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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 12,914
    December 3rd

    1963: Copyright lawyer Peter Carter-Ruck announces a settlement awarding Kevin McClory Thunderball film rights plus £50,000 damages. Kevin diverts from Jack Whittingham to partner with Broccoli & Saltzman, receiving the producer credit (Broccoli & Saltzman represented as ‘presented by’).

    1971: Ola Rapace (Pär Ola Norell) is born--Tyresö, Stockholms län, Sweden.
    1973: Bond comic strip The Girl Machine ends its run in The Daily Express.
    (Started 19 June 1973. 2257–2407) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
    https://spyguysandgals.com/sgLookupComicStrip.aspx?id=1010
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    https://www.popoptiq.com/the-girl-machine/
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    Swedish Semic Comic https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1975.php3
    Jakten På Det Svarta Guldet
    ("Hunt For The Black Gold" - The Girl Machine)
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    James Bond Agent 007 no. 34: “The Girl Machine” (1975)
    "Jagten på det sorte guld" (The Hunt for the Black gold)
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    1985: Roger Moore declares he's retiring from the Bond role after 12 years on screen and 7 films.
    1987: Με το δάχτυλο στη σκανδάλη (James Bond, praktor 007: Me to daktylo sti skandali; With the Finger on the Trigger) released in Greece.
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    1991: Geffen releases the "Live and Let Die" single from the Guns 'N Roses Use Your Illusion album. (B-side is "Live and Let Die" Live at Wembley Stadium, London recorded 31 August 1991, plus "Shadow of Your Love" (Live).)
    UK Orange Vinyl
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    1999: Amb el món no n'hi ha prou (There Is Not Enough With the World, and Catalan title El mundo nunca es suficiente; The World Is Never Enough) released in Spain.
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    1999: Världen räcker inte till released in Finland.
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    1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Norway and Thailand.
    1999: 007 - O Mundo Não Chega (The World Does Not Arrive) released in Portugal.
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    2018: BOND 25 originally scheduled production start date at Pinewood with planned director Danny Boyle.
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    2019: No Time To Die releases character posters anticipating the next day's full trailer.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 12,914
    December 4th

    1913: John Kitzmiller is born--Battle Creek, Michigan.
    (He dies 23 February 1965 at age 51--Rome, Lazio, Italy.)
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    Keeping a wild eye on European Cinema of the past and present
    John Kitzmiller
    http://www.thewildeye.co.uk/blog/performers-directors/black-actors-in-italy/john-kitzmiller/
    November 25, 2010 Matt Blake Americans in Cinecitta, Black Actors in Italy 7

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

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    John Kitzmiller in Dr. No

    More roles followed, although with the decline of neo-realism and the growing emphasis on using professional actors they shrunk in size. He was a trumpet player in Luci del varietà (directed by Lattuada and a young Federico Fellini), played a valet in Marino Girolami’s Canto per te (a vehicle for the famed tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano), and appeared as a selection of servants, criminals or workmen. With the resurgence of the swashbuckler and peplum in the 1950s his workrate stepped up a notch, and by the early 60s he was appearing in three or four films a year.
    It was at this time that he won a further degree of international success, starring as Quarrel in the hugely succesful Dr No, where his role – most of which was shot in Jamaica – was more prominent than his lowly billing would suggest. This led to one final key role, as the titular character in Géza von Radványi’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which was released in the same year as his death in 1965 from cirrhosis of the liver (caused, reputedly, by his long term alcoholism).
    Kitzmiller’s importance wasn’t so much for the films he appeared in – although he certainly appeared in some important films. It was in the fact that he was a trailblazer for black actors both in Italy and in the US, at a time in which cinema was an almost entirely caucasian occupation. Given that, it’s surprising how little biographical information is available about him.

    About Matt Blake
    The WildEye is a blog dedicated to the wild world of Italian cinema (and, ok, sometimes I digress into discussing films from other countries as well). Peplums, comedies, dramas, spaghetti westerns... they're all covered here.

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    Tom B. | July 22, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    Thanks Matt. I agree he was trailblazer in opening up roles for blacks in Italian cinema. Any fan of Italian films has heard of his name, but as you say so little biographical information is available. Thanks for posting on this unique actor in European films.
    mattblake | July 23, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    A little bit more info on Mr. Kitzmiller. In a book on Fellini (Federico Fellini: his life and work by Tullio Kezich, Minna Proctor, Viviana Mazza), he’s described as: “a former chemical engineer who’d slipped accidentally into movie acting”
    mattblake | July 23, 2009 at 1:26 pm

    And a bit more, an obituary from a magazine called Jet, March 11th 1965.
    John Kitzmiller, who became and Italian star, dies at 51.

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

    John Kitzmiller became an actor while on occupation duty in Italy in 1946. He was playing poker in a sidewalk cafe when he was spotted by two Italians who thought him physically perfect for a war movie they were casting
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    mattblake | November 25, 2010 at 4:41 pm

    And here’s another newspaper article mentioning his marriage:
    John Kitzmiller's wedding article from Jet

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    Luciano Benetti was a little known Italian actor who turned up in a handful of cape and sword films
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    John Kitzmiller (I) (1913–1965)
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    Filmography
    Actor (53 credits)

    1976 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Uncle Tom

    1965 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Uncle Tom
    1965 Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (TV Series) - Un cliente della Citanguette
    - Una vita in gioco (1965) ... Un cliente della Citanguette
    1964 Biblioteca di Studio Uno (TV Mini-Series) - Sam
    - La storia di Rossella O'Hara (1964) ... Sam
    1964 Il ribelle di Castelmonte - Ali
    1964 Indios a Nord-Ovest
    1964 Night of the Vampires - John - Black Servant
    1962 Tiger of the Seven Seas - Serpente - Il pianista
    - Episode #1.2 (1962) ... Il pianista
    1962 Dr. No - Quarrel (as John Kitzmuller: end credits)
    1962 The Son of Captain Blood - Moses
    1962 Blood and Defiance
    1962 Mars, God of War - Afros
    1961 Chiamami bugiardo (TV Movie) - Dr. Bowker
    1961 La corona di fuoco - Akim
    1961 Totòtruffa '62 - Ambasciatore del Katonga
    1961 Revolt of the Mercenaries - Tago
    1960-1961 Giallo club - Invito al poliziesco (TV Series) - Joke / Peter
    - Partita a tre (1961) ... Joke
    - Ultimo avviso (1960) ... Peter
    1960 Il corsaro della tortue (TV Movie)
    1960 Pirates of the Coast - Rock
    1960 Seven in the Sun - Salvador

    1959 Due selvaggi a corte - Kato
    1959 Pensione Edelweiss - Bougron
    1959 Lost Souls - Luca
    1958 Aphrodite, Goddess of Love - Tomoro
    1958 The Naked Earth - David
    1957 A vent'anni è sempre festa - John Miller
    1957 I misteri di Parigi - Lo Squartatore
    1956 Valley of Peace - Sgt. Jim
    1955 Il nostro campione - Raimondo
    1954 Lacrime d'amore
    1954 Acque amare - Mezzanotte
    1954 Il grande addio
    1954 Desiderio 'e sole - Simone
    1954 Quai des blondes - Michel
    1954 Non vogliamo morire - John - il timoniere
    1954 Island Sinner - Abul - il pescatore negro
    1954 Foreign Earth
    1953 Canto per te - Angenore
    1953 Frine, cortigiana d'Oriente - Nabus, lo schiavo muto
    1953 Trouble for the Legion - Djalmar
    1952 Delitto al luna park
    1952 Ultimo perdono
    1952 At Sword's Edge
    1952 Wolves Hunt at Night - Le domestique noir de Miguel
    1952 Massacre en dentelles - Rocky Saddler
    1950 Variety Lights - Trumpet player Johnny
    1950 La forza del destino - Lo scudiero moro

    1949 Monastero di Santa Chiara - Il negro
    1949 Lieutenant Craig: Missing - The MP
    1948 Without Pity - Jerry Jackson
    1947 Tombolo - Jack
    1947 To Live in Peace - Joe (as Jonny Kitzmiller)

    Archive footage (3 credits)

    2006 The Exotic Locations of 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Quarrel
    2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself

    1965 The Incredible World of James Bond (TV Movie documentary)
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    1913: Claude Renoir is born--Paris, France.
    (He dies 5 September 1993 at age 79--Troyes, Aube, France.)
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    Claude Renoir
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Renoir
    Born December 4, 1913, Paris, France
    Died September 5, 1993 (aged 79), Troyes, Aube, Champagne, France
    Nationality French
    Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913[1] – September 5, 1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir, the nephew of director Jean Renoir, and the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
    He was born in Paris, his mother being actress Véra Sergine. He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman, a brother of Dziga Vertov, who much later worked in the United States on such films as On the Waterfront (1954). Renoir was the lighting cameraman on numerous pictures such as Monsieur Vincent (1947), Jean Renoir's The River (1951), Cleopatra (1963), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), and the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). At the time of Claude Renoir's death, The Times of London wrote of The River that "its exquisite evocation of the Indian scene, helped to inaugurate a new era in the cinema, one in which color was finally accepted as a medium fit for great film makers to work in."
    He also participated in the making of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), the documentary on painter Pablo Picasso directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. He was the cinematographer for The Crucible (1957) and lived in East Germany during filming. Renoir's career came to a close in the late 1970s, as he was rapidly losing sight. In his final years he was largely blind.

    He married twice and had two children, a son and a daughter, actress Sophie Renoir. Claude Renoir died at age 79 in Troyes, 55 miles east of Paris, near the village of Essoyes, where he had a home.
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    Claude Renoir
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    Filmography
    Cinematographer (89 credits)

    1981 Sphinx (uncredited)

    1979 The Medic
    1978 Attention, the Kids Are Watching
    1978 The Discord
    1977 Animal
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (director of photography)
    1976 The Wing or The Thigh? (director of photography)
    1976 Une femme fidèle
    1976 Femmes Fatales
    1976 Docteur Françoise Gailland
    1975 French Connection II (director of photography)
    1975 The Track
    1974 Paul and Michelle
    1973 Story of a Love Story (director of photography)
    1973 The Serpent
    1972 Hellé
    1972 Killer
    1971 The Burglars
    1971 The Horsemen
    1971 Swashbuckler
    1970 The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
    1970 The Adventurers

    1969 The Madwoman of Chaillot
    1969 Soluna
    1968 Barbarella (director of photography)
    1968 Spirits of the Dead (director of photography - segment "Metzengerstein")
    1966 La Grande Vadrouille
    1966 The Game Is Over
    1966 Paris au mois d'août
    1965 Marco the Magnificent
    1965 The Hour of Truth
    1964 The Unvanquished
    1964 Paris When It Sizzles (uncredited)
    1963 The Corrupt
    1962 Il fiore e la violenza (segment "La scampagnata")
    1962 II Marco Polo
    1962 Les amants de Teruel
    1962 Lafayette
    1960 Wasteland
    1960 Blood and Roses
    1960 Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion

    1959 Gorilla's Waltz
    1959 Honeymoon (uncredited)
    1959 Hit and Run
    1958 Youthful Sinners
    1958 End of Desire
    1957 The Crucible
    1956 Crime and Punishment
    1956 Elena and Her Men (director of photography)
    1956 The Mystery of Picasso (Documentary) (director of photography)
    1955 A Missionary
    1954 Madame Butterfly
    1954 Fabulous India (Documentary)
    1954 Maddalena
    1953 Puccini
    1952 The Golden Coach
    1952 The Green Glove
    1951 Images de l'ancienne Égypte (Documentary short)
    1951 Amazing Monsieur Fabre
    1951 The River
    1951 Clara de Montargis
    1951 Dr. Knock
    1950 Gunman in the Streets
    1950 Born of Unknown Father
    1950 Prélude à la gloire

    1949 Rendezvous in July
    1949 Docteur Laennec
    1949 Alice in Wonderland (photography)
    1948 Dilemma of Two Angels
    1948 La grande volière
    1947 Monsieur Vincent
    1947 La maison sous la mer
    1947 The Royalists
    1947 Passionnelle (disposal of the body sequence, uncredited)
    1946 Mr. Orchid
    1946 A Day in the Country (Short)
    1946 Le couple idéal
    1946 Behind These Walls
    1945 The Queer Assignment
    1944 L'aventure est au coin de la rue
    1944 Bonsoir mesdames, bonsoir messieurs
    1943 Aristide Maillol, sculpteur (Documentary short)
    1942 Opéra-musette
    1940 Sérénade

    1938 Les rois de la flotte
    1938 Lumières de Paris
    1937 Le chanteur de minuit
    1936 La vie est à nous
    1935 Toni

    Camera and Electrical Department (11 credits)

    1964 Circus World (second unit cameraman)
    1963 Cleopatra (photographer: second unit)

    1946 Mr. Orchid (camera operator)
    1946 Reunion (Documentary short) (assistant camera - one topic, uncredited)

    1939 Le dernier tournant (camera operator - as Cl. Renoir Junior)
    1938 La Bête Humaine (camera operator - as Claude Renoir Jr.)
    1938 Prison sans barreaux (camera operator)
    1938 Legions of Honor[/i] (camera operator)
    1937 La Grande Illusion (assistant cameraman)
    1933 Chotard and Company (assistant camera)
    1932 Night at the Crossroads (assistant camera)

    Set decorator (1 credit)

    1980 Mont-Oriol (TV Movie)

    Self (4 credits)

    2006 The Spy Who Loved Me: 007 in Egypt (Video documentary short) Himself
    1977 The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (TV Series documentary) Himself
    - Shooting Scene 341 (1977) ... Himself
    - Also Starring... (1977) ... Himself

    1975 Histoire du cinéma français par ceux qui l'ont fait (TV Series documentary)
    Himself
    - Le désordre et après 1961-1966 (1975) ... Himself
    - Une certaine tradition de qualité 1945-1955 (1975) ... Himself
    -
    1956 The Mystery of Picasso (Documentary) Himself (uncredited)

    Archive footage (2 credits)

    2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Himself
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    1918: Maurice Binder is born--New York City, New York.
    (He dies 9 April 1991--London, England.)
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    Maurice Binder, 73, 007 Film-Title Artist
    APRIL 15, 1991
    Maurice Binder, a graphic arts designer known chiefly for his dazzling title sequences in the James Bond films, died on Tuesday at the University College Hospital in London. He was 73 years old and lived in London.

    He died of lung cancer, his brother, Mitchell, said.
    Mr. Binder was one of the rare film-title artists to receive rave reviews for his work, which critics said was an essential part of the James Bond success story.

    In a review of the 1981 film, "For Your Eyes Only," Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times: "And Maurice Binder's opening titles, always one of the fancier features of the Bond movies, are still terrific."
    Mr. Binder's unusual witty designs introduced other films including "Indiscreet" in 1958; "The Mouse That Roared," 1959; "The Grass is Greener," 1960; "Repulsion," 1964, and "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes," 1971.

    He also produced several musicals, and in association with John Quested and Lester Goldsmith, produced the 1979 film "The Passage," starring Anthony Quinn.

    Born in New York City, Mr. Binder began his career as assistant art director in Macy's art department.

    A resident of London for 27 years, he was honored last year by the National Film Club.

    Besides his brother, who lives in Boca Raton, Fla., he is survived by two nieces.
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    Maurice Binder (1925–1991)
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    Filmography
    Miscellaneous Crew (84 credits)

    1991 The Strauss Dynasty (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 8 episodes)
    - Adele (1991) ... (title designer)
    - Hetti (1991) ... (title designer)
    - Lili (1991) ... (title designer)
    - Josef (1991) ... (title designer)
    - Revolution of 1848 (1991) ... (title designer)
    - Schani (1991) ... (title designer)
    - Emilie (1991) ... (title designer)
    - Anna (1991) ... (title designer)
    1990 A Captive in the Land (title designer)
    1990 Hamlet (title designer)
    1990 The Sheltering Sky (title designer)
    1990 Mister Johnson (title designer)

    1989 Licence to Kill (title designer)
    1988 The Deceivers (title designer)
    1987 The Last Emperor (title designer: main title)
    1987 The Living Daylights (title designer)
    1986 Shanghai Surprise (title designer)
    1986 Max mon amour (title designer)
    1986 If Tomorrow Comes (TV Mini-Series) (title designer - 3 episodes)
    - Episode #1.2 (1986) ... (title designer)
    - Episode #1.3 (1986) ... (title designer)
    - Episode #1.1 (1986) ... (title designer)
    1985 A View to a Kill (main title designed by)
    1985 Rustlers' Rhapsody (main title design)
    1983 Octopussy (main title designed by)
    1981 For Your Eyes Only (main title designed by)

    1981 Green Ice (main title designer)
    1980 The Awakening (titles)
    1980 The Sea Wolves (titles)

    1979 Moonraker (title designer: main titles)
    1978 The Wild Geese (main title designed by)
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (main title designed by)
    1976 Shout at the Devil (title designer: main title)
    1975 e'Lollipop (title designer)
    1974 The Man with the Golden Gun (title designer: main title)
    1974 The Little Prince (main title design)
    1974 Gold (title designer)
    1974 The Tamarind Seed (title designer: main title)
    1973 Live and Let Die (main title designed by)
    1972 Young Winston (main title designed by)
    1971 Diamonds Are Forever (main title designed by)
    1970 Wuthering Heights (title designer)
    1970 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (title designer: main title)
    1970 Brotherly Love (title designer)

    1969 A Talent for Loving (designer: main title)
    1969On Her Majesty's Secret Service (main title designed by)
    1969 Battle of Britain (title designer: main title)
    1969 Staircase (title designer)
    1968 Barbarella (titles designer - uncredited)
    1968 The Magus (title designer)
    1967 Bedazzled (main title)
    1967 Billion Dollar Brain (title designer)
    1967 The Day the Fish Came Out (title designer)
    1967 A Matter of Innocence (title designer: main titles)
    1967 Fathom (main title sequence)
    1967 You Only Live Twice (main title designed by)
    1967 Two for the Road (title designer)
    1967 Eye of the Devil (title designer: main titles)
    1967 The Taming of the Shrew (main title graphics)
    1966 After the Fox (title designer)
    1966 Kaleidoscope (title designer: main titles)
    1966 Arabesque (title designer: main title)
    1966 Promise Her Anything (title designer)
    1966 The Chase (main title)
    1965 Thunderball (main title designed by)
    1965 The Wild Affair (title designer)
    1965 Repulsion (title designer - uncredited)
    1965 Young Cassidy (title designer)
    1964 The 7th Dawn (title designer: main titles)
    Espionage (TV Series) (titles - 22 episodes, 1963 - 1964) (titles designed by - 2 episodes, 1963 - 1964)
    - A Tiny Drop of Poison (1964) ... (titles designed by)
    - A Free Agent (1964) ... (titles)
    - Some Other Kind of World (1964) ... (titles)
    - The Liberators (1964) ... (titles)
    - Once a Spy... (1964) ... (titles)
    - Snow on Mount Kama (1964) ... (titles)
    - Castles in Spain (1964) ... (titles)
    - The Frantick Rebel (1964) ... (titles)
    - We the Hunted (1964) ... (titles)
    - Do You Remember Leo Winters? (1964) ... (titles)
    - Final Decision (1964) ... (titles)
    - Medal for a Turned Coat (1964) ... (titles)
    - Never Turn Your Back on a Friend (1964) ... (titles)
    - A Camel to Ride (1963) ... (titles)
    - Festival of Pawns (1963) ... (titles)
    - The Light of a Friendly Star (1963) ... (titles)
    - The Whistling Shrimp (1963) ... (titles)
    - The Dragon Slayer (1963) ... (titles)
    - To the Very End (1963) ... (titles)
    - He Rises on Sunday and We on Monday (1963) ... (titles)
    - The Gentle Spies (1963) ... (titles)
    - The Incurable One (1963) ... (titles)
    - The Weakling (1963) ... (titles)
    - Covenant with Death (1963) ... (titles designed by)
    1964 The Long Ships (prologue and main title by)
    1963 Charade (main title designed by)
    1963 Stolen Hours (title designer: main titles)
    1963 The Running Man (main titles by)
    1963 The Mouse on the Moon (title designer)
    1963 Call Me Bwana (main title design)
    1963 I Could Go on Singing (title designer: main titles)
    1962 Dr. No (main title designed by)
    1962 Sodom and Gomorrah (prologue and main title design)
    1962 Reach for Glory (title designer)
    1962 The Road to Hong Kong (title designer)
    1961 Goodbye Again (title designer: main title)
    1960 The Grass Is Greener (title designer: main title)
    1960 Surprise Package (main title designed by)
    1959-1960 Hotel de Paree (TV Series) (title designer - 11 episodes)
    - Sundance and the Fallen Sparrow (1960) ... (title designer)
    - Sundance and the Long Trek (1960) ... (title designer)
    - Vengeance for Sundance (1960) ... (title designer)
    - Sundance and the Black Widow (1960) ... (title designer)
    - Sundance and the Greenhorn Trader (1960) ... (title designer)
    - Hard Luck for Sundance (1960) ... (title designer)
    - Sundance Goes to Kill (1960) ... (title designer)
    - Sundance and the Blood Money (1960) ... (title designer)
    - The Man Who Believed in Law (1959) ... (title designer)
    - Return of Monique (1959) ... (title designer)
    - The High Cost of Justice (1959) ... (title designer)
    1960 Purple Noon (title designer)
    1960 Once More, with Feeling! (title designer)

    1959 The Mouse That Roared (titles designed by)
    1959 Richard Diamond, Private Detective (TV Series) (title designer - 7 episodes)
    - Design for Murder (1959) ... (title designer)
    - Family Affair (1959) ... (title designer)
    - Rough Cut (1959) ... (title designer)
    - Hideout (1959) ... (title designer)
    - The Limping Man (1959) ... (title designer)
    - Jukebox (1959) ... (title designer)
    - Crown of Silla (1959) ... (title designer)
    1959 The Young Philadelphians (title designer - uncredited)
    1958 Damn Yankees (title designer: main titles - uncredited)
    1958 Indiscreet (title designer - uncredited)
    1957 The James Dean Story (Documentary) (title designer)
    1951 Cry Danger (assistant to producer)

    Art department (9 credits)

    1985 King David (graphic designer)
    1984 Oxford Blues (graphic designer)
    1982 Twilight Time (graphics)
    1982 The Final Option (graphic artist)
    1980 The Sea Wolves (graphic design)

    1978 Brass Target (graphic artist)
    1977 A Little Night Music (graphics)
    1964 Of Human Bondage (graphic designer)
    1963 I Could Go on Singing (graphic designer)
    Hide Hide Visual effects (2 credits)
    1980 The Final Countdown (special visual effects) / (storm sequence)
    1979 Dracula (visual consultant)

    Director (1 credit)

    1960 The Children of Lindos (Short)

    Art director (1 credit)

    1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series)

    Producer (1 credit)

    1979 The Passage (associate producer)

    Self (2 credits)

    1977 The Making of 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (TV Series documentary) - Himself
    - Producing (1977) ... Himself
    1976 Die Titelmacher (TV Movie) - Himself

    Archive footage (4 credits)

    2012 Everything or Nothing (Documentary) - Himself
    2000 Silhouettes: The James Bond Titles (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'Dr. No' (Video documentary short) - Himself

    1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Himself
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    1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films Tracy's rescue.

    1973: Bond comic strip Beware of Butterflies begins its run in The Daily Express.
    (Finishes 11 May 1974. 2408–2541) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
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    "Operation Sommerfugl" [= Operation Butterfly]
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    1989: 鐵金剛勇戰殺人狂魔,殺人執照 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng zhàn shārén kuáng mó, shārén zhízhào; Iron King Kong fights the murderous madness, the license to kill) released in Hong Kong.
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    1997: MGM announces their purchase of the rights to Never Say Never Again from Taliafilm. Earlier in 1997 the Sony Corporation acquired most of McClory's rights, later bought by MGM.

    2006: Casino Royale premieres in Sydney, Australia.
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    2014: Spectre press conference.
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    2015: 007 スペクター (007 Supekutā) general release in Japan. The last country to open the film in theaters.
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    2019: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Vol. 3 #1.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 12,914
    December 5th

    1923: Norman Burton is born--New York City, New York.
    (He dies 29 November 2003 at age 79--Imperial, California.)
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    Norman Burton
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    Norman Burton
    Born December 5, 1923
    New York City, New York, U.S.
    Died November 29, 2003 (aged 79)
    Imperial, California, U.S.
    Occupation Film, television actor
    Years active 1957–1993
    Norman Burton (December 5, 1923 – November 29, 2003), occasionally credited as Normann Burton, was an American stage film and television actor.

    Early life
    Born in New York City, Burton was a student of The Actor's Studio. After early work on stage, he broke into films with a minor role in Fright (1956).

    Career
    His career in film and television was long and relatively successful, but he never achieved major recognition. He played the Hunt Leader, a gorilla, in the science fiction film Planet of the Apes, notable as being the first ape to be seen by both Taylor and the audience, and also appeared as a (human) army officer in the second sequel Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971). In film, he is perhaps best known for his unconventional (and frequently disparaged) performance as Felix Leiter in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). He played Will Giddings, an ill fated engineer, in the action film The Towering Inferno (1974), and his later films included The Gumball Rally (1976), Crimes of Passion (1984) and Deep Space (1988). He played Dennis Christopher's mean and ill fated boss in the slasher Fade To Black (1980).
    On television, he is best known for his performance as Inter-Agency Defense Command's supervisor Joe Atkinson during the second season of the DC Comics-based fantasy adventure drama series The New Adventures of Wonder Woman starring Lynda Carter. He also played Burt Dennis in the situation comedy The Ted Knight Show in the spring of 1978, and appeared as General George Marshall in the 1988 television miniseries War and Remembrance. Throughout his life, Burton was a devotee of the method school of acting, and taught method acting in Lakeside, California.

    Death
    Burton was just six days short of his 80th birthday when he died as a result of an auto accident while returning from Ajijic, Mexico near the California-Arizona state line.
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    Filmography
    Actor (89 credits)

    1993 American Ninja 5 - Ambassador Halden
    1992 Live Wire - Senator Victor
    1991 The New Adam-12 (TV Series) - Eric Monroe
    - 211 Pizza (1991) ... Eric Monroe
    1990 Dragnet (TV Series) - Safe Job (1990)
    1990 Thirtysomething (TV Series) - Charley Sayers
    - Arizona (1990) ... Charley Sayers

    1988-1989 War and Remembrance (TV Mini-Series) - Gen. George C. Marshall
    - Part XII (1989) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
    - Part III (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
    - Part I (1988) ... Gen. George C. Marshall
    1988 Shakedown on the Sunset Strip (TV Movie) - Ward Sullivan
    1988 Deep Space - General Randolph
    1988 Bloodsport - Helmer
    1988 Highway to Heaven (TV Series) - Captain Friend
    - Back to Oakland (1988) ... Captain Friend
    1986 Bad Guys - Captain Watkins
    1986 St. Elsewhere (TV Series) - Monsignor Senti
    - Time Heals: Part 1 (1986) ... Monsignor Senti
    1983-1986 Knight Rider (TV Series) - Damon Leland / Barnswell
    - Redemption of a Champion (1986) ... Damon Leland
    - A Nice, Indecent Little Town (1983) ... Barnswell
    1986 Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) - Drew Narramore
    - Trial by Error (1986) ... Drew Narramore
    1985 Pray for Death - Lt. Anderson
    1984 Crimes of Passion - Lou Bateman
    1983 Mausoleum - Dr. Simon Andrews
    1982 Simon & Simon (TV Series) - Carl Emory
    - Fowl Play (1982) ... Carl Emory
    1982 The Facts of Life (TV Series) - Dr. Green
    - The Affair (1982) ... Dr. Green
    1982 CHiPs (TV Series) - Kessler
    - Tiger in the Streets (1982) ... Kessler
    1981 Amy - Caruthers
    1980 Fade to Black - Marty Berger (as Normann Burton)
    1980 To Race the Wind (TV Movie) - Mr. Krents (as Normann Burton)
    1980 Bogie (TV Movie) - Hopkins
    1977-1980 Quincy M.E. (TV Series) - Dr. George Danner / Max
    - Cover-Up (1980) ... Dr. George Danner (as Normann Burton)
    - No Deadly Secret (1977) ... Max (as Normann Burton)

    1979 The Ultimate Impostor (TV Movie) - Papich
    1978 Lou Grant (TV Series) - Franklin Nash
    - Conflict (1978) ... Franklin Nash (as Normann Burton)
    1978 Project U.F.O. (TV Series) - Dr. Phil Greiner
    - Sighting 4022: The Camouflage Incident (1978) ... Dr. Phil Greiner (as Normann Burton)
    1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries (TV Series)
    - Murder, Murder (1978) ... (as Normann Burton)
    1978 Insight (TV Series) - Sam
    - The Flawed Magi (1978) ... Sam (as Normann Burton)
    1978 The Ted Knight Show (TV Mini-Series) - Burt Dennis
    - The Honeymoon Game (1978) ... Burt Dennis
    - Sweet Sixteen (1978) ... Burt Dennis
    - The Wedding (1978) ... Burt Dennis
    - Hop to It (1978) ... Burt Dennis
    - My Hero (1978) ... Burt Dennis
    - Strike (1978) ... Burt Dennis
    1977 Wonder Woman (TV Series) - Joe Atkinson
    - The Man Who Made Volcanoes (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
    - I Do, I Do (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
    - The Queen and the Thief (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
    - The Pied Piper (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
    - Knockout (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
    - The Bermuda Triangle Crisis (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
    - The Man Who Could Move the World (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
    - Anschluss '77 (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
    - The Return of Wonder Woman (1977) ... Joe Atkinson (as Normann Burton)
    1977 Murder in Peyton Place (TV Movie) - Jay Kamens (as Normann Burton)
    1977 Dog and Cat (TV Series) - Tedesco
    - Dead Skunk (1977) ... Tedesco
    1974-1976 The Rockford Files (TV Series) - Markell / Melvyn Moss
    - Return to the 38th Parallel (1976) ... Markell (as Normann Burton)
    - The Big Ripoff (1974) ... Melvyn Moss (as Normann Burton)
    1976 Rhoda (TV Series) - Ben Levy
    - Meet the Levys (1976) ... Ben Levy (as Normann Burton)
    1976 Black Sheep Squadron (TV Series) - General Carl Gant
    - Presumed Dead (1976) ... General Carl Gant (as Normann Burton)
    1976 Scorchy - Chief Frank O'Brien (as Normann Burton)
    1976 The Gumball Rally - Lieutenant Roscoe (as Normann Burton)
    1976 Harry O (TV Series) - Dr. Lusk
    - Death Certificate (1976) ... Dr. Lusk (as Normann Burton)
    1975-1976 Lincoln (TV Mini-Series) - General Ulysses S. Grant
    - The Last Days (1976) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
    - The Unwilling Warrior (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
    - Sad Figure, Laughing (1975) ... General Ulysses S. Grant (as Normann Burton)
    1975 Conspiracy of Terror (TV Movie) - Lt. Rossos (as Normann Burton)
    1975 Baretta (TV Series) - Councilman
    - The Goodbye Orphan Annie Blues (1975) ... Councilman (as Normann Burton)
    1975 The Reincarnation of Peter Proud - Dr. Frederick Spear (as Normann Burton)
    1975 Force Five (TV Movie) - Arthur Haberman
    1974 Let's Call It Quits (Short) - Bill
    1974 The Towering Inferno - Giddings (as Normann Burton)
    1974 Kojak (TV Series) - 'Fish' Fisher
    - The Best War in Town (1974) ... 'Fish' Fisher (as Normann Burton)
    1974 Planet of the Apes (TV Series) - Yalu
    - The Interrogation (1974) ... Yalu (as Normann Burton)
    1974 The Terminal Man - Det. Capt. Anders
    1974 The Magician (TV Series) - Malloy
    - The Illusion of Black Gold (1974) ... Malloy (as Normann Burton)
    1974 The F.B.I. (TV Series) - Bren
    - Selkirk's War (1974) ... Bren
    1973 Hit! - The Director
    1973 Save the Tiger - Fred Mirrell
    1972 A Great American Tragedy (TV Movie)
    1972 The Partners (TV Series) - Romero
    - The 217 in 402 (1972) ... Romero
    1972 Fuzz - Police Commissioner Nelson
    1971 They Call It Murder (TV Movie) - Movie Director
    1971 Diamonds Are Forever - Leiter
    1971 Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Army Officer
    1971 Simon, King of the Witches - Willard Rackum
    1971 Jud - Uncle Hornkel
    1970 R.P.M. - Coach McCurdy

    1969 Land of the Giants (TV Series) - Sergeant
    - The Chase (1969) ... Sergeant
    1968 The Felony Squad (TV Series) - Solly Hirt
    - Matched for Murder (1968) ... Solly Hirt
    1968 Judd for the Defense (TV Series) - Roger Helmsman
    - Transplant (1968) ... Roger Helmsman
    1968 Planet of the Apes - Hunt Leader
    1968 I Spy (TV Series) - Brandon
    - Tag, You're It (1968) ... Brandon
    1967 Valley of the Dolls - Neely O'Hara's Director (uncredited)
    1967 Days of Our Lives (TV Series) - Cab Driver
    - Episode #1.391 (1967) ... Cab Driver
    1966 The Hero (TV Series)
    - The Day They Shot Sam Garrett (1966)
    1966 Get Smart (TV Series) - Control Agent
    - The Decoy (1966) ... Control Agent (uncredited)
    1966 I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) - Mr. Asher
    - What's New, Poodle Dog? (1966) ... Mr. Asher
    1966 Love on a Rooftop (TV Series)
    - 117 Ways to Cook Hamburger (1966)
    1965 Gunsmoke (TV Series) - Ed
    - The Reward (1965) ... Ed
    1965 Wild Seed - Policeman
    1965 The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series) - Mr. Hilmer
    - Never Listen to Rumors (1965) ... Mr. Hilmer
    1965 Bewitched (TV Series) - Moving Man
    - Pleasure O'Riley (1965) ... Moving Man
    1963 The Fugitive (TV Series) - Car Salesman
    - See Hollywood and Die (1963) ... Car Salesman (uncredited)
    1963 The Twilight Zone (TV Series) - Office Worker
    - Miniature (1963) ... Office Worker (uncredited)
    1963 Sam Benedict (TV Series) - Lt. Warren Jones
    - Some Fires Die Slowly (1963) ... Lt. Warren Jones
    1961-1962 The Untouchables (TV Series) - Solly / Wally Dagan
    - The Floyd Gibbons Story (1962) ... Solly
    - 90-Proof Dame (1961) ... Wally Dagan
    1962 Hand of Death - Chief Homicide Investigator
    1962 Shannon (TV Series) - John Herman
    - Dolphin and the Mermaid (1962) ... John Herman
    1962 Womanhunt
    1961 Checkmate (TV Series) - Lou Lewis
    - Kill the Sound (1961) ... Lou Lewis
    1961 The New Breed (TV Series) - Poulos
    - Death of a Ghost (1961) ... Poulos
    1960 Pretty Boy Floyd - Bill Courtney

    1956 Fright - Thompkins - Reporter

    Archive footage (2 credits)

    2000 Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever' (Video documentary short) - Felix Leiter
    1980 Life, Liberty and Pursuit on the Planet of the Apes (TV Movie) - Yalu
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    1944: Jeroen Krabbé is born--Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

    1974: The Hollywood Reporter reports on a United Artists advertising campaign for The Man With the Golden Gun that put Christopher Lee, Maud Adams, and Hervé Villechaize tour of eight cities across two weeks. (At a cost of about $25,000 and recalling Hollywood promotions of old said EON's publicity executive Jerry Juroe.)
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    1976: The 007 Stage officially opens at Pinewood Studios, former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson in attendance. Construction began March 1976 supporting the film production of The Spy Who Loved Me. Available for other film-making thereafter.
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    1976: The Los Angeles Times reports on producer Albert R. Broccoli pursuing Catherine Deneuve, Marthe Keller, and Dominique Sanda. Then deferring to Barbara Bach. “…Remember this: the money I’ve saved by not using a well-known actress I spent on that marvelous ski stunt.”
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    1985: Halálvágta (Death Gallop) released in Hungary.
    Eventual DVD and Blu-ray covers.
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    2002: Die Another Day released in Malaysia and Singapore.
    2008: 007 released in Venezuela.
    2012: Skyfall becomes the highest grossing film to that time in the UK.

    2018: Playboy highlights Dynamite Comics' James Bond Origin: A Train to Catch. Bob Q, artist. Jeff Parker, writer.
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    It's the British operative as you've never seen him in this exclusive-to-Playboy pre-007 adventure
    Written by Jeff Parker Illustration by Bob Q Published on December 05, 2018

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    James Bond has enlivened PLAYBOY's pages for nearly 60 years, beginning with the March 1960 publication of The Hildebrand Rarity, Ian Fleming's short story about the dashing 007's adventures. Before his fiction appeared in the magazine, Fleming dropped by the Playboy Building in Chicago, where he displayed a curiosity about real-life local villains, asking the editors, "I don't suppose you could introduce me to any of the Mafia chaps?" Fleming's famous hero, of course, is a secret agent of the British government. But how did Bond become the daring operative we know and love? For one chapter of his pre-007 backstory, we turn to this exclusive installment of James Bond Origin from the creative team at Dynamite Comics.
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    2018: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 007 #2.
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    Writer: Greg Pak
    Art: Marc Laming
    Genre: Action/Adventure
    Publication Date: December 2018
    Format: Comic Book
    Page Count: 32 Pages
    ON SALE DATE: 12/5/2018
    The ODD JOB epic continues, by superstars GREG PAK (Planet Hulk, Mech Cadet Yu) and MARC LAMING (Star Wars, Wonder Woman)!
    Somewhere in the world, a smuggler is trying to deliver a mysterious briefcase to the world's most deadly terrorists. 007 must get this case and is licensed to kill anyone that gets in his way.

    This is the story of the man who gets in his way.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 12,914
    December 6th

    1921: George Leech is born--London, England.
    (He dies 17 June 2012 at age 90--Cardiff, Wales.)
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    George Leech: Stuntman and actor
    best known for his work on the Bond
    films franchise
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    Gavin Gaughan | Monday 6 August 2012 00:00
    The resourceful stunt arranger and performer George Leech epitomised the phrase "unsung hero of the film business".

    Alongside the usual falls and fights of his trade, Leech walked along the arm of the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio di Janeiro, fell from a cable car, and swam with sharks. He was particularly noted for his work on the James Bond franchise, which began with its inception in Dr No; he demonstrated remarkable durability and, in a minor way, established a dynasty of screen stunting.

    Stern-visaged, with receding hair and slender in build compared to most stuntmen, Leech was among a generation who parlayed their military experiences during the Second World War into film action sequences, through an agency known as HEP (Howard, Evans and Powell). Another was Bob Simmons, stunt arranger for the Bond films.
    George Leech was born in north London in 1921; his father worked in the London docks, and George was a small, pale child. To build him up, George's father and uncle gave him boxing lessons and he was soon a regular at a St Pancras boxing club. He won the ABA National Championships when he was 15 (at six and a half stone). After leaving school at 14, he joined the Navy in 1943 and won four fights as a welterweight. In 1946 he got his first job in the film industry, in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (1947); his first stunt involved rolling down a flight of stone steps in place of James Mason.

    When flim work was not forthcoming, Leech performed in the then popular "open-air aqua shows", once appearing with Johnny Weismuller at the Earls Court Aqua Show.

    Leech was among a team of British stuntmen provided by HEP for Helen of Troy (1955), made in Rome by the Italian division of Warner Brothers, with the pioneering Hollywood stuntman Yakima Canutt as second-unit director. When rehearsing one stunt jump of around 15 feet, Leech landed badly due to a gap between two mattresses, and broke his foot. An Italian first-aid man promptly realigned his foot to its correct place and bound it tightly; despite being in bandages, he was soon back at work, on Port Afrique (1956), starring Pier Angeli.

    His earliest work for television was Teddy Gang (1956), an hour-long drama about rebellious youth made for Lew Grade's company ITC, by the producer Harry Alan Towers, who used Leech again on two minor film thrillers, Coast of Skeletons and Mozambique (both 1964). Again for ITC, Leech lurked in the background in a rollneck jumper and dark glasses, only emerging to take part in punch-ups, in Man in a Suitcase and The Prisoner (both 1967).
    After The Guns of Navarone (1961), Leech was recruited as Simmons' assistant for Dr No (1962), in which he also doubled Sean Connery in a pool fight, and he continued in that position for the next four films. His onscreen appearances included taking a fall from a Fort Knox balcony in Goldfinger (1964), and a minor, nautical henchman in Thunderball (1965).

    When Simmons was unavailable, Leech was his ideal replacement as stunt arranger for On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), personally selecting a dozen stuntmen for the film. He later likened this task to "being in charge of a gang of unruly schoolboys." The production office once rang him to complain: "Please control your men. One is climbing the Eiger, another is skiing across a table while hotel guests are having breakfast and [George] Lazenby is shooting at animals on the Alps with a pistol and driving the insurance people and producers mad." To which Leech replied, "You can't keep a gang of virile men sitting on their arses waiting."

    One of Leech's OHMSS stuntmen was Vic Armstrong, with whom he had previously worked on You Only Live Twice (1967). Armstrong would become one of the film world's most respected stuntmen, particularly for his work for Steven Spielberg; he also became Leech's son-in-law, marrying his daughter Wendy, who had successfully followed her father into the stunting profession. All three worked on Superman (1978), and later two granddaughters, Nina and Georgie, entered the family trade.

    Simmons returned for Diamonds Are Forever (1971) and Leech remained on hand, doubling for the campy assassin Putter Smith as he was set on fire at the climax. He also contributed to The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and For Your Eyes Only (1981), as a Greek heavy; neither The Wild Geese (1978) nor North Sea Hijack (1979) were Bonds, but both starred Roger Moore.
    Leech took charge of stunts for Philip Martin's Gangsters (BBC, 1975) a Play For Today that led to a series. He was also a beekeeper accidentally assaulted with a spiked mace by Peter Sellers in The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976). One of his last credits as stunt arranger was in Ireland, on The Fantasist (1986), part of the sparse filmography of Robin Hardy, director of The Wicker Man.
    Leech recalled the experience of working alongside genuine, hungry, sharks during Thunderball on an ITV documentary, 30 Years of James Bond (1992). In retirement he kept fit – even at the beginning of 2012 he was still jogging – and was a guest at Bond-themed conventions.

    George Daniel Leech, stunt arranger and performer: born London 6 December 1921; married 1952 Elizabeth Mary Hopkins (two daughters); died Cardiff 17 June 2012.
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    Filmography
    Stunts (34)

    1985 No Surrender (stunt coordinator)
    1985 A View to a Kill (stunt double: Willoughby Gray - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
    1984 Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (TV Movie) (stunts)
    1983 Never Say Never Again (additional stunts - uncredited)
    1983 Octopussy (explosion stunt - uncredited) / (stunt driver - uncredited)
    1981 For Your Eyes Only (stunt team)

    1980 The Sea Wolves (stunts: attacker on dock - uncredited)
    1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)

    1979 Game for Vultures (stunt coordinator)
    1979 The Passage (stunts - uncredited)
    1978 Superman (stunts: Man in burglar's office - uncredited)
    1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther (stunt double: Peter Sellers - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
    1978 The Wild Geese (stunts - uncredited)
    1978 The Professionals (TV Series) (stunt double - 1 episode)
    - When the Heat Cools Off (1978) ... (stunt double - uncredited)
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunt driver: Lotus Esprit - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
    1977 A Bridge Too Far (stunts - uncredited)
    1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (stunts - uncredited)
    1976 The Eagle Has Landed (stunts - uncredited)
    1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again (stunts - uncredited)
    1975 Brannigan (stunts - uncredited)
    1971 Diamonds Are Forever (stunts - uncredited)
    1971 Puppet on a Chain (stunts - uncredited)
    1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)
    1970 Kelly's Heroes (stunts - uncredited)

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt arranger) / (stunts - uncredited)
    1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
    1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
    1967 Casino Royale (stunts - uncredited)
    1965 Thunderball (stunts - uncredited)
    1964 Goldfinger (stunt double: Sean Connery - uncredited) / (stunt driver - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
    1962 Dr. No (stunt double: Joseph Wiseman - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)

    1961 The Guns of Navarone (stunts - uncredited)
    1960 Exodus (stunts - uncredited)

    1956 Helen of Troy (stunts - uncredited)

    Actor (36 credits)

    1985 Dempsey and Makepeace (TV Series) - 1st. Warder
    - Hors de Combat (1985) ... 1st. Warder
    1981 For Your Eyes Only - Henchman Shark Victim (uncredited)
    1980 ffolkes - Magnussen

    1978 Superman - Man in Office (uncredited)
    1978 Revenge of the Pink Panther - Asylum Policeman (uncredited)
    1978 The Wild Geese - Stone (uncredited)
    1978 People Like Us (TV Mini-Series) - 2nd Thief
    - Hungry Men Are Angry Men (1978) ... 2nd Thief
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Cortina Gunman #2 (uncredited)
    1976 The Eagle Has Landed - Traumer (uncredited)
    1976 The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Mr. Stutterstutt
    1975 Brannigan - Man in Bar (uncredited)
    1971 Puppet on a Chain - Thug (uncredited)
    1971 When Eight Bells Toll - Thug (uncredited)

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Strangled SPECTRE Skier (uncredited)
    1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - 4th Guardian / First Corridor Guard
    - Hammer Into Anvil (1967) ... 4th Guardian (as George Leach)
    - The General (1967) ... First Corridor Guard
    1967 Man in a Suitcase (TV Series) - Second Guard
    - Brainwash (1967) ... Second Guard
    1967 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Guard
    - Shinda Shima (1967) ... Guard (uncredited)
    1963-1966 The Saint (TV Series) - Chauffeur / Production Assistant
    - The Queen's Ransom (1966) ... Chauffeur (uncredited)
    - Marcia (1963) ... Production Assistant (uncredited)
    1966 Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
    1966 The Spies (TV Series) - Karl
    - I Don't Even Volunteer (1966) ... Karl
    1965 Thunderball - Largo's Crewman (uncredited)
    1965 The Face of Fu Manchu - Manchu Minion (uncredited)
    1965 Coast of Skeletons - Carlo Seton
    1964 Mozambique - Carl
    1964 Scene Nun, Take One (Short)
    1964 The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb - Ship Attacker (uncredited)
    1964 Goldfinger - Man in Bulletproof Vest at 'Q' Division (uncredited)
    1964 Carry On Spying - Waiter (uncredited)
    1962 Dr. No - Decontamination Technician (uncredited)
    1962 Billy Budd - Marine (uncredited)
    1960 And the Same to You - Jake
    1960 Sink the Bismarck ! - War Room Officer (uncredited)

    1959 Hot Money Girl - Man In Fight (uncredited)
    1956 Port Afrique - Second Arab
    1956 Private's Progress - German Soldier (uncredited)
    1956 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series)
    - Teddy Gang (1956)

    Miscellaneous Crew (2 credits)

    1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (film extra - uncredited)

    1947 Odd Man Out (stand-in: Mr. Mason - uncredited)

    Self (5 credits)

    2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
    1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself
    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service: Swiss Movement (Documentary short) - Himself


    Archive footage (1 credit)

    1995 Behind the Scenes with 'Thunderball' (Video documentary) - Hyderfoil Crewman
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    1938 : Patrick Bauchau is born--Brussels, Belgium.

    1962: Colin Salmon is born--Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
    1963 : Ulrich Thomsen is born--Næsby, Odense, Denmark.
    1963: Ann Fleming writes to Evelyn Waugh commenting on the Thunderbal court case.
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    And Bryce convinced himself that Fleming was happy with the case
    outcome. But a close friend who dined with Fleming the evening after the
    settlement later revealed that the writer bitterly denounced Bryce's perfidy.
    Ann was not to happy too. She scrawled in her husband's personal copy of
    Diamonds Are Forever, which had a dedication to Bryce inside, the words:
    "Dedicated to Ivar Bryce. The man who betrayed Ian in the Thunderball
    case." In a letter to Evelyn Waugh, dated 6 December 1963, Ann expressed
    her feelings about the trial more succinctly: "Goodness I miss the old Bailey,
    the case did Ian a power of good, no smoking in court and one hour for a
    simple lunch. It was sad for him having to settle. Our solicitors say we're all
    right, but one can never tell. So maybe we'll have to settle up. "

    Seeing that the whole ghastly business had lowered his spirits, friends of
    Fleming tired to cheer him up. John Betjeman wrote to commiserate but also
    top congratulate him on the movie version of From Russia With Love, which
    he'd just seen and loved, comparing Bond to a jet-setting Sherlock Holmes.
    "Write on, fight on," he championed.
    1967: Critic Marjorie D. Lawrie from Punch praises the illustrations by Christopher Chamberlain in The Adventures of James Bond Junior 003½ as "satisfying". (Short of commenting on the prose.)

    1982: Octopussy films Kamal Khan speaking to a concealed Octopussy.
    1985: A View to a Kill released in Sri Lanka.

    1999: Radioactive's release of the "Die Another Day" three-track CD digipak single (from 15 November) ends this day.

    2001: BBC News reports a rare book find.
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    Thursday, 6 December, 2001, 18:08 GMT
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    A rare copy of a James Bond book by Ian Fleming has been discovered in a charity shop in Scotland.
    The first edition copy of Live and Let Die was handed in by a mystery donor in a plastic bag full of other books.
    It had been in storage when John Fyfe, a volunteer at the Morningside branch of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (ICRF), spotted the rare edition.

    The item has been valued at about £5,000 by book experts at Sotheby's in London, where it is due to be auctioned next Thursday.

    Shock
    Mr Fyfe admitted he was very surprised at the find.

    He said: "I've no idea who handed it in. I work two days a week and I was off when the books were left in the shop.

    "It was just lying with a pile of books and we go through them all to check for anything special.

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    "It's quite a plain looking thing, although its dust jacket was in good condition. When I saw it was a first edition I knew it would be worth a bit."

    Jay Hogarty, ICRF area retail manager, said: "If the auction estimate is right, this will be the biggest find we've had in Scotland.

    "Mr Fyfe is a volunteer specialist who knows about books, and not all our shops have those specialists.

    "The money will go back to the shop and then to our central fund to help vital cancer research."

    Origins
    In July 2000 a copy of Fleming's first James Bond book, Casino Royale, published in 1953, sold at Sotheby's for £6,500.

    Fleming was born in 1908 but it was not until 1952 that he wrote his first James Bond draft.

    Casino Royale was a hit, and was televised in the US in 1954.

    In the following years he dedicated himself to its successors and oversaw the move of James Bond onto the big screen.

    Among his other works was Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - the story of a mad professor who invents an amazing flying car.
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    2002: Die Another Day released in South Africa.

    2011: Skyfall films Moneypenny handing a box to OO7 on the Department of Energy and Climate Change rooftop, Whitehall.
    2012: Skyfall released in the Dominican Republic.
    2014: Scheduled start date for the filming of BOND 24.

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    December 7th

    1941: The Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service bombs the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
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    1955: Priscilla Barnes is born--Fort Dix, New Jersey.
    1959: After a signed agreement with Jack Whittingham, Kevin McClory registers the title "Thunderball", anticipating a future film based on meetings with Ian Fleming and Whittingham.
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    Chapter 12 - The First James Bond Screenplay
    Despite the amount of work Whittingham had already contributed, it
    wasn't until 7 December that an agreement was finally drawn up and signed
    between himself and McClory, on behalf of Xanadu. His usual feed of 6,000
    reduced to 5,00 on the understanding that this would be his first of a hopeful
    series of Bond screenplays. Significantly, Whittingham assigned the copyright
    in the script over to McClory. A clause in the contract also stated that all
    material written could be used for subsequent motion pictures. This was a
    normal contract between producer and writer, but it would later have severe
    repercussions for Whittingham.

    1965: Jeffrey Wright is born--Washington, District of Columbia.
    1966: Variety reports on competing schedules and release dates for Bond films You Only Live Twice and Casino Royale, in that order. (Eventually Casino Royale releases April 1967, ahead of the EON mission.)

    1972: Live and Let Die films Bond taking the top off a double decker bus.

    1995: GoldenEye released in Argentina, the Netherlands, and Singapore.
    1997: The New York Times prints Adam Bryant's piece "007: License to Shill."
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    Agent 007: License to Shill
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    By Adam Bryant | Dec. 7, 1997

    IT seems like only yesterday that the dream of any self-respecting teen-age boy with a freshly minted driver's license was to have his date lean across the front seat and whisper, ''Oh James, you drive beautifully.''

    That's James as in ''Bond, James Bond,'' a phrase that got hard-wired into the brains of an entire generation of guys who grew to admire this founding member of the Pantheon of Real Men. After all, nobody ever gets the best of Bond, women are his life and he's smart enough to instantly recognize a counterfeit license plate on a Ferrari in France.

    But now this secret agent with a knack for being in the right place at the right time is turning up everywhere, and that hard-wired reverence for the original super-suave Bond is threatening to short out.

    These days, it is hard to miss all the Bond cross-promotional ads. Ericsson cellular phones are suddenly ''Bond Approved.'' His BMW car and motorcycle are described as ''Bond's new loves.'' Visa, Smirnoff, Heineken, Avis and Omega are all in on the act. In the market for makeup? L'Oreal is now selling lipstick and nail polish in shades of ''Bond Bordeaux.''

    True, Bond and marketing tie-ins are nothing new (guys could once buy 007 cologne, and the last movie, ''Goldeneye,'' helped BMW sell thousands of new Z3 roadsters). But the sheer number of promotional partners for the 18th Bond movie, ''Tomorrow Never Dies,'' which opens Friday, seems over the top. Could this really be James Bond, the seemingly omniscient and omnipotent secret agent for whom stuff and gadgets were simply a means to a variety of ends?

    ''The blubbery arms of the soft life had Bond round the neck and they were slowly strangling him,'' Ian Fleming wrote in an early Bond book, From Russia, With Love. ''He was a man of war and when, for a long period, there was no war, his spirit went into decline.''

    Seeing Bond -- or at least his latest incarnation, Pierce Brosnan -- over and over in ads with a Visa card waved in front of his face by his gadget guru Q will surely cause many other spirits to dip, too. But Karen C. Sortito, executive vice president for worldwide promotions at MGM/UA, which is releasing the new movie, is adamant that the essence of Bond has not been compromised in the name of cutting through ad clutter.

    For one thing, she said, Bond is not making any you-should-buy-this-product pitches himself. The ads are also clever and funny, Ms. Sortito said, and are a kind of celebration of Bond in the same way that agencies show off some of their best work for the Super Bowl.

    ''It's all cool and hip,'' she said. ''If this wasn't creative, we would not be doing it.''

    The advertising is also helpful in reaching a broader audience and drawing them into the 35-year-old Bond phenomenon, Ms. Sortito said. It has been hard to generate a lot of interest among the many women who see Bond movies as popcorn for guys, so the L'Oreal products should help. The Heineken and BMW motorcycle ads build interest among young males, she said, while the Smirnoff vodka ads appeal to traditionalists.

    ''How can you justifiably criticize this when we are trying to grow the audience?'' she asked. Another important test, she added, was that the products were not forced into the screenplay. ''We would never sell out Bond for that and we haven't yet.''

    Perhaps the problem is that a lot of these products are kind of pedestrian. Bond and Heineken? Beer cans, unlike martinis, are not supposed to be shaken. Bond and Avis? Avis may boast that ''We Try Harder,'' but the real Bond makes everything look effortless.

    Of course, debates over quintessential Bondness are endless. Which actor came closest to capturing the Bond of Ian Fleming's books -- a secret agent who is neither witty nor dapper, but somebody who is somber, ruthless and deadly serious?

    But one thing seems beyond dispute: the sight of a cardboard cutout of Mr. Brosnan next to a stack of Heineken cases -- coming to a supermarket near you -- is not what Mr. Fleming had in mind. In Moonraker, Bond describes how he thinks others see him: ''The tough man of the world. The secret agent. The man who is only a silhouette.''

    A silhouette should never be confused with a cardboard cutout.
    1999: European CD single for "The World Is Not Enough" released.
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    2006: Casino Royale released in Argentina, Australia, Chile, Hungary, New Zealand, and Peru,
    2006: 007 พยัคฆ์ร้ายเดิมพันระห่ำโลก (Phyạkhḳh̒ r̂āy deimphạn rah̄̀ả lok; The Evil Tiger Stakes the World) released in Thailand.
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    2008: Daniel Craig confirms BOND 23's plot will not continue the Casino Royale, nor Quantum of Solace story arcs: "I'm done with that story. I want to lie on a beach for the first half an hour of the next movie drinking a cocktail."

    2020: YouTube streams Bond films 1-19 for free in the US.
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    December 8th

    1925: Sammy Davis Jr. is born--Harlem, New York City, New York.
    (He dies 16 May 1990 at age 64--Beverly Hills, California.)
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    Altovise and Sammy Davis Jr. in 1972
    By Edward J. Boyer | May 17, 1990 | Times Staff Writer

    Sammy Davis Jr., the quintessential showman embraced by his peers as “Mr. Entertainment” for his enormous talent and versatility, died early Wednesday morning at his home in Beverly Hills after a nine-month battle with throat cancer.

    Death came as friends and fans of the diminutive, 64-year-old entertainer maintained a vigil outside his home. They had been gathering there since Tuesday when word began to circulate that the end was near.

    The tributes were immediate:
    Frank Sinatra, who with Davis, Joey Bishop, Dean Martin and Peter Lawford became Hollywood’s fast-living “Rat Pack” of the 1960s and who knew him for 40 years, said he “wished the world could have known Sam as I did. . . . It was a generous God who gave him to us for all these years . . . . Sam was the best friend a man could have.”
    Said Bishop: “Guess they must need a good show up in Heaven, that’s all I can say.” Then he added, “God I’m sorry. I loved him.”
    Martin hailed Davis as a great entertainer and “an even greater friend, not only to me, but to everyone whose life he touched.”
    Former President Ronald Reagan remembered him as “a special talent which made him more than just a great entertainer--it made him magical.” Comedian Bill Cosby said that “it would have been fantastic to see him at age 82 still enjoying performing for the people. I’ll see him later.”
    Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley—who counted Davis among his friends and political supporters—ordered the city’s flags flown at half staff.

    Davis had battled the cancer in his throat since September, when a tumor was discovered growing behind his vocal cords. He began a series of radiation treatments that left his skin discolored and raw enough to bleed when he touched his throat.

    When his illness became known, fans around the world deluged him with letters letting him know that he was in their prayers.

    Show business friends from Sinatra and Cosby to Liza Minnelli and Steve Lawrence rallied to his side, putting themselves at his disposal. A month before the cancer was detected, Davis, Sinatra and Minnelli (filling in for an ailing Dean Martin) had been on a reunion tour, bringing sellout audiences to their feet.

    His friends’ affection for the man who enjoyed describing himself as a “little one-eyed colored guy” was nowhere more evident than during a television tribute earlier this year, commemorating his more than six decades in show business.

    Said singer Whitney Houston, a guest on the televised tribute taped last year: “He helped to break down the color barriers. I think he fought the battle for the rest of us.”

    Davis would have been the first to acknowledge that he was but one soldier among generations of troops who assaulted color barriers. Nonetheless, he determinedly fought his battles with whatever weapons were available, including one that he felt the haters could not withstand—his talent.

    Whether dancing with his father and uncle on countless television guest spots, captivating movie audiences as Sportin’ Life in “Porgy and Bess,” singing his way through “Mr. Wonderful” on Broadway, or finding a hit song and a theme in “Candy Man,” Davis brought an exuberance to every performance.

    His versatility was such that he could go on a bare stage alone and weave a stunning evening of entertainment with song, dance, impressions and comedy.

    “This is what I want on my tombstone,” he once told an interviewer:

    “Sammy Davis Jr., the date, and underneath, one word: ‘Entertainer.’ That’s all, because that’s what I am, man.”

    Behind Davis’ superb stagecraft, however, and despite the adoration of faithful fans, Davis was for much of his life a man at war with himself.

    He buried his pain in alcohol and cocaine—chasing the delusion that his “swinging” lifestyle somehow compensated for his two divorces, his estrangement from his children, and his futile efforts to become what he thought others expected him to be.

    “I didn’t like me,” Davis told an interviewer in 1989. “So it made all the sense in the world to me at the time that if you don’t like yourself, you destroy yourself.

    “The monkey on my back is that I created a lifestyle that was no good for me. My life was empty. I had drugs, booze and broads, and I had nothing.”

    He had to fight his way through what he has called “the tortures of the damned,” and he credited Altovise, his wife of 20 years, with helping him make a turnaround.

    “She was there for me,” he said. “She gave me all the support in the world.”

    The turnaround began when doctors told him in 1983 that his stomach and liver were so damaged that he would die soon if he didn’t stop drinking. He stopped. In 1984 and 1985, he underwent hip replacement surgery.

    But he returned to dance again and charmed movie fans as Little Mo, the veteran hoofer with still enough moves to accept a “challenge” dance, in the 1989 film “Tap.”

    The drinking was only one of his excesses. He spent money just as easily.

    During his illustrious career, he had earned millions and spent or given away more. And by the 1980s, the Internal Revenue Service was clamoring for unpaid millions in taxes it said he owed.

    Davis also shamelessly gushed over every guest on his television shows. And his ostentation became a trademark. If one gold ring was good, four had to be better.

    Try as he might to win love with his talent, his public persona had become an easy target--grist for a devastating (and, he said, all too accurate) impersonation by comedian Billy Crystal.

    But if his excesses were obnoxious to some, Davis, the individual, was a monument to generosity for others. He marched for civil rights in Selma, Ala., played benefits for Jesse Jackson’s Operation PUSH, and helped raise funds to investigate the Atlanta child murders.

    Benjamin L. Hooks, executive director of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People, remembered him Wednesday as “a humanitarian whose heart was so big . . . that it dwarfed his frame.”

    Hooks, in a statement, called attention to Davis’ accomplishments “in the struggle of African-Americans,” much of which “was not widely known . . . .”

    Coretta Scott King called him “not only one of the greatest performing artists of our age” but “an ardent, tireless supporter of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement . . . .”

    Davis would break into his schedule to play a benefit for a blind ex-fighter or sell bonds for Israel. Even as his bank account slid toward empty, he was contributing thousands of dollars to his child’s school.

    This consummate entertainer whose career has been described as a series of radical mood swings was born Dec. 8, 1925, in Harlem, N.Y., where his father was lead dancer and his mother, Elvera (Sanchez) Davis, was in the chorus of a vaudeville troupe headed by his adopted uncle, Will Mastin.

    When the act went on the road, Davis remained with his paternal grandmother, Rosa (Mama) Davis, who raised him until his parents divorced. His father took custody, and by age 3 a mugging little Sammy had made his stage debut.

    He learned to dance by watching routines from the wings, and the rhythms from his flashing feet soon became a popular addition to the act. He made his film debut in 1933, at age 7, in “Rufus Jones for President,” a comedy in which a boy dreams he is elected President.

    Davis never attended school. His father and Mastin hired tutors—especially when truant officers applied pressure—to teach the youngster the three Rs. That irregular instruction and Davis’ later friendship with a U.S. Army sergeant who loaned him books and taught him remedial reading was as close as he came to formal education.

    Mastin’s troupe, which had included 12 members, began to shrink with the decline of vaudeville and eventually was reduced to “The Will Mastin Trio, Featuring Sammy Davis Jr.”

    Touring in the 1930s and ‘40s, the trio often could not find hotels that would rent rooms to blacks or restaurants that would serve them. But it was not until Davis was drafted into the Army’s first integrated unit at age 18 that he ran into the naked racism never far beneath the surface of World War II America.

    During basic training in Wyoming, he was beaten, kicked and spat upon by bigoted whites in his barracks. Describing those days in his best-selling 1965 biography, “Yes, I Can,” Davis said his knuckles were covered with scabs from fighting racists during his first three months in the Army.

    Perhaps the ugliest incident occurred when a group of white enlistees decided to teach him a lesson for being too familiar with a white female officer.

    Davis said they lured him to a remote spot on the base, where they beat him and painted racial slurs on his chest and forehead. They forced him to tap dance and smeared more white paint over his body, only to remove a spot to demonstrate that beneath the paint he was still “just as black ‘n’ ugly as ever.”

    The pain of that incident motivated him to pump even more energy into his performances at camp shows. He felt that his sheer talent could reach the haters, “neutralize them,” force them to recognize him as a person.

    He used an audience’s affection as fuel, and he made no secret of his “joy of being liked.” And he would work himself to exhaustion to please an audience, friends said, in a futile effort to make the world love him--to erase the brutal memories of his Army experiences.

    Davis rejoined his father and uncle after the war, but the trio led a hand-to-mouth existence as vaudeville died and they tried breaking into nightclubs. They worked hotels in Las Vegas, where they could neither register as guests nor enter the casinos because they were black.

    Some New York City clubs would not allow him to enter, and he needed a special permit just to be on the streets of Miami Beach at night when he performed there.

    But Davis continued to increase his repertoire—adding trumpet, drums, celebrity impressions—as the trio crisscrossed the country, taking whatever dates they could find.

    In 1946, Metronome magazine named him “Most Outstanding New Personality” on the strength of his Capitol recording of “The Way You Look Tonight,” the magazine’s selection as record of the year. Davis recorded it under a deal paying him $50 a side for each recording.

    During the next two years, the trio appeared with headliners such as Mickey Rooney, Sinatra and Bob Hope. Jack Benny later intervened to get them a booking at Ciro’s nightclub in Hollywood where they opened for singer Janis Paige. The audience would not let them off—or Paige on—stage. The next night, Paige was the opening act for the Will Mastin Trio.

    The group’s later appearance on Eddie Cantor’s NBC television show was such a hit that they became the comedian’s summer replacement.

    By 1954, when Davis released his first album under a contract to Decca Records, his father and Mastin had become background accompaniment to his soaring performances.

    With Davis as its centerpiece, the trio sold out clubs from Los Angeles to New York, and the group was in constant demand for guest spots on television variety shows.

    Davis’ on-target impersonations of Jimmy Cagney, Jerry Lewis and Jimmy Stewart were a revelation to audiences who simply had never imagined a black performer being able to so accurately capture a white celebrity’s character.

    But it all nearly ended in November, 1954, in a car crash on a stretch of highway between Las Vegas and Los Angeles that cost him his left eye. During his recuperation at a San Bernardino hospital, he said, he began thinking seriously about religion and converted to Judaism.

    Once out of the hospital, he was in even more demand. And contract offers began a steady march upward through five figures for a week’s work. In 1956, he made his Broadway debut in “Mr. Wonderful,” a musical comedy created for him.

    By the late 1950s, the Will Mastin Trio had broken up, but Davis continued dividing his income with his father and uncle for months—some friends say years.

    He became a member of Hollywood’s so-called “Rat Pack” and made six of his 23 movies with them, beginning with “Ocean’s Eleven” in 1960 and ending with “One More Time” in 1970.

    After a brief marriage to dancer Loray White in 1959, Davis married Swedish actress May Britt in 1960. The couple had a daughter, Tracey, and adopted two sons, Mark and Jeff. The couple divorced in 1968, and two years later Davis married dancer Altovise Gore. They adopted a son, Manny, last year.

    During his marriage to Britt, his celebrity could not shield him from white anger and black consternation.

    Davis noted in an interview with Playboy magazine that his mother was Puerto Rican.

    “So I’m Puerto Rican, Jewish, colored and married to a white woman,” he said. “When I move into a neighborhood, people start running four ways at the same time.”

    He was bitterly criticized in 1972, during the Republican National Convention in Miami, for hugging Richard M. Nixon. To many black Americans, the photo of that incident was eloquent testimony to what they saw as Davis’ misplaced values.

    That criticism, however, wasn’t as painful as the rejection that came his way from John F. Kennedy, whose candidacy he had tirelessly supported.

    Davis had been invited to Kennedy’s 1961 inauguration, but the invitation was rescinded a few days after it was offered because the Kennedy camp felt Davis and his white wife might anger Southerners.

    “The guy I ran with is the man that told me, ‘Don’t come to the White House cause you’ll embarrass me’ because I was married to a white woman,” Davis said in a 1987 interview. “And I had to accept that. But that was the man I campaigned for, and went all out for. That was John Kennedy.”

    By now Davis was a fixture in the firmament of American stars. Before his “Rat Pack” movies, he had appeared in “The Benny Goodman Story,” co-starred with Eartha Kitt in “Anna Lucasta” and won rave notices as Sportin’ Life in the film version of “Porgy and Bess.”

    He returned to the stage in the mid-1960s in a musical adaptation of Clifford Odets’ “Golden Boy,” a production that ran for 568 performances before closing in March, 1966.

    Davis, meanwhile, had remained busy in films, producing the forgettable “A Man Called Adam” with his own company in 1966. He also appeared as revivalist Big Daddy in “Sweet Charity” and performed in the 1972 documentary “Save the Children.”

    While moving between stage, television and movies, Davis also recorded dozens of albums and released several hit singles, including his all-time top-seller, “Candy Man.”

    His was a familiar face in America’s living rooms as he turned up on television in shows ranging from “The Beverly Hillbillies” to “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In” to the soap opera “One Life to Live.” He hosted several specials of his own, sat in for Johnny Carson and did the brief and ill-fated “Sammy Davis Jr. Show” on NBC from 1965 to 1966.

    He was a smash hit in “Sammy,” a television retrospective of his first half-century in show business. But his second try at a network show, “NBC Follies,” was canceled midway through the 1973-74 season.

    Last year he published a second biography, Why Me? co-written, as was his best-selling first book, with Jane and Burt Boyar. In interviews discussing the new book, he acknowledged that racial prejudice had profoundly affected him.

    He poignantly told a story of a man coming to his table at a nightclub to greet him after he had become an international celebrity. The man was the very person who had refused him admission to the same club some years before.

    He felt he should have told the man “to get away from me with his hypocrisy.” But he was silent.

    “So I went home and threw up,” he said. “I had stifled my own feelings and made myself sick. That night I vowed: ‘I’ll never let that happen again.’ ”

    He said he began to fight the subtle prejudices he encountered, whether it was fellow board members of a company being surprised that he could do more than sing and dance, or making it clear to guests at a party that he could talk about more than what Carson or Sinatra are “really like.”

    Still, by his own admission, he had mellowed in the last five years.

    He overcame what he called his obsession with his career even as he was being increasingly called upon to accept yet another honor for his body of work or for his commitment to various social and political causes.

    “I’ve been looking inward,” he said last year. “I’ve been counting my blessings. I no longer feel I have to do it all. I don’t yearn to be at the top of the mountain.”

    Davis is survived by his wife, four children and two grandchildren. His mother and a sister also survive. Services are scheduled at 11 a.m. Friday at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Hollywood Hills. Burial will follow at Forest Lawn, Glendale.

    The family suggested that, in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Sammy Davis Jr. National Liver Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark.

    Times staff writer Eric Malnic contributed to this obituary.
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    1950: Rick Baker is born--Binghamton, New York.
    1953: Kim Basinger is born--Athens, Georgia.

    1964: Teri Hatcher is born--Palo Alto, California.
    1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films OO7 and the cable car.

    1979: 007/ムーンレイカー (Mūnreikā; Moon Laker) released in Japan.
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    1983: Zeg Nooit, Nooit Meer (Say Never, Never Again) released in the Netherlands.
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    1989: Licence to Kill released in Cyprus.

    1995: GoldenEye released in Israel and Sweden.
    1995: 007 - GoldenEye released in Portugal.
    1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Malta.
    1999: Världen räcker inte till released in Sweden.
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    2006: Casino Royale released in Colombia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.
    2006: 007: Casino Royale released in Mexico.

    2014: BOND 24 production begins at Pinewood Studios. Filming continues the next 7 months in London, Mexico City, Rome, Morocco.

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    December 9th

    1912: Blanche Blackwell is born--Costa Rica.
    (She dies 8 August 2017 at age 104--London, England.)
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    Heiress who became the ‘Jamaican wife’ of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and was supposedly the model for Goldfinger’s Pussy Galore
    Ian Thomson | Tue 29 Aug 2017 12.26 EDT
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    Blanche Blackwell, who has died aged 104, was a divorcee in her 40s when in 1956 she met Ian Fleming, her neighbour in Jamaica and the creator of James Bond; and soon they became lovers. Cracks had by then begun to show in Fleming’s marriage to Ann Charteris. Ann was ashamed of her husband’s success as a thriller writer (the Bond novels were “pornography”, she told friends), and had begun to stay away from their Jamaican home, Goldeneye.

    Blackwell’s friendship with Fleming intensified when Ann began an affair with the politician Hugh Gaitskell. Ann became suspicious of “Ian’s Jamaican wife” after Anthony Eden’s wife, Clarissa, mentioned how helpful Blackwell had been at Goldeneye when the prime minister recuperated there in 1956 after the debacle of Suez. In an attempt to make Goldeneye more welcoming for the Edens, Blackwell had planted the garden with flowers; Ann later tore them out and threw them over the cliff.

    Fleming wrote all 13 of his 007 novels in Jamaica, though only three (Dr No, Live and Let Die, The Man with the Golden Gun) were set partly on the island. Noël Coward, another neighbour, dubbed Fleming’s home “Goldeneye, nose and throat” for its lack of creature comforts. It was in this Spartan retreat that Fleming immersed himself in a Bond-like life of tropical oblivion fuelled by vodka and cigarettes (like 007, Fleming smoked 70 a day).

    Impishly, he included sketches of his friends (and enemies) in his fiction. Blackwell was supposedly a model for Pussy Galore, the trapeze artist turned leader of a team of lesbian cat burglars who passes herself off as an air stewardess in his novel Goldfinger; for the film, she is a pilot and martial arts expert. In Dr No, the guano-collecting ship was named the Blanche. Blackwell claimed not to have read any of the books, though: “I don’t like violence.”
    Daughter of Hilda (nee Lindo) and Percy Lindo, cousins who married, she was born into a wealthy Jamaican family, descended from Sephardic Jews from western Europe who had settled in Kingston in the mid-18th century and came to control much of the island’s commerce. Her father had helped to consolidate the family fortune in Costa Rica – where Blanche was born, in San José – before returning to Jamaica, where he owned property and produced rum.

    In 1936, in London, Blanche married Joseph Blackwell, a captain in the Irish Guards and heir to the Crosse & Blackwell foods fortune. Together they ran the family estates in Jamaica and owned a string of racehorses. In 1937 their son Christopher was born. Blanche was not happy in the marriage, however. The actor Errol Flynn (“a gorgeous god,” Blackwell called him) became one of her admirers.

    By the time she and Joseph divorced in 1949, she had moved to Jamaica’s north coast, to a house equidistant between Coward’s and Fleming’s. “Noël became a special pal of mine,” Blackwell told me during an interview in 2007, and Coward was said to have based his play Volcano on island life, and one of its central characters, Adela, on Blackwell.

    Fleming adored “Birdie” Blackwell and her darting, kingfisher mind. And Blackwell, in her turn, considered Fleming a “charming, handsome, gifted man”, but one plagued by self-doubt and self-hate. “Ian was an angel”, she told me. “Errol was another … Both lovely men – both exceptionally gifted and definitely not for domesticating.”

    When Fleming died of a heart attack in 1964, Blanche was invited neither to the funeral nor the memorial service. For years, she kept watch over Goldeneye for Fleming’s son Caspar; and after Caspar’s death in 1975 the house was bought first by Bob Marley, and then by her son, Chris, the founder in 1959 of Island Records, who had “discovered” Marley.

    Tough and good-humoured, in later life Blackwell wore her white hair bobbed round an animated, heart-shaped face. Her life, until she decamped in 2003 to a flat in Knightsbridge, London, had been one of island entertainments and literary friendships. Now, looked after by three Jamaican maids, Blackwell became an unlikely devotee of bingo. Each week her chauffeur took her to the Cricklewood Mecca to play. In Kingston, she had liked to bet on the horses, but London bingo was not without its thrills. “Cricklewood might seem a little dull to you,” she said. “It isn’t really. I could sit for hours in the Mecca. The tension as your number comes up. Bing-bing-bingo!”

    She is survived by her son.

    • Blanche Blackwell, born 9 December 1912; died 8 August 2017

    This article was amended on 13 September 2017. The original description of Pussy Galore as a pilot and martial arts expert applies only to the film; in the novel she is a trapeze artist turned leader of a team of lesbian cat burglars who passes herself off as an air stewardess.
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    1934: Judi Dench is born--York, North Yorkshire, England.

    1961: Bond comic strip For Your Eyes Only ends its run in The Daily Express.
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    1965: 007/サンダーボール作戦 (007/Sandâbôru sakusen; 007/Thunderball Strategy) premieres in Tokyo, Japan.
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    1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in Australia and South Africa.

    1987: Barbara Walters interviews Sean Connery on ABC-TV.
    1997: World Charity premiere of Tomorrow Never Dies at the London Odeon. No Royal family in attendance this time. 1999: James Bond 007 - Die Welt ist nicht genug released in Germany.
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    2006: “You Know My Name” written by Chris Cornell and David Arnold peaks at 57 on The Billboard Hot 100. Cornell's highest charting single.
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    2016: Radio Christmas interviews John Glen.
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    On 9 Dec, 2016 By Bond on the BoxIn Radio Broadcast

    Former James Bond director John Glen will be on the charity station Radio Christmas on Friday, 9 December 2016 from 7:00 – 9:00PM (GMT).


    2020: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries present Dressed to Kill: The West End tailors who suited James Bond.
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    Producer Albert R ‘Cubby’ Broccoli once said of James Bond: ‘Regimes may rise and fall, lapels may widen or narrow, but ultimately he remains the old-fashioned suited hero.’ Since the release of Eon Production’s first Bond film, Dr No, in 1962, the character has been tailored by Anthony Sinclair (Sean Connery), Dimitrov ‘Dimi’ Major (George Lazenby), Cyril Castle, Angelo Vittuci and Douglas ‘Doug’ Hayward (Roger Moore), Benjamin Simon and Lambert Hofer (Timothy Dalton), Brioni (Pierce Brosnan) and Tom Ford (Daniel Craig), respectively. This talk will provide a fun tour of the London-based, Westminster tailors who suited James Bond, and discusses where they were based, who they were, and how they assisted in the creation of the image of the eponymous suited hero who endures today.

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    Llewella Chapman is a film historian and visiting scholar at the University of East Anglia, completing her PhD in 2018 on the historic relationship between film, television and Hampton Court Palace. Her research interests include British cinema, gender, heritage and costume design. Llewella is under contract with Bloomsbury to publish her monograph, Fashioning James Bond: Costume, Gender and Identity in the world of 007, which is due to be released next year.


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    December 10th

    1963: Following the award of film rights for Thunderball plus ten other Bond stories to Kevin McClory, the Los Angeles Times reports his plans for a film budgeted at $2.24 million.
    1963: Jack Whittingham issues a writ against Ian Fleming for damages citing libel, malicious falsehood, damage to professional reputation.
    1965: Daily Variety reports Ann-Margret and Glenda Grainger recording and releasing versions of "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" from the upcoming film Thunderball.
    "Mister Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", Ann-Margret.


    "Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang", Glenda Grainger.

    1966: You Only Live Twice finishes filming Blofeld in the control room.

    1972: Live and Let Die films OO7 and Solitaire transferring from bus to Quarrel Junior's boat.
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    1977: 007 私を愛したスパイ (Watashiwoai shitasupai; My Beloved Spy) released in Japan.
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    1992: MGM/UA settles lawsuits delaying production of Bond films--key executives depart. Credit Lyonnais finances future operations.
    1995: Zlatno oko (Golden Eye) released in Slovenia.
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    1999: James Bond 007 - Die Welt ist nicht genug released in Austria.
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    1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Denmark.
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    2011: Skyfall films late night action on Childers Street, Lewisham, London, for the escape to Scotland.
    2019: Last day of Sotheby's online literature sale for the letters of Anne and Ian Fleming.
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    More than 160 letters written over 20 years shine light on James Bond author’s life

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    An extraordinary stash of letters that shine a light on the tangled relationship between the James Bond creator, Ian Fleming, and his wife, Ann, from their intense and secret affair to the bitter end of their marriage, are to appear at auction.

    Sotheby’s is selling more than 160 letters between the couple, written over 20 years. Gabriel Heaton, a specialist in books and manuscripts at the auction house, said the letters in their scope and scale provided what “must surely be an unmatchable record of the life of the author as his fortunes changed”.

    They also provide insight into the rise of Bond. Heaton said it was no coincidence that Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in the year of his marriage.
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    It was “both as an outlet for his libido and imagination, and also in an attempt to make money for a woman who was used to being unthinkingly rich”.

    Ann Fleming, née Charteris, was born into the aristocracy and married wealthy men. Her first husband was Shane O’Neill, the 3rd Baron O’Neill. After his death in military action in 1944, she married the newspaper magnate Esmond Harmsworth, the 2nd Viscount Rothermere.

    During both marriages she and Fleming were lovers, an intense relationship that had sado-masochistic elements. “I long for you even if you whip me because I love being hurt by you and kissed afterwards,” Ann once wrote to Fleming.

    In 1948 Ann became pregnant with Fleming’s child, a girl who was a month premature and lived only eight hours. The collection includes a number of sad and gentle letters written by Fleming on Gleneagles stationery shortly after he played golf with Rothermere, the cuckolded husband.

    In one letter he writes: “I have nothing to say to comfort you. After all this travail and pain it is bitter. I can only send you my arms and my love and all my prayers.”

    Fleming had numerous flings and affairs with other women and when the couple finally married in 1952 that was never likely to stop.

    Ann once wrote to him: “You mention ‘bad old bachelor days’ – the only person you stopped sleeping with when they ceased was me!”

    A letter from Fleming written on British Overseas Airways Corporation stationery reads: “In the present twilight, we are hurting each other to an extent that makes life hardly bearable.”

    Heaton said the letters were packed with stories of high society, travel, love of nature and gossip.

    “They are quite something, it has been a real treat,” he said. “They are an extraordinary read because Ian Fleming is pretty much incapable of writing a dull sentence.”

    Fleming wrote all of the Bond novels at GoldenEye, his house in Jamaica, a place visited by many of Ann’s remarkable circle of friends. The artist Lucian Freud, for example, and the Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell, with whom she had a long affair.

    There were also surprising visitors. “Truman Capote has come to stay,” Fleming writes. “Can you imagine a more incongruous playmate for me. On the heels of a telegram he came hustling and twittering along with his tiny face crushed under a Russian Commissars’ uniform hat [...] he had just arrived from Moscow.”

    The letters consist of more than 500 typed and handwritten pages, at least three written on endpapers torn from books. Two of the letters from Ann are written on the back of a gin rummy card and a hospital temperature chart.

    They will be offered in Sotheby’s online literature sale between 3 and 10 December and come with an estimate of £200,000-300,000.

    It was important to keep them together, said Heaton. “They are much more than the sum of their parts, the correspondence as a whole is far more substantial and interesting and revealing and exciting than simply an accumulation of individual letters.”

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    December 11th

    1961: James Bond comic strip Thunderball begins its run in The Daily Mail.
    (Ends 10 February 1962. 1066-1128) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.
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    First ending, Daily Express.
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    Danish 1966 https://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007-dk-no-6-eng/
    James Bond Agent 007 no. 6:
    “Thunderball” (1966)
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    1965: 007/サンダーボール作戦 (007/Sandâbôru sakusen; 007/Thunderball Strategy) released in Japan.
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    1975: The British-American Chamber of Commerce honors Roger Moore--Man of the Year.
    1979: Moonraker released in Davao, the Philippines.

    1984: Daily Variety reports a Christmas respite for the A View to a Kill production while final sets are built. Filming to resume in the New Year on the Albert R. Broccoli 007 Stage.
    1986: Prince Charles and Princess Diana visit the set of The Living Daylights and meet Timothy Dalton.
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    1997: Documentary James Bond Shaken and Stirred airs on television as a Tomorrow Never Dies tie-in.
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    Promotional TV documentary to publicize the release of the then new James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). Includes interviews with a number of key cast and crew production personnel.
    Stars: Samantha Bond, Vic Armstrong, David Arnold



    2002: Die Another Day released in Venezuela.
    2006: Interscope Records releases the "You Know My Name" CD single in the UK.
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    2020: Mark Edlitz appears on James Bond Radio to discuss his book The Lost Adventures of James Bond.
    James Bond Radio: 007 News, Reviews &
    Interviews!
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    Fri, 11 December 2020
    #197: The Lost Adventures of James Bond with Mark Edlitz

    This week, author, Mark Edlitz returns to the show to talk about his new book: The Lost Adventures of James Bond.

    As Bond fans, we've all seen the movies and read the books, but there is a hidden world of 007 content left to discover when it comes to the 'lost' or unmade adventures.

    In today's episode, Mark talks us through the ideas and outlines for Timothy Dalton's 3rd and 4th Bond films, explores the unproduced Casino Royale stage play written by Raymond Benson, exposes the secret history of the James Bond Jr. animated series, and much more.
    Direct download: JBR197-The-Lost-Adventures-of-James-Bond.mp3
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    The Lost Adventures of James Bond | A James Bond Virtual Book Launch

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    2020: Scientific Games slot game James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever showcased at Inside Asian Gaming’s “MAD Santa” Macau After Dark.
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    by Newsdesk | Wednesday 9 December 2020 at 04:11
    Inside Asian Gaming names Galeria Lisboa at Macau Fisherman’s Wharf as venue for this Friday’s “MAD Santa” Macau After Dark event

    Leading gaming product developer Scientific Games will showcase its brand new slot game, “James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever” at Inside Asian Gaming’s “MAD Santa” Macau After Dark industry networking event this Friday 11 December 2020.

    To be held at Galeria Lisboa at Macau’ Fisherman’s Wharf, the invitation-only seventh rendition of Macau After Dark will represent one of the last opportunities for the industry to come together in 2020, with Scientific Games taking pride of place as Showcase Sponsor.

    “We are thrilled to continue our 2020 sponsorship for the Macau After Dark,” said Scientific Games Vice President and Managing Director, Ken Jolly.

    “This event happening in December is special in bringing the industry together as a very tough year winds down.”

    Discussing the company’s product presentation at MAD 7, Jolly added, “Scientific Games continues to work tirelessly, planning and creating new products for the gaming industry’s recovery.

    “We are highlighting our upcoming branded slot game ‘James Bond – Diamonds Are Forever’ during the event.

    “Also coming in 2021 in our slots line up is the third Duo Fu Duo Cai game on DualosX, ‘Hurricane Horse’, and fourth Jin Ji Bao Xi game – ‘Singing Cats’ – adding to both successful families of games. Additionally, 1,2,3 Wild, a new link progressive, is also coming in early 2021.

    “Game changers on the Shufflers and Utilities side are the MDX shuffler, which has up to 10 decks shuffling and sorting capacity. The new Safe-Shoe X also has a 10 deck capacity that works seamlessly with the new iScore®Ultra baccarat display. It is the winning combination for any baccarat gameplay.”
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    MAD is a regular series of industry networking social events held in Asia’s gaming hub of Macau. Each MAD brings together key industry decision-makers with the people they want to meet in a relaxed and friendly environment. A new venue is chosen for each event.

    Attendees of MAD must work for an operator, a supplier to an operator, a VIP promoter or be connected to the industry in some way. All attendees supply their business cards upon entrance.

    For the upcoming MAD Santa event on 11 December, attendees must be invited to attend.

    For sponsorship, please contact:
    Jadeson Ho
    +853 2883 6497
    [email protected]

    For more information, please contact:
    Victoria Man
    +853 6395 2307
    [email protected]
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    2020: An event in Woolloomooloo, Australia, uses fine food and drink to celebrate Bond and honor the passing of Sean Connery. Also on the 12th.
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    Friday, 11 December 2020
    19:00
    1933 Boozehouse
    218 William Street, Woolloomooloo, Australia
    Tickets
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    Come have your taste buds shaken not stirred at our James Bond degustation event!

    In honor of the passing of Sean Connery, 1933 Boozehouse invites you to My name is Bond, James Bond. A dress up, James Bond themed degustation.

    Our head chef Abram Ponte will tantalise your tastebuds with his menu while Mark Lovett (owner) and Percy Small our Master Mixologists will mix up a series of matching cocktails from your favorite Bond films.

    Mark and Percy bring with them 20 years of cocktail making, so your paired beverage will heighten your flavour senses together with Abram's mouth watering menu.
    Menu:
    - Pumpkin, curry, tapioca crisp
    - Cold smoked portobello skewer, pomegranate molasses and lime caviar
    - Poached tiger prawn, bisque espuma
    - Wagyu beef tataki, squid ink brioche crumbs, curry apple puree, horseradish creme fraiche, pickled mustard seeds, whipped beef fat and micro greens
    - Shrimp rice cake, golden coconut curry broth, seared snapper, pickled papaya slaw, and watermelon radish
    - Vanilla cake, burnt honey meringue, pistachio puree, candied pistachios and pear cubes
    - Chocolate 5 ways. mousse, ganache, cake, soil, rocks, micro herbs and flowers
    The evening will also include live entertainment.

    Tickets $250 + BF
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    December 12th

    1964: The Goldfinger soundtrack makes the Billboard chart, eventually reaches #1. Spends 77 weeks in top 200.
    1964: Playboy magazine publishes its Ian Fleming interview.
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    1981: Sólo para sus ojos (Only For Your Eyes, also Catalan title Només per als teus ulls) released in Spain.
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    1987: 007/リビング・デイライツ (007/ Ribingu deiraitsu; Living Daylights) released in Japan.
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    1993: The (James Bond 007 International Fan Club's) "Diamonds are Forever 22-Carat Christmas Lunch" is held at Pinewood Studios with Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, and the moon buggy.
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    1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the UK, Ireland, and Iceland.
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    2002: Die Another Day released in Australia, the Dominican Republic, and Lebanon.
    2002: 007: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Mexico.
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    2002: Умри, но не сейчас (Die But Not Now) released in Russia.
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    2014: Spectre films at Solden, Austria, near the glacier and through the tunnel.
    2016: Jamaica reports its nine wins at the 23rd World Travel Awards from 4 December.
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    JAMAICA WINS NINE AWARDS AT
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    Date: Monday, 12 December 2016

    MONTEGO BAY, Dec. 4 (JIS):
    Minister of Tourism, Hon. Edmund Bartlett, says the nine awards won by Jamaica at the 23rd World Travel Awards (WTA) ceremony on Friday (December 2) are a testament to the current international value of Brand Jamaica.

    Mr. Bartlett said the awards were a vindication of all the hard work and dedication that have been put into enhancing the tourism product and “a ringing endorsement of all the policies and programmes we have been undertaking.”

    “Jamaica starred big time and had the most combined awards from the scores of destinations that were nominated,” Mr. Bartlett said via email from the Maldives, southern Asia, on Saturday (December 3).

    “It is not an exaggeration to say that the garnering of such prestigious accolades, on such a stage and on that particular night, will be a major advertising boost for us and something which could positively improve on our projections throughout the winter tourist season,” he added.

    The ceremony, which was held at the Sun Siyam Iru Fushi Hotel in the heart of the Maldives, saw Jamaica winning individual awards for: World’s Leading Cruise Destination and World’s Leading Wedding Destination.

    Mr. Bartlett also received the distinctive award of the World’s Leading Personality for Outstanding Services to Travel at the function.
    Other awards won by Jamaica and its resorts and travel partners were: World’s Leading Luxury Hotel Villa (Ian Fleming Villa at GoldenEye); World’s Leading New Island Resort (Melia Braco Village); World’s Leading Villa Resort (Round Hill Hotel and Villas); World’s Leading Family Resort Brand (Beaches); World’s Leading All-Inclusive Company (Sandals Resorts International) and World’s Leading Caribbean Attractions Company (Island Routes Caribbean Adventure).
    Meanwhile, Mr. Bartlett stressed that now is not the time for complacency as “rest assured that as we celebrate, our competitors are busy plotting marketing strategies”.

    “We must also be cognisant of the fact that the success of our tourism will not be sufficiently measured by the number of international awards that are won, but by the resilience of our people and the nimbleness of our models,” he explained.

    He added that the consistency of Jamaica’s tourism growth, both in revenues and visitor arrivals, has positioned the country as world-beaters.

    “I offer my deepest and most profound gratitude to the many partners in tourism who over time have conspired to give Jamaica a moment of glory like this,” Mr. Bartlett noted.

    Jamaica was also represented at the ceremony by Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Hon. Dr. Horace Chang who collected the award for World’s Leading Cruise Destination on behalf of the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ).

    CONTACT: GARWIN DAVIS
    JIS REGIONAL OFFICE
    MONTEGO BAY
    2018: Dynamite Entertainment publishes James Bond Origin #4.
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    Cover B: Kev Walker
    Cover C: Wilfredo Torres
    Cover D: Ibrahim Moustafa
    Cover E: Bob Q
    Writer: Jeff Parker
    Art: Bob Q
    Genre: Action/Adventure
    Publication Date: December 2018
    Page Count: 32 Pages
    ON SALE DATE: 12/12/2018
    "Rocket Sea" continues...Forced to surface in enemy waters, a damaged Royal Navy submarine docks at a mysterious island for repairs. Lieutenant James Bond leads a hunting expedition across the island. But while hunting beasts, he discovers a far more dangerous prey...
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    December 13th

    1915: Curd Jürgens is born--Solin, Munich, Germany. (He dies 18 June 1982 at age 66--Vienna, Austria.)
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    CURT JURGENS, WAR FILMS' STAR
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    UPI | JUNE 19, 1982

    Curt Jurgens, the West German movie actor who was a star of countless World War II films, died in a hospital here today. He was 66 years old.

    Mr. Jurgens had been hospitalized for the last two months. Friends said he had refused to reduce his activities despite years of heart trouble and the replacement of three heart valves in an operation in the United States two years ago.

    His physician, Dr. Anton Neumayr, said he had been making progress up to a week ago but suffered a relapse Monday. Mr. Jurgens, who made more than 160 films, began his film career in 1936 with ''Imperial Waltz.'' He established himself internationally with performances in ''The Enemy Below'' in 1957 and a year later in ''Inn of the Sixth Happiness,'' co-starring with Ingrid Bergmann.
    Mr. Jurgens went on to star in such films as ''The Blue Angel'' (1958), ''I Aim at the Stars'' (1959), ''Nicholas and Alexandra'' (1971) and the James Bond thriller ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' (1977).
    Born in Munich, Dec. 13, 1915, the son of a Hamburg tradesman and a French teacher, Mr. Jurgens's personality was a blend of German roughness and Southern charm. Swedish fans dubbed him the ''Viking with steel eyes.'' In Love With Screen Partners

    Mr. Jurgens once said he enjoyed acting alongside any actress. ''Every time I fall madly in love with the woman I make love with on the screen,'' he said.

    A strong believer in love at first sight, he was married five times, to three actresses - Lulu Basler, Judith Holzmeister and Eva Bartok - and to the model Simone Bicheron, before marrying Margie Schmitz in 1978.

    With a taste for the romantic and extravagant, he once said the things he liked best were ''comfort, women, whisky, marriage and work.''

    Mr. Jurgens owned a luxury villa on France's Cote d'Azur and a house in Lausanne, Switzerland. But his favorite retreat was a farm he owned in Vence, France, with a house consisting of just one big room with a bath for two sunken in front of a fireplace.
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    Filmography
    Actor (169 credits)

    1982 Smiley's People (TV Mini-Series) - The General
    - Episode #1.2 (1982) ... The General
    - Episode #1.1 (1982) ... The General
    1981 Collin (TV Movie) - Hans Collin
    1981 Assassination Attempt - Maître Legraine
    1980 The Sleep of Death - Count St. Alyre
    1980 Warum die UFOs unseren Salat klauen - UFO Commander

    1979 Berggasse 19 (TV Movie) - Siegmund Freud
    1979 The Other One's Mug - Wilfrid
    1979 Goldengirl - Dr. Serafin
    1979 Breakthrough - Gen. Hofmann
    1979 Missile X: The Neutron Bomb Incident - Baron Marchant (as Curt Jurgens)
    1978 Just a Gigolo - Prince
    1978 Im Zweifel für den Angeklagten (TV Movie) - Clarence Darrow
    1978 Tatort (TV Series) - Konrad Pfandler
    - Rot - rot - tot (1978) ... Konrad Pfandler
    1977 La lunga strada senza polvere - Cameo (uncredited)
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Karl Stromberg (as Curt Jurgens)[/b]
    1977 La foire (TV Movie) - Alexis B., le grand-père
    1976 The Twist - Le bijoutier / Jeweller
    1976 Am laufenden Band (TV Series) - Standesbeamter
    - Episode #3.2 (1976) ... Standesbeamter
    1976 As of Tomorrow - Senator Shelton
    1976 Auch Mimosen wollen blühen - Josef Popov
    1976 Povero Cristo -Man Engaging Giorgio
    1975 Second Spring - Fox
    1975 Derrick (TV Series)- Paul Bubach
    - Madeira (1975) ... Paul Bubach
    1975 Die gelbe Nachtigall (TV Movie) - Schauspieler Korz
    1975 Cagliostro - Cardinal Braschi (as Curd Jurgens)
    1974 Galileo (Short) - 1974 Radiografia di una Svastika
    1974 Fräulein Else (TV Movie) - Dorsday
    1974 Les flocons rouges (TV Movie) - Gunther Richter
    1974 Fall of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Otto von Bismarck
    - The Honest Broker (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
    - The English Princess (1974) ... Otto von Bismarck
    1974 Undercovers Hero - General von Grotjahn (as Curt Jurgens)
    1973 Occupation (TV Series)
    1973 3. November 1973 (TV Movie) - Ölmillioär
    1972-1973 Der Kommissar (TV Series)
    Harald Bergmann / Dr. Hochstätter
    - Ein Mädchen nachts auf der Straße (1973) ... Harald Bergmann
    - Traum eines Wahnsinnigen (1972) ... Dr. Hochstätter
    1973 Profession: Adventurers - Alvarez
    1973 The Vault of Horror - Sebastian (segment "This Trick'll Kill You") (as Curt Jurgens)
    1972 War Is Hell - Russian general
    1971 Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! - Grueningen
    1971 Nicholas and Alexandra - The German Consul (as Curt Jurgens)
    1971 Two Males for Alexa - Ronald Marvelling
    1971 Nurses for Sale - Käpt'n Markus Jolly
    1971 The Mephisto Waltz - Duncan Ely (as Curt Jurgens)
    1970 Millionen nach Maß (TV Mini-Series) - Carlos Ribeiro
    - Bitte, zur Kasse (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
    - Wir zahlen bar (1970) ... Carlos Ribeiro
    1970 French Intrigue - Henri Emery
    1970 Der Pfarrer von St. Pauli - Konrad Johannsen
    1970 Hello-Goodbye - Baron De Choisis (as Curt Jurgens)
    1970 The Invincible Six - Baron
    1970 Das Stundenhotel von St. Pauli - Kommissar Canisius
    1970 Slap in the Face - Thomas Nathan Terbanks

    1969 The Battle of Neretva - Lohring
    1969 Battle of Britain - Baron von Richter (as Curt Jurgens)
    1969 The Bedroom - Hannes Teversen
    1969 Battle of the Commandos - Gen. von Reilow (as Curd Jurgens)
    1969 The Assassination Bureau - Gen. von Pinck (as Curt Jurgens)
    1968 Les yeux crevés (TV Movie) - Gottfried von Esch (scenes deleted)
    1968 Babeck (TV Mini-Series) - Der Mann im Rollstuhl
    - Tödliche Geschäfte (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
    - Das Geheimnis der Calasetta (1968) ... Der Mann im Rollstuhl
    1968 Bedroom Stewardesses - Dr. Jan Diffring
    1968 OSS 117 Murder for Sale - Il Maggiore - il capo dei gangster
    1968 Le fil rouge (TV Movie) - Sigmund Freud
    1967 Dirty Heroes - Gen. Edwin von Keist
    1967 Der Lügner und die Nonne - The cardinal
    1967 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (TV Series) - Carl Von Kesser
    - The Five Daughters Affair: Part II (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
    - The Five Daughters Affair: Part I (1967) ... Carl Von Kesser (as Curt Jurgens)
    1966 Der schwarze Freitag (TV Movie) - Richard Whitney
    1966 The Gardener of Argenteuil - Le Baron Edouard de Santis
    1966 Target for Killing - Gérard van Looch / Giant
    1966 Congress of Love - Czar Alexander I
    1966 An Affair of States - Dave O'Connor
    1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series)
    1965 Who Wants to Sleep? - Stefan von Cramer
    1965 Lord Jim - Cornelius (as Curt Jurgens)
    1965 They're Too Much - Kurt Lehnert
    1964 Psyche 59 - Eric Crawford (as Curt Jurgens)
    1964 Pariahs of Glory - Ludwig Goetz
    1964 Begegnung in Salzburg - Hans Wilke, General Director
    1964 Hide and Seek - Hubert Marek
    1964 The DuPont Show of the Week (TV Series) - Kleinerts
    - The Hell Walkers (1964) ... Kleinerts
    1963 Nutty, Naughty Chateau - Hugo Falsen
    1963 Of Love and Desire - Paul Beckmann (as Curt Jurgens)
    1963 Berlin-Melodie - Vom Zille-Ball zum Jazzlokal (TV Movie)
    1963 Miracle of the White Stallions - Gen. Tellheim (as Curt Jurgens)
    1963 Three Penny Opera - Captain Macheath
    1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Husband
    - Die Phantasten (1963) ... Husband
    1962 Beach Casanova - Mr. Edmond (as Curd Jurgens)
    1962 The Dick Powell Theatre (TV Series) - Amatole Respighi
    - The Great Anatole (1962) ... Amatole Respighi (as Curt Jurgens)
    1962 The Longest Day - Maj. Gen. Gunther Blumentritt (as Curt Jürgens)
    1962 Disorder - Carlo's Father (as Curd Jurgens)
    1961 Le triomphe de Michel Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
    1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour - Cliff MacHardy
    1960 Gustav Adolfs Page - König Gustav Adolf
    1960 Brainwashed - Werner von Basil
    1960 I Aim at the Stars - Wernher von Braun

    1959 Adorable Sinner - Czar Alexander II
    1959 The Blue Angel - Professor Immanuel Rath (as Curt Jurgens)
    1959 Ferry to Hong Kong -Mark Conrad (as Curt Jurgens)
    1959 Time Bomb - Eric Muller
    1958 Duel in the Forest - Johann 'Schinderhannes' Bückler
    1958 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness - Capt. Lin Nan (as Curt Jurgens)
    1958 Me and the Colonel - Colonel Prokoszny (as Curt Jurgens)
    1958 This Happy Feeling - Preston Mitchell (as Curt Jürgens)
    1958 Tamango - Captain John Reinker
    1957 The Enemy Below - Von Stolberg (as Curt Jurgens)
    1957 Les espions - Alex
    1957 An Eye for an Eye - Dr. Walter
    1957 Bitter Victory - Major Brand
    1956 Michael Strogoff - Michel Strogoff
    1956 The House of Intrigue - Colonel Bernes (as Curt Jurgens)
    1956 ...And God Created Woman - Eric Carradine (as Curd Jurgens)
    1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht - Dr. Robert Kessler
    1956 The Golden Bridge - Balder
    1956 Teufel in Seide - Thomas Ritter
    1955 Du mein stilles Tal - Gerd
    1955 Heroes and Sinners - Wolf Gerke (as Curd Jüergens)
    1955 Die Ratten - Bruno Mechelke
    1955 Love Without Illusions - Walter
    1955 The Devil's General - General Harry Harras
    1955 Du bist die Richtige - Stefan Selby
    1954 Afraid to Love - Paul Kahr
    1954 Orient Express - Bate
    1954 Prisoners of Love - Willi Kluge
    1954 Circus of Love - Toni
    1954 Eine Frau von heute - Heinz Bender
    1954 Meines Vaters Pferde, 1. Teil: Lena und Nicoline - Pat
    1953 Alles für Papa - Clemens Haberland
    1953 The Last Waltz - Rittmeister Graf Sarassow
    1953 Music by Night - Hans Kersten
    1953 Man nennt es Liebe - Peter Malmö
    1953 Praterherzen - Toni Brandstetter
    1952 Rose of the Mountain - Composer Jack Long
    1952 1. April 2000 - Capitano Herakles
    1952 Knall und Fall als Hochstapler - John Vandergold
    1952 Haus des Lebens - Axel Jolander
    1951 Gangsterpremiere - Kommissar
    1951 Der schweigende Mund - Architekt Reinhold
    1951 Geheimnis einer Ehe - Dirigent Felix Adrian
    1951 Ein Lächeln im Sturm - Jean Langrand
    1950 Eine seltene Geliebte - Sascha Borotraz
    1950 Die gestörte Hochzeitsnacht - Lawrence Vinning
    1950 Kissen Is No Sin - Kammersänger, Felix Alberti
    1950 Der Schuß durchs Fenster - Dr. Winkler
    1950 Prämien auf den Tod - Gunarson, Operntenor

    1949 Young Girls of Vienna - Graf Lechenberg
    1949 Hexen - Heinz Wagner
    1949 Lambert Is Threatened - Roland
    1949 Das Kuckucksei - Dr. Kurt Walla
    1948 Verlorenes Rennen - George Miller
    1948 The Heavenly Waltz - Clemens M. Weidenauer
    1948 The Mozart Story - Emperor Joseph II
    1948 An klingenden Ufern - Stefan Keller
    1948 The Angel with the Trumpet - Graf Leopold Thraun
    1948 Hin und her - Prinz Bernardo von Lappalien
    1947 The Singing House - Bandleader Hans Storch
    1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie - Wolfgang Schwab
    1944 Ein Blick zurück - Dr. Erich Thienwiebel
    1943 Ein glücklicher Mensch - Petersen
    1943 Frauen sind keine Engel - Bandini
    1942 Wen die Götter lieben - Emperor Joseph II
    1942 Stimme des Herzens - Volontär Drews
    1940 Operette - Karl Millöcker
    1940 Herz ohne Heimat - Bob (uncredited)
    1940 Weltrekord im Seitensprung - Peter Enderlein - Kapellmeisster
    1939 Die gute alte Zeit (Short) - Fritz, Gretes Verlobter
    1939 Salonwagen E 417 - Prinz Heinrich Karl
    1938 The Girl of Last Night - Die drei Attachés (uncredited)
    1937 Tango Notturno - Ein Freund Jacs, Musiker (uncredited)
    1937 To New Shores - Bobby Wells' Freund
    1937 Liebe kann lügen - Student Holger Engström
    1936 The Unknown - Hans Wellenkamp
    1936 Familienparade - Graf Erik Stjernenhö
    1935 Königswalzer - Kaiser Franz Joseph von Österreich (as Kurt Jürgens)

    Director (6 credits)

    1979 Curd Jürgens: Bonn, wie ich es sehe (TV Movie documentary) (uncredited)
    1966 Spiel um Schmuck (TV Series) (4 episodes)
    - Immer die Bigelows (1966)
    - Flug nach Ankara (1966)
    - Mit Brillanten und Schwertern (1966)
    - Sein letzter Einsatz (1966)
    1961 Bankraub in der Rue Latour
    1956 Ohne dich wird es Nacht
    1951 Gangsterpremiere
    1950 Prämien auf den Tod

    Soundtrack (4 credits)

    1994 Forsthaus Falkenau (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Irrungen und Wirrungen (1994) ... (performer: "60 Jahre und kein bißchen weise")
    1967 Schauspieler sind Schauspieler - Musikalische Seitensprünge (TV Movie) (performer: "Blacky Jones")
    1963 Three Penny Opera (performer: "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?", "Der Kanonensong", "Siehst du den Mond über Soho?" (reprise), "Zuhälter-Ballade", "Ballade vom angenehmen Leben", "Verfolgt das Unrecht nicht zu sehr" - uncredited)
    1957 The Enemy Below (performer: "So leben wir alle Tage" (Drinking Song) - uncredited)

    Writer (2 credits)

    1951 Gangsterpremiere (idea) / (co-writer)
    1950 Prämien auf den Tod (story and screenplay)
    Hide Hide Music department (1 credit)
    1944 Eine kleine Sommermelodie (singer)
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    1925: Dick Van Dyke is born--West Plains, Missouri.

    1941: Anouska Hempel (The Australian Girl) is born--Wellington, New Zealand.

    1958: Lynn-Holly Johnson is born--Chicago, Illinois.
    1958: The first Bond comic strip Casino Royale ends its run in The Daily Express.
    (Started 7 July 1958. 1-138) John McLusky, artist. Anthony Hern, writer.
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    Swedish Semic Comic 1972 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1972.php3
    Högt Spel I Monte Carlo
    (High Game In Monte Carlo - Casino Royale)
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    Högt Spel I Monte Carlo
    (High Game In Monte Carlo - Casino Royale)
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    James Bond Agent 007 no. 1: “Casino Royale” (1965)
    "Højt spil i Monte Carlo"
    [High Stakes in Monte Carlo]
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    1964: The New York Times prints Richard Maibaum's piece "James Bond's 39 Bumps".
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    James Bond's 39 Bumps
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    RICHARD MAIBAUM - DEC. 13, 1964

    I ONCE told the late Ian Fleming that he wrote too well. Speaking strictly as a screenwriter, that is, who is handed a novel by a producer and told to trans­late it into celluloid. In the long run, of course, the di­rector does that, but the screenplay is his blueprint and has inherent in it the completed motion picture.

    Mr. Fleming seemed pleased, beaming when I as­cribed to him “an untrans­ferable literary quality,” but I’m sure he did not entirely realize I was paying him a left - handed compliment. Again from the standpoint of the screen dramatist.

    There is little doubt in my mind that the success of the Bond films stems directly from the success of the nov­els, their combination of ter­ror and elegance, sophisti­[cation]...

    Fleming's tongue‐in-cheek attitude toward his material (intrigue, expertise, violence, love, death) finds a rea­dy mass response in a world where audiences enjoy sick jokes. Incidentally, it is the aspect of Fleming which the films have most developed. Sometimes, I think, far be­yond what Fleming himself intended. He said as much to me once when he com­mented rather innocently, “Somehow the pictures seem funnier than my books.”

    Digging Deep
    Having said all this about the novels, it would appear that a screenwriter adapting them would feel like a for­tunate prospector discovering an inexhaustible mother‐lode of pure gold. And yet there are problems.

    A screenwriter is limited to setting down, as sugges­tion to the director, only what can be said and done by actors and what can be photographed by the camera­man. Lovely descriptive pass­ages; illuminating streams of consciousness revealing char­acter; great hunks of bril­liant, interesting exposition; carefully documented quasi­treatises; all must go.

    A case in point is a scene in Goldfinger in which Bond is strapped to a work­bench and menaced by an approaching circular saw. Somehow in the reading, be­cause Fleming writes so effectively, “The Perils of Pauline” do not immediately occur to one. Vividly depicted on the screen, however, we were sure audiences would find the episode old‐fashioned, hackneyed and ludicrous. What to do? We substitut­ed an industrial laser beam, a development as fresh as tomorrow, for the antiquated circular saw. Do I hear any­one asking sotto voce about the screenwriter's blushes? If he was the blushing type he wouldn't be doing Bond screenplays in the first place. Besides, it's all good clean fun, or so he tells himself.

    Logic is another problem. Once, as a young man, I worked as Writer Number 34, I think, for Alfred Hitchcock on Foreign Correspondent. I told him I thought a cer­tain situation was illogical. He looked at me sadly and replied, “Dear boy, don't be dull. I’m not interested in log­ic, but in effects. If the au­dience ever thinks about log­ic it's on their way home from the theater and by that time they’ve already paid for their tickets.”

    Verisimilitude
    Still there is a point be­yond which audiences will re­ject a film for too many abuses of actuality. In Gold­finger, for example, Flem­ing has Goldfinger, a suppos­edly criminal genius, plot to break into Fort Knox and steal 16 billion dollars worth of gold bullion. Fleming, bless him, in the best Hitchcockian tradition, never bothered his head about how long it would take to transport that amount of gold, or how many men and vehicles would be re­quired. Obviously, it would take weeks, hundreds of trucks and hundreds of men. The problem that faced us was not an easy one. Why, we...

    Rough Grind
    Then there is the question of “bumps.” Hitchcock once said to me, “If I have 13 ‘bumps’ I know I have a pic­ture.” By “bumps,” he meant, of course, shocks, highpoints, thrills, whatever you choose to call them. From the be­ginning, through Dr. No, From Russia With Love, and now with Goldfinger, Mr. Broccoli and Mr. Saltzman, the producers, and myself have not been content with 13 “bumps.” We aim for 39. Our objective has been to make every foot of film pay off in terms of exciting en­tertainment. Fleming, too, has his “bumps,” but not nearly enough for the kind of films we’re trying to make.

    Actually, Fleming himself, unlike many authors of well­-known literary works to be made into films, seemed un­usually complacent as to how his books were treated. The only question he ever asked...

    The actual characterization of James Bond (and we are lucky devils to have Sean Connery) was also a depar­ture from the novels. Both Terence Young and Guy Hamilton, our directors, shared and augmented the concept of Bond as visualized by the producers and myself. That concept retained a basic super‐sleuth, super‐fighter, super‐hedonist, super‐lover of Fleming's, but added another large dimension: humor. Hu­mor vocalized in wry com­ments at critical moments. In the books, Bond was singu­larly lacking in this.

    A bright young produc­er accord me one day with glittering eyes. “I’m making a parody of the James Bond films.” How, I asked myself, does one make a parody of a parody? For that is precisely, in the final analysis, what we have done with Fleming's books. Parodied them. I’m not sure that Ian himself ever completely realized this. Or perhaps I underestimate his perception. At any rate, he seemed happy with what we were doing.
    The writer adapted Dr. No, From Russia With Love,” and Goldfinger which opens at the DeMille and Coronet Theaters on Dec. 21, to the screen.
    This article can be viewed in its original form.
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    1969: 女王陛下の007 (Joô heika no 007, Her Majesty's OO7) released in Japan. That's ahead of UK 18 December, US 19 December.
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    1973: Live and Let Die released in the Netherlands.
    1973: Å leve og la dø (To Live and Let Die) released in Norway.
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    1973: Lev og lad dø (live and Let Die) released in Denmark.
    1984: A View to a Kill films the death of Bob Conley.
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    1985: Ölüme Bir Bakis (A Look to Death) released in Turkey.
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    1997: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre premieres in Portugal.
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    2002: Die Another Day released in Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay.
    2002: ดาย อนัทเธอร์ เดย์ 007 พยัคฆ์ร้ายท้ามรณะ (Dāy xnạth ṭhex r̒ dey̒ - 007 phyạkhḳh̒ r̂āy tĥā mrṇa; 007 Deadly Tiger) released in Thailand.

    2014: EON make a public statement regarding recent incidents at Sony involving hackers absconding with their Spectre script.
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    Hackers vs. James Bond: 'SPECTRE' script
    stolen in Sony attack
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    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Early villains have emerged in the next James Bond film “SPECTRE”: hackers who stole a version of the screenplay as part of a devastating cyberattack on Sony Pictures.

    Producers of the James Bond films said they learned on Saturday morning that an early version of the “SPECTRE” script was among material stolen and made public by hackers who infiltrated computers at the Sony studio.
    “Eon Productions is concerned that third parties who have received the stolen screenplay may seek to publish it or its contents,” Eon said in a statement, while warning that the script is protected by U.K. copyright laws.
    SPECTRE,” starring Daniel Craig as 007, is set for release on Nov. 6, 2015. Filming began this month after producer Barbara Broccoli and director Sam Mendes unveiled the title, cast and new car, but little about the plot.

    “I was so excited to tell this story but to explain why, I would have to tell you the plot and I can’t do that,” said Mendes at the presentation in England, a reminder of Sony’s might in the movie world.

    The Bond franchise is one of the most lucrative for Sony Pictures and the last installment “Skyfall” brought in $1.1 billion worldwide, more than any other Bond film.

    A Sony spokesman said news reports that the cyberattack forced the studio to stop production on films, including “SPECTRE,” were wrong.

    “Productions are still moving forward,” Robert Lawson told Reuters.

    Hackers launched an attack on the Sony Corp. entertainment arm on Nov. 24, disabling the computer network and stealing and leaking a trove of sensitive information in the most severe cyberattack on a company on U.S. soil. The identity of the hackers has yet to be determined.

    Reporting by Mary Milliken in Los Angeles and Mike Davidson in London; Editing by David Gregorio

    Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
    EON Productions issued the following statement today (13th December, 2014):
    OFFICIAL STATEMENT
    EON PRODUCTIONS, the producers of the James Bond films, learned this morning that an early version of the screenplay for the new Bond film SPECTRE is amongst the material stolen and illegally made public by hackers who infiltrated the Sony Pictures Entertainment computer system.

    Eon Productions is concerned that third parties who have received the stolen screenplay may seek to publish it or its contents.

    The screenplay for SPECTRE is the confidential information of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and Danjaq, LLC, and is protected by the laws of copyright in the United Kingdom and around the world. It may not (in whole or in part) be published, reproduced, disseminated or otherwise utilised by anyone who obtains a copy of it. Metro-Goldwin-Mayer Studios and Danjaq LLC will take all necessary steps to protect their rights against the persons who stole the screenplay, and against anyone who makes infringing uses of it or attempts to take commercial advantage of confidential property it knows to be stolen.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 12,914
    December 14

    1923: Janet McLuckie Brown is born--Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
    (She dies 27 May 2011 at age 87--Hove, East Sussex, England.)
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    Janet Brown
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    Janet Brown
    Born Janet McLuckie Brown, 14 December 1923, Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland
    Died 27 May 2011 (aged 87), Hove, East Sussex, England
    Occupation Actress, comedian, impressionist
    Years active 1946–2009[1]
    Spouse(s) Peter Butterworth (m. 1946; died 1979)​
    Children Tyler Butterworth (born 1959)
    Emma Butterworth (1962–1996) (deceased)
    Janet McLuckie Brown (14 December 1923 – 27 May 2011) was a Scottish actress, comedian and impressionist who gained considerable fame in the 1970s and 1980s for her impersonations of Margaret Thatcher. Brown was the wife of Peter Butterworth who was best known for his appearances in the Carry on films. Butterworth died in 1979 and Brown never remarried.

    Career
    Brown was born in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, and educated at Rutherglen Academy.

    During World War II, Brown enlisted in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and was the first female performer to take part in Stars in Battledress.

    She entered British film as an actress in 1948 noticeably in Folly to Be Wise (1952) then appeared in several British television series such as The Eric Barker Half-Hour (1952), How Do You View? (1952-1953) and Friends and Neighbours (1954).
    Margaret Thatcher impersonations
    Beginning with Margaret Thatcher's election as the leader of the Conservative Party in 1975, Brown gained increasing prominence because of her realistic impression of the Tory politician. She performed as Thatcher on BBC TV's Mike Yarwood Show, on BBC Radio's The News Huddlines, and on film in the 1981 James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.
    In 1979, Brown starred as Thatcher on the comedy album Iron Lady: The Coming of the Leader, written by Private Eye satirist John Wells and produced by Secret Policeman's Ball series co-creator/producer Martin Lewis and Not the Nine O'Clock News series co-creator/producer John Lloyd. The largely spoken 'song' "Iron Lady" was released as a single, and Brown promoted it on Top of the Pops as a new release, but it did not chart.

    She was the subject of This Is Your Life in 1980 when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews.

    During the 1970s and 1980s, she was occasionally confused by some with fellow actress and comedienne Faith Brown because they had the same surname and were both best remembered for their Margaret Thatcher impersonations. In 1990, she recorded a spoken word sequence in her Margaret Thatcher voice for Mike Oldfield's album Amarok. Still acting in her 80s, her last role was as Old Lady Squeamish on the London West End stage in a production of Wycherley's The Country Wife at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, which opened in September 2007.

    She entitled her 1986 autobiography Prime Mimicker.

    Personal life
    Brown was married to Carry On actor Peter Butterworth from 1946 until his death in 1979. The two appeared alongside each other in the television comedy series, How Do You View? (1947–53), written by and starring Terry-Thomas. The couple had two children, a son, actor Tyler Butterworth (born 1959), and a daughter, Emma, who died in 1996, aged 34.

    Brown never remarried, spending the rest of her life in Hove, until her death following a brief illness in a nursing home in May 2011, aged 87. She is buried alongside her husband Peter Butterworth in Danehill Cemetery, in East Sussex.

    Filmography
    Title Year | Role | Notes

    Floodtide 1949 Rosie

    Folly to Be Wise 1953 Jessie Killegrew

    A Home of Your Own 1964
    Hey Boy! Hey Girl 1967
    The Adding Machine 1969 Fat Woman

    My Lover, My Son 1970 Mrs. Woods
    Bless This House 1972 Annie Hobbs
    Wombling Free 1977 Womble Voice

    For Your Eyes Only 1981 Margaret Thatcher, The Prime Minister

    Summer Solstice 2005 Mrs. Armstrong
    Underground Ernie 2006 Victoria Voice

    Zorro and Scarlet Whip Revealed! 2010 Mrs. McAlistair Voice, (final film role)
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    Actress | Soundtrack
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    "Iron lady"


    This Is Your Life


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    1953: Vijay Amritraj is born--Madras, Madras State, India.

    1960: Gregory Ratoff (born 20 April 20 1897--Samara, Russian Empire) dies at age 63--Solothurn, Switzerland. Later in 1961, his widow sells the Casino Royale film rights to producer Charles K. Feldman for $75,000.
    1967: You Only Live Twice released in Australia.
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    1967: 鐵金剛勇破火箭嶺 {Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò huǒjiàn lǐng; Iron King Kong Breaks Through Rocket Ridge) released in Hong Kong.
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    1971: James Bond 007 - Diamantenfieber released in West Germany. Ahead of the US (17 December) and UK (30 December).
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    1974: 007 黄金銃を持つ男 (Ōgonjūwomotsuotoko; Man With Golden Gun) released in Japan.
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    1983: Never Say Never Again UK Royal Charity Premiere at the Warner West End Cinema, Leicester Square, London.
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    1984: A View to a Kill films OO7 and Stacey in the mine confirming Zorin's caper.

    1995: Aranyszem released in Hungary. 1997: Tomorrow Never Dies limited release in the Netherlands.

    2006: Surefone releases the single "You Know My Name".
    B-side: Soundgarden song "Black Hole Sun" acoustic version.

    2009: The Orient Express, featured in the From Russia With Love book and film, ceases operations. Replaced by high-speed trains and air travel. (The Venice-Simplon Orient Express train--an Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. private venture, now Belmond--still runs carriages circa 1920s-1930s from London to Venice and even the original Paris to Istanbul route.)

    2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond Hammerhead #3.
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    JAMES BOND: HAMMERHEAD #3 (OF 6)
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    Cover: Francesco Francavilla
    Writer: Andy Diggle
    Art: Luca Casalanguida
    Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
    Publication Date: December 2016
    Format: Comic Book
    Page Count: 32 Pages
    UPC: 725130252722 03011
    ON SALE DATE: 12/14
    After a massacre in Dubai, 007 closes in on the mysterious Kraken. But while investigating a mercenary safehouse in Yemen, Bond discovers the most advanced Q-Branch technology can sometimes prove less an asset than a liability. And a weapon is only as lethal as the man who wields it...
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 12,914
    December 15th

    1948: Cassandra Harris is born--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
    (She dies 29 December 1991 at age 43--Los Angeles, California.
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    Cassandra Harris; TV, Movie Actress
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    Dec. 30, 1991

    Cassandra Harris, movie and TV actress, died Saturday at USC Cancer Center after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 39.

    Miss Harris was a native of Australia acclaimed for her beauty. She was included in Lord Patrick Lichfield’s book The World’s Most Beautiful Women and also appeared on the cover of British Vogue in addition to several other magazines.
    She probably was best known to film audiences as Countess Lisl in the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.
    The wife of Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, she had a recurring role as con-artist Felicia in her husband’s popular television series, “Remington Steele.”

    Miss Harris began her acting career as a child in Sydney, and at 16 won a scholarship to Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art. She eventually won Australia’s Best Actress Award and moved to England to appear in that country’s National Theatre.

    In addition to her work on the British stage, she starred in such British television productions as “All Out at Kangaroo Valley” and the “Dick Barton” and “The Boy Merlin” series.

    In addition to her husband, Miss Harris is survived by their three children, Charlotte, 19; Christopher, 18, and Sean William, 7.
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    Filmography
    Actress (9 credits)

    1986 Five Days (Short) - Librarian
    1982-1985 Remington Steele (TV Series)
    Felicia / Anna Simpson / Catherine Simone
    - Steele Searching: Part 2 (1985) ... Felicia
    - Steele Searching: Part 1 (1985) ... Felicia
    - Woman of Steele (1984) ... Anna Simpson
    - Thou Shalt Not Steele (1982) ... Felicia / Catherine Simone
    1981 For Your Eyes Only - Lisl
    1980 Rough Cut - Mrs. Lloyd Palmer
    1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Trudi Engel
    - The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Trudi Engel

    1979 Dick Barton: Special Agent (TV Series) - Melissa
    - Adventure One: Part 9 (1979) ... Melissa
    - Adventure One: Part 8 (1979) ... Melissa
    - Adventure One: Part 4 (1979) ... Melissa
    - Adventure One: Part 2 (1979) ... Melissa
    1978 Shadows (TV Series) - Ismena
    - The Boy Merlin (1978) ... Ismena
    1978 The Greek Tycoon - Cassandra
    1977 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Sares / Controller
    - Devil's Planet (1977) ... Sares / Controller

    Self (4 credits)

    2006 For Your Eyes Only: Bond in Greece (Video documentary short) - Herself
    1984 Late Night with David Letterman (TV Series) - Herself
    - Episode dated 20 November 1984 (1984) ... Herself
    1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
    1981 Saturday Night at the Mill (TV Series) - Herself
    - Episode #6.11 (1981) ... Herself

    Archive footage (4 credits)

    2018 Celebrity Page (TV Series) - Herself
    - Episode #4.57 (2018) ... Herself
    2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
    2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
    2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself
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    1958: Bond comic strip Live and Let Die begins its run in the Daily Express.
    (Ends 28 March 1959. 139-225) John McLusky, artist. Henry Gammidge, writer.
    1965: Agente 007 - Operazione Tuono (Operation Thunder) released in Italy.
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    1966: You Only Live Twice films Tiger and Kissy at the volcano.

    1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in the Netherlands.
    1977: 007: La espía que me amó released in Mexico.
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    1983: Never Say Never Again released in the UK and Australia. (Compare to US release 7 October.)
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    1983: Nunca Mais Digas Nunca released in Portugal.
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    1989: 007 - Permissão para Matar (Permission to Kill) released in Brazil.
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    1995: GoldenEye released in Iceland and Switzerland.
    1995: 007: GoldenEye released in Mexico.
    1995: 007 Contra GoldenEye released in Brazil.
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    1995: Altin Göz (Golden Eye) released in Turkey.
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    1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Venezuela.

    2006: Casino Royale released in Pakistan and Uruguay.
    2006: 007: Cassino Royale released in Brazil.
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    2006: ప్రపంచానికి ఒక్కడు (Prapanchaniki Okkadu; One to the World--Telugu title) released in India.

    2014: Vodka producer Belvedere showcases two limited edition 007 bottles at a London Film Museum launch party.
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    Belvedere Is Making Sure That James Bond Will Actually Drink
    A Vodka Martini In The New ‘Spectre’ Movie
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    Lara O'Reilly - Dec. 15, 2014, 7:01 PM

    Belvedere, the luxury vodka brand owned by the LVMH Group, is partnering with the next movie in the James Bond franchise, Spectre.

    Harnessing Bond’s penchant for vodka martinis and his iconic “Shaken, not stirred” line, Belvedere becomes the official vodka of the movie, which is due for cinematic release next November from Sony Pictures Entertainment.

    The news will be something of a relief for Bond fans: In previous movies the spy had been seen (implausibly) drinking Heineken and (more plausibly) Smirnoff. Fans tend to forget he also drank Red Stripe in the first movie, Dr. No. The arrival of Belvedere will therefore pull Bond upmarket a bit.

    Sitting down with Business Insider at a suitably secretive London location this week (think "spies," that's all we're allowed to say,) Belvedere Vodka president Charles Gibbs told us the partnership marks the brand’s “biggest” marketing push to date, although he declined to divulge financial details. It is hoped the partnership will raise awareness of the brand globally and highlight Belvedere vodka's quality credentials.

    To kick off the partnership, Belvedere has created two (very large) 1.75l limited edition bottles, which it will showcase at a launch party at London's Film Museum tonight (December 15.)

    The MI6 bottle pays homage to 007's HQ, swapping the signature Belvedere blue ink with the color of green ink used by MI6 officials to sign documents. Belvedere has also replaced the iconic Belvedere Palace that appears on its bottles with an etching of the MI6 building. Only 100 of this bottle will be made, but they won’t be available to buy. Instead Belvedere plans to gift them to “Bond aficionados” and put them up for charity auctions.

    Here's the MI6 bottle:
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    The second, more flashy bottle is called the 007 Silver Saber. The metallic bottle lights up, thanks to an in-built LED system. It will be available on sale next year "in selective distribution."

    Here's the 007 Silver Saber:
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    Next year, the campaign will ramp up with TV, cinema, digital ads, additional special packs and events planned. As the film is still in production, Gibbs could not confirm exactly what role Belvedere will play in Spectre. Gibbs also turned coy when asked whether there was the possibility of partnering with one of the other brands paying for product placement in the film (Aston Martin is the only other brand confirmed to appear so far, although that doesn't seem a likely fit.)

    The main appeal of the partnering with the Bond franchise was its global reach beyond its core base of 25 to 40-year-old customers, but Gibbs also hopes the partnership will allow the aspirational Belvedere brand to "break through the clutter" of marketing messages from big-spending alcohol brands by associating with a "moment in popular culture."

    The martini story also allows Belevedere to authentically talk up the provenance of its ingredients. The vodka is made from Dankowskie Rye and blended with own water from its own source in Poland, all key messages the brand hopes will hit home with lapsed drinkers as well as those new to the brand. It is hoped that making Belvedere Bond's choice for a vodka martini will also encourage bartenders to push the product to their cocktail lists.

    LVMH, which also owns the Moët Hennessy brand, saw a 7% drop year on year in reported revenue in the first 9 months of 2014 to €2.63 billion. At the time of reporting, the company said the trend was reflective of a declining cognac market in China. It did not split out separate figures for Belvedere, but said the brand had "sustained volume growth."
    2014: Daniel Craig and Rory Kinnear are spotted on a boat on the Thames sans life jackets, Spectre filming.
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    Daniel Craig and Rory Kinnear were spotted in London yesterday when the
    latest James Bond boat was filmed cruising up the Thames

    The latest James Bond boat has been caught on camera as filming for the new 007 movie Spectre got underway on the Thames yesterday (15 December).

    Daniel Craig, playing her Majesty’s most famous fictional spy, was seen riding a black and grey RIB near Vauxhall.

    Holding onto a handrail on the bow, the star of Skyfall and Casino Royale cut a stark figure all in black. Presumably the producers decided that a luminous lifejacket would somewhat ruin the look.

    Accompanied by Rory Kinnear, who plays Mi6 chief of staff Bill Tanner, the James Bond actor made his way up the Thames in the bright December sunshine.

    Both men were flanked by a pair of armoured guards – seemingly members of the Marine Policing Unit who had landed a cameo role in the film.

    The latest James Bond movie, Spectre, is due out on 6 November 2015 and also stars Christoph Waltz as the chief villain.

    Previous Bond outings have seen starring roles for a Fairey Huntress (From Russia With Love), a Glastron GT150 (Live and Let Die) and a Sunseeker XS2000 (Casino Royale).

    For more James Bond boat action, read our list of the Top 5 James Bond boat chase scenes.
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    2015: Madame Tussauds in Hollywood exhibits six James Bonds in wax. George Lazenby headlines.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 12,914
    December 16th

    1967: Bond comic strip The Hildebrand Rarity ends its run in The Daily Express.
    (Started 29 May 1967. 429-602) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
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    Ubåt Saknas (Submarine Missing; The Hildebrand Rarity)
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    James Bond Agent 007 no. 17: “The Hildebrand Rarity” (1969)
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    1967: 007/カジノ・ロワイヤル (007/ Kajino rowaiyaru) released in Japan.
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    1983: Never Say Never Again released in Ireland and Sweden.
    1983: Neka aldrig två gånger (Never Deny It Twice--Swedish title) released in Finland.
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    1988: People Magazine votes Sean Connery the "Sexiest Man Alive".
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    1989: Licence to Kill released in the Philippines.

    1995: 007 ゴールデンアイ (007 Gōruden'ai; 007 Golden Eye) released in Japan
    Japan
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    1995: 007 골든 아이 (007 goal-deun ah-ee; 007 Golden Eye) released in the Republic of Korea.
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    1997: Tomorrow Never Dies US premiere in Los Angeles, California. 1997: El mañana nunca muere (The Tomorrow Never Die) released in Spain.
    (Catalan title El demà no mor mai or Tomorrow Does Not Die).
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    1999: 新鐵金剛之黑日危機 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī hēi rì wéijī; New Iron King Kong's Black Sun Crisis) released in Hong Kong.
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    1999: Svijet nije dovoljan released in Croatia.
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    2002: New York Times article "North Korea Denounces Bond Film" reports North Korea denounces Bond film.
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    North Korea Denounces James Bond Film
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    By AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE - DEC. 15, 2002
    North Korea issued a statement today denouncing the latest James Bond film, Die Another Day, for ''insulting the Korean nation.''
    ''The U.S. should stop at once the dirty and cursed burlesque'' the official Korean Central News Agency said, citing a bulletin by the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland.

    In the film, the fictional secret agent 007 is captured in North Korea and tortured. He also has sex in a Buddhist temple.

    The film is ''a deliberate and premeditated act of mocking at and insulting the Korean nation,'' the news agency said, citing the bulletin, and shows that the United States is ''the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation,'' ''an empire of evil'' and ''the headquarters that spreads abnormality, degeneration, violence and fin-de-siècle corrupt sex culture.''

    2014: Spectre films at Notting Hill.

    2020: That 1969 Mercury Cougar goes to auction at Bonhams.
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    The car was used in ‘On Her Majesty’s Secret Service’, which featured George Lazenby as Bond

    Replica ‘Goldfinger’ Aston Martin DB5S will have smoke screen and machine gun

    The automaker is working with Aston Martin James Bond film franchise special effects supervisors to develop 25 entertainments of the iconic DB5 as seen in the 007 film ‘Goldfinger’. The coupes will be equipped with functional smoke screen generators, simulated oil slick spreaders, recoiling machine gun barrels that emanate from the front corner lights and allow lighted devices to be destroyed as well as other gadgets.

    When most people think that “James Bond”, George Lazenby is the last actor to play the role to come to mind. Likewise, the phrase “Bond car” probably does not cause the philosophy of the Mercury Cougar to dance in your head.

    But if by chance you are an outsider and you have some money, then we have good news.

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    (Bonhams)

    Used in “On His Majesty’s Secret Service” by the 1969 Merger Cougar XR7, the only film to feature Lbzenby as Bond is coming up for auction. Bonhams.

    The red convertible was not one of the 007 gadget-filled rides from the Q branch, but the property of Countess Tracy di Vicenzo of Diana Rigg, who (SPOILER ALERT) would become Mrs. Bond and complete an untimely end before the credit roll. .

    The “Avengers” chairman of Diana RIGG helped the Lotus Allen family

    According to Bonhams, four cars were used during production, it was driven in the snow during a memorabilia “Barn scene. “The car has had more than eight owners since the 1969 film was completed, but belongs to the same person since 1990 and was fully restored this year. Another cougar was damaged during a car chase. Gaya and later separated, while the other two are currently owned by the Ian Fleming Foundation and a private owner.

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

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    (Bonhams)

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

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 12,914
    December 17th

    1964: London premiere of Goldfinger.
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    1965: James Bond 007 - Feuerball (Jame Bond 007 - Fireball) released in West Germany.
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    1965: Agent 007 i ilden (Agent 007 In the Fire) released in Denmark.
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    1965: Åskbollen (The Thunderbolt) released in Sweden.
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    1965: Opération Tonnerre (Operation Thunder) released in France.
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    1968: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang released in the UK.
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    1969: Honor Blackman is featured on This is Your Life, Thames TV. (They had to do it again 17 February 1993.)

    1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in US and Canada.
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    1971: Diamanter varer evigt (Diamonds Last Forever) released in Denmark.
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    1971: Agente 007 - Una cascata di diamanti (Agent 007 - A Cascade of Diamonds) released in Italy.
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    1973: Lev og lad dø released in Denmark. 1973: Vive y deja morir released in Spain. (Catalan title Viu i deixa morir.)
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    1975: Producer Harry Saltzman concludes the sale of his interests in the Bond franchise to United Artists, ending his partnership with Albert R. Broccoli.

    1982: Octopussy films OO7 and Octopussy attacked in her bedroom.

    1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Switzerland and Kuwait.
    1997: Demain ne meurt jamais released in France.
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    1999: 007: Liiga kitsas maailm (007: Too Narrow a World) released in Estonia.

    2014: Spectre films in Camden plus the next day.
    2018: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings.
    2020: Artists involved in creating the title theme "No Time To Die" discuss their experience during Variety’s Virtual FYC Festival.
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    Music for Screens: The
    Making of ‘No Time To Die’ at
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    See the complete article here:
    On 12 Dec, 2020 | By Bond on the Box | In Events
    Billie Eilish, FINNEAS, Johnny Marr
    and Hans Zimmer will take part in the
    Music for Screens panel discussion
    exploring the creation of the James
    Bond theme, ‘No Time To Die’, at
    Variety’s Virtual FYC Festival on
    Thursday, 17 December, 2020 from
    11:00 AM – 11:30 AM (PT)
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    2020: The Dallas String Quartet plays at the Vilar Performing Arts Center, Beaver Creek, Colorado.
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    Dallas String Quartet
    Thursday 17 December 2020

    Vilar Performing Arts Center, Beaver Creek, CO, US
    Dallas String Quartet live

    Vilar Performing Arts Center
    68 Avondale Ln. 81620 Beaver Creek, CO, US
    www.vilarpac.org

    Doors open: 19:00
    Live reviews
    Find out what others have said about seeing Dallas String Quartet live
    Dallas String Quartet live review

    We had a great time at the concert. Such a nice venue, with all the trees lit up and reflecting in the lake in the background. Really enjoyed their mash-up of Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and the James Bond theme …
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    Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Dallas String Quartet
    2020: Jeremy Bulloch dies at age 75.
    (Born 16 February 1945--Market Harborough, England.)
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    Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch dies
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    English performer played bounty hunter Boba Fett in original
    trilogy

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    Jeremy Bulloch with the Boba Fett costume at a Star Wars exhibition in London in 2017.
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    Star Wars actor Jeremy Bulloch, who played Boba Fett in the original films, has died
    aged 75.

    The English actor died in hospital on Thursday from “health complications following his many years living with Parkinson’s disease”, according to his agent.

    Bulloch played the bounty hunter in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980 and Return of the Jedi in 1983. A statement from his agent said: “We are very sad to announce the death of actor Jeremy Bulloch earlier today.

    “He died peacefully, in hospital, surrounded by his family.

    “Jeremy was best-known for the role of Boba Fett in the original Star Wars trilogy.

    “He had a long and happy career spanning more than 45 years. He was devoted to his wife, three sons and 10 grandchildren and they will miss him terribly. We ask that their privacy be respected at this very difficult time.”
    Bulloch, who was born in Market Harborough, Leicestershire, also had roles in the James Bond film Octopussy in 1983 and featured in a number of Doctor Who episodes in the 70s.
    Some of Bulloch’s Star Wars co-stars paid tribute on social media.

    Mark Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker, tweeted: “Jeremy Bulloch was the quintessential English gentleman.
    “A fine actor, delightful company & so kind to everyone lucky enough to meet or work with him.

    “I will deeply miss him & am so grateful to have known him. RIP – DearJeremy.”
    Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in the original trilogy, said:
    “Today we lost the best bounty hunter in the galaxy, RIP Jeremy Bulloch Boba Fett.”

    The official Star Wars Twitter account also paid tribute, writing: “He will be remembered not only for his iconic portrayal of the legendary character, but also for his warmth and generous spirit which have become an enduring part of his rich legacy.”

    Daniel Logan, who played a young Boba Fett in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones in 2002, paid tribute to Bulloch on Instagram, writing: “RIP legend I’ll never forget all you’ve taught me! I’ll love you forever! Conventions won’t be the same without you – may the force be with you always.”
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    Bulloch still became synonymous with the role in the years that followed, and when he gave up the convention circuit in 2014, the actor shared a touching message with his fans.
    "In 1979 I was called onto the set of Empire Strikes Back to play Boba Fett, and since that day it has changed the entire direction of my life in such a wonderful way," Bulloch said. "It has been a privilege to have had the opportunity to inspire so many generations of Star Wars fans. I have had over 20 years of travelling with my wife Maureen to some amazing countries and have met so many wonderful fans. Thank you all so much and we will miss you all."
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 12,914
    December 18th

    1914: James Marne Kumar Maitland is born--Kolkata, India.
    (He dies March 1992 at age 77--Rome, Italy.)
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    Actor
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    1959: Ivar Bryce questions whether he will continue with the Bond project.
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    The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
    Chapter 13 - Disaster Strikes
    The Boy and the Bridge was dead in the water.

    Fearing its poor box office was going to hit him hard financially,
    Bryce was now having grave thoughts about the Bond project. On 18
    December he wrote a letter to McClory that must have sent the Irishman's
    spirits crashing. Bryce had decided that he no longer wished to proceed any
    further with Bond. Already his personal outlay on the film's pre-production
    was considerable, and set to rise. With the hope for cash bonanza from Boy
    and the Bridge non-existent, the 007 project's only chance of redemption was
    through financial backing from outside sources.
    Chapter 21 - The Court Case that Killed Ian Fleming
    [In court] McClory's counsel pointed out
    that the agreement with Fleming was signed on 8 July 1959 and Bryce's letter
    of 18 December was only five months later, and so certainly within the
    reasonable period in which the company might have been incorporated.

    1967: Bond comic strip The Spy Who Loved Me begins its run in The Daily Express.
    (Ends 3 October 1968. 603-815) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
    The 18th and final Bond comic for them.
    https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/articles/comic_tswlm_review.php3

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    Operation Spökflyg (Part 1) | Bäddat För Bond... Skräcknatten (Part 2)
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    Swedish Semic 1989 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3
    Operation Spökflyg (The Spy Who Loved Me - Part 1)
    [Operation Ghost Flight]
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    Bäddat För Bond... Skräcknatten (Part 2)
    [The Night of Horror]
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    Danish 1969 http://www.bond-o-rama.dk/en/jb007dk-no-18-1969/
    James Bond Agent 007 no. 18: “The Spy Who Loved Me, pt. I” (1969)
    "Operation spøgelsesfly ..." [Operation Ghost Plane)
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    James Bond Agent 007 no. 20: “The Spy Who Loved Me, pt. II” (1970)
    "Rædslernes nat" [Night of Terrors]
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    1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service films the start of the ski chase with OO7 and Blofeld.
    1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service London premiere at the Leicester Square Odeon. 1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in the Netherlands.
    1969: Agent 007 i Hendes Majestæts hemmelige tjeneste (Agent 007 In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Denmark. 1969: James Bond i hemmelig tjeneste (James Bond in Secret Service) released in Norway.

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    1969: I hennes majestäts hemliga tjänst (In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Sweden.
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    1969: Au service secret de Sa Majesté (At His Majesty's Secret Service) released in France.
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    1969: Στην υπηρεσία της αυτής μεγαλειότητος (In the Service of the Same Majesty) released in Greece.
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    1969: Agente 007 - Al servizio segreto di Sua Maestà (At the Secret Service of His Majesty) released in Italy.
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    1984: Mai Dire Mai (Never Say Never) released in Italy.
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    1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Switzerland, Lebanon and the Netherlands.
    1997: James Bond 007 - Der Morgen stirbt nie released in Germany.
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    1997: A holnap markában (Tomorrow's Mark) released in Hungary.
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    1997: James Bond - Jutri nikoli ne umre (Tomorrow He Never Dies) released in Slovenia.

    1999: 007 언리미티드 (007 Un-lee-mee-tee-deu; 007 Unlimited) released in the Republic of Korea.
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    2001: Billie Eilish is born--Los Angeles, California.
    2002: Die Another Day released in Indonesia and Kuwait.

    2019: Claudine Oger (Auger) dies at age 78--Paris France.
    (Born 26 April 1941--Paris, France.)
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    Claudine Auger, James Bond’s First
    French Co-Star, Dies at 78
    “Thunderball” was her breakthrough, and she went on to appear
    in movies with Alain Delon and Giancarlo Giannini. But
    Hollywood stardom eluded her.
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    By Anita Gates | Published Dec. 22, 2019 | Updated Dec. 23, 2019
    Claudine Auger, Sean Connery’s co-star in Thunderball and the first French actress to play James Bond’s love interest, died on Wednesday in Paris. She was 78.

    Her death was confirmed by the Parisian agency Time Art, which represented her.

    Ms. Auger (pronounced oh-JHAY) was 24 when Thunderball, the fourth film in the long-running Bond franchise, was released in 1965. Her character, Domino, is the mistress of an evil mastermind who has stolen two nuclear warheads — and killed her brother. Domino does not hold back when exacting revenge on her former lover. (A harpoon gun is involved.)

    Because she spoke English with a heavy accent, Ms. Auger’s voice was dubbed by another actress. But because she was an excellent swimmer, she did her own underwater scenes in the film, which was shot largely in the Bahamas.

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    When, during a 1965 interview, the American gossip columnist Dorothy Manners announced, “Hollywood could use you,” Ms. Auger answered cheerfully, “Not as much as I can use Hollywood.” But a couple of decades later, she had reconsidered.

    “French actresses have never had much success in Hollywood,” she observed in a 1986 Los Angeles Times interview, adding that Germans and Swedes had done better but that “it’s hard to explain why.”

    Still, she was fond of Southern California. In the same interview, she said, “I always go to the end of Santa Monica Pier and throw a coin in the Pacific” at the end of a visit — to ensure her return.

    She was born Claudine Oger in Paris on April 26, 1941, the daughter of an architect. At 17, she was crowned Miss France Monde and was first runner-up in the Miss World competition.

    She had a modeling career and played an uncredited role in a 1959 Jean Cocteau film, “Le Testament d’Orphée” (“The Testament of Orpheus”). (Almost everyone in the film, with the exception of Cocteau himself, was uncredited.) After that experience, she studied drama at the Conservatoire de Paris.

    Ms. Auger’s first credited film role was in Marcel Carné’s “Terrain Vague” (1960), or “Wasteland,” about a teenage street gang in Paris. Her final screen appearance was in a 1997 television movie version of Stendhal’s “Le Rouge et le Noir” (“The Red and the Black”), playing Madame de Fervaques, an elegant widow who receives love letters from a younger man.

    She and Pierre Gaspard-Huit, a director and writer 25 years her senior — he had cast her in her first uncredited film role, in the romance “Christine” (1958) — were married in 1959, when she was 18. They divorced a decade later. In 1984 she married Peter Brent, a British businessman, who died in 2008. They had a daughter, Jessica Claudine Brent, who survives her.

    In a 1965 television interview, Ms. Auger spoke the words that became her most famous quotation. Asked the difference between acting in a James Bond movie and in classic theater by Molière, she insisted there was none. Acting was “un jeu,” and the two forms were “la même chose,” she said. A game. The same thing.
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    2020: Peter Curtis Lamont dies at age 91.
    (Born 12 November 1929--London, England.)
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    Peter Lamont, Legendary
    Production Designer on Bond
    Films and 'Titanic,' Dies at 91
    11:10 AM PST 12/18/2020 by Mike Barnes
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    Sean Connery (left) and Harold Sakata do battle on the Fort Knox set of 'Goldfinger.'
    An Oscar winner and four-
    time nominee, he also
    worked on 'The Seven-Per-
    Cent Solution,' 'Fiddler on
    the Roof' and 'Aliens.'
    Peter Lamont, the top-notch British art director, set decorator and production designer who worked on 18 James Bond films and received an Academy Award for Titanic, has died. He was 91.
    Lamont's death was reported by the official 007 account on Twitter. No details of his passing were immediately available.
    "Peter Lamont was a much beloved member of the Bond family and a giant in the industry," producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli said in a statement. He was "inextricably linked with the design and aesthetic of James Bond since Goldfinger."
    Indeed, the four-time Oscar nominee helped create the monumental scenarios for every 007 movie from Goldfinger (1964) through Casino Royale (2006) except for one — Tomorrow Never Dies (1997). He had a good reason for missing that, however; he was serving as production designer on James Cameron's best picture winner Titanic.

    Lamont, who collaborated often with two-time Oscar winner Ken Adam, landed his other Academy Award noms for Norman Jewison's Fiddler on the Roof (1971), Lewis Gilbert's The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Cameron's Aliens (1986).

    Lamont also contributed to such notable films as This Sporting Life (1963), The Ipcress File (1965), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976), The Boys From Brazil (1978) and his final partnership with Cameron, True Lies (1994).
    Peter Curtis Lamont was born in London on Nov. 12, 1929. He worked as print boy runner at Pinewood Studios, and after serving for two years in the Royal Air Force, he returned to the studio as a draughtsman on features including Captain Boycott (1950), The Browning Version (1951) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952).
    For art director Peter Murton on Goldfinger, the third Bond movie, he and Adam designed Pinewood's iconic Fort Knox set, which was one of the most expensive ever built at that time.

    "I drew it all up and made a model," Lamont recalled in a 2006 interview. "And I remember [director] Guy Hamilton and [producers] Cubby [Broccoli] and Harry [Saltzman] came up and they looked at it and said, 'Well, let's get an estimate of how much it's going to cost.' And I almost fell through the roof because the estimate was for £56,000 … I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to get fired for this.' But nobody turned a hair."

    In today's dollars, that set would have cost some $6.3 million.

    Lamont graduated to set decorator on Thunderball (1965), to art director on Joseph L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth (1972), to visual effects art director on Moonraker (1979) and to production designer on For Your Eyes Only (1981).

    After working with Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan, he ended his career on [/b]Casino Royale[/b] (2006), the first Bond film to star Daniel Craig.
    His autobiography, The Man With the Golden Eye: Designing the James Bond Films, was published in 2016.

    Survivors include his son, Neil Lamont, an art director on Harry Potter films and Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens, and his daughter, Madeline.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 12,914
    December 19th

    1937: Albert Moses is born--Kandy, Sri Lanka.
    (He dies 15 September 2017 at age --London, England.)
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    Albert Moses, the Sri Lankan born actor, who went on to achieve international stardom, gained popularity over his acting in the ITV comedy television series, Mind Your Language, where he was cast as Ranjeet Singh, a Sikh from Punjab, India. Indeed he was better known among the populace as Ranjeet Singh, rather than as Albert Moses.

    Born on December 19, 1937 in Gampola, Albert Moses passed away on September 15, 2017 in London, and was put to rest at St. Andrew's Church in Gampola yesterday (9). As per his obituary, he has passed away peacefully.
    IMDb lists Moses as an actor and producer, known for the movies, The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), An American Werewolf in London (1981) and Octopussy (1983). Both, The Spy Who Loved Me and Octopussy were James Bond movies.
    Moses had worked at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya before beginning his acting career in the 1960s. It was in India that he made his first appearances in movies, produced and directed for the first time. He acted in seven movies and was the producer and director of the eighth movie. From there, he had moved on to Africa to work on documentaries. Afterwards, he moved to London to pursue studies in theatre and drama, where his acting career began.

    It was after responding to a newspaper advertisement that he had landed the part of Ranjeet Singh, in Mind Your Language. It was set in a class teaching English as foreign language, at an adult education college in London, illustrating the daily trials of the teacher, handling his diverse group of students.

    At the auditions, Moses outdid a native Sikh and went on to win the part. Moses spent days learning the lifestyle of the Sikhs, including the food they eat, the way they speak and even the way they wrap the turban round their heads, from his many Sikh friends. Perhaps, it was his indepth research into minute details of the character of Ranjeet Singh which made the character and his ‘thousand apologies’ such a success. Moses went on to produce 13 episodes of Mind Your Language, which was telecast from 1977 to 1986. In his later days, Moses lived in Hertfordshire, teaching English to Eastern European migrant workers, free of charge.

    Moses has been in the television and movie industry for over 30 years. During the span of his career, he has worked with legendary directors of the day, including, John Landis, John Houston, Rob Cohen and Alan Parker.

    He starred in numerous movies, including, The Man Who Would Be King, a John Huston film; What's Up Nurse, a Derek Ford sex comedy; Stand Up; Virgin Soldiers; Carry On Emmanual; The Little Drummer Girl; The Awakening; The Great Quest; Pink Floyd: The Wall, an Alan Parker film; The Little Drummer Girl, a George Roy Hill film; Scandalous; The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo; and East Is East which was a BAFTA award winning Film4 production.
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    Moses has acted alongside many accomplished actors including, Sean Connery, Michael Caine , Christopher Plummer, Roger Moore, Sir John Gielguld and Pamela Stevenson.

    He has participated in theatre productions in London, including, Phædra Britannica , at National Theatre, in which he acted with Diana Rigg, Long March to Jerusalem at the Watford Palace Theatre and Freeway at National Theatre.

    He was popular for his acting in the television series including Queenie, a Hollywood mini series; On the Buses, on London Weekend Television; Warship, a BBC television drama; Robin's Nest a Thames Television sitcom; Juliet Bravo, a BBC television drama; four episodes of The Jewel in the Crown, on Granada Television; The Little and Large Show, a BBC television comedy; The Benny Hill Show, a Thames Television comedy; Boon, an ITV Central drama; five episodes of The Bill a talkback, a Thames television drama; Never the Twain, a Thames Television sitcom; The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Man With The Twisted Lip, on Granada Television; London's Burning, a London Weekend Television drama; and Tandoori Nights, on Channel 4.

    Moses directed and produced the television series Gabriella, which was produced in Malta. He has written scripts for The Seventh Commandment, a TV drama, Side by Side, a TV comedy, Don't Talk to Strangers, a TV thriller and The Jokers, a TV drama.

    He was also a past Chairman of the St Albans Film Society and of Asian, Caribbean, Oriental and Asian Artistes of EQUITY, and a member of the London regional committee of ITV under the chairmanship of Lord Lipsey.

    Moses also wrote children’s books, including Tales from India, The Hawk and the Turtles, and Mustapha Mouse Goes to the City, and published a poetry book consisting of 87 poems.

    He was a philanthropist, and the trustee and patron of the children's charity, Ivy Trust. He has also volunteered at hospitals, schools and elders' homes. In recognition of his work for children, he was made a Knight of the Order of St. John.

    The man Albert Moses has become the soil of his motherland, but Ranjeet Singh, with his thousand apologies, will eternally remain in the hearts of the millions of fans around the world.

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    Filmography
    Actor (77 credits)

    2018 The Snarling - Hospital Patient

    1984-2007 The Bill (TV Series) - Mr. Chadhar / Mr. Khan / Imam / ...
    - Deadly Intent (2007) ... Mr. Chadhar
    - A Willing Victim (1993) ... Mr. Khan
    - Come Fly with Me (1990) ... Imam
    - Clutching at Straws (1984) ... Ranji
    2006 Tripping Over (TV Series) - Nigel
    - Episode #1.3 (2006) ... Nigel
    2003-2004 Holby City (TV Series) - Kasim Hussein
    - Elf and Happiness (2004) ... Kasim Hussein
    - Love Nor Money (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
    - House of Cards (2003) ... Kasim Hussein
    2003 Indian Dream (TV Movie) - Amul
    2003 Murder in Mind (TV Series) - Keshav Singh
    - Cornershop (2003) ... Keshav Singh
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    1999 East Is East - Abdul Karim
    1998 The Things You Do for Love: Black Butterflies (TV Movie) - Bob
    1997 Backup (TV Series) - Shiv
    - Not Cricket (1997) ... Shiv
    1997 The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo - Conductor
    1996 Casualty (TV Series) - Mr. Desai
    - Mother's Little Helper (1996) ... Mr. Desai
    1996 The Knock (TV Series)- Mr. Malhorta
    - Episode #2.1 (1996) ... Mr. Malhorta
    1994 Crocodile Shoes (TV Mini-Series) - Pandit Doshi
    - The Pitch (1994) ... Pandit Doshi
    1994 London's Burning (TV Series) - Shopkeeper
    - Episode #7.4 (1994) ... Shopkeeper
    1993 Anna Lee: Headcase (TV Movie) - Shop Keeper
    1992 Boon (TV Series) - Indian Waiter
    - Walkout (1992) ... Indian Waiter
    1991 Never the Twain (TV Series) - Policeman
    - The First of the Queue (1991) ... Policeman

    1989 Bluebirds (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
    - Fire (1989) ... Mr. Patel
    - Betrayal (1989) ... Mr. Patel
    1989 The Benny Hill Show (TV Series) - Native / Apu Dhurani
    - Holding Out for a Hero (1989) ... Native (uncredited)
    - The Crook Report (1989) ... Apu Dhurani
    1986-1989 The Little and Large Show (TV Series)
    - Episode #9.7 (1989)
    - Episode #8.5 (1988)
    - Episode #6.1 (1986)
    1988 Screen Two (TV Series) - Bashir
    - Lucky Sunil (1988) ... Bashir
    1987 Tandoori Nights (TV Series) - Sippy
    - Welcome Home Sweetie (1987) ... Sippy
    1987 Queenie (TV Mini-Series) - Inspector Gopal
    - Episode #1.2 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
    - Episode #1.1 (1987) ... Inspector Gopal
    1986 Foreign Body - Paramedic #2
    1986 The Return of Sherlock Holmes (TV Series) - Lascar
    - The Man with the Twisted Lip (1986) ... Lascar
    1977-1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) - Ranjeet Singh -42 episodes
    1985 Lytton's Diary (TV Series) - Patel
    - Come uppance (1985) ... Patel
    1985 Bulman (TV Series) - Jamsit Alam
    - Death of a Hitman (1985) ... Jamsit Alam
    1985 Travellers by Night (TV Mini-Series) - Lorry driver
    - Episode #1.3 (1985) ... Lorry driver
    1985 Who, Sir? Me, Sir? (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
    - Episode #1.6 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
    - Episode #1.5 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
    - Episode #1.1 (1985) ... Mr. Singh
    1984 Tenko (TV Series) - Dr. Singh
    - Episode #3.4 (1984) ... Dr. Singh
    1984 The Little Drummer Girl - Green Grocer
    1984 Minder (TV Series) - Ajit Desai
    - What Makes Shamy Run? (1984) ... Ajit Desai
    1984 The Jewel in the Crown (TV Mini-Series) - Suleiman
    - The Moghul Room (1984) ... Suleiman
    - Travelling Companions (1984) ... Suleiman
    1984 Scandalous - Vishnu
    1984 Cockles (TV Series) - Amin
    - Flotsam and Jetsam (1984) ... Amin
    1983 Don't Wait Up (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
    - Episode #1.2 (1983) ... Mr. Patel
    1981-1983 Juliet Bravo (TV Series) - Mr. Abdullah / Waiter
    - Teamwork (1983) ... Mr. Abdullah
    - Barriers (1981) ... Waiter
    1983 Al-mas' Ala Al-Kubra - Indian officer (uncredited)
    1983 Octopussy - Sadruddin
    1982 Squadron (TV Series) - Air Traffic Controller
    - Cyclone (1982) ... Air Traffic Controller
    1982 The New Adventures of Lucky Jim (TV Series) - Mohindra
    - The Apartment (1982) ... Mohindra
    1981-1982 The Chinese Detective (TV Series) - Mr. Patel / Mr. Banerjee
    - Oblomov (1982) ... Mr. Patel
    - The Four from Fulham (1981) ... Mr. Banerjee
    1982 Pink Floyd: The Wall - Janitor
    1981 An American Werewolf in London - Hospital Porter
    1981 Young at Heart (TV Series) - Mr. Patel
    - Easy Come, Easy Go (1981) ... Mr. Patel
    1981 Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series) - Arab Patrolman
    - Would You Believe It? (1981) ... Arab Patrolman
    1975-1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Huq / Altab Shahid / Airport worker
    - The Garland (1981) ... Huq
    - Murder Rap (1980) ... Altab Shahid
    - Children of the Sun (1975) ... Airport worker
    1981 A Sharp Intake of Breath (TV Series)
    Postman
    - Match of the Day (1981) ... Postman
    1980 Angels (TV Series) - Dr. Mishna
    - Episode #6.23 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
    - Episode #6.21 (1980) ... Dr. Mishna
    1980 The Awakening (uncredited)
    1980 Company and Co (TV Series) - Gopal
    - Miss Lorelei Brown (1980) ... Gopal

    1979 Shoestring (TV Series) - Tailor
    - The Link-Up (1979) ... Tailor
    1978 Carry On Emmannuelle - Doctor
    1978 What's Up Nurse! - 1st Asian
    1978 Whodunnit? (TV Series) - Charles Riarcht
    - All Part of the Service (1978) ... Charles Riarcht
    1977 The Rag Trade (TV Series) - Ahmed
    - The New Brother (1977) ... Ahmed
    1977 The Fuzz (TV Series) - 2nd Pakistani
    - Coppers Under the Sun (1977) ... 2nd Pakistani
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Barman
    1977 Stand Up, Virgin Soldiers - Indian shopkeeper
    1977 Horse in the House (TV Series) - Mr. Singh
    - Episode #1.3 (1977) ... Mr. Singh
    - Episode #1.2 (1977) ... Mr. Singh
    1977 Robin's Nest (TV Series) - Conductor
    - The Bistro Kids (1977) ... Conductor
    1976 Rogue's Rock (TV Series) - Abdullah
    - El Aziz (1976) ... Abdullah
    - Up the Spout (1976) ... Abdullah
    - Penny (1976) ... Abdullah
    - El Akhram (1976) ... Abdullah
    1976 Bill Brand (TV Mini-Series) - Pakistani
    - Tranquillity of the Realm (1976) ... Pakistani
    - Now and in England (1976) ... Pakistani
    - Yarn (1976) ... Pakistani
    1975 The Man Who Would Be King - Ghulam
    1974 Boy Dominic (TV Series) - Jailor
    - Sermons and Snuff (1974) ... Jailor
    - A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go (1974) ... Jailor
    1973 A Touch of Eastern Promise (TV Short) - Assistant Manager
    1973 White Cargo - Arab (uncredited)
    1973 The Two Ronnies (TV Series)
    - Episode #3.3 (1973)
    1973 Warship (TV Series) - Arab Operator Two
    - Nobody Said Frigate (1973) ... Arab Operator Two
    1973 On the Buses (TV Series) - Alf
    - Friends in High Places (1973) ... Alf
    1973 The Regiment (TV Series) - Monkeynut-Wallah
    - Heat (1973) ... Monkeynut-Wallah
    1973 Doctor Who (TV Series) - Indian Sailor
    - Carnival of Monsters: Episode Three (1973) ... Indian Sailor (uncredited)
    1972 Doctor in Charge (TV Series) - Sailor
    - The Long, Long Night (1972) ... Sailor (uncredited)
    1972 The Moonstone (TV Series) - Treasury Guard
    - Episode #1.1 (1972) ... Treasury Guard
    1971 Budgie (TV Series) - Pakistani
    - Some Mothers' Sons (1971) ... Pakistani
    1970 Wicked Women (TV Series) - Salmaan
    - Augusta Fullam (1970) ... Salmaan

    Producer (1 credit)

    1986 Mind Your Language (TV Series) (producer - 13 episodes)

    Self (1 credit)

    1980 We'll Tell You a Story (TV Series) - Himself - Reader
    - Episode #1.3 (1980) ... Himself - Reader
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    1960: Fleming assigns Thunderball to Trustees – Glidrose Productions.

    1969: On Her Majesty's Secret Service released in the UK and USA.
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    1969: Hänen majesteettinsa salaisessa palveluksessa (His Majesty in Secret Service; Swedish title I hennes majestäts hemliga tjänst, In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in Finland.
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    1969: James Bond 007 - Im Geheimdienst Ihrer Majestät (James Bond 007 - In Her Majesty's Secret Service) released in West Germany.
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    1969: The New York Times reviews the latest Bond film.
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    Screen: New James Bond:George Lazenby Follows the Connery Pattern
    December 19, 1969 - By A. H. WEILER
    A BARE fact must be faced. The superheated screen activities of Ian Fleming's supersleuth and sex symbol, James Bond, are as inevitable as sex or crime or On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the sixth steaming annal in the sock 'em and spoof 'em spy series that crashed into the DeMille and other local theaters yesterday.

    Serious criticism of such an esteemed institution would be tantamount to throwing rocks at Buckingham Palace, but it does call for a handful of pebbles. Devotees will note that Sean Connery, the virile, suave conqueror of all those dastards and dames in the five previous capers, has given up his 007 Bond credentials to George Lazenby, a 30-year-old Australian newcomer to films. He's tall, dark, handsome and has a dimpled chin. But Mr. Lazenby, if not a spurious Bond, is merely a casual, pleasant, satisfactory replacement.

    For the record, he plays a decidedly second fiddle to an overabundance of continuous action, a soundtrack as explosive as the London Blitz, and flip dialogue and characterizations set against some authentic, truly spectacular Portuguese and Swiss scenic backgrounds, caught in eyecatching colors.

    What are Bond's problems now? They're too numerous, as usual, to hold the constant attention of anyone other than a charter member of Her Majesty's Secret Service. What sets our bully boy off and fighting, running, shooting and loving this time is a lissome, leggy lass mysteriously bent on drowning herself in the waves thunderously crashing on a lonely Portuguese beach.

    First thing you know he's involved in a battle with two toughs that is as full of karate chops and belts in the belly as a brawl in a Singapore alley. To the credit of Richard Maibaum, the scenarist, the film's tongue-in-cheek attitude is set right at the outset. Once our new Bond emerges triumphant, he turns to the audience and says, somewhat plaintively: "This never happened to the other fellow."

    But it does. The lady of his life, the svelte Diana Rigg, who learned her karate chops from the British TV "Avenger" series, is the daughter of the blandly effete Gabriele Ferzetti, Mafioso-like tycoon, who likes Bond and wants to destroy that Spectre chief, Telly Savalas, his competition in world crime. That suits Bond too, and practically right off he's in Switzerland, where our villain maintains an eyrie atop an Alp.

    It's an inaccessible retreat, supposedly an institute for allergy research complete with hired guns, scientific gimmicks and an international conclave of allegedly allergic beauties who are really being brainwashed by the oily, bald-domed Mr. Savalas to spread his biological destruction of the world's food supply. Get it?

    Bond dallies with the dolls, of course, but the heart of the matter is a series of chases shot by the 41-year-old Peter Hunt, second unit director of the previous adventures, who's making his directorial debut with this one. The chases are breakneck, devastating affairs.

    A viewer must remember what seems to be the longest ski chase and bobsled run ever, full of gunfire and spills, that even includes an avalanche. There also is a decibel-filled fight amid clanging Swiss cow bells, the jarring bombing of that eyrie by helicopter-borne rescuers and the inadvertent clashes of the escaping Bond and Miss Rigg in a slithering, bang-up stock car race. One must say amen to a colleague's observation:

    "I never expected to see Switzerland defoliated like "this."

    It should be reported that the producers and distributors already have rung up a reported $82,200,000 on their first five Bond issues. It is not ungallant to report that Bond marries Miss Rigg, who is gunned down and killed by Savalas on their honeymoon. So it is reasonable to expect that Bond inevitably will be loving, shooting and running again.

    1973: James Bond 007 - Leben und sterben lassen released in West Germany
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    1973: 007 - Vivi e lascia morire released in Italy.
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    1974: The Man With the Golden Gun premieres Leicester Square Odeon, HRH Prince Philip in attendance.
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    1974: The Man with the Golden Gun released in the US and the Netherlands.
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    1974: James Bond 007 - Der Mann mit dem goldenen Colt (James Bond 007: The Man With the Golden Colt) released in West Germany.
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    1974: Manden med den gyldne pistol released in Denmark.
    1985: 007: En la mira de los asesinos (007: In the Sights of the Murderers) released in Mexico.
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    1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in the US, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Israel.
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    1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Canada. (French title Demain ne meurt jamais).
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    1997: Huominen ei koskaan kuole released in Finland.
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    1997: 007 - O Amanhã Nunca Morre released in Portugal.
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    1997: Завтра не умрёт никогда (Tomorrow Will Never Die) released in Russia,
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    1997: A&M releases the "Tomorrow Never Dies" single.
    1997: The New York Times reviews the latest Bond film.
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    FILM REVIEW; Shaken, Not Stirred, Bond Is in Business
    By JANET MASLIN - Published: December 19, 1997

    No need to feel badly if the right watch, drink, cell phone, etc., don't turn you into James Bond. They don't really do it for Pierce Brosnan in Tomorrow Never Dies, either. Despite Mr. Brosnan's best efforts to be lethally debonair, the Bond franchise has sacrificed most of what made this character unique in the first place, turning the world's suavest spy into one more pitchman and fashion plate. This latest film is such a generic action event that it could be any old summer blockbuster, except that its hero is chronically overdressed.

    This is not to say that Tomorrow Never Dies won't be an international success like Goldeneye, which wasn't much better. But it should fare best in corners of the world where nobody knows how little the title means, or how accurately it reflects the rest of the film's shallowness. Closer than ever to cartoon superhero status, Bond is seen battling ridiculous odds, dodging computer-generated explosions, delivering lame bon mots and boasting pitifully about his sexual prowess. All that gives this an up-to-date sensibility is the audience's awareness that M (Judi Dench) and Moneypenny (Samantha Bond) could sue him for sexual harassment on the basis of his small talk.

    This film does have a lively villain in Jonathan Pryce, as a media mogul who dreams of everything from manufacturing his own war to marketing software with bugs (so that customers will have to upgrade for years). Mr. Pryce reigns mischievously over an empire that Bond must infiltrate, and he also has a wife (Teri Hatcher) who is one of Bond's approximately one million ex-flames. Ms. Hatcher, like Mr. Brosnan, speaks in a perfect monotone, and so does Michelle Yeoh, the Hong Kong action star who is meant to kick some life into the series.

    The film's other attempts to show Bond in a romantic light are so hopeless that it's a lucky thing his partnership with Ms. Yeoh's character, the svelte and athletic Wai Lin, stays confined to toylike weaponry and flat double-entendres.

    ''And now a word from our sponsor,'' muttered the critic beside me, as the camera offered a good look at James Bond's vodka bottle midway through the so-called story. (The humor-free screenplay is by Bruce Feirstein, author of Real Men Don't Eat Quiche as well as Goldeneye. The workmanlike director is Roger Spottiswoode.) Indeed, despite Bond's mission to defeat the evil mogul, product plugs are the film's most serious business, especially since the audience may be bored enough to start looking at labels.

    The film's two best supporting turns come from Vincent Schiavelli, who has a cheerfully outrageous scene as a torture expert, and from a nice, smart BMW that works on remote control. Hiding in the back seat, Bond pilots the car through a tire-screeching chase. Don't try this at home.

    Tomorrow Never Dies/b] is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). It includes violence a la videogames, smirky innuendoes and a couple of brief sexual situations.

    1999: Desmond Llewelyn dies at age 85--Firle, East Sussex, England.
    (Born 12 September 1914--Newport, Wales. UK.)
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    DESMOND LLEWELYN was an actor for over 60 years, but will forever be remembered for just one role, that of "Q", inventor of countless gadgets for the spy James Bond. With an air of impatient but kindly acumen, he would introduce Bond to a batch of innocent-looking but lethal high-tech instruments in a scene that was always a highlight of each adventure.

    When the producers left him out of one of the Bond movies, Live and Let Die (1973), claiming that the films were becoming too dependent on gadgetry, there was a storm of protest from fans who missed his trademark cameo. The character was restored permanently and is to be seen in the latest adventure, The World Is Not Enough. During the last week Llewelyn had been attracting large crowds at book signings for a new biography, Q: the biography of Desmond Llewelyn, written by Sandy Hernu, who described the actor as "enormously funny and entertaining and great fun to be with". She said that the man on screen was similar to the real one, except that Llewelyn hated gadgets. He once said, "In real life gadgets explode or expire as I touch them."
    The son of a coal-mining engineer, Llewelyn was born in South Wales in 1914. His parents wanted him to be a chartered accountant, but a period as an articled clerk bored him, and after considering several professions he decided on a stage career and enrolled, at the age of 20, at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he studied for two years.

    As he said later, "I'd tried the Church and that failed. I was too dim for accountancy, too short-sighted for the police force and an insufficient liar to make a good politician. What else was left but to become an actor? I remember Richard Burton saying to me years later that the reason there are so many Welsh actors is because the Church is not very popular nowadays." Fellow students at Rada included Geoffrey Keen, later to appear in several Bond films, and Margaret Lockwood, "to whom I quite lost my heart".

    While still at Rada he made his film debut with a walk-on in the Gracie Fields film Look Up and Laugh (1935), but his first professional job after leaving the academy was with a repertory company in Southend, the first of several such companies with whom he gained experience. He was appearing in Bexhill, East Sussex (where he eventually settled) when he met Pamela Pantlin, a member of the "Women's League for Health and Beauty", and they were married in 1938.

    The following year, Llewelyn was in another film, the Will Hay comedy Ask a Policeman, but his career was then interrupted by the Second World War, in which he served as a second lieutenant assigned to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Captured by German soldiers in France, he spent five years as a prisoner of war.

    He resumed his film career with a war film, They Were Not Divided (1950), in which he was one of two soldiers named Jones, who was thus addressed as "77 Jones" - the other was "45 Jones". The director was Terence Young, who 13 years later was director of From Russia With Love, the film which changed the course of Llewelyn's career.
    Llewelyn had been appearing in regional theatre and playing small film roles - he had four lines in Cleopatra (1962) - when he auditioned for the role of Q. The character is not in the Ian Fleming books, though in the first Bond story, Casino Royale, it is "Q Branch" that provides 007's gadgets, and in Llewelyn's first two Bond films his character is billed as "Major Boothroyd", becoming simply "Q" in Thunderball (1965). (In the first Bond film, Dr No (1962), Boothroyd had been played by Peter Burton, who was not available for the filming of From Russia With Love.)

    Young wanted the character to speak with a Welsh accent, but Llewelyn preferred to interpret the character as "a toffee-nosed Englishman". "At the risk of losing the part and with silent apologies to my native land, I launched into Q's lines using the worst Welsh accent, followed by the same in English," he said.

    Bond was in need of gadgets in From Russia With Love, for he had to contend with two of the most dastardly villains of the series, the blond hulk Red Grant (Robert Shaw) and the sadistic Rosa Klebb (Lotte Lenya), who uses knife-toed boots to kick her victims to death. A booby-trapped briefcase was the principal item with which Bond was equipped, courtesy of Q, who was to become a fixture of the Bond adventures (with the exception of Live and Let Die) and almost as popular a figure as Bond himself. His description of the versatile briefcase was typical of Q's briefings: "Here is an ordinary black leather case. Hidden in these steel rods are 20 rounds of ammunition. Press that button and you have a throwing knife. Inside is your AR7, a folding sniper's rifle and 50 gold sovereigns. This looks like an ordinary tin of talcum powder, but it conceals a tear gas cartridge and is kept in place by a magnetic device . . ."

    Guy Hamilton directed the next film in which Llewelyn played Q, Goldfinger (1964), and the actor credits him with changing his approach to the role. "Previously I'd played Q as a toffee-nosed technician, more than slightly in awe of Bond." Hamilton changed that approach. "He said, `This man annoys you. He's irritatingly flippant and doesn't treat your gadgets with respect. Deep down you may envy his charm with women, but remember you're the teacher."

    After that, Llewelyn stated, he played Q with "a veiled exasperation coupled with a humorous tolerance to 007's flippancy and aggravating habit of fiddling with the gadgets". That exasperation mounted over the years, and in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), Q's first words to 007 were "Now pay attention, Bond", and his last, "Oh, grow up, 007!"

    Asked recently which Bond he considered best, Llewelyn chose Sean Connery as "perfect", adding, "George Lazenby played it straight and rather well. Roger Moore was much lighter and more jokey. It was a rather camp portrayal, with a lot more emphasis on humour, but it worked. Timothy Dalton was Ian Fleming's Bond - a real character. His confidence and surliness were straight from the books. It was brave, but people didn't like it. Pierre Brosnan is extremely good. He has the right look and manner."

    The character of Q was due to be retired after the latest Bond film, The World Is Not Enough, with his sidekick R, played by John Cleese, replacing him. The actor loved playing Q, but in recent years his private life had been marked by tragedy as he watched his wife suffer from Alzheimer's disease.

    Llewelyn appeared in such television series as Doomwatch and Follyfoot and made other films, including Operation Kid Brother (1967), which starred Sean Connery's brother Neil playing the sibling of 007. Bernard Lee ("M") and Lois Maxwell ("Moneypenny") were other Bond regulars cast in this weak film to bolster its appeal. But it is for his performances in 17 Bond films that Llewelyn will have a permanent part in film history, equipping the hero with toxic fountain-pens, exploding toothpaste and dozens of similar gadgets with which to confound or exterminate his adversaries.
    Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn, actor: born Newport, Monmouthshire 12 September 1914; married 1938 Pamela Pantlin (two sons); died Firle, East Sussex 19 December 1999.
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    Filmography
    Actor (122 credits)

    1999 License to Thrill (Short) - Q
    1999 Die Millennium-Katastrophe - Computer-Crash 2000 (TV Movie) - Peregrin Morley
    1999 The World Is Not Enough - Q
    1997 Tomorrow Never Dies - Q

    1997 Taboo (Short) -
    1995 GoldenEye - Q
    1993 October 32nd - Professor Mycroft

    1989 Licence to Kill - Q[/u]
    1988 Prisoner of Rio - Commissioner Ingram
    1987 The Living Daylights - Q
    1985 A View to a Kill - Q

    1983 Octopussy - Q
    1982 Play for Today (TV Series) - Official in Dream
    - Soft Targets (1982) ... Official in Dream
    1981 For Your Eyes Only - Q
    1981 The Life and Times of David Lloyd George (TV Series) - Lord Lansdowne
    - No. 10 (1981) ... Lord Lansdowne (as Desmond Llewellyn)
    1979-1980 BBC2 Playhouse (TV Series) - Papa / Major Bill Whittall
    - The Happy Autumn Fields (1980) ... Papa
    - Speed King (1979) ... Major Bill Whittall
    1980 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Sir Danvers Carew

    1979 The Golden Lady - Professor Dixon
    1979 Moonraker - Q
    1979 Hazell (TV Series) - Bell
    - Hazell and the Suffolk Ghost (1979) ... Bell
    1978 Lillie (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Dudley
    - The Jersey Lily (1978) ... Lord Dudley
    1978 Wilde Alliance (TV Series) - Colonel Thripp
    - Well Enough Alone (1978) ... Colonel Thripp
    1977 Eustace and Hilda (TV Series) - Sir John Staveley
    - The Sixth Heaven (1977) ... Sir John Staveley
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Q
    1976 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - President
    - Loss of the Helen May (1976) ... President
    1976 Wodehouse Playhouse (TV Series) - Rev. Sidney Gooch
    - Anselm Gets His Chance (1976) ... Rev. Sidney Gooch
    1975 A Man in the Zoo (TV Movie) - Chairman
    1975 The Love School (TV Series) - Thomas Combe
    - Seeking the Bubbles (1975) ... Thomas Combe
    1974 The Man with the Golden Gun - 'Q'
    1974 The Pallisers (TV Mini-Series) - Speaker
    - Part Twenty-three (1974) ... Speaker
    1974 The Nine Tailors (TV Mini-Series) - Sir Charles Thorpe
    - Episode #1.1 (1974) ... Sir Charles Thorpe
    1973 Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (TV Series) - Air Commodore Drew
    - The R.A.F. Reunion (1973) ... Air Commodore Drew
    1971-1973 Follyfoot (TV Series) - The Colonel
    - Walk in the Wood (1973) ... The Colonel
    - Hazel (1973) ... The Colonel
    - Rain on Friday (1973) ... The Colonel
    - The Helping Hand (1973) ... The Colonel (credit only)
    - Uncle Joe (1973) ... The Colonel
    1971 Diamonds Are Forever - 'Q'
    1971 Softly Softly: Task Force (TV Series) - Somers
    - Something Big (1971) ... Somers
    1971 Doomwatch (TV Series) - Thompson
    - Flight Into Yesterday (1971) ... Thompson
    1970 Codename (TV Series) - Barrett
    - A Walk with the Lions (1970) ... Barrett

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - 'Q'
    1968 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Coggins

    1960-1968 Dixon of Dock Green (TV Series) - Dr. Pearce / Bank Manager / Det. Insp. Jones
    - The Man (1968) ... Dr. Pearce
    - The Commander (1968) ... Bank Manager
    - Everything Goes in Threes (1960) ... Det. Insp. Jones
    1968 City '68 (TV Series) - Headmaster
    - Where Did You Get That Hat? (1968) ... Headmaster
    1968 Virgin of the Secret Service (TV Series) - Count Kolinsky
    - Russian Roundabout (1968) ... Count Kolinsky
    1967 Mickey Dunne (TV Series) - Lord Boutard
    - The Hon. Bird (1967) ... Lord Boutard
    1967 You Only Live Twice - 'Q'
    1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV Movie) - Q

    1961-1967 Emergency-Ward 10 (TV Series) - Fergus de la Roux / Constable
    - Old Ben in the Belfry (1967) ... Constable
    - Episode #1.436 (1961) ... Fergus de la Roux
    - Episode #1.431 (1961) ... Fergus de la Roux
    1965 Thunderball - 'Q'
    1965 Moulded in Earth (TV Series) - Squire
    - The End of the Feud (1965) ... Squire
    - Family Conference (1965) ... Squire
    1965 The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders - Jailer (uncredited)
    1965 Secret Agent (TV Series) - Charles - Doorman
    - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove (1965) ... Charles - Doorman
    1964 Gideon C.I.D. (TV Series) - Senior Police Officer
    - State Visit (1964) ... Senior Police Officer (uncredited)
    1964 The Sullavan Brothers (TV Series) - Colonel Barlow
    - A Plea of Provocation (1964) ... Colonel Barlow
    1964 Goldfinger - 'Q'
    1964 The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (TV Series) - Member of Council
    - A Germ Destroyer (1964) ... Member of Council
    1964 The Plane Makers (TV Series) - John Webb
    - A Job for the Major (1964) ... John Webb
    1963 Silent Playground - Dr. Green
    1959-1963 No Hiding Place (TV Series) - Murgatroyd / Supt. Hitchcock
    - Always a Copper (1963) ... Murgatroyd
    - Stranger in the Parlour (1959) ... Supt. Hitchcock
    1963 From Russia with Love - Boothroyd - 'Q'
    1963 Suspense (TV Series) - Company Spokesman / Ian MacDonald / President of the Court
    - The Rescuers (1963) ... Company Spokesman
    - The Dogs of Durga Das (1963) ... Ian MacDonald
    - The Uncertain Witness (1963) ... President of the Court
    1963 Cleopatra - Senator (uncredited)
    1962 Probation Officer (TV Series) - Mr. Forbes
    - Episode #4.18 (1962) ... Mr. Forbes
    1962 The Pirates of Blood River - Tom Blackthorne (uncredited)
    1962 The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (TV Movie) - Frank Misquith, QC, MP
    1962 Only Two Can Play - Clergyman on Bus (uncredited)
    1961 Stryker of the Yard (TV Series) - - The Case of Uncle Henry (1961)
    1961 The Curse of the Werewolf - 1st Footman (uncredited)
    1961 The House Under the Water (TV Mini-Series) - Colonel Tregaron
    - Episode #1.1 (1961) ... Colonel Tregaron
    1960 Sword of Sherwood Forest - Wounded Fugitive (uncredited)
    1960 Garry Halliday (TV Series) - Psychiatrist
    - A Message from a Stranger (1960) ... Psychiatrist
    1960 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Sergeant Harris
    - Home and the Heart (1960) ... Sergeant Harris
    1960 How Green Was My Valley (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Evans
    - Proposal and Disposal (1960) ... Mr. Evans

    1959 Private Investigator (TV Series) - Police Constable Jones
    - The Battle for Diana (1959) ... Police Constable Jones (as Desmond Llewellyn)
    1959 Call Me Sam (TV Series) -
    - Episode #1.5 (1959)
    1959 Sapphire - Police Constable (uncredited)
    1959 A Farthing Damages (TV Movie) - O'Connor
    1959 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - John Redmond
    - Parnell (1959) ... John Redmond
    1959 Barbed Wire and Bracken (TV Movie) - The Rector
    1958 Corridors of Blood - Assistant at Operations (uncredited)
    1958 The Invisible Man (TV Series) - Det. Sergeant
    - Blind Justice (1958) ... Det. Sergeant
    1958 Further Up the Creek - Chief Yeoman (uncredited)
    1958 Queen's Champion (TV Mini-Series) - Lord Bretherton
    - The Edge of Defeat (1958) ... Lord Bretherton
    - The Eve of the Armada (1958) ... Lord Bretherton
    1958 The Sky Larks (TV Series) - Police Sgt. Ryan
    - Touch of the Irish (1958) ... Police Sgt. Ryan
    1958 A Night to Remember - Seaman at Steerage Gate (uncredited)
    1958 The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV Series) - Two Fingers
    - Little Mother (1958) ... Two Fingers
    1957 Thunder in the West (TV Series) - King James II
    - For King and Monmouth (1957) ... King James II
    1957 Escape (TV Series) - Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
    - Harry (1957) ... Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
    - The Great Bluff (1957) ... Group Captain Cassidy, DSO, MC
    1957 Boyd Q.C. (TV Series) - McCracken
    - The Open and Shut Case (1957) ... McCracken
    1957 The Soldier and the Gentlewoman (TV Movie) - Philip Vaughan
    1955 The Leakage (TV Movie) - Wing-Commander Stone
    1955 Spider's Web (TV Movie) - Constable Jones
    1954 Patrol Car (TV Series) - - Moral Murder
    1954 The Gentle Falcon (TV Series) - Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
    - A Strange Tournament (1954) ... Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk
    1954 Tyrant's Tower (TV Movie) - 2nd Surveyor
    1953 Bunty Wins a Pup (Short) - Mr. Brown
    1953 Operation Diplomat - Police Constable at barrier (uncredited)
    1953 Stryker of the Yard
    1953 Knights of the Round Table - A Herald (uncredited)
    1953 Valley of Song - Lloyd - Schoolmaster
    1953 Both Sides of the Law - Police Constable (uncredited)
    1952 Huckleberry Finn (TV Series) - Harvey Wilks
    - The Auction (1952) ... Harvey Wilks
    1952 My Wife Jacqueline (TV Series) - Keith Appleyard
    - Happily Ever After (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
    - The Landed Proprietor (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
    - Getting Margaret Married (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
    - Common Interests (1952) ... Keith Appleyard
    1952 How Does It End? (TV Series) - Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
    - A Tale of Two Cities (1952) ... Sydney Carton / Charles Darnay
    1952 The Locked Room (TV Movie) - Stephen Amesbury
    1952 The Twelfth Brother (TV Short) - Reuben
    1952 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Pandimiglio
    - The Wanderer (1952) ... Pandimiglio
    1951 The Lavender Hill Mob - Customs Officer (uncredited)
    1950 The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) - Mr. Hyde
    1950 They Were Not Divided -'77 Jones
    1950 Guilt Is My Shadow - Pub customer (uncredited)

    1949 The Amazing Mr. Beecham - First guardsman (uncredited)
    1949 Adam and Evalyn - Undetermined Supporting Role (uncredited)
    1949 The Good Companions (TV Movie) - Policeman at Ribsden / Mr. Gooch
    1948 Hamlet - Extra (uncredited)
    1948 A Comedy of Good and Evil (TV Movie) - Owain Flatfish
    1947 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Theseus
    1947 Saloon Bar (TV Movie) - Peter / Police Constable
    1947 Captain Boycott - Gentleman on Train (uncredited)
    1946 The Murder Rap (TV Movie) - Inspector Fearon
    1946 A Midsummer Night's Dream (TV Movie) - Theseus
    1946 As You Like It (TV Movie) - Duke

    1939 Ask a Policeman - Headless Coachman (uncredited)
    1939 Campbell of Kilmhor (TV Movie) - Captain Sandeman

    Thanks (4 credits)

    2012 Special Collector's Edition (TV Series) (in memory of - 1 episode)
    - La última noche del Titanic (2012) ... (in memory of)
    2000 Inside Q's Lab (Video documentary short) (in memory of)
    2000 Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn (TV Movie documentary) (in memory of)
    1999 The World Is Not Enough (dedicatee)
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    2002: Die Another Day released in Chile.
    2002: Halj meg máskor (Hang On at Another Time) released in Hungary.
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    2002: Otro día para morir (Another Day to Die) released in Peru.
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    2002: Umri kdaj drugič (Die Sometime Else) released in Slovenia.
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    2019: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    @RichardTheBruce , the Danish title for TMWTGG went off the rails in Google translate or something. It is a straight forward translation.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    Thanks, correction made @Thunderfinger. The error seems to be my own, Google Translate was good on this one.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited April 2021 Posts: 12,914
    December 20th

    1959: The Atticus column of the Sunday Times presents some thoughts from Ian Fleming on Christmas.
    Thriller-writer Ian Fleming has more positive ideas on Christmas:
    "Ideally, the only possible place to spent it is Monte Carlo. You don't have to eat turkey--a detestable bird. There aren't any people there you know at this time of year, and it's perfectly easy to play a little golf and avoid over-eating."

    But even for the creator of James Bond, the ideal is not always attainable, and Mr. Fleming will in fact be spending his Christmas near Belfast, reading three good American thrillers, including the latest Rex Stout, and "going to church in a long crocodile with the rest of the family" on Christmas morning. His one way of simplifying Christmas is to give the same present year after year to all and sundry. It consists of a dozen snuff handkerchiefs from Fribourg and Treyer.
    1959: As arranged by producer Kevin McClory, writer Jack Whittingham begins working with Ian Fleming in New York on the "Longitude 78 West" screenplay.

    1963: Agent 007 jages (Agent 007 is Chased) released in Denmark. 1966: You Only Live Twice films the underground war room with Secretary of Defence, military chiefs.
    1966: Paul Ritter is born--Kent, Engand.
    (He dies 5 April 2021 at age 54--Faversham, Kent, England.)
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    Paul Ritter: Friday Night Dinner star dies
    of brain tumour at 54
    Ritter, who also appeared in films including Harry Potter and the
    Half-Blood Prince, died at home beside his wife and two sons


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    Toby Moses
    @tobymoses | Tue 6 Apr 2021 07.12 EDT

    The actor Paul Ritter has died of a brain tumour at the age of 54, his agent has told the Guardian. Ritter, who starred as the family patriarch Martin in Channel 4’s Friday Night Dinner alongside Tamsin Greig, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal, died on Monday.
    In a statement, his agent said that the actor, who also appeared in numerous films including Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Quantum of Solace, died at home with his family by his side.
    Robert Popper, the creator of the sitcom for which Ritter is best known, shared his thoughts saying: “Devastated at this terribly sad news. Paul was a lovely, wonderful human being. Kind, funny, super caring and the greatest actor I ever worked with.”

    In 2019, Ritter displayed his range with a terrifying performance as Anatoly Dyatlov in the multi-award winning Chernobyl. Toby Whithouse, who wrote spy thriller The Game in which Ritter starred in 2014, said: “This is terrible devastating news. Paul was a stunning actor, a lovely lovely guy. How utterly dreadful.”

    Ritter was also a talented stage actor, and was nominated for an Olivier award in 2006 for his performance in Coram Boy and for a Tony award for his 2009 starring role in the Norman Conquests.

    “It is with great sadness we can confirm that Paul Ritter passed away last night,” said his agent. “He died peacefully at home with his wife Polly and sons Frank and Noah by his side. He was 54 and had been suffering from a brain tumour.

    “Paul was an exceptionally talented actor playing an enormous variety of roles on stage and screen with extraordinary skill. He was fiercely intelligent, kind and very funny. We will miss him greatly.”

    Ritter is due to appear in the Friday Night Dinner 10th anniversary retrospective, which will air on Channel 4 later this year.
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    1967: Casino Royale released in Monaco.

    1971: Les diamants sont éternels (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in France.
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    1971: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Τα διαμάντια είναι παντοτινά (James Bond, Agent 007: Diamonds are Forever) released in Greece.
    1971: Diamantfeber released in Sweden.
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    1974: De man met de gouden revolver (Flemish title) released in Belgium.
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    1974: 007 ja kultainen ase (007 and a Golden Gun; Swedish title Mannen med den gyllene pistolen) released in Finland.
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    1974: L'homme au pistolet d'or (The Man With the Golden Pistol) released in France.
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    1974: Az aranypisztolyos férfi (The Golden-Haired Man) released in Hungary.
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    1974: Agente 007 - L'uomo dalla pistola d'oro released in Italy.
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    Not to be confused with.
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    1974: Mannen med den gyldne pistol released in Norway. 1974: Czlowiek ze zlotym pistoletem (A Man With a Golden Pistol) released in Poland.
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    1974: The Man With the Golden Gun released in the UK, USA, and Ireland.
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    1974: Daily Variety reports The Man With the Golden Gun's budget under $7 million. Product placement (free) includes Nikon, Sony, Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Dunlop, American Motors Corporation, and Colibri (lighter, fountain pen, cuff link).
    1975: William Lundigan dies at age --Duarte, California.
    (Born 12 June 1914, Syracuse, New York.)
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    William Lundigan
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    Lundigan in The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
    Born June 12, 1914, Syracuse, New York, U.S.
    Died December 20, 1975 (aged 61), Duarte, California, U.S.
    Resting place Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California
    Occupation Actor
    Years active 1937–1971
    Spouse(s) Rena Morgan (1945–1975; his death) 1 child
    William Lundigan (June 12, 1914 – December 20, 1975) was an American film actor. His more than 125 films include Dodge City (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), The Sea Hawk (1940), Santa Fe Trail (1940), Dishonored Lady (1947), Pinky (1949), Love Nest (1951) with Marilyn Monroe, The House on Telegraph Hill (1951), I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951) and Inferno (1953).

    Biography
    Growing up in Syracuse, New York, Lundigan was the oldest of four sons. His father, Michael F. Lundigan,] owned a shoe store (at which Lundigan worked) in the same building as a local radio station, WFBL. Becoming fascinated by radio, he was playing child roles on radio and producing radio plays at 16.

    A graduate of Nottingham High School, Lundigan studied law at Syracuse University, earning money as a radio announcer at WFBL. He graduated and passed the bar examination before events changed his career path. Charles Rogers, a Universal Pictures production chief, heard Lundigan's voice, met him, arranged a screen test and signed him to a motion picture contract in 1937.

    Universal
    He was in Armored Car (1937) billed as "Larry Parker". Then his name was changed to "William Lundigan" for West Bound Limited (1937).

    Lundigan was billed third in The Lady Fights Back (1937) then promoted to male lead for That's My Story! (1937). He was back down the cast list for The Black Doll (1938) and Reckless Living (1938) but was the male lead for State Police (1938). He had support parts in Wives Under Suspicion (1938) directed by James Whale, Danger on the Air (1938), The Missing Guest (1938), and Freshman Year (1938).

    Lundigan was one of the romantic leads in Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939). He was borrowed by Warners for a support part in Dodge City (1939).

    Lundigan was top billed in They Asked for It (1939) then was Sigrid Gurie's leading man in The Forgotten Woman (1939). He supported in Legion of Lost Flyers (1939). He said "nothing much happened" of his time at Universal and left the studio.

    Warner Bros
    Lundigan signed with Warner Bros, where he had support roles in The Old Maid (1939), The Fighting 69th (1940), 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940), The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940), Young America Flies (1940, a short), The Sea Hawk (1940), Service with the Colors (1940, a short), East of the River (1940), and Santa Fe Trail (1940).

    Lundigan later described this period as "I was always turning up as Olivia de Havilland's weak brother. Well, I got in a rut - that old bugaboo, type casting - and made one quickie after another."

    Warners promoted him to the lead of some "B"s, The Case of the Black Parrot (1941) and A Shot in the Dark (1941); he was support in The Great Mr. Nobody (1941), Highway West (1941) and International Squadron (1941).

    Lundigan then had a lead in Sailors on Leave (1941) for Republic Pictures.

    MGM
    Lundigan went to MGM where he had support roles in The Bugle Sounds (1942) and The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942). He was promoted to the lead of a "B", Sunday Punch (1942) and had the second lead in Apache Trail (1942) and Northwest Rangers (1942).

    He reprised his role from the Andy Hardy series in Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942) and supported in Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943) and Salute to the Marines (1943). Republic asked him back to play the lead in Headin' for God's Country (1943).

    World War Two
    He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps for World War II and served as a combat cameraman in the Battle of Peleliu and the Battle of Okinawa, returning at war's end as a Corporal. He was wounded on Okinawa.

    Post War
    Lundigan returned to Hollywood and tried freelancing. He had support roles in some independent movies, The Fabulous Dorseys (1947) and Dishonored Lady (1947). He was the leading man in Republic's The Inside Story (1948) and was top billed in Mystery in Mexico (1948), State Department: File 649 (1949) and Follow Me Quietly (1949). He decided to try acting on stage and was cast by John Ford in a revival of What Price Glory?.

    20th Century Fox
    Lundigan's career revived when he successfully auditioned for the role of Jeanne Crain's romantic interest in Pinky (1949) at 20th Century Fox, initially directed by Ford (Elia Kazan took over). The movie was a huge hit and the studio signed him to a long term contract. He went on to be leading man to Dorothy McGuire in Mother Didn't Tell Me (1950), June Haver in I'll Get By (1950) and Love Nest (1951), Susan Hayward in I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951).

    He was also in The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) and Elopement (1951), and was the male lead in Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952) and Serpent of the Nile (1953). The New York Times called him "the male counterpart to the girl next door".

    He had a good part in Inferno (1953).

    Television
    In an episode of Desilu Playhouse, "K.O. Kitty", L-R: William Lundigan, Aldo Ray, and Lucille Ball (1958).
    Lundigan began appearing on TV shows like Lux Video Theatre, Schlitz Playhouse, General Electric Theater, The Ford Television Theatre, and The Star and the Story and was host for Climax! and Shower of Stars.
    He had the lead in some low budget films like Riders to the Stars (1954), Terror Ship (1954) and The White Orchid (1954), the latter for Reginald Le Borg. He mostly worked on television now, such as episodes of Science Fiction Theatre, Playhouse 90 and Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, and travelled the country extensively selling automobiles.

    From September 30, 1959, to September 7, 1960, Lundigan portrayed Col. Edward McCauley in the CBS television series, Men into Space.

    In 1961, Lundigan was cast as Nathaniel Norgate in the episode, "Dangerous Crossing", on the syndicated anthology series, Death Valley Days, hosted by Stanley Andrews. The story focuses on religious settlers who encounter outlaws operating an illegal tollgate.

    He had the lead in The Underwater City (1962) and guest starred on The Dick Powell Theatre , Run for Your Life, Medical Center and Marcus Welby, M.D.. His last film was The Way West (1967).

    Politics
    In 1963 and 1964, Lundigan joined fellow actors Walter Brennan, Chill Wills, and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., in making appearances on behalf of U.S. Senator Barry M. Goldwater, the Republican nominee in the campaign against U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.

    Lundigan himself waged an unsuccessful campaign for a nominally non-partisan seat on the Los Angeles City Council.

    Family
    Lundigan married Rena Morgan, and they had a daughter, Anastasia.[2]

    Death
    Lundigan died at the age of 61 of apparent heart failure at City of Hope Medical Center in Duarte, California.

    Radio appearances

    1951 Screen Guild Players ("Apartment for Peggy")
    1952 Stars in the Air ("Deep Waters")[20]
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    1977: The Spy Who Loved Me released in the Philippines.

    1985: A View to a Kill released in the Philippines.

    1995: GoldenEye released in Belgium, France, and Spain.

    2002: ప్రపంచ హీరో (Prapan̄ca vīruḍu 007; World Hero 007, Telugu title) released in India.
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    2006: 新鐵金剛智破皇家賭場 (xīn tiě jīngāng zhì pò huángjiā dǔchǎng; New Iron King Kong Breaks the Royal Casino) released in Hong Kong.
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    2009: Screenwriter Peter Morgan reveals an unimaginable twist planned for BOND 23--
    The death of M.

    2017: Dynamite Entertainment releases Kill Chain #6.
    Luca Casalanguida, artist. Andy Diggle, writer.
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    Art: Luca Casalanguida
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    SMERSH has activated Operation Hooded Falcon, bringing Europe to its knees and NATO to the brink of collapse. A key ally is about to fall into Russia's grasp, re-drawing the geopolitical map and setting a new foundation for the coming century. But one man can make a difference. You know his name.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 12,914
    December 21st

    1961: Dr. No screen tests for the role of Miss Taro. 1963: Bjørn Rasmussen reviews From Russia With Love for the Danish daily magazine Aktuelt.
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    Film review, 21 December 1963

    Several Danish film critics expressed their dislike of the James Bond 007 films during their original release in the early 1960's. The highly regarded Bjørn Rasmussen, M.A., who reviewed films for the Danish daily Aktuelt and hosted the film programme "Filmorientering" on national Danish television during the 60's, dismissed the Bond films as "sensationalist entertainment marked by poor taste" in his reference book Filmens Hvem-Hvad-Hvor (1967). He did however note that From Russia with Love (1963) was "the best in the series".

    When EON Productions' From Russia with Love was released into Danish theatres in December 1963, Bjørn Rasmussen was markedly less kind in his scathing review for Aktuelt:
    ”Agent 007” returns
    Christmas programming at Nørreport Cinema is brutal entertainment


    With the pulp thriller From Russia with Love (1963), Nørreport [Cinema] picks up from Dr. No. This is a coarsely brutal, sensational serial based on Ian Fleming's vulgar novels, issued in Denmark by [Sven] Hazel's publishing house (of all!). The films, as well as the novels, are brimming with straightforward suspense, devoid of probability and based on the spectator not having time to detect the obvious gaffes.

    This time, a so-called ”Lektor” is to be smuggled out and change hands from Russian to English ownership. We are not dealing with a lecturer [”lektor” in Danish, ed.] but a decoding machine. Fights, murders, sex, and speed is mobilized as well as all kinds of spies for all kinds of nations. They are secretly spying on each other nonstop. The most repulsive of them all would be Lotte Lenja [sic], the widow of Kurt Weill, evil incarnate and an efficient member of the international crime organization ”Spectre” who are also out to get the Lektor.

    In the middle of all this nonsense, a glimmer of something truly cinematic shines through as is often the case with rudimentary pulp thrillers such as this. But [the film] is dreadfully simple and unpleasant to watch.

    Written by Bjørn Rasmussen
    Translation by Bond•O•Rama.dk
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    1964: Goldfinger premieres in the US--at the DeMille Theatre, New York City, NY.
    (Compare to UK premiere 17 September in London. Followed by Hollywood, CA 25 December.
    Then US general release 9 January 1965.)
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    1965: Thunderball premieres in the US--New York City, New York.
    (Followed by US general release 22 December. UK release 29 December. The true world premiere was earlier: December 9, Hibiya Cinema, Tokyo, Japan.)
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    1967: Casino Royale released in Austria, the Netherlands, and West Germany.
    1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Denmark.
    1968: On Her Majesty's Secret Service principal shooting ends. (Began: 21 October.)
    1969: Ilse Steppat dies at age 51--West Berlin, Germany.
    (Born 30 November 1917--Barmen, Germany.)
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    Born Ilse Paula Steppat, 30 November 1917, Wuppertal, Germany
    Died 21 December 1969 (aged 52), West Berlin, Germany
    Nationality German
    Occupation Actress
    Years active 1932–1969
    Ilse Paula Steppat (30 November 1917 in Barmen – 21 December 1969 in West Berlin) was a German actress. Her husband was noted actor and director Max Nosseck.

    Biography
    She began her cinematic career at the age of 15 playing Joan of Arc. Steppat appeared regularly on the German stage, and starred in more than forty movies. In the 1960s, she appeared frequently in crime movies based on the work of author Edgar Wallace, such as Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloss, Der unheimliche Mönch and Die blaue Hand, which brought her great fame in Germany.
    In her only English language role, Steppat played Blofeld's assistant and henchwoman Irma Bunt in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

    In the first English language conversation between Steppat and the movie's producer, Albert R. Broccoli, she confused the word verlobt (engaged) with engagiert (dedicated).[citation needed]

    Despite this, however, she was awarded the role of Irma Bunt. Steppat was unable to capitalise on her new fame outside Germany, as she died of a heart attack only four days after the movie's international release. She was buried in the Waldfriedhof Dahlem in Berlin. Steppat was supposed to reprise her role as Irma Bunt in Diamonds Are Forever. However her character was withdrawn after the actress's death.
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    Filmography
    Actress (60 credits)

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Irma Bunt
    1969 Alle Hunde lieben Theobald (TV Series) - Lily Landraf
    - Diana und die Landgräfin (1969) ... Lily Landraf
    1968 Berliner Antigone (TV Movie) - Wärterin
    1968 Altaich (TV Movie) - Charlotte Schnaase
    1968 Liliomfi (TV Movie) - Camilla
    1968 Death in a Red Jaguar - Mrs. Cunnings
    1968 Hauptstraße Glück (TV Series) - Grete Lehkamp
    - Heirate sich, wer kann (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
    - Der liebe Nachbar (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
    - Dachschaden ausgeschlossen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
    - Auf, auf ins Grüne (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
    - Romanze in Mull (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
    - Die Verlobung findet nicht statt (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
    - Mütter denken - Töchter lenken (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
    - Rote Georginen (1968) ... Grete Lehkamp
    1968 Eine etwas sonderbare Dame (TV Movie) - Mrs. Paddy
    1967 Creature with the Blue Hand - Lady Emerson
    1966 Hinter diesen Mauern (TV Movie) - Miss Burgess
    1966 Living it Up - Carol Stevens
    1965 The Sinister Monk - Lady Patricia
    1965 Niemandsland (TV Movie) - Rachel Verney
    1965 Der Krake (TV Movie) - Sophie Krebs
    1964 Hafenpolizei (TV Series) - Frau Lammers
    - Reisebegleiterin gesucht (1964) ... Frau Lammers
    1964 Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloß - Margaret
    1964 Rauf und runter (TV Movie)
    1964 Das Haus der Schlangen (TV Series) - Edith Edwards
    - Sechster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
    - Fünfter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
    - Vierter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
    - Dritter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
    - Zweiter Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
    - Erster Teil (1964) ... Edith Edwards
    1963 The Invisible Terror - Dr. Louise Richards
    1963 Apartment-Zauber - Sittenkommissarin (as Jlse Steppat)
    1963 Curd Jürgens erzählt... (TV Series) - Wife
    - Das Rendezvous (1963) ... Wife
    1963 Das Glück der Ehe (TV Movie) - Katja
    1962 Die Post geht ab - Elfriede Stolze
    1961 Schau heimwärts, Engel (TV Movie) - Madame Elizabeth
    1961 Der jüngste Tag (TV Movie) - Frau Hudetz
    1960 Auf Engel schießt man nicht - Bellini
    1960 A Mother's Revenge - Frau Barlowsky
    1960 Pension Schöller - Amalie Schöller

    1959 Ausflug mit Damen (TV Movie) - Juno
    1958 Romarei, das Mädchen mit den grünen Augen - Widow Prang
    1958 Sehnsucht hat mich verführt - Brandner-Bäuerin
    1958 The Eighth Day of the Week - Walicka
    1958 Naked in the Night - Madam Clavius
    1958 Nachtschwester Ingeborg - Frau Burger
    1958 Sie schreiben mit (TV Series)
    1957 Der versteinerte Wald (TV Movie) - Mrs. Chisholm
    1957 Das Geheimnis (TV Movie) - Sara Callifer
    1957 Confessions of Felix Krull - Maria Pia Kuckuck
    1957 Der entscheidende Augenblick (TV Short) - Kate
    1957 Der Adler vom Velsatal - Coletta Nicolini
    1956 Weil du arm bist, mußt du früher sterben - Ada Schenk
    1956 Waldwinter - Frieda Stengel
    1955 The Captain and His Hero - Yvonne
    1955 Die Ratten - Frau Knobbe
    1955 Der dunkle Stern - Frl. Rieger, die Lehrerin
    1955 Oberarzt Dr. Solm - Claudia Möllenhauer, Tochter
    1954 Das Phantom des großen Zeltes - Dolores, Frau mit dem Löwen
    1954 Cavalry Captain Wronski - Leonore Cronberg
    1953 Der Kaplan von San Lorenzo - Isabella Catani
    1952 Lockende Sterne - Karena Rodde
    1952 Wenn abends die Heide träumt - Brigitte
    1951 Hanna Amon - Vera Colombani
    1951 Die Schuld des Dr. Homma - Dr. Ilse Kersten
    1951 Veronika, die Magd - Alice
    1951 Die Tat des Anderen
    1950 Der Fall Rabanser - Baronin Felten
    1950 The Man Who Wanted to Live Twice - Oberschwester Hilde

    1949 The Blue Swords - Frau von Tschirnhausen
    1949 The Bridge - Therese Sander
    1947 Marriage in the Shadows - Elisabeth Maurer

    Soundtrack (2 credits)

    1955 The Captain and His Hero (performer: "Ich sehne mich nach einem Wunder" - uncredited)
    1952 Lockende Sterne (performer: "Tausend kleine Lügen")
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    1973: Leven en laten sterven released in Belgium.
    French and Dutch
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    1973: Leva och låta dö (Swedish title) released in Finland.
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    1973: Vivre et laisser mourir released in France.
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    1974: Mannen med den gyllene pistolen released in Sweden.
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    1982: Moonraker released in Iceland.

    1995: 新鐵金剛之金眼睛 (Xīn tiě jīngāng zhī jīn yǎnjīng; Golden Eyes of New Iron King Kong) released in Hong Kong.
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    2006: 007 카지노 로얄 (007 kah-gee-no low-yal; 007 Casino Royale) released in the Republic of Korea.
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    2010: BOND 23 resumes pre-production, halted most of this year as related to MGM financial issues.
    2016: Dynamite Entertainment releases James Bond 312 (Eidolon Chapter 6).
    Jason Masters, artist. Warren Ellis, writer.
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    JAMES BOND #12
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    Cover: Dom Reardon
    Writer: Warren Ellis
    Art: Jason Masters
    Genre: Action/Adventure, Media Tie-In
    Publication Date: December 2016
    Format: Comic Book
    Page Count: 32 pages
    ON SALE DATE: 12/21
    EIDOLON, CHAPTER 6: The explosive conclusion to the second JAMES BOND 007 story - Eidolon are in the open, British Intelligence is cracked and in disarray, friends are dead and enemies seem unstoppable - can James Bond intercept the most direct strike of all, from the dead hand of SPECTRE to the heart of British government?
    2017: Ian Fleming Publications gives Season's Greetings with their annual card.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 12,914
    December 22nd

    1962: Ralph Fiennes is born--Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
    1964: Bosley Crowther reviews Goldfinger in The New York Times.
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    GOLDFINGER
    By Bosley Crowther - Published: December 22, 1964
    Old Double-Oh Seven is slipping—or, rather, his scriptwriters are. They are involving him more and more with gadgets and less and less with girls. This is tediously apparent in Goldfinger, the latest movie adventure of James Bond, the dauntless sleuth of Ian Fleming's detective fiction, whom Sean Connery so handsomely portrays.

    In this third of the Bond screen adventures, which opened last night at the DeMille and goes continuous today at that theater and the Coronet, Agent 007 of the British Secret Service virtually spurns the lush temptations of voluptuous females in favor of high-powered cars and tricky machines.

    That is to say, he virtually spurns them in comparison to the way he went for them in his previous cinematic conniptions, Dr. No and From Russia with Love. In those fantastic fabrications, you may remember, he was constantly assailed by an unending flow of luxurious, exotic, and insatiable girls. And, being the sort of omnipotent and adaptable fellow he is, he did what he could to oblige them in the course of pursuing his sleuthing chores.

    But in this most gaudy of his outings—the most elaborate and fantastic to date—he manages to bestow his male attentions on only a couple of passing supplicants. One is a pliant little number who expires early, sealed in a skin of gold paint, and the other is a brawny pilot who remarkably resembles Gorgeous George. Neither is up to the standard of femininity usually maintained for Mr. Bond.

    Why this neglect of his love life is difficult to imagine—except that Mr. Bond's off-handed conquests were always open to a certain amount of doubt, a certain amount of skepticism as to how much of a Lothario he actually is. Indeed, they have often intimated a bland contempt for, or, at least, a slippery spoof of the whole notion of masculine prowess. One might question whether Bond really likes girls.

    So maybe his careful scriptwriters have played down that overly amorous side, delicately displacing dolls with automation and beautiful bodies with electronic brains. Anyhow, what they give us in Goldfinger is an excess of science-fiction fun, a mess of mechanical melodrama, and a minimum of bedroom farce.

    It is good fun, all right, fast and furious, racing hither and yon about the world as Double-Oh Seven pursues the intrigues of a mysterious financier named Goldfinger, who is criminally tampering with the gold reserves of Britain and the United States.

    Meeting his quarry in a crooked card game on the terrace of a hotel in Miami Beach, he follows him to a golf club outside London, trails him to a gold refinery in the Swiss Alps, and then is captured by him and flown to America to be an inside observer of a fantastic raid on Fort Knox. En route, the fellow has some lively set-tos, exercises smashing ingenuity, and meets that Amazonian pilot, whom he conquers after a deadly judo match.

    As usual, Mr. Connery plays the hero with an insultingly cool, commanding air, providing a great vicarious image for all the panting Walter Mittys in the world. Gert Fršbe is aptly fat and feral as the villainous financier, and Honor Blackman is forbiddingly frigid and flashy as the latter's aeronautical accomplice.

    In lesser roles, Shirley Eaton is delectable as the girl who is quickly painted out, and Harold Sakata is traditionally sinister as a mute Oriental who is adept at throwing a razor-brimmed hat.

    Of course, the high point of the picture is the climactic raid on Fort Knox with the intent of blowing it up and contaminating its hoard of gold with a nuclear bomb. It is spinningly staged and enacted, drenched in cliff-hanging suspense. But somehow, by the time it gets to this point—well, we've had Mr. Bond.
    1965: Thunderball released in the US. 1965: Bosley Crowther reviews Thunderball in The New York Times.
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    Screen: 007's Underwater Adventures:Connery Plays Bond in 'Thunderball'
    By BOSLEY CROWTHER - Published: December 22, 1965
    THE popular image of James Bond as the man who has everything, already magnificently developed in three progressively more compelling films, is now being cheerfully expanded beyond any possible chance of doubt in this latest and most handsome screen rendering of an Ian Fleming novel, "Thunderball."

    Now Mr. Fleming's superhero, still performed by Sean Connery and guided through this adventure by the director of his first two, Terence Young, has not only power over women, miraculous physical reserves, skill in perilous maneuvers and knowledge of all things great and small, but he also has a much better sense of humor than he has shown in his previous films. And this is the secret ingredient that makes "Thunderball" the best of the lot.

    This time old Double-Oh Seven, which is Mr. Bond's code number in the British intelligence service he so faithfully and tirelessly adorns, is tossing quips faster and better then he did even in "From Russia With Love," and he is viewing his current adventure with more gaiety and aplomb.

    I think you will, too. In this creation of superman travesty, which arrived yesterday at the reopened Paramount, the Sutton, Cinema II and twoscore or more other theaters in the metropolitan area. Bond is engaged in discovering who hijacked two nuclear bombs in a NATO aircraft over Europe and is secretly holding them for a ransom of £100 million.

    That in itself is fairly funny — fanciful and absurd in the same way as are all the problems that require the attention of Bond. But what Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins as the script writers have done is sprinkle their gaudy fabrication with the very best sight and verbal gags.

    "Let my friend sit this one out." Bond asks politely of two disinterested young men as he places his dancing partner in a chair beside them at a table in a nightclub in Nassau. The gentlemen nod permission. "She's just dead," he explains.

    Or when Bond leaps from a hovering helicopter wearing a skindiver's suit of extraordinary mechanical complexity to engage in an underwater war between SPECTRE and C.I.A. frogmen in the climactic scene of the film, he flips the conclusive comment: "Here comes the kitchen sink!"

    In addition to being funny, "Thunderball" is pretty, too, and it is filled with such underwater action as would delight Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau. The gimmick is that the airplane carrying the hijacked bombs has been ditched, sunk and covered with camouflaging on a coral reef off Nassau. And to get this information and then find and explore the sunken plane. Bond has to do a lot of skindiving, with companions and alone.

    The amount of underwater equipment the scriptwriters and Mr. Young have provided their athletic actors, including an assortment of beautiful girls in the barest of bare bikinis, is a measure of the splendor of the film. Diving saucers, aqualungs, frogman outfits and a fantastic hydrofoil yacht that belongs to the head man of SPECTRE are devices of daring and fun.

    So it is in this liveliest extension of the cultural scope of the comic strip. Machinery of the most way-out nature become the instruments and the master, too, of man. "I must be six inches taller," Bond wryly quips at one point after he has been almost shaken to pieces on an electric vibrating machine. The comment is not without significance. This is what machines do to men in these extravagant and tongue-in-cheek Bond pictures. They make distortions of them.

    Mr. Connery is at his peak of coolness and nonchalance with the girls. Adolfo Celi is piratical as the villain with a black patch over his eye. Claudine Auger, a French beauty winner, is a tasty skindiving dish and Luciana Paluzzi is streamlined as the inevitable and almost insuperable villainous girl.

    The color is handsome. The scenery in the Bahamas is an irresistible lure. Even the violence is funny. That's the best I can say for a Bond film.

    1967: Casino Royale released in Spain, Finland, and France.
    1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale released in Italy.
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    1967: James Bond 007 - Casino Royale! released in Sweden.
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    1969: 007 al servicio secreto de su Majestad (007 To His Majesty's Secret Service) released in Spain.
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    1971: Diamantes para la eternidad (Diamonds for Eternity) released in Spain. (Diamants per a l'eternitat, Catalan title.)
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    1973: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ζήσε κι άσε τους άλλους να πεθάνουν (James Bond, Agent 007: Live and Let the Others Die) released in Greece. 1973: Leva och låta dö released in Sweden.
    1982: Octopussy films OO7 hunted and hissing off.
    1983: Jamais plus Jamais; Never Again Never) released in Belgium.
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    1985: 007 뷰 투 어 킬 (byoo too uh keel; 007 View to a Kill) released in the Republic of Korea.
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    1995: GoldenEye released in Luxembourg and Malaysia.

    2006: Casino Royale released in Panama.

    2014: Richard Graydon dies at age 92--England.
    (Born 12 May 1922--London, England.)
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    Richard Graydon was an amateur jockey turned stuntman whose daredevil
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    Richard Graydon, who has died aged 92, was a former amateur jockey who became one of the most celebrated stuntmen in the business, keeping cinemagoers on the edges of their seats in some of the most hair-raising sequences in the James Bond canon.

    Graydon’s first outing as “007” came in 1969 when he doubled for George Lazenby, tobogganing down the Cresta Run at breakneck speed in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. In one terrifying sequence, in which Bond effects his escape from Ernst Stavro Blofeld’s mountaintop eyrie, Graydon was required to slide down, using a piece of chain, to a cable-car dangling over the abyss. “The drop was about 80 feet,” he recalled. “The only safety devices I had were two hooks in the palm of my hand attached to my safety belt. The difficulty was that ice had formed on the cable.”

    The scene was filmed without mishap and 10 years later Graydon was again to be found atop a cable-car, this time suspended hundreds of feet above the ground in Rio de Janeiro, doubling for Roger Moore in the scene in Moonraker (1979) where Bond fights the steel-toothed “Jaws” (fellow stuntman Martin Grace). On this occasion things nearly came unstuck when Graydon slipped and was left hanging from the cable-car by just one hand without any safety hooks. “One slip and it would have been certain death,” he said, recalling the episode as “the nastiest moment of my career”.

    Graydon performed in 10 Bond films in total. In You Only Live Twice (1967), he was seen abseiling down into a volcano and made a brief appearance as a Russian cosmonaut. In Octopussy he replaced Martin Grace (who had been injured on the second day of filming) as Roger Moore’s stunt double for much of the sequence in which Bond makes his way along the roof of a moving train, fighting off henchmen of the arch villain Kamal Khan, with the action taking place on top, hanging on to the side and even under the train. He also played the part of “Francisco the Fearless” – the man who gets shot out of a cannon at Octopussy’s circus.

    Martin Grace described Graydon as the most courageous stuntman he had ever worked with: “He treated hanging in the rafters of a volcano 120 feet up, and on top of the cable car in Rio as if he was having a coffee down at Piccadilly Circus in London. He made what other stuntmen claimed as too dangerous and impossible look like a walk in the park.”
    Inevitably such daredevilry came at a cost. Graydon broke an arm in four places when the horse he was riding in Waltz of the Toreadors (1962, with Peter Sellers) collided with a camera car. Worse was to come at a stunt show in Sweden in the 1970s, when a guide wire snapped as he was launching himself off the top of a tall tower. He broke his back and both legs and was in hospital for 14 weeks.

    Richard Graydon was born on May 12 1922 into a theatrical family. His grandfather owned the Middlesex Music Hall (now the New London Theatre) in Drury Lane and his father was an agent and manager for such stars as Maurice Chevalier.

    By contrast, after leaving Stowe Richard Graydon began his career as a gentleman jockey working for trainers – an occupation which, he later observed, provided an excellent grounding in stunt work and also brought him his first injuries. On one occasion he broke his neck and a leg riding for Boggy Whelan in a novice chase at Wye. The nearest he got to success on the turf was coming third on Squire’s Mount in the amateur riders’ Carnarvon Cup at Salisbury.
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    Graydon continued to ride out for trainers as he embarked on his showbusiness career, first as a dancer at the Windmill and other London theatres. Partially blinded in one eye following a childhood accident, he was turned down for wartime service in the RAF, though he performed with Ensa in India.
    His first screen credit came in 1952 when he played one of Robin Hood’s Merrie Men in the Disney film of that name. His stunt career began with James Bond’s second big screen adventure, From Russia with Love, in 1963, and he appeared, uncredited, in Goldfinger (1964) and Thunderball (1965).
    Graydon’s experience and knowledge of horsemanship also led to work as a stunt coordinator. He taught horses to fall without injuring themselves in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and – ignoring the advice of experts that it could not be done – taught camels to jump a low wall in David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962). He also worked as stunt coordinator in the horse racing drama Champions (1984).

    He earned more than 30 credits for stunt work in such productions as Where Eagles Dare (1968); When Eight Bells Toll (1971); Don’t Look Now (1973); Royal Flash (1975); The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976); The Duellists (1977); Star Wars (1977); The Wild Geese (1978); International Velvet (1978); Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981); Batman (1989); and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) in which he played a butler.

    In 1970 Richard Graydon married Hermione Bedford, who survives him. There were no children of the marriage.

    Richard Graydon, born May 12 1922, died December 22 2014
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    Filmography
    Stunts (44 credits)

    1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (stuntman)
    1997 Pie in the Sky (TV Series) (stunts - 1 episode)
    - The Apprentice (1997) ... (stunts)
    1993 Doctor Finlay (TV Series) (stunts)
    1992 Gøngehøvdingen (TV Series) (stunt coordinator - 1 episode)
    - Død mand ønskes (1992) ... (stunt coordinator)
    1991 Boon (TV Series) (stunt performer - 1 episode)
    - Bad Pennies (1991) ... (stunt performer)

    1989 Batman (stunts)
    1989 The Littlest Viking (stunts)
    1988 Willow (stunts)
    1987 Pathfinder (stunts)
    1986 Pirates (stunts - uncredited)
    1986 Dream Lover (stunt coordinator: UK)
    1985 A View to a Kill (additional stunts - uncredited)
    1985 Ladyhawke (stunt coordinator)
    1984 A Passage to India (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
    1984 Champions (stunt coordinator)
    1984 Ordeal by Innocence (stunts)
    1983 Octopussy (stunts - uncredited)
    1981 For Your Eyes Only (additional stunts - uncredited)

    1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (stunts - uncredited)
    1980 ffolkes (stunts - uncredited)

    1979 Moonraker (stunt double: Roger Moore, cable car sequence - uncredited) / (stunts)
    1979 The Lady Vanishes (stunt arrangements)
    1979 The Passage (stunts - uncredited)
    1978 International Velvet (stunt coordinator)
    1978 The Wild Geese (stunts - uncredited)
    1977 Death or Freedom (horse master)
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me (stunts - uncredited)
    1977 Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (second stunt guard at cellblock AA-23 - uncredited) / (stunts - uncredited)
    1977 The Duellists (horsemaster)
    1976 The Man Who Fell to Earth (stunt coordinator - as Dickie Graydon)
    1975 Royal Flash (stunt arranger)
    1974 11 Harrowhouse (stunts - uncredited)
    1974 Dead Cert (stunts - uncredited)
    1973 Don't Look Now (stunt coordinator - as Richard Grayden)
    1971 When Eight Bells Toll (stunts - uncredited)

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (stunt double: George Lazenby - uncredited)
    1968 Where Eagles Dare (stunts - uncredited)
    1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
    1967 You Only Live Twice (stunts - uncredited)
    1965 Thunderball (stunts - uncredited)
    1964 Goldfinger (stunts - uncredited)
    1963 From Russia with Love (stunts - uncredited)

    1962 Lawrence of Arabia (stunt coordinator - uncredited)
    1962 Waltz of the Toreadors (stunts - uncredited)

    Actor (24 credits)

    1997 Shooting Fish - Racehorse Trainer (as Dickie Graydon)
    1993 Between the Lines (TV Series) - Edmonds
    - Some Must Watch (1993) ... Edmonds
    1990 The Fool - 1990 Wings of Fame

    1989 London's Burning (TV Series) - Old Man
    - Episode #2.6 (1989) ... Old Man
    1985 Déjà Vu - Captain Wilson
    1983 Octopussy - Francisco the Fearless
    1982 Jockey School (TV Mini-Series) - Reggie Sheaton
    - Episode #1.2 (1982) ... Reggie Sheaton
    1981 Eye of the Needle - Home Guard Private
    1980 ffolkes - Rasmussen

    1979 Moonraker - Space Fighter (uncredited)
    1979 Love and Bullets - Antonio
    1977 The Duellists - Cossack / Hussar
    1974 Dead Cert - Jockey (uncredited)
    1974 The Fortunes of Nigel (TV Mini-Series) - Groom
    - Part 5 (1974) ... Groom
    1971 The Last Valley - Yuri (uncredited)

    1969 On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Draco's Driver (uncredited)
    1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Lord Bingham
    1967 You Only Live Twice - Astronaut - Russian Spacecraft
    1966 The Avengers (TV Series) - George Reed
    - Honey for the Prince (1966) ... George Reed
    1965 Thunderball - Largo's Henchman (uncredited)

    1959 The Unseeing Eye (Short) - Eddie Brown (as Dick Graydon)
    1953 Wicked Wife - Chandler (as Richard Grayden)
    1952 The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men - Merrie Man

    Miscellaneous Crew (5 credits)

    1997 Shooting Fish (animal handler)
    1991 Robin Hood (horse master)
    1985 Ladyhawke (horse master)
    1984 Champions (horse master)
    1977 Death or Freedom (horse master)

    Self (12 credits)

    2006 Moonraker: Ken Adam's Production Films (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' [/b](Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'Moonraker' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'You Only Live Twice' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Double-O Stunts (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Terence Young: Bond Vivant (Video documentary short) - Himself
    1992 30 Years of James Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Himself

    1982 Stuntman Challenge (TV Movie) - Himself
    1979 Film 2017 (TV Series) - Himself
    - Episode dated 27 May 1979 (1979) ... Himself

    Archive footage (1 credit)

    2009 À l'abordage - L'aventure de pirates (Video documentary) - Himself
    2016: Ian Fleming Publications sends Season's Greetings.
  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    Posts: 12,914
    December 23rd

    1944: Ian Fleming arrives in Colombo, Ceylon, and strikes up a friendship with Wren Clare Blanshard.
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    Ian Fleming, Andrew Lycott, 1995.
    As soon as he arrived 23 September, Ian struck up a close friendship
    with Clare who was swept off her feet by the handsome, educated naval
    officer in his tropical uniform. In a letter to her brother Paul a month
    later, "Since I wrote last (and continuously, every day, but about to be
    lopped off at a moment's notice like Marlow's Faustas) a beauteous being
    has swum into my ken--on an official visit--and I like him very very very
    much indeed. As the Wrens say, whose letters I censor so very monotonously,
    he's absolutely it. It doesn't make any difference that I don't mean any-
    thing to him as he's so awfully nice--so that is why I haven't written.
    Next time I write he'll have gone for ever and ever and practically won't
    have existed. But, believe me, he's the right shape, size, and height, has the
    right sort of hair, the right sort of laugh, is 36 and beautiful. I wish I were
    more glamorous..."

    Ian had arrived at the height of the Christmas party season in Colombo.
    He invited Clare to a dance at the Septic Prawn, the nightclub in the
    Galleface Hotel where he was staying. She was impressed that he was "a
    plodder dancer: I dislike men who dance well". She wore a stunning long
    white silk dress, plugged with little pieces of real silver. Ian was fascinated
    with the garment and, seventeen years later, sent her a postcard of the
    ballroom of a Sussex hotel where he was recuperating from an illness. He
    marked the front with an X and wrote, "I'm behind the palm tree on the
    right, watching you in the white dress clearing the floor in the centre."
    Clare recalled, "He couldn't get over that dress. He really minded about
    materials and such things."

    He also expressed interest in exploring the Ceylon countryside. When
    Clare had told him about the jungle which straddled the railway on the
    way up to the hill-station of Kandy, he jumped at the opportunity to
    investigate. Enjoying the hear and mild humidity of the tropical island,
    he told Clare, "I'm never going to spend the winter in England again." He
    did not mention Jamaica, but his fantasy of his post-war experience was
    beginning to take shape.

    1964: Variety reports Goldfinger breaking US records in New York at the DeMille and Coronet theaters. The New York Times says as a result the Coronet plans midnight screenings. The DeMille says it will run the film 24 hours through year's end to meet demand.
    1965: Thunderball released in Australia.
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    1965: Operación Trueno (Operation Thunder) released in Spain. (Operació tro, Catalan title.)
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    1966: You Only Live Twice completes principal photography filming Ninjas.

    1970: Anatole Taubman is born--Zurich, Switzerland.
    1971: Diamonds Are Forever released in Australia and the Netherlands.
    Australian Daybill,
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    1971: 鐵金剛勇破鑽石黨 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò zuànshí dǎng; Iron King Kong broke the Diamond Party) released in Hong Kong.
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    1972: 007 ドクター・ノオ (Dokutā nō) re-release in Japan.
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    1974: El hombre de la pistola de oro (The Man With the Pistol of Gold) released in Spain. (L'home de la pistola d'or, Catalan title.)
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    1983: 내버 새이 내버 어개인 (Nay-buh say-ee nay-buh uh-gay-een) released in the Republic of Korea.
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    1997: 007 - Il domani non muore mai released in Italy.
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    1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Chile.
    1999: 007, el mundo no basta released in Argentina.
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    2013: Ian Fleming Publications unveils its new logo.
    Ian Fleming Publications unveils new logo
    https://www.thejamesbonddossier.com/news/ian-fleming-publications-unveils-new-logo.htm
    December 23, 2013 by David Leigh

    Ian Fleming Publications last week unveiled a smart new logo comprising of the signatureian-fleming-publications-logo of James Bond’s creator and a “Doctor Bird”, Jamaica’s national bird.

    There are numerous links to the bird, also known as the Streamer-tailed Humming Bird; all the Bond books were written at Goldeneye in Jamaica; 007 was named after the ornithologist who wrote A Field Guide to Birds of the West Indies; and the Doctor Bird was mentioned by Fleming in the books.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    December 24th

    1931: Nora Noel Jill Bennett is born--Penang, Malaysia.
    (She dies 4 October 1990 at age 58--Kensington, London, England.)
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    Jill Bennett (British actress)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Bennett_(British_actress)
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    Jill Bennett in trailer for The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
    Born Nora Noel Jill Bennett, 24 December 1931, Penang, Straits Settlements
    Died 4 October 1990 (aged 58), London, England, United Kingdom
    Cause of death Suicide
    Years active 1951–1990
    Spouse(s) Willis Hall (m. 1962–1965), John Osborne (m. 1968–1978)
    Nora Noel Jill Bennett (24 December 1931 – 4 October 1990) was an English actress, and the fourth wife of playwright John Osborne.

    Early life
    She was born in Penang, the Straits Settlements, to British parents, educated at Prior's Field School, an independent girls boarding school in Godalming, and trained at RADA. She made her stage début in the 1949 season at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford upon Avon, and her film début in The Long Dark Hall (1951) with Rex Harrison.
    Career
    Bennett made many appearances in British films including Lust for Life (1956), The Criminal (1960), The Nanny (1965), The Skull (1965), Inadmissible Evidence (1968), The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968), Julius Caesar (1970), I Want What I Want (1972), Mister Quilp (1975), Full Circle (1977) and Britannia Hospital (1982). She also appeared in the Bond film For Your Eyes Only (1981), Lady Jane (1986) and Hawks (1988). Her final film performance was in The Sheltering Sky (1990).
    She made forays into television, such as roles in Play for Today (Country, 1981), with Wendy Hiller, and as the colourful Lady Grace Fanner in John Mortimer's adaptation of his own novel, Paradise Postponed (1985). Among several roles, Osborne wrote the character of Annie in his play The Hotel in Amsterdam (1968) for her. But Bennett's busy schedule prevented her from playing the role until it was screened on television in 1971.[1]

    She co-starred with Rachel Roberts in the Alan Bennett television play The Old Crowd (1979), directed by Lindsay Anderson.

    Personal life
    She was the live-in companion of actor Godfrey Tearle in the late 1940s and early 1950s. She was married to screenwriter Willis Hall and later to John Osborne. She and Osborne divorced acrimoniously in 1978. She had no children.

    Death
    She died by suicide in October 1990, aged 58, having long suffered from depression and the brutalising effects of her marriage to Osborne (according to Osborne's biographer). She did this by taking an overdose of Quinalbarbitone. Osborne, who was subject during her life to a restraining order regarding written comments about her, immediately wrote a vituperative chapter about her to be added to the second volume of his autobiography. The chapter, in which he rejoiced at her death, caused great controversy.

    In 1992, Bennett's ashes, along with those of her friend, the actress Rachel Roberts (who also died by suicide, in 1980), were scattered by their friend Lindsay Anderson on the waters of the River Thames in London. Anderson, with several of the two actresses' professional colleagues and friends, took a boat trip down the Thames, and the ashes were scattered while musician Alan Price sang the song "Is That All There Is?" The event was included in Anderson's autobiographical BBC documentary Is That All There Is? (1992).
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    Filmography
    Actress (62 credits)

    1990 The Sheltering Sky - Mrs Lyle

    1989 A Day in Summer (TV Movie) - Miss Prosser
    1988 Hawks - Vivian Bancroft
    1987 Worlds Beyond (TV Series) - Elizabeth Berrington
    - The Barrington Case (1987) ... Elizabeth Berrington
    1986 Paradise Postponed (TV Mini-Series) - Lady Grace Fanner
    - The Simcox Inheritance (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
    - Faith Unfaithful (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
    - The Gods of the Copy Book Headings (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
    - Enigma Variations (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
    - And a Happy New Year to You, Too! (1986) ... Lady Grace Fanner
    1986 Lady Jane - Mrs. Ellen
    1985 Time for Murder (TV Series) - Sonia Barrington
    - The Murders at Lynch Cross (1985) ... Sonia Barrington
    1984 Poor Little Rich Girls (TV Series) - Daisy Troop
    - The Gentlemen Caller: Part 2 (1984) ... Daisy Troop
    - The Gentleman Caller (1984) ... Daisy Troop
    - Tit for Tat (1984) ... Daisy Troop
    - The Oriental Chest (1984) ... Daisy Troop
    - Lonely as a Crowd (1984) ... Daisy Troop
    1983 The Aerodrome (TV Movie) - Eustasia
    1982 Britannia Hospital - Dr. MacMillan: Medicos
    1981 Play for Today (TV Series) - Alice Carlion
    - Country (1981) ... Alice Carlion
    1981 For Your Eyes Only - Jacoba Brink
    1980 Orient-Express (TV Mini-Series) - Jane
    - Jane (1980) ... Jane

    1979 The Old Crowd (TV Movie) - Stella
    1977 The Haunting of Julia - Lily Lofting
    1976 Almost a Vision (TV Movie) - Isobel
    1976 Murder (TV Series) - Lola
    - Hello Lola (1976) ... Lola
    1975 Mr. Quilp - Sally Brass
    1975 Aquarius (TV Series documentary) - Maria
    - The Three Marias (1975) ... Maria
    1974 Late Night Drama (TV Series) - Jill
    - Ms or Jill and Jack (1974) ... Jill
    1974 Intent to Murder (TV Movie) - Janet Preston
    1972 I Want What I Want - Margaret Stevenson
    1971 ITV Sunday Night Theatre (TV Series)
    - The Hotel in Amsterdam (1971)
    1971 Speaking of Murder (TV Movie) - Annabelle Logan
    1970 Julius Caesar - Calpurnia
    1969 Rembrandt (TV Movie) - Geertje
    1968 Half Hour Story (TV Series) - Penelope
    - Its Only Us (1968) ... Penelope
    1968 Inadmissible Evidence - Liz
    1968 The Charge of the Light Brigade - Mrs. Duberly
    1968 BBC Play of the Month (TV Series) - Anna
    - The Parachute (1968) ... Anna
    1966 Thirty-Minute Theatre (TV Series) - Mary Hass
    - Brainscrew (1966) ... Mary Hass
    1966 ABC Stage 67 (TV Series) - Frida Holmeier
    - Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn? (1966) ... Frida Holmeier
    1965 The Nanny - Aunt Pen
    1965 The Skull - Jane Maitland
    1956-1965 ITV Play of the Week (TV Series) - Masha / Marjorie Wilton / Gilda / ...
    - We Thought You'd Like to Be Caesar (1965) ... Marjorie Wilton
    - A Choice of Coward #4: Design for Living (1964) ... Gilda
    - A Midsummer Night's Dream (1964) ... Helena
    - Three Sisters (1963) ... Masha
    - The Rainmaker (1963) ... Lizzie
    1964 First Night (TV Series) - Libby Beeston
    - How Many Angels (1964) ... Libby Beeston
    1964 Espionage (TV Series) - Mistress Patience Wright
    - The Frantick Rebel (1964) ... Mistress Patience Wright
    1963 Maupassant (TV Series)
    - Foolish Wives (1963)
    1962-1963 BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) - Hilary / Victoria Thomson
    - The Sponge Room (1963) ... Hilary
    - Storm in a Teacup (1962) ... Victoria Thomson
    1960-1962 Somerset Maugham Hour (TV Series) - Annette
    - The Book Bag (1962)
    - The Unconquered (1960) ... Annette
    1962 The Cheaters (TV Series) - Ferba Martinez
    - Time to Kill (1962) ... Ferba Martinez
    1960 The Concrete Jungle - Maggie
    1956-1960 Armchair Theatre (TV Series) - Stella / Lily / Agnes Madinier / ...
    - Thunder on the Snowy (1960) ... Stella
    - Hand in Glove (1959) ... Lily
    - The Web of Lace (1958) ... Agnes Madinier
    - Ring Out the Old (1956) ... Isa
    1960 Return to the Sea (TV Movie) - Penelope Belford
    1960 ITV Television Playhouse (TV Series) - Rena
    - Other People's Houses (1960) ... Rena

    1959 A Glimpse of the Sea (TV Movie) - Penelope Belford
    1954-1959 BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (TV Series) - Anne-Marie / Catherine Sloper / Barbara Shearer / ...
    - Figure of Fun (1959) ... Anne-Marie
    - The Heiress (1958) ... Catherine Sloper
    - Statue of David (1958) ... Barbara Shearer
    - Do It Yourself (1957) ... Grette Brinson
    - Night Was Our Friend (1955) ... Sally Raynor
    1959 Saturday Playhouse (TV Series) - Trilby O'Ferrall
    - Trilby (1959) ... Trilby O'Ferrall
    1957 Do It Yourself (TV Series) - Assistant
    1957 Villette (TV Mini-Series) - Lucy Snowe
    - Episode #1.6 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
    - Episode #1.5 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
    - Episode #1.4 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
    - Episode #1.3 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
    - Episode #1.2 (1957) ... Lucy Snowe
    1957 Peace and Quiet (TV Movie) - Josephine Elliott
    1956 Lust for Life - Willemien
    1956 The Extra Day - Susan
    1956 The Anatomist (TV Movie) - Mary Belle
    1955 Murder Anonymous (Short) - Mrs. Sheldon
    1954 Corsican Holiday (Short) - The Girl (voice)
    1954 Aunt Clara - Julie Mason
    1954 Hell Below Zero - Gerda Petersen
    1953 The Pleasure Garden (Short) - Miss Kellerman
    1953 The Nine Days' Wonder (TV Movie) - Miss Smith
    1952 Moulin Rouge - Sarah
    1951 The Long Dark Hall - First Murdered Girl

    Writer (1 credit)

    1984 Poor Little Rich Girls (TV Series) (idea - 8 episodes)
    - The Gentlemen Caller: Part 2 (1984) ... (idea)
    - The Gentleman Caller (1984) ... (idea)
    - Tit for Tat (1984) ... (idea)
    - The Oriental Chest (1984) ... (idea)
    - Lonely as a Crowd (1984) ... (idea)
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    1941: Michael Billington is born--Blackburn, Lancashire, England.
    (He dies 3 June 2005 at age 63--Margate, Kent, England.)
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    Charismatic actor whose tough-guy image distracted from his broader gifts
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    The actor Michael Billington, who has died of cancer aged 63, achieved minor cult status as Colonel Paul Foster in UFO (1969), the first live action adventure series produced by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, the creators of Thunderbirds. This, and similar roles, resulted in the tough-guy actor being tipped, for more than 10 years, as "the next James Bond".

    His failure to succeed first Sean Connery, then Roger Moore, was the biggest disappointment of Billington's career. His compensation, a brief part as the agent killed off before the main titles of The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), was not enough to keep him in Britain.
    Deciding that he no longer wanted to be an action hero, he went to the United States, where he studied acting with Lee and Anna Strasberg. But the roles that followed, in episodes of series such as Hart To Hart and Magnum, PI, were not that different to what had gone before. He tried, unsuccessfully, to sell the screenplays he had written, and, after returning to the UK, worked mostly as a teacher.

    A fine actor with star quality - and a very funny man to boot - Billington could, if fate had decreed it, have become a British Burt Reynolds. I first met him when I was a teenager in 1965, working in a film library he visited regularly, and was awestruck by his charisma, and later by his generosity. He played himself in an amateur film I made and, soon afterwards, got me my first professional job as a screenwriter. He was defeated by bad luck and his uncertainty about what he wanted to achieve.

    Born in Blackburn, Lancashire, Billington loved the cinema from childhood and came to London to work for the film distributor Warner-Pathé. Connections made at the gym got him work as a chorus boy in such West End musicals as How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Shaftesbury, 1963) and Little Me (Cambridge, 1964). He also stooged at Danny La Rue's nightclub.

    His first film was the short Dream A40 (1964), banned by the censors because of a scene in which male lovers kissed. In 1965, he made his television debut, as Neil Hall in the football soap opera United, and his stage debut in Incident At Vichy at the Phoenix theatre.

    Sylvia Anderson spotted Billington in an episode of The Prisoner and cast him in UFO. "I cringe when I see it," he claimed later (but attended UFO conventions almost until the end of his life). His other major TV role at this time was as Daniel Fogarty, in the seafaring drama The Onedin Line (1971-4), which he left after one series. He was credited in the film Alfred The Great (1969), but was a glorified extra. He also had a small part in a television production of War And Peace (1972).
    Throughout the 1970s, and into the 1980s, Billington waited for the call that never came to play Bond. In 1980, he sold his only filmed screenplay, Silver Dream Racer. In the US, he had a gag role in a parody, Flicks (1981), and was uncomfortably Russian in KGB The Secret War (1985), two films that were shelved for years before release on video. Back in the UK, he had his last decent role as co-star, with Peter McEnery, of The Collectors (1986), a television series about HM Customs and Excise.
    Billington worked on the book of a stage musical about Jack the Ripper, and his last stage appearance was in the highly regarded Never Nothing From No One (Cockpit theatre, 2000). He enjoyed his work at the Lee Strasberg Studio in London, where he was a popular tutor in the mid-1990s. He wrote enthusiastically on his website about the craft of acting that he was able to practise, to his satisfaction, all too rarely.
    After eight years as the partner of Barbara Broccoli, daughter of the Bond producer Albert "Cubby" Broccoli, Billington married Katherine Kristoff in 1988. She died in 1998, after which he devoted himself to raising their son, Michael Jr, who survives him.
    · Michael Billington, actor, born December 24 1941; died June 3 2005
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    Filmography
    Actor (34 credits)

    1993 Maigret (TV Series) - Oscar
    - Maigret and the Night Club Dancer (1993) ... Oscar

    1986 The Collectors (TV Series) - Tom Gibbons
    - Touch and Go (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - Cover Up (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - Rare Bird (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - The Dog It Was... (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - Uncommon Market (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - Major Barclay's Last Stand (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - The Great Ice-Cream War (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - Swings and Roundabouts (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - Go for Gold (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    - Diversions (1986) ... Tom Gibbons
    1985 KGB: The Secret War - Peter Hubbard
    1984 Antony and Cleopatra (TV Movie) - Ventidius
    1984 Magnum, P.I. (TV Series) - Lever
    - Holmes Is Where the Heart Is (1984) ... Lever
    1984 All the World's a Stage (TV Mini-Series)
    1983 Flicks - Deputy Inspector (segment 'Whodunit')
    1983 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye (TV Series) - King Leopardi
    - The King in Yellow (1983) ... King Leopardi
    1983 Fantasy Island (TV Series) - Henri Ducette
    - King of Burlesque/Death Games (1983) ... Henri Ducette
    1982 The Quest (TV Series) - Count Louis Dardinay
    - R.S.V.P. (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - Daddy's Home (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - Hunt for the White Tiger (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - A Prince of a Fellow (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - Escape from a Velvet Box (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - His Majesty, I Presume (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - He Stole-A My Art (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - Last One There Is a Rotten Heir (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    - Pilot (1982) ... Count Louis Dardinay
    1982 Gavilan (TV Series) - Roger Morgan
    - Pirates (1982) ... Roger Morgan
    1982 Hart to Hart (TV Series) - Raymond Dumont
    - Vintage Harts (1982) ... Raymond Dumont
    1982 The Greatest American Hero (TV Series) - Talenikov
    - It's All Downhill from Here (1982) ... Talenikov

    1979 Thundercloud (TV Series) - Ben Adams
    - Fair Shares All Round (1979) ... Ben Adams
    1978 The Professionals (TV Series) - John Coogan
    - The Rack (1978) ... John Coogan
    1978 Spearhead (TV Series) - Colour Sgt. Jackson
    - Truth Games (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
    - Thieves in the Night (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
    - Both Ends Against the Middle (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
    - Jackal (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
    - Loyalties (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
    - Leave (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
    - Suspect (1978) ... Colour Sgt. Jackson
    1977 Sister Dora (TV Mini-Series) - Kenyon Jones
    - Part 3 (1977) ... Kenyon Jones
    1977 The Spy Who Loved Me - Sergei Barsov
    1975 Edward the King (TV Mini-Series) - Czar Nicholas II
    - Good Old Teddy! (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
    - The Peacemaker (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
    - The Years of Waiting (1975) ... Czar Nicholas II
    1975 The Way of the World (TV Movie) - Fainall
    1974 Invasion: UFO - Col. Paul Foster
    1974 UFO: Distruggete Base Luna - Col. Paul Foster
    1974 UFO: Prendeteli vivi. - Col. Paul Foster
    1974 UFO... annientare S.H.A.D.O. stop. Uccidete Straker... - Col. Paul Foster
    1974 Z Cars (TV Series) - John
    - Intruder (1974) ... John
    1971-1974 The Onedin Line (TV Series) - Daniel Fogarty
    - The Passenger (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Port Out, Starboard Home (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - The Silver Caddy (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Over the Horizon (1974) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - A Proposal of Marriage (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Ice and Fire (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Law of the Fist (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Black Gold (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Danger Level (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Amazon Cargo (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Echoes from Afar (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - The Stranger (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - The Ship Devils (1973) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Race for Power (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - The Challenge (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Bloody Week (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Goodbye, Goodbye (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - An Inch of Candle (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Beyond the Upper Sea (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - 'Frisco Bound (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Coffin Ship (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Survivor (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Yellow Jack (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - A Woman Alone (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Pound and Pint (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - The Hard Case (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Winner Take All (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Shadow of Doubt (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Cry of the Blackbird (1972) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Mutiny (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Salvage (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Catch as Can (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - The High Price (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Other Points of the Compass (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
    - Plain Salling (1971) ... Daniel Fogarty
    1970-1973 UFO (TV Series) - Col. Paul Foster / Col. Foster / Paul Foster
    - The Long Sleep (1973) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - The Responsibility Seat (1971) ... Col. Foster
    - Reflections in the Water (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - The Sound of Silence (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Court Martial (1971) ... Col. Foster
    - Ordeal (1971) ... Col. Foster
    - Timelash (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - The Dalotek Affair (1971) ... Col. Foster
    - The Man Who Came Back (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Mindbender (1971) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Survival (1971) ... Col. Foster
    - The Psychobombs (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Close Up (1970) ... Col. Foster
    - The Square Triangle (1970) ... Col. Foster
    - Destruction (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Sub-Smash (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Kill Straker! (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - E.S.P. (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Conflict (1970) ... Col. Foster
    - The Cat with Ten Lives (1970) ... Col. Paul Foster
    - Exposed (1970) ... Paul Foster
    1972 War & Peace (TV Series)
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    - A Beautiful Tale (1972) ... Lt. Berg
    - Reunions (1972) ... Lt. Berg
    - Austerlitz (1972) ... Lt. Berg
    - Part One: Name Day (1972) ... Lieut. Berg
    1971 Hadleigh (TV Series) - Freddie Hepton
    - Breakdown (1971) ... Freddie Hepton
    - Absolutely Feudal (1971) ... Freddie Hepton

    1969/I Alfred the Great - Offa (as Mike Billington)
    1967 The Prisoner (TV Series) - 2nd Woodland Man
    - A Change of Mind (1967) ... 2nd Woodland Man
    1966 United! (TV Series) - Neil Hall 23 episodes
    1965 Dream A40 (Short) - Young Man (as Mike Billington)
    1964 The Valiant Varneys (TV Series)
    - Episode #1.5 (1964)

    Writer (2 credits)

    1980 Silver Dream Racer (an original story by)

    1968 BBC Show of the Week (TV Series) (writer - 1 episode)
    - Roy Hudd and Bill Haley & His Comets (1968) ... (writer)

    Soundtrack (2 credits)

    1971 The Onedin Line (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Plain Salling (1971) ... (performer: "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes" - uncredited)
    1971 UFO (TV Series) (performer - 1 episode)
    - Ordeal (1971) ... (performer: "Beautiful Dreamer")

    Archive footage (3 credits)

    2002 Best Ever Bond (TV Movie documentary) - Sergei Barsov (uncredited)
    2000 Inside 'Octopussy' (Video documentary short) - Himself
    2000 Inside 'The Spy Who Loved Me' (Video documentary short) - Sergi
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    1971: James Bond comic Starfire comic finishes its run in Daily Express.
    (Started 30 August 1971. 1709–1809) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
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    "Stjernernes herre" [Star Lord]
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    1971: Diamanten zijn eeuwig (Diamonds Are Eternal, Flemish title) released in Belgium.
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    1982: Octopussy films Gobinda arming the bomb.
    1983: ネバーセイ・ネバーアゲイン (Nebāsei nebāagein) released in Japan.
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    1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Singapore.
    1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Cyprus, Ecuador, Peru, plus Trinidad and Tobago.
    1999: 007 - O Mundo Não é o Bastante released in Brazil.
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    1999: 007: El mundo no basta released in Mexico.
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    2019: yahoo!movies reports on Empire Magazine's interview with Daniel Craig and why he returned for No Time To Die.
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    Bond after 'Spectre'
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    Daniel Craig says unfinished business with James Bond prevented him from quitting the role after the release of Spectre in 2015.

    The 51-year-old actor is returning as Ian Fleming’s super spy for the fifth and final time in 2020’s No Time To Die but, for a while, it looked like he’d had enough after his second 007 film with Sam Mendes.

    When asked about making a fifth outing by Time Out in 2015, Craig infamously responded: “Now? I’d rather break this glass and slash my wrists. No, not at the moment. Not at all. That’s fine. I’m over it at the moment. We’re done. All I want to do is move on.”

    Now, talking to Empire Magazine for its February 2020 issue, Craig says he had “a secret idea” for his swan song that Spectre failed to achieve.

    “If Spectre had been [my last Bond film], the world would have carried on as normal, and I would have been absolutely fine,” he says.

    “But somehow it felt like we needed to finish something off. If I’d left it at Spectre, something at the back of my head would have been going, ‘I wish I’d done one more.’”

    “I always had a kind of secret idea about the whole lot in my head, and where I wanted to take it. And Spectre wasn’t that,” he adds. “But this feels like it is.”

    Craig’s comments suggest No Time To Die may offer closure for his incarnation of 007 which was first introduced to the world in 2006’s Casino Royale.

    Craig’s tenure is the first time a Bond actor’s films have enjoyed a loose narrative connection to form a canon of sorts. Casino Royale was an origin film, while 2008’s Quantum of Solace followed Bond as he sought revenge for the death of Eva Green’s Vesper Lynd.

    2012’s Skyfall and 2015’s Spectre also shared narrative threads, including the return of the mysterious Mr White (Jesper Christensen) in Spectre. White is the father of Léa Seydoux’s Dr. Madeleine Swann, also returning in No Time To Die.

    Empire’s new issue – which promises new interviews with Craig, director Cary Joji Fukunaga, producer Barbara Broccoli, and Lashana Lynch and Rami Malek – is on newsstands from Friday 27 December.

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
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    December 25th

    1964: Goldfinger US premiere--Hollywood, CA.
    (That's after the New York City premiere, and before the 9 January US general release.)
    1965: Pallosalama (Fireball; Åskbollen, The Thunderbolt, Swedish title) released in Finland.
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    1969: 鐵金剛勇破雪山堡 (Tiě jīngāng yǒng pò xuěshān bǎo; Iron King Kong Breaks Through the Snow Mountain Fort) released in Hong Kong. 1969: Al servicio secreto de Su Majestad (To His Majesty's Secret Service) released in Colombia.
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    1971: Los diamantes son eternos (Diamonds Are Eternal) released in Colombia.
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    1971: Timantit ovat ikuisia (Diamentena är eviga/Diamonds Are Eternal, Swedish title) released in Finland.
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    1971: ダイヤモンドは永遠に (007 / Diayamondo wa eien ni; Diamonds Forever) released in Japan.
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    1995: GoldenEye released in Panama.
    1999: The World Is Not Enough released in Colombia and Panama.
    1999: Само един свят не стига (Only One World Is Not Enough) released in Bulgaria.
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    2001: Russia DVD premiere for From Russia With Love, Goldfinger, You Only Live Twice.
    2002: Die Another Day released in Bolivia and Jamaica.
    2006: Casino Royale released in Bolivia.

    2015: Radiohead releases their unused Bond theme for Spectre.
    Radiohead's James Bond Theme Song 'Spectre' Released - Listen Now!
    http://www.justjared.com/2015/12/25/radiohead-spectre-james-song-theme-song/
    Fri, 25 December 2015 at 12:45 pm

    Radiohead just released a new song!

    “Last year we were asked to write a theme tune for the [James] Bond movie Spectre,” Radiohead singer Thom Yorke wrote on his Twitter. “Yes we were. It didn’t work out, but became something of our own, which we love very much. As the year closes we thought you might like to hear it. Merry Christmas.”

    He even ended his note with a reference to Star Wars, which is currently dominating the box office. Thom capped off his tweets with: “May the force be with you.”

    Listen to Radiohead‘s “Spectre” below!



    FYI: Sam Smith ended up recording the official Spectre theme song called “Writing’s on the Wall“.
    2017: The Cubby Broccoli Cinema at the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, England, is closed for the Christmas Holiday.
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    CUBBY BROCCOLI CINEMA
    https://www.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/cinema/cubby-broccoli
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    Savour the intimate ambience of the 106-seat Cubby Broccoli cinema—home to a truly diverse film programme. Enjoy world cinema, classic films, and independent and arthouse delights.

    Browse the full list of films showing now and coming soon at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford.

    About the cinema
    Dedicated to Albert “Cubby” Broccoli, producer of many James Bond films, this cinema shows movies from around the world projected in formats from 16mm to digital 3D—all in the heart of Bradford, UNSECO [sic] City of Film. [Correction: UNESCO is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.] It’s played host to everything from silent films with live piano accompaniment to a Super High Vision broadcast from the 2012 Olympics.

    Twin 35mm projectors allow the screening of archive film prints, shown using traditional reel change-overs via alternate projectors.

    In 2012, Cubby Broccoli screened a broadcast from the 2012 London Olympics in Super High Vision—one of only three venues in the UK to do so.

    Guests interviewed here have included Tim Peake, Olivier Assayas and Jenny Agutter.

  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 12,914
    December 26th

    1943: Ian Fleming's mistress--society hostess Maud Russell--records in her diary details of war planning, influenza.
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    Spies, affairs and James Bond... The secret diary of Ian Fleming's wartime mistress
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    17 March 2017 • 9:00am
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    Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess who met Fleming in 1931 when he was just 23
    Credit: Cecil Beaton courtesy of Emily Russell

    Long before he created James Bond, a young Ian Fleming had a remarkably close – and secretive – relationship with an older woman, Maud Russell, a fashionable society hostess.

    They met in 1931 when Russell was 40 and Fleming just 23. There was a strong mutual attraction, and Fleming quickly became a regular guest at Mottisfont, Russell’s 2,000-acre estate in Hampshire, and at the glamorous parties she threw in her Knightsbridge home, attended by Cecil Beaton, Lady Diana Cooper, Clementine Churchill, Margot Asquith and members of the Bloomsbury Group.

    To Fleming, Russell was a sophisticated and impeccably connected mentor who found him first a job in banking, introduced him to members of the Intelligence Corps and, later, paid for his Jamaican retreat, Goldeneye, where his 007 novels were written. To Russell, Fleming (named ‘I.’ in her diaries) was the dashing, charismatic young spy who became her close friend, her confidante – and her lover.

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    These entries from Russell’s private diary take place towards the end of the Second World War, when Fleming worked in naval intelligence and Russell, then 52, was recently widowed; it was a time when, despite the food shortages and air raids, the tide of the war was gradually turning in the Allies’ favour – and, despite his other liaisons, the couple spoke of marriage.

    [See the link above for inclusive dates Wednesday 30 June 1943 thru Monday 30 July 1945.]
    Sunday 26 December, 1943

    Ian came to dinner, back from the Cairo conference [a meeting of the British, US and Chinese leaders on Asia Pacific strategy]. The surroundings were like an armed camp, soldiers, guns, anti-aircraft guns etc. guarding the precious delegates – the PM, President and Chiang.

    When Ian was taken ill with influenza, he sank back exhausted in bed and lay blissfully resting, looking through the window at the blue sky and eating delicious food. He was very struck by the desert, sand and camels.
    Russell and Fleming remained close until his marriage to Ann Charteris in 1952. In 1946 she gave him £5,000 to buy Goldeneye in Jamaica. She had a long-term affair with Boris Anrep but never remarried. In 1957, she donated Mottisfont to the National Trust and died in London in 1982, aged 91. Her ashes were placed in the same urn as Gilbert’s.

    A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell, edited by Emily Russell, is published by The Dovecote Press (£20). To order your copy for £16.99 plus p&p call 0844 871 1514 or visit books.telegraph.co.uk
    1947: Trina Parks is born--Brooklyn, New York.

    1964: Agent 007 contra Goldfinger released in Denmark. 1964: Agent 007 mot Goldfinger released in Norway.
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    1965: Agent 007 operasjon Tordensky (Agent 007 Operation Thundercloud) released in Norway.
    1971: Diamanter varer evig released in Norway. 1974: The Man With the Golden Gun released in Australia .
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    1974: 鐵金剛大戰金槍客 (Tiě jīngāng dàzhàn jīn qiāng kè; Iron King Kong vs. Golden Gunner) released in Hong Kong.
    1983: Aldri si aldri (Never Say Never) released in Norway.
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    1995: GoldenEye released in Australia, Norway, and New Zealand.
    1997: Tomorrow Never Dies released in Australia and New Zealand.
    1997: 007: Igavene homne (007: Eternal Tomorrow) released in Estonia.
    1997: Yarin Asla Ölmez released in Turkey.
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    1999: The World Is Not Enough released in New Zealand.

    2002: The Washington Post reports that the Republic of Korea expects Bond protests as release date 31 December approaches. 2005: Vincent Andrew Schiavelli dies at age 57--Polizzi Generosa, Italy.
    (Born 11 November 1948--Brooklyn, New York, New York.)
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    Born - Vincent Andrew Schiavelli, November 11, 1948 - Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
    Died - December 26, 2005 (aged 57), Polizzi Generosa, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
    Other names Vince Schiavelli
    Education New York University (MFA)
    Occupation Actor, food writer
    Years active 1971–2005
    1993−2005 (writing)
    Spouse(s) Allyce Beasley, (m. 1985; div. 1988)​; Carol Mukhalian (m. 1992; his death 2005)​
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    Vincent Andrew Schiavelli (/ˌskiːəˈvɛli/; November 11, 1948 – December 26, 2005) was an American character actor and food writer noted for his work on stage, screen, and television. Described as an "instantly recognizable sad-faced actor", Schiavelli was diagnosed with Marfan syndrome in childhood.
    Schiavelli gained fame as a character actor, mainly in supporting roles. His best-known roles include Fredrickson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Mr. Vargas in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), the Subway Ghost in Ghost (1990), Organ Grinder in Batman Returns (1992), Chester in The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), Dr. Kaufman in Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) and ABC executive Maynard Smith in Man on the Moon (1999).
    Before his death in 2005, Schiavelli was considered by many as one of Hollywood's best character actors. Roger Ebert stated Schiavelli "had a way of slipping into films without people knowing his name, but they remembered his great performances as unique characters."

    Early life
    Schiavelli was born in Brooklyn to a Sicilian-American family, the son of John Schiavelli and Katherine Coco. He attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn. He studied acting through the theatre program at New York University and began performing on stage in the 1960s.

    Career
    Schiavelli's first film role occurred in Miloš Forman's 1971 production Taking Off,[1] in which he played a counselor who taught parents of runaway teens to smoke marijuana in order to better understand their children's experiences. Schiavelli's aptitude and distinctive appearance soon provided him with a steady stream of supporting roles, often in Forman's films, including One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Valmont, and the 1999 biopic Man on the Moon.

    He played Mr. Vargas, the biology teacher, in the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, a role he reprised in the 1986 television spin-off Fast Times. He was cast in a similar role in Better Off Dead in which he played Mr. Kerber, a geometry teacher.
    In 1987, he starred alongside Tim Conway in the short film comedy Dorf on Golf, and then Dorf and the First Games of Mount Olympus in 1988. In 1990, he played the Subway Ghost in Ghost and in 1992, he played in Tim Burton's Batman Returns as the "Organ Grinder", one of the Penguin's henchmen. He appeared as another villain in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), as a silent monk in The Frisco Kid (1979), and as John O'Connor, one of the evil Red Lectroids in 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. In 1994 he appeared in the music video for ZZ Top's "Breakaway", alongside Fairuza Balk and in 1997, was named one of America's best character actors by Vanity Fair magazine. He also made several voice appearances in the animated television show Hey Arnold!. In 2002, he played a children's television show host turned heroin addict named Buggy Ding Dong in Death to Smoochy.
    His first television role came in 1972 as Peter Panama in The Corner Bar, the first sustained portrayal of a gay character on American television. His other television credits include The Moneychangers, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, WKRP in Cincinnati and Taxi as the priest who marries Latka and Simka. He appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Arsenal of Freedom" as a holographic salesman, on Miami Vice as a research scientist who conspires to steal a top-secret prototype weapon from his employer, and in an uncredited role in an episode of Punky Brewster. In 1987 he appeared as Lyle, a gangster, in the MacGyver season 2 episode "Soft Touch". In Highlander: The Series, he played Leo Atkins, a homeless Vietnam War veteran accused of murder in the Season 1 episode "Innocent Man". In The X-Files, he played Lanny, man with an underdeveloped conjoined twin in the Season 2 episode "Humbug".

    He wrote a number of cookbooks and food articles for various magazines and newspapers, notably Gourmet, Saveur, and the Los Angeles Times. In 1999, Schiavelli starred in a 26-episode Italian cooking show called Chefs of Cucina Amore that aired on PBS periodically for the next couple of years. He received a James Beard Foundation Journalism Award in 2001 and was nominated on several other occasions.

    Schiavelli's three cookbooks are memoirs, with recipes related to personal history and anecdotes:
    • Papa Andrea's Sicilian Table: Recipes from a Sicilian Chef As Remembered by His Grandson, 1993
    • Bruculinu, America: Remembrances of Sicilian-American Brooklyn, Told in Stories and Recipes, 1998
    • Many Beautiful Things: Stories and Recipes from Polizzi Generosa, 2002
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    Vincent Schiavelli's tombstone in Polizzi Generosa graveyard

    Schiavelli served as honorary co-chair of the National Marfan Foundation, an organization which serves those affected by Marfan syndrome, from which Schiavelli suffered.

    Schiavelli also performed in a few video games, including Emperor: Battle for Dune (as Harkonnen Mentat Yanich Kobal) and as Dr. Hellman in the video game Corpse Killer.
    Personal life

    Schiavelli was married to actress Allyce Beasley from 1985 until their 1988 divorce. He guest-starred as the love interest of Beasley's character on one episode of Moonlighting. Their son, Andrea Schiavelli, was born in 1987.

    In 1992, Schiavelli married American harpist Carol Mukhalian.

    Death
    Schiavelli died of lung cancer on December 26, 2005, aged 57, at his home in Polizzi Generosa, the Sicilian town where his grandfather, Andrea Coco, was born, and about which he wrote in his 2002 book Many Beautiful Things: Stories and Recipes from Polizzi Generosa (ISBN 0-7432-1528-1).[5] Schiavelli was buried at Polizzi Generosa Cemetery, near Palermo, Sicily.

    Two documentaries were made about Schiavelli's Sicilian life. The first, Once Upon a Time in Polizzi, was released on October 11, 2005 (two months before his death), and the second, Many Beautiful Things (Tanti Beddi Cosi is the Sicilian title), was produced by Aurelio Gambadoro and released in 2014. The film Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie is dedicated to his memory. (Schiavelli provided a guest voice appearance as the Pigeon Man in the original series.)
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    2006: A Beta release of GoldenEye: Source was scheduled for 25 December 2006, but released 26 December 2006.
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    GoldenEye: Source is a total conversion mod in development using the Source engine developed by Valve for the computer game, Half-Life 2. GoldenEye: Source is based on the award-winning Nintendo 64 video game, GoldenEye 007, featuring Bond. An alpha release was distributed on 25 December 2005 receiving more than 65,000 downloads in 2 weeks. A Beta release of GoldenEye: Source was scheduled for 25 December 2006, but was released on 26 December 2006.

    In January 2007 it was awarded twice in the 2006 annual Moddb awards, a win in Editor's Choice[12] for the Reinvention category, and was player-voted 3rd place in the overall category Mod of the year. A significant rise from the 2005 awards, which earned GoldenEye: Source 4th place in the unreleased category.

    On 5 December 2007 one of the developers released an unofficial patch. This patch fixes some of the bugs there are present in the first beta version. The developer team will not support this patch, and support is only available in a topic in the GoldenEye: Source forum.
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    2008: Quantum of Solace released in Uruguay.

    2011: Pedro Armendáriz Jr. dies at age 71--New York City, New York.
    (Born 6 April 1940--Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.)
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    Character actor, son of Mexican star, appeared in 'Zorro'
    By James Young

    Mexican character actor Pedro Armendariz Jr., a near constant presence on screens big and small for more than four decades, died Monday of eye cancer in New York City. He was 71.

    Armendariz, the son of Mexico “golden age” movie star Pedro Armendariz and actress Carmelita Pardo, appeared in some 140 films and dozens of Televisa skeins, mostly sudsers. The actor played Gov. Riley in the 2005 movie “The Legend of Zorro”; the president of Mexico in Robert Rodriguez’s “Once Upon a Time in Mexico”; and the corrupt cop who stole the gun from Brad Pitt in “The Mexican.” He also appeared in 1989’s “Old Gringo” and in some of the top-grossing Mexican films in recent history, including all-time domestic B.O. champ “The Crime of Father Amaro” as well as action hit “Matando Cabos” and acclaimed political satire “Herod’s Law.”

    Armendariz also played a key role in expanding the voice of a new generation of filmmakers and actors as president of the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AMACC) from 2006-10.

    The sturdily framed thesp was instantly recognizable for bristly beards and mustaches that framed passionate, often wildly sparkling eyes, forming a countenance that could transform alarmingly from menacing to tender in the blink of an eye.

    At risk of living his life in the shadow of his father, who was known as Mexico’s Clark Gable, Armendariz Jr. followed in his footsteps, taking his first film role on locations in Mexico for Westerns like “El cachorro” in 1965 and appearing in an episode of “Daniel Boone” in 1966.

    Coming into his own during a dark period for the Mexican box office, when local production slowed to a trickle in the 1970s and ’80s, the actor worked with local auteurs like Arturo Ripstein, Felipe Cazals and Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, while bringing home a steady paycheck with roles in telenovelas and character-actor bits in numerous Stateside pics, in which he was often cast as a Mexican tough guys, graying statesmen and Latin military types.
    He, like his father, landed a role in a James Bond film — he played the arch President Hector Lopez in “License to Kill” [sic]; his father had played Bond ally Kerim Bey in “From Russia With Love.” They both played revolutionary General Pancho Villa onscreen.
    Aside from some nods and wins at AMACC’s Ariel awards, Armendariz really only began to win widespread respect in the last decade or so, as he worked on multiple projects every year, even through most of 2011, and the industry began to look back at his sizable body of work.

    Hitting the boards, Armendariz won further kudos for recent work in leading stage roles for Mexican productions of “Fiddler on the Roof” and “The Producers.”

    In 2010, reacting to harsh industry criticism, Armendariz Jr., as president of the academy, led the transformation of the AMACC, opening voting privileges that previously belonged to an aging 25-person body that only evolved through attrition to more than 625 industry members, including producers, who until that time were barred from official voting status.

    He also became a vocal political agent, fighting for industry support from Congress in heated budget battles over the last few years.

    Armendariz will appear in several films posthumously, including Spanish-language Will Ferrell laffer “Casa de mi padre,” which opens March 16 and stars Mexican thesps Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal.

    Luna, speaking on Twitter, said of the actor, “Just seeing him made you smile. He had time for everyone.”

    As news of the death spread Monday afternoon, condolences to the family mounted, even coming from Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Televisa’s CEO Emilio Azcarraga Jean, among other officials and members of Mexico’s media elite.

    Armendariz was married and divorced twice, from former Televisa spokesmodel Lucia Gomez de Parada and actress-turned-activist Ofelia Medina. He is survived by several children.
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    Filmography
    Actor (222 credits)

    Desde dentro (announced) - Domingo Altamirano
    2012 Freelancers - Gabriel Baez
    2012 Casa de mi Padre - Miguel Ernesto
    2011 The Snitch Cartel - Don Modesto
    2011 The Power of Destiny (TV Series) - Anthony - 95 episodes
    2011 Mamitas - Ramon 'Tata' Donicio
    2011/I Despertar (Short) (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    2010 El baile de San Juan - Marqués de la Villa
    2010 Hilos y cables (Short)
    2010 Outlaw (TV Series) - Francisco Garza
    - Pilot (2010) ... Francisco Garza (as Pedro Armendariz)
    2010 Sin memoria - Benitez

    2009 Dare to Dream (TV Series) - Max Williams
    - Promesa de amor (2009) ... Max Williams
    2009 Nikté - Kaas
    2008 X-mas, Inc. - Santa Claus
    2008 Divina confusión - Melesio
    2008 Purgatorio - Don Julio
    2008 Looking for Palladin - Police Chief
    2007 El último justo - Padre del Toro
    2007 Distilling Love (TV Series) - Mr. Thomas
    - Gran final (2007) ... Mr. Thomas
    - Episode #1.2 (2007) ... Mr. Thomas
    - Destilando amor (2007) ... Mr. Thomas
    2007 One Long Night - Don Ricardo
    2006 Guadalupe - Simon
    2006 Un mundo maravilloso - Director del Periódico
    2005 Después de la muerte - Don Julio
    2005 The Legend of Zorro - Governor Riley (as Pedro Armendariz)
    2005 Barrera de amor (TV Series) - Don Pedro Valladolid
    - Barrera de amor (2005) ... Don Pedro Valladolid
    2004 Matando Cabos - Oscar Cabos
    2004 El segundo - El Mayor
    2004 Amy, the Girl with the Blue Schoolbag (TV Series) - Captain Matías Granados
    - Episode #1.15 (2004) ... Captain Matías Granados
    2003 Bajo la misma piel (TV Series) - Joaquín Vidaurri
    - Episode #1.1 (2003) ... Joaquín Vidaurri
    2003 And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (TV Movie) - Don Luis Terrazas (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    2003 Casa de los babys - Ernesto (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    2003 Once Upon a Time in Mexico - El Presidente (as Pedro Armendariz)
    2002 The Crime of Padre Amaro - Presidente Municipal Gordo (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    2001 Entre los dioses del desprecio
    2001 In the Time of the Butterflies (TV Movie) - Captain Pena (as Pedro Armendariz Marquez)
    2001 Asesinato en el Meneo - Don Manuel
    2001 Original Sin - Jorge Cortés (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    2001 Serafín: La película - Thinker (voice)
    2001 His Most Serene Highness
    2001 The Mexican - Mexican Policeman
    2000 El grito - Duarte
    2000 Furcio (TV Series)
    - Episode #1.1 (2000)
    2000 Before Night Falls - Reinaldo's Grandfather (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    1999-2000 Labyrinths of Passion (TV Series) - Padre Mateo Valencia - 80 episodes

    1999 A Christmas Carol (TV Mini-Series)
    - Episode #1.4 (1999)
    - Episode #1.3 (1999)
    - Episode #1.2 (1999)
    - Episode #1.1 (1999)
    1999 Serafín (TV Series) - Thinker
    - Episode #1.3 (1999) ... Thinker (voice)
    - Episode #1.2 (1999) ... Thinker (voice)
    - Episode #1.1 (1999) ... Thinker (voice)
    1999 Tres mujeres (TV Series) - Federico Méndez - 280 episodes
    1999 Herod's Law - López (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    1998 Derbez en cuando (TV Series) - Chofer de Joséctor Gustavo
    - Telenovela Mari (1998) ... Chofer de Joséctor Gustavo
    1998 Al Borde - Don Gabino
    1998 On the Border (TV Movie) - Herman
    1998 The Mask of Zorro - Don Pedro (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1997 Amistad - General Espatero (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1997 Reclusorio - Abogado defensor (segment "Sangre entre mujeres")
    1997 Esmeralda Comes by Night - Rossellini, tenor husband
    1997 A Corner of Paradise - Minister (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1996 La culpa (TV Series) - Tomás Mendizábal
    - Episode #1.3 (1996) ... Tomás Mendizábal (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    - Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Tomás Mendizábal (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    - Episode #1.1 (1996) ... Tomás Mendizábal (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    1996 La sombra del otro (TV Series) - Comandante Tello
    - Episode #1.3 (1996) ... Comandante Tello (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    - Episode #1.2 (1996) ... Comandante Tello (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    - Episode #1.1 (1996) ... Comandante Tello (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    1994 Agujetas de color de rosa (TV Series) - Aarón - 299 episodes
    1994 Dos crímenes - Alfonso
    1994 Una luz en la escalera - Capt. Fonseca
    1994 Ámbar - Comisario
    1994 Guerrero negro
    1994 Novia que te vea
    1993-1994 Acapulco H.E.A.T. (TV Series) - Colonel Rodriguez
    - Code Name: Assassin (1994) ... Colonel Rodriguez (uncredited)
    - Code Name: Honeymoon Lost (1993) ... Colonel Rodriguez (as Pedro Armendariz)
    - Code Name: Checkmate - Part 2 (1993) ... Colonel Rodriguez (as Pedro Armendariz)
    - Code Name: Checkmate - Part 1 (1993) ... Colonel Rodriguez (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1994 Tramp - Pedro Riel
    1994 The Cisco Kid (TV Movie) - General Montano (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1993 Code... Death: Frontera Sur
    Dragon (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1993 La última esperanza (TV Series) - Alejandro Burana - - Episode #1.149 (1993) ... Alejandro Burana - 150 episodes
    1993 Tombstone - Priest (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1993 Nurses on the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 (TV Movie)
    1993 Extraños caminos
    1992 Sonata de luna - Raúl
    1991-1992 Tropical Heat (TV Series) - Lt. Carillo - 29 episodes
    1992 Los años de Greta - Gustavo
    1992 Cuentos de Borges (TV Series) - Blot
    - Death and the Compass (1992) ... Blot
    1992 Diplomatic Immunity - Oswaldo Delgado
    1991 Corrupción y placer - Augusto Alarcon
    1991 Highway Patrolman - Sargento Barreras
    1991 Bandits - Cura
    1991 The Legend of the Mask - López
    1990 La secta del sargon
    1990 Formula I (TV Series)
    - Episode #1.9 ... (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1990 ¡Maten a Chinto! - Don Chinto

    1989 Ke arteko egunak
    1989 Old Gringo - Pancho Villa (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1989 Licence to Kill - President Hector Lopez (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1989 The Cost of Living
    1988-1989 Un nuevo amanecer (TV Series) - Gerardo - 80 episodes
    1988 Diana, René, y El Tíbiri
    1988 Tony Tijuana (TV Series) - Tony Tijuana
    - Episode #1.3 (1988) ... Tony Tijuana
    - Episode #1.2 (1988) ... Tony Tijuana
    - Episode #1.1 (1988) ... Tony Tijuana
    1988 El placer de la venganza
    1988 Camino largo a Tijuana - Juan
    1988 El secreto de Romelia - Widower Roman
    1988 Lovers, Partners & Spies - Duke
    1988 Hora Marcada (TV Series)
    - Concierto para mano izquierda (1988)
    1988 Les pyramides bleues - Perez-Valdez
    1987 Herencia maldita
    1987 Mariana, Mariana - Carlos (adult)
    1987 Walker - Muñoz (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1987 Persecución en Las Vegas: 'Volvere' - Pagano
    1987 A Walk on the Moon - Doctor
    1986-1987 El camino secreto (TV Series) - Alejandro - 120 episodes
    1986 El puente II
    1986 El tres de copas
    1986 La gloria y el infierno (TV Series) - Sebastián Arteaga
    - Episode #1.3 (1986) ... Sebastián Arteaga
    - Episode #1.2 (1986) ... Sebastián Arteaga
    - Episode #1.1 (1986) ... Sebastián Arteaga
    1986 Murder in Three Acts (TV Movie) - Col. Mateo (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1986 On Wings of Eagles (TV Mini-Series) - Mr. Dobuti
    - Part II (1986) ... Mr. Dobuti (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1986 Maine Ocean - Pedro De La Moccorra (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1986 Airwolf (TV Series) - Captain Mendez
    - Break-In at Santa Paula (1986) ... Captain Mendez
    1985 Secuestro sangriento
    1985 Treasure Island - Mendoza (as Pedro Armendariz Jnr.)
    1985 Wandering Lives - El ingeniero
    1985 Historias violentas - Hombre rico (segment 3 "Reflejos")
    1985 Treasure of Doom - Pablo / Zapata (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1985 Sangre en el Caribe - Mario
    1984 Matar o morir - Tony Collins (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1984 El billetero
    1984 Extraño matrimonio
    1984 La silla vacía
    1984 Knight Rider (TV Series) - Eduardo O'Brian
    - Mouth of the Snake (1984) ... Eduardo O'Brian (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1984 El corazón de la noche - El Ciego; Domingo
    1983 Los dos carnales - Don Cristóbal
    1983 Remington Steele (TV Series) - Captain Rios
    - Steele Away with Me: Part 2 (1983) ... Captain Rios (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    - Steele Away with Me: Part 1 (1983) ... Captain Rios (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1983 Las musiqueras - Alejandro del Río
    1982 El día que murió Pedro Infante (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1982 Cosa fácil - Hector Belascoaran Shayne
    1982 Huevos rancheros (segment: La virginidad en el rio)
    1982 Días de combate - Héctor Belascoarán Shayne
    1982 En el país de los pies ligeros
    1981 La Chevre - The Captain
    1981 Rastro de muerte - Alberto Villamosa
    1981 La mujer del ministro - Inspector Romero (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1981 Novia, esposa y amante - Esteban Ampudia (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    1981 The Love Boat (TV Series) - Ricardo
    - Sally's Paradise/I Love You, Too, Smith/Mamma and Me (1981) ... Ricardo (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1981 Evita Peron (TV Movie) - Cypriano Reyes (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1980 Ni solteros, ni cazados (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    1980 The Dogs of War - The Captain (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1980 Mamá solita (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    1980 Me olvidé de vivir - Pedro

    1979 Julia (TV Series) - 17 episodes
    1979 La ilegal - Felipe Leyva
    1979 El vuelo de la cigüeña
    1979 These Ruins That You See - Raymundo Rocafuerte
    1979 Life Sentence - Javier Lira; El Tarzan
    1979 Spree - Paco
    1979 Crónica íntima
    1978 El hijo es mío
    1978 Rosario de amor (TV Series) - Pablo - 20 episodes
    1978 El complot mongol - Filiberto
    1978 Los pequeños privilegios - Pedro
    1978 La plaza de Puerto Santo - Ernesto
    1978 Carroña - El Rengo
    1977 La casta divina - Abel Ortiz Argumedo
    1977 Mina, Wind of Freedom
    1977 The Rhinemann Exchange (TV Mini-Series) - Lt. Fuentes
    - Episode #1.3 (1977) ... Lt. Fuentes (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1976 Longitud de guerra - Manuel Chávez
    1976 The Passion of Berenice - Rodrigo Robles
    1976 El pacto - Raúl Mateos
    1976 The Great Adventure of Zorro - Emilio Walter
    1976 Columbo (TV Series) - Commandante Sanchez
    - A Matter of Honor (1976) ... Commandante Sanchez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1975 Ven conmigo (TV Series) - Eduardo
    - Episode #1.3 (1975) ... Eduardo
    - Episode #1.2 (1975) ... Eduardo
    - Episode #1.1 (1975) ... Eduardo
    1975 Darker Than Night - Roberto
    1975 A Home of Our Own (TV Movie) - Police Captain
    1975 Los caciques - Arrieta
    1975 The Log of the Black Pearl (TV Movie) - Archie Hector (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1974 Earthquake - Chavez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1974 Traiganlos vivos o muertos
    1974 Guns and Guts - Esposo abandonado
    1974 Chosen Survivors - Luis Cabral (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1974 Cinco mil dolares de recompensa - William Law
    1973 The Deadly Trackers - Herrero
    1973 Police Story (TV Series) - Joe Gaitan
    - The Violent Homecoming (1973) ... Joe Gaitan (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1973 Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (TV Movie) - Francisco Perez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1973 The Soul of Nigger Charley - Sandoval (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1972 Los hermanos Coraje (TV Series) - 15 episodes
    1972 Me llaman Martina Sola (TV Series)
    - Episode #1.3 (1972)
    - Episode #1.2 (1972)
    - Episode #1.1 (1972)
    1972 Los indomables
    1972 Indio - Jesse James
    1972 The Magnificent Seven Ride! - Pepe Carral (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1972 Trio y cuarteto (segment "Cuarteto")
    1972 Sucedió en Jalisco - Muñoz
    1972 Ni solteros, ni casados
    1972 Hardcase (TV Movie) - Simon Fuegus
    1972 Killer by Night (TV Movie) - Dr. Carlos Madera
    1972 Primero el dólar
    1971 Siete muertes para el texano
    1971 Una vez, un hombre... - Suárez (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1971 Vuelo 701 - Máximo
    1971 River of Gold (TV Movie) - Angel (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1970 La belleza (Short)
    1970 Su precio... unos dólares - Sam
    1970 Macho Callahan - Juan
    1970 Los juniors - Rafael Segura Jr.
    1970 Chisum - Ben (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1970 The Phantom Gunslinger - Algernon
    1970 Como enfriar a mi marido

    1969 Honor y orgullo (TV Series)
    - Episode #1.3 (1969)
    - Episode #1.2 (1969)
    - Episode #1.1 (1969)
    1969 Las impuras
    1969 Patsy, mi amor
    1969 The Undefeated - Escalante (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1969 Super Colt 38 - Morton (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1969 La marcha de Zacatecas - Mayor González
    1969 Memories of the Future - Capitán Flores
    1969 The Vampires - Carlos Mayer (as Pedro Armendariz)
    1969 Todo por nada - Pedro
    1969 El golfo (as Pedro Armendáriz)
    1968 Los asesinos - Talbot
    1968 El corrido del hijo desobediente - Ramiro
    1968 No hay cruces en el mar - Sergio
    1968 Amor perdoname
    1968 4 contra el crimen - Gustavo
    1968 Guns for San Sebastian - Father Lucas
    1967 The Bandits - Priest (as Pedro Armendariz Jr.)
    1967 Los tres mosqueteros de Dios - Manuel
    1966 To Kill Is Easy - Gustavo de la Rosa
    1966 The Female Soldier - Isidro
    1966 El temerario
    1966 Los gavilanes negros
    1966 El cachorro
    1966 Daniel Boone (TV Series) - First Horseman
    - The High Cumberland: Part 2 (1966) ... First Horseman (as Pedro Armandarez Jr.)
    1966 Outside the Law - Willy

    Producer (5 credits)

    1994 Dos crímenes (associate producer)
    1991 Sólo con Tu Pareja (associate producer)

    1985 Un retrato del indio (Documentary short) (producer)
    1982 Aprendamos juntos (TV Series) (producer - 3 episodes)
    - Episode #1.3 (1982) ... (producer)
    - Episode #1.2 (1982) ... (producer)
    - Episode #1.1 (1982) ... (producer)
    1980 El qué sabe, sabe (TV Series) (producer - 3 episodes)
    - Episode #1.3 (1980) ... (producer)
    - Episode #1.2 (1980) ... (producer)
    - Episode #1.1 (1980) ... (producer)

    Archive footage (2 credits)

    2006 Licence to Kill: Deleted Scenes with Director John Glen (Video documentary short) - President Hector Lopez
    2000 Inside 'From Russia with Love' (Video documentary short)
    Presidient Lopez
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    2019: BBC Radio 4 Extra airs Ian Fleming and Bond-related content at 03:00 & 15:00 (Goldfinger audio drama), 04:30 (The Woman Who Invented James Bond?), 06:30 & 13:30 & 20:30 (60 Years of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), 16:30 (The Soviet James Bond). Continues into the Friday schedule.
    2020: SPYSCAPE HQ in New York City has special ticket prices for James Bond Exhibition attendance today through 10 January 2021.
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    2020: Boxing Day in the Commonwealth.
    2020: The Junkanoo street parade in the Bahamas normally runs tonight through New Year's Day. Cancelled this round due to the pandemic.

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    1960: Maryam d'Abo is born--London, England.

    1972: Live and Let Die films 007 surveilling his hotel room for bugging devices. Also the last day of filming in in Jamaica includes Ross Kananga at Jamaica Swamp Safari, Falmouth.
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    1974: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Ο άνθρωπος με το χρυσό πιστόλι (James Bond, Agent 007: The Man With the Gold Pistol) released in Greece.
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    1981: Hoagland "Hoagy" Carmichael dies at age 82--Rancho Mirage, California.
    (Born 22 November 1899--Bloomington, Indiana.)
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    Hoagy Carmichael
    American composer, musician, and actor
    https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hoagy-Carmichael
    Written By: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
    Last Updated: Nov 18, 2019 See Article History
    Alternative Title: Hoagland Howard Carmichael

    Hoagy Carmichael, byname of Hoagland Howard Carmichael, (born November 22, 1899, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.—died December 27, 1981, Rancho Mirage, California), American composer, singer, self-taught pianist, and actor who wrote several of the most highly regarded popular standards in American music.

    Carmichael’s father was an itinerant electrician, and his mother earned extra money for the family as a pianist for dances and silent movies; from her, Carmichael absorbed the basics of playing the piano. He was strongly influenced by ragtime music and by the music he heard from black families and churches in his neighbourhood. As a teenager, he made every effort to hear and play as much jazz as possible, studying in Indianapolis, Indiana, with pianist Reginald DuValle and traveling to Chicago to hear Louis Armstrong. While studying at Indiana University in Bloomington (LL.B., 1926), Carmichael led a small jazz band that had some success playing for college dances throughout the Midwest. In the spring of 1924, Carmichael became friends with Bix Beiderbecke after engaging the young cornetist to play for several fraternity parties. Carmichael’s first composition, “Free Wheeling,” was retitled “Riverboat Shuffle” when recorded by Beiderbecke and his band, the Wolverines, later the same year; the recording subsequently became a jazz classic.

    After graduating from college, Carmichael practiced law in Florida for a brief period. During this time, he happened to hear a recording of his song “Washboard Blues,” by Red Nichols and his Five Pennies. Surprised that the song had been recorded and encouraged by this mark of success, he abandoned law and moved to New York City to embark on a career as a musician and composer. He recorded a version of his song “Stardust” in 1927; the song, an instrumental until fitted with lyrics by Mitchell Parrish in 1929, attracted little notice at first. In 1930 Isham Jones and his Orchestra had a hit with the song, and it went on to become one of the most renowned and most recorded standards in all of American music. During his stay in New York, Carmichael became friends with the young lyricist Johnny Mercer; the two collaborated on several songs throughout the years, with “Lazy Bones” being their first hit in 1933. Other hits composed during Carmichael’s years in New York include “Lazy River,” “Rockin’ Chair,” and “Georgia” (also known as “Georgia on My Mind”).
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    Hoagy Carmichael.
    Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

    Carmichael moved to Hollywood, California, in 1936. There he composed songs for films and found additional success as a character actor, often playing the role of a philosophical and world-weary piano player, as in To Have and Have Not (1944). His hit songs for movies include “Two Sleepy People,” “Small Fry,” “Heart and Soul,” “Ole Buttermilk Sky,” “The Nearness of You,” and “In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening,” which won an Oscar for the best film song of 1951. One of his best-known compositions of the 1940s was “Skylark,” another collaboration with Mercer, and a song that reflected Carmichael’s jazz influences in that, according to one music scholar, it “seemed to have the improvisations built right into the melody.”

    As the golden age of American popular song waned during the advent of rock and roll in the 1950s, Carmichael continued to write songs—including such minor hits as “My Resistance Is Low” and “Winter Moon”—but had no more major successes as a songwriter. He also acted in a variety of television roles, such as his recurring dramatic part on the western series Laramie during the 1959–60 season. He never stopped composing, although most of his later songs were never recorded. One notable exception was a collection of children’s music released in 1971, Hoagy Carmichael’s Music Shop. Mostly, he devoted his later years to his hobbies of golf and coin collecting.

    Carmichael wrote two well-received volumes of memoirs, The Stardust Road (1946) and Sometimes I Wonder (1965). After Carmichael’s death, his family donated his archives and personal effects to his alma mater, Indiana University, which opened the Hoagy Carmichael Room in his honour in 1986.
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    Filmography
    Actor (23 credits)

    1972 Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law (TV Series) - Uncle Walter
    - Smiles from Yesterday (1972) ... Uncle Walter
    1970 The Name of the Game (TV Series) - Willie Meeker
    - Echo of a Nightmare (1970) ... Willie Meeker

    1966 The Farmer's Daughter (TV Series)
    - Oh Boy, Is the Honeymoon Over (1966)
    1965 The Man Who Bought Paradise (TV Movie) - Mr. Leoni
    1964 Burke's Law (TV Series) - Carl Baker / 'Jango' Jordan
    - Who Killed Molly? (1964) ... Carl Baker
    - Who Killed Snooky Martinelli? (1964) ... 'Jango' Jordan
    1960 The DuPont Show of the Month (TV Series) - Narrator
    - Those Ragtime Years (1960) ... Narrator
    1959-1960 Laramie (TV Series) - Jonesy
    - Cemetery Road (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Midnight Rebellion (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Saddle and Spur (1960) ... Jonesy
    - The Protectors (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - Hour After Dawn (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - Ride or Die (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - Street of Hate (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Duel at Alta Mesa (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - Rope of Steel (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Company Man (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Death Wind (1960) ... Jonesy
    - The Legend of Lily (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Day of Vengeance (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Trail Drive (1960) ... Jonesy
    - Ride into Darkness (1960) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - The Pass (1959) ... Jonesy
    - Night of the Quiet Men (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - The Lonesome Gun (1959) ... Jonesy
    - Bare Knuckles (1959) ... Jonesy
    - Man of God (1959) ... Jonesy
    - Dark Verdict (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - The General Must Die (1959) ... Jonesy
    - The Run to Tumavaca (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - General Delivery (1959) ... Jonesy
    - The Iron Captain (1959) ... Jonesy
    - The Lawbreakers (1959) ... Jonesy
    - The Star Trail (1959) ... Jonesy (credit only)
    - Fugitive Road (1959) ... Jonesy
    - Circle of Fire (1959) ... Jonesy
    - Glory Road (1959) ... Jonesy
    - Stage Stop (1959) ... Jonesy

    1958 Climax! (TV Series) - Jazzman
    - Sound of the Moon (1958) ... Jazzman
    1957 Playhouse 90 (TV Series) - Marty Dix
    - The Helen Morgan Story (1957) ... Marty Dix
    1956 The Joseph Cotten Show: On Trial (TV Series) - Frazier
    - Death in the Snow (1956) ... Frazier
    1955 Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) - Sam
    - Casablanca (1955) ... Sam
    1955 Timberjack - Jingles
    1952 The Gulf Playhouse (TV Series) -
    - The Whale on the Beach (1952)
    1952 Belles on Their Toes - Thomas George Bracken
    1952 The Las Vegas Story - Happy
    1950 Young Man with a Horn - Willie 'Smoke' Willoughby

    1949 Johnny Holiday - Hoagy Carmichael
    1947 Night Song - Chick
    1946 The Best Years of Our Lives - Butch Engle
    1946 Canyon Passage - Hi Linnet
    1945 Johnny Angel - Celestial O'Brien
    1944 To Have and Have Not - Cricket
    1937 Topper - Hoagy - Piano Player (uncredited)

    Soundtrack (376 credits)
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    Music department (5 credits)

    2012 All American Alston (TV Movie)

    1992 George Shearing: Lullaby in Birdland (Video) (music: "Memphis in June")
    1990 Michael Bolton: Georgia on My Mind (Video short)

    1956 Alan Melville Takes You from A-Z (TV Series) (featuring the music of - 1 episode)
    - C (1956) ... (featuring the music of)

    1939 St. Louis Blues (songs by)

    Composer (1 credit)

    1964 De muziek van Hoagy Carmichael (TV Short)
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    Casino Royale, Ian Fleming, 1953.
    Chapter 5 - The Girl From Headquarters
    'He is very good looking. He reminds me rather of Hoagy Carmichael, but there is something cold and ruthless in his . . .'
    Chapter 8 - Pink Lights and Champagne
    As he tied his thin, double ended, black satin tie, he paused for a moment and examined himself levelly in the mirror. His grey blue eyes looked calmly back with a hint of ironical inquiry and the short lock of black hair which would never stay in place slowly subsided to form a thick comma above his right eyebrow. With the thin vertical scar down his right cheek the general effect was faintly piratical. Not much of Hoagy Carmichael there, thought Bond, as he filled a flat, light gunmetal box with fifty of the Morland cigarettes with the triple gold band. Mathis had told him of the girl's comment.
    Moonraker, Ian Fleming, 1955.
    Chapter XIV - Itching Fingers
    Commander Bond. James Bond. Clearly a conceited young man like so many of them in the Secret Service. And why had he been sent down instead of somebody she could work with, one of her friends from the Special Branch, or even somebody from MI5? The message from the Assistant Commissioner had said that there was no one else available at short notice, that this was one of the stars of the Secret Service who had the complete confidence of the Special Branch and the blessings of MI5. Even the Prime Minister had had to give permission for him to operate, for just this one assignment, inside England. But what use could he be in the short time that was left? He could probably shoot all right and talk foreign languages and do a lot of tricks that might be useful abroad. But what good could he do down here without any beautiful spies to make love to. Because he was certainly good-looking. (Gala Brand automatically reached into her bag for her vanity case. She examined herself in the little mirror and dabbed at her nose with a powder puff.) Rather like Hoagy Carmichael in a way. That black hair falling down over the right eyebrow. Much the same bones. But there was something a bit cruel in the mouth, and the eyes were cold. Were they grey or blue? It had been difficult to say last night. Well, at any rate she had put him in his place and shown him that she wasn't impressed by dashing young men from the Secret Service, however romantic they might look.
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    Have and Have Not, "Am I Blue", Hoagy Carmichael, 1944.


    Have and Have Not, "Georgia", Hoagy Carmichael, 1944.

    2019: Empire magazine releases its world exclusive No Time To Die issue.
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    No Time To Die: James Bond Returns In
    World Exclusive Images
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    2019: The New Year Honours List recognizes Samuel Alexander Mendes to become a Knight Bachelor, Order of the British Empire, for services to Drama.
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    Order of the British Empire
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    "Companions of Honour"
    Order of the Companions of Honour
    Companion of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)
    • Sir Elton Hercules John CBE – For services to Music and charity
    • Sir Keith Vivian Thomas FBA – For services to the Study of History
    Knight Bachelor
    • David Julian Bintley CBE – For services to Dance
    • Humphrey Burton CBE – For services to Classical Music, to the Arts and to Media
    • Professor Anthony Kevin Cheetham FRS, Distinguished Research Fellow, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge – For services to Material Chemistry, to UK Science and to Global Outreach
    • Peter Kenneth Estlin, Lately Lord Mayor of London – For services to International Business, to Inclusion and to Skills.
    • Dr Dennis Barry Gillings CBE – For services to the Advancement of Dementia and to Life Sciences Research
    • Francis John Stapylton Habgood, QPM, lately Chief Constable, Thames Valley Police. For services to Policing
    • Christopher James Hampton, CBE, playwright. For services to Drama
    • Clive Lloyd CBE - For services to Cricket
    • Samuel Alexander Mendes, CBE, theatre and film director. For services to Drama
    • Robert James Macgillivray Neill, MP. Member of Parliament for Bromley and Chislehurst. For political service
    • Menelas Nicolas Pangalos. Executive Vice-President, and President, Biopharmaceuticals R&D, AstraZeneca. For services to UK Science
    • Rt Hon George Iain Duncan Smith MP - for political and public service.
    • Simon Laurence Stevens. Chief Executive of the National Health Service. For services to Health and the NHS in England
    • Jonathan Richard Symonds, CBE. Chair, Genomics England and Deputy Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc. For services to UK Life Sciences and Finance
    • William Gennydd Thomas. For charitable and political service
    • Professor Duncan John Wingham. Professor of Climate Physics, University College London and Executive Chair, Natural Environment Research Council. For services to Climate Science
    • Andrew William Graham Wylie, CBE. Co-Founder, The Sage Group plc and Chair and Founder, Technology Services Group. For services to Business and charity
    Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
    • Steven Rodney McQueen CBE - For services to Film
    2020: James Bond Island weather predicted as 28°, good weather with few clouds. (But feels like 33°!)
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    Today Forecast
    Sunday 27 December
    Today in James Bond Island, instability will build during the day.
    The reliability of the situation is excellente.
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 12,914
    December 28th

    1956: Fleming writes a letter to Wren Howard questioning his own "enthusiasm for Bond and his unlikely adventures."
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    The Man With the Golden Typewriter, Thomas Fleming, 2015.
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    TO WREN HOWARD

    Fleming had written on 28 December 1956 to clarify the terms of a serialization in the Daily Express, to thank Daniel George fulsomely for his comments—‘I think the book has been greatly improved as a result’—and to assure Howard that he had no intention of changing publisher. But he cast a warning note:
    ‘Incidentally, when you talk airily of future books, I do beg you to believe that the vein of my inventiveness is running extremely dry and I seriously doubt if I shall be able to complete a book in Jamaica this year. There are many reasons for this, which I need not go into, but I am finding it increasingly difficult to work up enthusiasm for Bond and his unlikely adventures.’

    1971: Comic strip Trouble Spot begins its run in the Daily Express.
    (Ends 10 June 1972. 1810–1951) Yaroslav Horak, artist. Jim Lawrence, writer.
    https://www.popoptiq.com/trouble-spot/
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    http://venusianfrogbroth.blogspot.com/2016/07/trouble-spot-by-lawrence-and-horak.html
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    Swedish Semic Comic 1973 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1973.php3
    Dödligt Budskap
    (Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)
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    Swedish Semic Comic 1979 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1979.php3
    Dödligt Budskap
    (Fatal Message -Trouble Spot)
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    Swedish Semic Comic 1989 https://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/comics/semic_1989.php3
    Dödligt Budskap
    (Trouble Spot)
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    James Bond Agent 007 no. 27:
    “Trouble Spot” (1974)
    "Dræbende budskab"
    [= Lethal Message]
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    1972: Live and Let Die films OO7 and a close shave with an asp.

    1991: Cassandra Harris (Sandra Colleen Waites) dies at age 43--Los Angeles, California.
    (Born 15 December 1948--Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.)
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    Cassandra Harris; TV, Movie Actress
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    Dec. 30, 1991

    Cassandra Harris, movie and TV actress, died Saturday at USC Cancer Center after a four-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 39.

    Miss Harris was a native of Australia acclaimed for her beauty. She was included in Lord Patrick Lichfield’s book The World’s Most Beautiful Women and also appeared on the cover of British Vogue in addition to several other magazines.
    She probably was best known to film audiences as Countess Lisl in the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only.
    The wife of Irish actor Pierce Brosnan, she had a recurring role as con-artist Felicia in her husband’s popular television series, “Remington Steele.”

    Miss Harris began her acting career as a child in Sydney, and at 16 won a scholarship to Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic Art. She eventually won Australia’s Best Actress Award and moved to England to appear in that country’s National Theatre.

    In addition to her work on the British stage, she starred in such British television productions as “All Out at Kangaroo Valley” and the “Dick Barton” and “The Boy Merlin” series.

    In addition to her husband, Miss Harris is survived by their three children, Charlotte, 19; Christopher, 18, and Sean William, 7.
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    Cassandra Harris (I) (1948–1991)
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    Filmography
    Actress (9 credits)

    1986 Five Days (Short) - Librarian
    1982-1985 Remington Steele (TV Series)
    Felicia / Anna Simpson / Catherine Simone
    - Steele Searching: Part 2 (1985) ... Felicia
    - Steele Searching: Part 1 (1985) ... Felicia
    - Woman of Steele (1984) ... Anna Simpson
    - Thou Shalt Not Steele (1982) ... Felicia / Catherine Simone
    1981 For Your Eyes Only - Lisl
    1980 Rough Cut - Mrs. Lloyd Palmer
    1980 Enemy at the Door (TV Series) - Trudi Engel
    - The Education of Nils Borg (1980) ... Trudi Engel

    1979 Dick Barton: Special Agent (TV Series) - Melissa
    - Adventure One: Part 9 (1979) ... Melissa
    - Adventure One: Part 8 (1979) ... Melissa
    - Adventure One: Part 4 (1979) ... Melissa
    - Adventure One: Part 2 (1979) ... Melissa
    1978 Shadows (TV Series) - Ismena
    - The Boy Merlin (1978) ... Ismena
    1978 The Greek Tycoon - Cassandra
    1977 Space: 1999 (TV Series) - Sares / Controller
    - Devil's Planet (1977) ... Sares / Controller

    Self (4 credits)

    2006 For Your Eyes Only: Bond in Greece (Video documentary short) - Herself
    1984 Late Night with David Letterman (TV Series) - Herself
    - Episode dated 20 November 1984 (1984) ... Herself
    1981 For Your Eyes Only: The Royal Premiere (TV Special short) - Herself
    1981 Saturday Night at the Mill (TV Series) - Herself
    - Episode #6.11 (1981) ... Herself

    Archive footage (4 credits)

    2018 Celebrity Page (TV Series) - Herself
    - Episode #4.57 (2018) ... Herself
    2006 The Exotic Locations of 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
    2000 Inside 'A View to a Kill' (Video documentary short) - Lisl
    2000 Inside 'For Your Eyes Only' (Video documentary short) - Herself
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    1995: James Bond 007 - GoldenEye released in Germany.
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    2002: BBC airs James Bond - A BAFTA Tribute celebrating 40 years of the film series.
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    James Bond: A BAFTA
    Tribute
    (2002)
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    1h 25min | TV Special 28 December 2002

    Director: Stuart McDonald
    Writer: Steve Punt
    Stars: Michael Parkinson, Shirley Bassey, Ken Adam, many others
    James Bond 40th Anniversary BAFTA Tribute

    2015: Big Comics Special Edition reprints Takao Saito's manga 007 series for 女王陛下の007 (Jo'ō Heika no Zero Zero Sebun/Her Majesty's Secret Service) and 黄金の銃を持つ男 (Ōgon no Jū o Motsu Otoko/The Man with the Golden Gun). Serialized monthly in Shogakukan's Boy's Life magazine December 1964 to August 1967.
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    1981 reprint.
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    2015: The Guardian remembers an interview with Sean Connery from 28 December 1971.
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    28 December 1971: Tom Hutchinson talks to Sean Connery about his
    love/hate affair with James Bond

    Tom Hutchinson - Mon 28 Dec 2015 00.30 EST

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

    Sean Connery ordered a Perrier water because he had been drinking heavily the night before and, mortal, had not been able to make a James Bond-like with one leap he was free escape from the clutches of the resulting hangover. He watched the elegant back of Kenneth Tynan disappearing into the further recesses of the restaurant. “K-k-kenneth (sic) f-f-fucking T-t-tynan,” he mimicked. “Spends his life criticising plays from a position of lofty principle and then dives into a show like “Oh, Calcutta!” which isn’t half so well presented as Raymond’s Revuebar where I was the other night. Even though the Revuebar champagne is so bloody pricey…
    ‘Of course the
    films will go on, but
    who’ll play me?’
    Sean Connery
    “I’ll give Tynan one thing, though: I was once at a party and he was there and there was this fight between two men over a girl and he helped separate the men and do you know what he said? ‘Stop behaving like people,’ he said. He must have been waiting all his life for a situation where he could make a remark like that.”

    He ordered a dozen oysters and consumed them with the avid rapidity of a man who is now aged forty-one and knows he needs the vitamins to make him feel human again. For the actor who has so often assumed the myth of snobbish thuggery that is Bond he is very human indeed: he does not evade or avoid; talks with a fine growl of voice that, when relaxed, occasionally lapses into the dour vowels inherited from a working-class background in the tougher areas of Edinburgh (milkman, lorry driver, cement mixer, bricklayer, steel bender, coffin-polisher, and other grinding etceteras). He uses four-letter words like a dramatic technician: to freeze what you might pass off as a casual remark into a statement of import.

    His new Bond film, “Diamonds Are Forever,” is to be released on Thursday (Odeon, Leicester Square) and he had, he said, been put through the necessary mill of interviews to promote that event. “At least you converse. Usually I hate interviews because I end up boring myself listening to me talking all the time.” He managed, though, to talk without self-inflicting too much pain.

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    Sean Connery as James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Photograph: Allstar/UNITED ARTISTS
    His love-hate affair with the character of Bond began ten years ago, when producers Harry Saltzman and Cubby Broccoli signed him up for “Dr No[.” He is not exactly in sympathy with the character (“I’ve only read two Bond books; I found Ian Fleming himself much more interesting than his writing”), but realises that without Bond he would not be the rich man he is today. He is a director of a Pall Mall bank and was able to donate a lot of the money to his self-founded Scottish International Educational Trust from the deal he made on “Diamonds Are Forever.”

    The role of Bond was taken over for the last film, “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service,” by George Lazenby, an actor whose most eloquent claim to previous fame was as Big Fry in the TV commercial. The result was a Big Drag. The lure that trapped Connery back again in the part was the chance to produce two further films of his own choice for United Artists, a large percentage of the profits and a start-stop clause in his contract which meant that if shooting over-ran 18 weeks he would be paid $10,000 a week. The film finished on time.

    “It can be done, you see, if there’s money at stake. I’d been frigged about too much on other Bond pictures. There’s so much bullshit that comes from bad decisions being made at the top. I admire efficiency: like watching a good racehorse or the way Picasso works: where everything functions perfectly within its capacity. But talking to some of these moguls about it is like trying to describe to someone who has never taken exercise what it is like to feel fit when you do exercise. They don’t understand.”

    He is notably overt in his opinions of producers Saltzman and Broccoli (“for every good idea Harry has had he’s gone on to eight flops”) and said: “They’re not exactly enamoured of each other. Probably because they’re both sitting on fifty million dollars or pounds and looking across the desk at each other and thinking: that bugger’s got half of what should be all mine.”

    He revealed his lack of Bond’s culinary conceit by saying he couldn’t remember what lobster thermidor was, settled for cold lobster instead, and maintained yet again that “Diamonds Are Forever” would be the last Bond film he would ever make. “Of course the films will go on, but who’ll play me I just don’t know and can’t guess.”

    This is an edited extract, read the full article
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  • RichardTheBruceRichardTheBruce I'm motivated by my Duty.
    edited December 2020 Posts: 12,914
    December 29th

    1959: A letter from Ian Fleming to friend and partner Ivar Bryce considers possibilities. Including diminishing Kevin McClory's involvement in the Bond film project.
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    The Battle for Bond, Robert Sellers, 2007.
    Chapter 13 - Disaster Strikes
    When rumours reached Fleming that Bryce was having second thoughts he
    wrote to his old friend on 29 December: "Having heard nothing from you for so
    long, I presume you are not dead," he began. "I have no idea what your plans are for the whole project, but the frost-bitten right toe which I suffered at my
    delicious Thanksgiving weekend is pulsating that you may have gone a bit cold on
    the whole business. If so, I shall perfectly understand. The idea of a $3 million
    budget with Kevin [McClory] at the helm dismays me, although I'm sure he could help to
    make a James Bond film that would please us both and bring in the cash
    customers. But I'm in the dark about all this and it may be that the jelly has jelled
    since I last saw you."

    At the start of the project, Fleming had led McClory to believe that he
    was the only person whom he would like to produce the Bond film, and
    realized too that it would be a very costly enterprise. Now he seemed
    to be using the very size of the project to undermine McClory's authority as
    producer and suggesting to Bryce that he be merely an assistant of some
    kind who could "help" with the picture. Also if Fleming's sums were correct
    the intended budget was now $3 million, and astronomical sum, and three
    times the eventual budget of 1962's Dr. No. Little wonder that Bryce was
    stepping back from the prospect of having to foot most that bill himself.
    "Showbiz is a ghastly biz," Fleming concluded in his letter. "And the last thing
    I want is for your to lose your pin-striped trousers in its grisly maw, however
    much fun you may have in the process. Nor do I want the first James Bond
    film to be botched, but the first consideration is primary. If you decide to
    skip the whole thing, don't forget that you have, or should have, a good
    saleable property in the script, so all is not completely lost." In other words,
    if Bryce wasn't going to make the film, maybe they could find somebody else
    that would. But where would that leave McClory?

    Most of all it left the vexed question of who exactly owned the Bond film
    project. McClory made it clear that as a partner in Xanadu he believed he owned
    a share in it and was unwilling to let it go...

    1965: Thunderball released in the UK--premiere at the London Pavilion and Rialto theaters. At the Pavilion, includes a midnight gala benefiting the British Rheumatism & Arthritis Association.
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    1965: Variety reports Thunderball out-grosses Goldfinger to date. For the next film, a shorter filming schedule and budget are expected.
    1965: Τζέημς Μποντ, πράκτωρ 007: Επιχείρηση Κεραυνός (James Bond, Agent 007: Enterprise Thunderbolt) released in Greece.
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    1966: You Only Live Twice films 12 days at Pinewood's Stage E.

    1971: Gyémántok az örökkévalóságnak (Diamonds For Eternity) released in Hungary.
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    1995: GoldenEye released in Austria.

    2020: CineFix offers a YouTube watchalong of GoldenEye with Martin Campbell and Famke Janssen in attendance. 7PM GMT.
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    Watch ‘GoldenEye’ Live with
    Martin Campbell and
    Famke Janssen
    See the complete article here:
    On 24 Dec, 2020 By Bond on the Box | In Film Screenings



    CineFix will celebrate the 25th Anniversary of ‘GoldenEye’ (1995) by hosting a watchalong with actress Famke Janssen (Xenia Onatopp) and director Martin Campbell, on Tuesday, 29 December, 2020.

    Hosted by CineFix, the event is a ‘Watch From Home’ special encouraging viewers to stay safe, and stay home, during the pandemic.

    The event will stream live on YouTube from 7:00 PM (GMT).
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    GMT - 19:00

    Western Europe - 19:00
    Central Europe - 20:00
    Eastern Europe - 21:00

    US EST - 14:00
    US CST - 13:00
    US MTN - 12:00
    US PST - 11:00
    US AST - 10:00
    US HST - 09:00

    Sydney Australia - 06:00

    Japan - 04:00 Wed
    China - 03:00 Wed
    Singapore - 03:00 Wed

    India - 00:30 Wed

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