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  September 29th
  
  1931: Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg is born--Malmö Municipality, Skåne län, Sweden.
  (She dies 11 January 2015 at age 83--Rocca di Papa, Italy.)

  

  Anita Ekberg - obituary

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11338898/Anita-Ekberg-obituary.html
  Anita Ekberg was a Swedish actress who found fame cavorting in Rome’s Trevi Fountain for Fellini’s La Dolce Vita

  
  Anita Ekberg in Back from Eternity (1956) Photo: Allstar Picture Library

  8:35PM GMT 11 Jan 2015
  
  Anita Ekberg, who has died aged 83, was the statuesque former Miss Sweden who became a global film sensation after cavorting in Rome’s Trevi Fountain for Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960). Although demure and innocent by today’s standards, the scene caused a scandal and made the 29-year-old Swede a household name.
  
  Some gossip columnists sniffily nicknamed her “The Iceberg” due to her Scandinavian roots, yet her dramatic décolletage, glowering good looks and vivacious delivery proved an enticing and popular combination with cinema audiences of the Sixties.
  
  Director Frank Tashlin, who directed her in the 1956 comedy Hollywood or Bust – the pun was intended – claimed that Anita Ekberg’s appeal lay in “the immaturity of the American male: this breast fetish. There’s nothing more hysterical to me than big-breasted women, like walking, leaning towers.”
  
  Anita Ekberg was indeed a teetering tower. She was 5ft 7in tall and possessed a considerable bust, of which she once said: “It’s not cellular obesity, it’s womanliness.” Yet in the same year that Tashlin had typecast her, Ekberg showed that she could really act, if given the opportunity, when she played Hélène Kuragin, the unfaithful wife of Pierre Bezukhov (Henry Fonda) in King Vidor’s epic War and Peace. However, she was fully aware that her allure was centred on her physicality. “I have a mirror,” she said in the late Sixties, “I would be a hypocrite if I said I didn’t know I am beautiful.”
  
  Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg was born on September 29 1931 in Malmö, Sweden, one of a large family (she had seven siblings). As a youngster she had no desire to be famous. She wanted to marry and settle down to a conventional life. A childhood pleasure was to draw and fashion clothes.
  
  Out walking one day, a talent scout spotted her and persuaded her to enter the Miss Universe contest. Winning as Miss Sweden, she gained a trip to Hollywood. A screen test did not bring much work and she returned home disheartened. However, she was determined to make good as an actress and began saving for a return trip.
  
  Her break came when Bob Hope chose her to accompany him on a Christmas tour of American air force bases in Greenland in 1954. Studio moguls soon heard about the roars of approval for Anita and offered her a contract. She had small uncredited roles in films such as The Mississippi Gambler, Abbott and Costello go to Mars and The Golden Blade, before winning supporting parts in Artists and Models (1955) and Blood Alley (1955; playing a Chinese girl). Her first lead came in Back from Eternity (1956). By this time she was being touted as “Paramount’s Marilyn Monroe”.

  
  Anita Ekberg and Marcello Mastroianni in La Dolce Vita (Kobal Collection)

  She moved to London in the mid-Fifties but was lonely and hardly left her hotel. Having refused dozens of invitations to premieres, something impelled her to finally accept one offer. Her escort turned out to be Anthony Steel, a matinee idol alumnus of the “Rank School”. They were married in 1956.
  
  In her first British film, Zarak (1956), she met her match in Victor Mature. Playing a native dancer, with a few spangles and bangles judiciously placed, who falls in love with Mature’s hulking Zarak Khan. The film left audiences wondering who had the bigger chest. She teamed up again with Mature the following year for the thriller Interpol.
  
  At this time her marriage to Steel was rarely out of the headlines, with reports of drunken driving, rows and violent recriminations. Eventually the union completely soured and they divorced after three years.

  
  Anita Ekberg with her first husband Anthony Steel (REX)

  She did not have time to mourn the marriage. Her performance in Fellini’s La Dolce Vita the following year made her a star. Shot in Rome at a time when the Italian obsession with celebrity was at its height, she played the starlet Sylvia opposite Marcello Mastroianni’s philandering paparazzo journalist. The part fixed her in audience’s minds as the European blonde “sex bomb” – stylish, sensual, shallow and ephemeral.
  
  In the film’s most famous scene, she splashes with abandon in the Trevi Fountain, her black low-necked dress trailing in the frothy waters, cooing: “Marcello, come here.” In fact the scene had been shot in February and Mastroianni was doped up on vodka. “I was freezing,” she recalled. “They had to lift me out of the water because I couldn’t feel my legs any more.”

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

  
  Anita Ekberg in the Trevi Fountain (Alamy)

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

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

  As with all sex symbols, age diminished her currency. By the end of the Sixties she was complaining about the lack of available roles. “I should be able to get work myself on the strength of my acting. I shouldn’t have to sleep with producers to get parts. It’s depressing to see parts going to actresses who can’t act their way out of a wet paper bag but who are friendly with producers,” she observed. “My life has changed quite a bit, of course. The Ferrari’s gone – now I have a Mini Moke.”
  
  The downward spiral continued throughout the Seventies. She made films but they were more often than not B-movies with salacious titles such as The French Sex Murders (1972) and The Killer Nun (1979). Her scenes for Valley of the Dancing Widows (1975) were left on the cutting room floor. At home things also began to disintegrate: she accused Van Nutter of cheating her over a car-hire business they owned. The couple divorced in 1975.

  
  Anita Ekberg in 2010 (AFP)

  Two years later, her house was robbed, with the thieves stealing fur coats, jewels and silver, the fruits of her once-famous career. “My last 10 years have brought nothing but bad luck,” she stated.
  
  After a second robbery in 2011, she appealed to the Fellini Foundation for financial help. It was a sad sign of decline from the Amazonian actress who had five decades earlier threatened paparazzi with a bow and arrow.
  
  Her final years were spent living in semi-reclusion in a run-down Italian villa outside Rome, where her only companions were two great Danes.
  
  Anita Ekberg, born September 29 1931, died January 11 2015

  

  Anita Ekberg (1931–2015)

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

  
  
  

  1933: James Michael Hyde Villiers is born--London, England.
  (He dies 18 January 1998 at age 64--Arunddel, Sussex, England.)

  

  Obituary: James Villiers

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-james-villiers-1139946.html

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

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

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

  
  James Villiers (1933–1998)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0898376/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (128 credits)
  
  2005 The Kingdom of Shadows (Short) - The Man At The Lake
  
  1998 The Tichborne Claimant - Uncle Henry
  1997 A Dance to the Music of Time (TV Mini-Series) - Buster Foxe
  - The Thirties (1997) ... Buster Foxe
  1996 The Willows in Winter (TV Movie) - Magistrate (voice)
  1996 E=mc2 - Dr. James Mallinson
  1995 The Wind in the Willows (TV Movie) - Magistrate (voice)
  1994 Uncovered - Montegrifo
  1994 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Cantlemere
  - The Mazarin Stone (1994) ... Lord Cantlemere
  1992 Lovejoy (TV Series) - Lionel Beckwith
  - Out to Lunch (1992) ... Lionel Beckwith
  1991 The Gravy Train Goes East (TV Mini-Series) - Penhurst
  1991 Let Him Have It - Cassels
  1991 A Perfect Hero (TV Mini-Series) - Air Commodore
  - Episode #1.6 (1991) ... Air Commodore
  1991 King Ralph - Hale
  1990 House of Cards (TV Mini-Series) - Charles Collingridge
  1990 Mountains of the Moon - Lord Oliphant
  
  1989 Anything More Would Be Greedy (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Fyson
  - Georgian Silver (1989) ... Lord Fyson
  - Second Term (1989) ... Lord Fyson
  - Trading Favours (1989) ... Lord Fyson
  - Enigma Variations (1989) ... Lord Fyson
  1989 Chelworth (TV Mini-Series) - Ronnie Esholt
  - A Real House (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
  - Taking Your Profits (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
  - Shopping Around (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
  - A Wonderfully Wrong Thing (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
  - Coming Home (1989) ... Ronnie Esholt
  1989 Scandal - Conservative M.P.
  1988 Hemingway (TV Mini-Series) - Perceval
  - The Old Man and the Sea (1988) ... Perceval
  - For Whom the Bell Tolls (1988) ... Perceval
  - The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1988) ... Perceval
  - Discovery of Europe (1988) ... Perceval
  1988 The Dirty Dozen (TV Series) - Lord Welbourne
  - Heavy Duty (1988) ... Lord Welbourne (as Jimmie Villiers)
  1988 Blind Justice (TV Mini-Series) - Peter Steinsson
  - The One About the Irishman (1988) ... Peter Steinsson
  1988 A Gentlemen's Club (TV Series) - Fabian
  - The New Boy (1988) ... Fabian
  1988 Room at the Bottom (TV Series) - Director General
  - The Hostage (1988) ... Director General
  1987 Fortunes of War (TV Mini-Series) - Inchcape
  - Romania: June 1940 (1987) ... Inchcape
  - Romania: January 1940 (1987) ... Inchcape
  - The Balkans: September 1939 (1987) ... Inchcape
  1987 Running Out of Luck
  1986 If Looks Could Kill: The Power of Behaviour (Video short)
  1986 Call Me Mister (TV Series) - Sir Edward
  - Humpty Dumpty (1986) ... Sir Edward
  1986 The Good Doctor Bodkin-Adams (TV Movie) - Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller
  1985 Honour, Profit & Pleasure (TV Movie) - Addison
  1984 The Irish R.M. (TV Series) - General Portius
  - A Horse! A Horse! (1984) ... General Portius
  1984 Under the Volcano - Brit
  1983 ABC Mantrap - Tony Walmsley
  1983 Rumpole of the Bailey (TV Series) - Sir Arthur Remnant
  - Rumpole and the Golden Thread (1983) ... Sir Arthur Remnant
  1983 All for Love (TV Series) - Mr. Lyng
  - Mrs. Silly (1983) ... Mr. Lyng
  1983 Jack of Diamonds (TV Series) - George Billyard
  - The Fun of the Fair (1983) ... George Billyard
  - Herr of the Dog (1983) ... George Billyard
  - Going Dutch (1983) ... George Billyard
  - A Drip in the Ocean (1983) ... George Billyard
  1982 The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV Movie) - Baron de Batz
  1982 Spooner's Patch (TV Series) - Film Producer
  - The Sting (1982) ... Film Producer
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Tanner
  1980-1981 The Other 'Arf (TV Series) - Freddy Apthorpe
  1981 Brendon Chase (TV Series) - Colonel Hensman
  1981 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Hilary Martin
  - Unity (1981) ... Hilary Martin
  1980 The Marquise (TV Movie) - Esteban (the Duke)
  1980 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Lord Fordingham
  
  1979 The Music Machine - Hector Woodville (uncredited)
  1979 Saint Jack - Frogget
  1978-1979 Crown Court (TV Series) - Richard Ireland QC
  - Boys Will Be Boys: Part 1 (1979) ... Richard Ireland QC
  - Meeting Place: Part 1 (1978) ... Richard Ireland QC
  1978 The Famous Five (TV Series) - Johnson
  1978 Two's Company (TV Series) - Peter Boatwright
  1978 Wilde Alliance (TV Series) - Roper
  1977 Spectre (TV Movie) - Sir Geoffrey Cyon
  1977 Joseph Andrews - Mr. Booby
  1976 Seven Nights in Japan - Finn
  1975 Making Faces (TV Series) - Peter de Witt
  - December 1974: Waiting for the Monsoon (1975) ... Peter de Witt
  - April 1968: Late Sitting, Finance Bill (1975) ... Peter de Witt
  - Summer 1966: In Funland (1975) ... Peter de Witt
  1975 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - John Harley
  - Beware, Wet Paint (1975) ... John Harley
  1975 Thriller (TV Series) - Paul
  - The Double Kill (1975) ... Paul
  1974 Marty Back Together Again (TV Series) - Various Characters
  
  1973 Ghost in the Noonday Sun - Parsley-Freck
  1972-1973 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Professor Henry Higgins / Alastair Fitzfassenden / Cecil Graham
  1972 E. Nesbit (TV Movie) - 1972 The Edwardians (TV Mini-Series) - Hubert Bland
  - E. Nesbit (1972) ... Hubert Bland
  1972 The Amazing Mr. Blunden - Uncle Bertie
  1972 The Public Eye - Dinner Guest (uncredited)
  1972/I Asylum - George (segment "Lucy Comes to Stay")
  1972 The Ruling Class - Dinsdale Gurney
  1972 Mogul (TV Series) - Lord Hawdcombe
  - Whatever Became of the Year 2000? (1972) ... Lord Hawdcombe
  1971 Shirley's World (TV Series) - Morgan
  - Knightmare (1971) ... Morgan
  1971 Now Look Here (TV Series) - Jeremy
  - Episode #1.4 (1971) ... Jeremy
  1963-1971 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Billy / Derek / Robin Fiske / ...
  1971 Blood from the Mummy's Tomb - Corbeck
  1971 Masterpiece Classic (TV Series) - Charles II
  1970 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Philipott
  - Married Alive (1970) ... Philipott
  
  1969 A Nice Girl Like Me - Freddie
  1969 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Oscar
  - Aggers and Torters: Back to Nature (1969) ... Oscar
  1969 The First Churchills (TV Mini-Series) - Charles II
  - Rebellion (1969) ... Charles II
  - The Lion and the Unicorn (1969) ... Charles II
  - Plot, Counter-Plot (1969) ... Charles II
  - Bridals (1969) ... Charles II
  - The Chaste Nymph (1969) ... Charles II
  1969 Counterstrike (TV Series) - Wyatt
  - The Lemming Syndrome (1969) ... Wyatt
  1969 Otley - Hendrickson
  1969 Some Girls Do - Carl Petersen
  1969 Absolute Aggers and Torters (TV Short)
  1968 The Touchables - Twyning
  1967 Half a Sixpence - Hubert
  1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Peters
  - Dead Man's Shoes (1967) ... Peters
  1967 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Lord Darlington
  - Lady Windermere's Fan (1967) ... Lord Darlington
  1965-1967 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Ian Kilbannock / John Styles / Lord Strange / ...
  - The Siege of Manchester (1965) ... Lord Strange
  1967 Stiff Upper Lip (TV Movie) - Antrobus
  1966 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Lt. Cmdr. Paul Williams
  - A Piece of Resistance (1966) ... Lt. Cmdr. Paul Williams
  1966 The Wrong Box - Sydney Whitcombe Sykes
  1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Roddy Harrington
  - The Persuaders (1966) ... Roddy Harrington
  1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - Simon Trent
  - Small Game for Big Hunters (1966) ... Simon Trent
  1965 The Alphabet Murders - Franklin
  1965 The Nanny - Bill Fane
  1965 You Must Be Joking! - Bill Simpson
  1965 A World of Comedy (TV Mini-Series) - Voice only - role unknown
  - The Enormous Ear (1965) ... Voice only - role unknown
  1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Yamamoto (voice, uncredited)
  1965 Repulsion - John
  1964 Daylight Robbery
  1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Clive Rodingham
  - Write Me a Murder (1964) ... Clive Rodingham
  1964 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Paul
  - Solo Performance (1964) ... Paul
  1964 King & Country - Captain Midgley
  1964 The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (TV Series) - Wander
  - A Germ Destroyer (1964) ... Wander
  1964 Nothing But the Best - Hugh
  1964 The Saint (TV Series) - Inspector Pryor
  - The High Fence (1964) ... Inspector Pryor
  1964 Father Came Too! - Benzil Bulstrode
  1964 The Plane Makers (TV Series) - Harvey 'Smiler' Graves
  - The Smiler (1964) ... Harvey 'Smiler' Graves
  1963 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Jeremy Trout
  - Nicked at the Bottle (1963) ... Jeremy Trout
  1963 The Model Murder Case - David Dane
  1963 Festival (TV Series) - Willy
  - Fallen Angels (1963) ... Willy
  1963 Bomb in the High Street - Stevens
  1963 Love Story (TV Series) - Gregory
  - Snakes and Ladders (1963) ... Gregory
  1963 Murder at the Gallop - Michael Shane
  1963 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Capt. Hamilton
  - Beachhead (1963) ... Capt. Hamilton
  1963 Hancock (TV Series)
  - The Man on the Corner (1963)
  1963 Zero One (TV Series) - The sheikh
  - The Man Who Waited (1963) ... The sheikh
  1962 These Are the Damned - Captain Gregory
  1962 Eva - Alan McCormick - a screenwriter
  1962 Operation Snatch - Lt. Keen
  1962 Thirty Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Mathias
  - Dare to Be a Daniel (1962) ... Mathias
  1961 Petticoat Pirates - English Lieutenant
  1961 The Final Test (TV Movie) - Alexander Whitehead
  1961 Harpers West One (TV Series) - Lucien Harper
  - Episode #1.2 (1961) ... Lucien Harper
  1961 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Andrew Thurbank
  - A Girl Like Xanthe (1961) ... Andrew Thurbank
  1961 Clue of the New Pin - Tab Holland
  1961 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Miller
  - The Wrong Side of the Park (1961) ... Miller
  1961 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Tab Holland
  - Clue of the New Pin (1961) ... Tab Holland
  1960 The Strange World of Gurney Slade (TV Mini-Series) - Studio Representative
  - Episode #1.6 (1960) ... Studio Representative
  1960 No Wreath for the General (TV Series) - Peake-Harmon
  
  1958 Carry On Sergeant - Seventh Recruit
  1958 Ivanhoe (TV Series)
  - Murder at the Inn (1958)
  1954 Late Night Final (Short) - Lab Assistant (uncredited)
  
  Soundtrack (1 credit)
  
  1972 The Ruling Class (performer: "Dry Bones" - uncredited)

  
  
  
  

  1939: British Director of Naval Intelligence Admiral John Godfrey issues a document, later credited to his assistant Ian Fleming, that compares deception in war to the sport of fishing.

  

  James Bond came from the author's
  real-world experiences in WWII

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/james-bond-came-from-the-authors-real-world-experiences-in-wwii

  James Elphick | Jun. 03, 2016 12:44PM EST
  
  Ian Fleming, the creator of James Bond, served with British Naval Intelligence during World War II, and his service influenced the character and his stories.

  

  Fleming was recruited into the Royal Navy in 1939 by Rear Admiral John Godfrey, Head of Naval Intelligence. Fleming entered as a lieutenant and quickly promoted to lieutenant commander. Although initially tasked as Admiral Godfrey's assistant, Commander Fleming had greater ambitions. He is widely believed to be the author of the "Trout Memo" circulated by Godfrey that compared intelligence gathering to a fisherman casting for trout. In the memo, he independently came up the plan to use a corpse with false documents to deceive the Germans, originally conceived by another agent and later used in Operation Mincemeat.

  

  "Oh, no. We dropped our secret plans."

  Fleming was obsessed with collecting intelligence and came up with numerous ways to do so, some seemingly right out of spy novels. One such mission, Operation Ruthless, called for acquiring a German bomber, crashing it into the English Channel, and then having the crew attack and subdue the German ship that would come to rescue them. Mercifully, it was called off. Fleming was also the mastermind of an intelligence gathering unit known as (No. 30 Commando or 30 Assault Unit, 30 AU). Instead of traditional combat skills, members of 30 AU were trained in safe-cracking, lock-picking, and other spycraft and moved with advancing units to gain intelligence before it could be lost or destroyed.
  
  Fleming was in charge of Operation Goldeneye and involved with the T-Force. These would also influence his work. Operation Goldeneye was a scheme to monitor Spain in the event of an alliance with Germany and to conduct sabotage operations should such an agreement take place. Fleming would later name his Jamaican home where he wrote the James Bond novels "Goldeneye." It would also be the title of seventeenth James Bond movie. As for the T-Force, or Target Force, Fleming sat on the committee that selected targets, specifically German scientific and technological advancements before retreating troops destroyed them. The seizure by the T-Force of a German research center at Kiel which housed advanced rocket motors and jet engines was featured prominently in the James Bond novel Moonraker.

  

  The movie was much less grounded in reality.

  In the actual creation of the character James Bond, Fleming drew inspiration from himself and those around him. Fleming said the character of James Bond was an amalgamation of all the secret agent and commando types he met during the war. In particular, Bond was modeled after Fleming's brother Peter, who conducted work behind enemy lines, Patrick Dalzel-Job, who served in the 30 Assault Unit Fleming created, and Bill "Biffy" Dunderdale, who was the Paris station chief for MI6 and was known for his fancy suits and affinity for expensive cars. Fleming used his habits for many of Bond's. He was known to be a heavy drinker and smoker. Bond purchased the same specialty cigarettes Fleming smoked and even added three gold rings to the filter to denote his rank as a Commander in the Royal Navy, something Fleming also did.

  

  Bond's code number, 007, comes from a means of classifying highly secretive documents starting with the number 00. The number 007 comes from the British decryption of the Zimmerman Note, labeled 0075, that brought America into World War I. Bond received his name from a rather innocuous source, however, an ornithologist. Bond's looks are not Fleming's but rather were inspired by the actor/singer Hoagy Carmichael, with only a dash of Fleming's for good measure.

  

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Fleming did draw on those around him for other characters in the James Bond novels. Villains had a tendency to share a name with people Fleming disliked while other characters got their names from his friendly acquaintances. The character of M, James Bond's boss, was based on Fleming's boss Rear Admiral Godfrey. The inspiration for the single-letter moniker came from Maxwell Knight, the head of MI5, who was known to sign his memos with only his first initial, M. Also, the fictional antagonistic organization SMERSH, takes its name from a real Russian organization called SMERSH that was active from 1943-1946. In the fictional version, SMERSH was an acronym of Russian words meaning "Special Methods of Spy Detection" and was modeled after the KGB; the real SMERSH was a portmanteau in Russian meaning "Death to Spies" and was a counterintelligence organization on the Eastern Front during WWII.
  
  Finally, the plots for many of the Bond novels came from real-world missions carried out by the Allies. Moonraker is based on the exploits of the 30 AU in Kiel, Germany, while Thunderball has loose connections to Fleming's canceled Operation Ruthless. Fleming also ties in his fictional world to the historical one after the war and during the Cold War.
  
  Fleming's novels became very popular during his life and have remained so long after his death in 1964. His work spawned one of the most successful movie franchises in history.

  
  1986: Principal photography begins at Pinewood Studios for The Living Daylights.
  
  1990: Molly Peters and Desmond Llewelyn appear for the first James Bond 007 Fan Convention at Pinewood.
  
  2007: Lois Maxwell dies at age 80--Fremantle, Australia.
  (Born 14 February 1927--Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.)

  
  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1564693/Lois-Maxwell.html

  Lois Maxwell: she played Miss Moneypenny for 23 years

  

  Lois Maxwell, the Canadian actress who died on Saturday aged 80, played Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films; although other younger women later took over the part, she was widely regarded as the definitive Moneypenny, M's spinsterly secretary secretly in love with 007.
  
  She was 33 when she screen-tested for Dr No (1962), the first Bond film, and was originally offered the part eventually played by Eunice Grayson, one of Bond's conquests, seen putting golf balls down the hall of his flat dressed only in his pyjama top.
  
  But Lois Maxwell did not regard her legs as her strongest point, and while Bond's creator Ian Fleming told her she had the most kissable lips in the world, one film director took a different view: "Lois, you don't smell of sin. You look as though you smell of soap."
  
  Accordingly - in crisp blouse and skirt - she landed the Moneypenny role, cast originally against Sean Connery in Dr No. Lois Maxwell later mused on the on-screen chemistry between the chaste Miss Moneypenny and the swashbuckling agent, licensed to kill: "Say there'd been an affair a long time before, only she knew he would have broken her heart, just as he knew it would have ruined his career in the Secret Service. So they were doomed to appreciate each other's qualities."
  
  Although she played the part for 23 years, she was on screen for less for an hour and spoke fewer than 200 words in all 14 films, her lines running an emotional gamut from "James, you're late" to "When are we going to have that dinner?" Her last Moneypenny appearance was opposite Roger Moore as Bond in A View To A Kill (1985).
  
  Never paid more than £100 a day, her first appearance in Dr No took only two days to shoot, and those in her 13 subsequent Bond films were just as modest in scale. For her first five films, Lois Maxwell wore her own clothes.
  
  "Always the same role, the smallest," she remarked ruefully in an interview for the Telegraph Magazine in 1997. The camera would find her sitting at a desk in the corner of a nondescript office, on the telephone or riffling papers. But when Bond enters, she greets him with a grin of pure joy.
  
  "It is not a beautiful face," observed Byron Rogers, who interviewed her for the Telegraph 10 years ago, "it is a wonderful face, long and funny and older than all the others… The other women in Bond films are two-dimensional, who only ever want to go to bed with him or stab him, but there is one who loves him, though she knows nothing will ever come of this.
  
  "That is the way Lois Maxwell played Moneypenny, making her the one grown-up among sexpots and psychopaths."
  
  Not everyone realised that she was Canadian. "Moneypenny," exclaimed the Prince of Wales on meeting her. "I would never have believed you're not English. I must tell the family."

  Born Lois Ruth Hooker on February 14 1927 at Kitchener, Ontario, one of four children, her early career as a child radio performer was disrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War when her father, a teacher, enlisted and sailed for England. At the age of 16 she ran away from home to join the Canadian Army Show, but failed to tell the authorities about her age, and after touring England in the back of a truck was eventually dishonourably dismissed. Just before she was due to be shipped home, she went AWOL in London.
  
  While living in a garret in Paddington, Lois won a Lady Louis Mountbatten scholarship to Rada, where she first met Roger Moore, then 17 and later to star in seven Bond films, and - crowned in a red wig - played his uncle in a student production of Henry V.
  
  At 20 she was working in the professional theatre when a talent scout spotted her and took her to Hollywood. At Warner Brothers, Lois found herself in the same intake as another promising actress named Norma Jeane Baker, with whom she was photographed for Life magazine. Both changed their name, Norma Jeane becoming Marilyn Monroe and Lois Hooker, advised that this was an infelicitous name for an starlet, changing to Lois Maxwell, a name borrowed from a gay ballet dancer friend and which was adopted by the rest of her family too.
  
  She won a Golden Globe award as best newcomer for her role in the Shirley Temple comedy That Hagen Girl (1947).
  
  Playing opposite Ronald Reagan in Bedtime For Bonzo (1951) she found the future president handsome and attractive, but became less enamoured of the studio system, and moved to Rome for five years, becoming an amateur racing driver. After a broken love affair with the brother of an Italian prince, she married a British television executive called Peter Marriott, a former commander of the Viceroy of India's household troops who, by coincidence, was screen-tested as a possible James Bond by the producer Cubby Broccoli.
  
  In addition to her career in the Bond films Lois Maxwell was a successful television actress, appearing in episodes of UFO, The Persuaders, The Baron, The Saint and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). She also provided the voice for Troy Tempest's love interest, Atlanta Shore, in Gerry Anderson's puppet series Stingray.
  
  In the late 1960s she starred in Adventures In Rainbow Country, a popular Canadian television series, and in 1967 appeared as Moneypenny in a television special Welcome To Japan, Mr Bond. More recently, she became a regular fixture at Bond film festivals.
  
  Her last feature film was The Fourth Angel (2001) starring Jeremy Irons and Forest Whitaker.
  
  Widowed at 46 when her husband died of a heart attack in 1973, Lois Maxwell returned to her native Canada, bought a farm and worked for a business importing crowd-control barriers. She later wrote a column for the Toronto Sun which she signed "Moneypenny" and in which, for 14 years, she expounded trenchant Right-wing opinions.
  
  Always an adventurous woman, she held a pilot's licence, regularly went on safari and in the 1980s sailed the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Singapore, armed with M16 machine guns and incendiary rockets to ward off pirates.
  
  In the 1980s she settled at Frome in Somerset, and after a successful cancer operation went to recuperate at her son's home at Freemantle, near Perth, western Australia. At the time of her death, she was working on her autobiography, to be called Born A Hooker.
  
  Lois Maxwell is survived by her daughter and son.

  
  Lois Maxwell (I) (1927–2007)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0561755/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actress (88 credits)
  
  2001 The Fourth Angel - Olivia
  
  1998 Hard to Forget (TV Movie) - Helen Applewhite
  
  1989 Lady in the Corner (TV Movie) - Mary Smith
  1988 Martha, Ruth & Edie - Edie Carmichael
  1988 Rescue Me (TV Movie) - Phyllis
  1987 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Ms. Golden
  - If the Shoe Fits (1987) ... Ms. Golden
  1985 Eternal Evil - Monica Duval
  1985 A View to a Kill - Miss Moneypenny
  1985 The Edison Twins (TV Series) - Charlotte Gateau
  - Let Them Eat Cake (1985) ... Charlotte Gateau
  1984 Peep (TV Movie) - Mrs. Powell
  1983 Octopussy - Miss Moneypenny
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Miss Moneypenny
  1980 Mr. Patman - Director
  
  1979 Lost and Found - English Woman
  1979 Moonraker - Miss Moneypenny
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Miss Moneypenny
  1977 Age of Innocence - Mrs. Hogarth
  1975 From Hong Kong with Love - Miss Moneypenny
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Moneypenny
  1973 Live and Let Die - Moneypenny
  1972/I Endless Night - Cora
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Louise Cornell
  - Someone Waiting (1971) ... Louise Cornell
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Moneypenny
  1970-1971 UFO (TV Series) - Miss Holland
  - The Man Who Came Back (1971) ... Miss Holland
  - The Cat with Ten Lives (1970) ... Miss Holland
  1969-1970 Adventures in Rainbow Country (TV Series) - Nancy Williams
  - The Tower (1970) ... Nancy Williams
  - The Skydiver (1969) ... Nancy Williams
  - The Return of Eli Rocque (1969) ... Nancy Williams
  - Night Caller (1969) ... Nancy Williams
  - The Muskies Are Losing Their Teeth (1969) ... Nancy Williams
  1970 The Adventurers - Woman at Fashion Show (uncredited)
  1970 Department S (TV Series) - Mary Burnham
  - The Ghost of Mary Burnham (1970) ... Mary Burnham
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Moneypenny
  1969 My Partner the Ghost (TV Series) - Kim Wentworth
  - For the Girl Who Has Everything (1969) ... Kim Wentworth
  1967 You Only Live Twice - Miss Moneypenny
  1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) - Miss Moneypenny
  1967 Operation Kid Brother - Max
  1966-1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Beth Parish / Helen
  - Simon and Delilah (1967) ... Beth Parish
  - Interlude in Venice (1966) ... Helen
  1966 Rome, Sweet Home (TV Movie)
  1966 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Felisa Henderson
  - The Millionaire's Daughter (1966) ... Felisa Henderson
  1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Charlotte Russell
  - Something for a Rainy Day (1966) ... Charlotte Russell
  1965 Thunderball - Moneypenny
  1964-1965 Stingray (TV Series) - Lieutenant Atlanta Shore / Milly Carson / Marinville Tracking Station / ...
  - Aquanaut of the Year (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
  - Marineville Traitor (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
  - Hostages of the Deep (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore / Milly Carson (voice)
  - The Golden Sea (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
  - The Master Plan (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
  1965 The Ambassadors (TV Movie) - Sarah Pocock
  1964 Goldfinger - Moneypenny
  1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Elizabeth Creasey
  - Party for Murder (1964) ... Elizabeth Creasey
  1964 The Avengers (TV Series) - Sister Johnson
  - The Little Wonders (1964) ... Sister Johnson
  1963 From Russia with Love - Miss Moneypenny
  1963 The Haunting - Grace Markway
  1957-1963 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Helen Hunter / Genevieve Lang / Miss Baumer
  - The Touch of a Dead Hand (1963) ... Helen Hunter
  - Skyline for Two (1959) ... Genevieve Lang
  - Heaven and Earth (1957) ... Miss Baumer
  1963 Come Fly with Me - Gwen Sandley
  1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Miss. Smith
  - The Marriage Broker (1962) ... Miss. Smith
  1962 Dr. No - Miss Moneypenny
  1962 Lolita - Nurse Mary Lore
  1961 The Unstoppable Man - Helen Kennedy
  1961 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Margot
  - Nina and the Night People (1961) ... Margot
  1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series)- Esther Hollis
  - The Room Upstairs (1961) ... Esther Hollis
  1960 Danger Man (TV Series) - Sandi Lewis
  - Position of Trust (1960) ... Sandi Lewis
  1960 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Mother
  - The Dodo (1960) ... Mother
  
  1959 Face of Fire - Ethel Winter
  1958 Television Playwright (TV Series) - Ruth Ann Wicker
  - The Transmogrification of Chester Brown (1958) ... Ruth Ann Wicker
  1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Virginia
  - Operation Orange Blossom (1957) ... Virginia
  1957 Sailor of Fortune (TV Series) - Judith
  - Port Jeopardy (1957) ... Judith
  1957 Kill Me Tomorrow - Jill Brook
  1957 Time Without Pity - Vickie Harker
  1956 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Cass Edgerton
  - The Reclining Figure (1956) ... Cass Edgerton
  1956 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Tracy Carmichael / Ann / Cynthia
  - One Can't Help Feeling Sorry (1956) ... Tracy Carmichael
  - Someone Outside (1956) ... Ann
  - A Fast Buck (1956) ... Cynthia
  1956 High Terrace - Stephanie Blake
  1956 Aggie (TV Series) - Barbara
  - Monk's Prior (1956) ... Barbara
  1956 Satellite in the Sky - Kim Hamilton
  1956 The Petrified Forest (TV Movie) - Gabby Maple
  1956 Passport to Treason - Diane Boyd
  1955 Torpedo Zone - Lt. Lily Donald
  1953 Aida - Amneris
  1953 Man in Hiding - Thelma Speight / Tasman
  1952 Orient Express (TV Series) - Lynn Walker
  - Blue Camellia (1952) ... Lynn Walker
  1952 Twilight Women - Christine
  1952 Scotland Yard Inspector - Margaret 'Peggy' Maybrick
  1952 Ha da venì... don Calogero - Maestrina
  1952 The Woman's Angle - Enid Mansell
  1952 Love and Poison - Queen Christina
  1952 Viva il cinema!
  1951 Lebbra bianca - Erika
  1950 Tomorrow Is Too Late - Signorina Anna, teacher
  
  1949 Kazan - Louise Maitlin
  1949 The Crime Doctor's Diary - Jane Darrin
  1948 The Decision of Christopher Blake - Miss McIntyre (uncredited)
  1948 The Dark Past - Ruth Collins
  1948 The Big Punch - Karen Long
  1948 Corridor of Mirrors - Lois
  1947 That Hagen Girl - Julia Kane
  1946 Springtime - Penelope Cobb (uncredited)
  1946 A Matter of Life and Death - Actress (uncredited)

  
  Lois Hooker in the Life Magazine photo, upper left. Norma Jean, front and center.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2008: Via Youtube, Scouting for Girls release the fifth song from their first album, "I Wish I Was James Bond."

  
  007, Britain's finest secret agent, licensed to kill
  Mixing business with girls and thrills
  I've seen you walk the screen, it's you that I adore
  Since I was a boy I wanted to be like Roger Moore…

  

  
  2021: No Time To Die release in Belgium.
  2021: No Time To Die (Mourir peut attendre; To Die can wait) release in Switzerland (French speaking region).

  
  
  
  
  

  2021: 007 노 타임 투 다이 ( 007 No tah-eem tu dah-ee) release in the Republic of Korea.

  
  
  
  
  

  2021: No Time To Die premiere at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Monaco. Honoring Sir Roger Moore and benefiting the Princess Grace Foundation.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  1921: Deborah Jane Trimmer (Deborah Kerr CBE) is born--Helensburgh, Scotland.
  (She dies 16 October 2007--Botesdale, England.)

  

  Deborah Kerr

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

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

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

  

  Deborah Kerr

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  1952: Dennis Muldowney is executed for the murder of Polish Countess Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville. She was active in espionage during World War II, an acquaintance of Ian Fleming, and possibly the model for his character Vesper Lynd.

  
  https://eotd.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/30-september-1952-dennis-muldowney /
  30 September 1952 – Dennis Muldowney
  
  James Bond creator, Ian Fleming was inspired by the exotic Polish victim slain by today’s deadly desperado’s date with death.
  
  Dennis Muldowney was executed on this day in 1952 for the murder of a Cold-War countess.
  
  Marine steward, Muldowney was jailed and sentenced to death for killing Polish Countess Krystyna Skarbek, aka Christine Granville, who was known for her forays into espionage.
  
  The infamous World War II spy was a key player, passing secrets to the Brits while serving in Germany, Hungary and France. After the war, she came across Ian Fleming and they embarked on a year-long affair.
  
  That’s why she is said to have been the basis for Fleming’s character Vesper Lynd in his first James Bond novel, ‘Casino Royale’, written in 1953 and played by Eva Green in the consequent Bond movie of the same name, as well as Ursula Andress in the spoof version of 1967.
  
  Muldowney was similarly drawn to her and eventually became obsessed, which drove him to stab the 44-year-old to death on 15 June 1952.
  
  He was hanged for his crime at Pentonville prison, aged 41.

  
  
  
  

  
  1963: Arms expert Geoffrey Boothroyd writes his last letter to Ian Fleming. (The first was 31 May 1956.)
  1964: Monica Bellucci is born--Città di Castello, Umbria, Italy.
  
  1966: You Only Live Twice films Q in the field instructing Bond on Little Nellie.

  
  
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  1976: Paul Dehn dies at age 63. (Born 5 November 1912--Manchester, England.)

  

  Tinker Tailor Soldier Schreiber
  The Unsung Achievement of Screenwriter Paul Dehn
  By David Kipen

  https://www.vqronline.org/articles/tinker-tailor-soldier-schreiber
  ISSUE: Winter 2013

  There are too many clues …
  —Hercule Poirot, Murder on the Orient Express, screenplay by Paul Dehn

  Born a hundred years ago this past November 5, the late poet and critic Paul Dehn won an Oscar, served as a spy in World War II and, notwithstanding his long and loving cohabitation with another man, helped create the epitome of twentieth-century hetero-sexual virility—yet today, even Google all but asks, “Paul who?”
  
  How could this be? What tastemakers did he offend? Did he throw a drink in Edmund Wilson’s face? Make a pass at Susan Sontag? Hardly. His only crime was to excel at the art that dare not speak its name: Paul Dehn was a screenwriter.

  In addition to the definitive James Bond picture (Goldfinger), Dehn adapted the works of John le Carré (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Deadly Affair), Agatha Christie (Murder on the Orient Express), and Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew). He had a hand in the scripts of all four initial Planet of the Apes sequels and won the Oscar for his very first screenplay, the widely influential Cold War suspense film Seven Days to Noon.

  Dehn (pronounced “Dane”) resurrected or reinvented at least three genres given up for dead at the time: the British mystery, the Shakespeare adaptation, and the spy film. He understood a thing or two about espionage, having taught and then practiced it with distinction during World War II. Yet the hundredth anniversary of Dehn’s birth has passed without the merest hiccup of notice.
  
  I mean to lay out some of the reasons that make Paul Dehn worth remembering not just on his centenary by film critics, but by anybody fascinated with who’s responsible for their favorite movies. Dehn’s scripts suggest an intelligent, witty, morally engaged, cohesive sensibility. Even in his adaptations, he gravitated toward thematically idiosyncratic material. For example, his pictures often begin with the arrival of a threatening letter and fear of exposure (Seven Days to Noon, Murder on the Orient Express, The Deadly Affair)—surely fraught territory for a man acquainted with both deep-cover operations and the menace of British anti-sodomy laws.
  
  Dehn wasn’t the best screenwriter who ever lived. He wrote too few originals, and too often in collaboration, to claim anything of the kind. Nor was he the best author ever to approach film as an art form. That would be Graham Greene, or perhaps Harold Pinter, the only screenwriter ever to win the Nobel Prize. (Pinter wrote as many film and television scripts as he did stage plays.) No, Dehn was merely a very good screenwriter. His work carried a creative signature that withstood even the most overbearing director’s attempts to flatten it.
  
  Our Man in Hollywood
  Only one peacetime photograph of Paul Dehn survives. It shows him reclining in a dark leather chair with a book open on his lap. Behind him, level with his balding head, a rank of mostly hardcover books stands mustered for inspection. A writer works here. Close to Dehn’s left hand, atop the desk back of him, sits his only visible concession to modernity: a small British portable tv circa 1970, maybe six inches across, its screen convex with latent entertainment. Legs casually crossed and bent, Dehn looks up from his book and over at us. We’ve surprised him with our camera, but not unpleasantly so. He looks to be in his fifties, his eyeglasses seemingly borrowed from David Hockney, with round lenses and dark frames. His ears must have been prominent even before the hair started to go.
  
  What gets you is the smile. It’s not broad. Every third or fourth glance at him, it’s not there at all. Even when you see it, the smile has more curves than it should, like a sine wave. Dehn essentially resembles a taller, leaner Charlie Brown—already middle-aged and made good, but still a bit nervous.
  
  Military historian Raleigh Trevelyan’s brief but warm evocation of Dehn for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography helps capture something of the spirit of the man: “He delighted everyone with his entertaining manner and piano playing, and could put on a ‘good nightclub act’. He is also recorded as having been a ‘serious thinker’, with a warm and romantic nature, not to mention an outstanding instructor. In America it was said that listening to him was more exciting than reading a spy novel.”

  Harold Pinter once described his own screenplay for a half-decent spy film, The Quiller Memorandum, as “between two stools: One, the Bond films and the other, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.” In the photograph, Dehn inclines decidedly toward the Smiley end of the spectrum, yet the scripts written at this desk put both George Smiley and James Bond on the screen.
  
  The excellence of Dehn’s spy films derives partly from his wartime experiences as both a desk jockey, like George Smiley, and a field agent, like Bond. Or not like Bond—since how often does Bond do any actual spying?—but at least in the same line. Dehn spent the majority of his war service at the improbable Camp X, a disused estate in Canada commandeered for the training of British spies in what was then called “black warfare,” now “black ops.”

  Many walks of life are known for the exhaustiveness of their archival documentation: statesmen, for example, or Nazis. But Englishmen and screenwriters, especially at midcentury, each tended toward self-effacement. Spies and homosexuals were, by definition, outlaws, and likely even less inclined to careless diary-keeping. So the trail for Dehn—and a generation of other gifted screenwriters—is cold and getting colder.

  Researching the lives and careers of directors is much easier. Directors get interviewed vastly more often than screenwriters do. They also appear to live considerably longer. It’s uncanny just how many of Dehn’s variously talented directors are still alive, forty or fifty years after their work together. The men who shot Goldfinger (1964), Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Fragment of Fear (1970),and The Taming of the Shrew (1967)—Guy Hamilton, Ted Post, Richard Sarafian, and Franco Zeffirelli—may well live to attend their own centennial retrospectives.
  
  Dehn, meanwhile, and all the writers ever credited alongside him, are dead. An actuary and a screenwriter’s analyst might have an interesting conversation about that.
  
  Tinker Tailor Soldier Screenwriter

  Goldfinger: I prefer to call it an atomic device. It’s small, but particularly dirty.
  —Goldfinger, screenplay by Paul Dehn and Richard Maibaum

  Death and radioactivity are abstractions. Corpses and running sores are not.
  —Paul Dehn, film review

  How did Paul Dehn become the preeminent screenwriter of the Cold War? Like most information about screenwriters, the answer might as well be top secret. There exists no biographical dictionary of screenwriters. The number of good biographies of screenwriters can probably be counted on the fingers of one hand. The late Bruce Cook’s dramatic three-act life of Dalton Trumbo, written with his subject’s dying cooperation, stands apart for its quality. A couple of volumes of different scriptwriters’ letters have survived into print as well, with Trumbo’s Additional Dialogue among the best correspondence ever written by an American.
  
  Screenwriter memoirs are just as scarce. Dehn’s fellow Bond scripter Tom Mankiewicz’s recent, addictive My Life as a Mankiewicz (2012) is an object lesson in the thoroughly untapped potential of the genre. After all, successful screenwriters can actually write. They also tend to meet interesting people, and travel in circles that many readers actively wonder about. Their careers split the difference between Horatio Alger and Dr. Faustus. What film buff wouldn’t want to read about that?
  
  If there were a biographical dictionary of screenwriters, Paul Dehn’s entry might begin like this:

  1912–1939: Born Manchester, of German Jewish descent, Nov. 5, 1912. Educated at Oxford. Fond of men. Contemporary of notorious Russian moles Philby, Burgess, Maclean. Upon graduation, down to London. Encouraged by godfather, drama critic James Agate, contributes numerous humorous film reviews to newspapers up one side of Fleet Street and down the other. Also writes poetry, lyrics, and libretti.

  So far, unspectacular. Dehn’s reviews amuse, but his proficient, highly formal poetry canters confidently toward critical oblivion. Had he kept on in this vein, he might have become a kind of road-show Ivor Novello, forever marooned in the 1930s as the world grew past him.
  
  Then came the war. Redacted for national security—and by the strictest of all censors, an ungrateful posterity—his sketchy wartime biographical listing might continue as follows:

  1939–1945: Joins Special Operations Executive (S.O.E.) early in the war. Stationed in Canada alongside Ian Fleming and Christopher Lee. Learns tradecraft, drills spies in same. Cowrites S.O.E. spy training manual. Dispatched on missions in continental Europe and Scandinavia. In 1944 meets composer James Bernard, begins lifelong domestic and creative partnership.

  Without at least a research trip to the Imperial War Museum in London, we’ll have to content ourselves with Dehn’s slender, self-deprecating version of his wartime experiences: “I was an instructor to a band of thugs called the S.O.E.,” he recalled to Chris Knight and Peter Nicholson in what may be his only surviving interview, “and I instructed them in various things on darkened estates, so I got a pretty good view of what counterespionage was like.” Dehn then nudges the conversation on to the next question. As with World War I, not the least of its sequel’s aftereffects was a reticence bordering on aphasia.
  
  But, as we learn from an interview with John le Carré that accompanies the 2008 DVD reissue of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, there is more to be said on the subject of Dehn’s wartime service. “Paul actually had been in our Special Operations Executive during the war, and he had been, among other things, a professional assassin,” le Carré remembers. “It was a gruesome fact. Paul was a very gentle guy, lovely to work with.” He adds, “Great credit to Paul Dehn, the screenwriter, who, as I mentioned, had had pretty startling experience of the spook world.” This information speaks to the discernible—even preeminent—signature of the screenwriter. Quite literally, you can read him like a book.

  1946–1950: Demobbed, returns to London, resumes versatile writing career, begins moonlighting as screenwriter.

  Like Truffaut or Goddard in their magazine days, exalting the role of the director shortly before assuming it, Dehn’s film reviews from this era display a rare sensitivity to the contributions of the screenwriter. “One has waited with impatience for a script-writer of discernment,” he characteristically wrote, “to adapt James Thurber’s piteously funny parable about the fantasies of Walter Mitty.” For Dehn as well, the piteously funny was something of a critical stock in trade. Of Esther Williams, he cracked, “Only on dry land is she truly out of her depth.”
  
  Dehn had written amateur theatricals as a student and film reviews ever since, but never a movie. If his prior interview is to be believed, he got into screenwriting for a reason as unusual as it is laudable: Dehn hoped it might make him a better critic. “I started writing manuscripts,” he told his interlocutors in 1972, “because I found it so hard to allocate praise and blame justly in a composite work of art like a film.” Imagine the decades of damage undone, in other arts as well as film, if defections like Dehn’s over the firewall between critics and practitioners were not so rare, and usually so irreversible.
  
  So here begins one of the great runs in the annals of Anglo-American popular filmmaking. Dehn’s first script was not a spy story, but only a spy could have done it justice. No manuscript survives of Dehn and his partner Bernard’s screen treatment for Seven Days to Noon, the placidly terrifying Cold War thriller that won the 1952 Academy Award for best story. Absent any records, we can only speculate that more of the work fell to Dehn, who made his living at his typewriter, than to Bernard, who never received another writing credit—though the latter did go on to score almost all the Hammer horror films. The barest outline of Seven Days to Noon itself would read as follows:

  Principled government scientist Willingdon absconds from secret facility carrying suitcase-sized nuclear explosive. Writes to Prime Minister threatening to detonate bomb in London unless nuclear weapons research suspended. Londoners evacuated to countryside. Sappers sweep deserted city for Willingdon, confront him in ruined church as bomb timer ticks down to final seconds.

  What this précis leaves out are Dehn’s grace notes: a lapdog nosing around a satchel containing enough potential blast force to obliterate London, the paranoia of a fugitive whose face suddenly stares back at him from every hoarding and newsagent he sees. Already present in embryo are the signature Dehn themes: the plot set in motion by a letter, the overhanging shadow of nuclear annihilation, and the moral complexity of even the noblest motives.
  
  Dehn had trained men to lie and kill and, if necessary, die for queen and country. Impatient with teaching, he went on missions himself, took lives according to le Carré, and risked his own. Finally, with England all but free, he’d seen her allies slaughter one-fifth of a million people over four days in August of 1945. Is it any wonder that Seven Days to Noon and several of Dehn’s later films end with a lone man crouched over an atom bomb and time running out? Alone or with colleagues, from source material or from scratch, Dehn would write several of the most sophisticated, intelligent entertainments about the Cold War and its arsenal ever made. Perhaps 1952 struck some as a touch on the early side to be writing antinuclear films, but his style and polish conspired to help the strong medicine go down.
  
  If Seven Days to Noon and later Goldfinger hardly resulted in immediate nuclear disarmament, they nevertheless gave a shape to our nightmares. Dehn did not have it in him to do more than that. He was no diplomat. He’d seen enough of that breed at university, and too many would soon betray either their ideals or their country. Instead, Dehn did what he could with what he had. He did his bit.

  1951–1958: Fresh off his Oscar for Seven Days to Noon, newly sensitized to the screenwriter’s role, Dehn takes up reviewing again. Also writes well-received short films, including one about the Glyndebourne Opera. Returns to features in 1958 with script for Orders to Kill, French Resistance-set suspense film about American pilot recruited by British to kill possible Parisian double agent. Target appears kindly, gentle, harmless. Friendship develops between oblivious victim and his conflicted assassin.

  If a little centenary attention to Paul Dehn accomplishes nothing else, may it at least rescue Orders to Kill—which deservingly won the 1958 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award for best screenplay—from the memory hole that’s swallowed altogether too many fine midcentury British genre pictures. Sending filmgoers back to familiar movies with fresh eyes is a mitzvah, of course. Even more satisfying is to spotlight rarities like this that no one has looked at carefully in years. So it is with this slow-starting, screw-turning, ultimately quite moving thriller, directed by Anthony Asquith, the man to whom Dehn’s 1956 oddments collection For Love and Money is dedicated.
  
  Aside from the sheer excellence of its craftsmanship, Orders to Kill rehearses themes that haunted Dehn his entire career. In Seven Days to Noon, he’s already introduced one idea that will preoccupy him from first film to last: the slaughter of innocents. In that film, Willingdon threatens to incinerate all of London, young and old, the blameless with the guilty. By the end, the potential toll of the suitcase bomb has shrunk to a few military men—and Willingdon himself. For Willingdon is the last innocent—a meek, mild man constitutionally unable to hear out the violent bluster of a stranger in a pub, yet prepared to destroy an entire city to save the world from science gone mad. His ambivalence becomes our own: We want London saved, but do we want him dead? We sympathize with his mission even as we deplore his methods. When the bomb is ultimately defused, we share his disappointment as much as his pursuers’ relief. A moment later, Willingdon’s death outside the church comes as a martyrdom.
  
  Similarly, the suspected double agent in Orders to Kill earns our sympathy long before his innocence is finally proven. Like Willingdon, he’s a milquetoast, an easy mark for stray kittens and lost souls—even the one who will ultimately kill him. His cat, and the floozy’s dog in Seven Days to Noon who sniffs at Willingdon’s mysterious parcel, echo and reinforce their masters’ guilelessness. War kills the complicit and the pure alike, as Dehn must have learned in his war work. To judge by his later scripts, no amount of writing about it would ever put this guilt fully to bed.

  1959–1964: Maintains steady work as film critic. Writes Quake, Quake, Quake in 1961, a miscellany of familiar comic verse, all rewritten to incorporate Sputnik-era subject matter and antinuclear politics. Sample stanza: “Hey diddle diddle, / The physicists fiddle, / The Bleep jumped over the moon. / The little dog laughed to see such fun / And died the following June.” Gives up reviewing in 1963 to become full-time screenwriter. Adapts Ian Fleming’s James Bond novel Goldfinger in 1964. Story concerns master criminal’s plot to irradiate America’s gold supply and increase value of own holdings. Goldfinger thwarted when Bond penetrates Fort Knox depository and helps defuse warhead with seconds remaining.

  Goldfinger is the most famous script Dehn ever worked on, and success never wants for paternity claims. His cowriter Richard Maibaum, who later became for James Bond what Dehn would become for the Apes films—the go-to writer and sheepish keeper of the franchise flame—claimed authorship of Goldfinger’s first and last drafts, with Dehn coming on in between. Film is “a composite work of art,” as Dehn the critic knew long before he ever set his tab stops at screenplay width. If we risk praising Dehn for any of Maibaum’s work, it’s no greater risk than too many film critics court every day by crediting a director with just about everything.
  
  The scene in Goldfinger we can most confidently ascribe to Dehn is, of course, the climax he pioneered a decade earlier in Seven Days to Noon. Even if Maibaum had written it, consciously or not he pinched the idea from Dehn. It may be hard nowadays to conceive of the climactic bomb-defusal countdown as one man’s invention, rather than part of our archetypal collective unconscious. But Dehn got there first in Seven Days to Noon, when the Cold War was young, and in Goldfinger he may just have done it best.
  
  At least two moments distinguish the Goldfinger countdown from all the rest. First, it may be the first scene in the Bond series in which 007 is overmatched. He’s arm-deep in the bomb’s guts—and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Whether contemporary audiences realized it or not, the subtext here is most assuredly the fear of firepower that even 007 can’t save us from. As Connery plays it, Bond is on the verge of yanking a wire at random and hoping for the best—when a trusty nuclear scientist mercifully intervenes and neutralizes the bomb in seconds. “What kept you?” Bond asks. Even today, after half a century of hollow promises and unsecured plutonium, what’s keeping our deliverer now?

  1965–1969: Dehn adapts The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Deadly Affair (AKA Call for the Dead), from novels by John le Carré. Also two agreeably overproduced international coproductions, The Taming of the Shrew and The Night of the Generals.

  After Goldfinger, it took Dehn’s two le Carré adaptations to make the screen safe for espionage without lasers or martinis. As Dehn admits, “I am one of those writers who like darting about from one type of film to another. And when I’d collaborated on Goldfinger, I wanted to do a truthful spy story instead of a fantastic one, which is why I did The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Deadly Affair.”

  Le Carré himself deserves the laurels for Richard Burton’s great self-loathing monologues against idealism—Marxist and otherwise—in The Spy Who Came in from The Cold. But Dehn’s deft streamlining and word-pictures, filtered through Oswald Morris’s cinematography and Martin Ritt’s direction, help make those speeches play.
  
  There’s more to a script than dialogue, or Dehn’s later script for The Taming of the Shrew wouldn’t have required even a bad writer’s screenwriting services, let alone a great one’s. As Dehn himself said, “It isn’t just a question, as so many people think it is, of writing the dialogue. Some writers, myself included, go into great detail, and they have a strange physical sense, and they see that film on the wall and write down what they see.”
  
  Dehn also warrants credit for a mental image that sticks with a viewer, long after those soliloquies have left behind no residue but a willingness to hear Burton speak them again and again. I’m referring to all those small mounted animal heads in the courtroom at the final East German show trial, peering down at defense and prosecution alike. The long tribunal twists to its surprising end, unforgettably, under the specter of this profligate sacrifice of life.
  
  Animals meant the world to Dehn. He kept cats and watched birds, and composed the rhyming text for Cat’s Whiskers, an entire book of feline photography. As he once wrote, “My hobby is birdwatching: partly because sunlight and fresh air are more than normally vital to a film-critic who spends three weeks of the year’s daylight in the almost total darkness of a cinema.”
  
  If only film retrospectives would recapitulate a writer’s career every so often, recurrent Dehn subthemes—like this identification of animals with vulnerability—would unfailingly shine out. One can’t look back over Dehn’s career without noting a virtual arkful of innocuous fauna. The inquisitive dog in Seven Days to Noon, the contraband cat in Orders to Kill, Goldfinger’s stud horse—“Certainly better bred than the owner,” Bond muses—all testify to his benign preference for animal company over the human kind. Dehn later breathed fresh life into the Planet of the Apes films by focusing not on the humans, but on the chimpanzees.

  1970–1973: Writes or cowrites four Apes sequels in as many years. A true rarity: the non-horror studio film series in which every picture’s ending is bleak.

  The Apes sequels differ from their precursors in Dehn’s filmography chiefly by not being very good. Centenary or no centenary, nobody gets away with a speech like “You’re the beast in us that we have to whip into submission. You’re the savage that we need to shackle in chains.” That’s from his script for Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. If screenwriters are the true authors of their films (a case I tried to make in The Schreiber Theory [2006]), then they write the bad ones along with the good.
  
  Yet even a good screenwriter’s creatively unsuccessful films are interesting in the context of a career, and Dehn’s Apes scripts are nothing if not interesting. Beneath the Planet of the Apes may be a meddled-with, muddled, mediocre movie, but it’s saved by one great visual idea—a realistic portrait of New York as a sunless, corroded, post-apocalyptic hell, overrun by mutants—and a wryly remorseless ending. For the classic Dehn threat of wholesale slaughter, it’s hard to top Beneath the Planet of the Apes, in which a “cobalt bomb” carries off the entire world. The final title card breaks the news to us with sadistic understatement, especially for any viewers unlucky enough to be impressionable children at the time: “In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead.”
  
  Dehn originally fought this finale, which Charlton Heston pumped for in order to kill off the series for good, but ultimately Dehn submitted to it in high style. He was rightly anticipating the quandary he would face if Twentieth Century Fox commissioned another sequel after all—a dilemma he wound up solving, in Escape from the Planet of the Apes, through a characteristically ingenious time-travel kludge.

  1974: Adapts Agatha’s Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, to great acclaim. Story finds detective Hercule Poirot aboard snowbound train, with sleeping car full of likely suspects in murder of industrialist implicated in Lindbergh-like kidnapping. Christie pronounces it best film from her work to date.

  Dehn began his career with the Oscar for Seven Days to Noon, and rounded it off with a nomination for Murder on the Orient Express. (Already ill with cancer, he lost to The Godfather, Part II.) Murder stands among his best work, not least for its use of humor and dramatic tension to distract from the original’s simultaneous predictability and outlandishness. How Dehn keeps viewers guessing as to which of the twelve other passengers has given the murder victim twelve stab wounds—why, whatever could that mean?—is itself a mystery.
  
  Save The Taming of the Shrew, Dehn never wrote a script that did not begin or end in death. His own came at sixty-three, likely the result of a lifelong cigarette habit. In the work of a writer as war-scarred as Dehn, death is rarely solitary. In Seven Days to Noon, he imperiled an entire city; in Goldfinger, half of Kentucky. In The Night of the Generals, Peter O’Toole orders the massacre of the surviving population of the Warsaw Ghetto. The “holy fallout” in Beneath the Planet of the Apes takes the whole planet with it. Meanwhile, Dehn’s own death, in 1976, met with scarcely more commemoration than his centenary this year.
  
  So who really misses Paul Dehn after a hundred years? Besides John le Carré, that is, and Dehn’s niece, the poet Jehane Markham, who remembers him “as a dear friend as well as top notch uncle”? Perhaps no one.
  
  There’s just one hitch. By end of next year, the same centennial odometer will turn over on the screenwriters of High Noon, Midnight Cowboy, The Defiant Ones, Salt of the Earth, and On the Waterfront—four blacklistees and one informer, all heroically gifted, each tragically either silenced, compromised, or redeemed. Will their fascinating careers share the Dehn curse of asterisked obscurity?
  
  It’s up to us. Think of a dead screenwriter’s reputation like an early silver nitrate print of a classic movie. It degrades, over time, into dust. But once touched with sunlight, it might yet flare into incandescence—and send all our prized assumptions about film authorship up in smoke. 

  
  Paul Dehn (I) (1912–1976)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0214989/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Writer (20 credits)
  
  1974 Murder on the Orient Express (screenplay by)
  1973 Battle for the Planet of the Apes (story)
  1972 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (written by)
  1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes (written by)
  1970 Fragment of Fear (screenplay)
  1970 Beneath the Planet of the Apes (screenplay) / (story)
  1970 Music on 2 (TV Series) (libretto - 1 episode)
  - The Bear (1970) ... (libretto)
  
  1968 Beryl Reid Says Good Evening (TV Series) (additional material - 1 episode)
  - Episode #1.3 (1968) ... (additional material)
  1967 Before the Fringe (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - Episode #2.1 (1967)
  1967 The Taming of the Shrew (screen play by)
  1967 The Night of the Generals (adapted for the screen by) / (additional dialogue)
  1967 The Deadly Affair (screenplay)
  1965 The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (screenplay)
  1964 Goldfinger (screenplay)
  1960 A Place for Gold (Documentary short) (commentary writer)
  1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
  - A Woman of No Importance (1960) ... (adaptation)
  
  1958 Orders to Kill (screenplay)
  1956 On Such a Night (Short) (screenplay)
  1951 Waters of Time (Documentary short)
  1950 Seven Days to Noon (original story)
  
  Music department (2 credits)
  
  1955 I Am a Camera (English lyric by)
  1952 Moulin Rouge (lyrics adaptd by)
  
  Producer (1 credit)
  
  1970 Fragment of Fear (associate producer)
  
  Soundtrack (1 credit)
  
  1961 The Innocents ("O Willow Waly")

  
  
  

  
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  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 11 of 65 - "Valley of the Hungry Dunes."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Valley of the Hungry Dunes

  Season 1 - Episode 11
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807129/?ref_=ttep_ep11

  After rescuing the daughter of Sheikh Yabootie, Bond and his friends are invited to his royal palace, where they discover Dr. No's sinister plot to steal all the water supply of the middle east.

  James Bond Jr Episode 11 - Valley of the Hungry Dunes
  

  

  
  2008: "Another Way to Die" released as a single in the US.

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  2013: William Boyd's Bond novel Solo begins a 10-episode run on Books at Bedtime. BBC Radio 4. Read by Paterson Joseph, adapted by Libby Spurrier.
  
  
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  2021: 007: Не час помирати (007: Do not forget the time) release in Ukraine.

  
  

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

  

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

  

  RICHARD LOO,
  ACTOR 5 DECADES

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  Sergeant Tanaka in Sam Fuller's The Steel Helmet
  
  
  

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

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

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

  

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

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

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

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

  Döden På Jamaica
  (Death At Jamaica- Dr No)
  

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

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

  
  

  
  
  
  

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

  

  

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

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

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

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

  
  James Bond Jr Episode 12 Pompei and Circumstance
  

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

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

  

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

  

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

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

  
  

  A Silent
  Armageddon -
  Unreleased Issue
  Synopses and
  Artwork

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Video of the title theme "No Time To Die" sung by Billie Eilish released.
  
  
  2021: No Time To Die release in Norway.

  
  
  
  

  2021: Sin tiempo para morir release in Spain.

  
  

  
  2021: 007 ノー・タイム・トゥ・ダイ(007 Nō taimu to~u dai) release in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2021: Смъртта може да почака (Death can wait) release in Bulgaria.

  
  
  

  2021: 007: Surm peab ootama (007: Death must wait) release in Estonia.

  
  

  
  2021: Mirtis palauks (Death will wait) release in Lithuania.

  
  

  2021: Nie czas umierać (It's not time to die) release in Poland.

  
  

  2021: Nav laiks mirt release in Latvia.

  
  

  
  2021: Ölmek İçin Zaman Yok (It's not time to die) release in Turkey.

  
  
  

  
  2022: 007 - The Music at the Ossett War Memorial Community Centre, Ossett, Wakefield, England.

  

  

  Oct 01
  007: The Music

  See the complete article here:
  
  

  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/007-the-music-tickets-416289261387

  A brand-new must-watch show for fans of James Bond, film Music and top-class brass bands. Celebrate 60 years of Bond with this timeless show
  By Yorkshire Imperial Band
  
  When and where
  Date and time
  Sat, 1 October 2022, 19:30 – 21:30 BST
  Location
  Ossett War Memorial Community Centre Prospect Road Ossett WF5 8AN United Kingdom

  About this event
  A brand-new must-watch show for fans of James Bond, film Music and top-class brass bands. Celebrate 60 years of Bond with this timeless show.
  
  The Yorkshire Imperial Band are joining forces with the sensational singing voice of Amanda Chapman to bring you a night of 007 indulgence!
  
  It doesn’t matter who your favourite Bond is - Roger Sean Timothy Pierce or Daniel - they’d all agree the legendary theme tunes from their movies always stole the show. Hear us cover songs from some of the greatest musicians of the last 60 years including Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Adele, Paul McCartney, Billie Eilish, Matt Monro and not forgetting Monty Norman who wrote the original Bond Theme for [Dr No/b] in 1962!
  

  This will be an unforgettable experience for your ears only - book your tickets now!

  
  

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

  

  Tom Pevsner

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

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

  
  

  
  1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Stacey sneaking into Zorin’s mine.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 13 of 65 "Never Give a Villain a Fair Shake."

  

  

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

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  Casino Royale
  
  Goldfinger
  
  Diamonds Are Forever
  

  
  2020: The release of No Time To Die moves from February to April 2021. All after the originally planned November 2019 debut.
  2021: Announcement says Daniel Craig receives a star 7007 Hollywood Boulevard on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 6 October, next to Roger Moore.
  
  2022: Black Cat Cinema screens No Time To Die at Lisbon, Portugal.

  

  

  No Time To Die @Santos-O-Velho

  See the complete article here:
  
  

  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/blackcatcinema/769632/

  Sun 2 Oct 2022 20:30 - 23:30 Santos-o-Velho, 1200-813
  Event Information in English (Portuguese below):

  One of the most remarkable Bond movies. Expectations were high for Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007, and he did not disappoint. No Time To Die comes with the full package of everything you want in a Bond movie - action, a big mission, bold bond ladies, and spectacular scenes. Join us for Daniel Craig’s worthy farewell to the James Bond name.

  The movie starts at 20:30. The bar opens for drinks and music from 19:00. Food and popcorn are also available from 19:00. We recommend arriving early to settle in, enjoy the atmosphere, and pick up something from the bar and kitchen. Despite the summer weather, the wind can be strong here in Lisbon, so we also always recommend bringing a warm jacket and/or blanket.
  
  Food, drink, and the local community
  
  We are teaming up with Santos Collective: A grassroots organization that first and foremost Supports Local and whose key reason for existence is to promote local businesses, initiatives, and the community. They have arranged food and drink exclusively from local vendors, so we will be very well catered to on the night!
  
  Food, drinks, and popcorn are available before, during, and after the film. The bar is fully stocked, and the two kitchens serve delicious meals and snacks. Please note, it's cash or MBWAY only for popcorn!
  
  A key part of what the Collective does is supporting needy members of the local community. Their initiative The Santos Collects Food currently supports 25 families in the Santos/Madragoa neighborhood by collecting and distributing food, clothes, toys, and small appliances, and aims to give some dignity back to their neighbors. There is an optional 1€ donation with every ticket and this donation will go directly towards purchasing essential items for the families in the neighbourhood.
  
  Venue Information:
  
  Map coordinates: 38°42'24.5"N 9°09'27.3"W
  
  The origin of the old church of Santos-o-Velho dates back to the 12th century and its 'praça' is a perfect piece of that unique Lisbon heritage and atmosphere, calmness in a vibrant capital city, and the best of old and new combined.
  
  Movie Information:
  
  A breathtaking visual and auditory extravaganza that marries the best of theatre, opera and cinematic technique. Moulin Rouge! dances on the line between exuberance and chaos, and somehow always lands on its feet. Timeless and career-defining work from that veteran purveyor of the wild and grandiose: Director Baz Luhrmann.
  
  Director: Cary Joji Fukunaga
  Actors: Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Rami Malek
  Country: UK & USA| Year: 2001| Length: 2h 43m
  Audio: English | Subtitles: Portuguese| PG: M/12
  
  Cancelation & Weather Policy:
  
  If you need to change your ticket, a full refund is available up to 48 hours before the start of the event. A 50% refund is available for cancellations made 48 - 24 hours before the event starts. We are sorry but any cancellations made less than 24 hours in advance are non-refundable.
  
  In case of rain, the event will continue. If there's heavy rain, we will postpone the show and all tickets can be returned or will be valid for the new date.
  
  
  
  Informações do Evento:
  
  O filme começa ás 20:30. O bar abre para bebidas e comidas e pipocas a partir das 19:00. Recomendamos que traga um casaco ou um cobertor.
  
  Comida, bebidas e comunidade local
  
  Juntámos forças com o Santos Collective: Uma organização estrutural baseada em Lisboa que, antes de mais, Supports Local e cuja razão de existência se baseia em promover e apoiar a comunidade local – e assim abraçar iniciativas e negócios locais. O Santos Collective vai certificar-se de que, durante os eventos, teremos comida e bebida – exclusivamente de produtores locais - pela noite dentro!
  
  Podes contar com comida, bebidas e pipocas antes, durante e depois do filme. No bar terás cerveja, vinho, cocktails e bebidas não alcoólicas. E a cozinha serve comida deliciosa! Atenção que o pagamento das pipocas poderá apenas ser feito em dinheiro ou MBWAY!
  
  Uma peça chave daquilo que a Collective faz é apoiar os membros mais carenciados da comunidade local. A sua iniciativa, The Santos Collects Food apoia, neste momento, 25 famílias em Santos e na Madragoa recolhendo e distribuindo comida, roupas, brinquedos e outros bens essenciais, e visa devolver alguma dignidade aos seus vizinhos mais carenciados.
  
  Informações acerca do espaço
  
  Coordenadas do mapa: 38°42'24.5"N 9°09'27.3"W
  
  Teremos de recuar até ao século XII para falar da origem da Igreja de Santos-O-Velho e da sua praça. Ainda hoje marcam um ponto de equilíbrio e calma na capital vibrante em que a cidade de Lisboa se tornou, fazendo com que o mais antigo e o mais recente conviva em harmonia.
  
  Informações do filme:
  
  Realizador: Cary Joji Fukunaga
  Atores: Daniel Craig, Ana de Armas, Rami Malek
  País: UK & EUA | Ano: 2021| Duração: 2h 43m
  Som: Inglês | Legendas: Português| PG: M/12
  
  Política de cancelamento & Clima:
  
  Se precisar de trocar o seu bilhete, o reembolso total está disponível até 48 horas antes do início do evento. Um reembolso de 50% está disponível se cancelar 48-24 horas antes do início do evento. Lamentamos, mas quaisquer cancelamentos inferiores a 24 horas, não serão reembolsáveis.
  
  Em caso de chuva, o evento continuará. No caso de chuva torrencial adiaremos o evento e todos os bilhetes serão devolvidos ou válidos para uma outra sessão.
  
  LOCATION
  Santos-o-Velho, 1200-813

  https://www.theblackcatcinema.com/portfolio/no-time-to-die
  
  
  

  
  
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  October 3rd
  
  1960: Bond comic strip Goldfinger begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 1 April 1961. 698-849) John McClusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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

  Goldfinger
  (Part 1) | (Part 2)
  
  

  
  Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk2-goldfinger-1965/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 2: “Contra Goldfinger” (Interpresse 1965)
  
  
  
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

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

  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  

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

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

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

  

  

  James Bond Jr - City of Gold

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

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

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 13 City of Gold
  
  

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

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

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

  

  
  2008: "Another Way to Die" premieres on BBC's Channel 4.
  
  2016: Dynamite Entertainment announces a Felix Leiter comic for January 2017 release.
  Aaron Campbell, artist. James Robinson, writer.
  2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origin #2.
  Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND ORIGIN #2

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  October 4th
  
  1883: The Orient Express begins service.

  

  Tea & Madeleine | November 11, 2017
  Orient Express

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  
  

  

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

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

  1966: You Only Live Twice films the assassination of Aki.
  1967: Agente 007 - Si vive solo due volte released in Italy.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  Jill Bennett (British actress)

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Never Lose Hope

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

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

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 15 Never Lose Hope
  
  

  Miss Hope Eternal
  

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

  
  
  

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

  

  Ben Whishaw to update James Bond

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

  

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

  
  
  

  2012: Vintage Publishing release the 6 remaining Fleming Bond novels in paperback.

  

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

  

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

  
  

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

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

  
  

  
  
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  October 5th: Global James Bond Day
  
  1919: Donald Pleasence is born--Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England.
  (He dies 2 February 1995 at age 75--Saint-Paul de-Vence, Alps-Maritimes, France.)

  

  Donald Pleasence OBE

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

  
  Pleasence in London, 1973.
  Portrait by Allan Warren

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

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

  1962: Dr. No premieres at the London Palladium.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

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

  
  
  
  
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  Later Gaming
  
  
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  1983: Octopussy released in France.

  
  
  

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

  

  9007 James Bond Asteroid

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

  James Bond Facts

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

  
  
  

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

  
  
  

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

  Skyfall by Adele
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Adele - Skyfall (Theatre Of Delays Remix)
  

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

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  
  
  
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  Dancing Man
  
  Girl With Guitar
  
  
  
  

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

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

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

  
  
  

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

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

  
  James Bond girl Margaret Nolan has died aged 76.

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

  
  Margaret Nolan will always be remembered for her part in Goldfinger

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Margaret Nolan (I)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634318/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  Actress
  

  https://twitter.com/edgarwright/status/1315405389479976960

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2021: The Petersen Automotive Museum celebrates Global James Bond Day at Los Angeles, California.

  

  Global James Bond
  Day

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.petersen.org/events/petersen-james-bond-day

  Tuesday, October 5, 2021
  10:00 AM 5:00 PM
  Petersen Automotive Museum 6060 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles

  

  Celebrate Global James Bond Day at the Petersen Automotive Museum! The date marks the anniversary of the first James Bond film, Dr. No, in 1962. Explore our latest exhibition Bond in Motion, the largest official collection of James Bond vehicles in the United States.

  Produced in collaboration with EON Productions and The Ian Fleming® Foundation, Bond in Motion is the first official exhibition in the United States to feature original vehicles from the James Bond film franchise. The exhibit celebrates the 60th anniversary of the 007 films, since Dr. No was released in 1962.

  https://www.petersen.org/bond
  
  
  
  

  Discover
  
  1964 ASTON MARTIN DB5
  https://www.petersen.org/aston-martin-db5
  
  2002 ASTON MARTIN V12 VANQUISH
  https://www.petersen.org/aston-martin-vanquish
  
  1977 LOTUS ESPRIT S1 “WET NELLIE”
  https://www.petersen.org/lotus-esprit

  
  

  2021: Global James Bond Day.

  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  October 2022 Posts: 13,785

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

  

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

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

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

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

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

  
  
  

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

  
  

  
  2022: James Bond Movie Night screens No Time To Die at the Calumet City Public Library, Calumet City, Illinois.

  

  James Bond Day Movie Night

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.calumetcitypl.org/event/james-bond-day-movie-night/

  October 6 @ 4:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  
  Thursday October 6 at 4:00pm
  Call 708-862-6220 to register
  
  Details
  Date: October 6
  Time: 4:00 pm - 7:30 pm
  Event Category: community
  
  Venue
  Calumet City Public Library
  660 Manistee Ave.
  Calumet City, IL 60409 United States + Google Map
  Phone:
  (708) 862-6220

  

  
  2022: In Person Big Screen Thursdays screens Goldfinger at Bernards Township Library, Pontiac, Michigan.

  

  IN PERSON Big Screen Thursdays
  "Goldfinger"

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://events.getlocalhop.com/in-person-big-screen-thursdays-goldfinger/event/ru7obCHUhO/

  October 6, 2022, 12:00pm - 2:30pm
  
  Bernards Township Library
  Adult, Free
  
  Adult
  IN PERSON Big Screen Thursdays
  PROGRAM ROOM B
  
  A weekly film series in October and November featuring some classic favorites of years past.

  Today's feature is the 1964 James Bond classic: Goldfinger starring Sean Connery. Rated PG. Running time 110 minutes. No registration required.

  This series is sponsored by The Friends of BTL.
  
  When
  October 6, 2022
  12:00pm - 2:30pm
  
  Where
  Bernards Township Library
  32 South Maple Avenue, Basking Ridge, NJ 07920
  
  Organization
  Bernards Township Library
  (908) 204-3031
  
  Mission: Bernards Township Library’s mission is to inform, enrich and connect our community. Vision: To cultivate an inviting community destination, where curiosity can spark discovery.
  
  Location
  31 N. Saginaw Street
  Pontiac, Michigan 48342

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  October 2022 Posts: 13,785

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

  

  John Brosnan
  Science-fiction writer and film critic

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-brosnan-489441.html

  Saturday 16 April 2005 00:00

  John Raymond Brosnan, writer and film critic: born Perth, Western Australia 7 October 1947; died London c11 April 2005.

  The writer and film critic John Brosnan was a man of deep friendships, some of which had lasted half a century - the Australian writer John Baxter, with whom Brosnan collaborated on a novel, knew him that long - and he enjoyed a wide range of acquaintances throughout the science-fiction and film subcultures of London.

  He wrote seven books on film. The first of these was James Bond in the Cinema (1972). His interest in filmed science fiction culminated in Future Tense: the cinema of science fiction (1978). He wrote most of the film entries for The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (1979), edited by Peter Nicholls and John Clute.

  As a writer of science fiction and often comically exaggerated horror, Brosnan published at least 23 novels. His collaborations with Leroy Kettle were pseudonymous; the best known of these horror tales is probably Bedlam (1992), the film version of which (Beyond Bedlam) gave Liz Hurley her first main role. More ambitious science-fiction novels, under his own name, included the Sky Lords novels from 1988, and his last published novel, Mothership (2004). He had already completed a draft of the sequel at the time of his death.
  
  Brosnan was born in 1947 in Perth, Western Australia, and became active as an SF fan in the mid 1960s. By 1970 he had moved to London, where he settled for good. Though he was convivial from the start - my own 25-year-old memories of post-launch drinks with him at the Troy Club off the Tottenham Court Road remain warm - the story of his life is essentially one of hard work.
  
  His death was reported on 11 April. Friends had become alarmed at his absence over Easter, and gained access to his flat in South Harrow, where he was found. He had died in his sleep, possibly several days earlier. An autopsy determined that the cause of death was acute pancreatitis. This finding has scotched rumours that he had met with foul play.
  
  It was perhaps to be expected that Brosnan died alone, as he had lived alone for many years. But he was a continual and welcome presence in many lives, a friend to some and companion to many. He was a funny and surprisingly tough-minded writer.
  
  John Clute

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

  Fiction Series
  
  Damned and Fancy
  1 Damned & Fancy (1995) also appeared as:
  - Translation: Verflixt und zugehext [German] (1996)
  - Translation: Anderwelt: Buch Eins [German] (2005)
  2 Have Demon, Will Travel (1996) also appeared as:
  -Translation: Hokuspokus Hexenkuß [German] (1997)
  -Translation: Anderwelt: Buch Zwei [German] (2005)
  Anderwelt [German] (2005) [O/1,2]
  
  Mothership
  1 Mothership (2004) also appeared as:
  -Serializations:
  -Translation: Supernave (Complete Novel) [Italian] (2006)
  2 Mothership Awakening (unpublished)
  
  Sky Lords
  1 The Sky Lords (1988) also appeared as:
  -Translation: I Signori dell'Aria [Italian] (1989)
  2 War of the Sky Lords (1989) also appeared as:
  -Translation: I guerrieri dell'aria [Italian] (1990)
  3 The Fall of the Sky Lords (1991) also appeared as:
  -Translation: La fine del dominio [Italian] (1991)
  
  Novels
  
  Skyship (1981)
  Slimer (1983) with Leroy Kettle also appeared as:
  -Variant: Slimer (1983) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
  -Translation: Terreur déliquescente [French] (1986) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
  The Midas Deep (1983)
  Carnosaur (1984) [only as by Harry Adam Knight]
  The Fungus (1985) with Leroy Kettle only appeared as:
  - Variant: The Fungus (1985) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
  -Translation: L'immonde invasion [French] (1988) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
  -Variant: Death Spore (1990) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
  Tendrils (1986) with Leroy Kettle only appeared as:
  -Variant: Tendrils (1986) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
  -Translation: Vrilles! [French] (1988) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
  Torched! (1986) with John Baxter only appeared as:
  -Variant: Torched! (1986) [as by James Blackstone]
  -Translation: Brasiers humains [French] (1988) [as by James Blackstone]
  Worm (1987) only appeared as:
  -Variant: Worm (1987) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
  -Variant: Worm (1988) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
  -Translation: Les parasites de la haine [French] (1988) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
  Bedlam (1992) with Leroy Kettle [only as by Harry Adam Knight]
  -Serializations:
  -Bedlam (Part 1 of ?) (1994) [as by Harry Adam Knight]
  The Opoponax Invasion (1993)
  
  Nonfiction
  
  James Bond in the Cinema (1972)
  Movie Magic: The Story of Special Effects in the Cinema (1974)
  The Horror People (1976)
  Future Tense: The Cinema of Science Fiction (1978)
  The Primal Screen: A History of Science Fiction Film (1991)
  
  Short Fiction
  
  The Bethlehem File (1972)
  Conversation on a Starship in Warpdrive (1975)
  The Junk Shop (1976) also appeared as:
  -Variant: Junk Shop (1976)
  The One and Only Tale from The White Horse (1986)
  An Eye in Paradise (1989) also appeared as:
  -Translation: Un privé au paradis [French] (1994)
  Barry McKenzie Meets Jerry Cornelius (2013)
  
  Poems
  
  The Dangers of Colour T.V. (1974) also appeared as:
  -Variant: The Dangers of Colour TV (1991) [as by Simon Ian Childer]
  Something Came Out of the Toilet (1991) [only as by Harry Adam Knight]
  
  Essays
  
  Letter (SF Commentary 7) (1969)
  Mrs. B's Wandering Boy, Part One (1970)
  Mrs. B's Wandering Boy, Part Two (1970)
  Special Effects and The Science Fiction Film (1974) also appeared as:
  -Translation: Les magiciens du trompe-l'oeil [French] (1976)
  No Nose is Good Nose (1974)
  SF on TV: Part 1 (1975)
  Star Trek: Film Review (1975)
  Raftan's Viewpoint (1975)
  SF on Television Part 2: Britain (1975)
  The Australian Science Fiction Scene (1975)
  A Look at Space 1999 (1976)
  SF TV Review: The Invisible Man (1976)
  Letter (SF Commentary 52) (1977)
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  1959: Ian Fleming writes Ivar Bryce about Alfred Hitchcock and Jimmy Stewart. Then Bryce writes back.

  

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

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

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  

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

  

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

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

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

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

  

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

  
  

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

  

  

  James Bond Jr - No Such Loch

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

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

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 16 No Such Loch
  
  

  

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

  

  George Baker: Actor whose career
  climaxed in his portrayal of the
  Shakespeare-quoting DCI Wexford

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/george-baker-actor-whose-career-climaxed-in-his-portrayal-of-the-shakespeare-quoting-dci-wexford-2368541.html
  Anthony Hayward | Tuesday 11 October 2011 00:00

  
  George Baker: Actor whose career climaxed in his portrayal of the Shakespeare-quoting DCI Wexford

  In 1987, two detectives from contemporary literature were transferred to television and their screen lives ran in parallel for 14 years.
  
  While John Thaw stepped into the opera-loving shoes of Colin Dexter's Oxford sleuth Inspector Morse, George Baker had his first outing as Ruth Rendell's Shakespeare-quoting Detective Chief Inspector Wexford in "Wolf to the Slaughter".
  
  The 6ft 4in Baker traded his crisp vowels for a regional burr in the role of the affable, fatherly figure investigating crimes in the fictional south of England market town Kingsmarkham. With his dour sidekick, Detective Inspector Mike Burden (Christopher Ravenscroft), he plodded thoughtfully through an alarmingly high number of murder cases.
  
  Reg Wexford was also a dependable husband and doting father, and Rendell revealed that the character traits were taken from her own father. She was so enamoured with Baker's portrayal that she admitted to writing The Veiled One, the first new Wexford novel published after the television adaptations began, with him in mind.
  
  Following the stand-alone first mini-series, the programmes – featuring 23 stories in all and running until 2000 – were screened as The Ruth Rendell Mysteries and, occasionally, The Ruth Rendell Mystery Movie. Location filming was done in and around the Hampshire town of Romsey, not far from Baker's own home in Wiltshire.
  
  In 1992, his second wife, the actress Sally Home, died after a three-year fight against cancer. The following year, he married Louie Ramsay – who played his screen wife, Dora, in the Wexford dramas and was a long-time friend of the couple – calling her his "soulmate" and adding: "Sally was the love of my life. With Louie, the love is quite different, but it's almost as strong." Ramsay died last March.
  
  Baker was born at the British Embassy in Varna, Bulgaria, where his father, Frank – originally from Wetherby, West Yorkshire – was the honorary British vice-consul. A literate, cultured individual who was a writer and expert wine-taster, Baker was at pains to point out that, according to diplomatic etiquette, he was born on British soil.
  
  When the Second World War broke out, he, his Irish mother Eva and four brothers and sisters moved to Yorkshire. Baker attended Lancing College, West Sussex, before joining Deal repertory company, in Kent, when he was just 15. During national service in Hong Kong he served with the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment. As a horse rider he was made regimental equitation officer but returned to Britain after contracting the intestinal disease sprue, and finished his Army service on a training range in Pembrokeshire.
  
  Baker then acted in repertory theatre across Britain before making his London début as Arthur Wells in a revival of the Frederick Lonsdale drawing-room comedy Aren't We All? (Haymarket Theatre, 1953). Many roles followed in the West End, and with the Old Vic company (1959-60) and the RSC (1975). He also directed some plays himself, including The Sleeping Prince (St Martin's Theatre, 1968) and The Lady's Not for Burning (Old Vic Theatre, 1978). As artistic director, Baker launched his own provincial touring company, Candida Plays (named after his eldest daughter), in 1966.
  
  Film casting directors spotted his matinee-idol looks early on. His first screen appearance, alongside Jack Hawkins, was in The Intruder (1953) and he followed it with a role in the Second World War drama The Dam Busters (1955). Then came star billing in another war film, A Hill in Korea (1956), and the Civil War adventure The Moonraker (1958).

  Baker's six-week affair with Brigitte Bardot while he was at Pinewood Studios filming The Woman for Joe (1955) and she was making Doctor at Sea put a strain on his marriage to the costume designer Julia Squire, which also suffered from the constant pressure of being in debt. He lived with Sally Home for 10 years before she became his second wife. His confidence was knocked by the film director Tony Richardson's description of him as the worst actor in England and another disappointment was the James Bond author Ian Fleming's assertion that Baker would make the perfect 007, before the part went to Sean Connery.
  
  However, Baker appeared in three Bond films: as a Nasa engineer in You Only Live Twice (1967), Captain Benson in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Sir Hilary Bray in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), in which he also dubbed the voice of George Lazenby – in that actor's one screen appearance as the secret agent – for a scene in which 007 impersonates his character.

  Television began to play a bigger part in Baker's career, with dramatic roles such as the second Number Two in The Prisoner (1967), Tiberius in I, Claudius (1976) and Detective Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn in four feature-length adaptations of Ngaio Marsh's novels, made in New Zealand in 1977.
  
  He also had some success in sitcoms. After playing Peter Craven's boss in The Fenn Street Gang (1972), Baker was spun off into his own series, Bowler (1973), in which he was seen as a spiv and petty villain trying to exude class but failing abysmally. Later, alongside Penelope Keith in the first two series of No Job for a Lady (1990-91), he played the Conservative MP Godfrey Eagan, sparring with the newly elected Labour MP Jean Price.
  
  As a writer, Baker adapted four of the Ruth Rendell stories himself and scripted many radio dramas and the television play The Fatal Spring (1980), about the First World War poets Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, which won the United Nations Media Prize Award of Merit.
  
  In 1999, Baker underwent surgery to remove his prostate gland after being diagnosed with cancer. His autobiography, The Way to Wexford, was published three years later. He also collected together recipes from his own culinary exploits in A Cook for All Seasons (1989). In 2007, Baker was made an MBE for youth club fund-raising activities in his then home village of West Lavington, Wiltshire.
  
  George Morris Baker, actor, writer and director: born Varna, Bulgaria 1 April 1931; MBE
  
  2007; married 1950 Julia Squire (divorced 1974, died 1989; four daughters), 1974 Sally Home (died 1992; one daughter), 1993 Louie Ramsay (died 2011); died 7 October 2011.

  
  George Baker (I) (1931–2011)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0048468/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (144 credits)
  
  2007 New Tricks (TV Series) - Steve Palmer
  - Ducking and Diving (2007) ... Steve Palmer
  2007 Heartbeat (TV Series)
  Maurice Dodson - - Vendetta (2007) ... Maurice Dodson
  2005 Spooks (TV Series) - Hugo Ross
  - Episode #4.8 (2005) ... Hugo Ross
  2005 Midsomer Murders (TV Series) - Charlie / Jack Magwood
  - The House in the Woods (2005) ... Charlie / Jack Magwood
  2003 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Cecil Newton 6 episodes
  - Episode #1.5635 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
  - Episode #1.5634 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
  - Episode #1.5633 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
  - Episode #1.5632 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
  - Episode #1.5631 (2003) ... Cecil Newton
  2001 Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) (TV Series) - Berry Pomeroy
  - O Happy Isle (2001) ... Berry Pomeroy
  1987-2000 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) - Det. Chief Insp. Wexford / Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford / Chief Insp. Wexford / ... 50 episodes
  - Harm Done (2000) ... D.C.I. Wexford
  - Road Rage: Part Two (1998) ... D.C.I. Wexford
  - Road Rage: Part One (1998) ... D.C.I. Reg Wexford
  - Simisola: Part Three (1996) ... Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford
  - Simisola: Part Two (1996) ... Det. Chief Insp. Reg Wexford
  2000 Back to the Secret Garden - Will Weatherstaff
  
  1995 Johnny and the Dead (TV Mini-Series) - Alderman
  - Part 4 (1995) ... Alderman
  - Part 3 (1995) ... Alderman
  - Part 2 (1995) ... Alderman
  - Part 1 (1995) ... Alderman
  1995 Little Lord Fauntleroy (TV Mini-Series) - The Earl of Dorincourt 6 episodes
  - Episode #1.6 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
  - Episode #1.5 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
  - Episode #1.4 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
  - Episode #1.3 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
  - Episode #1.2 (1995) ... The Earl of Dorincourt
  1992 ITV Telethon (TV Series) - Chief Inspector Wexford
  - Telethon '92 (1992) ... Chief Inspector Wexford
  1990-1991 No Job for a Lady (TV Series) - Godfrey Eagan 12 episodes
  - No Rumour in the Truth (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
  - Undesirable Aliens (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
  - Poetic Justice (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
  - White Knights (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
  - But I Voted for You (1991) ... Godfrey Eagan
  1990 Hudson & Halls (TV Series) - Guest
  1980-1989 Minder (TV Series) - Cooper / Altman
  - Days of Fines and Closures (1989) ... Cooper
  - You Gotta Have Friends (1980) ... Altman
  1988 Journey's End (TV Movie) - The Colonel
  1988 For Queen & Country - Kilcoyne
  1988 Bergerac (TV Series) - Higgins
  - A Man of Sorrows (1988) ... Higgins
  1987 Out of Order - Chief Inspector
  1987 The Charmer (TV Mini-Series) - Harold Bennett
  - Gorse in the Middle (1987) ... Harold Bennett
  - Gorse, the Deceiver (1987) ... Harold Bennett
  1987 Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (TV Movie) - Chief Inspector Fred Davy
  1986-1987 Screen Two (TV Series) - Greaves / Valentine Swift
  - Coast to Coast (1987) ... Greaves
  - Time After Time (1986) ... Valentine Swift
  1986 Lenny Henry Tonite (TV Series) - - Gronk Zillman (1986)
  1986 The Canterville Ghost (TV Movie) - Uncle Hesketh
  1986 Room at the Bottom (TV Series) - Director General
  - Winter Schedule (1986) ... Director General
  - The Siege (1986) ... Director General
  1984-1986 Robin Hood (TV Series) - Sir Richard of Leaford
  - The Power of Albion (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
  - Herne's Son: Part 2 (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
  - Herne's Son: Part 1 (1986) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
  - The Prophecy (1984) ... Sir Richard of Leaford
  1986 If Tomorrow Comes (TV Mini-Series) - Maximillian Pierpont
  - Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Maximillian Pierpont
  1986 Dead Head (TV Mini-Series) - Eldridge
  - The Patriot (1986) ... Eldridge
  - Anything for England (1986) ... Eldridge
  - Why Me? (1986) ... Eldridge
  1985 We'll Support You Evermore (TV Movie) - Colonel
  1985 Marjorie and Men (TV Series) - Norton Phillips
  - Be Your Age (1985) ... Norton Phillips
  1985 Bird Fancier (TV Movie) - Albert Seers
  1985 A Woman of Substance (TV Mini-Series) - Bruce McGill
  - Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Bruce McGill
  - Episode #1.2 (1985) ... Bruce McGill (credit only)
  - Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Bruce McGill
  1984 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - George Damos
  - Death Dig (1984) ... George Damos
  1984 Goodbye Mr. Chips (TV Mini-Series) - Meldrum
  - Episode #1.4 (1984) ... Meldrum
  - Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Meldrum
  - Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Meldrum
  - Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Meldrum
  1983 Spyship (TV Mini-Series) - Irving
  - Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Irving
  1983 The Secret Adversary (TV Movie) - Whittington
  1982-1983 Triangle (TV Series) - David West 52 episodes
  - Episode #3.26 (1983) ... David West
  - Episode #3.25 (1983) ... David West
  - Episode #3.24 (1983) ... David West
  - Episode #3.23 (1983) ... David West
  - Episode #3.22 (1983) ... David West
  1982 The Chinese Detective (TV Series) - Jack Balfe
  - Chorale (1982) ... Jack Balfe
  1982 Q.E.D. (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Harold Metcalfe
  - The Great Motor Race (1982) ... Sir Harold Metcalfe
  1982 Little Miss Perkins (TV Movie) - Mr. Macauley
  1981 The Gentle Touch (TV Series) - Gerald Harvey
  - The Hit (1981) ... Gerald Harvey
  1981 The Member for Chelsea (TV Series) - Mr. Chamberlain
  - Episode #1.3 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
  - Episode #1.2 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
  - Episode #1.1 (1981) ... Mr. Chamberlain
  1981 Goodbye Darling (TV Series) - Jonathan Cowper
  - Maude (1981) ... Jonathan Cowper
  - Anne (1981) ... Jonathan Cowper
  1981 Crown Court (TV Series)
  - The Merry Widow: Part 1 (1981)
  1981 Jackanory Playhouse (TV Series)
  Janaka
  - The Mouse, the Merchant and the Elephant (1981) ... Janaka
  1980 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Login
  - Full Circle: Part Four (1980) ... Login
  - Full Circle: Part Three (1980) ... Login
  - Full Circle: Part Two (1980) ... Login
  - Full Circle: Part One (1980) ... Login
  1980 Hopscotch - Parker Westlake
  1980 Ladykillers (TV Series) - Sir Terence O'Connor, Q.C.
  - Don't Let Them Kill Me on Wednesday (1980) ... Sir Terence O'Connor, Q.C.
  1980 Square Mile of Murder (TV Series) - Mr. Smith
  - A Kiss, a Fond Embrace - Part 2 (1980) ... Mr. Smith
  - A Kiss, a Fond Embrace - Part 1 (1980) ... Mr. Smith
  1980 ffolkes - Fletcher
  
  1979 Empire Road (TV Series) - Mr. Butterworth
  - Godfadder at Bay (1979) ... Mr. Butterworth
  1968-1979 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Robert Ballard / George King
  - Print Out (1979) ... Robert Ballard
  - The Bonegrinder (1968) ... George King
  1978 Died in the Wool (TV Movie) - Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn
  1978 The Thirty Nine Steps - Sir Walter Bullivant
  1977 Colour Scheme (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
  1977 Vintage Murder (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
  1977 Opening Night (TV Movie) - Chief Det. Insp. Alleyn
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Capt. Benson
  1977 Three Piece Suite (TV Series) - Frank - This Situation / Brad Hunter (segment "Celluloid Dreams")
  - Come in, No.1/This Situation/All in the Mind (1977) ... Frank - This Situation
  - Miss/Celluloid Dreams/Mea Culpa (1977) ... Brad Hunter (segment "Celluloid Dreams")
  1976 I, Claudius (TV Mini-Series) - Tiberius 10 episodes
  - Old King Log (1976) ... Tiberius
  - Zeus, by Jove! (1976) ... Tiberius
  - Reign of Terror (1976) ... Tiberius
  - Queen of Heaven (1976) ... Tiberius
  - Some Justice (1976) ... Tiberius
  1976 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Frank Chandler
  - Baked Beans (1976) ... Frank Chandler
  1976 Intimate Games - Professor Gottlieb
  1976 Get Some In! (TV Series) - Wing-Commander Birch
  - Flight (1976) ... Wing-Commander Birch
  1970-1976 Z Cars (TV Series) - Gerald / Calvin Flood / Gordon Glossop
  - A Preacher in Passing (1976) ... Calvin Flood
  - Friends (1974) ... Gordon Glossop
  - A Big Shadow: Part 2 (1970) ... Gerald
  - A Big Shadow: Part 1 (1970) ... Gerald
  1975 Sea Area Forties (Short) - Commentator (voice)
  1975 The Firefighters - Station Officer Harrison
  1975 Three for All - Eddie Boyes
  1975 Spy Trap (TV Series) - Colonel Jacoby
  - April Sixty-Seven (1975) ... Colonel Jacoby
  1975 Survivors (TV Series) - Arthur Wormley
  - Genesis (1975) ... Arthur Wormley
  1974 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Det. Inspector Martin
  - The Final Chapter (1974) ... Det. Inspector Martin
  1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Martin Willis
  - Murder on Demand (1974) ... Martin Willis
  1974 Zodiac (TV Series) - Mark Braun
  - The Cool Aquarian (1974) ... Mark Braun
  1973 The Laughing Girl Murder (Short) - Chief Sopt Keegan
  1973 Bowler (TV Series) - Stanley Bowler 13 episodes
  - Without Let or Hindrance (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
  - Bowler's Analysis (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
  - The Family Tree (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
  - R.I.P. (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
  - Sweet and Sour Charity (1973) ... Stanley Bowler
  1973 Between the Wars (TV Series) - Walter Jeffries
  - Voyage in the Dark (1973) ... Walter Jeffries
  1973 A Warm December - Dr. Henry Barlow
  1973 Because of the Cats - Boersma
  1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - George Dixon
  - Your Witness (1973) ... George Dixon
  1973 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV Series) - Mr. Lewis
  - The Salesman's Job (1973) ... Mr. Lewis
  1972 The Fenn Street Gang (TV Series) - Mr. Bowler
  - Low Noon (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
  - The Left Hand Path (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
  - Smart Lad Wanted (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
  - The Great Frock Robbers (1972) ... Mr. Bowler
  1972 New Scotland Yard (TV Series) - John Randall
  - Two Into One Will Go (1972) ... John Randall
  1972 The Man Outside (TV Series) - Philip Lockley
  - Mandala (1972) ... Philip Lockley
  1972 The Main Chance (TV Series) - Major Donovan
  - Love's Old Sweet Song (1972) ... Major Donovan
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Britten
  - Chain of Events (1971) ... Britten
  1971 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Morell
  - Candida (1971) ... Morell
  1970 Fraud Squad (TV Series) - Bill Garland
  - Golden Island (1970) ... Bill Garland
  1970 The Goodies (TV Series) - Chief Beefeater
  - Tower of London (1970) ... Chief Beefeater
  1970 Up Pompeii! (TV Series) - Jamus Bondus
  - Secret Agents Jamus Bondus (1970) ... Jamus Bondus
  1970 The Executioner - Philip Crawford
  1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - John Mitchell
  - Train and De-Train (1970) ... John Mitchell
  1970 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Mark
  - Games People Play (1970) ... Mark
  1970 Kate (TV Series) - Tom Prentice
  - One Good Turn (1970) ... Tom Prentice
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Sir Hilary Bray
  1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Lord Sutterwick
  1969 Justine - British Ambassador David Mountolive
  1968 The Sex Game (TV Series) - - Women Can Be Monsters (1968)
  1968 Harry Worth (TV Series) - Wing Commander Stebbs
  - Private Pimpernel (1968) ... Wing Commander Stebbs
  1968 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series)
  Commander Benbow (Naval Attaché)
  - Stiff Upper Lip (1968) ... Commander Benbow (Naval Attaché)
  1957-1968 Armchair Theatre (TV Series)
  Kenny Baker / Theodore Quill / Mike / ...
  - Mrs Capper's Birthday (1968) ... Kenny Baker
  - Love Life (1967) ... Theodore Quill
  - The Paraffin Season (1965) ... Mike
  - The Pillars of Midnight (1958) ... Dr. Stephen Monks
  - The Constant Stranger (1957)
  1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Ernest Whipple
  - Happiness Is E Shaped (1968) ... Ernest Whipple
  1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - The New Number Two
  - Arrival (1967) ... The New Number Two
  1967 You Only Live Twice - NASA Engineer (uncredited)
  1967 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Tim Johnson
  - Myself, I have Nothing Against South Ken (1967) ... Tim Johnson
  1967 Seven Deadly Virtues (TV Series) - Martin
  - Surface of Innocence (1967) ... Martin
  1967 Mister Ten Per Cent - Lord Edward
  1965-1967 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Jacques / Louie Summers / Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodson / ...
  - Days in the Trees (1967) ... Jacques
  - The Big Man Coughed and Died (1966) ... Louie Summers
  - Alice (1965) ... Rev Charles Lutwidge Dodson
  - The Navigators (1965) ... Vera
  1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Frank Ashton
  - So Dark the Night (1966) ... Frank Ashton
  1966 ITV Sunday Night Drama (TV Series) - Patrick
  - Four Triumphant: St Patrick (1966) ... Patrick
  1966 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Matthew Hobhouse / Edward Jackson
  - Up and Down (1966) ... Matthew Hobhouse
  - The Queen and Jackson (1966) ... Edward Jackson
  1966 The Master (TV Series short) - Squadron-Leader Frinton
  - Death by Misadventure (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
  - World of Disbelief (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
  - The Squadron Leader (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
  - Behind the Antlers (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
  - Totty McTurk (1966) ... Squadron-Leader Frinton
  1965 Londoners (TV Series) - Bruce
  - Common Ground (1965) ... Bruce
  1965 Undermind (TV Series) - Thallon
  - End Signal (1965) ... Thallon
  1965 Drama 61-67 (TV Series)
  - Drama '65: A Question of Disposal (1965)
  1965 The Sullavan Brothers (TV Series) - Edward Drayton
  - Insufficient Evidence (1965) ... Edward Drayton
  1965 Curse of the Fly - Martin Delambre
  1965 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Bailey
  - The Great Plane Robbery (1965) ... Bailey
  1964 Curtain of Fear (TV Series) - Stewart Caxton 6 episodes
  - The Regan Solution (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
  - The Shand Solution (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
  - The Linton Compact (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
  - The Tannikov Dilemma (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
  - The Liebert Question (1964) ... Stewart Caxton
  1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Geoffrey Harrison
  - Any Other Business (1964) ... Geoffrey Harrison
  1964 Rupert of Hentzau (TV Series) - Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V 6 episodes
  - The Decision of Fate (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll
  - A Perilous Reunion (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll
  - The Wheel of Chance (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V
  - Audience with the King (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V
  - Return to Zenda (1964) ... Rudolf Rassendyll / King Rudolf V
  1964 The Finest Hours (Documentary) - Lord Randolph (voice)
  1964 The Full Man (TV Series documentary) - MacBeth
  - Tragedy (1964) ... MacBeth
  1963 Sword of Lancelot - Sir Gawaine
  1963 It Happened Like This (TV Series) - Miles Standish
  - The Hidden Witness (1963) ... Miles Standish
  1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Cargan
  - Glidepath (1962) ... Cargan
  1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Dominic Père
  - The Simple Case (1961) ... Dominic Père
  1957-1961 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Giorgio / Docker Starkie / Biff Loman / ...
  - Faraway Music (1961) ... Giorgio
  - The Square Ring (1959) ... Docker Starkie
  - Death of a Salesman (1957) ... Biff Loman
  - The Guinea Pig (1957) ... Nigel Lorraine
  1961 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Louis Cornudet
  - Boule de Suif (1961) ... Louis Cornudet
  1961 The Dickie Henderson Show (TV Series)
  - The Exchange Visit (1961)
  1961 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Bill Walker
  - Episode #2.31 (1961) ... Bill Walker
  
  1959 Nick of the River (TV Series) - Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
  - Episode #1.9 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
  - Episode #1.8 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
  - The Mystery of Cabin 5 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
  - Episode #1.6 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
  - Episode #1.5 (1959) ... Det. Insp. D.H.C. 'Nick' Nixon
  Show all 9 episodes
  1958 Tread Softly Stranger - Johnny Mansell
  1958 The Moonraker - The Moonraker
  1958 The Truth About Melandrinos (TV Series) - David Westbrook
  1958 Doomsday for Dyson (TV Movie) - Goltsev
  1957 No Time for Tears - Dr. Nigel Barnes
  1957 Dangerous Youth - Padre
  1957 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Percy French
  - The Last Troubadour (1957) ... Percy French
  1956 Hell in Korea - The National Servicemen: Lt. Butler / Lt Butler
  1956 Adventure Theater (TV Series) - - The Wilful Widow (1956)
  1956 The Extra Day - Steven Marlow
  1956 The Gentle Touch - Jim
  1955 The Woman for Joe - 'Joe Harrop'
  1955 The Dam Busters - Flight Lieutenant D. J. H. Maltby, D.S.O., D.F.C.
  1955 PT Raiders - Bill Randall
  1953 The Intruder - Adjutant
  
  Writer (3 credits)
  
  1991-1998 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) (adaptation - 5 episodes)
  - Road Rage: Part Two (1998) ... (adaptation)
  - Road Rage: Part One (1998) ... (adaptation)
  - The Strawberry Tree: Part 1 (1995) ... (adaptation)
  - The Mouse in the Corner: Part One (1992) ... (adaptation)
  - From Doon with Death: Part One (1991) ... (adaptation)
  1982 Imaginary Friends (TV Movie) (adaptation)
  1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) (screenplay - 1 episode)
  - Fatal Spring (1980) ... (screenplay)
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)
  1992 The Ruth Rendell Mysteries (TV Series) (production associate - 3 episodes)
  - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)
  - The Mouse in the Corner: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)
  - The Speaker of Mandarin: Part One (1992) ... (production associate)
  
  Soundtrack (1 credit)
  
  1987 Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel (TV Movie) (performer: "Three Little Maids from School Are We" (1885), "A Policeman's Lot Is Not A Happy One" (1887) - uncredited)

  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

  
  Photograph: Paul Stuart. Styling: Gareth Scourfield

  
  2021: No Time To Die release in New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.
  2021: Не время умирать (Ne vremya umirat') release in Russia.

  

  
  2022: A Cabbello performs "Bond. James Bond" at Cathedral City, California.

  

  

  Bond James Bond – A Cabbello
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.palmspringslife.com/events/bond-james-bond-a-cabbello/

  2022/2023 Season Kicks Off October 7, 8 & 9 with “Bond. James Bond” Featuring Classic Theme Songs from James Bond / 007 Films.
  
  Coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the first James Bond film, the talented all-male ensemble A Cabbello will perform theme songs from some of the classic 007 films at CV Rep as the kick-off to their 2023 Season.

  “The sweetest words in show business are ‘back by popular demand,'” says Linda Moran, Artistic Director for A Cabbello. “The audience response earlier this year to our first live concert in a theatre in two years was overwhelming and emotional. We’re thrilled to start our fall season featuring the theme music from the classic James Bond films.”

  Founded in 2016, A Cabbello is the Coachella Valley’s premiere all-male vocal ensemble. A Cabbello is committed to pursuing excellent, fervent and innovative music-makingwith the message of love, hope and unity, that fosters an enlightening artistic andspiritual experience for our members and audiences.
  
  Date Oct 07 - 09 2022
  Time 8:00 am - 6:00 pm
  
  Cost See The Website
  
  Location
  CVRep Theatre Cathedral City
  68510 East Palm Canyon Drive, Cathedral City, CA, USA

  A Cabbello is gearing up for their James Bond themed performance (3:40)
  

  
  2022: Film at 11 on KBOO discusses From Russia With Love.

  

  

  From Film at 11, comes love for From Russia With
  Love, on Friday October 7 2022

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://kboo.fm/media/111186-film-11-comes-love-russia-love-friday-october-7-2022

  Hosted by: Doug Holm
  Produced by: KBOO
  Program:: Film at 11
  
  Air date:
  Fri, 10/07/2022 - 10:30am to 11:00am
  
  More Images:

  This week we are joined by Matthew of KBOO's Gremlin Time for a full episode to discuss the second James Bond fim, From Russia With Love, on the occasion of the British Film Institute's new monograph on the film, published on October 6.

  
  
  

  
  2022: Amazon Prime and Threevee stream the Bond documentary The Sound of 007.

  The Sound of 007 (October 7)
  

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

  

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

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

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

  
  

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

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Appointment in Macau

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

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

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 17 Appointment in Macau
  

  

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

  
  
  

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

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

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

  WWW.IANFLEMING.COM

  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  
  
  

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

  

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

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  By Sam Warner | 08/10/2016

  
  Sony Pictures

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

  
  Randy Holmes / ABCGetty Images

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

  
  

  
  2021: No Time To Die release in Canada, Iceland, and the US.
  
  2022: The Music of James Bond by Candlelight at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. [Sold Out]

  

  

  The Music of James Bond by Candlelight at St.
  Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.tickettailor.com/events/kindadustyltd/702690/?fbclid=IwAR1IesXZvF8AnXCC0PwW54kEXxp1c2IztVOLBQfRl6sAHyj-kVPtMBV-JW4

  Sat 8 Oct 2022 8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
  Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, D08 H6X3

  The Music of James Bond by Candlelight comes to Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin!
  
  From Russia With Love comes this incredible night of best loved Bond themes, performed in the beautiful St Patricks Cathedral, Dublin by candlelight.
  
  Featuring a live cast of West End singers accompanied by an incredible live band, experience the music of James Bond as you have never heard it before- truly Nobody Does It Better!
  
  Guaranteed to leave you on an All Time High, this concert will feature some of the most iconic songs of all time including Goldeneye, Tomorrow Never Dies, A View to A Kill, Diamonds Are Forever, Skyfall and many more!
  
  Book now and join us and The Man With The Golden Gun for an incredible night of music that will leave you shaken, not stirred.

  Premium VIP Tickets are for front pew seats in front of the stage. Price: 50 EUR*
  
  Band A Tickets are in the first block of seating in front of the stage behind the pews.
  Price: 45 EUR*
  Band B Tickets are in the second centre block of seating from the stage behind the pews.
  Price: 40 EUR*
  Band C are at the rear of the Cathedral, still with a clear central view of the stage.
  Price: 35 EUR*
  Band D are for side view seats of the stage in the West sides of the North and South Transepts.
  Price: 30 EUR*
  Band E are rear side views with some viewing restrictions due to speakers and staging.
  Price: 25 EUR*
  *subject to booking fee
  
  All seating is general admission and seats will be allocated on a first come first served basis on the evening, within the block that you have purchased tickets for.
  Doors open at 7.15pm.
  
  TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE AND NON-EXCHANGEABLE
  Food and drink are not permitted in the Cathedral.
  
  Location
  Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, D08 H6X3
  Sold out

  
  2022: James Bond Meets Rachmaninoff presented by Irving Symphony Orchestra at Irving, Texas.

  

  James Bond Meets Rachmaninoff Presented by
  Irving Symphony Orchestra

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.irvingartscenter.com/events/james-bond-meets-rachmaninoff-presented-by-irving-symphony-orchestra/?occurrence=2022-10-08

  The Irving Symphony Orchestra’s spectacular 2022-2023 season opens with an evening featuring the iconic music from James Bond 007 movies; a musical glance at a famous 19th century hero; a world premiere; and one of the most romantic piano concertos of all time, performed by internationally acclaimed piano virtuoso Sheng Cai.

  Box Office Hours:
  Tuesday – Saturday: Noon to 5:00 p.m. and 1 hour prior to performances
  Contact: 972.252.2787 (ARTS)
  
  Details Oct 08 2022
  Time 7:30 pm
  
  Venue
  Carpenter Hall
  3333 North MacArthur Blvd. Irving, TX 75062 United States
  
  Organizer
  Irving Symphony Orchestra

  

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

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

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

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

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

  
  

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

  

  If I were prime minister, by Ian Fleming

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

  

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

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

  
  

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

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

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Lamp of Darkness

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

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 18 - Lamp of Darkness
  
  

  

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

  

  

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

  
  
  
  

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

  
  

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

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  

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

  
  Photo: Rex Features

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

  
  Photo: Rex Features

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

  
  Photo: Rex Features

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

  
  Photo: Rex Features

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

  
  Photo: Rex Features

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

  
  Photo: Rex Features

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

  
  Photo: Rex Features

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

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

  

  

  Duo were 'privileged' to renew 007 story

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

  
  2022: The Bonds Girls celebrates 60 years of James Bond Music at the Skokie Theatre, Illinois.

  

  

  THE BOND GIRLS
  celebrating 60 years
  of James Bond Music

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.skokietheatre.org/bond.html

  Sun, Oct 9 7pm
  Tickets: $30
  
  2022 marks the 60th anniversary of James Bond films.

  To celebrate this event, Daryl Nitz Entertainment has created a concert featuring some of Chicago’s top female vocalists. Joining Daryl in the celebration is Lou Ella Rose, Laura Freeman, Lynne Jordan, Liz Mandeville, LaShera Moore Ellis, Marianne Murphy Orland, Margaret Murphy Webb, with music direction and vocals by Beckie Menzie and Irwin Berkowitz on percussion.
  
  The songs include From Russia with Love, Thunderball, Diamonds Are Forever, Live And Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, Nobody Does It Better, Skyfall, the quintessential Bond theme, Goldfinger and more!
  
  Come be a part of the Bond Celebration!

  

  
  2022: From France With Love presented by Club James Bond France celebrates their 25th and Bond's 60th cruise on the Seine River, Paris, France.

  
  

  From France With Love 2022 Information

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://fancons.com/events/info/19541/from-france-with-love-2022

  FanCons.com Conventions From France With Love 2022
  
  October 9, 2022
  River Seine
  Paris, France
  
  TV Convention

  We are pleased to announce that the brand new special event of Club James Bond France "From France With Love" will take place on Sunday, October 9, 2022 in Paris.
  
  You will enjoy an idyllic cruise on the Seine river to celebrate the 25th anniversary of our Club and of course the 60th anniversary of one famous character.

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  October 2022 Posts: 13,785

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

  

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

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

  Fågelkvinnorna
  ("The Bird Women" - The Harpies)
  

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

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

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

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

  
  1979: Moonraker released in France.

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

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

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Hostile Takeover

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

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 19 - Hostile Takeover
  
  

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

  

  News Roundup: Oct. 9

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

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

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

  
  
  

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

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

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

  
  
  

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

  

  Dan Meaden (1935–2011)

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

  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  
  

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

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Cruise to Oblivion

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

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

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 20 - Cruise to Oblivion
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  multimedia exhibition

  BOND by GQ

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

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

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

  

  Daliah Lavi obituary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1962: Dr. No released in Ireland.

  
  

  

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

  

  To continue Bond series

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  CHRIS CORNELL Inspired By TOM JONES For
  JAMES BOND Theme

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

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

  

  James Bond auction raises $2.6 million

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

  

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

  

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

  
  Entertainment News
  

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

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

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

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

  

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

  

  JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #1
  (OF 6)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  
  

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

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

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

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

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

  
  
  
  

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

  

  Cyril Shaps (1923–2003)

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

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

  
  

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

  

  
  1972: Live and Let Die films a boat chase on the Irish Bayou, Louisiana.
  
  1997: Sony Pictures Entertainment Company and partner Kevin McClory announce their plan to remake Thunderball. Again. Rumored title: Warhead 2000.
  
  2008: Benjamin Pratt's book Ian Fleming's Seven Deadlier Sins & 007's Moral Compass published in paperback.

  

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

  

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

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

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

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

  

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

  

  

  Aston Martin Valhalla Rushes Into Rocket
  League

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

  Rocket League - Aston Martin Valhalla de No Time To Die
  
  
  
  

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

  

  JAMES BOND: HIMEROS #1

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

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: The Cinema and Camana Bay Big Screen screen GoldenEye at George Town, Cayman Islands.

  

  Classics
  Thurs October 13 @ 7:00PM
  Golden Eye - PG-13

  See the complete article here:
  
  

  https://www.bigscreen.ky/nowshowing

  Oct 13 2022

  When a deadly satellite weapon system falls into the wrong hands, only Agent James Bond 007 (Pierce Brosnan) can save the world from certain disaster. Armed with his licence to kill, Bond races to Russia in search of the stolen access codes for "GoldenEye", an awesome space weapon that can fire a devastating electromagnetic pulse toward Earth. But 007 is up against an enemy who anticipates his every move: a mastermind motivated by years of simmering hatred. Bond also squares off against Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), an assassin who uses pleasure as her ultimate weapon.

  

  
  2022: The Regent Theatre screens No Time To Die at Yarram, Victoria, Australia.

  

  MOVIE - NO TIME TO DIE

  See the complete article here:
  
  

  https://www.regenttheatreyarram.com/calendar/2022/10/13/thursday-movie-a-time-to-die

  Thursday, October 13, 2022
  7:00 PM 10:00 PM
  James Bond - No Time To Die
  
  Doors open 6:45pm - All tickets $10
  
  Bar/Kiosk open

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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

  

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

  

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

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

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

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

  
  

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

  
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

  

  James Bond Jr - A Race Against Disaster

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

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

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 21 - A Race Against Disaster
  
  
  

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

  

  Bond vs. Bond?

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Craig crowned as new James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  Rutherford & Tomasetti Travel Writers

  007 on the Silver Meteor, by Tristan Rutherford

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Daily Telegraph, 13 October 2019

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

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

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

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

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Travel/2019/October/GettyImages-514391113.jpg?imwidth=1240
  The Susquehanna river is visible from the train's panoramic windows Credit: Getty

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

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

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

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

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

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/Travel/2019/October/charleston-church.jpg?imwidth=1240
  Charleston Credit: Getty

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

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  Savannah: a dazzling showcase of Southern charm Credit: Getty

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

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  The final destination: sunny Miami Credit: Getty

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

  

  
  2021: Independent Regent Street Cinema in London hosts a half-hour conversation with screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade at 7:30 pm before screening No Time To Die.

  

  

  Bond screenwriters set for London Q&A in October

  See the complete article here:
  

  16th September 2021 | by Simon Brew | 1 Comment
  
  Get insight into No Time To Die and support an independent London cinema at the same time: more details right here.
  
  Here’s an event to put on the radar of James Bond fans. The terrific Regent Street Cinema in London is a one-screen independent that’s attracted quite an evening on October 14th.

  It’s putting on a screening of the new 007 adventure No Time To Die, as many cinemas around the country will of course be doing. But on this particular evening, it’s attracted James Bond screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade for a half-hour Q&A before the movie starts.
  
  The pair had co-written seven James Bond films, and they’ll be chatting to Rhianna Dillon at the special event.

  It all starts at 7.30pm on the night, and tickets are available right here.
  https://www.regentstreetcinema.com/whats-on/no-time-to-die-qa-with-bonds-screenwriters/
  Image: BigStock

  
  2022: Barbara Broccoli recalls Roger Moore.

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  2022: Diamonds are Forever - the Let’s Bond Urban Ball at the majestic Salon 1861, Montreal. Quebec.

  

  

  Urban Ball - Let's Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://fondationjeunesentete.org/en/evenements/10th-edition-of-the-urban-ball-by-lets-bond/

  Friday, October 14th, 2022
  Dive into the world of James Bond

  The Urban Ball by Let’s Bond is finally back on Friday, October 14th, 2022, at Richmond 1861. This year, let yourself be transported into the world of the iconic James Bond character, inspired by the movie Diamonds are Forever. 💎

  The funds raised since the creation of the Let’s Bond Collective in 2011, have allowed us to maintain and sustain :

  • Our mental health prevention workshops, offered free of charge in Quebec high schools.
  • Our webseries
  • Our online tools dedicated to teens, parents and teachers.

  
  Each year, nearly 52,000 teenagers are better equipped to face life’s challenges and maintain a healthy mental health.

  
  
  

  

  BOND Urban Ball 2022

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://bestkeptmontreal.com/lets-bond-22-urban-ball-diamonds-are-forever/

  
  Diamonds Are Forever @ LET’S BOND Urban Ball 2022
  Friday, October 7, 2022
  Diamonds
  V
  
  With the theme Diamonds are Forever, the Let’s Bond Urban Ball is back for a 10th edition! This annual fundraising gala for mental health will take place Friday night, October 14, at the majestic Salon 1861.

  

  As doors of this beautifully transformed Little Burgundy church open wide, guests will be ushered into an extraordinary and entertaining experience, in a magical decor and a very festive ambiance.
  
  Delicious canapés prepared by Montreal’s leading restaurants…
  
  …and high-end open bar stations will be offered during the entirety of the night.
  
  Inspired by the classic James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, this year’s theme will teleport guests in a bright and exciting universe, tinted with 70s surprises.
  
  So it’s your opportunity to go all out by wearing Bond-style outfits — from the subtle to the glamorous — for this promising night. Hint: Diamonds are a girl’s best friend! 💎

  

  Mission: Possible!
  The Urban Ball! In Style with Holt Renfrew Ogilvy! The Derby! Let’s Bond is a Montreal collective of young professionals stimulating dialogue around mental illness by creating unforgettable events. Since 2011, Let’s Bond has raised over $2,690,500 to support local mental health outreach programs of Fondation Jeunes en Tête and research by the Douglas Foundation.

  Why? Because mental illness affects 1 of 6 person in Quebec and falls on anyone without warning at any time. Therefore, Let’s Bond wants us to come together to overcome the taboos surrounding this malady and improve quality of life of sufferers and their families.
  
  So the Best Kept Montreal family encourages you to join the cause and make this Let’s Bond event an unforgettable success!
  
  Here is what you need to know about the Diamonds Are Forever Let’s Bond Urban Ball 2022
  
  Date: Friday, October 14
  VIP Cocktail Time: 7 PM — 9:30 PM
  Urban Ball Time: 9:30 PM — 3 AM
  Location: Le Salon 1861 | 550 Richmond St, Montreal, QC H3J 1V3
  
  Tickets: General Admission tickets are sold out! However, Big Donor duo tickets are still available for purchase online and enable you and your date to attend the VIP cocktail, starting at 7 PM, and stay for the Urban Ball. A tax receipt will be issued in the name of the individual making the transaction.
  
  Dress Code: Glamour! All guests must be dressed in formal attire, ideally with diamonds as accessories, to be allowed access to the ball. Ladies, take advantage of a 15% discount on your dress rental at Maison LPRN. Please book your appointment in advance and show your Let’s Bond ticket.
  Website: letsbond.ca | Facebook: @Lets.Bond | Instagram: @lets_bond | Twitter: @Lets_Bond
  Photo credit: Let’s Bond

  Welcome to Taj Lake Palace - Let's Bond 2019 (2:09)
  

  
  2022: The New York Public Library screens No Time To Die at New York City, New York.

  

  Friday Films: No Time to Die

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2022/10/14/friday-films-no-time-die

  Date and Time
  Friday, October 14, 2022, 1 - 4 PM
  End times are approximate. Events may end early or late.
  
  Location
  Grand Concourse Library
  Partially accessible to wheelchairs
  
  Event Details

  James Bond’s post-retirement life in Jamaica is disrupted when an old CIA friend requests his assistance in rescuing a kidnapped scientist. The unexpectedly treacherous mission leads him to a confrontation with an enigmatic nemesis—and a dangerous new technology.

  2021, Rated: PG-13, 2 hr 43 mins

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

  

  Robbie Coltrane death: Harry Potter and James Bond star
  dies aged 72

  See the complete article here:
  

  CultureFilmNews
  Tom Murray | 14 October 2022
  
  Robbie Coltrane, the Scottish actor best known for playing half-giant Rubeus Hagrid in the Harry Potter film franchise, has died aged 72.
  
  His agent of 40 years, Belinda Wright, confirmed the news on Friday 14 October. A cause of death has not yet been revealed.
  
  Wright thanked the medical staff at Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert, near Falkirk in Scotland, for their “care and diplomacy”.
  
  In a statement, she added: “Robbie was a unique talent, sharing the Guinness Book of Records’ Award for winning three consecutive Best Actor Baftas...
  
  “For me personally, I shall remember him as an abidingly loyal client as well as being a wonderful actor. He was forensically intelligent, brilliantly witty and after 40 years of being proud to be called his Agent, I shall miss him.”
  

  Aside from the towering, wizarding half-giant Hagrid, Coltrane also starred in two James Bond films as ex-KGB intelligence officer Valentin Zukovsky. The Russian mafia head was a recurring ally of Pierce Brosnan’s 007 in Goldeneye (1995) and The World is Not Enough (1999).

  
  Coltrane as the imposing Rubeus Hagrid
  (Warner Bros)

  He will also be remembered for his breakout role as Dr Edward “Fitz” Fitzgerald in Jimmy McGovern’s ITV series Cracker, which ran between 1993 and 2006.
  
  The actor was born Anthony Robert McMillan on 30 March, 1950, in Glasgow, Scotland.
  
  After graduating from Glasgow School of Art, Coltrane pursued a career in comic acting, beginning his career alongside Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, and Emma Thompson in the sketch series Alfresco in 1983.
  
  Fry was among the first of a raft of actors to pay tribute to the late star.

  “I first met Robbie Coltrane almost exactly 40 years ago,” Fry wrote on Twitter. “I was awe/terror/love struck all at the same time. Such depth, power & talent: funny enough to cause helpless hiccups & honking as we made our first TV show, ‘Alfresco’. Farewell, old fellow. You’ll be so dreadfully missed.”

  In 2006, Coltrane was appointed an OBE in the New Year Honours by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to drama and in 2011, was awarded the Bafta Scotland Award for outstanding contribution to film.
  
  The actor is survived by his sister Annie Rae, his children Spencer and Alice and their mother Rhona Gemmell.

  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  
  
  

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

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  

  James Bond Jr - The Inhuman Race

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

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

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 22 - The Inhuman Race
  
  

  
  

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

  

  

  James Bond 007: From Russia with Love

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

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

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

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

  
  
  
  

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

  

  Rik Van Nutter

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

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

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

  Career

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

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

  

  Rik Van Nutter (1929–2005)

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

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

  
  
  

  
  2012: The Olive Press proposes Bond just isn't the same in Spain.

  

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

  2012: Sir Roger Moore declares the Best Bond Ever.

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

  

  Roger Moore stage opened at Pinewood Studios

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Moore's Bond movies

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

  
  
  

  
  2022: The Yarrow Hotel is hosting a James Bond themed Murder Mystery with the fabulous Gumshoe Supper Theatre at Broadstairs, Kent, England.

  THE ISLE OF THANET
  NEWS

  Murder Mystery

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://theisleofthanetnews.com/2022/10/14/22-things-to-see-and-do-in-thanet-october-15-16/

  The Yarrow Hotel is hosting a James Bond themed Murder Mystery with the fabulous Gumshoe Supper Theatre on October 15. Start time 6:30pm
  
  Set in a hotel during the swinging 60s, James Blond is summoned by M to protect a newly married German scientist who worked for the Nazis during WW2. When the scientist is found dead in the honeymoon suite, Blond has very limited time to discover the murderer before the Cold War becomes even colder! Year 1965.
  
  Do you think you have what is takes to be sleuth of the evening?

  £50pp [email protected].

  

  
  2022: Red Carpet James Bond Theme Charity Casino Evening with live music at Bank House Hotel, Bransford, Worcester, England.

  

  Oct 15
  Casino Night

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/casino-night-tickets-392967515417

  Sophisticated James Bond theme Casino evening at a stylish hotel venue, just on the outskirts of Worcester - dress to impress!
  By Nicky Langford
  
  When and where
  Date and time
  Sat, 15 October 2022, 19:00 – 23:30 BST
  
  Location
  The Bank House Hotel, Bransford, Worcester Bransford Road Worcester WR6 5JD United Kingdom
  
  Refund Policy
  Refunds up to 7 days before event
  
  About this event

  We are bringing a little of Las Vegas and James Bond to Worcester!
  
  Enjoy this wonderful evening of sophisticated entertainment with a variety of tables and activities to enjoy, whilst raising essential funds for our children with cancer fund. There will be roulette, black jack and poker.
  
  Arrival from 7 pm on the red carpet and enjoy a glass of bubbly on arrival. A selection of canapes will be served (including vegetarian option)
  
  Live music all evening!

  Tickets £35 - over 18's only (includes $100 of playing chips)
  
  Additional playing chips can be purchased from £10
  
  The tables will operate from 8 pm to 11 pm with carriages by 11.30 pm
  
  Only 100 tickets available so please book early to avoid disappointment.
  
  Dress code: Black Tie - dress to impress!

  

  
  2022: Masquerade on The Moshulu on the Delaware River, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  

  

  Masquerade on The Moshulu

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://ediblephilly.ediblecommunities.com/event/masquerade-moshulu

  Masquerade on The Moshulu
  October 15-16, 2022

  The name is Bond... James Bond - 007.
  
  This message is for your eyes and your eyes only. Please listen closely. On October 15th, 2022 at exactly 22:00 hours your mission is to arrive at the Delaware River and board the Moshulu for a Masquerade party. This is a covert mission, so wear proper attire and your favorite fragrance to charm your way past security and onto the vessel. Please be advised that this will be a sophisticated and entertaining gathering of the biggest players in the city. So if you should arrive on time, be prepared to mingle with the finest. I wish you luck on your mission. And bond... complete this mission and you will be invited to more in the future. Upgrade to VIP and a mask will be supplied to you at the door along with a complimentary drink.

  Where:
  On the beautiful waterfront of the Delaware River at the historic vessel, The Moshulu. Dance the night away on the enclosed heated decks with an amazing view of the city.
  
  What's Included:
  Live DJ Entertainment
  Multiple Party Decks
  Indoor / Outdoor with Heated Tents
  Swag and party favors
  The hottest crowd on the most upscale boat experience in Philadelphia!
  
  Tickets:
  General Admission (includes cover charge and boat access)
  VIP Admission (also includes a mask and 1 free drink)
  Ticket prices will likely sell out and not be available at the door, but check back to this page for day-of ticket sales pricing. All sales final, event is rain / snow or shine.
  
  REFUND AND CANCELLATION POLICY
  
  All tickets purchased for "Masquerade on the Moshulu" are final. WE REPEAT, ALL TICKET SALES ARE FINAL. THERE SHALL BE NO TICKET REFUNDS AND/OR TICKET EXCHANGES FOR FUTURE DATES OR EVENTS. All tickets are delivered via tracked delivery email. This is a "Rain / Snow / Heat or Shine" indoor/outdoor event. Ticket prices are subject to change and increase at any time. If you have issues with your order, please contact the organizer at the link above.
  
  In the event of a cancellation of this event, for reasons that include, but may not limited to, situations outside of our control, governmental acts, acts of God, riots, production delays, hazardous conditions, strikes, natural disasters, local emergencies, health crisis, inclement weather of any type, or inaccessibility or unavailability of the Venue, we may, in our sole and absolute discretion elect to either, (a) issue you a full or partial refund, (b) postpone the Event for a future date, (c) offer you something to "make good" on your purchase, and/or (d) any combination of (a), (b), and/or (c).
  
  At all times prior to the event, we reserve all rights to cancel or postpone the Event or to change times and dates of the Event, or other event details without prior notice to purchaser or ticket holder. Cancellation of the event may take place either prior to the start of the event or at any time while the event is taking place. Delayed venue gate openings and/or the inability to access any parts of the venue or event due to federal, state, municipal or other code regulations, our policies, emergency and/or partial or complete event shutdown or evacuation, performance or event delays, inclement weather, and potentially hazardous conditions for attendees, volunteers, or staff, purchaser or ticket holder shall not be entitled to any type of refund or future credit. Again, under no circumstances shall you be entitled to any type of refund or exchange. If we elect to issue a refund, which is in our sole and absolute discretion, the purchaser shall be refunded an amount up to the face value of the ticket(s) only. If we elect to reschedule the event for a future date or provide any other sort of compensation, either monetary or other tangible items of value, or a combination of both, purchaser shall not be entitled to any amount of refund or future credit. Under no circumstances shall Purchaser be entitled to a refund of any shipping, handling, ticketing, or other processing or service fees. These terms are subject to change at any time.
  
  Date: October 15-16, 2022 9:00 PM-2:00 AM
  
  Location: Moshulu | 401 South Christopher Columbus Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19106
  
  Admission:
  Prices:
  General Admission: USD 15.00,
  VIP: USD 25.00
  
  Event website: go.evvnt.com

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: Bond on the Rocks at The Allendale Centre, Minster Theatre, Wimborne, England. (Cancelled)

  

  Bond On The Rocks

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/wimborne/the-allendale-centre-minster-theatre/bond-on-the-rocks/e-lpbrbo

  The Allendale Centre, Minster Theatre, Wimborne, BH21 1AS
  Sat 15th October 2022

  Bond On The Rocks is a 9 piece band that will shake and stir you through the music of James Bond.
  
  From the James Bond theme to No Time To Die and everything in between, the show will take you on a journey through the musical life of James Bond. With years of experience between them as recording and performing musicians, Bond On The Rocks offers the highest quality musicianship for your entertainment.
  
  Nobody Does It Better than Bond On The Rocks.

  Bond On The Rocks
  Sat 15 Oct 2022, 7:30PM
  The Allendale Centre, Minster Theatre
  Wimborne
  Live Music (Other)
  Tickets sold by TicketSource (CANCELLED)

  

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

  

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

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

  Anthony Hayward | Wednesday 13 October 2010 00:00

  

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

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

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

  
  
  

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

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Live and Let Dance

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

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

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 23 - Live and Let Dance
  
  
  Paperback

  

  
  1992: Vladek Sheybal dies at age 69--London, England.
  (Born 12 March 1923--Zgierz, Lódzkie, Poland.)

  Vladek Sheybal Online

  https://www.vladeksheybal.com/

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

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

  THE FAB INTERVIEW
  VLADEK SHEYBAL
  UFO - DOCTOR DOUG JACKSON

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  Vladek Sheybal (1923–1992)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792996/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  

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

  

  Deborah Kerr

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

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

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

  

  Deborah Kerr

  (I) (1921–2007)
  Actress | Soundtrack
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000039/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  

  
  The King and I
  
  Agent Mimi (Alias Lady Fiona). Casino Royale
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  

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

  

  

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

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

  

  
  2020: A new Penfold Heart golf ball comes available.

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

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

  
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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  October 2022 edited October 2022 Posts: 13,785

  October 17th
  
  1959: Ivar Bryce is impressed by Fleming's second screen treatment for Thunderball, though he shares criticisms.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

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

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

  Original 31 December 1961 review.

  

  Dr. No

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

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

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

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

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

  

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

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

  
  

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

  

  

  James Bond Jr - The Sword of Power

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

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

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

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

  
  

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

  

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Julius Harris (1923–2004)

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

  
  
  

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

  
  
  

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

  

  James Bond: The Body (2018) Vol. 1

  https://www.comixology.co.uk/James-Bond-The-Body-2018-Vol-1/digital-comic/704425?ref=Y29taWMvdmlldy9kZXNrdG9wL3NsaWRlckxpc3Qvc2VyaWVz
  
  "As Bond undergoes a post-mission medical examination, he relays the story of his previous mission to the examiner. Each cut, bruise, and broken bone connected to a specific event of the mission. A connection is made between two people with different purposes: one to save lives, the other to take them. PART TWO - THE BRAIN James Bond leads the interrogation of a scientist who allowed a lethal virus to be stolen. But when the investigation takes a surprising turn, Bond begins to question whether he is enough. PART THREE - THE GUT One sauna. Twenty Neo-Nazis. One Bond. James Bond. This weapons deal won't go according to plan. PART FOUR - THE HEART On the run from a lethal antagonist, weaponless and wounded deep in the Highlands, Bond finds solace with a woman who exchanged her job as a doctor and a life in the city for a cottage and solitary life of a writer. Can Bond find a quiet peace unlike he has known before or will his life choices catch up with him? AND MORE…"

  
  
  
  

  2019: Gloria Hendry sings jazz versions of Bond title songs and other standards on Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood.

  

  https://www.007travelers.com/events/007-event-songs-of-bond-feat-gloria-hendry-and-the-jimmy-mcconnell-18-piece-orchestra-17-october-2019/
  
  
  http://jamesbondradio.com/event-report-gloria-hendrys-jazz-tribute-to-the-songs-of-james-bond-by-matthew-chernov/
  

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

  

  Coldplay Have Five Unreleased James Bond Themes
  

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

  
  

  
  2022: James Bond Moviethon at Portland, Oregon.

  

  James Bond Moviethon

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  https://25livepub.collegenet.com/events-calendar/or/portland/keith-user-conference-2022-comprehensive-calendar

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  Event Name: James Bond Moviethon. Organization: STUDENT AFFAIRS. Expected Headcount: 150. Categories: CSV Import, Film Series Calendar. Featured Events: Film Series. Monday, October 17, 2022, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM. Macadam Student Center - Ballroom B.

  James Bond Moviethon Monday, October 17, 2022, 7 – 11 PM
  https://25livepub.collegenet.com/calendars/keith-user-conference-2022-comprehensive-calendar?eventid=669577004
  Location Macadam Student Center - Ballroom B
  Event type Film / Movie
  Event Name James Bond Moviethon
  Organization STUDENT AFFAIRS
  Expected Headcount 150
  Categories CSV Import, Film Series Calendar
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  1898: Lotte Lenya (Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blaumauer) is born--Vienna-Penzing, Austria Hungary.
  (She dies 27 November 1981 at age 83--New York City, New York.)

  

  Lotte Lenya

  See the complete article here:
  
  https://masterworksbroadway.com/artist/lotte-lenya/[/center]

  

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

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

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

  

  Lotte Lenya (1898–1981)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  Anthony Dawson

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Anthony Dawson (I) (1916–1992)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  Earl Jolly Brown

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Earl Jolly Brown (1939–2006)

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

  
  
  
  

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

  
  

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

  

  

  James Bond Jr - It's All in the Timing

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

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

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

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

  
  
  

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

  

  JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #4
  (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026017804011
  
  Cover A: Greg Smallwood
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: October 2017
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 10/18

  As 007 closes in on rogue agent Rika Van De Havik, a deadly drone attack strikes at the heart of Europe. Russia's covert ops agency SMERSH is plotting to split NATO - by pitting Britain's MI6 against the CIA!

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2021: Anthony Lane in The New Yorker writes about One For the The Road and "James Bond's Heavy Heart in No Time To Die". (Spoilers)

  

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

  
  
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  October 19th
  
  1931: Ian Fleming begins his association with Reuters.

  

  Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycett, 1995.

  ...On 7 October Ian travelled along
  the Thames to the Reuters office on the Embankent at the end of
  Carmelite Street, close to Blackfriars Bridge. There, on the first floor, he
  was interviewed again, and then by Cecil Fleetwood May, a wireless technician
  who, following the introduction of the City ticker-tape three years earlier,
  was beginning to develop the business information side of the service.
  Both were impressed by the young man's qualities. Rickatson-Hiatt, a
  former Coldstream Guards officer, with a clipped moustache and a
  monacle, had worked with Associated Press in the United States and was
  keen to introduce AP's speed and efficiency to European news-gathering
  operations. He reported to Jones that Ian was "quite the right type and
  seemed most intelligent". He added, "After leaving Eton, he went to
  Sandhurst. He will therefore know the value and importance of discipline."
  Rickatson-Hiatt suggested that Ian should be hired initially on a trial basis
  for one month without pay.
  
  The aspiring young journalist started work at Reuters on Monday, 19
  October 1931. In the circumstances, Ian was particularly anxious to do
  well and within a couple of days Rickatson-Hiatt was commending the
  new recruit to Sir Roderick. His only negative comment was that Ian
  suffered from a slight Foreign Office "bum". He promised, however, that
  "you can depend on us to put some pep into him before many days have
  gone by." The Reuters chef also had Ian's praises heaped on him from
  another source. Ever mindful of her maternal duties, Eve Fleming wrote
  to thank him for taking her son on, gushing, "He has great character and
  is supposed to be very intelligent, though I ought not to say so!" She
  dissembled slightly when she said she was disappointed that Ian was
  not trying again for the Forein Office since he had never been expected
  to get in first time round.
  
  After his month's trial, Ian was judged a success and offered a permanent
  post at a salary of £150 a year. ...

  1931: Spy novelist John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell) is born--Poole, Dorset, England.
  (He dies 12 December 2020 at age 89--Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, England.

  

  Ian Fleming vs John Le Carré
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.intelligencesquared.com/events/ian-fleming-vs-john-le-carre-anthony-horowitz-and-david-farr/

  Listen to the podcast [link no longer active]
  
  Following the wild popularity of our previous cultural combat events, Intelligence Squared turned to the two giants of spy fiction. Which of them should wear the laurels?
  
  They are the titans of the spy novel, who have elevated thrillers to the level of literary fiction. Much imitated, much adapted by the big and small screens, Ian Fleming and John Le Carré have painted our picture of post-war espionage: Fleming through the dashing figure of James Bond, with his lush locations and Martinis as icy as his heart; Le Carré through his damning portrait of the British secret service drawn from his own time in MI5 and MI6. But which of the two novelists is the greater?
  
  In this thrilling contest, Fleming’s case was made by Anthony Horowitz, creator of the bestselling Alex Rider spy novels and author of the official Bond continuation novel Trigger Mortis. Championing Le Carré – whose memoir about his life as a former spy currently sits in the bestseller lists – was David Farr, Emmy-nominated screenwriter of the BBC’s adaptation of The Night Manager.

  ‘Fleming is one of the very few writers – Charles Dickens and JK Rowling might be two others – who have transcended fiction, who have created stories that capture a particular time and place, that are universally recognisable and that are, it would seem, immortal,’ says Horowitz. ‘George Smiley is a fascinating character. James Bond is an icon. That’s the difference.’

  By contrast, pointing to Le Carré’s own experiences in the secret service, Farr says: ‘John Le Carré turns espionage into existentialism. His canvas is betrayal — of the realm and of the heart. His greatness comes from the personal nature of that exploration.’
  
  To illustrate their arguments, Horowitz and Farr called on a cast of actors to bring the novels to life.
  
  Featuring
  Anthony Horowitz, Bestselling author
  David Farr. Screenwriter, playwright and director
  Simon Callo, Acclaimed actor, writer and director
  Matthew Lewis, Film, television and stage actor
  Alex Macqueen, One of the UK’s best known comedy actors
  Lesley Manville, Bafta-nominated film and theatre actress
  
  Chair
  Erica Wagner, Author and novelist

  Ian Fleming vs John le Carré (1:27:08)
  

  
  1964: Comic strip for Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 23 October.)
  1966: You Only Live Twice films Bond getting married.
  
  1988: Licence to Kill films villain Sanchez explaining his caper.
  
  2005: IGN interviews Martin Campbell on Casino Royale.

  

  Interview: Campbell on Casino
  Royale
  The director talks Bond!

  https://uk.ign.com/articles/2005/10/19/interview-campbell-on-casino-royale
  By Jeff Otto | 19 Oct 2005 2:48 pm
  
  The James Bond news machine is heating up with the recent announcement (finally!) of the lead actor to portray Bond in Casino Royale, Daniel Craig. The film is to begin shooting soon and the release date is now set for November 17, 2006.
  
  This weekend IGN FilmForce had the chance to question Royale helmer Martin Campbell at the press day for his latest film, the upcoming Sony sequel Legend of Zorro, which releases on the 28th of this month.
  
  Though Campbell and everyone else involved is still remaining tight-lipped about the specifics of James Bonds' 21st big screen adventure (not counting the original Casino Royale or Never Say Never Again), Campbell answered as many questions as he could this weekend and shed at least a bit of light on the upcoming spy flick.

  
  Craig as Bond

  Q: Did you have any input in the selection of Mr. Craig?
  
  MARTIN CAMPBELL: Oh, yeah.
  
  
  Q. Is there going to be anything of the novel in the movie?
  
  CAMPBELL: A lot of it, yeah.
  
  Q: How are you going to handle the genital flogging scene from the book?
  
  CAMPBELL: Very interesting. You're the second person who's asked that. I think I'll do it in close up. (Laughs) There are a lot of women who will love that. I've got to get PG-13, so it's a very interesting dilemma.
  
  Q: Every time they have gone from a popular Bond and replaced him, the films have not been as successful. How do you avoid that?
  
  CAMPBELL: I dunno. You just do the best movie you can make. It's as simple as that.
  
  Q: Why do you think Craig will make a great Bond?
  
  CAMPBELL: Because, first of all, he's a great actor. And I think it's in Casino Royale, where Fleming said he looked like Hoagie Carmichael, which is a very interesting comparison. And he's a very interesting looking guy and I think he has all the attributes to make a grittier and tougher bond. A much more interesting – just different and more interesting in my view.
  
  Q[/b]: It seems every time they say that the story is overwhelmed by all those gadgets.
  
  CAMPBELL: Well, first of all there are no gadgets in the first one. So, how about that?
  
  Q: So is it mostly the title being used and the basic plot rather than specifics from the book?
  
  CAMPBELL: The only thing you can't use from the book – I don't know how many of you have read it – it was written in 1953 [and] was set against the Cold War. In fact, it was the first one that involves Smersh, and we've obviously had to change that. But, essentially the book remains pretty much in tact. The whole game takes place. La Chiffre is the bad guy, who was the bad guy there. Your genital whacking scene, whomever came up with that, that all remains. So, it's pretty much the last 2/3rds of the movie will be like the book. And Bond will fall in love with Vesper Lynd, as he does in the book. He's just got his 007 stripes when he gets into the story so he's got some rough edges on him to begin with and hopefully, by the end of it, he'll become the 007 we all know and love.

  
  Martin Campbell on the set of
  the first Zorro with Anthony Hopkins
  and Antonio Banderas

  Q: Does it restart the franchise?
  
  CAMPBELL: Yeah, I guess so.
  
  Q: Does this mean you start remaking the other movies?
  
  CAMPBELL: That's exactly the same question I asked them. When's the point you start re-making Dr. No? Who knows? No, this is the last book they are filming. Because, all the rest have been done.
  
  Q: Do you think the re-start of Batman Begins had to do with this?
  
  CAMPBELL: No, I think they always wanted to get the book and they never have been able to till just recently. Now they have the book. I think Cubby, Barbara, said Cubby always wanted to make the book. They made one. Not a good movie. A spoof with five bonds, which Ursula Andress was one, by the way.
  
  Q: Have you cast any of the new Bond girls?
  
  CAMPBELL: Not yet. We were more worried about casting Bond…
  
  Q: Is there a chance Judi Dench will return as M?
  
  CAMPBELL: Yeah, we're discussing that at the moment. Yeah, maybe.
  
  Q: Did you talk to Pierce about coming back?
  
  CAMPBELL: No, that wasn't my choice. That was over before I came into those discussions as they were.
  
  Q: When is it going to start?
  
  CAMPBELL: End of January. I hope!
  
  Q: Do they have a release date?
  
  CAMPBELL: Yes, November.

  2008: BBC airs the documentary Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began.
  
  2009: Joseph Wiseman dies at age 91--Manhattan, New York City, New York.
  (Born 15 May 1918--Montreal, Quebec, Canada.)

  

  Joseph Wiseman obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/oct/20/joseph-wiseman-obituary

  Versatile character actor best remembered on screen as James
  Bond's adversary Dr No
  Ronald Bergan | Tue 20 Oct 2009 13.33 EDT

  

  ‘I thought it might be just another grade-B Charlie Chan mystery,’ said Wiseman of his role in Dr No.

  Despite the fact that Joseph Wiseman, who has died aged 91, appeared in dozens of movies and countless TV series and had only 20 minutes of screen time in Dr No (1962), it is for his performance in that film, as the eponymous adversary to James Bond in the first movie of the series, based on the books by Ian Fleming, that he will best be remembered.
  
  Dressed in a white Nehru jacket with a pair of shiny black, prosthetic hands, the result of a "misfortune", Wiseman was cool and calculating as the half-German, half-Chinese arch enemy of 007, played by Sean Connery, and one of the most effective of Bond villains. Dr Julius No is a member of Spectre – the Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion. "The four great cornerstones of power headed by the greatest brains in the world," he explains. "Correction. Criminal brains," says Bond. "A successful criminal brain is always superior. It has to be," retorts Dr No.
  
  Wiseman was fortunate that Noël Coward, a friend and neighbour of Fleming's in Jamaica, where the film was set, turned the role down, saying, "Doctor No? No. No. No." Of his most famous role, Wiseman said: "I had no idea what I was letting myself in for. I had no idea it would achieve the success it did. I know nothing about mysteries. I don't take to them. As far as I was concerned, I thought it might be just another grade-B Charlie Chan mystery."

  Wiseman was born in Montreal, Canada, and his family subsequently moved to the US. He started his acting career on stage in his late teens, making his Broadway debut as part of the ensemble in Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1938), with Raymond Massey in the title role. There followed parts in three plays by Maxwell Anderson: Journey to Jerusalem (1940), Candle in the Wind (1941) and Joan of Lorraine (1946), and he was the eunuch Mardian in Antony and Cleopatra (1947), directed by and starring Kathleen Cornell.
  
  But it was his role on stage in Sidney Kingsley's Detective Story (1949) that launched his film career, during which he typically played slightly crazy off-beat characters. Wiseman, in a loud striped suit, was both sleazy and comic as the lowlife burglar, becoming hysterical when interrogated by overzealous policeman Ralph Bellamy. He repeated the role in William Wyler's 1951 film version, starring Kirk Douglas, without toning down his manic stage performance.
  
  This coiled-up energy proved to be highly effective in Elia Kazan's Viva Zapata! (1952), in which he played the opportunistic journalist and agent provocateur who finally betrays Emiliano Zapata (Marlon Brando). He continued to steal scenes in two rather risible biblical epics, as an imposing priest in The Silver Chalice (1954), Paul Newman's debut picture, and as a wily beggar in The Prodigal (1955). Around the same time, Wiseman was able to reveal more of his talent on stage. He played Edmund to Louis Calhern's King Lear; the gangster Eddie Fuselli in a revival of Clifford Odets's Golden Boy (1952), and The Inquisitor in Jean Anouih's The Lark (1955), with Julie Harris as Joan of Arc.

  In 1960, returning to movies, Wiseman had a typically flashy role as a one-eyed, deranged itinerant evangelist armed with the "Sword of God" in John Huston's western The Unforgiven. Then, in 1962, came The Happy Thieves, in which, third-billed after Rita Hayworth and Rex Harrison, he seemed to have some fun as a master forger, and the infamous Dr No. It was six years before Wiseman made another movie.

  Making up for lost time, he appeared in seven films within a few years. Apart from playing ruthless Italian gangsters in Stiletto (1969) and The Valachi Papers (1972), Wiseman created a niche for himself portraying a variety of Jewish characters. In The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968), Wiseman is the bemused Jewish owner of the notorious burlesque theatre, who disapproves of his son's introducing striptease.
  
  Bye Bye Braverman (1968) saw him as a pedantic lecturer on his way to a friend's funeral. Of his performance, Time magazine wrote that Wiseman "wears an expression of perpetual disgust, as if he were forever smelling fried ham … What picture there is for stealing is burgled by Wiseman with his portrayal of a stereotypical littérateur … As lofty as Edmund Wilson, he pronounces Jehovah-like judgments on literature and humanity."
  
  Back in Canada for The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974), Wiseman played a Trotskyite owner of a blouse factory, who calls his nephew (Richard Dreyfuss) "a pushy Jewish boy".
  
  On Broadway, Wiseman originated the role of LeDuc, a Jewish psychotherapist, in Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy (1964), who asserts that "the Jew is only the name we give to that stranger within everyone". Also on Broadway was his Drama Desk award-winning performance in the title role of In the Matter of J Robert Oppenheimer (1969).
  
  Wiseman continued to be active on television throughout his career, notably in Crime Story (1986-88) as the menacing gang boss Manny Weisbord. In his later years, Wiseman would often give readings of Yiddish writers, and his last stage performance was in 2002 at a gala concert called Yiddish in America at the New York town hall. His last Broadway appearance had been the previous year, as a prosecution witness in Abby Mann's stage adaptation of his film drama Judgment at Nuremberg.
  
  Wiseman's first marriage, to Nell Kennard, ended in divorce, and he is survived by his daughter, Martha, by that marriage, and his sister Ruth. His second wife, the dancer, teacher and choreographer Pearl Lang, died last February.
  
  •Joseph Wiseman, actor, born 15 May 1918; died 19 October 2009

  
  Joseph Wiseman (1918–2009)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936476/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (95 credits)
  
  1996 Law & Order (TV Series) - Seymour Bergreen
  - Family Business (1996) ... Seymour Bergreen
  1994 A Passover Seder (Video short) - Grandfather
  1994 L.A. Law (TV Series) - Isidore Schoen
  - Finish Line (1994) ... Isidore Schoen
  1992 Civil Wars (TV Series) - Julius Schiff
  - For Better or Perverse (1992) ... Julius Schiff
  
  1989 MacGyver (TV Series) - Joe Catano
  - The Battle of Tommy Giordano (1989) ... Joe Catano
  1988 Lady Mobster (TV Movie) - Victor Castle
  1986-1988 Crime Story (TV Series) - Manny Weisbord
  - The Hearings (1988) ... Manny Weisbord
  - Last Rites (1988) ... Manny Weisbord
  - Little Girl Lost (1987) ... Manny Weisbord
  - Shockwaves (1987) ... Manny Weisbord
  - Atomic Fallout (1987) ... Manny Weisbord
  ... 18 episodes
  1986 Seize the Day - Dr. Adler
  1985 The Equalizer (TV Series) - Eddie Vanessi
  - The Confirmation Day (1985) ... Eddie Vanessi
  1984 The A-Team (TV Series) - Zeke Westerland
  - The Bells of St. Mary's (1984) ... Zeke Westerland
  1984 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Judge Leopold Wapter
  - The Ghost Writer (1984) ... Judge Leopold Wapter
  1983 Rage of Angels (TV Movie) - Antonio Granelli
  1983 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - Dr. Albert Tessa
  - Birdman of Budapest (1983) ... Dr. Albert Tessa
  1981 The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) - James J. Beck
  - Don't Mess Around with Jim (1981) ... James J. Beck
  1981 Masada (TV Mini-Series) - Jerahmeel, Head Essene
  - Part IV (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
  - Part III (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
  - Part II (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
  - Part I (1981) ... Jerahmeel, Head Essene
  1980 Freebie and the Bean (TV Series) - Dr. Dorf
  - Health Nuts (1980) ... Dr. Dorf
  
  1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV Series) - Carl Morphus
  - Vegas in Space (1979) ... Carl Morphus
  1979 Jaguar Lives! - Ben Ashir
  1979 Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - King Draco
  1978 The Betsy - Jake / Angelo's uncle
  1977 Murder at the World Series (TV Movie) - Sam Druckman
  1976 The Streets of San Francisco (TV Series) - Barbado
  - The Thrill Killers: Part 2 (1976) ... Barbado
  - The Thrill Killers: Part 1 (1976) ... Barbado
  1975 Journey Into Fear - Colonel Haki
  1975 Zalmen: or, The Madness of God (TV Movie) - Rabbi
  1974 QB VII (TV Mini-Series) - Morris Cady
  - Part One & Two (1974) ... Morris Cady
  1974 The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz - Uncle Benjy
  1974 The Suicide Club (TV Movie)
  1974 Men of the Dragon (TV Movie) - Balashev
  1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Hon Chi Kai
  - The Illusion of the Lost Dragon (1974) ... Hon Chi Kai
  1973 If I Had a Million (TV Movie)
  1971-1973 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Gilford / Big Julio
  - The Pay-Off (1973) ... Gilford
  - Bitter Harbor (1971) ... Big Julio
  1973 Nightside (TV Movie) - Grudin
  1973 The Wide World of Mystery (TV Series) - Mr. Silverado
  - Suicide Club (1973) ... Mr. Silverado
  1972 Pursuit (TV Movie) - Dr. Nordman
  1972 McCloud (TV Series) - Paul Rudell / Stephen Rudensky
  - Fifth Man in a String Quartet (1972) ... Paul Rudell / Stephen Rudensky
  1972 O'Hara, U.S. Treasury (TV Series) - Armand Pringle
  - Operation: White Fire (1972) ... Armand Pringle
  1972 The Valachi Papers - Salvatore Maranzano
  1971 Lawman - Lucas
  1970 Night Gallery (TV Series) - Jacob Bauman (segment "Room with a View")
  - Room with a View/The Little Black Bag/The Nature of the Enemy (1970) ... Jacob Bauman (segment "Room with a View")
  1970 NET Playhouse (TV Series) - Lev
  - They Have Taken Over (1970) ... Lev
  1970 The Mask of Sheba (TV Movie) - Fandil Bondalok
  
  1969 Stiletto - Emilio Matteo
  1968 The Night They Raided Minsky's - Louis Minsky
  1968 The Counterfeit Killer - Rajeski
  1968 Bye Bye Braverman - Felix Ottensteen
  1967 The Outsider (TV Movie) - Ernest Grimes
  1967 Coronet Blue (TV Series) - Rudi Nateseh
  - The Presence of Evil (1967) ... Rudi Nateseh
  1966 T.H.E. Cat (TV Series) - Prince Nicky Cavalcante
  - The System (1966) ... Prince Nicky Cavalcante
  1966 Preview Tonight (TV Series) - Pharaoh
  - Great Bible Adventures: Seven Rich Years and Seven Lean (1966) ... Pharaoh
  1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Rajeski
  - The Faceless Man (1966) ... Rajeski
  1966 The Legend of Jesse James (TV Series) - Captain Hammel
  - The Last Stand of Captain Hammel (1966) ... Captain Hammel
  1964 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Jim Case
  - The Santiago Quesada Story (1964) ... Jim Case
  1963-1964 Quest (TV Series) - Eli Peck
  - Eli, the Fanatic (1964) ... Eli Peck
  - Eulogy (1963)
  1962 Dr. No - Dr. No
  1962 The New Breed (TV Series) - Clayton Grimes
  - Wherefore Art Thou, Romeo? (1962) ... Clayton Grimes
  1962 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Paul Radin
  - One More Pallbearer (1962) ... Paul Radin
  1961 The Happy Thieves - Jean Marie Calbert
  1961 Festival (TV Series) - Prisoner / Messenger
  - The Police (1961) ... Prisoner
  - The Dybbuk (1961) ... Messenger
  1960-1961 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Russell Shield / Albert Maris
  - The Antidote (1961) ... Russell Shield
  - The Tommy Karpeles Story (1960) ... Albert Maris
  1961 General Electric Theater (TV Series) - Manson
  - A Possibility of Oil (1961) ... Manson
  1960 The Westerner (TV Series) - 'Serafin'
  - Ghost of a Chance (1960) ... 'Serafin'
  1958-1960 Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV Series) - Lurgan / Sorcerer
  - Kim (1960) ... Lurgan
  - The Wild Swans (1958) ... Sorcerer
  1960 The Unforgiven - Abe Kelsey
  1960 CBS Repertoire Workshop (TV Series) - Anton
  - Tessie Malfitano and Anton Waldek (1960) ... Anton
  
  1959 Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (TV Series) - Lepke Buchalter
  - Lepke (1959) ... Lepke Buchalter
  1959 Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) - Torok
  - The Derelict (1959) ... Torok
  1956-1959 The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series) - Max Gebler / Antonio
  - False Alarm (1959) ... Max Gebler
  - Twice in Peril (1956) ... Antonio
  1959 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Dr. Newland
  - Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 2 (1959) ... Dr. Newland
  - Mr. Wilson's Wife: Part 1 (1959) ... Dr. Newland
  1958 Rendezvous (TV Series) - - Alone (1958)
  1958 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) - Max Gebler
  - False Alarm (1958) ... Max Gebler
  1958 Matinee Theatre (TV Series) - Hosea
  - The Prophet Hosea (1958) ... Hosea
  1957 Suspicion (TV Series)
  - The Deadly Game (1957)
  1957 The Garment Jungle - George Kovan
  1957 Studio 57 (TV Series)
  - You Take Ballistics (1957)
  1956 Three Brave Men - Jim Barron
  1956 Jane Wyman Presents The Fireside Theatre (TV Series) - Will Prentiss
  - The Marked Bullet (1956) ... Will Prentiss
  1955 Producers' Showcase (TV Series)
  - Darkness at Noon (1955)
  1954-1955 Ponds Theater (TV Series) - Death
  - Billy Budd (1955)
  - Death Takes a Holiday (1954) ... Death
  - Arrowsmith (1954)
  1955 The Prodigal - Carmish
  1954 The Silver Chalice - Mijamin
  1954 Justice (TV Series) - Vincent Wilbec
  - Terror on the Tracks (1954) ... Vincent Wilbec
  1954 Inner Sanctum (TV Series) - Insurance Inspector
  - Ghost Mail (1954) ... Insurance Inspector
  1954 Medallion Theatre (TV Series)
  - Contact with the West (1954)
  1950-1954 Suspense (TV Series)
  - The Fourth Degree (1954)
  - Criminals Mark (1950)
  1953 The Motorola Television Hour (TV Series) - Baroff
  - Brandenburg Gate (1953) ... Baroff
  1953 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series)
  - Tour of Duty (1953)
  1953 Champ for a Day - Dominic Guido
  1953 Danger (TV Series)
  - Circus Story (1953)
  1953 Tales of Tomorrow (TV Series)
  - Lazarus Walks (1953)
  - The Squeeze Play (1953)
  1952 Frontiers of Faith (TV Series)
  - As a Wind That Blows (1952)
  1952 Les Miserables - Genflou
  1951-1952 Lights Out (TV Series) - The Croupier
  - Man in the Dark (1952)
  - The Deal (1951) ... The Croupier
  1952 Viva Zapata! - Fernando Aguirre
  1951 Detective Story - Charley Gennini
  1950 With These Hands - Mike Deleo

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2010: Clement Graham Crowden dies at age 87--Edinburgh, Scotland.
  (Born 30 November 1922--Edinburgh, Scotland.)

  

  Graham Crowden (1922–2010)

  Actor | Soundtrack
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0189561/
  

  
  
  

  2010: During pre-production, writer Peter Morgan exits the BOND 23 project leaving an unfinished film treatment.
  
  2016: Dynamite Comics releases James Bond #11 Eidolon Chapter 5.
  Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND #11

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181811011
  Cover: Dom Reardon
  Writer: Warren Ellis
  Art: Jason Masters
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: October 2016
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 pages
  ON SALE DATE: 10/19

  EIDOLON, CHAPTER 5: Eidolon have M and Moneypenny, in a remote safehouse, with no hope of backup, no aid on the way, and no sign of James Bond. Fear and paranoia and the collapse of governmental structure are in sight. Britain is going back to the Dark Ages and SPECTRE, finally, have won.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond - Big Things in hardcover, collects James Bond 1 - 6 (2019).
  Eric Gapstur, Erica D'Urso, Brent Peeples, Marco Renna, artists. Vita Ayala, Danny Lore, writers.

  

  Enjoy Our Colossal Twenty-Two Page Preview For
  Dynamite Comics’ ‘James Bond: Big Things’ HC

  https://www.comicon.com/2021/10/03/enjoy-our-colossal-twenty-two-page-preview-for-dynamite-comics-james-bond-big-things-hc/
  by Olly MacNamee
  
  Cover by Jim Cheung
  Written by Vita Ayala, Danny Lore
  Art by Eric Gapstur

  “When a priceless piece of art is found to be fake, investigations lead down a rabbit hole of international crime and corruption. But what the hell does James Bond know about the world of art forgery?
  
  Agent 007 is a loner, by nature. But finally, he accepts that he needs help. But will trusting someone else help his mission…or lead to the deaths of innocents?

  Collects issues #1-#6 of James Bond (2019).”

  
  
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  2021: Leslie Bricusse dies at age 90--Saint Paul de Vence, France.
  (Born 29 January 1931--Pinner, Greater London, England.)

  

  Leslie Bricusse, OBE

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Leslie Bricusse, OBE (29 January 1931 – 19 October 2021) was a British composer, lyricist, and playwright who worked on theater musicals and wrote theme music for films. He was best known for writing the music and lyrics for the films Doctor Dolittle, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Scrooge, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, the songs "Goldfinger", "You Only Live Twice", "Can You Read My Mind (Love Theme)" (with John Williams) from Superman, and "Le Jazz Hot!" with Henry Mancini from Victor/Victoria.
  
  Early life and education
  Born in Pinner, Middlesex (now a northwest London suburb), Bricusse was educated at University College School in London and then at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he was Secretary of Footlights between 1952 and 1953 and Footlights President during the following year.
  
  Career
  In the 1960s and 1970s, Bricusse enjoyed a fruitful partnership with Anthony Newley. They wrote the musical Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (1961), which was the basis for 1966 film version. Also in collaboration with Newley, Bricusse wrote the show The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (1965) and music for the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), based on the children's book by Roald Dahl. For the latter, they received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song Score. When he collaborated with Newley, the two men referred to themselves as the team of "Brickman and Newburg", with "Newburg" concentrating mainly on the music and "Brickman" on the lyrics. Ian Fraser often did their arrangements.
  
  Working solely as a lyricist, he collaborated with composer Cyril Ornadel on Pickwick (1963), based on Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, a successful vehicle for Harry Secombe. His later collaborators included with Henry Mancini (Victor/Victoria in 1982 and Tom and Jerry: The Movie in 1992) and John Williams (Hook in 1991). As composer and lyricist he scored the film, Doctor Dolittle (1967), which flopped at the box-office, receiving an Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Talk to the Animals"), and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969).

  Sammy Davis Jr. had hits with two songs by Bricusse, "What Kind of Fool Am I?" (from Stop the World - I Want to Get Off) and "The Candy Man" (from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) which became a No. 1 hit. Other recording artists who recorded successful versions of his songs include Nina Simone ("Feeling Good"), Matt Monro and Frank Sinatra ("My Kind of Girl"), Shirley Bassey ("Goldfinger"), Harry Secombe ("If I Ruled the World"), Nancy Sinatra ("You Only Live Twice"), The Turtles ("A Guide for the Married Man"), Maureen McGovern ("Can You Read My Mind"), and Diana Krall ("When I Look in Your Eyes"). Bricusse partnered with George Tipton to write the opening theme of the U.S. television sitcom It's a Living.

  Pure Imagination: The World of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, devised and directed by Bruce Kimmel, opened at the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, on 7 December 2013. In 2015, it went to the St James Theatre, London.
  
  On 29 October 2001, Bricusse received an OBE for services to the film industry and the theatre from Queen Elizabeth II at a Buckingham Palace investiture ceremony.
  Personal life
  
  Bricusse resided in California and was married to actress Yvonne Romain[8] and had a son, Adam.
  
  Bricusse died on 19 October 2021 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France at the age of 90.[9][10]
  
  Works
  Musicals
  Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (with Anthony Newley) (1961) – includes "Once in a Lifetime" and "What Kind of Fool Am I?"
  Pickwick – with Cyril Ornadel (1963)
  The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (with Newley) (1965) – includes "Who Can I Turn to (When Nobody Needs Me)?" and "Feeling Good"
  Doctor Dolittle (1967) – includes "Talk to the Animals"
  Sweet November (with Newley)
  Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)
  
  Scrooge (with Ian Fraser; Herbert W. Spencer, 1970) – includes "Thank You Very Much"
  Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (with Newley, 1971)
  Beyond the Rainbow (lyrics only, 1978)[14]
  The Good Old Bad Old Days (with Newley, 1974)
  Peter Pan (television, with Newley, 1976)
  
  Victor Victoria (film with Henry Mancini, 1982)
  Babes in Toyland (1986 film) (with Newley, 1986)
  Sherlock Holmes: The Musical – book, music, and lyrics by Bricusse (1989)
  
  Hook (with John Williams) (1991) – includes "When You're Alone"
  Jekyll & Hyde (lyrics only, 1990/1994/1997)
  Scrooge (1992 stage musical)
  Victor/Victoria (1995 Broadway musical)
  Doctor Dolittle (1998 stage musical)
  
  Cyrano (2009, Tokyo, with Frank Wildhorn)
  Sammy (2009) – Old Globe Theatre
  
  Songs
  Source:
  "Out of Town" with Robin Beaumont (1956)
  
  "My Kind of Girl" (1961)
  "What Kind of Fool Am I?" with Anthony Newley (1963)
  "Who Can I Turn To" with Anthony Newley (1964)
  "Feeling Good" with Anthony Newley (1964)
  "Goldfinger" (with John Barry and Anthony Newley) from Goldfinger (1964)
  "A Guide for the Married Man" (with John Williams) from the film A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
  "You Only Live Twice" (with Barry) from You Only Live Twice (1967)
  "Two for the Road" (with Henry Mancini) from Two for the Road (1967)
  "Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle (1967)
  "Your Zowie Face" for film In Like Flint, music by Jerry Goldsmith (1967)
  "Fill The World With Love" from Goodbye Mr. Chips (1968) originally sung by Petula Clark and also popularised by Richard Harris
  "You and I" from Goodbye Mr. Chips (1968) sung by Petula Clark, Barbara Cook, and Michael Feinstein
  
  "Thank You Very Much" from Scrooge (1970)
  "Candy Man" and "Pure Imagination" (with Newley) from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
  "Can You Read My Mind (Love Theme)" (with John Williams) from Superman (1978)
  "Move Em Out" (with Henry Mancini) from Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
  
  "Le Jazz Hot!" with Henry Mancini from Victor/Victoria (1982)
  "Making Toys", "Every Christmas Eve/Santa's Theme (Giving)", "It's Christmas Again", "Patch! Natch!" and "Thank You, Santa!" (with Henry Mancini) from Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
  "Life in a Looking Glass" (with Henry Mancini) from That's Life! (1986)
  
  "Somewhere in My Memory" from Home Alone (with John Williams) (1990)
  "When You're Alone", "We Don't Wanna Grow Up" from Hook (with John Williams) (1991)
  "Christmas at Hogwarts" (with John Williams) in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
  "The Perfect Song" (with Andrew Lloyd Webber) for Michael Ball.
  
  Awards
  Academy Award
  Best Original Song, 1968 – "Talk to the Animals"
  Best Adaptation and Original Song Score, 1982 - Victor/Victoria
  Grammy Award
  Song of the Year, 1963 – "What Kind of Fool Am I"
  Songwriters Hall of Fame[18]
  
  Nominations
  Tony Award
  Best Musical, 1963 – Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
  Tony Award for Best Score, 1963 – "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"
  Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, 1963 – "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"
  Tony Award for Best Score of a Musical, 1965 – "The Roar of Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd"
  Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, 1997 – "Jekyll & Hyde"
  Academy Awards
  Original Music Score, 1967 – Doctor Dolittle
  Original Music Score, 1969 – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
  Original Song Score, 1970 – Scrooge
  Best Original Song, 1970 – "Thank You Very Much"
  Best Adaptation and Original Song Score, 1971 – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
  Best Original Song, 1986 – "Life in a Looking Glass"
  Best Original Song, 1990 – "Somewhere in My Memory"
  Best Original Song, 1991 – "When You're Alone"
  Golden Raspberry Award
  Worst 'Original' Song, 1986 – "Life in a Looking Glass" (lyrics)

  
  
  
  
  
  

  Sammy Davis Jr Medley of Leslie Bricusse & Anthony Newley songs .1968 .HQ
  

  
  2022: A lecture based on the Ian Fleming biography The World is Not Enough at Palm Beach, California. Also virtual.

  

  The Man Who Created James Bond: Ian
  Fleming As Spy, Lover, and Writer

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://events.palmbeachculture.com/event/955325/the-man-who-created-james-bond-ian-fleming-as-spy-lover-and-writer

  Wednesday, October 19, 2022 @ 3:00pm
  Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at FAU, Boca Raton

  The character of James Bond, 007, is a globally recognized icon in popular culture and one of the best-known characters in fiction. Yet the man who created James Bond, Ian Fleming, is less well known than his character. Ian Fleming's life is a fascinating and flamboyant one. Fleming's work as Assistant to the Director of Naval Intelligence during World War II was a key influence on the Allied victories against Nazi Germany. His close friend, William Plomer, described Fleming as a "war winner." Based on Buckton's acclaimed new biography on Ian Fleming, The World is Not Enough, this lecture will offer an in-depth adventure into the thrilling life, loves, and work of one of the most intriguing novelists of the twentieth century. https://rowman.com

  /ISBN/9781538138571/The-World-Is-Not-Enough-A-Biography-of-Ian-Fleming. This event is also available virtually.
  
  Wednesday, October 19, 2022 @ 3:00pm

  

  
  2022: License to K*ll Comedy at Atlanta, Georgia.

  

  

  License to K*ll Comedy

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://allevents.in/atlanta/license-to-kll-comedy/10000224292052567#

  License to K*ll Comedy, 19 October | Event in Atlanta | AllEvents.in License to K*ll Comedy
  A new stand up comedy show at Vesper Atlanta!
  
  About this Event

  License to K*ll features 007 of Atlanta's best comedians performing in a James Bond-themed cocktail bar. Admission is free but seats are limited, so reserve a ticket and come check out some of the best stand up the city has to offer!

  Also check out other Comedy Events in Atlanta, Entertainment Events in Atlanta, Performances in Atlanta.
  
  Date & Time
  Wed Oct 19 2022 at 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
  (Eastern Daylight Time)
  
  Location
  Vesper Atlanta, 924 Garrett Street, Atlanta, United States

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  October 20th
  
  1955: Thomas Newman is born--Los Angeles, California.
  1956: Danny Boyle is born--Radcliffe, Bury, Greater Manchester, England.
  
  1957: The Sunday Times ends its six week serialization of Ian Fleming's The Diamond Smugglers, started 15 September.
  1959: Ian Fleming writes to fan Eunice Jenkins in Hong Kong.

  

  Sale 2543 - Lot 188

  See the complete article here:
  

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  1997: Ronald Lawrence Morisco-Tarr (Ron Tarr) dies at age 60--Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England
  (Born 14 November 1936--Municipal Borough of Willesden, Middlesex, England.)

  

  Ron Tarr (1936–1997)

  Actor | Miscellaneous Crew
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0850611/
  

  
  A View to a Kill
  
  

  1999: Garbage introduces "The World Is Not Enough" during a University of Denver concert. The same day MTV screens its documentary Making the Video, then premieres it.

  Garbage, Making the World Is Not Enough, 1999
  
  The World Is Not Enough - Official Video, 1999 (4:03)
  

  
  2001: Geoffrey Boothroyd dies--UK.
  (Born 1925--Blackpool, England.)

  

  Geoffrey Boothroyd

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Boothroyd
  
  Geoffrey Boothroyd (1925 – 20 October 2001) was a British firearms expert and author of several standard reference works on the subject. He gave weapons advice to James Bond author Ian Fleming, who named the character Major Boothroyd after him as a result. He was born in Blackpool. Beginning with A Guide to Gun Collecting and Guns Through the Ages (both 1961) to The British Over and Under Shotgun co-authored with Susan Boothroyd (2004), Boothroyd was a prolific author on the subject of firearms.

  Whilst employed with Imperial Chemical Industries, an ammunition manufacturer, Boothroyd wrote a letter to Fleming professing admiration for the character of James Bond, but not his choice of weapons, particularly the .25 calibre Beretta. Fleming responded to Boothroyd, and their correspondence about weaponry has been reprinted in various places. As a result of the correspondence Fleming gave Bond a 7.65mm Walther PPK pistol in Dr. No and created a character named "Major Boothroyd" in the novel (the real Boothroyd held no such rank). Prior to the correspondence Fleming is reported to have thought the subject of guns to be rather dull and uninteresting. Boothroyd advised Fleming on the use of silencers and suggested various firearms for use by Bond and other characters.
  
  Boothroyd provided illustrator Richard Chopping with his own .38 Smith & Wesson snubnosed revolver, modified with one third of the trigger guard removed, to meet Fleming's wish for a design incorporating a pistol and a rose for the first edition cover of From Russia, with Love. Boothroyd had to assist the police with their enquiries when a similar weapon was used in a triple murder in Glasgow explaining that his weapon had been posted to Ian Fleming for a book cover. Peter Manuel was later arrested, convicted and executed for the murder.
  
  In the first Bond film, Dr. No, Major Boothroyd, portrayed by Peter Burton, recreates the scene from the novel. Geoffrey Boothroyd appeared as himself in a short film The Guns of James Bond available on the Dr. No Ultimate Edition DVD.

  

  Geoffrey Boothroyd

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2508719/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Self (1 credit)
  
  1964 The Guns of James Bond (Documentary short) - Himself
  
  Archive footage (2 credits)
  
  2015 Timeshift (TV Series documentary) - Himself - Armourer 'Q'
  - Looking for Mr Bond: 007 at the BBC (2015) ... Himself - Armourer 'Q'
  2008 Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began (TV Movie documentary) - Himself

  1964 Time Out - The Guns of James Bond (5:08 clip)
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2008: "Another Way to Die" single released in Europe.
  
  2012: The "Skyfall" single enters the Billboard Hot 100 at #8.
  
  2021: The Petersen Automotive Museum displays James Bond vehicles at Los Angeles, California.

  

  Design | Tim Lappen
  Petersen Automotive Museum
  Showcasing James Bond Vehicles

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://beverlyhillscourier.com/2021/10/17/petersen-automotive-museum-showcasing-james-bond-vehicles/

  I was lucky enough to have a pre-opening private preview of the newest exhibit at the
  Petersen Automotive Museum, an incredible display of over 20 screen-used vehicles
  from many James Bond 007 films over the past six decades.
  BY Tim Lappen October 17, 2021
  

  
  2008 Aston Martin DBS destroyed in "Quantum of Solace"

  The Courier’s Fine Autos Contributor, Tim Lappen, is the Fine Autos Editor for Haute Living, Haute Time, Haute Residence and Haute Auto and a partner in a Century City law firm, where he chairs his firm’s Family Office Group and the Luxury Home Group. He can be reached at [email protected] and his website is www.LifeInTheFastLane.org.
  
  I was lucky enough to have a pre-opening private preview of the newest exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum, an incredible display of over 20 screen-used vehicles from many James Bond 007 films over the past six decades. I have to say that, especially after viewing the seriously thrashed Aston Martin DBS from “Quantum of Solace” and then taking in the beauty of the Aston Martin DB10 (a model only made for the Bond film “Spectre”), the experience left me both shaken and stirred. (Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
  
  First, an admission – I love the James Bond stories and started reading them not that long after Ian Fleming started creating them in the early 1950s. Bond was like Superman to me but, of course, the cars were far better. The stories were fantastical, for sure, but the special effects of the films – well, the opening credits alone were worth the price of admission.

  
  2008 Aston Martin DBS destroyed in “Quantum of Solace”

  But even with today’s computer-generated images (“CGI”), some of the best effects come from at least some of the scenes being generated IRL (in real life). And the newest Petersen exhibit shows us some pretty amazing vehicles, which mostly were created solely so that they could be used in (and often destroyed by) the making of the movie.

  
  2015 Aston Martin DB10, made only for “Spectre” (DB10s were not sold to the public)

  The Museum’s exhibit, which is being billed as “The Largest Official Bond Car Display!” is entitled “Bond In Motion.” It is the official collection of original James Bond vehicles and is produced in collaboration with EON Production and the Ian Fleming Foundation. It is scheduled to run through October 20, 2022. Museum visitors can experience the exhibit without any extra charge over and above their entrance ticket.

  
  1985 Aston Martin V8 Vantage (with skis!) from “The Living Daylights”

  And what a terrific assemblage of special vehicles it is (no surprise there). Most of the cars are Aston Martins (again, not a shocker) with a smattering of others, like a few BMW cars and bikes, plus a Jaguar which was driven by the bad guy (“Zao”) in “Die Another Day,” in the incredible chase scene across a frozen lake. Luckily (especially for the audience), both Bond’s Aston and Zao’s cars had special weaponry, like rockets, a Gatling gun and more. There was one very special trick —Bond’s Aston featured a disappearing technique that allowed the car to become invisible as long as the option was enabled. Who wouldn’t want that on occasion?
  
  A big part of what makes this exhibit so special is that each vehicle (there are also some motorcycles, boats, submersibles and those flying machines that enabled 007 to engage in all of those chases and escapes) is accompanied by a repeating loop of film in which the vehicle was seen. These terrific visual components help even those of us who were and are big fans remember how the vehicle was used in the movie. It’s a great feature and makes the exhibit really interesting.

  
  1964 Aston Martin DB5 like the one modified for “Goldfinger”

  Of course, no article about the Bond cars would be complete without a big mention of the 1964 Aston Martin DB5, which made its debut in the movie “Goldfinger.” The unprecedented gadgetry includes gun barrels which could be used after flipping down the front turn-signal indicators, a three-way revolving license place, a smokescreen generator, an oil slick creation device and a bullet shield behind the rear window. The main attraction in this car—and the feature which ushered in major trickery and cleverness in the Bond franchise —was the ejection seat which, when one flipped open the gearshift knob and hit the button, launched the passenger into the wild blue yonder.
  
  Want to see the latest and greatest Bond vehicles? The 25th film in the James Bond franchise, “No Time To Die,” is now showing.

  
  2002 Jaguar XKR driven by the villain in “Die Another Day”

  The Petersen Museum is right on the corner of Wilshire and Fairfax Boulevards, literally across the street from the just-opened Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
  
  Here are some of the many vehicles featured in this special exhibit but the show is so grand that only a part of the exhibit could be showcased here.
  
  All photos by ted7

  
  2022: The Sound of 007 Director Mat Whitecross Talks James Bond Music on Tom Needham’s Sounds of Film radio show on WUSB 90.1 FM Stony Brook, New York.

  

  The Sound of 007 Director Mat Whitecross
  Talks JAMES BOND Music on Tom Needham’s
  SOUNDS OF FILM

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://patch.com/new-york/smithtown/calendar/event/20221020/1974797/the-sound-of-007-director-mat-whitecross-talks-james-bond-music-on-tom-needham-s-sounds-of-film

  Tom Needham, Neighbor
  
  Event Details
  Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 6:00 PM
  Tom Needham’s SOUNDS OF FILM
  More info here

  The Sound of 007, highlighting James Bond 007’s iconic music, premiered exclusively on Amazon Prime Video on October 5th (Global Bond Day) in more than 240 countries.
  
  The film is directed by BIFA and BAFTA-nominee Mat Whitecross (The Kings, Oasis: Supersonic, The Road to Guantánamo). The documentary pulls back the curtain on the remarkable history of six decades of James Bond music, taking viewers on a journey from Sean Connery’s Dr. No through to Daniel Craig’s final outing in No Time To Die. The film features music by John Barry, Paul McCartney, Duran Duran, Marvin Hamlisch, Louis Armstrong, Shirley Bassey and more.
  
  The film charts the incredible history of the music, enthralling true tales behind the tunes and famous faces who have recorded some of the most beloved soundtracks in cinema.

  The Sounds of Film is the nation's longest-running film-themed radio show. For over 28 years, the program has delivered a popular mix of interviews and music to listeners all over Long Island, parts of Connecticut and streaming live on the internet. Recent guests include Howard Shore, Carter Burwell, Public Enemy's Chuck D., Michael Moore, author Chris Hedges, Wallace Shawn, William H. Macy, director Hal Hartley, Congressman Steve Israel and Cicely Tyson.
  
  Worldwide listeners can tune into the SOUNDS OF FILM internet livestream on Thursday at 6 pm EST at wusb.fm.

  WUSB FM https://www.wusb.fm/
  
  https://www.facebook.com/TheSoundsofFilm
  
  

  
  2022: James Bond-themed Night of Hope Celebration at Orange Park, Florida.

  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://jacksonvillefreepress.com/calendar/james-bond-themed-night-of-hope-celebration/

  James Bond-themed Night of Hope Celebration
  October 20 @ 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

  Join Mercy Support Services for their James Bond-themed Night of Hope Celebration for this year’s celebration to be held at St. Catherine’s Catholic Church Family Life Center, 1649 Kingsley Ave. Orange Park, FL, Thursday, October 20th, from 6-9 p.m. The evening will include dinner, entertainment, live and silent auctions, a best-dressed contest and more! For more info visit www.MercySupportServices.org.

  Details
  Date: October 20
  Time: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
  
  Website: www.MercySupportServices.org

  
  2022: Will Library screens Spectre at Yonkers, New York.

  

  James Bond Film Series: Spectre
  Thu Oct 20 2022 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm
  Will Library, Mt Vernon

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://goallevents.com/e/james-bond-film-series-spectre-E200023378117823

  James Bond Film Series: Spectre
  
  Date
  Thu Oct 20 2022 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm UTC-04:00
  
  Location
  Will Library, 1500 Central Park Avenue, Yonkers, NY 10708,Yonkers,NY,United States, Mt Vernon, United States
  
  Organizer
  Yonkers Public Library

  About Spectre: A cryptic message from Bond's past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organization. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back layers of deceit to reveal the truth behind SPECTRE.

  Age Group(s): Adult (Ages 18+)

  

  
  
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  October 21st
  
  1945: Everett McGill is born--Miami Beach, Florida.
  
  1954: The CBS anthology series Climax! airs the live television production of Casino Royale featuring American CIA Agent Jimmy Bond, British Agent Clarence Leiter, and Bond Girl Valerie Mathis.

  

  Casino Royale

  William H. Brown... Director
  Ian Fleming ... source novel
  Antony Ellis, Charles Bennett... writers for television

  Cast
  Barry Nelson ... James Bond
  Peter Lorre ... Le Chiffre
  Linda Christian ... Valerie Mathis
  Michael Pate ... Clarence Leiter
  William Lundigan ... Himself - Host
  Music by Jerry Goldsmith

  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  1959: Ivar Bryce gives feedback to Fleming on his not being present for future filming.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 10 - Money Problems

  Bryce's response to Fleming's revelations that he might not be on hand for
  the shooting arrived on 21 October. "The time you are essential is obviously
  during preparation of the script. Even if Whittingham writes every word, you
  really must be within reach for overall decisions. I think once that is over, you
  needn't be there at all, expect for fun. I personally think the Nassau shooting
  should be from mid-April to June, when the weather is much the most reliable,
  and when Nassau costs of living are quart of 'season' costs."
  
  Whittingham, too was expecting to work closely with Fleming and was
  more than surprised when he instead grabbed a portable typewriter, visas and a
  round-the-world suit with concealed money pockets and hopped on a BOAC
  Comet bound for Hong Kong to begin a five-week tour round the world. The
  Sunday Times wanted Fleming to write series entitled "The Six Wicked
  Cities - observations on places like Las Vegas, Tokyo and Las Angeles.
  Fleming confessed to being the world's worst sightseer and that he had "often
  advocated the provision of roller-skates at the doors of museums and art
  galleries." But his editor argued that such a trip would be a perfect opportunity
  to pick up material for future Bond stories. Indeed Fleming's Tokyo visit, his
  first, led to an enthusiasm, for Japan and his decision to later use it as the
  location for You Only Live Twice.

  

  
  1965: Original premiere date planned for Thunderball at the Odeon. Leicester Square.
  (Postponed due to delays in post-production.)
  1968: Principal photography begins at Piz Gloria, Canton of Bern, Switzerland. With the restaurant still in development, the production paid for electricity, airlifts, and the construction of the helipad.
  
  1972: James Bond comic strip Isle of Condors finishes its run. (Started 12 June 1972. 1952–2065)
  Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.popoptiq.com/isle-of-condors/
  
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/ioc.php3
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1974.php3?s=comics&id=01800

  Kondorernas ö
  (Isle of Condors)
  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1981.php3

  Kondorernas ö
  (Isle of Condors)
  

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

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

  1976: Andrew Scott is born--Dublin, Ireland.
  
  1984: Marc Zinga is born in Likasi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  
  1987: Bob Simmons dies at age 65.
  (Born 31 March 1922--Fullham, London, England.)

  

  Bob Simmons (stunt man)

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simmons_(stunt_man)

  
  Bob Simmons as James Bond 007 in the gun
  barrel sequence featured in the movies Dr. No,
  From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger

  Bob Simmons (Fulham, London, England, 31 March 1922 – 21 October 1987) was an English actor and stunt man, best known for his work in many British made films, most notably the James Bond series.
  
  Biography
  Simmons was a former Army Physical Training Instructor at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst who had initially planned to be an actor, but thought a career in performing stunts would be more lucrative and interesting. Simmons first worked for Albert R. Broccoli and Irving Allen's Warwick Films on the film The Red Beret, that included future Bond film regulars director Terence Young, screenwriter Richard Maibaum and cameraman, later director of photography Ted Moore. Simmons later worked in many other Warwick Films, and worked for Allen in his The Long Ships and Genghis Khan, where he had his eye injured when kicked by a horse.

  When Albert R. Broccoli began to produce the James Bond films, Simmons tested as an actor for the Bond role, but until his death in 1987, he became the stunt coordinator for every Bond film except From Russia with Love, which he joined later in the production, On Her Majesty's Secret Service and The Man with the Golden Gun. He appeared in the gun barrel sequence for Sean Connery in three James Bond films: Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger. Simmons is the only person to officially perform the scene, while not starring in the main role as James Bond. Simmons also had a role as SPECTRE agent Jacques Bouvar in the pre-title sequence of the fourth film, Thunderball.
  
  Simmons developed a stunt technique involving trampolines, first used in You Only Live Twice, whereby stuntmen would bounce off a trampoline in concert with a triggered explosion so as to simulate being blown into the air. This was used in many other films, including by Simmons again in The Wild Geese, where Simmons also doubled for Richard Burton.
  
  Upon retirement, Simmons wrote an autobiography entitled Nobody Does It Better titled after the theme song for the 1977 Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me.

  

  Bob Simmons (I) (1922–1987)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0799689/
  
  Filmography

  Stunts (49 credits)
  
  1987 Going Bananas (stunt coordinator - as Robert Simmons)
  1985 A View to a Kill (stunt team supervisor)
  1983 Octopussy (action sequences arranger)
  1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
  1982 The Wall (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only (action sequences arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1979 All Quiet on the Western Front (TV Movie) (action arranger)
  1979 Moonraker (action sequence arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1979 Zulu Dawn (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 The Wild Geese (stunt double: Richard Burton - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 Mister Deathman (stunt coordinator)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (action arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1975 De dwaze lotgevallen van Sherlock Jones (fight instructor)
  1975 The Man Who Would Be King (stunts - uncredited)
  1975 Happy Days Are Here Again (stunt coordinator)
  1975 Paper Tiger (action arranger)
  1975 The Wilby Conspiracy (stunts)
  1974 Caravan to Vaccares (stunts: fight sequence)
  1973 Live and Let Die (stunts co-ordinator)
  1973 A Touch of Class (stunt and fight arranger)
  1973 The Offence (stunts - uncredited)
  1972 Lady Caroline Lamb (fight arranger)
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunt arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Anthony Hopkins - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 Murphy's War (stunt arranger)
  1970 The Adventurers (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1968 Shalako (action sequences arranger)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (action sequences) / (stunt double - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1965 Thunderball (stunt double: Guy Doleman - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1965 Genghis Khan (action sequences)
  1964 Goldfinger (action sequences by) / (stunt double: Harold Sakata - uncredited) / (stunt double: Michael Mellinger - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1963 From Russia with Love (stunt double - uncredited) / (train fight double: Sean Connery - uncredited)
  1962 Dr. No (stunt arranger - uncredited) / (stunt double - uncredited) / (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1962 Night Creatures (fight sequence staged by)
  1961 The Hellions (stunt double: Lionel Jeffries - uncredited)
  1961 The Secret Ways (stunt supervisor)
  1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunt double: Gregory Peck - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
  1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)
  1960 Scent of Mystery (stunt double: Denholm Elliott - uncredited)
  
  1958 Tom Thumb (stunt double: Peter Sellers - uncredited)
  1957 Action of the Tiger (stunts - uncredited)
  1957 Fire Down Below (stunts - uncredited)
  1956 Zarak (stunts)
  1954 The Black Knight (stunt double: Alan Ladd - uncredited)
  1953 Paratrooper (stunts - uncredited)
  1952 Ivanhoe (stunts - uncredited)
  1939 Jamaica Inn (stunts - uncredited)
  
  Actor (25 credits)
  
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Henchman Lotus Explosion Victim (uncredited)
  
  1978 The Wild Geese - Pilot (uncredited)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - KGB Thug #2 (uncredited)
  1976 The Next Man - London Assassin
  1976 Montana Trap
  1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Jeep Driver / Card Player
  - Chain of Events (1971) ... Jeep Driver (uncredited)
  - To the Death, Baby (1971) ... Card Player (uncredited)
  1971 Murphy's War - member of German sub crew (uncredited)
  
  1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Fake Limo Driver
  - The Queen's Ransom (1966) ... Fake Limo Driver (uncredited)
  1965 Thunderball - Colonel Jacques Bouvar - SPECTRE #6 (uncredited)
  1964 Goldfinger - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
  1963 From Russia with Love- James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
  1963 Sparrows Can't Sing
  Pub Patron (uncredited)
  1962 Dr. No - James Bond in Gunbarrel Sequence (uncredited)
  1962 The Road to Hong Kong - Astronaut (uncredited)
  1961 The Guns of Navarone - German Soldier on Navarone (uncredited)
  1961 Fury at Smugglers' Bay - Carlos, a pirate
  1960 Exodus - Man of arms (uncredited)
  1960 And the Same to You - Perce's Opponent
  
  1959 Great Van Robbery - Peters
  1958 The Vise (TV Series) - Brading
  - The Man Who Was Twice (1958) ... Brading
  1958 Tank Force (aka No Time To Die) - Mustapha
  1955 Tangier Assignment - Peter Valentine (as Robert Simmons)
  1953 The Sword and the Rose - French Champion
  1953 Bad Blonde - Booth Man (uncredited)
  
  1939 Reform School - Johnny
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (16 credits)
  
  1982 The Final Option (action arranger)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (action arranger)
  
  1978 The Wild Geese (action arranger)
  1975 The Man Who Would Be King (master of horse)
  1973 The Man Called Noon (action supervisor)
  1971 Catlow (action sequence coordinator)
  1970 The Adventurers (action sequences arranger: second unit)
  
  1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade (action arrangements)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (action sequences by)
  1965 Thunderball (action sequences by)
  1964 Goldfinger (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
  1964 The Long Ships (action sequences)
  1963 From Russia with Love (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
  1962 Dr. No (body double: James Bond, in opening sequence - uncredited)
  1962 The Pirates of Blood River (horse master) / (master at arms)
  1961 The Naked Edge (fight arranger)
  
  Camera and Electrical Department (2 credits)
  
  George & Mildred (TV Series) (lighting director - 3 episodes, 1977 - 1978) (lighting - 2 episodes, 1979)
  - The Twenty Six Year Itch (1979) ... (lighting)
  - A Military Pickle (1979) ... (lighting)
  - I Believe in Yesterday (1978) ... (lighting director)
  - The Right Way to Travel (1977) ... (lighting director)
  - All Around the Clock (1977) ... (lighting director)
  1977 The Upchat Line (TV Series) (lighting director - 1 episode)
  - Accommodation Address (1977) ... (lighting director)
  
  Art department (1 credit)
  
  1987 Promised Land (storyboard artist)
  
  Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (1 credit)
  
  1966 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (second unit director)
  
  Producer (1 credit)
  
  1973 The Man Called Noon (associate producer)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 26 of 65 - "Dance of the Toreadors."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Dance of the Toreadors

  Season 1 - Episode 26
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807283/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  When IQ falls in love with flamenco dancer Dulce Nada and follows her to Pamplona, he has no idea that she's unwittingly embroiled in Baron von Skarin's plot to cause a nuclear meltdown in Britain.

  James Bond Jr Episode 26 - Dance of the Toreadors
  
  

  
  

  
  James Bond Jr Issue 5 Dance of the Toreadors
  http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-005/
  

  
  

  
  2019: Liam Gallagher "jokes" he's available for the next Bond theme song.

  

  Liam Gallagher: 007 bosses can give me a call
  for Bond tune

  See the complete article here:
  

  21 October 2019, 11:40

  
  Liam Gallagher. Picture: Press

  The former Oasis rocker has teased he wouldn't say no to being approached for the upcoming No Time To Die film.
  
  Liam Gallagher has expressed an interest in singing the next Bond theme tune.
  
  The former Oasis frontman has revealed he'd be happy to record the soundtrack for Daniel Craig's last outing as the famous spy.

  Speaking of the forthcoming film, which is entitled No Time To Die, Gallagher joked: "The new James Bond one, it's all about dying innit.
  
  "Die not next week, can't be arsed dying today, might die f***ing next month, there's a lot of death going on. "But you know they can give us a call, why not."

  Speaking to Ireland's Today FM, the Manchester legend also said he thought that his Gone track would work for a Quentin Tarantino film.
  
  "Tarantino, he's pretty good, isn't he? There's a lot of him in Gone," mused the rocker.
  
  "But we don't write music to go, 'Right let's put it in a film,' but if people pick up on it then they're welcome to it.
  
  So far, a few artists have been rumoured for the new Bond soundtrack, including Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa, as well as Sam Smith and Adele - who have both previously performed on Bond themes and won Academy Awards for 2015's Writing's On The Wall and 2012's Skyfall respectively.
  
  No Time To Die is set for release in April 2020.

  2019: Naomie Harris proposes Moneypenny spinoff film in discussion.

  

  Naomie Harris Says 'Conversation Has Started' for
  'James Bond' Spin-Off film as Miss Moneypenny!

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.justjared.com/2019/10/21/naomie-harris-says-conversation-has-started-for-james-bond-spin-off-film-as-miss-moneypenny/

  Mon, 21 October 2019 at 12:10 pm

  
  Naomie Harris is ready for her very own stand-alone James Bond film!

  While making an appearance on Good Morning America on Monday (October 21) in New York City, the 43-year-old actress opened up about her Moonlight director Barry Jenkins wanting to do a spin-off film for her Bond character, Miss Moneypenny.

  “He’s wanted to do a bad ass, kick-ass kind of action thing with Moneypenny which I’m all for actually,” Naomie revealed. “I got together with Barbara Broccoli, our producer, and I was like let’s make this happen but she wasn’t so down with it – but maybe one day it should. Who knows.”
  
  “The conversation has started at least and we’re continuing it here so who knows,” Naomie concluded.

  Naomie Harris also talked about her role as a police officer in the new action film Black and Blue, which will be released on October 25 – Watch the trailer here!

  
  

  
  2022: The Martini Bar launches a new and decadent mixology and culinary experience at The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas.

  

  

  Shaken, Not
  Stirred at The
  Martini Bar

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.bahamas.com/fr/events/shaken-not-stirred-at-the-martini-bar

  21 Oct, 2022
  The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort

  A nod to its glamorous and star-studded legacy, The Martini Bar at The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas has launched a new and decadent mixology and culinary experience.
  
  The Martini Bar is known best as the backdrop for the 2006 remake of the Casino Royale film where James Bond can be seen sipping his famous Vesper Martini. This limited seat Living Room Bar transports guests into the scenes of their very own movie.
  
  Whether sipping on a classic Vesper Martini or indulging in the new ultra-luxe Caviar Martini, it’s an unforgettable experience. While cocktails are the heart of The Martini Bar signature experience, new unique culinary creations are presented with suggested Martini pairings.

  The Martini Bar and Lounge is open every Friday and Saturday from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Reservations can be made by calling the Resort at +1-242-363-2501.

  

  
  
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  October 22nd
  
  1918: James Duncan (Jim) Lawrence is born--Detroit, Michigan.
  (He dies 19 March 1994 at age 75--Summit, New Jersey.)

  

  Lawrence, Jim

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/lawrence_jim

  April 03, 2020
  
  Working name of US teacher and author James Duncan Lawrence (1918-1994), active from 1941 until the 1980s; he was one of the main authors in the Second Series of Tom Swift books (see Children's SF), comprising the Tom Swift Jr sequence as by Victor Appleton II (see Victor Appleton); Lawrence's contributions begin with #5: Tom Swift and his Atomic Earth Blaster (1954) and end with #30: Tom Swift and his G-Force Inverter (1968), all as by Victor Appleton II (for list of titles by other authors see Tom Swift). Lawrence also revised various Hardy Boys titles as by Franklin W Dixon for 1960s reissue: see John Button for an example of mild genre interest. His remaining sf output consists of the unremarkable, mildly erotic Man from Planet X sequence – The Man from Planet X #1: The She-Beast (1975), The Man from Planet X #2: Tiger by the Tail (1975) and The Man from Planet X: The Devil to Pay (1975), all as by Hunter Adams – and two novels tied to Shared-World franchises: ESP McGee and the Haunted Mansion (1983 chap) for the ESP McGee series, and The Cutlass Clue (1986) for the A.I. Gang series. [JC]
  James Duncan Lawrence
  
  born Detroit, Michigan: 22 October 1918
  died Summit, New Jersey: 19 March 1994

  
  
  https://www.markcarlson-ghost.com/index.php/2019/09/12/friday-foster/
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1959: Ivar Bryce by letter lectures Kevin McClory on spending.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 11 - The Search for James Bond

  What rankled the most with Bryce was McClory's passion for touring The
  Boy and the Bridge around the European film festival circuit, all at great cost (in
  Venice, McClory chartered a luxury yacht to live on), but with little effect on
  the box office. "I'm afraid the very thought of festivals infuriates me," he wrote
  McClory on 22 October. "We simply cannot go on spending money faster than
  it is coming in. Unless we stop spending, and start collecting some of the
  proceeds, it is obvious not only shall I never get back my $400,000, but
  neither of us will ever have any profits to divide."

  
  1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car, the first of three volumes, illustrated by John Burningham. Ian Fleming writes this for son Caspar.

  
  

  1964: Desde Rusia con amor released in Uruguay.

  
  

  
  1981: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Για τα μάτια σου μόνο (James Bond, Agent 007: For Your Eyes Only) released in Greece.

  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 27 of 65 - "Fountain of Terror."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Fountain of Terror

  Season 1 - Episode 27
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807285/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  James, IQ and Phoebe go to Tibet to find IQ's cousin, who was kidnapped by Dr. Derange, Jaws, Ms. Fortune and Snuffer, who use him to show him the way to a secret village where he hides a fountain that gives people eternal life.

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 27 - Fountain of Terror
  
  

  
  

  1995: Sir Kingsley Amis CBE dies at age 73--London, England.
  (Born 16 April 1922--Clapham, London, England.)

  

  Obituary: Sir Kingsley Amis

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  David Lodge | Monday 23 October 1995 01:02
  
  Kingsley Amis was the most gifted of the British novelists who began publishing in the 1950s and were grouped together - by the media rather than by their own volition - as "Angry Young Men". He also proved himself to be the one with the most stamina and capacity for development.
  
  Amis was a key figure in the history of British post-war fiction, but his originality was not always fully appreciated because it did not manifest itself in any obvious novelty of form. Indeed the literary new wave of the Fifties, in which Amis played a leading role (its poetic wing, to which he also contributed, was known as "The Movement"), was an aesthetically conservative force, consciously setting itself against modernist experimentation. A passage in a review Amis contributed to the Spectator in 1958 is representative in both its sentiments and the down-to-earth blokeishness of its manner:
  
  The idea about experiment being the life-blood of the English novel is one that dies hard. "Experiment" in this context boils down pretty regularly to "obtruded oddity", whether in construction - multiple viewpoints and such - or in style. It is not felt that adventurousness in subject matter or attitude or tone really count.
  
  This is a thinly disguised manifesto for Amis's own early fiction, but it is as obscuring as it is revealing. It is true that Lucky Jim (1954) and its successors dealt with what was then new or neglected social territory (for example, the provincial university) from unhackneyed perspectives (for example, the upwardly mobile young professional who is unimpressed by the values and lifestyle of the bourgeoisie). This is presumably what Amis meant by adventurousness of subject matter, attitude and tone. And it is also true that these novels were very traditional in form - the specific tradition to which they belonged being that of the English comic novel, in which satirical comedy of manners and robust farce are combined in an entertaining and easily assimilable story. Fielding, Dickens, Wodehouse and Waugh are some of Amis's obvious precursors. But it is also true that Amis's novels are triumphs of "style" - a way of using language that, if not obtrusively "odd", is highly original, and wonderfully expressive.
  
  Dixon had read, or begun to read, dozens [of scholarly articles] like it, but his own seemed worse than most in its air of being convinced of its own usefulness and significance. "In considering this strangely neglected topic," it began. This what neglected topic? This strangely what topic? This strangely neglected what?
  
  Lucky Jim (1954)
  Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap, I got indoors, vigorously rubbing lipstick off my mouth with my handkerchief.
  
  That Uncertain Feeling (1955)
  All that type of stuff, dying and so on, was a long way off, not such a long way off as it had once been, admitted, and no doubt the time when it wouldn't be such a long way off as all that wasn't such a long way off as all that, but still. Still what?
  
  Take a Girl Like You (1960)
  There is nothing quite like this in English fiction before Amis (though a good deal afterwards, for other writers were quick to learn his tricks). It is a kind of English equivalent to the prose of Samuel Beckett (though Amis would have spluttered derisively at the comparison). In each case, language, denied the luxury of metaphysical affirmation and romantic afflatus, coils back upon itself, mocking its own pretensions as well as the follies and foibles of human behaviour. Both writers use repetition and bathos to marvellous effect, eschewing "elegant variation" and "fine writing" except for purposes of parody. The effort is always to be scrupulously exact, honest and undeceived. It was of course carried to a bleaker, more challenging and subversive extreme by Beckett.
  
  Amis's fundamental scepticism is actually quite dark and disturbing, but it is cushioned or concealed by the conventions of the well-made novel. Some critics have seen this as an evasion or betrayal of artistic integrity, a kind of refusal to be "serious". Amis himself would have taken his stand on the writer's responsibility to entertain as well as instruct. The career of Kingsley Amis crystalises, without resolving, a perennial debate about the contemporary English novel: whether, by remaining faithful to the native realistic tradition and refusing the legacy of modernism, it ensures its own authenticity or fails to be significant in a Hegelian "world-historical sense".
  
  Kingsley Amis was born, ironically enough, in 1922, the year in which the great masterpiece of modernist fiction, James Joyce's Ulysses, was published. He was brought up in a dull outer suburb of south London called Norbury, the only child of respectable lower- middle-class parents, and won a scholarship to the City of London School, to which he commuted daily like his father, a clerk in a commercial office. From this school, of which he always spoke highly, Amis went up to Oxford in 1941, as an Exhibitioner of St John's College, to read English. Here he met Philip Larkin, and formed the basis of a lifelong friendship. The two young men had similar backgrounds, tastes, and sensibilities, and fertilised each other's imaginative development. In this chance conjunction lay the seeds of the literary revolution of the 1950s.
  
  After only a year at Oxford, Amis was called up for military service and served in the Royal Signals in Normandy, Belgium and Germany from 1944 to 1945, an experience which left surprisingly little overt trace in his work apart from a few early short stories. After the Second World War he returned to Oxford, graduating with a First Class degree in 1947, and began research towards a BLitt which he never completed. In this period he kept in touch with Larkin, now a librarian at University College, Leicester, and met another young undergraduate who shared his admiration for Larkin's verse, John Wain. The nucleus of the Movement was beginning to form.
  
  In 1947 Amis published his first "slim volume" of verse, Bright November, and later, along with Larkin and Wain, was one of the contributors to Robert Conquest's anthology New Lines (1956), which marked the arrival of the Movement on the English poetic scene, and its displacement of the late modernist mode epitomised by Dylan Thomas (memorably parodied in That Uncertain Feeling). Amis continued to write poetry, not very prolifically, throughout his life. In this department he was always somewhat overshadowed by Larkin, to whom he paid the homage of imitation, but he was an excellent exponent of light verse, especially of a satirical and ribald kind.
  
  Amis married Hilary Bardwell in 1948, and the following year took up a post as lecturer in English Literature at the University College of Wales, Swansea. He settled down in that pleasant but deeply provincial seaside town to teach, write, and raise a family of three children, one of whom was called Martin. From this congenial but humdrum and materially somewhat pinched existence, Amis was catapulted to fame by the publication of Lucky Jim (dedicated to Larkin) in January 1954. It became a bestseller and a cult book - not surprisingly, for it was a sublimely funny novel which also put its finger very accurately on certain changes which had taken place in post-war British culture and society. Although Amis himself belonged to a small elite of pre-war scholarship boys, he articulated through his hero, Jim Dixon, the feelings of a much larger number of people in the next generation (my own) who were products of the 1944 Education Act and the Welfare State. Through the comedy of Jim's private fantasies and accidental breaches of social decorum, Amis gave us, as it were, permission not to be overawed by the social and cultural codes of the class to which we had been elevated by education. It was enormously liberating.
  
  Measured on a simple laugh-out-loud scale, Lucky Jim was probably the funniest novel Amis wrote, and for some readers his career was therefore downhill all the way. But in spite of his talent for comedy, Amis was, in the words of Larkin's poem, always surprising in himself a hunger to be more serious, and in the novels that followed he combined amusing social satire with a thoughtful and sometimes uncomfortable investigation of the moral life, especially in the sexual sphere. Take A Girl Like You (1960) was a particularly interesting response to the first intimations of the Permissive Society.
  
  Because of the antiestablishment stance of the early novels, Amis was identified with the Left, and in 1957 he declared his allegiance to the Labour Party in a Fabian pamphlet. Ten years later, however, he announced his conversion to Conservatism, in an essay entitled "Why Lucky Jim Turned Right". Henceforward he adopted a combatively right-wing stance on the political issues of the day - Vietnam, nuclear arms, the expansion of higher education and women's liberation.
  
  There was always an element of deliberate provocation and self-parody in this stance, as in the case of Evelyn Waugh (whom Amis came to resemble more and more, in all kinds of ways, as he got older), but there is no reason to doubt the fundamental sincerity of his views. The young Amis's identification with the party of the Welfare State was always emotional rather than ideological, and Lucky Jim was a rebel rather than a revolutionary. As soon as left-wing attitudes became trendy, as they did in the late 1960s, Amis's innate scepticism was turned upon them and their proponents.
  
  One does have the impression, however, that in an increasingly unsympathetic cultural climate Amis became less certain of his constituency, and of his own literary identity, than he had been in the heyday of the Movement. This may have been connected with change and upheaval in his private life. In 1961 he had moved from Swansea to Cambridge, to teach English as a Fellow of Peterhouse, but the notoriously factious English Faculty was not very welcoming. Dr Leavis was reported to have described his new colleague as "a pornographer", a failure in close reading if nothing else, for Amis's novels, though much concerned with sex, are notable for their reticence about the sexual act. He resigned his fellowship after three years to become a full-time writer. At about the same time his marriage broke up, and he married the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard.

  In the late Sixties and Seventies he experimented a good deal with "genre" fiction: science fiction (The Anti-Death League, 1966, and The Alteration, 1976), the James Bond thriller (Colonel Sun, 1968), the classic detective story (The Riverside Villas Murder, l973) and the ghost story (The Green Man, 1969). These forms perhaps attracted him as ways of escaping the constraints of the realistic novel and the expectations of an audience who kept hoping he would repeat Lucky Jim. In some of them he addressed himself to weighty philosophic and religious themes, such as the nature of evil.

  In spite of having had an essentially secular upbringing, Amis always took a lively, though pugnaciously sceptical, interest in Christian doctrine. An essay boldly entitled "On Christ's Nature" reveals an impressive familiarity with the New Testament, and a characteristic refusal to be awed. (A representative passage raises "the question why, if God wanted human beings to have religion, he did not simply give it to them, instead of arranging the world in one way and then sending someone along to explain that really the whole set-up was quite different").
  
  Amis's best novel after Take A Girl Like You was arguably Ending Up (1974), a black comic tale of a group of retired people failing to cope with the afflictions of old age. "I suppose", says one of their young relatives to another in the course of a particularly joyless Christmas, "I suppose with luck we might get a couple of weeks between the last of them going and us being in their situation." The brilliantly titled Jake's Thing (1978) brought the same mordant scrutiny to bear on male impotence and sex therapy, often to wonderfully comic effect, though without the elegant economy of its predecessor. Both these novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
  
  There followed something of a lull in Amis's creativity. But in the late Eighties he enjoyed a kind of second spring, producing in quick succession Stanley and the Women (1984), The Old Devils (1986), Difficulties with Girls (1988) and The Folks that Live on the Hill (1990). The first of these achieved some notoriety as a misogynist tract, and it was rumoured that a feminist cabal in the New York publishing world significantly delayed its publication in America. Amis's distrust of the female psyche was evident, for those who had eyes to see, as early as Lucky Jim, in the characterisation of the hysterical and devious Margaret. Stanley and the Women caused particular offence perhaps because it is cunningly constructed to catch the unwary liberal reader in its narrative trap. In Difficulties with Girls, however, Amis made some amends with a sympathetic portrait of Jenny Bunn, the heroine of Take a Girl Like You, coping with marriage to the compulsively unfaithful Patrick Standish.
  
  These late novels are notable for their intricate if uneventful narrative structures and frequent shifts of point of view, which require considerable powers of concentration and inference from the reader. The best of them was The Old Devils, for which Amis was deservedly awarded the Booker Prize in 1986. This is another fictional study of old age. The setting in Amis's old haunts in south Wales lends the book an affectionate, nostalgic glow which is deceptive; an appalling abyss of pain, despair and anxiety gradually opens up beneath the novel's comic surface. But Amis is in total command of his material and his unique narrative style. The reader knows he is in for a treat from the first few pages describing Malcolm's cautious negotiation of breakfast:
  
  He had not bitten anything with his front teeth since losing a top middle crown on a slice of liver-sausage six years earlier, and the right-hand side of his mouth was a no-go area, what with the hole in the lower lot where stuff was always apt to stick and a funny piece of gum that seemed to have got detached from something and waved about whenever it got the chance.
  
  Kingsley Amis's second marriage broke up in 1983 and in later life he happily shared a house in Hampstead with his first wife, Hillie, and her second husband, Lord Kilmarnock - a twist in his biography that might have come from one of his own late novels. He took pride in the literary success of his son Martin, who occupies much the same key position among the British novelists who came of age in the 1970s as Kingsley did among those of the 1950s - a dynastic succession unprecedented in the annals of English literature. In spite of the differences of tone and ideology that divide them, it is a fascinating critical exercise to track the stylistic gene that unites these two novelists.

  It would be an understatement to say that Kingsley Amis enjoyed a drink. He was an opinionated connoisseur of wine, and an unsurpassed observer of bar-room speech and behaviour. In later life he was a habitue of the Garrick Club, in London. He was appointed CBE in 1981, was granted the freedom of the City of London in 1989, and knighted in 1990. In many ways he became a pillar of the Establishment that he had once tilted at. He did not care for foreign travel, and apart from a spell in Portugal to spend the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1955 (which he was awarded for Lucky Jim), and a couple of visiting professorships in America a few years later, "Abroad" made little impact on his life or work. The title of the book inspired by the visit to Portugal was I Like It Here, and "here" meant England. He exploited the English prejudice that foreigners speak funny to marvellous comic effect - witness the overseas students solemnly interrogating the hero of I Like It Here about Grim Gin, Ifflen Voff, Zumzit Mum, Shem Shoice, and that popular classic Sickies of Sickingdom by Edge-Crown.

  In 1991 Amis published his Memoirs, consisting mainly of amusing, scandalous and sometimes cruel anecdotes about his literary contemporaries, many of whom were now dead, including Philip Larkin. The two men kept a wary distance from each other in later years, communicating mainly by letter, as if conscious they could never recover the easy intimacy of youthful friendship. "He was my best friend and I never saw enough of him or knew him as well as I wanted to," Amis wrote, rather sadly, in the Memoirs.
  
  This year, Eric Jacobs published a biography, with Amis's collaboration. It revealed (as literary biographies tend to do) a closer correspondence between the life and the fiction than one might have supposed, especially as regards difficulties with women. It also revealed a surprisingly vulnerable person behind the bluff, blimpish public mask, and the poised, sardonic prose stylist: a rather timid man, fearful of flying, unable to drive a car or perform the simplest domestic tasks, needing a regular and repetitive daily routine to keep the black dog of depression at bay: work, club, pub, telly. Work was the most important of these resources. In spite of increasing physical debility, Amis kept writing up till the end of his life. You Can't Do Both (1994) was generally well received and is perhaps the most openly autobiographical of his novels. If The Biographer's Moustache, published earlier this year, was not the biographee's revenge that many reviewers had hoped for, it still had more than a touch of past mastery.
  
  In That Uncertain Feeling the hero is accosted one evening in the street of a small Welsh town by two lascars, one of whom seems to ask him:

  "Where is pain and bitter laugh?" This was just the question for me, but before I could smite my breast and cry, "In here, friend", the other little man had said: "My cousin say, we are new in these town and we wish to know where is piano and bit of life, please?"

  That is one of my favourite quotations from Amis because it seems to epitomise his art. He did not dodge the pain of existence and his laughter was sometimes bitter, but he always retained the liberating, life- enhancing gift of comic surprise.

  Kingsley Amis, writer: born London 16 April 1922; CBE 1981; Kt 1990; books include A Frame of Mind 1953, Lucky Jim 1954, That Uncertain Feeling 1955, A Case of Samples 1956, I Like it Here 1958, Take a Girl Like You 1960, New Maps of Hell 1960, My Enemy's Enemy 1962, One Fat Englishman 1963, The Egyptologists 1965, (with Robert Conquest) The James Bond Dossier 1965, The Anti-Death League 1966, The Book of Bond, or Every Man His Own 007 1966, A Look Round the Estate 1967, Colonel Sun 1968, I Want it Now 1968, The Green Man 1969, What Became of Jane Austen? 1970, Girl, 20 1971, On Drink 1972, The Riverside Villas Murder 1973, Ending Up 1974, Rudyard Kipling and His World 1975, The Alteration 1976, Jake's Thing 1978, Collected Poems 1944-79 1979, Russian Hide-and-Seek 1980, Collected Short Stories 1980, Every Day Drinking 1983, How's Your Glass? 1984, Stanley and the Women 1984, The Old Devils 1986, (with J. Cochrane) Great British Songbook 1986, The Crime of the Century 1987, Difficulties with Girls 1988, The Folks that Live on the Hill 1990, We are All Guilty 1991, Memoirs 1991[/i], The Russian Girl 1992, Mr Barrett's Secret and Other Stories 1993, You Can't Do Both 1994, The Biographer's Moustache 1995; married 1948 Hilary Bardwell (two sons, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1965), 1965 Elizabeth Jane Howard (marriage dissolved 1983); died London 22 October 1995.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  (Kingsley William Amis)

  https://www.fantasticfiction.com/a/kingsley-amis/
  (1922 - 1995) Father of Martin Amis, husband of Elizabeth Jane Howard
  
  aka Robert Markham, William Tanner

  Sir Kingsley Amis, who died in October 1995, was born in London in 1922. In 1954 his first novel, 'Lucky Jim', burst onto the literary scene with extraordinary force, gaining him instant fame and notoriety as one of the most prominent of the so-called 'angry young men'. He went on to write over twenty novels (winning the Booker Prize in 1986 for 'The Old Devils'), and many volumes of poetry and non-fiction. He was knighted in 1991. His last novel, 'The Biographer's Moustache', was published in September 1995.
  
  Genres: Literary Fiction, Thriller
  
  Series
  Jim Dixon
  Lucky Jim (1954)
  That Uncertain Feeling (1955)
  I Like it Here (1958)
  Lucky Jim's Politics (1968)
  
  Jenny Bunn
  1. Take a Girl Like You (1960)
  2. Difficulties with Girls (1988)
  
  Novels
  My Enemy's Enemy (1962)
  One Fat Englishman (1963)
  The Egyptologists (1965) (with Robert Conquest)
  The Anti-Death League (1966)
  I Want It Now (1968)
  The Green Man (1969)
  Girl, 20 (1971)
  Dear Illusion (1972)
  The Riverside Villas Murder (1973)
  Ending Up (1974)
  The Crime of the Century (1975)
  The Alteration (1976)
  The Darkwater Hall Mystery (1978)
  Jake's Thing (1978)
  Russian Hide-and-Seek (1980)
  Stanley and the Women (1984)
  The Old Devils (1986)
  The Folks That Live On the Hill (1990)
  We Are All Guilty (1991)
  The Russian Girl (1992)
  The Biographer's Moustache (1995)
  
  Omnibus
  A Kingsley Amis Omnibus (1980)
  
  Collections
  Bright November (poems) (1947)
  A Frame of Mind (poems) (1953)
  Poems: Fantasy Portraits (poems) (1954)
  A Case of Samples (poems) (1956)
  Poems (poems) (1962)
  A Look Round the Estate (poems) (1967)
  Collected Poems 1944-1979 (poems) (1979)
  Collected Short Stories (1980)
  Mr Barrett's Secret (1993)
  Complete Stories (2011)
  
  Series contributed to
  James Bond Non Fiction
  The Book of Bond (1965) (as by William Tanner)
  The James Bond Dossier (1965)
  
  James Bond Fiction
  James Bond (as by Robert Markham)
  Colonel Sun (1968)
  
  Anthologies edited
  Spectrum (1962) (with Robert Conquest)
  Spectrum 2 (1962) (with Robert Conquest)
  Spectrum 3 (1963) (with Robert Conquest)
  Spectrum 4 (1965) (with Robert Conquest)
  Spectrum 5 (1966) (with Robert Conquest)
  The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse (1978)
  The Faber Popular Reciter (1978)
  The Golden Age of Science Fiction (1981)
  The Amis Anthology (1988)
  The Pleasure of Poetry (1990)
  The Amis Story Anthology (1992)
  
  Non fiction
  New Maps of Hell (1960)
  What Became of Jane Austen? (1970)
  Tennyson (1972)
  On Drink (1972)
  Rudyard Kipling and his World (1975)
  Harold's Years (1977)
  An Arts Policy? (1979)
  Every Day Drinking (1983)
  How's Your Glass? (1984)
  The Great British Songbook (1986) (with James Cochrane)
  The Amis Collection (1990)
  Memoirs (1991)
  Kingsley Amis in Life and Letters (1991)
  You Can't Do Both (1994)
  The King's English (1997)
  The Letters of Kingsley Amis (2000)
  Conversations with Kingsley Amis (2010)
  Raising A Smile (2019)
  
  Anthologies containing stories by Kingsley Amis
  The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1967)
  Best SF: 1974 (1975)
  aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 8
  The Road to Science Fiction 5 (1998)
  
  Short stories
  My Enemy's Enemy [short story] (1955)
  Court of Inquiry (1956)
  The 2003 Claret (1958)
  Moral Fibre (1958)
  Hemingway in Space (1960)
  Something Strange (1960)
  All the Blood Within Me (1962)
  I Spy Strangers (1962)
  The Friends of Plonk (1964)
  Dear Illusion [short story] (1972)
  Mason's Life (1972)
  Too Much Trouble (1972)
  Who or What Was It? (1972)
  The Darkwater Hall Mystery [short story] (1978)
  The House on the Headland (1979)
  To See the Sun (1980)
  
  Awards
  The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1974) : Ending Up
  John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel winner (1977) : The Alteration
  The Man Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1978) : Jake's Thing
  The Man Booker Prize Best Novel winner (1986) : The Old Devils
  
  Books about Kingsley Amis
  The Anti-Egotist (1996) by Paul Fussell
  Lucky Him (2001) by Richard Bradford
  
  Kingsley Amis recommends
  The Bell (1958). Iris Murdoch.
  "A distinguished novelist of a rare kind."
  The Other Side of the Sky (1958), Arthur C Clarke.
  "Science fiction of the finest quality: original, imaginative, disturbing."
  Galaxies Like Grains of Sand (1959), Brian Aldiss.
  "...Takes us far from the here-and-now into regions of sharply-flavoured eeriness."
  The Drowned World (1962), J G Ballard.
  "Ballard is one of the brightest new stars in post-war fiction. This tale of strange and terrible adventure in a world of steaming jungles has an oppressive power reminiscent of Conrad."
  Day Million (1970), Frederik Pohl.
  "The most consistently able writer science fiction, in the modern sense, has yet produced."
  The Xanadu Talisman (1981). (Modesty Blaise and Willie Garvin, book 9) Peter O'Donnell.
  "One of the great partnerships in fiction, bearing comparison with that of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson."
  The Alternative Detective (1993) (Hob Draconian, book 1), Robert Sheckley.
  "Always he crackles with ideas."

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  2002: Warner Bros. and Maverick Records release the "Die Another Day" single (delayed from 10 October due to a radio station leak). The video premieres worldwide on MTV the same day--a first for the music channel.

  

  2008: Jessica Fellowes' piece "Necklace with a starring role" appears on The Telegraph online.

  

  Necklace with a starring role

  http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/TMG3365680/Necklace-with-a-starring-role.html
  BY Jessica Fellowes | 22 October 2008
  
  In Quantum of Solace, it's not a gizmo or Q invention that holds the key to the plot, but a piece of jewellery.
  
  Having designed two sets of earrings and a loveknot necklace for Eva Green's Vesper Lynd (above) to wear in the casino scene for Casino Royale, jeweller Sophie Harley was called upon once again. In Quantum of Solace, the beginning of which is set an hour after the climax of Casino Royale, the necklace makes another appearance.
  
  "Obviously, the producers were very strict about revealing the plot," says Sophie, "But they told me that the necklace is the only thing that Bond has left of Vesper Lynd's. In the trailer there is a shot of the necklace on a table just as Camille (Olga) asks Bond: "Do you love someone?". "I do," he replies.
  
  Is this the end of Bond as we knew him? Has he at last found "enduring love" or will he stay true to form and give the necklace to another girl?
  
  "The producers did indicate that the necklace would be worn again in Quantum," says Sophie.
  
  The original loveknot necklace can be bought for £1,939, as can the original garnet drop earrings (£323 and £384) but there are also cheaper designs based on the same shape, from £135. www.sophieharley.com ; 020 7430 2070.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: The Italian Cultural Institute at St. George’s Square, Valletta opposite The Palace (Malta’s Parliament house, next door to the Attorney General’s Office) hosts The Science of James Bond. Free.

  

  The Science of James Bond (22 Oct.)

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  To celebrate James Bond's fiftieth anniversary and in anticipation of the forthcoming SkyFall in local cinemas, Euro Media Forum, Science is Culture in conjunction with Eden Cinemas are organising The Science of James Bond event taking place on Monday 22 October at 1900hrs at the Italian Cultural Institute, St George’s Square, Valletta opposite The Palace (Malta’s Parliament house) and next door to the Attorney General’s Office. Entrance is free.
  
  Are 007’s gadgets science fact or fiction? From Bond’s first gadget – the stylish briefcase that featured hidden ammunition, gold coins and an AR7 folding sniper’s rifle with infrared telescopic sight, a teargas cartridge disguised as a tin of talcum powder. The lethal luggage was only the prelude to the world’s most famous car - the sleek Aston Martin DB5 that shoots bullets, has revolving number plates, a rear bullet proof screen and had Connery’s Bond in awe with its ejector seat that’s handy at disposing of passengers at the push of a button. The science and technology of Q’s gadgets played by the late Desmond Llewellyn, the legendary gadget master of MI6 has thrilled movie audiences and kept gadget enthusiasts guessing for five decades as to whether these gadgets are indeed truly possible.
  
  The Science of James Bond will take the audience on a fascinating journey through the science that underlies Bond’s most fantastic missions. Bond Gadget enthusiast, scientist David Pace and film researcher Justin Camilleri will provide a highly entertaining, informative look at the real-world science behind Bond’s gadgets, such as the Omega Seamaster laser watch that cuts through steel, the White Lotus Esprit car that turns into a submarine, the ever popular rocket firing cigarette and last but not least the Aston Martin Vanquish that turns invisible. Bond villains’ gadgets will also be examined such as how the first watch gadget in From Russia With Love was not issued to Bond but Robert Shaw’s villain Red Grant. Whether Jaws’ (Richard Kiel) steel teeth qualify as a gadget and how Rosa Klebb’s dagger shoe was so influential that it would be used by Heath Ledger’s Joker in The Dark Knight. The late Q’s ingenious inventions which have accompanied Bond through his astonishing battles beneath the earth, sea, skies and outer space, will be analysed ,as well as the new Q for the Facebook generation played by Ben Whishaw who supplies Daniel Craig’s Bond with his first ever fingerprint recognition Walter PPK in the upcoming SkyFall.
  
  The audience is invited to participate and put forward to the panel their questions regarding their favourite James Bond or villain gadget. The speakers promise an interesting debate and fantastic entertainment, seeking to answer the questions about the limits of science and technology in James Bond movies, the laws of nature, and the future of gadget spy technology.
  
  To spice up the evening there will also be James Bond memorabilia exhibition on display and a 007 quiz, where the first winner will win an all inclusive package – two cinema tickets, a bowling game for two persons and free parking. The second winner will win two cinema tickets and free parking. The third winner will win two cinema tickets. So quiz participants keep your eyes open on the clues behind the science, gadgets, exploits, and enemies of the world's greatest spy!

  

  2012: University of Leeds Political and International Studies (POLIS) hosts a workshop discussion of The Politics of James Bond.

  
  For Staff
  Research and innovation news archive - October 2012
  https://www.leeds.ac.uk/forstaff/news?mmyyyy=102012&categoryID=30389&page=2
  The politics of James Bond
  22 October 2012
  
  James Bond matters! As the films enter their 50th year, POLIS is hosting a half-day workshop to discuss the Politics of James Bond (in the broadest sense of the word).
  
  Posted in: Research and innovation

  2012: Sky launches a James Bond HD channel in Belgrade, Serbia.
  2012: David Arnold and Thomas Newman are interviewed at Classic FM Studios, London.

  
  James Bond: The Music of 007
  22 October 2012, 12:35
  
  Listen to James Bond's music and get to know the challenges of writing a 007 soundtrack in our exclusive interview with Bond score composers Thomas Newman and David Arnold.
  
  It's not every evening we see two Hollywood legends spend the evening at the Classic FM studios. Thomas Newman, composer of the soundtrack to the new Bond film, Skyfall, was joined by David Arnold, who wrote the scores for the last five Bond films, for a live interview with movie music expert Tommy Pearson. This special programme was recorded in front of a live studio audience a little earlier this month – and you can listen to it again below.
  
  With such a massive film franchise, there's a lot of pressure on soundtrack composers to deliver, but Arnold revealed it's an honour to be able to use the iconic Bond theme: "It's a moment of great joy. Whenever we did the Bond theme at a recording session that was the one where everyone wanted to attend, the one where we had the most people and everyone sat on the edge of their seats a little bit more."
  
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  2015: The Sydney Morning Herald reports unanimous raves in the UK for Spectre.

  EntertainmentMovies
  

  Spectre movie reviews: James Bond's latest gets unanimous raves in the UK

  See the complete article here:
  
  https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/spectre-movie-reviews-james-bonds-latest-gets-unanimous-raves-in-the-uk-20151022-gkfmkk.html

  By Karl Quinn - 22 October 2015 — 9:01pm, first published at 1:06pm
  
  The first reviews of Spectre have landed from the UK, and they are uniformly raves.
  
  The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian have all lavished the 24th James Bond film with five-star ratings, while The Sun and the London Evening Standard raved without rating the film, dubbing their assessments "first impressions".
  
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  Monica Bellucci with Daniel Craig in Spectre.
  
  At any rate, the unanimous praise almost guarantees a monster opening in the UK for the fourth film starring Daniel Craig as 007 this weekend.
  
  In Spectre, Bond comes face to face with a ghost from his past in the form of Christoph Waltz's Franz Oberhauser, head of the secretive and up-to-no-good organisation SPECTRE (the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion).
  
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  Cool as cucumber, sharp as ice: Daniel Craig in the 24th Bond film Spectre.

  In The Telegraph, Robbie Collin wrote that "ghosts of Bond films past come gliding through the film, trailing shivers of pleasure in their wake". He praised the film's director Sam Mendes, who also made 2012's Skyfall, the most successful film in the long-running franchise with global box office of more than $US1.1 billion ($A1.38 billion), for what he described as "a swaggering show of confidence".

  Kate Muir of The Times said the fourth outing for Daniel Craig as James Bond "is achingly cool, as sleek and powerful as the silver Aston Martin DB10 that races through the movie".
  
  She added that Mendes and Craig now seemed so comfortable with the terrain "that a relaxed wit percolates almost every scene. Their recipe, like the car, now seems to be bulletproof".

  For The Guardian, Peter Bradshaw described the film as "pure action mayhem with a real sense of style" and called it "a terrifically exciting, spectacular, almost operatically delirious 007 adventure".

  Could the latest Bond film shatter the record set by the last, 2012's Skyfall?

  The Evening Standard's Ben Travis said "director Sam Mendes has, against all the odds, delivered a film that at least matches, and perhaps even betters, Skyfall", while The Sun's showbiz reporter Ed Dyson effused that "all the classic elements fans expect from Bond await in Spectre – and then some", adding that "we were expecting you to deliver Mr Bond... and you certainly didn't disappoint".

  What does disappoint, though, is the fact that Australia will have to wait until November 12 for its chance to similarly froth in collective excitement.
  
  Hurry up, Mr Bond. We've been expecting you.

  2015: BBC News reports on 5-star reviews of Spectre.

  

  Spectre: Five-star reviews greet new Bond movie

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34600980

  22 October 2015
  https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/E93A/production/_86260795_spectre1.jpg
  Daniel Craig in Spectre image copyright MGM/Columbia/Eon
  Daniel Craig makes his fourth big-screen appearance as Bond in the eagerly awaited film
  
  Critics have given the new James Bond film an enthusiastic welcome, with one saluting it as "pure action mayhem".

  Spectre, The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw continued in his five-star review, is "terrifically exciting, spectacular [and] uproariously entertaining".

  The Times said Sam Mendes' film was "achingly cool", while The Independent said it was "every bit the equal of its predecessor", 2012 release Skyfall.

  Critics were shown Spectre on Wednesday ahead of its release next week.
  
  The film sees Daniel Craig return as British spy James Bond, aka 007, in a globe-trotting blockbuster named after a sinister criminal syndicate.
  
  Two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz, French actress Lea Seydoux and Italy's Monica Bellucci also appear in the 24th official entry in the long-running series.
  
  'Jaw-dropping'

  According to the Daily Mirror, Spectre is "an adventure right up there with the superspy's best" featuring "moments of jaw-dropping stuntwork".

  The Sun's reviewer concurred, saying the film contains "all the classic elements fans expect", including a "jaw-dropping opening sequence".

  Variety also singled out this "expensively ludicrous opening sequence, set in Mexico City on the Day of the Dead," saying it "ranks among the great 007 intros".

  Other industry papers were less effusive, though, with the Hollywood Reporter saying it "ultimately feels like a lesser film than Skyfall, falling back on cliche and convention."

  Screen International, meanwhile, said the film "falls back on the formula to deliver a slightly flat, old-fashioned 007 by the numbers".

  
  2022: Shaken, Not Stirred - The Music of James Bond Movies at the Centene Center, Farmington, Missouri.

  

  Shaken, Not Stirred - The Music of James Bond Movies

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://business.farmingtonregionalchamber.com/events/details/shaken-not-stirred-the-music-of-james-bond-movies-16647

  Under the orchestration and direction of Dr. Kevin White, the Mineral Area Fine Arts Academy Studio Orchestra with special guest vocalists bring the hits from the James Bond movies. Get dressed up and come for a very special night at the "pops" style performance at the Centene Center.

  Date and Time
  Saturday Oct 22, 2022
  7:00 PM - 9:00 PM CDT
  
  Location
  Centene Center, #2 Black Knight Dr., Farmington, MO 63640
  
  Fees/Admission
  Tickets $15
  
  Website
  http://MineralAreaArts.org

  

  
  2022: Casino Night at West Tawakoni, Quinlan, Texas.

  

  

  Casino Night 2022

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.laketawakonichamber.org/event-4935433

  When
  October 22, 2022
  6:30 PM - 11:00 PM
  
  Location
  8908 TX-34, Quinlan, TX 75474
  
  Registration
  * Diamond – $1,000.00
  2 Event Tickets
  Social Media Recognition
  Recognition on Event Items
  Large Company Banner Displayed
  
  ** Platinum – $750.00
  1 Event Ticket
  Social Media Recognition
  Recognition on Event Items
  Small Company Banner Displayed
  
  *** Gold – $500.00
  Social Media Recognition
  Recognition on Event Items
  
  **** Silver – $250.00
  Social Media Recognition
  
  Casino Guest – $40.00

  This is your ticket to the best casino night in town! Come dressed as James Bond, one of his Bond Girls or get creative with your Bond references and get extra chips for your effort!

  

  
  
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  October 23rd
  
  1959: Ian Fleming writes an enthusiastic letter to Ivan Bryce on the Bond film project.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 11 - The Search for James Bond

  While the growing rift widened between Xanadu's principal players,
  Fleming remained as positive as ever about the Bond picture. "I'm personally
  of the opinion that we have a financial winner in this film," he wrote excitedly
  to Bryce on 23 October. "Whether done in colour or monochrome, so long as
  we have a couple good stars, though Jean de la Bruyere should remember
  that Bond must be an Englishman." This of course refers to Bruyere's earlier
  suggestion that an American actor be chosen. This flies in the face of Fleming's
  previous suggestions of a Welsh-born Burton and his acceptance of James
  Stewart donning a tuxedo. Nor was Fleming much interested in going into
  partnership with Columbia, or indeed anyone else, but keeping the Bond film
  solely as a Xanadu production, keeping it, as he says, "in the family." So
  confident was he that they had the right team "with Kevin as producer, X as
  director. Whittingham as script writer and you as general organizer, assisted as
  much as possible by me, I don't see why the vehicle shouldn't roll."

  
  1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films the Angels of Death at Piz Gloria.
  
  1986: From Russia With Love re-released in Norway.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 28 of 65 - "The Emerald Key."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - The Emerald Key

  Season 1 - Episode 28
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807124/?ref_=ttep_ep28

  James and IQ's friendship is under threat when IQ has taken a fancy on a pretty girl who uncle has been abducted by Derange to get his hand on a golden statue which is a key to a fortune of gold in a temple in Mexico.

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 28 - The Emerald Key
  
  

  
  
  
  James Bond Jr 007 Hasbro Original Wax Sculpting Unproduced Action Figure Rare
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  2012: The Atlantic leveraging The Wire report on Bond's declining returns.

  

  The Declining Return on Investing
  in James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2012/10/declining-return-investment-james-bond/322215/

  The new James Bond film Skyfall premiered in London today for the franchise's 50th anniversary, but 007 does not give as much bang for buck as he used to, according to this chart from business intelligence company BIME.
  By Serena Dai
  October 23, 2012
  
  The new James Bond film Skyfall premiered in London today for the franchise's 50th anniversary, but 007 does not give as much bang for buck as he used to, according to this chart from business intelligence company BIME. Using data from The Numbers, BIME compared James Bond film budgets with each film's return on investment, or the gross earnings divided by the budget. The yellow bars represent budgets, which have increased steadily, and the line graph represents ROI. As you can see, since 1963's Dr. No, James Bond movies have gotten more expensive and less profitable.
  
  While production companies invest more money in the films, they're making far less than they did in the '60s. Of course, this may speak more to the movie industry as a whole rather then the value of Bond. Movie production costs are higher now, and often franchises earn money from peripheral products like video games and merchandise—not just ticket sales. From the looks of the solid reviews, Skyfall, which premieres in the U.S. on November 9, will probably keep the franchise strong, even if huge numbers of people don't go to see it.
  
  This article is from the archive of our partner The Wire.

  
  https://www.businessinsider.com/james-bonds-diminishing-roi-in-charts-2012-11

  
  
  
  

  2012: Skyfall premieres at the Royal Albert Hall, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2015: The Telegraph explains the meaning of 13 Bond film titles.

  

  13 James Bond film titles explained

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/james-bond-spectre/titles-explained-goldfinger-quantum-goldeneye/

  
  Sean Connery in Goldfinger, the title of which was named after
  Ian Fleming's golf partner's cousin, who sued him
  Credit: Everett/REX

  Patrick Smith 23 October 2015 • 11:17am

  Which Bond film owes its title to a typo? Who was Goldfinger? And what's a quantum? Ahead of the SPECTRE release, we reveal the meanings of previous 007 titles

  1. Goldfinger (1964)
  The first James Bond film to win an Oscar took its title from a man 007 creator Ian Fleming used to know called Ernő Goldfinger. He was the cousin (by marriage) of Fleming’s golf partner, John Blackwell, and threatened to sue over the use of his name. The matter was settled out of court.
  
  2. You Only Live Twice (1967)
  Fleming was inspired by the 17th-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, who wrote these words more than 300 years before they were used as the title for the 12th Bond novel.

  
  Sean Connery and Donald Pleasance in 1967's You Only Live Twice,
  the title of which came from Japanese poetry
  Credit: MGM/Everett/REX

  3. Diamonds are Forever (1971)
  In 1947, copywriter Frances Gerety coined the phrase "A Diamond Is Forever" in an advertising campaign for De Beers. It seems inconceivable that Fleming wouldn’t have been directly influenced by this.
  
  4. The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
  Unlike the film, The Spy Who Loved Me novel is told in the first person by a young Canadian woman, Vivienne Michel, and Bond doesn’t appear until two thirds of the way through. The title makes a lot more sense when you think about it that way.
  
  5. Octopussy (1983)
  The 1983 movie takes its name from a coracle Ian Fleming received from his neighbour – and lover – in Jamaica, Blanche Blackwell (the small boat was called Octopussy].

  
  Peter Lamont's concept for Octopussy's barge. The film, incidentally,
  shared its name with one of Ian Fleming's boats
  Credit: 1984 Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Studios inc, and Danjaq LLC.

  6. A View To A Kill (1985)
  This grammatically suspect title comes from an unrelated Fleming short story called "From A View To a Kill". The film attempts to make some sort of sense of it with the following lines of dialogue from villain Zorian (Christopher Walken) and his henchwoman May Day (Grace Jones): Her: "What a view." Him: "To a kill!"
  
  7. Licence to Kill (1989)
  Timothy Dalton’s second Bond outing was originally titled Licence Revoked, which makes perfect sense given that in the film M suspends 007 after he refuses to give up the hunt for the person who fed his friend Felix Leiter to a shark. However, because polled American audiences said the phrase reminded them of confiscated driving licences, it was changed to Licence to Kill – absurd, really, when you consider it’s the only film he’s not legally allowed to shoot people.
  
  8. GoldenEye (1995)
  Pierce Brosnan made his Bond debut in this 1995 film, named after Ian Fleming’s estate in Jamaica. The novelist claimed a number of origins for the name of the estate, including Carson McCullers’s Reflections in a Golden Eye and Operation Goldeneye, a plan he developed during the Second World War for maintaining communication between Britain and Gibraltar. Goldeneye is also a type of duck …

  
  GoldenEye, which was named after Fleming's Jamaican estate, is also a type of duck
  Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

  9. Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
  The film was originally supposed to be called Tomorrow Never Lies – a reference to the (fictional) newspaper, Tomorrow, run by the villainous Elliot Carver (played by Jonathan Pryce). Word has it, however, that when the title was faxed to MGM, there was a typo, and the marketing department preferred the incorrect version. The title for Tomorrow Never Lies, meanwhile, came to scriptwriter Bruce Feirstein while he was listening to The Beatles’ trippy song, "Tomorrow Never Knows".
  
  10. The World Is Not Enough (1999)
  This phrase, believed to originate from Alexander the Great’s epitaph, appeared in the 1963 Bond novel On Her Majesty’s Secret Service as the family motto of Sir Thomas Bond, whose Coat of Arms 007 is shown while on assignment.

  
  Syd Cain's designs for Blofeld's coat of arms in On Her Majesty's Secret Service,
  the film in which Bond learns his own family motto
  Credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Studios inc, and Danjaq. LLC.

  11. Die Another Day (2002)
  There’s a 1896 poem by AE Housman called A Shropshire Lad, which features the line “But since the man that runs away / Lives to die another day”. That’s the only explanation for this terrible title for an equally terrible film.
  
  12. Quantum of Solace (2008)
  After this title was announced in 2008, many struggled to understand its meaning – including the film's screenwriter, Paul Haggis. "I have no idea," he admitted when asked. "It's not my title." Indeed, it's the title of a Fleming short story about Bond meeting a cuckolded husband, and more inquiring minds were quick to point out that "quantum" is the smallest possible amount of a physical property. For Daniel Craig, it was about relationships: "When they go wrong, when there's nothing left, when the spark has gone, when the fire's gone out, there's no quantum of solace," he clarified. But perhaps comedian Adam Buxton explained it best in his alternative Quantum of Solace theme song: “I want a quantum of solace, but just a quantum / I know they do big bags of solace, but I don’t want ‘em.”
  
  13. SPECTRE (2015)
  SPECTRE is a fictional terrorist organisation that featured in both the James Bond novels by Ian Fleming and the films adapted from them. Fleming originally pitted Bond against SMERSH, the arm of the KGB set up by Stalin as an equivalent of the Gestapo. Believing the Cold War to be coming to an end, and fearing a recurring Soviet enemy would make his novels look dated, the author told Playboy in 1964 that he created this network of spies and assassins to replace the Soviets as natural enemies for the British Secret Service.

  
  Franz Oberhauser: SPECTRE's number one in the new film

  The organisation's name is an acronym for SPecial Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. It made its first appearance in Fleming's 1961 novel Thunderball, and on screen in the first Bond film, Dr No (1962). It is headed by the franchise's ultimate villain, the cat-stroking Ernst Stavro Blofeld, whose name was inspired by a boy Fleming knew at Eton, Thomas Blofeld – father of the cricket commentator Henry "Blowers" Blofeld.

  2015: Capital releases "Writing's on the Wall" as a CD single.

  
  
  

  2015: Universal Music Classics releases the Spectre soundtrack by Thomas Newman in the UK.
  
  2022: The James Bond Concert Spectacular at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, England.

  

  James Bond Concert Spectacular
  Sun Oct 23, 2022

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://allevents.in/london/james-bond-concert-spectacular/80004902573390

  James Bond Concert Spectacular, 23 October | Event in London
  
  Comperes:
  Caroline Bliss – The Living Daylights & Licence To Kill
  Caroline Munro – The Spy Who Loved Me
  Madeline Smith – Live And Let Die

  The James Bond Concert Spectacular by Q The Music Show is widely regarded across the world as the best tribute to the music of James Bond that has been produced.
  
  Formed in 2004 as the world’s first dedicated tribute to the music of 007 they have gone on to establish themselves amongst every Bond fan club around the world as the finest performances of the songs since the originals.
  
  Their stirring emotional and adrenaline-fueled performances mixed in with superb musicianship and flair have been met by critical acclaim wherever they have gone.

  Some of the most notable comments have come from hugely influential Bond related stars including:

  David Arnold: “They do a phenomenal job”

  George Lazenby: “They did John Barry proud”

  Sir Roger Moore’s Office (following his Memorial): “They helped make a wonderful day an extraordinary day”

  Steven Saltzman (son of legendary Bond producer Harry Saltzman): “You did my Dad proud”

  Even The Times national newspaper raved about their performance in a 4-star review of their West End debut: “It’s hard to imagine this music being served better. Simply stunning.”
  
  The show has become the go-to provider for all the top events in the world when it comes to James Bond. In 2017 they were asked to perform at Sir Roger Moore’s official memorial event at Pinewood Studios in front of the who’s who of the British film and TV industry including Sir Michael Caine Dame Joan Collins and David Walliams. In 2019 they performed at an event with George Lazenby: the 50th anniversary event for On Her Majesty’s Secret Service held at Piz Gloria in the Swiss Alps.
  
  The show features all the Bond songs such as Goldfinger Diamonds Are Forever Live and Let Die and Nobody Does It Better performed with the most authentic and dedicated arrangements to the originals ever heard but with such passion enthusiasm and flair: you can’t help but be wowed.
  
  The musicians in the show are taken from the UK’s leading orchestras sessions and shows and combined with several former Bond girl’s compering. Caroline Bliss who played Moneypenny in The Living Daylights and Licence To Kill Caroline Munro Naomi in The Spy Who Loved Me and Madeline Smith Miss Caruso in Live And Let Die will guide you through the concert sharing the odd anecdote about their time working in this legendary series.
  
  With stunning singing exquisite musicianship informative comperes and a show full of iconic tunes it really is a night guaranteed of the highest quality. Don’t miss it!
  
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  Date & Time
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  2022: Licence to Shake (and Stir) Cocktails with James Bond at Famous Last Words Bar, Toronto, Ontario.
  https://famouslastwordsbar.com/event/license-to-shake-and-stir-cocktails-with-james-bond-oct-23-2022/

  

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  2022: The Bond In Motion Exhibition closes at the Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, California.

  

  

  EXHIBITION
  CLOSURE | Bond in
  Motion
  Sunday, October 23, 2022
  5:00 PM 6:00 PM

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.petersen.org/events/bond-closure

  EXHIBITION CLOSING OCTOBER 23
  
  BOND IN MOTION
  OFFICIAL COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL JAMES BOND VEHICLES
  Purchase Tickets

  EXHIBITION ABSTRACT
  Produced in collaboration with EON Productions and The Ian Fleming® Foundation, Bond in Motion is the first official exhibition in the United States to feature original vehicles from the James Bond film franchise. The exhibit celebrates the 60th anniversary of the 007 films, since Dr. No was released in 1962.
  
  With the publication of his first spy novel, Casino Royale (1953), author and former naval intelligence officer Ian Fleming introduced the world to the enchanting exploits of James Bond, a British officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, also known as MI6. In all, Fleming would produce twelve novels and two short stories, laying the foundation for what would become a global literary and cinematic legacy.
  
  Beginning in 1962, with the movie adaptation of Fleming’s sixth title, Dr. No, the exciting and dangerous world of James Bond was translated to screen, setting the tone for Bond films to come. Much like the novels on which they are based, Bond films combine the adventure of exotic locations and scheming villains with the action of death-defying stunts, and heart-pounding chases in nearly every type of vehicle imaginable. Often modified by quartermaster “Q,” these vehicles, much like Bond himself, conceal their true nature until their weapons and gadgetry become important plot devices.
  
  The Bond in Motion exhibit offers visitors a rare up-close experience of the most iconic vehicles associated with the world’s most famous secret agent, 007.

  

  
  
  
  https://www.petersen.org/bond
  
  

  
  
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  October 24th
  
  1943: Martin Campbell is born--Hastings, New Zealand.
  
  1983: Maclean's prints its Never Say Never Again review "James Bond as a familiar fuzz."

  

  

  James Bond as a familiar fuzz
  NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN Directed by Irvin Kershner
  October 24 1983 L.O’T.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1983/10/24/james-bond-as-a-familiar-fuzz

  James Bond as a familiar fuzz
  October 24 1983 L.O’T.

  NEVER SAY NEVER AGAIN Directed by Irvin Kershner
  
  After a viewer walks out of the latest James Bond movie, Never Say Never Again, he might well scratch his head and wonder what was so sorely missing from it. The gadgets and chases are there, as are the double entendres and centrefold women. There is also the original 007, Sean Connery, albeit this time sleepwalking through his action-packed environment. But there is no James Bond theme—a simple piece of music as familiar to most viewers as the backs of their own hands. That theme has developed by now into a Pavlovian efficiency: it has become part of the texture of the Bond fantasy, indelibly ingrained as part of the pleasure in watching the most successful movie series ever. Legally, the makers of Never Say Never Again could not use the theme, since the copyright to the series belongs to another interest. However, the rights to an earlier Bond opus, Thunderball, lapsed after 15 years, the result being Never Say Never Again, which is a quasi-remake.
  
  Though it has its sharp, inspired moments, Never Say Never Again denies the audience the thrill of discovery. The plot—SPECTRE trying to take over the world by stealing two nuclear warheads—has the fuzz of familiarity on it and is not well worked out. The relationship between SPECTRE and the chief villain (Klaus Maria Brandhauer) is illdefined, and villainousness itself seems to be at a premium. Except for Barbara Carrera as the fur-and-leather assassin, Fatima Blush, no slimy juices run through these evildoers; they are simply not worthy adversaries. And there is a new Bondette—a Linda Evans look-alike named Kim Basinger—as vacuous as she is physically velvety.
  
  To his credit, director Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back) achieves some moments of pure comic-book style, particularly with a tuxedo-clad Bond on a motorcycle. There is, too, a rip-roaring fight between Bond and a practically impregnable brute, a terrific stunt on a horse, a shark attack and plenty of underwater action—all of which we have seen once too often. The biggest disappointment is, of course, Connery, looking as fit and trim as ever—but also in another world. Originally, the moviemakers dallied with the idea of having Connery, without his toupée, play Bond as an out-of-shape retiree called back into action. Lorenzo Semple Jr.’s limp script is no help to Connery either, lacking both purr and pounce. Never Say Never Again uses up the last of 007’s nine lives. —L.O’T.

  L.O’T.

  
  
  

  1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Stacey showering. Plus the robot.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 9 of 65 - "Ship of Terror."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Ship of Terror

  Season 1 - Episode 29
  
  

  A theft by a S.C.U.M. agent of a pendant belonging to James's friend Prince Malmo leads the gang on a deadly cruise, stalked by Walker D. Plank and a metallic henchman.

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 29 - Ship of Terror
  
  

  

  
  2005: The Design Museum showcases iconic Robert Brownjohn contributions.

  

  Robert Brownjohn at the Design Museum

  See the complete article here:
  
  http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/1804

  
  Many of the most memorable images of the Sixties are on show as part of
  the Design Museum's Robert Brownjohn restrospective.

  

  From the top floor windows of the museum on the exhibition's opening day it was possible to watch Daniel Craig arrive by speed boat on the far bank where he was revealed as the latest actor to play James Bond.
  
  In the exhibition we learn that it was Brownjohn's work which helped to make the James Bond legend so enduring. His opening title sequences for the 1963 Bond film From Russia With Love and the 1964 Bond film Goldfinger, which required exacting attention to detail in a pre-digital age, can be enjoyed on a screen. Almost as important is the poster depicting Sean Connery and Honor Blackman which had such impact.
  
  Also playing are his Midland Bank cinema commercials which received standing ovations at the Cannes Film Festival.
  
  Brownjohn's arresting Fifties' graphic art includes a Harper's cover drawing featuring red skull caps surrounding a single white one. This was to illustrate the article on the new Pope John XXIII who was the first pontiff to make a global impact.
  
  Other early work, before the artist's move from New York to Britain in 1960, is a pleasing use of letterpress for festival posters. In America he had come under the influence of Andy Warhol as his collection of slides confirms.
  
  Two years before his death in London he designed the artwork for the Rolling Stones' album Let It Bleed.

  

  The exhibition is curated by Emily King who to coincide with the Design Museum show has written a book Robert Brownjohn: Sex and Typography (Laurence King Publishing £25). This is closely related to the exhibition making it both a worthwhile souvenir as well as a fascinating overview of Robert Brownjohn's work and influence.
  
  In a foreword Alan Fletcher of Pentagram writes: "Bj was the right man, in the right job, in the right place."
  
  Robert Brownjohn is at the Design Museum, Shad Thames, daily 10am-5.45pm until Sunday 26 February; admission £7 (conc £4; child under 12 free)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2005: John Murray publishes James Bond: The Man And His World by Henry Chancellor.

  http://commanderbond.net/2831/james-bond-the-man-and-his-world.html
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: Digital Spy reports on Daniel Craig crying.

  

  Daniel Craig: 'I cried when I first heard
  Adele's Skyfall'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.digitalspy.com/music/a433007/daniel-craig-i-cried-when-i-first-heard-adeles-skyfall/

  The James Bond actor says that the song was what he wanted from the beginning.
  BY MAYER NISSIM
  24/10/2012
  Daniel Craig has admitted that he cried when he first heard Adele's 'Skyfall'.
  
  The James Bond actor said that the theme for the 23rd 007 movie perfectly fitted the on-screen action.
  
  "I cried," Craig told Yahoo! Movies
  
  "From the opening bars I knew immediately, then the voice kicked in and it was exactly what I'd wanted from the beginning.
  
  "It just got better and better because it fitted the movie. In fact the more of the movie we made, the more it fitted it."
  

  https://www.digitalspy.com/8a534606-8a2b-4c53-9c5f-80e7e687d851
  Adele - 'Skyfall' preview video
  by Digital Spy GB

  
  Skyfall director Sam Mendes added of Adele: "She came in very early before we started shooting and her main concern was, 'I write songs about myself, how can I make a 'Bond' song?'
  
  "My answer was, 'Just write a personal song!' Carly Simon's 'Nobody Does it Better' was a love song."
  
  Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson have maintained that Adele was always their first choice to record the theme for the movie.
  
  'Skyfall' has been covered by Jedward and Willow Smith since its release.
  
  Skyfall will open in UK cinemas on October 26 and November 9 in the US.

  Watch the Adele 'Skyfall' lyric video below:
  

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  2022: Luna Palace Cinemas screen Skyfall across the United Kingdom.

  

  

  BFF22: Skyfall

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  5231 BFF22: Skyfall
  
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  BOND RETROSPECTIVE
  2012 | Action, Adventure | United Kingdom, United States
  Daniel Craig continues his iconic work as James Bond in the brilliantly engrossing Skyfall from director Sam Mendes (Empire of Light BFF22). Bond’s latest mission goes wrong, agents around the world are exposed and MI6 is brutally attacked. These events cause M's (Judi Dench) authority to be challenged by Mallory (Ralph Fiennes), the new Chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With MI6 now compromised, M is left with only one ally she can truly trust: Bond. 007 takes to the shadows, following a trail to the mysterious Silva (Javier Bardem), whose lethal and hidden motives are yet to reveal themselves. Skyfall presents Bond at his finest.

  “Bond traditions haven't just been updated -- they've been intelligently modified and rethought, giving us the franchise's inherent pleasures in a new package.” Deadspin

  WINNER – Best Original Song, Best Achievement in Sound Editing, Academy Awards 2013
  WINNER - Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film, BAFTA Awards 2013
  
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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

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  October 25th
  
  1936: Terrance Mountain is born--Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.
  
  1965: Mathieu Amalric is born--Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
  
  1972: James Bond comic The League of Vampires begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 28 February 1973. 2066–2172) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/tlov.php3
  
  
  
  
  
  https://www.popoptiq.com/the-league-of-vampires/
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1982 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1982.php3

  Vampyrligan
  (The League of Vampires)
  

  
  Danish 1975 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no32-1975/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 32:
  “The League of Vampires”
  "Vampyrligaen"
  
  

  1977: Eileen Alderton reviews the Christopher Wood novelization James Bond, The Spy Who Loved Me in The Australian Women's Weekly..

  
  Books
  reviewed by Eileen Alderton

  JAMES BOND LOVES ON

  https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/51275146
  
  ENTIRELY different from the late
  Ian Fleming's original story The
  Spy Who Loved Me is Christopher
  Wood's JAMES BOND, THE
  SPY WHO LOVED ME.
  
  Published by Jonathan Cape ($9.95) it is
  a gutsy, punchy novel written under licence
  (from the owners of Ian Fleming's
  copyrights) from the script Christopher
  Wood and Richard Maibaum produced for
  the latest Bond film.
  
  Ian Fleming made his indestructible
  Bond immortal - and here he is again, a
  woman chaser, charming, ironic, decadent,
  ruthless, with a constitution that stands up
  to any amount of bashing and bruising.
  In this thriller British and Russians get
  together because a nuclear-powered
  submarine is missing. There is, of course, a
  beautiful girl called Anya with the rank of a
  major in the Russian army, deadly villains
  and as much action as anyone could take.

  
  

  
  

  
  1982: Octopussy films Magda seducing OO7 for the egg.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 30 of 65 - "Deadly Recall."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Deadly Recall

  Season 1 - Episode 30
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807098/?ref_=ttep_ep30
  

  James and the gang's trip to Monte Carlo with Trevor turns into another adventure when Dr. Derange uses his hypnotic roulette wheel to hypnotise and rob wealthy people blind before transforming them into S.C.U.M agents. And Trevor becomes their next candidate.

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 30 - Deadly Recall
  
  

  

  1995: David Healy dies at age 66--London, England.
  (Born 15 May 1929--New York City, New York.)

  

  David Healy (actor)

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  David Healy
  Born May 15, 1929
  New York City, U.S.
  Died October 25, 1995 (aged 66)
  London, England
  Occupation Actor
  Years active 1963–1995
  Spouse(s) Peggy Walsh
  Children 2

  David Healy (May 15, 1929 – October 25, 1995) was an American actor who appeared in British and American television shows.
  
  Healy was born in New York City. His television credits include voices for the Supermarionation series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Joe 90 and The Secret Service, as well as parts in UFO, The Troubleshooters, Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Strange Report, Dickens of London, Space Police (a TV pilot), Space Precinct and Dallas. He also starred as Dr. Watson opposite Ian Richardson's Sherlock Holmes in the 1983 TV film of The Sign of Four.

  His big screen credits include The Double Man (1967), Only When I Larf (1968), Assignment K (1968), Isadora (1968), Patton (1970), Lust for a Vampire (1971), Madame Sin (1972), Embassy (1972), Endless Night (1972), Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977), Winterspelt (1979), Supergirl (1984), and Haunted Honeymoon (1986).[7][8] He also gave uncredited performances in the James Bond films You Only Live Twice (1967) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

  In 1983, Healy received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Guys and Dolls during the 1982 theatre season. His performance of "Nicely Nicely Johnson" was praised as "show-stopping" as he sang "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat". He performed a mid-show encore each night. In late 1980s he played the character of Buddy Plummer in the original London run of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies at the Shaftesbury Theatre.
  
  Healy died following a heart operation on October 25, 1995 in London, England.
  Contents
  
  Personal life
  David married Peggy Walsh and had two sons, William and Tim. He was a devoted amateur polo player and his wife was the manager of Ham Polo Club in London. Both of his sons remain polo players and the David Healy Trophy is still played for in his memory.
  
  Filmography
  Be My Guest (1965) - Milton Bass
  The Double Man (1967) - Halstead
  You Only Live Twice (1967) - Houston Radar Operator (uncredited)
  Assignment K (1968) - David
  Inspector Clouseau (1968) - Villain in TV Western (uncredited)
  Only When I Larf (1968) - Jones
  Isadora (1968) - Chicago Theatre Manager
  Patton (1970) - Clergyman
  Lust for a Vampire (1971) - Raymond Pelley
  
  Diamonds Are Forever (1971) - Vandenburg Launch Director (uncredited)
  Madame Sin (1972) - Braden
  Embassy (1972) - Phelan
  Endless Night (1972) - Jason
  Ooh... You Are Awful (1972) - Tourist
  A Touch of Class (1973) - American (uncredited)
  Phase IV (1974) - Radio Announcer (voice, uncredited)
  Stardust (1974)
  Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977) - Maj. Winters
  La Ballade des Dalton (1978) - Joe Dalton (English version, voice)
  Winterspelt (1979) - Pfc Foster
  
  The Ninth Configuration (1980) - 1st General
  Supergirl (1984) - Mr. Danvers
  Labyrinth (1986) - Right Door Knocker (voice)
  Haunted Honeymoon (1986) - P.R. Man
  Turnaround (1987) - Sheriff Huddleston
  
  Puerto Rican Mambo (Not a Musical) (1992) - Businessman, 'biff'
  All Men Are Mortal (1995) - Movie Producer (final film role)

  

  David Healy (I) (1929–1995)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0372242/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  You Only Live Twice
  
  Diamonds Are Forever
  

  
  2012: The Scotsman reviews the new James Bond film Skyfall.

  

  Film review: The new James Bond film ‘Skyfall’

  https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/film-review-the-new-james-bond-film-skyfall-1-2597521/amp

  
  Skyfall starring Daniel Craig as James Bond

  Published: 02:35 Thursday 25 October 2012
  
  In Skyfall, Sam Mendes has given us a James Bond for the 21st century and also made a film with genuine heart. Alistair Harkness is bowled over
  
  WITH the traditional hype and hoopla surrounding the release of the latest Bond film Skyfall reaching fever pitch over the past month or so, it’s been impossible to ignore the fact that the world’s longest running film franchise is also celebrating its 50th anniversary. That’s partly down to Skyfall itself making a virtue of celebrating its heritage. Directed by Sam Mendes and once again starring Daniel Craig as cinema’s most conspicuous secret agent, Craig’s third outing is both a playful tribute to the entire history of Bond on the big screen and a worthy modern-day action movie that finally advances 007 into the 21st century with the panache one might expect from a character whose chief appeal has always been his penchant for sophistication, insouciance and ruthless violence.

  
  Skyfall starring Daniel Craig as James Bond

  Those traits were, of course, present almost from the first moment a tuxedoed Sean Connery, cigarette hanging loosely from his mouth, uttered the immortal words “Bond, James Bond” in Dr No. That film’s release on 5 October 1962, the same day as The Beatles’ first single "Love Me Do" – and a mere ten days before the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of disaster – has elevated Bond’s cinematic origins to near mythical status, so much so that it’s hard to deny that this weird confluence of seismic cultural and political events has played an important role in shaping and defining an entire era.
  
  As such, the release of a new Bond film can never simply be dismissed as just another movie. Twenty-two “official” films on from Dr No (and with rogue entries into the canon in the form of the star-stuffed 1967 Casino Royale spoof and Sean Connery’s contentious rival outing Never Say Never Again), the very existence of Skyfall is testament to the resilience of Ian Fleming’s original creation. Sure, there have been some lean years (Timothy Dalton’s brief tenure in the role), some creaky years (Roger Moore’s later efforts), and some increasingly silly years (Pierce Brosnan’s invisible car; Madonna’s cameo as a fencing instructor), but the character’s remarkable gift for reinvention and resurrection has enabled him to survive the ravages of time surprisingly well with each new iteration.
  
  As it happens, it is precisely those ravages that form the primary thematic concerns of Bond 23. Even though it barely feels like yesterday that Craig’s blond, bloodied, brutal and, let’s face it, ludicrously buff take on the character radically reinvented him for an age in which Jason Bourne already seemed to have shown him the door, the otherwise soporific Casino Royale is now six years old and its frenetic follow-up Quantum of Solace is already four. For those paying close attention to Craig’s more rooted-in-reality approach, that means his Bond is already starting to feel the punishing effects of being a double-0 agent, effects Roger Moore would likely have dismissed with an arched eyebrow jutting into his wrinkly forehead, but which Mendes and his team of writers (regulars Neal Purvis and Robert Wade; Scorsese collaborator John Logan) smartly weave into the main body of the story.
  
  That story kicks off in typically spectacular style with Bond being accidentally shot and left for dead by MI6 (a sequence that ends with him floating away into a hauntingly illustrated title sequence to the strain’s of Adele’s instant classic Bond theme). When he re-emerges from the shadows – after M (Judi Dench) has written his obituary – his physical prowess has largely deserted him, but his ailments are symptomatic of a wider concern percolating down through the security services: namely that Bond’s cold-blooded methodology – and the practices of MI6’s entire double-O branch – is outdated and irrelevant, especially in an age of cyber-terrorism where, as Ben Wishaw’s new Q surmises, more damage can be done with a laptop while drinking a cup of Earl Grey than by Bond with an entire arsenal of gadgets.

  
  Skyfall starring Daniel Craig as James Bond

  Though Bond films have periodically commented on their imminent obsolescence – in GoldenEye, M famously scolded Pierce Brosnan’s 007 for being “a sexist misogynist dinosaur, a relic of the Cold War”), Skyfall feels as if Mendes is genuinely trying to engage with who the character is and what his function should be, especially at a time when audiences want the old-school excitement of a Bond film but with an ever greater degree of verisimilitude.
  
  Mendes negotiates that tricky path by effectively turning Skyfall into a comment on its own creation. The 50th anniversary, for instance, gives him licence to spoon-feed fans a number of treats in the form of overt references to past films, but he’s careful not to abuse that privilege and works some more subtle ones in, too. In fact, the biggest influence is probably On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, which may feature the least-loved 007 (George Lazenby, making his sole outing in the role) but, thanks to its dazzling technical achievements and jaw-dropping emotional beats, now seems like the most accomplished of all the Bond films.
  
  Mendes has certainly absorbed a lot from it, using its acknowledgment of the Scottish parentage Fleming subsequently furnished the character with in tribute to Connery’s definitive performance for a fantastic third act sojourn to the Highlands, where the titular significance of Skyfall comes into play. But he also uses its influence to land some moments of real poignancy, giving the film the emotional kick Bond’s doomed romance with Vesper Lynd in the much-praised Casino Royale sorely lacked.
  
  What’s particularly thrilling about Skyfall is that Mendes has reconfigured the tropes of the series so that Bond is once again out in front, setting the template anew for what a Bond film can really do. That’s something that’s made clear early on courtesy of a rooftop fight sequence in which Mendes (working with genius cinematographer Roger Deakins) frames Bond in silhouette against Shanghai’s neon-lit night sky as he battles an assassin. As action sequences go it’s as gorgeous as it is gutsy, and works as a real statement of intent for the film.
  
  The other big piece of the Bond pie that Mendes gets right – aside from finally using the Monty Norman theme properly (there’s both a reassuring two-second blast of it at the start of the film and reprise later on to accompany a typically iconic moment) – is Javier Bardem’s deliciously outré villain, Raoul Silva. A former agent with a personal vendetta against M, Silva is certainly a memorable throwback to Bond villains of old: he’s both an irrational megalomaniac and as camp as Diamonds are Forever’s Mr Kidd and Mr Wint. The difference is he’s progressive and transgressive with it. In their most intimate exchange, Silva taps into the hitherto unexplored homoerotic side of Bond, something the movie thoroughly embraces by giving Bond his funniest comeback in the film. It’s a further sign of how far the Bond films have come and also works as a belated acknowledgment of one of the more subversive aspects of Craig’s Bond: his willingness to be objectified.
  
  As a result, it makes sense that Bond girls in the classic sense barely feature, with only Naomi Harris’s Eve sticking in the memory beyond the end credits. That’s perhaps also because over three films it has become clear that the only woman Craig’s Bond really has space for in his life is M, and it’s their relationship that provides Skyfall with something that Bond films have consistently lacked: genuine heart. If that sounds sappy then so be it: Skyfall is the kind of film that makes it easy to love Bond the way you probably did as a kid. When “James Bond will return” flashes up ahead of the end credits, it’s hard not to hold out hope for his next 50 years.
  
  • Skyfall is on general release from tomorrow.

  
  2019: The original planned release date for BOND 25, delayed since Danny Boyle's departure August the same year.

  

  Bond 25 'will miss 2019 release date' after Danny Boyle exit

  https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-45294809
  24 August 2018

  
  Boyle was originally confirmed as the director of Bond 25 in May

  The release date of the next James Bond film is widely expected to be put back following Danny Boyle's abrupt decision to exit the currently untitled project.
  
  "Bond 25" is scheduled to arrive in UK cinemas on 25 October 2019 and open in US cinemas two weeks later.
  
  But the film may not now be released "until late 2020", according to the Hollywood Reporter's unnamed sources.
  
  The Oscar-winning director's shock departure earlier this week was attributed to "creative differences".
  
  According to The Telegraph, those may have included Boyle's purported wish to cast Polish actor Tomasz Kot as the film's main Russian villain.
  
  Kot, 41, can currently be seen in Pawel Pawlikowski's film Cold War, which had its premiere at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
  
  The Telegraph also claimed the film's producers had concerns over the script's focus on current political tensions with Russia.
  
  A spokeswoman for Trainspotting screenwriter John Hodge, author of the script in question, confirmed this week that he was also no longer involved.
  
  MGM and Eon, who produce the Bond films, declined to comment.

  
  Boyle reportedly wanted Tomasz Kot to play the film's villain

  Filming had been due to start in December at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, with Daniel Craig reprising his role as Ian Fleming's iconic spy.
  
  David Mackenzie, Yann Demange and Joe Wright are among the film-makers who have been tipped to take over the director's chair.
  
  With the exact reasons for Boyle's departure still unclear, people previously involved in the Bond films are being asked for their thoughts on the situation.
  
  These include actor Jonathan Pryce, who is quoted in the Daily Mail as saying that the producers parted company with Boyle because "they obviously couldn't take a socialist Bond".
  
  "There are the Dannys of this world and then there are people who do the blockbusters," continued Pryce, who played the villainous Elliot Carver in 1997's Tomorrow Never Dies.

  

  Boyle has never concealed his left-leaning sympathies, though he declined to identify himself as a socialist in a 2013 interview.
  
  His opening ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics featured a Bond-based short and a set-piece tribute to the National Health Service.

  2019: No Time To Die principle photography wraps at Pinewood Studios. Director Cary Fukunaga proposes looking forward to an April 2020 release.

  https://ew.com/movies/2019/10/25/james-bond-no-time-to-die-wraps-shooting-daniel-craig/
  

  
  2022: Luna Palace Cinemas screen GoldenEye in the United Kingdom.

  

  

  BFF22: Goldeneye 110 mins

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://lunapalace.com.au/m/select-film+5232+bff22-goldeneye

  5232 BFF22: Goldeneye
  
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  BOND RETROSPECTIVE
  1995 | Action, Adventure | United Kingdom, United States
  The effortlessly suave and sophisticated Pierce Brosnan brings Bond into the 90s, with his debut as Agent 007 in this rip-roaring espionage thriller featuring the most eye-popping opening sequence yet! When Agent 006 (the mighty Sean Bean) turns rogue and plans world domination with a terrifying satellite-borne weapon, Bond must pursue his former ally to Cuba, Monte Carlo, Switzerland and even Russia, all whilst dodging a sexy, deadly femme fatale (Famke Janssen) who will stop at nothing to put the squeeze on the intrepid spy. Epic stunts, espionage, gadgets and a Tina Turner theme song, GoldenEye not only introduced a new generation to 007 (and Dame Judi Dench in the role of M) but birthed the iconic Nintendo 64 game of the same name. Is there anything Bond can’t do?

  “With a dynamite opening reel that showcases the series renewed vigor, GoldenEye is two hours of well-executed thrills, high-tech mayhem and one-of-a-kind comedy.” Hollywood Reporter

  NOMINEE – Best Sound, Best Achievement in Special Effects, BAFTA Awards 1996
  WINNER – Best Effects, Sound Effects, Academy Awards 1965
  
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  2022: Gladstone Regional Libraries screen No Time To Die in Queensland, Australia.

  

  MovieTime – No Time to Die @ Gladstone City Library

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.gladstonelibraries.qld.gov.au/events/movietime-no-time-to-die-gladstone-city-library/

  Bookings Required – Contact Us
  
  Watch a free movie in air-conditioned comfort. Light refreshments provided.

  No time to die – James Bond has left active service. His peace is short-lived when Felix Leiter, and old friend from the CIA, turns up asking for help.

  The event is ongoing.
  
  Date
  25 Oct 2022
  
  Time
  10:00 am - 1:00 pm
  
  Location
  Gladstone City Library
  39 Goondoon Street, Gladstone Central
  
  Category
  Adult Event
  
  Organizer
  Gladstone City Library
  Phone (07) 4976 6400