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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 2022 Posts: 13,785

  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 48 of 65 - "Goldie's Gold Scam."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Goldie's Gold Scam

  Season 1 - Episode 48
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807288/?ref_=ttep_ep48
  

  While in Africa, the group is attacked by a rhino wearing a strap with a micro chip in it. Tracking it back to its source, Bond and IQ uncover a plot by Goldfinger and Goldie Finger to seize all the gold mines in the area for themselves.[/img]

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  J.R. Morton ... (written by)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Auric Goldfinger (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Kath Soucie ... Goldie Finger (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 48 - Goldie's Gold Scam
  
  

  
  
  

  1995: Jet Magazine features Tina Turner promoting GoldenEye on its cover.

  

  
  2000: Electronic Arts publishes 007 Racing for PlayStation released in Brazil, Canada, and the US.

  

  

  007 Racing
  Video Game | 2000 | T

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268100/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
  

  You are Bond, James Bond, behind the wheel of the famous Bond vehicles and a new rental car. When a freighter bound for Halifax, Canada was intercepted and eliminated with military precision, Bond was elsewhere, distracted by a decoy mission that was orchestrated by a Dr. Hammondd Litte indicating that his daughter Cherise was kidnapped. Bond was dispatched to New York City to meet up with Jack Wade and find out about the conspiracy. He discovered a truck load of cars and found information that led him to Mexico to end up being captured and brought to Louisiana to find out that Litte actually orchestrated the attack on the freighter and that his real plan was to unleash a deadly virus that would kill millions. Can Bond Stop Litte in his Aston Marton DB5, his Lotus Esprit, his BMW Z3, his BMW 750iL, or the new BMW Z8?

  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Ian Fleming ... (James Bond creator)
  Richard Schenkman ... (dialogue)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Alistair Abell ... Georgi Koskov (voice)
  John Cleese ... R (voice)
  Tim Bentinck ... Hammond Little (voice)
  Adam Blackwood ... James Bond / Valentin Zukovsky (voice)
  Philip Maurice Hayes ... (voice) (as Phillip Maurice Hayes)
  Inez Jesionowski
  Bill Mondy ... Jack Wade (voice)
  Liesa Norman
  Caron Pascoe ... M (voice)
  Rebecca Reichert ... Cherise Little (voice)
  Kim Restell ... Dr. Melody Chase (voice)
  Elizabeth Carol Savenkoff ... Xenia Onatopp (voice)
  Sara Stockstad ... (voice)
  Cathy Weseluck ... (voice)
  Serena Whitters ... (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Miles Anderson ... (voice)
  Pierce Brosnan ... James Bond (archive footage)
  Richard Kiel ... Jaws (archive footage)
  Desmond Llewelyn ... Q (archive footage)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  007 Racing Soundtrack (28:03)
  
  
  Game Over Compilation
  
  

  2002: Die Another Day released in the UK, Ireland, and Switzerland.

  
  
  

  2002: Meurs un autre jour released in France.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2002: James Bond 007 - Stirb an einem anderen Tag (James Bond 007 - Die of One Another Day) premiere at Berlin, Germany.
  
  2006: Kevin O'Donovan McClory dies at age 80--Dublin, Ireland.
  (Born 8 June 1924--Dún Laoghaire, County Dublin, Ireland.)

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Graham Rye

  

  Kevin McClory

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

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

  

  Kevin McClory (1926–2006)

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

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

  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  

  

  How Bollinger became the official
  Champagne of James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: EXBULLETIN shares 16 pictures of Bond In Motion at Saratoga Springs, New York.

  

  Entertainment
  Images: James Bond car display at the Saratoga
  Automobile Museum (16 photos)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://exbulletin.com/entertainment/1923136/

  news-3 | on November 20, 2022
  By NewsDesk

  

  SARATOGA SPRINGS – A preview of Bond In Motion, the official collection of original James Bond vehicles, at Saratoga Automotive Museum in Saratoga Springs on Thursday. The exhibition was opened to the public on Friday.
  
  Pictures of our Erica Miller

  
  View of the 2006 Aston Martin DBS final render of the crash view look like an entire sequence in Venice ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of the 2006 Aston Martin DBS final render of the crash view look like an entire sequence in Venice ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of the 1999 BMW Z8 on display Bond In Motion, Official Collection of Original James Bond Vehicles ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of the Neptune Sub on display Bond In Motion, Official Collection of Original James Bond Vehicles ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of the 1977 Lotus Esprit ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of the 2015 Aston Martin DB10, only 10 made and made for the movie Specter ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of the 2015 Aston Martin DB10 ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of the 2015 Aston Martin DB10 ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of 2004 Aston Martin DBS multi-roller vehicle on display Bond In Motion ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of 2004 Aston Martin DBS multi-roller vehicle on display Bond In Motion ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of the 1963 Aston Martin DB5 ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of several Bond films on display Bond In Motion ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of several Bond films on display Bond In Motion ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of the 2015 Aston Martin DB10, only 10 made and made for the movie Specter ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of the 2015 Aston Martin DB10, only 10 made and made for the movie Specter ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  View of the 2015 Aston Martin DB10 ERICA MILLER/ DAILY GAZETTE
  
  
  Read more: Weekend plans: Schenectady parade and James Bond car show in Saratoga among top picks

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 2022 Posts: 13,785

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

  

  Aliens actor Al Matthews dies aged 75

  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/al-matthews-dead-age-aliens-grande-hill-death-a8552286.html
  
  Matthews also appeared on Grange Hill as the father of Benny Green and had his song 'Fool' reach number 16 in the UK Singles Chart in 1975
  Clarisse Loughrey | @clarisselou | Monday 24 September 2018 11:48

  
  20th Century Fox

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

  

  Al Matthews (I) (1942–2018)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  "Fool", Al Matthews, 1975.
  
  

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

  

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

  

  Peter Burton

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

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

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

  

  Peter Burton (I) (1921–1989)

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

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

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

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 49 of 65 - "Canine Caper."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Canine Caper

  Season 1 - Episode 49
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807281/?ref_=ttep_ep49
  

  James, IQ and Gordo use a stray dog which follows Bond back to the Warfield to locate its master who had the security plan of Scotland Yard, who is abducted by Skullcap; Dr. Derange needs the microfilm so that he can break through Scotland Yard's security so that he can place his acid bomb in Scotland Yard's building foundation and destroy it.

  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 / 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)
  
  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 49 - Canine Caper
  
  

  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  2003: Entertainment Arts releases 007 - Everything or Nothing for Game Boy Advance.

  

  

  James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing
  Video Game | 2003 } T

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366629/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

  007 and Serena St. Germaine discover that Katya Nadonova's project, nanobots designed to repair nuclear reactors; have been stolen by Nikolai Diavolo. Together the two set off to new Orleans and beyond to confront Diavolo.

  Directed by Scot Bayless
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Danny Bilson ... (story)
  Paul De Meo ... (story)
  Bruce Feirstein
  Ian Fleming ... (characters)
  Nuno Miranda ... (adaptation)
  Nuno Miranda ... (translation)
  Cast (in credits order)
  Pierce Brosnan ... James Bond (voice)
  John Cleese ... Q (voice)
  Willem Dafoe ... Nikolai Diavolo (voice)
  Judi Dench ... M (voice)
  Heidi Klum ... Katya Nadanova (voice)
  Shannon Elizabeth ... Serena St. Germaine (voice)
  Misaki Itô ... Miss Nagai (voice)
  Richard Kiel ... Jaws (voice)
  Mya ... Mya Starling (voice) (as Mya Marie Harrison)
  James Arnold Taylor ... Jack Mason, 003 / Yayakov's Thug (voice) (as James A. Taylor)
  Tim Bentinck ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Edita Brychta ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Vladimir Cuk ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Neil Dickson ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Samantha Eggar ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Alex Fernandez ... The General (voice)
  Carlos Ferro ... South American Guard (voice)
  Marc Graue ... Jean Le Rouge (voice)
  Boris Lee Krutonog ... Additional Voices (voice) (as Boris Krutonog)
  Vanessa Marshall ... Computer (voice)
  Kara Noble ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Dorota Puzio ... Additional Voices (voice) (as Durato Puzio)
  Victor Raider-Wexler ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Scott Rummell ... Additional Voices (voice) (as Scott Rummell Taylor)
  Keith Szarabajka ... Arkady Yayakov (voice) (as Keith Szarabaijka)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Samantha Newark ... (voice)
  Linda Wang ... (voice)
  Produced by
  Scott Bandy ... senior producer
  Scot Bayless ... executive producer
  Scott Blackwood ... producer
  Joe Rush ... producer
  Music by
  Sean Callery

  007 Everything or Nothing - E3 2003 Trailer (2:01)
  
  
  James Bond Everything or Nothing GBA - Theme OST
  
  
  Mya - Everything or Nothing (Jazz) (2:50)
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Later Japan release
  
  

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

  

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

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/dec/01/syd-cain
  Kim Newman - Thu 1 Dec 2011 13.29 EST

  
  Syd Cain at Pinewood Studios with the model used in the explosive climax to
  On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969). Photograph: 007magazine.com

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

  

  Syd Cain (1918–2011)

  Filmography

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

  
  
  

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

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

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

  
  

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

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

  
  2022: John Higgs discusses his book Love and Let Die - Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche at the Carpenter Room, Sheffield Central Library, Sheffield City, England.

  

  
  

  Nov 21
  Love and Let Die: Bond, the
  Beatles and the British Psyche

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/love-and-let-die-bond-the-beatles-and-the-british-psyche-tickets-416693741197

  Join author John Higgs as he discusses his new book, the story of a clash between working class liberation and establishment control
  By Libraries Sheffield
  
  When and where
  Date and time
  Mon, 21 Nov 2022, 19:00 GMT
  
  Location
  Carpenter Room Sheffield Central Library Surrey Street Sheffield City Centre S1 1XZ United Kingdom

  About this event
  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 outsized 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 decades.

  Refreshments provided.
  
  Signed copies of Love and Let Die will be available to purchase on offer at £15. Books supplied by Rhyme and Reason Independent Bookshop. Unfortunately we're unable to take card payments in the library.

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  https://johnhiggs.com/books/love-and-let-die/
  
  

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

  

  Hoagy Carmichael

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

  
  Hoagy Carmichael.
  Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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

  

  Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981)

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

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

  
  
  
  

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

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

  Chapter 8 - Pink Lights and Champagne

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

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

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

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

  
  1923: Guy Doleman is born--Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand.
  (He dies 30 January 1996 at age 72--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Guy Doleman

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

  
  Guy Doleman in The Prisoner (1967)

  Guy Doleman
  Born 22 November 1923
  Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand
  Died 30 January 1996 (aged 72)
  Los Angeles, California, U.S.
  Years active 1948–1992
  
  Guy Doleman (22 November 1923 – 30 January 1996) was a New Zealand actor.
  
  Early life
  Doleman was born in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand, later moving to Australia.
  
  Career
  During the 1940s and '50s, Doleman was one of the busiest actors in Australia, appearing in the majority of films made there at the time, and being busy on radio, particularly in the drama Hagen's Circus, which made him a radio star in Australia. A history of Australian radio grouped Doleman with Peter Finch, Grant Taylor, Rod Taylor and Lloyd Berrell as part of "a wild but very colourful group of actors... who in their own way helped forge a wonderful ambience which was unique to Sydney radio. They had their friendly fights in studios and even took on gangs of hecklers in the backstreets of Kings Cross, with a sense of joy. Most times they came out on top in these scuffles."
  
  In 1952 he won a £300 Actor's Choice Award for his performance in the radio drama The Coward. He used this money to go to Hollywood for a film in September 1953, where he did a bit of television work, then returned to Australia.
  
  He was cast in Long John Silver (1954) but passed on the role because it meant he had to wear contact lenses – Rod Taylor took the part instead.[5] He had moved to London by the early 1960s. Later he returned to Australia.

  He is perhaps best known for his role as "Count Lippe" in the James Bond film Thunderball (1965) and as "Colonel Ross" in the three film adaptations of Len Deighton's Harry Palmer novels, starring Michael Caine, released between 1965 and 1967. He also played Number Two in the TV series The Prisoner (1967). Doleman's was the first of a pair of Number Twos who appeared in the first episode, "Arrival"; the second being played by George Baker.

  Death
  Guy Doleman died of lung cancer in Los Angeles on 30 January 1996 aged 72.
  
  Filmography
  Always Another Dawn (1948) - Warren Melville
  Strong Is the Seed (1949) - William Farrer
  
  The Kangaroo Kid (1950) - Sgt. Jim Penrose
  Kangaroo (1952) - Pleader (uncredited)
  The Phantom Stockman (1953) - Mr. Stapleton
  His Majesty O'Keefe (1954) - Herr Weber
  Dial M for Murder (1954) - Detective (uncredited)[6]
  Smiley (1956) - Bill McVitty
  The Adventures of Long John Silver (1957, TV Series) - Dr. Stanhope
  The Shiralee (1957) - Son O'Neill
  Smiley Gets a Gun (1958) - Quirk
  On the Beach (1959) - Lt. Cmdr. Farrel
  
  The Grey Nurse Said Nothing (1960, TV Movie)[7]
  The Square Ring (1960, TV Movie)
  Whiplash (1961, TV Series) - Sundowner / Raike Dartner / Norris
  Follow the Sun (1961, TV Series) - Alex Cooper
  ITV Play of the Week (1962-1963, TV Series) - Walter Ramsden / Captain Lee
  No Hiding Place (1962-1964, TV Series) - Melvyn Kerry / Felix Seymour / James Conway
  The Avengers (1963, TV Series) - Oliver Waldner
  Jezebel ex UK (1963, TV Series) - Robin Coleridge
  Captain Sindbad (1963)
  The Dickie Henderson Show (1963, TV Series)
  BBC Sunday-Night Play (1963, TV Series) - Managing Editor
  The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1963, TV Series) - Wayne Douglas
  The Hidden Truth (1964, TV Series) - Charles Medwin
  The System (1964) (aka: The Girl Getters) - Philip
  Boy with a Flute (1965, Short)
  Young Cassidy (1965) - Officer
  The Ipcress File (1965) - Colonel Ross
  Thunderball (1965) - Count Lippe
  The Idol (1966) - Martin Livesey
  The Power Game (1966, TV Series) - Stephen Gray
  Funeral in Berlin (1966) - Colonel Ross
  The Deadly Bees (1967) - Ralph Hargrove
  The Prisoner (1967, Episode: "Arrival") - Number Two
  Thirty-Minute Theatre (1967, Episode: "The Tape Recorder")
  Billion Dollar Brain (1967) - Colonel Ross
  A Twist of Sand (1968) - Patrol Boat Commander
  Strange Report (1969, TV Series) - Glyn Crowley
  
  Chilling (1974)
  The Six Million Dollar Man (1977, TV Series) - Henry Bulman
  Enigma (1977) - Maurice Mockcastle
  The Greatest Battle (1978) - General Whitmore
  
  A Dangerous Summer (1981) - Julian Fane
  Early Frost (1982) - Mike Hayes
  Goodbye Paradise (1983) - Quiney
  Matt Houston (1984, TV Series) - Richard / Rudy Bezmer
  The Colbys (1986, TV Series) - Peter Hackford
  The Shiralee (1987)
  Hell Raiders (1988)
  
  Tagget (1991, TV Movie) - Commander Arthur Green
  Murder, She Wrote (1992, TV Series) - Corsair (final appearance)
  
  Theatre Credits
  Little Lambs Eat Ivy, Minerva Theatre, Kings Cross, NSW, May 1949
  Edward, My Son, Theatre Royal, Sydney, NSW, 16 September 1949
  All for Mary national tour 1956-57
  The Piccadilly Bushman national tour Sept 1959-Feb 1960
  
  Select Radio Credits
  The Coward (1952)[8]
  Chips (1954)[9]
  The Orchard Walls (1954)[10]

  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  1963: United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
  
  1965: Mads Mikkelsen is born--Østerbro, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  1966: O.K. Connery (aka Operation Kid Brother; Operation Double 007) released in the US.

  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  Leonard Barr

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

  
  Barr in Diamonds Are Forever, 1971

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  
  

  
  1981: ABC-TV premieres Moonraker.

  

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  

  2002: Meurs un autre jour released in Canada.

  

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

  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  

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

  

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

  

  JAMES BOND: SOLSTICE ONE-SHOT

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2021: Man of Many interviews No Time To Die stunt driver Mark Higgins.

  

  

  Interview: James Bond ‘No Time to Die’ Stunt Driver
  Mark Higgins

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://manofmany.com/rides/cars/interview-james-bond-no-time-to-die-stunt-driver-mark-higgins

  Man of Many, 22 Nov 2021 | News
  
  We recently had the chance to attend the Aston Martin Complex at Silverstone for a special launch event in celebration of James Bond’s latest movie ‘No Time to Die’. On a day that reads more like imagination than reality and far from something, you would consider work, we had the chance to speak with Daniel Craig’s stunt driver, Mark Higgins, another lucky bloke like us whose job it is to push these classics to their limits on the track.
  
  Here’s how it went down.

  
  Image: Max Earey

  Outside on the asphalt, lined up in all their glory were three cars we only thought we’d see together as Matchbox cars, a modern-day DBS, an 80s V8 (similar to the Vantage) and a 60s DB5. Just to have the three cars there to look at was exciting, but to know we’d be able to take each for a drive was something else.
  
  We started with the ‘easiest’ to drive of the bunch, and jumped behind the wheel of the DBS, a twin-turbo V12 monster that does 0-100km/h in 3.4sec, it’s far from run of the mill. The DBS was featured in both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace (remember the opening scene with the chase through the tunnels around Lake Garda in Italy). After a lap as a passenger to ‘learn the racing line’ we jumped behind the wheel and went for a spin. With brake markers to keep alert for, apex’s to hit and a flappy paddle gearbox, you couldn’t wipe the smile off your face.
  
  Next up was the V8, the ‘winterised’ version of the Vantage Volante from The Living Daylights. At over 2 tonnes it was not your quintessential nimble ‘Bond car’, but it made up for that with brute power, a familiar 5-speed stick-shift and a timeless V8 rumble – a throwback to the British muscle. It was a rare lovely sunny day at Silverstone, and manhandling the heavy V8 round the Stowe track was exhilarating but sweaty business.
  
  It wasn’t long before we were handed the keys to the creme de la creme, the iconic DB5. Sitting behind the wood trim finish steering wheel and analogue dials instantly transports you to the French Riviera. Firing up the E46 BMW M3 sourced 4.0L inline 6 and idling towards the track paralleled the feeling of Christmas eve as a child. The DB5 won’t set any track records but it is the most beautiful driving experience and is no surprise Daniel Craig is recalling it for ‘No Time to Die’.

  
  Image: Max Earey

  Interview with Mark Higgins, James Bond Stunt Driver
  We had the opportunity to meet with Mark Higgins one-to-one and hear from him what it takes to become a Bond stunt driver and his experiences on set. We also had the unrivalled experience to sit in the passenger seat as Mark put the stunt car around the track, mostly sideways and with a trail of tyre smoke. Can you believe this is his job?!
  
  MOM: How did you get started in stunt driving?
  Mark: I’ve worked in motorsport for probably 30 years, my background is rally driving. I’d done the odd TV thing here and there, sort of Top Gear-ish. And a friend of mine, who is Ben Collins, who was the original Stig, we were at a do one night, and he was asked to find some drivers for Quantum of Solace. So he sort of mentioned it to me, would I be interested? Of course, after a glass of wine or so, I’d have said yes to anything, but I said yes, thinking nothing more of it. And then March time came, I get a phone call, “Are you free for the next three months?” We flew off to Italy. And that was the start of Bond for me.
  
  MOM: And then you followed the franchise through since then?
  Mark: Yeah, I mean, I did a few other films, Fast & Furious, I’ve done some big, Star Wars, Batman, those types of films in between. But I’ve been lucky enough to stay involved with the franchise. We did Skyfall. I basically was the baddy in Quantum of Solace, you know, chasing the cars down. Because it was a gravelly type scene, it’s just a rally driver, and that’s how I got the job.
  
  MOM: So is driving in a Bond film the pinnacle of stunt driving?
  Mark: Yeah, it’s easy for me to say that now because I’m very lucky enough to be involved in it, but yeah, I think everybody wants to be in a Bond film. Of all the films it’s got the kudos, it’s got the history, it’s very iconic, and wherever you go around the world everybody’s heard of a Bond film. I think when I watched my first Bond film with my dad, it was probably Moonraker or something, when I was a kid, to ever think I’d be in a movie, let alone actually driving the Bond cars, you have to pinch yourself, and it’s great to be involved in such a thing.
  
  MOM: So if you weren’t driving the DB5, what’s your Bond car of choice?
  Mark: Very difficult one to answer, because the most iconic Bond car is, of course, the DB5. And now we’ve got the modified one here, which is great to drive. I think, talking about Bond, another car that you associated, maybe the Lotus. The underwater Lotus was quite a cool car to be in. It might not be the best handling and the best one to actually drive and skid around, but it’s still a very iconic, cool Bond car.
  
  MOM: So, is it hard to jump back into a regular car after filming, or is it a breath of fresh air?
  Mark: Well, thankfully on set, we’d only get taken in a minibus, so we’re not diving down the roads quickly. It’s quite interesting with my rally background, you do a rally stage and then you drive on the road in between. So you’ve been going flat out through the trees at 120 miles an hour, to then go back into normal road regulations. But now it’s quite nice to be chauffeured around when you’ve done your bit.
  
  MOM: How much training goes into stunts? Do you get multiple attempts or is it typically just one go at it?
  Mark: We’ll do rehearsing. We rehearse with the cars to make sure they’re doing what we want them to do. We’ll sort of set out the scene of the location with cones and what have you, and then get all the other vehicles involved, so we do practise that. So when we go to shoot for the first time, we’re not wasting time at the venue because the venue is very expensive. It’s very time consuming for the cameras. And I would say nearly every scene we do, we might do it four, five, even ten times, because there are different angles they want to get from it. And the camera is often looking at something totally different than what we think they’re looking at.
  
  When you do a scene with a big stunt in it, for example, depending on how big it is, you might do it once. Or if you’re lucky, twice, depending on if you’ve been blowing things up, how many spare items you’ve got to blow up. So it’s quite intense when you do a big scene like that, that you’ve got to get it right or it can be very expensive.
  
  MOM: So what stunt excites you most in No Time To Die?
  Mark: Well, my other passion is motorbikes. I’m not very good on two wheels, but I love bikes. Watching Paul Edmonson who jumped the bike off the tower, was quite a cool thing to do. I don’t think you ever get the impression of how sort of dangerous it actually was when you see it on film, we’ve seen it in the trailer, but when you actually looked over the wall at what he was jumping off of, it was quite special.
  
  MOM: If you could only have one gadget or weapon added to the DB5, what would it be and why?
  Mark: If it was a car I could take care of occasionally, it would probably be the ejector seat. I’m sure I could find many uses for that in certain scenarios. So yeah, I’d put the ejector seat in there. It’s not on this particular DB5. It was on the old school one, but that would be quite cool.
  
  To witness Marks stunts for yourself, check out James Bond’s latest mission ‘No Time to Die’ in cinemas now.

  
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  November 2022 Posts: 13,785

  November 23rd
  
  1990: Roald Dahl dies at age 74--Oxford, Oxfordshire, England.
  (Born 13 September 1916--Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales.)

  

  Roald Dahl: a life filled with tales of the unexpected

  Roald Dahl was born 100 years ago in September and lived a life
  scarred by tragedy and marred by his own difficult personality.
  But his magical characters are more alive than ever
  Wednesday 12 September 2018

  
  Roald Dahl and Patricia Neal (recovering from a stroke, hence the eye patch) in 1965, with their children Theo, baby Ophelia and Tessa, at their home in Great Missenden.

  Emily Hourican - August 29 2016 2:30 AM
  
  Roald Dahl was born 100 years ago, on September 13, to Norwegian parents in Cardiff. He died 26 years ago, yet his books, specifically his children's books, are still bought in huge numbers (over 200 million worldwide) and regularly adapted for film, TV and stage. Matilda has been playing on Broadway since 2013 and, of course, The BFG has just been released in a new, big-screen version directed by Spielberg. Roald also created a dynasty and established Dahl as a surname that manages to be both thoroughly establishment and fascinatingly bohemian.
  
  His remarkable imagination - exuberant, vengeful, often nauseating - and ability to create characters, usually orphans, filled with a pathos that makes us burn with indignation, are what have kept Dahl's books alive, but the whiff of sulphur that always hung around the man hasn't gone away either. Because as much as he is acknowledged a wonderful writer, with a rare understanding of children's psychology, he was also a difficult, often cruel man, with a heap of unpalatable views.
  
  Most recently, as Spielberg prepared for the release of The BFG, he was ambushed by allegations of Dahl's anti-Semitism, specifically a quote Dahl gave to The New Statesman: "There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews . . . even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason."
  
  Spielberg, himself Jewish, of course, and visibly horrified, was forced to try and defend Dahl, and by extension himself, saying he had "no excuse" for not researching Dahl's public statements, but adding: "Later, when I began asking questions of people who knew Dahl, they told me he liked to say things he didn't mean just to get a reaction. And all his comments . . . he would say for effect, even if they were horrible things."

  
  Dahl's second wife, Felicity, beneath his portrait.

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

  

  Roald Dahl (1916–1990)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  

  

  
  

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

  
  
  
  

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

  

  
  
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  November 24th
  
  1959: Jack Whittingham meets Ian Fleming and Ivor Bryce in New York.
  
  1965: Variety reports Tom Jones signed up for the Thunderball title song, plus (not entirely correctly) that Shirley Bassey recorded a John Barry-Leslie Bricusse tune for the end titles.
  1966: You Only Live Twice films the throwing star and Blofeld. Actor Donald Pleasance is photographed on set.

  

  
  1981: Altin Tabancali Adam (The Golden Gun Man) released in Turkey.

  
  1966
  
  
  But not this one from 1970

  

  1983: Octopussy released in Australia.

  Australian Daybill
  

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

  

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

  
  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale released in Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Romania, and Sweden.
  2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Spain.
  2006: Казино Pоял released in Bulgaria.

  
  
  

  
  2014: The Sony Corp. entertainment computer network is hacked, releasing sensitive information including details of the Spectre script. The biggest cyberattack to that date in the US. North Korea denies involvement. The FBI investigates.
  
  2018: Ricky Jay (Richard Jay Potash) dies at age 70--Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 26 June 1948--Brooklyn, New York City, New York.)

  

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

  https://variety.com/2018/film/news/ricky-jay-dead-dies-magician-boogie-nights-1203035879/
  https://twitter.com/Variety_PatS

  
  Ricky Jay 'Life of Pi' film premiere at the 50th Annual New York Film Festival, America - 28 Sep 2012
  CREDIT: Dave Allocca/Starpix/REX/Shutter

  Ricky Jay, a master magician who also acted in films and TV shows such as “Boogie Nights,” “House of Games” and “Deadwood,” died Saturday in Los Angeles. He was 72.
  
  Jay’s manager, Winston Simone, said he died of natural causes, adding, “He was one of a kind. We will never see the likes of him again.”
  
  His attorney Stan Coleman confirmed his death. His partner in the Deceptive Practices company, Michael Weber, tweeted, “I am sorry to share that my remarkable friend, teacher, collaborator and co-conspirator is gone.”
  
  A New Yorker profile called him “the most gifted sleight of hand artist alive,” and Jay was also known for his card tricks and memory feats.
  
  He appeared in several David Mamet movies, including “House of Games,” “The Spanish Prisoner,” “Things Change,” “Redbelt” and “State and Main.”
  
  Steve Martin, with whom he appeared in “The Spanish Prisoner,” described Jay in the New Yorker profile, “I sort of think of Ricky as the intellectual élite of magicians. He’s expertly able to perform and yet he knows the theory, history, literature of the field.”
  
  In “Deadwood,” he played card sharp Eddie Sawyer during the first season, and also wrote for the show.

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

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

  

  Ricky Jay (1946–2018)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

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

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

  
  
  
  

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

  

  In Memoriam: James Bond comic artist Yaroslav
  Horak

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  By John Freeman on December 5, 2020
  
  We’re sorry to report the passing of James Bond newspaper strip artist Yaroslav Horak, who passed late last month, aged 93. He passed away peacefully at his rest home in Australia, after a decade-long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.
  
  Born in Manchuria to the son of a Russian mother and Czech father in 1927, Yaroslav was renowned for his dynamic black and white art for James Bond 007, which he drew for the Daily Express from 1966 to 1977, taking over from John McLusky.

  
  James Bond – The Man with the Golden Gun

  Horak and his family migrated to Sydney, Australia before World War Two, first working as an artist as a portrait painter but switching to illustration for the larger Australian magazine publishers. His appreciation for storytelling, art and adventure led him into writing and illustrating comic strips, and became one of Australian’s most prolific cartoonists, producing thousands of pages of comics in Australia before moving to England in 1962.
  
  In his detailed biography on Comics Down Under Kevin Patrick notes Horak’s first published comics work, “Grey Thorne, Counter Espionage Agent”, appeared in Frank Johnson Publications’ Gem Comics in 1947.
  
  He created his first recurring character, “Rick Davis, Special Correspondent”, as a supporting feature in H.J. Edwards’ top-selling Action Comic. This was followed by “The Skyman”, which ran in both Action Comic and John Dixon’s Tim Valour Comic. This aviation-themed series was the first comic to carry the artist’s Anglicised by-line, “Larry Horak”.
  
  (Documenting the holdings of Horak’s held by the National Library of Australia, Liesl Mitchell notes it was publisher John Edwards who gave Horak the name “Larry” by which he is also known. This was not to the artist’s liking and he only managed to shed this imposed name when he moved to Europe).

  
  Art from Jet Fury #17 via Pikitia Press

  Horak’s first solo comic book, Mr Combat, for Elmsdale Publications, was published in 1950, but his “globetrotting crime-buster” was cancelled after just three issues. But “Jet Fury”, a series which began as a supporting feature in Michael Chance Comic, about a masked aviator who flew to global trouble-spots aboard the Comet, an “anti-gravity” jet, firmly established his reputation as a comics artist. Its popularity led to the title being re-named as Jet Fury Comic with its 16th issue in 1951.
  
  Other early credits include The Mask – The Man of Many Faces for Atlas Publications – but Comics Down Under notes the ran foul of Queensland’s Literature Board of Review, which objected to the character’s full-face mask, and imposed a state-wide sales ban on the comic, forcing Atlas Publications to reluctantly cancel the title with its third issue in 1954.
  
  Disillusioned, Horak turned to newspaper strips, creating “Captain Fortune“, running in Sydney’s Sun-Herald from December 1957 until July 1962; and drawing “Mike Steel – Desert Rider“, for Woman’s Day magazine, written by editor Keith Findlay (under the pseudonym “Roger Rowe”), running from August 1962 until January 1969.

  

  Moving to England in 1963, he secured work from DC Thomson his known credits including “Johny Hop” for The Victor, telling the adventures of Constable Bill Lennox and his Aboriginal tracker companion, Wally Omes, in Outback Australia in 1964, followed by “The Bent Copper” for The Hornet, about ex-Scotland Yard detective John Bright, who sought revenge against the criminal who framed him for a crime he did not commit, published in 1965.

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

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

  Comics Down Under

  Yaroslav Horak: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

  

  

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

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

  Posted 25th June 2015 by Kevin Patrick

  A blog for original comic art collectors! Please visit my other blog, TARZAN FOREVER!, and my original art web site at... Dave Karlen Original Art
  Dave Karlen Original Art Blog

  Yaroslav Horak on James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

  

  Yaroslav Horak

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  
  
  War Picture Library

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

  
  James Bond strips

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

  
  
  

  
  2022: The ice Q restaurant re-opens at Sölden, Tyrol, Austria.

  

  

  Gourmet restaurant ice Q in Sölden, Tyrol
  SOPHISTICATED GOURMET DELIGHTS & GREAT MOMENTS

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.iceq.at/en/

  Welcome at Austria’s highest located toque-rated gourmet restaurant ice Q in Sölden, 3,048 metres above sea level. Surrounded by over 250 superb three-thousand metre mountains. Where freedom reaches for the stars. Where the skies are so close that you want to touch them. At the spectacular shooting location for the James Bond SPECTRE movie.
  
  Where sophisticated gourmet delights combine with fine wines and dreamy panoramas to create one exceptional symbiosis. In the ice Q gourmet restaurant and in the ice Q Lounge, which has a panorama terrace, you get to re-experience what is unique.
  
  In the mountain restaurant ice Q in Sölden – belonging to the 5-star hotel Das Central and awarded 2022 by Gault Millau with 2 toques – you get to feel life with all your senses. Right at the Gaislachkoglbahn in Sölden. For the most exclusive break in the Austrian Alps.

  
  

  Opening hours - Winter 2022/2023
  Unique ice Q restaurant in Solden in Austria
  Highest located gourmet restaurant in Austria
  
  ICE Q IS OPEN AGAIN ON NOVEMBER 24 2022!
  Open daily from 9 am to 4 pm
  Warm meals served from 11.30 am to 3 pm
  Reservation time: from 12 noon to 1.45 pm & from 2 to 4 pm
  
  CONTACT & RESERVATIONS
  Phone: 0043 664 96 09 368
  E-Mail: [email protected]
  
  GOOD TO KNOW
  Reservations are recommended at anytime!
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  We ask for understanding, that a table by the window cannot be guaranteed. Except in combination with a Chef’s Table booking.
  
  LOCATION & GETTING HERE
  Car parking available at the valley station of the Gaislachkogl cable car.
  

  Cuisine. Panorama. Experience.
  FINE DINING & HEARTY TAPAS IN OUR MOUNTAIN RESTAURANT ice Q

  

  ice Q Restaurant
  Treat yourself to some exquisite food & wine at the ice Q gourmet restaurant at an altitude of 3,048m. In addition to our special history, ice Q is also defined by a fascination for sophisticated gourmet cuisine. From exquisite wines from the best winegrowers to the finest cuisine, exquisite snacks and the breath-taking backdrop of the Ötztal Alps.

  

  Wine & Tapas Lounge
  The ice Q Tapas Lounge is one of the best-kept insider tips of the winter. Snazzy snacks, exquisite tapas and sophisticated refreshments for the fastidious gourmet means gourmet time at the summit of alpine lifestyle. Enjoy some time out at the peak of the Alpine lifestyle while soaking up the unique panoramic views.

  

  Summit Dinner
  Every Wednesday at sunset – from the end of December until the end of March – the ice Q restaurant is transformed into a beaming paradise. Up at 3000m sea level we serve you a toque-awarded menu as part of our Summit Dinner. Please make your reservation in advance!

  

  PINO 3000
  3 COUNTRIES - 3 WINEMAKER'S = 1 WINE

  
  Wine PINO 3000 on the Gaislachkogl
  Bringing together the mountains & vines
  Our exceptional Pinot Noir
  A great idea of the 5-star hotel Das Central in Sölden meets the passion of three renowned winegrowers from Austria, Germany and Italy here. The result – one outstanding Pinot Noir, which matures on the summit of the Gaislachkogl at 3,048 metres in precious ‘barrique’ oak barrels, portraying the unique altitude climate and the spirit of the Ötztal Alps.

  
  

  5-star hotel DAS CENTRAL in Sölden, Tyrol
  Das Central - Alpine. Luxury. Life.
  Sölden’s 5-star hotel Das Central impresses with its combination of Tyrolean cosiness and Alpine lifestyle. Fastidious Alpinists and gourmet aficionados alike from across the globe cherish what is offered. Especially the culinary fare in the à la carte gourmet restaurant Ötztaler Stube which is devoted to Alpine cuisine and knows just how to forge a link between the traditional and the luxurious in a manner which is unique, and has been rightly awarded with 3 toques by Gault Millau. Accompanied by over 30,000 bottles of fine wines from the superb range available in the hotel. With the ice Q restaurant, Das Central now carries on with this great passion up above 3,000 m altitude.

  
  
  

  CINEMATIC INSTALLATION '007 ELEMENTS'
  On a secret mission
  James Bond in ice Q in Sölden
  Fast. Adrenaline-charged. Explosive – the coolest agent of all time in Sölden. The ice Q restaurant is the most spectacular shooting location in the Austrian Alps. Find out everything about the James Bond’s SPECTRE here with us.

  

  James Bond cinematic installation 007 ELEMENTS in Sölden, Austria
  In the footsteps of James Bond
  007 ELEMENTS
  Discover the cinematic installation ’007 ELEMENTS’ on the summit of the Gaislachkogl in Sölden in Tyrol! State-of-the-art technology, puristic architecture and a concomitant sound backdrop make the new James Bond adventure realm the ‘place-to-be’ in the Tyrol Alps. 007 ELEMENTS puts the focus primarily on SPECTRE and the scenes shot in Sölden, but also touches upon other chapters of the 24 James Bond movies. Our recommendation: Combine your visit in our ice Q restaurant with a visit at 007 ELEMENTS!

  Action Hall with the original aircraft from James Bond SPECTRE
  
  Tech Lab - a unique place in 007 ELEMENTS
  

  
  2022: For US releases, Bond films are recognized as becoming a Thanksgiving-aligned franchise.

  

  

  How James Bond Became a Thanksgiving Holiday
  Franchise

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://movieweb.com/james-bond-movies-thanksgiving/

  By Richard Fink | Published Nov 15, 2022
  
  The James Bond movies have typically been released around Thanksgiving weekend, so what makes a UK spy great to watch on an a American holiday?
  
  Thanksgiving weekend has often been a big time for movies, as the five-day holiday weekend gives for more chances for families that have gathered together to celebrate the holiday the chance to go out to the movies. There have been certain staples over the years. Disney has often opened an animated feature film over the holiday weekend. Harry Potter, Twilight, and The Hunger Games all used the week before Thanksgiving to achieve incredible box office numbers. Yet one franchise has been a staple of the holiday season without anyone really noticing: James Bond.
  
  James Bond has been a box office draw since his debut film in 1962's Dr. No. The super spy has been the star of 25 official films from Eon Pictures. The franchise is celebrating its 60th anniversary, and is in a transition period between Bond actors. With all the James Bond movies on Prime Video now, and for those needing to get in the Thanksgiving spirit, this is how and why Bond is such a staple of the Thanksgiving holiday season.

  
  Pierce Brosnan James Bond GoldenEye 1995 Eon
  MGM / UA

  James Bond Release History
  From Dr. No in 1962 until The Man With The Golden Gun in 1974, the James Bond films typically were released during the holiday season around December as it was one of the most profitable times to release a movie. However, in 1975 the release of Jaws shifted the release calendar to make the summer movie season the most profitable time for big budget fair which was only solidified in 1977 with the release of Star Wars. 1977 saw the first James Bond movie released in the summer, The Spy Who Loved Me. The next seven Bond movies were released during the summer movie season.
  
  After a seven-year hiatus, Bond returned with Goldeneye in 1995 and the film was given a November 17 release date, the Friday before Thanksgiving. Goldeneye was a box office hit and set the Pierce Brosnan era as a staple of the holiday season. While Tomorrow Never Dies got a December release date (opening the same day as Titanic), both The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day were released the Friday before Thanksgiving.

  
  Daniel Craig in a Barbour Jacket in Skyfall
  Sony Pictures

  Craig Bond Films Bring the Franchise to New Heights
  Daniel Craig marked not only a new James Bond but a new continuity. However, many rules of the franchise remained the same, and one of them was that prime November release date. Casino Royale opened on November 17, 2006. While the movie did not take the number one spot at the box office (it was beaten by Happy Feet), Casino Royale held exceptionally well the following weekend during the Thanksgiving holiday and ended up bringing $167 million domestic and $605 million worldwide.
  
  The following three Daniel Craig James Bond movies, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, and Spectre opened on the second weekend of November as the weekend before Thanksgiving had since become the main weekend for YA novel adaptations. Quantum of Solace may not have received the positive reviews that Casino Royale did, but it did see a slight increase at the domestic box office. Skyfall on the other hand shattered all expectations to become the highest grossing Bond movie and the first in the franchise to cross $1 billion worldwide. Spectre may not have performed at the level of Skyfall but $880 million worldwide is still nothing to be ashamed of.
  
  The tradition did break with the release of No Time To Die but not for lack of trying. The studio original set it for release in November 2019 but was delayed following original director Danny Boyle's departure. The film was set for April 2020 but was delayed due to COVID-19 and the studio set it for release on November 12, 2020 in the UK and Thanksgiving weekend of November 25, 2020 in the United States. However, the movie was delayed multiple times and finally was released in theaters on October 8, 2021.

  
  Daniel Craig as James Bond in Spectre
  Sony Pictures

  Why Does Bond Work With The Holiday Season
  It is odd that a franchise focused on a British secret agent would feel so right with a uniquely American holiday. Yet there is something about Bond movies that just feel right at home in November. Typically, the movies open a few weeks earlier in the UK, but in the United States, Bond has been a part of the holiday season for two decades. Part of the reason could be the cold London setting fits the weather of the holiday season while the unique locations offer a break from the traditional November weather that feels like an escape.
  
  Yet another major aspect would be the target audience. Bond is an old franchise, now celebrating 60 years. A good portion of the audience who went to go see the original films as kids are now old enough to not only be parents but grandparents and even great-grandparents. It is a franchise that has grown up with its audience, catering to an older movie going crowd that may not go out to the movies as much but will go for a Bond film.
  
  That also has the impact of making them generational films, as they will go with younger relatives and, pun intended, form a bond watching them. It becomes a shared experience, one that can become associated with the holiday. Everyone coming together to enjoy a meal and then afterwards deciding to go out to a movie together and James Bond can appeal to all ages. Thanksgiving just feels like it is missing something when a James Bond movie isn't around.

  
  

  
  
  

  2022: The Mary Sue confirms James Bond films as Thanksgiving films.

  

  

  Thanksgiving Is James Bond’s Holiday

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.themarysue.com/thanksgiving-is-james-bonds-holiday/

  By Rachel Leishman | Nov 24th, 2022
  
  When you think of Thanksgiving, you don’t typically think of something that is incredibly British, and while I have two franchises I associate with the holiday, one at least makes sense (that’d be the Rocky movies) but the other… well, doesn’t. I’m talking of course about how I think that the James Bond movies are linked to Thanksgiving. You know, the British spy series?
  
  Hear me out though: It’s because of its releases. Growing up with Pierce Brosnan as my Bond, it seemed like there was always a new movie about James Bond and his spy adventures coming out around the holiday (and he even had a Bond girl named Christmas).
  
  There’s nothing in this franchise that links it to any holidays really, and if there is, it is just happenstance. But these are spy movies most of all. They’re not movies meant to be an emotional holiday tradition. I’ve just made it so because they love to release these movies in November for whatever reason, and thus my brain expects James Bond at Thanksgiving time. And can you blame me? It’s why I was so angry when No Time To Die changed its release date to a different holiday.
  
  But it also has to do with the fact that I feel like AMC or some channel like it would play the Bond movies? That or my brother would pretend like they just happened to be on television and we would watch them because he loved them just as much as I do. The point is, the holiday was always filled with Bond and his Bond girls, and I guess that’s why, to me, this is a Thanksgiving franchise.
  
  Does it make sense? Absolutely not.
  Not once is this movie set with a turkey dinner or someone saying that they’re thankful for James and his work. It’s not one of those kinds of “holiday” connections (looking at you, Die Hard), but it is just something that feels right for this time of year.
  
  If anything, it shows what release timing can do to our feelings about movies. Again, this movie franchise often has Bond on a beach somewhere, so it isn’t the cozy Thanksgiving feel you can get away with by claiming that Knives Out is a Thanksgiving movie. But with this franchise, it is completely about when it hits theaters.
  
  That is, arguably, what I would say is the case for most “Thanksgiving” movies. We all know that Spider-Man (2002) is a Thanksgiving movie (if you didn’t before, you do now), and that’s just because Peter has Thanksgiving dinner with Aunt May, MJ, Harry, and Norman. Point is: We play fast and loose with Thanksgiving movies because there are very few overt examples.
  
  That’s why I think the James Bond franchise is a Thanksgiving tradition. Maybe if I am loud enough, others will join in with my absolutely nonsense stance that this franchise belongs to the Thanksgiving holiday, but hey, at least every November I have an excuse to watch James Bond run around in fancy cars and nice suits!
  
  
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  November 25th
  
  1976: The Spy Who Loved Me films Jaws exiting the train, his final scene filmed.

  
  
  

  1977: 007 - La spia che mi amava released in Italy.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 51 of 65 - "Ol' Man River."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Ol' Man River

  Season 1 - Episode 51
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807112/?ref_=ttep_ep51
  

  Captain Walker D. Plank plans to flood New Orleans by destroying the levee with a large amount of explosives placed in a fake River Queen. During evacuation, Plank attempts to use this to his advantage to gain access to the U.S. Mint and steal the printing press.

  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 / Nick Nack (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 (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 51 - Ol' Man River
  
  

  
  
  

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

  
  EDITORIAL REVIEW

  FILMTRACKS TRAFFIC RANK: #47

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  

  
  2008: Media recognize Quantum of Solace topping box office for a full month in the United Kingdom.

  

  

  Bond makes it a month at top of box office

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-boxoffice/bond-makes-it-a-month-at-top-of-box-office-idUKTRE4AO4II20081125

  By Reuters Staff
  
  File picture shows Daniel Craig at the the Italian premiere of the latest James Bond movie 'Quantum of Solace' in Rome, November 5, 2008. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - The latest James Bond film “Quantum of Solace” has notched up a month at the top of the box office, blowing away the competition for a fourth straight weekend according to Screen International.
  
  The 22nd official Bond film, with Daniel Craig in his second outing as 007, earned another 2.8 million pounds for a total of 45.1 million pounds so far.
  
  Its nearest rival, director Ridley Scott’s espionage drama “Body of Lies” which came in at No. 2, could only manage 991,979 pounds, despite boasting stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe.
  
  New at three was “My Best Friend’s Girl,” with Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs and Dane Cook in a sex-and-swearing, love-triangle comedy.
  
  “High School Musical 3: Senior Year,” with Zac Efron, Vanessa Anne Hudgens and Ashley Tisdale was down one place at four while “Zack and Miri Make a Porno” slipped a place to five with its tale of two friends going triple-XXX to pay their rent.
  
  Down four places at six was “Max Payne,” a video game spin-off with Mark Wahlberg as a lone avenger in New York.
  
  Ricky Gervais was down two at seven as the cantankerous dentist in “Ghost Town.”
  
  Horror thriller “Quarantine” made its debut at No. 8 with a documentary-style tale of madness, death and zombies in a locked tenement building.
  
  The animated evil scientists of “Igor” were unchanged at nine while Bollywood movie “Dostana” was down from six to 10.

  

  
  2011: English actor Ben Whishaw is revealed as "Q" for BOND 23.

  

  New Q cast for next Bond -
  report
  Ben Whishaw is to play Q in the new James Bond film.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30529762.html

  Fri, 25 Nov, 2011 - 09:44
  
  The 31-year-old actor has been cast as the MI6 gadget master in 'Skyfall' and for the first time in the franchise's history Q will be younger than 007, who will be played again by 43-year-old Daniel Craig.
  
  A source told The Sun newspaper: "Female fans will now have more than Daniel to gush over now Ben's been cast as Q. He'll be a big draw. It's a bold decision as it means Q will be younger than Bond for the first time.
  
  "His role will be very different from previous Qs. He'll be far more serious, as is the trend with the new films."
  
  Q last appeared in 2002's 'Die Another Day', with John Cleese in the role, after he took over from the late Desmond Llewelyn, who played the inventor for 36 years.
  
  This is not the first time Ben has starred in a movie alongside Daniel Craig. In 2004, they appeared together in gangster movie 'Layer Cake'.
  
  'Skyfall' – which will be directed by Sam Mendes and is the 23rd Bond movie – is due for release next October.

  

  
  2020: One-time scheduled release date for No Time To Die in the US.

  

  
  2022: The Times suggests what makes James Bond and Daniel Craig tick.

  

  The Times Diary: What makes
  James Bond tick?

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-times-diary-what-makes-james-bond-tick-6pqpxrlfm

  Patrick Kidd | Friday November 25 2022
  
  He may have handed in his Walther PPK but Daniel Craig can’t quite escape James Bond. The actor was the star guest at a 60 Years of Bond party hosted by Omega on Wednesday night and suggested that every 007 is defined by their watch. While his predecessor Piers [sic] Brosnan’s were elegant and came with a built-in laser beam, Craig said he insisted on something chunkier, telling the producers:

  “I want to wrap it round my fist and punch someone in the nose with it.”

  This was a change from Roger Moore, who used the magnet in his watch to unzip dresses. Strangely, Bonds seldom just want a watch that keeps good time. That must explain why they do so much running.
  
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  2022: Bond actor Daniel Craig proposes (the United States' own) Thanksgiving is his favorite holiday.

  

  Daniel Craig reveals Thanksgiving is his
  ‘favourite holiday’ now

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nation.com.pk/25-Nov-2022/daniel-craig-reveals-thanksgiving-is-his-favourite-holiday-now

  News Desk | November 25, 2022
  
  LOS ANGELES - Daniel Craig has shared that Thanksgiving Day is now his favourite holiday since he became a U.S. citizen in 2019. The James Bond famed actor also revealed that enjoy and celebrate the holiday every year. In a latest appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday, the Spectre actor, 54, talked about his love of the fall holiday.

  “I do understand Thanksgiving. It’s about giving thanks as I understand it,” Craig said.

  Craig, who is a British-born actor, announced in 2019 that he had been granted US citizenship, eight years after his wife, Rachel Weisz, became an American citizen in 2011. The No Time to Die star, who lives in New York City with his family – said he had been celebrating Thanksgiving for several years now. “I’ve been celebrating it for quite a long time, I think it’s probably my favourite holiday,” he said. “Good things are hard to do. I’m incredibly proud to be part of this, to have an American passport and call myself an immigrant in this country,” he added. Craig also admitted he’s “not so good” with the trimmings, such as stuffing. “I think it’s an abomination.” “You stuff it up the chicken-turkey!,” Craig said of the classic Thanksgiving festive dish. “I think it should be cooked separately. It’s good, but I don’t think you should bring it anywhere near the bird.” Craig’s latest film Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is currently streaming on Netflix.

  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 2022 edited May 2023 Posts: 13,785

  November 26th
  
  1939: Anna Mae Bullock (Tina Turner) is born--Nutbush, Tennessee.
  (She dies at 24 May 2023 at age 83--Küsnacht, Switzerland.)
  
  1959: During a meeting in the Bahamas, Jack Whittingham signs a £5,000 contract that gives Kevin McClory rights to Thunderball.
  
  1963: An out-of-court settlement between Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory and Jack Whittingham gives McClory credit on all reprints of Thunderball--plus the film rights.
  1964: Jonathan Cape publishes Ian Fleming's Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang Volume 2 (of 3).

  
  

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

  

  The Incredible World of James Bond

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

  
  Original television advertisement designed prior to Sean Connery quitting the project

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

  The Incredible World of James Bond was a 1965 television special produced by David L. Wolper for United Artists Television to showcase the James Bond film series and promote the upcoming December 1965 release of the film Thunderball.
  
  In the United States, the show replaced The Man From U.N.C.L.E. on NBC on Friday, 26 November 1965; the day after American Thanksgiving that unofficially begins the shopping frenzy for Christmas. It was the highest rated American television show for the week.
  
  Plot and production
  The show featured film scenes of the worldwide popularity of James Bond novels, films, and tie-in merchandise, black and white scenes of Ian Fleming at his home Goldeneye in Jamaica giving comments on his writing, a biography of James Bond with footage of Glencoe, Eton, Fettes College, and Royal Marine Commandos on exercise, home movie footage shot by production designer Ken Adam in the Bahamas during the production of Thunderball, and scenes from four Bond films.
  
  Behind the scenes footage from the making of Thunderball included scenes of the preparation and filming of a scene of a rocket firing motorcycle destroying Count Lippe's car, a choreographed fist fight in a studio mock up of the cabin of the Disco Volante, a photo shoot of the Bond girls on a beach in the Bahamas, and a scene of the Aston Martin DB5 driving away from the Château d'Anet that was not seen in the finished film.
  
  Director Terence Young, producers Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman, Kevin McClory, editor Peter R. Hunt and action director and stuntman Bob Simmons are shown during sequences. The "James Bond Theme" and other music from the Bond film soundtracks are heard with the gun barrel titles and 007 logo from the Goldfinger film trailer appearing in the opening titles.
  
  The narration was to have been originally given by Sean Connery. However, when Connery read the script and found out they were referring to James Bond as an actual person he refused to do the show. Telephone calls from Joan Crawford who was a major shareholder in Pepsi Cola, the sponsor of the show, failed to sway Connery and his narrating chores were taken by Alexander Scourby.
  
  Pepsi Cola used the special to unveil commercials for its latest products.
  
  The special is available as a featurette on the "James Bond Ultimate Edition" DVD of Thunderball.
  
  Pepsi Cola and Frito Lay also sold promotional James Bond tie-in toys and a record album titled The Incredible World of James Bond. The album featured the original soundtrack music and cover versions of four of the themes from the first three Bond films played by United Artists Records house band The Leroy Holmes Orchestra. The back of the album cover was full of photographic stills from the Bond films. The record was later reissued with an attractive Frank Gauna designed album cover on Unart Records in 1967 with two music tracks deleted to fit on the budget album.

  

  
  
  

  
  1982: Octopussy films the assault on Kamal Khan’s fortress.
  1985: Variety reports Roger Moore giving notice to producer Cubby Broccoli he will not return.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 52 of 65 - "Between a Rock and a Hard Place."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Between a Rock and a Hard Place

  Season 1 - Episode 52
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2382320/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
  

  James and his friends race against time to get to an advanced prototype fighter jet which has crashed somewhere in wild country of Australia before Dr. Derange and his henchmen get there first.

  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 / Oddjob (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 / Jaws (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 52 - Between a Rock and a Hard Place
  
  

  
  

  1999: Boxtree publishes The James Bond Girls by Graham Rye.

  
  
  
  

  
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in the UK, Ireland, Iceland, and South Africa.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2002: Die Another Day released in the Republic of Macedonia.
  
  2011: Skyfall filming at the Ascot Racecourse (doubling for the Shanghai airport terminal).
  2012: The South China Morning Post posts Jason Y Ng's review of Skyfall.

  

  Movie Review: Skyfall

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.scmp.com/comment/blogs/article/1091054/movie-review-skyfall
  25 Nov

  As I see it by Jason Y Ng
  Movie Review: Skyfall
  Published: 12:11pm, 26 Nov, 2012

  
  What Daniel Craig lacks in good looks and hair, he more than makes up for in quiet confidence and depth.

  English author Ian Fleming wrote his first James Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952. It became an instant hit. Other bestsellers like From Russia, with Love, Dr. No and Goldfinger soon followed. In all, Fleming published 14 full length novels and nine short stories under the series. If the British Empire has lost much of its former glory, then Fleming’s flamboyant spy character promises to restore some of it with his snazzy handguns, tailored suits and wry sense of humor.
  
  In 1961, Fleming sold the film rights to Eon Productions, owned by filmmakers Harry Saltzman and Albert Broccoli. Since then, every Bond film has been made by the same studio. In the past 50 years, the film series has grossed nearly US$13 billion in total box office earnings (inflation adjusted), second only to the Harry Potter franchise. That the Broccolis have kept the film rights within the family and overseen the production of every installment has contributed to the series’ enduring success and lasting relevance.
  
  That brings us to Skyfall, the latest Bond film that opened a month ago. With the memories of the universally scorned Quantum of Solace still fresh in our minds, Eon Productions this time went with a director with more weight: Oscar-winning Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition). And it worked. Skyfall is every bit as compelling as Casino Royale and comes close to Goldfinger, the gold standard of Bond films.
  
  The movie opens with an elaborate chase scene in Istanbul, culminating in a hand-to-hand combat on top of a speeding train and ending in 007 being shot by another MI6 agent. Bond then falls – presumably to his death – into a raging river, which reminds me of the cathartic bridge jump in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. But that’s not the end of our spy hero. Bond soon resurrects to tackle villain Raoul Silva, an ex-MI6 spy who has stolen the names of undercover agents as part of an elaborate scheme to exact revenge on his ex-boss M. The movie is a cross between Mission Impossible (remember the stolen “NOC list”?) and the Batman franchise. Indeed, Mendes borrows heavily from Christopher Nolan who has reinvented the superhero genre by making his villains more contemplative, self-righteous and apocalyptic.
  
  Back in 2005 when Daniel Craig was tapped to be the fifth generation James Bond, many questioned whether he could fill the role. But Craig has proven his critics wrong and is now hailed as the best Bond ever. What he lacks in good looks and hair, he more than makes up for in quiet confidence and depth. In Skyfall, his character shoots with poise, cuts himself up without a wince, and heck, he even walks into a girl’s shower without looking like a fool or a pervert! That alone makes him every man’s hero and every woman’s dream. Craig, now 44, can make at least two or even three more Bond films before he is too old is to do a chin-up. After all, Roger Moore was 57 when he made his last Bond film A View to Kill.
  
  Other than Craig, Skyfall owes much of its success to a star-studded supporting cast. Spanish actor Javier Bardem (No Country for Old Men, Vicky Cristina Barcelona), one of the most talented character actors of our time, plays the diabolical and sexually ambiguous villain. His presence is large enough to maintain the tension throughout the movie but not too large to upstage Craig. Shakespearean actor Ben Wishaw (Perfume, Bright Star) plays quartermaster Q brilliantly. He lights up the screen and leaves the audience craving for more. French actress Bérénice Marlohe makes a dark femme fatale, although she isn’t as dynamic as Eva Green and her character dies too early in the movie. Last but not least, there is Dame Judi Dench, who portrays M with equal grit and vulnerability. Dench is one of the handful of actresses who can rival Meryl Streep in versatility and the number of Oscar nominations.
  
  Skyfall is about an aging spy who goes back to the basics. It is about being old-fashioned without being old. It will go down in film history as one of the strongest entries in the Bond canon. My only gripe is that, even in this day and age, Asia is still portrayed by Hollywood with stereotypical exoticism. In Skyfall, Bond arrives in Macau and is taken by a bamboo raft to a floating casino in the middle of a lantern-lit lake before he tackles a pair of sumo wrestler-like hit men in a pit filled with man-eating lizards. That must have given Stanley Ho a few chuckles.
  

  Born in Hong Kong, Jason is a globe-trotter who spent his entire adult life in Europe, the United States and Canada before settling back in his birthplace to rediscover his roots. He is a full-time lawyer and a freelance writer who raves and rants about Hong Kong and its people. Jason is the bestselling author of HONG KONG State of Mind and No City for Slow Men.

  
  2015: Spectre special screening hosted by the UK Embassy at Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

  
  Ambassador Carolyn Davidson

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  2022: Decades of Bond with a 13 piece band at Azrieli Studio, Ottawa, Canada.

  

  

  Community Programming
  · 2022-2023 Season
  Decades of
  Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/31787

  Saturday November 26, 2022
  8 PM EDT
  
  Azrieli Studio 1 Elgin Street Ottawa Canada
  
  Music Pop
  In-person event

  Decades of Bond is the Ultimate tribute to the incredible music of the James Bond Film Empire. This 13 piece show band is stacked with some of the finest musicians in North America including the fabulous Rebecca Noelle and Michael Hanna Sr on vocals. A powerhouse horn section and elegant string quartet soar gracefully over the driving rhythm section to deliver you some of the most remarkable music ever written for film! From 'Thunderball' to 'Skyfall' you'll be captivated from the moment the curtain goes up.

  With a career spanning 15 years, Rebecca Noelle has shared bills with artists such as B.B. King, Johnny Winter, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Buddy Guy, Norah Jones and Bonnie Raitt. She's graced stages across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Asia, Europe & even the North Pole. After some years as a support musician, Rebecca recorded her debut solo album; Rebecca Noelle: A Night at Maggie's - a classic jazz collaboration with her grandfather and mentor, renowned pianist John Noubarian.

  Michael Hanna Sr. enjoys the improvisational stylings of Jazz, the freedom of the blues and the spiritual fire of Gospel. He can be found on NAC 4th Stage during Christmas, in The Gift of Jazz during Black history month production at the National Gallery of Art and around town throughout the year. Michael has been recorded on several digital compilations including the Right Words to Romance by Darold Gholdston, Have yourself a Jazzy little Christmas by John Dapaah , Michael Hanna Family and friends by Sir Roland Hanna and the soon be re-released Pete Foret Project. In addition to his singing , Michael manages RMI Publishing, developed to promote the over 300 compositions of his father; the late Sir Roland Hanna.

  COVID safety guidelines and what to know before attending a show.
  Buy in-person tickets
  $52 /ticket

  https://decadesofbond.com/home
  
  
  Decades of Bond ~ Promo Video (2:04)
  
  
  

  
  2022: Charlton Cinema and Pizza and Movie Night screen No Time To Die at B Block, Bristol, England.

  

  

  PIZZA & MOVIE NIGHT @ B BLOCK - James Bond: No Time To Die

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://allevents.in/bristol/pizza-and-movie-night-b-block-james-bond-no-time-to-die/200023669907546

  Sat Nov 26, 2022

  We're back for our pizza & film nights this November with James Bond: No Time To Die showing on Saturday 26th November.

  For just £20, you can enjoy not only a private cinema showing at TCQ's very own Charlton Cinema, but also one of B-Block's speciality pizzas* and a drink - this is a deal which is just too good to miss!
  
  Food orders will be taken from 17:00, the film will be shown at 19:30.
  
  Call 01173637119 or email [email protected] to book your spot, and we'll see you there!
  *Offer includes selected pizzas only.
  
  Hosted by
  B Block
  
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  About The Host: All-day restaurant specialising in authentic wood-fired pizzas, quality coffee and local produce in Keynsham. Gluten free pizza available on a 24hr pre order Last orders are 8:30pm Tuesday-Saturday 3:30pm on a Sunday and 5:30pm on a Monday
  Website Link: https://www.b-blockpizza.co.uk/
  
  Date & Time
  Sat Nov 26 2022 at 2:30 pm
  (Eastern Standard Time)
  
  Location
  B Block, Bristol, United Kingdom, Bristol, United Kingdom

  

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

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

  

  Lotte Lenya

  https://masterworksbroadway.com/artist/lotte-lenya/

  

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

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

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

  

  Lotte Lenya (1898–1981)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1982: 유 아 이 즈 온 리 (Yoo ah-ee-jeu own-lee) released in the Republic of Korea.

  
  
  
  

  1987: Lashana Lynch is born--London, England.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 53 of 65 - "Sherlock IQ."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Sherlock IQ

  Season 1 - Episode 53
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807119/?ref_=ttep_ep53
  

  In London, James and IQ come from a Sherlock Holmes convention, but Baron von Skarin, with his henchmen Jaws and Nick Nack, use a prototype super tank they stole and attack the city, but then a knock on the head causes IQ to think he is Sherlock Holmes.

  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 / Nick Nack (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Baron Von Skarin (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / John Q.Law (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 53 - Sherlock IQ
  
  

  
  

  1995: Documentary 007: The Return presenting the new film and the Royal Premiere airs on British television.

  

  007: The Return (1995)

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

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

  Director: Bob Cousins
  Star: Mariella Frostrup
  

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

  
  

  
  2002: Die Another Day released in Belgium and the Philippines.
  2006: Daniel Craig in The Irish Examiner proposes "I wouldn't dye for Bond".

  

  Craig: 'I wouldn’t dye for Bond'

  See the complete article here:
  

  New James Bond Daniel Craig refused to dye his blond locks
  dark brown for his role in new 007 smash Casino Royale.
  Mon, 27 Nov, 2006 - 07:26
  
  The actor faced a barrage of criticism when he was chosen to play the world's most famous secret agent, with opponents saying he was too short, too ordinary-looking and too blond to play Bond.
  
  But while the 38-year-old actor agreed to undertake a punishing gym regime to build up a 007 body, he drew the line when directors asked him to change his hair colour for the movie.

  He admits: "I was asked to dye my hair brown to play this role but it was out of the question. I suggested instead that I could cut my hair really short to create a more brutal appearance."

  2008: Quantum of Solace released in New Zealand.
  
  2010: Irvin Kershner dies at age 87--Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 29 April 1923--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)

  

  Irvin Kershner obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/nov/29/irvin-kershner-obituary

  Chosen to direct The Empire Strikes Back, he turned in one of the best sequels – and highest box-office earners – of all time
  The Empire Strikes Back - Irvin Kershner

  
  Irvin Kershner's The Empire Strikes Back (1980). Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/ Lucasfilm

  Ronald Bergan | Mon 29 Nov 2010

  The film director Irvin Kershner, who has died aged 87, was known in the trade as a hired gun. His most famous film, The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the fifth episode in the Star Wars saga, is most commonly linked to its executive producer, George Lucas. Never Say Never Again (1983) is celebrated as the film in which Sean Connery made his comeback as James Bond after 12 years away from the role, the director merely providing the vehicle. Kershner's first feature, Stakeout On Dope Street (1958), was made under the aegis of Roger Corman, who usually gained the main credit for the films he produced. Yet, eclectic as Kershner seemed, his best films reveal a visual flair, with an eye for the telling detail and a sympathy for the rebel.

  The Philadelphia-born Kershner's background was in painting, photography and design. He took a degree at Temple University's Tyler School of Art in his home town. He studied painting under Hans Hoffman in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and photography at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. During the second world war, he served in the US air force as a flight engineer on B-24 bombers.
  
  After the war, Kershner began his film career at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television, teaching photography and taking film courses under Slavko Vorkapich, the great montage artist. Kershner next accepted a job as still photographer for the US state department in the Middle East, which eventually led to an assignment as a director and cinematographer of documentaries in Iran, Greece and Turkey with the United States Information Agency, including titles such as Malaria, Locust Plague and Childbirth. When he returned to the US, he worked as writer, director, cinematographer and editor on Confidential File (1953-55), a documentary television series that recreated the events behind contemporary news headlines.

  

  Kershner on the set of RoboCop 2. Photograph: Deana Newcomb/AP

  Kershner and his cameraman Haskell Wexler experimented with a mixture of cinéma vérité and narrative conventions in Stakeout On Dope Street, about a trio of youths who discover a cache of uncut heroin and try to sell it. Despite the heavy warning against the evils of drug peddling, the film, shot on location using handheld cameras and a cast of unknowns, was a lively feature debut.
  
  Kershner followed it with another taut low-budget crime story, The Young Captives (1959), whose publicity shrieked "Teenage elopers' love turns to terror as they battle crazed killer!" The plot concerned a couple who pick up a psychopathic hitchhiker. The Hoodlum Priest (1961) was, despite its mildly provocative title, a mostly routine crime melodrama based on a true story about a Jesuit priest known for his work among ex-cons. Well photographed by Wexler, Kershner's restrained documentary approach counteracted Don Murray's movie-star good looks and the dollops of do-good philosophy.
  
  Kershner's use of locations, such as a wintry Montreal in The Luck of Ginger Coffey (1964), which starred Robert Shaw and Mary Ure as an Irish immigrant couple coping with unemployment and separation, and New York in A Fine Madness (1966), was particularly effective. In the latter, a sour screwball comedy, Sean Connery rants and raves as a radical poet, telling a group of women: "Open your corsets and bloom, let the metaphors creep above your knees."
  
  Kershner continued to get fine performances from stars such as George C Scott, turning on the charm in The Flim-Flam Man (1967), and George Segal in Loving (1970), a touching and sharp drama of a commercial artist rebelling against the routine of marriage and career. In Up the Sandbox (1972), Barbra Streisand rebels against her domesticity by having garish fantasies, one involving seduction by Fidel Castro.
  
  In 1970, Kershner was to have directed A Man Called Horse, about an Englishman captured and ultimately converted by the Sioux, but he was taken off the project, without even receiving credit for his work on the screenplay. However, he got to direct the sequel, The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976), which, while subtly avoiding the exploitative aspects of the original film, still has Richard Harris, in the title role, suspended by clamps to his pectoral muscles, in a 20-minute sequence. The film, which gets closer to the Native American experience than most previous attempts, also has one of the longest pre-credit sequences, lasting 17 minutes.
  
  Subsequently, Kershner's films got flashier and more expensive. Eyes of Laura Mars (1978) was glossy gore, with Faye Dunaway as a chic New York photographer who is psychically linked to a murderer. When Lucas decided not to direct a sequel to Star Wars (1977) himself, he chose Kershner out of a possible 100 directors. He felt that Kershner, who had remained apart from the Hollywood system and was a student of Zen Buddhism, would appreciate the film's philosophical implications, and would be able to explore mythology and the subconscious fantasy life of children. Besides, Lucas thought The Return of a Man Called Horse was one of those rare sequels that was actually better than the first movie.
  
  Kershner's contribution to The Empire Strikes Back was considerable. He spent several hours a day for a year storyboarding the action himself, getting his perspective on each scene. "According to the books, I didn't even exist," Kershner said. "Of course, I couldn't have made the movie without George; on the other hand, they couldn't have made that movie without me." The Empire Strikes Back, much darker and more realistic than the first Star Wars film, became one of the highest box-office earners ever, as well as being considered one of the best sequels. The same could not be said of the violent, humourless RoboCop 2 (1990).
  
  "Kersh", as the tall, bald and goateed Kershner was known to his intimates, appeared in a number of his friends' films: as Zebedee in Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and in a small role in Steven Seagal's On Deadly Ground (1994). In 1997, he produced an interesting independent film for a first-time British director, Paul Chart, called American Perfekt.

  In his last years, Kershner lectured at universities across the US, and plannned a number of projects, few of which saw the light of day. "My career is a disaster," he remarked. "After The Empire Strikes Back, I got to make big films that I didn't care about, Never Say Never Again and RoboCop 2, and then I got too old. I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality. I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about."

  He is survived by his sons, Dana and David.
  
  Irvin Kershner, film director; born 29 April 1923; died 29 November 2010

  

  Irvin Kershner (1923–2010)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0449984/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  Director | Cinematographer | Actor
  
  Filmography

  Director (32 credits)
  2011 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back: Deleted Scenes (Video short)
  1993 SeaQuest 2032 (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - To Be or Not to Be (1993)
  1990 RoboCop 2
  
  1989 Traveling Man (TV Movie)
  1986 Amazing Stories (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - Hell Toupee (1986)
  1983 Never Say Never Again
  1980 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (directed by)
  
  1978 Eyes of Laura Mars
  1976 Raid on Entebbe (TV Movie)
  1976 The Return of a Man Called Horse
  1974 S*P*Y*S
  1972 Up the Sandbox
  1970 Loving
  1967 The Flim-Flam Man
  1966 A Fine Madness
  1964 The Luck of Ginger Coffey
  1963 Face in the Rain
  1963 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - The End of the World, Baby (1963)
  1962-1963 Naked City (TV Series) (2 episodes)
  1961 Ben Casey (TV Series) (1 episode)
  1961 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) (1 episode)
  
  1959-1961 The Rebel (TV Series) (35 episodes)
  1961 The Hoodlum Priest
  1960 The Yank (TV Movie)
  1959 Philip Marlowe (TV Series) (1 episode)
  - The Hunger (1959)
  1959 The Young Captives
  1958 Now Is Tomorrow (TV Movie)
  1958 Stakeout on Dope Street
  1953-1958 Confidential File (TV Series) (12 episodes)
  1950 Childbirth (Documentary short)
  1950 Locust Plague (Documentary short)
  1950 Malaria (Documentary short)
  
  Cinematographer (5 credits)
  Actor (6 credits)
  Editor (3 credits)
  Producer (3 credits)
  Writer (1 credit)
  Editorial department (1 credit)
  Additional Crew (1 credit)
  Thanks (9 credits)
  Self (38 credits)

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2015: 007 スペクター (007 Supekutā) limited release in Japan.

  
  
  
  

  2015: Spectre released in South Africa.

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.sapeople.com/2015/11/04/south-africas-role-in-the-new-bond-movie-spectre/

  South Africa plays a feature role – and it’s a good one – in the new James Bond movie, ‘Spectre’, even though South Africa will be one of the last countries in the world that actually sees a major launch of the spy extravaganza.
  
  While the movie itself – which is brilliant – flits from Mexico to Italy to Austria to Morocco, among other places, as Bond tries to track down a mysterious organisation, things aren’t going so well for him back at headquarters in London.
  
  A new major character in MI6 is trying to launch a spy agency called Nine Eyes that will combine all the major spy networks of the world, but South Africa is the only one to vote against it. Later in the movie, Cape Town features not as a location but in TV footage crucial to the story.

  
  Ralph Fiennes as M, Naomi Harris as Moneypenny and a new character behind Nine Eyes, C (played by Andrew Scott).

  But South Africans will have to wait longer than most audiences to see the movie. While ‘Spectre’ is already showing in London and will be launched on Friday in the United States, it will only be released in South Africa on 27 November, the world’s last major launch before Japan.
  
  ‘Spectre’ (named after the shady evil organisation that has featured in six Bond movies already) is believed to be Daniel Craig’s last movie as Bond, and gossip is rife about who will take over from him.
  

  
  2020: Mark Edlitz publishes his own book The Lost Adventures of James Bond.

  
  
  
  

  
  2022: James Bond Night with bachata lessons then social dancing at twelvewest, Vancouver, Canada.

  

  

  Bachata Noches JAMES BOND Night

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://allevents.in/vancouver/bachata-noches-james-bond-night/10000459526214277

  Bachata Noches JAMES BOND Night Nov 27, 2022 - Nov 28, 2022
  
  A unique dance experience, where you'd enjoy bachata music on a special elegant night at a luxurious venue to draw unforgettable memory!
  
  About this Event

  BACHATA NOCHES 2nd Edition!
  Our mission is to grow and bring the entire bachata community together under one roof for elegant evenings celebrating our love for bachata dance and music. Your positive feedback and love made us committed to making you happy and working hard to see your beautiful smiles again.
  
  Expect a stunning atmosphere and music that will keep you on your feet all night. We can’t wait to see and dance with you all.

  Event Details:
  Theme: JAMES BOND Night
  Dress code: Dress to impress
  
  Workshops:taught by Alba and Jorelle, one of the most talented bachata instructors in the city.
  Beginner - Intermediate Workshop 6:00 - 6:45 pm
  Intermediate - Advance Workshop 6:45 – 7:30 pm
  Social Dancing would begin at 7:30 pm
  
  DJ Team:
  We are excited to announce DJ Arnold Camueroa (Seattle) one of the best Bachata DJs in USA as our Guest DJ for the night along with our amazing local DJ MoYuS (Vancouver)
  
  Early bird tickets --> $22.99 + Tax (On Sale Now!)
  Regular Tickets Tier 1 --> $24.99 + Tax (would open after Early Bird )
  Regular Tickets Tier 2 --> $26.99 + Tax (would open after Tier 1 )
  At The Door -->$29.99 + Tax
  
  Tickets price include: Entrance + Workshops + 1 Free Drink
  We are offering now early bird tickets until they’re sold out (last event they were sold out in 2 days!)
  Highly recommend buying your tickets online to secure your spot and enjoy the best deal.
  
  Contact us
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  2022: Spectre – in Concert by the City Light Symphony Orchestra at Luzern, Switzerland.

  

  

  Spectre – in Concert

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=concertdetail

  26 November 2022
  Luzern (Lucerne)
  (Switzerland)
  
  City Light Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kevin Griffiths - KKL
  
  Program Info:

  Thomas Newman - Spectre
  After highly acclaimed performances of «Casino Royale» and «Skyfall» we are pleased to present you together with Film Concerts Live! to be able to present the continuation of the thrilling James Bond Concert Series at the KKL Luzern: "Spectre" - in concert, produced in cooperation with EON Productions and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM). While the suspense-packed film by director Sam Mendes shines on the big screen, the City Light Symphony Orchestra plays the film music by composer Thomas Newman.
  
  Daniel Craig returns as the inimitable 007. He must infiltrate a mysterious criminal organization called the Specter, encountering the perfidious villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld, played by Christoph Waltz.
  
  This race against time takes him from the colorful celebrations of Día de Muertos in Mexico City to the ancient streets of Rome, from the glittering ski slopes of Switzerland to the hot sands of North Africa. Because he must stop Blofeld from taking total control of the world's intelligence agencies for his own nefarious ends.
  
  In "Spectre," Léa Seydoux plays the seductive Madeleine Swann and Ralph Fiennes returns as M, along with Ben Wishaw as the unflappable Quartermaster Q and Naomie Harris as the resourceful Moneypenny. Led by the 80-strong City Light Symphony Orchestra, "Spectre" - in Concert 007 offers action at the highest level!

  Film in English, with German subtitles.

  
  
  

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

  Matsuo Bashō

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

  

  
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  

  
  1966: You Only Live Twice films the ninja assault.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 54 of 65 - "Killer Astroid."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Killer Astroid

  Season 1 - Episode 54
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807105/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  Goldfinger hijacks a space shuttle in midair so that he can use it to bring an asteroid made up solid gold on a collision course with Earth. With the tracing software being designed by IQ, James and the gang head to Iceland where the signal of the space shuttle is coming from.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Mary Crawford ... (written by)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Alan Templeton ... (written by)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob (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 / Auric Goldfinger (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon 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 54 - Killer Asteroid
  
  

  1999: And the Word Was Bond documentary promoting The World Is Not Enough airs in the UK.

  

  And the Word Was Bond (1999)

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

  And The Word Was Bond - James Bond Documentary (24:48)
  
  

  
  2002: Die Another Day released in Sweden.

  

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

  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  

  Marc Lawrence

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

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

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

  

  Marc Lawrence (I) (1910–2005)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: An international auction offers artwork by Pierre Auguste-Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger. And not least Salvador Dali's tarot card deck created for a Bond film. All at New Delhi, India, and online.

  
  

  Iconic works by Renoir, Picasso to go
  under hammer at AstaGuru's online
  auction

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://newsdrum.in/business/iconic-works-by-renoir-picasso-to-go-under-hammer-at-astagurus-online-auction

  NewsDrum Desk | 24 Nov 2022
  
  New Delhi, Nov 24 (PTI) Artworks by iconic global artists, including Pierre Auguste-Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Fernand Léger and Salvador Dali, will go under the hammer at India's "first exclusive international auction", starting November 28.
  
  Organised by online auction house AstaGuru, the two-day auction, showcasing a medley of works by revered artists, will present experimentative artworks by leading contemporary artists as well, including the likes of Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Yayoi Kusama, Robert Indiana and Marc Sijan.
  
  Leading the auction line-up is a beautiful work by French impressionist master Pierre Auguste–Renoir, who created an extraordinary artistic legacy with his fascinating canvases bearing sublime female nudes.
  
  Titled "Baigneuse Assise" or the "Seated Bather", the 1915 work was once in the collection of seminal novelist Somerset Maugham. It was also featured on the cover of his book "Purely For My Pleasure" (1962). It will be offered at an estimate of Rs 4.34 – 5.53 crore.
  
  "We are extremely happy to curate a collection which brings together works of several historic and big names from the history of modern and contemporary art and does complete justice to the auction titled 'International Iconic'...We are certain that the auction is highly anticipated and will definitely witness enthusiastic bidding," said Siddanth Shetty, vice- president, business strategy and operations, AstaGuru.

  Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali's limited series of 78 custom decks of tarot cards known as Dali's 'Universal Tarot' will also be showcased at the auction. The work, first commissioned to him by a Hollywood producer Albert Broccoli, was meant to be used as a prop in the James Bond film Live and Let Die.
  
  Each of the cards are estimated at Rs 19.75-27.65 Lakh.

  Other highlights of the auction are works by Pablo Picasso, widely celebrated as one of the foremost figures of modern art. His 1969 work, executed with coloured wax crayon on paper, will be offered at an estimate of Rs 2.37-3.95 crore.
  
  French master visual artist Henri Matisse's 1940 work 'Femme et Bouquets' (estimated at 1.97-2.76 crore) and Russian-French artist Marc Chagall 'Violoniste Au Village Enneigé' (estimated at Rs 3–3.79 crore) are also up for grabs in the auction.
  
  Featuring flowers, fruits, objects, musical instruments, and scenes of everyday moments, the still life works by Colombian artist Fernando Botero paying homage to the Dutch masters of the 16th and 17th centuries are part of the auction as well.
  
  A still work by the artist will be offered at an estimate of Rs 1.18-1.58 crore.
  
  English artist Damien Hirst's 'Beautiful Hours Spin Painting IX' (estimated at Rs 2.37-3.95 crore), first unveiled as the cover for the album 'See the Light' by British rock band 'The Hours', and famous 'Love Sculptures' by American artist Robert Indiana are also among the highlights in the auction.
  
  "First executed as a painting in 1965 and being displayed at a solo exhibition at the Stable Gallery, it became a career-defining piece for Indiana. It will be offered with an estimate of Rs 3.16-4.74 crore," said the online auction house in a statement.
  
  Making it to the auction is also a unique work by iconic artist Andy Warhol. The presented work, marking a departure from the artist's popular body of work focusing on the culture of consumerism, was created in 1983 and gifted to his friend Christopher Mako.
  
  It is offered at an estimate of Rs 1.10-1.89 crore. PTI MG MAH MAH
  

  

  See Surreal Tarot Cards Designed by Salvador Dalí
  for a James Bond Movie
  The spooky deck features images of classic art and Christian symbolism with a signature Dalí twist

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-surreal-tarot-cards-designed-salvador-dali-james-bond-movie-180973506/

  Nina Kravinsky, Freelance Writer | November 7, 2019

  
  Salvador Dali tarot card magician
  The 78-card deck didn't actually make it into the James Bond film Live and Let Die. Cartamundi, Turnhout Belgium/Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala- Salvador Dalí, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019

  In 1973, producer Albert R. Broccoli commissioned Salvador Dalí to create a set of tarot cards for the upcoming James Bond film Live and Let Die. The Catalan artist indulged his mystical side when designing the very surreal deck of cards, but his prop deck failed to make the movie’s final cut: As Hakim Bishara explains for Hyperallergic, Dalí reportedly asked for an enormous fee beyond even the Bond film’s $7 million budget.
  
  The famed surrealist continued working on the spooky set after Broccoli rescinded his offer, and in 1984, he released a limited edition of the deck. Now, for the first time in more than 30 years, the 78-card set is back on the market. (The deck and a companion book are available from Taschen Books for $60.)

  
  Salvador Dali tarot card empress
  Gala Dali as the "Empress" Cartamundi, Turnhout Belgium/Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala- Salvador Dalí, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019

  Dalí’s deck blends elements of his bombastic personality with typical surrealist motifs—think ants and disembodied heads—and traditional tarot symbolism. In one card, the artist himself poses as the Magician, and in another, his wife, Gala Dalí, assumes the role of the Empress. The deck’s “Lovers” card, according to Architectural Digest’s Stephanie Strasnick, mirrors Jan Gossaert’s 16th-century painting Neptune and Amphitrite but replaces the mythical scene’s classical setting with a giant butterfly and flower.

  The surrealist pioneer’s interest in mysticism extended beyond his encounter with Hollywood. Gala, Dalí’s muse, business partner and agent, had a penchant for the esoteric. She used to read tarot cards in an attempt to predict her husband’s career path and may have even encouraged him to accept the Bond producer’s commission.

  “This mysterious, cultured woman, a gifted creator, colleague and peer of poets and painters, lived her art and her life in an intensely literary manner,” said Dalí Museums director Montse Aguer in a statement on the 2018 exhibition “Gala Salvador Dalí: A Room of One’s Own in Púbol.”

  
  Salvador Dali tarot card lovers
  The "Lovers" card is inspired by Jan Gossaert's Neptune and Amphitrite. Cartamundi, Turnhout Belgium/Salvador Dalí, Fundació Gala- Salvador Dalí, VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2019

  Just as Gala’s mystical leanings likely influenced the deck, Dalí’s surrealist background is evident in full force. The “Magician” card features the artist standing above one of his iconic melting clocks, while the “Death” card shows a cypress tree emblazoned with a skull beside a single blooming rose.
  
  As Lindsay Rainwater writes for GALO magazine, “Dalí’s deck is a pastiche of old-world art, surrealism, kitsch, Christian iconography and Greek and Roman sculpture.”
  
  Many of the tarot cards feature classic works of art juxtaposed with collage elements. Per Strasnick, Dalí reimagines Vincenzo Camuccini’s 19th-century painting The Death of Julius Caesar as the “Ten of Swords,” topping a cut-out of the brutal attack with 10 painted blades. In the “Empress” card, meanwhile, the artist superimposes Gala’s face on the statue of a goddess seen in Eugène Delacroix’s 1826 painting Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi.

  Dalí even pokes fun at Roger Moore, the then-new actor portraying James Bond, by including original 007 Sean Connery’s face on the “Emperor” card.

  And while Dalí’s deck doesn’t appear in Live or Let Die, Bond girl Solitaire, played by Jane Seymour, does flip through a custom-made tarot deck in the film. Artist Fergus Hall designed the set of cards—likely for much less money—following the better-known surrealist’s split from the project.
  
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  November 29th
  
  1901: Varley Thomas is born--Wandsworth, Surrey, England.
  (She dies 29 January 1983 at age 81--Ewell, Surrey, England.)

  

  Varley Thomas

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

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

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

  Filmography

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

  
  

  
  1961: Variety reports their estimation Eon bought rights to Fleming's novels for $500,000.
  1963: Kevin McClory receives Thunderball film rights and £50,000 damages. Any additional Bond films would necessarily be remakes.
  1964: The San Francisco Examiner publishes the Donald Stanley short story "Holmes Meets 007". Later published by Beaune Press in 1967 in a very limited run.

  

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

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

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

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

  Dödens Flod
  (The Dead River - River Of Death)
  

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

  Dödens Flod
  (The Dead River - River Of Death)
  

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

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

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

  
  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 55 of 65 - "Danger Train."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Danger Train

  Season 1 - Episode 55
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807284/?ref_=ttep_ep55
  

  James Bond Jr. and IQ get caught in a S.C.U.M. feud between Ms. Fortune and Walker D. Plank over stealing a super powerful engine from the 'Cold Fusion' Train.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Steve Hayes
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Scumlord (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 / Snuffer (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut / Miss Fortune / 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
  Music by
  Dennis C. Brown
  Larry Brown

  James Bond Jr Episode 55 - Danger Train
  
  

  
  

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

  

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

  
  
  

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

  

  Norman Burton

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Norman Burton (1923–2003) Actor

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

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

  Planet of the Apes
  
  Escape from the Planet of the Apes
  
  Diamonds Are Forever
  
  
  

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

  

  Joseph Fürst

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

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

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

  032 The Underwater Menace Interview with Joseph Furst
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUv2arY95lc

  

  Joseph Fürst (1916–2005) Actor

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

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

  
  
  
  
  

  2008: "Another Way to Die" charts at #81 on the US Billboard Hot 100 (spends one week on the chart).

  

  
  2012: Skyfall released in Bangladesh.
  2013: The Guardian reports on a tribute to Lewis Collins and his greatest disappointment.

  

  Unthinkable? 007, working-class hero
  Editorial

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/29/unthinkable-james-bond-working-class-hero

  Lewis Collins's greatest disappointment was his failure to get
  the James Bond role after Roger Moore
  Fri 29 Nov 2013 18.03 EST
  
  A tribute to Lewis Collins, the Mojo musician who became famous in the late 1970s as hit man Bodie in The Professionals, reveals that his greatest disappointment was not his decision to be a hairdresser rather than join the Beatles as a drummer but his failure to get the James Bond role after Roger Moore. Too aggressive, it was said, but really – since they chose cleft-chinned toff Timothy Dalton instead – they probably meant he wasn't smooth enough. Yet, as Ian Fleming said when he wrote to the Guardian in 1958 to defend his creation against encouraging a cult of luxury (eg choosing a brand of cigarette for its exclusivity rather than its taste), his James Bond was meant to be a blank sheet, an unobtrusive figure to whom exotic things happened. The personal style – the martini cocktail and the Walther PPK – were added as mere dabs of colour, at least as understood by an old Etonian living in Jamaica. It was Hollywood, not Fleming, that fleshed out the empire's last superhero, building up his suave style and the one-liners and making him a maverick rather than Fleming's classic Englishman. But Fleming enjoyed suggesting that Bond's sadistic violence was actually a rejection of the post-war world of teeth and specs on the state, while what one critic called his satyriasis was, according to Fleming, merely blatant heterosexuality in a world of gender confusion. It's harder to know the face of the enemy now, and Daniel Craig's Bond has become less upper-crust and more complex. But not yet a man of the people.

  
  
  
  

  
  2021: Tommy Lane dies at age 83--Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
  (Born Tommy Lee Jones 1936--Tipton, Atoka, Tennessee.)

  

  Tommy Lane, Actor and Stuntman in ‘Live
  and Let Die,’ ‘Shaft,’ Dies at 83

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://variety.com/2021/film/news/tommy-lane-dead-live-and-let-die-shaft-1235122222/

  
  Tommy Lane
  Courtesy of Kamala Lane

  Stuntman and actor Tommy Lane, who appeared in films including “Live and Let Die” and “Shaft,” died Monday in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. He was 83.
  
  His daughter Kamala reported that he died after a long bout of COPD.
  
  In Richard Roundtree’s “Shaft,” his character Leroy could be seen crashing through Richard Roundtree’s Times Square office window. “That’s some cold shit, throwing my man Leroy out the window. Just picked my man up and threw him out the goddamn window,” says Willy in the 1971 blaxploitation classic.

  
  Roger Moore with Tommy Lane during the shooting of “Live and Let Die”
  Courtesy of Kamala Lane

  In the 1973 James Bond film “Live and Let Die,” he played Adam, one of Kananga’s henchmen who chases Roger Moore in a speedboat off the coast of the fictional island of San Monique. His character threatens, “You made one mistake back on that island, Bond. You took something that didn’t belong to you. And you took it from a friend of Mr. Big’s. That kind of mistake is tough to bounce back from.”
  
  Before the speedboat scene, he can be heard to say “Bond ripped off one of our boats. He’s headed for the Irish Bayou. The man that gets him stays alive! Now, move you mothers!”
  
  He also appeared in “Cotton Comes to Harlem,” “Ganja & Hess,” Burt Reynolds-starrer “Shamus” and TV shows including “Simon & Simon” and “Flipper.”
  
  Born Tommy Lee Jones in Miami, Lane was also a jazz musician, and played trumpet and flugelhorn at New York City’s Blue Note throughout the 1980s.
  
  He is survived by wife Raquel Bastias-Lane, seven children; a stepson and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

  

  
  2020: La-La Land Records a 2-CD set with an expanded and remastered original score for Tomorrow Never Dies.

  

  

  ‘Tomorrow Never Dies’ 25th Anniversary
  Expanded Edition Soundtrack Album
  Announced

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://filmmusicreporter.com/2022/11/24/tomorrow-never-dies-25th-anniversary-expanded-edition-soundtrack-album-announced/

  Posted: November 24, 2022 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music Albums
  
  La-La Land Records has announced a new soundtrack album for the 1997 James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher and Judi Dench. The 2-CD set features the expanded and remastered original score from the MGM production composed by David Arnold (Independence Day, Casino Royale, Die Another Day, Stargate, Sherlock, Quantum of Solace), including previously unreleased music, as well as the opening and closing titles songs, Tomorrow Never Dies performed by Sheryl Crow and Surrender performed by k.d. lang, and alternate score and source cues. The 25th Anniversary Edition soundtrack is limited to 5,000 copies and will be available to order on La-La Land’s official website at 12:00pm PST on November 29.
  https://lalalandrecords.com/
  
  Here’s the track list of the album:

  Score Presentation:
  Disc 1:
  1. White Knight (8:28)
  2. Backseat Pilot*† (1:41)
  3. Tomorrow Never Dies – Sheryl Crow (4:50)
  4. The Sinking Of The Devonshire (Extended Version) (7:22)
  5. MI6 / Launch The Fleet (1:34)
  6. Company Car (Extended Version) (3:35)
  7. You Have A Phone Call, Mr. Bond (1:02)
  8. Station Break (3:29)
  9. Carver And Paris (1:06)
  10. Paris And Bond (Film Version) (1:56)
  11. The Last Goodbye (1:34)
  12. Hamburg Break In (2:52)
  13. Hamburg Break Out (1:24)
  14. Printing Press Fight (1:22)
  15. Escape To Hotel (2:28)
  16. Doctor Kaufman (2:27)
  17. *-3-Send (1:15)
  18. Backseat Driver (Film Version) (4:35)
  19. Okinawa / HALO Jump (2:25)
  20. Underwater Discovery (3:37)
  21. Vietnam (1:36)
  22. Banner Escape (1:10)
  23. Bike Chase (6:43)
  24. Bike Shop Fight (Film Version) (2:32)

  Disc 2:
  1. Ha Long Bay (2:32)
  2. Boarding The Stealth (4:57)
  3. Grenade (1:39)
  4. A Tricky Spot For 007 (3:49)
  5. Stealth Shoot Out (3:33)
  6. Carver Gets It (2:53)
  7. All In A Day’s Work (5:08)
  8. Surrender – k.d. lang (3:56)
  Additional Music:
  9. White Knight (Original Version) (8:37)
  10. Backseat Pilot (Original Version) (2:20)
  11. The Sinking Of The Devonshire (Original Version) (5:37)
  12. Company Car† (3:06)
  13. Shaken But Not Stirred – Simon Greenaway / Sacha Collisson (3:27)
  14. It Had To Be You – Simon Greenaway (2:03)
  15. Adrift – Simon Greenaway / Sacha Collisson (3:58)
  16. Paris And Bond (1:56)
  17. The Last Goodbye (Alternate Version) (1:30)
  18. Printing Press Fight (Film Opening) (1:10)
  19. Backseat Driver† (4:35)
  20. Banner Escape (Film Mix) (1:10)
  21. Bike Shop Fight (2:42)
  22. Surrender (Alternate Version) – k.d. lang (3:53)

  

  
  2022: The Music from James Bond at The Hague, Amare, Den Haag, Netherlands.

  

  

  The Music From James Bond
  50 Years of the iconic Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.mo.nl/en/agenda/2022-en/the-music-from-james-bond-7

  Sander Teepen, dirigent
  Dorona Alberti, zang
  Tim Akkerman, zang

  Dorona Alberti (Gare du Nord), Tim Akkerman (formerly Di-rect) and the Metropole Orkest immerse themselves in the world of espionage and glamour with ‘The Music from James Bond’. The most iconic songs from early and more recent James Bond films are featured in this theater concert. “Each and every one of them are great songs with that recognisable sound that is both nostalgic and timeless,” says initiator Dorona Alberti.
  
  A number of songs have been given an overhaul for the occasion. In short: the ultimate sound of the Bond films with, where necessary, big gestures with powerful horns and theatrical string arrangements.

  Order your tickets now
  
  Tue 29 Nov, 8:00 pm
  Amare, Den Haag

  

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

  

  Ilse Paula Steppat

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

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

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

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

  

  Ilse Steppat (1917–1969)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  Obituary: Graham Crowden,
  actor

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

  
  

  

  Graham Crowden (1922–2010)

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

  
  
  

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

  

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

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

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

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

  

  Matt Monro (1930–1985)

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

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

  
  

  
  

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

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  1964: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd publishes Double O Seven, James Bond: A Report by O.F. Snelling.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1965: Maclean's proposes conflict with "Agent 007 and the Great Christmas Caper."

  

  

  AGENT 007 AND THE GREAT
  CHRISTMAS CAPER

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://archive.macleans.ca/article/1965/12/1/agent-007-and-the-great-christmas-caper

  Last year’s war toys and brassiere-clad dolls seemed bad enough. But now along comes James Bond to flash a startling array of ingenious weapons and pose a bewildering moral dilemma for parents
  December 1 1965 EILEEN MORRIS

  LAST CHRISTMAS, the militant group calling itself the Voice of Women stirred up a national argument with an Appeal to Parents: “Have you noticed the increase in war toys each Christmas? It is time to call a halt — plastic hand grenades, land mines, booby traps, automatic guns, toy missiles, etc., the whole grisly collection must be repudiated. We, the buyers. make the ultimate decision."

  Parents who thought toys were a grim problem last year will go right around the bend this year. For now that cash registers are beginning to ring Noël again, a violent new figure has come swinging onto the scene to complicate the argument as never before. James Bond, the Ian Fleming hero, has suddenly become Mr. Big with toymakers and retailers. Several manufacturers hold franchises entitling them to stamp the magic 007 insignia on products ranging from guns to sweat shirts. But even in the toy division of the spy business, anything goes, and firms without franchises are shamelessly jumping on the Bond wagon, using the great hero’s name in their promotional pitches and devising legal variations of what’s guarded by franchise. In their wildly creative moments, Reliable Toy has come up with Secret Agent 009, and the Mattel toy company’s man is Secret Agent Zero M. Meanwhile Ideal Toy has signed up TV’s answer to Bond — The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
  
  The Soviet press has lately been attacking the West for promoting the James Bond cult as part of an international plot. But in the toy business, at least, 007 is getting the big buildup for a purely capitalistic reason: each year, Canadians spend a fantastic $160 million for toys, most of it in the hectic eight weeks before Christmas.
  
  Since it is adults who buy most of the toys, many new' items have builtin father appeal. The James Bond 007 Road Race, for instance, features an authentic model of Bond's famed customized Aston Martin DB5. fully equipped for action with a varied speed motor sound, bullet shield, tire “cutters" and machine guns.
  
  The 007 Automatic Pistol shoots plastic bullets and has a James Bond identification card. Secret Sam is an international spy set. Its innocent looking attache case packs a pistol that shoots bullets while concealed within the case. And its secret camera actually takes photos.
  
  Parents more concerned about the influence of toys will find plenty of cause for anxiety. This year, many weapons wear camouflage for guerilla fighting. For instance, a paratrooper set billed as “a one-man junior army” features a camouflaged burp gun with recoiling barrel, bullet-shooting, capfiring .45 automatic with holster and belt, camouflaged helmet with netting, a grenade and a Sooper-Snooper 4way scope. A kit called Attack supplies two field cannons, howitzers, machine guns and mortar units, cases of shells, sand bags, and one bombedout house.
  
  What about the girls? Between the time I outgrew my last baby doll and today’s Barbie craze, Santa revolutionized little-girlhood. The most popular dolls — toy dolls, I mean — aren't babies anymore. They're swinging teenagers, and a lot of them are named Barbie. They wear nÿlons and brassieres and mink stoles. For their hair, they need curlers, driers, wig packs and hair-coloring kits.
  
  A few baby dolls survive, but the most highly touted of these are battery-powered. Baby Wiggles has her own built-in, wind-up music box. Baby First Step walks alone. Baby Boo cries when she wants to sleep — turn out the light and she stops.
  
  Surprisingly, the commercial adult hand in the kid glove is nowhere more evident than in one kind of item in the plush-toy corner. Esso did a tiger promotion to sell more gas to car drivers—and now there are tigerface purses for tots, tiger TV chairs, tiger pyjama bags, tigers on casters.

  Which underlines my point: it is our own adult fault that guns make up an estimated ten percent of the toy market. Just as our gasoline buying created tiger pyjama bags, our giftbuying created the moppet Mafia. And it’s a bit late in the day to plead ignorance if the gimmicky secret - agent guns, the battlefield rifles, cowboy derringers and teen fashion dolls result in a mass of psychic kinks for our children.
  
  So what s the answer? Psychologist Dee Appley, of York University, defined for me the three things children need tor play: space, time and suitable material. We have substituted TV for space and time, and we hand children Bond-based toys for materials. Instead, - she suggested, “Before deciding to buy any toy, we should ask. What does 'it tell the child about the world? What does it tell him about himself?"

  According to the Institute of Child Study of the University of Toronto, espionage toys appeal to adults with jaded imaginations. Plainly, if we want our children to have better values, we have to raise our own. Psychologist Fred Hopley gave a quick measure of a good toy: “A toy that gives a child an opportunity to develop his skills and imagination, one requiring he use his hands and brain.” The experts I talked to approve hockey games, child-guidance toys, trains, hobby and sports equipment, models, storybooks and tea things.
  
  On the other hand, people who deplore the Barbie doll as a sick fad aren’t looking at the way the world is today. Mrs. I. Hoff, president of the Nursery Education Association of Ontario, points out: “Barbie reflects the reality of family life today. Mummy isn’t maternal anymore; she doesn’t cuddle and feed her babies over a number of years. She’s very busy — a good person, but on a different level. The little girl can no longer absorb the mother image. But she does see and admire teenagers, so she longs for teen-type dolls.”
  
  The experts agree: a toy in itself won’t harm a child, as long as you are combatting the immorality of Bond, the self-appointed executioner. Says Fred Hopley, “Aggressiveness is normal, part of learning to get along with others. The aggression suggested by these toys reflects, in part, our society’s new freedom."

  “War toys won’t make war seem natural—we aren’t giving ourselves enough credit as adults. The important thing is the way parents see things: if you are against violence and war, your child will reflect this. It all comes down to how we relate to one another. In the long run, it will be the good qualities that parents stress that will win out.”

  

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

  

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

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

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

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

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

  
  

  
  1982: Octopussy films Q in the gondola getting attention from Octopussy's Girls.

  
  

  
  1992: This month Marvel Comics releases James Bond Jr. #12, "Homeward Bound!"
  His last, with: Scumlord, Jaws, Dr. Derange, Odd Job, Dr. No, Walker D Plank and Baron von Skarin.

  

  James Bond Jr. #12 - Homeward Bound!

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

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

  
  James Bond Jr Issue 12 Homeward Bound!
  http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-012/

  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  

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

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

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

  

  

  Freddie Young (I) (1902–1998)

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

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

  
  
  

  1999: Robert Hale Ltd. publishes Sean Connery: A Celebration by Robert Sellers.
  1999: Fox Studios Australia in Sydney opens the final location of the 007: License to Thrill simulator ride.

  

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

  
  
  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  
  

  2015: The Guardian reports on a potential Canadian low-budget remake of For Your Eyes Only.

  

  James Bond goes to Ottawa in For Your
  Eyes Only remake

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/01/james-bond-for-your-eyes-only-remake-ian-fleming

  Low-budget film-making duo announce plans to take advantage of
  Canadian copyright laws and adapt the Ian Fleming story. Ideally,
  with Ryan Reynolds

  
  Roger Moore as 007, with Lynn-Holly Johnson as Bibi Dahl, in the 1981 film For Your Eyes Only.
  Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar/Cinetext Collection

  Andrew Pulver | @Andrew_Pulver | Tue 1 Dec 2015
  
  A duo of low-budget Canadian film-makers have announced plans to remake the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only, thanks to a loophole in copyright laws.
  
  Lee Demarbre and Ian Driscoll, whose back catalogue includes the Mexican-wrestler thriller The Dead Sleep Easy and comedy musical Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, say they are planning to take advantage of Canada’s 50-year copyright limit to start work on a new adaptation of Ian Fleming’s 1960 short story. Unlike most other major film markets, Canada does not enforce the Berne convention that extended authors’ copyright to 70 years after death, meaning that Fleming, who died in 1964, is in the public domain in the country.

  
  Ian Fleming with his 1964 short story collection For Your Eyes Only – which is out of copyright in Canada.
  Photograph: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis

  Pitching their film as “James Bond comes to Ottawa”, Demabre and Driscoll told CBC they were interested in For Your Eyes Only because Fleming has 007 visit the Canadian capital. In an interview with CBC’s Shadrach Kabango, the pair said they were not intending to compete with the blockbuster style of Spectre, and would instead be making an “arthouse James Bond”. They suggested Ryan Reynolds as a potential Canadian 007, with Christopher Plummer, Donald Sutherland and Michael Ironside as their favourites for supporting roles. Mad Men’s Jessica Paré was named as a possible female lead, and Montreal rappers Dead Obies as possible theme song performers.
  
  The film-makers concede that copyright regulations mean they would be unable to release the proposed film in the US, limiting potential investment, but suggest that the restriction would not apply to “China and most of Asia”. As yet, the project lacks a producer.

  

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

  

  
  2020: The Arecibo Observatory radio telescope collapses in Puerto Rico.

  

  The Massive Radio Telescope From GoldenEye Just
  Collapsed

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://kotaku.com/the-massive-radio-telescope-from-goldeneye-just-collaps-1845785337

  ByMike Fahey | December 1, 2020

  
  Photo: Ricardo Arduengo (Getty Images)

  The massive Arecibo Observatory radio telescope, made famous in the James Bond movie GoldenEye and paid homage to in the classic Nintendo 64 game, completely collapsed early Tuesday morning. This breaking news comes just a few weeks after the announcement that the invaluable astronomy tool would be demolished due to fears that it would completely collapse.
  
  The telescope’s demise began in August of this year, when a socket holding one of the auxiliary cables suspending the 900-ton receiver platform hanging over the dish failed, causing the cable to break. The National Science Foundation began planning the site’s demolition last month following the breaking of the platform’s main cable. As if the massive mechanical construct sensed the end was near, the receiver platform collapsed completely in the early hours of Tuesday, December 1, crashing into the dish near 500 feet below. No one was harmed in the collapse.

  
  After the fall.
  Photo: ScienceMag.Org

  Built in the early 1960s in a natural sinkhole in Puerto Rico, the Arecibo Telescope was a 1,000 foot reflector dish primarily used for radio astronomy, radar astronomy, atmospheric science, and programs created to search for proof of extraterrestrial life. Aside from its magnificent dish, the radio telescope’s most distinguishing feature was the cable-mount steerable receiver positioned above the main installation. The receiver’s unique look and perilous structure are what led to it being used as the stage for the climactic battle in 1995 James Bond classic, GoldenEye. The movie scene served as the inspiration for the “Cradle” level in Rare’s GoldenEye 007 for the N64.
  
  The collapse of the Arecibo telescope is a tragic loss to science, having been used for decades as a tool for research and teaching. Now everyone’s going to have to borrow China’s 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope, as seen in Battlefield 4’s Rogue Transmission map.

  

  
  2022: Herb Alpert & Lani Hall - A Christmas Wish performance at Stuart, Florida.

  

  Herb Alpert & Lani Hall - A Christmas Wish

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://lyrictheatre.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=846

  Thursday, December 1, 2022 7:00 PM
  The Lyric Theatre Stuart, FL
  
  Herb Alpert was drawn to the trumpet when he heard it played in a music appreciation class at his elementary school. He was 8. That early love led him to a legendary career that includes five Number One hits, nine Grammy awards, the most recent in 2014, 15 Gold Albums and 14 Platinum ones. At one point Alpert and his band, The Tijuana Brass, outsold the Beatles two to one. They had the unmatched feat of simultaneously having four albums in the Top 10 and five in the Top 20. Songs like “A Taste of Honey,” “This Guy’s in Love with You,” and “What Now, My Love,” propelled Alpert and The Brass to the top of the charts again and again.
  
  An entrepreneur as well as musician, Alpert and his friend, Jerry Moss, founded A & M Records in a garage in 1962. It became one of the most important independent labels in the industry. Alpert and Moss were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 and are a part of the Grammy Museum’s “Icons of the Music Industry” series. In 2013, Alpert was awarded the National Medal of the Arts by President Obama for his contributions to music and philanthropy. A talented painter and sculptor, his works are displayed in galleries and museums in this country and abroad. “There is a certain satisfaction and energy that comes from playing the horn-a feeling that I am really in my element,” he has said. “I am passionate about what I am doing, whether painting, sculpting, or playing the trumpet. I am just trying to create whatever comes out in the spontaneity of the moment.”
  
  In 1966, A & M signed Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66. Alpert met their lead singer, Lani Hall, and the two were married in 1973. Hall has recorded 22 albums in three languages, sang the title song for the James Bond film, Never Say Never Again, and won two Grammy Awards for performing and producing. The two have been touring together since 2006. Hall is also an author. Her first book, Emotional Memoirs & Short Stories, compiles ten short stories with a connecting personal narrative. With the release of her audiobook, she mixed her two forms of creative expression together with a musically-scored soundtrack as a backdrop to the stories. With this work, Hall provides a rare glimpse at the double-edged sword that is the life of an artist.
  
  Alpert and Lani have assembled a top-flight group to accompany them, including keyboardist and vocalist Bill Cantos, bassist Hussain Jiffry and Michael Shapiro.
  
  Bill Cantos also tours with Burt Bacharach and he has toured and recorded with artists including Lea Salonga, Ramsey Lewis, Phil Collins, Kirk Whalum, Leon Russell and Elton John. His most recent solo album is New Standards for the New Millennium, a collection of original songs written in the style of classic standards. He was honored with a Distinguished Alumni Award from the New England Conservatory of Music.
  
  Hussain Jiffry is a musician, writer, arranger, producer, engineer and music educator. He won a Grammy in 2014 for engineering Herb Alpert’s CD, Steppin’ Out. He has recorded or performed with Michael Bolton, the Atlanta Symphony, Michael McDonald, Dionne Warwick, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston and The Four Tops.
  
  Michael Shapiro has spent 35 years as a drummer, percussionist, producer and educator. A self-taught musician, he has worked with will.i.am, Justin Timberlake, Macy Grau and Sergio Mendes, with whom he has recorded many albums, including 1993’s Grammy-winning Brasileiro, 2006 Latin-Grammy-winning Timeless and 2010’s Latin- Grammy-winning Bon Tempo. His movie soundtrack credits include Shrek the 3rd, People Like Us, and The Jersey Boys. He teaches at UCLA.
  
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  December 2nd
  
  1916: Jack London shares his thoughts on life and time with Ernest J. Hopkins in San Francisco's The Bulletin.

  

  Where M's Touching Tribute to James Bond
  at the End of 'No Time to Die' Originates
  From

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.newsweek.com/m-quote-james-bond-no-time-die-ending-1634622

  By Jamie Burton On 10/9/21
  
  Where does the Jack London quote originate?
  The quote used by M in No Time To Die was a snippet from a larger quote attributed to London.
  
  According to Bartleby.com, the full quote was said by London to journalist Ernest J. Hopkins, who published them in San Francisco's The Bulletin on December 2, 1916.
  
  London reportedly told Hopkins this while discussing his life just two months before his death. He was just 40 years old when he passed away on November 22, 1916.
  
  The full excerpt from both the newspaper report reads:

  I would rather be ashes than dust!
  I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
  I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
  The function of man is to live, not to exist.
  I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
  I shall use my time.

  The wider quote was eventually unearthed from The Bulletin by Irving Shepard in his 1956 book Jack London's Tales of Adventure.

  
  

  

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

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Nadja Regin (1931–2019)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

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

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

  
  1966: You Only Live Twice films Bond's last scene, with Blofeld.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 56 of 65 - "Quantum Diamonds."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Quantum Diamonds

  Season 1 - Episode 56
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807115/?ref_=ttep_ep56
  

  James and his friend visit Yellowstone National Park where Dr. Derange attempts to extract a crystal from Old Faithful for his latest plot.

  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 / Nick Nack (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 ... Jaws (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 56 - Quantum Diamonds
  
  

  
  
  

  1992: Michael Gothard dies at age 53--London, England.
  (Born 24 June 1939--Hendon, Middlesex, England.)

  

  Michael Gothard

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

  
  as Emile Locque in For Your Eyes Only, 1981

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Michael Gothard (1939–1992)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  Gabriele Ferzetti obituary

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

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

  Ronald Bergan | Tue 22 Dec 2015 10.41 EST | Last modified on Sun 4 Mar 2018 07.48 EST

  
  Gabriele Ferzetti (right) with Lea Massari in Antonioni’s classic L’Avventura (1960), in which he played Sandro, a wealthy playboy searching for his missing lover. Photograph: Snap Stills/Rex Shutterstock

  The Italian actor Gabriele Ferzetti, who has died aged 90, was never in danger of being typecast. He played a multitude of different film roles in every known genre, over seven decades, and just about the only constant in his long career was that he was perennially handsome and charismatic without being showy.

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

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

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

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

  

  Gabriele Ferzetti (1925–2015)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2015: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #2 (Vargr).

  

  JAMES BOND #2

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181802011
  Cover A: Dom Reardon
  Writer: Warren Ellis
  Art: Jason Masters
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: December 2015
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 pages
  UPC: 725130241818 02011
  ON SALE DATE: December 2

  James Bond is in Berlin, alone, unarmed and with no idea of the forces ranged in secret against him. If he can make it to the Embassy, he might survive for a few hours more. But he's getting into that car with that woman, which means he has only minutes to live...

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  

  
  2019: Screen Idle reports new James Bond film cancelled after cameraman forgot to press record.

  

  New James Bond film cancelled after
  cameraman forgot to press record

  See the complete article here:
  

  2 December 2019 Neil Tollfree News 18

  

  The latest James Bond film has been cancelled after the discovery that a cameraman forgot to press record during key scenes.
  
  No Time to Die has been beset by problems throughout its production including injury to star Daniel Craig, a change of director, the villain’s lair under a volcano flooding with lava, a biblical plague of toads, minor earthquake, alien abduction, and someone losing their keys.
  
  “We were just sorting through the footage in preparation for editing and there was stuff missing,” explained director Cary Fukunaga as a small meteor landed on his car.
  
  “Bond doing stunts, a bit with Bond getting off with a sexy lady, another bit with Bond getting off with a sexy lady, Bond doing stunts whilst getting off with a sexy lady – they just weren’t there.
  
  “So, we went back to the cameraman and he confessed that he’d forgotten to press record on the camera during key scenes.
  
  “The cameraman was really sorry and everything and even offered to come back and help reshoot the scenes but he was suffering from a really nasty plague of boils so we’d have to wait until after that cleared up.”
  
  Ultimately, producers decided that it simply wasn’t worth it and the best option now would be to simply cancel the whole thing and move on to the next film instead.
  
  “I think it’s the right idea, and I’m really looking forward to starting work on the new movie,” agreed Fukunaga.
  
  “Apparently, we’re shooting in that studio that was built on top of an old Indian burial ground.
  
  “So, I’m sure that will all be fine.”

  Note: To everyone reading this article unfamiliar with us at Screen Idle. This is just a joke. Unless something crazy has happened in the last 24 hours, The new James Bond film is still coming soon.
  
  If it made you laugh, then great – stick around, sign up for the newsletter. If it didn’t then try the Onion or Newsthump instead, they’re really funny.

  
  
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  December 3rd
  
  1963: Copyright lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck announces a settlement awarding Kevin McClory Thunderball film rights plus £50,000 damages. Kevin diverts from Jack Whittingham to partner with Broccoli & Saltzman, receiving the producer credit (Broccoli & Saltzman represented as ‘presented by’).
  
  1971: Ola Rapace (Pär Ola Norell) is born--Tyresö, Stockholms län, Sweden.
  1973: Bond comic strip The Girl Machine ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 19 June 1973. 2257–2407) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1010
  
  
  https://www.popoptiq.com/the-girl-machine/
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3

  Jakten På Det Svarta Guldet
  ("Hunt For The Black Gold" - The Girl Machine)
  

  
  Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-34-1975/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 34: “The Girl Machine” (1975)
  "Jagten på det sorte guld" (The Hunt for the Black gold)
  
  
  
  

  
  

  
  1985: Roger Moore declares he's retiring from the Bond role after 12 years on screen and 7 films.
  1987: Με το δάχτυλο στη σκανδάλη (James Bond, praktor 007: Me to daktylo sti skandali; With the Finger on the Trigger) released in Greece.

  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 57 of 65 - "Rubies Aren't Forever."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Rubies Aren't Forever

  Season 1 - Episode 57
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807117/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  James saves a girl named Ruby who was captured by a gang who wanted her necklace, but she was set up by her aunt, Tiara Hotstones, who tries to bring them to Baron von Skarin in Germany to use them to steal the F-15 Jets for himself.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Kent Stevenson ... (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)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / First biker / Second biker (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Kath Soucie ... Tiara Hotstones (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon 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 57 - Rubies Aren't Forever
  
  

  
  

  1991: Geffen releases the "Live and Let Die" single from the Guns 'N Roses Use Your Illusion album. (B-side is "Live and Let Die" Live at Wembley Stadium, London recorded 31 August 1991, plus "Shadow of Your Love" (Live).)

  UK Orange Vinyl
  

  

  
  1999: Amb el món no n'hi ha prou (There Is Not Enough With the World, and Catalan title El mundo nunca es suficiente; The World Is Never Enough) released in Spain.

  
  
  
  

  1999: Världen räcker inte till released in Finland.

  
  Later DVD cover.
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Norway and Thailand.
  1999: 007 - O Mundo Não Chega (The World Does Not Arrive) released in Portugal.

  
  

  
  2010: Digital Trends reports Sam Mendes will still direct BOND 23.

  

  Sam Mendes still directing next
  James Bond film

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.digitaltrends.com/movies/sam-mendes-still-directing-next-james-bond-film/

  By Ryan Fleming | December 3, 2010

  

  It was never a question of if James Bond would return, just when and how. Following the success of Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, a third film with Daniel Craig as Bond was never doubted, and things were moving along at a good pace when it was first announced that Oscar winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Away We Go) had agreed to direct the 23rd Bond film. Then MGM happened.
  
  The studio’s financial woes have been painfully well documented, and following the near collapse of the company under $4 billion of debt, things got weird for Bond. With a property of its magnitude, it was never really a question of whether or not Bond would be back, but when, and under what studio’s banner. If MGM had totally imploded—as many people feared it would—the Bond franchise would have likely been stuck in a legal limbo until a new studio could obtain the rights. Bond would return, but if legal delays persisted, as they have a tendency to do, the delay might make it impractical or even impossible to bring back Craig. Keeping Mendes would be almost impossible to the point of being laughable.
  
  Mendes is very much in demand as a director, and as Bond entered MGM’s gravitational limbo, the Mendes claimed to remain interested but the longer the delays the less likely his schedule would permit. Then MGM joined the ranks of the happily bankrupt, and things began to move again.
  
  The first glimmer of sunshine from MGM’s otherwise overcast future came when the Hobbit was greenlit, which makes sense. After all, the Lord of the Rings franchise earned around $2 billion. Then came word that Bond was up next, and earlier this month, Bond 23 got the greenlight as well.
  
  So with Craig both seemingly excited and contractually obligated to appear in the new film (along with Dame Judi Dench), the ball went back to Mendes.
  
  According to the Daily Mail, Mendes is back on board as the Bond director, and filming is expected to begin later next year. The news comes from Mendes’ estranged wife, Kate Winslet, who offhandedly commented that her husband would be moving to England, partly to spend time with their children, and partly to prepare for Bond. Nothing formal has been announced by MGM, but it seems like Mendes is on board.

  Mendes will first head across the pond to direct Kevin Spacey in Richard III at the Old Vic Theater in London. No word yet on any details about the next Bond film, although once this film is in the bag, MGM has stated that they are going to aim for a new Bond release every two years.

  

  
  2018: BOND 25 originally scheduled production start date at Pinewood with planned director Danny Boyle.

  

  2019: No Time To Die releases character posters anticipating the next day's full trailer.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: Holiday Party with spy and Bond theme at The Loyal Order of the Moose, Redondo Beach, California.

  

  

  Holiday Party 🥳

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.meetup.com/wailersskiclub/events/289502363/

  Details

  To all Secret Agents, Mystery Women, and International Spies, Bond, James Bond 007, needs your help on a very special mission. If you choose to accept, you'll be
  Celebrating the Holidays with Members and Friends of the famous Wailers Ski, Snowboard and Social Club.

  Your mission takes place on
  December 3rd, 2022
  from 6pm to Midnight
  
  Dress to Kill - Semi-Formal, Black Tie, Tux, Tux Tee-Shirt, Cocktail dress, Bikini, Bond Girl, Nemesis, or surprise us with your secret disguise
  
  Meeting location
  Loyal Order of the Moose
  516 North Pacific Coast Hwy, Redondo Beach, Ca 90277
  
  The Code Words Are

  Roll Your Leg Over

  
  Once inside,
  You'll receive the following secret weapons
  *Two drink tickets- followed by a cash bar (Be cautious, these bartenders have a heavy hand)
  *Buffet Italian Dinner
  *DJ Music and Dancing
  
  The price you'll pay to begin your mission,
  Members $75.22
  Non-members $85.22
  
  Accept Mission by
  November 27th, 2022 at,
  www.WailersSkiClub.org

  

  
  2022: Bond-themed Party Night at the York Pavilion Hotel, York, England.

  

  

  James Bond themed Party Nights

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://allevents.in/york/james-bond-themed-party-nights/200023461874327

  Dance with colleagues, laugh with friends & celebrate with family at one of our Christmas Party Nights this December! ??
  
  Our James Bond themed Party Night includes:
  -7pm arrival
  -Three-course Christmas Menu
  -Magical setting, Crackers & Rocket Balloons
  -DJ & dancing until midnight
  
  Dates include:
  December - 3rd, 9th, 10th, 11th, 16th, 17th
  
  Click here to view our Christmas Brochure - includes full details and prices - www.yorkpavilionhotel.com/christmas-at-the-york-pavilion
  
  You may also like the following events from Best Western York Pavilion Hotel:
  
  This Sunday, 4th December, 12:30 pm, Wreath Making with Afternoon Tea & Mulled Wine in York
  This month, 25th December, 12:15 pm, Christmas Day Lunch in York
  Happening on, 3rd March, 07:00 pm, Alan Becks - Tribute to Rat Pack 2023 in Fulford
  
  Also check out other Parties in York, Entertainment Events in York.
  
  About The Host: Traditional 17th century country house built up to become a three-star hotel. we have 57 rooms plus our apartments. Landscaped gardens and bar and restaurant serving refreshing drinks and delicious...

  
  2022: The Academy Theater screens From Russia With Love at Portland , Oregon.

  

  

  From Russia with Love
  PG 115 minutes

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/from-russia-with-love/

  Cast: Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Sean Connery
  Director: Terence Young
  Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
  Release: May 27, 1963

  Movie Synopsis
  James Bond 007 is on the search for a Russian decoding machine, known as “Lektor”. Bond needs to find this machine, before the evil S.P.E.C.T.R.E. organization discovers it. While being romantically linked with Russian girl, Tatiana Romanova, Bond sneaks his way around Istanbul, while each S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent tries to pick him off, including the over powering Donald “Red” Grant and ex K.G.B. Agent Rosa Klebb, who knows all of the tricks in the book, and even possesses an incredible poison tipped shoe.

  
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  December 4th
  
  1913: John Kitzmiller is born--Battle Creek, Michigan.
  (He dies 23 February 1965 at age 51--Rome, Lazio, Italy.)

  
  Keeping a wild eye on European Cinema of the past and present

  John Kitzmiller

  http://www.thewildeye.co.uk/blog/performers-directors/black-actors-in-italy/john-kitzmiller/
  November 25, 2010 Matt Blake Americans in Cinecitta, Black Actors in Italy 7
  
  John Kitzmiller was one of the most prominent Afro-American actors to work in Italy during the post war period. Born in Michigan in 1913, he first came to Europe as a soldier during the liberation of Italy, winning a Victory Medal for his efforts. He fell in love with the country, deciding to stay there rather than head home once the conflict was over, and soon drifted into acting, starting his career playing a stock selection of GIs and American expats. In 1948 he had a career defining role in Alberto Lattuada’s Senza pietà, as a GI who becomes friendly with an Italian girl (played by Carla Del Poggio). As well as bringing his face to the international arthouse crowd, this was a popular film on the US university circuit, where it gained a considerable following among Afro-American students.

  
  John Kitzmiller in Dr. No

  More roles followed, although with the decline of neo-realism and the growing emphasis on using professional actors they shrunk in size. He was a trumpet player in Luci del varietà (directed by Lattuada and a young Federico Fellini), played a valet in Marino Girolami’s Canto per te (a vehicle for the famed tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano), and appeared as a selection of servants, criminals or workmen. With the resurgence of the swashbuckler and peplum in the 1950s his workrate stepped up a notch, and by the early 60s he was appearing in three or four films a year.

  It was at this time that he won a further degree of international success, starring as Quarrel in the hugely succesful Dr No, where his role – most of which was shot in Jamaica – was more prominent than his lowly billing would suggest. This led to one final key role, as the titular character in Géza von Radványi’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was released in the same year as his death in 1965 from cirrhosis of the liver (caused, reputedly, by his long term alcoholism).

  Kitzmiller’s importance wasn’t so much for the films he appeared in – although he certainly appeared in some important films. It was in the fact that he was a trailblazer for black actors both in Italy and in the US, at a time in which cinema was an almost entirely caucasian occupation. Given that, it’s surprising how little biographical information is available about him.
  
  About Matt Blake
  The WildEye is a blog dedicated to the wild world of Italian cinema (and, ok, sometimes I digress into discussing films from other countries as well). Peplums, comedies, dramas, spaghetti westerns... they're all covered here.

  Tom B. | July 22, 2009 at 3:35 pm
  
  Thanks Matt. I agree he was trailblazer in opening up roles for blacks in Italian cinema. Any fan of Italian films has heard of his name, but as you say so little biographical information is available. Thanks for posting on this unique actor in European films.

  mattblake | July 23, 2009 at 1:20 pm
  
  A little bit more info on Mr. Kitzmiller. In a book on Fellini (Federico Fellini: his life and work by Tullio Kezich, Minna Proctor, Viviana Mazza), he’s described as: “a former chemical engineer who’d slipped accidentally into movie acting”

  mattblake | July 23, 2009 at 1:26 pm
  
  And a bit more, an obituary from a magazine called Jet, March 11th 1965.

  John Kitzmiller, who became and Italian star, dies at 51.
  
  A husky American negro who became one of Italy’s most celebrated movie actors but never played in a film produced in his native land, John Kitzmiller, 51, died in Rome after a career that spanned 20 years. Kitzmiller, of Battle Creek, Mich., and a former captain of the Engineers with the famed Negro 92nd Division of World War 2, succumbed to a liver ailment just two months after he was wed to attractive, blond Dusia Bejic, a Yugoslav in Belgrade. Kitzmiller went overseas with the division in the dark days of WW2, but he never forgot his ambition to become an actor. After the war, he decided not to go home but settled in Italy, where he made his first film, To Live in Peace. He received rave notices. There followed a string of ten movies with good roles for Kitzmiller, establishing him, along with cinema-lovely Gina Lollobrigida, as the top motion star in the 1950s in Italy, where realism and authenticity in film making are the sought after ingredients, not the colour of an actor’s skin

  And, from From Sambo to Superspade by Daniel J. Leab
  
  John Kitzmiller became an actor while on occupation duty in Italy in 1946. He was playing poker in a sidewalk cafe when he was spotted by two Italians who thought him physically perfect for a war movie they were casting

  ...

  mattblake | November 25, 2010 at 4:41 pm
  
  And here’s another newspaper article mentioning his marriage:

  John Kitzmiller's wedding article from Jet

  

  Luciano Benetti was a little known Italian actor who turned up in a handful of cape and sword films

  

  John Kitzmiller (I) (1913–1965)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0457839/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (53 credits)
  
  1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Uncle Tom
  
  1965 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Uncle Tom
  1965 Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (TV Series) - Un cliente della Citanguette
  - Una vita in gioco (1965) ... Un cliente della Citanguette
  1964 Biblioteca di Studio Uno (TV Mini-Series) - Sam
  - La storia di Rossella O'Hara (1964) ... Sam
  1964 Il ribelle di Castelmonte - Ali
  1964 Indios a Nord-Ovest
  1964 Night of the Vampires - John - Black Servant
  1962 Tiger of the Seven Seas - Serpente - Il pianista
  - Episode #1.2 (1962) ... Il pianista
  1962 Dr. No - Quarrel (as John Kitzmuller: end credits)
  1962 The Son of Captain Blood - Moses
  1962 Blood and Defiance
  1962 Mars, God of War - Afros
  1961 Chiamami bugiardo (TV Movie) - Dr. Bowker
  1961 La corona di fuoco - Akim
  1961 Totòtruffa '62 - Ambasciatore del Katonga
  1961 Revolt of the Mercenaries - Tago
  1960-1961 Giallo club - Invito al poliziesco (TV Series) - Joke / Peter
  - Partita a tre (1961) ... Joke
  - Ultimo avviso (1960) ... Peter
  1960 Il corsaro della tortue (TV Movie)
  1960 Pirates of the Coast - Rock
  1960 Seven in the Sun - Salvador
  
  1959 Due selvaggi a corte - Kato
  1959 Pensione Edelweiss - Bougron
  1959 Lost Souls - Luca
  1958 Aphrodite, Goddess of Love - Tomoro
  1958 The Naked Earth - David
  1957 A vent'anni è sempre festa - John Miller
  1957 I misteri di Parigi - Lo Squartatore
  1956 Valley of Peace - Sgt. Jim
  1955 Il nostro campione - Raimondo
  1954 Lacrime d'amore
  1954 Acque amare - Mezzanotte
  1954 Il grande addio
  1954 Desiderio 'e sole - Simone
  1954 Quai des blondes - Michel
  1954 Non vogliamo morire - John - il timoniere
  1954 Island Sinner - Abul - il pescatore negro
  1954 Foreign Earth
  1953 Canto per te - Angenore
  1953 Frine, cortigiana d'Oriente - Nabus, lo schiavo muto
  1953 Trouble for the Legion - Djalmar
  1952 Delitto al luna park
  1952 Ultimo perdono
  1952 At Sword's Edge
  1952 Wolves Hunt at Night - Le domestique noir de Miguel
  1952 Massacre en dentelles - Rocky Saddler
  1950 Variety Lights - Trumpet player Johnny
  1950 La forza del destino - Lo scudiero moro
  
  1949 Monastero di Santa Chiara - Il negro
  1949 Lieutenant Craig: Missing - The MP
  1948 Without Pity - Jerry Jackson
  1947 Tombolo - Jack
  1947 To Live in Peace - Joe (as Jonny Kitzmiller)
  
  Archive footage (3 credits)
  
  2006 The Exotic Locations of 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Quarrel
  2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  
  1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary)

  
  

  1913: Claude Renoir is born--Paris, France.
  (He dies 5 September 1993 at age 79--Troyes, Aube, France.)

  

  Claude Renoir

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

  Born December 4, 1913, Paris, France
  Died September 5, 1993 (aged 79), Troyes, Aube, Champagne, France
  Nationality French

  Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913[1] – September 5, 1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the nephew of director Jean Renoir, and the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

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

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

  

  Claude Renoir

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

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

  
  

  1918: Maurice Binder is born--New York City, New York.
  (He dies 9 April 1991--London, England.)

  

  Maurice Binder, 73, 007 Film-Title Artist

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/15/obituaries/maurice-binder-73-007-film-title-artist.html

  APRIL 15, 1991

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

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

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

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

  

  Maurice Binder (1925–1991)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082800/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Miscellaneous Crew (84 credits)
  
  1991 The Strauss Dynasty (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 8 episodes)
  - Adele (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Hetti (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Lili (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Josef (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Revolution of 1848 (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Schani (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Emilie (1991) ... (title designer)
  - Anna (1991) ... (title designer)
  1990 A Captive in the Land (title designer)
  1990 Hamlet (title designer)
  1990 The Sheltering Sky (title designer)
  1990 Mister Johnson (title designer)
  
  1989 Licence to Kill (title designer)
  1988 The Deceivers (title designer)
  1987 The Last Emperor (title designer: main title)
  1987 The Living Daylights (title designer)
  1986 Shanghai Surprise (title designer)
  1986 Max mon amour (title designer)
  1986 If Tomorrow Comes (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 3 episodes)
  - Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (title designer)
  - Episode #1.3 (1986) ... (title designer)
  - Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (title designer)
  1985 A View to a Kill (main title designed by)
  1985 Rustlers' Rhapsody (main title design)
  1983 Octopussy (main title designed by)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only (main title designed by)
  1981 Green Ice (main title designer)
  1980 The Awakening (titles)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (titles)
  
  1979 Moonraker (title designer: main titles)
  1978 The Wild Geese (main title designed by)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (main title designed by)
  1976 Shout at the Devil (title designer: main title)
  1975 e'Lollipop (title designer)
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (title designer: main title)
  1974 The Little Prince (main title design)
  1974 Gold (title designer)
  1974 The Tamarind Seed (title designer: main title)
  1973 Live and Let Die (main title designed by)
  1972 Young Winston (main title designed by)
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever (main title designed by)
  1970 Wuthering Heights (title designer)
  1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (title designer: main title)
  1970 Brotherly Love (title designer)
  
  1969 A Talent for Loving (designer: main title)
  1969On Her Majesty's Secret Service (main title designed by)
  1969 Battle of Britain (title designer: main title)
  1969 Staircase (title designer)
  1968 Barbarella (titles designer - uncredited)
  1968 The Magus (title designer)
  1967 Bedazzled (main title)
  1967 Billion Dollar Brain (title designer)
  1967 The Day the Fish Came Out (title designer)
  1967 A Matter of Innocence (title designer: main titles)
  1967 Fathom (main title sequence)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (main title designed by)
  1967 Two for the Road (title designer)
  1967 Eye of the Devil (title designer: main titles)
  1967 The Taming of the Shrew (main title graphics)
  1966 After the Fox (title designer)
  1966 Kaleidoscope (title designer: main titles)
  1966 Arabesque (title designer: main title)
  1966 Promise Her Anything (title designer)
  1966 The Chase (main title)
  1965 Thunderball (main title designed by)
  1965 The Wild Affair (title designer)
  1965 Repulsion (title designer - uncredited)
  1965 Young Cassidy (title designer)
  1964 The 7th Dawn (title designer: main titles)
  Espionage (TV Series) (titles - 22 episodes, 1963 - 1964) (titles designed by - 2 episodes, 1963 - 1964)
  - A Tiny Drop of Poison (1964) ... (titles designed by)
  - A Free Agent (1964) ... (titles)
  - Some Other Kind of World (1964) ... (titles)
  - The Liberators (1964) ... (titles)
  - Once a Spy... (1964) ... (titles)
  - Snow on Mount Kama (1964) ... (titles)
  - Castles in Spain (1964) ... (titles)
  - The Frantick Rebel (1964) ... (titles)
  - We the Hunted (1964) ... (titles)
  - Do You Remember Leo Winters? (1964) ... (titles)
  - Final Decision (1964) ... (titles)
  - Medal for a Turned Coat (1964) ... (titles)
  - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend (1964) ... (titles)
  - A Camel to Ride (1963) ... (titles)
  - Festival of Pawns (1963) ... (titles)
  - The Light of a Friendly Star (1963) ... (titles)
  - The Whistling Shrimp (1963) ... (titles)
  - The Dragon Slayer (1963) ... (titles)
  - To the Very End (1963) ... (titles)
  - He Rises on Sunday and We on Monday (1963) ... (titles)
  - The Gentle Spies (1963) ... (titles)
  - The Incurable One (1963) ... (titles)
  - The Weakling (1963) ... (titles)
  - Covenant with Death (1963) ... (titles designed by)
  1964 The Long Ships (prologue and main title by)
  1963 Charade (main title designed by)
  1963 Stolen Hours (title designer: main titles)
  1963 The Running Man (main titles by)
  1963 The Mouse on the Moon (title designer)
  1963 Call Me Bwana (main title design)
  1963 I Could Go on Singing (title designer: main titles)
  1962 Dr. No (main title designed by)
  1962 Sodom and Gomorrah (prologue and main title design)
  1962 Reach for Glory (title designer)
  1962 The Road to Hong Kong (title designer)
  1961 Goodbye Again (title designer: main title)
  1960 The Grass Is Greener (title designer: main title)
  1960 Surprise Package (main title designed by)
  1959-1960 Hotel de Paree (TV Series) (title designer - 11 episodes)
  - Sundance and the Fallen Sparrow (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance and the Long Trek (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Vengeance for Sundance (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance and the Black Widow (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance and the Greenhorn Trader (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Hard Luck for Sundance (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance Goes to Kill (1960) ... (title designer)
  - Sundance and the Blood Money (1960) ... (title designer)
  - The Man Who Believed in Law (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Return of Monique (1959) ... (title designer)
  - The High Cost of Justice (1959) ... (title designer)
  1960 Purple Noon (title designer)
  1960 Once More, with Feeling! (title designer)
  
  1959 The Mouse That Roared (titles designed by)
  1959 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) (title designer - 7 episodes)
  - Design for Murder (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Family Affair (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Rough Cut (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Hideout (1959) ... (title designer)
  - The Limping Man (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Jukebox (1959) ... (title designer)
  - Crown of Silla (1959) ... (title designer)
  1959 The Young Philadelphians (title designer - uncredited)
  1958 Damn Yankees (title designer: main titles - uncredited)
  1958 Indiscreet (title designer - uncredited)
  1957 The James Dean Story (Documentary) (title designer)
  1951 Cry Danger (assistant to producer)
  
  Art department (9 credits)
  
  1985 King David (graphic designer)
  1984 Oxford Blues (graphic designer)
  1982 Twilight Time (graphics)
  1982 The Final Option (graphic artist)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (graphic design)
  
  1978 Brass Target (graphic artist)
  1977 A Little Night Music (graphics)
  1964 Of Human Bondage (graphic designer)
  1963 I Could Go on Singing (graphic designer)
  Hide Hide Visual effects (2 credits)
  1980 The Final Countdown (special visual effects) / (storm sequence)
  1979 Dracula (visual consultant)
  
  Director (1 credit)
  
  1960 The Children of Lindos (Short)
  
  Art director (1 credit)
  
  1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series)
  
  Producer (1 credit)
  
  1979 The Passage (associate producer)
  
  Self (2 credits)
  
  1977 The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Producing (1977) ... Himself
  1976 Die Titelmacher (TV Movie) - Himself
  
  Archive footage (4 credits)
  
  2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Himself
  2000 Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself

  
  

  
  1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films Tracy's rescue.
  
  1973: Bond comic strip Beware of Butterflies begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Finishes 11 May 1974. 2408–2541) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1011
  
  
  https://www.popoptiq.com/beware-of-butterflies/
  
  
  
  
  Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no36-1976/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 36: “Beware of Butterflies” (1976)
  "Operation Sommerfugl" [= Operation Butterfly]
  
  
  

  
  1989: 鐵金剛勇戰殺人狂魔，殺人執照 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng zhàn shārén kuáng mó, shārén zhízhào; Iron King Kong fights the murderous madness, the license to kill) released in Hong Kong.

  
  
  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 58 of 65 - "Garden of Evil."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Garden of Evil

  Season 1 - Episode 58
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807286/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  In Hong Kong, Trevor picks a purple rose, but it somehow hypnotizes him; now it is up to James, IQ, Tracey, and Jasmine to go to the field of the purple rose to find a cure; however, Doctor No and Oddjob try to stop their plan.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Perry Martin ... (writer)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Julius No (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  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 58 - Garden of Evil
  
  

  
  
  
  

  1997: MGM announces their purchase of the rights to Never Say Never Again from Taliafilm. Earlier in 1997 the Sony Corporation acquired most of McClory's rights, later bought by MGM.
  
  2006: Casino Royale premieres in Sydney, Australia.

  
  
  

  
  2014: Spectre press conference.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2015: 007 スペクター (007 Supekutā) general release in Japan. The last country to open the film in theaters.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2019: No Time To Die trailer debuts.

  

  2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Vol. 3 #1.
  Eric Gapstur, artist. Vita Ayala & Danny Lore, writers.

  

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  Writer: Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
  Art: Eric Gapstur
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: December 2019
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 12/4/2019

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  2022: Bond In Motion continues at the Saratoga Auto Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York.

  

  

  Have cars, will spy: Museum shows off Bond's
  movie vehicles

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.timesunion.com/art/article/Have-cars-will-spy-Museum-shows-off-Bond-s-17623933.php#photo-23225083

  An exhibit at the Saratoga Auto Museum features 23 vehicles used in the filming of James Bond movies, including 007's iconic Aston Martin DB5
  Barnes. Steve Barnes | Dec. 3, 2022

  A 1964 Aston Martin DB5 that appeared in several recent James Bond films is featured in a new exhibit ‘BOND IN MOTION’ at Saratoga Automobile Museum on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The show features twenty-five official James Bond vehicles celebrating the 60th anniversary of the film franchise.
  
  The 1969 Cougar XR-7 convertible from the James Bond film "On Her Majesty’s Secret Service" is part of a new exhibit, "Bond in Motion," on view at the Saratoga Automobile Museum through November 2023. The show, featuring 23 official vehicles used in James Bond movies, celebrates the 60th anniversary of the film franchise.
  
  The Saratoga Automobile Museum is hosting "Bond in Motion," a show featuring 23 official vehicles used in James Bond movies. It celebrates the 60th anniversary of the film franchise. The exhibit is on view through November 2023.
  
  The 1997 BMW 750iL from the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies" is part of a new exhibit, "Bond in Motion," on view at the Saratoga Automobile Museum through November 2023. The show, featuring 23 official vehicles used in James Bond movies, celebrates the 60th anniversary of the film franchise.

  SARATOGA SPRINGS — At 11 a.m., the Saratoga Auto Museum smells pleasant. This is unlike what surrounds suave British superspy James Bond in the opening of the novel that introduced the character, Ian Fleming's Casino Royale. Its first paragraph:

  "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling — a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension — becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it."

  To go from the casino to his hotel in the novel, Bond walks. When he does get in a car of his own, Fleming specifies that it is a battleship-gray 1930 Bentley with a supercharger sticking out from the front of its engine. Fleming says of it, "Bond's car was his only personal hobby." The Bentley looks more like a wingless biplane than the sleek motor vehicles with which Bond has been associated since the 1962 release of the first movie from a Fleming novel, "Dr. No," with Sean Connery introducing himself as "Bond. James Bond."
  
  The most iconic Bond vehicle is a 1964 Aston Martin DB5, which has made appearances in six Bond films, from "Goldfinger" in 1964 to last year's "No Time to Die." The actual DB5 used in "Goldfinger," its silver paint and bodywork and wire-spoked wheels as glistening with perfection as one would expect of a vehicle said to be worth $15 million, bathes beneath bright lights in the Saratoga Automobile Museum. A shin-high wire is all that's between you and a car that, in the movie at least, could deploy a smoke screen and an oil slick, and had a button to eject the occupant of the passenger seat and machine guns mounted behind the headlights.
  
  If you go

  "Bond in Motion: The Official Collection of Original James Bond Vehicles"

  • Where: Saratoga Automobile Museum, 110 Avenue of the Pines, Saratoga Springs
  • Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, October to December; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday to Sunday, January to March; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, April to September. Show closes November 2023.
  • Admission: $15 adults (discounts for children, students, seniors and veterans/active military)
  • Info: 518-587-1935 and saratogaautomuseum.org

  The DB5 is among 23 motor vehicles used in some of the Bond film series' 25 movies that are part of “Bond in Motion: The Official Collection of Original James Bond Vehicles,” a recently opened exhibit at the auto museum that will be on view for a year. Previously seen only at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, "Bond in Motion" is a joint effort by the Ian Fleming Foundation and Eon Productions, which owns the rights to nearly everything cinematically Bond.
  
  The exhibit has the highest profile and was the most expensive to produce in the history of the museum, which opened in 2002 in a former bottling plant. The 27,000-square-foot neoclassical building, completed in 1935, sits in the Saratoga Spa State Park near the Avenue of the Pines entrance to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.
  
  Also in the "Bond in Motion" show are other Astons: a 1987 V8, which sported outrigger skis when Bond drove it down a mountain in "The Living Daylights"; two versions of the DBS model, including the badly damaged car that set a world record for flipping seven times in a stunt for 2006's "Casino Royale"; and a DB10, a custom model of which only 10 were built, all for the 2014 movie "Spectre."
  
  Bond's conveyances weren't always so stylish and speedy and Aston-y. "Bond in Motion" includes a Soviet-made Cagiva motorcycle, a comically small all-terrain Honda three-wheeler that Connery improbably rode while wearing a pewter-colored suit in "Diamonds Are Forever," a big BMW sedan, a three-wheeled Thai taxi called a tuk tuk from a chase scene in "Octopussy," a 1974 AMC Hornet ("The Man with the Golden Gun") and a 1970s personal watercraft called a WetBike that carried a naval-attired Roger Moore across the water in "The Spy Who Loved Me."
  
  The show also features the submarining Lotus Esprit from "The Spy Who Loved Me," an actual submarine and a tabletop model of a jet that, to save money, has one side painted with official U.S. livery, the other as the villain Goldfinger's private plane.

  "There's a little of everything here," said Carly Connors, executive director of the Saratoga Auto Museum for the past six years. Connors projected that "Bond in Motion" will at least double the museum's 2023 attendance over the pre-pandemic peak of about 18,000 in 2019, though admission income will need to be significant to offset the estimated $200,000 cost of presenting the exhibit. (The fee to Eon Productions alone is $100,000, she said.)

  "Bond in Motion" was about three times more expensive than mounting the next most costly exhibit, Connors said, and the museum's board needed persuasion to approve it. The notoriety and visibility of the Bond cars — Aston Martin likes to say the DB5 is "the most famous car in the world" — attendance projections and the potential to introduce the museum to a much larger audience won over the board, she said.

  "We've already seen significant interest" in the show's first few weeks, Connors said. "Who doesn't love James Bond and his cars?"

  
  Founded with a mission to "preserve, interpret and exhibit automobiles and automotive artifacts," the museum owns a few vehicles and a small collection of memorabilia; New York-focused permanent exhibits are on the state's automotive industry — once boasting more than 100 manufacturers — and its racing industry. The museum uses its main ground-floor space for rotating exhibitions and has ongoing programs including a Distracted Driving Safety Initiative and automobile-restoration programs for local youth. It also each fall organizes the Saratoga Motorcar Auction, described as a "nationally acclaimed vintage and collector car auction" that is its biggest annual fundraiser. In addition, the museum underwrites exhibits and education with once-a-year sweepstakes of new vehicles; the latest is a Big Bend edition of a 2022 Ford Bronco.
  
  One of the founding members of the museum's board of directors was the legendary automotive journalist Brock Yates, who was editor of and later columnist for Car and Driver magazine. Yates also organized a coast-to-coast race known as the Cannonball Run and wrote the screenplay for the 1981 movie of the same name, which starred Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett and Roger Moore — who of course drove a silver Aston Martin DB5. (Moore never did in any of his seven Bond movies.)

  In the Casino Royale novel, Bond loses his beloved supercharged Bentley in a rollover wreck orchestrated by his nemesis Le Chiffre. Fleming's two sentences evoking the crash total 107 words, their propulsion driven in part by six uses of the word and; coincidentally, that's the same number of ands that are in the book's opening paragraph, excerpted above. It's a word that by its nature amplifies, continues. Likewise, James Bond keeps going. The most recent film, "No Time To Die," came out in September 2021. There's been no definitive word on who will play Bond, succeeding Daniel Craig's run as 007 in five movies over 15 years, starting in 2006.

  Speculating on the casting, an Esquire magazine headline mentioned candidates and said they "are all in the running for the keys to the DB5."
  
  
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  2022: The Academy Theater screens From Russia With Love at Portland , Oregon.

  

  

  From Russia with Love
  PG 115 minutes

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/from-russia-with-love/

  Cast: Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Sean Connery
  Director: Terence Young
  Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
  Release: May 27, 1963

  Movie Synopsis
  James Bond 007 is on the search for a Russian decoding machine, known as “Lektor”. Bond needs to find this machine, before the evil S.P.E.C.T.R.E. organization discovers it. While being romantically linked with Russian girl, Tatiana Romanova, Bond sneaks his way around Istanbul, while each S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent tries to pick him off, including the over powering Donald “Red” Grant and ex K.G.B. Agent Rosa Klebb, who knows all of the tricks in the book, and even possesses an incredible poison tipped shoe.

  
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  December 5th
  
  1923: Norman Burton is born--New York City, New York.
  (He dies 29 November 2003 at age 79--Imperial, California.)

  

  Norman Burton

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Norman Burton (1923–2003) Actor

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

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

  Planet of the Apes
  
  Escape from the Planet of the Apes
  
  Diamonds Are Forever
  
  
  

  
  1944: Jeroen Krabbé is born--Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
  
  1974: The Hollywood Reporter reports on a United Artists advertising campaign for The Man With the Golden Gun that put Christopher Lee, Maud Adams, and Hervé Villechaize on a tour of eight cities across two weeks. (At a cost of about $25,000 and recalling Hollywood promotions of old said EON's publicity executive Jerry Juroe.)
  
  1976: The 007 Stage officially opens at Pinewood Studios, former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in attendance. Construction began March 1976 supporting the film production of The Spy Who Loved Me. Available for other film-making thereafter.

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  1976: The Los Angeles Times reports on producer Albert R. Broccoli pursuing Catherine Deneuve, Marthe Keller, and Dominique Sanda. Then deferring to Barbara Bach. “…Remember this: the money I’ve saved by not using a well-known actress I spent on that marvelous ski stunt.”

  Catherine Deneuve
  
  
  Marthe Keller
  
  
  Dominique Sanda
  
  
  Rick Sylvester
  
  
  

  
  1985: Halálvágta (Death Gallop) released in Hungary.

  Eventual DVD and Blu-ray covers.

  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 59 of 65 - "The Thing in the Ice."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - The Thing in the Ice

  Season 1 - Episode 59
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807126/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  The gang is in Antarctica, where they see the massive devastation caused by a metallic monster with acid-spitting tentacles.

  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 / Nick Nack / Scumlord (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / Reginald Farragut (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon 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 59 - The Thing in the Ice
  
  

  
  
  

  
  2002: Die Another Day released in Malaysia and Singapore.
  2008: 007 released in Venezuela.
  2012: Skyfall becomes the highest grossing film to that time in the UK.
  
  2018: Playboy highlights Dynamite Comics' James Bond Origin: A Train to Catch.
  Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

  https://twitter.com/Playboy/status/1070820946439757825

  

  James Bond Origin: A Train to Catch

  https://www.playboy.com/read/james-bond-origin-a-train-to-catch
  
  It's the British operative as you've never seen him in this exclusive-to-Playboy pre-007 adventure
  Written by Jeff Parker Illustration by Bob Q Published on December 05, 2018
  
  Jeff Parker/Bob Q/Jordie Bellaire/Simon Bowland/Nate Cosby

  James Bond has enlivened PLAYBOY's pages for nearly 60 years, beginning with the March 1960 publication of The Hildebrand Rarity, Ian Fleming's short story about the dashing 007's adventures. Before his fiction appeared in the magazine, Fleming dropped by the Playboy Building in Chicago, where he displayed a curiosity about real-life local villains, asking the editors, "I don't suppose you could introduce me to any of the Mafia chaps?" Fleming's famous hero, of course, is a secret agent of the British government. But how did Bond become the daring operative we know and love? For one chapter of his pre-007 backstory, we turn to this exclusive installment of James Bond Origin from the creative team at Dynamite Comics.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #2.
  Greg Pak, writer. Marc Laming, artist.

  

  JAMES BOND 007 #2

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532502011
  SKU: C72513027532502011
  Cover A: Dave Johnson
  UPC: 725130275325 02011
  Cover B: Marguerite Sauvage
  UPC: 725130275325 02021
  Cover C: Clayton Henry
  UPC: 725130275325 02031
  Cover D: Marc Laming
  UPC: 725130275325 02041
  Writer: Greg Pak
  Art: Marc Laming
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: December 2018
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 12/5/2018

  The ODD JOB epic continues, by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Mech Cadet Yu) and MARC LAMING (Star Wars, Wonder Woman)!
  Somewhere in the world, a smuggler is trying to deliver a mysterious briefcase to the world's most deadly terrorists. 007 must get this case and is licensed to kill anyone that gets in his way.
  
  This is the story of the man who gets in his way.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: The Academy Theater screens From Russia With Love at Portland, Oregon.

  

  

  From Russia with Love
  PG 115 minutes

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/from-russia-with-love/

  Cast: Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Sean Connery
  Director: Terence Young
  Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
  Release: May 27, 1963

  Movie Synopsis
  James Bond 007 is on the search for a Russian decoding machine, known as “Lektor”. Bond needs to find this machine, before the evil S.P.E.C.T.R.E. organization discovers it. While being romantically linked with Russian girl, Tatiana Romanova, Bond sneaks his way around Istanbul, while each S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent tries to pick him off, including the over powering Donald “Red” Grant and ex K.G.B. Agent Rosa Klebb, who knows all of the tricks in the book, and even possesses an incredible poison tipped shoe.

  
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  December 6th
  
  1921: George Leech is born--London, England.
  (He dies 17 June 2012 at age 90--Cardiff, Wales.)

  

  George Leech: Stuntman and actor
  best known for his work on the Bond
  films franchise

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/george-leech-stuntman-and-actor-best-known-for-his-work-on-the-bond-films-franchise-8008516.html
  Gavin Gaughan | Monday 6 August 2012 00:00

  The resourceful stunt arranger and performer George Leech epitomised the phrase "unsung hero of the film business".
  
  Alongside the usual falls and fights of his trade, Leech walked along the arm of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio di Janeiro, fell from a cable car, and swam with sharks. He was particularly noted for his work on the James Bond franchise, which began with its inception in Dr No; he demonstrated remarkable durability and, in a minor way, established a dynasty of screen stunting.
  
  Stern-visaged, with receding hair and slender in build compared to most stuntmen, Leech was among a generation who parlayed their military experiences during the Second World War into film action sequences, through an agency known as HEP (Howard, Evans and Powell). Another was Bob Simmons, stunt arranger for the Bond films.

  George Leech was born in north London in 1921; his father worked in the London docks, and George was a small, pale child. To build him up, George's father and uncle gave him boxing lessons and he was soon a regular at a St Pancras boxing club. He won the ABA National Championships when he was 15 (at six and a half stone). After leaving school at 14, he joined the Navy in 1943 and won four fights as a welterweight. In 1946 he got his first job in the film industry, in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947); his first stunt involved rolling down a flight of stone steps in place of James Mason.
  
  When flim work was not forthcoming, Leech performed in the then popular "open-air aqua shows", once appearing with Johnny Weismuller at the Earls Court Aqua Show.
  
  Leech was among a team of British stuntmen provided by HEP for Helen of Troy (1955), made in Rome by the Italian division of Warner Brothers, with the pioneering Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt as second-unit director. When rehearsing one stunt jump of around 15 feet, Leech landed badly due to a gap between two mattresses, and broke his foot. An Italian first-aid man promptly realigned his foot to its correct place and bound it tightly; despite being in bandages, he was soon back at work, on Port Afrique (1956), starring Pier Angeli.
  
  His earliest work for television was Teddy Gang (1956), an hour-long drama about rebellious youth made for Lew Grade's company ITC, by the producer Harry Alan Towers, who used Leech again on two minor film thrillers, Coast of Skeletons and Mozambique (both 1964). Again for ITC, Leech lurked in the background in a rollneck jumper and dark glasses, only emerging to take part in punch-ups, in Man in a Suitcase and The Prisoner (both 1967).

  After The Guns of Navarone (1961), Leech was recruited as Simmons' assistant for Dr No (1962), in which he also doubled Sean Connery in a pool fight, and he continued in that position for the next four films. His onscreen appearances included taking a fall from a Fort Knox balcony in Goldfinger (1964), and a minor, nautical henchman in Thunderball (1965).
  
  When Simmons was unavailable, Leech was his ideal replacement as stunt arranger for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), personally selecting a dozen stuntmen for the film. He later likened this task to "being in charge of a gang of unruly schoolboys." The production office once rang him to complain: "Please control your men. One is climbing the Eiger, another is skiing across a table while hotel guests are having breakfast and [George] Lazenby is shooting at animals on the Alps with a pistol and driving the insurance people and producers mad." To which Leech replied, "You can't keep a gang of virile men sitting on their arses waiting."
  
  One of Leech's OHMSS stuntmen was Vic Armstrong, with whom he had previously worked on You Only Live Twice (1967). Armstrong would become one of the film world's most respected stuntmen, particularly for his work for Steven Spielberg; he also became Leech's son-in-law, marrying his daughter Wendy, who had successfully followed her father into the stunting profession. All three worked on Superman (1978), and later two granddaughters, Nina and Georgie, entered the family trade.
  
  Simmons returned for Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Leech remained on hand, doubling for the campy assassin Putter Smith as he was set on fire at the climax. He also contributed to The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and For Your Eyes Only (1981), as a Greek heavy; neither The Wild Geese (1978) nor North Sea Hijack (1979) were Bonds, but both starred Roger Moore.

  Leech took charge of stunts for Philip Martin's Gangsters (BBC, 1975) a Play For Today that led to a series. He was also a beekeeper accidentally assaulted with a spiked mace by Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976). One of his last credits as stunt arranger was in Ireland, on The Fantasist (1986), part of the sparse filmography of Robin Hardy, director of The Wicker Man.

  Leech recalled the experience of working alongside genuine, hungry, sharks during Thunderball on an ITV documentary, 30 Years of James Bond (1992). In retirement he kept fit – even at the beginning of 2012 he was still jogging – and was a guest at Bond-themed conventions.
  
  George Daniel Leech, stunt arranger and performer: born London 6 December 1921; married 1952 Elizabeth Mary Hopkins (two daughters); died Cardiff 17 June 2012.

  

  George Leech (I) (1921–2012)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498543/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Stunts (34)
  
  1985 No Surrender (stunt coordinator)
  1985 A View to a Kill (stunt double: Willoughby Gray - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1984 Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (TV Movie) (stunts)
  1983 Never Say Never Again (additional stunts - uncredited)
  1983 Octopussy (explosion stunt - uncredited) / (stunt driver - uncredited)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only (stunt team)
  1980 The Sea Wolves (stunts: attacker on dock - uncredited)
  1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1979 Game for Vultures (stunt coordinator)
  1979 The Passage (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 Superman (stunts: Man in burglar's office - uncredited)
  1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther (stunt double: Peter Sellers - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 The Wild Geese (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 The Professionals (TV Series) (stunt double - 1 episode)
  - When the Heat Cools Off (1978) ... (stunt double - uncredited)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunt driver: Lotus Esprit - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 A Bridge Too Far (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (stunts - uncredited)
  1976 The Eagle Has Landed (stunts - uncredited)
  1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again (stunts - uncredited)
  1975 Brannigan (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 Puppet on a Chain (stunts - uncredited)
  1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)
  1970 Kelly's Heroes (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
  1967 Casino Royale (stunts - uncredited)
  1965 Thunderball (stunts - uncredited)
  1964 Goldfinger (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunt driver - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1962 Dr. No (stunt double: Joseph Wiseman - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunts - uncredited)
  1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1956 Helen of Troy (stunts - uncredited)
  
  Actor (36 credits)
  
  1985 Dempsey and Makepeace (TV Series) - 1st. Warder
  - Hors de Combat (1985) ... 1st. Warder
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Henchman Shark Victim (uncredited)
  1980 ffolkes - Magnussen
  
  1978 Superman - Man in Office (uncredited)
  1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther - Asylum Policeman (uncredited)
  1978 The Wild Geese - Stone (uncredited)
  1978 People Like Us (TV Mini-Series) - 2nd Thief
  - Hungry Men Are Angry Men (1978) ... 2nd Thief
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Cortina Gunman #2 (uncredited)
  1976 The Eagle Has Landed - Traumer (uncredited)
  1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Mr. Stutterstutt
  1975 Brannigan - Man in Bar (uncredited)
  1971 Puppet on a Chain - Thug (uncredited)
  1971 When Eight Bells Toll - Thug (uncredited)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Strangled SPECTRE Skier (uncredited)
  1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - 4th Guardian / First Corridor Guard
  - Hammer Into Anvil (1967) ... 4th Guardian (as George Leach)
  - The General (1967) ... First Corridor Guard
  1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Second Guard
  - Brainwash (1967) ... Second Guard
  1967 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Guard
  - Shinda Shima (1967) ... Guard (uncredited)
  1963-1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Chauffeur / Production Assistant
  - The Queen's Ransom (1966) ... Chauffeur (uncredited)
  - Marcia (1963) ... Production Assistant (uncredited)
  1966 Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
  1966 The Spies (TV Series) - Karl
  - I Don't Even Volunteer (1966) ... Karl
  1965 Thunderball - Largo's Crewman (uncredited)
  1965 The Face of Fu Manchu - Manchu Minion (uncredited)
  1965 Coast of Skeletons - Carlo Seton
  1964 Mozambique - Carl
  1964 Scene Nun, Take One (Short)
  1964 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb - Ship Attacker (uncredited)
  1964 Goldfinger - Man in Bulletproof Vest at 'Q' Division (uncredited)
  1964 Carry On Spying - Waiter (uncredited)
  1962 Dr. No - Decontamination Technician (uncredited)
  1962 Billy Budd - Marine (uncredited)
  1960 And the Same to You - Jake
  1960 Sink the Bismarck ! - War Room Officer (uncredited)
  
  1959 Hot Money Girl - Man In Fight (uncredited)
  1956 Port Afrique - Second Arab
  1956 Private's Progress - German Soldier (uncredited)
  1956 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series)
  - Teddy Gang (1956)
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)
  
  1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (film extra - uncredited)
  
  1947 Odd Man Out (stand-in: Mr. Mason - uncredited)
  
  Self (5 credits)
  
  2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
  1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself
  
  Archive footage (1 credit)
  
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Hyderfoil Crewman

  
  
  

  30 Years of James Bond, 3/5, George Leech at 4:35
  

  
  1938 : Patrick Bauchau is born--Brussels, Belgium.
  
  1962: Colin Salmon is born--Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
  1963 : Ulrich Thomsen is born--Næsby, Odense, Denmark.
  1963: Ann Fleming writes to Evelyn Waugh commenting on the Thunderbal court case.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.

  And Bryce convinced himself that Fleming was happy with the case
  outcome. But a close friend who dined with Fleming the evening after the
  settlement later revealed that the writer bitterly denounced Bryce's perfidy.
  Ann was not to happy too. She scrawled in her husband's personal copy of
  Diamonds Are Forever, which had a dedication to Bryce inside, the words:
  "Dedicated to Ivar Bryce. The man who betrayed Ian in the Thunderball
  case." In a letter to Evelyn Waugh, dated 6 December 1963, Ann expressed
  her feelings about the trial more succinctly: "Goodness I miss the old Bailey,
  the case did Ian a power of good, no smoking in court and one hour for a
  simple lunch. It was sad for him having to settle. Our solicitors say we're all
  right, but one can never tell. So maybe we'll have to settle up. "
  
  Seeing that the whole ghastly business had lowered his spirits, friends of
  Fleming tired to cheer him up. John Betjeman wrote to commiserate but also
  to congratulate him on the movie version of From Russia With Love, which
  he'd just seen and loved, comparing Bond to a jet-setting Sherlock Holmes.
  "Write on, fight on," he championed.

  1967: Critic Marjorie D. Lawrie from Punch praises the illustrations by Christopher Chamberlain in The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ as "satisfying". (Short of commenting on the prose.)

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  1982: Octopussy films Kamal Khan speaking to a concealed Octopussy.
  1985: A View to a Kill released in Sri Lanka.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 60 of 65 - "Goldie Finger at the End of the Rainbow."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Goldie Finger at the End of the Rainbow

  Season 1 - Episode 60
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807102/?ref_=ttep_ep60
  

  James, Phoebe, Gordo, and Trevor head to Ireland to investigate a haunted castle which was taken by a leprechaun who was actually Nick Nack who is scaring the people to find the secret treasure room for Goldie Finger.

  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 / Nick Nack (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 ... Goldie Finger / Barbella / Leah Callaghan (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon 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 60 - Goldie Finger at the End of the Rainbow
  
  
  

  

  1999: Radioactive's release of the "Die Another Day" three-track CD digipak single (from 15 November) ends this day.
  
  2001: BBC News reports a rare book find.

  

  Rare Bond find in charity shop

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1695888.stm
  Thursday, 6 December, 2001, 18:08 GMT

  
  Ian Fleming began writing Bond novels late in life

  A rare copy of a James Bond book by Ian Fleming has been discovered in a charity shop in Scotland.

  The first edition copy of Live and Let Die was handed in by a mystery donor in a plastic bag full of other books.

  It had been in storage when John Fyfe, a volunteer at the Morningside branch of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), spotted the rare edition.
  
  The item has been valued at about £5,000 by book experts at Sotheby's in London, where it is due to be auctioned next Thursday.
  
  Shock
  Mr Fyfe admitted he was very surprised at the find.
  
  He said: "I've no idea who handed it in. I work two days a week and I was off when the books were left in the shop.
  
  "It was just lying with a pile of books and we go through them all to check for anything special.

  
  Sean Connery starred as Bond

  "It's quite a plain looking thing, although its dust jacket was in good condition. When I saw it was a first edition I knew it would be worth a bit."
  
  Jay Hogarty, ICRF area retail manager, said: "If the auction estimate is right, this will be the biggest find we've had in Scotland.
  
  "Mr Fyfe is a volunteer specialist who knows about books, and not all our shops have those specialists.
  
  "The money will go back to the shop and then to our central fund to help vital cancer research."
  
  Origins
  In July 2000 a copy of Fleming's first James Bond book, Casino Royale, published in 1953, sold at Sotheby's for £6,500.
  
  Fleming was born in 1908 but it was not until 1952 that he wrote his first James Bond draft.
  
  Casino Royale was a hit, and was televised in the US in 1954.
  
  In the following years he dedicated himself to its successors and oversaw the move of James Bond onto the big screen.
  
  Among his other works was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - the story of a mad professor who invents an amazing flying car.

  

  2002: Die Another Day released in South Africa.
  
  2011: Skyfall films Moneypenny handing a box to OO7 on the Department of Energy and Climate Change rooftop, Whitehall.

  
  

  2012: Skyfall released in the Dominican Republic.
  
  2014: Scheduled start date for the filming of BOND 24.
  
  2022: Titan Books publishes Being Bond: A Daniel Craig Retrospective by Mark Salisbury.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: London Thames River Sightseeing Run Tour 5k at Westminster, London, England.

  

  London Thames River Sightseeing Run
  Tour 5k - December

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  https://www.letsdothis.com/us/e/thames-river-run-tour-6km-december-2022-192143

  By PB Running Events

  Take in the best London landmarks right from the river bank with the Thames River Sightseeing Run Tour. This 6k route, led by an England Athletics running coach will have you visiting such sights as Big Ben, London Eye and James Bond 007's M15 'Spy' HQ whilst getting running form tips and advice.

  
  
  

  
  
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  December 7th
  
  1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service bombs the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

  
  

  
  1955: Priscilla Barnes is born--Fort Dix, New Jersey.
  1959: After a signed agreement with Jack Whittingham, Kevin McClory registers the title "Thunderball", anticipating a future film based on meetings with Ian Fleming and Whittingham.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 12 - The First James Bond Screenplay

  Despite the amount of work Whittingham had already contributed, it
  wasn't until 7 December that an agreement was finally drawn up and signed
  between himself and McClory, on behalf of Xanadu. His usual feed of 6,000
  reduced to 5,00 on the understanding that this would be his first of a hopeful
  series of Bond screenplays. Significantly, Whittingham assigned the copyright
  in the script over to McClory. A clause in the contract also stated that all
  material written could be used for subsequent motion pictures. This was a
  normal contract between producer and writer, but it would later have severe
  repercussions for Whittingham.

  
  1965: Jeffrey Wright is born--Washington, District of Columbia.
  1966: Variety reports on competing schedules and release dates for Bond films You Only Live Twice and Casino Royale, in that order. (Eventually Casino Royale releases April 1967, ahead of the EON mission.)
  
  1972: Live and Let Die films Bond taking the top off a double decker bus.
  
  1995: GoldenEye released in Argentina, the Netherlands, and Singapore.
  1997: The New York Times prints Adam Bryant's piece "007: License to Shill."

  

  Agent 007: License to Shill

  https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/07/weekinreview/agent-007-license-to-shill.html
  By Adam Bryant | Dec. 7, 1997
  
  IT seems like only yesterday that the dream of any self-respecting teen-age boy with a freshly minted driver's license was to have his date lean across the front seat and whisper, ''Oh James, you drive beautifully.''
  
  That's James as in ''Bond, James Bond,'' a phrase that got hard-wired into the brains of an entire generation of guys who grew to admire this founding member of the Pantheon of Real Men. After all, nobody ever gets the best of Bond, women are his life and he's smart enough to instantly recognize a counterfeit license plate on a Ferrari in France.
  
  But now this secret agent with a knack for being in the right place at the right time is turning up everywhere, and that hard-wired reverence for the original super-suave Bond is threatening to short out.
  
  These days, it is hard to miss all the Bond cross-promotional ads. Ericsson cellular phones are suddenly ''Bond Approved.'' His BMW car and motorcycle are described as ''Bond's new loves.'' Visa, Smirnoff, Heineken, Avis and Omega are all in on the act. In the market for makeup? L'Oreal is now selling lipstick and nail polish in shades of ''Bond Bordeaux.''
  
  True, Bond and marketing tie-ins are nothing new (guys could once buy 007 cologne, and the last movie, ''Goldeneye,'' helped BMW sell thousands of new Z3 roadsters). But the sheer number of promotional partners for the 18th Bond movie, ''Tomorrow Never Dies,'' which opens Friday, seems over the top. Could this really be James Bond, the seemingly omniscient and omnipotent secret agent for whom stuff and gadgets were simply a means to a variety of ends?
  
  ''The blubbery arms of the soft life had Bond round the neck and they were slowly strangling him,'' Ian Fleming wrote in an early Bond book, From Russia, With Love. ''He was a man of war and when, for a long period, there was no war, his spirit went into decline.''
  
  Seeing Bond -- or at least his latest incarnation, Pierce Brosnan -- over and over in ads with a Visa card waved in front of his face by his gadget guru Q will surely cause many other spirits to dip, too. But Karen C. Sortito, executive vice president for worldwide promotions at MGM/UA, which is releasing the new movie, is adamant that the essence of Bond has not been compromised in the name of cutting through ad clutter.
  
  For one thing, she said, Bond is not making any you-should-buy-this-product pitches himself. The ads are also clever and funny, Ms. Sortito said, and are a kind of celebration of Bond in the same way that agencies show off some of their best work for the Super Bowl.
  
  ''It's all cool and hip,'' she said. ''If this wasn't creative, we would not be doing it.''
  
  The advertising is also helpful in reaching a broader audience and drawing them into the 35-year-old Bond phenomenon, Ms. Sortito said. It has been hard to generate a lot of interest among the many women who see Bond movies as popcorn for guys, so the L'Oreal products should help. The Heineken and BMW motorcycle ads build interest among young males, she said, while the Smirnoff vodka ads appeal to traditionalists.
  
  ''How can you justifiably criticize this when we are trying to grow the audience?'' she asked. Another important test, she added, was that the products were not forced into the screenplay. ''We would never sell out Bond for that and we haven't yet.''
  
  Perhaps the problem is that a lot of these products are kind of pedestrian. Bond and Heineken? Beer cans, unlike martinis, are not supposed to be shaken. Bond and Avis? Avis may boast that ''We Try Harder,'' but the real Bond makes everything look effortless.
  
  Of course, debates over quintessential Bondness are endless. Which actor came closest to capturing the Bond of Ian Fleming's books -- a secret agent who is neither witty nor dapper, but somebody who is somber, ruthless and deadly serious?
  
  But one thing seems beyond dispute: the sight of a cardboard cutout of Mr. Brosnan next to a stack of Heineken cases -- coming to a supermarket near you -- is not what Mr. Fleming had in mind. In Moonraker, Bond describes how he thinks others see him: ''The tough man of the world. The secret agent. The man who is only a silhouette.''
  
  A silhouette should never be confused with a cardboard cutout.

  1999: European CD single for "The World Is Not Enough" released.

  

  
  2006: Casino Royale released in Argentina, Australia, Chile, Hungary, New Zealand, and Peru,
  2006: 007 พยัคฆ์ร้ายเดิมพันระห่ำโลก (Phyạkhḳh̒ r̂āy deimphạn rah̄̀ả lok; The Evil Tiger Stakes the World) released in Thailand.

  
  

  
  2008: Daniel Craig confirms BOND 23's plot will not continue the Casino Royale, nor Quantum of Solace story arcs: "I'm done with that story. I want to lie on a beach for the first half an hour of the next movie drinking a cocktail."
  2008: Collider reports Daniel Craig wants Q and Moneypenny in BOND 23.

  
  

  LATEST NEWS
  Daniel Craig Wants Q and Moneypenny in the Next Bond

  See the complete article here:
  
  
  

  https://www.firstshowing.net/2008/daniel-craig-wants-q-and-moneypenny-in-the-next-bond/

  by Alex Billington | December 7, 2008
  Source: Collider

  

  Daniel Craig as James Bond
  With Quantum of Solace already passing the $150 million mark, things are still looking bright for the future of the James Bond franchise now lead by Daniel Craig. Even though not everyone loved Solace, most have come to respect Craig as a formidable Bond that challenges the likes of even Sean Connery. Being a huge Bond fan myself, I'm already anxious to see where the franchise will go next, especially since Solace finally finishes the origin of Bond and puts us on track to see the kind of stories we've been familiar with since Dr. No in 1962. Collider talked with Craig recently and got an update on where they might head next.

  "We've finished this story as far as I'm concerned," Craig asserts. "We've got a great set of bad guys. There is an organization that we can use whenever we want to. The relationship between Bond and M is secure and Felix is secure. Let's try and find where Moneypenny came from and where Q comes from. Let's do all that and have some fun with it."

  I'm actually very impressed by Craig's understanding of the Bond franchise and know that we're in good hands with him leading the way. I'd love to see an origin of Q and an origin of Moneypenny story, although I'm slightly worried - since Desmond Llewelyn passed away, no one has been able to fill his shoes. Would they actually find a suitable alternative that isn't John Cleese?
  
  As for when we'll see the next Bond movie, Craig doesn't even know. "We don't know when we're going to do the next Bond. Nobody's thinking about it at the moment. We're giving it a rest for the moment. If I can squeeze something in next year I will… but I haven't figured out what that'll be yet." Bond 23, as it's currently being called, is tentatively scheduled for 2010, because the time between Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace was also two years. Just like the team behind The Dark Knight, however, everyone is taking a break and no one is thinking about the sequel just yet. Don't worry, it'll happen soon enough!
  
  
  28 Comments

  1
  Hugh Laurie = Q.
  
  Hauitzer on Dec 7, 2008
  
  2
  #1's got the right idea. Laurie makes perfect sense.
  
  al on Dec 7, 2008
  
  3
  David Wenham = Q
  
  Scott McHenry on Dec 7, 2008
  
  4
  #1 does have the right idea if they're seeking to continue the gritty, tough concept that Bond SHOULD be. However, I can almost see Simon Pegg getting the job of Q. I'm not sure how I'd feel about that...
  
  Quanah on Dec 7, 2008
  
  5
  #1 - Best. Idea. Ever.
  
  N on Dec 7, 2008
  
  6
  #5 already said it, but I think #1's suggestion would be a casting choice as (or more) inspired than Daniel Craig.
  
  DinoChow on Dec 7, 2008
  
  7
  I'm totally kidding when i suggest Russell Brand. I think Hugh Laurie would be great
  
  Twanzel on Dec 7, 2008
  
  8
  I didn't like the first one and really was bored with the 2nd one, whats up with these new boring ass bond movies? I'll give them props for good action and hand to hand combat but the stories suck, they are like bourne movies without the story.
  
  Richard on Dec 7, 2008
  
  9
  Sir Ian McKellen
  
  Cajun_Mike on Dec 7, 2008
  
  10
  dude michael caine.
  
  Darrin on Dec 7, 2008
  
  11
  I just love the idea of Daniel Craig and Hugh Laurie having confrontations during the movie. Just imagine: Laurie: You have no respect for this equipment!! It seems like every time you even tie your shoes it somehow results in the utter destruction of valuable machinery!! Craig: Guess you'll have to learn to concentrate on durability and not just making everything shiny, eh?
  
  Houseman on Dec 7, 2008
  
  12
  If not Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry. Either way, I'm sold.
  
  Ellinikos on Dec 7, 2008
  
  13
  i would love to see Simon Pegg as Q ,he has the humour and sarcasm to pull it off
  
  vanstone on Dec 7, 2008
  
  14
  What I loved about the classic humour of the Q and Bond relationship was Q always being on the receiving end of Bond destroying his precious gadgets and cars. But I think we are used to seeing Hugh Laurie in this position of power eg House where he is the one who ridicules others. If the new Bond movie retains this tradition, I don't think Laurie could pull off being seen as a 'weaker' man to one we are so used to seeing.
  
  Ninjabear on Dec 8, 2008
  
  15
  Wow, Hugh Laurie. That's brilliant, I didn't even think of him but it's actually pretty obvious. Good call!
  
  Syphous on Dec 8, 2008
  
  16
  Ninjabear, Q never came off as the "weaker" man between Q and Bond; he always seemed to take an approach that Bond was reckless and a bit of an idiot (an idea Bond obviously played up on), clearly thinking he was the superior wit between the two. I think Laurie could definitely pull that off.
  
  Liz on Dec 8, 2008
  
  17
  michael caine will be good.
  
  Valeska on Dec 8, 2008
  
  18
  Apparently #1 has the right idea. I certainly can't think of anyone who would do better than Laurie. Alternatively, he would make a pretty swell villain as well. Or if they wanted someone older for the role, George Lazenby. hah!
  
  kevjohn on Dec 8, 2008
  
  19
  Morgan Freeman! Then it could be like Dark Knight. Oh, Dark Knight! Spluge!
  
  LeftHanded on Dec 8, 2008
  
  20
  #1 Hugh Laurie = Q. Excellent. I'm all for that. Laurie is very capable of pulling himself away from House, and seeing him speak with he real accent would be welcome. He's got excellent comedic chops, and would be able to handle the technical jargon, seeing as what he's been spouting on House these last few years.
  
  CMK on Dec 8, 2008
  
  21
  Hugh Laurie = Awesome. He'd make a great Q. What about Moneypenny, though? For some reason, Scarlett Johansson pops up in my head.
  
  Kyle on Dec 8, 2008
  
  22
  Nah not Scarlett it'll definitely be somebody British. Also does she really need to be blonde. I can see Craig and Kate Beckinsale working. But she'll command some money though.
  
  FVD on Dec 8, 2008
  
  23
  Hugh Laurie would be a brilliant casting choice for Q. John Cleese is a good man and a terrific comedian, but he's simply not right for Q. As for Ms. Moneypenny, I'd like to see Rachel Weisz or Keira Knightley.
  
  Mr. Mustard on Dec 14, 2008
  
  24
  Daniel Craig has moved the franchise from what looked like a part of Grimm's Fairy tales to a grim tale. Hopefully the upcoming movies a lot lighter.
  
  Kartik on Dec 24, 2008
  
  25
  Miss Moneypenny - Keeley Hawes, she is the right age, plain gorgeous and a good actress. Q - Hugh Laurie would be interesting. I liked John Cleese, it's not his fault the writing was terrible in D.A.D. I think he should be given a chance aswell. If not maybe James Bolam?
  
  Josh T on Jan 10, 2009
  
  26
  I agree with # 4. It might sound like a wierd person to play him and he obviously cannot beat the original Q but I think it could work out. I can imagine Bond using something and it blows up only for Pegg to be yelling at the top of his lungs while in Q's office
  
  CD on Jan 13, 2009
  
  27
  What about Liam Nesson As Q I think he'd be a good choice for Q. For money Penny i think that Samantha Bond Should return to the role of Money Penny. they already had a blond Money Penny during the Dalton Era of Bond. Or maybe Robin Williams should take a shot for the Part of Q he might make it.
  
  Kaleb Kochensparger on Mar 11, 2009
  
  28
  #1: You're absolutely right!! Hugh would be the best man for the job. 🙂 Being a James Bond villain has always been his on his wish list as an actor! (he mentioned in one of the interviews a while back) And with both their exceptional qualites, it would make the film so much more interesting! Just imagine the two HOTTIES on the big screen. Prepare your drool buckets. XP
  
  Natalie on May 24, 2009
  
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  From Russia with Love
  PG 115 minutes

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  Cast: Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Sean Connery
  Director: Terence Young
  Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
  Release: May 27, 1963

  Movie Synopsis
  James Bond 007 is on the search for a Russian decoding machine, known as “Lektor”. Bond needs to find this machine, before the evil S.P.E.C.T.R.E. organization discovers it. While being romantically linked with Russian girl, Tatiana Romanova, Bond sneaks his way around Istanbul, while each S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent tries to pick him off, including the over powering Donald “Red” Grant and ex K.G.B. Agent Rosa Klebb, who knows all of the tricks in the book, and even possesses an incredible poison tipped shoe.

  
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  December 8th
  
  1925: Sammy Davis Jr. is born--Harlem, New York City, New York.
  (He dies 16 May 1990 at age 64--Beverly Hills, California.)

  

  From the Archives: Consummate
  Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. Dies at
  64

  https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-sammy-davis-jr-19900517-story.html

  
  Altovise and Sammy Davis Jr. in 1972

  By Edward J. Boyer | May 17, 1990 | Times Staff Writer
  
  Sammy Davis Jr., the quintessential showman embraced by his peers as “Mr. Entertainment” for his enormous talent and versatility, died early Wednesday morning at his home in Beverly Hills after a nine-month battle with throat cancer.
  
  Death came as friends and fans of the diminutive, 64-year-old entertainer maintained a vigil outside his home. They had been gathering there since Tuesday when word began to circulate that the end was near.
  
  The tributes were immediate:

  Frank Sinatra, who with Davis, Joey Bishop, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford became Hollywood’s fast-living “Rat Pack” of the 1960s and who knew him for 40 years, said he “wished the world could have known Sam as I did. . . . It was a generous God who gave him to us for all these years . . . . Sam was the best friend a man could have.”

  Said Bishop: “Guess they must need a good show up in Heaven, that’s all I can say.” Then he added, “God I’m sorry. I loved him.”

  Martin hailed Davis as a great entertainer and “an even greater friend, not only to me, but to everyone whose life he touched.”

  Former President Ronald Reagan remembered him as “a special talent which made him more than just a great entertainer--it made him magical.” Comedian Bill Cosby said that “it would have been fantastic to see him at age 82 still enjoying performing for the people. I’ll see him later.”

  Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley—who counted Davis among his friends and political supporters—ordered the city’s flags flown at half staff.

  
  Davis had battled the cancer in his throat since September, when a tumor was discovered growing behind his vocal cords. He began a series of radiation treatments that left his skin discolored and raw enough to bleed when he touched his throat.
  
  When his illness became known, fans around the world deluged him with letters letting him know that he was in their prayers.
  
  Show business friends from Sinatra and Cosby to Liza Minnelli and Steve Lawrence rallied to his side, putting themselves at his disposal. A month before the cancer was detected, Davis, Sinatra and Minnelli (filling in for an ailing Dean Martin) had been on a reunion tour, bringing sellout audiences to their feet.
  
  His friends’ affection for the man who enjoyed describing himself as a “little one-eyed colored guy” was nowhere more evident than during a television tribute earlier this year, commemorating his more than six decades in show business.
  
  Said singer Whitney Houston, a guest on the televised tribute taped last year: “He helped to break down the color barriers. I think he fought the battle for the rest of us.”
  
  Davis would have been the first to acknowledge that he was but one soldier among generations of troops who assaulted color barriers. Nonetheless, he determinedly fought his battles with whatever weapons were available, including one that he felt the haters could not withstand—his talent.
  
  Whether dancing with his father and uncle on countless television guest spots, captivating movie audiences as Sportin’ Life in “Porgy and Bess,” singing his way through “Mr. Wonderful” on Broadway, or finding a hit song and a theme in “Candy Man,” Davis brought an exuberance to every performance.
  
  His versatility was such that he could go on a bare stage alone and weave a stunning evening of entertainment with song, dance, impressions and comedy.
  
  “This is what I want on my tombstone,” he once told an interviewer:
  
  “Sammy Davis Jr., the date, and underneath, one word: ‘Entertainer.’ That’s all, because that’s what I am, man.”
  
  Behind Davis’ superb stagecraft, however, and despite the adoration of faithful fans, Davis was for much of his life a man at war with himself.
  
  He buried his pain in alcohol and cocaine—chasing the delusion that his “swinging” lifestyle somehow compensated for his two divorces, his estrangement from his children, and his futile efforts to become what he thought others expected him to be.
  
  “I didn’t like me,” Davis told an interviewer in 1989. “So it made all the sense in the world to me at the time that if you don’t like yourself, you destroy yourself.
  
  “The monkey on my back is that I created a lifestyle that was no good for me. My life was empty. I had drugs, booze and broads, and I had nothing.”
  
  He had to fight his way through what he has called “the tortures of the damned,” and he credited Altovise, his wife of 20 years, with helping him make a turnaround.
  
  “She was there for me,” he said. “She gave me all the support in the world.”
  
  The turnaround began when doctors told him in 1983 that his stomach and liver were so damaged that he would die soon if he didn’t stop drinking. He stopped. In 1984 and 1985, he underwent hip replacement surgery.
  
  But he returned to dance again and charmed movie fans as Little Mo, the veteran hoofer with still enough moves to accept a “challenge” dance, in the 1989 film “Tap.”
  
  The drinking was only one of his excesses. He spent money just as easily.
  
  During his illustrious career, he had earned millions and spent or given away more. And by the 1980s, the Internal Revenue Service was clamoring for unpaid millions in taxes it said he owed.
  
  Davis also shamelessly gushed over every guest on his television shows. And his ostentation became a trademark. If one gold ring was good, four had to be better.
  
  Try as he might to win love with his talent, his public persona had become an easy target--grist for a devastating (and, he said, all too accurate) impersonation by comedian Billy Crystal.
  
  But if his excesses were obnoxious to some, Davis, the individual, was a monument to generosity for others. He marched for civil rights in Selma, Ala., played benefits for Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH, and helped raise funds to investigate the Atlanta child murders.
  
  Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, remembered him Wednesday as “a humanitarian whose heart was so big . . . that it dwarfed his frame.”
  
  Hooks, in a statement, called attention to Davis’ accomplishments “in the struggle of African-Americans,” much of which “was not widely known . . . .”
  
  Coretta Scott King called him “not only one of the greatest performing artists of our age” but “an ardent, tireless supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement . . . .”
  
  Davis would break into his schedule to play a benefit for a blind ex-fighter or sell bonds for Israel. Even as his bank account slid toward empty, he was contributing thousands of dollars to his child’s school.
  
  This consummate entertainer whose career has been described as a series of radical mood swings was born Dec. 8, 1925, in Harlem, N.Y., where his father was lead dancer and his mother, Elvera (Sanchez) Davis, was in the chorus of a vaudeville troupe headed by his adopted uncle, Will Mastin.
  
  When the act went on the road, Davis remained with his paternal grandmother, Rosa (Mama) Davis, who raised him until his parents divorced. His father took custody, and by age 3 a mugging little Sammy had made his stage debut.
  
  He learned to dance by watching routines from the wings, and the rhythms from his flashing feet soon became a popular addition to the act. He made his film debut in 1933, at age 7, in “Rufus Jones for President,” a comedy in which a boy dreams he is elected President.
  
  Davis never attended school. His father and Mastin hired tutors—especially when truant officers applied pressure—to teach the youngster the three Rs. That irregular instruction and Davis’ later friendship with a U.S. Army sergeant who loaned him books and taught him remedial reading was as close as he came to formal education.
  
  Mastin’s troupe, which had included 12 members, began to shrink with the decline of vaudeville and eventually was reduced to “The Will Mastin Trio, Featuring Sammy Davis Jr.”
  
  Touring in the 1930s and ‘40s, the trio often could not find hotels that would rent rooms to blacks or restaurants that would serve them. But it was not until Davis was drafted into the Army’s first integrated unit at age 18 that he ran into the naked racism never far beneath the surface of World War II America.
  
  During basic training in Wyoming, he was beaten, kicked and spat upon by bigoted whites in his barracks. Describing those days in his best-selling 1965 biography, “Yes, I Can,” Davis said his knuckles were covered with scabs from fighting racists during his first three months in the Army.
  
  Perhaps the ugliest incident occurred when a group of white enlistees decided to teach him a lesson for being too familiar with a white female officer.
  
  Davis said they lured him to a remote spot on the base, where they beat him and painted racial slurs on his chest and forehead. They forced him to tap dance and smeared more white paint over his body, only to remove a spot to demonstrate that beneath the paint he was still “just as black ‘n’ ugly as ever.”
  
  The pain of that incident motivated him to pump even more energy into his performances at camp shows. He felt that his sheer talent could reach the haters, “neutralize them,” force them to recognize him as a person.
  
  He used an audience’s affection as fuel, and he made no secret of his “joy of being liked.” And he would work himself to exhaustion to please an audience, friends said, in a futile effort to make the world love him--to erase the brutal memories of his Army experiences.
  
  Davis rejoined his father and uncle after the war, but the trio led a hand-to-mouth existence as vaudeville died and they tried breaking into nightclubs. They worked hotels in Las Vegas, where they could neither register as guests nor enter the casinos because they were black.
  
  Some New York City clubs would not allow him to enter, and he needed a special permit just to be on the streets of Miami Beach at night when he performed there.
  
  But Davis continued to increase his repertoire—adding trumpet, drums, celebrity impressions—as the trio crisscrossed the country, taking whatever dates they could find.
  
  In 1946, Metronome magazine named him “Most Outstanding New Personality” on the strength of his Capitol recording of “The Way You Look Tonight,” the magazine’s selection as record of the year. Davis recorded it under a deal paying him $50 a side for each recording.
  
  During the next two years, the trio appeared with headliners such as Mickey Rooney, Sinatra and Bob Hope. Jack Benny later intervened to get them a booking at Ciro’s nightclub in Hollywood where they opened for singer Janis Paige. The audience would not let them off—or Paige on—stage. The next night, Paige was the opening act for the Will Mastin Trio.
  
  The group’s later appearance on Eddie Cantor’s NBC television show was such a hit that they became the comedian’s summer replacement.
  
  By 1954, when Davis released his first album under a contract to Decca Records, his father and Mastin had become background accompaniment to his soaring performances.
  
  With Davis as its centerpiece, the trio sold out clubs from Los Angeles to New York, and the group was in constant demand for guest spots on television variety shows.
  
  Davis’ on-target impersonations of Jimmy Cagney, Jerry Lewis and Jimmy Stewart were a revelation to audiences who simply had never imagined a black performer being able to so accurately capture a white celebrity’s character.
  
  But it all nearly ended in November, 1954, in a car crash on a stretch of highway between Las Vegas and Los Angeles that cost him his left eye. During his recuperation at a San Bernardino hospital, he said, he began thinking seriously about religion and converted to Judaism.
  
  Once out of the hospital, he was in even more demand. And contract offers began a steady march upward through five figures for a week’s work. In 1956, he made his Broadway debut in “Mr. Wonderful,” a musical comedy created for him.
  
  By the late 1950s, the Will Mastin Trio had broken up, but Davis continued dividing his income with his father and uncle for months—some friends say years.
  
  He became a member of Hollywood’s so-called “Rat Pack” and made six of his 23 movies with them, beginning with “Ocean’s Eleven” in 1960 and ending with “One More Time” in 1970.
  
  After a brief marriage to dancer Loray White in 1959, Davis married Swedish actress May Britt in 1960. The couple had a daughter, Tracey, and adopted two sons, Mark and Jeff. The couple divorced in 1968, and two years later Davis married dancer Altovise Gore. They adopted a son, Manny, last year.
  
  During his marriage to Britt, his celebrity could not shield him from white anger and black consternation.
  
  Davis noted in an interview with Playboy magazine that his mother was Puerto Rican.
  
  “So I’m Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman,” he said. “When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.”
  
  He was bitterly criticized in 1972, during the Republican National Convention in Miami, for hugging Richard M. Nixon. To many black Americans, the photo of that incident was eloquent testimony to what they saw as Davis’ misplaced values.
  
  That criticism, however, wasn’t as painful as the rejection that came his way from John F. Kennedy, whose candidacy he had tirelessly supported.
  
  Davis had been invited to Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration, but the invitation was rescinded a few days after it was offered because the Kennedy camp felt Davis and his white wife might anger Southerners.
  
  “The guy I ran with is the man that told me, ‘Don’t come to the White House cause you’ll embarrass me’ because I was married to a white woman,” Davis said in a 1987 interview. “And I had to accept that. But that was the man I campaigned for, and went all out for. That was John Kennedy.”
  
  By now Davis was a fixture in the firmament of American stars. Before his “Rat Pack” movies, he had appeared in “The Benny Goodman Story,” co-starred with Eartha Kitt in “Anna Lucasta” and won rave notices as Sportin’ Life in the film version of “Porgy and Bess.”
  
  He returned to the stage in the mid-1960s in a musical adaptation of Clifford Odets’ “Golden Boy,” a production that ran for 568 performances before closing in March, 1966.
  
  Davis, meanwhile, had remained busy in films, producing the forgettable “A Man Called Adam” with his own company in 1966. He also appeared as revivalist Big Daddy in “Sweet Charity” and performed in the 1972 documentary “Save the Children.”
  
  While moving between stage, television and movies, Davis also recorded dozens of albums and released several hit singles, including his all-time top-seller, “Candy Man.”
  
  His was a familiar face in America’s living rooms as he turned up on television in shows ranging from “The Beverly Hillbillies” to “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” to the soap opera “One Life to Live.” He hosted several specials of his own, sat in for Johnny Carson and did the brief and ill-fated “Sammy Davis Jr. Show” on NBC from 1965 to 1966.
  
  He was a smash hit in “Sammy,” a television retrospective of his first half-century in show business. But his second try at a network show, “NBC Follies,” was canceled midway through the 1973-74 season.
  
  Last year he published a second biography, Why Me? co-written, as was his best-selling first book, with Jane and Burt Boyar. In interviews discussing the new book, he acknowledged that racial prejudice had profoundly affected him.
  
  He poignantly told a story of a man coming to his table at a nightclub to greet him after he had become an international celebrity. The man was the very person who had refused him admission to the same club some years before.
  
  He felt he should have told the man “to get away from me with his hypocrisy.” But he was silent.
  
  “So I went home and threw up,” he said. “I had stifled my own feelings and made myself sick. That night I vowed: ‘I’ll never let that happen again.’ ”
  
  He said he began to fight the subtle prejudices he encountered, whether it was fellow board members of a company being surprised that he could do more than sing and dance, or making it clear to guests at a party that he could talk about more than what Carson or Sinatra are “really like.”
  
  Still, by his own admission, he had mellowed in the last five years.
  
  He overcame what he called his obsession with his career even as he was being increasingly called upon to accept yet another honor for his body of work or for his commitment to various social and political causes.
  
  “I’ve been looking inward,” he said last year. “I’ve been counting my blessings. I no longer feel I have to do it all. I don’t yearn to be at the top of the mountain.”
  
  Davis is survived by his wife, four children and two grandchildren. His mother and a sister also survive. Services are scheduled at 11 a.m. Friday at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Hollywood Hills. Burial will follow at Forest Lawn, Glendale.
  
  The family suggested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Sammy Davis Jr. National Liver Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark.
  
  Times staff writer Eric Malnic contributed to this obituary.

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  Sammy Davis Jr. (I) (1925–1990)

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  1950: Rick Baker is born--Binghamton, New York.
  1953: Kim Basinger is born--Athens, Georgia.
  
  1964: Teri Hatcher is born--Palo Alto, California.
  1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films OO7 and the cable car.
  
  1979: 007/ムーンレイカー (Mūnreikā; Moon Laker) released in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1983: Zeg Nooit, Nooit Meer (Say Never, Never Again) released in the Netherlands.

  
  
  

  1983: The Hollywood Reporter reports Moore Bond will return for another mission--his seventh, and EON's fourteenth.
  1989: Licence to Kill released in Cyprus.
  
  1995: GoldenEye released in Israel and Sweden.
  1995: 007 - GoldenEye released in Portugal.
  
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Malta.
  1999: Världen räcker inte till released in Sweden.

  
  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale released in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
  2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Mexico.
  
  2014: BOND 24 production begins at Pinewood Studios. Filming continues the next 7 months in London, Mexico City, Rome, Morocco.
  
  2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Himeros #3.
  Pierluigi Minotti, artist. Rodney Barnes, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: HIMEROS #3

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513031230303011
  
  Cover A: Francesco Francavilla
  Cover B: Jackson Guice
  Writer: Rodney Barnes
  Artist: Pierluigi Minotti
  Publication Date: December 2021
  Page Count: 32
  ON SALE DATE: 12/08/2021

  James Bond continues to unravel the horror he's uncovered as he makes his way to the center of it all - Wilhelm's island - with the reluctant Sarah Richmond in tow. All the while: Kino continues to stalk the pair, awaiting his moment to strike!

  Featuring two amazing Covers: Francesco Francavilla and the legendary Jackson Guice!
  
  Did you know: Ian Fleming was a well-known as a book collector. He founded The Book Collector the same year he published Casino Royale.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: Preview of Bond In Motion: The Exhibition of Original James Bond Vehicles at the Brussels Expo, Belgium.

  

  
  

  Bond In Motion: The Exhibition
  of Original James Bond
  Vehicles

  See the complete article here:
  
  
  

  https://feverup.com/m/120054/en

  Thu 08 Dec, 2022
  
  ⭐ For the first time ever, the official exhibition Bond In Motion is coming to Belgium and, on this occasion, 6000 m2 of Brussels Expo will be transformed into a 007 immersive exhibition. From the real Aston Martin DB5 from "Die Another Day" to the mythical Q Boat from the movie "The World Is Not Enough", come and discover more than 45 collector's items that have been part of the James Bond legacy for over 60 years.
  
  🚨 There are less than 100 VIP tickets available for the exclusive preview on December 8 at 5 pm! 🚨
  
  Tickets for Bond in Motion in Brussels
  🎫 VIP Admission - includes access to the experience in preview, parking, a photography area, an invitation to the bar with champagne and fingers food
  🎫 General Admission - includes access to the experience
  
  Adult (ages 18–64)
  Senior (65+) and person with reduced mobility
  Student (with valid ID)
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  Group ticket (min. 6 people)
  
  Highlights
  🚁 The largest collection of original Bond vehicles are gathered in Belgium for the first time
  💎 6000 m2 of exhibition space for a total immersion in the iconic 007 franchise
  🔦 50 unique objects from the James Bond movies
  🍸 A 007 bar and restaurant to enjoy
  👨‍👩‍👧 An experience with entertainment for the whole family
  
  General Information
  📅 Dates: from December 8, 2022
  🕒 Times:
  -Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (last entry at 5 p.m.)
  -Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. (last entry at 8 p.m.)
  ⏳ Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes (approximately)
  📍 Location: Brussels Expo, place de Belgique 1
  👤 Age requirement: all ages welcome, free for children under 7 years old
  ♿ Accessibility: this venue is wheelchair accessible
  ❓ Please consult the FAQs of this experience here
  💰 Price : from 21€ for an adult

  Description
  Bond is coming to Belgium. It's simple, the official Bond In Motion - Brussels exhibition brings together the largest number of original pieces from the EON Productions archive. In the 6000 m2 space, you will be able to admire all kinds of motorcycles, boats and planes, such as the remarkable Little Nellie from 1967. You will have the opportunity to see the iconic gadgets that are characteristic of the 007 movies, most notably the extraordinary Aston Martin DB5 from No Time To Die, which is one of the exhibition’s most exceptional pieces. To make sure you don’t miss anything during the experience, each object will be displayed with the relevant video sequence. Buy your tickets now for Bond in Motion in Brussels!

  Getting there
  Brussels Expo
  
  Pl. de Belgique 1, 1020

  

  
  2022: The Academy Theater screens From Russia With Love at Portland, Oregon.

  

  

  From Russia with Love
  PG 115 minutes

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  https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/from-russia-with-love/

  Cast: Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Sean Connery
  Director: Terence Young
  Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
  Release: May 27, 1963

  Movie Synopsis
  James Bond 007 is on the search for a Russian decoding machine, known as “Lektor”. Bond needs to find this machine, before the evil S.P.E.C.T.R.E. organization discovers it. While being romantically linked with Russian girl, Tatiana Romanova, Bond sneaks his way around Istanbul, while each S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent tries to pick him off, including the over powering Donald “Red” Grant and ex K.G.B. Agent Rosa Klebb, who knows all of the tricks in the book, and even possesses an incredible poison tipped shoe.

  
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  December 8th
  
  1925: Sammy Davis Jr. is born--Harlem, New York City, New York.
  (He dies 16 May 1990 at age 64--Beverly Hills, California.)

  

  From the Archives: Consummate
  Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. Dies at
  64

  https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-sammy-davis-jr-19900517-story.html

  
  Altovise and Sammy Davis Jr. in 1972

  By Edward J. Boyer | May 17, 1990 | Times Staff Writer
  
  Sammy Davis Jr., the quintessential showman embraced by his peers as “Mr. Entertainment” for his enormous talent and versatility, died early Wednesday morning at his home in Beverly Hills after a nine-month battle with throat cancer.
  
  Death came as friends and fans of the diminutive, 64-year-old entertainer maintained a vigil outside his home. They had been gathering there since Tuesday when word began to circulate that the end was near.
  
  The tributes were immediate:

  Frank Sinatra, who with Davis, Joey Bishop, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford became Hollywood’s fast-living “Rat Pack” of the 1960s and who knew him for 40 years, said he “wished the world could have known Sam as I did. . . . It was a generous God who gave him to us for all these years . . . . Sam was the best friend a man could have.”

  Said Bishop: “Guess they must need a good show up in Heaven, that’s all I can say.” Then he added, “God I’m sorry. I loved him.”

  Martin hailed Davis as a great entertainer and “an even greater friend, not only to me, but to everyone whose life he touched.”

  Former President Ronald Reagan remembered him as “a special talent which made him more than just a great entertainer--it made him magical.” Comedian Bill Cosby said that “it would have been fantastic to see him at age 82 still enjoying performing for the people. I’ll see him later.”

  Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley—who counted Davis among his friends and political supporters—ordered the city’s flags flown at half staff.

  
  Davis had battled the cancer in his throat since September, when a tumor was discovered growing behind his vocal cords. He began a series of radiation treatments that left his skin discolored and raw enough to bleed when he touched his throat.
  
  When his illness became known, fans around the world deluged him with letters letting him know that he was in their prayers.
  
  Show business friends from Sinatra and Cosby to Liza Minnelli and Steve Lawrence rallied to his side, putting themselves at his disposal. A month before the cancer was detected, Davis, Sinatra and Minnelli (filling in for an ailing Dean Martin) had been on a reunion tour, bringing sellout audiences to their feet.
  
  His friends’ affection for the man who enjoyed describing himself as a “little one-eyed colored guy” was nowhere more evident than during a television tribute earlier this year, commemorating his more than six decades in show business.
  
  Said singer Whitney Houston, a guest on the televised tribute taped last year: “He helped to break down the color barriers. I think he fought the battle for the rest of us.”
  
  Davis would have been the first to acknowledge that he was but one soldier among generations of troops who assaulted color barriers. Nonetheless, he determinedly fought his battles with whatever weapons were available, including one that he felt the haters could not withstand—his talent.
  
  Whether dancing with his father and uncle on countless television guest spots, captivating movie audiences as Sportin’ Life in “Porgy and Bess,” singing his way through “Mr. Wonderful” on Broadway, or finding a hit song and a theme in “Candy Man,” Davis brought an exuberance to every performance.
  
  His versatility was such that he could go on a bare stage alone and weave a stunning evening of entertainment with song, dance, impressions and comedy.
  
  “This is what I want on my tombstone,” he once told an interviewer:
  
  “Sammy Davis Jr., the date, and underneath, one word: ‘Entertainer.’ That’s all, because that’s what I am, man.”
  
  Behind Davis’ superb stagecraft, however, and despite the adoration of faithful fans, Davis was for much of his life a man at war with himself.
  
  He buried his pain in alcohol and cocaine—chasing the delusion that his “swinging” lifestyle somehow compensated for his two divorces, his estrangement from his children, and his futile efforts to become what he thought others expected him to be.
  
  “I didn’t like me,” Davis told an interviewer in 1989. “So it made all the sense in the world to me at the time that if you don’t like yourself, you destroy yourself.
  
  “The monkey on my back is that I created a lifestyle that was no good for me. My life was empty. I had drugs, booze and broads, and I had nothing.”
  
  He had to fight his way through what he has called “the tortures of the damned,” and he credited Altovise, his wife of 20 years, with helping him make a turnaround.
  
  “She was there for me,” he said. “She gave me all the support in the world.”
  
  The turnaround began when doctors told him in 1983 that his stomach and liver were so damaged that he would die soon if he didn’t stop drinking. He stopped. In 1984 and 1985, he underwent hip replacement surgery.
  
  But he returned to dance again and charmed movie fans as Little Mo, the veteran hoofer with still enough moves to accept a “challenge” dance, in the 1989 film “Tap.”
  
  The drinking was only one of his excesses. He spent money just as easily.
  
  During his illustrious career, he had earned millions and spent or given away more. And by the 1980s, the Internal Revenue Service was clamoring for unpaid millions in taxes it said he owed.
  
  Davis also shamelessly gushed over every guest on his television shows. And his ostentation became a trademark. If one gold ring was good, four had to be better.
  
  Try as he might to win love with his talent, his public persona had become an easy target--grist for a devastating (and, he said, all too accurate) impersonation by comedian Billy Crystal.
  
  But if his excesses were obnoxious to some, Davis, the individual, was a monument to generosity for others. He marched for civil rights in Selma, Ala., played benefits for Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH, and helped raise funds to investigate the Atlanta child murders.
  
  Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, remembered him Wednesday as “a humanitarian whose heart was so big . . . that it dwarfed his frame.”
  
  Hooks, in a statement, called attention to Davis’ accomplishments “in the struggle of African-Americans,” much of which “was not widely known . . . .”
  
  Coretta Scott King called him “not only one of the greatest performing artists of our age” but “an ardent, tireless supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement . . . .”
  
  Davis would break into his schedule to play a benefit for a blind ex-fighter or sell bonds for Israel. Even as his bank account slid toward empty, he was contributing thousands of dollars to his child’s school.
  
  This consummate entertainer whose career has been described as a series of radical mood swings was born Dec. 8, 1925, in Harlem, N.Y., where his father was lead dancer and his mother, Elvera (Sanchez) Davis, was in the chorus of a vaudeville troupe headed by his adopted uncle, Will Mastin.
  
  When the act went on the road, Davis remained with his paternal grandmother, Rosa (Mama) Davis, who raised him until his parents divorced. His father took custody, and by age 3 a mugging little Sammy had made his stage debut.
  
  He learned to dance by watching routines from the wings, and the rhythms from his flashing feet soon became a popular addition to the act. He made his film debut in 1933, at age 7, in “Rufus Jones for President,” a comedy in which a boy dreams he is elected President.
  
  Davis never attended school. His father and Mastin hired tutors—especially when truant officers applied pressure—to teach the youngster the three Rs. That irregular instruction and Davis’ later friendship with a U.S. Army sergeant who loaned him books and taught him remedial reading was as close as he came to formal education.
  
  Mastin’s troupe, which had included 12 members, began to shrink with the decline of vaudeville and eventually was reduced to “The Will Mastin Trio, Featuring Sammy Davis Jr.”
  
  Touring in the 1930s and ‘40s, the trio often could not find hotels that would rent rooms to blacks or restaurants that would serve them. But it was not until Davis was drafted into the Army’s first integrated unit at age 18 that he ran into the naked racism never far beneath the surface of World War II America.
  
  During basic training in Wyoming, he was beaten, kicked and spat upon by bigoted whites in his barracks. Describing those days in his best-selling 1965 biography, “Yes, I Can,” Davis said his knuckles were covered with scabs from fighting racists during his first three months in the Army.
  
  Perhaps the ugliest incident occurred when a group of white enlistees decided to teach him a lesson for being too familiar with a white female officer.
  
  Davis said they lured him to a remote spot on the base, where they beat him and painted racial slurs on his chest and forehead. They forced him to tap dance and smeared more white paint over his body, only to remove a spot to demonstrate that beneath the paint he was still “just as black ‘n’ ugly as ever.”
  
  The pain of that incident motivated him to pump even more energy into his performances at camp shows. He felt that his sheer talent could reach the haters, “neutralize them,” force them to recognize him as a person.
  
  He used an audience’s affection as fuel, and he made no secret of his “joy of being liked.” And he would work himself to exhaustion to please an audience, friends said, in a futile effort to make the world love him--to erase the brutal memories of his Army experiences.
  
  Davis rejoined his father and uncle after the war, but the trio led a hand-to-mouth existence as vaudeville died and they tried breaking into nightclubs. They worked hotels in Las Vegas, where they could neither register as guests nor enter the casinos because they were black.
  
  Some New York City clubs would not allow him to enter, and he needed a special permit just to be on the streets of Miami Beach at night when he performed there.
  
  But Davis continued to increase his repertoire—adding trumpet, drums, celebrity impressions—as the trio crisscrossed the country, taking whatever dates they could find.
  
  In 1946, Metronome magazine named him “Most Outstanding New Personality” on the strength of his Capitol recording of “The Way You Look Tonight,” the magazine’s selection as record of the year. Davis recorded it under a deal paying him $50 a side for each recording.
  
  During the next two years, the trio appeared with headliners such as Mickey Rooney, Sinatra and Bob Hope. Jack Benny later intervened to get them a booking at Ciro’s nightclub in Hollywood where they opened for singer Janis Paige. The audience would not let them off—or Paige on—stage. The next night, Paige was the opening act for the Will Mastin Trio.
  
  The group’s later appearance on Eddie Cantor’s NBC television show was such a hit that they became the comedian’s summer replacement.
  
  By 1954, when Davis released his first album under a contract to Decca Records, his father and Mastin had become background accompaniment to his soaring performances.
  
  With Davis as its centerpiece, the trio sold out clubs from Los Angeles to New York, and the group was in constant demand for guest spots on television variety shows.
  
  Davis’ on-target impersonations of Jimmy Cagney, Jerry Lewis and Jimmy Stewart were a revelation to audiences who simply had never imagined a black performer being able to so accurately capture a white celebrity’s character.
  
  But it all nearly ended in November, 1954, in a car crash on a stretch of highway between Las Vegas and Los Angeles that cost him his left eye. During his recuperation at a San Bernardino hospital, he said, he began thinking seriously about religion and converted to Judaism.
  
  Once out of the hospital, he was in even more demand. And contract offers began a steady march upward through five figures for a week’s work. In 1956, he made his Broadway debut in “Mr. Wonderful,” a musical comedy created for him.
  
  By the late 1950s, the Will Mastin Trio had broken up, but Davis continued dividing his income with his father and uncle for months—some friends say years.
  
  He became a member of Hollywood’s so-called “Rat Pack” and made six of his 23 movies with them, beginning with “Ocean’s Eleven” in 1960 and ending with “One More Time” in 1970.
  
  After a brief marriage to dancer Loray White in 1959, Davis married Swedish actress May Britt in 1960. The couple had a daughter, Tracey, and adopted two sons, Mark and Jeff. The couple divorced in 1968, and two years later Davis married dancer Altovise Gore. They adopted a son, Manny, last year.
  
  During his marriage to Britt, his celebrity could not shield him from white anger and black consternation.
  
  Davis noted in an interview with Playboy magazine that his mother was Puerto Rican.
  
  “So I’m Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman,” he said. “When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.”
  
  He was bitterly criticized in 1972, during the Republican National Convention in Miami, for hugging Richard M. Nixon. To many black Americans, the photo of that incident was eloquent testimony to what they saw as Davis’ misplaced values.
  
  That criticism, however, wasn’t as painful as the rejection that came his way from John F. Kennedy, whose candidacy he had tirelessly supported.
  
  Davis had been invited to Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration, but the invitation was rescinded a few days after it was offered because the Kennedy camp felt Davis and his white wife might anger Southerners.
  
  “The guy I ran with is the man that told me, ‘Don’t come to the White House cause you’ll embarrass me’ because I was married to a white woman,” Davis said in a 1987 interview. “And I had to accept that. But that was the man I campaigned for, and went all out for. That was John Kennedy.”
  
  By now Davis was a fixture in the firmament of American stars. Before his “Rat Pack” movies, he had appeared in “The Benny Goodman Story,” co-starred with Eartha Kitt in “Anna Lucasta” and won rave notices as Sportin’ Life in the film version of “Porgy and Bess.”
  
  He returned to the stage in the mid-1960s in a musical adaptation of Clifford Odets’ “Golden Boy,” a production that ran for 568 performances before closing in March, 1966.
  
  Davis, meanwhile, had remained busy in films, producing the forgettable “A Man Called Adam” with his own company in 1966. He also appeared as revivalist Big Daddy in “Sweet Charity” and performed in the 1972 documentary “Save the Children.”
  
  While moving between stage, television and movies, Davis also recorded dozens of albums and released several hit singles, including his all-time top-seller, “Candy Man.”
  
  His was a familiar face in America’s living rooms as he turned up on television in shows ranging from “The Beverly Hillbillies” to “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” to the soap opera “One Life to Live.” He hosted several specials of his own, sat in for Johnny Carson and did the brief and ill-fated “Sammy Davis Jr. Show” on NBC from 1965 to 1966.
  
  He was a smash hit in “Sammy,” a television retrospective of his first half-century in show business. But his second try at a network show, “NBC Follies,” was canceled midway through the 1973-74 season.
  
  Last year he published a second biography, Why Me? co-written, as was his best-selling first book, with Jane and Burt Boyar. In interviews discussing the new book, he acknowledged that racial prejudice had profoundly affected him.
  
  He poignantly told a story of a man coming to his table at a nightclub to greet him after he had become an international celebrity. The man was the very person who had refused him admission to the same club some years before.
  
  He felt he should have told the man “to get away from me with his hypocrisy.” But he was silent.
  
  “So I went home and threw up,” he said. “I had stifled my own feelings and made myself sick. That night I vowed: ‘I’ll never let that happen again.’ ”
  
  He said he began to fight the subtle prejudices he encountered, whether it was fellow board members of a company being surprised that he could do more than sing and dance, or making it clear to guests at a party that he could talk about more than what Carson or Sinatra are “really like.”
  
  Still, by his own admission, he had mellowed in the last five years.
  
  He overcame what he called his obsession with his career even as he was being increasingly called upon to accept yet another honor for his body of work or for his commitment to various social and political causes.
  
  “I’ve been looking inward,” he said last year. “I’ve been counting my blessings. I no longer feel I have to do it all. I don’t yearn to be at the top of the mountain.”
  
  Davis is survived by his wife, four children and two grandchildren. His mother and a sister also survive. Services are scheduled at 11 a.m. Friday at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Hollywood Hills. Burial will follow at Forest Lawn, Glendale.
  
  The family suggested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Sammy Davis Jr. National Liver Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark.
  
  Times staff writer Eric Malnic contributed to this obituary.

  http://www.mymodest007collection.net/diamonds-are-forever.html
  
  
  
  

  

  Sammy Davis Jr. (I) (1925–1990)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002035/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  

  
  1950: Rick Baker is born--Binghamton, New York.
  1953: Kim Basinger is born--Athens, Georgia.
  
  1964: Teri Hatcher is born--Palo Alto, California.
  1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films OO7 and the cable car.
  
  1979: 007/ムーンレイカー (Mūnreikā; Moon Laker) released in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1983: Zeg Nooit, Nooit Meer (Say Never, Never Again) released in the Netherlands.

  
  
  

  1983: The Hollywood Reporter reports Moore Bond will return for another mission--his seventh, and EON's fourteenth.
  1989: Licence to Kill released in Cyprus.
  
  1995: GoldenEye released in Israel and Sweden.
  1995: 007 - GoldenEye released in Portugal.
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Malta.
  1999: Världen räcker inte till released in Sweden.

  
  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale released in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
  2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Mexico.
  
  2014: BOND 24 production begins at Pinewood Studios. Filming continues the next 7 months in London, Mexico City, Rome, Morocco.
  
  2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Himeros #3.
  Pierluigi Minotti, artist. Rodney Barnes, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: HIMEROS #3

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513031230303011
  
  Cover A: Francesco Francavilla
  Cover B: Jackson Guice
  Writer: Rodney Barnes
  Artist: Pierluigi Minotti
  Publication Date: December 2021
  Page Count: 32
  ON SALE DATE: 12/08/2021

  James Bond continues to unravel the horror he's uncovered as he makes his way to the center of it all - Wilhelm's island - with the reluctant Sarah Richmond in tow. All the while: Kino continues to stalk the pair, awaiting his moment to strike!

  Featuring two amazing Covers: Francesco Francavilla and the legendary Jackson Guice!
  
  Did you know: Ian Fleming was a well-known as a book collector. He founded The Book Collector the same year he published Casino Royale.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: 2022 James Bond Christmas Extravaganza at the Holiday Inn Palmdale-Lancaster, California.

  

  
  

  2022 James Bond Christmas Extravaganza

  See the complete article here:
  
  
  

  https://hunthalloween.com/event/2022-james-bond-christmas-extravaganza-eid6hfhqmj9fte

  Date & Time
  Fri Dec 09 2022 at 05:30 pm to 10:00 pm
  
  UTC-08:00
  Location
  Holiday Inn Palmdale-Lancaster, an IHG Hotel | Palmdale, CA

  Details
  Welcome to the 2022 James Bond Christmas Extravaganza. Food, Drinks, Games, On-site childcare!
  Event Location
  Holiday Inn Palmdale-Lancaster, an IHG Hotel, 38630 5th Street West, Palmdale, United States
  Tickets & Booking Details
  USD 10.00 to USD 50.00
  
  Event Host Bionca Thomas & Dragon Booster Club

  
  2022: Bond In Motion opens to the general public at the Brussels Expo, Belgium.

  

  

  Fri 09 December — Sun 14 May
  Bond in Motion

  See the complete article here:
  
  
  

  https://www.visit.brussels/en/visitors/agenda/event-detail.Bond-in-Motion.544641

  Exhibition | Brussels Expo
  €25

  For the first time on the European continent, spectacular sets, making of models and about fifty original vehicles (motorcycles, cars, planes, submarines, hovercrafts, helicopters, ...), straight out of the 25 James Bond films, will be gathered in one place from December 9, 2022 to May 14, 2023 at Brussels Expo.
  
  For the first time on the European continent, the "Bond in Motion" exhibition is a first for the city of Brussels and the Brussels Region. Brussels Expo will host this exceptional event, starting on December 9. Created in 1953 by Ian Fleming, brought to the screen in 1962 with the film James Bond vs, the James Bond saga is more alive than ever. If the most famous agent in the world has succeeded in many of his missions, it is often thanks to the vehicles designed by the ingenious "Q". From the early Aston Martin DB5 to the latest model, from the Lotus that turns into a submarine to motorcycles, boats and planes, "Bond in Motion" will give film enthusiasts the chance to step behind the scenes. In the 60 years of its existence, the creativity of the teams behind the James Bond adventure has never failed. "Bond in Motion" is an opportunity to discover not only the vehicles but also the secrets of their making through documents gathered for the first time. The realization of the cult scenes and the most extraordinary stunts will finally be revealed. Many other "non-automotive" objects will also be exhibited and will certainly cause some nice surprises.
  
  Throughout the duration of the exhibition "Bond in Motion", animations, meetings and events will be organized around the 007 saga. More than an exhibition, "Bond in Motion" promises a real experience that will enthrall all audiences, from the youngest to the first time fans, from the crazy cinema fans to the technology enthusiasts and the adventure fans, without forgetting all those who want to live a family outing that touches all generations.

  Many animations and various surprises (still classified top secret for the moment!) will be planned for young and old.
  
  A 007 bar - restaurant and James Bond stores will of course be in the right place, ready to ready to satisfy the desires of visitors.
  
  Timetable - From 9 Dec to 14 May
  
  Monday
  11:00 - 18:00
  Tuesday
  Closed
  Wednesday
  11:00 - 18:00
  Thursday
  Closed
  Friday
  11:00 - 18:00
  Saturday
  11:00 - 22:00
  Sunday
  11:00 - 18:00
  Normal
  € 25
  Organised by Carbon 12011
  
  Brussels Expo
  Place de Belgique, 1 1020 Laeken
  Email
  
  [email protected]
  Website
  
  More information on: http://www.007brussels.com
  Phone +32 2 474 82 77
  Phone (Booking) +32 2 354 00 06
  
  What to do
  Museums & Tourist Attractions

  
  
  

  
  2022: The Academy Theater screens From Russia With Love at Portland, Oregon.

  

  

  From Russia with Love
  PG 115 minutes

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/from-russia-with-love/

  Cast: Lotte Lenya, Robert Shaw, Sean Connery
  Director: Terence Young
  Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
  Release: May 27, 1963

  Movie Synopsis
  James Bond 007 is on the search for a Russian decoding machine, known as “Lektor”. Bond needs to find this machine, before the evil S.P.E.C.T.R.E. organization discovers it. While being romantically linked with Russian girl, Tatiana Romanova, Bond sneaks his way around Istanbul, while each S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Agent tries to pick him off, including the over powering Donald “Red” Grant and ex K.G.B. Agent Rosa Klebb, who knows all of the tricks in the book, and even possesses an incredible poison tipped shoe.

  
  Movie Showtimes
  December 2, 2022
  December 3, 2022
  December 4, 2022
  December 5, 2022
  December 6, 2022
  December 7, 2022
  December 8, 2022
  
  Contact Us
  7818 SE Stark Street
  Portland OR, 97215
  [email protected]
  503-252-0500

  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  
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  December 9th
  
  1912: Blanche Blackwell is born--Costa Rica.
  (She dies 8 August 2017 at age 104--London, England.)

  

  Blanche Blackwell obituary

  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/29/blanche-blackwell-obituary

  Heiress who became the ‘Jamaican wife’ of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and was supposedly the model for Goldfinger’s Pussy Galore

  Ian Thomson | Tue 29 Aug 2017 12.26 EDT

  
  Blanche Blackwell and Ian Fleming. Photograph:
  Taken from the biography of Ian Fleming by Andrew Lycett

  Blanche Blackwell, who has died aged 104, was a divorcee in her 40s when in 1956 she met Ian Fleming, her neighbour in Jamaica and the creator of James Bond; and soon they became lovers. Cracks had by then begun to show in Fleming’s marriage to Ann Charteris. Ann was ashamed of her husband’s success as a thriller writer (the Bond novels were “pornography”, she told friends), and had begun to stay away from their Jamaican home, Goldeneye.
  
  Blackwell’s friendship with Fleming intensified when Ann began an affair with the politician Hugh Gaitskell. Ann became suspicious of “Ian’s Jamaican wife” after Anthony Eden’s wife, Clarissa, mentioned how helpful Blackwell had been at Goldeneye when the prime minister recuperated there in 1956 after the debacle of Suez. In an attempt to make Goldeneye more welcoming for the Edens, Blackwell had planted the garden with flowers; Ann later tore them out and threw them over the cliff.
  
  Fleming wrote all 13 of his 007 novels in Jamaica, though only three (Dr No, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun) were set partly on the island. Noël Coward, another neighbour, dubbed Fleming’s home “Goldeneye, nose and throat” for its lack of creature comforts. It was in this Spartan retreat that Fleming immersed himself in a Bond-like life of tropical oblivion fuelled by vodka and cigarettes (like 007, Fleming smoked 70 a day).
  
  Impishly, he included sketches of his friends (and enemies) in his fiction. Blackwell was supposedly a model for Pussy Galore, the trapeze artist turned leader of a team of lesbian cat burglars who passes herself off as an air stewardess in his novel Goldfinger; for the film, she is a pilot and martial arts expert. In Dr No, the guano-collecting ship was named the Blanche. Blackwell claimed not to have read any of the books, though: “I don’t like violence.”

  Daughter of Hilda (nee Lindo) and Percy Lindo, cousins who married, she was born into a wealthy Jamaican family, descended from Sephardic Jews from western Europe who had settled in Kingston in the mid-18th century and came to control much of the island’s commerce. Her father had helped to consolidate the family fortune in Costa Rica – where Blanche was born, in San José – before returning to Jamaica, where he owned property and produced rum.
  
  In 1936, in London, Blanche married Joseph Blackwell, a captain in the Irish Guards and heir to the Crosse & Blackwell foods fortune. Together they ran the family estates in Jamaica and owned a string of racehorses. In 1937 their son Christopher was born. Blanche was not happy in the marriage, however. The actor Errol Flynn (“a gorgeous god,” Blackwell called him) became one of her admirers.
  
  By the time she and Joseph divorced in 1949, she had moved to Jamaica’s north coast, to a house equidistant between Coward’s and Fleming’s. “Noël became a special pal of mine,” Blackwell told me during an interview in 2007, and Coward was said to have based his play Volcano on island life, and one of its central characters, Adela, on Blackwell.
  
  Fleming adored “Birdie” Blackwell and her darting, kingfisher mind. And Blackwell, in her turn, considered Fleming a “charming, handsome, gifted man”, but one plagued by self-doubt and self-hate. “Ian was an angel”, she told me. “Errol was another … Both lovely men – both exceptionally gifted and definitely not for domesticating.”
  
  When Fleming died of a heart attack in 1964, Blanche was invited neither to the funeral nor the memorial service. For years, she kept watch over Goldeneye for Fleming’s son Caspar; and after Caspar’s death in 1975 the house was bought first by Bob Marley, and then by her son, Chris, the founder in 1959 of Island Records, who had “discovered” Marley.
  
  Tough and good-humoured, in later life Blackwell wore her white hair bobbed round an animated, heart-shaped face. Her life, until she decamped in 2003 to a flat in Knightsbridge, London, had been one of island entertainments and literary friendships. Now, looked after by three Jamaican maids, Blackwell became an unlikely devotee of bingo. Each week her chauffeur took her to the Cricklewood Mecca to play. In Kingston, she had liked to bet on the horses, but London bingo was not without its thrills. “Cricklewood might seem a little dull to you,” she said. “It isn’t really. I could sit for hours in the Mecca. The tension as your number comes up. Bing-bing-bingo!”
  
  She is survived by her son.
  
  • Blanche Blackwell, born 9 December 1912; died 8 August 2017
  
  This article was amended on 13 September 2017. The original description of Pussy Galore as a pilot and martial arts expert applies only to the film; in the novel she is a trapeze artist turned leader of a team of lesbian cat burglars who passes herself off as an air stewardess.

  

  
  

  
  1934: Judi Dench is born--York, North Yorkshire, England.
  
  1961: Bond comic strip For Your Eyes Only ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 11 September 1961. 988-1065) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/fyeo.php3
  
  http://www.michaelmay.online/2014/08/for-your-eyes-only-comic-strip.html
  
  
  
  
  
  Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-8-1966/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 8: “For Your Eyes Only” (1966)
  "Fra dødelig synsvinkel"
  Note: The title of the main story is announced as "Fra dødelig synsvinkel" in issue no. 7 and on page 3, but the front page says "Fra en dræbende synsvinkel". Rather confusingly, both Danish titles translate as "From a view to a kill", even though this particular comic is adapted from another Ian Fleming short story, "For Your Eyes Only".
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Danish http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no29-1974/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 29: “For Your Eyes Only” (1974)
  "Fra en dræbende synsvinkel"
  Note: The story's Danish title somewhat confusingly translates as "From a View to a Kill", though it is based on "For Your Eyes Only".
  
  
  

  1965: 007/サンダーボール作戦 (007/Sandâbôru sakusen; 007/Thunderball Strategy) premieres in Tokyo, Japan.

  
  
  
  1974 Re-release
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in Australia and South Africa.
  
  1987: Barbara Walters interviews Sean Connery on ABC-TV.

  https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5jduhc

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 61 of 65 - "Dutch Treat."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Dutch Treat

  Season 1 - Episode 61
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807099/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  In Holland, Tiara Hotstones stole an emerald from the museum to get to a counterfeit artist named Rembrandt but she accidentally drops it into a box of chocolates that Phoebe brought.

  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)
  Jan Rabson Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
  Susan Silo Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Kath Soucie Kath Soucie ... Tiara Hotstones (voice)
  Simon Templeman Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon 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 61 - Dutch Treat
  
  

  
  
  

  1997: World Charity premiere of Tomorrow Never Dies at the London Odeon. No Royal family in attendance this time.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/tnd_premiere
  
  http://pbfiles.net/tnd/tnd-premiere1.html

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1999: James Bond 007 - Die Welt ist nicht genug released in Germany.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2006: “You Know My Name” written by Chris Cornell and David Arnold peaks at 57 on The Billboard Hot 100. Cornell's highest charting single.

  Making of video
  

  
  2016: Radio Christmas interviews John Glen.

  

  Director John Glen on
  Radio Christmas

  https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/2016/12/09/director-john-glen-on-radio-christmas/
  
  On 9 Dec, 2016 By Bond on the BoxIn Radio Broadcast
  
  Former James Bond director John Glen will be on the charity station Radio Christmas on Friday, 9 December 2016 from 7:00 – 9:00PM (GMT).

  
  

  
  2020: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries present Dressed to Kill: The West End tailors who suited James Bond.

  Dec
  09
  
  

  Dressed to Kill: The West End
  tailors who suited James Bond

  by Royal Borough of Kensington and
  Chelsea Libraries

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dressed-to-kill-the-west-end-tailors-who-suited-james-bond-tickets-128852155265

  Date and Time
  Wed, 9 December 2020
  13:30 – 14:30 EST

  
  Producer Albert R ‘Cubby’ Broccoli once said of James Bond: ‘Regimes may rise and fall, lapels may widen or narrow, but ultimately he remains the old-fashioned suited hero.’ Since the release of Eon Production’s first Bond film, Dr No, in 1962, the character has been tailored by Anthony Sinclair (Sean Connery), Dimitrov ‘Dimi’ Major (George Lazenby), Cyril Castle, Angelo Vittuci and Douglas ‘Doug’ Hayward (Roger Moore), Benjamin Simon and Lambert Hofer (Timothy Dalton), Brioni (Pierce Brosnan) and Tom Ford (Daniel Craig), respectively. This talk will provide a fun tour of the London-based, Westminster tailors who suited James Bond, and discusses where they were based, who they were, and how they assisted in the creation of the image of the eponymous suited hero who endures today.
  
  
  
  Llewella Chapman is a film historian and visiting scholar at the University of East Anglia, completing her PhD in 2018 on the historic relationship between film, television and Hampton Court Palace. Her research interests include British cinema, gender, heritage and costume design. Llewella is under contract with Bloomsbury to publish her monograph, Fashioning James Bond: Costume, Gender and Identity in the world of 007, which is due to be released next year.
  

  
  2022: 2022 James Bond Christmas Extravaganza at the Holiday Inn Palmdale-Lancaster, California.

  

  

  2022 James Bond Christmas Extravaganza

  See the complete article here:
  
  
  

  https://hunthalloween.com/event/2022-james-bond-christmas-extravaganza-eid6hfhqmj9fte

  Date & Time
  Fri Dec 09 2022 at 05:30 pm to 10:00 pm
  
  Details

  Welcome to the 2022 James Bond Christmas Extravaganza. Food, Drinks, Games, On-site childcare!

  Event Location
  Holiday Inn Palmdale-Lancaster, an IHG Hotel, 38630 5th Street West, Palmdale, United States
  Tickets & Booking Details
  USD 10.00 to USD 50.00
  
  Event Host Bionca Thomas & Dragon Booster Club

  
  

  
  2022: Bond in Motion at the Brussels Expo, Belgium.

  

  

  Until Sun 14 May
  Bond in Motion

  See the complete article here:
  
  
  

  https://www.visit.brussels/en/visitors/agenda/event-detail.Bond-in-Motion.544641

  Exhibition
  Brussels Expo
  €25

  Bond in Motion
  For the first time on the European continent, spectacular sets, making of models and about fifty original vehicles (motorcycles, cars, planes, submarines, hovercrafts, helicopters, ...), straight out of the 25 James Bond films, will be gathered in one place from December 9, 2022 to May 14, 2023 at Brussels Expo.
  
  For the first time on the European continent, the Bond in Motion exhibition is a first for the city of Brussels and the Brussels Region. Brussels Expo will host this exceptional event, starting on December 9. Created in 1953 by Ian Fleming, brought to the screen in 1962 with the film James Bond vs b]Dr No[/b, the James Bond saga is more alive than ever. If the most famous agent in the world has succeeded in many of his missions, it is often thanks to the vehicles designed by the ingenious "Q". From the early Aston Martin DB5 to the latest model, from the Lotus that turns into a submarine to motorcycles, boats and planes, Bond in Motion will give film enthusiasts the chance to step behind the scenes. In the 60 years of its existence, the creativity of the teams behind the James Bond adventure has never failed. "Bond in Motion" is an opportunity to discover not only the vehicles but also the secrets of their making through documents gathered for the first time. The realization of the cult scenes and the most extraordinary stunts will finally be revealed. Many other "non-automotive" objects will also be exhibited and will certainly cause some nice surprises.
  
  Throughout the duration of the exhibition Bond in Motion, animations, meetings and events will be organized around the 007 saga. More than an exhibition, "Bond in Motion" promises a real experience that will enthrall all audiences, from the youngest to the first time fans, from the crazy cinema fans to the technology enthusiasts and the adventure fans, without forgetting all those who want to live a family outing that touches all generations.
  
  Many animations and various surprises (still classified top secret for the moment!) will be planned for young and old.
  
  A 007 bar - restaurant and James Bond stores will of course be in the right place, ready to ready to satisfy the desires of visitors.
  
  Timetable
  From 9 Dec to 14 May
  
  Monday
  11:00 - 18:00
  Tuesday
  Closed
  Wednesday
  11:00 - 18:00
  Thursday
  Closed
  Friday
  11:00 - 18:00
  Saturday
  11:00 - 22:00
  Sunday
  11:00 - 18:00
  Normal
  € 25
  
  Organised by Carbon 12011
  
  DutchFrenchEnglish
  Family
  
  
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  Practical information
  Location
  
  Brussels Expo
  Place de Belgique, 1 1020 Laeken
  Email [email protected]
  Website
  More information on: http://www.007brussels.com
  Phone +32 2 474 82 77
  Phone (Booking) +32 2 354 00 06
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  December 10th
  
  1963: Following the award of film rights for Thunderball plus ten other Bond stories to Kevin McClory, the Los Angeles Times reports his plans for a film budgeted at $2.24 million.
  1963: Jack Whittingham issues a writ against Ian Fleming for damages citing libel, malicious falsehood, damage to professional reputation.
  1965: Daily Variety reports Ann-Margret and Glenda Grainger recording and releasing versions of "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" from the upcoming film Thunderball.

  "Mister Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", Ann-Margret.
  
  
  "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", Glenda Grainger.
  
  

  1966: You Only Live Twice finishes filming Blofeld in the control room.
  
  1972: Live and Let Die films OO7 and Solitaire transferring from bus to Quarrel Junior's boat.

  
  

  1977: 007 私を愛したスパイ (Watashiwoai shitasupai; My Beloved Spy) released in Japan.

  
  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 62 of 65 - "No Time to Lose."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - No Time to Lose

  Season 1 - Episode 62
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807297/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  A case of mistaken identity leads Spoiler to kidnap IQ, as part of Doctor No's plan to build an impenetrable government airship known as the Vulture.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Francis Moss ... (written by)
  Ted Pedersen ... (written by)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Michael Gough ... Spoiler
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Julius No (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon 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 62 - No Time to Lose
  
  

  
  
  

  1992: MGM/UA settles lawsuits delaying production of Bond films--key executives depart. Credit Lyonnais finances future operations.
  1995: Zlatno oko (Golden Eye) released in Slovenia.

  
  

  
  1999: James Bond 007 - Die Welt ist nicht genug released in Austria.

  
  
  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Denmark.

  “The World is Not Enough”: Danish press book and ad sheet (1999)
  https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/twine-dk-pressbook-1999/
  
  

  
  2011: Skyfall films late night action on Childers Street, Lewisham, London, for the escape to Scotland.
  2019: Last day of Sotheby's online literature sale for the letters of Anne and Ian Fleming.

  

  'Extraordinary' letters between Ian
  Fleming and wife to be sold
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/nov/11/extraordinary-letters-between-ian-fleming-and-wife-to-be-sold
  
  More than 160 letters written over 20 years shine light on James Bond author’s life
  
  Mark Brown Arts correspondent | Mon 11 Nov 2019 15.01 EST
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  Ann Fleming, née Charteris, was born into the aristocracy and married wealthy men. Photograph:
  ©The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's
  
  An extraordinary stash of letters that shine a light on the tangled relationship between the James Bond creator, Ian Fleming, and his wife, Ann, from their intense and secret affair to the bitter end of their marriage, are to appear at auction.
  
  Sotheby’s is selling more than 160 letters between the couple, written over 20 years. Gabriel Heaton, a specialist in books and manuscripts at the auction house, said the letters in their scope and scale provided what “must surely be an unmatchable record of the life of the author as his fortunes changed”.
  
  They also provide insight into the rise of Bond. Heaton said it was no coincidence that Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in the year of his marriage.
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  Ian Fleming had numerous flings and affairs with other women. Photograph:
  ©The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby's
  
  It was “both as an outlet for his libido and imagination, and also in an attempt to make money for a woman who was used to being unthinkingly rich”.
  
  Ann Fleming, née Charteris, was born into the aristocracy and married wealthy men. Her first husband was Shane O’Neill, the 3rd Baron O’Neill. After his death in military action in 1944, she married the newspaper magnate Esmond Harmsworth, the 2nd Viscount Rothermere.
  
  During both marriages she and Fleming were lovers, an intense relationship that had sado-masochistic elements. “I long for you even if you whip me because I love being hurt by you and kissed afterwards,” Ann once wrote to Fleming.
  
  In 1948 Ann became pregnant with Fleming’s child, a girl who was a month premature and lived only eight hours. The collection includes a number of sad and gentle letters written by Fleming on Gleneagles stationery shortly after he played golf with Rothermere, the cuckolded husband.
  
  In one letter he writes: “I have nothing to say to comfort you. After all this travail and pain it is bitter. I can only send you my arms and my love and all my prayers.”
  
  Fleming had numerous flings and affairs with other women and when the couple finally married in 1952 that was never likely to stop.
  
  Ann once wrote to him: “You mention ‘bad old bachelor days’ – the only person you stopped sleeping with when they ceased was me!”
  
  A letter from Fleming written on British Overseas Airways Corporation stationery reads: “In the present twilight, we are hurting each other to an extent that makes life hardly bearable.”
  
  Heaton said the letters were packed with stories of high society, travel, love of nature and gossip.
  
  “They are quite something, it has been a real treat,” he said. “They are an extraordinary read because Ian Fleming is pretty much incapable of writing a dull sentence.”
  
  Fleming wrote all of the Bond novels at GoldenEye, his house in Jamaica, a place visited by many of Ann’s remarkable circle of friends. The artist Lucian Freud, for example, and the Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell, with whom she had a long affair.
  
  There were also surprising visitors. “Truman Capote has come to stay,” Fleming writes. “Can you imagine a more incongruous playmate for me. On the heels of a telegram he came hustling and twittering along with his tiny face crushed under a Russian Commissars’ uniform hat [...] he had just arrived from Moscow.”
  
  The letters consist of more than 500 typed and handwritten pages, at least three written on endpapers torn from books. Two of the letters from Ann are written on the back of a gin rummy card and a hospital temperature chart.
  
  They will be offered in Sotheby’s online literature sale between 3 and 10 December and come with an estimate of £200,000-300,000.
  
  It was important to keep them together, said Heaton. “They are much more than the sum of their parts, the correspondence as a whole is far more substantial and interesting and revealing and exciting than simply an accumulation of individual letters.”

  

  Ian Fleming's Love Letters at Sotheby's

  https://www.thebookcollector.co.uk/features/ian-flemings-love-letters-sothebys

  

  

  
  2022: James Bond 007 Stern Launch Party at 417 Taphouse, Springfield, Missouri.

  

  

  James Bond 007 Stern Launch Party

  See the complete article here:
  
  
  

  https://allevents.in/springfield/james-bond-007-stern-launch-party/200023720966445

  Sat Dec 10, 2022
  
  417 Taphouse opens at 11 and tournament starts at noon. 1.5 hrs of flip frenzy qualifying. Top 4 play in a 4 player group and play 4 games to determine the winner.
  
  Prizes for the winner and random giveaways. If you have any questions, just let me know.
  
  Thanks!

  

  
  
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  December 11th
  
  1961: James Bond comic strip Thunderball begins its run in The Daily Mail.
  (Ends 10 February 1962. 1066-1128) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

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

  
  1122-1123
  
  1126-11327
  

  
  First ending, Daily Express.

  

  Second ending in syndication.

  

  
  Danish 1966 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-6-eng/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 6:
  “Thunderball” (1966)

  
  
  

  1965: 007/サンダーボール作戦 (007/Sandâbôru sakusen; 007/Thunderball Strategy) released in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1975: The British-American Chamber of Commerce honors Roger Moore--Man of the Year.
  1979: Moonraker released in Davao, the Philippines.
  
  1984: Daily Variety reports a Christmas respite for the A View to a Kill production while final sets are built. Filming to resume in the New Year on the Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage.
  1986: Prince Charles and Princess Diana visit the set of The Living Daylights and meet Timothy Dalton.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 63 of 65 - "Monument to S.C.U.M."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Monument to S.C.U.M.

  Season 1 - Episode 63
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807293/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  James and the gang are in Arizona and entering the scientist competition contest. Meanwhile, Dr. Derange uses a magnetic generator to change the Earth's core.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Mark Jones ... (writer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Jeffrey Scott ... (story)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack (voice)
  Corey Burton Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Michael Gough Michael Gough ... Spoiler (voice)
  Julian Holloway Julian Holloway ... Dr.Derange (voice)
  Mona Marshall Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Jan Rabson Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (voice)
  Simon Templeman Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon 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 63 - Monument to S.C.U.M.
  
  

  
  

  1997: Documentary James Bond Shaken and Stirred airs on television as a Tomorrow Never Dies tie-in.

  

  James Bond: Shaken
  and Stirred (1997)

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0934868/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_5
  1h | Documentary | TV Movie 11 December 1997

  Promotional TV documentary to publicize the release of the then new James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Includes interviews with a number of key cast and crew production personnel.

  Stars: Samantha Bond, Vic Armstrong, David Arnold

  
  2002: Die Another Day released in Venezuela.
  2006: Interscope Records releases the "You Know My Name" CD single in the UK.

  

  
  

  
  2020: Mark Edlitz appears on James Bond Radio to discuss his book The Lost Adventures of James Bond.

  James Bond Radio: 007 News, Reviews &
  Interviews!

  https://jamesbondradio.libsyn.com/197-the-lost-adventures-of-james-bond-with-mark-edlitz
  Fri, 11 December 2020

  #197: The Lost Adventures of James Bond with Mark Edlitz

  
  This week, author, Mark Edlitz returns to the show to talk about his new book: The Lost Adventures of James Bond.
  
  As Bond fans, we've all seen the movies and read the books, but there is a hidden world of 007 content left to discover when it comes to the 'lost' or unmade adventures.
  
  In today's episode, Mark talks us through the ideas and outlines for Timothy Dalton's 3rd and 4th Bond films, explores the unproduced Casino Royale stage play written by Raymond Benson, exposes the secret history of the James Bond Jr. animated series, and much more.

  Direct download: JBR197-The-Lost-Adventures-of-James-Bond.mp3
  http://traffic.libsyn.com/jamesbondradio/JBR197-The-Lost-Adventures-of-James-Bond.mp3?dest-id=181959
  
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  The Lost Adventures of James Bond | A James Bond Virtual Book Launch
  
  

  
  
  

  
  2020: Scientific Games slot game James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever showcased at Inside Asian Gaming’s “MAD Santa” Macau After Dark.

  

  Scientific Games to showcase new slot game
  “James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever” at this
  week’s Macau After Dark 7

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.asgam.com/index.php/2020/12/09/scientific-games-to-showcase-new-slot-game-james-bond-diamonds-are-forever-at-this-weeks-macau-after-dark-7/

  

  by Newsdesk | Wednesday 9 December 2020 at 04:11
  Inside Asian Gaming names Galeria Lisboa at Macau Fisherman’s Wharf as venue for this Friday’s “MAD Santa” Macau After Dark event
  
  Leading gaming product developer Scientific Games will showcase its brand new slot game, “James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever” at Inside Asian Gaming’s “MAD Santa” Macau After Dark industry networking event this Friday 11 December 2020.
  
  To be held at Galeria Lisboa at Macau’ Fisherman’s Wharf, the invitation-only seventh rendition of Macau After Dark will represent one of the last opportunities for the industry to come together in 2020, with Scientific Games taking pride of place as Showcase Sponsor.
  
  “We are thrilled to continue our 2020 sponsorship for the Macau After Dark,” said Scientific Games Vice President and Managing Director, Ken Jolly.
  
  “This event happening in December is special in bringing the industry together as a very tough year winds down.”
  
  Discussing the company’s product presentation at MAD 7, Jolly added, “Scientific Games continues to work tirelessly, planning and creating new products for the gaming industry’s recovery.
  
  “We are highlighting our upcoming branded slot game ‘James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever’ during the event.
  
  “Also coming in 2021 in our slots line up is the third Duo Fu Duo Cai game on DualosX, ‘Hurricane Horse’, and fourth Jin Ji Bao Xi game – ‘Singing Cats’ – adding to both successful families of games. Additionally, 1,2,3 Wild, a new link progressive, is also coming in early 2021.
  
  “Game changers on the Shufflers and Utilities side are the MDX shuffler, which has up to 10 decks shuffling and sorting capacity. The new Safe-Shoe X also has a 10 deck capacity that works seamlessly with the new iScore®Ultra baccarat display. It is the winning combination for any baccarat gameplay.”

  

  MAD is a regular series of industry networking social events held in Asia’s gaming hub of Macau. Each MAD brings together key industry decision-makers with the people they want to meet in a relaxed and friendly environment. A new venue is chosen for each event.
  
  Attendees of MAD must work for an operator, a supplier to an operator, a VIP promoter or be connected to the industry in some way. All attendees supply their business cards upon entrance.
  
  For the upcoming MAD Santa event on 11 December, attendees must be invited to attend.
  
  For sponsorship, please contact:
  Jadeson Ho
  +853 2883 6497
  [email protected]
  
  For more information, please contact:
  Victoria Man
  +853 6395 2307
  [email protected]

  
  

  2021: Dallas String Quartet at Ozark Christian College, Joplin, Missouri.

  

  Saturday 11 December 2021
  Dallas String Quartet

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.songkick.com/concerts/39973634-dallas-string-quartet-at-ozark-christian-college

  Ozark Christian College, Joplin, MO, US
  Dallas String Quartet live
  
  Ozark Christian College
  1111 N Main 64801 Joplin, MO, US

  We had a great time at the concert. Such a nice venue, with all the trees lit up and reflecting in the lake in the background. Really enjoyed their mash-up of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the James Bond theme …

  Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy/James Bond - DSQ Electric
  

  

  
  2022: Golden Hits of James Bond with the accompaniment of a symphony orchestra at Gdanks, Poland.

  

  

  Golden Hits of James Bond with the accompaniment of a
  symphony orchestra

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=view&id=44506

  11 December 2022
  Gdansk
  (Poland) 
  Grand Royal Orchestra conducted by Bartosz Olejnik - Polska Filharmonia Baltycka
  
  Program Info:
  The Grand Royal Orchestra
  Bartosz Olejnik, conductor
  Bogusław Kaczmar, piano
  Michał Kapczuk, bass guitar
  Michał Dziewiński, drums
  Grzegorz Wanatowicz, guitar

  Golden Hits of James Bond with the accompaniment of a symphony orchestra is an absolutely unique spectacle, during which excellent vocalists will create for you songs and leitmotifs for subsequent films with the adventures of a super agent that immediately enter the canon of world music, not only film.
  
  In the role of 007 agent in the service of Her Majesty - Winner of the Golden Mask, showman, actor, singer Kamil Franczak - Franek. Vocalist, presenter, songwriter. Stage actor-external with ZASP verification. In the years 2004-2013 he was the vocalist of the rock band Zero Procent, with which he played several hundred concerts all over Poland. They presented themselves to a wider audience on TVP1 Śpiewaj i Walcz concert Debiuty at the 47th National Festival of Polish Song in Opole (2010), where they performed famous Polish hits in arrangements characteristic of their style. Thanks to the viewers' votes, they joined the group of laureates in each of these TV adventures. They have released their debut album Inevitable and Inevitable , which was released in June 2012.
  Kamil Franczak has taken part in many TV programs, such as Idol , Yes, it was flying! or The Voice Of Poland. He also hosted the youth program Level 2.0 , broadcast on TVP2, gaining experience necessary for the work of a TV presenter. He made his acting debut in the Spring Awakening . From February 2012, he worked with the theater full-time, initially as a member of the vocal ensemble of the Entertainment Theater, and later - as an actor. He sings as a soloist in New Year's Eve and entertainment concerts. Kamil Franczak was a finalist in the third edition of the Wojciech Młynarski Festival.
  
  On an extraordinary musical journey in the footsteps of the most famous agent in the world, James Bond will be accompanied by beautiful women and outstanding artists in the secret service of Her Majesty! Also the unique Grand Royal Orchestra composed of the best Polish and foreign musicians. They have worked with such celebrities as: Gordon Hascel, Ewa Uryga, Basia Trzetrzelewska, Mieczysław Szcześniak, Krystyna Prońko, Zbigniew Wodecki, Eric Marienthal, Ute Lamper, Kevin Robinson, Bill Prince, Krzesimir Dębski, Adam Sztaba, Maciej Niesiołowski.

  The program was created on the basis of the greatest hits from eleven of the most popular films about the adventures of a super agent.

  

  
  2022: Bond Symphonic European Philharmonia conducted by Walter Proost - La Sucrerie at Belgium.

  

  

  Bond Symphonic

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=view&id=43897

  11 December 2022
  Waver (Belgium) 
  European Philharmonia conducted by Walter Proost - La Sucrerie
  
  Program Info:
  European Philharmonia
  Gene Thomas, soloist
  Eva Jane Smeenk, soloist
  Astrid Stockman, soloist
  
  Immortal music from the James Bond films.

  The James Bond films have produced many melodies that are among the best film music. The title songs are often sung by popular singers and performed by renowned bands. Think of Shirley Bassey at Goldfinger or Madonna and now also Billie Eilish. On Friday, October 23, this music is brought to life symphonic in Kursaal Oostende by the European Philharmonia with soloists Gene Thomas, Eva Jane Smeenk and none other than Astrid Stockman.
  
  With music from John Barry, Monty Norman and others

  

  
  
  
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  RichardTheBruce wrote: »

  December 5th
  1923: Norman Burton is born--New York City, New York.
  (He dies 29 November 2003 at age 79--Imperial, California.)
  ...

  Accidental re-post? You've had Dec. 5 already. although not identical except for the beginning. Was it meant to be the 11th instead this time?
  
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  Yes thanks @j_w_pepper, returning from travel and switching devices something I preloaded reverted to a week prior. Fixing it now.
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  December 12th
  
  1964: The Goldfinger soundtrack makes the Billboard chart, eventually reaches #1. Spends 77 weeks in top 200.
  1964: Playboy magazine publishes its Ian Fleming interview.

  

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

  
  

  1987: 007/リビング・デイライツ (007/ Ribingu deiraitsu; Living Daylights) released in Japan.

  
  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 64 of 65 - "Northern Lights."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Northern Lights

  Season 1 - Episode 64
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807110/?ref_=ttep_ep64
  

  The Warfield students arrive in Toronto on a clean-up project, unaware that Baron von Skarin is also in town with a scheme to hold the city's electricity for ransom.

  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 / Nick Nack / Scumlord (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 / Jaws (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 64 - Northern Lights
  
  

  
  
  
  

  1993: The (James Bond 007 International Fan Club's) "Diamonds are Forever 22-Carat Christmas Lunch" is held at Pinewood Studios with Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, and the moon buggy.

  

  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the UK, Ireland, and Iceland.

  

  
  2002: Die Another Day released in Australia, the Dominican Republic, and Lebanon.
  2002: 007: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Mexico.

  
  

  2002: Умри, но не сейчас (Die But Not Now) released in Russia.

  

  
  2014: Spectre films at Solden, Austria, near the glacier and through the tunnel.
  2016: Jamaica reports its nine wins at the 23rd World Travel Awards from 4 December.

  

  JAMAICA WINS NINE AWARDS AT
  WTA CEREMONY

  https://www.un.int/jamaica/news/jamaica-wins-nine-awards-wta-ceremony
  Date: Monday, 12 December 2016
  
  MONTEGO BAY, Dec. 4 (JIS):
  Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the nine awards won by Jamaica at the 23rd World Travel Awards (WTA) ceremony on Friday (December 2) are a testament to the current international value of Brand Jamaica.
  
  Mr. Bartlett said the awards were a vindication of all the hard work and dedication that have been put into enhancing the tourism product and “a ringing endorsement of all the policies and programmes we have been undertaking.”
  
  “Jamaica starred big time and had the most combined awards from the scores of destinations that were nominated,” Mr. Bartlett said via email from the Maldives, southern Asia, on Saturday (December 3).
  
  “It is not an exaggeration to say that the garnering of such prestigious accolades, on such a stage and on that particular night, will be a major advertising boost for us and something which could positively improve on our projections throughout the winter tourist season,” he added.
  
  The ceremony, which was held at the Sun Siyam Iru Fushi Hotel in the heart of the Maldives, saw Jamaica winning individual awards for: World’s Leading Cruise Destination and World’s Leading Wedding Destination.
  
  Mr. Bartlett also received the distinctive award of the World’s Leading Personality for Outstanding Services to Travel at the function.

  Other awards won by Jamaica and its resorts and travel partners were: World’s Leading Luxury Hotel Villa (Ian Fleming Villa at GoldenEye); World’s Leading New Island Resort (Melia Braco Village); World’s Leading Villa Resort (Round Hill Hotel and Villas); World’s Leading Family Resort Brand (Beaches); World’s Leading All-Inclusive Company (Sandals Resorts International) and World’s Leading Caribbean Attractions Company (Island Routes Caribbean Adventure).

  Meanwhile, Mr. Bartlett stressed that now is not the time for complacency as “rest assured that as we celebrate, our competitors are busy plotting marketing strategies”.
  
  “We must also be cognisant of the fact that the success of our tourism will not be sufficiently measured by the number of international awards that are won, but by the resilience of our people and the nimbleness of our models,” he explained.
  
  He added that the consistency of Jamaica’s tourism growth, both in revenues and visitor arrivals, has positioned the country as world-beaters.
  
  “I offer my deepest and most profound gratitude to the many partners in tourism who over time have conspired to give Jamaica a moment of glory like this,” Mr. Bartlett noted.
  
  Jamaica was also represented at the ceremony by Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang who collected the award for World’s Leading Cruise Destination on behalf of the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ).
  
  CONTACT: GARWIN DAVIS
  JIS REGIONAL OFFICE
  MONTEGO BAY

  2018: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond Origin #4.
  Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND ORIGIN #4

  
  Cover A: John Cassaday
  Cover B: Kev Walker
  Cover C: Wilfredo Torres
  Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
  Cover E: Bob Q
  Writer: Jeff Parker
  Art: Bob Q
  Genre: Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: December 2018
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 12/12/2018

  "Rocket Sea" continues...Forced to surface in enemy waters, a damaged Royal Navy submarine docks at a mysterious island for repairs. Lieutenant James Bond leads a hunting expedition across the island. But while hunting beasts, he discovers a far more dangerous prey...

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: On Her Majesty's Secret Service screened at Portland, Oregon.

  

  On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/on-her-majestys-secret-service/

  PG 142 minutes
  
  Cast: Diana Rigg, George Lazenby, Telly Savalas
  Director: Peter R. Hunt
  Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
  Release: December 19, 1969

  Movie Synopsis
  George Lazenby steps into the role of James Bond and is sent on his first mission. For help with Marc-Ange Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti), he must become very close friends with his daughter, Teresa “Tracy” (Dame Diana Rigg), and heads off to hunt down Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas) one more time. This takes him to Switzerland, where he must pose as Sir Hilary Bray to find out the secret plan of Blofeld. The facility is covered with Blofeld’s guards, as well as his henchwoman, Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat). What does Blofeld have in mind this time? Can Bond keep up this act for much longer? Are any Bond Girls safe?

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  December 13th
  
  1915: Curd Jürgens is born--Solin, Munich, Germany.
  (He dies 18 June 1982 at age 66--Vienna, Austria.)

  

  CURT JURGENS, WAR FILMS' STAR

  https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/19/obituaries/curt-jurgens-war-films-star.html
  UPI | JUNE 19, 1982
  
  Curt Jurgens, the West German movie actor who was a star of countless World War II films, died in a hospital here today. He was 66 years old.
  
  Mr. Jurgens had been hospitalized for the last two months. Friends said he had refused to reduce his activities despite years of heart trouble and the replacement of three heart valves in an operation in the United States two years ago.
  
  His physician, Dr. Anton Neumayr, said he had been making progress up to a week ago but suffered a relapse Monday. Mr. Jurgens, who made more than 160 films, began his film career in 1936 with ''Imperial Waltz.'' He established himself internationally with performances in ''The Enemy Below'' in 1957 and a year later in ''Inn of the Sixth Happiness,'' co-starring with Ingrid Bergmann.

  Mr. Jurgens went on to star in such films as ''The Blue Angel'' (1958), ''I Aim at the Stars'' (1959), ''Nicholas and Alexandra'' (1971) and the James Bond thriller ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977).

  Born in Munich, Dec. 13, 1915, the son of a Hamburg tradesman and a French teacher, Mr. Jurgens's personality was a blend of German roughness and Southern charm. Swedish fans dubbed him the ''Viking with steel eyes.'' In Love With Screen Partners
  
  Mr. Jurgens once said he enjoyed acting alongside any actress. ''Every time I fall madly in love with the woman I make love with on the screen,'' he said.
  
  A strong believer in love at first sight, he was married five times, to three actresses - Lulu Basler, Judith Holzmeister and Eva Bartok - and to the model Simone Bicheron, before marrying Margie Schmitz in 1978.
  
  With a taste for the romantic and extravagant, he once said the things he liked best were ''comfort, women, whisky, marriage and work.''
  
  Mr. Jurgens owned a luxury villa on France's Cote d'Azur and a house in Lausanne, Switzerland. But his favorite retreat was a farm he owned in Vence, France, with a house consisting of just one big room with a bath for two sunken in front of a fireplace.

  

  Curd Jürgens (1915–1982)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0432007/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (169 credits)
  
  1982 Smiley's People (TV Mini-Series) - The General
  - Episode #1.2 (1982) ... The General
  - Episode #1.1 (1982) ... The General
  1981 Collin (TV Movie) - Hans Collin
  1981 Assassination Attempt - Maître Legraine
  1980 The Sleep of Death - Count St. Alyre
  1980 Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen - UFO Commander
  
  1979 Berggasse 19 (TV Movie) - Siegmund Freud
  1979 The Other One's Mug - Wilfrid
  1979 Goldengirl - Dr. Serafin
  1979 Breakthrough - Gen. Hofmann
  1979 Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident - Baron Marchant (as Curt Jurgens)
  1978 Just a Gigolo - Prince
  1978 Im Zweifel für den Angeklagten (TV Movie) - Clarence Darrow
  1978 Tatort (TV Series) - Konrad Pfandler
  - Rot - rot - tot (1978) ... Konrad Pfandler
  1977 La lunga strada senza polvere - Cameo (uncredited)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Karl Stromberg (as Curt Jurgens)[/b]
  1977 La foire (TV Movie) - Alexis B., le grand-père
  1976 The Twist - Le bijoutier / Jeweller
  1976 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Standesbeamter
  - Episode #3.2 (1976) ... Standesbeamter
  1976 As of Tomorrow - Senator Shelton
  1976 Auch Mimosen wollen blühen - Josef Popov
  1976 Povero Cristo -Man Engaging Giorgio
  1975 Second Spring - Fox
  1975 Derrick (TV Series)- Paul Bubach
  - Madeira (1975) ... Paul Bubach
  1975 Die gelbe Nachtigall (TV Movie) - Schauspieler Korz
  1975 Cagliostro - Cardinal Braschi (as Curd Jurgens)
  1974 Galileo (Short) - 1974 Radiografia di una Svastika
  1974 Fräulein Else (TV Movie) - Dorsday
  1974 Les flocons rouges (TV Movie) - Gunther Richter
  1974 Fall of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Otto von Bismarck
  - The Honest Broker (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
  - The English Princess (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
  1974 Undercovers Hero - General von Grotjahn (as Curt Jurgens)
  1973 Occupation (TV Series)
  1973 3. November 1973 (TV Movie) - Ölmillioär
  1972-1973 Der Kommissar (TV Series)
  Harald Bergmann / Dr. Hochstätter
  - Ein Mädchen nachts auf der Straße (1973) ... Harald Bergmann
  - Traum eines Wahnsinnigen (1972) ... Dr. Hochstätter
  1973 Profession: Adventurers - Alvarez
  1973 The Vault of Horror - Sebastian (segment "This Trick'll Kill You") (as Curt Jurgens)
  1972 War Is Hell - Russian general
  1971 Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! - Grueningen
  1971 Nicholas and Alexandra - The German Consul (as Curt Jurgens)
  1971 Two Males for Alexa - Ronald Marvelling
  1971 Nurses for Sale - Käpt'n Markus Jolly
  1971 The Mephisto Waltz - Duncan Ely (as Curt Jurgens)
  1970 Millionen nach Maß (TV Mini-Series) - Carlos Ribeiro
  - Bitte, zur Kasse (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
  - Wir zahlen bar (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
  1970 French Intrigue - Henri Emery
  1970 Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli - Konrad Johannsen
  1970 Hello-Goodbye - Baron De Choisis (as Curt Jurgens)
  1970 The Invincible Six - Baron
  1970 Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli - Kommissar Canisius
  1970 Slap in the Face - Thomas Nathan Terbanks
  
  1969 The Battle of Neretva - Lohring
  1969 Battle of Britain - Baron von Richter (as Curt Jurgens)
  1969 The Bedroom - Hannes Teversen
  1969 Battle of the Commandos - Gen. von Reilow (as Curd Jurgens)
  1969 The Assassination Bureau - Gen. von Pinck (as Curt Jurgens)
  1968 Les yeux crevés (TV Movie) - Gottfried von Esch (scenes deleted)
  1968 Babeck (TV Mini-Series) - Der Mann im Rollstuhl
  - Tödliche Geschäfte (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
  - Das Geheimnis der Calasetta (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
  1968 Bedroom Stewardesses - Dr. Jan Diffring
  1968 OSS 117 Murder for Sale - Il Maggiore - il capo dei gangster
  1968 Le fil rouge (TV Movie) - Sigmund Freud
  1967 Dirty Heroes - Gen. Edwin von Keist
  1967 Der Lügner und die Nonne - The cardinal
  1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Carl Von Kesser
  - The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
  - The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
  1966 Der schwarze Freitag (TV Movie) - Richard Whitney
  1966 The Gardener of Argenteuil - Le Baron Edouard de Santis
  1966 Target for Killing - Gérard van Looch / Giant
  1966 Congress of Love - Czar Alexander I
  1966 An Affair of States - Dave O'Connor
  1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series)
  1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Stefan von Cramer
  1965 Lord Jim - Cornelius (as Curt Jurgens)
  1965 They're Too Much - Kurt Lehnert
  1964 Psyche 59 - Eric Crawford (as Curt Jurgens)
  1964 Pariahs of Glory - Ludwig Goetz
  1964 Begegnung in Salzburg - Hans Wilke, General Director
  1964 Hide and Seek - Hubert Marek
  1964 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) - Kleinerts
  - The Hell Walkers (1964) ... Kleinerts
  1963 Nutty, Naughty Chateau - Hugo Falsen
  1963 Of Love and Desire - Paul Beckmann (as Curt Jurgens)
  1963 Berlin-Melodie - Vom Zille-Ball zum Jazzlokal (TV Movie)
  1963 Miracle of the White Stallions - Gen. Tellheim (as Curt Jurgens)
  1963 Three Penny Opera - Captain Macheath
  1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Husband
  - Die Phantasten (1963) ... Husband
  1962 Beach Casanova - Mr. Edmond (as Curd Jurgens)
  1962 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Amatole Respighi
  - The Great Anatole (1962) ... Amatole Respighi (as Curt Jurgens)
  1962 The Longest Day - Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt (as Curt Jürgens)
  1962 Disorder - Carlo's Father (as Curd Jurgens)
  1961 Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
  1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour - Cliff MacHardy
  1960 Gustav Adolfs Page - König Gustav Adolf
  1960 Brainwashed - Werner von Basil
  1960 I Aim at the Stars - Wernher von Braun
  
  1959 Adorable Sinner - Czar Alexander II
  1959 The Blue Angel - Professor Immanuel Rath (as Curt Jurgens)
  1959 Ferry to Hong Kong -Mark Conrad (as Curt Jurgens)
  1959 Time Bomb - Eric Muller
  1958 Duel in the Forest - Johann 'Schinderhannes' Bückler
  1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - Capt. Lin Nan (as Curt Jurgens)
  1958 Me and the Colonel - Colonel Prokoszny (as Curt Jurgens)
  1958 This Happy Feeling - Preston Mitchell (as Curt Jürgens)
  1958 Tamango - Captain John Reinker
  1957 The Enemy Below - Von Stolberg (as Curt Jurgens)
  1957 Les espions - Alex
  1957 An Eye for an Eye - Dr. Walter
  1957 Bitter Victory - Major Brand
  1956 Michael Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
  1956 The House of Intrigue - Colonel Bernes (as Curt Jurgens)
  1956 ...And God Created Woman - Eric Carradine (as Curd Jurgens)
  1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht - Dr. Robert Kessler
  1956 The Golden Bridge - Balder
  1956 Teufel in Seide - Thomas Ritter
  1955 Du mein stilles Tal - Gerd
  1955 Heroes and Sinners - Wolf Gerke (as Curd Jüergens)
  1955 Die Ratten - Bruno Mechelke
  1955 Love Without Illusions - Walter
  1955 The Devil's General - General Harry Harras
  1955 Du bist die Richtige - Stefan Selby
  1954 Afraid to Love - Paul Kahr
  1954 Orient Express - Bate
  1954 Prisoners of Love - Willi Kluge
  1954 Circus of Love - Toni
  1954 Eine Frau von heute - Heinz Bender
  1954 Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline - Pat
  1953 Alles für Papa - Clemens Haberland
  1953 The Last Waltz - Rittmeister Graf Sarassow
  1953 Music by Night - Hans Kersten
  1953 Man nennt es Liebe - Peter Malmö
  1953 Praterherzen - Toni Brandstetter
  1952 Rose of the Mountain - Composer Jack Long
  1952 1. April 2000 - Capitano Herakles
  1952 Knall und Fall als Hochstapler - John Vandergold
  1952 Haus des Lebens - Axel Jolander
  1951 Gangsterpremiere - Kommissar
  1951 Der schweigende Mund - Architekt Reinhold
  1951 Geheimnis einer Ehe - Dirigent Felix Adrian
  1951 Ein Lächeln im Sturm - Jean Langrand
  1950 Eine seltene Geliebte - Sascha Borotraz
  1950 Die gestörte Hochzeitsnacht - Lawrence Vinning
  1950 Kissen Is No Sin - Kammersänger, Felix Alberti
  1950 Der Schuß durchs Fenster - Dr. Winkler
  1950 Prämien auf den Tod - Gunarson, Operntenor
  
  1949 Young Girls of Vienna - Graf Lechenberg
  1949 Hexen - Heinz Wagner
  1949 Lambert Is Threatened - Roland
  1949 Das Kuckucksei - Dr. Kurt Walla
  1948 Verlorenes Rennen - George Miller
  1948 The Heavenly Waltz - Clemens M. Weidenauer
  1948 The Mozart Story - Emperor Joseph II
  1948 An klingenden Ufern - Stefan Keller
  1948 The Angel with the Trumpet - Graf Leopold Thraun
  1948 Hin und her - Prinz Bernardo von Lappalien
  1947 The Singing House - Bandleader Hans Storch
  1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie - Wolfgang Schwab
  1944 Ein Blick zurück - Dr. Erich Thienwiebel
  1943 Ein glücklicher Mensch - Petersen
  1943 Frauen sind keine Engel - Bandini
  1942 Wen die Götter lieben - Emperor Joseph II
  1942 Stimme des Herzens - Volontär Drews
  1940 Operette - Karl Millöcker
  1940 Herz ohne Heimat - Bob (uncredited)
  1940 Weltrekord im Seitensprung - Peter Enderlein - Kapellmeisster
  1939 Die gute alte Zeit (Short) - Fritz, Gretes Verlobter
  1939 Salonwagen E 417 - Prinz Heinrich Karl
  1938 The Girl of Last Night - Die drei Attachés (uncredited)
  1937 Tango Notturno - Ein Freund Jacs, Musiker (uncredited)
  1937 To New Shores - Bobby Wells' Freund
  1937 Liebe kann lügen - Student Holger Engström
  1936 The Unknown - Hans Wellenkamp
  1936 Familienparade - Graf Erik Stjernenhö
  1935 Königswalzer - Kaiser Franz Joseph von Österreich (as Kurt Jürgens)
  
  Director (6 credits)
  
  1979 Curd Jürgens: Bonn, wie ich es sehe (TV Movie documentary) (uncredited)
  1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series) (4 episodes)
  - Immer die Bigelows (1966)
  - Flug nach Ankara (1966)
  - Mit Brillanten und Schwertern (1966)
  - Sein letzter Einsatz (1966)
  1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour
  1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht
  1951 Gangsterpremiere
  1950 Prämien auf den Tod
  
  Soundtrack (4 credits)
  
  1994 Forsthaus Falkenau (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Irrungen und Wirrungen (1994) ... (performer: "60 Jahre und kein bißchen weise")
  1967 Schauspieler sind Schauspieler - Musikalische Seitensprünge (TV Movie) (performer: "Blacky Jones")
  1963 Three Penny Opera (performer: "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?", "Der Kanonensong", "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?" (reprise), "Zuhälter-Ballade", "Ballade vom angenehmen Leben", "Verfolgt das Unrecht nicht zu sehr" - uncredited)
  1957 The Enemy Below (performer: "So leben wir alle Tage" (Drinking Song) - uncredited)
  
  Writer (2 credits)
  
  1951 Gangsterpremiere (idea) / (co-writer)
  1950 Prämien auf den Tod (story and screenplay)
  Hide Hide Music department (1 credit)
  1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie (singer)
  

  
  
  
  

  
  1925: Dick Van Dyke is born--West Plains, Missouri.
  
  1941: Anouska Hempel (The Australian Girl) is born--Wellington, New Zealand.
  
  1958: Lynn-Holly Johnson is born--Chicago, Illinois.
  1958: The first Bond comic strip Casino Royale ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 7 July 1958. 1-138) John McLusky, artist. Anthony Hern, writer.

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

  Högt Spel I Monte Carlo
  (High Game In Monte Carlo - Casino Royale)
  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1981 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1981.php3

  Högt Spel I Monte Carlo
  (High Game In Monte Carlo - Casino Royale)
  

  
  Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/007jb-dk1-1965-eng/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 1: “Casino Royale” (1965)
  "Højt spil i Monte Carlo"
  [High Stakes in Monte Carlo]
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1964: The New York Times prints Richard Maibaum's piece "James Bond's 39 Bumps".

  

  James Bond's 39 Bumps

  http://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/13/james-bonds-39-bumps.html?_r=0
  RICHARD MAIBAUM - DEC. 13, 1964
  
  I ONCE told the late Ian Fleming that he wrote too well. Speaking strictly as a screenwriter, that is, who is handed a novel by a producer and told to trans­late it into celluloid. In the long run, of course, the di­rector does that, but the screenplay is his blueprint and has inherent in it the completed motion picture.
  
  Mr. Fleming seemed pleased, beaming when I as­cribed to him “an untrans­ferable literary quality,” but I’m sure he did not entirely realize I was paying him a left - handed compliment. Again from the standpoint of the screen dramatist.
  
  There is little doubt in my mind that the success of the Bond films stems directly from the success of the nov­els, their combination of ter­ror and elegance, sophisti­[cation]...
  
  Fleming's tongue‐in-cheek attitude toward his material (intrigue, expertise, violence, love, death) finds a rea­dy mass response in a world where audiences enjoy sick jokes. Incidentally, it is the aspect of Fleming which the films have most developed. Sometimes, I think, far be­yond what Fleming himself intended. He said as much to me once when he com­mented rather innocently, “Somehow the pictures seem funnier than my books.”
  
  Digging Deep
  Having said all this about the novels, it would appear that a screenwriter adapting them would feel like a for­tunate prospector discovering an inexhaustible mother‐lode of pure gold. And yet there are problems.
  
  A screenwriter is limited to setting down, as sugges­tion to the director, only what can be said and done by actors and what can be photographed by the camera­man. Lovely descriptive pass­ages; illuminating streams of consciousness revealing char­acter; great hunks of bril­liant, interesting exposition; carefully documented quasi­treatises; all must go.
  
  A case in point is a scene in Goldfinger in which Bond is strapped to a work­bench and menaced by an approaching circular saw. Somehow in the reading, be­cause Fleming writes so effectively, “The Perils of Pauline” do not immediately occur to one. Vividly depicted on the screen, however, we were sure audiences would find the episode old‐fashioned, hackneyed and ludicrous. What to do? We substitut­ed an industrial laser beam, a development as fresh as tomorrow, for the antiquated circular saw. Do I hear any­one asking sotto voce about the screenwriter's blushes? If he was the blushing type he wouldn't be doing Bond screenplays in the first place. Besides, it's all good clean fun, or so he tells himself.
  
  Logic is another problem. Once, as a young man, I worked as Writer Number 34, I think, for Alfred Hitchcock on Foreign Correspondent. I told him I thought a cer­tain situation was illogical. He looked at me sadly and replied, “Dear boy, don't be dull. I’m not interested in log­ic, but in effects. If the au­dience ever thinks about log­ic it's on their way home from the theater and by that time they’ve already paid for their tickets.”
  
  Verisimilitude
  Still there is a point be­yond which audiences will re­ject a film for too many abuses of actuality. In Gold­finger, for example, Flem­ing has Goldfinger, a suppos­edly criminal genius, plot to break into Fort Knox and steal 16 billion dollars worth of gold bullion. Fleming, bless him, in the best Hitchcockian tradition, never bothered his head about how long it would take to transport that amount of gold, or how many men and vehicles would be re­quired. Obviously, it would take weeks, hundreds of trucks and hundreds of men. The problem that faced us was not an easy one. Why, we...
  
  Rough Grind
  Then there is the question of “bumps.” Hitchcock once said to me, “If I have 13 ‘bumps’ I know I have a pic­ture.” By “bumps,” he meant, of course, shocks, highpoints, thrills, whatever you choose to call them. From the be­ginning, through Dr. No, From Russia With Love, and now with Goldfinger, Mr. Broccoli and Mr. Saltzman, the producers, and myself have not been content with 13 “bumps.” We aim for 39. Our objective has been to make every foot of film pay off in terms of exciting en­tertainment. Fleming, too, has his “bumps,” but not nearly enough for the kind of films we’re trying to make.
  
  Actually, Fleming himself, unlike many authors of well­-known literary works to be made into films, seemed un­usually complacent as to how his books were treated. The only question he ever asked...
  
  The actual characterization of James Bond (and we are lucky devils to have Sean Connery) was also a depar­ture from the novels. Both Terence Young and Guy Hamilton, our directors, shared and augmented the concept of Bond as visualized by the producers and myself. That concept retained a basic super‐sleuth, super‐fighter, super‐hedonist, super‐lover of Fleming's, but added another large dimension: humor. Hu­mor vocalized in wry com­ments at critical moments. In the books, Bond was singu­larly lacking in this.
  
  A bright young produc­er accord me one day with glittering eyes. “I’m making a parody of the James Bond films.” How, I asked myself, does one make a parody of a parody? For that is precisely, in the final analysis, what we have done with Fleming's books. Parodied them. I’m not sure that Ian himself ever completely realized this. Or perhaps I underestimate his perception. At any rate, he seemed happy with what we were doing.

  The writer adapted Dr. No, From Russia With Love,” and Goldfinger which opens at the DeMille and Coronet Theaters on Dec. 21, to the screen.

  This article can be viewed in its original form.
  query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C06E1D7143BE233A25750C1A9649D946591D6CF&src=DigitizedArticle
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  1969: 女王陛下の007 (Joô heika no 007, Her Majesty's OO7) released in Japan. That's ahead of UK 18 December, US 19 December.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1973: Live and Let Die released in the Netherlands.
  1973: Å leve og la dø (To Live and Let Die) released in Norway.

  

  1973: Lev og lad dø (live and Let Die) released in Denmark.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/category/film/lev-og-lad-doe-live-and-let-die-1973/
  

  
  1984: A View to a Kill films the death of Bob Conley.

  A View to a Kill (1985) - Mine Massacre
  

  1985: Ölüme Bir Bakis (A Look to Death) released in Turkey.

  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 65 of 65 - "Thor's Thunder." In Norway!
  And I'm glad that's over.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Thor's Thunder

  Season 11 - Episode 65
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807128/?ref_=ttep_ep65
  

  Captain Walker D. Plank and Skullcap are on the prowl in Norway to find Mjölnir, which gives infinite power to whoever wields it.

  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 Ed Gilbert 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 / Skullcap / Digger (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)
  Kath Soucie ... Olga (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 65 - Thors Thunder
  
  

  
  
  

  1997: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre premieres in Portugal.

  

  
  2002: Die Another Day released in Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay.
  2002: ดาย อนัทเธอร์ เดย์ 007 พยัคฆ์ร้ายท้ามรณะ (Dāy xnạth ṭhex r̒ dey̒ - 007 phyạkhḳh̒ r̂āy tĥā mrṇa; 007 Deadly Tiger) released in Thailand.
  
  2014: EON make a public statement regarding recent incidents at Sony involving hackers absconding with their Spectre script.

  Film News
  

  Hackers vs. James Bond: 'SPECTRE' script
  stolen in Sony attack

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sony-cybersecurity-bond/hackers-vs-james-bond-spectre-script-stolen-in-sony-attack-idINKBN0JR0ML20141213

  December 13, 20144:28 PM | By Reuters Staff

  
  Actors Lea Seydoux, Daniel Craig and Monica Bellucci (L-R) pose on stage during an event to mark the start of production for the new James Bond film "Spectre", at Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, southern England December 4, 2014.
  REUTERS/Stefan Wermuth

  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Early villains have emerged in the next James Bond film “SPECTRE”: hackers who stole a version of the screenplay as part of a devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures.
  
  Producers of the James Bond films said they learned on Saturday morning that an early version of the “SPECTRE” script was among material stolen and made public by hackers who infiltrated computers at the Sony studio.

  “Eon Productions is concerned that third parties who have received the stolen screenplay may seek to publish it or its contents,” Eon said in a statement, while warning that the script is protected by U.K. copyright laws.

  “SPECTRE,” starring Daniel Craig as 007, is set for release on Nov. 6, 2015. Filming began this month after producer Barbara Broccoli and director Sam Mendes unveiled the title, cast and new car, but little about the plot.
  
  “I was so excited to tell this story but to explain why, I would have to tell you the plot and I can’t do that,” said Mendes at the presentation in England, a reminder of Sony’s might in the movie world.
  
  The Bond franchise is one of the most lucrative for Sony Pictures and the last installment “Skyfall” brought in $1.1 billion worldwide, more than any other Bond film.
  
  A Sony spokesman said news reports that the cyberattack forced the studio to stop production on films, including “SPECTRE,” were wrong.
  
  “Productions are still moving forward,” Robert Lawson told Reuters.
  
  Hackers launched an attack on the Sony Corp. entertainment arm on Nov. 24, disabling the computer network and stealing and leaking a trove of sensitive information in the most severe cyberattack on a company on U.S. soil. The identity of the hackers has yet to be determined.
  
  Reporting by Mary Milliken in Los Angeles and Mike Davidson in London; Editing by David Gregorio
  
  Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

  EON Productions issued the following statement today (13th December, 2014):

  OFFICIAL STATEMENT
  EON PRODUCTIONS, the producers of the James Bond films, learned this morning that an early version of the screenplay for the new Bond film SPECTRE is amongst the material stolen and illegally made public by hackers who infiltrated the Sony Pictures Entertainment computer system.
  
  Eon Productions is concerned that third parties who have received the stolen screenplay may seek to publish it or its contents.
  
  The screenplay for SPECTRE is the confidential information of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Danjaq, LLC, and is protected by the laws of copyright in the United Kingdom and around the world. It may not (in whole or in part) be published, reproduced, disseminated or otherwise utilised by anyone who obtains a copy of it. Metro-Goldwin-Mayer Studios and Danjaq LLC will take all necessary steps to protect their rights against the persons who stole the screenplay, and against anyone who makes infringing uses of it or attempts to take commercial advantage of confidential property it knows to be stolen.

  
  2022: Bond and Beyond by the NAC Orchestra at National Arts Centre, Southam Hall, Ottowa, Canada.

  

  

  Bond and Beyond

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://moviesinconcert.nl/index.php?page=view&id=43273

  13 January 2023
  Ottawa
  (Canada) 
  NAC Orchestra conducted by Michelle Merrill - National Arts Centre, Southam Hall

  Program Info:
  Join Her Majesty’s Secret Service for an unparalleled evening of music that brings the world’s favourite secret agent to Southam Hall. Guest conductor Michelle Merrill and the NAC Orchestra celebrate the superspy and the music that is as timeless as the man himself – with classics like Live and Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, Goldfinger, and Skyfall.
  
  Don’t miss this evening of undercover music at its best – because Nobody Does it Better than Bond. James Bond.

  With music from John Barry, Monty Norman, Paul McCartney, Marvin Hamlisch and others

  

  
  2022: The Academy theater screens On Her Majesty's Secret Service at Portland, Oregon.

  

  On Her Majesty’s Secret Service

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://academytheaterpdx.com/amy_movie/on-her-majestys-secret-service/

  PG 142 minutes
  
  Cast: Diana Rigg, George Lazenby, Telly Savalas
  Director: Peter R. Hunt
  Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
  Release: December 19, 1969

  Movie Synopsis
  George Lazenby steps into the role of James Bond and is sent on his first mission. For help with Marc-Ange Draco (Gabriele Ferzetti), he must become very close friends with his daughter, Teresa “Tracy” (Dame Diana Rigg), and heads off to hunt down Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas) one more time. This takes him to Switzerland, where he must pose as Sir Hilary Bray to find out the secret plan of Blofeld. The facility is covered with Blofeld’s guards, as well as his henchwoman, Irma Bunt (Ilse Steppat). What does Blofeld have in mind this time? Can Bond keep up this act for much longer? Are any Bond Girls safe?

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  December 14
  
  1923: Janet McLuckie Brown is born--Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
  (She dies 27 May 2011 at age 87--Hove, East Sussex, England.)

  

  Janet Brown

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Janet Brown
  Born Janet McLuckie Brown, 14 December 1923, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland
  Died 27 May 2011 (aged 87), Hove, East Sussex, England
  Occupation Actress, comedian, impressionist
  Years active 1946–2009[1]
  Spouse(s) Peter Butterworth (m. 1946; died 1979)​
  Children Tyler Butterworth (born 1959)
  Emma Butterworth (1962–1996) (deceased)

  Janet McLuckie Brown (14 December 1923 – 27 May 2011) was a Scottish actress, comedian and impressionist who gained considerable fame in the 1970s and 1980s for her impersonations of Margaret Thatcher. Brown was the wife of Peter Butterworth who was best known for his appearances in the Carry on films. Butterworth died in 1979 and Brown never remarried.
  
  Career
  Brown was born in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, and educated at Rutherglen Academy.
  
  During World War II, Brown enlisted in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and was the first female performer to take part in Stars in Battledress.
  
  She entered British film as an actress in 1948 noticeably in Folly to Be Wise (1952) then appeared in several British television series such as The Eric Barker Half-Hour (1952), How Do You View? (1952-1953) and Friends and Neighbours (1954).
  Margaret Thatcher impersonations

  Beginning with Margaret Thatcher's election as the leader of the Conservative Party in 1975, Brown gained increasing prominence because of her realistic impression of the Tory politician. She performed as Thatcher on BBC TV's Mike Yarwood Show, on BBC Radio's The News Huddlines, and on film in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.

  In 1979, Brown starred as Thatcher on the comedy album Iron Lady: The Coming of the Leader, written by Private Eye satirist John Wells and produced by Secret Policeman's Ball series co-creator/producer Martin Lewis and Not the Nine O'Clock News series co-creator/producer John Lloyd. The largely spoken 'song' "Iron Lady" was released as a single, and Brown promoted it on Top of the Pops as a new release, but it did not chart.
  
  She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1980 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.
  
  During the 1970s and 1980s, she was occasionally confused by some with fellow actress and comedienne Faith Brown because they had the same surname and were both best remembered for their Margaret Thatcher impersonations. In 1990, she recorded a spoken word sequence in her Margaret Thatcher voice for Mike Oldfield's album Amarok. Still acting in her 80s, her last role was as Old Lady Squeamish on the London West End stage in a production of Wycherley's The Country Wife at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, which opened in September 2007.
  
  She entitled her 1986 autobiography Prime Mimicker.
  
  Personal life
  Brown was married to Carry On actor Peter Butterworth from 1946 until his death in 1979. The two appeared alongside each other in the television comedy series, How Do You View? (1947–53), written by and starring Terry-Thomas. The couple had two children, a son, actor Tyler Butterworth (born 1959), and a daughter, Emma, who died in 1996, aged 34.
  
  Brown never remarried, spending the rest of her life in Hove, until her death following a brief illness in a nursing home in May 2011, aged 87. She is buried alongside her husband Peter Butterworth in Danehill Cemetery, in East Sussex.
  
  Filmography

  Title Year | Role | Notes
  
  Floodtide 1949 Rosie
  
  Folly to Be Wise 1953 Jessie Killegrew
  
  A Home of Your Own 1964
  Hey Boy! Hey Girl 1967
  The Adding Machine 1969 Fat Woman
  
  My Lover, My Son 1970 Mrs. Woods
  Bless This House 1972 Annie Hobbs
  Wombling Free 1977 Womble Voice
  
  For Your Eyes Only 1981 Margaret Thatcher, The Prime Minister
  
  Summer Solstice 2005 Mrs. Armstrong
  Underground Ernie 2006 Victoria Voice
  
  Zorro and Scarlet Whip Revealed! 2010 Mrs. McAlistair Voice, (final film role)

  

  Janet Brown (I) (1923–2011)

  Actress | Soundtrack
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0113789/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  "Iron lady"
  
  
  This Is Your Life
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1953: Vijay Amritraj is born--Madras, Madras State, India.
  
  1960: Gregory Ratoff (born 20 April 20 1897--Samara, Russian Empire) dies at age 63--Solothurn, Switzerland. Later in 1961, his widow sells the Casino Royale film rights to producer Charles K. Feldman for $75,000.
  1967: You Only Live Twice released in Australia.

  
  Daybill
  

  1967: 鐵金剛勇破火箭嶺 {Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò huǒjiàn lǐng; Iron King Kong Breaks Through Rocket Ridge) released in Hong Kong.

  
  

  
  1971: James Bond 007 - Diamantenfieber released in West Germany. Ahead of the US (17 December) and UK (30 December) dates.

  
  
  
  

  1974: 007 黄金銃を持つ男 (Ōgonjūwomotsuotoko; Man With Golden Gun) released in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1983: Never Say Never Again UK Royal Charity Premiere at the Warner West End Cinema, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  

  1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Stacey in the mine confirming Zorin's caper.
  
  1995: Aranyszem released in Hungary.

  https://vitrinfotok.blogspot.com/2018/01/aranyszem-goldeneye-1995.html
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies limited release in the Netherlands.
  
  2006: Surefone releases the single "You Know My Name".
  B-side: Soundgarden song "Black Hole Sun" acoustic version.

  
  

  2009: The Orient Express, featured in the From Russia With Love book and film, ceases operations. Replaced by high-speed trains and air travel. (The Venice-Simplon Orient Express train--an Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. private venture, now Belmond--still runs carriages circa 1920s-1930s from London to Venice and even the original Paris to Istanbul route.)
  
  2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Hammerhead #3.
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #3 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513025272203011
  Cover: Francesco Francavilla
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: December 2016
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  UPC: 725130252722 03011
  ON SALE DATE: 12/14

  After a massacre in Dubai, 007 closes in on the mysterious Kraken. But while investigating a mercenary safehouse in Yemen, Bond discovers the most advanced Q-Branch technology can sometimes prove less an asset than a liability. And a weapon is only as lethal as the man who wields it...

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: Dynamite Entertainment releases 007 #5.
  Marco Finnegan, artist. Phillip Kennedy Johnson, writer.

  

  007 #5

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513032194705011

  Writer: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
  Artist: Marco Finnegan
  Cover A: Tommy Lee Edwards
  Cover B: Marc Aspinall
  Cover C: Marc Laming
  Cover D: Soo Lee
  Genre: Spy Fiction Action Adventure
  Publication Date: December 2022
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32
  ON SALE DATE: 12/14/22

  JAMES BOND MUST PROTECT THE DICTATOR WHO ONCE MARKED HIM FOR DEATH!
  A few years ago, a dictator ordered his government to kill James Bond. Today, Bond is assigned to protect that dictator during his stay in London. Little does the dictator realize that Bond is also assigned to kill the dictator...

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: James Bond 007 Launch Party at Noon Whistle Brewing in Lombard, Illinois.

  

  

  Noon Whistle Brewing (Lombard, IL) James Bond 007 Launch
  Party Wed Dec

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/noon-whistle-brewing-lombard-il-james-bond-007-launch-party-wed-dec

  By RazerX

  James Bond 007 Launch Party at Noon Whistle Brewing in Lombard, IL.

  Where: 800 East Roosevelt Road, Lombard, IL 60148
  When: Wednesday Dec 14 2022 from 6:30pm 8:45pm. Finals at 9pm
  
  We will be running a FREE tournament on the new James Bond pinball machine.
  Time: 6:30pm 8:45pm. Finals at 9pm
  -Top 4 player scores qualify for finals.
  -Stern Insider Connect must be used to qualify.
  -Unlimited plays to qualify.
  
  Prizes for the top finishers include:
  -James Bond game grand champion plaque
  -James Bond game banner
  -James Bond game translite
  
  Some Noon Whistle Brewing swag will also be given away.
  
  https://pinside.com/pinball/events/noon-whistle-brewing-lombard-il-james-bond-007-launch-party-2022