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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2023 Posts: 13,785

  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 Thunderball 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
  
  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.
  
  "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.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2023 Posts: 13,785

  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
  
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  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
  
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  Morgan Freeman! Then it could be like Dark Knight. Oh, Dark Knight! Spluge!
  
  LeftHanded on Dec 8, 2008
  
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  #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
  
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  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
  
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  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
  
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  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
  
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  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
  
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  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
  
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  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
  
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  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
  
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  #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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  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: 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
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  € 25
  Organised by Carbon 12011
  
  Brussels Expo
  Place de Belgique, 1 1020 Laeken
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  December 2023 Posts: 13,785

  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" in Holland.

  

  

  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: 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
  
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  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" in England.

  

  

  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
  https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f1a93d8c468fac6e7d4ae36a2cb911ab4290b364/0_651_3771_2262/master/3771.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8b34749f5e69dee94f1f151ed69552fb
  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.
  https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c80da8e2dabb059ffa334a4d1f5b02f46b28a826/0_1502_4870_2922/master/4870.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7622d11c346b2ee914fd5e39673683f9
  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

  

  

  
  
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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
  

  
  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." in Arizona.

  

  

  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 ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Nick Nack (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Michael Gough ... Spoiler (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Dr.Derange (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (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 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
  
  Category:TV/Film -- posted at: 12:30am UTC

  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
  

  

  
  
  
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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" in Toronto, Canada.

  

  

  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.

  http://www.007magazine.co.uk/events/events_1993.htm
  

  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...

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  December 2023 Posts: 13,785

  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
  Please send questions and feedback to [email protected]

  

  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 again.

  

  

  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.

  
  
  
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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.

  http://007magazine.co.uk/news_nsna40-5.htm
  
  

  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

  
  

  
  
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  December 15th
  
  1948: Cassandra Harris is born--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
  (She dies 29 December 1991 at age 43--Los Angeles, California.)

  

  Cassandra Harris; TV, Movie Actress

  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-30-mn-878-story.html
  Dec. 30, 1991
  
  Cassandra Harris, movie and TV actress, died Saturday at USC Cancer Center after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 39 [correction: she was 43].
  
  Miss Harris was a native of Australia acclaimed for her beauty. She was included in Lord Patrick Lichfield’s book The World’s Most Beautiful Women and also appeared on the cover of British Vogue in addition to several other magazines.

  She probably was best known to film audiences as Countess Lisl in the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.

  The wife of Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, she had a recurring role as con-artist Felicia in her husband’s popular television series, “Remington Steele.”
  
  Miss Harris began her acting career as a child in Sydney, and at 16 won a scholarship to Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art. She eventually won Australia’s Best Actress Award and moved to England to appear in that country’s National Theatre.
  
  In addition to her work on the British stage, she starred in such British television productions as “All Out at Kangaroo Valley” and the “Dick Barton” and “The Boy Merlin” series.
  
  In addition to her husband, Miss Harris is survived by their three children, Charlotte, 19; Christopher, 18, and Sean William, 7.

  

  Cassandra Harris (I) (1948–1991)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364520/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actress (9 credits)
  
  1986 Five Days (Short) - Librarian
  1982-1985 Remington Steele (TV Series)
  Felicia / Anna Simpson / Catherine Simone
  - Steele Searching: Part 2 (1985) ... Felicia
  - Steele Searching: Part 1 (1985) ... Felicia
  - Woman of Steele (1984) ... Anna Simpson
  - Thou Shalt Not Steele (1982) ... Felicia / Catherine Simone
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Lisl
  1980 Rough Cut - Mrs. Lloyd Palmer
  1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Trudi Engel
  - The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Trudi Engel
  
  1979 Dick Barton: Special Agent (TV Series) - Melissa
  - Adventure One: Part 9 (1979) ... Melissa
  - Adventure One: Part 8 (1979) ... Melissa
  - Adventure One: Part 4 (1979) ... Melissa
  - Adventure One: Part 2 (1979) ... Melissa
  1978 Shadows (TV Series) - Ismena
  - The Boy Merlin (1978) ... Ismena
  1978 The Greek Tycoon - Cassandra
  1977 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Sares / Controller
  - Devil's Planet (1977) ... Sares / Controller
  
  Self (4 credits)
  
  2006 For Your Eyes Only: Bond in Greece (Video documentary short) - Herself
  1984 Late Night with David Letterman (TV Series) - Herself
  - Episode dated 20 November 1984 (1984) ... Herself
  1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
  1981 Saturday Night at the Mill (TV Series) - Herself
  - Episode #6.11 (1981) ... Herself
  
  Archive footage (4 credits)
  
  2018 Celebrity Page (TV Series) - Herself
  - Episode #4.57 (2018) ... Herself
  2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
  2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
  2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1958: Bond comic strip Live and Let Die begins its run in the Daily Express.
  (Ends 28 March 1959. 139-225) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.

  
  
  https://www.michaelmay.online/2014/07/
  
  
  
  http://www.the007dossier.com/007dossier/post/2014/09/15/Live-and-Let-Die-newspaper-comic-strip-1958
  
  
  
  https://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1414401
  
  214 https://www.comicartfans.com/galleryroom.asp?gsub=116429
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1970-71 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1970_1971.php3
  Swedish Semic Comic 1986 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

  Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die) 1971 | Leva Och Låta Dö (Live And Let Die) 1986
  

  
  Danish 1965 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-3-eng/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 3:
  “Live and Let Die” (1965)
  "Leve og lade dø"
  

  
  1965: Agente 007 - Operazione Tuono (Operation Thunder) released in Italy.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1966: You Only Live Twice films Tiger and Kissy at the volcano.
  
  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in the Netherlands.
  1977: 007: La espía que me amó released in Mexico.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1983: Never Say Never Again released in the UK and Australia. (Compare to US release 7 October.)

  
  
  
  

  1983: Nunca Mais Digas Nunca released in Portugal.

  

  1989: 007 - Permissão para Matar (Permission to Kill) released in Brazil.

  
  

  
  1995: GoldenEye released in Iceland and Switzerland.
  1995: 007: GoldenEye released in Mexico.
  1995: 007 Contra GoldenEye released in Brazil.

  

  1995: 007 ja kultainen silmä (007 and a Golden Eye) released in Finland.

  
  
  

  1995: Altin Göz (Golden Eye) released in Turkey.

  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Venezuela.
  
  2006: Casino Royale released in Pakistan and Uruguay.
  2006: 007: Cassino Royale released in Brazil.

  

  2006: ప్రపంచానికి ఒక్కడు (Prapanchaniki Okkadu; One to the World--Telugu title) released in India.
  
  2014: Vodka producer Belvedere showcases two limited edition 007 bottles at a London Film Museum launch party.

  

  Belvedere Is Making Sure That James Bond Will Actually Drink
  A Vodka Martini In The New ‘Spectre’ Movie

  businessinsider.com/belvedere-vodka-partners-james-bond-spectre-2014-12
  Lara O'Reilly - Dec. 15, 2014, 7:01 PM
  
  Belvedere, the luxury vodka brand owned by the LVMH Group, is partnering with the next movie in the James Bond franchise, Spectre.
  
  Harnessing Bond’s penchant for vodka martinis and his iconic “Shaken, not stirred” line, Belvedere becomes the official vodka of the movie, which is due for cinematic release next November from Sony Pictures Entertainment.
  
  The news will be something of a relief for Bond fans: In previous movies the spy had been seen (implausibly) drinking Heineken and (more plausibly) Smirnoff. Fans tend to forget he also drank Red Stripe in the first movie, Dr. No. The arrival of Belvedere will therefore pull Bond upmarket a bit.
  
  Sitting down with Business Insider at a suitably secretive London location this week (think "spies," that's all we're allowed to say,) Belvedere Vodka president Charles Gibbs told us the partnership marks the brand’s “biggest” marketing push to date, although he declined to divulge financial details. It is hoped the partnership will raise awareness of the brand globally and highlight Belvedere vodka's quality credentials.
  
  To kick off the partnership, Belvedere has created two (very large) 1.75l limited edition bottles, which it will showcase at a launch party at London's Film Museum tonight (December 15.)
  
  The MI6 bottle pays homage to 007's HQ, swapping the signature Belvedere blue ink with the color of green ink used by MI6 officials to sign documents. Belvedere has also replaced the iconic Belvedere Palace that appears on its bottles with an etching of the MI6 building. Only 100 of this bottle will be made, but they won’t be available to buy. Instead Belvedere plans to gift them to “Bond aficionados” and put them up for charity auctions.
  
  Here's the MI6 bottle:

  

  The second, more flashy bottle is called the 007 Silver Saber. The metallic bottle lights up, thanks to an in-built LED system. It will be available on sale next year "in selective distribution."
  
  Here's the 007 Silver Saber:

  

  Next year, the campaign will ramp up with TV, cinema, digital ads, additional special packs and events planned. As the film is still in production, Gibbs could not confirm exactly what role Belvedere will play in Spectre. Gibbs also turned coy when asked whether there was the possibility of partnering with one of the other brands paying for product placement in the film (Aston Martin is the only other brand confirmed to appear so far, although that doesn't seem a likely fit.)
  
  The main appeal of the partnering with the Bond franchise was its global reach beyond its core base of 25 to 40-year-old customers, but Gibbs also hopes the partnership will allow the aspirational Belvedere brand to "break through the clutter" of marketing messages from big-spending alcohol brands by associating with a "moment in popular culture."
  
  The martini story also allows Belevedere to authentically talk up the provenance of its ingredients. The vodka is made from Dankowskie Rye and blended with own water from its own source in Poland, all key messages the brand hopes will hit home with lapsed drinkers as well as those new to the brand. It is hoped that making Belvedere Bond's choice for a vodka martini will also encourage bartenders to push the product to their cocktail lists.
  
  LVMH, which also owns the Moët Hennessy brand, saw a 7% drop year on year in reported revenue in the first 9 months of 2014 to €2.63 billion. At the time of reporting, the company said the trend was reflective of a declining cognac market in China. It did not split out separate figures for Belvedere, but said the brand had "sustained volume growth."

  2014: Daniel Craig and Rory Kinnear are spotted on a boat on the Thames sans life jackets, Spectre filming.

  

  James Bond boat spotted in Spectre filming on Thames

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.mby.com/news/james-bond-boat-spotted-spectre-filming-thames-43822

  Chris Jefferies December 16, 2014

  
  Daniel Craig and Rory Kinnear were spotted in London yesterday when the
  latest James Bond boat was filmed cruising up the Thames

  The latest James Bond boat has been caught on camera as filming for the new 007 movie Spectre got underway on the Thames yesterday (15 December).
  
  Daniel Craig, playing her Majesty’s most famous fictional spy, was seen riding a black and grey RIB near Vauxhall.
  
  Holding onto a handrail on the bow, the star of Skyfall and Casino Royale cut a stark figure all in black. Presumably the producers decided that a luminous lifejacket would somewhat ruin the look.
  
  Accompanied by Rory Kinnear, who plays Mi6 chief of staff Bill Tanner, the James Bond actor made his way up the Thames in the bright December sunshine.
  
  Both men were flanked by a pair of armoured guards – seemingly members of the Marine Policing Unit who had landed a cameo role in the film.
  
  The latest James Bond movie, Spectre, is due out on 6 November 2015 and also stars Christoph Waltz as the chief villain.
  
  Previous Bond outings have seen starring roles for a Fairey Huntress (From Russia With Love), a Glastron GT150 (Live and Let Die) and a Sunseeker XS2000 (Casino Royale).
  
  For more James Bond boat action, read our list of the Top 5 James Bond boat chase scenes.
  https://www.mby.com/news/top-5-classic-james-bond-boat-chase-scenes/
  

  2015: Madame Tussauds in Hollywood exhibits six James Bonds in wax. George Lazenby headlines.

  
  

  
  2020: Dicebreaker reports on James Bond role-playing games.

  

  d007: How the all-but-forgotten
  James Bond RPG
  changed roleplaying
  
  Tomorrow Never Dice.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/james-bond-007-rpg/feature/james-bond-rpg-changed-roleplaying

  Feature by Rob Wieland Contributor
  Published on 15 Dec, 2020
  
  Perhaps it's wishful thinking that, were he real, James Bond could have stopped the wild ride that 2020 has been. Every day features a headline that feels like it could like it came out of one of his big action blockbusters, containing the potent mix of doomsday potent and ridiculous on-the-nose circumstances that can only be appreciated after a shaken, not stirred martini or two. With Bond’s next adventure, No Time To Die, delayed until next spring (or perhaps longer) due to the coronavirus, most fans will have to take solace in his previous adventures. But a lucky few can not only be Bond, but see how he changed the way game designers thought of creating RPGs.
  

  [MORE

  
  

  About James Bond 007:
  Role Playing In Her
  Majesty’s Secret Service
  Released: 1983
  https://www.dicebreaker.com/games/james-bond-007-rpg

  
  
  

  
  James Bond RPG - Character Creation (25:37)
  

  2021: No Time To Die released in the Philippines.
  
  2022: Michael Reed dies at age 93--United Kingdom.
  (Born 7 July 1929--Canada. Also reported as born Wandsworth, London, England.)

  

  Michael Reed

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reed_(cinematographer)

  Michael Reed (cinematographer)
  Born 7 July 1929
  Canada
  Died 15 December 2022 (aged 93)
  Occupation Cinematography
  Years active 1947–1990
  
  Michael Reed, BSC (7 July 1929 – 15 December 2022) was a Canadian-born British cinematographer who worked on several films from the 1950s to 1980s, including Dracula: Prince of Darkness and Shout at the Devil.[1]
  
  Career
  Through the early 1950s he worked in the camera department at Hammer Films as a clapper loader and focus puller on films such as The Man in Black and Meet Simon Cherry before becoming the director of photography on Hammer's The Ugly Duckling (1959) and several Hammer horror films. He acted as director of photography on several ITC television series such as Sword of Freedom, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Saint. At the same time he was 2nd unit Director of Photography on the James Bond films (Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice).[2]
  
  Reed graduated to big scale film-making with the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.
  
  Reed worked on such British television series as The New Avengers, Press Gang and Philip Marlowe, Private Eye.
  
  Personal life and death
  Reed died on 15 December 2022, at the age of 93.[3][4]
  
  Selected filmography
  Devil's Bait (1959)
  The Ugly Duckling (1959)
  The Devil Ship Pirates (1964)
  The Gorgon (1964)
  Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1965)
  Bang! Bang! You're Dead! (1966)
  Rasputin, the Mad Monk (1966)
  Prehistoric Women (1967)
  On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
  The Hireling (1973)
  Galileo (1975)
  The Stick Up (1977)
  Leopard in the Snow (1978)
  The Passage (1979)
  Loophole (1981)
  John Wycliffe: The Morning Star (1984)
  Wild Geese II (1985)
  God's Outlaw (1986)
  
  References
  "Michael Reed | Movies and Filmography". AllMovie.
  "Michael Reed". BFI.
  "In Memoriam of Cinematographer Michael Reed BSC 1929–2022". From Sweden with Love. 19 December 2022. Retrieved 20 December 2022.
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/biography-michael-reed?id=05162

  
  

  
  
  
  
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  December 16th
  
  1967: Bond comic strip The Hildebrand Rarity ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 29 May 1967. 429-602) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_op_review.php3
  
  https://www.slideshare.net/luisnarbona/james-bond-007-the-hildebrand-rarity-mu
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  India Star Comics https://www.comicsroyale.com/foreign-reprints#/star-comics/
  
  
  Swedish Semic 1986 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

  Ubåt Saknad! (The Hildebrand Rarity - Part 1) | Ubåt Saknad! (The Hildebrand Rarity - Part 2)
  

  
  Swedish Semic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

  Ubåt Saknas (Submarine Missing; The Hildebrand Rarity)
  

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

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 17: “The Hildebrand Rarity” (1969)
  "U-båd savnes" ("Submarine missing")
  
  
  
  

  1967: 007/カジノ・ロワイヤル (007/ Kajino rowaiyaru) released in Japan.

  
  
  

  
  1983: Never Say Never Again released in Ireland and Sweden.
  1983: Neka aldrig två gånger (Never Deny It Twice--Swedish title) released in Finland.

  

  1988: People Magazine votes Sean Connery the "Sexiest Man Alive".

  

  1989: Licence to Kill released in the Philippines.
  
  1995: 007 ゴールデンアイ (007 Gōruden'ai; 007 Golden Eye) released in Japan

  Japan

  
  
  

  1995: 007 골든 아이 (007 goal-deun ah-ee; 007 Golden Eye) released in the Republic of Korea.

  
  

  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies US premiere in Los Angeles, California.

  http://pbfiles.net/tnd/tnd-premiere3.html

  
  
  
  

  1997: El mañana nunca muere (The Tomorrow Never Die) released in Spain.
  (Catalan title El demà no mor mai or Tomorrow Does Not Die).

  

  
  1999: 新鐵金剛之黑日危機 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī hēi rì wéijī; New Iron King Kong's Black Sun Crisis) released in Hong Kong.

  
  

  1999: Svijet nije dovoljan released in Croatia.

  

  
  2002: The New York Times article "North Korea Denounces Bond Film" reports North Korea denounces Bond film.

  

  North Korea Denounces James Bond Film

  nytimes.com/2002/12/15/world/north-korea-denounces-james-bond-film.html
  By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE - DEC. 15, 2002

  North Korea issued a statement today denouncing the latest James Bond film, Die Another Day, for ''insulting the Korean nation.''

  ''The U.S. should stop at once the dirty and cursed burlesque'' the official Korean Central News Agency said, citing a bulletin by the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland.
  
  In the film, the fictional secret agent 007 is captured in North Korea and tortured. He also has sex in a Buddhist temple.
  
  The film is ''a deliberate and premeditated act of mocking at and insulting the Korean nation,'' the news agency said, citing the bulletin, and shows that the United States is ''the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation,'' ''an empire of evil'' and ''the headquarters that spreads abnormality, degeneration, violence and fin-de-siècle corrupt sex culture.''

  

  
  2014: Spectre films at Notting Hill.

  
  

  
  2020: That 1969 Mercury Cougar goes to auction at Bonhams.

  

  1969 Mercury Cougar from James Bond 007
  film ready to shake up the auction block

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://granthshala.com/1969-mercury-cougar-from-james-bond-007-film-ready-to-shake-up-the-auction-block/

  Entertainment Hollywood | December 8, 2020
  
  The car was used in ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’, which featured George Lazenby as Bond
  
  Replica ‘Goldfinger’ Aston Martin DB5S will have smoke screen and machine gun
  
  The automaker is working with Aston Martin James Bond film franchise special effects supervisors to develop 25 entertainments of the iconic DB5 as seen in the 007 film ‘Goldfinger’. The coupes will be equipped with functional smoke screen generators, simulated oil slick spreaders, recoiling machine gun barrels that emanate from the front corner lights and allow lighted devices to be destroyed as well as other gadgets.
  
  When most people think that “James Bond”, George Lazenby is the last actor to play the role to come to mind. Likewise, the phrase “Bond car” probably does not cause the philosophy of the Mercury Cougar to dance in your head.
  
  But if by chance you are an outsider and you have some money, then we have good news.

  
  (Bonhams)

  Used in “On His Majesty’s Secret Service” by the 1969 Merger Cougar XR7, the only film to feature Lazenby as Bond is coming up for auction. Bonhams.
  
  The red convertible was not one of the 007 gadget-filled rides from the Q branch, but the property of Countess Tracy di Vicenzo of Diana Rigg, who (SPOILER ALERT) would become Mrs. Bond and complete an untimely end before the credit roll. .
  
  The “Avengers” chairman of Diana RIGG helped the Lotus Allen family
  
  According to Bonhams, four cars were used during production, it was driven in the snow during a memorabilia “Barn scene. “The car has had more than eight owners since the 1969 film was completed, but belongs to the same person since 1990 and was fully restored this year. Another cougar was damaged during a car chase. Gaya and later separated, while the other two are currently owned by the Ian Fleming Foundation and a private owner.

  
  (Bonhams)

  It is equipped with a 428-4V Cobra Jet Ram Air V-8 engine with Ram Air Induction, automatic transmission, screen-corrected French floating license plate and trunk rack fitted with classic Kneel skis.

  
  (Bonhams)

  The cougar is being offered appropriately at Bonham’s Bond Street event in London on 16 December, but bids can be submitted remotely. Pre-auction estimates for the car are $ 130,000 to $ 200,000.
  

  
  2021: Bloomsbury Publishing releases Fashioning James Bond - Costume, Gender and Identity in the World of 007 by Llewella Chapman.

  

  Fashioning James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/fashioning-james-bond-9781350145481/

  Description
  Fashioning James Bond is the first book to study the costumes and fashions of the James Bond movie franchise, from Sean Connery in 1962's Dr No to Daniel Craig in Spectre (2015). Llewella Chapman draws on original archival research, close analysis of the costumes and fashion brands featured in the Bond films, interviews with families of tailors and shirt-makers who assisted in creating the 'look' of James Bond, and considers marketing strategies for the films and tie-in merchandise that promoted the idea of an aspirational 'James Bond lifestyle'.
  
  Addressing each Bond film in turn, Chapman questions why costumes are an important tool for analysing and evaluating film, both in terms of the development of gender and identity in the James Bond film franchise in relation to character, and how it evokes the desire in audiences to become part of a specific lifestyle construct through the wearing of fashions as seen on screen. She researches the agency of the costume department, director, producer and actor in creating the look and characterisation of James Bond, the villains, the Bond girls and the henchmen who inhibit the world of 007. Alongside this, she analyses trends and their impact on the Bond films, how the different costume designers have individually and creatively approached costuming them, and how the costumes were designed and developed from novel to script and screen. In doing so, this book contributes to the emerging critical literature surrounding the combined areas of film, fashion, gender and James Bond.

  Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • 1: 'My tailor… Savile Row': Sean Connery (1962)
  • 2: 'Fitting Fleming's hero': Sean Connery (1963-1967)
  • 3: The Man with the Midas touch: Lifestyle, fashion and marketing in the 1960s
  • 4: 'Coming out of Burton's short of credit': George Lazenby (1969)
  • 5: 'Provided the collars and the cuffs match': Sean Connery (1971)
  • 6: 'Licence to frill': Roger Moore (1971-1975)
  • 7: Breaking his tailor's heart: Roger Moore (1976-1980)
  • 8: 'You can always spot a Hayward': Roger Moore (1980-1985)
  • 9: Licence to tailor revoked: Timothy Dalton (1987-1989)
  • 10: Cool Brioni: Pierce Brosnan (1995-2002)
  • 11: Slick trigger suits: Daniel Craig (2005-2008)
  • 12.You travel with a tuxedo? Daniel Craig (2010 – 2015)
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

  Product details
  Published 16 Dec 2021
  Format Hardback
  Edition 1st
  Extent 336
  ISBN 9781350145481
  Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
  Illustrations 8 colour and 46 bw illus
  Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
  Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

  
  
  

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  2021: Funko POP! Movies tentative release date for James Bond S2 - Pierce Brosnan (Golden Eye) Vinyl Figure.

  

  
  
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  December 17th
  
  1964: London premiere of Goldfinger.

  
  
  http://www.007magazine.co.uk/london_calling.htm
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1965: James Bond 007 - Feuerball (Jame Bond 007 - Fireball) released in West Germany.

  
  

  1965: Agent 007 i ilden (Agent 007 In the Fire) released in Denmark.

  
  
  

  1965: Åskbollen (The Thunderbolt) released in Sweden.

  
  
  
  
  

  1965: Opération Tonnerre (Operation Thunder) released in France.

  
  

  
  1968: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang released in the UK.

  

  1969: Honor Blackman is featured on This is Your Life, Thames TV. (They had to do it again 17 February 1993.)
  
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in US and Canada.

  
  
  
  

  

  1971: Diamanter varer evigt (Diamonds Last Forever) released in Denmark.

  
  
  
  

  1971: Agente 007 - Una cascata di diamanti (Agent 007 - A Cascade of Diamonds) released in Italy.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1973: Lev og lad dø released in Denmark.

  
  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/lald-dk-pressemateriale-1973/
  
  
  

  1973: Vive y deja morir released in Spain. (Catalan title Viu i deixa morir.)

  
  
  
  

  1975: Producer Harry Saltzman concludes the sale of his interests in the Bond franchise to United Artists, ending his partnership with Albert R. Broccoli.
  
  1982: Octopussy films OO7 and Octopussy attacked in her bedroom.
  
  1997: Mary Fanning Wickham Bond dies at age 89.
  (Born 8 Jun 1898.)

  

  Mary Wickham Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Bond__Mary_Fanning_Wickham

  Mary Wickham Bond
  6/8/1898 - 12/17/1997
  
  Primary Vocation: Literary
  Geographic Connection to Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Philadelphia County
  
  Novelist and memoirist Mary Wickham Fanning Bond was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia.
  Awards: Philadelphia Browning Society Gold Medal
  
  Abstract:
  Mary Fanning Wickham Bond was born in 1898 into a well-to-do family in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia. In the early 1950s she wrote her first bestseller, Device and Desire: a Novel of Bad Manners. While an accomplished writer, she is also known for her second marriage to James Bond, the namesake of the famous spy character. Bond passed away in 1997.
  
  Biography
  Mary Fanning Wickham Bond was born on June 8, 1898, the daughter of Samuel and Maria Porcher. Her father Samuel made a good living as the chief purchasing agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad. She was born into a life of privilege and was educated at a local private school. As a youth, she enjoyed such pastimes as horseback riding and attending debutante balls. Although born into this lifestyle, she never felt it dictated her behavior. Much to her father's dismay, her first job was selling at Wanamaker's. She was accepted to Bryn Mawr College around the time of World War I but chose instead to be an emergency aide, someone who volunteered as a nurse or air raid warden.

  Her first marriage was in 1930 to a man by the name of Shippen Lewis, a prominent lawyer in the region. This marriage lasted until 1952, when Lewis died. Two years later she married a man whose name would inspire one of the most wellknown fictional characters in history: James Bond.
  
  Author of spy novels, Ian Fleming, read James Bond's book Birds of the West Indies and gave his international spy the name James Bond. What was to Mary Bond the "dullest name in the world" would become one of the most wellknown, much to the chagrin of the real life James Bond and his wife. She didn't mind the attention much during the day, but her husband would get calls at 2 and 3 a.m. from women looking for James Bond. She would answer these calls irritably, saying "Yes, James is here, but this is Pussy Galore and he's busy now." Eventually, she set a meeting up between her husband and Ian Fleming, which led to them becoming friends and also inspired her 1966 book How 007 Got His Name (1966).

  Bond's writing career actually began in the 1920s and, although none of her seven novels were published, she did receive the Philadelphia Browning Society's gold medal in 1926 for her sonnet entitled "The Gift." She took a hiatus from writing novels but continued to write poetry, magazine articles, and short stories. Then, in the 1940s she found inspiration at a local library in the form of a book titled Unusual and Eccentric Wills. The book was about a rich Viennese man who left nine of his relatives $25,000 but with one condition: they all had to stay away from his funeral. The real twist was that anyone who did show up would receive his entire fortune. Bond transplanted this story into 1950s Philadelphia, and it resulted in her bestseller: Device and Desire (1949).

  In 1980, her book To James Bond with Love was published. In this book she chronicled her life married to James Bond. She accompanied her husband on his frequent trips to the Bahamas to gather information on birds. On one of these trips in February of 1964 they dropped in unannounced at Ian Fleming's Jamaica residence, an event she describes in comical detail. Apparently Mr. Fleming first thought that the Bonds may have dropped in unannounced to slap him with a libel suit for the theft of the name James Bond. This was not the case, and all went well with their meeting. Upon their departure, Fleming even presented them with a copy of his then latest novel, You Only Live Twice. On the fly cover Fleming had signed it "To the real James Bond, from the Thief of his Identity." The remainder of Bond's book describes their other adventures in the Caribbean, everything from traveling between islands on small boats and sleeping in less than desirable conditions, to how James proved through his work that birds in the West Indies originated in North America. She also wrote of these experiences in Far Afield in the Caribbean (1971).

  Mary Bond released her autobiography Ninety Years At Home In Philadelphia in 1988. Just one year later, James died in February of 1989.
  
  In 1997, Mary Bond died of congestive heart failure at the age of 99 in her home in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia.

  Selected Works:

  • Device and Desire: A Novel of Bad Manners. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1949.
  • The Petrified Gesture: A Novel. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1951.
  • How 007 Got His Name. London: Collins, 1966.
  • Far Afield in the Caribbean: Migratory Flights of a Naturalist's Wife. Wynnewood, PA: Livingston, Publishing, 1971.
  • To James Bond with Love. Lititz, PA: Sutter House, 1980.
  • White Swallow and Other Poems. Bar Harbor, ME: Bar Harbor Times Press, 1983.
  • Ninety Years At Home in Philadelphia. Pittsburgh: Dorrance Publishing, 1988.

  Sources:

  • Capuzzo, Michael. "A Philadelphia Lady Takes a Stroll Through the Century Mary Bond's New Book Coincides With Her 90th Birthday." Philadelphia Inquirer 5 June 1988: J01.
  • Contosta, David R. Suburb in the City. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992.
  • "Mary Fanning Wickham Bond." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale 2002. 25 Sept. 2011.
  • Wallace, Andy."Mary Fanning Bond, 99." Philadelphia Inquirer 17 Dec. 1997: B06.

  
  Photo Credit: rjschatz. "Photograph of Mary Wickham Bond." Photograph. Cropped to 4x3. Source: Online Resource.
  Rob Lutz
  Written by Rob Lutz, 2011; updated 2018

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Switzerland and Kuwait.
  1997: Demain ne meurt jamais released in France.

  
  

  1999: 007: Liiga kitsas maailm (007: Too Narrow a World) released in Estonia.
  
  2018: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings.

  http://www.ianfleming.com/seasons-greetings-us-ian-fleming-publications

  

  
  2020: Artists involved in creating the title theme "No Time To Die" discuss their experience during Variety’s Virtual FYC Festival.

  
  Bond on the Box
  James Bond Film, TV and Radio Alerts

  Music for Screens: The
  Making of ‘No Time To Die’ at
  Variety FYC Festival

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/

  On 12 Dec, 2020 | By Bond on the Box | In Events

  Billie Eilish, FINNEAS, Johnny Marr
  and Hans Zimmer will take part in the
  Music for Screens panel discussion
  exploring the creation of the James
  Bond theme, ‘No Time To Die’, at
  Variety’s Virtual FYC Festival on
  Thursday, 17 December, 2020 from
  11:00 AM – 11:30 AM (PT).

  
  No Time To Die by Billie Eilish Smoke Vinyl

  https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1337517606153162755

  2020: Jeremy Bulloch dies at age 75--St George's Hospital, London, England.
  (Born 16 February 1945--Market Harborough, England.)

  

  Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch dies
  aged 75

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/17/star-wars-actor-jeremy-bulloch-dies-aged-75

  English performer played bounty hunter Boba Fett in original
  trilogy
  PA Media || Thu 17 Dec 2020 17.20 EST
  
  Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original films, has died
  aged 75.
  
  The English actor died in hospital on Thursday from “health complications following his many years living with Parkinson’s disease”, according to his agent.
  
  Bulloch played the bounty hunter in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Return of the Jedi in 1983. A statement from his agent said: “We are very sad to announce the death of actor Jeremy Bulloch earlier today.
  
  “He died peacefully, in hospital, surrounded by his family.
  
  “Jeremy was best-known for the role of Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy.
  
  “He had a long and happy career spanning more than 45 years. He was devoted to his wife, three sons and 10 grandchildren and they will miss him terribly. We ask that their privacy be respected at this very difficult time.”

  Bulloch, who was born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, also had roles in the James Bond film Octopussy in 1983 and featured in a number of Doctor Who episodes in the 70s.

  Some of Bulloch’s Star Wars co-stars paid tribute on social media.
  
  Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, tweeted: “Jeremy Bulloch was the quintessential English gentleman.

  “A fine actor, delightful company & so kind to everyone lucky enough to meet or work with him.
  
  “I will deeply miss him & am so grateful to have known him. RIP – DearJeremy.”

  Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in the original trilogy, said:

  “Today we lost the best bounty hunter in the galaxy, RIP Jeremy Bulloch Boba Fett.”

  
  The official Star Wars Twitter account also paid tribute, writing: “He will be remembered not only for his iconic portrayal of the legendary character, but also for his warmth and generous spirit which have become an enduring part of his rich legacy.”
  
  Daniel Logan, who played a young Boba Fett in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones in 2002, paid tribute to Bulloch on Instagram, writing: “RIP legend I’ll never forget all you’ve taught me! I’ll love you forever! Conventions won’t be the same without you – may the force be with you always.”

  

  Jeremy Bulloch (1945–2020)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120116/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  https://www.comicbookmovie.com/sci-fi/star_wars/star-wars-original-boba-fett-and-the-empire-strikes-back-star-jeremy-bulloch-passes-away-aged-75-a181030#gs.odi7zx
  
  Bulloch still became synonymous with the role in the years that followed, and when he gave up the convention circuit in 2014, the actor shared a touching message with his fans.

  "In 1979 I was called onto the set of Empire Strikes Back to play Boba Fett, and since that day it has changed the entire direction of my life in such a wonderful way," Bulloch said. "It has been a privilege to have had the opportunity to inspire so many generations of Star Wars fans. I have had over 20 years of travelling with my wife Maureen to some amazing countries and have met so many wonderful fans. Thank you all so much and we will miss you all."

  The Spy Who Loved Me
  
  For Your Eyes Only
  
  
  Octopussy
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: 007 Launch Party at Morgantown, West Virginia.

  

  

  007 James Bond Launch Party

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://allevents.in/morgantown/007-james-bond-launch-party/200023698748747

  Come to Starport Arcade and Pub in Morgantown, WV to celebrate the release of Stern Pinball's newest game, James Bond!
  
  This will be a three-strike tournament.
  
  Entry is FREE!
  
  All rounds will be random assignment of groups of 4 as best as possible, with balanced opponents after the first round.
  
  Starport gift cards and Stern Swag will be up for grabs.
  
  IFPA fee will be covered by the tournament director.
  
  Hosted by Brian Dye
  
  Date & Time
  Sat Dec 17 2022 at 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm (Eastern Standard Time)
  
  Location
  Starport Arcade and Pub, 228 Walnut Street,Morgantown,WV,United States, Morgantown, United States

  
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  December 18th
  
  1914: James Marne Kumar Maitland is born--Kolkata, India.
  (He dies March 1992 at age 77--Rome, Italy.)

  

  Marne Maitland (1914–1992)

  Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0537962/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  

  
  1959: Ivar Bryce questions whether he will continue with the Bond project.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 13 - Disaster Strikes

  The Boy and the Bridge was dead in the water.
  
  Fearing its poor box office was going to hit him hard financially,
  Bryce was now having grave thoughts about the Bond project. On 18
  December he wrote a letter to McClory that must have sent the Irishman's
  spirits crashing. Bryce had decided that he no longer wished to proceed any
  further with Bond. Already his personal outlay on the film's pre-production
  was considerable, and set to rise. With the hope for cash bonanza from Boy
  and the Bridge non-existent, the 007 project's only chance of redemption was
  through financial backing from outside sources.

  Chapter 21 - The Court Case that Killed Ian Fleming

  [In court] McClory's counsel pointed out
  that the agreement with Fleming was signed on 8 July 1959 and Bryce's letter
  of 18 December was only five months later, and so certainly within the
  reasonable period in which the company might have been incorporated.

  
  1967: Bond comic strip The Spy Who Loved Me begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (Ends 3 October 1968. 603-815) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
  The 18th and final Bond comic for them.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_tswlm_review.php3
  
  
  
  
  
  Swedish Semic 1977 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1977.php3

  Operation Spökflyg (Part 1) | Bäddat För Bond... Skräcknatten (Part 2)
  

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

  Operation Spökflyg (The Spy Who Loved Me - Part 1)
  [Operation Ghost Flight]
  

  https://www.comics.org/issue/73996/

  Bäddat För Bond... Skräcknatten (Part 2)
  [The Night of Horror]
  

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

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

  
  Danish 1970 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-20-1970/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 20: “The Spy Who Loved Me, pt. II” (1970)
  "Rædslernes nat" [Night of Terrors]
  
  

  
  

  
  1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films the start of the ski chase with OO7 and Blofeld.
  1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service London premiere at the Leicester Square Odeon.

  http://www.007magazine.co.uk/london_calling2.htm
  
  

  1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in the Netherlands.
  1969: Agent 007 i Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste (Agent 007 In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Denmark.

  
  
  
  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/ohmss-dk-filmprogram-1969/
  
  
  
  

  1969: James Bond i hemmelig tjeneste (James Bond in Secret Service) released in Norway.

  
  
  
  

  1969: I hennes majestäts hemliga tjänst (In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Sweden.

  

  1969: Au service secret de Sa Majesté (At His Majesty's Secret Service) released in France.

  
  

  1969: Στην υπηρεσία της αυτής μεγαλειότητος (In the Service of the Same Majesty) released in Greece.

  
  
  

  1969: Agente 007 - Al servizio segreto di Sua Maestà (At the Secret Service of His Majesty) released in Italy.

  
  
  

  
  1984: Mai Dire Mai (Never Say Never) released in Italy.

  
  

  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Switzerland, Lebanon and the Netherlands.
  1997: James Bond 007 - Der Morgen stirbt nie released in Germany.

  

  1997: A holnap markában (Tomorrow's Mark) released in Hungary.

  

  1997: James Bond - Jutri nikoli ne umre (Tomorrow He Never Dies) released in Slovenia.
  
  1999: 007 언리미티드 (007 Un-lee-mee-tee-deu; 007 Unlimited) released in the Republic of Korea.

  

  
  2001: Billie Eilish is born--Los Angeles, California.
  2002: Die Another Day released in Indonesia and Kuwait.
  
  2019: Claudine Oger (Auger) dies at age 78--Paris France.
  (Born 26 April 1941--Paris, France.)

  

  Claudine Auger, James Bond’s First
  French Co-Star, Dies at 78

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/movies/claudine-auger-dead.html

  “Thunderball” was her breakthrough, and she went on to appear
  in movies with Alain Delon and Giancarlo Giannini. But
  Hollywood stardom eluded her.

  
  Claudine Auger in London in 1968. She was a star in Europe,
  but her American projects were few and far between.
  Credit...Dove/Daily Express, via Getty Images

  By Anita Gates | Published Dec. 22, 2019 | Updated Dec. 23, 2019

  Claudine Auger, Sean Connery’s co-star in Thunderball and the first French actress to play James Bond’s love interest, died on Wednesday in Paris. She was 78.
  
  Her death was confirmed by the Parisian agency Time Art, which represented her.
  
  Ms. Auger (pronounced oh-JHAY) was 24 when Thunderball, the fourth film in the long-running Bond franchise, was released in 1965. Her character, Domino, is the mistress of an evil mastermind who has stolen two nuclear warheads — and killed her brother. Domino does not hold back when exacting revenge on her former lover. (A harpoon gun is involved.)
  
  Because she spoke English with a heavy accent, Ms. Auger’s voice was dubbed by another actress. But because she was an excellent swimmer, she did her own underwater scenes in the film, which was shot largely in the Bahamas.

  
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  When, during a 1965 interview, the American gossip columnist Dorothy Manners announced, “Hollywood could use you,” Ms. Auger answered cheerfully, “Not as much as I can use Hollywood.” But a couple of decades later, she had reconsidered.
  
  “French actresses have never had much success in Hollywood,” she observed in a 1986 Los Angeles Times interview, adding that Germans and Swedes had done better but that “it’s hard to explain why.”
  
  Still, she was fond of Southern California. In the same interview, she said, “I always go to the end of Santa Monica Pier and throw a coin in the Pacific” at the end of a visit — to ensure her return.
  
  She was born Claudine Oger in Paris on April 26, 1941, the daughter of an architect. At 17, she was crowned Miss France Monde and was first runner-up in the Miss World competition.
  
  She had a modeling career and played an uncredited role in a 1959 Jean Cocteau film, “Le Testament d’Orphée” (“The Testament of Orpheus”). (Almost everyone in the film, with the exception of Cocteau himself, was uncredited.) After that experience, she studied drama at the Conservatoire de Paris.
  
  Ms. Auger’s first credited film role was in Marcel Carné’s “Terrain Vague” (1960), or “Wasteland,” about a teenage street gang in Paris. Her final screen appearance was in a 1997 television movie version of Stendhal’s “Le Rouge et le Noir” (“The Red and the Black”), playing Madame de Fervaques, an elegant widow who receives love letters from a younger man.
  
  She and Pierre Gaspard-Huit, a director and writer 25 years her senior — he had cast her in her first uncredited film role, in the romance “Christine” (1958) — were married in 1959, when she was 18. They divorced a decade later. In 1984 she married Peter Brent, a British businessman, who died in 2008. They had a daughter, Jessica Claudine Brent, who survives her.
  
  In a 1965 television interview, Ms. Auger spoke the words that became her most famous quotation. Asked the difference between acting in a James Bond movie and in classic theater by Molière, she insisted there was none. Acting was “un jeu,” and the two forms were “la même chose,” she said. A game. The same thing.

  

  Claudine Auger (1941–2019)

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  2020: Peter Curtis Lamont dies at age 91.
  (Born 12 November 1929--London, England.)

  

  Peter Lamont, Legendary
  Production Designer on Bond
  Films and 'Titanic,' Dies at 91

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/peter-lamont-legendary-production-designer-on-bond-films-and-titanic-dies-at-91

  11:10 AM PST 12/18/2020 by Mike Barnes

  
  GOLDFINGER, from left: Sean Connery, Harold Sakata, 1964
  Courtesy Everett Collection

  Sean Connery (left) and Harold Sakata do battle on the Fort Knox set of 'Goldfinger.'

  An Oscar winner and four-
  time nominee, he also
  worked on 'The Seven-Per-
  Cent Solution,' 'Fiddler on
  the Roof' and 'Aliens.'

  Peter Lamont, the top-notch British art director, set decorator and production designer who worked on 18 James Bond films and received an Academy Award for Titanic, has died. He was 91.

  Lamont's death was reported by the official 007 account on Twitter. No details of his passing were immediately available.

  "Peter Lamont was a much beloved member of the Bond family and a giant in the industry," producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said in a statement. He was "inextricably linked with the design and aesthetic of James Bond since Goldfinger."

  Indeed, the four-time Oscar nominee helped create the monumental scenarios for every 007 movie from Goldfinger (1964) through Casino Royale (2006) except for one — Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). He had a good reason for missing that, however; he was serving as production designer on James Cameron's best picture winner Titanic.
  
  Lamont, who collaborated often with two-time Oscar winner Ken Adam, landed his other Academy Award noms for Norman Jewison's Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Lewis Gilbert's The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Cameron's Aliens (1986).
  
  Lamont also contributed to such notable films as This Sporting Life (1963), The Ipcress File (1965), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), The Boys From Brazil (1978) and his final partnership with Cameron, True Lies (1994).

  Peter Curtis Lamont was born in London on Nov. 12, 1929. He worked as print boy runner at Pinewood Studios, and after serving for two years in the Royal Air Force, he returned to the studio as a draughtsman on features including Captain Boycott (1950), The Browning Version (1951) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952).

  For art director Peter Murton on Goldfinger, the third Bond movie, he and Adam designed Pinewood's iconic Fort Knox set, which was one of the most expensive ever built at that time.
  
  "I drew it all up and made a model," Lamont recalled in a 2006 interview. "And I remember [director] Guy Hamilton and [producers] Cubby [Broccoli] and Harry [Saltzman] came up and they looked at it and said, 'Well, let's get an estimate of how much it's going to cost.' And I almost fell through the roof because the estimate was for £56,000 … I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to get fired for this.' But nobody turned a hair."
  
  In today's dollars, that set would have cost some $6.3 million.
  
  Lamont graduated to set decorator on Thunderball (1965), to art director on Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth (1972), to visual effects art director on Moonraker (1979) and to production designer on For Your Eyes Only (1981).
  
  After working with Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, he ended his career on [/b]Casino Royale[/b] (2006), the first Bond film to star Daniel Craig.

  His autobiography, The Man With the Golden Eye: Designing the James Bond Films, was published in 2016.
  
  Survivors include his son, Neil Lamont, an art director on Harry Potter films and Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, and his daughter, Madeline.

  

  Peter Lamont (I) (1929–2020)

  Art Department | Production Designer | Art Director
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0483682/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1
  

  
  

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  2022: James Bond Pinball Launch Party! at the North End Pub, Lafayette, Indiana.

  

  

  James Bond Pinball Launch Party!

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://allevents.in/lafayette/james-bond-pinball-launch-party/200023597895509#

  We will be running a James Bond Launch Tournament to go along with all of our other events of the day! Best game format for qualifying, unlimited attempts during the day, and at 11:30 PM we will have a finals game on James Bond between the top 4 qualifiers.

  Hosted by North End Pub Pinball
  
  Date & Time
  Sun Dec 18 2022 at 12:00 pm to 11:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time)
  
  Location
  North End Pub, 2100 Elmwood Ave, Lafayette, IN,United States

  

  
  
  
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  December 2023 Posts: 13,785

  December 19th
  
  1937: Albert Moses is born--Kandy, Sri Lanka.
  (He dies 15 September 2017 at age --London, England.)

  

  Albert Moses: End of ‘A thousand apologies…’

  https://archives1.sundayobserver.lk/2017/12/10/features/albert-moses-end-‘-thousand-apologies…’
  Sunday, 15 Dec 2019

  

  Albert Moses, the Sri Lankan born actor, who went on to achieve international stardom, gained popularity over his acting in the ITV comedy television series, Mind Your Language, where he was cast as Ranjeet Singh, a Sikh from Punjab, India. Indeed he was better known among the populace as Ranjeet Singh, rather than as Albert Moses.
  
  Born on December 19, 1937 in Gampola, Albert Moses passed away on September 15, 2017 in London, and was put to rest at St. Andrew's Church in Gampola yesterday (9). As per his obituary, he has passed away peacefully.

  IMDb lists Moses as an actor and producer, known for the movies, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Octopussy (1983). Both, The Spy Who Loved Me and Octopussy were James Bond movies.

  Moses had worked at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya before beginning his acting career in the 1960s. It was in India that he made his first appearances in movies, produced and directed for the first time. He acted in seven movies and was the producer and director of the eighth movie. From there, he had moved on to Africa to work on documentaries. Afterwards, he moved to London to pursue studies in theatre and drama, where his acting career began.
  
  It was after responding to a newspaper advertisement that he had landed the part of Ranjeet Singh, in Mind Your Language. It was set in a class teaching English as foreign language, at an adult education college in London, illustrating the daily trials of the teacher, handling his diverse group of students.
  
  At the auditions, Moses outdid a native Sikh and went on to win the part. Moses spent days learning the lifestyle of the Sikhs, including the food they eat, the way they speak and even the way they wrap the turban round their heads, from his many Sikh friends. Perhaps, it was his indepth research into minute details of the character of Ranjeet Singh which made the character and his ‘thousand apologies’ such a success. Moses went on to produce 13 episodes of Mind Your Language, which was telecast from 1977 to 1986. In his later days, Moses lived in Hertfordshire, teaching English to Eastern European migrant workers, free of charge.
  
  Moses has been in the television and movie industry for over 30 years. During the span of his career, he has worked with legendary directors of the day, including, John Landis, John Houston, Rob Cohen and Alan Parker.
  
  He starred in numerous movies, including, The Man Who Would Be King, a John Huston film; What's Up Nurse, a Derek Ford sex comedy; Stand Up; Virgin Soldiers; Carry On Emmanual; The Little Drummer Girl; The Awakening; The Great Quest; Pink Floyd: The Wall, an Alan Parker film; The Little Drummer Girl, a George Roy Hill film; Scandalous; The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo; and East Is East which was a BAFTA award winning Film4 production.

  
  Albert Moses with Roger Moore

  Moses has acted alongside many accomplished actors including, Sean Connery, Michael Caine , Christopher Plummer, Roger Moore, Sir John Gielguld and Pamela Stevenson.
  
  He has participated in theatre productions in London, including, Phædra Britannica , at National Theatre, in which he acted with Diana Rigg, Long March to Jerusalem at the Watford Palace Theatre and Freeway at National Theatre.
  
  He was popular for his acting in the television series including Queenie, a Hollywood mini series; On the Buses, on London Weekend Television; Warship, a BBC television drama; Robin's Nest a Thames Television sitcom; Juliet Bravo, a BBC television drama; four episodes of The Jewel in the Crown, on Granada Television; The Little and Large Show, a BBC television comedy; The Benny Hill Show, a Thames Television comedy; Boon, an ITV Central drama; five episodes of The Bill a talkback, a Thames television drama; Never the Twain, a Thames Television sitcom; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man With The Twisted Lip, on Granada Television; London's Burning, a London Weekend Television drama; and Tandoori Nights, on Channel 4.
  
  Moses directed and produced the television series Gabriella, which was produced in Malta. He has written scripts for The Seventh Commandment, a TV drama, Side by Side, a TV comedy, Don't Talk to Strangers, a TV thriller and The Jokers, a TV drama.
  
  He was also a past Chairman of the St Albans Film Society and of Asian, Caribbean, Oriental and Asian Artistes of EQUITY, and a member of the London regional committee of ITV under the chairmanship of Lord Lipsey.
  
  Moses also wrote children’s books, including Tales from India, The Hawk and the Turtles, and Mustapha Mouse Goes to the City, and published a poetry book consisting of 87 poems.
  
  He was a philanthropist, and the trustee and patron of the children's charity, Ivy Trust. He has also volunteered at hospitals, schools and elders' homes. In recognition of his work for children, he was made a Knight of the Order of St. John.
  
  The man Albert Moses has become the soil of his motherland, but Ranjeet Singh, with his thousand apologies, will eternally remain in the hearts of the millions of fans around the world.
  
  - D A

  

  

  Albert Moses (II) (1937–2017)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0608553/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (77 credits)
  
  2018 The Snarling - Hospital Patient
  
  1984-2007 The Bill (TV Series) - Mr. Chadhar / Mr. Khan / Imam / ...
  - Deadly Intent (2007) ... Mr. Chadhar
  - A Willing Victim (1993) ... Mr. Khan
  - Come Fly with Me (1990) ... Imam
  - Clutching at Straws (1984) ... Ranji
  2006 Tripping Over (TV Series) - Nigel
  - Episode #1.3 (2006) ... Nigel
  2003-2004 Holby City (TV Series) - Kasim Hussein
  - Elf and Happiness (2004) ... Kasim Hussein
  - Love Nor Money (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
  - House of Cards (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
  2003 Indian Dream (TV Movie) - Amul
  2003 Murder in Mind (TV Series) - Keshav Singh
  - Cornershop (2003) ... Keshav Singh
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  1999 East Is East - Abdul Karim
  1998 The Things You Do for Love: Black Butterflies (TV Movie) - Bob
  1997 Backup (TV Series) - Shiv
  - Not Cricket (1997) ... Shiv
  1997 The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo - Conductor
  1996 Casualty (TV Series) - Mr. Desai
  - Mother's Little Helper (1996) ... Mr. Desai
  1996 The Knock (TV Series)- Mr. Malhorta
  - Episode #2.1 (1996) ... Mr. Malhorta
  1994 Crocodile Shoes (TV Mini-Series) - Pandit Doshi
  - The Pitch (1994) ... Pandit Doshi
  1994 London's Burning (TV Series) - Shopkeeper
  - Episode #7.4 (1994) ... Shopkeeper
  1993 Anna Lee: Headcase (TV Movie) - Shop Keeper
  1992 Boon (TV Series) - Indian Waiter
  - Walkout (1992) ... Indian Waiter
  1991 Never the Twain (TV Series) - Policeman
  - The First of the Queue (1991) ... Policeman
  
  1989 Bluebirds (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
  - Fire (1989) ... Mr. Patel
  - Betrayal (1989) ... Mr. Patel
  1989 The Benny Hill Show (TV Series) - Native / Apu Dhurani
  - Holding Out for a Hero (1989) ... Native (uncredited)
  - The Crook Report (1989) ... Apu Dhurani
  1986-1989 The Little and Large Show (TV Series)
  - Episode #9.7 (1989)
  - Episode #8.5 (1988)
  - Episode #6.1 (1986)
  1988 Screen Two (TV Series) - Bashir
  - Lucky Sunil (1988) ... Bashir
  1987 Tandoori Nights (TV Series) - Sippy
  - Welcome Home Sweetie (1987) ... Sippy
  1987 Queenie (TV Mini-Series) - Inspector Gopal
  - Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
  - Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
  1986 Foreign Body - Paramedic #2
  1986 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Lascar
  - The Man with the Twisted Lip (1986) ... Lascar
  1977-1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) - Ranjeet Singh -42 episodes
  1985 Lytton's Diary (TV Series) - Patel
  - Come uppance (1985) ... Patel
  1985 Bulman (TV Series) - Jamsit Alam
  - Death of a Hitman (1985) ... Jamsit Alam
  1985 Travellers by Night (TV Mini-Series) - Lorry driver
  - Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Lorry driver
  1985 Who, Sir? Me, Sir? (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
  - Episode #1.6 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
  - Episode #1.5 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
  - Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
  1984 Tenko (TV Series) - Dr. Singh
  - Episode #3.4 (1984) ... Dr. Singh
  1984 The Little Drummer Girl - Green Grocer
  1984 Minder (TV Series) - Ajit Desai
  - What Makes Shamy Run? (1984) ... Ajit Desai
  1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV Mini-Series) - Suleiman
  - The Moghul Room (1984) ... Suleiman
  - Travelling Companions (1984) ... Suleiman
  1984 Scandalous - Vishnu
  1984 Cockles (TV Series) - Amin
  - Flotsam and Jetsam (1984) ... Amin
  1983 Don't Wait Up (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
  - Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Mr. Patel
  1981-1983 Juliet Bravo (TV Series) - Mr. Abdullah / Waiter
  - Teamwork (1983) ... Mr. Abdullah
  - Barriers (1981) ... Waiter
  1983 Al-mas' Ala Al-Kubra - Indian officer (uncredited)
  1983 Octopussy - Sadruddin
  1982 Squadron (TV Series) - Air Traffic Controller
  - Cyclone (1982) ... Air Traffic Controller
  1982 The New Adventures of Lucky Jim (TV Series) - Mohindra
  - The Apartment (1982) ... Mohindra
  1981-1982 The Chinese Detective (TV Series) - Mr. Patel / Mr. Banerjee
  - Oblomov (1982) ... Mr. Patel
  - The Four from Fulham (1981) ... Mr. Banerjee
  1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall - Janitor
  1981 An American Werewolf in London - Hospital Porter
  1981 Young at Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
  - Easy Come, Easy Go (1981) ... Mr. Patel
  1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Arab Patrolman
  - Would You Believe It? (1981) ... Arab Patrolman
  1975-1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Huq / Altab Shahid / Airport worker
  - The Garland (1981) ... Huq
  - Murder Rap (1980) ... Altab Shahid
  - Children of the Sun (1975) ... Airport worker
  1981 A Sharp Intake of Breath (TV Series)
  Postman
  - Match of the Day (1981) ... Postman
  1980 Angels (TV Series) - Dr. Mishna
  - Episode #6.23 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
  - Episode #6.21 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
  1980 The Awakening (uncredited)
  1980 Company and Co (TV Series) - Gopal
  - Miss Lorelei Brown (1980) ... Gopal
  
  1979 Shoestring (TV Series) - Tailor
  - The Link-Up (1979) ... Tailor
  1978 Carry On Emmannuelle - Doctor
  1978 What's Up Nurse! - 1st Asian
  1978 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Charles Riarcht
  - All Part of the Service (1978) ... Charles Riarcht
  1977 The Rag Trade (TV Series) - Ahmed
  - The New Brother (1977) ... Ahmed
  1977 The Fuzz (TV Series) - 2nd Pakistani
  - Coppers Under the Sun (1977) ... 2nd Pakistani
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Barman
  1977 Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers - Indian shopkeeper
  1977 Horse in the House (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
  - Episode #1.3 (1977) ... Mr. Singh
  - Episode #1.2 (1977) ... Mr. Singh
  1977 Robin's Nest (TV Series) - Conductor
  - The Bistro Kids (1977) ... Conductor
  1976 Rogue's Rock (TV Series) - Abdullah
  - El Aziz (1976) ... Abdullah
  - Up the Spout (1976) ... Abdullah
  - Penny (1976) ... Abdullah
  - El Akhram (1976) ... Abdullah
  1976 Bill Brand (TV Mini-Series) - Pakistani
  - Tranquillity of the Realm (1976) ... Pakistani
  - Now and in England (1976) ... Pakistani
  - Yarn (1976) ... Pakistani
  1975 The Man Who Would Be King - Ghulam
  1974 Boy Dominic (TV Series) - Jailor
  - Sermons and Snuff (1974) ... Jailor
  - A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (1974) ... Jailor
  1973 A Touch of Eastern Promise (TV Short) - Assistant Manager
  1973 White Cargo - Arab (uncredited)
  1973 The Two Ronnies (TV Series)
  - Episode #3.3 (1973)
  1973 Warship (TV Series) - Arab Operator Two
  - Nobody Said Frigate (1973) ... Arab Operator Two
  1973 On the Buses (TV Series) - Alf
  - Friends in High Places (1973) ... Alf
  1973 The Regiment (TV Series) - Monkeynut-Wallah
  - Heat (1973) ... Monkeynut-Wallah
  1973 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Indian Sailor
  - Carnival of Monsters: Episode Three (1973) ... Indian Sailor (uncredited)
  1972 Doctor in Charge (TV Series) - Sailor
  - The Long, Long Night (1972) ... Sailor (uncredited)
  1972 The Moonstone (TV Series) - Treasury Guard
  - Episode #1.1 (1972) ... Treasury Guard
  1971 Budgie (TV Series) - Pakistani
  - Some Mothers' Sons (1971) ... Pakistani
  1970 Wicked Women (TV Series) - Salmaan
  - Augusta Fullam (1970) ... Salmaan
  
  Producer (1 credit)
  
  1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) (producer - 13 episodes)
  
  Self (1 credit)
  
  1980 We'll Tell You a Story (TV Series) - Himself - Reader
  - Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Himself - Reader

  
  

  
  1960: Fleming assigns Thunderball to Trustees – Glidrose Productions.
  
  1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in the UK and USA.

  
  

  1969: Hänen majesteettinsa salaisessa palveluksessa (His Majesty in Secret Service; Swedish title I hennes majestäts hemliga tjänst, In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Finland.

  

  1969: James Bond 007 - Im Geheimdienst Ihrer Majestät (James Bond 007 - In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in West Germany.

  
  

  
  1969: The New York Times reviews the latest Bond film.

  
  The New York Times

  Screen: New James Bond George Lazenby Follows the Connery Pattern

  December 19, 1969 - By A. H. WEILER

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F07E5DC1131EE3BBC4152DFB4678382679EDE&pagewanted=print

  A BARE fact must be faced. The superheated screen activities of Ian Fleming's supersleuth and sex symbol, James Bond, are as inevitable as sex or crime or On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth steaming annal in the sock 'em and spoof 'em spy series that crashed into the DeMille and other local theaters yesterday.
  
  Serious criticism of such an esteemed institution would be tantamount to throwing rocks at Buckingham Palace, but it does call for a handful of pebbles. Devotees will note that Sean Connery, the virile, suave conqueror of all those dastards and dames in the five previous capers, has given up his 007 Bond credentials to George Lazenby, a 30-year-old Australian newcomer to films. He's tall, dark, handsome and has a dimpled chin. But Mr. Lazenby, if not a spurious Bond, is merely a casual, pleasant, satisfactory replacement.
  
  For the record, he plays a decidedly second fiddle to an overabundance of continuous action, a soundtrack as explosive as the London Blitz, and flip dialogue and characterizations set against some authentic, truly spectacular Portuguese and Swiss scenic backgrounds, caught in eyecatching colors.
  
  What are Bond's problems now? They're too numerous, as usual, to hold the constant attention of anyone other than a charter member of Her Majesty's Secret Service. What sets our bully boy off and fighting, running, shooting and loving this time is a lissome, leggy lass mysteriously bent on drowning herself in the waves thunderously crashing on a lonely Portuguese beach.
  
  First thing you know he's involved in a battle with two toughs that is as full of karate chops and belts in the belly as a brawl in a Singapore alley. To the credit of Richard Maibaum, the scenarist, the film's tongue-in-cheek attitude is set right at the outset. Once our new Bond emerges triumphant, he turns to the audience and says, somewhat plaintively: "This never happened to the other fellow."
  
  But it does. The lady of his life, the svelte Diana Rigg, who learned her karate chops from the British TV "Avenger" series, is the daughter of the blandly effete Gabriele Ferzetti, Mafioso-like tycoon, who likes Bond and wants to destroy that Spectre chief, Telly Savalas, his competition in world crime. That suits Bond too, and practically right off he's in Switzerland, where our villain maintains an eyrie atop an Alp.
  
  It's an inaccessible retreat, supposedly an institute for allergy research complete with hired guns, scientific gimmicks and an international conclave of allegedly allergic beauties who are really being brainwashed by the oily, bald-domed Mr. Savalas to spread his biological destruction of the world's food supply. Get it?
  
  Bond dallies with the dolls, of course, but the heart of the matter is a series of chases shot by the 41-year-old Peter Hunt, second unit director of the previous adventures, who's making his directorial debut with this one. The chases are breakneck, devastating affairs.
  
  A viewer must remember what seems to be the longest ski chase and bobsled run ever, full of gunfire and spills, that even includes an avalanche. There also is a decibel-filled fight amid clanging Swiss cow bells, the jarring bombing of that eyrie by helicopter-borne rescuers and the inadvertent clashes of the escaping Bond and Miss Rigg in a slithering, bang-up stock car race. One must say amen to a colleague's observation:
  
  "I never expected to see Switzerland defoliated like "this."
  
  It should be reported that the producers and distributors already have rung up a reported $82,200,000 on their first five Bond issues. It is not ungallant to report that Bond marries Miss Rigg, who is gunned down and killed by Savalas on their honeymoon. So it is reasonable to expect that Bond inevitably will be loving, shooting and running again.

  
  1973: James Bond 007 - Leben und sterben lassen released in West Germany

  

  1973: 007 - Vivi e lascia morire released in Italy.

  
  

  
  1974: The Man With the Golden Gun premieres Leicester Square Odeon, HRH Prince Philip in attendance.

  
  

  1974: The Man with the Golden Gun released in the US and the Netherlands.

  
  
  
  

  1974: James Bond 007 - Der Mann mit dem goldenen Colt (James Bond 007: The Man With the Golden Colt) released in West Germany.

  

  1974: Manden med den gyldne pistol released in Denmark.

  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/tmwtgg-dk-adsheet-1974/
  
  
  

  
  1985: 007: En la mira de los asesinos (007: In the Sights of the Murderers) released in Mexico.

  

  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the US, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Israel.

  
  
  
  Danish Teaser
  

  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Canada. (French title Demain ne meurt jamais).

  

  1997: Huominen ei koskaan kuole released in Finland.

  

  1997: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre released in Portugal.

  
  

  1997: Завтра не умрёт никогда (Tomorrow Will Never Die) released in Russia,

  
  

  
  1997: A&M releases the "Tomorrow Never Dies" single.

  

  1997: The New York Times reviews the latest Bond film.

  

  The New York Times
  FILM REVIEW; Shaken, Not Stirred, Bond Is in Business

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9F04E1DB113FF93AA25751C1A961958260

  By JANET MASLIN - Published: December 19, 1997
  
  No need to feel badly if the right watch, drink, cell phone, etc., don't turn you into James Bond. They don't really do it for Pierce Brosnan in Tomorrow Never Dies, either. Despite Mr. Brosnan's best efforts to be lethally debonair, the Bond franchise has sacrificed most of what made this character unique in the first place, turning the world's suavest spy into one more pitchman and fashion plate. This latest film is such a generic action event that it could be any old summer blockbuster, except that its hero is chronically overdressed.
  
  This is not to say that Tomorrow Never Dies won't be an international success like Goldeneye, which wasn't much better. But it should fare best in corners of the world where nobody knows how little the title means, or how accurately it reflects the rest of the film's shallowness. Closer than ever to cartoon superhero status, Bond is seen battling ridiculous odds, dodging computer-generated explosions, delivering lame bon mots and boasting pitifully about his sexual prowess. All that gives this an up-to-date sensibility is the audience's awareness that M (Judi Dench) and Moneypenny (Samantha Bond) could sue him for sexual harassment on the basis of his small talk.
  
  This film does have a lively villain in Jonathan Pryce, as a media mogul who dreams of everything from manufacturing his own war to marketing software with bugs (so that customers will have to upgrade for years). Mr. Pryce reigns mischievously over an empire that Bond must infiltrate, and he also has a wife (Teri Hatcher) who is one of Bond's approximately one million ex-flames. Ms. Hatcher, like Mr. Brosnan, speaks in a perfect monotone, and so does Michelle Yeoh, the Hong Kong action star who is meant to kick some life into the series.
  
  The film's other attempts to show Bond in a romantic light are so hopeless that it's a lucky thing his partnership with Ms. Yeoh's character, the svelte and athletic Wai Lin, stays confined to toylike weaponry and flat double-entendres.
  
  ''And now a word from our sponsor,'' muttered the critic beside me, as the camera offered a good look at James Bond's vodka bottle midway through the so-called story. (The humor-free screenplay is by Bruce Feirstein, author of Real Men Don't Eat Quiche as well as Goldeneye. The workmanlike director is Roger Spottiswoode.) Indeed, despite Bond's mission to defeat the evil mogul, product plugs are the film's most serious business, especially since the audience may be bored enough to start looking at labels.
  
  The film's two best supporting turns come from Vincent Schiavelli, who has a cheerfully outrageous scene as a torture expert, and from a nice, smart BMW that works on remote control. Hiding in the back seat, Bond pilots the car through a tire-screeching chase. Don't try this at home.
  
  Tomorrow Never Dies is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes violence a la videogames, smirky innuendoes and a couple of brief sexual situations.

  
  1999: Desmond Llewelyn dies at age 85--Firle, East Sussex, England.
  (Born 12 September 1914--Newport, Wales. UK.)

  
  Culture

  Obituary: Desmond Llewelyn

  https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-desmond-llewelyn-1133864.html
  Tom Vallance - Tuesday 21 December 1999 01:02
  The Independent Culture

  DESMOND LLEWELYN was an actor for over 60 years, but will forever be remembered for just one role, that of "Q", inventor of countless gadgets for the spy James Bond. With an air of impatient but kindly acumen, he would introduce Bond to a batch of innocent-looking but lethal high-tech instruments in a scene that was always a highlight of each adventure.
  
  When the producers left him out of one of the Bond movies, Live and Let Die (1973), claiming that the films were becoming too dependent on gadgetry, there was a storm of protest from fans who missed his trademark cameo. The character was restored permanently and is to be seen in the latest adventure, The World Is Not Enough. During the last week Llewelyn had been attracting large crowds at book signings for a new biography, Q: the biography of Desmond Llewelyn, written by Sandy Hernu, who described the actor as "enormously funny and entertaining and great fun to be with". She said that the man on screen was similar to the real one, except that Llewelyn hated gadgets. He once said, "In real life gadgets explode or expire as I touch them."

  The son of a coal-mining engineer, Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1914. His parents wanted him to be a chartered accountant, but a period as an articled clerk bored him, and after considering several professions he decided on a stage career and enrolled, at the age of 20, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he studied for two years.
  
  As he said later, "I'd tried the Church and that failed. I was too dim for accountancy, too short-sighted for the police force and an insufficient liar to make a good politician. What else was left but to become an actor? I remember Richard Burton saying to me years later that the reason there are so many Welsh actors is because the Church is not very popular nowadays." Fellow students at Rada included Geoffrey Keen, later to appear in several Bond films, and Margaret Lockwood, "to whom I quite lost my heart".
  
  While still at Rada he made his film debut with a walk-on in the Gracie Fields film Look Up and Laugh (1935), but his first professional job after leaving the academy was with a repertory company in Southend, the first of several such companies with whom he gained experience. He was appearing in Bexhill, East Sussex (where he eventually settled) when he met Pamela Pantlin, a member of the "Women's League for Health and Beauty", and they were married in 1938.
  
  The following year, Llewelyn was in another film, the Will Hay comedy Ask a Policeman, but his career was then interrupted by the Second World War, in which he served as a second lieutenant assigned to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Captured by German soldiers in France, he spent five years as a prisoner of war.
  
  He resumed his film career with a war film, They Were Not Divided (1950), in which he was one of two soldiers named Jones, who was thus addressed as "77 Jones" - the other was "45 Jones". The director was Terence Young, who 13 years later was director of From Russia With Love, the film which changed the course of Llewelyn's career.

  Llewelyn had been appearing in regional theatre and playing small film roles - he had four lines in Cleopatra (1962) - when he auditioned for the role of Q. The character is not in the Ian Fleming books, though in the first Bond story, Casino Royale, it is "Q Branch" that provides 007's gadgets, and in Llewelyn's first two Bond films his character is billed as "Major Boothroyd", becoming simply "Q" in Thunderball (1965). (In the first Bond film, Dr No (1962), Boothroyd had been played by Peter Burton, who was not available for the filming of From Russia With Love.)
  
  Young wanted the character to speak with a Welsh accent, but Llewelyn preferred to interpret the character as "a toffee-nosed Englishman". "At the risk of losing the part and with silent apologies to my native land, I launched into Q's lines using the worst Welsh accent, followed by the same in English," he said.
  
  Bond was in need of gadgets in From Russia With Love, for he had to contend with two of the most dastardly villains of the series, the blond hulk Red Grant (Robert Shaw) and the sadistic Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), who uses knife-toed boots to kick her victims to death. A booby-trapped briefcase was the principal item with which Bond was equipped, courtesy of Q, who was to become a fixture of the Bond adventures (with the exception of Live and Let Die) and almost as popular a figure as Bond himself. His description of the versatile briefcase was typical of Q's briefings: "Here is an ordinary black leather case. Hidden in these steel rods are 20 rounds of ammunition. Press that button and you have a throwing knife. Inside is your AR7, a folding sniper's rifle and 50 gold sovereigns. This looks like an ordinary tin of talcum powder, but it conceals a tear gas cartridge and is kept in place by a magnetic device . . ."
  
  Guy Hamilton directed the next film in which Llewelyn played Q, Goldfinger (1964), and the actor credits him with changing his approach to the role. "Previously I'd played Q as a toffee-nosed technician, more than slightly in awe of Bond." Hamilton changed that approach. "He said, `This man annoys you. He's irritatingly flippant and doesn't treat your gadgets with respect. Deep down you may envy his charm with women, but remember you're the teacher."
  
  After that, Llewelyn stated, he played Q with "a veiled exasperation coupled with a humorous tolerance to 007's flippancy and aggravating habit of fiddling with the gadgets". That exasperation mounted over the years, and in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Q's first words to 007 were "Now pay attention, Bond", and his last, "Oh, grow up, 007!"
  
  Asked recently which Bond he considered best, Llewelyn chose Sean Connery as "perfect", adding, "George Lazenby played it straight and rather well. Roger Moore was much lighter and more jokey. It was a rather camp portrayal, with a lot more emphasis on humour, but it worked. Timothy Dalton was Ian Fleming's Bond - a real character. His confidence and surliness were straight from the books. It was brave, but people didn't like it. Pierre Brosnan is extremely good. He has the right look and manner."
  
  The character of Q was due to be retired after the latest Bond film, The World Is Not Enough, with his sidekick R, played by John Cleese, replacing him. The actor loved playing Q, but in recent years his private life had been marked by tragedy as he watched his wife suffer from Alzheimer's disease.
  
  Llewelyn appeared in such television series as Doomwatch and Follyfoot and made other films, including Operation Kid Brother (1967), which starred Sean Connery's brother Neil playing the sibling of 007. Bernard Lee ("M") and Lois Maxwell ("Moneypenny") were other Bond regulars cast in this weak film to bolster its appeal. But it is for his performances in 17 Bond films that Llewelyn will have a permanent part in film history, equipping the hero with toxic fountain-pens, exploding toothpaste and dozens of similar gadgets with which to confound or exterminate his adversaries.

  Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn, actor: born Newport, Monmouthshire 12 September 1914; married 1938 Pamela Pantlin (two sons); died Firle, East Sussex 19 December 1999.

  
  Desmond Llewlyn
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005155/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

  Actor (122 credits)
  
  1999 License to Thrill (Short) - Q
  1999 Die Millennium-Katastrophe - Computer-Crash 2000 (TV Movie) - Peregrin Morley
  1999 The World Is Not Enough - Q
  1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Q
  1997 Taboo (Short) -
  1995 GoldenEye - Q
  1993 October 32nd - Professor Mycroft
  
  1989 Licence to Kill - Q[/u]
  1988 Prisoner of Rio - Commissioner Ingram
  1987 The Living Daylights - Q
  1985 A View to a Kill - Q
  1983 Octopussy - Q
  1982 Play for Today (TV Series) - Official in Dream
  - Soft Targets (1982) ... Official in Dream
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Q
  1981 The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (TV Series) - Lord Lansdowne
  - No. 10 (1981) ... Lord Lansdowne (as Desmond Llewellyn)
  1979-1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Papa / Major Bill Whittall
  - The Happy Autumn Fields (1980) ... Papa
  - Speed King (1979) ... Major Bill Whittall
  1980 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Sir Danvers Carew
  
  1979 The Golden Lady - Professor Dixon
  1979 Moonraker - Q
  1979 Hazell (TV Series) - Bell
  - Hazell and the Suffolk Ghost (1979) ... Bell
  1978 Lillie (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Dudley
  - The Jersey Lily (1978) ... Lord Dudley
  1978 Wilde Alliance (TV Series) - Colonel Thripp
  - Well Enough Alone (1978) ... Colonel Thripp
  1977 Eustace and Hilda (TV Series) - Sir John Staveley
  - The Sixth Heaven (1977) ... Sir John Staveley
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Q
  1976 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - President
  - Loss of the Helen May (1976) ... President
  1976 Wodehouse Playhouse (TV Series) - Rev. Sidney Gooch
  - Anselm Gets His Chance (1976) ... Rev. Sidney Gooch
  1975 A Man in the Zoo (TV Movie) - Chairman
  1975 The Love School (TV Series) - Thomas Combe
  - Seeking the Bubbles (1975) ... Thomas Combe
  1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - 'Q'
  1974 The Pallisers (TV Mini-Series) - Speaker
  - Part Twenty-three (1974) ... Speaker
  1974 The Nine Tailors (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Charles Thorpe
  - Episode #1.1 (1974) ... Sir Charles Thorpe
  1973 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV Series) - Air Commodore Drew
  - The R.A.F. Reunion (1973) ... Air Commodore Drew
  1971-1973 Follyfoot (TV Series) - The Colonel
  - Walk in the Wood (1973) ... The Colonel
  - Hazel (1973) ... The Colonel
  - Rain on Friday (1973) ... The Colonel
  - The Helping Hand (1973) ... The Colonel (credit only)
  - Uncle Joe (1973) ... The Colonel
  1971 Diamonds Are Forever - 'Q'
  1971 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Somers
  - Something Big (1971) ... Somers
  1971 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Thompson
  - Flight Into Yesterday (1971) ... Thompson
  1970 Codename (TV Series) - Barrett
  - A Walk with the Lions (1970) ... Barrett
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 'Q'
  1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Coggins
  1960-1968 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Dr. Pearce / Bank Manager / Det. Insp. Jones
  - The Man (1968) ... Dr. Pearce
  - The Commander (1968) ... Bank Manager
  - Everything Goes in Threes (1960) ... Det. Insp. Jones
  1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Headmaster
  - Where Did You Get That Hat? (1968) ... Headmaster
  1968 Virgin of the Secret Service (TV Series) - Count Kolinsky
  - Russian Roundabout (1968) ... Count Kolinsky
  1967 Mickey Dunne (TV Series) - Lord Boutard
  - The Hon. Bird (1967) ... Lord Boutard
  1967 You Only Live Twice - 'Q'
  1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) - Q
  1961-1967 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Fergus de la Roux / Constable
  - Old Ben in the Belfry (1967) ... Constable
  - Episode #1.436 (1961) ... Fergus de la Roux
  - Episode #1.431 (1961) ... Fergus de la Roux
  1965 Thunderball - 'Q'
  1965 Moulded in Earth (TV Series) - Squire
  - The End of the Feud (1965) ... Squire
  - Family Conference (1965) ... Squire
  1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Jailer (uncredited)
  1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Charles - Doorman
  - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove (1965) ... Charles - Doorman
  1964 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Senior Police Officer
  - State Visit (1964) ... Senior Police Officer (uncredited)
  1964 The Sullavan Brothers (TV Series) - Colonel Barlow
  - A Plea of Provocation (1964) ... Colonel Barlow
  1964 Goldfinger - 'Q'
  1964 The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (TV Series) - Member of Council
  - A Germ Destroyer (1964) ... Member of Council
  1964 The Plane Makers (TV Series) - John Webb
  - A Job for the Major (1964) ... John Webb
  1963 Silent Playground - Dr. Green
  1959-1963 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Murgatroyd / Supt. Hitchcock
  - Always a Copper (1963) ... Murgatroyd
  - Stranger in the Parlour (1959) ... Supt. Hitchcock
  1963 From Russia with Love - Boothroyd - 'Q'
  1963 Suspense (TV Series) - Company Spokesman / Ian MacDonald / President of the Court
  - The Rescuers (1963) ... Company Spokesman
  - The Dogs of Durga Das (1963) ... Ian MacDonald
  - The Uncertain Witness (1963) ... President of the Court
  1963 Cleopatra - Senator (uncredited)
  1962 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Mr. Forbes
  - Episode #4.18 (1962) ... Mr. Forbes
  1962 The Pirates of Blood River - Tom Blackthorne (uncredited)
  1962 The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (TV Movie) - Frank Misquith, QC, MP
  1962 Only Two Can Play - Clergyman on Bus (uncredited)
  1961 Stryker of the Yard (TV Series) - - The Case of Uncle Henry (1961)
  1961 The Curse of the Werewolf - 1st Footman (uncredited)
  1961 The House Under the Water (TV Mini-Series) - Colonel Tregaron
  - Episode #1.1 (1961) ... Colonel Tregaron
  1960 Sword of Sherwood Forest - Wounded Fugitive (uncredited)
  1960 Garry Halliday (TV Series) - Psychiatrist
  - A Message from a Stranger (1960) ... Psychiatrist
  1960 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Sergeant Harris
  - Home and the Heart (1960) ... Sergeant Harris
  1960 How Green Was My Valley (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Evans
  - Proposal and Disposal (1960) ... Mr. Evans
  
  1959 Private Investigator (TV Series) - Police Constable Jones
  - The Battle for Diana (1959) ... Police Constable Jones (as Desmond Llewellyn)
  1959 Call Me Sam (TV Series) -
  - Episode #1.5 (1959)
  1959 Sapphire - Police Constable (uncredited)
  1959 A Farthing Damages (TV Movie) - O'Connor
  1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - John Redmond
  - Parnell (1959) ... John Redmond
  1959 Barbed Wire and Bracken (TV Movie) - The Rector
  1958 Corridors of Blood - Assistant at Operations (uncredited)
  1958 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Det. Sergeant
  - Blind Justice (1958) ... Det. Sergeant
  1958 Further Up the Creek - Chief Yeoman (uncredited)
  1958 Queen's Champion (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Bretherton
  - The Edge of Defeat (1958) ... Lord Bretherton
  - The Eve of the Armada (1958) ... Lord Bretherton
  1958 The Sky Larks (TV Series) - Police Sgt. Ryan
  - Touch of the Irish (1958) ... Police Sgt. Ryan
  1958 A Night to Remember - Seaman at Steerage Gate (uncredited)
  1958 The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) - Two Fingers
  - Little Mother (1958) ... Two Fingers
  1957 Thunder in the West (TV Series) - King James II
  - For King and Monmouth (1957) ... King James II
  1957 Escape (TV Series) - Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
  - Harry (1957) ... Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
  - The Great Bluff (1957) ... Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
  1957 Boyd Q.C. (TV Series) - McCracken
  - The Open and Shut Case (1957) ... McCracken
  1957 The Soldier and the Gentlewoman (TV Movie) - Philip Vaughan
  1955 The Leakage (TV Movie) - Wing-Commander Stone
  1955 Spider's Web (TV Movie) - Constable Jones
  1954 Patrol Car (TV Series) - - Moral Murder
  1954 The Gentle Falcon (TV Series) - Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
  - A Strange Tournament (1954) ... Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
  1954 Tyrant's Tower (TV Movie) - 2nd Surveyor
  1953 Bunty Wins a Pup (Short) - Mr. Brown
  1953 Operation Diplomat - Police Constable at barrier (uncredited)
  1953 Stryker of the Yard
  1953 Knights of the Round Table - A Herald (uncredited)
  1953 Valley of Song - Lloyd - Schoolmaster
  1953 Both Sides of the Law - Police Constable (uncredited)
  1952 Huckleberry Finn (TV Series) - Harvey Wilks
  - The Auction (1952) ... Harvey Wilks
  1952 My Wife Jacqueline (TV Series) - Keith Appleyard
  - Happily Ever After (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
  - The Landed Proprietor (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
  - Getting Margaret Married (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
  - Common Interests (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
  1952 How Does It End? (TV Series) - Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
  - A Tale of Two Cities (1952) ... Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
  1952 The Locked Room (TV Movie) - Stephen Amesbury
  1952 The Twelfth Brother (TV Short) - Reuben
  1952 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Pandimiglio
  - The Wanderer (1952) ... Pandimiglio
  1951 The Lavender Hill Mob - Customs Officer (uncredited)
  1950 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Mr. Hyde
  1950 They Were Not Divided -'77 Jones
  1950 Guilt Is My Shadow - Pub customer (uncredited)
  
  1949 The Amazing Mr. Beecham - First guardsman (uncredited)
  1949 Adam and Evalyn - Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)
  1949 The Good Companions (TV Movie) - Policeman at Ribsden / Mr. Gooch
  1948 Hamlet - Extra (uncredited)
  1948 A Comedy of Good and Evil (TV Movie) - Owain Flatfish
  1947 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Theseus
  1947 Saloon Bar (TV Movie) - Peter / Police Constable
  1947 Captain Boycott - Gentleman on Train (uncredited)
  1946 The Murder Rap (TV Movie) - Inspector Fearon
  1946 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Theseus
  1946 As You Like It (TV Movie) - Duke
  
  1939 Ask a Policeman - Headless Coachman (uncredited)
  1939 Campbell of Kilmhor (TV Movie) - Captain Sandeman
  
  Thanks (4 credits)
  
  2012 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
  - La última noche del Titanic (2012) ... (in memory of)
  2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short) (in memory of)
  2000 Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn (TV Movie documentary) (in memory of)
  1999 The World Is Not Enough (dedicatee)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2002: Die Another Day released in Chile.
  2002: Halj meg máskor (Hang On at Another Time) released in Hungary.

  

  2002: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Peru.

  

  2002: Umri kdaj drugič (Die Sometime Else) released in Slovenia.

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2023 Posts: 13,785

  2013: Raymond Benson talks The James Bond Phenomenon with PBS Wisconsin.

  

  The James Bond Phenomenon

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://pbswisconsin.org/watch/university-place/university-place-james-bond-phenomenon/

  University Place
  December 19, 2013 | Rating: TV-G | Length: 01:01:05
  
  Video (1:01:05)

  Raymond Benson, Author, Film Historian, Musician, joins University Place Presents host Norman Gilliland to discuss the life of Ian Fleming and the history of the James Bond novels. Upon Fleming’s passing, his estate chose authors to continue writing new Bond adventures. Benson was tapped to write James Bond novels from 1997 through 2003.

  
  

  2019: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings.

  http://www.ianfleming.com/seasons-greetings-us-ian-fleming-publications-2/

  

  
  Sourced from their own

  

  
  2022: James Bond Pinball Launch Party at Surprise, Arizona.

  

  
  

  James Bond Pinball Launch Party

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://allevents.in/surprise/james-bond-pinball-launch-party/200023664308757?ref=eventlist-cat#

  19 December | Event in Surprise | AllEvents.in James Bond Pinball Launch Party
  
  Location
  Surprise, Arizona, United States

  

  
  2022: Alan Committee and Live and Let Laugh - No Time to Cry at Theatre On The Bay in Camps Bay, Western Cape, Cap Town, South Africa.

  

  

  ALAN COMMITTIE in LIVE AND LET LAUGH

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://tickets.computicket.com/event/alan_committie_in_live_and_let_laugh/7179875

  EVENT DETAILS

  "LIVE AND LET LAUGH - NO TIME TO CRY"
  He's BACK!
  
  In this, funnyman Alan Committie's TWENTY FIFTH solo stand up show, the comedian takes his inspiration from the 25 JAMES BOND movies that have been released over the last 70 years.
  
  Comically exploring stunts, espionage, sex and relationships, international travel, gadgets and, above all, double entendres Committie once again returns with his usual madcap verbal humour and physical hi-jinx.
  
  This show includes a special appearance by intrepid international (read: large parts of Free-State and Upington) security guard Mr Johann Van Der Walt and his "Jaws"esque dentures....
  
  You can also expect a flip-chart, attractive women (in the audience), action and suspense galore (will there be enough staff to deal with interval bar rush?) and a climactic ending (which may or may not involve a xylophone, two rabid porcupines and an inflatable Renaut Clio)....

  The names Committie. Alan Committie.
  Double Ho Ho.
  Licence to laugh.

  Bookings through Computicket and the theatre box-office (021) 438-3301.
  
  The show is directed by Fleur du Cap Lifetime achievement award winner Christopher Weare.
  
  Interval: TBC
  Duration: 90 minutes
  Age restriction: PG10
  
  PG10
  Select Venue
  Western Cape
  Theatre On The Bay
  Western Cape
  Mon, 19 Dec 2022 - Sat, 21 Jan 2023
  R180 - R275

  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2023 Posts: 13,785

  December 20th
  
  1959: The Atticus column of the Sunday Times presents some thoughts from Ian Fleming on Christmas.

  

  Thriller-writer Ian Fleming has more positive ideas on Christmas:

  "Ideally, the only possible place to spent it is Monte Carlo. You don't have to eat turkey--a detestable bird. There aren't any people there you know at this time of year, and it's perfectly easy to play a little golf and avoid over-eating."
  
  But even for the creator of James Bond, the ideal is not always attainable, and Mr. Fleming will in fact be spending his Christmas near Belfast, reading three good American thrillers, including the latest Rex Stout, and "going to church in a long crocodile with the rest of the family" on Christmas morning. His one way of simplifying Christmas is to give the same present year after year to all and sundry. It consists of a dozen snuff handkerchiefs from Fribourg and Treyer.

  1959: As arranged by producer Kevin McClory, writer Jack Whittingham begins working with Ian Fleming in New York on the "Longitude 78 West" screenplay.
  
  1963: Agent 007 jages (Agent 007 is Chased) released in Denmark.

  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/frwl-dk-release-poster-1963/
  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/category/films/from-russia-with-love-1963/
  
  
  Re-release
  

  1966: You Only Live Twice films the underground war room with Secretary of Defence, military chiefs.
  1966: Paul Ritter is born--Kent, Engand.
  (He dies 5 April 2021 at age 54--Faversham, Kent, England.)

  

  Paul Ritter: Friday Night Dinner star dies
  of brain tumour at 54

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/apr/06/friday-night-dinner-star-paul-ritter-dies-of-brain-tumour-at-54

  Ritter, who also appeared in films including Harry Potter and the
  Half-Blood Prince, died at home beside his wife and two sons
  
  https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9f7ccac332a65f7a84ec2fab73f940f36e7b6416/308_325_2252_1351/master/2252.jpg?width=445&quality=45&auto=format&fit=max&dpr=2&s=ece1bf9dd55bd1c23795a0ab202e7a79
  Paul Ritter at a Friday Night Dinner launch in 2020. Photograph: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images
  Toby Moses
  @tobymoses | Tue 6 Apr 2021 07.12 EDT
  
  The actor Paul Ritter has died of a brain tumour at the age of 54, his agent has told the Guardian. Ritter, who starred as the family patriarch Martin in Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner alongside Tamsin Greig, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal, died on Monday.

  In a statement, his agent said that the actor, who also appeared in numerous films including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Quantum of Solace, died at home with his family by his side.

  Robert Popper, the creator of the sitcom for which Ritter is best known, shared his thoughts saying: “Devastated at this terribly sad news. Paul was a lovely, wonderful human being. Kind, funny, super caring and the greatest actor I ever worked with.”
  
  In 2019, Ritter displayed his range with a terrifying performance as Anatoly Dyatlov in the multi-award winning Chernobyl. Toby Whithouse, who wrote spy thriller The Game in which Ritter starred in 2014, said: “This is terrible devastating news. Paul was a stunning actor, a lovely lovely guy. How utterly dreadful.”
  
  Ritter was also a talented stage actor, and was nominated for an Olivier award in 2006 for his performance in Coram Boy and for a Tony award for his 2009 starring role in the Norman Conquests.
  
  “It is with great sadness we can confirm that Paul Ritter passed away last night,” said his agent. “He died peacefully at home with his wife Polly and sons Frank and Noah by his side. He was 54 and had been suffering from a brain tumour.
  
  “Paul was an exceptionally talented actor playing an enormous variety of roles on stage and screen with extraordinary skill. He was fiercely intelligent, kind and very funny. We will miss him greatly.”
  
  Ritter is due to appear in the Friday Night Dinner 10th anniversary retrospective, which will air on Channel 4 later this year.

  

  Paul Ritter (I) (1966–2021)

  Actor | Soundtrack
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0728795/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  1967: Casino Royale released in Monaco.
  
  1971: Les diamants sont éternels (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in France.

  

  1971: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Τα διαμάντια είναι παντοτινά (James Bond, Agent 007: Diamonds are Forever) released in Greece.
  1971: Diamantfeber released in Sweden.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1974: De man met de gouden revolver (Flemish title) released in Belgium.

  

  1974: 007 ja kultainen ase (007 and a Golden Gun; Swedish title Mannen med den gyllene pistolen) released in Finland.

  
  

  1974: L'homme au pistolet d'or (The Man With the Golden Pistol) released in France.

  
  
  

  1974: Az aranypisztolyos férfi (The Golden-Haired Man) released in Hungary.

  

  1974: Agente 007 - L'uomo dalla pistola d'oro released in Italy.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Not to be confused with.

  

  1974: Manden med den gyldne pistol released in Norway.

  
  
  
  

  1974: Czlowiek ze zlotym pistoletem (A Man With a Golden Pistol) released in Poland.

  

  1974: The Man With the Golden Gun released in the UK, USA, and Ireland.

  

  
  1974: Daily Variety reports The Man With the Golden Gun's budget under $7 million. Product placement (free) includes Nikon, Sony, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Dunlop, American Motors Corporation, and Colibri (lighter, fountain pen, cuff link).
  1975: William Lundigan dies at age --Duarte, California.
  (Born 12 June 1914, Syracuse, New York.)

  

  William Lundigan

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  
  Lundigan in The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)

  Born June 12, 1914, Syracuse, New York, U.S.
  Died December 20, 1975 (aged 61), Duarte, California, U.S.
  Resting place Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California
  Occupation Actor
  Years active 1937–1971
  Spouse(s) Rena Morgan (1945–1975; his death) 1 child

  William Lundigan (June 12, 1914 – December 20, 1975) was an American film actor. His more than 125 films include Dodge City (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), The Sea Hawk (1940), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Dishonored Lady (1947), Pinky (1949), Love Nest (1951) with Marilyn Monroe, The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951) and Inferno (1953).
  
  Biography
  Growing up in Syracuse, New York, Lundigan was the oldest of four sons. His father, Michael F. Lundigan, owned a shoe store (at which Lundigan worked) in the same building as a local radio station, WFBL. Becoming fascinated by radio, he was playing child roles on radio and producing radio plays at 16.
  
  A graduate of Nottingham High School, Lundigan studied law at Syracuse University, earning money as a radio announcer at WFBL. He graduated and passed the bar examination before events changed his career path. Charles Rogers, a Universal Pictures production chief, heard Lundigan's voice, met him, arranged a screen test and signed him to a motion picture contract in 1937.
  
  Universal
  He was in Armored Car (1937) billed as "Larry Parker". Then his name was changed to "William Lundigan" for West Bound Limited (1937).
  
  Lundigan was billed third in The Lady Fights Back (1937) then promoted to male lead for That's My Story! (1937). He was back down the cast list for The Black Doll (1938) and Reckless Living (1938) but was the male lead for State Police (1938). He had support parts in Wives Under Suspicion (1938) directed by James Whale, Danger on the Air (1938), The Missing Guest (1938), and Freshman Year (1938).
  
  Lundigan was one of the romantic leads in Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939). He was borrowed by Warners for a support part in Dodge City (1939).
  
  Lundigan was top billed in They Asked for It (1939) then was Sigrid Gurie's leading man in The Forgotten Woman (1939). He supported in Legion of Lost Flyers (1939). He said "nothing much happened" of his time at Universal and left the studio.
  
  Warner Bros
  Lundigan signed with Warner Bros, where he had support roles in The Old Maid (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940), The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940), Young America Flies (1940, a short), The Sea Hawk (1940), Service with the Colors (1940, a short), East of the River (1940), and Santa Fe Trail (1940).
  
  Lundigan later described this period as "I was always turning up as Olivia de Havilland's weak brother. Well, I got in a rut - that old bugaboo, type casting - and made one quickie after another."
  
  Warners promoted him to the lead of some "B"s, The Case of the Black Parrot (1941) and A Shot in the Dark (1941); he was support in The Great Mr. Nobody (1941), Highway West (1941) and International Squadron (1941).
  
  Lundigan then had a lead in Sailors on Leave (1941) for Republic Pictures.
  
  MGM
  Lundigan went to MGM where he had support roles in The Bugle Sounds (1942) and The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942). He was promoted to the lead of a "B", Sunday Punch (1942) and had the second lead in Apache Trail (1942) and Northwest Rangers (1942).
  
  He reprised his role from the Andy Hardy series in Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942) and supported in Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943) and Salute to the Marines (1943). Republic asked him back to play the lead in Headin' for God's Country (1943).
  
  World War Two
  He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps for World War II and served as a combat cameraman in the Battle of Peleliu and the Battle of Okinawa, returning at war's end as a Corporal. He was wounded on Okinawa.
  
  Post War
  Lundigan returned to Hollywood and tried freelancing. He had support roles in some independent movies, The Fabulous Dorseys (1947) and Dishonored Lady (1947). He was the leading man in Republic's The Inside Story (1948) and was top billed in Mystery in Mexico (1948), State Department: File 649 (1949) and Follow Me Quietly (1949). He decided to try acting on stage and was cast by John Ford in a revival of What Price Glory?.
  
  20th Century Fox
  Lundigan's career revived when he successfully auditioned for the role of Jeanne Crain's romantic interest in Pinky (1949) at 20th Century Fox, initially directed by Ford (Elia Kazan took over). The movie was a huge hit and the studio signed him to a long term contract. He went on to be leading man to Dorothy McGuire in Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950), June Haver in I'll Get By (1950) and Love Nest (1951), Susan Hayward in I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951).
  
  He was also in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) and Elopement (1951), and was the male lead in Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952) and Serpent of the Nile (1953). The New York Times called him "the male counterpart to the girl next door".
  
  He had a good part in Inferno (1953).
  
  Television
  In an episode of Desilu Playhouse, "K.O. Kitty", L-R: William Lundigan, Aldo Ray, and Lucille Ball (1958).

  Lundigan began appearing on TV shows like Lux Video Theatre, Schlitz Playhouse, General Electric Theater, The Ford Television Theatre, and The Star and the Story and was host for Climax! and Shower of Stars.

  He had the lead in some low budget films like Riders to the Stars (1954), Terror Ship (1954) and The White Orchid (1954), the latter for Reginald Le Borg. He mostly worked on television now, such as episodes of Science Fiction Theatre, Playhouse 90 and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, and travelled the country extensively selling automobiles.
  
  From September 30, 1959, to September 7, 1960, Lundigan portrayed Col. Edward McCauley in the CBS television series, Men into Space.
  
  In 1961, Lundigan was cast as Nathaniel Norgate in the episode, "Dangerous Crossing", on the syndicated anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. The story focuses on religious settlers who encounter outlaws operating an illegal tollgate.
  
  He had the lead in The Underwater City (1962) and guest starred on The Dick Powell Theatre , Run for Your Life, Medical Center and Marcus Welby, M.D.. His last film was The Way West (1967).
  
  Politics
  In 1963 and 1964, Lundigan joined fellow actors Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., in making appearances on behalf of U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater, the Republican nominee in the campaign against U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
  
  Lundigan himself waged an unsuccessful campaign for a nominally non-partisan seat on the Los Angeles City Council.
  
  Family
  Lundigan married Rena Morgan, and they had a daughter, Anastasia.[2]
  
  Death
  Lundigan died at the age of 61 of apparent heart failure at City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California.
  
  Radio appearances
  
  1951 Screen Guild Players ("Apartment for Peggy")
  1952 Stars in the Air ("Deep Waters")[20]
  

  

  William Lundigan (1914–1975)

  Actor | Soundtrack
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0526485/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  
  
  
  Climax! Casino Royale (TV-1954) JAMES BOND (51:49)
  
  Climax! is an American television anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958, hosted by William Lundigan.
  
  "Casino Royale" is a live 1954 television adaptation of the 1953 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming.

  1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in the Philippines.
  
  1985: A View to a Kill released in the Philippines.
  
  1995: GoldenEye released in Belgium, France, and Spain.
  
  2002: ప్రపంచ హీరో (Prapan̄ca vīruḍu 007; World Hero 007, Telugu title) released in India.
  
  2006: 新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場 (xīn tiě jīngāng zhì pò huángjiā dǔchǎng; New Iron King Kong Breaks the Royal Casino) released in Hong Kong.

  

  2009: Screenwriter Peter Morgan reveals an unimaginable twist planned for BOND 23--

  The death of M.

  
  2011: Hodder & Stoughton publish a special limited holiday James Bond Edition of Jeffery Deaver's novel Carte Blanche, designed by Bentley Motors.

  

  Bentley Celebrates James Bond in Style!

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.zigwheels.com/news-features/news/bentley-celebrates-james-bond-in-style/8297/#leadform

  by Vikram Gour | Apr 27, 2011
  
  In order to commemorate the latest James Bond novel, Carte Blanche, Bentley Motors was roped in to create an exclusive edition. Judging a book by its cover just got a whole new meaning!

  

  Carte Blanche, the new James Bond book, penned by Jeffery Deaver, and published by, Hodder & Stoughton, has partnered with Bentley Motors for a rather unique promotion which involves creating 500 limited edition copies of the novel in an ultimate luxury edition package.
  
  James Bond, the super MI6 agent created by Ian Fleming has always had a penchant for expensive cars and even in the original 14 novels written by Fleming himself, James Bond owned three Bentleys over the course of the original stories. With Carte Blanche, Jeffery Deaver has taken the inspiration from Fleming and has reunited Bond with a fully loaded new ‘Bond Spec’ Bentley Continental GT as part of this much anticipated super spy thriller.
  
  A lot of work has gone into creating these special edition books. A team from Bentley worked closely with the publishers in order to capture the essence of Bond and Bentley. In fact the agenda was to work with the book in such a manner that reading this exclusive edition works as an experience in itself. Luckily, the nuances of Bond and Bentley allow for such radical concepts and therefore it was a task of taking exclusive book ownership to the next level.

  

  Each copy of the book arrives in a exquisitely crafted polished aluminium case which has been inspired by the deserts of Dubai as Dubai happens to be one of the major exotic locations that form a part of this latest Bond adventure as well as the new Continental GT. The end result is a sculpture that is reminiscent of the GT’s signature silhouette and the effect is as though the car has risen from the desert sand. That is just the cover.
  
  The book itself comes wrapped in Nappa leather, which incidentally is what Bentley uses on the interiors of their cars. Further similarities to the interior of a Bentley exist in the fact that the white leather is contrasted by the stark red Pillar Box edging. The title, author’s name and Bentley logo have been carefully embossed into the front. The text is printed in two colors, namely black and red and the paper used is high quality ivory paper.
  
  As mentioned earlier, the book boasts of being an experience and taking that to a whole new level is the little ‘twist’ that has been incorporated. Playing on the idea of an agent being given Carte Blanche, is one of the most dramatic features of the design: a die-cut bullet hole that pierces pages of the book. Hidden within the pages is a single polished 9mm bullet, individually marked with a number distinct to each copy, making the edition truly bespoke!
  
  The special edition is strictly limited to 500 copies worldwide at a price of £1,000 each. Incidentally, over 100 million Bond books have been sold and over half the world’s population has seen a Bond film! If in today’s day and age there is anything more popular than Facebook, it’s James Bond, and an association with this brand is always bound to garner enough eyeballs. For Bentley however, this is just being part of the 007 family.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases Kill Chain #6.
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #6 (OF 6)

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-James_Bond_Kill_Chain
  Cover A: Greg Smallwood
  Writer: Andy Diggle
  Art: Luca Casalanguida
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  UPC: 725130260178 06011
  ON SALE DATE: 12/20

  SMERSH has activated Operation Hooded Falcon, bringing Europe to its knees and NATO to the brink of collapse. A key ally is about to fall into Russia's grasp, re-drawing the geopolitical map and setting a new foundation for the coming century. But one man can make a difference. You know his name.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: Dallas String Quartet performance expects a mashup of "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" and The James Bond theme at Marshall, Texas.

  

  

  Dallas String Quartet

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.songkick.com/artists/5482893-dallas-string-quartet#review-334477

  On tour: yes
  
  On tour Dallas String Quartet live.
  
  Dec
  20
  Marshall, TX, US
  Memorial City Hall Performance Center
  
  Live reviews

  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 music!

  Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy/James Bond - DSQ Electric (4:10)
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
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  December 21st
  
  1961: Dr. No screen tests for the role of Miss Taro.

  
  Gabrielli Lucidi
  
  
  Liha Margo
  ???
  
  Zena Marshall
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551243/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  
  Violette Marceau
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0545136/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  
  Talitha Pol (Talitha Dina Getty)
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0688751/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Harold Sanderson (Stand-in for Sean Connery)
  
  
  
  

  1963: Bjørn Rasmussen reviews From Russia With Love for the Danish daily magazine Aktuelt.

  

  “From Russia With Love”: Aktuelt’s film review (1963)

  [Source: http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/frwl-aktuelt-film-review-1963/ ]
  Film review, 21 December 1963
  
  Several Danish film critics expressed their dislike of the James Bond 007 films during their original release in the early 1960's. The highly regarded Bjørn Rasmussen, M.A., who reviewed films for the Danish daily Aktuelt and hosted the film programme "Filmorientering" on national Danish television during the 60's, dismissed the Bond films as "sensationalist entertainment marked by poor taste" in his reference book Filmens Hvem-Hvad-Hvor (1967). He did however note that From Russia with Love (1963) was "the best in the series".
  
  When EON Productions' From Russia with Love was released into Danish theatres in December 1963, Bjørn Rasmussen was markedly less kind in his scathing review for Aktuelt:

  ”Agent 007” returns
  Christmas programming at Nørreport Cinema is brutal entertainment
  
  With the pulp thriller From Russia with Love (1963), Nørreport [Cinema] picks up from Dr. No. This is a coarsely brutal, sensational serial based on Ian Fleming's vulgar novels, issued in Denmark by [Sven] Hazel's publishing house (of all!). The films, as well as the novels, are brimming with straightforward suspense, devoid of probability and based on the spectator not having time to detect the obvious gaffes.
  
  This time, a so-called ”Lektor” is to be smuggled out and change hands from Russian to English ownership. We are not dealing with a lecturer [”lektor” in Danish, ed.] but a decoding machine. Fights, murders, sex, and speed is mobilized as well as all kinds of spies for all kinds of nations. They are secretly spying on each other nonstop. The most repulsive of them all would be Lotte Lenja [sic], the widow of Kurt Weill, evil incarnate and an efficient member of the international crime organization ”Spectre” who are also out to get the Lektor.
  
  In the middle of all this nonsense, a glimmer of something truly cinematic shines through as is often the case with rudimentary pulp thrillers such as this. But [the film] is dreadfully simple and unpleasant to watch.
  
  Written by Bjørn Rasmussen
  Translation by Bond•O•Rama.dk

  

  
  1964: Goldfinger premieres in the US--at the DeMille Theatre, New York City, NY.
  (Compare to UK premiere 17 September in London. Followed by Hollywood, CA 25 December.
  Then US general release 9 January 1965.)

  
  

  1965: Thunderball premieres in the US--New York City, New York.
  (Followed by US general release 22 December. UK release 29 December. The true world premiere was earlier: December 9, Hibiya Cinema, Tokyo, Japan.)

  

  
  1967: Casino Royale released in Austria, the Netherlands, and West Germany.
  1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Denmark.
  
  1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service principal shooting ends. (Began: 21 October.)
  1969: Ilse Steppat dies at age 51--West Berlin, Germany.
  (Born 30 November 1917--Barmen, 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")

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1973: Leven en laten sterven released in Belgium.

  French and Dutch

  

  1973: Leva och låta dö (Swedish title) released in Finland.

  
  

  1973: Vivre et laisser mourir released in France.

  
  

  1974: Mannen med den gyllene pistolen released in Sweden.

  
  

  
  1982: Moonraker released in Iceland.
  
  1995: 新鐵金剛之金眼睛 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī jīn yǎnjīng; Golden Eyes of New Iron King Kong) released in Hong Kong.

  
  

  
  2006: 007 카지노 로얄 (007 kah-gee-no low-yal; 007 Casino Royale) released in the Republic of Korea.

  
  
  

  
  2010: BOND 23 resumes pre-production, halted most of this year as related to MGM financial issues.
  
  2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #12 (Eidolon Chapter 6).
  Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND #12

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?CAT=DF-James_Bond
  Cover: Dom Reardon
  Writer: Warren Ellis
  Art: Jason Masters
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: December 2016
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 pages
  ON SALE DATE: 12/21

  EIDOLON, CHAPTER 6: The explosive conclusion to the second JAMES BOND 007 story - Eidolon are in the open, British Intelligence is cracked and in disarray, friends are dead and enemies seem unstoppable - can James Bond intercept the most direct strike of all, from the dead hand of SPECTRE to the heart of British government?

  
  
  
  
  https://www.previewsworld.com/Catalog/OCT161465?Prevue=1
  
  
  
  
  

  2017: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings with their annual card.

  http://www.ianfleming.com/merry-christmas-ian-fleming-publications/
  
  
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  2021: No Time To Die released on DVD and Bluray.

  

  No Time to Die (2021)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.dvdsreleasedates.com/movies/6031/No-Time-to-Die-2021.html

  No Time to Die DVD and Blu-ray release date is set for December 21, 2021 and available on Digital HD from Amazon Video and iTunes on December 7, 2021.

  Rating: 4.2/5 (205 users) *Please help rate
  Rating: PG-13
  imdb: 7.6
  Runtime: 163
  Theater date | October 8, 2021
  Theater gross | $160.5 mil
  Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Thriller

  Actor(s)
  Daniel Craig
  Rami Malek
  Lea Seydoux
  Ralph Fiennes
  Ben Whishaw
  Lashana Lynch
  Naomie Harris
  Jeffrey Wright
  Christoph Waltz
  Billy Magnussen
  
  Director(s)
  Cary Joji Fukunaga
  Producer(s)
  Barbara Broccoli
  Michael G. Wilson

  Overview
  Years after James Bond has decided to leave his work behind and retire, he is contacted by a friend of his working in the CIA, Felix Leiter, to help him search for a scientist that has turned up missing. James Bond quickly leaves retirement after meeting up with Felix as they both find out that the missing scientist may have fallen into the arms of dangerous criminals that are looking to use emerging technology for evil.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  December 22nd
  
  1962: Ralph Fiennes is born--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
  1964: Bosley Crowther reviews Goldfinger in The New York Times.

  

  GOLDFINGER

  See the complete article here:

  http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=EE05E7DF173DE464BC4A51DFB467838F679EDE

  By Bosley Crowther - Published: December 22, 1964

  Old Double-Oh Seven is slipping—or, rather, his scriptwriters are. They are involving him more and more with gadgets and less and less with girls. This is tediously apparent in Goldfinger, the latest movie adventure of James Bond, the dauntless sleuth of Ian Fleming's detective fiction, whom Sean Connery so handsomely portrays.
  
  In this third of the Bond screen adventures, which opened last night at the DeMille and goes continuous today at that theater and the Coronet, Agent 007 of the British Secret Service virtually spurns the lush temptations of voluptuous females in favor of high-powered cars and tricky machines.
  
  That is to say, he virtually spurns them in comparison to the way he went for them in his previous cinematic conniptions, Dr. No and From Russia with Love. In those fantastic fabrications, you may remember, he was constantly assailed by an unending flow of luxurious, exotic, and insatiable girls. And, being the sort of omnipotent and adaptable fellow he is, he did what he could to oblige them in the course of pursuing his sleuthing chores.
  
  But in this most gaudy of his outings—the most elaborate and fantastic to date—he manages to bestow his male attentions on only a couple of passing supplicants. One is a pliant little number who expires early, sealed in a skin of gold paint, and the other is a brawny pilot who remarkably resembles Gorgeous George. Neither is up to the standard of femininity usually maintained for Mr. Bond.
  
  Why this neglect of his love life is difficult to imagine—except that Mr. Bond's off-handed conquests were always open to a certain amount of doubt, a certain amount of skepticism as to how much of a Lothario he actually is. Indeed, they have often intimated a bland contempt for, or, at least, a slippery spoof of the whole notion of masculine prowess. One might question whether Bond really likes girls.
  
  So maybe his careful scriptwriters have played down that overly amorous side, delicately displacing dolls with automation and beautiful bodies with electronic brains. Anyhow, what they give us in Goldfinger is an excess of science-fiction fun, a mess of mechanical melodrama, and a minimum of bedroom farce.
  
  It is good fun, all right, fast and furious, racing hither and yon about the world as Double-Oh Seven pursues the intrigues of a mysterious financier named Goldfinger, who is criminally tampering with the gold reserves of Britain and the United States.
  
  Meeting his quarry in a crooked card game on the terrace of a hotel in Miami Beach, he follows him to a golf club outside London, trails him to a gold refinery in the Swiss Alps, and then is captured by him and flown to America to be an inside observer of a fantastic raid on Fort Knox. En route, the fellow has some lively set-tos, exercises smashing ingenuity, and meets that Amazonian pilot, whom he conquers after a deadly judo match.
  
  As usual, Mr. Connery plays the hero with an insultingly cool, commanding air, providing a great vicarious image for all the panting Walter Mittys in the world. Gert Fršbe is aptly fat and feral as the villainous financier, and Honor Blackman is forbiddingly frigid and flashy as the latter's aeronautical accomplice.
  
  In lesser roles, Shirley Eaton is delectable as the girl who is quickly painted out, and Harold Sakata is traditionally sinister as a mute Oriental who is adept at throwing a razor-brimmed hat.
  
  Of course, the high point of the picture is the climactic raid on Fort Knox with the intent of blowing it up and contaminating its hoard of gold with a nuclear bomb. It is spinningly staged and enacted, drenched in cliff-hanging suspense. But somehow, by the time it gets to this point—well, we've had Mr. Bond.

  
  1965: Thunderball released in the US.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  1965: Bosley Crowther reviews Thunderball in The New York Times.

  

  Screen: 007's Underwater Adventures:Connery Plays Bond in 'Thunderball'

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9907E4DE1430E33ABC4A51DFB467838E679EDE

  By BOSLEY CROWTHER - Published: December 22, 1965

  THE popular image of James Bond as the man who has everything, already magnificently developed in three progressively more compelling films, is now being cheerfully expanded beyond any possible chance of doubt in this latest and most handsome screen rendering of an Ian Fleming novel, "Thunderball."
  
  Now Mr. Fleming's superhero, still performed by Sean Connery and guided through this adventure by the director of his first two, Terence Young, has not only power over women, miraculous physical reserves, skill in perilous maneuvers and knowledge of all things great and small, but he also has a much better sense of humor than he has shown in his previous films. And this is the secret ingredient that makes "Thunderball" the best of the lot.
  
  This time old Double-Oh Seven, which is Mr. Bond's code number in the British intelligence service he so faithfully and tirelessly adorns, is tossing quips faster and better then he did even in "From Russia With Love," and he is viewing his current adventure with more gaiety and aplomb.
  
  I think you will, too. In this creation of superman travesty, which arrived yesterday at the reopened Paramount, the Sutton, Cinema II and twoscore or more other theaters in the metropolitan area. Bond is engaged in discovering who hijacked two nuclear bombs in a NATO aircraft over Europe and is secretly holding them for a ransom of £100 million.
  
  That in itself is fairly funny — fanciful and absurd in the same way as are all the problems that require the attention of Bond. But what Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins as the script writers have done is sprinkle their gaudy fabrication with the very best sight and verbal gags.
  
  "Let my friend sit this one out." Bond asks politely of two disinterested young men as he places his dancing partner in a chair beside them at a table in a nightclub in Nassau. The gentlemen nod permission. "She's just dead," he explains.
  
  Or when Bond leaps from a hovering helicopter wearing a skindiver's suit of extraordinary mechanical complexity to engage in an underwater war between SPECTRE and C.I.A. frogmen in the climactic scene of the film, he flips the conclusive comment: "Here comes the kitchen sink!"
  
  In addition to being funny, "Thunderball" is pretty, too, and it is filled with such underwater action as would delight Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The gimmick is that the airplane carrying the hijacked bombs has been ditched, sunk and covered with camouflaging on a coral reef off Nassau. And to get this information and then find and explore the sunken plane. Bond has to do a lot of skindiving, with companions and alone.
  
  The amount of underwater equipment the scriptwriters and Mr. Young have provided their athletic actors, including an assortment of beautiful girls in the barest of bare bikinis, is a measure of the splendor of the film. Diving saucers, aqualungs, frogman outfits and a fantastic hydrofoil yacht that belongs to the head man of SPECTRE are devices of daring and fun.
  
  So it is in this liveliest extension of the cultural scope of the comic strip. Machinery of the most way-out nature become the instruments and the master, too, of man. "I must be six inches taller," Bond wryly quips at one point after he has been almost shaken to pieces on an electric vibrating machine. The comment is not without significance. This is what machines do to men in these extravagant and tongue-in-cheek Bond pictures. They make distortions of them.
  
  Mr. Connery is at his peak of coolness and nonchalance with the girls. Adolfo Celi is piratical as the villain with a black patch over his eye. Claudine Auger, a French beauty winner, is a tasty skindiving dish and Luciana Paluzzi is streamlined as the inevitable and almost insuperable villainous girl.
  
  The color is handsome. The scenery in the Bahamas is an irresistible lure. Even the violence is funny. That's the best I can say for a Bond film.

  1965: Tony Mastroianni reviews Thunderball in the Cleveland Press.

  

  Thunderball Improves on Bond's Technique

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.clevelandmemory.org/mastroianni/tm364.html

  Cleveland Press December 22, 1965
  
  By now the James Bond films are pure formula and Bond fans wouldn't want them any other way. It is the fantasy world in which the super-hero finds all villains beatable, all women willing, and no situation hopeless.
  
  This latest Bond film, "Thunderball," is better than "Goldfinger" and though sex still is a major part, it is not nearly so vulgar.
  
  Again there is an attempt at humor but in this respect, "From Russia With Love," number two in the series, remains the best.
  
  Bond's dryly-delivered cliches at the end of an escapade, the purely Bondsian flourish (stopping to toss flowers on the body of a man he has just killed while his pursuers are breaking in a door), the Bond elegance (ordering the right wine at dinner) -- all are still there but are growing thin.
  
  Where "Thunderball" triumphs is in its special effects, its gadgets, its underwater scenes. The lengthiest of these is an underwater battle in which two armies -- the forces of SPECTRE in black, American aqua-paratroopers in orange -- advance and meet head-on.
  
  THERE ARE underwater sleds that pull a man through water, the front of it armed with spear guns. There is a two-man sub that can carry an H-bomb, a yacht that breaks apart into a speedy hydrofoil.
  
  In a prologue, Bond seems hopelessly trapped on the balcony of a building, but escapes by going straight up -- thanks to a jet power pack he has strapped to his back.
  
  In "Thunderball'' the international crime syndicate known as SPECTRE has hijacked a NATO plane carrying two atom bombs, demands a ransom from the Western world with the threat of destroying two major cities unless paid $2,800,000.
  
  BOND AND ALL the other agents with a double-0 prefix on their number (it indicates a license to kill) spread out around the world to find the bombs. Bond, agent 007, ends up in the Bahamas where there are villains, girls in bikinis, sharks, girls in bikinis, the bombs and girls in bikinis.
  
  It's not much of a plot for two hours and 10 minutes but the writers and producers pad it out with alternating fights and love scenes.
  
  One of the latter occurs underwater and where fireworks once indicated this sort of thing, it's now done with a burst of bubbles rushing to the surface.
  
  SEAN CONNERY plays Bond with a greater air of detachment than ever, as though his conquests -- amorous and otherwise -- were all in a day's work. It's the proper spirit for the part.
  
  The movie publicity doesn't say so but the man who did all the underwater scenes in the Bond role is a fellow whose name is Frank Cousins. He deserves plenty of credit.
  
  Adolfo Celi is sinister as the heavy, the number two man in SPECTRE. The newest Bond girl is Claudine Auger and lesser Bond girls are Luciana Paluzzi and Molly Peters, all of whom seem to have the proper dimensions.

  Short Subjects... Ursula Andress, who appeared in the first James Bond film, will be in another. She has been cast in "Casino Royale," a Bond film being made by a rival company. In it Peter Sellers is Bond.

  
  1967: Casino Royale released in Spain, Finland, and France.
  1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Italy.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale! released in Sweden.

  

  1969: 007 al servicio secreto de su Majestad (007 To His Majesty's Secret Service) released in Spain.

  
  

  
  1971: Diamantes para la eternidad (Diamonds for Eternity) released in Spain. (Diamants per a l'eternitat, Catalan title.)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1973: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ζήσε κι άσε τους άλλους να πεθάνουν (James Bond, Agent 007: Live and Let the Others Die) released in Greece.

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  1973: Leva och låta dö released in Sweden.

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  1982: Octopussy films OO7 hunted and hissing off.
  1983: Jamais plus Jamais; Never Again Never) released in Belgium.

  
  

  1985: 007 뷰 투 어 킬 (byoo too uh keel; 007 View to a Kill) released in the Republic of Korea.

  

  
  1995: GoldenEye released in Luxembourg and Malaysia.
  
  2006: Casino Royale released in Panama.
  
  2014: Richard Graydon dies at age 92--England.
  (Born 12 May 1922--London, England.)

  

  Richard Graydon - obituary

  Richard Graydon was an amateur jockey turned stuntman whose daredevil
  feats in 10 James Bond films made audiences gasp

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11316314/Richard-Graydon-obituary.html

  
  Richard Graydon at home in Surrey in 2000 Photo: REX FEATURES

  5:30PM GMT 29 Dec 2014

  Richard Graydon, who has died aged 92, was a former amateur jockey who became one of the most celebrated stuntmen in the business, keeping cinemagoers on the edges of their seats in some of the most hair-raising sequences in the James Bond canon.
  
  Graydon’s first outing as “007” came in 1969 when he doubled for George Lazenby, tobogganing down the Cresta Run at breakneck speed in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. In one terrifying sequence, in which Bond effects his escape from Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s mountaintop eyrie, Graydon was required to slide down, using a piece of chain, to a cable-car dangling over the abyss. “The drop was about 80 feet,” he recalled. “The only safety devices I had were two hooks in the palm of my hand attached to my safety belt. The difficulty was that ice had formed on the cable.”
  
  The scene was filmed without mishap and 10 years later Graydon was again to be found atop a cable-car, this time suspended hundreds of feet above the ground in Rio de Janeiro, doubling for Roger Moore in the scene in Moonraker (1979) where Bond fights the steel-toothed “Jaws” (fellow stuntman Martin Grace). On this occasion things nearly came unstuck when Graydon slipped and was left hanging from the cable-car by just one hand without any safety hooks. “One slip and it would have been certain death,” he said, recalling the episode as “the nastiest moment of my career”.
  
  Graydon performed in 10 Bond films in total. In You Only Live Twice (1967), he was seen abseiling down into a volcano and made a brief appearance as a Russian cosmonaut. In Octopussy he replaced Martin Grace (who had been injured on the second day of filming) as Roger Moore’s stunt double for much of the sequence in which Bond makes his way along the roof of a moving train, fighting off henchmen of the arch villain Kamal Khan, with the action taking place on top, hanging on to the side and even under the train. He also played the part of “Francisco the Fearless” – the man who gets shot out of a cannon at Octopussy’s circus.
  
  Martin Grace described Graydon as the most courageous stuntman he had ever worked with: “He treated hanging in the rafters of a volcano 120 feet up, and on top of the cable car in Rio as if he was having a coffee down at Piccadilly Circus in London. He made what other stuntmen claimed as too dangerous and impossible look like a walk in the park.”

  Inevitably such daredevilry came at a cost. Graydon broke an arm in four places when the horse he was riding in Waltz of the Toreadors (1962, with Peter Sellers) collided with a camera car. Worse was to come at a stunt show in Sweden in the 1970s, when a guide wire snapped as he was launching himself off the top of a tall tower. He broke his back and both legs and was in hospital for 14 weeks.
  
  Richard Graydon was born on May 12 1922 into a theatrical family. His grandfather owned the Middlesex Music Hall (now the New London Theatre) in Drury Lane and his father was an agent and manager for such stars as Maurice Chevalier.
  
  By contrast, after leaving Stowe Richard Graydon began his career as a gentleman jockey working for trainers – an occupation which, he later observed, provided an excellent grounding in stunt work and also brought him his first injuries. On one occasion he broke his neck and a leg riding for Boggy Whelan in a novice chase at Wye. The nearest he got to success on the turf was coming third on Squire’s Mount in the amateur riders’ Carnarvon Cup at Salisbury.

  
  Graydon on top of a cable-car above Rio de Janeiro in Moonraker (REX FEATURES)

  Graydon continued to ride out for trainers as he embarked on his showbusiness career, first as a dancer at the Windmill and other London theatres. Partially blinded in one eye following a childhood accident, he was turned down for wartime service in the RAF, though he performed with Ensa in India.

  His first screen credit came in 1952 when he played one of Robin Hood’s Merrie Men in the Disney film of that name. His stunt career began with James Bond’s second big screen adventure, From Russia with Love, in 1963, and he appeared, uncredited, in Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965).

  Graydon’s experience and knowledge of horsemanship also led to work as a stunt coordinator. He taught horses to fall without injuring themselves in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and – ignoring the advice of experts that it could not be done – taught camels to jump a low wall in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962). He also worked as stunt coordinator in the horse racing drama Champions (1984).
  
  He earned more than 30 credits for stunt work in such productions as Where Eagles Dare (1968); When Eight Bells Toll (1971); Don’t Look Now (1973); Royal Flash (1975); The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976); The Duellists (1977); Star Wars (1977); The Wild Geese (1978); International Velvet (1978); Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Batman (1989); and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) in which he played a butler.
  
  In 1970 Richard Graydon married Hermione Bedford, who survives him. There were no children of the marriage.
  
  Richard Graydon, born May 12 1922, died December 22 2014

  

  Richard Graydon (1922–2014)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337040/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
  
  Filmography

  Stunts (44 credits)
  
  1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (stuntman)
  1997 Pie in the Sky (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
  - The Apprentice (1997) ... (stunts)
  1993 Doctor Finlay (TV Series) (stunts)
  1992 Gøngehøvdingen (TV Series) (stunt coordinator - 1 episode)
  - Død mand ønskes (1992) ... (stunt coordinator)
  1991 Boon (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
  - Bad Pennies (1991) ... (stunt performer)
  
  1989 Batman (stunts)
  1989 The Littlest Viking (stunts)
  1988 Willow (stunts)
  1987 Pathfinder (stunts)
  1986 Pirates (stunts - uncredited)
  1986 Dream Lover (stunt coordinator: UK)
  1985 A View to a Kill (additional stunts - uncredited)
  1985 Ladyhawke (stunt coordinator)
  1984 A Passage to India (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
  1984 Champions (stunt coordinator)
  1984 Ordeal by Innocence (stunts)
  1983 Octopussy (stunts - uncredited)
  1981 For Your Eyes Only (additional stunts - uncredited)
  1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (stunts - uncredited)
  1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1979 Moonraker (stunt double: Roger Moore, cable car sequence - uncredited) / (stunts)
  1979 The Lady Vanishes (stunt arrangements)
  1979 The Passage (stunts - uncredited)
  1978 International Velvet (stunt coordinator)
  1978 The Wild Geese (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 Death or Freedom (horse master)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (second stunt guard at cellblock AA-23 - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
  1977 The Duellists (horsemaster)
  1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth (stunt coordinator - as Dickie Graydon)
  1975 Royal Flash (stunt arranger)
  1974 11 Harrowhouse (stunts - uncredited)
  1974 Dead Cert (stunts - uncredited)
  1973 Don't Look Now (stunt coordinator - as Richard Grayden)
  1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt double: George Lazenby - uncredited)
  1968 Where Eagles Dare (stunts - uncredited)
  1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
  1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
  1965 Thunderball (stunts - uncredited)
  1964 Goldfinger (stunts - uncredited)
  1963 From Russia with Love (stunts - uncredited)
  1962 Lawrence of Arabia (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
  1962 Waltz of the Toreadors (stunts - uncredited)
  
  Actor (24 credits)
  
  1997 Shooting Fish - Racehorse Trainer (as Dickie Graydon)
  1993 Between the Lines (TV Series) - Edmonds
  - Some Must Watch (1993) ... Edmonds
  1990 The Fool - 1990 Wings of Fame
  
  1989 London's Burning (TV Series) - Old Man
  - Episode #2.6 (1989) ... Old Man
  1985 Déjà Vu - Captain Wilson
  1983 Octopussy - Francisco the Fearless
  1982 Jockey School (TV Mini-Series) - Reggie Sheaton
  - Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Reggie Sheaton
  1981 Eye of the Needle - Home Guard Private
  1980 ffolkes - Rasmussen
  
  1979 Moonraker - Space Fighter (uncredited)
  1979 Love and Bullets - Antonio
  1977 The Duellists - Cossack / Hussar
  1974 Dead Cert - Jockey (uncredited)
  1974 The Fortunes of Nigel (TV Mini-Series) - Groom
  - Part 5 (1974) ... Groom
  1971 The Last Valley - Yuri (uncredited)
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Draco's Driver (uncredited)
  1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Lord Bingham
  1967 You Only Live Twice - Astronaut - Russian Spacecraft
  1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - George Reed
  - Honey for the Prince (1966) ... George Reed
  1965 Thunderball - Largo's Henchman (uncredited)
  
  1959 The Unseeing Eye (Short) - Eddie Brown (as Dick Graydon)
  1953 Wicked Wife - Chandler (as Richard Grayden)
  1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men - Merrie Man
  
  Miscellaneous Crew (5 credits)
  
  1997 Shooting Fish (animal handler)
  1991 Robin Hood (horse master)
  1985 Ladyhawke (horse master)
  1984 Champions (horse master)
  1977 Death or Freedom (horse master)
  
  Self (12 credits)
  
  2006 Moonraker: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' [/b](Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (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
  1982 Stuntman Challenge (TV Movie) - Himself
  1979 Film 2017 (TV Series) - Himself
  - Episode dated 27 May 1979 (1979) ... Himself
  
  Archive footage (1 credit)
  
  2009 À l'abordage - L'aventure de pirates (Video documentary) - Himself

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2016: Ian Fleming Publications sends Season's Greetings.

  http://www.jamesbondthesecretagent.com/2016/12/christmas-card-from-ian-fleming.html
  

  James Bond hunts Santa
  

  
  2021: MI6 share their Christmas Card in The Times.

  

  From MI6 with love, a Bond-style
  Christmas card with a licence to
  chill

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/from-mi6-with-love-a-bond-style-christmas-card-with-a-licence-to-chill-6w8vzkxjc

  George Sandeman | Wednesday December 22 2021, The Times

  
  The MI6 Christmas card parodies the James Bond opening sequence

  The head of MI6 said this year that the legend of James Bond was a double-edged sword. His attitude seems to have softened, however, with a nod to the fictional spy in the secret service’s Christmas card.
  
  It adopts the image featured in the opening sequences of the 007 films where Bond, dressed in dinner jacket and bow tie, turns and shoots towards the camera. Instead of the dapper spy, a tubby Father Christmas points a red and white striped candy cane skywards.
  
  The card was produced by one of the overseas intelligence agency’s officers.
  
  Richard Moore, who was appointed chief of the service last year, told The Times in April that he enjoyed the films depicting Ian Fleming’s character but they were a far...
  

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  December 23rd
  
  1944: Ian Fleming arrives in Colombo, Ceylon, and strikes up a friendship with Wren Clare Blanshard.

  

  Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycott, 1995.

  As soon as he arrived 23 September, Ian struck up a close friendship
  with Clare who was swept off her feet by the handsome, educated naval
  officer in his tropical uniform. In a letter to her brother Paul a month
  later, "Since I wrote last (and continuously, every day, but about to be
  lopped off at a moment's notice like Marlow's Faustas) a beauteous being
  has swum into my ken--on an official visit--and I like him very very very
  much indeed. As the Wrens say, whose letters I censor so very monotonously,
  he's absolutely it. It doesn't make any difference that I don't mean any-
  thing to him as he's so awfully nice--so that is why I haven't written.
  Next time I write he'll have gone for ever and ever and practically won't
  have existed. But, believe me, he's the right shape, size, and height, has the
  right sort of hair, the right sort of laugh, is 36 and beautiful. I wish I were
  more glamorous..."
  
  Ian had arrived at the height of the Christmas party season in Colombo.
  He invited Clare to a dance at the Septic Prawn, the nightclub in the
  Galleface Hotel where he was staying. She was impressed that he was "a
  plodder dancer: I dislike men who dance well". She wore a stunning long
  white silk dress, plugged with little pieces of real silver. Ian was fascinated
  with the garment and, seventeen years later, sent her a postcard of the
  ballroom of a Sussex hotel where he was recuperating from an illness. He
  marked the front with an X and wrote, "I'm behind the palm tree on the
  right, watching you in the white dress clearing the floor in the centre."
  Clare recalled, "He couldn't get over that dress. He really minded about
  materials and such things."
  
  He also expressed interest in exploring the Ceylon countryside. When
  Clare had told him about the jungle which straddled the railway on the
  way up to the hill-station of Kandy, he jumped at the opportunity to
  investigate. Enjoying the hear and mild humidity of the tropical island,
  he told Clare, "I'm never going to spend the winter in England again." He
  did not mention Jamaica, but his fantasy of his post-war experience was
  beginning to take shape.

  
  Live and Let Die.
  FLEMING, Ian.
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  https://www.raptisrarebooks.com/product/live-and-let-die-ian-fleming-first-edition-signed-rare/
  London: Jonathan Cape, 1954.

  First edition of the second James Bond novel. Octavo, original black cloth. An exceptional association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “To Clare who sheds much light. With love Ian 1954.” The recipient was Clare Blanshard, a WRNS Wren who Fleming met and romanced in 1944 when he visited Ceylon to review the intelligence arm of the British Pacific Fleet. Blanshard was the trusted assistant of Alan Hillgarth, Chief of Naval Intelligence Eastern Theatre, who as naval attaché in Madrid had worked with Fleming on Operation Golden Eye, plans for subversion and sabotage in Spain should it fall to the Fascists, and played a prominent role in Operation Mincemeat, the famous “Man who never was”. Mutually attracted, Fleming and Blanshard spent time together in Colombo and on a trip to Sydney where “Ian and Clare enjoyed the good life, staying at Petty’s Hotel, frequenting the nightclubs and taking trips to Whale Beach for swimming”, when he returned to London Fleming sent his “best love to the angel Clare” via a letter to Hillgarth, “she is a jewel and will miss her protective wing very much” (Simmons, Ian Fleming’s War). For her part Clare told her brother “it doesn’t make any difference that I don’t mean anything to him he’s so awfully nice” (Macintyre, p. 218). Clearly a well-matched pair, they remained good friends and perhaps occasional lovers. After the war both worked for the Kemsley Group of newspapers, Fleming as foreign manager for The Sunday Times, and Blanshard, based on Fleming’s “fulsome [sic.] commendations”, became the “highly-accomplished secretary” of Robert Harling the ground-breaking typographer and designer of the Sunday Times and House & Garden (Harling, Ian Fleming). Harling had been recruited by Fleming for the Inter-Service Topographical Department on the basis of his visual acuity and ended up assigned to 30AU [Assault Unit] landing in France soon after D-Day, embroiled in the heavy action around Cherbourg. It has been noted that Harling, in his “sardonic elegance of manner and cool sexual expertise” (ODNB) bore a distinct resemblance to his good friend’s immortal creation. Famously Blanshard was one the earliest readers of Fleming’s manuscript for Casino Royale, his first essay at fiction; advising him not to publish it, or at least to publish it under a pseudonym, to avoid the “mill-stone round his neck”. On that occasion he refused her advice, but in his inscription here Fleming is expressing his gratitude for her skill in researching and proof-reading the present work, professional advice he had no problem in accepting. A wonderfully allusive association, blending Fleming’s very real wartime exploits and loyalties with his legendarily, sometimes darkly, fanciful amours in the creation of the inimitable Bond. Fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco solander box, red morocco labels lettered in gilt, compartments elaborately gilt, front panel with black morocco roundel gilt after the original front panel of jacket.

  "Fleming accomplished an extraordinary amount in the history of the thriller. Almost single-handedly, he revived popular interest in the spy novel, spawning legions of imitations, parodies, and critical and fictional reactions Through the immense success of the filmed versions of his books, his character James Bond became the best known fictional personality of his time and Fleming the most famous writer of thrillers since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle" (Reilly, 571). The inspiration for these changes came from Fleming's experiences of travel in the U.S. and his knowledge of Jamaica itself, where Live and Let Die was written at Fleming's 'Goldeneye' estate. The novel's innovations were positively noted by The Sunday Times when they wrote "[h]ow wincingly well Mr. Fleming writes." And the Times thought Live and Let Die "is an ingenious affair, full of recondite knowledge and horrific spills and thrills - of slightly sadistic excitements also - though without the simple and bold design of its predecessor."
  

  

  
  1964: Variety reports Goldfinger breaking US records in New York at the DeMille and Coronet theaters. The New York Times says as a result, the Coronet plans midnight screenings. The DeMille says it will run the film 24 hours through year's end to meet demand.

  

  Theater Open 24 Hours For
  ‘Goldfinger’ Showings

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1964/12/23/archives/theater-open-24-hours-for-goldfinger-showings.html

  See the article in its original context from
  December 23, 1964, Page 22
  
  The DeMille Theater at Broadway and 47th Street will remain open 24 hours a day through the end of the year to meet the public demand for showings of “Goldfinger.” The theater hopes to show the new film about Ian Fleming's fictional agent, James Bond, at least 12 times during each 24‐hour period.
  
  The policy starts today and it is believed to be the first time that it has been employed to meet ticket demands at a midtown movie house. At the smaller Coronet Theater, regular midnight performances of “Goldfinger” also will begin today.
  
  Walter Reade‐Sterling Theaters yesterday predicted record first‐day grosses at both theatres. By 4 P.M. yesterday boxoffice returns at the 1,496‐seat DeMille had reached $6,200. The previous champion, “The Night of the Iguana,” grossed: $8,539 for the entire day last year. At the 599‐seat Coronet, where “Lilith” set a record of $3,957, that figure was being‐surpassed by late afternoon attendance.

  

  1965: Thunderball released in Australia.

  
  

  1965: Operación Trueno (Operation Thunder) released in Spain. (Operació tro, Catalan title.)

  
  
  
  

  1966: You Only Live Twice completes principal photography filming Ninjas.
  
  1970: Anatole Taubman is born--Zurich, Switzerland.
  1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in Australia and the Netherlands.

  Australian Daybill,

  

  1971: 鐵金剛勇破鑽石黨 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò zuànshí dǎng; Iron King Kong broke the Diamond Party) released in Hong Kong.

  
  
  

  1972: 007 ドクター・ノオ (Dokutā nō) re-release in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  

  1974: El hombre de la pistola de oro (The Man With the Pistol of Gold) released in Spain. (L'home de la pistola d'or, Catalan title.)

  
  
  Disclaimer: not this one.

  

  
  1983: 내버 새이 내버 어개인 (Nay-buh say-ee nay-buh uh-gay-een) released in the Republic of Korea.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1997: 007 - Il domani non muore mai released in Italy.

  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Chile.
  1999: 007, el mundo no basta released in Argentina.

  

  
  2013: Ian Fleming Publications unveils its new logo.

  Ian Fleming Publications unveils new logo

  https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/news/ian-fleming-publications-unveils-new-logo.htm
  December 23, 2013 by David Leigh
  
  Ian Fleming Publications last week unveiled a smart new logo comprising of the signatureian-fleming-publications-logo of James Bond’s creator and a “Doctor Bird”, Jamaica’s national bird.
  
  There are numerous links to the bird, also known as the Streamer-tailed Humming Bird; all the Bond books were written at Goldeneye in Jamaica; 007 was named after the ornithologist who wrote A Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies; and the Doctor Bird was mentioned by Fleming in the books.

  
  
  
  
  

  2015: Ian Fleming Publications sends Season's Greetings.

  

  
  2020: The Hollywood Reporter reports on a Star Trek episode inspired by Bond.

  

  How James Bond Inspired This Underrated ‘Star Trek’
  Episode
  'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' writer Ron Moore looks back at "Our Man Bashir," which earned
  a stern letter from 007 studio MGM 25 years ago.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/how-james-bond-inspired-this-underrated-star-trek-episode-4108416/

  December 23, 2020 11:39am

  
  Paramount Pictures/Photofest

  Twenty-five years ago, Star Trek helped introduce James Bond to the Final Frontier. Well, kind of.
  
  Writer Ronald D. Moore’s Deep Space Nine episode, “Our Man Bashir,” served as a nod to 1960s spy films like Goldfinger and Our Man Flint as a transporter accident (naturally) swaps out all of the main characters in Doctor Bashir’s (Alexander Siddig) secret agent holosuite program with those that look like Captain Sisko (Avery Brooks) and the rest of the main crew. Soon, Bashir — sporting a very Bondian look and tuxedo — must complete the mission and save the day, 007-style, in order to return order to the station.
  
  To celebrate this year’s 25th anniversary of this underrated episode of Trek, Ron Moore shares with The Hollywood Reporter how he and the rest of the production pulled off one of DS9’s best episodes — and irked the makers of the Bond movie in the process.
  
  “I remember it being a very fun episode to write,” Moore says of the season four putting, which aired at the end of November 1995. “It was one of our more challenging shoots, too, if I recall. I had always loved the classic James Bond movies, I grew up with the Sean Connery films, so it was a great opportunity to combine a version of them with another thing I loved, which was Star Trek.”
  
  “Our Man Bashir” originated as a freelance pitch from Bob Gillan, but it almost didn’t happen. At the time, DS9 producers were leery of doing yet another episode centered on the “malfunctioning holodeck” trope, since it was used very often on Star Trek: The Next Generation. But what eventually won producers over, Moore recalls, is Gillan’s unique way into the story by using the holosuite as means to store the crew’s transporter patterns during a tech glitch while beaming.
  
  “Once we had that [narrative] device locked down, we were able to break the story in a way that was relatively easy, if I recall, because we had years of Bond movies to rely on and borrow from,” Moore says.
  
  And like the Bond movies that inspired the episode, “Our Man Bashir” also set out to capture the action-y feel of those classic films. The extensive approach to the episode’s set pieces led to “Our Man Bashir” being the longest shoot in the history of Deep Space Nine. Most DS9 episodes took seven, sometimes eight, days to make. The production filmed “Bashir” in nine.
  
  “It was a very ambitious episode, and the sets were amazing,” Moore recalls. “Especially the evil villain’s lair set. It was great to see the production value put into what was our version of, an homage to the classic volcanic lair-type sets that [the late Bond production designer] Ken Adams made back in the day. I mean, it was the closest thing you got to making a Bond movie.”
  
  At the time, it was rare for Trek writers to be on set, but “Our Man Bashir” marked one of the few times Moore was able to visit the production and watch the filming of a key action scene.
  
  “There’s this sequence with Bashir’s spy and one of the bad guys, you know, our version of an Odd Job-type character [Falcon, played by Colm Meany]. And there was this explosion and, we rarely got to go on set back in the TNG days. But I was able to see this and I have to say it was such a cool thing to be on set for because — we were really, essentially, trying to make a James Bond movie,” says Moore. “It was hard, very hard work. The shoot was a bear for the crew. But there was an energy to it because everyone was so excited to be pulling it off and doing something different, with the period, Bond-era costumes, too. One of my favorite memories from my time working on the show.”

  Another notable memory Moore has from the episode was MGM’s reaction to it. Even though Moore’s script avoids any direct lifts or references to its inspiration, the studio that holds the rights to Bond deemed what references were in “Our Man Bashir” hit too close to home.
  
  “MGM sent us a letter,” Moore remembers. “I don’t recall [Bond producers] the Broccolis being on it or having signed it, but I remember after the episode aired, the studio sent us a very stern letter. And it even got back to some of the higher-ups at Paramount. It seems [MGM was] not very flattered by our ‘homage,’ but it wasn’t like we got in any serious trouble or anything.”
  
  As a result, when Deep Space Nine revisited Bashir’s espionage holonovel in season five’s “A Simple Investigation,” the production made a very concentrated effort to dial back and water down any references to Bond iconography.
  
  Despite the objection from Bond’s home studio, “Our Man Bashir” proved to be somewhat of a popular episode among the staff and the fans.

  “It was an important episode for Siddig’s character,” Moore says. “At the time, we were still trying to figure out how best to use Bashir and give him agency, because we cast such a talented and versatile actor to play this character. You want to service those talents and the character the best way you can. And I remember there was this sort of change in how Bashir was treated and perceived by the fans, at least in our experience, from that point on. And I think Siddig said as much in interviews at the time or whatever. It was really a key moment for the character, a fun turning point for him, that helped us as writers when it came to find more stories for [Bashir] to do.”
  
  Unlike Bond, Bashir’s holosuite exploits as a secret agent were short-lived — fans only got two episodes featuring Bashir’s suave alter ego. But like Bond, the missions we did get made for very rewatchable hours of escapist entertainment. Something both Trek and Ian Fleming’s iconic character have in common.

  Our Man Bashir - A James Bond style trailer
  
  
  DS9 Garak the wingman (Our Man Bashir)
  
  

  
  
  
  
  https://www.reddit.com/r/DeepSpaceNine/comments/qe6qan/our_man_bashir/
  

  
  "Our Man Bashir Suite", Jay Chattaway Star Trek DS9
  

  
  
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  December 24th
  
  1931: Nora Noel Jill Bennett is born--Penang, Malaysia.
  (She dies 4 October 1990 at age 58--Kensington, London, England.)

  

  Jill Bennett (British actress)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1941: Michael Billington is born--Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
  (He dies 3 June 2005 at age 63--Margate, Kent, England.)

  

  Michael Billington

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Michael Billington (I) (1941–2005)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0082545/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actor (34 credits)
  
  1993 Maigret (TV Series) - Oscar
  - Maigret and the Night Club Dancer (1993) ... Oscar
  
  1986 The Collectors (TV Series) - Tom Gibbons
  - Touch and Go (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
  - Cover Up (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
  - Rare Bird (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
  - The Dog It Was... (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
  - Uncommon Market (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
  - Major Barclay's Last Stand (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
  - The Great Ice-Cream War (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
  - Swings and Roundabouts (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
  - Go for Gold (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
  - Diversions (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
  1985 KGB: The Secret War - Peter Hubbard
  1984 Antony and Cleopatra (TV Movie) - Ventidius
  1984 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - Lever
  - Holmes Is Where the Heart Is (1984) ... Lever
  1984 All the World's a Stage (TV Mini-Series)
  1983 Flicks - Deputy Inspector (segment 'Whodunit')
  1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) - King Leopardi
  - The King in Yellow (1983) ... King Leopardi
  1983 Fantasy Island (TV Series) - Henri Ducette
  - King of Burlesque/Death Games (1983) ... Henri Ducette
  1982 The Quest (TV Series) - Count Louis Dardinay
  - R.S.V.P. (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
  - Daddy's Home (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
  - Hunt for the White Tiger (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
  - A Prince of a Fellow (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
  - Escape from a Velvet Box (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
  - His Majesty, I Presume (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
  - He Stole-A My Art (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
  - Last One There Is a Rotten Heir (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
  - Pilot (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
  1982 Gavilan (TV Series) - Roger Morgan
  - Pirates (1982) ... Roger Morgan
  1982 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Raymond Dumont
  - Vintage Harts (1982) ... Raymond Dumont
  1982 The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) - Talenikov
  - It's All Downhill from Here (1982) ... Talenikov
  
  1979 Thundercloud (TV Series) - Ben Adams
  - Fair Shares All Round (1979) ... Ben Adams
  1978 The Professionals (TV Series) - John Coogan
  - The Rack (1978) ... John Coogan
  1978 Spearhead (TV Series) - Colour Sgt. Jackson
  - Truth Games (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
  - Thieves in the Night (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
  - Both Ends Against the Middle (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
  - Jackal (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
  - Loyalties (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
  - Leave (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
  - Suspect (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
  1977 Sister Dora (TV Mini-Series) - Kenyon Jones
  - Part 3 (1977) ... Kenyon Jones
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Sergei Barsov
  1975 Edward the King (TV Mini-Series) - Czar Nicholas II
  - Good Old Teddy! (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
  - The Peacemaker (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
  - The Years of Waiting (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
  1975 The Way of the World (TV Movie) - Fainall
  1974 Invasion: UFO - Col. Paul Foster
  1974 UFO: Distruggete Base Luna - Col. Paul Foster
  1974 UFO: Prendeteli vivi. - Col. Paul Foster
  1974 UFO... annientare S.H.A.D.O. stop. Uccidete Straker... - Col. Paul Foster
  1974 Z Cars (TV Series) - John
  - Intruder (1974) ... John
  1971-1974 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - Daniel Fogarty
  - The Passenger (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Port Out, Starboard Home (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - The Silver Caddy (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Over the Horizon (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - A Proposal of Marriage (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Ice and Fire (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Law of the Fist (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Black Gold (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Danger Level (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Amazon Cargo (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Echoes from Afar (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - The Stranger (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - The Ship Devils (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Race for Power (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - The Challenge (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Bloody Week (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Goodbye, Goodbye (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - An Inch of Candle (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Beyond the Upper Sea (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - 'Frisco Bound (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Coffin Ship (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Survivor (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Yellow Jack (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - A Woman Alone (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Pound and Pint (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - The Hard Case (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Winner Take All (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Shadow of Doubt (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Cry of the Blackbird (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Mutiny (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Salvage (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Catch as Can (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - The High Price (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Other Points of the Compass (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
  - Plain Salling (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
  1970-1973 UFO (TV Series) - Col. Paul Foster / Col. Foster / Paul Foster
  - The Long Sleep (1973) ... Col. Paul Foster
  - The Responsibility Seat (1971) ... Col. Foster
  - Reflections in the Water (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
  - The Sound of Silence (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
  - Court Martial (1971) ... Col. Foster
  - Ordeal (1971) ... Col. Foster
  - Timelash (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
  - The Dalotek Affair (1971) ... Col. Foster
  - The Man Who Came Back (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
  - Mindbender (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
  - Survival (1971) ... Col. Foster
  - The Psychobombs (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
  - Close Up (1970) ... Col. Foster
  - The Square Triangle (1970) ... Col. Foster
  - Destruction (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
  - Sub-Smash (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
  - Kill Straker! (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
  - E.S.P. (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
  - Conflict (1970) ... Col. Foster
  - The Cat with Ten Lives (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
  - Exposed (1970) ... Paul Foster
  1972 War & Peace (TV Series)
  Lt. Berg / Lieut. Berg
  - A Beautiful Tale (1972) ... Lt. Berg
  - Reunions (1972) ... Lt. Berg
  - Austerlitz (1972) ... Lt. Berg
  - Part One: Name Day (1972) ... Lieut. Berg
  1971 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Freddie Hepton
  - Breakdown (1971) ... Freddie Hepton
  - Absolutely Feudal (1971) ... Freddie Hepton
  
  1969/I Alfred the Great - Offa (as Mike Billington)
  1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - 2nd Woodland Man
  - A Change of Mind (1967) ... 2nd Woodland Man
  1966 United! (TV Series) - Neil Hall 23 episodes
  1965 Dream A40 (Short) - Young Man (as Mike Billington)
  1964 The Valiant Varneys (TV Series)
  - Episode #1.5 (1964)
  
  Writer (2 credits)
  
  1980 Silver Dream Racer (an original story by)
  
  1968 BBC Show of the Week (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Roy Hudd and Bill Haley & His Comets (1968) ... (writer)
  
  Soundtrack (2 credits)
  
  1971 The Onedin Line (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Plain Salling (1971) ... (performer: "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" - uncredited)
  1971 UFO (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - Ordeal (1971) ... (performer: "Beautiful Dreamer")
  
  Archive footage (3 credits)
  
  2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Sergei Barsov (uncredited)
  2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
  2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Sergi

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1971: James Bond comic Starfire comic finishes its run in Daily Express.
  (Started 30 August 1971. 1709–1809) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/sf.php3
  
  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1005
  
  
  
  
  Not Found:
  Swedish Semic Comic 1989 #6 - Stjärnornas Herre (Starfire)
  
  Danish 1973 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no26-1973/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 26: “Starfire” (1973)
  "Stjernernes herre" [Star Lord]
  
  

  
  1969: Gene Siskel"s "Bond and de Sade" reviews On Her Majesty's Secret Service in the Chicago Tribune

  https://www.newspapers.com/clip/41872982/gene-siskel-movie-reviewson-her/

  

  
  1971: Diamanten zijn eeuwig (Diamonds Are Eternal, Flemish title) released in Belgium.

  
  

  
  1982: Octopussy films Gobinda arming the bomb.
  1983: ネバーセイ・ネバーアゲイン (Nebāsei nebāagein) released in Japan.

  
  
  

  
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Singapore.
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Cyprus, Ecuador, Peru, plus Trinidad and Tobago.
  1999: 007 - O Mundo Não é o Bastante released in Brazil.

  

  1999: 007: El mundo no basta released in Mexico.

  

  
  2019: yahoo!movies reports on Empire Magazine's interview with Daniel Craig and why he returned for No Time To Die.

  

  Daniel Craig says 'secret idea' prevented him from quitting
  Bond after 'Spectre'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/daniel-craig-couldnt-quit-bond-after-spectre-121222836.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS91cmw_c2E9dCZyY3Q9aiZxPSZlc3JjPXMmc291cmNlPXdlYiZjZD0mdmVkPTJhaFVLRXdqSTR2R2d4LVh0QWhXQnpsa0tIVEpFQkRzUUZqQVJlZ1FJSkJBQyZ1cmw9aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ1ay5tb3ZpZXMueWFob28uY29tJTJGZGFuaWVsLWNyYWlnLWNvdWxkbnQtcXVpdC1ib25kLWFmdGVyLXNwZWN0cmUtMTIxMjIyODM2Lmh0bWwmdXNnPUFPdlZhdzBQRlZ5aDlzUTVvcTM3YXVoVk9VNjQ&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHpHG4UkemPHlqt14ae4Y2coZLTmTDdPW7sfqEalZkor5OzHrBRUmCR_F1Zs9qZEHiyipWs0d-HjHCEdck6k6Y-eTJSciqSuX5B0J3TSFLv7SsJ8ByLE-1jXj9lWmL8Wq-_rWqu1dCrMPA3kNK_6wiXs44Mf3byLa962cTdipaPc

  Tom Butler·Senior Editor | 24 December 2019

  https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/3nATuinmTPvcHN7dRX00Xw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTY0MA--/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-12/f3625070-169b-11ea-bbfc-fefc9a10c2a0
  James Bond (Daniel Craig) prepares to shoot in NO TIME TO DIE,
  a DANJAQ and Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film.
  (Credit: Nicola Dove. © 2019 DANJAQ, LLC AND MGM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)

  Daniel Craig says unfinished business with James Bond prevented him from quitting the role after the release of Spectre in 2015.
  
  The 51-year-old actor is returning as Ian Fleming’s super spy for the fifth and final time in 2020’s No Time To Die but, for a while, it looked like he’d had enough after his second 007 film with Sam Mendes.
  
  When asked about making a fifth outing by Time Out in 2015, Craig infamously responded: “Now? I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists. No, not at the moment. Not at all. That’s fine. I’m over it at the moment. We’re done. All I want to do is move on.”
  
  Now, talking to Empire Magazine for its February 2020 issue, Craig says he had “a secret idea” for his swan song that Spectre failed to achieve.
  
  “If Spectre had been [my last Bond film], the world would have carried on as normal, and I would have been absolutely fine,” he says.
  
  “But somehow it felt like we needed to finish something off. If I’d left it at Spectre, something at the back of my head would have been going, ‘I wish I’d done one more.’”
  
  “I always had a kind of secret idea about the whole lot in my head, and where I wanted to take it. And Spectre wasn’t that,” he adds. “But this feels like it is.”
  
  Craig’s comments suggest No Time To Die may offer closure for his incarnation of 007 which was first introduced to the world in 2006’s Casino Royale.
  
  Craig’s tenure is the first time a Bond actor’s films have enjoyed a loose narrative connection to form a canon of sorts. Casino Royale was an origin film, while 2008’s Quantum of Solace followed Bond as he sought revenge for the death of Eva Green’s Vesper Lynd.
  
  2012’s Skyfall and 2015’s Spectre also shared narrative threads, including the return of the mysterious Mr White (Jesper Christensen) in Spectre. White is the father of Léa Seydoux’s Dr. Madeleine Swann, also returning in No Time To Die.
  
  Empire’s new issue – which promises new interviews with Craig, director Cary Joji Fukunaga, producer Barbara Broccoli, and Lashana Lynch and Rami Malek – is on newsstands from Friday 27 December.

  
  

  
  
  
  
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  December 2023 Posts: 13,785

  December 25th
  
  1964: Goldfinger US premiere--Hollywood, California.
  (That's after the New York City premiere, and before the 9 January US general release.)
  1965: Pallosalama (Fireball; Åskbollen, The Thunderbolt, Swedish title) released in Finland.

  
  

  
  1969: 鐵金剛勇破雪山堡 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò xuěshān bǎo; Iron King Kong Breaks Through the Snow Mountain Fort) released in Hong Kong.

  http://playitagain.info/site/1969/on-her-majesty-secret-service/
  
  

  1969: Al servicio secreto de Su Majestad (To His Majesty's Secret Service) released in Colombia.

  

  
  1971: Los diamantes son eternos (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in Colombia.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1971: Timantit ovat ikuisia (Diamentena är eviga/Diamonds Are Eternal, Swedish title) released in Finland.

  
  
  

  1971: ダイヤモンドは永遠に (007 / Diayamondo wa eien ni; Diamonds Forever) released in Japan.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1995: GoldenEye released in Panama.
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Colombia and Panama.
  1999: Само един свят не стига (Only One World Is Not Enough) released in Bulgaria.

  

  
  2001: Russia DVD premiere for From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice.
  2002: Die Another Day released in Bolivia and Jamaica.
  2006: Casino Royale released in Bolivia.
  
  2015: Radiohead releases their unused Bond theme for Spectre.

  Radiohead's James Bond Theme Song 'Spectre' Released - Listen Now!

  http://www.justjared.com/2015/12/25/radiohead-spectre-james-song-theme-song/
  Fri, 25 December 2015 at 12:45 pm
  
  Radiohead just released a new song!
  
  “Last year we were asked to write a theme tune for the [James] Bond movie Spectre,” Radiohead singer Thom Yorke wrote on his Twitter. “Yes we were. It didn’t work out, but became something of our own, which we love very much. As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it. Merry Christmas.”
  
  He even ended his note with a reference to Star Wars, which is currently dominating the box office. Thom capped off his tweets with: “May the force be with you.”
  
  Listen to Radiohead‘s “Spectre” below!

  

  FYI: Sam Smith ended up recording the official Spectre theme song called “Writing’s on the Wall“.

  
  2022: The Cubby Broccoli Cinema and IMAX Theatre at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, England, remain closed for renovations and the Christmas holiday.

  

  CUBBY BROCCOLI CINEMA

  https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/cubby-broccoli
  
  
  Savour the intimate ambience of the 106-seat Cubby Broccoli cinema—home to a truly diverse film programme. Enjoy world cinema, classic films, and independent and arthouse delights.
  
  Browse the full list of films showing now and coming soon at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford.
  
  About the cinema
  Dedicated to Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, producer of many James Bond films, this cinema shows movies from around the world projected in formats from 16mm to digital 3D—all in the heart of Bradford, UNSECO [sic] City of Film. [Correction: UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.] It’s played host to everything from silent films with live piano accompaniment to a Super High Vision broadcast from the 2012 Olympics.
  
  Twin 35mm projectors allow the screening of archive film prints, shown using traditional reel change-overs via alternate projectors.
  
  In 2012, Cubby Broccoli screened a broadcast from the 2012 London Olympics in Super High Vision—one of only three venues in the UK to do so.
  
  Guests interviewed here have included Tim Peake, Olivier Assayas and Jenny Agutter.

  
  
  
  
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  December 26th
  
  1943: Ian Fleming's mistress--society hostess Maud Russell--records in her diary details of war planning, influenza.

  

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

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/
  17 March 2017 • 9:00am

  
  Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess who met Fleming in 1931 when he was just 23
  Credit: Cecil Beaton courtesy of Emily Russell

  Long before he created James Bond, a young Ian Fleming had a remarkably close – and secretive – relationship with an older woman, Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess.
  
  They met in 1931 when Russell was 40 and Fleming just 23. There was a strong mutual attraction, and Fleming quickly became a regular guest at Mottisfont, Russell’s 2,000-acre estate in Hampshire, and at the glamorous parties she threw in her Knightsbridge home, attended by Cecil Beaton, Lady Diana Cooper, Clementine Churchill, Margot Asquith and members of the Bloomsbury Group.
  
  To Fleming, Russell was a sophisticated and impeccably connected mentor who found him first a job in banking, introduced him to members of the Intelligence Corps and, later, paid for his Jamaican retreat, Goldeneye, where his 007 novels were written. To Russell, Fleming (named ‘I.’ in her diaries) was the dashing, charismatic young spy who became her close friend, her confidante – and her lover.

  
  Ian Fleming in his Naval Uniform during the war
  Credit: Courtesy of Emily Russell/A Constant Heart

  These entries from Russell’s private diary take place towards the end of the Second World War, when Fleming worked in naval intelligence and Russell, then 52, was recently widowed; it was a time when, despite the food shortages and air raids, the tide of the war was gradually turning in the Allies’ favour – and, despite his other liaisons, the couple spoke of marriage.
  
  [See the link above for inclusive dates Wednesday 30 June 1943 thru Monday 30 July 1945.]
  

  Sunday 26 December, 1943
  
  Ian came to dinner, back from the Cairo conference [a meeting of the British, US and Chinese leaders on Asia Pacific strategy]. The surroundings were like an armed camp, soldiers, guns, anti-aircraft guns etc. guarding the precious delegates – the PM, President and Chiang.
  
  When Ian was taken ill with influenza, he sank back exhausted in bed and lay blissfully resting, looking through the window at the blue sky and eating delicious food. He was very struck by the desert, sand and camels.

  Russell and Fleming remained close until his marriage to Ann Charteris in 1952. In 1946 she gave him £5,000 to buy Goldeneye in Jamaica. She had a long-term affair with Boris Anrep but never remarried. In 1957, she donated Mottisfont to the National Trust and died in London in 1982, aged 91. Her ashes were placed in the same urn as Gilbert’s.
  
  A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell, edited by Emily Russell, is published by The Dovecote Press (£20). To order your copy for £16.99 plus p&p call 0844 871 1514 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk

  

  1947: Trina Parks is born--Brooklyn, New York.
  
  1964: Agent 007 contra Goldfinger released in Denmark.

  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/category/films/goldfinger-1964/

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1964: Agent 007 mot Goldfinger released in Norway.

  

  1965: Agent 007 operasjon Tordensky (Agent 007 Operation Thundercloud) released in Norway.

  http://www.jamesbond.no/visBoker.asp?ID=18
  
  

  
  1971: Diamanter varer evig released in Norway.

  https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/daf-dk-adsheet-1971/
  
  
  
  
  http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/daf-dk-souvenir-programme-1971/
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1974: The Man With the Golden Gun released in Australia .

  Australian Daybill.
  

  1974: 鐵金剛大戰金槍客 (Tiě jīngāng dàzhàn jīn qiāng kè; Iron King Kong vs. Golden Gunner) released in Hong Kong.

  http://playitagain.info/site/1975/man-with-the-golden-gun-the/
  
  

  
  1983: Aldri si aldri (Never Say Never) released in Norway.

  Later video marketing.
  

  
  Not to be confused with.

  
  

  
  1995: GoldenEye released in Australia, Norway, and New Zealand.
  1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Australia and New Zealand.
  1997: 007: Igavene homne (007: Eternal Tomorrow) released in Estonia.
  1997: Yarin Asla Ölmez released in Turkey.

  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in New Zealand.
  
  2023: Boxing Day in the Commonwealth.
  
  2023: The Junkanoo street parade in the Bahamas resumes tonight through New Year's Day January 1, 2024, and the summer festival happens every Saturday through July and August.

  

  

  Junkanoo Bahamas

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.carnivaland.net/junkanoo-carnival/

  
  Junkanoo Carnival is held every Boxing Day & New Year’s Day. Junkanoo is the heart and soul of Bahamian culture & the most anticipated event of the year! Here is everything you need to know about Junkanoo!
  
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  When is Junkanoo?
  Junkanoo is a four-day celebration that always runs between Boxing Day, 26th December and New Year’s Day 1st January.
  
  When is Junkanoo 2022? The 2022 Junkanoo Carnival takes place between Monday 26 December 2022 and Sunday 1 January, 2023.
  Where to experience Junkanoo?
  
  Junkanoo celebrations today occur only on the Islands of The Bahamas. The street parades are held in downtown Nassau on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. However smaller celebrations occur on other islands including the Abacos, the Exumas, Harbour Island, and Grand Bahama.
  
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  What is Junkanoo?
  Junkanoo is an exciting four-day carnival celebration that occurs around the Christmas/New Year period and showcases Bahamian culture and traditions with music, costumes and street parades. For the Bahamian peopleJunkanoo is more than just a parade, it is a representation of what makes the Bahamas such a special place. Junkanoo is so revered by the locals because it is the ultimate celebration of everything Bahamian, it is the heart and soul of Bahamian culture. The essence of Junkanoo is joy and happiness. Junkanoo is all about enjoying life and embracing your heritage through food, dance, music, family, friends and joy.
  
  Junkanoo attracts visitors from all over the world who descend on the Bahamas to have a great time and get immersed in the Bahamian Culture.

  
  Junkanoo Carnival Crowd parade

  How is Junkanoo celebrated?
  Originally Junkanoo began as a small street celebration but today into something that can rival any Carnival or Mardi Gras celebration around the world!
  
  Junkanoo has two street parades held annually on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. So on these days you can expect large street celebrations full of music, dancing, costumes and spirited revelers. Expect an amazing display of local arts, crafts and delicious local cuisine for sale.
  
  There are also some other carnival events including JunkaMania, Music Masters, Midnight Rush, and Road Fever. Junk Mania is a 3-night music festival that showcases Junkanoo Music, and other Junkanoo art forms like drumming and dance.
  
  What is the Difference Between Bahamas Carnival & Junkanoo?
  Junkanoo and Bahamas Carnival are two widely popular carnivals that are both held in the Bahamas. Both of them are beloved by the locals and attract tourists from all over. While they are both similar carnival celebrations that involve parades, costumes, competition, music and of course partying, there are some big differences between them. One of the main differences is that Bahamas Carnival is held in April/early May and Junkanooalways takes place between the Christmas and New Year period.
  
  Junkanoo is also a more traditional carnival with more traditional music, dances and costumes. Junkanoo is about showing off the island’s rich culture and history. Where the Bahamas Carnival is more like the typical carnival celebration you will find throughout the Caribbean with a heavy emphasis on soca music. Both celebrations are amazing and worth attending!
  
  What is the History of Junkanoo
  What are the origins of Junkanoo? Junkanoo is a party that has been occurring in The Bahamas for well over 500 years! The history of Junkanoo dates back to the Bahamas colonial days, when there were still slaves working on plantations.
  
  During the Christmas season slaves were given three days off and would spend those days throwing large celebrations. The celebrations were filled with dance, music, costumes, colorful masks and see participants travel from house to house on stilts.
  
  Others believed that The Bahamas Junkanoostarted from the French ‘gens inconnus,’ which translates to ‘masked people’.

  
  Junkanoo Carnival Man jumping open legs

  The Legend of John Canoe
  Who is John Canoe? There is a local folk legend that believes that The Bahamas Junkanoo celebrations actually began because of a West African Prince named John Canoe who is revered for outwitting the English to become a local hero.
  
  Rumor has it that John Canoe demanded the right along with the rights for his people to be able to celebrate even after they were captured and brought to the West Indies as a slave.
  
  Humble Beginnings of Junkanoo
  Historically Junkanoo was a more spontaneous celebration that consisted of simple costumes and hand-made instruments. In the early parades participants work masks made from flour paste. By the 1920’s costumes were made from paper, cloth and facial painting or natural material like sea sponges.
  
  By the 1940s anything and everything was used to make Junkanoo costumes material, crepe paper, newspaper and wires. The original Junkanoo musical instruments were home-made. created from conch shells, horns, and poinciana pods.
  
  Junkanoo Groups
  What are Junkanoo groups? Junkanoo Groups are organizations created and organized by members of the community that participate in the parades. Junkanoo is an intense competition between seven groups on the island. The different Junkanoo groups include the Saxons, Roots, One Family and The Valley Boys, the Prodigal Sons and the Music Makers.
  
  The Junkanoo groups have around 500-1000 members who are divided into three different categories that include musicians, dancers and costumed performers. Each of these three different categories is used as criteria for judging.
  
  Each Junkanoogroup competes for cash prizes and bragging rights that comes with winning the title of Best JunkanooGroup. Junkanoo Groups spend an entire year preparing and coordinating the parade with their chosen themes.
  
  Themes, musical compositions, costume designs and choreographed dance moves are kept top secret all year because of how fierce the competition is in Junkanoo.
  
  Scrap Groups
  The Junkanoo Parade also features smaller groups that are called Scrap Groups who aren’t as well organized but represent broad sections of the community.
  
  Anyone who wants is allowed to participate in Junkanoo so long as they follow a clear set of rules established by the National Junkanoo Association. Even tourists can join in the Junkanoo Parade.
  
  Junkanoo Boxing Day & New Year’s Day Street Parade
  Junkanoo has been recognized as having one of the most entertaining street parades in the world! Junkanoo has two street parades that are held on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. The Parades are held in downtown Nassau on Bay and Shirley streets.
  
  In fact, the Junkanoo parade that takes place on Boxing Day is actually completely different to the Junkanoo parade that takes place on New Year’s Day! Each of the different Junkanoo Groups will come up with an entirely separate theme for each parade. That means that each parade will have different costumes, different dances and different music. Both parades are always equally spectacular, and it cannot be said which parade is considered the better parade to attend.
  
  Junkanoo Street Parades contain different groups in each of the parades so you won’t feel like you’re watching the same parade again. The Parades actually begin in the early hours of the morning before the sun comes up and it gets too hot, so from around 2am-10am.
  
  Junkanoo Parades are a visual delight full of colors and sound. Everywhere you look you will see bright colorful costumes. Rhythmic sounds fill the air made by the drums, cowbells or whistles that accompany an array of brass instruments.
  
  The Junkanoo Groups have spent months perfecting their dance routines and perform with vast amounts of energy and enthusiasm. The musicians bang out pop songs on cowbells and the goat skin drums. The elaborate costumes are on full display wowing the audience.
  
  Both sides of the street are full with large crowds of spectators and die-hard fans that you can barely move. People climb atop trees and street lights and fill balconies to get a good view. The atmosphere is electric, everyone is dancing and everyone is having a good time.
  
  All this is being done under the intense scrutiny of the judges who mark the groups on who has the best music, costume and overall best group. At the end of the procession is when the judges announce the winners and hand out cash prizes and bragging rights for the next year.
  
  Where to Watch the Junkanoo Street Parade
  The great thing about the JunkanooStreet Parade is that it is free to watch! You can just find a spot on the street along the parade route and enjoy the show. However, if you want to avoid the crowds and get great views of the parade, you can pay to sit in one of the grandstands that are set up along the way. Or you can watch from one of the few private balconies along the parade route.
  
  Grandstand Seating at Junkanoo
  There are many grandstands that are set up along the parade route in Bay Street. You can purchase tickets to sit in one of these which not only get you a great view over the parade but means that you can avoid the crowds. You can also leave the grandstands and re-enter when you would like.
  
  Rawson Square also has a giant grandstand which is a great option. This is where the judges are located, so all the groups save their best dances and performances for when they pass the judges and the energy is heightened. The seats in this area are more expensive than in the other areas.
  
  Private Balconies on Bay Street
  One of the best ways to view Junkanoo is from one of the many balconies that overlook Bay Street. Several restaurants, bars and hotels that line the parade route will host private parties where you can view the parade from their balconies. This is a more expensive option than the bleachers, and some of the venues will sell Junkanoo packages that also include drinks and food. Others just sell access to their balconies and you will have to purchase your own food. This is a great option if you want to avoid the crowds, get great views over the parades and have quick access to a bathroom.
  
  Junkanoo at Street Level
  If you don’t want to spend money then you can always join the crowds and find a spot along the parade route. It is free to watch the parades along Bay and Shirley Streets, Bethel Avenue, Blue Hill Road and Poinciana Drive. However, you will be fighting with thousands of others for a good view so we highly recommend arriving early. Rawson Square is a great place to go watch the parades because that is where the judges are set up so everyone puts on their best show when walking past. They also hand out awards afterwards.
  
  Bay Street is the most popular option to watch the parades. If you want to get a good view you will have to get there early as Bay Street can be packed with 4 or 5 lines of people in front of you, so it will be hard to see unless you are tall. However, it is a lot of fun watching on the street, because the crowd energy is high. It can be difficult finding access to a bathroom, there are public port-o-potties but it is extremely crowded.
  
  Another good option is to watch along Shirley Street that runs parallel to Bay Street. The parade also runs down here and it is a lot less crowded than Bay Street, but the performances are not as energetic because they save their energy for the Bay Street Crowds and grandstands. But it is a good option if you want a more relaxing Junkanoo experience and you can still admire the beautiful costumes.
  
  Where to stay for Junkanoo Bahamas?
  There are hundreds of options for accommodations. From luxurious resorts and hotels, to guesthouses there is something for all budgets. Most tourists stay in the Paradise Island area of Nassau, and just take a taxi to the carnival parade.
  
  Most of the action takes place in downtown Nassau and there are plenty of hotels and guest houses in this area if you want to be close to the action.
  
  Beach Hotels close to the parade route include:

  • Grand Hyatt Baha Mar
  • SLS Baha Mar
  • Sandals Royal Bahamian All Inclusive – Couples Only
  • Breezes Resort & Spa All Inclusive, Bahamas

  
  Check out Booking.com for some great accommodation options close to Junkanoo Carnival.

  
  Junkanoo Carnival Man in traditional costume

  Junkanoo Costumes
  One of the things that make Junkanoo Festival so spectacular are the Junkanoo Costumes! There is no limit to what a Junkanoocostume can be, or can be made of. Junkanoo costuming is an incredibly creative and tedious process that demands thousands of man hours. The Junkanoocostume designers are required to have tremendous skill and creativity. The Junkanoo costume ideas always stem from the chosen Junkanoo group’s chosen theme.
  
  Junkanoo Junkanoo Costumes DIY – Junkanoo Groups spend months creating carnival costumes out of not much more than Styrofoam, cardboard and crepe paper.
  
  The Junkanoo Costume designers create intricate patterns using the selected theme as inspiration onto cardboard. This is then used as the base for the Junkanoo costumes. Once the structure is complete, hundreds of brilliantly colored layers of fringed crepe paper are pasted on.
  
  This fringe effect is what gives the Junkanoo costumes the Bahamas so much texture and dimension! Truly you will spend your time at the Junkanoo Festival wandering around admiring the JunkanooCostumes. 
  
  Cultural expression
  Cultural expression is highly revered in Junkanooand the chosen Junkanoo themes are always incredibly creative depictions of fantasy and reality. Often you will see visual representations of The Bahamas past and present, or satirical or political themes.
  
  Themes, musical compositions, costume designs and choreographed dance moves are kept top secret all year because of how fierce this competition is in Junkanoo. 
  
  Junkanoo Bahamas Music
  The unique Junkanoo music is equally as lively as the costumes are beautiful. The music makes everyone want to get up and dance. Junkanoo music was heavily influenced by West African drum rhythms, the blues, and other Caribbean musical sounds.
  
  Today most of the original home-made instruments have been replaced by modern musical instruments with most Junkanoo Bahamas groups featuring a brass band and brass instruments to create the melody.
  
  Pulsating music is produced from the goat-skin drums. However, you will still see some original home-made musical instruments such as the conch shell, horns, cowbells and poinciana pods.
  
  Junkanoo Bahamas New Year’s Day
  Before the Junkanoo New Year’s Day Parade kicks off, take to the streets and watch all the firework celebrations occurring across the islands. Immediately following the fireworks all the Junkanoo groups start setting up for their parade.
  
  Most of the locals are in church so you can see behind the scenes and feel the frenzy and excitement as the groups prepare. When church finishes thousands start to fill up the streets for the start of the next parade.
  
  Junior Junkanoo Festival
  Junior Junkanoo is all about getting the next generation excited about Junkanoo. The kids get their very own chance to join groups and perform in a children’s parade. The children’s parade is full of color and very cute to watch.
  
  Junkanoo Summer Festival
  Junkanoo has become so popular that they now celebrate it twice a year! Junkanoo is also held again in the middle of Summer, every Saturday of July, to allow more people to experience this cultural phenomenon. July is when lots of tourist’s flock to the Bahamas to enjoy their summer holidays. In addition to the parades they also have live entertainment, competitions and food and drink vendors set up.
  
  Things to do in the Bahamas
  The Bahamas is the ideal destination for a memorable vacation, especially for those who enjoy spending time outside in the warm weather, relaxing in a tropical location. There is so much to do here like visit the infamous Atlantis Resort, where you can splash around and enjoy the waterslides. The Island also offers amazing Scuba diving, snorkeling, swimming with stingrays and/or sharks, deep-sea fishing excursions, beautiful beaches, parasailing, horseback riding, sailing, jet skiing and more. There are a few museums where you can go to enjoy the beautiful culture and history.
  
  Some fun activities to do in the Bahamas:

  • Pearl Island: Pigs Beach with Lunch
  • Parasail Over Cabbage Beach
  • Nassau: Jet Ski Ride, Parasailing & Banana Boat Tour
  • Paradise Island Sunset Catamaran Dinner Cruise
  • Nassau: Jet Ski Adventure
  • Rose Island Boat Tour with Snorkeling

  
  Junkanoo Carnival Dancing with confetti

  If you were impressed by the costumes in the parade then check out the Junkanoo Expo. It is a museum dedicated to Junkanoo. It showcases some of the best costumes from the previous parades. Looking up-close lets you appreciate just how beautiful and intricate these costumes are.
  
  Junkanoo Festival Tickets
  The best way to watch the parade is to buy a ticket for one of the many grandstands that align the parade route. Tickets can be purchased from the official website bahamasjunkanoocarnival.com.
  
  How to get to Junkanoo Bahamas?
  The best way to get to the Bahamas is to fly. The airport is connected to many international airports. You can also arrive by boat from another island or the USA. Once you are on the island it is very easy to take a taxi around.
  
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  December 2023 Posts: 13,785

  December 27th
  
  1960: Maryam d'Abo is born--London, England.
  
  1972: Live and Let Die films 007 surveilling his hotel room for bugging devices. Also the last day of filming in Jamaica includes Ross Kananga at Jamaica Swamp Safari, Falmouth.

  
  
  

  1974: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ο άνθρωπος με το χρυσό πιστόλι (James Bond, Agent 007: The Man With the Gold Pistol) released in Greece.

  
  
  
  Later video marketing.
  
  
  
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  1981: Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael dies at age 82--Rancho Mirage, California.
  (Born 22 November 1899--Bloomington, Indiana.)

  

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

  
  2019: The New Year Honours List recognizes Samuel Alexander Mendes to become a Knight Bachelor, Order of the British Empire, for services to Drama.

  

  2020 New Year Honours

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_New_Year_Honours

  Order of the British Empire
  Grand Cross's star of the Order of the British Empire

  
  The riband and badge of the
  "Companions of Honour"

  Order of the Companions of Honour

  Companion of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)

  • Sir Elton Hercules John CBE – For services to Music and charity
  • Sir Keith Vivian Thomas FBA – For services to the Study of History

  Knight Bachelor

  • David Julian Bintley CBE – For services to Dance
  • Humphrey Burton CBE – For services to Classical Music, to the Arts and to Media
  • Professor Anthony Kevin Cheetham FRS, Distinguished Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge – For services to Material Chemistry, to UK Science and to Global Outreach
  • Peter Kenneth Estlin, Lately Lord Mayor of London – For services to International Business, to Inclusion and to Skills.
  • Dr Dennis Barry Gillings CBE – For services to the Advancement of Dementia and to Life Sciences Research
  • Francis John Stapylton Habgood, QPM, lately Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police. For services to Policing
  • Christopher James Hampton, CBE, playwright. For services to Drama
  • Clive Lloyd CBE - For services to Cricket
  • Samuel Alexander Mendes, CBE, theatre and film director. For services to Drama
  • Robert James Macgillivray Neill, MP. Member of Parliament for Bromley and Chislehurst. For political service
  • Menelas Nicolas Pangalos. Executive Vice-President, and President, Biopharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca. For services to UK Science
  • Rt Hon George Iain Duncan Smith MP - for political and public service.
  • Simon Laurence Stevens. Chief Executive of the National Health Service. For services to Health and the NHS in England
  • Jonathan Richard Symonds, CBE. Chair, Genomics England and Deputy Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc. For services to UK Life Sciences and Finance
  • William Gennydd Thomas. For charitable and political service
  • Professor Duncan John Wingham. Professor of Climate Physics, University College London and Executive Chair, Natural Environment Research Council. For services to Climate Science
  • Andrew William Graham Wylie, CBE. Co-Founder, The Sage Group plc and Chair and Founder, Technology Services Group. For services to Business and charity

  Diplomatic Service and Overseas List

  • Steven Rodney McQueen CBE - For services to Film

  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2023 Posts: 13,785

  December 28th
  
  1956: Fleming writes a letter to Wren Howard questioning his own "enthusiasm for Bond and his unlikely adventures."

  

  The Man With the Golden Typewriter, Thomas Fleming, 2015.

  TO WREN HOWARD
  
  Fleming had written on 28 December 1956 to clarify the terms of a serialization in the Daily Express, to thank Daniel George fulsomely for his comments—‘I think the book has been greatly improved as a result’—and to assure Howard that he had no intention of changing publisher. But he cast a warning note:

  ‘Incidentally, when you talk airily of future books, I do beg you to believe that the vein of my inventiveness is running extremely dry and I seriously doubt if I shall be able to complete a book in Jamaica this year. There are many reasons for this, which I need not go into, but I am finding it increasingly difficult to work up enthusiasm for Bond and his unlikely adventures.’

  
  1971: Comic strip Trouble Spot begins its run in the Daily Express.
  (Ends 10 June 1972. 1810–1951) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  https://www.popoptiq.com/trouble-spot/
  
  
  
  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_ts_review.php3
  
  
  http://venusianfrogbroth.blogspot.com/2016/07/trouble-spot-by-lawrence-and-horak.html

  
  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1973 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1973.php3

  Dödligt Budskap
  (Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)
  

  
  Swedish Semic Comic 1979 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3

  Dödligt Budskap
  (Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)
  

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

  Dödligt Budskap
  (Trouble Spot)
  

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

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 27:
  “Trouble Spot” (1974)
  "Dræbende budskab"
  [= Lethal Message]
  
  
  
  

  1972: Live and Let Die films OO7 and a close shave with an asp.
  
  1991: Cassandra Harris (Sandra Colleen Waites) dies at age 43--Los Angeles, California.
  (Born 15 December 1948--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.)

  

  Cassandra Harris; TV, Movie Actress

  https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-12-30-mn-878-story.html
  Dec. 30, 1991
  
  Cassandra Harris, movie and TV actress, died Saturday at USC Cancer Center after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 39.
  
  Miss Harris was a native of Australia acclaimed for her beauty. She was included in Lord Patrick Lichfield’s book The World’s Most Beautiful Women and also appeared on the cover of British Vogue in addition to several other magazines.

  She probably was best known to film audiences as Countess Lisl in the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.

  The wife of Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, she had a recurring role as con-artist Felicia in her husband’s popular television series, “Remington Steele.”
  
  Miss Harris began her acting career as a child in Sydney, and at 16 won a scholarship to Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art. She eventually won Australia’s Best Actress Award and moved to England to appear in that country’s National Theatre.
  
  In addition to her work on the British stage, she starred in such British television productions as “All Out at Kangaroo Valley” and the “Dick Barton” and “The Boy Merlin” series.
  
  In addition to her husband, Miss Harris is survived by their three children, Charlotte, 19; Christopher, 18, and Sean William, 7.

  

  Cassandra Harris (I) (1948–1991)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0364520/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actress (9 credits)
  
  1986 Five Days (Short) - Librarian
  1982-1985 Remington Steele (TV Series)
  Felicia / Anna Simpson / Catherine Simone
  - Steele Searching: Part 2 (1985) ... Felicia
  - Steele Searching: Part 1 (1985) ... Felicia
  - Woman of Steele (1984) ... Anna Simpson
  - Thou Shalt Not Steele (1982) ... Felicia / Catherine Simone
  1981 For Your Eyes Only - Lisl
  1980 Rough Cut - Mrs. Lloyd Palmer
  1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Trudi Engel
  - The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Trudi Engel
  
  1979 Dick Barton: Special Agent (TV Series) - Melissa
  - Adventure One: Part 9 (1979) ... Melissa
  - Adventure One: Part 8 (1979) ... Melissa
  - Adventure One: Part 4 (1979) ... Melissa
  - Adventure One: Part 2 (1979) ... Melissa
  1978 Shadows (TV Series) - Ismena
  - The Boy Merlin (1978) ... Ismena
  1978 The Greek Tycoon - Cassandra
  1977 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Sares / Controller
  - Devil's Planet (1977) ... Sares / Controller
  
  Self (4 credits)
  
  2006 For Your Eyes Only: Bond in Greece (Video documentary short) - Herself
  1984 Late Night with David Letterman (TV Series) - Herself
  - Episode dated 20 November 1984 (1984) ... Herself
  1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
  1981 Saturday Night at the Mill (TV Series) - Herself
  - Episode #6.11 (1981) ... Herself
  
  Archive footage (4 credits)
  
  2018 Celebrity Page (TV Series) - Herself
  - Episode #4.57 (2018) ... Herself
  2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
  2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
  2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1995: James Bond 007 - GoldenEye released in Germany.

  

  
  2002: BBC airs James Bond - A BAFTA Tribute celebrating 40 years of the film series.

  

  James Bond: A BAFTA
  Tribute (2002)

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0347268/
  1h 25min | TV Special 28 December 2002
  
  Director: Stuart McDonald
  Writer: Steve Punt
  Stars: Michael Parkinson, Shirley Bassey, Ken Adam, many others

  James Bond 40th Anniversary BAFTA Tribute (1:24:23)
  

  2002: Pierce Brosnan in the Irish Examiner proposes who the next Bond actor could be.

  

  Pierce Brosnan reveals who he
  thinks should be next Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/arid-30082189.html

  Pierce Brosnan has revealed who he thinks should succeed him in the role of James Bond.
  Sat, 28 Dec, 2002 - 08:51
  
  Pierce Brosnan has revealed who he thinks should succeed him in the role of James Bond.
  
  Brosnan says he thinks the next 007 should be Colin Salmon.
  
  Salmon has already appeared in three Bond films as Charles Robinson.
  
  Brosnan says he thinks Salmon is a "great actor".

  "It'll be interesting to see how I really kind of deal with it, letting go" he says.
  
  "You become a bit possessive of the role. Especially when you've had the success like you do with Die Another Day, and each one has gotten better and better," Brosnan says.

  

  
  2015: Big Comics Special Edition reprints Takao Saito's manga 007 series for 女王陛下の007 (Jo'ō Heika no Zero Zero Sebun/Her Majesty's Secret Service) and 黄金の銃を持つ男 (Ōgon no Jū o Motsu Otoko/The Man with the Golden Gun). Serialized monthly in Shogakukan's Boy's Life magazine December 1964 to August 1967.

  女王陛下の007
  
  
  
  黄金の銃を持つ男
  
  
  1981 reprint.
  

  2015: The Guardian remembers an interview with Sean Connery from 28 December 1971.

  

  Sean Connery, back in Bondage -
  interview

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/dec/28/james-bond-sean-connery-interview-1971-archive

  28 December 1971: Tom Hutchinson talks to Sean Connery about his
  love/hate affair with James Bond
  Tom Hutchinson - Mon 28 Dec 2015 00.30 EST

  
  Sean Connery, December 1971. Photograph: Don Morley/The Guardian

  Sean Connery ordered a Perrier water because he had been drinking heavily the night before and, mortal, had not been able to make a James Bond-like with one leap he was free escape from the clutches of the resulting hangover. He watched the elegant back of Kenneth Tynan disappearing into the further recesses of the restaurant. “K-k-kenneth (sic) f-f-fucking T-t-tynan,” he mimicked. “Spends his life criticising plays from a position of lofty principle and then dives into a show like “Oh, Calcutta!” which isn’t half so well presented as Raymond’s Revuebar where I was the other night. Even though the Revuebar champagne is so bloody pricey…

  ‘Of course the
  films will go on, but
  who’ll play me?’
  Sean Connery

  “I’ll give Tynan one thing, though: I was once at a party and he was there and there was this fight between two men over a girl and he helped separate the men and do you know what he said? ‘Stop behaving like people,’ he said. He must have been waiting all his life for a situation where he could make a remark like that.”
  
  He ordered a dozen oysters and consumed them with the avid rapidity of a man who is now aged forty-one and knows he needs the vitamins to make him feel human again. For the actor who has so often assumed the myth of snobbish thuggery that is Bond he is very human indeed: he does not evade or avoid; talks with a fine growl of voice that, when relaxed, occasionally lapses into the dour vowels inherited from a working-class background in the tougher areas of Edinburgh (milkman, lorry driver, cement mixer, bricklayer, steel bender, coffin-polisher, and other grinding etceteras). He uses four-letter words like a dramatic technician: to freeze what you might pass off as a casual remark into a statement of import.
  
  His new Bond film, “Diamonds Are Forever,” is to be released on Thursday (Odeon, Leicester Square) and he had, he said, been put through the necessary mill of interviews to promote that event. “At least you converse. Usually I hate interviews because I end up boring myself listening to me talking all the time.” He managed, though, to talk without self-inflicting too much pain.

  
  Sean Connery as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Photograph: Allstar/UNITED ARTISTS

  His love-hate affair with the character of Bond began ten years ago, when producers Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli signed him up for “Dr No[.” He is not exactly in sympathy with the character (“I’ve only read two Bond books; I found Ian Fleming himself much more interesting than his writing”), but realises that without Bond he would not be the rich man he is today. He is a director of a Pall Mall bank and was able to donate a lot of the money to his self-founded Scottish International Educational Trust from the deal he made on “Diamonds Are Forever.”
  
  The role of Bond was taken over for the last film, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” by George Lazenby, an actor whose most eloquent claim to previous fame was as Big Fry in the TV commercial. The result was a Big Drag. The lure that trapped Connery back again in the part was the chance to produce two further films of his own choice for United Artists, a large percentage of the profits and a start-stop clause in his contract which meant that if shooting over-ran 18 weeks he would be paid $10,000 a week. The film finished on time.
  
  “It can be done, you see, if there’s money at stake. I’d been frigged about too much on other Bond pictures. There’s so much bullshit that comes from bad decisions being made at the top. I admire efficiency: like watching a good racehorse or the way Picasso works: where everything functions perfectly within its capacity. But talking to some of these moguls about it is like trying to describe to someone who has never taken exercise what it is like to feel fit when you do exercise. They don’t understand.”
  
  He is notably overt in his opinions of producers Saltzman and Broccoli (“for every good idea Harry has had he’s gone on to eight flops”) and said: “They’re not exactly enamoured of each other. Probably because they’re both sitting on fifty million dollars or pounds and looking across the desk at each other and thinking: that bugger’s got half of what should be all mine.”
  
  He revealed his lack of Bond’s culinary conceit by saying he couldn’t remember what lobster thermidor was, settled for cold lobster instead, and maintained yet again that “Diamonds Are Forever” would be the last Bond film he would ever make. “Of course the films will go on, but who’ll play me I just don’t know and can’t guess.”

  
  This is an edited extract, read the full article
  http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/12/21/1450699711519/Connery-28-December-1971-001.jpg

  
  2022: TechiAzi reports on Monica Bellucci's two Bond auditions prior to Spectre.

  

  

  The Two James Bond Movies Monica Bellucci Auditioned For (And
  Didn’t Get) Before Landing Spectre

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://techiazi.com/the-two-james-bond-movies-monica-bellucci-auditioned-for-and-didnt-get-before-landing-spectre/

  By Rahul Kumar On Dec 28, 2022
  
  Part of the reason the James Bond movies have such good behind-the-scenes stories to share is the fact that there are so many who’ve auditioned to be a part of that world who either didn’t get in or found their way in later. That’s not only true with the men who could have been Bond, but also some of the supporting characters in 007’s adventures. 
  
  No one knows that better than series vet Colin Salmon, who played the role of Robinson during the Pierce Brosnan era of James Bond. What’s even more interesting is in a recent interview with the Spyhards Podcast (opens in new tab), Salmon revealed that was also the case with Bond Woman Monica Bellucci. Before ultimately landing the role of Lucia Sciarra in Spectre with Daniel Craig, the actor had unsuccessfully auditioned for two consecutive films in the Pierce Brosnan era.
  
  Colin Salmon was there for both occasions, and he had some exciting stories from both instances. Here’s how he revealed those experiences, starting with his answer to the question of who he was most disappointed didn’t stick the landing after their James Bond audition: 

  It’s Monica. Monica Bellucci came in twice actually. She came in once for Tomorrow Never Dies, and again for The World is Not Enough. She strapped me to the chair, I was strapped to the chair, and she straddled me and licked my face. And I was like … and she still didn’t get it. I said ‘Give her anything she wants, please.’

  As you can see in Colin Salmon’s wild story from The World is Not Enough audition, Monica Bellucci was clearly auditioning for the role of Elektra King. The surprise villainess who masterminded the evil scheme driving the 19th James Bond film, it was a role that eventually went to French actor Sophie Marceau. 
  
  Though the casting was absolutely perfect, with Marceau’s Bond Woman standing as an equal to 007, it’s kind of hard not to see how good of a fit Bellucci would have been for this role. The prospect is especially tempting when just a couple of years later, she’d play the morally grey Persephone in 2003’s sequels to The Matrix.
  
  Colin Salmon had noted that this was the second time he’d helped Monica Bellucci test to be a female lead in the James Bond franchise. Both instances came about as the actor was tapped to help test the Bond Women for Tomorrow Never Dies, as well as The World is Not Enough. That experience entrenched Salmon in the franchise’s machinery, and eventually helped Pierce Brosnan champion his candidacy to succeed him as 007. 
  
  In the case of Monica Bellucci, her first time trying out for a James Bond movie was a bit harder than that more confident incident described above. Continuing his story about how he and the Italian actress bonded over their previous meeting, Colin Salmon divulged this sweet tale: 

  In all honesty on Tomorrow Never Dies, I went and had lunch with her, because I’d spotted she was struggling. Her English was not up to clarity, so I went and I just asked if she’d wanted to run the lines, and we did. Genuinely, because I know that one, I could feel the strain. And then, like I said, she came back for The World is Not Enough, which Sophie [Marceau] did. Then she was there, like you said, in Spectre. I was so happy to see that, especially in a role like that. It was a great role, and Sophie was amazing in The World is Not Enough.

  Whether it’s actors, story ideas or anything else that’s up for grabs in the world of 007, the first or even second time around isn’t always the charm. Several former James Bonds were named on their second tries, as even Pierce Brosnan had to wait his turn. 
  
  Fortune did smile on Monica Bellucci, and the results were well deserved. Through the stories that Colin Salmon told above, the James Bond franchise’s history of never saying never only rings truer than ever, and who knows where that lesson will be taught next.

  

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2023 Posts: 13,785

  December 29th
  
  1959: A letter from Ian Fleming to friend and partner Ivar Bryce considers possibilities. Including diminishing Kevin McClory's involvement in the Bond film project.

  

  The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
  Chapter 13 - Disaster Strikes

  When rumours reached Fleming that Bryce was having second thoughts he
  wrote to his old friend on 29 December: "Having heard nothing from you for so
  long, I presume you are not dead," he began. "I have no idea what your plans are for the whole project, but the frost-bitten right toe which I suffered at my
  delicious Thanksgiving weekend is pulsating that you may have gone a bit cold on
  the whole business. If so, I shall perfectly understand. The idea of a $3 million
  budget with Kevin [McClory] at the helm dismays me, although I'm sure he could help to
  make a James Bond film that would please us both and bring in the cash
  customers. But I'm in the dark about all this and it may be that the jelly has jelled
  since I last saw you."
  
  At the start of the project, Fleming had led McClory to believe that he
  was the only person whom he would like to produce the Bond film, and
  realized too that it would be a very costly enterprise. Now he seemed
  to be using the very size of the project to undermine McClory's authority as
  producer and suggesting to Bryce that he be merely an assistant of some
  kind who could "help" with the picture. Also if Fleming's sums were correct
  the intended budget was now $3 million, and astronomical sum, and three
  times the eventual budget of 1962's Dr. No. Little wonder that Bryce was
  stepping back from the prospect of having to foot most that bill himself.
  "Showbiz is a ghastly biz," Fleming concluded in his letter. "And the last thing
  I want is for your to lose your pin-striped trousers in its grisly maw, however
  much fun you may have in the process. Nor do I want the first James Bond
  film to be botched, but the first consideration is primary. If you decide to
  skip the whole thing, don't forget that you have, or should have, a good
  saleable property in the script, so all is not completely lost." In other words,
  if Bryce wasn't going to make the film, maybe they could find somebody else
  that would. But where would that leave McClory?
  
  Most of all it left the vexed question of who exactly owned the Bond film
  project. McClory made it clear that as a partner in Xanadu he believed he
  owned a share in it and was unwilling to let it go...

  
  1965: Thunderball released in the UK--premiere at the London Pavilion and Rialto theaters. At the Pavilion, includes a midnight gala benefiting the British Rheumatism & Arthritis Association.

  
  

  

  1965: Variety reports Thunderball out-grosses Goldfinger to date. For the next film, a shorter filming schedule and budget are expected.
  1965: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Επιχείρηση Κεραυνός (James Bond, Agent 007: Enterprise Thunderbolt) released in Greece.

  
  
  

  1966: You Only Live Twice films 12 days at Pinewood's Stage E.
  
  1971: Gyémántok az örökkévalóságnak (Diamonds For Eternity) released in Hungary.

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1995: GoldenEye released in Austria.
  
  2016: South China Morning Post reports on 2D game I Expect You To Die from Schell Games.

  

  Game review: I Expect You To Die – 007-
  inspired puzzle game revels in the spy genre’s
  thrills and clichés

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.scmp.com/culture/arts-entertainment/article/2057642/game-review-i-expect-you-die-007-inspired-puzzle-game

  Even playing in standard 2D format, this short but sweet game offers challenging escape-room-type puzzles
  Pavan Shamdasani | Published: 7:46am, 29 Dec, 2016

  
  A still from I Expect You to Die. The James Bond theme is evident.
  

  I Expect You To Die
  Schell Games
  4 stars

  “Do you expect me to talk?,” asks the tuxedoed spy, strapped down and facing a comically oversized laser. “No, Mr Bond,” replies the slightly pudgy German villain. “I expect you to die!”
  
  I love that scene from the James Bond film Goldfinger. It’s my favourite part of an otherwise average Bond flick – and appropriately it provides the title of this cool little spy game.
  
  Full disclosure, though: most critics are harping on about its virtual-reality capabilities, but my low budget meant we were forced to play it on a standard PC. That didn’t detract much from the overall gameplay, but we imagine complete immersion is a decidedly different experience.

  I Expect You To Die - Launch Trailer (1:07)
  

  The concept is simple, taking 1960s-style spy film clichés and transporting them into escape-room puzzle environments. But what could have been yet another set of stealthy situations poorly put together, are instead clever, crafty and often comical takes on being an overly curious video game spy.
  
  Let’s say you have to steal a car off a cargo ship. You’ve sneaked into the driver’s seat and maybe you want to start it up. Simply enough, right? Nope, the retina eye-scan immediately goes off and you’re quickly burned to a crisp.

  
  A still from the game I Expect You To Die.

  Most games take death a little too seriously, but Die takes its name seriously (if little else), and you really are expected to croak it numerous times before finding the not-too-obvious solution. Submarine escapes, serum concoctions – there’s a whole lot of classic espionage love in this package, everything from its British-tinged voiceover to the overly obvious quips and one-liners. We can’t say we loved every single one of them, but we did appreciate the exactitude.
  
  Sadly, there aren’t enough levels here to sustain a proper experience, although that might change with add-ons and patches.
  
  Die takes its “super-spy” concept a little too far, giving your character strange telekinesis powers. I mean, we’re all for a bit of outlandish Moonraker-style escapades, but superpowers, really? Nevertheless, I Expect You to Die is a clever game, one of the smartest we’ve played all year. There’s a little bit too much that’s silly to make it one of our favourite spy games of all time, but in full-frontal VR we imagine it’s an experience worth dying for.

  'I Expect You To Die' Opening Credits (2:37)
  
  
  I Expect You To Die VR FULL WALKTHROUGH [NO COMMENTARY] 1080P 60FPS (1:11:17)
  

  
  2020: CineFix offers YouTube watchalong of GoldenEye with Martin Campbell and Famke Janssen in attendance.

  

  Watch ‘GoldenEye’ Live with
  Martin Campbell and
  Famke Janssen

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://bondonthebox.wordpress.com/

  On 24 Dec, 2020 By Bond on the Box | In Film Screenings

  GoldenEye Live Watch Along w/ Famke Janssen and Martin Campbell (2:55:40)
  

  CineFix will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of ‘GoldenEye’ (1995) by hosting a watchalong with actress Famke Janssen (Xenia Onatopp) and director Martin Campbell, on Tuesday, 29 December, 2020.
  
  Hosted by CineFix, the event is a ‘Watch From Home’ special encouraging viewers to stay safe, and stay home, during the pandemic.
  
  The event will stream live on YouTube from 7:00 PM (GMT).

  
  

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2023 edited December 2023 Posts: 13,785

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

  The Day's Work, by Rudyard Kipling Ian Flemings 007 prefix ?
  http://www.007museum.com/rudyard_kipling.htm

  

  ...
  Fleming had picked up number 007 from the title of a novel by the famous British writer and Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (best known for "The Jungle Book"). Kipling wrote a short story that actually was called ".007", which is about a steam engine and is part of his collection of short stories The Days Framework, published in 1898. The steam engine is in the short story number 007, the short story has nothing whatsoever with agents or so to do.

  The Day's Work, Rudyard Kipling, 1898.
  "·007."
  
  A locomotive is, next to a marine engine, the most sensitive thing man ever made; and No. .007, besides being sensitive, was new. The red paint was hardly dry on his spotless bumper-bar, his headlight shone like a fireman’s helmet, and his cab might have been a hard-wood-finish parlour. They had run him into the round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and the other locos were taking stock of him. He looked at the semicircle of bold, unwinking headlights, heard the low purr and mutter of the steam mounting in the gauges—scornful hisses of contempt as a slack valve lifted a little—and would have given a month’s oil for leave to crawl through his own driving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. .007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he stood he was worth ten thousand dollars on the Company’s books. But if you had bought him at his own valuation, after half an hour’s waiting in the darkish, echoing round-house, you would have saved exactly nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and ninety-eight cents...

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

  
  1920: John Joseph Patrick Ryan (Jack Lord) is born--New York City, New York.
  (He dies 21 January 1998 at age 77--Honolulu, Hawaii.)

  

  Obituary: Jack Lord

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

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

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

  

  Jack Lord (I) (1920–1998)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1965: Thunderball premieres in Belfast, Northern Ireland. (UK general release follows 13 March 1966.)
  
  1970: The San Francisco Examiner reports John Gavin and Burt Reynolds tested for the Bond role.

  
  

  1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in the UK.

  
  
  
  
  Concept art
  
  

  1974: Yasamak Için Öldür (Kill to Live) released in Turkey.

  
  

  
  1983: (007 - Never Again) released in Brazil.

  
  
  Later video marketing.
  
  
  
  

  1989: 007 살 인 면 허 (Sahl-een myun-huh; Murder Licence) released in the Republic of Korea.

  http://h2.khan.co.kr/arrange/201511121438401
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1998: The New Year Honours List recognizes Roger Moore to become a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his UNICEF work.

  

  1999 New Year Honours

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_New_Year_Honours

  Order of the British Empire
  Grand Cross's star of the Order of the British Empire

  
  Grand Cross's star of the
  Order of the British Empire

  The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry comprising five classes in civil and military divisions. It is the junior of the British orders of chivalry, and the largest, with over 100,000 living members worldwide. The highest two ranks of the order, the Knight/Dame Grand Cross and Knight/Dame Commander, admit an individual into knighthood or damehood allowing the recipient to use the title Sir or Dame.[6]

  Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.)
  Diplomatic and Overseas

  • The Honourable Ernest David Decouto, J.P., Speaker, House of Assembly, Bermuda.
  • Dr. Samuel Wilson Hynd. For services to medical missionary work in Africa.
  • Roger George Moore. For charitable services, especially to UNICEF.

  

  
  2012: Skyfall reaches £100 million ($161.6 million) in the UK (a first for a film there), plus the landmark $1 billion point for worldwide box-office.
  2016: Game over--shutdown of the Glu Mobile servers brings an end to James Bond: World of Espionage.

  

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2023: New Year's Honours announced for 2024 include Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey named by His Majesty King Charles the Third for Order of the Companions of Honour.
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  December 2023 Posts: 13,785

  December 31st
  
  1945: Barbara Carrera is born--Bluefields, Nicaragua.
  
  1961: The Susan Barnes Sunday Express interview "Women and Me — by the Screen's James Bond" ends talking to violence towards women with Barnes abruptly exiting actor Sean Connery's apartment.
  
  1963: Deed of Assignment executed this date states Ian Fleming, Ivar Bryce, and publisher Jonathan Cape assign rights to Kevin McClory for "all the copyright in the film scripts and the exclusive right to re-produce any part of the novel Thunderball in films and for the purpose of making such films to make scripts." And specifically from Fleming, "the exclusive right to the character James Bond as a character in any such scripts or film of Thunderball."

  

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

  But most probably the reason for the rushed settlement was the fact that
  McClory's case was incontrovertible. [Peter] Carter-Ruck felt victory was in large
  measure due to William Mars-Jones' opening speech, which lasted a total of
  28 hours and 8 minutes, and placed all the evidence before the court.
  Concluding his brief, Mars-Jones felt it pertinent, in relation to the conduct
  of Fleming and Bryce towards McClory, to quote Macmillan, then Prime
  Minister, " What greater moral crime can there be than to deceive those
  naturally inclined to trust you, those who work with you, serve with ou and
  are your colleagues?"
  
  If Bryce and Fleming were hoping McClory would fall down in the
  witness box, they were sadly mistaken. With all of Fleming's connections--
  Eton, Sandhurst, naval intelligence, everyone figured McClory, an Irishman
  in an English court, didn't stand a chance. But he showed incredible
  command of the hundreds of letters in the case, which he'd committed to
  memory, and was indeed able to demonstrate that his partnership with Bryce
  in Xanadu had endured to include the Bond film. Fleming and Bryce had
  underestimated their foe. As Whittingham's son Jonathan later observed,
  "Fleming et al never believed that Kevin had either the nerve or the financial
  muscle to dare go the whole course. They were dead wrong." Now they were
  to pay the consequences.
  
  McClory's victory and revenge over the men who had sidelined him was
  considerable. Fleming would keep ownership of the Thunderball novel, but
  his publishers were to add the message: "Based on a screen treatment by
  Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham and the author" to the title page of all
  future editions. It's there still today, McClory, in return was awarded the film
  and television rights to the book, as well as the copyright to all existing
  related scripts and treatments.
  
  The wording of the Deed of Assignment, executed on 31 December
  1963, is worthy of note and would prove highly significant in years to come.
  Fleming, Bryce and Jonathan Cape assigned to McClory "all the copyright in
  the film scripts and the exclusive right to re-produce any part of the novel in
  films and for the purpose of making such films to make scripts." Fleming also
  granted McClory "the exclusive right to use the character James Bond as a
  character in any such scripts or films of Thunderball.
  
  In addition McClory got his own court costs paid (thought to be in the
  region of £17,500) was awarded damages. In his book, You Only Live
  Once: Memories of Ian Fleming, Bryce explained how he forfeited a
  murderous slice of his personal assets to pay all the court costs.
  
  After the trial, McClory celebrated his victory at a nearby pub with Bobo
  and friend and fellow Irishman Peter O'Toole. "Now I can look forward to
  making the best james Bond film ever produced," he told reporters. he also
  revealed the main reason why he brought the court action: "To wipe out the
  thought of anyone in the profession that I was trying to cash-in on the name
  of James Bond.

  1965: For Thunderball the Los Angeles Times reports on 24 hour schedules at the Paramount Theater. Plus midnight and 2:30 midnight showtimes at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Hollywood.
  
  1994: Chivers North America publishes a large print version of John Gardner's Bond novel Never Send Flowers.

  

  
  2002: 007 어나더데이 (007 Uh-nah-duh-day-ee; 007 Another Day) released in the Republic of Korea.

  https://m.blog.naver.com/PostView.naver?isHttpsRedirect=true&blogId=weapon1234&logNo=220951611845
  
  
  
  

  
  2008: Donald Edwin Westlake dies at age 75--San Tancho, Mexico.
  (Born 12 July 1933--Brooklyn, New York, New York.)

  

  DONALD WESTLAKE

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.donaldwestlake.com/autobiography

  

  Autobiography

  
  Don (center) doing the interrogating.

  I think I’d best treat this as an interrogation, in which I am not certain of the intent or attitude of the interrogator.
  
  I was born Donald Edwin Westlake on July 12th, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York. My mother, Lillian, maiden name Bounds, mother’s maiden name Fitzgerald, was all Irish. My father, Albert, his mother’s maiden name being Tyrrell, was half Irish. (The English snuck in, as they will.) They were all green, and I was born on Orangeman’s Day, which led to my first awareness of comedy as a consumer. I got over the unfortunate element of my birth long before my uncles did.
  
  My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up. One of her beliefs was that people whose initials spelled something would be successful in life. That’s why I went through grammar school as Dewdrip. However, my mother forgot Confirmation, when the obedient Catholic is burdened with yet another name. So she stuck Edmond in there, and told me that E was behind the E of Edwin, so I wasn’t DEEW, I was DEW. Perhaps it helped.
  
  I attended three colleges, all in New York State, none to much effect. Interposed amid this schooling was two and a half years in the United States Air Force, during which I also learned very little, except a few words in German. I was a sophomore in three colleges, finally made junior in Harpur College in Binghamton, NY, and left academe forever. However, I was eventually contacted by SUNY Binghamton, the big university that Harpur College had grown up to become. It was their theory that their ex-students who did not graduate were at times interesting, and worthy to be claimed as alumni. Among those she mentioned were cartoonist Art Spiegelman and dancer Bill T. Jones, a grandfaloon I was very happy to join, which I did when SUNY Binghamton gave me a doctorate in letters in June 1996. As a doctor, I accept no co-pay.
  
  I have one sister, one wife and two ex-wives. (You can’t have ex-sisters, but that’s all right, I’m pleased with the one I have.) The sister was named by my mother Virginia, but my mother had doped out the question of Confirmation by then–Virigina’s two and half years younger than me, still–and didn’t give here a middle name. Her Confirmation name was Olga, the only thing my mother could find that would make VOW. The usual mother-daughter dynamic being in play, my sister immediately went out and married a man whose name started with B.
  
  My wife, severally Abigail Westlake, Abby Adams Westlake and Abby Adams, which makes her three wives right there, is a writer, of non-fiction, frequently gardening, sometimes family history. Her two published books are An Uncommon Scold and The Gardener’s Gripe Book.
  
  Seven children lay parental claims on us. They have all reached drinking age, so they’re on their own.
  
  Having been born in Brooklyn, I was raised first in Yonkers and then in Albany, schooled in Platttsburgh and Troy and Binghamton, and at last found Manhattan. (At least I was looking in the right state.) Abby was born in Manhattan, which makes it easier. We retain a rope looped over a butt there, but for the last decade have spent most of our time on an ex-farm upstate. It is near nothing, which is the point. Our nearest neighbor on two sides is Coach Farm, producer of a fine goat cheese I’ve eaten as far away as San Francisco. They have 750 goats up there on their side of the hill. More importantly, they have put 770 acres abutting our land into the State Land Conservancy, so it cannot be built on. I recommend everybody have Miles and Lillian Cann and Coach Farm as their neighbors.
  
  [Below is an excerpt from Contemporary Authors: Autobiography Series, Vol. 13]
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  New York City, 1959

  I knew I was a writer when I was eleven; it took the rest of the world about ten years to begin to agree. Up till then, my audience was mainly limited to my father, who was encouraging and helpful, and ultimately influential in an important way.
  
  Neophyte writers are always told, “write what you know,” but the fact is, kids don’t know anything. A beginning writer doesn’t write what he knows, he writes what he read in books or saw in movies. And that’s the way it was with me. I wrote gangster stories, I wrote stories about cowboys, I wrote poems about prospecting–in Alaska, so I could rhyme with “cold”–I wrote the first chapters of all kinds of novels. The short stories I mailed off to magazines, and they mailed them back in the self-addressed, stamped envelopes I had provided. And in the middle of it all, my father asked me a question which, probably more than any other single thing, decided what kind of writer I was going to be.
  
  I was about fourteen. I’d written a science-fiction about aliens from another planet who come to Earth and hire a husband-wife team of big-game hunters to help them collect examples of every animal on Earth for their zoo back on Alpha Centauri or wherever. At the end of the story, they kidnap the hero and heroine and take them away in the spaceship because they want examples of every animal on Earth.
  
  Now, this was a perfectly usable story. It has been written and published dozens of times, frequently with Noah’s Ark somewhere in the title, and my version was simply that story again, done with my sentences. I probably even thought I’d made it up.
  
  So I showed it to my father. He read it and said one or two nice things about the dialogue or whatever, and then he said, “why did you write this story?”
  
  I didn’t know what he meant. The true answer was that science-fiction magazines published that story with gonglike regularity and I wanted a story published somewhere. This truth was so implicit I didn’t even have words to describe it, and therefore there was no way to understand the question.
  
  So he asked it a different way: “What’s the story about?” Well, it’s about these people that get taken to be in a zoo on Alpha Centauri. “No, what’s it about?” he said. “The old fairy tales that you read when you were a little boy, they all had a moral at the end. If you put a moral at the end of this story, what would it be?”
  
  I didn’t know. I didn’t know what the moral was. I didn’t know what the story was about.
  
  The truth was, of course, that the story wasn’t about anything. It was a very modest little trick, like a connect-the-dots thing on a restaurant place mat. There’s nothing particularly wrong with connect-the-dots things, and there’s nothing particularly wrong with this constructivist kind of writing, a little story or a great big fat novel with nothing and nobody in it except this machine that turns over and at the end this jack-in-the-box pops out. There’s nothing wrong with that.
  
  But it isn’t what I thought I wanted to be. So that question of my father’s wriggled right down into my brain like a worm, and for quite a while it took the fun out of things. I’d be sitting there writing a story about mobsters having a shootout in a nightclub office–straight out of some recent movie–and the worm would whisper: Why are you writing this story?
  
  Naturally, I didn’t want to listen, but I had no real choice in the matter. The question kept coming, and I had to try to figure out some way to answer it, and so, slowly and gradually, I began to find out what I was doing. And ultimately I refined the question itself down to this: What does this story mean to me that I should spend my valuable time creating it?
  
  And that’s how I began to become a writer.

  
  Ancram, New York – Winter, 2001
  Credit: David Jennings for The New York Times

  

  Donald E. Westlake (1933–2008)

  Writer | Actor
  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0922799/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
  

  

  FOREVER AND A DEATH

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?title=Forever and a Death

  Donald E. Westlake
  June 2017
  ISBN: 978-1-78565-423-7

  
  
  Cover art by Paul Mann

  A FORTUNE IN STOLEN GOLD...
  A DEVICE THAT WILL KILL MILLIONS...
  AND JUST ONE MAN CAN STOP IT!

  Read a sample chapter
  http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?entry=bk144&type=excerpt
  
  Two decades ago, the producers of the James Bond movies hired legendary crime novelist Donald E. Westlake to come up with a story for the next Bond film. The plot Westlake dreamed up—about a Western businessman seeking revenge after being kicked out of Hong Kong when the island was returned to Chinese rule—had all the elements of a classic Bond adventure, but political concerns kept it from being made. Never one to let a good story go to waste, Westlake wrote an original novel based on the premise instead—a novel he never published while he was alive.
  
  Now, nearly a decade after Westlake’s death, Hard Case Crime is proud to give that novel its first publication ever, together with a brand new afterword by one of the movie producers describing the project’s genesis, and to give fans their first taste of the Westlake-scripted Bond that might have been.

  First publication ever!
  A lost novel by MWA Grand Master Donald E. Westlake
  Inspired by Westlake’s treatment for a James Bond movie that never got filmed

  Acclaim for DONALD E. WESTLAKE...

  "One of the great writers of the 20th Century."
  — Newsweek

  "Westlake’s ability to construct an action story filled with unforeseen twists and quadruple-crosses is unparalleled."
  — San Francisco Chronicle

  "The novel’s deeper meditations will keep you thinking long after you’ve closed the book."
  — USA Today

  
  

  
  2011: Reports say Craig almost quit the Bond role after Quantum of Solace.

  

  James Bond star almost quit as 007

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://britmovietours.com/movie-tv-news/james-bond-star-almost-quit-as-007/

  Post by lewis. Posted in James Bond, News on December 31, 2011.
  
  In a recent interview, James Bond star Daniel Craig admitted he almost quit as James Bond. The actor who also stars in the remake of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ says he considered walking away due to lengthy delays due to MGM suffering from financial problems.

  However fortunes changed for both MGM and Daniel Craig as he has now restarted work on Bond 23 ‘Skyfall’ with director Sam Mendes. He said “There was that long period where Bond maybe wasn’t happening. I’d got it into my head that if it went another two years on top of the two-year gap we’d already had, then they should probably find someone else. And I should think about getting on with things.

  However, Craig also said he had “no desire to escape the role” now and said that Bond fans awaiting the release of Skyfall will be in for a real spectacular.

  
  2020: CinemaBlend reports why Steven Soderbergh turned down directing a Bond movie.

  

  Why Steven Soderbergh Turned Down
  Directing A James Bond Movie

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2560814/why-steven-soderbergh-turned-down-directing-a-bond-movie

  By Adreon Patterson published December 31, 2020

  
  Daniel Craig in No Time to Die

  For any director, getting asked to direct a James Bond film is a career highlight. There’s been the legendary run of John Glen to Sam Mendes’ gritty reinterpretation to Cary Joji Fukunaga overseeing Daniel Craig’s final Bond movie. At some point, Eon Productions and MGM were courting celebrated filmmaker Steven Soderbergh to enter the Bond pantheon, and now the acclaimed director discussed why his vision of Bond never made it to the silver screen.
  
  Steven Soderbergh recently spoke with the podcast Happy Sad Confused to discuss his latest film Let Them All Talk. He spoke on a variety of subjects, including his take on film’s future and the importance of 2011’s Contagion in today’s climate. The conversation eventually turned to the director’s brief brush with the iconic spy franchise. Soderbergh explained to the podcast how his vision of 007 didn’t match up with MGM and Eon Production.

  Absolutely. Yeah. I love that world. I
  think we were at odds about some
  things that were important. We had
  some great conversations, and it
  was fun to think about. But we just
  couldn't...the last ten yards were,
  we just couldn't do it. We just
  couldn't figure it out.

  Given how experimental Soderbergh’s work tends to be, I could see where MGM and he might have clashed over Bond’s portrayal. He might have wanted to take Bond in directions Eon may have seen as going against the Bond brand. Soderbergh’s timeline did line up with the Daniel Craig era – Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall. The same thing happened with fellow Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle after being chosen to direct Daniel Craig’s final Bond film. His clash with the production company eventually led to him leaving the project and Fukunaga stepping in.
  
  Around the time Soderbergh was being vetted for a Bond film, he had decided to take a brief hiatus from filmmaking due to the current Hollywood system. The filmmaker in him didn’t die as he directed and produced more projects during his “hiatus” than any other time in his career.
  
  But Soderbergh’s career hasn’t suffered from not doing a Bond film, to say the least. He went on to direct films such as the Magic Mike series, Side Effects and Haywire. The celebrated director even delved into television as the driving force behind the acclaimed Emmy-winning HBO television film Behind the Candelabra with Michael Douglas and Matt Damon.
  
  In recent years, Steven Soderbergh has returned to being behind the camera with critically acclaimed films such as Logan Lucky, Unsane, High Flying Bird and The Laundromat. He just wrapped filming No Sudden Moves with an all-star cast including Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Jon Hamm and Ray Liotta. It’s nice to see someone as prolific as Soderbergh not let one film stop him from doing his craft even after taking some time away from the film industry.
  
  If you want more Steven Soderbergh, check out his latest film Let Them All Talk on HBO Max.

  
  2023: Bond-related New Year's Eve celebrations abound.

  Shaken Not Stirred: A James Bond 2024 New Years Eve Soirée Tickets,
  Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 8:30 PM
  1950 1st Avenue South Seattle, WA 98134
  
  Miami NYE 2024 James Bond's Mansion Party Tickets,
  Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 9:00 PM
  Pine Tree Drive Miami Beach, FL
  
  Miami New Year's Eve 2024 James Bond's Mansion Party (Open Bar) Tickets,
  Sun, Dec 31, 2023 at 9:00 PM
  Pine Tree Drive Miami Beach, FL
  
  James Bond New Year's Eve Party - Watermark Online Maitland Florida
  https://watermarkonline.com/event/james-bond-new-years-eve-party/
  
  Orlando New Year's Eve Party: James Bond 007 Style
  Winter Park, FL | 24373
  

  
  
  
  2034: With the end of the 70th year following author Ian Fleming's death, in theory his books and stories enter the public domain. (Though remedied by Danjaq LLC's registered trademarks for James Bond and 007.)
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  January 1 Posts: 13,785

  Annual thanks to @SirHilaryBray for originally starting this thread.
  
  
  
  January 1st
  
  1925: Zena Marshall is born--Nairobi, Kenya.
  (She dies 10 July 2009 at age 84--London, England.)

  

  Zena Marshall
  Actor who played the exotic Miss Taro in the Bond film Dr No

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jul/26/obituary-zena-marshall
  Gavin Gaughan | Sun 26 Jul 2009 14.31 EDT

  
  Marshall with Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr No (1962)
  Photograph: Allstar/Cinetext/UNITED ARTISTS

  Zena Marshall, who has died aged 83, played a small but pivotal part in establishing the formula of the James Bond series. As the Eurasian secretary, Miss Taro, revealed to be working for the title character in the first Bond film, Dr No (1962), while dallying with 007 (Sean Connery), she was the first of those unscrupulous, exotic beauties who, in the service of the villain, would try but fail to entrap Bond.

  For more than a decade beforehand, she had lent a hint of the exotic to monochrome, domestic British cinema. With her dark hair and colouring, the Rank Organisation may have signed her due to a similarity to Ava Gardner.
  
  Born in Nairobi, Kenya, she was raised in Leicestershire, and described her ancestry as "part French" (her mother), "part English and part Irish". She attended St Mary's school, Ascot, but had already undertaken theatre tours for the Entertainments National Service Association by the time she was in her late teens. Her first film was the misguided epic Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) as a lady in waiting; her fellow super- numeraries included her friend Kay Kendall, and another Bond, Roger Moore.
  
  By 1946, she was part of Rank's Company of Youth, often dubbed the Charm School, where fellow conscripts includ- ed Sir Christopher Lee, Diana Dors and the broadcaster Pete Murray. The studio, and affiliates such as Gainsborough, cast her in The End of the River (1947), produced by Powell and Pressburger, and as a passenger in the compact thriller Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948).

  Good-Time Girl (1948), Snowbound (1948) and The Lost People (1949) all teamed her with Dennis Price, then a suave leading man. Unfortunately, both were also in the much-derided The Bad Lord Byron (1949); fortunately for her, Dr No's director, Terence Young, was among the screenwriters.

  At London's New Torch Theatre, she was in the poorly received Snow (1953), by the novelist Diana Marr-Johnson, niece of Somerset Maugham. With John Ringham in late 1959, she toured Germany and Holland in The Late Edwina Black. She played a determined doctor in Men Against the Sun (1952), a Kenyan-British co-production starring the august John Bentley, in much the same mode as his later television series African Patrol (1958), in which she also appeared. August 1952 saw her small-screen debut in The Portugal Lady, a live BBC costume drama that was part of its Sunday Night Theatre series, as Charles II's bride Catherine of Braganza.
  
  During ITV's opening weeks Marshall appeared in a shampoo commercial, assuring female viewers it was fine to use the product before going to a party. For the new channel, she did The Bob Hope Show (1956), pre-sold by Lew Grade to NBC, then played a scientist "from behind that Curtain" in The Invisible Man (1958), enduring a very silly ending in which she hugs and kisses the unseen hero goodbye.

  Marshall appeared three times, between 1960 and 1964, in the series Danger Man, starring Patrick McGoohan, who had declined the Bond role: twice Marshall played fellow agents who needed to be rescued. She also guested in the now-forgotten shows Man of the World (1962), The Sentimental Agent (1963) and The Human Jungle (1963).

  After several of the Edgar Wallace thrillers, she was glimpsed waving off Alberto Sordi in Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965). Her last film was The Terrornauts (1967), with the unlikely presence of Charles Hawtrey.
  
  Her marriage to the bandleader Paul Adam ended in divorce, as did a brief second marriage. In 1991, she married the producer Ivan Foxwell, whose credits included The Colditz Story. He predeceased her in 2002.
  
  • Zena Marshall, actor, born 1 January 1926; died 10 July 2009

  

  Zena Marshall (1925–2009)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0551243/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  
  Filmography

  Actress (59 credits)
  
  1967 The Terrornauts - Sandy Lund
  1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Mara
  - Let Slip the Dogs of War (1966) ... Mara
  1965 Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes - Countess Sofia Ponticelli
  1965 Public Eye (TV Series) - Jean Lawford
  - You Have to Draw the Line Somewhere (1965) ... Jean Lawford
  1965 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Carol Wright
  - Find the Lady (1965) ... Carol Wright
  1964 The Verdict - Carola
  1964 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Nadia
  - Fish on the Hook (1964) ... Nadia
  1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Yvonne
  - Dead Men Don't Drive (1964) ... Yvonne
  1962-1964 The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Carola / Pauline Logan
  - The Verdict (1964) ... Carola
  - Backfire! (1962) ... Pauline Logan
  1963 The Sentimental Agent (TV Series) - Rita / Melina
  - A Box of Tricks (1963) ... Rita
  - A Little Sweetness and Light (1963) ... Melina
  1963 The Human Jungle (TV Series) - Vera Barclay
  - Over and Out (1963) ... Vera Barclay
  1963 The Switch - Caroline Markham
  1962 Backfire! - Pauline Logan
  1962 The Scales of Justice (TV Series) - Thelma Sinclair
  - The Guilty Party (1962) ... Thelma Sinclair
  1962 Dr. No - Miss Taro
  1962 Man of the World (TV Series) - Madame Thiboeuf
  - Death of a Conference (1962) ... Madame Thiboeuf
  1962 Richard the Lionheart (TV Series) - Zara
  - The Challenge (1962) ... Zara
  1962 Sir Francis Drake (TV Series) - Maria
  - The Bridge (1962) ... Maria
  1962 Crosstrap - Rina
  1960-1961 Danger Man (TV Series) - Mrs. Ramfi / Doctor Leclair
  - Find and Return (1961) ... Mrs. Ramfi
  - The Leak (1960) ... Doctor Leclair
  1960 A Story of David: The Hunted - Naomi
  1960 International Detective (TV Series) - Louise
  - The Dudley Case (1960) ... Louise
  
  1958 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Tania
  - The Locked Room (1958) ... Tania
  1958 African Patrol (TV Series) - Stella Stevens
  - No Place to Hide (1958) ... Stella Stevens
  1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Lucille Genet
  - Operation Flint Axe (1957) ... Lucille Genet
  1957 Let's Be Happy - Helene
  1956 My Wife's Family - Hilda
  1956 Bermuda Affair - Chris Walters
  1956 Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series) - Madeleine
  - The Silent Vow (1956) ... Madeleine
  1955 The Vise (TV Series) - Audrey Lipton
  - The Serpent Beneath (1955) ... Audrey Lipton
  1955 Three Cases of Murder - Beautiful Blonde (segment "Lord Mountdrago") (uncredited)
  1954 The Embezzler - Mrs. Forrest
  1954 The Scarlet Web - Laura Vane
  1954 Liebelei (TV Movie) - Mitzi Schlager
  1953 Men Against the Sun - Elizabeth
  1953 Deadly Nightshade - Ann Farrington
  1953 Your Favorite Story (TV Series)
  - Work of Art (1953)
  1952 The Caretaker's Daughter - Fritzi Villiers
  1952 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Catherine
  - The Portugal Lady (1952) ... Catherine
  1952 Blind Man's Bluff - Christine Stevens
  1952 The Inch Man (TV Series) - Helen Anastiadi
  - The Quiet Voice (1952) ... Helen Anastiadi
  1951 Hell Is Sold Out - Honey Child
  1950 Dark Interval - Sonia Jordan
  1950 The Adventures of Sir Percy Howsey (TV Short) - Margueritte
  1950 Soho Conspiracy - Dora Scala
  1950 So Long at the Fair - Nina
  1950 Operation Disaster - The Wren
  
  1949 Meet Simon Cherry - Lisa Colville
  1949 The Lost People - Anna
  1949 Helter Skelter - Giselle
  1949 Marry Me - Marcelle Duclos
  1949 The Bad Lord Byron - An Italian Woman (uncredited)
  1948 Sleeping Car to Trieste - Suzanne
  1948 Good-Time Girl - Annie Farrell
  1948 Miranda - Secretary
  1948 Snowbound - Italian Girl
  1948 So Evil My Love - Lisette
  1947 The End of the River - Sante
  1945 Caesar and Cleopatra - Lady-in-Waiting (uncredited)
  
  Self (3 credits)
  
  1961 Juke Box Jury (TV Series) - Herself - Panellist
  - Episode #1.89 (1961) ... Herself - Panellist
  
  1956 Film Fanfare (TV Series) - Herself / Herself - Quiz Contestant
  - Episode #1.30 (1956) ... Herself
  - Episode #1.23 (1956) ... Herself - Quiz Contestant
  - Episode #1.1 (1956) ... Herself
  1956 The Bob Hope Show (TV Series) - Herself
  - Fernandel, Diana Dors (1956) ... Herself
  
  Archive footage (9 credits)
  
  2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Miss Taro (uncredited)
  2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Herself
  1997 The Secrets of 007: The James Bond Files (TV Movie documentary) - Miss Taro (uncredited)
  1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Herself
  1995 In Search of James Bond with Jonathan Ross (TV Movie documentary) - Miss Taro (uncredited)
  1990 The Prisoner Video Companion (Video documentary)
  1985 Eye on L.A. (TV Series) -Miss Taro
  - OO7: A View of James Bond (1985) ... Miss Taro (uncredited)
  1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Herself
  1963 Dr. No Featurette (Documentary short) - Miss Taro
  
  Soundtrack (1 credit)
  
  1956 Colonel March of Scotland Yard (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
  - The Silent Vow (1956) ... (performer: "Ce n'etait Rien")
  

  
  
  

  
  1937: Suzy Kendall is born--Belper, Derbyshire, England.
  
  1941: Simón Andreu is born--Sa Pobla, Balearic Islands, Spain.
  
  1961: Ian Fleming returns to his Goldeneye estate and begins writing the ninth Bond novel. In failing health, he uses a screenplay from a 1958 project as its basis.
  1962: The Dr. No production hands out a draft shooting schedule to the crew.
  1965: Agente 007 - Missione Goldfinger (Agent 007 - Goldfinger Mission) released in Italy.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  1968: Dr. No re-release in the UK.

  
  
  
  
  

  1968: This month Marvel Comics publishes Strange Tales Vol 1 #164 with the first of an eventual three appearances by James Bond.

  

  Strange Tales Vol 1 164

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  Strange Tales Vol 1 #164

  Published January, 1968
  Editor-in-Chief Stan Lee
  Cover Artist Dan Adkins
  "Nightmare" Writer Jim Lawrence
  Penciler Dan Adkins
  Letterer Al Kurzrok
  Editor Stan Lee
  "When Comes.. The Black Noon!"
  Writer Jim Steranko
  Penciler Jim Steranko
  Inker Bill Everett
  Letterer Art Simek
  Editor Stan Lee

  "Ain't you heard... Nick Fury's got more lives
  than a cat! "
  -- Nick Fury

  Appearing in "When Comes.. The Black Noon!"
  
  Featured Characters: Nick Fury Nick Fury
  Supporting Characters: S.H.I.E.L.D., Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, Sam
  Antagonists: Yellow Claw (robot), Fritz Voltzman (robot)
  Other Characters: Suwan (robot), Slim, James Bond (First appearance)
  Locations: New York City, Manhattan, S.H.I.E.L.D. Barbershop Headquarters
  Items: Ultimate Annihilator, Revive Chamber and the Self-Regenerating Cell, Amplifier, Code-a-Graph key, Transparent Car, Spectre-Suit, Image Distorter, Frigi-Wep (First appearance), Voltzman's cane
  Vehicles: Sky Dragon (First appearance), Transparent Car
  
  Synopsis for "When Comes.. The Black Noon!"

  At the instant the Claw fired The Ultimate Annihilator at Fury, Suwan teleports him thru "Hyper-Dimensional Space" to the underground lair. She then teleports him to the S.H.I.E.L.D. barber shop, where he collapses. In his lair, The Claw tests the Ultimate Annihilator by destroying a satellite in orbit. Mad with power, he plots "the dawn of a new age...and age of vengeance...of darkness and death". S.H.I.E.L.D. medics give Fury the once-over in a "Revive Chamber", then warn him that any further stimulation could cause blackouts, blindness or death! Telling them to keep it confidential, Fury follows a tip, using the transparent car and a "Spectre-Suit" (to make him invisible) to trail a Claw agent. During a faked traffic accident, Fury sneaks into the trunk of the agent's car, getting out at their destination and getting the drop on The Claw & Von Voltzmann. But he discovers he's onboard "The Sky Dragon", a huge airship miles above the city! Captured, Fury is tied underneath the Ultimate Annihilator, as The Claw prepares to use it to destroy New York City!

  

  James Bond (Earth-616)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/James_Bond_(Earth-616)

  History

  By most opinions the very definition of a modern day spy and counter-espionage agent, James Bond has been mentioned more often than seen in the Marvel Universe, often in comparison -- at times disparagingly, at other times complimentary -- to the likes of Nick Fury and other elite members of S.H.I.E.L.D. and its various counterparts around the world.
  
  He was briefly seen in New York City, attempting to enter a barber shop that was actually the secret entrance to S.H.I.E.L.D.'s then-operative New York headquarters. Nick Fury had moments earlier unexpectedly materialized inside the shop, and so the agents on guard as barbers rather hastily told the agent that they were closed. Bond's response to their brisk dismissal was remarking that they were treating him like he was an enemy spy.
  
  Years later, James Bond and his date were among a large group of odd characters gathered at the Laughing Horse saloon, standing at the bar beside an off-duty police detective in a yellow trench coat.

  Trivia

  Giant-Size Master of Kung Fu #3 implies that James Bond may be the father of Clive Reston ("an MI-6 agent with a 00 license to kill, and Clive took after his father's [...] love of terrible puns") and descendant of Sherlock Holmes ("a private detective, from whom Clive inherited deductive reasoning talent and a habit for smoking a meerschaum pipe"). However, it wasn't explicitly stated, due to licensing right.

  Master of Kung Fu #3
  
  
  Captain America Vol 1 #401 (second appearance)
  

  
  1972: Diamenty sa wieczne (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in Poland.

  Video marketing.
  
  
  

  1976: Daily Variety reports on Kevin McClory and the agreement he signed in 1965 for his involvement in the Thunderball production that returned film and television rights to the property after ten years. And that he can produce Bond films, starting today.
  1977: Dr. No re-release in the UK.
  
  1981: For Your Eyes Only films at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, from today through February. Delivery of snow is needed for the street scenes.
  
  1992: This month Marvel Comics publishes James Bond Jr #1 "The Beginning", sourced from the first episode of the cartoon series with Scumlord and Jaws.
  Mario Capaldi, artist. T. Pederson; F. Moss and Cal Hamilton, writers (adaptation).
  Colin Fawcett, ink. Mario Capaldi and Colin Fawcett, cover.

  

  James Bond Jr. (1992 Marvel) #1

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=84041

  James Bond Jr. (1992 Marvel) 1
  Published Jan 1992 by Marvel.
  Cover pencils by Mario Capaldi, inks by Colin Fawcett. The Beginning, script by T. Pederson; F. Moss and Cal Hamilton (adaptation), pencils by Mario Capaldi, inks by Colin Fawcett.

  007's nephew arrives at Warfield Academy where he becomes the target of S.C.U.M. agents after his Aston Martin. Based on the TV episode of the same title aired 09-30-1991.

  36 pgs

  
  
  

  
  James Bond Jr Issue 1 The Beginning
  http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-001/

  1995: Dark Horse Comics publishes James Bond 007: Quasimodo Gambit #1.
  Gary Caldwell. artist. Don McGregor, writer. Christopher Moeller, cover.

  

  James Bond 007: Quasimodo Gambit #1

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.darkhorse.com/Comics/92-430/James-Bond-007-Quasimodo-Gambit-1

  In the tropical paradise of Jamaica, things are not as picturesque as the travel brochures would suggest. Sent to stop a notorious arms dealer called Rifle, James Bond once again finds more than he bargained for. Rifle's clients turn out to be Elias Hazlewood and the Disciples of the Heavenly Way, a successful televangelist operation. Among the Way's membership is Maximillian "Quasimodo" Steel, a reformed mercenary. He's got a plan to stop the Beast and further God's cause. That is, unless James Bond can stop him first.

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

  
  
  https://www.comicsroyale.com/dark-horse/ahm32p61rdhoqun5o2e7zkzfkgx9t3
  
  
  https://www.bedetheque.com/serie-23008-BD-James-Bond-007-The-Quasimodo-Gambit-Dark-Horse-1995.html
  
  
  

  1996: This month Topps Comics publishes James Bond 007 Goldeneye #0 (Special Limited Convention Preview Edition, black and white), and #1 of three where #2 and #3 remain unpublished.
  Claude St. Aubin, pencils. Rick Magyar, ink. Don McGregor, writer. Brian Stelfreeze, cover.

  

  https://www.mycomicshop.com/search?TID=135691
  
  
  https://steemit.com/comics/@cryplectibles/adapted-into-comic-books-goldeneye-from-1996
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1997: This month Playboy magazine publishes an abridged version of the Raymond Benson short story "Blast From the Past". The complete story is later included in The Union Trilogy anthology.

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/review-blast-from-the-past?id=04353
  
  
  
  

  1998: Zítrek nikdy neumírá (Tomorrow Never Dies) released in the Czech Republic.

  Video marketing.
  
  
  
  

  1998: Zajtrajsok nikdy nezomiera released in Slovakia.

  Video marketing.
  
  

  1999: This month Playboy magazine publishes Raymond Benson's short story "Midsummer Night's Doom".

  https://mcmolo.blogspot.com/2016/01/raymond-bensons-james-bond.html?m=0
  
  

  
  2000: 縱橫天下 (Zònghéng tiānxià; Across the World) released in Taiwan.

  
  
  

  2003: Cyril Shaps dies at age 79--Harrow, London, England.
  (Born 13 October 1923--London, England.)
  

  

  Cyril Shaps (1923–2003)

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

  
  
  
  
  
  

  2003: Die Another Day released in Egypt and Panama.
  2003: Πέθανε μια άλλη μέρα (He Died Another Day) released in Greece.

  
  
  

  
  
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  2010: The original date Ian Fleming material would have entered the Public Domain (based on Casino Royale's 1953 publish date, plus 28 years for the copyright period, plus another 28 year renewal). [But the US law changed 1976 and went into effect 1978.]
  2015: James Bond becomes public domain in Canada. (The books and stories, not the films. Based on the Berne Convention allowing a copyright for 50 years after Fleming's death.)
  
  2022: In New Year's Honours, Daniel Craig is set to receive the same title as James Bond.

  

  New Year’s honors 2022: Daniel Craig
  receives the same title as James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://missthinkup.com/new-years-honors-2022-daniel-craig-receives-the-same-title-as-james-bond/

  January 1, 2022 by admin987

  Daniel Craig was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, which is the same honor bestowed on James Bond in the 007 franchise.

  The 53-year-old – who has played Bond since 2006 – received the honor for his services to film and theater. He is one of many public figures to appear on the 2022 New Year’s Honors list, published Friday, December 31.

  The honor bestowed on Craig recognizes service in a foreign country, or in connection with foreign and Commonwealth affairs, such as the work of diplomats abroad.

  The Fictional Spy has a CMG in Ian Fleming’s books as well as their film adaptations.
  
  Craig made his last outing in 007 earlier this year with the highly anticipated No time to die.
  
  Prior to the film’s release, the actor was named Honorary Commander of the Royal Navy, another rank held by James Bond.
  
  Following multiple delays related to Covid, No time to die premiered at the Royal Albert Hall in September.
  
  The event was attended by British Royalty, with The Prince of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall and The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge all in attendance.

  
  

  
  2023: Prices on prior Stern pinball cornerstone models will increase to the James Bond 007 level on January 1, 2023.

  

  

  STERN OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES JAMES BOND

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.pinballnews.com/site/2022/09/22/stern-officially-launches-james-bond/

  By Pinball News. Posted on 22nd September, 2022
  
  After cancelling their earlier launch due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Stern Pinball today officially announced details of their latest James Bond 007 cornerstone title.
  
  The George Gomez-designed game will initially come in three versions – the traditional Pro, Premium and Limited Edition models – with the Limited Edition restricted to 1,000 machines. There will also be an even more super-limited 60th anniversary model designed by Keith Elwin featuring all the actors who have played James Bond and including all 25 films. This will be limited to 500 machines with details released shortly.
  
  Each of the three versions announced today is based on one of the classic Sean Connery-era James Bond movies. The Pro is Dr. No, the Premium is You Only Live Twice, while the Limited Edition is themed around Thunderball.
  
  Here’s Stern’s promo video:

  

  Pictures of two of the models leaked earlier this month when the Pro and Premium machines were being set up at the IAPPA Europe trade show in London ahead of the opening. The death of Queen Elizabeth II caused the launch and public reveal to be postponed, with the suggestion that it was the licensor who pushed for the delay in co-operation with Stern Pinball. Pinball News is based in the UK and so we chose not to publish any leaked pictures in solidarity with that mark of respect.
  
  The two machines at IAAPA Europe were subsequently packed up and the show went ahead without them publicly appearing on the Stern distributor’s stand.
  
  As well as being available from Stern Pinball distributors worldwide, a number of machines could also be purchased directly through Stern’s web shop, although paid membership of the company’s All Access loyalty scheme was required.
  
  The game will receive its first public outing on 26th September in London at a special event at Christie’s celebrating the 60th Anniversary of James Bond films.

  Our tickets to the premiere of Stern's new 007 titles
  

  Here are the initial pictures of the Pro, Premium and Limited Edition model. We’ll add many more pictures and much more detail shortly, so check back for the latest updates.

  Pro
  The left side of the Pro model
  
  The right side of the Pro model
  
  The front of the Pro model
  
  The playfield in the Pro model
  
  
  The Pro model lacks the ball lock at the Little Bird rocket, the jetpack ball mover and the under-playfield scuba battle, amongst other things.
  
  Here’s a look at the Pro’s playfield:
  
  There is a flat plastic on the Pro versus a window to an underground scene on the Premium/LE
  
  The DB5 car ejector works the same though
  
  The flat plastic in place of the jetpack mech
  
  The top part of the Pro's playfield
  
  The centre of the playfield with the movie and villain inserts
  
  The Pro model's plaque
  
  The Pro model's cabinet artwork
  
  Is it "Dr. No" with a space or "Dr.No" without one? Who Nos?
  
  The rules card
  
  
  Here’s a video of the features found in the Pro model:
  
  
  
  Premium
  
  The left side of the Premium model
  
  The right side of the Premium model
  
  The front of the Premium model
  
  The playfield in the Premium model
  

  Because the Premium and Limited Edition playfield features are identical (minus some cosmetic differences), we’ll save our close-up playfield pictures until after we’ve examined the Limited Edition’s cabinet.

  Limited Edition
  
  The left side of the Limited Edition model
  
  The right side of the Limited Edition model
  
  The front of the Limited Edition model
  
  The playfield in the Limited Edition model
  
  Here’s a video showing the playfield features in the Premium and Limited Edition models:
  

  Here are some additional photos of the Limited Edition playfield’s features. As with all our pictures, you can click any to display a larger, higher-resolution version.

  
  The flipper area
  
  An up-post in the right inlane stops the ball when a mode begins
  
  The bottom half of the playfield
  
  George Gomez's signature on the Limited Edition model
  
  The upper flipper and hench’men’ inserts
  
  The henchmen and villain ramps
  
  The villain inserts
  
  The weapons inserts
  
  
  The Aston Martin DB5 eject
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  The jetpack ball transporter
  
  Use the jetpack to drop the ball on the tank target
  
  The top of the playfield
  
  The Osato Chemicals drop targets
  
  Once past the drop targets, the ball enters the Bird One target area
  
  The top rollovers and pop bumpers
  
  The top-right of the playfield
  
  The Limited Edition plaque
  
  The Limited Edition cabinet
  

  And here is the matrix of all the features found in each of the Pro, Premium and Limited Edition models.

  The James Bond feature matrix
  
  

  Here’s how Gary Stern presented his company’s newest title:

  Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
  
  A dream come true – pinball based on a fantastic theme with movie history, including 25 films which were released generation after generation. Today we introduce Stern’s latest games, James Bond 007. With Bond movies and licensed products having grossed over $15 Billion worldwide, this movie franchise, the franchise that created the spy genre, reaches its 60th anniversary this year.
  
  Stern EVP/CCO George Gomez took the lead and designed our 3 cornerstone games – James Bond 007 Pro Edition, Premium Edition and Limited Edition. George has based his Bond games on the six genre defining Sean Connery films:

  • Dr. No
    
  • From Russia With Love
  • Goldfinger
  • Thunderball
  • You Only Live Twice
  • Diamonds Are Forever

  
  An enthusiast Bond fan since early childhood, George has an encyclopedic knowledge of all things Bond.  The opportunity to bring to pinball the mechanical action of gadgets created by “Q” and action scenes included in these Bond movies energized his creativity. James Bond 007 is a passion project for George. That passion shows in the games he has created.
  
  I hope you have watched Seth’s and my webinar and our game play videos to see all the memorable action and features straight from James Bond that our games capture. All Cornerstone Editions have, of course, an Aston Martin DB5 ejecting a ball thru its opening roof. A 3 bank drop target protects the custom molded SPECTRE “Bird One” rocket that senses and moves when hit. The underwater Thunderball fight scene is illuminated on the playfield. And much more.
  
  The James Bond 007 Premium Edition adds more action and features. The ball is shot up the “Bird One” rocket gantry to be captured for multiball. The underwater fight scene utilizes molded characters under the playfield. A magnet on a sculpted moving James Bond JetPack captures the ball. The Premium has Dr. No’s Dragon Tank, illuminated and with 2 targets for players to attempt hitting by releasing the ball from the JetPack magnet.
  
  Each movie’s titles, villains, henchmen, SPECTRE weapons and Bond women are symbolized in strings of light up inserts. Progressions through each and through the SPECTRE spellout are visually exhibited to great and novice players.
  
  I could add a detailed list of all the other mechanical devices – 3rd flipper, wire ramps, stainless ramps, up posts, vuks, control gates. It’s better that you watch the videos and play the games.
  
  James Bond 007 play excitement is enhanced with film clips, plus Stern created animation so detailed it has been mistaken for film. Voices from the six movies are carefully integrated into the game. Leading with the iconic John Barry’s Bond theme music from Dr. No, other compositions from each movie are utilized in that movie’s game play sequences and modes. Included are performances by Matt Monro, Nancy Sinatra and Shirley Bassey.
                                     
  The James Bond 007 games feature art adapted from famous Bond illustrators & designers Frank McCarthy, Robert McGinnis and Ken Adam.  The Pro, Premium and Limited Editions each highlight a different movie. The movie’s poster has been adapted for each edition’s backglass. The cabinet right sides, different for each edition, have Bond movie posters from the 5 Connery movies not featured in that game’s backglass. The left side has art themed around the edition’s highlighted movie. The playfield art includes all six of the Connery movies.
  
  The 1,000 James Bond 007 Limited Edition are numbered 001 to 1000. Each has:

  • High gloss metallic armor and legs
  • Mirrored backglass
  • Upgraded audio system
  • Shaker motor
  • Non-glare playfield glass
  • Certificate of authenticity signed by President Seth Davis and me
  • Designer George Gomez autograph
  • Sequentially numbered (001 to 1000) plate

  And there is more.
  
  Keith Elwin has designed a retro inspired James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Limited Edition, capturing all James Bonds and their films. It’s a classic drop target game with 10 drop targets, Oddjob kinetic spinning disc, and many fast flowing spinners. In addition to traditional score reels, an LCD display is mounted in the playfield. This highly collectible limited model will be numbered 001-500. A full reveal will be coming soon.
  
  All James Bond 007 ship Insider Connected™ capable. Utilizing the power of the internet, we will issue special Bond “Assignments” only possible on connected games.
  
  James Bond 007 games will be available in November. We will begin with Pro Editions, followed by Limited Edition games, and then Premium Editions. The 60th Anniversary Limited Edition production will be in December. Information on accessories is coming soon.
  
  We are all aware that inflation has caused parts and labor cost increases. Supply chain difficulties have resulted in additional cost increases. We annually have increased our wholesale sales prices, and new prices will be set for James Bond 007. Our sales reps will be able to give you prices for all games (cornerstone, 60th, studio & home editions) and also for requests of specific Limited Edition numbers. 
  
  Prices on prior cornerstone models will increase to the James Bond 007 level on January 1, 2023. A new UMRP, MAP and MSRP list will be sent to USA customers. The list will indicate these prices for James Bond 007 games. For other models it will indicate current prices and the prices at January 1, 2023. For models that are reaching end of life in 2022, the UMRP/MAP/MSRP will not increase on January 1, 2023. Included are Guardians of the Galaxy, Led Zeppelin, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We will accept cancellations, should you so desire
  
  Jack Danger will stream James Bond 007 Premium/LE Editions. For updated information, please check https://facebook.com/sternpinball
  
  I will end where I started. These James Bond 007 games are a dream come true.
                                                                                                                                     
  Best regards,
  
  Gary

  
  Here’s how Stern Pinball announced their latest release:

  CHICAGO, IL – September 22, 2022 – Stern Pinball, Inc. launches a new line of pinball machines celebrating the iconic, genre-defining James Bond films. The James Bond 007 cornerstone series features the original 007 actor, Sean Connery, available in Pro Edition, Premium Edition, and Limited Edition (LE). Stern Pinball will also release a special James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Limited Edition pinball machine featuring all six James Bond actors.
  
  In Dr. No (1962) Sean Connery propelled 007 into the cultural zeitgeist, bringing the legendary literary figure to life through adrenalized action sequences, ground-breaking gadgets and effects, memorable characters, and timeless villains.
  
  Stern’s James Bond 007 cornerstone pinball machine will highlight film footage and iconic music from the films that built the 007 legend: Dr. No, From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), You Only Live Twice (1967), and Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Players are immersed into the world of espionage in this action-packed pinball experience, tackling assignments, teaming up with key allies, and stopping SPECTRE’s villainous schemes.
  
  Gather gadgets from Q Branch as pinballs get ejected through the roof of a custom sculpted Aston Martin DB5. Break through the Osato Chemicals drop targets to battle SPECTRE at the Bird 1 rocket base. And hold your breath on the gravity defying, magnetic jetpack as it transports pinballs across the playfield.
  
  James Bond 007 pinball machines include Stern’s award-winning Insider Connected™ system, which enables players to interact with the game and a global network of players in a variety of ways. Through Insider Connected, players can track progress, earn new game-specific achievements, engage with the player community, and participate in promotions and Challenge Quests. Insider Connected also provides an operator-focused toolset to drive location play through Location Leaderboards, build player loyalty, analyze performance, make adjustments remotely, and maintain the machines. Registration for Insider Connected is available at insider.sternpinball.com/.
  
  Limited to 1,000 machines globally, the highly collectible cornerstone Limited Edition includes an exclusive full-color mirrored backglass inspired by Thunderball, masterfully adapted cabinet artwork, custom high gloss and powder-coated pinball armor, a custom designer-autographed bottom arch, exclusive inside art blades, upgraded audio system, anti-reflection pinball playfield glass, shaker motor, a sequentially numbered plaque, and a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Stern Chairman Gary Stern and President Seth Davis.
  
  Stern’s James Bond 007 60th Anniversary Limited Edition pinball machines will immerse players in the history of 007. Limited to 500 machines globally, the highly collectible 60th Anniversary Limited Edition offers players a retro-inspired playfield packed with exciting mechanical action. Control the chaos from Oddjob’s kinetic spinning disc hat, survive tactical precision shots against 10 drop targets, escape SPECTRE’s evil henchmen navigating pinballs through 4 fast-flowing optical spinners, learn assignments through an in-playfield LCD screen, and rack up high scores on classic-style score reels.

  “James Bond is as timeless as pinball. Partnering with EON Productions/Danjaq, MGM Studios and Aston Martin, we created a pinball adventure capturing the suspense, action, and humor from this beloved film series.” said Gary Stern, Chairman and CEO. “Get connected today and become a legend.”

  Fittingly, the new James Bond 007 pinball machines will be on show for the first time to media and public in London. On September 26th the games will be on display and available to play as part of the Bond-themed Christie’s Late, a public event celebrating the forthcoming Christie’s Sixty Years of James Bond Charity Auction. 
  
  Shortly after, they will be a part of the James Bond at 60 weekend at the British Film Institute on the South Bank, September 30th-October 2nd.
  
  Pricing and Availability:
  Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price (“MSRP”)*:
  *MSRP for sales to USA end-users, before any VAT, GST, Sales Tax, Duties, or other taxes.

  • Pro Edition: $US 6,999
  • Premium Edition: $US 9,699
  • Limited Edition: $US 12,999
  • 60th Anniversary Limited Edition: CALL FOR PRICE

  James Bond 007 pinball machines and accessories are available now through authorized Stern Pinball distributors and dealers around the world. Pro and Premium Editions will also be available at 007Store.com

  
  About Stern Pinball, Inc.
  Stern Pinball, Inc. is a global lifestyle brand based on the iconic and outrageously fun modern American game of pinball. Headquartered minutes from Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport in the heart of North America, the company creates, designs, engineers, manufactures, markets, and distributes a full line of technologically advanced terrestrial and digital pinball games, parts, accessories, and merchandise. Stern Pinball serves digital, consumer, commercial, and corporate markets around the globe.
  Recent Stern Pinball titles include Rush, Godzilla, The Mandalorian, Led Zeppelin, Avengers: Infinity Quest, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Stranger Things, Elvira’s House of Horrors, Jurassic Park, Black Knight: Sword of Rage, The Munsters, The Beatles, Deadpool, Iron Maiden, Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Wars, Aerosmith, Ghostbusters, KISS, Metallica, Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead, Star Trek, AC/DC, Batman, and Spider-Man. A broad range of players enjoy Stern Pinball’s games from professional pinball players who compete in high-stakes competitions around the globe to novice players who are discovering the allure of the silver ball for the first time. To join the fun and learn more, please visit www.sternpinball.com.
  
  About EON Productions/Danjaq
  EON Productions Limited and Danjaq LLC are wholly owned and controlled by the Broccoli/ Wilson family. Danjaq is the US based company that co-owns, with Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, the copyright in the existing James Bond films and controls the right to produce future James Bond films. EON Productions, an affiliate of Danjaq, is the UK based production company that has made the James Bond films since 1962 and together with Danjaq controls all worldwide merchandising. For more information, visit 007.com & 007Store.com
  
  Danjaq is the US based company that, with MGM, co-owns the copyrights in the existing James Bond films and controls the right to produce future James Bond films. EON Productions, an affiliate of Danjaq, is the UK based production company which makes the James Bond films. Danjaq and EON control the rights to all worldwide traditional Bond merchandising, and with MGM control the rights in other areas of Bond licensing such as location based entertainment.
  
  About Aston Martin
  Aston Martin’s vision is to be the world’s most desirable, ultra-luxury British brand, creating the most exquisitely addictive performance cars.
  
  Founded in 1913 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamford, Aston Martin is acknowledged as an iconic global brand synonymous with style, luxury, performance, and exclusivity. Aston Martin fuses the latest technology, time honoured craftsmanship and beautiful styling to produce a range of critically acclaimed luxury models including the Vantage, DB11, DBS and DBX and its first hypercar, the Aston Martin Valkyrie.
  
  Based in Gaydon, England, Aston Martin Lagonda designs, creates and exports cars which are sold in 55 countries around the world. Its sports cars are manufactured in Gaydon with its luxury DBX SUV range proudly manufactured in St Athan, Wales.
  Lagonda was founded in 1899 and Aston Martin in 1913. The two brands came together in 1947 when both were purchased by the late Sir David Brown, and the company is now listed on the London Stock Exchange as Aston Martin Lagonda Global Holdings plc.
  2020 saw Lawrence Stroll become the company’s Executive Chairman, alongside significant new investment, a move that led to Aston Martin’s return to the pinnacle of motorsport with the Aston Martin Cognizant Formula One™ Team and commenced new era for the iconic British marque.
  
  About MGM Studios
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. is a leading entertainment company focused on the production and distribution of film and television content globally. The company owns one of the world’s deepest libraries of premium film and television content. In addition, MGM has investments in domestic and international television channels, including MGM-branded channels.
  
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  2035: Under the Copyright Extension Act of 1998 (applying the year of the author's death plus 70 years), Fleming books and stories enter the public domain.
  
  2049: Under US copyright law in effect from 1978 (applied to products published 1950-1964), the copyright period lasting 95 years from the author's death ended the previous day. So it's public domain for Fleming books and stories everywhere. [Legal commentary welcome.]
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  January 2 Posts: 13,785

  January 2nd
  
  1937: Terence Christopher Gerald Rigby is born in Erdington, Birmingham, England.
  
  1964: In the Daily Express, Fleming proposes to interviewer John Creusemann that "Bond is Scottish. On both sides."
  
  1975: Roger Moore is photographed at London's Gerrick Club with wife Luisa and co-star Susanna York from their film Heaven Save Us From Our Friends.

  

  
  1991: Untitled screenplay for a third Dalton mission dated this day. Credited to William Osborne, William Davies, Al Ruggerio, Michael G. Wilson. OO7 investigates a stolen British stealth fighter traveling to Vancouver, Las Vegas, Hong Kong, China, Libya.
  
  2003: Die Another Day released in New Zealand.
  2003: Dnes neumírej (Today Do Not Die) released in the Czech Republic.

  
  
  
  

  2003: Dnes neumíeraj (Today Do Not Die) released in Slovakia.

  
  

  
  2003: The New York Times publishes Seoul Journal's article "The Power of Film: A Bond That Unites Koreans".

  

  Seoul Journal; The Power of Film: A Bond That Unites Koreans

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/02/world/seoul-journal-the-power-of-film-a-bond-that-unites-koreans.html

  By JAMES BROOKE - JAN. 2, 2003
  
  In real life, President Bush wrestles with policies to force North Korea to stop selling missiles and making atom bombs.
  
  On the big screen, at movie theaters here today, James Bond wrestled with a crazed North Korean colonel who was using a space-based laser to burn a massive hole in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea.

  ''The U.S. put North Korea in 'the axis of evil' and then the director merely followed the plot,'' said Kim So Won, a 19-year-old student taking a break from a New Year's Eve anti-American rally.
  
  As her girlfriends nodded, she added, ''We won't go see the movie.''

  The new 007 movie, ''Die Another Day,'' opened here on New Year's Eve to a fledgling boycott. But reflecting the love-hate relationship with the United States -- the fact that James Bond is British is a fine point lost on many people here -- there were long lines of people waiting to see the film at the Seoul Theater.

  Min Kyung Woo, a 28-year-old pacifist, lined up too, but on a picket line. ''This is Hollywood's strategy toward Northeast Asia,'' said Mr. Min, who had not been converted by a pre-release showing of the movie intended by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to head off a boycott here.
  
  ''The movie industry is related to politics,'' he said.

  Indeed, the boycott has been fueled by rising anti-American sentiment and the feeling among many here that North Koreans are replacing Colombians as Hollywood's current international bad guys.

  ''North Korean criminals in the movie are no different from Iraqi, Cuban or Russian terrorists, who easily commit mass murders in Hollywood action movies,'' the newspaper JoongAng Ilbo said in apparent surprise at the Bondian depiction of state-sponsored torture in North Korea, a nation that ranks high atop many ''worst'' lists compiled by international human rights groups.

  While North and South Korea remain bitterly divided, judging by such reviews and those of some moviegoers here, the two sides have finally found common ground when confronting 007.

  ''I think there is plenty for Koreans to complain about in this movie,'' Doug E. Shin, a Korean-American pastor from Los Angeles, said as he walked in a jostling, and largely merry, flood of young South Koreans leaving a showing tonight. ''Half the North Koreans were speaking with South Korean accents. That ox looked like it was from the Philippines. That shack at the end looked like it was from Japan.''
  
  ''I guess the director didn't care,'' he continued. ''But if the movie was about Japan, would they have treated the Japanese that way?''

  A recurring complaint here is about a final scene where befuddled Korean farmers, goading an ox, look at luxury cars that James Bond has dropped, upended, in a rice paddy. While North Korean agriculture plods along on ox power, South Koreans say the only ox carts seen here are in museums.
  
  The correct image of South Korea, people say, is a nation with among the world's highest rates of cellphone ownership, high-speed Internet access and college-educated youth.

  Then there is a scene where an American officer orders a South Korea military mobilization, which prompted someone to write in an Internet chat room that ''Korea in the movie is viewed as America's colony.''
  
  After watching the movie today, Kim Yu Min, a 24-year-old office worker, said, ''My girlfriends said, 'At least James Bond doesn't go to bed with a Korean girl.' ''

  MGM, which distributes 20th Century Fox movies, has worked hard to try to smooth ruffled feathers here, a nation of 43 million people that is now the 10th-largest foreign box office territory for American movies.

  Lee Joo Sung, president of 20th Century Fox Korea, told opinion makers at one showing here: ''It's a movie. Not reality. Viewers must understand that it's fiction.''

  The movie, which stars Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry and is already expected to be the most lucrative Bond movie yet, ran into early controversy when a South Korean actor, Cha In Pyo, turned down the bad-guy role, normally a coveted ticket to Hollywood stardom. He became a local hero last fall when he told reporters that the script was ''demeaning.''
  
  Rick Yune, the Korean-American actor who stars as the movie's crazed North Korean officer, has found himself at news conferences here parrying hostile questions from reporters concerned about South Korea's image. In one burst of patriotism, Lee Jung Hyun, a pop singer, declined an invitation to appear alongside Mr. Yune on a popular talk show, ''Happiness Channel.''
  
  North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency has obligingly given MGM free publicity by playing true to character.

  Two weeks before the release here and well before pirated copies could have made their way to reviewers in North Korea, the news agency denounced the film as a ''dirty and cursed burlesque'' that clearly proved that the United States was ''the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation.''

  A version of this article appears in print on January 2, 2003, on Page A00004 of the National edition with the headline: Seoul Journal; The Power of Film: A Bond That Unites Koreans.

  
  

  2008: George MacDonald Fraser dies age 82--Strang, Isle of Man.
  (Born 2 April 1925--Carlisle, Cumberland, England.)

  

  George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at 82

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/arts/03fraser.html

  By MARGALIT FOXJAN. 3, 2008
  
  George MacDonald Fraser, a British writer whose popular novels about the arch-rogue Harry Flashman followed their hero as he galloped, swashbuckled, drank and womanized his way through many of the signal events of the 19th century, died yesterday on the Isle of Man. He was 82 and had made his home there in recent years.
  
  The cause was cancer, said Vivienne Schuster, his British literary agent.
  
  Over nearly four decades, Mr. Fraser produced a dozen rollicking picaresques centering on Flashman. The novels purport to be installments in a multivolume “memoir,” known collectively as the Flashman Papers, in which the hero details his prodigious exploits in battle, with the bottle and in bed. In the process, Mr. Fraser cheerfully punctured the enduring ideal of a long-vanished era in which men were men, tea was strong and the sun never set on the British Empire.
  
  The Flashman Papers include, among other titles, Flashman (World Publishing, 1969); Flashman in the Great Game (Knopf, 1975); and, most recently, Flashman on the March (Knopf, 2005). The second volume in the series, Royal Flash (Knopf, 1970), was made into a film of the same title in 1975, starring Malcolm McDowell as Flashman.
  
  In what amounted to an act of literary retribution, Mr. Fraser plucked Flashman from the pages of Tom Brown’s School Days, Thomas Hughes’s classic novel of English public-school life published in 1857. In that book, Tom, the innocent young hero, repeatedly falls prey to a sadistic bully named Flashman.
  
  In Mr. Fraser’s hands, the cruel, handsome Flashman is all grown up and in the British Army, serving in India, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Now Brig. Gen. Sir Harry Paget Flashman, he is a master equestrian, a pretty fair duelist and a polyglot who can pitch woo in a spate of foreign tongues. He is also a scoundrel, a drunk, a liar, a cheat, a braggart and a coward. (A favorite combat strategy is to take credit for a victory from which he has actually run away.)

  
  Credit HarperCollins, about 2004

  Last, but most assuredly not least, Flashman is a serial adulterer who by Volume 9 of the series has bedded 480 women. (That Flashman is married himself, to the fair, dimwitted Elspeth, is no impediment. She cuckolds him left and right, in any case.)
  
  Readers adored him. Today, the Internet is populated with a bevy of Flashman fan sites.
  
  Flashman’s exploits take him to some of the most epochal events of his time, from British colonial campaigns to the American Civil War, in which he magnanimously serves on both the Union and the Confederate sides. He rubs up against eminences like Queen Victoria, Oscar Wilde, Florence Nightingale and Abraham Lincoln.
  
  For his work, Flashman earns a string of preposterous awards, including a knighthood, the Victoria Cross and the American Medal of Honor.
  
  Mr. Fraser was so skilled a mock memoirist that he had some early readers fooled. Writing in The New York Times in 1969 after the first novel was published, Alden Whitman said:

  “So far, ‘Flashman’ has had 34 reviews in the United States. Ten of these found the book to be genuine autobiography.”

  The son of Scottish parents, George MacDonald Fraser was born on April 2, 1925, in Carlisle, England, near the Scottish border. His boyhood reading, like that of nearly every British boy of his generation, included Tom Brown’s School Days.
  
  In World War II, Mr. Fraser served in India and Burma with the Border Regiment. His memoir of the war in Burma, Quartered Safe Out Here (Harvill), was published in 1993.

  
  The first Flashman novel.

  After leaving the military, Mr. Fraser embarked on a journalism career, working for newspapers in England, Canada and Scotland. He eventually became the assistant editor of The Glasgow Herald and in the 1960s, was briefly its editor.
  
  Tiring of newspaper work, Mr. Fraser decided, as he later said in interviews, to “write my way out” with an original Victorian novel. In a flash, he remembered Flashman, and the first book tumbled out in the evenings after work.
  
  “In all, it took 90 hours, no advance plotting, no revisions, just tea and toast and cigarettes at the kitchen table,” he said in an interview quoted in the reference work Authors and Artists for Young Adults.
  
  Mr. Fraser’s survivors include his wife, Kathy; two sons and a daughter. Information on other survivors could not immediately be confirmed.

  His other books include several non-Flashman novels, among them “Mr. American” (Simon & Schuster, 1980); “The Pyrates” (Knopf, 1984); and “Black Ajax” (HarperCollins, 1997). With Richard Maibaum and Michael G. Wilson, Mr. Fraser wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film “Octopussy,” released in 1983.

  Mr. Fraser’s latest book, “The Reavers,” a non-Flashman novel, is scheduled to be published by Knopf in April.
  
  For his work, Mr. Fraser received many honors, among them the Order of the British Empire in 1999. This award, according to every conceivable news account, was entirely genuine.
  
  A version of this article appears in print on , on Page C12 of the New York edition with the headline: George MacDonald Fraser, Author of Flashman Novels, Dies at 82.

  

  George MacDonald Fraser (1925–2008)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0292129/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  Writer
  
  Filmography

  Writer (10 credits)
  1989 The Return of the Musketeers (screenplay - as George Macdonald Fraser)
  1987 Casanova (TV Movie) (written by)
  1986 The Pyrates (TV Movie) (adaptation)
  1985 Red Sonja (written by)
  1983 Octopussy (screen story and screenplay)
  
  1977 Crossed Swords (final screenplay)
  1975 Royal Flash (novel) / (screenplay)
  1974 The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (screenplay - as George Macdonald Fraser)
  1973 The Three Musketeers (screenplay)
  1972 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) (story "The General Danced At Dawn" - 1 episode)
  - The Dirtiest Soldier in the World (1972) ... (story "The General Danced At Dawn")
  
  Self (1 credit)
  1974 The Book Programme (TV Series documentary) - Himself
  - Episode #2.5 (1974) ... Himself
  
  Archive footage (1 credit)
  2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself

  
  
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  2008: Quantum of Solace filming begins.
  
  2022: A lost Aston Martin DB5 is reportedly found at an undisclosed Middle East location.

  

  Missing James Bond Car Has Reportedly Been Found

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://thenewsmotion.com/missing-james-bond-car-has-reportedly-been-found/

  By Paul Jackson On Jan 2, 2022
  
  The 1963 Aston Martin DB5 used in the filming of the James Bond film Goldfinger has reportedly been found. According to Motorious (via Yahoo!), the sportscar, Chassis NO. DP/216/1, had been missing since June 1997 when it was stolen from a secured hangar at the Boca Raton Airport where it had been stored. In the nearly 25 years since the theft, many have theorized about the car’s location but now, investigators believe that they have located the Aston Martin in the Middle East. The exact location has not been released.
  
  Per the report, a witness spotted the car in a “private setting”, but Art Recovery International has only indicated that Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain are “particular areas of interest”. The report notes that someone was able to verify the car’s serial number and found it to be a match for the missing Aston Martin. The car is worth more than $25 million and investigators are hopeful it will be recovered soon.
  
  “I’m hopeful that the possessor will come forward voluntarily before I have to make an announcement,” chief executive of Art Recovery International said. “It’s my policy to give the possessors of stolen and looted objects every opportunity to do the right thing. I don’t believe the current possessor knew the car was stolen when he or she acquired it. Now they do know, I think they should make every effort to have a discreet confidential discussion about how we clear the title to this iconic vehicle.”
  
  The vehicle was driven by Sean Connery in the 1964 film Goldfinger. This specific vehicle is unique due to the number of gadgets that were installed in it for the purposes of making the movie, such as pop-out machine guns, water/oil sprayers, tire shredders, and more. At the time of the theft, the vehicle was owned by a businessman named Anthony Pugliese who had purchased the vehicle at a Sotheby’s New York auction in 1986 for $275,000. Since the theft, there have been numerous theories about the vehicle, including that the vehicle was stolen by a real-life Bond villain, though the real story about the car’s theft may have to wait until it’s been safely recovered.
  
  The stolen Aston Martin isn’t the only car from the Goldfinger-era to remain in existence. An original 1965 Aston Martin DB85 built to Bond specifications — a vehicle that was built specifically for a tour promoting the film Thunderball — went up for auction in June 2019. There were a total of four DB5s created for Goldfinger-era of James Bond.

  
  
  

  
  2022: TV24 airs Mythbusters Series 5 Episode 27: James Bond Special, Part 1. Early morning.

  

  Mythbusters Monday, January 2 Find out what's on TV.

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://tv24.co.uk/channel/mythbusters/2023-01-02

  5:22am
  MythBusters
  Series 5 Episode 27: James Bond Special, Part 1

  The Mythbusters take on 007 in this James Bond special. They are on a mission to explode the myths about Bond's gadgets, getaways and guns.

  Mythbusters Uncut: James Bond Trailer (1:10)