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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  October 28 Posts: 13,812

  October 28th
  
  1971: Dedos de oro (Fingers of Gold) re-released in Argentina.

  
  

  1976: The Spy Who Loves Me films OO7 in Cairo's Karnak ruins, pursuing and pursued by Jaws.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 31 of 65 - "Hunt For Red Star One" in Russia.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Hunt For Red Star One

  Season 1 - Episode 31
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807289/

  The Russian treasury reserve is in danger when Doctor Derange and the Chameleon seize control of a satellite laser system.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Boris Grigorovitch (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Derange (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Alan Oppenheimer ... The Chameleon (voice)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Commander Ulanov / General Glasov (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut / Max / Jo (voice)
  Kath Soucie ... Additional voices (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr Episode 31 - Hunt For Red Star One
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1994: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills screens Goldfinger on its 30th anniversary.
  
  2012: Premier Christianity asks Does The World Still Need James Bond?

  

  Skyfall: Does The World Still Need
  James Bond?

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.premierchristianity.com/home/skyfall-does-the-world-still-need-james-bond/3975.article

  By Martin Saunders28 October 2012
  
  50 years ago, Sean Connery's 007 burst into cinemas with an explosion of fast cars, politically-incorrect one-liners and an endless supply of beautiful women. In the years since, Bond has become the world's most popular and enduring movie franchise, and his high-adrenaline appeal remains to this day: latest instalment Skyfall has just enjoyed the second-biggest opening in UK box office history. Yet despite the universal appeal of star Daniel Craig, does the series really have much life left in it? Can a gun-toting, emotionally-stunted, sexist dinosaur still be a national hero in these liberated times?
  
  Skyfall doesn't just answer that question - it poses it.
  
  The first Bond movie to be set in and around London since the very first (Dr No), Skyfall isn't afraid to call the future of the series - and its central character - into question. The central theme of the film, which also gives an enlarged role to Judi Dench's 'M', asks whether old things (like these aging characters and their dated ways of doing things) are still relevant in the modern world. Chief Examiner in this is Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem), one of the best Bond villains ever, and also one of the most unlikely – marrying a thirst for violence and revenge with sexual liberation and computer hacking expertise. In one memorable scene, he doesn't just show off his technical prowess to Bond, he flirts with him; forcing 007 to realise that villainy has come a long way since 1962. Indeed, even Bond is forced to realise that without the aid of fresh-faced right-hand man 'Q' - a technical whiz-kid - he'd be left chasing shadows in an age of digital terrorism.
  
  The film hardly presents us with a new, modern-man Bond however. He's still driving those cars (Director Sam Mendes has included a treat for the fans in this regard): he's still bedding a different woman every night. Yet Craig's 007 is very different to previous incarnations - more ruthless, more believable as a real MI6 spy, and crucially, more physically vulnerable. Whereas Roger Moore barely received a scratch from his various enemies, Craig is frequently subjected to torturous pain (most men I know can't even watch a certain scene in Casino Royale without wincing) to the point that you often wonder if he's actually going to survive.
  
  While the series is becoming more realistic however, it isn't exactly being rehabilitated. The myth of redemptive violence still looms large, and for a 12A we see an awful lot of people machine-gunned to death; female characters are still either sex objects (some of whom have a brain, which just makes them sexier) or hard-bitten old matriarchs. So we return to that question: is James Bond really a hero for the modern generation?
  
  It's not just our flawed hero whom the film calls into question; it's the whole intelligence service, institutions, everything that represents the 'old ways' of doing things. In that respect, it asks a question even of the Church. Have we moved on and remained relevant to the fast-moving modern world? And are there some things from our past which are still worth fighting for and holding on to?

  An old friend of 007's tells him that 'sometimes the old ways are the best.' It's a poignant line which sums up the case for the defence. Yet if Bond knows that part of him needs to evolve, that if he simply stands still he'll become irrelevant, and this film seems to acknowledge that. Skyfall is fantastic; one of the most thrilling and intelligent action films of recent years. Perhaps it is by asking such hard-hitting questions of itself that it achieves the apparent aim of Daniel Craig and his producers, and reboots the franchise for a new generation. At one point, Bond states that his hobby is 'Resurrection'. On Skyfall's evidence, the tomb is empty: 007 is alive and kicking.

  2015: Daniel Craig and other cast attend the Berlin premiere of Spectre.

  
  
  
  

  
  2015: BBC's Timeshift airs its documentary Looking for Mr Bond 007 at the BBC.

  

  
  Timeshift (2002– )

  Looking for Mr Bond: 007
  at the BBC

  7.1/10
  1h | Documentary | Episode aired 28 October 2015
  Season 15 | Episode 5

  Directed by
  
  Matthew Thomas
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Tamsin Greig ... Herself - Narrator (voice)
  Sean Connery ... Himself (archive footage)
  Geoffrey Boothroyd ... Himself - Armourer 'Q' (archive footage)
  Ian Fleming ... Himself (archive footage)
  Noël Coward ... Himself - Speaking in 1969 (archive footage) (as Noel Coward)
  Lois Maxwell ... Herself - Speaking in 1969 (archive footage)
  John le Carré ... Himself - Former MI6 Agent and Novellist (archive footage)
  Albert R. Broccoli ... Himself - James Bond Producer - speaking in 1967 (archive footage) (as Cubby Broccoli)
  Harry Saltzman ... Himself - James Bond Producer - speaking in 1967 (archive footage)
  Shirley Bassey ... Herself (archive footage)
  David Frost ... Himself (archive footage)
  Millicent Martin ... Herself - Presenter 'Mainly Millicent' (archive footage)
  Roger Moore ... Himself (archive footage)
  Joan Bakewell ... Herself - Interviewer (voice) (archive footage)
  Christopher Trace ... Himself - Presenter, 'Blue Peter' (archive footage)
  Patrick Campbell ... Himself - Presenter, 'Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life' (archive footage)
  S.J. Perelman ... Himself (archive footage)
  Alan Whicker ... Himself - Presenter, 'Whicker's World' (archive footage)
  Roald Dahl ... Himself - Novellist and Writer of 'You Only Live Twice' (archive footage)
  Lewis Gilbert ... Himself - Director, 'You Only Live Twice' - 'The Spy Who Loved Me' and 'Moonraker' (archive footage)
  George Lazenby ... Himself - Speaking in 1997 (archive footage)
  Diana Rigg ... Herself - Speaking in 1969 (archive footage)
  Barry Norman ... Himself - Film 73 Presenter (archive footage)
  Britt Ekland ... Herself (archive footage)
  Ken Adam ... Himself - Set Designer (archive footage)
  Timothy Dalton ... Himself (archive footage)
  Pierce Brosnan ... Himself (archive footage)
  Martin Campbell ... Himself - Director, 'Goldeneye' (archive footage)Stella Rimington ... Herself - Director General of MI5 - Speaking in 2006 (archive footage)
  Michael G. Wilson ... Himself - Producer, 'Casino Royale' (archive footage)
  Daniel Craig ... Himself (archive footage)
  Jonathan Ross ... Himself - Interviewer (archive footage)
  Eva Green ... Herself (archive footage)

  
  

  
  2020: Sotheby's begins a week focused on Fleming and Bond items.

  

  

  James Bond: A Collection of
  Books and Manuscripts, The
  Property of a Gentleman

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.sothebys.com/en/digital-catalogues/james-bond-a-collection-of-books-and-manuscripts-the-property-of-a-gentleman

  Online Auction: 28 October–11 November 2020 • 3:00 PM GMT • London
  
  Overview
  It has been said (by an auctioneer, I believe) that modern authors are collected less for the quality of their writing than the colour of their lives. A brutal reflection, perhaps, on the status of literature; but one that Ian Fleming would have appreciated. Nobody understood better than him the value of sensation. It infused his novels and marked every aspect of his career. While Foreign Manager at The Sunday Times he promised to hold the presses if a correspondent was delivering ‘dynamite.’ (Lot 2) He pestered his publishers, Jonathan Cape, with advice on how to improve sales. He sought constantly to make his dust jackets more striking and never hesitated to suggest improvements. Sometimes he designed them himself. But he was also a man who knew the importance of luck. In terms of collectability he has been very lucky indeed: not only did he write well but he lived well; and much of his life – wartime Intelligence officer, bon vivant, romantic - made its way into his books. He also had the unhappy fortune to have died before his time at the age of fifty-six, leaving not a diminishing trail of lesser works but the eternal cliffhanger: what might have happened next? It is this confluence of fact and fiction, life and death that sets him apart from other authors.

  

  LOT 9, FLEMING | CASINO ROYALE, 1954, FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, SECOND ISSUE, THE COPY THAT FIRST PUT JAMES BOND ON SCREEN. ESTIMATE £2,000-3,000.

  The books presented here are remarkable not just for their rarity but for their biographical narrative. Here is Fleming’s life as told by a bibliophile: from his 1918 copy of Boy’s Own Journal to a book he owned at Sandhurst and his 1948 manual of journalism for Kemsley Newspapers; from Bond novels inscribed to friends and colleagues - also to his wife Ann, Bobby Kennedy and his hero Winston Churchill – to copies used by film and TV companies (Lot 9); from a corrected typescript of Diamonds Are Forever to a notebook used while researching one of his last novels, You Only Live Twice (Lot 110). There are nice touches, such as Raymond Chandler’s annotated copy of Moonraker (‘all padding’ he fumes on p.18) (Lot 16). There is a nod, too, to Fleming’s oft-unadvertised role as a bibliophile. During the 1930s he amassed a library of first editions charting milestones in human progress - ‘books that had started something’ - which was considered so important that it had to be evacuated from London during the Blitz. And in 1952 he set aside the manuscript of Casino Royale to launch The Book Collector, one of the most authoritative journals of its kind, which flourishes to this day. Its editor was the redoubtable John Hayward, to whom several of these volumes are dedicated.

  
  LEFT TO RIGHT: LOT 16, FLEMING | MOONRAKER, 1955, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO RAYMOND CHANDLER . ESTIMATE £70,000-100,00; AND LOT 110, FLEMING | MANUSCRIPT NOTEBOOK, HONG KONG, MACAO, AND JAPAN, 1959 . ESTIMATE £25,000-35,000.

  Fleming would have relished the irony of a collector becoming himself collectable. He would also have enjoyed the idea of his story being told through a collection of his own books. To him, stories were paramount whether on paper, in life or, in this case, posterity. Famously, he boiled down his recipe for a successful thriller to a few short words: you simply have to turn over the page. I think you’ll find this catalogue fits the bill.
  
  Fergus Fleming
  Timeline of Bond
  
  1953
  1954
  1955
  1956
  1957
  1958
  1959
  1960
  1961
  1962
  1963
  1964
  1965
  1966

  

  https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/007-a-collection-of-books-and-manuscripts-the-property-of-a-gentleman/fleming-casino-royale-1953-first-edition-3?locale=en
  Lot 5
  FLEMING | Casino Royale, 1953, first edition
  Estimate £25,000-35,000
  
  Lot 13
  FLEMING | Live and Let Die, 1954, first edition
  Estimate £4,000-6,000
  
  Lot 18
  FLEMING | Moonraker, 1955, first edition
  Estimate £2,000-3,000
  
  
  Lot 21
  FLEMING | Diamonds are Forever, 1956, first edition
  Estimate £2,000-3,000
  
  Lot 26
  FLEMING | From Russia, With Love, 1957, first edition
  Estimate £2,000-3,000
  
  Lot 31
  FLEMING | Dr No, 1958, first edition
  Estimate £800-1,200
  
  Lot 38
  FLEMING | Goldfinger, 1959, first edition
  Estimate £700-1,000
  
  Lot 42
  FLEMING | For Your Eyes Only, 1960, first edition
  Estimate £300-500
  
  Lot 45
  FLEMING | Thunderball, 1961, first edition
  Estimate £400-600
  
  Lot 53
  FLEMING | The Spy Who Loved Me, 1962, first edition
  Estimate £300-500
  
  Lot 60
  FLEMING | On Her Majesty's Secret Service, 1963, first edition, the rare "B" binding
  Estimate £150-200
  
  Lot 64
  FLEMING | You Only Live Twice, 1964, first edition, first state
  Estimate £200-400
  
  Lot 69
  FLEMING | The Man with the Golden Gun, 1965, first edition, first state with gilt gun design
  Estimate £3,000-5,000
  
  Lot 80
  FLEMING | Octopussy and The Living Daylights, 1966, first edition
  Estimate £200-300
  

  

  FLEMING | Diamonds are Forever. Estimate £80,000-120,000.
  A highlight of the sale is Ian Fleming’s final typescript of the fourth Bond novel, Diamonds Are Forever (1956). Replete with last-minute revisions made by the author as he honed his work for publication, this working text provides a fascinating insight into Fleming’s creative process.

  
  Inscriptions
  
  The sale includes inscribed first editions of every James Bond book including inscriptions to personal friends and literary inspirations.
  
  Ian Fleming
  fleming | live and let die, 1954, first edition, presentation copy inscribed…
  Estimate: 50,000 – 70,000 GBP
  
  Ian Fleming
  fleming | goldfinger, 1959, first edition, presentation copy inscribed…
  Estimate: 40,000 – 60,000 GBP
  
  Ian Fleming
  fleming | the spy who loved me, 1962, first edition, presentation copy to r…
  Estimate: 35,000 – 50,000 GBP
  
  Ian Fleming
  fleming | from russia, with love, 1957, presentation copy inscribed to the …
  Estimate: 24,000 – 35,000 GBP
  
  From the Library of Ian Fleming
  
  Beyond Bond, a remarkable selection of books from Fleming’s own library also feature, including a copy of The Boy’s Own Annual, given to a ten-year old Fleming at Christmas and a fine presentation copy of close friend Raymond Chandler’s Playback.

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  October 29 Posts: 13,812

  October 29th
  
  1943: Margaret Nolan is born--Hampstead, London, England.
  (She dies 5 October 2020 at age 76-- London Borough of Camden, London, England.)

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

  
  James Bond girl Margaret Nolan has died aged 76.

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

  
  Margaret Nolan will always be remembered for her part in Goldfinger

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

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

  Edgar concluded his tribute with a personal note about working with Margaret last year.
  
  He wrote: "I worked with her last year as she plays a small role in Last Night In Soho.
  
  "She was so funny, sharp and, as you might imagine, full of the most amazing stories.
  
  "I’m so glad I got to know her. My heart goes out to her family and all that loved her. She will be much missed."
  
  Margaret's son, Oscar Deeks, confirmed that she passed away on October 5.
  
  She was born on October 29, 1943 in Somerset but grew up in London.
  
  Margaret began her career as a glamour model, going by the name Vicky Kennedy in the early ’60s, but switched back to her birth name once she began acting.
  
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  1974: Cecilie Thomsen is born--Bogø, Denmark.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 32 of 65 - "Scottish Mist" in Scotland.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Scottish Mist

  Season 1 - Episode 32
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807118/?ref_=ttep_ep32
  

  James and Gordo help their science teacher Prof. What to find his former colleague who is abducted by Spoiler so that Baron Von Skarin can learn the formula to his secret catalyst for clearer fuel.

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

  James Bond jr Episode 32 - Scottish Mist
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1995: Fox television airs The World of 007 with host Elizabeth Hurley.

  Opening excerpt
  

  1996: The Propellerheads and composer David Arnold record "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" for Tomorrow Never Dies. A remix is released in 1997, becoming the only top ten hit for the Propellerheads.

  

  
  2008: Quantum of Solace UK premieres at the Odeon Theater, Leicester Square, London.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2008: The Scotsman prints "A Quantum Leap" regarding the latest Bond film.

  

  A Quantum leap

  https://www.scotsman.com/news/a-quantum-leap-1-1144678
  Published: 18:38 Updated: 19:07 Wednesday 29 October 2008
  
  DANIEL CRAIG bounds into the room, his arm in a sling. "Damn, I was hoping you wouldn't notice," he says. Wound up like a coil from talking all day, he's eager to cut the crap when it comes to his interpretation of Bond. "I guenuinely just nicked a lot of stuff from Ian Fleming," he says. "His Bond is very psychological: he thinks, he's morally ambiguous, he's an assassin, he kills people for a living; at the same time he always gets his man and goes after the bad guys. But there's no deep and meaningful thing here. I don't approach it like some big dramatic piece."
  
  He's reluctant to claim any ownership over the character, though. "I think I'm only borrowing it, don't you? This is all great, but I think someone else is going to come along and hopefully do a better job than I've done. It's not mine. It's Ian Fleming's, it's the Broccolis' – I could say I'm the caretaker, but that's a really naff thing to say."
  
  Director Marc Forster also understands his relationship with Bond could be temporary. "If this film doesn't become a commercial success, I'm going to be on a very long vacation," laughs the German-born, Swiss-raised filmmaker.
  
  Craig and Forster probably don't have much to worry about, but such is the pressure of following up Casino Royale, the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed (albeit bafflingly so) Bond film to date, that even though they're holed up in five-star luxury at London's Dorchester Hotel before the world premiere of Quantum of Solace, they'd rather crack self-deprecating gags than pat themselves on the back.
  
  That's unsurprising, though. Before Bond, Forster was an art-house filmmaker in the enviable position of being able to make modestly budgeted pictures such as The Kite Runner, Monster's Ball and Finding Neverland with complete artistic freedom. It's little wonder, then, that he considers his move into the blockbuster arena something of a risk. According to producers Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli (the step-son and daughter of the late Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli), he took a lot of persuading, not least because when they approached him 18 months ago there was no script, no title, just Daniel Craig and a release date.
  
  "Yeah, that's true," says Forster. "It was only when I met Daniel that I was inspired enough to take it. I thought he was incredible. Then I got on a plane to Italy and I thought, what am I doing? Am I crazy? I started thinking maybe I should talk to Barbara and Michael and pull out because I was frightened. There was no script and suddenly I was scouting the world for Bond locations, going, OK, we could shoot here, here, here and here, and all I had was a release date in my head. It was intense."
  
  Nevertheless, he was soon buoyed by the realisation that doing action was not as difficult as "doing intense psychological scenes with actors". Which may be why, despite a CV that suggests he was brought on board to deliver a talkier, more character-driven Bond film, Forster has actually made the most action-packed installment to date. Kicking off just moments after the end of Casino Royale it barely stops for breath as 007 traverses the globe to find those responsible for the death of his lover Vesper Lynd. Indeed it's a film that cuts so ruthlessly to the chase it has already received flack for being a little too pared down, with rumours circulating that some of the performances – particularly Gemma Arterton's Bond girl, Agent Fields – are lying on a cutting-room floor somewhere.
  
  Not so, says Forster. Aside from a 45-second sequence involving Craig, everything that was scripted ended up in the movie. "I just wanted this to be a much shorter film. Casino Royale was way too long for my taste; that poker game was really slow, so I wanted to make this a really tight and fast film. It should be like a bullet."
  
  Still, even though Quantum of Solace is not the touchy-feely Bond film that was threatened, its makers make it sound as if they've shot a three-hankey-weepie. Ask Forster about Bond's relationship with M (played once again by Judi Dench) and he refers to 007 as an emotionally dysfunctional orphan in search of a parental figure. Get Broccoli on the subject of the film's relationship to Casino Royale and she expounds at length about how Lynd's betrayal of Bond in the previous film has left him broken-hearted and wondering if she ever really loved him. Blimey.
  
  It's a relief, then, when Craig finally bounds into the room, and a reminder that it is his bruising, brutal and brooding take on 007 that has really made Bond relevant again, especially in a cinematic landscape dominated by Jason Bourne. Bring up this comparison (which is even more pronounced this time out) to Forster, Wilson or Broccoli and you'll be treated to a weary, resigned acknowledgement that, yes, stylistically there is some overlap, especially in the use of handheld cameras to make the action more realistic and emotionally intense. But, says Wilson: "If you look at the character and the storylines they're really different. Bond has a kind of sophistication and a different approach."
  
  "Just having the Bond girls and the villains makes it different. There are certain things that are said in a Bond film that are iconic and you want to keep them in there," Forster says.
  
  A faster, more intense Bond is certainly preferable to another jump-the-shark moment such as the invisible car in Die Another Day. "That idea was based on real technology," protests Broccoli sheepishly.
  
  "Unfortunately it just looked a bit too science fiction-like when we executed it," Wilson chips in. "But that happens a lot in Bond films. Moonraker was another point where we went a bit too far and had to bring things back down to Earth with For Your Eyes Only. It's a constant cycle and if the Brosnan films got a little fanciful, these ones have given us the chance to strip them back again."

  Finally acquiring the rights to Casino Royale was actually the real motivation for the current reboot, says Wilson, though Craig reckons there was another good reason for starting again from scratch. "It's hard to believe, but there is a generation of people who don't know the Bond movies. They haven't watched them the way I watched them growing up, so just saying the lines and introducing the characters and expecting them to understand who these people are would have been the wrong thing to do. But I do think that means we can do anything in the next Bond movie. We can introduce Moneypenny and Q back into it, I think we've just got to get the best actors we can find, and ask them to do the best job."
  
  So, he'll definitely return as James Bond? "I don't know. I'd love to do another one. Maybe I'm just superstitious – or stupidly pessimistic. I just want to see how it goes and if I get the chance, I'll do it."

  • Quantum of Solace is in cinemas tomorrow. Read Alistair Harkness's full review of the film in tomorrow's Scotsman Review
  
  Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/a-quantum-leap-1-1144678

  
  

  2009: Puffin Books publishes Danger Society: The Young Bond Dossier by Charlie Higson, with the short story "A Hard Man to Kill".

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: Skyfall breaks existing UK box office records for a 007 opening weekend.
  2012: Sony Classical releases the Skyfall soundtrack in the UK, recorded at Abbey Road Studios, London. Thomas Newman's score is nominated for an Oscar and wins a BAFTA.
  
  2015: Spectre released in The Netherlands.
  2015: Screen Daily reports on an abandoned S.P.E.C.T.R.E. mission from 1984.

  

  James Bond's abandoned 'SPECTRE' mission from
  1984

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.screendaily.com/james-bonds-abandoned-spectre-mission-from-1984/5096117.article

  By Violet Acevedo29 October 2015

  
  Screen International ad from 1984 offers glimpse of what could have been a precursor to the latest Bond film.

  As Screen prepares to celebrate its 40th birthday, we have been busy trawling through the magazine’s archives in search of landmark moments from our history.
  
  This full-page ad from 1984, purchased by film producer Kevin McClory of Paradise Film Productions, reveals the company’s intentions to create a series of James Bond films - beginning with SPECTRE - stating that an important announcement is forthcoming.
  
  Evidently, the film never came to fruition, and the project is now consigned to Bond history.
  
  In 1965, Kevin McClory had helped develop the story for the third entry in the Bond franchise, Thunderball, which introduced arch villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld as the figurehead of evil organization SPECTRE.
  
  Following the film, a dispute arose over who owned the rights to those elements of the story, with a court eventually ruling after years of litigation that McClory was allowed to produce his own James Bond films.
  
  Following that decision, he created the ‘unofficial’ entry in the series Never Say Never Again (1983), featuring the one-time return of Sean Connery as 007.
  
  As shown by this advert in Screen, he clearly intended to follow up that film with multiple projects, of which SPECTRE would have been the first, but never managed to get them off the ground.
  
  In 2013, seven years after Kevin McClory passed away, the dispute was finally resolved, with MGM reaching a settlement with the late producer’s estate to take back the rights to Blofeld and SPECTRE.
  
  Now, the 2015 incarnation of SPECTRE, featuring the return of the titular organisation, is breaking records at the UK box office.
  
  However, if Kevin McClory had managed to garner more support for his future Bond projects, things could have been very different.

  2016: Inspired by Spectre, the Mexican government channels promotion of pre-Hispanic culture into a "Día de los Muertos" parade through Paseo de la Reforma and Centro Historico. 250,000 in attendance.

  

  

  Mexico City's James Bond-inspired Day
  of the Dead parade gets mixed reviews

  Thousands attend spectacle, but others bemoan changing face of
  festival traditionally marked by more intimately
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/29/day-of-the-dead-parade-james-bond-mexico-city
  David Agren in Mexico City @el_reportero
  Sun 30 Oct 2016 10.15 EDT

  Mexico City celebrates its first ever Day of the Dead parade

  Mexico City has held its first Day of the Dead parade, complete with floats, giant skeleton marionettes and more than 1,000 actors, dancers and acrobats in costumes.
  
  A tradition that normally takes place in private homes or at candle-lit cemetery sites was transformed this year by the silver screen – specifically the James Bond film Spectre.
  
  “Day of the Dead is always something in Mexico City that is celebrated, though in a more serious way,” Enrique de la Madrid, the country’s tourism secretary, told the Guardian. “It’s a deeply rooted tradition in Mexico, but what we decided to do is a festival.”
  
  The city government and Mexican tourism officials were inspired by parts of last year’s Bond film, which were filmed in Mexico City and featured 007 chasing a villain through a Day of the Dead celebration in the historical centre.
  
  The official parade on Saturday attracted thousands of people with its full spectacle of skulls and skeletons, oceans of marigolds and catrinas (stylised skeleton costumes depicting high-society figures).
  
  “It’s great that we can celebrate and remember our deceased loved ones,” said Jesús Arreola, 21, a brewery worker who was strolling along the parade route.
  
  Day of the Dead dates back to the Aztec period and celebrants believe the spirits of their deceased loved ones return for a visit. Families build altars adored with photographs, votive candles and items the deceased enjoyed such as food and drink – even tequila or mezcal.
  
  Day of the Dead has remained popular despite predictions the US import of Halloween would wipe it out.

  
  Women wear skeleton masks during a procession organized by sex workers to remember their
  deceased colleagues ahead of the Day of the Dead parade.
  Photograph: Ginnette Riquelme/Reuters

  But Saturday’s parade did not go down well with everyone. Some on social media pointed to it as another populist pitch from a local government famous for opening the world’s biggest ice rink, building urban beaches and having a fetish for setting world records such as taking the biggest ever selfie.
  
  “This is a cheap stunt,” tweeted Esteban Illades, editor of the magazine Nexos. “They film James Bond here and now we have the ‘traditional Day of the Dead parade’. Let’s see what happens when (the mayor) finishes reading The Da Vinci Code.”
  
  The parade came as Mexico approaches the 11th the year of its crackdown on drug cartels and organised crime, a conflict that has cost an estimated 150,000 lives.
  
  “More than 100,000 dead: decapitated, disappeared, buried in clandestine graves, thrown in garbage dumps, reduced to ashes, drowned in sewage canals, dead by hanging in the public plaza … Why do with minimising what should give us all chills?” wrote Alma Delia Murillo in the online publication Sin Embargo.
  
  Some see a big parade – even one inspired by 007 – as part of an evolution already under way in Mexico.
  
  Shawn Haley, a Canadian who lives in southern Oaxaca state, and studies Day of the Dead, said the tradition had been evolving since 2000, when he started seeing parades and processions. He predicted it would continue its transformation into a less spiritual occasion, especially in urban areas.
  
  “We are seeing the transition from a private family celebration with folks who truly believed the dead family members returned home to a much more community oriented event [which] has removed much of the sincere belief,” Haley said.
  
  “In the smaller villages, the private family celebration of the Day of the Dead goes on … and family is what keeps the Day of the Dead going.”

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2021: The Bird Museum's October Conservation Seminar Series hosts “Meet The Real James Bond”.

  

  

  The Bird Museum's October Conservation Seminar Series Fri Oct 29, 2021
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://allevents.in/online/the-bird-museums-october-conservation-seminar-series/10000176663724957

  The Bird Museum's October Conservation Seminar Series
  “Meet The Real James Bond” - 6:00pm - October 29th, 2021
  
  About this Event
  In 1952, Ian Fleming stole the name of a famous ornithologist and explorer named James Bond (1900-1989), the author of the trail-blazing Birds of the West Indies. This colorfully illustrated talk will focus on Bond, the Fleming connection, and some of the birds, bird eggs (including Harpy Eagle eggs from the WFVZ) and other species that Bond collected. There’ll be some 007 moments as well, in keeping with the new James Bond movie, No Time to Die.
  
  Please join us for an evening of history and intrigue with Jim Wright, the author of The Real James Bond, the acclaimed biography about the birdman who fell prey to the world’s most famous case of identity theft.
  
  The Wall Street Journal called it “slim and elegant -- like Bond himself."
  
  *Meeting information will be a Zoom Link on your Eventbrite digital ticket under: View Links, and will also appear at the bottom of your email ticket under: Additional Information
  
  Register with Zoom link for this event

  A long-time prize-winning journalist and former movie critic, Wright has written lavishly illustrated nature books about Central America’s largest rainforest, Pennsylvania’s legendary Hawk Mountain, and the New Jersey Meadowlands. He writes "The Bird Watcher" column for The Record and other USA Today newspapers in New Jersey.

  You can read Jim's Real James Bond blog here.
  
  You can order a signed copy of The Real James Bond, or order an unsigned copy, the ebook or audiobook from Amazon and other online sellers.

  

  2021: 007：无暇赴死 (007: Wúxiá fù sǐ ) released in Mainland China.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  October 30th
  
  1943: Maud Russell writes about Ian Fleming in her diary.

  

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

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/life/spies-affairs-james-bond-secret-diary-ian-flemings-wartime-mistress/

  Saturday 30 October, 1943
  
  Day in bed with cold in spite of four anti-catarrhal injections. Got up
  to have dinner with I. Talked about every kind of thing as usual:
  Admiralty, personalities, happenings, the funeral, love, death,
  marriage, houses, Tahiti – or any escape island – and the formidable
  future till after 12.

  

  
  1963: The Desert Sun prints a short article "Hero or Creator--James Bond? Nope, Only Ian Fleming."

  

  HERO OR CREATOR--
  James Bond? Nope,
  Only lan Fleming

  Desert Sun, Volume 37, Number 75, 30 October 1963 —
  https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19631030.2.34&e
  
  LONDON (UPI - As he stood there, bemused in Fleet Street, the tall man m the dark blue suit with cuffs on its sleeves did not look like secret agent James Bond, holder of; the rare double-cipher number 007, which entitles its bearer to kill in the performance of duty.
  
  His suit fitted well, too well in fact for even an extra-flat Beretta automatic in a chamois skin holster hidden under the armpit. His shoes were certainly hand-made but on close examination too soft in the toes to be steel-tipped (for kicking out in emergencies, naturally).
  
  His bow tie? Now that might have been whipped off and used for a garrote in the event of a sudden confrontation with an assassin from SMERSH A Soviet agency set up to eliminate counterspies or "double” agents. And the hard grey-blue eyes in the battered handsome face would probably not flinch from such a routine encounter (or, for that matter, a duel with cyanide guns, throwing knives or poisoned brass knuckles.)
  
  But this was definitely not James Bond for the good reason that it was lan Fleming, the British journalist who created a fictional secret agent and gained a world wide audience that includes President Kennedy.
  
  All Things Possible
  In the world Fleming has created with the skill of his pen all things are possible, all characters are believable at least for the moment no matter how bizarre. This is a tribute to the sure instinct of his writing and to a trick of weaving the improbable within a solid framework of solid, practical information.
  
  Some interpreters of the Fleming cult allege that Bond is the way he sees his mirror-image. He was a commander in the Royal Navy. So is Bond. He was engaged in a highly secret work during the war. Bond is an agent of the British Secret Service. They dress alike, insist on the same drinks, smoke the same cigarettes, buy their clothes in the same stores and frequent the same restaurants.
  
  With three homes, a wife who is one of London’s leading hostesses, one of the fastest private automobiles in Europe and all the luxuries that royalties can provide, Fleming is willing to let the public think what it wants as long as it continue* to buy his books and patronize the series of films now being made from them.
  
  Millions Sold
  The James Bond novels have sold more than 14 million copies and the first film. "Dr. No,” was a box office smash.
  
  The second, “From Russia With Love" has now opened to equally enthusiastic notices. Fleming approved the star who portrays Bond, Sean Connery. But they do not resemble each other in any way. Fleming’s nose looks as though he had started his career with a left hook in his face instead of a silver spoon in his mouth. It is not, to be tactful, film-star photogenic, although at 55, Fleming has rugged good looks of his own.
  
  Fleming was born to a member of parliament and a mother who was regarded as the reigning beauty of England. He had a typically upper-class education at Eton, which he disliked, and later Sandhurst Military Academy the West Point of Britain. From there he went to the universities of Munich and Geneva where he learned fluent German and French.
  
  Later in his career, as manager of the Moscow bureau of Reuters, he added fluent Russian.
  
  But along came the war and someone remembered that he was a linguist, widely traveled, a man of many interests from golf to gambling. This added up to an invitation to join naval intelligence.
  
  Much of his war work is still secret although he had a staff under him assigned to moving in with the advance troops to seize codes and special equipment. He insists that he has never had to draw from his personal experience for his plots but the contracts he made then must be invaluable when it comes to checking accuracy or possibilities.

  
  

  
  1973: Thomas Wright in The Gleaner calls Live and Let Die “the poorest of the lot so far, though there were some great moments during the speed-boat chase”. He dismisses the idea the film was “insulting to black people."
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 33 of 65 - "The Art of Evil" in Paris, France.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - The Art of Evil

  Season 1 - Episode 33
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807300/?ref_=tt_ep_nx

  Young Bond has to clear his name when the Chameleon uses his ability to frame him for the second museum robbery in Paris. At the same time, he has stop the Chameleon and his partner Lex Illusion from robbing the Mona Lisa and other priceless painting from the Louvre.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Jeffrey Scott ... (writer)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Alan Oppenheimer ... The Chameleon / Lex Illusion (voice)
  Jan Rabson ... Hocus / Pocus (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Kath Soucie ... Mimi Chaussée (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr Episode 33 - The Art of Evil
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  

  2008: The Guardian prints "For Your Ears Only", a rundown of Bond title song near-misses.

  

  For your ears only

  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/oct/31/james-bond-songs
  Jude Rogers | Thu 30 Oct 2008 20.01 EDT
  
  Amy Winehouse was lined up to sing the theme for Quantum
  of Solace, but it never happened. Jude Rogers looks down her
  gun-barrel at other tunes that nearly made the 007 title
  sequence

  
  The Bond girl that almost was: Amy Winehouse.
  Photograph: Dave Hogan/Getty

  Goldfinger
  Anthony Newley (1964)
  Shirley Bassey's gutsy performance nearly never was. Goldfinger's lyrics were co-written by Leslie Bricusse and singer Anthony Newley, and it was Newley - the Cockney pop impresario - who made the original recording. A light jazz version in which he delivers the lyrics in a sinister whisper was included on 1992's 30th-anniversary album, The Best of Bond, but Bassey's version, enhanced by composer John Barry's brassy arrangement, became the quintessential James Bond theme.
  
  Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/6b33qc

  Thunderball
  Johnny Cash (1965)
  Submitted on spec by Johnny Cash, this majestic country track paints Bond as a furious avenger, his arrival heralded by trumpets, female harmonies and urgent drums. The lyrics also refer to the nuclear bombs for which Bond was hunting in the film ("There's a rumble in the sky and all the world can hear it call/ They shudder at the fury of the mighty Thunderball"). Also rejected was Barry and Bricusse's Mr Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, made as a demo by Bassey but recorded by Dionne Warwick. That was turned down at the last minute after producers decided the theme tune should share the film's title. Don Black, the lyricist who still works on Bond film soundtracks, was recruited, and Tom Jones's theme was written in a few days.
  
  Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/5qxatn

  You Only Live Twice
  Lorraine Chandler (1967)
  Discovered in the RCA vaults in the 1990s, Lorraine Chandler's northern soul floor-filler began life as a demo that the Detroit-born singer-songwriter submitted herself. It refers to the film's narrative, incorporating both Japanese scales, to reflect the film's location, and the bassline of Monty Norman's famous 007 theme. It was rejected in favour of Barry's song of the same name for Nancy Sinatra, and Chandler went on to write songs for the O'Jays and Eddie Parker.
  
  Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/5pmcr2

  The Man With the Golden Gun
  Alice Cooper (1974)
  Alice Cooper decided that he was Bond's next main man after Paul McCartney and Wings had international success with 1973's Live and Let Die. Cooper's track is four minutes of dirty glam-metal, and revels in the phallic imagery of the film title ("The man with the golden gun in his pocket/ The man with the golden gun in his case/ The man with the golden gun in your face"). Rejected out of hand by the studio, it appeared on Cooper's album Muscle of Love.
  
  Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/3vgdfb

  For Your Eyes Only
  Blondie (1981)
  Debbie Harry agreed to sing this film's theme tune, but pulled out after being told that the track would be written by Bill Conti, the composer of the Rocky soundtrack, rather than Blondie. Sheena Easton filled Harry's high heels, but Blondie wrote their own theme tune regardless, a strange, dramatic song that they included on their final album, The Hunter.
  
  Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/6nhtb7

  Never Say Never Again
  Phyllis Hyman (1983)
  Although Never Say Never Again was not an official Bond film, its original theme tune was also shelved late in the day. Stephen Forsyth wrote a smooth, sultry song, performed by American soul singer Phyllis Hyman. He claims it was dropped after the film's soundtrack composer, Michael Legrand, demanded that he also be allowed to write the title track. Forsyth finally released the track for free on the internet earlier this year, 13 years after Hyman committed suicide. Brazilian singer Lani Hall, the wife of Herb Alpert, sang the song that replaced it.
  
  Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/5r8bvb

  The Living Daylights
  The Pet Shop Boys (1987)
  After industry rumours that they were in the running to perform the next Bond theme, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe made a demo with a Bond-style guitar motif. But after Duran Duran's success with A View to a Kill, another pretty boy pop group, A-ha, were chosen to collaborate with Barry - an unpleasant process for both parties, which Barry later likened to "playing ping-pong with four balls". Tennant and Lowe later returned to their Bond demo, turning it into This Must Be the Place I Waited Years to Leave on their 1990 album, Behaviour.
  
  Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/5lx9k6

  License to Kill [sic]
  Vic Flick and Eric Clapton (1989)
  Vic Flick played lead guitar on Norman's original 007 theme, and had been contributing to Barry's Bond film soundtracks since the early 1960s. In 1989, Clapton had just released Journeyman, his successful album of guitar-and-vocal collaborations. Flick and Bond's two-man take on the theme was meant to reflect the grit of Timothy Dalton's Bond, but the producers thought differently. Elements of Flick's guitar work remain in the score, but Gladys Knight's Goldfinger homage took the opening credits.
  
  Hear it: Sorry, you can't.

  UPDATE:
  CONFIRMED! - Leaked Bond Theme Authenticated by Member of Licence to Kill Film's Production / 007 (3:19)
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt0AygxEshM
  
  ‘James Bond Theme’ by Eric Clapton (4:49)
  
  

  The Goldeneye
  Ace of Base (1995)
  Fresh from having international hits with All That She Wants and The Sign, Ace of Base were recruited to write and perform the theme for Pierce Brosnan's first Bond film. Their record company Arista pulled them from the project after the track was complete, because of fears the film would flop. The opposite happened: not only was it a critical and commercial success, but it rebooted the career of Tina Turner. Seven years later, the band reworked the song, renamed it The Juvenile, and released it on their 2002 album Da Capo.
  
  Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/66ms2t

  Tomorrow Never Dies
  Saint Etienne (1997)
  Swept up by the easy listening boom, Saint Etienne were one of many bands asked to compete for this Bond theme. Their exotica-flavoured song made much of Sarah Cracknell's breathy vocals, but it was rejected, as were entries by the Cardigans, Pulp and Marc Almond. Saint Etienne put theirs on their 1999 fanclub compilation, Built on Sand, and wrote in the liner notes that Pierce Brosnan had kept the master tape of their song, deeming it "seven times better than Sheryl Crow".
  
  Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/6ga5db

  The World Is Not Enough
  Straw (1999)
  Straw, a Bristol band formed by Mattie Bennett and Roger Power of the Blue Aeroplanes, were the bright hope for record label WEA in 1999. Their Bond theme nodded towards Radiohead's romantic ballads, but it was rejected in favour of David Arnold and Black's theme for Garbage. A specially recorded Scott Walker song for the closing credits was also dropped, though it did feature on the soundtrack album for the movie.
  
  Hear it: http://tinyurl.com/27vngo

  Quantum of Solace
  Amy Winehouse (2008)
  The theme tunes for Die Another Day and Casino Royale were agreed and recorded quickly, but the hunt for the latest Bond theme tune was protracted. Black and Arnold wrote a song for Quantum of Solace earlier this year, and Black says Amy Winehouse was approached to sing it, amid rumours she and Mark Ronson were also working on a track. Neither worked out.
  
  But Bond themes have changed now, as Black explains. "They're not about being seductive or provocative, with that whiff of the boudoir about them. They're also not as lyrically led." Black quite likes the new song by Jack White and Alicia Keys, but, like many other Bond fans, he's still a sucker for history. "I'm all for the music that makes you think of menace and drama, of spiders running across the pillow," he says. "And personally, I'd get Shirley Bassey to sing them all."
  
  Hear it: Sorry, you can't.

  
  2012: Skyfall premieres in Berlin, Germany.

  
  
  
  
  

  2015: In The Telegraph Tom reveals what it's like to be Blofeld.

  

  What it's like to live with the
  surname Blofeld

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/james-bond-spectre/real-blofeld-surname/

  
  Trying to take over the world since 1961: SPECTRE's leaders Franz Oberhauser and Ernst Stavro Blofeld
  Credit: EON/ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

  Tom Blofeld 30 October 2015 • 7:00am
  
  Sharing a surname with a supervillain hasn’t been easy for Tom Blofeld. Here, he reveals the genesis of 007’s arch-foe
  

  

  
  2015: Spectre released in Denmark and Sweden.
  2015: 007 Spectre released in Finland.
  2015: James Bond: Spectre released in Norway.
  
  2018: British auction house Fellows puts the last Rolex screen-worn by Bond up for sale.

  
  https://www.classicdriver.com/en/article/watches/rolex-submariner-may-or-may-not-grant-you-a-licence-kill
  

  
  https://www.fellows.co.uk/james_bond_watch

  A Licence To Kill

  A Rolex Submariner worn by 007 could fetch a whopping £90,000 at auction. The magnificent timepiece - worn by Timothy Dalton’s stunt double during the British spy thriller, Licence to Kill, in 1989 – is estimated at £60,000 - £90,000 in the upcoming Watch Sale on Tuesday 30th October.
  
  The Rolex featured in a memorable scene - a car chase where 007 is driving a tanker truck in Mexico. Shot almost entirely in Mexico and the US, Licence to Kill pits Britain’s favourite spy against a fierce drug lord.
  
  The watch comes with photos of the cast and crew on set in Mexico, as well as paperwork from Rolex. There is also a book detailing the making of the movie, a soundtrack album, and a certificate of authenticity from EON Productions (the film company).
  
  Licence to Kill was Timothy Dalton’s final appearance as 007 in the franchise, before Pierce Brosnan took over the role as the famous British spy.

  Additional information on provenance
  
  • Filming of this scene in Licence to Kill took place at two locations in Mexico. Timothy Dalton was in one location wearing the Submariner 16610 which can be seen in the film.
  • Rodney Pincott (Stand-by propman 2nd unit) was in the second location with the stunt doubles.
  • Because the stunt double needed to wear a watch during the scene, Pincott’s own watch was used. Pincott’s watch was very similar to the 16610 worn by Timothy Dalton in the film - apart from the date which is not displayed. It is Pincott’s Rolex Submariner 5513 that is being offered for sale.
  • The watch was badly damaged during the filming of the tanker scene and was sent to Rolex for a full service. We have the service paperwork, showing the correct serial reference, to prove this. We also have all of the original parts that Rolex replaced. Rolex performed the service free of charge.

  
  

  2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #12.
  Robert Carey, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND 007 #12

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532512011
  Cover A: Dave Johnson UPC: 725130275325 12011
  Cover B: Khoi Pham UPC: 725130275325 12021
  Cover C: Ben Caldwell UPC: 725130275325 12031
  Cover D: Robert Carey UPC: 725130275325 12041
  Writer: Greg Pak, Art: Robert Carey
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 10/30/2019

  "Goldfinger" concludes. From GREG PAK (Agents Of Atlas, Star Wars) and ROBERT CAREY (Aliens: Resistance).

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  https://icv2.com/gallery/44368/1
  

  
  2022: Last day for the James Bond Corn Maze at Richardson Adventure Farm, Spring Grove, Illinois.

  

  The Largest Corn Maze in the World Celebrates the 60th
  Anniversary of James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.neatorama.com/2022/09/28/The-Largest-Corn-Maze-in-the-World-Celebrates-the-60th-Anniversary-of-James-Bond/

  Main Blog > The Largest Corn Maze in the World Celebrates the 60th Anniversary of James Bond
  Wednesday, September 28, 2022
  
  The name is Corn, James Corn.
  
  The world's largest corn maze, located the Richardson Adventure Farm in Spring Grove, Illinois, is celebrating the 60th anniversary of Agent 007 of Her Majesty's Secret Service, James Bond.
  
  The maze displays the images of (almost) all James Bond actors - Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Sean Connery, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig - as well as other details from the movie, including the gun barrel, an Aston Martin DB5 car and the Casino de Monte-Carlo.
  
  The "James Corn" (hah) maze was created by planting corn using GPS-equipped tractors, which automatically dropped seeds according to certain patterns. After the seed sprouted into corn plants, they get a maze with 10 miles of trail winding through 28 acres of live corn.
  
  The James Bond corn maze is open to the public from September 10 to October 30, 2022. Besides getting lost in the maze, visitors can also participate in pumpkin picking, zip lines and other activities.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
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  October 31st
  
  1948: Michael Kitchen is born--Leicester, Leicestershire, England.
  
  1966: You Only Live Twice films the rocket launch near film's end.
  1968: 007: Sólo se vive dos veces released in Mexico.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  1974: David Dencik is born--Stockholm, Sweden.
  1976: US television premiere of Live and Let Die on ABC.

  An awesome Sunday.
  

  1977: 007: O Espião que me Amava released in Brazil.

  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 34 of 65 - "The Heartbreak Caper."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - The Heartbreak Caper

  Season 1 - Episode 34
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807301/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  Ms. Fortune uses the power of love on Mr. Milbanks so that she can get her hands on a new discovered painting of Da Shinci. But Bond and Tracy aren't fooled by her disguise.

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 34 - The Heartbreak Caper
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2006: MTV video premiere of "You Know My Name". Director Michael Haussman contrasts "the lives of a professional spy and a rock star".

  MTV's Making the Video 2006 - You Know My Name by Chris Cornell
  

  2008: Quantum of Solace released in the UK, Ireland, France, Sweden.

  
  
  
  

  2008: EU release of the video game Quantum of Solace.

  

  
  Trailer
  
  
  "When No One Loves You", Kerli
  
  
  Soundtrack
  

  2008: Science Daily proposes "Once Improbable James Bond Villains Now Close To Real Thing."

  

  Once Improbable James Bond Villains Now Close To Real
  Thing, Spy Researcher Says

  https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030075649.htm

  Date: October 31, 2008
  Source: University of Warwick
  Summary: Researchers say that the once improbable seeming villains in the Bond movies have become close to the real threats face faced by modern security services. One researcher said, "Remarkably, the Bond villains - including Dr No, Goldfinger and Blofeld - have always been post-Cold War figures. Bond's enemies are in fact very close the real enemies of the last two decades - part master criminal - part arms smuggler - part terrorist - part warlord."

  FULL STORY
  Professor Richard J. Aldrich, Professor of International Security at University of Warwick, who has just been awarded a £447,000 grant from UK's Art and Humanities Research Council to examine 'Landscapes of Secrecy' says that the once improbable seeming villains in the Bond movies have become close to the real threats face faced by modern security services.
  
  He says:

  "Throughout the Cold War, Bond's villains looked improbable, but now life imitates art. Indeed, in the early 1990s as the Cold War came to a sudden end, real MI6 officers worried about redundancy. Their boss, the real "M", Sir Colin McColl reassured them that the end of the Cold War would be followed by a Hot Peace. He was quite right. Within a few years they had joined with special forces to battle drug barons in South America and to track down war criminals in the former Yugoslavia."
  
  "Remarkably, the Bond villains - including Dr No, Goldfinger and Blofeld - have always been post-Cold War figures. Bond's enemies are in fact very close the real enemies of the last two decades - part master criminal - part arms smuggler - part terrorist - part warlord. They are always the miscreants of globalization, they endanger not only the security of single country, but the safety of the whole world. Like our modern enemies, they thrive on the gaps between sovereign states and thrive on secrecy."

  The full text of his comments now follows:

  "Spying is often thought of a Cold War phenomena. Ten years ago, in the film "Goldeneye", the stern figure of "M" told 007 that he was nothing more than a historical relic. Yet even before Ian Fleming's extraordinary hero first appeared on the screen, the world of James Bond was in fact looking forward to the twenty-first century - and not backwards."
  
  "Remarkably, the Bond villains - including Dr No, Goldfinger and Blofeld - have always been post-Cold War figures. Bond's enemies are in fact very close the real enemies of the last two decades - part master criminal - part arms smuggler - part terrorist - part warlord. They are always the miscreants of globalization, they endanger not only the security of single country, but the safety of the whole world. Like our modern enemies, they thrive on the gaps between sovereign states and thrive on secrecy."
  
  "Throughout the Cold War, Bond's villains looked improbable, but now life imitates art. Indeed, in the early 1990s as the Cold War came to a sudden end, real MI6 officers worried about redundancy. Their boss, the real "M", Sir Colin McColl reassured them that the end of the Cold War would be followed by a Hot Peace. He was quite right. Within a few years they had joined with special forces to battle drug barons in South America and to track down war criminals in the former Yugoslavia."
  
  "In "The Quantum of Solace" [sic] this forward-looking theme is continued. Counter-terrorism is already yesterday's business and instead Bond looks forward to the next decade when the enemies will be climate change, environmental hazard and global uncertainty. Here the villain - Dominic Greene - played by Mathieu Amalric - together with the mysterious Le Chiffre and Mr White - hide behind an organisation appropriately titled "Greene Planet". This looks like a foundation for global preservation and eco-friendly fundraising. In fact Greene Planet is a front for a secret criminal conspiracy and kleptocratic generals. 007 and the villain first come face to face at a lavish eco fund-raising cocktail party."
  
  "The role of film and fiction in shaping the public understanding of espionage is serious stuff. Curiously, although government secret services hide in shadows, the public somehow feels it knows more about them than the more mundane work-a-day civil service. This is because "007", together with television series such as "Spooks", "24" and the "X-Files" have allowed the viewer to spend literally hours inside their highly-secure buildings."
  
  "Programme-makers often go to obsessive lengths to get things right, albeit in reality "M"s office on the south bank of the Thames is a little less glitzy than the one portrayed in "Quantum of Solace". Secret services have come to recognise that film and fiction play an important part in the public understanding of intelligence work and the CIA has gone so far as to appoint a Hollywood liaison officer to assist film-makers whose wish to portray the agency. "
  
  "Many films, like "The Good Shepherd", are retrospective and are praised for their historical accuracy, and some, like "The Bourne Conspiracy", seek to capture the present. But few capture the wave of the future with the wonderful insight of Ian Fleming. His villains, drawn half a century ago, are truly the miscreants of globalisation. Far fetched in the 1960s, they are now the stuff of reality. We need James Bond more than ever."

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  University of Warwick. "Once Improbable James Bond Villains Now Close To Real Thing, Spy Researcher Says." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 31 October 2008. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030075649.htm>.

  
  2012: Skyfall released in Spain, Italy, The Netherlands, and The Philippines.
  2012: Skajfol released in Serbia.
  
  

  2020: Sir Thomas Sean Connery dies at age 90--The Bahamas.
  (Born 25 August 1930--Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Scotland.)

  

  Sean Connery, Oscar Winner and James Bond
  Star, Dies at 90

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://variety.com/2020/film/actors/sean-connery-dies-oscar-winner-and-james-bond-star-dead-at-90-1234820498/

  By Richard Natale, Manori Ravindran

  
  Sean Connery Dr No James Bond
  Courtesy Everett Collection

  Sean Connery, the Scottish-born actor who rocketed to fame as James Bond and became one of the franchise’s most popular and enduring international stars, has died. He was 90.
  
  Connery, long regarded as one of the best actors to have portrayed the iconic spy, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000 and marked his 90th birthday in August. His death was confirmed by his family, according to the BBC, which notes that the actor died in his sleep while in the Bahamas. It’s believed he had been unwell for some time. His last acting role had been in Stephen Norrington’s “The League of Extraordinary Gentleman” (2003).

  Connery was an audience favorite for more than 40 years and one of the screen’s most reliable and distinctive leading men. The actor was recently voted the best James Bond actor in an August Radio Times poll in the U.K. More than 14,000 voted and Connery claimed 56% of the vote. Global tributes poured in for Connery on Saturday following news of his death.
  
  In a statement, Bond producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said Connery “was and shall always be remembered as the original James Bond whose indelible entrance into cinema history began when he announced those unforgettable words, ‘The name’s Bond… James Bond.’
  
  “He revolutionized the world with his gritty and witty portrayal of the sexy and charismatic secret agent. He is undoubtedly largely responsible for the success of the film series and we shall be forever grateful to him,” said the producers.

  However, Connery — who made his debut in the first Bond film, “Dr. No” (1962) — also transcended Ian Fleming’s sexy Agent 007, and went on to distinguish himself with a long and mature career in such films as “The Wind and the Lion” (1975), “The Man Who Would Be King” (1975) and “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” (1989).
  
  His turn as a tough Irish cop in Depression-era Chicago in Brian De Palma’s “The Untouchables” (1987) brought him a supporting actor Oscar.
  
  Even as he entered his seventh decade, Connery’s star power remained so strong that he was constantly in demand and handsomely remunerated. In 1999 he was selected People magazine’s Sexiest Man of the Century, and from his 007 days to “Entrapment” (1999), opposite the much-younger Catherine Zeta-Jones, his screen roles more than justified the choice. Age seemed only to intensify his sex appeal and virility.
  
  In his early career, his physique was his main asset as he modeled and picked up acting jobs where he could. In 1956, he landed the role of a battered prizefighter in the BBC production of “Requiem for a Heavyweight.” Good notices brought him to the attention of the entertainment community, and his first film was “No Road Back,” a B crime movie in 1956. He seemed doomed to play the hunk to ageing leading ladies, as he did opposite Lana Turner in “Another Time, Another Place,” or roles that stressed his looks such as “Tarzan’s Great Adventure” in 1959.
  
  It was easy to dismiss him in films like “Darby O’Gill and the Little People,” but his Count Vronsky to Claire Bloom’s Anna Karenina on the BBC brought him some respect and the kind of attention needed to raise him to the top of the Daily Express’ poll of readers asked to suggest the ideal James Bond.

  After an interview with producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, he landed the role without a screen test, according to Saltzman. It was a controversial choice at the time, as Connery was an unknown outside Britain. But 1962’s “Dr. No,” the first of the Bond films, made him an international star.
  
  His stature grew with the ever more popular sequels “From Russia With Love,” “Goldfinger” and “Thunderball,” which arrived over the next four years. Bond gave Connery a license to earn; he was paid only $30,000 for “Dr. No” but $400,000 for Alfred Hitchcock’s “Marnie” and was soon getting $750,000 a film.
  
  His initial efforts to break out of the Bond mold, however, proved fruitless. Films like “A Fine Madness,” “Shalako” and “The Molly Maguires” were well-intentioned attempts that did nothing to shake Connery as Bond from the public consciousness. After 1967’s “You Only Live Twice,” he left the Bond franchise, but he was coaxed back for 1971’s “Diamonds Are Forever.” He looked old for the role, and the series seemed tired, so with that, he left Bond behind — though money would tempt him back once last time in 1983 for “Never Say Never Again.”

  
  He took a major misstep with sci-fi film “Zardoz,” and his career seemed to be foundering.
  

  
  Sean Connery and Luciana Paoluzzi filming “Thunderball” at Pinewood Studios in the U.K. (AP)

  
  But he bounced back in 1974 with a supporting role in “Murder on the Orient Express” and the following year with “The Wind and the Lion” and “The Man Who Would Be King,” two bold adventures featuring a mature, salt-and-pepper-bearded Connery. “Robin and Marian” (1976) opposite Audrey Hepburn was not a popular success, but critics embraced it, and the film cemented Connery’s reputation as a versatile, serious screen actor.
  
  In the late 1970s, there were more missteps such as “Meteor,” “A Bridge Too Far” and “Cuba.” But he scored in Terry Gilliam’s “Time Bandits.” It wasn’t until after his last Bond film that his standing as a box office star caught up to his critical reputation, thanks mostly to two huge worldwide hits: “Highlander,” which was not a big hit in the U.S., and “The Name of the Rose,” which was also much more popular abroad.
  
  BAFTA gave him a best actor award for “Name of the Rose,” and he received his Oscar for “The Untouchables.” After that, he was an instant greenlight any time he agreed to take a role even if some of them, such as “The Presidio,” and “Family Business,” were not so hot.
  
  Pairing Connery and Harrison Ford as father and son in the third “Indiana Jones” film was an inspired move, and the film grossed almost half a billion dollars worldwide.
  
  Meanwhile, “The Hunt for Red October,” in which Connery played a defecting Soviet sub captain, was also a major hit in 1990.
  
  By the 1990s, he was so popular that his uncredited cameo as King Richard in “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves” became one of the film’s highlights.
  
  He was still a force to contend with in the foreign market, as “Highlander 2,” “Medicine Man,” “Rising Sun,” “Just Cause” and “First Knight” proved over the next several years. His salary was regularly $5 million and above.

  One setback was a bout with throat cancer in the early 1990s, but Connery rebounded with a burst of activity. He starred with Nicolas Cage in 1996 actioner “The Rock,” playing a character that drew more than a little on his history as James Bond. In 2000, he essayed a very different role and received positive reviews for “Finding Forrester,” playing a reclusive writer who bonds with a young black basketball player who’s an aspiring scribe himself.
  
  Nevertheless, he continued with action roles well after his 70th birthday, playing the legendary adventurer Allan Quatermain in 2003’s “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.” He announced his retirement in 2005. He voiced a James Bond videogame the same year, and he subsequently did some other voice acting, playing the title character in the animated short “Sir Billi the Vet” and reprising the role in 2010 for “Sir Billi,” which he also exec produced.

  Thomas Sean Connery was born of Irish ancestry in the slums of Edinburgh on Aug. 25, 1930. Poverty robbed him of an education, and by his teens he’d left school and was working as an unskilled laborer.
  
  At 17, he was drafted into the Royal Navy, but he was discharged three years later due to a serious case of ulcers.
  
  He returned to Edinburgh and worked a variety of jobs, including as a lifeguard. He took up bodybuilding and placed third in the 1950 Mr. Universe competition.
  
  After moving to London, he learned of an opening in the chorus of “South Pacific.” He took a crash dancing and singing course and, surprisingly, landed the role, in which he stayed for 18 months. He was “hooked,” he said, but spent several years paying his dues in small repertory companies in and around London before anyone else became hooked on him.

  Connery was devoted to his native Scotland and used his stature to press for the re-establishment of a Scottish parliament. When the body reconvened in 1999, 296 years after its last meeting, Connery was invited to address the first session, where he was greeted with a thunderous ovation. The next year, when he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II — an honor he called “one of the proudest days of my life” — he asked that the investiture be performed in Edinburgh.
  
  Connery published his autobiography, Being a Scot, co-written with Murray Grigor, in 2008. Besides his knighthood and his Academy Award, he received many kudos over his long career, including the Kennedy Center Honors in 1999 and the American Film Institute’s lifetime achievement award in 2006.

  Connery was married to actress Diane Cilento from 1962-73. The couple divorced in 1973 and Cilento died in 2011. Connery is survived by his second wife, painter Micheline Roquebrune, whom he married in 1975; his son by Cilento, actor Jason Connery; and a grandson from Jason’s marriage to actress Mia Sara.
  

  
  
  
  

  

  
  2021: The Day of the Dead parade commences in Mexico City, the fourth since Spectre.
  
  
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  October 31 Posts: 13,812

  November 1st
  
  1945: Lani Hall is born--Chicago, Illinois.
  
  1964: The Sunday Gleaner reports Kingston cinemas still showing Dr. No as they anticipate Goldfinger.
  
  1982: Octopussy films OO7 playing dead at Kamal Khan’s fortress.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 35 of 65 - "Mindfield."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Mindfield

  Season 1 - Episode 35
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807109/?ref_=ttep_ep35
  

  Ms. Fortune kidnaps a female Warfield student who has telepathic ability for her latest plot.

  James Bond Jr Episode 35 - Mindfield
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1992: This month Marvel Comics releases James Bond Jr #11 "Indian Summer".

  Featuring Baron von Skarin.

  

  
  James Bond Jr Issue 11 Indian Summer
  http://readallcomics.com/james-bond-jr-011/

  
  1995: Esquire magazine prints Will Self's James Bond Story "License to Hug".

  

  LICENSE TO HUG
  In a smoke-free world of nonviolent solutions, 007
  must fight to the death just to stay unevolved

  November 1 1995 WILL SELF

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://classic.esquire.com/article/1995/11/1/license-to-hug

  
  As Bond watched the secretaries, he thought not of unbridled, unfettered carnality but of melanoma.
  
  Bond looked up, straight into the most captivating pair of eyes he had beheld for... at least two weeks.
  
  "I see, so Mister Secret Agent has become Mister Flop-on Merchant, has he?” exclaimed Blanche.
  
  License to Hug
  
  Fiction In a smoke-free world of nonviolent solutions, 007 must fight to the death just to stay unevolved
  
  WILL SELF
  
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  1995: This month Topps Comics releases James Bond 007 Goldeneye #0 as a limited edition preview at the James Bond Convention.

  

  James Bond 007 Goldeneye #0

  https://comicvine.gamespot.com/james-bond-007-goldeneye-0-special-james-bond-conv/4000-246134/
  
  James Bond 007 Goldeneye #0 - Special James Bond Convention Limited Preview Edition released by Topps Comics on November 1995.
  
  This preview issue had a limited edition run and was only given away at the James Bond Convention.
  
  Creators: Don McGregor, writer. Rick Magyar, artist.
  Characters: James Bond
  Locations: England, London, Monte Carlo, Russia

  

  

  KILLED IN ACTION — UNRELEASED BOND
  COMICS

  https://www.comicsroyale.com/

  Topps Comics’ GOLDENEYE AND OTHER CANCELLED
  ADVENTURES

  Originally released by American publisher Topps Comics as an adaptation of the 1995 EON Productions film of the same name, only one issue of a planned three-issue series made it to publication, along with a black-and-white teaser issue #00 for the convention circuit. Despite this, issues #2 and #3 were written, illustrated, inked, and lettered, and they are now here for your enjoyment! Adapted by writer Don McGregor, with art by Claude St. Aubin, inks by Rick Magyar, and covers painted by Brian Stelfreeze.
  
  Support your local comic shop and seek out back issues of GoldenEye #00 and #1 to complete the story, and for more James Bond action by Don McGregor, check out the Dark Horse/Acme Comics limited series James Bond 007: The Quasimodo Gambit!
  
  Also included in this gallery, unpublished art and issue synopses for Dark Horse’s James Bond 007: A Silent Armageddon, another story sadly cut short just when things started to get interesting.

  GoldenEye #2

  https://www.comicsroyale.com/goldeneyetopps-comics#/weite/
  Originally Published: Never released, intended to be published by Topps Comics as GoldenEye #2
  Writer: Don McGregor
  Artist: Claude St. Aubin
  Inks: Rick Magyar
  Cover Artist: Brian Stelfreeze
  
  Notes: Reportedly, the plan was to continue this series after the three-issue film adaptation as an ongoing James Bond 007 series. It’s a shame this never came to pass, but if you’d like to read more Bond work by Don McGregor then check out his three-issue limited series James Bond 007: The Quasimodo Gambit, published by Dark Horse/Acme Press.

  
  
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  GoldenEye #3

  https://www.comicsroyale.com/goldeneyetopps-comics#/schwane/
  Originally Published: Never released, intended to be published by Topps Comics as GoldenEye #3
  Writer: Don McGregor
  Artist: Claude St. Aubin
  Inks: Rick Magyar
  Cover Artist: Brian Stelfreeze
  
  Notes: Reportedly, the plan was to continue this series after the three-issue film adaptation as an ongoing James Bond 007 series. It’s a shame this never came to pass, but if you’d like to read more Bond work by Don McGregor then check out his three-issue limited series James Bond 007: The Quasimodo Gambit, published by Dark Horse/Acme Press.

  
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  1995: This month Berkley publishes the GoldenEye novelisation by John Gardner (from the screenplay by Michael France and Jeffrey Caine) in paperback.

  https://bookfrom.net/john-gardner/41223-bond_-_29_-_goldeneye.html

  

  1997: This month Hodder & Stoughton publishes the Tomorrow Never Dies novelisation by Raymond Benson (from the screenplay by Bruce Feirstein) in hardcover.

  

  TOMORROW NEVER DIES

  Pierce Brosnan stars again as
  James Bond in 007's most exciting
  screen adventure. The cars -- and
  motorcycles -- are fast, the women
  are fascinatingly seductive and
  Bond's enemy is the most deadly he
  has ever encountered.
  
  From the snowy Khyber Pass to the
  sultry South China Sea, TOMORROW
  NEVER DIES is a breathtaking all-
  action story that pits Bond -- and
  Britain -- against a power-mad global
  media mogul who is determined to
  destroy the world's peace.
  
  Partnered with a Chinese secret
  agent who also happens to be a
  stunningly beautiful woman, 007
  uncovers the secrets of a high-tech
  modern TV studio and the
  underwater wreck of a sabotaged
  warship. His objective: to prevent
  the outbreak of World War III. If he
  can stay alive for long enough . . .
  
  This is the story all Bond's fans
  have been waiting for, with all the
  action, the excitement and the
  glamour of the screen's bravest
  and most enthralling secret agent.

  Raymond Benson is the author of THE
  JAMES BOND BEDSIDE COMPANION, which
  was shortlisted for an Edgar Allan Poe
  Award for best biographical/critical
  word and is considered by 007 fans to
  be the definitive book on the world of
  James Bond. His is a director of the
  Ian Fleming Foundation and served as
  vice-president of the American James
  Bond 007 Fan Club for several years.
  Mr Benson is also the designer and
  writer of several award-winning
  interactive software products and
  spend over a decade in New York
  directing stage productions and
  composing music. He has taught film
  theory classes at the New School
  for Social Research in New York
  and interactive screenwriting at
  Columbia College in Chicago. Mr
  Benson is married, has one son and
  lives in the Chicago area. ZERO MINUS
  TEN, his first novel, is published by
  Hodder & Stoughton.

  
  

  
  1999: Garbage performs "The World Is Not Enough" on the Late Show with David Letterman.

  

  
  2002: 007 Ice Racer video game developed published by Vodafone, using the Die Another Day ice chase.

  

  

  007 Ice Racer

  https://jamesbond.fandom.com/wiki/007_Ice_Racer
  
  007 Ice Racer
  Game information:

  Developer(s): In-Fusio
  Publisher(s): Vodafone UK
  Designer(s): Marc Pestka
  Released: 1st November 2002
  Genre: Action-adventure, racing video game
  Mode(s): Single-player
  Platform(s): ExEn
  
  Preceded by: 007 Racing
  Followed by: Agent Under Fire

  

  
  2012: Skyfall released in Austria, Bolivia, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Croatia, Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Singapore, Slovenia, El Salvador, Thailand.
  2012: Skaifoli released in Georgia.
  2012: Operacija Skyfall released in Lithuania.

  
  

  2012: 007: Operación Skyfall released in Argentina, Chile, Peru and Uruguay.

  
  

  2012: 007: Координати Скайфолл (007: Skyfall Coordinates) released in Ukraine.

  
  
  

  
  2021: Author Jim Wright speaks to his book The Real James Bond at Hillsdale Library, New Jersey.

  

  Nov
  1
  The Real James Bond - Hillsdale Library

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://patch.com/new-jersey/westwood-hillsdale/calendar/event/20211101/1497442/the-real-james-bond-hillsdale-library

  Event Details

  • Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 7:00 PM
  • Hillsdale Library, 509 Hillsdale Avenue, Hillsdale, NJ, 07642
  • Event listing from Hillsdale Library: Monday, November 1 from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

  From the author Jim Wright:

  "Whatever happened to him actually outshines
  anything I’ve had my James Bond do."
  —Ian Fleming

  James Bond: author, ornithologist, marksman, and . . . identity-theft victim? When James Bond published his landmark book, Birds of the West Indies, he had no idea it would set in motion events that would link him to the most iconic spy in the Western world and turn his life upside down. Born into a wealthy family but cut off in his early twenties, James Bond took off to the West Indies in search of adventure. Armed with arsenic and a shotgun, he took months-long excursions to the Caribbean to collect material for his iconic book, Birds of the West Indies, navigating snake-infested swamps, sleeping in hammocks, and island-hopping on tramp steamers and primitive boats. Packed with archival photos, many never before published, and interviews with Bond's colleagues, here is the real story of the pipe-smoking, ruthless ornithologist who introduced the world to the exotic birds of the West Indies.

  https://www.realjamesbond.net/

  
  
  

  
  
  
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  November 2 Posts: 13,812

  November 2nd
  
  1961: Kathryn Dawn (K.D.) Lang is born--Consort, Alberta, Canada.
  
  1975: ABC-TV network premiere of You Only Live Twice.

  ABC Sunday Night Movie opening for Sean Connery's James Bond
  in "You Only Live Twice" premiere, 007! (1:16)
  
  

  

  James and the Rocket Factory: Remembering “You Only
  Live Twice” on its 50th Anniversary
  by Michael Coate

  https://thedigitalbits.com/columns/history-legacy-showmanship/you-only-live-twice-50th

  [John] Cork: I saw You Only Live Twice for the first time on November 2, 1975, its broadcast premiere on ABC. By that time, I had probably read the plot summary so many times in John Brosnan’s James Bond in the Cinema, I could all but storyboard the movie. I was just about to turn 14, had read all the Bond novels at least twice, and for me at that age, 007 could do no wrong. I was unfazed by bad matting of stock volcano footage, sub-par model work, ineptly switched footage of Soyuz and Gemini launches and plot holes the size of the Milky Way…. The first time I saw it on the big screen was at the NuArt in Los Angeles in September 1980. At that point, I found other things to love: Sean Connery’s deadpan delivery (“I like ships, and I used to be a sailor”), Blofeld’s cat completely freaking out when the explosions go off, and the amazing fight between Connery and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s grandfather (Peter Fanene Maivia) in Osato’s office. Everyone needs a sofa that can be used to batter one’s opponent!

  
  
  
  

  1976: The Spy Who Loved Me begins filming at Pinewood Studios and the Atlantis boardroom.
  
  2006: John Murray publishes Secret Servant: The Moneypenny Diaries by Kate Westbrook (Samantha Weinberg).

  
  
  
  

  
  2010: Activision releases GoldenEye 007 in North America.

  

  

  GoldenEye 007 (2010)

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1679586/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1
  

  Directed by Kate Saxon
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Bruce Feirstein
  Ian Fleming ... (characters) (uncredited)
  Ian Fleming ... (concept)
  Adam Foshko ... (dialogue)
  Bobby Johnson
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Daniel Craig ... James Bond (voice)
  Judi Dench ... M (voice)
  Rory Kinnear ... Bill Tanner (voice)
  Elliot Cowan ... Alec Trevelyan (voice)
  Kirsty Mitchell ... Natalya Simonova (voice)
  Kate Magowan ... Xenia Onatopp (voice)
  Laurentiu Possa ... General Ourumov (voice)
  Ed Stoppard ... Dimitri Mishkin (voice)
  Sónia Balacó ... Sgt. Garcia (voice)
  Alec Newman ... Valentin Dmitrovich Zukovsky (voice)
  Nathan Osgood ... Sky Briggs (voice)
  Adrian Schiller ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Al Nedjari ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Aleksandar Mikic ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Beatriz Romilly ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Daniel Curshen ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Slav Shumov ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Dhafer L'Abidine ... Additional Voices (voice) (as Dhaffer L'Abidine)
  Fintan McKeown ... Janus Soldier (voice)
  Jimmy Akingbola ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Jonathan Aris ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Louiza Patikas ... Club Patron (voice)
  Mark Monero ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Nicholas Boulton ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Nick Nevern ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Steffan Boje ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Stephane Cornicard ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Timothy Watson ... Janus Soldier (voice)
  Trevor White ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Velibor Topic ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Vincent Carmichael ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Georgina White ... Natalya
  
  Produced by Graham Hagmaier ... associate producer
  Mike Ward ... executive producer
  Music by David Arnold, Kevin Kiner
  Production Design by Robert Cowper
  Art Department Iain Harrison ... Senior Artist
  Visual Effects by Danny Duke ... Artist
  Rich Holleworth ... MoCap Animator
  Gareth Richards ... visual effects artist
  Stunts Ben Cooke ... stunt coordinator

  GoldenEye 007 - James Bond | intro sequence Nintendo
  

  
  2012: Skyfall released in Colombia. Ecuador, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Panama, and Turkey.
  2012: 007: Skyfall released in Estonia.
  2012: 007: Operación Skyfall released in Mexico. And Venezuela.

  

  2012: 007：空降危機 (007: Kōngjiàng wéijī; 007: Airborne Crisis) released in Taiwan.

  
  
  
  
  

  2012: Tử Địa Skyfall (Death Location Skyfall) released in Vietnam.
  
  2015: BBC News reports Spectre breaking box office records in the UK.

  

  Bond's Spectre breaks box
  office records

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34697604

  Published 2 November 2015

  
  Spectre is Daniel Craig's fourth stint as 007

  Spectre, the 24th James Bond adventure, has broken all-time box office records in nearly every market in which it has been released so far.
  

  2015: 007: Spectre premieres in Mexico.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2021: French Institute Allince Française CinéSalon presents eight career-defining films as Léa Seydoux: More Than a Bond Girl.

  

  CinéSalon Series
  Léa Seydoux: More Than a Bond Girl

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://fiaf.org/event_tag/2021-11-cs-lea-seydoux/

  November 2–December 20, 2021
  FIAF Florence Gould Hall & Online

  One of France’s most exciting young actresses, Léa Seydoux stars in two of this fall’s biggest US releases, the new James Bond film, No Time to Die, and Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch.
  
  In November & December, FIAF CinéSalon presents eight of her career-defining films in Léa Seydoux: More Than a Bond Girl.

  Léa Seydoux first came to prominence in Christophe Honoré’s 2008 The Beautiful Person, but she reached international stardom for her stunning performance in 2013’s Blue is the Warmest Color. For the first time ever in the history of the Cannes Film Festival, Léa Seydoux, with co-star Adèle Exarchopoulos and director Abdellatif Kechiche, received the Palme d’Or, a prize traditionally reserved for filmmakers. Since then, the rising star’s career has taken off with roles varying from Hollywood blockbusters, to lead parts in French and international independent cinema.
  
  As the Los Angeles Times writes, “With her singular combination of flintiness and fleshliness, Léa Seydoux is among the contemporary screen’s most compelling performers. She can bring whole lives into focus or wrap them in mystery with a glance or gesture”.
  
  The series includes an exclusive sneak preview of France, Bruno Dumont’s unexpected, unsettling new film about contemporary news media.
  

  

  2021: The Day of the Dead celebration in Mexico.

  

  

  Day of the Dead –
  November 2, 2021
  Mexico

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://nationaltoday.com/day-of-the-dead/

  Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, is a traditional Mexican holiday celebrated November 2. On this day, it is believed that the souls of the dead return to visit their living family members. Many people celebrate this day by visiting the graves of deceased loved ones and setting up altars with their favorite foods, drink, and photos.
  When is Day of the Dead 2021?
  
  The Day of the Dead is observed on November 2 each year. It follows on from All Hallows Eve on October 31 and The Day of the Children and All Saints Day on November 1.
  
  History of Day of the Dead
  The ancient indigenous people of Mexico have practiced rituals celebrating the lives of past ancestors for around 3,000 years. The celebration that is now known as Day of the Dead originally landed on the ninth month of the Aztec calendar and was observed for the entire month. In the 20th century, the month long festivities were condensed to 3 days called The Days of the Dead: Halloween on October 31, Day of the Innocents on November 1, and Day of the Dead on November 2.
  
  La Catrina is one of the most recognizable figures of Day of the Dead, a towering female skeleton with vibrant make up and a flamboyant feathery hat. The Lady of Death worshipped by the Aztecs protected their departed loved ones, guiding them through their final stages of the life and death cycles. La Catrina that we know today came to be in the early 1900s by controversial and political cartoonist José Guadalupe Posada. Artist and husband of Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, included José’s La Catrina in one of his murals which depicted 400 years of Mexican history. His mural, “Dreams of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Park”, includes himself and a young child holding hands with La Catrina, who is dressed in sophisticated garb and a fancy feathered hat.
  
  Plans for Day of the Dead are made throughout the year. Toys are offered to dead children and bottles of alcohol or jars of alote get offered to dead adults. Most families decorate their loved ones’ graves with ofrendas, which often includes marigolds. It’s said that these specific flowers attract the souls of the dead to the offerings, and the bright petals and strong scent guides the souls from the cemetery to their family’s home.

  Day of the Dead timeline
  
  October 29, 2016
  Bond Parade
  The 2015 James Bond movie- Spectre, featured a Day of the Dead
  parade in Mexico City, piquing public interest.
  
  October 31 annually
  Día de las Brujas
  Halloween in Mexico - Día de las Brujas, is the beginning of
  the Days of the Dead festivities.
  
  November 1 annually
  Día de los Inocentes
  The Day of the Little Angels, is specifically dedicated
  to people who died as children.
  
  November 2 annually
  Día de los Muertos
  The Day of the Dead is the final and most popular day
  of the three day long celebration.

  Traditions
  The main tradition for Day of the Dead sees families gather to honor and remember their loved ones who are no longer with us. Celebrated as a sacred and joyous occasion, there is plenty of food, lots of flowers, visits with family members and nostalgic stories about those who have died.

  

  
  2024: The Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City, Mexico.
  
  
  
  
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  November 3
  
  1933: John Barry Prendergast is born--York, North Yorkshire England.
  (He dies 30 January 2011 at age 77--Oyster Bay, New York.)

  

  John Barry obituary
  Composer most closely associated with the golden age of James Bond but whose scores ranged from Midnight Cowboy to Dances With Wolves

  https://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/jan/31/john-barry-obituary
  Adam Sweeting - Mon 31 Jan 2011 13.31 EST

  
  John Barry in the recording studio, 1965. Photograph: Dezo Hoffmann / Rex Features

  John Barry, who has died aged 77 following a heart attack, will always be associated with the golden age of James Bond, but though much of his most famous music was written to accompany the outlandish adventures of 007, his work covered a huge variety of moods and styles. Barry wrote epic, sweeping film scores for Zulu (1964), Born Free (1966) and Out of Africa (1985), introduced blues and jazz themes into The Chase (1966) and The Cotton Club (1984), and conceived the shivery, sinister music for The Ipcress File (1965). He even became something of a pop star in his own right.

  He was born John Barry Prendergast in York, where his father ran a chain of cinemas. His mother was a talented musician, but had abandoned the attempt to establish herself as a concert pianist. "My father had seven or eight cinemas, so I was brought up in the cinema," he recalled. "I remember my dad carrying me through the foyer of the Rialto in York and pushing the swing doors open at a matinee. I was looking at this big black-and-white mouse on the screen, and he'd taken me to see a Mickey Mouse cartoon."
  
  Barry cherished an early ambition to join the family business and become a projectionist, but the combination of film and music made a deep impression on him. He began taking piano lessons with Francis Jackson, master of the music at York Minster, and studied with the jazz arranger Bill Russo, who had worked with Stan Kenton's orchestra. His father was a jazz fan, and would present concerts by such stars as Kenton and Count Basie.
  
  After national service with the army, Barry formed his own jazz combo, the John Barry Seven, and scored a string of pop hits during the late 50s and early 60s, including Hit and Miss (the theme from TV's Juke Box Jury), Walk Don't Run and Black Stockings.
  
  Barry thrived on the feverish wave of creativity that made London the world's most fascinating city at the time. He socialised with Michael Caine and Terence Stamp, collaborated with the pop stars Adam Faith and Nina & Frederik, and guaranteed himself the attention of gossip columnists by marrying the actress Jane Birkin. In 1960 he was asked to write music for the Peter Sellers/Richard Todd vehicle Never Let Go and then for the Faith comedy Beat Girl.

  In 1962, he was signed up to work on the first Bond film, Dr No, although only as back-up to the composer Monty Norman, for a fee of £250. The official story is that Barry merely arranged Norman's famous James Bond Theme, and when Barry claimed in a Sunday Times interview many years later that he had written it himself, Norman successfully sued for libel and was awarded £30,000 in damages.
  
  Subsequently there was no such ambiguity, as Barry's scores for From Russia With Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965) became popular the world over. Such was the potency of the Bond mystique that Barry's soundtrack album for Goldfinger knocked the Beatles' A Hard Day's Night off the top of the American charts in 1964, and earned the composer his first gold disc. He scored 10 consecutive Bond films and decided he had had enough after The Living Daylights (1987) because "all the good books had been done". 

  In 1969, he scored John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy, one of the first movies to use a selection of pop songs on the soundtrack. It was a technique that would be copied by countless imitators. "That movie is still shown at the cinema school at UCLA as the epitome of how songs should be used in the movies," Barry said in 1997. "We only bought in a couple of songs, Everybody's Talkin', sung by Harry Nilsson, and a John Lennon song, and for the rest we got young songwriters to score the scenes with songs. The songs work because they were written for the movie."
  
  However, Barry always gave credit to the great classically influenced Hollywood film composers, such as Bernard Herrmann or Max Steiner, and echoes of their work would frequently bubble up in his own. Barry's music was used on the soundtracks of many other films – The Knack (1965), The Quiller Memorandum (1966), The Lion in Winter (1968), Murphy's War (1971), The Day of the Locust (1975), Raise the Titanic (1980), Body Heat (1981), Jagged Edge (1985), Chaplin (1992), Dances With Wolves (1990) and Indecent Proposal (1993) – and he was a natural choice to write the theme for the Roger Moore/Tony Curtis TV series, The Persuaders!
  
  He won five Oscars, including two for Born Free and one each for The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa and Dances With Wolves. He also won Bafta's Anthony Asquith award for The Lion in Winter, and a Grammy for Dances With Wolves. In 1998 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

  Barry had never needed a career boost, but during the 1990s he found himself being feted by a younger generation of artists, including David Arnold, who had stepped into the role of James Bond's personal composer for Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Arnold masterminded the Shaken and Stirred album in homage to Barry's Bond music, and commented that "for me the success of the Bond series was 50% Sean Connery and 50% John Barry". Barry was delighted by Arnold's enthusiasm. "I think Shaken and Stirred is terrific. David Arnold has kept all the essence of the originals, and he's cast it beautifully with all the different performers. It has a real freshness and rhythmic impetus, which sounds very now."

  A throat cancer scare in 1989 slowed Barry's work rate, but his ambition remained undimmed. In 1998 he released The Beyondness of Things, a "tone poem" unconnected to any film and which he presented as a concert piece. "It's amazing to work without film or without a director or producer," commented Barry, who was appointed OBE in 1999. "I love doing films, but it's been refreshing to work with such total freedom."
  
  It was rumoured that Beyondness … had been derived from his rejected score for The Horse Whisperer, and a certain sameness of mood could be discerned creeping into his compositions. Perhaps recognising the need for fresh stimulus, he signed up to collaborate with the lyricist Don Black and director Michael Attenborough on a stage musical version of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, which had a short run in London in 2004. "I don't mind people going on about my past as long as I've still got a future," said Barry, "and I've got plenty of things coming up."

  In 2006, Barry was executive producer on the album Here's to the Heroes by the Australian group the Ten Tenors. It featured several songs he had written with Black. The duo also wrote a new song, Our Time Is Now, for Shirley Bassey's 2009 album The Performance, their first for her since Diamonds Are Forever.

  Barry, who had lived in Oyster Bay, New York state, since 1980, is survived by his fourth wife Laurie, their son Jonpatrick, and three daughters, Susie, Sian and Kate.
  
  Eddi Fiegel writes:

  I wrote to John Barry in 1997 telling him I had been commissioned to write his biography. I heard nothing for months but then, just at the point when I had almost given up hope of a reply, I got a message on my answerphone saying, "This is John Barry. I'm in London working at Abbey Road studios. Why don't you come in and we can meet?"
  
  He immediately put me at ease with a dry, self-deprecating humour and extraordinary personal charm. A few days later we had the first of many epic lunches at his favourite London restaurant, Rules, in Covent Garden.
  
  He had an excellent memory and was a superb raconteur – a gift for a biographer. Like many artists he could also veer between insecurity and supreme confidence. When he arranged to play his first British concert in decades at the Albert Hall, he asked me: "Do you think people will come?"
  
  Another day, however, I mentioned to him that an electronic dance act had recently recorded what they described as a tribute to his television theme to The Persuaders! I played it to him, curious to know what he would make of it. He listened in silence. Then after a pause, he said: "It's not as good as The Persuaders!, is it?"

  • John Barry (John Barry Prendergast), composer and songwriter, born 3 November 1933; died 30 January 2011
  • The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Thursday 10 February 2011. In this article, we said that John Barry scored 10 consecutive Bond films; in fact he scored six consecutively, 11 in all. We quoted Barry as saying that the Midnight Cowboy soundtrack included a John Lennon song. It contained two songs by Elephants Memory, who worked with Lennon, but none written by him. Barry had a ruptured oesophagus in the late 80s, rather than a throat cancer scare. The film Beat Girl is not a comedy, although Halliwell's film guide describes it as risible melodrama.
  
  • This obituary was further amended on 24 February 2015. Earlier versions said that Barry was born Jonathan, rather than John, Barry Prendergast.

  

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  Music Department | Soundtrack | Composer

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  1936: Takao Saitō (斎藤 隆夫; Saitō Takao) is born--Wakayama Province, Japan.
  (He dies 24 September 2021 at age 84--Tokyo, Japan.)

  

  Takao Saito, Creator Of Golgo 13, Dies At 84

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://kotaku.com/takao-saito-creator-of-golgo-13-dies-at-84-1847765623

  Golgo 13 spawned anime, live-action movies, and six video games
  ByBrian Ashcraft | Published September 29, 2021

  
  Above is a still from the 1983 animated film Golgo 13: The Professional. It was the first animated movie based on the original publication.
  Screenshot: TMSアニメ公式チャンネル | Takao Saito

  On Wednesday, the editorial department of Big Comic announced that Takao Saito passed away on September 24 from pancreatic cancer. He was 84.
  
  Golgo 13 is the second-biggest-selling manga series of all time, between One Piece at number one and Dragon Ball at number three. It debuted in Big Comic in 1968 and has been in serialization ever since, making it the oldest manga in publication.
  
  When Saito was coming up in the late 1950s and early 60s, he and his cohorts took a stand against the term “manga”, which is commonly used to categorize Golgo 13. The word evoked cartoony cute characters, kid stuff, they argued. “Manga” was antithetical to Saito’s style.

  
  Takao Saito is the creator of the popular manga Golgo 13.
  Pictured is Takao Saito in a 2017 file photo.
  Photo: STR/JIJI PRESS/AFP (Getty Images)

  “My people hated that name, so we decided to call our work gekiga [literally ‘theatre-images’] to show that it was about drama,” Saito told The Financial Times in 2015. “So, no, from the very beginning I have never been a manga artist. What I produce is drama.”
  
  Gekiga was not aimed at children, but rather at adults, with adult themes and situations. The stories were gritty, sexy and violent. The characters were hard-nosed, like the assassin that made Saito famous. The audience was ready, and Golgo 13 was a smash hit at home. Exporting it seem like a no-brainer.
  
  Starting in the 1980s, Golgo 13 was translated into English—something that Saito was initially against, because even though the main character, also known as Duke Togo, was a modern, gun-toting hitman, he was deeply influenced by samurai.
  
  “That is why I was against the idea of introducing Golgo to foreign countries,” Saito told The Financial Times. “Just take as an example the timing of when he actually takes his shot. It evokes iaido [the martial art of drawing one’s sword and mimicking a deadly blow]. It is the same movement and the same shape. I love Japanese samurai stories and that is why, unconsciously, Golgo moves like a samurai. That is why I thought foreigners wouldn’t understand the story.”

  
  Golgo 13 is one of the biggest selling manga in history.
  Prior to animated feature, there had been two live-action films, including that starred Sonny Chiba.
  Screenshot: TMSアニメ公式チャンネル | Takao Saito

  According to Big Comic’s editors, Saito reportedly said, “Even without me, I want Golgo 13 to continue.” Originally, he did everything from the drawing to the writing, but his production company Saito Production was restructured so that his creation could continue after he was gone. Golgo 13 will remain in publication in accordance with Saito’s wishes, with his company and the editors of Big Comic working together on each new installment.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1948: Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie (Lulu) is born--Glasgow, Scotland.
  
  1957: Dolph Lundgren is born--Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
  
  1961: The Daily Cinema announce Sean Connery in the James Bond role.
  
  2002: "Die Another Day" charts in the UK at #3.

  

  2008: Casino Royale re-released in The Netherlands.
  
  2010: MGM files for bankruptcy.
  2011: EON Productions announces the start to filming for Skyfall at the Corinthia Hotel, London. Locations confirmed: London, Shanghai, Istanbul, Scotland. Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Ben Wishaw, Naomie Harris, Javier Bardem.

  
  
  

  2012: Heineken Global Duty Free (GDF) partners with Virgin Atlantic to introduce its 33cl James Bond edition bottle.

  

  Heineken Global Duty Free launches James Bond special
  range

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.moodiedavittreport.com/heineken-global-duty-free-launches-james-bond-special-range/

  by Dermot Davitt | [email protected] Source: ©The Moodie Report 29 October 2012
  
  How KLM is advertising the new campaign in its inflight brochure
  
  Heineken Global Duty Free (GDF) has launched a special 33cl James Bond edition to coincide with the launch of Skyfall, the latest film in the James Bond series.
  

  
  
  

  
  2020: Royal Mail issues a No Time To Die collectors sheet.

  
  Royal Mail

  James Bond No Time To Die Collector's Sheet

  https://shop.royalmail.com/james-bond-no-time-to-die-collectors-sheet
  Catalogue code AT122
  
  Ten First Class James Bond stamps alongside labels featuring images and key characters from the film.

  Description
  A dramatic image of James Bond’s iconic Aston Martin DB5, as featured in No Time To Die, is the backdrop to an action-packed souvenir.
  
  Ten First Class self-adhesive James Bond stamps from the original Q Branch Miniature Sheet, originally issued in March 2020, alongside labels featuring images and key characters from No Time To Die – including James Bond, Safin, Nomi and Paloma.

  

  
  2023: 38th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees include Sheryl Crow at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York City.

  
  
  

  
  2024: Godzilla Day.

  How to celebrate
  https://godzilla.com/blogs/news/godzilla-day-2024
  
  
  https://www.pinterest.com/pin/james-bond-vs-godzilla-by-leevancleefiii-on-deviantart--434315957788495416/
  
  
  https://www.godzillavangelists.com/listen-here/2018/5/3/minisode-2-james-bond-vs-godzilla
  
  
  Red Axes - James Bond Vs. Godzilla (Feat.Rami Fortis) [M.N.P] (5:51)
  
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  November 4 Posts: 13,812

  November 4th
  
  1964: Ian Fleming's will is proved.
  
  1972: Live and Let Die films OO7's boat crashing a wedding in the Louisiana bayou.
  1976: James Bond comic strip Nightbird ends its run in The Daily Express.
  (Started 2 June 1976. 3179-3312) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

  
  
  https://comicsgrinder.com/tag/yaroslav-horak/
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3

  Nattfågeln Dödligt Uppdrag För Bond!
  (Nightbird) Issue: #50 (1967+ series)
  
  
  Danish 1979 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no49-1979/

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

  
  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 36 of 65 - "Leonardo da Vinci's Vault" in Venice, Italy.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Leonardo da Vinci's Vault

  Season 1 - Episode 36
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807108/?ref_=ttep_ep36
  

  James Bond Jr. and his friends head to Venice when they find out that the museum that IQ went to visit got robbed by a mastermind named Maximillian Cortex who stole a newly discovered painting of Leonardo da Vinci, which has a map showing the location of his secret weapon hidden in secret vault under Venice.

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 36 - Leonardo da Vinci's Vault
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: The British GQ James Bond Special Edition features 6 covers.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2015: Spectre released in Belgium and Luxembourg.
  2015: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond #1 beginning the VARGR story arc.

  

  JAMES BOND #1

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513024181801011

  Cover A: Dom Reardon
  Writer: Warren Ellis
  Art: Jason Masters
  Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
  Publication Date: November 2015
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32 pages
  ON SALE DATE: November 4

  Beginning "VARGR", the first story in the ongoing James Bond comic series by best-selling writer Warren Ellis! James Bond returns to London after a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, to take up the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. But something evil is moving through the back streets of the city, and sinister plans are being laid for Bond in Berlin...
  
  In Stores November 4th in advance of the block buster movie on November 6th!
  Dynamite Entertainment is proud to launch the first James Bond comic book series in 20 years! "Ian Fleming's James Bond is an icon, and it's a delight to tell visual narratives with the original, brutal, damaged Bond of the books." - Warren Ellis

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  VARGR - 4 November 2015 - Jason Ellis
  VARGR was Dynamite Comics' first story arc in its series of James Bond comics, written by Warren Ellis and illustrated by Jason Masters. Published in six issues from 2015 to 2016, the first issue was released on 4th November 2015, coinciding with the arrival of the twenty-fourth James Bond film, Spectre. A hardcover collection of the first six issues of VARGR was later published on 21st June 2016.

  

  James Bond #1 - VARGR released by Dynamite Entertainment on November 2015.

  https://comicvine.gamespot.com/james-bond-1-vargr/4000-504958/
  Beginning “VARGR”, the first story in the ongoing James Bond comic series by best-selling writer Warren Ellis! James Bond returns to London after a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, to take up the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. But something evil is moving through the back streets of the city, and sinister plans are being laid for Bond in Berlin...

  List of covers and their creators:
  Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location
  
  A/Reg Regular Cover Dom Reardon 1
  B/Auth Blank Authentix Cover None 2
  C/RI 1:10 Retailer Incentive Cover Francesco Francavilla 3
  D/RI 1:20 Retailer Incentive Cover Stephen Mooney 4
  E/RI 1:30 Retailer Incentive Cover Dan Panosian 5
  F/RI 1:40 Retailer Incentive Cover Gabriel Hardman 6
  G/RI 1:50 Retailer Incentive Cover Glenn Fabry 7
  H/RI 1:60 Retailer Incentive Cover Jock 8
  I/LE Rare "Virgin Art" Edition Cover Glenn Fabry 9
  J/RE Retailer Shared Exclusive Variant Cover Jason Masters 10
  K/RE Black Cat Exclusive Variant Cover ? 21
  L/RE BAM!/2nd & Charles Exclusive Variant Cover Francesco Francavilla 19
  M/RE Heroes & Fantasies Exclusive Variant Cover Timothy Lim 18
  N/RE Madness Games & Comics Exclusive Variant Cover Aaron Campbell 17
  O/RE Maximum Comics Exclusive Variant Cover Dennis Calero 16
  P/RE Midtown Comics Exclusive Variant Cover Robert Hack 11
  Q/RE Midtown Comics Shared Variant Cover Jason Masters 12
  R/RE MyGeekBox.com Exclusive Variant Cover Ben Oliver 15
  S/RE Previews UK Exclusive Variant Cover ? 20
  T/RE Ssalefish Exclusive Variant Cover Dennis Calero 14
  U/RE Tate's Comics + Toys + More Exclusive Variant Cover Dennis Calero 13

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2015: The Peninsula Hong Kong hosts photographer Terry O'Neill's exhibition "All About Bond at The Peninsula".

  

  All About Bond at The Peninsula: MI6 agent as seen
  through the lens of Terry O’Neill

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.2luxury2.com/all-about-bond-at-the-peninsula-mi6-agent-as-seen-through-the-lens-of-terry-oneill-photographer-to-the-stars/

  Editorial Team on September 21, 2015
  
  Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig, and the most famous Bond Girls in the James Bond exhibition @ The Peninsula Hong Kong.
  
  The Peninsula Hong Kong pays tribute to James Bond with a unique photographic exhibition by iconic british photographer Terry O'Neill

  

  The whole world seems to be obliged to pay tribute to the world’s favourite spy. To whet appetites for the new Spectre film, which sees Daniel Craig return to play 007 for the fourth time, The Peninsula Hong Kong is the latest to announce top secret events and a unique photographic exhibition dedicated to James Bond.

  
  
  
  
  

  The Peninsula is hosting a spectacular VIP dinner and a high-profile exhibition by the renowned British photographer Terry O’Neill, who has the distinction of having shot five Bonds, from Sean Connery to Daniel Craig, more than 20 iconic “Bond Girls”, as well as Frank Sinatra, Elton John, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Audrey Hepburn and Faye Dunaway, to name a few of Hollywood’s elite. O’Neill will be the guest of honour at the VIP dinner, in addition to hosting an artist talk that day, charting his career as one of the leading celebrity photographers of the 20th century. The Peninsula is even giving guests the opportunity to emulate the iconic British spy’s opulent lifestyle with “A Bond-worthy Stay”.
  
  Guests will have the chance to trace the cinematic history of the dapper secret agent by visiting a curated exhibition of Terry O’Neill’s Bond photographs, which features unique images of Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig in the role, as well as a selection of the films’ most famous Bond Girls.

  
  
  

  The Peninsula Hong Kong - Terry O'Neill All About Bond at The Peninsula - MI6 agent as seen through the lens of Terry O’Neill, photographer to the stars
  
  A must-see for fans of 007, the exhibition will be on display at Gaddi’s and the hotel’s first-floor corridor exhibition space from 4 November to 10 December 2015, in tandem with a pop-up exhibition from 2 to 8 November 2015 at leading Hong Kong contemporary art gallery, The Cat Street Gallery, featuring signed editions of O’Neill’s iconic photographs. Jetting in to host a VIP “In Conversation with the Artist” talk in Felix on 4 November, O’Neill will offer insights into his impressive body of work and reveal the stories behind these arresting images.
  

  

  
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  himself the author of two James Bond novels –
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  November 5th
  
  1912: Paul Dehn is born--Manchester, England.
  (He dies 30 September 1976 at age 63--Chelsea, London, England.)

  

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

  Virginia Quarterly Review. 89 (1): 224–231
  ISSUE: Winter 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  Paul Dehn (I) (1912–1976)
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  Filmography

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

  

  
  1935: Christopher Hovelle Wood is born--Lambeth, London, England.
  (He dies 9 May 2015 at age 79--France.)

  

  Christopher Wood, writer - obituary

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11951112/Christopher-Wood-writer-obituary.html

  Author of the risqué Confessions novels who armed James Bond with wit and
  humour in Moonraker
  5:47PM BST 23 Oct 2015

  
  Christopher Wood

  Christopher Wood, who has died aged 79, was an advertising executive turned writer whose oeuvre included literary fiction, historical novels and the screenplays for the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).
  
  “One of the keys of writing a Bond movie,” he said, “is to do the same thing, just differently.” It was, however, his Confessions series of humorous erotic novels, written during the 1970s under the name “Timothy Lea” and presented as Lea’s real experiences, which proved his richest seam. “Timothy” recalls his amorous encounters while on a variety of jobs, and his improbable success rate as window cleaner, driving instructor or plumber made the books a publishing phenomenon.

  Wood took as his inspiration the tall tales he heard in his youth while working as a mason’s mate and part-time postman. “These stories were prolific,” he said. “Even one of the – to my eyes – singularly uncharismatic workers had apparently been invited to indulge in carnal capers after a glass of lemonade one hot summer afternoon near Guildford.” Most of the men’s claims, Wood recalled, involved a mature but seductive “posh bird”.

  
  Film poster for Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)

  The first in the series, Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1971), set the tone. “She has dyed hair, too much lipstick and a diabolical eyebrow pencil beauty spot that dates her a bit,” Timothy notes while eyeing up a potential conquest. “If she is going down hill I can think of a few blokes who wouldn’t mind waiting for her at the bottom.”
  
  Henry Hitchings, author of Sorry! The English and their Manners, suggested that the first book proved “that we are not just bad at anything to do with the erotic life but also window cleaning”. The combination of soft pornography and bawdy comedy proved a hit, prompting 18 more titles – each one dashed off in five weeks – and four film adaptations, scripted by Wood, with Robin Askwith as the irrepressible Lea and Tony Booth (father of Cherie Blair) as Timothy’s oily brother-in-law.

  
  Film poster for Confessions of a Driving Instructor
  Photo: Rex Features

  Elegant and erudite, Wood was an unlikely author of erotica. One interviewer was taken aback by his tweed jacket and received pronunciation. Yet, when the series was republished in 2013, Wood remained unapologetic about the books’ racy content. “They were funny then, and they are funny now,” he insisted. “They are full of clever alliteration, onomatopoeia, metaphors and similes.” In later life he observed that Fifty Shades of Grey made his Confessions books “seem like Aristotle”.
  
  Christopher Hovelle Wood was born on November 5 1935 in Lambeth, south London. During the Blitz his parents sent him away to Norwich where he became a pupil at the Edward VI Grammar School. He later returned to London to attend King’s College Junior School.
  
  He read Economics and Law at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and after graduating in 1960 had a spell working in Cameroon, where he took part in the administration of the UN plebiscite of 1961. He did his National Service in Cyprus during the Eoka crisis.
  
  By the end of the 1960s Wood was back in London managing brands for the advertising agency Masius Wynne-Williams. He used his daily journey from Royston in Hertfordshire to write fiction. His first two novels, both in the comical-realist vein of Evelyn Waugh, drew on his experience in Cameroon (Make it Happen to Me, 1969) and Cyprus ('Terrible Hard’, Says Alice, 1970). Although well reviewed, neither sold well. He then pitched the idea of a sex journal written in the hand of a Cockney chancer, and he “could almost see the pound signs in my publisher’s eyes”.

  In 1976 he wrote the comedy film Seven Nights in Japan (1976, starring Michael York) for the director Lewis Gilbert, with whom he shared an agent. Gilbert’s next project was The Spy Who Loved Me, and he brought Wood on board. “I just wanted to do a good job for everybody,” Wood said, describing their producer, Cubby Broccoli, as a generous employer: “Everybody on the movie lived in style.” His approach to the script, writing with Richard Maibaum, fitted the Roger Moore era in which Bond was more of a lover than a killer.

  
  Wood, centre, looking up at Richard Kiel as he greets Prince Philip
  at the premiere of Moonraker in 1979
  Photo: Rex Features

  Wood returned to the franchise two years later as the sole writer on Moonraker. “It seemed to me that we were copying Star Wars,” he recalled. “I also found the idea of space slow in filmic terms. It is difficult to rush around in an astronaut’s suit. Did I tell Cubby that his idea sucked? No.”
  
  As Ian Fleming had sold only the titles to his books, not the content, Wood was commissioned to “novelise” his screenplays for tie-in paperbacks. “Mr Wood has bravely tackled his formidable task,” Kingsley Amis wrote in the New Statesman, “that of turning a typical late Bond film, which must be basically facetious, into a novel after Ian Fleming, which must be basically serious.”

  
  Film poster for Moonraker (1979)
  Photo: Rex

  In the early 1980s Wood published A Dove Against Death (1983), a Boy’s Own tale set in Africa during the First World War. In all his writing there was a sense of fun and a keen intelligence. William Boyd, who wrote the Bond sequel Solo, described Wood as “one of the most quick-witted, wittiest men I have ever met – up there with Gore Vidal”.

  Wood’s other projects include two novels involving the adventurer John Adam (“deadlier than Kung Fu, lustier than Flashman”), the Rosie Dixon series of novels, sex comedies this time from a female perspective , and the screenplay for Remo Williams: Unarmed and Dangerous (1985), an action film directed by another Bond veteran, Guy Hamilton.

  Latterly he lived in France, where he was occasionally asked to comment on Timothy Lea and James Bond. “I miss the lightness of touch of the old Bonds,” he told one reporter. In 2013 Harper Collins republished the Confessions books.

  Christopher Wood married Jane Patrick in 1962; the marriage was dissolved. He is survived by their son and daughter; another son predeceased him.
  
  Although he died in May, his death only became widely known earlier this month when Sir Roger Moore published the news on Twitter, saying: “He wrote two of my best.”
  
  Christopher Wood, born November 5 1935, died May 9 2015

  

  Christopher Wood (I) (1935–2015)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0228970/?ref_=nv_sr_3?ref_=nv_sr_3
  
  Filmography

  Writer (16 credits)
  
  2000 Dangerous Curves
  
  1999 Stray Bullet (writer)
  1997 Eruption
  1996 The Unspeakable (TV Movie)
  1991 James Bond Jr. (TV Series) (character Jaws - uncredited)
  
  1988 Steal the Sky (TV Movie) (written by)
  1985 Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (written by)
  
  1979 Lovely Couple (TV Series) (writer - 13 episodes)
  - Wedding Bells (1979) ... (writer)
  - Just the Job (1979) ... (writer)
  - Jealousy (1979) ... (writer)
  - Dirty Weekend (1979) ... (writer)
  - Australia Calling (1979) ... (writer)
  - Hospital Corners (1979) ... (writer)
  - The Cup and the Lip (1979) ... (writer)
  - Home Sweet Home (1979) ... (writer)
  - Future Prospects (1979) ... (writer)
  - Cuckoo in the Nest (1979) ... (writer)
  - Change Partners (1979) ... (writer)
  - The Engagement Party (1979) ... (writer)
  - Come Fly with Me (1979) ... (writer)
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  1979 Moonraker (screenplay)
  1978 Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (novel - as Rosie Dixon) / (screenplay)
  1977 Confessions of a Summer Camp Councillor (novel - as Timothy Lea) / (screenplay)
  1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (screenplay)
  1976 Seven Nights in Japan (screenplay)
  1976 Confessions of a Driving Instructor (novel - as Timothy Lea) / (screenplay)
  1975 Confessions of a Pop Performer (novel "Confessions from the Pop Scene" - as Timothy Lea) / (screenplay)
  1974 Confessions of a Window Cleaner (novel - as Timothy Lea) / (screenplay)

  
  
  
  

  
  1964: Famke Janssen is born--Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.
  
  1977: James Bond comic strip Ape of Diamonds begins its run in The Daily Express.
  (November 5, 1976 - January 22, 1977. 3313-3437) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3

  Dödligt Kommando
  ("Fatal Command" -
  Ape Of Diamonds)
  

  
  Danish 1979 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-no48-1979/

  James Bond Agent 007 no. 48:
  “Ape of Diamonds” (1979)
  "Dødelig kommando"
  [=Deadly Command]
  [Note: The front page states the title as "Dødbringende magt", meaning "Deadly force"]
  
  

  
  1987 A View to a Kill US premier on ABC-TV's Thursday Night Movie.

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  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 37 of 65 - "Far Out West" in South Dakota.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Far Out West

  Season 1 - Episode 37
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807101/?ref_=ttep_ep37
  

  James Bond Jr. helps Mr. Mitchell find his missing brother when they arrive at his ranch in South Dakota.

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

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• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 4 Posts: 13,812

  2007: A writer's strike begins today and lasts until 12 February 2008. (Paul Haggis turns in his Quantum of Solace script two hours before its start.)
  2008: Quantum of Solace released in Belgium, Switzerland, China, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.
  2008: 콴텀 오브 솔라스 (Kwan-tum oh-beu sole-lah-seu) released in the Republic of Korea.

  
  

  
  2010: Refinanced and under the control of Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum, MGM announces Peter Jackson's production of "The Hobbit" and the November 2012 release of BOND 23.
  2010: Activision releases James Bond: Blood Stone in Europe.

  

  James Bond 007: Blood Stone

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.wikiwand.com/en/James_Bond_007:_Blood_Stone

  Connected to: Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 Nintendo DS
  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Developer(s) Bizarre Creations
  n-Space (Nintendo DS)
  Publisher(s) Activision
  Writer(s) Bruce Feirstein
  Composer(s) Richard Jacques
  Series James Bond video games
  Platform(s) Microsoft Windows | Nintendo DS | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360
  Release

  • NA: 2 November 2010
  • AU: 3 November 2010
  • EU: 5 November 2010

  Genre(s) Third-person shooter
  Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

  James Bond 007: Blood Stone is a third-person shooter video game, developed by Bizarre Creations and published by Activision for the Microsoft Windows, Nintendo DS, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms. It is the 24th game in the James Bond series and is the first game since James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing to have an original story. The game was confirmed by Activision on 16 July 2010. The game was released on 2 November 2010 in North America and released on 5 November 2010 in Europe. Activision's remake of GoldenEye 007 for the Wii and DS was released on the same day respectively in each region. Blood Stone features the voices and likenesses of Daniel Craig, Judi Dench, and Joss Stone. Blood Stone was the final game developed by Bizarre Creations before it closed on 18 February 2011.
  
  A sequel, developed by Raven Software, was reportedly planned but was ultimately scrapped due to Blood Stone's poor sales upon release.

  
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  2012: Film Music Magazine prints Daniel Schweiger's interview with Thomas Newman.

  

  

  Interview with Thomas Newman

  http://www.filmmusicmag.com/?p=10217
  By Daniel Schweiger • November 5, 2012
  
  As James Bond gun-barrels hell-bent into the 21st century with his 23rd film “Skyfall,” 007’s owners have continued to re-shape their iconic 50 year-old bread-and-Broccoli character into a spy who’s far more a part of a believable “Bourne” universe, as opposed the stylish wisecracker who duked it out with evil industrialists aboard super tankers and space stations. While that gallows humor is still very much part of Bond’s DNA, the character has achieved a real-world level of brute force and inner turmoil unheard of in his past incarnations. But even before the real world makeover that’s best been personified by Daniel Craig, 007’s music has strived to stay in tune with modern musical tastes. The soundtrack variations have included the positively relaxed jazz-action approach of John Barry, George Martin’s Afro-funk, the disco-style heroics of Marvin Hamlisch and Bill Conti, the appalling Euro beat of Eric Serra and most recently David Arnold’s electrifying mash up Barry’s now old-school orchestrations and his biggest fan’s rock-pop pulse.
  
  Now James Bond’s music has taken on board perhaps its most interesting agent provocateur by giving Thomas Newman a license to score. A composer who’s somehow managed to walk the Hollywood line between indie experimentalism and studio conformity, Newman has never lost the alt. edge that’s made him the most musically progressive member of his family’s film scoring dynasty, especially with such breakout scores as “Desperately Seeking Susan,” “The Lost Boys” and “The Rapture.” Yet his father Alfred’s robustly melodic symphonic spirit has very much flowed through Thomas’ bloodline in scores to “Little Women,” “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Good German.” But if there was one genre that Newman barely hit through the years, it’s been action, with recent scores for “The Adjustment Bureau” and “The Debt” showing off the rhythmic possibilities he might give a balls-out car chase, a fight atop a train or a gun battle inside a government building.

  Thanks to “Skyfall,” Thomas Newman gets to engage in all three, and many more action sequences, all with a particular debt to filmmaker Sam Mendes, whom the composer has worked before with scores like “American Beauty,” “The Road To Perdition” and “Jarhead.” The result of the confidence of a director who brings equally eccentric energy to his work has allowed Newman to engage in a crazy-quilt of his greatest hits for “Skyfall,” among them from the rock rhythms of “Erin Brockovich” the eerie orchestrations of “The Green Mile” and the lush romance of “Meet Joe Black,” with even “Finding Nemo’s” perky comedy thrown in for good measure. It’s a thoroughly engaging Newman mix tape, as uniquely heard for a Bond mission that starts big and ends relatively small. Even cooler yet, his “Skyfall” more than acknowledges the many of the composing styles that have come before, incorporating the famed theme, lush jazz swagger and Vic Flick guitar stylings in a way that will please both purists and Discman-wearing newcomers to the franchise. For a Bond that holds more surprises than most, Thomas Newman’s score is one of “Skyfall’s” most impressive, and wackiest weapons in a musical cannon that’s never been afraid to go for the shot.

  
  In your wildest dreams did you ever imagine you’d be scoring a big action movie, let alone a James Bond picture?
  I guess the answer to that would be ‘No.’ I don’t think I ever thought about it. Action scores speak with a muscularity and strength that had to be heard next to tire screeches and gunshots and things of that nature. So even though I enjoy action movies, it’s not like scoring an action movie was ever a thought of mine, especially because one’s personal voice was less likely to come out because of those kinds of requirements. I’d never really thought about doing a Bond movie until I heard that Sam Mendes was directing one. So I thought I’d be brave and give him a holler to say that I’d love to work on it with him if he would have me. But I also didn’t want to be pushy about it. And it turned out that Sam had already been thinking about calling me to see if we could make “Skyfall” happen together.

  

  Did Sam have to fight to get you the gig, especially as you didn’t have a lot of action movies on your resume?
  I don’t know. You’d have to ask him that. Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson loved working with David Arnold on the last several Bond scores, and wanted to make sure I was the right guy in their mind, and that they could get along with me. So they made sure to come to see me in Los Angeles before hiring me. I enjoyed meeting them, and that was about it.
  
  The Broccoli family has a legendary level of control over the franchise. How much of that did you feel during the scoring process, or did Sam keep you separate from it?
  
  Sam sheltered me up to the point of the recording sessions, which the Broccolis were present for. They were not shy to speak up. But in fairness to them and Sam, the communication was always through Sam in the recording environment.
  
  Did it always go smoothly with the Broccolis?
  I think it did go smoothly. They’re kind and good people. Obviously, they’re not going to stop until they get what they want, but they were never ferocious about it. They were always very respectful of me, even if they weren’t going to be shy about making sure I understood any issues they may have had.

  

  What has James Bond meant to you, and what do you think the responsibilities are of scoring such an iconic franchise?
  While I wasn’t a rabid fan of James Bond movies when growing up, I really loved watching them. Now there’s obviously a huge amount of expectation in terms of what a “James Bond score” is. Everybody has an opinion on Bond, and his music. But I really didn’t feel an obligation to meet up to these expectations. Or if I was going to defy them, I wanted to defy them in a way that was pleasing and compelling as opposed to making people feel that I was doing something different for it’s own sake.
  
  As one of Hollywood’s more experimental composers, how “far out” did you think you could go with “Skyfall’s” score?
  You have ideas, and you see if they fly. In the case of the action, there was so much going on sonically that I wondered how much space was left to hear the intricacy, and detail in the manner that I’ve scored films with before. So at the very least, I knew that sounds really needed to hit the subwoofers to really hit the audience physically. So I think I recognized that I’d have to be more extroverted with “Skyfall’s” score then maybe I’m used to being.
  
  While the musical voice is most definitely your own in “Skyfall,” you can still hear the styles that such past composers as John Barry and David Arnold brought to Bond. Did you want to make a point of capturing those past styles?

  

  It’s not like I set out to study the past Bond scores. I watched some of the movies, and had general notes and impressions about how the music was operating. But after that, I didn’t want to be too studious about it all. I thought that would be intimidating, and suppressing any ability I might have to be creative in my own right. But maybe butting up against those past scores kind of rubbed off on me a bit.
  
  Yet the main theme in the film is essentially the classic James Bond melody.
  I guess that’s appropriate, right? It’s a great, iconic and satisfying theme to so many people, especially the fans. I definitely wanted to use it. The issue was when and where, and Sam and I, with the help of Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson, talked about where we should evoke the Bond theme.

  

  The Adele theme song is only reflected in the cue “Komodo Dragon.” Did you want to incorporate it anywhere else in the score?
  
  Michael Wilson had asked where I was going to use the Adele song so that it didn’t appear as a kind of “one off” at the top of the movie. And the scene where he enters the Macau casino with his new, shaved appearance and tuxedo was a real moment of “Bond” swagger. The Adele tune has that quality to it too, so that seemed like a good place to reprieve the song.
  
  Did you have any interaction with Adele or the writers of the song?
  While I did not get to meet with Adele, I did with Paul Epworth, who was the co-writer and producer of the song, He really wanted to evoke the early Shirley Bassey arrangements with “Skyfall,” and talked to me about arranging the strings and brass to that effect But my task was already so huge and daunting that my orchestrator J.A.C. Redford, who’s a great composer in his own right, ended up doing the arrangements.

  

  The film you scored before “Skyfall” was “The Iron Lady,” which dealt with Margaret Thatcher’s imperious rule of England’s government. Do you think there are any similarities between her and M?
  That’s interesting. I guess there’s a certain stoic nature to English behavior, a kind of stiff upper lip. That was obvious in the case of Margaret Thatcher, and also in the case of M. Their music couldn’t be overly sentimental or emotional. And if they were being emotional, then the score had to allow for that without directly “speaking” for their feelings. I think that kind of character gives strength to the way I musically depicted them.
  
  Javier Bardem’s Silva is my favorite character in the film, especially because he’s just might be the craziest Bond villain the series has had. Do you think your naturally offbeat music is particularly well suited to him?
  You know, I never thought of it that way. There was so much quirkiness in Silva’s personal choice of music that it occurred to me that my sense of his character would be more wrapped up in his unfolding story.

  

  You’ve got a lush approach for the femme fatale character of Severine.
  That’s because I probably wanted to evoke as much of a John Barry’ish type of melody for her as I could find, which meant using a major-minor theme, something that had sexuality and danger as mixed with a certain level of satin loveliness.
  
  I think you’re one of the few composers to write a comedy cue for James Bond with “Close Shave.”
  That was a tough scene for Sam because we’re still figuring out what the Bond and his fellow agent Eve is. The scene’s dangerous, sexy and had a level of humor. I ended up doing many different versions of it because the cue kind of came late in late during our process. I’d spent some time on the podium refining a take on “Close Shave” that Sam was very high on. Or at least I thought he was until he rejected it a few minutes later!

  

  What didn’t work about your first “Close Shave?”
  I think my first approach, was a kind of classical in its sexiness, and Sam was wondering if the music was saying the wrong thing, or it was saying too much and tipped this kind of balance in what Bond and Eve’s relationship was.
  
  Was the rest of the score relatively easy? Or were there a lot of changes like that?
  There were tough moments and areas that needed to be re-examined, and in some cases re-written. But that’s no different then any other movie where something is accepted on a Monday and rejected on a Thursday.
  
  What do Sam’s sensibilities as a director bring to “Skyfall?”
  Sam’s great with character, obviously, and had a fundamental understanding of Bond. So I think it was a perfect storm of him really wanting to respect the character and the franchise while wanting to make the story more compelling, and more evolving.
  
  How do you think that “English” quality rubs off on the score?
  “Skyfall” is very much an English movie. I felt the same way when doing “The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” in a way, which is for me to think, “What’s a yank doing on a movie like this?” I was over in London for three and a half months on “Skyfall,” did nearly all of the writing over there. It was a really different experience for me in many ways to have an office at Abbey Road studios, composing morning, noon and night, and then to have the score performed there. The musicians are so fantastic as well in England. There’s a real sense of ensemble on the way the orchestra plays. It’s a great town musically.

  

  Were you ready for “Skyfall’s” rave reviews, some of which say that it’s the best Bond movie since “Goldfinger?”
  I always thought it was a good movie. I really enjoyed it when I first saw it. In terms of reviews and people liking it it’s really a wonderful thing to happen at the end of this arduous process.
  
  What kind of doors do you think that “Skyfall” is going to open up for you in terms of people who may have thought Thomas Newman couldn’t score an action film?
  I don’t know. I try not to think on that level. What’s fun is to think I can take action films on and handle them, that I can be chameleonic in a way. It’s always a great thing to defy expectations. It’s been such a high point in my career to work with Sam on this film. He tends to bring good work out of me. But then, he kind of expects it and won’t stop until he gets it. So it hurts, but it always rewards, especially with “Skyfall.”
  
  Do you think of “Skyfall” as your biggest score yet?
  
I never thought of it that way. What’s funny is how much visibility scoring a Bond film has. The Pixar movies I score like “Finding Nemo” and “Wall-E” become known when they’re completed, but typically not before they are completed. Me scoring “Skyfall” has become a much bigger deal then I would have thought.
  
  Interview transcribed by Peter Hackman

  2012: Skyfall released in Armenia.
  
  2015: Spectre released in Albania, Bahrain, Switzerland, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Israel, Italy, Kuwait, Lebanon, Republic of Macedonia, Peru, Singapore, and Thailand.
  2015: 007: Spectre released in Argentina and Mexico.
  2015: 007 Contra Spectre (007 Against Spectre) released in Brazil.

  

  2015: James Bond 007: Spectre released in Germany.
  2015: 007 Spectre: A Fantom visszatér (007 Spectre: The Phantom Returns) released in Hungary.

  

  2015: 007 Spectre released in Portugal.
  2015: James Bond: Spectre released in Slovakia.
  2015: 007：惡魔四伏 (Èmó sìfú, 007: Devil) released in Taiwan.

  
  

  2015: Спектра (Spektra, Spectra) released in Serbia.
  2015: 007: Спектр (007: Spectrum) released in Ukraine.

  
  
  
  

  
  2020: Geoffrey Dyson Palmer OBE dies at age 03--Lee Common, Buckinghamshire, England.
  (Born 4 June 1927--London, England.)

  

  Dame Judi Dench recalls how the late
  Geoffrey Palmer told her they wanted
  another actress for As Time Goes By
  during their first lunch meeting

  See the complete article here:
  

  By Georgia Simcox For Mailonline | Published: 04:17 EDT, 17 November 2020
  
  They were inseparable friends for almost 30 years.
  
  https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/11/17/08/35764394-8956833-image-a-2_1605602264379.jpg
  And Dame Judi Dench has revealed her collaboration with the late Geoffrey Palmer nearly didn't happen.
  
  In an emotional interview with this week's Radio Times just days after the comedian died aged 93, the actress, 85, recalled meeting her co-star for lunch to discuss As Time Goes By.
  
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  'He got us off to a good start': Dame Judi Dench, 85, has revealed her collaboration with the late Geoffrey Palmer nearly didn't happen
  
  She said: 'He got us off to a good start when he informed me that they'd wanted Jean Simmons for the part, but she'd declined!'

  Judi and Geoffrey starred in As Time Goes by from 1992 onwards, with Geoffrey playing Lionel Hardcastle.
  
  She paid tribute to her late friend, who died earlier this month, saying she couldn't have done the show with anyone else.

  Judi said: 'When you acted with him, you'd just feel very safe.

  https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/11/17/08/35764392-8956833-image-a-3_1605602269137.jpg
  Inseparable: Judi became lifelong friends with co-star Geoffrey, staying inseparable friends for almost 30 years

  'Geoffers was so sure on comedy that you could be pretty secure in knowing he would get you through it and make it funny.
  Emotional: The actress was speaking to the Radio Times in an emotional interview just days after Geoffrey's death

  https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/11/17/08/35764320-8956833-image-a-6_1605602284356.jpg
  Emotional: The actress was speaking to the Radio Times in an emotional interview just days after Geoffrey's death

  'I certainly couldn't have done As Time Goes By with anyone else.'
  
  Judi presented Palmer with an Oldie award in 2018, joking that he was 'the naughtiest man I ever had the pleasure to work with' and that the trophy should be for 'most promising newcomer'.
  
  The pair also starred in 1997's Mrs Brown and Tomorrow Never Dies, the James Bond blockbuster.
  
  Recalling how Geoffrey was a private man who gave few interviews, she said: 'He took acting very seriously, but he would sometimes say he would rather be fishing on a riverside in Scotland.'
  
  She continued: 'Geoffers was a terrific man and most remarkable friend and actor. I wouldn’t have missed a moment of our time together for the world.'
  
  Geoffrey's agent said on November 6: 'We regret to sadly announce that the actor Geoffrey Palmer died peacefully at home yesterday aged 93.'

  https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2020/11/17/08/35764408-8956833-image-a-4_1605602279308.jpg
  As Time Goes By: Judi and Geoffrey starred in As Time Goes by from 1992 onwards, with Geoffrey playing Lionel Hardcastle
  
  The veteran star, known for his hangdog features and distinctive voice, had parts in some of the nation's best-loved TV series and was once a staple on screens watched by millions.
  
  Younger viewers will remember his turn in the 2014 Paddington film where he played Head Geographer.
  
  Those longer in the tooth will remember him from the The Avengers and The Saint in the 1960s, and alongside Leonard Rossiter in The Rise And Fall of Reginald Perrin in the 1970s.
  
  He also starred in multiple episodes of Doctor Who, including the 1970 episode Doctor Who And The Silurians and 2007's Voyage Of The Damned.

  

  Geoffrey Palmer (I) (1927–2020)

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  2022: Wisconsin Public Radio assesses the ongoing legacy of Nintendo's GoldenEye 007.

  

  

  The ongoing legacy of Nintendo's GoldenEye 007

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  Alyse Knorr's Boss Fight Books entry on the N64 classic shares the story behind its paradigm-shifting place in videogame history
  By Adam Friedrich
  Air Date: Saturday, November 5, 2022, 11:00am
  
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  In 1995, the James Bond franchise was reeling. The producers hadn't made a movie in almost seven years, the biggest gap between any two Bond films. Their previous two entries — "License to Kill" and "The Living Daylights" — featuring Timothy Dalton as 007 had underwhelmed audiences and box offices alike. Furthermore, the Soviet Union had broken up, removing the villainous stakes of many of the movies.
  
  MGM Studios reset the table. They hired Pierce Brosnan to replace Dalton as Bond and inserted Dame Judi Dench as the first female M, head of the M16 intelligence service. These changes were meant to reflect a more modern Bond and to provide commentary on how the character would evolve.
  
  Additionally, MGM licensed the Bond rights for a videogame tie-in in hopes of boosting hype around the film. Japanese-based gaming giant, Nintendo, landed the rights and tasked one of their premiere game studios, Rare, to create it for their as yet unreleased console, the N64.

  "(Rare) wanted to turn down Nintendo's offer to give them the game and to develop it. They were afraid that it wouldn't go very well because games made in response to movies or games that followed the plot of movies tended to be notoriously bad, and so they just didn't want to bother with it," Alyce Knorr said.

  Knorr is the author of the Boss Fight Books entry GoldenEye 007, which outlines the shaky start, unlikely success and ultimate legacy of one of N64's greatest videogames.
  
  She told Wisconsin Public Radio's "BETA" that Rare thought so little of the opportunity, they turned the game creation over to a group of unseasoned developers.
  
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  November 6th
  
  1964: LIFE Magazine cover features a golden Shirley Eaton.

  
  

  1966: The New York Times says Toshiro Mifune declined the Tiger Tanaka role in You Only Live Twice, deferred to Tetsuro Tamba.
  
  1973: The Man With the Golden Gun films at the RMS Queen Elizabeth, Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.

  
  
  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 38 of 65 - "Avalanche Run" in Switzerland.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Avalanche Run

  Season 1 - Episode 38
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807093/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  Under instructions from S.C.U.M Lord, Jaws and Nick Nack hijack a train with James Bond Jr's friends on board and send it on a collision course for a nuclear power plant in S.C.U.M Lord's latest scheme to rob the evacuated cities of Switzerland.

  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 (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws / Mr.Slope (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

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  2008: Quantum of Solace released in Bahrain, Bolivia, Chile, Czech Republic, Greece, Hong Kong, Croatia, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Republic of Macedonia (Skopje), Malaysia, Netherlands, Oman, Qatar, Slovakia, Syria, Switzerland, and United Arab Emirates.
  2008: 007 Quantum of Solace released in Argentina and Portugal
  2008: James Bond Quantum of Solace released in Slovakia.
  2008: James Bond 007 - Ein Quantum Trost (James Bond 007: A Quantum of Comfort) released in Germany.

  
  
  

  2008: Kvantum sočutja (Quantum of Compassion) released in Slovenia.

  

  2008: Quantum shel nehama (Quantum of Comfort) released in Israel.
  2008: Zrno utehe (Grain of Consolation) released in Serbia.

  

  2008: Квант милосердия (Quantum Mercy) released in Russia.

  
  

  2008: 007: Квант милосердя (007: Quantum of Mercy) released in Ukraine.

  
  
  

  
  2008: BBC Audiobooks releases Ian Fleming's 'Quantum of Solace' on CD, collecting all the Bond short stories.

  

  
  2012: Thomas Newman's Skyfall soundtrack, recorded the London Abbey Road Studios, released in the US. It wins the BAFTA Award for Best Film Music, and is nominated for an Oscar.

  
  

  2014: Random House publishes Steven Cole's Young Bond novel Shoot to Kill.

  
  New Bond Theme – Young Bond: Shoot to Kill (4:48)
  
  I've been lucky enough to write four Young Bond novels, but always wanted to produce a Bond theme! So here is the theme from my first YB novel, Shoot to Kill.
  
  Credits:
  Song written by Steve Cole and Jason Loborik
  Vocals by Karen Casey
  Strings by Joni Fuller
  Guitars by Paul Grice
  
  
  
  

  2015: Thomas Newman's Spectre soundtrack, recorded the London Abbey Road Studios, released in the US.

  
  

  
  2015: Spectre released in Austria, Belarus, Canada, Spain, Hong Kong, Croatia, Indonesia, Iraq, Iceland, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Philippines, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Turkey, Venezuela, USA, and Vietnam.
  2015: 007: Spectre released in Estonia.
  2015: Спектър (Spectrum) released in Bulgaria.

  

  2015: Speqtri released in Georgia.
  2015: Spektras (Spectrum) released in Lithuania.
  2015: 007: Spektrs (007: Spectrum) released in Latvia.

  Latvia premiere 5 November for a 6 November general release.
  

  2015: 007: Спектр (007 : Spectrum) released in Russia.

  

  
  2017: Kätherose Derr (Karin Dor) dies at age 79--Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
  (Born 22 February 1938--Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.)

  

  Karin Dor obituary
  Actor best known as a Bond girl in You Only Live Twice

  https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/15/karin-dor-obituary
  Ronald Bergan | Wed 15 Nov 2017 06.43 EST

  
  Karin Dor as the seductive Spectre operative Helga Brandt, with Sean Connery as 007,
  in You Only Live Twice, 1967.
  Photograph: Allstar/United Artists

  No matter what roles she played in films, on stage or on television throughout the rest of her career, the German actor Karin Dor, who has died aged 79, was labelled a Bond girl. Her induction as a member of this exclusive group of beautiful women who have provided James Bond with a love interest came in You Only Live Twice (1967), in which she met a memorably grisly end.
  
  Dor played the seductive, titian-haired Helga Brandt, an operative of the criminal organisation Spectre ordered to kill 007 (Sean Connery), who has been conveniently tied up for her. “I’ve got you now,” she states ambivalently. “Well, enjoy yourself!” he replies. She slaps his face and threatens him with a surgical knife, which he wrestles from her, using it to cut the strap on her black dress.
  
  Helga expertly switches from being cold and calculating to passionately kissing Connery. She seems to have changed sides, though she makes a further attempt to kill Bond by trapping him in a booby-trapped plane, which she parachutes out of, before it crashes. When the super-villain Spectre boss Blofeld (Donald Pleasence) discovers that Bond has survived the crash, he activates a mechanism that dumps Helga into a tank filled with piranha fish, which eat her alive.

  
  Karin Dor with Alfred Hitchcock during the filming of the 1969 film Topaz.
  Photograph: Allstar/Universal

  Dor also fails to survive to the end of Alfred Hitchcock’s Topaz (1969). A rare bright spot in one of Hitchcock’s most anonymous films, she is Juanita de Cordoba, a dark-haired anti-Castro resistant, her German accent notwithstanding, known as the widow of a “hero of the revolution”, a description that enables her to work undercover. When her activities are discovered, she is shot by her revolutionary lover, providing the film with its best visual sequence. As Juanita collapses onto a marble floor, her deep purple dress spreads beneath her like a pool of blood.
  
  Surprisingly, these high-profile roles in two English language commercial successes did not help Dor to achieve further international recognition. However, she was hugely popular in Germany and Austria throughout the 1960s, mainly in escapist action movies loosely based on the thrillers of Edgar Wallace (called Krimis from the German Kriminalfilm), and the western adventures of Karl May, co-starring the dubbed ex-Tarzan Lex Barker, almost all of them directed by her first husband, Harald Reinl.
  
  Born Kätherose Derr in Wiesbaden, she studied acting and ballet at school and began in films as an extra. Her marriage at 18 to the Austrian director Reinl, 30 years her senior, gave her the chance to appear as a juvenile lead in numerous period melodramas and operettas such as The White Horse Inn (1960).
  
  Apart from the Wallace and May series, Dor was a favourite fräulein in distress in several horror movies with Barker as the hero, including The Invisible Doctor Mabuse (1962), The Face of Fu Manchu (1965) and The Torture Chamber of Doctor Sadism (1967), the last two starring Christopher Lee as an evil mastermind.
  
  In contrast to the range of the low-budget Krimis, horror spin-offs and German westerns, Dor starred as Brunhild in Reinl’s The Nibelungen, shown in two parts, Siegfried (1966) and Kriemhild’s Revenge (1967), an epic that required the use of 8,000 extras in one battle scene alone.
  
  Dor took fewer and fewer film roles from the 70s onwards, although she did appear regularly in series on German television.
  
  Her third husband, the stuntman George Robotham, died in 2007. Dor is survived by a son, the actor Andreas Renell, from her marriage to Reinl, which ended in divorce, as did her second marriage.
  
  • Karin Dor (Kätherose Derr), actor, born 22 February 1938; died 6 November 2017

  

  Karin Dor (1938–2017)

  
  Filmography

  Actress (74 credits)
  
  2015 Die abhandene Welt - Rosa
  1998-2011 Rosamunde Pilcher (TV Series) - Lady Claire Sherberton / Emily Stockton / Daisy
  - Herzensfragen (2011) ... Lady Claire Sherberton
  - Ruf der Vergangenheit (2000) ... Emily Stockton
  - Der Preis der Liebe (1998) ... Daisy
  2010 Das Traumschiff (TV Series) - Ellen Barner
  - Panama (2010) ... Ellen Barner
  - Indian Summer (2010) ... Ellen Barner
  
  2006 I Am the Other Woman - Frau Winter
  2004 Inga Lindström (TV Series) - Elinor Frödin
  - Sehnsucht nach Marielund (2004) ... Elinor Frödin
  2001 SOKO 5113 (TV Series) - Berenike Stassfurth
  - Ludwig der Letzte (2001) ... Berenike Stassfurth
  
  1994 My Friend, the Lipizzaner (TV Movie) - Louise
  1992-1993 Die große Freiheit (TV Series) - Jutta van Straaten
  - Van Straatens Verlobung (1993) ... Jutta van Straaten
  - Besuch aus Bremen (1992) ... Jutta van Straaten
  - Liebe, Krach und Phantasie (1992) ... Jutta van Straaten
  - Ein Mann erfüllt sich seine Träume (1992) ... Jutta van Straaten
  
  1987 Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown - Jetty
  1985 Gipfeltreffen (TV Movie) - Nadine
  1983 Der Lord und das Kätzchen (TV Movie)
  1980 Achtung Zoll! (TV Series) - Monika Gerber
  - Vanloo und der Gast aus Frankreich (1980) ... Monika Gerber
  
  1977 Dark Echoes - Lisa Bruekner
  1977 Four Against the Desert (TV Movie) - Karin
  1977 Women in Hospital - Claudias Mutter
  1977 Warhead - Liora
  1974 Only the Wind Knows the Answer - Nicole Monnier
  1974 Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies (TV Movie) - Regine Mangold
  1972 Liebe ist so selten - Die Krise einer Ehe (TV Short) - Schwester Ruth
  1971 Haie an Bord - Andrea Jacobs
  1970 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Maria Chernoff
  - The Target (1970) ... Maria Chernoff
  1970 Ironside (TV Series) - Jeanine Duvalier
  - Check, Mate, and Murder: Part 2 (1970) ... Jeanine Duvalier
  - Check, Mate and Murder: Part 1 (1970) ... Jeanine Duvalier
  1970 Assignment Terror - Maleva Kerstein
  
  1969 Topaz - Juanita de Cordoba
  1969 It Takes a Thief (TV Series) - Angela
  - The Three Virgins of Rome (1969) ... Angela
  1968 The Valley of Death - Mabel Kingsley
  1968 Dear Caroline - Isabelle de Loigny
  1967 The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism - Baroness Lilian von Brabant
  1967 You Only Live Twice - Helga Brandt
  1967 Die Nibelungen, Teil 2 - Kriemhilds Rache -Brunhilde
  1966 Die Nibelungen, Teil 1 - Siegfried - Brunhild
  1966 Target for Killing - Sandra Perkins
  1966 Killer's Carnival - Denise (Rio segment)
  1966 The Spy with Ten Faces - Helen Farheit
  1965 The Sinister Monk - Gwendolin
  1965 I Knew Her Well - Barbara, the lady friend of Adriana
  1965 Winnetou: The Last Shot (uncredited)
  1965 The Face of Fu Manchu - Maria Muller
  1965 The Last Tomahawk - Cora Munroe
  1965 Hotel der toten Gäste - Gilly Powell
  1964 Winnetou: The Red Gentleman - Ribanna
  1964 Room 13 - Denise
  1963 Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Witwe - Clarisse
  1963 The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle - Claridge Dorsett
  1963 Die weiße Spinne - Muriel Irvine
  1962 The Treasure of the Silver Lake - Ellen Patterson
  1962 Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett - Barbara Holstein
  1962 The Carpet of Horror - Ann Learner
  1962 The Invisible Dr. Mabuse - Liane Martin
  1962 The Bellboy and the Playgirls
  1961 Im schwarzen Rössl - Eva Lantz
  1961 Am Sonntag will mein Süsser mit mir segeln gehn - Georgie Hagen, die Sprachstudentin
  1961 The Forger of London - Jane Clifton, geb. Leith
  1961 Pichler's Books Are Not in Order - Anneliese
  1961 Der grüne Bogenschütze - Valerie Howett, geb. Bellamy
  1960 The White Horse Inn - Brigitte Giesecke
  1960 The Terrible People - Nora Sanders
  
  1959 That's No Way to Land a Man - Tessy
  1959 A Summer You Will Never Forget - Christine von Auffenberg
  1959 The Blue Sea and You - Helga Heidebrink
  1959 Skandal um Dodo - Helga, die Nichte
  1958 13 kleine Esel und der Sonnenhof - Monika
  1958 False Shame - Christa Riek
  1958 Sin Began with Eve - Dinah
  1957 Almenrausch und Edelweiß - Maresi Meier
  1957 Die Zwillinge vom Zillertal - Daniela Kleemann
  1957 Little Man on Top - Meike Brauns
  1956/I Santa Lucia - Manina
  1955 As Long as You Live - Pepita
  1954 Ihre große Prüfung - Elena Clausen
  1954 Der schweigende Engel (as Rose Dor)
  1954 Rosen-Resli (as Rose Dor)
  1954 Rosen aus dem Süden (as Kätherose Derr)
  1953 The Last Waltz - Extra (uncredited)

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  November 7th
  
  1924: Wolf Mankowitz is born--Bethnal Green, London, England.
  (He dies 20 May 1998 at age 73--County Cork, Ireland.)

  

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

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

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

  Mankowitz continued to write all the way until 1991, when he anounced he suffered from cancer and stepped away from the spotlight. Some MI5 files released in 2010 revealed that the famous screenwriter and playwright had been seen as a security risk by the secret service for roughly a decade after the Second World War due to his Russian roots, connections and the fact that his wife was once a member of the Communist Party, a suspicion that caused Mankowitz to unsuccessfully apply for several BBC positions during the fifties. He was ultimately allowed to join BBC on a three-week contract to translate and dub Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Bear’ for television, but not before BBC consulted the secret service first, concluding that translating Chekhov, despite Mankowitz’s obviously controversial background, failed to present any serious security risks for the country.
  
  Today we bring you a precious interview with Mr. Mankowitz published in the February, 1974 edition of the great Filmmakers Newsletter. The esteemed novelist and screenwriter talks about the differences between writing for the stage, film and literary audiences, about his greatest professional successes, the problems he faced throughout his career, the role of the writer both as someone who tries to illuminate and to entertain, and much more. It’s a wonderful and educational read we wholeheartedly recommend, especially if you want to learn more about the craft from the mouth of one of Britain’s best. You can download the PDF version here.
  https://www.dropbox.com/s/lgulsfs008i1cuk/A Rare Interview with Wolf Mankowitz.pdf?raw=1

  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  

  

  Wolf Mankowitz (1924–1998)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0542554/?ref_=nv_sr_3?ref_=nv_sr_3
  
  Filmography

  Writer (39 credits)
  
  1984 Almonds and Raisins (Documentary) (treatment)
  1984 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) (dramatisation - 1 episode)
  - Have a Nice Death (1984) ... (dramatisation)
  
  1976 Dickens of London (TV Mini-Series) (written by - 13 episodes)
  - Memories (1976) ... (written by)
  - Angel (1976) ... (written by)
  - Nightmare (1976) ... (written by)
  - Magic (1976) ... (written by)
  - Dreams (1976) ... (written by)
  - Possession (1976) ... (written by)
  - Money (1976) ... (written by)
  - Fame (1976) ... (written by)
  - Love (1976) ... (written by)
  - Success (1976) ... (written by)
  - Blacking (1976) ... (written by)
  - The Deed (1976) ... (written by)
  - Mask (1976) ... (written by)
  1973 The Battle of Sutjeska (writer)
  1973 The Hireling (screenplay)
  1972 Treasure Island (adapted for the screen by)
  1971 Black Beauty (screenplay)
  1970 The Hero (screenplay)
  
  1969 Pickwick (TV Movie) (book of musical play)
  1969 The Assassination Bureau (additional dialogue)
  1968 Die Pickwickier (TV Movie) (play)
  1967 Doctor Faustus (co-writer - uncredited)
  1967 Casino Royale (screenplay)
  1967 The 25th Hour
  1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - Make Me an Offer (1966) ... (writer)
  Armchair Theatre (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode, 1966) (adaptation - 1 episode, 1959)
  - The Battersea Miracle (1966) ... (writer)
  - The Model Marriage (1959) ... (adaptation)
  1966 Where the Spies Are (screenplay)
  1965 Love Story (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
  - A Cure for Tin Ear (1965) ... (writer)
  1965 Bongo Boy (TV Movie) (play)
  1962 Dr. No (treatment - uncredited)
  1962 Waltz of the Toreadors
  1961 The Day the Earth Caught Fire (written for the screen by)
  1961 Jungle Fighters (screenplay)
  1960 The Millionairess (screenplay)
  1960 The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (screenplay)
  
  1959 Expresso Bongo (based on "Expresso Bongo" by) / (written by)
  Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (TV Series) (based on an idea by - 24 episodes, 1958 - 1959) (book "The ABC of Show Business" - 24 episodes, 1956 - 1957)
  1959 Wednesday Magazine (TV Series) (story - 1 episode)
  - Episode dated 11 March 1959 (1959) ... (story)
  Theatre Night (TV Series) (original story - 1 episode, 1958) (play - 1 episode, 1958)
  - Expresso Bongo (1958) ... (original story) / (play)
  1958 The Killing Stones (TV Series) (script - 6 episodes)
  - The Bankrupting of Hammerman (1958) ... (script)
  - The Retirement of De Haan (1958) ... (script)
  - The Homecoming of Coetze (1958) ... (script)
  - The Fearfulness of Desai (1958) ... (script)
  - The Holiness of Ant Eater (1958) ... (script)
  - The Carefulness of Kleiber (1958) ... (script)
  1958 East End, West End (TV Series) (writer - 6 episodes)
  1956 Trapeze (uncredited)
  1955 The Bespoke Overcoat (Short) (by) / (screenplay)
  1955 It Should Happen to a Dog (TV Movie)
  1955 The Girl (TV Movie)
  1955 Make me an Offer! (additional dialogue) / (novel)
  1955 A Kid for Two Farthings (based on the book by) / (screenplay)
  1954 Playbill (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
  - The Bespoke Overcoat (1954) ... (adaptation)
  1954 The Bespoke Overcoat (TV Short) (adaptation)
  
  Producer (2 credits)
  
  1970 The Hero (producer)
  
  1955 Orson Welles' Sketch Book (TV Series) (executive producer - 6 episodes)
  - Bullfighting (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
  - The War of the Worlds (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
  - Houdini/John Barrymore/Voodoo Story/The People I Missed (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
  - The Police (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
  - Critics (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
  - The Early Days (1955) ... (executive producer - uncredited)
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  Actor (1 credit)
  
  1959 Expresso Bongo - Sandwich Man (uncredited)
  
  Soundtrack (1 credit)
  
  1959 Expresso Bongo (lyrics: "Nausea", "The Shrine on the Second Floor", "I've Never Had It So Good", "Nothing Is For Nothing" - uncredited)

  
  
  

  
  1932: Yuri Borienko is born--Russia.
  (He dies 10 February 1999 at age 66--Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.)

  

  Yuri Borienko

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  Yuri Borienko
  Born - Jan Boleslaw Kadlubowski - 7 November 1932 - Russia
  Died - 10 February 1999 (aged 66) - Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  Nationality Russian
  Years active 1966–1987

  Yuri Borienko (7 November 1932 – 10 February 1999) was a Russian wrestler and actor, known for his performance as Blofeld's henchman Grunther in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

  Biography
  Borienko came to England shortly after the Second World War and began wrestling in 1951 under the name Red Staranoff. Post-1953, he moved to the United States but returned to Britain in 1960, where the following year, he began to wrestle for independents and was signed up by Joint Promotions in 1962. (Borienko and fellow wrestler Mike Marino were matched against American heavyweight Luther Lindsay.)
  
  Working as an actor, Borienko guested in episodes of British TV series including Adam Adamant Lives!, Z-Cars, The Troubleshooters, Department S, The Persuaders!, Jason King, The Protectors, Raffles, The Professionals and Strangers as well as a number of films (see below).
  
  After retiring from acting, Borienko and his family moved to Canada where he died in 1999 from leukaemia. His children include businessman Stefan Kadlubowski (1963–2016) and makeup artist Nina Westbury.

  James Bond
  During his audition for the role of James Bond in On Her Majesty's Secret Service, George Lazenby was required to 'fight' Borienko as part of his screen test. During this, Lazenby punched the wrestler, giving him a broken and bloodied nose. This impressed the director Peter R. Hunt and producer Harry Saltzman, winning Lazenby the role of Bond. Borienko was given the role of Grunther as compensation.

  Filmography
  Year Title Role Notes
  1966 The Trygon Factor - Nailet
  1967 Smashing Time
  1968 Great Catherine - Henchman Uncredited
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Grunther
  
  1970 Doctor in Trouble - Sick Russian
  1972 Innocent Bystanders - Guard #1
  1974 Callan - Porter
  1974 S*P*Y*S - Yuri
  
  1983 The Jigsaw Man - Russian trainer
  1987 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace - Russian General - Red Square (final film role)

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and May Day and the Eiffel Tower.

  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 39 of 65 - "Queen's Ransom" in Hong Kong.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Queen's Ransom

  Season 1 - Episode 39
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807116/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  In Hong Kong, young Bond helps a young woman named Jade, who escapes from Walker D. Plank, who took her father and stole a shipment of silkworm missiles.

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 39 - Queen's Ransom
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1995: Parlaphone and Virgin release the "GoldenEye" single.

  
  

  
  2002: Coronet Books publishes Raymond Benson's Die Another Day novelization.

  

  2008: "Another Way to Die" released as a download for Guitar Hero World Tour.

  

  2008: Quantum of Solace released in Austria, Belize, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Finland, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Iceland, Latvia, Nigeria, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, El Salvador, Switzerland, Turkey, and Taiwan. (Original planned released date for UK and US.)
  
  2008: 007 - Quantum of Solace released in Brazil, Italy, and Poland.
  2008: Спектър на утехата (Spectrum of Consolation) released in Bulgaria.

  
  

  2008: 007: Veidi lohutust (A Little Consolation) released in Estonia.

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  2008: Paguodos kvantas (The Quantum of Consolation) released in Lithuania.

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  2008: 007: Partea lui de consolare (His Side of Consolation) released in Romania.

  

  
  2008: East Bay Times reports winners in the James Bond Haiku Contest.

  

  

  Winners in the James Bond haiku contest

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2008/11/07/winners-in-the-james-bond-haiku-contest/

  By Jackie Burrell | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group
  PUBLISHED: November 7, 2008.
  
  We must have the cleverest readers on the planet. From Moneypenny to M, Q’s gadgets and those amorously named Bond girls, your James Bond haiku tweaked every aspect of Ian Fleming’s oeuvre. Compared to these, the newest Bond flick, “Quantum of Solace,” is bound to disappoint!

  James, you’re my Double-O,
  I am your Moneypenny.
  Please choose ME this time.
  — Kat Mulkey, Lafayette
  
  I purr, “Bond, James Bond,”
  as she warmly asks my name,
  and my wife kicks me.
  — Bruce Roberts, Hayward
  
  Bond’s sexy symbols
  A tux, a cocktail, a gun
  Leave me shakn’ AND stirred
  — Debbie Sager, Pleasanton
  
  Double 0 seven.
  Bond, gets all the attention.
  Neglected. 0 six.
  — Pete Cuddyre, Oakland
  
  Our man, Bond, James Bond
  bests SPECTRE’s latest effort, then follows his heart.
  — Matt Cummings, Oakland
  
  Sean had such elan
  Pierce was suave in stylish duds
  “I’m Bond “… James,” they purred.
  — Norma J. Shattuck, Oakland
  
  Venti mocha, please,
  Shaken, not stirred. Yes, I’ll wait
  while you ponder that.
  — Bruce Roberts, Hayward
  
  Oh, to be a Bond
  girl. But even young, I was
  no Halle Berry.
  — Sherry Sheehan, Crockett
  
  Sean, Roger, Pierce, Tim
  Hang up the black tuxedo
  Blond Bond, oh those eyes.
  — Stacey Gustafson, Pleasanton
  
  On missions for M
  Gorgeous girls all around him
  His choices conflict.
  — Helen R. Oliver, Brentwood
  
  Super Brit is back!
  Sleek, sexy, facing vile foes;
  Fans groove on escape.
  — Norma J. Shattuck, Oakland
  
  Obtain decoder,
  Kill SPECTRE agent on train
  From Russia With Love
  — Tim Hurson, Livermore
  
  Bond, James Bond’s beauty.
  Sleek, gimmicked, chasing evil.
  Aston Martin wheels.
  — Rodney Bittencurt, Livermore
  
  All those Bond ladies
  With curious names ‘Galore’
  Which do you recall?
  — Mike Takayanagi, Fremont
  
  “Bond, James Bond,” he says.
  Then, “Shaken, not stirred,” while I,
  eyes on screen, am both.
  — Sherry Sheehan, Crockett
  
  In Aston Martin
  Bond presses button, launching
  multiple missiles.
  — Vernon Parsley, Walnut Creek
  
  “Sorry I blew up
  your car, Officer. Q said
  it couldn’t be done.”
  — Bruce Roberts, Hayward
  
  That most famous drink,
  “Shaken not stirred,” certainly
  No appletini!
  — Belinda M. Danielson, Pleasant Hill
  
  Bond does not stir me.
  He’s a man’s fantasy spy.
  Give me Jason Bourne.
  — Judy Pietrzak, Oakland

  
  Runners-up in the James Bond Haiku Contest

  Double Agent Man
  Working for the enemy
  Short is your life span
  – Bethanne Keirnan, Pleasanton
  
  Casino Royale
  Win at Baccarat, hit eight
  The first was the best
  – Vernon Parsley, Walnut Creek
  
  Her lips brush his neck.
  James is shaken, but not stirred.
  She is M’s suspect.
  – Rodney Bittencurt, Livermore
  
  Craig, Connery, one
  Moore. Blond? Scottish? Londoner?
  Which suit is dealt now?
  – Sherry Weaver Smith, San Ramon
  
  Oh, James! Twenty one
  Beautiful Bond girls there’ve been.
  Skimpy wardrobes all!
  – Belinda M. Danielson, Pleasant Hill
  
  Double o seven
  handsome man on a mission
  action, guns, and girls
  – Donna Merry, Knightsen
  
  Sophisticated
  gadget carrying icon
  James Bond – film legend
  – Donna Merry, Knightsen
  
  Fair haired Daniel Craig,
  Latest Double Oh Seven.
  Blond? James Blond? Oh no!
  – Yvette Ratliff, Dublin
  
  Debonair James Bond
  Orders a dry Martini
  Shake, but never stir.
  – Vernon Parsley, Walnut Creek
  
  Martini in hand
  kills without batting an eye
  man of action Bond
  – Donna Merry, Knightsen
  
  Brave One Needling Death.
  Juggling Amorous Moves, Else Stealth.
  Babes Or Nasty Dudes.
  – Rodney Bittencurt, Livermore
  
  Down the bar I heard
  “Martini, shaken not stirred”
  Was it James – James Bond?
  – Mike Takayanagi, Fremont
  
  Created by I.
  Fleming in the fifties, Bond
  still energizes.
  – Sherry Sheehan, Crockett
  
  The Bond formula
  Mingles danger and desire
  With sly humor too.
  – Norma J. Shattuck, Oakland
  
  Shaken but not stirred,
  Evades grip of Dr. No,
  The name’s Bond, James Bond
  – Tim Hurson, Livermore
  
  James Bond in peril
  Evil and traps surround him
  Saved by Q’s magic.
  – Helen R. Oliver, Brentwood
  
  Trained to save England
  No matter what it costs him
  The price is too high.
  – Helen R. Oliver, Brentwood
  
  With girls and gadgets
  Bond travels the world over,
  One last adventure.
  – Helen R. Oliver, Brentwood
  
  Sharp and debonair,
  dubious fiends beware, the
  secret agent man!
  – Matt Cummings, Oakland
  
  Urbane to the max
  Bond is a man of culture
  Manners are his thing
  – Pat Hobbs, Dublin
  
  A rugged man’s man,
  A hot lover of women,
  Double “O” Seven.
  – Jo Ann Lew, Union City
  
  In movies and books
  Double O Seven a spy
  Lived dangerously.
  – Charles Minshall
  
  The Spy Who Loved Me,
  Never Say Never Again,
  From Russia With Love
  – Shirley Sprague, Concord
  
  Bond’s star is rising
  Box-office bucks burgeon
  His namesake’s falling
  – John Barry, Danville
  
  Early Bonds are best
  Those flicks’ soundtracks’ composer
  The great John Barry
  – John Barry, Danville
  
  Hollywood action
  3 lines of 5-7-5
  can’t describe James Bond!
  – Nona Mock Wyman, Walnut Creek
  
  James, I drive a Ford,
  You drive an Aston-Martin –
  It’s as if we’re twins!
  – Bruce Roberts, Hayward
  
  As my new helper,
  May I call you Pussy Galore?
  Harassment? No, why?
  – Bruce Roberts, Hayward
  
  Seductive women,
  Dangerous gadgets, fast cars –
  007!
  – Bruce Roberts, Hayward

  After nine consecutive weeks of haiku, we’re going to try something new. This time around, we’re seeking limericks inspired by Thanksgiving — pilgrims, pumpkin pie, Aunt Mildred, or whatever evokes the holiday for you and does not involve the word “Nantucket” or anything, er, similar. Send your non-naughty limerick(s) — Google “how to write a limerick” if you need a primer on rhyme schemes — to [email protected] by noon Thursday, Nov. 20. The winner reaps the usual immortal glory and his or her choice from our selection of just-published hardcover books.

  
  2011: Principal photography for BOND 23 begins in London.
  2018: Dynamite releases James Bond 007 #1.
  Marc Laming, artist. Greg Pak, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND 007 #1

  https://dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513027532501011
  Cover A: Dave Johnson
  Cover B: John Cassaday
  Cover C: Rafael Albuquerque
  Cover D: Marc Laming
  Writer: Greg Pak, Art: Marc Laming
  Page Count: 36 Pages
  ON SALE DATE: 11/7/2018

  The ODD JOB epic begins in a new ongoing James Bond comic series by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Mech Cadet Yu) and MARC LAMING (Star Wars, Wonder Woman)! Agent 007 tracks a smuggler into Singapore to secure a dangerous case, contents unknown. But a Korean mystery man wants the case as well, for very different reasons. And if Bond and this new rival don't kill each other, the ruthless terrorist organization known as ORU will be more than happy to finish the job.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  November 8 Posts: 13,812

  November 8th
  
  1945: Angela Scoular is born--London, England.
  (She dies 11 April 2011 at age 65--Maida Vale, London, England.)

  

  Angela Scoular

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/8448951/Angela-Scoular.html

  Angela Scoular, the actress who died on Tuesday aged 65, played Agent
  Buttercup in the James Bond spoof Casino Royale (1967) and was Ruby
  Bartlett in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969); she was also the second
  wife of the Carry On star Leslie Phillips.
  13 Apr 2011

  

  
  
  

  Angela Scoular Photo: ITV/ REX FEATURES

  Her qualifications as a Bond girl are obvious in OHMSS when she becomes Bond's (George Lazenby) first conquest, after writing her room number in lipstick on his inner thigh. "I used to hate chicken," she tells 007. "Used to make me break out. It was all over. You'd be surprised where."

  She met Leslie Phillips in 1970 on the set of Doctor in Trouble (in which his character chases her character aboard an ocean liner). They met again in 1976 when they were both in the same play. She was pregnant at the time with a son by another actor, while Leslie Phillips's first marriage to Penny Bartley had foundered in the 1960s following his affair with the actress Caroline Mortimer. They began living together, but at first there was no question of marriage. When Penny was crippled by a stroke, Leslie Phillips was "pulled back into the frame" by his children and he and Angela helped to care for her until her death in a house fire in 1981. They married in 1982.
  
  Despite Phillips's on-screen reputation as a lothario, theirs was a happy marriage. Angela Scoular went on to appear in several more films, stage productions and television series, notably as the sex-mad Lady Agatha Shawcross in the television series You Rang, M'Lord? (1988-93). But during her early years as an actress she had struggled with anorexia and later on she suffered from severe clinical depression which, according to her husband, meant that she lost her ability to face an audience. It was "difficult to be a character actress when you were a sex symbol", he observed.
  
  Angela Scoular was born in London on November 8 1945 and encouraged in her ambitions to be an actress by her aunt, the actress Margaret Johnston.

  She began her screen career in the mid-1960s, appearing in the long-running police drama No Hiding Place and taking a bit part in Ian McKellen's adaptation of David Copperfield, before going on to appear in her first feature films, A Countess from Hong Kong (1967, with Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren), Casino Royale and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968).

  On television she appeared in series such as The Avengers, Penmarric, Coronation Street and As Time Goes By, and was Cathy in a 1967 television adaptation of Wuthering Heights. On stage she starred in Alan Ayckbourn's Absurd Person Singular, at the Criterion Theatre (1974); appeared in a production of Hamlet at the Cambridge Theatre (1971); in Joseph Caruso's Little Lies at the Wyndham (1983); and in Peter Shaffer's White Liars and Black Comedy at the Lyric Theatre (1968).
  
  She is survived by her husband and son.

  

  Angela Scoular (1945–2011)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0780029/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
  
  Filmography

  Actress (35 credits)
  
  1996 As Time Goes By (TV Series) - Glenys
  - Avoiding the Country Set (1996) ... Glenys
  - The Country Set (1996) ... Glenys
  1988-1993 You Rang, M'Lord? (TV Series) - Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - Well, There You Are Then...! (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - Fall of the House of Meldrum (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - The Truth Revealed (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - Come to the Ball (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - Requiem for a Parrot (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1993) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - A Day in the Country (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - The Night of Reckoning (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - Gretna Green or Bust (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - Current Affairs (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - Please Help the Orphans (1991) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - Royal Flush (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - The Wounds of War (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - The Meldrum Vases (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - Trouble at Mill (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - Love and Money (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - The Phantom Sign Writer (1990) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  - Pilot (1988) ... Lady Agatha Shawcross
  
  1981 The House on the Hill (TV Series) - Aileen Douglas
  - Man of Straw (1981) ... Aileen Douglas
  1971-1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Joanna Trout / The Girl
  - Dear Brutus (1981) ... Joanna Trout
  - Evelyn (1971) ... The Girl
  1979 Penmarric (TV Series) - Maud Castallack / Maud Penmar
  - Episode #1.6 (1979) ... Maud Penmar
  - Episode #1.5 (1979) ... Maud Castallack
  - Episode #1.4 (1979) ... Maud Castallack
  - Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Maud Castallack
  1977 Adventures of a Private Eye - Jane Hogg
  1976 Adventures of a Taxi Driver - Marion
  1975 Rooms (TV Series) - Madeline Parsons
  - Midgely: Part 2 (1975) ... Madeline Parsons
  - Midgely: Part 1 (1975) ... Madeline Parsons
  1973-1974 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Thomasine / Patty
  - Only the Other Day (1974) ... Thomasine
  - Hopcraft Into Europe (1973) ... Patty
  1974 Beryl's Lot (TV Series) - Jill Savage
  - Backs to the Wall (1974) ... Jill Savage
  - A Bit of Culture (1974) ... Jill Savage
  - It's a Rum World (1974) ... Jill Savage
  1973 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - Charlotte
  - The Runaway (1973) ... Charlotte
  1973 Second City Firsts (TV Series) - Astral Philips
  - Mrs Pool's Preserves (1973) ... Astral Philips
  1973 Harriet's Back in Town (TV Series) - Frankie Prentiss
  - Episode #1.62 (1973) ... Frankie Prentiss
  - Episode #1.61 (1973) ... Frankie Prentiss
  1973 Crown Court (TV Series) - Serena Cutforth
  - The Gilded Cage: Part 2 (1973) ... Serena Cutforth
  - The Gilded Cage: Part 1 (1973) ... Serena Cutforth
  1972 For Loving (TV Movie) - Girl
  1972 The Adventurer (TV Series) - Dorinda
  - Nearly the End of the Picture (1972) ... Dorinda
  1972 Coronation Street (TV Series) - Sue Silcock
  - Episode #1.1193 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
  - Episode #1.1192 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
  - Episode #1.1191 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
  - Episode #1.1190 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
  - Episode #1.1189 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
  - Episode #1.1188 (1972) ... Sue Silcock
  1972 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Francesca Stokes
  - Knightsbridge (1972) ... Francesca Stokes
  1971 Comedy Playhouse (TV Series) - Pauline
  - Equal Partners (1971) ... Pauline
  1970 Doctor in Trouble - Ophelia O'Brien
  1970 ITV Playhouse (TV Series) - Charlotte
  - Don't Touch Him, He Might Resent It (1970) ... Charlotte
  1970 The Adventurers - Denisonde
  
  1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Ruby
  1969 Doctor in the House (TV Series) - Fiona
  - Rallying Round... (1969) ... Fiona
  1968 Great Catherine - Claire
  1968 The Avengers (TV Series) - Myra
  - Super Secret Cypher Snatch (1968) ... Myra
  1968 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush - Caroline Beauchamp
  1967 Wuthering Heights (TV Series) - Catherine Earnshaw / Cathy Earnshaw
  - The Last Revenge (1967) ... Catherine Earnshaw
  - The Abduction (1967) ... Catherine Earnshaw
  - The First Revenge (1967) ... Cathy Earnshaw
  - An End to Childhood (1967) ... Cathy Earnshaw
  1967 Love Story (TV Series) - Joy
  - Her Freudian Slip (1967) ... Joy
  1967 Casino Royale - Buttercup
  1967 Girl in a Black Bikini (TV Series) - Kathy Sheridan
  - Episode #1.6 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
  - Episode #1.5 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
  - Episode #1.4 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
  - Episode #1.3 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
  - Episode #1.2 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
  - Episode #1.1 (1967) ... Kathy Sheridan
  1967 A Countess from Hong Kong - The Society Girl
  1966 David Copperfield (TV Series) - Emily
  - Toll of the Sea (1966) ... Emily
  - Old Acquaintances (1966) ... Emily
  1965 Romeo and Juliet (TV Movie) - Juliet
  1963-1964 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Chantal Smith / Gillian Kendrick
  - Why Baker Died (1964) ... Chantal Smith
  - Pillar to Post (1963) ... Gillian Kendrick

  Agent Buttercup in Casino Royale 1967
  
  
  Ruby in On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1969: Insan Iki Kere Yasar (Human Lies Twice) released in Turkey.

  The poster below lifts art from spy movie Deadlier Than The Male.

  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 40 of 65 - "Barbella's Big Attraction" in Rio de Janeiro.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Barbella's Big Attraction

  Season 1 - Episode 40
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807094/?ref_=ttep_ep40
  

  Barbella's high blood pressure leads her to mutiny when S.C.U.M lord insulted her. So Barbella uses the incoming asteroid that S.C.U.M. Lord wants to go on a collision course with London and send it to destroy Rio de Janeiro where the S.C.U.M conference is taking place.

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 40 - Barbella's Big Attraction
  

  
  

  
  Barbella's Revenge (based on Barbella's Big Attraction), Caryn Jenner, Buzz Books 1991.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1999: The World Is Not Enough premiere at the Fox Bruin Theater, Los Angeles.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2012: Skyfall IMAX premiere in the US prior to a 9 November general release.

  

  2015: Geneva auction of a Rolex wristwatch with ties to Live and Let Die and Roger Moore closes this date.

  

  290
  Rolex
  Ref. 5513

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.phillips.com/detail/ROLEX/CH080515/290

  A unique and historically significant stainless steel wristwatch-prop with bracelet, specially adapted for James Bond's "Live and Let Die", caseback signed "Roger Moore 007"

  1972
  39.5mm. Diameter
  Case, dial and bracelet signed
  Estimate CHF150,000 - 250,000
  Sold for CHF365,000

  Manufacturer: Rolex
  Year: 1972
  Reference No: 5513
  Case No: 2'683'776
  Model Name: Submariner
  Material: Stainless steel
  Calibre: Movement removed
  Bracelet/Strap: Stainless steel Rolex Oyster
  Clasp/Buckle: Déployant clasp stamped 7-72
  Dimensions: 39.5mm. Diameter
  Signed: Case, dial and bracelet signed
  Accessories: The present example is accompanied with James Bond memorabilia, 3 corresponding black and white framed stills, the "Live and Let Die" movie tape and the Christie's South Kensington catalogue of the "James Bond" auction in 14.02.2001.
  Provenance: The present example was formerly offered at auction at Christie's South Kensington, on 14.02.2001, "James Bond", lot 145. Later offered at Christie's Geneva, 14.11.2011, "Important Watches", lot 182.

  Provenance
  The present example was formerly offered at auction at Christie's South Kensington, on 14.02.2001, "James Bond", lot 145. Later offered at Christie's Geneva, 14.11.2011, "Important Watches", lot 182.
  
  Catalogue Essay
  The most recognizable watch in history with 1 billion people having watched the film “Live and Let Die”, the wristwatch worn on the wrist of Sir Roger Moore as James Bond is in fact a Rolex Submariner reference 5513 made in 1972, and was later modified for the movie.
  
  Art director and British production designer Syd Cain worked on over 30 movie projects, and received international fame for playing a key role as gadget designer in the James Bond movies. The acclaimed Rolex Submariner worn was memorable for its buzzsaw bezel that spun and could cut through rope to escape dangerous situations, and its hyper intensified magnetic field with the ability to deflect bullets. Used for both humor and heightened dramatic events, the magnetic power could unzip Miss Caruso’s dress, and catch a spoon off of a coffee saucer.
  
  The present Rolex reference 5513 “Q” is the most unforgettable watch prop used in a movie and is even signed inside the caseback “Roger Moore 007”. As a highlight in the most iconic scenes of “Live and Let Die”, this watch is sure to interest both watch collectors and true fans of cinematography alike.
  
  SYD CAIN: An accomplished movie production designer, "Syd" Cain is best known for his creative work on four films of the famous James Bond 007 series. His work on the series followed his successful efforts supporting Producer Albert R. Broccoli on two films in 1954 and 1956. Broccoli chose Cain for "Dr. No" in 1962, and went on to assume the role of art director for 1963's "From Russia With Love". That film introduced Q, the legendary character responsible for issuing gadgets to James Bond. It was Cain who was designing these gadgets in actuality, including villains gadgets, such as the poisoned-tipped blade of Rosa Klebb's shoes, and of course this Rolex Submariner 5513 worn in 1973's "Live and Let Die".
  
  Cain (1918-2011) was himself a survivor, having managed to walk away from a plane crash during World War II, and later, surviving a lightning strike. Notably, he also served as assistant art director for Standley Kubrick, and production designer for Alford Hitchcock and Jack Gold. Survived by five sons and three daughters, he was a popular personality with James Bond fans, and wrote an autobiography documenting his experiences with the 007 films: Not Forgetting James Bond: The Autobiography of James Bond Production Designer Syd Cain.

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  Rolex
  Swiss • 1905
  Founded in 1905 England by Hans Wilsdorf and Alfred Davis as Wilsdorf & Davis, it soon became known as the Rolex Watch Company in 1915, moving its headquarters to Geneva in 1919. Like no other company, the success of the wristwatch can be attributed to many of Rolex's innovations that made them one of the most respected and well-known of all luxury brands. These innovations include their famous "Oyster" case — the world's first water resistant and dustproof watch case, invented in 1926 — and their "Perpetual" — the first reliable self-winding movement for wristwatches launched in 1933. They would form the foundation for Rolex's Datejust and Day-Date, respectively introduced in 1945 and 1956, but also importantly for their sports watches, such as the Explorer, Submariner and GMT-Master launched in the mid-1950s.
  
  One of its most famous models is the Cosmograph Daytona. Launched in 1963, these chronographs are without any doubt amongst the most iconic and coveted of all collectible wristwatches. Other key collectible models include their most complicated vintage watches, including references 8171 and 6062 with triple calendar and moon phase, "Jean Claude Killy" triple date chronograph models and the Submariner, including early "big-crown" models and military-issued variants.

  

  
  2019: Planned BOND 25 release date (confirmed by an official announcement 24 July 2017).
  
  2022: Columbia University Press and Wallflower Press release Dr. No - The First James Bond Film by James Chapman.

  

  Dr. No
  
  The First James Bond Film
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  http://cup.columbia.edu/book/dr-no/9780231204934

  James Chapman
  Wallflower Press

  When Dr. No premiered at the London Pavilion on October 5, 1962, no one predicted that it would launch the longest-running series in cinema history. It introduced the James Bond formula that has been a box-office fixture ever since: sensational plots, colorful locations, beautiful women, diabolical villains, thrilling action set pieces, and a tongue-in-cheek tone. An explosive cocktail of action, spectacle, and sex, Dr. No transformed popular cinema.
  
  James Chapman provides a lively and comprehensive study of Dr. No, marshaling a wealth of archival research to place the film in its historical moment. He demonstrates that, contrary to many fan myths, the film was the product of a carefully considered transnational production process. Chapman explores the British super-spy’s origins in Ian Fleming’s snobbery-with-violence thrillers, examining the process of adaptation from page to screen. He considers Dr. No in the contexts of the UK and Hollywood film industries as well as the film’s place in relation to the changing social and cultural landscape of the 1960s, particularly Cold War anxieties and the decline of the British Empire. The book also analyzes the film’s problematic politics of gender and race and considers its cultural legacy.
  
  This thorough and insightful account of Dr. No will appeal to film historians and Bond fans alike.

  Pub Date: November 2022
  ISBN: 9780231204934
  256 Pages
  Format: Paperback
  List Price: $28.00 £22.00
  
  Pub Date: November 2022
  ISBN: 9780231204927
  256 Pages
  Format: Hardcover
  List Price: $110.00 £85.00
  
  Pub Date: November 2022
  ISBN: 9780231555746
  256 Pages
  Format: E-book
  List Price: $27.99 £22.00
  
  About the Author
  James Chapman is professor of film studies at the University of Leicester and editor of the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television. His books include Licence to Thrill: A Cultural History of the James Bond Films (second edition, 2007), Hitchcock and the Spy Film (2018), and The Money Behind the Screen: A History of British Film Finance, 1945–1985 (2022).

  
  

  
  
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  November 9 Posts: 13,812

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

  James Bond higher and higher!
  
  
  

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

  

  Charles Fraser-Smith

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

  Charles Fraser-Smith died at his home of undisclosed causes in 1992, survived by his wife, Selina, and two children, Brian and Christine, by a previous marriage to Blanche Ellis. Live and Let's Spy: An exhibition of spy, escape and survival gadgetry, an exhibition of his work, created at Dover Castle by English Heritage, ran for two years in the late 1990s.

  
  

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

  
  

  
  2012: Skyfall released in Albania, Canada, Pakistan, and the US.
  2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Hammerhead #2.
  Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #2 (OF 6)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2021: No Time To Die comes available to rent for streaming.
  
  
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  November 10 edited November 10 Posts: 13,812

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

  

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

  

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

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

  
  1968: Daphne Deckers is born--Nijmegen, Gelderland, Netherlands.
  
  1974: The US network premiere of Dr. No on ABC-TV.

  Dr No - James Bond - ABC Movie Special Star Tunnel intro
  

  
  1988: Licence to Kill films Sanchez interrogating OO7.
  
  2021: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Himeros #2.
  Antonio Fuso, artist. Rodney Barnes, writer.

  

  JAMES BOND: HIMEROS #2

  https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513031230302011
  Cover A: Francesco Francavilla
  UPC: 725130312303 02011
  Cover B: Jackson Guice
  UPC: 725130312303 02021
  Writer: Rodney Barnes
  Artist: Antonio Fuso
  Genre: Spy/Fiction, Action/Adventure
  Publication Date: November 2021
  Format: Comic Book
  Page Count: 32
  ON SALE DATE: 11/10/2021
  

  Issue #2 continues the comic book adventures of the world's most famous spy - James Bond! While the setting exudes the allure of sun, sand and fun, this deadly island is no playtime retreat! Its sun, sand and misery for all those who visit, and up to Bond to put an end to the deadly circle once and for all!
  
  Featuring two amazing Covers: Francesco Francavilla and the legendary Jackson Guice!

  Cover A: Francesco Francavilla
  
  
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  2022: High On Films suggests An Ultimate Guide For Hosting Your Own James Bond Casino Party.

  

  An Ultimate Guide For Hosting Your Own
  James Bond Casino Party

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.highonfilms.com/an-ultimate-guide-for-hosting-your-own-james-bond-casino-party/

  Jerry Horne / November 10, 2022
  
  There are many theme ideas you could choose for a party, whether it’s for a birthday, New Year’s Eve, a company gathering, or a reunion. While you could simply host a standard party with no overall theme, the benefits of choosing one can be great. This will help your guests quickly develop a good understanding of what to expect from the night, what to wear, and how to act. A popular party theme choice is the casino or James Bond-style party, with people wearing classy evening dresses and tuxedos and drinking fancy cocktails throughout the night. But planning a successful and memorable James Bond-themed party is no easy task. To help you with this, we’ve created this handy guide to provide you with some ideas so you can ensure your party won’t soon be forgotten.
  
  Provide Some Classy Drinks
  If there is one thing that Bond is known for, other than his silver tongue, it is his choice of beverages. To make your James Bond evening feel legitimate, you’ll want to provide your guests with a wide range of cocktails. There are so many classic cocktails that were made famous by 007, including his first-ever drink he orders, the Americano, as well as the renowned vodka martini. Some other drinks that Bond has ordered over the years include the humble whiskey and soda, the distinguished old-fashioned, the vesper, and the mojito. You’ll also want to provide your guests with some nice champagne or prosecco. For a larger event, consider hiring skilled bartenders to provide your guests with high-quality drinks and a bit of a show during their preparation.
  
  Choose What Sort Of Food To Offer
  Providing canapes is the obvious choice when it comes to food for a Bond-themed night. Waiters can move throughout your party, providing socializing guests with satisfying snacks, and you could also put on a buffet spread so that guests can continue to chat and mingle while eating. There are many different paths you could go down when it comes to deciding on specific foods to provide, ranging from fresh fruits and vegetable dishes to cheeses and cured meats. Pastries and bread-based snacks are also good options here as they’re generally quite easy to eat and won’t require a whole lot of concentration. Foods that don’t require cutlery are also a good idea, too. Of course, you could also consider providing your guests with a full three-course meal, but remember that, while not a bad idea at all, this will set a very different vibe.
  
  Arrange For Some Fun Activities
  A party such as this is going to need to have a selection of fun yet sophisticated activities for guests to partake in. There are many different things you could arrange for your guests to enjoy, which will also depend on the weather. For example, a summertime Bond party could allow you to set up some fun outdoor activities such as croquet, and don’t forget to set up some form of dancefloor somewhere around the venue. But the most obvious choice when it comes to hosting a Bond party is casino games, such as blackjack, roulette, and even poker. You could hire some croupiers for the night along with some professional, quality gaming tables to provide your guests with an authentic experience, unlike a real casino or the many fun live roulette websites available online. A fun selection of games like this can really add a thrill to the evening. You should also consider providing all your guests with some chips and award a prize to the person with the most chips by the end of the night.
  
  Get The Music Right
  There, of course, needs to be some leniency for certain aspects of your party, and one of these will be the music. Unless you’ve chosen a strict era, such as the sixties or seventies, you should choose a playlist that is going to suit you and your guests. Of course, you could also consider instrumental music if the night is going to be one of socializing rather than outright partying. Consider a selection of instrumental or classical renditions of popular songs, or if you want to go all out, you could even hire a string quartet or jazz band for the evening. Live music will naturally bring the whole evening to another level and will definitely be appreciated by your guests.
  
  Set A Strict Dress Code
  One thing that can put a lot of guests off when it comes to themed parties is that they have to organize a costume or specific outfit for the night. If you want to keep things classy, you should avoid encouraging costumes and state that the dress code should be formal while also listing a few different examples on your invitations. Things like cocktail dresses and tuxedos tend to fit the bill here, but of course, you should remember that not everyone necessarily owns a tux, for example. Leniency here is important, and you should strive to ensure that all of your guests feel comfortable with what to wear and that they’ll also have enough time to be able to find something suitable for the party.
  
  Create A Great Atmosphere With Décor
  A themed party is nothing without relevant decorations, and for a James Bond or casino-themed party, this should be relatively straightforward. When it comes to the color scheme, you’ll want to consider deep and rich colors like blacks, golds, reds, and silvers. You’ll also want to think about the venue itself that you’ll choose when hosting your party. Hiring a location that would also suit the overall casino theme is a great idea. You might even be able to find a venue that can help you with the décor or a venue that hosts casino parties regularly. That way, you won’t necessarily need to worry about providing game tables or décor at all. If you do have to source your own decorations, spend time doing your research to find the most suitable yet subtle décor. Remember that you can go over the top with decorating for a party, and sometimes less is more.
  

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  November 11 Posts: 13,812

  November 11th
  
  1918: The first Armistice Day on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month marks the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France, to cease hostilities on the Western Front of World War I.
  
  1920: James Bond's birthday according to John Pearson's James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007.

  

  James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, John Pearson, 1973.
  Chapter 2 - Boyhood of a Spy

  ‘Something that Fleming never mentioned is where you were born.’
  
  Bond swung round immediately. ‘Why ask me that?’
  
  ‘You said begin at the beginning.’ Bond smiled, somewhat ruefully, and paused before replying. ‘I suppose you have to know. The truth is that I'm a native of the Ruhr. I was born in a town called Wattenscheid – that's near Essen – on Armistice Day, 11 November 1920. I have not, I hasten to add, a drop of German blood in my veins – as far as one can ever be certain of such things. As Fleming says somewhere, my father was a Highland Scot, my mother Swiss.’

  

  1920: James Bond's birth date as used by Charlie Higson in his Young Bond novels.
  1921: James Bond's birth date according to Bond scholar John Griswold.

  

  Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories, John Griswold, 2006.
  Creating a High Level Chronology for Ian Fleming's James Bond

  Where Fleming misleads the reader is in You Only Live Twice's Chapter 21 Obit:. In this chapter, Fleming sacrificed the chronology of Bond's life for artistic license by placing Bond's birth year under the Japanese zodiac sign of the Rat. By doing this, he has misled many readers who were creating their own Bond chronology into believing Bond's year of birth was 1924. Fleming even changed his original manuscript for this chapter so that he had Bond entering 'a branch of what was subsequently to become the Ministry of Defence' in 1941 a the 'early age of seventeen'. In the original manuscript, Bond entered this branch at the age of seventeen in 1949. Fleming later changed '1939' to '1941' so that Bond's birth year would be 1924 (1941 minus 1924 equals 17 years) apparently to be consistent with a prior chapter that he stated Bond's Japanese zodiac sign was the Rat. In From Russia With Love, the Soviets reviewed Bond's dossier and found that 'he has worked for the British Secret Service since 1938'. It will be shown that the year '1939' is a better fit for the start of Bond's professional life in the overall chronology. '1941' will be reference later in the topic titled 'THE BRITISH SECRET SERVICE OF IAN FLEMING'S JAMES BOND' to speculate from where Bond's British Secret Service may have originated. It could be surmised that Fleming desired to jump start Bond on to a man of action career path as expeditiously as possible. Fleming was born in 1908 and spent the time period from age eighteen to thirty-one trying to find his niche in society where he felt most productive. In 1939 (just before Breitain officially declared war on Germany in World War II), Fleming became the personal assistant to Admiral Sir John godfrey who was the Admiralty's Director of Naval Intelligence at the time. It is as though Fleming wanted Bond to bypass this period of wandering professional growth years that he himself had experienced.

  November 11th, Armistice Day (celebrating end of World War I) has been generally accepted as the day of James Bond's birth. John Pearson, who wrote The Life of Ian Fleming and James Bond, the Authorized Biography of 007, had the honor of deciding Bond's birthday. Some James Bond fans even have social events centered around November 11th to celebrate Bond's birthday. What is debatable is the year of Bond's birth. Pearson wrote that the year was 1920, which is not as good a choice as it could have been. It does not take into account the '1938" date mentioned earlier from From Russia With Love. In the obituary in You Only Live Twice, Fleming wrote that Bond was seventeen years old, and it was by claiming an age of nineteen and with the help of an old Vickers colleague of his father that Bond was able to get his professional start. If the original '1939' date was used, the timing would begin to parallel Fleming's start (in July 1939) at the Admiralty. Using spring of 1939 as the beginning of Bond's career and knowing he was seventeen at the time, his birth date would have been November, 1921. Bond's parents died in a climbing accident when he was eleven. By using the November 11, 1921 date, Bond's parent could have died in 1933 when Bond was eleven years old. If Bond's parents had died in 1933 when he was eleven years old, an issue can be resolved. In Casino Royale, CHAPTER V - THE GIRL FROM HEADQUARTERS, the following is stated: "Bond's car was his only personal hobby. One of the last of the 4 1/2-litre Bentleys with the supercharger by Amherst Villiers, he had bought it almost new in 1933 and had kept it in careful storage through the war." This is important because by using the revised birth year, Bond would have been eleven (November 11, 1932 - November 11, 1933; the car obtained within the January 1, 1933 to November 10, 1933 period) when he bought the Bentley. The logical conclusion would be that his parents had owned the Bentley, and he had inherited it and kept in storage. As conjecture, perhaps it could be thought that whenever someone inquired about how he had gotten the car, he had developed the habit of responding that he had bought it; responding in this manner to avoid the discussion of the death of his parents. As for Bond's attending Eton College in the 1930s, September (the start of the Michaelmas half) and January (the start of the Lent half) were the two halves when boys 12 years old and boys 13 years old or just over 13 years old could enter Eton College. On rare occasions, boys of 11 years of age could enter Eton in September or January if they would soon be having their 12th birthday. Four years before they were due to attend, their entrance fee would be paid to confirm their potential placement in Eton College. Boys then had to be registered with a House Master sometime prior to taking the Common Entrance Examination which was usually taken around June just prior to entering Eton in September or January. By using November 11, 1921, as Bond's birth date, Bond would be 12 years old on November 11, 1933, and around June 1934 while at the age of 12, he would have passed the Common Entrance Examination, and in January 1935 he entered Eton.

  

  
  1948: Vincent Andrew Schiavelli is born--Brooklyn, New York
  
  1963: El satánico Dr. No released in Uruguay.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  

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

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

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 41 of 65 - "There But for Ms. Fortune" in Colorado, United States.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - There But for Ms. Fortune

  Season 1 - Episode 41
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807127/?ref_=ttep_ep41
  

  Ms. Fortune attempts to kidnap IQ and him for ransom for Q's ice formula so that she use it to freeze Colorado river to shut down most of the United States' power supply. But her plan goes awfully wrong when she mistakes Trevor for IQ and kidnap him instead.

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 41 - There But for Ms. Fortune
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  

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

  

  Robert Brown (British actor)

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

  

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

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

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

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

  

  Robert Brown (I) (1921–2003)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  

  2006: The Spectator prints the short story "Moneypenny's First Date With Bond" by Kate Westbrook (Samantha Weinberg).

  https://www.thebookbond.com/2006/11/second-moneypenny-short-in-spectator.html

  

  
  2015: Spectre released in Switzerland and France.
  2015: 스백터 (Seu-paek-duh) released in the Republic of Korea.

  
  

  
  2021: No Time To Die released in Australia.

  
  

  2021: Opening Night for No Time To Die at the Windsor Cinema, Midland, Australia.

  

  

  Open Night for James Bond 'No Time To Die'

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://happeningnext.com/event/open-night-for-james-bond-no-time-to-die-eid3a08bdeljo

  Schedule
  Thu Nov 11 2021 at 05:30 pm
  UTC+08:00

  Location
  Windsor Cinema | Midland, WA

  

  
  2022: SAMLA's Call For Papers seeks The Changing Worlds of James Bond at Jacksonville, Florida.

  

  Calls for Papers (CFPs)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://samla.memberclicks.net/samla-94-cfps

  SAMLA welcomes broad participation in planning, chairing, and presenting as part of sessions for its next conference, SAMLA 94, taking place on November 11-13, 2022, in Jacksonville, FL
  
  Each Session Chair writes their own Call for Papers (CFP) and submits it to SAMLA for approval and posting. Presentation abstracts are then directed to the individual Chair, who selects and notifies their panelists accordingly. The Chair then submits information about the panel they have selected to SAMLA for inclusion in the conference program.
  
  Please read the instructions below for further details and links to the appropriate forms.
  
  CHAIRS
  or
  PRESENTERS
  Instructions for Prospective Chairs
  
  Prospective Chairs should begin by deciding on the session's type and format:
  
  Session Types include Regular Sessions, Affiliated Group Sessions, and Special Sessions. For your convenience, we have defined these session types here. Unless you are representing an existing Affiliated Group or Regular Session, your CFP will be classified as a Special Session. If you represent an organization looking to become an Affiliated Group, or if you are unsure if your session is a recurring Regular Session, please email Dan Abitz at [email protected].
  
  Session Formats include Traditional Sessions, Roundtables, Workshops, Readings, and more. We have described the most common formats here. SAMLA welcomes other session formats when applicable.
  
  Next, prospective session chairs should prepare their CFP language and submit a CFP form for SAMLA's approval. A CFP form should be submitted for each session, even if the session already has a full list of presenters. SAMLA will post all approved CFPs below to encourage scholars to submit abstracts to Session Chairs for approval and, ultimately, inclusion in the conference program.
  
  When selecting panelists, Chairs are asked to take note of the eligibility guidelines posted in the "Instructions for Prospective Presenters" section below. Chairs may choose to widen their selection process by posting their CFPs to other databases.
  
  The final deadline to submit a CFP is July 1, 2022.
  Instructions for Prospective Presenters
  
  Scholars interested in presenting at SAMLA 94 should review the approved Calls for Papers (CFPs) below and follow any submission instructions set by the individual Session Chairs.
  
  SAMLA asks that you abide by certain eligibility guidelines when planning your participation in our conference:
  
  All conference participants will need to become SAMLA members AND will need to register for the conference. There are two separate forms to fill out and two separate payments to be rendered to meet these requirements.
  See our Membership Rates & Forms page here. The Membership forms will be updated soon.
  See our Conference Registration page here. The SAMLA 94 Conference Registration form will be available in Spring 2022.
  A member may present only one traditional paper per SAMLA conference. A member may participate in other forms as long as the nature of each panel or presentation differs significantly. This may include, but is not limited to: serving as both Chair and Panelist in one’s own panel; serving as Chair in one session and Panelist in another session; serving as Panelist both in a traditional panel and on a roundtable, reading, or workshop discussion; serving as Panelist while also presenting on our Poster Session. If a member is presenting in multiple formats, it is expected and required that the content of the presentations will also be different. Additionally, members are welcome to serve as Chairs, Co-Chairs, and/or Secretaries for multiple panels.
  SAMLA is proud to provide ample space for undergraduate research at its annual conference. We invite undergraduate students to participate in Undergraduate Research Forum (URF) panels or our annual Friday-night Poster Session. According to SAMLA guidelines, however, undergraduate students are not permitted to participate in non-URF sessions.
  
  CFPs by Category

  THE CHANGING WORLDS OF JAMES BOND
  2022 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the film Dr. No and the publication of Ian Fleming’s ninth James Bond novel, The Spy Who Loved Me. Both these works represent watershed moments for the character of James Bond, the film launching the beginnings of Bond mania, and the novel presented from the female perspective, Bond himself absent until the final third of the novel. Other seminal Fleming works (From Russia, with Love and The Diamond Smugglers) and James Bond films (You Only Live Twice, The Spy Who Loved Me, The Living Daylights, Tomorrow Never Dies, Skyfall) also have anniversaries in 2022, from 10 to 65 years of age. We invite paper proposals on any aspect of these anniversary films and books as they navigate change. We are especially interested in papers that address change in the adaptation of Fleming’s work for film and other media. Please send abstracts of 300 words and brief biographies to Oliver Buckton ([email protected]) and Matt Sherman ([email protected]) by May 16, 2022.

  
  
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  November 11 Posts: 13,812

  November 12th
  
  1929: Peter Curtis Lamont is born--London, England.
  (He dies 18 December 2020 at age 91.)

  

  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
  

  
  

  https://twitter.com/007/status/1339972928864174080

  
  

  
  

  
  1943: Julie Ege is born--Sandnes, Norway.
  (She dies 29 April 2008 at age 64--Oslo, Norway.)

  

  Julie Ege: 'Sex Symbol of the 1970s'

  https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/julie-ege-sex-symbol-of-the-1970s-820386.html
  Saturday 3 May 2008 00:00

  
  REX

  In the late Sixties and early Seventies, British cinema-goers, and British men in general, had a weakness for Scandinavian women. For a time, the Norwegian actress and model Julie Ege was as ubiquitous as Sweden's Britt Ekland.

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

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

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

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

  

  Julie Ege (1943–2008)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0250774/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

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

  
  
  
  
  

  
  

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

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

  Spionen Från Öst
  (The Living Daylights)
  

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

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

  
  2020

  

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

  

  William Holden

  
  Holden in a publicity photo, 1954

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

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

  Awards

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

  Military career

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

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

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

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

  
  With Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

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

  
  With Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina (1954)

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

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

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

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

  
  Holden in The Revengers (1972)

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

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

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

  

  William Holden (I) (1918–1981)

  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000034/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
  
  Filmography

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

  
  

  1984: A View to Kill films OO7 and Stacey in elevator peril.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 42 of 65 "Invaders from S.C.U.M." at Warfield, England.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Invaders from S.C.U.M.

  Season 1 - Episode 42
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807290/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  Student Hayley Comet and her scientist father are both convinced they've made first contact when a UFO lands at Warfield, but James suspects the truth is closer to home.

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  Jennie Tremaine ... (written by)
  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 / Dr.Derange (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Jaws (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr Episode 42 - Invaders from S.C.U.M.
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1995: GoldenEye cast including Pierce Brosnan attend the Second Annual James Bond Convention, New York.

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

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

  
  
  Now expanded.
  
  

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

  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.bikiniartmuseum.com/gewinnspiel

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

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

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

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Linda Christian (I) (1923–2011)

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

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

  
  
  Valerie Mathis and CIA Agent Jimmy Bond

  
  
  Diego Rivera painting.
  

  
  1952: Art Malik is born--Bahawalpur, Pakistan.
  
  1969: Gerard Butler is born--Paisley, Scotland.
  
  1986: Goldfinger re-released in Norway.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 43 of 65 - "Going for the Gold" in Barcelona, Spain.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Going for the Gold

  Season 1 - Episode 43
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807287/?ref_=ttep_ep43
  

  Barbella makes several failed attempts to get rid of James Bond Jr. when he and his friends represent Warfield in the High School games in Barcelona; Goldie Finger plans to rob the Columbus museum of its golden treasury.

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 43 - Going for the Gold
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1995: GoldenEye world premiere at Radio City Music Hall, New York City, New York.

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

  
  
  

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

  

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  
  2015: Spectre released in Cambodia and Ecuador.
  2015: 幽灵 (Yōulíng; Ghost) released in China in an edited form.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  Nobody punishes it better
  https://www.driving.co.uk/video/james-bond-stunt-team-provide-toughest-test-new-land-rover-defender/
  Published 13 November 2019 by Will Dron

  

  WHATEVER your thoughts on the all-new Land Rover Defender, the 4×4 has been put through some serious testing during its development, covering more than 745,000 miles in some of the most extreme environments around the world, where temperature ranged from -40C to 50C and the altitude reached 10,000ft. But nothing could have prepared it for what the James Bond stunt team had in store.
  
  A new teaser video released by Land Rover shows Lee Morrison, stunt co-ordinator for No Time To Die, the 25th official James Bond film, and stunt driver Jess Hawkins doing their absolute best to punish the Defender.

  
  Behind the scenes of Stunt Coordinator Lee Morrison with the New Land Rover Defender featured in No Time To Die

  Land Rover says its design team worked closely with Chris Corbould, the special effects and action vehicles supervisor, on the specification of the Defenders to feature in the movie.
  
  The cars used were the first Defenders to be built at Jaguar Land Rover’s new production facility in Nitra, Slovakia, and based on the Defender X model in Santorini Black, with darkened skid pans, 20in dark finish wheels and professional off-road tyres.

  
  Behind the scenes image of the New Land Rover Defender featured in No Time To Die

  No Time To Die, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga and starring Daniel Craig, who returns for his fifth film as Ian Fleming’s James Bond 007, will be released globally in cinemas in April 2020. [later delayed]
  
  It will also feature the Range Rover Sport SVR, Series III Land Rover and Range Rover Classic, as well as a host of models from other brands including the Jaguar XF, Aston Martin Valhalla supercar and, of course, the legendary Aston Martin DB5.

  
  2021: John Pearson dies at age 91--Sussex, Canada.
  (Born 5 October 1930--Epsom, Surrey, England.)

  

  John Pearson (author)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pearson_(author)

  John Pearson
  Born 5 October 1930
  Epsom, Surrey, England
  Died 13 November 2021 (aged 91)
  Occupation Writer
  Genre Biography
  Website www.johnpearson.uk

  John George Pearson (5 October 1930 – 13 November 2021) was an English novelist and an author of biographies, notably of Ian Fleming (the creator of James Bond), of the Sitwells, and of the Kray twins.

  Life and career

  Pearson was born in Epsom, Surrey. He was educated at King's College School, Wimbledon, and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he gained a double first in history.[1] He then worked for The Economist, BBC Television and The Sunday Times. He was Ian Fleming's assistant at the Sunday Times and went on to write the first biography of Fleming, The Life of Ian Fleming, published in 1966.

  Pearson was commissioned by Donald Campbell to chronicle his successful attempt on the Land Speed Record in 1964 in Bluebird CN7, resulting in the book Bluebird and the Dead Lake.
  
  Pearson had also written "true crime" biographies, such as The Profession of Violence, an account of the rise and fall of the Kray twins, who had hired him to write their biography in 1967.[2] Over the next several years the brothers, who by now were in jail, wrote frequently to Pearson. He wrote two further books about the Krays: The Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of the Krays and Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins.[3] In 2010 Pearson put up for auction more than 160 previously unseen letters and photographs from the Kray twins. The items sold for £20,780.[4]
  
  Another of Pearson's books, The Gamblers, is an account of the group of gamblers who made up what was known as the Clermont Set, including John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and Lord Lucan. Warner Bros. purchased the film rights to the book in 2006.[5] The Gamblers was made into a two-part TV drama, Lucan, starring Rory Kinnear and Christopher Eccleston, broadcast on ITV1 in December 2013.
  
  Pearson's book Facades was the first full-scale biography of the Sitwell siblings Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell. It was published in 1978.
  
  Pearson had also written five novels. Storm Jameson praised his first novel, Gone to Timbuctoo, as "an unusually good first novel, an exciting story, and a splendid setting in French West Africa. The writing is sharp and witty."[6] Malcolm Muggeridge said, "This is an exceptionally brilliant first novel - exciting, wryly funny and perceptive."[6]

  For his next three novels, Pearson did tie-in fictional biographies. Pearson also became the third official author of the James Bond series, writing in 1973 James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007, a first-person biography of the fictional agent James Bond. However, Pearson declined an offer to write further Bond novels.[7] Pearson then did fictional tie-in works about Upstairs, Downstairs (The Bellamys of Eaton Place) and Biggles.

  Pearson had three children from his first marriage.[1] In 1980, he married his second wife, Lynette, daughter of Ian Hope Dundas of Dundas, 30th Chief of Clan Dundas, and former wife of Timothy Cecil Frankland, grandson of Sir Frederick Frankland, 10th Baronet by his wife Mary (née Curzon), Baroness Zouche, of the family of the Viscounts Curzon.[8] Pearson died on 13 November 2021, at the age of 91.[9][10]
  
  Bibliography
  Novels
  Gone To Timbuctoo (1962) - winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award
  James Bond: The Authorized Biography of 007 (1973)
  The Bellamys of Eaton Place (1976) - published in the U.S. as The Bellamy Saga
  Biggles: The Authorised Biography (1978)
  The Kindness of Dr Avicenna (1982)
  
  Non-fiction
  Biographies
  Bluebird and the Dead Lake (1965) (published in the U.S. as The Last Hero: The Gallant Story of Donald Campbell and the Land Speed Record in 1966)
  The Life of Ian Fleming (1966)
  The Kray Twins series:
  The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins (1972) - nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award
  The Cult of Violence: The Untold Story of the Krays (2001)
  Notorious: The Immortal Legend of the Kray Twins (2010)
  Facades: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell (1978) (published in the U.S. as The Sitwells in 1979)
  Barbara Cartland: Crusader in Pink (1979), first published as by "Henry Cloud" but subsequently republished under his own name
  Stags and Serpents: The Story of the House of Cavendish and the Dukes of Devonshire (1983) (published in the U.S. as The Serpent and the Stag in 1984)
  The Ultimate Family: The Making of the Royal House of Windsor (1986) (published in the U.S. as The Selling of the Royal Family: The Mystique of the British Monarchy)
  Citadel of the Heart: Winston and the Churchill Dynasty (1991) (published in the U.S. as The Private Lives of Winston Churchill)
  Painfully Rich: the Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty (1995)
  Blood Royal: The Story of the Spencers and the Royals (1999)
  One of the Family: The Englishman and the Mafia (2003)
  The Gamblers: John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and the Murder of Lord Lucan (2005)
  Ian Fleming: The Notes (2020)
  
  History
  Airline Detective: The Fight Against International Air Crime (1962) co-written with BOAC Security expert Donald E. W. Fish although Pearson is uncredited[11]
  Arena: The Story of the Colosseum (1973)
  Edward the Rake (1975) (published in the U.S. as Edward the Rake: An Unwholesome Biography of Edward VII)
  
  Politics
  The Persuasion Industry (1965), with Graham Turner
  
  Adaptations
  Goldeneye (1989), telefilm directed by Don Boyd, based on non-fiction book The Life of Ian Fleming
  Lucan (2013), mini-series directed by Adrian Shergold, based on non-fiction book The Gamblers: John Aspinall, James Goldsmith and the Murder of Lord Lucan
  Legend (2015), film directed by Brian Helgeland, based on non-fiction book The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins
  All the Money in the World (2017), film directed by Ridley Scott, based on non-fiction book Painfully Rich: the Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul
  
  References
  Hunt, George P. (7 October 1966). "Editor's Note: The Biography of Ian Fleming". Life. Vol. 61, no. 15. p. 7.
  "Kray twins memorabilia sold at auction". 20 October 2010 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  Campbell, Duncan (3 September 2015). "The selling of the Krays: how two mediocre criminals created their own legend | Duncan Campbell" – via www.theguardian.com.
  "Kray twin items sell for £20,780". 19 October 2010 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  Michael Fleming (5 October 2006). "'Departed' scribe digs WB: Studio inks overall deal with Monahan". Variety. Retrieved 5 January 2007.
  The Publisher, Volume 176.
  Reineke, Hank. "...a lot of criminals and very dodgy people". 007 Magazine #49 (2006)
  Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, 107th edition, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, vol. 1, p. 1221, vol. 3, p. 4291
  "In Memoriam: James Bond author John Pearson (1930-2021)". 007travelers.com. 13 November 2021.
  Obituaries, Telegraph (15 November 2021). "John Pearson, author of a seminal study of the Kray twins and biographer of both Ian Fleming and 007 – obituary". The Telegraph.
  Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.514

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
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  November 14 Posts: 13,812

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

  https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/op.php3
  
  
  http://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=996
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Barcelona James Bond numero 04: Octopussy
  https://en.todocoleccion.net/comics/james-bond-numero-04-octopussy~x116600976
  
  
  
  JAMES BOND DI IAN FLEMING. OCTOPUSSY. N. 112. ED. C. CONTI, 1977. ITALIANO
  
  
  Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1986.php3

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

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

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

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

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

  1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service's films OO7 and more cowbell.
  
  1972: Live and Let Die begins filming on location in Jamaica.
  1979: Olga Kurylenko is born--Berdyansk, Zaporozhye Oblast, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union.
  (Today known as Zaporizhia Oblast, Ukraine.)
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 44 of 65 - "A DeRange Mind" in New York.

  

  

  James Bond Jr - A DeRange Mind

  Season 1 - Episode 44
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807090/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  When an UFO is shot down by a military close to New York, the craft is taken for analysis to a military research laboratory.

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 44 - A DeRange Mind
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1995: EMI releases Éric Serra's GoldenEye soundtrack.

  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  

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

  

  

  2008: 007 Quantum (French title) and Quantum of Solace released in Canada.
  2008: 007 Quantum released in Mexico.
  2008: Định Mức Khuây Khỏa (Comfort Rate) released in Vietnam.

  

  
  2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Origin #3.
  Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.

  

  James Bond Origin #3

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

  By Neil Genzlinger | March 16, 2021

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

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

  
  Mr. Kotto as a police lieutenant on the long-running TV series “Homicide: Life on the Street.”
  Credit...James Sorensen/NBC Universal, via Getty Images

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

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

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

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

  

  Yaphet Kotto (1939–2021)

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

  
  
  
  

  
  1972: Live and Let Die films Rosie Carver's death by scarecrow.

  

  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 45 of 65 - "Catching the Wave."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Catching the Wave

  Season 1 - Episode 45
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807096/?ref_=tt_ep_nx
  

  Jaws and Nick Nack prepare to gatecrash a secret meeting of the Government Technology Committee.

  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 ... 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)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)

  James Bond Jr Episode 45 - Catching the Wave
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  1999: Radioactive releases "The World Is Not Enough" as a limited-edition digipak CD single and a cassette single in the UK. Both include "Ice Bandits". CD adds remix by Unkle.

  
  
  
  
  

  
  2004: Video game GoldenEye Rogue Agent released in Canada.

  

  

  GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (2004)

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0422335/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  Join the other side of the law, as you play a rogue MI6 Agent, who becomes involved in a bitter gang war between Dr. No and Auric Goldfinger.

  Directed by Ken Harsha ... (in-game cinematics)
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Danny Bilson
  Paul De Meo
  Ian Fleming ... (characters)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Enn Reitel ... Auric Goldfinger (voice)
  Jeannie Elias ... Pussy Galore (voice)
  Christopher Lee ... Francisco Scaramanga (voice)
  Jenya Lano ... Xenia Onatopp (voice)
  Carlos Alazraqui ... Dr. Julius No (voice)
  Jason Carter ... James Bond / 007 (voice)
  Gideon Emery ... Number One (Ernst Stavro Blofeld) (voice)
  André Sogliuzzo ... (voice)
  Robert Wu ... (voice)
  Ron Yuan ... (voice)
  Danny Mann ... (voice)
  Brian George ... (voice)
  Linda Wang ... Hong Kong 1 'Sexy Bath House Girl' (voice)
  Peter Kwong ... Hong Kong 1 (voice)
  Tim Dang ... Triad Informant (voice) (as Timothy Dang)
  Greg Ellis ... (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Judi Dench ... M (voice)
  Zach Goldsmith ... (voice)
  Kirsten Kairos ... Hologram Hostess (voice) (as Kristen Kairos)
  Nolan North ... (voice)
  Robin Sachs ... (voice)
  Toonyun ... Hong Kong 'Sexy Bath House Girl' (voice) (as Shirley To)

  HQ James Bond: Goldeneye:Rogue Agent Introduction
  
  
  GoldenEye: Rogue Agent Teaser Trailer
  

  
  
  

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

  

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

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

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

  

  JAMES BOND: KILL CHAIN #5 (OF 6)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2024: Go!Tekken Wiki projects future animated product James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die. (?!?)

  

  

  James Bond 007: An Italian
  Mission to Live it and Die

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://gotekken.fandom.com/wiki/James_Bond_007:_An_Italian_Mission_to_Live_it_and_Die

  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die
  Directed by Guy Richard
  Screenplay by Guy Richard, Tessa Selier, Jackie Sanderman
  Based on James Bond by Ian Fleming
  
  Starring
  Michael Caine
  Lea Seydoux
  Lisa-Dorah Sonnet
  Ben Whislaw
  Naomie Harris
  Mike Nawrocki
  Jack Dylan Grazer
  Emma Berman
  Josh Gad
  Tony Hale
  Alec Baldwin
  
  Music by Dan Romer (score), Pharrell Williams (songs)
  Cinematography by Sanne De Beer (lighting), Rinske Hermus (camera)
  Edited by Mandy van Zuylen
  
  Production Company
  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  Eon Productions
  Goanimate Animation
  
  Distributed by
  Warner Bros Pictures (North America and Asia)
  20th Century Studios (International)
  
  Release Date
  November 15, 2024 (United Kingdom)
  November 22, 2024 (United States)
  
  Running Time 105 minutes
  Country United Kingdom, The Netherlands, United States
  Budget $115 million (€110 million)

  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die is 2024 upcoming computer-animated spy comedy film and the 27th film to the James Bond film series, it will be directed by Guy Richard, produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Eon Productions and Goanimate Animation and distributed by Warner Bros Pictures, the production will be started in December 2021 and will take nearly 4 years until September 2024, Michael Caine will do the role of James Bond, along with the new voice actors including Mike Nawrocki, Emma Berman, Josh Gad, Jack Dylan Grazer, Tony Hale and Alec Baldwin, and with Ben Whislaw reprising the role of James Bond's Quartermaster named Q, Léa Seydoux and Lisa-Dorah Sonnet as the roles of Madeleine Swann and his daughter Mathilde, and with Naomie Harris returning to voice the role of Eve Moneypenny, with the estimated production budget of $115 million, James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die is first very-expensive animated film of James Bond movie series that is ever made and the third Goanimate Animation film to feature the computer-animated on-screen logo with the squirrel mascot Scrat, since the fifth Andrew Orozco movie and Cartoons: King's Games: The Movie.

  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die will have its world premiere at De Bodde Film Festival in Eindhoven, The Netherlands on November 13, 2024, and was scheduled to be released direct-to-streaming on Goanimate Plus on November 22, 2024, it was originally intended for the worldwide theatrical release, but the fears from the worldwide people over the infections rises caused by B.A. 4 and B.A. 5, resulted in the change.
  
  Premise
  ..and to Genova, where Nonos Spectre will kill people with the pepper spray gun, to stop the plan to kill the people, James Bond, Giulia Marcovaldo, Larry Bond and Steve will work together to save Italy and prevent it from getting people killed and died by the pepper spray.
  
  Cast
  For the international voice casts, see James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die international voice casts.
  
  Michael Caine as James Bond, a british MI6 agent, Mathilde's father and Giulia's uncle.
  Lea Seydoux as Madaline Swann, James Bond's girlfriend.
  Lisa-Dorah Sonnet as Mathilde Swann, Madaline and Bond's daughter.
  Mike Nawrocki as Larry Bond, a british-accent cucumber agent from the MI6.
  Jack Dylan Grazer as Alberto Scorfano, Giulia's adopted brother from Portorosso.
  Josh Gad as Steve, a smart-knoweldge bird and Mathilde's bird friend.
  Emma Berman as Giulia Marcovaldo, a 13-year old girl from italy who is the fan of James Bond.
  Marco Barricelli as Massimo Marcovaldo, an Italian fisherman, cook, and Giulia's father.
  Alec Bladwin as Noros Spectre, a half human and half stork villain who is the co-founder of Spectre.
  Phil Vischer as Dr. Zorro, Noros's nervous tomato assistant.
  Guy Richard as Almir Piegon, a piegon with indian accent.
  Brian Hull as Sudsan Piegon, a piegon who is Almir's brother.
  Wesley Selier as Casino Worker #2, Crash the Hand, and the cheese-headed bean boy.
  
  [Production
  Animation and Compositing
  The animation was created by Goanimate Mac Guff in Waalwijk, The Netherlands, the models of the italian towns of Portorosso, Rome and Genova, and the MI6 headquarters in London, England was created after building for 4 months with Autodesk Maya, while the characters James Bond and Larry Bond was created with Blender, a dutch animation software that the Goanimate Mac Guff animation-studio and other animation studios used it, and to composit the movie, the compositing team used the Nuke software.
  
  Release
  Theatrical and streaming
  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die was originally scheduled for theatrical release in the United States on September 15, 2023, but due to the production not starting until November 2021, it was delayed by a year to July 8, 2024, and then on April 3, 2024, the film got delayed again, this time to November 22, 2024, due to the rapid spread of the Deltacron variant in the US and Canada.
  
  On October 4, 2024, it was announced that the film would have its world premiere at the De Bodde Film Festival Eindhoven on November 6, 2024.
  
  Marketing
  To promote the film's theatrical release, Goanimate Animation signed the sereval deals with the marketing companies like Tokon Toys (for the non-dangerously guns) and Spreadshirt (for the clothes and home accessories like t-shirts, pants, socks, caps, mugs, coasters, drink bottles, fabric bags and iphone cases for IPhone 7, 8 and X).
  
  Music
  Score soundtrack
  No. Title Composer
  1 Gunbarrel/A Life in Portorosso | Dan Romer | 2:35
  2 James Bond, You're Back! | Dan Romer | 1:32
  3 The Pepper Spray Gun/A Fight in Rome | Dan Romer | 1:25
  4 For Once in My Life Guy Richard 2:50
  
  Omitted tracks
  For Once in My Life by Stewie Wonder (played in the end credits scene)
  
  Reception
  Box office
  James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die was projected to gross $95-120 million in the opening weekend in the United States and Canada.
  
  Critical response
  On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film had its rating of 95% and had the audience score of 84%, with an average rating of 7.30/10. The website's critics consensus reads ''James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die is one of the best James Bond movies, and of course the first animated movie in the movie series that the fans was hoped, for the action, the spy missions, the comedy and friendship, and animated look of James Bond was surprised for the James Bond fans''.
  
  Sequel
  After beginning development of the first James Bond 007 animated film, Goanimate Animation is also developing the sequel to James Bond 007: An Italian Mission to Live it and Die titled James Bond 007: No Far from Italy, the planned sequel is slated for theatrical release on July 17, 2026, and Micheal Caine was interested about reprising the role of James Bond in the animated sequel.

  Gallery
  Textless promotional posters
  
  
  
  Promotional posters
  Untitled James Bond animated movie reveal poster
  
  

  
  
  
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  November 15 Posts: 13,812

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

  
  
  
  

  Apparently there was also a sequel.

  

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

  

  
  1999: The World Is Not Enough premieres in Malaysia.
  1999: Tomorrow Never Dies video game released in the UK and US.

  

  

  Tomorrow Never Dies
  Video Game | 1999 | T

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253823/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3
  

  As suave secret agent 007, employ your cunning wit and high-tech gadgets to survive multiple levels of espionage based on exciting situations from the blockbuster film.

  Directed by
  William Botti
  Writing Credits
  Flint Dille ... (written by)
  Ian Fleming ... (character)
  William Botti
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Stephen Critchlow ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Adam Blackwood ... James Bond (voice)
  Andrew Bicknell ... Stamper / Bartender (voice)
  Miles Anderson ... Dr. Kaufmann / Isagura / Q (voice)
  Ève Karpf ... Paris Carver (voice)
  Larissa Murray ... Wai Lin (voice)
  Steve Hope Wynne ... Elliot Carver (voice)
  Caron Pascoe ... M (voice)
  Nicolas Read ... Additional Voices (voice)
  
  Music by
  David Alexander ... (as Sonic Mayhem)
  Howard Ulyate

  
  Tomorrow Never Dies PS1 Trailer
  
  
  Tomorrow Never Dies (Video Game) Medley
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2006: Casino Royale released in the UK, Ireland, Czech Republic, Greece, Israel, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Singapore, and Syria.

  
  

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

  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  2012: OO7 Legends video game released in the US.

  

  

  OO7 Legends
  Video Game | 2012 | T

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2171704/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
  

  Play as James Bond in this first person shooter adventure. You will encounter the most memorable nemeses of 007 spanning from Goldfinger to Skyfall.

  Directed by
  John Dower ... (film segment director) (voice director)
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Bruce Feirstein
  Ian Fleming ... (characters)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Timothy Watson ... James Bond / Auric Goldfinger / Drax Henchman (voice)
  Judi Dench ... M (voice)
  Rory Kinnear ... Bill Tanner (voice)
  Demetri Goritsas ... Felix Leiter (voice)
  Naomie Harris ... Eve (voice)
  Natasha Little ... Pussy Galore (voice)
  Orion Lee ... Mr. Ling / Moonraker Scientist (voice)
  Glenn Wrage ... Ernst Stavro Blofeld (voice)
  Nicola Walker ... Teresa di Vicenzo (voice)
  Anthony Edridge ... Marc Ange Draco (voice) (as Antony Edridge)
  Roberto Davide ... Franz Sanchez / Additional Voices (voice) (as Rob David)
  Carey Lowell ... Pam Bouvier (voice)
  Vincent Carmichael ... Alfonso / Additional Voices (voice)
  Madalena Alberto ... Jinx Johnson / Moonraker Scientist (voice)
  Toby Stephens ... Gustav Graves (voice)
  Jason Wong ... Zao / Additional Voices (voice)
  Jane Perry ... Holly Goodhead / Moonraker Scientist (voice)
  Michael Lonsdale ... Hugo Drax (voice)
  Gyuri Sarossy ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Nicholas Boulton ... Aston Martin GPS (voice)
  Jen Bradshaw ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Joseph May ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Joseph Balderrama ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Lauren Dagley ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Luis Soto ... Additional Voices (voice)
  James Goode ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Nick Fletcher ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Nigel Whitmey ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Ollie Hollis ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Paul Courtenay Hyu ... Goldfinger Soldier / Additional Voices (voice) (as Paul Hyu)
  Peter Stark ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Richard Cant ... Additional Voices (voice)
  David Thomas ... Additional Voices (voice) (as Rob Matthews)
  Stephane Cornicard ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Stephen Hoo ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Todd Boyce ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Trevor White ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Velibor Topic ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Peter Brück ... (voice)
  Kezia Burrows ... Performance Capture Various
  Daniel Curshen ... Additional Voices (voice)
  Carsten Hayes ... Blofeld Guard (voice)
  
  Music by
  Kevin Kiner

  007 Legends Launch trailer
  
  
  007 Legends - GOLDFINGER Trailer
  
  
  007 Legends - ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE Trailer
  
  
  007 Legends: Die Another Day & Licence to Kill Trailer
  
  
  007 LEGENDS SKYFALL TRAILER
  
  
  007 Legends: Multiplayer Trailer
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.harringtonbooks.co.uk/pages/books/58365/jon-gilbert-born-1972/ian-fleming-and-james-bond-manuscripts-in-the-schoyen-collection-series-32

  Royal Tunbridge Wells: Adrian Harrington Ltd., 2020. [Literary and film Reference] 'SILVER' edition, SIGNED by the author. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.292, printed on Munken Lynx paper. Illustrated throughout in black and white, with a colour frontispiece and 32 colour plates. Bound in full graphite buckram, blocked in two-colour metallic foils with silver titles to front cover, red and grey endbands and cherry red endpapers. New book, sold at the RRP. PRE-ORDER ONLY (Published 16th November 2020). A comprehensive account of the Ian Fleming/James Bond material held at The Schøyen Collection, London and Oslo, compiled by Jon Gilbert, with an introduction by Dr. Martin Schøyen and a foreword by Fergus Fleming. Item #58365
  
  Price: £65.00

  

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

  

  Teru Shimada

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

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

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

  

  Teru Shimada (1905–1988)

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

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

  
  

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

  

  John Wells (satirist)

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wells_(satirist)

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

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

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

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

  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  

  1995: The New York Times reviews GoldenEye as "That 'Sexist, Misogynist Dinosaur' James Bond".

  

  FILM REVIEW;That 'Sexist,
  Misogynist Dinosaur' James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/17/movies/film-review-that-sexist-misogynist-dinosaur-james-bond.html

  By Janet Maslin | Nov. 17, 1995
  GoldenEye
  Directed by Martin Campbell
  Action, Adventure, Thriller
  PG-13
  2h 10m

  "Goldeneye" unveils Pierce Brosnan as the coffee-bar James Bond: mild, fashionable and nice in a very 90's way. Mr. Brosnan, as the best-moussed Bond ever to play baccarat in Monte Carlo, makes the character's latest personality transplant viable (not to mention smashingly photogenic), but the series still suffers the blahs.
  
  Today's Bond does have the Internet and a credit sequence resembling a pretentious music video. And he has a girlfriend with advanced computer skills (Izabella Scorupco, a deep-voiced model who looks as good as Mr. Brosnan, which is saying a lot). Still, he often seems adrift. And this film is missing such basics as the cold war and the James Bond theme music. The absence of the latter is sure to throw some audience members into a two-hour Pavlovian twitch.
  
  Judi Dench, as the first woman to play his supervisor, M, is on hand to call Bond "a sexist, misogynist dinosaur" so that you won't have to. But the real problem is not a matter of Bond's antediluvian quirks. It's that "Goldeneye" bears no stamp of Ian Fleming beyond its title, which was the name of his Jamaican home. This film's screenplay, by Jeffrey Caine and Bruce Feirstein from a story by Michael France, features only flat repartee and fairly desperate homages to the Fleming style.
  
  And so many other action films have borrowed from the Bond formula in the 33 (yes!) years since "Dr. No" that this one has a hard time looking special. A plane, a motorcycle, a huge dam, a bungee jumper and nerve gas all feature in the opening sequence, yet it still lacks the novelty that starts the best Bond films off with a bang. And Mr. Brosnan, who makes a fabulous clothing model and has mastered the one dramatic mode this role requires of him (wry), is not at his most believable during action scenes. When Bond rides in a tank through St. Petersburg during a scenery-crunching chase scene, Michael Dukakis comes to mind.
  
  Clinging desperately to the idea of Russian villainy for old times' sake, the plot involves Russian gangsters trying to exploit a secret space-based weapons program to sabotage financial markets in the West. And its chief villain is 006 (Sean Bean), who was once Bond's colleague and now calls him "Her Majesty's loyal terrier." Beyond this, it's enough to note that character actors include Robbie Coltrane as a Russian hood and Joe Don Baker as a C.I.A. man, and that settings can be drably industrial unless the film is pointedly visiting Switzerland or the Caribbean, where it practically screams about the scenery.
  
  Though 006 has the poor form to bait Bond about his past, wondering theatrically whether all those vodka martinis can silence the screams of all the men Bond has killed, most of "Goldeneye" is relatively restrained. Martin Campbell, who previously directed the sci-fi prison film "No Escape" with Ray Liotta, supplies shootouts and explosions at reliable intervals, and without any special frills. The film's gaudiest feature is a vicious Russian named Xenia Onatopp (Famke Janssen), who bites and claws her lovers and has a way of confusing sex with death. Her nutcracker thighs, not to mention her name, suggest that the Bond babe is as ready as 007 was for a timely overhaul.
  
  In the product-placement department, BMW, Perrier and the becoming Bond wardrobe are all advertised. "Goldeneye" is as much a merchandising event as it is a wishfully nostalgic movie.
  
  "Goldeneye" is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes several sexual episodes, along with double-entendres that either draw smirks or die trying.

  GOLDENEYE
  Directed by Martin Campbell; written by Jeffrey Caine and Bruce Feirstein, based on a story by Michael France and characters created by Ian Fleming; director of photography, Phil Meheux; edited by Terry Rawlings; music by Eric Serra, with "Goldeneye" theme written by Bono and the Edge; production designer, Peter Lamont; produced by Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli; released by United Artists. Running time: 130 minutes. This film is rated PG-13.
  
  WITH: Pierce Brosnan (James Bond), Sean Bean (Alec Trevelyan), Izabella Scorupco (Natalya Simonova), Famke Janssen (Xenia Onatopp), Joe Don Baker (Jack Wade), Robbie Coltrane (Valentin Zukovsky) and Judi Dench ( M )
  
  Nov. 17, 1995, Section C, Page 17 of the National edition with the headline: FILM REVIEW;That 'Sexist, Misogynist Dinosaur' James Bond.

  
  

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

  

  Frank C. McCarthy

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

  

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

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

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

  
  

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

  

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

  
  

  
  2015: MTV proposes GoldenEye as the best party game of all time.

  

  'Goldeneye' Is Still The Best Party
  Game Of All Time

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.mtv.com/news/pw30bt/goldeneye-party-game

  Slappers only, please.
  By Victoria McNally
  November 17, 2015 / 1:35 PM
  
  On November 17, 1995, Pierce Brosnan first stepped into the role of James Bond for the iconic film "Goldeneye," and with it the franchise was forever changed -- we got the first Bond movie with CGI in it, the first to feature Judi Dench as M, and the first to ever be sold on DVD.
  
  But for many kids growing up back then in the '90s, the true legacy of "Goldeneye" has nothing to the movie at all (you know, because some of our parents wouldn't let us watch it *cough*). Instead, when we hear the title "Goldeneye" we think of a completely different medium altogether -- video games, because "Goldeneye 007" for the Nintendo 64 was one of the best games of all time.
  
  
  
  Although it was released two years after the film, "Goldeneye 007" was miles above what you'd expect from the average movie tie-in game -- it ended up becoming the third best-selling Nintendo 64 game of all time, and drastically influenced the future of first person shooters for years to come. You like "Call Of Duty" or "Halo?" You've got this game to thank.
  
  And "Goldeneye" also had one of the most awesome, most hilarious, most fun multiplayer modes ever, where you and your friends could kill each other over and over again until one of you came out the victor. Pretty awesome for a game that wasn't even going to have multiplayer in the first place, right?
  
  In case you haven't picked up this amazing game in a few years, let's take a walk down memory lane and remind you why it got brought out at every sleepover, after school hangout session, and nostalgia college party you've ever been to:
  
  First of all, it let you play all kinds of characters from across the Bond franchise, even the Bond Girls.
  
  
  
  Trust me, you notice that stuff when you're a little girl who always gets stuck playing Peach in "Mario Kart 64." And even if you weren't worried about gender breakdown, there were plenty of awesome characters to play, especially if you or your friend managed to unlock everyone by beating story mode. Grace Jones as Mayday from "A View To Kill?" Yes please! Oddjob from "Goldfinger?" Sign me up!
  
  It also let you play with up to three of your friends for maximum carnage.
  
  
  
  Connecting up with your friends from across the country via headsets and WiFi is fun and all, but admit it: you miss having to share a screen and a couch with a bunch of your buds.
  
  It was so, so satisfying to see your competitors go down in a haze of red.
  
  
  
  
  You weren't supposed to cheat when you were playing local multiplayer, but it was just so wonderful seeing somebody's side of the screen go bloody after you'd hunted them down.
  
  Speaking of which, you got to handle all those amazing weapons.
  
  
  
  
  Sure, sometimes you accidentally ran right past them on the floor because you weren't sure of where you were going, and that was always pretty embarrassing. But once you got your hands on a rocket launcher, watch out! (No seriously, watch out, because if you fired that thing too close to your opponent then you ended up going red, too.)
  
  Or with just one weapon at a time, if you wanted it to get real weird.
  
  
  
  
  Anyone could win a round with a wide variety of weapons at their disposal, but what happened when you were all stuck using throwing knives or proximity mines? That's where things got truly interesting, and either one of you would emerge victorious as a strategic mastermind of mines, or you'd all die in a chaotic mess. Probably both, actually.
  
  Or, even better, no weapons.
  
  
  
  
  If you have not played a 4-person session of "Goldeneye" in "Slappers Only" mode, then you have not lived. It's the single funniest thing that has ever been programmed into a video game, and you'd always die so many times simply because you were too busy laughing to pay attention to who was smacking you in the face.
  
  And then there was the infamous Big Head mode.
  
  
  
  
  Honestly, you didn't even need to be in multiplayer to enjoy the magic of the Big Head cheat -- you could just take turns in first person story mode and have just as much fun together, if not more. Look at all those giant furry Russian hats! Pure bliss.

  
  

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

  

  50 Greatest Bond Cars

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.herocollector.com/en-us/Article/50-greatest-bond-cars

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  2022: Movieweb talks to British James Bond and the American Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  How James Bond Became a Thanksgiving Holiday
  Franchise

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  By Richard Fink | 17 November 2022
  
  The James Bond movies have typically been released around Thanksgiving weekend, so what makes a UK spy great to watch on an a American holiday?

  

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

  
  Pierce Brosnan James Bond GoldenEye 1995 Eon
  MGM / UA

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

  
  Daniel Craig in a Barbour Jacket in Skyfall
  Sony Pictures

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

  
  Daniel Craig as James Bond in Spectre
  Sony Pictures

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

  

  
  2022: The International Spy Museum hosts Superspy Science with author Kathryn Harkup.

  

  Superspy Science with
  Kathryn Harkup
  

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.spymuseum.org/calendar/superspy-science-with-kathryn-harkup/2022-11-17/

  Virtual Event
  Thursday, November 17, 2022

  Could our favorite Bond villains actually achieve world domination? Were the huge variety of weapons and technology in Bond’s arsenal ever actually developed? Could 007 really escape all those close shaves with his life intact?
  
  The world of 007 is known for its guns, gadgets, and grandiose schemes to take over the world, but would any of these weapons, tech, or plots make it in the real world? With her new book, Superspy Science: Science, Death and Tech in the World of James Bond, international bestselling author, Dr. Kathryn Harkup has set out to explore how science and technology intersect with the world of Bond. From Dr. No to Skyfall, Harkup takes on the really difficult questions such as: Will being covered in gold paint really kill you? Can you run across crocodiles? Can you sled in a cello case? And how do suicide pills work and can you survive taking one? Join us for a conversation with Harkup about some of our favorite Bond weapons, technologies, and tactics and just how rooted in reality they are.
  
  Following the conversation, you’ll be able to ask questions via our online platform.

  Auto-generated closed captioning will be available for this program.
  
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  November 18th
  
  1928: Mickey Mouse is born in the film short Steamboat Willy.
  (Known as Topolino --Baby Mouse-- in Italy.)

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  Walt Disney Animation Studios' Steamboat Willie (7:22)
  

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

  

  Lot 59 of 721:
  Two rare Ian Fleming appearances

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

  
  

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

  
  

  
  1988: Licence to KIll principal photography finishes. (Started 18 July.)
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 46 of 65 - "Last of the Tooboos."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Last of the Tooboos

  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807107/?ref_=ttep_ep46
  

  While visiting the London Zoo, James interrupts Skullcap during his theft of a rare animal, a tooboo, whose unusual enzymes Dr. Derange wants for himself.

  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
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Julian Holloway ... Mr.Bradford Milbanks / Dr.Derange (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Skullcap (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)
  Produced by
  Bill Hutten ... producer
  Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
  Tony Love ... producer
  Fred Wolf ... executive producer
  Music by
  Dennis C. Brown
  Larry Brown

  James Bond Jr Episode 46 - Last of the Tooboos
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Malaysia and Singapore.
  1999: Hodder & Stoughton publish Raymond Benson's novelization of The World Is Not Enough.

  

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

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

  
  

  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  Michael Kamen

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

  

  Michael Kamen (1948–2003)

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

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

  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  Mark Milsome Foundation

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

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

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

  

  Mark Milsome (1963–2017)

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

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

  
  
  
  

  
  2022: The Martini Bar at The Ocean Club offers mixology and culinary experience at A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas.

  

  Shaken, Not Stirred at
  The Martini Bar

  See the complete article here:
  

  https://www.bahamas.com/fr/events/shaken-not-stirred-at-the-martini-bar

  18 Nov, 2022
  The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort

  A nod to its glamorous and star-studded legacy, The Martini Bar at The Ocean Club, A Four Seasons Resort, Bahamas has launched a new and decadent mixology and culinary experience.
  
  The Martini Bar is known best as the backdrop for the 2006 remake of the Casino Royale film where James Bond can be seen sipping his famous Vesper Martini. This limited seat Living Room Bar transports guests into the scenes of their very own movie.
  
  Whether sipping on a classic Vesper Martini or indulging in the new ultra-luxe Caviar Martini, it’s an unforgettable experience. While cocktails are the heart of The Martini Bar signature experience, new unique culinary creations are presented with suggested Martini pairings.

  The Martini Bar and Lounge is open every Friday and Saturday from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm. Reservations can be made by calling the Resort at +1-242-363-2501.
  
  Every friday
  The information or details for this event may change at any given time and The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism and the Government of The Bahamas will not be held liable for any decision made based upon it.

  

  
  2024: Victor Harold Flick dies at age 87.
  (Born 14 May 1937--Worcester Park, England.)
  
  2024: Mickey Mouse Day.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 19 Posts: 13,812

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  
  
  

  
  1981: For Your Eyes Only released in Australia.

  

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

  
  

  
  1987: The Living Daylights released in Australia.

  
  
  

  1988: Licence to Kill completes filming, representing Timothy Dalton's last day on camera as Bond.
  
  1991: James Bond Jr. in syndication releases episode 47 of 65 - "S.C.U.M. on the Water."

  

  

  James Bond Jr - S.C.U.M. on the Water

  Season 1 - Episode 47
  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0807298/?ref_=ttep_ep47
  

  James Bond Jr. and his comrades are planning a great day out at the regatta. However, he doesn't consider on the appearance of Captain Walker D. Plank, whose latest scheme involves building the deadliest ship that ever hoisted the Jolly Roger. He kidnapped marine engineer Walter Gibson to this end.

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 47 - S.C.U.M. on the Water
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  1999: Le monde ne suffit pas released in Canada.

  

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  

  007: Nightfire
  Video Game | 2002 | T

  James Bond is on a mission to investigate about a stolen space weapon platform. Raphael Drake, who is an industrialist that takes on a job to disarm nuclear missiles, is suspected to secretly using them to start a nuclear holocaust.

  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Danny Bilson
  Paul De Meo
  Ian Fleming ... (characters)
  
  Cast (in credits order)
  Maxwell Caulfield ... James Bond (voice)
  Samantha Eggar ... M (voice)
  Kimberley Davies ... Alura McCall (voice)
  Michael Ensign ... Drake (voice)
  Ian Abercrombie ... Alexander Mayhew (voice)
  Tamlyn Tomita ... Makiko Hayashi (voice)
  Lena Reno ... Dominique Paradis (voice)
  Kai Wulff ... Austrian Guards / Party Guests (voice)
  Gregg Berger ... Q (voice)
  Jeanne Mori ... Zoe Nightshade (voice)
  Richard Whiten ... Armitage Rook (voice)
  Gustavo Rex ... Truck Driver / Additional Voices (voice)
  Yoshio Be ... Security Guard (voice)
  Jean Gilpin ... Civilians (voice)
  Vanessa Marshall ... Car Computer (voice)
  J. Grant Albrecht ... Power Plant Guards (voice) (as Grant Alberecht)
  Hiroshi Otaguro ... Yakuza Soldiers (voice) (as Hiroshi Taguro)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Masa Kanome ... Yakuza (voice)
  
  Produced by
  Scott Blackwood ... producer
  Ken Rogers ... associate producer
  Music by
  Lars Anderson
  Ed Lima
  Jeff Tymoschuk

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  James Bond 007 - Nightfire Trailer
  
  
  Nightfire - Theme Song | Esthero - Nearly Civilized
  

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

  

  Bond villain Blofeld could return to Bond

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

  
  Charles Gray played Blofeld in Diamonds are Forever

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

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

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

  2015: With Spectre, Bond has stolen kisses in India.

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

  
  
  

  
  2020: IO Interactive announces Project 007 in development.

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

  When is the Project 007
  release date?

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

  Is there a Project 007 trailer?

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

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

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

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

  What is the Project 007 story?

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

  When will we find out more about Project 007?

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

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

  What other James Bond games have
  been released?

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

  Project 007 is in active development.

  
  

  
  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 19 Posts: 13,812

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

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

  John Gardner (British Writer)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

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

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

  
  Bernard Horsfall in The Merry Widow, a 1981 episode of the ITV show, Crown Court.
  Photograph: ITV/Rex Features

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

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

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

  

  Bernard Horsfall (1930–2013)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  RICHARD LOO,
  ACTOR 5 DECADES

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Goldie's Gold Scam

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

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

  Directed by Bill Hutten, Tony Love
  Writing Credits (in alphabetical order)
  Andy Heyward ... (developer)
  Robby London ... (developer) (as Robbie London)
  J.R. Morton ... (written by)
  Michael G. Wilson ... (developer)
  Cast (in credits order)
  Jeff Bennett ... Horace 'IQ' Boothroyd / Oddjob (voice)
  Corey Burton ... James Bond Jr. (voice)
  Mona Marshall ... Tracy Milbanks (voice)
  Brian Stokes Mitchell ... Coach Mitchell (voice) (as Brian Mitchell)
  Jan Rabson ... Gordon 'Gordo' Leiter / Auric Goldfinger (voice)
  Susan Silo ... Phoebe Farragut (voice)
  Kath Soucie ... Goldie Finger (voice)
  Simon Templeman ... Trevor Noseworthy IV (voice)
  Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
  Mari Devon ... (voice)
  
  Produced by
  Bill Hutten ... producer
  Walt Kubiak ... supervising producer
  Tony Love ... producer
  Fred Wolf ... executive producer
  Music by
  Dennis C. Brown
  Larry Brown

  James Bond Jr Episode 48 - Goldie's Gold Scam
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  

  

  007 Racing
  Video Game | 2000 | T

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

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

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  

  2002: Meurs un autre jour released in France.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  Graham Rye

  

  Kevin McClory

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

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

  

  Kevin McClory (1926–2006)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  

  

  How Bollinger became the official
  Champagne of James Bond

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  

  Aliens actor Al Matthews dies aged 75

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

  
  20th Century Fox

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

  

  Al Matthews (I) (1942–2018)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  "Fool", Al Matthews, 1975.
  
  

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

  

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

  

  Peter Burton

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

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

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

  

  Peter Burton (I) (1921–1989)

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

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

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

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

  

  

  James Bond Jr - Canine Caper

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

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

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

  James Bond Jr Episode 49 - Canine Caper
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  
  
  

  

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

  

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

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

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

  

  Syd Cain (1918–2011)

  Filmography

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

  
  

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

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

  
  

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

  
  

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

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

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

  

  
  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

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

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

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

  
  
• RichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.

  November 21 Posts: 13,812

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

  

  Hoagy Carmichael

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

  
  Hoagy Carmichael.
  Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

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

  

  Hoagy Carmichael (1899–1981)

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

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

  
  
  
  

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

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

  Chapter 8 - Pink Lights and Champagne

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

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

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

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

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

  

  Guy Doleman

  See the complete article here:
  

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

  
  Guy Doleman in The Prisoner (1967)

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

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

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  
  
  
  

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

  

  Leonard Barr

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

  
  Barr in Diamonds Are Forever, 1971

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

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

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

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

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

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

  
  
  

  
  1981: ABC-TV premieres Moonraker.

  

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

  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  

  2002: Meurs un autre jour released in Canada.

  

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

  
  

  2002: למות ביום אהר (Lamut B'Yom A'her; To Die the Next Day) premieres in Israel. (premiere)
  2002: Smierc nadejdzie jutro (Death Will Come tomorrow) released in Poland.

  
  

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

  

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

  

  JAMES BOND: SOLSTICE ONE-SHOT

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  

  

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

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

  
  Image: Max Earey

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

  
  Image: Max Earey

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

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

  

  Roald Dahl: a life filled with tales of the unexpected

  https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/roald-dahl-a-life-filled-with-tales-of-the-unexpected/34998768.html
  Roald Dahl was born 100 years ago in September and lived a life
  scarred by tragedy and marred by his own difficult personality.
  But his magical characters are more alive than ever
  Wednesday 12 September 2018

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

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

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

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

  

  Roald Dahl (1916–1990)

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

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

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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

  
  
  
  

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

  

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

  

  

  How James Bond Became a Thanksgiving Holiday
  Franchise

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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

  
  Pierce Brosnan James Bond GoldenEye 1995 Eon
  MGM / UA

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

  
  Daniel Craig in a Barbour Jacket in Skyfall
  Sony Pictures

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

  
  Daniel Craig as James Bond in Spectre
  Sony Pictures

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

  
  

  
  
  

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

  

  

  Thanksgiving Is James Bond’s Holiday

  See the complete article here:
  

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

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