festival (actually made of rabbit as mink was too difficult to get).
  
  As Rank began to wind down, Julie went freelance and found herself in great demand. Over the next 30 years, she worked with Hollywood stars such as Jayne Mansfield, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Lauren Bacall and Alan Ladd and directors Alfred Hitchcock, Joseph Losey, Billy Wilder and John Schlesinger. It was for Schlesinger’s 1965 film Darling that she won her Oscar; typically, she was too busy working to go to collect it in person.
  

  
  Help! (1965): costume design for Ahme
  Credit: Julie Harris

  
  After working on the Beatles’ first two films (designing a set of fabulous Indian-inspired costumes for Eleanor Bron in 1965’s Help!), she worked with Bryan Forbes on The Wrong Box (for which she won a BAFTA in 1967), The Whisperers and Deadfall (both 1967). Forbes and his wife Nanette Newman became close friends and she was later invited to work on his 1976 Cinderella adaptation, The Slipper and the Rose. This was to become Julie’s favourite of all her films and still has many fans; while Julie was in hospital at the end of her life, a fellow patient was thrilled to learn that in the next bed was the person who had designed the beautiful ball gown that she had fantasised about wearing as a girl.
  
  The Slipper and the Rose allowed her to dress again one of her favourite actors: Dame Edith Evans. Evans’ demeanour was so regal that it had been incredibly difficult to dress her ‘down’ for the role of the lonely old woman in The Whisperers (1967) – even in a moth-eaten fur coat Julie had picked up on the Portobello Road, Evans still managed to look like Lady Bracknell. Another of her favourite stars was Deborah Kerr – with whom she worked on five films – whose poise and elegance were a costume designer’s dream.

  Julie lived for her work and didn’t let up throughout the 1970s and 80s, working on the Bond title Live and Let Die (1973), science fiction film Rollerball (1975) and John Badham’s 1979 version of Dracula, starring Frank Langella and Laurence Olivier.

  
  Harris on location for Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)

  
  Most of her later credits were TV movies but she brought to them the same style and attention to detail which characterised her work. She was professional to the core: once sitting up all night with a team of local art students painting stripes on the bands of piles of straw boaters to be worn by the schoolboy extras in Goodbye Mr. Chips (1969), which had been delivered minus the school colours.
  
  On her retirement at the age of 70, Julie concentrated on her other passion, painting still life, and her work was exhibited at a London gallery. She loved to meet people and talk about her work but with little regret; she had practised her craft in a period when there was the time and resource to get things right. She knew that the frenetic pace and pressures of contemporary filmmaking would not have suited her way of working, not to mention the absence of the glamour which she so adored. But she always kept up to date and maintained an interest in fashion and production which was testament to her lively engagement with the world.
  
  I was lucky enough to know Julie well and shared many afternoons with her watching her films or listening to her reminiscences of the stars she worked with and the experiences she had. She would welcome friends and strangers alike into her home and loved company of all ages. She will be very sadly missed by her friends and fans.
  

  
  Harris designs for the schoolgirls in A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
  Credit: Julie Harris

  
  Harris designs for Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy (1972)
  Credit: Julie Harris

  
  Julie Harris (costume designer)
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Harris_(costume_designer)
  Notable credits

  Another Man's Poison (1951)
  The Story of Esther Costello (1957)
  
  Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
  All Night Long (1961)
  The Chalk Garden (1964)
  A Hard Day's Night (1964)
  Carry On Cleo (1964)
  Help! (1965)
  Darling (1965)
  The Wrong Box (1966)
  Casino Royale (1967)
  The Whisperers (1967)
  Prudence and the Pill (1968)
  Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
  
  The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
  Live and Let Die (1973)
  Rollerball (1975)
  The Land That Time Forgot (1975)
  The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
  Candleshoe (1977)
  Dracula (1979)
  
  The Great Muppet Caper (1981)
  
  Awards and nominations
  1965 BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design (Psyche 59, nominee)
  1966 Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Black and White (Darling, winner)
  1966 BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design (Help!, nominee)
  1967 BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design (The Wrong Box, winner)
  1968 BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design (Casino Royale, nominee)
  
  1977 BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design (The Slipper and the Rose, nominee)

  

  Julie Harris (II) (1921–2015)

  Costume Designer | Costume and Wardrobe Department
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364916/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
  

  
  
  

  2015: Spectre films near Westminster Abbey, London.
  2017: Molly Peters dies at age 75.
  (Born 15 March 1942--Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, England.)

  

  Molly Peters, Bond Girl in
  ‘Thunderball,’ Reportedly Dies
  at 75

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://variety.com/2017/film/global/molly-peters-dies-dead-bond-girl-1202448700/

  By Stewart Clarke
  
  CREDIT: PIERLUIGI/REX/Shutterstock
  
  Bond girl Molly Peters, whose risque scenes in “Thunderball” caused much comment at the time, has died, according to the official James Bond Twitter account.
  
  Peters, 75, played Pat, a nurse tending to Sean Connery’s Bond in 1965’s “Thunderball.” She was the first Bond girl to take her clothes off onscreen in scenes that were considered racy and controversial. Several were ultimately cut from the film.
  
  The Bond Twitter feed said: “We are sad to hear that Molly Peters has passed away at the age of 75. Our thoughts are with her family.”
  
  Peters’ death comes barely a week after that of Roger Moore, who played the part of the suave 007 more times than any other actor.
  
  Peters, who was also a model, had a fleeting acting career, spanning just a handful of films and series in the mid-1960s. “Thunderball” was her most notable big screen role.
  
  Her movie career ended with the 1968 feature “Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River.” She also had parts in various 1960s series, including “Armchair Theater.”
  
  In later life, she talked about her Bond role in 1995’s “Behind the Scenes With Thunderball” and 2000’s “Terence Young: Bond Vivant.”
  
  The cause of death has not been announced.

  

  Molly Peters

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

  Born Vivien Mollie Rudderham, 14 March 1939, Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, England
  Died 30 May 2017 (aged 78)
  Nationality British | Occupation Actress
  Years active 1964–1967
  Known for As Patricia Fearing in Thunderball (1965)

  Molly Peters (14 March 1939 – 30 May 2017) was an English actress best known for her role in the James Bond film Thunderball.
  
  Career
  Mollie Peters started out as a model and was discovered by film director Terence Young.
  
  She appeared in several films during the 1960s. Her best-known appearance was the role of Bond girl, Patricia Fearing or Pat, a nurse who takes care of James Bond (Sean Connery) while he is on holiday at her health clinic in Thunderball (1965). Peters was the first Bond girl to be seen taking her clothes off on screen in the Bond series.
  
  Peters appeared in Playboy, in the November 1965 issue. Her appearance was as part of a pictorial essay titled "James Bond's Girls", by Richard Maibaum.
  
  According to the special edition DVD of Thunderball, Peters' short film career was the result of a disagreement between her and her agent, the specifics of which were not revealed. According to Peters, her agent at the time of Thunderball held her to her contract agreement of representation due to the mega-successful box-office hit of the fourth James Bond film in 1965. Not until many years later, when the fame, the glamour and the chaos had faded from the release of Thunderball, her contractual agreement had ended and so had any modelling and/or film prospects.
  
  Personal life
  When she was young, she gave birth to a daughter, whom she gave up for adoption. Peters later married and lived with her husband in Ipswich, Suffolk. She and her husband had a son, who has since died. In 2011, Peters suffered a mild stroke.
  
  Death
  Peters died on 30 May 2017, at the age of 78. [75?]
  
  Filmography

  Films
  Peter Studies Form (1964) (as Mollie Peters)
  Thunderball (1965) as Patricia Fearing
  Target for Killing (aka Das Geheimnis der gelben Mönche) (1966) as Vera
  Das Experiment (1966, TV Movie) as Junges Mädchen
  The Naked World of Harrison Marks (1967) as Herself
  Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968) as Heath's Secretary (final film role)
  
  Television
  Armchair Theatre (1 episode, 1967) as Waitress
  Baker's Half-Dozen (1967, TV series, unknown episodes) as The Girl

  

  Molly Peters (I) (1942–2017)

  Actress
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0676601/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  

  2019: The Guardian reports James Bond remains a solid recruitment tool for MI6.

  

  James Bond still a strong 'recruitment
  sergeant' for MI6, says expert

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/30/james-bond-still-a-strong-recruitment-sergeant-for-mi6-says-expert

  Dr Rory Cormac tells Hay festival Bond still loved by MI6 despite
  bearing no resemblance to a real spy

  
  Daniel Craig as 007: ‘A lot of people who want to become Bond get weeded out very early,
  as they are psychopath.’ Photograph: EON Productions/PA
  Sian Cain | @siancain | Thu 30 May 2019 13.55 EDT

  
  James Bond remains a powerful recruitment tool for MI6, a secret intelligence expert says – despite claims that he is unrealistically posh and violent.
  
  Dr Rory Cormac, associate professor of international relations with a specialty in secret intelligence at Nottingham university, said MI6 loved the positive brand provided by Ian Fleming’s fictional spy.
  
  “They like the image it creates, as Bond is linked to British omnipotence and omniscience,” he told an audience at the Hay festival. “It is a great recruitment sergeant as well – although a lot of people who want to become James Bond get weeded out very early, as they are psychopaths.”
  
  Cormac said the spy was also a positive for intelligence diplomacy. “When MI6 agents are trying to make contact with people in far-flung countries as part of operations, they have been known to be greeted, ‘Hello, Mr Bond!’ It helps to break the ice.”
  
  In a rare interview in 2016, Alex Younger, the chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, said the “fictional stereotypes” in Fleming’s books had created a view of an MI6 officer that bore no resemblance to reality.
  
  “I’m conflicted about Bond,” he said at the time. “He has created a powerful brand for MI6: as C, the real-life version of M, there are few people who will not come to lunch if I invite them. Many of our counterparts envy the sheer global recognition of our acronym … were Bond to apply to join MI6 now, he would have to change his ways.”
  
  Because of Bond, he said, “people have felt that there is a single quality that defines an MI6 officer, be it an Oxbridge education or a proficiency in hand-to-hand combat. This is, of course, patently untrue. There is no standard MI6 officer.”
  
  On Thursday, Cormac said that Allen Dulles, director of the CIA between 1953 and 1961 when Fleming’s first Bond books were arriving on shelves, was a huge fan.
  
  “Interestingly, the impact [of Bond] in America was as big as it was in Britain,” he said. “[Dulles] at the time loved all the James Bond stuff and he saw all the inventions and showed a copy to whoever was in charge of the CIA’s technical desk and said, ‘Get me this, get me this!’”
  
  The pressure inspired the creation of a shoe loaded with a spring-loaded poison knife, as depicted in the first Bond novel that Dulles read, 1957’s From Russia with Love.
  
  The CIA director and the author would go on to become friends, and Fleming would later include a reference to Dulles in The Man With The Golden Gun, ending the book with a scene in which Bond is shown reading Dulles’ 1963 book about his own career, The Craft of Intelligence.

  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Mint Julep Day in the US.

  

  
  
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  May 2020 edited May 2020 Posts: 13,785

  May 31st
  
  1907: Robert Peter Fleming is born--Mayfair, London, England.
  (He dies 18 August 1971 at age 64--Black Mount, Scotland.)

  

  Peter Fleming

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Fleming_(writer)
  Lieutenant Colonel Robert Peter Fleming OBE DL (31 May 1907 – 18 August 1971) was a British adventurer, soldier and travel writer. He was the elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.

  
  Peter Fleming OBE DL

  Born Robert Peter Fleming, 31 May 1907, Mayfair, London, England
  Died 18 August 1971 (aged 64), Black Mount, Argyllshire, Scotland
  Resting place St. Bartholomew's Churchyard, Nettlebed
  Education Eton College
  Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford
  Occupation Writer, adventurer
  Spouse(s) Celia Johnson (m. 1935)
  Children 3
  Relatives Ian Fleming (brother)

  Early life
  Peter Fleming was one of four sons of the barrister and MP Valentine Fleming, who was killed in action in 1917, having served as MP for Henley from 1910. Fleming was educated at Eton, where he edited the Eton College Chronicle. The Peter Fleming Owl (the English meaning of "Strix", the name under which he later wrote for The Spectator) is still awarded every year to the best contributor to the Chronicle. He went on from Eton to Christ Church, Oxford, and graduated with a first-class degree in English.
  
  Fleming was a member of the Bullingdon Club during his time at Oxford. On 10 December 1935 he married the actress Celia Johnson (1908–1982), best known for her roles in the films Brief Encounter and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
  
  Travels
  In Brazil
  In April 1932 Fleming replied to an advertisement in the personal columns of The Times: "Exploring and sporting expedition, under experienced guidance, leaving England June to explore rivers central Brazil, if possible ascertain fate Colonel Percy Fawcett; abundant game, big and small; exceptional fishing; room two more guns; highest references expected and given." He then joined the expedition, organised by Robert Churchward, to São Paulo, then overland to the rivers Araguaia and Tapirapé, heading towards the last-known position of the Fawcett expedition.
  
  During the inward journey the expedition was riven by increasing disagreements as to its objectives and plans, centred particularly on its local leader, whom Fleming disguised as "Major Pingle" when he wrote about the expedition. Fleming and Roger Pettiward (a school and university friend recruited onto the expedition as a result of a chance encounter with Fleming) led a breakaway group.
  
  This group continued for several days up the Tapirapé to São Domingo, from where Fleming, Pettiward, Neville Priestley and one of the Brazilians hired by the expedition set out to find evidence of Fawcett's fate on their own. After acquiring two Tapirapé guides the party began a march to the area where Fawcett was reported to have last been seen. They made slow progress for several days, losing the Indian guides and Neville to foot infection, before admitting defeat.
  
  The expedition's return journey was made down the River Araguaia to Belém. It became a closely fought race between Fleming's party and "Major Pingle", the prize being to be the first to report home, and thus to gain the upper hand in the battles over blame and finances that were to come. Fleming's party narrowly won. The expedition returned to England in November 1932.
  
  Fleming's book about the expedition, Brazilian Adventure, has sold well ever since it was first published in 1933, and is still in print.
  
  In Asia
  Fleming travelled from Moscow to Peking via the Caucasus, the Caspian, Samarkand, Tashkent, the Turksib Railway and the Trans-Siberian Railway to Peking as a special correspondent of The Times. His experiences were written up in One's Company (1934). He then went overland in company of Ella Maillart from China via Tunganistan to India on a journey written up in News from Tartary (1936). These two books were combined as Travels in Tartary: One's Company and News from Tartary (1941). All three volumes were published by Jonathan Cape.
  
  According to Nicolas Clifford, for Fleming China “had the aspect of a comic opera land whose quirks and oddities became grist for the writer, rather than deserving any respect or sympathy in themselves”. In One's Company, for example, Fleming reports that Beijing was “lacking in charm”, Harbin was a city of “no easily definable character”. Changchun was “entirely characterless”, and Shenyang was “non-descript and suburban". However, Fleming also provides insights into Manchukuo, the Japanese puppet state in Manchuria, which helped contemporary readers to understand Chinese resentment and resistance, and the aftermath of the Kumul Rebellion. In the course of these travels Fleming met and interviewed many prominent figures in Central Asia and China, including the Chinese Muslim General Ma Hushan, the Chinese Muslim Taoyin of Kashgar, Ma Shaowu, and Pu Yi.
  
  Of Travels in Tartary, Owen Lattimore remarked that Fleming, who "passes for an easy-going amateur, is in fact an inspired amateur whose quick appreciation, especially of people, and original turn of phrase, echoing P. G. Wodehouse in only a very distant and cultured way, have created a unique kind of travel book". Lattimore added that it "is only in the political news from Tartary that there is a disappointment," as, in his view, Fleming offers "a simplified explanation, in terms of Red intrigue and Bolshevik villains, which does not make sense."
  
  Stuart Stevens retraced Peter Fleming's route and wrote his own travel book.
  
  World War II
  Just before war was declared, Peter Fleming, then a reserve officer in the Grenadier Guards, was recruited by the War Office research section investigating the potential of irregular warfare (MIR). His initial task was to develop ideas to assist the Chinese guerrillas fighting the Japanese. He served in the Norwegian campaign with the prototype commando units – Independent Companies – but in May 1940 he was tasked with research into the potential use of the new Local Defence Volunteers (later the Home Guard) as guerrilla troops. His ideas were first incorporated into General Thorne's XII Corps Observation Unit, forerunner of the GHQ Auxiliary Units. Fleming recruited his brother, Richard, then serving in the Faroe Islands, to provide a core of Lovat Scout instructors to his teams of LDV volunteers.
  
  When Colin Gubbins was appointed to head the new Auxiliary Units, he incorporated many of Peter's ideas, which aimed to create secret commando teams of Home Guard in the coastal districts most liable to the risk of invasion. Their role was to launch sabotage raids on the flanks and rear of any invading army, in support of regular troops, but they were never intended as a post-occupation 'resistance' force, having a life expectancy of only two weeks. Peter Fleming later served in Greece, but his principal service, from 1942 to the end of the war, was as head of D Division, in charge of military deception operations in Southeast Asia, based in New Delhi, India.
  
  Fleming was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1945 Birthday Honours and in 1948 he was awarded the Order of the Cloud and Banner with Special Rosette by the Republic of China.
  
  Later life
  After the war Peter Fleming retired to squiredom at Nettlebed, Oxfordshire and was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Oxfordshire on 31 July 1970.[14]
  
  Death
  Fleming died on 18 August 1971 from a heart attack while on a shooting expedition near Glen Coe in Scotland. His body was buried in Nettlebed Churchyard, where a stained glass window was later installed in the church dedicated to his memory. The gravestone reads:

  He travelled widely in far places;
  Wrote, and was widely read.
  Soldiered, saw some of danger's faces,
  Came home to Nettlebed.
  
  The squire lies here, his journeys ended –
  Dust, and a name on a stone –
  Content, amid the lands he tended,
  To keep this rendezvous alone.

  Family
  After the death of his brother Ian, Peter Fleming served on the board of Glidrose, Ltd, the company purchased by Ian to hold the literary rights to his professional writing, particularly the James Bond novels and short stories. Peter also tried to become a substitute father for Ian's surviving son, Caspar, who overdosed on narcotics in his twenties.
  
  Peter and Celia Fleming remained married until his death in 1971. He was survived by their three children:

  Nicholas Peter Val Fleming (1939–1995), writer and squire of Nettlebed. He deposited Peter Fleming's papers for public access at the University of Reading in 1975. These include several unpublished works, as well as the manuscripts of several of his books that are now out of print. Nichol Fleming's partner for many years was the merchant banker Christopher Roxburghe Balfour (b. 1941), brother of Neil Balfour, second husband (1969–78) of Princess Jelizaveta of Yugoslavia. Nettlebed is now jointly owned by his sisters.

  (Roberta) Katherine Fleming (b. 1946), writer and publisher, is now Kate Grimond, wife of Johnny Grimond, foreign editor of The Economist. Johnny is the elder surviving son of the late British Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond, and grandson maternally of Violet Bonham-Carter, herself daughter of the British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith. Kate and John have three children, Jessie (a journalist), Rose (an actress turned organic foods entrepreneur) and Georgia (a journalist at The Economist online).

  Lucy Fleming (born 1947), now Lucy Williams, is an actress. In the 1970s she starred as Jenny in the BBC's apocalyptic fiction series Survivors. She was first married in 1971 to Joseph "Joe" Laycock (d. 1980), son of a family friend Robert Laycock and his wife Angela Dudley Ward, and was on honeymoon at the time of her father's sudden death in Argyllshire. Lucy and Joe had two sons and a daughter, Flora. Flora and her father, Joe, were drowned in a boating accident in 1980. At the time of their deaths Lucy and Joe were separated on good terms. Lucy later married the actor and writer Simon Williams. Her sons are Diggory and Robert Laycock.

  Peter Fleming was the godfather of the British author and journalist Duff Hart-Davis, who wrote Peter Fleming: A Biography (published by Jonathan Cape in 1974). Duff's father Rupert Hart-Davis, a publisher, was good friends with Peter, who gave him a home on the Nettlebed estate for many years and gave financial backing to his publishing ventures.
  
  Legacy
  The Peter Fleming Award, worth £9,000, is given by the Royal Geographical Society for a "research project that seeks to advance geographical science".
  
  Fleming's book about the British military expedition to Tibet in 1903 to 1904 is credited in the Chinese film Red River Valley (1997).
  
  Quotations

  "São Paulo is like Reading, only much farther away."
  – Brazilian Adventure

  "Public opinion in England is sharply divided on the subject of Russia. On the one hand you have the crusty majority, who believe it to be a hell on earth; on the other you have the half-baked minority who believe it to be a terrestrial paradise in the making. Both cling to their opinions with the tenacity, respectively, of the die-hard and the fanatic. Both are hopelessly wrong." – One's Company

  The recorded history of Chinese civilisation covers a period of four thousand years.
  The Population of China is estimated at 450 million.
  China is larger than Europe.
  The author of this book is twenty-six years old.
  He has spent, altogether, about seven months in China.
  He does not speak Chinese.
  - Preface, One's Company

  Fleming's works
  Fleming was a special correspondent for The Times and often wrote under the pen-name "Strix" (Latin for "screech owl") an essayist for The Spectator.
  
  Non-fiction

  1933 Brazilian Adventure – Exploring the Brazilian jungle in search of the lost Colonel Percy Fawcett.
  1934 One's Company: A Journey to China in 1933 – Travels through the USSR, Manchuria and China. Later reissued as half of Travels in Tartary.
  1936 News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir – Journey from Peking to Srinagar via Sinkiang. He was accompanied on this journey by Ella Maillart (Kini). Later reissued as half of Travels in Tartary.
  1952 A Forgotten Journey – A diary Fleming kept during a journey through Russia and Manchuria in 1934. Reprinted as To Peking: A Forgotten Journey from Moscow to Manchuria (2009, ISBN 978-1-84511-996-6)
  1953 Introduction to Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer published by Rupert Hart-Davis, London
  1955 Tibetan Marches – A translation from French of Caravane vers Bouddha by André Migot
  1956 My Aunt's Rhinoceros: And Other Reflections — A collection of essays written (as "Strix") for The Spectator.
  1957 Invasion 1940 — an account of the planned Nazi invasion of Britain and British anti-invasion preparations of the Second World War. Published in the United States as Operation Sea Lion
  1957 With the Guards to Mexico: And Other Excursions — A collection of essays written for The Spectator.
  1958 The Gower Street Poltergeist — A collection of essays written for The Spectator.
  1959 The Siege at Peking — An account of the Boxer Rebellion and the European-led siege of the Imperial capital.
  1961 Bayonets to Lhasa: The First Full Account of the British Invasion of Tibet in 1904
  1961 Goodbye to the Bombay Bowler — A collection of essays written for The Spectator as 'Strix'.
  1963 The Fate of Admiral Kolchak — a study of the White Army leader Admiral Kolchak who attempted to save the Imperial Russian family at Ekaterinburg in 1918.

  Fiction

  Books
  1940 The Flying Visit – A humorous novel about an unintended visit to Britain by Adolf Hitler. Illustrated by David Low.
  1942 A Story to Tell: And Other Tales — A collection of short stories.
  1952 The Sixth Column: A Singular Tale of Our Times
  The Sett (unfinished, unpublished)
  
  Short fiction
  "The Kill" (1931)
  "Felipe" (1937)

  
  

  
  1927: Joe Robinson is born--Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
  (He dies 3 July 2017 at age 90--Brighton, East Sussex, England.)

  

  Joe Robinson (actor)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Robinson_(actor)

  
  Joe Robinson as Thor in Thor and the Amazon Women

  Born Joseph Robinson, 31 May 1927, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England
  Died 3 July 2017 (aged 90), Brighton, East Sussex, England
  Alma mater Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
  Occupation Actor, stuntman
  Years active 1952–1971

  Joseph Robinson (31 May 1927 – 3 July 2017) was an English actor and stuntman born in Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland. He was a champion professional wrestler, as were his father Joseph and his grandfather John. His brother, Doug Robinson, is also an actor and stuntman.
  
  Career
  Professional wrestling
  Robinson initially embarked on a career in wrestling as 'Tiger Joe Robinson' and won the European Heavyweight Championship in 1952. At the same time, he was also interested in acting and studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After injuring his back wrestling in Paris he decided to concentrate on acting. Joe Robinson's daughter Polly Robinson (Hardy-Stewart) has also continued the family's success in martial arts by winning the junior Judo championships in the 1980s.
  
  Acting
  Robinson's first role came in the keep-fit documentary Fit as a Fiddle and in the same year, 1952, he followed it up with a part as Harry 'Muscles' Green in the musical Wish You Were Here in the West End of London.

  He made his film debut in 1955's A Kid for Two Farthings, in which he wrestled Primo Carnera. His film and television career really took off in the 1960s and in 1962 he appeared in British classic The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner alongside appearances in The Saint and The Avengers in 1963. With his younger brother Doug and Honor Blackman, he co-authored Honor Blackman's Book of Self-Defence in 1965 (Joe was also a judo champion and black belt at karate). The year after he appeared in an episode of the sitcom Pardon the Expression which referenced this book. During this time he was also a popular stunt-arranger, working on several James Bond films and in 1960 was invited to Rome where he appeared in five muscle-bound Italian epics, including Taur the Mighty (1963), Thor and the Amazon Women (1963) and Ursus and the Tartar Princess (1961). Other notable big-screen appearances include 1961's Carry On Regardless, of the British institution the Carry Ons. According to the book Tarzan of the Movies by Gabe Essoe, Robinson played the role of Tarzan in obscure Italian-made films (Taur, il re della forza bruta and Le gladiatrici); the use of the Tarzan character, however, was unauthorised and the character's name had to be changed to Thaur before the film was allowed for public release. His final big-screen appearance was in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever in which he plays diamond smuggler Peter Franks. Robinson claimed that he was a contender for the Red Grant role in From Russia with Love. Though he did not get it, Connery recommended him for the role in Diamonds are Forever. Robinson also claimed he turned down the role of the Rank Organisation's Gongman.

  Retirement
  He retired from acting, and lived in Brighton where he opened a martial arts centre. He conducted classes in Wadō-ryū style karate and Judo. In 1998 he hit the headlines after fighting off a gang of eight muggers single-handed. The 70-year-old was alighting from a bus in Cape Town when the gang struck with baseball bats and knives. 6 ft 2 ins Joe overpowered two with flying kicks, karate-chopped another in the chest and broke the arm of a fourth - the rest fled.
  
  Reminiscing about his career in the Daily Mail recently, Robinson spoke on the subject of Laurence Olivier's alleged homosexuality saying 'my kids used to play with his kids at school and I taught him judo ... I have no idea if he was a homosexual... but he did once tell me I had lovely shoulders'.
  
  Death
  Robinson died at the age of 90 on 3 July 2017, in Brighton, East Sussex.
  Filmography

  Year Title Role Notes
  1955 A Kid for Two Farthings Sam Heppner
  1956 Die ganze Welt singt nur Amore Max, der Athlet
  1956 Pasaporte al infierno Pete Archer
  1957 Fighting Mad Muscles Tanner
  1957 The Flesh Is Weak Lofty
  1958 The Strange Awakening Sven
  1958 Sea Fury Hendrik
  1958 Murder Reported Jim
  
  1960 The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll Corinthian Uncredited
  1960 The Bulldog Breed Tall Sailor
  1961 Carry On Regardless Dynamite Dan
  1961 Erik the Conqueror Garian Uncredited
  1961 Barabbas Bearded Gladiator
  1961 Tartar Invasion Ursus
  1962 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner Roach
  1963 Taur, il re della forza bruta Taur
  1963 Doctor in Distress Sonja's Boyfriend
  1963 Thor and the Amazon Women Thor
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever Peter Franks (final film role)

  

  Joe Robinson (I) (1927–2017)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0732750/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

  Actor
  
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  1956: Ian Fleming begins an exchange of letters with arms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd.

  

  The strange tale of the man who armed James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  THE expert behind the guns used by James Bond has been revealed as a Glaswegian whose world-class knowledge of firearms earned him the role of the Armourer in the 007 books.
  
  Geoffrey Boothroyd, who worked for ICI in Glasgow, wrote to the author Ian Fleming shortly after reading Casino Royale in 1956, pointing out that the gun Bond used, a .25 Beretta, was inappropriate for the character.
  
  The strength of his argument persuaded Fleming not only to incorporate his suggestions, but also to adopt Boothroyd as a paid adviser on arms-related matters in the Bond novels.
  
  Fleming used Boothroyd’s persona as the Armourer in Dr No, describing him as Major Boothroyd, "a short slim man with sandy hair" with "very wide apart, clear, grey eyes that never seemed to flicker".
  
  The character of Boothroyd makes a dramatic entry in Dr No: "M bent forward to the intercom. ‘Is the Armourer there? Send him in.’ M sat back. ‘You may not know it, 007, but Major Boothroyd’s the greatest small-arms expert in the world." Not surprisingly, the major had a rather acerbic view of Bond’s Beretta. When asked as to its use, Boothroyd replied in a clipped manner: "Ladies’ gun, sir."
  
  Correspondence between Fleming and Boothroyd, which is to go under the hammer at Bloomsbury Auctions, the London specialist saleroom for books and manuscripts, reveal how far the author took on board the latter’s technical advice. Fleming frequently asked Boothroyd for more information on weapons and even borrowed his Smith & Wesson to be painted by Richard Chopping for the dust-jacket of From Russia with Love.
  
  Academics and archivists hope the correspondence will not be broken up but kept together and deposited in a library where scholars can use it. Bloomsbury is to offer it as one lot with a pre-sale estimate of 15,000-20,000.
  
  The collection of 30 previously unknown letters, written between 31 May, 1956, and 30 September, 1963, demonstrate Fleming’s passion for guns and attention to detail, coupled with Boothroyd’s intense knowledge and enthusiasm for the subject. From that first letter on, Bond was never without the correct firearm and his enemies were suitably equipped in return.
  
  Potential problems over legally holding guns arise in the letters. Fleming assures Boothroyd that, as the Deputy Commissioner of Scotland Yard is "a close personal friend, we should have no complications over firearms certificates."
  
  The two men’s dry sense of humour often comes through in the correspondence. In a letter dated 3 January, 1962, Fleming writes: "I feel safe in wishing you a Prosperous New Year, and if the tax man becomes too difficult, I suggest you shoot him."
  
  Boothroyd was paid for his technical advice. In a letter to him, Fleming wrote: "I propose to pay you 25 per cent of all revenue I get from this piece and I suggest we needn’t draw up any legal contracts as my secretary, Miss Griffie-Williams, is an extremely honest person and will see that you get your due!" Fleming even signed himself in 1962 as "Comptroller of the Boothroyd Privy Purse".
  
  Boothroyd, who was born in Lancashire but lived in Glasgow from the age of three, became one of the greatest authorities on the history and development of the sporting gun and was a regular contributor to the Shooting Times. He wrote several books, including A Guide to Guns in 1961 and The Handgun in 1988. He died in 2001.
  
  A series of first edition 007 books from Boothroyd’s library are also to be sold by Bloomsbury. Fleming signed very few books and, consequently, there is a large premium for signed and presentation copies. As Boothroyd played such a key role in shaping the character of Bond, two of the books are likely to fetch new world records.
  
  A copy of From Russia with Love is dedicated by Fleming "To Geoffrey Boothroyd - herewith appointed Armourer to J. Bond from Ian Fleming." The inscription in Dr No reads, "To Geoffrey Boothroyd - alias The Armourer from Ian Fleming". Each is expected to make up to 5,000.

  [

  
  
  Boothroyd even did duty as Armorer for S.H.I.E.L.D., Marvel universe.
  

  
  1963: From Russia With Love films the meeting of Bond and Kerim Bey.
  
  1991: Putnam publishes John Gardner's eleventh Bond novel The Man From Barbarossa in the US.

  Nobody could possibly have foreseen
  that the abduction of an old man in
  New Jersey would be the prelude to a
  drama played out on the worlds' stage.
  
  Or that it was the first step in a plot so
  ingenious and skillful that the stability
  of nations would rock wildly to its
  adroit tune.
  
  Or that around the world a name now
  indelibly associated with the horror of
  genocide--Babi Yar--would once again
  be headline news.
  
  Or that soon an unlikely alliance would
  take place between the KGB, the Israeli
  Mossad, and the French and British
  Secret Intelligence Services.
  
  And all because of an organization,
  hitherto unknown, the Scales of
  Justice.
  
  For James Bond it meant a twist that
  no-one could have invented in their
  wildest dreams before the era of
  glasnost and perestroika--for this new
  assignment James Bond would not
  simply work with his former arch-
  enemy, the KGB, he would be
  operating under their control!
  
  In The Man from Barbarossa, John
  Gardner's tenth novel featuring Ian
  Fleming's indestructible hero, we find
  James Bond as ready and able as ever
  in the battle for good against evil,
  however chilling the new realities of
  the 1990s.

  John Gardner was educated in
  Berkshire and at St John's College,
  Cambridge. He has had many
  fascinating occupations and was
  variously a Royal Marine officer, a
  stage magician, theater critic, reviewer
  and journalist.
  
  As well as his James Bond novels, John
  Gardner's other fiction includes the
  acclaimed Herbie Kruger trilogy, The
  Nostradamus Traitor, The Garden of
  Weapons, The Werewolf Trace.

  

  
  1993: Putnam releases John Gardner's Bond novel Never Send Flowers in the US.

  Illusion leads to murder as 007 crosses the globe, tracking down the wrong killer in Gardner's 12th addition to the classic, bestselling James Bond series. While investigating a murder, Bond is led on a harrowing intercontinental chase that reaches its chilling and fantastic climax outside Paris in the ultimate kingdom of illusion and magic: EuroDisney.

  

  
  2015: Spectre films near Trafalgar Square, The Mall and Whitehall.
  2018: Jonathan Cape publishes Anthony Horowitz’s second James Bond novel Forever and a Day.

  A SPY IS DEAD. A LEGEND IS BORN.
  
  The sea keeps its secrets. But not
  this time.
  
  One body. Three bullets. OO7 floats
  in the waters of the Marseilles, killed by
  an unknown hand.
  
  It's time for a new agent to step up.
  Time for a new weapon in the war
  against organised crime.
  
  It's time for James Bond to earn his
  licence to kill.
  
  This is the story of the birth of
  a legend, in the brutal underworld
  of the French Riviera.

  ANTHONY HOROWITZ is one of the
  most prolific and successful writer working
  in the UK. He has written more than forty
  books, including his 2016 stand-alond
  novel Magpie Murders, a Sunday Times
  bestseller, and 2017's The Word is Murder,
  the first in a series of crime novels starring
  Detective Daniel Hawthorne.
  
  He is the author of two Sherlock Holmes
  novels - The House of Silk and Moriarty
  and one previous James Bond novel,
  Trigger Mortis. His teen spy Alex Rider
  books have sold 19 million copies worldwide,
  and he is also responsible for creating
  and writing some of the UK's most-loved
  TV series, including Midsomer Murders
  and Foyle's War.
  
  He is on the board of Old Vic Theatre
  and was awarded an OBE for his services
  to literature in January 2014.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2018: Michael Ford dies at age 90. (Born 11 June 1928--England.)

  

  Michael Ford Dies: Oscar-Winning Set Decorator Of ‘Titanic’ & ‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark’ Was 90

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://deadline.com/2018/05/michael-ford-oscar-winner-set-decorator-titanic-raiders-of-the-lost-ark-dead-death-obituary-1202400788/

  By Andreas Wiseman | May 31, 2018 9:01am
  
  Oscar-winning set decorator Michael Ford, who worked on franchises including Star Wars, Bond and Indiana Jones, has died aged 90.
  
  During a glittering career, Ford won Oscars for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration in 1982 for Raiders Of The Lost Ark and in 1998 for his work on Titanic. He also received Academy Award nominations for his work on Star Wars films The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi.

  Born in the UK, Ford’s career began in the 1960s. Early movie credits in the 1970s included comedies Up The Front and The Alf Garnett Saga while popular TV shows from the same decade included Space: 1999 and The New Avengers. In the 1980s he worked on movies such as The Living Daylights, six-time Oscar-winner Empire Of The Sun and Licence To Kill while in 1995 Ford worked on his third Bond title, GoldenEye. His final film was adventure sci-fi Wing Commander in 1999.
  
  Oscar-winning production designer Peter Lamont (Titanic) said of Ford’s passing, “I’m so sorry to hear about the death of my friend and colleague Michael Ford, known affectionately as the ‘Flower Arranger’, who collaborated with me on seven productions (Consuming Passions, Living Daylights [sic], Licence to Kill, The Taking of Beverley Hills, Golden Eye [sic], Titanic and finally Wing Commander) from Mexico to Morocco, LA to Luxenberg and the UK.
  
  “When we were on Titanic the producer said to me that he was worried about the costs of set decoration and I said, ‘Don’t worry, Michael is one of the most frugal (at work) with a budget that I know’. Three months later I was talking budget again with the producer, and he said to me, ‘You were right about your Flower Arranger, he is the only HOD who has done all we needed and still have budget left!’
  
  “He was a very talented set decorator and artist. I never once saw him blow a fuse at work, he was a true gentleman and we will all miss him.”
  
  Peter Walpole (Jason Bourne) of the British Film Designers Guild added, “Sad news to hear the passing of Michael Ford. As a production buyer and the an aspiring set decorator, I looked up to Michael with respect and awe. In addition to the productions he worked on with Peter Lamont, there was also, two of the first Star Wars films and of course Raiders of the Lost Ark. I concur with Peter, he was a true gentlemen. He will be sadly missed.”

  

  
  
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  This Month:
  1962: Argosy magazine publishes the Fleming short story "Berlin Escape" (aka "The Living Daylights").

  
  
  https://illustrated007.blogspot.com/2013/01/ian-fleming-bibliography.html
  

  
  1942: Tom Mankiewicz is born--Los Angeles California.
  (He dies 31 July 2010 at age 68--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Tom Mankiewicz obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/aug/04/tom-mankiewicz-obituary

  Screenwriter from a Hollywood dynasty best known for his work
  on James Bond
  Ronald Bergan | Wed 4 Aug 2010 13.43 EDT

  
  Roger Moore with Jane Seymour as Solitaire in Live and Let Die (1973), Moore’s first appearance as 007, with screenwriting by Mankiewicz, below
  Photograph: Allstar; Al Seib/Photoshot

  For most film buffs, the name Mankiewicz immediately recalls Joseph L, the director and screenwriter of All About Eve (1950). For others, it evokes that of his older brother, Herman J, most celebrated as the writer of the screenplay of Citizen Kane. However, Joseph L's son, Tom Mankiewicz, who has died of cancer aged 68, is cherished by James Bond fans as the screenwriter of Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Live and Let Die (1973) and The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), as well as having worked on rewrites of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

  
  Tom Mankiewicz

  
  At the beginning of his career, Mankiewicz admitted that he probably got work because of his father. "You suddenly started to realise that people were asking you because it was you," he explained. Unlike his father's best films – literate, dialogue-based vehicles – when a director called "action" on a Tom Mankiewicz-scripted movie, he really meant it.

  He was born in Los Angeles, where his father was an MGM producer before becoming the Oscar-winning director of Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve. (His mother, the Austrian-born actor Rose Stradner, killed herself when Tom was 16.) It seemed natural that the boy should follow the family tradition, so he majored in drama at Yale University. Before graduation, aged 18, he worked as production assistant on The Comancheros (1961), a western starring John Wayne. In 1964 he was credited as production associate on The Best Man, Gore Vidal's sharp look at morality in politics.
  
  His first screen credit as a writer was on The Sweet Ride (1968), a pseudo-philosophical movie about three beach bums. It was not a success, nor was the Broadway musical Georgy (1970), for which Mankiewicz's book was based on the 1966 British film Georgy Girl. Nevertheless, the producers Albert R Broccoli and Harry Saltzman hired him for two weeks to doctor the Richard Maibaum script of Diamonds Are Forever. He stayed for six months, receiving a co-screenplay credit.
  
  Differing greatly from the Ian Fleming book of the same name, the script had 007 (Sean Connery) bounding from London to Amsterdam, LA to Las Vegas, on the trail of a huge diamond-smuggling operation, behind which lurks his arch-enemy, Blofeld (not in the novel). Bond has a good fight in an elevator, is pestered by two vicious gay men, and attracted by two beauties named Tiffany Case and Plenty O'Toole.
  
  Connery, who had been enticed back to the role after four years away by a $1m fee, plus a weekly salary of $10,000, had not altered his droll style and sexual allure, although there was some change in his girth. When Roger Moore followed him in the part, Mankiewicz was entrusted to write the screenplay for Moore's first 007, Live and Let Die.
  
  The film, which did well at the box office, proved that Connery was not irreplaceable as Bond. While Mankiewicz stuck to the winning formula – the film had spectacular set pieces, particularly an incredible speedboat chase through the Louisiana bayous – it leaned rather more on the humorous side, honed to Moore's more lightweight personality.
  
  According to Mankiewicz, "the difference between Sean and Roger was that Sean looked dangerous. Sean could sit at a table with a girl at a nightclub and either lean across and kiss her or stick a knife in her under the table and then say, 'Excuse me waiter, I have nothing to cut my meat with.' Whereas Roger could kiss the girl, if he stuck a knife in her it would look nasty because Roger looks like a nice guy."
  
  Although The Man With the Golden Gun, which Mankiewicz and Maibaum adapted from Fleming's last novel, had the usual stunts, exotic locales, a master criminal and sexy women popping up from time to time, it sometimes verged on self-parody. In fact, there is a tongue-in-cheek seam running through most of Mankiewicz's work.

  In 1976 three films with Mankiewicz as writer were released: Mother, Jugs & Speed, starring Bill Cosby as a stoned ambulance driver; The Cassandra Crossing, a disaster movie with an all-star cast; and The Eagle Has Landed (based on the Jack Higgins novel), an entertaining but far-fetched thriller with Michael Caine as a German colonel infiltrating an English village in 1943 with the aim of kidnapping Winston Churchill.
  
  In 1977 the director Richard Donner recruited Mankiewicz to work on the script of Superman, for which he received the credit of creative consultant, a fancy name for script doctor. He got the same credit for Superman II (1980), directed by Richard Lester, who added rather too much camp humour to footage that Donner had shot. Mankiewicz claimed to have written most of both pictures. He later helped Donner reconstruct Superman II, restoring all of the original footage that had been altered by the producers.
  
  In between fixing other people's films, he co-wrote the screenplay for Donner's Ladyhawke (1985), a handsome-looking medieval fable of cursed lovers turning into animals. After directing 13 episodes of the TV adventure series Hart to Hart (1979-82), starring Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers, he directed two movies, Dragnet (1987) and Delirious (1991) – the former being a mildly amusing spoof of Jack Webb's 50s TV series; the latter about a writer (John Candy) trapped in his own soap opera.
  
  Mankiewicz is survived by his brother, Christopher, a producer and actor, and his sister, Alexandra.
  
  • Thomas Francis Mankiewicz, screen-writer and director, born 1 June 1942; died 31 July 2010

  

  1947: Jonathan Pryce is born--Holywell, Flintshire, Wales.
  
  1963: 医者はいらない (Isha wa iranai, or We Don't Want Doctors!) released in Japan. (Title improved later.)

  
  
  

  
  1973: Apple Records releases the "Live and Let Die" single performed by Paul McCartney and Wings .

  
  
  

  1976: Comic strip Hot-Shot ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Began 16 January 1976. 3061-3178) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/Hot-Shot
  
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3?s=comics&id=01952

  Dödsstrålen (Hot-Shot)
  

  
  1988: Hodder & Stoughton publishes John Gardner's seventh Bond novel Scorpius. Later Putnam.

  Special Branch are not usually
  interested in dead bodies found floating
  in the Thames, except when the corpse
  is a young girl with an impeccable
  background when they become very
  interested indeed. So interested that
  they call on the legendary M, head of
  Secret Service.
  
  In turn, M sends for Commander James
  Bond, for the body had yielded two
  things of interest. First, the only
  telephone number in her diary is that of
  Bond; second, she is carrying a credit
  card which has never been heard of
  before on either side of the Atlantic.
  
  Soon, Bond finds himself caught up in
  an unusual mixture of intrigue and
  mayhem involving a strange, but
  deadly, quasi-religious sect known as
  the Society of the Meek Ones; their
  leader the soft-spoken Father Valentine,
  who has links with the shadowy
  Vladimir Scorpius, nicknamed 'The
  King of Terror' because he is the largest
  arms dealer to various terrorist factions
  worldwide.
  
  Naturally, with the evil comes the good
  --the society girl, the Hon. Trilby
  Shrivenham, and a an American IRS
  undercover agent, the gorgeous
  Harriet Horner. Good girls? Only time
  will tell.
  
  Intrigue builds on intrigue and, as ever,
  Bond soon finds himself in the middle of
  a deadly game of terrorism and arms
  supplies. A game in which he is pitted
  against one of the most ruthless and
  sinister villains that Bond has ever
  encountered.

  John Gardner is the author of
  The Garden of Weapons and
  The Nostradamus Traitor and most
  recently The Secret Generations and
  The Secret Houses.

  
  

  
  1994: Dark Horse Comics releases James Bond 007 Shattered Helix #1 (of 2).
  Simon Jowett, writer. David Jackson, artist. David Lloyd, cover.

  

  James Bond 007: Shattered Helix #1

  https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/92-488/James-Bond-007-Shattered-Helix-1

  
  Bond once again faces the supersecret criminal organization Cerberus. This time, Cerberus has its heart set on acquiring the most dangerous disease known to man, a genetically engineered nightmare buried in a secret base in the Antarctic.
  
  Bond joins forces with scientist Serena Mountjoy to in a deadly race to the South Pole. Unforgettable action, beautiful women, and bizarre, diabolical villains -- this is Bond at his best!

  Creators
  Writer: Simon Jowett
  Artist: David Jackson
  Letterer: Elitta Fell
  Colorist: David Lloyd
  Editor: Dick Hansom
  Designer: Scott Fuentes
  Cover Artist: David Lloyd
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: June 01, 1994

  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/sh1_review.php3
  

  
  

  
  Issue #2

  

  
  
  
  
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  June 2nd
  
  1944: Marvin Hamlisch is born--New York City, New York.
  (He dies 6 August 2012 at age 68--Westwood, Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Marvin Hamlisch, Whose Notes Struck Gold, Dies at 68

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/08/arts/music/marvin-hamlisch-composer-dies-at-68.html

  By ROB HOERBURGER | AUG. 7, 2012
  
  Marvin Hamlisch, the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who imbued his movie and Broadway scores with pizazz and panache and often found his songs in the upper reaches of the pop charts, died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 68 and lived in New York.
  
  He collapsed on Monday after a brief illness, a family friend said.
  
  For a few years starting in 1973, Mr. Hamlisch spent practically as much time accepting awards for his compositions as he did writing them. He is one of a handful of artists to win every major creative prize, some of them numerous times, including an Oscar for “The Way We Were” (1973, shared with the lyricists Marilyn and Alan Bergman), a Grammy as best new artist (1974), and a Tony and a Pulitzer for “A Chorus Line” (1975, shared with the lyricist Edward Kleban, the director Michael Bennett and the book writers James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante).
  
  All told, he won three Oscars, four Emmys and four Grammys. His omnipresence on awards and talk shows made him one of the last in a line of celebrity composers that included Henry Mancini, Burt Bacharach and Stephen Sondheim. Mr. Hamlisch, bespectacled and somewhat gawky, could often appear to be the stereotypical music school nerd — in fact, at 7 he was the youngest student to be accepted to the Juilliard School at the time — but his appearance belied his intelligence and ability to banter easily with the likes of Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin. His melodies were sure-footed and sometimes swashbuckling. “One,” from “A Chorus Line,” with its punchy, brassy lines, distills the essence of the Broadway showstopper.

  
  Marvin Hamlisch

  
  “A Chorus Line,” a backstage musical in which Broadway dancers told their personal stories, started as a series of taped workshops, then evolved into a show that opened at the Public Theater in 1975 and moved to Broadway later that year. It ran for 6,137 performances, the most of any Broadway musical until it was surpassed by “Cats.”
  
  “I have to keep reminding myself that ‘A Chorus Line’ was initially considered weird and off the wall,” Mr. Hamlisch told The New York Times in 1983. “You mustn’t underestimate an audience’s intelligence.” The lyricist Alan Jay Lerner called “A Chorus Line” “the great show business story of our time.”
  
  Mr. Hamlisch had a long association with Barbra Streisand that began when, at 19, he became a rehearsal pianist for her show “Funny Girl.” Yet he told Current Biography in 1976 that Ms. Streisand was reluctant to record what became the pair’s greatest collaboration, “The Way We Were,” the theme from the 1973 movie of the same name in which Ms. Streisand starred with Robert Redford.

  
  A rehearsal of “A Chorus Line,” with music by Marvin Hamlisch, from 1975.
  Credit Martha Swope

  
  “I had to beg her to sing it,” he said. “She thought it was too simple.”
  
  Mr. Hamlisch prevailed, though, and the song became a No. 1 pop single, an Oscar winner and a signature song for Ms. Streisand. They continued to work together across the decades; Mr. Hamlisch was the musical director for her 1994 tour and again found himself accepting an award for his work, this time an Emmy.
  
  Ms. Streisand said in a statement through her publicist that the world will always remember Mr. Hamlisch’s music, but that it was “his brilliantly quick mind, his generosity and delicious sense of humor that made him a delight to be around.”

  Mr. Hamlisch had his second-biggest pop hit with “Nobody Does It Better,” the theme from the James Bond film “The Spy Who Loved Me,” written with the lyricist Carole Bayer Sager. Carly Simon’s recording of the song reached No. 2 in 1977. Thom Yorke, the lead singer of the band Radiohead, which has performed the song in concert more recently, called it “the sexiest song ever written.”

  
  Mr. Hamlisch with Barbra Streisand.
  Credit Alex J. Berliner/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, via Associated Press

  
  Yet for all Mr. Hamlisch’s pop success — he and Ms. Bayer Sager also wrote a No. 1 soul hit for Aretha Franklin, “Break It to Me Gently” — his first love was writing for theater and the movies. His score for “The Sting,” which adapted the ragtime music of Scott Joplin, made him a household ubiquity in 1973.
  
  Despite the acclaim he often said he thought his background scores were underappreciated. He said he would love for an audience to “see a movie once without the music” to appreciate how the experience changed. He would go on to write more than 40 movie scores.
  
  Marvin Frederick Hamlisch was born June 2, 1944, in New York . His father, Max, was an accordionist, and at age 5 Mr. Hamlisch was reproducing on the piano songs he heard on the radio; Juilliard soon followed. According to his wife, Terre Blair, he was being groomed as “the next Horowitz,” but when all the doors were closed and everyone was gone he would play show tunes. He performed some concerts and recitals as a teenager at Town Hall and other Manhattan auditoriums, but soon gave up on the idea of being a full-time performer.

  
  A scene from the final performance of the Broadway musical "A Chorus Line" in 1990. Marvin Hamlisch won a Tony Award for his score to the show.
  Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

  
  “Before every recital, I would violently throw up, lose weight, the veins on my hands would stand out,” he told Current Biography.
  
  He had no such reaction, though, when his song “Sunshine, Lollipops and Rainbows,” with lyrics by Howard Liebling, became a Top 20 hit in 1965 for Lesley Gore, when Mr. Hamlisch was 21. The movie producer Sam Spiegel heard him playing piano a few years later at a party and as a result Mr. Hamlisch scored his first film, “The Swimmer.”
  
  Mr. Hamlisch soon moved to Los Angeles, and the successes snowballed. But he remained a New Yorker through and through. He once said he liked New York because it was the one place “where you’re allowed to wear a tie.”

  
  Marvin Hamlisch, right, at the piano with the lyricist Howard Ashman in 1986.
  Credit Nancy Kaye/Associated Press

  
  Mr. Hamlisch is survived by Ms. Blair, a television broadcaster and producer, whom he married in 1989. His sister, Terry Liebling, a Hollywood casting director and the wife of his former collaborator Howard Liebling, died in 2001.
  
  After “A Chorus Line,” Mr. Hamlisch scored another Broadway hit, “They’re Playing Our Song,” based on his relationship with Ms. Bayer Sager (who wrote the lyrics), in 1979. It ran for 1,082 performances. After that, the accolades subsided but the work didn’t. He worked with various lyricists on subesequent musicals, including “Jean Seberg” (1983), which was staged in London but never reached Broadway, and “Smile” (1986), which did reach Broadway but had a very brief run. His most steady work continued to come from the movies. He wrote the background scores for “Ordinary People,” “Sophie’s Choice” and, most recently, “The Informant.” His later theater scores included “The Goodbye Girl” (1993), “Sweet Smell of Success” (2002) and “Imaginary Friends” (2002). He had also completed the scores for an HBO movie based on the life of Liberace, “Behind the Candelabra,” and for a musical based on the Jerry Lewis film “The Nutty Professor,” which opened in Nashville last month.
  
  According to his official Web site, Mr. Hamlisch held the title of pops conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and others.
  
  In more recent years, Mr. Hamlisch became an ambassador for music, traveling the country and performing and giving talks at schools. He often criticized the cuts in arts education.
  
  “I don’t think the American government gets it,” he said during an interview at the Orange County High School of the Arts in Santa Ana, Calif. “I don’t think they understand it’s as important as math and science. It rounds you out as a person. I think it gives you a love of certain things. You don’t have to become the next great composer. It’s just nice to have heard certain things or to have seen certain things. It’s part of being a human being.”
  
  Despite all his honors, Mr. Hamlisch was always most focused on, and most excited about, his newest project. Ms. Blair said. And, she said, he was always appreciative of his gift: “He used to say, ‘It’s easy to write things that are so self-conscious that they become pretentious, that have a lot of noise. It’s very hard to write a simple melody.’ ”

  
  

  Marvin Hamlisch (1944–2012)

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  "Nobody Does It Better", Live Instrumental
  
  
  "Bond 77"
  

  
  1965: Thunderball films the death of Largo (Stage E, Pinewood Studios).
  1967: "Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond" airs on NBC television in the US.
  
  1976: Bond comic strip Nightbird begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 4 November 1976. 3179-3312) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  Swedish Semic Comic 1978 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3?s=comics&id=02165

  Nattfågeln Dödligt Uppdrag För Bond! (Nightbird)
  

  
  Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no49-1979/

  James Bond 007 no. 49: “Nightbird/When the Wizard Awakes” (1979)
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1994: Agent Fred Spektor gives Pierce Brosnan notice with "Hello Mr. Bond, you've got the part."
  1995: GoldenEye's final filming is a close-up of OO7 at the controls of the tank.
  
  2006: Casino Royale films Bond and Mr. White ending the film at Lake Como, Italy.
  
  2011: Skyfall's UK release date moves from late 2011 or early 2012 to 26 October 2012.
  
  
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  1942: Frank McRae is born--Memphis, Tennessee.
  
  1967: Record World reviews the United Artists soundtrack LP You Only Live Twice.

  Nancy Meets James Bond: “You Only Live Twice” at 50

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://nancysinatra.com/blog/2017/04/nancy-meets-james-bond-you-only-live-twice-at-50/"]https://nancysinatra.com/blog/2017/04/nancy-meets-james-bond-you-only-live-twice-at-50/[/cemter]

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  1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films Bond and Tracy skiing (Pinewood's North Tunnel).
  
  1981: The Hollywood Reporter announces the largest planned release of a Bond film to date, for the 26 June opening of For Your Eyes Only in 1,000 theaters.
  
  2005: The Guardian reports on a dispute between Fleming and a villain's namesake that nearly took a nasty turn.

  

  How Goldfinger nearly became
  Goldprick

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/03/film.hayfestival2005

  Author discloses spat between architect and Bond's creator
  
  John Ezard
  Fri 3 Jun 2005 05.07 EDT
  
  Goldfinger was a man who thought big, a champion of communism, an eccentric, a bully who put people in fear. And that was just the architect.
  
  The story of the Ernö Goldfinger's vehement reaction when the author Ian Fleming appropriated his name - and aspects of his character - with deliberate savagery for the villain and title of the James Bond novel was disclosed to the Guardian Hay festival yesterday.
  
  The dispute led to legal action. When the film Goldfinger came out, the architect was afflicted by spoof calls in the middle of the night. Callers would intone in bad Sean Connery accents, "Goldfinger? This is agent 007," or sing the film's theme tune, "an irritation still endured by members of the family who list their names in the telephone directory," Nigel Warburton, of the Open University, told a breakfast-time audience.
  
  Fleming turned the dominating, 6ft 2in Erno into the 5ft imperious megalomaniac Auric Goldfinger, who nearly succeeds in stealing the US gold reserves at Fort Knox for the Soviet Union.
  
  Ernö - like Auric - was a British-naturalised foreigner and a Marxist who spent much of the second world war raising money for the Soviet cause. Otherwise there were differences between the two, as Dr Warburton noted, discussing his new book Ernö Goldfinger: The Life of an Architect, the first biography to be published.
  
  But when Ernö's business associate Jacob Blacker was asked for his opinion of a proof copy of the Bond story, he told Ernö ironically that he could find only one substantial difference: "You're called Ernö and he's called Auric."
  
  Ernö Goldfinger was one of the 20th century's prime advocates of London tower blocks. He designed the often reviled Alexander Fleming House at the Elephant and Castle, Trellick Tower in Ladbroke Grove and Balfron Tower in Tower Hamlets.
  
  One story explaining Fleming's animosity is that he lived for a time in Hampstead and disliked Ernö's design for terraced houses in Willow Road, according to Dr Warburton. Fleming knew of Ernö through a golfing friend who was related to Ernö's wife.
  
  The friend appears in the novel - but his woman relative has been transformed into a heroin addict. Ernö somehow heard about the novel when it was in the publisher Jonathan Cape's presses in 1959. His response was, "Shall we sue?"
  
  After hearing Blacker's view, Ernö ordered solicitors to act. Cape agreed to pay his costs and agreed out of court to make clear in advertising and in future editions that all characters were fictitious.
  
  Fleming, in turn, was livid. He asked Cape to insert an erratum slip in the first edition changing the character's name to Goldprick, a name suggested by the critic Cyril Connolly. Luckily for the film posters and theme tune of the future, sung by Shirley Bassey, Cape demurred.
  
  Dr Warburton said the clarification did not appear in the novel's current edition.
  
  The real-life Goldfinger, however, deserved to be remembered as a visionary architect who wrote in 1941: "Cities can become centres of civilisation where men and women can live happy lives. The technical means exist to satisfy human needs. The will to plan must be aroused. There is no obstacle but ignorance and wickedness."

  
  

  
  2005: Michael Billington dies at age 63--Margate, Kent, England.
  (Born 24 December 1941--Blackburn, Lancashire, England.)

  

  Michael Billington

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/jun/29/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

  Charismatic actor whose tough-guy image distracted from his broader gifts
  David McGillivray | Tue 28 Jun 2005 19.02 EDT

  The actor Michael Billington, who has died of cancer aged 63, achieved minor cult status as Colonel Paul Foster in UFO (1969), the first live action adventure series produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the creators of Thunderbirds. This, and similar roles, resulted in the tough-guy actor being tipped, for more than 10 years, as "the next James Bond".
  
  His failure to succeed first Sean Connery, then Roger Moore, was the biggest disappointment of Billington's career. His compensation, a brief part as the agent killed off before the main titles of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), was not enough to keep him in Britain.

  Deciding that he no longer wanted to be an action hero, he went to the United States, where he studied acting with Lee and Anna Strasberg. But the roles that followed, in episodes of series such as Hart To Hart and Magnum, PI, were not that different to what had gone before. He tried, unsuccessfully, to sell the screenplays he had written, and, after returning to the UK, worked mostly as a teacher.
  
  A fine actor with star quality - and a very funny man to boot - Billington could, if fate had decreed it, have become a British Burt Reynolds. I first met him when I was a teenager in 1965, working in a film library he visited regularly, and was awestruck by his charisma, and later by his generosity. He played himself in an amateur film I made and, soon afterwards, got me my first professional job as a screenwriter. He was defeated by bad luck and his uncertainty about what he wanted to achieve.
  
  Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, Billington loved the cinema from childhood and came to London to work for the film distributor Warner-Pathé. Connections made at the gym got him work as a chorus boy in such West End musicals as How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Shaftesbury, 1963) and Little Me (Cambridge, 1964). He also stooged at Danny La Rue's nightclub.
  
  His first film was the short Dream A40 (1964), banned by the censors because of a scene in which male lovers kissed. In 1965, he made his television debut, as Neil Hall in the football soap opera United, and his stage debut in Incident At Vichy at the Phoenix theatre.
  
  Sylvia Anderson spotted Billington in an episode of The Prisoner and cast him in UFO. "I cringe when I see it," he claimed later (but attended UFO conventions almost until the end of his life). His other major TV role at this time was as Daniel Fogarty, in the seafaring drama The Onedin Line (1971-4), which he left after one series. He was credited in the film Alfred The Great (1969), but was a glorified extra. He also had a small part in a television production of War And Peace (1972).

  Throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, Billington waited for the call that never came to play Bond. In 1980, he sold his only filmed screenplay, Silver Dream Racer. In the US, he had a gag role in a parody, Flicks (1981), and was uncomfortably Russian in KGB The Secret War (1985), two films that were shelved for years before release on video. Back in the UK, he had his last decent role as co-star, with Peter McEnery, of The Collectors (1986), a television series about HM Customs and Excise.

  Billington worked on the book of a stage musical about Jack the Ripper, and his last stage appearance was in the highly regarded Never Nothing From No One (Cockpit theatre, 2000). He enjoyed his work at the Lee Strasberg Studio in London, where he was a popular tutor in the mid-1990s. He wrote enthusiastically on his website about the craft of acting that he was able to practise, to his satisfaction, all too rarely.

  After eight years as the partner of Barbara Broccoli, daughter of the Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, Billington married Katherine Kristoff in 1988. She died in 1998, after which he devoted himself to raising their son, Michael Jr, who survives him.

  · Michael Billington, actor, born December 24 1941; died June 3 2005

  
  
  
  

  
  2018: The LA Times crossword puzzle. 120 across, three letters. Clue: NO AND PHIL.

  
  LA Times Crossword Answers 3 Jun 2018, Sunday
  https://laxcrossword.com/2018/06/la-times-crossword-answers-3-jun-2018-sunday.html
  Constructed by: Matt McKinley
  Edited by: Rich Norris
  
  Today’s Theme : Emergency Room Staff
  

  120. No and Phil : DRS
  
  “Dr. No” may have been the first film in the wildly successful James Bond franchise, but it was the sixth novel in the series of books penned by Ian Fleming. Fleming was inspired to write the story after reading the Fu Manchu tales by Sax Rohmer. If you’ve read the Rohmer books or seen the films, you’ll recognize the similarities between the characters Dr. Julius No and Fu Manchu.
  
  Dr. Phil (McGraw) met Oprah Winfrey when he was hired to work with her as a legal consultant during the Amarillo Texas beef trial (when the industry sued Oprah for libel over “Mad Cow Disease” statements). Oprah was impressed with Dr. Phil and invited him onto her show, and we haven’t stopped seeing him since!

  120. No and Phil : DRS

  
  
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  June 4th
  
  1927: Geoffrey Palmer is born--London, England.
  
  1951: David Nicholas Yip is born--Liverpool, England.
  
  1963: Agente 007 contra el Dr. No (Agent 007 against Dr. No) released in Barcelona, Spain.

  Re-celebrated 1965.
  

  1963: From Russia With Love films a gypsy catfight.
  1965: Goldfinger (French title) released in Gent, Belgium.

  

  
  1970: Izabella Scorupco is born--Bialystok, Podlaskie, Poland.
  
  1981: Bond comic strip The Paradise Plot ends its run in The Daily Express. (Began 20 August 1981. 175-378)
  John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  
  
  Swedish Semic 1982 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3?s=comics&id=02218

  007 På Nytt, Laddat Uppdrag
  (007 In New Assignment - The Paradise Plot [Part 1])
  
  Projekt Polstjärnan
  (Project Polestar - The Paradise Plot [Part 2])
  
  Del 3 Order Att Döda
  (Part 3 Order To Death - The Paradise Plot [Part 3])
  
  
  
  

  1986: Oona Chaplin is born--Madrid, Spain.
  
  1996: Putnam and Sons releases the last John Gardner Bond novel COLD (Cold Fall in the UK).

  

  
  2015: Spectre films on the Thames River, London.
  2019: Media report a controlled explosion and a BOND 25 crew member injured.

  

  'Bond 25' Crew
  Member Suffers
  Injury From
  Controlled
  Explosion on Set

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://malaysia.news.yahoo.com/apos-bond-25-apos-crew-184558384.html

  Antoinette Bueno‍ ‍ | Entertainment Tonight | 4 June 2019

  
  The actor recently hit up the 'No Time to Die' wrap party,
  where he addressed cast and crew while reflecting on his Bond journey.

  
  Filming on Bond 25 hasn't exactly been smooth sailing.
  
  On Tuesday, the film's official Twitter account shared that a crew member has sustained a minor injury after a controlled explosion didn't go as planned.
  
  "During the filming of a controlled explosion on the set of Bond 25 today at Pinewood Studios, damage was caused to the exterior of the 007 Stage," the tweet reads. "There were no injuries on set, however one crew member outside the stage has sustained a minor injury."

  https://twitter.com/007/status/1135964684916613125

  The news comes after it was announced last month that Daniel Craig, who plays iconic British Secret Service agent James Bond, had to undergo minor surgery after suffering an injury while shooting the latest film in the beloved action franchise.
  
  "BOND 25 update: Daniel Craig will be undergoing minor ankle surgery resulting from an injury sustained during filming in Jamaica," the Twitter post read. "Production will continue whilst Craig is rehabilitating for two weeks post-surgery. The film remains on track for the same release date in April 2020."
  
  True Detective season one director Cary Fukunaga is directing the highly anticipated Bond 25, which will follow 007 as he comes out of retirement to help a friend. Rami Malek will play the villain, and it was previously announced that Léa Seydoux would reprise her role as Dr. Madeleine Swann, as would Ralph Fiennes as M, Ben Whishaw as Q and Naomie Harris as Eve Moneypenny. Jeffrey Wright is also returning as CIA operative Felix Leiter and Rory Kinnear will be back as Bond’s stalwart ally, Tanner.
  
  ET spoke with Craig in April at late Bond author Ian Fleming's Jamaican villa -- aptly named Goldeneye, where he wrote all of his Bond novels -- when the cast of the 25th installment of the film franchise was announced. Although Craig is returning to play 007 for the fifth time, he told ET this will most likely be his last turn as the character.
  
  "This is going to be my last Bond I think," he said. "I think I've done enough, people are going to get sick of the sight of me. Someone else should have a go."

  
  
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  June 5th
  
  1945: Michael Eugene Ebbin is born--Pembroke, Bermuda.
  
  1950: Malcolm Sinclair is born--London, England.
  
  1964: Goldfinger films the villain's arrival at Fort Knox
  
  1987: The New York Museum of Modern Art opens its 007 exhibition and screens fourteen Bond films. Closes 23 July.
  
  2004: Virginia North dies at age 58--West Sussex, England. (Born 24 April 1946--London, England.)

  

  Virginia North

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  Born 24 April 1946 | London, England, United Kingdom
  Died 5 June 2004 (aged 58) | East Sussex, England, United Kingdom
  Nationality British | Occupation Actress | Years active 1967–1971]

  Virginia North, Lady White (24 April 1946 – 5 June 2004) was an Anglo-American actress who appeared in small roles in five films and one TV programme between 1967 and 1971.
  
  Life and career
  Born Virginia Anne Northrop in London to a British mother and a U.S. Army father, North spent her early years in Britain, France, Southeast Asia and finally Washington, following her father's military postings. By the mid-1960s she had returned to Britain, where she worked as a model, specialising in swim wear. In 1968 she joined the newly established London agency Models 1, which has since gone on to become one of the major modelling agencies in Europe.

  North began her brief film career with small parts in the Bulldog Drummond film Deadlier Than the Male (1967) and the Yul Brynner vehicle The Long Duel (1967). She returned to film two years later as Robot Number Nine in Some Girls Do (1969), the second in the Bulldog Drummond franchise, and as Olympe in two short scenes in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), thus becoming a "Bond girl".

  The 1969 Department S episode "The Mysterious Man in the Flying Machine" marked her only television appearance.
  
  Her last and perhaps best-known role was as Vincent Price's silent assistant, the delectably deadly Vulnavia, in the horror comedy The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971).
  
  Personal life
  In 1974 North married the wealthy industrialist Gordon White. Later that year she gave birth to her only child, Lucas, who would later become a well-regarded polo player and one of the richest young men in the United Kingdom.[citation needed]
  
  When her husband was awarded a KBE in 1979 for services to British industry, becoming Sir Gordon White, Virginia White became Virginia, Lady White. She and White were divorced in 1991. She never remarried and died at her home in West Sussex, England, in June 2004 after a two-year battle with cancer. She was 58.

  Filmography
  
  1967 Deadlier Than the Male (Brenda)
  1967 The Long Duel (Champa)
  1969 Some Girls Do (Robot No. 9)
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Olympe)
  1971 The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Vulnavia, final film role)

  

  Virginia North (1946–2004)

  Actress
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  2006: Casino Royale films M telling Bond about Vesper and the boyfriend.
  2008: The Mirror reports record sales for Sebastian Faulks' Devil May Care.

  

  New 007 book Devil May Care breaks sales records

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/new-007-book-devil-may-care-311801

  New Bond book Devil May Care has smashed the record for Penguin's fastest-selling hardback fiction title.
  ByMirror.co.uk | 00:00, 5 JUN 2008
  
  The 007 update, written by Sebastian Faulks, sold 44,093 copies in the first four days of publication.
  
  Waterstone's recorded the highest sales with more than 19,000 books flogged.
  
  A special £100 edition sold out by noon on the first day.
  
  Waterstone's Rodney Troubridge said of the sales: "It's unlikely to be superseded." The novel was published to mark the centenary of the birth of Bond creator Ian Fleming.
  
  Previous best-sellers by the likes of Tom Clancy, Nick Hornby and Dick Francis sold around 11,500 copies in the same time period.

  

  
  2011: The New York Times crossword. 5 down. 8 letters. Casino Royale, for one.

  
  0605-11: New York Times
  Crossword Answers 5 Jun 11,
  Sunday
  https://nyxcrossword.com/2011/06/0605-11-new-york-times-crossword.html
  
  5. “Casino Royale,” for one :

  SPY NOVEL
  “Casino Royale” was the first in the long and successful series of James Bond spy novels written by Ian Fleming.
  
  

  2019: The Secret Cinema - Casino Royale immersive theatrical experience opens in Dagenham, East London. Runs through 6 October.
  
  
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  June 6th
  
  1944: Ian Fleming is replaced as head of Royal Navy 30 Assault Unit, an intelligence-gathering group of commandos. His "Red Indians".
  1944: D-Day. During Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious invasion in history, the Allies storm the beaches at Normandy.
  
  1963: Anthony Starke is born--Syracuse, New York
  
  1983: Octopussy premieres at the Odeon Leicester Square, London.
  Attendees include Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films Elliott Carver's oratio interruptis
  
  2011: EON Productions confirms Naomie Harris in discussions for a role in BOND 23.
  2019: Planned public reading and discussion of Fleming's short story "From a View to a Kill".
  Also Friday. Tacoma, Washington.

  
  Thursday, June 6, 2019
  From a View to Kill (Short Story) Ian Fleming
  https://www.meetup.com/Beer-Graphic-Novels-Short-Stories/events/260764430/https://www.evensi.us/view-kill-short-story-ian-fleming-copper-door/305450679
  Thursday 6 June 2019 5:00 PM Friday 7 June 2019 4:00 AM
  Tacoma ›
  
  Bond hunts spies: done.
  
  A fun read! We can discuss plot, culture, cold war, perception of others, etc, and fun stuff. What actor do you think would be a good Bond?
  
  Maybe, the dichotomy of Roger Moore and Sean Connery's interpretation of the character. How does the Bond character exists as a modern folk hero?

  Thursday, June 6, 2019
  7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
  
  Doyle's Public House
  208 St. Helen's Drive, Tacoma

  https://spywhothrills.com/foryoureyesonlyfleming
  
  
  http://spyvibe.blogspot.com/2012/07/for-your-shelf-only-rare-fleming-short.html
  
  

  
  
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  June 7th
  
  1940: Sir Tom Jones is born--Pontypridd, Wales.
  
  1982: Comic strip Deathmask begins its run in The Daily Express. (Finishes 2 February 1983. 379-552)
  John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  Swedish Semic Comic 1983 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1983.php3?s=comics&id=02239

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

  1983: Octopussy released in the UK.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1994: Pierce Brosnan is announced as James Bond number five.

  

  
  2015: Sir Christopher Lee dies at age 93--Chelsea, London. (Born 27 May 1922--Belgravia, London, England.)

  

  Christopher Lee obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jun/11/christopher-lee

  Actor known for villainous or sinister roles in films from Hammer
  horror to James Bond and The Lord of the Rings
  Alex Hamilton | Thu 11 Jun 2015 09.38 EDT

  
  Christopher Lee, pictured in 1959, studied method acting at Rank’s ‘charm school’, but recognised theatre was not his strength and never went near the stage again.
  Photograph: Everett/Rex Shutterstock

  Sir Christopher Lee, who has died aged 93, achieved his international following through playing monsters and villains. In his 30s, he was Dracula, the Mummy and Frankenstein’s creature; in his 80s, Count Dooku in Star Wars and the evil wizard Saruman in The Lord of the Rings. Along the way he was Rasputin, Fu Manchu several times and Scaramanga – The Man With the Golden Gun – opposite Roger Moore as a weak 007, whom Lee did something to offset. For the last of these he was paid £40,000 – his highest fee, among hundreds of screen appearances, until the blockbusters of his later years. “The Bonds get the big money, and they save on the heavies,” he said.

  Lee became an actor almost by accident. Through birth and education he seemed a more likely candidate for the diplomatic ladder, but he never reached the first rung. His father, Geoffrey, a colonel much decorated in the first world war, wrecked through gambling his marriage to Estelle, the daughter of the Italian Marquis de Sarzano, and a society beauty of the 1920s. Christopher was born in Belgravia, London. His education at Wellington college, Berkshire, ended abruptly at 17, and he had to get along on the pittance of a City clerk.
  
  But the second world war might be said to have rescued him, making him an intelligence officer with an RAF squadron through north Africa and Italy. At the end, he was seconded for a period with a unit investigating war crimes. Though demobbed with the rank of lieutenant, he had suffered a psychological trauma in training and was never a pilot. In his later civilian life he was endlessly required to fly as a passenger, and it was barely a consolation to him having his film contracts stipulate that he travel first class.
  
  Without previous aspirations or natural talent for acting, except a pleasing dark baritone voice that he exercised in song at home and abroad every day of his life, he was pushed towards film by one of his influential Italian relatives, Nicolò Carandini, then president of the Alitalia airline, who backed the suggestion with a chat to the Italian head of Two Cities Films, Filippo del Giudice. Lee was put on a seven-year contract by the Rank entertainment group, with the executive who signed it saying: “Why is Filippo wasting my time with a man who is too tall to be an actor?”
  
  His height – 6ft 4in, kept upright by his lofty temperament and fondness for playing off scratch in pro-am golf tournaments – actually proved helpful in securing him the parts for which he had the most affinity: authority figures. He lent a severe and commanding presence to James I of Aragon in The Disputation (1986), the Comte de Rochefort in The Three Musketeers (1973), Ramses II in Moses (1995), the cardinal in L’Avaro (1990), a high priest in She (1965), the Grand Master of the Knights Templar in Ivanhoe (1958) and the Duc in The Devil Rides Out (1968).
  

  
  Christopher Lee in Horror of Dracula (1958).
  He later regretted taking on so many of the vampire’s increasingly absurd adventures.
  Photograph: Everett/Rex Shutterstock

  
  He shared his aptness for sinister material with two friends who lived near his London home in a Chelsea square: the writer of occult thrillers Dennis Wheatley and the actor Boris Karloff. The latter once cheered him up when Lee was overloaded with horror roles, remarking, “Types are continually in work.”
  
  Lee initially studied method acting at Rank’s “charm school”, where he was supposed to spend six months of the year in rep. But floundering at the Connaught in Worthing, and humiliated by audience laughter when he put his hand through a window supposedly made of glass, he recognised that the theatre was not his metier and never went near the stage again. Perhaps the most useful coaching Rank gave him was in swordplay: across his career he fought in more screen duels than opponents such as Errol Flynn and Douglas Fairbanks put together.
  
  
  Sir Christopher Lee, veteran horror film actor, has died at the age of 93 after being hospitalised for respiratory problems and heart failure
  
  Terence Young gave Christopher his first – and minimal – chance before the film cameras in Corridor of Mirrors (1948). Over the next 10 years, he played secondary and anonymous characters in a miscellany of mostly low-budget British films. This had a lasting effect into his later years: he would accept virtually any role. The film that lifted him out of obscurity, and showed him to Times Square as a 50ft-tall vampire, was the Hammer production of Dracula in 1958. It cost £82,000 and earned £26m, of which Christopher’s take was £750. It was the first time he and Peter Cushing worked together, in a pairing that lasted through 22 films.
  
  It was often said in the film business that it was not easy to make friends with Lee. But he always knew his part, and he was always in the right place, so that he was at any rate approved of by the cameramen. Furthermore, three other actors who also enjoyed sinister roles in exploitation movies kept a quartet of friendship with him: Cushing, Karloff and Vincent Price.
  
  Lee’s particular difference as Dracula lay in his height and powerful showing, and his terrifying presence even when no words had been written for him. But while admitting that Dracula had been his cornerstone, he eventually left the role to others, and later regretted letting himself in for so many of the vampire’s increasingly absurd adventures.
  Christopher Lee: a career in clips
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  He took work wherever he could find it, including five times as Fu Manchu. When he could not find roles in Britain, he cast about in France, Italy, Spain and Germany. His ability to say his lines in their languages was a great advantage when it came to dubbing. He became the first actor to play both Sherlock Holmes and, for the director Billy Wilder in 1970, Sherlock’s brother Mycroft. While shooting by Loch Ness in Scotland, Wilder remarked to him, as they walked in the twilight by the spooky stretch of dark water with bats wheeling about: “You must feel quite at home here.”
  
  Supporting roles in action pictures – as a Nazi officer, a western gunman and a pirate – extended not only his portfolio but also the range of lead actors who were his idols. Among them was Burt Lancaster, whose example as his own stunt man Lee strove to emulate. Lancaster once warned him against journalists: “Never let them get too close.” Lee liked to give interviews, but resented the results, since they invariably harped on about Dracula despite his protestations that he had left the “prince of darkness” behind.
  
  Given this attitude, he rather surprisingly gave me, a journalist, the job of ghostwriting his autobiography, which was published in 1977 as Tall, Dark and Gruesome. In 2003, after he had played several roles a year for 25 more years, we updated the story as Lord of Misrule.

  
  Christopher Lee as Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man (1973).
  Photograph: Everett/Rex Shutterstock

  
  Lee had come nearest to producing something lasting for the cinema in 1973, playing the pagan Lord Summerisle in The Wicker Man. With a marvellous script by Anthony Shaffer, and despite almost no money for production, it was a rare horror film that proved to have a long life. Lee was prevented by injury from taking the role of Sir Lachlan Morrison in a sequel, The Wicker Tree (2011), though he made a cameo appearance as “Old Gentleman”.

  After the high-profile part in The Man With the Golden Gun (1974), Lee – at the urging of Wilder – left Britain for Hollywood. America delivered some of his hopes. On the downside was the disaster film Airport 77; on the upside, a completely unexpected comic success hosting Saturday Night Live on TV, with such stars as John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. In among the 40 jobs he undertook in the 1970s, Lee’s sword and sorcery, murder and spook movies made way for his roles as a U-boat captain in Spielberg’s 1941 (1979), a Hell’s Angel biker in Serial (1980) and, back in Europe, the studied interpretation of the executioner Charles-Henri Sanson as a dandy, for a 1989 French TV history of the Revolution. Lee was fascinated by public executions. His move to the US allowed him the opportunity to see the electric chair firsthand, in a similarly detached mood of inquiry with which he had previously invited England’s last hangman to come to his house and talk about his own career. One of his favourite pastimes was visiting Scotland Yard’s Black Museum.

  
  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, with Christopher Lee as the wizard Saruman.
  Photograph: Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

  
  He worked on tirelessly, becoming a familiar figure in the studios of France, Italy, Spain, Germany, the Balkans, the Baltic and Russia; he also made films in Pakistan and New Zealand, and in 2000 he struck a touching figure as the butler Flay in the BBC TV production of Gormenghast.
  
  The 21st century saw a major reinvigoration of his reputation – first in the Star Wars prequels, and then even more significantly as Saruman in Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning film sequence of The Lord of the Rings. He was upset when Jackson cut his scenes in the theatrical edition of the trilogy’s final instalment, The Return of the King (2003), but their rift was healed when the scenes were restored in the extended editions on DVD. At last, in his 80s, Lee was earning six figures. He reprised the role in The Hobbit films.
  
  Nonetheless, one of the roles for which he was most proud was a low-budget assignment: the arduous – and politically precarious – challenge of playing the title role in Jinnah (1998). Though Lee worked with all due seriousness and admiration for the founder of Pakistan (and looked remarkably like him), he had to be constantly under armed guard because of an abusive press campaign against the producers for associating the father of the nation with Dracula; the Pakistan government eventually caved in to the pressure and withdrew its funding for the film. The end product was well reviewed; Lee himself thought it his best achievement, though not everybody would agree.
  
  Still, at home he was becoming the nation’s darling. Tim Burton fitted him into small parts in five films and was on stage to introduce him when Lee won a Bafta fellowship award for lifetime achievement in 2011. A BFI fellowship in 2013 was presented to him by Johnny Depp. In France, he was made a commander of arts and letters; he was likewise honoured in Berlin. He was made CBE in 2001 and knighted in 2009. A prolific schedule of film appearances continued and most recently he had taken the lead role in the comedy Angels in Notting Hill.
  
  He is survived by his wife, Gitte (nee Kroencke), whom he married in 1961, and their daughter, Christina.
  
  • Christopher Frank Carandini Lee, actor, born 27 May 1922; died 7 June 2015

  CHRISTOPHER LEE FILMOGRAPHY
  https://www.fandango.com/people/christopher-lee-389466/film-credits

  Year Title Role
  
  2015 Extraordinary Tales
  2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Saruman
  2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Saruman
  2012 Dark Shadows Clarney
  2011 The Wicker Tree Old Gentleman
  2011 Hugo Monsieur Labisse
  2011 Season of the Witch (2011) Cardinal D'Ambroise
  2011 The Resident August
  2010 Burke and Hare Old Joseph
  2010 Alice in Wonderland (2010) Jabberwocky
  
  2009 The Heavy Boots' Father
  2009 Triage Joaquin Morales
  2008 Star Wars: The Clone Wars Count Dooku
  2007 The Golden Compass First High Councilor
  2007 Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs Narrator
  2005 Tim Burton's Corpse Bride Pastor Galswells
  2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Dr. Wonka
  2005 Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith Count Dooku
  2005 Greyfriars Bobby
  2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Saruman
  2002 Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones Count Dooku
  2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Saruman
  
  1999 Sleepy Hollow Burgomaster
  1998 Jinnah Mohammed Ali Jinnah
  1997 Ivanhoe Lucas de Beaumanoir
  
  1986 The Girl (1987) Peter Storm
  1983 The Return of Captain Invincible Mr. Midnight
  1982 The Last Unicorn King Haggard
  
  1979 1941 Von Kleinschmidt
  1979 Alien Encounter Captain Ramses
  1979 Arabian Adventure Alquazar
  1975 The Four Musketeers Rochefort
  1975 Diagnosis: Murder Dr. Stephen Hayward
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Scaramanga
  1973 The Wicker Man (1974) Lord Summerisle
  1972 Dracula A.D. 1972 Count Dracula
  1972 The Creeping Flesh James Hildern
  1972 Horror Express Prof. Alex Caxton
  1971 The House That Dripped Blood Reid
  1970 The Scars of Dracula Count Dracula
  1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes Mycroft Holmes
  1970 Scream and Scream Again Fremont
  
  1969 The Magic Christian Ship's Vampire
  1968 Dracula Has Risen From the Grave Dracula
  1968 The Devil Rides Out Duc De Richeleau
  1968 Eve Col. Stuart
  1966 Dracula, Prince of Darkness Dracula
  1965 Face of Fu Manchu Fu Manchu
  1965 Dr. Terror's House of Horrors Franklyn Marsh
  1964 The Gorgon Prof. Carl Maister
  1964 The Devil-Ship Pirates Capt. Robeles
  1962 The Pirates of Blood River LaRoche
  1962 The Longest Day
  1961 Hercules In The Haunted World (1961) Lichas
  1961 Scream of Fear Dr. Gerrard
  1961 Terror of the Tongs Chung King
  1960 Horror Hotel Prof. Allan Driscoll
  
  1959 The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Henry Baskerville
  1959 The Mummy (1959) Kharis, the Mummy
  1958 Horror of Dracula Count Dracula
  1958 The Accursed Doctor Neumann
  1957 Ill Met By Moonlight German officer at dentist's
  1957 The Curse of Frankenstein The Creature
  1957 Bitter Victory Sgt. Barney
  1956 Moby Dick (1956)
  1952 The Crimson Pirate Joseph, Attache
  1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower Captain
  1950 Prelude to Fame Newsman
  
  1948 Hamlet (1948)
  1948 Scott of the Antarctic Bernard Day
  1948 Corridor of Mirrors Charles

  

  Christopher Lee (I) (1922–2015)

  Actor | Soundtrack | Producer
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000489/
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2015: Spectre films on the banks of the Thames River.
  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases Bond comic Black Box #4.
  Rapha Lobosco, artist. Benjamin Percy, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND #4

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025652204011

  Cover A: Dominic Reardon
  Cover B: Jason Masters
  Cover C: Matt Taylor
  Writer: Benjamin Percy
  Art: Rapha Lobosco
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: June 2017
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 6/7

  James Bond #4, "The Suicide Forest"
  
  The latest installment in the Black Box storyline will leave you breathless. An epic car chase through the gritty, neon wonderland of Tokyo gives way to a sexy layover near Mt. Fuji, where James Bond goes "undercover" with the mysterious assassin, Selah Sax. Little does 007 know his mission is about to change -- and danger lurks in the nearby "Suicide Forest," where he and Selah will be both the hunters and the hunted.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  June 8th
  
  1926: Kevin McClory is born--Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland.
  (He dies 20 November 2006 at age 80--Dublin, Ireland.)

  

  Kevin McClory
  Co-author of the 'Thunderball' screenplay who sued Ian Fleming

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/kevin-mcclory-427368.html

  Thursday 7 December 2006 01:00
  Kevin O'Donovan McClory, screenwriter and film producer: born Dublin 8
  June 1926; twice married (two sons, two daughters); died London 20
  November 2006.

  To devotees of James Bond history, the name Kevin McClory will be forever associated with Thunderball - the Ian Fleming novel, the court case surrounding it, and the film - and his myriad abortive attempts, countered by litigation, to launch an alternative James Bond film franchise.

  Born in Dublin in 1926, Kevin O'Donovan McClory was a descendant of the literary Brontë family through his grandmother Alice McClory. His parents were both actors on the Irish stage, which fired Kevin's early desire to become an actor, but this ambition was hampered by severe dyslexia at school, and was finally blocked by a nervous stammer that was caused by a traumatic incident during the Second World War; in 1943, when serving in the Merchant Navy, Kevin McClory's ship was torpedoed while in the North Atlantic. He drifted over 700 miles in a lifeboat in freezing conditions with other crew members for 14 days, before being picked up off the coast of Ireland as one of the few remaining survivors.
  
  In 1946, his desire still strong to be in show business and now with a greater appreciation of life, McClory talked his way into a £4-a-week job as a boom operator and "tea boy" at Shepperton Studios. Keen to be noticed, McClory worked in various capacities on classic British films including Anna Karenina (1948) and The Cockleshell Heroes (1955). It was during this early period at Shepperton that he formed a lifelong friendship with the director John Huston, another larger-than-life Irishman.
  
  McClory was Huston's assistant on pictures like The African Queen (1951) and Moulin Rouge (1952), before graduating to Assistant Director on Huston's version of the Herman Melville classic Moby Dick (1956), starring Gregory Peck. This was McClory's stepping stone to becoming jack-of-all-trades on the mammoth production Around the World in 80 Days (1956), with him as the producer Mike Todd's assistant, as Assistant Producer and as Assistant Director.
  
  McClory wanted more control over his own creative destiny and decided to write, produce and direct The Boy and the Bridge (1959). In the Bahamas, he met the wealthy Englishman Ivar Bryce, who formed Xanadu Productions with McClory to finance his first solo production. Bryce was a very close friend of the James Bond author Ian Fleming, and it wasn't long before, at Bryce's suggestion, McClory read several of Fleming's novels with a view to filming one of them.
  
  The young and enthusiastic Irishman realised that these books had great potential. And great earning potential. However, McClory thought very much in visual terms, a hangover from his childhood dyslexia, and believed that he, Fleming and Bryce should collaborate on an original, more cinematic screenplay. To this triumvirate, he introduced Jack Whittingham, then ranked among the top 10 screenwriters in the UK, whose work had been received with great critical and public acclaim in Ealing Studios films including Mandy (1952) and The Divided Heart (1954).
  
  Whittingham wrote a first-draft screenplay that eventually Ian Fleming would title Thunderball. The Bondwagon was about to start rolling, with the big bucks and the fame only a stone's throw away, or so McClory believed. Unfortunately for him, The Boy and the Bridge performed very badly at the box office and sank without a trace. Bryce and Fleming's initial enthusiasm for the young Irishman's handling the production of their first James Bond film project suddenly faded. Having expected the profits from The Boy and the Bridge to part-finance the Thunderball film, both Bryce and Fleming got cold feet and walked away from the project, leaving McClory high and dry.
  
  When Ian Fleming sat at his typewriter at his Jamaican home, Goldeneye, in January 1961 to write his ninth Bond novel, he was in ill-health with heart trouble and felt very much a spent force. Writing to William Plomer, an old friend from his days with Naval Intelligence, who always proof-read and pre-edited his Bond novels, Fleming complained that he was

  terribly stuck with James Bond. What was easy at 40 is very difficult at 50. I used to believe - sufficiently - in Bonds and blondes and bombs. Now the keys creak as I type and I fear the zest may have gone. Part of the trouble is having a wife and child. They knock the ruthlessness out of one. I shall definitely kill off Bond with my next book - better a poor bang than a rich whimper!

  Perhaps it was no surprise, then, that a tired writer would turn to a convenient formed idea. Why let it go to waste? So Fleming based his ninth novel, Thunderball, on the collaborative screenplay, without any idea of including any credit for McClory's input and Whittingham's screen treatment. It would prove to be a costly error in judgement.
  
  Before the publication of Thunderball on 27 March 1961 in London by Jonathan Cape, Kevin McClory obtained an advance proof copy of the novel. As soon as he realised that Fleming had plagiarised their collaborative screenplay, he sent a warning letter to the publishers that if they published the book as it stood he would take legal action. Receiving no answer, McClory sued. McClory was out to stop Jonathan Cape from representing Thunderball as the sole work of Fleming.
  
  At a hearing, a judge decided that, since the accused had insufficient time to mount a defence, and publication of Thunderball was already so well advanced it couldn't be stopped, McClory and Whittingham's application would be refused. A little over two weeks after the failed book injunction, Ian Fleming suffered a major heart attack during the regular Tuesday-morning conference at The Sunday Times. He was rushed to the London Clinic, where he remained for a month.
  
  The ensuing case that began on 20 November 1963 at the High Court in London was heavily covered in the media. Newspaper headlines screamed, "James Bond in a Thunderball clash!" Whittingham found it necessary to withdraw as co-plaintiff due to escalating costs, but, although in extreme ill-health, he returned loyally every day to support McClory. After nine days in court both Ivar Bryce and Ian Fleming decided to settle. McClory demanded £55,000.
  
  In the final outcome, McClory was awarded £35,000 and his court costs paid (totalling £52,000), plus the film and television rights to all the existing Thunderball screen treatments. However, even though he had won the case, he was unhappy with the financial result and never paid his lawyer's costs. He also did nothing to help Whittingham meet his crippling court costs.
  
  Fleming had two further serious heart attacks during the trial. On 12 August 1964, he suffered a final, fatal heart attack, aged 56, and died in the Kent and Canterbury Hospital.
  
  Thunderball was eventually made into a film in 1965 by the producers Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli & Harry Saltzman, who "presented' the film for their company EON Productions. McClory was billed as producer on the film and Thunderball credited as being "Based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham & Ian Fleming". The film grossed $141.2m worldwide. Whittingham died of a heart attack in Malta in 1973, his contribution to the cinematic legacy of James Bond all but forgotten and unrecognised.
  
  In 1983 Kevin McClory acted as executive producer on Never Say Never Again, a remake of Thunderball, for which Sean Connery returned after 12 years to star as James Bond, going head-to-head with Roger Moore as Bond in Octopussy. The film grossed an estimated £137.5m worldwide.
  
  One of McClory's closest friends during the late Fifties and Sixties was Jeremy Vaughn, who also knew Ian Fleming well as his neighbour in Jamaica. He told Robert Sellers, author of the upcoming The Battle for Bond, that

  Kevin was a smooth operator, an attractive character, but not a particularly pleasant one, certainly compared to his brother, Desmond, who was one of the kindest people you could ever meet. If a friend was in trouble, Desmond would always be there. Kevin would just tell you to piss off, if you weren't any good to him.
  
  He's been very cruel to a number of people over the years who thought they were his friends. The overdriving thing with Kevin was that he just wanted to be a celebrity, he wanted to be famous . . . He probably had some semi-professional technical interest in making a film, but he really wanted the glamour.

  McClory continued to be involved in legal wrangles over the years. In the 1990s, he announced plans to make Warhead 2000 AD, another adaptation of the Thunderball story, which was to have been made by Sony, with Timothy Dalton in the lead role, but this was eventually scrapped.
  
  "It was Kevin's burning ambition, these [Bond] movies," Vaughn said,

  but I don't think he gave a damn who he walked over and what he did in order to get there. Kevin had a project in life and that project was Kevin McClory.

  Graham Rye

  

  Kevin McClory

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_McClory
  Second World War

  As a teenaged radio officer in the British Merchant Navy, McClory endured attacks by German U-boats on two different occasions. The first attack occurred on 20 September 1942 was while he was serving aboard The Mathilda. A U-Boat surfaced and attacked the ship with heavy machine gun fire. The crew of the ship fired back and the U-Boat retreated. The second attack occurred on 21 February 1943 when McClory was serving on the Norwegian tanker Stigstad, which was attacked by torpedo from multiple U-boats. The ship sank and McClory and the other survivors made it to a life raft. They survived in terrible conditions for two weeks and traveled more than 600 miles before being rescued off the coast of Ireland. Two seaman died on the raft and a third died soon after they were rescued. McClory suffered severe frostbite and lost the ability to speak for more than a year after the incident. When he recovered his voice he was left with a pronounced stammer. He served out the rest of the war in the British Navy.

  

  Kevin McClory (1926–2006)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565886/?ref_=nv_sr_5?ref_=nv_sr_5
  
  Filmography

  Producer (5 credits)
  
  1983 Never Say Never Again (executive producer)
  
  1976 Circasia (Short) (producer)
  
  1965 Thunderball (producer)
  
  1959 The Boy and the Bridge (producer)
  1956 Around the World in 80 Days (associate producer - uncredited)
  
  Sound department (5 credits)
  
  1953 Beat the Devil (boom operator - uncredited)
  1952 Moulin Rouge (boom operator - uncredited)
  1951 The African Queen (boom operator - uncredited)
  1950 The Mudlark (boom operator - uncredited)
  
  1948 Anna Karenina (assistant boom operator - uncredited)
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (5 credits)
  
  1983 Never Say Never Again (presenter)
  
  1957 Legend of the Lost (assistant to Henry Hathaway - uncredited)
  1956 Around the World in 80 Days (assistant to producer: foreign locations - as Kevin O'Donovan McClory)
  1952 Moulin Rouge (assistant: Mr. Huston - uncredited)
  1951 The African Queen (assistant: Mr. Huston - uncredited)
  
  Writer (3 credits)
  
  1983 Never Say Never Again (based on an original story by)
  
  1965 Thunderball (original story)
  
  1959 The Boy and the Bridge (writer)
  
  Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (2 credits)
  
  1956 Around the World in 80 Days (second unit director: foreign locations - as Kevin O'Donovan McClory)
  1956 Moby Dick (assistant director - uncredited)
  
  Director (1 credit)
  
  1959 The Boy and the Bridge
  
  Actor (1 credit)
  
  1965 Thunderball - Man Smoking at Nassau Casino (uncredited)
  
  Location management (1 credit)
  
  1955 The Cockleshell Heroes (location manager)
  
  Self (6 credits)
  
  2010 Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (Documentary) - Himself - Interviewee
  2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2003 Brits Go to Hollywood (TV Series) - Himself
  - Sean Connery (2003) ... Himself
  1996 John Huston: An t-Éireannach (Documentary) - Himself
  
  1983 Never Say Never Again: Royal Film Premiere (TV Special short) - Himself
  
  1965 Thunderball: The London Pavillion Premiere (Documentary short) - Himself[/u\
  

  
  

  
  1939: Bernie Casey is born--Wyco, West Virginia.
  (He dies 19 September 2017 at age 58--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Bernie Casey, Football Star
  Turned Actor, Poet and
  Painter, Dies at 78

  See the complete article here:
  
  [center[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/bernie-casey-dead-actor-nfl-910749[/center]

  4:38 PM PDT 9/20/2017 by Mike Barnes
  
  Bernie Casey

  His film résumé includes
  'Boxcar Bertha,' 'Never Say
  Never Again,' 'Brothers,'
  'Revenge of the Nerds' and
  'Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.'

  Actor Bernie Casey, who appeared in such films as Boxcar Bertha, Never Say Never Again and Revenge of the Nerds after a career as a standout NFL wide receiver, has died. He was 78.

  Casey, who also starred in Cleopatra Jones and several other blaxploitation movies of the 1970s, died Tuesday after a brief illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his representative told The Hollywood Reporter.
  
  In the Warner Bros. drama Brothers (1977), Casey distinguished himself by portraying a thinly veiled version of George Jackson, a member of the Black Panther Party who was killed in what officials described as an escape attempt from San Quentin in 1971. His writings had inspired oppressed people around the world, and Bob Dylan recorded a song as a tribute to Jackson in 1971.
  
  Casey also wrote, directed, starred in and produced The Dinner (1997), centering on three black men who discuss slavery, black self-loathing, homophobia, etc. while sitting around the dinner table.

  Casey played a heroic former slave and train robber in Martin Scorsese's Boxcar Bertha (1972), was CIA agent Felix Leiter (a recurring character in Bond films) in Never Say Never Again (1983) and portrayed U.N. Jefferson, the president of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity, in Revenge of the Nerds (1984) and two follow-up telefilms.

  In Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989), Casey played schoolteacher Mr. Ryan ("Who was Joan of Arc?" he asks, and Keanu Reeves' Ted guesses, "Noah's wife?"), portrayed a detective opposite Burt Reynolds in Sharky's Machine (1981) and stood out as the prisoner who protects Eddie Murphy in jail in the sequel Another 48 Hrs. (1990).
  
  And not long after he unexpectedly retired from the Los Angeles Rams, Casey portrayed Chicago Bears player J.C. Caroline in the 1971 ABC telefilm Brian's Song, the heart-wrenching tale about the friendship between Brian Piccolo (James Caan) and Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams).
  
  A true Renaissance man, Casey also was a published poet as well as a painter whose work was exhibited in galleries around the world.
  
  Bernard Casey was born on June 8, 1939, in Wyco, West Virginia. He was raised in Columbus, Ohio, and attended Bowling Green on a football scholarship (he returned to the school years later to earn a master's in fine arts).
  
  An elegant 6-foot-4 halfback and flanker, Casey led the Falcons to the national "small college" championship in 1959 and was named to the Little All-American team. He also excelled in the high hurdles for the track team and competed in the 1960 U.S. Olympic trials.
  
  The San Francisco 49ers made Casey the ninth overall pick in the NFL Draft, and he spent six seasons with the team (1961-66) as quarterback John Brodie's favorite receiver. In one game in his final year with the team, he caught 12 passes for 225 yards.
  
  Casey then spent two solid years with the Rams but shockingly retired in his athletic prime before the 1969 season, finishing his pro career with 359 catches for 5,444 yards and 40 touchdowns. Just 30, he wanted to concentrate on acting, painting and poetry.
  
  "When that sojourn is over and you're 32 or something, when most people are just beginning to understand who they are, what they can do and what life is all about, you have been considered in the world of sports a dinosaur," he once said in a piece for NFL Films. "From that point on, it's a downward spiral into the abyss of non-consideration and obscurity and a lot of other things that they never recover from. I want to think in my instance, it's the beginning. There's a lot of life left after 32."
  
  Casey made his movie debut in the sequel Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969) and then starred opposite Jim Brown, another recently retired NFL star, in ...tick... tick... tick... (1970).
  
  Casey received top billing in Hit Man (1972) as the title character, a no-nonsense guy who investigates his brother's death at the hands of mobsters, and then played Reuben Masters, Tamara Dobson's lover, in Cleopatra Jones (1973).
  
  His other blaxploitation work included Black Chariot (1971), Black Gunn (1972) and Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976), and years later, he appeared in the genre parody I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988), directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans.
  
  Casey portrayed basketball star Maurice Stokes, who spent the last 10 years of his life paralyzed, in Maurie (1973), was a cop in Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975) and played Col. Rhumbus in Spies Like Us (1985). He also appeared in The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness (1994), The Glass Shield (1994) and Once Upon a Time … When We Were Colored (1995).
  
  On television, Casey played a minor-league baseball coach who could still hit on the short-lived Steven Bochco drama Bay City Blues and was in Roots: The Next Generations and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
  
  Casey received an honorary doctorate degree from The Savannah (Georgia) College of Art and Design, where he served for years as chairman of the board and advocated for arts education.
  
  He had many fans of his paintings.
  
  "I cannot see what Bernie Casey sees," Maya Angelou said in 2003 to promote an exhibit of his work. "Casey has the heart and the art to put his insight on canvas, and I am heartened by his action. For then I can comprehend his vision and some of my own. His art makes my road less rocky, and my path less crooked."
  
  Duane Byrge contributed to this report.

  
  Bernie Casey (1939–2017)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0143378/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (81 credits)
  
  2007 Vegas Vampires - Bloodhound Bill
  2006 When I Find the Ocean - Amos Jackson
  2005 Girlfriends (TV Series) - Judge Edward Dent
  - Judging Edward (2005) ... Judge Edward Dent
  2002 On the Edge - Rex Stevens
  2001 The Last Brickmaker in America (TV Movie) - Lewis
  2001 Tomcats - Officer Hurley
  2000 Just Shoot Me! (TV Series) - Bernie Casey
  - A&E Biography: Nina Van Horn (2000) ... Bernie Casey
  2000 For Your Love (TV Series) - James, Mel and Reggie's Father
  - Father Fixture (2000) ... James, Mel and Reggie's Father
  
  1999 Batman Beyond (TV Series) - Tyrus Block
  - Once Burned (1999) ... Tyrus Block (voice)
  1999 The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (TV Movie) - Silas
  1997 The Dinner - Good Brother
  1995 Babylon 5 (TV Series) - Derek Cranston
  - Matters of Honor (1995) ... Derek Cranston (uncredited)
  - Hunter, Prey (1995) ... Derek Cranston
  1995 SeaQuest 2032 (TV Series) - Admiral Vanalden
  - Chains of Command (1995) ... Admiral Vanalden
  1995 Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored - Mr. Walter
  1994 In the Mouth of Madness - Robinson
  1994 The Glass Shield - James Locket
  1994 Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love (TV Movie) - U. N. Jefferson
  1994 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series) - Calvin Hudson / Commander Calvin Hudson
  - The Maquis: Part II (1994) ... Calvin Hudson
  - The Maquis: Part I (1994) ... Commander Calvin Hudson
  1993 Street Knight - Raymond
  1993 Time Trax (TV Series) - Ernest Cooper
  - The Contender (1993) ... Ernest Cooper
  1993 The Cemetery Club - John
  1992 Evening Shade (TV Series) - Director
  - The NFL on CBS (1992) ... Director
  1992 CBS Schoolbreak Special (TV Series) - Edwin Gaines
  - Sexual Considerations (1992) ... Edwin Gaines
  1992 Under Siege - Commander Harris
  1992 Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (TV Movie) - U.N. Jefferson
  1990 Hammer, Slammer, & Slade (TV Movie) - John Slade
  1990 Chains of Gold - Sergeant Falco
  1990 Another 48 Hrs. - Kirkland Smith
  
  1989 Hunter (TV Series) - Sgt. Del Weber
  - Investment in Death (1989) ... Sgt. Del Weber
  1989 Mother's Day (TV Movie) - Cale Sturgis
  1989 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Doc Evans
  - Three Strikes, You're Out (1989) ... Doc Evans
  1989 Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure - Mr. Ryan
  1989 Boogie Down Productions: Jack of Spades (Video short) - John Slade
  1989 L.A. Law (TV Series) - Lieutenant Jack Dolan
  - To Live and Diet in L.A. (1989) ... Lieutenant Jack Dolan
  1988 I'm Gonna Git You Sucka - John Slade
  1987 Rent-a-Cop - Lemar
  1987 Amazon Women on the Moon - Maj. Gen. Hadley
  (segment "The Unknown Soldier" [TV cut & DVD only]) (uncredited)
  1987 First Offender (TV Movie) - Charlie
  1987 Backfire - Clinton James
  1987 Steele Justice - Det. Tom Reese
  1986 Pros & Cons (TV Movie) - Lt. Bernie Rollins
  1985 Spies Like Us - Colonel Rhombus
  1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Bernie
  - Method Actor (1985) ... Bernie
  1984 Revenge of the Nerds - U.N. Jefferson
  1983-1984 Bay City Blues (TV Series) - Ozzie Peoples
  - Rocky IV-Eyes (1984) ... Ozzie Peoples
  - Play It Again, Milt (1984) ... Ozzie Peoples
  - Look Homeward, Hayward (1984) ... Ozzie Peoples
  - Going, Going, Gone (1984) ... Ozzie Peoples
  - I Never Swung with My Father (1983) ... Ozzie Peoples
  1984 The Fantastic World of D.C. Collins (TV Movie) - J.T. Collins
  1983 Never Say Never Again - Leiter
  1982 Hear No Evil (TV Movie) - Monday
  1982 Trapper John, M.D. (TV Series) - Thornie Thornberry
  - Love and Marriage (1982) ... Thornie Thornberry
  1982 A House Divided: Denmark Vessey's Rebellion (TV Movie)
  1981 Sharky's Machine - Arch
  1981 The Sophisticated Gents (TV Series) - Shurley Walker
  - Episode #1.3 (1981) ... Shurley Walker
  - Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Shurley Walker
  - Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Shurley Walker
  1980 The Martian Chronicles (TV Mini-Series) - Major Jeff Spender
  - The Martians (1980) ... Major Jeff Spender (credit only)
  - The Settlers (1980) ... Major Jeff Spender (credit only)
  - The Expeditions (1980) ... Major Jeff Spender
  
  1979 Harris and Company (TV Series) - Mike Harris
  - That's What I Owe You (1979) ... Mike Harris
  - The Loneliest Night of the Week (1979) ... Mike Harris
  - A Very Special Person (1979) ... Mike Harris
  - Choices (1979) ... Mike Harris
  1979 Roots: The Next Generations (TV Mini-Series) - Bubba Haywood
  - Part IV (1917-1921) (1979) ... Bubba Haywood
  1978 Love Is Not Enough (TV Movie) - Mike Harris
  1978 Ring of Passion (TV Movie) - Joe Louis
  1977 Ants! (TV Movie) - Vince
  1977 Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night (TV Movie) - Dave Williams
  1977 Brothers - David Thomas
  1975-1977 Police Story (TV Series) - Hamilton Ward / Duke Windsor
  - The Six Foot Stretch (1977) ... Hamilton Ward
  - Company Man (1975) ... Duke Windsor
  1977 Police Woman (TV Series) - P.J. Johnson
  - Once a Snitch (1977) ... P.J. Johnson
  1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth - Peters
  1976 Joe Forrester (TV Series) - Cleveland
  - The Answer (1976) ... Cleveland
  1976 Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde - Dr. Henry Pride
  1975 Cornbread, Earl and Me - Officer Larry Atkins
  1974 Panic on the 5:22 (TV Movie) - Wendell Weaver
  1974 The Snoop Sisters (TV Series) - Willie Bates
  - Fear Is a Free-Throw (1974) ... Willie Bates
  1973 Maurie - Maurice Stokes
  1973 Cleopatra Jones - Reuben
  1972 Black Gunn - Seth
  1972 Hit Man - Tyrone Tackett
  1972 Gargoyles (TV Movie) - The Gargoyle
  1972 The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) - Richard
  - Timelock (1972) ... Richard
  1972 Boxcar Bertha - Von Morton
  1972 Longstreet (TV Series) - Ray Eller
  - Field of Honor (1972) ... Ray Eller
  1972 Cade's County (TV Series) - Patrick
  - Slay Ride: Part 2 (1972) ... Patrick
  - Slay Ride: Part 1 (1972) ... Patrick
  1971 Brian's Song (TV Movie) - J.C. Caroline
  1971 Black Chariot
  1970 ...tick... tick... tick... - George Harley
  
  1969 Guns of the Magnificent Seven - Cassie
  
  Director (1 credit)
  
  1997 The Dinner
  
  Thanks (1 credit)
  
  2018 The Oscars (TV Special) (in memoriam)

  
  
  
  Music and Fruit (Songs in Eden)
  
  In a Dark Time of Two Moons, 1966

  

  Rhea's Ray, 1968
  
  
  
  

  
  1940: Nancy Sinatra is born--Jersey City, New Jersey.
  
  1994: EON introduces Pierce Brosnan as their new Bond in the Drawing Room of London's Regent Hotel.

  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale films Bond resigning.
  
  2018: Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison (Eunice Gayson) dies at age 90--London, England.
  (Born 17 March 1928--Croydon, South London, England.)

  

  Eunice Gayson obituary

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/jun/10/eunice-gayson-obituary
  Stage and screen actor who found fame playing Sylvia Trench, the
  first Bond girl, opposite Sean Connery
  Toby Hadoke | Sun 10 Jun 2018 13.04 EDT | Last modified on Mon 11 Jun 2018 17.00 EDT

  
  Eunice Gayson as Sylvia Trench in Dr No, 1962.
  Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/UA/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

  Eunice Gayson, who has died aged 90, was an actor with a film, television and theatre career that spanned several decades. Despite this, she will be forever associated with her unique place in cinema history as the first Bond girl.
  
  Exactly eight minutes into the running of the 1962 film Dr No, Sean Connery utters the words “Bond, James Bond” for the first time, in answer to a question from Gayson, whose character has introduced herself at the card table as “Trench, Sylvia Trench”. With typical efficiency, Bond adds Miss Trench to his list of conquests shortly after their casino encounter and he later finds her hitting golf balls in his apartment dressed only in his shirt. Their playful exchange is momentarily interrupted when he is summoned to Jamaica on a mission, a clear demonstration of Bond’s constant juggling of business and pleasure.
  
  Unlike the other women on the Bond girl list, Gayson played the same character in more than one of the extremely successful franchise’s films. Trench turns up again in From Russia With Love (1963), when her afternoon punting with 007 has to be curtailed when he gets a call from headquarters. The intention was that Miss Trench would be a regular presence in the films, part of a running joke involving their assignations being cut short when espionage obligations arose at an inopportune moment. Guy Hamilton, the director of the next film in the series – Goldfinger (1964) – had other ideas however, and kiboshed the plan.

  
  Eunice Gayson and Sean Connery in Dr No, 1962.
  Photograph: Danjaq/Eon/UA/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock

  
  No matter, for by then Gayson’s claim to cinematic immortality was unimpeachable, even though her voice was not heard in either film: she was dubbed by the actor Nikki van der Zyl. No criticism of Gayson should be inferred – Van der Zyl dubbed the majority of female voices in Dr No and many others in future Bond films. Gayson’s perfectly acceptable vocal performance, playful and seductive, can still be heard on the film’s original trailer. She might have had a different slice of Bond movie immortality had the original plan – that she play the recurring role of Miss Moneypenny – gone ahead. As it was, Lois Maxwell took the role (and played it for 23 years). Nevertheless Trench was an important part – Gayson received higher billing than Maxwell in both films – and the actor helped a nervous Connery during that crucial first scene.

  She was born in Streatham, south London, the elder of twin daughters and the middle of three children of John Sargaison, a civil servant, and his wife, Maria (nee Gammon). The family moved to Purley, Surrey, then Glasgow and finally Edinburgh, where Eunice enrolled at the Edinburgh Academy. A gifted soprano, she trained as an opera singer and in 1946, aged 18, made her professional debut playing a small role in Ladies Without at the Garrick theatre in London.
  
  That Christmas, she was Princess Luv-Lee in Aladdin (Grand theatre, Derby), with the Stage describing her as a “vivacious” performer “who sings, dances and acts extremely well”. By the end of the decade she was appearing regularly on television – in music shows, revues and television pantomimes. In 1954 she was selected to be a panellist on Guess My Story, a programme in the vein of What’s My Line but featuring disguised celebrities.
  
  Her film break had come in 1948, in My Brother Jonathan, and her other work on the big screen included Melody in the Dark (1949), Dance Little Lady (1954), Basil Dearden’s Out of the Clouds (1955) and Hammer’s The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958), in which she played the female lead.

  When she was cast in Dr No she was having success on stage playing the Baroness in the original London production (at the Palace theatre, 1962) of The Sound of Music which ran for more than 2,000 performances (she was one of its longest running cast members).

  Her other theatre work included Over the Moon (Piccadilly theatre, 1953) and Uproar in the House (Whitehall theatre, 1968, taking over from Joan Sims), Victor Spinetti’s production of Duty Free (on tour 1976-77), The Grass is Greener (with Richard Todd, 1971, in Stratford-upon-Avon for the Royal Shakespeare Company), and An Ideal Husband and Kismet (both 1980, at the Connaught theatre, Worthing). One final run in the West End as the grandmother in Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods (Phoenix theatre, 1990-91) was followed by pantomime in the Isle of Man in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Gaiety theatre, 1992).

  Her 1953 marriage to the writer Leigh Vance was seen by three million American viewers when it was part of the television show Bride and Groom (“sponsored by Betty Crocker’s Piecrust Mix”). The marriage was dissolved six years later and in 1968 she married the actor Brian Jackson. That marriage also ended in divorce but produced a daughter, Kate, who survives her. Kate appeared in the casino scene in the Pierce Brosnan Bond film GoldenEye (1995).

  • Eunice Gayson (Eunice Elizabeth Sargaison), actor, born 17 March 1928; died 8 June 2018
  • This article was amended on 11 June 2018, to add further details of Eunice Gayson’s early life

  

  Eunice Gayson (1928–2018) [/b]

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0311013/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actress (54 credits)
  
  1972 The Adventurer (TV Series) - Countess Marie
  - Thrust and Counter Thrust (1972) ... Countess Marie
  1970 Turkey Time (TV Movie) - Louise Stoatt
  1970 Albert and Victoria (TV Series) - Madame Aix
  - Lovers' Quarrel (1970) ... Madame Aix
  - The Gothic Church (1970) ... Madame Aix
  
  1968 The World of Beachcomber (TV Series)
  - Episode #1.5 (1968)
  1967 The Reluctant Romeo (TV Series) - Gina Darletti
  - What's in a Name (1967) ... Gina Darletti
  1967 The Further Adventures of Lucky Jim (TV Series)
  - Jim Cleans Up (1967)
  1967 The Dick Emery Show (TV Series)
  - Episode #6.3 (1967)
  1967 Before the Fringe (TV Series)
  - Episode #1.3 (1967)
  - Episode #1.2 (1967)
  1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - Lucille Banks
  - Quick-Quick Slow Death (1966) ... Lucille Banks
  1963-1965 The Saint (TV Series) - Christine Graner / Nora Prescott
  - The Saint Bids Diamonds (1965) ... Christine Graner
  - The Invisible Millionaire (1963) ... Nora Prescott
  1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Louise Bancroft
  - A Man to Be Trusted (1964) ... Louise Bancroft
  1963 From Russia with Love - Sylvia Trench
  1962 Dr. No -Sylvia Trench
  1961 Stryker of the Yard (TV Series)
  - The Case of the Bogus Count (1961)
  
  1959 Theatre Night (TV Series) - Liz Pleydell
  - Let Them Eat Cake (1959) ... Liz Pleydell
  1958 Adventures of the Sea Hawk (TV Series) - Carmelita
  - Episode #1.25 (1958) ... Carmelita
  1958 The Revenge of Frankenstein - Margaret
  1958 Duty Bound (TV Series) - Arlene van Hoyk
  - Cows Don't Fly (1958) ... Arlene van Hoyk
  1958 Educated Evans (TV Series) - Lady Fanny Kozatski
  - Musical Tip (1958) ... Lady Fanny Kozatski
  1958 The New Adventures of Charlie Chan (TV Series) - Yasmin Rashied
  - The Hand of Hera Dass (1958) ... Yasmin Rashied
  1958 White Hunter (TV Series) - Thelma Thomas
  - This Hungry Hell (1958) ... Thelma Thomas
  1957 The New Adventures of Martin Kane (TV Series) - June Hartley
  - The Heiress Story (1957) ... June Hartley
  1952-1957 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series)
  Madame Caprice / Chris Cummings / Louka
  - What the Doctor Ordered (1957) ... Madame Caprice
  - The Whiteoak Chronicles #2: Whiteoak Heritage (1955) ... Chris Cummings
  - Arms and the Man (1952) ... Louka
  1957 Light Fingers - Rose Levenham
  1957 The Ship Was Loaded - Jane Godfrey
  1956 Zarak - Cathy Ingram
  1956 The Last Man to Hang - The Story: Elizabeth
  1955 Count of Twelve - Valerie Dyson (episode "Blind Man's Bluff")
  1954-1955 The Vise (TV Series) - Angelia Clifton / Valerie Dyson / Julia
  - The Bargain (1955) ... Angelia Clifton
  - Blind Man's Bluff (1955) ... Valerie Dyson
  - Death Pays No Dividends (1954) ... Julia
  1954-1955 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Nora Kenealy / Angela / Dolly / ...
  - The Thoroughbred (1955) ... Nora Kenealy
  - The Mix-Up (1954) ... Angela
  - One Way Ticket (1954) ... Dolly
  - The Apples (1954) ... Micky
  - Johnny Blue (1954) ... Milly
  1955 Out of the Clouds - Penny Henson
  1954 One Just Man
  1954 Dance Little Lady - Adele
  1953 Both Sides of the Law - Janet (uncredited)
  1952 Miss Robin Hood - Pam
  1952 Down Among the Z Men - Officer's Wife (uncredited)
  1952 Goonreel (TV Movie) - Various
  1952 Nine Till Six (TV Movie) - Beatrice
  1951 La belle Hélène (TV Movie) - Leoena
  1951 To Have and to Hold - Peggy
  1950 Dance Hall - Mona
  1950 Mother of Men (TV Movie) - Jennie
  1950 Treasures in Heaven (TV Movie) - Carol Benson
  1950 Here Come the Boys (TV Series)
  - Episode #2.1 (1950)
  
  1949 Dick Whittington (TV Movie) - Alice
  1949 The Director (TV Movie) - Katie
  1949 Pink String and Sealing Wax (TV Movie) - Emily Strachan
  1949 Melody in the Dark - Pat Evans
  1949 The Huggetts Abroad - Peggy (uncredited)
  1948 Lady Luck (TV Movie) - Faith
  1948 It Happened in Soho - Julie
  1948 Halesapoppin! (TV Movie)
  1948 My Brother Jonathan - Young Girl
  1948 Between Ourselves (TV Movie)

  Trivia (7)

  Appeared on stage in the musical production of "Into the Woods" in 1990.

  Her daughter Kate Gayson later appeared as an extra in the '007' film GoldenEye (1995).

  Initially cast as "Miss Moneypenny" (the role ended up going to Lois Maxwell) at the beginning of the James Bond film series, she instead was given the part of seductive "Sylvia Trench" which was to be a recurring role as well. She has the distinction of appearing in the opening casino scene with Sean Connery in Dr. No (1962), in which she says, "I admire your luck, Mr..." and Connery says, "Bond. James Bond". Her part was cut after the second movie, From Russia with Love (1963).

  Originally trained as an opera singer, before entering films.

  She was dubbed by Nikki Van der Zyl in Dr. No (1962).

  Appeared on stage in London for many years playing The Baroness in "The Sound of Music" at the Palace Theatre.

  For a long time, she was the only non-'MI6' actress to play the same character in more than one James Bond film until Léa Seydoux played the same character in Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2020).

  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  June 2020 Posts: 13,785

  June 9th
  
  1917: The Roll of Honour in The Illustrated London News recognizes Valentine Fleming.

  

  Valentine Fleming's Eulogy by Winston Churchill Known at: May 1917

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/2483530

  AN APPRECIATION
  ‘W. S. C.’ writes of the death of Major Valentine Fleming, M.P., who,
  as announced in The Times on Wednesday, was killed in action:-

  This news will cause sorrow in Oxfordshire and in the House of Commons and wherever the member of the Henley Division was well known. Valentine Fleming was one of those younger Conservatives who easily and naturally combine loyalty to party ties with a broad liberal outlook upon affairs and a total absence of class prejudice.
  
  He was most earnest and sincere in his desire to make things better for the great body of the people, and had cleared his mind of all particularist tendencies. He was a man of thoughtful and tolerant opinions, which were not the less strongly or clearly held because they were not loudly or frequently asserted.
  
  He shared the hopes to which so many of his generation respond of a better, fairer, more efficient public life and Parliamentary system arising out of these trials. But events have pursued a different course.
  
  As a Yeomanry officer he always took the greatest pains to fit himself for military duties. There was scarcely an instructional course open before the war to the Territorial Forces of which he had not availed himself, and on mobilization there were few more competent civilian soldiers of his rank. The Oxfordshire Hussars were the first or almost the first Yeomanry regiment to come under the fire of the enemy, and in the first battle of Ypres acquitted themselves with credit.
  
  He had been nearly three years in France, as squadron leader or second in command, and had been twice mentioned in dispatches, before the shell which ended his life found him. From the beginning his letters showed the deep emotions which the devastation and carnage of the struggle aroused in his breast.
  
  But the strength and buoyancy of his nature were proofs against the sombre realizations of his mind. He never for a moment flagged or wearied or lost his spirits. Alert, methodical, resolute, untiring he did his work, whether perilous or dull, without the slightest sign of strain or stress to the end. ‘We all of us,’ writes a brother officer, ‘were devoted to him.
  
  The loss to the regiment is indescribable. He was, as you know, absolutely our best officer, utterly fearless, full of resource, and perfectly magnificent with his men.’ His passion in sport was deer stalking in his much-loved native Scotland. He rode well and sometimes brilliantly to hounds, and was always a gay and excellent companion.
  
  He had everything in the world to make him happy; a delightful home life, active interesting expanding business occupations, contented disposition, a lovable and charming personality. He had more. He had that foundation of spontaneous and almost unconscious self-suppression in the discharge of what he conceived to be his duty without which happiness, however full, is precarious and imperfect. That these qualities are not singular in this generation does not lessen the loss of those in whom they shine.
  
  As the war lengthens and intensifies and the extending lists appear, it seems as if one watched at night a well-loved city whose lights, which burn so bright, which burn so true, are extinguished in the distance in the darkness one by one.

  Published in The Times, United Kingdom

  
  

  
  1963: Director Terence Young hosts a party with guest of honor Pedro Armendáriz.
  1967: The NBC-TV special Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond airs.

  
  
  http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/Welcome_to_Japan,_Mr._Bond
  
  

  
  1972: Tom Mankiewicz submits his first draft of the Live and Let Die screenplay.
  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies films action in the parking garage.
  
  2009: Media speculation on BOND 23 locations runs to Afghanistan and drug capers.
  
  2015: A Spectre TV spot during Game 3 of the NBA finals (Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors), reveals new footage.

  

  2016: An event celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Duke of Edinburgh awards, Buckinghamshire.
  Attending includes the Royals, Sir Roger Moore, Dame Judi Dench, Michael G. Wilson.

  

  
  
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  June 2020 edited June 2020 Posts: 13,785

  June 10th
  
  1906: Ivar Felix Charles Bryce is born--London, England.
  (He dies 27 April 1985 at age 78--Birdbrook, Braintree District, Essex, England.)

  

  Ivar Bryce

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKbryceI.htm

  Ivar Bryce was born in 1906. His father had made a fortune trading guano, the phosphate-rich deposit of fish-eating seabirds which had been widely used as a natural fertilizer. His mother was a painter and a published author of detective novels.
  
  In 1917 Bryce met Ian Fleming and his brothers on a beach in Cornwall: "The fortress builders generously invited me to join them, and I discovered that their names were Peter, Ian, Richard and Michael, in that order. The leaders were Ian and Peter, and I gladly carried out their exact and exacting orders. They were natural leaders of men, both of them, as later history was to prove, and it speaks well for them all that there was room for both Peter and Ian in the platoon."
  
  Bryce was sent to Eton College where he resumed his friendship with Fleming. Bryce purchased a Douglas motorbike and used this vehicle for trips around Windsor. He also took Fleming on the bike to visit the British Empire Exhibition in London. They also published a magazine, The Wyvern, together. Fleming used mother's contacts to persuade Augustus John and Edwin Lutyens, to contribute drawings. The magazine also published a poem by Vita Sackville-West. The editors showed their right-wing opinions by publishing an article in praise of the British Fascisti Party. It argued that its "primary intention is to counteract the present and every-growning trend towards revolution... it is of the utmost importance that centres should be started in the universities and in our public schools".

  During the Second World War Bryce worked for William Stephenson, the head of British Security Coordination (BSC), a unit that was based in New York City. According to Thomas E. Mahl, the author of Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States, 1939-44 (1998): "Bryce worked in the Latin American affairs section of the BSC, which was run by Dickie Coit (known in the office as Coitis Interruptus). Because there was little evidence of the German plot to take over Latin America, Ivar found it difficult to excite Americans about the threat."
  
  Nicholas J. Cull, the author of Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign Against American Neutrality (1996), has argued: "During the summer of 1941, he (Bryce) became eager to awaken the United States to the Nazi threat in South America." It was especially important for the British Security Coordination to undermine the propaganda of the American First Committee that had over a million paid-up members. Bryce recalls in his autobiography, You Only Live Once (1975): "Sketching out trial maps of the possible changes, on my blotter, I came up with one showing the probable reallocation of territories that would appeal to Berlin. It was very convincing: the more I studied it the more sense it made... were a genuine German map of this kind to be discovered and publicised among... the American Firsters, what a commotion would be caused."
  
  William Stephenson approved the idea and the project was handed over to Station M, the phony document factory in Toronto run by Eric Maschwitz, of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). It took them only 48 hours to produce "a map, slightly travel-stained with use, but on which the Reich's chief map makers... would be prepared to swear was made by them." Stephenson now arranged for the FBI to find the map during a raid on a German safe-house on the south coast of Cuba. J. Edgar Hoover handed the map over to William Donovan. His executive assistant, James R. Murphy, delivered the map to President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The historian, Thomas E. Mahl argues that "as a result of this document Congress dismantled the last of the neutrality legislation."

  
  Ivar Bryce

  
  Nicholas J. Cull has argued that Roosevelt should not have realised it was a forgery. He points out that Adolf A. Berle, the Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American Affairs, had already warned Cordell Hull, the Secretary of State that "British intelligence has been very active in making things appear dangerous in South America. We have to be a little on our guard against false scares."
  
  Bryce wrote to Walter Lippmann in March 1942. He sent him a book by Hugo Artuco Fernandez that had been written at the behest of British intelligence. "I am sending you a copy of my friend Artuco's book, which I think will interest you... Some of it sounds rather alarming and exaggerated but it is much more accurate than most books on South America.... If you felt at all inclined to write anything about the dangers to South America, I could give you any number of facts which have never been published, but which my friends here would like to see judiciously made public at this point."

  Bryce was based in Jamaica (his wife Sheila, owned Bellevue, one of the most important houses on the island), during the Second World War, where he ran dangerous missions into Latin America. Ian Fleming, who was personal assistant to Admiral John Godfrey, the director of naval intelligence, visited Bryce in 1941. Fleming told him that: "When we have won this blasted war, I am going to live in Jamaica. Just live in Jamaica and lap it up, and swim in the sea and write books."
  
  In 1945 Bryce helped Fleming find a house and twelve acres of land just outside of Oracabessa. It included a strip of white sand on a lovely part of the coast. Fleming decided to call the house, Goldeneye, after his wartime project in Spain, Operation Goldeneye. Their former boss, William Stephenson, also had a house on the island overlooking Montego Bay. Stephenson had set up the British-American-Canadian-Corporation (later called the World Commerce Corporation), a secret service front company which specialized in trading goods with developing countries. William Torbitt has claimed that it was "originally designed to fill the void left by the break-up of the big German cartels which Stephenson himself had done much to destroy."

  In 1950 Bryce married Josephine Hartford. Her grandfather, George Huntington Hartford, was the founder of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. Josephine was the daughter of Princess Guido Pignatelli and Edward V. Hartford, who was an inventor and president of the Hartford Shock Absorber Company. A former concert pianist she was one of the leading racehorse owners in the United States.

  Bryce joined with Ernest Cuneo and a group of investors, including Ian Fleming, to gain control of the North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA). Andrew Lycett has pointed out: "With the arrival of television, its star had begun to wane. Advised by Ernie Cuneo, who told him it was a sure way to meet anyone he wanted, Ivar stepped in and bought control. He appointed the shrewd Cuneo to oversee the American end of things... and Fleming was brought on board to offer a professional newspaperman's advice." Fleming was appointed European vice-president, with a salary of £1,500 a year. He persuaded James Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, that The Sunday Times should work closely with NANA. He also organized a deal with The Daily Express, owned by Lord Beaverbrook.
  
  Bryce became a film producer and helped to finance The Boy and the Bridge (1959). The film lost money but Bryce decided he wanted to work with its director, Kevin McClory, again and it was suggested that they created a company, Xanadu Films. Josephine Hartford, Ernest Cuneo and Ian Fleming became involved in the project. It was agreed that they would make a movie featuring Fleming's character, James Bond.
  
  The first draft of the script was written by Cuneo. It was called Thunderball and it was sent to Fleming on 28th May. Fleming described it as "first class" with "just the right degree of fantasy". However, he suggested that it was unwise to target the Russians as villains because he thought it possible that the Cold War could be finished by the time the film had been completed. He suggested that Bond should confront SPECTRE, an acronym for the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Revolution and Espionage. Fleming eventually expanded his observations into a 67-page film treatment. Kevin McClory now employed Jack Whittingham to write a script based on Fleming's ideas.
  
  The Boy and the Bridge was a flop at the box-office and Bryce, on the recommendation of Ernest Cuneo, decided to pull-out of the James Bond film project. McClory refused to accept this decision and on 15th February, 1960, he submitted another version of the Thunderball script by Whittingham. Fleming read the script and incorporated some of the Whittingham's ideas, for example, the airborne hijack of the bomb, into the latest Bond book he was writing. When it was published in 1961, McClory claimed that he discovered eighteen instances where Fleming had drawn on the script to "build up the plot".
  
  President John F. Kennedy was a fan of Fleming's books. In March 1961, Hugh Sidey, published an article in Life Magazine, on President Kennedy's top ten favourite books. It was a list designed to show that Kennedy was both well-read and in tune with popular taste. It included Fleming's From Russia With Love. Up until this time, Fleming's books had not sold well in the United States, but with Kennedy's endorsement, his publishers decided to mount a major advertising campaign to promote his books. By the end of the year Fleming had become the largest-selling thriller writer in the United States.
  
  This publicity resulted in Fleming signed a film deal with the producers, Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, in June 1961. Dr No, starring Sean Connery, opened in the autumn of 1962 and was an immediate box-office success. As soon as it was released Kennedy demanded a showing in his private cinema in the White House.
  
  Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham became angry at the success of the James Bond film and believed that Bryce, Ian Fleming and Ernest Cuneo had cheated them out of making a profit out of their proposed Thunderball film. The case appeared before the High Court on 20th November 1963. Three days into the case, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. McClory's solicitor, Peter Carter-Ruck, later recalled: "The hearing was unexpectedly and somewhat dramatically adjourned after leading counsel on both sides had seen the judge in his private rooms." Bryce agreed to pay the costs, and undisclosed damages. McClory was awarded all literary and film rights in the screenplay and Fleming was forced to acknowledge that his novel was "based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and the author."
  
  Fleming encouraged Bryce to write his memoirs and gave him some advice on how to deal with the process. "You will be constantly depressed by the progress of the opus and feel it is all nonsense and that nobody will be interested. Those are the moments when you must all the more obstinately stick to your schedule and do your daily stint... Never mind about the brilliant phrase or the golden word, once the typescript is there you can fiddle, correct and embellish as much as you please. So don't be depressed if the first draft seems a bit raw, all first drafts do. Try and remember the weather and smells and sensations and pile in every kind of contemporary detail. Don't let anyone see the manuscript until you are very well on with it and above all don't allow anything to interfere with your routine. Don't worry about what you put in, it can always be cut out on re-reading; it's the total recall that matters." Bryce's autobiography, You Only Live Once, was published in 1975.

  Ivar Bryce died in 1985.

  
  Trivia

  His wife Jo had a mansion on the New York / Vermont border which is the setting for two of Ian Fleming's James Bond stories, "For Your Eyes Only" and "The Spy Who Loved Me".

  The Diamonds Are Forever James Bond novel is co-dedicated to Ivar Bryce (as "i.f.c.b") along with two other friends of Ian Fleming.

  After Ian Fleming visited Jamaica in 1944 and decided he wanted to live there, Bryce home-hunted the island to find him a residence and discovered "Goldeneye" for him.

  Ian Fleming named his James Bond character's CIA agent friend after Ivar Bryce's middle name, Felix. His surname was named after another of Fleming's friends, Tommy Leiter.

  Is played by actor Patrick Ryecart in Goldeneye (1989).

  Was involved in the early stages of the development of the James Bond movie Thunderball (1965).

  He was married to A&P Supermarket heir Huntington Hartford's sister, Josephine Hartford. Huntington Hartford was the original owner and developer of Paradise Island in the Bahamas.

  Bryce and Fleming leave court after settling with McClory.
  
  

  
  1937: Luciana Paluzzi is born--Rome, Lazio, Italy.
  
  1972: Comic strip Trouble Spot ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 28 December 1971. 1810–1951) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.popoptiq.com/trouble-spot/
  
  
  
  http://venusianfrogbroth.blogspot.com/2016/07/trouble-spot-by-lawrence-and-horak.html
  
  
  http://parttimefanboy.com/?p=667
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_ts_review.php3
  
  
  https://books.apple.com/ec/book/james-bond-and-trouble-spot/id1108333542?l=en

  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1979 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3?s=comics&id=02181

  Dödligt Budskap (Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)
  

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

  Dödligt Budskap (Trouble Spot)
  

  
  Danish 1974 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no27-1974/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 27: “Trouble Spot” (1974)
  "Dræbende budskab"
  
  

  
  

  
  1983: EON releases Octopussy in the US.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies completes filming scenes with Paris Carver.
  
  2011: Orion re-releases the fourteen John Gardner Bond novels in the UK.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #5.

  

  Comic Book Preview – James Bond #5
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.flickeringmyth.com/2020/06/comic-book-preview-james-bond-5/

  June 10, 2020 by Gary Collinson
  
  Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #5 this coming Wednesday; check out a preview of the issue here…

  Fakes are everywhere. 007 has no clue who to trust. His training and intuition are all that stand between the shadows and the light.
  
  By VITA AYALA (Morbius, Gamora), DANNY LORE (Queen Of Bad Dreams) and ERICA D’URSO (Captain Marvel).

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  June 11th
  
  1959: An article in The Daily Express proposes a Bond film production headed by Kevin McClory favors Trevor Howard as OO7. And that Fleming prefers Peter Finch.

  Trevor Howard

  

  Peter Finch

  

  Some support.

  
  https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25431/lot/26/
  

  
  1963: From Russia With Love films the gypsy camp action.
  1964: 鐵金剛勇破 間諜網 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò jiàndié wǎng, or Iron King Spynet) released in Hong Kong.

  

  
  2009: Announcements say BOND 23 writers include Peter Morgan working with Neal Purvis, Robert Wade.
  
  2018: Anthony Horowitz promotes his Bond novel Forever and a Day at Waterstones Edinburgh.

  Event schedule for Forever and a Day with author Anthony Horowitz:
  https://jamesbond007.se/eng/event/forever_and_a_day_signing_event_schedule
  
  • Waterstones Glasgow Lunchtime signing (11 June)
  • Waterstones Edinburgh (11 June)
  • Waterstones Manchester (12 June)
  • Waterstones Reading (13 June)
  • Waterstones Brighton (14 June)
  • Chiswick Book Festival (15 September)
  • Appledore Literary Festival (22 September)
  • Henley Literary Festival (3 October)
  • Cheltenham Literature Festival (6 October)
  

  
  
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  The forerunner to the Pale King? The mystery deepens
  
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  June 12th
  
  1914: William Lundigan is born--Syracuse, New York.
  (He dies 20 December 1975--Duarte, California.)

  

  William Lundigan,Actor,Dead; Made
  125 Films Over 38 Years

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1975/12/22/archives/william-lundigan-actor-dead-made-125-films-over-38-years.html

  
  December 22, 1975, Page 31
  
  William Lundigan, who appeared in more than 125 films during his 38‐year career in Hollywood, died yesterday after a long illness in the City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, a suburb of Los Angeles. He was 61 years old and lived in West Los Angeles.
  
  Despite his active career in Hollywood, in which he appeared in an average a more than three films a year, including a handful of starring roles, critical acclaim largely eluded the lean, sandy‐haired, blue‐eyed actor.
  
  A Critic's Description
  A critic for The New York Times wrote 25 years ago, “He is more suggestive of a prep school football “coach abruptly plunked down in the middle of the Rose Bowl, in the pink, but dot quite seasoned to the shouting.”
  
  In the 1940's and 50's, Mr. Lundigan played the male counterpart to the‐girl‐nextdoor, a role that, brought stardom to such actresses as Susan Haywood, Dorothy McGuire, Jane Greer and Jeanne Crain, all of whom he appeared with.
  
  In 1951, after he appeared opposite Miss Haywood in “I'd Climb the Highest Mountain,” the story of a Methodist circuit rider in the hills of Georgia, Mr. Lundigan described his first years in Hollywood.
  
  After he signed a contract with Universal Pictures in 1937, “nothing much happened,” he said in an interview.
  
  “I was at Warners and Metro for two years each in pictures like ‘Dodge City,’ The Fighting Sixty‐ninth’ and ‘The Old Maid.’
  
  “I was always turning, up as Olivia de Havilland's weak brother. Well, I got in a rut—that old bugaboo, type‐casting —and made one quickie after another.”
  
  Mr. Lundigan was born in Syracuse, where he worked as a salesman in his father's shoe store. The elder Mr. Lundigan also owned the building that housed the local radio station, WFBL, and the actor‐to‐be often filled in as an announcer between stints as a pre‐law student at Syracuse University.
  
  After 13 years as an announcer, Mr. Lundigan was heard by a visiting film man, who was impressed by his. crisp, resonant bass voice. He was sent to a movie studio in Astoria, Queens, for a screen test and soon he was in Hollywood.
  
  “In, but not inside,” he was to recall years later.
  
  After making “Salute to the Marines,” in 1942, he was drafted into the Marines and served two and one‐half years, mainly with the First Division in the**
  
  Pacific. With Hedy Lamarr
  
  After the war, the, actor tried freelancing, with little success. The one exception was 11 supporting role in “Dishonored Lady,” with Hedy Lamarr and his good friend, Dennis O'Keefe, with whom he often went duck hunting.
  
  Two years later. Mr. Lundigan was cast at the Elia Kazan film “Pinky,” starring Jeanne Crain. Other films include “The Man Who Talked Too Much,” “The Case of the Black Parrott,” “Sunday Punch,” “The Fabulous Dorseys” and “Mother Didn't Tell Me.”

  Mr. Lundigan was later host for the television series “Climax” and “Shower of the Stars.”

  He leaves his wife, the former Rena Morgan; a daughter, Anastacia, and two brothers, Robert and John.

  

  William Lundigan (1914–1975)

  Actor | Soundtrack
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0526485/
  

  
  
  
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztsXWp0nj2c
  
  

  
  1927: Yaroslav Horak is born--Harbin, Manchuria.
  
  1958: Ian Fleming writes Naomi Burton regarding his pursuit of a Bond television opportunity.

  

  Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.
  Chapter 11 - Emotional Turmoil

  On 12 June he wrote to Naomi Burton telling her he was “on the edge
  of a vast television deal” which would keep him occupied for the next
  eighteen months. He asked her to tell her colleague Jo Stewart that he
  would be out of the television market for the whole of that period. He
  subsequently informed Stewart that because of his commitment to CBS,
  he could not proceed with the deal she was negotiating over Dr No, since,
  for the time being at least, he needed to retain al his television rights.
  
  At the end of June he few to New York to finalize arrangements with
  CBS. He was clutching a proposal for thirteen episodes (one of which
  centered on the Monte Carlo casino), together with some suggestions about
  how James Bond should be played. He counselled Hubell Robinson against
  introducing “too much stage Englishness. There should, I think, be no
  monocles, moustaches, bowler hats, bobbies or other ‘Limey’ gimmicks.
  There should be no blatant English slang, a minimum of public-school
  ties and accents, and subsidiary characters should generally speak with a
  Scots or Irish accent. The Secret Service should be presented as a tough,
  modern organization . . . “ and Bond as a “blunt instrument wielded by a
  Government Department”. Ian’s memo for Robinson was interesting for
  its general comments about how to communicate Bond to an increasingly
  astute and well-educated audience. He said that in his recent discussions
  about strip cartoons, he had persuaded the Daily Express that “the action
  can be speeded up far more than its usual in this ‘art’ form. But, in
  this speeding up of the action and the leaving of much to the reader’s
  imagination, I suggested that the artist should linger over the physical details
  and perhaps devote as much as four boxes to the details of, for instance,
  a particular gun.” This mannered pictorial style reflected what Ian was
  trying to do in hiss books. Indeed, in an interesting commentary on his
  style, he told Hubell Robinson, “It is the gimmicks in my books, rather
  than the more or less straightforward plots, that stay in people’s minds.”

  1958: Ian Fleming writes Bond television series outlines for CBS, later used for short stories collected in For Your Eyes Only.

  
  FLEMING, Ian. For Your Eyes Only. London: Jonathan Cape, [1960].
  https://www.davidbrassrarebooks.com/pages/books/04319/ian-fleming/james-bond/?soldItem=true

  Gilbert A8a (1.1).
  
  For Your Eyes Only. "Following the success of the 1954 American television adaptation of Casino Royale for the drama series Climax!, CBS approached Ian Fleming again in 1958 regarding a proposed television show based on the James Bond character, wanting the author to write thirty-two episodes over a two-year period. Henry Chancellor, in his book, James Bond: The Man and His World states that a deal was negotiated for thirteen episodes, and that Fleming provided a compilation of seven new stories, plus recycled episodes from his already published novels at that time. A letter in the Jonathan Cape archive concerning the project states: 'what I wish to sell is the television rights in the name and character of James Bond, together with ten specimen episodes and some editorial notes. These I have supplied and are with him [producer Maurice Winnick]' (TLS, to Wren Howard, 13th May 1959/Cape Archive MS2446). Fleming further states that he did not wish to be contracted to 'writing episodes or otherwise slaving', and the proposed shows never went into production. Later that year, and seemingly with his plots running dry, Fleming gathered his outlines and developed them into a collection of short stories." (Gilbert).
  
  For Your Eyes Only is a collection of short stories by the British author Ian Fleming, featuring the fictional British Secret Service agent Commander James Bond. Fleming's eighth novel to feature his British Secret Service agent James Bond. Published by Jonathan Cape on 11th April 1960 it marked a change of format for Fleming, who had previously written James Bond stories only as full-length novels. The five short stories were From a View to a Kill; For Your Eyes Only; Quantum of Solace; Risico; and The Hildebrand Rarity.

  
  1967: London premiere of You Only Live Twice.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1972: Bond comic strip Isle of Condors begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 21 October 1972. 1952–2065) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/ioc.php3?s=comics&id=01483

  

  
  http://www.adventuresinpoortaste.com/2012/11/09/5-reasons-why-james-bond-rules-the-james-bond-omnibus-volume-004-review/
  
  
  
  
  https://www.popoptiq.com/isle-of-condors/
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1974 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1974.php3?s=comics&id=01800

  Kondorernas ö (Isle of Condors)
  

  
  Danish 1974 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-28-1974/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 28: “Isle of Condors” (1974)
  "Kondorernes ø"
  
  

  
  1985: Premiere of A View to a Kill at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  1989: MCA Records releases "If You Asked Me To" sung by Patti LaBelle.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  June 13th
  
  1940: During an air raid, Lieutenant (Sp) Ian Fleming RNVR on an RAF plane lands at a deserted airfield near Chateaudun, France, between Orleans and Le Man.

  

  Ian Fleming and Operation Golden Eye: Keeping Spain out of World War II, Mark Simmons, 2018.

  On 13 June 1940 Commander Ian Fleming of the Royal Navy
  Volunteer Reserve was flown to Le Bourget airfield, near Paris in
  France. It was not the first time he had gone there in recent weeks.
  France was lurching toward defeat and Paris was expected to fall
  soon. The Admiralty in London and Winston Churchill were
  desperate to know what would happen to the powerful French
  fleet. Contact had been lost with its commander Admiral Francois
  Darlan who Churchill described at the time as becoming ‘ … very
  important. My contacts with him had become few and formal.’
  
  Admiral John H. Godfrey, Director of Naval Intelligence,
  wanted to re-establish contact in order to give the First Sea Lord
  and the PM the best advice. He wanted to go himself but that was
  impossible. So he sent his personal assistant Ian Fleming.
  
  Fleming wrote later that it was his suggestion that he, wit a
  wireless operator, should go to France to find Darlan and stay with
  him: ‘I cannot imagine what made me suggest this, expect perhaps
  my usual desire to escape from Room 39 and get some fresh air.’
  Indeed Godfrey was to write about Fleming: ‘He had plenty of ideas
  and was anxious to carry them out but was not interested in and
  would prefer to ignore, the extent of the logistics background
  inseparable to all projects.
  
  In June 1940 Ian Fleming had been in Naval Intelligence less
  than a year. He was thirty-two and a colleague at NI described him
  as ‘ … tall and dark, elegant in his uniform and elastic-sided sea
  boots, with the worried down-the-nose look, and the heavy loping
  gait.

  
  1967: General release of You Only Live Twice in the US and the UK.

  

  
  1985: General release of A View to a Kill in the UK.

  

  1989: Licence to Kill premieres at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale films the Miami airport tanker chase (at Dunsfold Aerodrome, Cranleigh, Surrey, England).
  
  2010: Jimmy Dean dies at age 81-- Varina, Virginia.
  (Born 10 August 1928--Plainview, Texas.)

  

  Jimmy Dean dies at 81; country music star and sausage king

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jimmy-dean-20100615-story.html

  By Dennis McLellan
  | Los Angeles Times | Jun 15, 2010 | 12:00 AM
  
  
  Jimmy Dean helped bring country music into the mainstream in the 1960s. (CBS TV)
  
  When the Country Music Assn. announced in February that Jimmy Dean would be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame later this year, Dean joked, "I thought I was already in there."
  
  "Seriously, it brought a huge grin to my face," he said in a news release. "I am honored."
  
  Dean already had been inducted into the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Texas Music Hall of Fame in 2005.
  
  That's not to mention his 2009 induction into the Meat Industry Hall of Fame.
  
  Indeed, Dean, who died Sunday evening at his home in Henrico County, Va., at age 81, may be better known by some today as "the sausage king" of TV commercial fame than a hit-making country music star and one-time TV show host who helped bring country music into the mainstream in the 1960s.
  
  The Texas-born entertainer and businessman, who began his recording career in the 1950s, scored a No. 1 hit on both the country and pop singles charts in 1961 with his spoken-narrative song about a coal miner — "a giant of a man" — who saves fellow workers from "a would-be grave" after their mine collapses.
  
  "Big Bad John," which Dean said he wrote in an hour and a half on a flight from New York to Tennessee, earned a Grammy Award for best country and western recording.
  
  The 1960s were the down-home entertainer's heyday.
  
  He went on to record hits including "Dear Ivan," "Little Black Book," "P.T. 109" (inspired by the Naval vessel commanded by John F. Kennedy during World War II) and "The First Thing Ev'ry Morning (And the Last Thing Ev'ry Night)."
  
  From 1963 to '66, he hosted "The Jimmy Dean Show," an hourlong TV musical variety show that ran on ABC and featured singers including Roger Miller, George Jones and Buck Owens. The show also regularly featured Dean's humorous banter with a "dog" named Rowlf, the first of Jim Henson's Muppets to attract national attention.

  Along with headlining in Las Vegas and performing in venues such as Carnegie Hall and the London Palladium, Dean played fur trapper Josh Clements on Fess Parker's "Daniel Boone" series in the late '60s and had the supporting role of a reclusive billionaire in the 1971 James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever."

  He launched the Jimmy Dean Meat Co. in the late '60s, after previously buying a hog farm in his native Texas.
  
  "Everything was fine and dandy until hog prices dropped out," he told the Richmond Times-Dispatch in 2004. "One morning I was having breakfast at a little old diner in Plainview — sausages and eggs — and reached up and plucked a [large] piece of gristle out of my teeth."
  
  It was then, he said, that he became determined to produce a quality sausage.
  
  "It was not something I just put my name on," he said. "It was my money and my sausage and my work — and those commercials that they think are so funny."
  
  After selling his meat company to what later became known as the Sara Lee Corp. in 1984, he remained as chairman of the board and TV spokesman. After he was dropped as spokesman in 2003, Dean reportedly stopped eating the products that bear his name and changed his license plates that read SSG KING.
  
  Dean was born Aug. 10, 1928, in Olton, Texas, and grew up in Plainview. He and his brother Don were raised on a farm by their mother after their father left when Dean was still a child. They were so poor, he once said, he wore shirts that his mother made out of sugar sacks.
  
  Poverty, Dean told the Times-Dispatch, "was the greatest motivating factor in my life."
  
  He began singing early on, and his mother taught him to play his first chord on the piano when he was 10. He later taught himself to play the harmonica, guitar and accordion.
  
  Dropping out of high school at 16, he joined the Merchant Marines and later served in the Air Force. While stationed at a base in Washington, D.C., Dean and three other airmen formed a country music quartet that played local honkytonks.
  
  After his discharge in 1948, Dean formed the Texas Wildcats. He began developing a following with a show on an Arlington, Va., radio station and had his first country top 10 hit, "Bumming Around," in 1953.
  
  Dean and the Texas Wildcats moved to local television in 1955, and from 1957 to 1959 he hosted the first version of "The Jimmy Dean Show," a half-hour daily variety series on CBS.
  
  Thirty Years of Sausage, Fifty Years of Ham: Jimmy Dean's Own Story, a 2004 autobiography, was co-written with his second wife, Donna Meade Dean, a singer and songwriter he married in 1991.
  
  In addition to his wife, he is survived by his children from his first marriage, Garry Dean, Connie Dean Taylor and Robert Dean; and two granddaughters.
  
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  June 14th
  
  1963: From Russia With Love films the Russian consulate explosion and following action.
  1966: A demo of Ken Wallis' one man autogyro at Pinewood Studios bring him into the You Only Live Twice production.

  

  Some Kind of Hero: The Remarkable Story of the James Bond Films, Matthew Field, Ajay Chowdhury, 2018.
  Chapter 9 Don't Think of Danger - You Only Live Twice

  Little Nellie had been discovered by Ken Adam while he was shaving
  one morning. Adam had heard Ken Wallis, an eccentric wing commander,
  being interviewed about his small one-man helicopter by Tony Scase on
  the BBC Today programme. The film’s aviation advisor Hamish Mahaddie
  called Wallis and invited him to demonstrate the autogiro at Pinewood.
  Adam was a fighter pilot during World War II so was naturally impressed
  with Wallis’s contraption. Following the Pinewood demonstration on 14
  June 1966 Wallis remembered, ‘Cubby Brocolli stood looking at it and
  said “We shall want it in Japan in six weeks’ time.”’ Wallis was in fact
  scheduled to appear in a James Bond-esque spoof in Brazil when he got
  the call. Dahl soon found a place in the script for Little Nellie and
  suggested she should fold away and arrive in a series of suitcases.

  
  1973: Goldfinger re-released in The Netherlands.
  
  1989: Licence to Kill UK general release.

  
  

  
  2001: Putnam publishes the Raymond Benson Bond novel Never Dream of Dying in the US.

  THE NEW BOND ADVENTURE
  
  After a moment's silence came the voice. "Here we are
  again, Mister Bond. We seem to meet under the most
  unusual circumstances"
  
  Bond shot toward the voice, but then he herad
  Cesari laugh behind him. Bond twisted again and fired.
  There was silence and then the voice came from yet
  another place in the dark.
  
  You're in my habitat now, Mister Bond," Cesari
  said. "You can't see a thing, can you?"
  
  Bond could hear Cesari's voice moving. He fired the
  gun into the darkness again, but the laugh came from
  a different direction.
  
  Then the club struck him hard on the right shoulder
  blade.
  
  "Have you any strange dreams lately, Mister
  Bond?" Cesari asked as Bond fell to the ground in
  agony. "You know what they say . . . never dream of
  dying. It just might come true."

  NEVER
  DREAM OF
  DYING

  In Raymond Benson's chilling new James Bond
  novel, 007 comes face to face at last with the
  most cunning criminal mastermind he has ever
  fought--the blind genius behind the brutal
  organization called the Union.
  
  It begins at a movie studio in Nice, where
  a police raid goes horribly wrong, with inno-
  cent men, women, and even children killed. It
  continues in an English prison, where a corspe
  discloses an intriguing secret about the Union.
  The trail leads James Bond to Paris, where
  he meets the tantalizing movie start Tylyn
  Mignonne and embarks on a voyage of sensu-
  al discovery.
  
  But Tylyn is in mortal danger. Her former
  husband, a volatile French film producer, has
  not forgiven his glamourous ex-wife for ending
  their troubled marriage--and he is connected
  to the Union's thugs.
  
  Meanwhile Bond's friend Mathis, a French
  agent, has disappeared while tracking down
  the Union's mysterious leader, Le Gérant.
  Bond's search for Mathis takes him to a
  thrilling underwater brush with death, a chase
  through the Corsican wilderness, a surprise
  encounter with an old friend--and a final con-
  frontation with a twisted criminal genius.

  Raymond Benson is the author of Doubleshot.
  High Time to Kill, The Facts of Death, and Zero
  Minus Ten, and the novelizations for the films
  The World Is Not Enough and Tomorrow Never
  Dies. A director of the Ian Fleming Foundation,
  he lives and works in the Chicago area.
  
  Jacket design, Thomas Tafuri
  Front Jacket image courtesy
  Fontenille Pataud, France

  

  2003: The Queen's Birthday Honours see Sir Roger Moore promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) for his philanthropic work with UNICEF and Kiwanis International. (He was already created a Commander of that order on 31 December 1998 in the New Year Honours List, for services to UNICEF.)

  
  
  

  
  2011: Simon & Schuster releases Jeffery Deaver's Bond novel Carte Blanche in the US.

  "The face of war is changing.
  The other side doesn't play by the rules
  much anymore.
  There's thinking, in some circles,
  that we need to play by a different set of
  rules too. . . "

  James Bond, in his early thirties and already a veteran
  of the Afghan War, has been recruited to a new organi-
  zation. Conceived in the post-9/11 world, it operates
  independent of MI5, MI6 and the Ministry of Defense,
  its very existence deniable. Its aim: To protect the
  Realm, by any means necessary.
  
  A Night Action alert calls James Bond away from
  dinner with a beautiful woman. Headquarters has
  decrypted an electronic whisper about an attack
  scheduled for later in the week:

  Casualites estimated in the
  thousands, British interests
  adversely affected.

  And Agent 007 has been given carte blanche to do
  whatever it takes to fulfill his mission . . .

  The new thriller by Master of the Mind Game
  JEFFERY DEAVER
  featuring
  JAMES BOND
  as you've never seen him before.

  In 2004, Jeffery Deaver won the Crime Writers' Associa-
  tion Ian Fleming's Steel Dagger Award for his book Garden
  of Beasts. Little could he know that his acceptance
  speech, in which he spoke aloud about his lifelong admiration
  of Fleming's writing, would lead him to being approached
  to write the next James Bond novel.
  
  The international number-one bestselling author of
  two collections of short stories and 27 suspense novels,
  Deaver is best known ffor his Katthryn Dance and Lincoln
  Rhyme thrillers, most notably The Bone Collector, which
  was made into a feature film starring Denzel Washington
  and Angelina Jolie. His many awards include the Novel
  of the Year at the International Thriller Writers' Awards in
  2009 for his stand-alone novel The Bodies Left Behind.
  The latest entries in the Lincoln Rhyme series are The
  Cold Moon, The Broken Window and The Burning Wire.
  
  Deaver's most recent stand-alone thriller, Edge, was
  called "an exciting new weapon in the author's arsenal of
  memorable characters" [Pubishers Weekly].

  JEFFERY DEAVER lives in North Carolina. Parallels
  between Bond's and Deaver's lives include their love of
  fast cars, skiing and whiskey. Deaver is the fifth author
  to continue Ian Fleming's legacy by penning a James
  Bond novel.
  

  For further information, visit
  www.jefferydeaver.com.

  Based on the legendary character created by IAN FLEMING
  
  JAMES BOND is back.
  #1 international bestselling author
  JEFFERY DEAVER
  brings Agent 007 into the modern age . . .
  
  Critical acclaim for Jeffery Deaver
  Author of 17 New York Times bestsellers
  

  "A master ticking-bomb suspense." - PEOPLE
  "Dazzling" - THE NEW YORK TIMES
  "Cunning and deceptive" - THE DENVER POST
  "Scarily believable" - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
  "The most creative, skill, and intriguing thriller writer
  in the world." - THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (UK)
  
  www.ianfleming.com

  
  
  
  

  
  

  2015: Goldfinger re-released in the UK.
  2015: Spectre films on the River Thames, London.