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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 20th

    1923: John McClusky is born--Dennistoun, Glasgow, Scotland.
    (He dies 5 September 2006 at age 83--Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.)
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    James Bond comic
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    08-Sep-2006 • Bond News

    John McLusky, best known for his long tenure as James Bond comic strip artist, has died at the age of 83. He passed away on Tuesday 5th September 2006.

    Four years before Sean Connery would bring 007 to the silver screen with Dr No, Daily Express readers in the UK got their first sight of James Bond in 1958. The face John McLusky gave to Bond would be many people's first and lasting image of 007, including composer John Barry.
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    Above: John McLusky's representation of James Bond 007.
    Fleming's first James Bond novel Casino Royale would also become the starting point for the newspaper series, with the first strip published in the Daily Express on July 7th 1958. Staff writer Anthony Hearne adapted the novel, and John McLusky was brought in to illustrate.

    Initially sticking closely to Fleming's source material, the strips created by Hearne and McLusky were an instant success and boosted sales of the newspaper. The punchy, fast-paced style and daily "cliff-hangers" suited Bond's adventures perfectly.

    McLusky teamed up with writer Henry Gammidge for the following seven years, recreating Fleming's novels and short stories in the graphic form almost chronologically (except for a one-off partnership of writer Peter O'Donnell with McLusky for 1960's Dr. No adaptation).

    Thirteen adventures since the Express began publishing Bond strips back in 1958, Gammidge and McLusky stepped aside for the new team of Jim Lawrence and Yaroslav Horak as writer and artist respectively. In 1981, series writer Lawrence was then paired with the original strip artist John McLusky returning for a further four adventures.

    As well as his long run as James Bond comic strip artist, McLusky also drew strips such as "Secret Agent 13" for Fleetway's "June" and illustrations for "Look and Learn", and also worked for 15 years on "TV Comic" with strips such as "Orlando", "Laurel & Hardy" and "Pink Panther". In the early 1980's he worked on Thames TV series "Hattytown". He the retired but was lured back in to action in 1986 when Gerald Lip, the Express strip Editor, asked him to draw the last James Bond strips, which he did for three years. He then regularly lectured in the History of Art and was also a Punch and Judy Professor and Puppeteer. He spent his final years taking it easy at his home due to heath reasons but enjoyed reading, meeting his friends and listening to his favourite Jazz collections.

    John McLusky will be best remembered for giving to the world "the face of James Bond", and with Titan Books republishing the original strip adventures, fans old and new can enjoy his timeless work again.

    Click here to read more about John McLusky's artwork and the James Bond comic strip series.
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    John McLusky
    See the complete article here:
    Born: 20 January 1923, Glasgow
    Died: 5 September 2006 (aged 83)
    Nationality: British
    Projects involved in
    First: James Bond (Daily Express)
    Last: James Bond (Daily Express)

    John McLusky (20 January 1923 – 5 September 2006) was a comics artist best known as the original artist of the comic strip featuring Ian Fleming's James Bond.

    Biography
    McLusky began illustrating the comic strip adaptation of James Bond for the Daily Express. From 1958 to 1966, McLusky adapted 13 of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels or short stories. After Yaroslav Horak had taken over the James Bond strip, McLusky drew Secret Agent 13 for Fleetway. For the magazine TV Comic McLusky illustrated several strips over 15 years, notably Look and Learn and strip adaptations for Laurel & Hardy, and the Pink Panther. In 1982 McLusky returned to illustrate the James Bond strip, collaborating with writer Jim Lawrence to illustrate 4 new original James Bond stories.
    James Bond strips
    Casino Royale Anthony Hern July 7, 1958 - December 13, 1958 1-138
    Live and Let Die Henry Gammidge December 15, 1958 - March 28, 1959 139-225
    Moonraker Henry Gammidge March 30, 1959 - August 8, 1959 226-339
    Diamonds Are Forever Henry Gammidge August 10, 1959 - January 30, 1960 340-487
    From Russia with Love Henry Gammidge February 1, 1960 - May 21, 1960 488-583
    Dr. No Peter O'Donnell May 23, 1960 - October 1, 1960 584-697
    Goldfinger Henry Gammidge October 3, 1960 - April 1, 1961 698-849
    Risico Henry Gammidge April 3, 1961 - June 24, 1961 850-921
    From A View To A Kill Henry Gammidge June 26, 1961 - September 9, 1961 922-987
    For Your Eyes Only Henry Gammidge September 11, 1961 - December 9, 1961 988-1065
    Thunderball Henry Gammidge December 11, 1961 - February 10, 1962 1066-1128
    On Her Majesty's Secret Service Henry Gammidge June 29, 1964 - May 15, 1965 1-274
    You Only Live Twice Henry Gammidge May 17, 1965 - January 8, 1966 275-475
    Other work
    The Paradise Plot (1981-1982)
    Deathmask (1982–1983)
    Flittermouse (1983)
    Polestar (1983)
    The Scent Of Danger (1984)
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    Further reading:

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    https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mclusky_john.htm

    UK Comics Wiki
    https://ukcomics.fandom.com/wiki/John_McLusky_(1923-2006)

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    1958: Ian Fleming comments on Jamaica.
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    Goldeneye: Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica, Matthew Parker, 2015.
    1950 Doctor Jamaica
    As well as finding a trip to Jamaica hugely restorative, [Noël] Coward also
    found it creatively invigorating. After one visit he wrote in his diary
    that ‘it has been a lovely holiday - I feel well and full of ideas and, as
    usual, I am grateful to dear Jamaica.’ On another occasion, he noted:
    ‘this place has a strange and very potent magic for me. I also seem to
    be cable to do more work here in less time than anywhere else.’ Ann,
    too, recommended Jamaica to her aspiring novelist brother Hugo as
    ‘healing, beneficial and inspiring’. Fleming agreed. ‘Here there is
    peace and that wonderful vacuum of days that makes one work,’ he
    noted while writing Goldfinger. Not only Coward, but ‘other still more
    famous writers, let alone painters, have been stimulated by Jamaica’.
    he later wrote. ‘I suppose it is the peace and silence and cut-offness
    from the madding world that urges people to create here.’

    1964: Goldfinger principal photography begins at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, Florida. Director Hamilton plus Broccoli, Adam, and cinematographer Ted Moore. Only Cec Linder of the main cast is present in Miami. Connery is filming elsewhere in the US.
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    1980: ITV broadcast of Live and Let Die attracts 23.5 million viewers, a record for the UK.
    1983: The New York Times airs producer Broccoli’s concerns for how Never Say Never Again could spoil the Bond character as “a troubled, middle-aged operative” and affect future box office of the franchise. He proposed his target audience (12-22) didn't want character development.
    1984: Never Say Never Again released in Denmark. 1984: James Bond 007 - Sag niemals nie (James Bond 007 - Never Say Never) released in West Germany.

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    2000: Vse in še svet (Everything and the World) released in Slovenia.
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    2006: Swiss businessman pays $1.9 million (£1.1 million) for a 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe used to promote Goldfinger and Thunderball. To be shipped "back to Switzerland".
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    James Bond car sells for $1.9 million
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    (Reuters) Updated: 2006-01-22 11:08

    A Swiss businessman won the keys to James Bond's silver 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe on Friday with a $1.9 million bid at an annual classic car auction in Arizona.
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    People inspect a James Bond's 1965 Aston Martin DB5 coupe on
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    January 20, 2006. [Reuters]
    The 45-year-old man, who did not want to be identified, placed his bids over the telephone through friend and car dealer Beat Roos to win the gadget-packed 007 car used in such classics as Goldfinger and Thunderball. Both men live in Bern, Switzerland.

    "His instructions were to bring the car back to Switzerland," Roos said.

    The winner, who was bidding in his first auction, will add the car to a collection of some dozen vehicles that includes classic Aston Martins and Porsches.

    Auction officials had estimated that Bond's vehicle could fetch between $1.5 million and $2.5 million.

    Two other classics cars also were sold, with bidders paying $565,000 for gangster Al Capone's 1928 Cadillac sedan and $195,000 for country music singer Hank Williams Jr.'s 1964 Pontiac Bonneville convertible, officials said.

    All three vehicles had been at the Smoky Mountain Car Museum in Tennessee.

    The sale, presented by Canada's RM Auctions, is one of five held by different companies in the Phoenix area through the end of the month. More than $100 million is expected to be spent on vehicles of all makes and sizes.
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    2020: Land Rover promotes the introduction of its Defender model in No Time To Die.
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    2020 Land Rover Defender Makes Film Debut in New James Bond Movie
    Monday, 20 January, 2020
    The all-new redesigned 2020 Land Rover Defender has been unveiled, and it's already aiming to impress with a big-screen debut in the latest James Bond movie, "No Time to Die."
    Debuting later this year, the 25th Bond film will prominently feature the Land Rover Defender in exciting action sequences. In the video above, you can get a quick behind the scenes look with Stunt Coordinator Lee Morrison and Stunt Drive Jessica Hawkins. The pair take the Land Rover Defender through its paces with an array of off-roading and high-performance challengers.

    You can see the 2020 Land Rover Defender in full action when No Time to Die hits theaters this April.

    About the 2020 Land Rover Defender Near Birmingham
    The Land Rover Defender nameplate has been around for decades, building up a sterling reputation for all-terrain capability along the way. The purpose-built off-road machine was a favorite among off-road enthusiasts and car collectors the world over. Now, Land Rover has completely redesigned its all-terrain machine for the first time in its history.

    The 2020 Land Rover Defender is a major shift, ditching the archaic body-on-frame and solid axles of old in favor of a more refined unibody construction with independent suspension. But that doesn't mean the new Land Rover Defender lacks capability. By the contrary, Land Rover has fitted the new model with advanced technology and clever engineering that result in what the brand is calling the most capable Land Rover vehicle ever produced.

    We here at Land Rover Troy near Bloomfield and Royal Oak are happy to provide more information about the 2020 Land Rover as we get closer to its launch date and arrival at dealerships. Stop by to discuss the exciting new model and chat about placing an order.
    New 2020 Land Rover Defender 30m Jump in Upcoming 007 James Bond Film
    2021: As UN Global Advocate for the Elimination of Mines and Explosive Hazards, Daniel Craig takes the fight to Cambodia.
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    'James Bond' advocates Cambodia's demining
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    Cambodia | Wednesday, 20 Jan 2021
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    Daniel Craig is the UN Global Advocate for the Elimination of Mines and Explosive Hazards. - AFP
    PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): James Bond actor Daniel Craig will virtually attend the launch of Cambodia’s first Safe Ground on Jan 22 at 7.30pm in a live online event organised by United Nations Development Programme Cambodia (UNDP).

    UNDP said Craig is the UN Global Advocate for the Elimination of Mines and Explosive Hazards.

    During the online event Craig will speak about why he cares so deeply about this issue and what further efforts can be made to end the scourge of landmines which still claim thousands of civilian lives each year.

    UNDP resident representative Nick Beresford said the event has been organised to support Cambodia’s goal to achieve mine-free status by 2025.

    Craig will be speaking with Cambodian Mine Action Authority (CMAA) first vice president Ly Thuch for the virtual event.
    Beresford said the Safe Ground campaign turns minefields into playing fields – safe spaces for children to learn and play.

    UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres launched the five-year Safe Ground campaign on April 4,2019 as part of that year’s International Mine Awareness Day, which has been observed annually since 2005.

    The Safe Ground campaign will be launched in Cambodia in a small village in Battambang province at Stoeng Toch Krom primary school, which is located on a former minefield.

    Thuch told The Post on Jan 19 that Cambodia is happy to have such a famous celebrity to help raise awareness of the impact of mines in the country and to help raise more funds to support demining activities.
    “We have been working with UNDP and they invited Daniel Craig [to attend]. He wanted to visit Cambodia but due to Covid-19 [UNDP] were forced to change the event into a video conference, ” Thuch said.

    The presence of “James Bond” at the Safe Ground event is meant to serve as a wakeup call to donors around the globe to consider the impacts of explosive remnants of war and to support Cambodia’s demining efforts.
    Thuch said Cambodia will show the planned video conference to the annual international mine assembly and at other big events related to the demining issue.

    He noted Cambodia still has 800sq km of land littered with mines – especially along the border with Thailand.

    “The Kingdom will need to demine more than 100sq km of land each year going forward in order to meet its mine-free target date of 2025, ” he said. - Phnom Penh Post/ANN



  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 21st

    1922: Aristotle (Telly) Savalas is born--Garden City, Long Island, New York.
    (He dies 22 January 1994 at age 72--Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, California.)
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    Obituary: Telly Savalas
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    David Shipman | Tuesday 25 January 1994 01:02

    Aristotle (Telly) Savalas, actor: born Garden City, New York 21 January 1924; married Katharine Nicolaides (one daughter), 1960 Marilynn Gardner (two daughters), 1974 Sally Adams (one son), 1984 Julie Howland (one son, one daughter); died Los Angeles 22 January 1994.

    IN 1973 a television cop series transformed a much-respected movie actor of the second rank - in box-office terms - into a figure instantly recognisable the world over. Telly Savalas was Lieutenant Theo Kojak of the New York Police Department, bald, not ugly but no oil painting ('Romeo inside a gorilla exterior', he once described himself), with intense eyes and a bewitching smile - when he cared to use it.

    Kojak preferred to appear menacing to his enemies and even to his colleagues. In speech he was direct, never wasting words, though these tended to be sarcastic. All the most popular television series, from The Untouchables to Cheers, have something special to them: in Kojak, more than the casual, near- rebellious, atmosphere of the precinct (new to television but not to movies) it was Kojak's character and Savalas's dynamic playing of him. He sucked on lollipops, sported glaring fancy waistcoats and porkpie hats, and demanded 'Who loves ya, baby?'

    Kojak was sympathetic to outcasts and ruthless with social predators. The show maintained a high quality to the end, mixing tension with some laughs and always anxious to tackle civic issues, one of its raisons d'etre in the first place. It was required viewing in Britain every Saturday evening for eight years. To almost everyone everywhere Kojak means Savalas and vice versa, but to Savalas himself the series was merely an interval, albeit a long one, in a distinguished career.

    A first-generation American of Greek extraction, he was born Aristotle Savalas in New York in 1924 and started his career in the Information Services of the State Department. He moved on to ABC television, in charge of Special Events and creating the prestigious Your Voice of America series. He had not acted or even considered doing so till he was asked if he could recommend an actor with a command of European accents. He decided to go to the audition himself, in 1959, and found himself appearing in Bring Home a Baby on Armstrong Circle Theater TV.

    Further acting opportunities followed, and movies claimed him. He made his debut in a minor crime story, Mad Dog Coll (1961); but John Frankenheimer had already cast him in The Young Savages, which starred Burt Lancaster as a lawyer designated to prosecute some juvenile delinquents. It was not, as social-concern films go, very profound; but for Savalas it was an omen, for he was the inspector in charge of the investigation. He was also the best thing in the film, as Frankenheimer recognised by putting him into Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), as a fellow-con of Lancaster's; a performance which brought Savalas an Oscar nomination. In the interim, he had played another detective in Cape Fear, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. The three films established Savalas as the sort of actor who could make mincemeat out of the likes of Lancaster and Peck.

    The Man from the Diner's Club (1963), with Danny Kaye, marked Savalas's entry into screen comedies, which he managed with a confidence that enabled him to move from the most subtle expressions to the broadest of gestures. He played a morose mobster with tax problems. He was to demonstrate, when required, that he was simply one of the best screen heavies of his time. He was certainly one of the few whose reputation was unscathed by The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), in which he played Pontius Pilate with obvious enjoyment. Its producer-director, George Stevens, persuaded Savalas to shave his hair for the role.

    After playing the swinish Foreign Legion sergeant in Beau Geste (1966) - the only element to put it in the same class as the two earlier versions - he was the most unpleasant of Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen (1967) - soldier convicts promised remission after being sent secretly into France to prepare the locals for D-Day. As a religious maniac rapist, he stood out in a movie which included Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson also on top form; and the film's popularity put stardom within Savalas's grasp. He was superb as a psychopathic bounty-hunter who doublecrosses Burt Lancaster in Sydney Pollack's irresistible western The Scalphunters (1968).
    Melvin Frank's Buona Sera Mrs Campbell (1968) brought Savalas back to Europe - literally, as one of the ex-GIs who, along with two others (Peter Lawford, Phil Silvers), was paying maintenance for Gina Lollobrigida's daughter, conceived in Naples in 1944. He first acted in Britain in Basil Dearden's black comedy The Assassination Bureau (1969), playing a newspaper magnate who commissions the would- be journalist Diana Rigg to expose a gang of professional killers. He remained in Britain, to be 007's nemesis figure, Ernst Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE with dreams of world domination, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Savalas was billed immediately after Clint Eastwood, overshadowing him however as an actor, in Kelly's Heroes (1970), a wartime jape in which they and two others (Don Rickless, Donald Sutherland) steal behind German lines in pursuit of gold.
    Savalas liked London. He took a house in the Boltons and enjoyed a romance with a Hollywood actress appearing on the London stage. He began to choose films for the locations rather than the roles, and thus did more than his fair share of spaghetti westerns, invariably as the villain. In the midst of these he was offered a television movie, The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973), based on the Miranda case of 1963, when a detective was determined to see that a black teenager should not be convicted of a crime he did not commit. The direction and writing won Emmys for Joseph Sargent and Abby Mann respectively; Savalas was nominated and did not win but, more significantly, this was his introduction to Kojak: the three-hour film was in fact the pilot for a one-hour Kojak series.

    The decision to end Kojak after 110 episodes was mutual. The series had covered just about every crime that can happen in a large municipality and there were indications that the public was becoming somewhat less fond of the abrasive detective who hauled the wrongdoers into the precinct in the last 10 minutes. The novelty had worn off.

    Savalas's brother George played his shambling subordinate Stavros, and it was not till the end of the first run that it was revealed that they were brothers in the show as well. They returned to the roles in a telemovie for Universal, Kojak - the Belarus File (1985). This was to test the atmosphere for a new series, but nothing came of it immediately, nor of Hellinger's Law, in which Savalas would have been a lawyer.

    The initial impact of Kojak was to make Savalas more than ever in demand as a movie actor. Few of the films he now made were memorable, but mention should be made of the Anglo-German Inside Out (1975), since it became a feature of a libel-suit against the Daily Mail. That paper printed a story from the location-shooting in Berlin, alleging that Savalas's 'private excesses' were damaging the film, and contrasting the professionalism of James Mason (described in reports as his 'co-star', though in fact billed below Savalas and in a smaller role). Mason not only testified for Savalas, but was in court for much of the hearing, beaming encouragement and seeing him awarded the then high sum of pounds 34,000.

    However, by the time Kojak finished in 1978 movie offers were beginning to dry up. Savalas's identification with the one role was so complete that others had been hard to come by - they were either cameos, as in Capricorn One (1978) or The Muppet Movie (1979), or second goes at popular films, such as Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) and Cannonball Run II (1983). Understandably, since he would always be a star in that medium, television offered frequent work, as when he played the Cheshire Cat in an all-star Alice in Wonderland (1985) and his old role alongside Ernest Borgine in The Dirty Dozen: the Deadly Mission (1987) and The Dirty Dozen: the Fatal Mission (1988).

    In 1989 he again played Kojak - but not for Universal and CBS, as before. ABC had lured Burt Reynolds back to television to play a gumshoe, BL Stryker, but Reynolds was not prepared to appear again on a weekly basis, so The ABC Saturday Mystery rotated four different shows, with Jaclyn Smith as Christine Cromwell and two gentlemen from the past - Peter Falk as Columbo and Savalas as Kojak. Savalas insisted on New York's being used for the locations and not, as before, Los Angeles standing in for New York. To a journalist watching the shooting he said, 'C'mon, willya? I was born in this city . . . Raised in the neighbourhood, right? I speak the language. So Telly and Kojak are one and the same. That's what makes the show interesting for me - and easy. I'm basically playing myself to a large extent - a street-smart fella with the soul of a pussycat.'

    He admitted that the character was older and wiser, but the verdict of the press was that he was older and very tired. ABC dropped Kojak after the contracted four episodes (which were not seen in Britain).

    Savalas used his fame as Kojak to become a singer, with indifferent results as far as his records were concerned, but he did appear at the 1974 Oscar ceremony, singing 'You're so Nice To Be Around' from Cinderella Liberty. In 1992 he opened 'Telly's Sporting Bar' in the Sheraton - where he lived in Los Angeles - at Universal City, featuring mementoes of Kojak.

    Savalas liked to be recognised - indeed, he revelled in his fame. He was only slightly ambivalent, declaring that television was 'so powerful it can wipe out anything you've done in the past'. He went on, 'I won't mention names, but I remember sitting with two major motion-picture stars. Here's poor little Telly comin' off a little TV show and people are comin' up to me and askin' for my autograph. And I look at these two global personalities alongside me and nobody's askin' them. How come? Because they didn't recognise them. The power of TV, my friend.'
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    Filmography
    Actor (132 credits)

    1995 Backfire! - Most Evil Man
    1993 Mind Twister - Richard Howland
    1992-1993 The Commish (TV Series) - Tommy Colette
    - Out of Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
    - Family Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
    - The Frame (1992) ... Tommy Colette
    1991-1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) - Teddy
    - Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... Teddy
    - Ein Glatzkopf kommt selten allein (1991) ... Teddy
    1991 Rose Against the Odds (TV Movie) - George Parnassus
    1990 Kojak: None So Blind (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
    1990 Kojak: It's Always Something (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
    1990 Kojak: Flowers for Matty (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
    1989 Kojak: Fatal Flaw (TV Movie) - Theo Kojak

    1989 Kojak: Ariana (TV Movie) - Kojak
    1989 The Hollywood Detective (TV Movie) - Harry Bell
    1988 The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
    1987 J.J. Starbuck (TV Series) - The Greek
    - Gold from the Rainbow (1987) ... The Greek
    1987 Faceless - Terry Hallen
    1987 The Equalizer (TV Series) - Brother Joseph Heiden
    - Blood & Wine: Part 2 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
    - Blood & Wine: Part 1 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
    1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
    1987 Kojak: The Price of Justice (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
    1986 GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords - Magmar (voice)
    1985 Solomon's Universe (TV Movie) - Solomon Stark
    1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) - The Cheshire Cat
    1985 George Burns Comedy Week (TV Series) - - The Assignment (1985)
    1985 Beyond Reason - Dr. Nicholas Mati
    1985 Kojak: The Belarus File (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Theo Kojak
    1985 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Dr. Fabian Cain
    - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 2 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
    - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 1 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
    1984 The Cartier Affair (TV Movie) - Phil Drexler
    1984 Cannonball Run II - Hymie Kaplan
    1983 Afghanistan pourquoi? - Rebel Leader
    1982 Fake-Out - Lt. Thurston
    1982 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Peter Panakos
    - My Palikari (1982) ... Peter Panakos
    1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Joe Brisson
    - Completely Foolproof (1981) ... Joe Brisson
    1981 Hellinger's Law (TV Movie) - Nick Hellinger
    1980 Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (TV Movie) - Cretzer
    1980 Border Cop - Frank Cooper

    1979 The French Atlantic Affair (TV Mini-Series) - Father Craig Dunleavy
    - Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
    - Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
    - Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
    1979 Alice (TV Series) - Telly Savalas
    - Has Anyone Here Seen Telly? (1979) ... Telly Savalas
    1979 The Muppet Movie - El Sleezo Tough
    1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure - Captain Stefan Svevo
    1979 Escape to Athena - Zeno
    1978 Windows, Doors & Keyholes (TV Movie)
    1973-1978 Kojak (TV Series) - Lt. Theo Kojak - 117 episodes
    - In Full Command (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
    - 60 Miles to Hell (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
    - Photo Must Credit Joe Paxton (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
    - May the Horse Be with You (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
    - The Halls of Terror (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
    ...
    1977 Capricorn One - Albain
    1976 The Diamond Mercenaries - Harry Webb
    1975 Inside Out - Harry Morgan
    1975 The Hitman
    1975 The House of Exorcism - Leandro
    1975 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Singer / Kojak
    - Episode #2.1 (1975) ... Singer / Kojak
    1973 Lisa and the Devil - Leandro
    1973 She Cried Murder (TV Movie) - Inspector Joe Brody
    1973 The Marcus-Nelson Murders (TV Movie) - Lt. Theo Kojak
    1973 Senza ragione - Memphis
    1972 A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die - Maggiore Ward
    1972 Pancho Villa - Pancho Villa
    1972 Visions... (TV Movie) - Lt. Phil Keegan
    1972 The Killer Is on the Phone - Ranko Drasovic
    1972 Horror Express - Capt. Kazan
    1972 Sonny and Jed - Sheriff Franciscus
    1972 Crime Boss - Don Vincenzo
    1971 Steel Wreath (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Pete Tolstad
    1971 Clay Pigeon - Redford
    1971 A Town Called Hell - Don Carlos
    1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Gregor Antonescu
    - Man and Boy (1971) ... Gregor Antonescu
    1971 Pretty Maids All in a Row - Surcher
    1970 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) - Tex
    - Stagecoach Hijack (1970) ... Tex
    1970 Violent City - Al Weber
    1970 Kelly's Heroes - Big Joe
    1970 Land Raiders - Vicente Cardenas

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Blofeld
    1969 Sophie's Place - Herbie Haseler
    1969 Mackenna's Gold - Sergeant Tibbs
    1969 The Assassination Bureau - Lord Bostwick
    1968 Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell - Walter Braddock
    1968 The Scalphunters - Jim Howie
    1968 Sol Madrid - Emil Dietrich
    1967 Cimarron Strip (TV Series) - Bear
    - The Battleground (1967) ... Bear
    1967 Garrison's Gorillas (TV Series) - Wheeler
    - The Big Con (1967) ... Wheeler
    1967 The Dirty Dozen - Archer Maggott
    1967 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Mueller
    - Don't Wait for Tomorrow (1967) ... Mueller
    1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Count Valeriano De Fanzini
    - The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
    - The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
    1967 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Ed Clementi
    - The Executioners: Part 2 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
    - The Executioners: Part 1 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
    1964-1967 Combat! (TV Series) - Jon / Colonel Kapsalis
    - Anniversary (1967) ... Jon
    - Vendetta (1964) ... Colonel Kapsalis
    1966 Beau Geste - Sgt. Maj. Dagineau
    1964-1966 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Steve Keller / Victor Leonetti / Dan Polichek
    - Stroke of Genius (1966) ... Steve Keller
    - May God Have Mercy (1965) ... Victor Leonetti
    - Where the Action Is (1964) ... Dan Polichek
    1966 The Virginian (TV Series) - 'Colonel' Bliss
    - Men with Guns (1966) ... 'Colonel' Bliss
    1965 Battle of the Bulge - Sgt. Guffy
    1965 The Slender Thread - Dr. Joe Coburn
    1965 Run for Your Life (TV Series) - Istvan Zabor
    - How to Sell Your Soul for Fun and Profit (1965) ... Istvan Zabor
    1965 Bonanza (TV Series) - Charles Augustus Hackett
    - To Own the World (1965) ... Charles Augustus Hackett
    1965 Genghis Khan - Shan
    1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! - Macmuid (Harem Recruiter) (uncredited)
    1963-1965 Burke's Law (TV Series)
    Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth / Charlie Prince / Fakir George O'Shea
    - Who Killed the Man on the White Horse? (1965) ... Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth
    - Who Killed His Royal Highness? (1964) ... Charlie Prince
    - Who Killed Purity Mather? (1963) ... Fakir George O'Shea
    1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told - Pontius Pilate
    1964 The Rogues (TV Series) - Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
    - Viva Diaz! (1964) ... Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
    1964 Fanfare for a Death Scene (TV Movie) - Ilchidai Khan
    1964 The New Interns - Dr. Dominick 'Dom' Riccio
    1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle / Beret
    - The Watchman (1964) ... Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle
    - The Action of the Tiger (1964) ... Beret
    1964 Breaking Point (TV Series) - Vincenzo Gracchi
    - My Hands Are Clean (1964) ... Vincenzo Gracchi
    1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) - Philadelphia Harry
    - A Matter of Murder (1964) ... Philadelphia Harry
    1964 Arrest and Trial (TV Series) - Frank Santo
    - The Revenge of the Worm (1964) ... Frank Santo
    1964 Channing (TV Series) - Paul Atherton
    - A Claim to Immortality (1964) ... Paul Atherton
    1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Erich Streator
    - Living Doll (1963) ... Erich Streator
    1963 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) - Brother Hendricksen
    - 5: Part 4 (1963) ... Brother Hendricksen
    1963 Grindl (TV Series) - Mr. Hartman
    - The Gruesome Basement (1963) ... Mr. Hartman
    1963 Johnny Cool - Vincenzo 'Vince' Santangelo
    1963 Love Is a Ball
    Dr. Christian Gump (Millie's uncle)
    1963 The Man from the Diners' Club - Foots Pulardos
    1963 Empire (TV Series) - Tibor
    - Arrow in the Sky (1963) ... Tibor
    1963 The Dakotas (TV Series) - Jake Volet
    - Reformation at Big Nose Butte (1963) ... Jake Volet
    1963 The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) - Ben Cohen
    - A Tumble from a High White House (1963) ... Ben Cohen
    1961-1963 The Untouchables (TV Series)
    Leo Stazak / Matt Bass / Wally Baltzer
    - The Speculator (1963) ... Leo Stazak
    - The Matt Bass Scheme (1961) ... Matt Bass
    - The Antidote (1961) ... Wally Baltzer
    1962 Alcoa Premiere (TV Series) - Mario Lombardi
    - The Hands of Danofrio (1962) ... Mario Lombardi
    1962 The Interns - Dr. Dominic Riccio
    1962 Birdman of Alcatraz -Feto Gomez
    1962 Cape Fear - Private Detective Charles Sievers
    1961-1962 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) - Harry Remick / Frank Meehan
    - Savage in Darkness (1962) ... Harry Remick
    - In the Balance (1961) ... Frank Meehan (as Telly Savales)
    1961 The Sin of Jesus (Short) - Felix (as Telli Savales)
    1961 Ben Casey (TV Series) - George Dempsey
    - A Dark Night for Billy Harris (1961) ... George Dempsey
    1961 The Detectives (TV Series) - Ben
    - Escort (1961) ... Ben
    1961 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Sergeant Marius
    - Three Soldiers (1961) ... Sergeant Marius
    1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series) - Massis / Jerry Larch
    - Stop Johnny King! (1961) ... Massis
    - The Wizard of Ice (1961) ... Jerry Larch
    1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Dr. Buel Reed
    - The Compulsion to Confess (1961) ... Dr. Buel Reed
    1961 The Young Savages - Detective Lt. Gunderson
    1961 Mad Dog Coll - Lt. Darro
    1961 Acapulco (TV Series) - Mr. Carver
    - Murder with Love (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    - Blood Money (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    - Death Is a Smiling Man (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    - Fisher's Daughter (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    - Carbon Copy Cat (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    - The Gentleman from Brazil (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    - Killer in a Rose Colored Mask (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    - Bell's Half Acre (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    1961 The Aquanauts (TV Series) - Paul Price
    - Stormy Weather (1961) ... Paul Price
    1960 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
    - Operation North Star (1960)
    1960 The Witness (TV Series) - Al Capone / Lucky Luciano
    - Al Capone (1960) ... Al Capone
    - Roger 'The Terrible' Touhy (1960)
    - Lucky Luciano (1960) ... Lucky Luciano
    1960 Naked City (TV Series) - Gabriel Hody
    - To Walk in Silence (1960) ... Gabriel Hody
    1959-1960 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) - Dieter Wislieny / Dieter Wisliceny / Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire / ...
    - Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wislieny
    - Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wisliceny
    - 35 Rue Du Marche (1959) ... Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire
    - Sound of Violence (1959) ... Charles Rogan
    - House of Cards (1959)
    - And Bring Home a Baby (1959)
    1960 Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (TV Series) - - The Cat and the Canary (1960)
    1960 Diagnosis: Unknown (TV Series) - Irish Tony Salivarro
    - Gina, Gina (1960) ... Irish Tony Salivarro
    1959 Deadline (TV Series) - Anders
    - The Two Ounce Trap (1959) ... Anders
    1959 Sunday Showcase (TV Series) - Cotton
    - Murder and the Android (1959) ... Cotton

    Soundtrack (12 credits)

    2013 In the Name of (performer: "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend")

    2006 The Break-Up (performer: "Who Loves Ya Baby")

    1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... (performer: "Come on, Baby")

    1987 The 59th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: "Fugue for Tinhors")
    1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) (performer: "There's No Way Home")

    1976 Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby? (TV Special) (performer: "Who Loves Ya, Baby?", "This Is All I Ask", "We Were So Poor", "Zorbas (aka Zorba's Dance)", "The Men in My Little Girl's Life")
    1975 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Top of the Pops '75: Part 2 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
    1975 Disco (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #1.53 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
    1975 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #5.2 (1975) ... (performer: "If" - uncredited)
    1975 Kojak (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard (1975) ... (performer: "Azure Dee")
    1974 The 46th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: " (You're So) Nice to Be Around")
    1972 Pancho Villa (performer: "We All End Up the Same")

    Director (3 credits)

    1985 Beyond Reason

    1974-1978 Kojak (TV Series) (5 episodes)
    - In Full Command (1978)
    - Kiss It All Goodbye (1977)
    - Over the Water (1975)
    - I Want to Report a Dream (1975)
    - The Betrayal (1974)

    1959 Report to New York (TV Series)

    Writer (1 credit)

    1985 Beyond Reason (screenplay)
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    "If", Telly Savalas.


    Who Loves Ya, Baby 1976 - Greek Dance


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    1942: Fleming forms a unit of commandos, known as No. 30 Commando or 30 Assault Unit (30AU), composed of specialist intelligence troops.
    1942: Michael Gregg Wilson is born--New York City, New York.

    1976: Maiden flight of Air France's Concorde, by the first plane delivered in 1975. The route from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport through Dakar to Rio is the same route used by the arriving Concorde in Moonraker. The two weekly Air France flights from Paris to Rio continued through 1982.
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    1983: Octopussy filming finishes, for a June release.

    1998: Jack Lord dies at age 77--Honolulu, Hawaii.
    (Born 30 December 1920--New York City, New York.)
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    Obituary: Jack Lord
    Tom Vallance | Friday 23 January 1998 01:02

    John Joseph Patrick Ryan (Jack Lord), actor: born New York 30 December 1920; married 1952 Marie de Narde; died Honolulu, Hawaii 21 January 1998.

    The actor Jack Lord will forever be associated with the role he played for 12 straight years on television, Steve McGarrett, head of a fictitious Hawaiian State Police Force, in Hawaii Five-O, one of television's most successful series, still being shown all over the world.
    Though he had been an actor on stage, screen and television for several years, stardom had eluded him and would probably have continued to do so. As an actor on the big screen, the intense, taciturn Lord excelled in villainous roles but as a hero was somewhat bland - in Dr No (1962) he had a prominent role as Felix Leighter [sic], the CIA man who helps Bond discover the identity of the scoundrel who is plotting to take over the world, but his character paled beside that of Sean Connery as Bond. Hawaii Five-O made Lord a household name (and a millionaire). At its peak, the series was seen in 80 countries with an audience estimated at more than 300 million.
    Born John Joseph Patrick Ryan in Brooklyn, New York, in 1920, he was the son of a steamship executive and during high school summers would work as a seaman. He studied at New York University on a football scholarship and majored in art - his paintings are hung in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and other galleries. "I'd rather paint than eat," he once said. "I'm using acting as a way of getting my name before the public. Then my pictures will have a name value." In fact the Metropolitan purchased a lithograph when Lord was plain J.J. Ryan and only 18 years old.

    He was running an art school in Greenwich Village when he decided to take up acting, and for three years he studied at the Neighbourhood Playhouse while working days as a car salesman. He also studied at the Actors' Studio along with Marlon Brando and Paul Newman, and was given roles in two Broadway plays, The Travelling Lady (1953, for which he won a Theatre World Award) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1954), but in 1955 he went to Hollywood to concentrate on film and television.

    He had made his screen debut (billed as John Ryan) in R.G. Springsteen's The Red Menace (1949), an anti- Communist propaganda thriller that now seems risible and has achieved enough cult status to be issued on laser disc. Lord's movie career never quite took off - he tested for the leading role of a naive cowboy in Bus Stop (1956) and was told by director Joshua Logan, "You can't play a virgin, your face looks lived in" - but he had a good year in 1958 with roles in two impressive films directed by Anthony Mann.

    In God's Little Acre, adapted from Erskine Caldwell's racy bestseller about Georgia farmers in the Depression, a quirky tale resembling Tennessee Williams crossed with Al Capp, Lord was one of Robert Ryan's sons, Buck, violently jealous of his wife's attraction to her brother-in-law (Aldo Ray). In Man of the West, he was a particularly sadistic henchman of outlaw Lee J. Cobb, suspicious (rightly) of the hero Gary Coop-er's motives in rejoining the gang, and in one powerful scene holding a knife to Cooper's throat and forcing Julie London, as a saloon singer, to strip.

    Television, though, was offering Lord more consistently rewarding work, in such series as The Untouchables, Route 66 and Bonanza, and in 1962 he was given a western series, Stoney Burke, though it ran for only one season. "A star like Jack is money in the bank," said one television producer. "He's always on time, no bags under his eyes and he always knows his lines." After many guest roles in such series as The Man from UNCLE, Have Gun Will Travel, The Fugitive and Ironside, Lord was offered the lead in Hawaii Five-O in 1968.

    The show initially met local opposition because of its portrayal of crime in the state, but that melted when its depiction of Hawaii's beauty proved a potent tourist attraction. As the gruff chief who ended each episode capturing the criminals and invariably telling his sidekick (James McArthur), "Book 'em, Danno", Lord became a top television star. The show ran for 12 years (284 episodes), ending in 1980 with McGarrett finally capturing his long- standing enemy, the crime boss Wo Fat.

    Lord had made his home in Hawaii, producing the show and sometimes directing it. When the series finished, he and his wife remained in Hawaii, living in a beachfront condominium in Kahala, and Lord returned to his first love, painting.
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    Filmography
    Actor (75 credits)

    1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie) - Admiral Henderson

    1968-1980 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Det. Steve McGarrett / Prof. Elton Raintree - 281 episodes
    - Woe to Wo Fat (1980) ... Det. Steve McGarrett / Prof. Elton Raintree
    ...
    - Cocoon (1968) ... Det. Steve McGarrett
    1968 The Counterfeit Killer - Don Owens
    1968 The Name of the Game Is Kill! - Symcha Lipa
    1968 The High Chaparral (TV Series) - Dan Brookes
    - The Kinsman (1968) ... Dan Brookes
    1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Pharos Mandor
    - The Master's Touch Affair (1967) ... Pharos Mandor
    1967 Ironside (TV Series) - John Trask
    - Dead Man's Tale (1967) ... John Trask
    1967 The Ride to Hangman's Tree - Guy Russell
    1967 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Alan Bartlett
    - Goodbye My Love (1967) ... Alan Bartlett
    1967 The Invaders (TV Series) - George Vikor
    - Vikor (1967) ... George Vikor
    1966 The Doomsday Flight (TV Movie) - Special Agent Frank Thompson
    1965-1966 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Harry Marcus / Don Owens / Abe Perez
    - Storm Crossing (1966) ... Harry Marcus
    - The Faceless Man (1966) ... Don Owens
    - The Crime (1965) ... Abe Perez
    1966 The Virginian (TV Series) - Roy Dallman
    - High Stakes (1966) ... Roy Dallman
    1966 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Frank Andreas Shroeder
    - Collision Course (1966) ... Frank Andreas Shroeder
    1965-1966 12 O'Clock High (TV Series) - Col. Arnold Yates / Lt. Col. Preston Gallagher
    - Face of a Shadow (1966) ... Col. Arnold Yates
    - Big Brother (1965) ... Lt. Col. Preston Gallagher
    1966 Laredo (TV Series) - Jab Harlan
    - Above the Law (1966) ... Jab Harlan
    1965 Combat! (TV Series) - Barney McKlosky
    - The Linesman (1965) ... Barney McKlosky
    1965 The Loner (TV Series) - Reverend Booker
    - The Vespers (1965) ... Reverend Booker
    1965 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Paul Campbell
    - The Long Ravine (1965) ... Paul Campbell
    1965 Wagon Train (TV Series) - Lee Barton
    - The Echo Pass Story (1965) ... Lee Barton
    1964 Grand Hotel (TV Movie)
    1964 The Reporter (TV Series) - Nick Castle
    - How Much for a Prince? (1964) ... Nick Castle
    1964 The Greatest Show on Earth (TV Series) - Wally Walker
    - Man in a Hole (1964) ... Wally Walker
    1964 Dr. Kildare (TV Series) - Dr. Frank Michaels
    - A Willing Suspension of Disbelief (1964) ... Dr. Frank Michaels
    1962-1963 Stoney Burke (TV Series) - Stoney Burke - 32 episodes
    1962 Dr. No - Felix Leiter
    1962 Checkmate (TV Series) - Ernie Chapin
    - The Star System (1962) ... Ernie Chapin
    1961 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) - Wilt Farrell
    - Dead Load: Dave Braddock (1961) ... Wilt Farrell
    1959-1961 Rawhide (TV Series) - Paul Evans / Blake
    - Incident of His Brother's Keeper (1961) ... Paul Evans
    - Incident of the Calico Gun (1959) ... Blake
    1961 Stagecoach West (TV Series) - Johnny Dane / Russ Doty
    - The Butcher (1961) ... Johnny Dane
    - House of Violence (1961) ... Russ Doty
    1961 The Robert Herridge Theater (TV Series) - - A Song with Orange in It (1961)
    1961 Outlaws (TV Series) - Jim Houston
    - The Bell (1961) ... Jim Houston
    1961 The Americans (TV Series) - Charlie Goodwin
    - Half Moon Road (1961) ... Charlie Goodwin
    1961 Route 66 (TV Series) - Gabe Johnson
    - Play It Glissando (1961) ... Gabe Johnson
    1960 Naked City (TV Series) - Cary Glennon
    - The Human Trap (1960) ... Cary Glennon
    1960 Walk Like a Dragon - Linc Bartlett
    1960 Bonanza (TV Series) - Clay Renton
    - The Outcast (1960) ... Clay Renton

    1959 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Dan Gardner
    - Father Image (1959) ... Dan Gardner
    1959 The Lineup (TV Series) - Army Armitage
    - The Strange Return of Army Armitage (1959) ... Army Armitage
    1959 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Bill Hagen
    - The Jake Lingle Killing (1959) ... Bill Hagen
    1959 The Hangman - Johnny Bishop
    1959 The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) - Joe
    - Marriage Crisis (1959) ... Joe
    1958 The Sergeant and the Lady (TV Movie)
    1958 The Millionaire (TV Series) - Lee Randolph
    - Millionaire Lee Randolph (1958) ... Lee Randolph
    1958 U.S. Marshal (TV Series) - Matt Bonner
    - Sentenced to Death (1958) ... Matt Bonner
    1958 Man of the West - Coaley
    1958 God's Little Acre - Buck Walden
    1958 The True Story of Lynn Stuart - Willie Down
    1957-1958 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Homer Aswell / Jim Kester
    - Reunion (1958) ... Homer Aswell
    - The Lone Woman (1957) ... Jim Kester
    1957 The Silent Service (TV Series) - Hurt
    - The Loss of the Perch (1957) ... Hurt
    1957 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Nat Brandel / Myles Brandel
    - Doc's Reward (1957) ... Nat Brandel / Myles Brandel
    1957 Have Gun - Will Travel (TV Series) - Dave
    - Three Bells to Perdido (1957) ... Dave
    1957 Tip on a Dead Jockey - Jimmy Heldon
    1957 Climax! (TV Series) - Charlie Mullaney
    - Mr. Runyon of Broadway (1957) ... Charlie Mullaney
    1957 Conflict (TV Series)
    - Pattern for Violence (1957)
    1957 Williamsburg: The Story of a Patriot (Short) - John Fry
    1956 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Rudd Kendall / Buck
    - Old Acquaintance (1956) ... Rudd Kendall
    - Jezebel (1956) ... Buck
    1956 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Matt / Paul Chester
    - A Day Before Battle (1956) ... Matt
    - An Incident of Love (1956) ... Paul Chester
    1956 The Vagabond King - Ferrebouc
    1956 Omnibus (TV Series) (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell") / (segment "One Nation")
    - The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell (1956) ... (segment "The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell")
    - One Nation (1956) ... (segment "One Nation")
    1956 Goodyear Playhouse (TV Series)
    - This Land Is Mine (1956)
    1956 Repertory Theatre (TV Series)
    - This Land Is Mine (1956)
    1955 The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell - Lt. Cmdr. Zachary 'Zack' Lansdowne
    1955 The Elgin Hour (TV Series) - Lieutenant Davis
    - Combat Medics (1955) ... Lieutenant Davis
    1955 Appointment with Adventure (TV Series) - Bill - Diner Proprietor
    - Five in Judgment (1955) ... Bill - Diner Proprietor
    1955 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series)
    - Buckskin (1955)
    1955 Danger (TV Series)
    - Season for Murder (1955)
    1954 Suspense (TV Series)
    - String (1954)
    1954 The Web (TV Series)
    - Grand Finale (1954)
    1953-1954 Man Against Crime (TV Series)
    - The Chinese Dolls (1954)
    - The Midnight Express (1953)
    1953 Broadway Television Theatre (TV Series)
    - Criminal at Large (1953)
    1952 The Hunter (TV Series)
    - The Puzzle of Pier 90 (1952) ... (as Jack Ryan)
    1950 The Tattooed Stranger - Detective Deke Del Vecchio (uncredited)
    1950 Cry Murder - Tommy Warren

    1949 Project X - John Bates

    Producer (3 credits)

    1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie) (executive producer)

    1974-1977 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (executive producer - 49 episodes)

    1950 Cry Murder (associate producer)

    Director (2 credits)

    1980 M Station: Hawaii (TV Movie)

    1974-1979 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) (6 episodes)
    - Who Says Cops Don't Cry? (1979)
    - Why Won't Linda Die? (1978)
    - The Bells Toll at Noon (1977)
    - Honor Is an Unmarked Grave (1975)
    - How to Steal a Masterpiece (1974)
    - Death with Father (1974)
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    2013: 007:大破天幕杀机 (007: Dàpò tiānmù shājī, or 007: Skyscraper) released in China.
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    2013: BBC News reports on the China release of Skyfall and censorship.
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    Censored Bond film Skyfall
    opens in China
    Published 21 January 2013
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    Skyfall is already the biggest grossing film internationally of all time
    The latest James Bond film, Skyfall, has finally opened in China after a two-
    month delay, with some key scenes removed by Chinese censors.


    A scene in which Bond kills a security guard in Shanghai has been cut, as have references to prostitution in Macau.

    Subtitles have also been changed to hide references to torture by the Chinese security forces.

    China routinely censors foreign films to remove content deemed to be morally or politically damaging.

    The authorities also limit the number of imported films that can be screened in cinemas, partly to protect the domestic entertainment industry.
    Skyfall was released internationally in 2012 and has become one of the biggest grossing films of all time, taking more than $1bn (£630m) at the box office.
    The Chinese release was probably delayed to give domestic films a better chance of box office success, says the BBC's John Sudworth in Shanghai.

    Much of the film is set in China, in part to appeal to Chinese cinema-goers.

    But capturing the lucrative Chinese market comes at a price, says our correspondent, with movie companies who champion free speech at home having to make compromises to pass the Chinese censors.
    The changes made to Skyfall are however minor compared to some other films, he adds. In addition, a pirated version of the film has been available in China for weeks so many people will have seen the full version anyway.

    2019: Nick Finlayson dies at age 63. (Born 31 July 1955.)
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    Nick Finlayson
    22nd January 2019
    The special effects technician who served on 10 Bond films passed away this month
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    Filmography
    Special effects (43 credits)

    2019 Spider-Man: Far from Home (senior special effects technician)
    2019 Pokémon Detective Pikachu (senior special effects technician)
    2019 The Kid Who Would Be King (special effects lead senior technician)
    2018 Mary Poppins Returns (senior special effects technician)
    2017/I Life (senior special effects technician)
    2016 Assassin's Creed (senior special effects technician)
    2016 Ben-Hur (senior special effects technician)
    2016 The Legend of Tarzan (senior special effects technician)
    2014 Fury (senior special effects technician)
    2014 Edge of Tomorrow (senior special effects technician)
    2013 World War Z (senior special effects technician)
    2012 Skyfall (senior effects technician)
    2012 Wrath of the Titans (senior special effects technician)
    2011 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (senior special effects technician)
    2011 Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (senior special effects technician)
    2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (senior special effects technician)

    2008 Quantum of Solace (senior special effects technician)
    2008 The Dark Knight (senior special effects technician)
    2007 Fred Claus (senior special effects technician)
    2007 Hannibal Rising (special effects lead technician)
    2006 Casino Royale (senior special effects technician)
    2005 Batman Begins (special effects senior technician)
    2003 Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (senior special effects technician)
    2002 Die Another Day (workshop supervisor)
    2002 Below (senior special effects technician - uncredited)
    2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (special effects technician)
    2000 102 Dalmatians (special effects senior technician)

    1999 The World is Not Enough (special effects workshop supervisor)
    1999 The Mummy (senior special effects technician)
    1998 Firestorm (senior special effects technician)
    1997 Tomorrow Never Dies (special effects crew - as Nicholas Finlayson)
    1997 The Fifth Element (special effects technician)
    1995 GoldenEye (special effects crew - as Nicholas Finlayson)
    1993 Cliffhanger (uncredited)
    1992 Far and Away (senior special effects technician - uncredited)
    1991 Highlander II: The Quickening (senior special effects technician)
    1989 Licence to Kill (special effects technician)
    1988 Willow (senior special effects technician)
    1987 The Living Daylights (special effects technician - uncredited)
    1986 Aliens (senior special effects technician)
    1985 A View to a Kill (special effects technician - uncredited)
    1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall (aircraft subcontractor)
    1980 Hopscotch (special effects assistant - uncredited)

    Visual effects (2 credits)

    1990 Memphis Belle (modeller and technician: model unit)

    1983-1985 Terrahawks (TV Series) (HOD model workshop - 26 episodes)

    Art department (1 credit)

    1985 Lifeforce (modeller)

    Self (7 credits)
    2002 The Bond Essentials (TV Special documentary short) - Himself
    2002 Die Another Day: Shaken and Stirred on Ice (Video documentary short) - Himself

    2002 5th Gear (TV Series documentary) - Himself
    - Episode #2.7 (2002) ... Himself
    2000 The World Is Not Enough: James Bond Down River (TV Special documentary) - Himself
    1999 The Making of 'The World Is Not Enough' (Video documentary short) - Himself (uncredited)
    1999 The Bond Cocktail (TV Movie documentary) - Himself

    1999 Comme au cinéma (TV Series documentary) - Himself
    - Episode dated 18 November 1999 (1999) ... Himself
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    1950: Pamela Salem is born--Mumbai, India.

    1964: Variety reports Kevin McClory's statements his Bramwell Film Productions Ltd. based in the Bahamas scouted for actresses in Rome.

    1977: Bond comic strip Ape of Diamonds finishes its run in The Daily Express.
    (Started 5 November 1976. 3313 - 3437) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
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    https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/aod.php3
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    Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3
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    ("Fatal Command" - Ape Of Diamonds)
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    James Bond Agent 007 no. 48: “Ape of Diamonds” (1979)
    "Dødelig kommando" [=Deadly Command]
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    1977: Bond comic strips end in the Daily Express, but begin anew 30 January in the Sunday Express with the title When the Wizard Awakes. Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

    1994: Telly Savalas dies at age 72--Sheraton Universal Hotel, Universal City, California.
    (Born 21 January 1922--Garden City, Long Island, New York.)
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    David Shipman | Tuesday 25 January 1994 01:02

    Aristotle (Telly) Savalas, actor: born Garden City, New York 21 January 1924; married Katharine Nicolaides (one daughter), 1960 Marilynn Gardner (two daughters), 1974 Sally Adams (one son), 1984 Julie Howland (one son, one daughter); died Los Angeles 22 January 1994.

    IN 1973 a television cop series transformed a much-respected movie actor of the second rank - in box-office terms - into a figure instantly recognisable the world over. Telly Savalas was Lieutenant Theo Kojak of the New York Police Department, bald, not ugly but no oil painting ('Romeo inside a gorilla exterior', he once described himself), with intense eyes and a bewitching smile - when he cared to use it.

    Kojak preferred to appear menacing to his enemies and even to his colleagues. In speech he was direct, never wasting words, though these tended to be sarcastic. All the most popular television series, from The Untouchables to Cheers, have something special to them: in Kojak, more than the casual, near- rebellious, atmosphere of the precinct (new to television but not to movies) it was Kojak's character and Savalas's dynamic playing of him. He sucked on lollipops, sported glaring fancy waistcoats and porkpie hats, and demanded 'Who loves ya, baby?'

    Kojak was sympathetic to outcasts and ruthless with social predators. The show maintained a high quality to the end, mixing tension with some laughs and always anxious to tackle civic issues, one of its raisons d'etre in the first place. It was required viewing in Britain every Saturday evening for eight years. To almost everyone everywhere Kojak means Savalas and vice versa, but to Savalas himself the series was merely an interval, albeit a long one, in a distinguished career.

    A first-generation American of Greek extraction, he was born Aristotle Savalas in New York in 1924 and started his career in the Information Services of the State Department. He moved on to ABC television, in charge of Special Events and creating the prestigious Your Voice of America series. He had not acted or even considered doing so till he was asked if he could recommend an actor with a command of European accents. He decided to go to the audition himself, in 1959, and found himself appearing in Bring Home a Baby on Armstrong Circle Theater TV.

    Further acting opportunities followed, and movies claimed him. He made his debut in a minor crime story, Mad Dog Coll (1961); but John Frankenheimer had already cast him in The Young Savages, which starred Burt Lancaster as a lawyer designated to prosecute some juvenile delinquents. It was not, as social-concern films go, very profound; but for Savalas it was an omen, for he was the inspector in charge of the investigation. He was also the best thing in the film, as Frankenheimer recognised by putting him into Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), as a fellow-con of Lancaster's; a performance which brought Savalas an Oscar nomination. In the interim, he had played another detective in Cape Fear, starring Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. The three films established Savalas as the sort of actor who could make mincemeat out of the likes of Lancaster and Peck.

    The Man from the Diner's Club (1963), with Danny Kaye, marked Savalas's entry into screen comedies, which he managed with a confidence that enabled him to move from the most subtle expressions to the broadest of gestures. He played a morose mobster with tax problems. He was to demonstrate, when required, that he was simply one of the best screen heavies of his time. He was certainly one of the few whose reputation was unscathed by The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), in which he played Pontius Pilate with obvious enjoyment. Its producer-director, George Stevens, persuaded Savalas to shave his hair for the role.

    After playing the swinish Foreign Legion sergeant in Beau Geste (1966) - the only element to put it in the same class as the two earlier versions - he was the most unpleasant of Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen (1967) - soldier convicts promised remission after being sent secretly into France to prepare the locals for D-Day. As a religious maniac rapist, he stood out in a movie which included Lee Marvin and Charles Bronson also on top form; and the film's popularity put stardom within Savalas's grasp. He was superb as a psychopathic bounty-hunter who doublecrosses Burt Lancaster in Sydney Pollack's irresistible western The Scalphunters (1968).
    Melvin Frank's Buona Sera Mrs Campbell (1968) brought Savalas back to Europe - literally, as one of the ex-GIs who, along with two others (Peter Lawford, Phil Silvers), was paying maintenance for Gina Lollobrigida's daughter, conceived in Naples in 1944. He first acted in Britain in Basil Dearden's black comedy The Assassination Bureau (1969), playing a newspaper magnate who commissions the would- be journalist Diana Rigg to expose a gang of professional killers. He remained in Britain, to be 007's nemesis figure, Ernst Blofeld, the head of SPECTRE with dreams of world domination, in On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Savalas was billed immediately after Clint Eastwood, overshadowing him however as an actor, in Kelly's Heroes (1970), a wartime jape in which they and two others (Don Rickles, Donald Sutherland) steal behind German lines in pursuit of gold.
    Savalas liked London. He took a house in the Boltons and enjoyed a romance with a Hollywood actress appearing on the London stage. He began to choose films for the locations rather than the roles, and thus did more than his fair share of spaghetti westerns, invariably as the villain. In the midst of these he was offered a television movie, The Marcus-Nelson Murders (1973), based on the Miranda case of 1963, when a detective was determined to see that a black teenager should not be convicted of a crime he did not commit. The direction and writing won Emmys for Joseph Sargent and Abby Mann respectively; Savalas was nominated and did not win but, more significantly, this was his introduction to Kojak: the three-hour film was in fact the pilot for a one-hour Kojak series.

    The decision to end Kojak after 110 episodes was mutual. The series had covered just about every crime that can happen in a large municipality and there were indications that the public was becoming somewhat less fond of the abrasive detective who hauled the wrongdoers into the precinct in the last 10 minutes. The novelty had worn off.

    Savalas's brother George played his shambling subordinate Stavros, and it was not till the end of the first run that it was revealed that they were brothers in the show as well. They returned to the roles in a telemovie for Universal, Kojak - the Belarus File (1985). This was to test the atmosphere for a new series, but nothing came of it immediately, nor of Hellinger's Law, in which Savalas would have been a lawyer.

    The initial impact of Kojak was to make Savalas more than ever in demand as a movie actor. Few of the films he now made were memorable, but mention should be made of the Anglo-German Inside Out (1975), since it became a feature of a libel-suit against the Daily Mail. That paper printed a story from the location-shooting in Berlin, alleging that Savalas's 'private excesses' were damaging the film, and contrasting the professionalism of James Mason (described in reports as his 'co-star', though in fact billed below Savalas and in a smaller role). Mason not only testified for Savalas, but was in court for much of the hearing, beaming encouragement and seeing him awarded the then high sum of pounds 34,000.

    However, by the time Kojak finished in 1978 movie offers were beginning to dry up. Savalas's identification with the one role was so complete that others had been hard to come by - they were either cameos, as in Capricorn One (1978) or The Muppet Movie (1979), or second goes at popular films, such as Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) and Cannonball Run II (1983). Understandably, since he would always be a star in that medium, television offered frequent work, as when he played the Cheshire Cat in an all-star Alice in Wonderland (1985) and his old role alongside Ernest Borgine in The Dirty Dozen: the Deadly Mission (1987) and The Dirty Dozen: the Fatal Mission (1988).

    In 1989 he again played Kojak - but not for Universal and CBS, as before. ABC had lured Burt Reynolds back to television to play a gumshoe, BL Stryker, but Reynolds was not prepared to appear again on a weekly basis, so The ABC Saturday Mystery rotated four different shows, with Jaclyn Smith as Christine Cromwell and two gentlemen from the past - Peter Falk as Columbo and Savalas as Kojak. Savalas insisted on New York's being used for the locations and not, as before, Los Angeles standing in for New York. To a journalist watching the shooting he said, 'C'mon, willya? I was born in this city . . . Raised in the neighbourhood, right? I speak the language. So Telly and Kojak are one and the same. That's what makes the show interesting for me - and easy. I'm basically playing myself to a large extent - a street-smart fella with the soul of a pussycat.'

    He admitted that the character was older and wiser, but the verdict of the press was that he was older and very tired. ABC dropped Kojak after the contracted four episodes (which were not seen in Britain).

    Savalas used his fame as Kojak to become a singer, with indifferent results as far as his records were concerned, but he did appear at the 1974 Oscar ceremony, singing 'You're so Nice To Be Around' from Cinderella Liberty. In 1992 he opened 'Telly's Sporting Bar' in the Sheraton - where he lived in Los Angeles - at Universal City, featuring mementoes of Kojak.

    Savalas liked to be recognised - indeed, he revelled in his fame. He was only slightly ambivalent, declaring that television was 'so powerful it can wipe out anything you've done in the past'. He went on, 'I won't mention names, but I remember sitting with two major motion-picture stars. Here's poor little Telly comin' off a little TV show and people are comin' up to me and askin' for my autograph. And I look at these two global personalities alongside me and nobody's askin' them. How come? Because they didn't recognise them. The power of TV, my friend.'
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    Filmography
    Actor (132 credits)

    1995 Backfire! - Most Evil Man
    1993 Mind Twister - Richard Howland
    1992-1993 The Commish (TV Series) - Tommy Colette
    - Out of Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
    - Family Business (1993) ... Tommy Colette
    - The Frame (1992) ... Tommy Colette
    1991-1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) - Teddy
    - Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... Teddy
    - Ein Glatzkopf kommt selten allein (1991) ... Teddy
    1991 Rose Against the Odds (TV Movie) - George Parnassus
    1990 Kojak: None So Blind (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
    1990 Kojak: It's Always Something (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
    1990 Kojak: Flowers for Matty (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
    1989 Kojak: Fatal Flaw (TV Movie) - Theo Kojak

    1989 Kojak: Ariana (TV Movie) - Kojak
    1989 The Hollywood Detective (TV Movie) - Harry Bell
    1988 The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
    1987 J.J. Starbuck (TV Series) - The Greek
    - Gold from the Rainbow (1987) ... The Greek
    1987 Faceless - Terry Hallen
    1987 The Equalizer (TV Series) - Brother Joseph Heiden
    - Blood & Wine: Part 2 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
    - Blood & Wine: Part 1 (1987) ... Brother Joseph Heiden
    1987 The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (TV Movie) - Maj. Wright
    1987 Kojak: The Price of Justice (TV Movie) - Inspector Theo Kojak
    1986 GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords - Magmar (voice)
    1985 Solomon's Universe (TV Movie) - Solomon Stark
    1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) - The Cheshire Cat
    1985 George Burns Comedy Week (TV Series) - - The Assignment (1985)
    1985 Beyond Reason - Dr. Nicholas Mati
    1985 Kojak: The Belarus File (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Theo Kojak
    1985 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Dr. Fabian Cain
    - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 2 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
    - Scandinavia Cruise: Girl of the Midnight Sun/There'll Be Some Changes Made/Too Many Isaacs/Mr. Smith Goes to Stockholm: Part 1 (1985) ... Dr. Fabian Cain
    1984 The Cartier Affair (TV Movie) - Phil Drexler
    1984 Cannonball Run II - Hymie Kaplan
    1983 Afghanistan pourquoi? - Rebel Leader
    1982 Fake-Out - Lt. Thurston
    1982 American Playhouse (TV Series) - Peter Panakos
    - My Palikari (1982) ... Peter Panakos
    1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Joe Brisson
    - Completely Foolproof (1981) ... Joe Brisson
    1981 Hellinger's Law (TV Movie) - Nick Hellinger
    1980 Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story (TV Movie) - Cretzer
    1980 Border Cop - Frank Cooper

    1979 The French Atlantic Affair (TV Mini-Series) - Father Craig Dunleavy
    - Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
    - Episode #1.2 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
    - Episode #1.1 (1979) ... Father Craig Dunleavy
    1979 Alice (TV Series) - Telly Savalas
    - Has Anyone Here Seen Telly? (1979) ... Telly Savalas
    1979 The Muppet Movie - El Sleezo Tough
    1979 Beyond the Poseidon Adventure - Captain Stefan Svevo
    1979 Escape to Athena - Zeno
    1978 Windows, Doors & Keyholes (TV Movie)
    1973-1978 Kojak (TV Series) - Lt. Theo Kojak - 117 episodes
    - In Full Command (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
    - 60 Miles to Hell (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
    - Photo Must Credit Joe Paxton (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
    - May the Horse Be with You (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
    - The Halls of Terror (1978) ... Lt. Theo Kojak
    ...
    1977 Capricorn One - Albain
    1976 The Diamond Mercenaries - Harry Webb
    1975 Inside Out - Harry Morgan
    1975 The Hitman
    1975 The House of Exorcism - Leandro
    1975 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Singer / Kojak
    - Episode #2.1 (1975) ... Singer / Kojak
    1973 Lisa and the Devil - Leandro
    1973 She Cried Murder (TV Movie) - Inspector Joe Brody
    1973 The Marcus-Nelson Murders (TV Movie) - Lt. Theo Kojak
    1973 Senza ragione - Memphis
    1972 A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die - Maggiore Ward
    1972 Pancho Villa - Pancho Villa
    1972 Visions... (TV Movie) - Lt. Phil Keegan
    1972 The Killer Is on the Phone - Ranko Drasovic
    1972 Horror Express - Capt. Kazan
    1972 Sonny and Jed - Sheriff Franciscus
    1972 Crime Boss - Don Vincenzo
    1971 Steel Wreath (TV Movie) - Lieutenant Pete Tolstad
    1971 Clay Pigeon - Redford
    1971 A Town Called Hell - Don Carlos
    1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series) - Gregor Antonescu
    - Man and Boy (1971) ... Gregor Antonescu
    1971 Pretty Maids All in a Row - Surcher
    1970 The Red Skelton Hour (TV Series) - Tex
    - Stagecoach Hijack (1970) ... Tex
    1970 Violent City - Al Weber
    1970 Kelly's Heroes - Big Joe
    1970 Land Raiders - Vicente Cardenas

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Blofeld
    1969 Sophie's Place - Herbie Haseler
    1969 Mackenna's Gold - Sergeant Tibbs
    1969 The Assassination Bureau - Lord Bostwick
    1968 Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell - Walter Braddock
    1968 The Scalphunters - Jim Howie
    1968 Sol Madrid - Emil Dietrich
    1967 Cimarron Strip (TV Series) - Bear
    - The Battleground (1967) ... Bear
    1967 Garrison's Gorillas (TV Series) - Wheeler
    - The Big Con (1967) ... Wheeler
    1967 The Dirty Dozen - Archer Maggott
    1967 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (TV Series) - Mueller
    - Don't Wait for Tomorrow (1967) ... Mueller
    1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Count Valeriano De Fanzini
    - The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
    - The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Count Valeriano De Fanzini
    1967 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Ed Clementi
    - The Executioners: Part 2 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
    - The Executioners: Part 1 (1967) ... Ed Clementi
    1964-1967 Combat! (TV Series) - Jon / Colonel Kapsalis
    - Anniversary (1967) ... Jon
    - Vendetta (1964) ... Colonel Kapsalis
    1966 Beau Geste - Sgt. Maj. Dagineau
    1964-1966 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Steve Keller / Victor Leonetti / Dan Polichek
    - Stroke of Genius (1966) ... Steve Keller
    - May God Have Mercy (1965) ... Victor Leonetti
    - Where the Action Is (1964) ... Dan Polichek
    1966 The Virginian (TV Series) - 'Colonel' Bliss
    - Men with Guns (1966) ... 'Colonel' Bliss
    1965 Battle of the Bulge - Sgt. Guffy
    1965 The Slender Thread - Dr. Joe Coburn
    1965 Run for Your Life (TV Series) - Istvan Zabor
    - How to Sell Your Soul for Fun and Profit (1965) ... Istvan Zabor
    1965 Bonanza (TV Series) - Charles Augustus Hackett
    - To Own the World (1965) ... Charles Augustus Hackett
    1965 Genghis Khan - Shan
    1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! - Macmuid (Harem Recruiter) (uncredited)
    1963-1965 Burke's Law (TV Series)
    Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth / Charlie Prince / Fakir George O'Shea
    - Who Killed the Man on the White Horse? (1965) ... Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth
    - Who Killed His Royal Highness? (1964) ... Charlie Prince
    - Who Killed Purity Mather? (1963) ... Fakir George O'Shea
    1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told - Pontius Pilate
    1964 The Rogues (TV Series) - Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
    - Viva Diaz! (1964) ... Gen. Hector Jesus Diaz
    1964 Fanfare for a Death Scene (TV Movie) - Ilchidai Khan
    1964 The New Interns - Dr. Dominick 'Dom' Riccio
    1964 Kraft Suspense Theatre (TV Series) - Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle / Beret
    - The Watchman (1964) ... Ramon Castillo / Raymond Castle
    - The Action of the Tiger (1964) ... Beret
    1964 Breaking Point (TV Series) - Vincenzo Gracchi
    - My Hands Are Clean (1964) ... Vincenzo Gracchi
    1964 The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (TV Series) - Philadelphia Harry
    - A Matter of Murder (1964) ... Philadelphia Harry
    1964 Arrest and Trial (TV Series) - Frank Santo
    - The Revenge of the Worm (1964) ... Frank Santo
    1964 Channing (TV Series) - Paul Atherton
    - A Claim to Immortality (1964) ... Paul Atherton
    1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Erich Streator
    - Living Doll (1963) ... Erich Streator
    1963 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) - Brother Hendricksen
    - 5: Part 4 (1963) ... Brother Hendricksen
    1963 Grindl (TV Series) - Mr. Hartman
    - The Gruesome Basement (1963) ... Mr. Hartman
    1963 Johnny Cool - Vincenzo 'Vince' Santangelo
    1963 Love Is a Ball
    Dr. Christian Gump (Millie's uncle)
    1963 The Man from the Diners' Club - Foots Pulardos
    1963 Empire (TV Series) - Tibor
    - Arrow in the Sky (1963) ... Tibor
    1963 The Dakotas (TV Series) - Jake Volet
    - Reformation at Big Nose Butte (1963) ... Jake Volet
    1963 The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) - Ben Cohen
    - A Tumble from a High White House (1963) ... Ben Cohen
    1961-1963 The Untouchables (TV Series)
    Leo Stazak / Matt Bass / Wally Baltzer
    - The Speculator (1963) ... Leo Stazak
    - The Matt Bass Scheme (1961) ... Matt Bass
    - The Antidote (1961) ... Wally Baltzer
    1962 Alcoa Premiere (TV Series) - Mario Lombardi
    - The Hands of Danofrio (1962) ... Mario Lombardi
    1962 The Interns - Dr. Dominic Riccio
    1962 Birdman of Alcatraz -Feto Gomez
    1962 Cape Fear - Private Detective Charles Sievers
    1961-1962 Cain's Hundred (TV Series) - Harry Remick / Frank Meehan
    - Savage in Darkness (1962) ... Harry Remick
    - In the Balance (1961) ... Frank Meehan (as Telly Savales)
    1961 The Sin of Jesus (Short) - Felix (as Telli Savales)
    1961 Ben Casey (TV Series) - George Dempsey
    - A Dark Night for Billy Harris (1961) ... George Dempsey
    1961 The Detectives (TV Series) - Ben
    - Escort (1961) ... Ben
    1961 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Sergeant Marius
    - Three Soldiers (1961) ... Sergeant Marius
    1961 King of Diamonds (TV Series) - Massis / Jerry Larch
    - Stop Johnny King! (1961) ... Massis
    - The Wizard of Ice (1961) ... Jerry Larch
    1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Dr. Buel Reed
    - The Compulsion to Confess (1961) ... Dr. Buel Reed
    1961 The Young Savages - Detective Lt. Gunderson
    1961 Mad Dog Coll - Lt. Darro
    1961 Acapulco (TV Series) - Mr. Carver
    - Murder with Love (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    - Blood Money (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    - Death Is a Smiling Man (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    - Fisher's Daughter (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    - Carbon Copy Cat (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    - The Gentleman from Brazil (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    - Killer in a Rose Colored Mask (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    - Bell's Half Acre (1961) ... Mr. Carver
    1961 The Aquanauts (TV Series) - Paul Price
    - Stormy Weather (1961) ... Paul Price
    1960 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series)
    - Operation North Star (1960)
    1960 The Witness (TV Series) - Al Capone / Lucky Luciano
    - Al Capone (1960) ... Al Capone
    - Roger 'The Terrible' Touhy (1960)
    - Lucky Luciano (1960) ... Lucky Luciano
    1960 Naked City (TV Series) - Gabriel Hody
    - To Walk in Silence (1960) ... Gabriel Hody
    1959-1960 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) - Dieter Wislieny / Dieter Wisliceny / Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire / ...
    - Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wislieny
    - Engineer of Death: The Eichmann Story (1960) ... Dieter Wisliceny
    - 35 Rue Du Marche (1959) ... Father Dominique Georges Henn Pire
    - Sound of Violence (1959) ... Charles Rogan
    - House of Cards (1959)
    - And Bring Home a Baby (1959)
    1960 Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (TV Series) - - The Cat and the Canary (1960)
    1960 Diagnosis: Unknown (TV Series) - Irish Tony Salivarro
    - Gina, Gina (1960) ... Irish Tony Salivarro
    1959 Deadline (TV Series) - Anders
    - The Two Ounce Trap (1959) ... Anders
    1959 Sunday Showcase (TV Series) - Cotton
    - Murder and the Android (1959) ... Cotton

    Soundtrack (12 credits)

    2013 In the Name of (performer: "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend")

    2006 The Break-Up (performer: "Who Loves Ya Baby")

    1993 Ein Schloß am Wörthersee (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Teddy räumt auf (1993) ... (performer: "Come on, Baby")

    1987 The 59th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: "Fugue for Tinhors")
    1985 Alice in Wonderland (TV Movie) (performer: "There's No Way Home")

    1976 Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby? (TV Special) (performer: "Who Loves Ya, Baby?", "This Is All I Ask", "We Were So Poor", "Zorbas (aka Zorba's Dance)", "The Men in My Little Girl's Life")
    1975 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Top of the Pops '75: Part 2 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
    1975 Disco (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #1.53 (1975) ... (performer: "If")
    1975 V.I.P.-Schaukel (TV Series documentary) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #5.2 (1975) ... (performer: "If" - uncredited)
    1975 Kojak (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard (1975) ... (performer: "Azure Dee")
    1974 The 46th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special) (performer: " (You're So) Nice to Be Around")
    1972 Pancho Villa (performer: "We All End Up the Same")

    Director (3 credits)

    1985 Beyond Reason

    1974-1978 Kojak (TV Series) (5 episodes)
    - In Full Command (1978)
    - Kiss It All Goodbye (1977)
    - Over the Water (1975)
    - I Want to Report a Dream (1975)
    - The Betrayal (1974)

    1959 Report to New York (TV Series)

    Writer (1 credit)

    1985 Beyond Reason (screenplay)
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    1995: The Press meets the new Bond cast at EON Studios, Leavesden. 1998: 新铁金刚之明日帝国 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī míngrì dìguó; New Iron King Kong Tomorrow Empire) released in Hong Kong.

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    2000: The World Is Not Enough released in Kuwait.
    2008: Bond fans notice the domain name of quantumofsolace.com as registered by Sony Pictures this date, leaking the title ahead of its 24 January press conference and official announcement.

    2020: The Independent reports on why Daniel Craig came back for No Time To Die, and why he almost didn't.
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    Jacob Stolworthy | @Jacob_Stol | Wednesday 22 January 2020

    Daniel Craig has opened up about why he almost quit as James Bond before deciding to return for one final film.

    The actor, who said he’d rather “slash his wrists” than return as the British spy after filming 2015’s Spectre, will appear in No Time to Die, which almost shut down production after Danny Boyle quit as director.

    It was unknown for some time whether Craig would return – and the actor has revealed this is because of an injury he suffered on Spectre.

    “I finished that movie with a broken leg,” he told Entertainment Weekly.
    “I had to question myself – was I physically capable of doing [another Bond film] or did I want to do another one? Because that phone call to your wife saying ‘I’ve broken my leg’ is not pleasant.”
    It was producer Barbara Broccoli that convinced Craig to play 007 once more.

    “He felt at the end of the last movie he’d kind of done it,” she added.

    “I said to him, ‘I don’t think you have, I think there’s still more of the story of your Bond to tell.’ Fortunately, he came around to agree with that.”

    Craig confirmed in the interview that this was his final Bond film.
    “This is going to be my last James Bond adventure,” he said. ”This is it – it’s over.”
    No Time to Die – which is directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga – will be released on 1 April. [Release date delayed and never trust something scheduled for 1 April.] Billie Eilish will sing the theme song.
    2022: Verve Times reports on George Lazenby and Telly Savalas and Dani Sheridan during the filming of On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
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    Following Sean Connery’s original departure from the James Bond film franchise with 1967’s You Only Live Twice, unknown model George Lazenby was cast to fill his shoes in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. Producer Cubby Broccoli suggested established star Telly Savalas play Bond villain Blofeld this time around. The SPECTRE villain’s plan would be to hold the world to ransom by threatening to render all food plants and livestock infertile.

    Back in 1981, the one-time Bond actor Lazenby gave an interview to 007 magazine about working alongside Savalas, who would have been 100 today.
    Asked about his billing on the poster being in the same wording as his co-stars, the Aussie said at the time: “I will tell you another thing. Telly Savalas thought he was the star!”

    On how he got along with the Kelly’s Heroes legend, the 007 actor said: “He was OK – I didn’t fall in love with him if that’s what you mean. His lifestyle is completely the opposite to the way I lived. So I mean, we could get along – talk, act, laugh and joke together.”
    Nevertheless, Savalas was incredibly kind to Lazenby, helping him along with his acting when others doubted the model’s talents.

    During filming in January 1969, Savalas also met Sally Adams (billed as Dani Sheridan) who played one of Blofeld’s Angels of Death and was 25 years his junior.

    The two later moved in together and had their son Nicholas Savalas on February 24, 1973.

    Although the couple never legally married she would go by Sally Savalas while they were together until 1978.

    Savalas also went on to have great success during this period playing Kojak on TV. The star himself died on January 22, 1994, just one day after his 72nd birthday following a battle with cancer.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    January 23rd

    1942: Wilhelm Hermann Björn Bogner Jr. is born--Munich, Germany.
    1944: Maggie Wright is born--London, England.

    1962: Tonight plus two more nights Monty Norman supervises the music for the Dr. No scene at Puss Feller's nightclub. Bond, Leiter, Quarrel, and that photographer in attendance.
    1962: David Arnold is born--Luton, England.
    1964: FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover prepares a document regarding Harry Saltzman's request to use military aircraft (and intent to portray the FBI in a positive light) in the latest Bond film production.
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    Have you ever wondered how government agencies react to seeing their employees portrayed in big-bucks movies? It’s an intriguing question. And so is the answer. In 2015, under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI declassified its file on the creator of the world’s most famous secret-agent: James Bond, 007. We’re talking about none other than author Ian Fleming. The 25-page file makes for eye-opening, interesting, and entertaining reading.
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    An FBI document dated January 23, 1964 – and prepared by J. Edgar Hoover himself, for the Los Angeles and Miami offices of the FBI – states that one Harry Saltzman “…today contacted a representative of the Department of Defense in Washington requesting the use of military aircraft in connection with a movie based on the Pocket Book entitled quote Goldfinger unquote by Ian Fleming. Stated FBI would be depicted in movie in favorable manner.” And who, you may ask, was Harry Saltzman? None other than one of the leading figures in the production of such James Bond movies as Dr. No, From Russia With Love, You Only Live Twice, Live And Let Die, and The Man With The Golden Gun.
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    The dossier on Fleming and his work continues: “Bufiles contain no derogatory information concerning Saltzman. Fleming is writer of paperback novels concerning spy stories in which his fictional character, James Bond, is the star, and they are generally filled with sex and bizarre situations. Los Angeles is instructed to advise the Bureau regarding any information in their possession regarding this proposed movie.”
    Hoover added: “Miami is instructed to contact Saltzman who is residing at the Fontainebleau Hotel and vigorously protest any mention of FBI or portrayal of its agents in his proposed movie. You should bring forcefully to his attention the provisions of Public Law Six Seventy which prohibits the use of the words quote Federal Bureau of Investigation unquote or its initials in any manner without my written permission.” Clearly, Hoover was far from happy with the plans for Goldfinger.

    1973: Geoffrey Holder and 16 dancers begin rehearsing Baron Samedi’s Dance of Death.

    1984: Ποτέ μην ξαναπείς ποτέ (James Bond, praktor 007: Pote min xanapeis pote; translated--Never Ever Again) released in Greece.
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    2005: Tanya Gold in her piece in The Guardian "The World Has Had Enough" proposes Bond is over.
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    Tanya Gold | Sun 23 Jan 2005
    It wasn't feminism, terrorism or the end of the cold war that finally did for James Bond. It was Austin Powers

    Last week James Bond was fired. His nuclear pencil gathers dust beneath Whitehall. There is no news of 007 No 6 (Radio 4 listeners have helpfully suggested Jeremy Paxman) and the production of Bond film 21, due this November, has stalled. There is trouble at MI6, minister: our martini-quaffing sexoholic is suffering an existential crisis and it can't be cured by an intelligent Rolex or a gondola that can drive on dry land.

    Eon, who produce Bond, and MGM, who finance his capers, are bickering. It is rumoured that MGM want an action-movie franchise - Spiderman in a tux - that sprouts money. As Bond said to Dr No: "World domination; same old dream; our asylums are full of men who think they are Napoleon." Eon, however, are fighting for their cold war relic, the "sexist, misogynist dinosaur" and gentleman spy who flowed from the pen of Ian Fleming.

    Why is Bond in crisis? He is a corpse; the hero of a dead time and a dead place called postwar Clubland. Fleming was an Eton-educated journalist who worked in British naval intelligence during the second world war, where his professional apogee was evacuating King Zog of Albania from Nazi-occupied Europe. Bond was his fantasy alter ego, a libidinous killer who thought women were "for recreation". Bond slapped bottoms and peered at his watch during sex; he killed women he had slept with and, worse, he told one dewy-eyed poppet: "I never miss."

    This was acceptable in 1952, when Bond was born on the pages of Casino Royale; but feminism castrated Fleming's hero. Today, any responsible GP would refer him to Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous and any respectable woman would hit him. We know, though Fleming didn't, that Bond won't be polished off by Soviet crocodiles, but by Aids. He had a weird predilection for girls with silly names. He had an Electra, a Honey, a Christmas, a Pussy and an Octopussy. He probably had a Decapussy, or did I dream it?

    Fleming created two villainous organisations to wound his baby Bond. The first was Spectre (Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion), a gaggle of freelance megalomaniacs who wanted to take over the world for fun. Today they would be politicians. Is there anyone who can't imagine Michael Howard menacingly stroking a cat, Tessa Jowell feeding the enemies of the gambling bill to sharks or Tony Blair planting a bomb under Fort Knox? Spectre grins on the news every day. You voted for it.

    Fleming's other nemesis Smersh (aka Death to Spies) was a mutant strain of the KGB. Smersh is as frightening as eating toast. Bond always has a vodka martini and a chuckle with the Reds at the end, because, for Fleming, the cold war was just a disagreement between western gentlemen.

    At the end of The Spy Who Loved Me, Bond escapes into a tented pod with a beautiful KGB agent. He boasts to M that he is "just keeping the British end up, sir". Recent Bonds have experimented with a psychotic heiress, a renegade British agent and a media baron who resembles Barbara Amiel. Apart from Amiel, they lacked menace. The authentic candidates for modern Bond villains are, of course, Islamist fundamentalists but it's hard to imagine even 007 peeling back a burka or keeping the British end up with an al-Qaida operative.

    Our tolerance for snobbery has withered. When we hear James musing to a baddie: "Red wine with fish; that should have told me something" and explaining that "certain things just aren't done - like drinking Dom Perignon '53 above a temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit" we don't fawn and sputter on to satin sheets. Bond behaves like an ancient gay dress designer, living in Surbiton and clinging to his final (crystal) marble.

    Everywhere, Fleming's fastasies are dust. We've seen the faces of intelligence operatives because they flog their books at literary festivals. David Shayler is No 008; the only thing he leaves shaken but not stirred are the people he bumps into on street corners. We know from Spycatcher that the British secret service spend their time watching Irish grandmothers and destabilising Labour governments - and faking dossiers for Downing Street. The spying game has been demystified.

    But Bond's final bullet didn't come from feminism, the government, Andrew Gilligan or the poor entertainment possibilities of modern terrorism. In the end Sean, Roger, George, Timothy and Pierce were vanquished by just one man - Austin Powers. Bond's satirical twin, who danced and shagged and bit his way through two blockbuster Bond spoofs, finally achieved what Smersh could not. Austin's silly ruffled shirts, his encounters with Dr Evil and the Fembots and, most particularly, his plaintive cry, "Do I make you horny, baby?" did for the straight man. Some things just can't withstand satire; least of all a crumbling imperialist spy who puns badly. MGM will find a new aspirational hero for us, one who won't make us hurl into our popcorn: a gay Bond, a black Bond, a paraplegic Bond, an obese Bond, a Welsh bond. Any Bond but James Bond.

    2013: Film fans in mainland China complain of censor cuts to Skyfall.
    Includes:
    • hitman Patrice killing a Chinese security guard in Shanghai.
    • mention of prostitution in Macau.
    • the villain Silva speaking of torture as a prisoner of the Chinese.
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    Topic | Censorship in China
    Stephen Chen | and AFP | Published: 12:00am, 23 Jan, 2013
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    Xinhua has published a rare admonishment of government censors for cutting and manipulating scenes in the latest James Bond movie, which hit mainland cinemas this week.

    The state media organ said the censorship, which almost every foreign film goes through before reaching Chinese cinemas, highlighted a problem with the nation's movie-review system - that is, that decisions about cuts and changes to films are often arbitrary. In some cases, Xinhua reported, an anonymous letter drove what content was cut.

    Skyfall began showing in mainland cinemas on Monday - nearly three months after the movie's premier in Britain. Foreign films' delayed mainland release is common due to the censorship process, and because preference is given to domestic productions.

    However, government censors rarely, if ever, admit that content is cut or altered. All foreign movies are subject to review by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, Xinhua said.

    Among the Skyfall scenes censors deleted was one in which a French hitman kills a Chinese security guard in a Shanghai skyscraper.

    A scene depicting prostitution in Macau was also cut, as was a line spoken by Bond's nemesis mentioning that Chinese security agents had tortured him.

    Furthermore, in a scene where Bond asks a mysterious woman whether she has been a prostitute since the age of 12 or 13, censors decided to keep the audio but alter the Chinese subtitles to indicate that Bond asked her whether she had become a triad member at that age.

    Xinhua's criticism of the censorship came after a highly publicised row early this month between the editorial staff of a Guangdong-based magazine, Southern Weekly, and provincial propaganda authorities.

    Professor Shi Chuan , who teaches at Shanghai University's School of Film and TV Arts and Technology, was quoted by Xinhua as saying that while authorities have reason to remove depictions of nudity or extreme violence in movies, as they violate Chinese law, a film's content should otherwise be left alone.
    "Movie regulators should respect the producers' original ideas, rather than chopping scenes arbitrarily," he said.
    2013: Hollywood buzz for the 2013 Oscars says a tribute to James Bond's 50th anniversary in film may assemble all six OO7 actors on stage.

    2015: OverMental reports the original pitch for a James Bond game became Splinter Cell.
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    Ubisoft Montreal revealed a surprising origin for the massively successful Splinter Cell franchise. Apparently, they originally pitched it as a James Bond game, unrelated to any Tom Clancy works.

    An ex-Ubisoft developer told IGN that they had been working on an action game called The Drift, which was on the verge of being cancelled. In the hopes of keeping the project alive, the team “made an attempt to impress the [007] license holder.” The pitch featured, “vertical traversal, vision modes, and remote-controlled surveillance cameras.”

    That didn’t pan out though, and Ubisoft opted to apply its pre-existing Tom Clancy license to the game, with a plan to base it on Clancy’s The Sum of All Fears. 11 games later, and Splinter Cell has evolved into something distinctly not Bond, or Jack Ryan for that matter.
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    2015: Canada considers their 50-year view on the copyrights to Ian Fleming material and writing new Bond novels.
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    Ian Bailey | Published January 23, 2015
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    Master spy James Bond, one of pop culture's most iconic figures, is now available for dangerous assignments from Canadian writers, thanks to a copyright quirk that allows the writing and publication in Canada of original material based on Bond creator Ian Fleming's work. As of Jan. 1, the original writings of Fleming, a former British naval intelligence agent who published 12 novels and nine stories featuring 007 between 1952 and 1966, have entered the public domain. That's because Canada's view of copyright is that it extends for 50 years after the death of a writer.

    Fleming died in 1964, but Bond has lived on in films featuring such actors as Sean Connery and, most recently, Daniel Craig, who's now working on a 24th Bond film, Spectre, due for release in November. But Bond has also lived on in about two dozen novels by authors sanctioned by Fleming's estate: William Boyd, Sebastian Faulks and John Gardner, who wrote 14 Bond novels, have sent Bond on assignment.

    Some novels have been set in the present day and others during the Cold War. The latest is a 1950s-set Bond novel, based on unpublished material by Fleming, due next fall from screenwriter Anthony Horowitz, perhaps best known as the creator and lead writer of the British TV series Foyle's War. Horowitz's work has Bond taking on the Russians against the backdrop of a Formula 1 race in Germany.

    Now, some Canadian writers, mindful of the 2015 copyright changes, are musing about the prospect of taking 007 for a spin with the consensus among two leading authors that Bond would best work in the past.

    Linwood Barclay of Oakville, Ont., says he would relish writing a Bond novel set in Canada in the 1970s. "That's a good time period," said Barclay, author of several bestselling mysteries and thrillers that have sold in 40 countries and been optioned for film and TV production. "[Canada] just came out of the Centennial. You had FLQ stuff going on. You had a lot of stuff happening," he said in an interview.

    Barclay said he has a lot on his plate, but has been a fan of the character since he saw the Bond film Thunderball in 1965. "If someone was to say, 'Hey, are you interested in this?' I would probably, at the very least, think about it and I'd find some way to squeeze it in," he said.

    Peter Robinson, author of the popular Inspector Banks series set in Britain that have also been adapted for TV, said he would "love to have a go" at writing 007. In an e-mail exchange with The Globe, Robinson said he has read all of the Bond novels, including the post-Fleming works, and has been a fan of the character since 1962 when he first saw Ursula Andress walk out of the sea in Dr. No, the first Bond film.

    Robinson, who splits his time between Toronto and North Yorkshire, said he would be more interested in picking up where Fleming left off, exploring the character as a Cold War spy living in a late-1960s world, than bringing him into the present day. Bond is a "man of action in a very specific arena," he said.

    However, he doubts that any Canadian writer would try a Bond novel unless the book could be distributed and sold outside Canada. "There wouldn't be much point. Canada has a terrible track record when it comes to buying its own genre fiction, and I doubt that the sales generated by such an undertaking would be adequate compensation for the time and effort that went into it."

    In an e-mail exchange, Giles Blunt, author of the popular John Cardinal mystery novels set in small-town Northern Ontario and a scriptwriter on such TV series as Law & Order, said it would not be appealing to spend the year he requires to write a novel using someone else's characters. "In addition, you have to hit all those well-known bases: the martini, the casino, the babe, the megalomaniac, the astounding weapon etc. It seems far too restrictive an endeavour to be any fun."

    But noted Canadian agent Helen Heller, who represents Barclay, says checking through that list might be appealing to some authors. "It would provide some people with a kind of literary corset they could put around themselves when they write," she said. "There are other people who would hate that, who would feel they could not do that."

    Ms. Heller said, in an interview, that she has been mindful of the looming public domain access to 007 with the arrival of 2015. "But Canadian agent Helen Heller, who represents Barclay, said that "none of my clients have rung me after midnight on Jan. 1 to say: 'Whoopee. I can now do a James Bond story.'"

    The challenge, in her view, would be making Bond a living, breathing, appealingly complicated character beyond the "construct" Fleming created. "I could see a way of making it appealing if you went the Mad Men route – you could make it something quite sophisticated," she said. "A sophisticated, early-sixties take on something going on in Canada. There's a lot you could use."

    Representatives of Ian Fleming Publications Ltd., which manages issues around the Fleming works, did not respond to requests for comment on the copyright situation.
    2018: Tom Hanks reveals he's never been asked to appear in a Bond film.
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    Hollywood legend Tom Hanks has admitted he would love to star in a James Bond movie but has never been approached for a role.
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    23 January 2018

    Tom Hanks has never been asked to star in a James Bond movie.
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    The 61-year-old multi-Academy Award winner has been working in Hollywood for four decades and has worked with a number of legendary actors and filmmakers, but there is one franchise for which Hanks hasn't even been approached for a role.

    Speaking to Time Out London magazine, Hanks has admitted he would love to join the 007 family and would be up for playing a villain, in a departure from his usual good guy roles.
    He said: "That'd be a treat. No one's asked me to be in any of those.

    "I might have to hold out to play the guy who says 'before I kill you, Mr. Bond, perhaps you'd like a tour of my installation?'"
    ...
    Surely he expected to go Full Bond.


    2023: The newly renovated Vesper Bar reopens at the Dorchester Hotel, London, England.
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    The newly renovated Vesper Bar reopens at the Dorchester Hotel
    Vesper Bar
    Serving up an illustrious history and lively reputation, our bar has long been London’s ultimate destination for cocktail sipping, celebrating and deal making. For this is the address where the energy and spirit of the city thrives. Here, every drink is poured into bespoke glassware and savoured alongside a cool soundtrack and globally-inspired bites from the eclectic bar menu. Let the good times roll.

    Location:
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    The Dorchester, Park Lane, London W1K 1QA
    Call: 44 (0) 20 7317 6530

    The newly renovated Vesper Bar opens on Monday, January 23, 2023.
    Reservations are now open and we look forward to welcoming you.
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    Live in the moment
    Our bar’s film-star looks and talented team of bartenders are the perfect combination for an exceptional evening in the heart of London. This is where life is lived not in minutes but in a collection of splendid moments. Inspired by the legends that surround us and brought to life with creativity and character, we warmly welcome you to a place of endless possibilities.

    THE TEAM
    Masters of the bar

    Stepping into this atmospheric space reveals our award-winning team of cocktail alchemists, ready to fix up whatever your heart desires. Classic and experimental cocktails, concoctions from rare and forgotten recipes or just a glass of your ‘usual’, it’s all up to you. The bar team are your storytellers, drink masters and cocktail creators. Your only task is to relax, choose your tipple and have a wonderful time.
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    DESIGN
    A modern classic

    Vesper Bar is a masterclass in strikingly beautiful, contemporary design from London’s interiors specialist, Martin Brudnizki. Inspired by the spirit and sophistication of the roaring thirties, delight in an atmosphere that’s both playful and eye-catching. Here, modern glamour most definitely takes centre stage.

    Our welcoming bar team at Vesper’s are ready to rustle up your drink of choice, including the more extraordinary creations on our ‘Stories’ menu. This bespoke selection of signature cocktails has fascinating tales to tell, taking you on a drinkable tour of wonderful moments in time found only at The Dorchester.
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    Opening hours
    Daily

    4pm - 1am

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    INSPIRATION
    All in the name
    Martinis are the stars of the show here, and one in particular was the inspiration for our name. The Vesper Martini first starred in the 1953 James Bond novel, Casino Royale. A Vesper differs from Bond’s usual martini in that it uses both gin and vodka instead of dry vermouth, and lemon peel instead of an olive. The name also honours The Dorchester’s many connections with James Bond over the years.
    DINE
    Perfect pairings

    When it comes to dining, further delights adorn our carefully curated menu. Think elegantly dressed rock oysters, crispy lobster tempura and tempting truffle pizzette. An indulgent taste of luxury awaits you.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 24th

    1947: Ian Fleming enjoys a "bachelor sojourn" with Ivar Bryce and John Fox-Strangways at his recently completed Goldeneye estate, Jamaica.
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    1947 The Bachelor Party
    On 24 January, before the end of their bachelor sojourn, Fleming,
    Bryce and Fox-Strangways motored down to Montego Bay on the
    North-west coast of the island for the opening of the Sunset Lodge
    Club. This is now seen as a seminal moment: the birth of what would
    become the ‘North Coast Jet Set’.
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    1947: Warren Zevon is born--Chicago, Illinois.
    (He dies 7 September 2003 at age 56--Los Angeles, California.)
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    Veteran singer-songwriter’s disease untreatable
    By Andrew Dansby - September 12, 2002

    Warren Zevon has been diagnosed with lung cancer, and the disease
    has advanced to an untreatable stage. The fifty-five-year-old
    singer-songwriter received the news last month and is currently
    spending time at home with his children and in the studio recording
    new songs.
    In keeping with the acerbic wit found in his songs like “Life’ll
    Kill Ya” and “I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead,” Zevon said of his
    diagnosis, “I’m OK with it, but it’ll be a drag if I don’t make it
    till the next James Bond movie comes out.”
    Nearly three years ago, Zevon released the eerily prophetic
    Life’ll Kill Ya, with several songs addressing death and
    illness. “Sickness, doctors, that scares me,” he told Rolling
    Stone
    at the time. “Not violence — helplessness. That’s why I
    turn to violent stories, I think.” At the time, Zevon said the
    songs were not inspired by any sort of health scare. “It’s kind of
    the fun of it, pretending to deal with something that you don’t
    want to, and try to laugh about it. I mean, I’ve had guns in my
    face, I’ve been robbed, but the doctor stuff — it’s too much for
    me.”

    Zevon began his career in the late Sixties as a session man and
    songwriter for the likes of the Everly Brothers and the Turtles. He
    also penned Linda Ronstadt’s 1978 hit “Poor Poor Pitiful Me” and
    scored one of his own that same year with “Werewolves of London.”
    In May, Zevon released his eleventh studio album, My Ride’s
    Here
    , which featured collaborations with writers Hunter S.
    Thompson, Carl Hiaasen and Paul Muldoon. Rhino Records will release
    a new anthology of his work, Genius: The Best of Warren
    Zevon
    , on October 15th.
    Enjoy.
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    1960: A series of articles by Ian Fleming on "Thrilling Cities" begins in The Sunday Times.

    1971: 007 James Bond Kraliçenin Hizmetinde (007 James Bond at the Service of the Queen) released in Turkey.
    1986: A View To a Kill released in New Zealand.
    1988: Pierce Brosnan appears in a Bond-inspired Diet Coke® ad (his second).
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    1998: 007 明日帝國 (007 Míngrì dìguó; 007 Tomorrow Empire) released in Taiwan.
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    2003: Die Another Day released in Denmark.
    2003: Не умирай днес (Do Not Die Today) released in Bulgaria.
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    2003: Sa nu mori azi (Do Not Die Today) released in Romania.
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    2008: BOND 22's title goes public.
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    Last Updated: Thursday, 24 January 2008, 17:39 GMT
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    Daniel Craig helped launch the new film at Pinewood Studios
    The next James Bond film is to be called Quantum of Solace, producers have confirmed.

    The title is taken from one of a collection of short stories published by 007 creator Ian Fleming in 1960.

    Producer Michael Wilson said the film would have "twice as much action" as 2006's Casino Royale, which saw Daniel Craig debut as the iconic secret agent.

    The next outing, previously known as Bond 22, is partly being shot at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire.

    At a press conference at the facility, reporters were shown a minute of footage from the new film, including Bond swinging on a rope after an explosion at an art gallery in Siena, Italy.

    Another scene showed him meeting M - played by Dame Judi Dench - outside in the snow.

    Filming on the movie has been taking place at Pinewood since November.
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    Craig said the cryptic title referenced how Bond's heart had been broken at the end of Casino Royale.

    "Ian Fleming had written about relationships," he explained.

    "When they go wrong, when there's nothing left, when the spark has gone, when the fire's gone out, there's no quantum of solace.

    "And at the end of the last movie, Bond has the love of his life taken away from him and he never got that quantum of solace."

    Craig said the new film would follow 007 as he goes out "to find the guy who's responsible".

    "So he's looking for revenge, you know, to make himself happy with the world again.

    "But the title also alludes to something else in the film," he added.

    'Driven by revenge'
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    Olga Kurylenko, who plays Bond girl Camille in the film, said that she has yet to film any scenes, but was working hard preparing for her role.

    "I'm doing weapons training and body flight training for aerial scenes and stunt work for fighting," she said.

    "This girl is going to kick ass. She's on her own mission and she's driven by revenge."

    But it is not clear whether Camille is a secret agent.

    French actor Mathieu Amalric, who plays the villainous Dominic Greene, told reporters his character had "the smile of Tony Blair and the crazy eyes of Nicholas Sarkozy".

    Actress Gemma Arterton plays an MI6 agent in the film and has already shot her love scenes with 007.

    She said: "I felt like a giggly girl, and I felt so young and inexperienced - but I kissed James Bond!"

    The 21-year-old, who recently starred in the St Trinian's film, said her Bond role is "not so frolicksome" and her character "fresh and young, not sultry and a femme fatale".

    'Pretty prickly'
    Dame Judi Dench, who returns for her sixth Bond film, said: "I get to do more in this one, which is brilliant."

    She hinted that her character's relationship with Bond would be "pretty prickly".

    Rumours about the name had grown after fans noticed that film studio Sony had bought the domain name quantumofsolace.com.

    But co-producer Michael Wilson said the name had only been decided "a few days ago", adding the story's start point would be "literally an hour after the last film left off".

    Asked if Casino Royale star Eva Green would appear in Quantum of Solace, co-producer Barbara Broccoli said: "There are no flashbacks in the film, but she's certainly on Bond's mind."

    Director Marc Forster is in charge of work on the movie, which is due for release on 7 November.
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    2012: Omega Seamaster offers a James Bond 50th Anniversary Watch.
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    The world was never enough for 007, and 50 years later, it seems it still hold true. As a part of the celebrations Omega will be bring out a “limited edition” Omega Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary Watch. While details remain sparse, some nice internet junkie has posted pictures of the stunning the Seamaster James Bond 50th Anniversary edition watch that sports “007″ theme on the dial and a “50″ marked in red on the bezel. The back case sports a true-blue Bond identity, the “bullet in a gun barrel” which marks the opening sequence in every James Bond movie. The bullet reads “50 years of James Bond.” The 41mm steel case watch will be limited to 11,0007 pieces and will run on the automatic mechanical Omega’s caliber 2507 co-axial movement.
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    2015: The Irish Mirror reports on changes to planned action during Spectre filming in Rome.
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    Producers had planned for Daniel Craig to leap from a helicopter on the 15th century Ponte Sisto bridge
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    By Simon Boyle | 24 JAN 2015
    Filming for the new James Bond movie has been thrown into chaos after a row over a historic site in Rome.

    Producers had planned to shoot key scenes for Spectre on the 15th century Ponte Sisto bridge, including having Daniel Craig leap from a helicopter.

    But religious campaigners are furious as the bridge holds special significance, with links to Pope Innocent X – prompting protests to authorities in the Italian capital.

    Filming for the Sam Mendes blockbuster was set to begin at the bridge in March after months of preparation.

    But producers may now have to find a new spot.

    A set source in Italy said: “Some campaigners are concerned about damage to the bridge, which dates from the 1400s, others are upset over the religious connection.

    "The bridge is said to be haunted by the ghost of Donna Olimpia Pamphili, Pope Innocent X’s lover who crossed it each night on her way to his bed. Believers get quite upset by the prospect of disturbing spirits.

    “Sam has already had to change one major scene, now it looks like he’s going to have to go back to the drawing board on this one.”

    Plans to shoot a high-octane car chase at the 15th century Quattro Fontane were vetoed last month.

    Officials feared the landmark, which has recently undergone expensive restoration, could be damaged.

    Culture minister Federica Galloni said: “The site is too delicate from an architectural point of view.”

    The movie, which sees Daniel Craig return as the British spy alongside Christoph Waltz, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Whishaw, is due out later this year.

    Sony Pictures was unavailable for comment.
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    2021: Ana de Armas appears on the cover of UK Style magazine as The Bond Girl Everyone's Talking About.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 25th

    1874: William Somerset Maugham, CH, is born--Paris, France.
    (He dies 16 December 1965 at age 91--Nice, France.)
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    Profile: W Somerset Maugham
    https://www.spyculture.com/profile-w-somerset-maugham/
    Born: 25 January 1874
    Died: 16 December 1965
    Intelligence involvement: Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) during World War One.
    Culture involvement: Author of popular plays, novels and short stories. Reputedly the best paid author of the 1930s.
    Bio: William Somerset Maugham was born into a diplomatically connected family, indeed he was born in the British Embassy in Paris. Both parents died by the time he was 10 years old and he was raised, in effect an only child despite having several siblings, by one of his uncles. Despite the family background mostly being made up of lawyers, Maugham trained as a doctor before the instant success of his second book convinced him to become a writer.

    He then gave up medicine and took to travelling and writing full time, and in 1908 wrote a book called The Magician, in part inspired by Aleister Crowley. In 1915 he was recruited into SIS/MI6 by John Wallinger. After a period in Switzerland he was then asked by William Wiseman to go to Russia as part of an attempt to help the Russian Provisional Government fend off the threat from the Bolsheviks.
    Maugham and the other MI6 agents failed in this effort, but Maugham used these experiences as the basis for his popular and very influential short story series published as Ashenden: Or the British Agent in 1928. Two of these stories were adapted by Alfred Hitchcock in 1936 for his film Secret Agent, and several others were adapted by the BBC for television in 1991 (at the end of the Cold War). The Ashenden stories are widely considered to have influenced later spy authors such as Ian Fleming, John Le Carre and Graham Greene.
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    Somerset Maugham’s usefulness to the establishment did not end after WW1. During the second World War he was one of a number of writers approached by the government to write stories or articles ‘on the results of careless talk’. At the time the government was trying to enforce the strictest secrecy about what it was doing, and there were huge propaganda campaigns to persuade the public not to talk about what they knew. In March 1940 the Committee on Issue of Warnings Against Discussion of Confidential Matters in Public circulated a report on their activity, which you can download here (PDF 400KB).

    https://www.spyculture.com/docs/UK/ReportofCommitteeon-WarningsAgainstDiscussion.pdf
    In the same month one of Maugham’s Ashenden spy stories was used as a propaganda broadcast by the government, as detailed in the 8th Report by the Minister of Information to the War Cabinet, which you can download here (PDF, 2.73MB).
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    1950: John Terry is born--Florida.
    1955: Noël Coward writes a diary entry about his friend Ian Fleming.
    I have read Ian's new thriller in proof. It is the best he has done yet, very exciting and, although as usual too far-fetched, not quite so much so as the last two and there are fewer purple sex passages. His observation is extraordinary and his talent for description vivid. I wish he would try a non-thriller for a change; I would so love for him to triumph over the sneers of Annie's intellectual friends.

    1963: James Bond 007 jagt Dr. No (James Bond 007 Chasing Dr. No) released in West Germany.

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    1981: Alicia Augello Cook (Keyes) is born--Hell's Kitchen, New York City, New York.

    1995: GoldenEye films Natalya meeting Xenia Onatopp.
    1998: Jean Rougerie dies 25 January 1998 at age 68--Ivry-sur-Seine, France.
    (Born 9 March 1929--Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
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    Born: March 9, 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
    Died: January 25, 1998 (age 68) in Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France
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    2013: Skyfall's gross to date ($1.78 billion) exceeds that of Thunderball ($1.037 billion, inflation-adjusted).

    2021: Daily Mail repeats unfounded claims by The Sun that No Time To Die will have to reshoot scenes related to product placement and being current.
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    James Bond bosses 'set to
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    after No Time To Die is delayed AGAIN
    By Natasha Hooper For Mailonline | 25 January 2021

    The James Bond film, No Time to Die, was scheduled to be released in 2020 but was delayed due to the pandemic.

    And now the film's bosses will frustratingly have to re-shoot key scenes because the MI6 agent's technology is out-of-date, it was reported on Monday.

    The updates will allegedly be made to the 007 franchise in hopes of saving product placement deals from sponsors who are concerned their high-tech items have evolved over the one-year delay.
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    Oh no! No Time To Die bosses will reportedly have to re-shoot scenes because James Bond's technology is now out-of-date due to delays with the film's release date amid the pandemic
    An insider told The Sun on Monday: 'The details of the gadgets and things are all kept tightly under wraps, but everyone knows that James Bond always carries the latest kit with him.

    'But by the time the movie comes out now it will look like Daniel Craig and all of the other cast members are carrying something that has been out for ages. That isn’t really the point of these deals.

    'It means some of the scenes are going to have to be very carefully edited and looked at to bring things up to date.'

    No Time To Die reportedly features a number of sponsored products including gadgets from tech firms and mobile phones provided by Nokia - with bosses said to be keen to change scenes where tech guru Q hands out items.
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    Evolve: The updates will allegedly be made to the 007 franchise in hopes of saving product placement deals from sponsors who are concerned their high-tech items have changed
    Other rumoured product deals include Omega watches, Adidas footwear and Bollinger champagne.

    Lucrative sponsorships are common practice in the film industry and can help finance expensive productions.

    No Time To Die is the 25th film in the franchise, and will feature Daniel Craig's last performance as the 007 agent.

    A new release for the movie was shared on the film's official Twitter account on Thursday, revealing the latest expected date is October 8, 2021.

    The film, directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga, was originally scheduled for release in April 2020, but was pushed back to November before the release was changed once again to April 2021 in light of the coronavirus pandemic.
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    Automaton: No Time To Die reportedly features a number of sponsored products including gadgets from tech firms and mobile phones provided by Nokia

    Expensive taste: Lucrative sponsorships are common practice in the film industry and other rumoured product deals are Omega watches, Adidas footwear and Bollinger champagne
    No Time To Die follows Bond after he has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica when his old friend Felix Leiter, played by Jeffrey Wright, from the CIA turns up asking for help.

    Leaving his seemingly happy life with Madeleine (Lea Seydoux), Bond returns to the field to face Safin (Rami Malek) who is armed with a new dangerous technology that could impact the world.

    Producer Barbara Broccoli has already teased what fans can expect and said that the movie will deliver a satisfying ending for Daniel's Bond.

    Speaking on the official James Bond podcast, she said: 'It's a culmination of everything that his portrayal of the character has been through and it ties up all the storylines. It's a pretty epic film, I have to say.'

    MailOnline have contacted James Bond reps for comment
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    2023: Dynamite Entertainment releases 007 #6 in stores.
    Marco Finnegan, artist. Phillip Kennedy Johnson, writer.
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    Cover A: Tommy Lee Edwards
    Cover B: Rus Wooton
    Cover C: Marc Laming
    Cover D: Soo Lee
    Writer: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
    Artist: Marco Finnegan
    Genre: Spy Fiction / Action Adventure
    Publication Date: January 2023
    Format: Comic Book
    Page Count: 32
    ON SALE DATE: 1/18/23
    THE FINALE TO PHILLIP KENNEDY JOHNSON'S NEW BOND EPIC IS HERE!
    The Myrmidons are unloosed. The traitorous mole is revealed. Bond and Rook fight to the death.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 26th

    1904: Charles Fraser-Smith is born--Deal, Kent, England.
    (He dies 9 November 1992--Bratton Fleming, Devon, England.)
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    Spying gadgets serve as tribute to the
    real-life Q: Exhibition recalls the
    eccentric inventor who became the
    model for James Bond's saviour
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    WILL BENNETT | Friday 9 April 1993 00:02

    THE DEVICES are fiendishly cunning. The tiny camera masquerades as a cigarette lighter and the golf balls have compasses hidden inside them.

    At the entrance to the exhibition is a cut-out figure of James Bond and the music playing is the theme from the 007 films. But the display is not about the suave British agent.

    It is a tribute to Charles Fraser-Smith, an eccentric figure who spent the Second World War fooling the Germans by providing spies, saboteurs and escaping prisoners with concealed gadgets.

    But for the children who go to the exhibition at Dover Castle, the lure is that Mr Fraser- Smith was the model for Q, the inventor of scores of devices that enabled Bond to escape repeatedly from the jaws of death.
    Ian Fleming, author of the books on which the films were based, worked alongside Mr Fraser-Smith for British Intelligence during the war, and realised that for a novelist he was a dream character.

    The exhibition, just opened, is called Live and Let Spy: Who Was the Real Q?. On display is a hairbrush which conceals a compass, a map and a double- edged saw; a miniature radio disguised as a lunch box; and a set of apparently innocuous plastic balls coated inside with luminous radium paint, which were used as landing lights.
    With typical ingenuity Mr Fraser-Smith realised that the one liquid people were not going to run short of was urine. So he devised a handkerchief which when dipped in it revealed a map which could be used by escaping prisoners.

    Compasses concealed inside buttons became standard issue for British agents dropped into German-occupied territory, while the camera disguised as a lighter enabled spies to take pictures of the damage caused by Allied bombing without attracting attention.

    Many of his devices were sent to British prisoners of war who used them to escape. The Germans failed to spot maps hidden inside playing cards and cutting wire concealed inside shoelaces.

    The exhibition was the brainchild of Mr Fraser-Smith, who was born in Deal, Kent, but he never lived to see it open. He died last November, aged 87.

    For years he used the prototypes on display for giving talks. But as he neared the end of his life he got in touch with Ken Scott, general manager of Dover Castle.

    Mr Scott went to see him at his home in Bratton Fleming, north Devon, and Mr Fraser- Smith offered the devices to the nation. English Heritage, which runs Dover Castle, will keep them there for two years and then move them to another site.
    English Heritage hopes that with the James Bond connection as bait, the exhibition will teach children about the Second World War, which is now part of the national curriculum.
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    1996: GoldenEye released in Denmark. 1997: Reports say BOND 18 features Bond driving a BMW 750iL.
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    Interesting, News | December 8th, 2019 by Nico DeMattia
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    Just a few days ago, the first official trailer for the all new James Bond movie, No Time to Die, was released. As a fan of the Bond franchise, I was very excited to see the new trailer and am waiting very impatiently for it to hit theaters. While the most recent entry to the series, Spectre, wasn’t it’s best, this new one looks like it’s going to be a thrill ride.

    It also features some fantastic cars, such as the iconic Aston Martin DB5, an ’80s Aston Martin V8 Vantage and even the new Land Rover Defender. James Bond is most certainly cemented in the Aston Martin brand once again, that’s for sure. However, there was once a time when 007 actually drove BMWs.
    During Pierce Brosnan’s stint as James Bond back in the ’90s and early ’00s, the famous British spy actually drove some Bimmers. The first time James Bond sat his behind in a Bavarian was in GoldenEye, possibly Brosnan’s best Bond film, as well as his first. The BMW in question was a questionably-colored blue BMW Z3 and he drove it for about thirty seconds, after being hyped for all of its weapons. So it was one of the lamer Bond-car entries in the entire film franchise, despite being a cool car.
    The most famous Bond BMW of them all was the E38 BMW 750iL in Tomorrow Never Dies, thanks to fully remote-control capability. Far before Tesla’s summon mode, James Bond was able to remote control his E38 7 Series from the back seat and escape some baddies. Not only was it cool but it was given a spectacular Bond-car death as it gets driven off of the roof of a parking garage.
    Following the E38, the BMW Z8 was featured in The World is Not Enough, another one of Brosnan’s entries. It’s a shame the Z8 didn’t get more screen-time, because it was — and still is — such a stunningly beautiful car and one of the few BMWs actually fit for James Bond. Sure, he drove it a bit and the movie did show off how good looking the car is but it still wasn’t enough. It did get a fantastic Bond-car death, though, as it was cut in half by a massive helicopter-mounted saw after using one of its cool rockets to take down a different helicopter.
    Sadly, no other BMW cars were actually featured in any James Bond movies. It’s doubtful we’ll ever see Bond in a Bavarian ever again, as the brand is quite dedicated to Aston Martin at the moment. But never say never again. Again.
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    2015: International Artists Management announces Brigitte Millar to play a villainous character in BOND 24. 2017: Head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service C says the real-life Q is a woman.
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    Real-life Q is a woman, MI6 chief
    reveals, despite James Bond character
    always having been played by men
    Telegraph Reporters | 26 January 2017
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    From Desmond Llewelyn to Ben Whishaw, we are used to seeing the tech wiz agent known as "Q" played by men in the James Bond movies.

    However, the head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service has revealed that the "real-life-Q" is actually a woman.

    Sir Alex Younger, the head of MI6, has made the revelation in his keynote speech at the Women in IT Awards in London as part of his appeal for more women to join MI6.
    “If any of you would like to join us … the real-life Q is looking forward to meeting you and I’m pleased to report that the real-life Q is a woman,” said Mr Younger, also known by the code name "C", on Wednesday evening.

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    The geeky genius responsible for the gadgets that help keep the fictional spy alive has always been played by a man in all the James Bond films.

    “The gadgets now that we employ – or operational technology as we more properly call it – probably defy the imagination of spy writers. So it’s always been there, but technology now is at the core of what we do in a way that it wasn’t before,” Mr Younger said in his speech, opening the awards that showcase the achievements and innovation of women in technology.

    Mr Younger, who took over as chief of the SIS in 2014, said that his priority was to employ the best and that meant dispelling myths.

    “The problem for me is that we’ve got to get over and see through the Bond thing. Alright, that’s good actually – let’s do the Bond thing for a bit. It’s great in some ways because it means that all of our opponents think there’s an MI6 officer behind every bush and that we’re 10,000 times larger than we actually are.

    “That’s all great, but there’s a problem because it leads to a stereotype, which is of a particular kind or a particular sort of person that will join MI6 – whether they’re really posh or going to Oxford or whatever it is. I’m none of those things by the way.

    “And the issue for me is that stands in the way of something I regard as being so important, which is that we can reach into every community in Britain and make sure that we get the people that are the best regardless of their background.”

    Last year Mr Younger debunked another James Bond myth when he said that the fictional secret agent would fail to make the grade if he tried to become a spy today.

    "Our staff are not from another planet. They are ordinary men and women operating in the face of complex moral, ethical and physical challenges, often in the most forbidding environments on Earth," he told the Black History Month website.
    "In contrast to James Bond, MI6 officers are not for taking moral shortcuts. In fact, a strong ethical core is one of the first qualities we look for in our staff."
    MI6 has been attempting to broaden its recruitment and fight the perception that intelligence officers are only drawn from Oxford or Cambridge.

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    Intelligence agencies recently admitted to using female-friendly websites to recruit more women in an attempt to rebalance the intelligence workforce.
    Trivia
    In the 2019 Casino Royale immersive theatrical experience hosted by Secret Cinema, actress Veronica Hare is credited as portraying Ann Reilly of Q Branch.
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    2019: Michel Legrand dies at age 86--Paris, France.
    (Born 24 February 1932--Bécon les Bruyères, France.)
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    French composer, jazz musician and conductor who wrote the scores for more than 250 films including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and Yentl
    John Fordham | Sun 27 Jan 2019 11.16 EST
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    Michel Legrand in 1975. Photograph: Michael Putland/Getty Images
    The music of the composer, singer, arranger, conductor, jazz musician and producer Michel Legrand went on glowing long after many of the 250-odd films he had written soundtracks for had fallen by the wayside.

    Legrand, who has died aged 86, made deadpan reference to that phenomenon when he played at Ronnie Scott’s club in London in 2011 – announcing that it was his ambition to meet “one of the 19 people who ever saw The Happy Ending”, the 1969 Hollywood film for which he wrote his classic love song What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?

    But if some of the film vehicles for Legrand’s artistry were outlasted by his music, several became famous, including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), with Noel Harrison singing The Windmills of Your Mind, which won Legrand’s first Oscar, for best film theme song, in 1969. Another Oscar followed for The Summer of ’42 two years later – this time for best film music. Its theme, The Summer Knows, was recorded later that year by Barbra Streisand, whose 1983 film, Yentl, won him his third Oscar, again for best music.
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    The famous Legrand Jazz album. Photograph: Sabine Weiss/Columbia Records
    Legrand’s songwriting skills flowered in the early 1950s through intimate acquaintance with the modern chanson movement in Paris, at first as a gifted piano accompanist. After the second world war, the US was nostalgic for French culture, and when Columbia Records commissioned an English-language album of chanson classics, the young Legrand was hired to steer it – and found himself with an 8m-selling hit.

    By his mid-20s, Legrand was able to call the shots as a composer and arranger on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1958, he even had more than sufficient clout to hire Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans – three of the hippest and most acclaimed young jazz musicians of the decade – to play sidemen’s roles on his Legrand Jazz session.

    Michel was born in the Paris suburb of Bécon-les-Bruyères into a family with strong musical connections. His father, Raymond Legrand, was a composer, conductor and former pupil of Gabriel Fauré, and in his later years would go on to collaborate with Edith Piaf and Maurice Chevalier. His maternal uncle on his mother Marcelle’s side was the dance-band saxophonist and bandleader Jacques Hélian.


    But Raymond left home when Michel was three, and his mother Marcelle (nee Ter-Mikaëlian), struggled to provide for the boy and his older sister, Christiane. He found a consoling friend in the flat’s battered piano and it quickly emerged that he had a gift. Christiane also played the instrument, and she was similarly destined for a successful career in music, as a jazz singer.

    Michel became obsessed with the music and life of Franz Schubert, and – with Nadia Boulanger among his teachers – won a raft of prizes on a variety of instruments at the Paris Conservatoire, which he began attending as a 10-year-old in 1942. But a 1947 Paris concert by the bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and his big band thrilled him with the sound of jazz.

    By the time he left the conservatoire in 1949 he was a budding jazz pianist with a profound knowledge of musical theory and a working knowledge of many instruments. His resourcefulness quickly found him work with chanson stars including Juliette Gréco and Zizi Jeanmaire, and in 1954 the international popularity of chanson brought his international breakthrough.
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    Michel Legrand playing at the Royal Albert Hall, London, in the mid-1970s.
    Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns
    Columbia-EMI wanted an English-language version of those evocative Parisian songs, and none of the big-name American arrangers was interested. Through a contact at the record company, the unknown Legrand was commissioned to produce it – for $200 and no royalties. The result was the bestseling album I Love Paris,. Chevalier then hired Legrand as his musical director and the resulting US tours enhanced the newcomer’s stature.

    Legrand began a solo career, with the easy-listening but sophisticated jazz albums Holiday in Rome (1955), Michel Legrand Plays Cole Porter (1957) and Legrand in Rio (1958). He also worked with the French Caribbean singer Henri Salvador, who, under the alias of Henri Cording, made some of the first French forays into rock’n’roll, with Legrand furnishing the music and the surrealist novelist, poet and jazz critic Boris Vian the lyrics. In 1958, he returned to New York to make his celebrated Legrand Jazz album – with Ben Webster joining Coltrane, Evans and Davis in the lineup.

    Legrand later admitted to being anxious about Davis’s involvement. The trumpeter rarely played sessions other than his own and made a diva’s point of arriving 15 minutes late, checking out the music from the studio doorway and promptly leaving if he did not like the sound of it. But, according to Legrand, the usually taciturn Davis not only participated, but even asked the young bandleader if he had liked his contribution.

    By this point, Legrand was developing a parallel career as a film composer. He scored Henri Verneuil’s 1955 crime passionel movie Les Amants du Tage (The Lovers of Lisbon), and became a significant collaborator with the new wave directors Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and François Reichenbach. He also composed for Jacques Demy, most notably on the innovative Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) – a reappraisal of the film musical, combining a realist perspective with a narrative in which songs replaced dialogue.

    The movie’s theme song Je Ne Pourrai Jamais Vivre Sans Toi was covered – in English as I Will Wait for You – by stars including Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett and Liza Minnelli. Legrand, Demy and the film’s lead, Catherine Deneuve, collaborated on the Hollywood homage Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (The Young Girls of Rochefort, 1967), with Gene Kelly. Legrand also wrote for Gilles Grangier and Yves Allégret, and for Joseph Losey – most notably in 1971 on the Palme d’Or winner The Go-Between.

    Through close relationships with the jazz-enthusiastic chanson singer Claude Nougaro and the Belgian singer-songwriter Jacques Brel, Legrand not only began to develop a personal repertoire of original songs, but to consider performing them himself. He collaborated on the lyrics with other writers including Eddy Marnay and Jean Dréjac, and worked on the occasional forays into songwriting by the novelist Françoise Sagan.

    In 1968, Legrand moved to Los Angeles, during which time he composed the award-winning scores to The Thomas Crown Affair and then, two years later, Summer of ’42. Legrand later said that Jewison cut the highly charged seven-and-a-half-minute chess game scene between Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair to fit the music, which begins with a solo harp and ends with a big band playing a jazz waltz.
    As well as the Oscars, between 1971 and 1975 Legrand won five Grammy awards, and in this period was on his way to becoming one of the US’s most popular Frenchmen. A sharp and witty raconteur, he appeared on television chatshows, and for relaxation worked at Shelly’s Manne Hole club in Los Angeles with the great double bassist Ray Brown. In the next decade, he composed for Clint Eastwood and Orson Welles, for Streisand’s Yentl, and the James Bond film Never Say Never Again (1983).
    During this time Legrand also played a lot of jazz, making three albums with a regular trio featuring the bassist Marc-Michel Le Bévillon and the drummer André Ceccarelli, and bringing together the celebrated American saxophonists Phil Woods and Zoot Sims to join him in a septet to make the 1982 album After the Rain. He released a solo vocal album, and staged his own oratorio, inspired by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as part of the celebrations for the bicentenary of the French Revolution, in 1989.

    Legrand’s search for new challenges found one that even he could not pull off when he directed the unsuccessful semi-autobiographical film Cinq Jours en Juin (1989), but leading a big band in the next decade found him on more secure ground – he toured widely, and accompanied Ray Charles, Diana Ross and Björk with it. Legrand composed for Jean Guidoni’s 1995 album Vertigo and participated in an award-winning show at the Casino de Paris with Guidoni the following year.

    In 1997, with the playwright Didier Van Cauwelaert, he worked on Le Passe Muraille, a quirky musical adapted from a 1943 Marcel Aymé short story about an unassuming clerk who can walk through walls. The show went to Broadway as Amour five years later, and its lead singer Melissa Errico became an important muse for Legrand. They worked together for six years on the album Legrand Affair (2011).

    In his later years, Legrand remained ready for surprises, even if the world was beginning to treat him as a grand old man. Stars queued up to perform his hits in a celebration at the Louvre in 2000; and the French government made him an officier de la Légion d’honneur in 2003.

    When his friend Nougaro died in 2004, he recorded Legrand Nougaro, where the composer and a bespoke jazz band accompanied tapes of his friend’s voice in new performances of the Toulouse singer’s songs – including the previously unheard Mon Dernier Concert.

    In 2009 Legrand came to Britain with a repertoire combining his biggest hits and a selection of jazz favourites, and a lineup including his longterm partner, the harpist Catherine Michel and the singer Alison Moyet. The following year, he conducted the Moscow Virtuosi chamber group in Russia, for the two-CD set The Music of Michel Legrand. And for his 80th birthday Christmas album the following year – Noël! Noël!! Noël!!! – Legrand was joined by Rufus Wainwright, Jamie Cullum and Iggy Pop.

    “When I hit 80,” he said, “I knew that the last chapter of my work would be classical. So I wrote a piano concerto that I recorded myself, a cello concerto, a harp concerto, some sonatas. I wrote a huge ballet. I’m very proud of that. It’s a good final chapter.”

    Last September, Legrand conducted orchestral arrangements of music from his soundtracks with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, against projections of the scenes they originally accompanied, at the Royal Festival Hall, in London.

    He lived his last years as he had lived his earliest ones as a precocious music student in Paris – guided, as he said, by the “ambition … to live completely surrounded by music. My dream is not to miss out anything. That’s why I’ve never settled on one musical discipline. I love playing, conducting, singing and writing, and in all styles. So I turn my hand to everything – not just a bit of everything. Quite the opposite, I do all these activities at once, seriously, sincerely and with deep commitment.”

    Legrand had three marriages. The first, to Christine Bouchard, a model, and second, to the actor and producer Isabelle Rondon, ended in divorce. In 2014, he married the actor Macha Méril.

    He is survived by Macha and his four children, Dominique, Hervé, Benjamin and Eugénie.
    • Michel Jean Legrand, composer and musician, born 24 February 1932; died 26 January 2019
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    Filmography
    Composer (211 credits)

    Morning Shine (pre-production)
    2017-2019 William à Midi (TV Series) (10 episodes)
    2019 Clara Luciani et Vladimir Cauchemar - La chanson de Delphine (Video short)
    2018 I Lost Albert
    2018 The Other Side of the Wind
    2017 The Guardians
    2017 Le Point Culture (TV Series) (1 episode)
    - Le Corps Humain (2017)
    2014 The Price of Fame

    2009 Il était une fois... notre Terre (TV Series) (3 episodes)
    - Santé, éducation (2009)
    - Climat: le Grand Nord (2009)
    - Les héritiers de la planète (2009)
    2009 Oscar and the Lady in Pink
    2008 Disco
    2006 Deadly Lessons
    2005 Cavalcade
    2004 Léaud de Hurle-dents (Documentary short)
    2003 Yantarnye krylya
    2002 And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
    2000 The Blue Bicycle (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
    - La douleur de la libération (2000)
    - L'occupation et la résistance (2000)
    - L'amour et la guerre (2000)

    1999 La bûche
    1999 Doggy Bag
    1998 Madeline
    1996 Il était une fois... les explorateurs (TV Series)
    1996 The Ring (TV Movie)
    1995 Aaron's Magic Village
    1995 Les enfants de Lumière (Documentary)
    1995 Les Misérables
    1995 The World of Jacques Demy (Documentary)
    1994 Børne 1'eren (TV Series) (segment "Vera", 2001)
    1994 Il était une fois... les découvreurs (TV Series)
    1994 Ready to Wear
    1993 The Young Girls Turn 25 (Documentary)
    1993 The Pickle
    1992 Il était une fois... les Amériques (TV Series) (26 episodes)
    1992 Coup de foudre (TV Series) (1 episode)
    - Masques de lune (1992)
    1991 Dingo
    1991 Burning Shore (TV Movie)
    1990 Fate
    1990 Gaspard et Robinson
    1990/II Eternity
    1990 Flight from Paradise
    1990 Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (TV Movie)

    1989 Cinq jours en juin
    1988 The Jeweller's Shop
    1988 Un coupable (TV Movie)
    1988 Three Seats for the 26th
    1987-1988 Il était une fois... la vie (TV Series) (26 episodes)
    1988 Switching Channels
    1987 La baleine blanche (TV Series)
    1987 Spiral
    1987 Casanova (TV Movie)
    1987 Club de rencontres
    1986 As Summers Die (TV Movie)
    1986 You've Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know (Short)
    1986 Crossings (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
    1986 Sins (TV Mini-Series) (1 episode)
    1980-1985 Anna Liza (TV Series) (1,315 episodes)
    1985 Promises to Keep (TV Movie)
    1985 Parking
    1985 Partir, revenir
    1985 Palace
    1985 Hell Train
    1984 Paroles et musique
    1984 The Jesse Owens Story (TV Movie)
    1984 Secret Places
    1983 A Film Is Born: The Making of 'Yentl' (TV Short documentary)
    1983 Lani Hall: Never Say Never Again (Video short)
    1983 Yentl
    1983 Les uns et les autres (TV Mini-Series) (3 episodes)
    1983 Never Say Never Again
    1983 A Love in Germany
    1983 Revenge of the Humanoids
    1982 Friends of the Family (Short)
    1982 Once Upon a Time... Space (TV Series) (26 episodes)
    1982 Best Friends
    1982 Slapstick of Another Kind
    1982 Le rêve d'Icare (TV Movie)
    1982 Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David?
    1982 A Woman Called Golda (TV Movie)
    1982 Bankers Also Have Souls
    1981 Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
    1981 Bolero
    1980 Falling in Love Again
    1980 Atlantic City (music composed by)
    1980 The Hunter
    1980 The Mountain Men

    1979 Les fabuleuses aventures du légendaire Baron de Munchausen
    1979 Lady Oscar
    1979 Je vous ferai aimer la vie
    1978 Mon premier amour
    1978 Firebird: Daybreak Chapter
    1978 Once Upon a Time... Man (TV Series)
    1978 Roads to the South
    1976-1978 ABC Afterschool Specials (TV Series) (2 episodes)
    1978 One Can Say It Without Getting Angry
    1977 The Other Side of Midnight
    1977 Gulliver's Travels
    1976 The Smurfs and the Magic Flute
    1976 Ode to Billy Joe
    1976 The Honeymoon Trip
    1976 Gable and Lombard
    1975 Simon dans l'autobus (Short)
    1975 Le Sauvage
    1975 Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York
    1975 Cage Without a Key (TV Movie)
    1974 Our Time
    1974 It's Good to Be Alive (TV Movie)
    1973 The Three Musketeers
    1973 Breezy
    1973 F for Fake (Documentary)
    1973 A Slightly Pregnant Man
    1973 Cops and Robbers (as Michel LeGrand)
    1973 40 Carats
    1973 Story of a Love Story
    1973 Le temps de vivre, le temps d'aimer (TV Mini-Series) (40 episodes)
    1973/II A Doll's House
    1973 The Nelson Affair
    1973 Le gang des otages
    1973 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) (1 episode)
    - The Adventures of Don Quixote (1973)
    1972 The Outside Man
    1972 Not Dumb, the Bird
    1972 Lady Sings the Blues
    1972 One is a Lonely Number
    1972 Portnoy's Complaint
    1972 Hearth Fires
    1972 A Time for Loving
    1972 The Old Maid
    1971 La vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur (Short)
    1971 Zoom the White Dolphin (TV Series)
    1971 Brian's Song (TV Movie)
    1971 A Few Hours of Sunlight
    1971 Touch and Go
    1971 La ville-bidon
    1971 Le Mans
    1971 The Go-Between
    1971 Summer of '42
    1971 Swashbuckler
    1970 To Catch a Pebble
    1970 Wuthering Heights
    1970 Donkey Skin
    1970 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
    1970 Pieces of Dreams

    1969 The Picasso Summer
    1969 The Happy Ending
    1969 Call Me Mathilde
    1969 An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte (TV Special)
    1969 Castle Keep
    1969 The Swimming Pool
    1969 Play Dirty
    1968 Ice Station Zebra
    1968 The Thomas Crown Affair
    1968 A Hatful of Rain (TV Movie)
    1968 Sweet November
    1968 How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life
    1968 The Man in the Buick
    1967 1999 A.D. (Short) (as Michel LeGrand)
    1967 A Matter of Innocence
    1967 The Oldest Profession
    1967 The Young Girls of Rochefort
    1966 Derrière l'écran (TV Series)
    1966/II Le misanthrope (Short)
    1966 The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean
    1966 Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
    1966 Tender Scoundrel
    1966 Et la femme créa l'amour
    1966 L'or et le plomb
    1966 Monkey Money
    1966 A Matter of Resistance
    1965 Fraternelle Amazonie (Documentary)
    1965 When the Pheasants Pass
    1965 Code Name: Jaguar
    1964 À propos d'une star (Documentary short)
    1964 Soleil (Documentary short)
    1964 The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (segment "Grand escroc, Le")
    1964 Band of Outsiders
    1964 The Lovers of the France
    1964 Agent 38-24-36
    1964 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
    1963 Illuminations (Documentary short)
    1963 La douceur du village (Documentary)
    1963 Maigret voit rouge
    1963 Le joli mai (Documentary)
    1963 Love Is a Ball
    1963 Bay of Angels
    1962 Histoire d'un petit garçon devenu grand (Short)
    1962 Jouer a Paris (Documentary short)
    1962 The Empire of Night
    1962 Eva
    1962 The Gentleman from Epsom
    1962 Vivre Sa Vie
    1962 Comme un poisson dans l'eau
    1962 Cleo from 5 to 7
    1962 The Seven Deadly Sins (segments "Envie, L'", "Paresse, La", "Luxure, La", "Gourmandise, La", "Colère, La")
    1962 A Swelled Head
    1961 Melancholia (Short)
    1961 Nom d'une pipe (Short)
    1961 The Fiancés of the Bridge Mac Donald (Short)
    1961 Un coeur gros comme ça
    1961 Keep Talking, Baby
    1961 The Counterfeiters of Paris
    1961 A Woman Is a Woman
    1961 Me faire ça à moi
    1961 Lola
    1960 Le coeur battant
    1960 The Door Slams
    1960 Jack of Spades
    1960 Wasteland
    1960 America As Seen by a Frenchman (Documentary)

    1958 L'américain se détend (Short)
    1958 Sinners of Paris
    1957 The Tricyclist
    1957 Maurice Chevalier's Paris (TV Movie documentary)
    1955 Visages de Paris (Documentary short)

    Soundtrack (190 credits)
    Music department (60 credits)
    Actor (8 credits)
    Director (3 credits)
    Writer (2 credits)
    Producer (1 credit)
    Thanks (2 credits)
    Self (98 credits)
    Archive footage (6 credits)
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    January 27th

    1963: James Bond 007 contre Dr. No (Also: Docteur No; James Bond 007 contre docteur No) released in France.
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    1965: Alan Cumming is born--Aberfeldy, Perthshire, Scotland.
    1966: Tamlyn Naomi Tomita is born--Okinawa, Japan.

    1979: Rosamund Mary Elizabeth Pike is born--Hammersmith, London, England.

    2010: Martin Ryan Grace dies at age 67--Spain.
    (Born 12 September 1942--Lisdowney, County Kilkenny, Ireland.)
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    Performing as Roger Moore's stunt double in the James Bond films brought Martin Grace respect throughout the industry – but, because of the nature of his job, he was never a "star". He also did stunts for some of the early Cadbury's Milk Tray commercials.

    Grace first stood in for Moore in the 1977 picture The Spy Who Loved Me, driving a Lotus Esprit through the winding streets of Sardinia in a furious chase – with the express instruction that the car had to be returned to its manufacturer intact. He followed this with Bond's fight with the steel-jawed henchman Jaws on top of a cablecar 1,300 feet above ground in Rio de Janeiro in Moonraker (1979). The action continued in the air in For Your Eyes Only (1981), with Grace hanging on to the outside of a remote-controlled helicopter for the pre-title sequence. Later, in Moore's final Bond film, A View to a Kill (1985), the stunt performer did more aerial acrobatics, on the Eiffel Tower and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge.

    But during Octopussy (1983) a complicated stunt involving a train and a car went horribly wrong while shooting on the Nene Valley railway. A helicopter was to shoot the action from the air, but communication was lost between Grace, the pilot, the train driver and the rest of the stunt team, and Grace smashed into a wall, fracturing his pelvis and damaging his thigh.

    "The impact was so lightning fast that I only realised that I had hit something when I found I was hanging prone for dear life on the side of the train!" he recalled. "Adrenalin was pumping through my arms like never before. I looked down and saw my trouser leg had been ripped off and saw my thigh bone through the gash in my thigh muscle."
    Born in Kilkenny, Ireland, in 1942, Grace attended Kilkenny College. He then moved to England, joined boxing, weight-lifting, wrestling and fencing clubs, and worked at Butlin's.

    He then trained as an actor at the Mountview Theatre School, in London, and joined a stunt agency. His first jobs were in commercials, such as the Cadbury's Milk Tray campaign, in which he jumped from a bridge on to a train, was lifted from a sports car and dropped on a hotel roof and, finally, jumped from a cliff on to a moving truck, before diving into a lake to deliver the chocolates to a woman on a boat.

    His first film was the television spin-off Dr Who and the Daleks (1965). Like many stunt performers, he was cast in a role that demanded his special skills, as he was in pictures such as Who Dares Wins (1982) and Curse of the Pink Panther (1983), and television programmes that included The Onedin Line (1972) and The Protectors (1973).
    In You Only Live Twice (1967), starring the screen's original Bond, Sean Connery, Grace was one of a host of stunt performers taking part in the climactic volcano-eruption scene where Bond gives an elite ninja force access to the villain Blofeld's secret base. Grace underwent four weeks of intensive training – scaling nets, sliding down ropes and practising trampoline "explosions" – before the sequence was shot.
    In 1969, he was Oliver Reed's fencing double in The Assassination Bureau. He fought with Anthony Hopkins in When Eight Bells Toll (1971), and did stunts with Kirk Douglas in To Catch a Spy (1971), after seven months out of action as a result of breaking his neck in Scrooge (1970).
    Grace appeared in a show that toured Scandinavia in 1974 and starred the Norwegian stunt performer Arne Berg. The experience of doing six performances a week that required high falls, car crashes, motorcycle jumps, fights and tunnels of fire stood him in good stead when he was asked to double for Roger Moore in five Bond films. He also doubled for Richard Kiel, as the villain Jaws, in both The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).
    This also led Grace to become Moore's stunt double in some of the star's other films – The Wild Geese (1978), Escape to Athena (1979), North Sea Hijack (1979), The Sea Wolves (1980) and The Naked Face (1984). Also among the 70-plus films in which he did stunt work were Superman (1978), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Brazil (1985), King Arthur (2004), Ella Enchanted (2004) and The Number 23 (2007). He had extra responsibility, as stunt co-ordinator, on pictures such as High Spirits (1988), Erik the Viking (1989), Nuns on the Run (1990), Patriot Games (1992) and Angela's Ashes (1999).

    In 1978, the Rank Organisation chose Grace to be its fifth famous gong-beater, but in the end his sequence was consigned to the cutting room floor. A keen cyclist, Grace fractured his pelvis in an accident last year. He returned to hospital after developing breathing problems at his home in Spain and died after suffering an aneurysm.

    Anthony Hayward
    Martin Ryan Grace, actor and stunt performer and co-ordinator: born Kilkenny, Ireland 12 September 1942; twice married; died Spain 27 January 2010.
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    Filmography
    Stunts (74 credits)

    2007 The Number 23 (stunts)
    2005 Izzat (stunt coordinator)
    2004 King Arthur (stunts - uncredited)
    2004 Ella Enchanted (stunt double: ogre 2)
    2003 New Tricks (TV Series) (stunt coordinator - 1 episode)
    - The Chinese Job (2003) ... (stunt coordinator)
    2001 Shallow Hal (stunt coordinator)
    2001 The Bombmaker (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)

    1999 Anna and the King (stunt coordinator)
    1998 Dancing at Lughnasa (stunt coordinator)
    1998 The Truman Show (stunts)
    1997 The Boxer (stunts)
    1997 The MatchMaker (stunts)
    1996 Body Troopers (stunt coordinator)
    1996 North Star (stunt coordinator)
    1995 Circle of Friends (stunt coordinator)
    1995 An Awfully Big Adventure (stunts)
    1994 MacGyver: Trail to Doomsday (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
    1993-1994 Between the Lines (TV Series) (stunt performer - 2 episodes)
    - Shoot to Kill (1994) ... (stunt performer)
    - Big Boys' Rules: Part II (1993) ... (stunt performer)
    1994 A Man of No Importance (stunt coordinator)
    1994 MacGyver: Lost Treasure of Atlantis (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
    1993 Head Above Water (stunt coordinator)
    1993 Briefest Encounter (TV Movie) (stunt coordinator)
    1993 Bad Company (TV Movie) (stunts)
    1992 Boon (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
    - Blackballed (1992) ... (stunt performer)
    1992 Civvies (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #1.6 (1992) ... (stunt performer)
    1992 Patriot Games (stunt coordinator: UK) / (stunts)
    1992 Map of the Human Heart (stunt coordinator)
    1992 Lethal Lies (stunt coordinator)
    1991 Afraid of the Dark (stunt coordinator)
    1991 Robin Hood (stunt coordinator)
    1991 A Kiss Before Dying (stunt coordinator: UK) / (stunts)
    1991 Poirot (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
    - The Double Clue (1991) ... (stunts)
    1990 The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (stunt coordinator)
    1990 Shipwrecked (stunt coordinator)
    1990 Nuns on the Run (stunt coordinator)

    1989 A Handful of Time (stunts)
    1989 Erik the Viking (stunt coordinator)
    1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (stunt double: Indiana Jones #2 - uncredited) / (stunts)
    1989 The Littlest Viking (stunt coordinator)
    1988 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) (stunt coordinator - 5 episodes)
    - Part V (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
    - Part IV (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
    - Part III (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
    - Part II (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
    - Part I (1988) ... (stunt coordinator: Europe)
    1988 High Spirits (stunt coordinator) / (stunt performer)
    1988 Willow (stunts)
    1987 Pathfinder (stunt coordinator - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
    1987 A Prayer for the Dying (stunts)
    1985 Enemy Mine (stunt coordinator)
    1985 A View to a Kill (action sequence arranger) / (ski stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore, Golden Gate - uncredited)
    1985 Brazil (stunt performer)
    1984 The Naked Face (stunt double)
    1984 Top Secret! (stunts)
    1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (stunt double: Indiana Jones #2 - uncredited)
    1984 Ordeal by Innocence (stunt coordinator)
    1983 Octopussy (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (the stunt team supervisor)
    1982 The Final Option (stunts - uncredited)
    1982 Badger by Owl-Light (TV Series) (stunts)
    1982 Victor Victoria (stunts)
    1981 For Your Eyes Only (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunt team)
    1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (stunt double: Indiana Jones #3 - uncredited) / (stunts)
    1981 Inchon (stunts - uncredited)
    1980 The Sea Wolves (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
    1980 ffolkes (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)

    1979 Moonraker (stunt double: Richard Kiel, cable car sequence - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts)
    1979 Escape to Athena (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
    1978 Superman (stunts - uncredited)
    1978 The Wild Geese (stunt double: Hardy Krüger - uncredited) / (stunt double: Richard Burton - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunt double: Richard Kiel - uncredited) / (stunt double: Roger Moore - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
    1975 Space: 1999 (TV Series) (stunts)
    1973 Horror Hospital (stunt supervisor)
    1971 Catch Me a Spy (stunts - uncredited)
    1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)
    1970 Scrooge (stunts - uncredited)

    1969 It's Tommy Cooper (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
    - Christmas Special (1969) ... (stunts - uncredited)
    1969/I Alfred the Great (stunts - uncredited)
    1968 Mayerling (stunts - uncredited)
    1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)

    Actor (20 credits)

    1997 Robinson Crusoe - Captain Braga
    1992 Brookside (TV Series) - Driver
    - Episode #1.1085 (1992) ... Driver
    1991 Under Suspicion - Colin

    1989 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) - Jumpmaster
    - Part IX (1989) ... Jumpmaster
    1983 Curse of the Pink Panther - Bruno's Crony #2
    1982 The Final Option - U.S. Marine Guard
    1980 The Sea Wolves - Kruger
    1978 The Wild Geese - East German Officer
    1975 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Security Guard
    - End of Eternity (1975) ... Security Guard (uncredited)
    1973 The Protectors (TV Series) - Gang Member
    - Baubles, Bangles and Beads (1973) ... Gang Member
    1973 Horror Hospital - Bike Boy
    1973 Special Branch (TV Series)
    - Round the Clock (1973)
    1972 Double Take - Leopard Man
    1972 The Fenn Street Gang (TV Series) - Muscleman
    - That Sort of Girl (1972) ... Muscleman
    1972 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - Martin Thompson
    - A Woman Alone (1972) ... Martin Thompson
    1972 Villains (TV Series) - Man
    - Smudger (1972) ... Man (uncredited)
    1971 When Eight Bells Toll - Thug (uncredited)

    1969 Moon Zero Two - Red Killer (uncredited)
    1968 Inadmissible Evidence - Plainclothesman
    1965 Dr. Who and the Daleks - Thal

    Miscellaneous Crew (1 credit)

    1987 Pathfinder (action sequences)

    Self (12 credits)

    2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: 007 in Egypt (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Himself

    1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself

    1985 A View to a Kill: Featurette (Video documentary short) - Himself

    1982 Stuntman Challenge (TV Movie) - Himself
    1981 Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
    1981 Clapper Board (TV Series) - Himself
    - For Your Eyes Only Special (1981) ... Himself


    1979 Film 2017 (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode dated 27 May 1979 (1979) ... Himself
    2012: Fire from a Skyfall catering lorry spreads to the roof of a Pinewood studio building but does not affect filming.

    2023: GoldenEye 007 Comes to Nintendo Switch and Xbox.
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    GoldenEye 007 Comes to Nintendo Switch, Xbox on Friday
    The iconic 1997 Nintendo 64 first-person shooter brings classic James Bond action to Nintendo Switch Online and Xbox Game Pass.
    Jan. 26, 2023 9:01 a.m. PT
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    Load up your silenced PP7s and prime those remote mines: GoldenEye 007 is coming to the Nintendo Switch Online and Xbox Game Pass subscription services this Friday, Jan. 27. The beloved James Bond first-person shooter originally hit the N64 in 1997, and this will be the game's first rerelease since then.

    Online multiplayer will be exclusive to the Switch release, the official 007 website noted, but this version will otherwise be the same as the N64 original. It's unclear if you'll be able to use twin-stick controls -- the N64 controller only had one stick, but the Switch offers two and the original game allowed you to do by using two controllers (gaming was weird in the '90s).

    You'll need to be subscribed to Switch Online's $50-a-year Expansion Pack tier to access GoldenEye and other N64 games.
    The Game Pass version (playable on Xbox One and Xbox Series X and S) will include "alternative control options, achievements to unlock and native 16:9 resolution up to 4K Ultra HD," Craig Duncan, head of Microsoft-owned developer Rare, said in a blog post Wednesday. So it offers more modern bells and whistles than the Switch release, but lacks online multiplayer (you'll still have local splitscreen).

    A subscription costs $10 a month, though people who own a digital copy of Rare Replay, the 30-game compilation of classics that came out in 2015, will also get access to GoldenEye for free.
    GoldenEye's return was revealed in a Nintendo Direct livestream last September.

    As a licensed tie-in to the 1995 movie that introduced actor Pierce Brosnan as the legendary British agent, the game won critical acclaim for its fun single-player campaign and epic split-screen competitive multiplayer. It became the N64's third bestselling title, with 8.09 million units sold -- it was only topped by Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64, which sold 11.91 million and 9.87 million copies, respectively.

    Rare also developed GoldenEye followup Perfect Dark for the N64 in 2000, before Microsoft acquired the company in 2002.
    Fans have been expecting a remaster for Microsoft's Xbox Series X and S to be revealed for months, since achievements for it have leaked multiple times. It was reportedly planned for release on Xbox 360 in the late 2010s, and an apparent extended gameplay video appeared in 2016. At the time, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said the game's licensing rights complicated efforts to get it on the console. The versions coming on Friday don't appear to be the remasters; the Switch release seems visually identical to the N64 one, while the Xbox release looks like an upscaled edition of the original.
    "Great to see that GE007 is being made available again. I hope this means that a new generation will get to experience and enjoy the game," David Doak, a developer whose face was famously used for in-game Bond ally Dr. Doak, tweeted after the announcement last September. "It was an absolute privilege to be part of the talented team that created it 25 years ago."
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    He also tweeted a recent shot of him dressed like his in-game counterpart, and joked that players shouldn't "come crying" to him if they have trouble unlocking the infamous Invincibility cheat. That's one of the game's most difficult challenges -- you have to beat the Facility level in under 2 minutes, 5 seconds to get it.

    Doak has spoken at length about the game's development over the years, and tweeted a 1997 shot of the original development team on Wednesday.
    This year marks the 70th anniversary of Bond's first appearance, in author Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale. Last year was the 60th anniversary of the Bond movie franchise -- with latest film No Time to Die now available to stream on Amazon Prime Video -- but the series is in a state of flux as fans await the announcement of Daniel Craig's successor in the role. Hitman developer IO Interactive is also working on its own Bond game.
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    2023: Ciné-Club Online Discussion: The Man from Acapulco (Le Magnifique) on Zoom.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    January 28th

    1965: Dedos de oro (Fingers of Gold) released in Argentina.

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    1965: 007 Contra Goldfinger (007 Against Goldfinger) released in Brazil.
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    1973: The New York Times reports on jumping boats in Live and Let Die.
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    Jumping Boats: James Bond Film
    Goes to Any Length
    By Bill Pearsall | Jan. 28, 1973

    James Bond has done it again—eluded a band of treacherous rascals, this time by soaring through the air in an outboard boat to vault a highway in a spectacular leap of 110 feet.

    Bond's achievement marks a new distance record in the esoteric sport of jumping boats. At least, that's the consensus of small‐craft skippers who were witnesses recently to the filming of a new James Bond movie, “Live and Let Die,” which will be released next June.

    In the picture, Bond, on a mission for Her Majesty, attempts to break a harddrug ring on a Caribbean island from whence he is pursued to New Orleans by a gaggle of “heavies.” It is in Louisiana that Bond and the villains engage in a chase with jet, stern‐drive and outboard‐powered boats.

    In the chase scene, Roger Moore, as Bond, is joined by 29‐year‐old Jerry Comeaux, a stunt man and technical adviser to the star. “The two put on some dazzling acrobatics,” said a cameraman who photographed them driving boats through barricades, under a bridge, across a lawn at a wedding reception and into the open mouth of an ancient Navy LST.

    In a critical segment of the chase, Bond, in his boat, is pursued by the heavies in their craft down a canal, which is bisected by a gravel roadway. Bond reaches the intersection of canal and roadway at precisely the moment a sheriff, in his car, comes to a careening halt with one of the “baddies” driving a hard‐top convertible. The latter are directly in the path of Secret Agent 007. Bond has no choice. He must run his boat up an embankment, hurtle over the automobiles, soar across the roadway and land safely in the water on the other side of the canal.

    The setup was such that Bond's boat, driven by Comeaux, had to make a straightline approach to the ramp, anchored dead center at the end of the canal. The canal, itself, was barely 50 feet wide. Its middle, on the approach to the ramp, had been dredged by a trapline. Shoal water lay on either side of the dredged area.
    “The base of the ramp,” Comeaux said, “marked a critical point of no return. There was no alternative— no veering off to right or left. Either I jumped—or else.”
    In making the jump, Comeaux drove a Glastron GT‐150 runabout, mounting a 135‐horsepower Evinrude Starflite engine. Boat and motor were tailored to the task. The boat is a deep‐vee 15‐footer, weighing 585 pounds.

    Two wooden strakes were bolted to the after portion of its bottom. The strakes, equidistant on either side of the keel, were designed to keep the boat upright as it traveled up the ramp. This they did admirably, according to Comeaux. However, they also caused the boat to “surge” at planing speed.

    Comeaux estimated that he needed a jump speed of 56 miles an hour. To achieve this speed and to decrease the boat's surging attitude, Evinrude assigned Ray Heurtin, a youthful technical adviser, to the film. Heurtin reached into a bag of tricks that has proved successful on the racing circuit. The first was to jack up the motor on the boat's transom. The second was to fit the motor with a cleaver racing pro

    The jack‐up was accomplished by through‐bolting an aluminum plate to the transom. This permitted the motor to be raised four inches above its normal transom height. The cleaver propeller is a surfacing prop. One half of the propeller works out of the water at all times. The combination of these factors tends to raise boat and motor from its element.

    The critical “jump day” for the Bond film was on a recent Monday on an isolated waterway in the Louisiana bayou. About 300 townspeople gathered on a nearby levee to witness the attempted leap.

    The film's assistant director called for quiet as the crew prepared to record sound. Comeaux gunned his boat and streaked down the canal. On target, he was up and over the ramp, hurtling nearly 12 feet above the roadway, sailing over two automobiles on a trajectory that carried him 110 feet before he landed the GT‐150 on the other side of the canal. The crowd cheered.
    “This jump stands as an all‐time record,” said Jim Rusing, a former Cypress Gardens skier and boat driver, now producing water shows at Sea World, San Diego.
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    2000: Lumea nu e suficientă released in Romania.
    2008: Quantum of Solace films the interrogation of Mr. White.

    2012: BOND 23 films at Smithfield Market, OO7 travels to MI6's "new digs".
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    2013: Bernard Horsfall dies at age 82--Isle of Skye, Scotland.
    (Born 20 November 1930--Bisshops Stortford, Herfordshire, England.)
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    Bernard Horsfall obituary
    Imposing stage and screen actor whose work ranged from
    Shakespeare to The Bill
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    Michael Coveney | Wed 30 Jan 2013 13.14 EST
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    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.
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    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 (3 episodes)
    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 (3 episodes)
    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 (6 episodes)
    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
    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 (6 episodes)
    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 (6 episodes)
    1960 The Angry Silence - Pryce-Evans

    1959 Dancers in Mourning (TV Series) - Albert Campion (Parts 1-6)
    1958-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Philip Irwin / 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
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    2016: Last night for the Aston Martin window display at Harrods, London.
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    January 10, 2016 Staff Aston Martin, Classic Cars, Corporate Business, Highlights

    As the Christmas displays disappear, shoppers in London’s Knightsbridge are to be treated to the sight of a very special Aston Martin window display in Harrods, the world’s most famous luxury department store.
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    Three stunning Aston Martin sports cars will take over the iconic Harrods storefront in a month-long celebration of the British marques’ ‘DB’ nameplate. Since their debut in the early 1950s, the ‘DB’ models offered by Aston Martin – named after Sir David Brown who bought Aston Martin in 1947 – have been synonymous with sophisticated grand touring and thrilling sports car performance.

    Taking pride of place is the Aston Martin DB10, the car that was built specifically for James Bond. Aston Martin has been associated with the James Bond franchise for over 50 years, with the DB10 exclusively designed, engineered and hand crafted for the latest Bond film, Spectre. Bond fans will get another chance to enjoy Spectre with the Blu-ray™ and DVD release on 22 February.

    Also on display, the DB9 GT – the luxury British sports car maker’s most compelling production ‘DB’ to date. Designed to offer the best of what DB9 can be, this new model delivers world-class grand touring and hand-built excellence.

    Finally, the Aston Martin DB5, arguably the most famous ‘DB’ of them all is also on display. Revealed in 1963, the car set the benchmark for all the DBs that followed, with its iconic design language and substantial improvements in performance.
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    Aston Martin Chief Creative Officer Marek Reichman said: “Harrods is one of the world’s most trusted luxury brands and we are delighted to join forces with them to create this rather unique display in tribute to our most famous nameplate.”

    Specialists from Aston Martin headquarters will be available throughout the exhibition, providing visitors with an opportunity to discover more about the Aston Martin product range and the brand’s recently launched AM37 yacht, created in partnership with Quintessence Yachts. Both the window display and exhibition area will remain in place until 28 January.

    Note: Press release courtesy of Aston Martin.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 29th

    1931: Leslie Bricusse is born--Pinner, Harrow, Greater London, England.
    (He dies 19 October 2021 at age 90.)
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    Leslie Bricusse, OBE
    See the complete article here:
    Leslie Bricusse, OBE (29 January 1931 – 19 October 2021) was a British composer, lyricist, and playwright who worked on theater musicals and wrote theme music for films. He was best known for writing the music and lyrics for the films Doctor Dolittle, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Scrooge, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Tom and Jerry: The Movie, the songs "Goldfinger", "You Only Live Twice", "Can You Read My Mind (Love Theme)" (with John Williams) from Superman, and "Le Jazz Hot!" with Henry Mancini from Victor/Victoria.

    Early life and education
    Born in Pinner, Middlesex (now a northwest London suburb), Bricusse was educated at University College School in London and then at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge, he was Secretary of Footlights between 1952 and 1953 and Footlights President during the following year.

    Career
    In the 1960s and 1970s, Bricusse enjoyed a fruitful partnership with Anthony Newley. They wrote the musical Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (1961), which was the basis for 1966 film version. Also in collaboration with Newley, Bricusse wrote the show The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (1965) and music for the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), based on the children's book by Roald Dahl. For the latter, they received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song Score. When he collaborated with Newley, the two men referred to themselves as the team of "Brickman and Newburg", with "Newburg" concentrating mainly on the music and "Brickman" on the lyrics. Ian Fraser often did their arrangements.

    Working solely as a lyricist, he collaborated with composer Cyril Ornadel on Pickwick (1963), based on Charles Dickens' The Pickwick Papers, a successful vehicle for Harry Secombe. His later collaborators included with Henry Mancini (Victor/Victoria in 1982 and Tom and Jerry: The Movie in 1992) and John Williams (Hook in 1991). As composer and lyricist he scored the film, Doctor Dolittle (1967), which flopped at the box-office, receiving an Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Talk to the Animals"), and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969).
    Sammy Davis Jr. had hits with two songs by Bricusse, "What Kind of Fool Am I?" (from Stop the World - I Want to Get Off) and "The Candy Man" (from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory) which became a No. 1 hit. Other recording artists who recorded successful versions of his songs include Nina Simone ("Feeling Good"), Matt Monro and Frank Sinatra ("My Kind of Girl"), Shirley Bassey ("Goldfinger"), Harry Secombe ("If I Ruled the World"), Nancy Sinatra ("You Only Live Twice"), The Turtles ("A Guide for the Married Man"), Maureen McGovern ("Can You Read My Mind"), and Diana Krall ("When I Look in Your Eyes"). Bricusse partnered with George Tipton to write the opening theme of the U.S. television sitcom It's a Living.
    Pure Imagination: The World of Anthony Newley and Leslie Bricusse, devised and directed by Bruce Kimmel, opened at the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, on 7 December 2013. In 2015, it went to the St James Theatre, London.

    On 29 October 2001, Bricusse received an OBE for services to the film industry and the theatre from Queen Elizabeth II at a Buckingham Palace investiture ceremony.
    Personal life

    Bricusse resided in California and was married to actress Yvonne Romain[8] and had a son, Adam.

    Bricusse died on 19 October 2021 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France at the age of 90.[9][10]

    Works
    Musicals

    Stop the World – I Want to Get Off (with Anthony Newley) (1961) – includes "Once in a Lifetime" and "What Kind of Fool Am I?"
    Pickwick – with Cyril Ornadel (1963)
    The Roar of the Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd (with Newley) (1965) – includes "Who Can I Turn to (When Nobody Needs Me)?" and "Feeling Good"
    Doctor Dolittle (1967) – includes "Talk to the Animals"
    Sweet November (with Newley)
    Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969)

    Scrooge (with Ian Fraser; Herbert W. Spencer, 1970) – includes "Thank You Very Much"
    Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (with Newley, 1971)
    Beyond the Rainbow (lyrics only, 1978)[14]
    The Good Old Bad Old Days (with Newley, 1974)
    Peter Pan (television, with Newley, 1976)

    Victor Victoria (film with Henry Mancini, 1982)
    Babes in Toyland (1986 film) (with Newley, 1986)
    Sherlock Holmes: The Musical – book, music, and lyrics by Bricusse (1989)

    Hook (with John Williams) (1991) – includes "When You're Alone"
    Jekyll & Hyde (lyrics only, 1990/1994/1997)
    Scrooge (1992 stage musical)
    Victor/Victoria (1995 Broadway musical)
    Doctor Dolittle (1998 stage musical)

    Cyrano (2009, Tokyo, with Frank Wildhorn)
    Sammy (2009) – Old Globe Theatre

    Songs
    Source:

    "Out of Town" with Robin Beaumont (1956)

    "My Kind of Girl" (1961)
    "What Kind of Fool Am I?" with Anthony Newley (1963)
    "Who Can I Turn To" with Anthony Newley (1964)
    "Feeling Good" with Anthony Newley (1964)
    "Goldfinger" (with John Barry and Anthony Newley) from Goldfinger (1964)
    "A Guide for the Married Man" (with John Williams) from the film A Guide for the Married Man (1967)
    "You Only Live Twice" (with Barry) from You Only Live Twice (1967)
    "Two for the Road" (with Henry Mancini) from Two for the Road (1967)
    "Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle (1967)
    "Your Zowie Face" for film In Like Flint, music by Jerry Goldsmith (1967)
    "Fill The World With Love" from Goodbye Mr. Chips (1968) originally sung by Petula Clark and also popularised by Richard Harris
    "You and I" from Goodbye Mr. Chips (1968) sung by Petula Clark, Barbara Cook, and Michael Feinstein

    "Thank You Very Much" from Scrooge (1970)
    "Candy Man" and "Pure Imagination" (with Newley) from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
    "Can You Read My Mind (Love Theme)" (with John Williams) from Superman (1978)
    "Move Em Out" (with Henry Mancini) from Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)

    "Le Jazz Hot!" with Henry Mancini from Victor/Victoria (1982)
    "Making Toys", "Every Christmas Eve/Santa's Theme (Giving)", "It's Christmas Again", "Patch! Natch!" and "Thank You, Santa!" (with Henry Mancini) from Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
    "Life in a Looking Glass" (with Henry Mancini) from That's Life! (1986)

    "Somewhere in My Memory" from Home Alone (with John Williams) (1990)
    "When You're Alone", "We Don't Wanna Grow Up" from Hook (with John Williams) (1991)
    "Christmas at Hogwarts" (with John Williams) in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
    "The Perfect Song" (with Andrew Lloyd Webber) for Michael Ball.

    Awards
    Academy Award

    Best Original Song, 1968 – "Talk to the Animals"
    Best Adaptation and Original Song Score, 1982 - Victor/Victoria
    Grammy Award
    Song of the Year, 1963 – "What Kind of Fool Am I"
    Songwriters Hall of Fame[18]

    Nominations
    Tony Award

    Best Musical, 1963 – Stop the World – I Want to Get Off
    Tony Award for Best Score, 1963 – "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"
    Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, 1963 – "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off"
    Tony Award for Best Score of a Musical, 1965 – "The Roar of Greasepaint – The Smell of the Crowd"
    Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical, 1997 – "Jekyll & Hyde"
    Academy Awards
    Original Music Score, 1967 – Doctor Dolittle
    Original Music Score, 1969 – Goodbye, Mr. Chips
    Original Song Score, 1970 – Scrooge
    Best Original Song, 1970 – "Thank You Very Much"
    Best Adaptation and Original Song Score, 1971 – Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
    Best Original Song, 1986 – "Life in a Looking Glass"
    Best Original Song, 1990 – "Somewhere in My Memory"
    Best Original Song, 1991 – "When You're Alone"
    Golden Raspberry Award
    Worst 'Original' Song, 1986 – "Life in a Looking Glass" (lyrics)
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    1962: Ursula Andress arrives in Jamaica, stays at the Courtleigh Manor Hotel, Kingston. 1965: 007 ja Kultasormi (007 and Gold Bull; Swedish: 007 och Guldfinger, 007 and Goldfinger) released in Finland.
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    1966: The Calgary Herald prints Pearl Sheffy's piece "The Man who got the Bond Going" regarding Harry Saltzman. 1967: The Colgems label releases "The Look of Love" written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, sung by Dusty Springfield. Inspired by Ursula Andress in the film, says Bacharach.

    1983: Varley Thomas dies at age 81--Ewell, Surrey, England.
    (Born 29 November 1901--Wandsworth, Surrey, England.)
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    Biography
    Born November 29, 1901 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England, UK
    Died January 29, 1983 in Ewell, Surrey, England, UK
    Birth Name Margaret Ada Thomas
    Height 5' (1.52 m)
    Varley Thomas was born on November 29, 1901 in Wandsworth, Surrey, England as Margaret Ada Thomas. She was an actress, known for Goldfinger (1964), Jack the Ripper (1973) and Home Tonight (1961). She died on January 29, 1983 in Ewell, Surrey.
    Filmography
    Actress (10 credits)

    1973 Jack the Ripper (TV Mini-Series) - Emily Holland
    - The First Two (1973) ... Emily Holland

    1969 Public Eye (TV Series) - Janet
    - The Comedian's Graveyard (1969) ... Janet
    1967 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Mrs. Neehan
    - A Family Likeness (1967) ... Mrs. Neehan
    1966 Love Story (TV Series) - Minnie Fry
    - Two's Company (1966) ... Minnie Fry
    1965 Television Club (TV Series) - Mrs. Bostock
    - The Brent Family: Its None of Your Business (1965) ... Mrs. Bostock
    1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Neighbour
    - The Rules of the Game (1965) ... Neighbour
    1964 Crossroads (TV Series) - Madame Durand
    1964 Goldfinger - Swiss Gatekeeper
    1962 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Mrs. Coggins
    - Accessories After the Fact (1962) ... Mrs. Coggins
    1961 Home Tonight (TV Series) - Mrs. Jackson


    Archive footage (2 credits)

    1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Goldfinger' (Video documentary short) - Old Lady with Gun
    1964 Goldfinger: The World Premiere (Documentary short)
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    1995: BOND 17 films in Puerto Rico.
    1998: Nintendo publishes James Bond 007 single-player game developed by Saffire in Europe.
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    See the complete article here:

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    James Bond 007
    Game information:
    Developer(s):
    Saffire
    Publisher(s): Nintendo
    Released:
    NA February 9, 1998
    EU January 29, 1998
    Genre: Action-Adventure
    Mode(s): Single-player
    Platform(s): Game Boy
    Series:
    Preceded by: GoldenEye 007
    Followed by: Tomorrow Never Dies

    James Bond 007 is a 1998 action-adventure video game developed by Saffire and published by Nintendo for the Game Boy. Capitalising on the success of GoldenEye 007, the game features an original story mixing together characters from multiple James Bond films, from Oddjob to Jaws. Unlike GoldenEye 007, this title was of the adventure genre, viewed from a top-down perspective. It also incorporated gambling mini-games such as Baccarat and Blackjack.

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    2007: 皇家赌场 (Royal Casino) released in Beijing, China.
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    2014: British miniseries Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond starring Dominic Cooper premieres in the US.
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    TV-MA | 44min | Biography, Drama, Romance | TV Mini-Series (2014)

    Look at the 007 creator, Ian Fleming, and his early life set against the permissive society of war-torn WWII London.

    Cast
    Dominic Cooper ... Ian Fleming
    Lara Pulver ... Ann O'Neill
    Samuel West ... Rear Admiral John Godfrey
    Anna Chancellor ... Second Officer Monday
    Rupert Evans ... Peter Fleming
    Lesley Manville ... Evelyn Fleming
    Pip Torrens ... Esmond Rothermere
    Camilla Rutherford ... Loelia, Duchess of Westminster
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    2015: Spectre films airplane action at Obertilliach, Austria.

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    2015: Pierce Brosnan appears in a Bondian Super Bowl ad for Gia. And not so Bondian.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    January 30th

    1960: Bond comic strip Diamonds Are Forever ends its run in the Daily Express.
    (Started 10 August 1959. 340-487) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.
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    Diamantfeber
    (Diamond Fever - Diamonds Are Forever)
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    Swedish Semic Comic 1988 https://mi6confidential.com/sections/comics/semic_1988.php3
    Diamantfeber (Diamonds Are Forever - Part 1) | Diamantfeber (Diamonds Are Forever - Part 2)
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    Danish 1967 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no9-1967/
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    1971: Reports say American John Gavin is cast as Bond to appear in Diamonds Are Forever. 1977: Bond comic strip When the Wizard Awakes begins its run in the Sunday Express.
    (Ends 22 May 1977. 1-54) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
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    Swedish Semic Comic 1978 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1978.php3
    Trollkarlen + Stålspionen
    ("Magician + Steel Spy" -
    Fear Face & When The Wizard Awakes)
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    Danish https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no49-1979/
    James Bond 007 no. 49:
    “Nightbird/When the Wizard Awakes” (1979)
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    1992: Puffin Books publishes James Bond Jr novelization A View to a Thrill by John Vincent (aka John Peel).
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    1996: Guy Doleman dies at age --Los Angeles, California
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    Guy Doleman
    Born 22 November 1923
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    Died 30 January 1996 (aged 72)
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    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]
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    2003: 新鐵金剛之不日殺機 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī bù rì shājī, New Iron King Kong's Imminent Murder) released in Hong Kong, China.

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    2006: BOND 21 filming begins in Prague, Czech Republic.
    2011: Press reports suggest Javier Bardem is in BOND 23.
    2011: John Barry Prendergast dies at age 77--Oyster Bay, New York.
    (Born 3 November 1933--York, North Yorkshire, England.)
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    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
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    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 [n]Thunderball[/b] (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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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    1942: Daniela Bianchi is born--Rome, Lazio, Italy.

    1960: The Sunday Times of London prints Ian Fleming's "The Thrilling Cities: Hong Kong."
    1963: Dr. No released in the Netherlands.
    1964: A 007, dalla Russia con amore (At 007, From Russia With Love) released in Italy.
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    1970: Minnie Driver is born--Middlesex Hospital, London, England.
    1972: Richard Burton in his diary records his feelings on Sean Connery and Diamonds Are Forever.
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    31 Jan 72 We went to see a James Bond film yesterday afternoon called Diamonds are Forever.....His Scots accent was more pronounced than ever - perhaps deliberately - perhaps indicating Home Rule for Scotland. He has become a devout nationalist. Anyway it was all good clean fun.
    1973: B.J. Arnau films her Filet of Soul scenes at Pinewood Studios.



    2003: Die Another Day released in Norway. Filming used several Norway locations, doubling for Iceland and the car chase across the ice.
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    Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
    (ice car chase - ice palace environs - additional filming)

    Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway
    (ice cliffs - plate for cgi)

    Jostedal Glacier National Park, Luster, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway
    (ice car chase - ice palace environs - additional filming)
    2003: La morte può attendere (Death Can Wait) released in Switzerland (Italian speaking region, after French and German speaking regions).
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    2003: 誰與爭鋒 (Shuí yǔ zhēngfēng, Who is Fighting) released in Taiwan.
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    2008: Paul Foronoff in the South China Morning Post writes about Hong Kong's Jane Bond film phenomenon.
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    Paul Fonoroff | 31 Jan, 2008

    One facet of Hong Kong cinema's unique take on feminism is gloriously highlighted in the Hong Kong Film Archive's retrospective, Licensed to Kick (Men) - The Jane Bond Films. One of the more over-the-top subgenres in the 1960s, these James Bond knock-offs are far more than the transplanting of a Hollywood trend onto Hong Kong celluloid. Two aspects stand out: the primacy of women in what was originally a male-dominated genre, and the ability of local filmmakers to not only embrace a western fad but transform it into something distinctively Hong Kong.

    Even four decades ago, both of these aspects had already enjoyed a long history on the local stage and screen. The sex-segregated nature of Cantonese opera troupes until the 30s fostered gender-bending conventions that persisted well beyond, ensuring that 60s audiences were comfortable watching women play men's roles and vice versa.

    Even though talking pictures overtook live performances in popularity in the post-war era, the theatrical heritage lived on-screen in the presence of many Cantonese opera-trained stars. Yam Kim-fai is the most famous example of a woman who almost always donned male garb regardless of whether the setting was historical or contemporary.

    The tradition was given a breath of fresh air in the 60s by teen idols like Connie Chan Po-chu, while in Mandarin movies, Ivy Ling Po's success in cross-dressing costume spectacles led her to become Shaw Brothers' top star.

    Gender-bending aside, the pre-60s Hong Kong filmography contained a lengthy roster of action adventures featuring swordswomen, lady thieves and female Robin Hoods. For the city's producers, performers, and the ticket-buying public, a transition to 007-style spies wasn't too much of a stretch.

    The 60s saw feisty females like Connie Chan, Josephine Siao Fong-fong, Nam Hung and Suet Nei wearing trendy pantsuits, mini-skirts, and ingenious disguises to battle nefarious villains in camp classics like Black Rose (1965), Spy With My Face (right, 1966), The Cat Eyed Girl (1967), The Iron Lady Against the One Eyed Dragon (1967) and Gold Skeleton (1967).

    Mandarin pictures also hopped onto the Jane Bond bandwagon, Shaw Brothers leading the way with thrillers sporting exploitable titles such as Angel With the Iron Fists (1967), Operation Lipstick (1967) and The Brain Stealers (1968). These were more opulent and more sexist than their Cantonese counterparts, with actresses like Lily Ho Li-li and Tina Chin Fei displaying more curves than fighting prowess.

    The Jane Bond craze peaked in 1967 and fizzled out by the end of the decade, coinciding with the demise of Cantonese-language cinema and the rise of a new generation of muscular male stars like Ti Lung and Bruce Lee. New modes in martial arts and kung fu became all the rage, and the genre's formerly powerful leading lady was relegated to little more than supporting status - if she appeared at all. The decades since have witnessed relatively few actresses able to attain the status of superstar. Gone, too, was Jane Bond as a viable subgenre.

    Sam Hui Koon-kit scored a huge hit with his 007-like Aces Go Places series in the 80s, with no female rivals in sight. Jane's condition experienced a brief recovery with the unexpected critical and popular success of 92 The Legendary La Rose Noire (1992), a wacky homage to Spy With My Face. But a feeble attempt to update the genre in The Heroic Trio proved to be a flop, due more to the filmmakers' muddled vision than viewers' reluctance to accept the heroic female trio of Anita Mui Yim-fong, Michelle Yeoh Choo Kheng, and Maggie Cheung Man-yuk.

    Fifteen years later, there are even fewer women with box office clout, relegating Jane Bond and her ilk to the realm of retrospectively explored iconography.

    Licensed to Kick (Men) - The Jane Bond Films, ends Mar 2, HK Film Archive, 50 Lei King Rd, Sai Wan Ho

    Paul Fonoroff
    A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Paul began learning Mandarin while in high school, continuing his Chinese studies as an undergraduate at Brown University and Singapore's Nanyang University. After earning a Masters in Fine Arts in cinema at the University of Southern California, he obtained a grant to research Chinese cinema at Peking University from 1980-82. He moved to Hong Kong in 1983 and began writing for the South China Morning Post in 1988. A collection of his articles was published as At the Hong Kong Movies, 600 Reviews from 1988 till the Handover. In addition to writing, he hosted over one thousand movie-related TV shows in Cantonese, Mandarin, and English, and had roles in twenty movies. He is a member of the Hong Kong Film Critics Society and the Performing Artists Guild of Hong Kong, and is an advisor to the Hong Kong Film Archives. His research resulted in one of the world's largest collections of Chinese and Hong Kong movie publications, posters, and memorabilia, a portion of which was highlighted in his book, Silver Light, A Pictorial History of Hong Kong Cinema 1920-1970. The collection was recently acquired by the University of California-Berkeley's Starr East Asian Library, which in 2017 launched the Paul Fonoroff Collection as a major research facility for Chinese cinema studies.
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    2019: The London ceremony for the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) presents producer Barbara Broccoli a Casting Society of America (CSA) UK Artios Award for lifetime achievement.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    February 1st

    1960: Bond comic strip From Russia with Love begins its run in The Daily Express.
    (Ends 21 May 1960. 488-583) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.
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    Agent 007 Ser Rött
    ("Agent 007 See Red" - From Russia With Love)
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    Agent 007 Ser Rött
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    1961: Mrs. James Bond writes Ian Fleming and calls his Bond "a rascal."
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    TO MRS. JAMES BOND, 721, Davidson Road, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia
    18, Pasadena

    'It was inevitable we should catch up with you. . . " On which ominous note
    Mrs James Bond began her letter of 1 February 1961. Fleming had never
    made any secret of the fact that he had borrowed his name from one
    of his favorite books, Birds of the West Indies, by the American orni-
    thologist James Bond. But now, almost ten years after he had written

    Casino Royale, news reached the Bonds that 'you had brazenly picked
    up the name of a real human being for your rascal.' They didn't really
    mind, as the real Bond had led an adventurous life, his colorful exploits
    not being too far, in the ornithological scale of things, from those of his fic-
    tional equivalent. 'I told MY JB he could sue you for defamation of charac-
    ter,' Mrs. Bond concluded cheerfully. 'JBBA [James Bond British
    Agent] is too much fun for that and JB authenticus regards the whole thing
    as "a joke".'
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    1974: Crazy Magazine features James Bond.
    1992: This month Marvel Comics releases James Bond Jr #2 "The Eiffel Missile".
    Episode 9 of the cartoon features Dr. Derange. 1993: This Is Your Life records a show with Honor Blackman, her second.
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    THIS IS YOUR LIFE - Honor Blackman, actress, was surprised by Michael Aspel during an interview at Thames Television's Teddington Studios.

    Honor trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and after securing roles in several West End plays was offered a film contract as a Rank starlet. She appeared in a steady stream of films throughout the 1950s, but achieved fame in 1962 as Cathy Gale in the television series The Avengers, which led, two years later, to her role as Bond girl Pussy Galore in the third James Bond film Goldfinger.

    Her theatre productions include the London revival of The Sound of Music in 1981, and On Your Toes in 1984, as well as several pantomimes during the 1980s. In 1990 she was cast as man-eater Laura West in the popular ITV situation comedy The Upper Hand.

    Honor Blackman was a subject of This Is Your Life on two occasions – previously surprised by Eamonn Andrews in December 1969 at Thames Television's Euston Road Studios.

    "Oh my goodness!"
    programme details...
    Edition No: 857
    Subject No: second timer
    Broadcast date: Wed 17 Feb 1993
    Broadcast time: 7.00-7.30pm
    Recorded: Mon 1 Feb 1993
    Venue: Teddington Studios
    Series: 33
    Edition: 21
    Code name: Obey
    on the guest list...
    Barnaby – son
    Lottie – daughter
    Maurice Kaufmann
    Diana Weston
    Joe McGann
    Kellie Bright
    William Puttock
    Christopher Walker
    Leonard White
    Jackie Pallo
    Elspet Gray
    June Whitfield
    Tim Flavin
    Norman Wisdom
    Filmed tributes:
    Patrick Macnee
    Ronnie Corbett
    Richard Johnson
    Ray Cooney
    Honor Blackman THIS IS YOUR LIFE (February 1993)


    1993: This month Dark Horse Comics releases James Bond 007: Serpent's Tooth #3.
    Paul Gulacy, artist. Doug Moench, writer.
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    Would you destroy the world to make a new, perfect one? Indigo plays God and Bond is the serpent in Indigo's New Eden. Serpent's Tooth delivers all the Bond action, all the Bond thrills, and all the Bond savoir faire. There's no way anyone should miss the exciting conclusion to this incredible series. Written by Doug Moench (Batman/Dracula: Red Rain) with art by Paul Gulacy (Terminator: Secondary Objectives) and color by Steve Oliff (John Byrne's 2112). Painted cover by Gulacy.
    Creators
    Writer: Doug Moench
    Artist: Paul Gulacy
    Letterer: Pat Brosseau
    Colorist: Steve Oliff
    Editor: Jerry Prosser & Dick Hansom
    Cover Artist: Paul Gulacy
    Genre: Action/Adventure

    Publication Date: February 01, 1993
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    1995: Dark Horse Comics releases James Bond 007: The Quasimodo Gambit #2.
    Gary Caldwell, artist. Don McGregor, write.
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    James Bond 007: Quasimodo Gambit #2
    Bond's midnight excursion into The Estate for the Disciples of the Heavenly Way reveals that the believers are more than just quiet and devout -- they're fanatical soldiers bent on the destruction of The Beast -- whatever that is! Following leads and his instincts, he heads deep into the Georgia swamps, only to find his worst fears confirmed and a bloody nightmare from which he cannot escape!
    Creators
    Writer: Don McGregor
    Artist: Gary Caldwell
    Letterer: Elitta Fell
    Editor: Edward Martin III & Robert Conte
    Cover Artist: Christopher Moeller
    Genre: Action/Adventure

    Publication Date: February 01, 1995
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    2002: Die Another Day films 007 escaping the military medical facility.
    2005: Actor Pierce Brosnan posts a letter on his Web site confirming an end to his involvement with Bond, detailing his future projects, and thanking fans for their support through the uncertainty of the previous year.
    February 1, 2005

    Dear Friends,

    Is it too late to say Happy New Year? I don't think so. I've just come back from The Sundance Film Festival. It was the first outing for my company Irish DreamTime with our independent film The Matador which was greeted warmly and heralded a great success. In fact, we sold out all eight performances and received a standing ovation!

    From start to finish the movie was a joy to make. The cast and crew were a tight outfit. Of course when you only have a cast of three main characters, and when those players are actors like Greg Kinnear and Hope Davis, well, it was a walk in the park. We shot the entire movie in Mexico City in early spring of last year. The city and her people embraced us all, and in return we were seduced by her charms; it was truly a gifted time.

    Immediately following Sundance, we sold our film The Matador, to none other than Mr. Harvey Weinstein at Miramax. To say that we are happy and overjoyed is an understatement. These moments must be cherished, shared, and enjoyed with friends as they don't come around that often.

    Next up…

    Irish DreamTime is going full steam ahead on Thomas Crown 2, AKA The Topaki Affair, along with Lochinvar and a few other projects we are developing. In the meantime, life is filled with family. This time at home away from the hustle and bustle of location life is wonderful. I could get used to it.

    I would like to thank all of you who have supported me over the last year or so in regard to my playing Bond. It was a decade of my life that I will always hold dear to my heart and a time that will never be forgotten. And you dear friends stood by me throughout. Many, many thanks! But everything comes to an end, and one must accept this decision which cannot be dealt with in any other way but with some kind of grace and knowledge that I did the job to the best of my ability.

    So let us all go out there into each new day and be great, to ourselves and each other.

    Love and only love,

    Pierce Brosnan

    2011: Rob Hastings in the Independent rolls up the tributes to John Barry.
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    The skill of a great film composer is to marry moving images with sound in such a way that they seem organically linked. Yesterday the superlative John Barry united film and music one last time, as figures from both circles offered tributes to his career on the news of his death at 77.

    Mr Barry, who died of a heart attack in his adopted home city of New York, played a vital part in establishing the James Bond films in the public imagination. There was far more to his career than the spy movie franchise, however. He won a total of five Oscars for his work on Dances With Wolves, Out Of Africa, The Lion In Winter and Born Free, for which he won two.
    Many of his most famous and evocative scores were written in the 1960s during the age of Beatlemania, a phenomenon of which James Bond clearly disapproved. Sean Connery, playing Bond in Goldfinger, states: "There are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs."

    Yet prior to his film-scoring career, Mr Barry had considerable success with his own pop group, the John Barry Seven, which he formed in 1957. And while his first passion was classical music – his idol was Gustav Mahler – together with lyricists such as Don Black and Leslie Bricusse he composed grand orchestral melodies that were still catchy enough to create some of the decade's most memorable pop songs. Thunderball remains one of the most popular numbers in Tom Jones' repertoire, while You Only Live Twice – featuring Nancy Sinatra – proved so timeless that it was sampled prominently in Robbie Williams' number one single Millennium more then 30 years later.
    Yesterday Tim Rice paid tribute to this versatility, saying: "He made these great rock 'n' roll records and then you heard these symphonic works as well."

    Born in York in 1933, Barry was the son of a former concert pianist and the owner of a small chain of cinemas. His youth was therefore steeped in piano music and the movies, before he discovered jazz in his teens and took up the trumpet. He began arranging music during his two years of national service with the army, and on being asked to score his first movie in 1960 found he had a natural talent.

    Don Black, who wrote the lyrics for Born Free, told The Independent that the death of the man he considered one of his best friends for the past 50 years came as a shock. "He was a bit fragile the last year – he was never very robust anyway – but he wasn't ill," he said.

    Black fondly remembers the John Barry of his youth, who bore more than a passing resemblance to the Bond man-about-town and over long lunches tended to consume more alcohol than food.

    "In his hell-raising days he used to drink too much and I used to end up taking him home, though that hadn't happened for the last 30 years. He used to have lots of beautiful women and fancy cars and all of that. He was a handsome, eligible bachelor, very vibrant and very attractive with that Yorkshire accent. I don't know who you'd liken him to – the George Clooney of his day, I suppose."

    But Black said the four-times married Barry remained true to his roots. "He never changed, he was still the boy from Yorkshire all the way through. There was nothing New York about him, even though he'd lived there for 40 years. He'd never been to a deli or had a pickle or had a big sandwich – he was still a lad who liked fish and chips with vinegar on the side."

    Black worked on many songs with Barry. "He would go away and say, 'Come in Wednesday and I'll be ready with that tune'. By then he had been through every kind of emotion in writing it and it had been vetted to an inch of its life. So when he said, 'Here it is', it was more like an unveiling."

    David Arnold, who succeeded Barry as the main Bond composer in recent years, told the BBC: "It's impossible to separate James Bond from John Barry's music. They went hand in hand. He was able to show you the menace, the sexiness, the aggression and the emotion.

    "Everything that is cool and fabulous about James Bond is in the music. You could be stuck in a traffic jam on the M25 in a Ford Fiesta, but if you're playing a John Barry score you're in an Aston Martin. It was just an extraordinary, transfigurative thing he did."

    John Barry 1933-2011
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    "He was able to catch the mood of a scene or a whole film by the genius of orchestration with fairly conventional instruments. Film seemed to bring out the very best in him."
    - Sir Tim Rice
    Out of Africa (1985)
    "When he played you a melody it was like an unveiling. You didn't question it because you knew he had been up all night working on it."
    - Don Black (lyricist)
    Goldfinger (1964)
    "I think James Bond would have been far less cool without John Barry holding his hand."
    - Current Bond composer David Arnold
    Born Free (1966)
    "He wrote some of the most memorable and beautiful scores we could ever wish to hear."
    - Michael Crawford

    2012: First official photo of BOND 23 shows scruffy beard growth on OO7 in Shanghai (actually Pinewood Studios).
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    2013: An Oscar promo with Seth MacFarlane roasts Bond.
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    February 2nd

    1930: Raymond John "Ray" Hawkey is born--Plymouth, Devon, England.
    (He dies 22 August 2010--Kensington, London, England.)
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    Top graphic designer who revolutionised the look of newspapers and book covers
    Peter Evans | Mon 30 Aug 2010 13.25 EDT

    Raymond Hawkey, who has died aged 80, was one of the most innovative, influential and imitated graphic designers of the second half of the 20th century. As design director at the Daily Express in its prime in the late 1950s and early 60s, and later at the Observer until the mid-70s, with his introduction of banner headlines, using a simple photographic line technique and sans serif fonts, he not only revolutionised the look of newspapers but also changed the course of the visual culture in Britain.

    In 1962, while at the Daily Express, Hawkey was asked by the writer Len Deighton, an old friend from Royal College of Art days, to design the cover for The Ipcress File, his first thriller about Harry Palmer, working-class antihero – who was still unnamed. The book's publishers, Hodder & Stoughton, were appalled when they saw Hawkey's Ipcress design – a photograph of a Smith & Wesson revolver, bullets, a cracked War Office canteen teacup and a stubbed-out cigarette. They refused to pay him more than 15 of his 50-guinea fee for his "disgusting" illustration. Deighton made up the rest. Shot with a technique known as "high-key", the cover would later be regarded as one of the key moments in design history.

    The book became a huge success, and Hawkey went on to create some of Deighton's most memorable covers, including Horse Under Water (1963), Funeral in Berlin (1964) and Close-Up (1972, about a fading Hollywood star). Hawkey spotted Deighton's scribbled recipes in his kitchen, "tidied them up, advised me about the graphics and took them to the Observer/," Deighton recalled. They became a popular "cookstrip" feature for many years; and for Hawkey's cover of Deighton's The Action Cookbook (1964), the Ipcress revolver reappeared with a sprig of parsley in the barrel. He later designed covers for Kingsley Amis, Frederick Forsyth and others.
    His cover for the 1963 Pan paperback edition of Ian Fleming's Thunderball – with bullet holes cut into the Brian Duffy photograph of a girl's back – anticipated a phenomenon in which movies became a key element in the marketing and success of the Bond books. Not only did Hawkey decide that "James Bond" should be emblazoned across the top of every cover but also made the type twice the size of the title and Fleming's name. It remained that way for almost four decades.
    Born in Plymouth, Devon, Hawkey was an only child; his father was a commercial traveller who wanted his son to be an accountant. At 11, he won a scholarship to the city's grammar school and developed a natural gift for drawing; at 16, he joined the Plymouth School of Art. In 1950, he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art in London, to study illustration. After a year, he switched to the graphics course and became an assistant director on the RCA magazine ARK, supplementing his small grant with illustration commissions from the Central Office of Information, and shifts for the picture department at the now-defunct Sunday Graphic.

    While still at the RCA, he won a Vogue design competition; offered a job at Condé Nast, he quickly made his mark as an art director. Following a brief period with the ad agency Colman Prentis and Varley, he joined the Daily Express. Later, in 1986, he was consultant designer at the launch of the Independent newspaper.

    Because he was naturally shy, Hawkey was often considered difficult to know. "Ray had a way of diverting questions about himself, often turning the conversation back on to you," says Edward Milward-Oliver, a friend for several years. In fact, he was the best company amid small groups of friends.

    Always impeccably dressed – he didn't own jeans or trainers – he took no exercise, except for a rare walk on the beach in his beloved Cornwall, where he had spent his childhood. His 18th-floor apartment in Notting Hill, west London, reflected his interest in the sea, with paintings and photographs of tall ships, Victorian figureheads and a ship's brass compass (contrasting with a small Eero Saarinen tulip dining table and chairs from the late 1950s).

    But in spite of his gentle voice and manner, once engaged in an assignment he was indefatigable, working 16 hours at a stretch, before sleeping briefly and putting in another 16-hour day in the flat where he lived for five decades. He was wonderfully generous, especially with his time, to young people who sought his advice, whether it was on design or writing – he wrote four very fine thrillers, including It (1983), regarded by many as the first truly modern ghost story.

    A fastidious and private man, he had a dread of dying in hospital; and after a long illness he died in his own bed – with his beloved wife, Mary, reading his favourite poem to him.

    • Raymond John Hawkey, graphic designer, born 2 February 1930; died 22 August 2010
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    1973: Live and Let Die films Baron Samedi rising from the dead.

    1981: Bond comic strip Doomcrack begins its run in The Sunday Express. (Ends 19 August 1981. 1-174)
    Harry North (known for Mad Magazine film parodies), artist. Jim Lawrence, writer. 1983: Bond comic strip Deathmask ends its run in The Sunday Express.
    (Started 7 June 1982. 379-552) John McLusky, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.

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    1984: Insan gibi yasa (Human-Like Law) released in Turkey. Television title: Asla asla deme (Never Say Never).
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    1986: Gemma Arterton is born--Gravesend, Kent, England.
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    1995: Donald Pleasence dies at age 75--Saint-Paul de-Vence, Alps-Maritimes, France.
    (Born 5 October 1919--Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England.)
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    Pleasence in London, 1973.
    Portrait by Allan Warren
    Born Donald Henry Pleasence, 5 October 1919, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
    Died 2 February 1995 (aged 75), Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes, France
    Nationality British
    Education Ecclesfield School
    Occupation Actor, singer, narrator
    Years active 1946–1995
    Spouse(s) Miriam Raymond (m. 1941–1958), Josephine Crombie (m. 1959–1970), Meira Shore (m. 1970–1988), Linda J. Kentwood (m. 1988)
    Children 5, including Angela Pleasence
    Donald Henry Pleasence OBE (/ˈplɛzəns/); 5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995) was an English character actor. His best known film roles include psychiatrist Dr. Samuel Loomis in Halloween (1978) and four of its sequels, the villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film You Only Live Twice (1967), RAF Flight Lieutenant Colin Blythe in The Great Escape (1963), SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), Clarence "Doc" Tydon in Wake in Fright (1971), and the President of the United States in Escape from New York (1981).

    Early life
    Pleasence was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England, the son of Alice (née Armitage) and Thomas Stanley Pleasence, a railway stationmaster. He was brought up as a strict Methodist in the small village of Grimoldby, Lincolnshire. He received his formal education at Crosby Junior School, Scunthorpe and Ecclesfield Grammar School, in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. After working as the Clerk-in-Charge at Swinton railway station in South Yorkshire, he decided that he wanted to be a professional actor, taking up a placement with the Jersey Repertory Company in 1939.

    Second World War
    In December 1939, Pleasence initially refused conscription into the British Armed Forces, registering as a conscientious objector, but changed his stance in autumn 1940, after the attacks upon London by the Luftwaffe, and volunteered with the Royal Air Force. He served as aircraft wireless-operator with No. 166 Squadron in Bomber Command, with which he flew almost sixty raids against the Axis over occupied Europe. On 31 August 1944, Lancaster NE112, in which he was a crew member, was shot down during an attack upon Agenville, and he was captured and imprisoned in the German prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft I, where he was treated well reciprocally (like the British treated captured Luftwaffe pilots) in similar prisoner-of-war camps. Here, Pleasence produced and acted in many plays for the entertainment of his fellow captives.

    After the war and his release, he was discharged from the R.A.F. in 1946.

    Acting career
    Returning to acting after the war, Pleasence resumed working in repertory theatre companies in Birmingham and Bristol. In the 1950s, Pleasence's stage work included performing as Willie Mossop in a 1952 production of Hobson's Choice at the Arts Theatre, London and as Dauphin in Jean Anouilh's The Lark (1956). In 1960, Pleasence gained excellent notices as the tramp in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker at the Arts Theatre, a role he would again play in a 1990 revival. Other stage work in the 1960s included Anouilh's Poor Bitos (1963-64) and Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth (1967), for which he won the London Variety Award for Stage Actor of the Year in 1968. Pleasence's later stage work included performing in a double bill of Pinter plays, The Basement and Tea Party, at the Duchess Theatre in 1970.

    Television
    Pleasence made his television debut in I Want to Be a Doctor (1946). He received positive critical attention for his role as Syme in the BBC version of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) from the novel by George Orwell. The adaptation was by Nigel Kneale and featured Peter Cushing in the lead role of Winston Smith.

    Pleasence played Prince John in several episodes of the ITV series The Adventures of Robin Hood (1956–1958). He appeared twice with Patrick McGoohan in the British spy series, Danger Man, in episodes "Position of Trust" (1960) and "Find and Return" (1961). Pleasence's first appearance in America was in an episode of The Twilight Zone, playing an aging teacher at a boys' school in the episode "The Changing of the Guard" (1962). In 1963, he appeared in an episode of The Outer Limits entitled "The Man With the Power". In 1966, he also guest starred in an episode of The Fugitive entitled "With Strings Attached"

    In 1973, Pleasence played a sympathetic murderer in an episode of Columbo entitled "Any Old Port in a Storm". Also that year, he played a supporting role in David Winters' musical television adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

    He also portrayed a murderer captured by Mrs. Columbo in "Murder Is a Parlor Game" (1979). In 1978, he played a scout, Sam Purchas in an adaptation of James A. Michener's Centennial. Pleasence starred as the Reverend Septimus Harding in the BBC's TV series The Barchester Chronicles (1982). In this series, his daughter Angela Pleasence played his onscreen daughter Susan.

    He hosted the 1981 Halloween episode of Saturday Night Live with music guest Fear.

    In 1986, Pleasence joined Ronald Lacey and Polly Jo Pleasence for the television thriller Into the Darkness.

    Film
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    the film Eye of the Devil (1966).
    Pleasence made his big-screen debut with The Beachcomber (1954). Some notable early roles include Parsons in 1984 (1956), and minor roles opposite Alec Guinness in Barnacle Bill (1957) and Dirk Bogarde in The Wind Cannot Read (1958). In Tony Richardson's film of Look Back in Anger (1959), he plays a vindictive market inspector opposite Richard Burton. In the same year, Pleasence starred in the horror films Circus of Horrors directed by Sidney Hayers, playing the role of Vanet, the owner of a circus, and The Flesh and the Fiends as the real-life murderer William Hare, alongside Peter Cushing, George Rose and Billie Whitelaw.
    Endowed with a bald head, a penetrating stare, and an intense voice, usually quiet but capable of a piercing scream, he specialised in portraying insane, fanatical, or evil characters, including the title role in Dr Crippen (1962), the double agent Dr Michaels in the science-fiction film Fantastic Voyage (1966), the white trader who sells guns to the Cheyenne Indians in the revisionist western Soldier Blue (1970), the mad Doctor in the Bud Spencer–Terence Hill film Watch Out, We're Mad! (1974), Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler in The Eagle Has Landed (1976), and the Bond arch-villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in You Only Live Twice (1967), the first film in which Blofeld's face is clearly seen. His interpretation of the character has become predominant in popular culture considering the popularity of the comic villain, Dr. Evil in the successful Austin Powers film series, which primarily parodies it. In the crime drama Hell is a City (1960), shot in Manchester, he starred opposite Stanley Baker, whilst he was memorably cast in the horror comedy What a Carve Up! (1961) as the “horrible-looking zombie” solicitor opposite Shirley Eaton, Sid James, Kenneth Connor and Dennis Price.
    He appeared as the mild-mannered and good-natured POW forger Colin Blythe in the film The Great Escape (1963), who discovers that he is slowly going blind, but nonetheless participates in the mass break-out, only to be shot down by German soldiers because he is unable to see them. In The Night of the Generals (1967), he played another uncharacteristically sympathetic role, this time as an old-school German general involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler. In 1971, he returned to the realm of the deranged, delivering a tour de force performance in the role of an alcoholic Australian doctor in Ted Kotcheff's nightmarish outback drama Wake in Fright.

    Pleasence played Lucifer in the religious epic The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965). His character taking on many dark, shadowy human disguises throughout the film was unprecedented in breathing life into the Luke 4:13 phrase "... he left Him until an opportune time ..." He was one of many stars who were given cameos throughout the film.

    He also acted in Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac (1966), in which he portrayed the love-sodden husband of a much younger French wife (Françoise Dorléac). He ventured successfully into American cowboy territory, playing a sadistic self-styled preacher who goes after stoic Charlton Heston in the Western Will Penny (1968).

    He portrayed SEN 5241 in THX 1138 (1971), opposite Robert Duvall which was the directorial debut of George Lucas. A few years later, he portrayed antagonist Lucas Deranian, in Walt Disney's Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) and, in Telefon (1977), Nicolai Dalchimsky, the Russian seeking to start a war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

    Pleasence appeared as Dr. Samuel Loomis in John Carpenter's horror film Halloween (1978). The film was a major success and was considered the highest grossing independent film of its time, earning accolades as a classic of the horror genre. He also played the teacher, Kantorek in All Quiet on the Western Front (1979), Dr. Kobras in The Pumaman (1980) and the held-hostage President of the United States in Escape from New York (1981). The rather sinister accent which Pleasence employed in this and other films may be credited to the elocution lessons he had as a child. He reprised his Dr. Sam Loomis role in Halloween II (1981), Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988), Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995).

    Pleasence admired Sir Laurence Olivier, with whom he worked on-stage in the 1950s, and later on the film version of Dracula (1979). Two years earlier, Pleasence did an amusingly broad impersonation of Olivier in the guise of a horror-film actor called "Valentine De'ath" in the film The Uncanny (1977). According to the film critic Kim Newman on a DVD commentary for Halloween II, the reason for Pleasence's lengthy filmography was that he never turned down any role that was offered.

    Spoken records and voice-overs
    During the early 1960s, Pleasence recorded several children's-story records on the Atlas Record label. These were marketed as the Talespinners series in the United Kingdom. They were also released in the United States as Tale Spinners for Children by United Artists. The stories included Don Quixote and the Brave Little Tailor.

    Pleasence provided the voice-over for the British public information film, The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water (1973). The film, intended to warn children of the dangers of playing near water, attained notoriety for allegedly giving children nightmares.

    Books
    Pleasence was the author of the children's book Scouse the Mouse (1977) (London: New English Library), which was animated by Canadian animator/film director Gerald Potterton (a friend of the actor, who directed him in the Canadian film The Rainbow Boys (1973), retitled The Rainbow Gang for VHS release in the United States) and also adapted into a children's recording (Polydor Records, 1977) with Ringo Starr voicing the book's title character, Scouse the Mouse.

    In his book British Film Character Actors (1982), Terence Pettigrew describes Pleasence as "a potent combination of eyes and voice. The eyes are mournful but they can also be sinister or seedy or just plain nutty. He has the kind of piercing stare which lifts enamel off saucepans."

    Awards
    Pleasence was nominated four times for the Tony Award for best performance by a leading actor in a Broadway play: in 1962 for Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, in 1965 for Jean Anouilh's Poor Bitos, in 1969 for Robert Shaw's The Man in the Glass Booth, and in 1972 for Simon Gray's Wise Child.

    Pleasence was appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his services to the acting profession by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994.

    Personal life
    Pleasence married four times and had five daughters from his first three marriages. He had Angela and Jean with Miriam Raymond (m. 1941–1958); Lucy and Polly with Josephine Martin Crombie (m. 1959–1970); and Miranda with Meira Shore (m. 1970–1988). His last marriage was to Linda Kentwood (m. 1988–1995; his death)

    Death
    On 2 February 1995, Pleasence died at age 75 in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, from complications of heart failure following heart valve replacement surgery. His body was cremated.

    Legacy
    The 1995 film Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers was dedicated to Donald Pleasence. The 1998 film Halloween H20: 20 Years Later also features a dedication to Pleasence in the end credits, with sound-alike voice actor Tom Kane providing a voice-over for Loomis in the film. In the 2018 film, Halloween, sound-alike comedian Colin Mahan voiced Loomis.

    Dr. Evil, the character played by Mike Myers in the Austin Powers comedy films (1997–2002), and Doctor Claw from Inspector Gadget are parodies of Pleasence's performance as Blofeld in You Only Live Twice.
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    Filmography
    Actor (234 credits)

    1996 Fatal Frames -Professor Robinson
    1995 Safe Haven - The Sailor
    1995 Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers - Dr. Loomis
    1995 Signs and Wonders (TV Series) - Cornelius Van Damm
    - Episode #1.4 (1995) ... Cornelius Van Damm
    - Episode #1.3 (1995) ... Cornelius Van Damm
    - Episode #1.2 (1995) ... Cornelius Van Damm
    - Episode #1.1 (1995) ... Cornelius Van Damm
    1994 Guinevere (TV Movie) - Merlin
    1993 The Thief and the Cobbler - Phido the Vulture (original and Majestic Films version) / Additional voices (Miramax version) (voice)
    1993 The Big Freeze (TV Movie) - Soup slurper
    1993 The Advocate - Pincheon
    1993 Screen Two (TV Series) - Victor Harty
    - Femme Fatale (1993) ... Victor Harty
    1992 Lovejoy (TV Series) - Karel Redl
    - The Prague Sun (1992) ... Karel Redl
    1992 Diên Biên Phú - Howard Simpson
    1991 Shadows and Fog - Doctor
    1991 Millions - Ripa
    1991 Women in Arms (TV Movie) - Dreyfuss
    1991 L'avvoltoio può attendere - Armon Shalik
    1990 Moi, général de Gaulle (TV Movie) - Winston Churchill

    1989 American risciò - Reverend Mortom
    1989 Buried Alive - Dr. Schaeffer
    1989 Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (TV Movie) - Jason Rafiel
    1989 Casablanca Express - Colonel Bats
    1989 Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers - Loomis
    1989 Paganini Horror - Mr. Pickett
    1989 Ten Little Indians - Judge Wargrave
    1989 River of Death - Heinrich Spaatz
    1989 The House of Usher - Walter Usher
    1988 The Great Escape II: The Untold Story (TV Movie) - Dr. Absalon
    1988 Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers - Dr. Sam Loomis
    1988 Vampire in Venice - Don Alvise
    1988 Last Platoon - Colonel B. Abrahams
    1988 The Commander - Henry Carlson
    1988 The Ray Bradbury Theatre (TV Series) - George Hill
    - Punishment Without Crime (1988) ... George Hill
    1988 Hanna's War - Captain Thomas Rosza
    1988 Phantom of Death - Inspector Datti
    1987 Gila and Rik (TV Movie) - Joe Gardenia
    1987 Urban Animals - Prof. Livingstone
    1987 Django Strikes Again - Ben Gunn
    1987 Prince of Darkness - Priest
    1987 Ground Zero - Prosper Gaffney
    1987 Double Target - Senator Blaster
    1987 Basements (TV Movie) - Mr. Kidd (segment "The Room")
    1987 Specters - Professor Lasky
    1987 Scoop (TV Movie) - London - Lord Copper
    1987 Warrior Queen - Clodius
    1986 Hit Man (TV Mini-Series) - Olindo Cuomo
    - Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Olindo Cuomo
    - Episode #1.2 (1986) ... Olindo Cuomo
    - Episode #1.1 (1986) ... Olindo Cuomo
    1986 Honor Thy Father (TV Movie) - Aldo Rossi (as Donald Pleasance)
    1986 Into the Darkness (Video) - David Beckett
    1986 Operation Nam - Father Lenoir
    1986 To Kill a Stranger - Col. Kostik
    1985 Nothing Underneath - Commissioner Danesi
    1985 Treasure of Doom - Klaus von Blantz
    1985 The Corsican Brothers (TV Movie) - The Chancellor
    1985 Phenomena - Professor John McGregor
    1985 Black Arrow (TV Movie) - Sir Oliver Oates
    1984 Frankenstein's Great Aunt Tillie - Victor Frankenstein / Old Baron Frankenstein
    1984 Arch of Triumph (TV Movie) - Haake
    1984 A Breed Apart - J.P. Whittier
    1984 Where Is Parsifal? - Mackintosh
    1984 The Ambassador - Minister Eretz
    1984 Master of the Game (TV Mini-Series) - Salomon Van der Merwe
    - Episode #1.3 (1984) ... Salomon Van der Merwe
    - Episode #1.2 (1984) ... Salomon Van der Merwe
    - Episode #1.1 (1984) ... Salomon Van der Merwe
    1983 Warrior of the Lost World - Prossor
    1983 The Devonsville Terror - Dr. Warley
    1971-1983 Play for Today (TV Series) - Samuel Johnson / Gerry Muddiman / Tom
    - The Falklands Factor (1983) ... Samuel Johnson
    - Skin Deep (1971) ... Gerry Muddiman
    - The Fox Trot (1971) ... Tom
    1982 The Barchester Chronicles (TV Mini-Series) - Rev. Septimus Harding
    - Part 7 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
    - Part 6 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
    - Part 5 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
    - Part 4 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
    - Part 3 (1982) ... Rev. Septimus Harding
    1982 Witness for the Prosecution (TV Movie) - Mr. Myers
    1982 Alone in the Dark - Dr. Leo Bain
    1981 Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr - Gilbert Carson
    1981 Halloween II - Sam Loomis
    1981 Computercide (TV Movie) - George Dettler
    1981 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Ignatius Slake
    - Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 4 (1981) ... Ignatius Slake
    - Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 1 (1981) ... Ignatius Slake
    1981 The Monster Club - Pickering (segment "Vampire Story")
    1981 Escape from New York - President
    1980 Blade on the Feather (TV Movie) - Professor Jason Cavendish
    1980 The Ghost Sonata (TV Movie) - The old man
    1980 The Pumaman - Kobras (as Donald Pleasance)

    1979 The French Atlantic Affair (TV Mini-Series) - Max Dechambre

    1979 All Quiet on the Western Front (TV Movie) - Kantorek
    1979 Better Late Than Never (TV Movie) - Colonel Riddle
    1979 Jaguar Lives! - General Villanova
    1979 Dracula - Dr. Jack Seward
    1979 Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff - Dr. Steiner
    1979 L'homme en colère - Albert Rumpelmayer
    1979 Gold of the Amazon Women (TV Movie) - Clarence Blasko
    1979 Mrs. Columbo (TV Series) - Ian A. Morly
    - Murder Is a Parlor Game (1979) ... Ian A. Morly
    1978-1979 Centennial (TV Mini-Series) 0 Sam Purchas
    - The Scream of Eagles (1979) ... Sam Purchas
    - The Winds of Death (1979) ... Sam Purchas
    - The Winds of Fortune (1979) ... Sam Purchas
    - The Crime (1979) ... Sam Purchas
    - The Storm (1979) ... Sam Purchas
    1978 Halloween - Loomis
    1978 Last In, First Out - Rothko
    1978 Power Play - Blair
    1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - B.D. Hoffler
    1978 The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (TV Mini-Series) - Narrator
    - Tithing Day, Sheaving Tide, Husking Bee, Corn Play, Kindling Night, Harvest Home (1978) ... Narrator (voice)
    - Ploughing Day, Planting Day, Agnes Fair, Choosing the Young Lord, the Day of Seasoning (1978) ... Narrator (voice)
    1978 Night Creature - Axel MacGregor
    1978 The Bastard (TV Movie) - Solomon Sholto
    1978 Tomorrow Never Comes - Dr. Todd
    1978 Blood Relatives - James Doniac
    1978 The Defection of Simas Kudirka (TV Movie) - Captain Vladimir Popov
    1977 Telefon - Nicolai Dalchimsky
    1977 Oh, God! - Doctor Harmon
    1977 The Uncanny - Valentine De'ath (segment "Hollywood 1936")
    1977 Jesus of Nazareth (TV Mini-Series) - Melchior
    - Part 1 (1977) ... Melchior
    1976 Ubu roi (TV Movie) - Pa Ubu
    1976 The Eagle Has Landed - Himmler
    1976 Hindle Wakes (TV Movie) - Nat Jeffcote
    1976 The Last Tycoon - Boxley
    1976 The Passover Plot - Pontius Pilate
    1973-1976 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - George Livingston / Aaron / Bendel
    - The Mind Beyond: Meriel, the Ghost Girl (1976) ... George Livingston
    - The Cafeteria (1974) ... Aaron
    - The Joke (1973) ... Bendel
    1976 Glory Days - John Tyler Jones
    1976 Land of the Minotaur - Father Roche
    1976 A Dirty Knight's Work - Sir Giles Marley
    1976 Death of an Informer (TV Movie) - The man in the office
    1976 Peep Show (TV Series) - Max
    - Death (1976) ... Max
    1975 Performance (TV Series) - - The Captain of Kopenick (1975)
    1975 Shades of Greene (TV Series) - Puckler
    - The Root of All Evil (1975) ... Puckler
    1975 Hearts of the West - A.J. Nietz
    1975 Journey Into Fear - Kuvetli
    1975 Sharon's Baby - Dr. Finch
    1975 Escape to Witch Mountain - Deranian
    1975 The Count of Monte-Cristo (TV Movie) - Danglars
    1974 Barry McKenzie Holds His Own - Erich Count von Plasma
    1974 The Mutations - Professor Nolter
    1974 House of the Damned - Martin Zayas
    1974 Occupations (TV Movie) - Christo Kabak
    1974 The Black Windmill - Cedric Harper
    1974 Watch Out, We're Mad - The Doctor
    1974 From Beyond the Grave - Jim Underwood (segment 2 "An Act of Kindness")
    1973 The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water (TV Short) - The Spirit (voice)
    1973 Malachi's Cove - Malachi
    1973 Tales That Witness Madness - Tremayne (segment "Clinic Link Episodes")
    1973 Columbo (TV Series) - Adrian Carsini
    - Any Old Port in a Storm (1973) ... Adrian Carsini
    1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - Cawser
    - Captain Rogers (1973) ... Cawser
    1973 The Rainbow Boys - Ralph Logan
    1973 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Fred Smudge
    1972 Wedding in White - Jim Dougall, Sr.
    1972 Raw Meat - Inspector Calhoun
    1972 Police Surgeon (TV Series) - Jerry Hahn
    - Lady X (1972) ... Jerry Hahn
    1972 Innocent Bystanders - Loomis
    1972 Henry VIII and His Six Wives - Thomas Cromwell
    1972 The Man Outside (TV Series) - Victor Cobb
    - A Glass of Snake Wine (1972) ... Victor Cobb
    1972 The Pied Piper - Baron
    1972 The Jerusalem File - Major Samuels
    1972 Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) - Hans Vogler
    - The Ninety-Second War: Part II (1972) ... Hans Vogler
    1971 Kidnapped - Ebenezer Balfour
    1971 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Carnacki
    - The Horse of the Invisible (1971) ... Carnacki
    1971 Wake in Fright - Doc Tydon
    1971 THX 1138 - SEN
    1970 Confession (TV Series) - Sergeant Hurby
    - The Fell Sergeant (1970) ... Sergeant Hurby
    1970 Soldier Blue - Isaac Q. Cumber

    1969 Arthur? Arthur! - Arthur Brownjohn / Sir Easonby 'E' Mellon
    1969 The Madwoman of Chaillot - The Prospector
    1969 NBC Experiment in Television (TV Series) - - Pinter People (1969) ... (voice)
    1968 Creature of Comfort - James Thorne
    1968 The Other People - Clive - Elsa's father
    1968 Mr. Freedom - Dr. Freedom (as Don Pleasence)
    1967-1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - J.G. / Richard Pratt
    - The News-Benders (1968) ... J.G.
    - Taste (1967) ... Richard Pratt
    1967 Call Me Daddy (TV Movie) - Mr. Hoffman
    1967 Will Penny - Preacher Quint
    1967 The Diary of Anne Frank (TV Movie) - Albert Dussel
    1967 Matchless - Gregori Andreanu
    1967 You Only Live Twice - Blofeld
    1967 Eye of the Devil - Pere Dominic
    1957-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Ben Hoffman / Fred Watson / Arthur Gladwell / ...
    - Call Me Daddy (1967) ... Ben Hoffman
    - The Bandstand (1964)
    - The Cupboard (1960) ... Fred Watson
    - Small Fish Are Sweet (1959) ... Arthur Gladwell
    - A House of His Own (1959)
    1967 Seven Deadly Virtues (TV Series) - Buchanan
    - The Good & Faithful Servant (1967) ... Buchanan
    1967 The Night of the Generals - General Kahlenberge
    1966 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - The Head Waiter
    - The Head Waiter (1966) ... The Head Waiter
    1966 Fantastic Voyage - Dr. Michaels
    1966 Cul-de-sac - George
    1956-1966 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Supt. Smith / Barton Keyes / Henri Pincoff / ...
    - The Move After Checkmate (1966) ... Supt. Smith
    - Double Indemnity (1960) ... Barton Keyes
    - ... And Humanity (1958) ... Henri Pincoff
    - One (1956) ... Burden
    1966 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Max Pfeiffer
    - With Strings Attached (1966) ... Max Pfeiffer
    1965 Armchair Mystery Theatre (TV Series) - Ambrose
    - Ambrose (1965) ... Ambrose
    1965 The Hallelujah Trail - 'Oracle' Jones
    1965 The Defenders (TV Series) - Dr. Byron Saul
    - Fires of the Mind (1965) ... Dr. Byron Saul
    1965 The Greatest Story Ever Told - The Dark Hermit - Satan
    1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Escalon
    - The Liberators (1964) ... Escalon
    1963 The Outer Limits (TV Series) - Harold J. Finley
    - The Man with the Power (1963) ... Harold J. Finley
    1963 Dr. Crippen - Dr. Crippen
    1963 The Guest - Mac Davies / Bernard Jenkins
    1963 The Great Escape - Blythe 'The Forger'
    1962 The Hatchet Man (TV Movie) - Harry Laws, assistant to Curnic
    1962 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Professor Ellis Fowler
    - The Changing of the Guard (1962) ... Professor Ellis Fowler
    1962 Lisa - Sgt. Wolters
    1961 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - Captain Pinski
    - The Horsemasters: Tally Ho (1961) ... Captain Pinski
    - The Horsemasters: Follow Your Heart (1961) ... Captain Pinski
    1961 No Place Like Homicide! - Everett Sloane
    1961 Spare the Rod - Mr. Jenkins
    1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Harvey Laurence
    - The Confession (1961) ... Harvey Laurence
    1961 The Wind of Change - 'Pop' Marley
    1961 No Love for Johnnie - Roger Renfrew
    1960-1961 Danger Man (TV Series) - Nikolides / Captain Aldrich
    - Find and Return (1961) ... Nikolides
    - Position of Trust (1960) ... Captain Aldrich
    1960 A Story of David: The Hunted - Nabal
    1960 The Hands of Orlac - Graham Coates
    1960 Alice Through the Looking Box (TV Movie) - Caterpillar
    1960 The Risk - Parsons, alias Bill Brown
    1960 The Big Day - Victor Partridge
    1960 Interpol Calling (TV Series) - Karl Haussman
    - The Absent Assassin (1960) ... Karl Haussman
    1960 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Admiral Vespery
    - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin (1960) ... Admiral Vespery
    1960 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Potter
    - The Dodo (1960) ... Potter
    1960 Sons and Lovers - Pappleworth
    1960 Circus of Horrors - Vanet
    1960 Hell Is a City - Gus Hawkins
    1960 The Battle of the Sexes - Irwin Hoffman (as Donald Pleasance)
    1960 The Flesh and the Fiends - William Hare
    1960 The Shakedown - Jessel
    1960 The Four Just Men (TV Series) - Paul Koster
    - The Survivor (1960) ... Paul Koster

    1959 Killers of Kilimanjaro - Captain
    1956-1959 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Robert Robertson / Leonard Browne / Lenin / ...
    - The Silk Purse (1959) ... Robert Robertson
    - Mr. Browne Comes Home (1959) ... Leonard Browne
    - Blood on the Snow (1958) ... Lenin
    - Fate and Mister Browne (1958) ... Captain Browne
    - Chance Meeting (1956) ... Albert
    1952-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Doctor / The Foreign Minister / Syme / ...
    - The Millionairess (1959) ... Doctor
    - The Moment of Truth (1955) ... The Foreign Minister
    - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) ... Syme
    - Caesar's Friend (1954) ... Gamaliel
    - Such Men Are Dangerous (1954) ... Chamberlain
    6 episodes
    1959 The Traitor (TV Movie) - Grantley Caypor
    1959 William Tell (TV Series) - The Spider
    - The Spider (1959) ... The Spider (as Donald Pleasance)
    1959 Look Back in Anger - Hurst
    1959 The Scarf (TV Series) - Det. Insp. Harry Yates 6 episodes
    1958 Granite (TV Movie) - A nameless man
    1958 The Two-Headed Spy - General Hardt (as Donald Pleasance)
    1958 The Man Inside - Organ Grinder (as Donald Pleasance) - 6 episodes
    1958 The Wind Cannot Read - The Doctor
    1958 The Desk Set (TV Movie) - Kenny
    1958 Heart of a Child - Spiel
    1958 The Killing Stones (TV Series) - Jakob Kleiber
    - The Carefulness of Kleiber (1958) ... Jakob Kleiber
    1958 A Tale of Two Cities - Barsad
    1958 I Spy (TV Movie) - Mr. Frute
    1957 All at Sea - Cashier
    1957 Stowaway Girl - Evans
    1957 Assignment Foreign Legion (TV Series) - Commandant
    - The Coward (1957) ... Commandant
    1957 Decision Against Time - Crabtree
    1956 The Black Tent - Ali
    1956 1984 - R. Parsons (as Donald Pleasance)
    1956 Encounter (TV Series) - - We Must Kill Toni (1956)
    1955 On Camera (TV Series)
    - The Tell-Tale Heart (1955)
    1955 Value for Money - Limpy
    1955 The Grove Family (TV Series) - Monsieur Paul
    - Parlez-Vous Français? (1955) ... Monsieur Paul
    1954 Orders Are Orders - L / Cpl. Martin (as Donald Plesance)
    1954 The Face of Love (TV Movie) - Alex
    1954 The Runaway Slave (TV Movie) - Kidnapper
    1954 Montserrat (TV Movie) - Juan Alvarez
    1954 The Beachcomber - Tromp
    1954 The Coiners (TV Movie) - Mr. Chamberlayn
    1952 The Dybbuk (TV Movie) - Second batlon

    Writer (5 credits)

    1959 The Unforeseen (TV Series) (teleplay - 1 episode)
    - Vengeance (1959) ... (teleplay)
    1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
    - Ebb Tide (1959) ... (adaptation)
    1958 The Telltale Heart (TV Movie) (adapted by)
    1955 On Camera (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
    - The Tell-Tale Heart (1955) ... (adaptation)
    1954 Encounter (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode)
    - Ebb Tide (1954) ... (adaptation)

    Soundtrack (3 credits)
    1981 Treasure of the Yankee Zephyr (performer: "Beautiful Browneye" - uncredited)
    1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (performer: "I Want You (She's So Heavy)")
    1973 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) (performer: "Smudge's Song")

    Director (1 credit)
    1970 Zur Nacht (TV Series documentary) (1 episode)
    - Dialogue of actors - Versuch eines Schauspielerporträts (1970)
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    2020: No Time To Die airs a 30-second trailer #2 during Super Bowl LIV.

    2025: Groundhog Day in the US. And maybe worldwide at this point. All over again.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    February 3rd

    1926: Robert Edward McGinnis is born--Cincinnati, Ohio.

    1964: Daily Variety reports that actors considered for roles in Goldfinger included Theodore Bikel and Diane Cilento, Connery's wife at the time.
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    My Fair Lady (1964)
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    1970: Godfrey Argent photographs Sean Thomas Connery. 1976: Guatemalan television airs Casino Royale (1967) hours before an earthquake that kills thousands, earning its notoriety as La película de la noche anterior al terremoto (The Movie of the Night Before the Earthquake).

    2005: EON announces Martin Campbell will direct BOND 21, with the title Casino Royale.
    2012: BOND 23 filming has Daniel Craig running the streets of London, Tower Hill, on the way to M's hearing.
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    James Bond in Action on the Skyfall Set
    Coming Soon February 3, 2012

    Daniel Craig filmed scenes for the new James Bond movie, Skyfall, on February 3rd in London and we’ve got a gallery of photos from the shoot!
    Javier Bardem, Dame Judi Dench, Naomie Harris, Berenice Marlohe, Ralph Fiennes, Albert Finney, Ben Whishaw, Helen McCrory and Ola Rapace co-star in the November 9 release, directed by Sam Mendes. In Skyfall, Bond’s loyalty to M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost.

    (Photo Gallery Credit: Flynet UK/FameFlynet Pictures & WENN.com)
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    2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond #4 Vargr.
    Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.
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    JAMES BOND #4
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    Cover A: Dom Reardon
    Writer: Warren Ellis
    Art: Jason Masters
    Publication Date: 3 February 2016
    ON SALE DATE: February 3
    James Bond is alone in Berlin, with nothing but the clothes on his back and the gun in his hand. When help is offered from an unexpected source, Bond has no choice but to accept it - even though it may guarantee that he doesn't live through the night. Dynamite Entertainment proudly continues the first James Bond comic book series in over 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
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    2020: The Perth Mint announce James Bond coins.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    February 4th

    1962: The Sunday Times colour supplement publishes Ian Fleming's short story "The Living Daylights".
    The Daily Express objects, since they have rights to comic versions of Bond books and stories. Fleming works it out with them. The story later appears in Argosy as "Berlin Escape", June 1962. A 1966 comic version eventually runs in The Daily Express. And of course the story is published in the last Fleming book Octopussy and the Living Daylights, 1966.

    The Sunday Times Colour Section magazine - Jean Shrimpton cover (4 February 1962)
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    1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films James seducing Tracy.

    1983: Live and Let Die re-released in the Philippines.

    1989: 007 리빙 데이라이트 (lee-bing day-ee-lah-ee-teu; 007 Living Daylight) released in the Republic of Korea.
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    2012: Skyfall delays filming at Vauxhall Bridge due to snow.
    2015: Spectre films airplane action at Kartitsch, Austria.
    2021: Ralph Fiennes says he wants to continue in the M role.
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    Ralph Fiennes wants to keep playing M after 'No Time to Die'
    Tom Beasley·Contributor | Thu, 4 February 2021, 11:07 am·2 min read

    Ralph Fiennes is not keen to relinquish the keys to M’s swanky office after No Time to Die and would love to serve as the boss to Daniel Craig’s replacement.

    The 58-year-old star told Total Film he’d be keen to reprise the role again when the new James Bond is chosen.

    Fiennes first played MI6 official Mallory in the 2012 film Skyfall and took over the role of M when Judi Dench’s character was killed at the climax of the film.

    Following in the footsteps of Dench, Bernard Lee and Robert Brown, he presided over MI6 in the sequel Spectre and will be Bond’s boss once again when No Time to Die is finally able to arrive in cinemas.

    "If anyone from Eon Films is listening, I'm very keen to continue training the new Bond," Fiennes said.
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    M (Ralph Fiennes) and James Bond (Daniel Craig) in 'No Time to Die'.
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    He added: “I love playing M, and I love being part of that franchise. But who knows? Things have to change.

    “But I love working with Daniel. He's a terrific Bond. I will treasure that experience."

    Fiennes is currently promoting his work in Netflix drama The Dig, in which he plays self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown alongside Carey Mulligan as landowner Edith Pretty.

    The movie tells the story of Brown’s work to uncover an Anglo-Saxon burial ship buried beneath Pretty’s property at Sutton Hoo.

    The eventual find, which included the well-preserved ship and dozens of artefacts, is considered one of the most important archaeological achievements of all time.
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    As for Bond, No Time to Die has found itself hitting numerous stumbling blocks in the last year as a result of the coronavirus pandemic — after an already turbulent path to the big screen.

    The movie was the first major blockbuster to delay its release, which had originally been set for April 2020 and was shunted again in the autumn.

    After a third delay, No Time to Die is now due to arrive in UK cinemas on 8 October 2021.

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    February 5th

    1920: Rose Alba is born--Cairo, Egypt.
    (She dies January 2006 at age 85--London, England.)
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    Filmography
    Actress (30 credits)

    1983 Funny Money - Mrs. de Salle
    1981 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - Duchess
    - Landseer: A Victorian Comedy (1981) ... Duchess
    1980 City of Women (uncredited)
    1980 The Ghost Sonata (TV Movie) - Caretaker's wife

    1979 The Passage - Madame Alba
    1977 Lord Tramp (TV Series) - Lady Diana
    - Episode #1.6 (1977) ... Lady Diana
    1975 Hogg's Back (TV Series) - Dolores
    - Episode #1.7 (1975) ... Dolores
    1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Madama La Gata
    - Angie... Angie (1971) ... Madama La Gata
    1971 Foursome - Landlady

    1969 School for Sex - Countess of Burwash
    1968 The Saint (TV Series) - First Woman at Party
    - The Double Take (1968) ... First Woman at Party
    1968 The Ugliest Girl in Town (TV Series) - Sally Whitaker
    - The Ugliest Girl in Town (1968) ... Sally Whitaker
    1966 Court Martial (TV Series) - Rosetta
    - Let Slip the Dogs of War (1966) ... Rosetta
    1965 Thunderball - Madame Boitier
    1963 Eves on Skis (Short) - Elizabeth (voice)
    1961 Mary Had a Little... - Duchess of Addlecombe
    1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Nora
    - Eyewitness (1961) ... Nora
    1961 The Grand Junction Case (Short) - Colette
    1960 The Strange World of Gurney Slade (TV Mini-Series)
    - Episode #1.1 (1960)
    1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Woman in bar
    - Sparrow, Sparrow (1960) ... Woman in bar
    1960 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Mrs. Morris
    - A Man of Straw (1960) ... Mrs. Morris
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    1959 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Kathie Morgan
    - Episode #1.14 (1959) ... Kathie Morgan
    1959 Call Me Sam (TV Series) - - Episode #1.1 (1959)
    1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Maria / Operating Theatre Charge Nurse
    - Brian Rix Presents #6: Nap Hand (1959) ... Maria
    - No Deadly Medicine (1959) ... Operating Theatre Charge Nurse
    1959 Playbox (TV Series) - Rosita
    - Episode #4.9 (1959) ... Rosita
    1958 Television Playwright (TV Series) - Mrs. Dix
    - The Commentator (1958) ... Mrs. Dix
    1958 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Gina Neri / Dolores Infante
    - The Sins of Simone (1958)
    - Vendetta (1958) ... Gina Neri
    - Tragedy in a Temporary Town (1958) ... Dolores Infante
    1956 Home Is the Sailor (TV Movie) - Andrée Courbois
    1955 The Golden Falcon - Gertrude Montefalco
    1955 Shadow of a Man - Cabaret singer
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    1921: Klaus Hugo (Ken) Adam is born--Berlin, Germany.
    (He dies 10 March 2016 at age 95--London, England.)
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    Ken Adam, Who Dreamed Up the
    Lairs of Movie Villains, Dies at 95
    https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/12/movies/ken-adam-who-dreamed-up-the-lairs-of-movie-villains-dies-at-95.html
    By William Grimes | March 12, 2016
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    Mr. Adam’s production design work included the war room in the Stanley Kubrick film “Dr. Strangelove.”
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    Ken Adam, a production designer whose work on dozens of famous films included the fantasy sets that established the look of the James Bond series, the car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and, for Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove,” the sinister war room beneath the Pentagon, died on Thursday at his home in London. He was 95.

    His death was announced by a James Bond Twitter account run by MGM Studios and Eon Productions.

    Mr. Adam was hired by the producer Albert Broccoli, known as Cubby, to design the sets for the first Bond film, Dr. No, released in 1962. (The two had worked together on the 1960 film “The Trials of Oscar Wilde,” with Peter Finch and James Mason.) With a budget equivalent to about $300,000 today, Mr. Adam delivered the title character’s sleek, futuristic headquarters, his extravagant living room with wall-size aquarium and his creepy, grottolike laboratory.

    The combination of futurism and fantasy became a trademark of the Bond franchise. “Dr. No started a new approach,” Mr. Adam told The Guardian in 2002. “I think they realized that design, exotic locations, plus a tongue-in-cheek element were really successful, and so it became more and more that way.”

    In Goldfinger, the third movie in the series, Mr. Adam put Bond, played by Sean Connery, into an Aston Martin equipped with an ejector seat. He envisioned Fort Knox as a cathedral of gold.
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    Ken Adam, left, on the set of “Diamonds Are Forever,” with the actor Sean Connery.
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    With You Only Live Twice, the fifth Bond film, Mr. Adam had more than half the total budget at his disposal. He spent $1 million of it building a volcano that contained a secret military base operated by the international terrorist organization Spectre.

    “He was a brilliant visualizer of worlds we will never be able to visit ourselves,” Christopher Frayling, the author of two books on Mr. Adam, told the BBC in an article posted on Friday . “The war room under the Pentagon in ‘Dr. Strangelove,’ the interior of Fort Knox in Goldfinger — all sorts of interiors which, as members of the public, we are never going to get to see, but he created an image of them that was more real than real itself.”
    Mr. Adam, who was also the production designer for “The Ipcress File,” “Funeral in Berlin,” “Sleuth,” “The Seven Percent Solution,” “Agnes of God” and many other films, won an Oscar in 1976 for his work on “Barry Lyndon,” his second collaboration with Mr. Kubrick. He shared the award with Vernon Dixon and Roy Walker. He won his second Oscar, with Carolyn Scott, in 1995 for “The Madness of King George.”

    Klaus Hugo Adam was born on Feb. 5, 1921, in Berlin, where his father, Fritz, a former Prussian cavalry officer, helped run S. Adam, a famous sporting-goods store. Klaus attended the prestigious French Gymnasium before the family, which was Jewish, emigrated to London in 1934.

    In London he attended St. Paul’s School and became entranced by German Expressionist films, which he had not seen in Berlin. “They were so theatrical, these artists who dreamt up these fantastic dreamlike environments, and it struck a note with me,” he told The Sunday Telegraph in 2008.
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    Mr. Adam worked on seven films in the James Bond series, the last of which was Moonraker in 1979. Credit Eon Productions
    He studied at University College, London, to pursue architecture as a way of breaking into production design, heeding the advice of Vincent Korda, a brother of the film producer Alexander Korda and a resident of the Hampstead boardinghouse run by Mr. Adam’s mother, the former Lilli Saalfeld. He enrolled in the Bartlett School of Architecture.

    Shortly after the start of World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. In 1943 he took his place as a pilot flying long-range bombing missions over Europe. After the D-Day invasion, his squadron flew support missions for troops on the ground.

    He was hired as a draftsman on his first film, “This Was a Woman,” in 1948, and for the next several years worked on numerous films as an assistant art director. His work on “Around the World in 80 Days,” a 1956 film that won an Oscar for best picture, gave him cachet in the industry and elevated him to production designer for “Curse of the Demon,” a 1957 film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and “The Angry Hills,” a 1959 war drama starring Robert Mitchum and directed by Robert Aldrich.
    The Bond films — he worked on seven of them, the last of which was Moonraker, with Roger Moore as the superspy, in 1979 — put him in the front ranks of production designers.

    “To me, designing the villains’ bases was a combination of tongue-in-cheek and showing the power of these megalomaniacs,” he told The Guardian. “I think in the last Bond film I saw — although they’re brilliantly made action pictures, one chase after another — they lost the importance of the villain. I think the villain is just as important as Bond. But someone who simply wants to destroy an oil pipeline to me is just not sufficiently important as a villain.”
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    Mr. Adam won an Oscar in 1976 for his work on the film “Barry Lyndon.” Credit Hawk Films
    His Bond portfolio, along with his work on “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” and two spy thrillers with Michael Caine based on books by Len Deighton, “Funeral in Berlin” and “The Ipcress File,” qualified him as one of the great Cold War image-makers. The Victoria and Albert Museum honored that achievement in 1999 with the exhibition “Ken Adam: Designing the Cold War.”

    He described his relationship with the notoriously finicky and controlling Mr. Kubrick as creatively stimulating but dangerous to his mental health. “I was incredibly close with him,” Mr. Adam told BBC Radio’s World Service in 2013. “It was almost like an unhealthy love affair between us. And I had a breakdown eventually.”

    The collaboration produced some of his most memorable work, most notably the war room in “Dr. Strangelove,” which he conceived as a vast bomb shelter with an illuminated table in the center, suggestive of a nefarious game of poker in progress.

    The set inspired an accolade he treasured. “I was in the States giving a lecture to the Directors Guild when Steven Spielberg came up to me,” Mr. Adam told the BBC. “He said, ‘Ken, that war room set for “Strangelove” is the best set you ever designed.’ Five minutes later he came back and said, ‘No, it’s the best set that’s ever been designed.’ ”

    Mr. Adam, who was awarded a knighthood in 2003, is survived by his wife, the former Maria Letizia.

    Correction: March 15, 2016
    An obituary on Monday about the production designer Ken Adam misstated the surname of one of the people with whom he shared an Academy Award for his work on “Barry Lyndon.” He was Roy Walker, not Roy Scott. The obituary also referred incorrectly to Mr. Adam’s work as an assistant art director on “Around the World in 80 Days.” It was not uncredited. And the obituary described incorrectly the 1959 film “The Angry Hills,” on which he was production designer. It is a World War II drama, not a western.

    A version of this article appears in print on March 14, 2016, on Page A24 of the New York edition with the headline: Ken Adam, 95, Designer for ‘Dr. Strangelove’ and Bond Films, Dies.
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    Filmography
    Production designer (43 credits)
    2004 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (Video Game)
    2001 Taking Sides

    1999 The Out-of-Towners
    1997 In & Out
    1996 Bogus
    1995 Boys on the Side
    1994 The Madness of King George
    1993 Addams Family Values
    1993 Undercover Blues
    1991 Company Business
    1991 The Doctor
    1990 The Freshman

    1989 Dead Bang
    1988 The Deceivers
    1986 Crimes of the Heart
    1985 Agnes of God
    1985 King David
    1979 Moonraker
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me

    1976 The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
    1976 Salon Kitty
    1975 Barry Lyndon
    1973 The Last of Sheila
    1972 Sleuth
    1971 Diamonds Are Forever
    1969 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
    1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
    1967 You Only Live Twice

    1966 Funeral in Berlin
    1965 Thunderball
    1965 The Ipcress File
    1964 Goldfinger
    1964 Woman of Straw
    1964 Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
    1963 In the Cool of the Day (as Kenneth Adam)
    1962 Dr. No
    1962 Sodom and Gomorrah
    1960 The Trials of Oscar Wilde
    1960 Let's Get Married

    1959 Portrait of a Sinner
    1959 The Angry Hills
    1957 Curse of the Demon
    1956 Around the World in 80 Days (uncredited)

    Art department (19 credits)

    1981 Pennies from Heaven (visual consultant)

    1970 The Owl and the Pussycat (design supervisor)

    1959 Ben-Hur (assistant art director - uncredited)
    1958 Missiles from Hell (set designs)
    1956 Around the World in 80 Days (art director: London - as Ken Adams)
    1956 Helen of Troy (assistant art director)
    1954 Star of India (assistant art director - as Kenneth Adams)
    1953 The Intruder (assistant art director - uncredited)
    1953 The Master of Ballantrae (assistant art director - uncredited)
    1952 The Crimson Pirate (associate art director)
    1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (associate art director - uncredited)
    1950 Eye Witness (assistant art director - uncredited)

    1949 The Gay Adventure (draughtsman - uncredited)
    1949 The Hidden Room (assistant art director - uncredited)
    1949 Dick Barton Strikes Back (assistant art director - uncredited)
    1949 The Queen of Spades (draughtsman - uncredited)
    1949 Third Time Lucky (draughtsman - uncredited)
    1948 Brass Monkey (draughtsman - uncredited)
    1948 This Was a Woman (draughtsman)

    Art director (9 credits)

    2004 GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (Video Game)

    1960 In the Nick
    1959 Portrait of a Sinner
    1959 Web of Evidence
    1959 Ten Seconds to Hell
    1958 Gideon of Scotland Yard
    1957 The Devil's Pass (as Kenneth Adam)
    1956 Child in the House
    1956 Spin a Dark Web

    Miscellaneous Crew (6 credits)

    2012 America's Book of Secrets (TV Series documentary) (images courtesy of - 1 episode)
    - Fort Knox (2012) ... (images courtesy of - as Sir Ken Adam)
    2006 Moonraker: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (footage courtesy of)
    2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (footage provider)
    2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (footage provider)
    2006 You Only Live Twice: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (footage provider)
    2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) (footage provider)


    Camera and Electrical Department (4 credits)

    2006 Moonraker: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (camera operator)
    2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (camera operator)
    2006 Thunderball: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (camera operator)
    2006 You Only Live Twice: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) (camera operator)


    Actor (2 credits)

    1979 Moonraker - Man at St. Marks Square (uncredited)
    1970 The Owl and the Pussycat - Middle-Aged Man (uncredited)

    Producer (1 credit)

    1981 Pennies from Heaven (associate producer)
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    1958: The conversation between Bond and the Governor related in the story "Quantum of Solace" takes place. Bond had been on a mission since 29 January. As confirmed by the John Griswold book, Ian Fleming's James Bond: Annotations and Chronologies for Ian Fleming's Bond Stories.

    1964: Variety reports wrestling champion Togo (Harold Sakata) cast as Oddjob.
    1964: Mary Wickham Bond (with husband James ) visits Ian Fleming at Goldeneye.
    Ian Fleming inscribes a copy of You Only Live Twice for them:
    To
    The Real
    James Bond
    from the thief of
    his identity.
    Ian Fleming
    Feb. 5 . 1964
    (A great day!)

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    Author: Mary Wickham Bond
    Title: How 007 Got His Name
    Publisher: Collins
    Country: UK
    Date: 1966
    Format: Hardcover
    Genre: Non-Fiction, Biography
    Notes

    Written by the wife of American ornithologist James Bond.

    62, pages, with two photographic illustrations comprising a frontispiece portrait of the subject and Ian Fleming's only meeting with James Bond.

    Mary F. W. Bond, 1966.
    Printed in Great Britain. Collins Clear-Type Press, London and Glasgow.

    Book dimensions: Octavo (20 cm x 15cm). Clothbound in a pictorial dust-wrapper, designed by Barbosa, after Richard Chopping's designs for the jackets of the original 007 novels.

    The back of the dust-jacket bears a black and white photo of Ian Fleming's inscription to James Bond on the front free end paper of a British First Edition of Fleming's latest novel You Only Live Twice that he gave to Bond when they met in February 1964. In December 2008 the book was put up for auction, eventually fetching $84,000 (£56,000).

    The photographic illustrations are used with acknowledgement to the author and publisher, and are included here for educational purposes.

    Entry and Notes by JPGR&B, 24 April 2019.
    Comments and Reviews
    JPGR&B
    25th Apr 2019
    When ornithologist James Bond called in on Ian Fleming at Goldeneye on 5 February 1964, the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) were in the middle of interviewing the author. When he broke off to greet Mr and Mrs Bond, the cameras followed them outside. I have not been able to track down footage of this, but what follows in this clip is the CBC interviewer asking Fleming how he came about selecting a name for the hero of his books.
    Mrs. Bond's account of things.
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    1965: Goldfinger released in Sweden.
    Swedish insert 1964.
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    Re-release 1973.
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    2000: 007 ワールド・イズ・ノット・イナフ (Wārudo Izu notto inafu, 007 World Is Not Enough) released in Japan.
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    2015: Spectre filming at Pinewood Studios pauses due to Daniel Craig's sprained knee during a fight scene.

    2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Volume 3 #3.
    Eric Gapstur, artist. Vita Ayala & Danny Lore, writers.
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    Writer: Vita Ayala & Danny Lore
    Art: Eric Gapstur
    Cover A: Jim Cheung
    Genre: Action/Adventure
    Page Count: 32 Pages
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    The first arc concludes, from VITA AYALA (Morbius), DANNY LORE (Queen of Bad Dreams) and ERIC GAPSTUR (The Flash). Bond is in over his head. What started as a “punishment” assignment has expanded into a world of international crime that Bond can’t wrap his mind around. Will 007 accept that the mission is too big for one spy, and seek assistance…or will pride be his downfall?
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    2020: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: The Complete Warren Ellis Hardcover Omnibus.
    Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.
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    JAMES BOND: THE COMPLETE WARREN ELLIS HARDCOVER OMNIBUS
    https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1524115045
    5 February 2020
    Writers: Warren Ellis
    Art: Jason Masters, Dominic Reardon
    Cover: Dominic Reardon
    Genre: Spy Thriller, Action/Adventure
    Price: $39.99
    Format: Hardcover
    Page Count: 304 Pages
    ISBN-13: 978-1-5241-1504-3
    ON SALE DATE: 2/5/2020
    After a mission of vengeance in Helsinki, James Bond returns to London and assumes the workload of a fallen 00 Section agent. His new mission takes him to Berlin, presumably to break up an agile drug-trafficking operation. But Bond has no idea of the forces gathered in secret against him, the full scope of an operation that’s much scarier and more lethal than he could possibly imagine. Berlin is about to catch fire… and James Bond is trapped inside. Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents VARGR, the debut storyline in the all new James Bond comic book series, as crafted by masterful writer Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, The Authority) and artist Jason Masters (Batman Incorporated, Guardians of the Galaxy).

    James Bond is trapped in Los Angeles with a MI6 agent under fire and a foreign intelligence service trying to put them both in bags… and possibly more than one foreign intelligence service. And things may not be any safer in Britain, with bodies dropping and ghosts moving in the political mist…
    Contains James Bond #1-#12 (2015), Warren Ellis’ VARGR and EIDOLON story lines.
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    2020: Dynamite Entertainment re-releases James Bond Vargr #1 - Dynamite Dollar Edition.
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    JAMES BOND: VARGR #1 - DYNAMITE DOLLAR EDITION
    https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513028915501011
    5 February 2020
    Writer: Warren Ellis
    Art: Jason Masters
    Cover A: Dominic Reardon
    Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
    Price: $1.00
    Page Count: 32 Pages
    ON SALE DATE: 2/5/2020
    Get acquainted with Dynamite’s James Bond comic series by best-selling writer Warren Ellis with a Dynamite Dollar 1st Issue! 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…

    Ready for more after this initial sampling? Check out Dynamite’s JAMES BOND WARREN ELLIS OMNIBUS, also on sale this month!
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    2021: In Parade James Brolin comments on preparing to be 007 in Octopussy.
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    James Brolin Opens Up on Life
    With Barbra Streisand, Advice
    from Clint Eastwood and Almost
    Becoming James Bond
    February 5, 2021
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    (Gilles Toucas)
    You were supposed to star as James Bond in Octopussy [1983].

    What happened is that Roger Moore said he’d never do another Bond movie. So the producers asked me to go to London and start working out and do a screen test. It all went well and I was ready. Two weeks later, Roger agreed to go back. But it didn’t take me a long time to get over it because the whole thing was absurdly wonderful. I look at it as a gift.

    Was your Bond going to have an American accent?

    The producer, Cubby Broccoli, said he didn’t like the idea of it, but he suggested [that I work on] an accent that was somewhat stagy; it was mid-Atlantic, like someone on Broadway.
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    February 6th

    1922: Patrick Macnee is born--Paddington, London, England.
    (He dies 25 June 2015 at age 93--Rancho Mirage, California.)
    Patrick Macnee’s Biography
    See the complete article here:
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    Details of Patrick Macnee’s Life
    Patrick Macnee was born into an aristocratic English family — his Father was a successful racehorse trainer and his mother was the lovely Dorothea Hastings, a niece of the Earl of Huntingdon (descendants of Robin Hood!). His parents divorced after his father ran off to India and his mother moved into Rooksnest, a bizarre household in Wiltshire, dominated by his mother’s lady lover, the formidable “Uncle” Evelyn. At age three, he was bundled off to Summer Fields Prep School near Oxford. Patrick then entered Eton College, where apart from an active role with the school’s dramatic society, he distinguished himself as the leading bookie and pornographer on campus — and was promptly expelled.

    Macnee went on to win a scholarship to Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and got his start in show business in 1941 with a small role in a stage production of Little Women. One year later he made his debut in films as an extra in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

    After serving as an officer in His Majesty’s Royal Britannic Navy (1942-46), Patrick resumed his career in stage and film roles. Commuting between Britain, America and Canada, where he helped to pioneer Canadian TV, Macnee starred in over 30 television plays and more than a dozen feature films during the busy post-war years. Patrick was in Hollywood from 1957-1959 for Les Girls and Mission of Danger for MGM; his TV credits during this time included various Playhouse 90’s, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and numerous stage appearances across the country.

    In 1960 Macnee landed the leading role in an imaginative new British TV series The Avengers, playing John Steed, the suave, dashing Englishman with his bowler hat, rolled umbrella and fancy clothes. Overnight The Avengers became an international hit, Macnee’s popularity soared and both show and star enjoyed a cult-like status. His leading ladies included Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Joanna Lumley and Linda Thorson.
    His early major credits include Young Doctors in Love, James Bond’s A View To A Kill, Sea Wolves with David Niven, Gregory Peck and Roger Moore, Rob Reiner’s This Is Spinal Tap, and the television series, The New Avengers. For two years Macnee also starred in the Broadway production of Sleuth. He then performed the role in Canada and other U.S. cities.
    Numerous appearances on television series include Sherlock Holmes with Christopher Lee, HBO’s Dream On and 26 episodes of Thunder in Paradise with Hulk Hogan. He currently hosts the Sci-Fi Channel’s popular program Mysteries, Magic and Miracles.

    One of his great pleasures these days is recording books on tape. Recent recordings include the Bible, eight of Jack Higgins’ thrillers and Peter Mayle’s Toujours Provence. Patrick’s entertaining autobiography, Blind In One Ear, was published in 1992.

    His latest book is a memoir, The Avengers: The Inside Story, which was re-published by Titan Books in January 2008, and is a companion to the digitally remastered home videos of the The Avengers and The New Avengers. Since their original release in 1998, the home videos, with episodes starring Honor Blackman, Diana Rigg, Linda Thorson, Joanna Lumley and Gareth Hunt have all ranked high on the Billboard Top 40 charts.

    After nearly 40 years on television, The Avengers came to the big screen with Ralph Fiennes in the role of John Steed. Carrying on the suave style created by Patrick Macnee, the new Steed continued to wear a bowler hat and carry a furled umbrella, but did not — to Macnee’s delight — carry a gun.

    In his spare time Patrick enjoys bird-watching, desert reclamation, and preventing terrorism! (He received an award from the Bureau of Federal Aviation for preventing terrorism on aircraft). Also, The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror has honored Patrick with their prestigious Golden Scroll award. A born raconteur, Patrick delights in entertaining audiences large and small.
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    Patrick Macnee (1922–2015)
    https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001495/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

    Filmography
    Actor (174 credits)

    2003 The Low Budget Time Machine - Dr. Ballard
    2001 Frasier (TV Series) - Cecil Hedley
    - The Show Must Go Off (2001) ... Cecil Hedley
    2000 Family Law (TV Series) - Sir Thomas Matthews
    - Second Chance (2000) ... Sir Thomas Matthews

    1999 Nancherrow (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Awliscombe
    - Episode #1.2 (1999) ... Lord Awliscombe
    - Episode #1.1 (1999) ... Lord Awliscombe
    1997-1998 Spy Game (TV Series) - Dr. Quentin / Mr. Black
    - How Diplomatic of You (1998) ... Dr. Quentin
    - Go, Girl (1998) ... Dr. Quentin
    - Why Spy? (1997) ... Mr. Black
    1998 The Avengers - Invisible Jones (voice)
    1997-1998 NightMan (TV Series) - Dr. Walton - 6 episodes
    1997 NightMan (TV Movie) - Dr. Walton
    1997 Diagnosis Murder (TV Series) - John Garrison
    - Discards (1997) ... John Garrison
    1996 Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger (Video short) - Chauffeur
    1995 Thunder in Paradise 3 (Video) - Edward Whitaker
    1994 Thunder in Paradise II (Video) - Edward Whitaker
    1994 Thunder in Paradise (TV Series) - Edward Whitaker - 22 episodes
    1993-1994 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues (TV Series) - Steadman
    - Dragonswing II (1994) ... Steadman
    - Dragonswing (1993) ... Steadman
    1993 Thunder in Paradise (Video) - Edward Whitaker
    1993 The Hound of London (TV Movie) - Sherlock Holmes
    1993 Jack's Place (TV Series) - Henry
    - Faithful Henry (1993) ... Henry
    1992 Twenty-Four Robbers (Short) - Narrator (segment "Big Hungry Bear") (voice)
    1992 Coach (TV Series) - Mr. Thind
    - Dresswreckers (1992) ... Mr. Thind
    1985-1992 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Dayton Whiting / Oliver Trumbull
    - The Dead File (1992) ... Dayton Whiting (as Patrick MacNee)
    - Sing a Song of Murder (1985) ... Oliver Trumbull
    1992 Dream On (TV Series) - Elliot Sterns
    - B.S. Elliot (1992) ... Elliot Sterns
    1990-1992 Super Force (TV Series) - E.B. Hungerford / E. B. Hungerford - 48 episodes
    1992 Waxwork II: Lost in Time - Sir Wilfred
    1992 Sherlock Holmes: Incident at Victoria Falls (TV Movie) - Dr. John Watson
    1991 P.S.I. Luv U (TV Series) - Uncle Ray Bailey
    - I'd Kill to Direct (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey
    - Diamonds Are a Girl's Worst Friend (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey
    - Smile, You're Dead (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey
    - Pilot (1991) ... Uncle Ray Bailey (as Patrick MacNee)
    1991 Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (TV Movie) - Dr. Watson
    1991 The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw (TV Movie) - Sir Colin
    1991 Eye of the Widow - Andrew Marcus
    1990 Super Force (TV Movie) - E.B. Hungerford
    1990 The Ray Bradbury Theatre (TV Series) - Stendahl
    - Usher II (1990) ... Stendahl

    1989 Chill Factor - Carl Lawton
    1989 Dick Francis: Twice Shy (TV Movie) - Geoffrey Keeble
    1989 The Return of Sam McCloud (TV Movie) - Tom Jamison
    1989 Masque of the Red Death - Machiavel
    1989 Dick Francis: Blood Sport (TV Movie) - Geoffrey Keeble
    1989 Sorry, Wrong Number (TV Movie) - Nigel Evans
    1989 Where There's a Will (TV Movie) - Charles Crow-Finch
    1989 Around the World in 80 Days (TV Mini-Series) - Ralph Gautier
    - Episode #1.3 (1989) ... Ralph Gautier
    - Episode #1.2 (1989) ... Ralph Gautier
    - Episode #1.1 (1989) ... Ralph Gautier
    1989 Lobster Man from Mars - Professor Plocostomos
    1989 War of the Worlds (TV Series) - Valery Kedrov
    - Epiphany (1989) ... Valery Kedrov
    1988 Murphy's Law (TV Series) - Frank Houlighan
    - Do Someone a Favor and It Becomes Your Job (1988) ... Frank Houlighan
    1988 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Thaddeus
    - Survival of the Fittest (1988) ... Thaddeus
    1988 Transformations - Father Christopher
    1988 Waxwork - Sir Wilfred
    1985-1986 Lime Street (TV Series)
    Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
    - The Three Million Dollar Spirit (1986) ... Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
    - The Wayward Train (1985) ... Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
    - The Mystery of Flight 401 (1985) ... Sir Geoffrey Rimbatten
    1986 Blacke's Magic (TV Series) - Beechum
    - It's a Jungle Out There (1986) ... Beechum
    1986 Mary (TV Series) - Burke
    - Beans (1986) ... Burke
    1986 Club Med (TV Movie) - Gilbert Anthony Paige
    1985 Shadey - Sir Cyril Landau
    1985 Hotel (TV Series) - Edmund Bradshaw
    - Hearts and Minds (1985) ... Edmund Bradshaw
    1985 A View to a Kill - Tibbett
    1984 The Love Boat (TV Series) - David Blake
    - The Last Heist/Starting Over/Watching the Master (1984) ... David Blake
    1984 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Matthew Grade
    - Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1984) ... Matthew Grade
    1984 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - David Worth / Chee / Chinese Doctor
    - Holmes Is Where the Heart Is (1984) ... David Worth / Chee / Chinese Doctor
    1984 This Is Spinal Tap - Sir Denis Eton-Hogg (as Patrick MacNee)
    1984 Empire (TV Series) - Calvin Cromwell - 6 episodes
    1983 For the Term of His Natural Life (TV Mini-Series) - Major Vickers
    - Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Major Vickers
    - Episode #1.1 (1983) ... Major Vickers
    1983 Likely Stories, Vol. 2 (TV Movie) - Doctor Bloom (segment "School, Girls & You!")
    1983 Automan (TV Series) - Lydell Hamilton
    - Automan (1983) ... Lydell Hamilton
    1983 The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair (TV Movie) - Sir John Raleigh
    1982-1983 Gavilan (TV Series) - Milo Bentley - 9 episodes
    1983 Sweet Sixteen - Dr. John Morgan
    1982 Young Doctors in Love - Jacobs
    1982 Rehearsal for Murder (TV Movie) - David Mathews
    1981 House Calls (TV Series) - Uncle Digby
    - Uncle Digby (1981) ... Uncle Digby
    1981 The Creature Wasn't Nice - Dr. Stark
    1981 The Hot Touch - Vincent Reyblack
    1981 Comedy of Horrors (TV Movie) - Host
    1981 Dick Turpin (TV Series) - Lord Melford
    - Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 5 (1981) ... Lord Melford
    - Dick Turpin's Greatest Adventure: Part 1 (1981) ... Lord Melford
    1981 The Howling - Dr. George Waggner
    1981 Vega$ (TV Series) - Lyle Jeffries
    - Murder by Mirrors (1981) ... Lyle Jeffries
    1980 The Sea Wolves - Major Yogi Crossley
    1980 The Littlest Hobo (TV Series) - Elmer
    - Diamonds Are a Dog's Best Friend (1980) ... Elmer

    1979 King Solomon's Treasure - Capt. Good R.N.
    1979 The Fantastic Seven (TV Movie) - Boudreau
    1979 The Billion Dollar Threat (TV Movie) - Horatio Black
    1979 Sweepstakes (TV Series) - Rodney
    - Episode #1.3 (1979) ... Rodney
    1978-1979 Battlestar Galactica (TV Series) - Imperious Leader / Count Iblis / Opening Credit Announcer
    - War of the Gods: Part 2 (1979) ... Count Iblis
    - War of the Gods: Part 1 (1979) ... Count Iblis
    - The Living Legend: Part 2 (1978) ... Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
    - Lost Planet of the Gods: Part 1 (1978) ... Opening Credit Announcer / Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
    - Saga of a Star World (1978) ... Opening Credit Announcer / Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
    1978 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries (TV Series) - S
    - Assault on the Tower (1978) ... S
    1978 Evening in Byzantium (TV Mini-Series) - Ian Waldeigh
    - Part II (1978) ... Ian Waldeigh
    - Part I (1978) ... Ian Waldeigh
    1978 Battlestar Galactica - Imperious Leader (voice, uncredited)
    1976-1977 The New Avengers (TV Series) - John Steed - 26 episodes
    1977 Dead of Night (TV Movie) - Dr. Gheria (segment "No Such Thing as a Vampire") (as Patrick MacNee)
    1976 Sherlock Holmes in New York (TV Movie) - Dr. Watson
    1975 Matt Helm (TV Series) - Shawcross
    - Matt Helm (1975) ... Shawcross
    1975 Caribe (TV Series) - Hendy
    - The Patriots (1975) ... Hendy
    1975 Khan! (TV Series) - Marcus Graham
    - A Game of Terror (1975) ... Marcus Graham
    1975 Columbo (TV Series) - Capt. Gibbon
    - Troubled Waters (1975) ... Capt. Gibbon
    1974 Dial M for Murder (TV Series) - Wag Frazer
    - Frame (1974) ... Wag Frazer
    1974 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - Charles Foster
    - A Time to Remember (1974) ... Charles Foster
    1973 Diana (TV Series) - Bryan Harris
    - You Can't Go Back (1973) ... Bryan Harris
    1972 The Woman I Love (TV Movie) - Lord Brownlow
    1971 Night Gallery (TV Series) - Major Crosby (segment "Logoda's Heads")
    - The Different Ones/Tell David.../Logoda's Heads (1971) ... Major Crosby (segment "Logoda's Heads")
    1971 Incense for the Damned - Derek Longbow
    1971 Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) - Norman Alexander
    - The Man Who Murdered Himself (1971) ... Norman Alexander
    1970 Mister Jerico (TV Movie) - Dudley
    1970 The Virginian (TV Series) - Connor
    - A King's Ransom (1970) ... Connor

    1961-1969 The Avengers (TV Series) - John Steed / Basil - 161 episodes
    1960-1966 Armchair Theatre (TV Series)
    Arthur / Algernon Moncrieff / David Manning
    - The Long Nightmare (1966) ... Arthur
    - The Importance of Being Earnest (1964) ... Algernon Moncrieff
    - The Innocent (1960) ... David Manning
    1966 Conflict (TV Series) - Thomas Mendip
    - The Lady's Not for Burning (1966) ... Thomas Mendip
    1964-1966 Love Story (TV Series) - Richard Page / Crawford / Alan
    - The Small Hours (1966) ... Richard Page
    - I Love, You Love, We Love (1964) ... Crawford
    - Divorce, Divorce (1964) ... Alan
    1964 NET Playhouse (TV Series) - Algernon Moncrieff
    - The Importance of Being Earnest (1964) ... Algernon Moncrieff
    1964 Thursday Theatre (TV Series) - Captain Carvallo
    - Captain Carvallo (1964) ... Captain Carvallo
    1962 The Winter's Tale (TV Movie) - Polixenes
    1960 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Keith Salesby
    - Lucky Strike (1960) ... Keith Salesby
    1952-1960 Encounter (TV Series) - Police Sergeant Pine / Kesson / Mr. Darcy / ... - 29 episodes
    1960 The Hill (TV Movie) - Centurion
    1960 Startime (TV Series) - Algernon Moncrieff / Frank Hunter
    - The Importance of Being Earnest (1960) ... Algernon Moncrieff
    - The Browning Version (1960) ... Frank Hunter
    1960 The Unforeseen (TV Series) - Cyrus
    - The Tintype (1960) ... Cyrus
    1960/I Shadow of a Pale Horse (TV Movie) - Kirk

    1959 Adventures in Paradise (TV Series) - Colonel O'Neill
    - The Bamboo Curtain (1959) ... Colonel O'Neill
    1959 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - First Officer McLeod
    - Judgment Night (1959) ... First Officer McLeod
    1958-1959 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Johnny / An attorney
    - Misalliance (1959) ... Johnny
    - Verdict of Three (1958) ... An attorney
    1959 The Magical World of Disney (TV Series) - British Captain
    - The Swamp Fox: Brother Against Brother (1959) ... British Captain (as Patrick MacNee)
    - The Swamp Fox: The Birth of the Swamp Fox (1959) ... British Captain
    1959 Rawhide (TV Series) - Henry Watkins
    - Incident of the 13th Man (1959) ... Henry Watkins
    1959 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Professor Kersley / Sgt. John Theron
    - The Crystal Trench (1959) ... Professor Kersley
    - Arthur (1959) ... Sgt. John Theron
    1959 Markham (TV Series) - John White
    - The Counterfeit Stamps (1959) ... John White
    1959 General Electric Theater (TV Series) - Gilbert Burns
    - Robbie and His Mary (1959) ... Gilbert Burns
    1955-1959 Folio (TV Series) - Captain John Tregarthen / Macduff
    - Iron Harp (1959) ... Captain John Tregarthen
    - Macbeth (1955) ... Macduff
    1959 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Eric Farley
    - Night of April 14th (1959) ... Eric Farley
    1959 Black Saddle (TV Series) - Michael Kent
    - Client: McQueen (1959) ... Michael Kent (as Patrick MacNee)
    1959 The United States Steel Hour (TV Series) - Gilbert Farleigh
    - Dangerous Interlude (1959) ... Gilbert Farleigh
    1958 The Veil (TV Mini-Series) - Constable Hawton
    - Vision of Crime (1958) ... Constable Hawton
    1958 Alcoa Theatre (TV Series) - Sergeant Shaw
    - Strange Occurrence at Rokesay (1958) ... Sergeant Shaw
    1958 Northwest Passage (TV Series) - Colonel Trent
    - The Red Coat (1958) ... Colonel Trent
    1958 Studio One in Hollywood (TV Series) - Bill Cheever
    - Man Under Glass (1958) ... Bill Cheever
    1956-1958 Kraft Theatre (TV Series) - Mr. Andrews / Wealthy Playboy / Reginald Urquart - 6 episodes
    1956-1958 Matinee Theatre (TV Series) Don Pedro / Duke of Winterset / John Smith / ... - 9 episodes
    1958 Suspicion (TV Series) - Captain John Biersdorf
    - Voice in the Night (1958) ... Captain John Biersdorf
    1955-1958 On Camera (TV Series) - Lieutenant Honeywell / George / Henty / ... - 9 episodes
    1958 Schlitz Playhouse (TV Series) - Lt. Charles Daurigny
    - No Boat for Four Months (1958) ... Lt. Charles Daurigny
    1957 Until They Sail - Pvt. Duff (scenes deleted)
    1957 First Performance (TV Series) - Julian Shaw
    - Seeds of Power (1957) ... Julian Shaw
    1957 Les Girls - Sir Percy
    1957 Pacific 13 (TV Series) - Famous Young Writer
    - Child Wife (1957) ... Famous Young Writer
    - The Transient Guest (1957)
    1956 Pursuit of the Graf Spee - Lieutenant Commander Medley R.N.
    1956 The Alcoa Hour (TV Series) - Charlie
    - The Piper of St. James (1956) ... Charlie
    1956 Playwrights '56 (TV Series) - Guy Cartwright
    - Keyhole (1956) ... Guy Cartwright
    1956 Star Tonight (TV Series) - - The Girl (1956)
    1956 Armstrong Circle Theatre (TV Series) - Quayle
    - The Case of Colonel Petrov (1956) ... Quayle
    1956 Producers' Showcase (TV Series) - Lucius Septimus
    - Caesar and Cleopatra (1956) ... Lucius Septimus
    1955 CBC Summer Theatre (TV Series) - Don Juan / Captain Carvallo
    - The Return of Don Juan (1955) ... Don Juan
    - Captain Carvallo (1955) ... Captain Carvallo
    1955 Scope (TV Series) - Horatio
    - Hamlet (1955) ... Horatio
    - The Verdict Was Treason (1955)
    1955 Three Cases of Murder - Guard Subaltern (uncredited)
    1953/II The Affair at Assino (TV Movie)
    1950-1953 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series)
    Lodovico / Captain Marchant / Peter / ... - 6 episodes
    1952-1953 Tales of Adventure (TV Series) - Roger Sudden - 12 episodes
    1951 Nocturne in Scotland (TV Movie) - Duke of Argyll
    1951 A Christmas Carol - Young Jacob Marley (as Patrick MacNee)
    1951 Flesh and Blood - Sutherland
    1950 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie)
    1950 The Fighting Pimpernel - Hon. John Bristow
    1950 Dick Barton at Bay - Phillips (as Patrick McNee)
    1950 Seven Days to Noon - Bit Part (uncredited)
    1950 The Girl Is Mine - Hugh Hurcombe
    1950 Ten Minute Alibi (TV Movie) - Colin Derwent

    1949 Myself a Stranger (TV Movie) - Dick Tumbull
    1949 All Over the Town - Mr. Vince (uncredited)
    1949 Macbeth/II (TV Movie) - Malcolm
    1949 Macbeth (TV Movie) - Malcolm
    1949 Hour of Glory - Man at Committee Meeting (uncredited)
    1948 Hamlet - Extra (uncredited)
    1948 The Fatal Night - Tony
    1948 Wuthering Heights (TV Movie) - Edgar Linton
    1947 Hamlet Part 2/II (TV Movie) - Laertes
    1947 Hamlet Part 2 (TV Movie) - Laertes
    1947 Hamlet Part 1/II (TV Movie) - Laertes
    1947 Hamlet Part 1 (TV Movie) - Laertes
    1947 The Brontes (TV Movie) - Rev. William Weightman
    1947 A Month in the Country (TV Movie) - Beliaev
    1946 Arms and the Man (TV Movie) - An officer
    1946 Morning Departure (TV Movie) - Stoker Marks (credit only)
    1943 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Extra (uncredited)
    1938 Pygmalion - Extra (uncredited)

    Costume and Wardrobe Department (1 credit)

    The Avengers (TV Series) (wardrobe designer - 23 episodes, 1968 - 1969) (wardrobe - 1 episode, 1968) - 24 episodes

    Soundtrack (4 credits)

    1990 The ITV Chart Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode dated 1 December 1990 (1990) ... (performer: "Kinky Boots")
    1990 Top of the Pops (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode dated 29 November 1990 (1990) ... (performer: "Kinky Boots")

    1970 Die Rudi Carrell Show (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Treppen (1970) ... (performer: "Mit Schirm und mit Charme und Melone" - uncredited)

    1965 The Avengers (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Too Many Christmas Trees (1965) ... (performer: "The Grand Old Duke of York", "Green Grow the Rushes, O" - uncredited)

    Producer (1 credit)

    1960 Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (TV Series documentary) (producer - 1960-1961)
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    1944: Maud Russell writes in her diary about Ian Fleming.
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    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/
    Sunday 6 February, 1944

    Yesterday I. came to dinner, looking well and busy with a dream, the
    dream being a house on a mountain slope in Jamaica after the war.

    1952: Succeeding George VI, Elizabeth II begins her reign as Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms.

    1969: The Australian Women's Weekly reports on George Lazenby returning to see family in Australia.
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    HE'S AT HOME
    Home Newspapers & Gazettes Browse The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982)
    Wed 6 Aug 1969
    Page 7
    JAMES BOND—WHEN HE'S AT HOME
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    007 IN ACTION (right). George Lazenby and Catherine von
    Schnell [sic] filming "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" in London.

    GEORGE LAZENBY, the new James Bond, with his family outside his parents' home at Queanbeyan, N.S.W. From left, George,
    his sister, Barbara Varga, parents Mr. and Mrs. George Lazenby, brother-in-law Louis Varga, nephew and niece Louis and Georgina.
    By
    GLORIA NEWTON
    MR. AND MRS.
    GEORGE LAZ-
    ENBY told me they
    were bewildered, they
    were confused, but they
    were also the happiest
    and proudest parents in
    the whole, wide world.
    Their son was home with
    them in Queanbeyan,
    N.S.W., for the first time in
    five years. The night before
    they had gone with him to
    a civic reception at the
    Queanbeyan Council Cham-
    bers and then on to a dinner
    at the Leagues Club, where
    young George had been
    presented with a book on
    the town's history and a
    James Bond attache case.

    "So you can just imagine
    how we felt last night, sitting
    there and watching all these
    people honoring young
    George," said Mr. Lazenby
    father of Australia's James
    Bond.

    We were so proud, so
    happy we thought we would
    burst."

    Young George was not at
    home when I arrived at the
    modest Lazenby home. He
    had gone out early that
    morning, his attractive
    blonde mother told me, but
    was expected bark soon.

    "That phone," she said, as
    she excitedly handed me a
    pile of photographs of her
    son, "hasn't stopped ringing
    since George came home. I
    just had to take it off the
    hook now and then to rest.
    "I went through three
    message pads just like that!
    Do you know I counted over
    700 messages that my hus-
    Australian 007 with family in Queanbeyan
    band and I took in the past
    two weeks?

    "And then the doorbell
    goes all day long, with chil-
    dren bringing along their
    autograph books for George
    to sign. I have a pile of them
    over on the sideboard now.
    I must remember to get him
    to sign them tonight.

    "Oh, believe me, our life
    has been pretty hectic since
    George came home. But soon
    it will be over.

    "He is going back to Syd-
    ney to see an uncle and his
    Nana before he flies off to
    Honolulu.

    "Have we any plans for a
    trip to England? Well, no,
    not really. I'm not very keen
    on travelling, but it would
    be nice to go there just for
    a holiday. Perhaps we will
    think about it."

    Mr. Lazenby, standing with
    his back to the fireplace, took
    over.

    "You know, when he sold
    his car and went off to Eng-
    land five years ago, I didn't
    like it, didn't like it at all.
    In fact, I was against it.
    "But that boy did well
    from the minute he arrived,
    and he did it all on his own.
    That's the sort of thing that
    makes any parents proud of
    a son."

    Mr. Lazenby, who is chief
    film officer at the Canberra
    National Library, and his
    wife, who has been in
    charge of the footwear
    department of a Queanbeyan
    store for many years, said
    they had always been a
    "pretty close" family.
    Their attractive daughter,
    Barbara, her husband, Louis
    Varga, a car salesman, and
    their two children live in a
    house in the next block.
    "So we see them nearly
    every day," said Mr.
    Lazenby. He added ruefully,
    "Georgie is the only one
    that got away from us."
    The noise of the kitchen
    door opening brought Mrs.
    Lazenby to her feet.
    "Here he is now, here's
    George."

    A pair of inquiring eyes
    appeared around the door
    and George Lazenby, more
    than 6ft. tall, better looking
    than any photograph of
    him I had seen, loped into
    the room with the vitality of
    a panther to kiss his mother
    on the cheek and explain
    that he had been driving
    round seeing old friends.

    The dark-haired, hand-
    some, 29-year-old bachelor,
    ex-mechanic, ex-car sales-
    man, ex-model, who not
    long before had finished his
    first James Bond film, "On
    Her Majesty's Secret Ser-
    vice
    ," has all the assurance
    of a veteran film star.
    He has a deep, husky,
    masculine voice and, when
    he speaks, it is with the
    authority of the successful.
    And when introductions
    were over and he retired to
    change his shirt and brush his
    teeth the room suddenly
    seemed empty without his
    dominating personality.

    When the phone shrilled
    and his father, who answered
    it, called to George that it
    was a television company on
    the phone, it was James
    Bond who walked into the
    room to sprawl languidly in
    an armchair to answer it.
    And from the tone of his
    voice it could have been 007
    arranging a coming danger-
    ous assignment instead of an
    impending appearance as a
    guest on a Sydney night show.
    The arrangements, made in
    staccato sentences, were con-
    cluded quickly and briskly.

    "Right," he said as he
    put the phone back on the
    hook and leapt to his feet.
    "Where do you want to take
    the photographs?"

    "Tell me," I asked as he
    posed, "does playing James
    Bond make you feel a little
    like the character when you
    return to normal life?"
    His tigerish yellow-brown
    eyes looked directly into
    mine.

    "Not at all," he said
    matter-of-factly. "I am an
    actor. But, then, I suppose
    there is a little of 007 in
    every man.

    "Was the Bond film my
    first acting experience? Yes.
    "Did I feel nervous, was I
    afraid I might fail? No. I
    have never been afraid of
    failure."

    Early this year, just after
    starting filming the James
    Bond picture, he told a Lon-
    don reporter that he had
    made a happy discovery. "I
    am James Bond," he said.
    "Well, let's say our person-
    alities are similar. I suppose
    nobody could be entirely like
    that."

    After Sean Connery bowed
    out of the Bond films to seek
    fresh fields, George was
    chosen from 300 for the role.
    He will soon sign for the
    next 007 film, "Man With
    the Golden Gun
    ."
    "On Her Majesty's Secret
    Service
    " will be released in
    Sydney in December.
    After we had said our
    goodbyes to the Lazenby
    family I thought of the Ned
    Kelly film being made
    nearby.

    For my part, George would
    have invested Ned with so
    much glamor that the cele-
    brated bushranger would
    have become the world's
    pin-up boy.
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    2002: Die Another Day films OO7 fighting Zao at the Alvarez Clinic.
    2008: Mythbusters airs its James Bond Special Part 2 (Season 6, Episode 4).
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    James Bond Special: Part 2
    Season 6, Episode 4
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1177695/?ref_=ttep_ep4
    MythBusters (2003)
    The Mythbusters dedicate this one-hour special to the ultimate action hero: James Bond. They put the gadgets and stunts to the test leaving them shaken, not stirred.
    Cast & crew
    Directed by

    Alice Dallow
    Tabitha Lentle
    Cast (in credits order)
    Jamie Hyneman ... Self - Host
    Adam Savage ... Self - Host
    Tory Belleci ... Self - Host
    Grant Imahara ... Self - Host
    Kari Byron ... Self - Host
    Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
    Robert Lee ... Narrator (voice)
    Mythbusters propane tank james bond pt 2


    Disclaimer: to recreate the QOS explosion from the PTS, reality dictates firing a bullet/tracer at its weakest point, meaning the top cap or gauge if installed. Then the released pressure of the compressed gas (propane, very flammable) engulfs the likely faulty wiring and ignites to generate the explosion they eventually created using explosives to rupture the cylinder wall. RTB

    2012: Skyfall reaches #7 on the list of top film box office grosses.
    2015: Three days of filming begins at "Bond chapel" (Bacher Kapelle zur Schwarzen Madonna/Bacher Chapel of the Black Madonna) in Austria.
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    2015: 87-year-old former Bond actor Roger Moore acknowledges Daniel Craig's injury on the BOND 24 set.
    "Sorry to hear Daniel Craig has sprained his knee on set of #Spectre...
    Being 007 is not without its hazards.
    I'm available to step in if needed."


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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    2017: Alec McCowen dies at age 91--London, England.
    (Born 26 May 1925--Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England.)
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    Obituary: Alec McCowen
    by Michael Quinn - Feb 17, 2017
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    Alec McCowen in The Tempest at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1993.
    Photo: Marilyn Kingwill Actor Alec McCowen, 91.
    Few actors were as consistently intelligent and engagingly relaxed on stage and screen as Alec McCowen. They were qualities that shone through a career encompassing the classics and contemporary work and that lit up his two remarkable one-man plays – St Mark’s Gospel (1978) and Kipling (1983).

    Both pieces enjoyed runs in the West End and on Broadway, the former – a vivid account from the King James’ Bible – boasted “theatrical merits past telling” according to The Stage, while the latter, a portrait of the Edwardian poet written by Brian Clark, was “a personal triumph” for McCowen.

    Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, to devout evangelical parents, he made his professional debut as Micky in Paddy the Next Best Thing with Macclesfield Rep in 1942 while still a student at RADA. He spent the war in India and Burma performing with the military’s Entertainments National Service Association.

    His first London appearance was as Maxim in Anton Chekhov’s Ivanov (Arts Theatre, 1950) and he made an impression at the same venue in 1952 as Hugh Voysey in The Voysey Inheritance. A run of successful roles that included Daventry (Roger MacDougall’s Escapade, St James’s Theatre, 1953), Barnaby Tucker (Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker, Haymarket Theatre, 1954) and Dr Bird (Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Hippodrome Theatre, 1956) soon saw him rising through the ranks.
    He became a regular with London’s Old Vic in the 1960s, making his debut as the Dauphin – “the most striking and interesting… since Alec Guinness” said The Stage – in George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan and as Mercutio to Judi Dench’s Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet, before going on to play Algernon, Richard II, Oberon and Malvolio.
    With the Royal Shakespeare Company, McCowen was a knowing Fool to Paul Scofield’s King Lear in Peter Brook’s austere 1962 production, contrasting its severity with the comic relish of Antiphonus in the same year’s The Comedy of Errors.

    Forty years later he teamed again with Scofield’s Lear, this time as the Earl of Gloucester, for a recording by Naxos featuring Kenneth Branagh as the Fool.

    His “large, sweeping, dominating performance” (The Stage) as the delusional Father Rolfe in Peter Luke’s Hadrian VII at Birmingham Repertory Theatre and, later, the Mermaid Theatre, London, proved to be McCowen’s breakthrough performance. It earned him an Evening Standard drama award and a Tony nomination on Broadway.

    In 1970, he returned to Birmingham to play Hamlet and was back in the West End and on Broadway the following year for a second Tony nomination as Philip in the Royal Court’s transfer of Christopher Hampton’s The Philanthropist.

    With the National Theatre in 1973, his Alceste was “alive in every way in every moment” in John Dexter’s “dream come true” production (The Stage) of Tony Harrison’s robustly witty adaptation of Moliere’s The Misanthrope.
    He reunited with Dexter to create the role of the psychiatrist Dysart in Peter Shaffer’s Equus in 1973 and again the following year for “an apparently perfect” Professor Higgins to Diana Rigg’s Eliza in George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion at the Albery Theatre, London. In 1975, the pair reprised The Misanthrope on Broadway (earning McCowen a third Tony nomination) and subsequently at the Old Vic.
    His later stage career was marked by a variety that embraced Antony to Dorothy Tutin’s Cleopatra in 1977 for Toby Robertson’s Prospect Theatre Company and a superlative Frank – the timid researcher thwarted in his attempts to find a cure for the common cold – in Brian Thompson’s Tishoo (Wyndham’s Theatre, London, 1979).

    Writing in the Guardian, critic Michael Billington described McCowen’s performance as Adolf Hitler in Christopher Hampton’s The Portage to San Cristobal of AH at the Mermaid Theatre in 1982 as “one of the greatest pieces of acting I have ever seen”. The Stage’s Peter Hepple considered it “the very stuff of great theatre”.

    In 1986, he was seen as Henry Harcourt Reilly in TS Eliot’s The Cocktail Party, the inaugural production of director John Dexter and producer Eddie Kulukundis’ New Theatre Company, at London’s Phoenix Theatre.

    At the National Theatre in 1987 he portrayed Vladimir in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot as a glorious clown and was seen alongside Scofield and Eileen Atkins as a veteran crime reporter in danger of being ousted in Jeffrey Archer’s pressroom drama Exclusive at the Strand Theatre in 1989. The following year he lent Uncle Jack, the missionary priest sent home from Uganda under a cloud, a sense of seemingly harmless disorientation in Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa at the National Theatre.
    Notable late appearances included the pedantic English professor Michael imprisoned in Beirut in Frank McGuinness’s Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Hampstead and Vaudeville theatres; it also marked his Broadway swansong), and a commanding Prospero memorably teamed with Simon Russell Beale’s Ariel in The Tempest, directed by Sam Mendes, for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1993.
    He was heard in a radio broadcast of John Osborne’s never-produced screenplay The Charge of the Light Brigade, given a gala charity staging at Armoury House, London, in 2002.

    Directing credits include Terence Rattigan’s While the Sun Shines (Hampstead Theatre, 1972) and Martin Crimp’s Definitely the Bahamas (Orange Tree Theatre, 1987).

    McCowen’s screen debut came in 1953’s The Cruel Sea and he made his mark as Brown in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner in 1962. His exquisitely underplayed comic timing was seen to delightful effect as the nephew to Maggie Smith in Travels With My Aunt (1972) and as the police inspector forced by his wife to eat rich gourmet food in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy (1972).
    He was also seen as Q in Sean Connery’s 1983 one-off comeback as James Bond, Never Say Never Again. His last screen appearance was a cameo in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York in 2002.
    Television credits included the Whitehall spy-catcher title role in two series of Mr Palfrey of Westminster (1984-85), Dr Chasuble in The Importance of Being Earnest (1986) and Sir Robert Peel in Victoria and Albert (2001).

    He published two volumes of autobiography – Young Gemini (1979) and Double Bill (1980) – and was appointed an OBE in 1972 and a CBE in 1986. His partner, the actor Geoffrey Burridge, died in 1987.

    Alexander Duncan McCowen was born on May 26, 1925, and died on February 6, aged 91
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    Filmography
    Actor (81 credits)

    2002 Gangs of New York - Reverend Raleigh (as Alec Mccowen)
    2001 Midsomer Murders (TV Series) - Sir Christian Aubrey
    - The Electric Vendetta (2001) ... Sir Christian Aubrey
    2001 Victoria & Albert (TV Series) - Sir Robert Peel
    2000 David Copperfield (TV Movie) - Mr. Jorkins
    2000 Longitude (TV Movie) - Sir Frank Dyson

    1999 Kavanagh QC (TV Series) - Mr. Justice Mansell
    - Previous Convictions (1999) ... Mr. Justice Mansell
    1998 The American (TV Movie) - Henry James (voice)
    1996 Omnibus (TV Series documentary) - Narrator
    - A Day on the Mountain (1996) ... Narrator (voice)
    1995 Cruel Train (TV Movie) - Supt. Fish
    1992-1994 Shakespeare: The Animated Tales (TV Series short) - Narrator
    - King Richard III (1994) ... Narrator (voice)
    - Macbeth (1992) ... Narrator (voice)
    1993 The Age of Innocence - Sillerton Jackson
    1992 Screen Two (TV Series) - Father Eugene McCarthy
    - Maria's Child (1992) ... Father Eugene McCarthy
    1991 The War That Never Ends (TV Movie) - Thucydides

    1989 Henry V - Bishop of Ely
    1983-1989 Storyboard (TV Series) - Aeneas Sampson / Palfrey
    - Hunted Down (1989) ... Aeneas Sampson
    - The Traitor (1983) ... Palfrey
    1989 Bergerac (TV Series) - Trenchard
    - Trenchard's Last Case (1989) ... Trenchard
    1987 Cry Freedom - Acting High Commissioner
    1987 Personal Services - Wing Commander Morten
    1986 The Importance of Being Earnest (TV Movie) - Dr. Chasuble
    1985 The Assam Garden - Mr. Philpott
    1984-1985 Mr. Palfrey of Westminster (TV Series) - Mr Palfrey - 10 episodes
    1984 The Young Visiters - J. M. Barrie
    1984 Squaring the Circle (TV Movie) - Rakowski
    1984 The World Walk (TV Movie) - Albert Speer
    1983 Forever Young - Father Vincent
    1983 The Secret Adversary (TV Movie) - Sir James Peele Edgerton
    1983 Never Say Never Again - 'Q' Algy
    1982 All for Love (TV Series) - Silcox
    - A Dedicated Man (1982) ... Silcox
    1981 Plays for Pleasure (TV Series) - Ralph
    - The Reason of Things (1981) ... Ralph
    1980 Twelfth Night (TV Movie) - Malvolio

    1979 Henry V (TV Movie) - Chorus
    1979 Hanover Street - Major Trumbo
    1978 Stevie - Freddy
    1978 BBC2 Play of the Week (TV Series) - The Count
    - When the Actors Come (1978) ... The Count
    1977 The Sunday Drama (TV Series) - Lampard
    - The Late Wife (1977) ... Lampard
    1976 Private Lives (TV Movie) - Elyot Chase
    1976 Centre Play (TV Series) - Finn
    - Showcase: A Man of Morality (1976) ... Finn
    1974 The President's Last Tape (TV Movie) - Nicholas Hathaway, President of the United States
    1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (TV Series) - James Addishaw
    - A Point of Law (1973) ... James Addishaw
    1973 Chronicle (TV Series documentary) - D.H. Lawrence
    - The Mystery of the Etruscans (1973) ... D.H. Lawrence (voice)
    1972 Travels with My Aunt - Henry
    1972 Play for Today (TV Series) - Percy
    - Triple Exposure (1972) ... Percy
    1972 The Man Outside (TV Series) - Harry Whichelow
    - The Birdwatcher (1972) ... Harry Whichelow
    1972 Frenzy - Chief Inspector Tim Oxford
    1970 The Hawaiians - Micah Hale
    1970 Solo (TV Series) - Van Gogh
    - Alec McCowen as Van Gogh (1970) ... Van Gogh

    1966 Theatre 625 (TV Series) - Harry
    - The Family Reunion (1966) ... Harry
    1966 The Witches - Alan Bax
    1965-1966 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) - Alfred Poole / Private Secretary
    - Ape and Essence (1966) ... Alfred Poole
    - Sir Jocelyn, the Minister Would Like a Word... (1965) ... Private Secretary
    1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Willie
    - 'Twas on a Sunday (1966) ... Willie
    1965-1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Philip / Martin Luther
    - Where Angels Fear to Tread (1966) ... Philip
    - Luther (1965) ... Martin Luther
    1965 The Agony and the Ecstasy - Cardinal (uncredited)
    1957-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Ralph Quantick / Brandon
    - When the Wind Blows (1965) ... Ralph Quantick
    - Rope (1957) ... Brandon
    1965 Alexander Graham Bell (TV Series) - Alexander Graham Bell - 6 episodes
    1964 Festival (TV Series) - Antipholus of Syracuse
    - The Comedy of Errors (1964) ... Antipholus of Syracuse
    1963 In the Cool of the Day - Dickie Bayliss
    1963 The Plane Makers (TV Series) - John Rodway
    - A Good Night's Work (1963) ... John Rodway
    1962 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - Mr. Brown
    1962 Studio 4 (TV Series) - Tom O'Neill
    - Call Me Back (1962) ... Tom O'Neill
    1959-1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Roland / Victor Leach
    - The Mirror Maze (1960) ... Roland
    - Sunday Out of Season (1959) ... Victor Leach

    1959 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Maurice Bouillet
    - The Model Marriage (1959) ... Maurice Bouillet
    1959 Love and Mr Lewisham (TV Series) - Mr. George Lewisham - 6 episodes
    1959 A Midsummer Night's Dream - Bottom (voice)
    1952-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Edgar Perry / Alexander Wood / Johnny Pringle / ... - 6 episodes
    1958 The Doctor's Dilemma - Redpenny
    1958 A Night to Remember - Wireless Operator Harold Thomas Cottam
    1958 Television Playwright (TV Series) - Sammy Noles
    - Call Me a Liar (1958) ... Sammy Noles
    1958 The Little Beggars (TV Movie) - Mack Heath
    1958 The Silent Enemy - Able Seaman Morgan
    1957-1958 Angel Pavement (TV Series) - Turgis - 4 episodes
    1957 The One That Got Away - Duty Officer, Hucknall
    1957 Time Without Pity - Alec Graham
    1957 The Good Companions - Albert
    1957 Town on Trial - Peter Crowley (as Alec Mc Cowen)
    1956 The Third Key - House Surgeon (as Alec McOwen)
    1956 No Man's Land (TV Movie) - Major Richard Weston
    1956 Private's Progress - 2nd Medical Orderly (uncredited)
    1955 The Deep Blue Sea - Ken Thompson
    1954 The Divided Heart - Reporter
    1953 Escapade (TV Movie) - Daventry (as Alex McCowen)
    1953 The Cruel Sea
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    2023: Media report Elon Musk makes a confession about the Tesla Cybertruck.
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    Elon Musk Makes a Confession About the Tesla
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    By Bhagyashree Soni | February 6, 2023
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    The CEO of Tesla is hyping the primary pickup/truck from the electrical car producer every day.

    Elon Musk is a advertising and marketing whiz.

    In addition to his duties as CEO and engineer-in-chief, he’s additionally one of the best salesperson of the services that his firms develop.

    Until not too long ago, Tesla (TSLA) – Get Free Report, for instance, didn’t promote within the media, which permits the Austin, Texas-based car maker to make vital financial savings as rivals General Motors (GM) – Get Free Report, Ford (F) – Get Free Report spend tens of millions of {dollars} to extol the deserves of their autos.

    The firm can afford this zero-ads technique as a result of it has Musk and his tens of millions of followers. The billionaire has created a mystique across the producer of the SUV Model Y to the purpose that buyers determine any electrical car with Tesla. Model 3, Model Y and Model S at the moment are a part of the language and vocabulary of EV patrons.

    The energy of Musk, whose tweets are frequently lined by the media and favored by tens of millions of Twitter customers, is to create hype round a product or a service and to announce loopy targets regarding it. It thus sparks sturdy reactions. But above all it maintains the excitement across the product or the service.

    Maintain the Excitement Around the Cybertruck
    He is within the technique of deploying this profitable technique for the extremely anticipated Cybertruck, the very first pickup/truck developed by Tesla. The manufacturing of this car with a futuristic design is scheduled to begin late this yr after delays.

    Musk has chosen to feed the expectation by distilling drop by drop, and virtually each day, data on the Cybertruck. Over the previous few days, the whimsical entrepreneur has, for instance, indicated that the Cybertruck is “incredible,” and his favourite car. And that he was going to drive it each day.

    He confirmed that the form of the mirrors shall be triangular. He additionally stated that the Cybertruck will include Tesla’s “Hardware 4” full-self-driving laptop, the corporate’s superior driver-assistance system. The major distinction between Hardware 3 and Hardware 4 is in safety, Musk advised analysts on Jan. 25.
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    He has once more simply revealed a brand new function: The Cybertruck could have a crimson gentle bar, he stated on Feb. 4.

    “Production will have red light bar,” he stated.
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    The billionaire defined above all that the Cybertruck is the car that was probably the most tough for Tesla to fabricate. These revelations had been made throughout threads on Twitter.

    “Very hard car to build, as it is unlike any other,” he advised a Tesla fan who had posted a video of the Cybertruck. “but, as stated publicly, Cybertruck production starts this year.”
    The Competition
    The Tesla Cybertruck was unveiled at a promotional occasion in Los Angeles in November 2019. Musk stated on the time that he had been “influenced partly by ‘The Spy Who Loved Me'” and the amphibious Lotus Esprit S1 featured within the 1977 James Bond movie.

    The car additionally has been described as one thing out of the movies “Mad Max” and “Blade Runner.”
    The Cybertruck guarantees as much as 500 miles of electrical vary, a most tow score of 14,000 kilos, and a base value beneath $40,000. Buyers may even have so as to add Tesla driver help system Full Self-Driving for $15,000.

    It will mark Tesla’s foray into probably the most worthwhile phase of the automotive trade, particularly pickups/vehicles. Musk is conscious that Tesla can not miss the debut of the Cybertruck, which shall be in direct competitors with the Ford F-150 Lightning, the electrical model of the long-lasting F-150 pickup, the best-selling car within the United States for a lot of many years.

    In addition to the F-150 Lightning, the Cybertruck may even face the Rivian (RIVN) – Get Free Report R1T and doubtless the electrical model of the Chevrolet Silverado pickup from General Motors (GM) – Get Free Report.

    Source: www.thestreet.com
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    February 7th:

    1952: Anne Rothermore finalizes her divorce and plans a March wedding with Ian Fleming.

    1962: The Dr. No film crew arrives at St. Ann's Bay, Ocho Rios, north coast of Jamaica.
    1964: From Russia With Love released in Ireland.
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    1970: John Barry's On Her Majesty's Secret Service soundtrack charts in the US, eventually reaching #103.
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    1985: Matt Munro dies at age 54--Ealing, London, England.
    (Born 1 December 1930--London, England.)
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    Matt Monro, Britain's 'Cockney Como,' Dies at 54
    February 08, 1985|BURT A. FOLKART | Times Staff Writer

    Matt Monro, an East London bus driver who perfected his lyrical baritone techniques while serenading his passengers, died Thursday of liver cancer in London.
    The popularizer of such hits as "Born Free" and "From Russia With Love" died in London's Cromwell Hospital after a liver transplant operation was deemed useless two weeks ago.

    Likened to Perry Como because of his effortless versions of the ballads of the day, Monro, 54, had the speaking voice of a Cockney but phrased like an English troubadour. Although he once had a succession of such hit recordings as "My Kind of Girl," "Portrait of My Love," "Softly, As I Leave You" and "Yesterday," in recent years he had been out of the international arena and his appearances limited to nightclubs and cameos on British television.

    Munro admitted in the late 1960s that alcohol had once been a problem but that he had overcome it. He also confessed to being an ongoing nicotine addict.

    'Smoked Incessantly'
    "I have smoked incessantly since I started at 9 on tea leaves," he had said. "If they're announcing, 'Ladies and Gentlemen--Matt Monro,' I'll light a cigarette because I know we've got two minutes of overture time and I can have a puff."

    Monro, who was born Terence Parsons in London's middle-class East End, got his first paying job as a lorry operator. He later graduated to buses. But even as a boy, he told The Times in a 1968 interview when he was appearing in Las Vegas, he had always wanted to sing.

    He took those frustrated ambitions out on his passengers who encouraged him, and he soon made his debut in small clubs.

    In 1960 he recorded "Portrait of My Love" and followed it with "Walk Away." Both were popular in England and abroad but it was his agent, lyricist Don Black, who made Monro a true international star.

    Monro recorded Black's lyrics to "Born Free," the theme from the film about a lioness domesticated by a British couple in Africa, and the song topped charts in Britain, America and Japan.

    He also had capitalized on a recording industry oversight. One of The Beatles' most popular tunes, "Yesterday," had not been released as a single and Monro, by then called the "Cockney Como," soon filled that gap with his own version.

    Favorite Among Fellow Vocalists
    It stayed on Britain's Top 10 for months.

    His warm, relaxed interpretations of old and new songs and his gentle phrasing made him a favorite among fellow vocalists.

    Frank Sinatra once said that Monro was the only British singer he ever listened to.

    Monro's hospitalization and recent illnesses were kept from the public until an exploratory operation Jan. 20 revealed that his cancer had spread too far for a liver transplant to save him.

    He is survived by his wife, Mickie, and three children.
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    Filmography
    Soundtrack (32 credits)

    2016 Cuéntame (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - La boda de cristal (2016) ... (performer: "No puedo quitar mis ojos de tí (Can't Take My Eyes Off You)")
    2014/II Nightingale (performer: "The Good Life" (La Belle Vie))
    2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) (performer: "From Russia With Love")
    2011 Rude Tube (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Extreme Rides (2011) ... (performer: "Born Free" - uncredited)
    2010 Formula 1: BBC Sport (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - The European Grand Prix: Qualifying (2010) ... (performer: "From Russia With Love" - uncredited)
    2010 From Paris with Love (performer: " They Long to Be - Close to You"))
    2009 ...Sings the Beatles (TV Movie documentary) (performer: "Yesterday")
    2001 Thirteen Conversations About One Thing (performer: "Put on a Happy Face")

    1997 Super Speedway (Documentary) (performer: "On Days Like These")
    1992 The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (performer: "Born Free")
    1990 The Krays (performer: "Walk Away")

    1985 The Humans and The Jinns (performer: "Yesterday")
    1983 Lady Is a Tramp (TV Series) (performer: "The Lady Is a Tramp" (Title theme))
    1980 The Sea Wolves (performer: "The Precious Moments")

    1978 Tomorrow Never Comes (performer: "Alone am I")
    1973 Three Giant Men (performer: "The Southern Star")
    1972 Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #1.3 (1972) ... (performer: "The Second Time Around", "Time After Time", "I Want to Be Happy")
    1970 Hoffman (performer: "If there ever Is a next time")
    1970 Satan's Harvest (performer: "Two People")

    1969 Burbujas (TV Mini-Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Sueños y pesadillas (1969) ... (performer: "Alguien cantó", "Qué tiempo tan feliz (Those Were the Days)", "Todo pasará")
    1969 The Italian Job (performer: "On Days Like These")
    1969 The Southern Star (performer: "The Southern Star")
    1967 A Matter of Innocence (performer: "Pretty Polly")
    1966 The Quiller Memorandum (performer: Theme Song - "WEDNESDAY'S CHILD")
    1966 Born Free (performer: "Born Free" - uncredited)
    1965 Go Go Mania (performer: "Pop Gear", "Walk Away" (uncredited), "For Mamma" (uncredited))
    1964 Shindig! (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Episode #1.12 (1964) ... (performer: "My Kind of Girl', "Walk Away")
    1964 The Eurovision Song Contest (TV Special) (performer: "I Love The Little Things")
    1964 A Song for Europe (TV Movie) (performer: "Choose", "Its Funny How You Know", "I've Got the Moon on My Side", "Ten Out of Ten", "Beautiful, Beautiful")
    1963 From Russia with Love (performer: "From Russia with Love")

    1959 The Chaplin Revue (performer: "I'm Bound for Texas")
    1923 The Pilgrim (performer: "I'm Bound for Texas" (1971))

    Actor (2 credits)

    1970 Satan's Harvest - Bates

    1961 The Ed Sullivan Show (TV Series) - Singer
    - Episode #15.16 (1961) ... Singer
    - Episode #15.6 (1961) ... Singer
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    From Russia With Love


    Love is a Many Splendored Thing


    Born Free

    2008: BOND 22 films at (the former) Howard Air Force Base, Panama City, substituting for Haiti and Bolivia.
    The National Institute of Culture of Panama subs for a Bolivian hotel. Director Marc Forster is frustrated by the limitations for filming at Panama's Fort Sherman, a former US military base, on the Colón coast. His vision of the harbour boat chase is grander than circumstances allow.

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    2008: BOND 22 teaser poster revealed online.
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    2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases M.
    PJ Holden & Dearbhla Kelly, artists. Declan Shalvey, writer.
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    JAMES BOND: M ONE-SHOT
    https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C72513026476301011
    Cover A: Declan Shalvey & Jordie Bellaire
    Writer: Declan Shalvey
    Art: PJ Holden & Dearbhla Kelly.
    Genre: Action
    Publication Date: February 2018
    Page Count: 40 Pages
    ON SALE DATE: 2/7
    James Bond's superior, code-named M, scrambles MI6's secret agents across the globe. Sometimes, he knowingly sends them to their deaths, for the greater good. But a traumatic event from M's early days in the field returns to haunt him, forcing M to return to the scene of a crime...HIS crime.

    An exhilarating spy standalone from superstar DECLAN SHALVEY (Deadpool Vs. Old Man Logan, Savage Town) and PJ HOLDEN (2000 AD, Judge Dredd).
    2019: Albert Finney dies at age 82--London, England.
    (Born 9 May 1936--Pendleton, Salford, Lancashire, England.)
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    Actor hailed as the new Olivier but who preferred playing
    working-class heroes to classical roles

    Michael Coveney | Fri 8 Feb 2019 13.04 EST

    One of the new-style working-class heroes and shooting stars of the 1960s, the actor Albert Finney, who has died aged 82, enjoyed a rich and varied career that never quite fulfilled its early promise. Like Richard Burton before him and Kenneth Branagh after him, he was expected to become the new Laurence Olivier, the leader of his profession, on stage and on screen.

    That this never quite happened was no fault of Finney’s. He worked intensely in two periods at the National Theatre, was an active film producer as well as occasional director, and remained a glowering, formidable presence in the movies long after he had been nominated five times for an Oscar (without ever winning). Although a stalwart company member – Peter Hall paid heartfelt tribute to his leadership and to his acting at the National – he led his life, personal and professional, at his own tempo.

    From middle age onwards – and he was only 47 when he gave one of those Oscar-nominated performances, the fruity old actor defying the blitz, Donald Wolfit-style, in Peter Yates’s The Dresser, written by Ronald Harwood – he assumed a physical bulk and serenity that bespoke a life of ease, far from the madding crowd, in good restaurants and on Irish racecourses. He never courted publicity.

    His unusual, cherubic face, slightly puffy and jowly, but with high cheekbones, the face of an unmarked boxer, was always a reminder of his sensational breakthrough in two signature British films, Karel Reisz’s Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) – his line as the Nottingham bruiser Arthur Seaton, “What I want is a good time; the rest is all propaganda”, could serve as a professional epitaph – and Tony Richardson’s Tom Jones (1963), a lubricious historical romp that imparted a metaphorical mood of the swinging 60s.

    Finney was the new roaring boy of that high-spirited, colourful decade – cheeky, northern and working-class. Born in Salford, he was the son of Albert Finney Sr, a bookmaker, and his wife, Alice (nee Hobson); as it happens, also born that day was another Lancastrian “new wave” actor, Glenda Jackson.

    Young Albert attended Tootal Drive primary school and Salford grammar. He flunked his exams but played leading roles in 15 school plays and went south to London and Rada, where he was in a class that included Peter O’Toole, Tom Courtenay, Frank Finlay, John Stride and Brian Bedford. While still a student, as Troilus in a modern play, he was spotted by Kenneth Tynan – the best-known critic of the day – who proclaimed a “smouldering young Spencer Tracy ... who will soon disturb the dreams of Messrs Burton and Scofield”. And so it proved. His rise was instant and meteoric. He played Brutus, Hamlet, Henry V and Macbeth at the Birmingham Rep, and in 1956 made his London debut in the Old Vic’s production of Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra. In 1958 he played opposite Charles Laughton in Jane Arden’s The Party at the Arts theatre.
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    He followed Laughton to Stratford, joining a stellar company under the direction of Glen Byam Shaw, and played Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Laughton was Bottom) and Cassio with Paul Robeson as Othello and Peggy Ashcroft as Desdemona. He also understudied (and went on for, to sensational effect) Olivier as Coriolanus.

    But Finney was a modern actor not really destined for classical eminence. Much more his style was the insolence and daydreaming of Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall at the Cambridge theatre, though the role on film went to Tom Courtenay. At the Royal Court he took the lead roles in a satirical musical, The Lily White Boys, directed by Lindsay Anderson, and in John Osborne’s vitriolic, tumultuous Luther (the latter in the West End, later on Broadway); he made his film debut opposite Olivier in The Entertainer in 1960.

    A pattern of oscillation between theatre and cinema was soon established, as he bookended his first major stint at the National, in the great Olivier company, with screen appearances in Reisz’s 1964 remake of Emlyn Williams’s psychological thriller Night Must Fall and Stanley Donen’s delightful study of a disintegrating relationship, scripted by Frederic Raphael in flash back and fast forward, Two For the Road (1967). Finney’s leading lady in the latter, Audrey Hepburn, was not the first nor last of his amorous work-and-pleasure intrigues.

    His NT appearances in 1965 and 1966 were as a strutting Don Pedro in Franco Zeffirelli’s Sicilian take on Much Ado About Nothing (with Maggie Smith and Robert Stephens), the lead in John Arden’s Armstrong’s Last Goodnight, a great double of the candescent upstart Jean in Strindberg’s Miss Julie and the outrageous Harold Gorringe in Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy, topped off with the double-dealing, split-personality Chandebise in Jacques Charon’s definitive production of Feydeau’s A Flea in Her Ear.

    Then he was off again, having founded Memorial films in 1965 with his great friend and fellow actor Michael Medwin, directing and starring in Charlie Bubbles (1968), written by his fellow Salfordian Shelagh Delaney (author of A Taste of Honey) and featuring Billie Whitelaw and Liza Minnelli. He co-produced Lindsay Anderson’s savage public school satire If … (1968), bankrolled Mike Leigh’s first feature film, Bleak Moments (1971), and gave Stephen Frears his movie-directing debut on Gumshoe, a brilliant homage to film noir as well as a good story (written by Neville Smith) about a bingo caller (Finney) in a trenchcoat with delusions of being Humphrey Bogart. He even had time to disguise himself totally as a wispily senile Scrooge in Ronald Neame’s 1970 film, with Alec Guinness as Jacob Marley and Edith Evans as the Ghost of Christmas Past.
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    Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1970 film based on Dickens’s novel.
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    An invitation to return to the Royal Court as an associate director (1972-75) resulted in one of his blistering stage performances, opposite Rachel Roberts, in EA Whitehead’s Alpha Beta. He directed Brian Friel’s The Freedom of the City and a revival of Joe Orton’s Loot, and appeared in David Storey’s Cromwell and Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape.

    The reminiscing Krapp unspooled his old Grundig on a double bill with Billie Whitelaw’s hectic jabbering in Not I, and Finney confided in Whitelaw his lack of rapport with the playwright: “You know the way I work, I take all the different paints out of the cupboard, I mix the colours together. If they’re not right, I shove them all back and take out a new lot.” Whitelaw advised him to dispose of all the colours and retain the white, black and grey.

    He was much happier unbuttoning in Peter Nichols’s sharp West End comedy Chez Nous and embodying Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot in Sidney Lumet’s star-laden Murder on the Orient Express (1974). But he returned to the National under Peter Hall during the difficult transition period from the Old Vic to the South Bank.

    Over six years from 1974, as striking technicians and unconvinced critics lined up to try to scupper the new building, Finney ploughed on as a bullish, tormented Hamlet, a lascivious Horner in The Country Wife, the perfect arriviste Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard and a disappointing Macbeth. The centrepiece was his heroic, muscular and glistening Tamburlaine in Peter Hall’s 1976 defiant staging of Marlowe’s two-part mighty epic, twirling an axe to deadly effect.

    This performance marked Finney’s grandest, if not necessarily finest, hour on stage; he appeared briefly at the Royal Exchange, Manchester, in 1977 to deliver beautifully modulated performances as Uncle Vanya and an ultra-credible woman-slaying Gary Essendine in Noël Coward’s Present Laughter. Another long absence from the theatre ended with a stunning performance as a roguish Chicago hoodlum in Lyle Kessler’s Orphans at the Hampstead theatre in 1986 (and a movie version a year later) and another great turn as a Catholic priest, held hostage and deprived of his faith, in Harwood’s JJ Farr at the Phoenix theatre.

    Finney was now nearly a grand old man, but without the seigneurial distinction of either Olivier or Gielgud. He was delightful and dewy-eyed, eventually, as a bald Daddy Warbucks in John Huston’s film of Annie (1982), but truly magnificent as the alcoholic British consul – “a drunk act to end all drunk acts” said one critic – in Huston’s Under the Volcano (1984), adapted from the novel by Malcolm Lowry.
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    Albert Finney as the detective Hercule Poirot in the film Murder on the Orient Express (1974), directed by Sidney Lumet. Photograph: Allstar/Studiocanal/EMI
    That performance should have won the Oscar, perhaps, but he remained a near-miss nominee, as he had done in The Dresser (1983). On stage, the beautiful, bolshie boy had settled into ruminative, but always interesting, late middle age, notably in Harwood’s ingeniously structured Another Time (1989), in which he played a bankrupt Jewish commercial traveller and, in the second act, his own musician son, 35 years later; another Harwood play, Reflected Glory (1992), allowed him to let rip as a breezy Mancunian restaurateur confronted with a critical family play written by his own playwright brother (though it was slightly unsettling to see Finney, the brave new Turk, siding with Harwood’s contempt for “modish” contemporary theatre manners).

    His last stage appearance reunited him in 1996 with his old friend Courtenay in Yasmina Reza’s Art, at Wyndham’s, a play about friendship being threatened by the purchase of a white painting for a lot of money. Courtenay was the art-loving dermatologist, Finney hilarious and exasperated as an astronautical engineer appalled by the purchase.

    Harwood scripted a new film version of Terence Rattigan’s The Browning Version (1994), directed by Mike Figgis, but Finney was probably as unwise to assume Michael Redgrave’s mantle as the unloved classics teacher as he was to play the Ralph Richardson role of Henry James’s Dr Austin Sloper in Agnieszka Holland’s Washington Square (1997), a remake of William Wyler’s far superior The Heiress.

    Finney, it seemed, was selecting his movie scripts for their surprise and eclectic qualities, rather than any urgency about fulfilling his destiny as a great actor. But he was much racier on film than on stage. He honed his gangster act as a dodgy politician in the Coen Brothers’ Miller’s Crossing (1990), bumbled irascibly as a retired track official in Matthew Warchus’s Simpatico (1999), an underrated version of a difficult Sam Shepard play, and added a touch of class (and a wayward American accent) as the small-town lawyer in Steven Soderbergh’s crusading Erin Brockovich (2000), opposite a rejuvenated, tremendous Julia Roberts, which brought his fifth and last Oscar nomination.

    His best, and now often elegiac, performances materialised sporadically on television: as Maurice Allington in The Green Man (1991), adapted from a Kingsley Amis novel; as Reggie in A Rather English Marriage (1998), alongside Courtenay; and as Churchill in The Gathering Storm (2002), written by Hugh Whitemore, with Vanessa Redgrave as his wife.
    In Hollywood, he clocked in for Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Twelve (2004) and the third in a superb trilogy adapted from Robert Ludlum’s spy action thrillers, starring Matt Damon, Paul Greengrass’s The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). His last movie credits came in The Bourne Legacy and the Bond film Skyfall (both 2012).
    Finney, always known as Albie, was rumoured to have declined both a CBE and a knighthood. In 1957 he married the actor Jane Wenham; they had a son, Simon, and divorced in 1961. His marriage to the French actor Anouk Aimée in 1970 ended in divorce eight years later. He then had a long relationship with the actor Diana Quick – the pair were for a while feared missing up the Amazon. In 2006 he married Pene Delmage, who survives him, along with Simon.

    • Albert Finney, actor, born 9 May 1936; died 7 February 2019
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    Filmography
    Actor (65 credits)

    2012 Skyfall - Kincade
    2012 The Bourne Legacy - Dr. Albert Hirsch

    2007 Before the Devil Knows You're Dead - Charles
    2007 The Bourne Ultimatum - Dr. Albert Hirsch
    2006 Amazing Grace - John Newton
    2006 A Good Year - Uncle Henry
    2005 Aspects of Love - George Dillingham
    2005 Corpse Bride - Finis Everglot (voice)
    2004 Ocean's Twelve - Gaspar LeMarque (uncredited)
    2003 Big Fish - Ed Bloom - Senior
    2001-2003 My Uncle Silas (TV Series) - Uncle Silas - 9 episodes
    2002 The Gathering Storm (TV Movie) - Winston Churchill
    2001 Delivering Milo - Elmore Dahl
    2001 Hemingway, the Hunter of Death - Ernest Hemingway
    2000 Traffic - Chief of Staff
    2000 Erin Brockovich - Ed Masry

    1999 Simpatico - Simms
    1999 Breakfast of Champions - Kilgore Trout
    1998 A Rather English Marriage (TV Movie) - Reggie Conyngham-Jervis
    1997 Washington Square - Dr. Austin Sloper
    1996-1997 Nostromo (TV Mini-Series) - Dr. Monygham
    - Episode #1.1 (1997) ... Dr. Monygham
    - Episode #1.4 (1996) ... Dr. Monygham
    - Episode #1.3 (1996) ... Dr. Monygham
    - Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Dr. Monygham
    1996 Cold Lazarus (TV Mini-Series) - Daniel Feeld
    - Episode #1.4 (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
    - Episode #1.3 (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
    - Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
    - Episode #1.1 (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
    1996 Karaoke (TV Mini-Series) - Daniel Feeld
    - Friday (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
    - Thursday (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
    - Wednesday (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
    - Tuesday (1996) ... Daniel Feeld
    1995 The Run of the Country - Danny's Father
    1994 A Man of No Importance - Alfred Byrne
    1994 The Browning Version - Andrew Crocker-Harris
    1992 Rich in Love - Warren Odom
    1992 The Playboys - Constable Brendan Hegarty
    1990 The Green Man (TV Mini-Series) - Maurice
    - Episode #1.3 (1990) ... Maurice
    - Episode #1.2 (1990) ... Maurice
    - Episode #1.1 (1990) ... Maurice
    1990 Miller's Crossing - Leo
    1990 The Image (TV Movie) - Jason Cromwell

    1989 The Endless Game (TV Mini-Series) - Alec Hillsden
    - Episode #1.2 (1989) ... Alec Hillsden
    - Episode #1.1 (1989) ... Alec Hillsden
    1987 A Simple Man (TV Movie) - Introduction
    1987 Orphans - Harold
    1984 The Biko Inquest (TV Movie) - Sidney Kentridge, for Biko family
    1984 Under the Volcano - Geoffrey Firmin
    1984 Pope John Paul II (TV Movie) - Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II)
    1983 The Dresser - Sir
    1982 Annie - Daddy Warbucks
    1982 Shoot the Moon - George Dunlap
    1981 Looker - Dr. Larry Roberts
    1981 Wolfen - Dewey Wilson
    1981 Loophole - Mike Daniels

    1977 The Duellists - Fouché
    1975 The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother - Man in Audience at Opera (uncredited)
    1975 Forget-Me-Not-Lane (TV Movie) - Frank
    1974 Murder on the Orient Express - Hercule Poirot
    1974 Alpha Beta - Frank Elliot
    1971 Gumshoe - Eddie Ginley
    1970 Scrooge - Ebenezer Scrooge

    1969 The Picasso Summer - George Smith
    1968 Charlie Bubbles - Charlie Bubbles
    1967 Two for the Road - Mark Wallace
    1964 Night Must Fall - Danny
    1963 The Victors - Russian Soldier
    1963 Tom Jones - Tom Jones
    1960 Theatre Night (TV Series) - Billy Fisher
    - Billy Liar (1960) ... Billy Fisher
    1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning - Arthur Seaton
    1960 The Entertainer - Mick Rice

    1959 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Lysander
    1959 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Tom Fletcher
    - Episode #1.208 (1959) ... Tom Fletcher
    - Episode #1.207 (1959) ... Tom Fletcher
    - Episode #1.206 (1959) ... Tom Fletcher
    - Episode #1.204 (1959) ... Tom Fletcher
    1958 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Arnold
    - View Friendship and Marriage (1958) ... Arnold
    1957 The Claverdon Road Job (TV Movie) - PC George Grayson
    1956 The Miser (TV Movie) - Cléante
    1956 She Stoops to Conquer (TV Movie) - Mr. Hardcastle

    Producer (12 credits)

    1974 Law and Disorder (producer - uncredited)
    1974 Alpha Beta (producer - uncredited)
    1973 O Lucky Man! (producer - uncredited)
    1971 Gumshoe (producer - uncredited)
    1971 Bleak Moments (producer - uncredited)
    1971 Loving Memory (producer - uncredited)
    1970 NBC Experiment in Television (TV Series) (producer - 1 episode)
    - The Engagement (1970) ... (producer - uncredited)
    1970 Spring and Port Wine (producer - uncredited)

    1968 If.... (producer - uncredited)
    1968 The Burning (Short) (producer - uncredited)
    1967 Privilege (producer - uncredited)
    1964 Night Must Fall (producer - uncredited)

    Soundtrack (6 credits)
    2005 Corpse Bride (performer: "According to Plan")

    1990 The Wall: Live in Berlin (Video documentary) (performer: "The Trial")

    1982 Annie (performer: "Let's Go To The Movies", "Sign", "Tomorrow (White House Version)", "Maybe (Same Effect On Everyone)", "Finale Medley: I Don't Need Anything But You/We Got Annie/Tomorrow" - uncredited)

    1970 Scrooge (performer: "I Hate People", "You...You", "I Like Life", "Happiness (reprise)", "Thank You Very Much", "I'll Begin Again", "I Like Life (reprise)", "Father Christmas / Thank You Very Much (reprise)", "A Christmas Carol (reprise)" - uncredited)

    1969 The Picasso Summer (performer: "Hey Ho The Wind and the Rain" - uncredited)
    1960 Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ("Here Comes the Bride", uncredited)

    Director (2 credits)

    1984 The Biko Inquest (TV Movie)

    1968 Charlie Bubbles
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    2023: The James Bond 007 Museum screens documentary The Other Fellow at Nybro, Sweden.
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    1962: Dr. No films Honey Ryder emerging from the sea at Laughing Waters, Jamaica. Botticelli's Venus.
    Terence Young:
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    We waved them and screamed, “Lie down!” They all lay down and we shot
    the scene, and we forgot about them. Half an hour later Clive Reed said,
    “Whatever happened to those geezers on the beach?” and I said, “You better
    go see.” He came back with Ian Fleming, Noel Coward, Stephen Spender,
    the poet and Peter Cornell, the critic. Those were the four; it was quite
    a bridge game. That was the first time Ian came on a Bond set.’
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    1962: The Gleaner reports on Ocho Rios area locals objecting to almost 100 production-related jobs with EON going to Kingstonians.

    2002: Media reports say Madonna will sing the title theme of BOND 20, which does not yet have a title.
    2008: Quantum of Solace films OO7 refusing to stay at the Bolivian Hotel.



    2015: Spectre films at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire.
    2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Felix Leiter #2.
    Aaron Campbell, artist. James Robinson, writer.
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    JAMES BOND: FELIX LEITER #2
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    Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
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    It was supposed to be an easy mission. Hot on the trail of a Russian agent in Tokyo, Felix Leiter is unwittingly drawn into the investigation of a major terrorist attack when a suicidal cultist releases a bio-weapon in Shinjuku. Now Felix and Tiger Tanaka - the Japanese James Bond - must track down the villainous cult leader responsible, and unravel the mystery behind their deadly new biological weapon...
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    2018: Anthony Horowitz announces the title of his second James Bond novel as Forever and a Day. To be published 31 May 2018, it will include original Fleming material.
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    2023: Burt Bacharach dies at age 94--Los Angeles, California.
    (Born 12 May 1928--Kansas City, Missouri.)
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    His sophisticated collaborations with the lyricist Hal David — “The Look of Love,” “Walk On By,” “Alfie” and many more hits — evoked a sleek era of airy romance.
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    By Stephen Holden Feb. 9, 2023

    Burt Bacharach, the debonair pop composer, arranger, conductor, record producer and occasional singer whose hit songs in the 1960s distilled that decade’s mood of romantic optimism, died on Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 94.

    His publicist Tina Brausam confirmed the death. No specific cause was given.

    A die-hard romantic, Mr. Bacharach fused the chromatic harmonies and long, angular melodies of late-19th-century symphonic music with modern pop orchestration and embellished the mixture with a staccato rhythmic drive. His effervescent compositions epitomized sophisticated hedonism to a generation of young adults only a few years older than the Beatles.

    Because of the high gloss and apolitical stance of the songs Mr. Bacharach wrote with his most frequent collaborator, the lyricist Hal David, during an era of confrontation and social upheaval, they were often dismissed as little more than background music by listeners who preferred the hard edge of rock or the intimacy of the singer-songwriter genre. But in hindsight, the Bacharach-David team ranks high in the pantheon of pop songwriting.
    Bacharach-David songs like “The Look of Love,” Dusty Springfield’s sultry 1967 hit, featured in the movie “Casino Royale”; “This Guy’s in Love With You,” a No. 1 hit in 1968 for Herb Alpert; and “(They Long to Be) Close to You,” a No. 1 hit in 1970 for the Carpenters, evoked a world of jet travel, sports cars and sleek bachelor pads. Acknowledging this mystique with a wink, Mr. Bacharach appeared as himself and performed his 1965 song “What the World Needs Now Is Love” in the 1997 movie “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery,” which spoofed the swinging ’60s ambience of the early James Bond films. He also made cameo appearances in its two sequels.
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    Mr. Bacharach with Hal David, his most frequent collaborator, and Dionne Warwick, the pair’s definitive interpreter. Together they turned out a steady stream of pop hits. Credit...Frank Driggs Collection/Getty Images
    Mr. Bacharach collaborated with many lyricists over the years, and even wrote some of his own words. But his primary collaborator was Mr. David, seven years his senior, whom he met in a music publisher’s office in 1957. The team’s artistic chemistry solidified in 1962, beginning with the hits they wrote and produced for Dionne Warwick, a gifted young gospel-trained singer from East Orange, N.J.

    Mr. Bacharach met Ms. Warwick at a recording session for the Drifters that included “Mexican Divorce” and “Please Stay,” two songs he wrote with the lyricist Bob Hilliard. Hearing Ms. Warwick, a backup singer, Mr. Bacharach realized he had found the rare vocalist with the technical prowess to negotiate his rangy, fiercely difficult melodies, with their tricky time signatures and extended asymmetrical phrases.

    The artistic synergy of Mr. Bacharach, Mr. David and Ms. Warwick defined the voice of a young, passionate, on-the-go Everywoman bursting with romantic eagerness and vulnerability. Their urbane style was the immediate forerunner of the earthier Motown sound of the middle and late 1960s.

    Mr. Bacharach and Mr. David worked in the Brill Building, the Midtown Manhattan music publishing hub, and they are frequently lumped together with the younger writers in the so-called Brill Building school of teenage pop, like the teams of Carole King and Gerry Goffin or Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil. But they rarely wrote explicitly for the teenage market. Their more sophisticated songs were closer in style to Cole Porter, and Mr. Bacharach’s fondness for Brazilian rhythms recalled lilting Porter standards like “Begin the Beguine.”

    Beginning with “Don’t Make Me Over” in 1962, the team turned out a steady stream of hits for Ms. Warwick, among them “Anyone Who Had a Heart,” “Walk On By,” “Alfie,” “I Say a Little Prayer” and “Do You Know the Way to San Jose.”
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    Accepting the Academy Award for the score of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” in 1970. Mr. Bacharach also won the Oscar for best song that year, for the film’s “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head.”Credit...Associated Press
    Mr. Bacharach’s success transcended the Top 40. He won two Academy Awards for best song: for “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head,” written with Mr. David, in 1970, and “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do),” written with Peter Allen, Carole Bayer Sager and Christopher Cross, in 1982. His original score for the 1969 film “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” which included “Raindrops,” a No. 1 hit for B.J. Thomas, won an Oscar for best original score for a nonmusical motion picture. And the Bacharach-David team conquered Broadway in December 1968 with “Promises, Promises.”

    Adapted by Neil Simon from “The Apartment,” Billy Wilder’s 1960 film about erotic hanky-panky at a Manhattan corporation, “Promises, Promises” was one of the first Broadway shows to use backup singers in the orchestra pit and pop-style amplification. Along with “Hair,” which opened on Broadway that same year, it presaged the era of the pop musical.

    “Promises, Promises” ran for 1,281 performances, yielded hits for Ms. Warwick in the catchy but fiendishly difficult title song and the folk-pop ballad “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again,” and was nominated for seven Tony Awards. Two of its cast members won, but the show itself did not. Both “Promises, Promises” and “Hair” lost in the best-musical category to the much more traditional “1776.” It was successfully revived on Broadway in 2010.
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    Promises, Promises” team, from left: the actor Jerry Orbach, who won the Tony for his role; the actress Jill O’Hara; the director Robert Moore; the playwright Neil Simon, who adapted the musical from Billy Wilder’s 1960 film “The Apartment”; the producer David Merrick; and the actor Edward Winter. Credit...Bob Wands/Associated Press
    With success both in Hollywood and on Broadway, as well as a high-profile movie-star wife, Angie Dickinson, whom he had married in 1965, Mr. Bacharach entered the 1970s not just a hit songwriter but a glamorous star in his own right. It seemed as if he could do no wrong. But that soon changed.

    In 1973, Mr. Bacharach and Mr. David wrote the score for the movie musical “Lost Horizon,” adapted from the 1937 Frank Capra fantasy film of the same name. The movie was a catastrophic failure. Shortly after that, the Bacharach-David-Warwick triumvirate, which had already begun to grow stale, split up acrimoniously amid a flurry of lawsuits.

    Reflecting on his split with Mr. David in 2013 in his autobiography, Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music, written with Robert Greenfield, Mr. Bacharach acknowledged that “it was all my fault, and I can’t imagine how many great songs I could have written with Hal in the years we were apart.”

    A New Partnership
    Mr. Bacharach endured several fallow years, personal as well as professional — his marriage to Ms. Dickinson was over long before they divorced in 1981 — but experienced a commercial resurgence in the 1980s through his collaboration with the lyricist Carole Bayer Sager, whom he married in 1982.

    Mr. Bacharach and Ms. Sager hit their commercial peak in 1986 with two No. 1 hits: the Patti LaBelle-Michael McDonald duet “On My Own” and the AIDS fund-raising anthem “That’s What Friends Are For,” which went on to win the Grammy for song of the year. Originally recorded by Rod Stewart for the soundtrack of Ron Howard’s 1982 movie “Night Shift,” and redone by an all-star quartet billed as Dionne and Friends— Ms. Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and Elton John. “That’s What Friends Are For” was Mr. Bacharach’s last major hit. He and Ms. Sager divorced in 1991.
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    Mr. Bacharach married the actress Angie Dickinson in 1965; they divorced in 1981. At the time of their marriage, he was not just a composer but a debonair, glamorous star in his own right. Credit...Associated Press
    Burt Freeman Bacharach was born in Kansas City, Mo., on May 12, 1928. His father, Bert Bacharach, was a nationally syndicated columnist and men’s fashion journalist who moved his family to Forest Hills, Queens, in 1932. His mother, Irma (Freeman) Bacharach, was an amateur singer and pianist who encouraged Burt to study music. He learned cello, drums and piano.

    While still under-age, he sneaked into Manhattan jazz clubs and became smitten with the modern harmonies of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, which would exert a huge influence on him.

    After graduating from Forest Hills High School, Burt studied music at several schools, including McGill University in Montreal and the Mannes School of Music in New York. Among his teachers were the composers Henry Cowell and Darius Milhaud. While serving in the Army in the early ’50s, he played piano, worked as a dance-band arranger and met the singer Vic Damone, with whom he later toured as an accompanist.

    Mr. Bacharach became the German actress and singer Marlene Dietrich’s musical director in 1958 and toured with her for two years in the United States and Europe. Other performers he accompanied in the 1950s included the Ames Brothers, Polly Bergen, Georgia Gibbs, Joel Grey, Steve Lawrence and a little-known singer named Paula Stewart, who in 1953 became his first wife. They divorced in 1958.
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    The Bacharach-David songwriting team enjoyed immediate success in 1957 with Marty Robbins’s “The Story of My Life” and Perry Como’s “Magic Moments.” Mr. Bacharach’s emerging melodic signature was discernible in early 1960s hits like Chuck Jackson’s “Any Day Now” (lyrics by Mr. Hilliard) and “Make It Easy on Yourself” (lyrics by Mr. David), a success for Jerry Butler in the United States and the Walker Brothers in Britain. In their Gene Pitney hits “(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance” and “Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa,” the team adopted a swaggering quasi-western sound.

    All the elements of Mr. Bacharach’s style coalesced in Ms. Warwick’s recordings, which he produced with Mr. David and arranged himself. In the typical Warwick hit, her voice was surrounded by strings and backup singers, the arrangements emphatically punctuated by trumpets echoing the influence of Herb Alpert’s Tijuana Brass.

    Among the other artists who had hits with the team’s songs were Jackie DeShannon (“What the World Needs Now Is Love”), Dusty Springfield (“Wishin’ and Hopin’,” “The Look of Love”), Tom Jones (“What’s New Pussycat?”) and the 5th Dimension (“One Less Bell to Answer”). But Ms. Warwick was their definitive interpreter.

    A Reunion
    After the “Lost Horizon” debacle, Mr. Bacharach worked predominantly as a concert performer, conducting his own instrumental suites and singing his own songs in an easygoing voice with a narrow range. He periodically released solo albums, of which the most ambitious was “Woman” (1979), a primarily instrumental song cycle recorded with the Houston Symphony. But these records had a negligible commercial impact.

    Time eventually healed the wounds from Mr. Bacharach’s split with Mr. David and Ms. Warwick, and he reunited first with Ms. Warwick most notably for “That’s What Friends Are For” and later with Mr. David, for “Sunny Weather Lover,” recorded by Ms. Warwick in the early 1990s. He found his greatest interpreter since Ms. Warwick in the pop-soul balladeer Luther Vandross, whose lush 1980s remakes of “A House Is Not a Home” and “Anyone Who Had a Heart” transformed them into dreamy quasi-operatic arias decorated with florid gospel melismas.

    Mr. Bacharach married Jane Hansen, his fourth wife, in 1993. She survives him, along with their son, Oliver; their daughter, Raleigh; and a son, Cristopher, from his marriage to Ms. Sager. Nikki Bacharach, his daughter with Angie Dickinson, committed suicide in 2007.
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    In his 60s, Mr. Bacharach found himself regarded with awe by a younger generation of musicians. Bands like Oasis and Stereolab included his songs in their repertoire. The British singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, a longtime admirer, collaborated with him on the ballad “God Give Me Strength” for the 1996 film “Grace of My Heart,” loosely based on the life of Carole King. That led them to collaborate on an entire album, “Painted From Memory” (1998), arranged and conducted by Mr. Bacharach, for which they shared music and lyric credits.

    A track from that album, “I Still Have That Other Girl,” won a Grammy for best pop vocal collaboration. It was the sixth Grammy of Mr. Bacharach’s career; he would win one more, in 2006, when his “At This Time” was named best pop instrumental album.

    The Bacharach-David team was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. Forty years later, shortly before Mr. David died at age 91, the two received the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song from the Library of Congress.
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    Mr. Bacharach remained in the public eye until the end. In December 2011, “Some Lovers,” a musical for which he wrote the music and Steven Sater wrote the lyrics, opened at the Old Globe in San Diego. “What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined,” a New York Theater Workshop production built on his songs, opened Off Broadway in December 2013. (An earlier revue based on the Bacharach-David catalog, “The Look of Love,” had a brief Broadway run in 2003.) As recently as 2020, Mr. Bacharach was still writing new music, releasing a collaboration with the singer-songwriter Melody Federer.

    In 2013, Mr. Bacharach began collaborating with Mr. Costello, Mr. Sater and the television writer and producer Chuck Lorre on a stage musical based on the “Painted From Memory” album but also including new songs. That project never came to fruition, although some of the new material ended up on Mr. Costello’s recent albums. All the music from the “Painted From Memory” project is included in “The Songs of Bacharach & Costello,” a boxed set that also includes Mr. Costello’s recordings of Bacharach songs, which is scheduled for release next month.

    Looking back on his career in his autobiography, Mr. Bacharach suggested that as a songwriter he had been “luckier than most.”

    “Most composers sit in a room by themselves and nobody knows what they look like,” he wrote. “People may have heard some of their songs, but they never get to see them onstage or on television.” Because he was also a performer, he noted, “I get to make a direct connection with people.”

    “Whether it’s just a handshake or being stopped on the street and asked for an autograph or having someone comment on a song I’ve written,” Mr. Bacharach added, “that connection is really meaningful and powerful for me.”

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    A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 10, 2023, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Burt Bacharach, 94, Whose Buoyant Pop Lifted the ’60s, Dies. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    February 9th

    1962: The Sunday Times publishes Ian Fleming's story "The Living Daylights", causing a conflict with The Daily Express.
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    On 9 February 1962 the new Sunday
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    colour magazine duly appeared with Ian’s story, though the overall
    Reception was distinctly cool. The very next day the long-running James
    Bond cartoon strip in Beavenbrook’s Daily Express was abruptly curtailed.
    Less than half the current story, Thunderball, had been published. The
    Friday strip had left the villain aboard a jet airliner muttering, “The Spectre
    people said that five minutes more would be long enough to kill them
    all. “ On Monday the artist and caption writer were told the series was
    ending. They had one more strip in which to conclude the narrative. They
    cobbled together the remaining picture frames, adding an abrupt final
    paragraph “Giuseppe flies the stolen atom bomber to the Bahamas and
    the bombs are hidden in the sea. Spectre’s ultimatum is sent to the British
    and US governments – ‘£100,000,000 in gold or we explode the bombs in
    your countries.’ Every agent, including Bond, searches for the bombs.
    Bond finds them and the world is saved.”

    1978: D'Artagnan Extracolor publishes #396 Otra vez Scaramanga (Scaramanga Again), using the strips from artist Yaroslav Horak and writer Jim Lawrence.
    They previously published D’Artagnan Extraordinario #350 as “El Hombre del Revolver de Oro to adapt the 1974 film.
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    Originally Published: D’Artagnan Extraordinario #350 as “El Hombre del Revolver de Oro
    Story Type: Film adaptation
    Writer: Alfredo Julio Grassi (under the pseudonym Fred W. Seymour)
    Artist: Lito Fernandez
    Translator: Clinton Rawls
    Notes: Regrettably, this adaptation takes little to nothing from Ian Fleming’s posthumous novel which, while considered to be incomplete by some, does take Bond to some interesting depths as a character. Fleming also creates a compelling villain in Scaramanga as he dives headfirst into playing with American Western fiction archetypes and imagery, much as he had done in the novel Diamonds Are Forever. The film version of Scaramanga lost much of what made the novel version interesting, though the character is memorably portrayed by Christopher Lee.

    This adaptation follows Guy Hamilton’s film version quite faithfully and in tightening the narrative manages to eliminate some of the film’s sillier moments and characters, along with—regrettably—some of its more memorable elements as well.
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    1983: Bond comic strip Flittermouse begins its run in The Daily Express. (Ends 20 May 1983. 553-624)
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    1995: BOND 17 films interiors for the Janus Satellite Control Center. 1996: 007: Kuldsilm released in Estonia.
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    1998: Nintendo releases James Bond 007 for Game Boy, a video game developed by Saffire.
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    2006: Casino Royale films the pre-title sequence and Bond's first two kills.

    2012: Skyfall films OO7 and M escaping to the Scottish highlands in the Aston Martin DB5.

    2020: No Time To Die 30 second TV trailer airs during the 92nd Academy Awards ceremony.

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    February 10th

    1941: Michael David Apted is born--Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.
    (He dies 7 January 2021 at age 79--Los Angeles, California.)
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    Michael Apted, director and Seven Up
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    British director made films Coal Miner’s Daughter and The World is
    Not Enough, and the long-running Up documentary series
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    Benjamin Lee | Fri 8 Jan 2021

    The British director Michael Apted has died at the age of 79.

    The film-maker and documentarian was known for films such as Gorillas in the Mist and Coal Miner’s Daughter, as well as his long-running series of Up documentaries.

    His death has been confirmed by his agency to the Hollywood Reporter. No further details are yet known.

    Apted’s career started in the 1960s on the small screen, and in 1964, he assisted on the the show Seven Up! as part of the current affairs show World in Action. He helped the director Paul Almond interview 14 seven-year-old children, and continued to independently revisit them every seven years over the course of their lives. The most recent, 63 Up, was released in 2019 and the director referred to it as “the most important thing I have ever done”. The series as a whole won the Peabody award in 2012.

    “The series was an attempt to do a long view of English society,” Apted said in an interview last year. “The class system needed a kick up the backside.”

    In promotion for the most recent installment, Apted expressed a desire to continue in another seven years’ time, saying he would continue as long as he “can breathe and speak”.

    In the 1970s, Apted made his big-screen debut, directing the second world war drama The Triple Echo, starring Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. But he saw see his first major film success in 1980 with Coal Miner’s Daughter, a Loretta Lynn biopic starring Sissy Spacek. It was nominated for seven Oscars, winning one for Spacek as best actress.
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    Apted went on to direct Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist, a film that also picked up five Oscar nominations; Nell, which scored an Oscar nomination for Jodie Foster; the Kate Winslet drama Enigma; the Jennifer Lopez thriller Enough and, most recently, the action film Unlocked starring Noomi Rapace.

    “What I like about women at the center of films is that I find that a woman character brings a lot of emotion to a story, whatever a story is,” he said in a 2017 interview. “Whether it’s a woman with gorillas or a country music singer, a woman’s emotional life – at least on the surface – is more dramatic than a man’s.”
    He also directed the James Bond adventure The World is Not Enough and the fantasy sequel The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.
    Apted has been remembered by his peers on Twitter, including Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids.

    “So very very sad to hear of the passing of Michael Apted,” Feig wrote. “He was always so kind to me and I was such a great admirer of his work.”

    Gale Anne Hurd, producer of Aliens and The Terminator, tweeted: “Another legendary filmmaker gone … a brilliant documentarian and a wonderful colleague. Do yourself a favor and check out his terrific filmography.”

    Apted is survived by his wife, Paige Simpson, sons Jim and John, and daughter Lily Mellis.
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    1962: Bond comic strip Thunderball in The Daily Express (started 11 December 1961; 1066-1128 ) suddenly ends midstream, due to a dispute over Fleming's arrangement to premiere his short story "The Living Daylights" in the competition--The Sunday Times. Later resolved, and comics resume in 1964's Daily Express with On Her Majesty's Secret Service. John McLusky, illustrator. Henry Gammidge, writer.
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    1966: Thunderball premieres in Dublin, Ireland.
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    February 10th 1966 saw a charity premiere held at the Savoy in Dublin. Luciana Paluzzi, Molly Peters, Kevin McClory and Cubby Broccoli were amongst the guests. This was followed by a party held by McClory at the Gresham Hotel.
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    1988: Kevin McClory in Variety announces an animated series James Bond vs. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. as a Dutch production.

    1995: GoldenEye starts filming its Q scenes.

    2013: BAFTAs awarded to BOND 23 for Best British Film, Best Original Music. Nominations included Javier Bardem, Judi Dench, Roger Deakins.
    2015: Daniel Craig returns to Spectre filming after a knee injury.

    2022: The wedding ring of Teresa di Vicenzo goes to auction at Sotheby's.
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    James Bond Wedding Band Hits the Auction Block
    Sotheby’s is selling an ‘All the Time in the World’ 1960s ring by Charles de Temple
    by Marion Fasel

    January 27, 2022—James Bond got married once. The union happened in the 1969 film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service starring George Lazenby as 007 and Diana Rigg as Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo who was more casually known as Teresa “Tracy” Draco.

    Charles de Temple designed the 18K bi-color gold openwork ring used to unite the cool couple. The message worked into the composition of the jewel says, ‘All the Time in the World.’ A textured white gold background makes the bulbous yellow letters pop off the surface. Some of the smaller words are horizontal. Overall, the look of the piece feels as though it has been melted somewhat through an intense action scene.
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    The ‘All the Time in the World’ wedding band designed by Charles de Temple for Diana Rigg to wear after she marries James Bond in ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.’ Photo Sotheby’s
    The phrase ‘All the Time in the World’ recurs throughout the movie and is the title of the theme song performed by the great Louis Armstrong. At the end of the film—spoiler alert—Bond’s bride is killed by assassins and he reads the words on the ring as he cradles her in his arms.

    De Temple made two of the ‘All the Time in the World’ rings for the production. When, Sotheby’s sold one of the two in 2019 all the excitement of a Bond movie premiere surrounded the event and drove up the price. The heated bidding leapt from the pre-sale estimate of £6,000-£8,000 (approximately $8,074-$10,765) to a whopping £52,500 (approximately $69,975).
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    In ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’ starring James Bond (George Lazenby) slides the Charles de Temple wedding band the finger of his bride Tracy Draco (Diana Rigg).
    Now Sotheby’s in London is selling the second ring from the film in the Fine Jewels Auction that opens on February 3 and closes February 10. The estimate is £15,000-£20,000 (approximately $20,185-$26,913). Chances are it will go for much more.

    The man behind the design, Charles de Temple, was born in Mexico and learned his craft in Massachusetts. When he relocated to Swinging London his textured gold and gem-set work captured the spirit of the era. He quickly became one of the coveted names among the fashionable set of jewelry designers including Andrew Grima, George Weil and John Donald.
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    De Temple’s imaginative approach made him just the right designer for Bond. At the 1964 premiere of Goldfinger, the actress Honor Blackman, who portrayed Pussy Galore, wore a de Temple 22K gold piece accented with a diamond that covered her pinky finger.

    After the premiere of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and the debut of the ‘All the Time in the World’ ring, de Temple created a limited-edition series of 50 designs that were slightly different than the two originals used in the movie.
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    2023: Peter Harrington Rare Books seeks 450K for the ultimate Bond collection.
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    Memorabilia Can Now Be Yours for $450,000
    It will be the largest 007 collection to ever hit the market.
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    It’s been 70 years since Ian Fleming introduced the world to James Bond, that enviably suave spy who spawned an entire genre of action-packed books, movies and other collectables. Now, one company is ringing in the Brit’s platinum anniversary with an epic sale of coveted items all related to our favorite MI6 agent.

    UK-based literature purveyor Peter Harrington Rare Books announced it will be offering a stunning assortment of rare James Bond film finds, including screenplays, costume designs, storyboards and more. Taking place in-person on West Coast next month, the sale will consist of 119 items—the most extensive 007 collection ever brought to market. And you snag the entire lot for a cool $450,000.

    Some highlights from the prized stash include the first draft of the script from the first Bond film, 1962’s Dr. No with Sean Connery, and the final version of the screenplay from Daniel Craig’s second [incorrect] appearance as 007 in Spectre, released in 2014 [imcorrect]. Other key pieces include a script from the unreleased Bond film Warhead, an autographed copy of the Bond 18 screenplay signed by Pierce Brosnan, along with other cast members, and one of the early drafts of Birth of a Legend, which would later become the first theatrical Bond film released. The inventory also contains keepsakes from Fleming’s reserve and materials from a slew of films focused on the British agent, from 1967’s Casino Royale to 1983’s Never Say Never Again.
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    Items from the collection include a first draft of the 1962 film ‘Dr. No’.
    “The real beauty of this collection is that it allows you to trace how the Bond films evolved from the germ of an idea—whether this was one of Fleming’s original Bond novels or a one-page film treatment—to their final visualization on the big screen,” Pom Harrington, owner of Peter Harrington, told Robb Report.
    The sale is taking place during the California International Antiquarian Book Fair, in Pasadena, from February 10 to 12. Looks like it’s your move, Mr. Bond.


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    February 11th

    1961: Carey Lowell is born--Huntington, New York.
    1962: Sheryl Suzanne Crow is born--Kennett, Missouri.

    1966: Thunderball general release in Ireland.

    1987: The Prince and Princess of Wales visit the Pinewood set of The Living Daylights.
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    2015: EON releases the first official photo of BOND 24.
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    2020: No Time To Die reveals more character posters.
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    2021: Screen Rant reports on the aborted Jinx spin-off project.
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    The script for a cancelled 2003 James Bond spinoff film by Neal Purvis and Robert Wade that tells Giacinta "Jinx" Johnson's origin has been revealed.
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    The plot for a canceled 2003 James Bond spinoff called Jinx details the origin story of female NSA operative Giacinta “Jinx” Johnson. Back in 2002, the Bond franchise was on the cusp of saying goodbye to arguably one of the series’ least popular 007’s, Pierce Brosnan. Die Another Day marked the fourth and final outing for Brosnan, and at the time, the series was very much in need of some new blood.

    Just how the long-running franchise was going to reinvent itself was uncertain, but for many, it felt as though an end of an era was at hand. James Bond, the classic Ian Fleming character who had navigated an untold number of life-threatening moments, seemed to have peaked. Reduced to schlocky gimmickry like driving an invisible car, Bond films had begun to feel as though they were simply going through the motions of evolution without doing any actual evolving. The time was definitely ripe for a major change, and between 2002 and 2006, some major restructuring of the franchise took place. During that time, many different ideas and concepts were undoubtedly considered, but ultimately it was the introduction of Daniel Craig as Bond and a more pared down and straightforward approach that won out.

    Thanks to the @007inLA Twitter account, however, Bond fans are now able to take a look at one of the options for change that occurred in 2003. Screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade, now synonymous with the successful direction that the Bond franchise ended up going in, had written a spinoff script that told the origin story of Halle Berry’s Die Another Day character, Jinx. The basic plot has been broken down by @007inLA, with more highlights from the script promised in the coming days:
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    Based on the recent Tweets, it’s clear that Jinx was orphaned during her childhood when a bomb killed both her parents. After being taken under the wing of “hardbitten career spy” Damien Falco, Jinx eventually grows up and begins to work for a think-tank called The Rand Corporation. She remains in close contact with Falco and eventually agrees to do a job for him. From the sounds of it, the script has the usual Bond-like cues, but ultimately, it was dropped as a legitimate possibility. It’s unclear as to whether or not the original plan had been to bring Halle Berry back as the character, but it’s certainly interesting to see a project like this having been considered all the way back in 2003.

    In the end, there’s no direct answer as to why Jinx was scrapped, but one of the reasons could be that the spinoff still seems to contain the sort of clichés and somewhat trite storytelling that made the Brosnan Bond era so bland. There’s still ample reason to believe that a female-led Bond spinoff could occur in the future, but the lack of solid popularity of 007 films like Die Another Day suggested that the concept was best saved for another time.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    February 12th

    1936: Joe Don Baker is born--Groesbeck, Texas.

    1942: Maud Solveig Christina Wikström (Maud Adams) is born--Luleå, Norrbottens län, Sweden.

    1967: Altinparmak (Goldfinger) released in Turkey.
    Later paperback cover art.
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    1987: The Living Daylights production films the scene in Gibraltar wherein OO7 witnesses the death of OO4.
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    1997: BOND 18 make-up and lighting tests for Jonathan Pryce.

    2005: Composer John Barry receives the BAFTA Fellowship award at The Orange British Academy Film Awards, Odeon Leicester Square, London.
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    2013: Skyfall released on DVD and Bluray in the US.
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    2014: Television mini-series Fleming premieres in the UK starring Dominic Cooper.
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    TV-MA | 44min | Biography, Drama, Romance | TV Mini-Series (2014)
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    Look at the 007 creator, Ian Fleming, and his early life set against the permissive society of war-torn WWII London.
    Series Directed by
    Mat Whitecross ... (4 episodes, 2014)
    Series Writing Credits
    John Brownlow ... (4 episodes, 2014)
    Don MacPherson ... (4 episodes, 2014)

    Series Cast
    4 Episodes
    Dominic Cooper ... Ian Fleming
    Lara Pulver ... Ann O'Neill
    Samuel West ... Rear Admiral John Godfrey
    Anna Chancellor ... Second Officer Monday
    Rupert Evans ... Peter Fleming
    Lesley Manville ... Evelyn Fleming
    Pip Torrens ... Esmond Rothermere
    Camilla Rutherford ... Loelia, Duchess of Westminster

    1-2 Episodes
    Annabelle Wallis ... Muriel Wright
    Dean Lennox Kelly ... Sergeant Dixon
    Stanley Townsend ... Colonel William Donovan
    Antonia Thomas ... Jazz Singer
    Tom Whitecross ... Dorchester Singer
    Harry Treadaway ... Sub Lieutenant Hepworth
    Iain Mitchell ... Viscount Alford
    Michael Maloney ... Rear Admiral Rushbrooke
    Eric Meyers ... Colonel William Stephenson
    Aurélien Recoing ... Admiral Francois Darlan
    Wolf Kahler ... Admiral Brandel
    Caroline Boulton ... Janet
    Pip Carter ... Flight Lieutenant Cholmondeley
    David Barrass ... Harbourmaster
    Iván Kamarás ... German Officer - Von Ostheim
    Werner Daehn ... Hugo Berger
    William Tapley ... Marine Commander Samuels
    János Füzi ... Nazi Sympathiser
    Phil McKee ... US Captain Curtis
    Tim Woodward ... Air Chief Marshall 'Bomber' Harris
    Zsolt Trill ... German Officer
    Gyula Mesterházy ... German Officer - Meyerling
    Declan Hannigan ... Lieutenant Commander Dalzel-Job
    Nóra Hörich ... Storm
    Bernadett Ostorhazi ... Ilsa Kovacs
    Maxine Adams ... Admiralty Secretary
    Lajos Szücs ... German Officer
    Scott Alexander Young ... SIS Paris Chief
    Miklós Kapácsy ... Spiv
    Béla Pavletits ... Russian Lieutenant Kuleshov
    Glyn Grimstead ... Florist
    Csaba Krisztik ... German Petty Officer Hupfeld
    Mike Kelly ... Hotel Manager
    Pamela Betsy Cooper ... Passerby
    Júlia Michl ... Darian's secretary
    Stuart Matthews ... Marine Ranson
    Marco Flammer ... Casino / ...
    Cser Kinga ... Anne's friend
    Adam Roberts ... Passerby
    Harry Kellermann ... Marine Weaver
    Henry Rouquairol ... News Vendor
    Lee Asquith-Coe ... Marine Cowie (uncredited)
    Dave Goshorn ... Marine (uncredited)
    Márk Szekulesz ... Pinstripe (uncredited)
    István Péntek ... Soldier (uncredited)
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    2015: A fire at Pierce Brosnan's five-mansion estate in Malibu destroys his Aston Martin Vanquish.
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    2015: The Spectre production shares a behind the scenes teaser of comments and footage in Austria.
    Here’s the first behind the scenes footage of SPECTRE. (1:49)

    2020: Bonhams auctions a pair of silver napkin rings.
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    12 Feb 2020, 10:00 GMT

    London, Knightsbridge
    James Bond interest: a pair of silver napkin rings
    William Base & Sons, Birmingham 1921
    Engraved 'James Bond, 007, On Her Majesty's Secret Service'; together with a pair of French silver vases, engraved 'Mr & Mrs James Bond, We have all the time in the world, 1969', weight 24oz. (4)
    Footnotes
    These pieces were presented to Peter R Hunt (the director of the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service) by the cast and filming crew. Thence to the present owner by descent.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    February 13th

    1916: Joseph Fürst is born--Vienna, Austria.
    (He dies 29 November 2005 at age 89--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.)
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    Joseph Fürst
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Furst
    Joseph Fürst (13 February 1916 – 29 November 2005) was an Austrian-born international film and television actor known for his English language roles in Britain and Australia, after first appearing on the Canadian stage.

    Career
    Fürst was regularly featured in UK television drama series of the 1960s and early 1970s with appearances in The Saint, The Champions, Doomwatch, The Persuaders!, and as the mad (and well remembered) Professor Zaroff in the Doctor Who story The Underwater Menace. Many people believe his accent in this role to have been put on; this is incorrect, it is in fact his real accent. He also played the role of Schneider in the Armchair Theatre play "A Magnum for Schneider", which launched Edward Woodward as the character of Callan. (The play led to the highly regarded Callan TV series.)
    Fürst's notable film appearances included 55 Days at Peking (1963), The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966), the James Bond movie Diamonds Are Forever (1971) as Dr Metz, and Inn of the Damned (1975).
    He emigrated to Australia and starting in the mid-1970s acted in several guest roles on Australian television drama series. His roles included several appearances in the top-rated police drama Division 4 produced by Crawford Productions in the 1970s. He played an ongoing role in soap opera Number 96 in 1976 as deli owner Carlo Lenzi, who was introduced to the series as a new Italian family alongside Arianthe Galani and Harry Michaels, his character romanced wine bar proprietor Norma Whittaker (Sheila Kennelly). He also played Heinrik Smeaton in The Young Doctors in 1979, and was a guest on situation comedy Kingswood Country, again opposite Kennelly. He guest starred in four episodes of A Country Practice in the early 1980s. In 1984, he starred in the ABC TV film The Schippan Mystery.

    Fürst was interviewed by Dwayne Bunney and Dallas Jones for "Loose Cannon" and spoke about his career in an interview to be an extra feature for the reconstruction of the missing Doctor Who story "The Underwater Menace". This interview took place shortly before his death.
    032 The Underwater Menace Interview with Joseph Furst (14:30)
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    Filmography
    Actor (80 credits)

    1986 Tusitala (TV Mini-Series) - Von Pilsarch
    - Teller of Tales: Part Three (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
    - Teller of Tales: Part Two (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
    - The Teller of Tales: Part One (1986) ... Von Pilsarch
    1985 The Dunera Boys (TV Mini-Series) - The Baron
    - Episode #1.2 (1985) ... The Baron (as Joseph Furst)
    - Episode #1.1 (1985) ... The Baron (as Joseph Furst)
    1984 Special Squad (TV Series) - Raddich
    - The Würzburg Link (1984) ... Raddich
    1984 The Schippan Mystery (TV Movie) - Mathias Schippan
    1982 Jonah (TV Mini-Series) - Hans Paach - 4 episodes
    1982 A Country Practice (TV Series) - Alex Popovich
    - Mates: Part 2 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
    - Mates: Part 1 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
    - Suffer Little Children: Part 2 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
    - Suffer Little Children: Part 1 (1982) ... Alex Popovich
    1980 Kingswood Country (TV Series) - Enzo Bertoluci
    - There's No Place Like Rome (1980) ... Enzo Bertoluci
    1980 Spy! (TV Series) - Colonel Malini
    - The Venlo Incident (1980) ... Colonel Malini
    1979-1980 Skyways (TV Series) - Poppa Fanelli / Pappa Fanelli
    - Pili (1980) ... Poppa Fanelli
    - Homecoming (1979) ... Pappa Fanelli

    1976 The Young Doctors (TV Series) - Heinrik Smeaton (1978)
    1976 Number 96 (TV Series) - Carlo Lenzi - 5 episodes
    1976 Luke's Kingdom (TV Series) - Storekeeper,
    - The Prisoner (1976) ... Storekeeper
    - An Enemy Too Many (1976) ... Storekeeper
    - Devil's Man (1976) ... Storekeeper
    - The Dam and the Damned (1976) ... Storekeeper
    - The Hypocrites (1976) ... Storekeeper
    - The King's Gentleman (1976) ... Storekeeper
    - The Surveyor (1976) ... Storekeeper
    - A Woman Waiting (1976) ... Storekeeper
    - A Man Worse Than Cormac (1976) ... Storekeeper
    - The Man From Home (1976) ... Storekeeper
    - The Bait (1976) ... Storekeeper
    - The Land Lovers (1976) ... Storekeeper
    - A Sort of Gentleman (1976) ... Storekeeper
    1975 Plugg - Judge, Fraudenheist
    1975 Inn of the Damned - Lazar Straulle
    1973-1975 Division 4 (TV Series) - Ernst Kaufmann / Emmanuel Czoski / Stefan Gronowski
    - Check, Check, Check (1975) ... Ernst Kaufmann
    - The Fanatic (1975) ... Emmanuel Czoski
    - Today Is Eagle Day (1973) ... Stefan Gronowski
    1974-1975 Behind the Legend (TV Series) - Ferdinand von Mueller
    - Tom Roberts (1975)
    - Ferdinand von Mueller (1974) ... Ferdinand von Mueller
    1974 Mother's Day (TV Movie)
    1974 The Evil Touch (TV Series) - Dr. Gornak
    - Gornak's Prism (1974) ... Dr. Gornak
    1973 ...And Millions Die! (TV Movie) - Franz Kessler
    1973 Ryan (TV Series) - Eric Stahl
    - Liz (1973) ... Eric Stahl
    1972 The Money Game (TV Movie)
    The Foreigner (voice)
    1972 The Far Country (TV Series) - 5 episodes
    1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Yelker
    - The Ozerov Inheritance (1971) ... Yelker (as Joseph Furst)
    1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Dr Metz (as Joseph Furst)
    1971 Take Three Girls (TV Series) - Leon Mailer
    - The Company of Madmen (1971) ... Leon Mailer
    1971 Paul Temple (TV Series) - Josef Walczak
    - Cue Murder! (1971) ... Josef Walczak
    1970 Goodbye Gemini - Georgiu
    1970 Sudden Terror - Local Police Sgt (as Joseph Furst)
    1970 Callan (TV Series) - Sabovski
    - A Village Called 'G' (1970) ... Sabovski (as Joseph Furst)
    1970 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Dr. Charles Goldsworthy
    - Re-Entry Forbidden (1970) ... Dr. Charles Goldsworthy

    1968-1969 The Champions (TV Series) - Dr. Rudolf Mueller / Chislenkan
    - The Search (1969) ... Dr. Rudolf Mueller
    - The Beginning (1968) ... Chislenkan
    1968 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - President Obotnik
    - The Flag (1968) ... President Obotnik
    1968 Vendetta (TV Series) - Paul Bonner
    - The Anniversary Man (1968) ... Paul Bonner
    1968 Hammerhead - Count Ortega
    1968 Mogul (TV Series) - Zaluchin
    - Stop It, You're Breaking My Heart (1968) ... Zaluchin
    1967 Boy Meets Girl (TV Series) - Mr. Swyvoski
    - Lucinda (1967) ... Mr. Swyvoski
    1967 Theatre of Death - Karl Schiller (as Joseph Furst)
    1960-1967 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Schneider / Ekhart / Ex-King Gustavus III
    - A Magnum for Schneider (1967) ... Schneider
    - Till the Day I Die (1961) ... Ekhart
    - A Heart and a Diamond (1960) ... Ex-King Gustavus III
    1967 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Professor Zaroff - 4 episodes
    1966 Harry Worth (TV Series) - Carl Mildenhoff
    - An Epic in the Sand (1966) ... Carl Mildenhoff
    1966 Arrivederci, Baby! - German Brasshat
    1966 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Professor Brodzinski
    - Corridors of Power (1966) ... Professor Brodzinski
    1966 Out of Town Theatre (TV Mini-Series) - Koplaski
    - The Great Kopalski (1966) ... Koplaski
    1963-1966 The Saint (TV Series)
    Karel Jorovitch / Kane Luker / Dr. Ernst Zellerman
    - The Russian Prisoner (1966) ... Karel Jorovitch (as Joseph Furst)
    - The Saint Plays with Fire (1963) ... Kane Luker
    - The Saint Sees It Through (1963) ... Dr. Ernst Zellerman (as Joseph Furst)
    1966 The Brides of Fu Manchu - Otto Lentz (as Joseph Furst)
    1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Colonel Bucholz
    - Enemy of the State (1966) ... Colonel Bucholz
    1961-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series)
    Bertheimer / Dr. Heller / Lecherenko / ...
    - Finesse in Diamonds (1965) ... Bertheimer
    - The Finambulists (1963) ... Dr. Heller
    - Freedom in September (1962) ... Lecherenko
    - I Remember Mama (1961) ... Lars Papa Hanson
    - The Poisoned Earth (1961) ... Dr. Brockmeyer
    1965 McGuire, Go Home! - Dr. Andros
    1964 The Wednesday Play (TV Series) -General Fitz Fromm
    - The July Plot (1964) ... General Fitz Fromm
    1964 The Midnight Men (TV Series) - King Alexander
    - Promise to Kill (1964) ... King Alexander
    - The King's Business (1964) ... King Alexander
    - Time of Danger (1964) ... King Alexander
    - The King Shall Die (1964) ... King Alexander
    - The Man from Miditz (1964) ... King Alexander
    1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Von Elm
    - Medal for a Turned Coat (1964) ... Von Elm
    1963 Sergeant Cork (TV Series) - Ernst Lukas
    - The Case of the Girl Upstairs (1963) ... Ernst Lukas
    1963 55 Days at Peking - Capt. Hanselman (as Joseph Furst)
    1963 Anna Christie (TV Movie) - Chris Christopherson
    1962 Freud - Herr Jacob Koertner (as Joseph Furst)
    1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Glidepath (1962) ... (as Joseph Furst)
    1962 Studio 4 (TV Series) - Doctor Korczak
    - Doctor Korczak and the Children (1962) ... Doctor Korczak
    1962 Man of the World (TV Series) - Wilhelm
    - Shadow of the Wall (1962) ... Wilhelm
    1961 Maigret (TV Series) - Gastin
    - The Liars (1961) ... Gastin
    1960-1961 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Hauptmann Denker / Colonel von Kohl / Dr. Görtler
    - Cross of Iron (1961) ... Hauptmann Denker
    - Twentieth Century Theatre: The Assassin (1960) ... Colonel von Kohl
    - Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before (1960) ... Dr. Görtler
    1961 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Koster
    - Assassin (1961) ... Koster
    1961 The Devil Inside - Paul Varna (as Joseph Furst)
    1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series) - Judge
    - The Sorcerer (1961) ... Judge (as Joseph Furst)
    1961 A Coming-Out Party - Luftwaffe Interrogator (as Joseph Furst)
    1960 Exodus - Avidan (as Joseph Furst)
    1960 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Descius Heiss
    - The Shop at Sly Corner (1960) ... Descius Heiss
    1960 R.C.M.P. (TV Series) - Vasyl
    - Violence at the Wedding (1960) ... Vasyl
    1960 Inside Story (TV Series) - Jacob Leibmann
    - The Protege (1960) ... Jacob Leibmann
    1960 Skyport (TV Series) - Dr. Haltrecht
    - Episode #1.44 (1960) ... Dr. Haltrecht
    1960 Counter-Attack! (TV Series) - Major Heinrich Wolf
    - Last Chance (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
    - Guard Duty (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
    - Traitor's Mark (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
    - Secret Agent (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
    - Sealed Orders (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
    - Escape (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf
    - White Flag (1960) ... Major Heinrich Wolf

    1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Doctor
    - Echo from Afar (1959) ... Doctor
    1953-1959 Encounter (TV Series) - Voller / ex-King Gustavus / Emil Thibodeau / ...
    - A Leap in the Dark (1959)
    - The Delicate Deal (1958) ... Voller
    - A Heart and a Diamond (1958) ... ex-King Gustavus
    - Chain Reaction (1958) ... Emil Thibodeau
    - A Question of Discipline (1958) ... Joe Greenwood
    - The Acrobats (1957)
    - It's Murder in Algiers (1955) ... Kadis
    - The Duke in Darkness (1954)
    - Deadlier Than the Male (1954)
    - A Look in the Mirror (1954)
    - Flight Into Egypt (1954)
    - Captain Carvallo (1953)
    - Operation North Star (1953)
    - Fortune My Foe (1953)
    - Guilt (1953) ... Inspector
    - The Vigil (1953) ... Prosecutor
    - Othello (1953) ... Iago
    1958-1959 The Unforeseen (TV Series)
    - Mademoiselle Fifi (1959)
    - The Ikon of Elijah (1958)
    1957-1958 Folio (TV Series)
    Doc Schwartz
    - The Strong Are Lonely (1958)
    - The Ottawa Man (1958) ... Doc Schwartz
    - The Secret Agent (1957)
    1958 The Telltale Heart (TV Movie) - Policeman
    1954-1958 On Camera (TV Series) - Henry Barron / Mr. Klotsy
    - The Absentee Murderer (1958) ... Henry Barron
    - They Shot an Arrow (1956) ... Mr. Klotsy
    - A Handful of Salt (1955)
    - The Waltz (1955)
    - Miracle at the Windsor (1954)
    - The Bottle Imp (1954)
    1955 First Performance (TV Series)
    - The Colonel and the Lady (1955)
    1955 CBC Summer Theatre (TV Series) - Baron
    - Captain Carvallo (1955) ... Baron
    1955 Scope (TV Series)
    - The Colonel and the Lady (1955)
    1953-1955 Playbill (TV Series) - Vanluven
    - The Mayerling Riddle (1955)
    - Death Pulls No Strings (1955)
    - Tobacco Farm (1954) ... Vanluven
    - Greek Street (1953)
    - Confession (1953)

    Self (1 credit)

    Citizen Varek (Short documentary) 1953
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    1965: The Michigan Daily reviews the latest Bond film Goldfinger.
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    ’GOLDFINGER’:
    James Bond’s Return
    Is Great Entertainment

    At the State Theater
    IF YOU HAVEN’T HEARD, James Bond is back in action. Of course
    if you’re from any of the surrounding cities (Lansing, Grand
    Rapids, Detroit) you’ve already seen the new film. “Goldfinger,” but
    if you do happen to be among the permanent residents of this
    cultural center of the Midwest, you must have had faith that
    eventually “Goldfinger” would get here too.

    And “Goldfinger” definitely is here—with all the slick action,
    Quick excitement and beautiful girls one could ask for. Once again
    James Bond suavely conquers fascinating women, fiendish plots and
    Vicious villains.

    This time Bond (Sean Connery) takes on the obese madman
    Auric Goldfinger (Bert [sic] Frobe)and a plot to rob the U.S. treasury at
    Fort Knox. And as you well know, there is also that devastating
    female with the delightfully appropriate name of Pussy Galore to
    add spice to the whole thing.

    IN RETROSPECT to the other Bond thrillers, “Goldfinger” is not
    as finely craft or successful as “From Russia With Love’,” which
    more complex plot and much more structural subtlety.

    But who cares in the long run? The producers assure that the
    audience will have seen the other films and thus read into the
    characters of “M,” Miss Moneypenny and others.

    Goldfinger” is a gas. The plot is wild, and the sets are fantastic.
    The miniature replica of Fort Knox, while realistically improbable, is
    brilliant fun. And the tone of the film is set by the first five minutes
    before and daring the titles when Bond scales walls, slugs a guard,
    breaks into a secret headquarters, blows it up, seduces a girl,
    kills an assassin and heads back to London. With all this accomplished
    Goldfinger” can begin.

    AND THE PAVE continues. The direction is deft and the photog-
    graphy is in rich, lush color which adds to the farcical element of the
    film by casually exploiting the ridiculous.

    So even if “Goldfinger” fails to achieve the tastefulness and totality
    of purpose and effect that “From Russia With Love” accomplished,
    and although the humor is often forced or crude, it is great entertain-
    ment.

    —Hugh Holland

    1970: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in Ireland.

    1987: It's a wrap for the filming of The Living Daylights.

    1995: BOND 17 filming of the Monaco-Monte Carlo scenes take place in England.

    2002: Producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson receive a special award from the London Film Critics' Circle recognizing the 40th anniversary of the James Bond films.

    2017: Special effects company for BOND 25 readies a Bell UH-1D helicopter for transport from Germany to UK. 2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond: Origin #6.
    Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.
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    JAMES BOND ORIGIN #6
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    Cover A: John Cassaday
    Cover B: Mirko Colak
    Cover C: Sanya Anwar
    Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
    Cover E: Bob Q
    Writer: Jeff Parker
    Art: Bob Q
    Genre: Action/Adventure
    Publication Date: February 2019
    Format: Comic Book
    Page Count: 32 Pages
    ON SALE DATE: 2/13/2019
    "Izabel" by JEFF PARKER (Suicide Squad, Fantastic Four) and BOB Q (The Lone Ranger).

    The ongoing adventures of James Bond during World War II continue, in a standalone tale set in Lisbon. A savvy local woman knows how to survive and thrive, despite the hardships of war. But a desperate German scientist needs her help, and she becomes involved with a young British man, that's (not yet) very good at being a spy...
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    2020: BOND 25 planned release date in Germany and Portugal.
    (Later shifted to April 2020. Then April 2021. Latest October 2021.)
    Release Dates

    UK 31 March 2020 (London) (premiere)

    Germany 2 April 2020
    Spain 2 April 2020
    UK 2 April 2020
    Greece 2 April 2020
    Netherlands 2 April 2020
    Saudi Arabia 2 April 2020

    Finland 3 April 2020
    Ireland 3 April 2020
    India 3 April 2020
    Norway 3 April 2020
    Poland 3 April 2020
    Sweden 3 April 2020
    Turkey 3 April 2020
    2020: The No Time To Die title song "No Time To Die" sung by Billie Eilish comes available.
    "No Time To Die", Billie Eilish
    Produced by Stephen Lipson & FINNEAS
    I should have known
    I'd leave alone
    Just goes to show
    That the blood you bleed
    Is just the blood you owe
    We were a pair
    But I saw you there
    Too much to bear
    You were my life, but life is far away from fair
    Was I stupid to love you?
    Was I reckless to help?
    Was it obvious to everybody else?

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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 14,085
    February 14th

    1927: Lois Maxwell is born--Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
    (She dies 29 September 2007--Fremantle, Australia.)
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    Lois Maxwell: she played Miss Moneypenny for 23 years
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    Lois Maxwell, the Canadian actress who died on Saturday aged 80, played Miss Moneypenny in 14 James Bond films; although other younger women later took over the part, she was widely regarded as the definitive Moneypenny, M's spinsterly secretary secretly in love with 007.

    She was 33 when she screen-tested for Dr No (1962), the first Bond film, and was originally offered the part eventually played by Eunice Grayson, one of Bond's conquests, seen putting golf balls down the hall of his flat dressed only in his pyjama top.

    But Lois Maxwell did not regard her legs as her strongest point, and while Bond's creator Ian Fleming told her she had the most kissable lips in the world, one film director took a different view: "Lois, you don't smell of sin. You look as though you smell of soap."

    Accordingly - in crisp blouse and skirt - she landed the Moneypenny role, cast originally against Sean Connery in Dr No. Lois Maxwell later mused on the on-screen chemistry between the chaste Miss Moneypenny and the swashbuckling agent, licensed to kill: "Say there'd been an affair a long time before, only she knew he would have broken her heart, just as he knew it would have ruined his career in the Secret Service. So they were doomed to appreciate each other's qualities."

    Although she played the part for 23 years, she was on screen for less for an hour and spoke fewer than 200 words in all 14 films, her lines running an emotional gamut from "James, you're late" to "When are we going to have that dinner?" Her last Moneypenny appearance was opposite Roger Moore as Bond in A View To A Kill (1985).

    Never paid more than £100 a day, her first appearance in Dr No took only two days to shoot, and those in her 13 subsequent Bond films were just as modest in scale. For her first five films, Lois Maxwell wore her own clothes.

    "Always the same role, the smallest," she remarked ruefully in an interview for the Telegraph Magazine in 1997. The camera would find her sitting at a desk in the corner of a nondescript office, on the telephone or riffling papers. But when Bond enters, she greets him with a grin of pure joy.

    "It is not a beautiful face," observed Byron Rogers, who interviewed her for the Telegraph 10 years ago, "it is a wonderful face, long and funny and older than all the others… The other women in Bond films are two-dimensional, who only ever want to go to bed with him or stab him, but there is one who loves him, though she knows nothing will ever come of this.

    "That is the way Lois Maxwell played Moneypenny, making her the one grown-up among sexpots and psychopaths."

    Not everyone realised that she was Canadian. "Moneypenny," exclaimed the Prince of Wales on meeting her. "I would never have believed you're not English. I must tell the family."
    Born Lois Ruth Hooker on February 14 1927 at Kitchener, Ontario, one of four children, her early career as a child radio performer was disrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War when her father, a teacher, enlisted and sailed for England. At the age of 16 she ran away from home to join the Canadian Army Show, but failed to tell the authorities about her age, and after touring England in the back of a truck was eventually dishonourably dismissed. Just before she was due to be shipped home, she went AWOL in London.

    While living in a garret in Paddington, Lois won a Lady Louis Mountbatten scholarship to Rada, where she first met Roger Moore, then 17 and later to star in seven Bond films, and - crowned in a red wig - played his uncle in a student production of Henry V.

    At 20 she was working in the professional theatre when a talent scout spotted her and took her to Hollywood. At Warner Brothers, Lois found herself in the same intake as another promising actress named Norma Jeane Baker, with whom she was photographed for Life magazine. Both changed their name, Norma Jeane becoming Marilyn Monroe and Lois Hooker, advised that this was an infelicitous name for an starlet, changing to Lois Maxwell, a name borrowed from a gay ballet dancer friend and which was adopted by the rest of her family too.

    She won a Golden Globe award as best newcomer for her role in the Shirley Temple comedy That Hagen Girl (1947).

    Playing opposite Ronald Reagan in Bedtime For Bonzo (1951) she found the future president handsome and attractive, but became less enamoured of the studio system, and moved to Rome for five years, becoming an amateur racing driver. After a broken love affair with the brother of an Italian prince, she married a British television executive called Peter Marriott, a former commander of the Viceroy of India's household troops who, by coincidence, was screen-tested as a possible James Bond by the producer Cubby Broccoli.

    In addition to her career in the Bond films Lois Maxwell was a successful television actress, appearing in episodes of UFO, The Persuaders, The Baron, The Saint and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). She also provided the voice for Troy Tempest's love interest, Atlanta Shore, in Gerry Anderson's puppet series Stingray.

    In the late 1960s she starred in Adventures In Rainbow Country, a popular Canadian television series, and in 1967 appeared as Moneypenny in a television special Welcome To Japan, Mr Bond. More recently, she became a regular fixture at Bond film festivals.

    Her last feature film was The Fourth Angel (2001) starring Jeremy Irons and Forest Whitaker.

    Widowed at 46 when her husband died of a heart attack in 1973, Lois Maxwell returned to her native Canada, bought a farm and worked for a business importing crowd-control barriers. She later wrote a column for the Toronto Sun which she signed "Moneypenny" and in which, for 14 years, she expounded trenchant Right-wing opinions.

    Always an adventurous woman, she held a pilot's licence, regularly went on safari and in the 1980s sailed the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Singapore, armed with M16 machine guns and incendiary rockets to ward off pirates.

    In the 1980s she settled at Frome in Somerset, and after a successful cancer operation went to recuperate at her son's home at Freemantle, near Perth, western Australia. At the time of her death, she was working on her autobiography, to be called Born A Hooker.

    Lois Maxwell is survived by her daughter and son.
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    Filmography
    Actress (88 credits)

    2001 The Fourth Angel - Olivia

    1998 Hard to Forget (TV Movie) - Helen Applewhite

    1989 Lady in the Corner (TV Movie) - Mary Smith
    1988 Martha, Ruth & Edie - Edie Carmichael
    1988 Rescue Me (TV Movie) - Phyllis
    1987 Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) - Ms. Golden
    - If the Shoe Fits (1987) ... Ms. Golden
    1985 Eternal Evil - Monica Duval
    1985 A View to a Kill - Miss Moneypenny
    1985 The Edison Twins (TV Series) - Charlotte Gateau
    - Let Them Eat Cake (1985) ... Charlotte Gateau
    1984 Peep (TV Movie) - Mrs. Powell
    1983 Octopussy - Miss Moneypenny
    1981 For Your Eyes Only - Miss Moneypenny

    1980 Mr. Patman - Director

    1979 Lost and Found - English Woman
    1979 Moonraker - Miss Moneypenny
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Miss Moneypenny

    1977 Age of Innocence - Mrs. Hogarth
    1975 From Hong Kong with Love - Miss Moneypenny
    1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - Moneypenny
    1973 Live and Let Die - Moneypenny

    1972/I Endless Night - Cora
    1971 The Persuaders! (TV Series) - Louise Cornell
    - Someone Waiting (1971) ... Louise Cornell
    1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Moneypenny
    1970-1971 UFO (TV Series) - Miss Holland
    - The Man Who Came Back (1971) ... Miss Holland
    - The Cat with Ten Lives (1970) ... Miss Holland
    1969-1970 Adventures in Rainbow Country (TV Series) - Nancy Williams
    - The Tower (1970) ... Nancy Williams
    - The Skydiver (1969) ... Nancy Williams
    - The Return of Eli Rocque (1969) ... Nancy Williams
    - Night Caller (1969) ... Nancy Williams
    - The Muskies Are Losing Their Teeth (1969) ... Nancy Williams
    1970 The Adventurers - Woman at Fashion Show (uncredited)
    1970 Department S (TV Series) - Mary Burnham
    - The Ghost of Mary Burnham (1970) ... Mary Burnham

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Moneypenny
    1969 My Partner the Ghost (TV Series) - Kim Wentworth
    - For the Girl Who Has Everything (1969) ... Kim Wentworth
    1967 You Only Live Twice - Miss Moneypenny
    1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) - Miss Moneypenny

    1967 Operation Kid Brother - Max
    1966-1967 The Saint (TV Series) - Beth Parish / Helen
    - Simon and Delilah (1967) ... Beth Parish
    - Interlude in Venice (1966) ... Helen
    1966 Rome, Sweet Home (TV Movie)
    1966 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Felisa Henderson
    - The Millionaire's Daughter (1966) ... Felisa Henderson
    1966 The Baron (TV Series) - Charlotte Russell
    - Something for a Rainy Day (1966) ... Charlotte Russell
    1965 Thunderball - Moneypenny
    1964-1965 Stingray (TV Series) - Lieutenant Atlanta Shore / Milly Carson / Marinville Tracking Station / ...
    - Aquanaut of the Year (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
    - Marineville Traitor (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
    - Hostages of the Deep (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore / Milly Carson (voice)
    - The Golden Sea (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
    - The Master Plan (1965) ... Lieutenant Atlanta Shore (voice)
    1965 The Ambassadors (TV Movie) - Sarah Pocock
    1964 Goldfinger - Moneypenny
    1964 Ghost Squad (TV Series) - Elizabeth Creasey
    - Party for Murder (1964) ... Elizabeth Creasey
    1964 The Avengers (TV Series) - Sister Johnson
    - The Little Wonders (1964) ... Sister Johnson
    1963 From Russia with Love - Miss Moneypenny
    1963 The Haunting - Grace Markway
    1957-1963 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Helen Hunter / Genevieve Lang / Miss Baumer
    - The Touch of a Dead Hand (1963) ... Helen Hunter
    - Skyline for Two (1959) ... Genevieve Lang
    - Heaven and Earth (1957) ... Miss Baumer
    1963 Come Fly with Me - Gwen Sandley
    1962 Zero One (TV Series) - Miss. Smith
    - The Marriage Broker (1962) ... Miss. Smith
    1962 Dr. No - Miss Moneypenny
    1962 Lolita - Nurse Mary Lore
    1961 The Unstoppable Man - Helen Kennedy
    1961 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Margot
    - Nina and the Night People (1961) ... Margot
    1961 One Step Beyond (TV Series)- Esther Hollis
    - The Room Upstairs (1961) ... Esther Hollis
    1960 Danger Man (TV Series) - Sandi Lewis
    - Position of Trust (1960) ... Sandi Lewis
    1960 Rendezvous (TV Series) - Mother
    - The Dodo (1960) ... Mother

    1959 Face of Fire - Ethel Winter
    1958 Television Playwright (TV Series) - Ruth Ann Wicker
    - The Transmogrification of Chester Brown (1958) ... Ruth Ann Wicker
    1957 O.S.S. (TV Series) - Virginia
    - Operation Orange Blossom (1957) ... Virginia
    1957 Sailor of Fortune (TV Series) - Judith
    - Port Jeopardy (1957) ... Judith
    1957 Kill Me Tomorrow - Jill Brook
    1957 Time Without Pity - Vickie Harker
    1956 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Cass Edgerton
    - The Reclining Figure (1956) ... Cass Edgerton
    1956 Rheingold Theatre (TV Series) - Tracy Carmichael / Ann / Cynthia
    - One Can't Help Feeling Sorry (1956) ... Tracy Carmichael
    - Someone Outside (1956) ... Ann
    - A Fast Buck (1956) ... Cynthia
    1956 High Terrace - Stephanie Blake
    1956 Aggie (TV Series) - Barbara
    - Monk's Prior (1956) ... Barbara
    1956 Satellite in the Sky - Kim Hamilton
    1956 The Petrified Forest (TV Movie) - Gabby Maple
    1956 Passport to Treason - Diane Boyd
    1955 Torpedo Zone - Lt. Lily Donald
    1953 Aida - Amneris
    1953 Man in Hiding - Thelma Speight / Tasman
    1952 Orient Express (TV Series) - Lynn Walker
    - Blue Camellia (1952) ... Lynn Walker
    1952 Twilight Women - Christine
    1952 Scotland Yard Inspector - Margaret 'Peggy' Maybrick
    1952 Ha da venì... don Calogero - Maestrina
    1952 The Woman's Angle - Enid Mansell
    1952 Love and Poison - Queen Christina
    1952 Viva il cinema!
    1951 Lebbra bianca - Erika
    1950 Tomorrow Is Too Late - Signorina Anna, teacher

    1949 Kazan - Louise Maitlin
    1949 The Crime Doctor's Diary - Jane Darrin
    1948 The Decision of Christopher Blake - Miss McIntyre (uncredited)
    1948 The Dark Past - Ruth Collins
    1948 The Big Punch - Karen Long
    1948 Corridor of Mirrors - Lois
    1947 That Hagen Girl - Julia Kane
    1946 Springtime - Penelope Cobb (uncredited)
    1946 A Matter of Life and Death - Actress (uncredited)
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    1952: In part in reaction to his recent marriage, Ian Fleming begins writing Casino Royale at Goldeneye.
    1956: Ian Fleming writes to publisher Michael Howard.
    Forgive this tropic scrawl.
    I'm sitting in the shade gazing out
    across the Carribean and it is heroic
    that I am writing at all.

    1964: James Bond 007 - Liebesgrüße aus Moskau (James Bond 007 - Greetings from Moscow) released in West Germany.
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    1973: Live and Let Die films the last scene with OO7 and Solitaire on the train.
    1975: Lourdes Faberes is born--Manila, Philippines.

    1989: James Bond dies at age 89--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
    (Born 4 January 1900--Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)
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    The birds of James Bond
    Posted on May 10, 2015 by JGS editor
    Rodrigo B. Salvador1 & Barbara M. Tomotani2

    1 Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart; Stuttgart, Germany. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; Tübingen, Germany. Email: salvador.rodrigo.b (at) gmail (dot) com
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    “The name is Bond, James Bond.”
    This particular British Secret Service agent is known worldwide through numerous books, comics, videogames and, of course, films. James Bond was created by Ian Fleming and the series now outlives its creator, continuing to grow on a somewhat constant rate. Fleming’s superspy character was based on many people he met during the time he spent serving in the British Naval Intelligence Division during World War II. In his own words, James Bond “was a compound of all the secret agents and commando types I met during the war”.

    But what few know is where the name comes from. Actually, it was not invented by Fleming for the character; instead, it was borrowed from a real person. So who was the original James Bond and how Fleming came to know him and to borrow his name?

    LICENSE TO MAP
    James Bond was born in Philadelphia on 4 January 1900. After his mother’s death during his teens, in 1914, he moved with his father to England, going to Cambridge University and receiving his degree in 1922. Back in Philadelphia, after less than three years working for a banking firm, his love of natural history led him to join an expedition of the ANSP (Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia) to the lower Amazon River in Brazil. His father, Francis E. Bond, who led an ANSP expedition (when James was 11) to the Orinoco Delta, perhaps influenced James’ decision, as well as his interest in the natural sciences.
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    James Bond, in 1974. Photo taken at the ANSP
    by Jerry Freilich. (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)
    After the expedition to the Amazon, James Bond became a true ornithologist (see Box 1 for a glossary) and curator of the ANSP and started to publish many scientific papers on the South American birds. Nevertheless, he soon decided that the focus of his studies would be the Caribbean birds and this became his life’s work. He spent the next decades travelling through the Caribbean islands and studying their avifauna. The main result of his work in the region was the book “Birds of the West Indies” (1936), containing a scientific account (with descriptions, habits, geographic distribution etc.) of all the known species from the islands. The book was renamed “Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies” on its second edition (1947), but reverted to the original name on the third edition (1961). Also, from the third edition onwards, the book featured color plates of the birds (by Don R. Eckelberry) and more simplified descriptions. This made the book more similar to modern field guides, making it a must for scientists and birdwatchers alike. After the final edition (1985), Bond kept the book updated via a series of 27 supplements. He finished revising a sixth edition shortly before his death (on 14 February 1989, after a years-long fight with cancer).
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    Cover of the first edition of “Birds of the West Indies”,
    featuring the Jamaican tody (Todus todus).
    From all the islands that James Bond visited, perhaps the one that most fascinated him was Jamaica, where he realized that the native avifauna was derived from North America, and not from South America as was previously supposed. This kind of study is part of the discipline known as Biogeography and led Bond, in 1971, to establish a biogeographic boundary between the Lesser Antilles and Tobago. This line separates two zones, the West Indies and South America, each with its own type of avifauna. This later led David Lack to propose, in 1973, the name “Bond’s Line” for this boundary.
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    Map of the Caribbean Islands, showing
    the West Indies avifaunal region, encompassed by
    Bond’s Line. (Source: Bond, 1993.)
    Besides the books, Bond published more than 100 scientific papers and was awarded many medals and honors throughout his career. He is known today as the father or Caribbean ornithology. What he did not expected though, was the other Bond, which appeared in Jamaica of all places, and caused him a certain deal of consternation.
    GOLDENEYE

    It was only in 1960–1961 that Bond discovered his fictional namesake from Ian Fleming’s novels, after several novels had already been published (the first one, “Casino Royale”, dates from 1953). This led his wife Mary to write the book “How 007 Got His Name” (published in 1966). In this book, she tells how she jokingly wrote a letter to Fleming saying that he had “brazenly taken the name of a real human being for your rascal!”

    Fleming was a British novelist and spent a couple of months every year in his estate (named Goldeneye) on Oracabessa Bay, on the northern coast of Jamaica. He was interested in the Jamaican wildlife and had a growing collection of book on shells, birds, fish and flora. Also, as any keen birdwatcher on the Caribbean, Fleming used the “Field Guide of Birds of the West Indies” (he had the 2nd edition, from 1947) and was thus very familiar with the name James Bond. On his reply to Mary’s letter, he explained that he “was determined that my secret agent should be as anonymous a personality as possible. (…) At this time one of my bibles was, and still is, Birds of the West Indies by James Bond, and it struck me that this name, brief, unromantic and yet very masculine, was just what I needed and so James Bond II was born.” On a later interview, Fleming explained further his choice of name: “I wanted the simplest, dullest, plainest-sounding name I could find, ‘James Bond’ was much better than something more interesting, like ‘Peregrine Carruthers’. Exotic things would happen to and around him, but he would be a neutral figure – an anonymous, blunt instrument wielded by a government department.”
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    The Goldeneye estate, as of 2011.
    (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)
    On that letter to Mary, Fleming added that in return for using the name he could offer “your James Bond unlimited use of the name Ian Fleming for any purpose he may think fit. Perhaps one day he will discover some particularly horrible species of bird which he would like to christen in an insulting fashion.” This never happened though. Finally, Fleming also invited the Bonds to visit him in Jamaica. This happened in 1964, when the Bonds were there researching and paid a surprise visit to Fleming. This was shortly before the novelist’s death six months later, and luckily, this one-time meeting was captured in video for a future documentary. At first, Fleming was suspicious of Bond’s identity and asked him to identify some birds. Bond, of course, passed the test with flying colors and Fleming had the happiest day of the rest of his life.
    FROM JAMAICA WITH LOVE
    Jamaica, despite being a rather small country, has a very diverse avifauna. There are circa 320 bird species living in Jamaica, including migrants. From these, 28 are endemic species, 12 are endangered and 14 are introduced. Some of these species have fascinated James Bond, Ian Fleming and countless other tourists and birdwatchers. Moreover, since Ian Fleming was such a keen birdwatcher, birds sometimes featured in his stories (and later in the films), and a collection of bird trivia can be found in Box 2 further below.

    We will now briefly introduce some of the more interesting Jamaican birds and explore a little bit of their natural history and even folklore.
    Red-Billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus)
    The red-billed streamertail, also known as doctor bird or scissortail hummingbird, appears in Fleming’s short story “For Your Eyes Only” (1960). The first lines of the story are: “The most beautiful bird in Jamaica, and some say the most beautiful bird in the world, is the streamer-tail or doctor humming-bird.” It is very hard to crown a “most beautiful” bird, but the red-billed streamertail is indeed remarkable. The feathers on the male’s tail (the “streamers”) are longer than their actual body and make a humming sound during flight. James Bond (the ornithologist) seems to agree; well, partially, at least: his book says that the “adult male is the most spectacular West Indian hummingbird”.

    This species is the most abundant and widespread bird in Jamaica and was actually selected as the country’s national bird. Frederic G. Cassidy (1962–2000), who studied the evolution of the English language in Jamaica, says that the name doctor bird comes from the way the animals spear the flowers with their beaks to feed. Still, the term “doctor” also carries a superstitious overtone (as in “witch-doctor”) and Cassidy notes that natives referred to these hummingbirds as “god birds”.
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    Male (top) and female (bottom) of the
    Red-Billed Streamertail (Trochilus polytmus). (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)
    Jamaican Tody (Todus todus)
    The todies belong to the order Coraciiformes, a group that also includes kingfishers, rollers and bee-eaters. The Jamaican tody was at first believed to be a species of hummingbird. Later, it received the name of robin, due to its small size and round appearance. This early folk name still survives in Jamaica as robin red-breas’, an allusion to the bird’s red colored patch below the beak and a copy of the English name of another bird. Robin redbreast is the old name of the European robin (Erithacus rubecula), a totally unrelated species.

    The Jamaican tody is a tiny bird that feeds on insects and fruits, nesting in excavated burrows. James Bond was especially interested in the nesting behavior of birds and studied this topic at length. He chose the Jamaican tody as the cover of the first edition of “Birds of the West Indies” (1936). It has a very small geographic distribution and its population seems to be steadily decreasing in the last decade.
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    The Jamaican Tody, Todus todus.
    (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)
    Jamaican Poorwill (Siphonorhis americana)
    Also known as Jamaican pauraque, this nocturnal bird is a species of nightjar, of the family Caprimulgidae. The family name comes from the Latin caprimulgus (goatsucker) and reflects the absurd folk “lore” that these birds sucked milk from goats.

    Very little is known about the Jamaican poorwill – it had been extinct long before Bond’s studies, since 1859. It was driven to extinction by introduced rats and mongooses, alongside the usual human-caused habitat destruction. Since the birds nest on the ground, their eggs are easy prey for these introduced mammals. Nevertheless, there are some recent (1998) records of caprimulgids from the regions of the Milk River and the Hellshire Hills in the country, but they remain unconfirmed. Thus, a very small population of poorwills might still exist in these remote regions. Curiously, Bond had also previously alluded to the possibility of a surviving population of these birds on the semi-arid Hellshire Hills.
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    The Jamaican poorwill, Siphonorhis americana.
    (Source: Rothschild, 1907.)
    Jamaican Blackbird (Nesopsar nigerrimus)
    The Jamaican blackbird (family Icteridae) is the only species in its genus and all of its names are rather misleading. Firstly, it is not an actual blackbird (Turdus merula, family Turdidae), which is a species of thrush. Nevertheless, the family Icteridae is popularly known as “New World blackbirds”, so we can let this one slip. As for the scientific name, the genus name comes from the Greek neso (island) and psar (starling) and, as one might guess, this bird is completely unrelated to true starlings (family Sturnidae). Finally, the specific epithet (see Salvador, 2014, for a crash course in species’ scientific names) means simply “very black”, which might not be so descriptive of a “blackbird” after all.
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    The Jamaican blackbird, Nesopsar nigerrimus.
    (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)
    Nevertheless, a local Jamaican popular name for this bird is “wild-pine sergeant” and is more accurate than the other names. These birds feed on insects they find in tree bark or bromeliads (locally known as “wild-pines”) and are adapted to climbing trees, similar to woodpeckers. They inhabit the montane forests of Jamaica and are arranged in pairs of birds, each pair occupying a vast territory. The severe deforestation caused by mining, forestry, charcoal production and agriculture has led to an extreme habitat loss incompatible with the blackbirds’ large territories. The species is thus considered endangered, but only some very shy efforts have been made towards its preservation.

    Sad Flycatcher (Myiarchus barbirostris)
    The sad flycatcher (together with the lesser Antillean pewee, Contopus latirostris) is commonly called little Tom-fool by the Jamaican people, for its habit of refusing to fly away when threatened. This flycatcher species inhabits the forests of Jamaica and, as their name imply, feed on insects. In fact, the genus name comes from the Greek muia (fly) and archos (ruler), while the specific epithet refers to the presence of rictal bristles. These bristles are modified feathers (that look like mammals’ whiskers) projecting from the beak; they not only provide tactile feedback (as whiskers do), but also supposedly protect the birds’ eyes as they consumes their wriggly insect prey.
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    The sad flycatcher, Myiarchus barbirostris.
    (Source: Wikimedia Commons.)
    To avoid confusion, we must note here that the sad flycatcher is part of the group known as “New World flycatchers” or “tyrant flycatchers” (the family Tyrannidae). The “Old World flycatchers” belong to another family, Muscicapidae, which is only distantly related to the Tyrannidae.

    Jamaican Crow (Corvus jamaicensis)
    This bird is locally known as “jabbering crow” of “gabbling crow”, for it can produce a variety of jabbering sounds (besides the common “caw” of crows). Their incessant jabbering may also sound like indistinct human languages and, to the British, rather like Welsh people, which led to the birds being nicknamed “Welshmen” in a typical bout of Brit humor.

    The Jamaican crows live mainly in the country’s uplands, but may come down to the lowlands during the dry season. They feed mainly on fruit and invertebrates, but may occasionally eat other birds’ eggs and nestlings.
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    (Source: Internet Bird Collection, IBC155934.
    Courtesy of Ken Simonite.)

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    YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE
    Bond’s work with the Caribbean avifauna set the basis for ornithology in the region and most of his insights have been continuously proved accurate. As such, his influence in science shall remain relevant for a long time to come. Well, at least until humans have extinguished all the bird species in the region – unfortunately, birds live only once and Jamaica has already lost three of its endemic species. Meanwhile, the other Bond also remain a relevant figure in popular culture and imagination, with his over-the-top stories, exotic locations, strange villains, Bond girls, fancy suits, weaponized cars and a number of crazy gadgets. James Bond has thus the (somewhat dubious) honor of having his name twice immortalized in History, as a brilliant ornithologist and as a womanizing superspy. (We believe the latter is better remembered than the former though.)

    But for those of you thinking that a birder’s life is much duller than a spy’s life, some words from the naturalist and writer Alexander F. Skutch (1904–2004) might change your mind or at the very least make you revisit your beliefs: “our quest of them [birds] takes us to the fairest places; to find them and uncover some of their well-guarded secrets we exert ourselves greatly and live intensely.”
    REFERENCES
    Avibase. (2015) Bird Checklists of the World. Jamaica. Available from: http://avibase.bsc-eoc.org/checklist.jsp?region=jm&list=clements (Date of access: 02/Apr/2015).

    Bond, J. (1993) A Field Guide to the Birds of the West Indies. Fifth edition (Peterson Field Guides). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston.

    Bond, M.F.W.P. (1966) How 007 Got His Name. Collins, London.

    Cassidy, F.G. (2006) Jamaica Talk: Three Hundred Years of the English Language in Jamaica. University of the West Indies Press, Kingston.

    Clements, J.F.; Schulenberg, T.S.; Iliff, M.J.; Roberson, D.; Fredericks, T.A.; Sullivan, B.L.; Wood, C.L. (2014) The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world. Version 6.9. Available from: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/ (Date of access: 02/Apr/2015).

    Chancellor, H. (2005) James Bond: The Man and His World. John Murray, London.

    Cruz, A. (1978) Adaptive evolution in the Jamaican Blackbird Nesopsar nigerrimus. Ornis Scandinavia 9(2): 130–137.

    IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). (2014) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Available from: http://www.iucnredlist.org/ (Date of access: 03/Apr/2015).

    Lederer, R. & Burr, C. (2014) Latin for Bird Lovers. Timber Press, New York.

    MI6-HQ. (2015) MI6 – The Home of James Bond 007. Available from: http://www.mi6-hq.com/ (Date of access: 02/Apr/2015).

    Parker, M. (2015) Goldeneye. Where Bond Was Born: Ian Fleming’s Jamaica. Pegasus Publications, Winnipeg.

    Parkes, K. (1989) In Memoriam: James Bond. The Auk 106(4): 718–720.

    Rothschild, W. (1907) Extinct Birds. An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times – that is, within the last six or seven hundred years. To which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. Hutchinson & Co., London.

    Salvador, R.B. (2014) Geeky nature. Journal of Geek Studies 1(1-2): 41–45.

    Skutch, A.F. (1977) A Bird Watcher’s Adventures in Tropical America. University of Texas Press, Austin.

    2015: Louis Jourdan dies at age 93--Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California.
    (Born 19 June 1921--Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.)
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    Louis Jourdan obituary
    French film actor who found stardom with Three Coins in the
    Fountain and Gigi, and whose later roles included a villain in the
    James Bond movie Octopussy
    https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/feb/15/louis-jourdan
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    For audiences in the 1940s and 50s, Louis Jourdan’s incredible good looks and mellifluous Gallic purr seemed to sum up everything that was sexy and enticing about Frenchmen. As a result, he became the most sought-after French actor since Charles Boyer. Though perhaps this hampered him, stymying opportunities to extend his dramatic range, any actor who was constantly in demand by both French studios and Hollywood producers had a lot to be grateful for.

    When Jourdan, who has died aged 93, played the consummate bon vivant in Vincente Minnelli’s Gigi (1958), he became an international celebrity. The film, which co-starred Maurice Chevalier and Leslie Caron, won nine Oscars, including best picture. Though the best-known of its Lerner and Loewe numbers was Chevalier’s Thank Heaven for Little Girls, the title song went to Jourdan. He later widened the breadth of his work, and in old age was still one of the most handsome men on the screen, even if the films themselves seldom amounted to much.

    He was born in Marseille, one of the three sons of Henri Gendre, a hotelier who organised the Cannes film festival after the second world war, and Yvonne, from whose maiden name, Jourdan, Louis took his stage name. The family followed Henri’s work, which accounted for the ease with which he was later able to perform overseas. He was educated in France, Turkey and Britain, where he learned to speak perfect English with an accent that he was clever enough to realise he should keep superbly French.

    Jourdan, who knew from early on that he was going to be an actor, studied under René Simon in Paris. Admired for his dramatic talent and a certain polish that no one could readily explain, he was cast in his film debut, Le Corsaire (1939), which starred Boyer, though the outbreak of the second world war prevented its completion. He went on to appear in L’Arlésienne (1942) before his career was interrupted by the Nazi occupation of France.

    His father was arrested by the Gestapo, and Louis and his two brothers were active members of the resistance, whose work for the underground meant that he had to stay away from the studios. But it also resulted in his becoming a favourite of the resurgent French postwar film industry. At a time when many had worked on films that had served to help Marshal Pétain’s propaganda campaign – and stars such as Chevalier were being accused of collaboration – it was easy to promote a star who had actively worked against the Nazis.

    In 1946, Jourdan married Berthe Frédérique (known as Quique) and went to Los Angeles, having been persuaded by the movie mogul David O Selznick that he would be able to make more of himself in Hollywood than he ever could in Paris. He shone in his first American film, The Paradine Case (1947), directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Gregory Peck. This was followed by Max Ophüls’s masterly Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948), based on the story by Stefan Zweig. Jourdan played the debonair, womanising pianist with whom Joan Fontaine falls hopelessly and tragically in love. He invested the performance with a vulnerability that saved his character from being simply caddish.

    In Minnelli’s 1949 film of Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, he starred as the lover of the adulterous anti-heroine, played by Jennifer Jones. He returned to France for Rue de l’Estrapade (1953) and La Mariée Est Trop Belle (The Bride Is Too Beautiful, released with the title Her Bridal Night, 1956), the latter with Brigitte Bardot, while in Italy he appeared in Three Coins in the Fountain (1954), its title referring to the Trevi fountain in Rome. His image as the light romantic lead was burnished in that film, and his status as such was sealed by Gigi, which made him the No 1 pin-up of sophisticated American women.

    He had a similar role in Can-Can (1960), which starred Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine and Chevalier. There followed continental roles in Hollywood productions: as a playboy in The VIPs (1963) and a fashion designer in Made in Paris (1966).

    He had made his Broadway debut, playing a repressed gay man embarking on marriage, in an adaptation of André Gide’s The Immoralist, in 1954. The production co-starred Geraldine Page and James Dean, before Dean’s movie breakthrough. The following year, Jourdan returned to the New York stage in Tonight in Samarkand. He soon let it be known that he wanted more serious film roles and was not getting enough of them. In 1961 he took the lead in Claude Autant-Lara’s Le Comte de Monte Cristo and, in 1975, he appeared in a British TV movie production of Alexandre Dumas’s novel, this time playing De Villefort to Richard Chamberlain’s Count. Two years later, he was D’Artagnan in The Man in the Iron Mask on TV, again opposite Chamberlain.
    He played Dracula in a 1977 BBC TV adaptation and a “charming” villain, Kamal Khan, in the James Bond adventure Octopussy (1983), but few of his later roles showed the range of his talents. Certainly, Swamp Thing (1982) and The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) were not the sort of movies that the Gigi star would want to be remembered for. In the mid-80s he returned to Gigi, this time in Chevalier’s role, for a touring show; he replied to the criticism that he lip-synched songs by saying: “If I sang them live, the fragile little voice I have would go.”
    Jourdan’s final film appearance came as a suave villain in Peter Yates’s caper about a rare bottle of wine, Year of the Comet (1992). In 2010 he was appointed to the Légion d’Honneur.

    His wife died last year. Their son, Louis Henry, died in 1981 from a drug overdose. He is survived by a nephew and a niece.

    • Louis Jourdan (Louis Robert Gendre), actor, born 19 June 1921; died 14 February 2015
    • This article was amended on 16 February 2015. Louis Jourdan was born in June 1921 rather than 1919, and so died at the age of 93.
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    2020: BOND 25 planned release date in the UK, US, and Turkey. (Later shifted to April 2020. And November 2020. And April 2021. And October 2021.)

    2025: Valentine's Day in many places.

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    Thrilling Cities, Ian Flemonh, 1963.
    Chapter VI - Chicago
    Then to the site of the famous garage where the St Valentine's Day
    Massacre
    took place at 2108 Clark Street, another grimy neighbourhood,
    with the garage area replaced by the Belle Vue Hand Laundry and
    Balaton's Barber Shop.

    After killing off the O'Bannion gang, Al Capone went for Bugs Moran and
    his mob, and seven of them were the victims of the famous St
    Valentine's Day Massacre
    : they were machine-gunned in a garage by three
    mobsters dressed in police uniforms, though Bugs Moran himself was not
    among the dead.

    Opposite, the grimy lace curtains in the windows were drawn as they
    must have been when the gunmen, disguised as police, peered from behind
    them, their tommy-guns at the ready, as they watched for Bugs Moran's
    gang to come to their last rendezvous.

    The Biograph on Lincoln Avenue, where John Dillinger was shot down, is
    unchanged, with dusty naked lights in the roof and round the small
    central box office where Dillinger bought the tickets for himself and
    the famous Girl in Red who had informed on him to the police and knew
    that he would die as soon as the film was over. While the film was
    going on, police surrounded the cinema with orders to shoot to kill
    and, when Dillinger and the Girl in Red came out, she dropped her bag,
    stopped to pick it up, and Dillinger walked into the flaming guns. He
    shot back and got into the little alley next door. He was finally
    killed in the mouth of the alley and the second telephone post in the
    alley still has the bullet holes of the killing. The girl got a
    $30,000 award 'for information' and Dillinger's gang never caught up
    with her.

    Today it is still a meagre, depressed area with its 'Biograph Barber
    Shop', 'Schneider's Tuxedos' and 'Valentine Pest Control' staring from
    across the road at the fateful cinema, outside which the crowd had
    fought for a scrap of the great killer's clothing or a lock of his
    hair. Two hundred dollars was bid for his silk shirt, and for days
    afterwards scraps of paper 'stained with his blood' were sold outside
    the Biograph for a dollar apiece. Today the old Biograph, dingy in its
    black and red paint, clamours for you to 'See our laff and thrill
    show'. This place, too, is haunted. It was time for a drink.
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    His Funny Valentine (3:26)


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