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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 2020 Posts: 13,787

  November 9th
  
  1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films OO7 arriving at Piz Gloria.
  
  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in Colombia.
  
  1983: Octopussy - Operazione piovra (Octopussy - Operation Octopus) released in Italy.

  James Bond higher and higher!
  
  
  

  1989: East Germany opens its Berlin Wall.
  
  1992: Charles Fraser-Smith dies at age 88--Bratton Fleming, Devon, England.
  (Born 26 January 1904--Deal, Kent, England.)

  

  Charles Fraser-Smith

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fraser-Smith

  Charles Fraser-Smith (26 January 1904 – 9 November 1992) was an author and one-time missionary who is widely credited as being the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond quartermaster Q. During World War II, Fraser-Smith worked for the Ministry of Supply, fabricating equipment nicknamed "Q-devices" (after Q-ships) for SOE agents operating in occupied Europe. Prior to the war, Fraser-Smith had worked as a missionary in North Africa. After the war he purchased a dairy farm in Burrington, Devon, where he died in 1992.
  
  Early life
  Charles Fraser-Smith was the son of a solicitor who owned a wholesale grocery business; he was orphaned at age seven. He was then brought up by a Christian missionary family in Croxley Green in Hertfordshire. He went to school at Brighton College, where he was described as "scholastically useless except for woodwork and science and making things."
  
  On leaving school he veered from one occupation after another, working as a prep school teacher in Portsmouth, a motorcycle messenger rider, and an aircraft factory worker. Eventually, inspired by his foster family, he went to Morocco as a Christian missionary. Returning to England in 1939, he gave a Sunday sermon at the Open Brethren Evangelical Church in Leeds. In the sermon, Fraser-Smith described his practice of bricolage, and the necessity of procuring supplies from just about any source. In the congregation were two officials of Britain's Ministry of Supply, who were impressed by his adventures. As a result, the Director of the Ministry of Supply offered him what he later described as "a funny job in London".
  
  Wartime experiences
  Officially, Fraser-Smith was a temporary civil servant for the Ministry of Supply's Clothing and Textile Department (Dept. CT6). In reality, he developed and supplied gadgets and other equipment for section XV of Britain's World War II intelligence organisation, the Special Operations Executive. Travelling by train from his home in Hertfordshire to a small office in the clothing department of the Ministry of Supply, near St. James's Park in London, Fraser-Smith was actually working at the direction of MI6 in the nearby Minimax House. Performing a job so secret that neither his secretary nor his boss knew what he was doing, Fraser-Smith invented numerous ingenious gadgets intended to help prisoners of war to escape and to aid SOE agents gathering information on Nazi activities in occupied Europe.
  
  His first order was to counterfeit Spanish Army uniforms for a proposed SOE plan to infiltrate agents into neutral Spain to prevent it from entering the war on the side of Germany. He dealt directly with the textile suppliers, ultimately using more than 300 firms in and around London: many of them had no idea what they were making or why, to make equipment for secret operations.
  
  Initially Fraser-Smith supplied clothing and standard props (from second-hand sources) for SOE agents working behind enemy lines, but SOE directives and his taste for gadgetry led him to develop a wide range of spy and escape devices, including miniature cameras inside cigarette lighters, shaving brushes containing film, hairbrushes containing a map and saw, pens containing hidden compasses, steel shoelaces that doubled as garrottes or gigli saws, an asbestos-lined pipe for carrying secret documents, and much more.
  
  Directed to make copies of a new type of Luftwaffe life jacket, he made discoveries that were subsequently incorporated as standard in RAF "Mae Wests", including the use of a compressed air cylinder for inflating the jacket and a pouch filled with a powerful fluorescent dye for spotting of a downed airman at sea.
  
  In an example of lateral thinking, Fraser-Smith used a special left-hand thread for the disguised screw-off top of a hidden-document container; he suggested this would prevent discovery by the "unswerving logic of the German mind", as no German would ever think of trying to unscrew something the wrong way.
  
  At one point his expenses were challenged by a senior Treasury official over the extravagant costs of an order for packets of 12 razor blades. Fraser-Smith asked for a treasury costing clerk to accompany him on a visit to the company to determine whether or not they were profiteering. After checking that the clerk had signed the Official Secrets Act, the clerk reviewed the costs, which were in fact for a top-secret kit designed to aid SOE agents with escape and evasion. The clerk discovered that the company was in fact undercharging as they had not claimed the regulation profit. As a result, the supplier was directed to submit a new invoice with every item fully justified that, including the proper profit, was therefore greater than the original. Fraser-Smith never had a bill queried after that.

  Fraser-Smith later estimated that 50% of the orders he received were exact specifications, 40% were approximate specifications and 10% were his own idea. He called his inventions "Q gadgets", after the Q ships, warships disguised as freighters, which were deployed in the First World War. This may have been the basis of Ian Fleming's use of "Q" to refer to the suppliers of James Bond's gadgetry.

  Fraser-Smith was not the only gadget-master working for British intelligence during World War II. The SOE had various secret research and development laboratories including Station IX at the Natural History Museum and Station XII at the Frythe Hotel. Christopher Clayton Hutton of MI9, a clandestine unit within A-Force which specialised in escape and evasion, was also an inventor and deception-theorist. Major Jasper Maskelyne, a stage magician, also developed secret sabotage and subterfuge devices for MI-9.
  
  Operation Mincemeat
  Fraser was also involved in the intelligence operation codenamed Operation Mincemeat, which was designed to drop a body, carrying false papers to mislead the Nazis, off the Spanish coast. He was tasked with designing a trunk, 6' 2" long and 3' wide, to carry a "deadweight" of 200 lb that would be preserved in dry ice. When the dry ice evaporated, it filled the canister with carbon dioxide and drove out any oxygen, thus preserving the body without refrigeration. The plot was the basis of the book (and later film) The Man Who Never Was.
  
  Later life
  After the war, Fraser-Smith bought a rundown dairy farm in Bratton Fleming, in southwest England. It became a profitable business. In the late 1970s, his family persuaded him to seek permission to write a book about his wartime exploits. With clearance under the Official Secrets Act he wrote several, donating the royalties to charity.
  
  He had kept examples of most of his gadgets, and an exhibit of his wartime works was presented at the Exmoor Steam Railway, a tourist attraction in Bratton Fleming. Once a year, Fraser-Smith would spend a week explaining their workings to visitors.
  
  Charles Fraser-Smith died at his home of undisclosed causes in 1992, survived by his wife, Selina, and two children, Brian and Christine, by a previous marriage to Blanche Ellis. Live and Let's Spy: An exhibition of spy, escape and survival gadgetry, an exhibition of his work, created at Dover Castle by English Heritage, ran for two years in the late 1990s.

  
  

  1999: Radioactive/MCA label releases the soundtrack for The World Is Not Enough in the US.

  
  

  
  2012: Skyfall released in Albania, Canada, Pakistan, and the US.
  2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Hammerhead #2.

  

  JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #2 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272202011
  Cover: Francesco Francavilla
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Publication Date: November 2016
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 11/9

  Assigned to hunt down and eliminate a terrorist threatening Britain's nuclear deterrent, 007 shadows the nation's leading defense contractor at the Dubai Arms Fair. As a lethal trap is sprung around him, Bond finds an unexpected ally in glamorous arms company executive Victoria Hunt.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 2020 Posts: 13,787

  November 10th
  
  1944: Timothy Miles Bindon Rice is born--Shardeloes, England.
  1945: Ian Fleming finishes his work with Naval Intelligence.
  1948: James Bond is born--so says his prop passport for The Living Daylights.

  

  
  1953: James Bond is born--so says his Die Another Day passport.

  

  1959: Jack Whittingham's outline for a first film is called "James Bond of the Secret Service".

  https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24669/lot/24/#/!
  

  
  1968: Daphne Deckers is born--Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands.
  
  1974: The US network premiere of Dr. No on ABC-TV.
  
  1988: Licence to Kill films Sanchez interrogating OO7.
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 11th
  
  1920: James Bond's birthday according to John Pearson's James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007.

  

  1920: James Bond's birth date as used by Charlie Higson in his Young Bond novels.
  1921: James Bond's birth date according to Bond scholar John Griswold.
  
  1948: Vincent Andrew Schiavelli is born--Brooklyn, New York
  
  1963: El satánico Dr. No released in Uruguay.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1966: Donald Pleasence takes over the Blofeld role from Czech actor Jan Werich. A decision by director Gilbert and producer Broccoli--however, publicly the change is blamed on illness.

  
  
  
  

  1966: Alison Doody is born--Dublin, Ireland.
  
  1972: James Bond's birth date as on a passport displayed at a French military museum.

  https://steemit.com/funny/@ageo/james-bond-passport
  

  
  1999: "The World Is Not Enough" music video airs before the MTV Europe Music Awards, part of heavy promotion for the film including a BMW Z8 giveaway.

  
  
  
  
  

  1999: TV Guide publishes Raymond Benson's Bond short story "Live at Five".

  
  

  
  2003: Robert Brown dies at age 82--Swanage, Dorset, England.
  (Born 23 July 1921--Swanage, Dorset, England.)

  

  Robert Brown (British actor)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Brown_(British_actor)

  

  Born Robert James Brown, 23 July 1921, Swanage, Dorset, England
  Died 11 November 2003 (aged 82), Swanage, Dorset, England
  Years active 1949–1991
  Spouse(s) Rita Becker (m. 1955–2003; his death)
  Children 2

  Robert James Brown (23 July 1921 – 11 November 2003) was an English actor, best known for his portrayal of M in the James Bond films from 1983 to 1989, succeeding Bernard Lee, who died in 1981.
  
  Brown made his first appearance as M in Octopussy in 1983.

  Brown was born and died in Swanage, Dorset. Before appearing in the Bond films, he had a long career as a bit-part actor in films and television. He had a starring role in the 1950s television series Ivanhoe where he played Gurth, the faithful companion of Ivanhoe, played by Roger Moore. He had previously made an uncredited appearance as a castle guard in the unrelated 1952 film Ivanhoe. He had an uncredited appearance as the galley-master in Ben-Hur (1959) and as factory worker Bert Harker in the BBC's 1960s soap opera The Newcomers. In One Million Years B.C. (1966), he played grunting caveman Akhoba, brutal head of the barbaric "Rock tribe".

  Brown first started in the James Bond franchise in the film The Spy Who Loved Me as Admiral Hargreaves, appearing alongside Lee. After Lee's sudden death in January 1981, Broccoli and the other producers, decided to leave M out of For Your Eyes Only out of respect for Lee and assigned his lines to M's Chief of Staff Bill Tanner. In 1983, Brown was hired to portray M on the recommendation of Bond actor Roger Moore, his Ivanhoe co-star and the father of Brown's goddaughter Deborah. It is unclear if Brown was the same M as Lee's character, or a different M, perhaps a promoted Hargreaves. Brown was succeeded in 1995 by Judi Dench in GoldenEye.

  

  Robert Brown (I) (1921–2003)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0114533/?ref_=nv_sr_4?ref_=nv_sr_4
  
  Filmography

  Actor (138 credits)
  1991 Merlin of the Crystal Cave (TV Series) - Gorlois
  - Reckoning (1991) ... Gorlois
  - The Return (1991) ... Gorlois
  
  1989 Licence to Kill - M
  1989 Slow Burn (Video) - Grandfather in Church
  1988 Hannay (TV Series) - Roberton
  - Act of Riot (1988) ... Roberton
  1987 The Living Daylights - M
  1985 A View to a Kill - M
  1984 The Life and Death of King John (TV Movie) - Earl of Pembroke
  1984 Fantasy Island (TV Series)
  - Lady of the House/Mrs. Brandell's Favorites (1984)
  1983 Octopussy - M
  1983 The Winds of War (TV Mini-Series) - English Merchantman Captain
  - The Changing of the Guard (1983) ... English Merchantman Captain
  1983 The Forgotten Story (TV Series) - Captain Stevens
  - Episode #1.5 (1983) ... Captain Stevens
  1982 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Luke
  - Pilgrim, Farewell (1982) ... Luke
  1980 Lion of the Desert - Al Fadeel
  1980 Angels (TV Series) - Mr. Carlisle
  - Episode #6.21 (1980) ... Mr. Carlisle
  1980 Time of My Life (TV Series) - Mr. Richards
  - Episode #1.1 (1980) ... Mr. Richards
  
  1979 Henry IV Part I (TV Movie) - Sir Walter Blunt
  1979 Danger UXB (TV Series) - Civil Defence Officer
  - Butterfly Winter (1979) ... Civil Defence Officer
  1979 The Passage - Major
  1978 All Creatures Great and Small (TV Series) - Mr. Hewison
  - Merry Gentlemen (1978) ... Mr. Hewison
  1978 Warlords of the Deep - Briggs
  1978 Play for Today (TV Series) - Rector
  - Red Shift (1978) ... Rector
  1977 The Cost of Loving (TV Series) - Adam Greenaway
  - Madge (1977) ... Adam Greenaway
  1977 Mr. Big (TV Series) - Sheik Ibrahim
  - The Sheiks (1977) ... Sheik Ibrahim
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Adm. Hargreaves
  1977 Jesus of Nazareth (TV Mini-Series) - A Pharasee
  - Part 2 (1977) ... A Pharasee
  1976 The Message - Otba
  1974 Fall of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Uncle Serge
  - Dearest Nicky (1974) ... Uncle Serge
  - The Last Tsar (1974) ... Uncle Serge
  1972 Demons of the Mind - Fischinger
  1972 Wreck Raisers - Cox'n
  1972 The Protectors (TV Series) - Governor
  - Brother Hood (1972) ... Governor
  1971 1,000 Convicts and a Woman - Ralph
  1971 Private Road - Mr. Halpern
  1971 The Doctors (TV Series) - Robert Thurlow, 28 episodes
  1970 Big Brother (TV Mini-Series) - Edward Cheeseman
  - The Wife Factor (1970) ... Edward Cheeseman
  
  1969 Tintin and the Temple of the Sun - Tarragon (English version, voice, uncredited)
  1967-1969 The Newcomers (TV Series) - Bert Harker, 218 episodes
  1969 Un hombre solo
  1966 One Million Years B.C. - Akhoba
  1966 King of the River (TV Series) - Ben King, 10 episodes
  1966 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Insp. Wilkins
  - The Move After Checkmate (1966) ... Insp. Wilkins
  1966 Softly Softly (TV Series) - Bramley
  - Tickle on Wheels (1966) ... Bramley
  1965 Against the Tide (Short)
  1965 The Avengers (TV Series) - Saul
  - The Town of No Return (1965) ... Saul
  1965 Jury Room (TV Series) - Mr. Duckworth - Juror
  - The Chess Player (1965) ... Mr. Duckworth - Juror
  1965 Operation Crossbow - Air Commodore
  1965 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Sam Sixty
  - Photo Finish (1965) ... Sam Sixty
  1964 All in Good Time (Short) - George Fitch
  1964 The Yellowbird (TV Movie)
  1964 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Bill Campbell
  - The Big Fix (1964) ... Bill Campbell
  1963-1964 The Saint (TV Series) - Atkins / Howard Jackman
  - The Miracle Tea Party (1964) ... Atkins
  - The Saint Plays with Fire (1963) ... Howard Jackman
  1964 Escape by Night - Mawsley
  1964 Smuggler's Bay (TV Series) - Sam Tewkesbury
  - On the Beach (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
  - A Reward of Fifty Pounds (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
  - The Auction (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
  - In the Vault (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
  - A Death and a Discovery (1964) ... Sam Tewkesbury
  1964 The Masque of the Red Death - Guard
  1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Kaufmann
  - Death of a Cop (1964) ... Kaufmann
  1964 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Mr. Waterman
  - Episode #1.686 (1964) ... Mr. Waterman
  - Episode #1.685 (1964) ... Mr. Waterman
  - Episode #1.681 (1964) ... Mr. Waterman
  1963 The Double - Richard Harrison
  1963 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Sam / Douin / Sam Farley
  - The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh: Part 3 (1963) ... Sam
  - The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh: Part 2 (1963) ... Sam
  - The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh: Part 1 (1963) ... Sam Farley
  - The Horse Without a Head: The Key to the Cache (1963) ... Douin
  - The Horse Without a Head: The 100,000,000 Franc Train Robbery (1963) ... Douin
  1963 Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow - Sam Farley
  1963 Boyd Q.C. (TV Series) - Adrian Marshall
  - Thread of Evidence (1963) ... Adrian Marshall
  1961-1963 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Berry / Lew Evatt
  - An Eye on the Kings (1963) ... Berry
  - Man in the Dark (1961) ... Lew Evatt
  1963 Sierra Nine (TV Series) - Galliver
  - The Q-Radiation: Part One (1963) ... Galliver
  1963 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Richard Harrison
  - The Double (1963) ... Richard Harrison
  1962 Mystery Submarine - Coxswain Drage
  1962 Live Now - Pay Later (unconfirmed)
  1962 Billy Budd - Arnold Talbot - Maintopman
  1962 The 300 Spartans - Pentheus
  1960-1961 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Mr. Lee / Dick Hastings
  - The Bent Twig (1961) ... Mr. Lee
  - The Guilty Party (1960) ... Dick Hastings
  1961 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Harry Barnett
  - Episode #2.37 (1961) ... Harry Barnett
  1961 The Arthur Askey Show (TV Series)
  - Pilbeam, the Journalist (1961) ... (as Bob Brown)
  1960 A Story of David: The Hunted - Jashobeam
  1960/III Macbeth (TV Movie) - Bloody Sergeant
  1960 Sands of the Desert - 1st Tourist
  1960 Armchair Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - George Hibberd
  - Flight from Treason (1960) ... George Hibberd
  1960 Kraft Mystery Theater (TV Series) - George Hibberd
  - Flight from Treason (1960) ... George Hibberd
  1960 Inside Story (TV Series) - Jack Brooks, 13 episodes
  1960 It Takes a Thief - Bob Crowther
  1959-1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Sergeant at Car Impound / Attendant
  - A Foreign Body (1960) ... Sergeant at Car Impound
  - Dead on Arrival (1959) ... Attendant
  1960 Sink the Bismarck! - Gunnery Officer on 'King George V' (uncredited)
  1956-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Bert Turner / Singer / Kenneth Dowey / ...
  - Where I Live (1960) ... Bert Turner
  - Dangerous World (1958) ... Singer
  - The Old Lady Shows Her Medals (1956) ... Kenneth Dowey
  - The Handshake/Bid for Fame (1956) ... Joe Mawson in
  
  1959 The Flying Doctor (TV Series) - Sam Marlow
  - The Riddle (1959) ... Sam Marlow
  1959 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Prof. Howard
  - The Rocket (1959) ... Prof. Howard
  1959 Ben-Hur - Chief of Rowers (uncredited)
  1959 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Richard Pengelly
  - Haul for the Shore (1959) ... Richard Pengelly
  1959 Shake Hands with the Devil - First Sergeant 'Black & Tans'
  1959 The Offshore Island (TV Movie) - Martin
  1958-1959 Ivanhoe (TV Series) - Gurth, 39 episodes
  1958 The Veil (TV Mini-Series) - Constable
  - Jack the Ripper (1958) ... Constable
  1958 Room 43 - Mike
  1957 Campbell's Kingdom - Ben Creasy
  1957 The Abominable Snowman - Ed. Shelley
  1957 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series)
  - Desert Patrol (1957)
  1957 Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! (TV Series) - Erik Richter
  - My Favourite Kidnapper (1957) ... Erik Richter
  1957 Kill Me Tomorrow - Steve Ryan
  1957 The Steel Bayonet - Sgt. Maj. Gill
  1956 Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series) - Sergeant Boucher
  - The Sword of Truth (1956) ... Sergeant Boucher
  1956 Hell in Korea - The Regular Soldiers: Pte. O'Brien / Pte O'Brien
  1956 The Count of Monte Cristo (TV Series) - Baron Buray / Valpezzo
  - The Barefoot Empress (1956) ... Baron Buray
  - The Island (1956) ... Valpezzo
  1950-1956 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Richard Pengelly / Mick Egan / Oliver North / ... 20 episodes
  1956 Kraft Theatre (TV Series) - Crewman / Officer
  - A Night to Remember (1956) ... Crewman / Officer
  1956 The Man Who Never Was - French (uncredited)
  1956 Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series) - Hastings
  - Error at Daybreak (1956) ... Hastings
  1956 Tears for Simon - Farmer with Shotgun (uncredited)
  1956 Helen of Troy - Polydorus
  1956 The Alien Sky (TV Movie) - John Steele
  1955-1956 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Zanos / Surgeon Lt. Donald Reynell, RCNVR
  - Dimitrios (1956) ... Zanos
  - Heritage (1955) ... Surgeon Lt. Donald Reynell, RCNVR
  1955 Theatre Royal (TV Series) - Swain
  - The Orderly (1955) ... Swain
  1955 Passage Home - Shane
  1955 The Warriors - First French Knight
  1954 Barbara's Wedding (TV Short) - Dering
  1954 Campbell Summer Soundstage (TV Series)
  - Reville for Two Angels (1954)
  1953 The Long Rope - Mick Jordan
  1953 The Will (TV Short) - Philip Ross
  1953 Wednesday Theatre (TV Series) - Dick Pascoe
  - For Want of a Nail.... (1953) ... Dick Pascoe
  1953 Noose for a Lady - Jonas Rigg
  1953 Shadow of the Vine (TV Movie) - Arthur Heath
  1953 The Pickwick Papers (TV Series) - Mr. Bob Sawyer
  - The Sixth Paper (1953) ... Mr. Bob Sawyer
  - The Fifth Paper (1953) ... Mr. Bob Sawyer
  1952 Gambler and the Lady - John - Waiter at Max's Dive (uncredited)
  1952 The Infinite Shoeblack (TV Movie) - Andrew Berwick
  1952 The Mask (TV Short) - James Glasson
  1952 Time, Gentlemen, Please! - Bill Jordan
  1952 Ivanhoe - Castle Guard Yelling 'Horseman Approaching from the South!' (uncredited)
  1952 Derby Day - Foster - Berkeley's Butler (uncredited)
  1952 Leading Question (TV Short) - Peace-be-with-us Smith
  1952 The Marvellous History of St. Bernard (TV Movie) - Bonaventure
  1952 Death of an Angel - Jim Pollard (uncredited)
  1951 Out of True (Short) - Dr. Dale
  1951 Milestones (TV Movie) - Arthur Preece
  1951 A Tomb with a View (TV Movie) - Alec Lanch
  1951 The Fifty Mark (TV Movie) - Roy Clarke
  1951 The Empty Street (TV Short) - Robins
  1951 Cloudburst - Carter
  1951 Rush Job (TV Movie) - Cliff Whatley
  1951 The Dark Man - Policeman at Hospital (uncredited)
  1950 Marion (TV Movie) - George Saunders
  
  1949 The Coventry Nativity Play (TV Movie) - First soldier
  1949 The Big Story (TV Series) - Danny
  - Make Believe Bandit ... Danny
  1949 The Third Man - British Military Policeman in Sewer Chase (uncredited)
  1948 Good Friday (TV Movie) - Herod (1950 version)

  
  

  
  2015: Spectre released in Switzerland and France.
  2015: 스백터 released in the Republic of Korea.

  
  
  

  
  
• Revelator

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• suavejmf Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England

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  Correct! Was just about to post that 11.11.1920.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 12th
  
  1929: Peter Lamont is born--London, England.
  
  1943: Julie Ege is born--Sandnes, Norway.
  (She dies 29 April 2008 at age 64--Oslo, Norway.)

  

  Julie Ege: 'Sex Symbol of the 1970s'

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/julie-ege-sex-symbol-of-the-1970s-820386.html
  Saturday 3 May 2008 00:00
  
  REX
  
  In the late Sixties and early Seventies, British cinema-goers, and British men in general, had a weakness for Scandinavian women. For a time, the Norwegian actress and model Julie Ege was as ubiquitous as Sweden's Britt Ekland.

  In 1969, Ege's stunning looks caught the eye of the film producer Albert Broccoli, who cast her in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the only James Bond film to feature George Lazenby as the lead. In 1971, Ege was Voluptua to Frankie Howerd's Lurcio in the first Up Pompeii film, based on the titter-heavy sitcom of the same name. Having starred in Creatures the World Forgot, another Hammer "cave girl" film in the vein of the Raquel Welch vehicle One Million Years BC, Ege was touted as the "Sex Symbol of the 1970s" by Sir James Carreras, head of Hammer Film Productions, and his son Michael.

  Despite further appearances in sci-fi and horror hokum like The Final Programme (1973), Craze, Dr of Evil (aka The Mutations) and The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (all in 1974), she was typecast as a glamour girl, in comedies such as The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins (1971) and Not Now Darling (1973), both with Leslie Phillips, as well as Percy's Progress (1974) and The Amorous Milkman (1975).
  
  Born in Sandnes, on the south-west coast of Norway, in 1943, she was a bit of a tomboy but blossomed into a teenager obsessed with Hollywood stars. Spotted by local photographers, Ege appeared in advertisements for "anything from dresses to sardines", she later recalled. Following a short-lived marriage to a major in the Norwegian army, she moved to Oslo, won a beauty contest and took part in the Miss Universe pageant in Florida in 1962. She then remarried and undertook various modelling assignments, including an appearance in Penthouse magazine.

  In 1967, she made her acting début playing a German masseuse in Stompa til Sjøs ("The Sky and the Ocean"), a low-budget Norwegian film, and also had an uncredited part in Robbery, a British gangster picture about the Great Train Robbery. She settled in London, registered with various model agencies, and sent her picture to Broccoli. The Bond producer signed Ege to play the Scandinavian Girl, one of the 10 women of different nationalities being brainwashed by Blofeld, the villain portrayed by Telly Savalas in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (the English Girl was played by Joanna Lumley). Ege spent nearly three months on location at Piz Gloria, the revolving restaurant on top of the Schilthorn in Switzerland, but was disappointed to see that, in the finished film, she only appeared on screen for a few moments.

  In 1970, Ned Sherrin gave her a role opposite Marty Feldman in the comedy Every Home Should Have One. "It was my first real part with dialogue. They wanted me to look and sound like a Scandinavian nanny so I gave them just that. It was really difficult," Ege joked. She had spent time as an au pair in London in the early Sixties. "Once the film opened, all the newspapers carried a photo of me with the caption 'Every Home Should Have One'. I was famous overnight and was not prepared for all the decision-making so crucial at that moment," she admitted.
  
  Ege's subsequent career moves bore out this claim. She turned down the chance to appear with Peter Sellers in the saucy comedy There's a Girl in My Soup and signed up with Hammer to do Creatures the World Forgot. The shooting on location in Africa turned out to be something of an ordeal for Ege who had recently given birth to her first daughter. "They made me wear this awful wig and my bikini was a far cry from the one Raquel Welch wore," she recalled. "I had dirt smeared all over me. My newborn child was back in England and after a few days I got homesick."
  
  Ege then undertook a gruelling publicity schedule which included appearances on the Johnny Carson and David Frost chat-shows and a special edition of The Money Programme documenting the amount of money Hammer was investing in her. However, Creatures the World Forgot was slated by the critics and her career lost momentum after she passed on Hammer's Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde in 1972. "I was by then very reluctant about doing nudity," she said. "Many people think I did so much nudity in my films. I did a short scene in Every Home Should Have One, and two bathtub scenes in Not Now Darling and Mutations."
  
  Ege was happier doing comedies, including playing "the sexy wife of a mad scientist" (Donald Sinden) in Rentadick (1972), even if the project went so awry that Graham Chapman and John Cleese, the film's original writers with John Fortune and John Wells, asked for their names to be removed from the credits. In 1972, she also had cameos in The Alf Garnett Saga and in Go For a Take with Reg Varney of On the Buses fame. "They needed a pretty girl with a good attitude to play these parts," she said. "It was all a laugh and I have never seen these films since."
  
  In the Seventies, Ege lived for several years with the Beatles associate Tony Bramwell and recorded a version of "Love", a John Lennon composition originally featured on the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album in 1970. She subsequently went back to Norway and took up photography before training as a nurse in the Eighties. She was delighted when one of her patients presented her with a video copy of The Amorous Milkman.
  
  Over the last decade, Ege was amazed by the renewed interest in her films. "There I was on the front cover of so many newspapers as the forgotten diva of British horror and comedy films," she said in 2004, two years after publishing her autobiography, Naken ("Naked"), in Norway. In 1999, she visited Britain and took part in a reunion of Hammer alumni. In 2005, she featured in the BBC documentary Crumpet! A Very British Sex Symbol, presented by the former Daily Sport editor Tony Livesey. "To be honest, I was never really that proud of my performance in films," she said, "but I gave it my best and enjoyed the work very much."
  
  Pierre Perrone
  
  Julie Ege, model, actress and nurse: born Sandnes, Norway 13 November 1943; twice married (two daughters); died Oslo 29 April 2008.

  

  Julie Ege (1943–2008)

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  Filmography

  Actress (24 credits)
  
  1998 Blodsbånd (TV Mini-Series)
  - Episode #1.2 (1998)
  - Episode #1.3 (1998)
  - Episode #1.1 (1998)
  
  1988 Fengslende dager for Christina Berg - Krags hustru
  
  1976 Farlig yrke (TV Mini-Series) - Wenche Berg
  - Det tredje offeret (1976) ... Wenche Berg
  - Helmer (1976) ... Wenche Berg
  - Etterlyste ble sist sett... (1976) ... Wenche Berg
  1975 De dwaze lotgevallen van Sherlock Jones - Sondag's secretaresse
  1975 The Amorous Milkman - Diana
  1974 Bortreist på ubestemt tid - Christina
  1974 The Mutations - Hedi
  1974 Den siste Fleksnes - Julie Ege
  1974 It's Not the Size That Counts - Miss Hanson
  1974 The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires - Vanessa Buren
  1974 Craze - Helena
  1973 The Final Programme - Miss Dazzle
  1973 Kanarifuglen - Kari, flyvertinne
  1973 Not Now Darling - Janie McMichael
  1972 Double Take - April
  1972 The Alf Garnett Saga - Julie Ege
  1972 Rentadick - Utta Armitage
  1971 The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins - Ingrid (segment "Gluttony")
  1971 Creatures the World Forgot - Nala - The Girl
  1971 Up Pompeii - Voluptua
  1970 Every Home Should Have One - Inga
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - The Scandinavian Girl
  1967 Stompa til Sjøs!
  1967 Robbery - Hostess (uncredited)

  
  

  
  

  1943: Valerie Leon is born--Islington, London, England.
  
  1966: James Bond comic strip The Living Daylights completes its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 12 September 1966. 210-263) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tld.php3
  
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comics 1985 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1985.php3

  Spionen Från Öst
  (The Living Daylights)
  

  
  Danish 1968 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no14-1968/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 14:
  “The Living Daylights” (1968)
  Spionen fra øst
  [The Spy from the East]
  
  
  

  
  2020

  

  
  1981: William Holden dies at age 63--Santa Monica, California.
  (Born 17 April 1918--O'Fallon, Illinois.)

  

  William Holden

  
  Holden in a publicity photo, 1954

  William Franklin Beedle Jr.
  Born April 17, 1918 | O'Fallon, Illinois, U.S.
  Died November 12, 1981 (aged 63) | Santa Monica, California, U.S.

  Cause of death Exsanguination
  Resting place Ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean
  Nationality American
  Alma mater South Pasadena High School
  Occupation Actor, wildlife conservationist
  Years active 1938–1981
  Home town South Pasadena, California, U.S.
  Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
  Political party Republican
  Spouse(s) Brenda Marshall
  (m. 1941; div. 1971)
  Partner(s) Stefanie Powers (1972–1981) (his death)
  Children 3

  Awards

  Academy Award for Best Actor (1953)
  Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor (1974)

  Military career

  Allegiance United States of America
  Service/branch US Army Air Corps, United States Army Air Forces
  Years of service 1942–45
  Rank US-O2 insignia.svg First lieutenant[2]
  Unit First Motion Picture Unit (USAAF)
  Battles/wars World War II

  William Holden (born William Franklin Beedle Jr.; April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American actor who was one of the biggest box-office draws of the 1950s and 1960s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film Stalag 17 (1953), and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for the television film The Blue Knight (1973). Holden starred in some of Hollywood's most popular and critically acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard, Sabrina, The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Wild Bunch, Picnic and Network. He was named one of the "Top 10 Stars of the Year" six times (1954–1958, 1961), and appeared as 25th on the American Film Institute's list of 25 greatest male stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
  
  Early life and education

  
  With Lee J. Cobb (right) in Holden's first starring role in a film, Golden Boy (1939)

  
  Holden was born William Franklin Beedle Jr. on April 17, 1918, in O'Fallon, Illinois, son of William Franklin Beedle (1891–1967), an industrial chemist, and his wife Mary Blanche Beedle (née Ball, 1898–1990), a schoolteacher.[3] He had two younger brothers, Robert Westfield Beedle (1921–1944) and Richard P. Beedle (1924–1964). One of his father's grandmothers, Rebecca Westfield, was born in England in 1817, while some of his mother's ancestors settled in Virginia's Lancaster County after emigrating from England in the 17th century.[3] His younger brother, Robert W. "Bobbie" Beedle, became a U.S. Navy fighter pilot and was killed in action in World War II, over New Ireland, a Japanese-occupied island in the South Pacific, on January 5, 1944.
  
  His family moved to South Pasadena when he was three. After graduating from South Pasadena High School, Holden attended Pasadena Junior College, where he became involved in local radio plays.
  
  Career
  Paramount
  Holden appeared uncredited in Prison Farm (1939) and Million Dollar Legs (1939) at Paramount.
  
  A version of how he obtained his stage name "Holden" is based on a statement by George Ross of Billboard: "William Holden, the lad just signed for the coveted lead in Golden Boy, used to be Bill Beadle. [sic] And here is how he obtained his new movie tag. On the Columbia lot is an assistant director and scout named Harold Winston. Not long ago he was divorced from the actress, Gloria Holden, but carried the torch after the marital rift. Winston was one of those who discovered the Golden Boy newcomer and who renamed him—in honor of his former spouse!"[4]
  
  Golden Boy
  Holden's first starring role was in Golden Boy (1939), costarring Barbara Stanwyck, in which he played a violinist-turned-boxer. The film was made for Columbia who negotiated a sharing agreement with Paramount for Holden's services.
  
  Holden was still an unknown actor when he made Golden Boy, while Stanwyck was already a film star. She liked Holden and went out of her way to help him succeed, devoting her personal time to coaching and encouraging him, which made them into lifelong friends. When she received her Honorary Oscar at the 1982 Academy Award ceremony, Holden had died in an accident just a few months prior. At the end of her acceptance speech, she paid him a personal tribute: "I loved him very much, and I miss him. He always wished that I would get an Oscar. And so tonight, my golden boy, you got your wish".
  
  Next he starred with George Raft and Humphrey Bogart in the Warner Bros. gangster epic Invisible Stripes (1939).
  
  Back at Paramount he starred with Bonita Granville in Those Were the Days! (1940) followed by the role of George Gibbs in the film adaptation of Our Town (1940), done for Sol Lesser at United Artists.
  
  Columbia put Holden in a Western with Jean Arthur, Arizona (1940), then at Paramount he was in a hugely popular war film, I Wanted Wings (1941) with Ray Milland and Veronica Lake.
  
  He did another Western at Columbia, Texas (1941) with Glenn Ford, and a musical comedy at Paramount, The Fleet's In (1942) with Eddie Bracken, Dorothy Lamour and Betty Hutton.
  
  He stayed at Paramount for The Remarkable Andrew (1942) with Brian Donlevy then made Meet the Stewarts (1943) at Columbia. Paramount reunited him and Bracken in Young and Willing (1943).
  
  World War Two
  Holden served as a second and then a first lieutenant in the United States Army Air Force during World War II, where he acted in training films for the First Motion Picture Unit, including Reconnaissance Pilot (1943).
  
  Post War
  Holden's first film back from the services was Blaze of Noon (1947), an aviator picture at Paramount directed by John Farrow.
  
  He followed it with a romantic comedy, Dear Ruth (1947) and he was one of many cameos in Variety Girl (1947).
  
  RKO borrowed him for Rachel and the Stranger (1948) with Robert Mitchum and Loretta Young, then he went over to 20th Century Fox for Apartment for Peggy (1948).
  
  At Columbia he did a film noir, The Dark Past (1948) and a Western with Ford, The Man from Colorado (1949). At Paramount he did another Western, Streets of Laredo (1949).
  
  Columbia teamed him with Lucille Ball for Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949) then he did a sequel to Dear Ruth, Dear Wife (1949). He did a comedy at Columbia Father Is a Bachelor (1950).
  

  
  With Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

  
  His career took off in 1950 when Billy Wilder tapped him to play a role in Sunset Boulevard, in which he played a down-at-heel screenwriter taken in by a faded silent-screen star, played by Gloria Swanson. Holden earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination with the part.[12]
  
  Getting the part was a lucky break for Holden, as the role was initially cast with Montgomery Clift, who backed out of his contract.[13] Swanson later said, "Bill Holden was a man I could have fallen in love with. He was perfection on- and off-screen."[14] And Wilder commented "Bill was a complex guy, a totally honorable friend. He was a genuine star. Every woman was in love with him."[14]
  
  Paramount reunited him with Nancy Olson, one of his Sunset Boulevard costars, in Union Station (1950).
  
  Holden had another good break when cast as Judy Holliday's love interest in the big screen adaptation of Born Yesterday (1950). He made two more films with Olson: Force of Arms (1951) at Warners and Submarine Command (1951) at Paramount.
  
  Holden did a sports film at Columbia, Boots Malone (1952) then returned to Paramount for The Turning Point (1952).
  
  Stalag 17 and Peak Era of Stardom
  Holden was reunited with Wilder in Stalag 17 (1953), for which Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor. This ushered in the peak years of Holden's stardom.
  
  He made a sex comedy with David Niven for Otto Preminger, The Moon Is Blue (1953), which was a huge hit, in part due to controversy over its content. At Paramount he was in a comedy with Ginger Rogers that was not particularly popular, Forever Female (1953). A Western at MGM, Escape from Fort Bravo (1953) did much better, and the all star Executive Suite (1954) was a notable success.
  

  
  With Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina (1954)

  
  Holden made a third film with Wilder, Sabrina (1954), billed beneath Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.[16] Holden and Hepburn became romantically involved during the filming, unbeknown to Wilder: "People on the set told me later that Bill and Audrey were having an affair, and everybody knew. Well, not everybody! I didn't know."[14]:174 The interactions between Bogart, Hepburn, and Holden made shooting less than pleasant, as Bogart had wanted his wife, Lauren Bacall, to play Sabrina. Bogart was not especially friendly toward Hepburn, who had little Hollywood experience, while Holden's reaction was the opposite, wrote biographer Michelangelo Capua.
  
  Holden recalls their romance:

  Before I even met her, I had a crush on her, and after I met her, just a day later, I felt as if we were old friends, and I was rather fiercely protective of her, though not in a possessive way.
  
  Their relationship did not last much beyond the completion of the film. Holden, who was at this point dependent on alcohol, said, "I really was in love with Audrey, but she wouldn't marry me."[19] Rumors at the time had it that Hepburn wanted a family, but when Holden told her that he'd had a vasectomy and having children was impossible, she moved on. A few months later, Hepburn met Mel Ferrer, whom she would later marry.

  He took third billing for The Country Girl (1954) with Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly, directed by George Seaton from a play by Clifford Odets.
  
  It was a big hit, as was The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954), a Korean War drama with Kelly.
  
  In 1954, Holden was featured on the cover of Life. On February 7, 1955, Holden appeared as a guest star on I Love Lucy as himself.
  
  The golden run at the box office continued with Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955), from a best-selling novel, with Jennifer Jones, and Picnic (1955), as a drifter, in an adaptation of the William Inge play with Kim Novak.[24][25] Picnic was his last film under the contract with Columbia.
  
  A second film with Seaton did not do as well, The Proud and Profane (1956), where Holden played the role with a moustache.
  
  Neither did Toward the Unknown (1957), the one film Holden produced himself.
  
  The Bridge on the River Kwai
  Holden had his most widely recognized role as an ill-fated prisoner in David Lean's The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) with Alec Guinness,[26] a huge commercial success.
  
  He made another war film for a British director, The Key (1958) with Trevor Howard and Sophia Loren for director Carol Reed.[27] He played an American Civil War military surgeon in John Ford's The Horse Soldiers (1959) opposite John Wayne, which was a box office disappointment.[28] Columbia would not meet Holden's asking price of $750,000 and 10% of the gross for The Guns of Navarone (1961); the amount of money Holden asked exceeding the combined salaries of the stars Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn.
  
  Holden had another big hit with The World of Suzie Wong (1960) with Nancy Kwan that was shot in Hong Kong.
  
  Less popular was Satan Never Sleeps (1961), the last film of Clifton Webb and Leo McCarey; The Counterfeit Traitor (1962), this third film with Seaton; or The Lion (1962), with Trevor Howard and Capucine. The latter was shot in Africa and sparked a fascination with the continent that was to last until the end of Holden's life.

  Holden's films continued to struggle at the box office however: Paris When It Sizzles (1964) with Hepburn that was shot in 1962 but given a much delayed release; The 7th Dawn (1964) with Capucine and Susannah York, a romantic adventure set during the Malayan Emergency produced by Charles K. Feldman; Alvarez Kelly (1966), a Western; and The Devil's Brigade (1968). He was also one of many names in Feldman's Casino Royale (1967).

  
  Holden in The Revengers (1972)

  
  In 1969, Holden made a comeback when he starred in director Sam Peckinpah's graphically violent Western The Wild Bunch,[5] winning much acclaim.
  
  Also in 1969, Holden starred in director Terence Young's family film L'Arbre de Noël, co-starring Italian actress Virna Lisi and French actor Bourvil, based on the novel of the same name by Michel Bataille. This film was originally released in the United States as The Christmas Tree and on home video as When Wolves Cry.[30]
  
  Holden made a Western with Ryan O'Neal and Blake Edwards, Wild Rovers (1971). It was not particularly successful. Neither was The Revengers (1972), another Western.
  
  For television roles in 1974, Holden won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his portrayal of a cynical, tough veteran LAPD street cop in the television film The Blue Knight, based upon the best-selling Joseph Wambaugh novel of the same name.[31]
  
  In 1973, Holden starred with Kay Lenz in a movie directed by Clint Eastwood called Breezy, which was considered a box-office flop.
  
  Also in 1974, Holden starred with Paul Newman and Steve McQueen in the critically acclaimed disaster film The Towering Inferno,[33] which became a box-office smash and one of the highest-grossing films of Holden's career.
  
  Two years later, he was praised for his Oscar-nominated leading performance in Sidney Lumet's classic Network (1976),[34] an examination of the media written by Paddy Chayefsky, playing an older version of the character type for which he had become iconic in the 1950s, only now more jaded and aware of his own mortality.
  
  Around this time he also appeared in 21 Hours at Munich (1976).
  
  Final Films
  Holden made a fourth and final film for Wilder with Fedora (1978). He followed it with Damien: Omen II (1978) and had a cameo in Escape to Athena (1978).
  
  Holden had a supporting role in Ashanti (1979) and was third-billed in another disaster movie with Paul Newman for Irwin Allen, When Time Ran Out... (1980), which was a flop.
  
  In 1980, Holden appeared in The Earthling with popular child actor Ricky Schroder,[36] playing a loner dying of cancer who goes to the Australian outback to end his days, meets a young boy whose parents have been killed in an accident, and teaches him how to survive.
  
  After making S.O.B. (1981) for Blake Edwards, Holden refused to star in Jason Miller's film That Championship Season.
  
  Personal life

  
  Matron of honor Brenda Marshall (left) and best man William Holden, sole guests at Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan's wedding in 1952

  
  Holden was best man at the wedding of his friend Ronald Reagan to Nancy Davis in 1952; however, he never involved himself in politics.
  
  While in Italy in 1966, Holden killed another driver in a drunk-driving incident. He received an eight-month suspended sentence for vehicular manslaughter.
  
  Holden maintained a home in Switzerland and also spent much of his time working for wildlife conservation as a managing partner in an animal preserve in Africa. His Mount Kenya Safari Club in Nanyuki (founded 1959) became a mecca for the international jet set. On a trip to Africa, he fell in love with the wildlife and became increasingly concerned with the animal species that were beginning to decrease in population. With the help of his partners, he created the Mount Kenya Game Ranch and inspired the creation of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation. The Mount Kenya Game Ranch works to assist in Kenya with the wildlife education of its youth. Within the Mount Kenya Game Ranch is the Mount Kenya Conservancy, which runs an animal orphanage as well as the Bongo Rehabilitation Program in collaboration with the Kenya Wildlife Service. The orphanage provides shelter and care for orphans, injured and neglected animals found in the wild, with the aim of releasing these animals back into the wild whenever possible. The conservancy is home to the critically endangered East African mountain bongo, and aims to prevent its extinction by breeding.
  Marriage and relationships
  
  Holden was married to actress Ardis Ankerson (stage name Brenda Marshall) from 1941 until their divorce 30 years later, in 1971. They had two sons, Peter Westfield "West" Holden (1943–2014) and Scott Porter Holden (1946–2005). He adopted his wife's daughter, Virginia, from her first marriage with actor Richard Gaines. During the filming of the film Sabrina (1954), costar Audrey Hepburn and he had a brief but passionate affair. Holden met French actress Capucine in the early 1960s. The two starred in the films The Lion (1962) and The 7th Dawn (1964). They reportedly began a two-year affair, which is alleged to have ended due to Holden's alcoholism. Capucine and Holden remained friends until his death in 1981.
  
  In 1972, Holden began a nine-year relationship with actress Stefanie Powers, and sparked her interest in animal welfare. After his death, Powers set up the William Holden Wildlife Foundation at Holden's Mount Kenya Game Ranch.
  
  Death
  According to the Los Angeles County Coroner's autopsy report, Holden was alone and intoxicated in his apartment in Santa Monica, California, on November 12, 1981, when he slipped on a rug, severely lacerating his forehead on a teak bedside table, and bled to death. Evidence suggests he was conscious for at least half an hour after the fall. He likely may not have realized the severity of the injury and did not summon aid, or was unable to call for help. His body was found four days later. The causes of death were given as "exsanguination" and "blunt laceration of scalp." Rumors existed that he was suffering from lung cancer, which Holden himself had denied at a 1980 press conference. His death certificate made no mention of any cancer. He had dictated in his will that the Neptune Society cremate him and scatter his ashes in the Pacific Ocean. In accordance with his wishes, no funeral or memorial service was held.
  
  Ronald Reagan released a statement, saying, "I have a great feeling of grief. We were close friends for many years. What do you say about a longtime friend – a sense of personal loss, a fine man. Our friendship never waned." For his contribution to the film industry, Holden has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 1651 Vine Street. He also has a star on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. His death was noted by singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega, whose 1987 song "Tom's Diner" (about a sequence of events one morning in 1981) included a mention of reading a newspaper article about "an actor who had died while he was drinking". Vega subsequently confirmed that this was a reference to Holden.

  

  William Holden (I) (1918–1981)

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  Filmography

  Actor (75 credits)
  
  1981 S.O.B. - Tim Culley
  1980 The Earthling - Patrick Foley
  1980 When Time Ran Out.. - Shelby Gilmore
  
  1979 Ashanti - Jim Sandell
  1979 Escape to Athena - Prisoner smoking a cigar in prison camp (uncredited)
  1978 Omen II: Damien - Richard Thorn
  1978 Fedora - Barry Detweiler
  1976 Network - Max Schumacher
  1976 21 Hours at Munich (TV Movie) - Chief of Police Manfred Schreiber
  1974 The Towering Inferno - Jim Duncan
  1974 Open Season - Hal Wolkowski
  1973 Breezy - Frank Harmon
  1973 The Blue Knight (TV Movie) - Bumper Morgan
  1972 The Revengers - John Benedict
  1971 Wild Rovers - Ross Bodine
  
  1969 The Christmas Tree - Laurent Ségur
  1969 The Wild Bunch - Pike
  1968 The Devil's Brigade - Lt. Col. Robert T. Frederick
  1967 Casino Royale - Ransome
  1966 Alvarez Kelly - Alvarez Kelly
  1964 The 7th Dawn - Major Ferris
  1964 Paris When It Sizzles - Richard Benson / Rick
  1962 The Lion - Robert Hayward
  1962 The Counterfeit Traitor - Eric Erickson
  1962 Satan Never Sleeps - Father O'Banion
  1961 Frances Farmer Presents (TV Series) - Colin McDonald
  - Blaze of Noon (1961) ... Colin McDonald
  1960 The World of Suzie Wong - Robert Lomax
  
  1959 The Horse Soldiers - Maj. Henry Kendall
  1958 The Key - Captain David Ross
  1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai - Shears
  1956 Toward the Unknown - Maj. Lincoln Bond
  1956 The Proud and Profane - Lt. Col. Colin Black
  1956 Picnic - Hal Carter
  1955 Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing - Mark Elliott
  1954 The Bridges at Toko-Ri - Lt. Harry Brubaker
  1954 The Country Girl - Bernie Dodd
  1954 Sabrina - David Larrabee
  1954 Executive Suite - McDonald Walling
  1953 Escape from Fort Bravo - Capt. Roper
  1953 Forever Female - Stanley Krown
  1953 Die Jungfrau auf dem Dach - Tourist (uncredited)
  1953 The Moon Is Blue - Donald Gresham
  1953 Stalag 17 - Sgt. J.J. Sefton
  1952 The Turning Point - Jerry McKibbon
  1952 Boots Malone - Boots Malone
  1951 Submarine Command - Lt. Cmdr. Ken White
  1951 Force of Arms - Sgt. John 'Pete' Peterson
  1950 Born Yesterday - Paul Verrall
  1950 Union Station - Lt. William Calhoun
  1950 Sunset Blvd. - Joe Gillis
  1950 Father Is a Bachelor - Johnny Rutledge
  
  1949 Dear Wife - Bill Seacroft
  1949 Miss Grant Takes Richmond - Dick Richmond
  1949 Streets of Laredo - Jim Dawkins
  1948 The Man from Colorado - Del Stewart
  1948 The Dark Past - Al Walker
  1948 Apartment for Peggy - Jason Taylor
  1948 Rachel and the Stranger - Big Davey
  1947 Variety Girl - William Holden
  1947 Dear Ruth - Lt. William Seacroft
  1947 Blaze of Noon - Colin McDonald
  1943 Reconnaissance Pilot (Documentary short) - Lt. Packard A. Cummings (uncredited)
  1943 Young and Willing - Norman Reese
  1942 Meet the Stewarts - Michael Stewart
  1942 The Remarkable Andrew - Andrew Long
  1942 The Fleet's In - Casey Kirby
  1941 Texas - Dan Thomas
  1941 I Wanted Wings - Al Ludlow
  1940 Arizona - Peter Muncie
  1940 Our Town - George Gibbs
  1940 Those Were the Days! - P.J. 'Petey' Simmons
  
  1939 Invisible Stripes - Tim Taylor
  1939 Golden Boy - Joe Bonaparte
  1939 Million Dollar Legs - Graduate Who Says 'Thank You' (uncredited)
  1938 Prison Farm - Prisoner (uncredited)
  
  Soundtrack (6 credits)
  
  1971 Wild Rovers (performer: "Ballad of the Wild Rovers" - uncredited)
  1956 Picnic (performer: "Moonglow" - uncredited)
  1950 Sunset Blvd. (performer: "La Cumparsita" (1916) - uncredited)
  1947 Variety Girl ("HARMONY")
  1940 Arizona (performer: "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair" (1854), "Kiss Me Quick and Go" (1856) - uncredited)
  1939 Golden Boy (performer: "Lullaby (Cradle Song)", "Funiculi, Funicula")

  
  

  1984: A View to Kill films OO7 and Stacey in elevator peril.
  
  1995: GoldenEye cast including Pierce Brosnan attend the Second Annual James Bond Convention, New York.

  
  http://pbfiles.net/goldeneye/ge-press05.html?i=1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  promotional comic
  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough premieres in Singapore.
  
  2002: Warner Bros. Records releases David Arnold's Die Another Day soundtrack.

  
  
  Now expanded.
  

  
  2015: Spectre released in Australia, Greece, and Uruguay.
  
  2020: No Time To Die planned UK premiere date in UK, fourth attempt.

  
  
  
  
  

  2020: The most expensive bikini in the world goes to auction in Los Angeles, California.

  

  The most expensive bikini in the
  world will be auctioned off!

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.bikiniartmuseum.com/gewinnspiel

  Ursula Andress white belted bikini from James Bond "007 chases Dr. No" comes under the hammer in Los Angeles Several hundred props from Hollywood blockbusters will be auctioned online in Los Angeles on November 12. The sensation is that the legendary bikini by Ursula Andress from James Bond "007 chases Dr. No" will also change hands. The bikini achieved cult status when Ursula Andress climbed out of the sea in 1962 as a honey rider and is one of the most famous film scenes of all time. The episode promoted the worldwide triumphal march of the bikini, which like no other piece of clothing had divided the minds and caused turmoil. The bikini had already come under the hammer at an auction of the British auction house Christie's in 2001 for the equivalent of 45,000 Euros. This time the bikini is to be auctioned for a multiple.
  
  The BikiniARTmuseum will also participate in the auction of the auctioneers "Profiles in History" in Los Angeles for several swimwear exhibits.
  
  Closing date: Thursday, 12.11.2020, 20 hrs

  Guess what auction price the James Bond bikini will fetch?
  The winner is the person who guesses the exact auction price or comes closest to it. In the event of several correct answers, the winner will be decided by drawing lots.
  
  My guess is that the James Bond bikini for
  _____________ Dollar is auctioned off.

  
  
  

  
  
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  November 13th
  
  1923: Linda Christian is born--Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico.
  (She dies 25 July 2011 at age 87--Palm Desert, California.)

  

  Linda Christian obituary
  B-movie actor who could lay claim to having been the first Bond
  girl

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jul/26/linda-christian-obituary

  
  Linda Christian’s first ambition was to become a doctor,
  but her outstanding beauty led her into the movies.
  Photograph: Bob Landry/Time & Life Pictures

  
  The phrase "famous for being famous" could have been invented for Linda Christian, who has died aged 87. Her celebrity came from her marriages to the handsome film stars Tyrone Power and Edmund Purdom, and her liaisons with various wealthy playboys and bullfighters, rather than her somewhat limited acting ability.
  
  Christian's extravagant, cosmopolitan lifestyle derived from her stunning beauty – she was dubbed "The Anatomic Bomb" by Life magazine – and her ability to speak fluent French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and English. She was born Blanca Rosa Welter in Tampico, Mexico, the daughter of a Dutch executive at Shell, and his Mexican-born wife of Spanish, German and French descent. As the family moved around a great deal, living in South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, she gained a taste for globetrotting.
  
  Christian's early ambition was to become a doctor, but after winning a beauty contest and meeting Errol Flynn in Acapulco, she was persuaded to try her luck in films in the US. She was soon cast as a Goldwyn Girl in the actor Danny Kaye's first feature film, Up in Arms (1944), and as a cigarette girl in Club Havana (1945), directed by Edgar G Ulmer. Then, with her name changed to Linda Christian, she signed a contract with MGM, which gave her a small decorative role in the musical Holiday in Mexico (1946), shot in Hollywood, and an exotic one in Green Dolphin Street (1947), as Lana Turner's Maori maid.
  
  At the time, Turner was having an affair with Power. Rumour has it that Christian overheard Turner say when Power was going to be in Rome. Christian decided to fly to Rome, stay at the same hotel and wangle a meeting with the dashing star. A romance led to Christian and Power getting married in January 1949 at a church in Rome while an estimated 8,000 screaming fans lined the street outside.
  
  Prior to the marriage, the only substantial role MGM had given Christian was as an island girl rescued by Tarzan from the clutches of an evil high priest in Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948), the 12th and final time Johnny Weissmuller played the Ape Man. Christian, wearing a skimpy two-piece costume, is referred to as a mermaid because she swims a lot.
  
  After marrying Power, Christian started to get a few leading roles in B-pictures such as Slaves of Babylon (1953), co-starring Richard Conte. More gratifying was her sitting for a portrait by the great Mexican artist Diego Rivera. The painting, reproduced on the cover of her autobiography, Linda (1962), and for which she was once offered $2m, is now in a private collection.

  In 1954, Christian played Valerie Mathis, James Bond's former lover now working for the French secret service, in a CBS television version of Ian Fleming's Casino Royale, therefore allowing her to lay claim to being the first Bond girl. At this time, the movie fan magazines were full of photos of Power and Christian as a blissfully married couple with two daughters, while the gossip columns intimated that both husband and wife had strayed. In 1954, Christian played Purdom's snooty fiancee in the MGM musical Athena. Christian had been at the same school as Purdom's wife, the former ballerina Anita Phillips, and the Powers and the Purdoms became good friends, even going on holidays together. But soon sexual jealousy broke up the once cosy foursome. In 1956, Christian divorced Power, charging mental cruelty.

  After the divorce, there was no shortage of millionaires to help keep Christian in the manner to which she was accustomed. Once she was called to testify at a Los Angeles court because she refused to return jewels given to her by the socialite Robert H Schlesinger, whose cheque for $100,000, as partial payment for the jewels, had bounced. Christian was also involved with the racing driver Alfonso de Portago, with whom she was photographed a short while before he died in a crash at the 1957 Mille Miglia car race, in which several spectators were also killed. That year, she and the Brazilian mining millionaire Francisco "Baby" Pignatari went on an around-the-world tour together. In 1962 she married Purdom. They divorced the following year.
  
  Christian continued to appear in routine films such as The Devil's Hand (1962), as a seductive high priestess of voodoo, opposite her real-life sister Ariadna Welter. In Francesco Rosi's semi-documentary The Moment of Truth (1965), she played herself as an American in Barcelona who attracts a matador (the bullfighter Miguel Mateo Miguelín). During the filming, she fell for the bullfighter Luis Dominguín, the former lover of Ava Gardner.
  
  In 1968, Christian retired to Rome. She returned to cinema almost 20 years later, at the age of 64, in a couple of dreadful Italian thrillers.
  
  She is survived by her daughters, Taryn and Romina Power.
  
  • Linda Christian (Blanca Rosa Welter), actor, born 13 November 1923; died 22 July 2011

  

  Linda Christian (I) (1923–2011)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0160046/
  
  Filmography

  Actress (36 credits)
  
  1988 Cambiamento d'aria (TV Movie) - Linda Christian
  1987 Amore inquieto di Maria - Helen
  1987 Delitti - The Narrator
  
  1968 L'oro del mondo - Mother of Lorena
  1967 The World's Gold - Laura - mother of Lorena
  1966 How to Seduce a Playboy - Lucy's Mother
  1966 Murder in Amsterdam - Ellen Martens
  1965 The Boy and the Ball and the Hole in the Wall - Madre de Martha
  1965 The Moment of Truth - Linda, American woman
  1964 Contest Girl - Rose of England Judge (uncredited)
  1964 Full Hearts and Empty Pockets - Minelli
  1963 The V.I.P.s - Miriam Marshall
  1963 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Susan Lane
  - Last of the Private Eyes (1963) ... Susan Lane
  1963 The Lloyd Bridges Show (TV Series) - Taina Haagen
  - The Waltz of the Two Commuters (1963) ... Taina Haagen
  1963 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) - Eva Ashley
  - An Out for Oscar (1963) ... Eva Ashley
  1962 Passport for a Corpse - Eva
  1961 The Devil's Hand - Bianca Milan
  1960 Das große Wunschkonzert - Vilma Cortini
  1960 Appuntamento a Ischia - Mercedes Barock
  
  1959 Meet Peter Voss - Grace McNaughty
  1959 Rebel Flight to Cuba - Gräfin Colmar
  1959 The House of the Seven Hawks - Elsa
  1956 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - - A Piece of Cake (1956)
  1956 Thunderstorm - Maria Ramon
  1954 Athena - Beth Hallson
  1954 Climax! (TV Series) - Valerie Mathis
  - Casino Royale (1954) ... Valerie Mathis
  1953 Slaves of Babylon - Princess Panthea
  1952 The Happy Time - Mignonette Chappuis
  1952 Battle Zone - Jeanne
  1951 Show Boat - Chorus Girl (uncredited)
  
  1948 Tarzan and the Mermaids - Mara
  1947 Green Dolphin Street - Hine-Moa
  1946 Holiday in Mexico - Angel (uncredited)
  1945 Club Havana - Cigarette Girl (uncredited)
  1944 Up in Arms - Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
  1943 The Rock of Souls (as Linda Welter)

  
  
  Valerie Mathis and CIA Agent Jimmy Bond

  
  
  Diego Rivera painting.
  

  
  1952: Art Malik is born--Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
  
  1969: Gerard Butler is born--Paisley, Scotland.
  
  1986: Goldfinger re-released in Norway.
  
  1995: GoldenEye world premiere at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2001: Electronic Arts publishes video game Agent Under Fire for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube.

  
  
  

  2005: Draft US cover art for Blood Fever revealed, dropping the UK tagline "Death is contagious".

  

  2006: A&M releases the Chris Cornell single "You Know My Name" from his album Carry On.

  
  
  

  2008: A Quantum csendje (The Silence of Quantum) released in Hungary.

  

  
  2015: Spectre released in Cambodia and Ecuador.
  2015: 幽灵 released in China in an edited form.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2019: The Sunday Times Driving shares "James Bond stunt team provide toughest test of all for new Land Rover" with the promotional video.

  

  James Bond stunt
  team provide
  toughest test of all
  for new Land Rover
  Defender

  Nobody punishes it better
  https://www.driving.co.uk/video/james-bond-stunt-team-provide-toughest-test-new-land-rover-defender/
  Published 13 November 2019 by Will Dron
  
  WHATEVER your thoughts on the all-new Land Rover Defender, the 4×4 has been put through some serious testing during its development, covering more than 745,000 miles in some of the most extreme environments around the world, where temperature ranged from -40C to 50C and the altitude reached 10,000ft. But nothing could have prepared it for what the James Bond stunt team had in store.
  
  A new teaser video released by Land Rover shows Lee Morrison, stunt co-ordinator for No Time To Die, the 25th official James Bond film, and stunt driver Jess Hawkins doing their absolute best to punish the Defender.
  
  Behind the scenes of Stunt Coordinator Lee Morrison with the New Land Rover Defender featured in No Time To Die
  
  Land Rover says its design team worked closely with Chris Corbould, the special effects and action vehicles supervisor, on the specification of the Defenders to feature in the movie.
  
  The cars used were the first Defenders to be built at Jaguar Land Rover’s new production facility in Nitra, Slovakia, and based on the Defender X model in Santorini Black, with darkened skid pans, 20in dark finish wheels and professional off-road tyres.
  
  Behind the scenes image of the New Land Rover Defender featured in No Time To Die
  
  No Time To Die, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and starring Daniel Craig, who returns for his fifth film as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007, will be released globally in cinemas in April 2020.
  
  It will also feature the Range Rover Sport SVR, Series III Land Rover and Range Rover Classic, as well as a host of models from other brands including the Jaguar XF, Aston Martin Valhalla supercar and, of course, the legendary Aston Martin DB5.

  
  
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  November 2020 Posts: 13,787

  November 14th
  
  1966: Bond comic strip Octopussy begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 27 May 1967. 264-428) Yaroslav Horak,artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/op.php3
  
  
  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=996
  
  
  https://www.007collector.com/comic-octopussy-2/
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Barcelona James Bond numero 04: Octopussy
  https://en.todocoleccion.net/comics/james-bond-numero-04-octopussy~x116600976
  
  
  https://www.007collector.com/comic-jb007-no-16/
  Italian James Bond Comic Series Number 16 ‘Octopussy’
  
  
  JAMES BOND DI IAN FLEMING. OCTOPUSSY. N. 112. ED. C. CONTI, 1977. ITALIANO
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

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

  
  Danish 1969 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no16-1969/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 16: “Octopussy” (1969)
  ”Undervandsdøden” [The Underwater Death]
  

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

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 42: “Octopussy” (1977)
  "Undervandsdøden" [The death underwater]
  
  
  
  
  

  1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service's films OO7 and more cowbell.
  
  1972: Live and Let Die begins filming on location in Jamaica.
  1979: Olga Kurylenko is born--Berdyansk, Zaporozhye Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.
  (Today known as Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine.)
  
  1995: EMI releases Éric Serra's GoldenEye soundtrack.

  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale Royal Premiere at the Odeon Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Kuwait.
  2006: Sony Classical releases David Arnold's Casino Royale soundtrack.

  
  
  

  2008: Quantum of Solace released in Morocco (Casablanca), Kenya, Pakistan, and the US.

  

  

  

  2008: 007 Quantum (French title) and Quantum of Solace released in Canada.
  2008: 007 Quantum released in Mexico.

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  2008: Định Mức Khuây Khỏa (Comfort Rate) released in Vietnam.

  

  
  2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origin #3.

  

  James Bond Origin #3

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027244703011
  Cover A: John Cassaday
  Cover B: Declan Shalvey
  Cover C: Kev Walker
  Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Cover E: Bob Q
  Writer: Jeff Parker
  Art: Bob Q

  "CHAPTER THREE: ROCKET SEA"
  The epic account of James Bond's exploits during World War II continues, by superstar JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger)!
  Aboard a Royal Navy submarine, Lieutenant James Bond and crew encounter deadly German warships and bombers! Can the British crew keep their nerve and evade...or will they sink into a watery grave?

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: The Royal Wellington Golf Club, New Zealand, hosts A Very 007 Affair.

  
  

  A Very 007 Affair – Nov 14

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.royalwellington.com/cms/events/event/a-very-007-affair/

  This event is on 14 November 2020 7:00pm
  
  Book transport
  https://www.royalwellington.com/members/bookings/open/event.open.action.xsp?booking_event_id=1510452171&booking_resource_id=3000000#self
  
  Book ticket
  https://www.royalwellington.com/members/bookings/open/event.open.action.xsp?booking_event_id=1510382056&booking_resource_id=3000000#self

  The President is pleased to present
  
  A Very 007 Affair
  
  A James Bond Experience
  
  November 14, 2020

  A James Bond themed event open to all; an evening promising surprising entertainment, drinks, food and live music. All tickets are $160 each and are strictly limited to 200, so reserve yours fast to avoid missing out on a fantastic evening.

  2020: The Sean Connery James Bond Festival at the Hornsby Odeon, Australia, features From Russia With Love.

  

  Sean Connery James Bond
  Festival at the Hornsby Odeon

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/2020/11/01/sean-connery-james-bond-festival-at-the-hornsby-odeon/

  On 1 Nov, 2020 By Bond on the BoxIn Film Screenings
  
  

  Hornsby Odeon Cinema The Hornsby Odeon will honour the
  legacy of the late Sean Connery, with
  the Sean Connery James Bond
  Festival, from 12 – 21 November, 2020.
  
  
  Screening Schedule:
  
  Thursday, 12 November
  ‘Dr. No’ (1962)
  12:45 PM // 6:45 PM (AEST)

  Saturday, 14 November
  ‘From Russia with Love’ (1963)
  4:25 PM (AEST)

  Monday, 16 November
  ‘Goldfinger’ (1964)
  12:10 PM // 6:55 PM (AEST)
  
  Tuesday, 17 November
  ‘Thunderball’ (1965)
  12:10 PM // 6:55 PM (AEST)
  
  Wednesday, 18 November
  ‘You Only Live Twice’ (1967)
  12:10 PM // 6:55 PM (AEST)
  
  Thursday, 19 November
  ‘Diamonds Are Forever’ (1971)
  
  Saturday, 21 November
  ‘Never Say Never Again’ (1983)]

  
  
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  November 15th
  
  1939: Yaphet Kotto is born--New York City, New York.
  (He dies 15 March 2021 at age 81--The Philippines.)

  

  Yaphet Kotto, Bond Villain and ‘Alien’
  Star, Dies at 81

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/arts/yaphet-kotto-dead.html

  Well known for playing hardened personalities, he was also seen in movies like “Midnight Run” and the TV show “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
  

  
  Yaphet Kotto with Sigourney Weaver in the 1979 film “Alien,” in which he played
  a member of a spaceship crew doing battle with an extraterrestrial creature.
  Credit...20th Century Fox, via Associated Press

  
  By Neil Genzlinger | March 16, 2021

  Yaphet Kotto, a versatile actor whose many roles included the wisecracking engineer in the hit science-fiction film “Alien,” the villainous adversary in the James Bond movie “Live and Let Die” and a police lieutenant on the long-running television series “Homicide: Life on the Street,” died on Monday near Manila. He was 81.

  His agent, Ryan Goldhar, confirmed the death but said he did not know the cause. Mr. Kotto had lived in the Philippines for some years.
  
  Mr. Kotto worked mostly in the theater for the first decade or so of his career. His bodily size made him a dominating figure in any sort of role, though it tended to bring him parts as a heavy.
  
  “I’m always called powerful, bulky or imposing,” he told The Baltimore Sun in 1993, when “Homicide: Life on the Street” made its debut. “Or they say I fill up a room. I’m a 200-pound, 6-foot 3-inch Black guy. And I think I have this image of a monster. It’s very difficult.”
  

  https://static01.nyt.com/images/2021/03/16/world/16xp-kotto-2/merlin_185107449_2d104fce-156b-4003-9df1-341bf22b7253-jumbo.jpg?quality=90&auto=webp
  Mr. Kotto as a police lieutenant on the long-running TV series “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
  Credit...James Sorensen/NBC Universal, via Getty Images

  
  In 1969, still largely unknown, he had the formidable task of replacing James Earl Jones on Broadway in “The Great White Hope,” Howard Sackler’s drama based on the life of the boxer Jack Johnson. Mr. Jones had won a Tony Award for his portrayal of the lead character, who in the play is named Jack Jefferson. Mr. Kotto stepped into the role as the production entered its second year, and Clive Barnes, taking a fresh look at the show in The New York Times, was impressed.
  
  “I had never even heard of the Hollywood-based Mr. Kotto,” he wrote. “But luckily someone had, for this is inspired casting, and Mr. Kotto will never be unheard-of again.”
  
  It was two decades before he returned to the stage, and again it was as something of a shadow to Mr. Jones, who had received another Tony playing Troy Maxson in August Wilson’s “Fences” in 1987. Mr. Kotto tackled the role in 1990 at Arena Stage in Washington, again drawing raves.
  
  “Setting the tone throughout is the thunderous Mr. Kotto,” Hap Erstein wrote of that production in The Washington Times, “a caged animal pacing the backyard, a bullying brute more expressive with his hands than his words. Away from the theater for many years pursuing film and TV work, he makes a scorching return to the stage.”
  

  
  Mr. Kotto with Roger Moore in the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die.”
  It was Mr. Moore’s first film as Bond, and one of Mr. Kotto’s best-known movie roles.
  Credit...MGM/UA Entertainment

  In between those stage appearances, two movie roles in the 1970s particularly elevated Mr. Kotto’s his profile. The first, in 1973, was in “Live and Let Die,” Roger Moore’s debut as James Bond. Mr. Kotto played his chief nemesis, a dual role in which he was both a corrupt Caribbean dictator and that character’s alter ago, a drug trafficker named Mr. Big.
  Then, in 1979, came “Alien,” Ridley Scott’s outer-space horror classic, in which Mr. Kotto’s character, Parker, was part of a spaceship crew doing battle with a nasty extraterrestrial creature.
  
  “The combination punch for my career of ‘Live and Let Die’ and ‘Alien’ was like wham, bam!” he told The Canadian Press in 2003, adding that those wildly different roles showcased his versatility. “I think the only other person who has a combination like that is Harrison Ford.”

  
  Yaphet Frederick Kotto was born on Nov. 15, 1939, in Harlem and grew up in the Bronx. His father, he told The Baltimore Jewish Times in 1995, was from Cameroon and jumped ship as a merchant seaman, ending up in New York; his mother, he said, was of Panamanian and West Indian descent. His father had adopted Judaism, and his mother was Roman Catholic. The couple separated when Mr. Kotto was a child, and he was raised by his maternal grandparents.
  
  Mr. Kotto said his career path was set by a fateful trip to the movies.
  
  “One day, when I was about 16, I walked into this theater showing ‘On the Waterfront’ and I saw Marlon Brando for the first time,” he told The Orange County Register of California in 1994. “I couldn’t speak. It was like somebody had punched me in the stomach. It was like someone had crashed cymbals in both ears. I was blasted out of the theater. I knew from that moment that I wanted to be an actor.”
  
  The actress Judy Holliday saw him in a stage production and became a mentor, he said, “moving me around like furniture, telling me what to eat.” He said his knowledge of Yiddish earned him his only other Broadway credit, in the 1965 production of “The Zulu and the Zayda,” a comedy about a Jewish grandfather who settles in South Africa.
  
  Mr. Kotto received an Emmy nomination for his performance as Idi Amin, the Ugandan strongman, in the 1977 television movie “Raid on Entebbe.” He appeared opposite Robert Redford in the prison movie “Brubaker” in 1980.
  
  In the 1988 action-comedy “Midnight Run,” starring Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin, he played the F.B.I. agent Alonzo Mosely, whose stolen ID becomes fodder for a running joke. And in “The Running Man,” a dystopian 1987 thriller set in what was then the near future (2019), Mr. Kotto played a resistance fighter alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in a fascist version of America.
  
  Mr. Kotto married three times, Mr. Goldhar said. He and Thessa Sinahon, who is from the Philippines, married in 1998. A full list of survivors was not immediately available.
  
  Mr. Kotto was always conscious of the image projected by his roles, something that led him to reject certain ones.
  
  “I was offered a part in ‘Glory’” — a 1989 movie about a Black company commanded by a white office in the Civil War — “which I refused, because for me it purported to be about a Black experience and was really about the white guy,” he told The Globe and Mail of Canada in 1994. “Do you see me taking orders like that? I couldn’t see myself in ‘Driving Miss Daisy’ either, playing the chauffeur, taking it from some old lady. Some other actor may be able to put that on and make it look real, but I couldn’t do it.”
  
  “Homicide,” a police series that was innovative for its time, was a career high point, running for seven seasons. But things started off badly, Mr. Kotto said.
  
  “The script was so good and the camera work was so different than what I was used to that I forgot my lines,” he told The Register. “I was really embarrassed. That had never happened to me before.
  
  “But the other actors came over to me and told me the same thing had happened to them.”
  
  Mike Ives contributed reporting.
  
  Neil Genzlinger is a writer for the Obituaries Desk. Previously he was a television, film and theater critic. @genznyt
  

  

  Yaphet Kotto (1939–2021)

  Actor | Writer | Director
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001433/
  

  
  
  
  

  
  1972: Live and Let Die films Rosie Carver's death by scarecrow.
  
  1999: Radioactive releases "The World Is Not Enough" as a limited-edition digipak CD single and a cassette single in the UK. Both include "Ice Bandits". CD adds remix by Unkle.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2005: From Russia with Love video game published by Electronic Arts in the US for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and PlayStation Portable.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale released in the Bahrain, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Jordan, Oman, and the Philippines.
  
  2011: Michael Alexander Olson (of Williams Lake, British Columbia, Canada) completes Goldeneye 007's Antenna Cradle in record time on Nintendo 64.

  

  2012: The New York Times prints Edward Rothstein's "No, Mr. Bond, We Expect You to Die".

  
  https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/16/arts/design/exquisitely-evil-bond-villains-at-international-spy-museum.html?ref=todayspaper
  

  2012: Skyfall released in Cambodia.
  2013: Danjaq, LLC and MGM announce they acquired full rights to Blofeld and SPECTRE from the McClory estate.
  
  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Kill Chain #5.

  

  JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #5 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017805011
  Cover A: Greg Smallwood
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Publication Date: November 2017
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 11/15

  As NATO tears itself apart from within, 007 is declared Europe's most wanted man. Hunted by SMERSH and the CIA, he must infiltrate a nuclear airbase to learn the secrets of Operation Hooded Falcon before Europe erupts into all-out war!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: BBC Radio 4 airs its radio drama Thunderball, check local listings.
  
  
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  RichardTheBruce wrote: »

  November 15th
  
  2005: From Russia with Love video game published by Electronic Arts in the US for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and PlayStation Portable.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Great game, that one. A bit underrated perhaps.
  

  RichardTheBruce wrote: »

  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Kill Chain #5.

  

  JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #5 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017805011
  Cover A: Greg Smallwood
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Publication Date: November 2017
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 11/15

  As NATO tears itself apart from within, 007 is declared Europe's most wanted man. Hunted by SMERSH and the CIA, he must infiltrate a nuclear airbase to learn the secrets of Operation Hooded Falcon before Europe erupts into all-out war!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Haven't read Kill Chain yet, but have seen all the pages and it looks like the most brutal/bloody story of the lot.
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  November 2020 Posts: 13,787

  November 16th
  
  1942: Joanna Pettet is born--Westminster, London.
  
  1968: Yildirim Harekati (Lightning Strike) released in Turkey.

  
  
  
  

  Apparently there was also a sequel.

  

  
  1986: The Los Angeles Times reports only minor changes to the finished script for The Living Daylights since the casting of Timothy Dalton.
  
  1995: L'oeil de feu (The Eye of Fire) released in Canada.

  
  

  1999: Electronic Arts releases Tomorrow Never Dies video game in North America for Sony PlayStation.

  
  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough premieres in Malaysia.
  
  2006: Casino Royale released in the UK, Ireland, Czech Republic, Greece, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Singapore, and Syria.

  
  
  

  2006: James Bond: Casino Royale released in Slovakia.
  2006: Казино Рояль released in Russia.
  2006: 007: Казино Рояль released in Ukraine.

  
  

  
  2012: Skyfall premieres in Sydney, Australia, at the State Theatre.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2012: The International Spy Museum in Washington DC opens its Exquisitely Evil: 50 Years of Bond Villains exhibit.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Adrian Harrington Ltd. publish Ian Fleming and James Bond by Jon Gilbert.

  

  Ian Fleming and James Bond. Manuscripts in The Schøyen Collection
  Series 32. [Silver]
  GILBERT, Jon (born 1972).

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  November 17th
  
  1905: Teru Shimada is born--Mito, Japan.
  (He dies 19 June 1988 at age 82--Encino, California.)

  

  Teru Shimada

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teru_Shimada
  
  Born Akira Shimada, November 17, 1905 - Mito, Ibaraki, Japan
  Died June 19, 1988 (aged 82) - Encino, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
  Occupation Actor, Years active 1932–1975

  Teru Shimada (November 17, 1905 – June 19, 1988) was a Japanese American actor who was cast most famously as Mr. Osato, a SPECTRE agent in the 1967 James Bond film, You Only Live Twice. His film career began in 1932 with the Night Club Lady. He appeared with Peter Lorre in the 1939 classic Mr. Moto's Last Warning. Another notable role was opposite Humphrey Bogart in the 1949 film, Tokyo Joe. He had an uncredited role in 20th Century Fox's 1966 film Batman as a Japanese Delegate and as Mr. Kurawa in Cary Grant's final film, Walk, Don't Run. He also appeared in an episode (titled "And Five of Us are Left") of the 1960s American television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea in 1965. That year he also made a guest appearance on Perry Mason as Dr. Maseo Tachikawa in "The Case of the Baffling Bug" and as Ito Kumagi in the 1962 episode "The Case of the Capricious Corpse". In 1970, he had had a leading role in an episode of Hawaii Five-O (titled "The Reunion"). He later retired in the mid-1970s following appearances in Barnaby Jones and The Six Million Dollar Man and died in Encino, Los Angeles, California in 1988.

  During World War II, Shimada was interned at the Poston War Relocation Center. He is buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

  

  Teru Shimada (1905–1988)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0793574/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (74 credits)
  
  1975 The Six Million Dollar Man (TV Series) - Shige Ishikawa
  - The Wolf Boy (1975) ... Shige Ishikawa
  1975 Barnaby Jones (TV Series) - Hidekei Ito
  - The Deadly Conspiracy: Part 2 (1975) ... Hidekei Ito
  1971 To Rome with Love (TV Series) - Mr. Okada
  - Bonsai (1971) ... Mr. Okada
  1970 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Shigato
  - The Reunion (1970) ... Shigato
  1970 The Doris Day Show (TV Series) - Mr. Orokumu
  - Doris Leaves Today's World: Part 2 (1970) ... Mr. Orokumu
  1970 Which Way to the Front? - Japanese Naval Officer (uncredited)
  1970 Family Affair (TV Series) - Mr. Osaki
  - Mr. Osaki's Tree (1970) ... Mr. Osaki
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  1968 The Felony Squad (TV Series) - Mr. Namura
  - Hostage (1968) ... Mr. Namura
  1968 Mannix (TV Series) - Gardener
  - The Need of a Friend (1968) ... Gardener
  1968 Judd for the Defense (TV Series) - Judge Hara
  - Transplant (1968) ... Judge Hara
  1968 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Mr. Tsu
  - When Good Friends Get Together (1968) ... Mr. Tsu
  1967 The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Chinese Junk - Mr. Pan
  1967 Savage Justice - Tom Hirata
  1967 You Only Live Twice - Mr. Osato
  1966 Batman: The Movie
  Japanese Delegate (uncredited)
  1966 Walk Don't Run - Mr. Kurawa
  1965 The Wackiest Ship in the Army (TV Series) - Capt. Osama
  - I'm Dreaming of a Wide Isthmus (1965) ... Capt. Osama
  1965 I Spy (TV Series) - Mr. Okura
  - Tigers of Heaven (1965) ... Mr. Okura
  1962-1965 Perry Mason (TV Series) - Dr. Maseo Tachikawa / Ito Kumagi
  - The Case of the Baffling Bug (1965) ... Dr. Maseo Tachikawa
  - The Case of the Capricious Corpse (1962) ... Ito Kumagi
  1965 King Rat - The Japanese General
  1965 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (TV Series) - Nakamura
  - ...And Five of Us Are Left (1965) ... Nakamura
  1965 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - President Sing-Mok
  - Alexander the Greater Affair: Part Two (1965) ... President Sing-Mok
  1965 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Japanese Captain
  - A Time for Killing (1965) ... Japanese Captain
  1963 The Prize - Japanese Correspondent (uncredited)
  1963 Sunday in New York - Maitre 'd (uncredited)
  1963 Hazel (TV Series) - Mr. Nakuro Isaka
  - A Good Example for Harold (1963) ... Mr. Nakuro Isaka
  1962 Checkmate (TV Series) - Ling Chow
  - In a Foreign Quarter (1962) ... Ling Chow
  1962 The Horizontal Lieutenant - Master of Ceremonies at Show (uncredited)
  1962 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series) - Takara - Board Game Opponent
  - Coming of the Tiger (1962) ... Takara - Board Game Opponent
  1961 Follow the Sun (TV Series) - Captain Suma
  - The Longest Crap Game in History (1961) ... Captain Suma
  1961 Laramie (TV Series) - Kami
  - Dragon at the Door (1961) ... Kami
  1960-1961 The Islanders (TV Series) - Kam Chuh / Regas
  - The Strange Courtship of Danny Koo (1961) ... Kam Chuh
  - The Terrified Blonde (1960) ... Regas
  1961 Assignment: Underwater (TV Series) - - Affair in Tokyo (1961)
  1960 The Wackiest Ship in the Army - Maj. Samada
  1960 Hong Kong (TV Series) - Colonel Okumara
  - Colonel Cat (1960) ... Colonel Okumara
  1960 Hawaiian Eye (TV Series) - Noburu
  - Sword of the Samurai (1960) ... Noburu
  1960 The Detectives (TV Series) - Mr. Harada
  - Karate (1960) ... Mr. Harada
  
  1959 The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (TV Series) - Osato
  - The Ricardos Go to Japan (1959) ... Osato
  1959 Battle of the Coral Sea - Comm. Mori
  1959 Tokyo After Dark - Sen-Sei
  1959 Steve Canyon (TV Series) - Major Fukuda
  - The Prisoner (1959) ... Major Fukuda
  1958 The Geisha Boy - Osakawa, Japanese Detective (uncredited)
  1958 Run Silent Run Deep - Japanese Submarine Commander (uncredited)
  1956-1957 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Kiyoshi Arikawa / Kiyoshi
  - Innocent Conspiracy (1957) ... Kiyoshi Arikawa
  - The Pearl (1956) ... Kiyoshi
  1956-1957 Navy Log (TV Series) - Patriarch / Judge Toyama
  - The Commander and the Kid (1957) ... Patriarch
  - A Guy Called Mickey (1956) ... Judge Toyama
  1957 The Delicate Delinquent - Togo's Japanese Interpreter (uncredited)
  1957 Battle Hymn - Korean Official
  1956 Navy Wife - Mayor Yoshida
  1956 Telephone Time (TV Series)
  - Time Bomb (1956)
  1956 Cavalcade of America (TV Series)
  - Call Home the Heart (1956)
  1955 House of Bamboo - Nagaya (uncredited)
  1954 The Bridges at Toko-Ri - Japanese Father (uncredited)
  1954 The Snow Creature - Subra
  1953 The War of the Worlds - Japanese Diplomat (uncredited)
  1950 Emergency Wedding - Ho (uncredited)
  
  1949 Tokyo Joe - Ito
  1944 Dragon Seed - Villager (uncredited)
  1941 They Met in Bombay - Japanese Colonel (uncredited)
  
  1939 Mr. Moto's Last Warning - Fake Mr. Moto (uncredited)
  1936 White Legion - Dr. Nogi (as Teru Shumada)
  1936 Revolt of the Zombies - Buna
  1935 The Affair of Susan - Spieler (uncredited)
  1935 Oil for the Lamps of China - Tea House Owner (uncredited)
  1935 Public Hero Number 1 - Sam - Sonny's Japanese Houseboy (uncredited)
  1935 Let 'em Have It - Chinese Houseboy (uncredited)
  1935 Bordertown - Law School Graduate (uncredited)
  1934 Imitation of Life - Japanese Customer in Pancake Shop (uncredited)
  1934 Charlie Chan's Courage - Jiu Jitsu Man
  1934 Murder at the Vanities - Koto (uncredited)
  1934 Four Frightened People - Native (uncredited)
  1933 Midnight Club - Nishi (uncredited)
  1933 Gabriel Over the White House - Japanese Admiral at Debt Conference (uncredited)
  1932 The Night Club Lady - Ito Mura (uncredited)
  1932 The Washington Masquerade - Japanese Dignitary (uncredited)
  
  Self (2 credits)
  
  2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Mr. Osato
  1967 Whicker's World (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - The World of James Bond (1967) ... Himself

  
  

  
  1936: John Campbell Wells is born--Ashford, Kent, England.
  (He dies 11 January 1998 at age 61--London, England.)

  

  John Wells (satirist)

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  John Wells
  
  From John Wells and the Three Wise Men
  (produced by Open Media in 1988)

  Born - John Campbell Wells, 17 November 1936, Ashford, Kent, England
  Died 11 January 1998 (aged 61), London, England
  Occupation Actor, writer and satirist

  John Campbell Wells (17 November 1936 – 11 January 1998) was an English actor, writer and satirist.
  
  Early life
  The son of a clergyman, Wells was born in Ashford, Kent in 1936. He was educated at Eastbourne College and St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
  
  Career
  Wells started in cabaret at Oxford and began his television career as a writer on That Was The Week That Was, the 1960s weekly satire show that launched the careers of David Frost and Millicent Martin, among others, and also appeared in the television programme Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, as well as in The Secret Policeman's Other Ball. Besides making cameo appearances in films such as Casino Royale (1967) and Rentadick (1972), television dramas like Casanova (1987), an episode of Lovejoy (1991) and comedy shows like Yes Minister, he also wrote television scripts and screenplays, such as Princess Caraboo (1994).
  
  In 1971, with John Fortune, he published the comedy classic A Melon for Ecstasy, about a man who consummates his love affair with a tree. Wells played the headmaster of Thursgood's Preparatory School in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979).
  
  Wells was one of the original contributors to the satirical magazine Private Eye and contributed to Mrs Wilson's Diary, the long-running spoof journal of the wife of Prime Minister Harold Wilson. From 1979 he repeated that success with Dear Bill, a series of letters (co-written with Richard Ingrams) supposedly sent by Denis Thatcher, husband of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to Bill Deedes. Wells developed the feature into a stage farce, Anyone for Denis?, first performed in 1981, in which he played Denis Thatcher. Co-starring Angela Thorne as Mrs. Thatcher, the play was a major West End hit, toured the UK and was adapted for television. Wells also played Denis Thatcher in the Bond movie For Your Eyes Only (1981). In 1991, he and Thorne again played the Thatchers in Dunrulin, a one-off TV sitcom-like satirical look at the couple in retirement. He also voiced Arnold the Elephant, Edward the Monkey and Bert in the children's TV series Charlie Chalk.
  
  In 1988, Leonard Bernstein started working on a new version of his much-revised operetta Candide. The author of the original book, Hugh Wheeler, had died, and John Wells was asked to help revise the text.[3] The first production of this "final version", by Scottish Opera, was followed by a "final revised version" in 1989, performances of which have been released on CD and DVD. An insert in the DVD ("Bernstein and Voltaire"), written by Wells, explained what Bernstein had wanted in this final revised version.
  
  In 1997 Wells appeared in the BBC situation comedy Chalk as ineffectual headmaster Richard Nixon.[4] His fellow cast members do not recall him being ill on set, but he was too unwell to participate in the second series.[5]
  
  Wells' last book, House of Lords, was a best-seller and published a year before his death in 1998. The book is a historical and humorous study of the British peerage system.
  
  Personal life
  From 1982, Wells was the second husband of Teresa Chancellor (daughter of Sir Christopher and sister of Alexander). His daughter Dolly is an actress.
  
  Wells died of cancer in London in 1998 at the age of 61.
  
  Filmography

  Title Year Role Notes
  [qu]Casino Royale 1967 'Q's' assistant [/u]
  The Bobo 1967 Pompadour Major Domo
  30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia 1968 Honorable Gavin Hopton
  
  Every Home Should Have One 1970 Tolworth
  Rentadick 1972 Owltruss
  
  For Your Eyes Only 1981 Denis Thatcher
  Bullshot 1983 American Scientist
  Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes 1984 Sir Evelyn Blount
  Revolution 1985 Corty
  Consuming Passions 1988 Dr. Forrester
  
  Princess Caraboo 1994 Reverend Hunt
  Gulliver's Travels 1996 Flimnap the Treasurer TV Mini-Series, 1 episode

  
  
  
  

  
  1966: Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu (Sophie Marceau) is born--Paris, France.
  
  1982: Octopussy films OO7 fighting Mischka and Grischka.
  
  1995: GoldenEye general release in the US.

  
  
  

  
  2002: Frank McCarthy dies at age 78--Sedona, Arizona.
  (Born 30 March 1924--New York City, New York.)

  

  Frank C. McCarthy

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

  

  
  Frank C. McCarthy, the world of Western Art has lost a great talent and leader. Internationally known artist, Frank C. McCarthy passed away from lung cancer, Sunday, November 17, 2002 at his home of 30 years in the beautiful red rocks of Sedona, Arizona. Frank McCarthy was born in New York City in 1924. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City during the summers starting at the age of 14. He was a graduate of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Frank McCarthy began his art career as a commercial illustrator. He painted illustrations for most of the paperback book publishers, magazines, movie companies, and advertisements. He created works that became posters for such movies as the James Bond series.
  
  Frank McCarthy's talents were highly sought after by art directors enabling him to work as a free lance illustrator for many years. His art career spanned over 50 years, beginning with a request for a western cover for a magazine by an art director. He left the world of commercial art in 1968, and began his fine art career after moving to Sedona, Arizona. Frank McCarthy's dynamic paintings frequently featured the people of the west with a special emphasis on the Plains Indian, mountain men, and cavalry that made up the lore and lure of the old west. Appropriately entitled "the Dean of Western Action Painters", Frank McCarthy"s art was unsurpassed for its motion, drama, and absolute attention to accuracy and detail. Highly collected, and frequently imitated, Frank McCarthy's works were treasured throughout the world as classic examples of contemporary Western Art. Retrospective showings of Frank McCarthy's paintings have been held at the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas; the R.W. Norton Museum in Shreveport, La.; the Thomas Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Ok.; and in 1992, at the Cowboy Artist of America Museum in Kerrville, Texas. Frank McCarthy was invited to join the prestigious Cowboy Artists of America organizaton in 1975 and was an active member in the CAA group for 23 years.
  
  He was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 1997. Five books of his paintings have been published-1 hardbound, 3 softbound, and 1 leather limited edition book. Over 100 limited edition art prints of his paintings have been published since 1974 by Greenwich Workshop, Shelton, Ct. Survivors include: children by his late wife Mary Farendorf - daughter Mary Jean McCarthy Tyll of Dallas, Texas and son Kevin C. McCarthy of Durango, Colorado; six grandchildren; brother Henry and sister Gertude Shevlin both of Florida; and wife Cynthia Bennett of Sedona, Arizona. Cremation has taken place and private services were held. Memorial donations may be made to the Frank and Cynthia McCarthy Scholarship fund at Little Big Horn College, P.O. Box 370, Crow Agency, Mt. 59022. For further information, please contact Big Horn Galleries, 1167 Sheridan Ave. Cody, Wy 82414 (307) 527-7587.
  
  Published in The Arizona Republic on Dec. 8, 2002

  Note: on some projects Frank McCarthy worked with Robert McGinnis.
  
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  You Only Live Twice
  
  
  
  
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  
  
  Colonel Sun paperback
  
  
  Casino Royale
  
  
  Dr. No
  
  
  From Russia With Love
  
  
  Goldfinger
  
  
  Around the World Under the Sea
  
  
  Where Eagles Dare
  
  
  The Great Escape
  
  
  The Dirty Dozen
  
  
  
  Danger: Diabolik
  
  
  
  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Canada, Iceland, Poland, Turkey, and the US.

  
  

  2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Estonia.
  2006: Kazino Royale released in Lithuania and Latvia.

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  2006: 皇家赌场 (Huángjiā dǔchǎng; Royal Casino) released in Taiwan.

  
  

  
  2020: Hero Collector publishes 50 Greatest Bond Cars, Ben Robinson, editor.

  
  

  50 Greatest Bond Cars

  See the complete article here:
  

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  Out next week from Hero Collector, the ultimate resource on James Bond cars, 50 Greatest Bond Cars.
  
  Here's a selection of the lavish contents you can find in this new fully illustrated hardback book.
  
  50 legendary cars from 25 James Bond movies. The vehicles featured in this book were driven by – or pursued – the world's most celebrated spy. Stylish, fast, and especially equipped with state-of-the-art gadgets, each detailed graphic shows the key features that set them among the world's greatest cars. Includes the cars from No Time to Die movie starring Daniel Craig and Rami Malek.

  

  007 has driven some of the most exciting and iconic cars in movie history and he has been involved in some of the greatest car chases ever filmed. Famously, many of Bond’s cars have been modified by Q Branch, who fitted them with everything from machine guns, to bulletproof screens, mines, lasers and ejector seats. Some of Q’s cars can even turn into submarines or become invisible!
  
  Aston Martin DB5, Lotus Esprit, Ford Mustang, BMW Z8, Rolls-Royce, Cadillac, Ferrari, Jaguar, Alfa Romeo and many many more, with facts and figures plus their key scenes and stunts, these are the cars that made Bond history.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2020: The Music of James Bond & More performance at Herford, Germany. Other dates and locations run through March 2021.

  

  

  The Music of James Bond & More

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  November 18th
  
  1928: Mickey Mouse is born in the film short Steamboat Willy. (Known as Topolino--Baby Mouse-- in Italy.)

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1962: The Sunday Times prints the Ian Fleming piece "James Bond's Hardware. [The Guns of James Bond]".

  

  Lot 59 of 721:
  Two rare Ian Fleming appearances

  https://www.pbagalleries.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/442/lot/142155/Two-appearances-by-Ian-Fleming-in-The-Sunday-Times-Magazine

  
  

  1966: You Only Live Twice films OO7 infiltrating the volcano.
  
  1974: Chelsea Records releases Lulu's single "The Man with the Golden Gun".

  
  
  

  
  1988: Licence to KIll principal photography finishes. (Started 18 July.)
  
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Malaysia and Singapore.
  1999: Hodder & Stoughton publish Raymond Benson's novelization The World Is Not Enough.

  

  THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
  
  Greed, revenge, world domination
  through the power of oil,
  high-tech terrorism . . Only
  some of the ingredients of this
  latest 007 adventure which
  begins outside the Guggenheim
  Museum in Bilbao, Spain and
  continues with a spectacular
  high-speed boat chase up the
  Thames and an avalanche in
  the Caucasus Mountains before
  Bond faces a murderous enemy
  in Baku and a potential nuclear
  explosion in Turkey.
  
  Sir Robert King, a wealthy oil
  tycoon, is murdered in an
  unprecedented bombing at the
  Secret Intelligence Service's
  London headquarters. M takes
  the attack personally and sends
  James Bond to what was once
  the USSR to protect King's
  heiress, his beautiful and fiery
  daughter Elektra. For the
  bombing is the work of "Renard",
  the cruel and cunning terrorist
  who once kidnapped Elektra King
  and held her to ransom.
  
  With nuclear weapons expert Dr
  Christmas Jones at his
  side, Bond travels to the Caspian
  Sea - where a former enemy
  becomes a formidable
  ally - before the final dramatic
  confrontation in the
  claustrophobic confines of
  a nuclear submarine beneath the
  surface of the Bosphorus.
  
  THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH
  takes James Bond to new
  levels of danger, intrigue and
  non-stop action.
  

  
  RAYMOND BENSON
  is the author of HIGH TIME TO KILL,
  THE FACTS OD DEATH, ZERO MINUS
  TEN and the novelisation of the
  Bond film TOMORROW NEVER DIES.
  His first book, The James
  Bond Bedside Companion, was
  shortlisted for an Edgar Allan
  Poe Award for Best
  Biographical/Critical Work.
  A director of the Ian Fleming
  Foundation, he lives and works
  in the Chicago area.
  

  
  

  
  

  
  2002: Die Another Day world premiere at Royal Albert Hall, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2002: Electronic Arts publishes Nightfire in North America for PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and Game Boy Advance.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2003: Michael Arnold Kamen dies at age 55--London, England.
  (Born 15 April 1948--New York City, New York.)

  

  Michael Kamen

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/nov/21/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries

  Driven classical and pop composer
  Friday 21 November 2003 01:00
  
  Michael Kamen, composer: born New York 15 April 1948; married Sandra Keenan (two daughters); died London 18 November 2003.
  
  The extraordinary musical career of Michael Kamen was a testament not only to his talent and driven ambition, but also to a ceaseless passion and energy for his chosen course in life: following the twin paths of classical and pop music, he seemingly effortlessly balanced work as a composer, collaborator, performer, orchestrator and producer.
  
  On one hand, he was the driving force behind such fantastically ambitious projects as the 1994 Great Music Experience at Todaiji Temple in Nara, Japan, in aid of Unesco, to which Kamen not only brought Bob Dylan together with an orchestra for the first time, but also composed and conducted an overture for 350 performers including a symphony orchestra, 200 Buddhist monks, 35 Kodo Japanese drummers, an ancient Chinese orchestra, the Irish folk group the Chieftains and an all-star rock band. Yet, he was also the co-composer of Bryan Adams' 1991 hit "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You", a No 1 single in the UK for four months and for seven weeks in the United States. It was the biggest selling single in the history of A & M Records, and won Kamen one of several Grammy awards.

  The Adams' hit song, which many loved to hate, was taken from the soundtrack of Robin Hood: prince of thieves. The film world readily came to appreciate Kamen's abilities: he could write under pressure and he was fast - it took him just three weeks to come up with the soundtrack for The Three Musketeers in 1993 ("He thought visually," said the film producer Eric Fellner) and he wrote over 30 musical soundtracks, including those for all the Die Hard and Lethal Weapon series, for Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa (1986), The Krays (1990), the James Bond film Licence To Kill (1989) and X-Men (2000); several of these soundtracks were Oscar-nominated.

  "He was a man of many parts, using a very wide brush," said his close friend David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. "He was about the most successful film writer in recent years. He had such a gift for a memorable tune, and a great gift for melody. He also had huge enthusiasm, and a compulsion to keep at it." Gilmour had considerable experience of Kamen's work method. At the instigation of the producer Bob Ezrin, Kamen was brought in to orchestrate the string sections of Pink Floyd's 1979 album The Wall and subsequently moved to London from his native New York. In 1983 he co-produced Pink Floyd's The Final Cut album with the group. Kamen was an ebullient, bouncing bear of a man, with a gregarious personality.
  
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  Chris Salewicz

  

  Michael Kamen (1948–2003)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004383/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  Licence to Kill (Suite), Michael Kamen, 1989.
  
  
  
  
  
  The Final Cut, Pink Floyd, 1983. Produced by Roger Waters, James Guthrie, Michael Kamen.
  
  

  
  

  
  2012: Daniel Craig visits British troops at Camp Bastion, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and screens Skyfall with 800 soldiers.

  
  
  

  2017: Mark Milsome dies at age 54--Ghana.
  (Born 1963--London, England.)

  

  

  Mark Milsome Foundation

  https://www.imago.org/index.php/news/item/800-mark-milsome-foundation.html

  On 18th November 2017, Mark Milsome was killed age 54 on a film set in Ghana whilst operating a camera for a car stunt that went tragically wrong. It was a shocking happening leaving everybody astonished by the fact that the accident ocurred while in duty and should have never happened. Now a few initiatives like getting up a foundation under is name is now underway in the occasion of the date of the first year of his death.

  
  The Mark Milsome Foundation is inspired by the achievements, character and unique nature of our respected friend and colleague, Mark Milsome who was killed behind his camera whilst filming a car stunt in Ghana 18th November 2017.
  
  We are a non profit registered UK charity which aims to support, encourage and inspire young people, initially through two scholarship programmes, and to raise awareness of the importance of Health and Safety in the Film and Television Industry.
  
  We have established one scholarship in advance of our launch via the Guild of British Camera Technicians Training Programme and will announce a second early in 2019 that will support deserving Film Students to secure mentorship and work experience.
  We have taken our core values and ambitions as a charity from the example set by Mark Milsome and believe opportunities should be open to men and women who prove they have the character, determination and focus needed to thrive in the industry.
  
  We will encourage young people from all parts of the UK, all social and economic backgrounds, all levels of academic achievement, whether from obscurity or from a recognised educational programme to work with us. We will require evidence of genuine passion and a strong work ethic before considering anyone to be deserving of support or scholarships in Mark’s name.
  
  As an organisation we are open to exploring other areas, including furthering health and safety, and will evolve in any way that best serves the scholars, the Film and Television Industry and the memory of Mark Milsome.
  
  Please go to www.markmilsomefoundation.com to remember Mark and discover more about the ambitions of the foundation.
  
  LAUNCH OF MARK MILSOME FOUNDATION WEBSITE AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF BLACK - T - WEEK (18TH -24TH NOVEMBER)
  Following the tragic death of Mark Milsome on set in Ghana on 18th November 2017 a charitable foundation has been set up in his name by industry professionals, friends and family.
  
  The Foundation will officially launch early 2019 but as we approach the anniversary of Mark’s death they are inviting cast and crew from the film making community worldwide to honour Mark during the week of 18th - 24th November by wearing a black foundation T shirt on set. The limited edition T shirts will be available to purchase through October from the Foundation website at: www.markmilsomefoundation.com with deliveries early November in time for Black - T - Week.
  
  The Foundation are encouraging crew to visit their site to remember Mark and to sign up for updates and the ambitions of the Foundation to help young people in the industry.
  
  You can also receive Mark Milsome Foundation updates and info from:
  Facebook @MarkMilsomeFoundation
  Twitter @MarkMilsomeFDN
  Instagram @markmilsomefoundation

  

  Mark Milsome (1963–2017)

  Camera and Electrical Department | Cinematographer | Miscellaneous Crew
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590600/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Camera and Electrical Department (80 credits)
  
  2018 Black Earth Rising (TV Series) (camera operator)
  2018 The Etruscan Smile (camera operator)
  2018 National Treasure: Kiri (TV Mini-Series) (second camera operator - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.4 (2018) ... (second camera operator)
  2017 Bang (TV Series) (camera operator - 2 episodes)
  - Episode #1.2 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #1.1 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  2017 The Durrells in Corfu (TV Series) (camera operator - 6 episodes)
  - Episode #2.6 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #2.5 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #2.4 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #2.3 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #2.2 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #2.1 (2017) ... (camera operator)
  2017 Bitter Harvest (b camera operator: additional photography)
  2016 Game of Thrones (TV Series) (b camera operator - 3 episodes)
  - Battle of the Bastards (2016) ... (b camera operator: White Walker)
  - The Door (2016) ... (b camera operator: White Walker)
  - Book of the Stranger (2016) ... (b camera operator: White Walker)
  2014-2015 Downton Abbey (TV Series) (a camera operator - 9 episodes)
  - Christmas Special (2015) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #6.8 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #6.7 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #6.6 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #6.5 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #6.4 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #6.3 (2015) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #5.6 (2014) ... (a camera operator)
  - Episode #5.5 (2014) ... (a camera operator)
  2015/I Bill (camera operator)
  2015 Safe House (TV Series) (camera operator - 2 episodes)
  - Episode #1.4 (2015) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #1.3 (2015) ... (camera operator)
  2015 Molly Moon and the Incredible Book of Hypnotism (camera operator)
  2014 The Theory of Everything (camera operator: 'b' camera)
  2014 24: Live Another Day (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator - 2 episodes)
  - 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. (2014) ... (camera operator)
  - 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. (2014) ... (camera operator)
  2014 Call the Midwife (TV Series) (camera operator - 4 episodes)
  - Episode #3.4 (2014) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #3.3 (2014) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #3.2 (2014) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #3.1 (2014) ... (camera operator)
  2010-2014 Sherlock (TV Series) (camera operator - 7 episodes)
  - The Sign of Three (2014) ... (camera operator)
  - The Empty Hearse (2014) ... (camera operator)
  - The Reichenbach Fall (2012) ... (camera operator)
  - The Hounds of Baskerville (2012) ... (camera operator)
  - A Scandal in Belgravia (2012) ... (camera operator)
  - The Great Game (2010) ... (camera operator - uncredited)
  - The Blind Banker (2010) ... (camera operator)
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  2013 What Remains (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator - 4 episodes)
  - Episode #1.4 (2013) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #1.3 (2013) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #1.2 (2013) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #1.1 (2013) ... (camera operator)
  2013 How I Live Now (additional photography) / (camera operator: "b" camera)
  2012 Hunted (TV Series) (camera operator - 1 episode)
  - Snow Maiden (2012) ... (camera operator)
  2012 Accused (TV Series) (second camera operator - 2 episodes)
  - Tina's Story (2012) ... (second camera operator)
  - Tracie's Story (2012) ... (second camera operator)
  2011 Hunky Dory (camera operator: second unit)
  2011 My Week with Marilyn (camera operator: "c" camera)
  2011 Your Highness (camera operator: "b" camera)
  
  2009 Into the Rose-Garden (Short) (camera operator)
  2009 Small Island (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator)
  2009 Nowhere Boy (camera operator: "b" camera)
  2009 Skellig: The Owl Man (TV Movie) (camera operator)
  2008 Quantum of Solace (camera operator "b" camera: main unit)
  2008 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (focus puller: "a" camera)
  2008 The Passion (TV Mini-Series) (camera operator - 4 episodes)
  - Episode #1.4 (2008) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #1.3 (2008) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #1.2 (2008) ... (camera operator)
  - Episode #1.1 (2008) ... (camera operator)
  2007 Elizabeth: The Golden Age (camera operator: second unit)
  2007 1408 (additional camera operator)
  2006 Dracula (TV Movie) (additional camera operator)
  2006 Notes on a Scandal (second assistant camera)
  2006 Miss Potter (focus puller: "a" camera)
  2006 Caught Out (Short) (camera operator)
  2006 Longford (TV Movie) (focus puller)
  2006 The History Boys (first assistant camera: "a" camera)
  2006 Breaking and Entering (focus puller)
  2005 Mrs Henderson Presents (first assistant camera)
  2005/I Game Over (first assistant camera)
  2005 The Constant Gardener ("b" focus puller: London)
  2005 Russian Dolls (first assistant camera: London)
  2005 The Dark (camera operator: second unit)
  2005 On a Clear Day (second camera operator: Isle of Man)
  2004 Finding Neverland (focus puller: "b" camera)
  2004 King Arthur (camera operator: additional photography - uncredited)
  2004 Stage Beauty (camera operator: "c" camera) / (focus puller: "a" camera)
  2004 Sex Lives of the Potato Men (camera operator)
  2003 Winter Solstice (TV Movie) (camera operator)
  2003 Loving You (TV Movie) (focus puller)
  2002 Anita & Me (focus puller)
  2002 Tipping the Velvet (TV Mini-Series) (focus puller - 3 episodes)
  - Episode #1.3 (2002) ... (focus puller)
  - Episode #1.2 (2002) ... (focus puller)
  - Episode #1.1 (2002) ... (focus puller)
  2002 Ritual (first assistant camera)
  2002 Silent Cry (focus puller)
  2002 Thunderpants (focus puller)
  2001 Victoria & Albert (TV Movie) (focus puller)
  2001 Wit (TV Movie) (focus puller: "b" camera)
  2000 The House of Mirth (focus puller) / (focus puller: second unit)
  2000 Purely Belter (focus puller)
  2000 24 Hours in London (camera operator)
  
  1999 Oklahoma! (TV Movie) (focus puller)
  1999 Heart (focus puller)
  1998 Little Voice (focus puller)
  1998 Saving Private Ryan (first assistant camera)
  1997 Photographing Fairies (focus puller)
  1997 A Merry War (camera focus)
  1997 Zeus and Roxanne (assistant camera: second unit)
  1996 Brassed Off (focus puller)
  1996 Mary Reilly (clapper loader)
  1995 Hackers (clapper loader)
  1994 Dandelion Dead (TV Mini-Series) (second assistant camera - 3 episodes)
  - Episode #1.4 (1994) ... (second assistant camera)
  - Episode #1.3 (1994) ... (second assistant camera)
  - Episode #1.1 (1994) ... (second assistant camera)
  1994 Four Weddings and a Funeral (clapper loader)
  1993 Dark Waters (camera operator)
  1993 Cliffhanger (second assistant camera: "b" camera)
  1992 Wuthering Heights (camera loader)
  1992 Blame It on the Bellboy (clapper loader)
  1991 American Friends (clapper loader)
  1990 Memphis Belle (clapper loader: aerial unit)
  1990 Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (TV Movie) (clapper loader)
  1989 About Face (TV Series) (clapper/loader - 1 episode)
  - Bag Lady (1989) ... (clapper/loader)
  
  Cinematographer (5 credits)
  
  Rasta Man Vibrations (Short) (completed)
  2017 Arsenal and Dashen and the Penalty (Short)
  2017 Bang (TV Series) (6 episodes)
  - Episode #1.8 (2017)
  - Episode #1.7 (2017)
  - Episode #1.6 (2017)
  - Episode #1.5 (2017)
  - Episode #1.4 (2017)
  - Episode #1.3 (2017)
  2014 Touch 4 Love (Short)
  
  1991 Caruncula (Short)
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)
  
  1988 The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) (jobfit trainee - 1 episode)
  - The Yob (1988) ... (jobfit trainee)
  
  Thanks (1 credit)
  
  2018 King of Thieves (in memory of)
  
  Self (1 credit)
  
  2000 Supporting Acts (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Special Effects Contact Lenses/Focus Puller ... Himself (as Mark Millsome)

  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Mickey Mouse Day.

  

  
  
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  November 19th
  
  1962: Sports Illustrated publishes Fleming's article "The Guns of James Bond."

  
  
  
  
  

  1963: Ian Fleming is photographed by the Keystone Press Agency Ltd.

  

  1963: In the case of McClory v Fleming, the Chancery Division of the High Court allows Fleming and Ivar Bryce to settle. McClory gains rights to the screenplay, including film rights. Fleming receives rights to his novel, to be labeled "based on a screen treatment by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and the Author".
  1965: Rusya'dan Sevgilerle (From Russia With Love) released in Turkey.

  
  
  

  
  1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Australia.

  

  1981: Sólo para sus ojos (Only For Your Eyes) released in Argentina.

  
  

  
  1987: The Living Daylights released in Australia.

  
  
  

  1988: Licence to Kill completes filming, representing Timothy Dalton's last day on camera as Bond.
  
  1999: Le monde ne suffit pas released in Canada.

  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough US general release, plus Iceland premiere.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2008: Quantum of Solace released in Australia, Peru, and South Africa.
  
  2013: BBC reports "Bond villain Blofeld could return to Bond."

  

  Bond villain Blofeld could return to Bond

  https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-24999407
  19 November 2013

  
  Charles Gray played Blofeld in Diamonds are
  Forever

  Famous Bond villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld could appear in future 007 films now that a long-running legal dispute has been settled.
  
  Kevin McClory, who came up with the story for Thunderball with Ian Fleming, had been locked in a battle over Bond rights since 1959.
  
  McClory, and later his estate, asserted he had created the Blofeld character.
  
  Now film studio MGM and Bond film company Danjaq have acquired all the rights from McClory's estate.
  
  A joint statement from the three parties involved said the deal brought "to an amicable conclusion the legal and business disputes that have arisen periodically over 50 years".
  
  The agreement means that Bond producers are clear to use the Blofeld character again if they wish.

  Dispute
  Blofeld's face was often concealed in the films as the camera focused on him stroking his white cat.
  
  The character has appeared in six official Bond films - From Russia with Love (1963), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and For Your Eyes Only (1981), as well as McClory's Never Say Never Again (1983).
  
  He has been played by Donald Pleasence, Telly Savalas, Charles Gray and Max von Sydow.
  
  The dispute began when McClory worked on the script for Thunderball, which first introduced the character of Blofeld.
  
  It was then used by Fleming to form the basis for his novel of the same name.
  
  But McClory and another scriptwriter, Jack Whittingham, were unaware the novel was being published and were not credited.
  
  This led them to sue Fleming successfully in 1963.

  Connery's return
  McClory, who died in 2006, produced the movie of Thunderball in 1965.
  
  But the dispute raised its head again in the 1970s, when McClory wanted to make another Bond film - he won the right to do so in court and the result was his 1983 movie Never Say Never Again.
  
  He brought back Sean Connery as agent 007 after a 12-year hiatus, and the film was again based on the Thunderball novel.
  
  However the movie has never been welcomed into the official Bond canon.
  
  McClory lost another legal case in 2001 over the rights to the James Bond film character.
  
  A federal appeals court in San Francisco dismissed his case, saying McClory had waited too long to make a claim.
  
  The next Bond film, starring Daniel Craig and directed by Sam Mendes, is due for release in 2015.

  2015: With Spectre Bond has stolen kisses in India.

  

  Pay attention 007: In India, you can kill - but
  don't kiss

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://de.reuters.com/article/us-films-bond-india-idUSKCN0T81NW20151119

  By Shilpa Jamkhandikar
  
  Actors Lea Seydoux, Daniel Craig and Monica Bellucci (L-R) pose for photographers on the red carpet at the French premiere of the new James Bond 007 film "Spectre" in Paris, France, October 29, 2015. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
  
  MUMBAI (Reuters) - If the Indian censors have their way, James Bond can make liberal use of his licence to kill. But he’ll have to cut back on the kissing - by exactly half.
  
  The latest installment of the 007 franchise, “Spectre”, will be released on Friday with heavy cuts after censors deemed the romantic encounters between Daniel Craig, and co-stars Monica Belluci and Lea Seydoux, inappropriate for the viewing public.
  
  “The committee which was to certify the film thought some of the kissing scenes were too long,” said a source familiar with the application to the censors, who asked Sony Pictures cut the kissing scenes by 50 percent.
  
  “The studio either had the choice to accept the cuts or apply for an A certificate, which significantly cuts down reach and exhibition.”
  
  The Censor Board is controlled by India’s nationalist government and has turned a disapproving eye on films with steamy sex scenes.
  
  It is currently headed by Pahlaj Nihalani, a Bollywood producer who made a campaign video for Prime Minister Narendra Modi last year, and released another promotional video for him last week.
  
  Its ruling has been panned by critics on social media, who accuse it of serving the government’s conservative moral agenda, stifling freedom of expression. Nihalani could not be reached for comment.
  
  Under Indian law, films with an A - or adult - certificate can’t be shown on TV. India still accounts for a fraction of Hollywood’s revenues, but franchises like James Bond and the Avengers can beat Bollywood’s own productions at the box office.
  
  “50 Shades of Grey”, the film based on E.L. James’s erotic novel, was never released in India even after the studio cut every sex scene. The board rejected it on the basis that the language used in the film was inappropriate.
  
  Editing by Douglas Busvine and Sanjeev Miglani

  
  
  

  2020: IO Interactive announces Project 007 in development.

  

  Project 007: Everything we
  know about the first new
  Bond game in 8 years

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.inverse.com/gaming/project-007-release-date-io-interactive-james-bond-game-trailer

  "I must be dreaming."
  Danny Paez | 11.19.2020 4:15 PM
  
  Hitman developer IO Interactive revealed November 19, 2020 that it's developing a new game starring the unmistakable British spy, James Bond, with the working title Project 007.
  
  The upcoming title will be completely outside of the Hitman universe and IO Interactive is collaborating with film production entities EON Productions and MGM. It will be the first James Bond video game to be released since Activision's poorly-received 2012 launch of 007 Legends, which ultimately lost the publisher the 007 license months after its launch. That's how bad the game was. But IO Interactive will seemingly breathe new life into the franchise in the world of gaming.
  
  James Bond games have a bit of a tainted history outside of the universally loved GoldenEye Nintendo 64 game, but IO Interactive's 20 years of experience developing the stealth franchise Hitman seems to lend itself well towards creating a game about everyone's favorite superspy. CEO of IO Interactive Hakan Abrak even went as far as saying that it will be the studio's most monumental undertaking to date.
  
  "Our passionate team is excited to unleash their creativity into the iconic James Bond universe and craft the most ambitious game in the history of our studio," he states in a press release.
  
  The Project 007 announcement comes only few months after IO Interactive teased the January 20, 2021 release of Hitman 3. Once that's hit consoles and PCs the studio should be able to dedicate a majority of its resources to bringing James Bond to life on next-generation consoles.
  

  
  It's unclear if Daniel Craig will play James Bond in 'Project 007.' PIERRE-PHILIPPE MARCOU/AFP/Getty Images

  When is the Project 007
  release date?

  IO Interactive did not announce when Project 007 will be released, but it did confirm that the title is in "active development."
  
  The developer is wrapping production on Hitman 3 so even a 2021 release date would seem too ambitious. Expect a 2022 launch at the earliest, unless IO Interactive and its partners have been secretly working on the title in tandem with Hitman 3. But we'll need to wait for an update from the studio to be sure.

  Is there a Project 007 trailer?

  Yes, IO Interactive published a brief teaser trailer for Project 007 on November 19 that plays out like every James Bond intro sequence before it.

  Will Project 007 be released on current- or next-gen consoles?

  IO Interactive stated that "will be made for modern systems and platforms," which presumably refers to the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. But this nonspecific statement could mean it'll come to other consoles.
  
  Hitman 3 is being released on the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, as well as the PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Seeing as Project 007 doesn't even have a release date yet, it might come out when the PS4 and Xbox One are seen as completely outdated, so it might skip those platforms depending on when it launches.
  
  

  
  IO Interactive's experience with the 'Hitman' franchise could prove to be the secret ingredient to make 'Project 007' shine. IO Interactive

  
  

  What is the Project 007 story?

  Project 007 will tell the story about what made James Bond into the espionage expert action movie fans have been obsessing over for decades.
  
  The upcoming title's press release described the game as "the very first James Bond origin story" that "will feature a wholly original Bond story exclusively as a video game."

  When will we find out more about Project 007?

  
  IO Interactive didn't specific when it will have more to say about Project 007. Inverse suspects it'll be after the release of Hitman 3, but interested gamers can head to the game's website to sign up for email notifications for the latest information.
  

  
  'GoldenEye 007' is by and large the most acclaimed James Bond game to be released. Rare / Nintendo

  
  

  What other James Bond games have
  been released?

  Bond has over three decades of video game appearances, including the 8-bit James Bond 007, the critically acclaimed GoldenEye 007 on Nintendo's N64, and most-recent 007 Legends on PS3 and Xbox 360.
  
  The spy's licensing has been passed around to heavy-weight publishers throughout the years. Nintendo held it during the 1990s, Electronics Arts took over in the early 2000s, and Activision had it between 2006 and 2013.
  
  The more modern releases have fallen out of favor with gamers but IO Interactive has the chance to have the international spy make a comeback.

  Project 007 is in active development.

  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 20th
  
  1926: John Edmund Gardner is born--Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, England.
  (He dies 3 August 2007 at age 80--Basingstoke, Hampshire, England.)

  

  John Gardner
  Prolific thriller writer behind the revival of James Bond and Professor Moriarty

  https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/nov/02/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries
  Mike Ripley - 3 Nov 2007 19.53 EDT

  John Gardner, who has died aged 80, was the consummate thriller writer, producing[ more than 50 novels. But he owed his reputation to James Bond. His early success came with send-ups of the Bond genre, and he was to find greater fame, if not satisfaction, in reinventing Agent 007 almost 20 years after the death of the secret agent's creator, Ian Fleming.

  Born in Seaton Delaval, then in Northumberland, Gardner was the only child of an Anglican priest - the family moved south when his father became chaplain at St Mary's, Wantage, Berkshire, where Gardner attended King Alfred's school. During the second world war, he joined the Home Guard aged only 14. He then served in the Fleet Air Arm in 1944 and the Royal Marine commandos in the Middle and Far East. After the war, he read theology at St John's College, Cambridge, and entered the Anglican priesthood, but after five years and a crisis of faith, he turned to journalism as drama critic of the Stratford-upon-Avon Herald, and to drink.
  
  By the age of 33, he realised that his intake of gin qualified him as an alcoholic. As part of his therapy, he wrote Spin the Bottle (1963), a memoir about his relationship with alcohol. He claimed never to have touched booze since 1959, and the memoir - his only non-fiction book - launched him on a writing career.

  Gardner's first novel, The Liquidator, a spoof of the Bond books, was published in 1964, the year of Fleming's death. The anti-hero, Boysie Oakes, had one drawback as a licensed-to-kill man of action: he was a coward who hated violence and sub-contracted parts of his missions to an assassin.
  
  The book was filmed by Jack Cardiff, with Rod Taylor in the Oakes role and Eric Sykes as the hit man. Gardner was unimpressed with the result, but he was far less complimentary about Michael Winner's 1973 film The Stone Killer, starring Charles Bronson, adapted from his novel, A Complete State of Death (not one of the Oakes series), which he wrote in 1969 under the pen name Derek Torry.
  
  Seven more Oakes books followed, including Amber Nine (1966), in which the villain turned out to be Hitler's long-lost daughter. By 1974, though, Gardner was ready for a change and launched a new series based on the diaries of Professor James Moriarty, the nemesis of Sherlock Holmes. He intended a trilogy, but after the appearance of The Return of Moriarty (1974) and The Revenge of Moriarty (1975), he could not agree a publishing deal for a third book, and, in any case, Bond was about to intervene once more.
  
  While living in tax exile in Ireland, Gardner was approached by crime novelist and president of the Detection Club Harry Keating, on behalf of the Fleming estate. The proposition was to reinvent the Bond books for the late 1970s. Gardner, by now the author of 17 novels and two collections of short stories, was at first reluctant to commit. But in the end he convinced himself he could "round out" the character.
  
  Licence Renewed (1976) was the first in a franchise which lasted 20 years. There was a media frenzy at the return to the page of a more politically correct Bond - and an outcry that 007 was now driving a Saab 900 Turbo.
  
  Although they brought him wealth and a worldwide audience, Gardner never seemed comfortable with the Bond franchise, though he remained proud of one title, The Man From Barbarossa. Within three years, he had launched a series of five much grittier, hardboiled espionage thrillers, starting with The Nostradamus Traitor (1979) starring "Big" Herbie Kruger, a character shaped by the second world war - as Gardner had been.
  
  Gardner wrote more Bond books than Fleming - a total of 16, two based on the films Licensed [sic] to Kill (1989) and GoldenEye (1995) - but in the same period, he also produced the Kruger books, another trilogy of spy stories and six stand-alone thrillers.
  
  Gardner moved to America in 1989, but ill-health forced him to relinquish the Bond franchise to Raymond Benson in 1996. Medical bills for treating cancer of the oesophagus forced his return to England in reduced circumstances, only to suffer further when his wife of more than 40 years, Margaret, died suddenly the following year.

  Now living quietly in an almshouse in Basingstoke, he turned to his own memories of wartime Britain for his final series of thrillers, featuring Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford. The first, Bottled Spider, was published in 2002. The leading character was based on Gardner's youthful romance with a nurse named Patricia Mountford, who, some 50 years after their last meeting, contacted him after reading about her namesake. The couple enjoyed a romantic reunion.
  
  In the field of espionage fiction, Gardner lacked the intellectual complexities of John le Carré or the stylistic innovations of Len Deighton or Anthony Price, but he was a prolific and reliable deliverer to a thrill-seeking audience. Harsher critics have suggested he fed off the creations of others. He always knew that Bond would overshadow everything, and longed to be remembered as more than the man who brought back 007. In that, despite 52 novels, he probably failed.
  
  The fifth Suzie Mountford book, No Human Enemy, has just been published. The third Moriarty book, The Redemption of Moriarty, completed shortly before Gardner's death, will be published posthumously. He is survived by the son and daughter of his marriage, Simon and Alexis; Miranda, the daughter of his relationship with Susan Wright; and Patricia Mountford, to whom he was engaged.
  
  · John Edmund Gardner, writer, born November 20 1926; died August 3 2007

  

  John Gardner (British Writer)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gardner_(British_writer)
  
  Works

  Autobiography
  
  Spin the Bottle (1964)
  
  Boysie Oakes novels
  
  The Liquidator (1964)
  Understrike (1965)
  Amber Nine (1966)
  Madrigal (1967)
  Founder Member (1969)
  Traitor's Exit (1970)
  The Airline Pirates (1970) - published in the US as Air Apparent
  A Killer for a Song (1975)
  
  Two Boysie Oakes short stories appear in The Assassination File (A Handful of Rice, Corkscrew).
  Two Boysie Oakes short stories appear in Hideaway (Boysie Oakes and The Explosive Device, Sunset At Paleokastritsa).
  
  Derek Torry novels
  
  A Complete State of Death (1969) - reissued in the US as The Stone Killer
  The Corner Men (1974)
  
  Professor Moriarty novels
  
  The Return of Moriarty (1974)
  The Revenge of Moriarty (1975)
  Moriarty (2008)
  
  Herbie Kruger novels
  
  The Nostradamus Traitor (1979)
  The Garden of Weapons (1980)
  The Quiet Dogs (1982)
  Maestro (1993)
  Confessor (1995)
  
  Herbie Kruger also appears in The Secret Houses and The Secret Families.
  
  The Railton family novels
  
  The Secret Generations (1985)
  The Secret Houses (1988)
  The Secret Families (1989)
  
  James Bond novels
  
  Licence Renewed (1981)
  For Special Services (1982)
  Icebreaker (1983)
  Role of Honour (1984)
  Nobody Lives for Ever (1986)
  No Deals, Mr. Bond (1987)
  Scorpius (1988)
  Win, Lose or Die (1989)
  Licence to Kill (1989) – novelization of a film script
  Brokenclaw (1990)
  The Man from Barbarossa (1991)
  Death is Forever (1992)
  Never Send Flowers (1993)
  SeaFire (1994)
  GoldenEye (1995) – novelization of a film script
  Cold (1996) – published in the US as Cold Fall
  
  Detective Sergeant Suzie Mountford novels
  
  Bottled Spider (2002)
  The Streets of Town (2003)
  Angels Dining at the Ritz (2004)
  Troubled Midnight (2005)
  No Human Enemy (2007)
  
  Other novels
  
  The Censor (1970)
  Every Night's a Bullfight (1971) (Published in the US in a bowdlerized edition as Every Night's a Festival in 1972.)
  To Run a Little Faster (1976)
  The Werewolf Trace (1977)
  The Dancing Dodo (1978)
  Golgotha (1980) - (Published in the US as The Last Trump)
  The Director (1982) (A re-working of his 1971 novel Every Night's a Bullfight.)
  Flamingo (1983)
  Blood of the Fathers (1992) (as by "Edmund McCoy". Later published under his own name in 2004.)
  Day of Absolution (2000)
  
  Short story collections
  
  Hideaway (1968) (Contains two Boysie Oakes stories.)
  The Assassination File (1974) (Contains two Boysie Oakes stories.)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1930: Bernard Horsfall is born--Bishop's Stortford, Herfordshire England.
  (He dies 28 January 2013 at age 82--Isle of Skye, Scotland.)

  

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

  https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/jan/30/bernard-horsfall
  Michael Coveney | Wed 30 Jan 2013 13.14 EST
  
  

  img]https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/1/30/1359567521934/Bernard-Horsfall-008.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=34673f794e91515666d9aa0fd0179620[/img]
  Bernard Horsfall in The Merry Widow, a 1981 episode of the ITV show, Crown Court.
  Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

  
  
  The character actor Bernard Horsfall, who has died aged 82, appeared in television, films and on the stage for more than half a century. Tall, imposing and authoritative, he appeared in many of the major television series from Z Cars and Dr Finlay's Casebook to Casualty and The Bill, and in Doctor Who took no fewer than four roles.
  
  In 1968 he played Lemuel Gulliver in The Mind Robber, where he was encountered by Patrick Troughton, the second Doctor, in the Land of Fiction. The following year he returned as a Time Lord in The War Games. In 1973, with Jon Pertwee now donning the time-traveller's cape, he played the Thal chieftain, Taron, in the six-part Planet of the Daleks. And finally, he was another Time Lord, Chancellor Goth, in the 1976 story The Deadly Assassin, famously battling with Tom Baker's Doctor inside the Matrix and holding him under water. This sequence drew complaints from the campaigner Mary Whitehouse, and was edited out of the repeat showings.

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

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

  

  Bernard Horsfall (1930–2013)

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

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

  
  

  
  1943: Mie Hama is born--Tokyo, Japan.
  
  1963: US President John F. Kennedy screens From Russia With Love at the White House. Then travels to Dallas, Texas.
  
  1983: Richard Loo dies at age 80--Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 1 October 1903--Maui, Hawaii.)

  

  RICHARD LOO,
  ACTOR 5 DECADES

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
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  2006: Kevin O'Donovan McClory dies at age 80--Dublin, Ireland.
  (Born 8 June 1924--Dún Laoghaire, County 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\
  

  
  
  
  

  2006: 007首部曲：皇家夜總會 (007 Shǒubù qǔ: Huángjiā yèzǒnghuì; 007 The Royal Nightclub) released in Hong Kong China.

  

  
  2015: Spectre released in India.
  2019: GQ tells a tale of Bollinger and James Bond.

  
  

  How Bollinger became the official
  Champagne of James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/food-drink/article/bollinger-champagne-james-bond

  By Thomas Barrie | 20 November 2019
  
  The Champagne maison and Britain’s most famous spy have a storied history – and one that was celebrated with typical largesse in Paris this month
  
  The gilded rooms of the Hôtel De Crillon in Paris’ Eighth Arrondissement have seen a lot. Marie Antoinette lived here for a time during the French Revolution, when the then-palace overlooked the guillotine and the queen’s own eventual place of execution. Teddy Roosevelt stayed at the hotel, as did Winston Churchill. It was here that the League Of Nations – the inter-war predecessor to the United Nations – was signed into existence and here that the American delegation stayed for the peace negotiations after the First World War. Taylor Swift is a fan. So is Madonna.
  
  This month, the hotel added another line to its storied history as Bollinger, the house founded by the Comte de Villermont and his associates in 1829, celebrated four decades as the official Champagne of the James Bond franchise. To celebrate, Bollinger did what Champagne brands do best: they held a massive, decadent party. Under Napoleonic eagles, stucco colonnades and frescoes, the house revealed a limited-edition Moonraker-themed bottle and case: a reference to the 1979 Bond film in which the Champagne first appeared by official arrangement. On display was a case designed in pewter and wood veneer by Eric Berthes, inspired by the space-age Moonraker sets of production designer Sir Ken Adam, which opens at the push of a button to reveal a crystal ice bucket with a magnum of Bollinger 2007 (the “007” vintage, get it?). Q himself could hardly have done better.
  
  

  
  The Moonraker-inspired case, which opens to reveal a magnum of Bollinger

  
  Historically, Bond was – naturally – a fan of all Champagne. But in 1979, over lunch, Christian Bizot and Cubby Broccoli, the legendary Bond producer, decided that the spy preferred Bollinger. The link made sense, given Bollinger’s relationship with the franchise extends back to 1956 – the Champagne appears in Live And Let Die, but its first mention was in the novel Diamonds Are Forever – and the British establishment’s penchant for Bollinger is well attested. In fact, Queen Victoria liked Bollinger so much that she granted Jacques Joseph Bollinger the first Royal Warrant awarded to a Champagne house in 1884, a fact proudly displayed at the brand’s headquarters in Aÿ-Champagne. It was here, down the road at the original production address of 16 Rue Jules Lobet and far from the sparkle of the Crillon, that Bollinger first conceived of their now-famous limited-edition Bond Champagnes, which began with Quantum Of Solace and a special magnum of Le Grande Année 1999 housed in a case shaped like a bullet. This was followed by the limited-edition Bond 2002 La Grande Année Brut (released for Skyfall in 2012) and the 2009 equivalent (for Spectre in 2015).
  
  

  

  
  Sleepy, picturesque Aÿ itself might not seem like the place you’d expect Her Majesty’s agents to be caught lurking, but in fact, some 12 million bottles are stored under the tiny village in dank brick tunnels more than fit for a Bond action sequence. The chase scene would take place on forklift trucks, which race through the tunnels at such speed, apparently, that pedestrians have to turn on a special system of red alarm lights to let everyone else know they’re heading into the tunnels. Otherwise, a forklift might race around a corner and, well, it wouldn’t be pretty. But it would be a dramatic end for a henchman or two.
  
  Perhaps an idea for the next 40 years. Will Bond films still be in production in 2059? Definitely. Will Daniel Craig finally have retired, as he suggested two films ago? Who can say? But whatever incarnation the future 007 takes, one thing’s for certain: they’ll be sipping on Bollinger.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: No Time To Die onetime US release date, until delayed to April 2021.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  November 21st
  
  1942: Al Matthews is born--Brooklyn, New York.
  (He dies 22 September 2018--Orihuela, Spain.)

  

  Aliens actor Al Matthews dies aged 75

  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/al-matthews-dead-age-aliens-grande-hill-death-a8552286.html
  
  Matthews also appeared on Grange Hill as the father of Benny Green and had his song 'Fool' reach number 16 in the UK Singles Chart in 1975
  Clarisse Loughrey | @clarisselou | Monday 24 September 2018 11:48
  
  20th Century Fox
  
  Al Matthews, best known for playing Gunnery Sergeant Apone in Aliens (1986), has died aged 75.
  
  El Pais reports that the actor was found dead in his home, in Orihuela Costa, in the Spanish Mediterranean province of Alicante, on Sunday, after a neighbour called the emergency services.
  
  Born in Brooklyn in 1942, Matthews had served as a Marine in the Vietnam War. His website states: "I hold thirteen combat awards and decorations, including two purple hearts. I was the first black Marine in the 1st Marine Division in Vietnam to be meritoriously promoted to the rank of sergeant".
  
  Alongside his role in Aliens, Matthews also played the fire chief in Superman III (1983), a workman in Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981), and General Tudor in The Fifth Element (1997). He returned to the role of Sgt Apone nearly 30 years later, when he voiced the character in the video game Aliens: Colonial Marines (2013).
  
  He also had a strong career in the UK, where he appeared on Grange Hill as the father of Benny Green and had his song "Fool" reach number 16 in the UK Singles Chart in 1975. He retired in Spain in 2005, although his last film was this year's The Price of Death, which is currently in post-production.

  

  Al Matthews (I) (1942–2018)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0559922/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (35 credits)
  
  2018 The Price of Death - Williamson
  2013 Aliens: Colonial Marines (Video Game) - Sgt. Al Apone (voice)
  2011 Operation Flashpoint: Red River (Video Game) - Col. Shannon J.Hardaway (voice)
  
  1998 Short Stories About Love (TV Mini-Series)
  - Shlosha Kochavim (1998)
  1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Master Sergeant 3
  1997 The Fifth Element - General Tudor
  1997 The Apocalypse Watch (TV Movie) - Wesley Sorenson
  1996 Ellington (TV Series) - J.P. Coates
  - Matchmaker (1996) ... J.P. Coates
  1995 Soul Survivors (TV Movie) - Grover Cleveland
  1994 Desmond's (TV Series) - Reverend Marvin Jones
  - Judgement Day (1994) ... Reverend Marvin Jones
  
  1989 Saracen (TV Series) - Dube
  - Three Blind Mice (1989) ... Dube
  1988 American Roulette - Morrisey
  1988 Stormy Monday - Radio DJ
  1987 Excuse Me But That's My Car (Short) - Winston Smith
  1987 Out of Order - U.S. DJ
  1987 London Embassy (TV Mini-Series) - Uwlie Cooper
  - The Man on the Clapham Omnibus (1987) ... Uwlie Cooper
  1987 Screen Two (TV Series) - Curtis Duchamps
  - Coast to Coast (1987) ... Curtis Duchamps
  1986 Big Deal (TV Series) - American punter
  - Panel Money (1986) ... American punter
  1986 Aliens - Sergeant Apone
  1986 The American Way - Benedict
  1985 Defense of the Realm - First U.S. Controller
  1984 The Comic Strip Presents... (TV Series) - Admiral
  - The Bullshitters: Roll out the Gunbarrel (1984) ... Admiral
  1983 Funny Money - 1st Hood
  1983 Superman III - Fire Chief
  1983 The Professionals (TV Series) - Faroud
  - The Ojuka Situation (1983) ... Faroud
  1982 The Sender - Viet Nam Veteran
  1982 Shelley (TV Series) - Newscaster
  - No News Is Good... (1982) ... Newscaster
  1982 Nancy Astor (TV Mini-Series) - Billy
  - The Longhornes of Virginia (1982) ... Billy
  1981 Ragtime - Maitre D'
  1981 The Final Conflict - Workman
  1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Oxford St. John
  - The Black Madonna (1980) ... Oxford St. John
  1980 Rough Cut - Ferguson
  1979-1980 Grange Hill (TV Series) - Mr. Green
  - Episode #3.10 (1980) ... Mr. Green
  - Episode #2.2 (1979) ... Mr. Green
  - Episode #2.1 (1979) ... Mr. Green
  
  1979 Yanks - Black G.I. at Dance
  1977 Bad Loser (Short)

  
  
  
  "Fool", Al Matthews, 1975.
  
  

  
  1966: You Only Live Twice films Donald Pleasance as Blofeld.
  
  1985: A View to a Kill released in Australia.

  

  1989: Peter Ray Burton dies at age 68--Chelsea, London, England.
  (Born 4 April 1921--Bromley, Kent, England.)

  

  Peter Burton

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Burton
  
  Peter Ray Burton (4 April 1921 – 21 November 1989) was an English film and television actor.
  
  Early life
  Peter Ray Burton, was born in Bromley, Kent, to Frederick Ray Burton and Gladys Maude (née Frazer).
  
  Career

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

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

  

  Peter Burton (I) (1921–1989)

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

  Actor (68 credits)
  1990 Number One Gun - Merlin
  1990 Press Gang (TV Series) - Mr. Campbell
  - At Last a Dragon (1990) ... Mr. Campbell
  
  1987 One by One (TV Series) - Golf Club Secretary
  - Remember the Humble Guinea-Pig (1987) ... Golf Club Secretary
  1986 C.A.T.S. Eyes (TV Series) - Doctor
  - Passage Hawk (1986) ... Doctor
  1985 The Doctor and the Devils - Customer
  1983 The Jigsaw Man - Douglas Ransom
  1983 The Nation's Health (TV Series) - David Marvill
  - Collapse (1983) ... David Marvill
  1983 The Scarlet and the Black (TV Movie) - Sir D'Arcy Osborne
  1981 Inchon - Adm. Sherman
  1980 Richard's Things - Colonel
  1980 The Professionals (TV Series) - Conroy
  - Involvement (1980) ... Conroy
  
  1979 The Bitch - Hotel Night Manager
  1978 Return of the Saint (TV Series) - Dr. Evans
  - The Arrangement (1978) ... Dr. Evans
  1978 Out (TV Series) - Card Player
  - Not Just Pennies (1978) ... Card Player
  1978 Leopard in the Snow - Mr. Framley
  1972 Lovebox - Charles Lambert (Charles and Margery) (as Peter Burdon)
  1971 A Clockwork Orange - Junior Minister - Minister Frederick's Aid
  1971 Carry On at Your Convenience - Hotel Manager
  1970-1971 UFO (TV Series) - Dr. Murray / Perry
  - Computer Affair (1971) ... Dr. Murray
  - Ordeal (1971) ... Perry
  - Close Up (1970) ... Dr. Murray (uncredited)
  1971 All the Right Noises - Stage Manager
  1971 Brett (TV Series) - Boone
  - Investment - Long Term (1971) ... Boone
  1970 Hell Boats - Admiral's Aide
  
  1969 Journey to the Far Side of the Sun - Medical Technician (uncredited)
  1968 Amsterdam Affair - Herman Ketelboer
  1967 Berserk - Gustavo
  1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Anderson
  - The Sitting Pigeon (1967) ... Anderson
  1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Claude Molliere
  - The Gadget Lovers (1967) ... Claude Molliere
  1966 Judith - Conklin
  1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - Fleming
  - Small Game for Big Hunters (1966) ... Fleming
  1965 Thunderball - RAF Officer in Car (uncredited)
  1963 That Kind of Girl - Elliot Collier
  1963 The Swingin' Maiden - Thompson's Salesman
  1962 Lawrence of Arabia - Sheik in Arab Council (uncredited)
  1962 Dr. No - Major Boothroyd
  1962 The Six Proud Walkers (TV Series) - Det. Supt. Arrowsmith
  - All in the Family (1962) ... Det. Supt. Arrowsmith
  1961 The Pursuers (TV Series) - Paul De Bois
  - Breakout (1961) ... Paul De Bois
  1961 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Sir Ben Cheviot
  - Flight 447 Delayed (1961) ... Sir Ben Cheviot
  1961 Roommates - 1st Viola
  1961 Knight Errant Limited (TV Series) - John Barry
  - Tall, Dark Stranger (1961) ... John Barry
  1960 On Trial (TV Series) - Henry Matthews QC
  - W.T. Stead (1960) ... Henry Matthews QC
  1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - The Commodore
  - The Patchwork Quilt (1960) ... The Commodore
  1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Art Expert
  - The Girl with Grey Hair (1960) ... Art Expert (uncredited)
  1960 Sink the Bismarck ! - Captain - HMS Solent - First Destroyer
  
  1959 Make Mine a Double - 2nd Pilot
  1958 White Hunter (TV Series) - Chauvet
  - The Girl Hunt (1958) ... Chauvet
  1958 A Night to Remember - 1st Class Steward (uncredited)
  1958 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Spanish Major
  - Operation Eel (1958) ... Spanish Major
  1957 The Betrayal - Tony Adams
  1957 Five on a Treasure Island - Quentin Kirrin
  1957 Hour of Mystery (TV Series) - Walter Hartright
  - The Woman in White (1957) ... Walter Hartright
  1956 Child in the House - Howard Forbes (uncredited)
  1956 Reach for the Sky - Peter / Coltishall Officer (uncredited)
  1956 The Third Key - Creasey
  1956 Spin a Dark Web - Inspector Collis
  1956 Johnny You're Wanted
  1955 Value for Money - Hotel Receptionist (uncredited)
  1955 Three Cases of Murder - Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs (segment "Lord Mountdrago") (uncredited)
  1954 The Green Scarf - Purser
  1954 The Gentle Falcon (TV Series) - 2nd Messenger / 1st Courtier
  - Home at Last (1954)
  - The Cry of the Falcon (1954)
  - Farewell Richard (1954) ... 2nd Messenger
  - A Strange Tournament (1954) ... 1st Courtier
  1954 They Who Dare - Marine Barrett
  1953 The Heart of the Matter - Perrot (uncredited)
  1953 Paratrooper - Minor Role (uncredited)
  1952 The Stolen Plans - Dr. Foster
  1952 The Frightened Bride - Graham Moore
  1950 The Wooden Horse - Nigel
  1950 What the Butler Saw - Bill Fenton
  1950 They Were Not Divided - Minor Role (uncredited)
  1950 Family Affairs (TV Series) - Captain Heddle
  - Ah! The Peace of It All (1950) ... Captain Heddle
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)
  
  1979 The Bitch (dialogue coach)

  Dr No
  
  https://www.aveleyman.com/ActorCredit.aspx?ActorID=2414
  Thunderball
  
  Casino Royale
  
  

  
  1995: Royal premiere of GoldenEye at the Odeon, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  2006: German premiere of Casino Royale in Berlin.
  2008: Quantum of Solace released in Spain.
  
  2011: Syd Cain dies at age 93--London, England.
  (Born 16 April 1918--Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.)

  

  Syd Cain obituary
  Production designer behind the deadly gadgets used by James Bond – and his foes

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/dec/01/syd-cain
  Kim Newman - Thu 1 Dec 2011 13.29 EST
  
  Syd Cain at Pinewood Studios with the model used in the explosive climax to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969). Photograph: 007magazine.com

  The production designer Syd Cain, who has died aged 93, was one of many behind-the-scenes professionals elevated to something like prominence by the worldwide interest in the James Bond films. An industry veteran who began work in British cinema as a draughtsman in 1947, contributing to the look of the gothic melodrama Uncle Silas, Cain is credited on a range of film and television projects, but remains best known for his work in various design capacities on the 007 series, from Dr No in 1962 to GoldenEye in 1995.
  
  Born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Cain served in the armed forces in the second world war, surviving a plane crash and recovering from a broken back. Working at Denham Studios in Buckinghamshire in the 1940s and 50s, he moved up from uncredited draughtsman (on Adam and Evelyne, The Interrupted Journey, You Know What Sailors Are and Up to His Neck) to assistant art director (for The Gamma People, Fire Down Below, Interpol, How to Murder a Rich Uncle and The World of Suzie Wong). During this time, he developed a habit of slipping his name on to the screen among documents provided as props. In Carol Reed's Our Man in Havana (1959), where the blueprints for a vacuum cleaner are mistaken for rocket secrets, he is listed on the papers as the designer of the device. His first credit as art director was on The Road to Hong Kong (1962), the British-produced last gasp of the series of Bob Hope/Bing Crosby comedies. Cain also worked on the Hope vehicle Call Me Bwana (1963), best remembered because of an in-joke reference to it in From Russia With Love, where a sniper is concealed behind a billboard advertising the film.
  
  Having worked as a draughtsman on Hell Below Zero (1954) and assistant art director on The Cockleshell Heroes (1956), both produced by Albert R Broccoli, he was chosen by Broccoli to work on the Bond films. Though uncredited, he worked with the production designer Ken Adam – in whose shadow he modestly remained for much of his career – on Dr No, taking over as art director when Adam was not available for the immediate follow-up, From Russia With Love (1963). This was the film that introduced the character of Q (Desmond Llewelyn). Cain was responsible for the design of the gadgets issued to Sean Connery's Bond, notably the briefcase with concealed sniper rifle and tear-gas talcum tin. For the villains, Cain also provided Rosa Klebb's shoes, with poison-tipped blade, and the chess-themed decor of Blofeld's lair.
  
  Later, he was production designer for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969). With a new Bond (George Lazenby) and a move away from the gadgets and vast sets of Connery and Adam's later work, Thunderball and Goldfinger, this tried to seem less fantastical – the only contraption issued to Bond is a photocopier. Cain was the supervising art director on Roger Moore's first Bond film, Live and Let Die (1973), then left the series, eventually returning as a storyboard artist for Pierce Brosnan's 007 debut, GoldenEye.
  
  Arguably more impressive than his Bond associations, Cain worked with a number of notable film-makers throughout the 1960s and 70s, as assistant art director for Stanley Kubrick (Lolita, 1962), art director for Ronald Neame (Mister Moses, 1965) and François Truffaut (Fahrenheit 451, 1966), executive art director for Richard Lester (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, 1966) and production designer for Ken Russell (Billion Dollar Brain, 1967), Alfred Hitchcock (Frenzy, 1972) and Jack Gold (Aces High, 1976).
  
  Contributing to lasting British pop-culture artefacts, he was also art director on the Cliff Richard vehicle Summer Holiday (1963) and production designer of the revival series The New Avengers (1976). After the popular, action-oriented Alistair Maclean adventure Fear Is the Key (1973), Cain became associated with a brand of high adventure that grew out of the Bond films, working with Peter R Hunt (director of On Her Majesty's Secret Service) on the Moore movies Gold (1974) and Shout at the Devil (1976), both set in Africa, and with the producer Euan Lloyd on a series of boozy, British macho epics – The Wild Geese (1978), The Sea Wolves (1980) and Who Dares Wins (1982).
  
  Cain retired as a production designer after Tusks (1988), but contributed storyboards to a select run of high-profile films, including Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). His final credit was on the Michael Caine boxing movie Shiner (2000). In retirement, he illustrated children's books, wrote an autobiography (Not Forgetting James Bond: The Autobiography of James Bond Production Designer Syd Cain, 2002) and was a well-liked guest at Bond-themed fan events.
  
  Cain was married twice. His five sons and three daughters survive him.
  
  • Sidney Cain, production designer, art director and illustrator, born 16 April 1918; died 21 November 2011

  

  Syd Cain (1918–2011)

  Filmography

  Production designer (17 credits)
  
  1988 Tusks
  1985 Wild Geese II
  1982 The Final Option
  1981 Loophole
  1980 Lion of the Desert
  1980 The Sea Wolves
  
  1978 The Wild Geese
  1976 The New Avengers (TV Series) (13 episodes)
  - Dirtier by the Dozen (1976)
  - Gnaws (1976)
  - Sleeper (1976)
  - Faces (1976)
  - Three Handed Game (1976)
  - The Tale of the Big Why (1976)
  - Target! (1976)
  - Cat Amongst the Pigeons (1976)
  - To Catch a Rat (1976)
  - The Last of the Cybernauts...? (1976)
  - House of Cards (1976)
  - The Midas Touch (1976)
  - The Eagle's Nest (1976)
  1976 Aces High
  1976 Shout at the Devil
  1974 Gold
  1972 Fear Is the Key (as Sidney Cain)
  1972 Frenzy
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  1967 Billion Dollar Brain
  1966 Fahrenheit 451
  1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
  
  Art department (27 credits)
  
  2001 The Fourth Angel (storyboard artist)
  2000 Shiner (storyboard artist)
  
  1998 Tarzan and the Lost City (storyboard artist)
  1995 GoldenEye (storyboard artist)
  1994 The NeverEnding Story III (storyboard artist)
  1991 Robin Hood (storyboard artist - as Sydney Cain)
  
  1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit (storyboard artist: UK)
  1984 Supergirl (research art director)
  
  1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (executive art director)
  1962 Lolita (associate art director - as Sidney Cain)
  1960 The World of Suzie Wong (assistant art director - as Sydney Cain)
  1959 Our Man in Havana (assistant art director)
  1958 Tank Force (assistant art director)
  1957 High Flight (assistant art director)
  1957 How to Murder a Rich Uncle (assistant art director)
  1957 Fire Down Below (assistant art director)
  1957 Pickup Alley (assistant art director)
  1956 Zarak (assistant art director - uncredited)
  1956 The Gamma People (assistant art director)
  1955 The Cockleshell Heroes (assistant art director)
  1954 Up to His Neck (draughtsman - uncredited)
  1954 You Know What Sailors Are (draughtsman - uncredited)
  1954 Hell Below Zero (draughtsman - uncredited)
  
  1949 The Interrupted Journey (draughtsman - uncredited)
  1949 Madness of the Heart (draughtsman - uncredited)
  1949 Adam and Evalyn (draughtsman - uncredited)
  1947 The Inheritance (draughtsman - uncredited)
  
  Art director (10 credits)
  
  1973 Live and Let Die (supervising art director)
  1966 Fahrenheit 451
  1965 Mister Moses
  1965 McGuire, Go Home!
  1964 Agent 8 3/4
  1963 From Russia with Love
  1963 Call Me Bwana
  1963 Summer Holiday
  1962 Dr. No (uncredited)
  1962 The Road to Hong Kong

  
  
  

  2012: The University of Hertfordshire awards an honorary Doctorate of Arts degree to Roger Moore, for outstanding contribution to UK film and television industry for over 50 years.

  https://www.whtimes.co.uk/what-s-on/reviews/sir-roger-moore-james-bond-the-saint-at-elstree-studios-hertsmere-university-of-hertfordshire-1-5033710
  
  

  2017: Dynamite Entertainment announces its third one-off comic (on M this time) to be released 7 February 2018.
  PJ Holden & Dearbhla Kelly, artists. Declan Shalvey, writer.

  
  

  2017: Aston Martin reveals "the next" Vantage (based on the DB10).
  More than 500 horse power and 505 foot pounds of torque.

  https://autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/2018-aston-martin-vantage-confirmed-more-500hp
  

  
  
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  November 22nd
  
  1899: Hoagy Carmichael is born--Bloomington, Indiana.
  (He dies 27 December 1981 at age 82--Rancho Mirage, California.)

  

  Hoagy Carmichael

  American composer, musician, and actor
  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hoagy-Carmichael
  Written By: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  Last Updated: Nov 18, 2019 See Article History
  Alternative Title: Hoagland Howard Carmichael
  
  Hoagy Carmichael, byname of Hoagland Howard Carmichael, (born November 22, 1899, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.—died December 27, 1981, Rancho Mirage, California), American composer, singer, self-taught pianist, and actor who wrote several of the most highly regarded popular standards in American music.
  
  Carmichael’s father was an itinerant electrician, and his mother earned extra money for the family as a pianist for dances and silent movies; from her, Carmichael absorbed the basics of playing the piano. He was strongly influenced by ragtime music and by the music he heard from black families and churches in his neighbourhood. As a teenager, he made every effort to hear and play as much jazz as possible, studying in Indianapolis, Indiana, with pianist Reginald DuValle and traveling to Chicago to hear Louis Armstrong. While studying at Indiana University in Bloomington (LL.B., 1926), Carmichael led a small jazz band that had some success playing for college dances throughout the Midwest. In the spring of 1924, Carmichael became friends with Bix Beiderbecke after engaging the young cornetist to play for several fraternity parties. Carmichael’s first composition, “Free Wheeling,” was retitled “Riverboat Shuffle” when recorded by Beiderbecke and his band, the Wolverines, later the same year; the recording subsequently became a jazz classic.
  
  After graduating from college, Carmichael practiced law in Florida for a brief period. During this time, he happened to hear a recording of his song “Washboard Blues,” by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Surprised that the song had been recorded and encouraged by this mark of success, he abandoned law and moved to New York City to embark on a career as a musician and composer. He recorded a version of his song “Stardust” in 1927; the song, an instrumental until fitted with lyrics by Mitchell Parrish in 1929, attracted little notice at first. In 1930 Isham Jones and his Orchestra had a hit with the song, and it went on to become one of the most renowned and most recorded standards in all of American music. During his stay in New York, Carmichael became friends with the young lyricist Johnny Mercer; the two collaborated on several songs throughout the years, with “Lazy Bones” being their first hit in 1933. Other hits composed during Carmichael’s years in New York include “Lazy River,” “Rockin’ Chair,” and “Georgia” (also known as “Georgia on My Mind”).

  
  Hoagy Carmichael.
  Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

  
  Carmichael moved to Hollywood, California, in 1936. There he composed songs for films and found additional success as a character actor, often playing the role of a philosophical and world-weary piano player, as in To Have and Have Not (1944). His hit songs for movies include “Two Sleepy People,” “Small Fry,” “Heart and Soul,” “Ole Buttermilk Sky,” “The Nearness of You,” and “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,” which won an Oscar for the best film song of 1951. One of his best-known compositions of the 1940s was “Skylark,” another collaboration with Mercer, and a song that reflected Carmichael’s jazz influences in that, according to one music scholar, it “seemed to have the improvisations built right into the melody.”
  
  As the golden age of American popular song waned during the advent of rock and roll in the 1950s, Carmichael continued to write songs—including such minor hits as “My Resistance Is Low” and “Winter Moon”—but had no more major successes as a songwriter. He also acted in a variety of television roles, such as his recurring dramatic part on the western series Laramie during the 1959–60 season. He never stopped composing, although most of his later songs were never recorded. One notable exception was a collection of children’s music released in 1971, Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop. Mostly, he devoted his later years to his hobbies of golf and coin collecting.
  
  Carmichael wrote two well-received volumes of memoirs, The Stardust Road (1946) and Sometimes I Wonder (1965). After Carmichael’s death, his family donated his archives and personal effects to his alma mater, Indiana University, which opened the Hoagy Carmichael Room in his honour in 1986.

  

  Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005994/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (23 credits)
  
  1972 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV Series) - Uncle Walter
  - Smiles from Yesterday (1972) ... Uncle Walter
  1970 The Name of the Game (TV Series) - Willie Meeker
  - Echo of a Nightmare (1970) ... Willie Meeker
  
  1966 The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series)
  - Oh Boy, Is the Honeymoon Over (1966)
  1965 The Man Who Bought Paradise (TV Movie) - Mr. Leoni
  1964 Burke's Law (TV Series) - Carl Baker / 'Jango' Jordan
  - Who Killed Molly? (1964) ... Carl Baker
  - Who Killed Snooky Martinelli? (1964) ... 'Jango' Jordan
  1960 The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) - Narrator
  - Those Ragtime Years (1960) ... Narrator
  1959-1960 Laramie (TV Series) - Jonesy
  - Cemetery Road (1960) ... Jonesy
  - Midnight Rebellion (1960) ... Jonesy
  - Saddle and Spur (1960) ... Jonesy
  - The Protectors (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
  - Hour After Dawn (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
  - Ride or Die (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
  - Street of Hate (1960) ... Jonesy
  - Duel at Alta Mesa (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
  - Rope of Steel (1960) ... Jonesy
  - Company Man (1960) ... Jonesy
  - Death Wind (1960) ... Jonesy
  - The Legend of Lily (1960) ... Jonesy
  - Day of Vengeance (1960) ... Jonesy
  - Trail Drive (1960) ... Jonesy
  - Ride into Darkness (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
  - The Pass (1959) ... Jonesy
  - Night of the Quiet Men (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
  - The Lonesome Gun (1959) ... Jonesy
  - Bare Knuckles (1959) ... Jonesy
  - Man of God (1959) ... Jonesy
  - Dark Verdict (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
  - The General Must Die (1959) ... Jonesy
  - The Run to Tumavaca (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
  - General Delivery (1959) ... Jonesy
  - The Iron Captain (1959) ... Jonesy
  - The Lawbreakers (1959) ... Jonesy
  - The Star Trail (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
  - Fugitive Road (1959) ... Jonesy
  - Circle of Fire (1959) ... Jonesy
  - Glory Road (1959) ... Jonesy
  - Stage Stop (1959) ... Jonesy
  
  1958 Climax! (TV Series) - Jazzman
  - Sound of the Moon (1958) ... Jazzman
  1957 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Marty Dix
  - The Helen Morgan Story (1957) ... Marty Dix
  1956 The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series)
  Frazier
  - Death in the Snow (1956) ... Frazier
  1955 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Sam
  - Casablanca (1955) ... Sam
  1955 Timberjack - Jingles
  1952 The Gulf Playhouse (TV Series) -
  - The Whale on the Beach (1952)
  1952 Belles on Their Toes - Thomas George Bracken
  1952 The Las Vegas Story - Happy
  1950 Young Man with a Horn - Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby
  
  1949 Johnny Holiday - Hoagy Carmichael
  1947 Night Song - Chick
  1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Butch Engle
  1946 Canyon Passage - Hi Linnet
  1945 Johnny Angel - Celestial O'Brien
  1944 To Have and Have Not - Cricket
  1937 Topper - Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)
  
  Soundtrack (376 credits)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005994/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Music department (5 credits)
  
  2012 All American Alston (TV Movie)
  
  1992 George Shearing: Lullaby in Birdland (Video) (music: "Memphis in June")
  1990 Michael Bolton: Georgia on My Mind (Video short)
  
  1956 Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (TV Series) (featuring the music of - 1 episode)
  - C (1956) ... (featuring the music of)
  
  1939 St. Louis Blues (songs by)
  
  Composer (1 credit)
  
  1964 De muziek van Hoagy Carmichael (TV Short)

  
  
  

  

  Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953.
  Chapter 5 - The Girl From Headquarters

  'He is very good looking. He reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless in his . . .'

  Chapter 8 - Pink Lights and Champagne

  As he tied his thin, double ended, black satin tie, he paused for a moment and examined himself levelly in the mirror. His grey blue eyes looked calmly back with a hint of ironical inquiry and the short lock of black hair which would never stay in place slowly subsided to form a thick comma above his right eyebrow. With the thin vertical scar down his right cheek the general effect was faintly piratical. Not much of Hoagy Carmichael there, thought Bond, as he filled a flat, light gunmetal box with fifty of the Morland cigarettes with the triple gold band. Mathis had told him of the girl's comment.

  Moonraker, Ian Fleming, 1955.
  Chapter XIV - Itching Fingers

  Commander Bond. James Bond. Clearly a conceited young man like so many of them in the Secret Service. And why had he been sent down instead of somebody she could work with, one of her friends from the Special Branch, or even somebody from MI5? The message from the Assistant Commissioner had said that there was no one else available at short notice, that this was one of the stars of the Secret Service who had the complete confidence of the Special Branch and the blessings of MI5. Even the Prime Minister had had to give permission for him to operate, for just this one assignment, inside England. But what use could he be in the short time that was left? He could probably shoot all right and talk foreign languages and do a lot of tricks that might be useful abroad. But what good could he do down here without any beautiful spies to make love to. Because he was certainly good-looking. (Gala Brand automatically reached into her bag for her vanity case. She examined herself in the little mirror and dabbed at her nose with a powder puff.) Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold. Were they grey or blue? It had been difficult to say last night. Well, at any rate she had put him in his place and shown him that she wasn't impressed by dashing young men from the Secret Service, however romantic they might look.

  
  "Stardust", Hoagy Carmichael.
  
  
  Have and Have Not, "Am I Blue", Hoagy Carmichael, 1944.
  
  
  Have and Have Not, "Georgia", Hoagy Carmichael, 1944.
  

  
  1923: Guy Doleman is born--Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand.
  
  1944: Paul Brooke is born--London, England.
  
  1961: Broccoli & Saltzman announce Sean Connery in the James Bond role and kick off a big publicity campaign.

  

  1965: Mads Mikkelsen is born--Østerbro, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  1966: O.K. Connery (aka Operation Kid Brother; Operation Double 007) released in the US.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1980: Leonard Barr dies at age 77--West Hollywood, California.
  (Born 27 September 1903--West Virginia.)

  

  Leonard Barr

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

  
  Barr in Diamonds Are Forever, 1971

  Birth name Leonard Barra
  Born September 27, 1903, West Virginia, U.S.
  Died November 22, 1980 (aged 77), Burbank, California, U.S.
  Medium Stand-up, television, film
  Years active 1970–1980
  Genres One-liners
  Relative(s) Dean Martin (nephew)
  Notable works and roles Diamonds Are Forever

  Leonard Barr (born Leonard Barra; September 27, 1903 – November 22, 1980) was an American stand-up comic, actor, and dancer.
  
  Barr appeared several times with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis when they hosted the Colgate Comedy Hour. He had a brief role in The Sting, appropriately as a burlesque comic. That is also the way his character is listed in the credits—as an anonymous comedian. However, in the wings of the stage just before the comic's entrance, he has a brief conversation with Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford), who addresses him as "Leonard".

  He is perhaps best remembered internationally for his appearance in the 1971 James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever in which he played Shady Tree, a stand-up comedian and smuggler in Las Vegas who was assassinated by henchmen Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd. He also appeared in The Odd Couple usually in the non-dialogue New York street scenes in the first season or 5 episodes later in 1975 with dialogue and, albeit unnamed, on an episode of M*A*S*H as a USO comedian. He also made numerous guest appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Cameron Crowe briefly depicted Barr as a foul-mouthed real-life character in Almost Famous, his semi-autobiographical film of 2000.

  Personal life
  
  He was the uncle of Dean Martin (being the brother of Dean Martin's mother Angela).
  
  Death
  The 77-year-old Leonard Barr suffered a stroke on October 28, 1980, in his hotel room in West Hollywood and died on November 22, 1980, in a hospital in Burbank, California.

  
  Leonard Barr (1903–1980)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0056536/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm
  
  Filmography

  Actor (14 credits)
  
  1981 Under the Rainbow - Pops
  1980 Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (TV Series) - Comic
  - Pilot: Part 1 (1980) ... Comic
  
  1979 Skatetown, U.S.A. - 1977-1978 Szysznyk (TV Series)
  Leonard Kriegler
  - Youth of the Year (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
  - Norton's Head Trip (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
  - Hell on Wheels (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
  - A Star Is Burned (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
  - You Stomped on My Heart (1978) ... Leonard Kriegler
  1978 Battered (TV Movie) - Prof. Jeremiah Hayden
  1977 Record City - Sickly Man
  1977 Billy: Portrait of a Street Kid (TV Movie) - Hospital Roommate
  1976 The Tony Randall Show (TV Series) - Bellhop
  - Case: His Honor vs. Her Honor (1976) ... Bellhop
  1975 Little House on the Prairie (TV Series) - Proprietor
  - To See the World (1975) ... Proprietor
  1970-1975 The Odd Couple (TV Series) - Walter / Stickman / Mayor / ...
  - Old Flames Never Die (1975) ... Walter
  - The Hollywood Story (1974) ... Stickman / Mayor
  - To Bowl or Not to Bowl (1974) ... Arnold
  - Lovers Don't Make House Calls (1971) ... Panhandler (uncredited)
  - Oscar's Ulcer (1970) ... Old Playful Boxer on the Street (uncredited)
  1973 The Sting - Burlesque House Comedian
  1972 Evil Roy Slade (TV Movie) - Crippled Man
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Shady Tree
  1970 Love, American Style (TV Series) - Passing Buck (segment "Love and the Longest Night")
  - Love and the Big Date/Love and the Longest Night (1970) ... Passing Buck (segment "Love and the Longest Night")
  
  Soundtrack (2 credits)
  
  1967 The Dean Martin Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #2.25 (1967) ... (performer: "Crazy Rhythm" - uncredited)
  1959 Gangster Story (music: "The Itch for Scratch")

  
  

  
  1981: ABC-TV premieres Moonraker.

  

  1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Zorin fighting at the top of the Golden Gate Bridge at Stage C Pinewood Studios.
  
  1999: The World Is Not Enough European Charity London premiere at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2002: Die Another Day released in the US and Puerto Rico.

  
  
  

  2002: Meurs un autre jour released in Canada.

  
  

  2002: Muere otro día released in Spain. (Catalan: Mor un altre dia.)

  
  

  2002: למות ביום אהר (Lamut B'Yom A'her; To Die the Next Day) premieres in Israel. (premiere)

  
  

  2002: Smierc nadejdzie jutro (Death Will Come tomorrow)released in Poland.

  
  

  
  2004: Electronic Arts publishes GoldenEye: Rogue Agent for PlayStation 2, Xbox,Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS.

  
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  2006: "You Know My Name" (the grittier version) charts at #20 as a UK Single Download.

  

  2006: Casino Royale released in Belgium, France, and Switzerland.
  
  2012: Skyfall released in Australia, Republic of Macedonia, New Zealand.
  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Solstice.

  

  JAMES BOND: SOLSTICE ONE-SHOT

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026279001011
  Cover A: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Writer: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Art: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Publication Date: November 2017
  Page Count: 40 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 11/22

  Dynamite is proud to present their first ever James Bond Holiday special. This one-shot Bond adventure is perfect for both the new and hard-core Bond fan.
  007 accepts an unofficial mission. He travels to Paris, in pursuit of a Russian. But is Bond the hunter, or the hunted?
  
  A stunning thirty-page tale by superstar writer/artist IBRAHIM MOUSTAFA (Savage Things, Mockingbird, Jaeger).

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• QBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.

  November 2020 Posts: 14,569

  Solstice was a delight to read. Great dialogue, nice twists here and there. A great place to start if you're new to the comics, as it's a short story.
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 2020 Posts: 13,787

  November 23rd
  
  1930: Ricou Browning is born--Fort Pierce, Florida.
  
  1990: Roald Dahl dies at age 74--Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.
  (Born 13 September 1916--Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales.)

  

  Roald Dahl: a life filled with tales of the unexpected

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

  

  Roald Dahl (1916–1990)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001094/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Writer (76 credits)
  
  Matilda (based on the book by) (announced)
  Willy Wonka (creator) (announced)
  
  2020 The Witches (novel) (post-production)
  2017 Tom and Jerry: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Video) (based on the novel "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by)
  2016 Revolting Rhymes Part Two (TV Short) (based on the book by)
  2016 Revolting Rhymes Part One (TV Short) (based on the book by)
  2016 Welcome to the Basement (TV Series) (screenplay - 1 episode)
  - You Only Live Twice (2016) ... (screenplay)
  2016 The BFG (based on the book by)
  2016 In the Ruins (Short) (short story)
  2016 Lamb to the Slaughter (Short) (novel)
  2015 The Taste (Short) (based on a short story by)
  2015 Roald Dahl's Esio Trot (TV Movie) (based on the novel by)
  2013 Baa Baa Black Sheep (Short) (story)
  2013/I Cheap Thrills (short story "Man from the South" - uncredited)
  2012 Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in the Playroom (Video short) (book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" - uncredited)
  2012 Bang-lure (Short) (story)
  2012 Chippendale (Short)
  2009 Fantastic Mr. Fox (novel)
  2008 Three Little Pigs (Short) (writer)
  2007 Jackanory Junior (TV Series)
  2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (book)
  2005 Imagine (TV Series documentary) (quotations - 1 episode)
  - Fantastic Mr Dahl (2005) ... (quotations - uncredited)
  2005/I The Bet (Short) (story)
  2002 Lamb to the Slaughter (story)
  2000 Genesis and Catastrophe (Short) (story)
  
  1999 Inaudito (Short) (story)
  1997 The Enormous Crocodile (TV Movie)
  1996 Matilda (book)
  1996 James And The Giant Peach (based on the book by)
  1995 Alien Tales (Video Game) (synopsis: Matilda)
  Jackanory (TV Series) (book - 14 episodes, 1968 - 1986) (novel - 6 episodes, 1979 - 1995)
  - The Twits (1995) ... (novel)
  - James and the Giant Peach: Part Five (1986) ... (book)
  - James and the Giant Peach: Part Four (1986) ... (book)
  - James and the Giant Peach: Part Three (1986) ... (book)
  - James and the Giant Peach: Part Two (1986) ... (book)
  - James and the Giant Peach: Part One (1986) ... (novel)
  - George's Marvellous Medicine: Grandma Gets the Medicine (1986) ... (novel)
  - George's Marvellous Medicine: The Cook-Up (1986) ... (novel)
  - George's Marvellous Medicine: The Marvellous Plan (1986) ... (novel)
  - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1979) ... (novel)
  - James and the Giant Peach: Down to Earth (1968) ... (book)
  - James and the Giant Peach: Adventures in the Air (1968) ... (book)
  - James and the Giant Peach: Danger - Sharks! (1968) ... (book)
  - James and the Giant Peach: Strange Creatures (1968) ... (book)
  - James and the Giant Peach: The Mysterious Peach (1968) ... (book)
  - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A Surprise for Charlie (1968) ... (book)
  - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: A Shock for Veruca and Violet (1968) ... (book)
  - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Chocolate Room (1968) ... (book)
  - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Fudgemallow Delight (1968) ... (book)
  - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Golden Tickets (1968) ... (book)
  1995 Pisvingers! (Short) (story "The Swan")
  1992 Idealnaya para (stories)
  1990 Dirty Beasts (TV Movie)
  1990 Revolting Rhymes (TV Movie)
  1990 The Magic Finger (TV Movie)
  1990 The Silent Hunt (novel)
  1990 The Witches (book)
  
  1989 Breaking Point (TV Movie) (novel "Beware of the Dog")
  1989 Danny the Champion of the World (TV Movie) (novel)
  1988 Velká rosáda (TV Movie) (adaptation)
  Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) (writer - 15 episodes, 1979 - 1981) (story - 11 episodes, 1979 - 1988)
  - The Surgeon (1988) ... (story)
  - The Sound Machine (1981) ... (writer)
  - The Boy Who Talked with Animals (1981) ... (story)
  - Parson's Pleasure (1980) ... (story)
  - Vengeance Is Mine Inc. (1980) ... (writer)
  - Mr Botibol's First Love (1980) ... (story)
  - Genesis & Catastrophe (1980) ... (story)
  - The Umbrella Man (1980) ... (story)
  - Depart in Peace (1980) ... (writer)
  - Georgy Porgy (1980) ... (story)
  - My Lady Love, My Dove (1980) ... (writer)
  - Taste (1980) ... (writer)
  - Poison (1980) ... (story)
  - The Hitch-Hiker (1980) ... (story)
  - Galloping Foxley (1980) ... (story)
  - Skin (1980) ... (writer)
  - Royal Jelly (1980) ... (writer)
  - The Way Up to Heaven (1979) ... (writer)
  - A Dip in the Pool (1979) ... (writer)
  - Edward the Conqueror (1979) ... (writer)
  - Neck (1979) ... (writer)
  - The Landlady (1979) ... (writer)
  - Lamb to the Slaughter (1979) ... (writer)
  - William and Mary (1979) ... (writer)
  - Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1979) ... (writer)
  - The Man from the South (1979) ... (story)
  1988 The Book Tower (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #10.1 (1988) ... (writer - segment ": "Boy")
  1987 The BFG (novel)
  1985 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - Pilot (1985) ... (story - segment "Man from the South")
  1984 Kobra (Short) (short story "Poison")
  1983 Kalle och chokladfabriken (TV Mini-Series) (novel)
  
  1976 James and the Giant Peach (TV Movie) (based upon a novel by)
  1976 Le care mogli (TV Movie) (play)
  1975 A Gigot (Short) (short story "Lamb to the Slaughter")
  1975 Hundert Mark (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Des Pfarrers Freude ... (writer)
  1975 Uit de wereld van Roald Dahl (TV Series) (story - 5 episodes)
  - Een frisse duik (1975) ... (story)
  - De verrassing (1975) ... (story)
  - Op weg naar de hemel (1975) ... (story)
  - Vergif (1975) ... (story)
  - De weddenschap (1975) ... (story)
  1974 Genesis and Catastrophe (Short) (short story "Genesis and Catastrophe")
  1973 Et lite grøss? (TV Mini-Series) (short story "The Landlady" - 1 episode)
  - Vertinnen (1973) ... (short story "The Landlady")
  1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (book "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory") / (screenplay)
  1971 The Road Builder
  1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (screenplay)
  1968 Late Night Horror (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - William and Mary (1968) ... (writer)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (screenplay)
  1967 Teatterituokio (TV Series) (short story "Taste" - 1 episode)
  - Maku (1967) ... (short story "Taste")
  Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) (story - 2 episodes, 1965) (writer - 1 episode, 1967)
  - Taste (1967) ... (writer)
  - Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1965) ... (story)
  - Parson's Pleasure (1965) ... (story)
  1966 Des Pfarrers Freude (TV Movie) (story)
  1964 36 Hours (story "Beware of the Dog")
  1962 That Was the Week That Was (TV Series)
  1961 'Way Out (TV Series) (by - 1 episode)
  - William and Mary (1961) ... (by)
  Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) (based on a story by - 3 episodes, 1958 - 1961) (story - 2 episodes, 1958) (story by - 1 episode, 1960) (teleplay - 1 episode, 1958)
  - The Landlady (1961) ... (based on a story by)
  - Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1960) ... (based on a story by)
  - Man from the South (1960) ... (story by)
  - Poison (1958) ... (story)
  - Dip in the Pool (1958) ... (based on a story by)
  - Lamb to the Slaughter (1958) ... (story) / (teleplay)
  1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) (short story: "Beware of the Dog" - 1 episode)
  - Blind Landing (1959) ... (short story: "Beware of the Dog")
  1958 Suspicion (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - The Way Up to Heaven (1958) ... (story)
  1956 Le coup du berger (Short) (story - uncredited)
  1955 Cameo Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - The Man from the South (1955) ... (story)
  1955 Star Tonight (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - Taste (1955) ... (story)
  1954 Danger (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - A Dip in the Pool (1954) ... (story)
  1954 The Philip Morris Playhouse (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - Taste (1954) ... (story)
  1952 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - The Taste (1952) ... (story)
  1952 CBS Television Workshop (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - The Sound Machine (1952) ... (story)
  1950 Suspense (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - Poison (1950) ... (story)
  
  Actor (2 credits)
  1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Narrator
  - Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat (1965) ... Narrator (voice)
  1961 'Way Out (TV Series) - Host
  - 20/20 (1961) ... Host
  - Side Show (1961) ... Host
  - Hush-Hush (1961) ... Host
  - The Overnight Case (1961) ... Host
  - The Croaker (1961) ... Host
  -
  Soundtrack (2 credits)
  
  2005 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (lyrics: "Augustus Gloop", "Violet Beauregarde", "Veruca Salt", "Mike Teavee")
  
  1996 James And The Giant Peach (lyrics: "Eating The Peach")

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2002: Madonna’s Die Another Day single peaks at #1, Canadian Soundscan Singles Sales chart.
  Stays there (on and off) 7 weeks.

  
  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale released in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Switzerland, Croatia, and the Netherlands.
  2006: 007 - Casino Royale released in Slovenia.
  2006: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Germany and Portugal.
  2006: Казино ројал (Kazino rojal) released in Serbia.
  2006: 007 カジノ・ロワイヤル (007: Kajino rowaiyaru) opens the Tokyo International Cine City Festival.

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 2020 edited December 2020 Posts: 13,787

  November 24th
  
  1959: Jack Whittingham meets Ian Fleming and Ivor Bryce in New York.
  
  1965: Variety reports Tom Jones signed up for the Thunderball title song, plus (not entirely correctly) that Shirley Bassey recorded a John Barry-Leslie Bricusse tune for the end titles.
  1966: You Only Live Twice films the throwing star and Blofeld.
  
  1981: Altin Tabancali Adam (The Golden Gun Man) released in Turkey.

  
  1966
  
  
  But not this one from 1970

  

  1983: Octopussy released in Australia.

  Australian Daybill
  

  1983: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Επιχείρηση Οκτάπουσι (James Bond, Agent 007: Enterprise Octopus) released in Greece.

  

  
  1995: GoldenEye released in the UK, Ireland, and Poland.

  
  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale released in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Romania, and Sweden.
  2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Spain.
  2006: Казино Pоял released in Bulgaria.
  
  2014: The Sony Corp. entertainment computer network is hacked, releasing sensitive information including details of the Spectre script. The biggest cyberattack to that date in the US.
  2018: Ricky Jay (Richard Jay Potash) dies at age 70--Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 26 June 1948--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.)

  

  Ricky Jay, Master Magician and
  Actor in ‘Deadwood,’ ‘Boogie
  Nights,’ Dies at 72

  https://variety.com/2018/film/news/ricky-jay-dead-dies-magician-boogie-nights-1203035879/
  https://twitter.com/Variety_PatS
  
  Ricky Jay 'Life of Pi' film premiere at the 50th Annual New York Film Festival, America - 28 Sep 2012
  CREDIT: Dave Allocca/Starpix/REX/Shutter
  
  Ricky Jay, a master magician who also acted in films and TV shows such as “Boogie Nights,” “House of Games” and “Deadwood,” died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 72.
  
  Jay’s manager, Winston Simone, said he died of natural causes, adding, “He was one of a kind. We will never see the likes of him again.”
  
  His attorney Stan Coleman confirmed his death. His partner in the Deceptive Practices company, Michael Weber, tweeted, “I am sorry to share that my remarkable friend, teacher, collaborator and co-conspirator is gone.”
  
  A New Yorker profile called him “the most gifted sleight of hand artist alive,” and Jay was also known for his card tricks and memory feats.
  
  He appeared in several David Mamet movies, including “House of Games,” “The Spanish Prisoner,” “Things Change,” “Redbelt” and “State and Main.”
  
  Steve Martin, with whom he appeared in “The Spanish Prisoner,” described Jay in the New Yorker profile, “I sort of think of Ricky as the intellectual élite of magicians. He’s expertly able to perform and yet he knows the theory, history, literature of the field.”
  
  In “Deadwood,” he played card sharp Eddie Sawyer during the first season, and also wrote for the show.

  In the 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies,” Jay played a cyber-terrorist to Pierce Brosnan’s Bond.

  He also provided the narration for movies such as Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia.” His one-man Broadway show directed by Mamet, “Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants,” was recorded for an HBO special in 1996.
  
  With Weber, he created the Deceptive Practices company, which provided solutions to movies and TV productions such as the wheelchair that hid Gary Sinise’s legs in “Forrest Gump.” They also worked on films including “The Prestige,” “The Illusionist” and “Oceans Thirteen.”
  
  Jay, who was born Richard Jay Potash in Brooklyn, was introduced to magic by his grandfather. He began performing in New York, opening for rock bands. Jay first worked in film with on Caleb Deschanel’s “The Escape Artist.”
  
  A documentary about his life, “Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay,” was released in 2012.
  
  A student of all facets of magic, prestidigitation and trickery, he maintained a large library of historic works and wrote two books, as well as numerous articles for the New Yorker; he also frequently lectured at museums and universities.

  

  Ricky Jay (1946–2018)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0419633/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Trivia
  
  Ricky Jay (Henry Gupta) is also an acclaimed magician, who holds a world record for the fastest throwing playing cards. The producers initially wanted a scene where he threw playing cards at Bond. They set up the scene to block, Ricky was fifty or seventy-five feet away, and was asked to hit Pierce Brosnan in the face. Ricky warned them it wasn't a good idea, safety wise. After they convinced him to do it, he agreed, and hit Pierce right above the eyes. To his disappointment, for some reason, they never asked him to repeat it on film. Gupta is shown throwing cards in the DVD deleted scenes.
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cofb-jJiFk
  
  Filmography

  Actor (41 credits)
  
  2019 Sneaky Pete (TV Series) - T.H. Vignetti
  - The Sunshine Switcheroo (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Little Sister (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The California Split (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Invisible Man (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Brooklyn Potash (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti (voice, uncredited)
  - The Vermont Victim & The Bakersfield Hustle (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Stamford Trust Fall (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  - The Huckleberry Jones (2019) ... T.H. Vignetti
  2015 The Automatic Hate - Josh / Howard's son
  2014 Getting On (TV Series) - Thoracic Surgeon
  - Turnips... North Day... Yes, yes. (2014) ... Thoracic Surgeon
  2013 Breathe Life Radio TV (TV Series)
  2013 Teen Titans Go! (TV Series short) - Narrator
  - Double Trouble (2013) ... Narrator (voice)
  2011 The End of 'Sluggers' (Short)
  2010 Lost Masterpieces of Pornography (Video short) - Narrator
  2009-2010 Flashforward (TV Series) - Ted Flosso / Man in Warehouse
  - Revelation Zero: Part 2 (2010) ... Ted Flosso
  - Revelation Zero: Part 1 (2010) ... Ted Flosso
  - Playing Cards with Coyote (2009) ... Man in Warehouse
  2009 Lie to Me (TV Series) - Mason Brock
  - Fold Equity (2009) - .. Mason Brock
  
  2009 Intense - John
  2007-2009 The Unit (TV Series) - Agent Kern
  - Bad Beat (2009) ... Agent Kern
  - Pandemonium: Part Two (2007) ... Agent Kern
  - Paradise Lost (2007) ... Agent Kern
  - Bedfellows (2007) ... Agent Kern
  2008 The Brothers Bloom - Narrator (voice)
  2008 Redbelt - Marty Brown
  2008 The Great Buck Howard - Gil Bellamy
  2006-2007 Kidnapped (TV Series) - Roger Prince
  - Mutiny (2007) ... Roger Prince
  - Gone Fishing (2007) ... Roger Prince
  - Number One with a Bullet (2006) ... Roger Prince
  - Pilot (2006) ... Roger Prince
  2006 The Prestige - Milton
  2005 Last Days - Detective
  2004 Deadwood (TV Series) - Eddie Sawyer
  - Sold Under Sin (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Mister Wu (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - No Other Sons or Daughters (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Suffer the Little Children (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Bullock Returns to the Camp (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Plague (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - The Trial of Jack McCall (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Here Was a Man (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  - Reconnoitering the Rim (2004) ... Eddie Sawyer
  2004 Incident at Loch Ness - Party Guest
  2001 Heist - Don 'Pinky' Pincus
  2001 Heartbreakers - Dawson's Auctioneer
  2000 State and Main - Jack
  2000 The X-Files (TV Series) - The Amazing Maleeni / Herman Pinchbeck / Albert Pinchbeck
  - The Amazing Maleeni (2000) ... The Amazing Maleeni / Herman Pinchbeck / Albert Pinchbeck
  
  1999 Magnolia - Burt Ramsey / Narrator
  1999 Mystery Men - Vic Weems
  1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Henry Gupta
  1997/I Hacks - The Hat
  1997 Boogie Nights - Kurt Longjohn
  1997 The Spanish Prisoner - George Lang
  1995 The Ranger, the Cook and a Hole in the Sky (TV Movie) - Hawkes
  1993 Magiskt (TV Series) - Magic film clip
  - Special guest: John Houdi (1993) ... Magic film clip
  - Special guest: John Houdi (1993) ... Magic film clip
  - Special guest: Lars-Peter Loeld (1993) ... Magic film clip
  1990-1992 The Secret Cabaret (TV Series) - Special appearance
  1992 Ring of the Musketeers (TV Movie) - Kerns (as Rickey Jay)
  1992 The Water Engine (TV Movie) - Ratty Inventor
  1991 Civil Wars (TV Series) - Lenny NiCastro
  - Pilot (1991) ... Lenny NiCastro
  1991 The Thrill Is Gone (TV Movie) - Dealer
  1991 Homicide - Aaron
  
  1988 Things Change - Mr. Silver
  1987 House of Games - George / Vegas Man
  1985/II A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Philostrate
  1983 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Bird
  - Red Dog Blues (1983) ... Bird
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (21 credits)
  
  2008 The Great Buck Howard (technical consultant: magic)
  2007 Ocean's Thirteen (consultant)
  2006 The Prestige (technical advisor: magic)
  2006 The Illusionist (technical advisor: magic)
  2001 The Affair of the Necklace (technical consultant)
  2001 Heist (technical consultant)
  2001 Heartbreakers (technical consultant: con games)
  
  1998 The Parent Trap (technical consultant)
  1997 The Spanish Prisoner (technical consultant)
  1995 Congo (illusion creator) / (technical consultant)
  1994 Forrest Gump (illusion wheelchair designer)
  1994 Wolf (technical consultant)
  1994 I Love Trouble (technical consultant)
  1992 Leap of Faith (consultant: cons and frauds)
  1992 Sneakers (sleight of hand consultant)
  1990 The Magic Balloon (Short) (technical consultant)
  
  1987 House of Games (consultant: confidence games)
  1987 The Believers (technical consultant)
  1984 The Natural (technical consultant)
  1983 New Magic (Documentary short) (magic advisor)
  1982 The Escape Artist (technical advisor)
  Hide Hide Writer (5 credits)
  2007 The Unit (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - Bedfellows (2007) ... (story)
  2004 Deadwood (TV Series) (written by - 1 episode)
  - Jewel's Boot Is Made for Walking (2004) ... (written by)
  1996 Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants (TV Movie)
  1990-1992 The Secret Cabaret (TV Series) (12 episodes)
  
  1989 Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women (TV Special)
  
  Music department (1 credit)
  
  1985/II A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) (music effects)

  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Sotheby's auctions Lot 160 Italian James Bond film festival poster Tutti Contro James Bond (All Against James Bond) from 1975.

  

  Tutti Contro James Bond / All
  Against James Bond (1975)
  Poster, Italian, James Bond film
  festival

  https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/original-film-posters/tutti-contro-james-bond-all-against-james-bond
  Estimate: 1,000 - 1,600 GBP
  

  

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  2020: Yaroslav Horak dies at age 94--Sydney, Australia.
  (Born 12 June 1927--Harbin, China.)

  

  In Memoriam: James Bond comic artist Yaroslav
  Horak

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://downthetubes.net/?p=123513&fbclid=IwAR2OztK1Hj9eCj16H9EVQrZag8EkYebdcpRSqcU9hC89hhm5JsT_La3IpR4

  By John Freeman on December 5, 2020
  
  We’re sorry to report the passing of James Bond newspaper strip artist Yaroslav Horak, who passed late last month, aged 93. He passed away peacefully at his rest home in Australia, after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.
  
  Born in Manchuria to the son of a Russian mother and Czech father in 1927, Yaroslav was renowned for his dynamic black and white art for James Bond 007, which he drew for the Daily Express from 1966 to 1977, taking over from John McLusky.
  
  
  James Bond – The Man with the Golden Gun
  
  Horak and his family migrated to Sydney, Australia before World War Two, first working as an artist as a portrait painter but switching to illustration for the larger Australian magazine publishers. His appreciation for storytelling, art and adventure led him into writing and illustrating comic strips, and became one of Australian’s most prolific cartoonists, producing thousands of pages of comics in Australia before moving to England in 1962.
  
  In his detailed biography on Comics Down Under Kevin Patrick notes Horak’s first published comics work, “Grey Thorne, Counter Espionage Agent”, appeared in Frank Johnson Publications’ Gem Comics in 1947.
  
  He created his first recurring character, “Rick Davis, Special Correspondent”, as a supporting feature in H.J. Edwards’ top-selling Action Comic. This was followed by “The Skyman”, which ran in both Action Comic and John Dixon’s Tim Valour Comic. This aviation-themed series was the first comic to carry the artist’s Anglicised by-line, “Larry Horak”.
  
  (Documenting the holdings of Horak’s held by the National Library of Australia, Liesl Mitchell notes it was publisher John Edwards who gave Horak the name “Larry” by which he is also known. This was not to the artist’s liking and he only managed to shed this imposed name when he moved to Europe).
  
  
  Art from Jet Fury #17 via Pikitia Press
  
  Horak’s first solo comic book, Mr Combat, for Elmsdale Publications, was published in 1950, but his “globetrotting crime-buster” was cancelled after just three issues. But “Jet Fury”, a series which began as a supporting feature in Michael Chance Comic, about a masked aviator who flew to global trouble-spots aboard the Comet, an “anti-gravity” jet, firmly established his reputation as a comics artist. Its popularity led to the title being re-named as Jet Fury Comic with its 16th issue in 1951.
  
  Other early credits include The Mask – The Man of Many Faces for Atlas Publications – but Comics Down Under notes the ran foul of Queensland’s Literature Board of Review, which objected to the character’s full-face mask, and imposed a state-wide sales ban on the comic, forcing Atlas Publications to reluctantly cancel the title with its third issue in 1954.
  
  Disillusioned, Horak turned to newspaper strips, creating “Captain Fortune“, running in Sydney’s Sun-Herald from December 1957 until July 1962; and drawing “Mike Steel – Desert Rider“, for Woman’s Day magazine, written by editor Keith Findlay (under the pseudonym “Roger Rowe”), running from August 1962 until January 1969.
  
  
  
  Moving to England in 1963, he secured work from DC Thomson his known credits including “Johny Hop” for The Victor, telling the adventures of Constable Bill Lennox and his Aboriginal tracker companion, Wally Omes, in Outback Australia in 1964, followed by “The Bent Copper” for The Hornet, about ex-Scotland Yard detective John Bright, who sought revenge against the criminal who framed him for a crime he did not commit, published in 1965.

  Between 1963 and 1966, he also drew stories for Fleetway’s War Picture Library and Battle Picture Library, before replacing John McLusky on the James Bond newspaper strip, at the suggestion of writer Peter O’Donnell, drawing some 33 adventures starring the secret agent between 1966 and 1984.
  
  Horak’s take on the secret agent resembled Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, long before either actor took up the role on the big screen.
  
  He first drew adaptations of The Spy Who Loved Me, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy, The Hildebrand Rarity, and The Living Daylights, followed by an adaptation of Colonel Sun (the Bond novel written by Kingsley Amis).
  
  It was Horak’s acclaimed adaptation of The Man with the Golden Gun, published between January 1966 and September 1966, that led to writer Jim Lawrence being given permission by the Fleming Trust to write original Bond stories for Horak to draw, including River of Death, Trouble Spot and The Girl Machine.

  Horak returned to Australia in 1975, drawing a newspaper strip adaptation of the Australian TV show Cop Shop for Sydney’s Sun-Herald, which ran from 1980 to 1983, collected in a tie-in magazine.
  
  His final comics project was his own – the SF series, “Andea”, published by Australia’s Daily Mirror, centring on a glamorous female extra-terrestrial who travelled to Australia from the distant planet Xavax.
  
  “‘Andea’ showcased Horak’s storytelling skills to brilliant effect,” notes Kevin Patrick, “with his intricate plots, fantastic characters, and exquisite artwork demonstrating his complete mastery of the medium throughout the series’ seven-year run. It was a fitting end to Yaroslav Horak’s incomparable career as one of Australia’s great comic artists.”
  
  Refocusing on painting in later life, Horak was awarded the Ledger of Honour in recognition of his contributions to Australian comics, as part of the Ledger Awards for 2018.
  
  Our sympathies to his family at this time, who requested that donations in his memory be made to Dementia Australia.
  
  Yaroslav Horak, artist, born 12th June 1927, died 24th November 2020. Survived by his wife, Jacqueline and children Anton, Natasha and Damon

  Comics Down Under

  Yaroslav Horak: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://comicsdownunder.blogspot.com/2015/06/yaroslav-horak-portrait-of-artist-as.html

  While recently browsing through a box of old magazines and newspapers in an antiques shop, I came across a tattered and torn copy of The News, a tabloid newspaper produced by the Australian Journalists Association and the Printing Industry Employees' Union during a wartime industrial dispute with Sydney Newspaper Proprietors' Association. This copy of The News, dated Tuesday, 17 October 1944, caught my eye because it contained a brief profile of a talented young high-school student from Sydney, Yaroslav Horak (See image). The text of the article reads as follows:

  Sixteen-year-old Russian, Yaroslav Horak, of Centennial Park, pupil of St Mary's Cathedral High School, displays a poster he has entered in the Australia-wide Second Victory Loan School contests. Born in Manchuria, Yaroslav came to Australia four years ago. He has since learnt to speak English fluently.

  

  

  
  Yaroslav Horak, of course, went on to become a talented and highly sought-after comic book artist in Australia following World War Two, creating such popular characters as Jet Fury (originally a back-up feature in Michael Chance Comics), along with The Mask, which was controversially banned by Queensland's Literature Board of Review in 1954, at the height of anti-comics hysteria in Australia (A comprehensive interview with Yaroslav Horak was published in the Australian Cartoonists' Association's Inkspot magazine in 2009).

  Emigrating to Great Britain in the 1960s, Horak worked for British comics publishers, such as IPC's popular Battle Picture Library series, and went on to succeed John McLusky as the illustrator of the James Bond comic strip appearing in The Daily Express newspaper (An informative profile of Horak's work on James Bond appears on the Dave Karlen Original Art Blog).

  Posted 25th June 2015 by Kevin Patrick

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  Yaroslav Horak on James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://davekarlenoriginalartblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/yaroslav-horak-on-james-bond.html

  Tuesday, August 19, 2008
  
  Russian born Yaroslav Horak began his early career as a portrait sketch artist, but soon switched to illustration for the larger Australian magazine publishers after migrating to Sydney. His successful comic series The Mask, ran afoul with Victoria's State censors, but was soon followed by his daily outback adventure strip Mike Steel for Sydney's, The Woman's Day. A quick talent for animation and storyboards also kept Horak busy on many different projects. When given the James Bond strip in 1965, Horak's adaptation of The Man with the Golden Gun was highly praised in the new direction he approached the series. The syndicate was so pleased with their creative team that Jim Lawrence was given permission by the Fleming Trust to produce original stories for Horak to draw. Overall they worked on thirty-three thrilling Bond tales for the Daily Express and other various newspaper syndicates in Europe.
  
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  In the UK recently he presented Pierce Brosnan with a portrait of the "Brosnan Bond", at a UK fan club occasion, in Horak's new rough style. I have a full size copy of it and he also did one of Ursulla Andress, which he didn't get to present to her for some reason, the large original ink on paper is of her in a bikini depicted from Dr. No. with two diving knives.

  

  Yaroslav Horak

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  
  
  War Picture Library

  WPL 214 Rough Justice 1963
  WPL 303 Death Or Dishonour 1965
  WPL 304 Battle Drill 1965
  WPL 315 Cross For Courage 1965
  WPL 323 Passage Of Arms 1966
  WPL 648 The Curse 1971
  BPL 156 The Savage Sands 1964
  BPL 173 The Stronghold 1964
  BPL 190 Killers Code 1965
  BPL 197 Gun Crazy 1965
  BPL 231 Victory Cry 1965

  
  James Bond strips

  Title | Writer | Published date | Serial no.
  The Man with the Golden Gun | Jim Lawrence 10 January 1966 – 9 September 1966 1-209
  The Living Daylights | Jim Lawrence 12 September 1966 – 12 November 1966 210-263
  Octopussy | Jim Lawrence 14 November 1966 – 27 May 1967 264-428
  The Hildebrand Rarity | Jim Lawrence 29 May 1967 – 16 December 1967 429-602
  The Spy Who Loved Me | Jim Lawrence 18 December 1967 – 3 October 1968 603-815
  The Harpies | Jim Lawrence 10 October 1968 – 23 June 1969 816-1037
  River Of Death | Jim Lawrence 24 June 1969 – 29 November 1969 1038–1174
  Colonel Sun | Jim Lawrence 1 December 1969 – 28 August 1970 1175–1393
  The Golden Ghost | Jim Lawrence 21 August 1970 – 16 January 1971 1394–1519
  Fear Face | Jim Lawrence 18 January 1971 – 20 April 1971 1520–1596
  Double Jeopardy | Jim Lawrence 21 April 1971 – 28 August 1971 1597–1708
  Starfire | Jim Lawrence 30 August 1971 – 24 December 1971 1709–1809
  Trouble Spot | Jim Lawrence 28 December 1971 – 10 June 1972 1810–1951
  Isle Of Condors | Jim Lawrence 12 June 1972 – 21 October 1972 1952–2065
  The League Of Vampires | Jim Lawrence 25 October 1972 – 28 February 1973 2066–2172
  Die With My Boots On | Jim Lawrence 1 March 1973 – 18 June 1973 2173–2256
  The Girl Machine | Jim Lawrence 19 June 1973 – 3 December 1973 2257–2407
  Beware Of Butterflies | Jim Lawrence 4 December 1973 – 11 May 1974 2408–2541
  The Nevsky Nude | Jim Lawrence 13 May 1974 – 21 September 1974 2542–2655
  The Phoenix Project | Jim Lawrence 23 September 1974 – 18 February 1975 2656–2780
  The Black Ruby Caper | Jim Lawrence 19 February 1975 – 15 July 1975 2781–2897
  Till Death Do Us Apart | Jim Lawrence 7 July 1975 – 14 October 1975 2989-2983
  The Torch-Time Affair | Jim Lawrence 15 October 1975 – 15 January 1976 2984-3060
  Hot-Shot | Jim Lawrence 16 January 1976 – 1 June 1976 3061-3178
  Nightbird | Jim Lawrence 2 June 1976 – 4 November 1976 3179-3312
  Ape Of Diamonds | Jim Lawrence 5 November 1976 – 22 January 1977 3313-3437
  When The Wizard Awakes | Jim Lawrence 30 January 1977 – 22 May 1977 1-54
  Sea Dragon | Jim Lawrence 1977 55-192
  Death Wing | Jim Lawrence 1977-1978 193-354
  The Xanadu Connection | Jim Lawrence 1978 355-468
  Shark Bait | Jim Lawrence 1978-1979 469-636
  Snake Goddess | Jim Lawrence 1983-1984 822-893
  Double Eagle | Jim Lawrence 1984 894-965

  
  
  

  
  
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  November 25th
  
  1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films Jaws exiting the train, his final scene filmed.
  1977: 007 - La spia che mi amava released in Italy.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1997: Filmtracks.com publishes Christian Clemmensen's review of the Tomorrow Never Dies score.
  (Revised 3 March 2008.)

  
  EDITORIAL REVIEW

  FILMTRACKS TRAFFIC RANK: #47

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.filmtracks.com/titles/tomorrow_nevter.html

  WRITTEN 11/25/97, REVISED 3/3/08
  
  Tomorrow Never Dies: (David Arnold) If one thing is certain about Pierce Brosnan's tenure as British agent James Bond, it's the superiority of Tomorrow Never Dies. Everything clicked in this, the second of his films as 007. His performance reached back to the confidence of Sean Connery, the love interest came packaged as Michelle Yeoh (who is more Bond's equal than just another conquest), a previous flame's death provokes a malice in Bond loyal to the books' original intent, the villain is charmingly enthusiastic and has a cool new stealth weapon as a toy, and David Arnold's score combined the best of the John Barry years with the younger composer's techno-saavy sensibilities. While Goldeneye had revived the series by becoming the first $100 million grossing Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies was far better packaged and drew greater interest from hardcore fans of the franchise's classics. With John Barry now out of the picture (despite his seeming renewed interest in scoring another Bond film during the Brosnan years), Arnold was a perfect successor. His love of the franchise and knack for imitating the expansive style of Barry in his early scores, not to mention his British heritage, made him the logical choice. And fans weren't disappointed. The score than Arnold assembled for Tomorrow Never Dies is a sophisticated and intelligent tribute to the classic Barry scores while pushing the envelope with synthetic rhythms and drum pads to aide the traditional orchestra in joining Bond in a rapidly evolving technological age. The trademark action style that Arnold established in Stargate and Independence Day is combined with a distinct return to the flamboyant style of the jazzy Bond scores of the 1960's, and with the presence of the synthetic elements native to Arnold's roots in the rock genre, every variety of Arnold fan had something to look forward. Arnold would become the franchise's regular voice, allowing the subsequent films to really define his career (with very few notable scores for non-Bond films mixed in between). He would continue pushing the synthetic side of his music for the franchise until a somewhat dissatisfying score for Die Another Day would pull Arnold back to the combo style of Tomorrow Never Dies in the outstanding Casino Royale.
  
  Arnold was obviously keenly aware that the Bond frachise's scores had their own unique formula while Barry was in charge, and that formula would continue here. The franchise theme by Monty Norman is quoted liberally in Tomorrow Never Dies, with its incorporation ranging from full-blown three-minute tributes to clever counterpoint against the new themes for the film. Arnold's full expressions of the Norman theme are extremely astute in an instrumental sense. Even the opening fifteen seconds of the score offers brass and cymbal accents true to Barry's introductions. The muted trumpets, solo flute, and electric guitar performances in "Company Car" provide the most true and entertaining modern performance of the Norman concept available. This three-minute cue establishes a standard by which fans and students of the franchise can worship and study. Acoustically, the recording is flawless. Aside from the statements of Norman's theme throughout the score, Arnold wrote one of the franchise's best title songs and integrated its theme extremely well throughout the entire score. With all the wailing brass flair of Goldfinger, his title theme is both seductively alluring and strikingly defiant, an easily memorable aspect of the film. In the opening action sequence before the credits ("White Knight"), Arnold introduces the theme with nobility at the 7:10 mark (in between ample development of Norman's theme). This theme punctuates many of the action sequences and is given an Eastern personality in "Kowloon Bay" before a last monumental statement for strings and bold brass counterpoint at the resolution of the film. A theme for Teri Hatcher's role as the villain's wife and former Bond lover is provided twice in Tomorrow Never Dies. As they reunite, Arnold allows the Barry-like idea to flourish with the full ensemble (once again in layered strings under brass counterpoint) before a solo woodwind echos accompany her demise. A deliberate, pounding motif for the villain Elliot Carver and his stealth ship is sparsely utilized throughout the score (its fullest appearance is at 3:55 into "The Sinking of the Devonshire"), though it receives some intriguing, less obvious exploration in "Underwater Discovery." If the score for Tomorrow Never Dies has a weakness, it's in the largely understated musical representation for Carver, as well as other "badguy" elements such as in "Doctor Kaufman."
  
  To counter the theme for Carver's wife earlier in the film, Arnold writes a theme for Michelle Yeoh's agent and the Eastern locations of the story. It's only receives brief treatment, but it is quite gorgeous on solo guitar and piano in the early portions of "Bike Shop Fight" and "Kowloon Bay." A full rendition in the latter cue, merging with the title theme, is a highlight of the score. Faint hints of this theme come through in the very last minute of the score, though this progression seems to be a nod to Barry's You Only Live Twice. And that brings up another important point about Tomorrow Never Dies: the many references to previous scores in the franchise. In the opening battle, Arnold states a fragment of From Russia With Love. The following cue offers brass wails identical to later action sequences in Goldfinger. In both "White Knight" and more obviously at 0:45 into "Hamburg Break In," Arnold quotes the five-note bass sequence that preceded Tina Turner's song for Goldeneye, arguably the most memorable element from the soundtrack of that film. He would not make the same number of references in his scores for the subsequent Brosnan/Bond films, though he does make a clever reference to the title theme for Tomorrow Never Dies during a conversational cue after Bond's early rescue in Die Another Day. In retrospect, Tomorrow Never Dies is a much better score than many gave it credit for being at the time. Some listeners were turned off by the extensive synthetic percussion used in "Back Seat Driver" and "Hamburg Break Out," among a few others, and these cues are indeed less effective outside the context of the film (where they come in conflict with the better balance of the surrounding material). But the varied, slapping percussion of "Bike Chase" is a perfect combination of both worlds, and its highly effective sound would set the stage for cues like the one for the opening chase sequence in Casino Royale. For the most part, the balance in mixing in Tomorrow Never Dies is outstanding, and the gorgeous piano solos in several cues are testimony to this clarity. Subsequent Arnold scores tended to get muddy in their rowdy action cues, especially in Die Another Day, though a total lack of theme in that later score is the greater problem.
  
  As anyone can expect, not everything with Tomorrow Never Dies went well. First and foremost, the song situation would be very dissatisfying for both Arnold and Bond fans alike. While the recording of the title song by k.d. lang would match the style and theme of Arnold's score with incredible cohesion and effectiveness, the producers of the film saw fit to hire a bigger name to provide a replacement song for the traditional opening credits sequence. This move was unfortunate not only because of Arnold's song was superior and in spirit of the franchise, but also because of lang's sulty voice and spirited performance. The replacement song is performed by Sheryl Crow, whose popularity at the time was seen as an asset, but whose beach-bum voice and lazy performance was a disgrace to the film. The video game score for Tomorrow Never Dies would heavily favor the use of Arnold's song theme, retitled "Surrender," over the presence of Crow's song. With critics, fans, and producers all easily recognizing the superiority of the lang song, Arnold was rewarded with the opportunity to write his own song for The World is Not Enough two years later (before suffering from extraordinary frustration trying to adapt Madonna's non-thematic song into the score for Die Another Day). A more minor criticism of Tomorrow Never Dies responds to the fact that Arnold only used his trademark, beautiful choir for a short snippet of "The Sinking of the Devonshire," though given that this cue sounds awkward in its sudden shift to Stargate during the slow-motion sinking and death sequence, that's not necessarily a negative. A truly major problem with Tomorrow Never Dies, however, was its album release. Much to the angst of Arnold, a hectic and disorganized post-production schedule for the film caused the music to be recorded chronologically in small portions over a matter of many months. As a result, the original 1997 album release by A&M Records could only feature the score material that had been mixed and mastered from the first half of the film. The entire last third of the score was missing from this product, including all of the Eastern-flavored cues and the pivotal "Bike Chase" and "All in a Day's Work" music of over ten minutes. This omission, which didn't make sense to consumers at the time, combined with the replacement of lang's song from the title credits, caused Bond fans to go stir crazy immediately.
  
  After much fuss and delay, controversy and discussion, most of the remaining music from the film was finally made available on a commercial release from Chapter III Records in 2000 (along with a concurrent release of Tommy Tallarico's score for the Tomorrow Never Dies video game). At the time, The World is Not Enough was failing to muster the same approval as its predecessor, and the latter film's release date forced Chapter III to hold back the expanded version of Tomorrow Never Dies by several weeks. Despite providing 26 minutes of score not available on the previous album, the Chapter III product does have its share of flaws. Although the packaging and press information advertised it as being "complete," it's actually missing several important pieces of music from the film. One major omission is the track "Station Break," the four-minute cue that plays as Bond takes Elliot Carver off the air and Arnold provides a darkly dramatic performance of the love theme that foreshadows an uncertain future for the Paris character. Ironically, this cue appeared in full on the 1997 album. Additionally, several very short snippets of music remain missing on album, including the film's ending to "White Knight." The second major drawback to the expanded album is the lack of the k.d. lang song. None of the songs on the original album appears on the expanded volume, likely due to financial reasons. The eleven-minute interview with Arnold at the end of the 2000 album is interesting; the questions are intelligent and the interview is mixed nicely with some of Arnold's cues. But it's not something you'll find yourself listening to a second time. A perfect album could have resulted if the interview were dumped in favor of "Station Break" and "Surrender," but failing that, fans of the film and franchise are forced to own both products. The sound quality on both albums is equally vibrant. For the most hardcore of fans, there do exist 2-CD bootlegs that are indeed complete, featuring the isolated DVD score, the two songs, and bonus material totalling over 140 minutes in length. Overall, Tomorrow Never Dies remains ahead of Casino Royale as the definitive David Arnold entry in the James Bond franchise. Perhaps it is no coincidence that the best film of the Brosnan era featured the best score during that period.

  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough preview screening in the UK.

  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Australia.
  1999: A világ nem elég (The World Not Enough) released in Hungary.

  
  

  1999: Ha-Olam E'ino Maspik released in Israel.

  
  
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  2011: English actor Ben Whishaw is revealed as "Q" for BOND 23.
  
  2020: Onetime scheduled release date for No Time To Die in the US.

  

  
  
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  November 26th
  
  1939: Tina Turner is born--Nutbush, Tennessee.
  
  1959: During a meeting in the Bahamas, Jack Whittingham signs a £5,000 contract that gives Kevin McClory rights to Thunderball.
  
  1963: An out-of-court settlement between Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham gives McClory credit on all reprints of Thunderball--plus the film rights.
  1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang Volume 2 (of 3).

  
  

  1965: NBC television airs David Wolper's documentary The Incredible World of James Bond (replacing The Man from U.N.C.L.E. for that Friday night schedule).

  

  The Incredible World of James Bond

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

  
  Original television advertisement designed prior to Sean Connery quitting the project

  Directed by Jack Haley Jr.
  Produced by David L. Wolper
  Written by Jack Haley Jr. & Al Ramrus
  Narrated by Alexander Scourby
  Production company - Wolper Productions
  Distributed by United Artists Television
  Release date November 26, 1965 (U.S.)
  Running time 51 min.
  Country - United States

  The Incredible World of James Bond was a 1965 television special produced by David L. Wolper for United Artists Television to showcase the James Bond film series and promote the upcoming December 1965 release of the film Thunderball.
  
  In the United States, the show replaced The Man From U.N.C.L.E. on NBC on Friday, 26 November 1965; the day after American Thanksgiving that unofficially begins the shopping frenzy for Christmas. It was the highest rated American television show for the week.
  
  Plot and production
  The show featured film scenes of the worldwide popularity of James Bond novels, films, and tie-in merchandise, black and white scenes of Ian Fleming at his home Goldeneye in Jamaica giving comments on his writing, a biography of James Bond with footage of Glencoe, Eton, Fettes College, and Royal Marine Commandos on exercise, home movie footage shot by production designer Ken Adam in the Bahamas during the production of Thunderball, and scenes from four Bond films.
  
  Behind the scenes footage from the making of Thunderball included scenes of the preparation and filming of a scene of a rocket firing motorcycle destroying Count Lippe's car, a choreographed fist fight in a studio mock up of the cabin of the Disco Volante, a photo shoot of the Bond girls on a beach in the Bahamas, and a scene of the Aston Martin DB5 driving away from the Château d'Anet that was not seen in the finished film.
  
  Director Terence Young, producers Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Kevin McClory, editor Peter R. Hunt and action director and stuntman Bob Simmons are shown during sequences. The "James Bond Theme" and other music from the Bond film soundtracks are heard with the gun barrel titles and 007 logo from the Goldfinger film trailer appearing in the opening titles.
  
  The narration was to have been originally given by Sean Connery. However, when Connery read the script and found out they were referring to James Bond as an actual person he refused to do the show. Telephone calls from Joan Crawford who was a major shareholder in Pepsi Cola, the sponsor of the show, failed to sway Connery and his narrating chores were taken by Alexander Scourby.
  
  Pepsi Cola used the special to unveil commercials for its latest products.
  
  The special is available as a featurette on the "James Bond Ultimate Edition" DVD of Thunderball.

  
  Second design LP cover

  
  Pepsi Cola and Frito Lay also sold promotional James Bond tie-in toys and a record album titled The Incredible World of James Bond. The album featured the original soundtrack music and cover versions of four of the themes from the first three Bond films played by United Artists Records house band The Leroy Holmes Orchestra. The back of the album cover was full of photographic stills from the Bond films. The record was later reissued with an attractive Frank Gauna designed album cover on Unart Records in 1967 with two music tracks deleted to fit on the budget album.

  

  
  
  

  
  1982: Octopussy films the assault on Kamal Khan’s fortress.
  1985: Variety reports Roger Moore giving notice to producer Cubby Broccoli he will not return.
  
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in the UK, Ireland, Iceland, and South Africa.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2002: Die Another Day released in the Republic of Macedonia.
  
  2011: Skyfall filming at the Ascot Racecourse (doubling for the Shanghai airport terminal).
  2015: Spectre special screening hosted by the UK Embassy at Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

  

  Bond is GREAT: British Embassy hosts
  private screening of SPECTRE in
  Honduras

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.gov.uk/government/news/bond-is-great-british-embassy-hosts-private-screening-of-spectre-in-honduras

  The British Embassy hosted a 'Bond is GREAT' private
  screening of SPECTRE in Tegucigalpa.
  Published 27 November 2015
  From: British Embassy Guatemala City (for Honduras)
  
  

  
  Ambassador Carolyn Davidson

  
  On Thursday 26 November the British Embassy together with Sony Pictures Entertainment, hosted a private screening to celebrate the release of Bond’s latest movie, SPECTRE, premiered in November around the world, including Honduras.
  
  Her Excellency Carolyn Davidson, British Ambassador to Honduras, welcomed authorities, political figures, prominent business leaders and members of Honduran society to an elegant cocktail reception at City Mall, a luxury shopping mall in the heart of Tegucigalpa.
  
  To mark the event, the British Ambassador to Honduras said:

  James Bond is one of the greatest film franchises of all times, and the UK is a world leader in movie production and the creative industries. $2.4bn were spent on UK film production last year, as many directors and producers recognised the talent and expertise of British filmmakers. SPECTRE has been the most popular film in the world for the last two weeks and I hope it will encourage many people in Honduras, and elsewhere, to go and visit some of the stunning locations in the UK featured in the film I would also like to thank the sponsors of tonight’s gala: Heineken, Belvedere Vodka, Land Rover and Sony Entertainment.

  As the reception drew to a close, guests made their way up to a special private screening of SPECTRE at Cinemark VIP, following the film’s official release in Honduras at the beginning of the month.

  2019: The Hong Kong Watch Auction moves some Bond-related items.

  

  The Hong Kong Watch Auction: NINE
  Hong Kong Auction 25-26 November 2019

  https://www.phillips.com/auctions/auction/HK080319/filter/makers=Corum!Omega
  

  Auctions
  25 November at 6:30pm HKT
  Session 1 (Lot 801-853)
  26 November at 12:00pm HKT
  Session 2 (Lot 854-1121)

  JW Marriott Hotel Hong Kong
  88 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong (map)

  22 November 10am-6pm
  23 November 10am-7pm
  24 November 10am-6pm
  25 November 10am-6pm
  Contact [email protected]

  1046
  Omega
  Ref. 2537.80
  Model: Seamaster “40 Years of James Bond”
  A fine and attractive limited edition stainless steel diver’s wristwatch with date, gas escape valve, bracelet guarantee and presentation box, numbered 06317 out of a limited edition of 10007
  Estimate HK$16,000 - 30,000
  Sold for HK$30,000
  Omega - A fine and attractive limited edition stainless steel diver’s wristwatch with date, gas escape valve, bracelet guarantee and presentation box, numbered 03689 out of a limited edition of 11007 pieces

  https://www.phillips.com/detail/omega/HK080319/1046/
  

  1047
  Omega
  Ref. 212.30.41.20.01.005
  Model: Seamaster “50 Years of James Bond”
  A fine and attractive limited edition stainless steel diver’s wristwatch with date, gas escape valve, bracelet guarantee and presentation box, numbered 03689 out of a limited edition of 11007 pieces
  Estimate HK$24,000 - 40,000

  
  https://www.phillips.com/detail/omega/HK080319/1047/
  

  1048
  Omega
  Ref. 233.32.41.21.01.001
  A very fine limited edition stainless steel “Spectre 007” diver’s wristwatch with international warranty card and presentation box, numbered 5731 out of a limited edition of 7007 pieces
  
  歐米茄，型號233.32.41.21.01.001，限量版精鋼自動上弦腕錶，特別為電影007鬼影帝國，限量發行7007枚，編號第5731 號，約2015年製。附錶盒、國際保證卡和配件
  
  Circa 2015
  41mm Diameter
  Case, dial, movement and clasp signed
  
  Estimate
  HK$63,000 - 100,000
  €7,200-11,400
  $8,100-12,800
  
  Sold for HK$68,750
  
  Manufacturer: Omega
  Year: Circa 2015
  Reference No: 233.32.41.21.01.001
  Movement No: 87’624’420
  Case No: 5731/7007
  Model Name: Seamaster 300, “Spectre”
  Material: Stainless steel
  Calibre: Automatic, cal. 8400, 38 jewels
  Bracelet/Strap: Omega Nato strap
  Clasp/Buckle: Stainless steel Omega buckle
  Dimensions: 41mm Diameter
  Signed: Case, dial, movement and clasp signed
  Accessories: Further accompanied by International Warranty card dated 18 November, 2015 and stamped Watches of Switzerland, Cardiff, Certificate of Authenticity numbered 5731/7007, Pictograms card with limited edition number 5731, stainless steel Omega link bracelet with 007 deployant clasp, Omega lug tool, operating instruction manual, polish cloth, Omega cloth pouch, Spectre 007 presentation box and outer packaging.
  Catalogue Essay
  
  In 2015, the 24th James Bond film “Spectre” premiered pitting Bond against the global crime syndicate “Spectre”. The “Spectre 007” Seamaster replicated the watch worn by the British spy and was released in a limited edition of 7007 examples. The stainless steel wristwatch had several unique characteristics including a black ceramic bi-directional bezel with 12-hour scale in Liquidmetal™. The dial was given a vintage feel with aged hour markers, Broad Arrow hands and a lollipop center seconds hand. The sapphire crystal display back was engraved “Spectre” along with the timepieces edition number, while the Nato strap holder was engraved 007.
  
  The present Omega “Spectre” 007 wristwatch is in near new condition and has probably only been worn a handful of times. Complete with guarantee and presentation box, this model is a modern reinterpretation of a classic mid-20th century timepiece and embodies not only the ethos of Omega but of that of James Bond.

  
  https://www.phillips.com/detail/omega/HK080319/1048/
  

  
  
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  November 27th
  
  1928: Ronald William "Josh" Kirby is born--Waterloo, England.
  (He dies 23 October 2001 at age 72--Shelfanger, England.)

  
  https://www.joshkirbyart.com/bio
  
  https://www.joshkirbyart.com/gallery

  

  
  1961: Samantha Bond is born--Kensington, London, England.
  
  1981: Lotte Lenya (Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blaumauer) dies at age 83--New York City, New York.
  (Born 18 October 1898--Vienna-Penzing Austria, Hungary.)

  

  Lotte Lenya

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

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

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

  

  Lotte Lenya (1898–1981)

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

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

  
  

  
  1982: 유 아 이 즈 온 리 released in the Republic of Korea.

  
  
  
  

  1987: Lashana Lynch is born--London, England.
  
  1995: Documentary 007: The Return presenting the new film and the Royal Premiere airs on British television.

  

  007: The Return (1995)

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0934770/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
  1h | Documentary | TV Movie 27 November 1995

  Promotional documentary television special celebrating the release of the then new James Bond film GoldenEye (1995) including cast interviews, clips from the movie and a cross to the Royal Premiere of the film.

  Director: Bob Cousins
  Star: Mariella Frostrup
  

  

  1997: A&M releases David Arnold's Tomorrow Never Dies soundtrack.

  
  
  

  
  2002: Die Another Day released in Belgium and the Philippines.
  2008: Quantum of Solace released in New Zealand.
  
  2015: 007 スペクター (007 Supekutā) limited release in Japan.

  
  
  
  

  2015: Spectre released in South Africa.

  

  South Africas' Role in the New Bond
  Movie 'Spectre'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.sapeople.com/2015/11/04/south-africas-role-in-the-new-bond-movie-spectre/
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  November 28th
  
  1694: Matsuo Bashō (born Matsuo Kinsaku, later Matsuo Chūemon Munefusa) dies at age 50. Known as the master of haiku.

  Matsuo Bashō

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

  

  
  
  
  

  You Only Live Twice, Ian Fleming, 1964.
  Chapter 11 - Anatomy Class

  The Murasaki Maru was a very modern 3,ooo-ton ship with all the luxuries of an ocean liner. Crowds waved her goodbye as if the ship was setting off across the Atlantic instead of doing a day trip down the equivalent of a long lake. There was much throwing of paper streamers by groups bearing placards to show whom they represented - business outings, schools, clubs-part of the vast travelling population of Japan, for ever on the move, making an outing, visiting relatives or shrines, or just seeing the sights of the country. The ship throbbed grandly through the endless horned islands. Tiger said that there were fine whirlpools 'like great lavatory pans, specially designed for suicides' between some of these. Meanwhile, Tiger and Bond sat in the first class dining-room and consumed 'Hamlets' - ham omelets - and sake. Tiger was in a lecturing mood. He was determined to correct Bond's boorish ignorance of Japanese culture. 'Bondo-san, I wonder if I will ever get you to appreciate the nuances of the Japanese tanka, or of the haiku, which are the classical forms of Japanese verse. Have you ever heard of Basho, for instance?'
  
  'No,' said Bond with polite interest. 'Who's he?'
  
  'Just so,' said Tiger bitterly. 'And yet you would think me grossly uneducated if I had never heard of Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Goethe. And yet Basho, who lived in the seventeenth century, is the equal of any of them.'
  
  'What did he write?'
  
  'He was an itinerant poet. He was particularly at home with the haiku, the verse of seventeen syllables.' Tiger assumed a contemplative expression. He intoned:

  'In the bitter radish
  that bites into me, I feel
  the autumn wind.

  'Does that not say anything to you? Or this:

  'The butterfly is perfuming
  its wings, in the scent
  of the orchid.

  'You do not grasp the beauty of that image?'
  
  'Rather elusive compared to Shakespeare.'
  

  'In the fisherman's hut
  mingled with dried shrimps
  crickets are chirping.'

  
  Tiger looked at him hopefully.
  
  'Can't get the hang of that one,' said Bond apologetically.
  
  'You do not catch the still-life quality of these verses? The flash of insight into humanity, into nature? Now, do me a favour, Bondo-san. Write a haiku for me yourself. I am sure you could get the hang of it. After all you must have had some education?'
  
  Bond laughed. 'Mostly in Latin and Greek. All about Caesar and Balbus and so on. Absolutely no help in ordering a cup of coffee in Rome or Athens after I'd left school. And things like trigonometry, which I've totally forgotten. But give me a pen and a piece of paper and I'll have a bash, if you'll forgive the bad joke.' Tiger handed them over and Bond put his head in his hands. Finally, after much crossing out and rewriting he said, 'Tiger, how's this? It makes just as much sense as old Basho and it's much more pithy.' He read out:

  'You only live twice:
  Once when you are born
  And once when you look death in the face.'

  Tiger clapped his hands softly. He said with real delight, 'But that is excellent, Bondo-san. Most sincere.' He took the pen and paper and jotted some ideograms up the page. He shook his head. 'No, it won't do in Japanese. You have the wrong number of syllables. But it is a most honourable attempt.' He looked keenly at Bond. 'You were perhaps thinking of your mission?'

  

  
  1966: You Only Live Twice films the ninja assault.
  
  1999: And the Word Was Bond documentary promoting The World Is Not Enough airs in the UK.

  

  And the Word Was Bond (1999)

  
  25min | Documentary, Short | TV Short 28 November 1999
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0918490/
  Promotional documentary released to promote The World Is Not Enough (1999).
  
  Director: Rob Done
  Writer: David Castell
  

  
  

  
  2002: Die Another Day released in Sweden.

  

  2002: James Bond 007 - Stirb an einem anderen Tag (James Bond 007 - Die of One Other Day) released in Austria, Germany, and the German-speaking region of Switzerland.

  
  
  
  

  2002: Umri drugi dan (Die the Other Day) released in Croatia.

  

  2002: Lamut B'Yom A'her (To die with more invincible values) released in Israel.
  
  2005: Marc Lawrence dies at age 95--Palm Springs, California.
  (Born 17 February 1910--New York City, New York.)

  

  Marc Lawrence

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Lawrence
  
  Marc Lawrence (born Max Goldsmith, February 17, 1910 – November 28, 2005) was an American character actor who specialized in underworld types. He has also been credited as F. A. Foss, Marc Laurence and Marc C. Lawrence.
  
  Early years
  Lawrence was born in New York City, the son of a Polish Jewish mother, Minerva Norma (née Sugarman), and a Russian Jewish father, Israel Simon Goldsmith. He participated in plays in school, then attended the City College of New York. In 1930, he received a two-year scholarship to the repertory theater operated by Eva Le Gallienne.
  Career
  
  In 1930, Lawrence befriended another young actor, John Garfield. The two appeared in a number of plays before Lawrence was given a film contract with Columbia Pictures. Lawrence's film debut came in 1933.
  
  Lawrence's pock-marked complexion, brooding appearance and New York street-guy accent made him a natural for heavies, and he played scores of gangsters and mob bosses over the next six decades. Later, Lawrence found himself under scrutiny for his political leanings. When called before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he admitted he had once been a member of the Communist Party. He named Sterling Hayden, Lionel Stander, Anne Revere, Larry Parks, Karen Morley and Jeff Corey as Communists. He was blacklisted[citation needed] and departed for Europe, where he continued to make films.

  Following the demise of the blacklist, he returned to America and resumed his position as a familiar and talented purveyor of gangland types. He played gangsters in two James Bond movies: 1971's Diamonds Are Forever opposite Sean Connery, and 1974's The Man with the Golden Gun opposite Roger Moore. He also portrayed a henchman opposite Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man (1976) and a stereotypical Miami mob boss alongside Jerry Reed and Dom DeLuise in the comedy Hot Stuff (1979).

  One of his last roles was as Mr. Zeemo in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Badda-Bing Badda-Bang", which aired in February 1999. Previously he played the elderly Gatherer Volnoth in the 1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Vengeance Factor".
  
  His final film role was in Looney Tunes Back in Action (2003), appearing as an Acme Corporation vice president.
  
  Lawrence directed Nightmare in the Sun (1965).
  
  Books
  In 1991 Lawrence's autobiography was published entitled Long Time No See: Confessions of a Hollywood Gangster (ISBN 0-9636700-0-X). Lawrence was also the subject of a novel, The Beautiful and the Profane (ISBN 978-1-4107-0292-0) (published in 2002).
  
  Personal life
  For much of his adult life Lawrence lived in Palm Springs, California (1971–2006).[7] Lawrence married Odessa-born novelist and screenwriter Fanya Foss; she died on December 12, 1995. They had two children, Michael and Toni.
  
  Death
  Lawrence died of heart failure on November 28, 2005 at the age of 95. He was buried at Westwood Memorial Park in Westwood, California.

  

  Marc Lawrence (I) (1910–2005)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492908/?ref_=fn_al_nm_2
  
  Filmography

  Actor (221 credits)
  
  2003 Looney Tunes: Back in Action - Acme VP, Stating the Obvious
  2001 The Shipping News - Cousin Nolan
  
  1999 End of Days - Old Man
  1999 Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series) - Mr. Zeemo
  - Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang (1999) ... Mr. Zeemo
  1998 ER (TV Series) - Mr. Newton
  - Shades of Gray (1998) ... Mr. Newton
  1996 Gotti (TV Movie) - Carlo Gambino
  1996 From Dusk Till Dawn - Old Timer Motel Owner
  1995 Four Rooms - Sam the Bellhop
  1994 Metaltech: Earthsiege (Video Game) - Pilot #5 (as Marc C. Lawrence)
  1992 Newsies - Kloppman
  1992 Ruby - Santos Alicante
  1990 Donor (TV Movie) - Ben Beloit
  1990 Shannon's Deal (TV Series) - Abe the Just
  - Art (1990) ... Abe the Just
  
  1989 Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series) - Volnath
  - The Vengeance Factor (1989) ... Volnath
  1989 Blood Red - Michael Fazio
  1986 The Big Easy - Vinnie 'The Cannon' DiMotti
  1986 The A-Team (TV Series) - Sam Marlini
  - The Little Town with an Accent (1986) ... Sam Marlini (as Mark Lawrence)
  1985 Night Train to Terror - Mr. Weiss / Dieter (segment "The Case of Claire Hansen")
  1983 Savage Journey (TV Movie) - Chief Walker (uncredited)
  1983 Thieves and Robbers - Don Salvatore Licuti
  1982 Terror at Alcatraz (TV Movie) - Daniel Ginelli
  1981 Border Pals (TV Short) - Joe Cincinnati
  1980 Cataclysm - Abraham Weiss / Dieter
  1980 Super Fuzz - Torpedo
  
  1979 The Dukes of Hazzard (TV Series) - Rostosky
  - The Meeting (1979) ... Rostosky
  1979 Swap Meet - Mr. Booth
  1979 Hot Stuff - Carmine
  1979 Wonder Woman (TV Series) - Mr. Jones
  - Going, Going, Gone (1979) ... Mr. Jones
  1978 Goin' Coconuts - Webster
  1978 Foul Play - Stiltskin
  1978 CHiPs (TV Series) - Co-Driver
  - Crack-Up (1978) ... Co-Driver
  1977 A Piece of the Action - Louie
  1976 Baretta (TV Series) - Linsky
  - Street Edition (1976) ... Linsky
  1976 Marathon Man - Erhard
  1976 The Rookies (TV Series) - Roger Marsten
  - Journey to Oblivion (1976) ... Roger Marsten
  1975 Switch (TV Series) - Don Vincenzo / Franks
  - Kiss of Death (1975) ... Don Vincenzo
  - Las Vegas Roundabout (1975) ... Franks
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Rodney
  1974 McCloud (TV Series) - Vito Gilardi
  - The Gang That Stole Manhattan (1974) ... Vito Gilardi
  1969-1974 Mannix (TV Series) - Al Stanik / Ty Webber / Angelo Palerma
  - A Fine Day for Dying (1974) ... Al Stanik
  - Overkill (1971) ... Ty Webber
  - The Nowhere Victim (1969) ... Angelo Palerma
  1973 Frasier, the Sensuous Lion - Chiarelli (as Mark Lawrence)
  1973 Pigs - Zambrini
  1973 Honor Thy Father (TV Movie) - Stefano Magaddino
  1972 In Pursuit of Treasure
  1972 Nichols (TV Series) - Prouty
  - Zachariah (1972) ... Prouty
  1971 The Doris Day Show (TV Series) - Frankie Fury
  - The Wings of an Angel (1971) ... Frankie Fury
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Slumber Inc. Attendant
  1970-1971 Here's Lucy (TV Series) - Ruby / Joe Grapefruit
  - Lucy and Mannix Are Held Hostage (1971) ... Ruby
  - Lucy and Ma Parker (1970) ... Joe Grapefruit
  1971 The Partners (TV Series) - Kelso
  - The Prisoner of Fender (1971) ... Kelso
  1970 Dream No Evil - Undertaker
  1970 Bonanza (TV Series) - Red Gaskell
  - Caution, Easter Bunny Crossing (1970) ... Red Gaskell
  1970 The Kremlin Letter - The Priest
  
  1969 Il killer (TV Mini-Series)
  1968 Krakatoa: East of Java - Jacobs
  1968 King of Kong Island - Albert Muller
  1967 Custer of the West- Gold Miner
  1967 Du mou dans la gâchette - Magnum
  1966 7 monaci d'oro - Lucky Marciano, Capo da banda
  1966 Savage Pampas - Sgt. Barril
  1966 The Rat Patrol (TV Series) - Abu Hassan
  - The Moment of Truce Raid (1966) ... Abu Hassan
  1966 Johnny Tiger - William Billie
  1966 2 mafiosi contro Al Capone - Joe Minasi
  1965 Mister Ed (TV Series) - Spike the Bank Robber
  - The Bank Robbery (1965) ... Spike the Bank Robber
  1965 Petticoat Junction (TV Series) - Barney Dawson
  - Hooterville Crime Wave (1965) ... Barney Dawson
  1964 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Plato Atutle
  - The Timothy Heist (1964) ... Plato Atutle
  1964 Arrest and Trial (TV Series) - Leo Tucci
  - Tigers Are for Jungles (1964) ... Leo Tucci
  1963 Johnny Cool - Johnny Colini
  1960-1963 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Lou Cagan / Mike Genna / Luigi Renaldo
  - Blues for a Gone Goose (1963) ... Lou Cagan
  - The Genna Brothers (1961) ... Mike Genna
  - Star Witness (1960) ... Luigi Renaldo
  1960-1962 The Detectives (TV Series) - Marcus Maroon / Ed Watkins / Rocco Silvano
  - Three Blind Mice: Part II (1962) ... Marcus Maroon
  - Three Blind Mice: Part 1 (1962) ... Marcus Maroon
  - The Other Side (1960) ... Ed Watkins
  - Life in the Balance (1960) ... Rocco Silvano
  1961 Whispering Smith (TV Series) - Frankie Wisdom
  - Death at Even Money (1961) ... Frankie Wisdom
  1961 Lawman (TV Series) - Frank Walker
  - Homecoming (1961) ... Frank Walker
  1961 The Deputy (TV Series) - Alvy Burke
  - The Hard Decision (1961) ... Alvy Burke
  1960 Thriller (TV Series) - Dr. Emil Berland
  - The Mark of the Hand (1960) ... Dr. Emil Berland (uncredited)
  1958-1960 The Rifleman (TV Series) - Cougar / Gavin
  - Trail of Hate (1960) ... Cougar
  - The Safe Guard (1958) ... Gavin
  1960 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) - Vito Doria
  - Running Scared (1960) ... Vito Doria
  1960 Bronco (TV Series) - Joe Russo
  - Tangled Trail (1960) ... Joe Russo
  1960 Zane Grey Theater (TV Series) - Wade Migill
  - Killer Instinct (1960) ... Wade Migill
  
  1959 Shotgun Slade (TV Series) - Gideon Finch
  - Mesa of Missing Men (1959) ... Gideon Finch
  1959 Johnny Staccato (TV Series) - Vic Raffe
  - The Unwise Men (1959) ... Vic Raffe
  1959 Tightrope (TV Series) - Frankie Farrell
  - Man in the Middle (1959) ... Frankie Farrell
  1959 M Squad (TV Series) - Vince Cronin
  - Jeopardy by Fire (1959) ... Vince Cronin
  1959 Peter Gunn (TV Series) - Max Grayco
  - Vendetta (1959) ... Max Grayco
  1958-1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - El Sordo / The Cajun / Scarface
  - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 2 (1959) ... El Sordo
  - For Whom the Bell Tolls: Part 1 (1959) ... El Sordo
  - Child of Our Time (1959)
  - Old Man (1958) ... The Cajun
  - Days of Wine and Roses (1958) ... Scarface
  1958 Wagon Train (TV Series) - First Mate Ferris
  - Around the Horn (1958) ... First Mate Ferris
  1957 Kill Her Gently - Connors
  1956 Helen of Troy - Diomedes
  1955 Ballata tragica - Felipe Alvaro
  1955 La catena dell'odio - Braschi
  1955 Suor Maria - Don Mario, proprietario del night club
  1955 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Cow Nelson
  - A Terrible Day (1955) ... Cow Nelson
  1955 New Moon - Pierre
  1954 Vacation with a Gangster - Jack Mariotti
  1953 Funniest Show on Earth - Il proprietario del circo
  1953 Trouble for the Legion - Serg. Schwartz
  1953 Noi peccatori - Camillo
  1953 Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair - Van Gould
  1952 Brothers of Italy - Il capitano March - un ufficiale austriarco
  1952 The Three Pirates - Van Gould
  1952 La tratta delle bianche - Machedi
  1952 Torment of the Past - Andrea Rossi (alias Piero)
  1951 My Favorite Spy - Ben Ali
  1951 Hurricane Island - Angus Macready (uncredited)
  
  1950 Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion - Frankie--Loan Shark
  1950 The Desert Hawk - Samad
  1950 The Asphalt Jungle - Cobby
  1950 Black Hand - Caesar Xavier Serpi
  
  1949 Tough Assignment - Vince
  1949 Calamity Jane and Sam Bass - Harry Dean
  1949 Jigsaw - Angelo Agostini
  1948 Out of the Storm - Red Stubbins
  1948 Key Largo - Ziggy
  1947 I Walk Alone - Nick Palestro
  1947 Captain from Castile - Corio
  1947 Unconquered - Sioto - Medicine Man
  1947 Joe Palooka in the Knockout - John Mitchell
  1947 Yankee Fakir - Duke
  1946 Cloak and Dagger - Luigi
  1946 Inside Job - Donovan
  1946 The Virginian - Pete
  1946 Blonde Alibi - Joe DeRita
  1945 Life with Blondie - Pete, Blackie's Henchman
  1945 Club Havana - Joe Reed
  1945 Don't Fence Me In - Clifford Anson
  1945 Flame of Barbary Coast - Joe Disko
  1945 Dillinger - Doc Madison
  1944 The Princess and the Pirate - Pedro
  1944 Rainbow Island - Alcoa
  1944 Tampico - Valdez
  1943 Hit the Ice - Phil
  1943 Submarine Alert - Vincent Bela
  1943 Calaboose - Sluggsy Baker
  1942 The Ox-Bow Incident - Jeff Farnley
  1942 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge - McGaffey
  1942 Eyes of the Underworld - Gordon Finch
  1942 Call of the Canyon - Horace Dunston
  1942 This Gun for Hire - Tommy
  1942 Yokel Boy - Henchman Trigger
  1942 Nazi Agent - Joe Aiello
  1941 Public Enemies - Mike
  1941 Sundown - Abdi Hammud
  1941 A Dangerous Game - Joe
  1941 Hold That Ghost - Charlie Smith
  1941 Lady Scarface - Lefty Landers
  1941 The Shepherd of the Hills - Pete Matthews
  1941 Blossoms in the Dust - La Verne
  1941 The Man Who Lost Himself - Frank DeSoto
  1941 The Monster and the Girl - Sleeper
  1941 Tall, Dark and Handsome - Louie
  1940 Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum - Steve McBirney
  1940 The Great Profile - Tony
  1940 Brigham Young - Prosecutor
  1940 The Golden Fleecing - 'Happy' Dugan
  1940 The Man Who Talked Too Much - Lefty Kyler
  1940 Love, Honor and Oh-Baby! - Tony Luffo
  1940 Johnny Apollo - Bates
  
  1939 Invisible Stripes - Lefty
  1939 The Housekeeper's Daughter - Floyd
  1939 Beware Spooks! - Slick Eastman
  1939 Dust Be My Destiny - Venetti
  1939 Think First (Short) - Joe
  1939 S.O.S. Tidal Wave - Melvin Sutter
  1939 Ex-Champ - Bill Crosle - Olsen's Manager
  1939 Blind Alley - Buck
  1939 Code of the Streets - Henchman Halstead, aka Denver Collins
  1939 Romance of the Redwoods - Joe
  1939 Sergeant Madden - 'Piggy' Ceders
  1939 The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt - Henchman in Trenchcoat (uncredited)
  1939 Homicide Bureau - Chuck Brown
  1938 Charlie Chan in Honolulu - Johnny McCoy
  1938 There's That Woman Again - Stevens (uncredited)
  1938 While New York Sleeps - Happy Nelson
  1938 Adventure in Sahara - Poule
  1938 The Spider's Web - Steve Harmon
  1938 I Am the Law - Eddie Girard
  1938 Convicted - Milton Militis
  1938 Squadron of Honor - Lawlor
  1938 Who Killed Gail Preston? - Frank Daniels
  1938 Penitentiary - Jack Hawkins (uncredited)
  1937 The Shadow - Kid Crow
  1937 Murder in Greenwich Village - Rusty Morgan
  1937 Counsel for Crime - Edwin Mitchell
  1937 Life Begins with Love - Pearson (uncredited)
  1937 Charlie Chan on Broadway - Thomas Mitchell
  1937 A Dangerous Adventure - Calkins
  1937 It Can't Last Forever - Hoodlum (uncredited)
  1937 What Price Vengeance - Pete Brower
  1937 San Quentin - Venetti
  1937 Criminals of the Air - 'Blast' Reardon
  1937 I Promise to Pay - Henchman Whitehat
  1937 Motor Madness - Gus Slater
  1937 Racketeers in Exile - 'Blackie' White
  1936 Night Waitress - Dorn (as Marc Laurence)
  1936 Charlie Chan at the Opera - Undetermined Minor Role (unconfirmed, uncredited)
  1936 The Cowboy Star - Johnny Sampson
  1936 Blackmailer - Pinky (uncredited)
  1936 The Final Hour - Mike Magellon
  1936 Trapped by Television - Frank Griffin (uncredited)
  1936 Counterfeit - Dint Coleman
  1936 Under Two Flags - Grivon (uncredited)
  1936 Robin Hood of El Dorado - Manuel (uncredited)
  1936 Love on a Bet - County Fair Barker (uncredited)
  1936 Desire - Charles - the Valet (uncredited)
  1936 Don't Gamble with Love - Gambler (uncredited)
  1936 Road Gang - Pete
  1935 3 Kids and a Queen - Gangster (uncredited)
  1935 Dr. Socrates - Lefty Croger - a Gangster (uncredited)
  1935 Little Big Shot - Doré's Henchman
  1935 After the Dance - Tom - a Prisoner (uncredited)
  1935 Don't Bet on Blondes - Gangster #6 (uncredited)
  1935 The Arizonian - Henchman Who Pistol-Whipped Clay (uncredited)
  1935 Men of the Hour - Joe
  1935 Strangers All - Communist Meeting Chairman (uncredited)
  1935 Go Into Your Dance - Eddie Logan (uncredited)
  1935 'G' Men - Gangster Killed at Lodge (uncredited)
  1934 Million Dollar Baby - Gangster
  1934 Death on the Diamond - Bookies' Doorman (uncredited)
  1934 Straight Is the Way - Monk's Henchmen (uncredited)
  1933 White Woman - Connors
  1933 Lady for a Day - Nick - Mug at Reception (uncredited)
  1933 Her First Mate - Orderly with Message (uncredited)
  1933 Gambling Ship - Hood (uncredited)
  1932 If I Had a Million - Henchman of Mike the Gangster (uncredited)
  
  Director (8 credits)
  
  1973 Pigs
  1965 Nightmare in the Sun
  1961-1962 Maverick (TV Series) (2 episodes)
  - Mr. Muldoon's Partner (1962)
  - A Technical Error (1961)
  1962 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - Jennifer (1962)
  1960-1962 The Roaring 20's (TV Series) (2 episodes)
  - Footlights (1962)
  - Vendetta on Bleecker Street (1960)
  1961 Bronco (TV Series) (2 episodes)
  - The Equalizer (1961)
  - Prince of Darkness (1961)
  1960-1961 Lawman (TV Series) (16 episodes)
  - The Juror (1961)
  - Conditional Surrender (1961)
  - Blind Hate (1961)
  - The Trial (1961)
  - Whiphand (1961)
  - Fugitive (1961)
  - Mark of Cain (1961)
  - The Inheritance (1961)
  - Detweiler's Kid (1961)
  - Hassayampa (1961)
  - The Squatters (1961)
  - The Marked Man (1961)
  - The Frame-Up (1961)
  - Cornered (1960)
  - The Catcher (1960)
  - The Post (1960)
  1960 M Squad (TV Series) (2 episodes)
  - Man with the Ice (1960)
  - The Twisted Way (1960)
  
  Writer (2 credits)
  
  1973 Pigs (as F.A. Foss)
  1965 Nightmare in the Sun
  
  Producer (2 credits)
  
  1973 Pigs (producer)
  1965 Nightmare in the Sun (producer)
  

  
  

  
  2020: James Bond Night 2020 in Amsterdam.

  
  

  JAMES BOND NIGHT 2020 | Amsterdam

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-james-bond-night-2020-amsterdam-96754010851

  nov. 28
  JAMES BOND NIGHT 2020 | Amsterdam
  21+
  € 19,61 – € 62,89

  This isn't just a of party, welcome to a James Bond movie, starring
  you! Dress up and inhale the magical spirit of our glamorous world!
  Over dit evenement
  
  ▬▬▬ A SPECIAL EVENING ▬▬▬
  
  With excitement and pleasure, we hereby invite you to:
  
  JAMES BOND NIGHT 2020 | Amsterdam
  'The name is Bond, James Bond'
  
  We will be celebrating the opulence, glitz and glamour with our night's theme, Bond...James Bond. One Big room of music will be headlined by musical architects to serenade you into the wee hours of the night. This is our tribute to James Bond.
  
  So what is JAMES BOND NIGHT?
  Enter the glittering yet dangerous world of espionage at the highest level of glamour, and pure, unadulterated excitement as you stroll down the red carpet to an action packed evening filled with style and sophistication.
  
  What you can expect:
  • Stylish & High-end Grand Setting in the City
  • Bond Girls & Suited Up Gentlemen
  • Tastiest Drinks, 'shaken, not stirred'
  • Great Music Architects
  • World-class music
  • Grand Ball Area
  
  MUSIC
  World-class music is provided by renowned music architects playing multiple genres, from classic James Bond tunes to deep and soulful house mixed with 80’s, 90’s and electic.
  
  This isn't just a of party, welcome to a James Bond movie, starring you! Dress up and inhale the magical spirit of our glamorous world!
  
  Age: 21+ | Dresscode: Strictly Stylish
  (NO jeans, NO sportswear, NO t-shirts)
  
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  JAMES BOND NIGHT 2020 | Amsterdam will take place at the beautiful & renovated Hotel Arena [former Sint Elisabeth Church] in Amsterdam. The building has a rich history. The Chapel, the original wooden marble stairs, the supporting beams; they all tell their own stories. Be surprised. Expect a Grand & Impressive setting, a typical James Bond movie setting.
  
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  ▻ Buy your ticket here: http://bit.ly/jamesbondamsterdamTickets
  
  ◾ PARTY
  Tickets from €17,50 ex fee.
  
  ◾ DINNER & DANCE
  Ticket includes lovely 3-course dinner (excl. drinks) followed by the party at JAMES BOND NIGHT 2020 | Amsterdam. As the dinner is served at the table there are limited seats available, please make sure you make your reservations in time. Dinner available between 18.00 - 21.00. Get your dinner & dance ticket for only €60 ex fee.
  
  MENU [ 3-COURSES DINNER ]
  Options: meat, fish, veggie. More info: TBA
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  2020: BBC Radio 4 airs its radio version of Diamonds Are Forever with Toby Stephens.
  2020: Limited screenings of Dr. No (1962) at Dendy Cinemas, Australia, continue through Sunday. Plus Wednesday.

  

  

  DR. NO

  https://www.dendy.com.au/movies/dr-no

  Synopsis
  James Bond 007 is Britain's top agent, and is on an exciting mission, to solve the mysterious murder of a fellow agent. The task sends him to Jamaica, where he joins forces with Quarrel and a loyal C.I.A. Agent, Felix Leiter. While dodging tarantulas, "fire breathing dragons", and a trio of assassins, known as "the three blind mice". Bond meets up with the beautiful Honey Ryder and goes face to face with the evil Dr. No.

  Running Time 1hr 50m
  Rating PG | Parental Guidance
  Director Terence Young

  

  2020: Last night to see the one-act play "Bonking James Bond" by April Phillips at the South Otago Theatrical Society Clubrooms, New Zealand.

  

  Bonking James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2020/nov/snip-bonking-james-bond

  Bonking James Bond
  Betty discovers her hapless husband is having an affair, so what should she do - let him go, or save her marriage? She decides on a little bit of fantasy and enlists the help of her own secret agent. But will it have the desired results? Hilarious comedy you won’t want to miss.

  
  
  
  

  
  
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  November 29th
  
  1901: Varley Thomas is born--Wandsworth, Surrey, England.
  (She dies 29 January 1983 at age 81--Ewell, Surrey, England.)

  

  Varley Thomas

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

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

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

  Filmography

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

  

  
  1963: Kevin McClory receives Thunderball film rights and £50,000 damages. Any additional Bond films would necessarily be remakes.
  1964: The San Francisco Examiner publishes the Donald Stanley short story "Holmes Meets 007". Later published by Beaune Press in 1967 in a very limited run.

  "Holmes Meets 007"
  http://www.wikiwand.com/en/James_Bond_uncollected_and_other_miscellaneous_short_stories
  
  Then I noticed the crestfallen figure standing near the window. "What should we do with Bond?" I asked. "Bond? Oh, send him back to his little bureaucratic niche, I expect. Really, I couldn't be less concerned."
  
  Donald Stanley wrote this short story - under two-thousand words - first published in The San Francisco Examiner on 29 November 1964. The Beaune Press (San Francisco) subsequently published 247 copies of this seven page story in December 1967. There is no copy 222: this is instead numbered 221B. Copies 223 through to 247 are numbered I to XXV and were printed especially for the author's friends.
  
  Dr. John Watson, Sherlock Holmes's amanuensis, narrates the story. M and Bond visit Holmes and Watson at Holmes's Baker Street address. Holmes's deductive abilities impress M who wishes Bond had the same ability. Bond questions if such intuitive talents could hold up against a Smersh assassin. Bond confronts Holmes about the latter's drug addiction and accuses Watson of being the source of Holmes's narcotics supplier. Once Holmes admits it, Bond aims his Walther PPF [sic] at Watson and announces that Watson is an imposter and none other than Bond's arch-enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld - the man who killed Bond's bride. Holmes throughout the meeting has been fiddling his Stradivarius - much to everyone's annoyance - and brings it crashing down, knocking Bond's gun away. Holmes plunges a needle containing morphine into M's arm, quickly rendering him unconscious. Holmes reveals that M is none other than Professor Moriarty; Bond is nothing more than a "fairly ignorant tool" who had been unaware of his boss's treachery all this time.

  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupParodies.aspx?id=12
  
  
  https://colinatthemovies.wordpress.com/2017/01/04/james-bond-will-not-return-the-device-of-the-ignominious-end-in-007-parodies/
  [some detail of the seven-page story given here]
  
  https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/holmes-meets-007/
  (San Francisco: The Beaune Press 1967, Donald Stanley)
  
  
  
  
  

  1969: Bond comic strip River of Death ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 24 June 1969. 1038–1174) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/54698
  
  
  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1000
  
  
  Spanish publishing house Buru Lan Ediciones, James Bond (vol. 1, #13)
  https://www.comicsroyale.com/foreign-reprints#/buru-lan-reprints/
  Reprints The River of Death, written by Jim Lawrence and illustrated by Yaroslav Horak.
  
  
  Swedish Semic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3

  Dödens Flod
  (The Dead River - River Of Death)
  

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

  Dödens Flod
  (The Dead River - River Of Death)
  

  
  Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-21-1971/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 21:
  “River of Death” (1971)
  "Dødens flod"
  

  
  1972: The Live and Let Die production moves to Jamaica, doubling for San Monique.
  1973: 007: Vivir y dejar morir released in Argentina.

  
  
  

  
  2002: Die Another Day released in Iceland.
  2002: 007: Surra veel üks päev released in Estonia.

  

  2002: 007 - Döden får vänta (007: Death Has to Wait; also 007 - Kuolema saa odottaa, 007: Death Must Wait) released in Finland.

  
  
  
  

  2002: Mirsti Citu Dienu (To Die Another Day) released in Latvia.
  2002: Pasveikink mirti kitą dieną (Happy to Die the Next Day) released in Lithuania.
  
  2003: Norman Burton dies at age 79--California.
  (Born 5 December 1923--New York City, New York.)

  

  Norman Burton

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

  Norman Burton
  Born December 5, 1923
  New York City, New York, U.S.
  Died November 29, 2003 (aged 79)
  Imperial, California, U.S.
  Occupation Film, television actor
  Years active 1957–1993

  Norman Burton (December 5, 1923 – November 29, 2003), occasionally credited as Normann Burton, was an American stage film and television actor.
  
  Early life
  Born in New York City, Burton was a student of The Actor's Studio. After early work on stage, he broke into films with a minor role in Fright (1956).
  
  Career

  His career in film and television was long and relatively successful, but he never achieved major recognition. He played the Hunt Leader, a gorilla, in the science fiction film Planet of the Apes, notable as being the first ape to be seen by both Taylor and the audience, and also appeared as a (human) army officer in the second sequel Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). In film, he is perhaps best known for his unconventional (and frequently disparaged) performance as Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). He played Will Giddings, an ill fated engineer, in the action film The Towering Inferno (1974), and his later films included The Gumball Rally (1976), Crimes of Passion (1984) and Deep Space (1988). He played Dennis Christopher's mean and ill fated boss in the slasher Fade To Black (1980).

  On television, he is best known for his performance as Inter-Agency Defense Command's supervisor Joe Atkinson during the second season of the DC Comics-based fantasy adventure drama series The New Adventures of Wonder Woman starring Lynda Carter. He also played Burt Dennis in the situation comedy The Ted Knight Show in the spring of 1978, and appeared as General George Marshall in the 1988 television miniseries War and Remembrance. Throughout his life, Burton was a devotee of the method school of acting, and taught method acting in Lakeside, California.
  
  Death
  Burton was just six days short of his 80th birthday when he died as a result of an auto accident while returning from Ajijic, Mexico near the California-Arizona state line.

  

  Norman Burton (1923–2003) Actor

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0123680/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (89 credits)
  
  1993 American Ninja 5 - Ambassador Halden
  1992 Live Wire - Senator Victor
  1991 The New Adam-12 (TV Series) - Eric Monroe
  - 211 Pizza (1991) ... Eric Monroe
  1990 Dragnet (TV Series) - Safe Job (1990)
  1990 Thirtysomething (TV Series) - Charley Sayers
  - Arizona (1990) ... Charley Sayers
  
  1988-1989 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. George C. Marshall
  - Part XII (1989) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
  - Part III (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
  - Part I (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
  1988 Shakedown on the Sunset Strip (TV Movie) - Ward Sullivan
  1988 Deep Space - General Randolph
  1988 Bloodsport - Helmer
  1988 Highway to Heaven (TV Series) - Captain Friend
  - Back to Oakland (1988) ... Captain Friend
  1986 Bad Guys - Captain Watkins
  1986 St. Elsewhere (TV Series) - Monsignor Senti
  - Time Heals: Part 1 (1986) ... Monsignor Senti
  1983-1986 Knight Rider (TV Series) - Damon Leland / Barnswell
  - Redemption of a Champion (1986) ... Damon Leland
  - A Nice, Indecent Little Town (1983) ... Barnswell
  1986 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Drew Narramore
  - Trial by Error (1986) ... Drew Narramore
  1985 Pray for Death - Lt. Anderson
  1984 Crimes of Passion - Lou Bateman
  1983 Mausoleum - Dr. Simon Andrews
  1982 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Carl Emory
  - Fowl Play (1982) ... Carl Emory
  1982 The Facts of Life (TV Series) - Dr. Green
  - The Affair (1982) ... Dr. Green
  1982 CHiPs (TV Series) - Kessler
  - Tiger in the Streets (1982) ... Kessler
  1981 Amy - Caruthers
  1980 Fade to Black - Marty Berger (as Normann Burton)
  1980 To Race the Wind (TV Movie) - Mr. Krents (as Normann Burton)
  1980 Bogie (TV Movie) - Hopkins
  1977-1980 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Dr. George Danner / Max
  - Cover-Up (1980) ... Dr. George Danner (as Normann Burton)
  - No Deadly Secret (1977) ... Max (as Normann Burton)
  
  1979 The Ultimate Impostor (TV Movie) - Papich
  1978 Lou Grant (TV Series) - Franklin Nash
  - Conflict (1978) ... Franklin Nash (as Normann Burton)
  1978 Project U.F.O. (TV Series) - Dr. Phil Greiner
  - Sighting 4022: The Camouflage Incident (1978) ... Dr. Phil Greiner (as Normann Burton)
  1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries (TV Series)
  - Murder, Murder (1978) ... (as Normann Burton)
  1978 Insight (TV Series) - Sam
  - The Flawed Magi (1978) ... Sam (as Normann Burton)
  1978 The Ted Knight Show (TV Mini-Series) - Burt Dennis
  - The Honeymoon Game (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - Sweet Sixteen (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - The Wedding (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - Hop to It (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - My Hero (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  - Strike (1978) ... Burt Dennis
  1977 Wonder Woman (TV Series) - Joe Atkinson
  - The Man Who Made Volcanoes (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - I Do, I Do (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Queen and the Thief (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Pied Piper (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - Knockout (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Bermuda Triangle Crisis (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Man Who Could Move the World (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - Anschluss '77 (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  - The Return of Wonder Woman (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
  1977 Murder in Peyton Place (TV Movie) - Jay Kamens (as Normann Burton)
  1977 Dog and Cat (TV Series) - Tedesco
  - Dead Skunk (1977) ... Tedesco
  1974-1976 The Rockford Files (TV Series) - Markell / Melvyn Moss
  - Return to the 38th Parallel (1976) ... Markell (as Normann Burton)
  - The Big Ripoff (1974) ... Melvyn Moss (as Normann Burton)
  1976 Rhoda (TV Series) - Ben Levy
  - Meet the Levys (1976) ... Ben Levy (as Normann Burton)
  1976 Black Sheep Squadron (TV Series) - General Carl Gant
  - Presumed Dead (1976) ... General Carl Gant (as Normann Burton)
  1976 Scorchy - Chief Frank O'Brien (as Normann Burton)
  1976 The Gumball Rally - Lieutenant Roscoe (as Normann Burton)
  1976 Harry O (TV Series) - Dr. Lusk
  - Death Certificate (1976) ... Dr. Lusk (as Normann Burton)
  1975-1976 Lincoln (TV Mini-Series) - General Ulysses S. Grant
  - The Last Days (1976) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
  - The Unwilling Warrior (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
  - Sad Figure, Laughing (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
  1975 Conspiracy of Terror (TV Movie) - Lt. Rossos (as Normann Burton)
  1975 Baretta (TV Series) - Councilman
  - The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues (1975) ... Councilman (as Normann Burton)
  1975 The Reincarnation of Peter Proud - Dr. Frederick Spear (as Normann Burton)
  1975 Force Five (TV Movie) - Arthur Haberman
  1974 Let's Call It Quits (Short) - Bill
  1974 The Towering Inferno - Giddings (as Normann Burton)
  1974 Kojak (TV Series) - 'Fish' Fisher
  - The Best War in Town (1974) ... 'Fish' Fisher (as Normann Burton)
  1974 Planet of the Apes (TV Series) - Yalu
  - The Interrogation (1974) ... Yalu (as Normann Burton)
  1974 The Terminal Man - Det. Capt. Anders
  1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Malloy
  - The Illusion of Black Gold (1974) ... Malloy (as Normann Burton)
  1974 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Bren
  - Selkirk's War (1974) ... Bren
  1973 Hit! - The Director
  1973 Save the Tiger - Fred Mirrell
  1972 A Great American Tragedy (TV Movie)
  1972 The Partners (TV Series) - Romero
  - The 217 in 402 (1972) ... Romero
  1972 Fuzz - Police Commissioner Nelson
  1971 They Call It Murder (TV Movie) - Movie Director
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Leiter
  1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Army Officer
  1971 Simon, King of the Witches - Willard Rackum
  1971 Jud - Uncle Hornkel
  1970 R.P.M. - Coach McCurdy
  
  1969 Land of the Giants (TV Series) - Sergeant
  - The Chase (1969) ... Sergeant
  1968 The Felony Squad (TV Series) - Solly Hirt
  - Matched for Murder (1968) ... Solly Hirt
  1968 Judd for the Defense (TV Series) - Roger Helmsman
  - Transplant (1968) ... Roger Helmsman
  1968 Planet of the Apes - Hunt Leader
  1968 I Spy (TV Series) - Brandon
  - Tag, You're It (1968) ... Brandon
  1967 Valley of the Dolls - Neely O'Hara's Director (uncredited)
  1967 Days of Our Lives (TV Series) - Cab Driver
  - Episode #1.391 (1967) ... Cab Driver
  1966 The Hero (TV Series)
  - The Day They Shot Sam Garrett (1966)
  1966 Get Smart (TV Series) - Control Agent
  - The Decoy (1966) ... Control Agent (uncredited)
  1966 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Mr. Asher
  - What's New, Poodle Dog? (1966) ... Mr. Asher
  1966 Love on a Rooftop (TV Series)
  - 117 Ways to Cook Hamburger (1966)
  1965 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Ed
  - The Reward (1965) ... Ed
  1965 Wild Seed - Policeman
  1965 The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series) - Mr. Hilmer
  - Never Listen to Rumors (1965) ... Mr. Hilmer
  1965 Bewitched (TV Series) - Moving Man
  - Pleasure O'Riley (1965) ... Moving Man
  1963 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Car Salesman
  - See Hollywood and Die (1963) ... Car Salesman (uncredited)
  1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Office Worker
  - Miniature (1963) ... Office Worker (uncredited)
  1963 Sam Benedict (TV Series) - Lt. Warren Jones
  - Some Fires Die Slowly (1963) ... Lt. Warren Jones
  1961-1962 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Solly / Wally Dagan
  - The Floyd Gibbons Story (1962) ... Solly
  - 90-Proof Dame (1961) ... Wally Dagan
  1962 Hand of Death - Chief Homicide Investigator
  1962 Shannon (TV Series) - John Herman
  - Dolphin and the Mermaid (1962) ... John Herman
  1962 Womanhunt
  1961 Checkmate (TV Series) - Lou Lewis
  - Kill the Sound (1961) ... Lou Lewis
  1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Poulos
  - Death of a Ghost (1961) ... Poulos
  1960 Pretty Boy Floyd - Bill Courtney
  
  1956 Fright - Thompkins - Reporter
  
  Archive footage (2 credits)
  
  2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Felix Leiter
  1980 Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes (TV Movie) - Yalu

  
  Werner Keppler outside the trailer at Ape Town at the Fox Ranch with the chief gorilla, played by Norman Burton
  
  
  

  2005: Joseph Fürst dies at age 89--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  (Born 13 February 1916--Vienna, Austria.)

  

  Joseph Fürst

  Joseph Fürst (13 February 1916 – 29 November 2005) was an Austrian-born international film and television actor known for his English language roles in Britain and Australia, after first appearing on the Canadian stage.
  
  Career
  Fürst was regularly featured in UK television drama series of the 1960s and early 1970s with appearances in The Saint, The Champions, Doomwatch, The Persuaders!, and as the mad (and well remembered) Professor Zaroff in the Doctor Who story The Underwater Menace. Many people believe his accent in this role to have been put on; this is incorrect, it is in fact his real accent. He also played the role of Schneider in the Armchair Theatre play "A Magnum for Schneider", which launched Edward Woodward as the character of Callan. (The play led to the highly regarded Callan TV series.)

  Fürst's notable film appearances included 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever (1971) as Dr Metz, and Inn of the Damned (1975).

  He emigrated to Australia and starting in the mid-1970s acted in several guest roles on Australian television drama series. His roles included several appearances in the top-rated police drama Division 4 produced by Crawford Productions in the 1970s. He played an ongoing role in soap opera Number 96 in 1976 as deli owner Carlo Lenzi, who was introduced to the series as a new Italian family alongside Arianthe Galani and Harry Michaels, his character romanced wine bar proprietor Norma Whittaker (Sheila Kennelly). He also played Heinrik Smeaton in The Young Doctors in 1979, and was a guest on situation comedy Kingswood Country, again opposite Kennelly. He guest starred in four episodes of A Country Practice in the early 1980s. In 1984, he starred in the ABC TV film The Schippan Mystery.
  
  Fürst was interviewed by Dwayne Bunney and Dallas Jones for "Loose Cannon" and spoke about his career in an interview to be an extra feature for the reconstruction of the missing Doctor Who story "The Underwater Menace". This interview took place shortly before his death.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUv2arY95lc

  

  Joseph Fürst (1916–2005) Actor

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0299822/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (80 credits)
  
  1986 Tusitala (TV Mini-Series) - Von Pilsarch
  - Teller of Tales: Part Three (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
  - Teller of Tales: Part Two (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
  - The Teller of Tales: Part One (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
  1985 The Dunera Boys (TV Mini-Series) - The Baron
  - Episode #1.2 (1985) ... The Baron (as Joseph Furst)
  - Episode #1.1 (1985) ... The Baron (as Joseph Furst)
  1984 Special Squad (TV Series) - Raddich
  - The Würzburg Link (1984) ... Raddich
  1984 The Schippan Mystery (TV Movie) - Mathias Schippan
  1982 Jonah (TV Mini-Series) - Hans Paach
  - Episode #1.4 (1982) ... Hans Paach
  - Episode #1.3 (1982) ... Hans Paach
  - Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Hans Paach
  - Episode #1.1 (1982) ... Hans Paach
  1982 A Country Practice (TV Series) - Alex Popovich
  - Mates: Part 2 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
  - Mates: Part 1 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
  - Suffer Little Children: Part 2 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
  - Suffer Little Children: Part 1 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
  1980 Kingswood Country (TV Series) - Enzo Bertoluci
  - There's No Place Like Rome (1980) ... Enzo Bertoluci
  1980 Spy! (TV Series) - Colonel Malini
  - The Venlo Incident (1980) ... Colonel Malini
  1979-1980 Skyways (TV Series) - Poppa Fanelli / Pappa Fanelli
  - Pili (1980) ... Poppa Fanelli
  - Homecoming (1979) ... Pappa Fanelli
  
  1976 The Young Doctors (TV Series) - Heinrik Smeaton (1978)
  1976 Number 96 (TV Series) - Carlo Lenzi - 5 episodes
  1976 Luke's Kingdom (TV Series) - Storekeeper,
  - The Prisoner (1976) ... Storekeeper
  - An Enemy Too Many (1976) ... Storekeeper
  - Devil's Man (1976) ... Storekeeper
  - The Dam and the Damned (1976) ... Storekeeper
  - The Hypocrites (1976) ... Storekeeper
  - The King's Gentleman (1976) ... Storekeeper
  - The Surveyor (1976) ... Storekeeper
  - A Woman Waiting (1976) ... Storekeeper
  - A Man Worse Than Cormac (1976) ... Storekeeper
  - The Man From Home (1976) ... Storekeeper
  - The Bait (1976) ... Storekeeper
  - The Land Lovers (1976) ... Storekeeper
  - A Sort of Gentleman (1976) ... Storekeeper
  1975 Plugg - Judge, Fraudenheist
  1975 Inn of the Damned - Lazar Straulle
  1973-1975 Division 4 (TV Series) - Ernst Kaufmann / Emmanuel Czoski / Stefan Gronowski
  - Check, Check, Check (1975) ... Ernst Kaufmann
  - The Fanatic (1975) ... Emmanuel Czoski
  - Today Is Eagle Day (1973) ... Stefan Gronowski
  1974-1975 Behind the Legend (TV Series) - Ferdinand von Mueller
  - Tom Roberts (1975)
  - Ferdinand von Mueller (1974) ... Ferdinand von Mueller
  1974 Mother's Day (TV Movie)
  1974 The Evil Touch (TV Series) - Dr. Gornak
  - Gornak's Prism (1974) ... Dr. Gornak
  1973 ...And Millions Die! (TV Movie) - Franz Kessler
  1973 Ryan (TV Series) - Eric Stahl
  - Liz (1973) ... Eric Stahl
  1972 The Money Game (TV Movie)
  The Foreigner (voice)
  1972 The Far Country (TV Series) - 5 episodes
  - Episode #1.6 (1972)
  - Episode #1.5 (1972)
  - Episode #1.4 (1972)
  - Episode #1.3 (1972)
  - Episode #1.2 (1972)
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Yelker
  - The Ozerov Inheritance (1971) ... Yelker (as Joseph Furst)
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Dr Metz (as Joseph Furst)
  1971 Take Three Girls (TV Series) - Leon Mailer
  - The Company of Madmen (1971) ... Leon Mailer
  1971 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Josef Walczak
  - Cue Murder! (1971) ... Josef Walczak
  1970 Goodbye Gemini - Georgiu
  1970 Sudden Terror - Local Police Sgt (as Joseph Furst)
  1970 Callan (TV Series) - Sabovski
  - A Village Called 'G' (1970) ... Sabovski (as Joseph Furst)
  1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Dr. Charles Goldsworthy
  - Re-Entry Forbidden (1970) ... Dr. Charles Goldsworthy
  
  1968-1969 The Champions (TV Series) - Dr. Rudolf Mueller / Chislenkan
  - The Search (1969) ... Dr. Rudolf Mueller
  - The Beginning (1968) ... Chislenkan
  1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - President Obotnik
  - The Flag (1968) ... President Obotnik
  1968 Vendetta (TV Series) - Paul Bonner
  - The Anniversary Man (1968) ... Paul Bonner
  1968 Hammerhead - Count Ortega
  1968 Mogul (TV Series) - Zaluchin
  - Stop It, You're Breaking My Heart (1968) ... Zaluchin
  1967 Boy Meets Girl (TV Series) - Mr. Swyvoski
  - Lucinda (1967) ... Mr. Swyvoski
  1967 Theatre of Death - Karl Schiller (as Joseph Furst)
  1960-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Schneider / Ekhart / Ex-King Gustavus III
  - A Magnum for Schneider (1967) ... Schneider
  - Till the Day I Die (1961) ... Ekhart
  - A Heart and a Diamond (1960) ... Ex-King Gustavus III
  1967 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Professor Zaroff
  - The Underwater Menace: Episode 4 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
  - The Underwater Menace: Episode 3 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff (as Joseph Furst)
  - The Underwater Menace: Episode 2 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
  - The Underwater Menace: Episode 1 (1967) ... Professor Zaroff
  1966 Harry Worth (TV Series) - Carl Mildenhoff
  - An Epic in the Sand (1966) ... Carl Mildenhoff
  1966 Arrivederci, Baby! - German Brasshat
  1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Professor Brodzinski
  - Corridors of Power (1966) ... Professor Brodzinski
  1966 Out of Town Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - Koplaski
  - The Great Kopalski (1966) ... Koplaski
  1963-1966 The Saint (TV Series)
  Karel Jorovitch / Kane Luker / Dr. Ernst Zellerman
  - The Russian Prisoner (1966) ... Karel Jorovitch (as Joseph Furst)
  - The Saint Plays with Fire (1963) ... Kane Luker
  - The Saint Sees It Through (1963) ... Dr. Ernst Zellerman (as Joseph Furst)
  1966 The Brides of Fu Manchu - Otto Lentz (as Joseph Furst)
  1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Colonel Bucholz
  - Enemy of the State (1966) ... Colonel Bucholz
  1961-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)
  Bertheimer / Dr. Heller / Lecherenko / ...
  - Finesse in Diamonds (1965) ... Bertheimer
  - The Finambulists (1963) ... Dr. Heller
  - Freedom in September (1962) ... Lecherenko
  - I Remember Mama (1961) ... Lars Papa Hanson
  - The Poisoned Earth (1961) ... Dr. Brockmeyer
  1965 McGuire, Go Home! - Dr. Andros
  1964 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) -General Fitz Fromm
  - The July Plot (1964) ... General Fitz Fromm
  1964 The Midnight Men (TV Series) - King Alexander
  - Promise to Kill (1964) ... King Alexander
  - The King's Business (1964) ... King Alexander
  - Time of Danger (1964) ... King Alexander
  - The King Shall Die (1964) ... King Alexander
  - The Man from Miditz (1964) ... King Alexander
  1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Von Elm
  - Medal for a Turned Coat (1964) ... Von Elm
  1963 Sergeant Cork (TV Series) - Ernst Lukas
  - The Case of the Girl Upstairs (1963) ... Ernst Lukas
  1963 55 Days at Peking - Capt. Hanselman (as Joseph Furst)
  1963 Anna Christie (TV Movie) - Chris Christopherson
  1962 Freud - Herr Jacob Koertner (as Joseph Furst)
  1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Glidepath (1962) ... (as Joseph Furst)
  1962 Studio 4 (TV Series) - Doctor Korczak
  - Doctor Korczak and the Children (1962) ... Doctor Korczak
  1962 Man of the World (TV Series) - Wilhelm
  - Shadow of the Wall (1962) ... Wilhelm
  1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Gastin
  - The Liars (1961) ... Gastin
  1960-1961 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Hauptmann Denker / Colonel von Kohl / Dr. Görtler
  - Cross of Iron (1961) ... Hauptmann Denker
  - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin (1960) ... Colonel von Kohl
  - Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before (1960) ... Dr. Görtler
  1961 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Koster
  - Assassin (1961) ... Koster
  1961 The Devil Inside - Paul Varna (as Joseph Furst)
  1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Judge
  - The Sorcerer (1961) ... Judge (as Joseph Furst)
  1961 A Coming-Out Party - Luftwaffe Interrogator (as Joseph Furst)
  1960 Exodus - Avidan (as Joseph Furst)
  1960 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Descius Heiss
  - The Shop at Sly Corner (1960) ... Descius Heiss
  1960 R.C.M.P. (TV Series) - Vasyl
  - Violence at the Wedding (1960) ... Vasyl
  1960 Inside Story (TV Series) - Jacob Leibmann
  - The Protege (1960) ... Jacob Leibmann
  1960 Skyport (TV Series) - Dr. Haltrecht
  - Episode #1.44 (1960) ... Dr. Haltrecht
  1960 Counter-Attack! (TV Series) - Major Heinrich Wolf
  - Last Chance (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
  - Guard Duty (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
  - Traitor's Mark (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
  - Secret Agent (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
  - Sealed Orders (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
  - Escape (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
  - White Flag (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
  
  1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Doctor
  - Echo from Afar (1959) ... Doctor
  1953-1959 Encounter (TV Series) - Voller / ex-King Gustavus / Emil Thibodeau / ...
  - A Leap in the Dark (1959)
  - The Delicate Deal (1958) ... Voller
  - A Heart and a Diamond (1958) ... ex-King Gustavus
  - Chain Reaction (1958) ... Emil Thibodeau
  - A Question of Discipline (1958) ... Joe Greenwood
  - The Acrobats (1957)
  - It's Murder in Algiers (1955) ... Kadis
  - The Duke in Darkness (1954)
  - Deadlier Than the Male (1954)
  - A Look in the Mirror (1954)
  - Flight Into Egypt (1954)
  - Captain Carvallo (1953)
  - Operation North Star (1953)
  - Fortune My Foe (1953)
  - Guilt (1953) ... Inspector
  - The Vigil (1953) ... Prosecutor
  - Othello (1953) ... Iago
  1958-1959 The Unforeseen (TV Series)
  - Mademoiselle Fifi (1959)
  - The Ikon of Elijah (1958)
  1957-1958 Folio (TV Series)
  Doc Schwartz
  - The Strong Are Lonely (1958)
  - The Ottawa Man (1958) ... Doc Schwartz
  - The Secret Agent (1957)
  1958 The Telltale Heart (TV Movie) - Policeman
  1954-1958 On Camera (TV Series) - Henry Barron / Mr. Klotsy
  - The Absentee Murderer (1958) ... Henry Barron
  - They Shot an Arrow (1956) ... Mr. Klotsy
  - A Handful of Salt (1955)
  - The Waltz (1955)
  - Miracle at the Windsor (1954)
  - The Bottle Imp (1954)
  1955 First Performance (TV Series)
  - The Colonel and the Lady (1955)
  1955 CBC Summer Theatre (TV Series) - Baron
  - Captain Carvallo (1955) ... Baron
  1955 Scope (TV Series)
  - The Colonel and the Lady (1955)
  1953-1955 Playbill (TV Series) - Vanluven
  - The Mayerling Riddle (1955)
  - Death Pulls No Strings (1955)
  - Tobacco Farm (1954) ... Vanluven
  - Greek Street (1953)
  - Confession (1953)
  
  Self (1 credit)
  
  Citizen Varek (Short documentary) 1953

  

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  November 2020 edited December 2020 Posts: 13,787

  November 30
  
  1917: Ilse Steppat is born--Barmen, Germany.
  (She dies 21 December 1969 at age 52--West Berlin, Germany.)

  

  Ilse Paula Steppat

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

  Born Ilse Paula Steppat
  30 November 1917
  Wuppertal, Germany
  Died 21 December 1969 (aged 52)
  West Berlin, Germany
  Nationality German
  Occupation Actress
  Years active 1932–1969

  Ilse Paula Steppat (30 November 1917 in Barmen – 21 December 1969 in West Berlin) was a German actress. Her husband was noted actor and director Max Nosseck.
  
  Biography
  She began her cinematic career at the age of 15 playing Joan of Arc. Steppat appeared regularly on the German stage, and starred in more than forty movies. In the 1960s, she appeared frequently in crime movies based on the work of author Edgar Wallace, such as Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloss, Der unheimliche Mönch and Die blaue Hand, which brought her great fame in Germany.

  In her only English language role, Steppat played Blofeld's assistant and henchwoman Irma Bunt in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
  
  In the first English language conversation between Steppat and the movie's producer, Albert R. Broccoli, she confused the word verlobt (engaged) with engagiert (dedicated).[citation needed]
  
  Despite this, however, she was awarded the role of Irma Bunt. Steppat was unable to capitalise on her new fame outside Germany, as she died of a heart attack only four days after the movie's international release. She was buried in the Waldfriedhof Dahlem in Berlin. Steppat was supposed to reprise her role as Irma Bunt in Diamonds Are Forever. However her character was withdrawn after the actress's death.

  

  Ilse Steppat (1917–1969)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0827375/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actress (60 credits)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Irma Bunt
  1969 Alle Hunde lieben Theobald (TV Series) - Lily Landraf
  - Diana und die Landgräfin (1969) ... Lily Landraf
  1968 Berliner Antigone (TV Movie) - Wärterin
  1968 Altaich (TV Movie) - Charlotte Schnaase
  1968 Liliomfi (TV Movie) - Camilla
  1968 Death in a Red Jaguar - Mrs. Cunnings
  1968 Hauptstraße Glück (TV Series) - Grete Lehkamp
  - Heirate sich, wer kann (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  - Der liebe Nachbar (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  - Dachschaden ausgeschlossen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  - Auf, auf ins Grüne (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  - Romanze in Mull (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  - Die Verlobung findet nicht statt (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  - Mütter denken - Töchter lenken (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  - Rote Georginen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
  1968 Eine etwas sonderbare Dame (TV Movie) - Mrs. Paddy
  1967 Creature with the Blue Hand - Lady Emerson
  1966 Hinter diesen Mauern (TV Movie) - Miss Burgess
  1966 Living it Up - Carol Stevens
  1965 The Sinister Monk - Lady Patricia
  1965 Niemandsland (TV Movie) - Rachel Verney
  1965 Der Krake (TV Movie) - Sophie Krebs
  1964 Hafenpolizei (TV Series) - Frau Lammers
  - Reisebegleiterin gesucht (1964) ... Frau Lammers
  1964 Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloß - Margaret
  1964 Rauf und runter (TV Movie)
  1964 Das Haus der Schlangen (TV Series) - Edith Edwards
  - Sechster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
  - Fünfter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
  - Vierter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
  - Dritter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
  - Zweiter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
  - Erster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
  1963 The Invisible Terror - Dr. Louise Richards
  1963 Apartment-Zauber - Sittenkommissarin (as Jlse Steppat)
  1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Wife
  - Das Rendezvous (1963) ... Wife
  1963 Das Glück der Ehe (TV Movie) - Katja
  1962 Die Post geht ab - Elfriede Stolze
  1961 Schau heimwärts, Engel (TV Movie) - Madame Elizabeth
  1961 Der jüngste Tag (TV Movie) - Frau Hudetz
  1960 Auf Engel schießt man nicht - Bellini
  1960 A Mother's Revenge - Frau Barlowsky
  1960 Pension Schöller - Amalie Schöller
  
  1959 Ausflug mit Damen (TV Movie) - Juno
  1958 Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen - Widow Prang
  1958 Sehnsucht hat mich verführt - Brandner-Bäuerin
  1958 The Eighth Day of the Week - Walicka
  1958 Naked in the Night - Madam Clavius
  1958 Nachtschwester Ingeborg - Frau Burger
  1958 Sie schreiben mit (TV Series)
  1957 Der versteinerte Wald (TV Movie) - Mrs. Chisholm
  1957 Das Geheimnis (TV Movie) - Sara Callifer
  1957 Confessions of Felix Krull - Maria Pia Kuckuck
  1957 Der entscheidende Augenblick (TV Short) - Kate
  1957 Der Adler vom Velsatal - Coletta Nicolini
  1956 Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben - Ada Schenk
  1956 Waldwinter - Frieda Stengel
  1955 The Captain and His Hero - Yvonne
  1955 Die Ratten - Frau Knobbe
  1955 Der dunkle Stern - Frl. Rieger, die Lehrerin
  1955 Oberarzt Dr. Solm - Claudia Möllenhauer, Tochter
  1954 Das Phantom des großen Zeltes - Dolores, Frau mit dem Löwen
  1954 Cavalry Captain Wronski - Leonore Cronberg
  1953 Der Kaplan von San Lorenzo - Isabella Catani
  1952 Lockende Sterne - Karena Rodde
  1952 Wenn abends die Heide träumt - Brigitte
  1951 Hanna Amon - Vera Colombani
  1951 Die Schuld des Dr. Homma - Dr. Ilse Kersten
  1951 Veronika, die Magd - Alice
  1951 Die Tat des Anderen
  1950 Der Fall Rabanser - Baronin Felten
  1950 The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice - Oberschwester Hilde
  
  1949 The Blue Swords - Frau von Tschirnhausen
  1949 The Bridge - Therese Sander
  1947 Marriage in the Shadows - Elisabeth Maurer
  
  Soundtrack (2 credits)
  
  1955 The Captain and His Hero (performer: "Ich sehne mich nach einem Wunder" - uncredited)
  1952 Lockende Sterne (performer: "Tausend kleine Lügen")

  
  
  

  
  1933: Tsai Chin is born--Shanghai, China.
  
  1949: Wendy Leech is born--Buckinghamshire, England.
  1949: Nicholas Woodeson is born--Sudan.
  
  1956: Claude-Oliver Rudolph is born--Frankfurt, Germany.
  1959: On the ninth day of the trial over rights to Thunderball, proceedings pause that Friday for a weekend of small conferences.
  
  1969: Marc Forster is born--Illertissen, Bavaria, Germany.]
  
  1994: Famke Janssen signs on to the GoldenEye production in the Xenia Onatopp role.
  
  2010: Clement Graham Crowden is born--Edinburgh, Scotland.
  (He dies 19 October 1922 at age 87--Edinburgh, Scotland.)

  

  Obituary: Graham Crowden,
  actor

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituary-graham-crowden-actor-1699734

  SCOTS actor Graham Crowden, best remembered for the medical drama
  A Very Peculiar Practice and sitcom Waiting for God, has died at the age
  of 87.
  By The Newsroom | Thursday, 21st October 2010, 12:59 pm
  
  Though known for comedy-drama roles, Crowden began as a Shakespearean actor, appearing on the big screen, television, stage and radio, in a career that stretched over seven decades.
  
  Born and brought up in Edinburgh, he lived in London for much of his life but had returned to his birthplace with his wife, actress Phyllida Hewat, several years ago.
  
  He died on Tuesday following a short illness.
  
  His daughter, actress Sarah Crowden, said: "His legacy lives on. He did so much work that there's something of his on almost all the time somewhere in the world."
  
  Born Clement Graham Crowden on 30 November, 1922, he was the third of four children born into a respectable Scottish Presbyterian family laid low by the First World War in which his father, a classics teacher, was seriously injured.
  
  He had an unremarkable time at Edinburgh Academy, failing all of his exams, before going on to work in a tannery.
  
  He joined the Royal Scots Youth Battalion in 1940, but his military career ended after a year when he suffered internal injuries from a gunshot fired by his own platoon sergeant.
  
  His burgeoning theatre career could have ended in a similarly inglorious fashion had he heeded the advice of Shakespeare Without Frills director Robert Atkins, who told him: "You're too tall, too thin, you're not good looking and you have a funny voice."
  
  Despite this early knock he persuaded Atkins to grant him a student contract, beginning a long stage apprenticeship with a succession of rep companies.
  
  He married Phyllida Hewat, then a costume designer, in 1952. In the ensuing years the couple had four children, and Mr Crowden's stage career began to take off starting with major role in a Bristol Old Vic production of Major Barbara.
  
  His introduction to movies started inauspiciously with a series of flops, beginning with 1961's Don't Bother To Knock, but he finally found his form with his appearances in director Lindsay Anderson's iconic satirical trilogy of If..., O Lucky Man! and Britannia Hospital.

  Among some of the many films he appeared in were Terry Gilliam's Jabberwocky, Out of Africa and the Bond movie For Your Eyes Only.

  In 1974, Crowden turned down the chance to succeed Jon Pertwee as Dr Who.
  
  Unable to commit the amount of time required by the part, he recommended Tom Baker for the role instead.
  
  Speaking of his decision to refuse the role, he once joked: "Working with a lot of Daleks didn't sound like much fun."
  
  When asked for his epitaph, Mr Crowden first thought of Lewis Casson's observation that "he looked funny even in serious roles", but he eventually settled on his own verdict: "I've done very good work for very bad money."

  
  

  

  Graham Crowden (1922–2010)

  Actor | Soundtrack
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189561/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  

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  December 1st
  
  1930: Matt Monro is born--London, England.
  (He dies 7 February 1985 at age 54--Ealing, London, England.)

  

  Matt Monro, Britain’s ‘Cockney
  Como,’ Dies at 54

  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-02-08-mn-4672-story.html
  By BURT A. FOLKART | Feb. 8, 1985 | Times Staff Writer
  
  Matt Monro, an East London bus driver who perfected his lyrical baritone techniques while serenading his passengers, died Thursday of liver cancer in London.

  The popularizer of such hits as “Born Free” and “From Russia With Love” died in London’s Cromwell Hospital after a liver transplant operation was deemed useless two weeks ago.

  Likened to Perry Como because of his effortless versions of the ballads of the day, Monro, 54, had the speaking voice of a Cockney but phrased like an English troubadour. Although he once had a succession of such hit recordings as “My Kind of Girl,” “Portrait of My Love,” “Softly, As I Leave You” and “Yesterday,” in recent years he had been out of the international arena and his appearances limited to nightclubs and cameos on British television.
  
  Munro admitted in the late 1960s that alcohol had once been a problem but that he had overcome it. He also confessed to being an ongoing nicotine addict.
  
  ‘Smoked Incessantly’
  “I have smoked incessantly since I started at 9 on tea leaves,” he had said. “If they’re announcing, ‘Ladies and Gentlemen--Matt Monro,’ I’ll light a cigarette because I know we’ve got two minutes of overture time and I can have a puff.”
  
  Monro, who was born Terence Parsons in London’s middle-class East End, got his first paying job as a lorry operator. He later graduated to buses. But even as a boy, he told The Times in a 1968 interview when he was appearing in Las Vegas, he had always wanted to sing.
  
  He took those frustrated ambitions out on his passengers who encouraged him, and he soon made his debut in small clubs.
  
  In 1960 he recorded “Portrait of My Love” and followed it with “Walk Away.” Both were popular in England and abroad but it was his agent, lyricist Don Black, who made Monro a true international star.
  
  Monro recorded Black’s lyrics to “Born Free,” the theme from the film about a lioness domesticated by a British couple in Africa, and the song topped charts in Britain, America and Japan.
  
  He also had capitalized on a recording industry oversight. One of The Beatles’ most popular tunes, “Yesterday,” had not been released as a single and Monro, by then called the “Cockney Como,” soon filled that gap with his own version.
  
  It stayed on Britain’s Top 10 for months.
  
  Favorite Among Fellow Vocalists
  His warm, relaxed interpretations of old and new songs and his gentle phrasing made him a favorite among fellow vocalists.
  
  Frank Sinatra once said that Monro was the only British singer he ever listened to.
  
  Monro’s hospitalization and recent illnesses were kept from the public until an exploratory operation Jan. 20 revealed that his cancer had spread too far for a liver transplant to save him.
  
  He is survived by his wife, Mickie, and three children.

  

  Matt Monro (1930–1985)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0598448/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Soundtrack (32 credits)
  
  2016 Cuéntame (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - La boda de cristal (2016) ... (performer: "No puedo quitar mis ojos de tí (Can't Take My Eyes Off You)")
  2014/II Nightingale (performer: "The Good Life")
  2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) (performer: "From Russia With Love")
  2011 Rude Tube (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Extreme Rides (2011) ... (performer: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  2010 Formula 1: BBC Sport (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - The European Grand Prix: Qualifying (2010) ... (performer: "From Russia With Love" - uncredited)
  2010 From Paris with Love (performer: " They Long to Be - Close to You"))
  
  2009 ...Sings the Beatles (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Yesterday")
  2001 Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (performer: "Put on a Happy Face")
  
  1997 Super Speedway (Documentary) (performer: "On Days Like These")
  1992 The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (performer: "Born Free")
  1990 The Krays (performer: "Walk Away")
  
  1985 The Humans and The Jinns (performer: "Yesterday")
  1983 Lady Is a Tramp (TV Series) (performer: "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Title theme))
  1980 The Sea Wolves (performer: "The Precious Moments")
  
  1978 Tomorrow Never Comes (performer: "Alone am I")
  1973 Three Giant Men (performer: "The Southern Star")
  1972 Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.3 (1972) ... (performer: "The Second Time Around", "Time After Time", "I Want to Be Happy")
  1970 Hoffman (performer: "If there ever Is a next time")
  1970 Satan's Harvest (performer: "Two People")
  
  1969 Burbujas (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Sueños y pesadillas (1969) ... (performer: "Alguien cantó", "Qué tiempo tan feliz (Those Were the Days)", "Todo pasará")
  1969 The Italian Job (performer: "On Days Like These")
  1969 The Southern Star (performer: "The Southern Star")
  1967 A Matter of Innocence (performer: "Pretty Polly")
  1966 The Quiller Memorandum (performer: Theme Song - "WEDNESDAY'S CHILD")
  1966 Born Free (performer: "Born Free" - uncredited)
  1965 Go Go Mania (performer: "Pop Gear", "Walk Away" (uncredited), "For Mamma" (uncredited))
  1964 Shindig! (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.12 (1964) ... (performer: "My Kind of Girl', "Walk Away")
  1964 The Eurovision Song Contest (TV Special) (performer: "I Love The Little Things")
  1964 A Song for Europe (TV Movie) (performer: "Choose", "Its Funny How You Know", "I've Got the Moon on My Side", "Ten Out of Ten", "Beautiful, Beautiful")
  1963 From Russia with Love (performer: "From Russia with Love")
  1959 The Chaplin Revue (performer: "I'm Bound for Texas")
  1923 The Pilgrim (performer: "I'm Bound for Texas" (1971))
  
  Actor (2 credits)
  
  1970 Satan's Harvest - Bates
  1961 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) - Singer
  - Episode #15.16 (1961) ... Singer
  - Episode #15.6 (1961) ... Singer
  
  Archive footage (8 credits)
  
  2015 Spectre: My Bond Song - Sam Smith (TV Special documentary short) - Himself
  2012 ... Sings James Bond (TV Movie) - Himself - From Russia with Love
  2010-2011 Breakfast (TV Series) - Himself - Singer
  - Episode dated 9 March 2011 (2011) ... Himself - Singer
  - Episode dated 8 February 2010 (2010) ... Himself - Singer
  2009 ...Sings the Beatles (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  2007 Legends (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Matt Monro: The Man with the Golden Voice (2007) ... Himself
  2007 La tele de tu vida (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode #1.5 (2007) ... Himself
  2006 James Bond's Greatest Hits (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  2005 An Evening with Matt Monro (Video) - Himself

  
  

  
  

  
  1935: Woody Allen is born--New York City, New York.
  
  1961: This month Argosy magazine for men Volume 353, Number 6, includes an extra bonus book Thunderball.

  

  'Thunderball' (A James Bond Spy Thriller) contained within 'Argosy'
  magazine for men. Volume 353, Number 6, December 1961.
  FLEMING, Ian.

  https://www.harringtonbooks.co.uk/pages/books/39259/ian-fleming/thunderball-a-james-bond-spy-thriller-contained-within-argosy-magazine-for-men-volume-353-number-6
  
  Ohio and New York: Popular Publications, Incorporated. 1961. Magazine format in pictorial paper wraps. Original price: 50 cents. Minor wear to spine and postal label to upper else fine. The novel 'Thunderball' is advertised on the front cover as an 'extra book bonus' and appears on pages 128–44, with a sepia-toned frontispiece illustration by Gil Cohen. An abridged version published shortly after the bookform edition. This is the first American periodical appearance and the first US illustrated edition. Scarce. Item #39259
  
  Gilbert A9b 'Periodical Appearances', page 319

  
  'Thunderball' (A James Bond Spy Thriller) contained within 'Argosy' magazine for men. Volume 353, Number 6, December 1961. Ian FLEMING.
  
  

  1962: This month Classics Illustrated releases a Dr. No film comic in the UK. DC version in the US 1963.

  https://13thdimension.com/the-curious-case-of-when-james-bond-joined-the-dc-universe/
  

  http://secretagentlair.blogspot.com/2016/12/james-bond-comic-book-day.html
  
  
  https://mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/comicbook_dn.php3?s=comics&id=02435
  
  Above: A panel from "Dr No" by artist Norman J. Nodel, who used production stills from the movie.
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1964: This month Takao Saito's 007 manga begins monthly serialization in Shogakukan's Boy's Life magazine through August 1967. Republished by Shogakukan's Golden Comics. Re-reprinted 1981 by Shogakukan Bunko, again in 2015 by Big Comics Special imprint.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1965: Variety reports the Shirley Bassey filed an (unsuccessful) injunction regarding an oral agreement to use "Mr. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang” as the title song to Thunderball. Still, it appears on the official soundtrack if not in the film (which used an instrumental version).

  

  1969: Bond comic strip Colonel Sun begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 28 August 1970. 1175–1393)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  http://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2015/10/colonel-sun-by-kingsley-amis.html
  
  
  https://www.cbr.com/the-james-bond-omnibus-003/
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_cs_review.php3?t=&s=main&id=01086
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3

  Dödligt Toppmöte (Colonel Sun - Part 1) | Dödligt Toppmöte (Colonel Sun - Part 2)
  

  
  Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-22-1971/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 22: “Colonel Sun” (1971)
  "Møde med døden"
  [Rendezvous with death]
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  1982: Octopussy films Q in the gondola getting attention from Octopussy's Girls.
  
  1992: This month Marvel Comics releases James Bond Jr. #12). "Homeward Bound!". His last, with Scumlord, Jaws, Dr. Derange, Odd Job, Dr. No, Walker D Plank and Baron von Skarin.

  

  James Bond Jr. #12 - Homeward Bound!

  https://comicvine.gamespot.com/james-bond-jr-12-homeward-bound/4000-36542/

  Creators
  Bambos Georgiou - inker
  Mario Capaldi - penciler
  Sophie Heath - colorist
  Stuart Bartlett - letterer

  

  1997: A&M releases the "Tomorrow Never Dies" single. Some releases also include "Strong Enough", "The Book", "No One Said It Would Be Easy", "Ordinary Morning..

  
  
  
  
  

  1998: Freddie Young dies at age 96--London, England.
  (Born 9 October 1902--London, England.)

  
  

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

  https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/freddie-young-obe-bsc-asc/
  
  Frederick Archibald Young was born on 9 October 1902 in London. He entered the film industry in 1917 at Lime Grove Studios, West London.
  
  At that time it was run by Gaumont and had a glass exterior to allow light for shooting. Later it was re-built. It became Gaumont British in 1922. Young said the glasshouse was good in theory but in practice wasn’t so good. If it was a foggy day the studio became a pea souper. If it was cloudy, lights would be required to provide exposure, but if the sun came out the studio would be filled with sunlight and the shot would be ruined.
  
  Young started in the laboratory and eventually moved into cameras, remaining with the studio for ten years. In those days he operated the Debrie Parvo camera. He worked with a cameraman called Arthur Brown. Later, Bill Shenton worked there and despite only having one eye he was considered to be a very good cameraman. Eventually the studio became the home to BBC Television. Housing now stands on the site. One of the films he worked on after leaving Gaumont was Hitchcock’s Blackmail (1929) photographed by Jack Cox and made at British International Pictures (BIP). Young was asked to shoot a montage for the silent version.
  
  For several years he worked at British and Dominions at Elstree for producer and director Herbert Wilcox. Cinematographer Oswald Morris said: “He was a powerful cinematographer. He treated filmmaking rather like being in the army. There was strict discipline. At the height of his career his crew had to call him Mr Young.”
  
  Sir Sydney Samuelson says: “The first technical marvel for which he was responsible, and which held me in awe of his genius, was as far back as 1938 on Sixty Glorious Years. I remember two technical aspects quite clearly. One sequence was an early example of British Technicolor three-strip. There was a remarkable ballroom scene, which was achieved by means of an early matte shot. Called something like the ‘Shufton process’. There was a glorious wide-angle shot of an elegant ballroom. Freddie once told me that as clever as Shufton was, the most stunning effect was actually brought about by him, pricking holes in the top part of the back of the matte then shining through each chandelier painted on its front. Amazing!”
  
  During WW2 Young was in the Army Kinematograph Service with Freddie Francis. Francis said: “He always insisted on being called Mr Young or sir. After the war Freddie was Freddie to everyone.”
  
  Young was the first President of the BSC 1949-1952. He was President again from 1957-1960. He was also a member of the ASC and Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS).
  
  Following the war Young became head of cameras at MGM Elstree. “I suppose it was the finest studio in the country. It had a beautiful lot and was beautifully equipped,” remarked Young.
  
  Renowned director Nicolas Roeg, who worked with Young at MGM and later photographed the second unit on Lawrence of Arabia, said Freddie was a terrific guy to work with.
  
  In 1959, faced with a pay cut due to production cuts Young decided to leave the company. The day after leaving he realised that it was the first time he’d been out of work since 1917. In 1960 he was approached by producer Sam Spiegel to photograph Lawrence Of Arabia for director David Lean. Other notable directors he worked with include George Cukor, John Ford and John Huston.
  
  He first met Lean on Major Barbara (1941). Lawrence was released in 1962 and was the start of three 65mm wide screen pictures with Lean, earning Young three Oscars. Sydney Samuelson said: “Young is definitely ‘the master’ in my book of cineastes. Arguably and certainly in his era he was the best cameraman in the world. I had the pleasure of involvements with him and his crew from Lawrence Of Arabia onwards. David Lean was such a brilliant storyteller but nobody when working on one of his movies would accuse him of being easygoing. Freddie carried on for him regardless of personal and technical problems. Apart from three American Oscars Freddie won many awards including only the second Fellowship after Hitchcock from our own Academy BAFTA.”
  
  The three films he made with Lean were a challenge. “Lawrence Of Arabia took two years and was shot in Spain, Morocco and Jordan. The heat in the desert was a dry heat of 110 degrees. We had a sunshade over the camera and a wet cloth on top of the camera, which acted like refrigerator. We never saw rushes, the results were cabled from London. The famous mirage scene was shot using a 500mm lens. This was obtained from Panavision in Hollywood along with the rest of the camera equipment,” said Young.
  
  His next outing with Lean was Dr Zhivago (1965). It was filmed in the heat of Spain but was set in Russia, so a lot of faking was required. Some was shot in Finland. “We painted trees white, coloured hedge rows with white plastic and used hundreds of tons of marble dust,” said Young. “We used a blue filter for much of the film and it was my hardest technically.”
  
  His final film for Lean was Ryan’s Daughter (1971). The whole of the film is set on the west coast of Ireland. He said: “Winter came and the summer scenes hadn’t been completed, so the main unit went to South Africa, a second unit stayed behind headed by Roy Stevens. Denys Coop was in charge of the cinematography. Lean gives you an inspiration so you go out of your depth and try and do something extraordinary.”
  
  In conversation with cinematographer Robin Vidgeon’s wife Angela, Young said: “Whenever I had a candlelit scene I would go into a dark room, light a candle, sit and watch it for a while, blow it out and then take those images to set and light accordingly.”
  

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

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

  

  Freddie Young (I) (1902–1998)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002875/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

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

  

  1999: Robert Hale Ltd. publishes Sean Connery: A Celebration by Robert Sellers.

  

  1999: Fox Studios Australia in Sydney opens the final location of the 007: License to Thrill simulator ride.

  

  
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Belgium and Switzerland (French speaking region).
  1999: Le monde ne suffit pas released in France.

  
  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale released in Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa.
  2006: 007 カジノ・ロワイヤル (007: Kajino rowaiyaru) released in Japan.

  
  

  2008: "Another Way to Die" reaches top forty status in Australia, peaking at twenty-nine.
  
  2012: 007 スカイフォール (007 Sukaifōru) released in Japan.

  
  
  

  2019: No Time To Die releases a 15-second teaser to the upcoming trailer.

  

  
  
  
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  December 2nd
  
  1931: Nadezda Poderegin (Nadja Regin) is born-- Niš, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
  (She dies 6 April 2019 at age 87--London, England.)

  

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

  https://variety.com/2019/film/obituaries-people-news/obituary-nadja-regin-james-bond-movies-1203183106/
  By Dave McNary | April 8, 2019 10:14AM PT
  
  
  Credit: Photo by Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5886267ec)Sean Connery, Nadja Regin
  CREDIT: Danjaq/Eon/Ua/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock
  
  Serbian actress Nadja Regin, who appeared in two early James Bond movies, has died at the age of 87.

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

  She was born as Nadezda Poderegin on Dec. 2, 1931, and began acting while a student. She graduated from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and also the University of Belgrade’s Faculty of Philosophy.
  
  Regin began appearing in British films in the late 1950s and early 1960s, starting with the horror film “The Man Without a Body,” followed by the comedy “Don’t Panic Chaps!,” “Edgar Wallace Mysteries,” “Solo for Sparrow” and “The Fur Collar.” TV roles included “Danger Man,” “The Saint” and “Dixon of Dock Green.”

  She acted in “From Russia with Love” as the mistress of Kerim Bey, portrayed by Pedro Armendariz as the station chief of MI6 in Istanbul. Regin also appeared as Bonita, a dancer who sets a trap for James Bond in the pre-credit sequence of “Goldfinger.”

  During the 1970s, Regin worked for Rank Film and horror producers Hammer, selecting film scripts for production. In 1980, she co-founded Honeyglen Publishing Ltd. She recently published her own novel, “The Victims and the Fools,” under her full name Nadja Poderegin. The book is set during World War II and is centered on a romance between a poet and a dancer.

  

  Nadja Regin (1931–2019)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0716605/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Actress (52 credits)
  
  1967-1968 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Smyrna (maid) / Frederique Duval
  - Stiff Upper Lip (1968) ... Smyrna (maid)
  - The Old Campaigner (1967) ... Frederique Duval
  1968 The World of Beachcomber (TV Series)
  - Episode #1.6 (1968)
  - Episode #1.4 (1968)
  1968 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Mrs. Green
  - Ania (1968) ... Mrs. Green
  1967 Death Happens to Other People (TV Movie) - Bettina
  1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Ylena Davos
  - Reason for Sale (1967) ... Ylena Davos
  1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Lucille Legrand
  - The Art Collectors (1967) ... Lucille Legrand
  1966 The Man in Room 17 (TV Series) - Roxana Polynescu
  - The Catacombs (1966) ... Roxana Polynescu
  1966 Donaug'schichten (TV Series)
  - W. M. und die Diplomatie (1966)
  1966 The Liars (TV Series) - Madame Moraldi
  - Episode #1.1 (1966) ... Madame Moraldi
  1965 The Third Man (TV Series) - Aldrina
  - Members Only: Part 2 (1965) ... Aldrina
  - Members Only: Part 1 (1965) ... Aldrina
  1965 Riviera Police (TV Series) - Lisa
  - The Lucky One Was the Snake (1965) ... Lisa
  1965 The Flying Swan (TV Series) - Tanja Sykes
  - Company Property (1965) ... Tanja Sykes
  1964 Downfall - Suzanne Crossley
  1964 Runaway Killer - Laura Kossovich
  1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Ira Frankel
  - The Professionals (1964) ... Ira Frankel (as Nadja Ragin)
  1964 Goldfinger - Bonita
  1962-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Suzanne Crossley / Mrs. Reynolds / Nadia Leiven
  - Downfall (1964) ... Suzanne Crossley
  - Solo for Sparrow (1962) ... Mrs. Reynolds
  - Number Six (1962) ... Nadia Leiven
  1963 From Russia with Love - Kerim's Mistress
  1963 Crane (TV Series) - Maria Cortez
  - The Golden Attraction (1963) ... Maria Cortez
  1963 Man of the World (TV Series) - Maria
  - In the Picture (1963) ... Maria
  1963 Zero One (TV Series) - Didi Druson
  - The Creators (1963) ... Didi Druson
  1963 Stranglehold - Lilli
  1963 Benny Hill (TV Series) - Russian Girl
  - The Vanishing Man (1963) ... Russian Girl
  1962 Solo for Sparrow - Mrs. Reynolds
  1962 The Fur Collar - Marie Lejeune
  1962 Six More Faces of Jim (TV Series)
  - The Face of Wisdom (1962)
  1962 Richard the Lionheart (TV Series) - Shirin
  - The Lord of Kerak (1962) ... Shirin
  1962 Brothers in Law (TV Series) - Nina Zoffany
  - Special Examiner (1962) ... Nina Zoffany
  1962 Parbottle Speaking (TV Series) - Zuhra
  - Railway Lane (1962) ... Zuhra
  - Paley Goes It Alone (1962) ... Zuhra
  - The Chinese Chauffeur (1962) ... Zuhra
  - Manalik Opens Fire (1962) ... Zuhra
  - The Secret of the Cellar (1962) ... Zuhra
  - The Man from Khazakand (1962) ... Zuhra
  1962 Number Six - Nadia Leiven
  1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Maria
  - The Winning Ticket (1961) ... Maria
  1961 Blond muß man sein auf Capri - Helga Wagner
  1961 Danger Man (TV Series) - Melina
  - Find and Destroy (1961) ... Melina
  1961 International Detective (TV Series) - Nora Galloway
  - The Anthony Case (1961) ... Nora Galloway
  1960 Wir wollen niemals auseinandergehen - Livia
  1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Estelle
  - Once a Crook (1960) ... Estelle
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  1959 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Mary Darwin
  - Murder in Berkeley Square (1959) ... Mary Darwin
  1959 Don't Panic Chaps - Elsa
  1959 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Princess Taima
  - Man in Power (1959) ... Princess Taima (as Nadia Regin)
  1958 William Tell (TV Series) - Maddelena
  - The Bride (1958) ... Maddelena (as Nadja Regen)
  1957 Es wird alles wieder gut - Lucilla Coletti, Artistin
  1957 Franziska - Helen Philipps
  1957 Die Unschuld vom Lande - Lollo
  1957 The Man Without a Body - Odette Vernet
  1955 Der Frontgockel - Claudette, Französin
  1955 Du mein stilles Tal - Rita
  1955 Esalon doktora M. - Hatidza (as Nadja Poderegin)
  1954 Roman eines Frauenarztes - Nina Bertens
  1954 Das Haus an der Küste - Marina
  1952 Frosina (as Nadja Poderegin)
  1950 The Magic Sword (as Nadja Poderegin)
  
  1949 The Factory Story - Tekstilna ranica (as Nadja Poderegin)
  
  Self (3 credits)
  
  2018 Hammer Horror: The Warner Bros Years (Documentary) - Herself
  2017 Hammer's Lost Worlds (Short) - Herself
  1964 Goldfinger: The World Premiere (Documentary short) - Herself / Bonita

  
  
  

  
  1959: A surprising conclusion to McClory's pursuit of rights to film Thunderball plays out.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 21 - The Court Case That Killed Ian Fleming

  All the more strange, then, what was to happen on the trial's ninth day.
  McClory had just taken the stand was giving evidence when, as Peter
  Carter-Ruck later recorded, "The hearing was unexpectedly and somewhat
  dramatically adjourned after Leading Counsel on both sides had seen the
  judge in his private rooms." It was Friday afternoon and the hearing was
  a weekend of conferences with various lawyers and solicitors, leading to a
  meeting on the offices of Fleming's solicitors, Farrer & Co, on the Sunday
  afternoon. Fleming arrived accompanied by his wife Ann; Bryce was with
  [Ernie] Cuneo and McClory with Bobo, his brother Desmond O'Donovan and Jack
  Whittingham. There were also sundry solicitors. Carter-Rock quickly
  detected an atmosphere of, "muted hostility."
  
  Everyone was shown into a room with chairs set out in a circle but with
  no table in the centre. After the formalities, Carter-Ruck opened the proceedings
  by outlining the terms upon which McClory was prepared to settle his
  action. This would involve the payment of his costs and the vesting in McClory
  of the film rights in Thunderball. The copyright in both the finished picture and
  the film scripts should be his as well, plus a sum by way of damages to
  recompense him for the mental anguish and physical inconvenience he had been
  caused. A figure was mentioned. "So great," Bryce later wrote "as to draw a gasp
  even from that sophisticated group." It was a figure of £50,000. In less than 10
  minutes it was agreed in principle to come to terms.
  
  Why after nearly three years of expensive legal wrangling did Fleming
  and Bryce so quickly throw in the towel after just nine days in court? ...

  
  1966: You Only Live Twice films Bond's last scene, with Blofeld.
  
  1992: Michael Gothard dies at age 53--London, England. (Born 24 June 1939--Hendon, Middlesex, England.)

  

  Michael Gothard

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

  
  as Emile Locque in For Your Eyes Only, 1981

  Born Michael Alan Gothard, 24 June 1939, London, England
  Died 2 December 1992 (aged 53), Hampstead, London, England
  Years active 1961–1992

  Michael Alan Gothard (24 June 1939 – 2 December 1992) was an English actor, who portrayed Kai in the television series Arthur of the Britons and the mysterious villain Emile Leopold Locque in the 1981 James Bond film For Your Eyes Only.

  Early life
  Michael Gothard was born in London in 1939. As a child, he lived in both Wales and London. After leaving Haverstock School, he travelled in France for several months before returning home. He went through various jobs, including being a building labourer and a trainee reporter. He even had a brief spell as a clothes model, but he never felt comfortable doing that job. He said: "I was as stiff as a board and I couldn’t overcome my sense of the ridiculous. I was a clothes hanger, an object, not a person."
  
  Career
  He joined the New Arts Theatre as a scenery mover, and became part of an amateur film a friend was making. After landing the lead role, he was encouraged to take up the profession. He attended evening classes at an actors' workshop whilst holding down a day job. He was involved working in some of the first "Lunchtime theatre" productions in the 1960s, from pub cellars to top floor spaces off St. Martin's Lane. His first television role was in an episode of Out of the Unknown in 1966 called "The Machine Stops". He was then cast in Don Levy's film Herostratus in 1967 and Up the Junction in 1968. He then acquired a female following after taking a role as the villainous Mordaunt in the BBC's adaptation of Twenty Years After (Further Adventures of the Musketeers).
  
  His performance as the nightclubbing killer Keith in Scream and Scream Again, directed by Gordon Hessler, was a break-out role for him, giving him exposure and leading to other, more prominent parts. In the film, Keith makes one of the most memorable escapes from the police ever seen. The film also starred Vincent Price, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Executive producer Louis M. Heyward said of Gothard's performance: "I felt that Michael Gothard was going to be the biggest thing that ever happened. He had that insane look and that drive, and he was wonderful. Here is a kid who really threw himself into the picture wholeheartedly. Do you remember the scene where he appears to be walking up the cliff? That's a stunt that, as an actor, I would not have agreed to; I’d say, 'Hey, get a double or get a dummy. I ain't either one.' But the kid agreed to do it, without a double—he was that driven. He had a lot of class and a lot of style. Gordon (Hessler) came up with the idea of using an overhead cable to give that illusion of his walking up the cliff."
  
  He appeared in Ken Russell's 1971 horror film, The Devils, in which Gothard had a stand-out role as a fanatic witch-hunter and exorcist who defiles Vanessa Redgrave and tortures Oliver Reed. His performance as a young disillusioned hippie in Barbet Schroeder's La Vallée (1972) contrasted with the rest of his career. He also played a fictionalised version of the 17th century assassin John Felton in Richard Lester's 1973 film of The Three Musketeers and its 1974 sequel, The Four Musketeers.

  He had a regular role as Kai opposite Oliver Tobias's King Arthur on the aforementioned Arthur of the Britons during the early 1970s. He became known to a wider cinema audience for his menacing turn as the villainous (and non-speaking) Belgian henchman, Emile Leopold Locque, in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only. Gothard was actually the one who suggested Locque's signature octagonal glasses in an effort to make the character more menacing. His later appearances included supporting roles in Tobe Hooper's 1985 science-fiction horror extravaganza, Lifeforce, and as George Lusk in the 1988 TV movie, Jack the Ripper, with Michael Caine. He appeared with Dean Stockwell and Shirley Knight in a Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense (a.k.a. Fox Mystery Theatre) episode, The Sweet Scent of Death.[4] His last few roles were in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery in 1992, where he briefly acted opposite Marlon Brando. It was directed by his For Your Eyes Only director John Glen, but was a box office failure.

  Glen had actually cast Gothard in the role beneath Brando with the intention of moving Gothard into the role of Tomás de Torquemada, Brando's character, in case Brando did not show up for filming. Brando did indeed miss the first day of filming, and Gothard took over this role for the day's shooting. However, Tom Selleck told the director that without Brando, he would quit the film. Word apparently got out, for Brando was on the set the next day, and assumed the role of Torquemada, with Glen reshooting the scene. Glen described Gothard as "a very good" and "captivating" actor, as well as a friend.
  
  His final role was in David Wickes's Frankenstein, starring Patrick Bergin and Randy Quaid.
  
  Death

  Gothard, who struggled with depression for much of his life, committed suicide by hanging on 2 December 1992. He was fifty-three years old.

  

  Michael Gothard (1939–1992)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0331788/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (42 credits)
  
  1992 Frankenstein (TV Movie) - Boatswain
  1992 Christopher Columbus: The Discovery - Inquisitor's Spy
  1990 Out of Time - Xaros
  
  1989 Massacre Play - Zabo
  1989 Capital City (TV Series) - Stefan
  - Twelve Degrees Capricorn (1989) ... Stefan
  1988 Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-Series) - George Lusk
  - Episode #1.2 (1988) ... George Lusk
  - Episode #1.1 (1988) ... George Lusk
  1987 Destroying Angel - Ennio Volpe
  1985 Lytton's Diary (TV Series) - Jake Cutler
  - Daddy's Girls (1985) ... Jake Cutler
  1985 Minder (TV Series) - Sergei
  - From Fulham with Love (1985) ... Sergei
  1985 Going Undercover - Strett
  1985 Lifeforce - Dr. Bukovsky
  1984 Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV Series) - Karl Portillo
  - Our Man in Tegernsee (1984) ... Karl Portillo
  1984 Fox Mystery Theater (TV Series) - Terry Marvin
  - The Sweet Scent of Death (1984) ... Terry Marvin
  1982 Ivanhoe (TV Movie) - Athelstane
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Locque
  1981 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Dieter
  - The Perfect House (1981) ... Dieter
  1980 Shoestring (TV Series) - Harry
  - The Mayfly Dance (1980) ... Harry
  1980 A Tale of Two Cities (TV Mini-Series) - Gaspard
  - Part 3 (1980) ... Gaspard
  - Part 1 (1980) ... Gaspard
  
  1979 The Professionals (TV Series) - Kodai
  - Stopover (1979) ... Kodai
  1978 Warlords of the Deep - Atmir
  1978 Warrior Queen (TV Series) - Volthan
  - Episode #1.6 (1978) ... Volthan
  - Episode #1.5 (1978) ... Volthan
  - Episode #1.4 (1978) ... Volthan
  - Episode #1.3 (1978) ... Volthan
  - Episode #1.2 (1978) ... Volthan
  - Episode #1.1 (1978) ... Volthan
  1975 King Arthur, the Young Warlord - Kai
  1974 The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge - Felton
  1973 The Three Musketeers - Felton
  1972-1973 Arthur of the Britons (TV Series) - Kai
  - The Girl from Rome (1973) ... Kai
  - The Treaty (1973) ... Kai
  - The Games (1973) ... Kai
  - Daughter of the King (1973) ... Kai
  - Six Measures of Silver (1973) ... Kai
  - In Common Cause (1973) ... Kai
  - The Marriage Feast (1973) ... Kai
  - Go Warily (1973) ... Kai
  - Some Saxon Women (1973) ... Kai
  - The Prisoner (1973) ... Kai
  - Rowena (1973) ... Kai
  - The Swordsman (1973) ... Kai
  - The Prize (1973) ... Kai
  - The Wood People (1973) ... Kai
  - The Slaves (1973) ... Kai
  - Enemies and Lovers (1973) ... Kai
  - Rolf the Preacher (1973) ... Kai
  - The Pupil (1973) ... Kai
  - The Duel (1973) ... Kai
  - People of the Plough (1973) ... Kai
  - The Penitent Invader (1972) ... Kai
  - The Challenge (1972) ... Kai
  - The Gift of Life (1972) ... Kai
  - Arthur Is Dead (1972) ... Kai
  1972 The Valley (Obscured by Clouds) - Olivier
  1971 The Devils - Father Barre
  1971 Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? - Albie
  1971 The Last Valley - Hansen
  1970 Menace (TV Series) - Pip
  - Nine Bean Rows (1970) ... Pip
  1970 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Ivan
  - Games People Play (1970) ... Ivan
  1970 Scream and Scream Again - Keith
  1970 My Partner the Ghost (TV Series) - Perrin
  - When the Spirit Moves You (1970) ... Perrin
  
  1969 Department S (TV Series) - Weber
  - Les Fleurs du Mal (1969) ... Weber
  1969 Fraud Squad (TV Series) - Jacky Joyce
  - Run for Your Money (1969) ... Jacky Joyce
  1969 Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell - John
  1969 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Brian
  - The Story-teller (1969) ... Brian
  1968 Up the Junction - Terry
  1967 The Further Adventures of the Musketeers (TV Series) - Mordaunt
  - Hunted (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - Treachery (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - The Scaffold (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - The Trial (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - The Oath (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - Escape (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - The Boy King (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - Abduction (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - Peril (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - Conflict (1967) ... Mordaunt
  - Conspiracy (1967) ... Mordaunt
  1967 Herostratus - Max
  1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Grady
  - The Excavation (1966) ... Grady
  1966 Out of the Unknown (TV Series) - Kuno
  - The Machine Stops (1966) ... Kuno
  
  Self (1 credit)
  
  1971 Director of Devils (Documentary short) - Himself
  
  Archive footage (6 credits)
  
  2013 Carlsen's Curse with Steve Railsback (Video short) - Bukovsky
  2013 Dangerous Beauty with Mathilda May (Video short) - Bukovsky
  
  2006 For Your Eyes Only: Expanded Angles (Video documentary short) - Locque
  2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Locque
  
  1981 Clapper Board (TV Series) - Locque
  - For Your Eyes Only Special (1981) ... Locque (uncredited)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short)

  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Lebanon.
  
  2011: Skyfall films Bond swimming at the top of the Four Seasons, Canary Wharf, London (as Shanghai).
  2015: Gabriele Ferzetti dies at age 90--Rome, Lazio, Italy.
  (Born 17 March 1925--Rome, Lazio, Italy.)

  

  Gabriele Ferzetti obituary

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/22/gabriele-ferzetti

  Charismatic Italian actor who starred in Antonioni’s L’Avventura
  and played opposite George Lazenby in On Her Majesty’s Secret
  Service

  Ronald Bergan | Tue 22 Dec 2015 10.41 EST | Last modified on Sun 4 Mar 2018 07.48 EST
  
  
  Gabriele Ferzetti (right) with Lea Massari in Antonioni’s classic L’Avventura (1960), in which he played Sandro, a wealthy playboy searching for his missing lover. Photograph: Snap Stills/Rex Shutterstock
  
  The Italian actor Gabriele Ferzetti, who has died aged 90, was never in danger of being typecast. He played a multitude of different film roles in every known genre, over seven decades, and just about the only constant in his long career was that he was perennially handsome and charismatic without being showy.

  To cinephiles, he was most memorable for his intense performance of quiet desperation as the unfulfilled wealthy playboy seeking his missing lover in Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura (1960). However, his most widely known roles, dubbed into English, were as the unscrupulous railroad baron on crutches in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and as James Bond’s father-in-law, a powerful crime boss, in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), the one with George Lazenby as 007.

  Ferzetti was born in Rome, where he attended the Silvio d’Amico drama school before winning a scholarship to the Rome Academy of Dramatic Art. However, he was eventually expelled for appearing with a professional theatrical troupe. After his role on stage as the young shepherd Sylvius in Luchino Visconti’s 1948 production of As You Like It, designed by Salvador Dalí, Ferzetti had small roles in several films, soon becoming a leading man.
  
  He was first noticed internationally in Mario Soldati’s The Wayward Wife (La Provinciale,1953), although the spotlight was on the ascending star Gina Lollobrigida in the title role. Ferzetti made the most of the thankless part of her husband, a bespectacled science professor who realises his wife does not love him but who wins her round in the end.
  
  In the same year he landed the title role in the sumptuous biopic Puccini, in which he portrayed the philandering Italian opera composer from his student days to a man in his 80s, with a little help from the makeup department. He reprised the role in House of Ricordi (1954), about the music-publishing house.
  
  Ferzetti was then cast by Antonioni in Le Amiche (The Girl Friends, 1955), which won the director the Silver Lion at the Venice film festival. Adapted from a Cesare Pavese story, the film manages to hold the 10 bourgeois characters in balance, giving almost equal weight to their individuality and the shifting pattern of relationships. Among them is Ferzetti, giving a nuanced performance as a morose, frustrated artist, envious of his more successful wife, and the cause of a woman’s suicide attempt.
  
  It would take five years and several mediocre melodramas and epics, including the elephantine Hannibal (1959), in which Ferzetti was impressive as a Roman senator, before he was reunited with Antonioni.
  
  L’Avventura, the film in which the director’s style reached maturity, allowed Ferzetti to play a weak and disillusioned man, a failed architect who complains, while looking around his Sicilian town: “Who needs beautiful things nowadays? How long will they last? All of this was built to last centuries. Today, 10, 20 years at the most, and then?” He later peevishly spills ink over a young man’s sketch of a church. At the film’s bitter end, not a resolution of the conventional type, he weeps pathetically out of guilt and emptiness. Nothing Ferzetti did in films subsequently equalled this.
  
  L’Avventura led him to a number of English-language movies, including the paper-thin romance Jessica (1962) – set in Sicily, and in which he played a reclusive aristocrat who falls for a young midwife (Angie Dickinson) – and a conventional war film, Torpedo Bay (1963), in which he is a noble Italian submarine captain being stalked by a British ship commanded by James Mason. Ferzetti was suitably grim as Lot, fleeing Sodom with his daughters and wife in The Bible (1966), a bad film from the Good Book, directed by the self-proclaimed atheist John Huston.
  
  Though dubbed, Ferzetti was convincing in Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) as the rail tycoon Morton, a smooth, cowardly baddie who employs a villainous hired gun, Frank (Henry Fonda), to frighten an owner into selling one of the rare pieces of land with water on it. Being disabled, Morton is vulnerable in his encounters with various unscrupulous bandits, at one stage having his crutches kicked away from him. He is last seen crawling towards a puddle of muddy water in the desert. It was Ferzetti’s favourite role.

  He was Draco, a gentlemanly mafia boss in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969), enticing Bond to marry his daughter (Diana Rigg), and offering to help 007 track down Blofeld. And he was chilling in Costa-Gavras’s The Confession (1970) as the head Stalinist interrogator who manages to extract a false confession from the Czech dissident Artur London (Yves Montand).

  His Italian accent notwithstanding, Ferzetti was equally nasty as an ex-SS officer, now psychiatrist, intent on covering up his tracks in Liliana Cavani’s meretricious The Night Porter (1974), a study of a sadomasochistic relationship between a former Nazi (Dirk Bogarde) and the woman he raped in a concentration camp (Charlotte Rampling).
  
  Ferzetti was kept busy throughout the 70s and 80s in supporting roles in mostly unremarkable Italian/French co-productions, as well as the occasional English-language film, such as the dreadful Inchon (1981), in which he played a Turkish officer in the Korean war with a miscast Laurence Olivier as General MacArthur.
  
  In the 90s Ferzetti appeared more frequently on television, but played the Duke of Venice in Oliver Parker’s Othello on the big screen and won the Ubu prize for his performance in August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death on stage (both 1992). In 2009, aged 84, he gained much praise for playing the head of a wealthy Milanese industrial family in I Am Love (Io Sono l’Amore).
  
  He is survived by his daughter, Anna, also an actor, from his marriage to the actor Maria Grazia Eminente, which ended in divorce, and by two granddaughters.
  
  • Gabriele Ferzetti, actor, born 17 March 1925; died 2 December 2015

  

  Gabriele Ferzetti (1925–2015)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0275213/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (168 credits)
  
  2010 18 Years Later - Enrico
  2009 I Am Love - Edoardo Recchi Senior
  1992-2007 A Wonderful Family (TV Series) - Nono
  - Les adieux de Nono (2007) ... Nono
  - Un Beaumont peut en cacher un autre (2002) ... Nono
  - Panique à bord (2000) ... Nono
  - L'amour en vacances (1996) ... Nono
  - Nicolas s'en va-t-en guerre (1996) ... Nono (credit only)
  - Des vacances mouvementées (1993) ... Nono
  - Bonnes et mauvaises surprises (1993) ... Nono (credit only)
  - Des jours ça rit, des jours ça pleure (1992) ... Nono
  - Des vacances orageuses (1992) ... Nono
  - Les parents disjonctent (1992) ... Nono
  2006 Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God (TV Movie) - Cardinal Siri
  2005 Callas e Onassis (TV Movie) - Livanos
  2004 Concorso di colpa - Vito Santamaria
  2003 Lost Love - Tommaso Pasini
  2003 Counselor de Gregorio - Alfonso
  2002 Le ragazze di Miss Italia (TV Movie) - The Professor
  
  1998 The Sands of Time (TV Movie) - Father Jacob
  1997 Un prete tra noi (TV Series) - Ettore (1997)
  1997 Porzûs - Storno vecchio
  1997 Con rabbia e con amore - Leone
  1995 Natale con papà (TV Movie) - Vittorio
  1995 Othello - The Duke of Venice
  1994 First Action Hero - Ben Costa
  1994 Black as the Heart (TV Movie) - Signor Noé Alga Croce
  1993 Private Crimes (TV Mini-Series) - Dottor Guido Braschi
  - Episode #1.4 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
  - Episode #1.3 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
  - Episode #1.2 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
  - Episode #1.1 (1993) ... Dottor Guido Braschi
  1992 Alta società (TV Mini-Series) - - Episode #1.3 (1992)
  - Episode #1.1 (1992)
  1992 Die Ringe des Saturn (TV Movie)
  1992 Il coraggio di Anna (TV Movie)
  1991 Suffocating Heat - Gaetano Castelli
  1990 Pronto soccorso (TV Series)
  1990 Una fredda mattina di maggio - Signor Mantoni
  1990 Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (TV Movie)
  
  1989 Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-Series) - Italian Chief of Police
  - Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
  - Episode #1.2 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
  - Episode #1.1 (1989) ... Italian Chief of Police
  1988 Computron 22 - Il nonno
  1988 Due fratelli (TV Mini-Series) - Procuratore
  - Episode #1.3 (1988) ... Procuratore
  - Episode #1.2 (1988) ... Procuratore
  - Episode #1.1 (1988) ... Procuratore
  1988 Gli angeli del potere (TV Movie) - Dr. Donhal
  1987 Julia and Julia - Padre di Paolo
  1987 La voglia di vincere (TV Mini-Series) - Professor Besson
  - Episode #1.3 (1987) ... Professor Besson
  - Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Professor Besson
  - Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Professor Besson
  1986 Follia amore mio (TV Movie)
  1985 Quo Vadis? (TV Mini-Series) - Piso
  - Episode #1.6 (1985) ... Piso
  - Episode #1.5 (1985) ... Piso
  - Episode #1.4 (1985) ... Piso
  - Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Piso
  - Episode #1.2 (1985) ... Piso
  - Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Piso
  1983 Die goldenen Schuhe (TV Mini-Series) - Marquesade Buenaventa
  - Episode #1.5 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
  - Episode #1.4 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
  - Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
  - Episode #1.3 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
  - Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Marquesade Buenaventa
  1983 Le ambizioni sbagliate (TV Movie) - Prof. Malacrida
  1983 Delitto e castigo (TV Mini-Series) - Svidrigàjlov
  - Episode #1.5 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
  - Episode #1.4 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
  - Episode #1.3 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
  - Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
  - Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Svidrigàjlov
  1983 The Scarlet and the Black (TV Movie) - Prince Mataeo (uncredited)
  1983 Il quartetto Basileus - Mario Cantone
  1982 Quasi quasi mi sposo (TV Movie) - The Engineer
  1982 Vatican Conspiracy - Cardinale Ixaguirre
  1982 Grog - Alberto
  1981 I giochi del diavolo (TV Mini-Series) - Mastro Gomin
  - La mano indemoniata (1981) ... Mastro Gomin
  1981 Inchon - Turkish Brigadier
  
  1979 Anni struggenti - Prof. Bivona
  1979 Bloodline - Maresciallo Campagna (uncredited)
  1978-1979 I vecchi e i giovani (TV Mini-Series) - Flaminio Salvo
  - Episode #1.5 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
  - Episode #1.4 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
  - Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
  - Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Flaminio Salvo
  - Episode #1.1 (1978) ... Flaminio Salvo
  1979 Encounters in the Deep - Miles
  1978 A torto e a ragione (TV Series)
  1978 Porci con la P.38 - Max Astarita
  1978 Last In, First Out - Herzog
  1978 Mon premier amour - Georges
  1978 Suggestionata - Gregorio Lori
  1977 Man of Corleone
  1977 The Psychic - Emilio Rospini
  1977 Oedipus orca - Valerio
  1976 La orca - Valerio
  1976 A Matter of Time - Antonio Vicari
  1976 Nick the Sting - Maurice
  1976 The Hornet's Nest - Gaspard
  1976 Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga - Father of Stella
  1975 Jackpot
  1975 End of the Game - Dr. Lutz
  1975 Calling All Police Cars - Professore Andrea Icardi
  1975 Un uomo curioso (TV Movie) - Moriondo
  1975 Smiling Maniacs - Prandó
  1974 La prova d'amore - Angela Father
  1974 Processo per direttissima - L'avvocato Finaldi
  1974 Kidnap - Don Francesco Salvatore
  1974 Appassionata - Dr. Emilio Rutelli
  1974 The Night Porter - Hans
  1973 Secrets of a Nurse - Prof. Daniele Vallotti
  1973 Hitler: The Last Ten Days - Fieldmarshall Keitel
  1973 Divorce His - Divorce Hers (TV Movie) - Turi Livicci
  1972 3000 Million Without an Elevator - M. Raphaël
  1972 Mendiants et Orgueilleux
  1972 Alta tensión - Pablo Moncada
  1972 Ripped-Off - Tony La Monica
  1971 Million Dollar Eel - Vasco
  1970 Cold Sweat (uncredited)
  1970 French Intrigue - Inspector Bardeche
  1970 Die Welt des Pirandello - Liebe! - Liebe? (TV Movie) - Memmo Viola (segment "Wenn man das Spiel kennt")
  1970 The Confession - Kohoutek
  
  1969 L'amica - Paolo Marchesi
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Draco
  1969 That Splendid November - Biagio
  1969 Machine Gun McCain - Don Francesco DeMarco
  1968 Il mondo di Pirandello (TV Series) - Memmo Viola
  - Amori senza amore (1968) ... Memmo Viola
  1968 Once Upon a Time in the West - Morton - Railroad Baron
  1968 Bandits in Rome - Commissioner
  1968 L'età del malessere - Guido
  1968 Better a Widow - Don Calogero Minniti
  1968 The Protagonists - Il Commissario
  1968 Come Play with Me - Stefano / Lea's lover
  1968/I Escalation - Augusto Lambertinghi
  1968 Un diablo bajo la almohada - Anselmo
  1967 Dossier Mata Hari (TV Mini-Series) - Bouchardon
  - Episode #1.4 (1967) ... Bouchardon
  - Episode #1.3 (1967) ... Bouchardon
  - Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Bouchardon
  - Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Bouchardon
  1967 We Still Kill the Old Way - Avvocato Rosello
  1966 The Devil in Love - Lorenzo de' Medici
  1966 I Spy (TV Series) - Aldo
  - To Florence with Love: Part 2 (1966) ... Aldo
  - To Florence with Love: Part 1 (1966) ... Aldo
  1966 The Bible: In the Beginning... - Lot
  1966 Luce a gas (TV Movie) - Rough
  1965 Lo scippo - Gambetti
  1965 Three Rooms in Manhattan - Comte Larsi
  1965 Crime on a Summer Morning - Victor Dermott
  1964 Crucero de verano - Carlos Brul y Betancourt
  1964 Desideri d'estate
  1964 The Warm Life - Guido
  1964 Death Where Is Your Victory? - Max Gurgine
  1963 Un tentativo sentimentale - Giulio, Carla's Husband
  1963 Torpedo Bay - Leonardi
  1963 The Shortest Day - Tenente in trincea
  1962 Beach Casanova - Avvocato Leblanc
  1962 Imperial Venus - Freron
  1962 Cross of the Living - L'abbé Delcourt / Abbe
  1962 Crime Does Not Pay - Angelo Giraldi (segment "Le masque")
  1962 La monaca di Monza - Gian Paolo Osio
  1962 Congo vivo - Roberto Santi
  1962 Meetings - Ralph Scaffari
  1962 Jessica - Edmondo Raumo
  1960 Love, the Italian Way - Alberto Bressan
  1960 Il carro armato dell'8 settembre - Tommaso
  1960 Red Lips - Avvocato Paolo Martini
  1960 It Happened in '43 - Franco Villani
  1960 L'Avventura - Sandro
  
  1959 Hannibal - Fabius Maximus
  1959 Le secret du Chevalier d'Éon
  Bernard Turquet de Mayenne (as Gabriel Ferzetti)
  1959 Everyone's in Love - Arturo
  1958 Love on the Riviera - Giulio Ferrari
  1958 Tant d'amour perdu - Frédéric Solingen
  1958 Angel in a Taxi - Andrea
  1958 March's Child - Sandro
  1957 It Happened in Rome - Lawyer Alberto Cortini
  1957 Honor Among Thieves - Desiderio / Plebari
  1956 Il prezzo della gloria - comandante Alberto Bruni
  1956 Defend My Love - Pietro Leonardi
  1956 Donatella - Maurizio
  1955 Un po' di cielo - Frank Lo Giudice
  1955 Le Amiche - Lorenzo
  1955 Adriana Lecouvreur - Maurizio di Sassonia
  1955 Sins of Casanova - Giacomo Casanova
  1954 House of Ricordi - Giacomo Puccini
  1954 Camilla - Dott. Mario Rossetti
  1954 Modern Virgin - Gabriele Demico
  1954 100 Years of Love
  Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segment "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
  1954 Vestire gli ignudi - Ludovico Nota
  1953 Empty Eyes - Fernando Maestrelli
  1953 The Counterfeiters - Dario
  1953 Puccini - Giacomo Puccini
  1953 The Wayward Wife - Il professore Franco Vagnuzzi
  1952 Three Forbidden Stories - Comm. Borsani (First segment)
  1952 Inganno - Andrea Vannini
  1951 Gli amanti di Ravello - Sandro Deodata
  1951 The Naked and the Wicked - Giorgio Suprina
  1951 The Forbidden Christ - 1950 Lo zappatore
  1950 Sigillo rosso
  1950 Mountain Smugglers - Lieutenant Berti
  1950 Welcome Reverend
  
  1949 Flying Squadron - Ufficiale D'aviazione
  1949 Sicilian Uprising
  1949 William Tell - Corrado Hant
  1949 Fabiola - Claudius
  1949 Vertigine d'amore (as Gaetano Ferzetti)
  1948 Les Misérables - Tholomyes, un cliente di Fantina (uncredited)
  1946 Lost Happiness
  1942 The Countess of Castiglione (as Pasquale Ferzetti)
  1942 Bengasi (uncredited)
  1942 Via delle cinque lune
  
  Self (6 credits)
  
  2006 Press Day in Portugal (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2003 An Opera of Violence (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2003 Something to Do with Death (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2003 The Wages of Sin (Video documentary short) - Himself
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
  1968 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Filming of James Bond Epic in Progress in the Swiss Alps (Documentary short) - Himself

  
  
  

  2015: Big Comics Special Edition publishes reprints of Takao Saito's manga for ００７死ぬのは奴らだ (007 They are the ones who die; a.k.a. Live and Let Die) and サンダーボール作戦 (Sandābōru sakusen; Thunderball Strategy).